Monthly Archives: June 2012

Activists Who Spoke At The Rio+20 Peoples’ Summit Killed

Didn’t take long, did it? These two went up against the oil industry, always a life-threatening prospect.

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Veterans Forced to Attend Anti-Union Meetings on Army Base

The union election is scheduled on June 29, and General Dynamics has been forcing workers to attend anti-union meetings nearly every day for the last month. These anti-union meetings aren’t being held on General Dynamic’s private property, but on public … Continue reading

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Quote Of The Day, June 30, 2012

We have so much to unlearn. De la Vega

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Seattle Anarchists Target Of Media Disinformation Campaign

Here’s the defamatory spin (This is from Komo 4 News’ website): 6 arrested early Sunday as anarchists disrupt [Gay] Pride Weekend. Of late anarchists have been accused of racism, jingoism and now homophobia, all of it nonsense. Please read. And … Continue reading

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Quelle Surprise! Barclays Settlement on Massive Interest Rate Price Fixing Illustrates Bank Crime Pays Well

Steal billions, pay millions in fines.

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Egyptian Counterrevolution Update: Meet The New Boss, Same As The Old Boss

Nothing has changed. But the Egyptians are resisting.

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Striking Bolivian police battle workers, campesinos in La Paz

Read update here.

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Egyptian junta installs Islamist Mursi as figurehead president

Good piece.

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Setback for academic freedom

Chilling. http://socialistworker.org/2012/06/25/setback-for-academic-freedom

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Statement from Egypt’s Revolutionary Socialists in wake of Mursi’s presidential victory

This statement is disturbing. They congratulate the Egyptian people for preventing the military from installing their ally Shafiq. They don’t seem to understand that Shafiq was a decoy. The ruling class knew that as a Mubarakite he could not take … Continue reading

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