Juan Ferre

[Juan Ferre @WorkerTF]

OUT NOW!
In this open access article in LAP, I argue that Chile's market-driven, unequal welfare regime (including reforms by Lagos and Bachelet) is key to understand the 2019 uprising. I use Polanyi's concept of "countermovement" to explain it
https://t.co/0lkjjGxTn0

[Juan Ferre @WorkerTF]

According to some sources, Kim Stanley Robinson based this dialogue on previous conversations he had with a PSL member…
(excerpt from The ministry for the future)

[Juan Ferre @WorkerTF]

Check out my piece in @JournalSpectre on welfare policy by center-left govs in Latin America.
With all the talk about socialists in office at the local level (#Mamdani) & municipal socialism, it's helpful to note the limits of state-management by the Left https://t.co/AQY9T0uXMZ

[Juan Ferre @WorkerTF]

https://t.co/lYsItmCm4v

[Cambridge University Press - Politics @CUP_PoliSci]

#OpenAccess from @LARRLASA -

The Rise of Javier #Milei and the Emergence of Authoritarian Liberalism in #Argentina - https://t.co/SYAv2RkYku

- @WorkerTF

#FirstView

[Juan Ferre @WorkerTF]

🚨Out now! In this #OpenAccess article in @LARRLASA, I provide an overview of the social and political phenomena that gave rise to libertarianism and led to the victory of Javier #Milei in #Argentina. It's based on a review of 10 recent books on the topic https://t.co/3YrlEXQs3Y

[Juan Ferre @WorkerTF]

Something extraordinary is happening in Argentina: the fans of two futbol (soccer) teams came out in support of retirees, against vicious cuts by the Milei government. Retirees and fans were repressed by the police, now dozens of other club fans will come out next week

[Fútbol y Política @FutboliPolitica]

🇦🇷En Argentina hinchas de Chacarita y Laferrere fueron ayer a apoyar a los jubilados que cada miércoles se congregan en el Congreso en protesta por los recortes de los medicamentos y por el ajuste a las jubilaciones por parte del gobierno de Milei.

[Sesame Workers Union @SesameWorkersU]

We expect @SesameWorkshop to uphold our shared values of fairness, transparency, and respect by recognizing our union and collectively bargaining over our working conditions and the terms of yesterday's layoffs.

[Anthony Cabassa @anthonycabassa]

UPDATE 🚨: As LAPD were about to make arrests, all of the police officers just … left. I’ve never seen anything like this. Hundreds of police with zip ties, and all of them have just left. No arrests, protestors shout in victory as police leave the area.

[Left Voice @left_voice]

Despite the rightward shift, there are several counter-tendencies that could undermine capitalist hegemony. These should be taken into account when assessing the terrain of class struggle. @WorkerTF
https://t.co/S7etatLBEg

[Juan Ferre @WorkerTF]

Mark my words:
Trump's shock and awe strategy will backfire

[Juan Ferre @WorkerTF]

Doctors in NYC are ready to strike!
Check out this awesome interview w/one of them.
Update: Yesterday, their union, Doctors Council (DC-SEIU) announced a TA, but most rank-and-file doctors I talked to think it's a terrible deal.
Stay tuned for more
https://t.co/0m0rrDSYU4

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

BREAKING: Nearly 5,000 nurses and doctors just launched a historic strike at 8 hospitals in Oregon.

It’s the biggest health care strike and first doctors' strike in state history.

The workers at Providence hospitals are fighting against under-staffing and bad health benefits.

[Juan Ferre @WorkerTF]

There’s a growing rift between the Venezuelan govt and Petro—one of the few Latin American president sending a representative to Maduro’s inauguration—around the new wave of detentions of left/center-left organizers. Maduro is increasingly isolated.

[Gustavo Petro @petrogustavo]

El Frente Democrático Popular de Venezuela no es una organización delincuencial y es movimiento fraterno del progresismo colombiano. Sus miembros estan siendo detenidos.

https://t.co/X4iDLpMBV3

[Juan Ferre @WorkerTF]

Breaking: Residents & fellows at Temple hospital vote to unionize by a crushing 425 to 11.
This is one of 5 hospitals whose residents recently filed for a union.
Here’s an interview w/one of the physician organizers in this unprecedented drive @cirseiu
https://t.co/VGcqceJMBo

[Juan Ferre @WorkerTF]

Residents and fellows in Philly have had enough of ridiculously long work-schedules, inappropriate tasks, and meager wages. They want a union and they’re ready to fight for their rights!
Here’s an interview we did with one of them

https://t.co/VGcqceKkqW
@cirseiu

[Dr. Jennifer Lincoln | OBGYN @DrJenLincoln]

After 1 year of bargaining with Providence execs and NO meaningful progress, today we announced we are striking on January 10th.

At my hospital this includes the IM, Med-Peds, Palliative care, & OB hospitalists, and the Prov-employed OBGYNs, midwives, and ALL the nurses. /1

[Juan Ferre @WorkerTF]

Not that China today is anything close to a communist country
Let’s be clear on that

[Juan Ferre @WorkerTF]

I remember when NYC subways were covered with Shen Yun ads. They said “China before communism” showing a colorful, magnificent dance performance. Turns out Shen Yun relied on massive unpaid labor, justified on religious grounds, to amass $266 M in 10 years.
It’s a great metaphor

[Juan Ferre @WorkerTF]

Incredible energy among Amazon workers on strike at JFK8 warehouse!
#AmazonStrike