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What's New: U.S. Workers in the Late Neoliberal Era: The Pressures, the Changes, the Potential

by Kim Moody | August 17, 2017

Capitalism in the United States and across the world has gone through a series of mind-bending crises, spatial 'fixes,' and continuous restructurings that have disoriented organized labor in most of the developed economies since the beginning of the neoliberal era in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Since then, however, continued problems of profitability and competition have altered the structure of U.S. capitalism and the working class in ways that could lay the basis for renewed class struggle.

What's New: Coverage of Winnipeg’s Rooster Town Blockade Reveals Media’s Anti-Indigenous Biases

by James Wilt | August 17, 2017

Winnipeg’s Rooster Town Blockade has been standing for almost a month now, with Indigenous land defenders and allies successfully blocking a large aspen forest from clearcutting. Local reporters have covered almost every major occurrence on site, including the original seizure of the mulching machine by land defenders, the developer's request for an urgent court injunction against lead organizers, and the recent installation of massive floodlights and 24-hour surveillance.

Bullet #1469: An Injury to One is an Injury to All!

by CUPE, DSA, IWW, ISO | August 16, 2017

Four statements on the events in Charlottesville, Virginia, last week. -- Hate crawled up from the sewers of Charlottesville, Virginia on Friday and flooded the streets with thousands of white men baring torches and chanting unbelievable hatred. Many thought we were past such horrors, that the days of torches and pitch forks held high by angry white men screaming hate were gone for good. We might have hoped that the racist haters that still exist understand that this kind of venom just won’t be tolerated by most people in our society.

Bullet #1468: Korean Unions Call for a Just Energy Transition

| August 15, 2017

In a series of landmark statements following the May 2017 election of the pro-reform President Moon Jae-in, Korean energy, transport and public service workers have called for 'a just energy transition' allowing the sector to 'function as a public asset under public control.' Unions support the new government’s decision to close the country’s aging coal-fired and nuclear power stations, and its planned reconsideration of two new nuclear facilities - Kori 5 and Kori 6.

What's New: Back Seat Drivers

by Mike Constable | August 14, 2017

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What's New: It’s Not About Bigotry On All Sides. It’s About White Supremacists

by Bill Fletcher Jr. | August 14, 2017

I sat here listening to Trump’s remarks in connection with the violence carried out by neofascists in Charlottesville this afternoon, violence which has resulted in the death of at least one anti-fascist. He condemned bigotry on what he called all sides. Once again Trump obscures reality. He either ignores the violence and terrorism carried out against traditionally oppressed groups, e.g., attacks on mosques, or he uses evasive language in order to avoid pointing the finger at the real perpetrators of racist violence.

What's New: Unpacking Trade and Investment

| August 13, 2017

The year 2017 begins with a peal of thunder. The newly elected U.S. president Trump abandons the Trans Pacific Partnership, a genuine geo-political monster project which aimed at excluding China as main contender of the USA in the Pacific. Simultaneously it looks like the new US administration wants to renegotiate NAFTA, and the future of the TTIP negotiations are also highly uncertain. Does the USA thus abandon their classical political hinterland? What should we do against the next neoliberal moves?

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