Mike Elk of Payday Report is one probably the best source on strikes, organizing, and internal union issues. Everyone on this list who wants to understand what is happening in the US working class

Thanks. What a mess of historical factors backdropped those writings you cite. There was a Greater Ukraine that spanned three countries occupied by related people and included Galacia and Carpathia

I’ve refrained from further comment on the Ukraine debate because it both sides are clearly talking past each other, but I can't let go unanswered Bradley Mayer’s sectarian attack on those

https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/news/foia-intelligence-torture-archive/2022-06-23/haspel-personally-observed-cia-waterboarding

I'll read it and leave any comments that I have on that page. thanks, Mark

Best regards, Andrew Stewart Begin forwarded message:

https://jacobin.com/2022/06/canada-inflation-corporate-profits-supply-workers

There is also this: Videos from the 2022 Labor Notes Conference – scheerpost.com Charles

On Thu, Jun 23, 2022 at 09:46 AM, Michael Meeropol wrote: Charlie, that doesn't work --- because labor time is in hours --- we still need a way to turn those hours into a "monetary equivalent" --- if

I want the tradition that says no to class collaboration, that gives a shit about what governments are strengthened during and after a struggle, that insists on the independent program for proletarian

... It's a start, not an end: Why do we bother to study tens of thousands of pages written by mostly dead people who were concerned about forgotten events? Those pages are the repository of past

thank you --- hope it's not redundant to thank the three who are carrying on Louis' tradition and --- I think this does not trash Louis to admit it --- improving on it! Solidarity forever!!

Charlie, that doesn't work --- because labor time is in hours --- we still need a way to turn those hours into a "monetary equivalent" --- if we are using an LTV approach then "labor hours" includes

And here is Rand Wilson’s report in *The Nation*. . . .  https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/labor-notes-conference/ Labor’s CoachellaThe 2022 Labor Notes Conference gathered thousands

 https://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/article/f/emmanuel-macron-falters-as-melenchon-rises Emmanuel Macron falters as Melenchon risesFor the first time in decades, France’s president will not

There is also a nice write up in today's Jacobin: The Beating Heart of the US Labor Movement Was at Labor Notes (jacobin.com) Charles

LABOR NOTES conference looks to renewed working-class militancy by Erwin Freed, Workers Voice, June

the struggle continues (see June 4 video below), thanks Greg From Palestine to Ukraine: Internationalism, Anti-Imperialism and the U.S. Left https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nh4GjSaTT2Y

On Wed, Jun 22, 2022 at 07:32 PM, John Reimann wrote: Sartesian asks about the different forms of the class struggle under the condition of the invasion, and specifically the position on Ukraine

Mark: agreed. what i am working on currently is statistics on posting to the list. How many people post how many times a month. who starts threads; who starts threads that engage a number of