August 2011
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Let me treat you to some mellow Toronto awesomeness. It’s three Humble Empire videos of Whale Tooth playing unplugged in Trinity Bellwoods park during this year’s NXNE. Feel free to, ehm, fall in love.
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“My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we’ll change the world.” ~Jack Layton, last letter to Canadians.
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(Ντισκλειμερ: το ποστ ειναι και προσωπικου χαρακτηρος.) Πριν κανα διμηνο αναρωτιομουν τι διαολο ρολο βαραμε οι “νεομεταναστες”, και δη οσοι απο μας λεμε οτι ειμαστε της αριστερας και της προοδου (με την καλη εννοια). Ε, λοιπον, η πρωτη μαχη, ο πρωτος εχθρος που μαλλον εμεις οι νεομεταναστες ειμαστε σε καλυτερη θεση να χτυπησουμε ειναι ακριβως αυτος:…
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From back, before the last UK election. “This is not Athens, or any other Greek City […]” (PS. In case you’re wandering, Clegg is the junior coalition partner of the current UK Tory-LibDem government. (via Ashmedai@buzz)
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So long as there is no vision of a different way of organizing our societies, the uprisings of the oppressed will look like blind, meaningless explosions of nihilism, leading to ever more fasist reactions from the oppressors. The revolutionary socialist imperative is now more relevant than ever!
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It could be expected that the global capitalist crisis would put socialist politics in the forefront once again. But instead all we are seeing is the deepening of the ideological hegemony of capitalism. Despite all evidence to the contrary, what we are seeing is both an ever more cynical imperative to further deteriorate the conditions…
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