The federation is roughly one year old, and the unions under its umbrella are still incapable of providing representation and a unified political voice in the current revolution. This is not a pessimistic look at the future of the federation. It takes years for unions to build their support and cement the channels of coordination between the different sectors, but there will always be limitations on the extent of the revolutionary potential those unions have. Unions, at the end of the day, are built to “improve” the conditions of exploitation, not “abolish” exploitation once and for all—here is the task of the political party. As long as the most militant sections of the current strike—those who are leading the mass strikes in sectors in direct confrontation with the military—are not organized into a political party, you can expect the workers’ voice to continue to be absent in the current political process.


You almost had me, until you dropped the ‘party’ bomb… 

fuckyeahmarxismleninism:

(Reuters) - Inmates seized control of a privately owned prison in Mississippi on Sunday after riots broke out, and a guard was killed in the chaos in the low security facility, authorities said.

Adams County Coroner James Lee said the 23-year-old guard died of blunt trauma to the head during the riot at the Adams County Correctional Center, a privately owned prison that houses mostly illegal immigrants for the Federal Bureau of Prisons.

“This is an ongoing riot that still has not been rectified because the prisoners are in still in charge of the prison,” Lee said, speaking at around 9 p.m. local time.

The disturbance in the 2,567-bed prison began on Sunday afternoon inside the facility in Natchez, Mississippi, the Corrections Corporation of America, which owns the prison, said in a statement.

Photographs of the scene showed white smoke lingering above the prison yard. The Natchez Democrat newspaper said a SWAT team was stationed outside the prison and, at one point, prisoners lit a fire.

hegelsbastards:

Here is an excellent and inspirational essay by Santiago Zabala:

“Barcelona, Spain - Being a communist in 2012 is not a political choice, but rather an existential matter. The global levels of political, economic and social inequality we are going to reach this year because of capitalism’s…

hegelsbastards:

EXCELLENT article from the Guardian (Stuart Jeffries) on Alain Badiou:

“Love, says France’s greatest living philosopher, “is not a contract between two narcissists. It’s more than that. It’s a construction that compels the participants to go beyond narcissism. In order that love lasts one has to…

These momentary [re]lapses in time-space:
the noumena of my neuroses,
the omnipotence of my origin,
the presencing of my perversion,
I avoiding actual death,
by making little ones.

(via unobject)