While the Russian Revolution of 1917 shook the entire world and heralded a new era of civilization and establishment of the first socialist state, the global crisis of capitalism set off on 15 September, 2008 through Wall Street crash has also shaken the world from a different direction discrediting theglobal capitalist system itself. The sweep [...]
Appeal Made in the Name of the People by Com. Prachanda, Chairman, Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) On 26 April 2010 The historic responsibility to accomplish the peace process into a logical end and write the new People’s Federal Constitution from the Constituent Assembly based on the Foundation of the People’s War, the 12-Point [...]
Late at night, after a long day of May First. I just left the Radisson Hotel where negotiations had been going on. Dr. Baburam Bhattarai, a top leader of the Maoists and their negotiating team, came out the doors to say that the three negotiating parties have not reached an agreement. The general strike is [...]
Just a morning’s boat ride from the tip of Florida is a place where medical costs are low and doctors plentiful. It’s Cuba, and Stanford University physician Paul Drain says it’s time for the United States to pay attention to our neighbor’s shoestring success. Despite a 50-year trade embargo by the United States and a [...]
Cabdrivers with the United Taxidrivers Community Council (UTCC) joined forces with Communities for an Equitable Olympics 2016 in Chicago in August 2008, demanding, among other things, a living wage for cab drivers. By Kari Lydersen Cab drivers earn as little as $4 an hour, regularly work 12-hour days six days a week, suffer debilitating work-related [...]
Abstract The class and social structure of developing nations has undergone profound transformation in recent decades as each nation has incorporated into an increasingly integrated global production and financial system. National elites have experienced a new fractionation. Emergent transnationally-oriented elites grounded in globalized circuits of accumulation compete with older nationally-oriented elites grounded in more protected [...]
The White House on Wednesday took time out to promote the value of a flexible workplace that can accomodate two-paycheck families. With 15 million people officially unemployed, it made one nostalgic for a time before the recession, when people worried about the quality of their work lives rather than about just finding a job. But [...]
A Study of Women’s Labour in the Export-oriented Garment Industry in Turkey by Ergül Ergün Abstract: This study examines the informal work aspects of global restructuring with a focus on relations of gender, solidarity, and conflict in the workplace. Rather than trying to conduct a macro level analysis of restructuring process, the study aims to [...]
CONTROVERSY / POLÉMIQUE The Relevance and Utility of the Trade Union as a Legitimate Question The continuity of struggle is easy: the workers need only themselves and the boss in front of them. But the continuity of organization is a rare and complex thing: as soon as it becomes institutionalized it becomes used by capitalism…. [...]
KIA, BRAI, and the “Second Green Revolution” “The moral of the tale is that the capitalist system runs counter to a rational agriculture, or that a rational agriculture is incompatible with the capitalist system ( even if the latter promotes technical developments in agriculture) and needs either small farmers working for themselves or the control [...]