Mexican Truckers Declare Strike
Mexico, Feb 5 (Prensa Latina)
Mexican
transport workers confirmed on Thursday they will hold a national
strike on February 16, urging the government to freeze fuel prices.
The president of the Alliance of Autonomous Transport Workers, Jaime
Soberanes, said five million workers from the sector will stop their
activities that day to press the federal government cope with their
demands.
If no positive answer is made, the strike could drag out indefinitely,
they warned.
Soberanes stressed that the 75 percent reduction in the monthly
adjustment in oil prices, announced last week by President Felipe
Calderon, fails to solve the situation of transport workers, who have
to face ever increasing prices.
http://www.plenglish.com/article.asp?ID=%7BD59E9644-8DF1-4348-85CD-89C57BD80616%7D)&language=EN
The postman who wants to deliver the end of capitalism
M. Besancenot's old party, despite its workerist rhetoric, was
mostly middle-aged and middle class. The new party to be born this
weekend will be younger and will include some working-class, trade
union activists but will be dominated by the "lost" generations of
French middle-class youth who reject middle-class ideas – extreme
ecologists, feminists and anti-globalists, people who are fiercely in
favour of illegal immigrants or fiercely opposed to advertising.
The NPA already claims almost 9,000 members. This is three
times as many as the outgoing LCR, the most powerful of the many French
Trotskyist groups, which will "dissolve itself" tomorrow to provide the
organisational structure and the leader of the new party.
Above all, the leader. The NPA – or whatever it finally calls itself –
is unashamedly a vehicle for the personality and communication skills
of the LCR's "spokesman" M. Besancenot. Le petit facteur (the little
postman) with the clean-cut looks and jargon-free language was the
political revelation of the 2002 and 2007 presidential elections.
What if M. Besancenot has merely invented a new form of
Trotskyist "entryism"? Trotskyist "entryists", or moles, disguised
themselves as moderate members of mainstream parties. M. Besancenot is,
arguably, trying to create a kind of "political entryism by an entire
party". He has cleverly re-packaged radical politics for a disaffected,
but non-ideological, age.
more:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/the-postman-who-wants-to-deliver-the-end-of-capitalism-1545015.html
Marxist Feminist Con song & Socialist Tennis Comp
Marxist Feminist Conference (song tune Chatanouga Choo Choo)
Pardon me girls Is this the International conference ?
Be there at nine, to get the Marxist line, You'll get the surplus value theory at a quarter past nine
Objective reality will be redefined.
Dialectics in the diner Nothing could be finer
Than to discuss dogma With a correct liner
Ain't it just great To be a first class fellow traveller?
No flies on me I got my PhD
Caviar and Kapital in 4 Star Hotels
Gee, the revolution sure is treating us well!
Working class is sinking Vanguard keeps on drinking
Marxist you're productive, If you just sit there thinking.
WILL THE REAL LEADERSHIP OF THE WORKING CLASS PLEASE STAND UP ? Part 457.
France: What is the LCR’s New Anti-Capitalist Party? By Alex Lantier 5 February 2009
The Ligue Communiste Révolutionnaire (LCR) is holding a special congress on February 5-8 to dissolve its organization and, in its place, to found the New Anti-Capitalist Party (Nouveau Parti Anti-Capitaliste, NPA). According to the LCR's own documents, the NPA will renounce a socialist orientation to the working class and the revolutionary struggle for a workers government, while orienting itself to a broad political milieu including tendencies that explicitly oppose revolution. read more: http://www.wsws.org/articles/2009/feb2009/lcrc-f05.shtml