It's not specifically a far left guild but we would love an infusion of demsocs/anarchists to swing us back to the left. There's a shiny medal in it for ya!!
Is labour organising the most effective block on tech-oligarch/state killing power?
So long, information! If polling companies get away with this, no polling you see in media can be relied upon. That's fine for us, we just won't believe it. But for people who are not so well informed, these polling companies can just pump out misinformation with a false sense of authenticity to the tabloid-reading masses. Very concerning.
This 1 May, International Workers’ Day, UNI General Secretary Christy Hoffman is calling for action:
This May Day, we take to the streets to celebrate solidarity, but also to demand the world we deserve.
On picket lines, in parades, in rallies and festivals occurring around the world, the urgency of this moment is impossible to ignore. All we have to do is look at the news, scroll through our social media feeds, talk to our neighbours and co-workers.
The reckless, pointless war in the Middle East has already devastated the global economy in ways that are unlikely to be repaired in the foreseeable future, causing untold harm to workers and their families across the world as the cost of living continues to rise. Gaza remains a horrific humanitarian crisis, as does the brutality of the attacks against Ukraine.
And a handful of billionaires – whose wealth is at a historic high – are using AI to accelerate an already unimaginable concentration of power. The richest 12 billionaires have more wealth than the poorest half of humanity.
They pay fewer taxes than we do, or none at all, but they spend untold sums of money to buy political influence. The result is captured governments with politicians who serve the people who bankroll them rather than the people who elect them.
Working people know that the system is broken, but our major political parties mostly tell us that all is fine.
Workers feel this in their communities, at the ballot box and every day on the job. At Amazon, every movement is tracked to the second, managed by algorithm and ratcheting up pressure. A worker died on the warehouse floor and management said: do not let that interfere with same-day delivery. Meta is surveilling employees’ activity down to mouse clicks and keystrokes to train its AI systems, while using the same technology to slash its workforce by ten per cent and discard contracted workers without a second thought.
Taken together this causes anger to boil over into a politics of scapegoating. They want us to blame women, immigrants, people who look and worship differently. It is a politics of distraction, funded by the same interests that created the problem.
On May Day, we are saying we will not allow the vulnerable to be marred by right-wing lies. We are calling out the unholy alliance of right-wing extremists and billionaires, financed by tech money and growing in reach and ambition.
On May Day, we are saying that this is why unions matter. And this May Day, we matter more than ever.
Unions are an essential check on the power of employers who would rather manage by algorithm than answer to the people who do the work.
But unions are also the answer to the broader crisis. We build the solidarity that holds communities together when billionaires and demagogues work to pull them apart. We educate and organize in the workplaces and neighbourhoods where false narratives take root. We fight for fair taxes, the public services and the labour standards that make shared prosperity possible.
We demand that governments answer to workers, not to the billionaires who fund political campaigns.
So today, join us in the streets and in your union halls. Demand that your employer respect your rights. Demand that politicians listen to workers’ voices. Demand the world we deserve.
Solidarity!
Apparently the best defense against AI copying your voice is strawberry mango forklift supersize fries.