July 30, 2013

Labor makes a stand – first in Wisconsin, now BART

The CWG reprints this opinion article by retired OEA teacher and Bay Area activist the author is not a member or supporter of the CWG.  With multiple public workers unions out of contract in the Bay Area and numberous State workers unions also out of contract  a united General Strike is objectively called for if…

Interview: Greek Trotskyist facing charges by Nazis

Reposted from  https://linksunten.indymedia.org/de/node/91006Verfasst von: Wladek Flakin (RIO) (Benutzerkonto: Wladek). Übersetzt The CWG advocates for and joins in the international campaign to defend workers and revolutionary militants from the fascists and the state.  Below the interview we reprint the statement of the RCIT and petition for Michael-Matsas   von: Wladek Flakin (RIO) (Benutzerkonto: Wladek). Verfasst am: 19.07.2013 – 12:25. A Greek Trotskyist…

The BART STRIKE: LESSONS FOR PUBLIC WORKERS

  The BART strike lasted barely a week before the leadership made a tactical retreat, or was it a strategic collapse in the first place?   The BART board came in swinging and provoked the strike by engaging the non-starter union smashing Viola corporation to negotiate for them.  Highly underreported, these thugs came into negotiations…

SLAVE WAGES ARE NO JOKE

The old joke goes “God must love the poor-he’s made so many of them. ” Today the joke goes, “The Walton family (owners of Wal-Mart) must love the poor…..” Mocking real workers while promoting their corporate image, these slave-wage employers peddle self-aggrandizing mythologies. By their furnishing supplementary income for the retired or ‘pin-money’ for the…

EGYPT Debate: LCC responds to RCIT

Dear Comrades of RCIT, Thanks for your letter and your article critiquing our position on recent momentous events in Egypt.  We thought our article was good and self-explanatory.  You ask us to elaborate on our position. We obviously agree on the overall global situation and the Arab Revolution, unlike most of the reformist and centrist…

EGYPT Debate: Workers International Vanguard Party Statement

The LCC re-posts the following statement by the South African WIVP as a contribution to the discussion which has opened up around the nature of the removal of the Morsi government and the call by communists of the RCIT for a Revolutionary Constituent Assembly.   Down with the pre-emptive military coup in Egypt We salute…