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international / environment / opinion / analysis Monday July 11, 2011 22:04 by Jonathan Payn 1 image
Across South America there is a growing movement – assuming different forms and characteristics, but with similar origins, demands and objectives – that, despite it being located at a strategically important intersection between two critical social issues – class struggle and ecology – seems to me to have received little attention in South African academic and activist circles. And this is true despite the fact that the social and economic conditions that gave rise to this movement prevail in South Africa, as they did – and continue to – in many South American countries. Perhaps this is due to the fact that this movement concerns people largely marginalised by industrial society and so-called ‘brown’ ecological issues – such as the pollution and contamination of rivers and dams surrounding poor communities, most acutely effecting the workers and poor – as opposed to the much more sanitary ‘green’ ecological issues – such as conservation and animal welfare – often associated, in South Africa at least, with liberal white activists from the middle and upper classes [1].
This is the movement of the catadores, as they are known in Brazil, and clasificadores in Uruguay; the recyclable waste pickers and sorters who, similarly to South Africa, constitute a growing informal sector in the industrial production cycle. This includes all people – not formally employed by public or private waste management services – who collect, transport, classify and sell recyclable waste for a living – or ‘work with scrap’ – thus “reducing demand for natural resources and reducing greenhouse gas emissions” [2]. A category of work which, according to the World Bank, is performed by 15 million people globally – or one percent of the world population [3] – and has become increasingly common in South Africa in recent years.
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internacional / la izquierda / non-anarchist press Monday July 11, 2011 21:18 by Heinz Dieterich
El sistema político de la Revolución Bolivariana es esencialmente carismático y bonapartista, mientras que el de la Revolución Cubana es básicamente racional-burocrático y tradicional. read full story / add a comment
ibérie / luttes en milieu de travail / déclaration de principes Monday July 11, 2011 21:15 by CGT-CNT-SO 1 comment (last - wednesday july 13, 2011 07:24) 1 image
Les organisations syndicales CGT, CNT, CSC et SO se sont réunies le 24 juin dernier à Madrid pour évaluer les réponses que nous devons opposer, par un processus de lutte coordonnée basé sur l’unité d’action et de classe, face à l’attaque sans précédent que les travailleurs et les travailleuses subissent du fait de la politique de coupes sociales et de perte de droits impulsée par le gouvernement et les institutions européennes, à la demande du patronat et des marchés. read full story / add a comment
southern africa / workplace struggles / opinion / analysis Monday July 11, 2011 20:22 by Lucien van der Walt and Ian Bekker 1 image
The biggest single strike since the 1994 parliamentary transition in South Africa showed the unions’ power. It won some wage gains, but it threw away some precious opportunities. We need to celebrate the strike, while learning some lessons:
• the need for more union democracy
• the need to use strikes to link workers and communities
• the need for working class autonomy
• the need to act outside and against the state
• the need to review our positions: against the Tripartite Alliance, for anarcho-syndicalism read full story / add a comment
south-east asia / community struggles / news report Monday July 11, 2011 19:11 by Sean Matthews 1 image
More than 20,000 people demonstrated for electoral reforms across Kuala Lumpur, the Malaysian capital, on Saturday in a rare protest that was declared illegal by police. The protest was called for by opposition groups, including the Coalition for Free and Fair Elections, Bersih. Police fired tear-gas and water cannons at demonstrators and arrested more than 1,400 people, including top opposition leaders, according to protest organisers. The activists' demands include an overhaul of voter registration lists, tougher measures to curb fraud and fairer opportunities for opposition politicians to campaign in government-linked media. Malaysia's next general election is planned due in 2013. [Français] [Italiano]
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bolivia / peru / ecuador / chile / education / comunicado de prensa Monday July 11, 2011 18:30 by Frente de Estudiantes Libertarios 1 image
En estos álgidos momentos de movilización social, donde la lucha por una educación digna y al servicio del pueblo convoca a amplios sectores sociales, y ante el anuncio emitido el día 5 de julio de 2011 por el presidente Piñera, el Frente de Estudiantes Libertarios de Chile declara lo siguiente: read full story / add a comment
iberia / economía / news report Monday July 11, 2011 05:52 by icea 1 image
Crónica de la conferencia “Crisis, recortes sociales y alternativas libertarias al capitalismo” read full story / add a comment |
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