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interview // german // 4:27 Min // 18.06.2008
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My name is Lorenz Knorr; born in 1921 and grown up in Eger, now Cheb, in the German populated areas of Czechoslovakia. I am a trained typesetter and typographer. After 1945 I was active in the socialistic youth as a state and federation secretary. For 25 years I was the head of the German Union of Peace and then federation spokesman for the Association of the victims of persecution by the Nazi regime. If you grew up in a family of a labour union official, in the German populated areas of Czechoslovakia during the twenties and thirties, of the last century, you encountered the political problems and the political fights from early childhood. In Eger my father was the most popular strike-leader before the First World War and afterwards he was, although not fit for work, still speaker at demonstrations and meetings of the union. As his son, I obviously experienced this first hand, because my parents often took me with them to political activities; especially on the 1st May or on other red-letter days of the labour movement.
The moulding and forming impressions were: 1. the year 1933, when the German corpus and the German General staff shifted the power towards the Nazi leading clique and: 2. the year 1934, in Austria, when the latter gave power to the cleric-fascists who broke up the labour movement. According to our understanding the development of mankind goes from lower forms to increasing forms of living together, therefore that was obviously a heavy setback. The German labour movement was the strongest and ideologically most consolidated one in the ‘1st International’, and you could say the same about the Austrian labour movement. We learned not only of the dirty fortunes of antifascists through the immigrants, but also experienced the international effects of what happened to the setback of civilization in 1933. Up to this time in Czechoslovakia the focus of the German, as well as the Czechoslovakian labour parties, was on the class struggle, which meant the fight for better material and cultural living conditions. In 1933 this obviously didn’t stop, but the more the Nazis, the Hitler supporters in the German areas of Czechoslovakia developed, the more it amounted to a new political front status. On one side, supporters of Hitler in the German areas of Czechoslovakia, became increasingly aggressive and on the other side were the German and Czech antifascists. So it was not really the way it is now being claimed quite often, that the Germans stood side by side with the Czechs. A nationalistic perspective is a belated attempt to distract from the real problems we had at that time.
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In Casanare, a region in the southeast of Bogotá, oil was discovered in the 90'. Paramilitary troops and regulary armed forces have since then killed 2600 people, to secure BP the access to the oil in place.
The people try to resist their replacement and demand justice and compensation - whithout any success so far. |
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please translate this description: Seit 2008 ist Norditalien Schauplatz ungewöhnlicher Ereignisse. Unternehmen, Politik und Medien nutzen den Kriseneinbruch, um die ohnehin schon bröckelnden Arbeiter_innenrechte weiter auszuhöhlen; auf der anderen Seite formiert sich jedoch gerade am untersten Ende der Lohnskala ein lebendiger ... more |
length: 3,43 min
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Through militant strikes over the last four years, the mostly migrant workforce in the logistics sector in Italy have managed to substantially improve their working conditions. Treated with violent arrogance and regularly defrauded out of a part of their salary in the past, they've now won 'normal' working conditions in most workplaces.
Because of these achievements, more and more workers are ... more |
length: 61,77 min
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We are showing here an interview with the workers of the factory Dita, whose protest was a trigger to the whole movement that is sometimes referred to as the Bosnian Spring.
The workers of the detergent factory Dita told us that they had been on strike for more than a year and tried different forms of peaceful protests (including a hunger strike) that did not lead anywhere. When they demonstrated with ... more |
length: 8,3 min
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please translate this description: 01.11.2011, Berlin - Zweiter Diskussionsabend in der Veranstaltungsreihe "Was tun mit Kommunismus?". Auf dem Podium: renate Hürtgen, Helmut Bock, Christoph Jünke, Ralf G. Landmesser, Anne Seeck, Harry Waibel.
Veranstalterin: Selbsthilfegruppe Ei des Kommunismus (SEK) |
length: 150 min
| date: 20.12.2011
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please translate this description: "Im März besetzten 30 Frauen, Männer und Kinder ein leerstehendes Wohnhaus und ehemaliges Fabrikgelände. Sie wollten bezahlbaren Wohnraum und Platz zum selbstbestimmten Leben und Arbeiten. Von Anfang an waren sie im Kiez aktiv: Kino, Kultur und Kinder-Angebote organisierten sie sowohl für ... more |
length: 1,77 min
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In this short RSA Animate, renowned philosopher Slavoj Žižek investigates the surprising ethical implications of charitable giving. |
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please translate this description: Live-Auftritt von Holger Burner
In dem Stück wird die fragwürdige Debatte um die »Unterschicht« in der BRD thematisiert.
Diese wurde erst in Folge der zunehmenden Reichtumsschere in der BRD im Jahr 2006 von Kurt Beck (SPD) benannt und ausgerufen und dann umgehend wieder im ... more |
length: 3:20 min
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Greek hospital under workers' control
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"The occupation of our hospital in Kilkis by its workers started on Monday, February 20th, 8:30 local time.
This occupation is not only about us, the physicians and the workers at the Kilkis Hospital. Neither is it only about the Greek National Health System, which is collapsing, indeed. We are in this fight because what is in real danger now is the human rights and our lives."
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How I spent my Sunday in Fukushima
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This morning Pieter, Xeni and I (pictured above) set out with Miles, along with father/son superteam Joe and Bryan Moross. The plan was to drop off a few Geiger counters with volunteers and try to cover some new ground, perhaps near the exclusion zone. But it ended up being so much more.
10.08.2011 hits: 12826
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Tunis, Algiers, Cairo, …Shahajanpur?
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On 1st of February 2011 – while riots rocked the Kasbah and downtown Cairo – around 150,000 young people arrived in Bareilly, near Shahajanpur in Uttar Pradesh, India. They came in order to apply for 416 vacancies at the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP). Facing the enormous mass of applicants the local administration called off the hiring procedure. The angry youth started smashing the place up, burnt cars, government and media buildings.
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Die Geschichte eines jungen Arbeiters
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We met a 20 years old worker who lives and works in Manesar, near Gurgaon. It is his individual story, but it is at the same time the story of a dominant part of global working class today ...
(GirgaonWorkersNews January 2011)
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