Thursday, October 17, 2013
Sylvia Pankhurst - Suffragette, Socialist and Scourge of Empire - A new book by Katherine Connelly
Suffragettes were members of women's organization (right to vote) movements in the late 19th and 20th century, particularly in the United Kingdom and United States.
Suffragist is a more general term for members of suffrage movements, whether radical or conservative, male or female.
The term "suffragette" is particularly associated with activists in the British women's suffrage movement in the early 20th century, whose demonstrations included chaining themselves to railings and setting fire to mailbox contents. One woman, Emily Davison, died while trying to throw a 'Votes for Women' banner over the King's horse at the Epsom Derby on 5 June 1913. Many suffragettes were imprisoned in Holloway Prison in London, and were force-fed after going on hunger strike.
Democracy and Class Struggle says the Suffragettes have many lessons us today with their history of militant direct action but it is the Sylvia Pankhurst's has Communists and militant revolutionaries that we have the most to learn from.
See also:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvia_Pankhurst
Wednesday, October 16, 2013
The Tea Party and the Suppression of the Left
Richard Wolff explains the history behind the Tea Party "The Republican-Tea Party alliance operates a weapon of mass deflection, protecting capitalism from criticism. Sadly, the Democrats neither expose nor attack the Republican project"
Visit : http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/19086-what-gop-tea-party-risks-with-block-of-new-new-deal?
Debt Ceiling Deadline Looming - Ranting and Raging in the USA
The de Americanisation of the World Financial System is already underway and is getting a boost from the ranting and raging in the USA.
We have the Alex Jones Info Wars ranting and raging that projects itself beyond left and right which calls Obama a Communist - which quickly exposes his right wing roots with its base of eclectic conservatism.
Then we have the ranting and raging of Cenk Uygur of the Young Turks of the liberal left (The Welfare/Warfare of Roosevelt).
To this we add the Dylan Ratigan, Ranting and Raging, a man that wants to appear to be an Alex Jones without the weird stuff another closet rightist who tries to appear leftist who opposes "corporate communism". The video above is from 2011 and his a classic rant, but his points are even more relevant with debt ceiling deadline tomorrow 17th October 2013.
They are all competing to give expression to the deep disgust with the democracy for the few of Wall Street which is in your face and is becoming impossible to deny - however we are not of the view that this disgust and outrage will take a progressive direction in America has we can see in the contradictions of the current crisis ugliness emerging from liberal as well as conservative America.
Tuesday, October 15, 2013
American Exceptionalism and US Imperialism and the Philippines
The importance of US Conquest of Philippines in history of US Imperialism
see also:
http://democracyandclasstruggle.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/the-filipino-peoples-struggle-for.html
Monday, October 14, 2013
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