Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:51:41 +0200 From: Hugh Rodwell <m-14970-AT-mailbox.swipnet.se> Subject: M-I: The wharfies' struggle To follow the latest developments in the worldwide dockers movement, now focused on the Melbourne dispute, check out the Dockers Update section of LabourNet at http://www.labournet.org.uk/docks2/other/update.html For a few days there might be some problems getting really fresh info there, as LabourNet's Service Provider GreenNet was recently hacked and brought down, but normal service is gradually being resumed (it's just like the early days of TV!). Cheers, Hugh PS Don't forget to get hold of and read Bill Hunter's book on the history of the dockers' struggles in Britain: They Knew Why They Fought -- Unofficial struggles & leadership on the docks 1945-1989 Index Books, London, 1994 ISBN 1-871518-09-1 The best background briefing you'll get on the fight to break the bosses' totalitarian grip on the docks and replace the brutal conditions of casualization (daily fistfights for the jobs allocated by arbitrary and unjust supervisors), zero safety and extreme exploitation with decent conditions and an organized docks labour force represented by a union that listened more to its members than to the bosses and government. --- from list marxism-international-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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