Yes, I watched the 'News' last night. What a pot pourri. Let's see... unemployment up, government about to launch further fierce attacks on our living standards to bail out the bankers — thay didn't put it like that, of course — Josef Fritzl gets life, gangland murders, actress dies, blah blah...
But not one centimetre of footage, not one word, on events in France, where the most significant acts of resistance so far to the capitalist assault on our minimal 'wealth' to pay for the system failure have occurred. Look:
And remember: the media constitute one enormous lie machine. When a truth is placed in the context of a false narrative, that truth becomes a lie. Simple dialectic.
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But not one centimetre of footage, not one word, on events in France, where the most significant acts of resistance so far to the capitalist assault on our minimal 'wealth' to pay for the system failure have occurred. Look:
Record numbers join anti-Sarkozy protestsMy pic shows the demo in Rennes. This kind of thing was replicated all across the country. But I didn't know until I bought my Guardian this morning... You really should read the full report: here.
Angelique Chrisafis in Paris
The Guardian, Friday 20 March 2009
Record numbers took to the streets of France yesterday in the biggest demonstrations since Nicolas Sarkozy's election, to protest about his handling of the economic crisis.
Unions estimated that more than three million people took part in demonstrations across the country, in the second general strike over the economic crisis in two months. Police put figures at about 1.2 million. With one in three people supporting the protest, it had the highest public backing for a strike in a decade.
And remember: the media constitute one enormous lie machine. When a truth is placed in the context of a false narrative, that truth becomes a lie. Simple dialectic.
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