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.
Defend and expand working class social space! - Thoughts on (Labour) Council cuts in Ealing
Global Capitalism, Empire, White Supremacy: The Mosque Shooting In Perspective
Does anti-capitalism mask anti-Semitism?
John McTernan, writing in the Financial Times claims that anti-capitalism ‘masks and normalises anti-Semitism’. The claim was picked up the next day by a Labour MP on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme.
Venezuela: A look at fake news and our own arrogance
Short comments on Mike Davis’ “Old Gods and New Enigmas - Notes on Revolutionary Agency”
We decided to read and discuss Mike’s text because the question he is asking is a pertinent one: ‘who can become a social force of revolution?’ By looking at what constituted revolutionary agency during the peak-time of working class radicalism between 1870 and 1920, we can perhaps better assess our chances in the present.
Guardian report exposes Amazon wage increase as public relations fraud
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.