Still under fire from human rights advocates after appealing a court order to stop using the Covid-19 pandemic as justification for expelling asylum-seeking families, the Biden administration on Saturday confirmed that it is ramping up deportations to Haiti and elsewhere.
Today, a strike is taking place at the maker of products that everyone in the country knows. No more Oreos, Ritz Crackers, or Chips Ahoy! Nabisco’s on strike.
The underlying relative decline in US manufacturing and even services competitiveness with first Europe, then Japan and East Asia and now China, has gradually worn away the strength of the US dollar against other currencies as the supply of dollars outstrips demand internationally.
The general quiet of the current Chicago labor scene has been broken by two important events: the auto mechanics’ strike and the Naperville teachers’ contract battle.
In 1999, after spending 17 years on death row for a crime he did not commit and within hours of execution, activists and attorneys won a stay of execution giving time for investigators to find the people who did the crime.
Biden’s “limited achievements must be put in context of what both science and justice require to avoid the worst impacts of the climate and extinction crises,” said the Center for Biological Diversity Action Fund.
“The parliamentarian offers advice which the president and the Senate are free to take or reject. This is Biden throwing the undocumented under the bus and claiming, wrongly, he has no other choice.”
The reality is that this strategy has failed. The person who the union leadership has been endorsing and donating to led the charge against the union.
Saturday’s rally highlighted many of the themes of the strike. There were about two hundred, mainly African American, strikers at the rally. There was great pride that not only had Stroger Hospital struck, but workers in all parts of the County system were also out.
This is the example of ruling class arrogance and class hatred that Ellie Kemper was involved with. It’s good that she apologized. It will be even better when American workers follow the examples of the 1877 strikers that the Prophets hated so much.
There are some long hard strikes and lockouts taking place. There are not a lot of them, but they deserve our support and solidarity. They take place in the overall context of a low level of class struggle.
The aim of the January 6 assault was to nullify the popular vote through a violent intervention during the Electoral college ratification… its aim was not to fight for more democracy but to impose the will of a minority whose primary goal was to reestablish white supremacy in the U.S.
The claim that Covid 19 is the fault of Asians is the new refrain in anti-Asian racism. Trump began to sound this note in a series of rallies in the spring of last year.
So far, the “left” has stayed pretty much in Biden’s camp, and have put little pressure on him or the administration. It’s clear that they are playing a supportive role to the administration and the congressional Democrats.
Monetarist theory has been proven wrong because it starts from the wrong hypothesis: that money supply drives prices of goods and services. But the opposite is the case: it is changes in prices and output that drives money supply.
