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US Federal Bureau of Investigation documents obtained by The Intercept and published at the start of April made for fascinating reading….
As well as proving that the Bureau harassed activists involved in lawful free speech campaigns, the documents – obtained only after a Freedom of Information law suit – suggest that the FBI may have engaged in spying on US citizens at the behest of Israel.
Media Roots Radio: Sifting Through Anti-China Disinformation w/ Ian Goodrum
Abby and Robbie Martin speak to Ian Goodrum of China Daily. During the course of their conversation they cover a whole range of issues frequently raised in the US like the ‘social credit system’, 5G, the COVID-19 lab leak theories and draconian surveillance. Ian also explains why he believes the hostilities between the United States have been growing, based largely on ruling class profit motivations, Obama’s ‘Asia pivot’ and Trump’s trade war.
i felt this in my bones 😤
This is what lesser of two evils is. Dead children in the Middle East. Jihadists slaughtering innocents while being armed and funded by America. Latinos murdered by Cartels after being deported. This is some of the reasons why I will not stand for Biden. I cannot live with the knowledge that my actions in supporting Biden will lead to dead children. It’s easy to not care. We are more than a thousand miles away from any bomb and yet just because we do not see it doesnt mean that somewhere in the world someone lost a daughter or a son or a mother or a father to a bomb we dropped from a drone. I’m tired of evil. Are any of you?
So the GOP-dominated Senate Intelligence Committee says the CIA was right, says the Washington Post. Omitted so far from what I’ve read is any actual reason to believe so…
On this day, 18 April 2001, police in Kabylie, Algeria, murdered a young man named Massinissa sparking a nationwide uprising which became known as the “Black Spring”. Following the killing, protests and riots broke out across the country, demanding democratic rights and cultural rights for Amazigh (Berber) people. The rebellion was only quelled after police killed upwards of 120 people. This is a short article about the uprising written by a participant at the time: https://libcom.org/library/algeria-2001-ulach-smah-no-forgiveness https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1403786713139808/?type=3
On this day, 18 April 1888 the Imperial British East Africa Company was founded in London to run what is now Uganda and Kenya as British colonies. As with all of Britain’s other colonies, the British outlawed homosexuality, and propagated homophobic values. As of 2017, half of all the world’s countries which outlaw being gay, including Uganda and Kenya, were part of the British Empire. Pictured: LGBTQ protesters in Kenya, 2014 For more LGBTQ history, check out our podcast series: https://workingclasshistory.com/tag/lgbtq/ https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1403969453121534/?type=3
On this day, 18 April 1912, miners in Paint Creek, West Virginia, went on strike after employers refused their demand for wages equal to those of other mines. They were joined by miners from nearby Cabin Creek. The stoppage continued for over a year, with many killed in clashes between miners, company thugs and state militia. This is our podcast on the fascinating history of the West Virginia mine wars: https://workingclasshistory.com/2018/06/09/wch-e7-the-west-virginia-mine-wars-1902-1922/ Pictured: Paint Creek miners’ munitions seized by the government https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1404230583095421/?type=3
Calvin and Hobbes still relevant 25 years later.
A West Bend farm says it was told to start dumping tens of thousands of gallons of milk per day because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
With the first case of coronavirus confirmed in Wisconsin, the impacts could extend further than just health.
This is capitalism's vast irrationality and inhumanity in action. Markets and The Economy™ matter more to capitalism than the concrete distribution of resources according to tangible human need.
Resources exist in abundance -- give them to people. Housing sits empty -- give it to people. The rules of the feast table should apply to our economic system -- no one gets seconds until everyone has gotten a plate.
We stand at a crossroads in these chaotic times: socialism or barbarism! The ruling class repeatedly chooses the latter. We need to organize and choose the former!
John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
People have been reblogging this with some points that seem fair to call attention to -- milk expires quickly, farmers are locked into a situation where they have to throw stuff out, etc. But the larger point we were trying to illustrate in the original post was that this system compels people to do irrational things in the name of market laws. We have a surplus of goods around us and yet we arbitrarily build up social constructs (property laws and exchangability) to prevent people from comfortably living off of these goods. Goods are produced and given away only if profit can be extracted from the process. These aren't immutable laws of nature, though, and most of human history hasn't operated this way. Not to suggest that things were just peachy keen in slave empires or feudalism -- class stratification in general is a big part of this, not just the particular market laws of capitalism. But it's still important to realize that these irrational all-pervasive market forces are a comparatively recent invention and that these historical moments of crisis demonstrate how truly anti-human production-for-profit and class inequality truly are. We believe that the economy should be more broadly democratized and managed on a for-need/for-use basis by the people actually impacted by the outcomes; that would entail workplace/community democracy, as well as a new emphasis on direct distribution of goods (rather than having those goods wait around to be bought).
Goods sit unused -- give them to people. Make sure everyone has the means to live a comfortable life. These seemingly obvious goals are perpetually blocked by billionaires and profit-sharks, who'd rather see people sleeping on the streets in the middle of a pandemic than have their bottom lines suffer any hit. Things are fundamentally top-down; we believe it is a reasonable proposal to start moving things into a bottom-up direction. That requires choosing socialism at this crossroads of human history.
One thing nobody teaches you is how politicised being disabled is. Your whole existence being called a waste of resources. Your whole worth being boiled down to whether you can work. If you can, you’re not disabled and get nothing. If you’re not, you’re lazy and deserve nothing.
Accessibility is seen as a burden and us demanding too much like the greedy people they claim us to be. No handouts! No Handouts! We are invisible and subhuman. We are the other. We are portrayed as burdens to society for simply wanting to exist in the world as they do.
The ability to live week to week is constantly in jeopardy. Lost jobs from sick days. Rising costs of medical care and accommodations. Your government assistance becomes a talking point and a target. People rallying for you to starve instead of paying any taxes to your care. One day your means to live just disappears without fanfare or your input. ‘Austerity measures’ being levied on us for being ‘leeches’. They might not kill us directly but they don’t care about leaving us to die.
Right to die advocates fighting valiantly for euthanasia but doing nothing about disability rights. Nothing about accommodations. Nothing about accessibility. Nothing about subsidies or in home care. They’d rather give us the ability to die than allow us to live. Because we are tragedies.
Burdens.
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