oil
News and articles about work, policy and workers' struggles in the energy sector around the world.
Afghan sounds - British troops and oil pipelines...
It was recently announced that yet more British troops are heading for Afghanistan.
George Bush and his malleable sidekick, Tony Blair , have decreed that in their crusade to save the world (especially the USA and UK) from the far-reaching tentacles of terrorism - and heroin[ism] - Afghanistan must be tamed.
Basra oil workers strike
Workers at the Oil Transportation Company in Basra were on strike this week.
A translation of a statement released by the General Union of Oil Employees in Basra regarding strike action by workers at the Oil Transportation Company. More news and updates will follow shortly.
A one day strike took place on the 21/2/2006 organised by union members in the Oil Transport Company in Basra. The strike took place for the following reasons:
The corporate plunder of Iraq
The looting of billions of dollars of Iraq’s oil wealth is unprecedented in the history of corporate crime, writes criminologist Dave Whyte.
The neo-liberal transformation of Iraq is portrayed as a humanitarian venture. Western corporations and occupying governments now talk of the liberation of Iraq from the “tyranny of Saddam’s planned economy”.
Fuel Blockades
Part of a discussion about the UK fuel blockades over oil prices in 2000.
Wildcat-Zirkular No. 58 - December 2000 - pp. (german edition) 34-37
Fuel Blockades
(This was a letter to a discussion about the petrol prices movement in the UK. Gill and Dave referred to by Rachel had denounced the movement as 'petit bourgeois'.)
Letter concerning the struggles over the oil price in Britain
Notes by 'Dave W.' on the fuel protests of September 2000 examining the social make-up of the strikers and analysis of both mainstream and leftist reactions to the protests.
Wildcat-Zirkular No. 58 - December 2000 - pp. (german edition) 24-33
Letter concerning the struggles over the oil price in Britain
»Looks as though we've got ourselves a Convoy«
C.W. MaColl's; Country 'n' Western Truckers hit song.
Iraqi workers' armed strike threat
Iraqi oil workers win pay increases with strikes and threats to take up arms.
The solidarity of oil sector workers in Kirkuk, Baaji and Baghdad's Daurra was key in achieving the victory. Coalition authorities are currently dependant on SOC - Iraq's biggest and most lucrative oil company - for supplies following the breakdown of Iraq's northern fields, which have suffered continuous attacks on their pipelines and stations.
