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.
[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 […]
Die Zeitschrift Bauhaus (Nr. 8) nimmt die „Bewegung“ als Konstante der Moderne in den Fokus. Das neue Heft erscheint am 4. Dezember 2016. In vier Kapiteln nimmt die neue Ausgabe der Zeitschrift die bewegte Gesellschaft in den Blick und führt den Leser über die 1920er Jahre zu den heutigen Stätten des Aufbruchs. Anzutreffen sind Paul […]
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 […]
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 […]
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The process of saffornising democratic institutions started since the Bajpayee govt came to power. Under the rule of Modi, It has been turned into the prime focus of all govt. sponsored activities that underpin a single point agenda – Hindutva. With the present regime being mired into ever deepening crisis and the signs of it’s […]
In a shocking development, the Pune (Maharashtra) police today, April 17, 2018 at around 6.00 a.m. conducted simultaneous searches at homes of prominent activists in Maharashtra namely Sudhir Dhavale (Dalit activist, Republican Panthers), Harshali Potdar (Woman activist, Republican Panthers), Ramesh Gaychor, Jyoti Jagtap, Sagar Gorkhe, Rupali Jadhav and Dhaw […]
stophate.png On Sunday 6 May thousands of far-right anti-Muslim bigots will be marching through central London, anti-fascists from across the country need to take to the streets to oppose them. 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 […]
Les livres sur Mai 68 se multiplient à chaque anniversaire, et leur rythme de parution s'intensifie à chaque décennie, donc évidemment pour le cinquantenaire le filon ( ?) est exploité par tous les éditeurs cette année. L'avantage de ce livre est qu'il est assez décentré par rapport à la production courante. Décentré par son point de vue parti […]
Le mouvement du Tous ensemble de 1995 a été la dernière représentation d'une lutte collective au-delà de la stricte perspective classiste, mais sans qu'affleure une tension vers la communauté humaine puisque le mouvement est resté centré sur la défense de la condition salariale à travers le refus de la réforme de la Sécurité sociale, pilier du mode […]
Was ist daran suspekt, dass politsch Verfolgte auch tatsächlich anerkannt werden? Der Flüchtlingsrat Bremen kritisiert die aktuelle Berichterstattung über Ermittlungen gegen Rechtsanwält*innen und Mitarbeitende des Bundesamtes in Bremen. Denn mehrheitlich wurde dabei die vermeintlich hohe Schutz- und Anerkennungsquote für Geflüchtete, in diesem Fall von Jesi […]
Afredita H., ihr Mann und ihre Kinder wurden aufgefordert, Deutschland zum 4. April „freiwillig“ zu verlassen. Nachdem die Familie dies wegen Afreditas Reiseunfähigkeit (sie ist schwer krank) abgelehnt hatte, wurde sie vom Landesamt für Flüchtlingsangelegenheiten aufgefordert, am 9. April „zwecks Klärung des Aufenthaltes“ bei der Ausländerbehörde zu erschein […]
[…] 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 →
“I have taken the term ‘Indian’ as the title of the book. It is the pejorative term used against us. The whip they use to hit our faces. I have picked up the whip. I find it more appropriate than using terms that soften or diminish the oppression.”—Hugo Blanco
Artista: Little Shivawww.littleshiva.comEn octubre de 1997, hace veinte años, salió impreso el primer número de Cuadernos Feministas. En la presente edición se abordan temas con diferentes prácticas y saberes del movimiento feminista. Sara Lovera y Justa Montero debaten sobre el significado de la participación de las mujeres en la representación política, su […]
Sara Lovera*En 2017, de los más de 2 mil 400 municipios en el país, 349 son encabezados por mujeres: 13.2%. En 2014 el porcentaje era de 7%. Hace algunos años los porcentajes de representación en el Congreso crecían de uno a 2 puntos cada 3 años y hubo un momento que se estancaron.De todos modos el ritmo es lento.¿Vale la pena llegar a los puestos de represe […]
Subtitle: Nicaraguan Government Kills 24 – Students, Farmers Call for National Strikes The government of former revolutionary and Nicaraguan president Daniel Ortega has in the last few days killed at least 24 protestors who were demonstrating against sudden and drastic alterations in a new pension law, changes that would have adversely affected the incomes […]
by Lou Andreas-Salomé, The Audacity to Be Free Directed by Cordula Kablitz-Post, 1 hr. 53 min Cinema Libre Studios, 2016 This biopic is not subtle. From its opening scene featuring a pyre of books and a frenzied crowd cheering as a manic speaker justifies the burning of Marx, Trotsky, Freud and “everything that is not German” followed by a romp through Lou A […]
During the week of January 8, Tunisia experienced a new outbreak of protests in response to the antisocial measures contained in the finance law of 2018. After a week of protests, and sometimes very violent clashes with the police, an uneasy calm has again descended across the country. [1] The social crisis, which continues to worsen, feeds frustration and d […]
Italy's political future is unclear more than a month after general elections that failed to produce a working parliamentary majority for any single electoral coalition or party. Nevertheless, the March 4 election was a triumph for the right-wing coalition of parties led by the xenophobic League and for the populist Five Star Movement, which came in fir […]
“ … 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):
