Class struggle roundup
A few links, and some hope, for the week ahead...
This week’s posts are going to be short because I’ll be unusually busy: there’s a book draft to finish, classes to be taught, lectures to prepare, and then I’ll be at Bioneers, presenting some ideas on the polycrisis, and also in conversation with two of the best people in food systems struggles, Leah Penniman and Saru Jayaraman. So, a few things to follow:
Strike!
Listen to Reap/Sow’s report on the JBS strike - the first in the US industry in decades - and read Ted Genoways’ excellent reporting at Mother Jones. (If you thought, by Strike!, I was referring to the Los Angeles Teachers’ Strike or the Spanish or Argentinian airport workers’ strike or last month’s big strike in India, those too.)
Victory!
ICE may have disappeared from the headlines, but they’re still brutalising large swaths of the US population. In Vermont, the Milk with Dignity Campaign shows how to fight back.
Onward!
Richard Pithouse has written a brilliant history of Cuba’s internationalism. At a particularly parlous moment for the country, the case for solidarity couldn’t be stronger.
This milk with dignity campaign looks very interesting - going to look more into that, thanks