the immense labor of the tides

Just let it ebb and flow, they say casually

completely unaware of the immense labor of the tides

a heaving of lungs

a bellow

to feed the flame of a world caught

between sun and moon and

bleeding out but never done

ebbing and flowing

enormous

Just a few things for you to contemplate this week

All the images are by Carlo Carrà

Carrà was an anarchist artist and Futurist from Piamonte

but after WWI he turned towards fascism along with a large part of the Italian workers’ movement

Organic farmers are throwing up blockades in France. It could be a flashpoint for how capitalism makes an “ecological transition” impossible by squeezing out value wherever they can… but fascists are doing their best to recruit among disgruntled farmers. Another reason to abolish money and to win our food autonomy in every bioregion.

Here’s a 5 minute read on the importance of the Bab el Mandeb strait, between Yemen and Djibouti, in current geopolitical struggles…

a very brief entry on Velu Nachiyar, a Ramnad queen who waged war against the British East India Company…

And in case you missed it, let’s get ready for some collective analysis about how the geopolitical situation may change over the next couple decades, and how that will alter our revolutionary horizons: