Class Struggle

Missouri Unions Add 47,000 Members, Putting Total At A 15-Year High

January 25, 2020 David Nicklaus, Stltoday.com Educate! Class Struggle, Labor Unions, Missouri, Workers Rights and Jobs

The defeat of a right-to-work law in 2018 seems to have given Missouri's unions a boost. Their membership grew by 46,000 last year, bucking a downward national trend. The increase boosted the state's union membership to 297,000 people, the highest number since 2004. Union members now make up 11.1% of the state's workforce, the highest percentage since 2008.

Chile: Three Months After The Anti-neoliberal Rebellion

January 25, 2020 Pablo Sepúlveda Allende, La Jornada, translation, Resumen Latinoamericano, North America bureau Resist! Chile, Class Struggle, Latin America, Neoliberalism

From there on began the collapse of the myth of the successful Chilean model. The oasis was just a mirage. The main window of neoliberalism was broken and surrounded by barricades, erected by high school students and an entire people who had been in debt and humiliated for decades.Yesterday marked three months since the social outburst of October 18. That day a Chile woke up from an overdose of sedatives and painkillers. It woke up and started to meet again.

Scores Wounded As Security Forces, Protesters Clash In Beirut

January 20, 2020 Staff, Reuters.com Resist! Class Struggle, Lebanon, Protests, Repression

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Cat-and-mouse clashes between Lebanon’s security forces and protesters wounded scores of people on a night of violence that rocked central Beirut on Saturday. Riot police fired tear gas and water cannon, chasing protesters armed with tree branches and sign posts in a commercial district near Lebanon’s parliament. Crowds spilled on to the streets this week after a lull in largely peaceful protests which broke out in October. They are furious at a ruling elite that has steered the country towards its worst economic crisis in decades.

How India Became Fascist, And Why Pockets Of Resistance Matter

January 13, 2020 Isaac K. Oommen, Towardfreedom.org Resist! Class Struggle, Fascism, India

A number of years ago, I was visiting my native Kerala to celebrate finishing my Master’s. My driver from the airport to my town was a family friend from the Nair caste. The Nairs were Kshatriya (warriors) that were integral to the resistance against the British. They invented the world’s oldest martial art, Kalaripayattu, which was so deadly that the British declared it illegal to carry the Kalari arms in 1804.

French Unions Battle Macron In Make-Or-Break Pension Protest

January 10, 2020 Tangi Salaün and Caroline Pailliez, Uk.reuters.com Resist! Class Struggle, France, Labor Unions, Pensions, Protests

Teargas swirled in Paris where riot police charged at demonstrators who hurled projectiles and lobbed insults in cat-and-mouse skirmishes as darkness fell. Some protesters dressed in black and hiding their faces daubed anarchist slogans on buildings and the windows of several properties, including a Starbucks cafe, were smashed. The country’s hard-left unions rallied supporters hoping to regain momentum at a time when participation in a 36-day long public sector strike has waned and opinion polls show public backing for the industrial action has dropped.

Strategy, Tactics, And Organizing

January 8, 2020 Glen Perusek, Stansburyforum.com Strategize! Class Struggle, History, Strikes

My friend and comrade Glenn Perusek enlisted me in 2016 to co-teach courses in the Building Trade Academy (BTA). The BTA is housed at Michigan State University; it serves the affiliates of the North America’s Building Trades Unions (NABTU). We teach a series of four-day courses on basic organizing skills and planning. One of the issues for all trade unionists is understanding the difference between strategy and tactics. Glenn wrote this fine exposition on the differences between the two and their application to the work of organizing...

Protest Has Helped Define The First Two Decades Of The 21st Century – Here’s What’s Next

January 8, 2020 Feyzi Ismail, Theconversation.com Resist! Class Struggle, Mass Movement, Protests

The first two decades of the 21st century saw the return of mass movements to streets around the world. Partly a product of sinking confidence in mainstream politics, mass mobilisation has had a huge impact on both official politics and wider society, and protest has become the form of political expression to which millions of people turn. 2019 has ended with protests on a global scale, most notably in Latin America, the Middle East and North Africa, Hong Kong and across India, which has recently flared up against Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Citizenship Amendment Act.

French Public On Our Side, Says Defiant Union Boss Four Weeks Into Strike

January 3, 2020 Staff, France24.com Resist! Class Struggle, France, Labor Unions, Strikes

The head of a hardline French trade union on Friday vowed to press on with a crippling strike that has dampened the festive season, with the stoppages becoming the longest-lasting such action since the 1980s. The strike against pension reforms championed by President Emmanuel Macron began on December 5 and has seen most of the Paris metro shut down ever since and only a fraction of inter-city trains running. The union stoppage is now longer than the notorious 22-day strike of the winter of 1995 under late president Jacques Chirac, which forced the then government into a U-turn on welfare cutbacks.

Thousands Of Chileans Receive The New Year With Protests

January 2, 2020 Staff, Wp.telesurtv.net Resist! Chile, Class Struggle, Latin America, Protests

On the day, protesters made an altar to honor Mauricio Fredes, who died Friday after falling into a water pit when he escaped the repression unleashed by police. Thousands of Chileans returned to fill Plaza Dignidad, in Santiago, Chile, to receive the New Year with a massive dinner and facing the repression of the militarized police of Carabineros, in the framework of the anti- government protests that last for more than two months.

French Strike: Electricity Workers Light Poor Homes On Christmas, Cut-Off Power To Police And Big Business

December 31, 2019 By Salvador Soler, Kaosenlared.net Resist! Class Struggle, Electricity, France, Strikes

Since the beginning of the strike on December 5, electricians and energy workers maintain power outages against Macron's pension reform. A method of struggle that exposes the strength of the workers and the strategic place they occupy, with the possibility of paralyzing government buildings and large companies with power outages. While the strike has had a greater impact among workers of the SNCF (railway), the RATP (metropolitan transport company in Paris), the National Education or even health, energy workers are not far behind.

The Thick Blue Line: How The United States Became The World’s Police Force

December 26, 2019 Patrick Blanchfield, Blackagendareport.com Educate! Class Struggle, Communisim, History, US Imperialism

The first test call using America’s 911 emergency system was placed on February 16, 1968. To fanfare in the press, a state legislator sitting in the City Hall of the small Alabama town of Haleyville dialed in to the local police station. His call was answered by a group of august notables—a US representative, a telephone-company executive, and president of the Alabama Public Service Commission Theophilus Eugene Connor. Better remembered today by his nickname, “Bull” Connor was an outspoken white supremacist who believed desegregation was a communist plot...

France Strike Update: “Prepare The General Strike!”

December 23, 2019 Staff, Socialistorganizer.org Resist! Class Struggle, France, Labor Unions, Strikes

More than a daily newspaper, Le Monde is an institution of the Fifth Republic. In this capacity, the paper is always on the look-out for the slightest signal that indicates the re-establishing of capitalism’s “order”…in other words, an end to the strike action. So it was delighted to feature this headline today, 20 December: “Pensions reform: the government causes a crack in the trade union front before Christmas”.

France Records 391-Mile Traffic Jam As Public Transport Brought To Halt By Third Week Of Strikes Over Pension Changes

December 19, 2019 Staff, Itv.com Resist! Class Struggle, France, Pensions, Strikes, Workers Rights and Jobs

A traffic jam of 391 miles was recorded on the outskirts of Paris on Monday morning as fresh strikes over pension changes brought public transport to a standstill in France for a third week. President Emmanuel Macron’s government appeared determined to push ahead with its plans despite the French transport strikes causing widespread disruption as they enter their twelfth day. In the Paris region only two Metro automated trains with no drivers were fully running as the other 14 metro lines remained closed or only very partially running.

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