WHAT IS HAPPENING TO THE WORKERS IN USA

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What is happening to the working class in North America By Fred Weston Back from a recent trip to Canada and the United States, Fred Weston describes what he saw, the effects of the austerity measures on the social fabric of society, the cuts in education and health care, but also the reaction of the working class, such as the growing militant mood among teachers, nurses, refuse collectors... USA: Historic Nurses' Strike in Minnesota By Graeme Anfinson (CWA 37002, personal capacity) The rainy weather and mountain of security guards didn't deter some 12,000 Minnesota nurses from going on a one-day strike at 14 different hospitals across the Twin Cities on Thursday, June 10th. The Minnesota Nurses Association, which is part of the newly formed National Nurses United, voted overwhelmingly for the strike, after hospital administrators refused to respond to even one of the contract negotiation proposals the nurses put forward. This was the largest nurses' strike in U.S. history. A solidarity strike by 13,000 California nurses was also planned, but was eventually blocked by a judge in San Francisco. Witch-hunt against Militant By Ted Grant in 1976 The capitalist crisis of the 1970s, combined with the Labour Party being in government after 1974 and carrying out austerity measures, had the effect of pushing the ranks of the party to the left. In these conditions the ideas of the Marxist wing, gathered around the Militant began to get a wide echo. The Marxists dominated the LPYS, the party youth wing, but were also winning many positions within the party, such as Andy Bevan's selections as the party's national youth officer. This provoked the wrath of the bourgeois media.		ESPAÑOL Introducción a 'Dialéctica de la Naturaleza' By Federico Engels Grecia: Partido de izquierdas Synaspismos apoya la V Internacional By Synaspismos Synaspismos es uno de los principales partidos de izquierda de Grecia y en las elecciones legislativas del 2009 recibió 315,627 votos (4,6%), obteniendo 13 escaños en el parlamento. En su reciénte congreso nacional discutieron (entre otros temas) la cuestión de Venezuela y Cuba y el llamado de Chávez a favor de una V internacional. En dicho debate se votó a favor de la resolución de solidaridad que reproducimos acá por unanimidad. La resolución estaba impulsada por el ala izquierda, entre ellos los seguidores de Marxistiki Foni, la Corriente Marxista Internacional en Grecia.  OTHER LANGUAGES NEA ΓΕΓΟΝΟΤΑ ΚΑΙ ΠΑΛΙΑ ΖΗΤΗΜΑΤΑ By Β. Ι. ΛΕΝΙΝ Με αφορμή το αποψινό αιματηρό χτύπημα στο υπουργείο Δημόσιας Τάξης δημοσιεύουμε ένα άρθρο του Λένιν στην "Iskra" (No. 29, 1/12/ 1902) για το πολιτικό αδιέξοδο της ατομικής τρομοκρατίας. Griechenland: Was nun? By Fred Weston und Stamatis Karagiannopoulos Das krisengebeutelte Griechenland ist längst Testgebiet sowohl für die herrschende Klasse wie auch für die ArbeiterInnenbewegung. Eine Zwischenbilanz des Klassenkampfes in Griechenland ziehen Fred Weston und Stamatis Karagiannopoulos.
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