Last week saw two major internet stories from ‘Robin Hood’ (aka, Enric Duran) and his plans to short circuit Capitalism.
‘Robin’ is a Catalan activist who took out bank loans of 500,000 euros and gave the cash to occupiers, anarchists and Coops. Then he helped found the fast growing CIC (Integral Coop), a group of leaderless assembly-run, coops with their own ‘anti-money’, the ECU, which aims to evade the inbuilt exploitative control of the world money system.
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Beneath the worldwide outrage of the massacre of staff at Charlie Hebdo, the French satirical magazine, is an unspoken truth rarely spoken in the bourgeois circles of mass media and the centrist establishment: that all religions are by their very nature repressive and based on fear and ignorance. For decades tolerance of religions has been fatally conflated with respect for equality and ethnicity. It’s time now to say loud and clear that they have no connection and that in the evolution of humankind the most reactionary force we have all had to contend with over centuries is religion – all religions – Islam, Christianity, Judaism, etc – whether in the Middle East, in India, in Northern Ireland, or anywhere where barbarism has shown itself.
The Free 