American workers have been on the receiving end of an onslaught of astonishing proportions, all of it caused by the bourgeoisie which considers the rest of the population to be a free-fire zone. In past months, the extra-juridical executions of black people by the police, the deaths of a quarter of a million people from …
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Like in their earlier text on the site Ill Will , “Theses on the George Floyd rebellion” , in their more recent essay “The Return of John Brown: White Race-Traitors in the 2020 Uprising “, Shemon and Arturo describe the social unrest of this year as a big step forward towards revolution. Less because of …
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This text is, in part, a reply to the previous one on this site. During the last four years the crisis of capitalism has steadfastly worsened. The climate disturbances created by its growth addiction and environmental rape have intensified, the spurt of growth and booming stock markets could not hide the growing sickness of the …
In September we posted The Rise of Black Counter-Insurgency, a text by Shemon originally published on the website Ill Will. It made a sharp analysis of the “George Floyd rebellion” of past summer and of the efforts to contain it and make it harmless for capitalism. We introduced the text with some critical comments, to …
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Trump, Xi, Putin, Kim, Johnson, Assad, Erdogan, Netanyahu, bin Salman, Duterte, Bolsonaro, Maduro, Lukashenko, …. this is only the start of the list of today’s global kakistocracy: the government of the worst, the most unscrupulous national leaders. Their military, economic and political interactions drive the direction of today’s global capitalism. The most pivotal at present …
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Los acontecimientos de los últimos meses han sido impresionantes. La pandemia mundial de coronavirus ha infectado, en el momento de redactar este artículo, a 16 millones de personas en todo el mundo con más de 630.000 muertes como concecuencia de esto. Muchos gobiernos tomaron medidas de cuarentena que han tenido impacto directo y adverso en …
We publish below an article by Shemon that originally appeared on the website Ill Will. It is an astute analysis of the recuperation of what it calls “the George Floyd rebellion”, which merits reflection and debate. The movement ignited by the murder of George Floyd is not quite over, but a relative calm has returned. …
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Events over the past months have been breathtaking. The global Coronavirus pandemic has, at the time of writing, infected 16 million people worldwide with over 630,000 associated deaths. Many governments took lockdown measures which have had direct, adverse impacts on the world economy and, specifically the standard of living of the working class has been …
No hace falta volver a describir esas terribles imágenes. Todos las vieron. Al instante se convirtieron en un poderoso símbolo que resonó en todo el mundo: Parecían decir “Vamos a mantener nuestra rodilla sobre tu cuello hasta que te mueras”. Pronto se notó que muchos sentían la presión de la rodilla en sus cuellos: la …
Pas besoin de revenir sur ces horribles images. Tout le monde les a vues. Elles sont devenues instantanément un symbole puissant qui a résonné dans le monde entier: “Nous garderons notre genou sur votre cou jusqu’à votre mort”, semblaient-elles dire. Il est vite apparu que beaucoup ressentaient cette pression du genou sur leur cou. La …