- The headline is hilarious
- The author says the Islamic State is "ultraconservative" and that it has destroyed many cultural artifacts, in the same sentence.
- "If we didn't intervene when they were killing people, it would be kind of grotesque to intervene over a building"
Propaganda for the angry wage worker.
I will print out, assemble, and post a free hardcopy of any pamphlet on this website for anybody who wants one. (Send requests to cynic@mretc.net)
This is the online click-through version of the prole.info pamphlet. I will print out, assemble, and post a free hard copy of this pamphlet for anybody who wants one. (Send requests to cynic@mretc.net)
An illustration of workers alienated from the products of their labour.
"Mikhail Bakunin, an anarchist born in Russia 200 years ago, is being investigated by the Rio de Janeiro police under the suspicion that he is participating in protests against the World Cup and social injustice. Police suspect Bakunin of participating in “vandalism acts during protests.”"
libcom.org's short introduction to work.
"While it’s tempting to dismiss IS supporters as brainwashed or bloodthirsty, conversations with a group of these young men reveal theirs is a more nuanced position than that."
I've never heard of the "National Communist Front" before. I started reading this interview assuming it was some sort of fascist "communist" party, but the interviewee was both informative and came across as rather reasonable (and they explicitly denounced so-called nationalist "communist" groups like national Bolshevism)
This article reports that Öcalan, the founder of PKK, has moved towards anarchism while in prison (after reading Murray Bookchin, apparently)... but I'm still getting a pretty strong Marxist-Leninst cult vibe from their website (http://www.pkkonline.com/en/).
Here's a quote from a 2012 interview with members of the Kurdistan Anarchist Forum:
"We are aware that Ocalan’s ideas have changed since he has been in prison. But we are not very optimistic about these changes. Also these changes have not, at least for the time being, been reflected in practice or organisationally in the PKK and PJAK. It is certainly true that the PKK has got many followers among the Kurdish people and have a big impact on Kurdish mass movements. They also talk about federalism. But none of this makes them in any way Anarchist organisations, nor does it make them compatible with Anarchism. They are, in fact, as far as one can get from Anarchists and Anarchism because Ocalan, first has not given up his authority and dominance over the mass movement, and second, they are still advocating nationalism and patriotism."
Still, anyone who would defy Turkish borders in order to resist ISIS sounds okay to me.
This Methodist pastor burned himself to death in the parking lot of a Grand Saline, Texas, shopping center last month. In his suicide letter he wrote, "I will soon be 80 years old, and my heart is broken over this. America (and Grand Saline prominently) have never really repented for the atrocities of slavery and its aftermath."
A local paper talked to Larry Compton, the chief overseer I mean chief of police in Grand Saline: "Compton said the preacher’s death disturbed him. He added that while Grand Saline might once have been racially divided, today it is a community of acceptance. 'It might have been that way in the 1930s, ’40s and ’50s like a lot of places, but today we are a community of different ethnicities and racial makeups,' he said." [1]
Denver Post column on the latest NLCHP report.
The NLCHP has released a new version of their report on the criminalization of homelessness based on a survey of 187 American cities. This is the 11th edition of the report; the last one was released in 2011.
"The report shines a spotlight on the fact that still far too many cities criminalize the basic life actions that homeless people have no choice but to perform in public."
"This website is a work in progress. The aim is to create a more-or-less comprehensive index of claims that are made in defense of capitalism and a brief but thorough debunking of each."
It's like a cooperative which prices to cost... only with unpaid employees. Interesting.
"The American public has never had an atheist president, although three of them have had no formal religious affiliation. The most recent one, Andrew Johnson, left office in 1869. Since then, every president has been affiliated with a Christian church. (Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln are the other two.)"
Denver Homeless Out Loud and the Catholic Workers both get mentions in this article on tiny homes.
"The city bans anyone from living in an RV, and people who break that rule often encounter the same hassles as do homeless people who sleep in their cars: tickets, harassment, and orders to pack up and move on."