[Marxism] British Wildcat Strike Wave?

[S. Artesian]

Yes, but the attack is not against the workers; the attack must be against 
the European Union, which seeks to create  a "common market" for driving 
down wages.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paddy Apling" <e.c.apling at btinternet.com>
To: <sartesian at earthlink.net>
Sent: Sunday, February 01, 2009 10:48 PM
Subject: Re: [Marxism] British Wildcat Strike Wave?


> This message makes a very good point - what we have here is an entirely 
> new
> concept of the freedom of movement of capital and its operations:
>
> not only was the Italoian company given a contract to do the job -
> completely OK under EC regulations and law;
> but they have brought their workforce over to carry out the contract -
> accomodating them, I understand, in the ship which brought them.
>
> Imagine the outcry if the Honda car factory over here was organised with 
> the
> importation of workers from Japan as the complete complement of workers in
> the plant.
>
> No wonder there are protests - which, of course, in whicht he BNP is 
> trying
> to intervene with its obnoxious racist ideas.
>
> Paddy
> http://apling.freeservers.com
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "nada" <dwaltersMIA at gmail.com>
> To: <e.c.apling at btinternet.com>
> Sent: Sunday, February 01, 2009 6:06 PM
> Subject: [Marxism] British Wildcat Strike Wave?
>
>
>> It is very complicated an issue for the left.
>>
>> This is not, strictly speaking, a strike against "immigrants". It's more
>> a strike, it seems, against "migrants". In the sense that these are
>> workers brought into UK oil refineries for a specific time and
>> job...like a guest worker program in the US but industrial in nature.
>
>
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