The Daily Shaarli
June 6, 2024
Labor Notes | After organizing a unit of delivery drivers in California, the Teamsters have extended picket lines to Amazon facilities across the country. “If we’re going to bring Amazon to the table, we need to build a national movement of Amazon workers who are strike-ready,” said Connor Spence, who’s running for president of the ALU. “Trying to build that without some kind of institutional backing is a long shot.”
Jacobin | The Department of Justice is bringing a major antitrust case against the hated Ticketmaster and its parent company, Live Nation. Will it be enough to fix an increasingly predatory live-music industry?
The Tricontinental | Despite an order from the International Court of Justice, the Israeli military continues to bomb southern Gaza, particularly the city of Rafah. For decades now, Israel – like the United States – has rejected any attempt to apply international humanitarian law to its actions. The ‘rules-based international order’ has always provided immunity for the US and its close allies, an immunity whose hypocrisy has increasingly been revealed. It is this double-standard that has provoked the collapse of the US-driven world order.
Jacobin | The bodies are stacked impossibly high. Children are being mutilated. Millions are starving. And Benjamin Netanyahu, the man responsible for it all, is being welcomed to the US by Democratic leaders as a dignitary rather than a bloodthirsty maniac.
Canadian Dimension | The newspaper is one of the world’s most notorious far-right propaganda publications