Every year on Columbus Day weekend, members of a neo-Nazi organization going by the name of “Keystone United” – formally the Keystone State Skinheads – flock to Philadelphia from all over the state of Pennsylvania to lay a wreath upon a statue of Leif Ericson in “commemoration” of his journey and, later, the settlement of the first Europeans in North America. Leif Ericson Day, as it is known formally in the United States, is a 
federally recognized holiday; however, neo-fascists utilize October 9th every year as a way to profess their virulently deceptive notions of Euro-centric superiority, racial and ethnic bigotry, and every other conceivable type of demagoguery intended to win over downtrodden and embittered – due in large part to the recurrent crises of capitalism – “white” workers and youth to Fascism through strategically-subtle “cultural” events such as the kind mentioned above. Nevertheless, their day did not go according to plan; something was standing in their way…
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n September 15, the Swedish parliament opened again after a long summer break. In the mean time, 2,500 people gathered in Stockholm to protest the government’s right-wing policies. The main slogan was: ”We won’t pay for the capitalist crisis”. The protest against the right-wing coalition government is a yearly event since 2007. Read more here.
Across University of California (UC) campuses, thousands came out in protest against proposed furloughs for teachers, job reductions for campus workers, and a staggering 30% increase in tuition costs for students. School administration and government officials blamed budget shortfalls; however, that did not stop the protests from expanding not only across all the UC campuses but to other California-based universities as well.
Sights set on Steel City
Sep 26
A week of demonstrations, of teach-ins, and of marches is currently underway in the city of Pittsburgh ahead of the G-20 summit set to take place beginning on September 24. In just a few days, some of the most influential people in the world – finance ministers made up from the world’s leading economies, the governor of the European Central Bank, representatives from the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and others – will wrangle with each other over how to effectively “handle” the fallout caused by the capitalist crisis. Despite how the G-20 seeks to portray itself, it is – like every other convention of the ruling elite – quite literally a battleground where rival capitalist powers engage one another to see if they can weaken their foreign competitors and, thus, strengthen their own class of capitalists through a variety of protectionist trade measures, interest rate cuts, and deficit spending.
If the army recruiters thought before that we would go away and never come back…they were dead wrong.
Tomorrow is set to be one of the largest demonstrations against the army’s pilot program to gain new recruits – particularly young people –to join the military by utilizing a wide variety of first-person shooter video games and real-life scenarios to demonstrate the “enjoyment” that can be had fighting in wars. Unlike video games, however, life does not come with a restart button nor is it structured around a system of re-spawning.
On August 30, teachers and university workers represented by both AFSCME Local 1723 and the Temple Association of University Professionals Local 4531 will stage a demonstration picket outside the convocation ceremony in protest of the refusal of the university administration to negotiate a new labor contract. The actions of the school administration can be summarized thusly: the deprecation of education through the diversion of funds away from actual education and into the pockets of the already wealthy school bureaucrats.
On Wednesday the 12th of August, REVOLUTION groups in Austria, Germany and Sweden took action against police violence after the murdering of 14 year old Florian. Read about the protests here.
Drown Racism!
Jul 19
The recent actions and subsequent explanations for the removal and banning of upwards of 60 – the majority of whom are African- American or Hispanic – children from a North-East Philadelphia swim club serves as a reminder of the fact that even though the United States recently elected the first African-American to the “highest office in the land,” America has not come any closer to realizing the so-called “post-racial” society that the bourgeois press repeatedly states as if it were an axiom.
Over 250,000 school students, university students and trainees took to the streets on June 17. The students were demonstrating against cuts in education and also against the increasing involvement of private enterprise in the school system. The protests took place in more than 70 cities all over the country.
REVOLUTION calls for general strike, shoras and a constituent assembly to bring down the government!