The pilot episode of subMedia’s brand new show, System Fail, looks at the incendiary riots that have swept across the United States in the wake of the murder of George Floyd, and the state’s desperate attempts to bring things back under control.
A look at the social and economic devastation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, with a specific focus on the incompetent state responses of the UK, Brazil and the United States.
A look at the continuing racial tensions in the US and its effect on the 2020 Presidential elections. Plus a look at the recent uprising in Belarus, featuring an interview with Maria, an anarchist based in Minsk.
In this episode we take a look at the many Indigenous-led struggles currently taking place across Turtle Island.
In this episode we look at the aftermath of the 2020 US Presidential elections, leading up to the so-called “Million MAGA March” in Washington, DC.
In this episode we take a look back at the January 6th debacle in DC, when Trump supporters stormed the US Capitol building. We also talk with anarchist organizer and revolutionary emcee, Sima Lee.
In this episode of System Fail we look at the devastating effects that the COVID-19 pandemic is having on the people of Brazil. We also speak with Brazilian-based anarchist Acácio Augusto, of the Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP).
A look at recent developments in the social war in Greece: the COVID lockdown, the #MeToo movement and the hunger strike of Dimitris Koufontinas. Featuring an interview with Tasos Sagris of The Void Network.
A look at Chile’s Estallido Social, and the steps the Chilean state has taken to try to reimpose its damaged authority and legitimacy.
First up, Tucker Carlson bravely leads men on an unorthodox quest to boost their testosterone levels. Next, Vladimir Putin bolsters his fragile masculinity by deploying a full-scale invasion of the Ukraine. After that, reactionary conservatives in the United States try to protect their natural, God-given hetero cis gender roles by using the legislative power of the state to strictly enforce them. Then, in Brazil, we discover that the military has come under scrutiny for ordering massive amounts of Viagra and silicone penile implants and also for murdering a 5 year old child. In the final front in the war on manhood, lonely and recently divorced billionaire Elon Musk tries to recuperate his bruised ego by purchasing Twitter, one of the most influential social media platforms on the planet. That about wraps it up for this episode of System Fail. Tune in every other Monday for the latest updates on the downfall of civilization.
Welcome to another episode of System Fail. In the news this week we do a quick rundown of May Day celebrations around the world. Although there were other May Day festivities we focused on Montreal Santiago de Chile, Istanbul, Berlin and Paris. For our next segment we cover the drastic curtailing of reproductive rights in the United States as foreshadowed by the leak of Supreme Court documents. We also take a look at the acts of resistance and the obnoxious recuperationist conspiracy theorists who try to discredit them. Later, we see how comrades in Greece are resisting Law 4777 which would station police on university campuses, where they have historically not been allowed to go. Finally, we cover a violent insurrection in Sri Lanka where protesters have ousted the corrupt Prime Minister and torched two of the President’s houses, as well as his presidential Lamborghini.
Welcome to another Episode of System Fail. In this episode we will be covering the trend of rising state repression around the globe. We start in so-called Chile where the newly elected ostensibly left-libertarian president Gabriel Boric has failed to deliver on his promise to free political prisoners. Meanwhile in Munich, police have raided a number of apartments, an anarchist library, and a print shop. Then in Greece, long term anarchist prisoner Giannis Michaildis has announced a hunger strike demanding his release. Finally, a run down of the recent events at the Defend the Forest Atlanta.
In the wake of Queen Elizabeth’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations, we take a look at some of the recent resistance waged by two nations rendered stateless by British cartographers. First we visit Palestine where tensions have flared into several violent confrontations between Israeli settlers and the Palestinian intifada. Then we go to Kurdistan where neighboring Turkey has renewed it’s expansionist dreams putting Kurdish occupied areas under threat. Finally a rather troubling weather report investigates the latest effects of climate change around the globe.
Artificial intelligence reaches a new and unexpected milestone while the human condition continues to worsen. As supply chains are pushed to the brink, working people around the globe struggle with new realities of stagnated wages and out of control inflation. While oil corporations celebrate record profits, the people of Ecuador are fighting back with work stoppages, road blocks, and riots across the country. Meanwhile, in Tanzania, tensions have flared as the government tries to displace many indigenous Maasai people from their ancestral homelands for yet another playground for capitalist elites. Finally, we follow up with our coverage of Giannis Michailidis, anarchist prisoner in Greece, who has now been on hunger strike for over a month.
As economic crises, climate catastrophe and war crimes become increasingly normalized, a creeping nihilism is starting to take hold. In Lebanon people have had enough of rampant corruption, inflation and limits on bank withdrawals. Without any other options, they’ve resorted to robbing banks for their own money, to the cheers of supportive crowds. Next up in Haiti recent fuel hikes have exploded in a powder keg of rioting and looting in the capitol city of Port Au Prince. Finally in Mexico, some revenge for family members of 43 students who went missing in 2014 and a poorly named police station gets the attention it deserves from some Anarcha-Feminists.