SOTA members in Haiti Beginning in mid September of 2011, a nascent Haitian garment workers’ union decided that in their continued efforts to defend and demand that their factories respect their basic democratic rights – they would go public. Within 2 weeks, spokespeople for Sendika Ouvriye Takstil ak Abiman (SOTA) were out of [...]
Issued by One Struggle, September 2011 Mass movements can not be conjured from thin air or willed into being, no matter how correct our ideas or determined our hearts. They arise in response to intolerable social problems, congeal through collective practice and theoretical work, and harden through continuous, escalating struggle. In the U.S., as in [...]
August 28th saw the conclusion of “the largest multinational training exercise in the world,” with 17+ countries and over 3,000 troops participating in a training operation to prepare against a serious military threat against the Panama Canal. Photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Elisandro Diaz Which begs the question….who the hell is threatening [...]
From Overthrowing the Profit System to Not For Profit Marc Luzietti makes a presentation about NGOs, 1/8/11 at Florida International University, North Miami. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2T3T-iI_Gtk?rel=0&w=420&h=315]
The crisis is global. It’s inside imperialist societies such as France, Spain and inside societies dominated by imperialism such as Greece, Haiti. In the U.S., the recent economic crisis is more structural than any previous crises excluding that of the civil war. The ideologues of the bourgeoisie, as well as from the Democratic and Republican [...]