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The Kawasaki United Labor Union's strike at Kawasaki Motors Philippines began on 21 May 2025, after nearly a year of failed bargaining and company harassment. Initially, management offered a 7% wage increase and 21 benefits, but management later withdrew these offers, cutting the raise to 5% and benefits to five, citing sales losses and other business concerns. The union reduced its wage demand from 11.5% to 10.5%, yet management refused to budge and has now lowered its offer further to 5%.

Those who know me would be all too aware of where I stand politically; an anarcho-socialist who works in Australia's largest reformist party to argue the case for a "solarpunk" future (libertarian, socialist, and high-tech). This does not mean I automatically reject those from the other side of politics; I am not that sort of partisan. I understand those in the Liberal Party of Australia who are of a more centrist persuasion.

For more than twenty-five years the political left in Victoria has been fortunate to experience the writings and thought of Dr. Tristan Vaughn Ewins (aka TVE), expressed through multi-member 'blogs that he co-ordinated. Each of these came with their expressive titles "Left Focus" (named after the student political group from the 1990s and 2000s), "ALP Socialist Left", "Movement for a Democratic Mixed Economy"; they all did what was written on the tin.

In Sunday’s election in Germany a new party, Alternatives for Germany, broke through the established power structure to become the second strongest force in parliament. A key factor in its success was a call to overcome the postwar guilt and shame that have been predominant in the country. For many years these were a necessary reckoning with past atrocities, but this burden of blame has increasingly lamed the country and become a handicap to its progress. Leaving it behind is part of a gradual evolution that has been going on since the 1990s.

The German establishment is in crisis. Is has ruled for 80 years by charting a middle course between progressive and conservative policies. Labor and business have cooperated to achieve social and economic stability. But that consensus isn’t functioning anymore. The standard of living is declining, crime is increasing, fear and anger infect social discourse. Nothing the mainstream political parties have done has improved the situation.

The apologists for capitalism face a fundamental dilemma in their definition.

PKP Cargo S.A., one of the largest rail freight transport companies in the country, is undergoing restructuring and blatantly violating the laws, standards, and rights that protect trade union activity in Poland.

On October 1st, 1949 the the People's Republic of China was proclaimed, making this year the 75th anniversary of its founding. It followed decades of civil war, the invasion from Imperial Japan, several internal conflicts involving regional warlords, and over a hundred years of being subservient through unequal treaties imposed by Western powers. To establish a central government under such circumstances was an impressive achievement in its own right. As Mao Zedong said at the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference several days before

By Pyotr Malatesta

If corporatism is statist capitalism, then the current distribution of political entitlements (private property) that developed under statist capitalism is part and parcel of the statist system.

If the current system is invalid, then the current distribution of political entitlements that developed due to that system is invalid.

By Pyotr Malatesta

Under capitalism, money serves as a rationing system for freedom in the market economy. Money, as a form of social power, dictates access to resources and opportunities, thereby rationing freedom. The disparities in financial resources lead to unequal access to freedom, creating a system where the wealthy have more social and economic power. This dynamic effectively controls the distribution of freedom, perpetuating inequalities and limiting the potential for a truly free and equal society.