Why is Obama doing this? It’s one thing to appoint some people he disagrees with but he is filling his cabinet with centre-right people. Now with the appointment of Sanjay Gupta, we can kiss the hope of universal healthcare goodbye in this nation.
How much more do we have to take from this guy? And he isn’t even in office yet. The only people I know of that are still prasing this guy are centrist bougie yuppies!
The newspapers and news broadcasts are full of the atrocious events in Gaza, which highlight the future that capitalism has in store for us if it is allowed to follow the dictates of its own destructive logic, not only in Gaza, not only in Iraq, Afghanistan or the Congo, but all over the planet – a descent into barbarism and war.
But there is another future indicated by events which are less well-publicised, but no less important: the future mapped out by the class struggle and a growing challenge to capitalist society.
Forty years after May 68 in France, which was the beginning of an international resurgence of workers’ struggles, the class struggle in 2008 has been expressed in particular by a ‘new May 68’ – by the revolt of young proletarians, school pupils, university students, casual and unemployed workers, in France, Italy, Germany, and above all Greece in the last few weeks. These movements, often presented by the media as mere ‘riots’, outbreaks of aimless vandalism, are the product of a profound discontent in the face of the economic crisis of world capitalism, and are giving rise to new forms of organisation and very widespread discussion about the aims and methods of the struggle. They have called into question the official parliamentary and trade union ‘channels’ and have opened themselves out to wider sectors of the working class.
It is vitally important for all those who are opposed to the present order of society to discuss these movements and reflect on what we can learn from them. Such discussion needs to take place in face to face meetings as well as online. The ICC is organising a series of public forums on these movements in a number of European cities in the coming month and we hope these meetings can serve as a focus for such a debate; at the same time we are very open to proposals for other meetings and conferences on the same theme.
In Britain, the following meetings are planned:
London, 24 January, 2pm,
Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, WC1
Birmingham, 14 February, 2pm
Friends of the Earth Warehouse, 54a Allison Street, Digbeth
(This subject replaces those previously advertised)
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From IndyBay:
In the early hours of January 1st, BART police shot and killed a 22 year old man, Oscar Grant, on the platform of the Fruitvale BART station in Oakland. Witnesses report that Grant was "lying on his stomach with his hands out in a non-threatening position when he was shot". Police have confirmed Grant was unarmed and have suggested the shooting was an accident. Grant lived in Hayward and leaves behind a 4-year-old daughter.
BART officials have not released the name of the officer who shot Grant. After the shooting, BART police seized several cell phones from people on the platform who said they had used the phones’ cameras to record what happened. For the first two days BART officials told the mainstream media that surveillance cameras at the station do not record, but then corrected themselves Friday night saying the cameras did record but didn’t show the incident.
There will be a rally to protest the shooting from 3pm till 8pm on Wednesday January 7th at the Fruitvale BART station in Oakland.
This isn’t an attack on X, I just want to know why people of leftist orientation are fascinated by this person. From the little I know, he seems to be just another nationalist. What distinguishes him from other nationalists, that people admire him so much? He also seems to have said he doesn’t care much about the assassination of Kennedy and other leaders who weren’t really a threat to him. This sounds pretty ruthless to me.
Again, this isn’t a challenge. I just want to know different perspectives on this, which is why I am posting this on OI forums, so I can get a good idea from both sides.
Thanks in advance.