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Unionism and Workers' Liberation |
Submitted by: mitch / 02 Jun 2006
Publisher: znet
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Class struggle wasn't a figment of Marx's imagination. A struggle between workers the classes that dominate them is a consant, an on-going reality. This struggle happens because of structures in society that give certain groups power over other groups. |
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Worker Self-Management in Argentina |
Submitted by: Felix / 27 May 2006
Publisher: Marie Trigona
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This paper aims to present critical analysis and some hypotheses on strategies for worker-self management (autogestión). Argentina’s worker-run factories are setting an example for workers around the world that employees can run a business even better without a boss or owner. Raising critical questions about the practices and strategies these experiences have developed may point us to a practical road towards workers’ emancipation from exploitation and oppression. Why should workers occupy their workplaces? What type of alternatives to capitalism have the worker-take overs developed? How can these experiences of worker self-management lead us to destroy systems of exploitation and oppression? |
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Immigrants Rising in Brooklyn |
Submitted by: Felix / 25 May 2006
Publisher: Erin Thompson / The Indypendent
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A smell of wet garbage emanated from a paste of rotten fruit, cucumbers and smashed olives that clung to the sidewalk in front of Amersino Marketing Group, an anonymous building amid a row of squat warehouses in Ridgewood, Queens. Like most mornings, on Monday May 1, Eliezer Maca arrived at 5:30 a.m. at the warehouse, where he spends six days a week loading trucks ferrying supplies to New York’s Chinese restaurant industry.
Today, however, Maca was not here to work.
Having been fired on April 29 by the owner, he was flanked by a handful of youthful, scarletemblazoned members of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) and a dozen coworkers, forming an enthusiastic picket line. It was the fifth such picket at the company in as many weeks, as workers took to heart the direct action and worker-lead strikes characteristic of the IWW. |
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Wave of Strikes Shakes Tehran |
Submitted by: Felix / 20 Apr 2006
Publisher: Spiegel Online
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Iran's recent declaration that it has successfully enriched uranium is bound to further increase tensions between Tehran and the United States. But the Iranian government also has an internal crisis on its hands. The country's high level of poverty has triggered a series of intense social struggles. |
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Why striking bus drivers in Tehran are the real defenders of Muslim rights |
Submitted by: Admin / 16 Feb 2006
Publisher: The Guardian
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For three weeks, there have been demonstrations across the planet about a great injustice done to Muslims. After baton-wielding cops inflicted dozens of injuries, the fear of death is in the air. George W Bush's State Department has warned of 'systematic oppression', while secularists and fundamentalists have revealed their mutually incompatible values. Since you ask, I am not talking about the global menace of Scandinavian cartoonists that has so terrified our fearless free press, but mass arrests in Iran. |
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For Workers' Power ... |
Submitted by: mitch / 16 Feb 2006
Publisher: anarkismo.net
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A lengthy review of the excellent new collection of British libertarian socialist Maurice Brinton's work which has been published by AK Press. Brinton was "the most prolific contributor to the British Solidarity Group (1961-1992), he sought to inspire a mass movement based on libertarian socialist politics... Included here are Brinton's finest essays, pamphlets, eye-witness reportage and his most influential works-Irrational in Politics and Bolsheviks and Workers' Control."
Brinton's perspectives on anarchism were too shaded by his Leninist background and the state of the UK anarchist movement in the 1960s and 70s. While he is right to bemoan the anti-organisational and anti-theoretical tendencies of Russian anarchism he does get basic things wrong. Brinton's dismissal of Kropotkin is based on Avrich's summary of his ideas rather than a reading of the source material.
Ultimately, these are minor issues. The core ideas of Brinton in terms of the importance of self-management, the need for revolutionary theory and practice to take into account all aspects of hierarchical society, his consistency and logic, remain as relevant today as when they were written. Anarchists have a lot to gain from reading this collection.
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Workers Power and the Russian Revolution |
Submitted by: mitch / 16 Feb 2006
Publisher: Znet
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A review of Maurice Brinton’s For Workers Power
by Tom Wetzel with primary focus on the Russian Revolution |
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Frustrated by Low Wages, Starbucks Employees Sow Union Seeds |
Submitted by: Admin / 14 Feb 2006
Publisher: John Davisson / Columbia Spectator
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As if ordering a cup of coffee wasn’t complicated enough these days, things could get even muckier if federal labor law weighs in.
Since 2004, a group of baristas known as the Starbucks Workers Union has sought collective bargaining rights for the chain’s employees citywide, citing a need for improved pay and healthier working conditions.
While SWU has been unable to gain recognition from Starbucks or the National Labor Relations Board, the federal body that mediates labor disputes in the private sector, members are hoping that a recent wave of unfair labor allegations against the company might reverse its fortunes. |
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