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MUNI SOCIAL STRIKEOUT; The attempt at a transit system fare strike in San Francisco
www.infoshop.org/myep/love2.html
In early 2005, bureaucrats in San Francisco's Municipal Transit Authority announced plans for a fare increase, service cuts and mass layoffs of bus drivers.
In response, a small group of anti-authoritarians initiated an effort aimed at uniting Muni riders and drivers in large-scale action that could spike the attacks. This article, written by a participant, crically examines this attempt.
"Our effort, modelled on similar actions in other parts of the world, especially Italy during the unrest of the 1970's, aimed at fomenting a city-wide "social strike" where Muni drivers and riders would act together, drivers would let people ride for free, and the fare collection system would collapse until the fare hike, cuts and threats of layoffs had been rescinded....
Unfortunately the people behind the action... lacked backbone and nerve, practical solidarity with one another and political cohesion. This article examines this failure. These problems aren't etched in stone. A rigorous critical examination of what happened with the failed 2005 Muni effort can contribute to a better, more aggressive, more far-going effort next time."
A working class revolt in Bangladesh, Strike, riot and fire among the garment workers
www.endangeredphoenix.com/Bangladesh.org%201.1.html
In Prol-Position number 6 there were some reports on the struggles in the factories in Bangladesh. Here are two articles with more on this. One incuding more political anysis from Endangered Pheonix and the other an update on what is happening from libcom.
Radical Gathering of Women
Following a recent international gathering of women in Escanda, a new website has started with an eclectic selection of texts relating to women anti-capitlistists, captialism and patriarchy, migration, health, history etc. Some old, some new, some still in note form.
[prol-position news #7 | 11/2006]
