From 2nd to 3rd of August REVOLUTION held it’s third International Conference and a global camp afterwards – both in Berlin, Germany. Read about it here.
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.
“Old fashioned…violent…complicated…boring…nice in theory…nightmare in practice…waste of time…long words…mechanical…years in the library…abstract…Russia…failure…not that simple…time for something new…dead…beard.” Well, that just about sums up all you need to know about Karl Marx. Are you still with us? Then you have something in common with Karl Marx when he was a young student in Germany 150 years ago.
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!
The imperialist government of the United States has demonstrated, once again, to all forces resisting is oppression and subjugation, whether direct or indirect, that there will be no let up of the slaughter so long as resistance to its position as the world’s sole superpower exists. All those who refuse to bow to its wishes will be destroyed as quickly and as gruesomely as possible, as the recent events surrounding this past Tuesday’s bombings in the South Waziristan region of Pakistan illustrate.
Lenin outlines in The State and Revolution the Marxist position on the state, its origins, and what its purpose is. He then shows the need for revolution, and the need to replace the state with a workers’ democratic dictatorship – a workers’ state. The leader of the Russian revolution found time during 1917 to write a crucial text on the Marxist position on the state, and the tasks of the proletariat during and after the social revolution. He was driven by the practical needs of the revolution in Russia at the time: to show that the opportunists (i.e., the Social-Democrats, Kautskyian-centrists, etc) had distorted Marxism and to refute the anarchist claims that all states are reactionary.
Violent clashes erupted this past week between Islamist and government forces in Pakistan following insistence from the United States that the Zardari administration does more to combat “extremism” in the Swat District of the North-West Frontier Region of Pakistan. Since the government offensive began, upwards of 500,000 civilians have been driven from their homes while, at the same time, caught in a deadly cross-fire between Islamist and government forces.
If you thought that the Army could do no “better” than America’s Army (the popular first-person shooter designed by the military itself and used to recruit impressionable young people who enjoy playing video games), than think again!