June 2012
Community Comes to Aid of Jailed Texas Honor... →
sarahlee310:
A 17-year-old Texas honors student who was jailed for missing too much school because she had to work two jobs to support her siblings, refused to accept the more than $100,000 a website raised for her.
“We saw her trying to work and trying to go to school and trying to do all these things and then to have the judge put her in jail for missing school just seemed a little harsh,”...
The American Revolution and Trotskyism →
amodernmanifesto:
This speech was published in Permanent Revolution in the U.S. Today, a compilation of writings by Robert Crisman, Stephen Durham, Monica Hill and Merle Woo, published by Red Letter Press.
Given the theme of my talk, I’d like to assert three things at the outset:
1. Revolution in this country is decisive to the success of the world socialist upheaval. The U.S. remains the...
Breaking: Republicans hear woman's testimony on... →
thenoobyorker:
This is ridiculous.
Dolphinmusic.ru →
I’ve been listening to this album non-stop all weekend. It’s so beautiful. It reminds me of how much I was into Radiohead’s Kid A, when it first came out.
Southern Europe fears summer of violence →
Europe’s debt-mired southern rim is becoming increasingly concerned by the prospect of anarchy on the streets this summer, as seething anti-austerity threatens to boil over into something more sinister.
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US jobs report points to renewed global crisis →
“The disastrous jobs report released Friday by the US Labor Department is further evidence of a deepening global crisis that threatens to unravel into a full-blown financial collapse.”
and another thing ...: Sign Language BAN imposed... →
bohemianarthouse:
deafmuslimpunx:
I love how the school threatened to suspend the girl while refusing to address the audist bullies who bullied her and other girls for using American Sign Language.
Go fuck yourself, Stonybrook School.
Via ABC News:
School officials have…
The Trotskyists in Stalin's concentration camps -... →
amodernmanifesto:
We would like to remember all those thousands of genuine Communists who perished in Stalin’s camps, butchered simply for defending the ideas of Lenin and Trotsky. Old Bolsheviks like Zinoviev, Kamenev and Bukharin were forced to confess to crimes they had not committed. These famous victims were only the tip of the iceberg. Not remembered are the thousands of Trotskyists who...
and another thing ...: Global Cancer Rates To... →
occupyallstreets:
Cases of cancers worldwide are expected to rise by nearly 75 percent in 20 years, according to a study published Friday in the Lancet Oncology. Demographic and lifestyle factors, such as more people adopting a “western” diet higher in sugar, starch, and meat, are…
