Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by IAI
Will see the start of inhabitants’ organizations and social urban movements’ initiatives in the Far East of the Russian Federation which will set the wheels in motion for housing rights without borders as part of the WSF’s 2008 Global Day of Mobilization. In fact, there will be dozens and dozens (…)
, by KAGARLITSKY Boris
The strike at the Ford factory in Vsevolozhsk, located right outside St. Petersburg, ended on Dec. 14. It was the longest and most intense standoff in post-Soviet times. The strike began on Nov. 20 and continued for three weeks. According to union activists, the plant’s conveyors came to a full (…)
, by KURZINAV Maria
The strike on the Ford assembly plant in Vsevolozhsk continues already for three weeks although management already twice announced it is broken.
The strike started at midnight November 19th after the four-month negotiations with management failed. The main demand of the workers lead by the (…)
, by CLÉMENT Karine
Since the strike of February 2007 at the Ford factory (in the region of Saint Petersburg, the Russian trade-union movement seems to be wakening up.
New trade unions are being formed just about everywhere, first of all in the profitable sectors of oil, metallurgy, cars and aluminium, and in (…)
, by CLÉMENT Karine
On November 20, 2007 at midnight the assembly line stopped. Of the 2200 workers at Ford-Vsevolojsk (region of Saint-Petersburg), 1500 took part in the strike.
The management reacted by prohibiting the workers of the morning shift to enter the factory. It even called in the OMONs (Russian riot (…)
, by MANDEL David
The October Revolution of 1917 was the most influential political event of the twentieth century. But since history is written by the victors, it is not well known that October was the opening shot of a vast and powerful challenge to capitalism that swept the industrial world and had echoes in (…)
, by MANDEL David
THE OCTOBER REVOLUTION of 1917 in Russia was the most influential political event of the 20th century. But since history is written by the victors, it is not well known that October was the opening shot of a vast and powerful challenge to capitalism that swept the industrial world and had strong (…)
, by Collective / Multiple signers
THIS APPEAL FROM Russian intellectuals and artists on the 90th anniversary of the Russian October Revolution comes to us from veteran leftists, social democrats, artists and even children of Left Oppositionists, most of them politically active at least since the Gorbachev years of glasnost and (…)
, by Vpered
In the evening of 5th July, Segei Vilkov, activist of the Russian socialist movement “VPERED”, was taken in charge. This action of the local police results quite logically from their recent unprecedented campaign of pressure against the members of the movement section in Saratov. Constant (…)
, by SCOTT Patrick
As the recent murders of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya and former spy-in-exile Alexander Litvinenko make clear, anyone who attempts to expose the political subterfuge and corruption in Russia today can pay with their lives. And Russia’s new bourgeoisie looks likely to demand an ever more (…)
, by RIDDELL John
When Bolivian President Evo Morales formally opened his country’s Constituent Assembly on August 6, 2006, he highlighted the aspirations of Bolivia’s indigenous majority as the central challenge before the gathering. The convening of the Assembly, he said, represented a “historic moment to (…)
, by LE BLANC Paul
The Marxism of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin represents a powerful force for political freedom and genuine democracy. Yet it gave way to the murderous bureaucratic tyranny associated with Joseph Stalin. Adherents of Stalinism, perhaps wishing to see the promising beginnings of socialism in that (…)
, by HEARSE Phil
At dawn on November 4, Russian tanks, which had withdrawn from Budapest after the first round of fighting, returned. Six thousand guns opened fire on the city, raining phosphorous shells on combatants and non-combatants alike. Knowing that the attack was coming, “reform Communist” Prime Minister (…)
, by Trade Union Solidarity Action Committee (Saint Petersburg & Leningrad)
Dear Friends and Comrades!
We have to resort to you with an appeal for help and international solidarity!
Russia is on the verge of the G 8 summit which is to be hosted in Saint Petersburg.
At the same time our country is experiencing another series of political violence and reprisals. (…)
, by KOWALEWSKI Zbigniew Marcin
The insurrectional uprising in the Polish town of Poznan in June 1956 shone a searchlight on the crisis of Stalinism. Preceded by a similar event in East Berlin (in 1953) and followed four months later by the Hungarian Revolution (October 1956), the Poznan insurrection opened the great cycle of (…)
, by Counter-summit G8 (Russia), Russian Social Forum
Organization Committee of the Russian Social Forum (RSF) and Counter-summit G8 call for the most possible massive participation of Western delegates from social movements. The common RSF declaration (“No to liberal policy in Russia and in the world”) has been signed during European assemblies (…)
, by CALKINS Laura M.
Review of: Josh Newell (Ed.) The Russian Far East: A Reference Guide for Conservation and Development. Second Edition. McKinleyville, CA: Daniel & Daniel, Publishers, Inc., 2004. 466pp. ISBN:1880284-75-8. US$59.95. (paperback) Acid-free paper.
Reviewed by Laura M. Calkins Texas Tech (…)
, by LÖWY Michael
“Results and Prospects”, from Leon Trotsky, was published for the first time in 1906 after the major experiment of the 1905 Russian revolution [ESSF].
The historical context
Trotsky’s theory of permanent revolution, as sketched for the first time in his essay Results and Prospects (1906), (…)
, by WINDAU George
Labour After Communism. Autoworkers and Their Unions in Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus by David Mandel. Montreal, New York & London: Black Rose Press, 2004. (www.web.net/blackrosebooks). $28.99 paper.
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FACTORY WORKERS IN the former Soviet Union have a saying: “Things (…)
, by MANDEL David
From a left perspective, the history of the labour movement can be viewed as a long and arduous struggle of the working class for self-determination, whose ultimate expression would be the replacement of capitalism by a self-managed society without exploitation, that is, by socialism.
That (…)
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