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...Cambodia: Solidarity with workers restoring the West Mebun temple
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- Published on Wednesday, 10 July 2019 03:50
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People travel from all over the world to visit the magnificent temples of Angkor in Cambodia.
One of these, known as the West Mebun temple (pictured) was being restored by 126 highly skilled workers who had been employed by the French archaeological agency EFEO.
They are members of the Building and Wood Workers Trade Union Federation of Cambodia.
They had a a collective agreement and good working conditions.
But early last year, they were transferred to the Cambodian Government agency APSARA, which has a history of union-busting.
They were suspended and told that there's no longer money to employ them.
Meanwhile, lower-paid unskilled workers have been brought in to do some of the work.
The unionised workers at West Mebun are proud of the work they were doing.
They want to continue doing it.
They asking to go back to work and to have their collective bargaining agreement restored.
And please share this message with your friends, family and fellow union members.
Thank you.
Eric...
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Be part of the historic fight to stop TMX: this is our time for action.
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- Published on Tuesday, 09 July 2019 14:32
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Oppose Canada-Saudi arms deal
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- Published on Tuesday, 09 July 2019 01:54
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1859 ... July 9, 2019
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Oppose Canada-Saudi arms deal:
Open letter to CLC President Hassan Yussuff
Simon Black and Anthony Fenton
Dear Brother Yussuff:
We, the undersigned, are calling on the Canadian Labour Congress (CLC), in the most urgent terms possible, to express public opposition to the Government of Canada’s arms deal with Saudi Arabia.
Saudi Arabia and its coalition partners are waging war in Yemen. The war has plunged the country into what the United Nations (UN) calls "the world’s worst humanitarian crisis." According to a recent UN report, approximately 70,000 Yemenis have died since the beginning of 2016. At the moment, three civilians are killed every day in Yemen. Hospitals, schools, markets, and mosques are common targets for Saudi coalition airstrikes. Two thirds of the Yemeni population require humanitarian support or protection, 17 million are food insecure, three million have fled their homes, and 14.5 million require access to safe drinking water -- and as UN Women has found, women and girls bear the brunt of this devastating situation. A 2018 report of the UN High...
What have these spy agencies been up to?
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- Published on Monday, 08 July 2019 10:26
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- Published on Monday, 08 July 2019 02:24
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Insurance giant AXA is involved in war crimes through some of its investments.
Our newly launched report reveals the dirty details for journalists and lawmakers to pursue. But you and I can also contact AXA bosses directly TODAY to urge them to stop.
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Our new report* should make AXA customers, workers and investors go ballistic: the insurance giant is involved in war crimes.
For months, we have been investigating AXA’s investments in Israeli companies accused of violating international law and human rights.
AXA is a global $100 billion conglomerate -- but AXA's bosses are just people like you and me in the end. I can't believe that they want to fund war crimes. But I also fear that they'll carry on, if we don't raise our voices in protest.
That’s why I’m asking you to reach out to AXA execs, person-to-person, and ask them to end their involvement in weapons manufacturing and the illegal occupation of Palestinian territory.
Paris Police Teargas Peaceful Climate Demonstrators
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- Published on Monday, 08 July 2019 00:52
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1858 ... July 8, 2019
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Paris Police Teargas Peaceful Climate Demonstrators
Richard Greeman
It was 42° C (108° F) in Montpellier, France, last week, and the French police were still teargassing peaceful demonstrators -- whether Yellow Vests in Montpellier or ecologists in Paris protesting capitalist-generated Global Warming on the hottest day in French history!
As the contradictions between neoliberal economics and human life become more visible, police repression seems to be the new normal even in the "democracies" and I have seen little coverage, much less indignation, in the media at this latest outrage.
"Kill the messenger" -- whether it be a peaceful crowd of citizens or a whistle-blower like Julian Assange -- seems to be the only response left for the defenders of capitalism, even in the world’s two oldest republics: France and the US.
Forget about the so-called authoritarian "populists" and outright tyrants like the darling Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia (who, having murdered a journalist, will host the next G20).
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Gillian Anderson | Survival's BBC Radio 4 appeal this Sunday
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- Published on Sunday, 07 July 2019 19:48
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Slaughtered at just 7 weeks old
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- Published on Sunday, 07 July 2019 04:14
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Meet the defenders who stopped Canadian fracking in Colombia!
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Sneak peek: Second segment on building socialism in Canada
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- Published on Sunday, 07 July 2019 02:44
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A Socialist Project podcast ... No. 21 ... July 7, 2019
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Sneak peek: Second segment on building socialism in Canada
Sadia Khan, Corvin Russell, and Sharmeen Khan continue their discussion on how we can work to build socialism in Canada. They talk about the role of disruptive tactics, the logistics of organizing something on the scale of a general strike, and the need to assess whether the work we’re doing is having any impact.
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Slaughtered at just 7 weeks old
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- Published on Saturday, 06 July 2019 06:16
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Baby chickens used by McDonald’s suffer unimaginable cruelty during their short lives.
With your help we’ll put this real life horror movie on full display in Times Square, New York City. Will you please chip in to stop McDonald’s chicken cruelty?
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LAST DAY to triple match!
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- Published on Saturday, 06 July 2019 04:16
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The Koch Brothers and the Tar-Sands
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- Published on Friday, 05 July 2019 02:04
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1857 ... July 5, 2019
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The Koch Brothers and the Tar-Sands:
Big Lies and Ecocide in Canada
John McMurtry
As we know, big lies can run free across borders with few people joining the dots. For example, no media has been reporting that China’s growing dispute with Canada is based on Canada’s enforcement of the Trump administration’s unilateral embargo against Iran. This is what politicians called ‘the rule of law’. In fact, it is assisting the US takedown of China’s superior IT competition -- Huawei -- for not obeying the illegal US embargo.
One lie builds on another. Repetition institutionalizes it. Then that becomes the truth that sells. As explained long ago by Edward Bernayes, the founder of public relations, democracy is "the manufacture of consent." What he did not say is that only system-supporting lies may be on offer.
So, the imprisonment of Huawei’s vice-chairwoman and CFO Meng Wanzhou, continues as justified by ‘the rule of law’ and China is at fault for not recognizing it. Official Canada again reverts to type. It attacks the designated US...
Free e-book about migrant workers - for the next 5 days only
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- Published on Thursday, 04 July 2019 00:56
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For the next five days only, LabourStart's most recent book -- The Strangers Among Us: Tales from a Global Migrant Worker Movement -- is available for download free of charge for the Amazon Kindle.
This free offer lasts from today through Monday next week.
This extraordinary short book, edited by Joseph B. Atkins, offers readers compelling insights from 10 writers around the world about migrant workers' rising consciousness of their rights and ability to assert those rights in a global economy that seems to place all power in the hands of mega-corporations. From tobacco workers in North Carolina to Vietnamese domestic workers in Taiwan and the network of organizations that support them, a movement is emerging that will pose a growing challenge to neoliberal rule.
Here are the download links:
I encourage every LabourStart supporter to download this free book today -- and to spread the word in your unions.
Important: You don't need to buy a Kindle e-reader in order to read this book. You can download free Kindle software...
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CoDev E-Bulletin Spring/Summer 2019 PART TWO
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Challenging corporate power -- from the inside
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- Published on Wednesday, 03 July 2019 12:12
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We want to let you know that, in the last few weeks, we hit 6 corporation’s annual meeting to call on Canadian corporations to pay better wages, take climate change and deforestation seriously, and fight back against sexual harassment on its biggest day of the year.
All this amazing work that we can do was in part due to the support of a progressive labour union, the British Columbia Government and Service Employees Union (BCGEU). By allowing to access its shares -- we were able to get into some of the biggest Canadian corporations’ annual shareholder meetings.
In all, you challenged Canadian corporations, with combined worth of over $400 billion, on their biggest days of the year by sending thousands of emails to over 150 different pension funds, calling on fund managers to vote for our progressive proposals.
Here’s a run-down of all the AGMs we went to representing you.
TD Bank: pulling the plug on fossil fuel funding.
Tsilhqotin land under threat TODAY!
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Lessons from the Past: Markets, Plans, Bureaucracy
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- Published on Wednesday, 03 July 2019 02:20
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1856 ... July 3, 2019
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Lessons from the Past: Markets, Plans, Bureaucracy
Between May 6 and 8, 2019, an International Colloquium dedicated to Leon Trotsky was held in Havana, with a range of international writers and activists presenting and debating Trotsky, the trajectory of 20th century socialist experiences, and international solidarity. Eric Toussaint is spokesperson for the CADTM (Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt), contributor to the World Social Forum, a member of the Fourth International and prolific author. He was interviewed during the conference by Wilder Pérez Varona, deputy director of the Institute of Philosophy of La Havana, Cuba.
Wilder Pérez Varona (WPV): My first question to you is about the issue of bureaucracy. Before 1917, the issue of the socialist transition is one thing. The Revolutions of 1848, the Paris Commune (which is a crucial episode, but of a momentary nature in 1871) were always limited to matters of theory, principles, projections (we know that Marx and Engels were reluctant to be very detailed about these projections). The Revolution of 1917 placed this problem of transition in another way,...
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