February 2012
20 posts
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The People United: Occupy Wall Street Goes...
Since the last issue of The Harbinger, the Occupy Wall Street movement has become a national issue. In every major metropolitan area, a “sister occupation” has taken hold in some fashion. The setup of each of the protests is roughly the same: a core group of protesters sets up a visible camp in a public space to provide a constant presence that “occupies,” or reclaims the location...
Updates
Hello comrades, we’re updating and adjusting the page, trying to make it more readable and adding our back issues. Apologies as some of the articles may seem a bit outdated. from here on out we should begin posting more regularly in time with our print release dates in solidarity Ian
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McCarthyism and Political Repression in the...
For as long as there have been organized leftist groups in the United States, these movements have been subjected to constant state suppression. Throughout the late nineteenth century, those who fought for social justice and demonstrated and struck for workers’ rights were in a constant state of war with industrial capitalists, their state, and their private mercenaries. Those who...
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Wallstreet Occupation Week One: Events and...
The actual effect of public protests in modern American politics is a debate that continues in many political circles. On one hand, we have the fact that the Iraq War Protests – the largest protests in the history of the entire world – were ignored, by both politicians and the media. But in contrast, we have the Tea Party’s manufactured populist outrage, which, as good television of crazy...
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Hacktivism and Anonymous
Engineer and executive chairman of Google Eric Schmidt once said, “The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn’t understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had”. While Schmidt likely meant this in a negative connotation, the statement rings true. The Internet is not entirely without regulation by government entities, but compared to the...
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US Empire Meets Arab Spring
Despite the best efforts of authorities the “Arab Spring” has rolled into a People’s Summer. Since the first cracks appeared in the Middle Eastern patchwork of autocratic regimes last December, the people have reinvented the region in a way not thought possible just a year ago. Two governments (Egypt and Tunisia) have fallen, a third (Libya) is desperately fighting a losing battle for supremacy...
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Popular Resistance to State and Corporate...
In March of this year, Governor Rick Snyder signed a law granting expanded powers to emergency managers to take control of city governments and school districts in financial distress.Weeks later, Benton Harbor, a small, predominantly African-American city in Southwest Michigan, was the first city to be taken over under the new law. In April, at the Benton Harbor City Commission’s first meeting...
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Welcome Students, Friends and Comrades,
Welcome to another year of the Harbinger. We’ve managed to stay alive and even grow a little stronger, despite the best prayers of conservative FBI informants everywhere. We thought we’d start this semester off with an short explanation of some of the values and ideas that guide us as Anti-Capitalists, allowing us to set right some false assumptions the power structure, and Fox news in particular,...
September 2011
21 posts
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International Women's Day
March 8, 2011 marked the centennial celebration of International Women’s Day. Now observed as a public holiday in dozens of countries throughout the world, International Women’s Day was inspired by the struggles of women workers in New York City in the early 20th century. It is a sad irony that International Women’s Day, much like May 1, observed throughout most of the world as International...
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Nestor Makhno and the Revolutionary...
The official records of governments and nations often forget and distort history, abandoning heros and their struggles to obscurity. One such individual is Nestor Makhno, leader of the Revolutionary Insurrectionary Army of Ukraine during the Russian Revolution. Like millions of others in Czarist Russia, Nestor Makhno grew up the son of a poor peasant family. Disgusted by the conditions of life...
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The Need for a Multiple Voting System
The year 2000 was a bad year for the US electoral system. Al Gore gained about 550,000 more votes than his main opponent, George W. Bush, but lost the election by 5 electoral votes. While I understand the resentment of Gore’s supporters toward Bush’s victory, I am more frustrated with the fact that our system selected a president that 52.1% of our voters didn’t want. This sad fact is not even...
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GEO Battles Inaccurate Coverage
There might be a tendency in some to look at the recent attacks on organized labor in Wisconsin, Michigan, and elsewhere as products of a couple of right-wing crackpots who managed to get themselves elected, but a close look at recent history demonstrates that the environment for organized labor has been hostile for quite some time. Unions are, of course, one of the very few remaining...
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Egyptian Labor United with People
On January 25, 2011, a series of protests, strikes, and riots began that eventually resulted in the resignation of long-reigning Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak. As these events unfolded, the Western news media struggled to explain the cause of this phenomenon. While journalists credited things such as twitter and speeches by Barack Obama for the sudden manifestation of pro-democracy sentiment...
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Stand With Wisconson
On March 10, 2011, Wisconsin lawmakers headed by Republican Governor, Scott Walker, and, by association, the Republican Party, made a direct assault upon the working class by voting to pass a union busting bill that strips workers of their collective bargaining rights. While they attempt to justify their actions with the balancing the state budget, the passing of this bill strikes a blow against...
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The End of the Status Quo
The warning signs have been in the news for years, for those who have been paying attention. We are passing, or have passed, peak fossil fuel production. We are at or near the tipping point after which global warming cannot be stopped. Combined with erosion, deforestation, soil contamination and other environmental damage, this will cause the earth to lose much of its viable cropland over the next...
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Rosa Luxemburg
Every January, the streets of Berlin are flooded with thousands of revolutionaries, marching to commemorate the life of a great martyr for international socialism, Rosa Luxemburg. 82 years after her assassination by the Freikorps, a proto-fascist paramilitary organization sponsored by the leadership of the newly formed Weimar Republic to eliminate threats to “democratic” order, Luxemburg’s name...
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COINTELPRO and the US Government's War on Dissent
On March 8, 1971, activists known as the Citizens’ Commission to Investigate the FBI broke into an FBI office in Media, Pennsylvania and stole thousands of secret files. Among these files were documents that proved the existence of the Counter Intelligence Program (COINTELPRO), an FBI initiative dedicated to suppressing dissent and preventing revolution in the United States.
One of the main...
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Leaks in the System
The past few months have seen the political world rocked by the most unlikely of individuals. The greatest threat to Amerika and “democracy” is no longer Iran, Korea, Somalia, or China, though each of these receive their prescribed amount of coverage. No, the critical threat to “open government” and “freedom” has suddenly become a small team of hackers led by a middle aged Australian.
Wikileaks,...
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Ireland and the IMF's Hostile takeover
On September 29th, 2010 a Dublin cement truck driver drove his truck to the gates of the Irish government. He had repainted the truck to read “Anglo Toxic Bank,” a clear reference to the bailout of the Irish banking sector, and the selling out of the Irish people. Without aggression or violence, the driver simply left the truck running, doors locked, and symbolically laid the toxic assets of the...
