Joe building: The Stalin memorial lecture - Jonathan Meades
A sequel of sorts to Jerry Building this time examining Stalin and the Soviet Union.
First broadcast in 2006 this documentary examines the influence and importance of Soviet architecture during the Stalin years and its role in codifying the regimes ideology.
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Rank and file or broad left? A short history of the Building Worker Group
Pamphlet about the UK rank-and-file Building Worker Group within the UCATT union, published as issue 8 of the series Revolutions Per Minute.
Issue 8 is dedicated to the 3,000 building workers who have lost their lives in so-called ‘site accidents’ since the advent of the Health and Safety at Work Act in 1974. In the year 2000/1 there were 120 deaths on site.
Murder, in fact, would be a better word.
No jobs and no workers? Strange contradictions of capital accumulation in Australia
Submitted by With Sober Senses on Feb 1 2013 10:31
An attempt to grasp what recent reports of both rising unemployment and a skills shortage means tells us about capital accumulation in Australia
The core hypothesis that I have proposed, and seek to test, is that Australia is in a condition of ‘precarious prosperity’: that the solid level of economic growth driven by the mining boom faces increasingly unsure conditions due the various impacts of the continuing global crisis of capitalism.
Olympic gentrification in Brazil
Submitted by working class s... on Dec 6 2012 12:01
The gentrification around the South African world cup of 2010, the 2012 London Olympics, and the slavery and human trafficking associated with preparations for the world cup in Qatar highlighted in last months ‘Freedom’, are proof if it was needed that the major global sporting events are little more than a cash cow that enable huge corporations and governments to exploit people and land.
This year has seen similar stories come to light in Brazil during preparations for the next world cup in 2014 and also the Olympics in 2016. In the last few months 19,000 families have been forcibly evicted from their homes by the police and armed forces.
World Cup Qatar: festivities built on slavery
Submitted by rooieravotr on Nov 16 2012 19:54
My latest piece I wrote for Freedom magazine, published in the October issue. On migrant workers' conditions in Qatar, where the World Cup of 2022 is supposed to be held. Basically the original version, but with a few small corrections.
One of the Arab countries apparently almost untouched by the Arab Spring is Qatar. The tide of protest and revolt more or less passed this Emirate by. The main news channel spreading attention to these events, Aljazeera, is Qatari-baed and regime-owned, which does not help to raise attention to what happens there.
The ragged trousered philanthropists - Robert Tressell
A Marxist critique of society dressed up as a novel, Ragged Trousered Philanthrophists follows construction worker Frank Owen trying to convince others about socialism, a figure based on Trussell himself. He would face rejection and death before his work was published.
CONTENTS
| 1 | An Imperial Banquet. A Philosophical Discussion. The Mysterious Stranger. |
Justice for the Shrewsbury Pickets - the fight continues
Submitted by thegonzokid on Sep 1 2012 18:01
The 40th anniversary of the 1972 builder's strike has been marked with a conference held at the Unite union building in Liverpool.
Organised by the Justice for the Shrewsbury Pickets Campaign, members of the Blacklist Support Group and the Construction Safety Campaign also took part in the event.
Construction workers clash with police on Melbourne picket line
Submitted by working class s... on Aug 28 2012 00:05
Police have clashed with striking construction workers in Melbourne. The strikers have been blockading entrances to a $250 million construction project for the last week.
Violence erupted early yesterday morning, after mounted police tried to disperse around 400 picketing workers in order to ensure that scabs were able to get on site.
Australian construction workers in ‘watershed’ victory against the bosses
Submitted by working class s... on Jul 31 2012 14:47
Despite employers taking court action and using the police to get scabs through picket lines, construction workers in Australia have won a massive victory against the bosses.
Despite employers taking court action and using the police to get scabs through picket lines, construction workers in Australia have won a massive victory agains
Court injunction issued in an attempt to break Canadian wildcat strike
Submitted by working class s... on Jul 13 2012 23:13
Supreme court in Newfoundland issues injunction against construction workers in order to break an unofficial strike over pay.
The newfoundland and Labrador supreme court has given an injunction to bosses to help the break a wildcat strike at a construction site in Long Harbour.
Around 2,000 workers walked off the job on Thursday, and then proceeded to block entrances into the site.
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