Yet more anti-protest laws: a bid to crush the peace movementMORE police power to block demonstrations and jail organisers have nothing to do with protecting worshippers and everything to do with suppressing protest rights. Government amendments to the Crime and Policing Bill will see individuals who breach police conditions imposed on protests fined up to £2,500 and demo organisers facing jail sentences. This shores up repressive measures already deployed by the police to shut down Britain’s huge Palestine solidarity movement. The Met cited the existence of synagogues “near” planned protest routes to deny them permission on January 18, and again on March 15. In neither case were the synagogues on the route. In the latter the two cited were over 10 minutes’ walk away. In the centre of London or other cities, such sweeping effective exclusion zones could be used to ban almost any proposed route.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/editorial-yet-more-anti-protest-laws-bid-crush-peace-movementPortrait of a Weakened MileiPerhaps best recognized by the American Left as the guy who gifted Elon Musk a chainsaw to “cut down government spending,” far-right president of Argentina, Javier Milei, has spent his first 13 months in power implementing major austerity measures. Virtually every part of the public sector has seen the wrath of his sinister chainsaw: universities, hospitals, pensions, national airlines, postal service, and even memorial sites commemorating the victims of the military dictatorship. In the first 12 months of his presidency, an estimated 185,000 formal jobs were lost while public sector employment shrank by 51,000. The purchasing power of families in the metropolitan area plummeted 18 percent in 2024, and poverty levels have remained high. Despite all of this, financial sectors see Milei as “stabilizing” the economy and inflation, which has won him credibility as an “economic expert” among the capitalist class. However, the price of this “stability” is high — the working class bears the brunt of these brutal austerity measures, and waves of mass protests show these policies can only go so far before reaching an imminent tipping point.
https://www.leftvoice.org/portrait-of-a-weakened-milei/Aggressors and victims in a war situationWhat is called a nation or a people is never a homogeneous group, but always involves an artificial alliance of all social classes with their conflicting interests. It is misleading to declare that, for example, the Ukrainian people are the victims in a war, because in reality only part of that “people” is the victim, while another part is the aggressor who clashes with a rival aggressor. A significant part of the so-called “Ukrainian people” is made up of the Ukrainian bourgeoisie, local politicians, bureaucrats, policemen, border guards, judges, prison administrators. They all exploit or oppress that part of the “Ukrainian people” which we call the proletariat. The yardstick by which the entire ‘Ukrainian people’ is a defending victim is not only inaccurate in this respect, but literally demagogic. The anarchist perspective does not support any people or nation, this inter-class alliance of the exploited and their exploiters. What we are really interested in is the (global!) proletariat. And if we look carefully, we see that it is suffering during the war both in Ukraine and in Russia, even if parts of it are inclined to the oppressive policies of “their own” governments. The truth that the nationalists ignore is that the causes of the proletariat’s suffering come primarily from the background of the ruling classes of both countries and the other states engaged in the war.
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