Microchip ManiaWhile Congress is considering legislation to make historic investments in domestic semiconductor research and manufacturing, New York state and local economic development agencies are continuing a decades-long effort to make the capital region the microchip manufacturing center of the United States. Encouraged by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., state and local authorities are continuing to pour millions of dollars into an industry that has long been subsidized by taxpayer dollars even as it has offshored jobs. Last Monday, Schumer announced that GlobalFoundries, a semiconductor manufacturing firm owned by Mubadala Investment Company, the United Arab Emirates sovereign wealth fund, is building a new chip fabrication plant near its corporate headquarters in Malta, New York, and expanding an existing plant. The expansion will include $1 billion in investments from the company as well as federal and state subsidies, according to a press release from GlobalFoundries, and will create more than a thousand jobs. Details of those subsidies have not yet been released.
https://www.dailyposter.com/microchip-mania/Hinterlands: Rural DetroitsTrucks rumble through here too, from the factories at one end of Old Trinity near Woodall. Most factories off Woodall are small, looking as if they might employ a few dozen to a hundred workers. Except for the Wayne’s Farm Poultry plant. Wayne’s Farm is large and a reason why, despite Alabama’s repressive anti-immigrant laws, so many Latinos have settled in Decatur. But the rest look like they’ve been there for ages. Again, no new development. Yet a few dozen miles away, in Huntsville, lay shiny, one-story sprawling suburban industrial parks engineering advanced weapons systems with the latest technology. A gleaming new Mazda plant, rising like an industrial Phoenix out of former cornfields, is sprouting up midway between Huntsville and Decatur. Such on the local level is capitalism’s combined and uneven development. Some areas are raised and stroked while others knocked down and gutted. Alabama, of course, is fully rooted in the globalized economy. In recent decades, the state became a Southern site for the auto industry, with Japanese transplants scattered along the north-south central axis. Aerospace has gotten a toe-hold in the Mobile area too, with Airbus. AAA USA and VT Aerospace now embedded. Contrary to lazy stereotypes, Alabama’s union density is the highest in the Deep South, although none of the transplants and aerospace factories are unionized. (1) Yet as Allan Tullos notes in Alabama Getaway, “In its newly celebrated global presence, Alabama shows contradictory faces, represented through the glad-handing eagerly extended by development officials and in labor practices reminiscent of an earlier era.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/07/30/hinterlands-rural-detroits/TKP-ML International Bureau: Message for Communist Party of India (Maoist)On the occasion of the 28 July-3 August Martyrs' Memorial Week, declared by the CPI (Maoist) to commemorate those who sacrificed their lives in the struggle for the New Democratic Revolution in India, we, as TKP-ML, respectfully commemorate revolutionary and communist martyrs from all over the world. The communist and revolutionary movement try to keep the memory of the martyrs alive in various ways. The Indian Maoist comrades also declared a special week to commemorate all the martyrs, as the number of immortals increased with the development of the People's War. Every year, from 28 July to 3 August, it has been recognized as Martyrs' Memorial Week for those who sacrificed their lives in the struggle for the Indian New Democratic Revolution and the struggle for communism all over the world. The reason why the CPI (Maoist) chose these dates is that it was the date of the martyrdom of Charu Mazumdar (28 July 1972) and a couple of weeks earlier (18 July 1983) is the martyrdom day of Comrade Kanai Chatterji. Charu Mazumdar and Kanai Chatterji are the two of the founder leaders of CPI(Maoist). All communist parties' history is filled with numerous examples of brave martyrs with exceptional communist qualities and revolutionary traditions such as total dedication to the cause of revolution, selflessness and adherence to communist values and ethics, proletarian discipline, determination to bear hardship and 'swim against the tide' etc. Undoubtedly, one of them is the Communist Party of India (Maoist).
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