- Saturday Dec 1,2007 12:20 PM
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- In Analysis and research, Peter Waterman
The International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) has issued a statement that publicly endorses the World Social Forum’s Day of Action, 2008. Although the ITUC and its forerunners have increasingly attended events of the WSF at both global and lower levels, attendance has not previously been marked by such an appeal. The event now being promoted intended to take place locally but worldwide, substitutes for the customary five-day event concentrated in specific Third World cities. December 2007. See pdf file.
- Sunday Jul 1,2007 06:02 PM
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- In Analysis and research, Peter Waterman
This Peter Waterman’s review article covers five recent books and two websites concerned with international labour struggles and/or labour internationalism. It cnsiders these in the light not of classical or contemporary labour theory or ideologies but in that of the global justice and solidarity movement and a new orientation toward global social emancipation. July 2007. See pdf file.
- Tuesday May 29,2007 07:54 PM
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- In Analysis and research, Peter Waterman
Lecture Outline, The Hague, May 28, 2008. By Peter Waterman
1. Introduction
a. Rather than a general argument concerning the Marxist understanding of the labour movement, this is a consideration of what happened to the specifically Marxist (and general socialist) understanding of the role of this movement in the contemporary struggle for human emancipation (more…)
- Wednesday Jan 10,2007 05:28 PM
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- In Analysis and research, Peter Waterman
Following the World Social Forum (WSF) 2002, Peter Waterman wrote a piece on “The Still Unconsummated Marriage of International Unionism and the Global Justice Movement”. If the preparations for the Nairobi WSF, 2007, are anything to go by, “it looks as if we might be able to talk at least about an engagement. There are two striking features about these preparations; the first is that the newly-merged International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) is coming in forcefully, under the banner of ‘Decent Work’. The second is the at least marginal presence of autonomous labour groups with an orientation toward what might just be conceived as the ‘Emancipation of Labour’. Source IPS, January 2007. See full text
- Monday Jan 1,2007 04:35 PM
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- In Analysis and research, Peter Waterman
Democracy, Substance and Debate in the Bamako Appeal and the Global Justice Movements. Capitalism is a world-wide system; therefore, its victims cannot effectively meet its challenges unless they organise themselves at that same global level. Yet “the Internationalism of the Peoples” has always had to confront serious difficulties produced by the unequal development associated with the globalisation of capital” (Samir Amin). Jai Sen and Madhuresh Kumar with Patrick Bond and Peter Waterman; Compilers. January 2007. Published by CACIM, New Delhi and CCS, Durban. January 2007. See book on line.
