Hundreds “Occupy Dublin” as Wall Street tactic spreads. “What are you protesting against?” asks a man walking home from the pub last night. “Is this about the IMF?” When I answer that yes, this is about the IMF, he gets excited. “Fuck the IMF,” he says as he starts to walk further into the [...]

  According to a report published Saturday by Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity (PHSS),The Federal receiver’s office has indicated that “nearly 12,000 prisoners were on hunger strike, including California prisoners who are housed in out of state prisons in Arizona, Mississippi and Oklahoma.” This is the second hunger strike in less than four months, with prisoners [...]

  1 Unions Join “Occupy Wall Street” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8g3ydqn8G3g&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fmrzine.monthlyreview.org%2F2011%2Felk061011p.html&feature=player_embedded EXCERPTS: Mike Elk: There are a number of comparisons between the two [the "Arab Spring" and Occupy Wall Street].  In the protests in the Middle East you had people protesting for a number of reasons. . . .  They are driven largely by social media, and then [...]

  Labor Notes, October 3, 2011 Tacoma Teachers Strike Shows Defiance Can Attract Sympathy A nearly two-week strike by teachers in Tacoma, Washington, defied state laws against public sector work stoppages—and showed that when much-vilified public workers take bold action, they can win public sympathy. A nearly two-week strike by teachers in Tacoma, Washington, defied [...]

    From the middle of September, a great “Wall Street Revolution” has broken out in the United States. This street revolution, going by the name of “Occupy Wall Street,” has already expanded to over 70 cities and countries in North America, Europe, and other areas. In their statement on “The Wall Street Revolution,” the [...]

  Cops might be cracking down on Occupy Wall Street protesters in New York City, but activists are now bringing their big-bank bashing across the country with demonstrations springing up from coast-to-coast. More than a week after protests began in Lower Manhattan, the Occupy Wall Street movement is moving, well, off of Wall Street. Both [...]

  Police carry away a participant in a march organized by Occupy Wall Street in New York on Saturday Sept. 24, 2011. The New York police have arrested at least 80 people protesting against Washington’s management of the American financial system as well as Wall Street practices. The demonstrators took to the streets Saturday during [...]

HOORAY FOR UNIONISTS willing to be arrested! In a dispute raging through the summer in Longview, Washington, over 120 members of International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) have been detained by cops, including Local 21 President Dan Coffman and International President Robert McEllrath. The unionists are fighting to stop international conglomerate EGT Development from breaking [...]

  This is the structural corruption of companies that squeeze heavy margins by keeping their workers unorganised and unempowered, by keeping them informal hostages. It makes us all who work in and consume these companies’ products complicit with their decay ———– What is happening in Maruti Suzuki’s Manesar plant? How do workers present their case [...]

  International Metal Workers Federation – IMF extends solidarity to Maruti-Suzuki workers From August 29 the management of Maruti-Suzuki India at Manesar asks workers to sign a “good conduct” pledge before allowing them to enter the plant, in effect locking out workers who refuse to give up their labour rights. Since then the management terminated [...]