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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsClass War In Bosnia and Herzegovina: The Government Is On Fire
In less than 24 hours, solidarity protests erupted in the Croat-Muslim half of Bosnia and Herzegovina: government offices and the presidency in Sarajevo were set on fire, and the same happened in Zenica. People flooded the streets in Bihac, too, and later hundreds took it to the streets in Banja Luka, the capital of the Serb half of the country. We are all citizens of Bosnia and we all have the same difficult lives here, one of the organisers Aleksandar Zolja of the rally in Banja Luca told the rally.
Interesting. This started three days ago. Not a religious or ethnic fault line at the base of this process.
More, including the burning government buildings, at revolution news.
factsarenotfair
(910 posts)frog in the pot, like our rulers have been doing.
BelgianMadCow
(5,379 posts)billionaire Blair fiend Mittal buying up steel mills on the cheap in firesale privatisation drives in eastern Europe, then restoring them using EU funds, or close them and sell the assets. In the meantime, usually the pension fund is thrown overboard.
factsarenotfair
(910 posts)Egalitarian Thug
(12,448 posts)It is good to see people figuring it out and acting on the reality.
BelgianMadCow
(5,379 posts)and she was saying 95% of the gains have gone to the 1 % in the US, which has returned to inequality levels last seen before the great depression. She then went on to state the need for a new or revised monetary system, in which banks again serve the real economy and not themselves, and called for the Bretton Woods spirit to multilaterally solve the issue.
That made me think of how Richard Wolff describes the current financial sector as parasitical - serving itself, weakening the host. It also made me think, huh, is Lagarde going OWS? Weird times we live in. She definitely ruled out the neoliberal idea of markets uber alles. Well, it's only words of course, but still.
Egalitarian Thug
(12,448 posts)I also happen to agree with the concept, so I'm biased, but the fact that at least 40% of our "economy" comes from an "industry" that produces nothing and works constantly to make everything worse should clearly demonstrate that significant changes are required if we are to continue.