Articles by Gary Lapon
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Testifying against Israel’s Apartheid
Gary Lapon and Daphna Their – Socialist Worker,
15 Oct 2012
Nearly 1,000 people gathered in the Great Hall at Cooper Union in lower Manhattan on October 6 and 7 to hear two days of testimony on the complicity of the U.S. government and the United Nations in Israel’s past and present crimes against the Palestinian people. The jury for the New York session included activists, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, legal professionals and scholars, and prominent intellectuals, ranging from Native Americans to African Americans born in the Jim Crow South, to people from South Africa and Northern Ireland.
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Gary Lapon – Socialist Worker,
3 Oct 2011
The distinction between “labor-power” and “labor” is the key to understanding exploitation under capitalism. When a capitalist pays a worker a wage, they are not paying for the value of a certain amount of completed labor, but for labor-power. The soaring inequality in contemporary society illustrates this–over the past three decades of neoliberalism, the wealth that workers create has increased, but this has not been reflected in wages, which remain stagnant. Instead, an increasing proportion of the wealth produced by workers swelled the pockets of billionaires, who did not compensate the workers for their increased production on the job.
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