When Our Turn Comes We Will Make No Excuse

Uber is a fucking shell game of a company designed to leech investor capital and output bootleg cabs.

Nvidia posted a profit in 2023 of $4.37 billion. This is like someone stealing less than a penny from me.

And they lock this kid in a prison hospital for LIFE?

In a set of fascistic speeches on Thursday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, White House power broker Stephen Miller, and other top Trump administration officials labelled the political left as a “terrorist” threat and vowed to use all of the tools at their disposal to systematically destroy left-wing groups.

Statement from the Casa de las Américas

The primitive fascist tactic of stoking fear of a supposed “red threat” is resurfacing to justify repression and barbarism, precisely at a time when our region is witnessing the victories of far-right candidates willing not only to dismantle progressive programs but also to serve as pawns of the imperial agenda.

1990 - Nelson Mandela speaks about the ANC's support for the Palestinian fight for freedom from the Israeli occupation.

"As far as Yasser Arafat is concerned, I explained to Mr. Siegman that we identify with the PLO, because just like ourselves, they are fighting for the right of self-determination."

This interview was held a few months after Mandela was released from prison, where he had been locked away by the South African government for 27 years, for being one of the leaders of uMkhonto we Sizwe, the paramilitary wing of the ANC, which violently fought against the South African apartheid government. [video]

Fanshen is a history of a village in the early stages of the Chinese revolution. I've been meaning to read it forever as it's quite famous and I want to learn more about Maoist revolutionary methods in practice. The escapism of reading about past revolutions appeals to me a lot at the moment.

ARAK is the training manual for Philippine revolutionaries that I was emphatically recommended while out there. It includes some Mao essays, along with how revolutionaries should conduct themselves, the attitude they should have, how to study and how to run their organisations. I was extremely impressed by how activists conducted themselves there and a lot of the methods for doing so come from this book.

How Things Fall Apart is the last book by a pretty legendary Cuba scholar shortly before she died. It is a collection of interviews undertaken shortly before the 2021 protests discussing social conditions in Cuba and the breakdown of the revolutionary project under the pressure of the US blockade. Given the pressure on Cuba at the moment I think it is important reading.

Counter-revolution in Egypt is an analysis of Sisi's government undertaken by a member of the Egyptian Revolutionary Socialists. The Egyptian Revolution was very formative for me and I followed the process very closely as it happened. However, I've found it difficult to find decent books about what came afterwards (partly because a lot of the activists are now in prison), and have been looking forward to reading this one and it dovetails nicely with my Hamas book I just read.