For what was once International Working Women’s Day, before it became International Women’s Day upon being co-opted by the UN and its corporate sponsors, we have written on 8 struggles throughout h
150 years ago, on 5 March 1871, just a few days before the Paris Commune briefly gave the working class a taste of power, Rosa Luxemburg was born in the small city of Zamo??, modern day Poland.
(Review of the documentary “We the Workers” (2017), directed by Wenhai Huang.)
Little noticed at the time, few events in working class history have provoked so much emotional response, or have led to so many myths down the years, as the revolt at the Kronstadt naval base in R
1. The student protests in Istanbul, and later in other cities in Turkey, began with the government’s appointment of the new rector to Bo?aziçi University.
(Discussion with the Angry Workers of the World (AWW))
Since 1 January the streets of what used to be known as Burma have filled with demonstrations nearly every day.
