/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

HarperCollins Employees Begin Indefinite Strike to Demand Fair Pay
More than 95% of the company's unionized workers voted last month to authorize the strike after negotiations stalled. In July, the workers held a one-day strike. The employees are calling for the company to address its lack of diversity among the workforce and to provide better paid leave benefits and higher pay, which would enable them to afford to live where they work in New York City—one of the most expensive cities in the U.S. According to the union, the current starting salary at HarperCollins is $45,000 and the average salary is $55,000. The company reported record profits in 2021, according to The Guardian, and is owned by NewsCorp.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/11/10/harpercollins-employees-begin-indefinite-strike-demand-fair-pay

They defied California and drained an important salmon stream. Their fine: $50 per farmer
For eight straight days this summer, farmers in far Northern California drained almost all of the water out of a river in defiance of the state’s drought regulations. The move infuriated environmentalists and salmon-dependent Native American tribes downstream. California now knows the cost of the farmers’ blatant defiance: Less than $50 per farmer. It’s the latest example of California’s lax water-use enforcement process — problems that were first exposed in a sweeping Sacramento Bee investigation published online last week.
https://www.sacbee.com/news/investigations/article268432332.html
https://archive.ph/CA5f3

Dallas City Council shortens time landlords need to evict tenants
The Dallas City Council voted Wednesday to replace the city’s COVID-related eviction ordinance with a similar but temporary one that still provides renter protections while shortening the time landlords must wait to evict. The current ordinance was tied to the impact of COVID-19, which reform advocates say is hard to prove now. The new temporary ordinance is tied generally to falling behind on rent because of an “unforeseen econoPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

The ‘Principal Threat’: Time to Talk about the Palestinian Class Struggle
On Monday, October 31, Palestinians in the town of Al-Eizariya, east of Occupied East Jerusalem, observed a general strike. The strike was declared to be part of the community’s mourning of 49-year-old Barakat Moussa Odeh, who was killed by Israeli forces in Jericho a day earlier. This is not an isolated case. General strikes were observed throughout the Occupied Palestinian Territories in recent weeks as a form of civil disobedience, and protest of the Israeli attacks on the cities of Nablus, Jerusalem, Jenin, and Hebron, as well as to mourn Palestinian fighters who were killed, following shooting operations against Israeli soldiers of illegal Jewish settlers. Historically, general strikes have been declared and observed by working-class Palestinians. This form of protest often represents the backbone of popular, grassroots resistance in Palestine, starting many years before the establishment of Israel on the ruins of the historic Palestinian homeland. The return of the general strike tactics suggests that the new revolt in the West Bank is a direct outcome of working-class resistance. Indeed, many of the young Palestinian fighters hail from refugee camps or working-class population centers. Their revolt stems from the growing realization that the political tactics of the elites have resulted in nothing tangible, and that Palestinian freedom will certainly not be achieved through Mahmoud Abbas and his self-serving politics.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/11/10/the-principal-threat-time-to-talk-about-the-palestinian-class-struggle/

CP of Greece, General nationwide strike on 9 November 2022: The workers’ impressive participation sends a message of uprising in every workplace
“Today’s strike is a message of escalation of the struggle. It is a message of uprising in every workplace, sector, and region. Now it is necessary for the working people to become the protagonists, to come to the forefront for life and work with rights”, stressed the All Workers’ Militant Front (PAME) in its message concerning the general nationwide strike, which took place in Greece on 9 November 2022. In all cities around Greece, tens of thousands of workers in the public Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

Thanks News Anon

>>1259165
Really cool icon.

>>1260935
Plenty.

I think it was Mike Gold’s kid she aborted too.

>>1260948
Agreed. I'd put one on my desk if I were Christian.

>>1254070
Damn that's badass.

Anybody who puts a dime in a Catholic offering plate is guilty of conspiracy to commit mass child rape.

>>1261436
You realize Marx believed that the credit system could never fully break off from it's metallic basis right? I agree with other posters that the current accumulation (mostly fictitious in character) could be sustained by returning to commodity money but that's even more reason to support the libertarian death drive.

Do you want endless keynesianism or communism?

>>1262193
*Could not be sustained

>the gold standard was based
Correct
>prove me wrong
Die in a fire with everyone else who says that.

>>1261010
monkey jpegs (nfts) the bored ape standard

>>1261702
shes so cute bros

Ukrainians less than 5 KM from the city breh

>>1261925
Lol, lmao even

>>1261925
I would just blow up the kakhovka dam at this point and blame it on the hohols

>>1261329
one might immediately notice therefore the way that western liberalism twists this role in various cultures through orientalisation and aesthetics as a way to expand markets as my boy Cockshott explains here >>1261312, but this is not indicative inherently of third genders being a capitalist boogeyman but rather, the sad aftermath of capitalism as per usual being a force of alienation, depriving those of third genders of their true human essence and being fed tumblrite bullshit aestheticism because its chic and profitable for the masses.

>>1261309
there is none, even intersex people either have XY or XX but gender is a social construct

>>1261309
Whenever a self identified leftist uses "material basis", " material conditions" out of context or excessively, 19 out of 20 times, it is to say some stupid shit or is re-hashing some liberal ideology. It's honestly amazing how consistent it is.

>>1261309
Gender roles are disintegrating due to capitalism, so people fit less and less into strict gender binaries.

>>1261391
And they'll only disintegrate further in socialism and communism

>>1260361
That is so fucking cool.

>>1260361
their is a difference between people celebrating symbols of their society and the sky being a giant add screen, if NYC had drones in a formation to look like a bald eagle or whatever it wouldn't be a problem, but a giant candy crush advert is just disgusting

>>1261157
Bow before the might of your new god

Time to pay 60$ a month to skip sky adds

I feel hopeless because I work in a small business and there is zero interest in organising

How do you organize a workplace that's largely remote?

>>1258743
Your opportunity to get your name in a labor history book if you figure it out.
The most basic thing is to get off platform with your coworkers, and try to build a core group via private 1-on1 convos. What industry do you work in?

>>1261026
Telecommunications I guess. I do technical support in a call center for a small ISP.

People think workplace organising is just talking to people like they are empty vessels and you can easily get them on your side. In reality, workers will give you the most pushback, false consciousness is scary.

Here's something that happened to me:
>try to talk to coworkers
<one guy says "you're not a worker"
>"how so?" I ask
<"Do you have money left over after you've paid your rent, utilities and food?"
>"I do
<"Then you're not a worker."
>"That just means I'm not a slave."
Needless to say, we didn't get anywhere. I couldn't even convince him that he's a worker, let alone anything else.

Granted, this was in "manual" ("no skill") labour and perhaps people in trades are more class conscious and open to organising.

I think the best chance of success is in places where the contradictions are so apparent that you are forced to develop a class consciousness, like the Amazon warehouses.
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Anything Robin hood is acab and redistributive

>>1260680
Anrchist but stories of the bears and racoon people:
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/aragorn-stories-of-the-bear-and-raccoon-people

Bait thread but picrel and fairy tales by Gianni Rodari (Cipollino)

Alice series by Kir Bulychev for older kids, those are sort of apolitical but do depict a classless moneyless sci-fi society that is sometimes contrasted with ours, so it might be a good starting point to discuss capitalism vs. communism. Sorta like a Soviet Star Trek for kids

You're a good big brother OP.

>I used to read him the Communist Manifesto and State and Revolution for him to go to sleep as a baby
Don't believe you. But if you actually did, pretty funny

>>1260650
Do you think this new Colombian president is the real deal, or will he cuck out like most socdems?

>>1260893
So far he has been very based, it's the congress the one that is failing but seems like they're small holes in the road

>>1260650
>>1260685
>call center agencies
yeah anarkiddy anon is right, shit is grueling

>>1260893
easy to cuck out if the senate in LatAm republics hold the real power.Thats what happened in Perú for example, and what happened in Bolivia also.

>>1260958
I need the job

I can't really speak for 'Anarcho-Collectivism' 'Anarcho-Communism' etc, but in regards to ideas like 'Individualist-Anarchism' or 'Egoism', My interpretation has always been that the purpose has been the ruthless critique of any system, whether it be our current Liberal-Democracy, rightoidism or, yes, socialist states, On the grounds of self-interest/self-love. - Instead of advocating any sort of unique praxis within itself.

Which is a completely valid critique to be constantly making, as insofar as 'class-analysis' refers to lumping together many people's will as class based upon their relation to production and then holding a 'common goal' [i.e we all get something out of it] to change the existent state of things.

>>1260383
Yes but i'm meaning it on a bigger scale

Counterpoint: You don't just suddenly turn a country-sized territory anarchist overnight.

Anarchist regions exist. Sure, they have a relation with capitalist society for anything that they aren't self-sufficient on, or to maintain treaties, but they have proven themselves able to counter armies within their region.

Second counter-argument: acquire a nuclear weapon from a socialist nation or by stealing it, and directly threaten the CIA headquarters rather than any major city