May 2024
Something on the prisoners strike here in the US
Submitted by Pantaloons on Wed, 2010-12-22 21:36
Here's a link on the prisoners strike in Georgia. Six whole prisons are involved. The main demands are around wages for work, education, and measures to combat malnutrition and lack of health care. There is class unity here across race/religion/gang lines. To date it's the biggest prison strike ever seen in the US. The article is informative, though of a radical reformist bent. One the page there is also an interview podcast via cellphone with one of the strikers.
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it makes me say that class
it makes me say that class struggle never dies...
it looks like interesting from my point of view. Anyway it's the 1st time i hear something like this - i'll translate it into italian asap
greets
What you are saying is
What you are saying is eternal class society.....
So perhaps there is a third road, prepare to reprint everything.
SOCIALISM, BARBARISM , OR VEGETATION.
Maybe true...as in this quote...
The death crisis of capitalism does not mean that the system commits suicide, but that the class struggle assumes forms that must lead to the overthrow of the system........It depends on the workers as to how long capitalism will be able to vegetate.
A static system of
A static system of capitalism is an impossibility; capital must either go forward, ie - accumulate, or collapse. Accumulation presupposes reestablishment of profitable operation; hence we see violent efforts on an international scale to achieve this end. But all previous measures taken to overcome the depth of the present crisis have failed miserably.
Paul Mattick, The permanent crisis, 1934
But cannot the proccesses of collapse and accumulation co-exist?
The triumph of communism
The triumph of communism will occur not only because of the extreme sharpening of capital's contradictions, which can put an end to human civilisation, but through the conscious and organised action of peoples. Is it rational at the present moment to think that the conscious and organised action of peoples might be capable of destroying imperialism? Yes, even though we cannot specify time periods, because both economic crisis and war have the potential, on the one hand, to open a space which would lengthen the life span of the capitalist mode of production and, on the other, to create a new revolutionary situation. And even in this last case, in the words of Lenin, "no socialist has ever guaranteed that this war (and not the next one), that today's revolutionary situation (and not tomorrow's) will produce a revolution".