"What I really mean here though is: Listen to the dissidents. They will not appear on television. They will be smeared and treated as lunatics. But you need them if you are going to be able to resist the absolute barrage of misinformation, or to hear yourself think over the pounding war drums."
https://www.currentaffairs.org/2020/01/how-to-avoid-swallowing-war-propaganda
https://www.currentaffairs.org/2020/01/how-to-avoid-swallowing-war-propaganda
Current Affairs
How To Avoid Swallowing War Propaganda
Cutting through bad arguments, distractions, and euphemisms to see murder for what it is.
Hello everyone!
Today I decided to send something different.
I'm sending you the 9 issues published so far of the Build Zine, curated by members of the DSA.
In them, "organizers describe their concrete projects and the theories underlying these projects."
They're not too long (each of them is about 40-50 pages) and thought that some of you might have been interested in this. I read 'em all and found them quite enjoyable, and they're the ideal for political organizers.
With that said, starting from tomorrow we'll go back to publishing the usual content. Have a good day!
Today I decided to send something different.
I'm sending you the 9 issues published so far of the Build Zine, curated by members of the DSA.
In them, "organizers describe their concrete projects and the theories underlying these projects."
They're not too long (each of them is about 40-50 pages) and thought that some of you might have been interested in this. I read 'em all and found them quite enjoyable, and they're the ideal for political organizers.
With that said, starting from tomorrow we'll go back to publishing the usual content. Have a good day!
Build+Soc+Fem+Issue+(Convergence+Cover+-+Single+Page+Layout).pdf
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This is a Special Issue on Socialist Feminism
Forwarded from NoGoolag
Iraq – Why Doesn’t the US Move Out Despite the Iraqi Parliament’s Decision?
http://graph.org/Iraq--Why-Doesnt-the-US-Move-Out-Despite-the-Iraqi-Parliaments-Decision---Global-Research-01-12
From: https://www.globalresearch.ca/iraq-why-doesnt-the-us-move-out-despite-the-iraqi-parliaments-decision/5700266
#iraq #usa #war #gov
http://graph.org/Iraq--Why-Doesnt-the-US-Move-Out-Despite-the-Iraqi-Parliaments-Decision---Global-Research-01-12
From: https://www.globalresearch.ca/iraq-why-doesnt-the-us-move-out-despite-the-iraqi-parliaments-decision/5700266
#iraq #usa #war #gov
Telegraph
Iraq – Why Doesn’t the US Move Out Despite the Iraqi Parliament’s Decision? - Global Research
Why doesn’t the U.S. respect the decision made by the Iraqi Parliament and move out of Iraqi territory? – The short answer is, because the US doesn’t respect anybody’s – any country’s – decision or sovereignty, as long as it doesn’t meet their objectives.…
"These stem from unions’ fundamental contradiction: they are necessary but insufficient vehicles for workers to achieve their goals. This is further complicated by the tightrope that unions must walk between militancy and bureaucracy. If self-preservation led unions to prioritize maintaining their bureaucratic organizations in recent decades, the escalating state and employer offensive has made that response increasingly untenable. Renewed militancy is key to labor’s future"
https://jacobinmag.com/2020/01/marxism-trade-unions-socialism-revolutionary-organizing/
https://jacobinmag.com/2020/01/marxism-trade-unions-socialism-revolutionary-organizing/
Jacobinmag
Why Unions Are Good — But Not Good Enough
For socialists, unions are paradoxical organizations. On the one hand, unions are essential for creating a workers' organization that can oppose capital and challenge it for power. But they are also an insufficient vehicle for mobilizing those workers to…
"Today if this country is safe,
It is because of my strength.
If I die today,
Civil war will start tomorrow.
Come, brave ones of India,
Come free me!" - Safdar Hashmi
https://mronline.org/2020/01/04/how-many-millions-did-you-make-for-the-pennies-you-gave-to-the-coolies/
It is because of my strength.
If I die today,
Civil war will start tomorrow.
Come, brave ones of India,
Come free me!" - Safdar Hashmi
https://mronline.org/2020/01/04/how-many-millions-did-you-make-for-the-pennies-you-gave-to-the-coolies/
MR Online
MR Online | How many millions did you make for the pennies you gave to the Coolies
As we enter the new year, protests across the planet continue unabated; rising levels of discontent are manifest in both progressive and reactionary directions. The political character of the anger…
"Our goals for this strike solidarity kit are two-fold:
Provide other DSA chapters and SV DSA’s Labor Working Group with a ‘playbook’ of tactics and strategies to employ in future strike solidarity efforts. We hope that you’ll be able to use the best practices in this document and adapt ideas found here to suit your chapters’ strengths, and the needs of the picket lines you’re supporting.
Provide a retrospective of what we at Silicon Valley DSA did in support of the workers on strike at the San José Marriott, to discuss what worked, and to be honest about what we could improve in the future."
https://siliconvalleydsa.org/strike-solidarity-kit/
Provide other DSA chapters and SV DSA’s Labor Working Group with a ‘playbook’ of tactics and strategies to employ in future strike solidarity efforts. We hope that you’ll be able to use the best practices in this document and adapt ideas found here to suit your chapters’ strengths, and the needs of the picket lines you’re supporting.
Provide a retrospective of what we at Silicon Valley DSA did in support of the workers on strike at the San José Marriott, to discuss what worked, and to be honest about what we could improve in the future."
https://siliconvalleydsa.org/strike-solidarity-kit/