Human nature
Turkey: Erdogan is playing a dangerous game
Turkey: When the workers make their voices heard
In the current situation of global crisis and rampant local wars, Turkey has an important place. The tensions in this country are running high, both within the capitalist class(1) and between capital and labor. In this article we report on recent workers' struggles that develop in Turkey against the effects of the crisis. Workers are struggling despite state repression and attempts to divide workers.
Are Solidarity Networks the future of housing justice?
Venezuela's 28 missing miners? Only government news gets the newsprint
Washington Post offers pathetic excuses after its bias is exposed
News from Bolivarian gangland
Written a week before the shocking murder of 28 miners in Tumeremo, Venezuela by the 'El Topo' (The Mole) gang with the evident complicity of police and military, this article provides some background to the current wave of violence in the country. The Bolivarian government seems more hesitant to work with the opposition National Assembly, elected December 6, 2015 with 2/3 support among 3/4 of the voters than with the growing mega-gangs and the corrupt military...
Pushing Dust: Work Report from Greenford Street Cleansing Gangs
"China on Strike" book talks, San Francisco Bay Area, 6-7 April 2016
China on Strike is the first English-language book that provides an intimate and revealing window into the lives of workers organizing in China’s most profitable factories -- supplying Apple, Nike, Hewlett Packard, and other multinationals. This book has dozens of interviews with Chinese workers, documenting the processes of migration, changing employment relations, worker culture, and other transformations related to China’s explosive growth.
Supply Chain Inquiry, Los Angeles, 12 March 2016
"Supply Chain Worker Inquiry: China Through Los Angeles" presentation on Saturday, 12 March 2016 at The Public School Los Angeles from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. Attendees will be taken through a "thought experiment" that imagines solidarity spreading throughout the entire production process, from the recently striking Yue Yuen shoe factories Dongguan, China -- through the Los Angeles/Long Beach port complex -- to Walmart's distribution center in Elwood, Illinois (where in 2012 workers also went out on strike).
So it's come to this.
Another Day in The Sun: The National Accounts, Growth and Malfunction
Minimum Living Wage: Oregon Organizer Confront Weakened Wage and Renter Rights Proposals [VIDEO]
Migration, refugees and labour
Portland stands up against housing discrimination and retaliation
In Yemen, the US finds itself fighting alongside al-Qaeda
Workers occupy ILVA steel plant in Genoa
A look at Lockerbie: Intiqam, the man who takes revenge
In my last blog post I took a look at the US downing of Iran Air 655. In this post I will show how the Iranians took an eye for an eye. Part 2 of 3.
#EvictionFree2016: against retaliation, against discrimination
As Portland slips into a declared "renter state of emergency," tenants are being pushed out of the city as rents skyrocket and greedy landlords strip renters of their stability and voice. Now, Portland Tenants United, the newest tenants union in Portland, is launching a citywide campaign with a rally and march geared to take the tenant rights movement to the next level.