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The Future of Global Unions - Alan Howard |
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Written by peter waterman
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Saturday, 16 August 2008 |
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Peter Waterman says: An important piece in so far as it comes from the unions and is addressed to the unions - and because it takes up many of the issues on 'social movement unionism' I and others pioneered in the later-1980s. I myself feel that for the effective defence of workers under contemporary conditions, one has to write, as it were, from the position of that overwhelming majority of workers Alan Howard writes about, and to go beyond the union in seeking relevant forms of organisation and action. But now read on...
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Egyptian Workers Impose a New Agenda |
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Written by Asma Aghbarieh Zahalka
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Thursday, 29 May 2008 |
I wasn't there as a tourist. What brought me to Egypt with my colleague, Samia Nasser Khatib, was the wave of strikes which, since December 2006, has been shaking the regime of Hosni Mubarak. We spent three packed days, talking from early morning to late at night with representatives of political parties and workers' organizations. One name cropped up again and again: Mahalla al-Kubra, the textile city, epicenter of the new labor movement
The workers' movement imposed a new political agenda. The struggle for power till now has been between the Mubarak regime and the Muslim Brotherhood. Consequently, the discourse has been national or Islamic. We heard about the suppression of liberal writers and about disturbances concerning the veil. Now, however, something new has happened. Ever since the workers raised their heads, there is no ignoring them. They have put themselves on the map.
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Russia: The Anticapitalist Left and Social Struggles |
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Written by peter waterman
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Monday, 28 April 2008 |
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Ilya Boudraïtskis and Maria Kurzina present a wide-ranging, original and self-critical analysis of the Left and social movements in Russia, with extensive attention to the trade union movement.
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Overcoming the Crisis of Labour and Unionism under Contemporary Capitalist Conditions |
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Written by peter waterman
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Monday, 28 April 2008 |
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September 2007 I was invited by the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU) to speak to a number of left union, academic and social movement events. The KCTU is evidently not simply confronted by the global crisis of trade unionism but trying to confront this in most fundamental self-reflection. In preparation for my visit, I was asked to answer the following questions. (PW, January 2, 2008).
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ESF Labour&Globalisation November Meeting Report |
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Written by Peter Waterman and Asbjorn Wahl
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Friday, 21 December 2007 |
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Peter Waterman writes:] The Labour and Globalisation Project within the World Social Forum was created by left and base-level unions dissatisfied with the 'social partnership' orientation of the dominant unions internationally. This is a report by one such activist, the Norwegian union and social movement activist, Asbjorn Wahl. It covers a meeting held in preparation for the 2008 European Social Forum, to be held in Sweden.
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