Paul Kellogg

Air Canada Flight Attendants Have Made Labour History We should celebrate their courage while recognizing that the fight against unjust government interference isn’t over.

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I absolutely love this painting.
It breathes with calmness.

Yes, it is Ukrainian art.
Ivan Pylypenko,
The River of Time, 2020

It's worth reflecting today on what it took to end legal chattel slavery in the US.

And it's worth remembering that the work stoppages of enslaved workers in the south crippled the Confederacy and were the largest and most effective labor action in US history.

Sign the Petition No Navitas at Western 2025: Petition Against the Proposed Partnership

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Hands off Madison, Wisconsin

This is Utah in case anyone’s wondering how pissed off people are. I have never seen anything like this.

WOW!!! 120 miles north in Pocatello, Idaho, we had well over 1000 people. Largest protest this area has ever seen. Video shows just the beginning….. #handsoff

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Assistant Professor, Political Science position, Athabasca University - athabascau.acquiretm.com/job_details_...

Martov and the October Revolution World Bolshevism By Julius Martov Introduction by Paul Kellogg Translated by Paul Kellogg and Mariya Melentenyeva  AU Press, 2019, U.S. Distribution by University of Chicago Press, 192 pages, …

Little is known of Iulii Martov today – but in his time, he was a towering political figure. Steve Downs treats Iulii Martov very fairly in this book review published in Against the Current. againstthecurrent.org/atc235/marto...

A Revolution’s Fateful Passages Truth Behind Bars Reflections on the Fate of the Russian Revolution By Paul Kellogg AU Press, 2021, 440 pages, $37.99. “THE OCTOBER REVOLUTION brought tremendous exaltation to vast sections o…

Steve Downs has written a very comprehensive review of "Truth Behind Bars." Much appreciated. againstthecurrent.org/atc235/a-rev...

Wałęsa condemns Trump treatment of Zelensky, likening it to communist interrogation

Polish Nobel Peace Prize winner Lech Wałęsa and 38 other former political prisoners of Poland's communist regime have condemned Donald Trump's treatment of Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday, which they said reminded them of communist interrogation techniques

👀🇺🇸🇺🇦 After yesterday's meeting with Zelensky collapsed, J.D. Vance fled on vacation to Vermont, where hundreds of angry protesters were waiting for him.

California introduces new bill to pay incarcerated firefighters the same wage as non-incarcerated firefighters 30% of California’s firefighters are incarcerated, and many make as little as $6 a day.

30% of California’s firefighters are incarcerated, and many make as little as $6 a day.

The Money Printers | Dave Denison Ordinary Americans live in a world of limits. They assume the government will eventually have to balance its budget just like they do.

I somehow missed this incredible piece by @daveadenison.bsky.social when it came out in 2020. thebaffler.com/salvos/the-m...

With essays by the amazing Priscilla Settee, Melanee Thomas, Tracy Summerville and Jason Lacharite, Murray Knuttila, Clark Banack, Nelson Wiseman and Benjamin Isitt, Dennis Pilon, Paul Kellogg, @proftomuofr.bsky.social, and Kathy Walker. Oh, and me!

Stephanie Kelton on the Disastrous Republican Economic Agenda "We don't have two years. You won't be able to pick up the pieces."

An interview with @stephaniekelton.bsky.social about DOGE, Trump, crypto, tariffs, inflation, the collapse of the rule of law, and more.

"We don't have two years" to wait for Democrats to rally, she says. "You won't be able to pick up the pieces."

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Athabasca University is hiring a new professor of Labour Relations!

Please share widely, and let me know if you have any questions about the university.
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Latest issue | Slavic Review | Cambridge Core Slavic Review

Available as open access in this issue of #SlavicReview, Alexander McConnell writes, "“Tragic Presentiments”: Maksim Gor΄kii and the Invention of Soviet Humanism."

Marianne Faithfull - Working Class Hero [1995] (Live) YouTube video by Marianne Faithfull

Or this version ... www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCn_...

Marianne Faithfull - Working Class Hero YouTube video by Christian Davies

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Don’t let anyone tell you this guy is popular or that the country is trending his way. Just isn’t true. Never was.

BREAKING: ICE just announced it is pausing the hotline where people can call to report undocumented immigrants because 90% of the calls are from people reporting Elon Musk.

What Does It Mean That Donald Trump Is a Fascist? Trump takes the tools of dictators and adapts them for the Internet. We should expect him to try to cling to power until death, and create a cult of January 6th martyrs.

Donald Trump takes the tools of dictators and adapts them for the Internet. We should expect him to try to cling to power until death, and create a cult of January 6th martyrs, Timothy Snyder writes.

Tragically on point ...

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“When a prison camp opens in your town…when a DREAMer is disappeared from your classroom…when the President destroys what’s left of the Constitution…They will all say they didn’t know this was coming. And I want the American people to know that they did.”

AOC 🔥🎯

Very true. Doing research on social movements in Ontario in the 1990s, I found really good coverage from local papers. Most of them are now gone. We need to recreate journalism on a new basis, I think. Big challenge.

Liberals Break 30 Points Following Trump Inauguration [Ottawa – January 22, 2025] In a rather dramatic recovery, the Liberal Party has surpassed the 30-point threshold for the first time since September 2022 and now sits at 32 per cent. Indeed, the pa…

This is interesting ... www.ekospolitics.com/index.php/20...

Over 900 Syrians withdraw asylum in Cyprus In a surprising development, more than 900 Syrians in Cyprus have either withdrawn their asylum applications or revoked their international protection status in just one month, signaling a shift in mi...

Extraordinary change ... knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/over...

Testing Air Filter Effectiveness at High Air Change Rates - Corsi-Rosenthal Boxes with "Used" MERV 13 Filters Can Produce Cleanroom Particle Levels - Tex-Air Filters By Jim Rosenthal In a previous article I summarized tests conducted using Corsi-Rosenthal Boxes with MERV 13 Filters at very high Air Change Rates. It was determined that two Corsi-Rosenthal Boxes cou...

Another case for DIY air filters ... www.texairfilters.com/testing-air-...