Global Left Midweek – October 23, 2024

Elections elsewhere

Redeeming the Nobel in Economics

This year’s prize went to three institutionalist critics of neoliberalism. The award is overdue.

Billionaire Investors Are Supercharging Housing Crisis

"Billionaires see housing as a way to boost their bottom line, instead of a necessity to survive."

“Will You Bring My Dad and Give Me My Hand Back?

War Is Not Healthy for Children and Other Living Things

How Did Elon Musk Become the Richest Person on Earth?

Taxpayers like himself, Boot notes, are subsidizing the “fire hose of falsehoods” that now appear on X, the former Twitter, the social media app that Musk bought for $44 billion two years ago. Our tax dollars have essentially supersized our world’s

Dispatches From the Culture Wars – October 22, 2024

Getting out the vote in Pennsylvania

Israel’s War Against the World

Israel’s relationship with the UN and the rest of the world is at a breaking point, and U.S. obstruction offers no solution to this crisis—it only fuels it.

This Week in People’s History, Oct 23–29

Church in McComb, Mississippi, after it was destroyed by a bomb in 1964
Wrist-Slaps for Racist Terrorists (1964), Stop Global Warming! (2009), An ‘October Surprise’ for the Ages (1924), Nothing New About ‘Lock ‘em Up!’ (1994), Integrated Schools – ‘Just Around the Corner’ (1969)

Meet the French Left’s Nominee for Prime Minister

After the New Popular Front won July’s French elections, it nominated Lucie Castets for prime minister. Emmanuel Macron ignored the result. Castets told Jacobin how the left-wing coalition can build on its progress and stop the lurch to the right.

Central Park 5 Sue Trump for Defamatory Comments

"Defendant Trump falsely stated that plaintiffs killed an individual and pled guilty to the crime. These statements are demonstrably false,” the group wrote in federal complaint.
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Culture

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Go See ‘The Apprentice’ Before It’s Too Late

Eileen Jones Jacobin
Trump supporters will never go see 'The Apprentice' and anti-Trumpers won’t be able to bear two hours watching the bane of their existence rise to wealth and power. This lack of a clear audience spells an unfortunate box-office bomb.

poetry

Peaches

Peter Neil Carroll Something Is Bound to Break
Poet Peter Neil Carroll offers a wry and humorous look at the interplay between his progressive ideals and life’s daily joys.

books

The Problems With Polls

Samuel Earle The New York Review of Books
Political polling’s greatest achievement is its complete co-opting of our understanding of public opinion, which we can no longer imagine without it.

books

The Definitive History of Neo-Nazi Edgelords

Jordan S. Carroll The Los Angeles Review of Books
This book is a history of the far right wing movement in the United States, told in the form of a political biography of neo-Nazi author and activist James Mason.

food

Hungry Work

Lola Olufemi Vittles
It was women who ran the hostel services and food kitchens in the League of Coloured Peoples in the 1930–50s; and women who made sure that the minutes of meetings and conferences were kept. They are why we have this important history.

Labor

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Potential Impacts of a Full Minimum Wage for Tipped Workers in Massachusetts

Jeanette Wicks-Lim and Jasmine Kerrissey Political Economy Research Institute
Massachusetts will vote on Question 5 to eliminate a subminimum wage for tipped workers. This brief describes the workers who will be directly affected by eliminating the subminimum wage & considers impact on job quality, employment, costs & prices.

labor

Why My Coworkers and I Unionized Our Architecture Firm

Je Siqueira Jacobin
This summer, workers at Bernheimer Architecture in New York City became the first private sector architects in the US to ratify a union contract. An architect at the firm explains their road to a first collective bargaining agreement.

labor

Richmond Progressive Alliance’s Lessons for Organizers

Steve Early Jacobin
It doesn’t often make national headlines, but the city of Richmond, Ca. has been home to a successful progressive political reform project in recent years. Here are ten lessons for other municipal reformers from the Richmond Progressive Alliance

labor

The Far Right’s Plot Against Workers

Laura Flaunders and Maximilion Alvarez The Nation
Split screen - photo of a man next to a bulletin board with info about project 2025 James Goodwin, the policy director at the Center for Progressive Reform, explains what the “bleak” world of labor under Project 2025 would look like.

Friday nite video

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Family Feud Election 2024 Cold Open | SNL

Host Steve Harvey welcomes key players in the 2024 election Kamala Harris, Doug Emhoff, Tim Walz and Joe Biden, to face off against Donald Trump, Donald Trump Jr. and JD Vance in a game of Family Feud.

video

Project 2025 Is Already Here

If you want a glimpse into what Project 2025's education agenda might look like if implemented nationwide, look no further than Florida

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Washington's Dream 2 | SNL

George Washington (Nate Bargatze) tells his soldiers (Kenan Thompson, Mikey Day, Bowen Yang, James Austin Johnson) more of his dreams for the country.