Uber and Lyft want you to believe they’re suffering an unfair assault by the state of California’s government to end drivers’ independent contractor status. The reality: Uber and Lyft are very wealthy and very powerful, and they’re using that wealth and power to threaten a capital strike, a withdrawing of investment in a way that would hurt drivers and riders, to get what they want.

For China, the global war for influence is about trading partners. For the U.S., it could mean something more volatile.

Firmly on the right-wing of the Jamaican political spectrum.

In documents dating to 2006, government officials predicted that a pandemic would threaten critical businesses and warned them to prepare. Meatpacking companies largely ignored them, and now nearly every one of the predictions has come true.

But at the moment, there is an urgent need for mass mobilization to ensure the safety of all public school kids and workers. The nice white Canadian parents who are writing to principals or tapping their connections with school boards would do well to support collective efforts to improve the system universally.

This article was published by Egyptian revolutionary socialist Hossam El-Hamalawy in 2012 on his blog 3arabawy. El-Hamalawy’s article is a seminal analysis about how socialists should conceptualize using the website to help organize socialist activity in a way that simultaneously builds both working class movements and revolutionary socialist organizations.

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