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ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΟ ΝΗΜΑ ΕΝΩΠΙΟΝ ΤΩΝ ΕΚΛΟΓΩΝ:
/ΖΥΜΩΣΕ ΙΔΡΩΤΑ, ΑΙΜΑ, ΧΩΜΑ ΝΑ ΠΑΕΙ ΨΗΛΑ, ΜΠΡΟΣΤΑ ΤΟ ΚΟΜΜΑ/ ΕΚΔΟΣΗ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-DoSsKD1yg
Η λογική του μικρότερου κακού χρεοκόπησε πανηγυρικά με κεντρική ευθύνη της αστικοποιημένης αριστεράς. Αφού, έτσι κι αλλιώς είναι πιο πιθανό να μπει η ΝΙΚΗ στη βουλή απ΄ότι το ΜεΡα2,5 (το ότι πήρε ποσοστά κυρίως από αστικοποιημένες περιοχές και αρασίτες κάτι θα έπρεπε να λέει όπως και να χει), και η κακία δεξιά θα βγει όπως και να χει, λόγω της ενισχυμένης αναλογικής το ζήτημα μπαίνει μόνο έτσι: είτε ισχυρή, αγωνιστική, γνήσια λαϊκή αντιπολίτευση είτε 50% συμπολίτευση. Δηλαδή, το αν το ΚΚΕ θα καταφέρει να κρατήσει τους 11 επιπλέον αγωνιστές-βουλευτές του, ανθρώπους του κινήματος που το συνδέουν με το κεντρικό πολιτικό σκηνικό.
Οποίος, αναφερθεί στον "υπό εξέλιξη Γ' Παγκόσμιο Πόλεμο" για να τονίσει την λάθος γραμμή του ΚΚΕ για τον ιμπεριαλισμό, λες και αυτό είναι που διακυβεύεται στις αστικές εκλογές, θα έχει πρώτη θέση στα gulag tours.

Amazon workers strike for £15 minimum wage while company earns £1.2m an hour
HUNDREDS of workers at Coventry’s Amazon plant will begin their 16th day of strike action tomorrow as they demand better pay from the multinational. GMB members expect as many as 700 workers to join the walkout, as they demand £15 an hour from a company which posted profits equating to £1.2 million an hour in the last quarter. The strike action continues amid what GMB has hailed as a “historic” bid to gain recognition at the notoriously anti-trade union Amazon – that ballot is due to conclude on June 9.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/b/amazon-workers-strike-for-15-minimum-wage

Cambodian union chief who led long-running casino strike gets 2-year prison sentence
Chhim Sithar, president of the Labor Rights Supported Union of Khmer Employees of NagaWorld, has been leading a strike that began in December 2021 in protest of mass layoffs and alleged union-busting at the NagaWorld casino in the capital, Phnom Penh. She was convicted on a charge for leading a January 2022 demonstration of nearly 400 other dismissed employees who were demanding to be rehired.
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/cambodian-union-chief-led-long-running-casino-strike-99592504

CITU Tamil Nadu Padayatra Crosses Fifth Day, Welcomed Spiritedly in Stop-Overs
The Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) Tamil Nadu padayatra was enthusiastically welcomed in the stop-overs with garlands, shawls, trophies, and arathis. They were provided with refreshments and local varieties of fruits. Cultural performances ranging from folk to hip-hop were held, reiterating the attacks on the rights of the working class. On May 20, wearing caps and shoes, seven teams of CITU activists began their march against privatisation, demanding the abolition of contract systems, confirmation of an eight-hour working day and cancellation of the new pension scheme.
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To those that don’t know it was basically a period a few years ago where western news outlets would promote fear of CPC collapse through the Chinese housing market. This never happened because housing is needed chronically as china still has a massive portion of its population still living in rural communities that need homes to live in that the cpc as fast as it is with infrastructure cannot reasonably supply.

Judging from the state of what’s promoted in news today it looks like that era is finally over and with other good news no more clickbait over Chinese collapse is surfacing anymore on NMS(nato member state) news outlets anymore

Long-hidden ruins of vast network of Maya cities could recast history
<In Guatemala, scientists map well-organized network of 417 cities dating to circa 1000 B.C.

>Beneath 1,350 square miles of dense jungle in northern Guatemala, scientists have discovered 417 cities that date back to circa 1000 B.C. and that are connected by nearly 110 miles of “superhighways” — a network of what researchers called “the first freeway system in the world.”

>Scientist say this extensive road-and-city network, along with sophisticated ceremonial complexes, hydraulic systems and agricultural infrastructure, suggests that the ancient Maya civilization, which stretched through what is now Central America, was far more advanced than previously thought.

>Mapping the area since 2015 using lidar technology — an advanced type of radar that reveals things hidden by dense vegetation and the tree canopy — researchers have found what they say is evidence of a well-organized economic, political and social system operating some two millennia ago.

>The discovery is sparking a rethinking of the accepted idea that the people of the mid- to late-Preclassic Maya civilization (1000 B.C. to A.D. 250) would have been only hunter-gatherers, “roving bands of nomads, planting corn,” says Richard Hansen, the lead author of a study about the finding that was published in January and an affiliate research professor of archaeology at the University of Idaho.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2023/05/20/mayan-civilization-pyramid-discoveries-guatemala/

Graham Hancock - absolved
His detractors - BTFO
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>Attempt to organise a presidency announcement with Elon Musk
>It goes about as well as you'd think
>it somehow gets worse, fellow republicans turn on him
>Trump himself revels in the disaster
>Turns out his website is even worse design wise
>Even Joe Fucking Biden gets in on the DeSantis dunking

at least the capitalist dystopia is entertaining

Has anyone here read any of post-marxist Cornelius Castoriadis' critiques of Marx? I feel that in some places he gets the criticisms right, and in other places very wrong. Note that Castoriadis still remained a kind of anarchist.

Something I feel he got right:
- Whereas Marx claims that tech reduces surplus, by claiming that fixed costs would increase over time, and should lead to a reduction in variable costs like labour, Castoriadis criticises this heavily and says that tech provides opportunities to reduce fixed costs, and subsequently can actually increases the number of jobs

Neutral on this one (looking to hear what other people think)
- Castoriadis is highly critical of dialectics as a whole and suggests that Marx is claiming that simply because two things have tension with each other that they are opposites. Especially in the modern world where the lines between workers and capitalists have blurred such that we are all a sort of 'executant' now (think for example, a worker who owns company stock in the company they work out, takes on administrative tasks, or acts as a sort of middleman like a middle manager) and therefore suggests that bureaucracy is the largest enemy we have today that actually unites us on a human level, rather than individual classes of people. Institutions are socially constructed but have taken on a life of their own due to our alienation.

I think he's definitely wrong on this one:
- Tendency of rate of profit to fall. He analyzed this after the war when it was going back up, but it has continued to fall even lower after that point. However he definitely was right to suggest that capitalism was far more resilient than Marx made out

https://files.libcom.org/files/cc_psw_v2.pdf
I'm taking most of these points from 'Modern Capitalism and Revolution'. Castoriadis essentially argues that Marx is outdated and that the system has already transformed from a simple capitalist struggle of 'the one who does not own but works' and 'the one who owns and does not work' into something a lot messier, which Keynes was (according to him) better equipped to analyse.

every time a liberal discovers that the molotov ribbentrop agreement happened, they think they've discovered some hidden gem, and the key to deboonking communism and making it a pariah in the arena of public opinion.

Perhaps they are correct.

See, the real truth behind the molotov ribbentrop pact or the winter war doesn't matter. It doesn't matter that the USSR was trying to buy time, cut off potential corridors of german invasion, etc. etc. What matters is that the liberals have a simple, and easily disseminated narrative that can be repeated much faster than the counter-arguments. In short, they have a "Big Lie."

The "big lie" is a propaganda technique that involves telling a bold, often outrageous untruth as if it were fact. The idea behind this method is that by making such outlandish claims, they will stick in people's minds more than smaller lies because of their shock value, even if there is no evidence for them. Over time, these lies can become widely accepted as truth simply due to repetition. This concept was famously used during World War II by Nazi Germany's leader Adolf Hitler who said: “The bigger the lie, the more easily it will be believed.” The term has since been adopted by other groups and individuals in order to manipulate public opinion on various issues.

The MR Pact is a "big lie." How is it told? It is told in a very simple form: Hitler and a Stalin admired each other, came together and rape poland, and only ever fought in WW2 because they disagreed on how best to divide poland.

With this big lie, you have a narrative where the last world war was entirely caused by "National Socialists" and "Regular Socialists" coming together to rape "Innocent Poland." and then the brave liberal democracies with their freedom-loving capitalist economies intervening to save everyone from the holocaust. In this narrative stalin is an opportunist who joined the winning side.

This is how most people in the EU/US/UK/Australia/Canada/New Zealand have come to see WW2. Why? Because it is convenient for their broader anti-proletarian agenda of keeping their economies in private hands.

This is a thread only for people who actually do IRL organizing to exchange tactics and ideas. Its time to stop whining about bullshit like Wiccans or shizo pedo rape cult conspiracies, and actually get some actual lessons out of each other, for fucks sake.

Explain your situation, ask a question on what you would like some advice on, and give insight into what you do right now and how successful you are.

Let me start off
>I am the chairman of a local chapter of a socialist nation wide youth org of a european country
>We have, on paper, 90+ youth members in our local chapter
>We have, on paper, 1000+ members nationally
>Recently formed out of a split, still very much in flux
>The real local cadre is around 10-15 people with varying levels of commitment, about 6 people at each weekly or so meeting
>The ideological and practical education of our cadre is low
>Following a broadly orthodox marxist line, as opposed to classical marxist leninist, or maoist, but also containing trotskyites and anarchists

Now the thing I would like your feedback on is explaining how you conduct meetings, how to educate cadre, how to retain cadre, how to ensure people show up, what communist youths are even supposed to do. So let me sketch out what we do now

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Its been to long scene we had a thread about this important subject. I'll start with a post about this nazi group in Ohio called "blood tribe" they are super larpy and retarded. They are all cowards who wear masks except their leader who has a retarded facetats. They are constantly harassing the LGBTQ+ community and protesting drag shows.