Perspectives for the Coming Period
Global Protests: The Relentless Capitalist Crisis Demands the Overthrow of the System
How to make sense of these mushrooming mass protests-cum-rebellions which have no clear class character, owe their lightening speed of organisation largely to the rallying capacity of social media, which have few distinct or established leaders and whose often contradictory demands are constantly changing and are now emulating each other?
1997-1998: AIDS activists (ACT UP) demand federal funding for needle exchange programs
1994-5: ACT UP activists resist New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s AIDS policies
1970-71: Australian Opposition to Consription and Involvement in the Vietnam War
1974: The Brockwell 3
Account of student protests against the assault and arrest of three Black youths in 1970s Brixton.
1918: Ireland's Anti-Conscription Campaign
Sudan: The Dictator Goes but the Regime Lives On
The Crisis of the Sudanese Regime
It was the tripling of bread prices which sparked off the current revolt in Sudan. People first took to the streets in the town of Atbara in north eastern Sudan on 19 December 2018, but they did not restrict their demands to bread even though some had not managed to find any in four days. They had had enough of the brutal military dictatorship of Omar Hassan al-Bashir which has ruled the country since 1989. The protestors not only demanded “freedom, peace, and justice” but also echoed the slogan of the 2011 Arab Spring that “the people want the fall of the regime.” As a symbol of their wider political demands, the ruling party headquarters in Atbara was burned to the ground.
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