Tuesday, September 11, 2012

In The Time of Neo-Slave Uprisings

Historians of the future will marvel about how The Uprising started with a despairing fruit vendor in a dusty, forgotten Tunisian town. Who could know that one small light would set off 35 years of accumulated social dynamite?

Because we debt-slaves of this earth, we wage-serfs, we who have been suppressed, repressed, depressed and dispossessed by this horrible evil neoliberal system of planetary plutocracy -- we have HAD IT with the undemocratic, unrestrained, unregulated domination of the 1%.

From Aleppo to Cairo, Caracas to Jakarta, Nandigram to Barcelona, the class struggle has been going live. Now Chicago joins the ranks of hero cities. The indispensable Diane Ravitch, ferocious critic of the neoliberal scam of school testing and privatization, has all the latest on the Chicago teachers' strike (updates here).

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