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BREAKING: Motion for a Green New Deal
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Apple is ripping us off
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- Published on Friday, 13 December 2019 06:32
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Workplace Struggles and Democracy: Challenges for Union Organizing
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- Published on Friday, 13 December 2019 00:54
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1954 ... December 13, 2019
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Workplace Struggles and Democracy: Challenges for Union Organizing
Sam Gindin
Jane McAlevey is everywhere these days. Recently appointed a senior fellow at Berkeley’s Labor Center, she is now also a regular columnist for both the Nation and Jacobin. Her webinar ("Organizing for Union Power") has a global audience. She continues to be called on to address unions and run training sessions in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Scotland, and Germany. In the midst of all this, McAlevey has just come out with a third book on unions and working-class struggles, A Collective Bargain: Unions, Organizing and the Fight for Democracy (and a fourth is not far behind).
McAlevey’s first book, Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell): My Decade Fighting for the Labor Movement, was published in 2014 in the context of a staggered and reeling labor movement. Workers had, by the time of the Great Financial Crisis of 2007--9, already suffered through a quarter century of reversals. It might have been expected that the crisis, further exposing the corporate and state elite’s false...
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- Published on Thursday, 12 December 2019 09:06
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New bylaws target the most vulnerable
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- Published on Thursday, 12 December 2019 08:52
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...From the depths
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- Published on Thursday, 12 December 2019 07:04
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Where social justice + environmentalism meet
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- Published on Thursday, 12 December 2019 04:18
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URGENT: Bayer
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- Published on Thursday, 12 December 2019 01:46
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Hi A, I wanted to make sure you didn’t miss this: we’re *so* close to a glyphosate ban in Austria -- the first of its kind in Europe. But now the Austrian government is refusing to implement the glyphosate ban -- after Bayer-Monsanto threatened to sue the tiny country.
We haven’t got much time: the ban is supposed to come into effect on January 1 2020.
Austria may be small, but if Bayer-Monsanto gets away with squashing the glyphosate ban it’ll send a chilling message to anyone who is trying to stand up to Bayer-Monsanto. We simply can’t let that happen.
Thousands of SumOfUs members like you have chipped in already to ban glyphosate, and we’re really close to being able to afford a huge splashy ad on the front page of Austria’s most important newspaper. Can you chip in to protect Austria’s ban on glyphosate?
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Donate CA$93 now Read more: URGENT: BayerIraqs Communists Given New Life by Protests
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- Published on Wednesday, 11 December 2019 23:28
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Iraq’s Communists Given New Life by Protests
Alex MacDonald
Compared to the ostentatiously huge buildings afforded to some of the parties in Baghdad, the headquarters of the Iraqi Communist Party (ICP) are relatively humble. The building comprises a shop, offices and a small function room decorated with modernist art and depictions of communist martyrs, including former executed leader Yusuf Salman Yusuf.
Iraq’s oldest continuously existing political party is no longer the mighty force it was in the mid-20th century when it was arguably the largest mass membership party in the country -- and the largest communist party in the Middle East. But with the nation gripped in the kind of social upheaval that cries out for Marxist analysis, the party is in its element.
So far, the ICP is the only party to have fully withdrawn from the Iraqi parliament in response to the government’s fierce crackdown on protests which began last month, which has so far seen at least 355 people killed and tens of thousands injured. Mass public anger has largely...
URGENT: Bayer
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- Published on Wednesday, 11 December 2019 08:36
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BREAKING: The Austrian leader is pulling the plug on the glyphosate ban after pressure from Bayer-Monsanto’s lobbyists.
We only have days to turn that decision around.
Can you rush a CA$93 donation today to protect this critical ban?
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Austria was about to become the first country in Europe to ban toxic glyphosate. That was before Bayer got...
Help end indefinite solitary confinement
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- Published on Wednesday, 11 December 2019 08:34
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Prolonged solitary confinement is torture and must end.
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...The CRTC needs to speak for us
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- Published on Wednesday, 11 December 2019 05:44
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Iranian Workers Condemn the Killing and Violent Suppression of Protesters
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- Published on Wednesday, 11 December 2019 02:00
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Iranian Workers Condemn the Killing and Violent Suppression of Protesters
On November 15, 2019, following a sudden 300% gasoline price hike, protests erupted across Iran, mostly by working-class and underprivileged people. Dissatisfaction among Iranians is at such high levels that in just 48 hours mass protests spread out to more than 100 cities.
However, these righteous protests by the oppressed people were crushed and bloodied in the most cruel and ruthless way. Reports indicate that hundreds, as young as 13 and 14 years-old children, were shot dead. At least another 1,000 were injured and more than 8,000 detained. State officials, in an internationally unprecedented move, blocked the Internet in the whole country and even disrupted cell-phone services in many areas. Military and security forces along with plain-clothes officers were unleashed to silence the protesters by lethal force and shooting directly at protesters.
The Syndicate of Workers of Tehran and Suburbs Bus Company (SWTSBC) strongly condemns the bloody suppression of protesters, the majority of whom were working-class and underprivileged people. There is no acceptable justification...
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Trans Mountain
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- Published on Tuesday, 10 December 2019 16:14
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Trudeau is hiding the cost of the Trans Mountain pipeline that he wants to build with Canadian tax payer money.
Today, we launched a campaign with a powerful coalition calling for Trudeau to come clean about the true price of this climate-destroying project. Will you join us?
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Since the climate-destroying Trans Mountain pipeline was bought by Trudeau, his government has been silent about the spiralling costs of the project and how it plans to get our money back.
The sad reality is that we knew more about Trans Mountain when it was owned by a Texas oil company than we do now that it’s in public hands.
Private investors wouldn’t put up with this silence and neither should we. That's why, today, an indigenous-led group had a press conference to launch our campaign to get Prime Minister Trudeau and Finance Minister Morneau to release the true cost of the Trans Mountain project.
CoDev Holiday Open House - Your Invitation!
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- Published on Tuesday, 10 December 2019 13:54
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Movement for change
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- Published on Tuesday, 10 December 2019 09:20
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Fighting illegal government spying
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...In this Giving Season Support Grassroots Indigenous Land Defense
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- Published on Tuesday, 10 December 2019 09:04
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During this Giving Season Support The Unist'ot'en If you're involved in social movements you're probably getting a lot of emails asking for financial support this time of year.
The spirit of giving is wonderful and for many people this is the time of year to figure out what resources they can afford to give to support causes that matter to them.
The time we live in is frightening and there is much to fight for, but the resistance that is growing is beautiful.
Often times groups like the Unist'ot'en Camp who are going to the roots of our problems and challenging settler colonialism don't get the kind of resources that larger non profits get.
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It's time to ACT to stop Factory Schools: Please email India's Minister of Tribal Affairs today
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- Published on Tuesday, 10 December 2019 08:08
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You can help us stop the horrific abuse happening RIGHT NOW
Jyotsna, mother of one of the 17 girls raped at a Factory School in India Dear friend,We need your help. Will you email India's Minister of Tribal Affairs to protest the brutal schooling system that's destroying indigenous communities?
Right now, one million tribal children in India are being “educated” in Factory Schools – schools that “reprogram” tribal and indigenous children to fit the dominant society.
In these schools they’re taught to feel ashamed of who they are and where they come from. Frightening numbers are subjected to neglect and abuse: almost 1,500 children have died in such schools in the state of Maharashtra alone.
Recently, at least 17 girls were repeatedly drugged and raped in a Factory School in Maharashtra. None of the senior figures at the school have been arrested. This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. An inquiry found that the residential schooling system for indigenous children in Canada constituted cultural genocide.
Act to demand Coca-Cola remedies fundamental rights violations!
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- Published on Tuesday, 10 December 2019 04:10
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On International Human Rights Day, Global Solidarity with rights defenders in the Philippines
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- Published on Tuesday, 10 December 2019 01:36
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