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 […]
000_ts-del6249273.si_.jpg The past two weeks have seen mass walkouts and wildcat strikes by thousands of garment workers. After five years the industry’s minimum wage structure has been adjusted but workers have rejected the proposed new wage levels. read more […]
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 […]
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 →
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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.
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by I campaigned for governor with the slogan of “Demand More!” because Gov. Cuomo has governed as a social liberal but as an economic conservative. Although he touts the agenda he outlined in his January 15 State of the State and Budget presentation as “progressive,” New York progressives should not be satisfied. It is still a conservative economic program. […]
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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
Stone carvings in Morocco’s High Atlas mountains dating back more than 8,000 years and depicting the sun as a pagan divinity have been destroyed by Salafists, a local rights group said on Wednesday.
„These stone carvings of the sun are more than 8,000 years old. They were destroyed several days ago,“ Aboubakr Anghir, a member of the Amazigh (Berber) League for Human Rights, told AFP.
„One of the carvings, called ‚the plaque of the sun,‘ predates the arrival of the Phoenicians in Morocco,“ Anghir said.
„It lies in a well-known archaeological site in the Yakour plain south of Marrakesh, 20 kilometres (12 miles) from Mount Toubkal.“
„There are several Salafist groups active in the region and it’s not the first time these pre-Islamic sites have been attacked. We have sent a message to the ministry of culture, but have not yet received a reply,“ he added.
Salafists, Muslims who adhere to a hardline Sunni interpretation of Islam similar to that practised in Saudi Arabia, which strictly prohibits „idolatry,“ have enjoyed a surge in strength in Arab Spring countries, benefiting from wider freedom.
Late on Monday, one of Tunisia’s main Sufi mausoleums was burned down in an overnight arson attack, seemingly the latest in a spate of attacks on unorthodox Sufi shrines by the country’s increasingly assertive Salafists.
In northern Mali, which is close to Morocco, radical Islamists have destroyed ancient World Heritage shrines they consider idolatrous since seizing control of the region earlier this year.:
Said Elhairech, Generalsekretär der Union des Syndicats UMT des Transports wurde nach mehr als drei Monaten aus dem Knast entlassen, ihm wurden auf Grund seiner gewerkschaftlichen Aktivitäten – Organisierung von Streiks – eine Gefährdung der nationalen Sicherheit vorgeworfen. Im Nachbarland Algerien wurde Yacine Zaïd – Gewerkschafter und Menschenrechtsaktivist von Unbekannten (vermutlich Staatsschutzmitarbeitern) geschlagen und an einen unbekannten Ort verschleppt, mehr hier.
Quelle: LabourStart, wo auch ein Protestbrief unterschrieben werden kann:
Morocco: Free Said Elhairech
On 16 June, Said Elhairech, general secretary of Moroccan dockers union, Union des Syndicats UMT des Transports, was arrested in Casablanca on unfounded charges, including one relating to national security.
More than two months later Said is still being held in prison in the Moroccan capital of Rabat awaiting trial. He has already been denied bail.
Said is a dedicated and active trade unionist and has been recently involved in high-profile cases; he assisted in defending the rights of stranded Moroccan seafarers following the bankruptcy of the Comarit-Comanav ferry company, and was also closely involved in the securing of a collective agreement in November for dockers in the Eurogate terminal in Tangiers.
In reality the accusations against Said have been created in order to wage an attack on the trade union work of himself and his colleagues and as such they amount to an attack on trade union rights in general in Morocco.
Join us in the campaign to free Said from prison by sending a letter of protest to the Moroccan government, and demonstrate that trade unionists cannot be bullied or intimidated into giving up their fight to maintain the fundamental rights and freedoms of workers.
Marokko hält nicht nur seit 1976 die Westsahara besetzt sondern diskriminiert – trotz einiger Zugeständnisse – weiterhin in der Praxis die amazighischen (gemeinhin besser unter dem Begriff Berberisch/BerberInnen bekannt) Kulturen und Sprachen, derzeit, wie ein Artikel auf der Webseite von Workers‘ Liberty meldet, wird in der Er Rif-Region derzeit Repressionsschraube angezogen, ein kurzer Auszug:
„The new Islamist-controlled government in Morocco has been engaging in increased repression against the social movement which started last year under the name of the “20 February Movement”, as the Moroccan expression of the Arab Spring.
In the Berber-speaking Rif region, this repression has been intense for several weeks, with housing demolitions, widespread use of tear gas and other weapons, with deaths and many injuries.“
Moroccan aggression against saharawi delegation participating in WSF in Dakar
Dakar (Senegal) Feb7,2011(SPS) At least one members of the Saharawi delegation participating in the 11th World Social Forum (WSF) taking place in Dakar was injured , after a violent aggression by members of Moroccan delegation on Sunday after the end of opening ceremony of the Forum, according to president of the Saharawi delegation.
“At the end of the opening march of the Social Forum the members of the Moroccan delegation which consist of 300 persons armed with sticks attacked the Saharawi participating delegation,” said the President of the Saharawi Delegation, also Secretary General of the Union of Saharawi Workers, Mohamed Chikh Lehbib.
“The Saharawi delegation including women was surrounded in a square devoted to SADR where Moroccans attacked us and stole Sahrawi flags and injured one of the delegation,” he said adding that Security forces immediately intervened.
For his part president of the organizing committee of WSF, Boubacar Diop Booba, indicated that while he heard what happened his committee confirmed to the Saharawi delegation that all procedures to protect them has been taken with contribution of security services, adding that this event will not be happen again.(SPS)
„- Do not trust those who remained from the gang of Ben Ali! Beware of liberal political forces that are very eager to ride on people’s victory! All the power to the revolutionary people! This is the slogan that should unite all Tunisian revolutionaries.
– For a second, third, fourth, and fifth Tunisia! Against the tyrannical regimes sponsoring division! For a Great Democratic United and Socialist Maghreb! These are the slogans that should unite the revolutionaries in the Great Maghreb.
– All the victory to the Tunisian Revolution; the forefront of the revolution in the North of Africa and the Middle East.“
„One of the most refreshing things about the Tunisian uprising – and very unusual for the Middle East – has been the lack of meddling by external interests. Apart from a few mouse-like squeaks from the state department, the US stayed out of it and so too did God, along with his self-appointed representatives on earth.
In most Arab countries, Islamists are seen as the main alternative to existing regimes – which suits the regimes fine because it scares people into supporting them. In Tunisia, though, as George Joffe explained, the organisational strength of the uprising came mainly from the country’s biggest trade union, the UGTT, with students and thousands of disaffected citizens also joining in. The rhetoric was broadly leftist rather than religious.
Hopefully, what Tunisia can provide for the Middle East is a new model – a secular alternative to the Iranian revolution. There are no ayatollahs waiting in the wings. The Islamists will probably to resurface after two decades of suppression, but there are no indications that they have a large popular following in Tunisia and they are unlikely to play anything more than a minor role in the country’s political future.
If the Tunisian revolution continues on its current path, we could even see the beginnings of a post-Islamist phase in the Arab countries.“
Beinahe unbemerkt von der linken Weltöffentlichkeit finden derzeit, von den Gemischtwarenläden Weltbund der Demokratischen Jugend (WBDJ) und International Union of Students (IUS) veranstaltet, in Pretoria/Südafrika die 17. Weltfestspiele der Jugend und Studenten statt … Obergockel Jakob Zuma wendete sich an die Weltjugend und wie bei prinzipielosen Blöcken zu erwarten gibt es auch Stress:
„Die von regierungsnahen Organisationen getragene marokkanische Delegation ist von den XVII. Weltfestspielen der Jugend und StudentInnen in Südafrika ausgeschlossen worden. Zuvor sei es zu einer »weiteren brutalen Attacke gegen eine andere Delegation« gekommen, berichten die VertreterInnen aus Spanien über ihren Facebook-Account. Schon zuvor war es mehrfach zu Zusammenstössen zwischen den Marokkanern und der Delegation aus der Westsahara gekommen.
Die saharauische Delegation hat ausserdem darüber informiert, dass die marokkanischen Behörden elf Jugendliche festgenommen haben, die eigentlich am Festival in Pretoria teilnehmen sollten. Bei ihrem Versuch, über die Flughäfen von El Aaiún oder Casablanca auszureisen, seien sie von den Marokkanern verhaftet worden. Zugleich warnt die Delegation der Westsahara, dass auch den 29 Aktivisten, die aus den von Marokko besetzten Gebieten nach Südafrika gereist sind, bei ihrer Rückkehr die Verhaftung droht.
Heute beginnt in Pretoria das Antiimperialistische Tribunal, bei dem die nationalen Delegationen die Verbrechen des Imperialismus anprangern werden. Die saharauischen Vertreter werden auch diese Veranstaltung nutzen, um die Besatzungspolitik Marokkos anzuprangern.“
offenbar handelt es sich bei der marokkanischen Delegation um Mitglieder der drei dortigen WBDJ-Mitglieder Istiqlal Party Youth, USFP Jeunesse Ittihadiya und Jeunesse Socialiste, die wie das Gros der marokkanischen Gesellschaft und auch die meisten Organisationen der marokkanischen Linken (lobenswerte Ausnahmen sind da u.a. Annahj Addimocrati und Al-Mounadhil) die Gross-Marokkopolitik des Staates voll unterstützen … schon bei den Weltfestspielen 2001 in Algier hatten Schläger des Saddam-Regimes exilirakische Studierende angegriffen
Transfer of three Sahrawi human rights defenders to military court in Rabat
El Aaiun (Occupied Territories), December 8, 2010 (SPS) – The court of occupation decided Tuesday to transfer three Sahrawi human rights defenders Mohamed Tahlil, Bashir Khada and Hasan Dah to the military court in Rabat, after they were arrested on December 4, in the occupied city of El Aaiun, according to Sahrawi human rights sources.
Transferring the three detainees to the military court in Rabat, brings the number of all those who have been transferred to 18 detainees.
It should be recalled that the three human rights activists had been arrested, in the years 2005, 2006 and 2007, and suffered beating, harassment and persecution by Moroccan police. (SPS)
