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A revolt must be against class and race oppression, not just race. A Call to Revolt

War Crimes

Surprise! Surprise! All but one war crimes claim against British soldiers dropped . "We the experienced army with a long experience in running the biggest empire behind us and experienced ruling class, commit war crimes? We went to mesopotamia, we liberated their people, we stabilised the country with our ally the US and Iraqis are now living happier than ever, even adopting our way of life. Iraq today is better than under Saddam Hussein after all. And didn't the war happen long time ago? 

U.K.

The bourgeois way to show 'respect' to workers       Source: the BBC

Greece

The Greek crisis five years on: What Yanis Varoufakis did and didn't do and whether there was an alternative. Are there lessons to be learnt? Who is paying the cost of capitulation? Eric Toussaint's scathing critique of the former finance minister of Greece. Capitulating to Adults

U.S.

Is the United States on the brink of a civil war? This is what a revolution looks like Origins of the police Related The BBC does it again. Black people are classless. They are just black. Why US protests resonate in the UK

US: Uprising Against Police Murder

"Should we blame working-class black people for lashing out at a government and economy designed to repress, exploit, and subdue them; during a pandemic in which capitalism has made it near impossible for them to survive? Should we participate in this ritual condemnation even though our media consistently treats  identical acts of property destruction  by sports fans as simply revelry and exuberance, and corporate looting of working-class communities as business as usual?" We Should Not Condemn Uprising Against Police Murder Like George Floyd's

Violence

The BBC : " For three years, Donald Trump presided over a nation of relative peace and prosperity. The crises he faced were largely of his own making, and he confronted them by rallying his supporters and condemning his opponents. Now Trump faces a situation ill-suited to a playbook of division. The US economy has been hobbled by a deadly pandemic. George Floyd's death at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer has spread racial unrest across the nation. The public is uncertain and afraid - and increasingly angry." These are circumstances that would test the abilities of even the most skilful leaders. This president, however, risks becoming lost at sea. His public calls for unity and healing have been undermined by a penchant for Twitter name-calling and bellicosity. Message discipline, a valuable attribute at this moment, is not his forte. There may be no easy way to guide the nation through its current peril. Barack Obama's measured coolness did nothing to ...

South Korea: Behind ‘the Miracle’

"Behind the so-called 'Miracle of Han River" was a brutal and dark reality." South Korea's 1980's 'concentration camp' Related The South Korean economy of today has a background in brutality, the Korean War, a military dictatorship-led development, government-chaebol cooperation , achieving high productivity with acquiring technology and imposing the longest working hours in the world in the 1960s, a big foreign aid (especially from the U.S. and Japan) ...

China

This is a very engaging paper. Primitive Socialist Accumulation in China: An Alternative View on the Anomalies of Chinese 'Capitalism'

U.S.

How Western media would cover Minneapolis if it happened in another country

War

Have we all forgotten about the Iraq war? Related Blackwater's Erik Prince: Iraq, privatising wars, and Trump

Imperialism

For years those who spoke about how the American state directly and indirectly established a 'world order' through violence and blood were, and still are, dismissed as anti-Americans, attacked as lunatic leftists, or apologists for the crimes of 'communism'. Now some of the empire's violence can be explicitly painted on the New York Times pages. We are really living in interesting times! The 'Liberal World Order' Was Built With Blood Related Are We ISIS? How the West won

UK

Tory privatisation? Doesn't that absolve New Labour? Tory privatisation is at the heart of the UK's disastrous coronavirus response