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...A First Victory for the Sudanese Revolution
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- Published on Tuesday, 16 April 2019 01:40
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1806 ... April 16, 2019
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A First Victory for the Sudanese Revolution:
Will the People be Able to Override the "Orderly Transition"?
Sungur Savran
Omar al Bashir, the 30-year long dictator of Sudan, the perpetrator of the massacre of hundreds of thousands of civilians in the Darfour and South Sudan wars, the enemy of the working class and the poor of Sudan, the ally of the Muslim Brothers (the Ihwan), the collaborator of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and the AKP of Turkey, has been ousted. This is a result of the power and resilience displayed by the popular movement, the revolutionary struggle that has lasted for four and a half months. Blessings to the peoples of the Middle East and Africa! We owe a debt of gratitude to the people of...
Jordan, Myanmar, Philippines: The fight for workers' rights knows no borders
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You don't have the right to repair your phone
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- Published on Monday, 15 April 2019 11:12
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Paov,
If you have the new iPhone X, you'd better not drop it.
If you break your new phone, Apple will charge you up to...
This. Is. Awful.
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Máxima Acuña is a target for bullies. She’s bravely sticking by her tiny farm, despite attacks from a giant gold mining corporation trying to wrestle the land off her.
But the corporation is suing Máxima and harassing her family and animals.
Máxima faces off Newmont Mining in court this week. She needs your backing now. Can you chip in CA$93 to help Máxima fight for her home?
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1805 ... April 15, 2019
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Brazil Under Bolsonaro: Social Base, Agenda and Perspectives
Ana Garcia
The rise of the far right is a worldwide phenomenon, rooted in the nefarious effects of neoliberal globalization which have pushed the world into mass unemployment and enormous inequalities. I consider it to be a late political effect of the global financial crisis that hit the world at the beginning of the twenty-first century.
It is not an easy task to explain the phenomenon of Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil and to understand the groups that support him, both within and outside government. It’s difficult, for anyone, to draw a truly complete and sober analysis of what we have experienced. This essay is not based on in-depth research but on collective reflections and debates. I...
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Decide Pepsi's future
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- Published on Sunday, 14 April 2019 01:10
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By staying in business with conflict palm oil, Pepsi is looking the other way while rainforests are destroyed.
If you've got a pension, superannuation fund or mutual fund, you probably own Pepsi shares -- which means YOU have the power to force the soda giant to do better, ahead of Pepsi’s big shareholder meeting next month.
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Pepsi’s got a palm oil problem. Its business partner Indofood is abusing rainforests, orangutans and its own workers, but Pepsi’s CEO...
Uber-Capitalism: Platform Mobility/Mobilizing Workers
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LeftStreamed — Recorded in Toronto, 21 March 2019
Uber-Capitalism: Platform Mobility/Mobilizing Workers
After launching almost a decade ago, the transportation network corporations Uber and Lyft rapidly expanded their operations into cities around the world, disrupting taxi unions, degrading labour rights and diminishing public transit ridership. While ‘uber-capitalism’ was incubated in the USA, the global system’s technological-core, ride-hailing corporations are emerging around the world, and workers from New York City to Jakarta are organizing to challenge their deleterious social effects.
In this session of The Capitalism Workshop, Bronwyn Frey examines some of the worker organizational strategies emerging within Indonesia’s vast informal transportation sector, where precarity is longstanding and perhaps less exceptional than in the West. Frey highlights how motorcycle taxi (ojek) drivers in the city of Bandung are collectively responding to the precarious platform labour...
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Invitation to a Webinar Saturday April 20: Labor and the Green New Deal
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A clean break
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Dear Paov,
I'm writing with you with some exciting updates from the global movement to keep fossil fuels in the ground. You probably saw some bits and pieces of the massive, March 15 global school strike for the climate. But did you know a wave of strikes has just burst forth again today – with stunning action in the UK, India, and Brazil?
There's so much happening in this movement for a world free from fossil fuels every single day. All over, local campaigns are pushing ahead to accelerate a just, renewable energy economy that works for everyone. But it's hard to keep up with all the action.
That's why we're...
Defiant Resistance: The Venezuelan Crises and the Possibility of Another World
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1804 ... April 13, 2019
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Defiant Resistance: The Venezuelan Crises and the Possibility of Another World
Jeremiah Gaster
Bob Dylan once said, "Let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late." February 23rd, 2019, was the day that Juan Guaidó, the self-proclaimed President of Venezuela, had "authorized" "humanitarian aid" to enter Venezuela, an attempt to force the Maduro government, and thus the Venezuelan people, to their knees. There is great urgency as an ever-increasing escalation of violence is being perpetuated by those who would destroy Venezuela, including several attacks on Venezuela’s electrical grid over the last few weeks. But let me be clear: the Venezuelan poor are resilient, and any change will be on their terms. Most importantly, Venezuelan politics is collective, and there is a deep form...
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ACTIVlist Update - April 12, 2019
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Chapters This Week
This daily ACTIVlist e-mail is a compilation of blog posts, media releases and action alerts from the Council of Canadians. For more information about our campaigns, how to get involved, and how to become a member, go to canadians.org. Please use this link to forward ACTIVlist to a friend and encourage them to join! Thank you for your interest and support.
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Chapter activists continue to be busy protecting water and public health care, challenging unfair trade deals, calling for urgent and immediate action on climate change, and to standing up for democracy. Below are just a few examples of their recent actions.
We can win a #GreenNewDeal in Alberta
I was in Ottawa on February 19th when the pro-pipeline, anti-immigrant, and ultra-conservative “United We Roll” convoy arrived from their...
billionaire CEO at Loblaw
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In a few short weeks, we’re heading into Loblaw annual investor meeting to tell billionaire CEO Galen Weston that Loblaw workers deserve fair wages.
These meetings are super important and Weston wants Loblaw’s to go smoothly, to uphold the “family-friendly” image. But the Loblaw CEO doesn’t seem to care about average families because he has vocally opposed minimum wage increases. Not only that, he advised shareholders last year to vote against a proposal to pay workers a fair wage.
We have a plan to change his mind by showing him that families in Canada want fair wages for Loblaw workers, not more profits lining the pockets of Weston and his cronies.
Will you join over 17,000 members like you in signing and sharing our petition?
R&F.ca Weekly Update
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Québec Solidaire to Fight Quebec Governments Bill 21 on Religion and the State
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1803 ... April 12, 2019
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Québec Solidaire to Fight Quebec Government’s Bill 21 on Religion and the State
Richard Fidler
As it had threatened during last fall’s election campaign, the newly-elected Coalition Avenir Québec (CAQ) government has introduced legislation to prohibit a wide range of persons "in authority," including teachers, from wearing symbols of their religious beliefs while exercising their functions. Those affected include judges, prosecutors, police, and jail guards, but also teachers, childcare providers, public transit operators, health and social service workers, municipal and administrative tribunal and board officials, etc.
Bill 21, "An Act respecting the laicity of the State," also provides that those delivering or receiving government services may lose their jobs or be denied services if they refuse to uncover their face for identity or "security"...
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Now LIVE: Policing Indigenous Communities Initiative
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A second province just proposed right to repair!
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WOW!! Quebec just became the second province in Canada to propose a right to repair legislation!1
This comes just a couple months after...
The impacts of austerity in Greece w/ Ilias Gerakos
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A Socialist Project podcast ... No. 13 ... April 11 2019
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The impacts of austerity in Greece w/ Ilias Gerakos
Oats for Breakfast talks with Ilias Gerakos, a teacher and activist from the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki, about the impact that years of austerity have had on the country.
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Fake recycling
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190 governments will vote in May on new rules to help prevent rich countries and giant corporations from dumping their plastic waste on poor communities.
We need the EU and more than 100 national governments to win this fight. Let’s go!
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In early May, governments around the world will meet in Switzerland for a vote on international rules to help force wealthy states and corporations to stop treating developing countries like dumps for their plastic rubbish.
In the past two decades, businesses in...
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