Was wowed by this on Popjustice a few weeks ago but forgot to write about it; it’s a really, really well put together song. The relentlessness of the accompaniment, combined with the fragility of the vocal and the tentativeness of the chord progression, which continually makes you expect a modulation into something more optimistic, all comes together to make the track beautifully bittersweet.
OIC, when the Alameda Sheriffs were throwing people to the ground and beating my friends with sticks, they’d just mistaken us for participants in their government-funded Half-Life 2 LARP.
Last night in Montreal, following the breakdown of negotiations, students once again took to the streets in their thousands to protest the rise in tuition fees the Quebec provincial government intends to implement. You can read about the ongoing struggle here. However I want to focus on the…
fucking beautiful: Quebec Student Strike- Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois
‘The word ‘crisis’ seems a commonplace at present. It is a word whose ceremonial invocation by commentators and holders of public office alike is made with an almost merry abandon that borders on monotony. This should come as little surprise given the numerous crises of the present can appear…
May 1st: General Strike, Gender Strike
(click-through for the pdf!)
A very minor contribution to the ongoing General Strike propaganda, with thanks to the Institute For Experimental Freedom (politicsisnotabanana.com) for the poster template (and apologies that we lack Hass Grotesk!). In any case, we hope that May Day will allow us to boldly experiment with ways of bringing the domination of capital and the tyranny of gender to a grinding halt.forever against the ideology of victimization//forever toward the destructive nothing
NYCP
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[Image: Communique by the Rank and File Initiative, posted in dozens of New York subway stations.]
Again, I think this is awesome. Using the MTA signifiers and inserting another, wholly different command. MAY 1ST GENERAL STRIKE! No work, No school, No banking, No shopping.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2jnt8BzSF1qcvwrgo1_500.jpg)
[Image: Communique by the Rank and File Initiative, posted in dozens of New York subway stations.]
Again, I think this is awesome. Using the MTA signifiers and inserting another, wholly different command. MAY 1ST GENERAL STRIKE! No work, No school, No banking, No shopping.
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The Morning Post, 1913 - on the violence of the suffragette movement:
Early yesterday morning some women succeeded in burning a valuable house near Trowbridge. In the night of Monday to Tuesday ROUGH’S boathouse on the river at Oxford, near the Long Bridges, was seen to be on fire. It was impossible to save the building or the boats which it contained. Nailed to the bridge near was found a card with the words “Votes for women. No peace till we get the vote.” The presumption is that the boathouse was set on fire, the KING’S horse was stopped, and the Trowbridge mansion was destroyed by some of the females who are discontented with the structure of society. Whether that be the case or not - it is quite possible that the truth may not be ascertained - the action is typical of much that has happened lately and deserves thinking about. Indeed, if we are to believe the leaders of the “movement”, the purpose with which these things are done is to make men think. The question is, What are we to think? The planned and deliberate destruction of property is intelligible as an expression of anger against the owner. But as the wellbeing of society depends upon the security of persons and property against wilful attacks, such attacks are regarded as crimes, and one of the principal purpose for which society is organised is to prevent such acts and to punish those who commit them. But in the class or cases which we are considering there is not motive or animosity against the particular person whose property is destroyed. Those who do them have not the personal hatred which usually explains such doings. If this were an isolated case, if it were found that a house had been wilfully set on fire by a young lady well brought up and accustomed in other respects to behave herself well, a jury would probably come to the conclusion that she was not in her right mind, and the Court order that she should be taken care of until she was restored to complete sanity. But the present case is not isolated. There is an epidemic of the state of mind which produced it; it is but one of a large number of similar cases. This frame of mind cannot possibly be considered healthy. The acts which it produces constitute a war, not only upon society as at present constituted but upon any conceivable state of society because it is impossible to imagine any community of human beings not based upon laws for preserving the security of property as well as of life and society, the propounds of the most astounding schemes for the reconstruction of the community, have ever propounded a plan which would not guarantee the work of and man’s hands against wanton and wilful destruction. The women who go about setting fire to houses seem, therefore to have their thoughts out of gear. In most respects apparently their minds work as other people’s do, but the epidemic of arson appears to be a form of monomania. This quality of the minds concerned noes not disappear under an examination of the alleged motive. These ladies say that women ought to have the same political rights as men, and in particular the Parliamentary franchise, and they assert that women are qualified to be members of the body polite. But it is unthinkable that a person who refuses to recognise the fundamental condition upon which every society is founded can be qualified for membership in that society. The person whose mind works in that way is inaccessible to reasonable arguments.
