International Solidarity

International Solidarity

Union International - The IWW and the Other Campaign (Part II)

Posted Tue, 08/08/2006 - 2:52am by x344543

Disclaimer - The following is an editorial by members of the Bay Area; it is not currently the official position of the IWW.

By Dean Dempsey - Bay Area General Membership Branch, IWW

The Industrial Workers of the World was the first American union to truly welcome all workers, as equals, regardless if they were immigrants, women, or African Americans, with our organizational structure free of bias and segregation. We have always organized industrially, as a class, emphasizing the importance and potential of cross-cultural, ethnic, and national relationships. Some of the most influential members of the IWW have been immigrants, women, and people of color, such as Ricardo Flores Magón, Mother Jones, Carlo Tresca, Lucy Parsons, Ben Fletcher and even the token Joe Hill. The tradition of this commitment to include all workers carries on to contemporary union organizers of all branches of our union, from all parts of the globe.

Union International - The IWW and the Other Campaign (Part I)

Posted Tue, 08/08/2006 - 2:43am by x344543

Disclaimer - The following is an editorial by members of the Bay Area; it is not currently the official position of the IWW.

By Zapatita - Bay Area General Membership Branch, IWW

The Zapatista Army of National Liberation, (EZLN), has been fighting for democracy, liberty and justice in the Southern Indigenous lands in Mexico well before 1994. Today, the Zapatistas are struggling for more than the indigenous people in Chiapas, but for all those across the world who have been exploited and robbed by the rich and the bad governments that serve them.  Like the I.W.W., the EZLN is a humanitarian internationalist organization, who fight for the "humble and simple" people, the common, everyday working folks who belong to "civil society", the majority who do not belong to political parties.

RESOLUTION AGAINST THE ATTACK ON THE PEOPLE OF LEBANON AND PALESTINE

Posted Tue, 08/08/2006 - 2:10am by x344543

Adopted August 1, 2006 by the Twin Cities General Membership Branch of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)

I. Whereas the IWW has always stood for international solidarity and against all exploitation, oppression and attempts to divide our class by war,

II. Whereas the State of Israel’s U.S.-backed aggression against the people of Lebanon and Palestine has caused the murder of hundreds of working-class civilians (including many children), the displacement of hundreds of thousands, and the destruction of communities and infrastructure,

III. Whereas this war - like the rest of the so-called “War on Terrorism” will not bring security to working people in any country, but only more violence and repression,

Iraqi Government Freezes Union Bank Account

Posted Sun, 06/25/2006 - 6:49am by IWW.org Editor

 
US President and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki

Iraqi Government Freezes Union Bank Account

 

Wednesday, June 21, 2006
PRESS RELEASE from Naftana - UK Support Committee for the General Unionof Oil Employees Iraq

OIL UNION BANK ACCOUNT FROZEN

IRAQI GOVERNMENT ATTACKS OPPONENTS OF OIL PRIVATISATION

We have just confirmed reports that the Iraqi regime has frozen all the bank accounts of the Iraqi oil workers' union, both abroad andwithin Iraq.Wave of anti-union activity by government The Iraqi regime's decision comes in the wake of a series of anti-union measures, including the disbanding of the council of the lawyers' union, freezing the writers' union accounts and the September 2005 decree making all trade union activity illegal.

Urgent: Mexican teachers suffer deadly repression. Solidarity Needed.

Posted Thu, 06/15/2006 - 12:34am by x344543

In its latest violent atrocity against labour and social movements, the Mexican government has attacked striking Mexican teachers, leaving five dead.  For over two weeks the Mexican teachers' union section in Oaxaca state has been carrying out an incredible campaign of growing protests and direct actions in support of their demands for higher wages and increased school funding.  At their most recent march a few days ago in the state capital, over a 120 000 people participated. The teachers' movement  in Oaxaca has broad popular support and has linked up with other labour and human rights struggles.

The state government of Oaxaca, and possibly soon the federal government as well, have chosen to attempt to violently repress this movement, as Mexican authorities did with the attack by  thousands of police on the townspeople of Atenco on May 3-4 leaving two dead, and the attack by police on striking steel workers in the city of Lazaro Cardenas late last April, leaving three workers dead.  Please read the message on the current situation in Oaxaca and if you're able, get in contact with other people and organize a protest at a consulate office of the Mexican government nearest you.