Stop Hugo Boss from Eliminating 400 Jobs

 

Workers United members are fighting Hugo Boss's decision to close its factory in Cleveland and eliminate 400 good-paying union jobs. The company claims it can no longer afford to keep the plant open- but their own quarterly reports show that Hugo Boss made more than $140 million in profits in the first nine months of 2009 alone. The workers in Cleveland will continue to fight for their jobs and are organizing events to draw attention to Hugo Boss' shameful behavior. Email Hugo Boss Chief Operating Officer Dr. Andreas Stockert ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) and tell him to keep the plant open. Watch a video of Hugo Boss workers. Please take action now!! We need to prevent Hugo Boss from leaving Cleveland. The workers are counting you!

Questions: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or 440-333-7007

 

 

 

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Fund Raiser

Youth, Homeless People and the People of Haiti need our help!

Fundraiser on Saturday January 23rd, 12 noon.

14100 Lakeshore, Cleveland, Ohio

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Class class - starts tonight

January 22nd

Are you interested in participating in a 10 week long reading/discussion group on class?

Please contact us for further details

This syllabus was organized by some women from Pittsburgh, interested in the topic of class and effects of classism. Readings are all available online. The intention of this course is to create a safe space for people in Cleveland to gather together and be part of a learning/unlearning experience with others.


The course starts tonight at 7pm and will be held at Pilgrim Church in Tremont

The syllabus is as follows:-


1) Introductions

2) Race and Class I


3) Race and Class II


4) Gender/Sexuality and Class


5) Movie! Stranger with a Camera – 61 minutes –


Stranger with a Camera investigates the 1967 killing of Canadian filmmaker Hugh O’Connor who was shot while capturing images of poverty in the Kentucky coalfields. Director Elizabeth Barret looks at the death of O’Connor and the moticiation of Hobart Ison, the irate property owner who shot him. Through her exploration of the tragic incident and its aftermath, Barret refelcts on the nature and consequence of med ia making.


6) International Spin – Global Classism


7) Institutionalized Class


8) Pittsburgh and Class


9) Rich and Class (privledge and stereotypes of)


10) Activism and Class

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International News

Greece: Strikes greet austerity measures

Less than 24h after the announcement of the hardest austerity measures in the history of the greek republic, strikes have erupted in the public sector


Greece: "No margin for blockades and strikes" announces PM before tide of labour action



Honduran resistance in the streets of Tegucigalpa

Hundreds of thousands of Hondurans took to the streets on Wednesday, January 27 to protest the inauguration of Porfirio "Pepe" Lobo Soza.


Repression in Honduras



Howard Zinn dies, aged 87



The Crisis of Capital: 
Economy, Ecology, and Empire

by John Bellamy Foster

"We are being told that this is simply another economic crisis and we're now in the midst of recovery, and we'll be out of it and everything will be fine.  What I'm trying to suggest here is that we're facing something else.  It isn't simply a crisis in capitalism; it's a crisis of capitalism."


South Africa: New wave of repression



Greece: Farmer's offensive brings nation to a standstill



Haiti: Fault line of neoliberal imperialism

"The media coverage repeatedly state that the government was completely unprepared to deal with the crisis. This is true. But they left out why."



Mexico: Wildcat strikes at Luz y Fuerza as union abandons workers


Greece: As debt crisis deepens labor minister warns - "There will be blood"

Britain: Building left unity out of the wreckage


French radical philosopher and political leader Daniel Bensaïd dies after long battle with HIV

Author and socialist Gilbert Achcar pays tribute to his comrade


Copenhagen (The Guardian): Climate protests live blog

• More than 100 climate activists have been arrested for trying to break into the talks
• Police hav e fired teargas at protesters 
• Inside the talks remain deadlocked as the chair of conference Connie Hedegaard resigns.
Follow live updates



David Harvey: Organizing for the anti-capitalist transition

"The historical geography of capitalist development is at a key inflexion point in which the geographical configurations of power are rapidly shifting at the very moment when the temporal dynamic is facing very serious constraints."


South Africa: Rustenburg miners' strike - solidarity urgently needed



Copenhagen: Danish police detain nearly 1,000 during large protest



Wildcat strikes of Czech workers in Hyundai and Dymos get massive attention


Copenhagen - Klimaforum09: Naomi Klein calls for disobedience as Copenhagen deal could be "worst kind of disaster capitalism"



Copenhagen: UN talks in disarray after leak of 'rich nations' secret agreement to monopolize climate power



Second day of clashes in Greece


Athens (Libcom): Riots and police brutality on first day of Alexandros murder anniversary


Athens (The Guardian): Riots break out at Alexandros murder anniversary



Britain: Fascists attack asian students during troop parade in Nottingham


Read more here


The Story of Cap and Trade

is a fast-paced, fact-filled video looking at the leading climate solution being discussed at the climate talks in Copenhagen. Cap and trade is also variously described as "carbon trading'' and "emissions trading''.



A lesson from Seattle for Copenhagen: Vigorous activism can defeat the denialists.


Spread the Word!  U.S. Should Not Recognize Sham Honduras Elections



Tension in Greece before critical weekend

Honduran elections marred by police violence, censorship, international non-recognition

 

Venezuela: Anti-police impunity activist assassinated


Response of Forth International leader to Chavez's call for a new International


'The Caracas Commitment' -- Declaration from World meeting of left parties


Chavez calls for formation of Fifth Socialist International: Either socialism is built globally or there will be no 22nd century for humanity... "The time has come for us to organise the Fifth International."

See also Chavez calls for international socialist unity and Chavez's Historic Call for a Fifth Socialist Internatio t;/span>nal


U.S. group that supported overthrows of democratically elected governments in Haiti and Venezuela will observe this weekend's elections in Honduras


Athens under siege: Police HQ attacked, hundreds detained, many wounded


Moscow anti-fascist activist Ivan “Vanya Kostolom” Khutorskoy shot dead at his home

 

BBC opinion poll: Almost a quarter of people across 27 countries believe that capitalism is fatally flawed



Portugal: What's behind the success of the Left Bloc?



Honduras: Why the resistance will boycott the elections


Discussion Group

This week's discussion group topic is "Collective Infrastructure and Local Systems"


Recommended reading material:


Collective Action, Economic Development, and the Early National Security State, by Adler, W. D. - (please request abstract by email)

Community-Based Natural Resource Management: Governing the Commons, by Fabricius, C. - (please request abstract by email)

Homebrew Industrial Revolution, by Kevin Carson - follow link to the PDF

The Myth of the Tragedy of the Commons, by Ian Angus

Co-operatives: All in this Together? - article and discussion thread on libcom.org

Stateless Communism - Wiki entry


For the purposes of discussion we suggest the following considerations when reading this material:-

1) Is transformation of capital from private to collective ownership a prerequisite for the abolition of class and establishment of a classless society?

2) What do we mean by "collective ownership"?

3) Can a market economy be classless?

4) As long as there are class antagonisms within society a state apperatus is required to subordinate the majority lower class to the minority higher class. Is a classless society a prerequisite for a stateless society?