'Catastrophe' Feared as 35 Million People Are Set to Lose Jobless Aid in 3 Days ~~ Jake Johnson

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/09/03/catastrophe-feared-35-million-people-are-set-lose-jobless-aid-3-days

"Millions will suffer as they lose this critical source of income and the loss of spending will suppress job growth."

The Double Deformation ~~ Michael A. Lebowitz

https://climateandcapitalism.com/2021/06/17/the-double-deformation/

 ~~ posted for collectivist ~~

Economic exploitation is only one aspect of capitalism. The crisis of humanity and the crisis of the earth system are inseparable

The Meaning of “Open Borders” ~~ JACOB HORNBERGER

 https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/08/25/the-meaning-of-open-borders/

Imperialism, Migrant Labor, and the Nation: The Canadian Example ~~ Zachary Reimer

https://mronline.org/2021/07/14/imperialism-migrant-labor-and-the-nation-the-canadian-example/

~~ posted for collectivist ~~

Workers Are Funding The War On Themselves. ~~ David Sirota

https://www.dailyposter.com/workers-are-funding-the-war-on-themselves/

~~ posted for dmorista ~~

How workers’ retirement savings are enriching billionaires and, in every way imaginable, financing the apocalypse.

Chile’s Neoliberal Nightmare, New Constitution, and Daniel Jadue ~~ W. T. WHITNEY

https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/05/07/chiles-neoliberal-nightmare-new-constitution-and-daniel-jadue/

~~recommended by a guest contributor ~~

Principles of Radical Political Economics ~~Al Campbell, Ann Davis, David Fields, Paddy Quick, Jared Ragusett and Geoffrey Schneider

https://urpe.org/resource/principles-of-radical-political-economics/

~~ posted for collectivist ~~

MUSIC THREAD - Hallelujah I’m A Bum!

How about a music thread for a change?

Restaurant Workers Say They Won’t Return to Work Without a Living Wage ~~ Saru Jayaraman

 https://truthout.org/articles/restaurant-workers-say-they-wont-return-to-work-without-a-living-wage/

~~ posted for collectivist ~~

How Corporations Pumped Up CEO Pay While Their Low-Wage Workers Suffered in the Pandemic ~~ SARAH ANDERSON

https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/05/14/how-corporations-pumped-up-ceo-pay-while-their-low-wage-workers-suffered-in-the-pandemic/

~~ posted for collectivist ~~

In the Smithy of His Soul: A Steel Worker and Scholar ~~ PETER LINEBAUGH

 https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/04/30/in-the-smithy-of-his-soul-a-steel-worker-scholar/

~~ posted for collectivist ~~

Lucy Parsons, Woman of Will

https://archive.iww.org/history/biography/LucyParsons/1/

~~ posted for collectivist ~~

Building Communities of Solidarity ~~ Bill Fletcher and Fernando E. Gapasin, and Bill Gallegos

https://monthlyreview.org/2021/04/01/building-communities-of-solidarity/

~~ posted for collectivist ~~

The Confederacy was a con job on whites. And still is ~~ Frank Hyman

 https://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/community/chapel-hill-news/chn-opinion/article135987178.html

~~ posted for collectivist ~~

Solutions: A How-To Guide for Citizens in a Dying Empire ~~ Maxwell

Let me package a "solution" for you in nice and pretty, American-style,

wrapping. All slick and shiny and ready for you to take home.

In 'Emblematic Parting Blow,' Trump Moves to Take $700 Million Per Year Out of Tipped Workers' Pockets ~~ Kenny Stancil

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/12/23/emblematic-parting-blow-trump-moves-take-700-million-year-out-tipped-workers-pockets

A waitress serves guests as people dine outdoors in Pasadena, California on December 2, 2020. (Photo: Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images)

Marx on Immigration ~~David L. Wilson

https://monthlyreview.org/2017/02/01/marx-on-immigration/

Tens of millions of Americans struggle to pay rent as unemployment benefits and eviction moratorium near expiration ~~ Alex Findijs

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/12/04/pers-d04.html

~~ snip ~~

The September 11 terror attacks, which killed 2,977 people, were used to launch wars costing some $6 trillion and to implement sweeping attacks on democratic rights, all on the basis of a supposed national emergency. Now that the equivalent of a 9/11 is happening every day, death on such a massive scale is effectively treated by the US political establishment as inevitable. And amidst the greatest social crisis since the Great Depression, there is supposedly nothing that can be done to alleviate mass impoverishment.

The Creation of Scarcity ~~. Michael Perelman

https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLPicUXGrfdQIQliNIHeThSUTNIcbXkEVJt0nnpNEhsbpIN8HSphR-vRCh9DgV0hvEUKlIVUTkHFFal-YxY8c7AJavS2Pfh2vlQoDHaSbqY7HFQqRRCNlSIuyECxDtawldvZ7lj5dBFTsl/

This was posted by SageThinker quite some time ago.  It is a PDF so had to be re-typed by hand to post.

The key to avoiding the curse of a comfortable life was to create artificial scarcity for the rural poor.  As Arthur Young observed in 1771, "everyone but an idiot knows that the lower classes must be kept poor, or they will never be industrious" (cited in EP Thompson 1963, 317).  Access to common land touched a particularly sensitive nerve among more affluent property owners.  Marx (1977, 881 and EP Thompson, 1963, 217 ) cited by a Dr. Hunter who fretted that "a few acres to the cottage would make the laborers too independent."

COVID Tipped the Scale: How King County Employees Made Childcare a Union Benefit ~~Michael Laslett

https://labornotes.org/2020/11/covid-tipped-scale-how-king-county-employees-made-childcare-union-benefit

Ten thousand union members who work for King County, where Seattle is located, have won a $9 million fund to cover emergency childcare expenses this school year. Now the union coalition is pushing to make the benefit permanent.