Live interview: 3F-kongressen set med unge øjne
”Feminismen for den ene procent har sat vores kamp i bås med eliten”
“They Made That Money off Our Blood, Sweat, and Tears”
General Motors gave Tiffany Heiman four hours off, not a whole day, to help her decide if she wanted to accept the offer for a higher paying job in Kentucky. It would mean moving her family from Lockport, NY, where she worked at a parts supplier, in order to take a job on the Bowling Green [...]
3F kongres er i gang
Climate Strike: ‘I Don’t Want to Have Acid Rain Because I Hate Dying’
John Bolton Is Gone. The Threat of War Is Not.
John Bolton tried his best. The national security advisor entered the Trump administration as a predictable warmonger with an unslakable thirst for power. He streamlined the national security apparatus to maximize his access to the president. At least at first, he played the role of loyal adjutant to Trump. As in his days as an [...]
Between Washington and Beijing
It has become impossible for American elites to ignore the Hong Kong protests. On Tuesday prominent Hong Kong activists appeared on Capitol Hill, urging a congressional commission co-chaired by Senator Marco Rubio to pass the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act (HKHRDA) — a bipartisan bill that would introduce new forms of US oversight [...]
Why America’s Teachers’ Unions Must Endorse Bernie Sanders
In my nearly two decades as a teacher, I have not seen a more comprehensive and forward-thinking plan as Senator Bernie Sanders’s K-12 education plan. That plan, along with Sanders’s unwavering support for teachers’ unions and the labor movement more broadly throughout his political career, make the choice for a presidential endorsement clear: American teachers’ [...]
In the Ring With TyskySour: Green New Deal
Bernie Sanders Is Right: 50 Million Lose Their Insurance Each Year
I did not get to watch much of the Democratic debate last week, but I learned that at one point in the debate Bernie Sanders said that: George, you talked about, was it 150 million people on private insurance? Fifty million of those people lose their private insurance every year when they quit their jobs or [...]
Why build a global climate strike in Brazil?
Tvunget til tavshed: Mød klima-whistleblowerne, der har fået mundkurv på af Donald Trump
Seks whistleblowers og tidligere videnskabsfolk i den amerikanske regering beskriver, hvordan Trump-regeringen tvang til dem at begrave forskning på klimaområdet – og hvorfor de ikke har tænkt sig at tie stille. Solidaritet bringer dette interview fra The Guardian som del af ‘Covering Climate Now’.
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Brexit: Miljøet bliver den store taber
“Når I fucker klimaet – dropper vi skemaet”
Fridays for Future og den globale klimastrejke 20. september har ramt København, Danmark og resten af verden. Solidaritet var med på gaden i hovedstaden.
Indlægget “Når I fucker klimaet – dropper vi skemaet” blev først udgivet på
Det 21. århundredes centrale imperialistiske kapløb
Klimakampen er en kamp om magten i samfundet
Klimaforandringerne er nok uundgåelige; helt sikkert hvis vi ikke kæmper imod
Menneskeheden har længe været bevidst om konsekvenserne af at ødelægge naturen, men har ikke handlet tilstrækkeligt. Vi kan stadig nå at forhindre katastrofen, men det vil kræve nogle ofre, skriver Peter Westermann i dagens Signatur.
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Hvor vil 3F’s kongres gå hen?
Tema 3F Kongres: 21.-26. september 2019 Når 3F i dag åbner sin kongres sker det på et vigtigt tidspunkt med OK20 der er lige om hjørnet. Efter stribevis af minus overenskomster, tilbagerulning af tidligere vundne rettigheder omkring arbejdstid, pension og understøttelse og nyliberale reformer, er det tid til at kræve en reel forandring. Strejkende skraldemænd [...] The Shocking Lack of Diversity on State Supreme Courts
The American judiciary is facing a crisis of legitimacy. Just one in three Americans express confidence in the legal system, and there is a widespread belief that the rule of law is unfairly applied. “The Supreme Court is not well,” five Democratic senators wrote in a much-discussed amicus brief filed last month. “And the people know it.”
What fewer [...]
Why Greta is Good
“Where is that girl?” wonders aloud a teenager, still wearing her public school uniform from this morning.. “What girl?” “You know!” Her friends look puzzled for a moment, then relax in recognition. “Yeah, yeah. That girl.” A few minutes later, a slightly higher-information group of boys begins to chant in a mock Swedish accent, “Greta! [...]
Trump’s New SNAP Rules Will Cause a National Public Health Crisis
The Trump administration’s continued war on welfare directly targets a system that today provides crucial, if fragmented, state support for the working class in the United States. Its latest mark is the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, colloquially known as food stamps). SNAP, along with other programs, effectively holds crisis at bay for many working-class [...]
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»Stop salget af DONG. Gør det«
I anledning af udgivelsen af Kim Kristensens bog om Enhedslistens første 30 år, bringer Solidaritet her et uddrag fra bogen, der kigger på partiets reaktion på DONG-salget.
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Perpetual Peace? Lea Ypi on Brexit, Sovereignty and Partisanship
Shell-direktør praler af indvirkning på Parisaftalen
Shell Oil hjalp med at skrive Paris-klimaaftalen, ifølge en topchef i Royal Dutch Shell. Læs Kate Aronoffs afsløring fra 2018, der understreger multinationale virksomheders lobbyarbejde i forbindelse med klimamålene.
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Tusindvis af børn og unge klimastrejker i tyve byer
Lawfare: The Technocrats’ War on Democracy
Rafael Correa and Jean-Luc Mélenchon have become synonymous with the concept of “Citizens’ Revolution” — a people-powered project designed to build counter-hegemony to the neoliberal order. This approach is based on measures like the formation of constituent assemblies, the creation of social programs to fight poverty and inequality, and a foreign policy opposed to US [...]
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Socialpolitikken får sin egen tænketank
“Polarization” Is a Fact — Get Used to It
“Polarization” is perhaps the ultimate dirty word in America’s political lexicon. Dire warnings about the rising polarization of American society have long been a staple of cable news commentary and newspaper op-ed sections, and politicians in both parties regularly vow to resist or reverse it. As a consequence, the idea that “divisive behavior” of any [...]
COP24: Farcen fortsætter under katastrofen
I stedet for at svare på det klare budskab fra den seneste specialrapport fra FN’s klimapanel, blev COP24 endnu en farce.
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“If You Have Border Installations, People Will Shoot at Them”
The crisis over Brexit has catapulted Northern Ireland into the headlines once more. Home of the United Kingdom’s only land border with the European Union, the need to avoid customs checks on goods entering the rest of Ireland has been a key plank of the EU’s Brexit negotiating agenda — and the biggest single obstacle [...]
How a Green New Deal Would Reignite Corbynism
Only the Poor Die Young
A new report confirms what we already knew: the rich live longer than the poor. The study looked at people in the United States who were in their fifties in 1991, and found that three-quarters of the richest among them are still alive today, compared to less than half of the poorest. This isn’t really [...]
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Unipolar Governance of the Multipolar World
The emergence in recent years of the economic and military powers in countries like China, Russia and India has given rise to theories and hopes of a multipolar world that could temper the heavy-handed unilateral/unipolar policies of the United States on a global level. Such hopes are further buoyed by the fact that these rising poles of economic development have [...]
Strike for the Environment, Strike for Social Justice, Strike!
A very large chasm exists between those in power, including most of the 2020 presidential candidates, and environmentalists and scientists intent on acting now to resolve growing environmental crises. To reiterate what is known, the United Nations, through its IPCC and the IPBES committees, has provided comprehensive evidence that little time remains to avert catastrophic global warming. And the world [...]
El Desmadre: The Colonial Roots of Anti-Mexican Violence
On August 3, 2019 a white supremacist walked into a Walmart in El Paso, Texas and murdered 22 people and injured dozens more. Shortly before the attack, he posted online comments complaining about a "Hispanic invasion." He later told authorities that he was specifically targeting "Mexicans." Just a few days before the El Paso massacre, another shooting in Gilroy, California [...]
Roaming Charges: Pompeo and Circumstance
+ The Saudis want to “fight the Iranians to the last American.” — Secretary of Defense Bob Gates, February 2010 + Who needs John Bolton, when you’ve got Pompeo Maximus declaring the attack on the Abqaiq refineries in Saudi Arabia: “An act of war.” + By Pompeo’s logic, the death of every Yemeni kid from cholera More
Why Democrats Really Should Not All Get Along But Sometimes Must Anyway
As a general rule, a functional government is better than a dysfunctional one. Nevertheless, the bipartisanship everyone supposedly yearns for is crap. This is obvious. Intraparty harmony for the actually existing Democratic Party is also crap – not so much before the next election as in the long run. This is less obvious, but no less important. In both cases, [...]
A Rebellion for the Wild West
Christopher Ketcham’s “This Land: How Cowboys, Capitalism and Corruption are Ruining the American West” is a politically explosive and beautifully written chronicle of the ongoing struggle to preserve publicly owned land in the West. This is home to iconic endangered species such as the grizzly bear, the wolf, and the wild horse. Much of the More
A Taste of Their Own Medicine: the Politicians Who Robbed Iranians and Libyans Fear the Same for Brexit Britain
As part of then-Prime Minister (PM) Theresa May’s supposed preparations for a no-deal Brexit, the government asked different departments of the UK’s civil service, including those responsible for food, agriculture, medicine, and chemicals, to come up with impact assessments. The worst-case scenarios (not leaked or released at the time of writing) were codenamed Black Swan. More
How We Launched Our Forever War in the Middle East
Late on the night of July 14, 1958, I navigated our KC-97 aerial tanker to refuel a lone B-52 on a secret radio-silence mission near the Arctic Circle. On our way home, our number three engine conked out as we approached the Gaspé Peninsula. We got permission to make an emergency landing at Loring, the More
Mayor Obedience Training, From the Pet Products Industry
Mars Petcare US—purveyor of pet products including Whiskas®, Greenies™, Sheba®, Cesar®, and Iams™—is a division of the $35 billion Mars (M&Ms) chocolate empire. Mars chocolate is problematic in its own ways—serious ways—but today I focus on the corporation’s pet fetish. Mars’s 2019 BETTER CITIES FOR PETS™ gimmick was announced at the U.S. Conference of Mayors Summer Meeting More
Working in America: Paychecks for Silence
Let us begin with just a few recent and disturbing statistics about working in America. First, most Americans (nearly 78%) live paycheck to paycheck, which makes them vulnerable to abuse and bullying by employers. Second, a 2018 Harris Poll found that “seven in ten employers (70 percent) use social networking sites to research job candidates More
Radical Education
For most of our existence, we shared the Earth in common. That is, there was no private property, nor, in fact, much consciousness of ourselves as individual beings, separate from one another and separate from the natural world of which we were a part. It is only during the last few hundred years that most More
Israelis Have Shown Netanyahu the Door. Can He Inflict More Damage Before He Exits?
For most Israelis, the general election on Tuesday was about one thing and one thing only. Not the economy, nor the occupation, nor even corruption scandals. It was about Benjamin Netanyahu. Should he head yet another far-right government, or should his 10-year divisive rule come to an end? Barring a last-minute upset as the final More
The Rising Monopoly of Monsanto-Bayer
Monsanto was an agrochemical and agricultural biotech company established in the US that became a large producer of GMO crops, with their main GMO crop having been corn. Monsanto was bought by Bayer, a German multinational pharmaceutical company, in late 2016 for $63 billion dollars. This deal was approved in early 2018 by the European Union More
American Psychopathy
“Not only are we not going to have wars between major powers in this era of fascist upsurge (of course, as will be discussed, we shall have other wars), but, by the same token, this fascist upsurge will not burn out through any cataclysmic war. What we are likely to see is a lingering fascism More
25 Ways the Canadian Health Care System is Better than Obamacare for the 2020 Elections
Dear America: Costly complexity is baked into Obamacare, and although it has improved access to healthcare for some, tens of millions of Americans still cannot afford basic medical care for their family. No healthcare system is without problems but Canadian-style single-payer — full Medicare for all — is simple, affordable, comprehensive and universal for all basic and More
Apartheid Made Official: Deal of the Century is a Ploy and Annexation is the New Reality
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is moving quickly to alter the political reality in Palestine, and facing little or no resistance. On September 10, Netanyahu declared his intentions to annex swathes of Palestinian land adjacent to the Jordan River, an area that covers 2,400 square kilometers, or nearly a third of the Occupied West Bank. More
Small Town Values
Well I was born in a small town And I live in a small town Probably die in a small town Oh, those small communities’ – John Mellencamp A few weeks ago, another young man was shot to death in Michigan City, Indiana. He was the fourth or fifth in the past several months (no More
The Threat of Bolton Has Retreated, But Not the Threat of War
John Bolton tried his best. The national security adviser entered the Trump administration as a predictable warmonger with an unslakable thirst for power. He streamlined the national security apparatus to maximize his access to the president. At least at first, he played the role of loyal adjutant to Trump. As in his days as an More
Evangelicals, Abstinence, Abortion and the Mainstreaming of Sex
In 2010, Barbara G. Brents and Teela Sanders published a pioneering study, “Mainstreaming the Sex Industry: Economic Inclusion and Social Ambivalence,” that argued, “mainstreaming of the sex industry is invariably linked to wider patterns in leisure consumption, travel, and the hedonistic search for relaxation and pleasure.” They announced the establishment of the sexually “new normal.” The More
“Make ‘America’ White Again”: White Resentment Under the Obama & Trump Presidencies
Neo-Nazis, the KKK, the Proud Boys, and various white power groups have been rallying in Portland, Boston, Berkeley, Charlottesville, and Gainsville. Mass shootings and numerous hate crimes targeting immigrant/Latinx/Black/Muslim/Jewish people are on the rise. Four junior women of color U.S. representatives are under constant racist, xenophobic, and misogynist attack. In fact, Rep. Ilhan Omar has More
The Police State’s Language of Force
“Since when have we Americans been expected to bow submissively to authority and speak with awe and reverence to those who represent us? The constitutional theory is that we the people are the sovereigns, the state and federal officials only our agents. We who have the final word can speak softly or angrily. We can More
Noblesse the Sleaze
Trump is enormous; this is true, in all ways of the word, but certainly in terms of an enormous lack of empathy for others. But America is (and always has) selected for and advanced those with sociopathic traits. A touch of sociopathy seems to be an affliction ideally suited to a nation that covets individual More
Why Should Kashmiris be Indian?
Many Muslims follow the traditional 40-day grieving period, but Kashmir has been grieving for decades. Now, 46 days later, even the grief is helpless, and soon the voices of outside support will fade. Today, too, Indian sympathy for the state is a quid pro quo. “They are one of us,” say the hashtag supporters, completely More
Why Are Modi and His Cohort Paranoid About Diversity?
Home Minister Amit Shah of the BJP now bats for Hindi as the unifying language that India requires. In India, several decades ago, the uncritical reversion to fundamentalism and the attempt to create a “unified” political identity in the wake of right-wing nationalist movements led to the erosion of unique and distinctive cultural identities. In More
The Official U.S. Poverty Rate is Based on a Hopelessly Out-of-Date Metric
The poverty rate in the United States fell to 11.8 percent in 2018, according to data released last week by the Census Bureau — the lowest it’s been since 2001. But this estimate significantly understates the extent of economic deprivation in the United States today. Our official poverty line hasn’t kept up with economic change. More
No War for Saudi Oil!
Even if US intelligence decisively shows that some of the drones and cruise missiles used in the attack on Saudi Arabia’s oil fields originated in Iran, a decision to go to war with Iran would be inexcusable and insupportable. For one thing, such a decision would not serve US national interests; it would be based More
‘I’m Afraid You Have Humans’
The irony of this old New Yorker cartoon by Eric Lewis is so precise I haven’t been able to get it out of my head for two years. The speaker is the planet Saturn, clad in doctor’s garb — a stethoscope circling his forehead — giving the bad news to a sick and miserable-looking Earth: More
Every Peace Group and Activist Should Join Strike DC for the Earth’s Climate
Peace activists and organizations have worked for years to bring environmental and peace activism together. When an environmental campaign includes the peace movement, it’s time to join in and show up and take part. Listen to how Russell Gray of Extinction Rebellion talks about peace and the climate. If we want to build the coalition of peace and environmental movements that More
In Defense of Non-violent Actions in Revolutionary Times
It has been said that the most advanced and skilled generals will win their battles without firing a shot and that the most powerful weapon that an army can bring to the field is the high moral ground. – Sun Tzu, The Art of War I was recently accused on social media of offering up More
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Can America Break Its Gun Addiction?
After mass shootings in Southaven, Mississippi; Dayton, Ohio; and Midland, El Paso and Odessa, Texas, public demand for sensible gun reform once more soared. And once more, Republican politicians, led by President Donald Trump, were intimidated into inaction by the gun lobby, led by the National Rifle Association. Remarkably, it was America’s largest retailer — More
Sidewalk Museum of Congress: Who Says Kansas is Flat?
The Sidewalk Museum of Congress (SMoC) located outside 1st District Rep. Roger Marshall’s office at 200 E. Iron Ave., Salina, KS, 67401 is an anti-status-quo palette of dissent against the status quo of establishment politics and its allied mainstream media, and of elite museum spaces. This resistance space has every color and no logo. SMoC is More
The Current Political Crisis: Its Roots in Concentrated Capital with the Resulting Concentrated Political Power
This essay attempts to explain the root causes of the current developing political and Constitutional crisis in the United States as the economy moves toward concentration of capital and wealth reflected by and organically linked to concentrated political power. The crisis includes lawlessness at national and international levels: violation of the First Amendment of the More
Revolving Door Project Probes Thiel’s White House Connection
Washington is awash with proposals for a new regulatory agency centered on Silicon Valley. Often lost in that important conversation is the fact that the executive branch already has some positions with a direct focus on the technology sector, though they are limited in scope and scattered across the alphabet-soup of agencies. Perhaps no tech-focused More
Unhappy India
Not very long ago (Sept 2, 2019), India launched a rocket to the far side of the moon. It carried a lunar lander that fell silent following the landing attempt four days later. Had it survived, India would have become the fourth country in the world to accomplish the feat. Still, the partial success was More
Norman Fucking Rockwell! and 24 Other Favorite Albums
“Does the progress of civilisation depend upon great men? Is the lot of the average human being better now than in the time of the Pharaohs? Is the lot of the average human being, however, he asked himself, the criterion, by which we judge the measure of civilisation? Possibly not. Possibly the greatest good requires More
The Bigotry of ‘Hate Speech’ and Facebook Fascism
Being a mouthy genderfuck internet personality, I’ve grown accustomed to hearing some pretty caustic shit online and I’ve generally come to except it. After the sixth or seventh time being threatened with gang rape by yet another alt-right troglodyte, the shock runs a little thin. I’ve actually become rather skilled at the digital-jujitsu that’s become More
To Make Vaping Safer, Legalize Cannabis
The Trump administration is sounding the alarm against vaping products as health officials scramble to determine why some consumers are suddenly becoming sick from them. But while the administration’s pending bans on flavored e-cigarettes will no doubt influence the legal nicotine marketplace, they will have virtually no impact on the counterfeit cannabis vaping products associated More
Punching Through Bad Headlines
I’ll be honest: Writing a weekly opinion column about the environment during the Trump era is depressing — and boring. Every week is the same: “Trump did something harmful to the environment. That’s bad. He should stop. Here are the catastrophic things that will happen if we don’t take care of our planet.” I feel More
What the Felicity Huffman Scandal Says About America
Earlier this year, a number of wealthy parents, celebrities, and college prep coaches were accused of offering large bribes to elite universities in order to get their children into schools they didn’t qualify for. Federal prosecutors charged at least 50 people in the criminal investigation named “Operation Varsity Blues.” Among those charged was actress Felicity More
President Trump, I’m One of the Workers You Lied To
My entire working life has been dictated by offshoring. I’ve spent my career jumping from one factory closing to another. When President Trump was elected, he said: “Companies are not going to leave the United States anymore without consequences.” His promises ring hollow to me after I got my latest layoff notice. My first job More
Draining the Swamp, From the Beginning of Time
In the 1963 horror-thriller, The Birds, Alfred Hitchcock wants his viewers to understand the world from the point-of-view of birds. Angry birds. Birds angry at humans. The question is: Why? Why are the birds angry? Why have they gone amok, seeding chaos, and what will be the solution? My favorite shot in the movie comes More
Four Funerals and a Wedding: A Brief History of the War on Humanity
Here, in the village of Stryszow in Southern Poland, you can hear the funeral ceremonies from the farmhouse on the hill where I reside during my time in this Country. The mournful cadences of the undertaker match the dull mechanical tolling of the church bell, as friends and relatives of the deceased, mostly in black, More
MNA’s Ali Wazir and Mohsin Dawar Granted Bail
Film, Music and Elections in Germany
After the elections in Saxony and Brandenburg, and before the election in Thuringia on October 26th, the various German parties are sorting out the results. In Saxony, where the Christian Democrats (CDU) lost strength but stayed in the lead, they are trying to patch up a difficult coalition with the Social Democrats (SPD) and the More
Nu går vi efter landbrugsindustrien
Danske klimaaktivister planlægger, i samarbejde med andre i Europa, en civil ulydighedsaktion mod en kunstgødningsfabrik, under aktionsnavnet Free the Soil. Aktionen foregår i dagene 22. til 25. september 2019. Af Free The Soil “Alle kender i dag til kulindustriens ødelæggende konsekvenser for klimaet. Nu må vi angribe det næste mål: Landbrugsindustrien.” udtaler Hanne Jensen, Free […]
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Review: Ahmet Altan’s “I Will Never See the World Again”
Much of the prison literature I have read expresses a legitimate bitterness about the political forces that led to the inmate’s incarceration. I can’t imagine writing without such anger if I were the one imprisoned. I wouldn’t have such control over my emotions, such tranquility in the face of the horrible environments that exist in More
Jazz is Activism
Jazz is activism: it requires training, commitment, belief, and action. It is brought to life through fire, resolve, imagination. Now practiced by peoples of all colors and tongues around the globe, jazz was born of African-American musical traditions and the lived experience of oppression. Music of the church and of the fields voiced hopes for More
Captains of Industry
Captains of Industry Herman Melville have you seen his Moby Dick Can you believe it When that book came out it really didn’t hit it With the critics And Captain Ahab’s given name was Sam Yes, old Sam Ahab Which spelled backwards reads Bahamas Where Columbus first landed Which is still getting battered By the More
To unge klimaaktivister taler ud om deres holdning til EU
Pakistan: Capitalism and climate change
”… Imens mennesker læser på skærmen, så læser vi menneskene”
- Et INTERVIEW med den amerikanske whistleblower Edward Snowden som netop har udgivet selvbiografien [...]
STOP krigsforbrydelserne i Yemen! Ingen krig mod Iran!
I Yemen dør et barn hvert 10. minut af underernæring og mangel på medicin, 3,3 millioner mennesker ud af en befolkning på 28 millioner er internt fordrevne, mere end halvdelen af befolkningen har ikke adgang til rent drikkevand og kolera er i udbrud som resultat af en krig, der nu har varet i mere end [...] Støtteudtalelse til bagagearbejderne i Kastrup Lufthavn – Fra APK, Arbejderpartiet Kommunisterne, København
Det sidste stykke tid har medierne og borgerlige og socialdemokratiske politikere været oppe i det røde felt af hyklerisk forargelse og bandbuller. Bagagefolkene i Københavns lufthavn har nægtet at arbejde sammen med en vikar, der ikke ville lade sig overføre fra ingeniørernes fagforening og melde sig ind i 3F. Styrken på enhver arbejdsplads er imidlertid, [...] Don’t Buy Greenland—Buy Greyhound
How Decades of Neoliberalism Led to the Era of Right-Wing Populism
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Joker and the Long History of Movie Moral Panics
The number of times in history that films have created an uproar leading to violence are surprisingly few, making the recent lurid predictions that Joker is likely to inspire mass mayhem a bad bet — possible in our always-deranged country, but not probable. When it comes to predicted rioting at screenings through film history, a [...]
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Ursula von der Leyen ind ad bagdøren
Hykleri og dobbeltstandard
GM Strikers Are Waging a Battle on Two Fronts
Forty-nine thousand auto workers are on strike at General Motors in the largest private sector strike since the last time union and company clashed, in 2007. Production has stopped at fifty-five factories and parts centers. According to various analysts, the strike could cost GM $50 million to $100 million per day in profits. Before the [...]
The Uninhabitable Earth | Aaron Bastani Meets David Wallace-Wells
Afrikas lokale aktivister er afgørende i kampen mod klimaforandringer
Diskussioner af den globale klimakrise har en tendens til at ignorere den ledende rolle, som afrikanere spiller i kampen mod klimaforandringerne.
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The Employability Industry: How Platforms Profit From ‘Brand You’
21/9: International Fredsdag i Aalborg
Fredsby Aalborg arrangerer sang, orkester, fredsløb og taler på FN's Internationale Fredsag.
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The liberatory potential of local action
The New Benchmark for Progressives on Housing
Yesterday, Bernie Sanders released his plan for housing justice in America. Drawing on the ideas of tenants’ rights groups on the ground, it’s the most ambitious housing plan put forward by any presidential candidate in living memory. And it’s set to become the new benchmark for progressive housing politics. Anything less is a concession. In [...]
James Connolly, a Socialist for the Present
Even after being thrust from the margins of British political life to its center, Labour’s John McDonnell has hardly hidden his Marxist sympathies. There’s still much to learn from Marx’s Capital, the Shadow Chancellor declared in a 2017 interview on national television. But if Lenin and Trotsky were his inspirations on the backbenches, the likes [...]
Burning Amazonia, Denying Climate Change, Devastating Syria, Starving Yemen, and Ignoring Kashmir
Arguably, even before the atom bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, there was a widespread sense that a state-centric form of world order was morally and functionally deficient in certain fundamental respects. Political actors were indifferent to the outbreaks of war, disease, and famine outside of their sovereign territory absent serious extraterritorial reverberations. At the same time lesser states were vulnerable [...]
With Enemies Like These, Trump Doesn’t Need Friends
It is one year since an anonymous op-ed appeared in the New York Times. The author claimed to be part of a group of “senior officials in the administration” who are “working within to frustrate parts of [Trump’s] agenda and his worst inclinations.” The op-ed’s portentous title, “I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration,” conjured up an [...]
The Sorry State of the Nobel Peace Prize
Criteria for a Peace Prize The Nobel Peace Prize was established by Alfred Nobel in his will of 1895. Nobel was a Swedish chemist (he invented dynamite) and wealthy arms manufacture. He died in 1896, and the first Peace Prize was awarded in 1901. It has been awarded annually ever since—except, reasonably enough, during periods More
The Scourge in the White House
I would have no trouble defending myself and my loved ones: family and country. But under no circumstances would I employ corrupt practices to get ahead. What bothers me constantly is the not so innocent highway to riches. Can people and corporations earn their money honestly and without violence? By violence I don’t necessarily mean More
“Not a Blade of Grass Grew:” Living on the Edge of the Climate Crisis in the Sandarbans of West Bengal.
Kajal Lata Biswas is still haunted by memories of the cyclone. Though it’s been 10 years since Aila hit the Sundarbans, she still clearly recalls May 25, 2009. It was just before noon. “The [Kalindi] river water rushed into the village and flooded all the houses,” says Kajal Lata. She was at a relative’s house More
Trump and Netanyahu: “Mutual Defense” or Just Mutual Political Back-Scratching?
On September 14, US president Donald Trump tweeted (of course) the suggestion of a US-Israel “Mutual Defense Treaty,” citing a call with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Hopefully there’s less going on here than meets the eye: The tweet may just be another mutual publicity back-scratch of the type Trump and Netanyahu frequently exchange when More
Is There Any Lesser Authority Than Alan Greenspan?
That is undoubtedly the question that readers of Robert Samuelson’s column on negative interest rates are asking. At one point Samuelson tells readers: “No less a figure than former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan has suggested that it’s just a matter of time before negative rates come to the United States.” For folks too young More
Warren’s Ethnic Issue Should Not Go Away
I am an academic. I’ve taught at Tufts for over thirty years and always had a Harvard institutional affiliation. I understand academic culture and the centrality of affirmative action in administrative consciousness since the 1970s. In heading up numerous search committees for historians at Tufts, I’ve had to fill out forms at the invitation stage, More
Memo to Trump: Water Runs Downhill
It seems a sure bet that if someone told Donald Trump water runs downhill he would immediately claim it was “fake news” since, after all, when he turns on the gold taps in his Fifth Avenue penthouse atop Trump Tower, water comes gushing out. And you know, it’s a long ways up — 58 stories, although he claims More
What George Carlin Taught Us about Media Propaganda by Omission
In the old George Carlin joke, the TV sportscaster announces: “Here’s a partial score from the West Coast – Los Angeles 6.” For a brilliant comedian like Carlin – who skewered corporate power, class structure and political/media propaganda – that’s one of his more innocuous jokes. But it’s sharply relevant today as corporate TV news outlets serve up a series of partial More
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The Perspicacity of Mcluhan and Panopticonic Plans of the MIC
Only the small secrets need to be protected. The big ones are kept secret by public incredulity. – Marshall Mcluhan The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out…without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he More
Støtteudtalelser til 3F’erne i Københavns Lufthavn
3F Ungdom vil have mere indflydelse i forbundet
Dansk Industris såkaldte klimaplan: Arbejderklassen, de syge og de studerende skal betale
Dansk Industri (DI) hepper på regeringens klimamålsætning og har begejstret fremlagt en såkaldt klimaplan, der følger op på målsætning om 65-70 % CO2 reduktion. Essensen i planen er at skabe vækst og øgede profitter i milliardklassen gennem erhvervstilskud og offentlige nedskæringer. Alt sammen under dække af klimaansvarlighed. Fredag d. 20. september vil der være klimastrejke [...] Which Candidates’ Climate Plans Put Justice First? We Break It Down.
This election season, it’s hard to understate the change in how Democrats discuss climate change compared to even the 2016 presidential race—or any election in the last half century since scientists first started sounding alarms about the greenhouse effect.
It’s now merely a baseline matter for Democratic candidates to swear off campaign donations from fossil fuel industry sources, pledge to end [...]
How Dare Samantha Power Use Her Memoir to Whitewash Her Record on Yemen
How Dare Samantha Power Scrub the Yemen War From Her Memoir
Bill McKibben: Today Could Mark the Largest Day of Climate Action in Planetary History
This story originally appeared in Truthout. It is republished here as part of In These Times' partnership with Covering Climate Now, a global collaboration of more than 250 news outlets to strengthen coverage of the climate story.
What do Ben and Jerry’s, an 800,000-member South African trade union, countless college professors, a big chunk of Amazon’s Seattle workforce and more high school students than you [...]
“Biological Annihilation”: The Danger of Opening Alaska’s ANWR to Oil & Gas Drilling
Israel Elects Apartheid
On Tuesday, Israelis cast their votes in a do-over election that is widely seen as a referendum on prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s political fate. With nearly all ballots counted (none of them from Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza, nor Palestinian residents of East Jerusalem, who are barred from voting), former army chief Benny [...]
Striking GM Workers Aren’t Backing Down
The ongoing United Auto Workers (UAW) strike against General Motors (GM) — now in its third day — will be remembered for the corporation’s aggressiveness. Usually details of negotiations are kept under wraps. But as the UAW announced it was striking, the corporation outlined its offer. Dangling an $8,000 ratification payment in front of workers, [...]
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A Shit Job for One Is a Shit Job for All
Last week, California legislators passed Assembly Bill 5 (AB 5), expanding legal protections to more than a million workers, including gig workers like rideshare drivers for companies like Uber and Lyft, who had been misclassified as “independent contractors.” The misclassification scheme is popular in Silicon Valley as well as industries like trucking, construction, and even [...]
Er en cheeseburger en basal menneskerettighed?
Den sidste søndag i august demonstrerede en gruppe aktivister fra bevægelsen Extinction Rebellion mod virksomhedsgiganten McDonald’s bidrag til afskovningen i Amazonas ved at blokere indgangen til Frederiksberg afdelingen og dermed forhindre kunderne i at komme ind. Af Amanda Büchert Blokaden havde ikke til hensigt at pege fingre ad de enkeltpersoner der den formiddag ønskede at købe […]
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#ACFM Trip 6: Intoxication and Sobriety
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Økologi og marxisme : en læseguide af Andreas Malm
Den svenske økosocialist og forsker, Andreas Malm, har lavet en linksamling med anbefalinger til litteratur om klimakrisen. Han håber derigennem at kunne få den intellektuelle venstrefløj til at engagere sig mere seriøst i kampen mod ødelæggelsen af naturen.
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Ban Private Jets
Greta Thunberg arrived in New York City on August 28 after a two-week, carbon-free trip across the Atlantic. The trip took two weeks because she traveled by high-speed yacht. It was carbon-free because the yacht had solar panels and hydro generators specifically so she would not need to fly. Thunberg, sixteen, famously refuses to fly [...]
Scottish independence grows nearer
3F forsvarer tillidsfolkenes ret til at organisere
DI vil lade klimaindsats gå hånd i hånd med konkurrenceevnen
En højeffektiv industri er en forudsætning for, at arbejdspladser og grøn omstilling går hånd i hånd,« lyder det fra Dansk Metal.
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An Excellent Study Of The Manufactured Labour “Antisemitism Crisis”
The crux of Labour’s antisemitism controversy is the bruhaha over its grudging acceptance of the flawed International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of “antisemitism”. The media’s coverage of this controversy was framed by 2 assumptions: that under Corbyn antisemitism in Labour had become “institutionalized”, and that Corbyn and his associates had failed to counter this. More
The Saudi Crown Prince Plans to Make Us Forget About the Murder of Jamal Khashoggi Before the US Election
The hideous cruelty of the murder and dismemberment of journalist Jamal Khashoggi by a Saudi death squad almost a year ago still jumps from the pages of the latest apparent transcript of the conversation between his killers as they wait for him to arrive at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. “Is it possible to put More
Political Struggle and Fixing Cuba’s Economy
Economic problems weigh heavily in Cuba. The Cuban people continue to face shortages and their incomes remain low, despite recent pay raises. The government’s foreign debt is growing and access to credit is limited. Cuba is overly dependent on food imports despite land tenure reforms. The U.S. economic blockade targets foreign investors through implementation for the first time of Title [...]
Andrew Yang and the Failson Mystique
And there were oh so many ways For her to spend her days She could clean the house for hours Or rearrange the flowers Or run naked through the shady street Screaming all the way — “The Ballad of Lucy Jordan,” Marianne Faithfull, 1979 A few days ago, an extremely hot, cool, funny, and recently [...]
Support the Climate Strike, Not a Military Strike
The propaganda campaign has begun. The New York Times dutifully published photos of an attack on ARAMCO oil processing facilities in Saudi Arabia. Accompanying the photos are descriptions provided by the warmongers in Washington, DC. Naturally, the photos don’t look like much of anything. This gives those describing them the leeway to provide a narrative More
Slouching Toward “Bethlehem”
…but now I know That twenty centuries of stony sleep Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born? – W.B.Yeats, The Second Coming Hive-mindedness seems to be growing — at the same time that bees are heading towards kaputzville. More
Once Again in Afghanistan, the U.S. Proves It Can’t Be Trusted
The first draft of this column came not to bury but to praise Donald Trump. I planned to applaud the president’s peace initiative with the Taliban, his strategy of ignoring the corrupt and discredited puppet regime Bush installed in Kabul and his desire to withdraw American troops from Afghanistan. This was a move I have been More
The Ultra-Costly, Underwhelming F-35 Fighter
How are you with numbers? I can deal with $1.5 million. I think I can even imagine $1.5 billion, a sum a thousand times greater. But how about a million times greater: $1.5 trillion? That happens to be the estimated cost of the Pentagon’s program to build, deploy, and maintain the no-longer-so-new F-35 jet fighter over its lifetime. How More
Why on Earth Would the US Go to War with Iran over an Attack on Saudi Oil Refineries?
President Bone Spur, backed by his war-mongering Secretary of State Mike “Armageddon” Pompeo, tweeted yesterday that the US military is “locked and loaded,” ready to attack (bomb) Iran if it can be proven that Iran was behind a drone bomb attack on Saudi Arabia’s oil refineries. There are plenty of news media in the US More
Doctored Admissions: the University Admissions Scandal as a Global Problem
Not so much a Desperate House Wife as a desperate mother, a contrite Felicity Huffman, known for playing Lynette Scavo, has been convicted for her role in the university admissions scandal in the United States. The scene is set for another dramatization, though few can go past the sheer levels of tinkering Huffman was engaged More
Creating a Society of Hope and Inclusion: Speech to the TUC
This is the text of Jeremy Corbyn’s speech to the Trades Union Congress on September 10, 2019. Congress, thank you for that warm welcome. It’s an honour to be asked to address you again. I’m proud that trade unions and the Labour Party are working as closely together now as we ever have. Because together More
Why You Should Care About #ShutDownDC and the Global Climate Strike
Today’s news cycle suggests that climate activism is no more than showing up to a protest once in a while. Wave a sign around, believe in science, and you’re set. Politicians and people of note are given credit simply for acknowledging the fact that global warming is happening. This type of rhetoric is dangerous. It More
Land Without Bread: the Green New Deal Forsakes America’s Countryside
Days after the heart-stopping Notre-Dame Cathedral fire in April, Swedish schoolgirl Greta Thunberg trained her eyes on the United Kingdom’s parliament and chastised its meager response to climate change. “I want you to panic,” the baby-faced sixteen-year-old quietly instructed the adults in the room. “Avoiding climate breakdown will require cathedral thinking. We must lay the foundation More
“Dos and don’ts” i klimakampen
Nanna Clifforth klæder dig på med en række gode råd til, hvor man skal - og ikke skal - bruge sine kræfter, hvis man vil komme ind i klimakampen.
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It-forbundet PROSA sender strejkevarsel til IBM
Boris Johnson: Elitist Defender of Britain’s Big Banks
In a week such as this you can’t help but think that famous cultural theorist Stuart Hall was on to something when he remarked that “the disorderly thrust of political events disturbs the symmetry of political analysis.” For those unable or unwilling to keep up, Boris Johnson has become the first Prime Minister in UK More
Skrot ghettopakken – småjusteringer er ikke nok!
Boligministeren forsøger at fremstille udsmidninger og nedrivninger af almene boliger som kommunernes individuelle og demokratiske valg. Udsmidninger der nu også breder sig til ikke-‘ghetto’ områder. Men årsagen findes i Ghettoloven, der helt må trækkes tilbage. Af Poul Andersen Venstres boligordfører, Heidi Bank, siger at det ikke er intentionen at holde folk med en mindre lønindtægt [...] Israel truer med at smide leder af boykot-bevægelse ud
Bernie Sanders Probably Won the WFP Membership Vote
I was slightly amused and slightly annoyed yesterday when I saw the Working Families Party (WFP) endorse Elizabeth Warren for president and then subsequently refuse to release vote tallies and clearly lie about why they aren’t releasing them. The WFP endorsement process works by tallying up party member votes and party leader votes. The member votes are given [...]
Bernie Sanders Wants to Alleviate Senior Loneliness
According to a study published in March, one-third of American seniors feel lonely. The same study found that nearly 30 percent of seniors reported they socialized with family, friends, or neighbors once a week or less. Senior isolation is correlated not just to a decline in mental wellbeing but also physical wellbeing, with another study [...]
American Factory Stops Short of Class Conflict
American Factory premiered on August 21 on Netflix, and it arrived just-in-time for viewing during the long Labor Day weekend. It proved to be a popular recommendation for trade unionists and labor activists. The documentary made by veteran filmmakers Julia Reichert and Steven Bognar tells the story of the reopening of a former GM Assembly Plant [...]
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Elizabeth Warren Still Isn’t Getting Specific on Medicare for All
Elizabeth Warren, whose presidential campaign has been plagued from the start by ambiguity on the subject of health care, finally added a health care plank to her website last week. Unfortunately, it tells us nothing new about where she stands. The webpage — which reiterates Warren’s support for Medicare for All without referencing a specific [...]
The Red-Tory Philosopher of Canadian Nationalism
‘Alternative Arrangements’ to the Backstop Won’t Work, and the Government Is Beginning to Realise It
Whose Grid? Our Grid! Chicago’s Campaign To Put Electricity Under Public Control
Illusion eller fremskridt?
Aktivister fra “System Change Not Climate Change” diskuterer styrker og svagheder ved forslaget om en “Green New Deal” i USA.
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Belgiens kommende EU-kommissær undersøges for hvidvask
Economic Update: Capitalism in Decline
Klimakrisen kan stoppes, hvis vi tror på, at den kan
The Great Socialist Bake Off
By any standard logic of entertainment, nobody should enjoy The Great British Bake Off. There is no fighting, no cursing, no backstabbing. The contestants seem to genuinely like each other. The B-roll footage between segments features extended shots of assorted flora and fauna. In short, the show is exactly what the title says it is: [...]
The Galling Hypocrisy of the Liberal Democrats
It’s party conference season in the United Kingdom, and the first Britain-wide political party to court media attention at their days-long meeting are the Liberal Democrats. The Lib Dems will claim they’re gaining good electoral ground: they increased their vote share in the recent European elections and have scooped up several new recruits in Parliament, [...]
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The Working Families Party Has Written Itself Out of History
The Working Families Party (WFP) bills itself as an organization whose political strategy is bigger, bolder, and better than others. And in many ways, the party has been a remarkable success story in a political environment that yielded few victories for progressive forces. The WFP was set up in 1998 to be an independent, progressive [...]
The Southern Strategy and Donald Trump
Contemporary Republican politicians like to invoke the legacy of Ronald Reagan to bolster their policies. However, the type of White nationalism being espoused by Donald Trump and his supporters more accurately traces back to two less appealing Republican personalities: Barry Goldwater and Richard Nixon, and to the backlash created by the Civil Rights Movement of the nineteen sixties. More
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The Danger of Inspiration in a Time of Ecological Crisis
Naomi Klein’s new book, On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal, has one crippling flaw—it’s inspiring. At this moment in history, inspiring talk about solutions to multiple, cascading ecological crises is dangerous. At the conclusion of these 18 essays that bluntly outline the crises and explain a Green New Deal response, Klein bolsters readers More
Health Care: Premiums and Taxes
There’s an old joke about a lawyer who is questioning a doctor on an autopsy they had done on someone who was allegedly a murder victim. The lawyer asked the doctor, “did you check whether the patient was breathing?” The doctor answers “no.” The lawyer then asks “did you check whether the patient had a More
Recalling the Hundreds of Thousands of Civilian Victims of America’s Endless ‘War on Terror’
Now that the flags are back waving from the tops of flagpoles across the country, and the maudlin paeans to the close to 3000 lives lost in the airplane attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001, it’s time we gave a thought to the dead who were ignored. According More
Oiling for War: The Houthi Attack on Abqaiq
The attack on the world’s largest oil processing facility at Abqaiq in Saudi Arabia southwest of Aramco’s headquarters in Dhahran had a few predictable responses. Given that the facility has a daily output of some 5.7 million barrels, damaging it was bound to cause a spike in the price of oil. The question troubling the More
You Say You Want a Revolution: a Prison Letter to Yoko Ono
Dear Yoko Ono, Years, years, and years ago, in 1980, a pathetically deranged man murdered the love of your life. You were walking home, into the Manhattan building where you lived, and suddenly this man, seeking the world’s adoration, gunned down your husband, John Lennon. Mark Chapman was given a 20-to-life sentence. After almost four decades, he remains in prison. You want to More
Seize Solidarity House
The corrupt and Quisling leadership of the United Auto Workers Union has sent its 50,000 General Motors worker-members out on strike–a strike the labor bosses probably never wanted, as with the wildcat school workers’ strikes of recent months. While William Serrin in his, “The Company and the Union,” showed how the UAW used a counterfeit More
From Voice of America to NPR: New CEO Lansing’s Glass House
I don’t know about you, but I take a teeny weeny bit of offense when a guy in a glass house lobs a great big stone and expects me not to notice the sound of shattering. Which brings me to National Public Radio. When the ubiquitous news and public affairs network announced the appointment of More
What is Energy Denial?
The fiftieth anniversary of the first Earth Day of 1970 will be in 2020. As environmentalism has gone mainstream during that half a century, it has forgotten its early focus and shifted toward green capitalism. Nowhere is this more apparent than abandonment of the slogan popular during the early Earth Days: “Reduce, Reuse, Recycle.” The More
Governor Newsom Says He Will Veto Bill Blocking Trump Rollback of Endangered Fish Species Protections
The California Assembly passed Senate Bill 1, legislation blocking Trump administration rollbacks of environmental regulations, on Friday, September 13, on a 43-21 party-line vote. But Governor Gavin Newsom announced the next day that he plans to veto the bill. Newsom said he backs the principles behind the legislation, but doesn’t support the bill as written. More
BREXIT : “En fortælling om to byer” om de britiske folks vej ud af EU, ud i verden
Ved INTERPRES, September 2019 RESPECT THE PEOPLES NO TO EU Som en soap-opera fortsætter den EU-understøttede britiske “femtekolonne” med at sabotere folkets klare beslutning om at forlade den Europæiske Union. “BREXIT MEANS BREXIT” som Storbritanniens Premierminister Theresa May udtrykte det efter folkeafstemningen om landets medlemskab af EU for godt tre år siden. Men stadig flere, især [...] Election 2020: Time to Stop Pretending and Start Over
“Imagine what would be possible right now with ideas that are bold enough to meet the challenges of our time, but big enough, as well, that they could unify the American people [like the 9/11 attacks did],” said South Bend, Indian mayor Pete Buttigieg in his opening statement at the September 12 Democratic presidential nomination More
Inside the Syrian Peace Talks
Eight years since its inception in 2011, the Syrian civil war rages on, a conflict that has taken on grand geopolitical dimensions and resulted in tens of thousands killed and a massive exodus of refugees. While other tensions and conflicts around the world have since grabbed the attention of major media outlets, the situation in More