Monthly Archives: April 2020

by Rolf Gossner, 4/18/2020 Thoughts and Theses on the Corona Exceptional State by Rolf Gossner, April 2020https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/04/24/18832608.php Maximum vigilance is now required to ensure that the new state of emergency does not gradually normalize and that the authoritarian turnaround does … Continue reading →

by Stephan Kroll and Christian Hofmann, April 2020 The car companies should now be converted into providers of mobility needs based on socio-ecological sustainability. Reduction of working hours – short full time of an average of 30 hours/4 days per … Continue reading →

An adequate taxation of international corporations and the abolition of tax loopholes have been waited for in vain.The question is whether the broad masses have learned anything from the last crisis, whether they can build up such strong pressure not … Continue reading →

History of an eventful myth: the 8-hour day by Elias Felten and Thomas Ritt, 3/16/2020https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/04/11/18832272.php Since industrialization, it has been the norm for wage-earners of all ages, including children, to work 15 to 16 hours a day. There was no … Continue reading →

and “We do not live in capitalism” by Wolfgang Belitz and Yves Wegelin There Goes the Rule of Law by Bill Moyers http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2020/04/438414.shtml Trump weaponized and disfigured the rule of law by making the Dept of Justice go after his … Continue reading →

by Eugen Drewermann and Iring Fetscher Only faith (as in a religion), the “invisible hand,” the “law” of the “free” market can judge everything. State interventions can only be annoying. The market itself is allegedly “social”. Everyone acts according to … Continue reading →