The Commoner #7: The "governance" of Imposed Scarcity
Issue 7 of The Commoner magazine
GM's plant closures stink of corruption on so many levels
Submitted by Soapy on Mar 25 2019 15:52
Investors and top executives have used profits at GM to enrich themselves for years, while insisting mass layoffs are an unavoidable fact of economics.
Thoughts on the strike of Albanian students last winter
Submitted by Mumakil on Mar 20 2019 08:50
During the last months of the passing year, a rather important event has unfolded in my home-country of Albania. This event is none other than the student strike launched against the legislation passed by the Rama government with regard to third-degree education. This law aims to introduce a complete restructuring of the prevailing situation in the sphere of higher education, in favor of private educational institutions. The strong presence of students in the street, with the organization of many protests against the ministry of education, the government and the state, begins on March 4, 2018, and continued until February, with a small pause in their activity during the turn of the year.
Links to PDFs of 96 left-wing books
Here's a list (taken from wrightswriting.com) of some good leftist books. Click on the titles for the PDFs. It's a somewhat arbitrary list, but I tried to keep it confined to fairly easy-to-read books, not overly theoretical or abstruse ones that might leave the beginning reader bewildered. I've been unable to find PDFs of certain excellent works, unfortunately. You can also check out the extraordinary footnotes to Chomsky's Understanding Power, which have informative excerpts from hundreds of books. .
Thoughts on overcoming despair
Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will. But perhaps even some cautious optimism of the intellect, too?
Worker Cooperatives and Revolution: History and Possibilities in the United States
This book, published in 2014, attempts to bring Marxism and the solidarity economy together in both theory and practice.
The American oligarchy
A review of a book that investigates the moral rot corroding U.S. society from the top down.
Our passive society
Submitted by Marx-lover on Aug 23 2018 07:55
A short history of how our society became so rife with collective passiveness.
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