Bolivia as a laboratory of class struggle
Is this the beginning of a counteroffensive in the streets against the new right-wing wave in Latin America?
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2026/05/29/bolivia-as-a-laboratory-of-class-struggle/
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Ani DiFranco - Direct Action
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dkLJcsyXI4
keep telling each other the stories of our struggles. unite. replace hostile systems.
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Expansion is always chosen over redistribution because expansion preserves existing power structures.
It’s not that we can’t share. It’s that sharing threatens the people who benefit from not sharing.
And so we expand.
We eat outward.
We consume frontier after frontier until
there are no frontiers left.
'Lewis takes up a debate with several Black feminists who have, at various times, questioned the idea of family abolition, whose central argument has been that, very often, Black families have been sites of resistance against racism. Similarly, we could point to many experiences of class struggle in which sectors of working families have played a key role against the attacks of capital: supporting strikes, establishing relations of solidarity between factories and neighborhoods, staging rent strikes, maintaining soup kitchens, creating movements in defense of public services, and many other forms of resistance. The tradition of “women’s commissions” in strikes, for example, has allowed the working class to articulate fighting forces far beyond the workplace.
'To this criticism Lewis responds that, even so, we should not cease working for the abolition of the family, since we would not need its “protective shield” if we managed to build a society without racism. The argument contains a grain of truth, but it stops halfway. It fails to contemplate the role that the family relations within sectors of the working class and oppressed can play in moments of heightened class struggle. On another level, it doesn’t account for the fact that capitalism, while it needs such a “social cell” for its own reproduction, constantly undermines working families’ very conditions of existence. Marx and Engels remarked on this in the mid-19th century, pointing to the length of the working day, the lack of decent housing, and the general precariousness of working class life.'
Josefina L. Martínez : https://www.leftvoice.org/love-and-care-beyond-capitalism/
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Worker's struggles aren't just for better pay or better working conditions - as important as those are! - but for the liberation of the entire working CLASS. That includes unemployed people, stay-at-home housekeepers and parents, children, elders, homeless and disabled people too (whether we work or not). We're all in this together.
The oppression of the underclass, making those who cannot or refuse to work soul-crushingly miserable and often outright dead - that's a threat to keep the workers who do work in line. "Be glad you have your shitty job(s), it could be even worse!"
Thus, we need things for free: Housing, food, health care, education, access to natural spaces, relaxation and social connections.
We deserve things for free. We deserve a welfare state, or better yet a state-free society that takes care of its most vulnerable members first, as a matter of course. That makes a world where everyone can thrive and no one has to "earn" their right to thrive, let alone live.
Bosses tell us it is entitled to ask for things for free. "They want more pay for less work! 😱" seems like a no-brainer condemnation, when in reality it is just fact.
Bosses are the ones who take things for free, and not the things everyone should have, but the things NO ONE should have: The "right" to exploit workers and make them disabled, the "right" to get away with sexually abusing them if they so chose, the "right" to extract earth's resources for personal gain, the "right" to destroy, poison and heat up the earth's ecosystems, climate and even orbit. The "right" to control our free speech, lobby for laws, buy politicians, wage war for profit. The "right" to be talked about with respect, deference and unquestioning acceptance of their unhinged axioms.
Make bosses pay.
On May Day, International Workers’ Day, Chris Low traces the life of working-class militant Martin “Lux” Wright and shares a previously unpublished interview.
https://diyconspiracy.net/martin-lux-class-warfare/
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Happy International Workers’ Day! 🎉
Here we are, sipping coffee in an AC room, debating labor rights and fair wages, while someone outside hasn’t eaten since yesterday.
But hey, at least we’re aware of the struggle. That’s basically the same as fixing it, right? .... Right?
Solidarity! ✊
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