My impression of the Russian communist party is that they’ve become more a nationalist party than anything promoting class struggle.

Oh, good. Now Last of Us won’t be so scary.

Targeting a journalist, not opposition Hezbollah.

There’s the Egyptian state, which is pretty much the army, and the Egyptian people. Very different sympathies and motives.

No, until the rise of the modern Zionist movement, there wasn’t a lot of sectarian conflict. (Well, since the Crusades.) There are Palestinian Jews(and Christians) that were living in British Palestine. 1927 coin in English, Arabic, and Hebrew https://www.etsy.com/listing/1538377183/1927-and-1942-palestine-2-mils-israel?gpla=1&gao=1&=&utm_custom1=_k_c2d52efd97041940710b4bded98150ab_k_&utm_custom2=319339185&msclkid=c2d52efd97041940710b4bded98150ab

FWIW, Hamas won the last election that the Palestinian Authority held in 2006 (!) Fatah pretty much kept the West Bank, denying Hamas the victory, but couldn’t stop Hamas from taking over in Gaza. My understanding of PA politics was that negotiation with Israel was seen as a dead end and that any party with negotiations as a primary tactic was going to lose. And Israel is responsible for that perception.

EVs do require fewer workers as they have fewer parts. Which is why the UAW demand of a 32 hour work week at the same pay is relevant: less work, so we should work less and maintain jobs.

It is fucking amazing how a militant and democratic leadership (Fain is the first UAW president elected by direct member vote) turned the UAW around.

It’s important to note that our sexuality is socially constructed, our desires are not solely based on biology but culture.

“In the Christian medieval world, some theories held that women received far more pleasure from a sexual encounter than men, and had much greater sexual appetite.” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_female_sexuality

Reagan. Possibly others, like Harding, but that was before my time.

We should all keep calling it Twitter and let Elon get pissed at getting dead-named.

Ups and fedex still frequently use USPS for last mile in many areas. USPS has a mandate to serve and maintain infrastructure in the whole US, and the corporations use that. So does Amazon of course.

Ok a court filing, DeSantis lawyers defined “woke” as, “the belief that there are systemic inequities in US society and the need to work against them”.

Which is not bad as a definition, really.

The ibew is one of the more conservative of the 13 separate rail unions, whose strategy involves lobbying Democrats instead of organizing. So of course they’re going to praise Biden. My own union isn’t as bad, but also throws praise at Biden even tho his administration was a negative influence on our negotiations. For a better view of rail labor, I’d listen to Railworkers United, a caucus of rail workers across all 13 separate unions to pressure the unions to work together and demand more for members. https://myemail.constantcontact.com/RWU-Issues-Official-Statement-on-PEB--250.html?soid=1116509035139&aid=Bt3zn_HU0ik

Biden was a bad influence on West Coast longshore negotiations. As our negotions started, he had both the ILWU president and the employer’s representative onto the battleship Iowa to pledge to not prepare for a strike. The union did not prepare for a strike, but the shippers diverted a huge amount of cargo away from the West Coast thru the Panama Canal. Granted, a West coast longshore strike stops 40% of US imports. But removing the threat means the employers have zero incentive to budge.

My experience says that they’d point at non union competition as an excuse to say no to union demands in negotiations.

I agree that the Democrats COULD win votes on a pro-working class platform.

But it ain’t going to happen. The Democratoc Party and its associated networks have a voting base that is very different from its funding base.

I think in lots of ways Biden has governed to the left of Obama. While Obama’s response to 2008 was to support the banks and leave the working class out to dry (mortgage support existed but was largely unfulfilled, requiring voluntary participation from banks with no interest in doing so), Biden’s covid response had more direct support and progressive programs like the child tax credit. Biden has also done more for climate change in the infrastructure bill.

But in many ways Biden still doesn’t take the workers’ side, like in the already mentioned railroad strike.

The truth is that the railroad workers know their position in the economy all too well and expected the government to end a strike quickly if they let it go at all.

The big disappointment is that Biden and Congress choose the company’s proposals as the basis for the imposed contract instead of the Union’s demands on time off, staffing, and safety.

In fact the companies were counting on it, which is why they never moved from their outrageous demands in negotiations.

It depends on the kind of strike. Workers that strike over a company’s unfair labor practice are protected from permanent replacements. This is not that tho. While they are far apart, I don’t think they can accuse the companies of refusing to negotiate.

Of course if the union wins the strike then no replacement.

I agree with half your comment, because Sinclair is a threat to democracy. But the change in our political culture began with right wing talk radio after the end of the fairness doctrine.

Of course there were other factors, like neoliberal attacks on our living standards. But perhaps there could have been another narrative to explain those neoliberal attacks in a more diverse media environment.

You are comparing the work of a mass of people to fight back against hate with the actions of authorities and institutions.

Can you see how the work of masses of people is more democratic?