"The SWP was an active participant and builder of the anti-fascist movement. The SWP members, particularly those in trade unions, followed a strategy of counter-mobilisation to fight the incipient fascist groups and advocated the formation of workers’ defence guards to defend working class organisations. Liberals who opposed fascists, on the other hand, focused on relying on the capitalist courts and legislatures to stand up to the fascists."

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“First, it is a wide mass movement of farmers and small business who face bankruptcy, of youth denied a future under capitalism, of sections of the unemployed. All these layers of the oppressed who are seeking desperately to put their hands on the surrounding plenty become hypnotised by the silver-plated promises of a demagogue who regiments them into blindly obedient shock troops.

“Secondly, it is financed and controlled by the very capitalists who above all are anxious to keep the revolutionary violence of the masses from turning against them. In America — the DuPonts, the Morgans, the Rockefellers — the Sixty Families."

"The key message of The Fight Against Fascism in the U.S.A. is that incipient fascist movements must be identified early and confronted by a broad, democratic and disciplined united front. Taking on rightwing populists and fascists must be done collectively, not in an individualistic or adventurist manner."

it's also realizing that these movies existed because adults felt like those ants. They wanted to organize and do something and they felt like they couldn't so they made those movies for us. So that the next generation of workers would understand their fate and power and be motivated to change our reality.

I'm an anticapitalist because some people at Pixar a long time ago put all of their faith and hope into teaching kids, that we deserved better. And that one day we'd be big enough to fight for it.

I've grown.

And I'm ready to punch some crickets in the face.

Everyone else when they’re undercover during a con: *just standing around* *miming the actions of the job they’re supposed to be doing* “What supervisor, there’s a very valid reason I’m not doing my job, I, uh......”

Eliot freaking Spencer: Guys stop the crime for a minute I have to go deliver these pizzas. I have to plate 300 hors-d'œuvres by 7:00. Get out of my way I have to go build a house with my bare hands.

Did you know you can join the Industrial Workers of the World even if you aren't traditionally employed? Check out IWW.org/join for more information on finding a local branch today!

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The comparison between chilchuck and reigen I see going around rn is so funny like I know it’s just about their mutual middle aged slutification or whatever but reigen is absolutely the kind of person chilchuck “union former workers rights advocate personal and work life divide” tims would try to fucking explode with his mind if they met

Hang on Rishi, you were perfectly happy to ask ordinary families up and down the country to pay an extra £1,570 more per year for gas and electricity to meet the demands of energy company bosses?

All I have to say about SAG-AFTRA

Fuck yes

Speaking of funky little halflings that I love...

Being in a union is fucking amazing in theory, but in practice you actually have to do all the work. You have to organize within your union, you have to engage in politics and deal with difficult personalities. You have to manage funds and get the membership involved. Otherwise you end up with a boomer union president acting as a despot refusing to use the union's money - your money - for anything valuable and hoarding it instead. Refusing to step up and demand better pay and working conditions because he got his. You can't just join a union and then assume everything is fine. You have to join a union and then get involved in the union. You have to fight for it.

obsessed with eliot’s ability to quickly befriend a random side character and get pulled into some sort of side quest every episode lmao

wrist? limp. canine? crooked. boy? acquired

Help protect yourself and your co-workers: wear your PPE and unionize! Go to IWW.org/join for more information.

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i know for legal reasons black student unions cant prevent nonblack people from joining, but why would you as a nb person want to join a bsu in the first place? reminds me of the nonblack people who kept asking to join my black writers server so they could "observe" or "better understand black experiences" like um. time and place!!

(unders first few years seem like they’d be really awkward, just tella, the man he respects above anything, and the war criminal that man has decided to bring along for the ride)

I think about it a lot. Probably the room I would least like to be in though, I’d like to be far away from whatever this is.