Everyone in the blogosphere writes blogs welcoming the New Year or saying good-bye to the one that has, in some places, just passed. I find it a bit strange. Everyone ends up saying the same thing. The old 'remember when the nobel peace prize was left on a chair?' Or 'Haiti's earthquake still affects millions'. Or 'The BP oil-spill showed how ineffective the Obama administration has been'. Blahblahblah. I'm pretty sure everyone who wasn;t trapped in a coma remembers all this yes. It was a good year for some, bad for many. Recession hit harder then ever.
Well, I want to know if 2010 has brought us any closer to a revolution. I'm not sure. I know that people now have less faith in the system than last year thanks to Wikileaks, the recession and the austerity measures made by many governments. Millions have gone out to demonstrate. In Catalonia more than a million left their houses calling for independence. In Britain so many thousands have occupied buildings and thrown eggs at those who can afford to forget the recession. In New Zealand almost as many succesfully made the government nack down from their mining plans. In the third world riots and demonstrations have been so many we haven't seen any on the news. Funny that. What is also funny is that the system is breaking down by itself. Revolutionary organizations are still at a low. Now is the time to recruit. If it's so easy to dream of a better world and if so many do so every day, how hard can it be to see it come true?
I think a revolution is closer not because of the work done by revolutionaries, but by the atrocious measures the rich have imposed to keep theselves in power, above the peasants, workers and plebs.
Have a good New Year! And fight for your rights!
YFTR.
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