Since May 1, 2006 we have seen a slow opening up of mass struggles on a scale not seen in recent memory, amplified by the silent economic crash in 2008. From the massive day without an immigrant to the historic Arab Spring; the Wisconsin workers uprising to the prisoners strikes in Georgia and California; Occupy Wall Street to the rallies for Justice for Trayvon Martin; General strikes of students in Chile and Quebec and of workers in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. People committed to real change cannot help but feel the wind in our sails. People are rising and refusing, struggles are igniting, common ground is revealing itself, we are beginning to feel and take back our power, everywhere.

Despite the rise of new fighting forces, pain is growing not decreasing. Symbolic changes at the peak of empire—codename Obama—have only served to further entrench the direction of decline, with Democrats bringing the stick when the Republicans aren’t there to make their bad cop look good. Deportations have increased, prisons are overflowing, the local face of a global war given new legitimacy, while organized racist violence dares to seize an ever greater public stage. Cutbacks and the destruction of public safety nets pay for corporate welfare and bankers’ bailouts. Ecological destruction continues apace: tar sands mining, fracking, nuclear power, and the daily grind of a system that cannot long coexist with dignified human life on earth. ... read full story / add a comment

KAMARAD OUVRIYÈZ AK OUVRIYE! ... read full story / add a comment

Oggi, mercoledi 25 aprile, la Gup di Barcellona ha decretato carcere preventiva senza possibilità di cauzione per la Secretaria d'Organizzazione della CGT-Barcellona, accusata d'incendio e derivanti danni, coercizione, disordine pubblica e delitti contro i diritti fondamentali. [Castellano] ... read full story / add a comment

Aujourd’hui mercredi 25 avril de la juge d’instruction n ° 23 de Barcelone a ordonné l’incarcération sans possibilité de caution pour la Secrétaire d’Organisation de la CGT-Barcelone, accusée d’incendie et de dégâts indirects, de troubles à l’ordre public et délits à l’encontre des droits fondamentaux. [Castellano] ... read full story / add a comment

On May Day, 2012, march as a Popular Front in Montpelier, Vermont in support of:
*Healthcare as a Human Right!
*The Right To Safe Local Farm Food!
*Justice For Migrant Farm Workers!
*The Right For Vermont Workers To Organize!
*The Right of Vermont's Daycare Providers To Organize!
*The Right To A Livable Wage!
*Save Our Post Offices!
*Abenaki/Native American Tribal Forests!
*Town Forests!
*Environmental Justice!
*Renewable Energy Now!
*Justice For Those Impacted By Hurricane Irene!
*Freedon and Unity!
*A People's Democray!
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