Free David!
The IWW local of Bochum informs about industrial action in the greater Ruhr area, Germany.
Free David!
The Dangerous Truth About the ‘Nonlethal’ Weapons Used Against LA Protesters
https://buff.ly/hJkRE6D
All power to workers in LA who are resisting the terroristic campaigns being carried out on their neighbourhoods by ICE.
Thanks to @isaias_a7iv (ig handle) for letting us use their amazing photography.
Solidarity,
Clydeside IWW
Latest comic on "solving" the problem of fascism by insulting the very people trying to fight it.
"It's really hard to fathom that the guy making my pizza for 25 years is a gangster and a terrorist, and the person who shows up in an unmarked car wearing a mask and body armor comes to take him away is somehow the good guy”
Colombia’s labor unions participate in 48-hour strike in support of president’s labor referendum
Trump’s Vicious Attack on the American Mind https://robertreich.substack.com/p/trumps-attack-on-the-american-mind-1b0?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
#OtD 3 Jun 1924 Jewish socialist Czech author Franz Kafka died of tuberculosis in Austria. Connected with left libertarian circles in Prague, The Trial, his most famous work, is a masterful condemnation of state bureaucracy https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10196/kafka-dies
"Seen in this light, the tariffs are neither a more or less rational policy choice, nor solely an elaborate grift. They are part of a two-front, worldwide class war unfolding between national bourgeoisies, on the one hand, and between them and the proletarians of their respective countries on the other. That is, the tariffs are a recipe for a renewed ruling class offensive on the workers of the world against a backdrop of accelerating global decline. They express the economic breakdown of capitalist society in political form."
Jamie Merchant weighs in on the tariffs and their role within a wider nationalist-capitalist project on @heatwvmag.
Congratulations to everyone at Zenimax Workers United who took on tech giant #Microsoft and won!
After endless delays they will finally get the #union contract they fought for.
#Union power! ✊🏼✊🏻✊🏾
News coverage by Kotaku: https://kotaku.com/bethesda-devs-win-first-ever-union-contact-at-a-major-g-1851783142
This week's comic: Highly selective health nuts
A fantastic lesson in the ability of organised labour to resist and break an institution as powerful as the British Army. By refusing to transport munitions, weapons, and soldiers, railway workers brought the British war effort in Ireland to a standstill in 1920. The author also mentions the Algerian dockers in Oran who refused to load arms destined for the French colonial war in Indochina in 1949/50, and the power of such action could not be more necessary to halt the ongoing genocide in Gaza which is facilitated by Western arms.
Solidarity,
IWW Clydeside
The Irish Munitions Embargo of 1920 by Peter Rigney
#OtD 24 May 1968 the May 68 uprising in France peaked. 10 million workers were on strike with many occupying their factories. The city of Nantes and its surroundings were controlled by the workers. The state plotted repression. Artwork from the movement: https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/may-68
Latest comic: Beware of Glernog
This week's comic: A dangerous invasion of warblers, orioles, and hummingbirds
Solidarity Statement from IWW Poland and Allies with Kobanê https://iww.org.uk/news/solidarity-statement-from-iww-poland-and-allies/
This week's comic: A "manly" economy
#economy #oligarchy #gender #authoritarianism #labor #jobs #inequality #work