One of the hottest discussions we are seeing is the one surrounding the universal basic income (UBI) or citizens’ income (CI); in Britain it has been advocated by the Trade Union Unite (it was adopted at the last convention), it has been incorporated into the Green Party of England and Wales’s manifesto for a sustainable economy, the Labour Par
President Obama is being praised for referencing Ronald Reagan's 'shining city on the hill' speech at the convention.
Last week Obama said this.
Thursday June 1, 1916
The International Socialist Review on the Pittsburgh Steel Strike
Wednesday May 9, 1906
From Washington, D. C.: News on the Moyer-Haywood-Pettibone Case
Friday April 21, 1916
From the United Mine Workers Journal: Public Health and Poverty
There is only one issue politically here and now in the United States.
That ONE AND ONLY issue is the 99% versus the 1%.
ALL political problems, all social problems, all survival problems, all infrastructure problems, all health problems, all education problems emanate from that ONE AND ONLY issue.
The only person interested in the survival of the 99% and that ONE AND ONLY issue is Bernie Sanders. IMO.
The only person.
All the bullstuff some of folks were writing over on the Pointless Orange about the nomination and how all Democrats must behave sweetly and kindly right now, before the convention, and in lockstep with one another before the nomination are defeatist drivel. Cut that crap out!~
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Friday March 16, 1906
From The New York Times: "The Children of the Poor," Part II
In its March 3rd edition, the Times published an in-depth review of the newly published book by John Spargo which documents the suffering of the millions of children who are born and reared in poverty within our great American prosperity. Yesterday we present part one of that review, entitled "Children of the Poor." We conclude the article today with part two.
CHILDREN OF THE POOR [Part II]
-----A Passionless but Terrible Description of
Their Condition in This Country.*
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Thursday March 15, 1906
From The New York Times: "The Children of the Poor," Part I
In its March 3rd edition, the Times published an in-depth review of the newly published book by John Spargo which documents the suffering of the millions of children who are born and reared in poverty within our great American prosperity. Today we present part one of that review, entitled "Children of the Poor." We will concluded with part two in tomorrow's edition of the Hellraisers Journal.
Advertisement from The New York Times of February 17th:
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Monday March 6, 1916
From the International Socialist Review: Comrade Debs on the Fantines of Our Day
From this month's edition of the Review, Comrade Debs urges class solidarity and human compassion for the "girls, women who have walked the path of thorns and briers with bare and bleeding feet; who know the ways of agony and tears, and who move in melancholy procession as capitalist society's sacrificial offering to nameless and dishonored graves."
FANTINE IN OUR DAY
By EUGENE V. DEBS
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THE reader of "Les Miserables" can never forget the ill-starred Fantine, the mournful heroine of Hugo's immortal classic. The very name of Fantine, the gay, guileless, trusting girl, the innocent, betrayed, self-immolating young mother, the despoiled, bedraggled, hunted and holy martyr to motherhood, to the infinite love of her child, touches to tears and haunts the memory like a melancholy dream.
Jean Valjean, noblest of heroes, was possible only because of Fantine, sublimest of martyrs.
Fantine—child of poverty and starvation—the ruined girl, the abandoned mother, the hounded prostitute, remained to the very hour of her tragic death chaste as a virgin, spotless as a saint in the holy sanctuary of her own pure and undefiled soul. It was of such as Fantine that Heine wrote: "I have seen women on whose cheeks red vice was painted and in whose hearts dwelt heavenly purity."
All types of discrimination in America are frowned on by either liberals or conservatives.
Racism, sexism and other types of discrimination still exist, but not without vocal resistance from broad swaths of society.
Except for one. Classism.
You can still discriminate against people for being too poor and few will complain.
