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		<title>Lessons from Wisconsin &#8211; Why M1GS?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A year ago, the original 21st century “Occupy” occurred in the United States &#8211; at the State Capitol in Madison, Wisconsin. Scott Walker, Tea Party, Koch-funded governor sought to eliminate collective bargaining of public workers. The unions erupted, thousands stormed the building and did not leave for two weeks. Even the Democrats in the state legislature fought this one as all of them fled Wisconsin to prevent a quorum for the vote. This constant protest materialised at the heels of the Egyptian Revolution to oust Mubarak. “We are Egypt” was the cry from the streets. I arrived in Madison in early March on the Union dollar. The physical all day occupation was over, but a presence of resistance continued to exist within and outside the building. Hundreds were still gathered, singing, chanting, speaking. Outside hundreds marched around the Capitol. The spirit was alive; people were angry, the air was electric with hope and despair. A little over a week later, Governor Walker decided it was time to by-pass the problem of quorum by removing the financial part of the bill which would allow it to pass without the Democrats. Clearly the contention was never about how to balance the budget in Wisconsin &#8211; it was how to demolish even the glimmer of a labor movement in the United States. Us, union organizers, were holed up in offices for most of our two week stay. We were asked to make phone calls in an attempt to build a database of all the union members since the bill could possibly bar the Union’s access to the workers at the workplaces. It was surreal, the week before the bill passed, the Union took the talent of organizers and used it for routine phonebanking. We were all perplexed and talked about need for a more radical approach. Yet the message from the Unions was recall. Recall those damn Republicans &#8211; they are the ones fucking shit up; look at the Democrats, they are on our side &#8211; they risk their lives by evading the vote. During the day, liberal reformism flowed in our dialogue; at night, pockets of resistance<a href="http://peoplenotprofit.net/2012/04/occupy-wall-street/resist-occupy-produce-why-m1gs-lessons-from-wisconsin/"> <br /><br /> (More)…</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Can Campaign Finance Reform Save Us?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 02:20:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“As Americans read about the flood of private money that is going into the current presidential campaign, most can’t help but shake their heads in disgust about how our democracy functions. ”With all the talk about changing Washington, voters are shrewd enough to understand that if contributors give this much money to the candidates in both parties, there is little chance that Washington will be much different in 2013.” This is how Princeton University Professor of history and public affairs, Julian Zelizer, began his latest commentary for CNN, It took a scandal to get real campaign finance reform. His article is one of the first in a new series put out by CNN, “money in politics,” which focusses entirely on issues surrounding campaign finance reform. The new series highlights what the Occupy protests have already shown: Americans’ concern with money’s influence over government has reached a fevered pitch – calls for “campaign finance reform,” and for government to “get the money out” of politics, even topped New York City General Assembly’s top two ”national chants” for the movement. The theme has been a focal point of recent protests to such an extent, in fact, that even Florida’s Representative Ted Deutch and Senator Tom Udall of New Mexico have felt there is some justification for introducing constitutional amendments to curb corporate influence over government. But what exactly are the proposed “campaign finance reforms,” and are they policies we should take seriously? Details of the reforms: Campaign finance reformers scored their first major victory in 1972 with the passage of the Federal Elections Campaign Act, or FECA, which required candidates to disclose sources of campaign contributions and expenditures, put caps on the amount of “hard money” individuals could donate to a campaign, and also created, for the first time a public financing system for politicians to opt into. Since its passage, reform advocates have attempted to push these regulations further. In addition to those already on the books, they propose a hodgepodge of new restrictions and laws to limit the influence of special interest groups, corporations and wealthy donors. The new proposals have ranged from creating a<a href="http://peoplenotprofit.net/2012/04/community_submitted_news/can-campaign-finance-reform-save-us/"> <br /><br /> (More)…</a>]]></description>
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		<title>On the Occupation and Vanguardism</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2012 23:25:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jeremy Kessler responds to Reihan Salam: Over at National Review Online, my friend Reihan Salam has a post up critiquing my recent piece on Occupy Wall Street. In it, Reihan suggests that the Occupation is a familiar caricature of an American left-wing movement, spearheaded by a vanguard of college-educated elites and backed by the power of relatively privileged, and economically poisonous, public sector unions. In doing so, I think he misunderstands both the composition and the politics of the Occupation, and my claims about them. First, in terms of composition, I don’t think I suggested—and I would not concede—that the core of the Occupation is a “relatively small collection of radicalized women and men, many of whom feel as though they should enjoy higher status by virtue of their cultural capital, sensibilities, and credentials.” There are a lot of people down at Zuccotti Park who are neither college-educated nor members of public sectors unions. The fact that 99 percent—or some large portion—of the nation is not currently occupying Wall Street does not indicate that a credentialed elite is. Second, Reihan appears to misread the Occupation’s politics or at least my rendering of them. The politics of the Occupation, whose sincerity I have so far seen little reason to doubt, is explicitly opposed to vanguardism. While a vanguard first seeks to seize power and only then to convert the majority to its cause, the Occupation admits that it will not have power until the majority stands with it. It is the Occupation’s rejection of vanguardism that leads to the tactical challenges that my piece seeks to address. Reihan’s critique, on the other hand, proceeds by assuming that the Occupation—or my rendering of it—depends on a vanguard in classic Leninist fashion. Here I think Reihan may be trying to fit my acknowledgement that the Occupation has not yet secured the participation of a majority of the nation into a standard right-wing paradigm that assumes the elitism of leftist movements. Putting these two misunderstandings aside, Reihan is correct that my piece looks forward to a broader base of support that would include unionized public employees and college-educated elites. His post helpfully raises two worries about the<a href="http://peoplenotprofit.net/2012/03/occupy-wall-street/on-the-occupation-and-vanguardism/"> <br /><br /> (More)…</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Marxist-Humanism’s concept of ‘Subject’</title>
		<link>http://peoplenotprofit.net/2012/03/theory/marxist-humanisms-concept-of-subject/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2012 08:08:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Editor’s Note: In early years of the 1970s leading up to the completion of her book, PHILOSOPHY AND REVOLUTION: FROM HEGEL TO SARTRE AND FROM MARX TO MAO, Raya Dunayevskaya engaged young revolutionaries in the ideas presented in that work. An example is a Jan. 15, 1971 letter, excerpted here, to young members of News and Letters Committees. Her discussion of the connection between subjects of revolt and philosophy speaks to concerns presented in our “Draft for Marxist-Humanist Perspectives” (See pp. 1, 5-8). The original can be found in Supplement to THE RAYA DUNAYEVSKAYA COLLECTION, 14110-11. Footnotes are by the editors. First, let me take up the question of language. [No word] is more important than Subject. Whether we mean by that the Movement, or a specific group like News and Letters Committees; whether we mean the workers or a single revolutionary; whether we mean women’s liberation, Blacks, Indians, “organization,” it is clear that “Subject” is the one that is responsible for both theory and practice. Therefore, we must not say “Subject must unite with its theory”; it is the subject who unites, or fails to unite, theory and practice. In a word, the preposition “with” is wrong. Perhaps part of the looseness of expression is due to my stressing how crucial theory is, that, as you put it, quoting me, “Philosophy is itself revolutionary.” Yes, because the whole point of philosophy, of dialectics &#8211; both its point of departure and point of return &#8211; is Freedom. The trouble with philosophers, whether they were only thinking of Utopia, the Future, or of Thought as their special province, was that they limited the concept of freedom. That is why Marx says (It is the very first quotation one meets even before turning to a single page of text in MARXISM AND FREEDOM) that “Freedom is so much the essence of man that even its opponents realize it&#8230;.No man fights freedom; he fights at most the freedom of others.” Marx “took advantage” of this nature of man, and therefore his thought, the striving for freedom, and said of Hegel’s dialectics &#8211; THE greatest philosophy produced by bourgeois<a href="http://peoplenotprofit.net/2012/03/theory/marxist-humanisms-concept-of-subject/"> <br /><br /> (More)…</a>]]></description>
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		<title>A Few Words About “Solidarity”</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2012 17:02:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you’re telling me solidarity means to forget my discomfort and experiences with privileged folk, or that privileged folk have a right to speak over the experiences of marginalized ones, or have just as much say in their marginalization, then I’m not interested in solidarity. If you’re telling me solidarity means to forget my culture, my identity, what makes who I am because it is “divisive” (read-challenging, foreign, hard to swallow, strange, uncomfortable), then I’m not interested in solidarity. I know so many leftists and progressives that get uncomfortable and try to belittle what they just call “identity politics”. Even though I understand and agree with many critiques of it, there is no throwing it away or dismissing it as a whole. I’ve been told some really DISGUSTING things by those alleged intelligent, progressive folk who just don’t want to be challenged or check their privilege. They can’t see how important ID politics are to seeing how each person is oppressed or marginalized in any given point or situation in their lives. Our personal history DOES matter. How even if we didn’t ask for the privileges or oppressions that we have, they DO mean something in terms of our places in oppressive systems and what we can or cannot say on them. We can simultaneously have solidarity while recognizing privilege and oppression, while confirming and recognizing people’s identities, and letting those things dictate actions a group takes together. It does not mean “DIVIDE THE MOVEMENT BY COLOR/RACIAL/GENDER/ABILITY/CLASS POSITION/etc” (though people wanting and needing safe spaces or to have movements based on their marginalization is COMPLETELY OK AND NO ONE WITH PRIVILEGE HAS A RIGHT TO SPIT ON OR QUESTION THAT). It means “RECOGNIZE people’s differences mean something in terms of their experiences and how they’ve been oppressed by different systems.” That way, you can better pinpoint and address the ways people have been hurt. To erase those differences means to turn everyone into a default mode, that being of a straight, cis, heterosexual, able-bodied, middle class white man. That is NOT an identity I can relate to in the least, so how does that work? - Briana Urena-Ravelo, Lebanese Poppy Seed Technorati<a href="http://peoplenotprofit.net/2012/03/people-of-color/a-few-words-about-solidarity/"> <br /><br /> (More)…</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Tenants Union: Fight Your Landlord and Win</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Mar 2012 16:49:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning.” - Frederick Douglass Decent housing should be an absolute right for all people. But, we continue to live in a world that homelessness, evictions of the poor, and degrading housing conditions are all too common. At the same time, we see abandoned housing left to rot. This should convince us that our housing problems come not from a lack of resources, but from a poor distribution of those resources. As is the problem with so many facets of our lives, housing is organized for private profit and not for people’s common needs. The only way for us to change these problems is to organize together and demand it. But, who do we organize and how? And, who is the enemy? Who is the landlord? For most working class people, owning our home isn’t a possibility and we’re often forced into a housing market with large landlords. Just as often, the tenants and the landlords have conflicting sets of interests. While we’re simply trying to hold onto a basic necessity of life, landlords hope to gain a profit from us. Sadly, the interests of the landlords are usually dominant, thanks to a system of legal and government support rarely enjoyed by tenants. Supposedly, we have a choice. We can live wherever we’d like – if we can afford it. So the “choice” offered to those of us that live in or near poverty is between a variety of bad housing situations and homelessness. This is obviously not a choice, but a threat. Where can you go to leave an unfair housing market? Our life experiences repeatedly tell us: “You will take whatever horrible standards your income can afford, or you will have nothing.” Not all working class people are renters and many in poor cities, have managed to buy their own home. While at times, we may rent out a room or floor of our house, we generally have more in<a href="http://peoplenotprofit.net/2012/03/articlesessays/tenants-union-fight-your-landlord-and-win/"> <br /><br /> (More)…</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Between Barbarisms: The Arab Spring, Marx, and the Idea of Revolution – by Greg Burris</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[An assessment of the Arab Spring half a year later, in light of (1) the “clash of barbarisms” between the U.S. and Al Qaeda, (2) Marx’s concept of revolution, and (3) the possibilities for a revolutionary future – Editors With the collapse of the Soviet Union, the dominant Western paradigm for interpreting international conflict underwent something of a transformation. No longer seen as a death match between capitalist “freedom” and communist “slavery,” international conflict instead came to be understood by many as stemming from cultural differences. That is, the world was seen as being enveloped by a “clash of civilizations.” With the intellectual backing of influential academics in the West like Bernard Lewis and Samuel Huntington, this worldview has served as a new bunker mentality, especially in the wake of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.[1] According to this view, the United States is not at war because of its policies. Rather, what is under siege is Western culture itself, the barbarians mercilessly pounding at the gates.[2] From its outset, the notion of a clash of civilizations encountered critics on the Left—thinkers like Edward Said who dismissed it as nothing more than a foolish delusion, as “a gimmick like ‘The War of the Worlds.’”[3] More recently, Gilbert Achcar turned this infamous thesis completely on its head, suggesting that what we have before us in the age of the global “War on Terror” is not a clash of civilizations, but rather a clash of barbarisms—the barbarism of the strong (the United States and its military, the transnational capitalist class, and the neoliberal agenda) versus the barbarism of the weak (reactionary theocrats and fundamentalist terrorists).[4] Thus, the world is not ensconced in a battle between primordially opposed civilizations, a kind of tribal feud gone global. Rather, a war is being waged between the oppressors in power and the underdog oppressors out of power, between the warmongers in Washington and their equally reactionary adversaries abroad. Meanwhile, the rest of humanity is held hostage, standing on the sidelines and serving only as innocent casualties as the deadly doppelgangers remained locked in their perpetual war of attrition. Obama and Osama, then, share more<a href="http://peoplenotprofit.net/2012/03/tahrir-square/between-barbarisms-the-arab-spring-marx-and-the-idea-of-revolution-by-greg-burris/"> <br /><br /> (More)…</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Egypt: Textile Workers Call for Revolutionary Democracy</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2012 13:08:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A letter from the Revolutionary Association of Textile Workers to the revolutionaries on the barricades in Tahrir Square, Alexandria and Suez Original Arabic here 29 November 2011 Eleven days behind the barricades in the squares of Egypt is proof that the revolutionaries have reclaimed revolutionary legitimacy in seventeen provinces. Yet although the revolutionaries have offered themselves as martyrs in the squares as sacrifices for freedom, equality and justice, they have offered their wounded, and lost more than 11,000 to the military’s prisons, we have still not reaped the harvest of our struggle. Now, after ten months where we’ve seen the remnants of the old system simply recycled, and opportunistic attempts by the political forces with religious authority to ignore the revolutionary legitimacy of the masses in the squares, ten months where the blood of the martyrs has irrigated the pavements anew, now they are fabricating and falsifying the democracy we fought for. They are signing the revolution’s death certificate at the ballot boxes because they know that their path to power can only pass through the blood of the martyrs and the injured. It is therefore down to the revolutionaries in the squares to propose an alternative to the bloodstained democracy which the military council and its allies among the political forces with religious authority have decided upon. The return of the masses to the squares has inspired experiences among the revolutionary forces of the students, workers, peasants, professionals and the marginalized which we must build on to create the new form of democracy that we must defend. The military council and its allies in the corridors of power and the political parties are preparing a parliament to extend their presence and legitimacy. Now is the time for the masses in the squares to create forms of popular revolutionary democracy in Tahrir, Alexandria, Suez, Mansoura and Sohag. We must develop new, legitimate revolutionary forms of democratic representation from the streets and therefore we must create popular revolutionary councils in the public squares by: A public vote by the tens of thousands on the barricades in Tahrir Square to create the first popular revolutionary council by choosing<a href="http://peoplenotprofit.net/2012/03/uncategorized/egypt-textile-workers-call-for-revolutionary-democracy/"> <br /><br /> (More)…</a>]]></description>
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		<title>IN DEPTH: Greece and the Financial Crisis [Videos]</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2012 08:43:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On February 12, 2012, tens of thousands of Greek citizens assembled across the country to protest a fresh round of austerity cuts being debated in parliament and austerity measures demanded by partner countries in the European Union. Watch these videos for a first hand view. &#160; http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0E389DD5A591B9ED Technorati Tags: greece, greek crisis, news, revolution, uprising, video]]></description>
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		<title>Building a Solidarity Network by SealSol</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2012 12:04:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A guide to building a successful solidarity network along the lines of the Seattle Solidarity Network, written by two SeaSol organisers, in text and PDF pamphlet format. by Cold B and T Barnacle Contents: Introduction ~ Defining the scope ~ Prerequisites ~ Starting Fights ~ Demands ~ Strategy ~ A Taxonomy of Tactics ~ Meetings ~ Mobilizing ~ Structure and organizing capacity ~ Inside organizing Introduction In which we describe this article’s intended purpose and audience. The Seattle Solidarity Network (or “SeaSol” for short) is a small but growing workers’ and tenants’ mutual support organization that fights for specific demands using collective direct action. Founded in late 2007 by members of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), SeaSol is directly democratic, is all-volunteer, has no central authority, and has no regular source of funding except small individual donations. We have successfully defeated a wide variety of employer and landlord abuses, including wage theft, slumlord neglect, deposit theft, outrageous fees, and predatory lawsuits. We’ve gotten a lot of inquiries in the past several months from folks in other cities wanting to start something like SeaSol where they live. Our mission in this article is to describe, for the benefit of those trying to build something similar, our experience of what it took to get SeaSol started and to keep it growing. Please note: we are writing as individuals, and not in the name of the organization. Defining the scope In which we discuss the challenges of defining the scope of a solidarity network project in its early days. The first step in starting an organization is to decide what it’s for. When starting SeaSol, we made a point of defining the scope of it very broadly, and this has proved to be one of its greatest strengths. Last month we were fighting a housing agency over towing fees. Today we are fighting a restaurant owner over unpaid wages. Next month we might be up against a bank, an insurance company, or a school administration. Because people are so used to single-issue organizing, when we first started it was difficult for some to wrap their minds<a href="http://peoplenotprofit.net/2012/03/worker-struggles/building-a-solidarity-network-by-sealsol/"> <br /><br /> (More)…</a>]]></description>
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