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| | Bureaucratism or Workers' Power |
 | | The first Party purge, initiated by Lenin, was aimed at ridding the Party of non-proletarian elements; and to unite the Party at a time of fierce controversy, the brooding Georgian non-entity Stalin, who held no principled position either way, was temporarily elected General Secretary. | | | Reactionary politicians, propped up not by the capitalists, who had fled, but by the bayonets of the Red Army, were imposed on "national" governments. | | | Between 1939 and 1952 there was not a single Party Congress - and even during the Civil War this supreme body of any Bolshevik organisation had met to hammer out a common policy. |
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http://www.newyouth.com/archives/theory/bureaucratism_or_workers.html
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| | Fifth Wheel Internationalists |
| | Workers Power, after almost 30 years spent wandering about in a centrist no-man’s-land between Cliffite reformism and genuine Trotskyism, has apparently drawn the opposite conclusion. | | | Kautsky, the leading theorist of the Second International, argued that Marxists, centrists and reformists all belonged in a single party. | | | In the seminal text of the International Left Opposition, Leon Trotsky ridiculed Stalinist/Menshevik utopian “demands” that petty-bourgeois demagogues, hustlers and bureaucrats (like Chavez, Lula and the WSF honchos) act as revolutionaries: |
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http://www.bolshevik.org/1917/no26/no26lrci.html
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| | Workers Power Global Australian election |
| | It did not have the resources to stand in more than a scattering of the Federal seats, but it put up senate teams in all the states - and this is an important sign of the Alliance's seriousness about building a new force to the left of the current parties. | | | Labor believes that all Australians have a right to equality before the law, to the due process of the law, to protection against discrimination, to freedom of thought, con-science, speech, association, religion and peaceful assembly. | | | This government would be run by workers' councils and defended by the armed power of workers themselves. |
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http://www.fifthinternational.org/LFIfiles/OzHoward.html
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| | This is the region of maximally stable class compromise. | | | This outcome can be called a "positive class compromise." | | | When unions mobilize members to vote in electoral campaigns or when they use their resources to lobby politicians, they constitute a form of working class associational power in the political sphere, whether or not they are closely aligned with a political party. |
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http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/~wright/compromise.html
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| | Mobilize Workers Power to Crush the KKK |
| | Meanwhile, the ACLU’s Norman Siegel defends "free speech" for the lynchers, as Upper West Side liberal Democrat Scott Stringer and black Democrats Al Sharpton and David Paterson are obscenely calling for a rally for "tolerance" by sharing a sound permit with the KKK! | | | It can also provide important backing for the urgent life-and-death struggle to free Mumia Abu-Jamal, the radical black journalist on Pennsylvania’s death row. | | | Labor and the oppressed must break from the Democrats and Republicans — Forge a revolutionary workers party! |
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http://www.internationalist.org/kkkinnyc.html
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| | DSP Program - Workers' democracy and the defence of workers' power |
| | In the sphere of criminal law and justice, a workers' democracy should uphold and extend the progressive conquests of the bourgeois-democratic revolutions, incorporating them into its constitution and penal code. | | | Obviously, every workers' state must defend itself against attempts to overthrow it and violation of its laws. | | | The degree of social cohesion and political identification by the working people with the workers' state and its government. |
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http://www.dsp.org.au/dsp/program/prog44.html
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| | The struggle of power plant workers against privatization will never stop! |
| | The power plant union implemented an extraordinary congress meeting and decided to go on a strike, with 95 out of 113 members in support of the decision. | | | On 19th July 2001, Lee Ho-Dong was elected (61.1%) to become the president of the power plant workers union. | | | To justify the legislation of the Act, the Korean government argued that restructuring of the energy industry was a global trend and that monopoly by public corporations blocks efficiency. |
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http://www.jubileesouth.org/news/EpZZZAuuyESEjdaBJK.shtml
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| | Workers Power |
| | Smashing the anti-union laws through rank and file organisation | | | Workers Power 299 - October 2005 - By Carlene Wilson | | | Members of the Public and Commercial Services Union in the Department of Work and Pensions London region have voted to strike against Government plans to slash 30,000 jobs. |
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http://www.workerspower.com
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| | Workers' power: the only alternative |
| | This will be the embryo of a new society. | | | Although some savers have been able to recoup their savings by going to court, the Duhalde government has now stated that it will block any further legal proceedings to this end. | | | Power generation has also slipped 7.5% in the period up to March. |
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http://www.marxist.com/Latinam/argentina_workers_power.html
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| | Workers Power - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | In 1980 Workers Power abandoned their position that the 'socialist states' were state capitalist and adopted the idea that they were deformed workers states. | | | At their international congress in 2003 they adopted a new programme and rebranded themselves the League for the Fifth International. | | | The League for the Fifth International founded a youth organisation, known as Revolution, which is claimed to be independent though it is admitted to be closely linked with Workers' Power. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workers_Power
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| | Passionate voice for workers' power |
| | This was something the established leaders of the working class organisation were refusing to do. | | | It also carried discussions on party conferences, on election results and on revolutionary strategy and tactics. | | | In Russia a revolutionary socialist government based on workers' and peasants' councils had been in power for 18 months. |
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http://www.iso.org.au/socialistworker/533/p7f.html
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| | Bolivia Aflame - Workers to Power |
| | Fight for a worker-peasant-Indian government, for workers revolution that will expropriate the bourgeoisie, extending to an Andean federation of workers republics and a Socialist United States of Latin America! | | | Instead of the fraudulent electoral “representative democracy” of the bourgeois state, these committees will serve as organs of direct workers democracy to organize the revolutionary struggle, and later they can lay the basis for a workers state. | | | This despite the fact that the working class was only weakly mobilized, and that only on the second day. |
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http://www.internationalist.org/boliviaaflame1003.html
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| | WORKERS' POWER IS NO MATCH FOR ELECTRICITY |
| | Turner said the retrenchment complied with the requirements of the Labour Relations Act and said the package was "in excess of that required by law". | | | Mzimela said that the union had just won a labour court case of unfair dismissal on behalf of 218 workers fired over a year ago. | | | This left the remaining workers without union representation, and the retrenchment package they have been given is just a month's salary and one week's salary for every year worked. |
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http://www.queensu.ca/msp/pages/In_The_News/2001/June/match.htm
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| | eLCOSH : Protecting Construction Workers from Power Lines |
| | Yet, the second leading cause of worker deaths in construction (after falls) is electrocution. | | | This paper appears in the eLCOSH website with the permission of the author and/or copyright holder and may not be reproduced without their consent. | | | You may also contact your local OSHA area office. |
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http://www.cdc.gov/elcosh/docs/d0400/d000437/d000437.html
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| | LSHG Message Board - New Publication: For Workers' Power |
| | A brief obituary of Chris, as far as I know the first but doubtless not the last, appears on Paul Anderson's 'Democratic socialism with a libertarian punch' website at link below, dated 12 March, beneath an account of his (Paul's) time in Solidarity. | | | Readers may be interested to know that, to quote the publishers' catalogue "At long last, the collected works of the principal writer, translator and thinker of the Solidarity Group, one of the most active and influential libertarian socialist organisations of the 1960s and early 1970s" have been published as above. | | | 10th March 2005 04:44 PM Re: New Publication: For Workers' Power |
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http://www.londonsocialisthistorians.org/messageboard/printthread.php?t=245
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| | P O W E R |
| | People Organized to Win Employment Rights (POWER) is a multi-racial organization, made up of and run by low-wage and no-wage workers. | | | POWER seeks to create living wage jobs, raise the wages and improve the working conditions at existing jobs and increase the overall strength of low-income and unemployed people. | | | In exchange for their welfare benefits, Workfare Workers are required to perform jobs once performed by union employees for a fraction of the wages, no benefits, no protections and no opportunity for permanent employment. |
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http://www.arc.org/gripp/aboutGripp/power.html
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| | Amazon.ca: Books: For Workers' Power |
| | Tactfully edited by David Goodway, For Workers' Power includes articles, essays and pamphlets as well as Brinton's classic works The Bolsheviks and Workers' Control, Paris: May '68 and The Irrational in Politics. | | | Look for books like For Workers' Power by subject: |
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http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/1904859070
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