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ALERT: liberals have given up on the Ukraine (hexbear.net)

submitted 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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source: the turbolibs nearby who have had a Ukrainian flag on their house for three full years have at last taken the faded rag down. Ukraine will probably collapse now without their brave full-scale show of support

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (3 children)

Peaceful protests by themselves exclusively don't achieve any political goals (as long as it's not funded by the CIA in an unstable region). Protests should be tied to actual action: unionisation, collective bargaining, striking, and teaching of political theory to the masses. And by "tied", I mean that the people in the demonstration should explicitly be told to support the following, concrete steps already planned before the protest.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 4 weeks ago

Protests used to be called 'demonstrations' because the point was to have an organized demonstration of your power to bring industry to a halt.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 weeks ago

Abbie Hoffman was good at this. Abbie Hoffman was also not afraid of a little violence.