The lockdown has shown the truth of the words of one of IWW’s founders Bill Haywood: “If the workers of the world want to win, all they have to do is recognise their own solidarity, They have nothing to do but fold their arms and the world will stop. The workers are more powerful with their hands in their pockets than all the property of the capitalists”.
libcom.org/news/capitalism-virus-class-solidarity-cure-28032020
libcom.org/news/capitalism-virus-class-solidarity-cure-28032020
libcom.org
Capitalism is the Virus - Class Solidarity is the Cure!
Statement from IWW Ireland on a class response to Covid-19
In October 2019, a US cybersecurity firm discovered that government officials had created a sophisticated app to install software on the cell phones of activists, allowing the state to track their movements and monitor their calls and emails. The app’s default coordinates matched those of the secret police headquarters in Cairo.
jacobinmag.com/2020/03/egypt-prison-state-client-mubarak-al-sisi/
jacobinmag.com/2020/03/egypt-prison-state-client-mubarak-al-sisi/
Jacobinmag
How the US Helped Build Egypt’s Prison State
The fall of Hosni Mubarak in 2011 threatened Washington’s relationship with one of its most valuable client states. But since then, US military aid has been used to build up a new machinery of repression that’s strangling the hopes of the revolution.
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"The Future Looms: Weaving Women and Cybernetics", by Sadie Plant
Working people receive their incomes from the government, although they lose out a bit as their incomes are not fully subsidised. The rich also end up with the money they would have received anyway via rents, interest and corporate incomes. Crucially, however, the spending of the rich has decreased massively. This means that the rich end up profiting as their income has stayed the same but their outgoings have fallen.
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... the initial non-State response to the COVID-19 crisis has been almost entirely led by far left forces, which have established mutual aid networks in communities across North America, while putting forth economic demands around rent and working conditions for those deemed to be “essential employees.” ... Despite their fantasies of “serving the nation,” far right forces of the national-populist variety have been incapable of doing anything useful in this crisis, and have instead been content to vent on social media.
itsgoingdown.org/covid-19-preliminary-thoughts-on-the-current-situation/
itsgoingdown.org/covid-19-preliminary-thoughts-on-the-current-situation/
It's Going Down
COVID-19: Preliminary Thoughts on the Current Situation - It's Going Down
Report from Montreal Antifascists about developing an antifascist and anti-colonial analysis on the growing wave of reaction that is building alongside the coronavirus pandemic. What follows are preliminary thoughts; things are changing quickly and in unpredictable…
The final struggle between the working class and its oppressors is knocking at our doorstep. This process will take years, and the old order will deploy all the tools of repression that it has accumulated over the preceding decades. But we have vision, necessity, and hope on our side. If we can communicate the simple promises of solidarity and freedom to our people, and if we can organize with the newly-radicalized, we really will have a world to win.
... There is no alternative to the socialist future.
roarmag.org/essays/the-future-will-be-socialist-or-will-not-be-at-all/
... There is no alternative to the socialist future.
roarmag.org/essays/the-future-will-be-socialist-or-will-not-be-at-all/
ROAR Magazine
The future will be socialist — or it will not be at all
We are shackled by a system that has outlived its usefulness. COVID-19 paves the way for radical systemic change and a transition to a socialized economy.