Listen to an interview with Marcia as she gives details of her case here FROM IRELAND - DUBLIN COUNCIL OF TRADE COUNCILS Dublin Council of Trade Unions (DCTU) demands the immediate re-instatement of Marcia Kauatjitotje, a security surveillance operator with Eagle Night Watch at Husab uranium mine in Namibia. She had given evidence on behalf of workers at the recent Labour Tribunal in … [Read more...]
Archives for January 2024
Domestic Defiance: On Pakistan’s First Trade Union Federation for Home-Based Workers
A conversation with Zehra Khan on the founding of Pakistan’s first trade union for home-based women workers. In 2005, Zehra Khan, then a graduate student at the University of Karachi, began a research project with a fellow student on home-based workers in Pakistan’s textile and garments industry. They discovered that most of these workers were women, who contributed significantly to the country’s … [Read more...]
SUPPORT Marcia Kauatjitotje: VICTIMISED FOR TRUTH IN NAMIBIA
FIGHTING WOMAN VICTIMISED - Please see emails below to record messages of solidarity in opposition to the company and the labour commissioners. Marcia Kauatjitotje (37) Security Surveillance operator for Eagle Night Watch in Namibia has been victimized for telling the truth about exploitation and working conditions in the security company. Eagle Night Watch is a sub-contractor to Husab … [Read more...]
THE TAIWAN ELECTIONS: WHAT NOW?
A WIN discussion January 2024. See it here On Sunday January 13, presidential and parliamentary elections were held in Taiwan, in a very polarised atmosphere. The Western powers celebrated the victory of the pro-Western DPP (Democratic Progressive Party) candidate Lai Ching-te. Was this a major blow for China, or a pyrrhic victory for the DPP? Discussions about a possible military … [Read more...]
Internationalist Standpoint Bulletin – Can the International Court of Justice stop the massacre in Gaza?
A lot of people inside the movement that broke out in solidarity with the Palestinian people have turned their hopes to end the atrocities in Gaza to the International Court of Justice (ICJ). South Africa has filed a case demanding preliminary measures to be ordered from the Court, even if a case for Genocide needs years to be concluded.The presented case’s unfolding facts, are no other than what … [Read more...]
Internationalist Standpoint Bulletin – The political identity of the far-right or the far-right and identity politics
After more than 10 years of since the start of the economic crisis of ’07-’09 and precisely because of the inability of the bourgeois technocrats to find viable answers to the spiral of economic turbulence, traditional political representation is also in deep crisis. Center-left and center-right parties and government are crumbling, leaving the door open to new parties that emerge. At the same … [Read more...]
The Romanian Housing Movement
A WIN Zoom discussion, January 2024. See it HERE Rents are skyrocketing, real salaries are falling. Workers spend a big chunk of their income to pay for housing, while social housing projects are becoming scarcer. Inflation has pushed building materials up, and making buying a house a distant dream for most young people. Over-indebtedness means that a lot of people are losing their houses by … [Read more...]
SRI LANKA AT THE CROSSROADS
Sri Lanka at the Crossroads (youtube.com) Sri Lanka stands at a precipice. On the one hand, it grapples with the most severe economic crisis in its independent history. The worsening crisis is inflicting untold hardship on its people. The spectre of social unrest hangs heavy in the air. The economic fallout has ushered in a potential political sea change, drawing parallels to the revolutionary … [Read more...]
Ten Years of Belt & Road
Ten Years of Belt & Road (youtube.com) A WIN Discussion, January 2024. China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has probably channelled the biggest export of capital in the post WWII period. Although it started with great promise, a 10 year review now finds that developing countries are in as much debt to China as they have been to the IMF. BRI has been characterized by loans rather than … [Read more...]