Grenfell Tower – the smoke & the mirrors
There is an ever-growing stream of media commentary on the Grenfell fire, increasing daily as the public enquiry unfolds. There are some elements in the media with the goal of obscuring or excusing the plain facts as part of a pre-emptive defence manoeuvre to protect those most implicated in what caused the fire and the 72 deaths. That they feel the need to use such distortions to defend the Grenfell landlords and those who ordered and oversaw the Grenfell refurbishment that fitted the lethal cladding only increases the suggestion of a general doubt on all sides about their innocence.
Anarchism: basic concepts
This is an introduction in basic anarchist conceptions, ideas and argumentation. The text started its life in the winter of 2010-2011, in Dutch. It was meant to clarify my own mind as a relative newcomer to the anarchist movement. It has been published, October 2018, as a small booklet. Complete text and publication info: https://ravotr.noblogs.org/anarchism-basic-concepts/
The Origins and Capture of International Working Women's Day
Oakland Strike: Balance Sheet, Lessons, and What Next?
Honda, General Motors: Global Crisis and the Car Industry
Living The Dream with the Anti-Nuclear Movement in Japan
In this episode of Living The Dream we look at the anti-nuclear movement in Japan and its connection to the past and ongoing struggles, ideas and movements. From The Word From Struggle Street
Founding of the Comintern - Then and Now
"Textbooks are becoming obsolete" says Bill Gates
International Solidarity with the Wildcat Strikes of the Mexican Maquiladoras
Since the 2008 economic crisis, the ballooning global debt has increased from $20 trillion to over $240 trillion. With this exponential growth of indebtedness and an unresolvable crisis of accumulation, capitalism is losing its grip. The effects of this crisis are felt no more clearly than within the maquiladora sweatshops on the northern border of Mexico. Here sub-assemblies are pieced together for the struggling US automobile industry north of the Rio Grande.
Bonzo goes to Oslo: Christian fundamentalists and the far-right strike a new pose
Self-Management
Socialism is not Statism
Mexican workers take matters into their own hands
Class struggle frontiers in Hinterland
Caribbean: The "Isla" oil refinery as a microcosm of a collapsing capitalism
Living The Dream reads On Fairness by Sally McManus
ACTU Secretary Sally McManus recently published a book entitled On Fairness. In the episode of Living The Dream we look at how the argument McManus makes points us in the wrong direction. From The Word From Struggle Street
Humanitarian Aid... for War
Anarcho-syndicalism and Anarchist Communism: Different, But Conjoined
Right-Wing Propaganda At Its Least Subtle
The Venezuelan Crisis
Recent political events in Venezuela have once again brought to the fore its devastating economic situation. The struggle for power between Maduro and Guaidò, or between a fraudulently re-elected president and an opposition candidate who has proclaimed himself president, besides giving Venezuela a grotesque image, hides the real scenario of an economic and political human tragedy.