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.
Archiv der deutschen Jugendbewegung; Prof. Dr. Meike Sophia Baader, Hildesheim; Prof. Dr. Alfons Kenkmann, Leipzig Archiv der deutschen Jugendbewegung, Jugendburg Ludwigstein, 37214 Witzenhausen Deadline: 15.03.2019 Nach dem Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs fand die Zwangsgemeinschaft der Hitlergegner ihr schnelles Ende. Die folgende Konfrontation der politischen […]
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 […]
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 […]
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NIA raids on Andhra Pradesh: A brief background (Gutta Rohith) In November, 2020, Andhra Pradesh Police filed two cases – one in Munchingput PS, Vishakapatnam and one in Piduguralla PS, Guntur – against dozens of people under various sections of UAPA, IPC, Arms Act. The bottom line of the FIRs is that these people are […]
La Lettre du vendredi de Frontier souligne que le commandant en chef Min Aung Hlaing est rapidement revenu sur des accords déjà décevants conclus lors de la réunion, le 24 avril, des dirigeants de l'ASEAN (Association des nations de l'Asie du Sud-Est) à Jakarta. Les affrontements ont continué à monter en flèche ; les opposants au régime se tournant […]
A Guardian analysis finds EU countries used brutal tactics to stop nearly 40,000 asylum seekers crossing borders EU member states have used illegal operations to push back at least 40,000 asylum seekers from Europe's borders during the pandemic, methods being linked to the death of more than 2,000 people, the Guardian can reveal. In one of the biggest m […]
teaser.jpg A short comic about the history of May Day. Illustrated by Viro — a Vietnamese artist, with historical support from Working Class History. Available in English and Vietnamese. "Eight Hours for Work, Eight Hours for Rest, Eight Hours for What We Will!" Eight-hour Day movement […]
DHD.jpg Is queerphobia in Vietnam a mere product of colonialism, and does it matter? If you cannot fly a flag that represents your gender, sexuality, and humanity, in a revolution, is that revolution worth fighting for? Mèo Mun 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 […]
AUX ÉTATS-UNIS, COMME PARTOUT AILLEURS, LA DISCRIMINATION RACIALE DOIT ÊTRE POSÉE ET COMPRISE DANS LE CADRE DE LA CONDITION PROLÉTARIENNE. ELLE DOIT ÊTRE COMBATTUE AVEC LES MOYENS DE LA LUTTE DE CLASSE CONTRE LE CAPITALISME ET SON ÉTAT TEXTE PRINCIPAL Annexe A Annexe B - Mouvement communiste
Solidarität mit Alican Albayrak und Hüseyin Şahin Beide sollen für ihre Menschlichkeit verurteilt werden während die EU, Deutschland & Griechenland die Barbarei fortsetzen english: „"Showing solidarity with migrants is not a crime!" statement as PDF: english & german Alican Albayrak und Hüseyin Şahin waren aufgrund ihrer politischen Aktivit […]
Franzoesisch | English Les réfugiés et les migrants sont invités à RBB Online Chers gens, frères et sœurs, activistes et amis, nous, les activistes de RefugeeBlackBox et du Forum des réfugiés The VOICE, sommes heureux de vous inviter à la réunion du réseau et de participer à l'action de notre campagne communautaire en ligne de RefugeeBlackBox. Sentez-vo […]
[…] 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 →
Sembrando tiranía en Estado UnidosElizabeth Maier*El fascismo y el antifascismo se intimaron en las historias de mi vida familiar. Mis padres, europeos, inmigraron a Estados Unidos desde países y contextos étnicos-religiosos y de clase también contrastantes. Mi padre pasó sus primeros dieciséis años en su pueblo natal en los Alpes de Austria, frontera con I […]
Desde 1997, en las páginas de nuestra revista se alertaba sobre las amenazas de la narcopolítica y la militarización. Años después, en la guerra que inició Felipe Calderón en 2007 contra el narcotráfico, recurrió a los militares para labores de seguridad detonando una crisis humanitaria y de derechos humanos sin precedente en el país. Los saldos de esa guerr […]
Ruger and the NRA seem to be joined at the hip. Ruger’s goal is to sell guns and make money. Fear of crime sells guns. Fear of a “gun-grabbing government” sells guns. The NRA creates the hysteria. Ruger rakes in the cash. Read more › The post Ruger and the Far-Right NRA appeared first on New Politics.
The Israeli working class is a settler-colonial, active collaborator with Israeli capitalism in the continued ethnic cleansing and occupation project of Israeli apartheid. Read more › The post No Joint Struggle With Settler Colonialism appeared first on New Politics.
May Day is an opportunity to measure the weight of the world of work and its political expression, including in the hirak. - IV556 - May 2021 / Algeria, Protest movements
“In truth Biden and the other world capitalist politicians at the “summit” have no plan at all to avert climate catastrophe. With nice-sounding vague promises they continue on the road to hell.” - IV556 - May 2021 / USA, Climate
We the undersigned labour movement activists stand in solidarity with all women opposing all forms of male violence against women. We recognise that male violence against women is endemic in society, and that our movement is obviously and unfortunately not exempt.
We believe that our trade union and labour movement has the potential to transform society for the better. Therefore we have a particular responsibility to confront and challenge male violence against women within our movement.
Male violence against women is not acceptable in any case. It must not be tolerated from those who hold office or power in our movement.
We recognise the enormous challenges faced by women victims of male violence, and the pressures which women face, including from abusive men, not to complain about violence and abuse. We therefore believe that, when women complain of male violence within our movement, our trade unions and political organisations should start from a position of believing women.
We believe that all women who complain of male violence have the right to be listened to and supported.
All labour movement activists have a responsibility to work to ensure that our movement is a safe space for women. Because we stand in solidarity with all women opposing male violence we accept that we have a responsibility to women throughout our movement, whether or not we are members of the same trade union or the same political organisation.
We therefore address these demands to all trade unions and political organisations which are part of our labour movement. Marshajane Thompson and Cath Elliott
„It shouldn’t matter. It really shouldn’t matter, should it, what goes on in the Socialist Workers Party. Their membership is roughly the average home gate at Mansfield Town. By the time I left them, in 2007, the most common comment I heard about them was ‘Oh. Are they still going?’ the way you might refer to Bernard Cribbins.
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Since writing the start of this I’ve looked up the average home attendance of Mansfield Town, and this season it’s been 2,389, which is much higher than the SWP membership. After all this I’d guess they’ll be close to Braintree, on 624.“
auf Grund einer grossen sozialistischen Verschwörungeiner Korruptionsaffäre musste Liam Fox als Verteidigungsminister im Oktober 2011 seinen Posten verlassen … offenbar haben sich seitdem bei ihm die sozio-ökonomischen Wahrnehmungsstörungen verstärkt:
„The great socialist coup of the last decade was making wealth an embarrassment. It is not. It is the prize for aspiration and hard work, and its side effects are higher tax revenues, more jobs and more investment.“
Wahrscheinlich freut Fox sich auch auf das Remake von Die Rote Flut und hält das Ganze für einen Dokumentarfilm:
„Say what you will about John Milius’s 1980s rightwing cold war flag-waver Red Dawn, at least it had the courage of its convictions. The new remake – released three years after completion, thanks to the MGM bankruptcy restructuring – can’t even decide who its real enemies are. When it wrapped, the invading superpower was still Red China; in the interim, some wise suit remembered the billion-plus Chinese moviegoing market and decreed that the enemy should henceforth be North Korea, a black hole for Hollywood releases. Cue some retroactive digital adjustments – commie signage, uniforms, etc – a new opening voiceover, a couple of reshoots and, voila! – a new enemy. The late Kim Jong-il, a budding auteur himself, would have been charmed by the attention.
He might also have wondered, just as I did, what the hell was going on. After the sky fills with paratroopers one bright morning, we never really learn why this one Pacific north-west town is under siege. Is there a wider zone of occupation? Do the Koreans have allies? Or is Spokane, Washington, really all they can manage?“
das vermutlich letzte Update für 2012, auf Syndikalismus ein Artikel zur Bakuninhütte bei Meiningen und the journal weist auf Geheimdienstdokumente von 1923 zu Jim Larkin hin … und die komplette MEW online beim Verlag Olga Benario und Herbert Baum:
Die BRD hat ihre NSU und das UK förderte in den 1980ern intensiv loyalistische Todesschwadronen in Nordirland: Pat Finucane: State sponsored murder zum kürzlich publizierten Untersuchungsbericht zur Ermordung des bekannten Anwalts 1989 auf LibCom
offenbar hat der britische Gewerkschaftsdachverband TUC gemerkt, dass er einen Griff ins Klo gemacht hat und die Stellenausschreibung zurück gezogen, der Guardian berichtet:
„The Trades Union Congress has scrapped the search for a deputy general secretary, after a controversial start when the organisation demanded a candidate with a university degree.
The umbrella organisation for six million trade unionists was criticised by members, and the reference to a degree was removed following protests from some members of the executive committee, who include union general secretaries and officials.
However, in a „shot across the bows“ of the TUC leadership, the committee has now decided to replace the post with an assistant general secretary role.
According to an internal TUC document, seen by the Guardian: „It is proposed that the current vacant post of deputy general secretary be replaced by a new post of assistant general secretary. The new post would be similar, but „without an explicit role in deputising for the general secretary“. The move came during a week of changes in the upper echelons of the trade union movement, with the head of Unite, Len McCluskey, announcing that he will stand for re-election next year despite promising in 2010 to seek one term only. His counterpart at the GMB, Paul Kenny, announced that he will step down next year.
Sources close to the TUC process said senior union figures were concerned that the TUC’s general secretary-designate, Frances O’Grady, would effectively be choosing her own successor if she presided over the selection of a new deputy. O’Grady is deputy to the current general secretary, Brendan Barber, who was also deputy to his predecessor, John Monks.
According to a union source, the internal furore over the call for a deputy with a university degree stoked concerns among TUC affiliates about a lack of on-the-ground industrial experience at the TUC – such as handling disputes and organising in workplaces. „The job spec ruffled a lot of feathers,“ said the source, adding that the executive committee decision to scrap the post was a „shot across the bows“. The source said: „This is the logical conclusion to a build-up of tension that has centred on the TUC’s own perception of what the organisation should be like, and the different perception of some of its member unions.“
Another source said there had been disquiet over the TUC’s stance during last year’s public sector pension dispute, when the organisation agreed to re-enter talks with the government soon after a mass strike on 30 November.“
