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[–] [email protected] 93 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Im still always amazed how they feel the need to mention the Oct 7 attack but not the constant oppression, attacks and killings by the IDF that led to that attack.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 weeks ago

or the fact that they have been doing it for the past 80years,

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

The news site is reposting an Article written by Agence France Presse which the French government owns 20% of. (And majorly subsidised). The French government like most western governments is pro-Israel biased. So I’m not too suprised by the slanted reporting.

(Yes of course the AFP claims “editorial independence”, but is any news site “independent” when the funder has the power to cut the money if it says something the funder doesn’t like).

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Isn't France about to recognise the Palestinian state? And isn't there a current crisis between France and Israel over what is happening with strong words from Macron to qualify what Israel is doing?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Macron ain't saying shit he opened his mouth a bit and now he start every phrase with 'Israel right to defense and pls kill children in a less obviously bad way'

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

(Yes of course the AFP claims “editorial independence”, but is any news site “independent” when the funder has the power to cut the money if it says something the funder doesn’t like).

I think that when the funder is the State, laws make that a bit more difficult than when it's completely private. Although it doesn't completely solve that problem ofc.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Yeah yeah, they were treated like cockroaches for 60 years, but WhAt AbOuT OcToBeR 7tH????

Hamas would never have been a problem if humans were treated as humans from the start.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago

Zionists do love their cherrypicking. The actual big picture is devastating for them, you see.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

It gets even funnier when you know the details of that history, especially how Israel directly funded and supported the rise of Hamas as the dominant faction to suppress the growing support of the PLO.

They literally created their own enemy and got all [shocked_pikachu.jpeg] when their whipping dog decided to finally bite back.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

It's like Iraq and Afghanistan had war crimes but remember 9/11!!!1!

[–] [email protected] 75 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Dockworkers are now officially “the elite” according to the media. Congrats! Welcome!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Dude. I bet they have a retirement pension. I bet they get paid sick leave and time off when their child is born. Fucking elite assholes. Unions are the real parasites on the working class.

Do they not think about the rights of the Israeli working class? It's an Israelis right to wake up every morning and know that at least 10 children in Gaza were killed while they slept. Palestinian babies are the real elites actually.

[–] Kinperor 3 points 2 weeks ago

are you hamas sympathizer?? why are you using plestinin??? amalek babies forced israeli to attack provocally

[–] [email protected] 59 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

This is the power of the organized working class. Nothing happens with out us.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I mean, the working class is going far-right most of the time these days, so I'm not sure that's how I'd frame it.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Only because of de-industrialisation that began since the 1970s and 1980s without offering alternatives. There is a reason for the rhetoric that "the working class have been abandoned" exists.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

Sure, but it's happening, and the old labour-left is pretty much dead.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The old labour became a victim of its own success. As wealth increased, they have had to court the growing, largely moderate middle class in the past thirty years. Although now that the middle class is shrinking but wealth inequality widens, it is time for the left to return to its working class roots.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

You know, I'd actually agree with the general idea there. The Reagan/Thatcher era and the decline of unionism did come after that post-war era of prosperity, and I do think there was a correlation. The guys doing wildcat strikes earlier in the century would have absolutely lost their minds over the government firing striking air traffic controllers; people in the 80's were mildly scandalised.

I just don't see the trend reversing any time in the next two decades. If you look at the actual demographics of the left, the educated, progressive middle class that was always there (think Dickens or Marx) has grown to become it's core, pushing out the trade unionists (as well as largely replacing the old conservative middle class). It's hard to undo that overnight.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

yeah, I have never in my life met a trade worker that wasn't some frothing right-wing sterotype. Maybe i'm unlucky, but the era of socialist workers looks over to me

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

I've met a fair few that seemed barely-political, but then again I am in Canada.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Disagree. UAW's high profile cases are a good example of effectively run established old-style unions getting big wins, and unionization is occurring at high rates compared to the historical mean of the past fifty years worldwide, even in the face of total hostility from government and the owner class.

Many unions are currently in a place where they need to hand over the reigns from an older generation that got way too comfortable with cost of living adjustments and cosy relationships with management to a new generation who have been directly blocked from power most of their working lives by that older generation.

Things are going to get much spicier, just watch.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

The RMTU in Britain has also been phenomenonal. Their leaders are natural public speakers and could easily shut down criticisms and biases from the media trying to grill them and their strikes.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

The UAW that supports Trump's auto tariffs? In spite of the fact they used to represent Canadian auto workers just accross the border as well? That's not solidarity.

And, MAGA unions are growing in number as of last I checked. Like, sure, labour has been more active recently, and I've heard that it's to be expected when you have higher inflation, but are we sure this is the democracy-loving all-accepting faction from the past, and not just chuds in hardhats?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

I'm the only leftist I know.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

As an American it’s hard to imagine blue collar workers that oppose Israel.

[–] [email protected] 64 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

as an American it's hard to imagine blue collar workers taking any amount of coherent action, the boss has surveillance on them 24/7 and if they step out of line they'll lose the meds that keep their kids alive or they'll be disappeared to el salvador

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 weeks ago

Americans have been made too individualist for collective action I guess

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 weeks ago

This is why unions are absolutely crucial

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago

fucking hell, when you put it like that....

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

As an American, it’s pretty fucking aggravating watching blue collar workers vote against their (and everyone else’s, save for rich people’s) interests in a statistically-significant fashion.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah good on their leader to support them. There are unions though. The important thing here is they’re seemingly refusing collectively. Just a few people refusing probably wouldn’t be as successful.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago

We are a very stupid country

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

American blue collar workers don’t have class consciousness. They vote against their own interests, eat processed food, and watch football. They’re cheering on their billionaire bosses while they get poorer and their pocket gets picked by those same bosses.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

When you put the issues on the table without the attached political narratives, they're for the same policies we are, a lot of times for the same reasons.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

You know, European leftists integrate themselves into football culture

I know the differences in how European and American sporting is organized factor in here, but seriously I don't think "everything you like is bad actually" is a winning position

[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 weeks ago

Hell fucking yeah French dock workers.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

The French always have the balls. During the yellow jacket protests couple of years back, electric company workers gave away free electricity as part of protest.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

Governments in any nation - France deefinitely not excluded - are self-serving and following the wishes of the rich, but the common French people have always had balls!

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 weeks ago

The French is so hardcore, love it.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 weeks ago

Glad to see the French still understand the point of direct action when it comes to protest.

They won't listen to our words, so we make them hear our actions.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago

Thank god for the french

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago

No, it’s near Marseille.

Wakka wakka!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

Viva la France!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

go team France!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

Workers taking action, love to see it.