Submitted on Wed, 07/01/2015 - 10:02am
Do the times hold dilemmas?
The appeal to the referendum by “for the first time” Left government was the natural outcome of a futile political negotiation which aimed “to have its cake (capital) and eat it too” (to satisfy both its needs and those of institutions). To be sure, this frame of negotiations took place without the real subject that shall pay the cost of remaining in Europe, whether in Euro or drachma, that is the working class, the unemployed, the precarious workers, the immigrants and the pensioners. The point is that, despite the Left tone of dignity that the Left governmental administrators use, this is a one-way blackmail. We need a radical change of shift, not in words but in action.
Submitted on Sat, 06/27/2015 - 2:25pm
The IWW was founded on June 27, 1905, and we haven't aged a bit! Read more on the history of the One Big Union, as well as minutes from the founding convention: http://www.iww.org/history/founding.
Submitted on Fri, 06/19/2015 - 4:33pm
By Ron Kaminkow - Labor Notes, June 16, 2015
Disclaimer: The views expressed here are not the official position of the IWW (or even the IWW’s EUC) and do not necessarily represent the views of anyone but the author’s.
The news media have been full of speculation about what caused an Amtrak train to derail east of Philadelphia on May 12, killing at least eight people and injuring hundreds.
Train #188, operated by lone engineer Brandon Bostian, entered a curve with a speed limit of 50 miles per hour, at over 100.
Was this excessive speed the result of fatigue, inattentiveness, a projectile that hit the train (and possibly the engineer), or some other factor? The investigation may eventually pinpoint the cause—or we may never know.
But we do know this: had there been a second crew member in the cab, it’s very likely that person would have taken action to prevent the tragedy when, for whatever reason, the engineer at the controls could not.
And blaming a worker just distracts the public from eliminating the real hazards. There exists simple, affordable technology that Amtrak could and should have implemented years ago—which could have prevented this terrible wreck.
Σύντροφοι και συντρόφισες η 11 Ιούνιου 2015 είναι μια πολύ σημαντική μέρα για τους Βιομηχανικούς Εργάτες του Κόσμου (IWW) στην Ελλάδα.
Σύντροφοι και συντρόφισες η 11 Ιούνιου 2015 είναι μια πολύ σημαντική μέρα για τους Βιομηχανικούς Εργάτες του Κόσμου (IWW) στην Ελλάδα.