SAC's 29th Congress
Nov 2 2009 18:08
For those of you interested in the Swedish SAC, see these articles (in Swedish) on their recently concluded 29th Congress.
http://www.arbetaren.se/tema/1
http://www.arbetaren.se/articles/inrikes20091024
Some ABC comrades posted these rough translation links:
http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A//www.arbetaren.se/articles/inrikes20091024&hl=en&langpair=auto|en&tbb=1&ie=UTF-8
http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A//www.sac.se/Aktuellt/Nyheter/SAC-har-antagit-en-ny-principf%25C3%25B6rklaring&hl=en&langpair=auto|en&tbb=1&ie=UTF-8
Nov 6 2009 01:18
#2
Yeah, that is good.
Nov 6 2009 07:34
#3
Mattias Pettersson is the new editor of Arbetaren. He hasn't started yet but I think it will totally change the way the paper works!
ATM: Half the paper consists of articles about climate change, The rest of the paper consists of equal parts of queer/gay/gender articles, Palestine/Israel/Hezbollah, theater/performance art and workplace/union/struggle articles. The paper often reports in a negative way about SAC workplace struggle and SAC internal affairs. Lot of reporters have been able to use it as a tool to launch their own projects and books for their careers to take off with negative effects on the paper and movement as a whole.
Future: The paper is going to focus more and more on workplace struggle and union reporting. It is also going to involve activists more and get a network of activists involved in creating articles and ideas for the paper. The idea is that we members of SAC locals should be able to spread the paper on our workplaces or even sell them in public without feeling ashamed about the material. No one I know actively sells the paper to people since they are not satisfied with the content and the crowd it is targeting (the red-wine and beret left).
The new SAC Statement of Principles that was approved at the congress is actually quite good. I've posted a translation of it here: http://www.anarchosyndicalism.net/newswire/display/45459