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Francia_Levantamientos de la tierra: La lucha continúa!
Francia_Levantamientos de la tierra: La lucha continúa!
Solidaridad sin fronteras, con las luchas compañeras!...
Posted: Tue, Jun 27, 2023 8:23am PDT
Capital in the 2020s (with Thomas Piketty)
Inequality is not an accident. It’s not like the weather. It actually is being driven by the way capitalism is functioning. You know what we need? We need state intervention, we need government action, and we need that to be very, very, very big. That is when he proposes a policy that seems like it’s common sense now, but at the time, the idea of a wealth tax of 2 percent sounds radical....
Posted: Sun, Jun 18, 2023 7:09am PDT
Working Films and National Labor Leaders Announce Short Film Fund to Support Worker-Led Organizing
Working Films, in collaboration with Amazon Labor Union, North Carolina AFL-CIO, Starbucks Workers United, Union of Southern Service Workers, and United Farm Workers, are issuing a call for short films to amplify workers seeking to have their voices heard....
Posted: Thu, Jun 15, 2023 10:27am PDT
Pacifica’s CRD Longshore Workers Shut Down Ports; Protests over Florida Anti-immigrant Bill
Pacifica’s Capitalism, Race & Democracy On Longshore Workers Shut Down Ports; Protests over Florida Anti-immigrant Bill; South Africa Stands Up to the ICC...
Posted: Tue, Jun 6, 2023 4:13pm PDT
ILWU Local 52 Gabriel Prawl On Firings In Seattle, Growing Anger & West Coast Work Action
ILWU longshore workers are facing direct union busting by the PMA and shipping bosses. In Seattle a walkout took place after longshore workers worked to health and safety rules. Seattle Local 52 past president Gabriel Prawl talks about the conditions that are developing on the docks and why anger is growing among ILWU members....
Posted: Sat, Jun 3, 2023 11:23am PDT
Stand Up Fight Back!LA Strike Wave As Writers Guild Rally & Other Unions Prepare To Strike (video/quicktime 11.5MB)
Thousands of Los Angeles members of the striking Writers Guild of America West and other unions and LA City SEIU had a strike vote and may join the writers on strike....
Posted: Sat, May 27, 2023 5:18pm PDT
Inflation in the Age of Finance Capitalism
The shift of profit-striving from the real- to the financial-economy lowered economic growth Unemployment and atypical jobs soared. The welfare state was weakened. At the same time, financial wealth grew exorbitantly (the DAX increased 14-fold since 1988). The development of financial derivatives made possible profiting from short-term changes in stocks, currencies and bonds....
Posted: Thu, May 25, 2023 7:08am PDT
The Formation & History of Brazilian Fed Conlutas with Sao Paulo Worker Fabio Bosco
Brazilian transit worker Fabio Bosco talks about the history and formation of the independent trade union federation Conlutas....
Posted: Sun, May 21, 2023 4:11pm PDT
Los Angeles Valley College perpetuated wage theft against students on Julie Su's watch
Wage theft is a crime. In 2013, Secretary of Labor Julie Su formed a criminal investigation agency to stamp it out in California and put the bad guys in handcuffs. That didn’t stop the Grant Director at Los Angeles Valley College, serving the Van Nuys, North Hollywood and East San Fernando Valley, from perpetuating it against low-income students....
Posted: Fri, May 19, 2023 8:14am PDT
Petition-Hands Off Namibian Labor Lawyer Hewat Beukes & the Dismissed Union Miner Leaders
An international campaign to end the terrorism against Namibian labor lawyer Hewat Beukes and for the rehiring of 9 union leaders of the Rossing uranium mine owned by the Chinese National Nuclear Corporation and the Namibian government. This union busting drive is also going on at other mines throughout Namibia....
Posted: Tue, May 16, 2023 11:34pm PDT
Yellow Vest Protests Still Active in France
Their song "on est la" (we are here) continues to reverberate thrughout France...
Posted: Sun, May 7, 2023 11:33am PDT
Ecuador May Day Marches Call to Oust the President (video/mp4 130.0MB)
Video of May Day marchers entering Calderon Park in Cuenca. Ecuador.
Video credit: Harvey Goldberg
Cuenca, Ecuador
May 1, 2023
“Lasso out!” was a chant that rang out as tens of thousands of workers hit the streets in cities across Ecuador....
Posted: Thu, May 4, 2023 6:29am PDT
Massive Paris May Day March Continues to Challenge President Macron
Over 100,000 working people in the streets again say to retirement age increase "non, c'est non!" (no means no!)...
Posted: Wed, May 3, 2023 2:15am PDT
France's Undocumented Demand Recognition and Rights
Opposition to laws proposed by rightist prime minister...
Posted: Sun, Apr 30, 2023 12:34am PDT
Clanging Pots and Pans Throughout France Rattle French President
Sonorous demonstrations against Macron at City Halls throughout France...
Posted: Tue, Apr 25, 2023 2:36am PDT
French Unions Prepare for Massive May Day Actions
Workers won't allow Macron regime to cut retirement benefits...
Posted: Sat, Apr 22, 2023 1:33am PDT
SEIU99/UTLA Membership Voices On Their Strike & Struggle: United We Stand, Divided We Fall
Thirty thousand SEIU 99 LAUSD service workers went out on a three day unfair labor practice strike on March 21, 2023 to March 23, 2023. The UTLA members joined the picket line and this united action was a first. Workers spoke out about their conditions and struggles....
Posted: Fri, Mar 24, 2023 4:45pm PDT
Financial crisis - it's crashing again and The time of change
A utopian society will have learned to decentralize power, to keep it manageable and thus controllable, instead of creating supranational institutions and conglomerates whose size and financial power detach them from any democratic control. Just look at the European Union: In Brussels, an estimated 25,000 lobbyists besiege and work the deputies and commissioners....
Posted: Tue, Mar 21, 2023 3:04pm PDT
After 3 Years Namibian Miners Fight Continues Against Chinese National Nuclear Corp Firing
Three years ago, the leadership of the Namibia Rossing mine workers union were fired by the new owner the state owned Chinese National Nuclear Corporation CNNC. The company through corruption and collusion with the SWAPO government has stalled the arbitrations and stalled the labor process to keep the workers unemployed. There will be a hearing on March 28th and actions will take place at the San Francisco Chinese Consulate and other consulates and embassies around the world in solidarity wit...
Posted: Thu, Mar 16, 2023 12:17pm PDT
The NTSC, E.Palestine Railroad Wreck, Rail Safety & Nationalization With RWU's Hugh Sawyer
WorkWeek looks at the NTSB report on the toxic railway wreck in East Palestine and the causes of it with railroad engineer Hugh Sawyer who is with Railroad Workers United. He reports on the systemic issues that have led to this and many other derailments, the dangers that the East Palestine community are faced with and the need for nationalization of the railroads....
Posted: Thu, Feb 23, 2023 12:02pm PST