Posts by: CWG-USA

HANDS OFF OCCUPY ACTIVISTS: Drop charges on the ACAC 19

Fax/Call in Day Week of 12/17/2012.   Recently San Francisco Superior Court Judge Andrew Y.S. Cheng denied demurrers for all but one defendant of the ACAC 19 signaling that the case will most likely go to trial in the coming months. This week we are asking all supporters to fax and call San Francisco District…

DEFEND PRO-PALESTINE ACTIVIST FROM AUSTRIAN STATE REPRESSION

A young comrade of the RKOB of Austria has been charged with ‘sedition’ for making a speech in support of Palestinian liberation and against the “apartheid” state of Israel at a recent demonstration in Vienna against the Israeli bombing of Gaza. We quote from the RKOB statement. “20-year old Palestine Solidarity Activist and RKOB spokesperson Johannes…

Turning the Tide: Port Workers Newsletter

Coming together in September 2012 a core group of  Port of Oakland union workers including Laborers, Sailors Union of the Pacific (SUP), ILWU, SEIU 1021 as well as unorganized truckers and their supporters in the Teamsters union  came together with  Occupy Oakland Labor Solidarity members to organize the Oakland Port Workers Assembly.  The assembly has…

The Arab Revolution meets NATO/Zionism

The current situation in the Middle East is one of a growing confrontation between the resurgent Arab democratic revolution – popularly called the ‘Arab Spring’ now two years old – and imperialism represented by its military ‘gendarme’, Zionist Israel. The US and EU imperialist powers are attempting to impose a ‘democratic’ counter-revolution, to prevent the working masses…

Which way forward for the Oakland Port Workers Assembly

How can the Oakland Port Workers Assembly support the SEIU 1021 strike-building the class wide solidarity needed to win a non-concessionary contract?   We have seen many one day strikes (the CNA makes a regular practice of using them as do the European trade unions) and they do not result in winning contracts. In fact, they are…

Support the Palestinian Resistance! Defeat the Zionist killing machine!

New Wave of Israeli terror against Gaza: Support the Palestinian Resistance! Defeat the Zionist killing machine! Statement of the Revolutionary Communist International Tendency (RCIT), 15.11.2012,www.thecommunists.net   1.  The Israeli state has again launched on 14th November a murderous wave of airstrikes and rocket attacks against the Palestinian people in Gaza. In the first 24 hours they have already…

China/US Rivalry Asia-Pacific

US imperialism as the dominant world power is under threat. The global crisis of falling profits has hit the US and EU economy hard and the great recession must become a great depression to restore profits. As a result US rivalry with other imperialist countries is hotting up as they all compete with one another to increase their ‘spheres…