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CrowdStrike x Microsoft Outage: Day 2
As of 5:39 am this morning, CrowdStrike has launched a few fixes for their customers — both for individual hosts and those on public cloud or virtual servers. Fringe Fiction does not know off-hand if there has been immediate fixes, but we imagine with all these separate and different industries, the deployment of these patches may be system by system and industry by industry. There were some…
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MORNING PEACE FORCE! For our last day of final day of HYPE WEEK representing & getting to know Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism! (FRFI) Manchester we want to leave you with some dED BARS...dED are getting to know the different groups working towards peace and how they believe change is possible...and what better way to share this with you than to rhyme about it?! "Marxism is a critique of capitalism... My dear are you here for peace and futurism if ain't then u probs lost in imperialism. Racism just cos you can’t face them, you need to take a step back, masking fear with egotism ends in normalised radicalism... fuck colonialism, your fear is your own prison." #frfi #racism #imperialsim #collonialism #ego #freepalestine #dED #dEDhype #dEDgodeep #demilitariseeducation #britian #peace #love #stopwar #defence #weaintdEDyet #uomdivestnow #uom https://www.instagram.com/p/BqhQVjtHE6E/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=122jzr2xxr03d
Muhammad Ali, born on 17 January 1942 in Louisville, Kentucky, is dead. An immense figure in social and political life as much as boxing, his death will undoubtedly be the leading story of all mainstream media outlets for days to come.
“In later life Ali visited Cuba in 1996 and 1998 to donate a total of $1.7m medical supplies, banned by the US blockade. Ali and the Cuban Olympic champion boxer Teofilo Stevenson were inseparable during these visits. When asked if he regretted turning down a million dollars to fight Ali, Stevenson replied, 'Ali is my revolutionary friend. I don't want to beat him’. Raul Castro is one of the few political leaders to have spoken of the importance of Muhammad Ali to the black community in the US, and about his brave choice to reject imperialist war.
Already attempts to paint Muhammad Ali as an apolitical 'humanitarian' have begun. The establishment that once feared him found him more palatable after his illness cruelly stripped him of his mobility. Establishment tributes will emphasise his humour and charisma and speak of his ‘controversial’ political standpoints (the BBC), but socialists and all who want to see a better world should remember him for what he was, a fighter for truth and justice, and a revolutionary.”
RCG comrades out in the glorious Manchester sunshine today campaigning against evictions and in defence of social housing! Manchester is one of the eviction capitals of Britain. In Greater Manchester between 2013 and 2015 almost 4,000 tenants were evicted for rent arrears. The number of benefit sanctions in this period was the highest ever recorded in Britain. 50,000 claim housing benefits in Manchester and are vulnerable to the government’s plans to cut back even further.
By 2015 there were over 14,800 in Manchester on social housing waiting lists. Homelessness rose by 150% in one year. Meanwhile, there were over 109,400 empty homes in the North West.
Manchester Labour council’s ‘Devo Manc’ deal with the Tory government allocated a £300 million housing budget - there is no commitment to put this money into council housing. Private property firms stand to benefit and will build only a small amount of ‘affordable’ homes.
While Labour and Tory governments have sold off council housing, the councils still play a political role on the boards of associations. In Manchester these semi-privatised neighbourhoods are run by boards with Labour councillors side by side with corporate business interests. Inside Housing reports that ‘Chief executives of the biggest 100 housing associations in the sector were paid an average of £182,780 [in 2015], a 5.5% rise [on 2014].’ Three chiefs from City West in Salford, New Charter in Tameside and Great Places got almost £800,000 between them in 2013.
The housing selloff has meant destitution and homelessness for the working class and obscene paychecks for the Labour councils’ rich business friends. Child poverty, council cuts, bedroom tax and benefit ‘reforms’ are creating a catastrophe for the poor. This is a political attack by the crisis-hit capitalist class and it needs a political response. Labour councillors have attacked protesting homeless people, confiscated tents and built fences. The RCG is calling for action to demand an end to evictions and an end to housing for profit. Join us on the streets and build a new campaign!
‘We had to disrupt British society; that was absolutely clear.’
2 March 2016 marked the 35th anniversary of one of the most significant political demonstrations in 20th century British history, and one which deserves to be better remembered. Around 20,000 people marched across London to protest against the racist murder of 13 young black people in the New Cross fire six weeks earlier. The Black People’s Day of Action brought large parts of the capital to a standstill and marked a turning point in the struggle of black people against the racist institutions of the British state, laying the ground for the uprisings in Brixton, Liverpool 8, Moss Side and other inner city areas, which were to follow in the months and years ahead. FRFI took part in the demonstration and we wrote at the time that:
...the March was a fine example to the working class. It put to shame the so-called revolutionaries of the petit-bourgeois left who allow the police to play havoc with their demonstrations, arrest and beat people willy-nilly and do nothing about it. This demonstration showed that the vanguard forces of the British revolution are the black youth who will fearlessly take on and do battle with the forces of the state. In doing so they are showing the rest of the working class the only way forward in the struggle against oppression. (FRFI 9 – March/April 1981)
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The Black People’s Day of Action is a great reminder of the unlimited creative reserves of the oppressed in the face of the brutal realities of British society. It is an example we must heed today.
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At today's 100th anniversary celebration of the Irish Easter Rising held by Manchester RCG, comrade Saskia O'Hara speaks on the Rising and its continued importance today, not only for the Irish people but as an inspiration to national liberation movements throughout the world. Also held at the event was a screening of the documentary "Guns and Chiffon", a film about the role of women in the Irish revolutionary movement.
Tonight! Manchester University FRFI society presents a free filmshow and discussion about the PKK. We’ll show a short documentary about the Kurdish struggle and life as a PKK fighter before having a discussion about why exactly Britain - a major ally of the fascist governments of Turkey and Saudi Arabia - lists the PKK as a terrorist organisation. All welcome :D (There would be a link to the Facebook event page here, but FB deleted it and blocked its admins. It also deletes posts supportive of Abdullah Ocalan and Kurdish and Palestinian prisoners. This is what we're up against if we want to build effective solidarity.)
Manchester comrades - young and old - hit the streets of Manchester today for a stall and banner-making session to defend the rights of refugees and fight against Britain’s racist immigration controls. While Britain wages yet another war in the Middle East, we show our solidarity with the victims of this imperialist barbarism and demand safe passage, rights and protections to all refugees and migrants, an end to all deportations, the total abolition of Britain’s racist, reactionary and violent immigration controls and the immediate shutdown of immigration prisons like Yarl’s Wood, while also demanding the complete withdrawal of British military operations in the Middle East and the right of self-determination for the peoples of Kurdistan and Palestine. No to Fortress Europe! Hands off Syria!
