liberalism’s many forms are always rooted in idealism that believes having the right opinions will change society instead seeing an organized working class as the key mover. and so instead of organizing & offering a path out of the status quo, their move is hectoring & shaming.

using signal is liberalism. using whatsapp is mass action.

NEW: Less than a week after the president of District Council 37 #UnionStrong Local 3005 resigned, members passed a motion in a special meeting calling for their pensions to be divested from Israeli bonds and more. It's the first DC 37 local to pass a divestment motion. thechiefleader.com/stories/after-…

Analytic philosophy, a branch of the discipline that emphasizes rigorous argumentation, is often dismissed as a set of abstract puzzle games. But analytic philosophers have reinterpreted Marxism to provide a radical critique of capitalist society. jacobin.com/2023/01/analyt…

to some extent mao was right and we should send all grad students to detroit so they can work in an auto plant for a year

discipline & punish is a fine book to read, but not a good set of first principles for a big tent political organization

with the teamsters non-endorsement, at least an org that isn’t dsa gets to have a “national sucks but the local is cool” discourse

why did i immediately assume this was about biden

underdeveloped econ meme

adam smith: the propensity to hawk, barter and exchange one tuah for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals

a vintage afscme pamphlet that everybody on this website should read

we really lost something when the old dsa haters who used to hand out these flyers outside meetings died off and we were left with the anti-dsa twitter mob

Inbox: Cornell students allege yesterday was the “first [known] time a U.S. university has enacted deportation powers against a student” over pro-Palestine organizing, effectively deporting grad student Momodou Taal, over a protest of defense contractors at a job fair last week

"As a socialist and a union staffer, I believe that our most important goal as union staff should be bolstering the member democracy and rank-and-file energy of unions." socialistcall.com/2024/09/24/the…

it’s only fair to give to verso since they’ve sold me so many books at 50% off! support our comrades!!

PART IV: WASHINGTON TARGETED ‘CORRUPT’ MINES. WORKERS PAID THE GREATEST PRICE. U.S. sanctions on Guatemala’s mines ~2 years ago are barely known in Washington — a blip in the +9K sanctions imposed since Biden took office But we went to a remote part of Guatemala and found a

NYC! We’re cohosting an event on Oct. 10 w/ Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee (EWOC) and NYC-DSA 🌹 where you can hear socialists talk about their experience as rank-and-file worker organizers, and find out how to get a job organizing on the shop floor yourself. RSVP: actionnetwork.org/events/getting…