A social-liberal tinge on a green nationalism, the new normal is a mixture of centrist and fascist politics for a scared state in crisis.
The triumph of beige
Tag: climate breakdown
Notes from the US: The union’s state
Louis Further rounds up news from across the pond.
Notes from the US: Post truth
Now, for tens of millions, anything goes – regardless of what really happens.
‘As long as it takes’: 2 years on, ex-GKN workers in Florence continue to fight redundancies
Freedom visits the GKN automotive factory in Campi Bisenzio, Florence which has been taken over by its workers since July 2021
Notes from the US: “MAGA Is Ascendant”
Reason is missing. Adult analysis as well. Empathy is nowhere.
World youth unite and organise
The system’s attempt to break the revolutionary youth spirit is present in every context and in all of us.
Next steps in civil resistance
Industrial capitalism is the target and climate the context.
The Carbon Cash Machine
As record temperatures soar BP and Shell shareholders are raking in their highest ever levels of cash earnings
Rouvikonas bring the heat to those responsible for another climate death
Those responsible have names and addresses; we do not expect any investigation; we do not trust the civil justice system.
Notes from the US: Politicised denial of truth
The wave of book-banners should be seen in the knowledge that fully 80% of states in the US have either introduced and/or enacted legislation and other legal measures to promote hatred, supremacy and intolerance of diversity
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Martinique revolt grows, airport invaded
France declares curfew as second overseas territory erupts with protests over failing services and high cost of living ~ From Contre Attaque ~ A brand new gendarmerie barracks was completely burned down in Martinique on October 9, and yesterday the island’s airport that was invaded by protesters, preventing planes from landing.
Apocalypse war by proxy
The Middle East war joins Ukraine as a permanent site of conflict, the new model for superpower dominance in the age of collapse ~ Blade Runner ~ In just one year, the devastation has been staggering: since Hamas massacred 1,200 Israelis, Israel’s military onslaught has retaliated thirty-fold, with over 41,000 Palestinians killed, including 13,000 children
UK Workers Rights Bill and the spectre of capitalism
The latest piece of legislation unveiled by our government emerges not as a beacon of hope, but as a harbinger of betrayal ~ Mark McEwan ~ As the sun rises each day over the grey skies of the United Kingdom, we find ourselves staring into the abyss of a systemic failure that has plagued workers
The Death of Leninism
I was trapped in Leninism and read swathes of Lenin’s rhetoric – now I know the anarchists were right all along ~ Killian Flynn ~ Amongst the shadow puppets of English radicalism, lie inert various guises of Leninism: self-perpetuating central committees run tiny irrelevant organisations and use them as a vector to punt their books
Clean energy can’t save us
From green consumerism to degrowth and radical systemic change ~ Yavor Tarinski ~ It is a good thing that there is increasingly more talk about the looming catastrophe that threatens our societies because of climate change and deepening ecological crises.
