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First published at Socialist Project. Given that the immanent drive and constant tendency of capital is to atomize the working class, what are the effects of this tendency? For the atomized worker, all other workers are competitors; all other workers are enemies in so far as they are competing for the same jobs. All other workers potentially stand between them and the satisfaction of their needs.
"It's like giving Osama bin Laden a knighthood for services to Afghanistan." That was the reaction of one shocked British citizen to the news that Prime Minister Gordon Brown, with the blessing of the Queen, had conferred an honorary knighthood on Sen. Edward Kennedy for "services to Northern Ireland," along with other unspecified contributions to U.S.-U.K. relations.
Appellant exhausted right to have contempt order set aside; appeal long out of time
Ned Smith Center to celebrate Pa.’s Environmental Rights Amendment with exhibit, open house Updated May 13, 2021; In that book, Kury calls for an amendment to the U.S. Constitution guaranteeing a right to a healthy environment, like the one he drafted and championed into the Pennsylvania more than 50 years ago, as a newly elected Pennsylvania state senator, drafted and championed an Environmental Rights Amendment to the Pennsylvania Constitution. That amendment was enacted on Earth Day 1970 and ratified by Pennsylvania’s voters one year later. Forward-looking states like Hawaii and Monta...
On May 18, 1971, Pennsylvania’s voters by a four-to-one margin ratified what is now Article I, Section 27 of our state constitution– the ERA that provides in part: The people have a right to clean air, pure water, and to the preservation of the natural, scenic, historic and esthetic values of the environment. Franklin, over 50 years ago, saw the terrible carnage that the coal industry had visited on our state’s Streams. He conceived of creating an amendment to the constitution which would permanently provide environmental protection in Pennsyvlania. When we filmed Franklin, I not...