December 2010
9 posts
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“Assange might well be a “high tech terrorist,” as US Vice President...”
– Why Corporate Capital and Finance Are Waging an All-Out Cyberwar Against Wikileaks | News & Politics | AlterNet
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The Professional Left Versus The Left of Us →
So sure, the professional left will undoubtedly tell us of all the small victories achieved in this week’s reversal of “don’t ask, don’t tell,” and the passage of the Low Power FM Radio Act. And we are soon to hear more from the Black professionals, or “surrogates,” called upon by Obama to explain how Black people will benefit from the new tax bill. But who really cares if imperialism is...
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Why I Won’t Be Celebrating the Repeal of DADT:... →
My problem with the hype and pressure around DADT is that it distracts from the very things that the Queer Liberation movement was founded on: Anti-imperialism, anti-racism, equal access to housing and healthcare, and struggles against patriarchy. It seems almost irrelevant to me whether or not gay soldiers can “come out” in the military when the US military is not only carrying out two...
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Wikileaks exposes a rotten system | Socialist... →
This lies at the heart of what Wikileaks has revealed about our world. Leon Trotsky wrote in 1917 that “secret diplomacy is a necessary tool for a propertied minority which is compelled to deceive the majority in order to subject it to its interests.” The revolutionary Bolshevik government published all the secret treaties of Russian imperialism, because “the abolition of secret diplomacy...
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Trotskyist lies on anarchism: Felix Morrow on... →
Article from Black Flag debunking myths of the libertarian Spanish Revolution from American Trotskyist Felix Morrow.
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STATEMENT BY TROTSKY ON THE PUBLICATION OF THE... →
Yup, Leon Trotsky on the leaking of secret state documents. Seems like a nice bookend to recent events.
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IWW supports Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions... →
12/2/2010 The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW or Wobblies) has officially voted to support the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement in support of Palestinian rights. The “Resolution in Support of the Workers of Palestine/Israel” was adopted in an overwhelming vote both at the IWW’s convention in Minneapolis and by the membership via referendum. This vote makes the IWW the...
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“Feminist Parenting” bell hooks →
Chapter 13, Feminism is for Everybody, South End Press, 2000. [PDF]