Protesting against the decision by the German government to accept the peace treaty of Versailles, a group of soldiers under Wolfgang Kapp took control of Berlin on March 13, 1920. The trade unions called a general strike, which, after some doubt, was supported by the Ebert government. The strike paralyzed life in Berlin and contributed to the failure of the […]
According to the website 'Anecdotes on Kim Il Sung' (http://north-korea.narod.ru/anecdotes.htm) the North Korean leader visited a department store on March 13, 1958. Kim Il Sung (1912-1994) bought a pair of socks of inferior quality so that he would not stand out among the people.
Die expressionistische Bewegung ist dafür bekannt, dass sie sich vorrangig in Gruppen abspielt – und dass aus den unterschiedlichen Projekten eine nahezu unüberschaubare Menge an Zeitschriften hervorgegangen ist. Aus dieser Masse ragen Herwarth Waldens „Der Sturm“ (1910–1932) sowie Franz Pfemferts „Die Aktion“ (1911–1932) als die beiden Zeitschriften hervor, […]
Ein Beitrag von Jan Bönkost (Bremen) Im Juni 1980 wird die „Republik Freies Wendland“ auf dem Bohrplatz 1004 mit einem der bisher größten Polizeieinsätze der BRD geräumt. Die aus dem gesamten Bundesgebiet angereiste Presse muß dafür das Gelände verlassen. Als erster wird ein NDR-Reporter unter Gewaltandrohung vom Platz entfernt, weil er live im Radio von […] […]
Die Renaissance der Technokraten der Gewalt?1 „Stell dir vor, es ist Krieg, und keiner schaut hin“: So könnte eines Tages die Überschrift einer zeitgeschichtlichen Bewertung der 14-jährigen Mission der Bundeswehr in Afghanistan lauten. Ein differenzierter formulierender Beobachter könnte zu dem Schluss kommen, dass die öffentliche Debatte lange Zeit vor alle […]
Warum die ›politische Revolution‹ noch nicht am Ende ist Manche seiner Unterstützer*innen mögen enttäuscht sein, dass Bernie Sanders nicht zum demokratischen Präsidentschaftskandidaten gekürt wurde. Angesichts des Momentums seiner Kampagne schien für einen Augenblick das Unmögliche möglich. Allerdings war ein Sieg Sanders von Anfang an undenkbar – zu groß si […]
Originally posted on Sans Compromis:En Iran, le port du voile est obligatoire pour les femmes. Sortir sans porter le hidjab c’est risquer une peine de 60 jours de prison et de 70 coups de fouet. Plus qu’un simple signe religieux, le voile est devenu le symbole de l’apartheid sexiste instauré par le régime islamique.…
Ce 26 juin, l’agence HRANA informe du décès par crise cardiaque du militant ouvrier Afshin Osanloo. Afshin Osanloo, frère de Mansour Osanloo, fondateur du syndicat des travailleurs de la compagnie de bus de Téhéran et Banlieue, était militant syndical dans ce même syndicat. Il avait été condamné à cinq ans de prison pour « assemblée et […]
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Without an agreement for Assad to step down and allow a transition toward a pluralist government, no cease-fire stands a chance. As almost everybody can now tell, the new cease-fire agreement on Syria is doomed to break down, as would any such agreement that does not settle the core political problem of the crisis. Of course, even a respite that doesn't […]
Since the Greek trauma – both the neo-colonial diktat from the Euro-group and agreement by Tsipras to submit despite the popular OXI – the European radical left has debated “Plans B” without any strategic or tactical consensus. The referendum in the United Kingdom (UK) is the bitter illustration of this, without the anti-racist left opposed to the EU having […]
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 […]
Der generelle Schwerpunkt des internen Flüchtlingstreffen am 16.September 2016 fokussierte darauf, wie die für die Angelegenheiten der Refugees verantwortlichen Autoritäten diese im Landkreis Wittenberg behandeln. read more
The general emphasis of refugee’s internal meeting on 16.09.2016 focuses on how the responsible authority in charge of refugee’s affairs treats them in the local government of Lutherstadt Wittenberg. read more
Attentats de Paris : la piste rouge-brune Avertissement: Le texte qui suit n’est que la libre expression d’une opinion assez largement partagée dans l’Est de l’Europe. Ceux qui s’alarmeraient déjà d’un délire conspirationniste inspiré par quelque CIA s’abstiendront de le … Continue reading →
APPEL À SOUTIEN POUR EMPÊCHER L’EXPULSION DE LA ZAD DE ROYBON Le préfet de l’Isère veut expulser la ZAD de Roybon à partir du rendu des recours au tribunal administratif attendu entre le 8 et le 15 juillet. Nous avons … Continue reading →
In Nigeria, oil extraction and production has devastating consequences for the people living in the Niger Delta, but those who flee are not protected by the Geneva Convention on Refugees.
Este número de Cuadernos Feministas inicia con una reflexión en torno a la necesidad de repensar la autonomía de las mujeres a la luz de diversas experiencias y prácticas feministas. En esta entrega algunas colaboradoras contribuyen en este sentido, desde distintos enfoques y motivaciones. Lina Berrio, propone tres líneas reflexivas: el cuerpo y las decision […]
Josefina Chávez Rodríguez*La Ley General de Acceso a una Vida Libre de Violencia, la aprobó el Congreso de la Unión en 2006, el decreto por el cual entró en vigor fue publicado en enero de 2007. A partir de esta fecha surgieron múltiples escollos burocráticos y políticos que han enfrentado las mujeres, para, finalmente, lograr por primera vez, el 28 de julio […]
Michel Eltchaninoff. Dans la tête de Vladimir Poutine. Arles: Solin/Actes Sud, 2015. 171pp. Michel Eltchaninoff’s prize-winning Dans la tête de Vladimir Poutine—In the Head of Vladimir Putin—is a fascinating examination of the development of the Russian president’s ultra-conservative and nationalist ideology from assuming the presidency in 2000 until today.[ […]
Dear Readers, On September 18, I wrote, and the New Politics website of which I am an editor, published an article titled “Mexico’s Teachers Movement; From Class War to Death Squads” that argued that three recent killing appeared to be the result of death squads targeting teachers. While the fact that the three killings took place is not in question, well in […]
President Obama has commuted the unjust prison sentences of hundreds of federal prisoners, mostly for nonviolent drug violations. Unfortunately, there is no evidence that he intends to take action to free prisoners in politically charged cases. - 2. News from around the world / USA
Without an agreement for Assad to step down and allow a transition toward a pluralist government, no cease-fire stands a chance. - IV500 - September 2016 / USA, Syria
„The team excavated a two metres by two metres mud-plaster domed structure, which it says was used as a kiln to dry malt and make beer 3,500 years ago.
Beers of different flavours would have been brewed from malted barley and fermented with yeasts with an alcoholic content of around 5 per cent.
The yeast would have either been wild or produced from fruit such as grape or fig, according to the researchers.“
Zur Alkoholdiskussion (pdf-Datei, 2,14mb); ein Text aus der Roten Flora (vermutlich 1990 verfasst) zur Diskussion um Alkohol, (andere) Drogen und die Auswirkungen psychoaktiver Substanzen auf die Subjekte im Kapitalismus und zum (Nicht-)Umgang mit Alkohol in autonomen Zusammenhängen und selbstverwalteten Projekten:
Ein weiterer Beitrag von LibCom zu den Entlassungen von 250 ArbeiterInnen in einer Fabrik in San Luis Potosí/Mexiko, welche Flaschen für das mexikanische Trend-Bier Corona herstellt, siehe hierzu auch diesen Artikel… ansonsten gab es bei Stella Artois (schmeckt ein wenig besser als Corona) in Leuven/Belgien einen wilden Streik:
Mexico: Corona bottle makers face redundancy for supporting independent union
Factory workers in San Luis Potosí in northern Mexico have been threatened by their bosses with the closure of their factory if they don’t renounce their elected independent union in favour of the bosses‘ union.
The threat from Grupo Modelo in the Industrial Vidriera Potosí factory comes not long after the firing of over 250 workers for being involved with the activities of Sindicato Único de Trabajadores de la Empresa IVP (SUTEIVP). SUTEIVP won union elections and recognition in 2007 against the charrista, state-affiliated Confederación Revolucionaria de Obreros y Campesinos (CROC) and are now headed by one Valentín Marín.
Curiously enough, the actual wording of the statement by Grupo Modelo – who manufacture a variety of beers, the most internationally famous being Corona – does not mention SUTEIVP, instead threatening factory closure if support is given to „an executive committe headed by Marín“ himself, leading to various questions: to what extent is Modelo’s beef with the independent union, as opposed to the individual union bureaucrat? Are Modelo and/or CROC optimistic about recuperating a possible post-Marín SUTEIVP?
As for the SUTEIVP, its protest encampment of the fired workers outside the factory gates still lacks legal recognition as a strike, although SUTEIVP members who managed to retain their jobs have been granted legal recourse to strike in the future, currently a very real option in the heightening tension. SUTEIVP have rather played down strike talk however, while admittedly it could happen imminently, claiming (rather bizarrely) a cease in production would accelerate the plant closure. Apparently, their priority is „defending our source of employment, our wage rises and contractural improvements“.
Since when it was the business of workers to mediate with menacing union-busting tactics is unclear. Also unclear is the fortitude of the still employed SUTEIVP members to maintain a strike, especially with the continued hostility of the local labour arbritration organism, the Junta Federal de Conciliación y Arbitraje (JFCyA), which is also state-affiliated and runs in the same circles as the displaced CROC charros (corrupt leaders). In Mexico, a strike without legal recognition in practical terms spells impunity for sackings by bosses, assaults by police and kidnappings and disappearances by private gangs.
The role of SUTEIVP (more particularly, Marín) in this escalating conflict is still open to inspection.
Corona ist eine beliebte, „trendige“ mexikanische Biersorte … und in einer Fabrik in San Luis Potosí/Mexiko, wo Flaschen für Corona hergestellt werden, wurden laut nachfolgender Nachricht von LibCom gerade 250 ArbeiterInnen entlassen, weil sie eine unabhängige Gewerkschaft gegründet hatten:
Mexico: 250 Corona bottle makers fired for forming an independent union
More than 250 employees of a factory that manufactures beer bottles for Corona (amongst others) in San Luis Potosí have been fired for associating with a legally recognised independent union. The factory’s owners are also purging the factory of sympathisers of the sacked workers.
Almost two years of unionising activity had resulted in workers ousting the corrupt, mainstream Confederación Revolucionaria de Obreros y Campesinos (CROC) union from the shopfloor of the Industrial Vidriera Potosí (IVP) glass factory and replacing it with the independent Sindicato Único de Trabajadores de la Empresa IVP (SUTEIVP). The union’s first action was to gain a 19% payrise off the employers: Grupo Modelo, who export the weak and tasteless Corona beer internationally, as well as selling a host of beer brands in Mexico.
Upon being informed of their redundancies, the sacked union activists (which included anyone with a delegated post in the SUTEIVP) attempted to a hold a legally-binding strike, only for the national labour abritration panel (the Junta Federal de Conciliación y Arbitraje [JFCyA]) to ban it and block workers from occupying the factory building. In response, the SUTEIVP have erected a permanent picket outside the factory gates.
Grupo Modelo is now cracking down on support for the newly jobless SUTEIVP shopfloor activists. CCTV has been installed in order to monitor their stall and keep records of workers who approach it, and informers have been placed on company transportation to and from the site, with workers being hauled in front of management if „they so much as open a [bus] window and greet picketers“.
SUTEIVP have organised marches from San Luis Potosí to Mexico City (over 400km) and established a permanent presence outside the headquarters of Grupo Modelo and its sister companies, the US embassy and the JFCyA offices in the capital, with whom they have lodged an appeal against their ruling. Internationally, it calls for a boycott of Modelo products, which to readers outside Mexico will mean giving up yuppy favourite Corona beer.
