The anti-NATO protests in Chicago are drawing to a close. There were hundreds of thousands of people there, raging against everything from climate change, to unemployment, to the new fucking crusades in the Middle East and Afghanistan. This is the face of the "new" america, with Obama as commander in chief. Does anyone still have any naive hopes and dreams about what he will do? Does anyone still think that he cannot make changes because he simply is "not allowed to", due to conservative forces in the u.s. administration? Fuck. He is the current head of empire because that is who he is. The leader of the most aggressive, sick, amoral imperialist force in the history of the world, and whose empire is declining. As Bob Avakian has said about the leaders of the u.s.a:
With all the monstrous crimes the U.S. has committed... all these crimes throughout their history and all over the world, crimes so atrocious that it is actually difficult to speak of them. With all that, they still picture themselves as “the good guys taking on the evildoers in the world” and they train and indoctrinate their armed forces and their police inside the U.S. to think of themselves as the good guys going out to fight the bad guys... which means anybody who gets in the way of the rulers of the U.S., who are the real world class evildoers.
The unspeakable brutality that the amerikkkans have unleashed on the people of Iraq and Afghanistan, not to mention the twisted workings of their system on a day to day level that produces poverty, starvation, child prostitution, and so many thousands of other outrages, can only mean that their system is of no use to anyone, and will only continue to produce these things, all in the name of democracy and freedom. Time to go, motherfuckers. The protesters in Chicago have my respect. Fuck the police. Never surrender.
MONTREAL
The protests in Montreal do not seem to be letting up, despite all of the new laws being enacted in the name of public safety....
It all seemed to start out as a protest against rising tuition hikes, and went far beyond the annual student march and speeches we normally see in other canadian cities. What is it about Quebec? There has always been a higher level of political and class consciousness there, as compared to the other provinces. From the revolutionary doctor Norman Bethune starting out helping those least able to pay for health care in the '30s, to the FLQ crisis in the '70s, to the formation of a canadian Maoist Party there today, it all happens in Quebec. Of course there is a history of class struggle in all of the provinces, but nowhere is it as consistent as in Quebec. In fact, ever since the decrepit parliamentarians have been passing these new fucking laws, the struggle has been taken higher. I don't think the protesters are in any mood to be listening to these slack-jawed union heads, and other social-democratic windbags talking about "let's get them next election". Fuck that. No more falling for scams and placating lies. This is one of the most inspirational things to happen in this country in several years. Once again, much respect to the protesters out there in the face of police and media assault, standing up for what's right.
