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USA-67 YEARS OF CLASS-COLLABORATION

December 19, 2022December 19, 2022 wisidagamage

On December 5, 1955, the American Federation of Labor (AFL) and the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) merged into a single mega-bureaucracy of business unionism: the AFL-CIO. Today, about 10,000 union officials or staff in the US bring home salaries greater than $100,000, consuming over $1 billion of their member’s money. Their economic status tends to make them identify with the interests of the employers – that’s why top officials refer to the “middle class,” instead of the “working class.” Union officials control $30 billion, much of it invested, giving…

All Human, All Equal is a fight for Socialism!

December 18, 2022December 18, 2022 wisidagamage

By Raju Prabath Lankaloka Human Rights Day is observed every year on 10th December. The day marks the adaptation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) by the United Nations General Assembly in 1948. The UDHR is hailed as the common standard which was set to be achieved by the member states of the United Nations to ensure the Rights of people. However, the states have the liberty of adapting it accordingly to their interest and may not oblige to all the clauses mentioned under the Universal Declaration of…

Contract oil workers in the south of Iran are once again on strike!

December 11, 2022December 12, 2022 wisidagamage

Contract oil workers in the south of Iran are once again on strike, 66 days into the nationwide rebellion. Workers at two South Pars Gas Complexes and at the Masjid Suleiman Petrochemical plant are the first reported on strike. I’m getting updates from comrades on the ground that workers across the manufacturing sector – in the pipe and steel works – and now the motor workers are also on strike. The most militant workers are concentrated in the south and south-west, particularly in and around Khuzestan. But it is clear…

Socialist Action | Looking back at 2022, and Going Forward in Struggle

December 11, 2022December 11, 2022 wisidagamage

Originally From: https://socialistaction.ca/2022/12/05/looking-back-at-2022-and-going-forward-in-struggle/ December 5, 2022 by Barry Weisleder, Federal Secretary, Socialist Action Canada / Ligue pour l’Action socialiste in the Canadian state, who spoke at the Toronto Region Socialist Action Canada Pre-Holiday Social on December 3, 2022. Good evening, comrades and friends. Isn’t it great to be meeting again in this building (the OPSEU regional office in downtown Toronto) after nearly three years? Socialist Action Canada is a growing revolutionary workers’ party that puts a great emphasis on political education. At the same time, SA is an activist organization. It has many practical…

සෑම වසරකම දෙසැම්බර් 10, මානව හිමිකම් දිනය ලෙසින් සැමරේ.

December 10, 2022December 10, 2022 wisidagamage

රාජු ප්‍ර‍භාත් ලංකාලෝක විසිනි සෑම වසරකම දෙසැම්බර් 10, මානව හිමිකම් දිනය ලෙසින් සැමරේ. එම දිනය සනිටුහන් කරන්නේ, 1948 දී එක්සත් ජාතීන්ගේ මහා මණ්ඩලය විසින් මානව හිමිකම් පිළිබඳ විශ්ව ප්‍රකාශනය (UDHR) සම්මත කිරීමයි. මානව හිමිකම් පිළිබඳ විශ්ව ප්‍රකාශනය මානව අයිතිවාසිකම් සහතික කිරීම වෙනුවෙන් එක්සත් ජාතීන්ගේ සාමාජික රටවල් විසින් භාවිතා කළ යුතු පොදු ප්‍රමිතිය ලෙස සලකනු ලබයි. එසේ වුවද, රාජ්‍යයන්ට ඒවායේ වුවමනාවන්ට අනුගත වෙමින් එය ක්‍රියාවට නැඟීමේ නිදහස ඇති අතර, ඔවුන් මානව හිමිකම් පිළිබඳ විශ්ව ප්‍රකාශනයේ ඇති සියලුම වගන්තිවලින් බැඳී නොසිටී. මානව හිමිකම් ආරක්ෂා කිරීමේ ඉදිරිගාමීන් ලෙස පෙනී සිටින රටවල්ද ඇතුළුව කිසිම රටක්…

Textile factory in Australia in 1981

December 2, 2022December 2, 2022 wisidagamage

On this day, 27 November 1981, 300 mostly migrant women workers at the Kortex textile factory in Brunswick, Australia walked out on strike when they were furious that Textile Workers’ Union officials failed to show up for a Friday meeting about their pay claim. They then made plans to picket the plant on Monday. As Monday morning came around, the women had assembled a mass picket at the plant, and marched to another nearby Kortex factory, where most workers joined them on strike. Together, speaking a mixture of Turkish, Arabic,…

Municipal Socialist Alliance Press Conference — Shadow Council Announcement

November 28, 2022November 28, 2022 wisidagamage

Socialist Action Canada The Municipal Socialist Alliance is a coalition of socialists, labour unionists, community organizations, and social justice activists, who are presenting a team of candidates to fight for the interests of workers, tenants, women, LGBTQIA2S+ folks, racialized people, seniors, and all who seek a city and world without exploitation and oppression. The fledgling Municipal Socialist Alliance exceeded most expectations by garnering 14,870 votes across Ontario, despite getting almost zero coverage in the commercial mass media, amid a very low voter turnout to boot (about 29 percent in Toronto).…

Turkey: Stop union-busting now!

November 12, 2022November 12, 2022 wisidagamage

Turkey: Stop union-busting now! Workers at the Philip Morris factory in Izmir, Turkey, are paid less than the poverty threshold — despite the company earning massive profits. The workers’ incomes are dwindling as a result of the country’s economic turmoil. Furthermore, there is discrimination between permanent and subcontracted workers, though they perform the same tasks and use the same machines. Recently, almost all the workers joined the union — but the company then sacked 124 of them in a brazen attempt at union-busting. While the workers conduct daily protests in front…

Peace, land and bread.

October 21, 2022October 21, 2022 wisidagamage

Karl Marx: “In my opinion, the biggest things that are happening in the world today are on the one hand the movement of the slaves in America started by the death of John Brown, and on the other the movement of the serfs in Russia.”

ஏகாதிபத்தியத்திற்கு எதிராக பாட்டாளி வர்க்க சர்வதேசியத்தை கட்டியெழுப்புவோம்!

August 13, 2022August 13, 2022 wisidagamage

By Raju Prabath Lankaloka உலகமயமாக்கல், புதிய சந்தை வாய்ப்பு போன்ற வார்த்தைகளைப் போலியாகப் பயன்படுத்தி சக்தி வாய்ந்த நாடுகளும், அந்நாட்டு நிறுவனங்களும் தங்கள் ஆதிக்கத்தை மற்ற நாடுகளில் திணிப்பதை நாம் அடிக்கடி காண்கின்றோம். ஏகாதிபத்தியம் எனப்படும் செயல்முறையைக் குறிக்கவே முதலாளித்துவ முறையானது இந்த பல்வேறு போலியான வார்த்தைகளைப் பயன்படுத்துகிறது. ஆரம்பத்தில் போட்டித்தன்மைக்கு முன்னுரிமை அளித்த முதலாளித்துவம் 19 ஆம் நூற்றாண்டின் பிற்பகுதியிலும் 20 ஆம் நூற்றாண்டின் முற்பகுதியிலும் போட்டித் தன்மையினை ஏகபோகங்களுக்கு முன்னுரிமையளிக்கும் விதத்தில் மாற்றியமைத்து வளர்ச்சியை நோக்கி நகர்ந்தது. பன்னாட்டு நிறுவனங்களாக, இந்த ஏகபோகங்கள் உலகம் முழுவதும் சர்வதேச அளவில் இயங்குகின்றன. இத்தகைய ஏகாதிபத்திய முறைகள் காணப்படுகின்ற நாடுகளில் உள்ள அரசுகள் இந்த ஏகாதிபத்தியங்களின் இலாபத்தை அதிகரிக்க தொடர்ந்து செயல்பட்டு வருகின்றன. இன்று உலகில் காணப்படுகின்ற நிதி வலையமைப்பும் நிதி நிறுவனங்களும் கூட அதற்காகவே…