Month: October 2019

16/10/19 : Spain, Catalonia : an example of the confusions of this epoch …Videos and links about 4 towns (mainly Barcelona, but also Gerona, Tarragona and Lerida) See Homage to Catatonia, on this site (from 2 years ago) See also this from 15/10. And this from 14/10. Apparently those protesting in Catalonia have been influenced by Hong…

On 14th October, cops claimed this: “A homemade, remote-controlled bomb intended to “kill or to harm” riot control officers was detonated as they deployed against renewed violence in Hong Kong over the weekend, police said Monday, in a further escalation of destructive street battles gripping the business hub. The “loud thud” Sunday night close to…

Hong Kong cop violence – made in the UK Very interesting report, which I’ve just received from a friend. But ignore the stupid recommendations at the end, which don’t make sense given the  obvious involvement of the UK in helping Hong Kong’s cops which part of  the rest of the article focuses on.  The article…

20/12/19: Belgium, Brussels: XR – spectacle of sound and neither enlightenment nor fury, but signifiying nothing 12/10/19: Protests throughout world, though totally lacking in any perspective other than trying to influence the destroyers of the planet not to destroy it  The “Midas Touch” which capitalism has long seen as something positive, in its over 3000-year-old…

On fires and firebombs “Hong Kong fire officials have voiced concern about online instructions for petrol bombs that suggest using a self-igniting material that would make the explosives even more dangerous and unpredictable.” The fact that such an apparently ‘neutral’ source of information as the fire brigade could warn of potentially frightening consequences of firebombs…

7/10/19: Report on the spread of solidarity and the kindness of strangers Report about October 1st on how whole neighbourhood helped protesters escape cops and teargas, inviting them into their flats, providing reconnaissance information about cop movements etc. “So even those not protesting on the streets are protesting, all contributing to the resistance in their…

Proletarians show Lenin what is to be done: A police vehicle burns during a protest against Ecuador’s President Lenin Moreno’s austerity measures in Quito, October 7, 2019   14/10/19: President forced to retreat “Ecuador’s president, Lenín Moreno, has struck a deal with indigenous leaders to cancel a disputed austerity package and end nearly two weeks of…