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* Networking for the Emancipation of Labour Seminar (Orsan Senalp, Transform! Europe)
Peter sez:
My own contribution to this highly original event was to argue that it produce some kind of Charter/Manifesto/Discussion Statement, addressed to the broader labour movement, and that the NetworkedLabour site, created by Orsan himself, become an international labour movement portal, autonomous of existing labour institutions, open to all and dialogical in nature. If I customarily criticise…
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* More Light on the ICATU (recently endorsed as representative by the WFTU)...
Peter sez:
Searching for more information on the ICATU (Arab trade union confederation), I could only find this item from the ILO, dated 2012. I believe the issue was later withdrawn. And we really need more information on the nature and policies of the ICATU, a body traditionally identified with the old ruling regimes in the region. In the meantime,
Read on...…
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WFTU-ICATU Close Cooperation (WFTU May 17 2013)
Peter sez:
This diplomatic accord between two international trade union organisations needs to be considered in the light of the declaration of one major member of the ICATU, the Tunisian UGTT, to suspend its relationship with the ICATU. A Tunisian news agency report, dated March 5, reads as follows:
'(TAP) - The Tunisian General Labour Union (UGTT) decided on Tuesday to freeze its membership in the International Confederation…
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* A Russian Union Website (which you can click for Google Translation into English...etc...?)
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Russia: New University Teachers' Union Seeks Solidarity
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London Conference, 'Making the World Working Class', November, 2013
The HM 2013 Tenth Annual Conference 'Making the World Working Class' will take
place in Central London, November 7th to November 10th.
Deadline for submission of abstracts: May 21, 2013
Upload your abstracts here:…
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* Updates on Marikana, S.Africa, include Sakhele Buhlungu, academic labour specialist
[Debate-List] (Fwd) Marikana & Amcu/NUM update (Sunday World, Sakhele Buhlungu)
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Peter Waterman CV, 2003-10
Peter sez:I'm just posting this here so I can provide folks not on this site access to my work by a simple click. This saves me having to seek it out, copy and paste to such. I know it's 2-3 years out of date and therefore hope to update it. Hopefully it will be of interest to other UnionBookers.
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File: Peter CV 2003-2009 …
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* Social Networking and Revolution
Peter sez:
A good introductory piece but I wonder whether it does not lean in the direction of cyber-utopianism - i.e. the idea that the technology itself brings emancipation. There are numerous reflections on these phenomena - some coming out of the same protest wave the author refers to - which take a more critical view. Finally, Jorquera does not mention the abundant alternatives to TwitterWorld, based on free software, conscious of security and privacy…
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Why Canada's Neo-Liberal (and Viciously Anti-Labour) Government is so Pro-Israel
Peter sez:
Although I don't usually post here non-labour or non-union items about the Israel/Palestine issue, I think this socialist one from Canada might give pro-Israeli leftists or unionists pause to reflect. Or, possibly, to respond.
Now read on...…
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Marikana, South Africa: A Downward Spiral into Assasinations?
[Debate-List] (Fwd) Mawethu Steven Khululekile's murder in Marikana
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* Fighting Forward: Big Labour Studies Conference in the USA
"FIGHTING FORWARD": A Labor and Working Class Summit
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* Controversy over Hongkong Dock Strike (Labor Notes, USA)
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* Lessons of the Hongkong Dockers' Strike (AAWL, Australia)
Peter sez:
Yes, this was and is a very important strike, taking place as it did at the meeting point between a Neo-Liberal (or Palaeo-Liberal) Hongkong and a Neo-Communist (or State Capitalist) China. But when I check back on the AAWL site I find the following:
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'We can take actions against the main Hong Kong Port companies of…
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* Warsaw Ghetto 70th Anniversary: New Light on Labour Zionism (The Bullet, Socialist Project, Canada)
Peter sez:
At a time in which Labour Zionism is on the back foot due to successes of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign in West European, South African and even South American unions, it is well to recognise its historical roots and the way in which Labour Zionism has used the Warsaw Ghetto uprising to justify not simply the creation of a racist, militarist and expansionist state but one in which these tendencies are increasingly open.
Other…
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* Worker-Owned Tyre Factory in Mexico (The Real News Network, USA)
Peter sez:
Check back on The Real News to get the 5-10 minute video.
Now read on...
Mexican Worker-Run Tire Factory a Success
Union wins years long struggle against vulture capitalists and now helms one of Mexico's most successful tire factories - …
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* Hongkong: The Dockworker Struggle Continues (Andrew Pollack, via ChinaConcern)
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* Fighting Austerity in Canada and Globally (Left Streamed, Canada)
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* Another Nail in the AFL-CIO's 'Solidarity' Coffin? (Alberto Ruiz, Counterpunch, USA)
Peter sez:
It has all been said before but cannot be said too often: the AFL-CIO is funded by the US state and the one who pays the piper is calling the tune.
My only disagreement would be with the last two paragraphs, where the author talks of the soul of the AFL-CIO and of its necessary redemption.
Since this organisation is not a church and has no founding faith, nor any original solidarity doctine or ethic,…
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Eric Lee's latest (co)publication on the Global Labour Movement
I have ordered one of these books (publicised on UBook) given that I am fascinated to see whether it is just a publicity piece for the union internationals or whether it has any such critical element as we are seeing increasingly within the international labour movement. I suspect the former given that its title appears to conflate 'Global Labour Movement' with, actually, 'International Trade Union Organisations'.
I am, however, even more intrigued by the decision to publish this item…
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