Submitted by luxnet23 on Sat, 10/23/2010 - 00:00
By Lili Gomez and Eric Lerner
Why these demands now?
Submitted by luxnet23 on Sun, 05/02/2010 - 00:00
"When the proletariat discovers that its own externalized power collaborates in the constant reinforcement of capitalist society, not only in the form of its labor but also in the form of unions, of parties, or of the state power it had built to emancipate itself, it also discovers from concrete historical experience that it is the class totally opposed to all congealed externalization and all specialization of power. It carries the revolution which cannot let anything remain outside of itself..."
Guy Debord, Society of the Spectacle, § 114
Submitted by luxnet23 on Sat, 11/01/2008 - 00:00
The European Union has launched the biggest attack of its history against the working class. The 65-hour directive, the anti-immigrant directive, the Bolkestein directive and the Bologna Plan are part of single plan to reduce the cost of labor, to transfer wealth from labor to capital. If the work week is longer, and thus there are fewer jobs and more unemployed, wages are driven down. If immigrants are terrorized to the point that they feel they must take work at any wages, the wages of all are driven down.
Submitted by luxnet23 on Sat, 11/01/2008 - 00:00
In a world where capital can move freely across borders, humans have to risk their lives if they attempt to do so. Migrant workers throughout the world are being hunted down, humiliated, detained, and sometimes killed. The largest movement of migrant workers in the history of the earth is marked by a mass destruction of social welfare programs, attacks on workers rights and restriction on liberty and democracy.
