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The US Left Has a Bright Future
Historically, periods of widespread economic suffering have often seen a surge of left-wing organizing, and even notable victories. In 1789, desperation among the peasantry and urban working class helped catalyze the French Revolution. The 1880s and 1890s in the United States saw the Farmers’ Alliances and the People’s Party sweep the interior of the country, in a vast movement to overcome the exploitation and poverty of farmers and workers.
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Bird flu in dairy cattle: Unknowns
Researchers still aren’t sure how bird flu spreads within dairy herds Research has demonstrated that highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) strains can infect dairy cows and that although the genotype B3.13 virus is found mostly in the udder and milk, it can also be found in the urine and neuronal tissue. One study showed that calves get infected and shed the virus nasally, but didn’t infect sentinel cows.
Chris Wright: Not all public safety employees want defined-benefit pensions
By CHRIS WRIGHT You may have read recent commentaries that have made claims about what it means to support public safety. All too often, what gets lost in the discussion are the voices of actual public safety workers. Most of the time, those public safety workers are restricted from speaking out publicly about political issues, and they have a strong desire to remain neutral and above the fray of partisanship.
How the Left Can Win by 2030, and Why They Must, with James Schneider
In this episode, Chris Wright is joined by James Schneider, co-founder of Momentum – the movement that seeks to bring a more socialist agenda to the Labour Party. He was an advisor to former Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn, and the discussion is built around his fascinating book Our Bloc: How We Win – written in the backdrop to Corbyn’s defeat to Boris Johnson in the 2019 general election.
Teaching the Purpose of College in the Era of Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence (AI) news appears to be as ubiquitous as the phenomenon itself. There are countless reports of how AI is making life better—from reducing the time healthcare professionals spend on paperwork to helping MLB scouts with recruitment—and almost as many about the potential dangers of this burgeoning branch of computer science.
Children’s Hospital Engineering Day showcases opportunities in our NHS for students | News
Our Children’s Hospital has welcomed students from Aston University Engineering Academy (AUEA) to showcase the many career opportunities available in our NHS. All of the group are studying towards a Level 3 BTEC qualification which will provide them with relevant skills and knowledge to enable them to progress to employment in the engineering sector or undergraduate university courses.
Rwanda, Thames Water, and Discrimination in the UK
In this week’s News Roundtable episode, Chris Wright CBE is joined by UK & US political commentator and journalist, Edward Hardy, political commentator and Communications Officer at the Institute of Economic Affairs, Reem Ibrahim, and Conservative Political Commentator, Lee Harris.
Europe and the UK: What Really Happened, with Professor John O’Brennan
Your host: Chris Wright Founder of Chrysalis Records, media and sports entrepreneur, campaigner “We are not just talking about failure, we are talking about economic catastrophe due to Brexit.” In this week’s News Roundtable episode, Chris Wright is joined by John O’Brennan the Jean Monnet Professor of European Integration at the National University of Ireland Maynooth. John is a leading spokesman, columnist and academic on European Politics.
Boris Johnson Leaves a Legacy of Destruction
Your host: Chris Wright Founder of Chrysalis Records, media and sports entrepreneur, campaigner “Boris Johnson has absolutely no moral integrity” - Otto English On this week’s News Roundtable episode, Chris Wright CBE is joined by journalist and author Christina Patterson, political commentator Edward Hardy, and author and journalist Otto English. Where else to start other than Boris Johnson?
SPEECH: “I’ll Be Damned if I Go Back to Work Under Those Conditions!” Lucy E. Parsons, May 1, 1930 | Black Agenda Report
A 1930 speech from Black anarchist and labor organizer, Lucy Parsons, recalls the radical origins of May Day. On May 1, 1930, as global capitalism convulsed and shuddered through an unprecedented crisis that appeared to presage its inevitable collapse, twenty-five-thousand workers braved police terror and sedition charges and gathered for a May Day rally at Chicago’s Union Park.
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Twenty years ago, Noam Chomsky published a bestselling book called Hegemony or Survival. Since then, the stark choice he posed has only become more urgent. Depending on how humanity responds to the challenges of ecological destruction and imperialistic war, in the coming decade that terrifying question “Hegemony or survival?” may well be answered. Modern history shows that the most dangerous periods are when two or more great powers are struggling for hegemony.
Employers say Labor’s new industrial relations bill threatens the economy. Denmark tells a different story
Labor’s proposed amendment to the Fair Work Act (subtitled its Secure Jobs, Better Pay bill) has drawn fire from Australia’s three leading employer groups: the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, which says it will create more strikes and unemployment the Australian Industry Group, which says it threatens decades of national prosperity and will turn workplaces into conflict zones and the Business Council of Australia, which says it risks tipping the economy over the edge while...
Skills crisis can be solved with training and good faith bargaining
This article was added by the user . TheWorldNews is not responsible for the content of the platform. By Chris F Wright September 10, 2022 — 12.01am Australia faces a skills crisis. Workforce shortages have been reported across a wide range of industries. Strong projected employment growth suggests these shortages are likely to be a feature of Australia’s labour market into the future. There has been much debate over how best to address Australia’s skills and workforce needs.
Organized Labor and the Crisis of Democracy
We live in a time when it’s become a boring cliché to say that democracy is under attack.
Organized Labor and the Crisis of Democracy
We live in a time when it's become a boring cliché to say that democracy is under attack.
Opinion | Organized Labor and the Crisis of Democracy
There is one glimmer of hope for democracy, and it comes from a source that might initially, to many people, seem rather unrelated: a renascent labor movement. We live in a time when it's become a boring cliché to say that democracy is under attack.
Black Agenda Report
The Biden administration pays lip service to the trade union movement but has done nothing to break the Democratic Party’s long tradition of betraying workers. Joe Biden's photo op with Christian Smalls is just their latest performative act. This article was originally published in The Chronicles of Haiphong.
Eleven Theses on Socialist Revolution
How should we think about “socialist revolution” in the twenty-first century? I put the term in scare-quotes because it can be hard to believe anymore that a socialist, or economically democratic, civilization is even possible—much less inevitable, as Marx and Engels seem to have believed. Far from being on the verge of achieving something like socialism, humanity appears to be on the verge of consuming itself in the dual conflagrations of environmental collapse and, someday perhaps, nuclear war.
Vertical New Knowledge Transfer and the Revival of Multi‐Employer Collective Bargaining
The claim that industrial relations systems have been defined by a ‘common neoliberal trajectory’ of expanding employer discretion has been influential in comparative industrial relations scholarship for the past decade (e.g., Baccaro and Howell 2017; Thelen 2014). The continued decline of collective bargaining coverage and trade union membership and the spread of insecure forms of work have provided support for this claim (Wright et al. 2021).
The Rise of Right-wing Libertarianism Since the 1950s
Sometimes as I read books I like to simultaneously summarize them in my own words, to facilitate the intellectual digestion. And also to post my notes online later on, in the probably vain hope of diffusing knowledge to young people and non-academics. I’ve been reading a couple of books on the rise of political conservatism in the last several generations, and since nothing is more important to the future than combating conservatism, I’m going to jot down some notes here.
The Rise of Right-wing Libertarianism Since the 1950s
Sometimes as I read books I like to simultaneously summarize them in my own words to facilitate the intellectual digestion. And also to post my notes online later on, in the probably vain hope of diffusing knowledge to young people and non-academics. I’ve been reading a couple of books on the rise of political conservatism in the last several generations, and since nothing is more important to the future than combating conservatism, I’m going to jot down some notes here.
Interview: If Unions Had Organized the South, Could Trump Have Been Avoided?
At a time when activists and commentators are puzzling over the United States’ enduring conservatism, Michael Goldfield’s new book The Southern Key: Class, Race, and Radicalism in the 1930s and 1940s (Oxford University Press, 2020) provides some perspective. Goldfield argues that the old question “Why no socialism in the U.S.?” reduces to “Why no liberalism in the South?” which itself is answered, in large part, by unions’ failure to organize the region in the early and middle twentieth century.
If Unions Had Organized the South, Could Trump Have Been Avoided?
Labour, USA • November 30, 2020 • Chris Wright and Michael Goldfield At a time when activists and commentators are puzzling over the United States’ enduring conservatism, Michael Goldfield’s new book The Southern Key: Class, Race, and Radicalism in the 1930s and 1940s (Oxford University Press, 2020) provides some perspective.
If Unions Had Organized the South, Could Trump Have Been Avoided?
At a time when activists and commentators are puzzling over the United States’ enduring conservatism, Michael Goldfield’s new book The Southern Key: Class, Race, and Radicalism in the 1930s and 1940s (Oxford University Press, 2020) provides some perspective. Goldfield argues that the old question “Why no socialism in the U.S.?” reduces to “Why no liberalism in the South?”, which itself is answered, in large part, by unions’ failure to organize the region in the early and middle twentieth century.
Paris under curfew as Europe battles soaring virus caseload
Today 06:15 am JST Today | 06:20 am JST 0 Comments Millions of Europeans on Saturday faced tough new coronavirus restrictions as governments try to combat spiralling infections. Paris and other French cities are under a nighttime curfew which will last for at least a month, while England is banning mixed household gatherings in the capital and other areas and Italy's most populous region is limiting bar openings and suspending sports events.
The Revolutionary Beethoven
Two hundred and fifty years after Beethoven’s birth, we’re faced with something of a paradox: his music is known and beloved all over the world, probably more than that of any other composer, even as its real significance is hardly ever remarked on except in critical studies largely unread by the public. Familiarity, it seems, has bred, not contempt but ignorance.
The Revolutionary Beethoven
Beethoven in 1803, painted by Christian Horneman Two hundred and fifty years after Beethoven’s birth, we’re faced with something of a paradox: his music is known and beloved all over the world, probably more than that of any other composer, even as its real significance is hardly ever remarked on except in critical studies largely unread by the public. Familiarity, it seems, has bred, not contempt but ignorance.
A Despairing, Albeit Mercifully Brief, Rant
These are interesting times. We have the dubious privilege to be living in the era when centuries of capitalist evolution are approaching their climax. Their apocalyptic climax. And one of the chief agents of the coming cataclysm is a buffoonish orange amoral man-child who understands nothing but money and power. What an appropriate catalyst of our doom. The very personification of capitalism: capitalism stripped to its ruthlessly avaricious, morally deformed, chaos-engendering, nihilistic essence.
The Revolutionary Beethoven
The Revolutionary Beethoven In the year of the great composer’s 250th birthday, we can retune our ears to pick up the subversive and passionately democratic nature of his music.
Popular radicalism in the 1930s
The History of the Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill Posted Sep 21, 2020 by Chris Wright Originally published: The Bullet (September 16, 2020) | At a time when unemployment is skyrocketing in the U.S. and millions of out-of-work Americans have been abandoned by the federal government, it may be of interest to consider how an earlier generation responded to an even greater crisis, the Great Depression (1929-1936).
Popular Radicalism in the 1930s: The History of the Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill
A revised version of this article originally appeared in Monthly Review Online At a time when unemployment is skyrocketing and millions of out-of-work Americans have been abandoned by the federal government, it may be of interest to consider how an earlier generation responded to an even greater crisis, the Great Depression.
Real opportunity or just a stop-gap?
800,000 young people will leave education this year and I don’t envy them. In the cold light of the Covid-19 world, their options are worryingly limited. The announcement by the Chancellor on Tuesday offers some hope but it also raises questions. One option for young people is to stay on in education – if they can afford it. Others will want, and need, to apply for paid work; but opportunities will be few and far between.
Learning from the Great Depression
by Chris Wright Like today, austerity during the Great Depression was unnecessary. From sales tax, states had become wealthy, but even those with budget surpluses refused to provide relief for the unemployed. According to Mark Twain (supposedly), history doesn’t repeat itself, but it frequently rhymes. He was right. Donald Trump, for example, rhymes with Mussolini. The decline of organized labor in recent decades rhymes with its decline in the 1920s.
Learning from the Great Depression
A homeless family of seven walks along U.S. 99, bound for San Diego, where the father hoped to enroll in welfare because he once lived there. They walked from Phoenix, Arizona, where they picked cotton, 1939. Photograph Source: Dorothea Lange – Public Domain According to Mark Twain (supposedly), history doesn’t repeat itself, but it frequently rhymes. He was right. Donald Trump, for example, rhymes with Mussolini. The decline of organized labor in recent decades rhymes with its decline in the 1920s.
Learning from the Great Depression
According to Mark Twain (supposedly), history doesn’t repeat itself, but it frequently rhymes. He was right. Donald Trump, for example, rhymes with Mussolini. The decline of organized labor in recent decades rhymes with its decline in the 1920s. And the coming depression will rhyme, in many respects, with the Great Depression. For decades, in fact, it has been clear that the political economy of neoliberalism “rhymes” with the political economy that caused the Depression.
Revolution in the Twenty-First Century: A Reconsideration of Marxism
In the age of COVID-19, it’s even more obvious than it’s been for at least a couple of decades that capitalism is entering a long, drawn-out period of unprecedented global crisis. The Great Depression and World War II will likely, in retrospect, seem rather minor—and temporally condensed—compared to the many decades of ecological, economic, social, and political crises humanity is embarking on now.
Revolution in the Twenty-First Century: A Reconsideration of Marxism
In the age of COVID-19, it’s even more obvious than it’s been for at least ten or twenty years that capitalism is entering a long, drawn-out period of unprecedented global crisis. The Great Depression and World War II will likely, in retrospect, seem rather minor—and temporally condensed—compared to the many decades of ecological, economic, social, and political crises humanity is embarking on now.
Revolution in the Twenty-First Century: A Reconsideration of Marxism
In the age of COVID-19, it’s even more obvious than it’s been for at least ten or twenty years that capitalism is entering a long, drawn-out period of unprecedented global crisis. The Great Depression and World War II will likely, in retrospect, seem rather minor—and temporally condensed—compared to the many decades of ecological, economic, social, and political crises humanity is embarking on now.
We can hit the target, without missing the point
Now is the time for commissioners, government and the voluntary and charity sector to show their flexibility. The decisions the government makes on our behalf in the next few weeks and months will likely decide what we value and how we will live for the next few years. The £750m charity package is an important step, one that could save many important organisations and the people they exist to help.
kansas oreo artist | The Wichita Eagle
Search Eedition Home Coronavirus Obituaries Jobs Readers' Choice Mobile & Apps Archives Carrie Rengers Jan Hoop challenged herself to make one Oreo sculpture a day out of the frosting during this time she is in self-quarantine. RELATED STORIES TRENDING Copyright Commenting Policy Privacy Policy Terms of Service
Pete Dolack: “It’s Past Time We Had an Anti-Capitalist, Anti-Imperialist Global Front”
Mohsen Abdelmoumen: Your fascinating book It's not over: Learning From the Socialist Experiment shows us why we need to move beyond capitalism and it also provides the tools on how to do so. Can you explain to our readers how we can effectively fight to destroy definitively this aberrant system that is capitalism? Pete Dolack: That’s the central question, isn’t it?
A Modest Proposal for Socialist Revolution
At this point in history, two things are clear. First, Marx was right that capitalism is torn by too many “contradictions” to be sustainable indefinitely as a global economic system.
A Modest Proposal for Socialist Revolution
At this point in history, two things are clear. First, Marx was right that capitalism is torn by too many “contradictions” to be sustainable indefinitely as a global economic system.
Why recruit temporary sponsored skilled migrants? A human capital theory analysis of employer motivations in Australia
1. Introduction Human capital theory is a prominent lens within the human resource management (HRM) field for analysis of employers’ recruitment motivations (Coff and Kryscynski, 2011; Nyberg and Wright, 2015).
Why recruit temporary sponsored skilled migrants? A human capital theory analysis of employer motivations in Australia
Almeida, S, Fernando, M (2017) Making the cut: Occupation-specific factors influencing employers in their recruitment and selection of immigrant professionals in the information technology and accounting occupations in regional Australia. The International Journal of Human Resource Management 28: 880–912. Google Scholar | Crossref Anderson, B (2010) Migration, immigration controls and the fashioning of precarious workers. Work, Employment and Society 24: 300–317.
The Life and Times of Jimmy Hoffa
Jimmy Hoffa used to say he’d be forgotten ten years after his death. This was an uncharacteristically unintelligent judgment. Forty-four years after his murder on July 30, 1975, Hoffa is still famous enough that one of the most celebrated movies of the year is about the man who claims to have killed him, Frank Sheeran.
Is Bernie Sanders Electable?
In his 2007 classic “Deer Hunting With Jesus: Dispatches from America’s Class War”—a book that, in the age of Donald Trump, is more relevant than ever—Joe Bageant makes an observation that cuts to the nub of the matter. America, he says, isn’t composed of some great middle class; it is an overwhelmingly working-class country.
Is Bernie Sanders Electable?
In his 2007 classic “Deer Hunting With Jesus: Dispatches from America’s Class War”—a book that, in the age of Donald Trump, is more relevant than ever—Joe Bageant makes an observation that cuts to the nub of the matter. America, he says, isn’t composed of some great middle class; it is an overwhelmingly working-class country.
Is Bernie Sanders electable?
by Chris Wright In his 2007 classic “Deer Hunting With Jesus: Dispatches from America’s Class War“ – a book that, in the age of Donald Trump, is more relevant than ever – Joe Bageant makes an observation that cuts to the nub of the matter. America, he says, isn’t composed of some great middle class; it is an overwhelmingly working-class country.
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