The day we took the white tower
Submitted by T La Palli on May 7 2012 13:24
Account the occupation of Accountants Price Waterhouse offices in Glasgow in support of the South Wales Miners.
At 7:30 am on Tuesday, 4th September, 1984, 12 anarchists stormed a multi-story office block in Glasgow city centre. They went in to occupy the headquarters of Accountants Price Waterhouse, the millionaire outfit which sequestrated the South Wales Miners' Funds. As the newspapers reported, the operation was executed with military precision.
Germinal - Émile Zola
Zola's masterpiece exposing the inhuman conditions of miners in France in 1860s. This powerful novel follows a young worker who enters a mining community and leads a strike against pay cuts. Despite its defeat, he retains his belief in struggle for a better world.
Germinal
by Emile Zola
1885
Translated and Introduced by Havelock Ellis
Introduction
By Havelock Ellis
The Lancashire coalfield 1945-1972: NUM-Labour Party hegemony and industrial change
Submitted by wojtek on Apr 10 2012 22:53
An article by Stephen Catterall on the colliery closures of the fifties and sixties in the Lancashire region and the relationship between the NUM and the Labour Party.
Catterall, Stephen (2000) The Lancashire Coalfield 1945-1972: NUM-Labour Party Hegemony and Industrial Change. Manchester Region History Review, 14. pp. 102-116. ISSN 0952-4320
India: workplace resistance increases
Submitted by working class s... on Apr 4 2012 21:43
The labour movement in India is still under the control of bureaucratic leaders and political groups. However, as shown by a strike last year, among the workers of the country is gradually spreading the idea of self-organization and sovereign general assembly.
Up to 100 million workers were involved in a one-day strike in India on February 28. Strike, which affected a number of branches across the country, has been named one of the biggest strikes ever taken place in the world. It was announced 11 trade union centres (they first worked together since the declaration of independence) and 5000 smaller unions.
Report on the recent South African miners' strike
Submitted by loveletters on Mar 12 2012 16:21
Report on the recent 6 week wildcat strike at Impala Platinum's Rustenberg operation, the biggest platinum mine in the world, including a timeline and a bit of background information.
The wildcat strike at Rustenberg, the biggest platinum mine in the world, has ended. Production resumed Monday the 5th. The miners have gained nothing besides bitter experience, and 2000 of them have been left unemployed. This experience, however, makes it unlikely that the bosses, through their stooges the NUM, will be able to numb workers in the platinum sector any further.
The treasure of the Sierra Madre - B. Traven
B. Traven's best known novel about three men prospecting for gold in the mountains of Mexico, and the things it drives them to do.
More than any of Traven's novels, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre is reminiscent of Jack London at his best. The story tells of three American adventurers who hunt for gold in the rugged Sierra Madre of Mexico. Since so many have seen the John Huston film starring Humphrey Bogart there is no need to recount the plot here.
Bullets for bread! the Featherstone massacre
Submitted by wojtek on Mar 3 2012 19:47
A contemporary article by David Nicoll on the Featherstone massacre and the futility of parliamentary politics. In 1893, locked-out miners in the pit town of Featherstone, West Yorkshire confronted their bosses. In retaliation, they called in the troops who proceeded to fire on them. Published in the The Anarchist: A Revolutionary Journal of Anarchist Communism.
Armageddon at Implat's wildcat strike? Mine eruptions escalate in South Africa
Submitted by loveletters on Feb 22 2012 19:44
22 February 2012. South African miners are in the fifth week of a wildcat strike that has paralysed the Rustenburg mine of Impala Platinum, the biggest producer of platinum in the world. The last few days have seen antagonism erupt into increasingly militant action.
The entire workforce was fired in early January after the company had the strike declared illegal, but they are now re-hiring workers on the condition that they forfeit all benefits built-up over their years of work. Things are so explosive there and it doesn't look like there's any way the authorities can diffuse the situation.
Strike wave in Indonesia
Submitted by princess mob on Feb 2 2012 01:28
The Indonesian economy has been booming due to high prices for the commodities it is based on, but living costs are also rising and there is a strong sense that the country’s economic successes have not been shared. This has triggered a number of strikes across Indonesia in late 2011 and the start of 2012, some of which have succeeded in gaining higher wages.
Jakarta
In November 2011 a planned strike in Jakarta by 85,000 unionised workers was called off after the city governor agreed to raise the minimum wage by about 20 per cent.[1]
Freeport
The Corporation (Documentary)
Submitted by working class s... on Jan 23 2012 23:16
The Corporation is a 2003 Canadian documentary film written by Joel Bakan, and directed by Mark Achbar and Jennifer Abbott. The documentary is critical of the modern-day corporation, considering its legal status as a class of person and evaluating its behaviour towards society and the world at large as a psychiatrist might evaluate an ordinary person. This is explored through specific examples. Bakan wrote the book, The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power, during the filming of the documentary.
Provoking, witty, stylish and sweepingly informative, THE CORPORATION explores the nature and spectacular rise of the dominant institution of our time. Part film and part movement, The Corporation is transforming audiences and dazzling critics with its insightful and compelling analysis.
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