The Chilean Student Movement and State Repression

Over the last several weeks, students throughout Chile have been protesting the Chilean government over the continuing privatization of public universities. Last week, students in many of the departments in public universities entered a strike. Historically, university education remained a human right for all students in the public system, but over recent years, State officials have been gradually turning to a private system. Many Chilean students face the possibility of being forced to terminate their studies if education costs continue to rise.

[Editor's note: Peter Linebaugh wrote this piece, in cuneiform, sometime back in a late-Soviet epoch of some previous millennium. We recycle, in warm digits.]

"The Incomplete, True, Authentic and Wonderful History of May Day"

Peter Linebaugh

A Beginning

The Soviet government parades missiles and marches soldiers on May
Day. The American government has called May First "Loyalty Day" and
associates it with militarism. The real meaning of this day has been
obscured by the designing propaganda of both governments. The truth of May
Day is totally different. To the history of May Day there is a Green side
and there is a Red side.

Under the rainbow, our methodology must be colorful. Green is a
relationship to the earth and what grows therefrom. Red is a relationship
to other people and the blood spilt there among. Green designates life with
only necessary labor; Red designates death with surplus labor. Green is
natural appropriation; Red is social expropriation. Green is husbandry and
nurturance; Red is proletarianization and prostitution. Green is useful
activity; Red is useless toil. Green is creation of desire; Red is class
struggle. May Day is both.

Anonymous Comrade writes:
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        For years, when a community has seen danger approach, they have used fire to call for the aid of their peers as they prepare to resist the enemy. When a beacon was lit on a hilltop, the message travelled far and fast and aid would soon follow. Now, as the G8 leaders approach Gleneagles, the people of Scotland are preparing to light Beacons of Dissent.

Anonymous Comrade writes:
The Legacy of Kent and Jackson State

MAY 4 marks the 35th anniversary of the shootings of four students at Kent State University by the Ohio National Guard.

The mass movements of the 1960s had exploded internationally two years before, in 1968—culminating in the student revolt and workers’ general strike in France in May-June 1968, and the antiwar demonstration and police riot at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago in August.