Price rises are provoking revolt in yet another country. This time, it is Indonesia, the price hike concerns fuel, and the revolt takes the form of rallies and strike action. The unfolding events in Indonesia can be seen as just a new round in a series of workers’ struggles for better living standards, against a state and a capitalist class that tries to make profits by keeping wages as low as possible, by destroying the forest and undermining the livelihoods of the people.Meanwhile, German protestors are joining the continuing protests in Turkey.
in the time remaining, to help us understand how the man-made system of capitalism will lead to the extinction of our human species, and so many others.
Monday, June 24, 2013
Battlefield Indonesia: resistance to corporate destruction
Click here to access article by Peter Storm from Reflections on a Revolution (Netherlands).