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From the Courts to the Streets: Gig Workers Rising Protest Outside Doordash CEOs House 
We'll meet at 4 Marina Green Dr, San Francisco, at 10:30am and head to Tony's house together...
Event Date: Thu, Sep 2, 2021 11:00am PDT
Posted: Tue, Aug 31, 2021 8:16pm PDT
Beyond market and state The dominant, financial market-oriented factions of capital are using the crisis to further enrich themselves at the expense of everyone else by attempting to appropriate even the wealth of society that is yet to be generated in the medium term by indebting the state. The left and civil society organizations have been warning of such a crisis for years....
Posted: Sun, Aug 29, 2021 1:00pm PDT
Digitization and poverty Technology is replacing human labor... A widely acclaimed study by Carl Frey and Michael Osborne estimates that 47 percent of U.S. jobs in manufacturing, retail, or service industries such as medicine, banking, or architecture are at risk....
Posted: Wed, Aug 25, 2021 10:35am PDT
CA SEIU1000 Pres Richard Lewis Brown On Newsom, Fires, Covid & Racist Homophobic Attacks 
WorkWeek interviews SEIU 1000 president Richard Lewis Brown about the fires, covid, Newsom and the racist homophobic attacks on him....
Posted: Sat, Aug 21, 2021 11:48pm PDT
Justice, Impoverishment and Fear The defense of the welfare state is the defense of democracy...
Democracy is as strong as it is fragile. It is strong when it is defended. It is strong when we do not allow ourselves to be fobbed off with answers that do not tolerate questions. But it disappears immediately when we have become indifferent to it....
Posted: Sat, Aug 21, 2021 5:07am PDT
WorkWeek 8-19-21 On The Case Of Major Tillery & Labor & The Fight Against Covid At CCSF 
WorkWeek covers the case of Major Tillery who provided legal advise to Mumia Abu-Jamal. It also covers the fight against covid at San Francisco City College....
Posted: Thu, Aug 19, 2021 6:38pm PDT
The big crash just isn't heating the stark markets The author reminds us that "never in history has a crisis been solved by printing money." The states and central banks had "maneuvered themselves into a dead end from which they can no longer get out" through their own fault. For now it would no longer be possible to overcome future recessions and financial crises with financial injections....
Posted: Thu, Aug 19, 2021 1:39pm PDT
Casualties of reopening schools: Children dying from COVID-19 Amid a surge of COVID-19 cases throughout the United States, hundreds of children have lost their lives to the disease....
Posted: Wed, Aug 18, 2021 10:40pm PDT
How is Corona changing the world of work? Exceptional situations do not necessarily have to be handled in an authoritarian manner; efficiency does not have to be generated in command structures. Independent action by employees becomes productive in democratic structures - perhaps the Corona crisis has also triggered learning processes that go in this direction....
Posted: Tue, Aug 17, 2021 6:18am PDT
Coronavirus health disaster in Los Angeles looms with reopening of schools A crime of historic proportions is underway which can only be stopped by a coordinated intervention by the working class. Like schools around the country, Los Angeles students have almost no options whatsoever for remote learning while the Delta variant tears through school populations leading to mass infections and deaths....
Posted: Tue, Aug 17, 2021 1:52am PDT
Covid Protections Demanded At CCSF Press Conference "This Is A Life & Death Question”! 
A press conference was held to report on the serious health and safety issues from covid that are threatened if students, faculty and staff return to work without proper education and procedures including testing, masks and vaccinations....
Posted: Mon, Aug 16, 2021 10:51pm PDT
WorkWeek On Trumka, Racist Attacks & Hanging Nooses & Privatization Of Education 
WorkWeek covers the death of former AFL-CIO president Trumka, the racist terror campaign against Black LA Belt line rail workers including hanging nooses. WorkWeek also covers the privatization of public education and the racist xenophobic attacks on Asians and Asian Americans....
Posted: Mon, Aug 16, 2021 10:16am PDT
Workout. The Crisis of Labor and the Limits of Capitalist Society The relatively short era of Fordism during the thirty years after WWII came to an end in the mid 1970s. A new productivity boost began based on new information and communication technologies. Microelectronics facilitated a radical reorganization in production where labor lost its central importance and the application of knowledge to production became the main force....
Posted: Mon, Aug 16, 2021 7:47am PDT
Crash Course For over thirty years, the dynamic of the world economy has only been sustained thanks to the inflation of a speculative and credit bubble – what Marx termed “fictional capital.” Capital is diverted into the financial markets because the real economy no longer offers adequate investment possibilities. States go into debt to maintain their budgets....
Posted: Mon, Aug 16, 2021 5:52am PDT
Rehire Namibian Mine Union Leaders & Hands Off Lawyer Beukes! Rally At SF China Consulate 
A rally was held on 8/13/21 at the San Francisco Chinese consulate to demand the rehiring of the 9 dismissed leaders of the Miners Union of Namibia Rossing Branch. Their employers is the state owned Chinese National Nuclear Corporation....
Posted: Sat, Aug 14, 2021 10:23pm PDT
Stop Privatization! Protest AT CCSF Board Pres Shanell Williams Summer Soirée 
A protest was held at a CCSF Board Pres. Shanell Williams Summer Soirée to retire her campaign debt for her campaign. Speakers said her role was to shut down campuses, lay off teachers and destroy programs....
Posted: Tue, Aug 10, 2021 10:47pm PDT
Putting Food on the Table: Supporting Bay Area Farms with KTA & POST 
Online event (FREE)...
Event Date: Fri, Sep 10, 2021 12:00pm PDT
Posted: Tue, Aug 10, 2021 3:43pm PDT
The Real History Of AFL-CIO Richard Trumka With "War Zone" Organizer Mike Griffin 
WorkWeek interviews Decatur "War Zone" organizer Mike Griffin about the role of former AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka in the struggle in Decatur and in labor nationally....
Posted: Tue, Aug 10, 2021 10:22am PDT
Workplace Health & Safety: A Constant Struggle Under Capitalism (online) online event, see website for details...
Event Date: Sat, Aug 21, 2021 4:00pm PDT
Posted: Sat, Aug 7, 2021 7:16pm PDT
Collective working time reduction is long overdue Full-time employment must be reduced and part-time employment increased. Otherwise, as has been the case in Germany since the mid-1970s, unemployment will not be eliminated and there will be a further decline in labor incomes and more and more precarious workers - especially in many service markets that continue to grow....
Posted: Sat, Aug 7, 2021 11:04am PDT
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