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Carceral Capitalism and Anti-Capitalist Politics
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- Published on Thursday, 13 September 2018 22:00
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1666 ... September 14, 2018
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Carceral Capitalism and Anti-Capitalist Politics
Dillon Wamsley
Jackie Wang’s Carceral Capitalism (MIT Press, 2018) is arguably one of the most wide-ranging, critical, and theoretically nuanced examinations of the political economy of the carceral state in the USA to date. While there has been a substantial growth in writing on the criminal justice system in recent years, particularly following critical engagement with Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow (2010), there remains important theoretical gaps in understanding the political and economic dynamics of mass incarceration under neoliberalism. Wang helps to fill those gaps by taking seriously the relevance of radical political economy to understanding the foundations of the carceral state and outlining the limitations of these approaches in acknowledging the centrality of anti-black racism which, as Wang...
$65 in gold royalties
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- Published on Friday, 05 October 2018 11:40
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Palm oil, this is big
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- Published on Thursday, 13 September 2018 08:28
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The U.S.-Turkey Stand-off in Context
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- Published on Wednesday, 12 September 2018 20:51
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1665 ... September 13, 2018
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The U.S.-Turkey Stand-off in Context:
The U.S. and the Weaponization of Global Finance
Vassilis K. Fouskas and Bülent Gökay
Turkey was thrust into a full-blown currency crisis when U.S. President Donald Trump hoisted tariffs on Turkey’s steel and aluminium exports to the USA, the country’s most serious crisis since Recep Erdogan’s AKP came to power 16 years ago. The Lira lost more than 40 percent of its value, albeit its most recent humble recovery. The pretext for Trump’s punishing attack on Turkey is the continued detention of the evangelical American Presbyterian missionary Andrew Brunson, described by Trump as a "fine gentleman and Christian leader," who was arrested in October 2016 on charges of espionage accused of involvement in the attempted coup of July the same...
End discrimination in policing
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- Published on Wednesday, 12 September 2018 15:30
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End discriminatory street checks
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...Palm oil, the end of an era
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- Published on Wednesday, 12 September 2018 11:06
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Pepsi’s palm oil business partner Indofood is mired in scandal -- for destroying the orangutans’ rainforest habitat, using child labourers and paying its workers poverty wages, and women even less.
In February, public pressure forced Pepsi to suspend dealing with IndoAgri, a subsidiary of Indofood. But we still need to push CEO Indra Nooyi to end Pepsi’s business partnership altogether -- before she steps down on October 3rd. Will you help pile on the pressure?
Thanks for everything you do,
Rebecca, Fatah, Amelia and the team at SumOfUs
Pepsi’s CEO is stepping...
Reflections on Prison National Strike Against Slave Labour
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- Published on Tuesday, 11 September 2018 14:45
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1664 ... September 11, 2018
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Reflections on Prison National Strike Against Slave Labour
Barry Sheppard
Prisoners in many states in the U.S. began a coordinated National Strike on August 21, the anniversary of the killing of Black Panther member and prison activist George Jackson by guards in an escape attempt, in 1971, at San Quentin prison in the San Francisco Bay Area. In the context of the times, a mass radicalization led by Blacks and youth, the incident became a cause celebre.
The strike was set to end on September 9, the anniversary of the great prison uprising at the Attica prison in New York, also in 1971. The rebellion was crushed in blood, in a massive attack ordered by Governor Nelson Rockefeller, billionaire scion of the oil industry...
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Demeaning Democracy: Turning Doug Fords Attack on Toronto into a Movement for Democratic Renewal
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- Published on Monday, 10 September 2018 12:42
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1663 ... September 10, 2018
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Demeaning Democracy: Turning Doug Ford’s Attack on Toronto into a Movement for Democratic Renewal
An Open Letter About Bill 5 Better Local Government Act
Dennis Pilon, Roger Keil, Bryan Evans and Greg Albo
We, the undersigned group of scholars and teachers, deplore the autocratic and arbitrary reduction of ward representation for Toronto city council contained in Bill 5 being rushed through the Ontario Legislature by the just-elected Doug Ford-led Conservative provincial government.
There are numerous problems with this initiative – both in terms of policy and process – that cannot be squared with democratic values or procedures.
As policy, reducing the number of city councilors will not make for better representation or government or cost reductions for the city, as the Ford...
Ethical tea? Women workers in India queue 4 hours daily for water on estates producing for UK giant Tetley
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- Published on Monday, 10 September 2018 08:09
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IFPTE 160 in Toronto is Looking for a Rep
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- Published on Monday, 10 September 2018 06:02
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We Rose for Climate
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- Published on Sunday, 09 September 2018 14:57
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Dear Paov,
Fiji. Melbourne. Jakarta, Kyiv. Kampala. Tajikistan. Accra. Istanbul. Paris. Lisbon. Bogota. San Francisco. On Saturday, we called on people everywhere to Rise for Climate -- and over 250,000 of you responded. It was amazing to watch.
This is what real climate leadership looks like:
Watch and share the video of all the amazing #RiseForClimate actions across the globe.
Whilst most world leaders aren't tackling the climate crisis with any true urgency, hundreds of thousands of people took part in Rise for Climate this weekend to showcase an alternative vision of a Fossil Free world.
In 95 countries, you led the way towards keeping fossil fuels in the ground. Together we showed the gap between the people and national leaders, and how we can drive forward the bold local...
Europe in a Vortex of Crisis
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- Published on Saturday, 08 September 2018 21:38
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LeftStreamed — Recorded in Toronto, 12 August 2018
Europe in a Vortex of Crisis
Authoritarian neoliberalism, the advance of the far right, and dilemmas for the Left
More than a decade after the global financial meltdown, Europe is in the midst of a series of crises that is even difficult to enumerate: the rise of far right and fascist forces; the inequalities and welfare state cuts from unending austerity; migration flows without a strategy for integration with numerous states in violation with the EU’s own policies; tariff wars with the USA; severe internal current account imbalances; an incoherence of the EU’s macroeconomic policies; and a list that could easily be extended. Macron's neoliberal onslaught in France is vividly illustrative of the evacuation of the space of the centre-left for policies congruent with a hardening...
Idle No More, Defenders Of The Land & Truth Before Reconciliation - Joint Statement
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- Published on Saturday, 08 September 2018 06:20
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Over 10,000 Rohingya have been killed
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- Published on Saturday, 08 September 2018 06:11
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☀️It's happening NOW. #RiseForClimate
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- Published on Saturday, 08 September 2018 00:27
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Dear Paov,
Today is a beautiful day. Together we Rise for Climate in 877 grassroots actions in 93 countries, and as the sun rises around the world, you too can follow the wave of actions unfolding around the globe.
Already at sunrise in the Pacific, a ship set sail around the Suva Bay in Fiji, with elders sharing stories of the power of wind energy. In Manila, there was one of the world's first "virtual" marches to represent people who couldn't be there and a massive women's march for climate justice. In Uganda over 15,000 children took part...
Opening the Door to the Far Right
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- Published on Friday, 07 September 2018 21:08
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1662 ... September 8, 2018
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Opening the Door to the Far Right
Petter Nilsson
The sociologist Walter Korpi once quipped that "the revolution will not come to Sweden through armed struggle but by consulting all concerned parties." He meant to suggest that nothing in Sweden is done hastily or unilaterally, but only through due process and consensus. For a long time, this held true. Sweden has had long periods of stability, mostly ruled by the Social Democratic Party (SAP) mounting gradual reforms.
But Sunday’s election suggests a different picture. Amid the decline of the center-left and the rise of the far-right Sweden Democrats, no party or coalition can expect to win a majority. The vote will likely be followed by days of frantic maneuvering to construct a stable government...
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