Afternoon Comrades!
I’ve been meaning to get into the subject of strikes for a hot minute now but luckily I waited a bit as I managed to put together a few notes from my Phd days that I have been looking for and with the benefit of having not in a kitchen this whole week here we are - so that’s the topic for the patreon part of this dispatch today, what strikes are and can do and more.
For starters a little rant - for those of you in the UK this won’t be much in the sense of news but the importance of saying it remains - for the rest of you that don’t life in the UK, last week the Conservative Party held their conference and aside from the expected fuckery, holy shit, their collective insanity would have made Hitler and Mussolini blush. I know, these conference are there to break their own self-imposed rules of what is and what isn’t yet acceptable, same across all of Europe and in Canada / US - but here it goes. I posted a few bits on IG this morning for those of you still there and that manage to get past the ban those fascist fucks have going on but for the sake of clarity, here: the level of racism, sexism and transphobia and general discrimination against any and all all minorities on full blast by the majority of the cess pool that is the Conservative Party has not only reached new 4th Reich level heights, is precisely what all political parties across the West are itching to propagate to hide their corruption and enrichment at the end of Neoliberalism and its total fleecing of us workers, across all borders. Essentially, that’s it. Their gig is up, we’re on our broken backs and like the dumbfounded puppets they are, they are now resorting back to whipping up hatred against minorities to hide their crimes. As if we haven’t been through this multiple times in the past and don’t know better. I will waste time “reacting” to their xenophobic bullshit but I’ll say this: as the very least, irrespective of whatever political identity we are all cosplaying on the internet, all of this and all of them have to be opposed by any means necessary. I don’t have to repeat the infamous Niemöller poem as you all know it but what you have to do is understand it. This is happening and only us can prevent this from happening again. They are few, we are many.
In happier news, and yes they exist and I am going to make a point talking about these, this finally happened:
About 7-8 years ago DJ Yoda approached me to illustrate the cover for this album - to be clear, we’ve been friends for decades to a point where he was at my wedding - and surprisingly this was shot down at the very last minute by the record company I believe. Fast forward to today, it’s now out in the way both us wanted it to be - heaps of really cool deals on his Bandcamp that I have linked above.
With that, let’s talk strikes!
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