’Thank you for calling the planned obsolescence hotline’In order to artificially increase demand, capitalists design things to fail—engineers even take courses in “planned obsolescence.”
Ask your server friends if they know where their ’house tip out’ goesWe get the special pleasure of writing down our stats of exploitation at the end of the shift, for our cash out slips.
That’s what made me a communistAt work during breaks and between orders, I read Capital, Volume I by Karl Marx.
That book changed everything.
Ticketmaster CEO weighs in on high prices“In sports […] it’s like a badge of honour to spend 70 grand for a Knicks courtside, but they beat me up if we charge $800 for Beyoncé.”
CUPE 79 execs sabotage Hot Cargo Kills campaignThis week, I was prevented from raising the Hot Cargo Kills campaign at my membership meeting.
Immiserate yourselves for the nation!While less office days is generally beneficial to workers, it’s not beneficial to corporate landlords and financiers who derive profits and rents from corporate real estate.
“We aren’t a charity!”—how Canadian banks rob the working classWhen my coworker raised their case with a supervisor, the response was blunt: “We aren’t a charity!”
Austerity continues to hurt the most vulnerableI used to volunteer for a domestic violence hotline and while I never took stats, I would say at minimum 85 per cent of the people could not leave their situation due to money.
Communists defeat university’s attempt at repressionAn hour before our first public educational event of the fall, I received an email from campus security director Rick Gysen with the subject “Lifting of Trespass Ban.”
Another strike, another barrage of media smears…It’s the same old refrain that we shouldn’t complain because others have it worse.
