"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
https://newrepublic.com/article/156104/biology-becomes-cover-anti-trans-bigotry
The New Republic
When “Biology” Becomes a Cover for Anti-Trans Bigotry
How an employment case in the United Kingdom revealed the ugly contours of anti-trans discrimination
nazi-privatization.pdf
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"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"
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/
roarmag.org/essays/fighting-with-pens-in-rojavas-war-of-education/
ROAR Magazine
Fighting with pens in Rojava’s “war of education”
Rojava’s revolutionary education system is built around a homegrown curriculum promoting gender equality, ecology and social and cultural inclusivity.
some useful tips on campaigning and creating a grassroots movement
https://theintercept.com/2020/01/03/bernie-sanders-democratic-party-2020-presidential-election/
https://theintercept.com/2020/01/03/bernie-sanders-democratic-party-2020-presidential-election/
The Intercept
A New Electorate
The Bernie Sanders campaign is trying something new: trusting people.
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)
"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)
Current Affairs
Why You Should Take A Chance on the Socialist ❧ Current Affairs
If we want to build popular power, we need an organizer-in-chief.
"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/
thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2019/12/30/forecast-2020/
Michael Roberts Blog
Forecast 2020
“It is difficult to make predictions, especially about the future” is an old Danish proverb, often attributed to Nils Bohr, the Danish atomic physicist and quantum theorist. And amusing and insigh…
The 1945 Labour Manifesto that defeated Churchill
"Does freedom for the profiteer mean freedom for the ordinary man and woman, whether they be wage-earners or small business or professional men or housewives? Just think back over the depressions of the 20 years between the wars, when there were precious few public controls of any kind and the Big Interests had things all their own way. Never was so much injury done to so many by so few. Freedom is not an abstract thing. To be real it must be won, it must be worked for."
"The Labour Party stands for freedom - for freedom of worship, freedom of speech, freedom of the Press. The Labour Party will see to it that we keep and enlarge these freedoms, and that we enjoy again the personal civil liberties we have, of our own free will, sacrificed to win the war. The freedom of the Trade Unions, denied by the Trade Disputes and Trade Unions Act, 1927, must also be restored. But there are certain so-called freedoms that Labour will not tolerate: freedom to exploit other people; freedom to pay poor wages and to push up prices for selfish profit; freedom to deprive the people of the means of living full, happy, healthy lives. "
"The Labour Party is a Socialist Party, and proud of it. Its ultimate purpose at home is the establishment of the Socialist Commonwealth of Great Britain - free, democratic, efficient, progressive, public-spirited [...]."
www.labour-party.org.uk/manifestos/1945/1945-labour-manifesto.shtml
"Does freedom for the profiteer mean freedom for the ordinary man and woman, whether they be wage-earners or small business or professional men or housewives? Just think back over the depressions of the 20 years between the wars, when there were precious few public controls of any kind and the Big Interests had things all their own way. Never was so much injury done to so many by so few. Freedom is not an abstract thing. To be real it must be won, it must be worked for."
"The Labour Party stands for freedom - for freedom of worship, freedom of speech, freedom of the Press. The Labour Party will see to it that we keep and enlarge these freedoms, and that we enjoy again the personal civil liberties we have, of our own free will, sacrificed to win the war. The freedom of the Trade Unions, denied by the Trade Disputes and Trade Unions Act, 1927, must also be restored. But there are certain so-called freedoms that Labour will not tolerate: freedom to exploit other people; freedom to pay poor wages and to push up prices for selfish profit; freedom to deprive the people of the means of living full, happy, healthy lives. "
"The Labour Party is a Socialist Party, and proud of it. Its ultimate purpose at home is the establishment of the Socialist Commonwealth of Great Britain - free, democratic, efficient, progressive, public-spirited [...]."
www.labour-party.org.uk/manifestos/1945/1945-labour-manifesto.shtml
www.labour-party.org.uk
1945
Labour Party Manifesto -
Labour Party Manifesto -
The full text of all Labour Party manifestos from 1900 to the present.
"Transformation of the state apparatus tending toward the withering away of the State can rest only on increased intervention of the popular masses in the State: certainly through their trade-union and political forms of representation, but also through their own initiatives within the State itself. This process should be accompanied with the development of new forms of direct, rank-and-file democracy, and the flowering of self-management networks and centres."
https://marxistsociology.org/2019/11/states-and-stakes-relational-theory-and-the-politics-of-class-struggle/
https://marxistsociology.org/2019/11/states-and-stakes-relational-theory-and-the-politics-of-class-struggle/
Section on Marxist Sociology
States and Stakes: Relational Theory and the Politics of Class Struggle | Section on Marxist Sociology
How we conceive of the state has profound effects on how we understand political strategy. In this essay, written in response to Michael A. McCarthy’s recent intervention, Zachary Levenson and Teresa Kalisz argue that only by seeing the state as truly relational…
Can Capitalism Be Truly Democratic.pdf
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"The inherent logic of free market mechanisms poses a threat to democracy while the extension
of democracy would inevitably limit the freedom of the market, and put sand in the gears of capi-
tal accumulation."
of democracy would inevitably limit the freedom of the market, and put sand in the gears of capi-
tal accumulation."
#video
crimethinc.com/videos/roses-on-my-table
"This documentary short tells the story of the Wingnut Anarchist Collective in Richmond, VA, an organizing group and cooperative living space aimed at fostering mutual aid and grassroots resistance to authority"
I suggest you to take a look at the entire "videos" section (here), they have some interesting documentaries, apart from Roses on My Table:
- Breaking the Spell. which talks about the 1999 protests in Seattle against the WTO
- The Chicago Conspiracy, which is about the legacy of Pinochet's regime
- The Miami Model, that documents the resistance against paramilitary oppression
- pickAxe, a document on grassroots direct action to achieve victory against the forces of government and big business
- END:CIV, which is about climate change
p.s: Some of these videos are also in Spanish!
crimethinc.com/videos/roses-on-my-table
"This documentary short tells the story of the Wingnut Anarchist Collective in Richmond, VA, an organizing group and cooperative living space aimed at fostering mutual aid and grassroots resistance to authority"
I suggest you to take a look at the entire "videos" section (here), they have some interesting documentaries, apart from Roses on My Table:
- Breaking the Spell. which talks about the 1999 protests in Seattle against the WTO
- The Chicago Conspiracy, which is about the legacy of Pinochet's regime
- The Miami Model, that documents the resistance against paramilitary oppression
- pickAxe, a document on grassroots direct action to achieve victory against the forces of government and big business
- END:CIV, which is about climate change
p.s: Some of these videos are also in Spanish!
CrimethInc.
Roses on My Table
This documentary short tells the story of the Wingnut Anarchist Collective in Richmond, VA, an organizing group and cooperative living space aimed at fostering mutual aid and grassroots resistance ...