Socialism
- Mythmaking 101: What went wrong with capitalism?climateandcapitalism.com Mythmaking 101: What went wrong with capitalism? | Climate & Capitalism
Did big government, monopoly power, and easy money end competitive capitalism’s golden age?
- Ideological Shaping of the Possible Part I: Democrats & the Black Box Corporate Consulting Industry --- Citations Needed Podcastsoundcloud.com Ideological Shaping of the Possible Part I: Democrats & the Black Box Corporate Consulting Industry
“David Plouffe's advice for 2020,” Axios shared in 2019. “James Carville: 'Stupid wokeness' is a national problem for Democrats,” CNN reported in 2021. “Robert Gibbs, former White House Press Secretar
- Despite promising climate action, oil and gas giants double down on drillingclimateandcapitalism.com Despite promising climate action, oil and gas giants double down on drilling | Climate & Capitalism
All announced energy transition policies are ‘insufficient’ or ‘grossly insufficient’…
- Corporate Media Push Conspiracy Theories to Discredit Student Protestersfair.org Corporate Media Push Conspiracy Theories to Discredit Student Protesters
Across corporate media, journalists and pundits introduced conspiracy theories to discredit the pro-Palestine student protest movement, particularly that they are funded by foreign countries or “outside agitators.”
- The NYT’s One True Subject Is the One Percentfair.org The NYT’s One True Subject Is the One Percent
From the career triumphs of nepo babies to deep dives about luxury real estate, it’s clear that the New York Times’ most cherished subject is the One Percent.
- Israel Killed Hundreds of Civilians to Save Four of Its Ownjacobin.com Israel Killed Hundreds of Civilians to Save Four of Its Own
Last Saturday, Israel massacred hundreds of Palestinian civilians in an operation to rescue four Israeli hostages. American commentators rushed to justify the brutal operation.
- Hailed Abroad, Giorgia Meloni Undermines Democracy at Homejacobin.com Hailed Abroad, Giorgia Meloni Undermines Democracy at Home
The EU election showed how much the EU establishment has accepted far-right Italian premier Giorgia Meloni. She’s often cast as a pragmatist, yet her planned constitutional rewrite and attacks on media challenge the narrative of a benign moderate turn.
- Over 27,000 K-12 Educators Just Unionized in Virginiajacobin.com Over 27,000 K-12 Educators Just Unionized in Virginia
This week, workers in Virginia’s Fairfax County Public Schools voted to unionize, forming a wall-to-wall union of 27,500 teachers, custodians, teaching assistants, bus drivers, and more. The vote has created one of the largest K-12 unions on the East Coast.
- Defend Britain's NHS from Privatizationwww.currentaffairs.org Defend Britain's NHS from Privatization
The National Health Service is the British socialist movement’s greatest achievement. Now, it’s under threat.
- What's Wrong With Literacy Programswww.currentaffairs.org What's Wrong With Literacy Programs
Revolutionary Cuba treated literacy as a form of liberation. US literacy efforts rely on charity and volunteerism. The difference in approach is striking.
- Climate change solutions must resist colonialismsocialistworker.co.uk Climate change solutions must resist colonialism
Climate change solutions in Africa can perpetuate colonial relations if they don't engage democratically with native people.
- The rent is too dang high in Cities: Skylines 2, so the devs nuked the landlordsarstechnica.com The rent is too dang high in Cities: Skylines 2, so the devs nuked the landlords
It was getting so bad, people were actually suggesting building more homes.
I know this is a game, but I genuinely think this opens the door to wider discussion
- Ikea’s CEO has solved the Swedish retailer’s global ‘unhappy worker’ crisis by raising salaries, introducing flexible working and subsidizing childcarewww.allsides.com Ikea’s CEO has solved the Swedish retailer’s global ‘unhappy worker’ crisis by raising salaries, introducing flexible working and subsidizing childcare
Allsides.com is a website that provides multiple perspectives on political topics
- Banana giant must compensate victims of Colombian paramilitary: US court | Business and Economy Newswww.aljazeera.com Banana giant must compensate victims of Colombian paramilitary: US court
Surviving family members awarded $38.3m after Chiquita found liable for funding armed group that killed their relatives.
- Inside Enclave Rabia Caracol — An Anarchist Community Center and Cafe in Tijuana, Mexico - UNICORN RIOT
> On a given day, the five story building (including basement and roof top rooms) houses a variety of projects and dozens of people pass through its open doors.“We have a café, we have a community kitchen where we prepare the free meals. We have a community bike shop in the basement and we have space for events, shows…theater,” explained Nat, a longtime organizer and collective member of Enclave. “We try to make the space available for the community to use as they please.”
> But Enclave isn’t just a resource center for migrants and others in need—it is also a space for creativity, experimentation, and exchange of radical political ideas. It hosts drag shows, reading groups, lectures, film screenings, and workshops on topics outside the political mainstream. At such events, those who come to the space primarily for resources often stay to engage with those who come for the politics or to enjoy the safe space.
> “The people that come to the shows and that organize events are, I would say, mostly punks and feminists and people from the LGBT community that have found also a safe space here where they know that here they will be respected no matter what,” said Nat.
I've had the opportunity to work with several community-owned-and-run spaces in the Bay Area, and they are wonderful microcosms of our communities, as well as being communities unto themselves. If you have not had the chance to interact with one of theses, I highly recommend you to look them up in your local areas; they can always use more members, no matter your role.
It's easy as members of a relatively small group (e.g. AnSocs) to feel and become isolated, and working with or even just inhabiting spaces like this help others, and ourselves!
- Indigenous Writer Gord Hill on Resistance Art Historyunicornriot.ninja Indigenous Writer Gord Hill on Resistance Art History - UNICORN RIOT
British Columbia, Canada — Renowned Kwakwaka’wakw artist, author, and political activist Gord Hill recently spoke at the University of Victoria’s (UVIC) Faculty of Fine Arts in Victoria for its annual Lehan Family Activism & the Arts Lecture covering the intersection of art and activism. Hill is the...
- Global people’s movements are leading the fight for our planetclimateandcapitalism.com Global people’s movements are leading the fight for our planet | Climate & Capitalism
A conversation with Ashley Dawson, author of Environmentalism from Below…
- The IMF and Class Struggle in Latin America: Unveiling the Role of the IMFmonthlyreview.org Monthly Review | The IMF and Class Struggle in Latin America: Unveiling the Role of the IMF
The International Monetary Fund, part of the Bretton Woods Agreement that helped establish the current rules of the U.S.-dominated international capitalist system, claims to aim for a world of…
- Leonard Leo Built the Conservative Court. Now He’s Funneling Dark Money Into Law Schools.theintercept.com Leonard Leo Built the Conservative Court. Now He’s Funneling Dark Money Into Law Schools.
Right-wing megadonor Leonardo Leo’s plan for a $25 million research center at Cornell fell apart. So he took his money to Texas A&M.
- Attacks on ICC Show ‘Condemning Hamas’ Is Really About Absolving Israelfair.org Attacks on ICC Show ‘Condemning Hamas’ Is Really About Absolving Israel
By condemning both Hamas and Israel leaders for illegal acts of violence, the ICC is delegitimizing Israel, editorialists say.
- NYT Misses What’s True and Important About an Anti-Trans School Resolutionfair.org NYT Misses What’s True and Important About an Anti-Trans School Resolution
Like most New York Times articles about trans politics that FAIR has analyzed, the piece marginalized the voices of those most impacted.
- India’s Opposition Could Thwart Narendra Modi’s Ambitionsjacobin.com India’s Opposition Could Thwart Narendra Modi’s Ambitions
Narendra Modi is seeking a parliamentary supermajority to enact authoritarian constitutional change. India’s political opposition could derail his plan by channeling the spirit of social resistance to Modi’s Hindutva chauvinism.
- SCOTUS Is Helping Corporations Dodge Consumer Liabilityjacobin.com SCOTUS Is Helping Corporations Dodge Consumer Liability
In 2017, Georgia-Pacific invented a legal scheme to skirt liability for serious consumer harms. Earlier this month, the Supreme Court allowed the move to stay in place, giving the company more time to avoid paying up for its asbestos poisoning.
- Jeremy Corbyn Is Right to Defy Starmer’s Left-Bashing Agendajacobin.com Jeremy Corbyn Is Right to Defy Starmer’s Left-Bashing Agenda
Jeremy Corbyn is running as an independent in the UK general election after Keir Starmer blocked him from running for Labour. From Palestine solidarity to the Green New Deal, Corbyn will be a voice for causes that Starmer has driven out of Labour.
- Israel’s Rafah Tents Massacre, Yet Another Heinous War Crimejacobin.com Israel’s Rafah Tents Massacre, Yet Another Heinous War Crime
Just when we thought we couldn’t see anything more heinous in its genocidal war on Gaza, Israel has plumbed greater depths of savagery by bombing Rafah, killing dozens. When will this madness end?
- Episode 201: The Conservative, Faux-Erudite Rise of Nuance Trolling --- Citations Needed Podcastsoundcloud.com Episode 201: The Conservative, Faux-Erudite Rise of Nuance Trolling
“Here's why creating single-payer health care in America is so hard,” explained Harold Pollack in Vox in 2016. “The benefits of climate action…are diffuse and hard to pin down,” shrugged a Foreign Aff
- Capitalism’s New Age of Plagues. Part 5: The Pandemic Machinesclimateandcapitalism.com Capitalism’s New Age of Plagues. Part 5: The Pandemic Machines | Climate & Capitalism
New zoonotic diseases are inextricably connected to the industrialization of poultry…
- Marcuse’s revolutionary ecology: A breath of fresh airclimateandcapitalism.com Marcuse’s revolutionary ecology: A breath of fresh air | Climate & Capitalism
Laying the groundwork for the 99% to build a new ecosocialist world system…
- NYT’s Bad Reporting on Brazil Predictably Used by GOP to Attack Democracy Therefair.org NYT’s Bad Reporting on Brazil Predictably Used by GOP to Attack Democracy There
The New York Times has a long tradition of promoting fascists while crying censorship when a leftist government defends itself against coups.
- Loblaw’s Great Canadian Grocery Gougejacobin.com Loblaw’s Great Canadian Grocery Gouge
Loblaw’s shareholders are laughing all the way to the bank while Canadians struggle to put food on the table. A recent consumer boycott of the grocery giant has sparked a national debate on food affordability and corporate profits.
- Antiabortion Extremists Are Playing Language Gamesjacobin.com Antiabortion Extremists Are Playing Language Games
Abortion opponents claim that there’s never a medically necessary reason for abortion. That flies in the face of medical reality. So in states with abortion bans, they’re simply redefining abortion to make their point — and make it easier to criminalize.
- Steven Thrasher on Campus Protests and The Viral Underclass
The journalism professor on what he saw at Columbia and what viruses and crises illuminate about the structure of society.
- The Death Squad and the Bomber Pilot
The ICC prosecutor takes the radical step of applying a consistent standard to both Israel and Hamas. No wonder U.S. political elites are horrified: if no one is exempt from following international law, what does that mean for our own war crimes?
- Sterilization, Murders, Suicides: Bans Haven’t Slowed Abortions, and They’re Costing Livestheintercept.com Sterilization, Murders, Suicides: Bans Haven’t Slowed Abortions, and They’re Costing Lives
Abortion bans haven’t stopped abortions, but pregnant people are dying. Is this what the “pro-life” movement wanted?
- Outside Groups Spent $285,000 Backing Jamaal Bowman. AIPAC Alone Just Dropped Nearly $2 Million to Attack Him.theintercept.com Outside Groups Spent $285,000 Backing Jamaal Bowman. AIPAC Alone Just Dropped Nearly $2 Million to Attack Him.
AIPAC just dropped nearly $2 million in outside spending to attack New York Rep. Jamaal Bowman in his Democratic primary against George Latimer.
