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DownloadOggOgg liteMP3TorrentIntro (0:28)Swimming in the lake at 8 C/ 46 FThe site will be moving and design changes to cyberunions.org and it will be more mobile friendlySteel plant in Germany and worker perspective with a more internationalist perspectiveReminds of Capital Moves: The RCA story Passing of Fidel and the end of an eraTransition from Fidel to Trump… is it the end of Neoliberalism? Trump ‘Saving jobs in Indiana’Main Topic (10:42)Threatening rise of fascismGiving out This Machine kills Fascists The big fight of identity and class politicsLiberals have defended identity politics and occused people bringing up class as white privilegeSDP and Communist parties fought each other and the splits let the right come to power, we need to make sure that does not happen againJacobin magazine historical map of the left in the US (PDF)Highlighting The Guardian newspaper covering identity politics well but not showing up to a strikeIdentity politics alone seems simple to solve but it has potential for large repercussions, LGBTQ rights comng about in the US at least is great but not everyone is on board with it where class issue is missed. (19:45)Capitalists don’t care about LGBTQ but they will exploit the split of the working classGains in identity politics is more commonly found in the upper classIn the film “Pride” Gay and Lesbians support the miners Shows the struggle of breaking down divisions it will take us a long time but we will grow and become strongerLiberals stop blaming voters, instead blame the movements that failedWe need to hold the line and defend identity politics but need to bring class into itThe backlash is it left out half of the equationSocialist and revolutionary groups are seeing quite an uptick in membership and interestWhen did we ever have democracyScotland shows great signs of positive changes in working class The wierdness factor is still there, president is not held to conflict of interest lawsIn a bizarre state of mind of want to know what happens but we are not a game of SimsSpent life fighting Neoliberalism and now it is like oh shit neoliberalism might be betterCapitalist will they oddly be in a place of ‘saving us’ in certain parts i.e. capitalist supporting LGBTQKeep in mind there are splits in capitalism tooA wait and see that we don’t want to wait and seeThe passing of Fidel thinking back on the legacy of FidelTech (39:30)Rebuilding the commons, things have changed since we started, but we still have not figured it outThe ongoing challenge of social media in the public commonsDo we give up on social media and do really targeted communicationWhat is the problem we are trying to solve it seems it is more like we are trying to still replace emailSignal, Whatsapp and Telegram replacing social media seems we want the immediate communication and secure and accessible insteadFacebook is becoming a newsfeed, a don’t tag people and let them decide, privacy is being graspedNot writing off XMPP/JabberDo we want Cyberunions to be more of a role of advising and research for unions and develop a transition processOne example is a group in Mexico called Sursiendo that developed an adaptation and adoption plan to free and open source softwareShould we open a facebook group for cyberunions as general outreach and awareness as people are there and we could use it as just a news outlet feed come to https://telegram.me/cyberunionsNot to endorse the Facebook game and we want to pull people away there are a lot of leftist groups that have developed strength from thereOutro (54:23)Dockers podcast shoutout Rate and review us on Itunes to expand our reach, we know many of our listeners use iPhonesTelegram group https://telegram.me/cyberunionsLook we created a podcast