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Michael

Watching the end-of-the-week news reports and weekly summaries...
A discussion about political parties, campaigns & candidates made me think of this, which seems applicable both in the U.S. and many other places struggling to keep or gain democracy, freedom(s), and rights.

"A Working Class Hero is Something to Be"

I defer to John Lennon, who saw this, and sings it too. Straight up.
Good weekend!

#politics #election #music #JohnLennon #WorkingClass #musica #musique #musik

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Ximo Bernà i Torres

RT @MikeDunnAuthor@kolektiva.social Massacre; Tiananmen Square

Today in Labor History April 15, 1989: The Tiananmen Square protests began in China on this day. The demonstrations started in response to the death of a reformist leader, Hu Yaobang. At the height of the protests, over 1 million people occupied the square. On June 4, the Chinese government declared martial law and sent in the military to forcibly end the occupation. They killed hundreds, possibly thousands of unarmed students and workers.

#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #students #TiananmenSquare #china #massacre

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mrd_ill_be_back@diasp.org
mrd_ill_be_back

#antifa #russland #klassenkampf #workingClass

während hier pseudo- #linke die forderung nach #kapitulation der #ukraine mit #solidarität verwechseln, zeigen die eisenbahner!nnen in #belorus wie #kriegDemImperialistischenKrieg und praktische #internationaleSolidarität des #proletariats gegen den russischen #angriffskrieg geht! #direkteAktion gegen die russische #kriegsmaschine
https://www.rnd.de/politik/krieg-in-der-ukraine-belarussische-eisenbahner-sabotieren-gleise-XFFXSSIVPRGNVJ7FWVPUJXNUMY.html

Krieg in der Ukraine: Belarussische Eisenbahner sabotieren Gleise

Die Bahn sollte Nachschub für Putins Truppen in die Ukraine bringen – doch belarussische Oppositionelle haben den Schienenverkehr aus ihrem Land in das Kriegsgebiet offenbar erfolgreich lahmgelegt. Auch, um einen möglichen Kriegseintritt ihres...

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david_lazarus@pluspora.com
DavïÐ Låzårµ§

Please add your voice and share how you think we should address the many crises that our country faces
#Politics #Crises #Democracy #MedicareForAll #War #Pandemic #Economy #WorkingClass #NotMeUs #PowerToThePeople #BernieSanders #Petition

Please take a few minutes to write a short paragraph that addresses Bernie's concerns. Thanks!

"I’ve said it before, but it bears repeating. We are living through the most difficult period in our lifetimes. If you are feeling anxious, depressed, overwhelmed, confused, angry — you’re not alone. Millions of others feel exactly the same way.

This pandemic has had a devastating impact upon our country. Over 900,000 people have died from COVID, and tens of millions have been made ill. Many thousands of workers have lost their lives simply because they went about doing their jobs, while millions of other workers have chosen to find new employment paths. The education of young people, from child care to graduate school, has been severely disrupted. Elderly people have become increasingly isolated, fearful of catching the virus from grandchildren, friends or family. Mental illness is on the rise, as is drug addiction, alcoholism and domestic violence.

But that’s not all.

Poll after poll shows Americans are not only giving up on democracy and establishment politics, but they have less and less faith in the media, the scientific community and other foundations of civil society. Conspiracy theories, with the aid of the internet, are on the rise. With Trump and many Republicans continuing to deny Biden’s victory and actively suppressing the vote in many states, the likelihood of the United States moving toward authoritarianism is growing more and more. This is accompanied by increased racism, anti-Semitism and xenophobia.

Oligarchy and massive income and wealth inequality are getting worse. While the billionaire has class seen its wealth explode during the pandemic, a handful of giant Wall Street firms now control over $20 trillion in assets and many hundreds of companies. In recent years these Masters of the Universe have significantly increased their influence over media, banking, health care, housing and many other sectors of our economy. Never before have so few owned and controlled so much. Meanwhile, half of our people continue to live paycheck to paycheck and the high inflation rate is making life for the working class even more difficult.

And you know about the existential threat of climate change. The scientists tell us that we have only a few years to transform our energy system away from fossil fuel and into energy efficiency and sustainable energy if we’re going to avoid massive and irreversible damage to the planet. And yet our government, and governments throughout the world, are doing far too little to address the crisis.

And, oh yes, Putin has put 140,000 troops on Ukraine’s border and we may be looking at the most devastating war in Europe since WWII, which could well have global consequences.

So. If you’re feeling a little under the weather, there are some pretty good reasons for that.

But the answer to all that is not to bury our heads in the sand or wallow in despair. It is to fight back. It is to figure out how, in these enormously difficult and complicated times, we can save our country, save democracy and save the planet. Not easy to do. But we don’t have much of a choice. And we have to go forward together.

In that regard, I would very much appreciate hearing your ideas. In this unprecedented moment in American history, what is the best way forward? What should the President be doing? What should Congress be doing? What should the progressive community be doing?

In solidarity,

Bernie"

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riveravaldez@joindiaspora.com
riveravaldez

The global concentration of personal wealth is extreme. According to the WIR, the richest 10% of adults in the world own around 60-80% of wealth, while the poorest half have less than 5%. (...) This is a similar result to the other important survey of global inequality of wealth produced each year by Credit Suisse. That report finds that just 1% of adults in the world own 45% of all personal wealth while nearly 3bn people own nothing. Wealth inequality is much higher than income inequality. But income inequality is still very high.

https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2021/12/08/world-inequality/

#world #reality #news #economy #classwarfare #capitalism #workingclass #bourgeoisie #money

World inequality

The world has become more unequal in income and wealth in the last 40 years.  That’s according to the World Inequality Report 2022, available here.  Produced by the World Inequa…

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riveravaldez@joindiaspora.com
riveravaldez

I'm hearing phrases like, "fix de Internet".
But "the Internet" is like "the cloud", it doesn't exist per se, as a real, material, particular entity.
As "the cloud" is in fact "some company's computers", "the Internet" is in fact mostly "the biggest companies that shape and control the infrastructure under the WWW from the last user to the first server/service".
So, "fix the Internet" is in fact, "fix capitalism".
I think there's a need to call things by their real name, if the desire is to fix or achieve something positive for society (mostly, the working class).
What do you think?

#internet #fixtheinternet #www #politics #business #companies #capitalism #cloud #web #debate #discussion #workingclass #bourgeoisie #classwarfare #news

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Baz

Books that I read in 2021 - number 30:

Now I have finally read the last part of the Copenhagen Trilogy by Tove Ditlevsen. „Dependency" is the title of this also short book. It is indeed the most spectacular of the three parts (but also the most challenging for me). It relentlessly describes the story of a drug addiction from the inside. No wonder that the humour of the first two parts is somewhat lost in this topic. It is still extremely gripping to have the power of addiction described in this way.

#ToveDitlevsen #copenhagen #denmark #sucht #dependency #drugs #buch #autorin #femalewriter #worker #workingclass #autofictional #trilogy #recomendation #books #literature #fan #married #gift #poet #vesterbro

diane_a@diasp.org
𝕕𝕚𝕒𝕟𝕖𝕒

On August 20, 1866, the National Labor Union, the first American labor union to unite skilled and unskilled workers (preceding the Industrial Workers of the World by nearly 40 years), called on Congress to order an eight-hour workday.
The National Labor Union, led by William H. Sylvis, was created to pressure Congress to make labor law reforms. The Union failed to persuade Congress to shorten the workday and the labor organization itself dissolved in 1873. However, at its height, the union had 640,000 members and its efforts heightened public awareness of labor issues and increased public support for labor reform in the 1870s and 1880s.
#1u #UnionStrong #OrganizedLabor #WorkingClass #DontMournOrganize #Solidarity #UnionYes

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stuart_duckworth_1@joindiaspora.com
Stuart Duckworth

On this day, 16 June 1531, English king Henry VIII modified the vagrancy laws he brought in the previous year, which were key in creating the working class. People kicked off communal land who were not in wage labour were designated as vagabonds, and on their first offence were to be whipped, then on the second whipped with half an ear sliced off and upon a third offence they were to be executed. This and similar laws enacted across Europe, backed up by intense state violence, created a class of people forced to sell their labour to survive: the working class.
Karl Marx described these legal mechanisms in volume 1 of his work, Capital: "Thus were the agricultural people, first forcibly expropriated from the soil, driven from their homes, turned into vagabonds, and then whipped, branded, tortured by laws grotesquely terrible, into the discipline necessary for the wage system."
This expropriation was extended across the globe by violent colonialism.
Rather than being a natural state of affairs as it is often portrayed, the creation of the working class was fiercely resisted for hundreds of years, and indeed still is to this day in some areas.
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Pictured: contemporary illustration of the punishment of a vagabond in Tudor England

I got this from Working Class History. Henry VIII's amorous and sexual exploits are a distraction from his behaviour as a monarch.

#workingclasshistory #history #workingclass #class #poliitics

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riveravaldez@joindiaspora.com
riveravaldez

A comment about the news on Audacity development, acquisition by MuseGroup, etc. (previously we could think on MuseScore) and free software work and communities in general, about which I would much like any insights and opinions:

Judging for the reactions here[1] and here[2], it seems that forking is one considered option.
But development (of software and communities) it's already hard enough to sustain and make grow, so, it's reasonable to try to avoid fragmentation as long as it's sensible and convenient.

Under capitalism this happens once and again. Developers want to eat and live properly (from their own work) and capitalists make use of that necessity to capture work already done (and future), i.e., profit, with the perspective of an initial inversion (sometimes, at least) and a viable structure.

But the reason-to-be of capital is the capture of surplus value (sorry for the jargon, please allow me) in an always increasing cycle, and that's inevitably in conflict with the social common interest and solidarity that's at the kernel of free software culture and communities.

In a very superficial analysis I guess the Muse Group[3] is in first place this guy Eugeny Naidenov that apparently founded "Ultimate Guitar" (nothing FLOSS until here) and then went in a succession of acquisitions just to increase his Group's portfolio, and those acquisitions are both of free software developments/platforms and proprietary, so, doesn't seems like a free software endeavor but just "business as usual"...

Free software communities will have to show their abilities to defend themselves. This is historic, and I really desire for the best.

[1] https://github.com/audacity/audacity/discussions/889
[2] https://github.com/audacity/audacity/discussions/932
[3] https://mu.se/

#news #audacity #developers #development #musegroup #musescore #copyleft #gpl #software #freesoftware #work #workingclass #capitalism #communities #talk #music #daw #licenses #opensource

Actions we propose to take on PR #835 · Discussion #889 · audacity/audacity

Hi everyone, I’m going to describe the actions we propose to take to address the concerns raised about PR #835 (opt-in Telemetry using Google and Yandex as 3rd party hosts): We are dropping the tel...

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