Prol-Position
Regular newsletter covering working class struggles across the world.
Working life, interviews and leaflets in Delhi's call centre cluster, 2006
Detailed report written after three months of work as foreign call centre worker in Delhi and collective political intervention in the area.
The text looks at the composition of foreign workers in Indian call centres and documents interviews with workers from international companies such as HP or Citibank which relocated call centre work to the industrial outskirts of Delhi.
Introduction
Mouvement Communiste CPE leaflets for students and building workers
Two leaflets about the CPE employment law. The first from 27 March, by some students in Jussieu to the building workers directly employed by this university in Paris. The second one was distributed in a student General Assembly, a little after the end of the movement.
It is as workers that we are attacked and not as students!
A lovely spring in France - CPE report by Mouvement Communiste
A report on the unrest and struggle agains the CPE employment law by Mouvement Communiste, a Paris based collective.
The struggle against the CPE has mobilised youth in the education system, starting in higher education and then followed by the high schools, with the principal objective of forcing the withdrawal of Article 8 of the 'Equal Opportunities Law'. This article introduced a new punitive employment contract reserved for young workers. The objective of the struggle has been fully achieved.
CPE and labour contracts in France
This is a short overview of the CPE law, by Ni Patrie, Ni Frontier, serving as an introduction to the following articles focussing on the struggles that this law ignited.
1) What is this new law about youth employment called and what it is about?
Prol-position news 7
Issue 7 of prol-position's news sheet about workers' struggles across the world. Contains articls on the anti-CPE struggle, student movement in Greece, welfare in Germany, call centres in Delhi and more.
The anti-CPE struggle report - Theorie Communiste
We summarise a text by Theorie Communiste which focusses on the internal contradictions of the movement, how official representative organisations undermined grassroots initiative and puts the protests in context with the riots of suburban youth.
The anti-CPE struggle
Extracts of an analysis by Theorie Communist
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Occupation, not democracy! Greek student leaflet, 2006
This is a short text then a copy of a leaflet by a group in Thessaloniki called Blaumachen, about the student movement opposed to education "reforms" in Greece around May and June 2006.
Occupation, not democracy!
Introduction
Going east: Direct investments in Eastern Europe
Article looking at the flow of investments from Germany (and elsewhere in Western Europe) to countries further east.
“Then I will leave and go to the east!”
What some decades ago might have been a defiant outcry of desillusioned lefty teachers, under the threat of dismissal due to their CP membership, is now taken up again and realised by the ‘class enemy’.
Foreign investments in the Czech Republic: Boom or fall? 2004
Article analysing foreign investment and business in the Czech Republic since 1989 and recent changes which are occuring.
Transformation towards private capitalism, which started after 1989, was at the beginning mainly affected by the struggle inside the old-new ruling class for the actual character of this change. Already in 1990 the Czech faction of bourgeoisie led by Vaclav Klaus, who was minister of finance and who later became the prime minister and who is now the present president, got the strongest position.
Migrant workers in the Czech Republic, 2005
An article about the situation of predominantly Slovakian and Ukrainian immigrant workers in the Czech Republic in 2005.
Between Repression and the Mafia
