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.
Symposium „Aber etwas fehlt. But something’s missing.“ Marxistische Kunstgeschichte zwischen Möglichkeit und Notwendigkeit 27. und 28. November 2015, Wien, mumok Museum moderner Kunst „Aber etwas fehlt!“, insistiert Paul Ackermann, eine der Zentralfiguren von Bert Brechts Oper Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny (1930), gegenüber seinen das Leben feiernden […]
Knackige Kritik von Achim Landwehr an Konrad Adam, der sich in der FAS an der Verteidigung des Abendlandes verhob. ThanxEinsortiert unter:Uncategorized
Die Überschriften in bürgerlichen westlichen Medien, nachdem Präsident Wladimir Putin im Dezember vergangenen Jahres die (gegenüber der Fassung von 2010) modifizierte
On nous communique: Readers of the Bataille Socialiste website may be saddened to learn of the deaths of comrade Dick Donnelly (http://socialist-courier.blogspot.co.uk/2015/02/dick-propounding-on-socialism.html) of Glasgow branch of the Socialist Party of Great Britain (SPGB) and Paul Breeze both in February. Dick Donnelly had been a member of the SPGB since […]
Critique du livre « Dette, 5000 ans d’histoire » de David Graeber par la rédaction de la revue communiste libertaire britannique Aufheben (pdf de 14 pages en anglais): Voir aussi: Note de lecture par Vincent Présumey (2013) Note de lecture par Christophe Darmangeat (2015)
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 […]
Article de « Communisme-Ouvrier n°52« , bulletin de l’Initiative Communiste-Ouvrière : Le procès de l’affaire du Carlton a encore donné lieu à un traitement médiatique relativisant la gravité des violences faites aux femmes lorsque leur auteur appartient à la haute bourgeoisie. En … Lire la suite →
Le Figaro, 6 mars 2015 : Quatorze ouvriers du textile sont poursuivis pour rébellion après une grève réprimée mercredi par la police, selon la presse d’Etat aujourd’hui, alors que les autorités font face à des critiques croissantes pour leur gestion … Lire la suite →
The Referendum/Janamata produced by Samadrsuti Televisions and Directed by Tarun Mishra is going to be released in Bhubaneswar for the city audience on March 7, 2015 at 5.30 PM at Documentary Discussion Club( DDC), Lohia Academy. We shall be happy if you can join us. The pre launching preview of the documentary was done at […]
The Alliance for a Secular and Democratic South Asia unequivocally condemns the murder of Avijit Roy on February 26, 2015 on the streets of Dhaka, Bangladesh. Dr. Avijit Roy was a naturalized American citizen of Bangladeshi origin. An engineer by profession, he wrote on themes related to science, philosophy, religion and society. More than a […]
The Union Budget of 2015-16, the BJP government's first full budget, has a sense of triumphalism that it ‘can fly' because it believes that , the ‘opportunity for this exist because we (the BJP government) have created it' over the last nine-and-a-half months. This government is taking credit for conditions and circumstances that it has nothin […]
Greece: brilliant success of Syriza's Left Platform at the Central Committee session this week-end! The amendment (see full text below) submitted by the Left Platform rejecting the Eurogroup agreement and the “list of reforms” submitted by the government got 41% of the vote, with 55% against and 4% abstaining or voting blank (the votes were: 68 in favou […]
Untertitel: "Wichert-Welt" eröffnet Donnerstag, 26. Februar 2015, 13:02 UhrGroßer Promi-Auftrieb am Ochsenzoll: Zur Eröffnungs-Gala des bundesweit größten "Audi-Terminals" strömten vergangenen Mittwoch zahlreiche A-, B- und C-Bekanntheiten an die Langenhorner Chaussee 666. Weiterlesen […]
Untertitel: Kreis Segeberg, Sporverband und kommunale Landesverbände werben für Olympia Dienstag, 17. Februar 2015, 16:42 UhrKaum rührt Hamburgs Wirtschaft die Trommel, wollen alle dabei sein: Die Mitglieder der Arbeitsgemeinschaft Hamburger Randkreise, der Städteverband Schleswig-Holstein und auch der Landessportverband werben für Olympia. Dabei ist völlig […]
1_parliament_explosion.jpg While there are many pieces talking generally about the problems and limitations of representative democracy, this series looks at and debunks specific 'tactical voting' strategies and election narratives from an anti-electoral, working class perspective. […]
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 […]
« Celui qui confesse son ignorance la montre une fois ; celui qui essaie de la cacher la montre plusieurs fois. » (Proverbe japonais.) Orwelliens de tous les pays... tenons-vous-en aux faits, bon dieu ! Certains militants « radicaux » ou libertaires apprécient ce penseur dont les livres se caractérisent pourtant par l'ignorance de l'histoire concrè […]
La confusion la plus totale règne « à gauche », depuis les exécutions commises par les trois islamistes qui ont assassiné dix-sept personnes dans les locaux de « Charlie » Hebdo, dans les rues de Paris et dans un supermarché casher de la porte de Vincennes. Cette confusion règne en fait depuis des années dans les rangs des différentes composantes de la « gau […]
We unified together with our supporters in Vockerode to discuss relevant matters concerning how the foreign offices contribute in destroying our perspectives in the name of “German Law”. How they abused and discriminate us with the “Duldung” pretext for so many years. How they aimed to persecute, destroy and deport us back without perspectives and the arbitr […]
Adresse aux défenseurs du projet de construction d’un Center Parcs à Roybon suite aux violences commises en leur nom Le blocage des travaux a déchaîné la foudre des élus et des syndicats patronaux qui ont réussi à créer une ambiance … Continue reading →
Sivens : l’expulsion des zadistes imminente L’expulsion de zadistes qui occupent le site du barrage contesté de Sivens, dans le Tarn, est imminente, selon notre envoyée spéciale sur place. La police est d’ores et déjà entrée dans la zone occupée … Continue reading →
Break the power of food corporations. Establish a constitutional right to food. Build food sovereignty from below, based on small scale farming and agroecology, not industrial agriculture
Links wählen – gegen Troika, Kriegsgefahr und FaschistInnen! Aufruf der Berliner Neuen antikapitalistischen Organisation (NaO) Wenn schon normale bürgerliche Parlamente Quatschbuden sind, so erst recht das Europäische Parlament in Strasbourg. Der Bundestag wählt immerhin die Regierung. Das Europäische Parlament hat gerade Mal das Recht auf Anhörung und „Mi […]
Die Heucheleien des sogenannten “Westen”, der sich ständig als Hüter der Demokratie, der Menschenrechte und jetzt auch noch der nationalen Selbstbestimmung aufführt und dieselben Rechte dabei in unzähligen Ländern der Welt mit Füssen tritt und die massiven Manipulationen der westlichen Massenmedien in ihrer Berichterstattung, zur Zeit u.a. gerade in Sachen U […]
PresentaciónImagen: Cuadernos Feministas.Estamos festejando más de 15 años de vida, pues Cuadernos Feministas se publicó por primera ocasión en octubre de 1997, y teniendo como fondo la celebración, las colaboradoras en este número reflexionan sobre una rica diversidad de temas de actualidad. Ana María Hernández López, nuestra editora nos presenta una panor […]
Análisis Ana María Hernández López*Imagen: Cuadernos Feministas Cuadernos Feministas surgió en el año de 1997 a partir de la idea de aportar en el debate, en el intercambio de ideas; para sus fundadoras “sólo la acción propia e independiente de las mujeres es la que logrará los cambios necesarios”.1 Y a pesar de las vicisitudes que tiene producir una public […]
by Activists and candidates from around the country will come together on May 2-3 in Chicago to share their experiences and to launch a network for future cooperation at the Future of Left/Independent Electoral Action Conference. The past few years have seen a significant uptick in independent political initiatives on the left, from election campaigns to new […]
by The agreement signed between Greece and the EU after three weeks of negotiations is widely lamented on the left as a setback, if not a defeat, for Syriza. The two sides emerged from the agreement, if that is an accurate description, with different interpretations of the memorandum, signifying perhaps that no real deal was made after all. Greece obtained b […]
On the night of December 2, 1984, unknown poisonous gases (released by the runaway reaction of water with methyl isocyanate, or MIC) burst out from a Union Carbide pesticide plant located in a densely populated, working poor vicinity of the city of Bhopal in central India. The plant, scheduled for possible closure, was understaffed, not maintained adequately […]
Five months ago 43 students from the rural teacher's college in Ayotzinapa in Mexico's Guerrero state disappeared. The Mexican state bears responsibility for these disappearances. The Fourth International expresses its full solidarity with the parents and friends of the Mexican students as well as with the tens of thousands of persons who have mobi […]
“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.
