With the 2003 Bush administration war and occupation of Iraq, Montes helped form and lead the L.A. Latinos Against War. In recent years, Carlos helped initiate and organize the Southern California Immigration Coalition, to fight against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and police repression…
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Demonstrators at Powell BART Station on Sept. 8, 2011:
The plan for this action was developed by a group of folks who come from different communities and organizing initiatives, it is not just a “No Justice No BART” production. Our groups intend to “protest” outside of the fare gates, inside the Powell BART station…
David Harvey: Chinese urbanization, construction and real estate speculation is saving global capitalism – will it burst as in the US?
“Final Notice: PBSP SHU D-Corridor Hunger Strike” written by prisoners in the SHU at Pelican Bay State Prison. This notice calls for a hunger strike, to start on July 1, 2011, and includes five core demands, which in summary are:
1. End “group punishment” where an individual prisoner breaks a rule and prison officials punish a whole group of prisoners of the same race….
The Winter Has Its End team caught up with this young fighter while on route to Thawang, Rolpa.
Bin Prasad (Tarzan) is an active PLA member and we caught up with him while he was outside of the cantonments for a break.
Demonstration at US Embassy London in memory of the Attica Prison Uprising in 1971 calling for release of United States Political Prisoners. Organised by The Pan-Afrikan Voice and The Free Mumia Abu Jamal Campaign in United Kingdom. The Demonstration will be between 5-7pm on the 13th September 2011
The resource-rich state of Chhatisgarh and other states in central India are caught in an intense conflict among the state, the big business, different armed groups and the adivasis. Left-wing extremism has found favor with a section of people and the Indian Prime Minister has described it as the chief internal security threat. Forests, land and rivers are given…
What Does Collateralized Debt Obligation – CDO Mean?
An investment-grade security backed by a pool of bonds, loans and other assets. CDOs do not specialize in one type of debt but are often non-mortgage loans or bonds.
Similar in structure to a collateralized mortgage obligation (CMO) or collateralized bond obligation (CBO), CDOs are unique in that they represent different types of debt and credit risk. In the case of CDOs, these different types of debt are often referred to as ‘tranches’ or ‘slices’. Each slice has a different maturity and risk associated with it. The higher the risk, the more the CDO pays.
Minqi Li : Chinese left critical of market reforms.
It’s not about ideology, it’s about the material interests of the elite.
China’s elites are primarily focused on neo-liberal globalization.
Democracy and Class Struggle is one of Mao’s three magic weapons – the United Front . The Democracy and Class Struggles United Front is non sectarian and can work with anti revisionist communist and workers organizations or parties
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filmed at Rhode Island College on 4-13-09 by Paul Hubbard
A short explanation of why the world economy is in a mess, from Karl Marx.
Read by me, Cliff Bowman.
Political commentator Peter Hitchens taking a look at how the recent avalanche of security legislation has affected the civil liberties of ordinary people in Britain. The result, Hitchens explains, is that we are sleepwalking into a Big Brother state. Travelling across Britain, Hitchens meets ordinary people who have suffered needlessly because of new legislation and increased police powers. The programme also contains interviews with the Lord Chancellor Charles Falconer, Lord Carlisle, an independent reviewer of terrorism legislation, and Shami Chakrabarti, Director of Liberty.
Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land (2004) provides a striking comparison of U.S. and international media coverage of the crisis in the Middle East, zeroing in on how structural distortions in U.S. coverage have reinforced false perceptions of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This pivotal documentary exposes how the foreign policy interests of American political elites–oil, and a need to have a secure military base in the region, among others–work in combination with Israeli public relations strategies to exercise a powerful influence over how news from the region is reported…
The late George Carlin at his best – this being the show where he famously spends 10 minutes at the end tearing into religion.
In spring 2003, award-winning filmmaker James Miller and reporter Saira Shah, set out to take a first-hand look at the culture of hate that permeates the Middle East. They captured the lives of three Palestinian children growing up in the bullet-riddled streets of Gaza. Although James and Saira had planned to film the lives of Israeli children as well, in the midst of production, Miller was shot to death by an Israeli tank, falling victim to the very conflict he covered.
Featuring Glenn Morris of ‘Arctic Voice’ and Brian Gardner, The Socialist Party Conway Hall, London, April 5th 2008.
A public talk by Glenn Morris.
Recorded at the Socialist Party head office.
Culturejam: Hijacking Commercial Culture delivers a fascinating rap on the 20th Century movement called Culture Jamming. Pranksters and subversive artists are causing a bit of brand damage to corporate mindshare. Jammers, cultural commentators, a billboard advertiser and a constitutional lawyer take us on a wild roller coaster ride through the back streets of our mental environment. Stopping over in San Francisco, New York’s Times Square, and Toronto, we catch the jamming in action with Batman-inspired Jack Napier of the Billboard Liberation Front, Disney arch-enemy Reverend Billy from the Church of Stop Shopping and Media Tigress Carly Stasko. Culturejam asks: Is Culture Jamming civil disobedience? Senseless vandalism? The only form of self defense left?
Author, journalist, film maker John Pilger speaks at Socialism 2009. (Nothing at all do do with the World Socialist Movement).Filmed by Paul Hubbard at the Womens Building in San Francisco 7-4-09.
If you know your history, you know that in 1934 there was an attempted coup in the United States that was thwarted largely due to the efforts of U.S. Marine Corps Major General Smedley Butler (ret.). Look it up.
Among other things, Butler was only one of 19 people ever awarded the Medal of Honor twice and the only person to be awarded a Marine Corps Brevet Medal and a Medal of Honor for two different actions. After it dawned on him how his heroism and the heroism of the troops under his command had been misused, he wrote a book called “War is a Racket” which is certainly not to be found on the curriculum in US schools.The patriotic overtones aside, this is a worth watching video.
SANTA’S WORKSHOP takes you to the real world of China’s toy factories. Workers tell us about long working hours, low wages, and dangerous work places. Those who protest or try to organize trade unions risk imprisonment. Low labour costs attract more and more companies to China. Today more than 75% of our toys are made in China. But this industry takes its toll on the workers and on the environment. The European (and American) buyers blame bad conditions on the Chinese suppliers. But they say that increasingly hard competition gives them no option. Who should we believe? And what can you do to bring about a fairer and more humane toy trade?
Chomsky’s response to the film was mixed; in a published conversation with Achbar and several activists, he stated that film simply doesn’t communicate his message, leading people to believe that he is the leader of some movement that they should join. In the same conversation, he criticizes the New York Times review of the film, which mistakes his message forbeing a call for voter organizing rather than media critique.
Anyone watching the online documentary film Zeitgeist (2007) would be advised to borrow Occam’s razor for some editorial cutting. A well-made and interesting film, Zeitgeist nonetheless makes history more mysterious than it needs to be. You can explain what goes on in capitalism quite easily without making a giant secret conspiracy of it. So, when the sequel, Zeitgeist Addendum, came out in October of this year, socialists were expecting more conspiracy stuff and dodgy bank-credit economics…
Speaker: Steve Trott, London Day School, 25th June 2005
Speaker: Richard Headicar, London Day School, 25th June 2005
Capitalism & Other Kids’ Stuff was made by four members of the Socialist Party on a freezing Saturday afternoon in a church hall at Hebburn in the north east of England, and on a budget of £80 which was spent on travel expenses, the cost of hiring the hall and some cold cheese pasties. The film may be rough and ready but it’s hoped that it says something real to you. The ideas it proposes are those you’re unlikely to see on any TV show, art house play or even the news networks. A cursory Google search will reveal the extent of this film’s global popularity. Not only has it appeared on TV as far away as the USA and New Zealand, it is now on the syllabus of university courses.
This short film, made a few years ago, was recorded in an hour and edited within an other hour. It was unrehearsed and unscripted, being produced on the spur of the moment. Those taking part were SPGB members: Carol Taylor (opening narration), Simon Wigley, Danny Lambert and Bill Martin (interviews), John Bissett (camera), Carol Taylor and John Bissett (editing). The sound on your pc may have to be turned up during the interviews with SPGB members.
A talk by Bill Barclay of DSA and the Chicago Political Economy Group on a program to create 4,000,000 jobs a year.
Kim Bobo, executive director of Interfaith Worker Justice, gave the keynote address to the 2010 Atlanta DSA Douglass-Debs Dinner on November 6, 2010.
Wisconsin police are filmed arresting members of the press that were covering a demonstration at the state’s Capitol Building. A cuffed reporter is dragged to the ground as an irate cop goes after another journalist
Here you see footage recorded on a cell phone by Narces Benoit.
The police are surrounding a car driven by Raymond Herisse. Then they started firing at the 22-year-old.
Herisse was killed, three officers and four bystanders were injured…
A video inspired from the life, me and many of my friends are living, and from the movement “Aganaktismenoi sto Syntagma”.
A big nationwide mobilization which started yesterday with the 48-hour strike continues today at the second day of the strike with the class oriented forces playing the leading role.
The flags of All Workers Militant Front (PAME) waved in workplaces, enterprises, construction sites, ports, public authorities. Thousands of workers responded to the militant call of PAME. The strike has succeeded! Self-employed, poor farmers, pensioners, immigrants and students were there too.
The 48 hour general strike began on Tuesday 28/6, against the new raft of anti-people measures which are being discussed and are expected to be approved on Wednesday 29/6 by the parliamentary majority which the ruling social-democratic party PASOK possesses.
The Parliamentary group of the KKE demanded the the vote on the legislation be carried out by a name roll call, while the lead speaker of the Party on the matter, N. Karathanasopoulos, underlined that the measures being pushed forward by the government have as their real goal the reinforcement of the competitiveness and profitability of capital through attacks on the working class and its rights. The parliamentary group of the KKE withdrew from the discussion and will return for the vote…
Greece goes on strike! Day 2. A big success of the activity of PAME
A big nationwide mobilization which started yesterday with the 48-hour strike continues today at the second day of the strike with the class oriented forces playing the leading role.
The flags of All Workers Militant Front (PAME) waved in workplaces, enterprises, construction sites, ports, public authorities. Thousands of workers responded to the militant call of PAME. The strike has succeeded! Self-employed, poor farmers, pensioners, immigrants and students were there too.
Attempt at permanent occupation Imperialism is being beaten, but has not yet been beaten thoroughly enough! It is, therefore, still trying to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat. When US president Obama announced a surge of 30,000 troops last year, he at the same time set July 2011 as the date to begin the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan. A little later, the US and its junior partners in Nato began to talk in terms of a ‘transition’ [...]
“The peoples have the power and never surrender. Organize, Counterattack” was the slogan written in Greek and in English on the banner that the all Workers’ Militant Front (PAME) hung from the Acropolis on 27th June, on the eve of the 48-hour strike against the barbaric anti-people measures of the social-democratic government, the EU and the IMF that starts on Tuesday 28th June and is expected to embrace every workplace…
A UN nuclear watchdog report suggests Iran could be developing a nuclear bomb, apparently confirming long-held suspicions in the West. But Tehran denies the claims, again insisting that its atomic intentions are peaceful. Michel Chossudovsky, who’s from an independent Canadian policy research group, believes that what Iran says hardly matters, because the U.S. is planning for war…
Red TV presents: Fifth number of our broadcast is devoted to the situation at the Confectionery Factory “Russia”. It occupies the leading positions on the Russian market. However much less is known about the unfavorable side of this success, as well as about the price that factory workers pay for their owners’ income. Today we are discussing it with Alexander Gavrilov, the leader of the trade union “Solidarnost”.
SOME PERSONAL REFLECTIONS. Thursday, April 8, 2010-
Boiling Frogs Post presents an exclusive interview with Colonel Larry Wilkerson on a tyrannical US presidency and politics of fear, Israel’s interests versus US interests and the question of loyalties, and more: As a ‘card carrying’ member of the Likud Party, whose interest did Douglas Feith really serve?
Is the current situation in the US due to incompetent leadership or venal leadership exploiting politics of fear?
Journalist Chris Hedges discusses his recent book Empire of Illusion: the End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle. In it, he charts the dramatic rise of a post-literate society that craves fantasy, ecstasy, and illusion. Hedges argues we now live in two societies: one, the minority, functions in a print-based, literate world and can cope with complexity and can separate illusion from truth; the other, a growing majority, is retreating from a reality-based world into one of false certainty and magic where serious film and theater, as well as newspapers and books, are being pushed to the margins.
Call-to-Arms to fight Tea Party and Cracker Police
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