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By Misha Steklov in Moscow
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Wednesday, 14 May 2008 |
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Although still in its early stages,
there is clearly a reawakening of the Russian working class taking place with a
growing number of strikes taking place. Once this picks up steam at some later
stage it will cut across all the confusion and demoralisation that have been
dominant features in the past.
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By In Defence of Marxism
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Wednesday, 14 May 2008 |
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An example of a very militant strike in Severouralsk, one of a series in the
recent period. The miners were determined but the bosses were ruthless. This
experience is another indication of growing working class militancy in Russia.
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By In Defence of Marxism
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Wednesday, 14 May 2008 |
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We provide an interesting
interview with Moscow
train drivers who were recently on strike, that reveals the terrible conditions
imposed on the workers but also the militant mood of the organizers.
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By In Defence of Marxism
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Wednesday, 14 May 2008 |
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The Nigerian comrades have provided us with a small photo gallery of the May Day celebrations in Lagos (see article). We also received some more photos of the May Day activities of the PTUDC in Karachi, Pakistan (see article).
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By Kamal Farran in Lebanon
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Tuesday, 13 May 2008 |
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The dramatic events that have unfolded in the recent period
in Lebanon
have hidden a very important development. As Hezbollah moved into West Beirut they successfully cut across a general strike
over wages that was planned for the same day. As the workers were coming
together to fight for their common interests, Hezbollah pushed its own agenda,
thereby heightening ethnic tension.
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By Dekel Avshalom in Israel
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Tuesday, 13 May 2008 |
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Hezbollah went into Beirut
and came out again once the government had backed off on its plans to dismantle
its communications network. Although powerful, the Hezbollah leaders are only
interested in maintaining their share of power. They are not interested, and
are incapable of, solving the real problems facing the masses.
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By Iranian Workers' Solidarity Network
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Tuesday, 13 May 2008 |
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Not satisfied with the terrible economic burden and lack of
rights that it has imposed on Iranian workers for three decades Iran's
pro-business regime is preparing for the first part of a major wave of
privatisation.
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By Fred Weston
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Tuesday, 13 May 2008 |
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Fred Weston of the marxist.com editorial board spoke on "Italy 1969, The Hot
Autumn", at last weekend's Socialist Appeal day school on "1968 - Year of
Revolution".
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By Michael Roberts
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Monday, 12 May 2008 |
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Up till recently, Britain’s main high street banks had
not seemed to have suffered much – they were all announcing big profits and
there was little talk of large ‘writedowns’ of worthless assets. But now the
Royal Bank of Scotland has announced that it lost £4bn in the last three months
as a result of the world’s great credit crunch and it must write off £5bn in
loans and debt securities that it had on its books as worthless. The credit
crunch is going to hit Britain in a big way.
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By Darrall Cozens
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Monday, 12 May 2008 |
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"Britain has been hit by what trade unions have called the biggest wave of
work stoppages since the Labour government came to power 10 years ago, with up
to 400,000 public sector employees going on strike." (Reuters: Headline and
opening sentence Friday, 25 April
2008)
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By Rob Sewell
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Monday, 12 May 2008 |
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New Labour suffered a humiliating defeat in the recent
local elections, but those left groupings who were hoping to capitalise on
Labour's difficulties also found themselves in a mess. As Ted Grant explained,
the working class always ignore these sectarian grouplets on the fringes of the
labour movement and in times of struggle always turn towards their
traditional organisations.
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By Iranian Workers' Solidarity Network
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Monday, 12 May 2008 |
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According to reports received from Shush city around 5000
workers are now on strike at the Haft Tapeh Sugar Cane Development Commercial
Company. The strike has entered its sixth day and all three shifts, as well as
all parts of the factory and cane fields of the company, are solidly behind the
strike.
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By Martin Lööf, Hands off Venezuela-Sweden
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Monday, 12 May 2008 |
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A very successful ten-day speaking tour by Antonio
Betancourt of FRETECO in Venezuela
was recently organised by the Hands Off Venezuela campaign in Sweden. He
travelled the length and breadth of the country, raising the profile of HOV
within the Swedish labour movement.
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By Sindicato de Estudiantes
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Monday, 12 May 2008 |
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By Adilson Mariano, Vereador do PT, Joinville
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Monday, 12 May 2008 |
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Dra. Ângela Konrath sentencia: "Além de nula, a despedida
por justa causa se deu numa prática discriminatória, em represália à convicção
ideológica". A sentença da Juíza do Trabalho, desmoraliza a intervenção
ocorrida na Cipla/Interfibra em maio de 2007 e
anula todas as demissões por justa causa.
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By Rafael Prata at Flaskô
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Friday, 09 May 2008 |
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The Movement of the Occupied Factories in Brazil is a
glorious chapter in the struggle of the working class. Last year the courts and
the police intervened in an attempt to smash the movement. In spite of
everything it still survives at the Flaskô plastics factory in Sumaré, Sao Paulo. Here we
provide an account of the struggle of the Flaskô workers and background to the
movement as a whole.
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By LAC
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Friday, 09 May 2008 |
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This year's May Day rallies in Morocco
revealed a more militant mood and where the Marxists intervened they received a
huge welcome from the workers.
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By In Defence of Marxism
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Friday, 09 May 2008 |
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Today we continue the series on climate change,
with the final part of Brian Baker's article together with a reply from Emil
Reed. We have received several emails on this question and some of our readers
are writing further contributions to the debate. From today anyone who wishes
to follow the debate can do so by going to the special link Climate Change
Debate.
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By Ted Grant in 1939
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Friday, 09 May 2008 |
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In the summer of 1939, the Tientsin incident unleashed a
nationalistic outburst in defence of British prerogatives over China. Labour
and Stalinist leaders advocated for a "firm" defence of British interests and China against Japan. Ted Grant vehemently
rejected their chauvinism and warned "We cannot trust the British capitalists
to carry out any act in the interests of the workers of Britain and the
world."
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By Rafael Prata - Militante da Esquerda Marxista e Assessor de Comunicação da Fábrica Ocupada Flasko
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Friday, 09 May 2008 |
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Portuguese original of Brazil: a brief history of the Flaskô workers’ struggle and the Movement
of Occupied Factories (May 9, 2008)
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By Pablo Roldan and Mauro Vanetti
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Thursday, 08 May 2008 |
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Opposition students in Venezuela are depicted as poor
victims of an authoritarian regime. The world media pick up on this and repeat
the fairy tale until people start to believe it. But these students are such
victims that they receive hundreds of thousands of dollars in the form of the
"Milton Friedman Liberty Prize". Friedman's Chicago Boys were also
advisers to Pinochet, no doubt also seen as a "victim" by these people.
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