★ 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.
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?
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
Following up the other day’s viewing of matrix reloaded with The Matrix: Revolutions.
Like I said before, these movies are massively underrated. The parts will the train station are v cool, hits a specific kind of liminal space that I’m in love with.
The explorations of faith is another part I really dig. And of course the whole series has a broad critique of systems of control that, aS a cOmmuNiSt% is right up my alley.
If you live in tyranny, like Russia - then only death means something. It is a death race between you and the tyrant, who will die first?- How much years will you lose before the tyrant perish? What will left from you and your life in the end? Is it really worth waiting ? Maybe a flash of glorious self-destructing rebellion is preferable, while you still have some dignity to light it? #russia#anarchism#tyranny#rebellion#resistance#revolution#rebellious
I feel like to a certain extent pacifism has a privelege problem. A lot of people fail to understand that violence being framed as a choice is ignoring reality for those of us who face discrimination or have lived at the bottom of society, of which I have both. Everyone in society is either having violence constantly inflicted upon them, participating in the systems that push that violence down upon others, or a mix of both.
There is no peace in our current society. Society as a whole, as it exists today, is violence, and being able to ignore that reality is privelege. For pacifism to attain any viability requires a fundamental change in society. Otherwise all it will mean is "peaceful violence", meaningless to those of us subject to it, and a denial of reality by those who inflict it.
Can someone please tell me what is the point of us trying to engage in a civil society that adheres to laws, morals and ethics, if a fascist state is going to ignore not only massive global public opinion, the increasing opposition from once staunch allies, but now international law itself?
Like, why haven't we turned the world upside down yet?
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
“Bowl a strike, not a spare—Revolution everywhere!” Members of the Revolutionary Anarchist Bowling League (RABL) chanted bowling-themed slogans as they marched against President Ronald Reagan’s threat to invade Nicaragua in 1988.
Acting within a broad progressive coalition, RABL helped shut down major sections of downtown Minneapolis for three days in an outpouring of rebellion against the Reagan administration’s covert wars in Central America. They built barricades in the streets and occupied major intersections in the business district. Events reached a dramatic climax when a masked protester threw a bowling ball through the window of a military recruitment office. The crash of the broken glass marked the beginning of a new era of anarchist militancy in the United States. The rage of a generation of young people raised in Reagan’s America threatened to explode.
Promised a “new morning in America,” a generation of disaffected young people found themselves shut out of political life and raised in the alienation of the suburbs. Many of their parents lost their unionized factory jobs to neoliberal outsourcing or were kicked off welfare. They grappled with the reality of skyrocketing inequality, precarious jobs, and violent policing. The hopes of social democracy—not to mention the liberatory movements of the 1960s-1970s—were dead, and mainstream society seemingly offered little worth saving.
Meanwhile, Reagan crushed the hopes of a better world in Central America by funding and training Guatemalan death squads, Nicaraguan Contras, and violent Salvadoran elites. The 1980s was the decade of the triumph of American capitalism against both the left-wing idealism of the 1960s at home and the “Evil Empire” of Soviet Communism abroad. The New Right remade American society in its image, spreading suburbia and waging war on what it called the liberal “nanny state.”
But dissidents emerged out of the cracks of the new society. A new generation growing up in Reagan’s America turned to anarchism. Young people found a new form of politics in mosh pits at punk shows and street fights against fascists and police. Anarchism provided a political home and a strategic program for rebels of the new generation.
On la décrit souvent comme la fidèle et sage compagne de #lenine. Pourtant, Nadejda #Kroupskaïa est aussi l’artisane de la plus importante réforme du système éducatif de l’URSS. Cette révolutionnaire de la première heure, fille de la petite noblesse de St Petersbourg et convertie au #marxisme dès la fin du XIXe siècle, a fait de la pédagogie en temps de révolution son cheval de bataille.
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En cette journée de lutte pour les droit de la femme, je vous partage ma citation préférée de la suffragette Madeleine Pelletier (1874-1939), première femme psychiatre et militante socialiste libertaire.
« Il est certain que casser un carreau n’est pas un argument ; mais si l’opinion, sourde aux arguments, n’est sensible qu’aux carreaux cassés, que faire ? Les casser, évidemment. »
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