After the establishment of their local trade union branch on 29 May 1916, the transport workers from Dordrecht, Holland, had to save money for quite a while to purchase their trade union banner. They take it along during festive processions and unfurl it during jubilees.
Seit einiger Zeit debattiert die Osteuropageschichte und zunehmend auch die NS-Forschung die räumliche Wendung in der historischen Genozidforschung und ihr bisher prominentestes Ergebnis, Timothy Snyders Bloodlands (München 2011). In der Süddeutschen Zeitung Online (23.5.12) diskutiert der Berliner Historiker Michael Wildt nun unter dem Titel “Ist der […]
Hist.Net, die Uni Innsbruck und der Oldenbourg Verlag haben einen Call for Papers (blogs) veröffentlicht, der einlädt, Beiträge über das Bloggen in der Geschichtswissenschaft zu verfassen. Die Texte sollen sowohl online als auch als Buch veröffentlicht werden. Gespannt sein darf man, wie sich die BetreiberInnen des Blogs historyblogosphere.org und der Verlag […]
Traduction de la présentation de l’éditeur: A-t-on besoin de l’argent? Les auteurs de Life Without Money soutiennent que non et que nous devrions nous libérer des valeurs et rapports monétaires avant de pouvoir réaliser des rapports démocratiques et authentiques entre nous et une dynamique durable avec la nature. Selon eux, l’argent constit […]
Les membres du Syndicat Industriel des Travailleuses et des Travailleurs (SITT-IWW) de l’ensemble du Canada appuient solidairement toutes les étudiantes et les étudiants ainsi que les travailleuses et les travailleurs du Québec qui s’opposent courageusement à la hausse des frais de scolarité, cette offensive capitaliste contre la classe laborieuse soutenue p […]
Shahin Najafi, rapeur iranien exilé en Allemagne, a été accusé d’avoir “offensé l’islam” dans une de ses chansons, Naghi. Une prime de 100.000 dollars américains a été offert comme récompense pour son assassinat, sur le site Web ultra conservateur Shia online, qui est directement affilié au régime et à la dictature de la “république islamique” [...] […]
Le vendredi 5 mai 2012, Table Rase a organisé une réunion publique avec Shiva Mahbobi, responsable de la Campagne pour la Libération des Prisonniers Politiques en Iran. Après une présentation de Table Rase et les remerciements à Shiva, notre camarade a pris la parole et présenté un petit film sur les prisonniers politiques en Iran [...]
Afrik.com du 28 mai 2012 : Plusieurs dizaines de milliers de personnes ont manifesté dimanche dans les rues de Casablanca à l’appel des syndicats pour réclamer de meilleures conditions de vies. Il s’agit de la manifestation la plus importante contre … Lire la suite →
Depuis lundi soir, les ouvriers de la Société de produits alimentaires de (SPAC), filiale de Nestlé qui produit les pizzas Buitoni, sont en grève. Selon la CGT, 90 % des 142 ouvriers qu’emploie l’entreprise suivent le mouvement. La SPAC compte … Lire la suite →
Cordially inviting you to be a part of the resistance on the 22nd of June, as like every year even this year we are coming in unison to symbolise it as a black day in protest against the black MoU signed between the Odisha Government and POSCO in the year 2005. We the people have been [...]
http://www.thehindu.com/news/states/other-states/article3466586.ece Team Anna member Akhil Gogoi called off his 10-day fast on Monday following an appeal by social activist Anna Hazare. Mr. Gogoi agreed to break his fast after another Team Anna member Arvind Kejriwal met him at the Gauhati Medical College and Hospital (GMCH) and conveyed Mr. Hazare’s a […]
Vijay Prashad's new book, Arab Spring, Libyan Winter (AK Press, 2012) captures the complexity of the Arab revolts – by bringing out the history and historical forces behind them. The book exposes the West's imperial anxieties and their fear of the organic – the mass character of these uprisings. It demonstrates the resoluteness of the “rebels from […]
La révolution syrienne a entamé son quinzième mois avec la plus grande mobilisation jamais connue. Vendredi 18 mai 2012, 850 manifestations dans 647 points différents du pays ont eu lieu. Des dizaines de milliers de personnes ont défilé encore une fois défiant la machine de mort que la mission des Nations Unis n'a pas réussi à contenir. Selon les comité […]
unemployment-jobcentre-006.jpg The Beecroft Report, commissioned by Cameron from one of his venture-capitalist pals and recommending the implementation of “compensated no-fault dismissal” has been released, and has caused more embarrassment than anything else for the government. But it's part of a bigger picture, with vast implications for workers. The […]
gorillai.jpg "Revolution is made everyday despite, and in opposition to, the specialists of revolution" - Raoul Vaneigem Reading Kate Harris' post on the state of the student far-left in Scotland and England sparked a discussion about the problems of 'student activism' and led me to think a bit about a number of issues I've been […]
by Ayanda Kota, Pambazuka The Unemployed People’s Movement (UPM) was formed in August 2009 to respond to the crisis of unemployment and the commoditization of essential services in a society dominated by corruption and greed. As Steve Biko said, we blacks are tired of standing at the touchlines to witness a game that we should [...]
18 July 2011 Abahlali baseMjondolo Press Statement The Victory in the Kennedy 12 Trial is a Victory for all the Poor in South Africa The Kennedy 12 have been acquitted of all the charges bought against them after the attack on our movement in September 2009. It is a great day for the 12, their [...]
Cette interview a été réalisée pour le prochain numéro de la revue marxiste américaine « Insurgent Notes » (site : http://insurgentnotes.com/) avant le premier tour des élections présidentielles françaises. Une dernière question et une dernière réponse ont été ajoutées le 28 mai 2012. Insurgent notes : Que penses-tu de ce phénomène Melenchon ? Aujourd'h […]
Demonstration on Saturday, 2nd June 2012 at 13pm (Hauptbahnhof Frankfurt am main) We Look Forward to your Participation! We protest against the German Police Murder of a Nigerian woman in the Frankfurt Job Center - Why was Christy Schwundeck Killed? We still Demand : Investigations and Justice! read more
CO2 emissions rose 3.2% in 2011. The failure of climate negotiations in Bonn means global temperatures will rise at least 3.5 degrees Celsius, creating conditions not seen for 30 to 60 million years.
Profits before people ... while 320 million of its people go hungry every night, India has become the world's largest rice exporter, and is considering exporting 'excess' wheat as well.
Seit zwei Jahren kämpft das griechische Volk gegen die Sparpolitik, die ihm von der „Troika“ (dem Internationalen Währungsfonds, der Europäischen Kommission und der Europäischen Zentralbank) aufgezwungen wird. Nach siebzehn Tagen Generalstreiks, nach den massiven Demonstrationen und den Platzbesetzungen der aganaktismeni (Empörten), nach den Betriebsbesetzu […]
Dies ist die neue Website/Blog der Sozialistischen Initiative Berlin (SIB). Was mit dem „Na endlich!“-Papier einer kleinen Gruppe Berliner Genossinnen und Genossen im März 2011 begann, hat sich zu einer umfänglichen Debatte über Chancen und Risiken einer neuen revolutionären, antikapitalistischen Organisation entwickelt. Aus der Initiative wurde die SIB. Uns […]
Josefina Chávez En la sesión extraordinaria el sábado 24 de marzo el Consejo General del Instituto Federal Electoral (IFE), se presentó un informe, sobre el incumplimiento por parte de varios partidos de la cuota de género. Esta información desató diversas reacciones tanto de dirigentes de los partidos, como de las mujeres cuyos derechos fueron atropellados. […]
Ximena Peredo Hace tres semanas, exhorté en este espacio a la ciudadanía a participar también como candidatos a puestos de elección popular. “Necesitamos entrar para hacer un contrapeso inmediato al saqueo de lo público”, escribí. Porque advierto la ruina y la pérdida de calidad de vida que provocan impostores y negligentes en el poder, levanté los brazos pa […]
Some 300 women are to protest to the Turkish government Tuesday after Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan sparked fury among women’s rights advocates by likening abortion to murder.
A Yemeni millionaire, tipped to be the next president of Yemen, has come under fire for insulting Yemeni women protestors in an interview with the New York Times.
Popular anger, mass protests and leadership from Trayvon Martin's parents, the African-American community and its organizations have exposed the racial divisions that run throughout U.S. society. - IV448 - May 2012 / USA
João Machado was a leader of DS throughout the period in question. This text draws on parts of a written contribution to the Seminar dedicated to Daniel Bensaid, held at the IIRE in January 2012. However, Bensaid's role in DS's discussions was not singled out just for that reason – he really played a crucial part, especially in the later period. - […]
Natürlich sollte einen deratiges seitens der Sowjetunion der 1980er Jahre nicht überraschen … um Margaret Thatcher nicht zu verärgern und um ihr Land (und die Queen?!) besuchen zu dürfen blockierte Gorbatschow (der Politiker, nicht der Wodka) 1984 eine Spende von mehr als einer Million US-Dollar sowjetischer BergarbeiterInnen an ihre streikenden KollegInnen von der NUM in Britannien … (post-)stalinistische Prioritätensetzung eben, der Guardian berichtet:
“At Chequers, Thatcher personally confronted Gorbachev and protested that the Soviet Union was meddling in British matters and would help to prolong the strike by giving the cash. Gorbachev stonewalled, claiming that he was not aware of any such donation. It later transpired that a month before the Chequers meeting, Gorbachev had himself signed the papers authorising the donation.
But Thatcher’s diplomatic offensive worked: no donation reached the British miners during their year-long strike. Gorbachev had embarked on his effort to reform the sclerotic Soviet state and concluded that the wiser option was to continue cultivating the British prime minister for the sake of relations between the two countries. Sacrificing the interests of the British miners was the price to be paid for not upsetting the so-called Iron Lady.”
Der Guardian, die Tageszeitung der aufgeklärt-linksliberalen KonsumentInnen mit Hochschulabschluss, gutem Einkommen und zuweilen einem partiellen schlechten Gewissen hat nach 25 Jahren Arthur Scargill, den damaligen Vorsitzenden der Bergarbeitergewerkschaft National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) zum Bergarbeiterstreik 1984/85 (einige Filmberichte dazu ) Wort kommen lassen … bleibt anzumerken, dass die Zeitung damals die abgespaltene Labourrechte um Roy Jenkins, David Owen und Konsorten in der Social Democratic Party (SDP) unterstüzte und Menschen wie Scargill mit Begriffen wie “Loony Leftist” und dass natürlich auch Scargill zuweilen mit Vorsicht zu geniessen ist, speziell seitdem er mit der Socialist Labour Party (SLP, auch Scargill’s Little Party genannt) seinen stalinoiden Privatclub gegründet hat, der Artikel ist aber in jedem Fall lesenswert, hier ein Auszug:
“But the NUM’s historic battle did not begin in March 1984, as so many pundits claim. The seeds of the dispute had been sown long before. A pit closure plan in 1981 resulted in miners, including miners in Nottinghamshire, taking unofficial strike action (without a ballot) and forcing Thatcher into a U-turn, or in reality a body swerve.
At that time, Britain’s coal industry was the most efficient and technologically advanced in the world, a result of a tripartite agreement, the Plan For Coal, signed by a Labour government, the National Coal Board (NCB) and the mining trade unions in 1974, and endorsed by Thatcher in 1981. And yet, shortly after I became national president of the NUM in 1982 I was sent anonymously a copy of a secret plan prepared by NCB chiefs earmarking 95 pits for closure, with the loss of 100,000 miners’ jobs. This plan had been prepared on government instructions following the miners’ successful unofficial strike in 1981.
I took this document to the union’s National Executive Committee (NEC) – its contents were not only denied by government and NCB chiefs, but were disbelieved by militant NUM leaders who had been assured that their pits had long-term futures. However, the exposed revelations struck a chord among our members throughout Britain’s coalfields where colliery managers – clearly acting on instructions from above – had already begun unilaterally changing agreed working practices, affecting shift patterns and supplementary payments.
It became clear that the union would have to take action, but of a type that would win maximum support and have a unifying effect. The NEC accepted a report from me recommending that we call a special national delegate conference, and link our opposition to the pit closure plan with a demand that the coal board negotiate the union’s wage claim. The NEC agreed, and the special conference was held on 21 October 1983. Delegates from all NUM areas were given a detailed report so that they could vote on what action – if any – should be taken. Following a full debate, they agreed to call a national overtime ban from 1 November – until such time as the NCB withdrew its closure plan and agreed to negotiate an increase in miners’ wages with the NUM.
Over the next four months, the overtime ban had an extraordinary impact. It succeeded in reducing coal output by 30%, or 12m tonnes, thus cutting national coal stocks to about the same level as they had been during the miners’ unofficial strike in 1981.”
ansonsten hier noch ein Kurzfilm zum Streik im Allgemeinen und zu einer der heftigsten Auseinandersetzungen während des Streiks (Soundtrack by The Redskins):
