Fish of hemp posted:

Have the trotskyites ever amounted anything in anywhere?

https://lh.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/lh/article/download/5681/4874 posted:

Willie Thompson has acknowledged in his survey of the history of the world- wide left, The Left in History: Revolution and Reform in Twentieth-Century Politics, that the Trotskyists "occasionally achieved some marginal industrial influence"intheUStradeunions.' However,outsideoftheTrotskyists'rolein the Teamsters Union in Minneapolis and unlike the role of the Communist Party (CP) in the US labor movement that has been well-documented in numerous books and articles, little of a systematic nature has been written about Trotskyist activity in the US trade union movement.' This article's goal is to begin to bridge a gap in the historical record left by other historians of labor and radical movements, by examining the role of the two wings of US Trotskyism, repre- sented by the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) and the Workers Party (WP), in the United Auto Workers (UAW) from 1939 to 1949.
In spite of these two groups' relatively small numbers within the auto workers' union and although neither the SWP nor the WP was particularly suc- cessful in recruiting auto workers to their organizations, the Trotskyists played an active role in the UAW as leading individuals and activists, and as an organ- ized left presence in opposition to the larger and more powerful CP. In addi- tion, these Trotskyists were able to exert an influence that was significant at times, beyond their small membership with respect to vital issues confronting the UAW. At various times throughout the 1940s, for example, these trade unionists were skillful in mobilizing auto unionists in opposition to both the no- strike pledge during World War 11, and the Taft-Hartley bill in the postwar peri- od. They also organized UAW members in fighting for the inclusion of the esca- lator clause in 1947-1948 while constructing a non-CP left-wing presence with- in the union. This activity was based largely on how these two organizations came to conceive of left-wing politics in the post-World War I1 era, both with- in the UAW and the nation as a whole.

paul_soccer12 posted:

Christopher Hitchens was a trot for a while too

while Norm Finkelstein was a teenage maoist

Echo Chamber posted:

Kshama Sawant is technically a Trot and she's still good.

Takanago posted:

decided to look it up again
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJe86RQq8lQ

Orange Devil posted:

Imagine only caring about ending capitalism as long as you personally are poor, rather than because it is evil. gently caress Cramer.


Lol remember when Cramer got Jon Stewart to reason himself into saying Truman was a war criminal and then starting his show the next day with an apology for that? Peak liberalism.

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During his years at Harvard Law School, Cramer worked as a research assistant for Alan Dershowitz. He assisted Dershowitz's campaign to acquit alleged murderer Claus von Bülow despite the fact that Cramer believed von Bülow was "supremely guilty."[14]

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Claus von Bülow (born Claus Cecil Borberg; 11 August 1926 – 25 May 2019) was a Danish-born British lawyer, consultant and socialite.[1] In 1982, he was initially convicted of both the attempted murder of his wife Sunny von Bülow (born Martha Sharp Crawford; 1932–2008) in 1979, which had left her in a temporary coma, as well as an alleged insulin overdose in 1980 that left her in a persistent vegetative state for the rest of her life.[2][3] On appeal, however, both convictions were reversed, and he was found not guilty at his second trial.[4][3]

chaleski posted:

Bret Weinstein hissyfit over being called a metaphorical bed bug and implying it was antisemitic

Fortaleza posted:

Trump looking directly at the sun during an eclipse, the one thing you’re not supposed to do that even school children understand

MikeCrotch posted:

People wanting her to be coach of the Cleveland Browns for some reason

lil poopendorfer posted:

Maybe this was an “op” but that’s the work of an experienced tagger

https://www.versobooks.com/books/2114-we-want-everything posted:

It was 1969, and temperatures were rising across the factories of the north as workers demanded better pay and conditions. Soon, discontent would erupt in what became known as Italy’s “Hot Autumn.”

A young worker from the impoverished south arrives at Fiat’s Mirafiori factory in Turin, where his darker complexion begins to fade from the fourteen-hour workdays in sweltering industrial heat. He is frequently late for work, and sells his blood when money runs low. He fakes a crushed finger to win sick leave. His bosses try to withhold his wages. Our cynical, dry-witted narrator will not bend to their will. “I want everything, everything that’s owed to me,” he tells them. “Nothing more and nothing less, because you don’t mess with me.”

Around him, students are holding secret meetings and union workers begin halting work on the assembly lines, crippling the Mirafiori factory with months of continuous strikes. Before long, barricades line the roads, tear gas wafts into private homes, and the slogan “We Want Everything” is ringing through the streets. Wrought in spare and measured prose, Balestrini’s novel depicts an explosive uprising. Introduced by Rachel Kushner, the author of the best-selling The Flamethrowers, We Want Everything is the incendiary fictional account of events that led to a decade of revolt.

evobatman posted:

Michael Avenatti running for president.

Michael Avenatti in general.

Spazmo posted:

the best part is "1/6". the only thing I want to read less than this tweet is the other five.

Snake Dance posted:

Excelzior posted:

Mr. Lobe posted:

Imagine believing that strongly in something

I don't think I believe in communism that hard, guys

Milo and POTUS posted:

https://www.amazon.com/Phoenix-Rising-William-W-Johnstone-ebook/dp/B004NEW50C

Look at that rating lmao

Animal-Mother posted:

frankenfreak posted:

https://twitter.com/jairbolsonaro/status/1329113457694830597

Animal Friend posted:

Trump finding out about her death live after a rally was a special moment.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knlJWu815C0

e: lol in those comments

Dreylad posted:

it's real and it's great

AnimeIsTrash posted:

https://twitter.com/mehdirhasan/status/1430991584934473738

In Training posted:

im a simple man, you post this video, I watch it. the double hand pump up gets me every time.

Private Cumshoe posted:

Richard Dawkins making fun of clock boy on twitter for not REALLY making a clock and just REARRANGING a clock because he can't loving help himself

Also now that I already broke the seal by typing clock boy I'm just gonna throw in pajama boy too

NightGyr posted:

Sweet and sour refers to sulfur content. Sour is high sulfur, sweet is low.

Chuka Umana posted:

I believe Sheryl Crow's Soak up the Sun is the first top 40 hit in the US to reference communism.

Cloks posted:

trump invited Ben garrison to the Whitehouse but there was a public outcry and he was removed from the guestlist

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/452346-cartoonist-whose-art-was-labeled-anti-semitic-wont-attend-white-house

Eat This Glob posted:

that time i gave bernie sanders a couple hundred bucks and thought he'd be the democrat nominee. motherfucker juat texted me today asking for 10 bux

theflyingexecutive posted:

my parents took me to a w rally and he got the whole town chanting "flip flop", it was wild

paul_soccer12 posted:

https://twitter.com/Policy/status/1379982393671442433

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The Milk Tea Alliance is an online democracy and human rights movement consisting mainly of netizens from Hong Kong,

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Hong Kong-style milk tea originates from British colonial rule over Hong Kong. The British practice of afternoon tea, where black tea is served with milk and sugar, grew popular in Hong Kong. Milk tea is similar, except with evaporated or condensed milk instead of ordinary milk.[1]

Fish of hemp posted:

Isn't Bono like the patron saint of shitlibs?

Feldegast42 posted:

they also think the number of the beast is 666 lol

according to a bunch of translations, its actually 616

But then every translation that isn't the King James is heresy

fermun posted:

hillary clinton also talked about how she carries a bottle of hot sauce, some jalapenos, and chili flakes in her purse as some weird outreach thing

christmas boots posted:

I legitimately wish we had more politicians open about their innocuous but extremely bizarre preferences for like food and stuff.

like I’d love to see a senator reveal that he puts marshmallow crème on his hot dogs and then get super defensive about it.

or like it turning out that a governor has a Spotify playlist that’s almost exclusively nightcore covers of ska songs.