Masked protesters clash with Greek police on anniversary of left-wing activist’s slaying (VIDEO) Clashes broke out in some Greek cities on Tuesday as masked protesters confronted police on the fifth anniversary of the death of Pavlos Fyssas, who was killed by a member of the right-wing Golden Dawn party. rt.com/news/438836-greece-antifa-protest-video/
Unions shut down Washington teacher strikes After weeks of strikes by educators, the teachers’ walkouts in the US state of Washington were shut down Monday. By Tuesday morning, all of Washington’s 1.1 million students and thousands of teachers and school staff will be back in the classrooms, with none of the basic issues resolved. wsws.org/en/articles/2018/09/19/wash-s19.html
Donald Trump urged Spain to 'build the wall' – across the Sahara Donald Trump suggested the Spanish government tackled the Mediterranean migration crisis by emulating one of his most famous policies and building a wall across the Sahara desert, the country’s foreign minister has revealed. theguardian.com/us-news/2018/sep/19/donald-trump-urged-spain-to-build-the-wall-across-the-sahara
North and South Korea Vow to Denuclearize, Co-Host 2032 Olympics The leaders of North and South Korea have wrapped up their third summit this year with a vow to denuclearize the Korean Peninsula. Earlier today South Korean President Moon Jae-in and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un held a joint press conference in Pyongyang. democracynow.org/2018/9/19/headlines/north_and_south_korea_vow_to_denuclearize_co_host_2032_olympics
Yemen conflict: A million more children face famine, NGO warns Rising food prices and the falling value of the country's currency as a result of a civil war are putting more families at risk of food insecurity.But another threat comes from fighting around the key port city of Hudaydah, which is the principal lifeline for almost two-thirds of the population.save the Children says a total of 5.2 million children now face famine. bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-45568669
New police raids and Europe-wide manhunt against G20 opponents In a major raid in three federal states, police searched a total of 15 apartments yesterday morning and arrested one person. According to the police, the action was directed against suspects who were said to have participated in riots on the periphery of the G20 summit in Hamburg in July last year. wsws.org/en/articles/2018/09/19/raid-s19.html
Trump mulls idea of permanent US military base in Poland, says Warsaw ‘likes it very much’ US President Donald Trump is eyeing a permanent military presence in Poland, saying the country “likes the idea very much.” Warsaw had stated earlier it was ready to pay up to $2 billion to have a US military base on its soil.“Poland is willing to make a very major contribution to the United States to come in and have a presence in Poland, and certainly it's something we'll discuss,” Trump said on Tuesday while speaking at the White House before meeting his Polish counterpart Andrzej Duda. rt.com/news/438771-us-poland-fort-trump/
From peace to armageddon: The Israel-Palestine nightmare When I first traveled to Israel-Palestine in 1994, during the heady early days of the Oslo peace process, I was expecting to see more of the joyful celebrations I’d watched on television at home. The emotional welcoming of Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) Chairman Yasser Arafat back to Palestine. archive.is/DC21o#selection-1207.0-1213.2
When Bernie Sold Out His Hero, Anti-Authoritarians Paid Bernie Sanders, in his thirties, wrote and directed the documentary Eugene V. Debs: Trade Unionist, Socialist, Revolutionary (1979), and a picture of Debs hangs on Sanders’s office wall. But the arc of Sanders’s political career has moved in the opposite direction from the arc of his hero. counterpunch.org/2018/09/19/when-bernie-sold-out-his-hero-anti-authoritarians-paid/
“This is a Struggle to Save Public Education” The teachers strike wave has reached Los Angeles: teachers there recently voted overwhelmingly to strike. They are fighting against school privatization, wage and benefit cuts, and the nationwide project to dismantle public education. jakkkobinmag.com/2018/09/los-angeles-teachers-strike-education-reform
Burgerville Workers Launch Strike in Portland Members of the Burgerville Workers Union, a part of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), a revolutionary anti-capitalist union, launched another strike on Tuesday, September 18th, which happened to be on “World Cheeseburger Day,” during which the Burgerville corporation was offering promotional food discounts. itsgoingdown.org/burgerville-workers-launch-strike-in-portland/
Political Fragmentation on the Homefront At this point in the fragmentation process we can identify four political groupings.Let’s look at these four groups in more detail against the backdrop of contemporary events.. counterpunch.org/2018/09/19/political-fragmentation-on-the-homefront/
Camden Howard
What's the solution to the Polish question?
Jacob Davis
thank you news user!
where's all the "based" socdems now that they've moved "more to the left" and got into government? what happened? kke was right all along it seems, what a surprise they should tell him how it's easier to let them drown also watch youtube.com/watch?v=S5MSsrFjrws murricans be mad, this is glorious i hate them so much, fucking obsessed americucks they get more delusional with each day passing by their "nationalists" are even more of a joke than most of europe's
God Dubya in hindsight looks like a 300 Autism Level homosapien compared to Trump, I am glad America managed to elect such a mouthbreathing retard
Carter Robinson
I'm 100% sure that african immigrants don't cross the sahara to get into the europe, they would just all die from the harsh conditions of the desert.
Gavin Hall
These migrants are coming from places that the US and Europe have ruined via imperialism. They could easily stop the flow of refugees by ceasing all "interventions" in the MENA region but refuse to do so.
Wyatt Torres
The damage has already been done, you can't just stop it, even if the US and the european powers decided to withdraw all of their troops suddenly.
Service workers can't use strikes the way industrial workers can, because when they go on strike they don't really hurt their bosses so much as they hurt the people they provide services to. When teachers go on strike, the school administration is unaffected. It's the students and parents who are harmed the most, and then the parents turn against the union during elections and ballot initiatives.
Brandon Ward
Students joined the strike too.
Evan Morgan
I guarantee that a poll would show a majority of parents opposing the strike. The same thing happens when bus and train drivers go on strike, public service employees go on strike, or even fast food workers go on strike. The people who expect service get angry because the strike suspends service, and then they turn against the union. Class consciousness certainly helps, but there's only so much you can do to fight back against the material relationship between the servicers and the serviced.
Hunter Nguyen
Opinions of class unconscious proles are worth less than dogshit.
Levi Long
hot take
Evan Martinez
Majority of Americans support striking teachers
Christopher Perez
Except their votes are worth just as much as anyone else's votes during elections and ballot initiatives>>2652720 . They turn into foot soldiers for capital against the unions.
I would love to see a source for that.
Levi Cruz
If anyone from Zig Forums is reading this, this shit right here is why no one actually believes you when you claim to be against globalism.
Henry Cook
but being on the side of the imperialists is so cool!
And union leadership are collaborationists and are the lieutenants for capital against the workers.
There is only one goal, and that is the creation of a classless society, where people are not exploited and oppressed by others, and everything is a means to that end. All those who work against this goal are to be destroyed.
I assume that some analyst did that. Honestly the more openly racist America becomes the less effective it will be at maintaining its empire. Not because racists can't run empires but because reasserting explicit supremacy of the ruling ethnic identity (in America this would be "whites") is the sign of a failing settler-colonialist society. I mean it's going to get really, really bad but stuff like this only helps us (the global left) in the long term.
On Yom Kippur no less. I thought the "white supremacist" hand sign at the Kavanaugh hearing was a little paranoid but this is blatant as can be.
Jack Mitchell
The funny part is that the White House will either come out vocally against this or 'reveal' how reunification is the plot of evil Kim Jong un and all of these idiots will have to do an insanely rapid 180 (this will probably happen within days I imagine unless Kim is secretly CIA and this is some ebic 3d pachinko)
This is Moon flying in the fucking face of the US. Peace with the Norks is absolute worst case scenario for US interests in the peninsula. The DoD wants that country, it wants those fuckers eating McDonald's and it wants those workers making nikes and it wants those mineral resources and it needs that border with China and the South kicking the military out makes those plans untenable until ww3 or probably never.
user is right, surprisingly enough most Americans (a fairly impressive majority in fact) are supportive of strikes, specifically teachers strikes. Remember that these strikers are nearly all respected members of the community who are literally friends with the parents of their students and all they ask for is decent pay and security, it's a very sympathetic cause. Probably a lot of them are actually conservative or at least apolitical, even.
But strikes are expensive for strikers. The union membership doesn't want to go too long without pay, especially when they were on thin enough ice to begin with financially. I'd say the big disadvantage for them isn't that they're a service, it's that they're a public service. The people they're opposing don't even really care about them returning to work because in the long term they don't want them to work at all. Their goal is to shrink schools until they don't even exist anymore. Just look at what they've done to states like Oklahoma which has 4 day weeks simply because legislature refuses to give public schools enough budget to stay open longer. It's the exact same strategy the Tories used in the UK:
For those of you still skeptical about Cockshott's democracy schtick, it's because politicians are universally fucking evil. In bourgeois republics it's like if every member of the CCCP was Yeltsin.
Andrew Brooks
The USA is gonna get rid of NATO with France and Germany and instead Eastern Europe and Georgia.
North Korea would not attack the US unless it attacked first. That Kim Jong-Un wanted reunification just like Moon Jae-In did but they just didn't get to terms agreements. No denuclearization would happen till North Korea got military backing from other countries to help protect it. The nukes were always for defensive purposes just like how other countries use them although Kim Jong-Un went to greater lengths to keep people on edge to know the threats weren't empty.
Ryder Long
I guarantee within 10 years the poles will spazz out and accuse the US of being oppressor and occupier
easy commitment to make and it looks good for both sides. It doesn't actually mean nukes will go away anytime soon. Same way they signed out that Olympics deal for 2032, odds are it'll be scrapped
Isn't there a wall already in western Sahara built by Morocco?
Michael Cook
And I was afraid the gig economy would completely drown out unionization and collective action. Glad to see couriers still have solidarity and the balls to stand their ground.
