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analysis, strategy, tactics to defeat the billionaire class
Below you’ll find a collection of articles which were recently originally published on SocialistAlternative.org. Please check SocialistAlternative.org regularly for the socialist analysis, strategy, and tactics needed to build movements to defeat the billionaire class.
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LOGISTICS: INCREASED PROFITS FOR BIG BUSINESS, OPPORTUNITY FOR WORKERS TO ORGANIZE The latest installment in our series on the growing power concentrated in logistics. Just as the modern factory socialized labor by bringing together thousands of workers in a single location, introducing the power of the industrial strike, the logistics revolution arranges workers and machines in specific configurations that introduces the power of the logistical strike.
OCCUPY INWOOD RESISTS PRO-DEVELOPER REZONING PLAN The last affordable community for working people in NYC is under threat. The city council is preparing to turn 50 blocks of this neighborhood into high rise luxury apartments. Read this eyewitness account of community members of northern Manhattan occupying a city council member’s office to demand affordable housing.
COP TASES 11-YEAR-OLD FOR STEALING GROCERIES: THE WHOLE SYSTEM IS GUILTY! Poverty looks like state violence, especially if you’re black, and working class. Once again this was highlighted on Monday when an off-duty Cincinnati Police Officer tased an 11-year-old girl at Queen City Kroger grocery store. The girl’s alleged crime – stealing food and then walking away from the officer!
Portuguese dockers took strike action across all ports on Friday 27 July. They are fighting against widespread persecution and union busting in Portuguese ports, especially in Leixões and Caniçal (Madeira), where workers are being threatened and harassed for joining SEAL – the national dockworkers union that strives to unite and fight for fair and safe working conditions and contracts.
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