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Tag Archives: labor
After the election: How do we oppose Trump’s fascism and move forward?
A Dec. 7, 2016, presentation by Franklin Dmitryev on “After the election: How do we oppose Trump’s fascism and move forward?” Continue reading
The Left Agenda at the Maidan and After
Report on “The Left and the Maidan” conference in Kiev, April 2014. Continue reading
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Tagged Alexey Arunyan, Alexey Simvolokov, Anastasia Baburova, Bogdan Biletskyi, coal miners, Crimea, feminism, Hospital Watch, Irina Kogut, Kiev, Kirill Buketov, labor, Maidan, Nina Khodorivska, Nina Potarskaya, Stanislav Markelov, students, Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych, Vladimir Chemeris, women's liberation, workers, youth, Yurii Samoilov, Zakhar Popovich
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Readers’ Views, May-June 2014
From the May-June 2014 issue of News & Letters: Readers’ Views LABOR AND IMMIGRATION On April 8, about 100 people, the majority young Latinas/os, gathered in front of Los Angeles City Hall to protest the deportation of immigrants. Obama’s administration … Continue reading
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Tagged abortion rights, Arab spring, criminal injustice system, disability rights, Egypt, feminism, immigrant labor, Iranian Revolution of 1979, labor, Middle East revolutions, patriarchy, Pelican Bay hunger strikers, people with disabilities, prison industrial complex, prisoners, racism, Russia, sexism, Tahrir Square, Ukraine, undocumented workers, women's liberation, workers
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India’s Modi: ‘free market’ authoritarian
Narendra Modi states openly that his program will be to unleash “free market” reform coupled with authoritarianism in government. Modi’s history tells us what his authority portends: the massacre of 2,000 Muslims in Gujarat. Continue reading
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Tagged Amrit Wilson, Bangalore, Bharatiya Janata Party, Bidadi, BJP, capitalism, Communist Party, Congress Party, domestic violence, feminism, Gujarat, Hindutva, India, Indian National Congress, labor, Maharashtra, Mohandas Gandhi, Narendra Modi, National Human Rights Commission, New Delhi, Nokia, nuclear weapons, Pakistan, patriarchy, Rahul Gandhi, Rape, religious fundamentalism, religious Right, Sangh Parivar, sexism, Tamil Nadu, Toyota, West Bengal, women's liberation, workers
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Bolivia’s two worlds
A new conflict broke out in Bolivia at the end of March. Thousands of miners blocked highways in five departments of Bolivia to protest a pending new mining law. Three miners were killed by the national police, while the miners took dozens of police hostage. Continue reading
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Tagged 1952 Bolivian Revolution, Alvaro Garcia Linera, Amazon, Bolivia, capitalism, developmentalism, Evo Morales, extractivism, Indigenous people, Isiboro Sécure National Park and Indigenous Territory, labor, MAS, miners, neoliberalism, peasants, Social movement, state capitalism, TIPNIS, workers
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Measured to death
Reliance on metrics in healthcare has become a new Taylorism, or management by time study. Everything in the hospital workplace is now tracked by sophisticated computer programs, down to every last pill, gauze and penny, and down to every last motion. This vast pool of information becomes Big Data. Continue reading
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Tagged ACA, Affordable Care Act, automation, Big Data, healthcare workers, HMO, labor, metrics, Taylorism
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Capitalism’s political and economic degeneracy
Draft for Marxist-Humanist Perspectives, 2014-2015. III. Capitalism’s political and economic degeneracy. A. Karl Marx haunts capitalism’s stagnation. B. The race toward climate chaos. Continue reading
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Tagged British Columbia, Canada, capitalism, China, climate change, climate chaos, Detroit bankruptcy, development, economic inequality, ExxonMobil, global warming, Goldman Sachs, Great Depression, Great Recession, Hegel's Phenomenology of Mind, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC, Karl Marx, Keystone XL pipeline, labor, monopoly, pensions, rate of profit, retirement, structural economic crisis of capitalism, tar sands, Unemployment, Unist'ot'en resistance camp, Wet'suwet'en, workers
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Revolt and retrogression at home
Draft for Marxist-Humanist Perspectives, 2014-2015: From the U.S. to Ukraine, crises and revolts call for philosophy. II. Revolt and retrogression at home. A. Women under attack. B. Many dimensions of revolt Continue reading
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Tagged abortion access, Affordable Care Act, African Americans, birth control, Charles Murray, Chicago, clinic escorts, Coming out of the Shadows, Contraception, criminal injustice system, domestic violence, feminism, Florida, food stamps, Health care, immigrant workers, International Women's Day, Kyle Tasker, labor, Living wage, low-wage workers, Marissa Alexander, Medicaid, Minimum wage, Moral Mondays, Paul Ryan, poverty, prison industrial complex, prisoners, racism, sexism, South Carolina, Truthful Tuesdays, undocumented workers, United States, women's liberation
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May-June 2014 News & Letters online
May-June 2014 News & Letters online: “From the U.S. to Ukraine, crises and revolts call for philosophy”; “Unchaining the revolutionary dialectic”; much more… Continue reading
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Tagged 1844 Economic-Philosophical Manuscripts of Karl Marx, birth control, Bolivia, Bosnia, capitalism, Chernobyl disaster, climate change, Contraception, dialectic, dialectics of philosophy and organization, feminism, Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, global warming, healthcare workers, Karl Marx, labor, Marxist-Humanism, Middle East, miners, News and Letters Committees, philosophic moment, philosophy of revolution, Raya Dunayevskaya, Syria, Turkey, Ukraine, women's liberation, workers
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