The World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU) organised on September 13-14 a two-day international trade union meet in the European Parliament complex in Strasbourg, France, to express solidarity with the fighting people of Arab countries and voice strong protest against the hegemonic interference of US imperialism and its European allies in the internal affairs [...]

  The KKE with mass political demonstrations in Athens and in 55 other Greek cities made a direct political intervention in the anti-people political developments which the plutocracy and the Greece’s bourgeois political forces have scheduled, through a new government reshuffle amid various scenarios for the management of capitalism. The GS of the CC of [...]

“Her name was Africa. His name was IMF. He set her up to be pillaged, to go without health care, to starve. He laid waste to her to enrich his friends. Her name was Global South. His name was Washington Consensus. But his winning streak was running out and her star was rising.” Standing on [...]

WORLD BANK  REPORT 2011 [This report, in two volumes, was prepared at the request of Government of India. Volume II contains the full detailed report with all analyses and findings, while Volume I is a more condensed version highlighting main conclusions.] See below the last  chapter from Vol.I of the report: CHAPTER-8:Political Economy of Social Protection(SP) Reform [...]

Palestinian workers  shows the way forward In commemoration of the International Workers’ Day, the Palestinian trade union movement holds its first BDS conference and announces the formation of the Palestinian Trade Union Coalition for BDS (PTUC-BDS). It is the broadest and most representative body of the Palestinian trade union movement * * * Statement of principles [...]

The Importance of Internationalism and Civil Rights “An upsurge of millions in the 1930s, radicalized by the depression and left-wing politics, forced corporate acceptance of the labor movement for the first time in the country’s history. Changes taking place in our unions and communities today can be the beginning of something as large and profound. [...]

Would the labor movement recover its dynamism through centrally directed building of union density in key industries, or would it be built by rank-and-file democratic participation in winning better contracts? Could sophisticated staffers in a union’s headquarters build a dynamic labor movement more effectively than rank-and-file activists in the workplace? Steve Early, Labor’s Civil Wars [...]

“We have chosen to be soldiers of the working class. With that is a responsibility.In the forefront of our responsibility is the requirement to confront the yellow- and CIA-oriented trade unions head on. In practice this means we in the U.S. must condemn and break with the opportunism and corruption stimulated by “our own” imperialism’s [...]

“Rising food prices leading to riots, protests, and revolts, mounting oil prices, mammoth worldwide unemployment, and a collapsed recovery — it looks like the perfect set of preconditions for a global tsunami of instability and turmoil.  Events in Algeria and Tunisia give us just an inkling of what this maelstrom might look like, but where [...]

Noam Chomsky: Liberal-conservative divide no more than an illusion amongst ordinary Americans… “Reconstituting a functioning democratic society (to the extent that there was one), which means popular organizations in which people participate. That’s how you get ideas. Even if you’re working, say, on this floor of MIT in the sciences, you don’t sit by yourself. [...]