I just turned Trotsky's "life is beautiful" quote, some of his last written words into a song, and didn't realize until now that in a certain metre they rhyme, and I dare say it slaps
Bolivia's general strike is GROWING. The Chuquisaca region, that hadn't joined the strike, has now joined and built workers barricades surrounding city. Also, valley roads to Santa Cruz are all blocked off now for first time.
Week 1: 20 highways blocked
Week 2: 40
Week 3: 60+
In Canada, we can’t refurbish unused office buildings to create apartments that people could live in during a housing crisis
But what we can do is build data centres
Canadian musician David Rovics (@drovics) wrote a song for our campaign to free Ehsan Ali & persecuted leaders of the AAC Gilgit-Baltistan. Much appreciated!
'To defend the people's rights, they formed a commitee... Led by a man known as Ehsan Ali' 🎵
https://t.co/KMFSH0we5L
@ted_splitter they did, but Casey Jones was not a church melody, when the ad is a bunch if railway workers loading up train cars and the melody is Casey Jones but the lyrics are basically "I love my boss", you see the conscious effort of bosses to erase the memory of workers.
@Commusician@MSpavin1917 The class divide is actually wild on reserves
One plot will be an entire gated Mansion with a long drive way and three brand new Silverado’s surrounded by clearly weekly cut grass.
The next plot of land will be a hut with a wood stove and zero electricity
@MSpavin1917@VitorLeoes gonna take a bit of time since they're going back up north until next month, but I'm definitely keeping in touch and sending resources!
Contact meeting with an 18 year old indigenous person from a reserve.Brought up the class divide on the reserve before I could.Said capitalism is the problem that unites the class struggle and the indigenous struggle before I could.Said only revolution is realistic. Was easy af
Capitalists will say things like, "So you just want money for doing nothing, is that it?" and then turn around and praise themselves for their passive income.
Just recruited someone the day after congress, and occasionally as a communist you get this *feeling*. It’s not a high, it’s much, much deeper than that - like the march of history is itself beating your heart. There is no better cause I can even imagine.
@gyrewidener@charybdeez You're stuck in binary thinking. Comrade and friend is in a blurry venn diagram. Figuring out where you are in relation to another in that diagram requires organizing, conversing, and thinking, not just reacting to tweets.