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Pakistan: Karachi factory fire – not a “national” tragedy but product of class exploitation The horrific factory fire at a Karachi garments and clothing enterprise where 289 workers, men, women and children, perished and hundreds were injured with severe burn wounds in an inferno in a caged factory with sealed gates is not an exception but the norm for the proletariat in Pakistan. It lays ...

BHP’s ruthless management philospophy leads to Gregory closure | CFMEU Mining Australia's union representing mining and energy workers.

"And so in capitalist society we have a democracy that is curtailed, wretched, false, a democracy only for the rich, for the minority. The dictatorship of the proletariat, the period of transition to communism, will for the first time create democracy for the people, for the majority, along with the necessary suppression of the exploiters, of the minority."
Lenin, State and Revolution (1917)

For those of you who don't know about Marikana and the union action that is going on here's the executive summary.

The workers in Lonmin's Marikana platinum mine are being paid a sum of roughly $500 per month for back breaking work in very very dangerous conditions, in South Africa this gets them little. They live in substandard accommodation with bare infrastructure. The workers are fighting for a pay rise to roughly $1200 per month, this is not out of greed! It is out of disgust and being fed up with their treatment. In the course of the strike, police shot and killed 34 miners in "self defence" which is a lie because a significant amount of the dead were shot in the back. Lonmin refuses to budge and even had the balls to put forward a peace accord which contained no acknowledgement of their pay dispute. The miners are continuing to strike, they are standing up to the greedy capitalists of Lonmin, they will not let their comrades die for nothing.

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S Africa miners to continue strike Key union that refused to sign "peace accord" says it will persist until demand for more pay is met.

"History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this." -Karl Marx

"The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs."
-Karl Marx

"Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness." -Leon Trotsky

"Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." - Karl Marx

http://www.amwu.org.au/read-article/news-detail/1000/Keep-Free-Trade-Fair/

AMWU - Keep Free Trade Fair The latest round of negotiations for Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) - a free trade agreement (FTA) between Australia, Brunei Darussalam, Canada , Chile, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Singapore, Peru, the USA and Vietnam – kicked off this week in Virginia, USA. The AMWU, as a member of ...

Question: What do you all want from a political organisation?

I as one half of the admin team would like a political organisation to represent me. To represent my interests, to promote equality and fairness for all. To listen to me.

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- Mitch

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Gina Rinehart (with subtitles) Gina Rinehart recorded this speech for the Sydney Mining Club. We subtitled it.