The Battlefield of Raw Materials
To see how power gets and uses its most basic physical resources – and the devastating processes involved – is instructive in itself. This is power, raw and material. But it also profoundly reveals the social relations that the great “march of progress” relies on. These pages will focus on some of progress’s raw nerves, on the root-systems streaming with the substances domination relies on to feed its expansion and increased strength. These roots penetrate deep into the earth’s belly, ripping through it, toxifying it, overheating it, laying waste to it. Innumerable human and non-human beings are sacrificed every day – enslaved, poisoned, killed by ever-more powerful and sophisticated weapons – for the possession of these subterranean materials, fundamental pillars of the global system of exploitation. The machine of devastation is highly dependent on the extraction of coal, oil, gas, minerals… giving rise to wars, bloody conflicts, but also to struggles and revolts across the world.
230 pages, 2025
Europe: Rupture Distro
US & Canada: A Million Earthworms
Contents
Introduction
Rivers of Blood, Oil, and Toxic Waste: A Brief History of the Energy Industry
Behind the Scenes of the Global Commodities Market
The IIRSA Development Plan: Infrastructure and Devastation
in South America
Cries of Revolt from the Andes to the Amazon
Destroying What Destroys Us, Near and Far
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In France, the clashes between police and demonstrators that erupted in the French capital and many other cities during the strike against the austerity policies proposed by the administration of Emmanuel Macron, continue. After the appeal of the trade unions for a day of demonstrations against budget cuts, over a million workers took to the streets in the greatest mobilization since last year’s battle against the reform of the pension system.
Last week in Manila, capital of the Philippines, clashes between protesters and police broke out when thousands of people took to the streets to protest about one of the most serious corruption scandals in the country in recent years. The rage followed complaints of extensive corruption, the pillaging of the economy and bribes to politicians concerning government infrastructure projects to combat flooding, worth many billions of dollars, which were accompanied by huge scams, greed and political favoritism. The media reported the arrest of over 100 people and the injury of dozens of police officers, while on the internet there were numerous videos showing the violent actions of the police against the protesters.
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