Solidarity with the Palestinian People is a People Led Movement

     While just about every nation in the world is unconcerned about the siege of Gaza and the condemnation of the Palestinian nation to nonexistence more something like two thousand common citizens are rallying on behalf of the Palestinians and particularly seeking to relieve and break the siege of Gaza by the United States, Israel and Egypt.

     Of course some nations have acted in solidarity with the Palestinians but they are generally ostracized and demonized by the rich and powerful nations.

    Tragically these governments all have acted against these humanitarian and human rights campaigners in order to defeat or frustrate their efforts of solidarity with the Palestinian people.

    The people and the people alone are the makers of world history. 

THE GENERAL STRIKE, A TOOL OF WORKING CLASS REVOLUTION

I just heard a story that you never hear about in the mainstream capitalist media and that is that Puerto Rico has recently had a General Strike.  Apparently a huge percent of the population, about five percent participated in a mass demonstration and there was some sort of work stoppage.


The General Strike was apparently a response to the cutbacks that are being imposed in Puerto Rico during Great Depression II.  Even worse is the fact that public employees are being fired and are being replaced with private contractors across the board.  In Puerto Rico you would never know that there was hope for anyone but the neoliberals and oligarchy. 

I think I need to learn more about how the workers of Puerto Rico are working together.
Wouldn't it be great if there was a United States general strike or a General Strike in California or a number of states?

THE G20 AND DEMOCRACY

    Pittsburgh, Pennsylvannia was the location of the most recent display of Yankee repression of those citizens seeking to assemble peacefully and to exercise their free expression and right to petition the government.  Only those rights are no longer recognized, let alone guaranteed in the United States of America.


     The message from the American and International capitalist class is clear,

"You have the right to be beaten, gassed, maced, tazed, blasted with destructive sound and microwaves, and to be arrested and prosecuted if you dare walk down the streets of America and speak your mind!"

    Yes the G8 has just become the G20.  So as the capitalist nations of the world were in a position of perhaps more democracy vis-a-vis one another the peoples of the United States remain the disenfranchised losers of this new form of capitalist tyranny. 

MAKING HISTORY, IT'S NOT ROCKET SCIENCE

I don't know the details about something, about three things actually and yet I insist on thinking about them anyway! Thailand! Weren't the masses, the people making some sort of history there? And Greece! I want to know more about Greece since they say anarchists are playing a crucial role but are they too not of the people and thus the people making history? Then what about those workers who took on their brutal capitalist oppressors and got a little cash for their struggle? I think they were Hispanic and of "the people who make history"!


Pretty cool, eh?

THE PEOPLE AND THE PEOPLE ALONE ARE THE MAKERS OF WORLD HISTORY

Mao is the one who said something to the effect, "The people and the people alone are the makers of world history." We are taught otherwise. Great men, the occasional woman and elites are generally credited with making history. Or maybe there is someone who is regarded as a hero.

This suggests we ought to reflect on the idea of a great leader like mao saying things about the people making history. Perhaps in another blog.

Of course, the lives of most are simply lived and represent the real locus of power and historical phenomenon. In a very fundamental way people are where history takes place.

In the United States we tend to think of businessmen, entrepreneurs and the President as the makers of world history.

Many of us don't vote because we don't see the connection between what we want in society and any vote we could cast. Yet the recent Presidential election saw a victory for the Democrat despite major efforts by the Republicans to suppress the vote and otherwise steal elections. This is because a few millions of people who generally don't vote finally decided to do so. This helped Obama make history.

We don't generally feel very powerful as individuals or small families. This tends to mask the power we do have and it can really interfere with combining with others to exercise political power, social influence and even to produce what we need to live and thrive.

Of course the world and society is divided by classes and we need to see the broad masses of worker, peasants and all of us who are not independently wealthy to unite to save our precious ecosystem and to create a world and society we can boast about to each other, our children and to anyone we regard as wise. How do we start thinking and acting this way?