Class Struggle

The Sudan Uprising: “This Is A People’s Revolution”

January 24, 2019 By Mohammed Elnaiem, Roarmag.org Resist! Class Struggle, Protests, Sudan, Uprising

If a hospital is not a sanctuary for an injured person, what is? And what level of hatred, what kind of viciousness can be satisfied by the attempt to ensure that a protester die twice? On January 9, riot police, plain-clothed Bashir loyalists, and security forces fired tear gas and live bullets into the Omdurman Teaching Hospital in Sudan after wounded protesters were taken there during the biggest protest to date demanding the downfall of the regime. As clouds of chemicals suffocated the wounded, the hospital staff had to improvise — they emptied oxygen tanks into the room to clear out the CS gas.

Companies, Union Appeal For Federal Intervention Against Strike In Matamoros

January 24, 2019 Staff, Wsws.org Resist! Class Struggle, Mexico, Strikes, Workers

On Tuesday, the corporations sent appeals to president Andrés Manuel López Obrador (known as AMLO) to intervene directly through both repression and by appealing to workers to accept a rotten compromise. nThe Business Coordinating Council (CCE), which includes the largest employer groups in Mexico, sent a communiqué to López Obrador that read, “Appealing to your mandate and authority we ask for your intervention since this moment of instability that the labor and business sectors live in Matamoros can bring irreversible consequences for the region’s economy.”

UTLA Reaches Bargaining Deal With District

January 23, 2019 Staff, Utla.net Educate! Class Struggle, Los Angeles, Strikes, Teachers, Unions

After six days on strike along with parents, students and community members across Los Angeles, we have reached a historic agreement that addresses major issues impacting our schools, students and professions. Below are links to the full text and summary of that agreement, which the UTLA Board of Directors endorses for a YES vote.

Thousands Of Striking Matamoros, Mexico Workers March To Border To Appeal To US Workers

January 23, 2019 Alex Gonzalez, Wsws.org Resist! Class Struggle, Labor, March, Workers

The strike by 70,000 “maquiladora” workers in Matamoros, Mexico has entered its second week and continues to intensify each day. Yesterday, workers held a protest titled “A Day Without Workers” to demonstrate that it is the working class—not the unions or the bosses—that generates all of society’s wealth. Photos circulating on social media showed deserted factories and union bureaucrats struggling to keep production lines operating after workers put down their tools en masse. Over 50 factories have now stopped production as a result of the strike, costing corporations an estimated $100 million over the course of one week.

Shutdown Exposes How Many Americans Live Paycheck To Paycheck

January 22, 2019 By William Rivers Pitt, Truthout.org Educate! Class Struggle, Government Shutdown, Wages, Workers

Today marks the two-year anniversary of Donald Trump’s inauguration, and we have learned some hard lessons in the interval. The ongoing, historically unprecedented shutdown of the federal government has exposed Trump as one of the worst deal-makers ever to stand up in two shoes. It has further exposed the Republican Party’s bottomless disdain for marginalized people through its craven refusal to contain the man who has unleashed all this misery. It has exposed deep fissures in Trump’s once-unbreakable base as more and more of his supporters — battered by tariffs and now the shutdown — come to correctly believe they’ve been played for chumps.

Davos: Oxfam Reports The Gap Between Rich And Poor Grows, Fuels Global Anger

January 22, 2019 Hereward Holland, News.trust.org Educate! Class Struggle, Inequality, Ruling Class

NAIROBI, Jan 21 (Reuters) - Tax systems that put a high burden on the poor mean public services are underfunded, stretching the gap between rich and poor and fuelling global public anger, Winnie Byanyima, executive director of Oxfam International, said on Monday. The Nairobi-headquarted charity said in a report that a new billionaire was created every two days last year, just as the poorest half of the world's population saw their wealth decline by 11 percent. The report, released on Monday as political and business leaders gather for the annual World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, said governments are increasingly underfunding public services and failing to clamp down on tax dodging.

Federal Workers: Shutdown And Out

January 21, 2019 Saurav Sarkar, Labornotes.org Educate! Class Struggle, Government, Government Shutdown, Slavery, Wages, Workers

What would you do if management could force you to work without pay, lock you out with no consequences, and fire you for going on strike? That’s the situation facing 800,000 federal workers—and their unions—during the longest government shutdown in U.S. history. Forty percent of the government’s civilian workforce besides postal workers are being deprived of money to pay for rent, gas, groceries, and car and student loan payments. They include 420,000 workers who are being forced to work without pay and 380,000 who are locked out. The shutdown is the result of President Trump’s demand that Congress fund an anti-immigrant wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. Democrats in Congress are refusing to go along with the idea.

The Radical Worker Politics Of The Los Angeles Teacher Strike

January 21, 2019 Jared Sacks, Roarmag.org Resist! Class Struggle, Education, Los Angeles, Strikes, Teachers

Depending on one’s capacity for optimism, 2018 either foretold the rebirth of labor militancy in the United States or, conversely, suggested the last gasp of a movement that has been in near-terminal decline since the 1970s. Two key events took place last year, which, per one’s analysis, have led to opposing predictions for workers in the US. First, in February 2018, after years of austerity under Republican control, West Virginia teachers and school personnel decided to go on strike. But this was no conventional work stoppage. In West Virginia, teachers are considered providers of “essential services”, making any strike action illegal...

Gilets Jaunes: Catalyst For A Global Movement?

January 18, 2019 By Gilbert Mercier, Newsjunkiepost.com Resist! Class Struggle, France, Protests, Yellow Vest

France is at a crossroad. A fairly benign bread-and-butter protest has turned into a major popular dissent putting in question France’s political system. It is new, unheard of, and because we live in the digital age, with immediate communication, the world is not only watching, but there is a contagious factor to it, which in the Anglo-Saxon world is called “Yellow Vests Movement”. In what could be a healthy contagion of a social yellow fever of dissent, this polymorphic movement has already spread to 25 countries and counting. In the immediate vicinity of France, of course, in countries such as Belgium, The Netherlands, Germany, Spain, but also while not clearly identified as Gilets Jaunes chapters in Hungary, Bulgaria and Serbia.

Mexico Faces Largest Strike In North America, 70,000 Sweatshop Auto Workers

January 18, 2019 Staff, Wsws.org Resist! Class Struggle, Mexico, Strikes, Sweatshops, Workers

As new manufacturing plants join the growing strike in Matamoros, Mexico, over 70,000 workers are confronting threats of mass firings and plant closures by the employers and advancing their fight against social inequality. Amid a media blackout by Mexican and international outlets, the ruling class has demonstrated a profound fear that the rebellion by Matamoros sweatshop workers who produce auto parts and other goods supplying the main auto companies in North America, Europe and Asia will inspire workers to take up the same fight in the rest of the industrial belt along the US-Mexico border and spill over across the North American continent and beyond.

L.A. School Board Member Breaks Ranks To Support Striking Teachers, Blames Beutner As District Losses Mount

January 18, 2019 Erick Galindo, Lataco.com Resist! Class Struggle, Education, Los Angeles, Schools, Strikes, Teachers

The teachers strike is happening because of Superintendent Austin Beutner and School Board policy of not contradicting him publicly during the negotiations, according to L.A. Unified School Board Member Scott M. Schmerelson. “I believe that there are resources available to end this strike,” Schmerelson said in a statement. “What I do not see from Austin Beutner, and his supporters, is the political will to substitute constructive negotiations for the fear mongering, expensive taxpayer funded ads, slanted editorials, and endless press conferences.” Schmerelson’s statement comes on the heels of news that school attendance dropped 22 percent from already tiny numbers the previous two days.

Billionaires Vs. LA Schools

January 17, 2019 Eric Blanc, Jacobinmag.com Educate! Class Struggle, Education, Los Angeles, Ruling Class, Strikes, Teachers

Unlike many labor actions, the Los Angeles teachers’ strike is not really about wages or benefits. At its core, this is a struggle to defend public schools against the privatizing drive of a small-but-powerful group of billionaires. The plan of these business leaders is simple: break-up the school district into thirty-two competing “portfolio” networks, in order to replace public schools with privately run charters. As firm believers in the dogmas of market fundamentalism, these influential downsizers truly believe that it’s possible to improve education by running it like a private business.

French Worker Sentenced To Six Months’ Jail Over Facebook Call For Demonstrations

January 17, 2019 Will Morrow, Wsws.org Resist! Class Struggle, France, Protests, Repression, Surveillance, Workers

On Tuesday, January 8, 28-year-old protester Hedi Martin was sentenced to six months’ jail without parole at a correctional tribunal in the southern town of Narbonne. His sole “crime” was to have published a Facebook post on January 2 that called for a “yellow vest” blockade of the petrol refinery at Port-la-Nouvelle. Police arrested him in the early hours of January 3, shortly after he published the post. The statements of the state prosecutor and judge at Martin’s hearing made clear that the jailing is aimed at intimidating calls for protests.

Sickouts Spread, Impact Widens As US Shutdown Enters Fourth Week

January 16, 2019 Rebecca Campbell, Wsws.org Resist! Airport, Class Struggle, Government, Workers

The impact of the longest government shutdown in US history continues to ripple across the economy as more than 800,000 federal workers and many thousands more government contractors try to cope with missed paychecks. Spontaneous sickouts by Transportation Security Administration (TSA) screeners led this weekend to the closure of terminals and checkpoints at two airports, Miami International Airport Friday through Sunday and Houston’s Bush Airport on Sunday. The rate of unscheduled leave for TSA workers, among the lowest paid of federal employees, is increasing across the country. On Saturday, officials admitted that nearly eight percent of the 51,000 TSA workforce failed to report to work.

India General Strike 2019

January 16, 2019 By Jamie Woodcock, Notesfrombelow.org Resist! Class Struggle, General Strike, India, Labor, Strikes, Workers

In Bangalore the strike was strong, shutting down transportation across the city. On the 8th of January, the unions called for a demonstration outside the town hall. There was the visible presence of transport workers (mainly bus drivers), factory workers (particularly aerospace), and bank workers, who joined a lively picket from across the road. While the weather reached around 30 celsius, the demo grew more and more packed. Police officers in tan uniforms, equipped with helmets and large batons, kept their distance at the edge of the demo.

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