Song of the Day ✊🏽🔥: https://open.spotify.com/track/6M5fJiQJ3lHmbQGrHXpAGY

«Nicht schlecht, sondern furchtbar»: Debakel für Sunak bei Lokalwahlen https://www.watson.ch/!541534261

Symposien, Initiativen, Demos: Die Massnahmengegner:innen wollen ihren Anliegen neuen Schub verleihen. Das gelingt nur mässig. Doch Ueli Maurer sucht die Brücke zum Programm seiner SVP. https://www.woz.ch/!40PM1S8N5ZJ5

Stunning graph: the plummeting tax rates of the richest Americans.
https://redd.it/1cj6ebn
@r_latestagecapitalism

TIL that Stephen King discarded the initial pages of Carrie until his wife retrieved them from the trash. This led to the publication of his first novel, which became a phenomenal success, launching his career into the multi-million-dollar industry [source, comments]

Good Idea: Do the maths and keep global temperature below 2° warming!

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07219-0

It is 6x cheaper than paying for the damages it causes...

Song of the Day 💃🏾🕺: https://open.spotify.com/track/5rb9QrpfcKFHM1EUbSIurX

Forwarding: " https://eci.ec.europa.eu/032/public/#/screen/home

This is an initiative at EU level. If enough EU citizens (16+!) sign it, the EU is obliged to act accordingly (unlike a petition)
It sucks that it is necessary to stand up for human rights in the EU... Share!
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On this day, 5 May 1818, Karl Marx was born in Trier, Germany. Living until the age of 64, Marx was a journalist, revolutionary socialist, philosopher and economist, and one of the most influential figures in world history. He inspired hundreds of millions with his works, including Capital which, over a century later, remains the most incisive critique of the capitalist system. Though his wife was from a wealthy background, Marx and his family often lived in abject poverty, and four of their children died in infancy. His children who survived to adulthood all became socialist activists in their own right, including his eldest daughter Jenny who also died before him.Despite his often difficult circumstances and the tragedy in his personal life, Marx was also well up for a laugh. For example, his friend and biographer Wilhelm Liebknecht recounted an evening pub crawl in west London in which he, Marx and another German friend, Edgar Bauer, drunkenly began ridiculing "English snobs". Soon, "Threatening words were spoken, the brains began to be heated, fists were brandished in the air and – we were sensible enough to choose the better part of valor and managed to effect, not wholly without difficulty, a passably dignified retreat." As they retreated, Marx and his entourage began smashing street lamps by throwing stones at them, until being spotted by a policeman, whereupon they had to flee down back streets and alleyways.In the Communist Manifesto he co-wrote with Friedrich Engels, Marx noted that "The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles." And while Marx's ideas have been used by some to justify politicians and parties purporting to act on behalf of the working class, Marx was clear that ultimately: "The emancipation of the working class must be the work of the working class itself." You can get works by and about Marx here in our online store: https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/all/karl-marx To access this hyperlink, click our link in bio then click this photo

TIL Coca-Cola was accused of hiring hitmen between 1990 and 2002 to kill at least 10 trade union leaders. [source, comments]

NO avocados
https://redd.it/1ck6y6q
@rSurrealMemes

Infact each of us are paying hundreds of dollars to fund the military every year.
https://redd.it/1cjw8v2
@r_latestagecapitalism