Protesters have set fire to cars and buildings in France as demonstrations against the cost of living and declining public services escalate. There is serious unrest in Paris and multiple locations across the country.
@Chrisfinn2703 He would have been all over the appointment...but this manager already looks a massive problem. Squad is built exclusively to play 3-5-2, but he's insisting on forcing it into 4-3-3, the formation taught to every Dutch child in nursery. Looks very limited/out his depth already.
Israel spyware firms hacked into Al Jazeera devices in 2024 using a new ‘adfection’ method previously unknown to the public. The ‘zero click’ hacks can infiltrate your phone or computer simply by scrolling past an ad online.
Al Jazeera’s @mohamedwashere explains.
The Land to Those Who Work It: Land Reform in GDR
As millions go hungry under capitalist agribusiness model, we look back at the history of land reform & socialist cooperatives in East Germany, which transformed the social and economic reality of farmers.
https://t.co/7B7ISEdHOf
Councils are in crisis. We must put pressure on the government to increase funding and protect our local services. Email your elected representative to support our campaign and help secure better funding #SaveOurServices
https://t.co/DvBuoneEWY https://t.co/lOJ1Ek7hns
Taking the path of growth by any means necessary through class-neutral politics will only lead to integration into the existing system. Payton Q argues that DSA must expand beyond its existing base by pursuing a strategy that draws clear lines between exploiters and the exploited to build genuine working-class trust.
https://t.co/YD0PkI5MwV
The Left would be stronger if we learned from evangelical organizing
Here are 14 lessons for us from Rick Warren’s classic “The Purpose Driven Church” on belonging before belief, joy before jargon, and the lost art of bringing people in
https://t.co/9STLvn5Oxf
Javier Moreno Zacarés (@HarveyMurenow) in Sidecar:
'Fifteen years after the indignados occupied the Puerta del Sol, Madrid’s central plaza is once again the locus of a mass movement that has brought Spain to a political impasse. How are we back here again?'
https://t.co/AD4h88PWSr
Last summer, Philly's blue-collar municipal workers struck for the first time in a generation. They linked up with veteran activists from other movements. It affected the whole of local society.
Can it serve as the nucleus for a future general strike?
https://t.co/wiYhxL8aP0
Who is behind hundreds of complaints being lodged against The National? 🤔
After months of reporting, our newsroom uncovered an unlikely network stretching from Scotland to Tel Aviv – ultimately targeting our reporting on the genocide in Gaza
Our editor Laura Webster explains
Why did Marxism flourish in the early 20th century and again in the 1960s and ’70s?
Vivek Chibber argues that the answer lies in the strength of the labor movement. https://t.co/mq39YKKN0U
Nabi Eullmann (@Nabi_Eullmann) reads Phil Neel's Hellworld through capitalism's invariant laws, subsistence struggles and the party-as-process, bringing Communisation theorists into conversation with Orthodox Marxism's republican commitment.
https://t.co/yAiUAClWoI
Julian Assele (@CatholicClod) reviews Points of Departure: Refusal of Work and the Crisis of Capitalism: Collected Writings of Harry Cleaver, edited by Robert Ovetz and Kevin Van Meter. While Cleaver rightly seeks to recenter working-class agency and grapple with the changing shape of class struggle, his incomplete application of the class composition method risks a voluntarist view of capital’s counteroffensive and leads to a flawed critique of revolutionary organization. https://t.co/7R1afdnt5L
Navigating the course between economic retreat driven by the necessities of survival and adherence to revolutionary principles through popular mobilization, Albert Gil (@LarryAlbertGil) examines the latest slate of Cuban economic reforms in the context of the Marxist revolutionary project.
https://t.co/2FpZDizQ0B