Sidney Rothstein

@sidneyrothstein.bsky.social

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Political scientist. Author of 𝑅𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑃𝑜𝑤𝑒𝑟 (http://tinyurl.com/RePwr). Tech, labor politics, curiosities of capitalism.

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"But Joe McNamee, director of European Digital Rights (EDRi), a group that promotes tighter privacy rules, disputes that they have been able to muster the same firepower as US tech groups. Mr. McNamee occupies a unique position. EDRi used to be supported by Google when it campaigned for net neutrality. But when his group started lobbying on tougher privacy rights, it lost Google's financial backing."

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first page of "Dependent development in digital capitalism: The politics of startup policies in the new periphery." abstract: As digital technology’s economic importance increases, policymakers pivot to supporting startups – new, small, high-risk firms that produce technological innovation. Tracing the passage of startup policies in Brazil and Spain between 2014 – 2022, this article argues that startup policies do little to reduce peripheral countries’ dependence on the core. In each case, startups advocated for these policies by relying on financial and organizational resources from the giant US-based technology firms known as “Big Tech.” The article makes three contributions to the framework of dependent development. First, it reinforces existing observations that dependence on Big Tech extends beyond the Global South. Second, it revives political analysis of dependency, exploring the political conditions for economic development in the periphery. Lastly, it shows how startups’ political dependence on Big Tech implies important limits on startups’ ability to lead peripheral economies out of dependence on the core.

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Speech by President António Costa at the official opening of the Polish presidency of the Council of the European Union

I would like to thank you, dear Donald (Tusk), for the invitation to speak here today. It is a great honour for me to be in Warsaw at the launch of the Polish Presidency.

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Call for Abstracts
Labor and the Crisis of Democracy Conference at CUNY SLU, May 8-9, 2025
Abstracts Due February 1, 2025

The CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies will be hosting a two-day conference, May 8-9, 2025, on labor and the crisis of democracy. The conference will be held in person at CUNY SLU, 25 West 43rd Street, 18th Floor, New York, NY.

The conference will include:

Presentations from academics and practitioners on topics such as what is driving union members to support the far right in the US and other countries; analyses of experiments that unions or working-class organizations have undertaken to address the rising support for authoritarianism in the labor movement; etc. See the Call for Papers for more topics.

Sessions for labor leaders, labor educators, organizers, etc. to discuss best practices and how to move labor into the center of the fight to defend and expand democracy.

Please submit abstracts (up to 500 words) here by February 1, 2025.

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screenshot of workshop program -- please DM for PDF

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Quote: Up to a million Indonesians, maybe more, were killed as part of Washington's global anticommunist crusade. The US government expended significant resources over years engineering the conditions for a violent clash, and then, when the violence broke out, assisted and guided its longtime partners to carry out the mass murder of civilians as a means of achieving US geopolitical goals. /endquote

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CALL FOR SYLLABI: The APSA Labor Politics Group is creating a "Labor Politics Syllabus Bank" (to be posted on the APSA Educate website for public use). If you'd like to share/add yours to this collective effort, feel free to email it to or DM me