Mumbai All of the large national union federations in India argue that they are independent, autonomous labor federations, but all of them are individually aligned to major political parties and formations whether on the right, left, or middle. No finger pointing is involved, because the same thing is true in the US, Canada, Mexico, and …
Category: Organizing
Movements Take Infrastructure, Not Simply Communication
Delhi Maybe someone out there is hearing our tired, old, boring message: organizing takes hard work! Yes, I’ve said it now, but it was never a secret despite the flutter of excitement about the mirage of so-called Twitter and Facebook “revolutions. In two very interesting pieces, one “After the Protests” by Zeynep Tufekci in …
Privatization Everywhere in UK, and Monopoly Rising in USA
London When privatization of public services is ubiquitous, it’s actually kind of scary, as I just witnessed in England and Scotland. Catching a train from Edinburgh to London, I did a double take when I saw a pink Virgin train rolling down track 3 towards me as I waited to jump from Haymarket to …