A contradiction in five acts

From the river

We should focus on bread-and-butter issues.

Those are the ones

        that people feel in their daily lives

    and those will mobilize.

End genocide four thousand kilometers away

You cannot mobilize people

                through values and abstractions.

You must start from their

                direct

                    lived experience.

That's what will build up anger.

Tens of millions take the streets for more than one year

Complex issues

        that involve global politics

        as well as knowledge of history

    cannot mobilize the masses.

You need

        simple,

            immediate problems

    to agitate.

Four thousand pro-Palestine protesters arrested eleven kilometers away from Palestine

You can't rely on

        people's empathy

                    or solidarity

        to build a persistent mass movement.

You need to address

        people's direct suffering.

To the sea

Internationalism is 

    at most

        solidarity between national struggles.

A class consciousness for an international struggle

            does not exist.

People won't risk their own well-being

        without an immediate personal gain at sight.