April 2012
Reblog if you're actually a 63 year old man
On Lenin, Left Unity & Organisation →
amodernmanifesto:
This piece is written as a response to some of the ideas about socialist regroupment in America today raised in a debate hosted on LINKS. Ostensibly, this debate started with Pham Binh’s proposals for steps towards joint socialist organisation, such as joint organising committees, if not a broad-based socialist party, in Occupy and Tasks of Socialists. But the thing that...
Prison Industries: "Don't Let Society Improve or... →
There are two very large and influential prison companies in the United States who are manipulating the system to make sure they have plenty of business: The GEO Group (formerly Wackenhut) and Corrections Corporation of America (CCA). In the first part of this two-part series, I will explore The GEO Group’s influence peddling; next week, I will look at CCA.
If you have any doubt in your mind...
Oppose the US-Australia war preparations against... →
amodernmanifesto:
Six months after the Gillard Labor government announced with US President Barack Obama that the north and west of the country would become a base for major US military operations, the majority of ordinary people remain unaware of the significance of the agreements made behind their backs and with no public debate. The line of the Australian media and political establishment,...
PFLP calls for May Day general strike to support... →
fuckyeahmarxismleninism:
Comrade Ahmad Abu al-Saud, former prisoner freed in the recent prisoner exchange, called for the fifteenth day of the prisoners’ strike, May 1, 2012, to be a national day for a comprehensive general strike, and a day of national, regional and international action in support of the prisoners and their just demands. He called for actions on May Day in Palestine, throughout...
“Socialism, Communism, or whatever one chooses to call it, by converting private...”
– Oscar Wilde, The Soul Of Man Under Socialism (1891)
Israeli Navy Attacks Palestinian Fishing Boats in... →
fuckyeahmarxismleninism:
Ramallah, Apr 28 (Prensa Latina) The Israeli Navy opened fire today against Palestinian fishing boats in front of Gaza’s coasts, reported sources of this city that also denounced the arrest of four children by Zionist soldiers. Palestinian media reported that Israeli warships were deployed this Saturday in the eastern Mediterranean Sea and opened fire with heavy...
Monsanto Now Owns Blackwater (Xe) →
localyolk:
underdogphoto:
The Devil just got a brand new pitchfork. 2012 is shaping up to be a very interesting apocalypse.
May Day's Radical History: What Occupy Is Fighting... →
amodernmanifesto:
Occupy actions planned on May Day are tied to the generations-long movement for the eight-hour day, to immigrant workers, to police brutality and repression of the labor movement.
American general strikes—or rather, American calls for general strikes, like the one Occupy Los Angeles issued last December that has been endorsed by over 150 general assemblies—are tinged with...
Do You Hear the People Sing?: FREE STUFF = the... →
howistrike:
-I PLANT FREE WIKI-TREES, WIKI-VEGIS… along the roads, in school yards - I create FREE FOOD = sovereignty = independence = ABUNDANCE to all 6 billion people
- I gift to youths organisations my saved tomato/apple/avocado…seeds and I teach them TO SHARE & GIFT free food & to…
Do You Hear the People Sing?: May Day: A Radical... →
howistrike:
May Day: A Radical Strike into the Belly of the Beast
By Zakk Flash
May 1st is recognized worldwide as International Workers’ Day, a holiday originating in response to the Haymarket Massacre of 1886 in Chicago, where workers fought for the establishment…
Worker Cooperative Startup Guides →
Forcing a C-section in prison: Israel’s systematic... →
diaryofamadmuslimwoman:
The world has taken a keen interest lately in the status of women in the Middle East. Initially, the emphasis seems to have followed the Western narrative that Arab men inherently hate Arab women. The discourse, however, is shifting rapidly as more and more people are beginning to identify the sources—overwhelmingly institutional and political rather than religious—of...
“It is not true, as Foucault and Deleuze would have it, that relations of power...”
– Nicos Poulantzas - State, Power, Socialism
Not aiming to defend Poulantzas here - indeed there is much that can be critiqued of his work, particularly in fighting off any influence from Weber (think this partly stems from the Miliband / Poulantzas debate in the NLR as well as his ambivalence towards...
“Corporations, which previously had been considered artificial entities with no...”
– Noam Chomsky - Profit Over People (via noam-chomsky)
Simon O’Sullivan – Two Diagrams of the Production... →
U.N. to investigate plight of Native Americans for... →
emphysemainacan:
The UN is to conduct an investigation into the plight of US Native Americans, the first such mission in its history.
The human rights inquiry led by James Anaya, the UN special rapporteur on indigenous peoples, is scheduled to begin on Monday.
Many of the country’s estimated 2.7 million Native Americans live in federally recognised tribal areas which are plagued with...
How revolutionaries of Lenin’s time resisted... →
fuckyeahmarxismleninism:
Economic collapse drives workers into hunger and destitution. Foreign powers extort huge payments, forcing the national economy toward bankruptcy. The government forces workers to pay the costs of capitalist crisis.
This description of Greece in 2012 applies equally to Germany in 1921.
How should a workers’ party respond to such a breakdown? The proposals of the German...
“You can tell that the capitalist system is in trouble when people start talking...”
– Terry Eagleton, Why Marx Was Right (via carnivorousdreams)
Bahrain mourners attack police after funeral march →
fuckyeahmarxismleninism:
MANAMA (Reuters) - Bahraini protesters attacked a police station with petrol bombs on Thursday and riot police responded with teargas and stun grenades after a funeral march for a man killed in clashes during the Gulf Arab state’s Formula One race last week.
Petrol bombs set the police station’s wall ablaze and the clashes spilled onto a main highway, holding up traffic...
