Let me read you
some of what

your own MP's have told
me about what's been going on.

"It's checkmate, we're stuffed."

"It's dire."

"We're all done for."

These are your own colleagues.

Well my message to
my colleagues is yes.

Do you feel humiliated?

That must feel humiliating

so early in office.

Look I understand it
is very difficult

for families across the country.

And they're blaming you.

and if...

But do you accept that
you have made it worse

But we've

What you've done has made
it worse for people.

It's made it harder for
people to pay their bills.

Definitely.

Well it... yeah.

First of all I
have said sorry.

Oh hello.

Welcome to System Fail,

the show that speaks
truth to power.

It is my great pleasure
to present you with

the chief's award for valour.

Congratulations, I'd like to
give you an opportunity

to say a few words.

I'm very uncomfortable being
here with you guys.

I do not rock with the police.

And I just want folks to know
that they don't keep us safe

We keep us safe.

Riots work.

Thank you.

Blow, how you like me now?

Appreciate it.

I am your host, Dee Dos,
and for months now,

the drums of war have
been growing louder.

84 missiles and 24 drones
targeting at least 10 cities

From one end of Ukraine
to the other

Revenge after a key bridge
connecting Russia to Crimea

was blown up this weekend.

Tensions in the Taiwan straight

The largest ever military
maneuvers that China has done.

Are you willing, militarily,
to defend Taiwan

if it comes to that?

Yes.

Taiwan is an inimitable part
of Chinese territory.

Could we be heading toward
World War 3?

You know, global thermonuclear
war end of days scenario.

Despite the focus of
western media coverage,

today's most deadly war
is being waged in the

territories ruled by
the Ethiopian state.

In Amhara and Afar,
recent fighting has

displaced tens of thousands
of people from their homes,

mostly women and children,

while in Tigray, millions of
people are being systematically

starved to death, underconditions of a

government-imposed
communications blackout,

regular shelling, air strikes,
mass rapes, and other atrocities

carried out by the Ethiopian
and Eritrean armed forces.

I'm starving. It's awful.

Hunger doesn't kill you in one hit,

it destroys you slowly.

Turkey continues to wage
a vicious and largely

unreported war in
Syria and Iraq,

bombing Kurdish villages
and repeatedly using

chemical weapons against
guerrilla fighters aligned

with the Kurdish Worker's
Party, or PKK.

And in Yemen, civilians
are bracing themselves

for a fresh round of fighting,
following the collapse of a

six month ceasefire that
had provided a temporary

reprieve from eight years of hell.

Meanwhile, Putin's invasion
of Ukraine, and increased

sabre-rattling over Taiwan,
have ramped up geopolitical

tensions between the world's
so-called Great Powers

to levels not seen since the Cold War.

Geriatric politicians, some
of whom look like they

could barely fight a cold,
have assumed the role

of wartime leaders, framing
armed conflicts over

energy markets, trade routes and
so-called spheres of influence

as epic clashes of moral,
cultural and national values.

Democracy will and must prevail.

Against neo-nazisand extreme nationalists

The actual values in question
have proven quite elastic.

In Ukraine, Western media outlets
have gone to great lengths

to rehabilitate the neo-nazis
of the Azov Battalion,

re-framing them as
misunderstood patriots,

while RT and Sputnik
have heaped praise on

the neo-nazis of the Wagner
Group for their efforts to,

quote, de-nazify the so-called

Donetsk and Lugansk
People's Republics.

Beneath all the misinformation
and patriotic spin

lies the brutal reality of war:

working-class humans
slaughtering one another

for the vanity of politicians
and the profits of their

capitalist handlers.

When you look at the leadership
that's come from the

defence contractors it's
telling us that this conflict

in Russia and Ukraine will last
longer than the consensus expects.

It's giving us the same message that
say the energy stocks or oil here is.

So this idea of peak conflict
or peak inflation or peak yields

I don't think the market is
justifying any of those

and these defence contractors,
I think, support that view.

But not everyone is going
along with the plot.

I'm not afraid of anything

The most valuable thing
that they can take from us

Is the lives of our children

I won't give them my child's life.

In Russia, a militant anti-war
movement has risen up,

launching a sustained,
multi-pronged attack

on the government's war effort.

The Russian state, for its part,
has arrested thousands of

protesters for peacefully
demonstrating their moral

objections to the war.

No to War!

No to War!

Which leads to an obvious
conclusion: if all opposition

is criminalized, you might
as well make it count.

Members of the Anarchist
Communist Combat Organization,

known by its Russian
acronym BOAK,

have carried out dozens of
acts of sabotage against railways,

aimed at disrupting the transfer
of military equipment and ammunition.

They have been joined by
partisan counterparts in Belarus,

whose sabotage of railways has
disrupted Russian troop movements,

and played an important role
in thwarting its initial invasion of Kyiv.

Meanwhile, within Russia,

more than 50 military
recruitment offices

have been attacked since the war began,

many of them set alight in
brazen, night-time, molotov attacks.

Government buildings, and police vehicles

have also been put to the torch.

The pace of these attacks
has intensified since

Putin issued a decree on
September 21st,

mobilizing 300,000 reservists
for active duty on the front lines.

That's it!

The games are over.

You re all military!

We're here to takeyou to the army.

What army?

I m 52 years old.

The conscription age has been
raised to 60 years old.

Raised by who?

What do you mean by who?
The President.

On September 26,
a 25 year old man named

Ruslan Zinin shot a military
officer in a conscription office

in the Siberian city
of Ust-Ilimsk,

after his friend had been
called up for service.

In Primorye, near the country's
border with North Korea,

the commissar in charge of
regional mobilization

and enlistment was found
dead on October 14th.

Numerous protests have broken
out in the country's far east,

as well as the Caucasus regions
of Dagestan, Kabardino-Balkaria

and Chechnya, where the region's
Putin-obsessed strongman,

Ramzan Kadyrov,

I can't hide the way I feel
about you anymore

I can hold the hurt inside
keep the pain out...

responded to protests
by threatening

to forcibly conscript
participants and their families.

Why are you taking the boy from us?

Don t allow them to take the men!

On the other side of the
increasingly fluid border,

a number of Ukrainian,
Russian and Belarusian anarchists

have joined the Ukranian war effort,
integrating themselves within

the national army in order to
fight against what they see as

the greater evil of
Russian occupation.

Other anarchists have
maintained an active

antagonism to Russia, NATO,
and the Ukrainian state,

which has enacted authoritarian
war-time measures criminalizing dissent,

limiting freedom of
movement for refugees,

and enforcing military
conscription on all men

and trans women between
the ages of 18 and 60.

On October 5th, the Ukrainian
embassy in Prague was vandalized,

and a communique was released
blasting Zelensky for forcibly

confining Ukrainian
civilians who want to flee.

It goes without saying,

but Ukraine's oligarchs are
not fighting on the front lines.

Most of them fled the country
for the safety of Western Europe

as soon as the first 
bombs started falling.

Meanwhile, in France,
Germany, Italy and Greece,

anarchists have carried out a
number of clandestine attacks

against NATO military contractors,
and disrupted weapons shipments.

Despite all the death,
devastation and divisions

sparked by Russia's invasion,
new solidarities are being formed

between those fighting
to end the war.

Peoples of Russia have been oppressed
by the Russian state for a long time and

all have reasons to fight it.

Radical ideas have surfaced 
in the political environment.

We don't think Putin
can win this war

and losing the was could
be followed by anything

from change of power to the 
collapse of the Russian Federation

which is a scenario that
is becoming more and more

beleivable by the day.

It's worth noting that Russia's
defeat in World War One,

hastened by widespread defections
and military sabotage,

served as a primary catalyst
for the February Revolution,

and the overthrow of the Tsar.

History, as they say,
doesn't repeat itself

but it sometimes rhymes.

When the dust settles from this

there's going to be hell to payin Moscow.

Well perhaps maybe some
good will come from it.

A little revolution, now and
then, is a healthy thing.

We have now reached
the end of this

episode of System Fail.

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