Striking workers slaughtered in Kazakhstan Police have opened fire on striking oil workers in Kazakhstan. Independent reports claim that up to seventy people have been killed, and five…
Talking about Working Conditions is not a Crime! A unionist from COB-AIT goes on trial for slander after condemning working conditions in his factory and the repression of his activity.
ANC thugs disrupt climate justice march in Durban Benjamin Fogel on the march for climate justice at the COP 17 meeting in Durban.
Wesley Everest, IWW Martyr An academic article about the life of Wesley Everest, a Wobbly who was lynched by an angry mob after defending the IWW hall in Centralia,…
Cameron’s control freakery and paranoia Government ramps up the apparatus of state control ahead of the Olympics, which is part of a wider and more worrying trend.
The tendency of state legitimacy to fall This blog has been planned for ages, but has somewhat been superseded by the shift to ‘technocratic’ rule in Greece and Italy. Nonetheless,…
Letter from an anonymous friend: the morning after the attack on the Oakland Commune An anonymous statement promising that regardless whether the police contest Occupy Oakland's…
A short account of the Virgin Island Five (aka Fountain Valley Five) A history of the "Virgin Island Five", a group of activists accused of murdering eight people in the…
The rebellion in Chile A number of groups in the San Francisco Bay Area will hold a vigil and protest in front of the Chilean Consulate in San Francisco on September 9…
Unions call for house committee investigation of possible misuse of US aid in Colombia Communications Workers of America (CWA) International President Larry Cohen and United Steelworkers (USW) International President Leo W. Gerard issued the following statement today regarding their request to a member of the House Select Intelligence Committee that there be an investigation of press reports that the government of Colombia may have misused U.S. government aid by spending it to investigate and…
Serbia: State offensive against the libertarian movement An analysis of the current wave of state repression of the Anarcho-Syndicalist Initiative.
South Africa: ANC frame up of Abahlali baseMjondolo militants thrown out of court The 12 Abahlali baseMjondolo activists arrested after the attack on the movement in late 2009 have all been fully acquitted in court - and the state excoriated from the bench for its failed attempt to frame the 12.
