The expedited legislation passed by Congress to avert a strike by railroad unions dealt one more blow in the decades long war waged by the two ruling parties against the working class.
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Chris Hedges: They Crush Our Song for a Reason
The powerful keep those they exploit from knowing who they are, where they came from and the crimes of the ruling class. As social inequality mounts, so does the campaign to keep us in darkness.
Source: Chris Hedges: They Crush Our Song for a Reason – scheerpost.com
Strike, Strike, Strike | Chris Hedges
Mounting inequality is fueling protests around the globe. The global ruling class is determined to prevent these protests from employing the weapon that can bring them down—strikes.
Only Fools Count on Capital to Stop Late Fascism
A year and half after the attempted physical coup that marked the end of Donald Trump’s presidency, I am still lectured by certain older white and male “leftists” on how it is childish wolf-crying to say that a fascist menace stalks the United States. The lectures hold that “the American ruling class is opposed to fascism and will not let it take hold here. This is neoliberal capitalism,” their argument runs, “and the ruling class will not permit a fascist state here in the absence of a revolutionary socialist proletariat like the ones that convinced the Italian and German bourgeoisies to line up behind Mussolini and Hitler in interwar 20th Century Europe.” In short, It Can’t Happen Here, because the ruling class doesn’t need and want it and won’t allow it.
Source: Only Fools Count on Capital to Stop Late Fascism – CounterPunch.org
The Global Ruling Class Is Frog-Marching Us Towards Extinction | Chris Hedges
We were warned for decades about the death march we are on because of global warming. And yet, the global ruling class continues to frog-march us towards extinction.
Source: Opinion | The Global Ruling Class Is Frog-Marching Us Towards Extinction | Chris Hedges
The Global Ruling Class, Endless War, and the Culture of Mass Death
The global ruling class is cementing into place a world where they govern without accountability, we are reduced to serfdom, the climate crisis accelerates, and mass death is normalized.
Source: Opinion | The Global Ruling Class, Endless War, and the Culture of Mass Death | Chris Hedges
From “herd immunity” to “endemic”: The ruling class policy of perpetual mass death
Throughout the world, capitalist politicians are scrapping all remaining public health measures that slow the spread of COVID-19 by falsely claiming that the virus has become “endemic.”
1848+: The End(s) of History 