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Zohran Mamdani y la contradicción del socialismo democrático
Fuentes: Revista Jacobin ¿Qué ocurre cuando un político socialista asume el control de la ciudad más grande de los Estados Unidos? El historial inicial de Mamdani está lleno de éxitos, pero también de evidencias de las contradicciones entre la política socialista y la gestión del Estado capitalista. A medida que Zohran Mamdani supera los cien días como alcalde de Nueva York, se nos ofrecen numerosas retrospectivas de sus primeros resultados.
Zohran Mamdani and the Contradiction of Democratic Socialism
As Zohran Mamdani passes one hundred days as the mayor of New York City, we are being offered numerous retrospectives of his early returns. Some will seek to grade his policy work and evaluate his success in enacting his agenda. Others will assess the state of his political alliances within government and without. The more ideological balance sheets will seek to match up his actions to his own rhetoric and that of the socialist movement that put him in office.
JOHN QUIGGIN. Socialism with a spine: the only 21st century alternative
Socialism is back, much to the chagrin of those who declared it dead and buried at the end of history in the 1990s. When the New Republic, long the house organ of American neoliberalism, runs an article on The Socialism America Needs Now, its clear that something has fundamentally changed. The soft neoliberalism represented by Tony Blair, Bill Clinton and Paul Keating has exhausted its appeal, and not just in the English-speaking world.
Belabored Podcast #28: Solidarity
Belabored Podcast #28: Solidarity This week on Belabored, Sarah and guest co-host Peter Frase discuss international solidarity campaigns with American workers and give an update on the situation in Detroit. Then, independent journalist Susie Cagle joins them to talk about labor unrest in the Bay Area, where solidarity can be hard to come by. Sarah Jaffe and Peter Frase ▪ October 25, 2013 Podcast (belabored): Download Subscribe to the Belabored RSS feed here.
Mid-Hudson Valley Democratic Socialists of America Elect Member Sarahana Shrestha as the Democratic Nominee for Assembly District 103
On Tuesday, November 8th, voters in Assembly District 103 chose Sarahana Shrestha as their Assembly member. This was the culmination of a people-powered upstart campaign that began over a year ago, a victory that many said was impossible. After defeating a 25-year incumbent in this June’s Democratic primary, Shrestha beat back a right-wing Republican challenge to secure her position as the first socialist in history to be elected to the New York State Legislature from outside New York City.
En defensa de los camareros soviéticos
Hace poco hubo algo de debate sobre el trabajo afectivo. En la London Review of Books, Paul Myerscough describe el elaborado código con el que la cadena de comidas Pret a Manger fuerza un entusiasmo y una dedicación fingidas de parte de sus empleados, que deben «sonreír, interactuar entre sí, estar felices y comprometidos». Haciéndose eco del consejo de Giraudoux y George Burns, lo más importante a la hora de mentir es la sinceridad: «estar auténticamente feliz es importante».
Mid-Hudson Valley Democratic Socialists of America Elect Member Sarahana Shrestha as the Democratic Nominee for Assembly District 103
KINGSTON, NY – On Tuesday, June 28th voters in Assembly District 103 chose Sarahana Shrestha as their Democratic nominee. In a district with a 2:1 Democratic enrollment advantage this virtually guarantees that Shrestha will be the first socialist in history elected to the New York State Legislature from outside New York City. This was a DSA campaign from top to bottom, though we had help from progressive allies in the Hudson Valley like the Working Families Party and For the Many.
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Ontario’s Days of Action Offer a Lesson for Canadian Workers Today
“High taxes and spending are killing Ontario jobs,” claims the narrator of a 1995 Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario (PC) election ad. Then-leader Mike Harris enters the frame: “Had enough? I have.” Harris and the Conservatives swept the 1995 Ontario election with a massive majority, turfing out the incumbent social-democratic New Democratic Party (NDP). The NDP, whose seat count in parliament shrunk from seventy-four to seventeen, was in a state of disarray.
Australia’s Hospitality Workers Aren’t “Entitled” - They Just Know How Much Their Work Is Worth
Over the last week, hospitality workers around Australia have asked each other in lowered voices: “Have you read that article?” They were referring to a now-notorious write-up in the Sydney Morning Herald, based on opinions shared by hospitality bosses Jake Smyth and Kenny Graham.
Judith Jarvis Thomson (1929-2020)
A fan-favorite episode of NBC’s The Good Place is called “The Trolley Problem.” If you’ve watched it, or if you’re one of the quarter of a million people who follow the “Trolley problem memes” page on Facebook, you know at least a little bit about Judith Jarvis Thomson’s work — even if you’ve never heard her name. The prehistory of this philosophical puzzle goes back to Philippa Foot.
Joe Biden’s Neera Tanden Pick Is Even Worse Than You Thought
President-elect Joe Biden will reportedly nominate a White House budget director who has been one of the country’s most prominent critics of US Sen. Bernie Sanders and who has previously backed Social Security cuts. Biden — who has repeatedly pushed for Social Security cuts throughout his career — announced his selection of Center for American Progress (CAP) president Neera Tanden as his choice to run the powerful White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB).
How Unions Can Lay the Ground for the Next Upsurge
I started in the labor movement in the mid-90s, when the fall in union density from 23 percent of the workforce in 1980 to 15 percent in 1994 had created a crisis at the top. In response, the “New Voices” slate led by the Service Employees’ John Sweeney defeated heir apparent Thomas Donahue in the first contested election in AFL-CIO history. The incoming team were evangelists for organizing.
Why Is Joe Biden Considering an Anti-Green New Dealer for Energy Secretary?
Serious environmentalists exhaled with relief when it became clear that Donald Trump would leave office in January. The planet could not have endured four more years of deliberate destruction of the nation’s regulatory apparatus, flanked by gleeful drilling in the Arctic, fervent opposition to environmental protection measures taken by states, and agencies staffed by every possible stripe of radical, apocalypse-loving climate denialist.
A Rebirth of the Auto Industry?
“HOME RUN!” was how an elated Jerry Dias, president of Unifor, summarized the mid-September outcome of the negotiations with Ford Motor Company, covering 6,300 workers in Oakville and Windsor. Ford set the pattern in the closely watched and often trend-influencing negotiations at the “Detroit Three” (formerly the “Big Three,” but the market penetration of Japan-based companies had gradually eroded that title).
What Engels Gave To Marx and Marxism
This is an extract from Terrell Carver’s book Engels Before Marx (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020) Friedrich Engels took his observational powers to Manchester in December 1842, having just turned twenty-two the month before. In November, en route from Barmen to London, Engels stopped at the newspaper offices of the Rheinische Zeitung, meeting with the newly installed editor, Herr Karl Marx. Marx had fallen into the editorship somewhat by default, and certainly not by experience.
In Working-Class Manchester, Friedrich Engels Became a Revolutionary
In October 1842, a wealthy businessman from the Rhine province of Prussia aired his grievances about his wayward son. “[He] is like a scabby sheep in a flock and openly opposes the beliefs of his forefathers,” he wrote in a letter.
Remembering Diego Maradona: The Idol of the Poor
For kids in the south of Iran who grew up with little, having a good football was everything. When it was flattened under a minibus, it was a death to be mourned. For a week after, we were ready to beat up the kid who had caused it. Our distraction from life was football, our passion was football, and our heroes were footballers. And it seemed at the time that our heroes were immortal.
Friedrich Engels’s Revolutionary Republicanism
Two hundred years since his birth, Friedrich Engels’s name remains inextricably linked to that of his friend Karl Marx. On many points, the two authors of The Communist Manifesto were in total agreement, but it’s also true that each man had his own particular sensibilities. For instance, Marx’s philosophical works were richer and more substantial than Engels’s, and we can equally say that Engels’s political activity involved elements and experiences that Marx’s did not.
Friedrich Engels, a Thinker for Today
Friedrich Engels was many things: a soldier, a journalist, a historian, an economist, a capitalist, and a communist revolutionary. Many stories could be told about his life, from his taste for fox hunting with England’s ruling elite to his affairs with Irish proletarian women. Whoever is interested in the all-too-human aspect of this “frock-coated communist” will find a rich body of literature. But rather less examined is whether Engels’s particular critique of capitalism still holds.
Stories for the End of the World
Little made sense. Amid a swirl of confusion and panic, rumors of mutant creatures — giant mosquitos, three-headed birds, spineless hedgehogs — made the rounds. People spoke of children with yellow fluid for blood and secret camps where they were putting the sick. Some claimed cucumbers and vodka could cure the illness. What had caused it all? Witnesses said they’d seen an otherworldly light floating in the sky before the accident. Many blamed foreign spies and saboteurs.
Native Americans Have Been Taking on Billionaires in the Hamptons
Southampton, New York, is the famed summer retreat of billionaires and celebrities. A two-hour drive east from New York City, mansions line its picturesque beaches and luxury vehicles parade its streets. But just outside of town, a Native American group has been staging a month-long occupation for their tribe’s economic empowerment. The protest ends today, on the Native American National Day of Mourning, when millions will be celebrating Thanksgiving.
Comcast Got $1 Billion in Public Subsidies. Now Its Charging the Public New Data Fees.
With millions of Americans stuck at home to protect themselves from a deadly pandemic during the holiday season, the internet is one of the only conduits connecting them to friends, family, and the outside world. Now, Comcast, one of the monopoly corporations that controls the conduit, is extending its fees on bandwidth usage to all thirty-nine states where it operates — even as the company has received hundreds of millions of dollars of public subsidies and new tax breaks.
Corporations Aren’t Sharing the Sacrifices With Workers During the Pandemic
Imagine what would happen if every retail worker in the United States took the day off.
The Political Afterlives of Yukio Mishima, Japan’s Most Controversial Intellectual And Global Icon Of The Far Right
“Human life is limited, but I would like to live forever,” wrote Yukio Mishima in a short note placed on top of his final manuscript, left in the office at his Tokyo home, on November 25, 1970, precisely fifty years ago.
The Return of Thailand’s Democracy Movement
Thai protesters have now joined the ranks of young rebels rising up against injustice and authoritarianism in different parts of the world, from Hong Kong to Chile, Nigeria to Lebanon, Belarus to the USA. Since August, large youth-led pro-democracy protests have rocked the Thai military junta and dared to criticize the country’s monarchy. On September 19, the anniversary of a military coup against an elected government in 2006, crowds in Bangkok swelled to over 100,000.
What David Dinkins Taught Us
Earlier this week I learned of the passing of my boyhood mayor, David Dinkins. While I was too young to remember his 1989 election, his leadership of New York City was one of my first childhood political memories. I knew my parents supported him as did many of our family and friends. He was a resolute figure, and a committed progressive, that governed during a time of continued fiscal crisis, concerns over crime, and growing racial tension.
A Trump Appointee Is Trying to Force New Bank Investments in Fossil Fuel Extraction
As climate change intensifies, Wall Street firms are under pressure to stop investing in projects that make the crisis worse. But after Alaska’s Republican congressional delegation complained that banks were pulling back from Arctic oil and gas development, a Trump-appointed financial regulator just announced a new rule designed to force banks to continue financing fossil fuel projects.
Mayor David Dinkins Was Better Than Those Who Came After Him
The David Dinkins legacy has always been complex, ripe for revision and misunderstanding. New York City’s first and only black mayor, who died yesterday at the age of ninety-three, served for just a single term, from 1990 through 1993. It was a period of economic and racial tumult for the city, when just about anyone left of center was forced into a defensive crouch. Dinkins, courtly and well-dressed, was easy for some to vilify.
Joe Biden Is Filling His Cabinet With Pro-War Hawks
There was no reason to think that a Biden administration would be to the left of the Obama administration when it comes to foreign policy. Biden comes with a long political career of supporting the wars of the United States and its allies, from the 2003 invasion of Iraq to Israel’s aggression against Palestinians to the protracted occupation of Afghanistan.
Kshama Sawant: Democrats and the Right Are Attacking Me - And Left Movements Everywhere
Big business, the right wing, and now the courts have rung the bell on what is now the fourth round of the fight to expel socialists from Seattle City Hall. The corporate elite are determined to do so by hook or by crook. They failed in the first three rounds to buy this city council seat, the last time with unprecedented corporate cash from Amazon.
Canceling Medical Debt Is a Moral Imperative
In less than a year, our government’s criminally negligent response to the COVID-19 pandemic has claimed over a quarter-million lives. And those who seek treatment are not only up against the horrors of a deadly virus — they risk being buried in medical debt as well. Insured and uninsured patients alike, and even their loved ones, can face tens of thousands of dollars of medical bills.
Joe Biden’s New National Security Picks Are Very Troubling
Joe Biden’s early national security picks cashed in after their time in the Obama administration by consulting for defense contractors or working for think tanks funded by the defense industry and the US government, or both. On Sunday, Bloomberg reported that Biden has chosen his longtime aide, Tony Blinken, to serve as secretary of state and will name Jake Sullivan, his senior advisor and a former Hillary Clinton aide, national security adviser.
Puerto Rico Is Moving Left
Since 1968 Puerto Rico has had a stable two-party system, split on the so-called status question rather than the traditional left-right divide. The once-dominant Popular Democratic Party (PPD) supports maintaining the current commonwealth arrangement with the United States, while the New Progressive Party (PNP) advocates statehood. Both parties embrace neoliberal policies, though PPD is generally more liberal on social issues like LGBT rights.
The Tories Want Cash for Drones and Cuts for Workers
A large increase in spending, in an area beset by cuts in recent years. A victory for the prime minister over a typically recalcitrant Treasury.
The FBI’s War on Folk Music
Review of The Folk Singers and the Bureau: The FBI, the Folk Artists and the Suppression of the Communist Party, USA-1939-1956, by Aaron Leonard (Repeater Books, 2020). Two stories in Aaron J. Leonard’s The Folk Singers and the Bureau capture the importance of the book. They both, appropriately, involve Woody Guthrie. One of the best-known folk singer-songwriters in modern American history, he was also unlucky enough to have genetically inherited Huntington’s disease.
800 Nurses Are on Strike in Pennsylvania Right Now
“What led us to strike is the same thing that led us to unionize: patient safety,” says Beth Redwine, a “mother-baby” nurse who works in the maternity ward at St. Mary Medical Center in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Redwine is one of nearly eight hundred nurses who went on strike Tuesday in response to what she and her coworkers described as foot-dragging by Trinity Health, which bought St. Mary in 2015, during what has been a nearly yearlong contract negotiation.
When Automation Meets a Draconian Border Regime Original
Tech companies do not have our best interests at heart. They seek contracts with the Pentagon, make tools for militarized police forces, and develop solutions for the neofascist border police to rain terror on migrants. Surveillance is repackaged as convenience, while gig companies have spent the past decade using the excuse of technology to further erode workers’ rights to their benefit.
The Biden Campaign’s Decision Not To Knock on Doors Was a Huge Mistake
Several days after Democrats failed, despite everlasting hype, to win Texas in a presidential election, a top Democrat in the state had a stark message for liberals otherwise triumphant about Joe Biden’s overall victory: a lack of in-person canvassing cost Democrats dearly. “It’s very hard to do effective campaigning with Latinos unless you’re talking to them in person,” Gilberto Hinojosa, the chairman of the Texas Democratic Party, told the Huffington Post. “We didn’t do this.
Australian War Crimes in Afghanistan Are the Product of an Endless War for Profit
The release of the Brereton report has confirmed an open secret: Australian soldiers in Afghanistan are suspected of murdering at least thirty-nine unarmed civilians. The authors of the report have gone to great lengths to stress that these slayings — whose victims include children — were driven by “blood lust,” “competition killing,” and sickening “rites of passage.” The Australian government this week referred the matter to a special investigator.
Brazil’s Largest City May Soon Have a Socialist Mayor
On November 15, housing rights activist and rising star of the Brazilian left Guilherme Boulos made it into the runoff elections for the mayorship of São Paulo — the largest city in all the Americas and the financial center of Brazil. A member of the Socialism and Freedom Party (PSOL), Boulos ran alongside vice mayoral candidate Luiza Erundina, a veteran socialist who in the 1980s served as the first woman mayor of São Paulo.
Elder Care Should Not Be About Making Profits
The long-term care (LTC) home crisis in Ontario is a case study in the perils of treating health care as a vehicle for profit. A recent report from the Canadian Medical Association (CMA) on the risks of COVID-related deaths in Ontario residences found that the death rate in private homes was nearly twice as high as was to be found in nonprofit ones. An overwhelming majority of Ontario’s residences with the highest mortality rates are run by chain companies.
Biden’s Immigration Moves Are Making a Mockery of His Vow to “Heal the Nation’s Soul”
Other than beating Donald Trump, probably the most central, repeated pledge of Joe Biden’s campaign was to “restore” or “heal the soul of the nation,” something he has promised to do since before he even joined the race right up to his victory speech a week ago. No one knew what this meant, and reporters didn’t really bother to ask. Beyond reciting the line endlessly, Biden himself never went into it, other than to imply he wouldn’t compliment white supremacists in public.
Anna Seghers, a Writer Who Defended the Wretched of the Earth
Anna Seghers was one of Germany’s greatest writers — and 120 years since her birth, her works are still of enormous contemporary relevance.
The Success of the Australian Greens in Queensland Shows the Power of Organization
In recent years, “anti-political” sentiment has taken root in Queensland, perhaps more so than in any other part of Australia. Its most obvious symptoms are declining support for the major parties and distrust of politics. The long-term causes are structural: politics has been hollowed out as the membership of civil-society organizations — unions, church groups, etc. — steadily declined, depriving both Labor and the Liberal National Party (LNP) of their traditional social foundation.
The COVID Vaccine Must Be Universally Available. Anything Less Is Immoral.
There was a collective sigh of relief at the news that Pfizer’s early results show an effective COVID-19 vaccine may be on the horizon. Pfizer’s boss trumpeted the announcement by declaring: “Today is a great day for science and humanity.” A vaccine breakthrough is indeed great news but sadly it’s not for the whole of humanity — just a small fraction.
The Last Thing the Economy Needs Is Joe Biden’s Austerity
Millions of Americans who object to the Trump administration’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic have spent the last two weeks celebrating his defeat. Amid the revelry, more news hit: first Pfizer and now Moderna have developed vaccines that they report are over 90 percent effective in protecting against the virus. To many, it appears there’s a light at the end of the tunnel.
Meatpacking Workers With COVID-19 Symptoms Are Still Being Forced to Work
In April, despite his fever, a meatpacking worker continued to carve neck bones out of pig carcasses at a JBS plant in Iowa. Two weeks later, he would test positive for COVID-19. But in the meantime, he said, he kept clocking in because of a punitive attendance system widely used in meatpacking plants: the point system. Under the policy, workers usually receive a point or points for missing a day. If they gain enough points, they’re fired.
The Soul of Student Debt
Janet Lynn Parker is a middle-aged elementary school art teacher from Arkansas. She graduated in 1991 from Arkansas State University with a degree in art education and $25,000 in student loan debt. Unable to find a job in her field of study, she bounced around from job to job until 1999, when she finally found employment at a public school at an annual salary barely over $20,000.
Um planeta a conquistar: a urgência de um Green New Deal
Autores: Kate Aronoff, Alyssa Battistoni, Daniel Aldana Cohen e Thea Riofrancos Prefácio: Raquel Rolnik Introdução: Naomi Klein Tradução: Aline Scátola Revisão: Ligia Magalhães Marinho Ano: 2021 Páginas: 248 ISBN: 978-65-87233-25-3 Descrição Avaliações (0) A era de medidas moderadas para combater as mudanças climáticas acabou.
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