Tournament: Glenbrooks | Round: 2 | Opponent: Immaculate Heart AW | Judge: Matt Liu
The Aff attempts to argue for workers’ rights by arguing for an unconditional right to strike. But creating a right to strike will further entrench the capitalist ownership of workers’ labor, reinforcing oppressive class structures.
Gourevitch 18 Alex Gourevitch, July 2018, “A Radical Defense of the Right to Strike,” (Alex Gourevitch is an associate professor of political science at Brown University and the author of From Slavery To the Cooperative Commonwealth: Labor and Republican Liberty in the Nineteenth Century.) https://jacobinmag.com/2018/07/right-to-strike-freedom-civil-liberties-oppression
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Neoliberalism makes extinction inevitable because of environmental degradation.
Clark and Clausen 08 – Clark: assistant professor of sociology and sustainability studies at the University of Utah; Clausen: Professor of Sociology at Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado. Brett and Rebecca. “The Oceanic Crisis: Capitalism and the Degradation of Marine Ecosystem”. http://monthlyreview.org/2008/07/01/the-oceanic-crisis-capitalism-and-the-degradation-of-marine-ecosystem.//jwang
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Vote Neg to support the formation of a party of a united working class to spearhead the global movement against capitalism.
Alaniz et al 20 Maryam Alaniz, Olivia Wood, Nina DeMeo, Carmin Maffea, Ezra Brain, Madeleine Freeman, June 26 2020, “Socialism Is The Future. Our Generation Will Win It,” (Maryam Alaniz is a socialist journalist, activist, and PhD student living in NYC. She mostly writes about the international situation and social movements. Follow her on Twitter: @MaryamAlaniz) https://www.leftvoice.org/socialism-is-the-future-our-generation-will-win-it/