Archive of the month of April 2008
May 1 No War: port close U.S. ports
International Labor, NO WAR, Magazine25 April 2008
For the first May, which is not party to the United States, the union dock workers of the west coast, the International Longshore and Warehouse Union, launched a strike to protest against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Disappointed with the continued funding of bi-partisan wars, the workers have decided to exercise their political power [...]
MAYDAY, MAYDAY
Labor, Movement, precarious24 April 2008
The Mayday Parade was born in Milan eight years ago as May Day and atypical insecure, and other alternative than traditional trade union confederal.
Nevertheless, Mayday since its first edition becomes the manifestation body, visible, in a sort of collective outing of a new generation precarious, obscured in those early [...]
MAY 1 COOP: TU celebrations and IO Sgobbi
Labor, Magazine23 April 2008
On May 1 workers and workers from across Italy felt in the streets to celebrate Labor Day, to claim and defend the rights acquired through years of struggle and negotiation, again to put the focus on the political issues of wages, security, human rights, to defend (now more [...]
Keep reading ..>>A brief history of May Day.
Work, Journal, antifascism22 April 2008
On May 1, International Day of Workers, began as a day of mobilization linked to the struggle for the establishment by law of the working day of eight hours.
"Eight hours of work, eight entertainment, eight hours for sleep" was the watchword, coined in Australia in 1855, and shared by most of the workers' movement and [...]
CALL THE MOVEMENT AGAINST THE WAR in the wake of the official of URNS
Movement, NO WAR19 April 2008
"... After a year of subalternità policies of the hard core of the government, attempting to" cover left "has produced a disaster, measured by the vacuum of Piazza del Popolo, which if combined with the latest electoral debacle administrative give the size of a real disaster.
An entire political class is found alone, clinging to its [...]
