Relevant read as the same wrong views on China and unions from some Australian union leaders as well. A Time for Honest Self-Reflection The US Labor Movement and China by ALBERTO C. RUIZ The statistics are chilling. In a country where workers have no real right to organize a union, they face an ever falling [...]
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General strike?
“If you want a General Strike organize your co-workers” An Interview with Joe Burns, author of “Reviving the Strike” (review this blog) April 28th, 2012 by Camilo Viveiros https://t.co/qoRke0ut Introduction: Many in the Occupy movement have called for a general strike on May 1st but most Occupy activists aren’t involved in labor organizations or organized [...]
May Day
May Day is remembering socialist ideals – popular self-government and the economy run democratically by working producers to meet people’s needs and no more war. Chomsky on May Day http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/04/29-4 Photos May Day http://boingboing.net/2012/05/01/may-day-2012-big-photo-galle.html http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/gallery/2012/may/01/may-day-rallies-pictures Leo Panitch on May Day http://www.socialistproject.ca/inthenews/MayDay.html The claiming of May 1 as a day for political protest grew out of [...]
Caterpillar lock-out
The Electro-Motive Lockout and Non-Occupation: What did we lose? What can we learn? Herman Rosenfeld Along with everything else, the 2008 financial crisis and its aftermath created new openings and potentials for working people in the struggle against neoliberalism. A number of struggles initially opened up, including factory occupations, efforts to defend pensions and the [...]
We Built this Country
SYDNEY BOOK LAUNCH “WE BUILT THIS COUNTRY BUILDERS’ LABOURERS AND THEIR UNIONS 1787 TO THE FUTURE” by Humphrey McQueen The book should be compulsory reading for new and old union officers and organisers; it will certainly challenge them to decide whether they are workers’ representatives or ‘workplace relations practitioners’. Howard Guille, former secretary of the [...]
Workers’ Control
“Ours to Master and to Own Workers’ Control from the Commune to the Present” edited by Immanuel Ness and Dario Azzellini (Haymarket Books, 2011) Review by Chris White This excellent series of essays is essential reading for anti-capitalist activists and all those who know that we do not need our bosses. Occupiers at night can [...]
We Built this Country
Review of McQueen’s history of the BLF We Built this Country. http://workersbushtelegraph.com.au/2012/04/01/review-of-we-built-this-country/ The recorded program of Humphrey McQueen’s Book launch We Built this Country can also be listen to as a podcast on Solidarity Breakfast. “>
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