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Workers Groups: The experience in the UK in the 1980s (Part II)
... development of organisation among unemployed workers. WR 92 (March 1986) contained reports of our participation in meetings of ... but there was certainly a growing distrust of the unions, and we saw some encouraging signs of workers taking charge of the ... form workplace-based struggle groups. In the last issue of WR we looked at the Picket group which appeared during the printers’ ...
World Revolution - 2024-01-28 21:26
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The Russian revolution echoes in Brazil, 1918-21
... personally to end a strike in a textile factory in Rio. Some unions collaborated by organising “ patriotic battalions ” that mobilised ... in the review Arma da Critica , An.2, nº.2, March 2010, contains a horrific description of the São Paulo proletariat’s ...
International Review - 2023-08-29 06:00
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Working class living standards Decades of decline
... workers aged 22+ subsisted on less than £7 per hour (in 2010 £s) [2] , around 40% of workers in that age group. By 2010, the number was 3.5 million or 32%. On the face of things, the number of ...
World Revolution - 2024-01-28 16:55
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Critical balance sheet of the 2011 Indignados movement in Spain
... categories” through its army of servants (parties, unions, ideologues, “influencers”) who constantly shout from the rooftops - ... or a military autocracy, has a constellation of parties and unions which express themselves differently but all tend towards the same goal: ...
ICConline - 2024-02-28 06:00
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Revolt of the garment and textile workers in Bangladesh
... deployment of paramilitary forces and with the help of unions, the revolt continued till 6-7 June 2006. Workers in different Export ... dispensed with even a myth of representation - no unions, even linked to ruling gangs, were allowed in any of the garment ... huge numbers throughout the industrial suburbs. The 'central unions' belonging to different bourgeois political gangs ( BNP , AL ...
Communist Inter... - 2024-01-28 11:42
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Review: The unions were not anti-working class from their inception
... ascendance, looking in particular at the growth of the trade unions as defensive organisations against the attacks of capital. As we said at the start in WR 301, these articles are aimed at answering the popular argument in the ...
World Revolution - 2023-07-07 06:00
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Egypt: The class struggle takes centre stage
... back pay, better working conditions and independent unions. In many cases they also called for the resignation of President ... the needs of the majority. The call for independent trade unions which is being raised in many of today’s strikes [3] is ...
ICConline - 2024-02-28 06:00
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Zimbabwe: Democracy is not a goal for the workers’ struggle
... media spotlight has, however focused on the action of the unions and the Movement for Democratic Change. The ZCTU (Zimbabwean unions) have called for a general strike in early April, with further actions ...
World Revolution - 2024-02-27 06:00
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The unions don’t unite our struggle – they organise its division!
... in the North Sea oil fields and elsewhere - the trade unions have in general been very cautious about calling for unitary ... the fact that the UCU invited leaders from a number of other unions involved in the strikes to speak at this rally – Dave Ward from the ...
ICConline - 2023-10-10 06:00
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Germany 1923: The bourgeoisie inflicts a decisive defeat on the working class
... ranks with the integration of Social-Democracy and the Trade Unions into the State apparatus. In 1923 the bourgeoisie tried to ... conquest of the old proletarian class organisations (Trade Unions, co-operatives etc.). It transforms these organs of the working class, ...
International Review - 2024-01-28 21:00