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Why Trader Joe’s Workers Are Joining the Fight to Unionize

24Jul

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USA

Why Trader Joe’s Workers Are Joining the Fight to Unionize

BY SONALI KOLHATKAR Photograph Source: Mike Mozart – CC BY 2.0 There was a big lie that modern corporations sold to American workers in the late 20th century and into the first decade of the 21st century: It was that profit-driven entities could make both employees and customers happy enough that no interventions like worker unions or strong federal regulations were needed. Modern companies like Apple, Google, Starbucks, and Trader Joe’s perpetrated this lie, obscuring their business practices with a veneer of progressive ideals and referring to staff with euphemistic titles like “partners,” “associates,” or “crew members.” Indeed, many workers employed within this slice of the American corporate world were often relatively content—until now. Alo...

Creating the Capitalocene: Endless Accumulation

24Jul

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Creating the Capitalocene: Endless Accumulation

BY PATRICK MAZZA Photograph Source: Ende Gelände – CC BY-SA 2.0 The world system we know today was born in a time roughly from the mid-14th to mid-17th centuries. We understand them as a time when the world came out of the “Dark Ages” into the Renaissance, when the light was breaking through. In truth, writes Fabian Scheidler, it was a time of unprecedented violence in Europe, of wars across the landscape culminating in the genocide of the indigenous of the Americas. “ . . . why does the early modern period come across as the new era of progress and humanism (?) . . . The reason for cultivating this myth is obvious: it is crucial to the West’s narrative of being the bearer of progress throughout the history of mankind. But what if our present system was actually built on...

What If Hitler Had Ordered the Invasion of Britain?

24Jul

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What If Hitler Had Ordered the Invasion of Britain?

BY PATRICK COCKBURN Photograph Source: Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-B24543 – CC BY-SA 3.0 de I often think at this time of year about what would have happened if Hitler had ordered the invasion of Britain in the summer of 1940. A reason for my interest is that I live in Canterbury in east Kent; the coast where the German invasion would have taken place between Folkestone and Newhaven is half an hour’s drive to the south. I have often stood on top of the Western and Eastern Heights at Dover looking at the French coast 20 miles away, which is so clearly visible and makes the Channel feel more like a broad river rather than a narrow sea. Another reason for thinking about the non-invasion of 1940 is that Britain was lucky then and I wonder if its luck as a country has deserted ...

International Accountability: Myanmar, the ICJ and the Genocide Question

24Jul

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International Accountability: Myanmar, the ICJ and the Genocide Question

BY BINOY KAMPMARK Myanmar security forces member near burnt down houses. Photograph Source: Steve Sandford (VOA) – Public Domain The indomitable spirit of Raphael Lemkin, bibliophile, assiduous documenter of humanity’s dark deeds and inexecrable conduct, is bound to be an unsettled one. This brilliant, committed and peculiarly dedicated creature took years to come up with what would, in time, become a word so horrifying as to transfix judges of international law. The amalgam word of genocide stalks the conscience of state leaders, commanders and politicians, an insidious reminder of the inner prejudice that becomes a murderous plan, a design, a means of ridding one of enemies and counterparts. Given the nature of international institutions, often weak and onerousl...

24Jul

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Human Rights, USA

Eviction Defense in Brooklyn

BY THEIA CHATELLE Image by Jon Tyson. Tenants in New York City are having a difficult time finding a place to live. In May 2022, the median rent in Manhattan reached $4,000. And other boroughs aren’t faring any better. The median rent in Brooklyn sits at around $3,300, and in Queens, a tenant can expect to pay around $2,500. Added to this is a vacancy rate of 4.54%, with 354,000 units that are vacant but not available to rent. And the lower the rent, the lower the vacancy rate. Just 1 percent of apartments listed below $1,500 were vacant. But, this shouldn’t be read as a weather report—where the working class stands idly by as they are subjected to the whims of the market. No, rising rents in New York City are the logical consequence of a capitalist syst...

Les Miserables, Living and Dying on American Streets

23Jul

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Human Rights, USA

Les Miserables, Living and Dying on American Streets

BY EVE OTTENBERG Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair Statistics lie. Some lie more than others. The ones regarding unemployment lie brazenly and have done so for years, erasing the very existence of the long-term unemployed by simply deleting them from the regular tally. Statistics about homelessness lie. But they have an excuse: the homeless are hard to keep track of. So we’re told that roughly half a million Americans have no home. But that statistic is belied by one from the National Center on Family Homelessness, which says 2.5 million children are now homeless each year in America. Add those two numbers together and you get three million homeless Americans. But even that statistic probably undercounts the number of people sleeping in tents, cars, subways, cheap hotels, on fri...

President Biden and Iran: the Cost of a Missed Opportunity

23Jul

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Iran, USA, ZIO-NAZI

President Biden and Iran: the Cost of a Missed Opportunity

BY MELVIN GOODMAN Photograph Source: U.S. Embassy Jerusalem – CC BY 2.0 President Joe Biden initially picked much of the low-hanging fruit from the misery of the Trump years. He revived the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and returned the United States to the Paris climate accords; the World Health Organization; and the Human Rights Council of the United Nations. But Biden has been timid in addressing the worst aspects of Trump’s legacy in international security. Trump’s vindictive tariffs on Chinese imports are still in place, although removing them would have improved Sino-American bilateral relations and alleviated the inflationary spiral in the U.S. economy. A return to the Iran nuclear accord would have created the opportunity for impr...

Democracy Down on the Constitutional Killing Floor

23Jul

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USA

Democracy Down on the Constitutional Killing Floor

BY PAUL STREET Image by Joshua Sukoff. I shoulda quit you, long time agoI shoulda quit you, long time agoThen I wouldn’t be hereDown on this killing floor– Chester Burnett, aka Howlin’ Wolf, “Down on the Killing Floor”Undelivered Goods Imagine that you are in a buying club that has a big problem. You and your fellow club members fork over money to a “highly qualified” individual you and fellow club members have repeatedly voted into the position of district club manager. His job is to obtain and distribute items and services you need. He takes your money, votes, and time, promising that he can “deliver the goods.” But he can’t really deliver, and he knows it. His pledge goes unfulfilled because a higher, 100-person club of structurally entrenched distributors refuse t...

23Jul

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Education, USA

The Nazification of American Education

BY HENRY GIROUX Photograph Source: Matt Johnson – CC BY 2.0 I consider the survival of National Socialism within democracy to be potentially more menacing than the survival of fascist tendencies against democracy.–Theodor Adorno 1959 DeSantis’s View of Education as Propaganda Factories The crisis of education in the United States presents not only a danger to American democracy, but also the ideological and structural foundations for the emergence of a fascist state. The slide towards lawlessness and authoritarianism is now aided and abetted by educational policies that are repressive and dystopian, wedded to social control and the death of the social imagination. An unimagined catastrophe now characterizes how American education is being shaped by...

PSL Editorial – Deadly heat wave sweeping Europe highlights criminal inaction on climate crisis

23Jul

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USA

PSL Editorial – Deadly heat wave sweeping Europe highlights criminal inaction on climate crisis

Party for Socialism and Liberation Download PDF flyer Students lead a die-in by the Bean in Chicago’s Millennium Park during the December 6, 2019 Climate Strike. Photo by Liberation News. Record temperatures continue to sweep Europe, with the UK recording its hottest day ever today – 104 degrees Fahrenheit in London. The heat wave has sparked fires and other emergencies, leaving more than 1,100 dead in Spain and Portugal alone. London’s mayor said that the city’s fire department “is under immense pressure” as multiple blazes break out. This unfolding disaster has rightfully drawn global attention to the woefully inadequate action taken by the governments of the wealthy capitalist countries to address the climate change crisis. While the rich have the resources to insulate ...