US MOTOR WORKERS, UAW, STRIKE: STAND UP AND FIGHT! - YouTube The 2023 United Auto Workers strike in the USA has excited the interest of unionists internationally. After decades in which wages have slumped and union membership declined suddenly the American workers were striking, gaining 20% increases and workers are returning to trade unions again. What has caused this sudden upsurge in US … [Read more...]
THE BRITISH STRIKE WAVE
A Workers’ International Network meeting - June 2023 THE BRITISH STRIKE WAVE - YouTube The British working class is currently suffering the sharpest fall in living standards in living memory. Coming on top of more than a decade of ruthless cuts, the price of gas, electricity, staple foods and mortgages is soaring; food banks are collapsing; children are going hungry; and millions of … [Read more...]
WIN’s message of solidarity to the sacked Namibian Rossing Mineworkers
FROM WIN - Dear Comrade George Martin. I am writing on behalf of the Organising Committee of the Workers' International Network, to send you our solidarity and support for your heroic struggle. We condemn the action of the China National Uranium Corporation Limited in dismissing the Rossing branch executive committee of the Mineworkers’ Union of Namibia, and its record of … [Read more...]
THE UNITED FRONT
(63) THE UNITED FRONT - YouTube A WIN Discussion, March 2023. Throughout the world, workers are facing multiple threats: economic crisis, racism, fascism, climate catastrophe and war. There has never been a more urgent need to build in action a mass united front of the working class in defence of its interests. Our meeting this week will focus on some key lessons from the history … [Read more...]
Chinese Investment and Trade Union Rights
A Workers’ International Network meeting - March 2023 THE SUPPRESSION OF THE ROSSING MINERS: Chinese investment and trade union rights - YouTube In August 2020 Namibia's Rössing mine was bought up by China’s state-owned China National Uranium Corporation Limited (CNUC). Its first decisive act was to fire the branch executive committee of the Mineworkers’ Union of Namibia, … [Read more...]
SOLIDARITY WITH THE VICTIMISED WORKERS OF BELARUS
A WIN Discussion January 2023 (32) SOLIDARITY WITH THE VICTIMISED WORKERS OF BELARUS - A WIN Discussion, January 2023 - YouTube The world’s trade unions must commit their resources to supporting the workers of Belarus and their unions. To promote this appeal and provide up-to-date information, our meeting was addressed by Hanna Danilovich, the accredited international representative of … [Read more...]
LESSONS OF THE ONTARIO SCHOOL STRIKE
WIN Discussion November 2022 (1) LESSONS OF THE ONTARIO SCHOOL STRIKE - November 2022 - YouTube One of the most significant class struggles in recent times has been the historic strike of 55,000 super-exploited education workers in Ontario, Canada. In the course of their battle they defied a brutal threat to the most elementary rights of the working class, shutting down hundreds of … [Read more...]
A SPECIAL APPEAL – SUPPORT THE SOUTH AFRICAN DOCKERS’ STRIKE WITH RESOLUTIONS, MESSAGES OF SUPPORT AND A DONATION!
Comrades, in a historic development all docker unions in South Africa are now on strike against a miserable wage offer and in disgust with the corruption and mismanagement of state owned entities such as Transnet which has been bankrupted: now the workers are forced to make up these losses with no real wage increases. Urgent: please send personal and union resolutions and financial support to … [Read more...]
Workers Arise! The Fightback has Begun!
by Roger Silverman We’re witnessing the return of nightmares that we’d always been told had been relegated to ancient history. There had been no pandemics since the flu of 1918; no major slump since the great depression in the 1930s; no threat of world war since 1945; no fear of nuclear annihilation since the 1962 Cuban crisis; no trace of inflation since the 1970s. Just look now: plague; … [Read more...]
LESSONS OF THE BRITISH GENERAL STRIKE 1926
LESSONS OF THE BRITISH GENERAL STRIKE 1926 - A Workers’ International Network meeting - JULY 2022 - YouTube Hear from John Byrne, Former GEC Manchester Openshaw shop steward and member of AUEW District Committee, and former Manchester city councillor. After more than a decade of harsh cuts, facing a soaring inflation rate of 11% and an immediate threat to the food and fuel needs … [Read more...]