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Shocking autopsy: South African police 'shot fleeing protesters in the back'
South African police are facing accusations of mass murder after autopsies on the victims of a bloody crackdown at Marikana platinum mine, showed that miners were shot in the back. Meanwhile, new violence has broken out at the location. Continue reading
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Turmoil at South Africa’s Platinum Mines by Pratap Chatterjee
Clashes between South Africa’s powerful mining companies and the government are only part of the story. A battle to win membership between two rival unions – the older establishment affiliated National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) and the newer more radical Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU) – is also reported to be a major… Continue reading
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Lonmin, the 'unacceptable face of capitalism' By Sipho Hlongwane
The company that preceded Lonmin was once dubbed ‘the unacceptable face of capitalism’ by a British prime minister. Tiny Rowland, man who turned the company into an international colossus, wore the slur happily. In the aftermath of the Marikana shootings, it seems like not much has changed since his day. Continue reading
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South Africa: Lonmin's Killing Fields By Greg Nicolson
On Monday, a dozen Lonmin mineworkers sat on the grass at a North West resort. The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) shop stewards and leaders of Lonmin’s Western Platinum branch fled their homes at the world’s third largest platinum producer, outside of Rustenburg, on Saturday. “We heard they identified the branch top five to kill,”… Continue reading
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Too little too late?
The 292,000-strong Public and Commercial Services Union … voted four to one in favour of using union funds to back anti-austerity candidates. Continue reading
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Columbia’s Quest for Peace & Justice: The International & National Contexts By Professor James Petras
Between April 21-23, thousands of activists from most of the major urban and rural social movements and trade unions, human rights groups and indigenous, afro-Colombian movements will meet to unify forces and launch, what promises to be the most significant new political movement in recent history. Continue reading
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Apple’s China Comes Home to Haunt Us By Robert Scheer
Four decades ago Richard Nixon, a once famously hawkish Republican president, cut a deal with the Communist overlords of China to reshape the world. The result was a transformation of the global economy in ways that we are only now, with the sharp critiques of Apple’s China operation, beginning to fully comprehend. Continue reading
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Lansley’s NHS Demolition Bill – political strikes are both necessary and possible to defeat it!
The Tories are in deep trouble over Lansley’s health ‘reforms’. Their Lib Dem coalition partners are deeply split over it, in the Lords Shirley Williams appears to be among those fighting hardest to defeat it. The Labour Party meanwhile, though it has capitulated on the public sector pay freeze and on the wider issue of… Continue reading
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Arab Uprisings Await Their Economic Spring By Yassine Temlali
The working class in the Arab world has accomplished a lot in the course of one year of uprisings. Some of these accomplishments are material, including higher wages and improvements in working conditions. Others are political, such as the right to democratic representation (the rise of Egyptian independent unions and changing the leadership of the… Continue reading
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UK Public Sector Strike: Osborne Lights the Fuse to a Perfect Storm
Osborne’s mini-budget, spewed forth in the House of Commons the day before the two million-strong one-day public sector strike over pensions, is a big ‘fuck you’ to the majority of the population of the UK. Continue reading
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Update from EI: Gaza patients’ burdens | BDS grows in UK trade unions | East Jerusalem killings | And more …
30 November 2011 — UPDATE FROM THE ELECTRONIC INTIFADA LATEST FROM THE ELECTRONIC INTIFADA BLOGS The ridiculous burdens borne by Gaza medical patients By Rami Almeghari, Cairo, 30 November 2011 Though EI correspondent Rami Almeghari’s family has finally accessed medical treatment for his ailing wife, unlike other less lucky families in Gaza, the obstacles they Continue reading
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#OWS and the Young Trade Unionists by Mark Nowak
If you head down to the IBEW Local 24 Union Hall Auditorium on W. Patapsco Avenue in Baltimore on the first Tuesday of any month, you’ll encounter a meeting of an energetic group of young union members from the Metro Baltimore-Washington, D.C. area. Continue reading
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November 30 Strike: student planning meeting tonight, plus demo details
As you’re probably aware, on Wednesday 30 November millions of public sector workers will be taking strike action across the country. A full list of unions taking action on the day is available here, but what’s clear is that N30 it set to see a major stepping up of resistance to austerity in the UK. Continue reading
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How to Make Robin Hood Proud BY David Moberg
Tax Wall Street,’ read a simple, homemade placard high above the crowd of thousands of members of unions, community groups and Occupy activists protesting outside the mid-October convention of bankers and futures traders in downtown Chicago. Curtis Smith, president of the local affiliate of National People’s Action, a network of community organizations focused on the… Continue reading
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Occupy Wall Street and then the World Newslinks 7-10 November 2011
10 November 2011 — williambowles.info 10 November 2011 Introducing the Robin Hood tax Links – International journal of socialist renewal Today at 13:09 Notes from a talk at Occupy Wellington on October 29, 2011, to coincide with the #RobinHood global march By Grant Brookes, Tax Justice Campaign (New Zealand) The campaign for a Robin Hood tax Continue reading
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650,000 Americans Joined Credit Unions Last Month More…
“One of the tactics the 99 Percenters are using to take back the country from the 1 percent is to move their money from big banks to credit unions, community banks, and other smaller financial unions that aren’t gambling with our nation’s future. Now, the Credit Union National Association (CUNA) reports that a whopping 650,000… Continue reading
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