• KrupskayaPraxis@lemmygrad.ml
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    1 year ago

    So my union might be taken over by capitalists. The member parliament didn’t vote for a plan by the supervisory board that would basically turn the union into a company where the supervisory board would appoint the board of directors instead of the member parliament. So now the supervisory board is suing the member parliament. One of the people in the supervisory board is a former politician for the socialdemocratic party who helped implement austerity policy. Proves that socialdemocracy serves to destroy the workers movement from within.

    • DJ Putler@lemmy.mlBannedB
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      1 year ago

      Most unions (exceptions?) in the imperial core are not revolutionary in the slightest, their goal is securing overtime + wage stabilization for a select group of workers. You guys need land reform, capital controls + expropriation measures, employment & education provisions. None of that is a part of western leftist politics, including the stuff that postures as radical and antiimperialist. If it doesn’t even educate people on the economic structure of imperialism, how can it be revolutionary because it quotes Sankara? Mamdani is easy to criticize. People need to see what the PSL, the FRSO, and others are doing by repainting failed Vietnam War era sheepdog tactics that coincided with the repression of armed movements and the successes of Ho Chi Minh, taking credit for the sacrifices of the latter

      • stink@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Yeah. Remember when the dock workers union shutdown for a while but carved an exception for military shipments lol. America is a joke with zero class conscience.

    • demerit@lemmygrad.mldeleted by creator
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      1 year ago

      During the allied occupation of Germany, the us basically removed socialists from union leadership and put conservatives in their place, so nowdays unions just rubber stamp company policies. And remember it was polish unions that brought down their socialist republic.

  • GhostHeart93@lemmygrad.ml
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    1 year ago

    I’ve started reading through some of my lefty books the past couple of days again, currently reading Immovable Object: North Korea’s 70 Years at War with American Power by A. B. Abrams, from 2020. I have two other Abrams books, but next up might be either The Jakarta Method or Killing Hope, I haven’t decided, and also a re-read of Blackshirts and Reds.

    I turned 32 yesterday, and I just want to at least have a better background knowledge than I currently do on some countries, and I’m on a bit of a DPRK-binge right now, having read Gowans a couple of months back.

  • -6-6-6-@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
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    1 year ago

    recently been reading Theories of Everything by Milton K Munitz, essentially a catalogue of ancient history theorems of existence, early philosophical texts and some bits and pieces of modern works by Einstein and such. Pretty simple, I got it from one of those free libraries.

    For some reason, the previous owner highlighted the entirety of Aristotle’s On the Heavens and Copernicus’ On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres as well as Galileo’s Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems. I’ve been trying to piece together why those specific pieces are high-lighted and I know the curriculum in this area doesn’t cover the actual writings of the book in entirety so it’s been a bit of a puzzle figuring out why the entire sections are high-lighted in blue-yellow highlighter.

    “DUH” is written in black marker on the side of the book. Irony.

    decent book regardless.

  • Makan@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
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    1 year ago

    My Mom said some heinous shit to me the other day (like, yesterday from now).

    My therapist agreed that it was at least pretty hurtful, very much so.

    I still feel a modicum of anger.

    I don’t know how else to leave the family.

  • SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml
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    1 year ago

    Our party has a magazine every once in a while and for this season’s issue they had an analysis on the increasing military spending and how young people are lured into the army. One point they make is that not necessarily Russia is the main goal, but China. And I think that’s interesting and I’m glad they are daring to say it out loud.

    • DJ Putler@lemmy.mlBannedB
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      1 year ago

      What kind of grievances can one even concoct against Sheinbaum? Homework? The bus system? When I call my relatives they seem convinced she is a saint vs Maduro who flip a coin that day may be fentacularly terrorizing wee landlords in Chicago

      • 小莱卡@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
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        1 year ago

        They have been incompetent handling insecurity and last week some city politician got whacked and the opportunists are trying to use that as a weapon.

        • DJ Putler@lemmy.mlBannedB
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          1 year ago

          Figure this is what they want Vz to look like, neck chainsawers running arnd massacring mayors while they bomb shit The power of Chavismo is too great however, the will of the people to fight is there

  • SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml
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    1 year ago

    Police deployed water canons and tear gas on us yesterday while protecting for Palestine. The reason given was that we were not protesting on the right place. We were at City Hall instead of on the Riverside where nobody will see us.

  • Mzuark@lemmygrad.ml
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    1 year ago

    Kamala is the most honest politician I’ve ever seen because she can’t help but reveal that she has no principles and no actual plan everytime she speaks.