The revolutionary message of “the Internationale” was separated by a huge chasm from the practice and ideology of most of those who lay claim to it. That is, until Billy Bragg transformed it into a song that Social Democrats and reformed Stalinists could really relate to. [...]
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On Friday, Oregon senator Jeff Merkley begged Kentucky senator Jim Bunning to drop his one-man opposition to the extension of unemployment benefits for over a million Americans. Bunning’s response? Tough shit. He also complained that because the Senate would not agree to drop debating an extension and adjourn, I have missed the Kentucky-South Carolina [...] The death of revolutionary energies lies in class collaboration. Democracy is class collaboration through lots of talk, fascism is plain class collaboration in fact. – Amadeo Bordiga. National defense and democracy – here are the solemn formulas of the capitulation of the proletariat to the will of the bourgeoisie! [...] For sharing 30 songs on a P2P network, Joel Tennenbaum was ordered by an American court to pay 675,000 dollars in damages to the record companies suing him. A month earlier, Jammie Thomas-Rasset was ordered to pay 1,920,000 dollars in damages to these same record companies for sharing 24 songs on a P2P network. [...] |
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