The Evangelists of Social Media

By BAR editor and columnist Jared A. Ball  |  10/12/2010   [print_link]  Just because millions of people can interact at the speed of light, does not mean they are going anywhere. Indeed, by providing the illusion of common action, social media tend to suppress the kind of methodical organizing necessary to sustain a real “movement.” [...]

“Austerity” policies kick off wave of resistance in Europe

THE GROWING STRUGGLES OF THE WORKING CLASS IN EUROPE and internationally against mass unemployment and government austerity policies are exposing the reality behind the façade of bourgeois democracy. In every country, the government, whether conservative or nominally “left,” is cutting jobs and wages and slashing social programs in complete disregard for the overwhelming opposition of [...]

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