Happy #SocialistSunday everyone. Let's start it off with a clip of Joan Ryan former #Labour MP and Chair of Labour friends of Israel, explaining how she spent the day of her resignation "supergluing that label" to #Corbyn's head.

We all know the label, we all knew it was used solely to attack #Corbyn and #socialists inside Labour.

It was the only weapon that ended up working after the British establishment had tried dozens of other strategies.

#ItWasaScam #JeremyCorbyn #LabourParty

#Strike Ready #DSA: An Instrument of #Solidarity
https://www.dsausa.org/democratic-left/strike-ready-dsa-an-instrument-of-solidarity/?akid=59210.176848.hjw2qa&rd=1&t=19
#socialists #labor #workers #unions @demsocialists

Is anyone at #Socialism2023 in #Chicago? The in-person speaker schedule looked great. I wasn’t as inspired by the virtual conference program, but I’ll take another look: it starts tomorrow. More #socialists are considering “non-reformist reforms”, such as #PublicBanking and #ParticipatoryBudgeting and even —gasp! — #Cooperatives. Cheers to the #SolidarityEconomy and all the ways we can do #PeopleCare and #FutureCare and #EarthCare. #Love #BoundlessRegenerativeCulture #permaculture

Why #socialists must lead the #climate fightback
https://labouroutlook.org/2023/08/30/why-socialists-must-lead-the-climate-fightback/

#Florida #welfare #socialists

Florida shouldn't accept this. They should grab those boot straps and pull...real hard. Otherwise, they are the welfare queens they call everyone else.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2023/08/28/president-joseph-r-biden-jr-approves-florida-emergency-declaration-6/

Socialist Workers' League Statement on the Coup in Niger and ECOWAS’ Reaction

http://www.rebelnews.ie/2023/08/22/socialist-workers-league-statement-on-the-coup-in-niger-and-ecowas-reaction/

#Socialists in #Nigeria have issued the following #statement on the #coup in #Niger and the #reaction by #ECOWAS. We republish it here in #full.

Faerie-tale-esque home in rural Britain.

Surrounded by abject #poverty.

We really are a nation of failed #socialists. Nej? :big_eyes:

#BooksDayOut

#Socialists: "For the many, not the few"
#Conservative party: "For the few, not the many"
#Conservative voter: "For me and no-one else"

What kind of world do we want? 🤔

"The org. [#DSA] recently elected a new national political committee, and its most revolutionary factions gained seats. This led their sympathizers to euphorically declare, “we WON A LEFT-WING MAJORITY.” #Socialists more disposed to electoral theories of change took umbrage at this statement. After all, in #anticapitalist circles, one’s position on the left-to-right spectrum is often taken as a measure of virtue."

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/08/the-28-types-of-progressives.html

#Bellingcat’s Christo Grozev hits the nail on the head when describing (European) #socialists as being "useful idiots" with regards to #Russia. To see that this is true, you need to look no further than the Austrian social democrats appalling participation (or lack thereof) when president Zelenskyy spoke in front of the Austrian parliament earlier in the year. #politics
https://www.ft.com/content/03f220e1-6a7e-4850-bf4e-4b0f521d8f8c

The West's Hypocrisy on Niger Coup

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qe4cpfZvBxM&ab_channel=red.

As the West lines up to condemn the bloodless coup in Niger, we look back at some of the bloody coups the West has itself orchestrated in Africa.

#africa #resourcetheft #looting #west #socialists #murdered #coups #IMF #subservience #debt #control

https://inthesetimes.com/article/democratic-socialists-labor-organizing-teamsters-strike-unionizing-dsa

#Socialists working on #salting workplaces

“The end of the Bernie campaign morphed into a summer salting project”. Salts — labor organizers who seek jobs at nonunion workplaces — have traditionally been paid by #unions. Lately, #DSA has been training salts on a voluntary basis as a means of growing the labor movement and making it more militant. YDSA has gone campus by campus to recruit graduates into salting at #union organizing hotspots like #Amazon and #Starbucks.

Lawrence W. Britt: 14 Characteristics of #Fascism

"Historian Lawrence Britt studied the fascist regimes of #Hitler (Germany), #Mussolini (Italy), #Franco (Spain), #Suharto (Indonesia), and #Pinochet (Chile) and found they had 14 elements in common. He calls these the identifying characteristics of fascism.

1. Powerful and Continuing #Nationalism
Fascist regimes tend to make constant use of #patriotic mottos, slogans, symbols, songs, and other paraphernalia. #Flags are seen everywhere, as are flag symbols on clothing and in public displays.

2. Disdain for the Recognition of #HumanRights
Because of fear of enemies and the need for security, the people in fascist regimes are persuaded that human rights can be ignored in certain cases because of “need.” The people tend to look the other way or even approve of torture, summary executions, assassinations, and long incarcerations of prisoners.

3. Identification of #Enemies/#Scapegoats as a Unifying Cause
The people are rallied into a unifying patriotic frenzy over the need to eliminate a perceived common threat or foe: #racial, #ethnic or #religious #minorities; #liberals; #communists; #socialists, #terrorists…

4. Supremacy of the #Military
Even when there are widespread #domestic problems, the military is given a disproportionate amount of government funding, and the domestic agenda is neglected. Soldiers and military service are glamorized.

5. Rampant #Sexism
The governments of fascist nations tend to be almost exclusively male-dominated. Under fascist regimes, traditional #gender roles are made more rigid. Opposition to abortion is high, as is #homophobia and anti-#gay legislation.

6. Controlled #MassMedia
Sometimes the media is directly controlled by the government, but in other cases, the media is indirectly controlled by government regulation or by sympathetic media spokespeople and executives. Government #censorship and #secrecy especially in war time, are very common.

7. Obsession with #NationalSecurity
Fear of hostile foreign powers is used as a motivational tool by the government over the masses.

8. #Religion and Government are Intertwined
Governments in fascist nations tend to use the most common religion in the nation as a tool to manipulate public opinion. Religious rhetoric and terminology is common from government leaders, even when the major tenets of the religion are diametrically opposed to the government’s policies or actions.

9. Protection of #Corporate Power
The #industrial and business #aristocracy of a fascist nation often are the ones who put the government leaders into power, creating a mutually beneficial business/government relationship and power elite.

10. Suppression of #Labor Power
Because the organizing power of labor is the only real threat to a fascist government, labor #unions are either eliminated entirely, or are severely suppressed.

11. Disdain for #Intellectuals and the #Arts
Fascist nations tend to promote and tolerate open hostility to #HigherEducation and academia. It is not uncommon for professors and other academics to be censored or even arrested. Free expression in the arts is openly attacked, and governments often refuse to fund the arts.

12. Obsession with #Crime and #Punishment
Under fascist regimes, the #police are given almost limitless power to enforce laws. The people are often willing to overlook police abuses and even forego civil liberties in the name of patriotism. There is often a national police force with virtually unlimited power in fascist nations.

13. Rampant #Cronyism and #Corruption
Fascist regimes almost always are governed by groups of friends and associates who appoint each other to government positions and use governmental power and authority to protect their friends from accountability. It is not uncommon in fascist regimes for national resources and even treasures to be appropriated or even outright stolen by government leaders.

14. #Fraudulent #Elections
Sometimes elections in fascist nations are a complete sham. Other times elections are manipulated by #SmearCampaigns against or even assassination of opposition candidates, use of legislation to control #voting numbers or political district boundaries, and manipulation of the media. Fascist nations also typically use their judiciaries to manipulate or control elections.

This post is a summary of Fascism, Anyone? by Lawrence W. Britt published in 2003 by Free Inquiry magazine."

https://voxpopulisphere.com/2017/08/23/lawrence-britt-14-characteristics-of-fascism/

"#Watching various #secular/ #religious #Nationalists, #Imperialists, #Wagnerites, #vatniks, #state #socialists of various #patriotisms, and #neoliberals all #arguing about how best to #exploit a #Niger in #crisis... not a one caring about the #people or #planet.

It's not 2023, it's 1823."

via #theanarchistfederation
https://t.me/AnarchistFederationIFA

One of the first things #Obama did as president did was a coup against the elected Democratic Socialist Government of #Honduras, instituting a fascist narco dictatorship that lasted over 10 years.

You think they're gonna let #Socialists take over their own Party?

We need to stop taking #Democrats at what they present themselves as, Woodrow Wilson was a #Progressive

#Thirdparties line up to oppose #Issue1
https://flip.it/-eWW0g
#libertarians #socialists #greenparty #constitution #OHIO

Looks like #socialists in #Spain managed to fend off the right-wing march. Still not out of the woods.

#elections #spainpolitics #vox #sanchez
Will there be a 6th election in just 8 yrs.

I'm still hoping for #Sanchez 🇪🇸 to survive the #23J as president of the Spanish government.

But if he goes down under the bean (#Feijóo), there's still some hope for the European #Socialists&Democrats

Paulette #Lenert has a fair chance of dethroning Xavier #Bettel in #Luxembourg 🇱🇺

And all of the sudden, Frans #Timmermans appears as the running favourite to replace #Rutte in the #Netherlands 🇳🇱 leading a coalition between the #Greens and his #Labour party #PvdA

Please read this, all in politics, specially th center right. It is not @Greenpeace it is not #socialists it is @FT and our business, it is our #economists. It is economics stupid as they used to say. Please do not destroy our economics and planet https://t.co/hobblJQjkk

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/spietikainen/status/1679573748549050370

by #LawrenceWang in #Jacobin:

"The law mandates the state’s public power authority, the New York Power Authority (NYPA), to plan, build, and operate renewable projects to meet New York’s ambitious decarbonization timetable — 70 percent renewable electricity by 2030, 100 percent by 2040 — where the private sector fails to do so on its own.

"But the BPRA is more than 'just' a climate bill. It is part of an unabashedly socialist vision of how to build a better world. The BPRA turns the renewable energy transition into a tool for empowering labor, materially improving working-class conditions, advancing racial justice, and laying the groundwork for true democratic ownership of our energy systems. It also provides an important model for other states to follow and a demonstration of the power socialists can wield in designing and passing policy."

https://jacobin.com/2023/07/new-york-bpra-green-new-deal-public-renewable-energy

#NewYork #NY #BPRA #GreenNewDeal #RenewableEnergy #sustainability #jobs #energy #socialists