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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Screenshot (179).png Fantastic in-depth critical history of the failure of China's 'transition to socialism', analysing the degree to which it lived up to its egalitarian rhetoric as it navigated the uneasy relationships between democracy and bureaucracy, socialism and capitalism. the fact of the matter is that the Communist state, far from be […]
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 avions dit en mars que le mouvement était sur sa ligne de crête. Qu'en est-il aujourd'hui que le nombre de manifestants, et des présents aux AG, décline, que la reprise des ronds-points ne s'effectue pas ? Comment continuer à dire : « On ne lâchera rien » sans être dans le déni de l'affaiblissement du mouvement ? C'e […]
Thursday, March 21, 2019 - 17:00 to 19:15 --- English, Deutsch, Français --- Together-we-are-Bremen calls for another rally in front of the police station Bremen Vahr Free Momodou! // THURSDAY, 21 March for the demonstration at 17h in Henri-Dunant-Straße, at Polizeigewahrsam / Landrover building. // We meet at 16.30h at the station Polizeipräsidium of tram l […]
AttachmentSize Report about the detainment of Momodou B. (eng).pdf214.91 KB by the Black Student Union Bremen #ForMomodou #FreedomForMomodou We as the Black Student Union Bremen have learnt that Momodou, a young Black man, has been detained by the Bremen police, awaiting deportation at the beginning of April. As a group that stands for political education, p […]
[…] 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 →
‘Fully Automated Luxury Communism’ trivializes the global environmental crisis with badly-researched techno-hype and political plans that don’t come close to addressing the world’s problems. Source
El llamado a la Huelga Internacional de Mujeres el 8 de marzo de 2017 suscitó una revuelta sin precedentes en la historia de las luchas feministas de los últimos tiempos; y el pasado 8 de marzo de 2018, de nueva cuenta las calles de muchas ciudades en más de 57 países fueron tomadas por las mujeres confirmando que estamos frente a un nuevo movimiento feminis […]
Foto: Asamblea Feminista de Madrid.Justa Montero*El 8 de marzo millones de mujeres tomamos las calles convocadas por el movimiento feminista. Esta fecha pasará a la historia como el día de la mayor movilización feminista que se recuerda en el Estado español, y quedará grabada en la historia de vida de cada una de las mujeres que compartimos la emoción de ese […]
In 2019, the World Bank (WB) and the IMF will be 75 years old. These two international financial institutions (IFI), founded in 1944, are dominated by the USA and a few allied major powers who work to generalize policies that . . . Read more ›
Ada Colau of Barcelona en Comú (BComú) remains mayor of Barcelona thanks to the promise of a pact with the PSC (Partit dels Socialistes de Catalunya) whose content is not yet known but which will involve a distribution of power . . . Read more ›
On May 26, the army fired on a non-violent protest of the Pashtun Defence Movement (PTM), killing at least 13 people and injuring dozens. The two Members of the National Assembly of the PTM were arrested, Ali Wazeer first, Mohsin Dawar later. Curfew was imposed on Waziristan. An International Solidarity Campaign has been launched. See on ESSF International C […]
Ada Colau of Barcelona en Comú (BComú) remains mayor of Barcelona thanks to the promise of a pact with the PSC (Partit dels Socialistes de Catalunya) whose content is not yet known but which will involve a distribution of power in the town hall, and three votes of the Barcelona pel Canvi-Ciutadans group, led by Manuel Valls. This article analyses how this si […]
“ … 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):
