Solidarity With the Wave of Occupations

2011 has shown the world the powerful impact of people mobilizing to the streets. From Greece, to Egypt, to Chile, the wave of occupations is still waging a forceful battle against austerity measures, privatizations, crippled education systems, tyrannical regimes, and more. Its domino effect has finally reached the Unites States and it’s currently occupying Wall Street while its initiative spreads like wildfire to areas like Albuquerque, Denver, Asheville, Los Angeles, Kansas, Miami, Boston, and many more brewing.

One Struggle would like to sincerely express solidarity to those who are mobilizing against corporate greed and the injustices spread by the destructive system we live under.

It is inspiring to see our local communities finding a voice and taking the initiative to do something about the ghastly inequality gap between the wealthy and the dispossessed and the many other systematically oppressive issues that permeate our lives financially, socially and culturally. Encouraged by the birth of this powerful movement, we would like to offer our explicit support for Occupy Miami since it is part of our local struggle which we promise to help encourage and support in any way we are able to.

In Solidarity,

-One Struggle South Florida

Occupy Miami

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One Struggle is an anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist organization. Our aim is to build unity among those who take a stand against the capitalist system we live under in order to work out ways in which we can struggle together to fight this system and replace it with a classless and sustainable society.

Toward an Anti-Capitalist/Anti-Imperialist Mass Movement: Organizing at the Intermediate Level

Issued by One Struggle, September 2011

Mass movements can not be conjured from thin air or willed into being, no matter how correct our ideas or determined our hearts. They arise in response to intolerable social problems, congeal through collective practice and theoretical work, and harden through continuous, escalating struggle.

In the U.S., as in many parts of the world, the 1960s saw the birth of a radical mass movement with revolutionary currents running through it. It didn’t burst onto the scene fully formed, but developed through twists and turns, suffering painful lessons, betrayals, mistakes and defeats on the way. It also celebrated victories which, like waves pushed by storm winds, grew ever larger and more powerful until the idea of revolution rose in the public consciousness as a tangible possibility.

As the movement found its footing, participants became skilled in tactics and honed their strategies. Small and vague collectives coalesced and matured into national, multi-level, unified fighting machines.

When the Vietnam War ended, the sense of personal urgency dissipated for many in the US. The declining waves of struggle ultimately beat themselves out on the barren shore of the 1980s bubble economy. The pretense of growth based on debt was enough to bribe much of the population into passivity. The loss of socialism in China and the collapse of the Soviet Union (which, their own natures aside, had acted as counterweights to U.S. hegemony) broke the spirits of most of the rest.

Today the global system faces a convergence of crises, but this time there is no economic growth (real or pretend) on the horizon. The system shows no viable possibilities for a future. Capitalism is played out.

PANAMAX 2011: Defending America from…We’ll Get Back to You on That.

August 28th saw the conclusion of  “the largest multinational training exercise in the world,” with 17+ countries and over 3,000 troops participating in a training operation to prepare against a serious military threat against the Panama Canal.

Which begs the question….who the hell is threatening the Panama Canal?

The Empire Pulls Out All The Stops to Control The Tottenham Age

Nobody saw the riots coming, but the reaction to the riot is something that has been predicted for decades – the all-out police state clampdown on free speech in the Western world. Evoking unfriendly comparisons to the Iron Lady, the Cameron regime has already sentenced 2 Brits to lengthy prison sentences – for creating Facebook event pages for supposed riots that never took place. News aggregates and talking head shows have been equally unanimous in suggesting that access and use of social media and even the cell phones they’re used on need to be restricted (Apparently the playing field between thieving poor and thieving rich isn’t unequal enough alrea

Hiroshima/Nagasaki Remembrance Day @ St. Maurice Church

Thank you to all who attended the event at St. Maurice church this past Sunday, August 7th.

One Struggle would like to highlight that “…the legacy of the bombings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki is not only a passive remembrance for the fallen but an active struggle to stop those falling every day.”

"The legacy of the bombings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki is not only a passive remembrance for the fallen but an active struggle to stop those falling every day."

Film Showing, “End:Civ,” 8/21/11 in Miami

3-6 p.m. Sunday, August 21, 2011

Sweat Records, 5505 NE Second Ave., Miami

OneStruggle will be hosting a screening of the film “END:CIV” by Franklin Lopez, followed by discussion. The event is free but donations are encouraged for the filmmaker (it took him 5 years to put the film together and a lot of nation-wide traveling was involved!) Feel free to bring and invite your friends too.

Link to event on FB: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=126988840727406

“END:CIV examines our culture’s addiction to systematic violence and environmental exploitation, and probes the resulting epidemic of poisoned landscapes and shell-shocked nations. Based in part on Endgame, the best-selling book by Derrick Jensen, END:CIV asks: “If your homeland was invaded by aliens who cut down the forests, poisoned the water and air, and contaminated the food supply, would you resist?” The causes underlying the collapse of civilizations are usually traced to overuse of resources. As we write this, the world is reeling from economic chaos, peak oil, climate change, environmental degradation, and political turmoil. Every day, the headlines re-hash stories of scandal and betrayal of the public trust. We don’t have to make outraged demands for the end of the current global system — it seems to be coming apart already. But acts of courage, compassion and altruism abound, even in the most damaged places. By documenting the resilience of the people hit hardest by war and repression, and the heroism of those coming forward to confront the crisis head-on, END:CIV illuminates a way out of this all-consuming madness and into a saner future.”

For more information about the film, see http://endciv.com/

They Cut — We Bleed!

For an autonomous movement of workers

In Europe, Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia, mass popular protests are going on against austerity measures. Due to the ongoing crisis of the capitalist system in the US, these so-called “structural adjustments” promoted by capitalist institutions such as the World Bank and IMF are coming home. Austerity enables the capitalist class to accumulate more profit and stabilize their capacity to do so.

As capital seeks new booms — new sources of profit — austerity programs once reserved for the dominated countries are now being unleashed on the working people of the industrialized, imperialist world. It bears the same heavy handed approach in industrialized economies that it has always used in dominated countries: worker repression, union-busting, strike breaking, and the sudden stripping away of years of hard fought for benefits. In the name of balancing budgets, capitalist profits are protected; investment incentives, tax breaks, loan guarantees and bailouts are given to the rich, while austerity measures are issued to the poor.