Hi,

We support the efforts of the USW union to improve the wages and benefits as well as working conditions of the striking refinery workers. Jobs in refineries are dangerous and require a high level of skill. As we know from the BP disasters, mistakes can cause catastrophes for the surrounding communities and the environment. These workers deserve to be compensated well and treated fairly. Failure to bargain fairly in these negotiations will only reflect the Shell Oil Company’s lack of regard for the workers and the communities in which their enterprises are located. We refuse to buy Shell products until the strike is settled.

That’s why I created a petition to Ben van Beurden, CEO, which says:

“We support the striking USW members at Shell Oil Company refineries. We will support the workers by boycotting Shell Oil Company products.”

Will you sign this petition? Click here:

http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/boycott-shell-oil-company?source=c.em.mt&r_by=8638452

Thanks!

http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/revise-title-vii-remove

Revise Title VII: Remove the paragraph allowing discrimination against communists

Petition by Pat Thompson

To be delivered to The United States House of Representatives, The United States Senate, and President Barack Obama

Hi,

We support the efforts of the USW union to improve the wages and benefits as well as working conditions of the striking refinery workers. Jobs in refineries are dangerous and require a high level of skill. As we know from the BP disasters, mistakes can cause catastrophes for the surrounding communities and the environment. These workers deserve to be compensated well and treated fairly. Failure to bargain fairly in these negotiations will only reflect the Shell Oil Company’s lack of regard for the workers and the communities in which their enterprises are located.

That’s why I created a petition to Ben van Beurden, CEO, Royal Dutch Shell Oil Company, which says:

“We support the striking Steel Workers at the refineries in Texas City, Texas. Their struggle is the struggle of working people in this country and around the world.”

Will you sign this petition? Click here:

http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/we-support-the-usw-strike?source=c.em.mt&r_by=8638452

Thanks!

Dear Sisters and Brothers,

You are invited to participate in the upcoming “Rally against Republicans, Who are Hurting Us!” on Saturday, February 28, at 2 pm, on the sidewalks at the intersection of Harrisburg and Macario Garcia (Hwy 90) in Houston.

The purpose of the Rally is to expose the Republicans and the Far Right for their increasingly dangerous attacks on workers, people of color, women, immigrants, LGBTQ communities, and the masses as a whole—and to help develop the kind of independent working class political action which will be required to stop these dangerous attacks. This event is being organized by the Houston Socialist Movement.

We are resolutely opposed to the Republicans and the Far Right harming the working class and the masses of people by

• * further militarizing the border
• * supporting racist militias on the border
• * repealing in-state tuition for undocumented college students
• * attempting to end DACA and executive relief for undocumented people,
• * harassing Texas legislators who oppose “Open Carry”
• * making openly racist attacks on people of color, Muslims, and other minorities
• * refusing to expand Medicaid
• * attempting to cut Security and Medicare
• * refusing to adequately fund public schools
• * refusing to adequately fund veterans care
• * opposing improved services for the disabled
• * opposing measures to reduce unemployment
• * opposing a living wage for all workers
• * constantly adding to the legal and economic privileges and rights of the very rich
• * calling for new wars in Iraq, Syria, and Iran
• * giving Latin American governments taxpayer money to repress their people under the  guise of fighting the drug trade

…and more!

We are committed to helping workers and democratic-minded people of all nationalities understand that these problems are rooted in the capitalist system and that socialism here in the United States and around the world is the answer to these problems.

We hope you will plan to join us for the Rally on Saturday, February 28. If you would like more information, please call (832) 692-2306.

In Solidarity,

Houston Socialist Movement

Hi,

President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, Secretary of State John Kerry and Senator John McCain have dishonored the people of the United States by their support of the fascist government in the Ukraine. Any military assistance to the anti-Semitic, anti-worker government in the Ukraine would be an act of provocation towards Russia. Working people do not need a war with Russia which without doubt would be catastrophic to Europe and the United States at the very least. We must not forget that we can all be cremated equally!

That’s why I created a petition to The United States House of Representatives, The United States Senate, and President Barack Obama, which says:

“We oppose sending military support of any kind to the fascist government in the Ukraine!”

Will you sign this petition? Click here:

http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/no-to-war-with-russia?source=c.em.mt&r_by=8638452

Thanks!

http://tinyurl.com/pyhvg5n

Editors’ note:
Not everyone in France, evidently, has the passion for free speech recently expressed in the slogan,  “Je Suis Charlie.” At MLT, our Books Editor Roger Keeran received this appeal from Aymeric Monville, editor-in-chief of Editions Delga. We urge all to sign the petition.  A review of the book in question first appeared in the Socialist Voice, Ireland. It was reposted to MLT at http://mltoday.com/review-stalins-wars-from-world-war-to-cold-war-19391953

Paris, Feb. 6, 2015

Dear MLT Editors and Readers,

We had the great honour to publish some of your books in French and we wanted therefore to inform you about this disturbing development.

A user of the Sorbonne University’s Pierre Mendès France Library recently proposed to a librarian that the library acquire the French edition of Stalin’s Wars: From World War to Cold War 1939-1953 by Geoffrey Roberts, professor at the University of Cork in Ireland and Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

The book was published in French in 2014 by Editions Delga, and originally published in English in 2006 by Yale University Press.

The proposal received the following response: “The proposed work, although it was written by a university professor, does not in principle seem to us to display the historical and scientific neutrality required for it to be included on our shelves. Nor do the other books published by the same publishing house.”

It appears that, in the past, the library had accepted all our books concerning philosophy and Marxism but has suddenly banned our books about the USSR, including yours and a book of Henri Alleg.

In the sad context of fascization in Europe, historian Annie Lacroix-Riz, design engineer Godefroy Clair and I have launched a petition that 1200 people have already signed.

Here is the site where you can find the petition: http://www.historiographie.info/

Here is the text in English : http://www.petitions24.net/petition_against_censorship_in_french_university_libraries

Sincerely,

Aymeric Monville (editor in chief, Editions Delga, Paris)

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