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Nearly 1,000 'Workers Over Billionaires' Protests Planned Across US for Labor Day
Unions and progressive organizations are planning nearly 1,000 "Workers Over Billionaires" demonstrations across the United States this Labor Day to protest President Donald Trump's assault on workers' rights. The day of national action has been organized by the May Day Strong coalition, which includes labor organizations like the AFL-CIO, American Federation of Teachers, and National Union of Healthcare Workers, as well as advocacy groups like Americans for Tax Fairness, Indivisible, Our Revolution, and Public Citizen.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/workers-over-billionaires-protests

Detainees report alleged uprising at ‘Alligator Alcatraz’: ‘A lot of people have bled’
The allegations, made by at least three detainees in phone calls to Miami’s Spanish language news channel Noticias 23, come as authorities race to empty the camp in compliance with a judge’s order to close the remote tented camp in the Everglades wetlands. The incident took place after several migrants held there began shouting for “freedom” after one received news a relative had died, according to the outlet. A team of guards then rushed in and began beating individuals indiscriminately with batons, and fired teargas at them, the detainees said.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/29/alligator-alcatraz-uprising-florida-immigration

'AI Death Panels': Trump Pilot Program Seeks to Bring 'Very Worst' For-Profit Insurance Practices to Medicare
As reported by The New York Times on Thursday, the pilot program will hire private firms to deploy AI to make what are known as "prior authorization" decisions regarding whether Medicare should pay for certain procedures, including spinal surgeries and steroid injections. The program is set to run first in Arizona, New Jersey, Ohio, Oklahoma, Texas, and Washington.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-ai-medicare-program

Massive CDC walkout erupts amid internal chaos
Staff began their "clap out" protest — where staffers march, hold signs and clap — Thursday just outside the CDC's Atlanta headquarters to support staff who had resigned, according to one staff member at the protest who asked to remain anonymous due to fear of repercussions. Top officials who resigned were escorted out of the CDC's offices Thursday morning around 10am, the staffer and multiple outlets said.
https://www.axios.com/2025/08/28/cdc-walkout-protest-resignations-rfk-hhs
https://archive.ph/MSFOX

‘Nightmare’: family in shock after Ice moves LA teen out of state without their knowledge
Guerrero-Cruz, who was first detained in Van Nuys neighborhood while walking his dog, was transferred late Monday from the Adelanto detention facility in San Bernardino county to a remote holding site in Arizona without any notification given to his family. The next day, Ice prepared to send him to Louisiana, a key hub for deportation flights. At the last moment, however, Guerrero-Cruz was removed from the plane and returned to Adelanto, where he remains in custody, according to Rivas’s office.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/28/immigration-ice-los-angeles-teen-detention

Daughter of the Revolution
While the famous and infamous inevitably attract admiration and attention in abundance, a very particular strain of curiosity is reserved also for their offspring. Children of the Revolution is a well-received 2011 documentary by Shane O’Sullivan about two women whose mothers were leading figures in radical leftist politics in, respectively, West Germany and Japan: Bettina Röhl, daughter of the Rote Armee Fraktion’s Ulrike Meinhof, and Shigenobu May, daughter of the Japanese Red Army’s Shigenobu Fusako. O’Sullivan’s film struggles under the sheer weight of the historical legacy and complexities of the movements in West Germany and Japan, but makes the savvy decision to focus on the personal reflections of the two women, whose lives were indelibly shaped by the ideologies and underground activities of their mothers. Though I’m His Daughter is a recently released documentary by Nagatsuka Yō about one of the daughters of Asahara Shōkō, the infamous leader of the Aum Shinrikyō doomsday cult who was executed in 2018 for orchestrating fatal sarin gas attacks in Tokyo and Matsumoto in the mid-1990s. The daughter, Matsumoto Rika, has faced discrimination and stigma due to her father and her putative status as heir to Aum’s successor group, which is closely monitored by police (officers raided the home of Asahara’s widow and son earlier this year, finding huge sums of cash allegedly donated to them by the group). Matsumoto was denied admission to a university due to her family background and had to fight a legal battle to win the right to attend.
https://throwoutyourbooks.wordpress.com/2025/07/23/daughter-of-the-revolution/

Elections in Bolivia: tectonic shifts in the political landscape
For the first time in 20 years, Bolivia’s Movement for Socialism (MAS) has lost the presidential election – and it was not just any defeat. Having won almost 55 percent of the votes in 2020, MAS now barely reached 3 percent. In second place, with 26.7 percent of the valid votes, is Tuto Quiroga, a right-wing establishment candidate with ties to former dictator Hugo Banzer. Victory – with more than 30 percent of the vote – went to Christian Democratic candidate Rodrigo Paz and his vice president, former police officer Edman Lara, who has gained prominence on tiktok as ‘Captain Lara’. Since neither Quiroga nor Paz received an outright majority, they will go to a second round of voting in October. This result came as a surprise, since the latest polls before the elections put Paz at less than 9 percent of the vote. Additionally, another unusual result should be noted: blank and spoilt ballots totaled more than 20 percent of all ballots. From a total of 233,000 spoilt ballots in 2020, the figure jumped to 1.3 million this year. How can this colossal change in Bolivia's political landscape be explained? The backdrop to these elections was the economic crisis that has been ravaging the country for two years, as well as the internal conflict within MAS surrounding the figure of Evo Morales. An extensive analysis of these phenomena can be found in other articles we have previously published. It is the combination of these crises that led to the collapse of MAS’ vote. Evo, having been disqualified, instead of giving his support to another left-wing candidate – such as his former disciple Andrónico Rodríguez – called for spoiling the ballot. Many of the spoilt ballots in this election are therefore due to the support that the former president still enjoys, particularly in rural areas. A smaller proportion of them can be attributed to a sector of the population, particularly young people, who lack all confidence in the programmes of the political parties on offer. The support expressed for Evo through spoilt ballots should come as no surprise. For a considerable sector of the population, the former president is still synonymous with a period of prosperity and improved living conditions. On this basis, if no alternative to the left emerges in the next period, Evo could once again become a point of reference for a significant layer of society.
https://marxist.com/elections-in-bolivia-tectonic-shifts-in-the-political-landscape.htm

Errico Malatesta: Reformism
The fundamental error of the reformists is that of dreaming of solidarity, a sincere collaboration, between masters and servants, between proprietors and workers which even if it might have existed here and there in periods of profound unconsciousness of the masses and of ingenuous faith in religion and rewards, is utterly impossible today. Those who envisage a society of well stuffed pigs which waddle contentedly under the ferule of a small number of swineherd; who do not take into account the need for freedom and the sentiment of human dignity; who really believe in a God that orders, for his abstruse ends, the poor to be submissive and the rich to be good and charitable — can also imagine and aspire to a technical organization of production which assures abundance to all and is at the same time materially advantageous both to the bosses and to the workers. But in reality “social peace” based on abundance for all will remain a dream, so long as society is divided into antagonistic classes, that is employers and employes. And there will be neither peace nor abundance. The antogonism is spiritual rather than material. There will never be a sincere understanding between bosses and workers for the better exploitation of the forces of nature in the interests of mankind, because the bosses above all want to remain bosses and secure always more power at the expense of the workers, as well as by competition with other bosses, whereas the workers have had their fill of bosses and don’t want more! [Our good friends] are wasting their time when they tell us that a little freedom is better than a brutal and unbridled tyranny; that n reasonable working day, a wage that allows people to live better than animals, and protection of women and children, are preferable to the exploitation of human labor to the point of human exhaustion; or that the State school, bad as it is, is always better, from the point of view of the child’s moral development, than schools run by priests and monks… for we are in complete agreement. And we also agree that there may be circumstances in which the Election results, national or local, can have good or bad consequences and that this vote might be determined by the anarchists’ votes if the strength of the rival parties were equally balanced. In most cases it is an illusion; when elections are tolerably free, the only value they have is symbolic: they indicate the state of public opinion, which would have imposed itself by more efficacious means, and with more far reaching results, if it had not been offered the outlet of elections. But no matter; even if some minor advances were the direct result of an electoral victory, anarchists should not flock to the polling booths or cease to preach their methods of struggle. Since no one can do everything in this world, one must choose one’s own line of conduct.
https://www.marxists.org/archive/malatesta/1920s/reformism.html

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