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Train in Vain? Part Four: the politics of failure takes the lead... The following is part of a continuing critique of the Summer/Fall 2005 effort to foment an Italian-style self-reduction campaign against the Sept. 1 2005 fare hike, service cuts and intensified exploitation of transit system operators on San Francisco's main public transit system, MUNI.
In a larger sense, it is also a contribution to a critique of the consistent uselessness of the contemporary US anarchist scene in a fight for radical social change....
Posted: Tue, Jan 17, 2006 3:41pm PST
US coal miners denounce deadly conditions “The government is giving a green light to the coal operators to violate safety”...
Posted: Tue, Jan 17, 2006 7:34am PST
EU dockers' protest turns violent in Strasbourg Police in Strasbourg have used tear gas and water cannon to disperse thousands of dockers who marched to the European Parliament in a mass protest....
Posted: Mon, Jan 16, 2006 9:03am PST
The Bay Area General Strikes; '34 in SF & '46 in Oakland 
This year marks the 60th anniversary of the 1946 Oakland General strike. To commemorate, a presentation of the '46 Oakland strike will be presented--along with Chris Carlsson's description and analysis of the 1934 San Francisco General Strike. These descriptions and analyses will be followed by a discussion about how keeping the memory of the strikes alive helps us understand how we might express our solidarity with struggles going on today.
The Bay Area General Strikes event is on Wednes...
Posted: Mon, Jan 16, 2006 1:45am PST
KPFA Labor Collective Portal Launched The KPFA Labor Collective which has produced labor programming for KFPA for over 3 years is
launching a labor portal on the MLK weekend. This portal at www.laborcollective.org will contain
links to labor programming on radio and video, labor history and culture as well as a labor
calendar....
Posted: Sat, Jan 14, 2006 2:46pm PST
"Airline Workers United" Forms to Fight Concessions Industry-Wide Things seem to keep going from bad to worse for workers at Northwest Airlines (NWA). While striking mechanics and cleaners face a bitter winter after more than four months on the picket line, pilots, flight attendants, gate/ramp agents, baggage handlers, customer service reps, and other union workers face a fresh round of givebacks against the backdrop of a bankruptcy court....
Posted: Fri, Jan 13, 2006 10:07pm PST
Germany: the closure of Nuremberg’s AEG works and the role of the unions In the middle of December, the management of the Swedish electrical company Electrolux announced the closure of a factory steeped in history—the AEG works in Nuremberg. Workers responded to the announcement with strikes and protest actions. There are 1,750 jobs directly threatened by the closure of the factory, with many more jobs endangered in ancillary production processes....
Posted: Fri, Jan 13, 2006 10:03pm PST
Safety reports document deadly conditions at West Virginia mine Newly released reports from state and federal safety inspections of the Sago Mine prior to the January 2 explosion that killed twelve West Virginia coal miners detail a rash of potentially deadly safety violations and a pattern of negligence, if not criminal disregard, by company officials....
Posted: Fri, Jan 13, 2006 9:59pm PST
LaborFest 2006 Call for Video Submissions 
LaborFest 2006 July 5 - 31
Call for Labor Videos & Films
For 13th Annual International Working Class Film & Video Festival
The deadline to submit all videos is May 1, 2006
(Application form)...
Posted: Fri, Jan 13, 2006 2:56pm PST
UFW Exposé Lacks Historical Perspective One of the most difficult positions a newspaper can find itself in is that of defender, protector, or the lone public voice of a movement that has come under attack....
Posted: Fri, Jan 13, 2006 2:15pm PST
Maryland forces Wal-Mart to pay for employee health care -- Will California be next? The Maryland General Assembly became the first state legislature in the nation Thursday to approve legislation forcing Wal-Mart (WMT) to pay more for its employee health care, potentially paving the way for other states to follow suit....
Posted: Fri, Jan 13, 2006 10:10am PST
Support Locked Out Meredosia Boilermakers Local 484 Celanese Corporation in June sought to cut the wages of their workers in Meredosia, Illinois by 33%
and when the workers refused they locked them out in June 1995. They need the support of all
working people....
Posted: Fri, Jan 13, 2006 8:19am PST
Working Immigrant Safety and Health Coalition Trainings in Feb 
Two day training 2/9 and 2/16, 9 to 5pm @ Freedom Archives, 522 Valencia Street, San Francisco, 94110 - lunch provided...
Posted: Thu, Jan 12, 2006 10:41pm PST
Protest Schwarzenegger's Lunch Break Takeaway Noon at State Capital 1/13 Arnold the Bullying Lowlife now wants to steal the lunch breaks of workers! Don't miss this protest tomorrow!...
Posted: Thu, Jan 12, 2006 10:09pm PST
U.S. TRADE DEFICIT DEVASTATING ECONOMY The U.S. economy is being sold to the highest bidders in the world trade markets and our trade deficit is destroying our economy. A 69 billion dollar trade deficit, and over 700 billion annually, is putting millions of Americans in jeopardy of losing their homes, their jobs and everything they possess only to benefit big business....
Posted: Thu, Jan 12, 2006 6:42pm PST
Rank And file Auto Workers Take A Stand Rank and File Auto Workers and Supporters Rally at Detroit Auto Show...
Posted: Thu, Jan 12, 2006 7:55am PST
Against the Neoliberal "Modernization" of the Labor Market The predicted employment effects of the neoliberal strategy do not go beyond expanding low-wage sectors and under employment. the unemployed are forced into precarious working conditions while mass unemployment continues. Answering the employment question is the most important and most difficult challenge of an alternative socialist economy....
Posted: Thu, Jan 12, 2006 6:39am PST
Labor Market Voodoo Possible counter-measures against structural mass unemploy-ment and an army of marginalized working poor are well-known: public investment programs, a legal minimum wage and redistribution of labor through reduced working hours....
Posted: Thu, Jan 12, 2006 5:43am PST
Back to Berkeley Honda - Support the Strikers; Join the Union/Community Outreach Group When: Th., 1/12, 4:30-6:00 Berkeley Federation of Teachers
Sat., 1/14, 1:00-2:30 The Raging Grannies...
Posted: Thu, Jan 12, 2006 1:07am PST
US media sheds crocodile tears for West Virginia miners The US media coverage of the West Virginia mine disaster has been a spectacle of ignorance, condescension and chasing higher circulation. Unburdened with any serious knowledge of the lives of coal miners or their history, scores of highly paid, highly coiffed journalists from the cable and network news channels and print media produced little but the most superficial explanations of the tragedy and its background....
Posted: Mon, Jan 9, 2006 10:27pm PST
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