CLARENCE TAYLOR—De Blasio and the City Council made a big show of cutting one billion dollars from the police budget, but the sleight of hand will not lead to any reduction of the police force. As the New York Daily News reported, the cut was nothing more than an “accounting trick” that moved “school safety officers, who are currently part of the NYPD, to the Department of Education.”
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ROSA LUXEMBURG—On the ninth of November, workers and soldiers smashed the old German regime. The Prussian saber’s mania of world rule had bled to death on the battlefields of France. The gang of criminals who sparked a worldwide conflagration and drove Germany into an ocean of blood had come to the end of its rope. The people – betrayed for four years, having forgotten culture, honesty, and humanity in the service of the Moloch, available for every obscene deed – awoke from its four-year long paralysis, only to face the abyss.
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ANGEL GUERRA—The combative and diverse Chilean social movement that began with the outbreak of October 18, 2019 is grouped in the Social Unity, a large front of popular organizations that before the pandemic flooded avenues and public spaces, but has been able to find at this stage other ways to demand the satisfaction of their demands, including digital networks, symbolic presence in the streets and also strikes of essential sectors. For example, a national strike of waterfront workers was decreed, as a form of pressure, at the same time that the chambers of deputies and senators were debating the right to withdraw 10 percent of pensions.
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PEPE ESCOBAR—BHL is left with – what else – Putin demonization: “The real imperialism, the real one who is interfering and sowing disorder and interfering in the affairs of others, alas, is Putin. And I need not speak of America, where it is now proved that there has been a huge, crude, and evident Russian intervention in the electoral process of the last election.” BHL, who does not even qualify as a neophyte in geopolitics, is oblivious to the absolute debunking of Russiagate.
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PETER KOENIG—Neoliberal economics have “normalized” greed, inequity, exploitation of people and depletion of resources. This was largely possible due to an ever more reckless ultra-capitalist globalization and privatization of everything – goods, services and assets through international corporatism and globalized private banking.
