#class-struggle — Public Fediverse posts
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The June 3 general strike saw near-total support at major hospitals and workplaces across the country. Trade unions collected over 190,000 ...
Portugal: Workers' struggle defeats anti-labor legislation In a decisive victory for the Portuguese working class, the so-called Labor Package proposed by the right-wing PSD/CDS government was defeated in parliament on June 19, after nearly a year …#blog #classstruggle #communism #communist #communistcandidates #communistparties #communistparty #communists #imcwp #intldepartment #international #internationalcommunistunity #internationalmeetingofcommunistandworkersparties #internationalnotes
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No-One Escapes the Permanent Underclass
https://borretti.me/article/no-one-escapes-the-permanent-underclass
#HackerNews #NoOneEscapes #ThePermanentUnderclass #SocialIssues #Inequality #EconomicJustice #ClassStruggle
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No-One Escapes the Permanent Underclass
https://borretti.me/article/no-one-escapes-the-permanent-underclass
#HackerNews #NoOneEscapes #ThePermanentUnderclass #SocialIssues #Inequality #EconomicJustice #ClassStruggle
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“This text is not merely a call to develop tools; it is a call to transform organisational and intellectual consciousness toward a deep understanding of the nature of the digital battle. The gap in question is not simply a gap in ‘technical mastery’; it is a gap in grasping that digital space has become a class battlefield in which capitalism dominates, programmes, and subjugates, while the left suffers from a diminished presence and the absence of a clear digital vision. Closing this gap is no longer a luxury; it is a condition for the survival of the left itself, since today’s battle is waged in algorithms and networks just as much as it is waged on the ground”
- quoting Rezgar Akrawi in Savage Minds on Substack
https://open.substack.com/pub/savageminds/p/reclaiming-technology-for-socialist
#Press #SocialMedia #Left #Class #ClassStruggle #Battlefield #TechMastery #Capitalism #Socialism #SocialistLiberation #BigData #MonopolyPower #AI #Alternatives
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“This text is not merely a call to develop tools; it is a call to transform organisational and intellectual consciousness toward a deep understanding of the nature of the digital battle. The gap in question is not simply a gap in ‘technical mastery’; it is a gap in grasping that digital space has become a class battlefield in which capitalism dominates, programmes, and subjugates, while the left suffers from a diminished presence and the absence of a clear digital vision. Closing this gap is no longer a luxury; it is a condition for the survival of the left itself, since today’s battle is waged in algorithms and networks just as much as it is waged on the ground”
- quoting Rezgar Akrawi in Savage Minds on Substack
https://open.substack.com/pub/savageminds/p/reclaiming-technology-for-socialist
#Press #SocialMedia #Left #Class #ClassStruggle #Battlefield #TechMastery #Capitalism #Socialism #SocialistLiberation #BigData #MonopolyPower #AI #Alternatives
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Freedom News: **Antifascists mobilise after racist pogroms**
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2026/06/16/antifascists-mobilise-after-racist-pogroms/
The UK far-right surge builds on deep-rooted resentment and social fragmentation ~ Blade Runner ~ Antifascists on Saturday (13 June) mobilised agai…
The post Antifascists mobilise after racist pogroms appeared first on Freedom News.
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Freedom News: **Antifascists mobilise after racist pogroms**
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2026/06/16/antifascists-mobilise-after-racist-pogroms/
The UK far-right surge builds on deep-rooted resentment and social fragmentation ~ Blade Runner ~ Antifascists on Saturday (13 June) mobilised agai…
The post Antifascists mobilise after racist pogroms appeared first on Freedom News.
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Offensiva Rivoluzionaria in Rome brings together communists and libertarians for revolutionary organizing. They chose "offensive" because class war is ongoing and organized resistance is needed against capital's dominance. Their work aggregates revolutionary forces and builds tools for systemic change.
https://www.radical-guide.com/listing/offensiva-rivoluzionaria/
#ClassStruggle #RevolutionaryOrganizing #Rome #AntiCapitalism
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Offensiva Rivoluzionaria in Rome brings together communists and libertarians for revolutionary organizing. They chose "offensive" because class war is ongoing and organized resistance is needed against capital's dominance. Their work aggregates revolutionary forces and builds tools for systemic change.
https://www.radical-guide.com/listing/offensiva-rivoluzionaria/
#ClassStruggle #RevolutionaryOrganizing #Rome #AntiCapitalism
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In January 1912, Polish women weavers in Lawrence, MA saw their wages cut and stopped their looms. Within a week, twenty thousand workers from two dozen countries were on strike. The AFL said they couldn't be organized. The IWW built a strike committee that ran on worker democracy and translated every decision into a dozen languages.
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In January 1912, Polish women weavers in Lawrence, MA saw their wages cut and stopped their looms. Within a week, twenty thousand workers from two dozen countries were on strike. The AFL said they couldn't be organized. The IWW built a strike committee that ran on worker democracy and translated every decision into a dozen languages.
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How the #CIA steered #feminism away from #classstruggle - #GloriaSteinem was on their payroll:
https://hrnews1.substack.com/p/feminist-icon-gloria-steinem-was
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#Socialism #Communism #Revolution #USSR #SovietUnion #Proletarian #ClassStruggle as #Agitation integrated with #Marxist Theory, or #Materialist #ScientificSocialism, vs. #Revisionism #Gradualism #Opportunism #Economism #Liberalism and #UtopianSocialism m.youtube.com/watch?v=x8Ui...
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Bolivia as a laboratory of class struggle
Is this the beginning of a counteroffensive in the streets against the new right-wing wave in Latin America?
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2026/05/29/bolivia-as-a-laboratory-of-class-struggle/
#Bolivia #ClassStruggle #resistance #LatinAmerica #StopTheFarRight #union #protest #WorkersRights #unionise #AntiImperialism #FuckTrump #USterror #HandsOffLatinAmerica
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Bolivia as a laboratory of class struggle
Is this the beginning of a counteroffensive in the streets against the new right-wing wave in Latin America?
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2026/05/29/bolivia-as-a-laboratory-of-class-struggle/
#Bolivia #ClassStruggle #resistance #LatinAmerica #StopTheFarRight #union #protest #WorkersRights #unionise #AntiImperialism #FuckTrump #USterror #HandsOffLatinAmerica
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Expansion is always chosen over redistribution because expansion preserves existing power structures.
It’s not that we can’t share. It’s that sharing threatens the people who benefit from not sharing.
And so we expand.
We eat outward.
We consume frontier after frontier until
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Expansion is always chosen over redistribution because expansion preserves existing power structures.
It’s not that we can’t share. It’s that sharing threatens the people who benefit from not sharing.
And so we expand.
We eat outward.
We consume frontier after frontier until
there are no frontiers left. -
The lecture, "Trotsky and the British General Strike of 1926" was delivered at the SEP (US) International Summer School, held August 2-9, 2025. • 11 ...#Hershey #Pennsylvania #ChocolateWorkersLocal464 #AFL-CIO #Bakery #Confectionery #TobaccoWorkersandGrainMillers #BCTGM #classstruggle #costofliving
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'Lewis takes up a debate with several Black feminists who have, at various times, questioned the idea of family abolition, whose central argument has been that, very often, Black families have been sites of resistance against racism. Similarly, we could point to many experiences of class struggle in which sectors of working families have played a key role against the attacks of capital: supporting strikes, establishing relations of solidarity between factories and neighborhoods, staging rent strikes, maintaining soup kitchens, creating movements in defense of public services, and many other forms of resistance. The tradition of “women’s commissions” in strikes, for example, has allowed the working class to articulate fighting forces far beyond the workplace.
'To this criticism Lewis responds that, even so, we should not cease working for the abolition of the family, since we would not need its “protective shield” if we managed to build a society without racism. The argument contains a grain of truth, but it stops halfway. It fails to contemplate the role that the family relations within sectors of the working class and oppressed can play in moments of heightened class struggle. On another level, it doesn’t account for the fact that capitalism, while it needs such a “social cell” for its own reproduction, constantly undermines working families’ very conditions of existence. Marx and Engels remarked on this in the mid-19th century, pointing to the length of the working day, the lack of decent housing, and the general precariousness of working class life.'
Josefina L. Martínez : https://www.leftvoice.org/love-and-care-beyond-capitalism/
#property #gender #subordination #dependence #family #debates #debate #abolition #antiCapitalism #Fourier #Lewis #sociology #anthropology #communities #feminism #feminisms #chores #care #queer #rainbowMafia #historyOfIdeas #Marxism #relationships #abolitionism #culturalism #radicalFeminism #materialism #classes #revolution #domesticWork #classStruggle #careWork #historyOfFeminism
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'Lewis takes up a debate with several Black feminists who have, at various times, questioned the idea of family abolition, whose central argument has been that, very often, Black families have been sites of resistance against racism. Similarly, we could point to many experiences of class struggle in which sectors of working families have played a key role against the attacks of capital: supporting strikes, establishing relations of solidarity between factories and neighborhoods, staging rent strikes, maintaining soup kitchens, creating movements in defense of public services, and many other forms of resistance. The tradition of “women’s commissions” in strikes, for example, has allowed the working class to articulate fighting forces far beyond the workplace.
'To this criticism Lewis responds that, even so, we should not cease working for the abolition of the family, since we would not need its “protective shield” if we managed to build a society without racism. The argument contains a grain of truth, but it stops halfway. It fails to contemplate the role that the family relations within sectors of the working class and oppressed can play in moments of heightened class struggle. On another level, it doesn’t account for the fact that capitalism, while it needs such a “social cell” for its own reproduction, constantly undermines working families’ very conditions of existence. Marx and Engels remarked on this in the mid-19th century, pointing to the length of the working day, the lack of decent housing, and the general precariousness of working class life.'
Josefina L. Martínez : https://www.leftvoice.org/love-and-care-beyond-capitalism/
#property #gender #subordination #dependence #family #debates #debate #abolition #antiCapitalism #Fourier #Lewis #sociology #anthropology #communities #feminism #feminisms #chores #care #queer #rainbowMafia #historyOfIdeas #Marxism #relationships #abolitionism #culturalism #radicalFeminism #materialism #classes #revolution #domesticWork #classStruggle #careWork #historyOfFeminism
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As Japanese employees work themselves to death, Communists say look to Marx – People’s World
Shii Kazuo, chair of the Central Committee of the Japan…
#Japan #JP #JapanNews #capitalism #classconsciousness #classstruggle #communistmanifesto #communistparty #economics #Japanese #Japanesenews #marxism #marxisteducation #news #overtime #politicaleconomy #politics #toronto #world
https://www.alojapan.com/1483187/as-japanese-employees-work-themselves-to-death-communists-say-look-to-marx-peoples-world/ -
https://www.alojapan.com/1483187/as-japanese-employees-work-themselves-to-death-communists-say-look-to-marx-peoples-world/ As Japanese employees work themselves to death, Communists say look to Marx – People’s World #capitalism #ClassConsciousness #ClassStruggle #CommunistManifesto #CommunistParty #economics #Japan #JapanNews #Japanese #JapaneseNews #marxism #MarxistEducation #news #overtime #PoliticalEconomy #politics #toronto #world Shii Kazuo, chair of the Central Committee of the Japanese Communist Party, speaks at York University in Toronto, May 4. | C
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Worker's struggles aren't just for better pay or better working conditions - as important as those are! - but for the liberation of the entire working CLASS. That includes unemployed people, stay-at-home housekeepers and parents, children, elders, homeless and disabled people too (whether we work or not). We're all in this together.
The oppression of the underclass, making those who cannot or refuse to work soul-crushingly miserable and often outright dead - that's a threat to keep the workers who do work in line. "Be glad you have your shitty job(s), it could be even worse!"
Thus, we need things for free: Housing, food, health care, education, access to natural spaces, relaxation and social connections.
We deserve things for free. We deserve a welfare state, or better yet a state-free society that takes care of its most vulnerable members first, as a matter of course. That makes a world where everyone can thrive and no one has to "earn" their right to thrive, let alone live.
Bosses tell us it is entitled to ask for things for free. "They want more pay for less work! 😱" seems like a no-brainer condemnation, when in reality it is just fact.
Bosses are the ones who take things for free, and not the things everyone should have, but the things NO ONE should have: The "right" to exploit workers and make them disabled, the "right" to get away with sexually abusing them if they so chose, the "right" to extract earth's resources for personal gain, the "right" to destroy, poison and heat up the earth's ecosystems, climate and even orbit. The "right" to control our free speech, lobby for laws, buy politicians, wage war for profit. The "right" to be talked about with respect, deference and unquestioning acceptance of their unhinged axioms.
Make bosses pay.
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Worker's struggles aren't just for better pay or better working conditions - as important as those are! - but for the liberation of the entire working CLASS. That includes unemployed people, stay-at-home housekeepers and parents, children, elders, homeless and disabled people too (whether we work or not). We're all in this together.
The oppression of the underclass, making those who cannot or refuse to work soul-crushingly miserable and often outright dead - that's a threat to keep the workers who do work in line. "Be glad you have your shitty job(s), it could be even worse!"
Thus, we need things for free: Housing, food, health care, education, access to natural spaces, relaxation and social connections.
We deserve things for free. We deserve a welfare state, or better yet a state-free society that takes care of its most vulnerable members first, as a matter of course. That makes a world where everyone can thrive and no one has to "earn" their right to thrive, let alone live.
Bosses tell us it is entitled to ask for things for free. "They want more pay for less work! 😱" seems like a no-brainer condemnation, when in reality it is just fact.
Bosses are the ones who take things for free, and not the things everyone should have, but the things NO ONE should have: The "right" to exploit workers and make them disabled, the "right" to get away with sexually abusing them if they so chose, the "right" to extract earth's resources for personal gain, the "right" to destroy, poison and heat up the earth's ecosystems, climate and even orbit. The "right" to control our free speech, lobby for laws, buy politicians, wage war for profit. The "right" to be talked about with respect, deference and unquestioning acceptance of their unhinged axioms.
Make bosses pay.
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On May Day, International Workers’ Day, Chris Low traces the life of working-class militant Martin “Lux” Wright and shares a previously unpublished interview.
https://diyconspiracy.net/martin-lux-class-warfare/
#martinlux #classwar #classstruggle #anarchism #antifascist #antifascism #mayday #internationalworkersday
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On May Day, International Workers’ Day, Chris Low traces the life of working-class militant Martin “Lux” Wright and shares a previously unpublished interview.
https://diyconspiracy.net/martin-lux-class-warfare/
#martinlux #classwar #classstruggle #anarchism #antifascist #antifascism #mayday #internationalworkersday
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Happy International Workers’ Day! 🎉
Here we are, sipping coffee in an AC room, debating labor rights and fair wages, while someone outside hasn’t eaten since yesterday.
But hey, at least we’re aware of the struggle. That’s basically the same as fixing it, right? .... Right?
Solidarity! ✊
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Happy International Workers’ Day! 🎉
Here we are, sipping coffee in an AC room, debating labor rights and fair wages, while someone outside hasn’t eaten since yesterday.
But hey, at least we’re aware of the struggle. That’s basically the same as fixing it, right? .... Right?
Solidarity! ✊
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Wenn du entdeckst, dass du ein totes Pferd reitest, steig ab.
Mehr bleibt zum Thema sPD und Verrat an der arbeitenden Klasse nicht zu sagen.
#fckspd #WerHatUnsVerratenSozialdemokraten #arbeiterklasse #klassenkampf #ClassSolidarity #classstruggle
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Wenn du entdeckst, dass du ein totes Pferd reitest, steig ab.
Mehr bleibt zum Thema sPD und Verrat an der arbeitenden Klasse nicht zu sagen.
#fckspd #WerHatUnsVerratenSozialdemokraten #arbeiterklasse #klassenkampf #ClassSolidarity #classstruggle
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Der Klassenkampf ist endgültig erklärt, dieses Mal wie so oft, nicht von der arbeitenden Klasse, sondern - wie fast immer - von den Kapitalisten gegen die Arbeiterklasse
#klassenkampf #dielinke #merzmussweg #fckmrz #FCKCDUCSU #TaxTheRich #classstruggle #nichtmeinKanzler #nichtmeineregierung
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Der Klassenkampf ist endgültig erklärt, dieses Mal wie so oft, nicht von der arbeitenden Klasse, sondern - wie fast immer - von den Kapitalisten gegen die Arbeiterklasse
#klassenkampf #dielinke #merzmussweg #fckmrz #FCKCDUCSU #TaxTheRich #classstruggle #nichtmeinKanzler #nichtmeineregierung
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💥Announcement! Thursday 09.04.2026💥
🔥✊🏾Trainee Meet-up: Class and Class Struggle🔥✊🏾
Thursday, 9 April 2026 | 6.00 pm | Abgedreht Bar, Karl-Marx-Allee 140, 10243 Berlin
Arrival: U5, Tram 21, M10 Frankfurter Tor
📣 Call to action: https://asanb.noblogs.org/?p=16509 - @internationale_jugend_bln
#b0904 #AzubiTreff #ClassStruggle
Trainee Meet-up on Thursday!
Topic: Class and Class Struggle.
Whether at demonstrations, in conversations or in the trade union, as politically minded people we certainly come across the concept of class from time to time.
But what exactly is a class? What is the class struggle all about? What does all this have to do with capitalism and patriarchy? And why is this important for me as a trainee?
Let’s discuss it together in a relaxed setting!
Come along!
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💥Announcement! Thursday 09.04.2026💥
🔥✊🏾Trainee Meet-up: Class and Class Struggle🔥✊🏾
Thursday, 9 April 2026 | 6.00 pm | Abgedreht Bar, Karl-Marx-Allee 140, 10243 Berlin
Arrival: U5, Tram 21, M10 Frankfurter Tor
📣 Call to action: https://asanb.noblogs.org/?p=16509 - @internationale_jugend_bln
#b0904 #AzubiTreff #ClassStruggle
Trainee Meet-up on Thursday!
Topic: Class and Class Struggle.
Whether at demonstrations, in conversations or in the trade union, as politically minded people we certainly come across the concept of class from time to time.
But what exactly is a class? What is the class struggle all about? What does all this have to do with capitalism and patriarchy? And why is this important for me as a trainee?
Let’s discuss it together in a relaxed setting!
Come along!
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Calling all working class queers! :anartrans_symbol:
Queer and, especially, trans people, experience higher rates of poverty and unemployment, due to workplace discrimination and breakdown of family ties, amongst other things, but are those who grew up with more and lost it (downward mobility) the same as those who didn’t have much to begin with?
Are you one of those working class fem/butch dykes Joan Nestle and Leslie Feinberg wrote about (or dream about being a part of that scene)?
Do your BDSM practices include regular household items or toys you made yourself because you don’t have the money to splurge at a sex shop?
Do you not have a place to take sex partners to since all the dark rooms closed down in your town and the gay bar is now a show for straight women on hen dos?
Are you constantly torn over accepting or turning down requests to perform in full drag for a pittance because maybe some money is better than nothing?
Have you or your friends been sued by a mainstream (L)G(BT) charity for denouncing their dodgy practices?
Some of these are oddly specific, I know. You don’t have to relate to any of these. Any submission from working class and poor queers will be considered.
Read more: https://theclassworkproject.com/lumpen-18-call-out/
#WorkingClass #queer #ClassStruggle #RainbowCapitalism #QueerLiberation #lesbian #gay #trans #genderqueer #lgbt #lgbti #lgbtia #nonbinary #fem #femme #butch
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We need to coordinate with every other public sector worker fighting the same fight — aiming for a genuine general strike across the sector. This ...
A teacher reflects on the historic educators’ strike underway in Catalonia. This struggle prioritizes education over militarization and advocates for the self-organization of workers through democratic assemblies.#ClassStruggle #Education #Strike #Teachers
Educators’ Strike in Catalonia: A Historic Struggle against the Betrayal of Union Leadership - Left Voice -
CPA Politique Satirique Inegalite Iniquite Sterilite Balance Electorale
#CPA #PoliticalSatire #WealthInequality #SocialInjustice #SterilityDebate #ElectoralBalance #ClassStruggle #DarkHumor #EconomicGap #VotingRights #SatiricalPolitics #PowerImbalance
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CPA Politique Satirique Inegalite Iniquite Sterilite Balance Electorale
#CPA #PoliticalSatire #WealthInequality #SocialInjustice #SterilityDebate #ElectoralBalance #ClassStruggle #DarkHumor #EconomicGap #VotingRights #SatiricalPolitics #PowerImbalance
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CPA Politique Satirique Inegalite Iniquite Sterilite Balance Electorale www.cpaphil.com/prod... #CPA #PoliticalSatire #WealthInequality #SocialInjustice #SterilityDebate #ElectoralBalance #ClassStruggle #DarkHumor #EconomicGap #VotingRights #SatiricalPolitics #PowerImbalance
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CPA Politique Satirique Inegalite Iniquite Sterilite Balance Electorale www.cpaphil.com/prod... #CPA #PoliticalSatire #WealthInequality #SocialInjustice #SterilityDebate #ElectoralBalance #ClassStruggle #DarkHumor #EconomicGap #VotingRights #SatiricalPolitics #PowerImbalance
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Maravilhosa! Disse tudo.
Pra quem é de #esquerda e sabe inglês eu recomendo muito esse canal.
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Are you actually #revolutionary or just performative?
26.nov.2025
https://youtu.be/R57pujATIs8#Marxism #socialism #comunism #liberalism #Marxismo #socialismo #comunismo #liberalismo #identity #identitarismo #politics #politica #LutaDeClasses #ClassStruggle #capitalism #capitalismo #revolution #revolução
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🏴 "Survival of the Organized: Critical Reflections on #Organizing and #MutualAid" 🤝
This article by @blackrose_rosanegra #BRRN explores the importance of mutual aid in #SocialMovements and positions it as a tactic within broader organizing strategies for #SystemChange
📖 Read it here: https://www.blackrosefed.org/survival-organized-mutual-aid-2025
🎧 Or listen here: https://anarchistessays.podbean.com/e/essay-107-alexandria-h-juan-verala-luz-charles-w-survival-of-the-organized-critical-reflections-on-organizing-and-mutual-aid
#CollectiveAction #MassOrganizing ✊ #ClassStruggle #SocialJustice #Anarchism #Especifismo -
The annual MLK Jr. Day is a reminder that we've been in this shared fight for a long time now.
"Again, we have deluded ourselves into believing the myth that capitalism grew and prospered out of the Protestant ethic of hard work and sacrifice. The fact is that capitalism was built on the exploitation and suffering of Black slaves and continues to thrive on the exploitation of the poor both Black and white, both here and abroad."
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sT9Hjh0cHM
#MLK #MLKJr #MLKJrDay #solidarity #ClassStruggle #capitalism
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Corporate America Only Stops When Workers Do: A Caller Explains the Power of a General Strike
A radio caller exposes how corporations exploit workers and why collective action is the only force that can stop systemic abuse.
#americanDreamMyth #CapitalismCritique #classStruggle #cORPORATEAbUSe #corporateGreed #EconomicJustice #generalStrike #IndependentMedia #inflationProfiteering #laborPower #ProgressivePolitics #unionPower #wealthInequality #workersRights https://wp.me/p1OjMZ-oyV -
Games for #Degrowth and a Viable Future
Posted on 20 September, 2025 by The #SteadyStateManchester team
by Carolyn Kagan
"Naomi Klein1 asks the question How do you change a world-view, an unquestioned ideology? Much of what we do in Steady State Manchester is to endeavour to change world-views, unquestioned ideologies about economic growth and the exploitation of environmental resources. We seek to enable people to discuss, challenge and develop their ideas and thinking; to help others see that their interests coincide with tackling climate change and securing a viable economic future; to offer hope and possibilities for living better within planetary boundaries; to share practical ways of doing things differently; to provide critiques of current practices but at the same time offer alternatives.
"Games and simulations have been used in training and development arenas for some time and across many different places and groups. They include table top games; video games, educational games, small or large scale role play or simulation games.
"In September 2025 we explored the role that games might play in helping to change world-views. We invited people attending our AGM to:
"Bring along a game, almost any game will do. The idea is that most games could be adapted around the ideas of Degrowth. So there’s the challenge: bring a game and ideas about how it might be adapted or used to inspire a new game that explores or promotes Degrowth.
Ideas for games
The ideas we came up with were mostly small in scale, table top games.
Adaptations of existing games:
- Degrowth Pictionary: Aim: to understand and explore concepts underpinning Degrowth. Following the format of the well known game of #Pictionary, cards are prepared with Degrowth concepts written on them – anything will do for example, anti-capitalism; climate change; collapse; cooperation; commons; fair shares; Limits to Growth; planetary boundaries; tipping points, overshoot; carbon emissions, simplicity. Participants take a card and without speaking draw the concept related to Degrowth, while others guess what it might be. No words are allowed during the drawing, but discussion after each concept is revealed, or after two or three concepts, will help to clarify understanding of the concepts and may identify strategies for change. The challenge is for the sketcher to capture the essence of the concept and for the guessers to articulate what that concept might be.
- Versions of #Monopoly, products of mind games. The aim would be to develop a deep understanding and help move toward collective intelligence and wisdom. Proposed versions of Monopoly included Civil-opoly; Techn-opoly; Polit-opoly; Plent-opoly; Co-opoly – each version emphasises a theme relevant to Degrowth and build on the idea of telling different stories (each shown via clever and captivating graphics in the text).
- Degrowth #SnakesAndLadders: Aim: particularly for younger players, to understand the hazards and actions that can be taken in achieving a viable economy or the green transition. Snakes and ladders boards can be prepared, with short messages on the squares rather than just numbers. Ladders represent actions towards a viable economy and snakes the hazards that detract from a viable economy. The Board could be labelled in terms of general Degrowth (e.g. ladders: waste is recycled; government funds adaptations to homes for insulation and electric heating; a neighbourhood has all it needs for local people; public transport is good; e.g. snakes: you fly several times a year to go on holiday; you buy new shoes and chuck out the old ones which are still good etc.). Alternatively boards could reflect a Degrowth theme: for example inequality; climate change; biodiversity. Discussion takes place throughout so all players explore why the ladders make progress and the snakes do not.
- #Patience: the well known card game, known in the USA as #Solitaire, embodies in and of itself many features of a Degrowth future. The aim of playing Patience is to help players appreciate a move towards a slower, way of life, with intrinsic satisfaction in playing the game itself. Patience is slow, with no particular end point. There is no element of competition and players have to accept they cannot win, but just call an end to the game whenever they like.
- Degrowth draughts: in conventional #draughts (North America, ‘#chequers / #checkers’) the aim is to eliminate all your opponent’s pieces. In Degrowth draughts, the aim could be to jointly reach a pre-defined, right-size complement of pieces. However, each player has to move in turn and if an opponent’s pieces can be taken, they must be, as in the original game, or you will be ‘huffed’. The game would introduce the ideas of degrowth to a steady state and of co-operative action to correct the bloated economy.
Existing games that feature (some) aspects of Degrowth
#CarbonCityZero: a board game to get people talking (and learning) about the choices our towns and cities needed to make in order to take action on climate change. Available to buy.
#Daybreak: Daybreak is a cooperative boardgame about stopping climate change. It presents a hopeful vision of the near future, where you get to build the mind-blowing technologies and resilient societies we need to save the planet. The game requires players to work collaboratively.
#ClassStruggle: The Workers move around a board while trying to survive against the Capitalist player who controls everything. As the Workers unite they take power from the Capitalist player but if they do not succeed in uniting the Capitalist will win. Out of production but it might be possible to find second hand copies."
Read more [includes ideas for computer games and links to some of the games mentioned above]:
https://steadystatemanchester.net/2025/09/20/games-for-degrowth-and-a-viable-future/
