“Clearly the court’s conservative majority’s underlying ideological objection is to the federal government’s intervention in the affairs of private business. Concerns with workers’ health should not interfere with the sanctity of capital.”
How to overthrow a life-threatening capitalism?
20 January 2022, by“To understand the role played by productive and reproductive labour (salaried and non-salaried) in ensuring capitalist accumulation is also to understand that only living labour, because it is the very condition of the profits of a small minority of exploiters, is able to overthrow the yoke of capital, through the collective struggle for its emancipation.”
The lead up to the 2022 election campaign in Hungary
19 January 2022, by ,“In the case the political space is opened up by an electoral change in 2022, it is likely to remain dominated by a rearrangement of inter-capitalist conflicts and alliances, without significant influence from popular self-organization, and seriously contained by the privatization measures Fidesz is currently pursuing the protection of its economic dependants. However, a possible post-pandemic crisis might induce more serious ruptures in the capitalist regime built up by Fidesz.”
The Philippines hit by Rai, a devastating super-typhoon
18 January 2022, by“The solidarity networks must unfortunately act in a situation of insecurity linked to the multiple military conflicts in Mindanao, heightened by the economic crisis and the electoral campaign for the May 2022 elections, but also to a blind repressive policy of the Duterte regime”
Biden’s Speech on January 6 Insurrection and the Growth of America’s Far Right
17 January 2022, byThe U.S. labor movements has no strategy whatsoever to deal with the far rights, beyond voting Democrat. […] The left must involve itself in campaigns to defend the vote as well as in the social movements and workers’ struggles, challenging rightwing ideology and demagogy and offering a democratic and socialist alternative.
China versus America: war in the Pacific?
16 January 2022, byDespite the growing integration of Chinese and American economies, the rise of reactionary nationalism and the role of ‘militarised accumulation’ is tilting these two giant powers towards military confrontation.
Constituent Social Movements bloc advances environmentalist and feminist demands in Chilean Convention
15 January 2022, byMovimientos Sociales Constituyentes (Constituent Social Movements- MSC) has positioned itself as one of the most important forces within Chile’s Constituent Convention.
Fighting French Fascism Means More Than “Anyone but Éric Zemmour”
14 January 2022, by“This … means fighting the banalization (and radicalization) of Islamophobia at the highest levels of the state, as in mass media, and in resisting the state authoritarianism daily expressed in the fate imposed on migrants and the securitarian surveillance of working-class and immigrant neighborhoods.”
Chile’s victorious “new left” brings hope, but it’s all to play for
13 January 2022, by“For the first time in our history we are writing a constitution in a democratic manner. Let us take care of this process so that we have a Magna Carta that is a meeting point and not a source of division.”
Gabriel Boric