Daily News Thread 1/31

Finally, justice is being served to those unionists

fuck off.

Good. American labor needs to be radicalized. Fuck the AFL-CIO and all the other labor aristocrat class cucks. The IWW was right all along.

This right to work shit is good. Trump's only leftover support base that wasn't composed of porkies or outright racists were white union workers who wanted to see their jobs come back. If Trumps party busts up the union's then they will reject him and hopefully be more easily radicalized.

are there any decent US unions? Even Britain has the RMT which is explicitly socialist and antifascist

Hey remember that meeting between Trump and "union leaders" last week? lmao

What a massive state intervention into the economy. But the "free market" conservatives seem to have no problem with this when it benefits the rich.

Also,
LETS SEE HOW MUCH LIBERALS WILL PROTEST OVER THIS

They won't protest at all. Reformist unions are all but dead anyways.

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This is fun

DIPPIN DOTS IS RED AND ANGRY

archive.is/aeth5
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Trump may actually succeed in effectively dismantling the American empire. This is amazing.

mucho yuans

Are Unions even run by socialists anymore?

Not in America.

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Oh god, let it be the ruble. I want that sweet American butthurt to flow.

Hell yes fellow American cowboy!

If you pay attention to oil politics, you know it's going to be the Yuan.

yep. smart move from iran, too, unless the u.s. wants a proxy war with china in iran

Why would it matter if Iran got oil in Yuan? It won't stop the US from being the world reserve currency.

No, U.S. wanted an open war with Russia, China and Iran

China is currently maneuvering to stop just that

World reserve currency is defined by the oil market.

This, and if you try to break it you can expect US troops to show up or spontaneous revolution to take hold

It sets a precedent and strengthens other currencies. America needs to be brought down to a regional/low-tier world power power once again.

China is stockpiling gold. Ghaddafi got killed for suggesting a gold-backed currency.

Assad trades oil in Euro, and unlike Saddam, his regime didn't get toppled.

I was thinking this as well, I struggle to work 48 hours (sans commute time) AND then attend Labour Party activities where we are actually discussing local issues (like hospital and child care funding) and leafleting.

I can barely muster enthusiasm to get other working class young men back into the party knowing that they are already underpaid, stressed and physically drained as it is to then contend with older liberal hippies and out of touch hipster yuppies.

Not for lack of effort

Their failure in Syria signals the end of their empire. Best be careful of them lashing out wildly.

I'm a member of Unite in the UK (largest union) and we're apparently an affiliate of Workers Uniting which includes United Steelworkers:

workersuniting.org/who/workers-uniting

Should be concerned or happy?

So what's going to be the world reserve currency, then? The Yuan is loosely pegged to the USD and China has capital controls that prevent foreigners from holding a lot of Yuan, and its economy is not as open as the US. As far as I know, the European central bank has no equivalent of the US treasury bond that can be bought and sold. Only dumbass Russiaboos think the rouble will somehow be a world reserve currency. Besides, the US economy has high liquidity and one of the largest and most open economies.

So what does that leave? I feel like the >anti-imperialism people are getting over-exicted here.

They weren't in Britain either, they were definitely actively purging communists and socialists during the Cold War, but I'm sure that they doing the same before World War 2 as well.

Nothing.

China is more likely to implode into regionalism again. Deutsche bank will collapse along with EU. USA will have hyperinflation after all the money they printed return home.

True, but they're promoting a basket of currencies in which the USD is weighted differently. Prelude to the yuan being the world reserve currency most likely

Forgive me for being unconvinced. Paranoid "libertarians" have been saying that the USD is at the point of imminent collapse for a long time now and it hasn't happened yet. Especially if Trump actually achieves his 4% growth or whatever, since it seems he will go ahead and demolish labor and environmental protections to achieve this.

So it took a high-profile death for some people to finally realize that there was something wrong with death squads slaughtering allegedly drug-addicted street kids on a whim.

As Marcuse said, nobody ever gave a damn about the victims of history.

The petrodollar is the only thing keeping all the money USA printed from returning. Failure to go to start WW3 means collapse is inevitable.

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Hello, FBI

On top of that it looks like the Russians are planning on throwing the Iranians under the bus in light of the rumor that Assad is dead and at the Astana talks they've supported a Sunni who was with the FSA as the head of a new Syrian gov't, so long as they keep their bases

It was the death of a business man as well no less i.e. a vampire who shouldn't have ever been missed.

inb4 edgy, there's nothing wrong in desiring and taking solace in the death of your usurious bloodletters.

Fuck you mean Assad is dead?

not him, but zh is dogshit these days

No one knows
a ton of rumors that he had a stroke, Syrians deny but no one's seen him

Geopolitically, it looks like the Russians are dropping the Iranians in exchange for getting the Turks in their camp

there are rumors saying so. the government released a picture of him but that pic could've been taken long ago

All American unions do is keep Baby Boomers employed and actively reject all younger workers.

Once they are all retired all the jobs that used to pay well will be maybe $25,000 a year jobs.

Goddamn it, CIA

That's the problem with non-militant labor unions. We really need to see a resurgence in aggressive communist labor movements.

Growing federal debt has no negative impact on real economy. stop believing lolbert shit. It is private debt that you should be concerned about, because it saps the purchasing power of consumers. So, student loans and mortgages matter more.

Unless you can't pay off the debt. And keep running budget deficits. And never ever stop.

You mean like the US has been doing for the past century with no ill effects?

Or like how Japan has been doing for the past few decades, also with no ill effects?

The national debt is a spook.

Government debt is not like household debt, which you have to pay through earned income.

Government can print its own money to pay back any debt, so theoretically it can keep growing the debt to any amount. The only relative constraint is amount of inflation. If you can keep that to a minimum the government will be fine with the debt.

kulaks still deserved it

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even inflation is a lolbert meme to a certain extent

evonomics.com/moneysupply/

Inflation is the consequence of having more money in circulation in a country's economy than goods. If you can keep the money OUT of the country, printing money won't have any consequence.

admit it, you'd fuck him

THICC

I wouldn't say it's necessarily a shame. Unions might have stood in the way of automation. The best accelerationist tactic is to remove them and try to abolish as many jobs as possible.

god DAMN CIA

i'm pretty sure there's still that law that requires union leaders to sign oaths that they're not communists

ls that true?

I didn't know the US was such a shitty country. My condolences to my American comrades.

Godamnit

don't worry, once right to work goes national, there won't even be any unions

it's not like unions have any power now anyway

The trump butthurt will be amazing

Time to go Wobbly, then?

Billionaire Canadian passport-holder abducted by mainland police in HK

scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/2066744/chinese-billionaire-denies-he-was-nabbed-mainland-agents-hong-kong

mostly because of right-to-work and similar laws limiting labor's power

Tbh I wonder how much this is actually going to help the IWW I know at least some members think having 10,000 due paying members by 2020 is a reasonable goal, and that was without every other union in the country losing massive amounts of membership.

Y-yeah but he showed those union organizers a lot of respect when he visited with them;_;

Are there any unions any more that aren't run by management-pleasing bourgeois wannabes? Honestly I don't mind them dying because then we can start the fuck over without these cunts selling out the workers.

But what about importing goods? Isn't America heavily dependant on importing 3rd world consumables.

TFW they'll still blame it on illegals.

fair enough i guess