“Der er ikke en EU-hær, og der kommer ikke en EU-hær”, sagde statsminister Mette Frederiksen under den 14 timer lange afslutningsdebat i Folketinget i mandags.
Det er en påstand, hun og andre ja-politikere har turneret med, siden de besluttede at sende forsvarsforbeholdet til afstemning den 1. juni.
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Den massive amerikanske krigsøvelse Defender-Europe22 omdanner i disse dage Bornholm til et krigsscenarie. Ikke til forsvar for Europas befolkning, men som en demonstration af den voldsomme militære optrapning vi ser fra Vestens imperialister gennem både NATO og EU. En optrapning der startede længe inden Ruslands angreb på Ukraine, men nu udnytter krigen
Starbucks workers are unionizing at a breakneck pace. We ran the numbers and found that more than 2,000 Starbucks workers are now unionized — and that number will likely triple in the coming months.
Projecting based on current NLRB filings alone, the Starbucks union is likely to have 6,047 workers at 227 locations in the next few months. (Elliot Stoler / Wikimedia
Workers at World of Warcraft–maker Activision Blizzard have voted to unionize. Fourteen-hour workdays and alleged rampant sexual harassment were among the issues that prompted them to organize the first recognized labor union at a publicly traded video game producer.
Several hundred Activision Blizzard employees staged a walkout at company headquarters
Good news: if you’re gay or bisexual and under-18, conversion therapy is going to be made illegal. But it’s bad news for everyone else in the LGBTQ+ community, as the government’s proposed ban has more holes in it than a distractingly tasty slice of Swiss cheese.
Announced in this year’s Queen’s Speech, the ban will make conversion therapy illegal when it targets
In 1927, the Irish republican Michael Flannery emigrated from the quiet backroads of Tipperary to the crowded streets of New York City, swapping a life of rebellion for a humdrum career in life insurance. But the Irish American community hadn’t forgotten about the old country, and as the Troubles began in Northern Ireland, Flannery found himself at the heart
Joe Manchin stalled and killed the Build Back Better bill under pressure from big business. He could now support a compromise budget with drug pricing reforms, but the pharmaceutical industry is doing everything it can to make sure he doesn’t.
An ad from the Alliance for Patient Access warning that drug pricing reforms would “hurt innovation” and prevent companies
When six suitcases full of guns are discovered on an Irish dock in 1971, suspicion falls on a newly founded organisation of Irish Americans known as Noraid. For nearly 30 years, the US, British and Irish governments accused the group of being a front for the Provisional IRA and of funnelling weapons and cash from the pockets of Irish America to the coffers of the
Tid til fred – Aktiv mod krig indbyder til Fredscafé om forsvarsforbeholdet på søndag kl. 13.00-15.00 i Kulturhuset Indre By. Det er et debatmøde med oplæg og diskussion. Her er chancen for at pudse argumenterne for et NEJ af. Mød op og deltag i stem NEJ – kampagnen.
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Den. 1. juni 2022 skal vi til valg om det
Olympic Games host cities experience increased gentrification, police surveillance, and environmental destruction. Anti-Olympics activists hosted their second transnational summit in Paris last weekend to put an end to the games’ destruction.
Activists at the second-ever global anti-Olympics summit in Paris, France, which took place on May 21–22,
A single call from an anonymous tipster is all it takes for the government to take children from their families
Chileans have long known about Colonia Dignidad, a German colony in Chile depicted in the Netflix series A Sinister Sect whose settlers committed countless acts of pedophilia, murder, and torture. Less discussed: the Chilean right’s complicity in those crimes.
Historical footage from A Sinister Sect (Netflix).
The Netflix miniseries A Sinister Sect is
A billionaire-backed network of free-market fundamentalists is ginning up controversy over “wokeness” in American schools with an ulterior motive: to demolish public education.
Texas governor Greg Abbott has announced his intention to challenge a Supreme Court ruling that guarantees free public education for all kids. (Brandon Bell / Getty Images)
The shockwaves from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine have reached across the world – all the way beyond the Urals to the globe’s northernmost point. The Arctic Council, established in 1996 as a forum for the eight countries that sit within the Arctic Circle – Canada, Denmark, Iceland, Finland, Norway, the US, Sweden and Russia- was in early March suspended
According to Gallup polls, the number of Americans who self-identify as below middle-class, including those who identify as working-class, is on the rise — a rise especially pronounced among those age 18–34.
More Republicans are likely to identify as working-class than Democrats. (Alberto Casetta / Unsplash)
The United States is the country where everyone
Folkeafstemningen om Danmarks EU-forbehold på forsvarsområdet onsdag 1. juni har givet et fornyet fokus på de europæiske landes militære engagement i Afrika. Årsagen er, at afskaffelse af forsvarsforbeholdet vil åbne for, at danske soldater kan deltage i EU’s militære operationer.
Seks ud af syv af EU’s igangværende militærmissioner finder i dag sted
Washington is in no mood to countenance neutrality, and no effort is spared to persuade or bully other nations into imposing sanctions on Russia. While the US has met with limited success in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, Europe is a different matter, where only one nation maintains a neutral stance – Serbia. More
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In last week’s Democratic primary for Oregon’s 6th congressional district, crypto CEO Sam Bankman-Fried invested just under $11 million from his $12-billion personal fortune in the candidacy of first-time candidate Carrick Flynn, a fellow aficionado of the cultish “effective altruism” movement.
Bankman-Fried lives in the Bahamas. He considered his
In case you have lingering doubts about the reality of human-caused global warming, hop on an airplane to parts of India or Pakistan and spend a few days. And, as long as you’re there, maybe be a good citizen and pick up a few of the dehydrated birds that drop out of the sky. Then, More
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In 1991 I had a doctor friend in a hospital in London who was put in charge of a special medical team which was trained to treat British soldiers in Iraq and the Gulf who became victims of an Iraqi poison gas attack. Wards were cleared of all but emergency cases in her hospital to make room for these More
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The election in the North of Ireland has drawn a lot of attention in recent days. For the first time in history, in apparent contradiction to the very purpose of the state, people in the North elected Sinn Féin as the largest party in the assembly. As a result, Sinn Féin’s leader, Michelle O’Neill, is More
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Much of the western U.S. has been in the grip of an unrelenting drought since early 2020. The dryness has coincided with record-breaking wildfires, intense and long-lasting heat waves, low stream flows and dwindling water supplies in reservoirs that millions of people across the region rely on. Heading into summer, the outlook is pretty grim. More
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With the Democrats blocked from codifying the protections provided to women by the Supreme Court’s Roe vs. Wade decision, they must now turn their attention to organizing state-level elections this coming November. But not in all states — only in those with reasonably winnable seats. The Democrats’ strategy of relying on national polls, even accurate
Karen Middleton’s 2016 biography of Anthony Albanese concludes with a speech he made that year, on the 20th anniversary of his election to parliament. “I’m patient”, he told his clapping audience, “I’m patient — I’m a Souths fan”. The South Sydney Rabbitohs are the Rugby League club Albanese supports, which for the greater part of More
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Out of the goodness of his heart, President Biden has just lengthened our leashes when it comes to Cuba. Isn’t that just so nice? Isn’t it great to live under a nice, benevolent democratically elected dictator rather than a cruel and brutal one? Biden is issuing executive decrees permitting more U.S. flights into Cuba, removing More
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The latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) working group report gives us until 2030 to stop global warming at 1.5°C. The report proposes several steps that are vital to achieving that goal. The steps are: * Coal must be effectively phased out. * Methane emissions must be reduced by a third. * More forests More
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Three years ago, the United States Women’s National Team (USWNT) filed a $24 million gender discrimination lawsuit against the United States Soccer Federation. This week, after a prolonged and public battle, the players association for the US women’s and men’s national teams negotiated a groundbreaking collective bargaining agreement. “The accomplishments
Solidaritet bragte 19. maj et debatindlæg skrevet af tre midtjyder. Indlægget blev bragt i forbindelse med, at vi i Enhedslisten skal afholde urafstemning om to kandidatlister. Midtjyderne argumenterer for, at ‘Liste 2’ i den aktuelle urafstemning er udtryk for, at “de mange medlemmer i hovedstaden kan tryne de få medlemmer vestpå”.
Nothing says disinformation like the arrival of the UK’s ex-Bond-like spy Christopher Steele into the limelight to share his latest propagandistic pontifications. Recently, Steele said of Russian president Vladimir Putin that he was gravely ill and that his possible illness may have played a part in the decision to mobilize and attack Ukraine. In a More
In elementary school, Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials novels were my favorite books. I imagined myself much more sophisticated than my peers, who were obsessed with Harry Potter. Of course, I grew to love J.K. Rowling’s work as well. Today, there’s not much that’s more soothing to me than Jim Dale narrating the adventures of More
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Verden er forandret siden 1992, og det er politik i sandhed også. Vi hører tit fra Ja-siden i debatten op til Folkeafstemningen om EU-forsvarsundtagelsen, at verden er forandret de sidste par måneder og vi derfor må glemme vores argumenter mod Unionen fra 1992. Men der er god grund til at holde fast, mod deres krigsophidselse, samtidig med at vi også skal forstå
“Nor can we expect to see Labor take serious action to deal with climate change. Labor is committed to the fossil fuel industries and its carbon emissions targets are a joke.”
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Arbejdet med denne artikel er afsluttet den 29. marts. Artiklen har været bragt i Magasinet Arbejderen nr. 2, 2022.
Det er kun få måneder siden, at USA og dets allierede trak sig ud af Afghanistan efter et historisk nederlag. På trods af de ufattelige økonomiske og menneskelige omkostninger skabte man aldrig det demokratiske Afghanistan, som USA og skiftende
Kald mig bare klimatosse, men faktum er, at et nej til at afskaffe forsvarsforbeholdet er en stemme for klimaet.
EU’s støtte til forsvarsindustrien skader klimaet. Forsvarsindustrien er en af de mest forurenende industrier i verden.
EU’s støtte til forsvarsindustrien skader klimaet. Forsvarsindustrien er en af de mest forurenende industrier i verden.
Vi er i dag samlet til demonstration under parolen “Ja til fred og nedrustning”.
Det er desværre blevet en al for aktuel parole, som opfordrer til en fælles kamp for en verden uden krig og oprustning.
Ruslands invasion af Ukraine bragte rigtige mange i Europa i chok. En stor set samlet vestlig presse var helt ensidigt med til at understøtte denne
After the police cleared Boris Johnson of all but one rule breach, photos have emerged of the PM drinking booze at a separate gathering during lockdown. How have the Met let him get away with it?
Plus: Australia has a new PM and the Tories are still all over the place on an energy company windfall tax.
With Michael Walker and Aaron Bastani.
En forsvarsunion i 2025. Det var budskabet fra daværende formand for EU-Kommissionen Jean-Claude Juncker i en tale fra 2017. Og de første skridt tøvede han ikke med. På bare fem år er EU placeret et helt andet sted sikkerhedspolitisk end i udgangspunktet. Hans efterfølger, Ursula von der Leyen har fulgt trop: ”Blød magt alene er ikke tilstrækkeligt, hvis vi
The Australian election saw historic defeats for the Right and its backers in the Murdoch media. But the Labor Party can't change the country without fighting for a robust, progressive economic agenda.
Labor leader Anthony Albanese during the Labor Party election night event on May 21, 2022 in Sydney, Australia. (James D. Morgan / Getty Images)
If the 2019
The climate movement is stepping up pressure on banks to stop the flow of cash to the oil and gas industry.
On Saturday 21 May in the seaside spot of Trapani, Sicily, four of us – crew members from the search-and-rescue ship Iuventa – will face an Italian prosecutor. We’re all German nationals working for Jugend Rettet, a Berlin-based NGO. Our offence? Running rescue missions that saved over 14,000 people from drowning in the central Mediterranean
“The May Day demonstrations illustrated the political and social tensions that are building up. On the one hand, a rally in support of the government around the CUT and the coalition parties, on the other, a left-wing opposition with a dissident class struggle trade union pole and social movements.”
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Left-wing presidential candidate Gustavo Petro has been fighting Colombia’s far-right paramilitaries for decades. The revelation of a recent plot to murder Petro is unsurprising, but his campaign still appears strong ahead of Sunday’s election.
Colombian presidential candidate Gustavo Petro speaks during a campaign rally on May 11, 2022, in Fusagasugá,
I 1991 trak serbisk militær sig ud af Makedonien, der herved blev selvstændig. Indførelsen af demokrati og parlamentarisme var vanskelig, for landets mange minoriteter – 65 pct. makedoner, 21 procent albanere, mens resten fordeler sig som tyrkere, romaer, serbere og bulgarere – havde hver deres legitime bud på, hvordan fremtiden skulle være,
Market ideologues paint Amazon as a model of a flexible, networked platform capitalism. Yet Amazon’s growth has revitalized parts of the Fordism that Silicon Valley claimed to have overcome — including the rise of an organized blue-collar workforce.
Workers sort out parcels in the outbound dock at the Amazon fulfillment center in Eastvale, California,
When he was alive, Jean-Michel Basquiat’s iconic art leveled a powerful opposition to inequality and racism. Since his death, his work has been co-opted, emptied of all political content, and commodified to be sold as an image of New York’s vanishing cool.
Jean-Michel Basquiat at the Rainbow Roof on September 19, 1985. (Patrick McMullan / Getty Images)
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3F TLB Århus anbefaler et nej den 1. juni!
Formanden for FH, Lizette, var tidligt på banen med sin støtte til at fjerne vores forsvarsforbehold – vel at mærke uden at rådføre sig med de forbund (herunder 3F), som hun er valgt til at repræsentere. Siden har FH på landsplan engageret sig i en “oplysningskampagne” for et ja. Derfor har vi i 3F TLB valgt
Against all odds, Amazon workers in New York organized a successful union against one of the biggest companies in the world. Here's how.
Danskerne skal stemme, om forsvarsforbeholdet skal afskaffes eller bevares den 1. juni.
Regeringen har udskrevet en folkeafstemning på et tidspunkt, hvor vi oplever de tragiske konsekvenser af Ruslands invasion i Ukraine. Men afstemningen handler ikke om støtte til Ukraine.
Afstemningen handler, om vi vil afgive suverænitet. Vi ønsker ikke at give EU
“18 milliarder til en bedre fremtid” og “skrot budgetloven.”
Det var hovedbudskabet torsdag den 19. maj, hvor græsrodsbevægelsen Skrot Budgetloven havde indkaldt til demonstration på Christiansborg Slotsplads.
– Pengene er der. Det så vi, da minkavlerne kunne få 19 milliarder under coronakrisen, og vi ser det igen nu, hvor
The world’s second-richest man is using social media to push back against any hint that corporate greed is stoking inflation — and to send a message about his news preferences in the Washington Post, the paper he owns.
Jeff Bezos attends the Baby2Baby 10-Year Gala presented by Paul Mitchell at Pacific Design Center on November 13, 2021, in West Hollywood, California.
Ukraine er rig på mineraler, som det fremgår af dette frimærke fra 2010.
Med vanlig vestlig arrogance beskrives Rusland ofte som “en benzintank med kernevåben”. Underforstået: Landet har ikke andet, folk gider købe. Nævn en russiskfremstillet mobil, computer eller et køleskab? Nej, vel. Men alle kender Gazprom. Til gengæld markerer Rusland
Ric Prado fled Cuba after the 1959 revolution when he was ten years old. He went on to work for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) for twenty-four years — an experience he recounts in his recent memoir, Black Ops: The Life of a CIA Shadow Warrior — and then to work in private military operations, […]
Vestre Landsret stadsfæstede for nylig dommen mod Ragnar Spleth Loðbrók, tidligere Mathias Spleth Sørensen. Som Redox tidligere har omtalt blev han i byretten sidste år dømt for NMR’s aktion mod den jødiske kirkegård i Aalborg, der fandt sted den 4. april 2021 i forbindelse med den jødiske højtid pesach. Flere andre medlem af Den Nordiske …
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Formanden for FH, Lizette var tidligt på banen med sin støtte til at fjerne vores forsvarsforbehold – vel at mærke uden at rådføre sig med de forbund (herunder 3F) som hun er valgt til at repræsentere. Siden har FH på landsplan engageret sig i en ”oplysningskampagne” for et ja.
Derfor har vi i 3F TLB valgt også at melde vores holdning til afstemningen d. 1.
“Hvis vi stemmer ja, til at afskaffe forsvarsforbeholdet, vil Danmark have vetoret. Danmark vil kunne sige nej til at sende soldater og bidrage økonomisk til militære indsatser i EU. Og samtidig vil Danmark få mere indflydelse på de europæiske forsvarspolitiske beslutninger.“ Sådan forklarede en veninde mig, hvad vi egentlig stemmer om, på et tilrøget
Et flertal af EU-begejstrede partier i Folketinget vil endnu engang forsøge at få os til at afskaffe et dansk EU-forbehold. I ly af situationen i Ukraine er der denne gang udskrevet folkeafstemning om afskaffelse af forsvarsforbeholdet den 1. juni 2022.
En afskaffelse af dette forbehold vil helt sikkert medføre yderligere udgifter til militæret. Det er
If supporters of a united Ireland achieve their aim, they may want to erect statues of those who have done most to ensure the success of their cause. A strong contender for this honour will be Boris Johnson for destabilising the statelet created by the Good Friday Agreement (GFA) and making the partition of Ireland an international issue. More
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The Marcos-Duterte alliance, or what is now the circle of multiple political dynasties around the Marcos-Duterte axis, is a connivance of convenience among powerful families. Like most alliances of this type, which are built purely on the sharing of spoils, it will prove to be very unstable. More
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The United States is excluding Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua from the forthcoming Summit of the Americas. Washington probably wasn’t expecting that much of Latin America, led by Mexico’s Andrés Manuel López Obrador, would publicly push back in response.
US president Joe Biden listens as Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador speaks during the
Rarely in Australian history has a governing party suffered such loss in the face of an opponent unable to claim complete victory. It said much about the disillusionment, and plain disgust, from that nebulous centre of the country’s politics. That centre roared on May 21, consuming sitting government members and inflicting a bloody reckoning. That More
I pruned some tomatoes. I reviewed some stuff from a local planning board meeting last night (where nearly 200 manufactured houses were proposed for planting in farm fields across town). I checked the weather forecast. Then, as I sometimes do, I checked the UK Guardian newspaper on-line. I’ve seldom found big US media terribly useful in understanding how
May 9 has come and gone, and as has been the constant for the past two decades, both Mr. Putin’s enemies and friends have repeated in unison that on May 9 of every year, Russia remembers and honors the 20 or 25 plus million of its dead during World War II. It even seems that More
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I’m beyond fed up that the gender of the murderers are still largely absent from conversations about America’s mass shootings crisis. In Buffalo, of course, racism and white supremacy cannot be overstated, but we ignore gender at our peril. Let’s tighten restrictions on poisonous hate speech on social media. It’s imperative we conduct threat assessments.
Neutrality was once an attractive option in Europe. Switzerland made non-alignment look almost sexy, with its ski resorts, excellent chocolates, and secure banking system. Then there was Sweden, which refused to join NATO or subordinate its military policy to Moscow, offering instead to broker peaceful compromises between east and west as well as north
In the United States, children are more likely to experience poverty than people over 18. In 2020, about 1 in 6 kids, 16% of all children, were living in families with incomes below the official poverty line – an income threshold the government set that year at about US$26,500 for a family of four. Only More
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This November, the Massachusetts electorate will vote on a ballot initiative that will have profound consequences: the ability for the state to amend its constitution and levy a 4 percent surtax on all individuals that have an annual income of one million dollars or more. The Fair Share Amendment – or “millionaire’s tax” as it More
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Fælles-nordisk debatindlæg om EU’s kontroversielle taksonomi.
Af Nikolaj Villumsen, medlem af EU-Parlamentet for Enhedslisten (Danmark)
Malin Björk, Medlem af EU-Parlamentet for Vänsterpartiet (Sverige)
Silvia Modig, Medlem af EU-Parlamentet for Vasemmistoliitto (Finland)
Læs hele historien på enhedslisten.eu
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The conditions that led to a shortage of baby formula were set in motion long before the February 2022 closure of the Similac factory tipped the U.S. into a crisis. Retailers nationwide reported supplies of baby formula were out of stock at a rate of 43% during the week ended May 8, 2022, compared with More
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It’s that time of year, maybe you’ve already noticed. Animals are back and moving about and trying to reproduce. But in this age of hundreds of millions of motor vehicles going everywhere at high speeds, anybody who’s slow is vulnerable. And one of the most vulnerable to death on our highways are turtles. No matter More
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National and global debt levels are unsustainably high. We need a “reset,” but of what sort? The “Great Reset” of the World Economic Forum (WEF) would leave the people as non-owner tenants in a feudalistic technocracy. The reset of the Eurasian Economic Union would allow participating nations to opt out of the Western capitalist system More
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Præsident Putin og patriark Kirill ved afsløringen af monumentet over prins Vladimir/Volodomyr i 2016. Foto fra den russiske præsidents hjemmeside Kremlin.ru
Præsident Putin er en stor russisk chauvinist og antikommunist. Det er helt logisk at han ligesom patriark Kirill fordømmer Sovjetunionen under Lenin og Stalin.
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Den historiske materialisme er marxismens historieteori. Den inddeler historien i et antal produktionsmåder, der følger efter hinanden: Slavesamfund, feudalisme, kapitalisme, socialisme og kommunisme. Men den faktiske historie har afveget fra dette skema.
Det startede med den Russiske Revolution i 1917. Den var i strid med den ortodokse marxistiske
I 2016 blev der indgået fredsaftale mellem De væbnede revolutionære styrker – Folkets hær (FARC-EP) og den colombianske regering. Denne aftale skulle være enden på mere end 50 års krig i landet. Men uligheden er fortsat enormt stor, og volden fortsætter i det rige og store land i det nordvestlige Sydamerika. Regeringen har fortsat ikke levet op til sine forpligtelser
Lea Ypi’s life is awash with instances which makes one question what it means to be free. From Hoxha’s Albania to The London School of Economics, Ypi’s life – as evoked in her book, is an incredible way to explore the connection between the personal and political.
Thanks to its stubborn inaction on climate change, the conservative coalition was trounced in this weekend’s election in Australia. With Greens and independents set to hold the balance of power, it’s time for the climate movement to step up its demands.
Climate activists march through Sydney during the "Strike 4 Climate" actions of May 6, 2022. (Lisa Maree
Hot dog fingers, a talking raccoon, butt plug karate, Michelle Yeoh in dominatrix gear: Everything Everywhere All at Once has something for everyone. Past the absurdity is a deeply (and sometimes overly) sentimental tale about a family struggling to make it.
It’s a waste of time to write about Everything Everywhere All at Once’s plot, because you just need
Den varslede demonstration på mandag ved Storstrømsbroen er afblæst!
“Semco har tiltrådt Bygge- og Anlægsoverenskomsten i sin helhed og ikke som ønsket en “bland-selv-overenskomst”! Fornuften og anstændigheden har sejret,” lyder det fra Stilladsarbejdernes Landsklub, Stilladsarbejderne i København og Arbejdere i Bevægelse.
For a brief period after World War II, Third World nations played an active role in shaping the world economic order and fostering development. For all its promises and a few success stories, neoliberalism hasn’t done the same.
British economist John Maynard Keynes addresses the Bretton Woods conference, where the International Monetary Fund and precursor
Reading and cruising, Jeffrey Escoffier once wrote, “are not such dissimilar techniques.” Both require sustained and dialectical interpretive practices, and he enjoyed them both greatly. He forged this connection while doing both in the mid-1960s: devouring the entire corpus of sexual sociology while pursuing the pleasures of the flesh in New York City’s
The Squad and other progressives voted this week to ramp up the “war on terror” here at home. Right now, they might find it politically convenient to prop up draconian national security measures — but at some point, they're going to have to take a stand.
Federal officers attempt to disperse racial justice protesters in Portland, Oregon, July 30, 2020. (Nathan
This interview with world-renowned scholar and leading dissident Noam Chomsky has two goals. The primary goal is to understand America’s role in one of the bloodiest conflicts of the 21st century, the Syrian civil war. While there has been a lot of commentary on the Syrian civil war, there is confusion about the exact nature of the American involvement in it.
The remediation of nuclear waste has long been a classified endeavor. Accidents, exposure to radiation, and worker injuries on the job rarely, if ever, make the newspapers where they would receive public scrutiny. This is, of course, intentional. The less oversight, the easier it is to mislead and cover up mistakes. Take the case of the military’s Palomares
What defines each era? Often, historians lean on terms that point to technology: bronze, steam, carbon, silicon. So is technology a fundamental aspect of being human? On this wide-ranging Trip, the gang take on one of their biggest topics yet.
Starting from the basis that technology is an application of knowledge for a practical purpose, Jeremy Gilbert, Nadia
Jeg har været til et utal af møder i Enhedslisteregi og har altid været tilhænger af vores kønsopdelte talerlister. Det er jeg stadig!
Jeg er ikke en ikke-mand. Jeg er kvinde
Anvendelsen af kategori ikke-mand er både historieløs i forhold til kvinders kampe for at blive hørt, samt kvindefjendsk og undertrykkende. Det er uholdbart, at man som kvinde i et politisk
En række fremtrædende medlemmer af Enhedslisten har formuleret en række teser i Solidaritet om, hvordan venstrefløjen bør forholde sig til den nye sikkerhedspolitiske situation. Dem vil vi gerne udfordre her.
Tese 1: Russisk imperialisme
Her er der ingen indvending. Fordømmelsen af den russiske invasion og bekæmpelsen af russisk imperialisme er en selvfølgelighed.
“Despite their unfulfilled promise, the Gary convention — its debates and written program — and the later formation of NBIPP remain important events to study and learn from.”
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Grundlæggende handler idéen om borgertinget om, at man, ved siden af Folketinget, opretter en samling af mennesker, tilfældigt udpeget gennem lodtrækning, som skal modtage rådgivning fra de førende eksperter om, hvordan tingene står til, og derefter diskutere sig frem til forslag, som Folketinget så vedtager som love. Selve processen skal ledsages af
Die Linke’s Stefan Liebich recently met with members of Québec solidaire to talk politics. Bringing together vantage points from both sides of the Atlantic, the discussion covered political strategy, regional differences, and tactics for future left victories.
Three hundred thousand march in the streets of Quebec, 2012. (Brian Lapuz / Flickr)
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Despite setbacks, from Pennsylvania to Kentucky, socialist candidates eked out victories in this week’s primaries. Centrist challengers, backed by super PAC and corporate money, massively underperformed. Democratic socialists aren't going away anytime soon.
DSA member Summer Lee, who won her congressional primary in Pennsylvania on Tuesday, will
Alex Garland’s Men is a horror movie about how awful it is to be a woman. But he’s so intent on driving this point home that all the terror drains out of the film by the end, and only annoyance at the didactic exercise remains.
Jessie Buckley stars in Alex Garland's new horror flick. (A24)
The new A24 folk-horror film Men, currently playing in theaters, is creepy as
Også i Odense bliver APKs STEM NEJ-løbesedler delt ud på uddannelsessteder, arbejdspladser og rundt omkring i byen.
Fredag den 20. maj om eftermiddagen var en gruppe APKere på gaden i Odenses centrum for at sprede løbesedler og snakke med folk om hvorfor man skal stemme NEJ den 1. juni.
Vi kom af med en del løbesedler og fik mange gode snakker med mange forskellige
Der findes – ifølge Tariq Ali – omkring 1.600 bøger om Churchill, frit valg! Man skal nok ikke indgå et større væddemål om hvor mange af dem der har samme tilgang som den aktuelle. Det er ikke her man finder lovprisninger af ’Winston’ som de konservative Torier foretrækker at kalde ham (som om de lige var stødt på ham i deres gentlemens ’club’ den anden dag), eller
If George W. Bush is not going to stand trial for war crimes, he should at the very least stop appearing in public to weigh in on unjustified wars, as he did this week when he accidentally referred to the “wholly unjustified and brutal invasion of Iraq.”
George W. Bush accidentally invoked his own war crimes this week. (TIM SLOAN/AFP via Getty Images)
On January
Before Roe v. Wade, women set up referral networks to help each other access abortions. One referral coordinator was Carol Giardina, who connected her college classmates to safe abortion providers even though it was illegal. The time for such bravery has come again.
Protesters raise their fists during a mass demonstration against New York State abortion
Onsdag 1. juni bliver en dato, der går over i den politiske historie. Her skal danskerne nemlig i stemmeboksen for at beslutte, om vi vil afskaffe forsvarsforbeholdet fra 1993. Hvis vi stemmer ja, betyder det, at Danmark får afskaffet forsvarsforbeholdet, og at vi dermed kan være fuldt ud med i EU’s fælles sikkerheds- og forsvarssamarbejde. Det betyder også,
Nikolaj Villumsen skriver om “Skal Danmark kunne deltage i EUs militære missioner i Afrika?” Det sker som en del af Berlingskes korte “dueller” mellem ja- og nej-siden, op til folkeafstemningen 1. juni.
Læs hele historien på enhedslisten.eu
Indlægget Folkeafstemning Naturligvis skal Danmark kunne deltage i Afrika blev først
Why the conflict in Ukraine is a disaster for the poor of this planet.
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IV568 - May 2022
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Københavns Borgerpræsentations har besluttet at bygge en ny kæmpe 8-baners kunstgræsplæne til fodboldtræning og kamp, omringet af et kæmpe jerngitter med store lysprojektører. Den skal ligge umiddelbart ved siden af et akkurat tilsvarende kunstgræsbane-jerngitterbur til fodbold.
Et løft af Nørrebro
Jeg mener, det er vandalisme og ødelæggelse af Nørrebroparken,
Interview med Lucas Haaning Olsen, næstformand i DKU
Den militaristiske offensiv som vores politikere har lanceret, virker som en tsunami af krig og oprustning, men på gaden oplever Lucas og de andre fra DKU, at mange unge gerne selv vil have lov til at sætte sig ind i sagen, og ikke bare vil overlade afgørelser om fremtiden til krigsglade politikere. De 18 mia.
3F TLB Århus anbefaler et Nej d. 1. juni. Det er meldingen fra en fuldstændig enig bestyrelse torsdag aften (19. maj). Hvorfor vi har valgt at tage stilling som afdeling og begrundelsen for anbefalingen kan du læse i udtalelsen herunder.
3F TLB Århus anbefaler et nej d. 1. juni!
Formanden for FH, Lizette var tidligt på banen med sin støtte til at fjerne vores forsvarsforbehold