Mass Strike

For the past month, tens of thousands of Mexican workers have been striking, and winning. A mass strike, outside the union structures, broke out Jan.12 in the city of Matamoros, across the border from Brownsville, Texas. Following a decree by new Mexican President ALMO doubling the minimum wage in the maquiladoras factories, workers began demanding that employers double the wages of all workers, as is guaranteed by their(rarely enforced) contracts. Mass meetings with representation from over 40 factories, mostly auto parts suppliers, called workers out on strike.

Volume 2 Issue 1 of Mass Strike, dated October 2013, is now available.

In this issue:

Introduction: Mass Strikes Today and the Lessons of History

Quebec Students Show the Way to Win

Occupy Wall Street and the Struggle for Demands

By Eric Lerner

Mass Strikes in the US in 1934

The third issue of Mass Strike is now available, with the following articles :

Revolution in Tunisia and Egypt – Lessons on how to win

World Hunger and the Silent Tsunami

Appeal of the International Luxemburgist Network to the proletariat on May Day 2010

The Mass Strike Volume 1 Number 2, published December 2009, is now online. The .pdf version is attached below.

In this issue:

What is the International Luxemburgist Network? Why this organization now?

On the question of revolutionary organization : the case of the NPA in France