Daily News Thread 3/3

Banksy opens hotel on Bethlehem barrier wall

British artist launches Walled Off Hotel in hope of bringing Israeli tourists – and dialogue – to West Bank city.
theguardian.com/world/2017/mar/03/banksy-opens-bethlehem-barrier-wall-hotel

Paul Ryan’s feeling confident about repeal-and-replace. McConnell not so much.

“I am perfectly confident that when it’s all said and done, we are going to unify,” Ryan (R-Wis.) told reporters Thursday. “Because we all — every Republican — ran on repealing and replacing [the ACA]. And we are going to keep our promises.”
washingtonpost.com/powerpost/paul-ryans-feeling-confident-about-repeal-and-replace-mcconnell-not-so-much/2017/03/02/d931b26a-ff59-11e6-8ebe-6e0dbe4f2bca_story.html?utm_term=.bc6bc3ce9f7e

Dems flip script to woo millennials, big donors

The Democratic National Committee (DNC) plans to overhaul its fundraising operation as it looks to tap into the grassroots energy on the left.
thehill.com/homenews/house/321918-dems-flip-script-to-woo-millennials-big-donors

Where Did the Tea Party Go?

As anti-Trump activists target Republicans, some conservatives are trying to organize counter-protests against "Marxist street thugs."
vice.com/en_us/article/where-did-the-tea-party-go

Euro lawmakers press EU to impose visas on U.S. citizens

The European Parliament called on the EU executive on Thursday to force Americans to apply for visas before visiting Europe this summer.
reuters.com/article/us-eu-usa-visa-idUSKBN1691Q9

Palantir Provides the Engine for Donald Trump’s Deportation Machine

Immigration and Customs Enforcement is deploying a new intelligence system called Investigative Case Management (ICM), created by Palantir Technologies, that will assist in President Donald Trump’s efforts to deport millions of immigrants from the United States.
theintercept.com/2017/03/02/palantir-provides-the-engine-for-donald-trumps-deportation-machine/

America's Affordable Housing Shortage, Mapped

For every 100 poor families in Las Vegas, there are only 12 affordable units available.
citylab.com/housing/2017/03/americas-affordable-housing-shortage-mapped/518391/

Vacant Homes Are A Global Epidemic, And Paris Is Fighting It With A 60% Tax

Runaway real estate speculation has been filling global capitals with vacant homes, creating artificial shortages in the world’s most sought after cities.
betterdwelling.com/vacant-homes-global-epidemic-paris-fighting-60-tax/

Rauner looks for temporary state workers amid strike threat

Responding to the possibility of a strike by state employees, Gov. Bruce Rauner's administration has launched a new website to try to recruit workers who could fill in during a walkout.
chicagotribune.com/news/local/politics/ct-rauner-afscme-job-portal-met-20170228-story.html

Deportations Have Some Communities Questioning Their Support for Trump

Juan Carlos Hernandez Pacheco, an undocumented immigrant arrested and detained last month, was released after his community—including local law enforcement —rallied around him. There’s a catch, though: The majority of people in Hernandez Pacheco’s town of West Frankfort, Ill., voted for Trump.
truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/deportations_force_pro_trump_communities_personal_political_20170302

The collapse of retail chains is leaving America's shopping malls empty

Retail chains – some due to bankruptcy or restructuring, others due to “foot-print rationalization” – have announced plans to shutter over 2,500 stores last year
businessinsider.com/so-what-are-we-going-to-do-with-the-retail-malls-2017-3

Retailers Had a Dismal Christmas and Now Comes Ryan’s Import Tax

The Republican House Speaker is pushing a corporate tax overhaul that would make imports more expensive, according to the retail industry.
bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-03-03/retailers-had-a-dismal-christmas-and-now-comes-ryan-s-import-tax

UK: Rising mortality rates and rationing across the National Health Service

The slashing of funding over decades to the National Health Service (NHS) and social care by Labour and Conservative governments has led to increasing rationing of treatment.
wsws.org/en/articles/2017/03/03/heal-m03.html

U.K. Economy May Be Heading for a Slowdown as Services Weaken

The U.K. may be heading for its weakest growth in a year, possibly heralding the start of a Brexit-induced slowdown.
bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-03-03/u-k-s-services-engine-loses-steam-with-growth-at-five-month-low

Other urls found in this thread:

nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/while-the-iron-is-hot/
jacobinmag.com/2017/03/die-linke-germany-immigration-sahra-wagenknecht-oscar-lafontaine-afd-merkel/
counterpunch.org/2017/03/02/healthcare-workers-proclaim-sanctuary-union-push-for-medicare-for-all-in-california/
socialistworker.org/2017/03/02/what-do-we-mean-by-a-united-front
souciant.com/2017/03/the-birth-of-nationality/
counterpunch.org/2017/03/03/the-scab-economy-the-origins-of-americas-anti-union-movement/
washingtonpost.com/news/democracy-post/wp/2017/02/28/president-dutertes-honeymoon-may-be-ending/?utm_term=.da59414b45da
theconversation.com/the-democratic-party-is-facing-a-demographic-crisis-72948
theguardian.com/technology/2017/mar/02/robot-tax-job-elimination-livable-wage
cepr.net/publications/briefings/testimony/drugs-are-cheap-why-do-we-let-governments-make-them-expensive
bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-03-03/leaner-fitter-faster-u-s-shale-oil-2-0-challenges-opec-again
reuters.com/article/us-britain-politics-scotland-may-idUSKBN16A13E?il=0
politico.eu/article/fillon-to-quit-presidential-race-if-sunday-rally-flops-aide/
twitter.com/AnonBabble

OP/EDs


While The Iron Is Hot

The case for the women's strike.
nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/while-the-iron-is-hot/


Why Wagenknecht Will Fail

In Germany and elsewhere, making tactical concessions to the Right isn’t just bad socialist politics — it won’t work.
jacobinmag.com/2017/03/die-linke-germany-immigration-sahra-wagenknecht-oscar-lafontaine-afd-merkel/


Healthcare Workers Proclaim ‘Sanctuary Union’, Push for Medicare for All in California

This is the way for California to get ahead of the curve and avoid the catastrophe of millions of people losing access to care. And if we can accomplish this in California, which has about 12 percent of the nation’s population, why not the whole country?
counterpunch.org/2017/03/02/healthcare-workers-proclaim-sanctuary-union-push-for-medicare-for-all-in-california/


What do we mean by a "united front"?

Tyler James explains a strategy developed by revolutionaries to guide their participation in immediate struggles while building the wider fight for another world.
socialistworker.org/2017/03/02/what-do-we-mean-by-a-united-front


The Birth of Nationality

Nationality, in the twentieth century, has a mental and civic, rather than a physical and hereditary basis. We are the product of our education and of the political atmosphere in which we live.
souciant.com/2017/03/the-birth-of-nationality/


The Scab Economy: the Origins of America’s Anti-Union Movement

Ever since the Reagan presidency there has been a concerted effort to turn the clock back to the 1880s—the gilded age. Or maybe even further back to Andrew Jackson, whose portrait Trump hung in the oval office.
counterpunch.org/2017/03/03/the-scab-economy-the-origins-of-americas-anti-union-movement/


President Duterte’s honeymoon may be ending

Despite his best efforts, Duterte suddenly finds himself facing a sobering reality. The critics aren’t going away, and his supporters aren’t as easily mobilized as he had hoped.
washingtonpost.com/news/democracy-post/wp/2017/02/28/president-dutertes-honeymoon-may-be-ending/?utm_term=.da59414b45da


The Democratic Party is facing a demographic crisis

The Democratic Party is in crisis. Demographics will be unlikely to save them. If anything, the trend seems to be going in the other direction.
theconversation.com/the-democratic-party-is-facing-a-demographic-crisis-72948


Robots won't just take our jobs – they'll make the rich even richer

Robotics and artificial intelligence will continue to improve – but without political change such as a tax, the outcome will range from bad to apocalyptic.
theguardian.com/technology/2017/mar/02/robot-tax-job-elimination-livable-wage


Drugs are Cheap: Why Do We Let Governments Make Them Expensive?

The United States is unique in that we both grant pharamaceutical companies a patent monopoly on their drugs, and then let them sell the drugs for whatever price they want. Other wealthy countries also grant patent monopolies, which is required by a number of international agreements, but they have some form of price control which limits what companies can charge.
cepr.net/publications/briefings/testimony/drugs-are-cheap-why-do-we-let-governments-make-them-expensive

A Fit U.S. Shale Industry Challenges OPEC Once Again

The number of U.S. drilling rigs has grown 91 percent to 602 in just over nine months. Meanwhile, production has gained more than 550,000 barrels a day since the summer, rising above 9 million barrels a day for the first time since April.
bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-03-03/leaner-fitter-faster-u-s-shale-oil-2-0-challenges-opec-again

There is no economic case for breaking up the United Kingdom, says PM May

There is no economic case for breaking up the United Kingdom, British Prime Minister Theresa May said on Friday, in a speech attacking Scottish nationalists for being "obsessed" with independence.
reuters.com/article/us-britain-politics-scotland-may-idUSKBN16A13E?il=0


Fillon to quit presidential race if Sunday rally flops: aide

‘He can fight judges, but he can’t fight his own party,’ adviser says.
politico.eu/article/fillon-to-quit-presidential-race-if-sunday-rally-flops-aide/

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Until prices drop $5 and they close again
The oil market right now is pure fucking insanity

Reminder that animu pics make anything 100% less relevant.

Haven't they already made an article with this exact subheading?

This is disgusting, why are they so hateful?

Listening to people with valid concerns is wrong, they are wrong, there is no problem here, let's push people into desperate nationalism because we can't bare to have difficult conversations without getting the vapours.

OP, are you the guy who used to always post wsws articles in the US election thread?

This was the first thing that thought of when I read that.

Then stop posting them, you autistic faggot.

Nowhere in the article do I see them changing anything to reflect the policies millennials, who have growing anti-capitalist sentiments, want.


They're not going to kick out their corporate donors, they're just going to spend their funds more "wisely."


They want corporate money AND grassroots money. I hope Sanders tells them to fuck off.

I hope all of you who clamor for entryism realize how retarded you are.

Mah nigga.

mfw

No. I discovered this place around December.

KYS

Oh
I wonder whatever happened to him. He used to post scantily clad Japanese women with his posts. It almost doesn't feel like Holla Forums without him.

Meant for

Who's ready to organize? I know I fucking am.

Kind of interesting, but am I the only one here who thinks there's something off about how Palestine has gone from an issue primarily raised by radicals to one primarily raised by white liberals? My local BDS group used to be entirely made up of communists and anarchists about eight years ago, but is now dominated by hippie grandmas and organic white soccer moms. What happened?

It has gone the way of all leftist movements that dont manage to tie the struggle into an anti capitalist struggle.

Pretty much. Progressives cheering on the Palestinian NB is the bulk of it now.

this is funny because antifa only shows up when fascists show up.

I want Vigne to beat me up into a better person.

Time for sleek BnE.

kys

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That article on vacant homes and real estate speculation really makes me wonder why squatting isn't more of a thing. I bet that you could live in a vacant apartment for quite a long while if you kept a low profile and used a different address.

Fuck off.
The downfall of the Left since the 80s has been the result of the allegedly Left parties continually marching Rightward through Turd Way, Blairism, etc.
Clinton died as a centrist who completely abandpned her base to pursue rightwingers that were neber interested in her in the first place.


Man who sticks his limbs into woodchipper growing confused, annoyed at repeated warnings he may be injuring himself

I wish we were more like Greece in this. They got their squatting game down. Even Ireland is better than the States

Blairism, you mean the exact cause of the problems? That is fucking liberals doing what they do, neo-liberal economics.

If you don't think you have to address the fallout from this, then you are not living in fucking reality, and they aren't magically going to go away, they are going to destroy any blinkered left wing party that ploughs ahead with their fingers in their ear, and the right will be there to clean up.