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New Year’s Notes from Greece under Lockdown: December 2020 and January 2021

Submitted by R Totale on Jan 21 2021 21:50

A report on recent developments from Greece, expanded from Radio Fragmata's contribution to the regular Bad News Report.

As Trump Leaves Office, Threat of Mass Evictions and COVID-19 Deaths Only Grows

Submitted by R Totale on Jan 20 2021 16:22

As Trump prepares to leave office, Peter Gelderloos looks at the lingering factors, such as growing COVID-19 deaths and mass evictions, which threaten to throw the next administration into crisis.

5,000 students are going on rent strike: on the past and future of our movement

Submitted by R Totale on Jan 18 2021 21:34

Originally published by the 68 Collective and then by Notes from Below, this essay by student rent strike organiser Matthew Lee gives an overview of the escalating confrontation between students and university management.

“Now and then the flame dies down, but solidarity is a stream of sparks”

Submitted by Gabriel Levy on Jan 18 2021 08:16
Ilya Shakursky in court

Ilya Shakursky, an antifascist political prisoner in Russia, appeals to people to write to him, and to others imprisoned in the infamous “Network” case. See a note at the end about where to send messages

Russia’s Oldest and Largest Class Struggle Website Needs Community's support

Submitted by S2W on Jan 15 2021 17:32
Support Antijob!

Antijob.net has been known on the Russian-speaking Internet for almost 20 years. For example, in 2019, the site received 8 million unique visitors. We received and processed more than 20 thousand responses manually. When the media write about labour conflicts, they use testimonials from our website. In this way, we help workers' voices be heard. We also run groups on social networks where we talk about injustice, capitalism, and class struggle. The total number of readers of our social networks is about 34 thousand subscribers.

Victory: solidarity makes Seattle slumlord drop bogus fees

Submitted by R Totale on Jan 15 2021 16:30
An image of an earlier, pre-pandemic SeaSol picket

Seattle Solidarity Network report on a successful campaign against a slum landlord.

Movie Review: ‘A United Kingdom’ (2016)

Submitted by LAMA on Jan 14 2021 10:17

A review of a movie about a cross-cultural marriage with political implications.

Chicago Teachers Take Wildcat Action in the Face of Unsafe COVID Conditions

Submitted by R Totale on Jan 9 2021 18:55

Report from Chicago IWW about recent wildcat strike actions by Chicago area teachers in the face of unsafe working conditions.

January 6: A Mass Base for Fascism?

Submitted by R Totale on Jan 7 2021 22:25

Crimethinc's analysis of the coup attempt in Washington DC: As a consequence of Donald Trump’s supporters occupying the Capitol building in Washington, DC after a rally promoting his baseless claims of election fraud, the Republican Party is fracturing, setting the stage for the consolidation of a new bipartisan political center—albeit much further to the right than before.

Capitol Riot: The Grambling of Democratic Imagination

Submitted by Mumakil on Jan 7 2021 18:56

These events were not an aberration from democracy, because simply the USA were never democratic in the first place. They weren’t democratic when they had slaves, they certainly weren’t democratic when the segregation laws were in place, the separation of normal citizens and Others due to the color of their skin, and of course, they remained un-democratic when the Jim Crow laws withdrew and the ugly systemic racism was swept under the rag.