WaPo Mad That Debt Ceiling Deal Didn’t Cut Social Security (fair.org)
The FBI Is Hunting a New Domestic Terror Threat: Abortion Rights Activists (theintercept.com)
One Tech Subcontractor’s Road to Unionization (jacobin.com)
The UK's Tory Government, With Labour's Help, Just Took Another Big Step Toward Outlawing Peaceful Political Protest (www.nakedcapitalism.com)
Why Student Debt Is So High (neuburger.substack.com)
Why Political Strategy Needs Karl Marx (jacobin.com)
“Go Fly Yourself”: Marketing ‘Sex’ and the Great Stewardess Rebellion - Citations Needed interview (citationsneeded.medium.com)
Dorothy Thompson Was One of Britain’s Great Socialist Historians (jacobin.com)
The Seattle Anarchist Book Fair August 26th-27th (pugetsoundanarchists.org)
The Seattle Book Fair is on! Join us for two days of anarchist books, zines, and workshops; August 26th and 27th at the VERA Project.
"The perfect dictatorship would have the appearance of democracy" (beehaw.org)
A quote loosely attributed to Aldous Huxley, but contested here....
How Israeli Spyware Endangers Activists Across the Globe (znetwork.org)
Social Housing: How a New Generation of Activists Are Reinventing Housing (nonprofitquarterly.org)
Will Erie Locomotive Plant Workers Strike for the Right to Strike over Grievances? (labornotes.org)
‘Despite Legalization, the People Harmed the Most Are Not Able to Benefit’ (fair.org)
LA Times Frames School Board Melee as Clash of Protesters, Not Far-Right Attack (fair.org)
1,400 Pennsylvania Locomotive Manufacturing Workers Are on the Verge of a Strike (jacobin.com)
In Court Testimony, Climate Scientists Rebuke Montana for Support of Fossil Fuels (www.desmog.com)
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society (lemmy.world)
Narendra Modi’s Electoral Bandwagon Went Off the Road in Karnataka (jacobin.com)
News Brief: "Go Fly Yourself": Marketing 'Sex' and the Great Stewardess Rebellion of the 1970s — Citations Needed Podcast (soundcloud.com)
Intolerable Conditions Drive ‘Shortages,’ Transit Workers Say (labornotes.org)
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is a Lying Crank Posing as a Progressive Alternative to Biden (www.currentaffairs.org)
I thought that this article was a very thorough account of how RFK Jr isn't a real left-leaning alternative to Biden even if you can look past the anti-vax stuff which alone should be enough to give pause. Reeks of right-wing plant.
Who are some of your favorite socialist writers?
I'm a huge fan of David Graeber. Bullshit Jobs was part of what radicalized me, and I read it whenever I'm feeling isolated and misunderstood by an unjust world. He gets it, man. His other works are amazing too, and I'd highly recommend them all to anyone interested in socialism. I'm still heartbroken that he died so young....
Reminder that your boss steals from you. (i.redd.it)
A great podcast episode that helps explain why China isn't socialist (www.iheart.com)
It's common among anti-tankie leftists to claim that China is a state capitalist economy, but as Mia Wong explains, the "state" part of that phrase is debatable. China is arguably just another neoliberal country with a more complicated chain of ownership for its corporations.
