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textAfter Capitalism by Ernst Hellmann
African socialism & the Common Good economy are discussed. In view of the problems we face in our society today, triggered by the striving for power of the elites leading to social inequality, environmental destruction & corporate greed, there are good reasons to practice the common good economy as an alternative & sustainable economic model more strongly worldwide....
Posted: Wed, Aug 23, 2023 2:24am PDT
textJeffrey Tumlin: our buses aren't jails by SFMTA Employees
This is an open letter from San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) employees regarding the events of July 8th, 2023 at the annual Dolores Park Hill Bomb, where Muni buses were used by the San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) to transport detained teenagers to SFPD’s Mission Station....
Posted: Mon, Jul 24, 2023 8:31am PDT
textThe Work Fetish by Felix Feistel
There are already more cars than Germany needs, more smartphones, computers, servers, machines than anyone really needs...There is no compulsion to build and construct so that engineers can justify their jobs, and on the other hand, there is no longer a compulsion to grow, which always makes new developments necessary....
Posted: Mon, Jul 24, 2023 1:41am PDT
textNew Video Examines How Amy’s Kitchen Impacted the Lives of More Than 300 of Its Workers by Food Empowerment Project
One year after the layoffs of more than 300 employees at the Amy’s Kitchen factory in San José, California, Food Empowerment Project (F.E.P.), a vegan food justice organization, has released a video on the lives that the company impacted....
Posted: Tue, Jul 18, 2023 12:19pm PDT
textWhere Is Sean? by Labor Video Project
At a national meeting of the NewsGuild, the president of the CWA Chris Shelton said that IBT President Sean O'Brien had not reached out to him and other union leaders if there is a strike by 340,000 IBT UPS teamsters...
Posted: Sat, Jul 8, 2023 10:55pm PDT
textThe End of the "Golden Age" of Capitalism and the Rise of Neoliberalism by Tomasz Konicz
The rise of the neoliberal world economic system marked by the dominance of financial markets – whose financial superstructure collapses over us – resulted from the radical economic crises of the early 1970s that seized nearly all western industrial countries. This crisis ended a period of economic prosperity in Western Europe and the US that continued since the early 1950s....
Posted: Fri, Jun 30, 2023 4:00am PDT
textCapital in the 2020s (with Thomas Piketty) by Roosevelt Institute
Inequality is not an accident. It’s not like the weather. It actually is being driven by the way capitalism is functioning. You know what we need? We need state intervention, we need government action, and we need that to be very, very, very big. That is when he proposes a policy that seems like it’s common sense now, but at the time, the idea of a wealth tax of 2 percent sounds radical....
Posted: Sun, Jun 18, 2023 7:09am PDT
textThe end of work by Norbert Trenkle
The pace of business rationalization has accelerated to such an extent that in the core sectors of world market production, fewer and fewer workers are needed despite growing output of goods. Thus, the development of productive power has reached a point at which it makes absolutely more labor superfluous in each period than is additionally required by an expansion of production....
Posted: Sun, Jun 4, 2023 7:33am PDT
textInflation in the Age of Finance Capitalism by Stephan Schulmeister
The shift of profit-striving from the real- to the financial-economy lowered economic growth Unemployment and atypical jobs soared. The welfare state was weakened. At the same time, financial wealth grew exorbitantly (the DAX increased 14-fold since 1988). The development of financial derivatives made possible profiting from short-term changes in stocks, currencies and bonds....
Posted: Thu, May 25, 2023 7:08am PDT
textOakland Teachers Strike Music Video by Javier’s Organics
Oakland Teachers Strike Music Video...
Posted: Tue, May 9, 2023 6:37pm PDT
textFinancial crisis - it's crashing again and The time of change by Thomas Walter & GW Smigielski
A utopian society will have learned to decentralize power, to keep it manageable and thus controllable, instead of creating supranational institutions and conglomerates whose size and financial power detach them from any democratic control. Just look at the European Union: In Brussels, an estimated 25,000 lobbyists besiege and work the deputies and commissioners....
Posted: Tue, Mar 21, 2023 3:04pm PDT
textInflation debate and The inflation conundrum by Yves Wegelin and Thomas Sablowski
If inflation is the result of a distributional conflict, it can also be deliberately stopped by governments. Governments could skim off the higher profits through a tax in order to subsidize energy costs for consumers. Governments could also raise taxes (on the rich, it should be added) as a way to curb economic demand and thus inflation....
Posted: Mon, Mar 6, 2023 7:26am PST
textSF Rally To Stop The War In Ukraine On The First Year Anniversary by Labor Video Project
On the one year anniversary of the Ukraine war a rally was held against US intervention....
Posted: Sat, Feb 25, 2023 4:12pm PST
textFree Mumia & Stop Racist Police Murders! For General Strikes To Stop Racist Terror & Murders by United Front Committee For A Labor Party
The UFCLP calls for mass worker/labor actions including general strikes to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal and racist police terror and murder. We also protest the San Francisco Labor Council bureaucrats who opposed supporting the ILWU Local 10 initiated march and rally. These bureaucrats like the national AFL-CIO leadership continue to support the Democrats and Republicans who support more funding for the police along with their militarization. The AFL-CIO, SEIU, IBT, CWA and other unions continue to ...
Posted: Thu, Feb 16, 2023 5:44am PST
textCritique of Religion and Market Religion and Post-colonialism by Franz Hinkelammert and Sebastian Pittl
Critique of religion as critique of fetishism is a critique of earthly gods, which are false gods. "Man is the highest being for man." Marx develops it further in other words and formulates his idea of the liberation of man in the Communist Manifesto. There he says: "In place of the old bourgeois society with its classes and class antagonisms comes...the free development of all. "...
Posted: Sun, Dec 18, 2022 3:20pm PST
textWho can afford capitalism anymore? and Why are prices rising? by Suitbert Cechura and Guido Speckmann
When the state now debates the need to create relief packages for employees, pensioners, unemployment benefit recipients, trainees and families, this is official confirmation that the result of wage labor is also poverty. The majority of citizens, however, find themselves in a dual role in the market economy: as workers & as King Customer, they are supposed to buy, to return the money....
Posted: Thu, Nov 10, 2022 7:56am PST
textThe music monument: Working class hero by Tom-Oliver Regenauer
As soon as you're born they make you feel small, By giving you no time instead of it all, Till the pain is so big you feel nothing at all. A working class hero is something to be, They hurt you at home and they hit you at school, They hate you if you're clever and they despise a fool....
Posted: Wed, Oct 19, 2022 2:19am PDT
textPandemic and the Policy Roots of a Steady State Economy by James Magnus-Johnston
We are in the midst of a radical disruption and nurturing the roots of a just transition. Whichever way events unfold over the coming years, it’s clear that returning to the pre-pandemic status quo is less realistic and more difficult than embracing the change that’s well underway. James Magnus-Johnston is a PhD researcher at McGill University....
Posted: Fri, Sep 16, 2022 7:02am PDT
textThe thought matrix expands by Marco P. Schott
Who has followed the change of the Internet over the last 10 years carefully, will agree with me that the at the beginning very wide spectrum of knowledge, which was available to one in the www, became thinner and thinner and more and more limited. Censorship and deletion of search results is becoming more and more obvious....
Posted: Wed, Sep 14, 2022 2:22pm PDT
textOregon: The toughest heat protection law in the US by Daniela Gschweng
Heat waves are becoming more frequent and longer Farm workers, people on construction sites, and even firefighters have been largely dependent on the goodwill of their employers during a heat wave. How long Oregon's heat protection law will remain in effect is an open question. A group has filed a lawsuit against it....
Posted: Fri, Aug 12, 2022 2:55am PDT
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