The Absolute Failure Of The Left In Submission To The Ruling Class

May 2, 2013 7:33 am0 comments
The Absolute Failure Of The Left In Submission To The Ruling Class

¡No pasarán! (Not pass) Was the battle cry of the revolution. They stood alone against the fascists with no support from any capitalist nations. The Republic was formed of the people. Small trade unions had banned together and taken control of the cities and towns. ¡No pasarán! The militias were [...]

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Donate to New Infoshop Opening In Cincinnati Ohio

April 30, 2013 7:33 am0 comments
Donate to New Infoshop Opening In Cincinnati Ohio

Please help us share and promote this on facebook, twitter, social media or just e-mailing it to people you know may be able to donate. SoapBox Books is a new infoshop opening in Cincinnati, Ohio. They are looking for donations to help get started. If you are unable to get [...]

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Keynesian Checkers versus Monetarist Three Dimensional Chess

April 28, 2013 2:31 pm0 comments
Keynesian Checkers versus Monetarist Three Dimensional Chess

You can almost smell the frustration pouring off Paul Krugman these days, as he once again proclaims the latest in a series of victories of Keynesian economic theory over its monetarists opponents. Says Krugman: “Sorry, guys, but as a practical matter the Fed – while it should be doing more [...]

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Steven Kurlander Accuses Anarchists of Being Terrorists

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Steven Kurlander Accuses Anarchists of Being Terrorists

Steven Kurlander posted a piece on the Huffington Post that attempts to call anarchists terrorists. To begin with Kurlander shows a lack of knowledge of the anarchist movements or any anarchist history. He makes sweeping comparisons to people such as ‘Timothy McVeigh’ who have absolutely no connection to anarchism but [...]

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2013 POOR PEOPLES CAMPAIGN MARCH TO ADDRESS SEQUESTRATION CUTS AND ATTACKS ON VOTING RIGHTS

April 26, 2013 8:32 pm1 comment
2013 POOR PEOPLES CAMPAIGN MARCH TO ADDRESS SEQUESTRATION CUTS AND ATTACKS ON VOTING RIGHTS

2013 POOR PEOPLES CAMPAIGN MARCH TO ADDRESS SEQUESTRATION CUTS AND ATTACKS ON VOTING RIGHTS On May 11, 2013 community, civil rights, union and student activists will reclaim Rev. Dr. King Jr.’s legacy by staging a three day march from Baltimore City to Washington D.C. entitled, “2013 Poor Peoples Campaign March.” Groups [...]

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Reinhart-Rogoff and Austerity: It’s not the math that’s the problem

April 24, 2013 8:41 am0 comments
Reinhart-Rogoff and Austerity: It’s not the math that’s the problem

After reading and commenting on David Graeber’s post at the Guardian, I feel it necessary to comment more broadly on the problem the euro-zone faces in the crisis, as well as the problem posed by the austerity regime being pursued by the member nation of the European Union. My point [...]

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Water Is Privatized Not A Human Right

April 23, 2013 9:06 am0 comments
Peter Brabeck-Letmathe

Recently the internet has been a buzz with an interview with Peter Brabeck-Letmathe the CEO of Nestlee in which he says that water should be privatized not a human right. This video is the perfect example of what anarchists have been warning people about for centuries. At least since Proudhon. [...]

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A Few Words on David Graeber’s Guardian Article

April 22, 2013 1:12 pm2 comments
A Few Words on David Graeber’s Guardian Article

David Graeber’s article in the Guardian, There’s no need for all this economic sadomasochism, is very disturbing because in it he adopts the argument of the MMT fascists. I want to state this clearly, although I am generally supportive of his activist work with Occupy, I think he is way [...]

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My May Day Post: How Kautsky and Lenin Fundamentally Revised Marx

April 10, 2013 4:57 pm0 comments
My May Day Post: How Kautsky and Lenin Fundamentally Revised Marx

Part One: “… the consciousness of the necessity of a fundamental revolution” In the Communist Manifesto, Marx writes: “Does it require deep intuition to comprehend that man’s ideas, views, and conception, in one word, man’s consciousness, changes with every change in the conditions of his material existence, in his social [...]

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Where the fuck is the ‘revolutionary subject’ in the European crisis? (2)

April 2, 2013 11:13 am0 comments
Where the fuck is the ‘revolutionary subject’ in the European crisis? (2)

Why the working class is not effectively defending itself actually is not a question posed by this crisis. Rather the question is: “So what else did you expect?” No matter how the working classes of Europe responded to this crisis politically, they were already effectively rendered politically defenseless before the [...]

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Where the fuck is the ‘revolutionary subject’ in the European crisis?

March 24, 2013 3:20 pm0 comments
Where the fuck is the ‘revolutionary subject’ in the European crisis?

An interesting question from George Magnus of the banking giant UBS via Zero Hedge: “Why Are The European Streets Relatively Quiet?” To understand the background of Magnus’s question we have to go to 2010. At that time, the economist Michael Pettis predicted Europe would have three years or or so [...]

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