Every time Israeli soldiers behead a Palestinian child and our ruling classes accept this fact, we lose our collective humanity and slowly but surely our society proceeds toward savagery.
Wow. From @adamtooze.bsky.social
“Nike is reported to have no less than 155 factories working for it in Vietnam, above all in the South of the country clustered around Ho Chi Minh City.
It is commonly said that Nike employs more than 500K people in Vietnam.”
open.substack.com/pub/adamtooz...
For @bostonreview.bsky.social, @veronicagago.bsky.social and I wrote about the politics of sacrifice and the radicalization of the international far right – from Milei and Bukele to Musk and Trump.
www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
"Solidarity with the comrades in exile, all those in hiding and the prisoners from the struggles of Antifa, the resistance, the Kurdish and Turkish comrades, the climate movement and all other emancipatory struggles of the world!"
"We were able to find ways to lead a life in which, through all the ups and downs, a different social reality could emerge than that of the capitalist normality of alienation, isolation and valorization. Nobody can take that away from us." abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/13288/
the lining of lungs filled with teargas. One consequence of this is that, insofar as we “communicate” our political ideas, we do so largely through action in the moment of the revolt."
Ideas don’t enter the mind through the ears, they enter through open wounds, through joints burning after endless shifts of dead-end jobs, through feet blistered by long days on the picket line, through hands torn open by some machine, arms coated in grease scars,
how much evidence you offer, they will still not believe you. But if they go out and get bonked on the head just once by a police baton, they are suddenly a convert. It is, quite literally, a political baptism—with all the religious shock that this entails.
"the point is that political ideas aren’t adopted through skillful argumentation. They’re inscribed into us in our physical life. You can argue all day with someone that the police aren’t “part of the 99%” and no matter how reasonable you are, www.infoaut.org/traduzioni/a...
"British police arrest environmental protesters at nearly three times the global average rate, research has found, revealing the country as a world leader in the legal crackdown on climate activism." www.theguardian.com/environment/...
I don't know, I wouldn't call it a revolution, that's for sure. It's hard to comprehend what's been going on for the last week 🤷♂️
Can we truly call it a revolution when al-Qaeda members, ISIS fighters, and their allies, with support from the US and Israel, overthrow a government?
Is the successful revolution in this room with us right now?
What a hero: "Being an anarchist now is no different from 50 years ago. It’s a philosophy and a search for truth. What I want is unity, of Europe and, were it possible, of the whole world, without frontiers, a world in which we all understand each other.” www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...
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"More than 100,000 soldiers have been charged under Ukraine’s desertion laws since Russia invaded in February 2022, according to the country’s General Prosecutor’s Office." www.euronews.com/2024/11/30/t...
A groundbreaking study reveals the disparity between Global South & North.
“Southern wages are 87–95% lower than Northern wages for work of equal skill. While Southern workers contribute 90% of the labour that to the world economy, they receive 21% of global income.”
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Christopher Clark's sympathetic but critical review of Perry Anderson's new book on six historians of the origins of the First World War, among them Clark himself. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
The first wave of boys pumped celebratory firsts and thrust middle fingers upon their sight of Gaza."
"The grotesque horror of a school field trip arriving at this location from two hours away to watch the mass slaughter from an observation deck was a shock I am overwhelmed by. matthewhoh.substack.com/p/stare-into...
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