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World Incarceration Rates If Every U.S. State Were A Country (No other country even makes the first page)
  • Can't find much about the numbers of prisoners. But folks should check out the plan progressivo. (i had to use scihub to view) Most Cuban prisoners have short term stays (1-4 years). Are paid the same as civilians. Are watched and given political education by civilians who do the same work, live in the same quarters and eat the same food as the prisoners. There are lots of sports, with baseball being pretty popular. It kinda sounds closer to a summer camp with classes, paid farm work and camp counselors than what we think about prisons in the US.

  • Mexico’s President confirms upcoming fuel shipment to Cuba
  • Probably not, the US skirts the legal definition of a blockade by creating insane hoops to jump through. Countries that want to trade with Cuba can't use the SWIFT banking system, meaning no digital transactions, meaning they literally have to carry the cash with them to the island and back. They have to use ships that can't dock in US ports for 6 months after docking in Cuba (which Cuba having a gdp less than half a percent of US gdp means businesses have no incentive to choose trade with Cuba). And the trade has to be humanitarian, no military applications (but this also applies to medical and tech equipment which US says have "dual purpose"). All that said, there are awesome countries that choose to go through these hoops at significant cost and risk. But it takes a lot of time and planning to setup and get the right permits.

  • "The PSL is revisionist, I’m gonna support the greens" S4A 😭
  • Probably the same goal as any ML party: Spread revolutionary ideas to wider audiences, expose contradictions in the bourgeois political system, develop organizational capacity and connect with and educate the masses. The vote number itself can also be helpful as a structure test for self-analysis. Where was PSL successful, what tactics worked, how did that contribute to cadre growing, larger protests, etc.

  • I'm trying to find an old meme video of Hillary Clinton

    Does anyone remember an old meme video that used this Chatham House video of Hillary Clinton talking about China? https://x.com/ChathamHouse/status/1390284424806289410

    It used the line 'You will never compete and win against them, unless you take back the means of production.' as a hook and there was music backing it. I think the person who made had their twitter account banned.

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    Is labor organizing in the imperial core regressive?
  • Unions at their core are just all of the workers in a workplace. Sure workers in the US can be reactionary as hell so how do we change that? Well, Lenin talked about unions being schools for communism. They're where the average person can start to gain organizational skills, political training and ultimately state building skills. These are skills no other school in the US will teach you. You take these skills to address the material conditions of the workplace and then you can broaden that to outside the workplace. As socialists we don't get power from capital, we get it from people. If we want any chance of meaningful power in the imperial core, then we need to meet people where they're at in the struggle. Lots of those people are workers struggling in workplaces and unions are the tool we can use to address that.

  • Super Mario and the Rainbow Stars - Demo 2 Release Trailer
  • I feel like at this point, it's just so they can stop working on the project and blame it on the inevitable C&D. The only project I know of that avoided this was the person who made a links awakening dx hd for pc, released the game in full and then they disappeared.

  • Is the Fed Behind the Curve? As Unemployment Rises, Worries Mount.
  • The Fed does the exact same shit it always does. They raise interest rates to discipline labor when it looks like workers have more bargaining power to leverage over profitable businesses. And then they eventually lower interest rates because not doing so would cripple the economy (cuz companies will just downsize, hold their money and not do anything). Inflation has way more to do with energy prices and global supply chains than interest rates.

  • Sunday Was Gaming Day: What Are You Playing Thread
  • Bought a cheap steam key for smt 3 nocturne and modded the hell out of it. It's been pretty fun aside from the time I got ambushed, insta killed and lost a few hours of progress because my dumbass never saves.

  • Bethesda Game Studios workers have unionized
  • It seems they organized with CWA, which is a real union. CWA has been organizing heavily in game dev and tech for years now. For example the Alphabet workers union is CWA and they've worked closely with the no tech for apartheid campaign which is awesome. How strong the Bethesda local will be will depend on how active their members are.

  • (cw transphobia) Teamsters President endorses "Pro-labor Conservativism"
  • This 100%. The job of socialist organizers within the union is to take those wins, protect them, use them to fight for more wins, win leadership positions and ultimately build a school for working class struggle. The jobs of socialist activists outside the union is to support the union so that they get wins. External criticism of unions from the outside breaks internal unity and prevents solidarity from building between unions and parties/external orgs.

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