Class Struggle

BRAZIL: BEFORE THE GENERAL STRIKE ON 11th JULY

Re-posted from El Mundo Socilalista at blogspot.   A “general strike” called by an anonymous Facebook group for the 1st July has not taken off. However on Sunday, 30the June, a number of important mobilizations took place, especially in Rio de Janeiro against the Municipal, State and Federal Governments as well as against the FIFA….

FOR IMMEDIATE ACQUITTAL FOR THE OIL WORKERS OF LAS HERAS

Wednesday, June 12, 2013 Emergency appeal for the worker organizations  and the world June 1st, 2013 The Kirchner government and his judges, those servants of Obama and Wall Street want to condemn workers to life sentence…   A lynching fabricated with paid witnesses and advance sentences on the part of the corrupted judges of the…

Revolutionary Greetings from the CWG International Workers Day 2013

  For translation:paste pg.URL into window after click   Comrades, Revolutionary Greetings,       Since 2008 we have witnessed the deepening of the current crisis of capitalism from a global recession to a global depression. Capitalism is approaching its final crisis. All that is required is for the world proletariat to stand up and push…

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…

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…

Which way forward for the Oakland Port Workers Assembly

How can the Oakland Port Workers Assembly support the SEIU 1021 strike-building the class wide solidarity needed to win a non-concessionary contract?   We have seen many one day strikes (the CNA makes a regular practice of using them as do the European trade unions) and they do not result in winning contracts. In fact, they are…