#Music on #Blue-Lunar-Hand
#BillWithers 7/4/1938 #Birth US singer and songwriter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6qhfY-aLnk
#Bill-Withers - I Can't Write #Left #Handed
#left
#finkelstein
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anyone knows #Finkelstein #norman-finkelstein ?
#left #identity criticising all actual „movements“ of this kind
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/the-inspiring-outrage-of-norman-finkelstein
only read half of it up to now - have to go to bed - layla tov
I only know her who seems to be going the same way #Caroline-fourest
https://carolinefourest.wordpress.com/
#Labour under Keir #Starmer is waging a ruthless war to eradicate the #left of the party, in a show of #corruption and #authoritarianism.
This battle is being overseen by Labour’s election campaign director Morgan McSweeney, who worked on Starmer’s leadership campaign and was briefly his chief-of-staff. McSweeney “doesn’t have room for compromise with the hard Left”, says his friend Nick Forbes, a former leader of Newcastle City Council. “He thinks they need to be eradicated from the party because they are so dangerous.” This ruthlessness now underscores every Labour selection process...
There’s a more worrying issue too. What does this tell us about how a Starmer #government will handle its critics? Labour’s selection processes appear to be deeply unjust, open to abuse, and verge on the corrupt. Left-wingers, passionate trades unionists, troublemakers and mavericks need not apply. The plan seems to be to wipe out the Left completely, to find the flimsiest excuse to block anyone who doesn’t toe the party line. It is not inconceivable that if Angela Rayner, John Prescott, Margaret Beckett, or Neil Kinnock now applied to be a candidate, they would be blocked at the first hurdle by an NEC panel.
The Starmer team looks fixated on achieving total control, intent on stamping out anything that might embarrass the party. Their tactics go way beyond the dark arts of Peter Mandelson, Alastair Campbell and New Labour, though it’s not clear how much Starmer knows about how the selection system is being rigged, and whether he — a former human rights lawyer — turns a blind eye to the abuses.
https://unherd.com/2022/12/starmers-ruthless-attack-on-the-left/
#culture #science #politics #left #urbanism #rip
"Thus, the cities of the future, rather than being made out of glass and steel as envisioned by earlier generations of urbanists, are instead largely constructed out of crude brick, straw, recycled plastic, cement blocks, and scrap wood. Instead of cities of light soaring toward heaven, much of the twenty-first-century urban world squats in squalor, surrounded by pollution, excrement, and decay."
"We live in the age of the city. The city is everything to us it consumes us and for that reason we glorify it"
RIP Mike Davis
On the one hand we have the #right claiming that the #Democrats are " #far-left" " #communists" and " #socialists".
But on the other hand we have some on the #left claiming that the #Republicans and Democrats are exactly the same. If that were true, then why do the Republicans #hate them so much?
And how do you argue against both lies simultaneously?
THIS IS REVOLUTION podcast: Germany is Back!
Is Germany back to being an imperial power?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2zyY9Zw3m0
#99zueins #thisisrevolution #podcast #war #germany #left #nato #imperialism
The “conflict”, i.e. the armed invasion, started in southern #Ukraine when the Russian #army occupied #Crimea in February 2014. The Russian-inspired separatist #uprising in the east started later, in about a month.
It was clear to us from the beginning that Russia could not do any good in Ukraine. By 2014, a reactionary authoritarian regime had already been established in #Russia that denied all individual and social rights and brutally persecuted and destroyed all independent activity. Of course, we still have many questions about the Ukrainian state and the ruling class in Ukraine. But at least the anarchist movement, the socialist movement in Ukraine was able to operate relatively freely for some years. It suffices to say that throughout the existence of the independent Ukrainian state, there has not been a single political anarchist prisoner here. At the same time, many dozens of our comrades in Russia ended up in Russian prisons – guilty solely for their anarchist convictions. So, we were well aware of what #Putin did for libertarian ideas.
The #RKAS reaction was therefore irreversible: it was necessary to resist the Russian attack by all means.
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2022/10/04/leftists-outside-ukraine-are-used-to-listening-only-to-people-from-moscow-interview-with-rkas-anarcho-syndicalists-in-eastern-ukraine/ #history #war #anarchism #labour #donbas #chechnya #zaporizhzhya #kherson #left #georgia #moldova
Cultivate A Habit Of Small Acts Of Sedition
https://caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/cultivate-a-habit-of-small-acts-of
#audio #capitalism #empire #humanity #imperialism #left #politics #revolution #sedition
So, the #Republicans have adopted the slogan " #Defund the #FBI".
Everything they have ever said about "the #left" is true about them.
The #Left doesn't care about your rights.
Boom! Joe Biden's #Government directly instructs #Twitter to violate Alex #Berenson's Civil Rights:
In a #WhiteHouse meeting in April 2021, four months before Twitter suspended my account, the company faced “one really tough question about why Alex Berenson hasn’t been kicked off from the platform,” a Twitter employee wrote.
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The employee recounted the meeting discussion afterwards on Twitter’s internal Slack messaging system. The message, and others, make clear that top #federal officials targeted me specifically, potentially #violating my basic First #Amendment right to #free #speech.
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The First Amendment does not apply to private companies like Twitter. But if the companies are acting on behalf of the federal government they can become “state actors” that must allow free speech and debate, just as the government does.
#2022-08 #WorstFakePresidentEver #Democrat #Commies #covid #Vaccine #lies
https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/the-white-house-privately-demanded
ক'দিন আগে একজন প্রাক্তন শিক্ষক গোপিনাথ সরকার দারুণ কথা বলেছিলেন ইন্টারভিউতে, যে এখন এই যুগে একটা অন্তত ভালো দিক তিনি দেখেছেন যে শিক্ষকরা মাসের ১তারিখেই মাইনে পেয়ে যাচ্ছে(১১:০০)... যেটা বাম জমানায় ছিল না। ইনি পার্থ চ্যাটার্জিরও শিক্ষক ছিলেন। আরে থাকবে কি'করে, তখন তো সরকারী টাকা বামপন্থী পার্টি ফান্ডে আর জাঠাতে "সংগ্রামী" চাটা, ইপস্ আই মিন চাঁদা দিতেই চলে যেত। 😆😆😆 ছোটবেলায় আমাদের স্কুলের অনেক শিক্ষককেও আমাদের সামনে অসন্তোষ প্রকাশ করে মন খারাপ আক্ষেপ করে বলতে দেখেছি। এক এক সময় তো এমন অবস্থা হতো, যে মাসের ১৫ তারিখে আমাদের সবার সামনেই মাইনে হত শিক্ষকদের 😆😆😆 #teacher #status under #tmcgov vs #left
some great delicious bs
The leader of a revolutionary Black supremacist communist cult that previously burned Anne Frank's diary has been arrested for kidnapping, imprisonment and forced #sodomy after a member of the commune was found dead at the group's home in Fayetteville, #Georgia last Tuesday.
https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-713055 #usa #antisemitism #left #blackhammer #anticolonialism #antiracism
I sometimes wish I'd taken my #camera along with me when I'm #cycling. As today was going to be a bright sunny day, I made sure I did.
Part of the #cycle #track is along the side of a #canal and here you can see what I presume is a family unit of #swans. The #cygnets are pretty well developed by this stage and I guess it won't be long before they will shed their grey #feathers for white ones.
Further along, the path goes over a #straight section of single #RailwayTrack and so you get a nice illustration of the #VanishingPoint of two #ParallelLines. Notice the reflection of the of the blue sky on the smooth #track surface
Not on my usual route, there is a section of double #Tracks which you can see curving to the #left,
or to the #right depending on the direction you're looking.
Finally, here's my faithful #bike itself, which is a veteran of of 20,000 km and counting.
#MyWork #MyPhoto #CCBYSA #DSLR #Nikon #D7000 #Summer #Biking
While the right has diligently chipped away at women’s rights, the left’s response has been to offer nothing but blackmail. Stick with us, because the other guys are even worse. Sure, it feels undignified to call yourself a ‘menstruator’ or a ‘uterus bearer’, but that’s the cost of admission to the big liberal tent. If you don’t want to be reduced to your reproductive system, better start by reducing yourself to your reproductive system.
What a joke. The right won their war on #Roe because they took #abortion seriously. The #left lost because they treated it as a triviality, a done deal, something they could threaten women with (imagine if you lost this!) but never had to actively defend.
#Feminism ascended to the status of #fashion accessory — a background for Beyonce, a Teen Vogue vertical — without having accomplished all that much in the #US. It’s worth remembering that American women have no national statutory maternity leave. (Still, nearly half of Democrat men under 50 and quarter of #women believe that ‘feminism has done more harm than good’).
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/why-the-right-won-the-war-on-roe #society #scotus #democrats #aoc
Vivek Chibber’s The Class Matrix should give the #Left real confidence in class #analysis and class #politics. Over the span of a brief number of pages, it confronts the driving developments within social #science over the past half-century while also seeking to resuscitate the theories outlined in classical #Marxism with crucial modifications. It does all of this with a precision and thoughtfulness that all serious social analysis should aspire to.
Chibber’s interventions center around three points. First, a defense of a materialist conception of #class structure against a host of critics both within and outside the Marxist tradition; second, a reconceptualization of the process of class formation based on the internally generated macro-dynamics of the capitalist class structure; and finally, the conceptual demotion of hegemony—the #NewLeft’s favorite plaything—below the far more prevalent phenomena of resignation in explaining the stability of #capitalism.
These contributions provide the essential theoretical foundation from which any meaningful progressive politics must proceed. It’s for this reason that The Class Matrix’s placement within the arena of academic debate feels inappropriate, maybe even wasted on individuals with institutional incentives to disregard it. The book’s academic placement makes some sense given the Left’s persistent relegation to #academia—although this is a proportionally diminishing share of the #Left as a whole. It’s unfortunate then that the location of the Left within the middle class receives painfully little treatment by Chibber. In a moment when the ramifications of this are increasingly relevant and debate has been rekindled around terms like “the PMC,” this seems to be a missed opportunity in an otherwise critical #book for the Left.
https://damagemag.com/2022/03/30/making-the-dull-compulsions-sexy-again/ #socialism #revolution
