https://www.businessinsider.com/worker-applied-to-60-jobs-got-one-interview-labor-shortage-2021-10 Based on the information on this article, it seems the “labor shortage” actually represents a campaign by employers to deny the working class a universal income and basic necessities.

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https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/10/19/pers-o19.html The WSWS has argued that Napoleon Bonaparte and the Bonaparte family acted as a progressive force in French and European history. This type of “progressivism” Marx rejected outrightly in his “18th Brumaire” about Louis Napoleon and 1848. He called for the removal of the Vendome Column, a large monument celebrating Napoleon Bonparte’s military victories.

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Robert Reich, former Labor Secretary of the U.S. government, wrote in his blog: “The media failed to report the big story: American workers are now flexing their muscles for the first time in decades. You might say workers have declared a national general strike until they get better pay and improved working conditions. They don’t

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(Edited to Protect Identity) Random Poster <randomposter33@yahoo.com> To: Shoegazer Fri, Sep 3 at 7:09 PM Hello Shoegazer, It was good hearing from you on twitter. I used to live near NYC and participated in the SEP NYC branch and was president of the SSE at Rutgers. The party then suspended me after I suspected government spying

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@Last_Bolshevik This was my last reply, because they asked to set-up a time to talk but never replied or anything. I tried to ask but found I was unfollowed and some eventually blocked me when I inquired. Was is because I got sick? It was only a few days after their email. -Tue 6:02 PM

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The conquest of fear, especially fear of unaccountable divine beings who meddle in nature at will, means a reduction in the sum total of human pain and suffering and opens the door to the calm acceptance of a new picture of the world—a world in which nature is autonomous and where there are ideal beings

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We may assume that what happens at a university has the highest pursuit of knowledge as its inspiration, but the presence of racism has long roots within the university. In the same way that the civil war and constitutional amendments did not end Jim Crow laws, the civil liberties movement has not ended overt and

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“In order to live, human beings must produce. People cannot live by bread alone but neither can they live without bread. This does not mean all human activity can be reduced to material motives but that all activity is linked to a material base. A work of art may have no direct economic motive attached

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The shortages should lead to cuts in production, which would provide increased profits for those investing in manufacturing. Some in manufacturing will continue to produce through the supply-chain interruptions and hoard goods in warehouses. They will see their profits increase at the expense of all legitimate businesses who order goods on a regular basis. Only

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https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/10/13/pers-o13.html “The Wuhan lab lie is motivated not by science but geopolitics. As the United States, Australia and the UK move to provoke a military showdown with China over Taiwan, the purpose of this torrent of lies is to demonize China and the Chinese people and to scapegoat them for a disease that has killed

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