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  German Peasants War   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The peasants were openly hostile to the additional taxes and ground rents which arose from this shift of rights, and the local nobles were often left with no recourse than to try to compel the peasants to do their bidding, a difficult thing to do.
A peasant detachment was a colorful sight: the leaders often wore the 'slashed' uniform of the landsknechts, silk banners waved, drums and fifes marched ahead and were followed by a long baggage train with wagons for the booty and women; on the edges of the battlefields money changers and dealers lurked.
Unlike the peasants, the thinking among the lumpenproletariat did not use the Bible as a legal or moral justification for their views or actions, they used it in the messianic sense of a creed, similar to how Das Kapital and The Communist Manifesto were used in the late 19th and early 20thCenturies.
members.eisa.com /~ec086636/german_peasants_war.htm   (12313 words)

  
 Workers World Nov. 28, 1996: Report from the Philippines   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Workers, peasants and students threaten a wave of marches, walkouts and strikes to protest the APEC gathering-where world imperialism will conspire on trade agreements to further rob the peoples of Asia and the Pacific Rim.
At the close of the peasant conference, 6,000 people marched on the U.S. Embassy on March 13.
The Filipino workers and peasants, and all of their militant anti-imperialist organizations, have given the U.S. and other imperialist governments a taste of what is in store.
www.workers.org /ww/philippines.html   (1038 words)

  
 THE KURDISH UPRISING & KURDISTAN'S NATIONALIST SHOP FRONT AND ITS NEGOTIATIONS WITH THE BAATHIST/FASCIST REGIME
The shoras were workers' councils expressing many of the contradictions workers' councils have almost always faced: in particular, the confusion over whether to openly attack the political parties as external authorities with their own separate interests or to compromise with them and thus weaken the power of the councils.
People were afraid because, they were saying, that with Saddam staying on no-one could rest Before he had been too occupied with the war, but now with the ceasefire he could turn on people again This time however no political movement or activities existed.
People felt revived and fear left their heart The government with its brutal security control mechanisms which had bound and gagged us for twenty years seemed to be falling apart Peoples faces looked open and relaxed and they began to have conversations with each other.
www.geocities.com /cordobakaf/blob_kurds.html   (18425 words)

  
 The workers of the world
Workers can change jobs frequently for two diametrically opposed reasons--either because there is a growing demand for their labour, allowing them to improve their situation by getting a different job, or because they are being forced out by employers who are shedding labour.
Workers may usually be better paid there, but a combination of established skills levels and existing investments in plant and infrastructure mean they are also more productive, providing much more surplus value for the system than most of their poorer brothers and sisters in the Third World.
In China, workers in large scale industry used to be promised the 'iron rice bowl' of a guaranteed income plus certain housing, sickness and pensions benefits--and people migrating from the countryside to seek jobs were excluded from these things by an internal passport system that denied them the right to reside in the cities.
pubs.socialistreviewindex.org.uk /isj96/harman.htm   (16945 words)

  
 Pakistani Elections: no solution for the workers and peasants
In fact it will be a mirror in which many of these conflicts will be reflected, even though it will be in a distorted form as workers and peasants will not at all be present in proportion to their role in society.
As the contradictions increase the likelihood of a new military dictatorship increases.
It organises workers and peasants of all nationalities and religious and ethnic backgrounds in a joint struggle against all exploiters.
www.marxist.com /Asia/pakistan_elections_2002.html   (1796 words)

  
 Hidden History of Workers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
From the beginning of class society thousands of years ago, the struggles of oppressed peasants and workers has been the main force behind social progress; the contradictions between the ruling classes and the oppressed, exploited masses has been the main determinant of human progress.
The main targets of attack by the peasants are the local tyrants, the evil gentry and lawless landlords, but in passing they also hit out against patriarchal ideas and institutions, against corrupt officials in the cities and against bad practices and customs in the rural areas.
He was a peasant leader, treacherously assassinated, along with his wife and young children, by the Mexican government immediately after the president had "convinced" him to rely on the government for solutions.
www.plp.org /pl_magazine/fightingtobuild.html   (7891 words)

  
 ANC Youth League Basic Policy Document, 1948
The African people in South Africa are oppressed as a group with a particular colour.
The Congress Youth League stands for a policy of assimilating the best elements in European and other civilisations and cultures, on the firm basis of what is good and durable in the African's own culture and civilisation.
However imperfectly it did it, the ANC was in fact an outward expression of the African people's desire for a National Liberation Movement, capable of directing their resistance to white domination and of ultimately winning the African's national freedom.
www.anc.org.za /ancdocs/history/ancylpol.html   (3138 words)

  
 Workers World Party: A Party of Fightback Reforms
Workers World refuses to tie these demands to the organization and preparation of the working class for the overthrow of the capitalist order.
Workers know that they must struggle for any reform that will lead to an improvement of their conditions under capitalism.
Workers are currently facing increased lay-offs and attacks on their living conditions.
www.mltranslations.org /US/MLO/mlo1_1.htm   (9524 words)

  
 International League of Peoples' Struggle (ILPS)
It shall promote, support and develop the anti-imperialist and democratic struggle of the workers and oppressed peoples of the world in order to oppose the ideological, political, military, economic and cultural domination and attacks of imperialism and reaction.
The League shall expose and oppose the inhuman policies and acts of the multinational companies, their governments and international instruments such as the IMF, World Bank, WTO and military alliances.
The League shall act to realize the unity, cooperation and coordination of the following: workers, unions and organizations of women, youth, peasants, teachers, health workers, journalists, writers, scientists, and technologists, lawyers and other professionals, and popular movements, campaigns and just causes involving such concerns as enumerated in the next paragraph.
www.nispop.org /ilps.html   (514 words)

  
 Howard Zinn's A People's History
The United States responded with the Truman Doctrine, the name given to a speech Truman gave to Congress in the spring of 1947, in which he asked for $400 million in military and economic aid to Greece and Turkey.
The dossiers were three years old, and most of the people were no longer with the State Department, but McCarthy read from them anyway, inventing, adding, and changing as he read.
It was a demonstration to the people of the country, though very few could identify with the Rosenbergs, of what lay at the end of the line for those the government decided were traitors.
www.writing.upenn.edu /~afilreis/50s/zinn-chap16.html   (6916 words)

  
 Open World Conference of Workers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The Association of Workers and Peoples of the Caribbean (ATPC) is against the occupation of Haiti and is taking multiple initiatives, while deputies and leaders of the Workers Party (PT) in Brazil tell President Lula "No to sending Brazilian troops to Haiti".
The Workers' Trade Unions and Councils in Iraq is carrying out this effort on the basis of the recognition of the right for all workers, regardless of their ethnic, linguistic or religious origin, to join the union of their choice.
We, the signatories of this text, are partisans of the right to self-determination, defenders of the peace and the fraternity between peoples, along with the large majority of the Brazilian people who elected you in 2002.
www.owcinfo.org /ILC/NEWS/ILC_73.html   (7166 words)

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