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More noise, more self-respect, more daring
Submitted by unterschreber on Wednesday, 3 September, 2008 - 20:07
Wildcat Firsthand account translated from Wildcat issue 81 (original article at: http://www.wildcat-www.de/wildcat/81/w81_dacia.htm) of the Romanian Renault/Dacia strike earlier this year, which forced wage increases of 30-40% and, in the context of a migration-induced labour shortage, inaugurated a strike wave which has since hit Constanta port and ArcelorMittal. More reports from Romania forthcoming. More noise, more self-respect, more daring Strike at the Dacia-Renault plant in Romania: a turning point subject: Class | Europe | Events | Labour Struggles | Money | Site-Specific | Strategy
Bangladesh; garment workers attack factories as thousands wildcat and riot
Submitted by anthony on Wednesday, 13 August, 2008 - 10:04
Ret Marut Another update on the Bangladesh garment/textile workers actions against their employers' property and the police re-posted from Libcom. These activities seem to be taking an increasingly Luddite turn which suggests that without unions recourse to property destruction is proving to be the most relevant strategy available to the Bangladesh working class to pursue their demands - what Eric Hobsbawm called 'collective bargaining by riot'. subject: Asia | Labour Struggles
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Submitted by mute on Wednesday, 9 July, 2008 - 21:38
Brian Marks Brian Marks seems to have rewritten George Caffentzis' 1980 'The Work/Energy Crisis & The Apocalypse' essay for our turbulent times, adding in a dose of fictitious capital a la David Harvey. But was/ is this analysis of (energy/capitalist) crisis accurate? In particular the idea that the crisis imposes intensified looting (of workers) through inflation, transfering value back up to subject: AntiCapitalist | Fictitious Capital | Financial Crisis | Labour Struggles | Marxist
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Submitted by unterschreber on Saturday, 28 June, 2008 - 15:08
unterschreber Finally Got the News Saturday, June 28, 8pm, £0 The Pullens Centre, 184 Crampton St, Elephant & Castle, London SE17 Rare screening of documentary (dir. Steward Bird, Rene Lichtman, Peter Gessner) on the League of Revolutionary Black Workers, from wildcat movement to formidable independent workers organization, inside and outside the auto factories of insurgent turn-of-the-'70s Detroit. subject: Books | Class | Film | History | Insurgency | Labour Struggles | N. America | Race | Social Movements | Strategy
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Submitted by unterschreber on Friday, 18 April, 2008 - 20:43
Loren Goldner / SaNoShin In-depth to say the least (it's 55 pages if you print it out) interview with marxist writer/activist and recent Mute collabor Loren Goldner by the South Korean SaNoShin group, covering the 20th century history of class struggle and present developments/future prospects. The Situation of Left Communism Today: Loren Goldner subject: Asia | Class | Communism | Fictitious Capital | History | Labour Struggles | Marxist | Nationalism
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Submitted by jaya on Wednesday, 9 April, 2008 - 16:33
The syndicalist SAC union in Sweden has over the last few months been campaigning for fair wages for undocumented immigrants , resulting in thousands of pounds in unpaid wages being paid to migrant workers. subject: Immigration | Labour Struggles | Precarity
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Submitted by unterschreber on Thursday, 3 April, 2008 - 18:56
Private Eye (In the Back) Last year's Royal Mail strikes responsded to an ongoing attack on postal workers' conditions, the origins of which can be traced directly to the competitve, 'harmonized' market being gradually introduced under the EU Postal Directives of 1997 and 2002. The threatened closure of post offices across the UK also falls within the Directives' market logic. (It remains to be seen if local post office user campaigns, whose bandwagon now groans under the weight of Ken Livingstone and a posse of embarrassed/embarrassing Labour MPs, will manage to organize in solidarity w subject: Business | Class | Government | Labour Struggles | Management Theory | Markets | Money | New Enclosures | Patronage | Policy | Strategy
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Submitted by unterschreber on Tuesday, 1 April, 2008 - 20:22
Wildcat (Germany) On March 26 a Financial Times 'Lex' columnist wrote: subject:
Science | Business | Class | Energy Resources | Immigration | Insurgency | Labour Struggles | State | Strategy | Surveillance
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Submitted by mute on Friday, 29 February, 2008 - 14:32
C. L-Stavrides While bird flu panic made a return to the UK mainland last autumn, the promised pandemic failed to materialise. What does continue to evolve, however, are repressive forms of population management sustained by hypothetical threats of megadeath – writes C. L-Stavrides subject: Asia | Biology | Biopolitics | Epidemic | Immigration | Labour Struggles | Mute Vol 2 #7 | Slums | Urbanism | War on Terror
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Submitted by mute on Tuesday, 26 February, 2008 - 16:50
 subject: Identity | Immigration | Labour Struggles | Mute Vol 2 #7 | Policy
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Submitted by mute on Friday, 8 February, 2008 - 14:56
Seemab Gul The vulnerability of illegalised workers forces them to accept the worst pay and conditions and produces conflict within the working class as a whole. Here Seemab Gul examines how the production of this illegality is the main goal of the UK’s immigration laws subject: Globalisation | Immigration | Labour Struggles | Mute Vol 2 #7 | Policy
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Submitted by mute on Friday, 11 January, 2008 - 17:22
Loren Goldner Loren Goldner will be giving a talk on the subject of the Korean working class at Housmans bookstore in Kings Cross, London at 6pm on Saturday 19th of January. subject: Activism | AntiCapitalist | Asia | Class | Labour Struggles | Marxist | Neoliberal | Politics | Social Movements
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Submitted by unterschreber on Wednesday, 9 January, 2008 - 19:23
Chris Marsden From World Socialist Web Site (http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/jan2008/guar-j09.shtml), a telling example of what 'the real world' means when invoked by government, unions and sympathetic media. The story of a group of women care-workers employed by Cleveland and Redcar council who were forced to turn to 'no win no fee' lawyers after to obtain back-pay withheld through a council-Unison stitch-up. Guess whose side the 'Guardian' was on... subject: Debt | Feminist | Government | Labour Struggles | Law | Media | Money | State
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Submitted by mute on Monday, 7 January, 2008 - 17:09
Jaya Klara Brekke Jaya Klara Brekke talks to four UK based groups working to improve conditions for migrants and asks ‘how does one organise in the dark?’
subject: Activism | Border Activism | Globalisation | Immigration | Labour Struggles | Mute Vol 2 #7
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Submitted by unterschreber on Tuesday, 27 November, 2007 - 22:44
Building workers rank & file committee Bulletin from the Building Workers Rank & File Committee on organization beyond union opportunism in an Olympically-inflated sector where 'precarity' has a literal life-and-death meaning, and employer attempts to divide and stratify labour in relation to immigration status and other questions of 'legality' (eg 'fake self-employment') is endemic. (Also reproduced on Libcom.org and Indymedia.co.uk) subject: Class | Labour Struggles | Money | Precarity | Strategy
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