INTERNATIONAL
Day of Action Against the Criminalization of Protest
On Wednesday, multiple actions took place around the country calling for the release of long-time social movement referent Milagro Sala, as well as an end to the criminalization of protest, anti-terrorist laws and repressive legislation.
Tre Kwon
January 28, 2016International Solidarity Campaign for Goodyear Workers Sentenced to Prison
Earlier this month, eight former workers of the Goodyear tire factory in Amiens-Nord, France were sentenced to up to two years in prison for their involvement in a historic struggle against the plant’s closure.
Left Voice
January 27, 2016Hutchison Ports Dispute Ends With Dozens of Voluntary Redundancies
The dispute that began on the night of August 6, 2015, when Hutchison Ports Australia (HPA) sacked 97 dockworkers (“wharfies”) by text message and email, has come to an end. So what was the end result of the dispute that some described as ‘the biggest confrontation on the Australian waterfront since the 1998 Patrick lock-out’?
Sean Robertson
January 27, 2016Yugoslavia after Capitalist Restoration
A new book edited by two of Yugoslavia´s most prominent leftist intellectuals help shed light on the challenges facing the left in the aftermath of capitalist restoration and collapse.
Philippe Alcoy
January 24, 2016Argentina’s Rude Awakening
In Argentina, a shifting terrain. Macri takes office in an anti-worker tour de force. Layoffs and economic austerity policies, championed as solutions of “urgent necessity.” Disparate displays of worker resistance.
Tre Kwon
January 16, 2016The End of a Dream: From Arab Spring to Bloody Fall (Part I)
On the 17 of December 2010, in the village of Sidi Bouzid, Tunisian street vendor Mohamed Bouazizi set himself on fire. His act was the starting point of a wave of upheavals in the Arab world. Five years later, the region is sinking into chaos and violence. Is the dream of freedom and justice finally burst? This is a two-part retrospective on the Arab Spring –five years later.
Marius Maier
January 14, 2016New Year, Old Struggles: The Strike for a Collective Agreement in the Logistics Sector
Since 2008, the logistics sector in Italy has been the epicenter of a wave of struggles led by a workforce mainly manned by immigrants. These struggles have at times been severely repressed by the employers (with the support of heavy deployment of police), but have also gained significant victories. These victories are not only to be celebrated by the workers in question, rather their meaning goes beyond the logistic sector and speaks to all of us.
Clash City Workers
January 13, 2016Spain: trying to break the Electoral Gridlock
The results of the general elections have opened a political crisis in Spain. Now that a coalition between the PSOE and PP is off the table, at least 3 parties would have to collude to be able to form government. A broad-left coalition gains momentum.
Juan Cruz Ferre
January 11, 2016Student elections at the Free University of Berlin: Raise your voice against war!
The following piece is on the platform of the Revolutionary Communist Youth (RKG) at the Free University of Berlin. In a political moment in which young people and college students around the world–from University of Missouri to Brazil–are organizing, students must learn from and about each others’ struggles. This piece aims to contribute to the conversation about student struggles.
Revolutionary Communist Youth (RKG)
January 6, 2016Milica Ružičić, artist engaged against police violence and with the struggles of the working class
In a general context of rising state repression and bonapartization of political regimes in Europe, we interviewed the Serbian visual artist and anarchist Milica Ružičić. In 2010, she dedicated a serial of paintings to denounce police violence around the world. Currently, she also teaches at the College of Fine and Applied Arts and is a singer in Cruellas, a band based in Belgrade, Serbia.
Révolution Permanente
January 5, 2016