Behind the camouflage; a new strike wave in the Bangladeshi garment sector
Submitted by Red Marriott on Dec 31 2016 17:45
Following a period of relative quiet after the 2013 Rana Plaza factory disaster, new struggles emerge from the garment factories.
Bloodshed in Bayonne
Submitted by Tom McDonough on Oct 4 2016 17:35
October 8, 2016 is the 100th anniversary of the strike at Standard Oil’s Bayonne, N.J., refineries. In the course of the ten-day strike, 4 people were killed and 86 wounded. The free press demonstrated collusion between the corporation and the city authorities in what John Reed described as a police riot. Yet, not a word of this is mentioned in the Rockefeller biographies.
West Germany: Censorship and Repression in the Model State
In West Germany, repression is now 'democratically' sanctioned and seen as a model for other countries to adopt.
What Problems in Bolivarian Venezuela? What Tumeremo Massacre?
Submitted by Crossly on Apr 1 2016 22:17
While the left press continues to praise the "Bolivarian Revolution," it has brought the country to the edge of a humanitarian disaster. Here are just a few of the problems, and not even the major ones. And then there's the Tumeremo massacre...
If a strike turns you into a Tory, you probably were one anyway
Submitted by Phil on Aug 5 2015 16:11
In the Guardian, Jonathan Jones laments that workers standing up for themselves is getting in the way of him looking at art. Here are five reasons why he’s talking out of his arse and you should support the strikers.
Responding to Evening Standard bollocks on the tube strike
Submitted by Ed on Jul 8 2015 22:21
A commuter's rant about the (unsurprisingly) anti-worker coverage of the tube strike by the Evening Standard.
On freedom of the press - Karl Marx
Karl Marx on censorship.
A proletarian note: Charlie Hebdo - Hamid Moradei
Already with Khomeini’s Fatwa crisis surrounding Salman Rushdie and the Mujahidin deafening Russian army in Afghanistan, we could justifiably described a new emerging conflict zone between the Islamic periphery and the center of capitalist world: In fact, Islamism was taking an global characteristic.
Charlie Hebdo
Submitted by Phil on Jan 9 2015 18:25
Earlier this week, gunmen attacked the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and murdered several of its cartoonists. Some thoughts on the various issues that have arisen out of this event.
Wobblies call for Morning Star boycott
Submitted by Anonymous on Sep 23 2014 09:05
Clydeside branch of the Industrial Workers' of the World (IWW) union call for a boycott of leftist daily newspaper the Morning Star over allegations of mishandling domestic abuse reporting.
