"If you can't go on any longer, take the hand held by your brother"
Digital Tradition Mirror
Carry It On
By Gil Turner
(This score available as ABC, SongWright, PostScript, PNG, or PMW, or a MIDI file)
Pennywhistle notation and Dulcimer tab for this song is also available
Carry It on
There is a man by my side walking
There is a voice within me talking
There is a word that needs a saying
Carry it on, Carry it on, carry it on, carry it on
They will tell their lying stories
Send their dogs to bite our bodies
They will lock us in the prison
All their dogs will lie there rotting
All their lies will be forgotten
All their prison walls will tumble
If you can't go on any longer
Take the hand held by your brother
Every victory gonna bring another
Recorded by Baez -One Day at a Time , Collins Fifth
SOF
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I guess they're not even trying to disguise their villainy anymore:
NBCNews: "Pipeline Protesters Decry North Dakota Bills That ‘Criminalize’ Protests"
Not only do they want to criminalize protestors' anonymity, they want to exempt drivers from liability if they "accidentally" injure and/or kill protestors.
Edit: Also still fuming about Il Benito Cheeto going after John Lewis on the weekend before MLK Day.
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Edit: Also still fuming about Il Benito Cheeto going after John Lewis on the weekend before MLK Day.
Don't tell me that surprised you, though - and if anything, it just strengthens Lewis's position at Il Douche's further expense.
We're gonna have all kinds of fun making up epithets for this guy, aren't we???
So...is this just light reading for you? How do you live with it all? How do you manage to function?
No, I didn't even finish it. Democracy Now! did a piece on the same article the day after or so.
How do I live with it? Idk, I got interested in leftism as a teenager reading about the guerrilla wars in Central America in the '80s with guys named stuff like "Blowtorch Bob" D'Aubuisson, incidents like the murder/rape of nuns, etc. I guess I'm inured to it.
But, you're right, it sure is gross.
I guess they're not even trying to disguise their villainy anymore:
NBCNews: "Pipeline Protesters Decry North Dakota Bills That ‘Criminalize’ Protests"
Not only do they want to criminalize protestors' anonymity, they want to exempt drivers from liability if they "accidentally" injure and/or kill protestors.
Some info I found in a commie article about DAPL:
"But there’s another factor involved: bourgeois party politics. ETP/Sunoco chief Kelcy Warren, Continental CEO Harold Hamm and the rest of the pipeliners are staunch Republicans, while the owner of the BNSF railway which monopolizes oil transport by rail from North Dakota is Obama backer Warren Buffett, the Democratic Party’s favorite capitalist.
"Buffett is a liberal, known for his calls to 'tax the rich,' and his famous remark that 'There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.' Oil 'independents' like ETP’s Warren and Hamm are small fry, worth perhaps $7 billion and $14 billion respectively; Buffett is the big time, with a net worth of $73.7 billion, according to Forbes. He also is a leading 'philanthrocapitalist' and has invested in wind farms and solar energy. His son and designated successor Howard Buffett (who also sits on the board of Coca-Cola) received the 2011 World Ecology Award for launching the Global Water Initiative. Even more specifically, Warren Buffet gave over $6 million in 2013 to the Tides Foundation of San Francisco, of which $1.3 million was funneled to two environmental groups (Honor the Earth and the Indigenous Environmental Network) which have been active opposing pipeline construction. Meanwhile, the Buffetts bought the BNSF railroad in 2006, just as the Bakken boom was taking off, and since then have been making money hand over fist moving oil by rail from North Dakota."
Pipelines, Oil Trains and Capitalism (which was part 3 of their 4-part series on DAPL, Cops, Feds, Pipeline Companies – Get Out of Indian Lands!
The Battle Over Standing Rock)
As I recall, the same press reported Buffet funds 350.org on the one hand, and then buys up shares of divested fossil fuels with his train acquisition hand.
Must be nice.
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Today's Plotting The Downfall of All You Hold Dear (or of All You Hold, Dear) was same old same old, only enlivened by one comrade seeing another's t-shirt with a slogan in Gaelic and saying brightly, 'Oh, is that in Russian?'
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It's early Friday (my Saturday) afternoon, I already drove to Hooksett to get the keys to the Plumbers' and Steamfitters' hall for tomorrow's "What's Next?" meeting, Mr. Comrade's on a nature-walk date and won't be around until evening when we go to the LGBTQ+ mixer to rabble rouse for the rally in Lowell on Sunday, half my branch (including Comrade Who Was Published in Jacobin and the Nigerian Princess) quit to go start a New Hampshire branch of the Socialist Party USA, the other half are at school or work (well, Young Gay Autistic Comrade's probably out having adventures, but I had to chaperone him through last night's International Trans Remembrance event in Lowell which he showed up to drunk and then proceeded to smoke a joint during the march--"But it's legal now!" "Not until December 15th!"--and then passed out at the name-reading; he's a lot to handle, I think I'll see him soon enough), me and the Black Goblin don't work the same shift anymore so I hardly see him, my D&D group fell apart, like, seven months ago when I refused--after eight years--to be the Dungeon Master anymore, La Principessa and I aren't on speaking terms at the moment and now I can't talk about politics with any of my Paizo friends!
Guess I should go rake the lawn or something.
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Hey bud. I haven't read your whole thread here just the first post but I found this while looking you up to send you a PM. I'm back in NH and also without a gaming group at the moment and down to hang out some time.
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How do I live with it? Idk, I got interested in leftism as a teenager reading about the guerrilla wars in Central America in the '80s with guys named stuff like "Blowtorch Bob" D'Aubuisson, incidents like the murder/rape of nuns, etc. I guess I'm inured to it.
But, you're right, it sure is gross.
The "gross" part doesn't particularly concern me - I don't much care what's done to dedicated corpses. it's the idea that we've got some kind of cult-like death squad running around that's apparently both without a proper conscience and above the law.
Does it not actually say that? Am I reading too much into it? That would be a relief. The aggressive, demanding, mindless militarism that seems to go mostly unchecked in this country is something that particularly scares me. I've had some traumatic personal experiences with "lick my boot" types.
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Hey bud. I haven't read your whole thread here just the first post but I found this while looking you up to send you a PM. I'm back in NH and also without a gaming group at the moment and down to hang out some time.
Woot! Going to be pretty busy through the end of the week, but, yeah, get in touch!
Today's Plotting The Downfall of All You Hold Dear (or of All You Hold, Dear) was same old same old, only enlivened by one comrade seeing another's t-shirt with a slogan in Gaelic and saying brightly, 'Oh, is that in Russian?'
Not sure why, but that reminds me of...
Weekly Round Up:
Thursday: What Is Sanctuary? A Community Conversation
Lend support and build for the rally.
Friday, Part 1: NH United for Justice and Equality
I was originally slated to speak at this, but Young Gay Autistic Comrade's BF's got the day off and was slated to speak in Lowell, so maybe I can get him to give it twice.
Friday, Part 2: Resist Trump: Lowell Inauguration day protest
We'll see how much the liberals sabotaged this. Mr. Comrade's already gotten calls from the city complaining about the flyers we put up all over downtown on Sunday. F~$$ off, we put 'em up in the projects the next day.
Saturday: Boston Women's March For America (EVENT)
After a lot of wrangling, The Women’s March on Washington Has Released an Unapologetically Progressive Platform. We were gonna go anyway.
Monday: Court Solidarity: Stand with Devante!
At the People's Potluck, guy who is keeping CAJE alive talked about CAJE's best work: our film series and our court solidarity demos. Leaving aside he was one of the guys who attacked our film series, I am also reminded that I, with my job starting at noon, was the only person who attended most of the solidarity demos; even remember being stood up a couple of times by one of the other IdPol Three. Can't say I am reassured by the fact that, thus far, according to Facebook anyway, I am one of only two that are going. I have no idea what's been going on with Devante since the article above that Comrade Closet found amusing because of the suits.
Anyway, enough griping, time to go get a new tire and do a table a UML.
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Democracy Now! has been doing their profiles of peeps up for clemency bids (Leonard Peltier, Chelsea Manning) and I must admit that I didn't know much (anything) about Oscar López Rivera nor the Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional Puertorriqueña (FALN).
Well. two out of three ain't bad:
Obama to Free Manning, Jailed for a Vast Leak of U.S. Secrets
Obama commutes sentence for Puerto Rico activist Oscar López Rivera
NYT piece on Vo Thi Mo, who, as a young woman, held off a battalion of the 25th Division with three commando squads in a village outside of Saigon in 1967.
As the Earth Shook, They Stood Firm
[Clenched fist salute]
Jacobin article about Patrice Lumumba, who was assassinated by the CIA fifty-six years ago today:
And closer to home, the Lowell Sun:
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Welcome back to the resistance, biznitches!
I remember drooling over her videos a couple years back. This one's pretty good, too, although I was a bit distraught to see that her banner pic has her in front of a bunch of Ron Paul signs.
Anyway, back to Concord today as RTW goes up in front of the State Senate.
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See if anyone here can help me with this:
I once chanced, somewhere online, across a newspaper article from the 1970s in which White Southerners candidly admitted to deliberately using "conservative" and "liberal" as deceptive regional code-speak for "White" and "Black" respectively, laying the foundation for the "liberal media bias" meme, which I would claim has been THE keystone for the last 37 years' fascist takeover of the US. I've been unable to find that article since. Has anyone seen anything like this? If so, could any of you find it?
CIA fears about 1980s Labour 'threat' revealed
'A report written in the run-up to the 1983 general election states that "a Labour majority government would represent the greatest threat to US interests".'
Ha ha ha.
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Had an argument in the office with Trump Supporting Teamster about Chelsea Manning yesterday. Got hot and heated when I denied that Manning's actions got anyone killed. He was livid, and thrust his hand in my face and demanded "Wanna bet?" "Sure!" "Five thousand dollars" [Hand jerks back] "Oh, you not sure now?"
So, I was sure, but I wasn't five thousand dollars sure, but then I remembered the since deleted exchange between Comrade Jeff and Citizen Lord in the LGBT Community thread and I was, like, "Well, f&%& it, if Comrade Jeff says so..."
Anyway, if I win, I'll cut you in, Comrade Jeff.
Also, Right to Work passed the New Hampshire Senate, but "What Is Sanctuary?" went well, 50+ peeps at St. Patrick's Church, we laid the beginning groundwork for a network to respond to ICE raids.
EDIT: At the meeting, Professor Bob regaled us with tales of the Underground Railroad in Lowell and nativist attacks on Catholics. He later (just now) extrapolated on Facebook:
"Here's a bit of one historical account of this incident: After several days, Know-Nothings paraded into the Acre neighborhood heading for St. Patrick’s. According to a report in the Annals of St. Patrick’s Convent: 'Yes, the Know-Nothings were approaching the church, but they had not counted sufficiently on Irish loyalty and vim. When just within sight of St. Patrick’s, they were attacked by some strong-armed Irish men and women, —yes, women, for these led the attack. The march became a melee, and the street was completely filled with the motley crowd. They reached the bridge, which spans the canal just within sight of the convent. There was a halt, a splash, and a ringing cheer—A sinewy matron unable to restrain her indignation had seized upon one of the leaders of the gang and flung him over the railing floundering into the water below.'"
Now, time to go protest all day.
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I posted an article from The Guardian on his Facebook timeline and told him to bring my check to the protest at six.
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I am amazed at all the U.S. conservatives who keep expressing shock and confusion that Drumpf is still a boorish and divisive liar. In many cases, these are people who voted him into the highest possible station on Earth.
I'd laugh and say they deserve everything coming to them, if it weren't for the fact that those of us who don't deserve it are going to suffer as well. :/
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Off to DC in about an hour. Two FLGS are offering warming, phone charging, snacks, etc for the marchers.
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Haven't had a chance to look through all of what Ex-Mrs. Conrade, who's in DC, used to call activist porn, but things in the Merrimack Valley were pretty tranquil.
New Hampshire rally was about 50 people (it was at 3 pm) and probably the reddest thing New Hampshire has seen in quite a while.
Then we all raced south to Lowell where the rally was 4x as big but only a third as red. Nonetheless, we had three speakers rail against the Democrats (us, the Socialist Party [used to be us]) and the Green Party) as well as Professor Bob talking about the Underground Railroad again and Devante Degree's mother speaking out against racist cop harassment. Later, at the bar, I was pleased to watch our Democratic Party/tech worker/Dungeon Master nemesis squirm as the women on her left were bonding over their love of Emma Goldman and the men on her right were discussing the dictatorship of the proletariat.
200 protest new president at Lowell City Hall
One of our recent recruits whom I have thus far not mentioned, Slightly Lumpen College Student, is a crafter and in addition to her ferocity, fierceness and fire, also brings to the cause gift cards to Michael's which, together with Young Gay Autistic Comrade's flare for flair has led to us having much more attractive signs lately. In particular, SLCS's design of a red boot stomping the Gadsen snake with such inscriptions as "Will Tread on White Supremacy" or "on Transphobia" have become very popular among the chic Merrimack Valley protesting set.
After all that went to a birthday party for the Coloured Princess--we're getting the band back together!--and talked of pussyhats and revolution while middle-aged men played Liz Phair albums until I had to go home and let out Mr. Comrade's dogs while he crashes in Lowell with another comrade to go to Boston tomorrow. I'm taking the day off (Mr. Comrade chaperones the kids tomorrow at the Women's March, I get them on Monday for the courthouse demo) and will be instead going over the Black Goblin's and playing some D&D. HUzzah!
And, just between us,
New Hampshire rally was about 50 people (it was at 3 pm) and probably the reddest thing New Hampshire has seen in quite a while.
Granite Staters hold demonstrations on Trump's Inauguration Day
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"Ha ha ha" because Jeremy Corbyn is taking a leading role now?
No - I just enjoyed the faintly hysterical tone of the CIA's comments. Much as I like Corbyn, I don't think he has much of a chance of becoming Prime Minister.
Mind you, they said that about the Watersports Warlord, and look where we are now.
Thousands attend Women's March in the UK
There were a couple of local ones as well.
As far as the bet, it's going pretty much as I expected.
He presents an article and I sneer "Breitbart?"; I present an article and he sneers "The Guardian?" Then we each demand that the other pay up.
Tbh, I was kind of impressed he knew The Guardian.
How 'bout not getting this politics thread locked.
I was thinking about Marx tonight at work, and considering human nature, when I came upon a question that I think would be something you could help with: If the proletariat revolution occurs, what will prevent the leaders and prominent figures of the revolution from becoming the new bourgeoisie? It seems fairly common for historic revolution to lead for trading one master for another.
How 'bout not getting this politics thread locked.
I'm not sure if that's possible, Comrade. I was reading the discussion on political threads in the website feedback part, wanted to pipe up about how the "Revolutionary Socialist Gamer Community" thread was still going strong, but didn't want to draw attention to myself. Continue working in the shadows, whispering in the ears of disaffected gamers who wander in about the joys of rally-attending and organizing.
Anyway, if my Last Dedoubt gets locked, it's okay. You can't keep a commie gobbo down.
I was thinking about Marx tonight at work, and considering human nature, when I came upon a question that I think would be something you could help with: If the proletariat revolution occurs, what will prevent the leaders and prominent figures of the revolution from becoming the new bourgeoisie? It seems fairly common for historic revolution to lead for trading one master for another.
Woo, big question there, Citizen Scythia. It opens up a lot of can of worms and I don't know if I've got the time to go into it all before shower and work.
Some bullet points:
--Expropriate the bourgeoisie, leave them some cash and a mansion, take their businesses;
--Create workers councils, neighborhood councils, etc., to democratically run society and plan production for human need instead of private gain;
--Arm the working class; all responsible working men and women should be trained in the use of weapons to resist counterrevolutionary elements, both external and internal.
--Spread the revolution internationally
Two related, but imho, separate questions, to be discussed further:
1) The rise of an anti-revolutionary bureaucratic caste, not a new capitalist class, that usurps political power and perverts the goals of socialism to their own ends; this is what happened in the Soviet Union, I would argue, instead of the creation of a new bourgeoisie; and,
2) The rise of "market socialism" which did, over time, lead to the creation of a new bourgeoisie, e.g., the former appartchiks turned capitalists in the USSR and the rise of the "princelings" in the post-Mao PRC; in the absence of democratic workers control over industry and input into production plans, the bureaucratic, or as we Trotskyists call it, "Stalinist," caste is forced to either run (or misrun) a command economy with all the concomitant evils that go with that (waste, fraud, etc.) or fall back onto the discipline of market mechanisms. This first came to fruition, IIRC, in Tito's Yugoslavia and was later copied all over, e.g., Deng Xiaoping's "reforms" in the PRC or Gorbachev's perestroika.
I don't pretend that this is a complete answer, but it's all I can manage over morning coffee and perhaps it will spark discussion and debate.
Here's a 1917 centenary website.
Here's an article about White Genocide propaganda (see above) showing up outside a New Hampshire school (will try to attend the rally on Tuesday, but it's at 4).
Got a chance to look through the activist porn and, man, that was a lot of red flags and hammer and sickles for the United States.
Won't be long now, comrades.
Even an abbreviated answer is an answer. From your points, I'm reminded of the French revolution, where the citizens who rose up (like your armed working class) were ever ready to do so again, and frequently did as each successive council or leadership was deemed corrupt by those who sought to replace them. A scenario where disagreements about orthodoxy could be deadly depending upon the prevailing sentiment. Also somewhat reminiscent of the time following the Bolshevik revolt, I would imagine (given the shifting loyalties and high stakes of leadership changes).
I believe my thoughts on the matter are biased by my view of human nature, which I tend to see as a concern of power and/or dominance. This view leads me to somewhat cynical (but borne out by history) ideas about group dynamics. To that end, I find it difficult to accept that humans are capable of maintaining a non-greedy, needs based, cooperative, society... barring a superior force capable of enforcing the will to do so. Although in that case, the society only lasts as long as the (fleetingly rare) benevolent dictator does.
Life for them was far from idyllic, but prehistoric societies did, up to a point; human beings do form non-greedy, needs based, cooperative relations on a pretty regular basis, families being one example; whether it's possible to replicate those conditions on a larger scale is another matter, but freedom from deprivation and scarcity would be a good start.
Councils are my favoured form of post-capitalist organisation too; there are things about CA's post that I'd disagree with
The rise of the bureaucracy in the Soviet Bloc was most likely sparked off by the need to industrialise (and industrialise for a particular purpose) at a lunatic pace; it appears to me that the USSR was running the sort of economy (on a much, much more intensive basis) that the UK was obliged to in WWII, obliged being the key word - they did it because they had to, given the circumstances they were in.
Oddly enough, the resources that built gave the Soviet Union the chance to add to the number of socialist states - given that most Warsaw Pact nations were brought into its orbit by being taken over by the Red Army, what happened next shouldn't have surprised anybody, but without that initial stage of hyper-industrialisation, the existence of a power capable of pushing decolonialisation and opposing imperialism (however inadequately) wouldn't have been possible, IMO.
Could an international revolution in the 1910s/20s have achieved the same thing? Very possibly, but it didn't, so people had to make the best with what they had.
Even an abbreviated answer is an answer. From your points, I'm reminded of the French revolution, where the citizens who rose up (like your armed working class) were ever ready to do so again, and frequently did as each successive council or leadership was deemed corrupt by those who sought to replace them.
Alas, they didn't rise up for my boy, Max.
Two hour video of Chris Hedges, Jill Stein, Chase Iron Eyes, Kshama Sawant and a couple other of my comrades.
Court Solidarity: Stand with Devante!
Fundraiser to hire a lawyer.
Huh. We're running a comrade for office in Minneapolis. I didn't even know.
Mr. Comrade's very fond of her; he met her half a decade ago at the Wisconsin Uprising when she was a squatting gutter punk.
EDIT: This article is from this morning, so I think it just happened:
Ginger Jentzen announces run for Minneapolis Council seat under Socialist Alternative banner
Well, my FB page is pretty dull, to be honest, but yeah, sure, hit me up!
Much more interesting are the pages of Mr. Comrade and Young Gay Autistic Comrade. They both love making friends on Facebook so I am sure they won't mind me linking their pages here.
The latter, I must warn, serves as our ultraleft mascot and is often inebriated, so don't take it personal if he says something weird to you.
(Comrade Longears, of course, is already friends with both.)
One from two years ago and just shared by our latest recruit:
George Washington, Slave Catcher
My heart thrilled with patriotic pride as I read that GW's escaped slave eluded her master with the help of her friends in Portsmouth, NH and will now share with my Young Seacoast Socialist friends because knowing our history of resistance and keeping our traditions of struggle alive are important.
EDIT:
Section on her life in NH on the wikipedia page that features one attempt to recapture her failing because of the threat of rioting abolitionist sailors and stevedores. Vive le Galt!
NYT piece on our base of operations, Lowell, Massachusetts:
HOW AUTHOR TIMOTHY TYSON FOUND THE WOMAN AT THE CENTER OF THE EMMETT TILL CASE
"Down through the decades, Carolyn Bryant Donham (she would divorce, then marry twice more) was a mystery woman. An attractive mother of two young boys, she had spent approximately one minute alone with Till before, in view of others, the alleged whistling had occurred. (He may not have whistled; he was said to have a lisp.) Carolyn then dropped out of sight, never speaking to the media about the incident. But she is hidden no more. In a new book, The Blood of Emmett Till (Simon & Schuster), Timothy Tyson, a Duke University senior research scholar, reveals that Carolyn—in 2007, at age 72—confessed that she had fabricated the most sensational part of her testimony. 'That part’s not true,' she told Tyson, about her claim that Till had made verbal and physical advances on her. As for the rest of what happened that evening in the country store, she said she couldn’t remember. (Carolyn is now 82, and her current whereabouts have been kept secret by her family.)"
The whole thing was a lie?!?
I don't understand the meaning of that emoticon, but this is news, right? Not something that we've all known for the last ten years but I missed?
In other words, it's hardly surprising to find out that the pretext under which he was attacked was false (such rationales for attacks on African American men have a long history), even though actual confirmation of the falsehood is recent news.
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Harken, comrades!
The ban is over! We can come out from the underground and once again peddle our newspapers in the streets and organize openly among the masses!
Boldness, more boldness, forever boldness, comrades, and the world is ours!