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Fight the Rich

Kshama Sawant

"I served as the only socialist on the Seattle City Council for ten years. In that decade, my council office led movements of working people to win historic victories, including the highest minimum wage in the country. I also saw firsthand how every part of the political establishment, led by big business and the Democratic Party, viciously opposed virtually every pro-worker piece of legislation we fought for. I saw how all the cogs of the capitalist machine — the establishment politicians, the courts, the police, the NGO leaders, and sadly many labor leaders — all work in concert together against the interests of workers.

I can tell you from my experience — and it is increasingly evident to working people — that this system is completely irredeemable, as are both U.S. political parties."

[Kshama Sawant is a revolutionary socialist, a founding member of Workers Strike Back, and a former Seattle City Councilmember who helped win the first $15/hour minimum wage in a major city and the Amazon Tax on wealthy corporations to fund affordable housing.]

counterpunch.org/2025/01/27/fi

CounterPunch.org · Fight the RichIt’s time to declare war on the rich. We need to build an organized, unified movement of working people to systematically take on the rich who run society

Is this actually a surprise for anyone?

What this says is simply that if social movement forces can't get it together and profoundly coordinate in resistance on the ground, MAGA will leave us "shocked and awed" and take us down piecemeal. And unless those movements can organize and mobilize a pole of *independent*, political opposition, the MAGA regime will atomize, demoralize and sway a majority, who will go along with whatever measures MAGA pursues. All the legislative and legalistic dithering in the world won't stop them.

This is not simply my opinion, but history and lived experience. Among others, I'm just old enough to remember the last years of McCarthyite anti-Communism, although I was in diapers when the witch-hunts occurred. I had a cousin who was persecuted during the witch-hunts. Trump has all but announced his intention to engage in a new witch-hunt against "leftists."

[continues...]

truthout.org/articles/nearly-t

Truthout · Nearly Two-Thirds of Trump’s First Executive Orders Mirror Project 2025’s AimsSome roll back previous executive orders issued by Biden. Others reinstate executive orders from Trump’s first term.
#maga#trump#fascism

My new favorite study of 2025 thus far: there is a lot of support among the #US public for #ecosocialist (degrowthish) policy.

“This study paves the way for new strategies for a transition that enhances well-being & reduces dependence on economic #growth.”

phys.org/news/2025-01-highligh

Phys.org · Study highlights US public support for eco-social policies over economic growthBy Autonomous University of Barcelona

My tenth FANuary boost for a person or account on Mastodon that makes my Mastodon experience a little better goes to –

Ika Makimaki (@pezmico), who posts and boosts things of interest to someone who knows we are molding a society for the next generation in a world we've borrowed from later generations.

Think about that. Seriously.

For example, from May 2022:
mastodon.nz/@pezmico/108241354

Mastodon NZIka Makimaki (@pezmico@mastodon.nz)Attached: 1 image Hello toot friends, I bring #antiLawn memes. I'm hoping to radicalise you all against the boring monoculture lawn and turn you into biodiversity defenders.

“Some of the themes emerging are consistent: every #wildfire is accused of not being a wildfire at all but a planned attack for some sinister end. This serves two purposes: casting doubt on #climatechange & finding a politically useful target to pin a disaster on.”

motherjones.com/politics/2025/

Mother JonesAs LA burns, conspiracy peddlers lie about—and celebrate—the danger we’re living throughThe sky is smoldering, alongside online misinformation and right-wing bigotry.