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Statement on a Sudden death of Comrade Karamat Ali; From Asia Commune Pakistan Chapter

Samantha

Members of Pakistan Chapter deeply mourns the passing of eminent labour rights activist Karamat Ali, whose contribution to labour rights in Pakistan and in the wider South Asian region will not be easily matched. A founding member and Executive Director of the Pakistan Institute of Labour Education and Research (PILER), Mr. Karamat Ali spent decades advocating tirelessly for the rights of bonded labourers, migrant workers, peasants & industrial workers. He was an expert to promote for the right to collective bargaining and social security for workers. As a labour leader…

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Socialism Conference 2024

Samantha

Join us in Chicago for a four day conference of socialist politics, education, and community. August 30-September 2, 2024 100 years after Vladimir Lenin’s death, his exhortations to learn and think in the concrete remain urgent for our movements. What does it mean to approach our political practice not as an abstract set of rules, but as a collective rehearsal of coming worlds? Join Ruth Wilson Gilmore as she explores how we can perceive, expand, and connect contemporary world-experiments rehearsing abolitionist, communist, and anti-imperialist movement around the planet. Don’t miss…

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What next for the strike wave? Workplace struggle before and after the election

Samantha

Troublemakers At Work is holding an online public meeting at 7:30pm on Wednesday 26 June. Register now The surge in strikes which began in 2021 has declined from its peak, but strikes remain at higher levels than before. We saw some good wins, while other disputes ended with poor deals or fizzled out. The train drivers’ and junior doctors’ disputes, along with many smaller strikes, continue. There has been no real breakthrough and the impact on union membership and organisation has been uneven. All this is happening in the context…

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June 6, 2024

Samantha

The Drums of War are Banging in Europe by Miguel Urban, Eric Toussaint and Paul Murphy Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair These weeks see the end of the term for an ineffectual European legislature which served during the worst pandemic of this century, during Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, and with it, the outbreak of a war on European soil that evokes the worst memories of the world wars of the last century. And as we witness the televised genocide of the Palestinian people, it appears that the international system…

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‘Hotel Workers Battling in New York Against all the Forces of Reaction’ by Frank Pease from Solidarity. Vol. 4 No. 5. January 25, 1913.

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06/07/2024 Revolution’s Newsstand ‘Hotel Workers Battling in New York Against all the Forces of Reaction’ by Frank Pease from Solidarity. Vol. 4 No. 5. January 25, 1913. I.W.W. Influence Predominating. (Special to Solidarity.) New York, Jan. 17. The International Hotel Workers’ Union, an organization of hotel and restaurant workers with a membership of 25,000, has been on strike in the city of New York for the past week. The strike was called to protest against certain conditions that prevail in this industry. These conditions are: insufficient pay, long hours, poor…

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‘For a Workers’ Theatre’ by Moissaye Olgin from the Daily Worker Saturday Supplement. Vol. 4 No. 68 & 74. April 2 & 9, 1927.

Samantha

Culture is a fundamental field of battle in the necessary transformation, without which revolutions are impossible, of the working class from a ‘class in itself’ to a ‘class for itself’. ‘Artistic’ vehicles like film dominate the presentation of dominant ideas today. Previously, it was theater. Moissaye Olgin looks at the state of artistic production and presents these seven theses for the establishment of a workers’ theater in the U.S. ‘For a Workers’ Theatre’ by Moissaye Olgin from the Daily Worker Saturday Supplement. Vol. 4 No. 68 & 74. April 2…

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