Protesting against the decision by the German government to accept the peace treaty of Versailles, a group of soldiers under Wolfgang Kapp took control of Berlin on March 13, 1920. The trade unions called a general strike, which, after some doubt, was supported by the Ebert government. The strike paralyzed life in Berlin and contributed to the failure of the […]
According to the website 'Anecdotes on Kim Il Sung' (http://north-korea.narod.ru/anecdotes.htm) the North Korean leader visited a department store on March 13, 1958. Kim Il Sung (1912-1994) bought a pair of socks of inferior quality so that he would not stand out among the people.
Archiv der deutschen Jugendbewegung; Prof. Dr. Meike Sophia Baader, Hildesheim; Prof. Dr. Alfons Kenkmann, Leipzig Archiv der deutschen Jugendbewegung, Jugendburg Ludwigstein, 37214 Witzenhausen Deadline: 15.03.2019 Nach dem Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs fand die Zwangsgemeinschaft der Hitlergegner ihr schnelles Ende. Die folgende Konfrontation der politischen […]
John Heartfield (1891–1968) gehört zu den innovativsten und bedeutendsten Künstlern, die sich mit ihrem Werk politisch engagiert und dem Faschismus entgegengestellt haben. Seine Plakate, Buchumschläge für den Malik-Verlag und Zeitschriftencover für die Arbeiter-Illustrierte-Zeitung (AIZ) sind ein wesentlicher Teil der politischen Ikonographie der Weimarer Re […]
A l’occasion de la sortie de son livre Insurrección. Las sangrientas jornadas del 3 al 7 de Mayo de 1937 (Ed. Descontrol, 2017), notre ami Agustín Guillamón (revue Balance) a été interviewé sur la radio Onda Expansiva de Burgos. L’émission (en espagnol) est téléchargeable ci-dessous: https://ia801500.us.archive.org/20/items/Mayo37/Mayo%2037.mp3 […]
Ce 26 juin, l’agence HRANA informe du décès par crise cardiaque du militant ouvrier Afshin Osanloo. Afshin Osanloo, frère de Mansour Osanloo, fondateur du syndicat des travailleurs de la compagnie de bus de Téhéran et Banlieue, était militant syndical dans ce même syndicat. Il avait été condamné à cinq ans de prison pour « assemblée et […]
Vous êtes des milliers à suivre ce blog. 450000 visites en 2015, une prévision de 600000 en 2016. Ce 15 septembre, votre site d’infos change d’adresse web et de formule. Découvrez le message de la Rédaction ci-dessous. Si vous voulez … Lire la suite →
Authors: Jean Drèze, economistKavita Krishnan, Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) and AIPWA Maimoona Mollah, All India Democratic Women’s Association (AIDWA) Vimal Bhai, National Alliance of People’s Movements (NAPM) We spent five days (9-13 August 2019) traveling extensively in Kashmir. Our visit began on 9 August 2019 – four days after the Indian […]
As the Indian government resorts to annexation of the state of Jammu and Kashmir at gunpoint, detaining its political leaders and cutting off all means of communication, we extend our solidarity to the people of Jammu and Kashmir as they struggle for their most basic rights and freedoms. The people of Kashmir were never given […]
London_November_23_2018_(26)_Extinction_Rebellion_Protest_Tower_Hill.jpg The first of a three-part critique of Extinction Rebellion, focussing on their attitudes towards the police, legal system and prison. The police are not going to be won over by polite chats, but will continue to be the enemy of the struggle we so desperately need. By working with them, […]
pannekoek_blackboard.jpg This early article by the renown socialist scholar, as well as respected astronomer, Anton Pannekoek, goes a long way to dispel the idea that socialists have held a very productivist view about mankind's relationship with the environment. It deserves a wide circulation within the ecology movement. A rational social order will ha […]
by Ayanda Kota, Pambazuka The Unemployed People’s Movement (UPM) was formed in August 2009 to respond to the crisis of unemployment and the commoditization of essential services in a society dominated by corruption and greed. As Steve Biko said, we blacks are tired of standing at the touchlines to witness a game that we should […]
18 July 2011 Abahlali baseMjondolo Press Statement The Victory in the Kennedy 12 Trial is a Victory for all the Poor in South Africa The Kennedy 12 have been acquitted of all the charges bought against them after the attack on our movement in September 2009. It is a great day for the 12, their […]
La voix des sans papiers n° 18 est parue Editorial . GiletsNoirs : Nous accusons ! Retour ligne manuel Interview de Diak et de Kaba. Nous accusons la France et ses champions du désordre républicain Retour ligne manuel Interview de Laurent Ripoche (Droits devant !!) Retour ligne manuel Légitime défense (Kaba et Diak) Retour ligne manuel Nous accusons : La Fra […]
Aufruf in deutsch STOP THE DEPORTATION OF NIGERIANS - FOR FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT!! Refugee Protest and Solidarity in Gotha together with The VOICE Refugee Forum Saturday, 10.08.2019 Gotha Train Station 10 am | RBB Solidarity Installation 2 pm | Rally 3 pm | DEMONSTRATION Refugee Protest in Gotha: There will be Refugee Black Box Installation - Paint it Black! be […]
#RBB Protest Workshops ab 11.00 Uhr Soli - Party ab 22:00 Uhr Refugee Black Box Solidarity #refugeeblackbox Samstag, 20. 07. 2019 in Jena 11 – 20 Uhr Workshops und Installation. Bringt euer Wissen und eure Erfahrungen mit in die Black Box [mit euren Statements und Slogans] über die Ungerechtigkeit der Abschiebungen. Wir protestieren gegen das neue deutsche G […]
[…] Il s’appelait Khomsi el-Yerfeni, il était chômeur, et selon plusieurs témoins, il serait mort après avoir été percuté intentionnellement par une voiture de police. Cette version est démentie par le ministère de l’Intérieur tunisien, qui parle lui dans un … Continue reading →
Communiqué de soutien de médias libres, ouvert à signature. Après la publication d’un communiqué revendiquant l’incendie d’un garage de la gendarmerie de Grenoble dans la nuit du 20 au 21 septembre, Indymedia Grenoble et Indymedia Nantes ont été menacés par … Continue reading →
Finally published in full, Marx’s notebooks from the 1860s provide important insights into his views on ecology and capital’s destruction of nature. Source
New books for reds and greens. How the Richest Drive Climate Change; Planning from Below; The Scottish Clearances; Slime; Here Comes the Sun; Eco-Socialism and Practical Utopias Source
Desde 1997, en las páginas de nuestra revista se alertaba sobre las amenazas de la narcopolítica y la militarización. Años después, en la guerra que inició Felipe Calderón en 2007 contra el narcotráfico, recurrió a los militares para labores de seguridad detonando una crisis humanitaria y de derechos humanos sin precedente en el país. Los saldos de esa guerr […]
Por tercer año consecutivo, la nueva ola feminista transnacional convoca a un día de movilización global para el 8 de marzo: huelgas legalesen los trabajos asalariados –como los cinco millones de huelguistas del 8M de 2018 en el Estado Español y miles más en Argentina e Italia–, huelgas salvajesde las mujeres sin derechos laborales ni protecciones sociales; […]
The discredit attained by the dominant parties, by the legislature, by the “politicians” and even “politics” itself, defined inaccurately, but viscerally despised by many people, recalls the concept of “organic crisis” advanced by the Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci. Authors such . . . Read more ›
Earlier this month, the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) held its 2019 National Convention. I wrote a piece for Jacobin giving an overview of the major decisions that came out of the convention, but there’s a larger conversation to be . . . Read more ›
It has been an interesting week.. Two members of Congress, Representatives Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib had been invited to visit the Israeli-occupied territories under the auspices of an organisation called Palestinian Initiative for the Promotion of Global Dialogue & Democracy (aka Miftah). The tour was not organised by Israel or by a group sympathetic […]
The discredit attained by the dominant parties, by the legislature, by the “politicians” and even “politics” itself, defined inaccurately, but viscerally despised by many people, recalls the concept of “organic crisis” advanced by the Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci. Authors such as Stathis Kouvelakis have used it to analyse the movement of the gilets jaunes […]
Four workers have been hospitalized after riots took place in front of the gates of the Ikea plant in Piacenza this morning (November 2).
The plant is the Swedish corporation’s main Italian storage centre and its workers are nominally employed by several cooperatives. However, as is often the case in Italy, the name ‘cooperative’ hides a dire reality of exploitation, the ignoring of labour regulations and of national collective agreements.
It is precisely this reality that struggling workers (many of them migrants) are denouncing, with a strike that has now been ongoing for several days. Their press release lists serious issues such as wage inequality, excessive workload, unpaid wages, not to mention the firm’s refusal to allow union representation.
IKEA’s headquarters immediately retaliated by firing 12 workers, deemed as the main organizers of the protests. Nine of them are members of the independent Union COBAS. Violent clashes had already taken place on October 30, when police intervened to clear the workers blockade – aiming at preventing loading trucks from entering the plant and, ultimately, at stopping production. Something similar occurred on the morning of November 2, when police violently attacked the protesting workers with teargas and batons.
Later in the afternoon, the Mayoral Office of Piacenza hosted a negotiation. At the end of the talks, representatives of the cooperatives promised not to fire the 12 workers involved; however, they announced that they would transfer the workers to other IKEA plants. COBAS deems this agreement unacceptable; among other things, it would cost them their entire union representation in the Piacenza plant.
nachfolgend dokumentiert ein Aufruf von ~ 30 Roma- und Flüchtlings-Unterstützungsorganisationen, gefunden auf Chachipe, an English version here:
Gemeinsame Presseerklärung: Schluss mit der rassistischen Hetze gegen Roma!
Das Recht auf Asyl duldet keine Unterschiede!
15. Oktober 2012 – In den vergangenen Tagen haben konservative Politiker, aber auch Mitglieder der SPD, wiederholt gefordert, die Visumpflicht für serbische und mazedonische StaatsbürgerInnen, die im Dezember 2009 gelockert wurde, wieder einzuführen. Sie möchten damit den „massiven Zustrom von serbischen und mazedonischen Staatsbürgern“ stoppen. Dabei geht es in erster Linie um Mitglieder der Romaminderheit, die seit Aufhebung der Visumpflicht für Kurzaufenthalte im Schengenraum vermehrt in der EU und anderen Schengener Vertragsstaaten Asyl beantragen.
Die Aufhebung der Visumpflicht für die Staaten des sogenannten westlichen Balkans steht am Ende eines langen Prozesses, bei dem die Staaten im Auftrag der EU tiefgreifende Reformen im Bereich der Gesetzgebung und anderen Bereichen (Dokumentensicherheit, Grenzkontrollen und Kontrolle der Wanderbewegungen, usw.) durchführen mussten. Nur im Bereich Menschenrechte blieben die Reformen weit hinter den Erwartungen zurück. Ende August stellte die EU-Kommission in ihrem dritten Bericht zur Visaliberalisierung erneut fest, dass die Roma in allen Balkanstaaten einer umfassenden Diskriminierung ausgesetzt sind, die sie an der Ausübung grundlegender Rechte wie beispielsweise dem Zugang zu Bildung und Ausbildung, Gesundheitsversorgung und Arbeitsmarkt hindert.
Nach Aussagen der serbischen Regierung leben circa 60 Prozent der geschätzten 450 000 Roma in Serbien in unsicheren und unhygienischen Lebensverhältnissen; 30 Prozent haben keinen Zugang zu Trinkwasser; 70 Prozent keinen Zugang zur Kanalisation. Serbische Studien belegen, dass Romakinder in Sonderschulen mit einem Anteil von mehr als 30 Prozent deutlich überrepräsentiert sind. Umfragen zufolge gelten sie als die meist diskriminierte Bevölkerungsgruppe in Serbien, eine Diskriminierung, die sich insbesondere im Zugang zum Arbeitsmarkt deutlich macht. Die Europäische Kommission gegen Rassismus und Intoleranz (ECRI) stellte in ihrem letzten Länderbericht zu Serbien fest, dass die Mehrheit aller Roma von Gelegenheitsjobs, wie beispielsweise dem Sammeln von Altmetall lebt, und dass kaum Roma in staatlichen Betrieben beschäftigt sind.
Auch in Mazedonien sind Roma einer allumfassenden Diskriminierung ausgesetzt. Ebenso wie in Serbien leben sie in Mazedonien oft in abgeschiedenen Siedlungen, wo sie keinen oder nur beschränkten Zugang zu grundlegenden Diensten haben. Romakinder sind in Sonderschulen und in Sonderklassen deutlich überrepräsentiert, was sowohl auf ungeeignete Einstufungstests, als auch auf eine falsche Orientierung der Eltern zurückgeht, wie das Budapester European Roma Rights Centre kürzlich in einer Studie feststellte. Die Europäische Kommission gegen Rassismus und Intoleranz (ECRI) stellte in einem 2010 veröffentlichten Bericht fest, dass 70 Prozent aller Roma in Mazedonien arbeitslos sind, womit ihre Arbeitslosigkeit deutlich über dem Landesdurchschnitt liegt. ECRI fand auch, dass Roma mit Vorurteilen im Gesundheitssystem konfrontiert sind, was ihren Zugang zu medizinischen Dienstleistungen beeinträchtigt.
„… There has been an increase in threats directed against feminists and women who publicly display their aversion towards gender norms in Sweden, according to many feminist writers and activists. This targets the rights of feminists to exist in a democratic society, according to Anna-Klara Bratt, chief editor of the newly started feminist internet newspaper, Feministiskt Perspektiv. In a context of growing racism and xenophobia, most clearly expressed in the 2010 elections where the racist party the Swedish Democrats won parliamentary seats for the first time, feminists are also singled out for threats and ridicule.
In late 2011 the SCUM Manifesto, written by Valerie Solanas in 1967, was performed in front of several audiences, including school students, in Stockholm. Expressing violent and patronizing attitudes towards [women?], anti-feminist bloggers, conservative men’s groups and fathers’ rights-groups condemned the performance and arranged a protest demonstration.
The hype around the play soon got out of hand: the women involved were threatened with rape and murder on at least one blog, received numerous threatening e-mails, and had their full names and addresses posted on the internet. An American anti-feminist newspaper followed suit and offered 1000 US dollars to anyone who would reveal the identities of the ensemble (this after having misread the situation and thinking that the women were creating an actual organization based on the Manifesto). The police considered the threats so serious that they decided to keep the theatre under surveillance.
In early 2012 a young woman in the audience of a popular singing contest was caught on TV as she cheered with her arms in the air. A young man noticed she had not shaved the hair under her arms; he quickly took a snapshot of the woman and spread the photograph across social networks. Body hair on women has been taboo in Sweden for a couple of decades; within hours the photograph spread further and further, until over a thousand demeaning, threatening and derogatory comments had been directed against the woman.
Sweden, Statement from the 22nd congress of the Syndicalis Youth Federation
Dear Swedish upper classes, — The reason we are writing this letter is because we wanted to set some things straight about what has been going on lately. We know we should have sent this letter long ago, but the nature of the recent debates in the media really took us by surprise. Frankly, were very surprised; by the fact that you hadn’t already realized that we hate you, and that this newly acquired knowledge would consequently chock you to such huge a degree, surprised us to such a degree that we simply found ourselves at loss for words. —- We are not presumptuous, we acknowledge and know fully well that we’ve been lacking in unity for too long, that there have been too many situations when our hands were clenched into fists in our pockets, when they really should have been put to use in striking your ideas down.
However, we never attempted to keep our hate hidden. We’ve been constantly struggling, fighting and screaming, and we never really doubted that you had gotten our point – but apparently it took an “upper-class safari” bus-trip* for this to happen.
We concede that there is a theoretical possibility that you could have remained ignorant of our hatred. You are – obviously – totally content with the workings of class society, and why shouldn’t you be? You’re the ones who gain from it. For us, the only thing left at the end of the month is this class hatred. However, hate is not a name for the feelings you provoke inside of us – it’s a general term for all the fucked up situations you cause us, like panicking when not being able to afford the rent, having to turn to our mates and families to borrow money for food, the shame of being unemployed, and the shame of being forced to the unemployment office, queueing in order to get our benefits. Class hatred is what enables us to mobilize all these feelings of shame, frustration and alienation into a force for social change and struggle – struggle for a class-less society, where we don’t have to take shit from you people like you.
Now that media has taken up the topic of class-hatred, the spin in the debates has been that it’s something destructive, a “negative energy” of sorts. This doesn’t bother us much – it sounds all too much like New Age bullshit anyway. That our hate is nothing but irrational and caused by jealousy, how could one expect anything else, coming from you and your media? You refuse to engage in class collaboration on equal terms – well, we refuse to engage in class collaboration at all. Class hatred is made possible only by a society underpinned by people like you, and this earns you our hate. The only way we could ever stop hating you is for you to go away. Yes, you read it correctly; not only do we hate class society – we hate you as well. We hate your villas, and your ugly kids who’ll never be forced to feel what we feel. We hate your superior and priggish attitude and your desperate defense of your class privileges, privileges that allow you to go on living in the faith that you, despite not being anything but parasites, could ever have anything positive to contribute to our world, at all.
Kind regards, Syndicalist Youth Federation
Statement issued from the 22nd congress of the Syndicalist Youth Federation, hosted by SUF Umeå, 3-5 february 2012
„However, in addition to the face-to-face meetings, there is a complex cultural ecosystem of blogs, websites, magazines, book publishers, radio stations and even music companies, operating on an international scale, which exist solely to support the New Right worldview. This should be no surprise as the New Right ideological struggle is primarily a cultural one – the belief that by influencing culture, one can later shape politics – so one would expect the movement to be extremely active in transmitting and disseminating propaganda via a variety of media. In this strategy, publishing activities, such as books, CDs, magazines and online postings, play a crucial role in spreading the anti-egalitarian, antisemitic and racist message of the New Right and are vital to the wider political and intellectual objectives of shaping social values and reframing the mainstream discussion of issues such as race, immigration, identity and equality.“
auf die klassenkämpferische Bustour in die Reichenvororte Stockholms wurde auf dieser Seite schon vor einigen Tagen hingewiesen, nun hierzu ein Hinweis auf einen weiteren Artikel zum Thema auf Syndikalismus.tk: “Pflege deinen Klassenhaß”:
„[…] Wir halten an einer Kreuzung mit See-Blick. Hier im Admiralsvägen [Admirals-Weg] wohnen 13 Familien in einigen der teuersten Villen Schwedens. Eigentlich alle hier haben ihren Reichtum geerbt. Am weitesten verbreitet ist die Berufsgruppe „Risiko-Kapitalist“, und die meisten haben, mit wechselndem Erfolg, versucht, dem Finanzamt zu entkommen. Wirtschaftsstraftaten sind üblich, aber es gibt auch andere Formen der Kriminalität. „Verkehrsstraftaten sind ziemlich verbreitet, die Leute hier mögen es zu rasen, sowohl mit dem Auto als auch mit dem Motorboot, und das häufig betrunken“ berichtet Martin Fredriksson. Dann wird es Zeit, in den sicheren Bus zurückzukehren. Bei der Abfahrt vom Admiralsvägen klatscht ein letztes Ei auf die Fensterscheibe. Ein schwarzes Auto blockiert die Weiterfahrt. Meter für Meter fährt es im Zickzack vor uns her. Jemand läßt die Autonummer überprüfen [so etwas kann man als Privatperson in Schweden, A.d.Ü.]. Der Wagen ist auf einen bekannten Direktor zugelassen, der kürzlich zu einer Bewährungsstrafe und einer Geldbuße verurteilt wurde. Aber bald hat der Fahrer es satt und wir können heimwärts fahren. Danach gibt es Kaffee und ein Quiz. Als wir die idyllische Saltsjöbaden-Landschaft hinter uns gelassen haben, herrscht eine beinahe alberne Erleichterung im Bus. Für die meisten von uns war dies ein Besuch eines ziemlich unbekannten Ortes, bewohnt von der vielleicht raubgierigsten Spezies.«
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Als Resümee läßt sich sagen: mit wenig Aufwand und viel Phantasie kann man erstaunliche Resultate erzielen. Die Idee einer »Safari durch die Territorien der Reichen und (angeblich) Schönen« lädt direkt zur Nachahmung ein. Solsidan ist überall.“
Autonome Bustouren durch das Stockholmer Reichenviertel Solsidan, gefunden auf LibCom, mehr bei The Local und Förbundet Allt åt Alla … und die Zootiere finden das gar nicht gut und zeigen ihr wahres Gesicht:
„Some Solsidan residents have even shown their distaste by throwing eggs at the tour bus as it passes.
„It is sad that adults use their time and money to come out here and look,“ said one teenage resident to local paper Nacka Värmdö Posten (NVP).
„I don’t understand what those communists are doing here. It is hardly our fault that they are poor,“ another said, eggs at the ready.
One angry resident filed a complaint to the police, citing intrusion of privacy.
The group behind the venture calls on prospective sightseers to develop their „hate“ of the class system, which has in effect, led to Solsidan residents showing a hate of their own.
Though aware that the tour in itself is a provocation, and that their talk of „nurturing one’s class hatred“ also could induce bad feeling, Barot told DN she felt that the reaction was „unproportional“.
“We have unfortunately received racist, sexist and hateful comments from young people who live in the area. It is terrible to read what they write, but it also shows that it is important to raise this question, for their attitude comes from somewhere,” Barot said to the paper.“
