December 2009
80 posts
WatchThe Story of Cap and Trade
WatchWhat should public education look like: Radical Pedagogy or Charter Schools & Teaching to the Test
Liebknecht-Luxemburg Demo →
redguard:
Listing of upcoming demonstrations in Germany to commemorate the deaths of revolutionaries Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht. Includes photos from past years’ events.
Out of Touch With Reality →
Here’s a shocker: Many prominent climate change skeptics seem by coincidence to be in the pay of the energy industry.
“If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favour...”
– Frederick Douglass, slavery abolitionist (via secrets0ciety) (via redguard)
“People make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do...”
– Karl Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte
I spent a lot of time pondering this passage in 2009. Circumstances forced me to acknowledge that it is true not only for classes, nations and great historical movements, but for individuals as well.
(via redguard)
newleft:
unburyingthelead:
BILL MOYERS: What do you think these characters from the past that we will see on the screen, what do they have to say to us today?
HOWARD ZINN: Well, I think what they have to say to us today is think for yourself. Don’t believe what the people up there tell you. Live your own life. Think your own ideas. And don’t depend on saviors. Don’t depend on the Founding...
“The leadership has failed. Even so, the leadership can and must be recreated...”
– Rosa Luxemburg
“The modern proletarian class does not carry out its struggle according to a plan...”
– Rosa Luxemburg
“Sexuality is a human instinct as natural as hunger or thirst.”
– Alexandra Kollontai
Theses on Communist Morality in the Sphere of Marital Relations
“Contradiction in the capitalist mode of production: the laborers as buyers of...”
– Karl Marx, Capital volume 2 (via newleft)
“Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything...”
– Malcolm X
Stunning Statistics About the War Every American...
jeremyscahill:
Contrary to popular belief, the US actually has 189,000 personnel on the ground in Afghanistan right now—and that number is quickly rising.
By Jeremy Scahill
A hearing in Sen. Claire McCaskill’s Contract Oversight subcommittee on contracting in Afghanistan has highlighted some important statistics that provide a window into the extent to which the Obama administration has picked...
Hugo Chavez in Copenhagen: ‘If the climate was a... →
redguard:
“There are many people outside … I’ve read in the news that there were some arrests, some intense protests there in the streets of Copenhagen, and I salute all those people out there, the majority of them youth … They are young people concerned for the world’s future. “I have been reading some of the slogans painted in the streets … One said, ‘Don’t Change the Climate, Change the...
US ties to Uganda hate law →
THIS IS an article I wish I never had to write. Who would ever think that in the last month of 2009, one would have to write a story concerning a country that is thinking of passing a law making homosexuality not only illegal, but punishable by the death penalty.
The summit that was designed to fail →
Nicole Colson looks at the chaos, inside and outside, at the Copenhagen climate summit—and why whatever final deal, if any, is arrived at, it will be too little, too late.
“You see, my friends, you begin to ask the questions, ‘Who owns the...”
– Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Who's afraid of the big, bad Zinn? →
The right-wingers who attacked Howard Zinn’s The People Speak can’t dispute that the speeches, letters, petitions and songs performed in the film are real. If they are, then why shouldn’t people—including young people—hear them?
“Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of...”
– Helen Keller (via ontheborderline) (via iamthegirlanachronism) (via redguard)
Hospital cleaners are worth more to society than... →
Labor theory of value?
WatchDisplaced Films and Northern Light Productions proudly bring you the trailer for their upcoming web series, This is Where We Take Our Stand.
If we don't speak up, who will? →
Michael Ratner, president of the Center for Constitutional Rights, responds to the claim of some Barack Obama supporters that the left is being too hard on the president.
WatchTodd Chretien on “Lenin’s State and Revolution” at Socialism 2009 held in San Francisco, California.
WatchThe Revolutionary Ideas of Karl Marx [Socialism 2008] 52:49 - 1 year ago
Video ©2008 Haymarket Books. British socialist Mark Steel speaks about the common origins of the writings of Karl Marx at the Socialism 2008 conference in Chicago, USA. Mark Steel has been a columnist with the UK’s The Guardian and The independent newspapers, a host of the 1990s BBC radio program “The Mark Steel...
Season's readings (and watchings) →
Looking for holiday gift ideas? SDub columnists and writers offer their suggestions.
The People Speak finally makes its debut on the... →
Howard Zinn and his partner Anthony Arnove chose the most stirring political passages in Zinn’s classic A People’s History of the United States, creating a written anthology called Voices of a People’s History of the United States. Those “voices” have now been fully resurrected by a collection of performers, ranging from actor Matt Damon to hip hop artist Lupe...
“Why should we accept that the “talent” of someone who writes jingles...”
– Howard Zinn
“I am an adherent of the ideal of democracy, although I well know the weaknesses...”
– Albert Einstein