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The story: https://labornotes.org/2023/12/inspired-strike-wins-1000-volkswagen-workers-sign-union-cards

Volkswagon is the first of many organizing victories that will come in the wake of the UAW strike. Militancy builds support!

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[-] Nagarjuna@hexbear.net 60 points 8 months ago

If you take someone with conservative values and you give them a quality education, they become a moderate. If you take someone with progressive values and give them an education they become ~~a socialist~~ very liberal. If you give someone with moderate values an education, they become an MBA. Education selects against conservatives because conservative politics come from ignorance and magical thinking.

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On this day, 9 December 1842, revolutionary, scientist, and philosopher Peter Kropotkin was born in Russia. He later abandoned his aristocratic background in favour of the working class struggle. He participated in the 1917 Russian revolution, and wrote numerous influential works, including Mutual Aid: a Factor of Evolution. In this work he criticised interpretations of the ideas of Charles Darwin which focused on competition, and highlighted instances of cooperation in the natural world. "If we ... ask Nature: 'who are the fittest: those who are continually at war with each other, or those who support one another?' we at once see that those animals which acquire habits of mutual aid are undoubtedly the fittest. They have more chances to survive, and they attain, in their respective classes, the highest development of intelligence and bodily organisation."

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This takes a look at the history of labor militancy on scales smaller than strikes, and advocates for guerilla labor actions as a solid foundation for larger actions like strike.

It's a really good look at practical examples from history of how to make gains at work even when you are between contracts or maybe even don't have a union.

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I want a phone where I can't go on the internet or read the news, just communicate with people I actually know in real life. Is there any way I can make this happen?

[-] Nagarjuna@hexbear.net 58 points 8 months ago

Derek Chauvin getting stabbed by a white guy who looks like Santa and is a member of a Mexican gang really feels like a cumtown bit

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This is what deep organizing looks like: moving people across three language communities to take militant action on issues that directly affect them.

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Turning the global conflict meter and looking back at the audience like a contestant on the price is right

[-] Nagarjuna@hexbear.net 82 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I used to work for a sports merchandise store and I regularly had women ask me if it was okay for their husbands to wear teal jerseys.

Like

  1. Your husband will not explode if he puts on a Jaguars or Mariners jersey.

  2. I love that my queer ass is the authority on cis-het masculinity. Like, yeah dude, teal is a manly color now. In fact, no one is talking about it, but so is fuchsia. Have you considered buying him a breast cancer awareness jersey?

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But they're poisonous! You say. And that's true, you absolutely should not eat raw amanitas. But you know what other mushrooms you shouldn't eat raw? All of them! Chitin is indigestible!

"Well, sure, but a raw porcini won't kill me!" That's true, but you know what will? A Morel! (If you're small). At the very least they'll make you as sick as an amanita. And you know what people do with Morels? They eat them! They're a prize edible!

"Okay, but people eat morrells but they don't eat Amanitas" okay. Well, take off your fucking anglocentrism glasses because they've been eating amanitas in India and Japan since before your country even existed.

So listen up, slice and boil your amanitas in gallons of water, and I mean gallons. Strain and rinse. Boil, strain and rinse again. Guess what you've got? A soft, buttery, delicious mushroom. Pour some garlic butter on it, or do it authentic and put it into miso soup as a nice earthy addition.

It's an edible. Change my mind.

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If you're thinking in tickets and arrests, you're not really thinking about justice.

[-] Nagarjuna@hexbear.net 70 points 9 months ago

It's not democracy when shareholders control the news. It's not democracy when only the wealthy can afford to take office. It's not democracy when our workplaces are dictatorships. Democracy isn't the problem, capitalism is.

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Former democratic party activists are organizing Muslims and Arab-Americans in Swing states to vote against Biden with the demand that he support a ceasefire in Gaza.

I'll allow them a little bit of electoralism this time.

[-] Nagarjuna@hexbear.net 59 points 9 months ago

Going on a suicide mission into enemy territory carrying my favorite book: "How to make WMDs"

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I'm really curious to know these guys' position on Palestinian statehood.

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An injury to one is an injury to all.

iww

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[-] Nagarjuna@hexbear.net 75 points 10 months ago

If someone tells you that Hamas seeks the genocide of Jews generally, this is an antisemitic trope.

Officially, Hamas opposes Zionists but actually outlaws violence against non-zionist jews.

This rhetoric conflates jews with zionists, as imperialists and other anti semites love to do.

Article Thirty-One: The Islamic Resistance Movement is a humanistic movement. It takes care of human rights and is guided by Islamic tolerance when dealing with the followers of other religions. It does not antagonize anyone of them except if it is antagonized by it or stands in its way to hamper its moves and waste its efforts.

Under the wing of Islam, it is possible for the followers of the three religions - Islam, Christianity and Judaism - to coexist in peace and quiet with each other. Peace and quiet would not be possible except under the wing of Islam. Past and present history are the best witness to that.

It is the duty of the followers of other religions to stop disputing the sovereignty of Islam in this region, because the day these followers should take over there will be nothing but carnage, displacement and terror. Everyone of them is at variance with his fellow-religionists, not to speak about followers of other religionists. Past and present history are full of examples to prove this fact.

"They will not fight against you in a body, except in fenced towns, or from behind walls. Their strength in war among themselves is great: thou thinkest them to be united; but their hearts are divided. This, because they are people who do not understand." (The Emigration - verse 14). Islam confers upon everyone his legitimate rights. Islam prevents the incursion on other people's rights. The Zionist Nazi activities against our people will not last for long. "For the state of injustice lasts but one day, while the state of justice lasts till Doomsday."

"As to those who have not borne arms against you on account of religion, nor turned you out of your dwellings, Allah forbiddeth you not to deal kindly with them, and to behave justly towards them; for Allah loveth those who act justly." (The Tried - verse 8).

You may notice that they argue that only an Islamic theocracy can bring about religious harmony, so like, Hamas still has terrible and right wing politics, but I wanted to set the record straight on a common bit of rhetoric you're going to see in the wild.

[-] Nagarjuna@hexbear.net 61 points 10 months ago

As well as WWI levels of moral pointlessness.

[-] Nagarjuna@hexbear.net 100 points 11 months ago

"Bikes are unsafe" says Mike of the Ford company, known for its "ChildCrusher (tm)" trucks.

[-] Nagarjuna@hexbear.net 69 points 11 months ago

Key members of the progressive caucus, moderate progressivss like Ro Khanna even, were calling on Biden to expand the court with liberals.

Leftist voices, even socdem mags like Jacobin were calling for him to find alternative avenues.

Biden could have canceled student loans if he'd wanted to. He chose not to.

[-] Nagarjuna@hexbear.net 105 points 1 year ago

On further read, you guys kind of feel at the very least like the left-wing equivalent of somethingawful.com.

Oh my God that's genuinely so sweet

[-] Nagarjuna@hexbear.net 73 points 1 year ago

We were a lifeboat for /r/chapotraphouse since it's been banned. We were running a proprietary version of lemmy for most of that time and only joined the main fork a month ago.

[-] Nagarjuna@hexbear.net 74 points 1 year ago

sankara-salute

My thoughts are with the people of Niger rn

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