"Enter the faceless, anonymous, heavily armed federal officers snatching protesters off the streets of Portland, Oregon. One would think that people on the right, who have spent years warning of “jack-booted government thugs” coming to take our rights by force, would be horrified by what we are seeing in Portland. It is their grim prophecy made flesh, and yet they are responding either with silence or active support"
"Trump cannot campaign on his successful fight against COVID, because he has failed that challenge with spectacular vigor. He cannot campaign on the economy, because it has been all but obliterated by his COVID failures. He has tried to campaign on brazen racism, but it has not turned the polls in his favor.
What, then, is left to campaign on? Why, the left!
Specifically, the vile, truthless caricature of the left Trump and his people have been conjuring for his base in an effort to justify the use of anonymous federal gendarmes against us.
More to the point, one gets the definite sense that Trump desperately wants an on-camera street fight with these protesters. Deploying those federal officers is a massively antagonizing move, and Trump would love nothing more than to have some protesters take the bait."
https://truthout.org/articles/trumps-reelection-strategy-involves-terrorizing-us-with-secret-stormtroopers/
"Trump cannot campaign on his successful fight against COVID, because he has failed that challenge with spectacular vigor. He cannot campaign on the economy, because it has been all but obliterated by his COVID failures. He has tried to campaign on brazen racism, but it has not turned the polls in his favor.
What, then, is left to campaign on? Why, the left!
Specifically, the vile, truthless caricature of the left Trump and his people have been conjuring for his base in an effort to justify the use of anonymous federal gendarmes against us.
More to the point, one gets the definite sense that Trump desperately wants an on-camera street fight with these protesters. Deploying those federal officers is a massively antagonizing move, and Trump would love nothing more than to have some protesters take the bait."
https://truthout.org/articles/trumps-reelection-strategy-involves-terrorizing-us-with-secret-stormtroopers/
Truthout
Trump’s Reelection Strategy Involves Terrorizing Us With Secret Stormtroopers
Trump has successfully normalized the unthinkable, and in places like Portland, he appears to be doing it to get votes.
#podcast
https://theintercept.com/2020/07/15/the-revolutionary-life-of-paul-robeson-scholar-gerald-horne-on-the-great-antifascist-singer-artist-and-rebel/
https://theintercept.com/2020/07/15/the-revolutionary-life-of-paul-robeson-scholar-gerald-horne-on-the-great-antifascist-singer-artist-and-rebel/
The Intercept
The Revolutionary Life of Paul Robeson: Scholar Gerald Horne on the Great Anti-Fascist Singer, Artist, and Rebel
Historian Gerald Horne discusses the life and legacy of Paul Robeson, who committed himself to the liberation of oppressed people across the globe.
#books
We need more than socialist institutions — in other words, we need a socialist ecosystem, from which we can start building whole new ways of life.
https://jacobinmag.com/2020/07/social-poetics-working-class-culture/
We need more than socialist institutions — in other words, we need a socialist ecosystem, from which we can start building whole new ways of life.
https://jacobinmag.com/2020/07/social-poetics-working-class-culture/
Jacobin
Why We Need Working-Class Cultural Institutions
Creating a vibrant left ecosystem doesn’t just mean building stronger labor and tenant unions — it means building cultural institutions that prize democracy over privatization and embed themselves in everyday working-class life.
#podcast
This is a very good episode, give it a listen if you can
https://rebelsteps.com/episodes/s2e7-take-care-give-care/
This is a very good episode, give it a listen if you can
https://rebelsteps.com/episodes/s2e7-take-care-give-care/
Rebel Steps
Take Care, Give Care (Community Care) | Rebel Steps
Rebel Steps is a leftist podcast about taking political action guided by the concepts of direct action, solidarity, autonomy and mutual aid.