Thomas Maxwell PhD

Professeur Intervention & Communication Org. @UQAM/ Father of 2, Hockey Fan & 2 wheels enthusiast

[Thomas Maxwell PhD @thmaxwell]

Performing values...ou mise en valeur(s) des régimes de rationalité https://t.co/tRnkMYdc7M

[DiEM25 @DiEM_25]

A reminder.

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

All the takes are correct and yet they also miss the point.

Yes, it was insane for the Democrats to think they could win by running a soulless candidate, without a shred of progressive policy vision, pursuing endorsements from neocon war-hawks everybody hates, while arming and funding a genocide, and belittling and crushing those who have enough morality to protest it.  It is enraging that the Democrats are so smug and blind to this.

But these are all just symptoms.  The deeper reality is that liberalism has failed, liberalism is dead, and people urgently need to wake up to this fact and respond accordingly. It is a defunct ideology that cannot offer any meaningful solutions to our social and ecological crises and it must be abandoned.

Democrats have proven over and over again that they cannot accept even *basic* steps like public healthcare, affordable housing, and a public job guarantee - things that would dramatically improve the material, social and political conditions of the working classes. And they cannot accept a public finance strategy that would steer production away from fossil fuels and toward green transition to give us a shot at a liveable future.

Why? Because these things run against the objectives of capital accumulation. And for liberals capital is sacrosanct. They will do whatever it takes to ensure elite accumulation, it is their only consistent commitment.  At home, they suppress and demonize progressive and socialist tendencies. Abroad, they engage in endless wars and violence to suppress input prices in the global South and prevent any possibility of sovereign economic development.

The Democrats have done all this purposefully and knowingly, for my whole life, not as some kind of "mistake" but in full consciousness that it is in the interests of capital.

And because liberalism cannot address our crises, and because it crushes socialist alternatives, it inevitably paves the way for right-wing populism.  They know this pattern, and yet they risk it every time - this election being only the most recent example. They did it in 2016, when they actively crushed the Sanders campaign and sent Trump to the White House. They do it because ultimately they (and I mean the liberal ruling class here) don't really mind if fascists take power, so long as the latter too ensure the conditions for capital accumulation. They 100% prefer this to the possibility of a socialist alternative.

So, progressives have to face reality. The dream of "converting" the Democratic party is dead. This is now a fact and it must be accepted. The only option is to build a mass-based movement that can reclaim the working classes and mobilize a political vehicle that can integrate disparate progressive struggles into a unified and formidable political force and achieve substantive transformation. This will take real work, actual organizing, but it must be done and that process must begin now.

[Sait Simsek @Sait_Simsek_]

Powerful address by @FranceskAlbs

- Why didn’t Foreign Minister @melaniejoly meet with her?
- What are the government and pro-Israel groups afraid of?
- Why is there such strong enthusiasm and excitement among university students for her visits?

[Barry Eidlin @eidlin]

Shame on my university, @mcgillu , for trying to shut down a campus event featuring this brilliant, courageous woman, @FranceskAlbs , the @UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories. 1/

[Ferdinand Lassalle @FerdinandLass]

"L'université n'a plus les moyens de fonctionner" via Le monde

[Thomas Maxwell PhD @thmaxwell]

Guerre d’Israël contre le Liban : racisme et indécence dans le traitement médiatique occidental - CONTRETEMPS https://t.co/fqEDo5Byhx

[Ill Will @illwilleditions]

Toward a manifesto for positive anarchy.

“There is no power to take as the center. There are fixed configurations and preferential circuits between centers of power to be attacked, contorted, and warped.”

https://t.co/N7b5BlDGGq

[Thomas Maxwell PhD @thmaxwell]

« […] le capital est à la fois le moteur du travail de l’ingénieur, et le premier obstacle à la réalisation de ce travail »

https://t.co/WuuUvUfXC4

@infoLibertaire

[Elodie Dvt @Elo_Dvt87]

Gamberge.

[CELAT - Centre de recherche Cultures-Arts-Sociétés @LeCELAT]

📚 Le lancement du Manifeste de Montréal sur le #travail précaire, la #diversité de la main-d’œuvre, les #migrations internationales et la vulnérabilité en #santé et en #sécurité au travail se tiendra le 13 juin à 17h à Montréal!
→ https://t.co/dEyysyAsgd

[CELAT - Centre de recherche Cultures-Arts-Sociétés @LeCELAT]

✨ Coorganisé par Karine Bellerive (CELAT), le colloque 𝑃𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑟𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑠𝑐𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑑𝑒𝑠 #𝑎𝑓𝑓𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑠 se déroulera le 5 juin dans les locaux de l’Atelier de chronotopies urbaines à l’@UQAM!
→ https://t.co/zSzFCqHwfr
@CelatUqam @rechercheUQAM

[Ruba Ghazal @RubaGhazalQS]

12 000 personnes ont signé une pétition contre l’ouverture du Bureau du Québec en Israël. J’invite @M_Biron à poser le seul geste qui s’impose dans le contexte de la tragédie humanitaire à Gaza : fermer ce bureau de façon permanente. #polqc #AssNat
https://t.co/023nw7vo2r?

[Olivier Germain @Germainoli]

Sara Ahmed, philosophe : “La culture féministe est activiste”

Interview with @saranahmed in @telerama (French draft) https://t.co/dSe7p1nrXt

[Laurence Grondin-Robillard @LaurenceGrR]

Pour une collègue exceptionnelle!

[Olivier Germain @Germainoli]

Les camps d’Algérie, dernier tabou de la guerre
Pendant la guerre d’Algérie, de 1954 à 1962, les autorités françaises ont déplacé de force près de la moitié de la population rurale algérienne dans des camps. Une histoire encore méconnue.
https://t.co/NPmMPy74kL

[Institut de recherche et d'informations socioéco. @IRISrecherche]

Revue de presse | « Les personnes non syndiquées ont de la difficulté à connaître et à exercer leurs droits pour prévenir les accidents de travail, selon une enquête de l'IRIS. Pourtant, elles représentent près de 60 % des salarié·es au Québec. » https://t.co/sE8yljYTfQ

[Jewish Voice for Peace @jvplive]

In a huge win for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement, one of the world's largest pension funds, announced it divested almost half a billion from Israel Bonds. Norway’s pension fund divested the entirety of their Israel Bond holdings. 🧵

[Vacataires.org @vacataires_org]

Nadia est enseignante vacataire à @SorbonneParis1
Elle a une fille.

L’université lui doit tjrs 4 114€ pour les heures d’enseignement qu’elle a données en 2022-23.

Nadia vient de recevoir une mise en demeure. Elle et sa fille risquent l’expulsion de leur logement.

#payeznous