Havana hub: Cuban anarchism, radical media and the Trans-Caribbean anarchist network, 1902-1915
Submitted by Juan Conatz on Aug 28 2012 08:07
An essay on Caribbean anarchists and their newspaper ¡Tierra! .
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Capetillo, Luisa - a biography
Submitted by Juan Conatz on Aug 17 2010 00:47
Short biography of Puerto Rican anarchist, feminist and labor agitator.
This month we celebrate the Discovery of Puerto Rico on November 17. It is important to celebrate not only our culture, music and food, but also to remember those who came before us, without whom we might not be where we are. Among those historical figures is a Puerto Rican woman who could very well have lived in modern times. Her name is Luisa Capetillo.
Puerto Rican cigar history
Submitted by Juan Conatz on Aug 17 2010 00:35
Description of some of the conditions Puerto Rican cigar makers worked under.
A Voice Through the Window
"When I was a boy in Cayey, my hometown in Puerto Rico, we lived in a house in back of which was a big cigar factory. Every morning, starting around ten, a clear, strong voice coming from the big factory came through my window. It had a tinge of the oratorical in it.
The future is now
Part 3 in a 3 part series on the University of Puerto Rico student strike of 2010.
On June 21, 62 days into what was initially a 48-hour occupation of the flagship campus at Río Piedras, the University of Puerto Rico’s first-ever National Student Assembly put an end to what had now become the first-ever system-wide strike in the institution’s history.
From Hanoi to the Magic Kingdom, and back again
Part 2 in a 3 part series on the University of Puerto Rico student strike of 2010.
As the sun rose on Wednesday, April 21, 2010, two hundred students, mostly masked, some brandishing makeshift shields of wood and plastic traffic drums, approached the main vehicular access gate to the University of Puerto Rico’s historic Río Piedras campus, and chained it shut.
The yeast and the oven: student strike shuts down University of Puerto Rico indefinitely
Part 1 in a 3 part series on the University of Puerto Rico student strike of 2010.
¡Que vivan los estudiantes,
porque son la levadura
del pan que saldrá del horno
con toda su sabrosura!
- Violeta Parra, Chilean singer/songwriter (1917-1967)
Electricity workers refuse work in Trinidad and Tobago
Submitted by Ed on Nov 3 2007 12:11
Two Trinidad and Tobago Electricity Commission (TTEC) Customer Service Centres remained closed yesterday because most of the employees did not show up for work.
According to a press release issued by TTEC, Point Fortin and Couva Service Centres remained closed while Scarborough centre was manned by a small number of employees. Distribution areas were also affected by high absenteeism levels as most field workers did not report for work, stated the release.
The many headed hydra: Sailors, slaves, and the atlantic working class in the eighteenth century
Submitted by David in Atlanta on Jun 3 2007 01:43
Article on class struggle and compositon in the period leading up to and during the American revolution, showing how the struggles of sailors and slaves drove the movement to national liberation.
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Pirate utopias: Under the banner of death, 1640-1820
Submitted by ftony on Jun 1 2007 09:57
An interesting look at the life and times of pirates in the 17th and 18th centuries. This article explores the somewhat libertarian and communalist values which guided the life of a pirate during those years.
"In an honest Service, there is thin Commons, low Wages, and hard Labour; in this, Plenty and Satiety, Pleasure and Ease, Liberty and Power; and who would not ballance Creditor on this Side, when all the Hazard that is run for it, at worst, is only a sower Look or two at choaking. No, a merry Life and a short one shall be my Motto" - Pirate Captain Bartholomew Roberts.(1)
Trinidad: Nurses on work-to-rule
Submitted by Ed on May 30 2007 19:17
Nurses have been told to work to rule at medical institutions from today.
It came yesterday as the Public Services Association criticised what it called the "reckless behaviour" of Health Minister John Rahael following the dismissal of two of the nurses involved in an incident during where baby Justin Paul was burnt at the Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex.
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