20- ENGLISH - MATERIAL AND REVOLUTION

The second trial of Socrates, that of his friends
In 399 BC, more than 2400 years ago, Socrates died from poison, condemned to death by Athenian justice, and his trial still generates much discussion, as it did in Greek society… The assassination of the philosopher Socrates is one of the first crimes of the nascent Greek state in Athens... and all the more striking because it was committed by the "Greek democracy" ! But who was this thinker of ancient Greece that the ruling classes (…)

To the women who are fed up…
…fed up with being treated like sexual submissives
…fed up with a society where they always have to put themselves below
…fed up with a society where women are pointed at and objectified
…fed up with risking violence from men, including their spouses
…fed up with being threatened by wars and civil wars, by fascism and dictatorships, by the abuses of armies
…fed up with being told that their children will have to be sacrificed in the next wars and that (…)

The IWW and Revolutionary Syndicalism in the USA
“We are adversaries of the existing order ; we are its enemies through and through. We do not respect the flag of the United States. It is a symbol of oppression… It flies over the worst places and carries no message for us. We do not believe in a hierarchy of wages. We propose to abolish the entire wage system and give every man a chance. We do not believe in God. The preaching of the gospel of Jesus Christ is the biggest plasphemy in the (…)

Decaying, subsidized capitalism, more antisocial and bloody than ever, is even more incompatible with women’s freedom…
With the new period of systemic collapse, social and political crisis, and war, women, more than ever victims of oppression, repression, and discrimination, are being called upon to lead revolutions.
Capitalism has never been compatible with women’s freedom, and it is less so than ever as it collapses… (…)

What will happen, why, and what we need to do
It’s possible that in the coming months, your bank card could stop working. That you could go to the ATM and find no cash dispensed. That your salary wouldn’t be deposited. That your rent payments would be blocked. It may sound like science fiction. It isn’t. It already happened in Argentina in 2001. In Cyprus in 2013. In Greece in 2015. Closer to home, in the United States in March 2023, three American banks collapsed in a matter of days. In (…)

Permanent revolution is our political philosophy of revolutionary development
The theory of permanent revolution, its declared enemies and its false friends, this is the essence of what opposes true revolutionaries to reformists, to opportunistic extreme leftists, to sectarian extreme leftists, to revolutionaries in error and to all the false friends of the proletariat.
https://www.matierevolution.fr/spip.php?mot317
For example, Tony Cliff rejects what he does not understand about (…)

It is the Earth’s climate that is... the center of the universe and the cause of everything for global anthropogenic warming alarmists !
Is everything the fault of the climate (meaning carbon dioxide, CO2, which supposedly causes "anthropogenic global warming") ? This oft-repeated thesis is considered scientific. And it extends beyond the field of climatology, reaching into physics, geology, geophysics, volcanology, biology, and even history…
Thus, it was the poor management of the (…)

The fight against the crimes of French imperialism in Mali requires class struggle in France.
The attacks of April 25 in Mali
Although it didn’t make the headlines, labor activists couldn’t miss the news about the crimes of the armed gangs operating in Mali, with the blessing of French imperialism :
On Saturday, April 25, Mali was the scene of coordinated attacks of unprecedented scale in recent years. Perpetrated by the jihadists of the Group for the Support of Islam and Muslims (…)

Why is it neither possible nor desirable to avoid revolution ?
“At a certain stage in the evolution of the productive forces, we see the emergence of forces of production and means of commerce which, under existing conditions, only cause disasters. They are no longer forces of production, but forces of destruction… This is why every revolutionary struggle is directed against a class which has hitherto dominated… A transformation is needed that affects the mass of humanity, which can only (…)

What if we re-examined, with a bit of hindsight, the validity of mass vaccination in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic ?
First observation : currently, throughout the world, mass vaccination against Covid-19 is being abandoned by populations, governments, health institutions and the media in all countries, whereas in all countries many considered it indispensable, essential, without serious drawbacks, without any scientific objections, without obstacles, with all the advantages and only (…)