{"id":3281,"date":"2013-12-11T11:06:55","date_gmt":"2013-12-11T09:06:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=3281"},"modified":"2013-12-11T11:06:55","modified_gmt":"2013-12-11T09:06:55","slug":"the-weeks-in-review-28-11-13-11-12-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=3281","title":{"rendered":"The week(s) in review &#8211; 28.11.13 &#8211; 11.12.13"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/freeroza.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3282\" alt=\"freeroza\" src=\"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/freeroza-300x138.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"138\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/freeroza-300x138.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/freeroza.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><em><strong>Campaigns:<\/strong><\/em> In the last 2 weeks we launched two new ones \u2014 in support of striking railway workers in Korea, and jailed oil workers in Kazakhstan.\u00a0 Both are exceptionally important \u2014 these are dramatic struggles where workers are up against the power of the state, and I hope everyone will do their bit to make these campaigns among our biggest ever.\u00a0 We\u2019ll be launching a followup campaign next week for the Crown Holdings workers in Canada.\u00a0 I hope after that we\u2019ll be able to take a short break before the new year \u2014 to catch our collective breath \u2026<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Mailing lists:<\/strong><\/em> Due to an extraordinary effort by the Korean teachers\u2019 union to build support in the country for their campaign, we picked up several hundred Koreans for our mailing list.\u00a0 As a result, Korean has gone from being our 21st largest list to being the 11th largest, with 714 subscribers (this was just 173 a month ago).<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Berlin 2014:<\/strong><\/em> Two weeks ago I reported that we had 128 people signed up for the conference; today that number is 197.\u00a0 The largest groups are from Germany (44), the UK (24), Pakistan (15), Liberia (12) and Nigeria (11).\u00a0 I\u2019m still not certain that the comrades from Pakistan, Liberia and Nigeria and some other countries have fully understood that LabourStart is not covering airfares, although it\u2019s possible that some of them will be in Berlin for the ITUC.\u00a0 The registration form is now available in Russian as well as English and German; we expect that a Dutch version is on the way.\u00a0 Tom and Edd developed a comprehensive strategy for promoting the conference to a UK audience, so we should see the size of the UK contingent grow.\u00a0 Meanwhile, I\u2019ve focussed some attention on building participation from Finland, Denmark, Israel, the Czech Republic and Poland, with more countries coming soon.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Books:<\/strong><\/em> We\u2019re about to begin work on book 4 \u2014 a collection of essays by former IUF General Secretary Dan Gallin.\u00a0 Sales of the earlier books and calendar remain sluggish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Campaigns: In the last 2 weeks we launched two new ones \u2014 in support of striking railway workers in Korea, and jailed oil workers in Kazakhstan.\u00a0 Both are exceptionally important \u2014 these are dramatic struggles where workers are up against the power of the state, and I hope everyone will do their bit to make [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[46,3,7,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3281"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3281"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3283,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3281\/revisions\/3283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}