This is why the powerfull are so afraid of public unity. I cried when I saw so many people together in silence, in solidarity. What a beautiful moment born from tragedy.
Excellent! Your report highlights the current worldwide problem — systemic corruption, and a possible solution to a fresh start and a more equitable future. The use of these new weapons are a horrible reminder of what “we the people” are up against. Also, thanks for exposing another example of the common playbook being used — “they’re all paid actors paid by Soros.”
“The student movement didn’t happen immediately after the fall of the canopy. It happened after the government responded violently to the peaceful silences. That was the spark.”
If one looks at all of the major uprisings, fightbacks, major labour spats: that's how it generally starts to roll; the one last straw on the camel's back.
And this is why we need not succumb to despair. Never write we mass of ordinary people off; for just when we (or our leaders) are quietly convinced that we humans are just too cowed - or stupid - it all kicks off. It is easy to see dissent brewing; but how many of us have ever honestly predicted the point where it suddenly boiled over like this? For these things are not mere obeisant response to the proclamations of Powerful Men; they are the unheralded outcome of years of unrecorded disquiets, of thousands of disenchanted conversations in the home, the street, the bus or train, the office or the factory.
Thus the next revolt has already begun a long, long time ago: and we will all have all been party to this. Stay prepared, always.
These movements are the natural and rational response to social plight,they have been born out of the crises.Young people have vehement hatred towards corrupt politicians who embezzle the national wealth from people and live a life of debauchery and hypocrisy,inflicting upon the society structural inequalities,avoidable tragedies and innumerable injustice and human miseries.
Then people rise up,choosing not to bow their heads down to the brutal assault on human dignity and decency.The righteous collective anger constitutes the revolutions and outbursts of protest.It is also a very good opportunity to exercise people power,the participants of these movements have been experimenting with new social governance,the new grassroots political philosophy.Their demands are a radical plea and exploration for common dignity.Their demands call for a restructuring and overhaul of the bankrupt neoliberal developmental model.
These protests can create new politics,a new politics of social solidarity,mutual concern,humane welfare and reciprocal help.At least,these protests can endow the young with a sense of mission and collective obligation to save our society,and let them see the dawn of never yielding ourselves to the massive corruption ,backwardness and right-wing dominance in the status apparatus in our society.Joining in these protests can awaken people and let people realize they are part of a bigger community,having a great purpose of linking themselves to the common good.
But these protests are destined to be confronted with repression ,counter-revolution ,disruption and chaos.However,they are inevitable,because the European parliamentary democracy has been debunked,liberalism as a mainstream governing political philosophy in the West has witnessed the disastrous consequences engulfing the European continent.
Alas!China since 1989(a highly sensitive topic which forbids any discussion in mainland China) has disallowed any protests protected by constitution.The young people in China born after the 1990s have gone through a period which can be characterized as “depoliticization”,the Chinese popular culture mainly featured by those Taiwanese pop singers ,movie stars and South Korean idols,TV shows and series which ideologically let Chinese young people forget about or have a negative view on the Chinese revolutionary history and its great towering figures in politics,literature and arts,socialist struggles and legacies.China since the 1990s has entered into a neoliberal/neocolonial era defined by denunciation and condemnation of socialist period, particularly of the Mao Zedong era,marked by the promulgation and implementation of widespread privatizations of SOEs and an insanely radical propaganda of market triumphalism.
The greatest disaster for China now is that China has already become a crony capitalism even though China still wears the mask of the official doctrine of Marxism and Leninism to cheat its people,China has its own Musk and Bezos,its own Bill Gates and other swaggering capitalists.
Since 1990s,in China’s mainstream media and elite universities,some Oxford-educated,Harvard-educated Chinese neoliberal economists have begun to brag about the greatness of Hayekian and Friedmanite theories.The disasters have now been felt very strongly.But China doesn’t disintegrate like Soviet Union and has achieved some economic prosperity,because we still have some elements of socialist legacies to counter the noxious capitalist infiltration and rule of capital.
Grace,I am three years older than you(I was born in the year 1990), the period and social atmosphere of my childhood and teenage years has gone through the process of De-Marxification,though from middle school to university,we have to learn Marxism in Politics class to pass the text,however most of the teachers and students actually don’t know what Marxism is truly about and are not interested in.That’s why it’s hard for Chinese young people to find the real way to make social progress in China without truly understanding the real Marxism and its subversive power to change capitalism.
I am glad to see the in the West,such bursts of protests often occur and their collective struggles provide a glimpse for me to explore a better future for our planet in those desperate times and give me courage to never lose hope in an age ruled by real estate moguls.What’s more,Grace,I am so delighted and excited that I could find a young female peer like you from UK whose writings I can resonate with and appreciate quite a lot.And from your writings I often find the indomitable hope of forging ahead in the tumultuous oligarchic age of furious right-wing authoritarianism.
Grace,let’s fight together,with millions of others in this icy,cool-hearted capitalist age.We are not alone in making progressive social changes.
David Lammy (ie the Government) has just signed some sort of agreement with Serbia about returning “illegal” migrants. Surely this is contrary to law and the UN convention on refugees?
The scheme/scam as I understand it is that some "failed" (refused) asylum seekers will be exiled to the Balkans.
We tend to assume that in all UK law, all are innocent unless proven guilty, thus "failed" asylum seekers have been somehow proven to be "bogus". This is not even remotely valid: the legality is in fact reversed, in that the person seeking asylum has the full onus upon them to prove a "well-founded fear of persecution or torture", whereas the state has to prove nothing: so it is the onus on the individual to be able to provide convincing evidence that both they are from wherever, and also that whatever could well befall them, whereas the state merely pontificates as to whether the evidence has been deemed "sufficient". Thus it is as though the individual is effectively considered "guilty" by default unless they have somehow proven their "innocence".
And as you can appreciate: this is innately problematic in practice. You may be able to convince the UK authorities that you are from whatever place: but that is not always straightforward if you have had to escape using false documentation (if anyone could just jump on an commercial aircraft from their homeland to safety then no one would be risking their lives on perilous journeying) or if whatever evidence has been lost/stolen/impounded en route, even if you managed to collect some manner of paperwork before you fled. Even if such paperwork as can be considered relevant existed within whatever the national system.
Having hopefully convinced the authorities that you are from wherever you say you are, it then becomes even more problematic. Why are you in danger? Can you prove that the authorities in your homeland are actively out to harm you? Are you of the religion / politics / ethnicity / sexuality etc which you are claiming to be? Here, the "safe country" thing is becoming a bit of a red herring, as in: safe for whom? For it is so much more circumstantial than that: a country can be perfectly safe - unless you hold certain views or characteristics. Afghan refugees flow into Iran: political dissidents flow out. Uganda is sanctuary for countless refugees from Sudan and the DRC whilst homosexuals are leaving Uganda in fear. Zimbabwe has lost its longtime bloody ringmaster but the bloody circus has barely changed.
The upshot in the UK is that: we have long had a fluid demographic of refused asylum seekers who are rebuilding their legal cases ("fresh evidence") for a second, sometimes third attempt; living in penury and precarity for years, even decades, rather than return "home". Not a lightly made lifestyle choice evidently. Usually, in my experience, they eventually get believed after many torturous (and I don't say that lightly) years in this lifeless limbo. If you could simply go back to a peaceful land, then you would: believe me.
Thus given that so many refused asylum seekers do go on to eventually prove their entitlement (overwhelmingly most of the ones who I have known these past two decades certainly have), then at what point does the Home Office deem that their decision has been infallible? This given also that the Home Office decision system is notoriously threadbare:
- I sat in a courtroom supporting an Afghan man who, along with a whole litany of other reasons, pointed out that the Taliban were racing unchecked across his country and that his town would likely fall in the next few days (it, of course, did) only for him to be curtly rebuked that they could only judge circumstances as they stood and not speculate.
- A peace-loving Albanian family who I have supported, wanting absolutely no part in the pointless blood feuds which still simmer in parts of Albania (family or surname based, think: Shakespeare's Montagues & Capulets), were informed by letter that they could return and relocate in a safer area of... PAKISTAN!
...and so on, and so on.
The current Government seems to be trying to absolve themselves from the backlash of overturning the deportation to Rwanda scheme. No-one is seemingly pointing out that the UK nearly banished swathes of disempowered human beings to a "safe" country currently enmeshed in a bloody unconscionable military incursion into its Congolese neighbour.
I hope that some of this is at least of some help, and hopefully makes some sense. Surrender is just one more luxury which the dispossessed cannot afford.
The uprising in Serbia is not an isolated resistance—it’s a frontline in a global pattern. The repression, the corruption, the media gaslighting, the infrastructure collapse—these are symptoms of a transnational authoritarian system, not local dysfunctions.
Across the world, activist movements face the same dynamics: illegitimate regimes propped up by foreign capital, surveillance states masking as democracies, and a global economy built on extractive dependency. The antidote must be just as global.
The Perfect Political Platform was first developed with Canada in mind—but its purpose was always broader. It’s a one-time, transitional framework meant to catalyze a unified response to systemic failure wherever democratic mechanisms still exist. It calls for:
Reclaiming democracy through electoral reform and campaign finance overhaul
Accountability inquisition across global systems—economic, ecological, and epistemic
Technological empowerment through public AI, open source infrastructure, and digital sovereignty
It’s not a party. It’s not permanent. It’s a conversation starter for coordinated resistance against collapse.
This is why the powerfull are so afraid of public unity. I cried when I saw so many people together in silence, in solidarity. What a beautiful moment born from tragedy.
🙌
Excellent! Your report highlights the current worldwide problem — systemic corruption, and a possible solution to a fresh start and a more equitable future. The use of these new weapons are a horrible reminder of what “we the people” are up against. Also, thanks for exposing another example of the common playbook being used — “they’re all paid actors paid by Soros.”
Thanks John - glad you found the piece useful!
“The student movement didn’t happen immediately after the fall of the canopy. It happened after the government responded violently to the peaceful silences. That was the spark.”
If one looks at all of the major uprisings, fightbacks, major labour spats: that's how it generally starts to roll; the one last straw on the camel's back.
And this is why we need not succumb to despair. Never write we mass of ordinary people off; for just when we (or our leaders) are quietly convinced that we humans are just too cowed - or stupid - it all kicks off. It is easy to see dissent brewing; but how many of us have ever honestly predicted the point where it suddenly boiled over like this? For these things are not mere obeisant response to the proclamations of Powerful Men; they are the unheralded outcome of years of unrecorded disquiets, of thousands of disenchanted conversations in the home, the street, the bus or train, the office or the factory.
Thus the next revolt has already begun a long, long time ago: and we will all have all been party to this. Stay prepared, always.
In solidarity with you all.
This isn’t just a fight against authoritarianism—it’s a fight against a rigged pattern dressed up as democracy.
Vučić offers the form of freedom without the substance. These students see through it—and they’re not playing along.
Real resistance begins when people stop trying to win the game and start asking who built the board.
These movements are the natural and rational response to social plight,they have been born out of the crises.Young people have vehement hatred towards corrupt politicians who embezzle the national wealth from people and live a life of debauchery and hypocrisy,inflicting upon the society structural inequalities,avoidable tragedies and innumerable injustice and human miseries.
Then people rise up,choosing not to bow their heads down to the brutal assault on human dignity and decency.The righteous collective anger constitutes the revolutions and outbursts of protest.It is also a very good opportunity to exercise people power,the participants of these movements have been experimenting with new social governance,the new grassroots political philosophy.Their demands are a radical plea and exploration for common dignity.Their demands call for a restructuring and overhaul of the bankrupt neoliberal developmental model.
These protests can create new politics,a new politics of social solidarity,mutual concern,humane welfare and reciprocal help.At least,these protests can endow the young with a sense of mission and collective obligation to save our society,and let them see the dawn of never yielding ourselves to the massive corruption ,backwardness and right-wing dominance in the status apparatus in our society.Joining in these protests can awaken people and let people realize they are part of a bigger community,having a great purpose of linking themselves to the common good.
But these protests are destined to be confronted with repression ,counter-revolution ,disruption and chaos.However,they are inevitable,because the European parliamentary democracy has been debunked,liberalism as a mainstream governing political philosophy in the West has witnessed the disastrous consequences engulfing the European continent.
Alas!China since 1989(a highly sensitive topic which forbids any discussion in mainland China) has disallowed any protests protected by constitution.The young people in China born after the 1990s have gone through a period which can be characterized as “depoliticization”,the Chinese popular culture mainly featured by those Taiwanese pop singers ,movie stars and South Korean idols,TV shows and series which ideologically let Chinese young people forget about or have a negative view on the Chinese revolutionary history and its great towering figures in politics,literature and arts,socialist struggles and legacies.China since the 1990s has entered into a neoliberal/neocolonial era defined by denunciation and condemnation of socialist period, particularly of the Mao Zedong era,marked by the promulgation and implementation of widespread privatizations of SOEs and an insanely radical propaganda of market triumphalism.
The greatest disaster for China now is that China has already become a crony capitalism even though China still wears the mask of the official doctrine of Marxism and Leninism to cheat its people,China has its own Musk and Bezos,its own Bill Gates and other swaggering capitalists.
Since 1990s,in China’s mainstream media and elite universities,some Oxford-educated,Harvard-educated Chinese neoliberal economists have begun to brag about the greatness of Hayekian and Friedmanite theories.The disasters have now been felt very strongly.But China doesn’t disintegrate like Soviet Union and has achieved some economic prosperity,because we still have some elements of socialist legacies to counter the noxious capitalist infiltration and rule of capital.
Grace,I am three years older than you(I was born in the year 1990), the period and social atmosphere of my childhood and teenage years has gone through the process of De-Marxification,though from middle school to university,we have to learn Marxism in Politics class to pass the text,however most of the teachers and students actually don’t know what Marxism is truly about and are not interested in.That’s why it’s hard for Chinese young people to find the real way to make social progress in China without truly understanding the real Marxism and its subversive power to change capitalism.
I am glad to see the in the West,such bursts of protests often occur and their collective struggles provide a glimpse for me to explore a better future for our planet in those desperate times and give me courage to never lose hope in an age ruled by real estate moguls.What’s more,Grace,I am so delighted and excited that I could find a young female peer like you from UK whose writings I can resonate with and appreciate quite a lot.And from your writings I often find the indomitable hope of forging ahead in the tumultuous oligarchic age of furious right-wing authoritarianism.
Grace,let’s fight together,with millions of others in this icy,cool-hearted capitalist age.We are not alone in making progressive social changes.
David Lammy (ie the Government) has just signed some sort of agreement with Serbia about returning “illegal” migrants. Surely this is contrary to law and the UN convention on refugees?
It is indeed deeply problematic, my friend.
The scheme/scam as I understand it is that some "failed" (refused) asylum seekers will be exiled to the Balkans.
We tend to assume that in all UK law, all are innocent unless proven guilty, thus "failed" asylum seekers have been somehow proven to be "bogus". This is not even remotely valid: the legality is in fact reversed, in that the person seeking asylum has the full onus upon them to prove a "well-founded fear of persecution or torture", whereas the state has to prove nothing: so it is the onus on the individual to be able to provide convincing evidence that both they are from wherever, and also that whatever could well befall them, whereas the state merely pontificates as to whether the evidence has been deemed "sufficient". Thus it is as though the individual is effectively considered "guilty" by default unless they have somehow proven their "innocence".
And as you can appreciate: this is innately problematic in practice. You may be able to convince the UK authorities that you are from whatever place: but that is not always straightforward if you have had to escape using false documentation (if anyone could just jump on an commercial aircraft from their homeland to safety then no one would be risking their lives on perilous journeying) or if whatever evidence has been lost/stolen/impounded en route, even if you managed to collect some manner of paperwork before you fled. Even if such paperwork as can be considered relevant existed within whatever the national system.
Having hopefully convinced the authorities that you are from wherever you say you are, it then becomes even more problematic. Why are you in danger? Can you prove that the authorities in your homeland are actively out to harm you? Are you of the religion / politics / ethnicity / sexuality etc which you are claiming to be? Here, the "safe country" thing is becoming a bit of a red herring, as in: safe for whom? For it is so much more circumstantial than that: a country can be perfectly safe - unless you hold certain views or characteristics. Afghan refugees flow into Iran: political dissidents flow out. Uganda is sanctuary for countless refugees from Sudan and the DRC whilst homosexuals are leaving Uganda in fear. Zimbabwe has lost its longtime bloody ringmaster but the bloody circus has barely changed.
The upshot in the UK is that: we have long had a fluid demographic of refused asylum seekers who are rebuilding their legal cases ("fresh evidence") for a second, sometimes third attempt; living in penury and precarity for years, even decades, rather than return "home". Not a lightly made lifestyle choice evidently. Usually, in my experience, they eventually get believed after many torturous (and I don't say that lightly) years in this lifeless limbo. If you could simply go back to a peaceful land, then you would: believe me.
Thus given that so many refused asylum seekers do go on to eventually prove their entitlement (overwhelmingly most of the ones who I have known these past two decades certainly have), then at what point does the Home Office deem that their decision has been infallible? This given also that the Home Office decision system is notoriously threadbare:
- I sat in a courtroom supporting an Afghan man who, along with a whole litany of other reasons, pointed out that the Taliban were racing unchecked across his country and that his town would likely fall in the next few days (it, of course, did) only for him to be curtly rebuked that they could only judge circumstances as they stood and not speculate.
- A peace-loving Albanian family who I have supported, wanting absolutely no part in the pointless blood feuds which still simmer in parts of Albania (family or surname based, think: Shakespeare's Montagues & Capulets), were informed by letter that they could return and relocate in a safer area of... PAKISTAN!
...and so on, and so on.
The current Government seems to be trying to absolve themselves from the backlash of overturning the deportation to Rwanda scheme. No-one is seemingly pointing out that the UK nearly banished swathes of disempowered human beings to a "safe" country currently enmeshed in a bloody unconscionable military incursion into its Congolese neighbour.
I hope that some of this is at least of some help, and hopefully makes some sense. Surrender is just one more luxury which the dispossessed cannot afford.
In solidarity & wishing you every kindness,
G.
(UK Asylum support volunteer: 2004-2025)
The uprising in Serbia is not an isolated resistance—it’s a frontline in a global pattern. The repression, the corruption, the media gaslighting, the infrastructure collapse—these are symptoms of a transnational authoritarian system, not local dysfunctions.
Across the world, activist movements face the same dynamics: illegitimate regimes propped up by foreign capital, surveillance states masking as democracies, and a global economy built on extractive dependency. The antidote must be just as global.
The Perfect Political Platform was first developed with Canada in mind—but its purpose was always broader. It’s a one-time, transitional framework meant to catalyze a unified response to systemic failure wherever democratic mechanisms still exist. It calls for:
Reclaiming democracy through electoral reform and campaign finance overhaul
Accountability inquisition across global systems—economic, ecological, and epistemic
Technological empowerment through public AI, open source infrastructure, and digital sovereignty
It’s not a party. It’s not permanent. It’s a conversation starter for coordinated resistance against collapse.
https://sonderuncertainly.substack.com/p/the-perfect-political-platform