Class Struggle

Decolonizing Society: The Legacy Of 1968

October 8, 2018 By Mehmet Döşemeci and Jennifer Thomson, Roarmag.org Educate! Activism, Class Struggle, History

Fifty years on, we need a return to the anti-imperialist ethos that enabled the activists of ’68 to engage in a shared struggle against a common enemy. Members of the Weather Underground, a radical direct-action splinter group of the SDS. In 1964, students at the University of California at Berkeley staged a sit-in at Sproul Hall to protest campus restrictions on political activism. Shouting through his bullhorn, Mario Savio, the leader of the Free Speech Movement, likened modern society to an unhearing, unfeeling, oiled machine that needed to be stopped.

Not Just Rich People And Cafes: Toward A Socialist Understanding Of Gentrification

October 6, 2018 Yasmina Mrabet, Liberationschool.org Educate! Capitalism, Class Struggle, Gentrification

Gentrification is the systematic process of displacing poor people from a community and replacing them with more affluent people, all in the interest of profit. It has become a primary local policy of the representatives of the ruling class and is clearly carried out by the state. While it is clearly a policy, it is also an outcome of the capitalist approach to housing and development. Profit is king. People’s livelihoods and well-being are not considerations. A serious socialist program for housing must unequivocally reject the idea that gentrification is a process caused primarily by an influx of white wealthier people and fancy coffee shops. They more serve as symbols that gentrification won. By the time wealthy people and coffee shops show up, the behind-the-scenes work for gentrification has already taken place.

Amazon Concedes $15 Floor Wage, Bernie Sanders Plays Minor Role In Significant Victory

October 6, 2018 Bruce A. Dixon, Blackagendareport.com Create! Amazon, Class Struggle, Jeff Bezos, New Economy, Wages

Amazon’s announcement last week that it would boost the wages of its lowest paid workers to $15 an hour in time for this year’s holiday rush, was not a generous gift from its owner Jeff Bezos, reportedly the wealthiest man on earth. It was also not, as some would like us to believe, a miracle wrought by the intervention of Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders. It was a strategic concession on the part of Amazon in the face of its own public relations needs, competitive pressures from its near-peers, pressure from transnational cooperation among its unionized European workforce, and to a minor degree the STOP BEZOS bill introduced by Sanders which proposes to tax large corporations for the amount their employees use in federal aid programs.

Workers At 40 Airports Will Stage Demonstrations In October

October 2, 2018 By Will Lennon, Opensecrets.org Resist! Airport, Class Struggle, Protest Demonstrations, Protests, Workers

On Tuesday, October 2, employee demonstrations organized by the Airport Workers United campaign will take place at over 40 airports in 13 countries. The demonstrations are intended to mobilize wheelchair attendants, baggage handlers and other laborers who perform low-skilled jobs at airports to demand higher pay and better working conditions. Protests will be held in Baltimore, Seattle, Los Angeles, Newark, Boston and airports across Europe. Combined, 36 percent of all air travel passes through the affected airports. The group behind the Airport Workers United campaign is the Service Employees International Union(SEIU). The SEIU has over two million members worldwide and is a heavy-hitter when it comes to funding Democrats, shelling out $1.4 million to congressional candidates in the 2016 election cycle and $780,346 in the 2018 cycle according to data released by the FEC on Sept. 24.

The National Prison Strike Is Over. Now Is The Time Prisoners Are Most In Danger

October 2, 2018 Heather Ann Thompson, Theconversation.com Resist! Class Struggle, Prison Labor, Prison Strike, Repression

Over the last few weeks men and women across the United States – and even as far away as Nova Scotia, Canada – have protested to demand humane treatment for the incarcerated. In 2016, when prisoners engaged in similar hunger strikes, sit-ins, and work stoppages, their actions barely registered with the national media. As someone who regularly writes about the history of prisoner protests and prison conditions today, this lack of interest was striking. This time around, though, prisoner demands to improve the conditions of confinement have captured the attention of reporters everywhere. Coverage can be found in such major newspapers as The Washington Post and The New York Times. Popular magazines such as GQ and Teen Vogue have also published pieces.

Protests Hit Mass Detention Of Immigrant Children In Texas Tent Camp

October 2, 2018 Bill Van Auken, Wsws.org Resist! Children, Class Struggle, Detention Centers, Immigration, Protests, Texas, Undocumented

Scores of protesters gathered outside the Tornillo border crossing about 35 miles southeast of El Paso, Texas over the weekend to protest the mass incarceration of immigrant children there in a barren tent camp in the desert on the Mexican border. The demonstrators demanded the immediate release of the children as well as that of their parents. The protest came amid reports that over 1,600 children have been relocated to the camp as part of a brutal immigration policy involving what amounts to midnight raids on shelters and foster care homes throughout the country. Children are literally being dragged from their beds in the middle of the night without warning in order to prevent them from escaping, according to a report Sunday by the New York Times.

Hilton Workers Approve New Deal As Strike Continues At 11 More Hotels

October 2, 2018 By Rachel Hinton, Chicago.suntimes.com Resist! Class Struggle, Strikes, Workers

Striking union workers reached a deal on Saturday to return to the job at four downtown Hilton hotels, while bargaining talks appear to have hit a wall with some of the remaining 11 hotels where the work stoppage has entered its fourth week. Unite Here Local 1 has now approved contracts with 15 of the 26 hotels that were impacted at the height of the strike, which started Sept. 7 and included up to 6,000 housekeepers, servers, cooks and doormen. “We look forward to welcoming our team members back to work at Palmer House, DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Chicago Magnificent Mile, Hilton Chicago and The Drake,” a Hilton spokeswoman said in an email. The union says the new deal will “ensure that hotel workers will keep their health care if they’re laid off in the wintertime” — a main sticking point in negotiations for the striking workers, who have sought year-round health care.

Keeping The Spirit Of The Prison Labor Strike Alive

October 2, 2018 James Kilgore, Truthout.org Strategize! Class Struggle, Prison Labor, Prison Strike

This year’s Prison Labor Strike was one of the most amazing mobilizations of liberatory politics in the past decade. It was the latest iteration in the most recent generation of prison rebellions, which has included labor strikes in Georgia prisons in 2010, the three Pelican Bay Hunger Strikes in California 2011-2013, and the direct predecessor of the latest action: the strike against prison slavery in 2016. The authoritarian nature of prison bureaucracies prevents us from compiling a precise chronicle of what takes place behind the walls. However, according to the lead organization in the strike, the network of prisoners known as Jailhouse Lawyers Speak, actions occurred in 16 states and federal prisons. Plus, over 200 people went on strike in the Northwest Immigration Detention Center.

Oct. 1 NC Department Of Public Safety Phone Zap

October 1, 2018 Staff, Incarceratedworkers.org Resist! Class Struggle, Prison Strike, Prisoner rights, Repression

Call in to demand an end to repression against organizing prisoners. North Carolina DPS is keeping three prisoners in segregation in response to the strike activity at Hyde correctional facility that occurred on August 20. The three prisoners are also facing trumped up "active rioter" infractions. We demand that repression against these prisoners stop. Call in and tell DPS director Kennith Lassiter to move these men out of segregation and remove the infraction charges against them.

Brazilians Take To Streets To Demonstrate Against Jair Bolsonaro

October 1, 2018 Tom Hennigan, Irishtimes.com Resist! Brazil, Class Struggle, Electoral Politics

Hundreds of thousands of Brazilians took to the streets this weekend to protest against far-right presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro who leads opinion polls ahead of Sunday’s first round of voting. Organised on social media by feminist groups under the hashtag #elenão – not him – the demonstrations were the largest popular mobilisation so far of the election campaign and the biggest since the impeachment crisis of 2016 that saw president Dilma Rousseff removed from office. Bolsonaro was the target of women’s rights groups because of his history of trivialising rape and defence of unequal pay for women, arguing this is an inevitable consequence of the fact they become pregnant. Counter demonstrations in favour of the retired army captain were also held but attracted much smaller numbers.

Washington Walkouts Win Teachers Big Raises

September 29, 2018 By Barbara Madeloni, Labornotes.org Resist! Class Struggle, Strikes, Teachers, Washington

Fifteen districts started the school year on strike in Washington state—the latest to ride the West Virginia wave. “For my whole life I thought this was just the way it was, that I would have to struggle to have a sustainable life,” said Anna Cockrum, a teacher in Evergreen, out on her first picket line. “I teach students to stand up for themselves, and it is so cool to be living that.” Evergreen teachers walked for almost two weeks before agreeing to raises averaging 11.5 percent, considerably more than the district’s initial 1.9 percent offer. Battle Ground and Tumwater were the last to settle, after more than two weeks out. Educators were demanding salary increases in line with the implementation of the state Supreme Court’s McCleary decision.

#MeToo Goes Global

September 29, 2018 By John Feffer, Fpif.org Resist! Class Struggle, Sexism, Women

The famous tenor Enrico Caruso went on trial in 1906 for an incident at the monkey house in Central Park. He was accused of the indecent assault of 30-year-old Hannah Graham. Caruso in turn accused one of the monkeys of pinching the victim’s rear end. Other accusations of sexual harassment emerged at the trial. The newspapers called the singer “an Italian pervert.” He was found guilty and fined $10. There were rumors that the Monkey House incident was a set up, largely because the arresting police officer and Ms. Graham knew each other. But that wasn’t the whole story either. New Yorker writer A. J. Liebling supplies the coda: “Thirty years later I was to learn that it was a press agent’s trick, put up to attract attention to the tenor’s appearance in a new role, Rodolfo in La Boheme.”

Towards A New Internationalism

September 28, 2018 By Thomas Jeffrey Miley, Roarmag.org Strategize! Capitalism, Class Struggle, Internationalism

The tyranny of capitalist social-property relations, ever more consolidated across the globe, leads humanity to perpetual war and ecological catastrophe. The very future of life on the planet is under threat, the cancerous contradiction between the imperative for growth built into capitalism and the finitude of natural resources ever more manifest. The entrenched obstacles to collective rationality that we must successfully surmount if we are to avoid a brutal and tragic denouement are immense and global in scope. We desperately need a new revolutionary internationalism, capable of coordinating and connecting local struggles against global capitalism and against related, intersecting systems of domination — of ethnicity and race, of gender, over nature.

Pro-Immigrant Rapid Response Networks Spreading Nationwide

September 26, 2018 Staff, Socialistorganizer.com Resist! Class Struggle, Immigration, Repression, Undocumented

First, Trump enacted the Muslim ban, which was aimed at preventing green-card holders and visa holders — that is, people who were coming to the United States legally —from entering the country. The Supreme Court has upheld a slightly watered-down version of the Muslim ban. It’s a version that seeks to prevent refugees from Muslim countries from entering the United States. These are refugees from countries in the Middle East that have been the victims of U.S. wars for oil and profit, countries that have been subjected to endless bombings and the devastation of their basic infrastructures. Trump has also limited asylum for refugees from Central America; countries that have been ravaged by U.S. economic and military intervention that has displaced millions of people.

The Crackdown On Sanctuary Cities Gives Birth To ‘Freedom Cities’

September 22, 2018 By Adam Edelman, Nbcnews.com Create! Class Struggle, Deportations, Immigration, Repression, Revisionism, Sanctuary Movement

Advocates for undocumented immigrants believe they've found a new — and legal — way to skirt deportation efforts. If Attorney General Jeff Sessions is waging war to dismantle sanctuary cities, imagine how he feels about "freedom cities." Austin, Texas, became the latest major city to declare itself a "freedom city" in June, when the city council passed resolutions instructing the city's police officers to arrest fewer people for minor crimes like possessing a small amount of marijuana and driving without a valid license, as well as taking steps to protect undocumented immigrants. "Freedom city policies are basically an expansion of the old sanctuary city policies," said Austin Council member Greg Casar, who helped write the resolutions. "They pick up where sanctuary policies were cut off."

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