Dispatches From the Culture Wars – June 20, 2023
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Rising tide in Capital’s sewage drains
Rising tide in Capital’s sewage drains
Rising tide in Capital’s sewage drains
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In Obama’s Working, There Is No Way Out
Jacobin
Barack Obama abandoned his commitments to unions, and many top staffers went to work for the gig economy. In his Netflix series Working, the former president bears witness to workers’ suffering as if it were immutable.
The Little Man’s Big Friends
London Review of Books
This book covers more than two centuries of American history, seeking to explain the evolution and enduring power of a racially inflected understanding of freedom.
Global Left Midweek – May 10, 2023
Portside
Thunder on the labor front
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What It’s Like To Be a Female Union Electrician – A Review of Wirewomen: Lighting It Up
Portside
International Women’s Day is next week, when we celebrates the achievements of women in numerous walks of life–individual women who broke the proverbial glass ceiling and achieved success in careers and professions from which they had been excluded.
Tidbits – Feb. 23, 2023 – Reader Comments: Derailment = Nationalization; Florida Bans Black History; Earthquake Hits Syria Too; FBI Still Uses Informants; Amazon Labor Union; Charlene Mitchell; Communists in Closets; Building Resilient Organizations
Portside
Reader Comments: Derailment = Nationalization; Florida Bans Black History; Syria Hit by Earthquake, too; FBI Still Uses Informants; Amazon Labor Union; Charlene Mitchell; Communists in Closets; Building Resilient Organizations; Cartoons; more...
Bernie Sanders on the State of the Working Class in America
Our Revolution
I see a nation where 63 percent of workers live paycheck to paycheck — paycheck to paycheck. What does that mean? It means that every day you are living under incredible stress — scared to death that if your car breaks down, if your kid gets sick, if your landlord raises the rent, if you get divorced or separated, if you become pregnant, if for whatever reason you lose your job, you will find yourself in the midst of a financial catastrophe.
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Climate Struggle
Radical Philosophy
"The way for the climate movement to start winning is to treat climate change as a class struggle" is how reviewer Williams characterizes this book's main argument.
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Republicans Want Working-Class Voters — Without Actually Supporting Workers
The Guardian
GOP courts blue collar voters but most favor anti-union ‘right to work’ laws and reject laws that would protect right to organize.
Democrats Shouldn’t Focus Only on Abortion in the Midterms. That’s a Mistake
The Guardian
America has long faced structural economic crises. Democrats must win on the economy and present a pro-worker agenda. Now is the time for Democrats to take the fight to the reactionary Republican party and expose their anti-worker views
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