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Workers struggle in USA in 2009
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The Black Movement in the USA
22 March 2009, by Robert Paris"Revolutions overturn systems."
MALCOLM X
“ . . . Back during slavery, when Black people like me talked to the slaves, they didn’t kill ‘em, they sent some old house Negro along behind him to undo what he said. You have to read the history of slavery to understand this. “ . . .There were two kinds of Negroes. There was that old house Negro and the field Negro. And the house Negro always looked out for his master. When the field Negro got too much out of line, he held (...) -
Canadian auto-workers occupy factory
20 March 2009, by Robert ParisSubmitted by Ed on Mar 19 2009
A group of disgruntled workers at a recently closed auto parts supply company in Windsor, Ontario have taken over the plant.
In the latest twist in a saga that has been brewing since two auto plants in the area shut down early last week, about a dozen workers occupied the Aradco plant Tuesday night. They have welded the doors shut from the inside and say they will not leave until they get what they are owed.
Work at the Aradco plant stopped last week (...) -
the release of Mr. Yao Fuxin, a labour activist from Liaoning province
20 March 2009, by Robert Paris18 March 2009:
The ITUC, together with the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a joint programme of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), welcomes the release of Mr. Yao Fuxin, a labour activist from Liaoning province, after serving his seven years’ prison term on conviction of “subversion of State power”.
On March 16, 2009, Mr. Yao Fuxin was released from Lingyuan n°2 Prison, Liaoning province, (...) -
Notes on Dialectics: PART II The Hegelian Logic C L R James on Hegel
14 March 2009The Doctrine of Being
PRELIMINARY EXERCISES
You know, as I propose to myself to begin the actual Logic, I feel a slight chill. The Doctrine of Being. Harris, who ultimately wrote a very fine work on the Hegelian Logic, was a professor of philosophy and lecturer on Hegel at second-hand. Brockmeyer, Governor of Missouri, made a translation of the larger Logic and someone gave it to Harris. Harris says that he copied out the thing with his own hand, the whole thing, and when he was (...) -
by Leon Sapir The Colonial Question: Strikes In South Africa
14 March 2009, by Robert Parisby Leon Sapir
The Colonial Question: Strikes In South Africa
From a Comrade in Johannesburg
Revolutionary activity amongst the masses of in South Africa is centred in Johannesburg, the largest city. Here there have recently been two strikes, both held by purely native trade unions and in both the Workers’ Party of South Africa (Trotskyist) has played its part.
The first strike was called on December the 2nd last by the natives employed in the Laundry industry in Johannesburg. Of (...) -
Grandizo Munis The Programme of the Spanish Bolshevik-Leninists
14 March 2009, by Robert ParisGrandizo Munis
The Programme of the Spanish Bolshevik-Leninists
(July 1937)
The group, only eight people altogtlher, left after the entry of the Izquierda Communista into the POUM, put out La Voz Leninista and three issues of its journal. (During this period of demoralisation the Spanish Trotskyists had split, the other group putting out a paper called El Soviet.) The money for this actually came from Leon Narvitch, an agent of the GPU who had penetrated the Spanish Trotskyists after (...) -
Grandizo Munis Observations on the Guerrillas
14 March 2009, by Robert ParisGrandizo Munis
Observations on the Guerrillas
(March 1944)
Comrade Munis points out in this article the character and limitations of guerrilla movements and struggles. He emphasizes correctly that “The place for revolutionists is in the factories.” In an article published in the October issue of the Fourth International, The Real Situation In France by our Paris Correspondent, the writer relates that “the Stalinists urged the workers to leave the factories and join the Maquis, where (...) -
Felix Morrow Anarchism in Spain
14 March 2009Felix Morrow
Anarchism in Spain
(January 1938)
The appearance of Rudolf Rocker’s The Tragedy of Spain warrants a proposal to the anarchists of the English-speaking world for a basic discussion of the role of anarchism in the Spanish revolution. As events dictate, Rocker’s pamphlet is in large part a damning indictment of the bourgeois-Stalinist counter-revolution. We subscribe to every jot and tittle of that indictment. Our comrades throughout the world have undertaken as their (...) -
Felix Morrow The Italian Revolution
14 March 2009Felix Morrow
The Italian Revolution
(September 1943)
1. The Anglo-US Policy of Counter-Revolution
The future of Italy cannot be considered apart from that of Europe as a whole: the survival of its peoples, not to speak of progress, requires the Socialist United States of Europe. Two world wars have demonstrated that national sovereignty under private property means mass suicide. Between the two wars the industrialized nations—Germany, France, England, Belgium—could not find markets (...)