This interview explains exactly what is going on today, especially with regards to Putin, Russia, and Ukraine as well as China. Why this bourgeois economist knows more about these issues than it appears many on the left do is a puzzlement.
Tuesday, August 30, 2022
Thursday, August 18, 2022
Have a blesséd contract!
I'm not sure how much help the papal blessing will be in improving the lot of the Teamsters workers. But I do know that unless their leaders abandon their class collaborationist attitudes and instill a socialist militancy within their membership they will always get the short end of of the stick. "The union believes, rightly, that the workers—not the bosses—earned the profits, and deserve a greater share of the proceeds, starting with a higher base wage." Marxists know that the "the profits" come from the surplus value created by the workers over and above what they were paid in wages. The workers deserve the whole pie not a greater share given to them by the bosses who keep most of the pie for themselves ( which allows some labor leaders to get outsized salaries and benefits [the labour lieutenants of the capitalist class-- Lenin] denied ordinary workers). For now we can only hope they get all their present demands.
Monday, August 15, 2022
Trump and the FBI
Whatever other charges against Trump the DOJ brings we must remember two things: The FBI is no friend of progressive people and the sooner it is abolished the better. The FBI, along with the CIA, while not exactly the Gestapo, is a species of the same genus (out of control Secret Police) and is a major tool of the capitalist state in oppressing the rights of oppressed minorities (Native Americans and Black people especially), and the Communist and Socialist movements. The second thing to remember is all progressives and communist and socialist people condemn the Espionage Act as a tool of the most reactionary elements in the capitalist government to use against the peoples' struggles to end oppression and imperialism.
Some of the victims of this Act are Eugene V. Debs, the Rosenbergs, Daniel Ellsberg, Chelsea Manning, Julian Assange, Edward Snowden among others.
Trump and the incipient fascist movement he leads along with the Republican Party must be defeated by the mass fightback of the American people defending the democratic gains won by the workers movement and progressives since the end of the Civil War. The FBI and the Espionage act are of no use to us for this end and the fightback the FBI is currently experiencing is a good opportunity for the Left to explain to the misguided Right the true nature of the FBI and the Espionage Act and why Trump should be subject to investigation not under the Espionage Act but on the other two charges, removal and destruction of records and obstruction of justice. Due to the FBI's past history of falsifying evidence a neutral citizens watchdog group is merited as the Right will never accept the word of the FBI and DOJ on their own.
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