100,000 dead
1 in 4 workers unemployed
Queues at food banks
Riots in the streets
This is what Americans have been told would happen under socialism but it's happening under Trump, the macho-man tough guy who hides like a coward in an underground bunker when the people take to the streets.
A government that cannot mobilise to feed and house it's people during a pandemic but which can mobilise immediately when the same people take to the streets to protest against a racist killing by the police tells you all you need to know about the system.
Trump and others may blame Antifa and anarchists for 'violence' but is it really they who are violent? Is it not the system that is 'violent'?
Was it Antifa and anarchists who started the violence or was it the violence of the system, manifested in yet another killing of an innocent black man, was that not the violence that triggered such rage?
Was it Antifa and anarchists who started the protests or was it an abused people whose indignation simply turned to rage?
A rage against a system which systematically condemns and confines people to poverty. A rage against a system which periodically kills people who have the wrong colour skin.
Populism and the far right might have seemed to be in the ascendancy in recent years but one wonders, are they ready for the time when people's indignation turns to rage? Will they be ready for the inevitable fight back? Early indications from the States are that they wont know what's hit them.
Anarchists support the rage. Anarchists are ready and waiting; anarchists have been anticipating the rage.
Anarchists were already aware and enraged by the corruption, aware and enraged by the racism, by the injustice, by the exploitation and by the abuses of the system. They are just waiting for the people to also become aware and then become enraged.
Anarchists encourage people to wake up. But people don't usually wake up until they see and experience these things for themselves. When that happens, when they do experience or witness the violence of the state, they become enraged by the violence. Only then is the violence of the state met with the violence of the people. A violence born out of a rage that has been awoken by the violence of the state. Anarchists don't encourage violence but they support the rage of the people against the violence of the system. Support the People, Fuck the System.
Ya Basta! Ya Basta! No Justice No Peace! Ya Basta! Ya Basta!