Interview on the strike wave in Mexico
Ray Valentine interviews Patrick Cuninghame, a History and Sociology lecturer at the Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana (UAM) in Mexico City, about the strike wave in Mexico this year. The strikes started in Matamoros, among workers in maquiladoras (assembly plants), and later spread to seven universities, including UAM. This interview was first published on the Organizing Work blog.
Amazon: A new business model better able to manage the contradictions of the capitalist mode of production
An attempt to understand the functioning of one the world's most powerful companies using marxist categories - explaining how Amazon manages to combine the functions of productive, comercial and finance capital. The intention is, of course, to try to work out the implications for class strugle...
New trade union bureaucracies or rank-and-file workers’ power? Lessons of the Matamoros workers’ rebellion: Part one
Submitted by Soapy on Mar 30 2019 14:03
Two months after workers launched wildcat strikes in the Mexican city of Matamoros, 89 “maquiladora” factories, mostly in the auto parts, electric, and metallurgical industries, have agreed to workers’ demands for a 20 percent raise and a bonus of 32,000 pesos (US$1,655)—half of the average yearly salary. The strike wave has become known across Mexico as the “20/32 movement.”
Mexico: Metalworkers, universities join strike wave as 90,000 Walmart workers threaten to walk out
Submitted by Soapy on Feb 28 2019 12:03
Dozens of maquiladora plants that agreed to the “20-32”—a 20 percent raise and a bonus of 32,000 pesos (US$1,700)—demanded by workers in Matamoros, Mexico, are escalating their reprisals against the historic wave of strikes that began in the city on January 12. This has included thousands of firings.
Mexican workers take matters into their own hands
Submitted by Soapy on Feb 14 2019 16:51
Largest North American strike wave in decades grows. Rebellion exposes union betrayal, is met with repression from “left-wing” government and a near total media blackout.
WorkersWildWest no.8 - A local working class newspaper from west-London
Submitted by AngryWorkersWorld on Nov 30 2018 17:12
A local working class newspaper: spreading work-place and struggle reports and propagating revolution. Get involved in local distribution or set up your own papers. Comments welcome - stick it to the man!
School for Syndicalism
Submitted by Kate Sharpley on Sep 11 2018 19:30
An eyewitness account of the shop stewards' movement on Tyneside during the first world war.
1968-1969: Pakistani students, workers, and peasants bring down a dictator
Submitted by Reddebrek on Jul 10 2018 19:03
An account of the waves of strikes and protests against the inequality, brutality and corruption of Pakistans military dictatorship.
The present technological revolution and the emergence of postcapitalist social relations
I will address three sets of questions:
First: is there a technological revolution, and in this case, what does it consist of?
Second: is there currently an emergence of a new type of social relations because of this revolution?
Third question: what consequences such a reality may have for a revolutionary perspective?
WCH E1: The Grunwick strike, 1976
Interview with Amrit Wilson and Grunwick 40 about the iconic strike of East African Asian women in London in the 1970s.
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