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:
The Year Ahead in 2024
Hey everyone, The second round of chemo has knocked me on my ass but, writing from bed, I wanted to get out a little newsletter. This is a partially facetious, partially serious forecast for the next 15 years, or more specifically, an adjustment to what we might expect out of the next 15 years, as seen from this current bend in the road at the very beginn…
Beautiful paintings, thanks for sharing!
the Popular Front podcast has a great episode about the ''French Farmers Protest you haven't heard about''. It's a pretty good one. Thanks for your words.