Kris Khaira

“Kami,
Rakyat Pulau Pinang,
Yang bertekat,
Dan beridealism
Untuk mewujudkan
Negara Malaysia
Yang adil dan saksama
Yang menegak semangat
Rule of law,

Berjanji bahawa
Kami akan
Meneruskan perjuangan
Pada masa depen
Untuk membebaskan
Semua tahanan ISA
Dan seterusnya
Memansuhkan akta zalim.

Kami tidak akan
Berundur,
Berputus asa,
Dan menyerah diri,
Sehingga Malaysia dibebaskan
Daripada ISA.”

— Candlelight vigil participants, 17th October

16 other Singaporean activists are going on trial in Singapore today for taking part in a Tak Boleh Tahan! assembly. Tak Boleh Tahan! is a campaign that was organised to highlight poverty in Singapore and the Government’s greed in continuing to raise fees and prices even as wages of the people shrink.

The Communist Manifesto, as a cartoon.

[Via Left I]

“Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama pledged steadfast aid to Afghanistan in talks Sunday with its Western-backed leader and vowed to pursue the war on terror “with vigor” if elected, an Afghan official said.”

Source: AP

Not now, but one day.

As soon as the distribution of labour comes into being, each man has a particular, exclusive sphere of activity, which is forced upon him and from which he cannot escape. He is a hunter, a fisherman, a shepherd, or a critical critic, and must remain so if he does not want to lose his means of livelihood; while in communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticise after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

- Marx, Concept of Man

[via Design Your Life]