Letters: Wildcat UK #16
Letters from issue 16 of Wildcat (UK).
1983-85: Bolivian Protests and Strikes Defeat President
Submitted by Reddebrek on Jan 18 2017 19:36
In 1983 Bolivia elected a left wing president supported by a coalition of leftist parties and union federations. However the President priorities the paying of foreign debt and brought in neoliberal reforms and lowered wages and living standards for many Bolivians. As a result he alienated his allies and thousands of industrial workers and peasants rebelled with a series of protests and strikes.
Careerists and Corporate Interest: Why despite endless failure the drug war will continue indefinitely
Submitted by Soapy on Aug 28 2016 17:50
A look at why drug war policies continue despite totally failing to achieve their stated objectives.
Protesters in Chicago take action to reclaim MLK weekend
Submitted by Soapy on Jan 16 2016 18:33
Protesters in Chicago are marking Martin Luther King Jr weekend with actions targeting the city's mayor and racist police force.
Paranoia and terror as models of governance – Alèssi Dell’Umbria
A 2011 essay on Mexico’s descent into chaos under the blows of NAFTA and the “drug war”, whose purpose is not only to transform northern Mexico into a security zone for the U.S., but also to hasten “primitive accumulation” (driving peasants off their land—which is then handed over to agribusiness or extraction industries—and into the “colonias” where they will be prey to the drug war and intensive police and military repression) by destroying the surviving communal social forms in “a war against society” that is traumatizing the population but also generating a largely indigenous, assembly-based autonomous movement that is forming militias to defend its communities (e.g., Chiapas).
Concerning the irrelevance of Dolezal and the continuing relevance of the racist “war on drugs”
Submitted by Soapy on Jun 18 2015 19:18
Six days after the media frenzy began, Rachel Dolezal is still making headlines; a brief look into what is and what is not being discussed in the media.
Heroin and Italy's 'Disappeared' Generation - Emilio Torrini
Submitted by Infrared. on Jun 12 2015 23:45
An article describing the devastating effects of the Italian Mafia (with conspiracy theories alleging CIA assistance) disseminating cheap heroin within anti-establishment circles in 1970s Italy.
America's 'crack' plague has roots in Nicaragua war - Gary Webb
Submitted by Infrared. on Jun 7 2015 23:46
This article from 1996 explores how the crack cocaine explosion in black neighbourhoods in the US was facilitated by the CIA.
"Professor Xu": Laid-off plastics worker becomes China's Walter White
Submitted by Nao on Dec 8 2014 11:09
Repost of a story of interest less for its similarity to "Breaking Bad," and more for what this similarity (and differences) reveal about capitalist development, increasing precarization and exclusion of "surplus" proletarians, and how criminality enables a few proles to prosper at the expense of many others, in a vicious circle of class cannibalism.
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