Poland: Postal workers strike
Submitted by akai on Nov 22 2006 10:06
Mail carriers across Poland are strike for better pay and working conditions. Polish anarchists report on the stoppage and actions they have taken to support it.
On Nov. 13, a wildcat strike of mail carriers started in the Gdansk post office. Now the strike has been taken over by different unions, mostly Solidarity, and has spread to most major cities in Poland.
The mail carriers' demands include:
- an 8 hour work day for all workers of the Polish Post (most mail carriers work 10-12 hours daily)
Update: European car-industry, 2005
Submitted by Steven. on Nov 22 2006 08:22
Various short articles on different developments within the European car industry in early 2005.
Tram drivers' strike in Prague, 2003
Submitted by Steven. on Nov 13 2006 10:05
The history of a short strike of Czech tram drivers, with a detailed account from the picket lines. The strike had the first picket line violence between police and strikers since 1989, and was defeated, but still has some important lessons.
Strike at Skoda auto, Mlada Boleslav, Czech Republic, 2005
Submitted by Steven. on Nov 10 2006 11:03
Account of a small but significant strike at a Skoda (owned by Volkswagen) factory in the Czech Republic.
Wild ride - a different perspective on the Czech car industry
Submitted by Steven. on Nov 10 2006 10:58
The following article was written by comrades from the Czech Republic. Following their analysis of the strike at Skoda they investigated the development of the car industry in the Czech Republic more thoroughly, concentrating on Škoda/Volkswagen, TPCA (Toyota Peugeot Citroën Automobile) and the suppliers.
1921-1953: A chronology of Russian anarchism
Submitted by Steven. on Nov 7 2006 14:45
A brief timeline of the anarchist movement and anarchist activity in the USSR, and its repression by Soviet authorities following the Russian Revolution.
“But we do not fear you or your hangmen. Soviet 'justice' may kill us, but you will never kill our ideals. We shall die as anarchists and not as bandits.”
- The anarchist Fedor Petrovich Machanovski at his trial before the Petrograd Revolutionary Tribunal, 13th and 22nd December 1922
Holidays in Albania - Part 1, 1997
Submitted by martinh on Oct 26 2006 21:50
An account by EP of the Albanian south between 20 - 25 March during the uprising, plus two characteristic dialogues.
This is the first of two articles written by two collaborators of "Alpha", a weekly Greek anarchist paper and published in issue 89, 7 April 1997
A Review of Kropotkin's "The Conquest of Bread"
Submitted by martinh on Oct 26 2006 21:43
THE CONQUEST OF BREAD
Gary Hayter
Protests hit Hungary 1956 events
Submitted by Jacques Roux on Oct 23 2006 10:54
Ceremonies began outside the Hungarian parliament today to mark the 50th anniversary of the failed uprising against Soviet rule, but only after the streets had been cleared of hundreds of protesters.
There is strong opposition to the prime minister Ferenc Gyurzsany after he admitted lying to get into parliament.
Protesters have been present outside parliament for weeks, but were forced back by police in the early hours of Monday to make way for the official ceremonies. Later in the day it was reported that police had used tear gas and bullets against stone-throwing protestors.
Against the double blackmail - Slavoj Žižek
Submitted by revol68 on Oct 9 2006 13:47
Madder than a Red Bull and Vodka fuelled Hen Party, the sloth of Slovenia gets rough and ready with Humanitarian Interventionism. The safe word is "McGuffin".
The prize-winner in the contest for the greatest blunder of 1998 was a Latin American patriotic terrorist who sent a letter-bomb to a us consulate in order to protest against the Americans interfering in local politics. As a conscientious citizen, he wrote on the envelope his return address; however, he did not put enough stamps on it, so that the post office returned the letter to him.
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