Link to an article by Richard Wolff:
“Beyond the Minimum Wage Debate: Let’s Move Toward a System That Works for All”
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Paolo Pedercini – Socialism at Play
Link to an interview with Paolo Pedercini conducted by Will Partin:
Andre Damon – Evidence of Google Blacklisting of Left and Progressive Sites Continues to Mount
Link to an article by Andre Damon:
“Evidence of Google Blacklisting of Left and Progressive Sites Continues to Mount”
Bonus links: “Google’s new search engine bias is no accident” and “Social Media Giants Choking Independent News Site Traffic to a Trickle” and “Google Suppressing World Socialist Web Site Content in its Search Results for the New York Times’ 1619 Project” and “Facebook Security Officer: Not All Speech Is ‘Created Equal’” and “Facebook’s power is to sort what people see and to screen information. That’s basically what Google does, too” and “Facebook Wants You to Know if You’re Getting Your News From the Wrong Government” and “Tulsi Gabbard vs Google Goliath” and “‘We Are Moving Into a New, Controlled Society Worse Than Old Totalitarianism’ – Zizek on Google Leak” and “Monopoly Media Manipulation” and “What Google and Facebook Are Hiding” and “Hawkish, Gov’t Funded Think Tank Behind Twitter Decision to Delete Thousands of Chinese Accounts” and “Twitter’s Ban on Political Advertisement: A New Move to Censor the Internet” (“The underlying assumption is that the determination of what is truth and what are ‘crazy lies’ is a purely objective process, unrelated to class or social interests.”) and “Liar, Liar” (“Capitalism is not inevitable nor is it some kind of natural law. Its a fact that Google and Facebook censor socialist sites. Why would they do that if they were not afraid? The authority structure, the proprietor class, they want you asleep. That’s the idea.”)
Bonus quote:
“Even when we don’t believe what the media say, we are still hearing or reading their viewpoints rather than some other. They are still setting the agenda.”
Michael Parenti, Inventing Reality: The Politics of the News Media (1986)
Tony Norfield – Amazon: Becoming the Market
ITUC Global Rights Index 2017
Link to a labor rights report:
“ITUC Global Rights Index 2017: Violence and Repression of Workers on the Rise”
Meagan Day – Neoliberalism Is Real and Fundamentally Opposed to Left Principles
Link to an article by Meagan Day:
“Jonathan Chait Is Wrong: Neoliberalism Is Real and Fundamentally Opposed to Left Principles”
Bonus links: Right Turn: The Decline of the Democrats and the Future of American Politics (this is an older book that concretely refutes Chait’s claim that the Democrats have veered left, or simply haven’t veered right) and Liberalism: A Counter-History (this book shows how liberals in general are more aligned with the right than the left)
Daniel Gaido – The July Days
Link to an article by Daniel Gaido:
Was the “Russian Hack” an Inside Job?
Link to a memorandum by Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity:
“Was the ‘Russian Hack’ an Inside Job?”
and “VIPS: Mueller’s Forensics-Free Findings”
and “VIPS Fault Mueller Probe, Criticize Refusal To Interview Assange”
Bonus links: “Non-Existent Foundation for Russian Hacking Charge” and “Why ‘Russian Meddling’ is a Trojan Horse” and “A Look Back at Clapper’s Jan. 2017 ‘Assessment’ on Russia-gate” and “Finally Time for DNC Email Evidence”
Russell Mokhiber – DC Disciplinary Counsel Hamilton Fox Won’t Let Whistleblower Lawyer Lynne Bernabei Go
Link to an article by Russell Mokhiber:
“DC Disciplinary Counsel Hamilton Fox Won’t Let Whistleblower Lawyer Lynne Bernabei Go”
Staughton Lynd – John L. Lewis and His Critics: Some Forgotten Labor History That Still Matters Today
Link to an article by Staughton Lynd:
“John L. Lewis and His Critics: Some Forgotten Labor History That Still Matters Today”
The point that Lynd makes is much the same as the difference between Lenin and Stalin‘s methods of leadership. Someone even shared a link with me to some garbage business school article that said much the same thing about humble vs. charismatic narcissist CEOs.
One flaw in Lynd’s article is the statement, “There is the subtle but all-important understanding that the experience of solidarity in action, not ideology, comes first.” This is not outside ideology, but rather about putting the ideology of solidarity before some other kind of ideology. Ideology always comes first (to be fair, though, Lynd seems to rely on the old formulation of “ideology” as “false consciousness”). The other issue with the article is perhaps the historical focus. In an age of digital telecommunications and globally integrated transportation networks, and the so-called “post-industrial economy,” the ability of workers to strike by setting down their tools and have an impact on employer behavior is not what it was in the historical period Lynd describes. Strikes succeed primarily because they drive a wedge between capitalists and finance, not merely because the workers slow or stop production as such. In other words, strikes work primarily where factory owners owe debt to banks/financiers that continue to accumulate as those same machines sit idle in a strike. There is nothing wrong with Lynd’s history in this regard, but its practical relevance to the present is maybe in question.