{"id":22258,"date":"2018-11-24T23:42:59","date_gmt":"2018-11-25T07:42:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/?p=22258"},"modified":"2018-11-25T01:27:31","modified_gmt":"2018-11-25T09:27:31","slug":"rouge-forum-dispatch-unsafe-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/rouge-forum-dispatch-unsafe-space\/","title":{"rendered":"Rouge Forum Dispatch: Unsafe Space."},"content":{"rendered":"

We Say Fight Back!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Marx comes painfully close to describing our current world<\/h1>\n
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“It is impossible to read the introductory, stylistically razor-sharp and rhetorically perfect first pages of the\u00a0Communist Manifesto<\/em>\u00a0without recognizing the society that is ours”\u00a0\u2013 Sven-Eric Liedman<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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When I was young, it was my good fortune to make the acquaintance of an old German Jew who was dying, here in London, from the effects of long hardship and privation, of overwork and poverty. I did what I could to save, to prolong his life. I got him sent to Algeria, to the south of France, and got the most brilliant young physician on Harley Street to look after him. But it was too late. In the short time I knew him, he taught me more than all other teachers, dead or living. He saw more clearly than any other man the disease that was killing the world. His name was Karl Marx.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The man who spoke these words was named E. Ray Lankester. He was one of Great Britain\u2019s foremost biologists at the turn of the twentieth century, and one of the few present at Marx\u2019s funeral.<\/p>\n

Karl Marx lived from 1818 to 1883. By the autumn of 1850, half of his life had passed. He was truly a man of the 1800s, rooted in his century. Today he belongs to the distant past, yet his name constantly crops up.<\/p>\n

The collapse of the Soviet Empire at rst appeared to bury him in its rubble, in the oblivion that surrounds the hopelessly obso- lete. Marx was only the rst in a series of repugnant gures who now, fortunately, had been consigned to the history books: everything that had been realized in the Soviet Union and China had been designed rst in Marx\u2019s imagination.<\/p>\n

This is a notion that is still widely prevalent. But it soon turned out that Marx had an active afterlife, independent of the disintegration of empires. More than a few regretted his demise…<\/p>\n

around the turn of the century, Marx became topical in a more spectacular fashion. The New Yorker<\/em> named him the most important thinker of the coming century,\u00a0and in a vote organized by the BBC, he came out top among philosophers as the greatest thinker of the last millennium.\u00a0 www.versobooks.com\/blogs\/3784-marx-comes-painfully-close-to-describing-our-current-world?fbclid=IwAR3j2YGAAlREn7ja2KEcJ996_6RVY7CaKtuDTv7JpVS3XyJVZw3zjqpai44<\/a><\/p>\n

The struggle continues. Below, from the IWW strike in the Keweeenaw Peninsula (Michigan) miners’ strike of 1913. Mine owners killed 70 men, women, and children. <\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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‘We are not robots’: Thousands of Amazon workers across Europe are striking on Black Friday over warehouse working conditions<\/h1>\n

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Thousands of Amazon staff members across Europe were protesting on Black Friday over the way the company treats its warehouse workers.<\/p>\n

A coalition of unions across Europe coordinated the action, and the British trade union GMB published a video of workers telling Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos “we are not robots” in five different languages.<\/p>\n

In Italy, Spain, France, and Germany workers planned to strike for 24 hours or more. The Italian publication Corriere della Sera<\/a> reported that managers were having to step in and package items to deal with demand.<\/p>\n

UNI Global, the trade union helping coordinate the walkout, said roughly 2,400 workers were on strike in Europe, but people on the ground are reporting higher numbers of protesters.<\/p>\n

Amazon Germany told Reuters that 620 employees participated in the strike<\/a> across two of its warehouses, while the German union Verdi told Business Insider that 1,000 workers were walking out.<\/p>\n

In Spain, unions said 1,600 employees had downed tools for the day. Local reports also claimed that Amazon asked Spanish police to intervene<\/a> in the strikes by enforcing worker productivity inside a warehouse on the outskirts of Madrid. Citing police sources, El Confiedencial reported<\/a> that the police categorically refused Amazon’s request. Amazon strongly denied the claims.\u00a0 www.businessinsider.com\/black-friday-amazon-workers-protest-poor-working-conditions-2018-11?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=topbar&utm_term=mobile&referrer=facebook&fbclid=IwAR0tDIsUi3ldwopUicIu2vt8Z2sqwEUHduPLNnUQZWiaUODtbQ3dpoWg4Oo<\/a><\/p>\n

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Ahead of tomorrow's protest at Amazon Rugeley, I\u2019m calling on the company to sit down with @GMB_union<\/a> to talk about union recognition and decent conditions for Amazon workers. Do the decent thing, or wait for a Labour govt to do it for you. #AmazonWeAreNotRobots<\/a> @GMBWestMidlands pic.twitter.com\/FoU6EgcncK<\/a><\/p>\n

— Tom Watson (@tom_watson) November 22, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n