working class

Some Critical Notes on the Occupy Movement's Attempt at a General Strike in Oakland, California U.S.A..

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 06/12/2011 - 2:49pm

My personal experience of the Nov. 2nd, 2011 attempted general strike in Oakland was a blast. The event was beautiful and exhilarating -- even the colors in the sky were perfect! More importantly, as the first attempt at a general strike in a U.S. city in sixty-six years, I hope Nov. 2nd in Oakland can stir a long-suffering wage-earning class in the United States to see the collective power we can have when we use a mass-scale workplace walkout as a political weapon against the owners of America.

Geography: 
Global/International
Keywords: 
anarchism
working class
Occupy Movement
Marxism

Verdict delivered in case of persecuted Aboriginal family

Submitted by United Front on Thu, 20/10/2011 - 11:37pm

Over the last two days, the verdict was delivered in the case of the five adult defendants arrested on trumped up charges following a violent police raid on the home of an Aboriginal family living in the Outer Western Sydney suburb of Riverstone. The police raided the home after 8am in the morning after the 21st birthday party of "Tisha" (i.e. Letisha) Hickey. During the raid in September last year, Tisha was dragged across the road and crushed by police leaving her with bruises on her arms, legs and stomach. A sleazy male cop also lifted up her skirt and inappropriately touched her.

Geography: 
Sydney
Keywords: 
unions
aboriginal
courts
working class
migrants
Racist Police Brutality