February 2, 2011 at 9:46 am · Filed under Read All About It, posted by ret marut
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North Africa is in revolt. As usual, the most striking thing is how familiar everything is: the young man with the prestigious degree working at a coffee shop, the unemployment and bitterness, the protests set off by police brutality—for police are to the unemployed what bosses are to workers. These details cue us in that what is happening in Egypt is not part of another world, but very much part of our own. There are no exotic overseas revolutions in the 21st century. Make no mistake—though these events dwarf the riots in Greece and the student movement in England, they spring from the same source.
To keep up with events, we urge you to read our comrades’ dispatches from Egypt and anti-authoritarian perspectives from the Middle East in general. But for these uprisings to offer any hope, we have to understand ourselves as part of them, and think and act accordingly. To that end, we’ve solicited this analysis from a comrade in North Africa.
Read on after the jump.
February 1, 2011 at 4:02 pm · Filed under Hot Off the Presses, posted by b. traven
Anarcho-punks From the Depths have just released a split LP with Next Victim, the most haunting band in Poland. These new From the Depths songs are darker and fiercer than their debut album; the Next Victim tracks are at once hypnotic and heart-rending. Both bands’ recordings are available for free downloading in their entirety on the From the Depths website.
The LP has been released in Europe by the famous Polish punk label Nikt Nic Nie Wie along with Zaraza Productions and Scream Records; it will be available in the US shortly through Stickfigure distribution.
In addition, in February, From the Depths will tour the West Coast of the US with the amazing Austrian hardcore band Plague Mass, whose new LP we just helped release. Hurry out to see these bands—this is probably your last chance.
Tour dates and more information after the jump!
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