The Latest from Black Rose/Rosa Negra
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Taxing Our Taxing Our Lives: Unpaid costs and wages in transit
by S. Nappalos The film Who Framed Roger Rabbit is a surreal comedy-fantasy depiction of a city run on entertainment in which a corrupt judge, who runs a company that took over a trolley car line, attempts to take over and buy the city. The fantasy is based in some reality. In the 1930s and…
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The Intermediate Level Analysis
by S. Nappalos There is a left tradition of thinking about and taking action within two realms of activity: the mass level and the revolutionary political level. There are different ways to cash out these concepts, but at their most sensible they are distinguished by levels of unity and content. The mass level is where…
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Update from WRC
It’s been a while since we’ve updated the site, so here’s a rundown of what we’ve been up to since May. -Along with other Iowa City individuals that we’ve worked with in the past, trying to start up a ‘solidarity network’ in the model of the Seattle Solidarity Network, that would take on bosses and landlords.…
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German people in unprecedented rebellion against government
Posted by atrain “In our world as a whole, we must engage scientific principles and appropriate technologies to ensure a thriving and sustainable planet for all. Most people are experts on their own needs and we are able to solve even the biggest problems when we work together.” – from the Four Star Statement of…
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Sometimes We Don’t Even Get to the Point of Losing
One of our members wrote this piece about his experiences trying to organize on the job. It was originally posted here. Reading The American Worker and old Italian operaismo surveys of auto workers, it occurred to me that it would be worth documenting some of my own experiences in wage labor. We often forget how powerful…
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Neo-Nazi march interrupted by riot in downtown Phoenix
Posted by atrain Arizona’s ABC 15 reports that “Two people were arrested and more than a hundred protesters were separated by police Saturday in downtown Phoenix. The riot happened Saturday afternoon when the National Socialist Movement began its march in support of Arizona’s controversial immigration law.” Neo-Nazi mobilization around Arizona SB 1070 indicates that they…