social struggle

Upcoming Melbourne event on the debt crisis in Greece, austerity and social struggle

In the manufactured 'reality' of the mass media the problems of the Greek "debt" crisis are an endless flurry of context-less images; of riots, strikes and unrest embellished with quotes by the talking heads of capital. The IMF and capitalist economists all nod furiously in agreement that “There is No Alternative ™.” The guardians of capital insist that the loans and austerity program imposed on the Greek people by the EU/IMF are necessary to help Greece meet its debt obligations and reform their 'overly generous' pension and welfare system.

We Rebel With Our Dancing And Singing (a personal account of what happened on June 15th at Syntagma sq in Athens)

Today, in Syntagma Square, the people have exceeded themselves. Facing the violence of the MAT [=riot police force], of tear gas and molotov cocktails, they responded with drums, dancing and singing.

New intl. anarchist website: www.a-revolt.org

This site is about anarchism, for and by anarchists worldwide. Hopefully it will be a resource and a community place where people can get together and organize, or just make friends with like minded people.

Some of the goals of this site is :

* To promote Freedom, Solidarity, Direct Democracy, social revolution, Equality, free speech, atheism, ecology and science/progress.

* To counter the propaganda of both the "left" and "right" and all those threatened by anarchism.

* To spread news and events in order to organize and encourage people to participate.