Teamsters close down Coca Cola bottling plant
Submitted by working class s... on May 17 2012 22:56
Coca Cola worker in Connecticut walk off the job in response to attempts to reduce pay and benefits, and implement redundancies.
Workers from the Teamsters 1035 branch in Connecticut went on strike yesterday over job security, pay rises, health benefits, and potential redundancies.
Bosses hold 1000 Indian workers hostage in Angola
Submitted by working class s... on May 16 2012 21:27
Over 1200 Indian workers have been left stranded, and effectively held hostage by bosses in Angola after their passports and other travel documents were confiscated in revenge for taking industrial action over not being paid anything for over six months.
The workers are employed by ETA Star International, who produce cement at their factory in Sumbe.
Anarchists on huge anti-government rally in Moscow
Submitted by working class s... on May 11 2012 23:40
Over 100,000 protesters gathered in Moscow to demonstrate against Vladimir Putin. There was violent clashed between protesters and police resulting in over 400 arrests.
On the 6th of May, a lot of anarchists took part in almost all events which occured in Moscow. There was a peaceful march from Kaluzhskаja to Bolotnaja square, after that it became clear that the entrance was forbidden for people, protesting against the inauguration of Putin.
Fascists launch failed attack on a Liverpool picket line
Submitted by working class s... on May 10 2012 17:35
Fascists in Liverpool have today continued with their anti-working class agenda by attempting to attack workers striking over pensions at a picket line in Bootle.
At around 15.30, five instantly recognisable boneheads from the Infidels of Britain, Combined Ex Forces, and the National Front arrived a
How Teamsters quelled fascist thugs
Submitted by working class s... on May 7 2012 23:04
Excerpts from the book Teamster Politics by Farrell Dobbs describing how in the 1930s Teamsters Local 544 and other unionists formed a defense guard that pushed back the Silver Shirts, a fascist outfit that was spawned from the deepening capitalist economic crisis of the 1930s.
Clashes between capital and labor in times of social crisis tend to stimulate activity among political demagogues with a fascist mentality. They anticipate that intensification of the class struggle will cause sections of the ruling class to turn away from parliamentary democracy and its methods of rule, and resort to fascism as the way to hold on to state power and protect special privilege….
Liverpool anarchist’s day of action against workfare 5th May 2012
Submitted by working class s... on May 5 2012 19:44
A brief report on a day of action against workfare in Liverpool.
Today, many non-aligned anarchists joined with members of Solfed in a day of action in Liverpool against companies that participate in the governments workfare programme.
Liverpool anti-fascists picket shop owned by fascist mayoral candidate
Submitted by working class s... on May 2 2012 14:49
Today was the Infidels of Britain’s nationwide day of “direct action.” In Liverpool, we were promised that the Scouse Infidels would be “busy bodies,” and they even had a special National Front “Vote Quiggins” banner for the occasion. In reality, Liverpool Antifascists got the drop on the far-right, who were nowhere to be seen in the city when it came to it.
Reproduced via - http://liveraf.wordpress.com/
The ten books that shaped my politics
Submitted by working class s... on May 2 2012 14:38
Does what it says on the tin.
Over the last week I have been tidying cluttered and dusty bookshelves. Feeling self-indulgent I decided to put together a pile of the books that have had the biggest impact and influence on my political journey and where I currently find myself. The list is markedly different then it would have been five years ago as I have slowly developed an ‘infantile disorder’.
Fascists attack paper sale in Lewisham
Submitted by working class s... on Apr 29 2012 13:46
Whilst undertaking their usual Saturday morning paper sale in Lewisham several SWP members were viciously assaulted by a group of fascists. At least two people required hospital treatment. This is the latest in a growing list of attacks against anyone that the fascists deem to be 'left wing'.
Reproduced via - http://transpont.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/fascist-attack-in-lewisham-today.html
Any further information relating to this story will be gratefully received and added to the blog post.
Reports on Twitter and elsewhere that one person (and possibly two people) needed hospital treatment today after extreme right wing thugs attacked a socialist stall in Lewisham town centre.
Olympic gold medal for gentrification
Submitted by working class s... on Apr 24 2012 19:08
The Conservative rent cap is being blamed for forcing people out of Newham, but is is all just part of our great Olympic legacy
The shameful news that Newham Council in London are attempting to push 500 families out of the borough into homes 150 miles away in Stoke should come as no surprise.
The Labour controlled Council is one of the poorest areas in London, and is also the home to the 500 acre Olympic Park.
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