eight hours are not a day: musings on work, working class culture and post-work dreams. make your idleness dangerous.

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‘I don’t have any more faith in charges and convictions’ — #BlackLivesMatter co-founder @OsopePatrisse believes real change will come when we defund the police
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No, really, the planet is dying. x.com/briandelay/status/1021…

Hottest temperature ever recorded in Africa: 124.3 Fahrenheit, three weeks ago in the Algerian city of Ouargla. The 3 major U.S. TV networks have run 127 segments on the global heat wave, but have mentioned "climate change" only once. thebulletin.org/2018/07/glob…
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Here's the latest from me. The Left's crisis, & why it's happened theguardian.com/politics/201…
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172 MPs signal they want Labour to go back to being a party of financial oligarchy and war
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ProgrExit: a 5-point plan to fight for social justice and democracy during the Brexit process. RT if you agree
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And for all those who didn't get past the titles of his books, here is a reassessment of Gorz's Strategy for Labor: socialistregister.com/index.…

Best critique read so far of why #UBI demand not radical enough. Back to Marx's Capital everyone pls. gegen-kapital-und-nation.org…

the demand for a #basicincome could be so much more powerful if unions backed it
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FYI: In Iraq, this October, @UNIraq says - 714 Iraqis were killed & 1,269 were injured in acts of terrorism, violence & armed conflict.
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at this point, it's easier to imagine the encounter of an alien civilisation than the end of capitalism
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British Media outraged by #Corbyn failing to sing national anthem but relaxed about #British arms used by Saudi to kill kids in #Yemen
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European leaders always eating vichyssoise soup, bland cold cucumber broth, b/c they want 2 live 4ever
"Heute würde niemand mehr – wie noch in den 50er Jahren VW oder Siemens – in einem Imagefilm Massen von..." tmblr.co/ZTfG2r1Wri0af

Documentaries without documentalism - Stories can be true to life without being true of life tmblr.co/ZTfG2r1WrSlDZ

Jean-Pierre Gorin - How on earth did this Sorbonne-educated son of Jewish Trotskyites, onetime student of... tmblr.co/ZTfG2r1WoSLr9