#trotskyists

[ph4z0n]

In the second part of this two-part series, Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould explore how neo-conservatives, behind the scenes, took control of U.S. foreign policy. Part One can be found here.

[lenin-fiuk]

"For the right of armed self defense for abortion providers!

No to gun control!

Spartacist"

Boston, 1994 .

[jewishpangolin]

[towel-pisser-nationalism]

[argentinianpolitics]

30/03: Before the strike

Tomorrow, the Transportation Workers’ Union and some others like the Bank Employees’ Union will be going on strike to protest Income tax, claiming it affects most of their workers. Some of the leaders of this Union even call it “a tax on salary”.

Income tax is fairly new in Argentina, and over the past few years it has been largely criticised by certain Unions and politicians. However, the truth is that it only affects 10% of workers, since it’s only paid by those who earn more than $15,000 Ars (about 1700 dollars) per month. 

Even though the current Government’s policies have always worked in order to guarantee more rights to the working class, and to empower it, this Unions, who represent not the actual workers but rich employers and companies, have decided year after year to go on strikes to protest.

It should be noted that when the Transportation workers strike, pretty much every other service besides water or electricity, as well as most offices, shops and business, have to close as well, since they are not able to get to their works, thus making it seem as though they participated on the strike. 

The Minister of Economy, Axel Kicillof, and the Chief of Staff, Aníbal Fernández, have met today with the leaders of the Unions that will go on strike to try to reach an agreement but the meeting was unsuccesful since “the businessmen aren’t actively participating as we’d like them to, to discuss the issue with the unions” (A. Fernández.). They also indicated that they "consider the strike as one with politic intentions" (A. Kicillof) since this year there will be a Presidential election.

Some pseudo-leftist political parties, who identify as socialists or Trotskyists , such as Partido Obrero (roughly translated as the Worker’s Party or Working-Class Party), have decided to support the strike, proving once again that they represent the interests of the High and Middle classes, not the working-class at all.

[speciesandclass]

Socialist Worker letter possibly opens debate on animal agriculture

Socialist Worker letter possibly opens debate on animal agriculture

By Jon Hochschartner

Imagine my surprise when I loaded the United States’ Socialist Worker website, a publication of the International Socialist Organization, and saw a brief letter critical of animal agriculture, “Meat eating kills the planet.”Now, there are a lot of things to take issue with in the piece. First and foremost, it comes purely from an environmentalist perspective. There is no…

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[marxism-conference]

As part of Marxism Conference 2014 @ the University of Melbourne, 17 - 20 April 2014

A History of the International Socialist Tendency: 2pm April 19

Featuring: Ahmed Shawki: Ahmed is an Arab American socialist activist and journalist, the editor of the International Socialist Review and a leader of the International Socialist Organization. He also serves on the steering committee of the National Council of Arab-Americans.

Mick Armstrong: Mick has been active in a wide range of struggles and strikes since the late1960s, including more recently the Victorian Peace Network and campaigns in solidarity with the Palestinian people. Author of 1,2,3, What are we Fighting for? The Australian Student Movement from its Origins to the 1970s, “Aboriginal Problems of Race and Class” in Rick Kuhn (ed.), Class and Struggle in Australia, and co-author of The Labor Party. A Marxist Analysis, he has written on Australian labour history and the Middle East.

[grumpenproletariat]

Video looking at the great 1934 Teamsters Strikes in Minneapolis to explore the importance of union contracts for workers conditions and how workers rights have been won in struggle by workers and their unions. Between 1934 and 1941 Teamsters Local 574 which lead these strikes were lead by Trostkyists. There are some historical inaccuracies in the video, Local 574 existed prior to 1934 but was tiny. An important transformation that was started by this organisating drive was shifting the Teamsters from craft to industrial unionism.