Romania: resistance against corporate environmental destruction and politics-as-usual
Submitted by rooieravotr on Sep 12 2013 20:56
This article, on insistent protests against an environmentallt destructive mining project in Romania, was written for ROARmag.org, where a slightly differently edited version can already be found, together with a very useful comment on the article.
Thinking about Egypt: between cynicism and wishful thinking
Submitted by rooieravotr on Aug 18 2013 21:58
On the developments in Egypt, on the framework in which people talk about the developments, and a bit on that attitude to take.
On the edges of Trotskyism - some of the ones who left the SWP
Submitted by rooieravotr on Jul 12 2013 00:48
Some notes on the IS Network, formed by ex-members of the SWP, and on the ideas of Richard Seymour, one of them.
Trotskyism on the edge - on the SWP crisis
Submitted by rooieravotr on Jul 10 2013 15:25
A few more notes on the crisis in the UK Socialist Workers Party (SWP) that seems to have entered new territory.
Battlefield Indonesia
Submitted by rooieravotr on Jun 26 2013 20:14
In Indonesia, workers are resisting low wages and demanding health care coverage, and indigenous communities are resisting corporate-enforced destruction.
Refugees resisting state oppression, and solidarity activism in the Netherlands: hunger strikes and more
Submitted by rooieravotr on May 19 2013 17:12
Protest and resistance by refugees and solidarity activists in the Netherlands is meeting serious repression. This is now getting media attention, and provoking new protest as well.
SWP crisis: some analysis, some thoughts
Submitted by rooieravotr on Mar 13 2013 15:33
The UK Trotskyist Socialist Workers Party (SWP) is in deep crisis after rape accusations and faction fights have ended in the leadership reimposing some 'order' , and oppositionists leaving the party in droves. Some analysis, and some ideas on what attitude anti-authoritarians might fruitfully take.
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.
European-wide general strike November 14 - how real? How relevant?
Submitted by rooieravotr on Oct 22 2012 14:24
In at least four countries, there will be a general strike on November 14. There are calls to turn it into a European general strike. What to make of the idea, how to operate most fruitfully in connection to these and similar initiatives, is the subject of this article.
Massacre at Marikana: the fight continues in South Africa
Submitted by rooieravotr on Oct 8 2012 00:00
Mineworkers of the Marikana diamond mine in South Africa are continuing their strike. Their perseverence comes after violent police efforts to suppress the strike, efforts culminating in a horrendous bloodbath on 16 August, when police machinegunned protesting miners, killing 34 and arresting at least 250 of them.
