Archive | Portside

June 3, 2023

Supreme Court Rules Company Can Pursue Strike Damages

Lawrence Hurley NBC

The ruling means Glacier Northwest Inc. can sue over its claim that wet concrete loaded onto trucks was rendered useless after workers walked off the job.

June 3, 2023

Capital and Resistance

John Clarke Socialist Project

A Review of Socialist Register 2023

June 3, 2023

How Subaltern Studies Changed Our Understanding of Resistance Struggles

Stellan Vinthagen Waging Nonviolence

We sought to highlight a range of social, political, economic, and cultural forms of oppression that braided together in different ways in different historical situations, and which provided the focus for action by subaltern groups.

June 3, 2023

Cash Bail Is an Abomination of Justice. We Should Get Rid of It

Mansa Musa interview with David Gaspar The Real News

The blunt fact about the cash bail system in the US is that it creates a two-tier system of “justice” in which the presumption of innocence is denied to people who have not been convicted of anything but the “crime” of being poor.

June 3, 2023

“The Police Excluded People From Our Demonstration Against Our Will and Against Our Recommendation”

Phil Butland Interview with Udi Raz (Board Member Jüdische Stimme) The Left Berlin

As Jewish Berliners, we are involved, both as an organization and as individuals, with ongoing traumas that are inherent to this process of the ongoing Nakba — of the oppression of Palestinians by Zionists in Palestine.

June 2, 2023