Opportunisten ermöglichen Faschisten: https://www.srf.ch/news/international/us-wahlen-2024/trumps-vize-kandidat-trumps-designierter-vize-heisst-j-d-vance-ein-portraet

The shooting at Donald Trump’s rally took place just in time to maximize ratings for the Republican National Convention. The Democrats already seem to be accommodating themselves to a future in which they will be the junior partners in an even more authoritarian reboot of state power.

In response to the shooting, politicians across the spectrum have decried “political violence." But political violence is fundamental to all government—not least the US government. The key to Trump’s appeal is that he is explicitly promising to direct this violence against undocumented people, poor people of color, women, queer and trans people, anarchists, and other scapegoats. Everything that centrist politicians do to pave the way for his return renders them complicit in the bloodbaths ahead.

Anarchists already participated in the round of social unrest that ultimately blocked Trump’s ambitions in 2017-2020. We know that voting, court cases, and liberal op-eds will not protect us.

https://crimethinc.com/TrumpYears

Poster seen in Pullman, Washington

Media
On this day 14 July 1789, during the French revolution, the people of Paris stormed the Bastille, a notorious prison, and a symbol of power and the old order.As a huge crowd attempted to gain access to the prison, the garrison station within started to fire cannons onto people in the streets, killing and wounding many.This caused outrage. Russian revolutionary, Peter Kropotkin, who wrote a groundbreaking grassroots history of the revolution, recounted what happened next:"As to the people, as soon as the news of the firing spread through the town, they acted without any one’s orders, guided by their revolutionary instinct. They dragged the cannon which they had taken from the Hôtel des Invalides to the Hôtel de Ville... "The firing by this time had been going on for more than three hours. The people, not in the least dismayed by the great number killed and wounded, were maintaining the siege by resorting to various expedients. One of these was the bringing up of two cartloads of straw, to which they set fire, using the smoke as a screen to facilitate their attack on the two entrances, the greater and lesser drawbridges. The buildings of the Government Court were already in flames."The cannon arrived just at the moment they were wanted. They were drawn into the Government Court and planted in front of the drawbridges and gates at a distance of only 90 feet. It is easy to imagine the effect that these cannon in the hands of the people must have produced on the besieged. It was evident that the drawbridges must soon go down, and that the gates would be burst open. The mob became still more threatening and was continually increasing in numbers."The moment soon came when the defenders realised that to resist any longer was to doom themselves to certain destruction."You can get a new edition of Kropotkin's history here: https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/the-great-french-revolution-1789-1793-peter-kropotkin To access this hyperlink, click our link in bio then click this photoPic: Painting of the events by Jean-Pierre Houël

Just like school

Just in case this bit of info drowns in the endless ocean of media noise: https://news.1rj.ru/str/Fallsac/52252

Good idea: write more by hand

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2024/05/11/1250529661/handwriting-cursive-typing-schools-learning-brain

Why writing by hand beats typing for thinking and learning: « There’s actually some very important things going on during the embodied experience of writing by hand. It has important cognitive benefits. »

TIL that in 1833 Britain used 40% of its national budget to free all slaves in the Empire. The loan for the Slavery Abolition Act was so large that it was not paid off until 2015. [source, comments]

🔴 Turkey’s escalation in Northern Iraq: Cross-border operation or occupation?

Without any public attention Southern Kurdistan/Northern Iraq has turned into an allout warzone with Turkey deploying thousands of troops, armoured vehicles and heavy equipment into the region.
Between the Turkish ruling party AKP-MHP and its goal of occupying further parts of Kurdistan and expanding Turkey's territories into Syria and Iraq, there are the guerrillas of the Kurdish freedom movements, who vehemently resist these plans.

The Turkish invasion into Southern Kurdistan/Northern Iraq needs to be made public, denounced and protested!

China to achieve its 2030 renewable target by end of this month - July 2024, according to Climate Energy Finance group ( an Aussie based think tank).
https://redd.it/1e4b0qv
@r_Sino

Fascist oligarchs lie.
https://redd.it/1e4g1rd
@r_latestagecapitalism

Swiss Song of the Day ♾️🇨🇭: https://youtu.be/TBcL1QZbabs

Media
On this day, 16 July 1947, Black revolutionary Assata Shakur was born in Queens, New York City. After graduating from college she briefly joined the Black Panther Party, followed by the urban guerrilla group the Black Liberation Army which was engaging in armed struggle against the government, robbing banks and killing drug dealers and police officers. In 1973 Shakur was wounded in a shootout with police, arrested and later jailed for the alleged killing of a police officer. She escaped from prison in 1979 with the help of three BLA members and was granted asylum in Cuba, where she lives to this day. US government officials continue to press for her extradition, and early in 2021 the Republican administration labelled Cuba a state sponsor of terrorism, citing their harbouring of Shakur.Assata Shakur is also the step-aunt and godmother to murdered hip-hop icon Tupac Shakur. She has long been an advocate of direct action as a tool for social change, arguing: "Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them."We have made available numerous books by other former members of the Panthers and the BLA here: https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/books/black-panthers To access this hyperlink, click our link in bio then click this photo