tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7603616710745872645.post5787963276902919582..comments2023-10-17T03:53:30.871-07:00Comments on Bitches on a Bus: I Wonder?Citizen Xhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11776056628867209921noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7603616710745872645.post-50195542579812845892013-01-08T11:08:50.493-08:002013-01-08T11:08:50.493-08:00Yes, its time for a global revolution ala Mahatma ...Yes, its time for a global revolution ala Mahatma Ghandi; passive resistance and just refusing to pay to make the rich richer.<br /><br />Let's start a revolution! How hard can it be?Citizen Xhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11776056628867209921noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7603616710745872645.post-56483222962073879362013-01-08T07:25:21.371-08:002013-01-08T07:25:21.371-08:00If capitalism is the new religion, the banks are i...If capitalism is the new religion, the banks are its temples and bankers its high priests. When Lehman Brothers collapsed in 2008 and other banks in Europe followed suit along with a panic in international stock markets, a little part of me was glad. Perhaps it was the beginning of the end and we could rebuild a new society from the ashes. Really I should have known better. Private debt run up by the banks and property speculators was socialised and a transfer of wealth from poor to the wealthy began in order to prop up the status quo. In Ireland the collapse of Anglo-Irish Bank and debts incurred by others have ruined us. We have bailed them out to the tune of billions. A trioka consisting of the IMF, the EU and the ECB now control the country. My wife and I are out of work. Budget cut after budget cut are piled on top of the people in order to pay back this bank bailout. James Connolly, an Irish trade unionist and revolutionary who was executed by the British in 1916 put it like this: “Governments in capitalist society are but committees of the rich to maintain the capitalist class.” Its as true now as it was then. What to do abou it? The global Occupy Movement was quickly suppressed as soon as it became a source of embarrassment to the authorities and had started to gather some momentum. I think its prospects for success were limited anyway but it had some good potential. The best way is to get organised and get involved any way you can. I've pasted a link to three great songs which some it all up better than I can.<br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=ry+cooder+no+banker+left+behind&oq=ry+cooder+no&gs_l=youtube.1.1.0l6.5061.7131.0.8794.3.3.0.0.0.0.101.258.2j1.3.0...0.0...1ac.1.BeS-eBvcvO0<br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=worker%27s+song+dropkick+murphys+&oq=workers+song&gs_l=youtube.1.2.0l2j0i10l2j0l2j0i5l3j0i5i10.26500.32074.0.34184.12.11.0.1.1.0.93.953.11.11.0...0.0...1ac.1.0n4hH_RicW8<br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8l87JpWkbI0<br />Paul Kirbyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18232115388471059914noreply@blogger.com