Close to 2,000 marched this Saturday International Women’s Day often gets short shrift in the United States, its places of birth, but in San Antonio, women’s groups are raising its profile—and a little hell—while bolstering a hotel organizing drive. Photo: Chris Kutalik. Much like its storied sibling, International Labor Day (May 1), International Women’s Day [...]
More than 150,000 people took to the streets of Athens against the austerity measures in a mass protest marches that have led to extended battles in the greek capital. The Athens march is estimated to be the largest in 15 years, and has demonstrated the resolve of the working class to fight back against the [...]
INVESTIGATION Street Vedors constitute a vast unorganised sector of the Indian working class. It is also the ‘refuge sector’ for the working class and toiling masses rendered unemployed owing to government’s policies causing de-industrialisation, economic crisis, etc. hence leading to job losses. The vending population also includes a huge mass of migrant workers who came [...]
Economist Heiner Flassbeck holds the German wage policy responsible for the problems of Greece. Interview with Heiner Flassbeck by Bernd Kramer Neither the drastic Greek austerity program nor the proposed European Monetary Fund can help the euro zone out of its difficulties. Instead, Heiner Flassbeck calls for higher wages in the Federal Republic of Germany [...]
Cry Wolf but do not ignore Tomorrow’s Tigers “That’s not only a Greek tragedy. If Europe cannot agree on a concerted action with explicit decisions about wage adjustment paths for many years, indeed for decades, to rebalance its trade, all of the so-called PIIGS countries mentioned above will have to consider opting out of the [...]
A Tipping Point of Europe “The austerity measures imposed on Greek workers to reduce the deficits are nothing but a prelude of what may happen to the other European countries. The Greek crisis demonstrates the divisions in the ruling class on the strategies to adopt. The Greek crisis is indicative of the situation in several [...]
by Gervasio Umpiérrez by Gervasio Umpiérrez Gervasio Umpiérrez is a cartoonist based in Montevideo, Uruguay. This cartoon was featured on the home page of Rebelión on 13 March 2010. Send article as PDF to
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 [...]