–It continues.

http://davidharvey.org/2011/10/rebels-on-the-street-the-party-of-wall-street-meets-its-nemesis/

–Harvey knows best. Have a read.

–Microcredit. Small debts for people with no income. Sure, that is not bound for failure.

Murray Dobbin’s blog | Includes a grim warning about Thomas Mulcair being elected leader of the New Democrats.

When looking at the obesity problem gripping the U.S., it is useful to examine it in a similar light that Pres. Eisenhower used when assessing the military-industrial complex. The “obesity-industrial complex” consists of a series of integrated corporate sectors that, together, wield enormous power and influence not only in Washington, but in every supermarket and on every dinner table in America. | David Rosen | CounterPunch

“If this movement migrates to the arenas of our everyday lives – our apartment buildings, workplaces, and schools – it can become transformative. For it to endure, however, it will have to attain a clearer grasp of the system that it is contesting.” | Joshua Sperber | CounterPunch

Victor Grossman on recent happenings with Die Linke | MR Zine

“Southeast of Tripoli, in the former Gaddafi stronghold of Bani Walid, tribesmen from the powerful Warfalla tribe said their men were already trying to organize themselves into an insurgent movement.”

See also: Prisoners in Libya languish without charge | The Washington Post

“Mona Rishmawi, a senior U.N. human rights official, said after visiting Libya this month that up to 7,000 prisoners were being held with no judicial process.”

“This town once loyal to Moammar Gadhafi is no more: its 25,000 residents have fled, fearing retribution from vengeful victors from the neighboring city of Misrata who have burned and ransacked homes, crossed out Tawergha’s name on road signs and vowed not to let anyone return. … About 10,000 Tawerghans have reached two camps on the outskirts of the eastern city of Benghazi, until recently the seat of the National Transitional Council, and U.N. officials say that number is growing. Thousands more have sought refuge near Tripoli, Tarhouna and in remote areas of the south.”

“On Nov. 8, voters in [Ohio] will decide whether to keep a new law passed by the Republican-dominated legislature that all but eliminates collective bargaining in the public sector. … The new law is sweeping. It limits public-sector collective bargaining to wages only and eliminates binding arbitration, allowing state and local governments, as well as school districts, to dictate contract terms if no agreement is reached. The bill forces public workers to contribute more for their pension and health benefits, while allowing employers to roll back benefits unilaterally. It eliminates mandatory union dues and lowers the decertification threshold to 30 per cent of workers.”

–Agreed.

–Astounding.

By Meghan Murphy | Rabble.ca

By Roland Denis, Indira Carpio Olivo, Ernesto J Navarro | venezuelanalysis.com

“The economic sanctions against Cuba constitute the principal obstacle to the development of the country and all sectors of the society are affected by it.”

“Quite apart from the analysis so far given, it was in general a mistake to make a fuss about so-called distribution and put the principal stress on it. Any distribution whatever of the means of consumption is only a consequence of the distribution of the conditions of production themselves. The latter distribution, however, is a feature of the mode of production itself… Vulgar socialism (and from it in turn a section of the democrats) has taken over from the bourgeois economists the consideration and treatment of distribution as independent of the mode of production and hence the presentation of socialism as turning principally on distribution. After the real relation has long been made clear, why retrogress again?”

-I thought readers would find it refreshing to read something other than utopian promises of redistribution from the ‘left’ wing of capitalist preservation. Capitalism requires poverty and inequality to condition its labour market. We cannot make poverty history through progressive taxation imposed by the bourgeois state. No matter how many new articles the social-democrats of Rabble write and how many times Leftnews.org reposts them, the arguments haven’t progressed an inch since Marx critiqued them.

From Nauresistance.org

Firoze Manji: US sends 100 troops to support Uganda’s fight against LRA | The Real News

Linda McQuaig on progressive taxation.

In violation of the UN Security Council resolution authorizing foreign intervention in Libya.

“The final tally was 186-2, with only Israel joining the United States as it did last year. The small Pacific nations of Palau, Micronesia and the Marshall Islands abstained as they also did last year.”

Phrased differently, U.S. household income data shows that at least 40% of American households have seen zero gains in income over the past 30 years.