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Taking a lead from the popular acclaim for the NHS, the members of the Party give Matt a resounding round of clapping to express once more our appreciation.
Richard Wolff may well be a reformist but he does have a critique of capitalism that resonates with reality. This essay demonstrates the inherent failure of capitalism to tackle the pandemic
“…It was not profitable for capitalists to produce and stockpile adequate quantities of tests, masks, gloves, beds, etc., to be prepared for the virus…”
Cambodia’s Siem Reap province, which has been popular with tourists for many years, has outlawed the sale of dog meat. It is the first Cambodian province to ban the practice.
2 million dogs are killed every year in the southeast Asian country.
https://www.dw.com/en/popular-cambodian-travel-destination-bans-dog-meat-trade/a-54096667
This is the power of vested interests in the agricultural lobby in the USA.Hmmm…
Or is it the lobby for livestock rearers
“…The Iowa Pork Producers Association lobbied on behalf of the bill…”
I know it is difficult but language is being twisted
“…During a discussion of the bill on Friday, Rozenboom said that it is meant to “address the gravest threats to animal agriculture in Iowa today…”
“…Animal Agriculture Alliance, an industry group…”
But a wry smile appeared when i saw the name of one of the animal rights activists and i am still not sure if it is not a non-de-plume – Kecia Doolittle [who talks for the animals]“The ideological inspiration for the Rojava federation is the Jewish-American Zionist anarchist philosopher Murray Bookchin who was especially influential to PKK founder Abdullah Öcalan. Unbeknownst to many, Bookchin was also a noted Zionist — but this is not as unlikely a paradox as it may seem. After all, Israel itself was initially established with the settlement of communes and the Zionist form of “autonomous zones” known as kibbutz (“gathering” in Hebrew).”
“One other highly influential thinker in the anarchist community who purports to be a ‘libertarian socialist’, Noam Chomsky, was himself part of the Zionist kibbutz movement in his youth.”
The criticism of Bookchin’s analysis of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is very a-historical when Bookchin tries to offer another interpretation of events. I can cite chapter and verse of left-wing pro-Jewish criticism of the British anti-Jewish immigration policy of the era.
Church of Latter Day Socialists
I have a vague recall that there was once a journal called the Mormon Worker
Remembrance Day
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-53236516
Animals are to be remembered and commemorated for their contribution in war zones for the first time with an official purple poppy wreath.
A useful article just uploaded to the internet
https://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/2020/07/as-bishop-said-to-politician-1997.html
Michèle Rubirola of a Green-Leftist Coalition wins to become Marseilles mayor.
Trump doubles down on the far leftist threat,
“Marxists, anarchists, agitators and looters” he insists want to “tear down our statues, erase our history, indoctrinate our children and trample on our freedoms”.
“Their goal is not a better America, their goal is the end of America,”
Identity politics is a big problem for ourselves.
Its popularity is fostered not just its proponents, unwittingly creating a league table of exploitation and oppression, but by the ruling class who can embark upon policies of tokenism and gesture politics to placate discontent.
But we won’t overcome it by neglecting the genuine historical reasons for the racial and ethnic inequalities that persist today, the legacy of slavery and Jim Crow. Plus as Marcos reminds us in other posts, the US wars on Native Americans and Mexico. And then the issue of migration which goes all the way back to the Know Nothing Party and is one again reflected by a working class who know nothing (actually the name was not because they were ignorant or uneducated but because they denied knowledge of the Party which began as a secret society.)
I am minded that there is very much the “poor white Southern trailer park trash”, just as there was poverty-stricken Afrikaans in apartheid South Africa but as LBJ said “If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.”
We have to acknowledge context and place our case in a perspective that resonates with everybody and doesn’t alienate. It is a hard challenge.
“We have stricken the shackles from 4,000,000 human beings and brought all laborers to a common level, but not so much by the elevation of former slaves as by reducing the whole working population, white and black, to a condition of serfdom. While boasting of our noble deeds, we are careful to conceal the ugly fact that by our iniquitous money system we have manipulated a system of oppression which, though more refined, is no less cruel than the old system of chattel slavery.” – Horace Greeley – (1811-1872) Editor of the New York Tribune, the paper that published Marx
And so you choose to leave me to battle alone, MA? 😥
I suggest you re-consider…as you said previously, socialism can be the only permanent fix and the Party – at the moment – is the only vehicle to bring socialism closer.
As for your distractors, always be aware that only a small minority of members frequent this forum. And their intentions are not always malicious.
Popular health drinks have their downside too.
I’ve seen first-hand the monkeys at work in South India. Because of the way they are treated, they respond by being vicious little critters.
I’ve seen people doing it with rope around their ankles to grip the tree trunk
Extinction Rebellion will blockade the area around parliament on 1 September in protest at the lack of green policies in the government’s plans to rebuild the UK economy after coronavirus…
… the activist group is preparing to peacefully block access to the area until the government agrees that the first thing they will do on their return is to debate XR’s three demands: To tell the truth about the crisis; act now; and set up a citizen’s assembly.
https://www.weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/1306/recolouring-the-past/
Coincidental is this article claiming Jesus the Christ was a national liberation revolutionary who was misrepresented by Saul of Tarsus.
So not so much painting his statues black or brown , but instead – red.
Whereas i tend towards the interpretation that he was a eschatologist, preaching the approaching apocalyptic doomsday that “the end of the world is nigh…”
Sort of like myself in many ways 😉
“This is the biggest problem we face today as humanity and this is the best way to fight climate change, to deliver healthier solutions and food to the entire population of the planet.”
https://www.france24.com/en/20200701-3d-printed-fake-meat-the-healthier-greener-future-of-food
“Our technology can create whole-muscle cuts just as a cow can produce that but in a much more efficient way, with a lower cost and, of course, it’s much better for the environment,” Redefine Meat CEO Eshchar Ben-Shitrit told Reuters. “We can do the entire cow, not only one part of the cow. Steaks, roast, slow-cooking, grilling, everything that an animal can do we want to do the same or even better,” said Ben-Shitrit.
