Four NoTAV activists acquitted of terrorism charge
A worthless piece of plastic - Invisible Man
Healthcare is only a tiny part of health
[originally posted to the South Florida IWW blog] The following piece is written by Miami IWW member, Scott Nikolas Nappalos. This particular article is undeniably keen and highlights the setbacks of the healthcare system. It also explains how healthcare militants should go further than just changing the health system, but to also develop healthcare that enhances it’s ethics and values. Therefore, we recommend to read more below and hope that you will enjoy this piece.
Victory for the hunger strike of Nikos Romanos
Solidarity, as weapon and practice, versus killer cops and white supremacy
Climate change and workers' strategies, San Francisco, 18 Dec 2014
As we more fully understand the effects of anthropogenic climate change, there is a need to bring this awareness into struggles to counteract capitalism's ecocidal destruction. Nathan Kurtz presents his research and we will discuss how transportation workers -- especially along fossil fuel supply chains -- could be at the forefront of these struggles.
“The harsh reality of capitalism”: Low wages, zero-hours contracts, and self-organisation in London’s Everyman Cinemas
10 reasons to support the firefighters' strikes
"Professor Xu": Laid-off plastics worker becomes China's Walter White
Repost of a story of interest less for its similarity to "Breaking Bad," and more for what this similarity (and differences) reveal about capitalist development, increasing precarization and exclusion of "surplus" proletarians, and how criminality enables a few proles to prosper at the expense of many others, in a vicious circle of class cannibalism.
Another shoe strike in the Pearl River Delta: Lide, Guangzhou
Translation of a brief report on a strike of 2,500 workers at a shoe factory in Guangzhou that began today. As with the strike of about 50,000 workers at another company's shoe factories in the Pearl River Delta several months ago, one focus of this strike is on the company's non-payment of social security, along with factory relocation.
We carry our failures: working with people in a dehumanizing system - Scott Nappalos
Capital Mafia: fascists, politicians, cooperatives and the Roman mob
280 people occupy building in Bologna
On Bluffing - Phinneas Gage
The UN climate talks - a series of last chances
Victimised reps forced to lobby their union in fight for support
Two union reps sacked by their employer for their trade union activities are lobbying the National Executive Committee of the PCS union tomorrow. In two very similar cases of union busting and victimisation, the union has failed to offer adequate support in quite different ways.