★ UNE RÉVOLUTION QUI EST BEAUCOUP DE RÉVOLUTIONS...
" Beaucoup de gens pensent que les révolutions suivent toujours un parcours tragique, de l'espoir à la trahison. Le résultat final des révolutions en Russie, en Chine, en Algérie, à Cuba, au Vietnam et ailleurs a été l'établissement de nouveaux régimes autoritaires - certains pires que leurs prédécesseurs, d'autres à peine différents. Mais les grandes révolutions du 20e siècle ont été menées par des autoritaires qui avaient l'intention de créer de nouveaux gouvernements, et non de les abolir. Il est maintenant évident, si ce n'est pas déjà fait, que les gouvernements maintiennent toujours des ordres sociaux oppressifs.
Mais l'histoire est pleine de preuves que les gens peuvent renverser leurs oppresseurs sans les remplacer (...) "
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Henry Rollins on the "one ray of light" within 1980s rock
Ex-Black Flag frontman Henry Rollins has always been keen to voice his musical opinions, and during the late 1980s, he was a particularly big fan of Ween.
#KnowNothing#CardiB is too stupid to realize that NOT voting for #Biden is a vote FOR #Trump, and that her boycott of #Election2024 could be her last — She might not get another opportunity to vote EVER.
What Scotsman was caught up in a civil war before the age of twenty? Wrote a book that became the inspiration for an Oscar-winning film? Met a runaway teenager in Paris and married her against the wishes of his family? Lost his ranch to raiding Apaches?
Our book EMPIRES & REVOLUTIONS: Cunninghame Graham & His Contemporaries contains essays exploring ideas of revolution, emancipation, equality, & liberty in the works of RBCG & other Scottish writers of the period—in print & online via Project MUSE
#Budget#UKPolitics This article by Gary Stevenson is so good, please read every word of it.
“Whatever Jeremy Hunt says, traders know the rich will get richer and the poor will get poorer. And they’re paid millions to bet on it.”
This is what the world is - it is run by a minute elite for a minute elite and the rest of us, the masses, the natural world, we just don’t count. It is a #TragedyOftheNonCommons (will reshare my own piece on this below 1/n)
I do disagree that revolutions are won by armies or violence. That's simply a recipe for male gangs. Revolutions win by anti-violence.
The human #revolution was exactly that -- laughter which disarmed and disallowed violence, establishing through a cosmic joke that some things are sacred.
So..It’s time for a change…
Raise your voice to the air
It’s time for a change
Revolution is here
This is our song,
our rights now expressed
There’s power in our voice
There’s strength in our words
When the whole world is silent,
Our voice must be heard.
This is our song #Revolution is set
For the festival of the #oppressed https://yt.artemislena.eu/watch?v=9F_coLFmerg
Today, #Portugal is celebrating 50 years since the #revolution against dictatorship and fascism. This #article tells the stories about what kind of information the state #police (PIDE) collected about its citizens. It tells the stories of 6 people with #documentation from the #archives
Given the troubling times we're living through and the far right growing in Portugal itself, is it still possible to hold the values our parents and grandparents fought for in 1974?
50 years ago #portugal had an anti-fascist #revolution. That started a complex and turbulent period. This #interview will be about it. Hopefully we will finish editing on time to release it today.
Il a osé le dire: "Si vous estimez que ce n'est pas acceptable, faites une loi", ricane Carlos Tavares, le PDG de Stellantis sur France Bleu Lorraine, fort de ses 36,5 millions d’euros de rémunération pour 2023. Envoyé à Bruno Le Maire qui fustigeait les "excès" des grands patrons dès 2018. Sept ans plus tard, rien n'a changé.
I keep thinking of this quote with regard to some of the main players on the international stage presently, politicians and oligarchs alike #fascism#revolution
#CfP für den "Workshop "Revolution revolutionieren. Walter #Benjamin und die Frage nach #Revolution und #Revolte", der am 24. und 25. Oktober 2024 in Berlin stattfinden wird.
Today in Labor History April 2, 1903: Mexican police fired on more than 10,000 protestors, killing 15 and wounding many more. People had been protesting the reelection of General Bernardo Reyes as governor of Nuevo Leon, who was aligned with Mexico's brutal dictator, Porfirio Diaz.
OC The Web is Indeed Being Looted by Corporate Fat Cats
Ed Zitron posted another solid article on the state of the web that I think belongs here....