One crisis chases the next. We are constantly being confronted with new threat scenarios. In our pursuit of security, we accept restrictions on our freedom all too easily and enable state and capitalist monitors to control and examine every aspect of our everyday life. Most people believe everything […]
By Ahjamu Umi Its important to contextualize what’s happening throughout the world today with the challenges facing us from the potential growth of COVID 19. If what we are learning is true, this virus has devastating capacity. Even if you are healthy and strong, you can hold the […]
Noam Chomsky has it right when he says that “capitalism” amounts to “socialism for the rich” with austerity, “market discipline,” and bootstraps for everyone else. By Craig Murray Amid the COVID-19 panic, it has hardly been noticed that Carphone Warehouse went bust, with 2,900 people losing their jobs. […]
It’s time for a global insurgency against states and ruling classes everywhere. By William I. Robinson Truthout What does a virus have to do with war and repression? The coronavirus has disrupted global supply networks and spread panic throughout the world’s stock markets. The pandemic will pass, not […]
LibCom.Org Corona has taken over. Despite the fear and panic (or even denial) that has taken hold, one thing is for sure: the cracks of the system are emerging for all to see. How can the left respond in a way that dodges the minefield of strengthening the […]
It’s time for anarchists to stop wasting time arguing over the capitalism/socialism false dichotomy. “Neither statism nor corporatism” should be our economic battle cry. The real divide is between order-givers and order-takers, and between the power elite and those who are subordinated to the power elite. By David […]
A classical anarchist manifesto from 1920. By Errico Malatesta Anarchist Library 1. Aims and Objectives We believe that most of the ills that afflict mankind stem from a bad social organisation; and that Man could destroy them if he wished and knew how. Present society is the result […]
The cockroaches are coming out of the baseboards. By Larry Elliot The Guardian Gordon Brown has urged world leaders to create a temporary form of global government to tackle the twin medical and economic crises caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. The former Labour prime minister, who was at […]
Do you know how to bake your own bread? Plant and grow a garden? Can your own food? These are essential skills that our ancestors simply took for granted; you had to know how to do these things in order to survive daily life. Today, however, many […]
“Yankee, go home!” BBC Mexican protesters have shut a US southern border crossing amid fears that untested American travellers will spread coronavirus. Residents in Sonora, south of the US state of Arizona, have promised to block traffic into Mexico for a second day after closing a checkpoint for […]
Not just Republicans, Bernie. The entire ruling class/political class/power elite.
It’s 2008 on steroids.
Sometimes leadership can come from strange places. By Chelsey Sanchez Harpers’ Bazaar A pandemic, it seems, has a funny way of exposing the world’s true colors. College students are stripped down to their selfish cores as they prioritize frolicking across Miami beaches over the health of literally everybody […]
The state is grabbing more power, the ruling class has gone looting, and the sheeple are going along with it, as usual. By Anne Applebaum The Atlantic On March 13—Friday the 13th, as it happened—my husband was driving down a Polish highway when he turned on the news […]
USA! USA! We’re Number One! By Donald G. McNeil Jr. New York Times Scientists warned that the United States someday would become the country hardest hit by the coronavirus pandemic. That moment arrived on Thursday. In the United States, at least 81,321 people are known to have been […]
“Here are some recent figures from the Italian National Health Institute (ISS), dealing with the type of people in Italy who have died as a result of the virus. Firstly, the average age of those who have tested positive and subsequently died currently stands at around 81 years […]
It’s funny how Democrats and Republicans are pointing the finger at each other for being too slow to respond to coronavirus.
By Sally Pipes Forbes Optimism is in short supply as the coronavirus pandemic grows deadlier by the day. COVID-19 has taken thousands of lives around the world and upended nearly every aspect of daily life. But there is at least one bright spot in this global public health […]
From what I have seen so far, the responses of the states and localities to the current crisis have been reasonably competent, from conservatives like Mike DeWine to liberals like Kate Snyder. Not what I would like, of course, but it is what it is given the political […]
It’s time to start squatting and homesteading corporations that profit from the stimulus/bailout/robbery of the working class.
Some of the social democrats in Congress have performed reasonably well on this thing, along with a few people from the “far-right,” but for the most part, the entire political class has once again shown why it sucks.
The proper solution to the exacerbation of class conflict that has been generated by the present public health crisis, and the opportunistic actions by the state and ruling class that have resulted, in a nationwide debt strike. In the 1960s, draft resisters adopted the slogan, “Hell no, we […]
For many years, I have said that the US is a Third World banana republic with First World technology. Sometimes it sucks to be right.
Former staffer for Joe Biden Tara Reade recounts her experience from the 1980s with then Senator Joe Biden including inappropriate touching, and her denial of legal resources from the #MeToo organization Time’s Up.
The system wants to suspend habeas corpus.
Great Depression Two, here we come.
Hey, Congress. Go fuck yourselves. Saagar Enjeti blasts the bipartisan failure to provide appropriate unemployment compensation for working people in the Senate’s massive stimulus package.
Duh? Los Angeles banquet server Alice Stanford is one of the thousands of people whose income is in jeopardy, as service and hospitality industries are hit hardest amid coronavirus shutdowns.
Some great commentary from Kim. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BgTHhLDWLA
What does anyone expect? Huffpost reporter Zach Carter claims the legislation in the stimulus bill is outrageous, offering too much corporate bailout and failing to offer provisions on healthcare, unemployment.
Ruling class scumbags are at again. Krystal Ball explains why the stimulus bill should forget about corporate bailouts and push for provisions to support small businesses, industry employees, and working families.
I have a chapter in this book where I argued that the postwar conservative movement was nothing other than a front for the military-industrial complex and right-wing of the US ruling class (the Sunbelt industries that were in conflict with the “northeastern establishment”). The other authors were all […]
Famous last words?
Anyone who wants to understand how we got today’s uneasy alliance of corporate neoliberals and left-wing “social justice warriors” needs to read this work by a Democratic Party strategist from the early 1970s. Available at Amazon.
Bertrand Russell’s classic from 1938 still holds up pretty well in 2020. Russell’s analysis of the nature of power, combined with the insights of the neo-Machiavellians, James Burnham’s managerial revolution theory, and modern elite theorists, provides a very good explanation of how systems work. Available at Amazon.
Peter Marshall’s “Demanding the Possible” is the best book on the general history and theory of anarchism that there is.
A good discussion of a great book. As long as I’ve been politically aware, I’ve been anarchist. I’ve never been anything else. I’ve always despised both left and right totalitarians (fascists, nazis, communists) as well as mainstream liberals and conservatives. When it comes to other fringe ideologies, I’ve […]
Democrats: “We suck so bad we can even make Donald Trump look competent!”
The worst public health crisis in a century, the worst economic crisis in 90 years, Donald Trump is president, and this guy is the leader of the opposition party. It’s time for revolution.
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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