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Submitted on Wed, 05/28/2008 - 4:12pm
Saludos de la Comisión de Solidaridad Internacional (ISC) de los Trabajadores Industriales del Mundo (IWW) y bienvenidos a nuestro segundo boletín mensual internacional.
El propósito de este boletín es informar a nuestros aliados alrededor del mundo de nuestras actividades, campañas solidarias e información relevante de luchas laborales internacionales. Esperamos que este boletín contribuya a la construcción de la solidaridad entre trabajadores con comunicaciones fortalecidas e intercambios de información.
Para contribuir ideas o noticias al boletín, o contactarse con la ISC por favor dirigirse a [email protected]. Para la versión en español, hacer clic aquí
En esta edición:
1. Acciones y Eventos de la CSI
2. Noticias del IWW
3. Campañas Solidarias y Comunicados
Submitted on Thu, 05/01/2008 - 1:24pm
Saludos de la Comisión de Solidaridad de los Trabajadores Industriales del Mundo y bienvenidos al primer edición de nuestro boletín mensual internacional.
El propósito de este boletín es informar a nuestros aliados alrededor del mundo de todas nuestras actividades, campañas solidarias e información relevante de luchas laborales internacionales. Esperamos que este boletín contribuya a la construcción de la solidaridad entre los trabajadores a través de la comunicación fortalecida y el intercambio de información.
Si desea contribuir ideas o noticias para el boletín, o comunicarse con el CSI, mande un email a [email protected].
En esta edición :
Acciones y Eventos de la CSI
- Representante de la CSI revela espionaje de los EE.UU. en Bolivia
- Solidaridad con trabajadores de KSS en el norte de México
- Planes avanzan para una delegación solidaria a Haití
Campañas Solidarias y Comunicados
- Solidaridad con Jorge Pérez Salvo
- Condenación al ataque reciente en Basra
- Condenación a los asesinatos y la violencia contra el sindicato bananero en Guatemala
- Día de acción global en solidaridad con los trabajadores de Irán
- Condenación a la violencia contra sindicalistas en Camboya
- Reivindicación de la justicia para los palestinos
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Submitted on Tue, 04/29/2008 - 1:40pm
The International Solidarity Commission of the Industrial Workers of
the World is sending a delegation of five workers to Haiti to meet with labor groups and observe conditions in the country. We'll be there from April 23 to May 5, 2008. This blog will record the delegation's experiences and impressions.
The link to the blog is iwwinhaiti.blogspot.com. Check it regularly for updates!
Submitted on Mon, 04/21/2008 - 2:58pm
Disclaimer - The opinions of the author do not necessarily match those of the IWW. The image pictured to the right did not appear in the original article, we have added it here to provide a visual perspective. This article is reposted in accordance to Fair Use guidelines.
By Staughton Lynd - WORKING USA, March 2008
What is the problem? What needs to be set right? The mother of all wrong solutions is card-check voting, which would give more access to unorganized workers for the same top-down unions, with the same unaccountability to the membership because of the dues checkoff, with the same ever-readiness to give up the right to strike. Equally misguided in my view is the notion that Taft-Hartley represented a decisive turning point and that its repeal would release the original pristine impulse of the Congress of Industrial Organizations to flower again. All major trade union leaders beginning with John L. Lewis have devised means whereby workers would give up the right to collective self-activity embodied in Section 7 in exchange for a mess of pottage. So we, labor lawyers and labor historians, can only begin to be useful when we forego our endless apologies for the latest hoped-for "progressive" union leader. Our task is to envision an institutional" "embodiment of the class self-activity discovered and imagined by E.P. Thompson and colleagues and partially realized by the IWW in work that desperately needs updating."
The new worldwide movement against "globalization," meaning, U.S. imperialism, and for a better day, has come up with a defining slogan: Another World Is Possible. The words remind us that a social movement is unlikely to bring about what it does not even try to achieve. Current efforts to revive the labor movement in the U.S. define their objectives so narrowly, that even if successful, they would not change anything fundamental.
Submitted on Sun, 04/06/2008 - 4:09pm
To the Comrades of IWW
We would like to introduce ourselves to you; we are the Freeters'* Union. We are a Tokyo-based general union, established
recently in the face of the out-of-control global situation that the neo-liberal capitalism is running rampant. As precarious workers suffering from working conditions that are becoming more and more fluid and amorphous, we are intensifying our struggles for freedom and survival.
At this moment one of our new campaigns is to organize the "Gas Station Union" to confront Kanto Toyu Co., LTD. – a Japanese member of the Shell Oil Group – that has begun to lay off an increasing number of part-time workers on the pretext of the rise of oil prices and financial instability. It is a necessity to fight gas station chain and the oil driven conglomerate which forcibly lays off its employees in order to make even bigger profits. We will continue to inform you about this campaign, so please keep an eye on our efforts.
