Happy New Year everybody!

"Unfortunately, if all you’ve read are mainstream news outlets, and not the conservatives themselves, it’s almost impossible to understand just how deranged the entire movement has become."

https://democracyjournal.org/magazine/beyond-compromise/

#books

"Wobblies In Their Heyday: The Rise and Destruction of the Industrial Workers of the World during the World War I Era", by Eric Chester

https://www.jacobinmag.com/2014/12/wobblies-past-and-present/

"Marx and Social Justice: Ethics and Natural Law in the Critique of Political Economy", by George E. McCarthy

https://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviews/17579_marx-and-social-justice-ethics-and-natural-law-in-the-critique-of-political-economy-by-george-e-mccarthy-reviewed-by-xuanpu-zhuang

"Beaten Down, Worked Up: The Past, Present, and Future of American Labor", by Steven Greenhouse
https://democracyjournal.org/magazine/sticking-with-the-union/

"Lawyers for the Left: In the Courts, In the Streets, and on the Air", by Michael Steven Smith

https://portside.org/2019-04-18/lawyers-left-courts-streets-and-air

#video

Everything wrong with what Peterson said on Marx and Marxism in the debate against Zizek. This whole channel is extremely interesting, especially if you want to learn about post-modern philosophy

https://youtu.be/V2hhrUHSD6o

"Commonly held beliefs don’t develop in a vacuum. Trans people have never had control over their own narrative, in science or in media. That has started to change recently, but by and large, cis people still hold the power to frame trans lives for the masses. Maintaining that power to define trans lives is what ultimately drives anti-trans activists, not only in their online presence but in the courts and more broadly."

https://newrepublic.com/article/156104/biology-becomes-cover-anti-trans-bigotry

"Overall, the relative dimension of privatization proceeds in 1934-7 Germany is close to the ratio for the EU-15 in 1997-2000, at 1.79 per cent."

A short paper on privatization under Nazi Germany, to disprove the common belief that "Nazis were socialists"

"While much international media coverage has focused on the Kurds’ role in the battle against Islamic State, some claim that the more significant battle is that fought “with pens.” The Institute for Educational Science, established as part of the revolution, is tasked with designing a new curriculum to reflect the self-administration’s broader attempts at challenging the capitalist regimes that precede and surround it."

roarmag.org/essays/fighting-with-pens-in-rojavas-war-of-education/

some useful tips on campaigning and creating a grassroots movement

https://theintercept.com/2020/01/03/bernie-sanders-democratic-party-2020-presidential-election/

www.currentaffairs.org/2019/11/why-you-should-take-a-chance-on-the-socialist

"Bernie 2020 is running a working class left-wing campaign, clearly aimed at governing from the streets, not in the backrooms of Washington or in Martha’s Vineyard."

Also, Sanders ha recently surpassed 5 Million Individual Contribution (source) and has closed the year with the most donations of any candidate in history at this point in a presidential campaign (source)

"As we enter a new decade and go into the 11th year since the end of the last global slump, these are the fundamental factors that suggest a new slump is not far away. They are: stagnant or falling profits and profitability; weak or falling investment; rising corporate debt and falling trade (amid a global trade war)."

thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2019/12/30/forecast-2020/