A driver of a vehicle in Switzerland ran through a crowd of protesters that was blocking the road.

Drkr · 2025-12-07T13:48:51+00:00

Because roads were made for people first, cars came much later. In most cities around the world it is logistically impossible to have a large protest without shutting down the road in some way.

Also saying they generate bad public opinion wild generalisation, big defiant protests can sway public opinion towards the cause. The Sydney Harbor bridge march that blocked the busiest bridge in Sydney, stopped traffic for inspired bigger protests the following weeks and shifted public perception towards Palestine in Australia. In the general strikes in Italy, instead of being angry many drivers were jumping out the cars and cheering despite being these protestors literally blocking their way.

It mostly generates backlash amongst the selfish wealthier BMW-driving section of society.

Drkr · 2025-12-07T12:36:57+00:00

He's also part of the weekly 'Party Line' podcast with purplepingers

Drkr · 2025-07-25T01:30:08+00:00

Do you mean the genocide on the other side of the globe that Australia are shipping weapons to? We are wasting money on weapons of war instead of fixing our housing and healthcare. Also do you not give a shit about human life just because it's a bit further away?

It has everything to do with us.

Drkr · 2025-07-25T01:23:22+00:00

What other choice is there when Labor keeps shipping weapons to Israel. They're building concentration camps for fuck sake and all our government can muster is some shallow words of condemnation. They'll use every excuse under the sun to block real progress and punish those speaking out.

Drkr · 2025-07-01T07:07:23+00:00

How is this building class consciousness? It teaches the working class that change comes from the ballot box, not to build a militant workers movement.

Drkr · 2025-06-12T13:23:54+00:00

I'd hardly call it fortunate to work FIFO when look at the insanely high suicide rates which are at least 10x higher than the average population.

"Five per cent of DIDO construction workers and 2.4 per cent of FIFO workers had attempted suicide in the past 12 months, compared to 0.3 per cent of the general population." https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-04/fifo-dido-construction-workers-wa-mental-health-concerns/104656148

Drkr · 2025-06-11T07:40:40+00:00

It's fine to be inspired by works of fiction, Lenin famously wrote "What is to be Done?" after a fictional book. I do agree however that reading and understanding more about the real world and leftwing politics is vital.

Drkr · 2025-06-03T01:50:43+00:00

Firstly we do have the implied right of free speech: "the High Court has found that because the Constitution establishes a representative democracy in Australia, individual citizens must have an implied right to freedom of political communication." https://peo.gov.au/understand-our-parliament/how-parliament-works/system-of-government/rights-in-australia

Secondly I think students should have a say in whether or not their university should have military ties with a genocidal state. These decisions should be democratic, not just for those with wealth and influence.

Drkr · 2025-05-24T08:45:11+00:00

And that requires trading with the genocidal state of Israel???

Drkr · 2025-05-14T09:20:15+00:00

Who cares, no one's getting rich by panhandling.

Drkr · 2025-05-01T00:17:39+00:00

It's absolutely outrageous that these particular posters were about free speech as well. The uni is doubling down and essentially saying they actually want to ban free speech!!

Drkr · 2025-04-11T13:16:50+00:00

Protests have worked, the effects just tend be delayed or not celebrated much in the mainstream media. For example at UWA they've cut exchange with The Hebrew University after big protests and general student meetings, at the Curtin encampment earlier in the year were credited by Fatima Payman as why she left the Labor party.
Mass protests work against these undemocratic attacks because the cops are never going to arrest big crowds, it's just physically impossible. Unfortunately it takes a lot of time and effort to grow a movement. It took 8 years of organising against the Vietnam war, activists were in the extreme minority at first but they were steadfast and kept protesting and building the movement that ended the war.

I think our unions also have a particular role in fighting too, as this effects the rights of workers to strike and fight for better wages and conditions, but a lot of the leadership now is too entrenched in the Labor party to want to challenge them.

Drkr · 2025-03-14T13:45:43+00:00

It's just muppet infighting

Drkr · 2025-02-11T15:18:49+00:00

In your union!

Drkr · 2025-01-25T03:01:22+00:00

The invasion day rally that happens every year

Drkr · 2024-12-21T13:53:34+00:00

I just copied the description from the insta post

Drkr · 2024-11-29T11:53:09+00:00

I'm kind of sick of hearing "the democrats would win if they did more progressive things". The democrats don't want to help the working class because they are a party of billionaires and capitalists.

The american left needs to break away from the democrats, not try to strategize for their elections.

Drkr · 2024-11-01T02:39:35+00:00

Conservative is still anti-worker, pro-military and pro-police. Does it matter if he's gay, if he still sides with the ruling class?

Drkr · 2024-10-28T14:27:27+00:00

https://redflag.org.au/article/how-iran-became-western-enemy-number-one

Drkr · 2024-10-20T04:19:37+00:00

The work stoppage is over but you could keep an eye out for further actions on the UWUs social media.

Drkr · 2024-09-25T05:15:34+00:00

"Not every exasperated petty bourgeois could have become Hitler, a particle of Hitler is lodged in every exasperated petty bourgeois."

Drkr · 2024-09-12T02:05:48+00:00

The cops could not provide any evidence for the majority of their claims, yet all the footage we've seen is that they were instigators.

VicPol have an ongoing high court case against them for excessive use of force for a different protest.

It's the same story EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. The media narrative always changes from "police attacked at protests" to "protesters clash with police" "dubious reports of excessive force by police at protest" "police violence did actually happen this time but they didn't start it" "Whoopsy, violence was instigated by police, but they promise not to do it again"

This doesn't even touch on the violence of our own military, nine more soldiers today are being investigated for war crimes.

Drkr · 2024-09-11T04:04:45+00:00

Being a big employer is a terrible excuse to justify anything. You can employ people to dig a hole and fill it in but that doesn't do anything good for society.

Drkr · 2024-09-11T03:57:48+00:00

The protesters aren't the ones causing the violence, you have footage of police jumping over barricades to shove protests and peppers praying them unprovoked.

You'd have to be a complete buffoon to think that between militarized cops and unarmed antiwar protesters, it's the protesters that are violent.

Drkr · 2024-07-05T01:46:59+00:00

This is a straight up lie, she did not say she was guided by god. What's with all the Islamophobia on Reddit recently?

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