to the webpage of the IWW in Australia.
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If you are a working person you might have noticed that there are a lot of things stacked against you. This little page is run by the Industrial Workers of the World; our aim is to even the odds.
News from India's Special Exploitation Zone - www.gurgaonworkersnews.wordpress.com In the September 2010 issue you can find: 1) Proletarian Experiences - Daily life stories and reports from a workers' perspective *** The isolated social work in the household - Report by a working-class woman about her work in and around the house in the industrial area: caring for husband and children, earning money by doing outsourced embroidery work. The story has been published several years ago in the Hindi workers' newspaper Faridabad Majdoor Samachar. We document it in the wider context of workers' reports, looking at the hidden side of the factory world. |
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Karl Marx explains how communism is not a Communist Party dictatorship.
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The first segment of the movie version of "Marat/Sade" is here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aur-t-RtOJM&feature=related
There are 13 segments to this wonderful critique of the bourgeois revolution, all done by a superb acting cast. |
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Call for solidarity Agrarian reform now! Peasants in Indonesia need land: Land to the tiller! Serikat Petani Indonesia (SPI) Building up to National Farmers’ Day, September 24, 2010 More than 65 years of independence, the situation of agriculture in Indonesia is still far from justice. We witness and feel the imbalances in land ownerships. Consequently, the situation leads to the fact that the peasants continue to own a very small land, or even landless. Projection from Serikat Petani Indonesia (SPI), a peasant’s movement struggling for agrarian reform, said that there are currently 28.3 million households involve in farming business—and 15.6 million of them are very small-holder farmers, owning only 0.4 hectare of land. |
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http://www.laborrights.org/creating-a-sweatfree-world/sweatshops/news/12380
Human Rights Leader Arrested in Bangladesh: YOUR HELP NEEDED!
A former child laborer, Kalpona Akter, in Bangladesh started an internationally known organization called the Bangladesh Center for Worker Solidarity (BCWS). This organization for almost one decade has been supporting workers as they struggle for a better life in Bangladesh. BCWS works mainly to support garment factory workers but also supports workers in the shrimping and shipbreaking industries.
However Kalpona Akter and her co-worker Babul Ahkter were arrested 2 days ago as part of a long term effort by the Government of Bangladesh to silence those seeking better human and labor rights for Bangladeshis.
So now we are calling on you to help spread the message far and wide. Kalpona and her colleagues have been supporting others for so many years and now they need our support!
http://www.laborrights.org/creating-a-sweatfree-world/sweatshops/partner-spotlight-bangladesh-center-for-workers-solidarity
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Bakers not Delighted! http://bakersdelightcampaign.wordpress.com UNITE organiser Mel Gregson recently spoke to Diana Beaumont from 3CR’s Stick Together about the campaign for decent wages and conditions for Bakers Delight workers. Fair Work Australia rejects Bakers Delight Agreement After a months long process, Fair Work Australia has finally refused to approve a Bakers Delight Enterprise Agreement. The agreement would have covered the Diamond Creek, St Helena and Laurimar stores in Melbourne’s northern suburbs. |
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GurgaonWorkersNews - Newsletter 29 (August 2010) (Full version: www.gurgaonworkersnews.wordpress.com) Gurgaon in Haryana is presented as the shining India, a symbol of capitalist success promising a better life for everyone behind the gateway of development. At a first glance the office towers and shopping malls reflect this chimera and even the facades of the garment factories look like three star hotels. Behind the facade, behind the factory walls and in the side streets of the industrial areas thousands of workers keep the rat-race going, producing cars and scooters for the middle-classes which end up in the traffic jam on the new highway between Delhi and Gurgaon. Thousands of young proletarianised middle class people lose time, energy and academic aspirations on night-shifts in call centres, selling loan schemes to working-class people in the US or pre-paid electricity schemes to the poor in the UK. Next door, thousands of rural-migrant workers uprooted by the agrarian crisis stitch and sew for export, competing with their angry brothers and sisters in Bangladesh or Vietnam. |
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http://minimumsecurity.net/blog/2010/06/23/the-math-of-resistance/ June 23rd, 2010 On Monday, a small group went inside the BP command center in New Orleans to confront those responsible for the spill. http://mobilebroadcastnews.com/MBN/blog/Gulf-Oil-Spill-Unified-Command-Center-Protest?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+MobileBroadcastNews+(Mobile+Broadcast+News) This protest was symbolic; a small number of people couldn’t really disrupt the activities of BP. Imagine, though, if they had a few hundred angry and determined people. Then they could have shut that place down. Small numbers + confrontation = symbolic (with potential for effectiveness) * * * Hundreds or thousands of people will hold hands on beaches worldwide this weekend, protesting the catastrophe in the Gulf and demanding an end to offshore drilling. http://www.handsacrossthesand.com/ |
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Thoughts on the Successful Picketing of the Israeli Zin Line Ship, Oakland, California Sunday, June 20, 2010 History was made Today. Met together to flame the spark struck by the Gaza Flotilla. 800 of us. Long day to me. Up ready at a.m. 4:30 Copwatch Security crew swept into office gearing up. Last minute hustling for rides to docks. Wobbly universal-labeled drum carried by Copwatch car. Down empty streets, past committed comrades stringing out along the road hiking Bart to the dock at Berth 58. Dropped off across tracks from closest gate a nd walked across to growing clustered pickets. Sorting out. Fellow workers Bruce and Donna flying red/black flag. Picket sign. First forty formed a line at first gate. Took back copwatch wobbly drum. Drum beat march to main gate, numbers growing. Wobbly Banner strung across wire fence fellow workers down from Reno. Fellow Workers with Security, Steve and John waving wobbly flag. 6 am line swelled to hundreds. |
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