bosmerfemale.bsky.social
@bosmerfemale.bsky.social
trans woman with interests, thoughts, etc
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the relatively radical union leaders of the CIO were unable to participate in civil society due to anti-communist hysteria.

In other words, the Second Red Scare caused a collapse of CIO radicalism, allowing it to be absorbed by the conservative AFL.

The US labor movement then went into decline.
January 16, 2026 at 10:45 PM
They're going to "reconnect with the working class culturally" and "move away from small dollar donors whose preferences don't align with the broader electorate". Party of total creeps
New: Last month, a group of moderate Democratic consultants, campaign staffers, elected officials & party leaders gathered in Loudoun County, Virginia, for a retreat where they plotted their party’s comeback.

We got their takeaways. t.co/bEwlg4jbtM
March 2, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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In this new piece we show that as the imperial core imposed structural adjustment programs on Africa, Africans were forced to consume less while their surplus resources were transferred instead out to the capitalist world economy effectively *for free*. roape.net/2025/02/28/p...
Plundering Africa - Income deflation and unequal ecological exchange under structural adjustment programmes - ROAPE
Presenting new research, Dylan Sullivan and Jason Hickel mount a devastating critique of the impact of structural adjustment in Africa in the 1980s and 1990s. Drawing on recent data on Africa’s materi...
roape.net
February 28, 2025 at 1:50 PM