History & Anniversaries
US: 75th anniversary of 1936 auto sit down strikes
When workers shut down GM
Month: August 2011
USA
US: Teamster leadership betrays Union Drive at FedEx Ground
SocialistAlternative.org interviewed a package handler, "Steven" at FedEx in Brockton, Massachusetts, who led a union drive with his co-workers.
History & Anniversaries
20 years on: Attempted putsch in the Soviet Union
Attempted Stalinist counter-revolution speeds up capitalist counter-revolution
Australia
Australia: Coalition attacks public sector workers in New South Wales
Premier of New South Wales (NSW) want to "take on" public sector
Britain
Britain: Tell the TUC – call a 24-hour public sector general strike!
National Shop Stewards Network (NSSN) is organising a lobby of this year’s TUC (Britain’s trade union confederation) conference in London, 11 September
Kazakhstan
Ireland: Report from Protest in Solidarity with Kazakh Oil Strikers
A protest took place in Dublin on the 12th of August in solidarity with striking oil workers in Kazakhstan who are engaged in a 3 month long strike against Kazmuniagas.
India
India: Bangalore garment workers woes and challenges ahead
The life of half a million garment workers in Bangalore is nothing but a hellish existence.
Hong Kong
Hong Kong: Right of abode conflict – a socialist standpoint
Fight racism • United struggle needed against neo-liberalism and capitalism
Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan: ‘Evidence’ fabricated against opposition leaders Ainur Kurmanov and Esenbek Ukteshbaev
Prisoners’ campaigner, Vadim Kuramshin, arrested twice in 3 days
Britain
Britain: Con-Dems to blame for anger of youth
Mass, trade union-led response needed