The new 6th Street Bridge in Los Angeles opened up on Sunday, July 10th, 2022. The bridge, with a $588 million dollar price tag, had a soft-opening without any vehicular traffic. Just pedestrians, bicyclists, skateboarders and others wanting to take in the spectacle of L.A.’s newest bridge. It was almost idyllic: the bridge opened up to people, not cars or the movement of commodities over the Los Angeles River.
UKRAINE 2022 – R.S.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is not a world war, but it is a global war.
In the crisis, restructuring has broken down
[translator’s note: this text was originally published by Des Nouvelles du Front on March 23rd, 2022. the original french text can be found here: http://dndf.org/?p=20016 . if you find any errors please contact at chusma-chusma@protonmail.com . thank you]
El interregno: El levantamiento de George Floyd, la pandemia de coronavirus y la revolución social emergente
Esta es un serie de tesis escrita colectivamente por un grupo anónimo llamado “Your Lazy Comrades” [tr. “Sus camaradas perezosxs”] y enviada para ser publicada por Haters Cafe. Fue publicado el 7 de enero, 2022. Abajo la version traducida for CHUSMA CHUSMA con notas sobre la traducción.
El Gran Rechazo. Ofrecemos estas tesis como provocaciones y bloques de construcción para una mayor elaboración y acción.
Specter of time & work abolition: thoughts on the Great Resignation
capitalist efficiency does not wholly have to do with material resources, but in reducing the amount of time it takes for a worker to do x, y, z task. this false ‘efficiency ‘ is only taken into consideration under the racial regime of Capital because the less time is spent on a given activity (labor time) , the less you have to pay a worker (wage); thus increasing profits for the capitalist, but not the worker.
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