https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/news-brief-as-ups-strike-looms-media-frames-working-class-revolt-as-threat-to-economy
In this public News Brief, we break down media coverage of the potential UPS strike––and the trend more broadly in labor coverage––that paints a strike as something that harms "the consumer" or "the e
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2023/07/industrialism-is-bad-for-our-health-the-series-continues.html
New studies shed more unflattering light on the impact of modern diets on health.
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2023/07/should-there-really-be-a-supreme-court-its-role-always-has-been-anti-democratic.html
How much is the Supreme Court to blame for the red shift in policies?
https://neuburger.substack.com/p/links-for-a-fourth-of-july
How close can you come to the center and still be Far Left?
https://jacobin.com/2023/07/higher-education-marking-assessment-boycott-neoliberalism-students-degree
In the UK, university staff are engaged in a grading and assessment boycott as part of a long-running dispute over pay, pensions, and precarity. But university administrations are refusing to listen, leaving many students unable to graduate as normal.
https://jacobin.com/2023/07/h-g-wells-socialism-progress-science-fiction
The poverty of industrial England was the backdrop of H. G Wells’s childhood. This experience instilled in him a clear-eyed realism with which he rejected both utopianism and progressive notions that socialism could be won without class struggle.
https://jacobin.com/2023/07/france-riots-nahel-m-police-brutality
Riots like the ones France is seeing after the police killing of a teenager don't happen as a result of petty criminality. They only happen as a result of widespread anger at murderous policing, racial inequality, and social deprivation.
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/non-factional-armed-and-popular-why-a-palestinian-rebellion-is-coming/
Numbers can be dehumanizing. However, when placed in their proper context, they help to illuminate wider issues and answer urgent questions, such as why
https://monthlyreview.org/2023/07/01/planned-degrowth/
In the introduction to this summer's special issue on "Planned Degrowth," John Bellamy Foster outlines the major themes of degrowth thought, including, above all, a recognition of the need to…
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2023/07/why-dont-americans-take-more-vacations-blame-it-on-independence-day-4.html
How corporate interests created Americanization Day, later Independence Day, to counter the rising labor movement.
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