India is the scene today of a gigantic mass uprising, with up to 250 million workers staging recurrent general strikes and 300,000 farmers occupying New Delhi in a six-month siege. Olivier (on behalf of Jacques Chastaing) and Umar Shahid explain the background to these unprecedented events. Jacques Chastaing, a French activist in close contact with the farmers’ uprising in … [Read more...]
The Russian Protest Movement
THE RUSSIAN PROTEST MOVEMENT - Hanna Danilovich speaks about the protests that have erupted where tens of thousands have defied police in street demonstrations throughout Russia. The Putin regime has used deadly poisons and brutal repression to try to nullify opponents of the state. How stable is its rule? Is this the beginning of its downfall? What is the programme of Navalny? Hear … [Read more...]
WIN Conference: Final Session
The function of the political committee will be to provide general oversight to the work of WIN. It will be composed of volunteers from around the world willing to commit themselves to meet once a month to discuss political and general strategic questions in depth. This body will elect an executive committee which will be accountable to it and will meet once a week to carry out day-to-day … [Read more...]
WIN Conference: Session 4 Part 1
WIN Conference: Session 3
The third session of the WIN conference moved on to a review of the experience of our comrades around the world, with dynamic reports from North and South America, Europe, Africa and Asia, and a sober discussion of WIN's strategic goals. … [Read more...]
Roger Silverman speaks at LLA Conference
This is a transcript of Roger Silverman's talk to the LLA Conference, 30th January 2021 Welcome to what could well prove a landmark conference. Hearty thanks for your support for the candidates of the LLA, and for my candidacy, in the recent elections for Labour’s National Executive Committee. In these elections we were opposed not just by the right wing, but also by the official left, which … [Read more...]
An Appeal from Belarus for International Solidarity
The statement below, is reproduced from the website: https://en.praca-by.info/news/statement-of-the-rep-trade-union-we-call-on-the-international-trade-union-community-to-show-the-workers-solidarity-and-help-to-stop-the-lawlessness-in-belarus/ Statement of the Presidium TO INTERNATIONAL TRADE UNION COMMUNITY of the Belarusian Trade Union of Radio-Electronic Industry Workers (REP Trade … [Read more...]
People on the streets: Bolsonaro out, Covid out!
An article by Silvana Harte Suddenly Brazil explodes with people on the streets of the cities and demands for the Health Minister to go. The crisis of Bolonsaro’s regime runs deep as suddenly the astronomic Covid figures of infection and death rise and register a political impact from the towns to the countryside. There’s a long history to the collapsing health system; the hospitals were … [Read more...]
WIN’s Tasks Today
I am posting here an edited version of the contribution I made to yesterday’s session of the Workers’ International Network conference. All comments are welcome! Roger Silverman * * * * This discussion today is of vital importance. At our previous sessions we have drawn attention to what is rapidly looking like a worldwide uprising taking place across all the continents. Every day we see … [Read more...]
WIN Conference: Session 2
The second session of WIN’s conference was held on 16th January, with participants logged on from countries encompassing the globe from the USA to the Philippines and from Sweden to South Africa (twenty countries in total). The conference continued the discussion from the previous session on the document 2020 VISION: World Perspectives and on a new Perspectives Supplement on the Pandemic. The … [Read more...]