Labor/ Work

Global: May Day 2013 Around the Globe: In Pictures

LabourStart - Wed, 05/01/2013 - 00:00
LabourStart headline - Source: Common Dreams
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Turkey: ITUC leader Sharan Burrow statement from Istanbul

LabourStart - Wed, 05/01/2013 - 00:00
LabourStart headline - Source: ITUC
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Philippines: 14,000 cops secure Labor Day demonstrations in Metro

LabourStart - Wed, 05/01/2013 - 00:00
LabourStart headline - Source: The Business Mirror
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Swaziland: Police Violence 'Expected' On May Day

LabourStart - Wed, 05/01/2013 - 00:00
LabourStart headline - Source: allAfrica
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Bangladesh: Workers vent May Day fury after disaster

LabourStart - Wed, 05/01/2013 - 00:00
LabourStart headline - Source: AFP
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Chile: One hundred thousand expected to march in Chilean capital

LabourStart - Wed, 05/01/2013 - 00:00
LabourStart headline - Source: Santiago Times
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Hong Kong: A song dedicated to the striking dock workers

LabourStart - Wed, 05/01/2013 - 00:00
LabourStart headline - Source: All On The Same Ocean
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Latin America: Women Forge a Space for Themselves in Latin American Labour Movement

LabourStart - Wed, 05/01/2013 - 00:00
LabourStart headline - Source: IEDE
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Global: Arthur Svensson prize awarded to Valentin Urusov

LabourStart - Wed, 05/01/2013 - 00:00
LabourStart headline - Source: Arthur Svensson prize
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Greece: Unions hold 24 hour general strike against austerity

LabourStart - Wed, 05/01/2013 - 00:00
LabourStart headline - Source: BBC
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Turkey: VIDEO: Workers face tear gas, water cannon on May Day protest

LabourStart - Wed, 05/01/2013 - 00:00
LabourStart headline - Source: MSNBC
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Australia: Universities face May Day strikes - and more cuts

LabourStart - Wed, 05/01/2013 - 00:00
LabourStart headline - Source: University World News
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Indonesia: Massive May Day rally shuts down central Jakarta

LabourStart - Wed, 05/01/2013 - 00:00
LabourStart headline - Source: Jakarta Globe
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An overview of Italy’s anti-fascist gyms and boxing clubs

Libcom - Tue, 04/30/2013 - 22:36
div class=field field-type-filefield field-field-photo div class=field-items div class=field-item odd div class=filefield-fileimg class=filefield-icon field-icon-image-jpeg alt=image/jpeg icon src=http://libcom.org/sites/libcom.org/modules/contrib/filefield/icons/image-x-generic.png /a href=http://libcom.org/files/images/blog/foto-1.jpeg type=image/jpeg; length=93876foto-1.jpeg/a/div /div /div /div div class=field field-type-text field-field-introduction div class=field-items div class=field-item odd p Over the past ten years, many squats across Italy have begun opening self-organized sports centres, offering mostly (but not exclusively) combat disciplines and promoting anti-fascist values alongside a non-commercial training philosophy. In this article, we provide an overview of the antifascist sports in Italy, exploring its powerful blend of training and activism. /p /div /div /div p Politics has never been far from the surface in the world of combat sports. Whether we think of the boxer Primo Carnera, an icon of fascism in the 1930s, or Muhammad Ali, an icon of black power in the 1960s. Or of the predominance of Jews in East London’s boxing clubs before and immediately after World War 2, often using their training against Mosley’s British Union of Fascists. /p pa href=http://libcom.org/blog/overview-italy%E2%80%99s-anti-fascist-gyms-boxing-clubs-30042013 target=_blankread more/a/p

What next? - Troploin

Libcom - Tue, 04/30/2013 - 11:20
div class=field field-type-filefield field-field-photo div class=field-items div class=field-item odd div class=filefield-fileimg class=filefield-icon field-icon-image-jpeg alt=image/jpeg icon src=http://libcom.org/sites/libcom.org/modules/contrib/filefield/icons/image-x-generic.png /a href=http://libcom.org/files/images/library/fireworks.jpg type=image/jpeg; length=106071fireworks.jpg/a/div /div /div /div div class=field field-type-text field-field-introduction div class=field-items div class=field-item odd p Gilles Dauvé and Karl Nesic look back over 12 years of their Troploin project and where to go from here amidst austerity and working class defeat. /p /div /div /div pemtroploin/em stands at a turning point. We owe it as much to us as to our friends and readers to assess what we have been trying to do for the past twelve years. While emtroploin/em remains a common project of Karl Nesic and Gilles Dauvé, they have preferred to assess the situation separately. #160; /p pa href=http://libcom.org/library/what-next-troploin target=_blankread more/a/p

The work/energy crisis and the apocalypse - George Caffentzis

Libcom - Tue, 04/30/2013 - 10:09
div class=field field-type-text field-field-introduction div class=field-items div class=field-item odd p 1980 essay by George Caffentzis examining capitalist society following the 1973 energy and economic crisis amidst the widespread refusal of work by women and the young. /p /div /div /div The litany of natural stuffs - petroleum, natural gas, uranium, coal, wood, water, sunlight - apprehension about their limits, joy in their abundance, skepticism about their benefits, pass for the bulk of analyses of the energy crisis that we face. pa href=http://libcom.org/library/workenergy-crisis-apocalypse-george-caffentzis target=_blankread more/a/p

Qatar: Desert heat: World Cup hosts Qatar face scrutiny over 'slavery' accusations

LabourStart - Tue, 04/30/2013 - 00:00
LabourStart headline - Source: CNN
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Bangladesh: 15 May deadline set for Bangladesh safety plan

LabourStart - Tue, 04/30/2013 - 00:00
LabourStart headline - Source: IndustriALL Global Union
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Bangladesh: Strong Unions needed - not outside pressure

LabourStart - Tue, 04/30/2013 - 00:00
LabourStart headline - Source: NY Times
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Bangladesh: Rescue Efforts Halted at Collapsed Factory Building

LabourStart - Tue, 04/30/2013 - 00:00
LabourStart headline - Source: The Atlantic
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