http://newunionism.wordpress.com/2011/10/05/is-a-new-unionism-developing-in-israel/
doin' a WAC job on neo liberalism
"The Workers’ Advice Center WAC-Maan (WAC) was established in the mid-1990s. It was set up outside the framework of Israel’s largest trade union federation — the Histadrut — and was openly opposed to neo-liberalism. WAC has sought to combine social struggle with the struggle for peace and against the occupation, together with the fight against discrimination on a national basis...While capitalism in the ’90s was promising growth for all, WAC defended workers who were being pushed to the margins. Confronting insular Jewish and Arab nationalistic and religious trends, which developed after the second intifada (in 2000), WAC argued for a new model of partnership on a class basis between Jewish and Arab workers"
the piece has some nuggets one might chew ....
evaluation??
not my beat of course i post this because for once i found something that both interested me
and
might feed the anti izzy sharks here at SMBIVA
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Any fissure in the Iron Wall is a friend of mine.
This one sounds a slightly worrisome note of even-handedness ("Confronting insular Jewish and Arab nationalistic and religious trends") and a somewhat cavalier dismissal of the National Question
("Instead of the nationalistic and religious slogans which have enjoyed complete control in recent years, demands for democracy and social justice are serving to unite the nations."). The latter impulse is highly characteristic of a certain element of Left thinking, but I sometimes wonder whether there isn't such a thing as premature internationalism.
Still, one doesn't want to look a gift horse in the mouth. And the actual organizing activity sounds fine, though I'll leave a deeper analysis in the capable hands of our Labor Desk, staffed by the remarkable Paine family.
Posted by MJS | December 31, 2011 10:33 AM
Posted on December 31, 2011 10:33
btw
the push back starting last january
by numnerous endogenous orgs
after the local parlement of fouls
set up a zionic huac :
ah these lovely limitless homeric enumerations
list of battle groups headed to besiege troy :
Hadash (the Democratic Front for Peace and Equality) //
Communist Party of Israel // ACRI (Association For
Civil Rights in Israel // Meretz // New Israel Fund //
Peace Now // The Kibbutz Movement // The Progressive
Movement // The Green Movement // Physicians for Human
Rights // The Geneva Initiative // Ha'Shomer Ha'tzair
// Yisrael Hofshit (Free Israel) // Coalition of Women
for Peace // Public Committee Against Torture // Yesh
Gvul // Shutafut/Sharakah - Organizations for a Shared,
Democratic and Egalitarian Society: Agenda, The Abraham
Fund, Negev Institute - NISPED, Sikkuy, Kav Mashve,
Keshev, Shatil // Gush Shalom // Yesh Din //
Almuntada Altakadumi - The Progressive Circle in Ar'ara
// Negev Coexistence Forum // Peace NGO's Forum //
Amnesty International Israel // Banki-Shabiba - Young
Communist League // Hagada Hasmalit Alternative
Cultural Center in Tel-Aviv // Tandi - Democratic
Women's Movement // Parents Circle - Families Forum //
Social Workers for Peace and Social Welfare // Arab
Movement for Renewal // Mossawa Centre - the Advocacy
Center for Arab Citizens in Israel // Adalah - the
Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel // Yesh
Din - Volunteers for Human Rights // Machsom Watch //
Tarabut-Hithabrut // Rabbis for Human Rights // Ir Amim
// Maan - Workers' Advice Center // Daam - Workers
Party // Syndianna Galilee for Fair Trade // Israeli
Children // Campus Le'Kulanu - Left Students Movement,
the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and Haifa University
// ASSAF - Aid Organization for Refugees and Asylum
Seekers in Israel // ICAHD - The Israeli Committee
against House Demolitions // Social TV // Socialist
Struggle // Labor Party Young Guard // HAMOKED - Center
for the Defense of the Individual // BINA - Center for
Jewish Identity, Hebrew Culture and Social Justice //
AIC - Alternative Information Center // Our Heritage -
The Charter for Democracy //
Posted by op | December 31, 2011 10:54 AM
Posted on December 31, 2011 10:54
"The latter impulse is highly characteristic of a certain element of Left thinking, but I sometimes wonder whether there isn't such a thing as premature internationalism"
considr the situation father
a large well organized pre dominantly arab movement
this is all above ground action
nothing above ground need sharpen
the inter communal contradictions
unless you go religionist
and maybe you must
though its possible relgion as the rally pole
may have past its peak in the southern med region
as i say
not my beat
Posted by op | December 31, 2011 10:58 AM
Posted on December 31, 2011 10:58
Proof's in the pudding. If they can make intercommunal organizing work, then more power to 'em.
Posted by MJS | December 31, 2011 11:06 AM
Posted on December 31, 2011 11:06
Meanwhile, in Canada:
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/douglas-anthony-cooper/israel-genocide_b_1169993.html
Posted by Jack Crow | December 31, 2011 5:31 PM
Posted on December 31, 2011 17:31
@MJS, there might be some means available to delay "premature internationalism" until everyone is satisfied.
Posted by par4 | January 1, 2012 12:00 PM
Posted on January 1, 2012 12:00