Workers of the world, unite! goes the Communist song. Wait, not like that! gasp the Marxists.
Because the workers of the world are uniting. They are standing up against an oppressive ruling class. The only problem for the Marxists is that the workers of the world have twigged that it’s the left who are their oppressors.
If any further proof were needed, the sight of a left-wing government led by an ardent socialist sending hundreds of armoured goons to crack the skulls of working-class protesters leaves no doubt. The left are the Bosses, and they’re releasing the hounds without hesitation.
In Canada, the Freedom Convoy protest began with working-class truckers rallying against Covid mandates imposed by Trudeau’s Liberal Party government. These restrictions essentially made it impossible for them to earn a living unless they took a Covid vaccine […]
In France, huge protests erupted, starting in January 2022, against Covid mandates issued by Macron’s government. The proposed mandates included the need for proof of Covid vaccination for basic things such as using public transport, visiting a café, or eating in a restaurant […]
In Germany, grass-root protests involving thousands of people continue to sprout in many cities.
In Austria, hundreds have demonstrated in opposition to Nehammer’s draconian mandates against the unvaccinated, and even those who have recovered from Covid, who have been under lockdown since November 15, 2021. Even the CDC admits that natural immunity is more effective against Covid than vaccines. This follows the mass protest involving more than 40,000 people in Vienna at the end of 2021.
The fire lit by the working class of Canada has reached as far as New Zealand.
In Australia, months of protest across the country culminated in a massive protest in Canberra. The biggest protests, in Melbourne, were led by hundreds of hi-vis clad trade unionists. Left-wing union leaders called their own rank-and-file “Nazis”. Jacinda Ardern’s fellow socialist, Daniel Andrews, also reacted with truncheons, teargas and rubber bullets. Blood literally spattered the streets of Melbourne.
These are all largely grass-root and peaceful protests of working-class families against mandates that have deeply impacted their lives for over two years. But if you expect these governments, ostensible of the Left, to respect and sympathize with their plights, you’d be sadly mistaken. What you get from them is disdain and slander.
And worse. Much worse. Violence and tyranny unleashed on the working-class has been the go-to for governments boasting of their left-wing credentials.
The Canadian police seized fuel from the protesters, something essential for them to keep warm in frigid weather. Amazingly, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau then froze the bank accounts of the Freedom Convoy protestors with the Emergencies Act, an act of abject tyranny.
In France, Macron said of the unvaccinated, citizens that he is supposed to represent, that: ‘I am not about p*ssing off the French people. But as for the non-vaccinated, I really want to p*ss them off.’
The Austrian government has banned the Freedom Convoy protest, following France and Belgium.
Then came the pepper spray, truncheons, eye gouges, rubber bullets and fire hoses of the New Zealand police.
So much for “kindness” from NZ’s socialist “Dear Leader”.
The Left has detached itself from the working class to the point that it barely knows them, let alone care about them.
Spectator Australia
In his excellent 2007 book, What’s Left, old-school leftist Nick Cohen simultaneously lamented and railed against the post-1960s Left’s complete abandonment of its own principles.
As Cohen wrote, despite the abundant and bloody history of the 20th century, we are once again having to confront the totalitarian instincts of the Left. “It is incredible that this point needs to be reiterated after the twentieth century,” he wrote. “Astonishing that we need to go through all that again.”
And yet, here we are: the working classes are leading a revolution, all right.
A revolution against the Totalitarian Left.
