BANKS GOT BAILED OUT......WE GOT $OLD OUT!
PROTEST BANK OF AMERICA& MOVE YOUR MONEY DAY SATURDAY JAN. 14™ - NOON
1400 HANCOCK ST. - QUINCY CENTER
STOP HOME FORECLOSURES
BANK OF AMERICA SERVICES OVER 1.1 MILLION HOMES THAT ARE FACING FORECLOSURE AND REFUSES TO MAKE LOAN MODIFICATIONS TO 95% OF THOSE WHO ARE ELIGIBLE.
BANK OF AMERICA IS MAKING OUR NEIGHBORS HOMELESS A\D DESTROYING COMMUNITIES.
STOP CORPORATE GREED
BANK OF AMERICA GOT BAILOUTS AND LOAN GUARANTEES INCLUDING $45 I BILLION IN TARP FUNDS.
THEY USED THIS MONEY TO PAY BONUSES TO THE PEOPLE WHO CAUSED THE MESS, HIRE LOBBYISTS TO OPPOSE; TOUGHER BANK REGULATIONS AND TO FUND ANTI-UNION EFFORTS.
TAX THE RICH
BANK OF AMERICA PAID NO TAXES IN 2009 AND ACTUALLY RECEIVED A NEARLY $2 BILLION TAX BENEFIT FROM THE GOVERNMENT
TWO-THIRDS OF All CORPORATIONS PAY NO FEDERAL INCOME TAX.
GET ORGANIZED
THE OCCUPY MOVEMENT HAS SPARKED A DISCUSSION ABOUT ECONOMIC
IN EQUALITY IN THIS COUNTRY AND GROUPS ARE FORMING IN CITIES AND TOWNS EVERYWHERE TO ORGANIZE THIS MOMENTUM INTO MEANINGFUL CHANGE. GET INVOLVED.
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Friday, January 13, 2012
Monday, January 09, 2012
From The "IWW (Industrial Workers Of The World, Wobblies)" Website- "Preamble to the IWW Constitution (1905)"
Click on the headline to link to the IWW (Industrial Workers Of The World, Wobblies)website.
Markin comment:
On a day when socialists and communists honor the anniversary of the Russian revolution of 1905 it seems appropriate to publish the preamble to the IWW constitution, a workers organization founded here in America in that same year. Although many disputes, and many miles, separate us from the old Wobblies a reading of the Preamble reads like it could have been written today. Certainly the anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist sentiments expressed apply, apply big time, today.
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Preamble to the IWW Constitution
Posted Sun, 05/01/2005 - 8:34am by IWW.org Editor
The working class and the employing class have nothing in common. There can be no peace so long as hunger and want are found among millions of the working people and the few, who make up the employing class, have all the good things of life.
Between these two classes a struggle must go on until the workers of the world organize as a class, take possession of the means of production, abolish the wage system, and live in harmony with the Earth.
We find that the centering of the management of industries into fewer and fewer hands makes the trade unions unable to cope with the ever growing power of the employing class. The trade unions foster a state of affairs which allows one set of workers to be pitted against another set of workers in the same industry, thereby helping defeat one another in wage wars. Moreover, the trade unions aid the employing class to mislead the workers into the belief that the working class have interests in common with their employers.
These conditions can be changed and the interest of the working class upheld only by an organization formed in such a way that all its members in any one industry, or in all industries if necessary, cease work whenever a strike or lockout is on in any department thereof, thus making an injury to one an injury to all.
Instead of the conservative motto, "A fair day's wage for a fair day's work," we must inscribe on our banner the revolutionary watchword, "Abolition of the wage system."
It is the historic mission of the working class to do away with capitalism. The army of production must be organized, not only for everyday struggle with capitalists, but also to carry on production when capitalism shall have been overthrown. By organizing industrially we are forming the structure of the new society within the shell of the old.
Markin comment:
On a day when socialists and communists honor the anniversary of the Russian revolution of 1905 it seems appropriate to publish the preamble to the IWW constitution, a workers organization founded here in America in that same year. Although many disputes, and many miles, separate us from the old Wobblies a reading of the Preamble reads like it could have been written today. Certainly the anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist sentiments expressed apply, apply big time, today.
*******
Preamble to the IWW Constitution
Posted Sun, 05/01/2005 - 8:34am by IWW.org Editor
The working class and the employing class have nothing in common. There can be no peace so long as hunger and want are found among millions of the working people and the few, who make up the employing class, have all the good things of life.
Between these two classes a struggle must go on until the workers of the world organize as a class, take possession of the means of production, abolish the wage system, and live in harmony with the Earth.
We find that the centering of the management of industries into fewer and fewer hands makes the trade unions unable to cope with the ever growing power of the employing class. The trade unions foster a state of affairs which allows one set of workers to be pitted against another set of workers in the same industry, thereby helping defeat one another in wage wars. Moreover, the trade unions aid the employing class to mislead the workers into the belief that the working class have interests in common with their employers.
These conditions can be changed and the interest of the working class upheld only by an organization formed in such a way that all its members in any one industry, or in all industries if necessary, cease work whenever a strike or lockout is on in any department thereof, thus making an injury to one an injury to all.
Instead of the conservative motto, "A fair day's wage for a fair day's work," we must inscribe on our banner the revolutionary watchword, "Abolition of the wage system."
It is the historic mission of the working class to do away with capitalism. The army of production must be organized, not only for everyday struggle with capitalists, but also to carry on production when capitalism shall have been overthrown. By organizing industrially we are forming the structure of the new society within the shell of the old.
From "Occupy Quincy"- PROTEST BANK OF AMERICA& MOVE YOUR MONEY DAY SATURDAY JAN. 14™ - NOON
BANKS GOT BAILED OUT......WE GOT $OLD OUT!
PROTEST BANK OF AMERICA& MOVE YOUR MONEY DAY SATURDAY JAN. 14™ - NOON
1400 HANCOCK ST. - QUINCY CENTER
STOP HOME FORECLOSURES
BANK OF AMERICA SERVICES OVER 1.1 MILLION HOMES THAT ARE FACING FORECLOSURE AND REFUSES TO MAKE LOAN MODIFICATIONS TO 95% OF THOSE WHO ARE ELIGIBLE.
BANK OF AMERICA IS MAKING OUR NEIGHBORS HOMELESS A\D DESTROYING COMMUNITIES.
STOP CORPORATE GREED
BANK OF AMERICA GOT BAILOUTS AND LOAN GUARANTEES INCLUDING $45 I BILLION IN TARP FUNDS.
THEY USED THIS MONEY TO PAY BONUSES TO THE PEOPLE WHO CAUSED THE MESS, HIRE LOBBYISTS TO OPPOSE; TOUGHER BANK REGULATIONS AND TO FUND ANTI-UNION EFFORTS.
TAX THE RICH
BANK OF AMERICA PAID NO TAXES IN 2009 AND ACTUALLY RECEIVED A NEARLY $2 BILLION TAX BENEFIT FROM THE GOVERNMENT
TWO-THIRDS OF All CORPORATIONS PAY NO FEDERAL INCOME TAX.
GET ORGANIZED
THE OCCUPY MOVEMENT HAS SPARKED A DISCUSSION ABOUT ECONOMIC
IN EQUALITY IN THIS COUNTRY AND GROUPS ARE FORMING IN CITIES AND
TOWNS EVERYWHERE TO ORGANIZE THIS MOMENTUM INTO MEANINGFUL CHANGE. GET INVOLVED.
OCCUPYSOUTHSHORE@GMAIL.COM OCCUPYQUINCY.ORG FIND OCCUPY QUINCY &
OCCUPY WEYMOUTH ON FACEBOOK
PROTEST BANK OF AMERICA& MOVE YOUR MONEY DAY SATURDAY JAN. 14™ - NOON
1400 HANCOCK ST. - QUINCY CENTER
STOP HOME FORECLOSURES
BANK OF AMERICA SERVICES OVER 1.1 MILLION HOMES THAT ARE FACING FORECLOSURE AND REFUSES TO MAKE LOAN MODIFICATIONS TO 95% OF THOSE WHO ARE ELIGIBLE.
BANK OF AMERICA IS MAKING OUR NEIGHBORS HOMELESS A\D DESTROYING COMMUNITIES.
STOP CORPORATE GREED
BANK OF AMERICA GOT BAILOUTS AND LOAN GUARANTEES INCLUDING $45 I BILLION IN TARP FUNDS.
THEY USED THIS MONEY TO PAY BONUSES TO THE PEOPLE WHO CAUSED THE MESS, HIRE LOBBYISTS TO OPPOSE; TOUGHER BANK REGULATIONS AND TO FUND ANTI-UNION EFFORTS.
TAX THE RICH
BANK OF AMERICA PAID NO TAXES IN 2009 AND ACTUALLY RECEIVED A NEARLY $2 BILLION TAX BENEFIT FROM THE GOVERNMENT
TWO-THIRDS OF All CORPORATIONS PAY NO FEDERAL INCOME TAX.
GET ORGANIZED
THE OCCUPY MOVEMENT HAS SPARKED A DISCUSSION ABOUT ECONOMIC
IN EQUALITY IN THIS COUNTRY AND GROUPS ARE FORMING IN CITIES AND
TOWNS EVERYWHERE TO ORGANIZE THIS MOMENTUM INTO MEANINGFUL CHANGE. GET INVOLVED.
OCCUPYSOUTHSHORE@GMAIL.COM OCCUPYQUINCY.ORG FIND OCCUPY QUINCY &
OCCUPY WEYMOUTH ON FACEBOOK
Sunday, January 08, 2012
When The Class Wars Were Red Hot-And Then Got Cold- Art Preis’ “Labor’s Giant Step: 1936-1955”- A Book Review
Click on the headline to link to a Wikipedia entry for the Toledo Auto-Lite Strike of 1934, one of the key union recognition battles in the struggles mentioned in the book under review.
Book Review
Labor’s Giant Step:1936- 1955, Art Preis, Pathfinder Press, New York, 1972
Recently I reviewed in this space a book by 1930s labor organizer, Farrell Dobbs, Teamster Rebellion. In that book Dobbs, one of the central union organizers of the Minneapolis truckers and later the over the road drivers, recounts the details of the 1934 events that led up to the hard fought battle for union recognition in that town. Those actions, along with those in San Francisco and Toledo were the precursors of the later tremendous wave of union struggles in American basic industries. Those events are also essentially the starting point for 1930s labor organizer Art Pres’ book, Labor's Giant Step, alook at the overall labor struggles and especially the formation of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) that was the central organizing body of the time. The rise and fall, as it were, of the CIO which eventually merged with the old-time craft-centered American Federation of Labor (AFL) in 1955 is what drives the narrative of this book.
Under ordinary conditions most labor militants are in favor of two things. First, following the old principle established by the Industrial Workers of The World (IWW) and early Socialist Party, that all workers who work in the same industry combine their strength into one industry- wide union. (As opposed to individual crafts within an industry.) Secondly, that all of organized labor unite their strength in one giant labor federation. (As opposed to one federation for crafts and another for basic industries, or some such combination.) That first idea is what drove the early days of the CIO, the struggle to get previously ignored (by the AFL) industries, whose workers were clamoring for unions, organized. The second idea had to be discarded when the AFL essentially refused to organize basic industry and the CIO broke off (led by mine workers leader John L. Lewis) in order to organize those workers.
Brother Preis’ valuable labor history book outlines in detail both of the above propositions from the dark days of the early Great Depression when work was scarce and worker scared to the radical days of the great strikes of 1934 (Minneapolis, San Francisco, Toledo) onward to the fierce sit-down strikes of the later 1930s (Detroit, Flint and one hundred other places). He also deals with the downside efforts like the Little Steel organizing disaster. Moreover he has his pulse on what the rising labor leaders, including the radicals, socialists, and communists were up to and far they could be pushed, if they could be.
Preis’ story of the CIO, as noted above, was not just about its rise but also its fall back into some of the same labor skate notions of the AFL, especially during the “no strike” pledge World War II period, the lull before the storm immediate post-war period when labor strikes were a dime a dozen, and then into that cold war, red scare, throw the militants out of the unions, step in line with the capitalists’ foreign policy death dark night. And at that point as Preis (and others) makes clear the basis for separate federations was no longer clear. Thus labor militants in 1955 would have had a “no dog in that fight” attitude on the question of unification just as is our attitude today with the two separate major labor federations. Read this well researched book and learn about our common, unsung working class history.
Book Review
Labor’s Giant Step:1936- 1955, Art Preis, Pathfinder Press, New York, 1972
Recently I reviewed in this space a book by 1930s labor organizer, Farrell Dobbs, Teamster Rebellion. In that book Dobbs, one of the central union organizers of the Minneapolis truckers and later the over the road drivers, recounts the details of the 1934 events that led up to the hard fought battle for union recognition in that town. Those actions, along with those in San Francisco and Toledo were the precursors of the later tremendous wave of union struggles in American basic industries. Those events are also essentially the starting point for 1930s labor organizer Art Pres’ book, Labor's Giant Step, alook at the overall labor struggles and especially the formation of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) that was the central organizing body of the time. The rise and fall, as it were, of the CIO which eventually merged with the old-time craft-centered American Federation of Labor (AFL) in 1955 is what drives the narrative of this book.
Under ordinary conditions most labor militants are in favor of two things. First, following the old principle established by the Industrial Workers of The World (IWW) and early Socialist Party, that all workers who work in the same industry combine their strength into one industry- wide union. (As opposed to individual crafts within an industry.) Secondly, that all of organized labor unite their strength in one giant labor federation. (As opposed to one federation for crafts and another for basic industries, or some such combination.) That first idea is what drove the early days of the CIO, the struggle to get previously ignored (by the AFL) industries, whose workers were clamoring for unions, organized. The second idea had to be discarded when the AFL essentially refused to organize basic industry and the CIO broke off (led by mine workers leader John L. Lewis) in order to organize those workers.
Brother Preis’ valuable labor history book outlines in detail both of the above propositions from the dark days of the early Great Depression when work was scarce and worker scared to the radical days of the great strikes of 1934 (Minneapolis, San Francisco, Toledo) onward to the fierce sit-down strikes of the later 1930s (Detroit, Flint and one hundred other places). He also deals with the downside efforts like the Little Steel organizing disaster. Moreover he has his pulse on what the rising labor leaders, including the radicals, socialists, and communists were up to and far they could be pushed, if they could be.
Preis’ story of the CIO, as noted above, was not just about its rise but also its fall back into some of the same labor skate notions of the AFL, especially during the “no strike” pledge World War II period, the lull before the storm immediate post-war period when labor strikes were a dime a dozen, and then into that cold war, red scare, throw the militants out of the unions, step in line with the capitalists’ foreign policy death dark night. And at that point as Preis (and others) makes clear the basis for separate federations was no longer clear. Thus labor militants in 1955 would have had a “no dog in that fight” attitude on the question of unification just as is our attitude today with the two separate major labor federations. Read this well researched book and learn about our common, unsung working class history.
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