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Workers’ World Weekly E-Newsletter
Date: Monday, 10 February 2014
Labour news you cannot afford
to miss!!!
Follow the link below for the latest http://wwmp.org.za
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LABOUR
- Labour Rights
Groups Condemn Violence Against garment Workers in Cambodia
- Cambodian Forces
open Fire as Factory Strikes Turn Violent
- "On The
Right Track"Korean
Railway Workers Union Fights
For Workers Democracy And Against Privatization
- 100,000 AMCU
Workers to Down Tools as Amcu Calls A Strike
- How Walmart
Organizers Turned the Internet Into a Shop Floor
- 80,000 South
African Platinum Miners Strike for a Living Wage
- How Silicon Valley's Most Celebrated CEOs
Conspired to Drive Down 100, 000 Tech Engineers' Wages
- 47% Of All Jobs
Will Be Automated By 2034, and 'No Government Is Prepared'
Says Economist
- Will Robots
Steal our Jobs? The Humble Loom Suggests Not
- Four Bodies in
Three Weeks
POLITICS
- Big Data + Big
Pharma = Big Money
- An Apartheid
Legal System Just Got Worse
- ANC manifesto:
Cosatu's Strange Addiction to a Cycle of Abuse
- Israeli War
Profiteering in Africa:
Following the Money
- Capitalism, We
Have a Problem
- Growing
Contradictions In Turkish Capitalist Class "this is treason
against this country"
- Legislative
Jigsaw Puzzle Undermines Rights of Communities Affected by
Mining Pollution
- Marx Was Right:
5 Surprising Ways Karl
Marx Predicted 2014
- Almost
Everything in "Dr Strangelove" Was True
MEDIA AND COMMUNICATION
- Kenyan Media Wins First Round
Battle
Over Oppressive Media Laws
- Fast Internet Is
Chattanooga’s
New Locomotive
- SABC Run by
'Dummies'
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Please join the list of
supporters for the Justice4PinkyMosiane
Campaign.
Pinky Mosiane was raped and murdered on February
6th 2012 at Anglo-Platinum’s Khomanani Mine, where she’d been
working underground for 3 months.
About
this group
The Justice4PinkyMosiane
Campaign advocates justice for Pinky,
mobilises action to address the crisis of violence against women in
South Africa
and raises the plight of women mineworkers.
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Labour Rights
Groups Condemn Violence Against Garment Workers in Cambodia
Labour rights groups and trade unions across the world are
expressing outrage at the brutual violence and repression in Cambodia
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Read more...https://www.cleanclothes
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Cambodian Forces
open Fire as Factory Strikes Turn Violent
A dispute over increases to Cambodia's minimum wage
levels has led to a virtual shutdown of the country's garment
industry.
Read more...http://www.systemiccapital
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"On The
Right Track"Korean
Railway Workers Union Fights For
Workers Democracy And Against Privatization
Korean railway workers have a long
powerful history. The leadership of the union was murdered during
the Korean war and a
corrupt leadership was brought into run the union.
Click to watch here...http://www.youtube
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100,000 AMCU
Workers to Down Tools as Amcu Calls A Strike
The Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (Amcu) has
called a strike over pay at sites run by the three top world
producers of platinum.
Read more...http://www.citypress
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How Walmart
Organizers Turned the Internet Into a Shop Floor
The basic tools of labor organizing haven't changed in hundreds of
years. There's no substitute for face-to-face conversations about
working conditions and what can be done to change them..
Read more...http://inthesetimes
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80,000 South
African Platinum Miners Strike for a Living Wage
In South Africa,
miners have rejected a 9 percent wage increase offer from the
platinum industry as their strike enters its second week. Tens of
thousands of members of the Association of Mineworkers and
Construction Union, or AMCU, walked off the job last week to
protest harsh working conditions.
Read more...http://therealnews
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How Silicon Valley's Most Celebrated CEOs
Conspired to Drive Down 100, 000 Tech Engineers' Wages
In early 2005, as demand for Silicon Valley
engineers began booming, Apple's Stev Jobs sealed a secret and
illegal pact with Google's Eric Schmidt to artificially push their
workers wages lower...
Read more...http://pando.com
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47% Of All Jobs
Will Be Automated By 2034, and 'No Government Is Prepared'
Says Economist
Almost half of all jobs could be automated by computers within
two decades and "no government is prepared" for the
tsunami of social change that will follow, according to the
Economist.
Read more..http://www.huffingtonpost
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Will Robots Steal
our Jobs? The Humble Loom Suggests Not
Two hundred years ago the Industrial Revolution came to America on the banks of the Charles
River in Waltham,
Mass., where in
1814, the Boston Manufacturing Company built the first
integrated textile mill.
Read more...http://www.washingtonpost
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Four Bodies in
Three Weeks
Within three weeks of the start of the new year, police killed four
unarmed people during protests - Jan Rivombo, Mike Tshele, Osia
Rahube and Lerato Seema. Rivombo sold fruit...
Read more...http://sacsis
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Big Data + Big
Pharma = Big Money
Need another reminder of how much drugmakers spend to discover what
doctors are prescribing? Look no further than new documents from
the leading keeper of such data.
Read more...http://www.propublica
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An Apartheid
Legal System Just Got Worse
The order issued by the commander of the Central Command, Maj. Gen.
Nitzan Alon, which prohibits Palestinians from appealing military
court decisions to confiscate their property...
Read more...https://portside
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ANC manifesto:
Cosatu's Strange Addiction to a Cycle of Abuse
Cosatu president S’dumo Dlamini’s announcement at the
ANC rally in Mbombela on Saturday that “Cosatu supports the
manifesto. We call all our members to support the manifesto.
Read more...http://www.dailymaverick
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Israeli War
Profiteering in Africa: Following
the Money
The mining magnate Cecil Rhodes and the British High Commissioner,
Lord Alfred Milner instigated the Anglo-Boer War (South African
War) of 1899-1902. Their purpose was to secure gold and other
natural resources in South Africa...
Read more...http://www.globalresearch
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Capitalism, We
Have a Problem
We've long known that life isn't fair and that the world's wealth
is unevenly distributed.
But the latest factoid from Oxfam on global poverty and inequality
is breathtaking...
Read more...http://www.iol
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Growing
Contradictions In Turkish Capitalist Class "this is treason
against this country"
Turkey’s
top business group is the latest entity to be declared a
“traitor” for its warnings on judicial
interference by an increasingly irate Prime Minister
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who is sparing no effort to hit out at
his perceived enemies at home and abroad.
Read more...http://www.hurriyetdaily
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Legislative
Jigsaw Puzzle Undermines Rights of Communities Affected by Mining
Pollution
Communities that live close to mines have the hardest time
preventing or halting pollution from mining activities, as unlike
other business sectors, the Department of Mineral Resources (DMR)
itself has always policed the mining sector.
Read more...http://pando.com
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Marx Was Right: 5
Surprising Ways Karl
Marx Predicted 2014
Ther's a lot of talk of Karl
Marx in the air these days - from Rush Linbaugh accusing Pope
Francis of promoting "pure Marxism" to a Washington Times
writer claiming that New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is an
"unrepentant Marxist"
Read more...http://www.rollingstone
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Almost Everything
in "Dr Strangelove" Was True
This month marks the fiftieth anniversary of Stanley Kubrick’s black comedy about
nuclear weapons, “Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop
Worrying and Love the Bomb.” Its plot suggested that a
mentally deranged American general could order a nuclear attack on
the Soviet Union,
Read more...https://portside
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Kenyan Media Wins
First Round Battle
Over Oppressive Media Laws
The Kenyan media
fraternity on scored a major victory against a determined push by
the government to implement two media laws that were passed by the
National Assembly despite opposition by media industry
stakeholders...
Read more...http://www.fesmedia
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Fast Internet Is
Chattanooga’s New Locomotive
For thousands of years, Native Americans used the river banks
here to cross a gap in the Appalachian
Mountains, and trains sped through during
the Civil War to connect the eastern and western parts of
the Confederacy. In the 21st century, it is the Internet that
passes through Chattanooga,
and at lightning speed.
Read more...http://www.nytimes
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SABC Run by
'Dummies'
A skills audit has found that more than half of the SABC's
executives and senior managers are unable to solve problems or make
strategic decisions.The PricewaterhouseCoopers audit stated that
the incompetence was worst at the top level in the broadcast technology
division.
Read more...http://m.times
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Cape Town TV broadcasts
throughout the greater Cape Town Metropole.
CTV is available on DSTV on channel 263 as well as an
additional frequency (channel 32) on
the UHF band.
You can also watch our live stream at www.capetowntv.org
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