The time has come for a revolutionary grassroots organization that replaces civil society organizations and embassies pandering to the Lebanese regime’s racist policies. We must build a public safety net that transcends fragmented and sporadic individual aid initiatives. This fascist system will not stop otherwise.
Meth is an indicator of a toxic sensibility that dominates the way we live, in an embodied sense, as subjects of late capitalism.
Workers in the shipping industry get that they are part of something global. It’s not like they have to read books about this. Their lives tell them this. They move around the world; port workers interact with people who have just arrived from other countries delivering cargoes. They are talking to each other.
As radical leftists our work is built upon the self-organization of the oppressed and exploited; we need a different conception of the working class.
People are paid so little they are hungry, they are paid so little they are homeless; people literally risk their lives every day by going to work. But the first item on their agenda is respect. They want to be treated with dignity.
“I hear the call to be a patriot from every radio, TV set, and kitchen appliance. What are you going on about, guys? I have been humiliated my entire life, paid crumbs for a difficult job.”
Faced with environmental dangers on a local and global scale, marginalized communities of workers are left with few choices except direct action.
Stop! Take the time to think it through. Who’s holding power? Who can give you what you need in the campaign that you’re trying to win? How much power do you have to bring to bear to win the fight?
“It’s a rebellion, but that’s for the time being. We’ve been promised a crackdown in April, and those aren’t empty threats.”
Let’s get on with a society in which there doesn’t have to be a rigid relationship between work and income.
