By One Struggle One Struggle: Can you give me a brief description of what Batay Ouvriye* is and a little bit of the history of it? Batay Ouvriye: Batay Ouvriye is part of a whole current that had roots in Europe and the United States where many of the resistance, many of the leftist people, [...]
By Jan Makandal In Bangladesh, Haiti, Brazil, China, the U.S. and everywhere, workers are demanding wages that allow them to feed, house, clothe, and educate themselves and their families. Some on the Left argue that wage struggles are inherently reformist. The reality is that they can be either reformist or democratic (the latter as an [...]
Minimum wage protest in Port au Prince - Oct, 2012 BO is agitating to demand justice for beaten & fired Premium Apparel worker, Leo Vedél, and asks for your continued solidarity! Workers have been leafleting at Premium Apparel, as well as, all the factories in the area. Gédéon, the manager who beat Leo, [...]
On February 22, One Struggle (onestruggle.net) hosted an event, “Language Day of Bangladesh and the International Fight Against Imperialism,” at Florida International University in Miami. It consisted of a panel discussion followed by a cultural program. During the panel discussion, Irtishad Ahmad (FIU) provided historical background on the Bangladesh war of independence, illustrated with photographs. [...]
TELL GILDAN: STOP THE BEATING OF WORKERS WHO MAKE YOUR T-SHIRTS! Garment workers in Haiti are among the lowest paid and most oppressed in the world. The garments they produce are for export, for companies such as Walmart, Hanes, and Gildan. In October 2012, the minimum wage rose to 300 Goud ($7.06 US) per day. [...]
Charred human beings, mostly women, unrecognizable, burned to death behind locked doors. When alarms sounded, the bosses yelled that nothing was wrong. "Go back to work," they said. Outrage does not begin to encapsulate the reaction to the horrific deaths of garment workers in the Walmart-contracted Tazreen Fashions Ltd. Factory fire. One Struggle mourns the [...]
March 17, 2012 One Struggle, an autonomous, anti-capitalist/anti-imperialist collective in South Florida, condemns this past Tuesday’s Miami Police Department (MPD) raid on activists at the apartment complex at 540 NW 7th Avenue, aka Fort Peace. Photo by Chris Mazorra We express disbelief, at best, toward the claim, as reported in both Miami New [...]