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.
John Heartfield (1891–1968) gehört zu den innovativsten und bedeutendsten Künstlern, die sich mit ihrem Werk politisch engagiert und dem Faschismus entgegengestellt haben. Seine Plakate, Buchumschläge für den Malik-Verlag und Zeitschriftencover für die Arbeiter-Illustrierte-Zeitung (AIZ) sind ein wesentlicher Teil der politischen Ikonographie der Weimarer Re […]
[Deadline: Jul 1, 2017] Das geplante Heft möchte sich der Grundvoraussetzung des Gegenstands der Zeitschrift widmen: der Frage, was der Expressionismus ist bzw. welche Relevanz und welcher Wert dem Begriff zukommen. Darüber hat man im Laufe des 20. Jahrhunderts immer wieder diskutiert. Dabei ist nicht nur an den Positionsaustausch linker Schriftsteller im Ex […]
A l’occasion de la sortie de son livre Insurrección. Las sangrientas jornadas del 3 al 7 de Mayo de 1937 (Ed. Descontrol, 2017), notre ami Agustín Guillamón (revue Balance) a été interviewé sur la radio Onda Expansiva de Burgos. L’émission (en espagnol) est téléchargeable ci-dessous: https://ia801500.us.archive.org/20/items/Mayo37/Mayo%2037.mp3 […]
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 […]
Vous êtes des milliers à suivre ce blog. 450000 visites en 2015, une prévision de 600000 en 2016. Ce 15 septembre, votre site d’infos change d’adresse web et de formule. Découvrez le message de la Rédaction ci-dessous. Si vous voulez … Lire la suite →
Dear Comrade, It’s been a year since Bastar Solidarity Network (Kolkata Chapter) organized the People’s Literary Festival in March, 2018. Three of our participating writers, Arun Ferreira, Vernon Gonsalves and Varavara Rao have since been arrested in cue with a staged plot by Maharashtra police, which can be likened to the Reichstag Fire Trial. This […] […]
You may have learnt from the media that my appeal for quashing the false FIR against me filed by the Pune Police was rejected yesterday (14 January) by the Supreme Court. Fortunately, it gave me to four weeks to seek pre-arrest bail from the competent court. Up till now I felt confident that whatever charges […]
Condemnation and protest against attacks on Alam Bachchu and demand arrest and punishment on identified terrorists. Last 12 January 2019 at 10 am in the morning at Dakshin Aicha Bburhat under Charfasion sub-district in Bhola District led by terrorists, extortionists and land-grabber Firoj Alom swapon, Nirob Rari, Enayet Kha, Nasir Peda, Tofazzol Sikder and c […]
Stop the Hate Speech and Stigmatisation The Joint Action Group for Gender Equality (JAG) denounces in the strongest terms all forms of harassment and violence against the participants of the Women's March 2018 (#WomensMarchMY), whether perpetrated virtually or physically. We call for the government, policy makers and law enforcers to ensure proper inves […]
Screenshot (69).png A short history of the unofficial strike at Courtauld's Red Scar Mill in Preston, 1965, the first of what would become a long list of significant 'migrant strikes' (such as Mansfield Hosiery in 1972, Standard Telephones and Cables in 1973, Imperial Typewriters in 1974 and, of course, Grunwick in 1976). read more […]
Zionism-episode-graphic.jpg Concluding part of our two-part episode on a people’s history of Zionism and opposition to it within Israel, in conversation with former members of socialist group Matzpen: Moshe Machover, Haim and Udi. read more […]
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 […]
Nous reproduisons ci-dessous cette excellente étude du journaliste Roman Bornstein parue sur le site de la Fondation Jean Jaurès. L'auteur défend un point de vue à propos du rôle politique néfaste, réactionnaire, de Facebook que quelques camarades, disposant de bien moins de moyens de faire entendre leur analyse que lui, défendent depuis des semaines su […]
18 janvier 2019 par Floréal Je viens d'ajouter deux verrous à ma porte. Je ne sors plus de chez moi. J'ai transmis aux amis qui souhaitent me rendre visite un mot de passe, indispensable à qui veut franchir le seuil de ma tanière. Je leur ai d'ailleurs fortement déconseillé de m'approcher s'ils ne veulent pas être inquiétés. J'a […]
Bericht der ersten Delegation des KARAWANE-Netzwerks aus Wuppertal vom 1. November 2018:Entmündigung und Zermürbung von Flüchtlingen in Schwelm Offener Brief an Frau Hildegard Peters Leiterin des Fachbereichs Familie, Jugend und Soziales bei der Stadt Schwelm Kopie an: Frau Gabriele Grollmann - Bürgermeisterin der Stadt Schwelm Frau Sabine Stippel-Fluit, Lei […]
Deutschland, 6. Januar 2019a Oury Jalloh - das war Mord! Obwohl längst bewiesen, werden Fakten ignoriert und die Wahrheit ein weiteres Mal ermordet. 14 Jahre Kampf für Aufklärung und Gerechtigkeit ist nicht genug, solange weiterhin Menschen ermordet und sterben müssen und Hass permanent geschürt wird. Am Morgen des 7. Januar 2005 wird Oury Jalloh in Dessau v […]
[…] Il s’appelait Khomsi el-Yerfeni, il était chômeur, et selon plusieurs témoins, il serait mort après avoir été percuté intentionnellement par une voiture de police. Cette version est démentie par le ministère de l’Intérieur tunisien, qui parle lui dans un … Continue reading →
Communiqué de soutien de médias libres, ouvert à signature. Après la publication d’un communiqué revendiquant l’incendie d’un garage de la gendarmerie de Grenoble dans la nuit du 20 au 21 septembre, Indymedia Grenoble et Indymedia Nantes ont été menacés par … Continue reading →
Start the new year with these new books for reds and greens. End of the Megafauna. Brave New Arctic. The Big Heat. The End of Ice. Socialist Register 2019.
El llamado a la Huelga Internacional de Mujeres el 8 de marzo de 2017 suscitó una revuelta sin precedentes en la historia de las luchas feministas de los últimos tiempos; y el pasado 8 de marzo de 2018, de nueva cuenta las calles de muchas ciudades en más de 57 países fueron tomadas por las mujeres confirmando que estamos frente a un nuevo movimiento feminis […]
Foto: Asamblea Feminista de Madrid.Justa Montero*El 8 de marzo millones de mujeres tomamos las calles convocadas por el movimiento feminista. Esta fecha pasará a la historia como el día de la mayor movilización feminista que se recuerda en el Estado español, y quedará grabada en la historia de vida de cada una de las mujeres que compartimos la emoción de ese […]
by The United Teachers of Los Angeles (UTLA), the city’s teachers union, has now reentered negotiations with a school board chastened by a strike that has shown the movement’s political power in massive demonstrations with community members and parents. read more
by by John Reimann Here is a timeline of how the mainstream U.S. capitalist media has covered the issue of Trump’s financial ties with the Russian mafia capitalist class. This timeline is significant, because it provides a clue to the thinking of the mainstream of the U.S. capitalist class as well as how that thinking is now changing. read more
On 15 January, after two-and-a-half years of negotiations, British Prime Minister Theresa May presented her proposed withdrawal agreement from the European Union to a vote in the Westminster parliament. It was resoundingly defeated as was inevitable given the balance of forces in the parliament - which has already shown itself to be for a "soft” Brexit […]
Québec solidaire will make climate change the party's main political campaign issue in the coming year, both in and outside the National Assembly. The campaign will build on the major proposals in the QS economic transition plan featured in the recent Quebec general election. - IV528 - January 2019 / Québec
„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.
