December 26, 2012

AFTER MICHIGAN: A PROPOSED PATH FORWARD FOR THE LABOR MOVEMENT

AFTER MICHIGAN: A PROPOSED PATH FORWARD FOR THE LABOR MOVEMENT. Mass demonstrations to smash anti-labor laws are not enough.  Labor needs to unite labor in political strikes across the country to defend rights to organize, to collective bargaining, to defeat anti-labor restrictions on solidarity strikes.  Labors victory will not be won by demonstrations called by “friendly-Democrats”…

Marikana Solidarity up against Centrism and modern Menshevism

In periods of working class upheaval (like those most starkly exhibited today in MENA, Greece, Southern Africa, Spain, and China) the working class struggles to free itself ideologically, politically and organizationally from the shackles imposed by generations of reformers, class collaborationist workers’ and bourgeois-workers parties which, when given the opportunity, willingly administer capitalism’s austerities against…

HANDS OFF OCCUPY ACTIVISTS: Drop charges on the ACAC 19

Fax/Call in Day Week of 12/17/2012.   Recently San Francisco Superior Court Judge Andrew Y.S. Cheng denied demurrers for all but one defendant of the ACAC 19 signaling that the case will most likely go to trial in the coming months. This week we are asking all supporters to fax and call San Francisco District…

DEFEND PRO-PALESTINE ACTIVIST FROM AUSTRIAN STATE REPRESSION

A young comrade of the RKOB of Austria has been charged with ‘sedition’ for making a speech in support of Palestinian liberation and against the “apartheid” state of Israel at a recent demonstration in Vienna against the Israeli bombing of Gaza. We quote from the RKOB statement. “20-year old Palestine Solidarity Activist and RKOB spokesperson Johannes…

Turning the Tide: Port Workers Newsletter

Coming together in September 2012 a core group of  Port of Oakland union workers including Laborers, Sailors Union of the Pacific (SUP), ILWU, SEIU 1021 as well as unorganized truckers and their supporters in the Teamsters union  came together with  Occupy Oakland Labor Solidarity members to organize the Oakland Port Workers Assembly.  The assembly has…

The Arab Revolution meets NATO/Zionism

The current situation in the Middle East is one of a growing confrontation between the resurgent Arab democratic revolution – popularly called the ‘Arab Spring’ now two years old – and imperialism represented by its military ‘gendarme’, Zionist Israel. The US and EU imperialist powers are attempting to impose a ‘democratic’ counter-revolution, to prevent the working masses…