The First International Syndicalist Congress was a meeting of European and Latin American syndicalist organizations at Holborn Town Hall in London that began on this day in 1913. The congress was attended by 38 delegates representing 65 organizations from Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Cuba, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom, with a total membership between 220,000 and 250,000.
Despite being marked by heated disagreements over both tactics and principles, the Congress succeeded in creating the International Syndicalist Information Bureau as a vehicle of exchange and solidarity between the various organizations, and the "Bulletin international du mouvement syndicaliste" as a means of communication. It would be viewed as a success by almost all who participated.
The First International Congress of Revolutionary Trade Unions (July 3rd to 19th 1921)
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I used to LOVE space. Facts about planets, about missions, the thin veneer of cooperation we told ourselves about when working with the USSR and then Russia.
Now it seems like Outer Orbit Life will never be possible. Like Gundam’s notion that it’ll lead to wars is truer by the day, that scifi classifying it as a libertarian hellscape where people are worked to death for profits instead of for the betterment for all in the shining blue pearl.
Space used to hold an optimism for me. Now they put a ticketbooth in front of it, abandoned it and put a 15 ft fence around the very idea.
It is easier to imagine abandoning the earth for all the evils we brought upon it, but as time goes on you only get to imagine 7 people on that ship. The rest left to die. So far from that turn-of-the-century optimism we were so full of.
Have faith in CNSA
Yeah I really liked the anime Planetes for the way it both showed hope in space exploration and a serious antiimperialist critique but yeahh learning about space is just kinda sad these days. I read in 72trillion's latest news update this article about how likely Kessler syndrome is and it's depressing (especially since planetes is all about space debris too D:)
Without having yet to read that article, Kessler Syndrome definitely feels like something that builds itself exponentially, until suddenly it’s an unavoidable problem as every impact with space waste creates more space waste to go and create more…
So all that without yet thinking about the garbage problem we decorated our little blue orb with.
Black holes are pretty cool tho