Ein neuer und ein alter Text der Radical Antropology Group und ein älterer Text von Michael Löwy

* Camilla Power: ‘Feminism is a dirty word’. What would Marx and Engels think today?

* SWP ‚expulsions‘ for discussing rape – not for the first time! (1991)

* Michael Löwy: Der Urkommunismus in den ökonomischen Schriften von Rosa Luxemburg – Für eine romantisch-revolutionäre Geschichtsauffassung (1989)

Zanzibar & Shihr and Mukalla

Neues aus den Archiven der radikalen (und nicht so radikalen) Linken

ältere Archiv-Updates und Hinweise zu weiteren linken Archivalien unter „Sozialistika“ und im Download-Archiv:

Lubitz TrotskyanaNet:

* Wolfgang and Petra Lubitz: Leon Trotsky Bibliography. An International Classified List of Publications About Leon Trotsky and Trotskyism (2009, 4. Auflage)

Rustbelt Radical:

* The Weekly Anglo-African: Detroit Remembers John Brown (1859)
* Eugene Debs: John Brown: History’s Greatest Hero (1907)
* George Novack: Homage to John Brown (1938)

Rassembler, diffuser les archives des révolutionnaires (RaDAR, ehemals ASMSFQI):

* Comités communistes internationalistes (CCI): Le Soviet, Mai 1943 (Untergrundzeitung)
* Parti ouvrier internationaliste (POI): La Vérité, 1. März 1943 (Untergrundzeitung, u.a. mit einem kurzen Bericht zu einer Protestaktion französischer ArbeiterInnen in einer Fabrik in Essen)
* IVe internationale: IVe internationale, Dezember 1949
* Parti ouvrier internationaliste (POI): Bulletin intérieur, 193?
* Parti communiste internationaliste (PCI): Bulletin intérieur, Juni 1946
* Jeunesse communiste révolutionnaire (JCR): L’Etincelle, Oktober 1966

Big Flame 1970-1984:

* EPISODES IN BIG FLAME HISTORY: No 17. Women and Feminism Part 2
** A Day Return Ticket (1980, pdf-Datei)
** Big Flame Discussion Paper for the NAC Conference 1980 (1980, pdf-Datei)
** Big Flame Socialist Feminist Perspective (1980, pdf-Datei)
** Socialist-Feminism Today (1981, pdf-Datei)
** Women and Big Flame (1980, pdf-Datei)
** Women in Big Flame and Elsewhere (1981, pdf-Datei)
** Women in Big Flame: Some Considerations (1981, pdf-Datei)

La Bataille Socialiste:

* Affiche pour un meeting du POUM le 21-03-1937
* Victor Serge: Modigliani est mort (1947)
* Rosa Luxemburg: Lettre à Henriette Roland-Holst (1904)
* Grandizo Munis: Portrait de Daniel de Leon (1979)
* International Council Correspondence: Les conseils ouvriers et l’organisation communiste de l’économie (1935)
* Solidaridad Obrera: Entrevista a Durruti (1936)
* Ngo Vanh: Avec Maximilien Rubel… Combats pour Marx 1954–1996: une amitié, une lutte (1997)
* Arnold Petersen: Preface to ‘Reform or Revolution’ (1947)
* Arnold Petersen: Preface to Socialist Reconstruction of Society (1930)
* Arnold Petersen: Introduction to What Means This Strike? (1946)
* Socialisme Mondial: Majorité consciente et violence (1974)
* Jules Guesde: Une formule prétendue communiste (1882)

Marxists Internet Archive (MIA):

* Walter Rodney: Masses in Action (1966)
* Walter Rodney: The Imperialist Partition of Africa (1970)
* Walter Rodney: The Question of Disengagement from Imperialism (1971)
* Walter Rodney: Tanzanian Ujamaa and Scientific Socialism (1972)
* Walter Rodney: The African Revolution (1972)
* Walter Rodney: Marxism and African Liberation (1975)
* Walter Rodney: Class Contradictions in Tanzania (1975)
* Walter Rodney: International Class Struggle in Africa, the Caribbean and America (1975)
* Max Eastman: Since Lenin died (1925)
* Ernest Mandel: La Burocracia (1969)
* Ernest Mandel: César De Paepe: De stichter van de Eerste Internationale (1960)
* Karl Kautsky: Karl Marx‘ Ökonomische Lehren (1887/1903, pdf-Datei)
* Karl Kautsky: Sozialismus und Kolonialpolitik (1907, pdf-Datei)
* Karl Kautsky: Finanzkapital und Krisen (1911, pdf-Datei)
* Karl Kautsky: Gold, Papier und Ware (1912, pdf-Datei)
* Karl Kautsky: Der Imperialismus (1914, pdf-Datei)
* Karl Kautsky: Der Krieg (1914, pdf-Datei)
* John Reed: Tio dagar som skakade världen (1919)
* Max Perthus: De breuk van Roestam Effendi met de CPN (1945)
* Geoffrey Trease: Les compagnons de la Charte (1934/1975)
* David Yaffe: David Yaffe: Value and Price in Marx’s Capital (1974)
* Ted Grant: Slump this year? (1958)
* Ted Grant: Labour’s programme—1964-70 disaster was a warning (1972)
* Resolution of the Montonero Party, March 10 1979
* Louis de Brouckère: Middelen tot socialistische actie (1907)

Materialien zur Analyse von Opposition (MAO):

* Materialien zu Studentenbewegung und Hochschulpolitik in Hamburg. Teil 5: Mai und Sommer 1968
* Materialien zu Studentenbewegung und Hochschulpolitik in Hamburg. Teil 7: Besetzung des Psychologischen Instituts Anfang 1969
* Materialien zu Studentenbewegung und Hochschulpolitik in Hamburg. Teil 6: Herbst 1968

La Presse Anarchiste:

* Les Cahiers de l’Oasis n°1, Juni 1921 (die erste Ausgabe einer 1921-1923 in Alexandria/Ägypten publizierten Zeitschrift)
* Solidarité Ouvrière n°1, April 1971
* Les Femmes et la Tradition (1921, ein Artikel aus La Revue Anarchiste)
* À bas les vieux ! (1921, ein Artikel aus La Revue Anarchiste)

Collectif Smolny:

* Rosa Luxemburg : Gesammelte Werke ( 1893 – 1919 ). Fiche bibliographique : sommaire détaillé de l’édition Dietz Verlag

LibCom:

* Victor Garcia: 1936-1967: A history of Spanish anarchist youth paper ‚Ruta‘ (1978)
* John Quail: The slow burning fuse – the lost history of the British anarchists (1978)
** 05. Anarchism Develops in the Socialist League
** 06. The Walsall Anarchists
** 07. H. B. Samuels and the Commonweal
** Publication notes, acknowledgements and bibliography
* Douglas Kellner: Herbert Marcuse and the Quest for Radical Subjectivity (2000)

The Cedar Lounge Revolution:

* Irish Workers Group, 1966-68
* Sinn Féin: The Split (1982)

Centro de Documentación de los Movimientos Armados (CeDeMA):

* Dirección Revolucionaria Unificada Político Militar (DRU)/Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional (FMLN) : Comunicado de la DRU anunciando la formación del FMLN (1980)

Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières (ESSF):

* Raghu Krishnan B. Skanthakumar: The European Union Left: from Social Democracy to Social Liberalism? (1999)

Workers‘ Liberty:

* Ernie Haberkern: Fascism: police measures don’t solve political problems (1997)
* Thomas Carolan: The left we have and the left we need (1997)
* Sean Matgamna: Ireland: a challenge to the left (1997)

The Irish Election Literature Blog:

* Anne Wilkinson- Labour Donegal 1985
* 1995 -Saoirse ‘Release all political prisoners now’
* ‘Workers Party News and Views’ – Kildare 1990
* Rosaleen McDonagh – Seanad Trinity 2002
* Dublin Housing Action Campaign (DHAC) 1999 – SWP
* Brid Smith -Socialist Workers Party -Dublin South Central 1997

The Militant:

* Mary-Alice Waters: Feminism and the Marxist Movement (1972)
* 25, 50 and 75 years ago (1934/1959/1984)

Espace contre ciment:

* Guy Debord: Notes sur la « question des immigrés » (1985)
* Guy Debord: La planète malade (1985)
* Leo Trotzki: Der Geist der „deutschen Sprache“ in der Politik (~ 1939, Auszug aus der Stalinbiographie)
* Rudolf Rocker: Soziales Elend und Revolution (19??, Auszug aus Im Sturm der Zeiten, Bd. 2)
* G. Cheptou: La liberté par en bas. Rudolf Rocker. De l’anarcho-syndicalisme au pragmatisme libertaire (2007)
* Einspruch gegen die Kapitulationen von 1937, vor den Libertären der Gegenwart und der Zukunft – Von einem „Unkontrollierten“ der Eisenkolonne (1937)
* André Prudhommeaux: Ceux qu’il nous faut connaître : les communistes de conseil (1947)
* André Prudhommeaux: Eloge de la pudeur (1955)
* Les Amis de Quat­re Mil­li­ons de Jeu­nes Tra­vail­leurs: Un monde sans argent: le communisme (1975-76)
* Gustav Landauer: Lernt nicht Esperanto! (1907)
* Gustav Landauer: Durch Absonderung zur Gemeinschaft (1900)
* Jacques Camatte: Kapital und Gemeinwesen (1976)

Archive.org:

* Andreu Nin: La huelga general de enero y sus enseanzas (1934)
* Albert Weisbord: Passaic; the story of a struggle against starvation wages and for the right to organize (1926)
* The Labour annual: the reformers‘ year-book (1908)
* Karl Kautsky: Požadavky a zásady socialní demokracie (1892)
* William Lovett/Working Men’s Association: The people’s charter; with the address to the Radical reformers of Great Britain and Ireland, and a brief sketch of its origin (1848)
* Sampson S. Perry: Oppression!!! The appeal of Captain Perry, (late editor of the Argus,) to the people of England, containing a justification of his principles and conduct which have rendered him obnoxious to ministerial tyranny; with a few remarks on the people of France, to refute the base calumnies of those interested in this ruinous crusade against the liberty and happiness of man (1795) (1795)
* Arthur John Booth: Robert Owen, the founder of socialism in England (1869)

Kasama:

* Mike Ely: 9 de octubre de 1967: El asesinato de Ernesto Che Guevara por la CIA (1997)
* Mike Ely: Understanding Che Guevara — 42 Years After His Murder (1997)

Syndikalismusforschung:

* Erich Mühsam Absage an die Rote Hilfe (1929)
* Fanal: Karl Roche vom Kampfplatz abgetreten (1931)
* Rudolf Rocker: Фантом национального единства (1919)
* Rudolf Rocker: Национализм – источник опасности! (~ 1950)
* Rudolf Rocker: Государство и Война (~ 1950)
* Rudolf Rocker: Абсолютистские представления в социализме (1950)
* Rudolf Rocker: Георг Вильгельм Фридрих Гегель (?)
* Rudolf Rocker: Социал-демократия и анархизм (~ 1899)

Ein Interview zur Lage der Hausangestellten in Tansania

Quelle: Internationaler Gewerkschaftsbund (ITUC-CSI-IGB)

„An international convention on domestic work would help us a great deal“

Brussels, 27 July 2009: The Tanzanian Conservation, Hotels, Domestic and Allied Workers’ Union, CHODAWU (1), has been working in defence of domestic workers and in the fight against domestic child labour for over ten years. With less than one year to go before the first ILO discussion on a new international convention on domestic work, Titus Mlengeya, National Chairman of CHODAWU, outlines the trade union action taken in this area and the problems still to tackle.

What are the main forms of exploitation suffered by domestic workers in Tanzania?

As there is no formal employment contract, domestic workers face harassment and threats from their employers but do not usually dare to complain. They are often treated like second-class citizens in relation to the family members in the household. Some domestic workers receive unduly severe punishments for the slightest of errors. And then there is also the potential problem of sexual abuse: domestic workers refusing sexual relations with their boss risk being dismissed. This also creates tension with the boss’s wife, who does not usually trust the domestic worker as she suspects her of colluding with her husband. In situations like these, the worker is doubly mistreated in the household.

Another recurring problem is the irregular payment of wages. At the end of the month, domestic workers are told they will be paid the following month… There is no certainty as to when they will be paid and, in some instances, the employer holds on to their wages until their departure, saying that they do not really need the money. So they end up like slaves, as they do not have the freedom to leave the job with the guarantee of being paid. In addition, it is not uncommon for them to have considerable amounts deducted from their salary (which is sometimes as little as 10 dollars) for small damages such as a broken glass. After deductions like these they are left with nothing of their wages at the end of the month.

What services do you offer domestic workers?

We have set up five help centres in Dar es Salaam, the capital, which is the main destination of domestic workers from the rest of the country. The two other centres are in regions considered to be the main places of origin of domestic workers and have been set up to try and contain the problem at the source. The aim of these centres is to help domestic workers living in very difficult circumstances. They mainly take in former child domestics and welcome around 4000 children a year on average. The staff at the centres includes teachers, nurses and matrons, who give advice and training. One of the aims is to counsel those who have suffered from exploitation so that they can get back to feeling like normal human beings. Another aim is to give them training in different disciplines (sewing, cooking, housekeeping, etc.) so that they can then secure decent work and a decent life. These training courses are organised in conjunction with specific institutions (driving schools, hotel management schools, etc.). The younger ones manage to get back into mainstream education.

Is it not up to the authorities to offer training?

Indeed, it is the government’s responsibility to look after its citizens’ welfare, but CHODAWU, as a union associated with domestic workers, has a role to play to ensure that its members are not mistreated. But you cannot protect them if they themselves are not made aware of their own situation, if they have no confidence in the fact that they are human beings and deserve to be treated the same way as everyone else. This awareness cannot be gained if we leave them in their current state of ignorance. If we do not act at this level, they will continue to be disrespected, to receive extremely low wages, and this new generation of domestic workers will develop within the context of mental and material difficulties, which is no good for the future.

How do you make contact with exploited children?

We have been cooperating for over ten years with NGOs and representatives of the authorities at neighbourhood level to identify where child domestics can be found. We also make good use of the media, as some domestic workers, in the towns, have access to radio and TV programmes. Even if they cannot sit down to listen to these programmes, they can listen while they are working, and learn about how others have been rescued by CHODAWU.

We also go to the bus and train stations to identify newcomers. Some people trade in these children, recruiting them in rural areas and then selling them in the towns. Whenever we identify potential victims, we work in partnership with the police to have the traffickers arrested and we take the children to our centres. We also contact the authorities in the villages where they come from. If we do not find a member of the family who can take care of the child, we give them long-term shelter in our centres.

Children who have been trafficked and then rescued by our programme are now helping us to identify other mistreated children and adult domestics suffering from exploitation, and bring them to our centres. It is also a means of recruiting them as members and letting them open up about their grievances so that CHODAWU can try to help resolve the problems with their employers.

Do these programmes bring you new members?

Yes, but we are above all fulfilling our duty in terms of social responsibility. Having responsible citizens is crucial to Tanzania’s future. CHODAWU has become like a parent for a group of former exploited workers, as we have helped them to regain a normal life. They place great trust in us and we have a long-term relationship with them.

Walter Rodney (23.03. 1942 – 13.06. 1980)

„What I am trying to say is simply this: The revolution is made by ordinary people, not by angels, made by people from all walks of life, and more particularly by the working class who are in the majority.“ (Walter Rodney)

Lesetipp: Walter Rodney: How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (1973)