Ubuntu and the Unions
Over the course of the last few weeks, I’ve installed a new operating system on my computer. I no longer use Microsoft Windows XP and instead now use Ubuntu Linux. That’s nice, you may be…
Over the course of the last few weeks, I’ve installed a new operating system on my computer. I no longer use Microsoft Windows XP and instead now use Ubuntu Linux. That’s nice, you may be…
I have been helping organize online campaigns in support of workers’ rights for several years now. The latest campaign I’m helping with concerns Zimbabwe. It supports a call by the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions…
You know that the technology of Internet-based campaigning has matured when even the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) starts using it.
Several years ago, shortly after it was launched I looked into Google’s keyword-based online advertising as a tool for trade union campaigns. I thought it seemed a really good idea, tested it, and promoted its…
There’s been a lot of talk lately about something called “Web 2.0”. The term is pure buzz; the web is the same web it has always been. But certain features of the web, some of…
In an ideal world, trade unionists would be able to gather for meetings whenever we wanted, anywhere on the planet. Just like corporations do.
A controversy erupted a few days ago involving myself and some fellow members of the IWW and as I think back on it, I think that there are some issues here which relate to the…
In May 2006 LabourStart asked its readers to participate in what was probably the first-ever global survey of trade unionists on the subject of online campaigning. The survey was not in any sense of the…
Workers of the world — okay, it’s too much to ask for you to unite. But at least try to understand that there are some workers who do not live in your country. If that…
“The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas” — this well-known quotation from Karl Marx was chosen by one speaker to open his presentation at an extraordinary conference which has…