Daily News 09/08
Daily News 09/08
Daily News Archives Since June 2026
THE BIGGEST DEATH PROJECT IN HUMAN HISTORY
Oceans Turn Deadly Dangerous “An estimated 82% of the world’s oceans are currently experiencing marine heat waves.” (A Surge of Marine Heat Waves Threatens to Scramble Ocean Life, YaleEnvironment360 d/d Sept. 3, 2026). According to Copernicus, as of August 10, 2026: “July saw exceptionally high temperatures for the month across a large portion of the tropical Pacific, an area where El Niño conditions are present and forecast to further strengthen in the coming months.”Consequently, extreme unbearable heat, raging thunderstorms, powerful damaging flash floods, and parched drought conditions beyond anything experienced are the likely elements to follow in the footsteps of this forecast. Is it time to batten down the hatches?
Video: A look at Global Deforesation
Yesterday was Labor Buraucracy/Employer Partnership Which codified around 1985. The Results of the ‘Partnership’?: The US working class has not gotten a real wage increase for over 40 years!
Leon Trotsky foretold the ‘Partnership’ Between the Trade Bureaucracy and the Boss: From Leon Trotsky and the Iron Heel: “One must accentuate especially the role which Jack London attributes to the labor bureaucracy and to the labor aristocracy in the further fate of mankind. Thanks to their support, the American plutocracy not only succeeds in defeating the workers’ insurrection but also in keeping its iron dictatorship during the following three centuries. We will not dispute with the poet the delay which can but seem to us too long. However, it is not a question of Jack London’s pessimism, but of his passionate effort to shake those who are lulled by routine, to force them to open their eyes and to see what is and what approaches. The artist is audaciously utilizing the methods of hyperbole. He is bringing the tendencies rooted in capitalism: of oppression, cruelty, bestiality, betrayal, to their extreme expression. He is operating with centuries in order to measure the tyrannical will of the exploiters and the treacherous rôle of the labor bureaucracy. But his most “romantic” hyperboles are finally much more realistic than the bookkeeper-like calculations of the so-called “sober politicians.” It is easy to imagine with what a condescending perplexity the official socialist thinking of that time met Jack London’s menacing prophecies. If one took the trouble to look over the reviews of The Iron Heel at that time in the German Neue Zeit and Vorwärts, in the Austrian Kampf and Arbeiterzeitung, as well as in the other socialist publications of Europe and America, he could easily convince himself that the thirty-year-old “romanticist” saw incomparably more clearly and farther than all the social-democratic leaders of that time taken together. But Jack London bears comparison in this domain not only with the reformists. One can say with assurance that in 1907 not one of the revolutionary Marxists, not excluding Lenin and Rosa Luxemburg, imagined so fully the ominous perspective of the alliance between finance capital and labor aristocracy. This suffices in itself to determine the specific weight of the novel.”
In the United States the trade union movement has passed through the most stormy history in recent years. The rise of the CIO is incontrovertible evidence of the revolutionary tendencies within the working masses. Indicative and noteworthy in the highest degree, however, is the fact that the new “leftist” trade union organization was no sooner founded than it fell into the steel embrace of the imperialist state. The struggle among the tops between the old federation and the new is reducible in large measure to the struggle for the sympathy and support of Roosevelt and his cabinet. No less graphic, although in a different sense, is the picture of the development or the degeneration of the trade union movement in Spain. In the socialist trade unions all those leading elements which to any degree represented the independence of the trade union movement were pushed out. As regards the anarcho-syndicalist unions, they were transformed into the instrument of the bourgeois republicans; the anarcho-syndicalist leaders became conservative bourgeois ministers. The fact that this metamorphosis took place in conditions of civil war does not weaken its significance. War is the continuation of the self-same policies. It speeds up processes, exposes their basic features, destroys all that is rotten, false, equivocal and lays bare all that is essential. The shift of the trade unions to the right was due to the sharpening of class and international contradictions. The leaders of the trade union movement sensed or understood, or were given to understand, that now was no time to play the game of opposition. Every oppositional movement within the trade union movement, especially among the tops, threatens to provoke a stormy movement of the masses and to create difficulties for national imperialism. Hence flows the swing of the trade unions to the right, and the suppression of workers’ democracy within the unions. The basic feature, the swing towards the totalitarian regime, passes through the labor movement of the whole world. We should also recall Holland, where the reformist and the trade union movement was not only a reliable prop of imperialist capitalism, but where the so-called anarcho-syndicalist organization also was actually under the control of the imperialist government. The secretary of this organization, Sneevliet, in spite of his Platonic sympathies for the Fourth International was as deputy in the Dutch Parliament most concerned lest the wrath of the government descend upon his trade union organization. In the United States the Department of Labor with its leftist bureaucracy has as its task the subordination of the trade union movement to the democratic state and it must be said that this task has up to now been solved with some success. — Leon Trotsky, Trade Unions in the Epoch of Imperialist Decay
My essays on the Working Class and the Union Official/Boss Partneship. Based upon my experience as a worker and a union official, I was elected as an official after I led a sucessful rank and file stike against a phoney labor/ managment contract proposal:
Stateification of the United States Trade Unions
The Default of the Labor Union Bureaucracy Set the Stage for Trump!
The Condition of the United States Working Class — Where Do We Go From Here?
The Fall of the Trade Union Movement
The State of Today’s Trade Union Movement (1998)
Why I Do Not Celebrate Labor Day But I celebrate May Day
Peter Infante’s: Cancer and Blue-Collar Workers: Who Cares?
The Rise and Decline of the Coal Miners Union 1989-1994
Another U.S. Killing Field: The War at the Point of Production
Workplace Roulette: Gambling With Cancer
My Efforts to Prevent Painters’ Occupation Cancer
US Government Declares War on West Coast Dockworkers
Wildcat Protest Against Employer-Union Partnership
Why The West Virginia Teachers Won! Where to go from here?
Why The Chicago Teachers Union Strike Was Won!
Contradictions of the UAW GM Strike
San Francisco: 1000 Nurses Rally For ‘Medicare for All
Dutch strike wave: welfare not warfare!The Dutch government is trying to impose a budget which cuts billions from the welfare state to spend billions on imperialist rearmament. This week, thousands of workers from across the Netherlands – dockers, rail and transport workers, metalworkers, brewers, civil servants and cleaners – are striking to stop them