Lenin proposed a 6:1 wage differential across the Soviet Union in the early 1920s. A ratio of 10:1 within companies a century later would be a reasonable demand.
A good start would be to close Guantanamo Bay, but maybe that's not on the agenda for spreading Global Freedom.
On a positive note, 19 out of 22 of the DSA DSA-endorsed candidates were elected. And Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez absolutely thundered her way to victory in New York after the Republicans spent millions of $$$ on a doomed campaign to topple her.
This is an eternal blind spot for US election analysts, who assume by default that their country is the most perfect democracy. It's a social fault that the confused pollsters always neglect to take that into account.
Any progressive government in South America knows how it goes down: allegations of 'irregularities' from the state department, a hastily-organised press conference in which veiled threats are murmured, furious editorials in the Wall Street Journal, the ...
The Labour Party destroyed itself when Blair and his cronies took out a founding clause that stated that Labour was a working class party. I remember there was (and maybe still is) a proper group in Labour which campaigned to reinsert Clause 4 into the ...
Corbyn also has a legal fund from earlier in the year, which has been piling up with donations recently. :)
Graeber's point is correct. Who was it who stood against the fascists at the battle of Cable Street? It was the working class of the East End alongside the British Communist Party. Corbyn's own mother was there. It's the immortal tradition of Stjepan ...
The editorial in today's Morning Star is solid: Corbyn's suspension is a declaration of war Even on legal grounds it's hypocrisy, if it is somehow a violation of norms for LOTO to make political interventions in disciplinary cases (to speed up the ...
we all miss the Syrian Electronic Army đą
The 35-hour work week is part of French labour law, brought in under the Socialist/Communist/Green coalition in 2002. It led to a golden period of low unemployment and the French economy still has exceptionally high productivity because of it. Macron's ...
These are quality tunes, there's not enough singing in the labour movement đ¶
As things are in the UK the Tories are pushing through a bill giving secret police immunity from prosecution if they commit crimes while undercover. The main victims of police spying have been environmental groups and trade unions, and Starmer's Labour is ...
It's she who stands up, she who suffers, who goes on strike, who we put in prison, who we betray and abandon, it's she who gives us the will to live, and the will to follow her. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rPs9fBXbGs Vive la CGT! Happy labour day, ...
Yes, and if the strategic preference of Labour voters is they want a Labour government, but they want it held in check by the Greens - that's fine, although we should question what that strategic choice actually means for the Labour Party.
If all Labour members were loyal to the party and its constitution, we could simply substitute 'internal strife' for 'a healthy democratic culture'. A British MP who I admire a lot used to talk about how under some circumstances it was necessary to extend ...
There is always the argument that Labour (in New Zealand and Britain) is the political wing of the labour movmement, the mass party of the working class. So long as that relationship is there, the party has the potential to express the demands of the ...
Just want to point out that Paul up there in comment number 8 shows exactly the sort of problem I was referring to.
I am pretty sure there were more than a few Labour voters thinking they needed to make sure the Government was as progressive as possible and made sure that the Green Party can have a significant effect on party policy. This is a curious paragraph. It ...
I'm in Britain, where we're stumbling into either a second spike or a second lockdown. Every time I check up on New Zealand it makes me envious to see how well things are managed. I get there are restrictions on election-day campaigning, so without naming ...
Is the point of this piece not that 'socialism is when the government does stuff', but that socialism means realising the working class as the leading force in society. If that's the case then a line like 'the wealthy have always supported socialism' is ...
not enough maoists on the timeline for left-wing twitter
Safe for the ruling class / energising for battle-weary activists who need some TED talk motivation to spend their evenings staffing the phone banks ;)
Ah that's a shame, I hope Leonard is alright. I don't expect the PSL candidates to win the election, or even do particularly well, but the issue is that... some parts of the USA were very recently in a condition of insurrection due to police brutality. And...
This is only going to drive up the Riva/Peltier ticket. Kamala Harris is a cop.
We are all eating from the trash can my friend.
Big late-80s Marxism Today euro vibes coming off this post! We don't do politics, we're really involved in environmentalism, feminism, refugee justice, and nothing but a multitude of diffuse and disconnected social movements. While police brutality is a ...
This past week I've noticed much more people out and about. The motorways which were completely empty two weeks ago now have cars on them. The roads aren't exactly 'busy' - but anecdotally it looks like people are starting to move about more, ahead of the ...
Maybe one of the reasons it has cross-party support is that UBI on its own (without price controls and suppression of profits) doesn't benefit labour in the long run. Money goes from the state to the people and just circulates right into the coffers of the...
I found this letter from Laura Pidcock a painfully honest, and melancholic, account of why some voters didn't vote for Labour. And she avoids the post-election blame game which people have been playing in the media. We'll have that Ministry of Employment ...
A return to right-wing social democracy and a reversal of the leftward trend in the party would not be a good outcome. Nobody wants reheated 90s neoliberalism, and this defeat should not be allowed to damage the movement.
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