Since being elected to office in 2013, Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant and her socialist party have been locked in a bitter battle against the city’s moneyed elites, who have poured hundreds of thousands of dollars into a corporate PAC called “A Better Seattle” and saturated television and digital platforms with negative advertising. Sawant is hated because she is effective.
“In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defence of the indefensible… Thus political language has to consist largely of euphemism, question-begging and sheer cloudy vagueness.” George Orwell
" ...progressive organizing focus on the working class and unions - human civilization depends on it."
The Biden administration and what it will mean for a country in crisis...
"They have destroyed our capitalist democracy and replaced it with a mafia state."
A fixed election system, mainstream corporate media, and more.
"40% of the population say it can't be a problem because of the Second Coming. Now that's a deep cultural problem in the United States. People who know something about US history should all... we should all understand it."
"When a society falls into the death grip of an oligarchic class, the result is always catastrophic."
...the walls that separate those who are hungry for an egalitarian world are thinner than they imagine.
Throughout its history, the Espionage Act has been used as a weapon to attack free speech and dissent.
After causing a growing split between EU countries, the immigrant crisis is now threatening to bring down Merkel’s own Christian Democratic (CDU) government.
“Fascism clearly will display different features in each country, owing from the given historical circumstances,” she wrote. “But it consists everywhere of an amalgam of brutal, terrorist violence together with deceptive revolutionary phraseology, linking up demagogically with the needs and moods of broad masses of producers.”nd destroyed by fascists.
