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How ‘Israel’ Occupied Itself

How Israel Occupied Itself BY JUAN COLE Photograph Source: צילום: איציק אדרי – CC BY 2.5 On July 24th, the Israeli Knesset passed a measure forbidding the country’s High Court of Justice from in any way checking the power of the government, whether in making cabinet decisions or appointments, based on what’s known as the “reasonability” standard. In the Israeli context, this was an extreme act, since right-wing parliamentarians were defying massive crowds that had, for months on end, demonstrated with remarkable determination against such radical legislation. And that measure was only one part of a wide-ranging redesign of the court system unveiled by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in January, which deeply alarmed his critics. As exemplified by prominent ...

The Paralysis of Modern Politics: A Socialist Perspective

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The Paralysis of Modern Politics: A Socialist Perspective

BY MARK HARRIS Image by Patrick Perkins. There’s an old saying, the more things change, the more they stay the same. But perhaps a more apt description of the modern-day United States might be the more things don’t change, the worse it gets. That’s certainly true for wealth inequality. The average net worth of the Forbes 400 list of richest Americans was 15 times greater in 2022 than it was in 1982, according to the Institute for Policy Studies. Indeed, the richest one percent of Americans now owns more than half of all stock and mutual fund investments. Meanwhile, the top five executives at the largest S&P 500 U.S. corporations held $8.9 billion in tax-deferred retirement accounts as of 2021. Hyatt Corporation’s chief executive held ...

El Salvador’s Dangerous Backslide From Democracy

8Aug

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El Salvador

El Salvador’s Dangerous Backslide From Democracy

BY MARGARET KNAPKE Bukele with his wife, Gabriela Rodríguez – CC0 President Nayib Bukele’s regime has arrested nearly 72,000 Salvadorans over the last 16 months for allegedly assisting or belonging to criminal gangs. This includes at least 1,600 children. It also includes “Teo” (not his real name), a boatman arrested in May 2022 when he declined to give a ride to members of the armed forces. He explained the boat didn’t have sufficient fuel, and his aunt had gone to buy more. And “Julio” (not his real name), a laborer at a coconut cooperative. In July 2022, a soldier grabbed Julio’s friend — a man with epilepsy and speech difficulties — and asked his name. When he couldn’t speak, Julio explained his friend’s condition. The soldier released the friend — and a...

Have Our Corporate Chieftains Become Expendable?

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USA

Have Our Corporate Chieftains Become Expendable?

BY SAM PIZZIGATI Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair Do our corporate CEOs deserve all those millions they annually pocket? Can a modern economy somehow survive without the “incentive” these mega millions provide? Do we, in effect, need our top corporate bosses pocketing more in a day than their workers can take home in a year? We’ve been asking — as a society — questions like these ever since CEO paychecks started soaring in the late 1970s. Back in the 1960s, America’s CEOs averaged about 20 times what their workers were taking home. Today’s CEOs, analysts at the Economic Policy Institute detailed last October, routinely pocket 400 times and more what their workers are making. In 2022, adds a recently released AFL-CIO Executive Paywatch&nb...

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World

Roaming Charges: Mad at the World

BY JEFFREY ST. CLAIR Hyena on the Animal Wall, Cardiff Castle, Wales. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. “If you’re not mad at the world, you don’t have what it takes.” – Sun Ra + A trove of newly disclosed documents show how Robert Oppenheimer’s boss, the imperious Gen. Lesley Groves, repeatedly downplayed the risk of radiation exposure from atomic testing and the blasts at Hiroshima and Nagasaki themselves. Groves claimed those hit with lethal doses of radiation would die “without undue suffering. In fact, they say it is a very pleasant way to die.” It turns out that Oppenheimer himself was intimately aware of Groves’ deceptions about the dangers of radioactive fallout. But even after leaving the Manhattan Project, Oppenheimer kept quiet about the grotesque consequenc...

What did the October Revolution do for us? 2. Housing

8Aug

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Russia

What did the October Revolution do for us? 2. Housing

The second in our series of articles examining the impact of the October Revolution of 1917 on the lives of workers in Britain. Proletarian writers Subscribe to our channel Houses in Minsk built for workers at the local motor lorry factory in 1950s shows the considered approach to design, layout and green spaces given to workers housing. One hundred years ago the Great October Socialist Revolution began to break down all the lies and myths about how society can be organised and who can share in the benefit of the wealth it creates. It opened up the potential that can only exist when the contradiction between private appropriation and social production is removed, building a society that is organised with people and their needs as the focus rather than the ...

Why do so many trade union struggles in Britain fail?

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United Kingdom

Why do so many trade union struggles in Britain fail?

Teaching union NEU led its members into months of strike action, only to capitulate and accept a below-inflation pay rise. Why? Proletarian writers Subscribe to our channel The teachers’ strike is one of several that have collapsed recently despite having strong support from their members and from the wider public – and very good grounds for their demands regarding pay restitution and the restoration of our vital services. This article is reproduced from the Class Consciousness Project, with thanks. ***** The National Education Union (NEU), Britain’s biggest teaching union, announced on 31 July that, following a consultation with its members, it would be accepting the 6.5 percent pay offer made by the government through its proxy, the Schools Teacher...

Irish republicans challenge sinister ‘debanking’ strategy

7Aug

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Ireland

Irish republicans challenge sinister ‘debanking’ strategy

‘We will have your house; if you keep going, we will have your car, we will have your kids, we will have your benefits and we will put you in jail.’ Proletarian writers Subscribe to our channel The phenomena of ‘de-banking’ is an arms-length, extra-legal but extremely draconian punishment that is being increasingly used to target political activists in such a way that they never get to find out exactly what they are accused of or to defend themselves and their rights in a court of law. This article is reproduced from Republican News with thanks. ***** Saoradh’s national chairperson Stephen Murney and his family are the latest republicans to have their bank accounts frozen at the apparent behest of the British state. Mr Murney a...

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Lessons of 1914: Imperialism means war

Reams of WW1 historiography serve only to conceal the essence of that terrible conflagration – which gave birth in its turn to the era of proletarian revolution. Harpal Brar Subscribe to our channel The first world war, a result of the inbuilt and inescapable contradictions of capitalist imperialism, was both proof of the rottenness and decay of that system and the beginning of its end. As a system, imperialism has been declining ever since, notwithstanding some shortlived jubilation following the counter-revolutions in the socialist countries of Europe and central Asia. Imperialism today, while driving ever harder to war, is enmeshed in an even deeper crisis that drove it into the war of 1914-18. A new wave of revolutions is bound to be the result, and workers everywh...

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Ukraine

Spinning Illusions in Ukraine

BY LAWRENCE WITTNER Image by Max Kukurudziak. In recent decades, a segment of the global Left has looked upon the U.S. government as the Great Satan in international affairs, responsible for the world’s major ills. Thus, on those occasions when countries at odds with the United States behaved like brutal imperialist powers, these “campists” (as they were called thanks to their division of the world into an evil U.S. imperialist camp and its benign opponents) either ignored the action or blamed it on the U.S. government and U.S. allies. This warped vision became particularly apparent during the Russian government’s military invasion, occupation, and annexation of Ukraine, when major organizations on the anti-American Left, although supposedly antiwar and anti-imperialist, focu...