BRICS.

         What can you do when a bunch of very rich psychopaths armed to the teeth with nuclear weapons feel their power is slipping out of their hands? That is the situation with the US dollar, the dominance of the dollar as a reserves currency is what makes America rich and powerful, and that power is now threatened so should we be concerned? The U$A sees any economic state or group that is growing in strength as a threat and must be stifled at all costs. China and Russia are seen as a real threat to the dollar dominance, hence U$A's hostility to both these nations. America has 750 military bases around the world and is building more to encircle China, why? There is nothing humanitarian in this build up of overseas military bases, nor is it defensive. They are there to crush China should the dollar start to lose it power. 

Image courtesy of CineTimes Babu

 

        That dollar decline s now rapidly increasing as more economies decide to join 

hands and trade in their own currency, with the birth of the BRICS, an economic block that is determined to end their dependency on the dollar. A major event in this de-dollarisation was a recent deal between India and Abu Dhabi, where Indian Oil Corp bought one million barrels of oil from Abu Dhabi National Oil Company and paid for it in rupees, a real slap in the face of the dollar empire. Also India has purchased 25 kg of gold from UAE and paid for it with 128.4 million rupees.
      The BRICS is no small fry player in the world's economy it now controls a majority of the world’s energy supplies, and some 37 percent of global GDP, more than the US-led G7. Making opportunities to trade in currencies other than the dollar that much easier. According to the World Bank report China, a leading member in the the BRTICS, average contribution rate to the world economic growth is now at 38.6% 

Image courtesy of ARKTOS

 

 

         The growth of the BRICS economies will create a decline in the value of the dollar and therefore a decline in the U$A's wealth and power, and its ability to dominate and control other countries.
         There lies the danger, America is armed to the teeth with nuclear weaponry has 750 military bases around the world, will the psychopaths that grow fat and powerful on the dollar simple watch it decline, or will they carry out their insane plans to destroy China and Russia in an attempt to hold onto that dollar dominance. Such a scenario is world destruction on a scale of unimaginable horror and devastation. There will be no knight in shining armour to come to our rescue, it will be up to us, the people to stop this insanity being forced on us by the rich and powerful parasite class.

Image courtesy of The Counter View.

 

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Unfair.

 

 

            GREAT Britain, well I suppose it all depends on which side of the fence you sit. To the ordinary citizen of Great Britain the the word GREAT is a joke. Every day we have more reports of buildings with crap RAAC concrete all nearing the end of their lives, from schools, hospitals, public buildings and who know what else. We have an education system in meltdown, a transport system that is not fit for purpose, a health service that is falling apart at the seams, poverty is on the rise, homelessness is on the rise, child poverty is on the rise. More and more families depend on food banks and can't afford to heat their homes, while struggle endlessly to pay their way. We have social services that fail miserably to look after the elderly, infirm and those in need.

                                            Image courtesy of Trussell Trust.

            However, on the other side of the fence in GREAT Britain, the millionaire/billionaire class has added unimaginable amounts to their personal wealth. Large corporations are roping in mountains in profit and handing out millions to their CEO and their shareholders. Great Britain, a divided society with opulence, privileges and power for the few, and a harsh struggle with poverty and deprivation always a close neighbour for the many, who know all to well that there is nothing GREAT in these conditions.

 Image courtesy of Compensation Cafe.

          All this happens with our consent, we pay the managers of the system to handle our affairs and this is the hand they deal us. They won't change the system as it benefits them and their cronies immensely. If we want to change the system, then it is up to us the ordinary people. We must in solidarity, take control of our communities, our workplaces, our towns and cities and bring this insanity that spawns poverty, inequality and gross injustice, crashing down, we can build a better world if that is what we really want.

                                      Image courtesy of Economic Policy Institute.

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Depravity.

Some of the less brutal results to civilian population from cluster bombs.

                                                Image courtesy of Borgen Project.

           There is no depth of depravity to which Western Imperialists will not steep to in an attempt to try to weaken any state that seems to threaten their hegemony on world power and resources. In the cross hairs of the Western Imperialists is the Russian state and they are quite prepared to sacrifice the last Ukrainian to their cause. Having poured billions of dollars in weaponry, so called conventional weapons, all to no avail, they are stooping to lower depths. The UK and the U$A in seeing that wasn't low enough lead the charge to depravity with their cluster bombs then UK started supplying depleted uranium weaponry followed by the U$A. The carnage caused by cluster bombs to civilian population years after the conflict has stopped, is well catalogued, and most countries in the world have banned such weapons. As for depleted uranium weapons, the damage to the health of those exposed to it and future generations is also well know to the authorities of all so called civilised countries. Information on the dangers of depleted uranium weaponry see HERE.

Some of the effects on children in Iraq after the use of depleted uranium.

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Shafted.

          

Image courtesy of West Country Voices.

       Why do we the public put up with so much crap, duplicity, corruption, and greed from those we pay to manage our affairs? We have minsters fiddling their tax, funds stashed away in off shore accounts, over claiming expenses, while legislating austerity for us, the ones who pay their wages. You have members of Parliament going on the huff because they didn't get a seat in the House of Lords. Rishi £750 million Sunak fights hard to get a job that pays £164K a year, why? He could easily sign up with some merchant bank firm and probably earn about 5 times that salary plus bonuses and privileges. What was his real motive, could it be to get his hands on the control levers of our society and direct our affairs in the favour of his wealth and that of his cronies. We have ministers overseeing the building of schools, hospitals and social centres with our tax money, that are not fit for purpose. Why would you even considering building schools with a life expectancy of 30 years and then they become a risk to the lives of those who use them How many high private office buildings are built useing this weak cheap crap concrete? Is this material just for the peasants and tax payers money?

Image courtesy of Vox Political.

        Of course you could go on, they start and indulge in wars, apart from pouring billions of pounds of our tax money into this savagery for power and resources they kill thousands of innocent people, displace millions, then set up a "hostile environment" for those displaced because of their state terrorism called war. They push the irrational illusion of perpetual growth at the expense of all life on the planet, why?
         Since we stupidly accepted the state and capitalism, we have seen poverty mushroom across the planet, wars and destruction devastating the lives of millions and a few war mongering wealthy parasites get richer and richer. Still millions run to the ballot box to vote in more of the same. Surely insanity, we can't just go on the way things are, we have to call enough is enough and do our damnedest to bring this whole edifice to greed, insanity and selfishness crumbling down. There is a better way to organise our society, if only we would take control and shape our communities, workplaces and towns and cities they way we want them, to be fair, just and seeing to the needs of all our people. When will we ever learn.

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Justice.

 

          

       In this unjust, unequal society justice is the at the dictate of the powerful, the ordinary people are in a continuous struggle to try and achieve justice, but so far have failed. So what is universal justice? In all Probability it is anarchism.
         This film on justice is from Submedia and is well worth the time to sit down and watch, and perhaps spread it around.

 From Submedia,       

It's our pleasure to announce a new episode in our A is for Anarchy series, "What

          

          A world without police or prisons doesn’t mean a world where harm isn’t confronted or addressed. Learn more about anarchist conceptions of justice in this episode of A is for Anarchy
         Our conceptions of justice shape who we are and how we believe the world should work. In this episode of A is for Anarchy, we examine historical foundations of justice, the carceral criminal justice systems employed by states today, and anarchist strategies for confronting and addressing harm outside of the punitive logic of the state.
        In a world where states claim a monopoly on justice, we’re left with just us, so what are we going to do about it?

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I spy!!

 

                                                Image courtesy of Who What Why.

         The following extract is from Freedom News and refers to the U$A, but I don't for a minute think that it is only in that country that the surveillance culture is out of control, well as far as the public is concerned, but hasn't gone far enough as far as the powers that be are concerned. Here in the UK we are continually filmed, photographed by CCTV, tracked by our mobile phones and cash machines, and car number plate identification is everywhere. I go to a dance display of my grand daughter and I'm not allowed to take photos or film the kids, but the state can photograph kids running around and playing in the park, or just doing what kids do, and they do it with impunity. The state can only exist with control over the population and in their eyes that means more surveillance, more of your data available to their prying eyes. The existence of a state controlled surveillance system nullifies any possible semblance of a democracy. and makes a mockery of freedom.

From Firestorm Books

            

        The opening of our bookstore on Sunday had unexpected guests. Throughout the afternoon, a police drone hovered conspicuously over Haywood Road, directly in front of our shop. Occasionally it flew back to the nearby APD substation, only to be replaced a few minutes later. As we handed out homemade popsicles to celebrate our big day, some community members were alarmed. People wanted to know if the drone was ours. A neighbor arriving with her family asked if she and her children were being filmed.
         It seemed that our shop and the hundreds of people who visited it were being surveilled. While the quadcopter sat in the sky and stared creepily down at us, police cars drove by slowly. Sometimes the drivers appeared to be filming with their cellphones. One officer hollered unintelligibly at folks sitting on our patio. This wasn’t a covert operation—Asheville cops wanted to make sure our customers knew they were being watched.
        This bizarre abuse of power is worth talking about, not because it’s exceptional but because it’s increasingly normal. We live in a city where the surveillance capabilities of the police have greatly outpaced restraints, and elected officials ostensibly tasked with oversight are eager to appease a tough-on-crime audience. That’s an Asheville story, but it’s also a national story, with cities across the US being reshaped by a conservative backlash to the George Floyd Uprising and its call for a reckoning with the white supremacist roots of policing.

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Keelie 43.

                 With all the double dealing and underhand business of our political ballerinas, all with the aim of enhancing their personal wealth and that of their cronies, with the resulting poverty of the ordinary people, we have to be aware of what they are up to and organise against their self-seeking greed driven system. Hence the need for papers such as the Keelie it is the voice of the ordinary people of Glasgow, it helps to shine a light in those dark corners of the political sewer that sweeps through our city and further afield.
          So don't forget to grab your free copy of The Glasgow Keelie, No.43 it is now on the streets at pickets, demos and in pubs and cafes. You can also read it on line here. You can also contribute to its contents with you own personal grip against the injustice that surrounds us all. Or why not request a bunch to circulate among your friends, neighbours and work mates, contact the Keelie here.

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1820.

 

             The struggle for freedom and justice is not a new struggle, generation after generation of ordinary people have been struggling for that better world for all. We owe it to them to continue that struggle, the struggle will be over when we overthrow the present system of state/capitalism that has spawned so much poverty, wars and insecurity for the mass of the world's population while heaping unimaginable wealth, privileges and power on the few.
           The Glasgow Keelie Group and others took to the streets to mark the state murder of one of those freedom fighters. James Purlie Wilson who was brutally hanged and then beheaded by the state on Glasgow Green for his part in the 1820 insurrection. This enactment took place in Glasgow on Sunday 27 August on Glasgow Green, at the Barras and in front of the Glasgow's People's,Palace.

       For more on the 1820 insurrection go to https://spiritofrevolt.info and click on Strugglepedia 

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Neo-Nazi?

 

          The following is a comment from an article on the war in Ukraine. It is always good to hear as many opinions as possible and come to a some sort of decision about  the £millions of British tax payers money that is being thrown into this blood bath of youth. What kind of regime are we supposedly bolstering with weapons and money, how many of Ukrainian's youth will be sacrificed to support the lie that it all about democracy.

Realist · 1 day ago

Image courtesy of The Independent.

         In order to accept the amount of violence and death incurred by our Ukrainian proxy pawns, most Americans must reflexively assume that the "other side" in all these wars that America deliberately provokes or starts never has a legitimate thing to say or point of view to defend. They are assumed wrong, guilty of moral deficiencies and undeserving of any more life simply by fact of not being Americans. Non-American lives carry no value whatsoever. As many lives as you like may be slaughtered slowly and methodically or stamped out in one fell swoop.
       It is never wrong to hoodwink these poor fools into basically serving as nothing more than cannon fodder to further the international policies of the American government, which in the case of Ukraine is simply to do damage of some kind to the Russian state or its assets, which happens to stand as a slight impediment to absolute American hegemony on the planet. Nobody gets to influence even their own neighborhood on the other side of the world unless we say so. Savage actions like the industrial scale murder of half a million young men representing virtually the entire next generation for the people of Ukraine is callously thought "worth it" or justified to achieve these goals versus the oh-so-evil Russians.
      The facts that the government of Ukraine, which we helped install illegitimately through a coup d'etat, are dedicated Nazis who still worship actual historical Nazis from WWII, who practice no semblance of actual democracy in their own governance, and who deliberately and methodically spent 8 entire years repressing the resident ethnic Russians within the borders of Ukraine, disenfranchising, censoring and conducting genocide against them until at least 15,000 such victims had been killed.
      All those actions, which might be considered heinous crimes if committed by some other population, are just readily brushed aside because the killing is not being done by Americans and the dying is nearly entirely being done by i) a people (the Ukies) whom we do not care about whatsoever and ii) a people (the Russkies) whom we hate for no reasons that ever have to be honestly admitted or logically explained. We are the exceptional ones and need offer no explanations. They are the Untermenschen and unworthy of life, let alone competing in this world with the glorious USA. Now where have we heard the likes of all that before? 

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Disobey.

 

       To most people it is obvious that the world we live in today is run on completely unfair, inhumane and cruel ideology. It is a world that produces enough to see to everybody's needs but doesn't even attempt to distribute it in a fair and decent fashion. We have created a system that allows a few to amass unimaginable wealth, to grasp the world's resources and distribute them in the best way to maximise their already unearned wealth and privileges We then proceed to surrender our power to that small wealthy privileged parasite class and accept an existence of servitude, poverty and deprivation. We allow this coterie of plunderers and pillagers to engineer wars to help bolster their power and wealth. Their very existence depends on our obedient servitude and as long as we obey their rules and legislation, so the situation will continue, and the gap between the obscenely wealthy parasite class and the ordinary people will widen, and we will hand our children and grandchildren an inheritance of servitude and poverty. 

Image courtesy of Wait But Why.

          If we wish to change this cruel insane system to one of fairness and freedom, we would do well to remember the words of William Kingdon Clifford, English mathematician and philosopher, 1845-1879. "There is one thing in the world more wicked than the desire to command, and that is the will to obey." - 

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Ragged Uni.

 

         Thought this might interest some folks if you are in or around Edinburgh on these dates.

Next Ragged University Events...

10th Sept 2023 Edinburgh: Come along to The Outhouse (12A Broughton Street Lane, Edinburgh) at 5pm for a screening of presentations on the 'East India Company and a discussion of the origins of the modern multinational corporation' with Alex Dunedin... Click HERE for info

13th Sept 2023 Edinburgh: Come along to The Outhouse (12A Broughton Street Lane, Edinburgh) at 6.30 pm for a talk on 'How, as an environmentalist, I got involved in solidarity with the Palestinians' by Eurig Scandrett... Click HERE for info

20th Sept 2023 Edinburgh: Come along to The Outhouse (12A Broughton Street Lane, Edinburgh) at 6.30 pm for a talk on 'Bees and Honey' by Gino Jabbar... Click HERE for info

 

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State Murder.

 

 

          Let's not forget those who gave their life in the desire for freedom for all. come on down to Glasgow Green Sunday 27th Aug 1-3pm commemorating the murder by the state of James Purlie Wilson hanged and headed on the Green in the State's brutal repression after the 1820 insurrection more on the 1820 insurrection https://spiritofrevolt.info click on STRUGGLEPEDIA 1820 Insurrection.

 

 

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State Inhumanity.

 

An appeal from Act For Freedom Now.

 

 

Update on Alfredo Cospito’s situation and call for solidarity August 2023
           The latest news we’ve got about Alfredo, still in prison in Bancali (Sassari) under the 41 bis regime, are that his health is stable, he is physically sound and has regained weight after his six-month hunger strike. Unfortunately, he receives very little mail, almost none. Also, when the prison withholds letters, postcards or telegrams, often he’s not informed by prison staff.
           He thus finds himself subjected to an even higher and more arbitrary censorship than the already harsh one of 41 bis. Let’s not let him lack our solidarity! We urge all to write letters or postcards using registered mail with return receipt requested, to increase the chances that, if they are withheld from him, he will be at least notified.

Against all prisons!

Cassa Antirepressione delle Alpi Occidentali

Alfredo Cospito
C. C. “G. Bacchiddu”
strada provinciale 56 n. 4
Località Bancali
07100 Sassari
Italia

 

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Our History.

 

 

         Spirit of Revolt Archives of Dissent, Glasgow/Clydeside is an Anarchist, Libertarian Socialist Archive and has been in existence since 2011. It was formed by a group of unpaid volunteers, this film tries to explain the reasoning behind the formation of the project, its aims and some of the volunteers involved.
         At present we have 49 collections catalogued and on the website with others waiting to be catalogued and posted to the website. These collections contain thousands of historical documents, pamphlets, leaflets, serials, letters, photos, posters and a myriad of memorabilia, related to the struggle of the ordinary people, lots of this already free to read on line. We are not associated with any political party of trade union, and rely completely on donations from comrades, friends and associates. If you think what we are doing is a worth while cause and important enough to continue, why not make a one off donation or a monthly direct debit, the price of a pint or a couple of coffees a month would make a tremendous difference

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Film Introducing Spirit of Revolt Archive.

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