WWMP E-Newsletter Friday 15 November 2013

[Lynn T]

Workers’ World Weekly E-Newsletter Date: Friday,15 November 2013 Labour news you cannot afford to miss!!! Follow the link below for the latest http://wwmp.org.za END OF YEAR BUMPER EDITION!!!!!!!!! SEXUAL VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN 1.       Anene Booysen: Why India and SA Responded Rifferently to Two Brutal Rapes LABOUR 1.    Numsa Special Congress Promo 2.    Labor Shortage Drives up Wages 3.    McPay Your McWorkers McNow 4.    US Boeing Workers Rebel Against Machinist Union’s Sellout Contract 5.    Twitter’s I.P.O. Draws Protesters to Company’s San Francisco Offices 6.    Outside Twitter's Headquarters, a Mix of Happy Employees and Angry Protesters 7.    Rank-and-File Reformers Oust 'In Bed' Rhode Island Teamsters 8.       NUM's Decline Rooted in the Compound REPORTS FROM CHINA 1.       Beijing Weighs Bigger Private Role in State Firms Reforming State-Owned Enterprises Has Been Thorny Because of Their Size, Political Clout 2.       China’s Pledge of Big Reforms Cements Era of Market Forces 3.       US Think Tank Report: Australia Central to American War Plans Against China 4.       The CCP's Master Plan - China’s Market Enigma POLITICS 1.       S.African Organization Ends Ties with G4S Security Over Mangaung Torture & Israeli Prisons 2.       Despite the State's Violence, our Fight to Escape the Mud, Shit and Fire of South Africa's Slums Will Continue 3.       Pakistan’s Malala and the ‘White Man’s Burden’ 4.       They destroy We suffer 5.       Storied Party of Mandela Faces South Africa Unrest 6.       ‘World Class’ for the few, ‘third class’ for the Rest MEDIA & COMMUNICATIONS 1.       Kenyatta Declines to Sign Controversial Media Bill   Dear Comrades   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. For more information, contact Tiny Magija: ti...@wwmp.org.za/ Tel +27 11 403 1877 Anene Booysen: Why India and SA Responded Rifferently to Two Brutal Rapes In the media storm that followed the murder of Anene Booysen on 2 February this year, it was hard not to ask the question... Read more...http://www.daily   Numsa Special Congress Promo Although China used to possess a sufficient labor force, the shrinking of its working-age population has begun to cast a shadow upon the nation's economy in recent years... Click here to watch... http://www.youtube   Labor Shortage Drives up Wages Although China used to possess a sufficient labor force, the shrinking of its working-age population has begun to cast a shadow upon the nation's economy in recent years... Read more...http://www.china   McPay Your McWorkers McNow McDonald's can afford to pay its employees a living wage. Instead it's gobbling up oversized profits -- $5.46 billion last year... Read more...http://www.rootsaction   US Boeing Workers Rebel Against Machinist Union’s Sellout Contract Thousands of Boeing workers walked off the job temporarily after an explosive union meeting the night before at which workers denounced the International Association of Machinists (IAM) Read more...http://www.wsws   Twitter’s I.P.O. Draws Protesters to Company’s San Francisco Offices Some 150 protesters gathered outside Twitter’s headquarters on Thursday, the first day of the company’s stock trading on the New York Stock Exchange... Read more...http://bits.blogs   Outside Twitter's Headquarters, a Mix of Happy Employees and Angry Protesters While Twitter executives and founders celebrated the company's first day of public trading Thursday on Wall Street, the scene was much less jubilant on Market Street... Read more...http://www.mercurynews   Rank-and-File Reformers Oust 'In Bed' Rhode Island Teamsters Teamster rank and filers in Rhode Island were voted into office by members fed up with the old leaders they said were corrupt... Read more...http://www.labornotes   Beijing Weighs Bigger Private Role in State Firms China is considering letting private investors take larger stakes in state-controlled firms... Read more...http://online   China’s Pledge of Big Reforms Cements Era of Market Forces China’s ruling Communist party pledged a “decisive” role for the market as it outlined sweeping reforms at the close of a conclave intended to map the country’s direction for the next decade... Read more...http://www.ft US Think Tank Report: Australia Central to American War Plans Against China A lengthy report released by the US-based think tank, the Centre for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, provides a detailed assessment of Australia’s central strategic role in the Pentagon’s preparations for war with China... Read more...http://www.wsws The CCP's Master Plan - China’s Market Enigma “The focus of the restructuring of the economic system … is to allow the market [forces] to play a ‘decisive role’ in the allocation of resources.” Read more...http://www.counterpunch   NUM's Decline Rooted in the Compound The volatility and violence in labour relations on South Africa’s mines  runs a lot deeper than mere competition between two trade unions... Read more...http://www.miningmx   S.African Organization Ends Ties with G4S Security Over Mangaung Torture & Israeli Prisons Well-known South African human rights organization terminates its relationship with the controversial G4S security company... Read more...http://ymlp.com/z6GuTy   Despite the State's Violence, our Fight to Escape the Mud, Shit and Fire of South Africa's Slums Will Continue Members of our shack-dwellers movement face torture and assassination. But we will not let our cities become ATMs for the rich Share 12.. Read more...http://www.theguardian   Pakistan’s Malala and the ‘White Man’s Burden’ The autobiography of Malala Yousafazi, the young Pakistani girl who survived an assassination attempt by the Taliban, is banned from schools in Pakistan. Read more...http://rt.com   They Destroy We suffer Capitalism is destroying the planet.  Now we suffer. Read more...http://partidong   Storied Party of Mandela Faces South Africa Unrest When Alton Dalasile got his first job as a miner in the late 1980s, he immediately joined the National Union of Mineworkers, a powerful organization... Click here to watch...http://www.youtube   ‘World class’ for the few, ‘third class’ for the Rest “A council member told me we are too dirty to fish there … they are putting on a party to tell the world it is a beautiful country, but poor people are being trampled on.” Read more...http://www.sacsis   Kenyatta Declines to Sign Controversial Media Bill The International Press Institute (IPI) today welcomed indications that Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta will not sign a controversial media bill that was approved by parliament last month... Read more...http://www.screen    Tune in to SAfm (104-107) Every Wednesday At 10.am Wednesday  20 November  Call in on 089 110 4207 with your views to participate in the show! http://tunein.com/radio/SAFM-1051-s6404/     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 Copyright ©WORKERS' WORLD MEDIA PRODUCTIONS 2013 All rights reserved. Our mailing address is: Ly...@wwmp.org.za Lynn Thompson unsubscribe from this list    update subscription preferences