Honestly, good on them. Despite being bombed, starved, sanctioned, and impoverished the Yemenis have been the only ones consistently taking actual steps to cut off Israel and stop the Genocide. Ultimately, whatever western media says, the Yemenis are on the right side of history and the side of humanity here- critique of Ansar Allah itself aside.
Depends what you define as “a spine”
I totally agree. Though, I think I would say that it’s less that legislation is missing time and more that since the neoliberal revolution, workers’ organisations (unions, parties, etc) have been so systematically either infiltrated or dismantled, there is no avenue for workers to put pressure on representatives to do this. Most governments are, in one way or another, bought by oligarchs.
Saying all that, it is good to see the resurgence of unions over the last 10 years. Though I question the radicalism and their grasp of the task at hand of many of them.
Yes! The number of great patterns I’ve gotten off of r/knitting has been invaluable to my learning.
I would think any serious person worth their salt would take a luddite (by that I mean the values of the original bunch, not what the colloquialism has become) position and say that technology is as good as its implementation. If the technology makes it easier for people to do more in less time, thereby meaning that people can go do the fun stuff they enjoy doing, then absolutely. If, however, it’s implemented to drive down wages and therefore living standards, then it is not an advancement that we should seek to implement.
Saying the left is techno-pessimistic is, in my opinion, lazy.
Most of the world agrees with the ICC but who’s stopping shipments and suffering the ire of the US empire for their troubles?
To your other point about targeting and trade, they have exclusively targeted shipping that is owned by or going to Israel or entities associated with Israel. The reason why you’re not seeing shipping is because the insurance companies don’t want anything to do with it and that is what is stopping trade through the Suez, not any kind of “sloppy Houthi targeting”.