On the 24th of April, one day after inspectors ordered the owners to evacuate the building, the Rana Plaza textile factory in Savar Bangladesh, employing over 3,000 workers, collapsed. Over a third of those inside were killed and many others sustained major injuries....
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COSATU’s precarious challenge
It is true we in live a world where technology and globalisation give the impression of rapid change and constant flux. The mouthpieces of capital, marching under the banner of 'labour flexibility', insist that this reality must be reflected in the world of work....
Newsbriefs
International The Citizens' Revolution advances in Ecuador The radical social and economic reforms of President Rafael Correa, known as the Citizens' Revolution, received an overwhelming stamp of approval by the Ecuadorian people when he won more than 60% of the votes...
Letter From Haiti: Life in the Ruins | by Amy Wilentz
Sometimes you can't help but be sickened by the behavior of certain international organizations helping Haiti recover from the devastating January 2010 earthquake—hit, that is, by a wave of real physical nausea. The other day, I spent an afternoon in the displaced...
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The Popular Front, A Social and Political Tragedy: The Case of France | by Dan La Botz
Decades since the spring of 1934 when the Communists first proposed the Popular Front as their strategy for fighting fascism and even longer since the summer of 1939 when it was suddenly terminated by the Hitler-Stalin Pact, the Popular Front—the alliance of the...
South Africa: First Factory Occupation By Workers Since the 80s
Mine-Line and Tap engineering in Krugersdorp became the site of the first factory occupation since the 1980s in South Africa. Organised by the Metal and Electrical Workers Union of South Africa (MEWUSA), more than one hundred workers took occupation of the factory on...




