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 […]
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 →
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 […]
The 2021 World Conference against A & H Bombs, taking place shortly after the historic achievement of the entry into force of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW), renews its pledge to move forward toward the complete elimination of nuclear weapons, at the time when people all around the world are deepening their concern for the dignit […]
« Les lâches meurent plusieurs fois avant leur mort. Les courageux ne connaissent la mort qu'une fois » (William Shakespeare). Il y a des gens qui accomplissent des actes si extraordinaires qu'ils entrent dans l'histoire de leur vivant. Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho était encore jeune lorsqu'il prit la tête, le 25 avril 1974, de l'insurr […]
police-line-protesterrs-1.jpg A statement by Bristol Anarchist Black Cross and Bristol Defendant Solidarity regarding the sentencing of Kill the Bill defendants. We are writing this statement to make clear that we support those who have been sentenced today, and that we are proud of them for fighting back. We need to be ready to defend ourselves against the […]
intervention.png Marianne Garneau criticises the leftist idea of a separation between workplace struggles and politics. This article was first published on Organizing Work. Funnily enough, the socialist idea that the workplace is apolitical reflects the dominant view in capitalist society. The owners of capitalist society would like us to see politics as its […]
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 […]
4) De l'apologie de l'élite à une théorie des héros Dans la vision d'une classe ouvrière privée de structure interne, l'incitation à l'héroïsme national pouvait être aussi satisfaisante pour les syndicalistes révolutionnaires que la mobilisation du dynamisme ouvrier **** Cette série de cinq articles de João Bernardo a été publiée sur […]
3) De l'avant-gardisme à une théorie des élites Les syndicalistes révolutionnaires ont apporté à l'extrême droite un radicalisme d'action et une audace de pensée qui lui faisaient jusqu'alors défaut, et en retour ils ont renforcé leur propre élitisme d'avant-garde. Cette série de cinq articles de João Bernardo a été publiée sur le si […]
Podiumsdiskussionen, Gespräche, Straßenparade, Spoken Word, Musik Download: Flyer und Poster Gedenken an die Opfer der Festung Europa, von Polizeibrutalität und institutionellem Rassismus Als Geflüchtete haben wir miterlebt, wie unsere Freund*innen und Familienmitglieder verhungert, ertrunken und gestorben sind. Einige von uns wurden vergewaltigt, einige wur […]
Please find below the sppech of the CARAVAN for the Rights of Refugees and Migrants at the demonstration on 25.06.2021 in Düsseldorf and in German via the shared link https://no-lager.eu/lager-gehoeren-seit-jeher-zum-kolonialen-system-der-... Isolation camps in the Federal Republic of Germany were first set up after the Second World War for the "guest w […]
[…] 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 … Continuer la lecture →
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 … Continuer la lecture →
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 […]
This is, in short, the prescription of the exhibitionist, teenage anti-imperialists. Their prescription is for us to protest our Western-backed governments, and then get killed by them when they more often than not are embarrassedly dissociated from by their Western sponsors. Read more › The post Solidarity, Inc. Part II: The Western teenage anti-imperialist […]
An interview with longtime French left activist Patrick Silberstein on the current demonstrations in France Read more › The post France’s Confusing Political Demonstrations on July 24 – Another Planned for July 31 appeared first on New Politics.
“In 2021, the year of Israeli apartheid, that log jam has broken. This year, the world's civil societies have had enough. Across countries and continents, across age groups and ethnicities, the marches, the manifestos, the opeds, the motions passed overwhelmingly have swelled into a torrent” - IV559 - August 2021 / Palestine, Israel
“Any effort to engage in solidarity with the struggles inside Iran begins not only with calling for the removal of U.S. sanctions and an end to Israel's attacks, but also simultaneously holding the Iranian regime accountable for its repression and exploitation of the people and environment of the region.” - IV559 - August 2021 / Iran, Trade unions/workp […]
“ … The police complaints watchdog is under pressure to widen its investigation into alleged fabrication of evidence by South Yorkshire officers in the 1980s as new allegations emerge of attempts to frame miners at the Orgreave coking plant clashes.
Chris Kitchen, general secretary of the National Union of Mineworkers, said the Independent Police Complaints Commission and the director of public prosecutions, Keir Starmer QC, should include in their examination of South Yorkshire police’s post-Hillsborough „cover-up“ the force’s alleged framing of 95 miners for serious criminal offences after Orgreave.
„Many miners were subjected to malpractice during the strike by South Yorkshire police – and other forces,“ Kitchen told the Guardian. „I will be asking the NUM’s national executive committee to consider complaining to the IPCC and DPP for the police operations at Orgreave and elsewhere during the strike to be investigated, now the details of what South Yorkshire police did at Hillsborough have been revealed.“
At Orgreave in 1984, police officers on horseback and on foot were filmed beating picketing miners with truncheons, but South Yorkshire police claimed the miners had attacked them first, and prosecuted 95 men for riot and unlawful assembly, which carried potential life sentences. All 95 were acquitted after the prosecution case collapsed following revelations in court that police officers‘ statements had been dictated to them in order to establish evidence of a riot, and one officer’s signature on a statement had been forged. …“
Natürlich sollte einen deratiges seitens der Sowjetunion der 1980er Jahre nicht überraschen … um Margaret Thatcher nicht zu verärgern und um ihr Land (und die Queen?!) besuchen zu dürfen blockierte Gorbatschow (der Politiker, nicht der Wodka) 1984 eine Spende von mehr als einer Million US-Dollar sowjetischer BergarbeiterInnen an ihre streikenden KollegInnen von der NUM in Britannien … (post-)stalinistische Prioritätensetzung eben, der Guardian berichtet:
„At Chequers, Thatcher personally confronted Gorbachev and protested that the Soviet Union was meddling in British matters and would help to prolong the strike by giving the cash. Gorbachev stonewalled, claiming that he was not aware of any such donation. It later transpired that a month before the Chequers meeting, Gorbachev had himself signed the papers authorising the donation.
But Thatcher’s diplomatic offensive worked: no donation reached the British miners during their year-long strike. Gorbachev had embarked on his effort to reform the sclerotic Soviet state and concluded that the wiser option was to continue cultivating the British prime minister for the sake of relations between the two countries. Sacrificing the interests of the British miners was the price to be paid for not upsetting the so-called Iron Lady.“
Der Guardian, die Tageszeitung der aufgeklärt-linksliberalen KonsumentInnen mit Hochschulabschluss, gutem Einkommen und zuweilen einem partiellen schlechten Gewissen hat nach 25 Jahren Arthur Scargill, den damaligen Vorsitzenden der Bergarbeitergewerkschaft National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) zum Bergarbeiterstreik 1984/85 (einige Filmberichte dazu ) Wort kommen lassen … bleibt anzumerken, dass die Zeitung damals die abgespaltene Labourrechte um Roy Jenkins, David Owen und Konsorten in der Social Democratic Party (SDP) unterstüzte und Menschen wie Scargill mit Begriffen wie „Loony Leftist“ und dass natürlich auch Scargill zuweilen mit Vorsicht zu geniessen ist, speziell seitdem er mit der Socialist Labour Party (SLP, auch Scargill’s Little Party genannt) seinen stalinoiden Privatclub gegründet hat, der Artikel ist aber in jedem Fall lesenswert, hier ein Auszug:
„But the NUM’s historic battle did not begin in March 1984, as so many pundits claim. The seeds of the dispute had been sown long before. A pit closure plan in 1981 resulted in miners, including miners in Nottinghamshire, taking unofficial strike action (without a ballot) and forcing Thatcher into a U-turn, or in reality a body swerve.
At that time, Britain’s coal industry was the most efficient and technologically advanced in the world, a result of a tripartite agreement, the Plan For Coal, signed by a Labour government, the National Coal Board (NCB) and the mining trade unions in 1974, and endorsed by Thatcher in 1981. And yet, shortly after I became national president of the NUM in 1982 I was sent anonymously a copy of a secret plan prepared by NCB chiefs earmarking 95 pits for closure, with the loss of 100,000 miners‘ jobs. This plan had been prepared on government instructions following the miners‘ successful unofficial strike in 1981.
I took this document to the union’s National Executive Committee (NEC) – its contents were not only denied by government and NCB chiefs, but were disbelieved by militant NUM leaders who had been assured that their pits had long-term futures. However, the exposed revelations struck a chord among our members throughout Britain’s coalfields where colliery managers – clearly acting on instructions from above – had already begun unilaterally changing agreed working practices, affecting shift patterns and supplementary payments.
It became clear that the union would have to take action, but of a type that would win maximum support and have a unifying effect. The NEC accepted a report from me recommending that we call a special national delegate conference, and link our opposition to the pit closure plan with a demand that the coal board negotiate the union’s wage claim. The NEC agreed, and the special conference was held on 21 October 1983. Delegates from all NUM areas were given a detailed report so that they could vote on what action – if any – should be taken. Following a full debate, they agreed to call a national overtime ban from 1 November – until such time as the NCB withdrew its closure plan and agreed to negotiate an increase in miners‘ wages with the NUM.
Over the next four months, the overtime ban had an extraordinary impact. It succeeded in reducing coal output by 30%, or 12m tonnes, thus cutting national coal stocks to about the same level as they had been during the miners‘ unofficial strike in 1981.“
ansonsten hier noch ein Kurzfilm zum Streik im Allgemeinen und zu einer der heftigsten Auseinandersetzungen während des Streiks (Soundtrack by The Redskins):
