It’s quite an exercise in arrogance when the Little Union that Can’t (Industrial Workers of the World) wants to dole out advice to the most popular and dynamic social movement we’ve seen in decades. This article, written by John Reimann of the San Francisco Bay area general membership branch of the I.W.W. illustrates just how out [...]
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Dave Buccola on Jan 10, 2012, 1:43 pm Tags: I.W.W., labor, Occupy, Occupy Wall Street, OWS, unions, Wobblies | Category: recession, Socialism | 4 comments Dave Buccola on Dec 25, 2011, 10:00 am Zazzle button It’s that time of year where we celebrate a hodge-podge of Pagan and Christian stuff all brought together by Coca Cola in the 1930s under one of the most successful ad campaigns in history. Some people hate it for the consumerism that it breeds. Others love the deep sense of humanity and [...] Ten Bears on Dec 21, 2011, 8:24 am Yesterday NPR’s All Things Considered interviewed Rep. David Dreier (R-CA) about the reason the Republicans blocked the two month payroll tax relief and unemployment extension. After an initial attempt at obfuscation, he finally said that the Senate’s bill didn’t go far enough with regards to the Keystone XL Pipeline.The House explicitly required the President to proceed with [...] Bob Morris on Dec 6, 2011, 10:15 am The European Socialists were meeting over the weekend in Brussels. They should be full of fire, with half a billion people facing brutal austerity and a lack of leadership in the EU. But no. I walked past one room where a group of serious people were seriously discussing the serious topic of “How can we [...] Bob Morris on Aug 4, 2011, 6:45 am Colin McEnrow of the Hartford Courant sadly and finally gives up on Obama, and in doing so explains why Obama is not now and could never be a socialist. He’s not the guy I thought he was. And Bill Clinton would have had no problem going before the cameras during the recent troubles and [...] Bob Morris on Apr 24, 2011, 6:15 am The Chronicle of Higher Education There is a sense in which the whole of Marx’s writing boils down to several embarrassing questions: Why is it that the capitalist West has accumulated more resources than human history has ever witnessed, yet appears powerless to overcome poverty, starvation, exploitation, and inequality? What are the mechanisms [...] Dave Buccola on Feb 13, 2011, 3:30 pm When one is attempting to explain our very anti-democratic electoral college to someone from outside the US, there is usually a strong desire to explain it away, to claim it is a safeguard on Democracy. We are told it is to protect minorities. As DJ said in an earlier comment thread: “The very premise of [...] Tags: democracy, electoral college, property rights, voting | Category: recession, Socialism | 5 comments - (Comments are closed) Bob Morris on Feb 2, 2011, 5:30 am Harry’s Place lampoons the bizarre tendency of current day revolutionary socialist groups to use their party newspaper as a primary means of organizing. A standard method for recruitment, one that has remained unchanged since prior to the Russian Revolution in 1917, is that of publishing a newspaper and selling it. The acceptance for the need [...] Category: Socialism | Comments are closed Dave Buccola on Jan 23, 2011, 2:45 pm It’s a bit ironic that the purveyor of “Freedom and Democracy” around the world incarcerates more people per capita than any nation on the planet. The staggering growth of the prison industrial complex over the past thirty years is mind boggling, and yet there is still no serious movement challenging this draconian method of [...] Tags: jails, New York City, prison, prison industrial complex | Category: recession, Socialism | Comments are closed Dave Buccola on Jan 17, 2011, 12:08 pm The folks at Brecht Forum are paying tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. with a special screening of two classic documentaries: At the River I stand and The Negro Protests. If you want to remember Dr. King for the revolutionary he was click here for more details. It’s a crime for people to [...] | CategoriesIndependent Voter NetworkArticles by Bob Morris on California and Arizona renewable energy, budget and border issues ArchivesFoxpro and Clipper migrationGet Polizeros by email | ||||
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