What's going on here?
Why did my previous post following the Tacks bollocks get edited out? Why is Joseph's bollocks kept in?
Are there are any comments about the idea of a worldwide revivial of class struggle? I seem to recall that this was a topic that Catch found more interesting than most.
2,500 bus drivers in east, west and central London will be going on strike tomorrow (August 29th) to oppose a below-inflation pay offer.
A short history of the strike movement that took hold of Liverpool during the summer of 1911. Culminating in a massive general strike of all transport workers, the movement displayed some of the most extraordinary scenes of class solidarity seen in Britain.
A short history of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers - a radical union of black auto workers. The articles includes other information about the car industry, race and struggle from 1910 onwards.
First issue of an irregular workers' bulletin put together by users of the website, libcom.org. This issue focuses on the 2008 pay dispute over sub-inflation pay offers.
Perspectives for the international class struggle
2-5 pm
Saturday 12 July
Conway Hall
Red Lion Square
London WC1
Nearest tube: Holborn
Just as the world economic crisis is no longer something that can be hidden by debt-fuelled ‘prosperity’, so the class struggle can no longer be dismissed as a ‘thing of the past’. In the past couple of years, faced with the erosion of living standards that results from the crisis, we have seen increasingly widespread, massive and simultaneous workers’ struggle all across the world – from the movement against the CPE in France to the massive revolts by textile workers in Bangladesh and Egypt, from the courageous demonstrations of construction workers in Dubai to the defiant expressions of solidarity on the picket lines of oil tanker drivers in Britain. Some of these strike movements have been linked to hunger revolts as the spiralling price of food makes daily survival increasingly difficult.
In this forum we will be discussing the dynamic of these movements, examining a number of the key issues they pose: what forms of organisation do workers need to control and spread their struggles; what kinds of demands best serve the struggle; what can be done when the struggle dies down; what is the connection between strikes and hunger revolts; how can workers draw out the political perspectives raised implicitly and sometimes explicitly by their resistance against the effects of the capitalist crisis?
The ICC will begin with a short presentation, but the main part of the meeting will be devoted to open discussion. Please come with your questions, comments and criticisms.