by ISHITA DEY – Delhi Delhi – the national capital of India is rocked by protests from student organisations, various groups and individuals pouring in India Gate – a place in close proximity to Rashtrapati Bhavan and other centres of power. People have taken to the streets to protest against the gang rape of a 23 year old student on …
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The struggles against the Troika-Regime: Crisis – what Crisis?
by THOMAS SEIBERT – Interventionistische Linke (… out of the Interventionistische Linke, not for the Interventionistische Linke…) My talk is divided into three parts: first a brief ascertainment of what I consider to be the problem of the EU policies aimed at resolving the crisis. Then a somewhat longer ascertainment of our own problem. In closing, an even longer part in …
continua a leggereDie Kämpfe gegen das Troika-Regime: Krise – welche Krise?
THOMAS SEIBERT – Interventionistische Linke (…aus der Interventionistische Linke, nicht für die Interventionistische Linke) Mein Vortrag gliedert sich in drei Teile: Erst eine kurze Bestimmung dessen, was ich für das Problem der Krisenlösungspolitik der EU halte. Dann eine etwas längere Bestimmung unseres eigenen Problems. Schließlich ein noch etwas längerer Teil, in dem ich mich zwei Lösungsvorschlägen nähern will. Ich denke, dass …
continua a leggere«No retreat». Exploitation and struggles of the new working class, migrant and precarious, in China. An interview with Pun Ngai
by GIORGIO GRAPPI – published in Italian on «il Manifesto», December 13, 2012 We interviewed Pun Ngai, a major scholar of the transformations of labour relationships in contemporary China, in the occasion of the recent translation in Italian of a collection of essays on the struggles of migrant workers in China. Pun Ngai’s studies provides a fundamental view of a …
continua a leggere14N: contestation, rage and moving time
With a reasoned delay, we publish a small dossier concerning the 14N day of European mobilisation and strike. Beyond this short introductory text, the dossier collect contributions from Greece, Spain and Portugal. We chose not to intervene immediately, insofar as our aim is to discuss critically about what happened, and what was missing, on November 14. On 14th of November …
continua a leggereDelayed reflections from Greece, for a strike that wasn’t
by CHRISTOS GIOVANOPOULOS – Dikaioma, network of precarious and unemployed workers, Athens The 14N European day of coordinated trade union protests against the austerity measures made headlines in the Greek media and mobilised strongly the Greek police at the day. Their motion to shut down the Syntagma sq. metro station in Athens, for what it proved to be a quite …
continua a leggereMadrid: complex movements of a strike along time
by DAVID GARCÍA ARISTEGUI – Solidaridad Obrera, Madrid This 14N was called by the quasi-totality of trade unionism. There might be a different perception by the left from outside Spain, since rather influential media – like Diagonal or Madrilonia – within what we call, to simplify, the 15M movement tried to minimise the trade unions’ role and to aggrandise the …
continua a leggereGeneral strike and mass-protest in Portugal… and the limits of mobilization
by ISMAIL KÜPELI – Porto Updating and revision of the article published in the October edition of Analyse&Kritik As in March 2012, only the CGTP, the communist trade union, called the strike on the 14th November, after the Spanish trade unions and the European Trade Union Confederation called for a day of mobilization for the 14th of November. The social-democratic …
continua a leggereMadrid: movimientos complejos de una huelga en el tiempo
DAVID GARCÍA ARISTEGUI – Solidaridad Obrera, Madrid Este 14N ha sido convocado por casi todo el espectro del sindicalismo. Puede que haya una percepción distinta para la izquierda de fuera de España, ya que medios bastante influyentes en lo que llamamos, por simplificar, movimiento 15M – como Diagonal o Madrilonia – han intentado minimizar el papel de los sindicatos y …
continua a leggereGeneralstreiks sowie Massenproteste in Portugal… und die Grenzen der Mobilisierungen
von ISMAIL KÜPELI – Porto Überarbeiteter Artikel, der zuerst in der Oktoberausgabe von analyse & kritik veröffentlicht wurde Wie bereits im März 2012 hatte lediglich die CGTP, die kommunistische Gewerkschaft, zum Streik am 14. November aufgerufen. Der sozialdemokratische Gewerkschaftsverband UGT hatte im Vorfeld erklärt, dass er sich nicht beteiligen wird. Nachdem spanische Gewerkschaften ebenfalls für den 14. November zu einem …
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