The anarcho-syndicalist international, founded in 2018, looks at workplace struggle in its branches worldwide and calls for the building of new forms of solidarity amid the lockdowns. With the corona crisis, the world has suddenly entered a new phase of intense class struggle. This is impressively documented by a map of (for the most part) wildcat strikes…
Syndicalist unions and Covid-era resistance: A CIT roundup — Freedom News
By Steve Sweeney: Turkish unions accuse bosses of murder after construction worker’s death Wednesday, April 15, 2020 TURKISH trade unions have accused the government and construction bosses of murder after a worker died on a major building project associated with authoritarian President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Strike action closed down the multimillion-dollar Galataport site after the […]
‘Bosses made construction worker die by coronavirus’ — Dear Kitty. Some blog
It is amazing that the name of Aphra Behn, England’s first professional woman writer, is not better known. While a handful of her contemporaries—Anne Finch, the Countess of Winchilea, and Margaret Cavendish, the Duchess of Newcastle—wrote for the entertainment of a small circle of friends, Aphra Behn was paid for her work and undertook it […]
APHRA BEHN living by the pen — The Blog of Awesome Women
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There has been a major shift in tactics and strategy for the grassroots campaign to #FreeThemAll in U.S. prisons, jails, and detention centers, quite noticeably right now throughout the Midwest. Stateville Correctional Center in Joliet, IL is quickly unfolding into a nightmare scenario of lethal punishment and police violence. As of last week, officially 123 imprisoned people and 65 guards/staff tested positive for the COVID-19 virus at Stateville. Infections are assumed to be multiplying exponentially.
On Friday, April 17th, a group of concerned loved ones and advocates for prisoners in the Midwest took the fight against conditions at Stateville into their own hands and to the fascist’s front door where they used life-size replicas of body bags to block the driveway of prison warden David Gomez.
These body bags represent the ongoing accumulation of causalities from the COVID-19 pandemic at Stateville, as the infection continues to spread rapidly throughout its carceral facilities.
Continue reading “Direct Action to #FreeThemAll: Body Bags From Stateville Prison to the Warden”
When the stock market crashed in 2008, the offices closed at the legal publication where I worked. I lost my benefits, my office space, and my security, all in a single meeting. I holed up in the New York University Bobst Library for a couple of weeks as a freelance writer, scribbling reports and watching…
How Did Writers Survive the First Great Depression? — Literary Hub
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But all the refuges are closed due to the pandemic, including the one we’re sitting outside of, where I volunteer. He has run out of insulin for his diabetes and says he can’t walk any more.
I’m squatting on a round piece of concrete, and a 72-year-old man is sitting in the gutter, his walking stick beside him. He tells me that after being deported from the United States, he has been hiking the streets of Mexico City trying to find somewhere to stay.
I’m aware that he may not survive much longer. He’s the fifth person that day that I have to turn away and I can’t stand it.
Continue reading “US Bullies can just Print Money while Rest of us Face Ruin”
Hospitals overflowing with sick and dying patients. Overworked staff risking their lives wearing garbage bags as makeshift protective equipment against an invisible but deadly virus. Refrigerated containers left outside medical facilities, filling with the dead. Mass graves being dug in the city. It is like something out of a horror movie. But it is very real and is happening right now in America. “We are doing the best we can,” Derrick Smith, a certified registered nurse anesthetist in New York City told MintPress last week, “but people are dying left and right, no exaggeration.” “I’ve never imagined or seen our healthcare system take such a beating before,” he said. “This is something that none of us have ever really seen.”
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