March 2012
February 2012
Workers in factory occupation claim victory →
fuckyeahmarxismleninism:
About 60 employees of a Chicago window factory are claiming victory after an 11-hour occupation of the plant.
Their union, the United Electrical Workers, says it reached a deal Friday morning with the plant’s owner, California-based Serious Energy, Inc.
The deal, according to the union, requires the company to suspend plans to close the factory immediately. Instead the...
“…there is no such thing as a neutral market: in every particular situation,...”
– Slavoj Žižek, First As Tragedy, Then As Farce (via aidsnegligee)
Get political! Occupy activists urged to engage... →
fuckyeahmarxismleninism:
Not a bad idea, but it might be more impactful if the Marxists mentioned weren’t all white Europeans and most of the endorsers weren’t died-in-the-wool social democrats trying to sell a pro-imperialist brand of Marxism….
February 23, 2012 — Fifty key figures on the left including Ian Angus, John Riddell, Patrick Bond, Paul Le Blanc, China Miéville, Ken Loach, Lindsey...
“Angela Davis, Assata Shakur, and Elaine Brown, each at different points in their...”
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Why Misogynists Make Great Informants: How Gender Violence on the Left Enables State Violence in Radical Movements « INCITE! Blog (via shoulders)
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observe how the men involved in the civil rights movement cared ALL about their racial oppression, but dished out their own...
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transgenderstudentlife:
Raising Queer Kids: Coming Out Too Early?
raisingqueerkids:
That just isn’t the right question to be asking. I just read this really great article: Are Kids Coming Out Too Early. E. Winter Tashlin writes:
The Huffington Post ran a piece a few days ago from Amelia, a mother whose 7yr old son recently declared that he was gay. It was a lovely essay about love and ...
“…I think that the modern supranational corporation is more like a cancer. A...”
– Corporations: virus or cancer? (via azspot)
French Socialist Party presidential candidate...
morethanprinceofcats:
nilecrocodile:
gnimaerd:
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golden-zephyr:
In a February 12 interview on Canal Plus TV, François Hollande, Socialist Party candidate for president in the upcoming elections, proposed as a “solution” to the presence in France of Roma European Union (EU) citizens “the creation of camps … to accommodate them”.
The association of a “solution” in relation to...
“The problem with sexist, racist, homophobic, transphobic, classist, ableist,...”
– I Don’t Care If You’re Offended by Scott Madin (via inherhipstheresrevolutions)
Reblogging because it is so, so pertinent to that racist clusterfuck that happened yesterday in ontd_fb, and it is stated much more eloquently than my attempt to explain why racist jokes are not “just” jokes.
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“And yet analyses of rape and sexualized violence play little or no role in most...”
– At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women,Rape,and Resistance-a New Herstory of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power (via brazenbitch)
“It is impossible for capitalism to survive, primarily because the system of...”
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Malcom X was assassinated by members of the NOI 47 years ago today.
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“In American today, anti-evolutionism matters because it has become the vanguard...”
– Ken Miller, Biology Professor from Brown University and Roman Catholic, on America’s Darwin Problem (via crookedindifference)
How do Anarchists Change a Lightbulb?
riotjoke:
From the bottom up!
“Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world,...”
– Karl Marx (via philosophy-quotes)
So happy someone finally has the opiate quote in context.
Karl Marx liked a lot of things about religion! He thought it a great way to instill morality and philosophy into the masses. His goal was a world where that wasn’t needed.
He also saw the religious...
Racism, sexism and exploitation: Behind the life &... →
fuckyeahmarxismleninism:
By Monica Moorehead
Under capitalism — a system that puts profits before human needs — genuine support needed for developing one’s talent is generally not made available, much less encouraged. Luck, along with having influential connections, plays a central role in many instances on whether the individuals become famous or not. What usually happens is that many talented...
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elfgrandfather:
Sorry to be posting it like this but it’s way too long for an ask and I couldn’t find the submission button on your blog because I’m a dumb. Either way:
I like how you tell me this, as if Kafka’s lusting for other men is cool but not worthy of being transcribed in every detail and SENT TO ME elfgrandfather how can you play a sister like this
Okay so sadly a lot of Kafka’s...
“Ours is a bourgeois revolution, we Marxists say, therefore, the workers must...”
– Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (via justanotherwastedyouth)
“If tomorrow, Morocco were to declare war on France, India on England, Persia or...”
– V.I. Lenin, Socialism and War (via fuckyeahmarxismleninism)
“When the woman answered the door, she looked at my daughter and said, ‘We don’t...”
– Girl Scout troop leader Kim Douglas • Discussing a recent situation her 10-year-old daughter faced when going door-to-door to sell cookies. Douglas’ daughter, by the way, didn’t know what abortion was. “It left my daughter very shocked, confused,” Douglas said. “She said, ‘Mommy, something creepy...