{...} Στις 20 Ιούλη του 1889, το ιδρυτικό συνέδριο της Δεύτερης Διεθνούς κατέληξε σε μια απόφαση που σφράγισε την ιστορία του εργατικού κινήματος σε ολόκληρο τον κόσμο. ... read full story / add a comment

An attempt to identify some factors that have prevented a general strike from breaking out in Wisconsin ... read full story / add a comment

Το βέβαιο είναι ότι για μεγάλα τμήματα του κόσμου της εργασίας οι οργανώσεις ΓΣΕΕ-ΑΔΕΔΥ δεν εκπροσωπούν τους εργαζόμενους, αλλά λειτουργούν ως αναχώματα του κράτους μέσα στο εργατικό κίνημα για την άμβλυνση της κοινωνικής διαμαρτυρίας. ... read full story / add a comment

En el estado español se está desarrollando en las últimas semanas un debate entre gobierno, patronal y los sindicatos CCOO y UGT en torno a la reforma de la negociación colectiva. Uno de los aspectos que más puede dañar al movimiento obrero, en caso de que se apruebe, es el arbitraje obligatorio por parte de las instituciones estatales de los conflictos prolongados entre capital y trabajo. Se busca así cercenar la combatividad sindical y entregar a los trabajadores maniatados a las centrales pactistas.

José Luis Carretero, profesor de Formación y Orientación Laboral, militante libertario, afiliado al sindicato Solidaridad Obrera y miembro del Instituto de Ciencias Económicas y de la Autogestión (ICEA), nos pone en guardia ante este nuevo ataque antisocial. ... read full story / add a comment

Είναι ανάγκη άμεσα -τώρα- στον εκβιασμό της πείνας και της εξαθλίωσης, της ηττοπάθειας και της ατομικής ευθύνης και ενοχής, οι εκατοντάδες χιλιάδες άνεργοι, “μαύροι”, έλληνες και μετανάστες εργάτες να ορθώσουμε ένα κίνημα συλλογικής δράσης και αλληλεγγύης για την πραγμάτωση των άμεσων βιοποριστικών στόχων (επίδομα χωρίς προϋποθέσεις, ιατροφαρμακευτική κάλυψη, δωρεάν μετακινήσεις, συντάξιμος χρόνος, ριζικές μειώσεις στα είδη πρώτης ανάγκης) και καθοριστικής συμβολής στην ολική ρήξη με τα αφεντικά και το κράτος. ... read full story / add a comment

Σήμερα η αντιστροφή της ολομέτωπης συστημικής επίθεσης που εισπράττει ο κόσμος της εργασίας εξαρτάται από την ανάπτυξη της αυτοοργάνωσης, της άμεσης συλλογικής δράσης και της δημιουργίας κοινωνικών αντιθεσμών, καθώς δεν έχει να περιμένει τίποτα από κράτος, Βουλή, κεφάλαιο, αριστερά, κρατικό συνδικαλισμό. ... read full story / add a comment

Presentamos este reportaje en ocasión del 8 de marzo, día internacional de la mujer trabajadora.

Qué mejor para ilustrar esa fecha que el ejemplo de un sector con una composición fundamentalmente femenina donde se hacen patentes las duras condiciones de trabajo a que se hallan sometidas las mujeres a inicios del siglo XXI en un Estado supuestamente avanzado como es el español.

Afortunadamente, no sólo encontramos explotación, sino también lucha y compromiso militante en pro de la dignidad de los trabajadores y las trabajadoras. La CNT de Sevilla desarrolla desde hace varios años un trabajo continuado en el sector de la Limpieza de edificios y locales, donde cuenta con una presencia en constante expansión, pero no exenta de dificultades para su implantación. ... read full story / add a comment

Defender el derecho de huelga, ahora es cuestión por obra de los ajustes estructurales, es imprescindible. ... read full story / add a comment

Instead of defeat, we can move forward. We support the popular call promoted by the Industrial Workers of the World (I.W.W.) revolutionary union and others for a state-wide General Strike. This should include public and private sectors, union and non-unionized sectors, students and unemployed. As other communities and sectors of the working-class step forward to join the struggle they must be free to raise their own specific concerns and demands. The movement must be open to “speakers from the floor”. We must resist any pressure to reduce the movement to a small number of lowest common-denominator demands that favor relatively privileged layers and that the system finds acceptable. This movement must not be satisfied with a return to the status quo but formulate demands of our own for what the people actually need. ... read full story / add a comment

«Όποιος δουλεύει, δεν έχει χρόνο να βγάλει λεφτά. Το σίγουρο είναι πως τα πλούτη δεν γίνονται με τη δουλειά.» (Λουίς Μπαριονουέβο. Πρώην συνδικαλιστής και μετέπειτα κυβερνητικός πολιτικός και ιδιοκτήτης ποδοσφαιρικής ομάδας της Α΄κατηγορίας της Αργεντινής. Τα παραπάνω λόγια τα είπε κατά τη διάρκεια δείπνου με τραπεζίτες και μεγαλοεπιχειρηματίες στις 28/11/1990 στο Μπουένος Άιρες.) ... read full story / add a comment

Quando um jovem tunisiano se auto-imolou como prova extrema de protesto contra a ditadura de Ben-Ali, ascendera uma centelha que uma vez midiatizada, pôs fogo em toda a região. O que começara na Tunísia em 14 de janeiro foi um ato extremo de dizer, Basta! Na ponta da estrutura de poder do país, um policial corrupto e abusando de autoridade opera no orgulho de um homem de pouca idade, exercendo uma sub-função de feirante na busca da sobrevivência, não podendo viver de seus anos de estudo e menos ainda do entorno de idéias que nas instituições educacionais o cercavam. Este jovem era um de milhões naquele país, e um entre milhares de milhões no mundo árabe. ... read full story / add a comment

Desde diciembre del año pasado los trabajadores azucareros han manifestado con diferentes medidas de protesta el pedido de la promulgación de la ley de protección patrimonial, registrándose enfrentamientos con la Policía por bloquear diversos accesos a Chiclayo incluida la carretera Panamericana y dos puentes. Los ingenios azucareros de Pomalca y Tumán, que en conjunto producen el 20% de azúcar a nivel nacional, iniciaron la paralización de sus actividades el pasado 10 de enero. ... read full story / add a comment

Una prima valutazione sul pronunciamento dei lavoratori orchestrato da FIAT a Mirafiori.
Hanno prevalso i SI per 410 voti su 5119 votanti (59 schede bianche, 2325 NO, 2735 SI')
Il risultato del NO va ben oltre le aspettative e si può considerare positivo. ... read full story / add a comment

Instead, we must emphasise that the defence of democratic rights is inseparable from the defence of the working class and its organisations. We have the right to organise, and no government can take it away. The Australian Building & Construction Commission must be defeated. It's as simple as ABCC. ... read full story / add a comment

Il progetto di Marchionne a Mirafiori suscita ampi dibattiti, assolutamente giustificati, sull'aspetto politico-sociale, ma sospettosamente pochi sull'aspetto tecnico. Ma dove penserà la FIAT di vendere 280.000 SUV, modelli Alfa e Jeep, una volta arrivati a regime? La domanda è solo apparentemente banale, perché senso comune vuole che si investa perché si programma di produrre e poi vendere. ... read full story / add a comment

Mercedes Herrerra is a 39-year-old Mexican immigrant living in Houston, Texas. Working primarily for staffing agencies, she first started cleaning houses and sports facilities in 1996. Paid meager wages, working long hours and travelling some distance to get to new job sites, her staffing agency charged her as much as $100 per week for gloves, and cleaning supplies.

As if the massive charges for basic cleaning supplies weren’t enough, her employers found other ways to skim more cash off of her hard work.

“She was never paid for overtime. Her employers would tell her, “There is no overtime. After 40 hours you work for someone else.” ... read full story / add a comment

Συνάδελφοι, οι καιροί είναι όσο ποτέ πολωμένοι. Ο καθένας ας βαδίσει το δρόμο του. Τον δύσκολο συλλογικό δρόμο του αδιαμεσολάβητου αγώνα ή τον εύκολο δρόμο της ανάθεσης και του βολέματος, που με ακρίβεια οδηγεί στην προδοσία του μέλλοντος όλων μας. ... read full story / add a comment

L'accordo imposto da FIAT a Mirafiori, e prontamente sottoscritto dai "sindacati" complici, perfeziona il precedente accordo di Pomigliano e si pone come traccia per il contratto (FIAT) dell'auto. Anzi pone come necessità a breve che questo accordo di settore si stipuli come elemento conclusivo che suggella la vittoria dei padroni. ... read full story / add a comment

The August-September 2010 mass strike in the South African state sector demonstrated remarkable working class unity across racial and ideological lines, as 1.3 million workers of all colours stopped work for four weeks despite severe economic recession. The strikers' determination reflected growing frustration with low wages and at the glaring political corruption and enrichment of the elite, plus the drive - by African, coloured and Indian workers specifically - to attain living conditions breaking decisively with the oppression and immiseration of the apartheid past. Yet the strikers' partial victory was tarnished by tactics that divided strikers from the larger working class - notably, hospital disruptions - and a failure to raise demands that linked union and community struggles against both neo-liberalism and the apartheid legacy. The top-down manner whereby the strike was ended makes workers cynical about their own unions, demonstrating the alarming bureaucratisation and centralisation that has arisen, in large part, due to union leaders being enmeshed in the African National Congress (the neo-liberal governing party) and state industrial relations machinery. Unions should re-orientate towards other working class movements, outside and against the state, to fight for a libertarian and socialist transformation, from below. The ideas of anarcho-syndicalism - raised at the 2009 COSATU Congress - provide a useful starting point.
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La Confederación General del Trabajo acuerda convocar una nueva Huelga General en el estado español antes del 28 de enero. ... read full story / add a comment