https://www.
~~ recommended by emil karpo ~~
If the workers of the world want to win, all they have to do is recognize their own solidarity. They have nothing to do but fold their arms and the world will stop. The workers are more powerful with their hands in their pockets than all the property of the capitalists. --Joe Ettor (IWW labor organizer) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IASdERt3-m0
Wednesday, July 31, 2024
Jeanette Rankin, First Woman in Congress
Israel Has a History of Killing Hamas Leaders Who Are Trying To Secure Ceasefires ~~ Mehdi Hasan
~~ and also Spencer Ackerman on the escalation and what Harris needs to do
https://www.forever-wars.com/r/c3014ce6?m=b656041a-c61a-4a6b-910d-7d396ec2db1f
If Harris Will Be Different from Biden on Israel, This Is Her Chance to Show It
~~ recommended by newestbeginning ~~
Tuesday, July 30, 2024
Wolff Responds: Can Kamala Harris Respond To These 4 Pillars Of The American Decline July 24, 2024
https://youtu.be/nXRx50uNpo4?si=qOKJhXek6Q9o13oS
and companion piece I did not have at time of publication earlier today - sorry for the late adjustment.
https://youtu.be/1qL-4X1hVYU?si=8kBL8-tkqLUMzNct
~~ recommended by collectivist action ~~
More Pertinent Information on Project 2025, from video series Project 2025 A Warning, by Molly Jong Fast and others.
1). “Project 2025: The Plan To Take Over The Courts w/ Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse”, Jul 26, 2024, Molly Jong-Fast speaks with Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, On Fast Politics with Molly Jong-Fast, special series Project 2025 A Warning, iHeartRadio, duration of video 34:05, (the first 4:50 of each episode is the same general background about the goals and dangers of Project 2025), at < https://www.youtube.com/watch?
2). “Project 2025: The Plan To DESTROY Women’s Rights”, Jul 22, 2024, Molly Jong-Fast interviews Mary Ziegler, a UC Davis School of Law professor and the author of 'Roe, the History of a National Obsession.', On Fast Politics with Molly Jong-Fast, special series Project 2025 A Warning, iHeartRadio, duration of video 40:44, (the first 4:50 of each episode is the same general background about the goals and dangers of Project 2025), at < https://www.youtube.com/watch?
3). “Project 2025: Trump’s Second Term Not-So-Secret Plan”, Jul 15, 2024, Columnist Molly Jong-Fast and historian Thomas Zimmer about Project 2025, On Fast Politics with Molly Jong-Fast, special series Project 2025 A Warning, iHeartRadio, duration of video 43:24, (the first 4:50 of each episode is the same general background about the goals and dangers of Project 2025), at < https://www.youtube.com/watch?
~~ recommended by dmorista ~~
Monday, July 29, 2024
The class struggle in every commodity: Use value and exchange value
https://mronline.org/2024/07/25/the-class-struggle-in-every-commodity/
~~ recommended by newestbeginning ~~
Sunday, July 28, 2024
Our Answer to the Climate Crisis Must Emerge From Global Class Struggle
~~ recommended by collectivist action ~~
Labor must break with both capitalist parties! By Martha Grevatt posted on July 25, 2024
www.workers.org/2024/07/79868/
~~ recommended by collectivist action ~~
Saturday, July 27, 2024
Trump Brags to Right-wing Christian Meeting that this will be the Last Election:
“Trump tells Christian group ‘you won’t have to vote anymore’ if he wins 2nd term”, July 27, 2024, A snippet from Trump' speech to right-wing organization Turning Point USA in Palm Beach Florida on July 26, 2024, ABC7, Duration of video 1:16, Trump's statement about not needing to vote again is seen and heard from 0:14 – 0:41, at < https://www.youtube.com/watch?
~~ recommended by dmorista ~~
BLACK LIBERATION MOVEMENT IS DEAD LONG LIVE CLASS STRUGGLE! By Collectivist Action
BLACK LIBERATION MOVEMENT IS DEAD
LONG LIVE CLASS STRUGGLE!
By Collectivist Action
Friday, July 26, 2024
More Extremist and Vicious Comments by J.D. Vance are Revealed
). “J.D. Vance on our Civilizational Crisis”, May 4, 2022, The Editors, The entire J.D. Vance “More Votes for Parents Speech”, duration of video 35:32, (the part of the Speech where Vance says Parents should have more votes than childless people is from 24:31 – 26:31), Intercollegiate Studies Association, at < https://isi.org/
2). “ 'No Physical Commitment To The Future Of This Country': J.D. Vance Said Childfree Americans Shouldn't Have The Same Voting Power As Parents In A Resurfaced Speech: 'Let’s give votes to all children in this country, but let’s give control over those votes to the parents of the children.' ”, Jul 17, 2024, Morgan Sloss, BuzzFeed, at < https://www.buzzfeed.com/
3). “JD Vance Called People Without Kids Childless Cat Ladies' ”, Jul 25, 2024, Incudes J.D. Vance clip from a July 29, 2021 Tucker Carlson Show appearance on Fox News, Inside Edition, Clip of Vance making Cat Ladies smear is from 0:31 – 0:51 of the 2:37 long YouTube Video, at < https://www.youtube.com/watch?
4). “Vance Can’t Possibly Be VP and a Dad to Three Young Kids: Trump’s choice for VP does not put America first. Instead, Vance claims that he will 'sacrifice professional prestige for the interests of family.' ” (MIGHT BE SATIRE), Jul. 25, 2024, Nell Scovell, The Daily Beast, at < https://www.thedailybeast.com/
~~ recommended by dmorista ~~
Dr. Cornel West on Jill Stein and Kamala Harris | Status Coup News
https://youtu.be/9Bd8eyG6aRk?si=R_uuJqL4VQP1C07I
~~ recommended by collectivist action ~~
Overcoming the Legacies of Dictatorship ~~ Tina Rosenberg
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/south-america/overcoming-legacies-dictatorship?utm_medium=newsletters&utm_source=summer_reads&utm_campaign=summer_reads_2024&utm_content=20240721&utm_term=EUZZZ003ZX
~~ recommended by emil karpo ~~
Thursday, July 25, 2024
The Pennsylvania Shooting Incident Grows yet a bit Stranger:
1). “ 'Once a dirty secret': Group behind Project 2025 'publicly' admits to tracking Trump shooter’s data”, Jul 23, 2024, Maya Boddie, Alternet, at < https://www.alternet.org/
2). “Heritage Foundation Claims to Use Location Data to Track Trump Shooter's Movements”, Jul 23, 2024, Joseph Cox, 404 Media, at < https://www.404media.co/
~~ recommended by dmorista ~~
Three Things Missing from the Big Biden Butt Kiss ~~ PAUL STREET
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/07/23/three-things-missing-from-the-big-biden-butt-kiss/
~~ recommended by collectivist action ~~
Wednesday, July 24, 2024
Unions Representing Six Million Workers Demand an End to All U.S. Military Aid to Israel ~~ July 23, 2024 / Luis Feliz Leon
~ recommended by dreamjoehill2 ~
I predicted the next American civil war in 2040 – but it has never felt so close
~~ recommended by emil karpo ~~
Tuesday, July 23, 2024
Monday, July 22, 2024
Dichotomous behaviour ~~ Muhammad Amir Ran
https://www.dawn.com/news/
~~ recommended by emil karpo ~~
The Weird Reactionary Background of the Dangerous J. D. Vance
1). “How the Media Created J.D. Vance. Plus, the Anointing of Donald Trump”, Jul 19, 2024, Host Brooke Gladstone, On the Media, NPR/WNYC, the following is the URL for On the Media, it has a listen on-line option and at the bottom of the page are live links to 6 articles used in preparing the show at < https://www.wnycstudios.org/
2). “The Seven Thinkers and Groups That Have Shaped JD Vance’s Unusual Worldview: Post-liberals, 'crunchy cons' and monarchists”, Jul 18, 2024, Ian Ward, Politico, at < https://www.politico.com/news/
3). “J.D. Vance’s radical plan to build a government of Trump loyalists: 'Fire every single midlevel bureaucrat, every civil servant in the administrative state, replace them with our people' ”, Jul 17, 2024, Andrew Prokop, Vox, at < https://www.vox.com/politics/
4). “Curtis Yarvin wants American democracy toppled. He has some prominent Republican fans: The New Right blogger has been cited by Blake Masters and J.D. Vance. What exactly is he advocating?”, Oct 24, 2022, Andrew Prokop, Vox, at < https://www.vox.com/policy-
5). “Trump’s VP Reveal Today on TAP: If Trump is shrewd, he will name J.D. Vance”, originally posted in 2022, updated July 15, 2024, Robert Kuttner, The American Prospect, at < https://prospect.org/blogs-
6). “ 'He’s a Fake': Robert Kuttner on How J.D. Vance Disguises His Anti-Worker Views as Economic Populism”, Jul 16, 2024, Amy Goodman interviews Robert Kuttner, Democracy Now!, duration of video 24:39, at < https://www.youtube.com/watch?
~~ recommended by dmorista ~~
Sunday, July 21, 2024
https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/story/jd-vance-never-was-and-never-will-be-the-voice-of-appalachia
and
https://www.newsweek.com/jd-vance-appalachian-pretender-opinion-1927254
~~ recommended by Freezepeach ~~
Damn flat-lander suburbanite. Any idjit can google a map of Ohio and locate JD Vance's hometown, Middleton. Any idjit that cares about facts and doesn't just want to sneer at a stereotype.
I hope JD Vance as VP could cost Trump some of the rural vote.
‘Arrest Netanyahu!’: Thousands to Surround the Capitol When He Visits Congress
https://youtu.be/EIab7-0zm7Q?si=2vBpH4MGaAZKtSK2
~~ recommended by collectivist action ~~
Saturday, July 20, 2024
Friday, July 19, 2024
Some Leftist Analyses of the Context and Consequences of the Trump Shooting Incident:
1). “The Trump Shooting and the Crisis of U.S. Capitalism”, Jul 17, 2024, Brian Becker & Eugene Puryear, The Socialist Program, (BreakThrough News), duration of video 1:03:40, at < https://www.youtube.com/watch?
2). “The Trump Assassination Attempt & the Legacy of Political Violence in the US”, Jul 17, 2024, Rachel Hu & Chris Garaffa discuss the situation with Brian Becker, duration of audio 27:55, Covert Action Bulletin, (on Apple Podcasts among others), at < https://podcasts.apple.com/hk/
3). “The Stars are Aligning for Trump47 and Republifascist Consolidation: & Some Thoughts on How to Think About and Respond to the Situation”, Jul 17, 2024, Paul Street, The Paul Street Report, duration of audio 21:41, at < https://paulstreet.substack.
~~ recommended by dmorista ~~
Everlast ~~ Music Friday for Class Strugglers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everlast
~~ recommended by dreamjoehill2~~
Thursday, July 18, 2024
So just Who is J.D. Vance?: He is a Dangerous Authoritarian / Fascist with Three Ominous Traits. He is Very Intelligent (Unlike Trump), Totally Ruthless (Just like Trump), and is Relatively Young (Unlike Trump).
1). “Is There Something More Radical than MAGA? J.D. Vance Is Dreaming It: In a candid series of conversations, Vance revealed an ominous philosophy behind his first year in office”, Mar 15, 2024, Ian Ward, Politico, at < https://www.politico.com/news/
2). “J.D. Vance Is a Dangerous Authoritarian: The only coherent aspect of his worldview is a lust for power”, May 4, 2022, Jonathan Chait, New York Magazine, at < https://nymag.com/
3). “JD Vance on Abortion: Donald Trump's trad-husband VP pick wants women back in the kitchen”, Jul 16, 2024, Jessica Valenti, Abortion, Every Day, at < https://jessica.substack.com/
4). “JD Vance as VP Is 'Beginning of the End' of Women's Rights: Mary Trump”, Jul 17, 2024, Shannon Power, Newsweek, at < https://www.newsweek.com/jd-
5). “A Trump-Vance administration would be ‘the most dangerous’ for abortion rights, say advocates: Rights groups are vociferously condemning Trump’s VP pick of JD Vance, who has long opposed the procedure”, Jul 16, 2024, Carter Sherman, The Guardian, at < https://www.theguardian.com/
6). “The GOP Platform Is a Hoax—Don't Fall for It | Opinion”, Jul 16, 2024, Serena Mayeri (Professor at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School), Newsweek, at < https://www.newsweek.com/gop-
~~ recommended by dmorista ~~
America is better than this..
https://youtu.be/PQM8yblIuTQ?si=BQBwATroa6LtS5-P
~~ recommended by collectivist action ~~
Wednesday, July 17, 2024
No Trump. No KKK. No Fascist USA. | Morning Jen
https://youtu.be/PfQaOh6iCcY?si=Oybho4HPYGtQS1xH
~~ recommended by collectivist action ~~
Boiled Frog Journalism: Is Trump an Agent of Saudi Arabia, and Other Pressing Questions Buried under Biden's Age ~~ emptywheel
~~ recommended by newestbeginning ~~
Jeff Sharlet on Trump Assassination Attempt, Authoritarian Violence & Project 2025
https://youtu.be/gVwz8uvm9iE?si=FGPqLIDvot6nxf_L
~~ recommended by collectivist action ~~
Tuesday, July 16, 2024
Here’s Why You Don’t Need to Pay a Tax to Vote
https://www.history.com/news/
~~ recommended by emil karpo ~~
Biden: No place in America for Violence for Any Reason...
https://youtube.com/shorts/yEqzn-pChns?si=dioPFjN0FW5l0beT
~~ recommended by collectivist action ~~
Monday, July 15, 2024
Danny Haiphong's Comments about the Assassination Attempt on Donald Trump: and Rethugs Comment on the Event and What They Think it Signifies.
“TRUMP SURVIVES ATTEMPT ON LIFE | SCOTT RITTER REVEALS UKRAINE'S DOOM, NATO IN PANIC”, Jul 14, 2024, Danny Haiphong, Danny Haiphong, total duration of video 2:20:03, Assassination analysis ends at about 1:15:00, at < https://www.youtube.com/watch?
“Republicans Try to Blame Democrats, the Media, CRT for Shooting”, Jul 14, 2024, Peter Wade, Rolling Stone, includes 6 embedded Youtube Vidoes, at < https://www.rollingstone.com/
~~ recommended by dmorista ~~
Operation DAWN ~~ SCOTT RITTER
https://scottritter.substack.com/p/operation-dawn
~~ recommended by agelbert ~~
Sunday, July 14, 2024
The Democrats Belatedly Take up Project 2025 as a Campaign Issue
The Democrats Belatedly Take up Project 2025 as a Campaign Issue
1). “A guide to Project 2025, the extreme right-wing agenda for the next Republican administration: Project 2025 aims to roll back civil rights and destroy the federal government, among other proposals”, 03/20/24 Updated 07/01/24, Sophie Lawton, Jacina Hollins-Borges, Jack Wheatley, John Knefel & Ethan Collier, Media Matters, at < https://www.mediamatters.org/
2). “What Trump doesn't want you to know about Project 2025”, Jul 08, 2024, Judd Legum, Popular Information, at < https://popular.info/p/what-
3). “The Authoritarian Playbook for 2025: How an authoritarian president will dismantle our democracy and what we can do to protect it”, A REPORT BY UNITED TO PROTECT DEMOCRACY, Jan 2024, Anon, United to Protect Democracy, at < https://www.
4). “Unmasking the Anti-Democracy Agenda of Project 2025”, Jul 12, 2024, Matt Cohen, Democracy Docket, at < https://www.democracydocket.
5). “Project 2025: inside Trump’s ties to the rightwing policy playbook: Trump has disavowed the manifesto, but his goals for civil service cuts, deportation and more show a shared vision”, Jul 9, 2024, Rachel Leingang, The Guardian, at < https://www.theguardian.com/
6). “Project 2025’s dystopian approach to taxes: A new analysis finds that Project 2025 would dramatically raise taxes for low- and middle-income families. The plan would also enable tax cheats — just as the IRS finally cracked down”, Jul 12, 2024, John Whitehouse, Media Matters, at < https://www.mediamatters.org/
7). “Project 2025 would benefit the wealthy at the expense of the rest of us: Project 2025 promises 'trickle-down' tax cuts and deregulation, and a right-wing takeover of key agencies overseeing sectors of the economy”, Jul 11, 2024, Craig Harrington, Media Matters, at < https://www.mediamatters.org/
8). “On MSNBC's Deadline: White House, Angelo Carusone explains how Project 2025 and Trump are 'moving in lockstep' ”, July 11, 2024, Media Matters Staff, Text and 4 segments of Youtube Video with a total duration of about 32:19, Media Matters, at < https://www.mediamatters.org/
9). “Trump’s ‘national conservative’ allies plot a revenge administration”, Jul 9, 2024, David Weigel, Semafor, at < https://www.semafor.com/
~~ recommended by dmorsta ~~
Saturday, July 13, 2024
Only Class Struggle Can Save the Left – Sublation Media
https://sublationmedia.com/only-class-struggle-can-save-the-left/
~~ recommended by dreamjoehill2 ~~
Changing of the Guard parts 2 and 3
part 3 https://wolvesandsheep.substack.com/p/changing-of-the-guard-iii
Note, the first article of this series was posted here for discussion yesterday. Apologies for not putting them all up together. https://ongoingclassstruggle.blogspot.com/2024/07/changing-of-guard-i.html
~~ recommended by dreamjoehill2 ~~
Friday, July 12, 2024
Thursday, July 11, 2024
Wednesday, July 10, 2024
America’s Prisons Are Slave Labor Factories
https://scheerpost.com/2024/06/28/americas-prisons-are-slave-labor-factories/
~~ recommended by collectivist action ~~
Zionism and the Academy Revisited ~~ EVAN JONES
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/07/05/zionism-and-the-academy-revisited/
~~ recommended by dreamjoehill2 ~~
Tuesday, July 9, 2024
The Brutal Legacy of Sundown Towns
https://youtu.be/1qR7VDWTntc?si=jXKvFMeE6wQCAALg
~~ recommended by collectivist action ~~
Monday, July 8, 2024
It’s the Lucid Biden Who Worries Me ~~ MOSHE ADLER
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/07/04/its-the-lucid-biden-who-worries-me/
~~ recommended by newestbeginning ~~
Sunday, July 7, 2024
Saturday, July 6, 2024
The Mask Slips off: The Ugly Fanatical MAGA Republican Candidate, for North Carolina Governor in 2024, Speaks Out Yet Again
1). “MAGA Governor Candidate's 'Some Folks Need Killing' Rant Sparks Backlash”, Jul 05, 2024, Kaitlin Lewis, Newsweek, at < https://www.newsweek.com/maga-
2). “MAGA Gov Candidate’s Ugly, Hateful Rant: “Some Folks Need Killing!”: Mark Robinson, the GOP nominee for governor in North Carolina, has a long history of incendiary comments. But he may have topped himself this time”, Jul 5, 2024, Greg Sargent, The New Republic (TNR), at < https://newrepublic.com/
3). “WATCH: Mark Robinson Calls Public School Teachers 'Wicked People' ”, Aug 29, 2023, Democratic Governors Association, at < https://democraticgovernors.
4). “JUST IN: Mark Robinson recently urged parents not to send their children to public schools and attacked teachers as 'wicked people.' ”, Jul 9, 2023, 'X' (formerly Twitter), Democratic Governors Association, duration of video 32 seconds, at < https://x.com/DemGovs/status/
~~ recommended by dmorista ~~