For those you who don't already know it - Metamute website and journal [http://www.metamute.org] has loads of good articles and discussion lists. They have a focus on media and the arts from a radical, anti-capitalist and analytical perspective. Some recent highlights are:

Egyptian Textile Workers
Confront the New Economic Order

[http://www.metamute.org/en/Egyptian-Textile-Workers-Confront-the-New-Economic-Order]

In echo of the recent reports posted at Mute on the large scale workers activity in the textile industry of Bangladesh someone posted this excellent report from Egypt. The report covers the last few years wave of strikes initiated in the Egyptian textile industry but by spreading to other sectors, effectively shaking the stasis of a State approved union infrastructure and the autocratic pro-privatisation political order.

Strike at Big Shipyard Is
Yet Another Effect of Katrina

[http://www.metamute.org/en/node/10334]

A collection of articles about the current economic and social problems facing people in the aftermath of Katrina. Rising prices, stagnant wages and layoffs triggered a strike in the local shipyards.

Naked Cities – Struggle in the Global Slums

[http://www.metamute.org/en/Naked-Cities-Struggle-in-the-Global-Slums]

A collection of articles about the shanty towns and slums around the globe including 'Thinking Resistance in the Shanty Town'. South African Activist and academic Richard Pithouse gives an inside view of the social and political movements inside some of South Africa's shanty towns and also give a sharp critique of the on-going tendency of western academics to see things from a western perceptive, to generalise, and to miss the real struggles going on on the ground.

[prol-position news #8 | 4/2007]