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  • CHILE’S WORKERS UNION CALLS FOR FOCUS ON COLOMBIA
    31 August 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    According to the AI report, 2,245 Colombian union members were murdered in the 15 years between 1991 and 2006. In the same time period, 3,400 received threats and 138 were disappeared. Almost half of the killings are attributed to rightist paramilitary groups, which have links to politicians within Colombia’s government. AI found government security forces responsible for 43 percent.
    AI Chile Director Sergio Laurenti (right) details recent Colombia report. Photo by Sean Havey
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  • Train drivers threaten to derail the Merkel miracle
    7 August 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Roger Boyes in Berlin
    Germans faced the prospect of summer holiday chaos yesterday as train drivers voted for an unlimited nationwide strike. It seems set to be the worst rail strike in 15 years and, along with a threat of industrial action by airline pilots, could bring the country to a standstill.
    The timing is bad news for Angela Merkel, the Chancellor, who had hoped to crown Germany’s economic recovery with the successful privatisation of Deutsche Bahn, the German rail service. (…)

  • SOLIDARITY FOREVER BY PETE SEEGER (VIDEO PLUS LYRICS)
    18 July 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Solidarity Forever (Tune: John Brown’s Body) (by Ralph Chaplin, January 1915 )(9th edition, 1916) When the Union’s inspiration through the workers’ blood shall run, There can be no power greater anywhere beneath the sun. Yet what force on earth is weaker than the feeble strength of one? But the Union makes us strong.
    Solidarity forever! Solidarity forever! Solidarity forever! For the Union makes us strong.
    Is there aught we hold in common with the greedy parasite Who would lash us into (…)

  • New attacks against Turkish Journalists and Trade Unionists
    24 May 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    New attacks against Turkish Journalists and Trade Unionists The socialist weekly periodical „Alinteri“ (Sweat of Labour) has been subject to new attacks. The official correspondent of „Alinteri“ in the Turkish capital Ankara has been detained by a police raid early this morning. The correspondent Sami gök was not the only one to be taken by the police, the President of Egitim Emekcileri Dernegi (Education Workers Union), Sefa Gokdemir, and 10 readers of „Alinteri“ newspaper are still under (…)

  • U.K. Civil Servants Strike, Shutting 200 Departments
    1 February 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Caroline Alexander
    Jan. 31 (Bloomberg) — U.K. civil servants began a 24-hour strike today, with 200,000 people protesting against job cuts, pay awards and the running of public services, in what may be the biggest walkout by government workers in almost 26 years.
    Those on strike today aren’t faceless bureaucrats or high-flying mandarins but people at the heart of public services providing the everyday things we take for granted,’’ Mark Serwotka, general secretary of the Public and (…)

  • Brad Will, New York Documentary Filmmaker and Indymedia Reporter, Assassinated
    28 October 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Brad Will, New York Documentary Filmmaker and Indymedia Reporter, Assassinated by Pro-Government Gunshot in Oaxaca While Reporting the Story
    Photographer Oswaldo Ramirez of the Daily Milenio Wounded in Attack by Shooters for Ulises Ruiz Ortiz in Santa Lucia El Camino
    By Al Giordano
    The Other Journalism with the Other Campaign in Chihuahua
    Brad Will, 36, a documentary filmmaker and reporter for Indymedia in New York, Bolivia and Brazil, died today of a gunshot (…)

  • Wal-Mart factory workers assaulted, fired for going on strike
    1 October 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Action urgently needed: Contact Wal-Mart now!
    Maquila Solidarity Network
    Workers producing clothes for Wal-Mart at the Korean-owned Chong Won Fashion garment factory in the Philippines desperately need your support to put a stop to their employers’ attempt to destroy their union through violence, mass firings and intimidation.
    This morning (September 27), a combined force of municipal and free trade zone police and private security guards attacked the strikers who were peacefully (…)

  • Health care reaches tipping point
    4 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Companies can no longer afford insurance; only government can
    by Ron Gettelfinger
    This Labor Day, you can find a solution to one of the most difficult problems facing American workers and employers by reading a single magazine article: "The Risk Pool," by Malcolm Gladwell, in the Aug. 28 issue of the New Yorker magazine.
    Examining the roots of our health care and pension dilemma, Gladwell reports that when General Motors and the United Auto Workers were negotiating in 1950, corporate (…)

  • Ignoring split, labor makes election push
    14 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Rival union federations agree to coordinate get-out-the-vote and other efforts for November.
    By Amanda Paulson
    CHICAGO - One year after America’s labor movement saw its largest schism in decades, unions are gearing up for a high-stakes political battle in November.
    It’s the first test of how the split between the AFL-CIO and the new seven-union Change to Win labor federation will affect the political activities of the labor movement. It’s also a chance for unions to demonstrate that (…)

  • Dorothy Healey, 91; Lifelong Communist Fought for Working People
    10 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Dennis McLellan
    Dorothy Healey, a onetime labor organizer, civil rights activist and Marxist radio commentator who was chairwoman of the Southern California district of the Communist Party USA from the late 1940s through the 1960s, has died. She was 91.
    Healey, dubbed "the Red Queen of Los Angeles" by headline writers during her heyday, died Sunday of pneumonia in the Greater Washington Hebrew Home, said her son, Richard. She had been a resident of Washington, D.C., since 1983.
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