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Verizon strike highlights need for new workers' movement

Submitted by Ramona on Aug 21 2011 09:33

45,000 workers at US communications giant Verizon have been on strike for nearly two weeks. Adam Ford, of Infantile Disorder, examines the lengths the company and the state have gone to to undermine the strike.

HONGRIE 1956: «LE PROLETARIAT A L’ASSAUT DU CIEL» - Mouvement Communiste

Un orchestre de cuivres ouvrier, Budapest 1956

The original French version of the Mouvement Communiste pamphlet on Hungary 56.

Disgruntled bosses are attacking anarchist hosting - again

Submitted by S2W on Jul 25 2011 21:47

Since 19th of July, Russian anho.org (shorthand for "Anarchist Hosting")
has been targeted with a DDoS - attack. Since then, numerous activist
website
s have been unaccessible - including Indymedia-Siberia and various
anarchist groups (Autonomous Action of Kazan, Autonomous Action of
Irkutsk, Inter-Professional Union of Workers etc.). Main goal of the
attackers is antijob.anho.org - website, committed to defence of workers
against employers. This project includes popular feature "black list of
employers" http://antijob.anho.org/black_list/, where workers are
reporting problematic employers.

Wildcat strike at Royal Mail delivery office gets the goods

Submitted by Django on Jun 10 2011 20:24

Staff at a London delivery office have taken unlawful strike action and won the reinstatement of a fellow worker.

The CNT in the IT Sector

An appeal by the Spanish anarcho-syndicalist union, CNT-AIT, to those in the IT sector.

Night of the living geeks - how I learned to start worrying and hate the cuties

Geeks are a nice species of creature. Cutely dressed, delicate, fragile, softly spoken to the point of mutism. Yet, they have managed to colonize the collective imagination of an entire generation. This generation. But who are the geeks? And how could this species of shy elves take over the innermost sanctums of the western cultural environment?

Sorting out the postal strike, 1971 - Joe Jacobs

Submitted by Kronstadt_Kid on Sep 4 2010 23:18

Joe Jacobs investigates the 1971 United Kingdom postal workers strike, which was the country's first national postal strike.

When Royal Mail modernisation means a worse service - Roy Mayall

Submitted by Django on Jul 20 2010 16:48

Postal worker Roy Mayall describes the reality of Royal Mail's much-heralded 'modernisation', and the upcoming further 'deregulation' of the postal sector.