(Image - Demonstration of BVG workers and sympathisers)

Striking is the Only Language the Bosses Understand!

(We translate below a leaflet produced by the GIS (…

The job of the miner is still one of the most dangerous in the world, in December several serious incidents took place in China and the Ukraine that caused the death of hundreds of workers.

In Colombia the mining sector is the setting for ever more dramatic events. On the 13th of October at Suarez, a gold mine collapsed, trapping 50 workers 21 were killed, 26 seriously injured.

Comment on the recent Telekom Strike from Gece Notları

The massive strike by over 26,000 Türk Telekom workers is over. After 44 days the strikers went back to work. At 1…

The protest of 1500 mine workers from Cananea, in Messico, is still ongoing, from the 11th of September, and has been followed by strikes in other mines, in Zacatecas and Taxco.

Thousands…

Pay Cuts for the Producers

Anyone who insists we no longer live in a class society would have some difficulty in explaining what we have just witnessed this year. It began last March when…

After decades of submitting to layoffs, speed ups, real wage cuts and a general reduction of the standard of living so that two wages are needed where one almost did before, workers in many…