SANTIAGO — The six Chilean homeowners who spent more than 20 hours perched on a construction crane in downtown Santiago to demand that their mortgage debt be written off finally agreed to climb down, police said, while the deputy interior minister announced criminal charges against the protest’s leader. The protest began at 10 p.m. Wednesday, [...]
March 13, 2009 By Michael Fox Source: NACLA More than six thousand women from Vía Campesina and the Landless Workers’ Movement (MST) participated in protests across Brazil on March 9. The direct actions were in celebration of International Women’s Day, and against the government’s continued support of multinational agribusiness in the country. The protests took [...]
by Roger Annis AUCKLAND– On April 6, 2009, I spent a day visiting the offices of New Zealand’s newest, and among its most dynamic, trade unions, Unite. Unite is at the forefront of a revitalization of a section of the labour movement in New Zealand that has resulted in thousands of young and marginalized workers [...]
The Tanta Flax and Oil Company workers renewed their call for the nationalization of their factory, threatening to take over the factory and run it independently from the investor and the government if the latter didn’t intervene on behalf of the strikers. “The strike enters its 41st day and the government has neither moved nor [...]
Despite the Egyptian government’s violent reaction last year, a group of young activists has renewed its call for a national strike next month to protest inflation, corruption and political repression. The opposition group calling itself the April 6 Youth Movement has called for a strike on April 6, the same day a similar call was [...]
Excerpted from the Interview by Democrcy Now! 15 May 2009 Workers at Chicago’s Republic Windows and Doors factory occupied their plant in December after the plant’s owners gave workers just three days’ notice of the plant’s closure. They won a settlement, and now the factory has remained open under new management. We speak to Armando [...]
FASINPAT a Step Closer to Permanent Worker Control By Marie Trigona While many workers around the world are worried about downsizing, lay-offs and how to protect their jobs, workers in Argentina have come up with their own solution to business closures – Occupy, Resist and Produce. Many factories, like the Zanon Ceramics plant, have been [...]
By Federico Fuentes Addressing the 400-strong May 21 workshop with workers from the industrial heartland of Guayana, dedicated to the “socialist transformation of basic industry”, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez noted with satisfaction the outcomes of discussions: “I can see, sense and feel the roar of the working class.” “When the working class roars, the capitalists [...]
by Rick Wolff Capitalism has generated recurring “crises” everywhere and throughout its history. It alternates bursts of growth and prosperity with crisis periods when many workers lose jobs and homes, bankruptcies close enterprises, production shrinks, and governments reduce public services. Growth periods almost always promote speculation, overproduction, inflation, and excess debts that crises then erase [...]
July 16th, 2009 GENEVA (ILO ) 19 June 2009 Faced with the prospect of a prolonged global increase in unemployment, poverty and inequality and the continuing collapse of enterprises, the International Labour Organization (ILO) today adopted a Global Jobs Pact designed to guide national and international policies aimed at stimulating economic recovery, generating jobs and [...]