Occupation of Puerto Piñuña Police Station for Sixty-Three Days Ends With an Accord Between the Government and Communities By James Jordan Special to The Narco News Bulletin March 1, 2010 Narco News readers were recently informed of the occupation by over 5,000 indigenous community members of the Piñuña Negro police station of Puerto Leguízamo in Putumayo, Colombia. [...]
“As a matter of fact, the independence of trade unions in the class sense, in their relations to the bourgeois state can, in the present conditions, be assured only by a completely revolutionary leadership…” Leon Trotsky 1940 (The manuscript of the following article was found in Trotsky’s desk. Obviously, it was by no means a [...]
America Students at California State-Long Beach joined the March 4 day of action against education cuts that spread throughout the state and beyond. Walkouts, student strikes, and marches shook every level of California’s embattled public education system. Organizers say it’s just the beginning of a long-term fight for public education. Photo: Slobodan Dimitrov. Walkouts, student [...]
The most impressive strength of the Haitian labor force is its resiliency and resourcefulness. Even before the earthquake, virtually all sources agreed that unemployment in Haiti was somewhere around 70 to 80 per cent, with 80 percent of the people living below the poverty line and some 54 per cent living in abject poverty. But [...]
On Tuesday, the union that represents pilots at Air Berlin, Germany’s second-largest airline, called for a three-hour work stoppage. Last month pilots at the country’s largest carrier, Lufthansa, walked off the job for 24 hours. Cabin crews at British Airways are also poised to strike. Greek air traffic controllers announced another work stoppage today to [...]
This is an exercise in historicization. This lecture concerns the relation between feminism, the movements of second-wave feminism, and the recent history of capitalism. My aim is to try to shed some light on where the feminist movement stands today in the current crisis of capitalism. by Nancy Fraser So, I want to tell a [...]
This collection of essays of personal reflection and journey through the world of Mike Yates from the early 1950s to the present explorehis collection of essaya explore how a person’s class “position,” life experience, and interaction with the dominant capitalist culture shapes family, jobs, work life, personal choices, attitudes towards others, self-awareness, and self-confidence. The [...]
The re-emerging spirit of proletariat and of workers’ solidarity has already taken its place in the history of labor movement in Turkey. Above all, it had re-shown to friends and foes alike, that the neoliberal revelations of the so-called modern left to dispense with the ideology of wage labor and capital conflict are a complete [...]
“Lenin fiercely argued that the workers can and will embrace the teachings of Marxism — in fact, he is possessed by his confidence in the working class. Hence the zeal of his case against those who try to say the workers aren’t ready, that they need to go through lower stages of political development and [...]
A street of Guernica after the fascist bombardment of 26 April 1937 Greece faces a veritable economic Guernica, a massacre, in the face of which the European Left shows an unforgivable passivity. What is imposed on Athens is meant as an example, to strike terror into Spain, Portugal, and even Italy. But even France, facing [...]