US Senator Bernie Sanders was the featured speaker at a rally held August 31 by the Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT) at London’s Congress House—headquarters of the Trades Union Congress. Billed as an event to “Save Public Transport” from Conservative government cuts, its purpose was to channel a growing wave of working class struggle behind the trade union bureaucracy and the Labour Party.
Bernie Sanders at RMT rally in London: Hawking the myth of a trade union revival
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What the Ecuadoran Elections Mean for the U.S.
Jacobin and Democratic Socialists of America promote illusions in a “progressive” Biden administration
The political role of Jacobin and the DSA is to prevent at all costs a political break with bourgeois politics in general and the Democratic Party in particular. Theirs is the politics of the upper middle class, which is determined by the effort, on the one hand, to obtain positions for themselves within the state apparatus and, on the other hand, to prevent an independent mobilization of the working class against capitalism and for socialism.
Don’t get rid of Apu. He’s a hero to many of us | Bhaskar Sunkara (video)
As an Indian-American, I learned to embrace Apu. I hope he stays on The Simpsons
— Read on www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/nov/01/apu-simpsons-hero
Ms. Cat’s Chronicles 