RAVE: Workers of the World, Ignite!

Today is May Day or Workers' Day around the world, and millions of people in cities worldwide are marching and demonstrating and showing their solidarity for their fellow workers.

Workers of the World Unite! is a refrain over a century old.




I cannot remember a time in my lifetime in which the gap between those who control capital and have power and the rest of us has been so huge, so gaping - it is not a gap, it is a veritable chasm that makes the Grand Canyon look like a crack in the pavement.

Let us review the state of the world on this May the 1st:

• many countries in the world continue to wallow in the mulch that is the 'recession'
• Spain has a record 25% unemployed - and those are official figures
• Greece is on the brink
• Romania is on the brink
• Italy is close to the brink
• Portugal edges to the brink
• Belgium has never looked more shaky
• There are student riots in Montreal
• There are student riots in Madrid
• Students today in many countries could have debt well into middle age

Pundits speak of how we are in the midst of a 'Third World War', except this time the weapon of choice is debt. And it's being used against all of us.

Never before in human history have there been so many billionaires on Earth, even taking population and economic growth into consideration.

Executive pay in the financial sector in cities like London and New York reportedly went up by up to 50% in the last year - and those are no doubt conservative estimates.

And then one wonders why these bastards haven't had their swanky offices invaded and been hauled into the streets, tarred and feathered.

Let's hear a new refrain, shall we:

Workers of the World, Ignite!

When it comes to fatcat corporate bastards and their politician lackeys it should be a case of...

Burn, Baby, Burn.

Do you get my point?