Two million people have been displaced from their homes by violence in the Kasai province of the Democratic Republic of Congo, where 80 mass graves have recently been discovered. Not coincidentally, huge deposits of coltan and other precious minerals have been found in the region, said Kambale Musavuli, of Friends of Congo. The killings are widely blamed on soldiers of President Joseph Kabila, who refuses to step down despite having used up his two terms in office. “This is the same area where King Leopold II of Belgium caused the death of millions of Congolese, a hundred years ago,” said Musavuli.
Surveillance capitalism is profoundly antidemocratic and follows the logic of the quest for profit.
“All you could feel was that machine he was running, that box with the wires on it.”
We must explicitly reject “melting pot” approaches to class solidarity.
Omali Yeshitela: We must initiate our own struggles against imperialism; Stanley Howard, falsely convicted and still imprisoned after 35 years; Danny Haiphong: The notion that the US is “a force fo
“Much of today’s American capitalist enterprise is only profitable because poisoning the air and water and soil is, essentially, free -- for the businessman.”
