The Street Cleaners.

        Trumps victory in America certainly opened the sewer gates and allowed the filth to flow freely onto the streets of America. However, no matter the stench from the neo-nazis, fascists, white supremacists, KKK, and other demented minds, there are those who will take to the streets to clear the filth and allow freedom to breathe. Let's hope this band of street cleaners grows rapidly in every city across the globe, and sweeps the far right sewage back into the cesspool from which they slither.
This from Roar Magazine:

         Since the election of Donald Trump, acts of racist violence have proliferated across the United States. Racists and misogynists feel emboldened to express and act on their views. White nationalist groups and resurgent traditional white supremacist groups such as the Ku Klux Klan have used Trumps victory to gain new recruits. All that stands in their way are the groups of anarchists, communists, and socialists who have taken it upon themselves to prevent fascism from becoming a powerful political force in the United States. This film tells the story of what “Antifa" is and why people are using these tactics to confront racism and fascism in the US today.

        Who are the anti-fascists? What motivates them to risk their lives to fight the far right? What is the history of militant anti-fascism and why is it relevant again today? How is anti-fascism connected to a larger political vision that can stop the rise of fascism and offer us visions of a future worth fighting for? Through interviews with anti-fascist organizers, historians, and political theorists in the US and Germany, we explore the broader meaning of this political moment while taking the viewer to the scene of street battles from Washington to Berkeley and Charlottesville.

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AN ANARCHIST???

 Food for thought.

So you think you're an anarchist?

       It is quite wrong therefore to dismiss the anarchist as a chaotic, lawless person too weak to accept the responsibilities that go with being a member of a community. A true anarchist, somebody who has made an informed choice, has to be strong enough to say "I will be responsible for myself, I will answer for my actions". Conformists on the other hand are wreak, they seek the shelter of the herd, doing what others do, even thinking what others think or at least saying in public they do.
    The problem with anarchy is like most other political philosophies including Marxism, utilitarianism, socialism and Trotskyism, it look great on paper but is never going to work in reality. Therefore people like myself, while anarchist in principle must settle for being anarchistic, true liberals who argue for personal freedom even if that freedom permits people to do things, hold views or express opinions we personally do not like.
     The historic anarchist movement was a grass roots workers' movement which flourished from the 1860s down to the end of the 1930s. While socialist parties like the British Labour Party had begun their political life as movements run by the workers for the workers, by the time Labour won its first General Election in Britain the party had been hijacked by upper middle class academics and professionals and they were telling the party's poorer supporters how to live their lives just as the old upper class hierarchy of the nobility and landed gentry had. The working classes wanted a political movement of their own.

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