"The recent book by Marcelo Vieta, Workers’ Self-Management in Argentina: Contesting Neo-liberalism by Occupying Companies, Creating Cooperatives, and Recuperating Autogestion (Haymarket Books, Chicago, 2020), provides a wealth of information and analysis on the emergence of worker-run production cooperatives in Argentina’s crisis-ridden industries. It highlights workers’ prominent role in occupying and self-managing factories that were either shut down or on the brink of closure following the economic crisis of the 1990s. The book also offers fascinating examples of how these worker-managed units were established. Argentina’s labour movement provides valuable lessons for understanding the complexities of workers’ self-management.

To better understand the economic and political conditions that led to these labour movements, it is crucial to briefly consider the historical context of labour organization in Argentina, as discussed in the book and other related sources, particularly its relationship with the state and capitalists. A special focus will be placed on ‘Peronism,’ which significantly shaped labour politics. After that, we will explore some key aspects of the book and conclude with reflections on the concept of workers’ control and its (in-)conceivability under capitalism."

https://socialistproject.ca/2025/08/workers-self-management-struggle-against-neoliberalism/

#Argentina#SelfManagement#Autogestion#Cooperatives#Cooperativism#Neoliberalism

"The recent book by Marcelo Vieta, Workers’ Self-Management in Argentina: Contesting Neo-liberalism by Occupying Companies, Creating Cooperatives, and Recuperating Autogestion (Haymarket Books, Chicago, 2020), provides a wealth of information and analysis on the emergence of worker-run production cooperatives in Argentina’s crisis-ridden industries. It highlights workers’ prominent role in occupying and self-managing factories that were either shut down or on the brink of closure following the economic crisis of the 1990s. The book also offers fascinating examples of how these worker-managed units were established. Argentina’s labour movement provides valuable lessons for understanding the complexities of workers’ self-management.

To better understand the economic and political conditions that led to these labour movements, it is crucial to briefly consider the historical context of labour organization in Argentina, as discussed in the book and other related sources, particularly its relationship with the state and capitalists. A special focus will be placed on ‘Peronism,’ which significantly shaped labour politics. After that, we will explore some key aspects of the book and conclude with reflections on the concept of workers’ control and its (in-)conceivability under capitalism."

https://socialistproject.ca/2025/08/workers-self-management-struggle-against-neoliberalism/

#Argentina#SelfManagement#Autogestion#Cooperatives#Cooperativism#Neoliberalism

The "no-wash" movement is peak neoliberal performance. It's a futile, feel-good ritual that exists only to distract from the fact that systemic collapse can't be solved by individual consumer choices, absolving the actual culprits of all responsibility.

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20230529-the-people-who-dont-wash-their-clothes

#neoliberalism

Finland's laudable "climate neutrality 2035" is based on the planning that in that year, Finland's forests will take up the very same amount of remaining fossil CO2 emissions: 20Mt/a.
This of course lightens considerably the requirement for fossil reduction policies.

Now, inexplicably, Finland's natural sink degraded steadily since 2015...
And so much so that by 2018, Finland's forest became a CO2 source. Essentially undoing all efforts since 1990 to reduce fossil emissions. By 2023, Finland's total emissions relative to 1990 not only didn't fall, they rose by 7.8% !!

Don't prematurely yell "Climate Change!!!!!"
It's wrong in this case.

Finland's forest sink degraded because of neoliberal deregulation!
Since 2015, forest owners no longer need to be member of a state- and science-based forest union. Instead, they can leave management decisions 100% to logging companies.
And they do.
And logging companies base decisions on profits.
That's the reason.
https://yle.fi/a/74-20162862
#neoliberalism #CapitalismKills #capitalism #degrowth #ClimateChange

@MichaelTBacon The #LabourParty has stated they want to "mainline #AI into the veins of the country" https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/13/uk_government_ai_plans/ and apparently labour is "four years on, Labour is the party of business" https://labour.org.uk/updates/press-releases/keir-starmer-speech-at-labours-business-conference/ aiming to contrast leadership under the more left wing #JeremyCorbyn before #KeirStarmer's leftist purge

#UnitedKingdom #Leftism #Neoliberalism

so @johnzajac hits on something really important about #neoliberalism: the #aesthetics of it.

i have said numerous times that neoliberalism is #corporatism which is fascism in a business suit.

after Mussolini and Gentile wrote their #fascism manifesto, Mussolini said numerous times what he wanted for Italy was corporatism. BUT! he was both a Hitler and Henry Ford stan.

so it’s no coincidence, when he’d visit USA, he’d don a suit but around Adolf he’d butch up in fatigues… 🧵

The hubris of this guy:
"The United States is the world’s oldest and largest democracy, the beacon of freedom, and the military that holds the free world safe. "

American exceptionalism so deeply disgusts me. It's offensive, insane and an attempt to ignore a violent history and social order built on genocide, slavery and greed. It's the worst that humanity has to offer, not the best.

Fuck all the way off with this shit.

#America#Fascism#Neoliberalism#Capitalism

https://mastodon.social/@gruber/114909776698174781

What is neoliberalism, and why should you care?

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/apr/15/neoliberalism-ideology-problem-george-monbiot

The irony of a philosophy that was originally created to prevent fascism, instead directly causing fascism, is extreme. This article is almost a decade old, and yet already draws the connection that led us down this hateful path.

#fascism
#neoliberalism
#capitalism
#FreeMarket

What is neoliberalism, and why should you care?

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/apr/15/neoliberalism-ideology-problem-george-monbiot

The irony of a philosophy that was originally created to prevent fascism, instead directly causing fascism, is extreme. This article is almost a decade old, and yet already draws the connection that led us down this hateful path.

#fascism
#neoliberalism
#capitalism
#FreeMarket

Over one quarter billion on #strike over Indian government's pro-employer attempts to bust unions and worsen working conditions

https://www.bwint.org/BwiNews/NewsDetails?newsId=666

#strikes #union #unions#UnionStrong#India#UnionBusting#BharatBandh#AllIndiaStrike#CTU#MinimumWage #pensions#SocialSecurity#PSU #privatisation #neoliberalism#INBCWF#WorkingClass #capitalism #exploitation#ClassWar

Over one quarter billion on #strike over Indian government's pro-employer attempts to bust unions and worsen working conditions

https://www.bwint.org/BwiNews/NewsDetails?newsId=666

#strikes #union #unions#UnionStrong#India#UnionBusting#BharatBandh#AllIndiaStrike#CTU#MinimumWage #pensions#SocialSecurity#PSU #privatisation #neoliberalism#INBCWF#WorkingClass #capitalism #exploitation#ClassWar

Why don't politicians in general admit that we must #TaxTheRich?

> In some ways its astonishingly simple. We allowed the collective management of the national interest to be corrupted by the idea that naked #individualism would provide more wealth for ‘everyone’, infamously, it would ‘trickle down’. It did no such thing. It never will. It only ever gushed rapidly upwards. We need a reset.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jul/11/why-is-labour-so-afraid-to-admit-that-we-must-tax-the-rich-to-help-the-poor#comments

#HyperCapitalism#NeoLiberalism#NeoFascism#Politics

Why don't politicians in general admit that we must #TaxTheRich?

> In some ways its astonishingly simple. We allowed the collective management of the national interest to be corrupted by the idea that naked #individualism would provide more wealth for ‘everyone’, infamously, it would ‘trickle down’. It did no such thing. It never will. It only ever gushed rapidly upwards. We need a reset.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jul/11/why-is-labour-so-afraid-to-admit-that-we-must-tax-the-rich-to-help-the-poor#comments

#HyperCapitalism#NeoLiberalism#NeoFascism#Politics

There's a very big difference between what "government efficiency" means to you, and what it means to a neoliberal.

To you, "efficiency" means something like when you show up in a hospital emergency room, you are seen by a doctor promptly, and they are properly equipped to treat you.

To a neoliberal, "efficiency" means the hospital has as few staff and resources as possible.

As a result, you are likely to be seen by a doctor less promptly, and they will be less well equipped to treat you.

But rich people will pay less tax.

#auspol #politics #economics #economy #government #neoliberalism