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Degrowth and socialist comrades, what should we be doing?
Ted Trainer* This is an attempt to clarify this discussion of degrowth strategy, a topic on which I think there is considerable confusion and mistaken approaches. Debate has recently been fuelled by Jason Hickel’s argument for a socialist position on both the goal and the means do it for degrowth. Liegey, Nelson and Leahy replied against Jason, defending the wide and diverse range of strategies now…

Degrowth and socialist comrades, what should we be doing?
Ted Trainer* This is an attempt to clarify this discussion of degrowth strategy, a topic on which I think there is considerable confusion and mistaken approaches. Debate has recently been fuelled b…

Ein interessanter Beitrag zu #Venezuela von Burkhard Schröder: https://www.burks.de/burksblog/2026/02/17/endspiel-in-venezuela

Endspiel in Venezuela
Der Autor in San Fernando de Atabapo Michael Roberts schreibt auf seinem Blog über "Venezuela: the end game". Er rezensiert Venezuela in Crisis - Socialist Perspectives, herausgegeben von Anderson M. Bean. Ich habe mir das Posting übersetzen lassen, es umformuliert und Links hinzugefügt. Der Artikel bestätigt, was ich bisher hier über Venezuela geschrieben habe. Venezuela war nie ein "soz ...

OpenAI's economic agenda is oddly socialist and wildly hypocritical, and is largely undermined by OpenAI's support for Republicans who attack welfare programs (Eric Levitz/Vox)
https://www.vox.com/politics/485461/openai-economic-policy-superpac-sam-altm…

OpenAI is pivoting to…socialism?
Last week, OpenAI endorsed a long list of highly progressive economic reforms. And yet, the company’s leadership is bankrolling Republican opponents of the welfare state.

Rio Police Chief & Congressman Convicted in Assassination of Socialist Rio Councilwoman Marielle Franco https://paydayreport.com/rio-police-chief-congressman-convicted-in-assassination-of-socialist-rio-councilwoman…

Rio Police Chief & Congressman Convicted in Assassination of Socialist Rio Councilwoman Marielle Franco
The court found that the former Chief of Rio de Janeiro Civil Police Rivaldo Barbosa, Brazilian Congressman Chiquinho Brazão, and his brother, Rio State Auditor General Domingos Brazão, were responsible for ordering the killing of Franco and her driver Anderson Gomes in 2018.

John McDonnell: “We have got to stop the escalation in terms of more and more being demanded to be spent on the military, which is largely misspent and wasted. There is no way any socialist can stand by and see warfare prioritised over welfare.”
But The Scottish National Party (SNP) backed 'Lord Robertson of Port Ellen''s warmongering call and called for more arms spending.
‘Guns before butter’ | Morning Star

some call me a SOCIALIST yet I am literally SHAKING at any SOCIAL event

Rio Police Chief & Congressman Convicted in Assassination of Socialist Rio Councilwoman Marielle Franco (Mike Elk/Payday Report)
https://paydayreport.com/rio-police-chief-congressman-convicted-in-assassination-of-socialist-rio-councilwoman-marielle-franco/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260225/p69#a260225p69

Portugal elects Socialist Party’s Seguro as president in landslide | #AlJazeera
#Elections #Portugal

Portugal has made a clear choice for a center-left president instead of a far-right one, probably by around 70-30.
https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2026/02/08/centre-left-antonio-jose-seguro-beats-far-ri…

Centre-left António Seguro projected to win Portuguese election runoff
The Socialist Party candidate was a heavy favourite to defeat far-right Chega party leader André Ventura going into the presidential election runoff. #EuropeNews

I agree with SF Chronicle columnist Allison Arieff that we should follow in Paris' footsteps by electing socialist mayors. Ok, she doesn't mention what party they belong to, but Allison does praise Anne Hidalgo and Emmanuel Grégoire.
https://www.sfchronicle.com/opini…

"Amazon has long exploited subcontracting to avoid taking responsibility for its delivery drivers. A bill introduced by socialist New York City Councilor Tiffany Cabšn would force the e-commerce giant to directly employ its drivers."
New York Is Closing In on Amazon’s Shady Delivery System | Portside
https://portside.org/2026-04-05/new-york-closing-amazons-shady-delivery-system-0

A different Judaism was possible - the Bund in tzarist Russia
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/07/molly-crabapple-new-book-jewish-socialism

The measles vaccine: A product of two centuries of science and public health reform - World Socialist Web Site #measles

The measles vaccine: A product of two centuries of science and public health reform
For much of the 20th century, measles was regarded as an unavoidable illness of childhood, even as it killed millions of people worldwide each year. The development of a safe and effective vaccine fundamentally changed that reality.

This is the photo that kicked off the Iran-Contra affair.
In October 1986, a Nicaraguan soldier shot down a cargo plane carrying military supplies to the rightwing rebel forces known as the Contras.
Pictured is the crash’s lone survivor, American ex-marine gunrunner Eugene Hasenfus.
His capture led to the revelation that the CIA was covertly supporting the Contras in their guerrilla war against Nicaragua’s socialist Sandinista government
– and Ronald Reagan’s governm…

I've started reading "Bullshit Jobs" by David Graebar, and it makes me think a lot.
One thing I'm particularly thinking about is my parents' generation. How they keep criticizing all the social support ("there is no money for that", "undeserving people get it"), combined with taking advantage of any social support they can get without much effort ("others use it", "we deserve it"). And of course criticizing subsequent generations (because my parents had it so rough, with all the social support given by the quasi-socialist People's Republic of Poland, and now everything is so great under late-stage capitalism and people "are just lazy and don't want to work").

Socialist Emmanuel Grégoire wins Paris mayoral race (Giorgio Leali/Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/socialist-emmanuel-gregoire-paris-mayor-election-france/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260322/p44#a260322p44

✊🏿 Jesse Jackson Paved the Way for a New US Left
#politics

Jesse Jackson Paved the Way for a New US Left
With his two unabashedly left-populist campaigns for president in 1984 and 1988, Jesse Jackson opened the door to Bernie Sanders’s presidential runs — and a reborn American socialist movement.

You want Zohran Mamdani in California? I raise to you Ramsey Robinson who will be running in 2026 to become the governor of CA.
I've shared my criticism of Gavin Newsom before, but given his constant paddling to the far right whilst not offering any real alternative other than posting memes, this socialist organizer can do everything he can't.

Hey cool, flowers to myself: Starting this week, I will be Acting Professor at Ruhr-University #Bochum holding the chair of Anthropology of Knowledge.
This will be for the summer term and lots of fun, esp. in teaching controversy mapping, reading extraction, and discussing post-socialist economies.

for today's general strikers: the amazing 1947 anti-taft-hartley pop song "snowball" by socialist girl group, the berries. (the b-side was "swingin' on a scab") https://youtu.be/TAk8qi8LCUE

I just got an email entitled "The US can no longer be treated as a normal ally "
It's not from the Socialist Workers' Union, the Irish Anarchists' Association, or the Association of Paranoid Android Users.
It's from the Irish Times. Ireland's small-c conservative newspaper of record.
(They wouldn't have been leading with this theme before Greenland. In the body, yes, but not the headline.)

Austria is the latest to take a stance against directly aiding the U.S. and Israel’s war.
Also citing its neutrality principles, Switzerland announced in March that it had halted all weapons export licenses to the U.S. and other involved countries since the first U.S.-Israeli bombardments on February 28,
and would continue doing so “for the duration of the conflict.”
Spain has opposed the war from the start, with its socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sšnchez proclaiming “no a…

Austria Becomes Latest EU Country to Deny US Military Use of Its Airspace
The country’s defense minister said it’s denied military airspace requests from the US since the outset of the war.

Paris has just elected another bike-friendly mayor!
After Anne Hidalgo transformed the city, her PS-colleague Emmanuel Grégoire takes over, beating former right-wing minister Rachida Dati by a large margin.
https://f24.my/BojB

Emmanuel Grégoire elected Paris mayor, succeeding fellow left-winger Anne Hidalgo
Socialist frontrunner Emmanuel Grégoire comfortably defeated veteran conservative Rachida Dati in a second-round runoff for Paris mayor, exit polls showed Sunday, in the last major test of the French public mood ahead of next year’s all-important presidential election.

RE: #Israel #canada #ndp #spain #españa #IranUSAIsraelWar #USA #canPoli #CdnPoli