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Best Left News of 2011
Please read any replies to this thread then vote for the best news event in 2011 for the left-wing movement and working-class or vote "other" and suggest others in replies below. This is a follow-on from the thread posted last year about last year.
Occupy Wall Street.
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I would say occupy movement because its going to lead to anti capitalist conclusions once they realize that what they are protesting against is the direct result of capitalism.
Though its results so far are not as spectacular as the arab spring that is quite likely to only achieve bourgeois democracy instead of actual socialism.
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OWS and the "Arab Spring" are both very important. However, I predict that the Arab Spring will have a much longer lasting impact while the occupy movement will fizzle out in the next few years.
I think in the long run the Arab Spring means the end of U.S. imperialism in the Middle East. Now that a few popular uprisings have accomplished what a decade of war could not, the people of the Middle East will begin to see that the power rests not with foreign invaders or Western-backed dictators but with the people themselves.
Occupy Wall street is a great movement, but I just don't think the conditions in the U.S. and Western Europe are right for it to really take hold.
Russian protests, and I like the fact that Communist Party is getting stronger in Russia.
I voted for the Spanish protests being that the assembly and occupying a central square tactics did play a part in how the occupy protests developed. Also the Arab spring was a mixed bag to be honest.
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I voted the Arab Spring since it came the closest to starting the fire, although I guess the fire was always burning since the world was turning.
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I like the Arab Spring but I loved the Greek protests.
'i would punch u in the jawside so hard it would lean more left than the ICC' - bailey_187 to AK
"Now the states in the business of casually arresting successful protest groups at the end of fully automatics we really are going to have to be very clever about how we go about things if the far left movement grows. ("First they came for the half witted tossers")"
- Comrade Joe on the arrest of EDL members
Obviously OWS.
Its a clear message to the world that the masses are dissatisfied and that things cannot go on the way they are.
It is the 21st century gateway to a new period of revolutionary activity.
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I voted OWS but the poll is flawed because all these protests are linked, this protest movement is international in scope and is about economic hardship brought about by the ongoing capitalist financial collapse, the bad or good news is that this only the beginning of the end or is that the end of the beginning
I thik you have to choose the Arab Spring, with particular mention of Tahrir Square, because this was what in part inspired OWS
but facebook inspired tahrir
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Everything kinda is interconnected and inspired by each other so there is little point in voting as I see it.
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I surely do not think that the Greek protests were done by leftists. Not only this, but I do not think they were actual demonstrations. The only thing everyone saw was a big group of people saying "Fuck you Pangalos!(Vice President of Greece)" and nothing more.
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While i would name OWS as the most important event, but i cannot ignore the events in the arab world where the youth challenged brutal dictatorships and won.
“To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality and relative dignity of an animal can be measured by the intensity of its instinct to revolt.”
True but the arab protests are almost guaranteed to only achieve bourgeois democracy where as OWS is a lasting change in western consciousness that capitalism is unfair.
Its not yet anti-capitalist in its conclusions but that will change given enough time.
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I would have to say Russian Protests, because when the Russian people rise up agains't there system changes are inevitable we've seen that all throughout history.
You being overly optimistic I think. In the long run, I think OWS will be a footnote in history, as the movement lacks proper direction.
But if the US cops keep up with their brutalization of protesters, things might change.
OWS is absolutely going to fail (should have made it more clear) but the people that take part in it are learning a lot and they will eventually have to conclude that what they are protesting (inequality mass poverty evictions shutoffs police brutality) is systemic to capitalism and lead to anti-capitalist conclusions.
Its the next mass movement i am optimistic about not the reformist leadership of the OWS.
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