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  • Lucknow: Peoples Convention on Hashimoura Massacre, Apr 26

    HASHIMPURA MASSACRE: PEOPLES CONVENTION AGAINST STATE GOVERNMENT’S COMMUNAL & ANTIJUSTICE ROLE 26 APRIL, SUNDAY, 1-5 PM GANGA PRASAD MEMORIAL HALL, AMIBNABAD, LUCKNOW हाशिमपुरा जनसंहार: इंसाफ विरोधी प्रदेश सरकार के खिलाफ जनसम्मेलन दोपहर 1 बजे से शाम 5 बजे तक, 26 अपै्रल 2015, दिन इतवार गंगा प्रसाद मेमोरियल हाॅल, अमीनाबाद (झंडेवाला पार्क के सामने) दोस्तों, गुजिश्ता […]

  • Back on the streets in Chile

    Chilean students are back on the streets. More than 180,000 marched on 16 April under the slogan “Ni corruptos ni empresarios, que Chile decida su educación” (Neither corrupt politicians nor business, Chileans must decide their education).

    The first major education march of the year…

  • International Workers’ Day celebration planned for Minneapolis

    Minneapolis, MN – Minnesotans will be celebrating International Workers’ Day early this year. Labor and community leaders will speak out at an event organized by Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO), Sunday, April 26, 2:30 p.m., at 4200 Cedar Ave S, Minneapolis.

    “International Workers Day is celebrated by the working class all over the world. This great holiday, a revolutionary holiday, is an important time to talk about where we stand and to make plans for the battles ahead. In Minneapolis, I will have the honor of standing with leaders from the trade union movement, immigrant rights, welfare rights struggle and others, as we speak about what it will take to fight for, and win, the bright future we all deserve,” states Jess Sundin of FRSO, who will deliver an important speech at the event.

    Speakers at the April 26 May Day celebration will include Kas Schwerdtfger, a leader of Defeat Right to Work in Wisconsin and member of Teamsters Local 344, Cherrene Horazuk, president of AFSCME Local 3800, Jigme Ugen, executive vice president of SEIU Healthcare Minnesota and leaders of the Welfare Rights Committee.

  • Contract workers take on Delhi labour minister at jan sunvai

    Contract workers take on Delhi labour minister at jan sunvai

    NEW DELHI: Dreaming of permanent jobs and eager for immediate redressal of grievances, angry contract workers on Friday took on labour minister Gopal Rai at a jan sunvai (public hearing) in the capital. Unemployed 21-year-old Nibha Jha was one of them who left the minister flustered sharing her anguish of low wages, long working hours and no scope of redressal while being employed by a contractor engaged by Delhi Metro Rail Corporation.

    Jha reminded Rai how she and others like her were lathi-charged by security personnel near Rajghat on March 25 when they tried to approach him to apprise him on the matter for the second time. “Why weren’t we allowed to meet you when we came to submit a memorandum on March 3? Where were you when we were beaten and lathi-charged?” asked Jha.

    “Shame, shame!” shouted those with Jha under the banner of Delhi Metro Contract Workers Union. She had come to the public hearing organized by the labour minister to ‘hear the voices of suppression’ and problems of contract employees. (more…)

  • Occupational Hazard- Militarisation and Disaster Vulnerability in Jammu and Kashmir: J&K Coalition of Civil Society

    Guest post by JAMMU AND KASHMIR COALITION OF CIVIL SOCIETY  Jammu and Kashmir Coalition of Civil Society recently released a report called ‘Occupational Hazard: The Jammu Kashmir Floods of September 2014. The full report is available at jkcss.net. The following is a short executive summary.  The Jammu and Kashmir floods of September 2014, occurred in […]

  • Milwaukee teachers, students, parents march against cuts

    Photo: Milwaukee Teachers Education AssociationPhoto: Milwaukee Teachers Education Association Hundreds of members of the Milwaukee Teachers Education Association, students and community supporters protested in Milwaukee April 18 to end cuts to K-12 and higher education, protest toxic testing and charter schools, and demand adequate resources and services for teachers, staff, students and communities. The April 18 demonstration is part of a series of mass protests since January when Gov. Scott Walker unveiled his 2015-17 austerity budget. They are a continuation of the people’s occupation of the state Capitol in 2011. The effects of the 2013-2015 state budget, which included the largest cuts to public education in Wisconsin history, are now painfully felt in every city, town and village. The vast majority of the state’s poor and working people are demanding: Hands off public education! The 2015-17 proposed austerity budget, like the previous one, attacks every sector of the working class and oppressed, including environmental and prevailing wage laws, unemployment insurance, FoodShare benefits, senior care, project labor agreements and public education. Wall Street organizations such as Americans For Prosperity, American Legislative Exchange Council and the Heritage Foundation are fast attempting to eviscerate progressive Wisconsin laws won decades ago through mass struggle. On behalf of Wall […]

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    1. Wisconsin students, workers resist Gov. Walker’s austerity axe
    2. Stops cuts of teachers’ benefits in Philadelphia!
    3. Wisconsin anti-worker guv targets public education

  • The World Remember’s the Armenian Genocide

    Armenia, Turkey and the rest of the world marched today in remembrance of the 100th anniversary of Armenian genocide. Besides Armenia, marches were held in Istanbul, New York, Paris, Beirut, Arbil, Tehran, London and many other cities worldwide. In Istanbul people gathered and carried the pictures of some of the victims, while in Arbil (Iraq) members

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  • Slowdown, unemployment plague world capitalism

    Slowdown, unemployment plague world capitalism

    By Fred Goldstein

    The FINANCE ministers of the largest capitalist economies exuded gloom and pessimism at the recent Washington meeting of the G-20. “Six years after tackling the global financial crisis, the world’s top economic policy makers are struggling to exit crisis-management mode and lift growth out of a long-term funk,” wrote the Wall Street Journal on April 19.

    marx_0430The underlying concern was that since the so-called “recovery” began in 2009, the global economy has been in a steady state of slow growth and stagnation.

    The International Monetary Fund issued warnings about so-called “emerging markets.” China had its slowest growth in 10 years. Russia is in a recession. Brazil’s growth has slowed to a crawl. Investors are starting to pull their money out of many countries. (more…)

  • A tireless fighter against a rotten system

    Ray Jackson 1941-2015

    How sad it is to learn that our comrade and friend, Uncle Ray Jackson, has died.

    A Wiradjuri fighter for Koori justice (“fkj”, as he always signed his fascinating emails), Ray will be best known for his tireless work against Aboriginal deaths…

  • Apca procession for better wages

    LAHORE, April 24: A large number of government employees on April 23 took out a procession from Nasser Bagh to the Civil Secretariat on the call of the All Pakistan Clerks Association (Apca) to press for their demands of better wages.

    Similar processions were held in front of the offices of all the district coordination officers across Punjab, claimed a press release.

    Apca leaders, Sultan Mujaddadi, Muhammad Afzal, Abdul Shakoor and Nadeem Chughtai, said all the roads in Lahore would be blocked on May 7 if Apca demands were not met. This would be followed by a siege of the Punjab Assembly on May 14.

    They urged the chief minister to take care of the government employees, giving them wages as per the inflation rate.

    Published by Daily Dawn on April 24, 2015