Moscow Carine Clement directs a small NGO with five staff called the Institute for Collective Action in Moscow that supports nascent movements building around housing and other issues throughout Russia. It was hard not to continually think about the fact that she was a French woman who had come to the country a dozen years …
Author: wade
Organizing Unions in Russia
Moscow Many of us were perhaps a little the worst for wear, but Kirill Buketov, an organizer for the International Union of Food Workers (IUF) had also flown in the previous night from Seoul, so no one was likely to notice. Kirill had begun his career on the shop floor in 1989 and was …
On the Western Front
Paris It was not part of the plan, but it seems I’m spending the day in Paris or whatever suburb the Charles DeGaulle International Airport might call home, having flown overnight from Atlanta, landed at 10:30 in the morning this time and now delayed so that I won’t leave here, if lucky, until 6:15 …