Suggested Links

Prol-position has articles that we have written or translated that do not appear elsewhere on the web. However - there are loads of good articles that we like, that you might like to read too. Here are two suggestions of articles on the US and two on France:

Other Articles on the Web:

Who is Killing New Orleans?

By Mike Davis, April 2006

http://www.alternet.org/katrina/34119/

An update on the situation in New Orleans looking at the corruption, lies and dirty deals of the government, local elites and businesses and the forms of struggle and resistance still alive in New Orleans. "Despite promises of a substantive debate on urban poverty, plans to reconstruct New Orleans are falling into the hands of a white elite".

Migration, Movements, Wages and War in the Americas: Reasons for Unity on May Day 2006 And After

By Midnight Noters and Friends, April 2006

http://www.midnightnotes.org/wages-migration-mayday.html

Looking at the links between the migrants movements in the US and the movements in Latin America, where most of the migrants come from. Analysing racism in the US, hierarchies within the working class, the economic situation and political policies in the US and Latin America including the war on terrorism. "The rebellion of Latin American workers in Latin America and immigrants in the US is radically challenging neo-liberalism's pillars (regardless of the often soft and even pro-US rhetoric of some components of that movement). …We are witnessing an apparently unprecedented moment in the Americas, both North and South. On the one side, millions of undocumented workers--the least visible and most repressed workers--have repeatedly demonstrated in US cities, alongside their many supporting co-workers, against a congressional bill that would criminalize them simply for being in the U.S. without proper papers, and criminalize U.S. citizens who provide them with assistance. On the other, the people of Latin America in election after election are voting into power governments whose platforms, and sometimes their practices, reject the economic policies that the US government, on behalf of global corporations, has been supporting for two decades."

Two Weeks Spent in Rennes

May 2006

http://libcom.org/blog/two-weeks-spent-in-rennes

The following is a detailed personal account of the movement in Rennes from a comrade who participated in it. "It felt a bit surreal to be standing in the middle of this motorway at 8 o’clock with this huge sky above us... Two workers from the nearby factory climbed a wall to speak to us and congratulate us. Most of the people I spoke to agreed that, because the government hadn’t withdrawn the law after the huge demonstration of the previous day, it was normal to try something else."

All Quiet On The French Front

By Endangered Phoenix, April 2006

http://www.endangeredphoenix.com/FRANCE%20MAR%2006%20OpenOffice.org%201.1.html

An analysis of the events in France in 2006 in the context of recent French history and movements and first hand (sometimes amusing) accounts of Montpelier. "On March 25th the leaders refused to meet Cruella de Villepin because he had ruled out withdrawing the CPE, which shows the strength of feeling , and confidence, of the base (in contrast, Trade Union bureaucrats have entered into talks with the government, which shows the weakness and lack of confidence of their base). The demands of the coordination have developed from the early days of this movement which concentrated exclusively on the CPE to a general amnesty for all the persons condemned in the November riots, the suppression of all laws favouring precarity including the CNE, etc. But they remain on the level of fairly 'safe' demands without real practical consequences."

[prol-position news #6 | 7/2006]