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  Crazy how much money capitalists will spend in order to “save” money. What this posts fails to mention is that the $15,000 extra his company spent to avoid giving 1 person a $4,000 raise was peanuts compared to what they would have spent in legal fees, PR, private cops, internal spies, and vigilantes, to fight them if they had chosen to organize their coworkers and fighter for a better contract.

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  Nearly 10% of Housing owned by billionaire Landlords is empty, because they make more money keeping rent so high it is empty than if they lowered it and had 100% occupancy. Jail the billionaire landlords then you will be able to house ALL the homeless for FREE. --BladeoftheSun@bladeofthes.bsky.social

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  Today in Labor History September 23, 1945: Vietnamese workers rose up against French and British troops to create the Saigon commune. Fed up with racism and violent harassment by the French colonialists, they shot and killed police, officials, and at least 100 French colonialists living there. They built barricades with overturned cars and trees, chopped down from the outskirts of town. The official resistance, the Vietminh, stayed out of the direct conflict, limiting their support to providing...

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  Today in Labor History September 22, 1919: 400,000 steelworkers, in 50 cities, went on strike to protest intolerable working conditions. Union leaders believed that if they could organize the steel workers, it would lead to a massive wave of unionization across the country. Thus began the Great Steel Strike of 1919. The bosses, however, were able to turn public opinion against the workers by calling them Communists and immigrants. They attacked strike organizer William Z. Foster as a revolutiona...

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  Refusing to vote for a genocide-supporter is not a vote for, nor the cause of, fascism Perhaps if Dems actually took a principled stand, condemned Israel & genocide, taxed the billionaires, & offered a platform with effective solutions to the economic & climate crises, people would vote for them

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  Every U.S. anarchist has heard of anarchist-controlled Catalonia (1936-1937). Many have heard about Makhnovshchina, the anarchist autonomous zone in Ukraine (1917-1921). How 'bout the Korean anarchist autonomous zone in Manchuria (1929-1931)? Today in Labor History September 18, 1931: The Korean People's Association in Manchuria was dissolved by the Japanese, after they invaded and established a dictatorship over the anarchist autonomous zone. Two million Korean migrants lived in the au...

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  Today in Labor History September 15, 1923: Osugi Sakae and his partner Noe Itō, both anarchists and feminists, were murdered by the Japanese military, during the 3-week long Kantō Massacre. They also murdered Osugi’s six-year-old nephew, who had dual US-Japanese citizenship. Over the course of the massacre, Japanese authorities slaughtered over 6,000-9,000 ethnic Koreans, along with Japanese political dissidents. The massacre began on September 1, 1923, the same day as the Great Kanto Earthquake...

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  How could the Dems win in 2028? Probably not with a repeat of the Harris playbook of cozying up to Wall Street and promoting a status quo of genocide abroad and privation for the working-class at home. The number one issue for voters is almost always the economy; specifically, their ability to keep their families housed, fed and healthy, something that was becoming harder and harder, even before the Republicans gutted what little social safety net had existed prior to Trump 2.0. And one way of...

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  Why isn't this more in news? Ebola outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) had its highest weekly death toll last week, with more than 300 new deaths. The outbreak is now the fastest-growing in history, with 7x more deaths than the 2014-2016 West African outbreak in its first three months. The 2014-2016 outbreak ended with >11,000 deaths, by far the most ever, and incl many infections in Europe and the U.S. (from aid workers). This current outbreak is on track to shatter...

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  Will nature find a way....to turn us all vegan? Well, the data is overwhelmingly clear: meat production is one of the largest sources of greenhouse emissions, as well as a major consumer of water and petroleum-based fertilizers (used to fuel the production of their feed). Consequently, many people are reducing their consumption of meat, or cutting it out entirely, in order to lessen their carbon footprint. But there is another reason why meat consumption may start to decline, a reason that so...

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  Today in Labor History August 27, 1934: 7,000 Filipino lettuce cutters and mainly white packing shed workers went on strike against the powerful Salinas Valley growers and shippers, demanding union recognition & improved wages and working conditions. Many of the white workers were Dust Bowl refugees. Most of the Filipino workers had immigrated as U.S. nationals, after the U.S. took over the Philippines, in the wake of the Spanish-American and Filipino-American Wars, the latter of which i...

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  Today in Labor History August 27, 1942: Germans and Ukrainian Auxiliary Police began the Sarny Massacre in Nazi-occupied Poland (now part of Ukraine). They killed 14,000-18,000 people over 2 days, mostly Jews from Sarny and neighboring towns. At least 100 Roma were also killed. Prior to the massacre, Sarny had a Jewish population of 5-7,000. Soviet forces which had occupied the town since 1939, retreated after the Nazi assault on the USSR in 1941. However, Ukrainian nationalists remained, hoping...

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  Today in Labor History August 27, 1798: An army of 2,000 French troops and United Irishmen, led by Wolfe Tone, routed a combined force of 6,000 British and Protestant loyalist soldiers in the Battle of Castlebar, during the Irish Rebellion of 1798. Wolfe Tone’s Society of United Irishmen formed in the wake of the French Revolution in order to win “equal representation in government for all people,” emancipation of Catholics and an independent Ireland. The organization was composed of both Protes...

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  Today in Labor History August 27, 1917: The IWW was made illegal in Australia and their membership rolls were given to employers, leading to widespread repression. Despite all this, the IWW helped lead the General Strike of 1917. #WorkingClass #LaborHistory #IWW #australia #ww1 #union #GeneralStrike

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  F*ck Fl*ck & the horse they rode in on Flock Camera CEO Asks Americans to “Compromise” on Privacy https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/flock-camera-ceo-asks-americans-132811636.html

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  A federal judge cited Dolly Parton’s bosom as he blocked Texas’ drag ban, proving that even in death, the LGBTQ+ icon can still defend the rights of queens. The judge suggested that a strict reading of Texas’ Senate Bill 12 could have been used to kick even the Queen of Country off a Texas stage. https://www.advocate.com/politics/states/judge-blocks-texas-drag-ban

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  Expert Warns U.S. Grid Could Face an 18-Month Blackout Scenario. Nineteen minutes. That's how long gunmen needed in 2013 to disable 17 giant transformers at PG&E's power plant offline near San Jose — firing roughly 120 shots and targeting cooling systems before disappearing into the night. Utility workers spent 27 days restoring that single substation. Former Federal Energy Regulatory Commission chair Jon Wellinghoff later ran the numbers and arrived at a scenario that...

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  Today in Labor History August 29, 1786: Shays' Rebellion began in Massachusetts. It was an armed uprising of farmers and tradesmen in response to a debt crisis among the citizenry and in opposition to the state government's increased efforts to collect taxes both on individuals and their trades. And it was an attempt to overthrow the government. Revolutionary War veteran Daniel Shays led four thousand rebels (called Shaysites) in a protest against economic and civil rights injust...

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  Today in Labor History August 29, 1968: Chicago cops brutally assaulted demonstrators, reporters & bystanders at the Democratic national convention. https://youtu.be/epxmX_58tOo #workingclass #LaborHistory #chicago #Democrat #protest #demonstration #police #policebrutality #dnc

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  Today in Labor History August 29, 1970: LAPD brutally attacked 10,000 Chicano antiwar demonstrators, killing three, including journalist Ruben Salazar. The attack led to a week of rioting. Salazar was portrayed under the name "Roland Zanzibar" in Oscar Zeta Acosta's 1973 novel “The Revolt of the Cockroach People.” Oscar Zeta Acosta, himself, was portrayed in Hunter S. Thompson’s “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas,” as his “Samoan attorney.” Salazar wrote for the L.A. Time...

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  Today in Labor History August 29, 1997: Dancers at Lusty Lady voted to join the Exotic Dancers Alliance, a local of SEIU, winning guaranteed work shifts, pay raises, removal of the one-way mirrors that allowed clients to secretly film them, and protection from arbitrary discipline and firing. They also forced management to end its racist scheduling practice of allowing only one BIPOC dancer on stage at any given time. In 2003, when management threatened to close the club, the workers took it ove...

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  Today in Labor History August 29, 1914: the Macaroni Riots began in Providence Rhode Island, in response to food inflation and price gouging, particularly the local price of pasta, which hit the Italian American community particularly hard, and in response to years of racism and prejudice against them, particularly by the police. The riots of August 29-30 and September 7 caused the equivalent of $643,000 worth of damage (in today’s dollars). Dozens were injured, including 14 by gunshot, and over...

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  Today in Labor History August 23, 1927: Sacco and Vanzetti, two Italian immigrant anarchists living in the U.S., were executed murder during a botched robbery in Boston. However, there was no evidence linking them to the crime. They both had alibis, too, including an official at the Italian consulate. Their trial was rife with racism and political bias. The judge, Webster Thayer, said the following about Vanzetti: "This man, although he may not have actually committed the crime attributed t...

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  Today in Labor History August 4, 1974: The fascist terrorist organization, Ordine Nero, set off a bomb on the Italicus Express train at San Benedetto Val di Sambro, Italy, killing 12 people and wounding 22. Their goal was to destroy the liberal-democratic state because of its alleged tolerance of Communists, dark-skinned immigrants and Jews. #workingclass #LaborHistory #fascism #terrorism #italy #communism #antisemitism #racism #bomb

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  Today in Labor History August 4, 1942: U.S. and Mexico began the Bracero Program to provide cheap Mexican labor to replace U.S. workers who were being sent to fight in World War II, and to replace the 500,000 Mexican workers who were deported during the Great Depression in order to mollify xenophobic demands for “white jobs.” The Bracero program also gave farm-owners an alternative to hiring Anglo farm workers who hadn’t been drafted, many of whom were affiliated with the radical IWW. The Bracer...

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  Today in Labor History August 4, 1964: Civil rights workers Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James Chaney were found dead in Mississippi after disappearing on June 21. They were activists with the Congress of Racial Equality promoting voting registration among African Americans. Seven Klu Klux Klan members, including Deputy Sheriff Price, were convicted. #workingclass #LaborHistory #racism #kkk #KuKluxKlan #CivilRights #core #mississippi #murder