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🏦 The Case for Capital Controls
#politics

The Case for Capital Controls
Globalization is a project of class war whose destructive effects have driven many US workers into the Trumpian right. The Left needs a real response to the problems raised by global capital mobility — and that should start with capital controls.

⚔️ In Myanmar, Military Rule Is Faltering
#myanmar

In Myanmar, Military Rule Is Faltering
Three years since a coup restored full military rule in Myanmar, armed rebels are on the offensive. The country’s civil war is often painted in terms of ethnic strife — yet the opposition forces alone uphold the hope of an inclusive democracy.

Hoera, de opruiende socialistische glossy is weer binnen.
https://jacobin.nl

Liberals Must Resist the New McCarthyism Over Israel Criticism (Branko Marcetic/Jacobin)
https://jacobin.com/2024/05/israel-campus-protest-antisemitism-mccarthyism/
http://www.memeorandum.com/240503/p65#a240503p65

📰 Freedom for Boris Kagarlitsky
#russia

Freedom for Boris Kagarlitsky
Boris Kagarlitsky, the Russian Marxist and antiwar critic of Vladimir Putin, is again being held in a brutal detention center on baseless charges. He deserves our solidarity.

Freedom Under Capitalism Isn’t All It’s Cracked Up to Be https://jacobin.com/2024/05/socialism-capitalism-worker-cooperatives-utopia/

Freedom Under Capitalism Isn’t All It’s Cracked Up to Be
Libertarians argue that capitalism is superior to socialism because in capitalism anyone is free to do anything — including start a worker cooperative. In truth, capitalism constrains our options, while socialism can liberate us to live as we please.

✊🏾 Seven Lessons from Starbucks Workers’ Historic Victory
#labor

Seven Lessons from Starbucks Workers’ Historic Victory
The entire labor movement should wake up and pay attention to the lessons from Starbucks workers’ victory this week.

Kagarlitsky scrive dalla prigione di Zelenograd in merito alla favoletta bella del multipolariamo, inquadrandola giustamente come ideologia reazionaria e distruttrice.
«La guerra di tutti contro tutti, proclamata dagli ideologi del “mondo multipolare”, significa la fine non solo della civiltŠ liberale, ma di qualsiasi civiltŠ».

L'inganno del «multipolarismo» - Jacobin Italia
Il sociologo marxista e prigioniero politico russo Boris Kagarlitsky scrive per Jacobin dalla sua cella di Zelenograd: serve un’alternativa tra la logica individualista del liberalismo e la falsa contrapposizione totalitaria del nuovo conservatorismo

🤯 Pro-Market Third Way Policies Caused Electoral Disaster
https://jacobin.com/2024/02/stephanie-mudge-third-way-left-parties-neoliberalism-history/

Pro-Market Third Way Policies Caused Electoral Disaster
Sociologist Stephanie L. Mudge examines how and why center-left parties across the world swallowed the neoliberal gospel — only to demolish their own social base.

“In its current genocidal war on the Gaza Strip, Israel has destroyed every single Palestinian university in the enclave with aerial bombardment or controlled detonation. Medical and engineering laboratories, training courtrooms of faculties of law, assembly and graduation halls, rich collections of books, art pieces, archival and archaeological artifacts, all completely decimated. Decades of Palestinian student academic and political life instantly wiped out.”

Israel’s Universities Are a Key Part of Its Apartheid Regime
Opponents of the academic boycott of Israel claim that its universities are havens of free inquiry. In fact, they supply vital support to Israel’s system of apartheid rule and are complicit in the violent suppression of Palestinian scholarship.

The same university in cologne which uninvited Nancy Fraser (from an unrelated tour of the uni) due to her criticism of Israel [1] is keeping Ulrich Vosgerau employed [2], who is a far ri…

Nancy Fraser: Germany Canceled Me for Supporting Palestine
Cologne University has canceled philosopher Nancy Fraser’s planned visiting professorship after learning she signed a pro-Palestine letter. In her first interview after the cancellation, Fraser says she won't let Germany stop her from standing up for Palestine.

https://jacobin.com/2024/03/senator-joe-lieberman-obituary/

The Extent of Joe Lieberman’s Evildoing Was Truly Remarkable
Joe Lieberman was a fairly unremarkable Washington politician who managed to get famous by becoming a particularly enthusiastic, inveterate warmonger and corporate marionette within the Democratic Party.

Here's @… on top form again:
"A response to Daniel Driscoll [another ill-informed Jacobin piece against #degrowth -MHB]: Another slice of degrowth bashing"
- At resilience.org @…

A response to Daniel Driscoll: Another slice of degrowth bashing
Either we democratically plan a downscaling of production and consumption to reduce ecological footprints while securing wellbeing for everyone, or we keep pushing planetary boundaries until nature imposes sufficiency upon us through a lethal mix of resource shortages and climate catastrophes. Degrowth might be a hard sell but it’s still sexier than collapse.

A deep look at the reasons behind the ongoing strike at The Long Beach Post, including layoffs after staffers voted to form a union (Ben Burgis/Jacobin)
https://jacobin.com/2024/04/long-beach-post-union-busting

The Long Beach Post Is Union Busting in Broad Daylight
Striking Long Beach Post journalists say they are fighting against layoffs, corporate media consolidation, and union-busting labor law violations.

US Media Is Collapsing. Here’s How to Save It.
https://jacobin.com/2024/02/us-media-journalism-layoffs-policy

US Media Is Collapsing. Here’s How to Save It.
Mass layoffs are tearing through US media. To preserve a functioning media ecosystem, we need three things: immediate aid to struggling journalists, public subsidies to smaller news outlets, and eventually industry transformation into a publicly funded system.

🏘️ Social Housing for New York Is on the Table
#ny

Social Housing for New York Is on the Table
Free-market housing policies will never generate mass affordable housing — which is why a new bill in New York sponsored by socialist legislators aims to make publicly owned social housing a reality.

🪧 Labor and Climate Must Unite. That’s Easier Said Than Done.
#politics…

Labor and Climate Must Unite. That’s Easier Said Than Done.
The idea that the labor and climate movements must unite for a Green New Deal is more popular than ever. To get it done, we'll need to take the threat of job loss seriously, finding and uplifting commonalities between climate goals and worker self-interest.

Activist Judges Want to Oust Spain’s Broad-Left Government https://jacobin.com/2024/04/sanchez-psoe-spain-reactionary-judiciary/

Activist Judges Want to Oust Spain’s Broad-Left Government
Spanish prime minister Pedro Sánchez may resign after a judge launched a bogus corruption probe targeting his wife, Begoña Gómez. The case is a farce pushed by far-right lobbyists that shows the need to rein in Spain’s politicized judiciary.

"A ação de #Bushnell foi extrema, mas muitos entre nós certamente podem se relacionar com seus sentimentos de desesperança, raiva e desgosto gerados por assistir Š limpeza étnica ao vivo em nossas plataformas de mídia social, testemunhando então preciosos poucos funcionšrios eleitos – inclusive dentro do Partido Democrata – convocarem a coragem para exigir o fim de tamanha violência horrível.&…

Aaron Bushnell se recusou a ficar em silêncio sobre os horrores em Gaza
A terrível morte do soldado Aaron Bushnell por autoimolação foi uma posição contra a esmagadora miséria em Gaza infligida por Israel e apoiada pelo próprio governo dos Estados Unidos, pelo qual ele jurou servir na Força Aérea.

https://jacobin.com/2024/03/macky-sall-senegal-elections-democracy/

Senegal’s Elites Wanted to Trash Democracy. Voters Didn’t.
Tomorrow, Senegal votes in an election that French-backed president Macky Sall repeatedly delayed. The fact that the election is going ahead is a victory for young and poor Senegalese, whose protests resisted elites’ democratic backsliding.

Jewish Australians Are Rejecting the Zionist Establishment https://jacobin.com/2024/04/jewish-council-of-australia-zionism/

Jewish Australians Are Rejecting the Zionist Establishment
Inspired by anti-fascist organizing in the 1940s, a group of progressive Jewish activists have formed the Jewish Council of Australia. Its goal is to challenge the hegemony of right-wing, Zionist groups that claim to speak for all Jewish Australians.

🍺 Class Dealignment Is the Defining Political Challenge of Our Time
#politics

Class Dealignment Is the Defining Political Challenge of Our Time
The evidence is overwhelming: workers are abandoning the Democrats and center-left parties around the world. Class dealignment is radically changing politics, and the Left needs a program to win the working class.

France’s Justice System Is Cracking Down on Israel’s Critics https://jacobin.com/2024/04/france-insoumise-hassan-panot-palestine-censorship/

France’s Justice System Is Cracking Down on Israel’s Critics
France Insoumise election candidate Rima Hassan has received a police summons over possible “apology for terrorism” charges. She’s the latest of a string of pro-Palestine activists to face inquiries, in a blatant judicial offensive against Israel’s critics.

💉 CO2 Pipelines Are Big Oil's New Mode of Destruction
(... not an unusual response to plans to scale up carbon capture and sequestration)
https://jacobin.com/2024/04/oil-co2-pipelines-regulations-leaks/

CO2 Pipelines Are Big Oil’s New Mode of Destruction
Big Oil has launched a lobbying blitz to scale back safety regulations for its build-out of experimental carbon dioxide pipelines, endangering nearby communities in the event of a leak.

https://jacobin.com/2024/03/israel-meddling-us-iran-netanyahu-aipac/

Israel’s Meddling in US Politics Is Aggressive and Unceasing
For all the periodic meltdowns about foreign interference in US elections and politics by countries like Russia, it’s actually Israel, a nominal ally, that has done far more meddling in American politics — with far more influence.

> Our freedom is the freedom of the world, and this is why international solidarity is so important. We want freedom for workers, freedom for human beings, freedom to have a truly safe world without any more war and bombing and killing.
https://jacobin.com/2024/03/west-bank-<…

Farming Under Israeli Occupation Is Brutal
Israel’s attacks on Palestinians aren’t only carried out through guns and bombs. They also come through its vice grip on agriculture, including its system of “water apartheid.” We spoke to a Palestinian farmer and union leader about his labor under occupation.

🐜 4 Problems for the Degrowth Movement
#degrowth

4 Problems for the Degrowth Movement
Though increasingly influential in activist circles and policy discussions, the degrowth perspective on addressing climate change suffers from serious analytical and political flaws. We need a program of green growth to decarbonize the planet.

Bruce Schneier reposting from Jacobin, this is really good ("How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI") https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2024/02/how-the-frontier-became-the-slogan-of-uncontrolled-ai…

🧩 Workplace Fragmentation Demands New Organizing Strategies
#labor

Workplace Fragmentation Demands New Organizing Strategies
In recent decades, structural changes in the US economy have dispersed workers across workplaces and geographic areas. Labor’s decline can’t be reversed without addressing this new reality.

Lees dit!
Noorwegen valt hier volkomen door de mand.
En overigens is jacobin.com prima leesvoer voor mensen die graag een linkse zeikert willen zijn. https://kolektiva.social/@DoomsdaysCW/112100603318320275

🪚 Populism Belongs to the Left
#leftism

Populism Belongs to the Left
In an interview, writer Thomas Frank discusses how populism brought together workers, farmers, and all those struggling against the wealthy for a more egalitarian society — and why that’s made it a dirty word for the elite, both in the 1890s and today.

Che fine hanno fatto i crimini fascisti?, di Eric Gobetti
#GiornoDelRicordo

Che fine hanno fatto i crimini fascisti? - Jacobin Italia
Il «Giorno del Ricordo» istituito dalla destra per rievocare la tragedia delle foibe serve a nascondere la barbarie di quelli che davvero uccisero intere popolazioni solo per la propria appartenenza

🏘️ End Residential Occupancy Limits
#zoning

End Residential Occupancy Limits
Residential occupancy laws, which limit the number of unrelated people who can share a dwelling, enable unjust discrimination and drive up housing costs. A growing number of cities are looking to get rid of them.

Lees dit!
Noorwegen valt hier volkomen door de mand.
En overigens is jacobin.com prima leesvoer voor mensen die graag een linkse zeikert willen zijn. https://kolektiva.social/@DoomsdaysCW/112100603318320275

🪦 The FBI Agent and Informant Behind Fred Hampton’s Murder
#fbi

The FBI Agent and Informant Behind Fred Hampton’s Murder
Special Agent Roy Martin Mitchell was recognized within the FBI for his skill in developing informants in “the racial field.” Now we know the extent of Mitchell’s activities — including how they aided the killing of the Black Panther Party’s Fred Hampton.

🏘️ Tenants Are Forcing Bay Area Landlords to the Bargaining Table
#activism

Tenants Are Forcing Bay Area Landlords to the Bargaining Table
San Francisco’s groundbreaking Union at Home legislation encourages tenants to organize in their buildings the way employees organize at work. Housing activists in Berkeley are hoping their city will follow suit — but landlords are pushing back.

🏘️ Tenants Are Forcing Bay Area Landlords to the Bargaining Table
#activism

Tenants Are Forcing Bay Area Landlords to the Bargaining Table
San Francisco’s groundbreaking Union at Home legislation encourages tenants to organize in their buildings the way employees organize at work. Housing activists in Berkeley are hoping their city will follow suit — but landlords are pushing back.

💰 “Models and Bottles” Clubs’ Extravagance and Exploitation
#culture

“Models and Bottles” Clubs’ Extravagance and Exploitation
We know the rich are getting richer, but what exactly are they doing with all those riches? Sociologist Ashley Mears examined one site of elite consumption: the world of VIP clubs and its rituals of garish waste and exploitation of women.

🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Winning Fossil Fuel Workers Over to a Just Transition
#climatechange

Winning Fossil Fuel Workers Over to a Just Transition
Among the hard problems in tackling climate change is addressing the needs of workers employed by the gas and oil industries. In California, labor and climate organizers are working together to ensure a just transition as fossil fuel production scales down.

✊ A New Day for College Athlete Unions Could Be on the Horizon
#sports

A New Day for College Athlete Unions Could Be on the Horizon
College athletes have long been classified as amateurs rather than employees to avoid paying them and granting basic worker rights. A National Labor Relations Board ruling at USC could change that, opening the door to unionization for all college athletes.

🍾 How the Ruling Class Became Vulgar
#class

How the Ruling Class Became Vulgar
Old-money WASPs once ruled America with an air of clannish exclusivity. Then the economic crises of the 1970s upended their world, opening the corporate floodgates to new-money barbarians — and replacing elite social norms with wanton money lust.

🧑‍🤝‍🧑 A New Alliance Could Change Puerto Rican Politics
#puertorico

A New Alliance Could Change Puerto Rican Politics
The Citizens’ Victory Movement and the Puerto Rican Independence Party are forming a coalition called La Alianza. Their goal: a radical shift in Puerto Rican politics.

🧑‍🤝‍🧑 A New Alliance Could Change Puerto Rican Politics
#puertorico

A New Alliance Could Change Puerto Rican Politics
The Citizens’ Victory Movement and the Puerto Rican Independence Party are forming a coalition called La Alianza. Their goal: a radical shift in Puerto Rican politics.

🧠 Democrats Have Been Panicking Over Biden’s Age for Years
#politics

Democrats Have Been Panicking Over Biden’s Age for Years
For years, Democratic insiders themselves have raised concerns about Biden’s fitness to serve. The party tried to put off this discussion. It’s too late for that now.

🪧 The UAW Is Gearing Up for Two Union Elections in the South
#labor

The UAW Is Gearing Up for Two Union Elections in the South
At a Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and a Mercedes factory in Vance, Alabama, the United Auto Workers have filed for union elections. If the UAW wins, it would be a major victory against anti-union bulwarks.

📖 To Make Unions Resonate Again, Study the CIO&#8217;s History
#labor

To Make Unions Resonate Again, Study the CIO’s History
Declining union density has diminished American workers’ awareness of labor organizing, pride in union status, and sense of belonging to a tradition of collective struggle. The history of the CIO can teach us how to embed unions in the working class again.

🇨🇳 China’s Economy Dodged Neoliberal Shock Therapy — and Boomed
#china

China’s Economy Dodged Neoliberal Shock Therapy — and Boomed
In the 1980s, as China sought to introduce markets into its economy, an internal debate roiled over whether to liberalize prices gradually or all at once. It rejected the free-market shock therapy option, and challenged neoliberal orthodoxy in the process.

🪧 No, Eastern Europe Isn’t Doomed to Right-Wing Rule
#politics

No, Eastern Europe Isn’t Doomed to Right-Wing Rule
Six left-wing parties from central-eastern Europe have formed a new alliance. They’re united by opposition to right-wing populists and Russian imperialism — but they’re also challenging the center-left parties who led the region’s neoliberal turn.

👉🏽 Archaeologists Are Organizing to Dig Out of Poverty Wages
#labor

Archaeologists Are Organizing to Dig Out of Poverty Wages
Field archaeologists work physically demanding jobs exposed to the elements, often for low pay and meager benefits from private employers. We spoke to one self-identified “dirty shovel bum” about why he and his coworkers are organizing.

🗳️ The Plutocratic Plan to Remake Colorado Elections
#politics

The Plutocratic Plan to Remake Colorado Elections
A “philanthropic venture fund” backed by elites is trying to remake Colorado’s electoral system to make it easier for the wealthy to buy up elections.

✊ The UAW Has Set Its Sights on the Anti-Union South
#labour

The UAW Has Set Its Sights on the Anti-Union South
The South has long remained a nearly impenetrable citadel for labor. Fresh off of the success of its Big Three strike last year and looking to organize an Alabama Mercedes plant, the United Auto Workers wants to storm the castle.

🏦 The Problem With Finance Is the Problem of Capitalism
#finance

The Problem With Finance Is the Problem of Capitalism
Finance’s dominance over the economy isn’t a deviant evolution of a “good” industrial capitalism. Finance and industry are interdependent — meaning solving problems like inequality and climate change will require a far-reaching democratization of the economy.

🏦 The Problem With Finance Is the Problem of Capitalism
#finance

The Problem With Finance Is the Problem of Capitalism
Finance’s dominance over the economy isn’t a deviant evolution of a “good” industrial capitalism. Finance and industry are interdependent — meaning solving problems like inequality and climate change will require a far-reaching democratization of the economy.

🤔 Is Nostalgia a Dead End?
#politics

Is Nostalgia a Dead End?
A dive into mid-century American history uncovers how a strong labor movement was pivotal in building social unity, equality, and advancing civil rights. While nostalgia might seem like a dead end, the past holds valuable lessons for shaping a better future.

🗳️ Salvadorans Have Traded Their Rights for Uncertain Security
#elsalvador …

Salvadorans Have Traded Their Rights for Uncertain Security
Salvadoran president Nayib Bukele will extend the state of exception that has earned the country the world’s highest incarceration rate. Gang violence has been traded for arbitrary arrest and detention — with working-class people bearing the brunt.

👊 The End of the Future
#marxism

The End of the Future
Both the Left and the Right used to articulate radically different visions of the future. Today the entire political spectrum looks backward, aiming to restore the past.

👉🏽 Key Bridge Collapse Shipowner Could Legally Skirt Liability
#law

Key Bridge Collapse Shipowner Could Legally Skirt Liability
Big Oil and shipping interests have lobbied for years to keep a law on the books that caps their liability following deadly disasters. The company linked to the Baltimore Key Bridge collapse aims to use it to avoid paying damages and compensation.