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US appeals court reverses decision that freed Mahmoud Khalil from ICE detention
A 2-1 panel of the Philadelphia-based third US circuit court of appeals ordered the dismissal of a lawsuit Khalil filed challenging his detention after finding that federal immigration law stripped the lower court of jurisdiction over his claims. Khalil’s legal battle has been unfolding in two different courts. While an immigration court was considering his potential removal from the US, his lawyers simultaneously challenged the legality of his detention in federal court, arguing that it violated his constitutional rights. Thursday’s decision finds that the district court judge who ordered his release lacked the proper authority to consider Khalil’s release petition, concluding that the judge did not have subject-matter jurisdiction over the case.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/15/appeals-court-mahmoud-khalil-columbia-activist

2nd federal officer shooting in Minneapolis prompts protests, calls for calm
The Department of Homeland Security said a federal law enforcement officer shot a person in Minneapolis on Wednesday evening, saying the latter fled a traffic stop and then – along with two other people – began attacking the officer. "Fearing for his life and safety as he was being ambushed by three individuals, the officer fired defensive shots to defend his life," DHS said in a statement on social media. "The initial subject was hit in the leg."
https://abcnews.go.com/US/2nd-federal-officer-shooting-minneapolis-prompts-protests-calls/story?id=129234818

Pregnancy prosecutions are on the rise
At least 412 pregnant women were charged with child abuse, neglect or other crimes related to pregnancy or pregnancy loss in the two years after the Supreme Court overturned the national right to abortion, the advocacy group Pregnancy Justice found. That's compared with an average of about 85 cases annually in the 16 years leading up to the June 2022 decision, though cases ranged from 29 to 158 per year over that period. The Dobbs ruling immediately gavPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Prisons, probation, and crime: Britain’s state machinery at breaking point
When he became Prime Minister in 2019, Boris Johnson promised more police, more prison spaces, longer sentencing, and better prison security. Similar promises were made by Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss before they took the helm. Not wishing to be outflanked by his friends on the other side of the house, Starmer put ‘law and order’ at the heart of his election campaign, praising the methods of Thatcher. He – laughably – promised to restore public confidence in the police. However, at the same time as making these big (and expensive!) promises, these same parties have continuously made cuts to the services they would need to do this. They can promise all they want, but the state’s institutions are too overburdened and underfunded – its staff too overstretched and demoralised – to carry out any of these law and order pledges.
https://communist.red/prisons-probation-and-crime-britains-state-machinery-at-breaking-point/

No War but Class War: Revolutionary Defeatism in the Russo-Ukrainian Conflict
The war between Russia and Ukraine is often presented as a clear-cut narrative of imperial aggression versus national defence. In mainstream discourse, Russia is portrayed as the sole aggressor, with Ukraine as a victim bravely defending its sovereignty. However, this oversimplified framing serves the interests of Western imperialism, NATO expansionism, and global capitalist powers, while conveniently ignoring the complexities of the conflict—particularly the long-standing tensions in the Donbas region. From an anarcho-communist perspective, the story is not about good versus evil states but about imperialism, nationalism, and the manipulation of working-class people by ruling elites. A more nuanced analysis recognises that the seeds of this war were planted long before the 2022 invasion, especially in the political and military developments following the 2014 Maidan uprising and the subsequent conflict in Donbas. Acknowledging that Ukraine played a role in escalating this conflict—particularly through its actions in Donbas—does not justify Russian imperialism. Instead, anarchists must reject both Russian and Ukrainian state violence, embracing revolutionary defeatism. In this warPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

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Flashback:

It had been less than 24 hours. A healthcare CEO, one of the top ghouls for capitalism, had just gotten blasted on primetime in NYC. All the surveillance in the world couldn’t prevent homeboy from getting slimed out in Manhattan. No one knew the name of the assassin, but we all knew he was a hero.

Less than 24 hours had passed and HOUDINI? We already had a DJ mix ready to go. Already sampled the news clip. Put that CEO on a motherfucking tee shirt. Deny. Defend. Depose.—the words carved into the bullet shells became the title for the mix. You can listen to that mix here.

Why drill music? Because we dropping bodies, that’s why. Because for too long, it’s been the poor killing the poor over the scraps the rich leave us, and for once, it was the working class getting one on the rich. Instead of fighting each other, we killed one of them. And that’s big facts. And that’s the moral of the story.

They want us killing each other in the streets. They want us fighting each other for a sliver of dignity. They do not want us taking the fight to the master, the exploiter, the capitalist.

The streets spoke, and a healthcare CEO got his. Simple as.

Here's some key Erik Houdini quotes from the coverage to sit with.

"People aren't just ambivalent—they're celebrating. They see this for what it is: someone striking back. And that terrifies the system. Do you really think they want the poor—people who've been killing each other for scraps in the streets—to start looking at this and thinking, damn, that motherfucker got a lot of clout? Everybody loves this guy. The last thing they want is for this to inspire others."
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>>2647942
i hate crackericans so much bro why did santa anna have to go and fuck up so badly with the texans

>>2648047
Yeah it's more likely that Europe goes the way of cold war South America with far right shithole governments that end up collapsing because they no longer have the capacity to imperialize and fund their corporatism. only then will the commies begin acting

Somaliland official runs away from an interview with Al Jazzeera

Translation of the interview

Ahmed Taha, a presenter on Al Jazeera, conducted an interview with Hirsi Ali , president of the ruling Waddani Party in the so called Somaliland . During the interview , Ahmed Taha posed the question that many observers are currently raising :
The question everyone is asking now is:
Why did you take this controversial and infuriating step, not only to the Arab and Islamic regimes but also to the Arab and Islamic peoples, regarding normalization with Israel and receiving the Israeli Foreign Minister at a time when the Israelis are killing Palestinians day and night in the Gaza Strip and in Lebanon?
Why did you take this step?
I ask you, what prompted you to take this step of normalization with Israel? ) .


Hirsi Ali , president of the ruling Waddani Party in the so called Somaliland , responded :
First , I want to say that the word "separatists" . We are not separatists; we have been an independent state for 34 years.
The issue of normalizing relations with Israel is not limited to Somaliland; many Arab and Islamic countries have extensive political and economic ties with Israel, such as Egypt, Turkey, Jordan, the UAE, Morocco, and others. We in Somaliland have no choice but to welcome any country that recognizes our right to exist. We are not in a position of choice, but rather in a position of necessity for official international recognition. We also emphasize that our relations with Israel are diplomatic and based on mutual exchange .

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>>2637732
holy based

Materialist explanation for this level of coonery?

lol
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>>2647263
you are talking like a woman

>social suicide

a real man doesn't care about society, a real man is mean mugging all the time lifting weights and getting pussy, smoking cigarettes, listening to motorhead, not having ANY fun at all, looking at paint dry, eating nails

you will never be a REAL man (tm)

Being fat is not manly, Haz

>>2647603
>lifting weights
true. working out with your bros, wiping the sweat off their chiseled chests and jokingly comparing dick sizes in the showers is as manly as it gets
>getting pussy
real men don't waste time with women. that's kinda gay

>>2644368
The Wehrmacht soldier, or Tyler from Dead Domain's interview "RETVRN"?

peak manhood is not caring what defines manhood and what isn't and just being comfortable and happy as a man

>>2641453
>Canada would be an actual probable nation for a western revolution
Nope. Zero class consciousness will result only in fascism in these countries during crisis.

>>2642389
In cities class consciousness is WAY more common then in the US, even boomers have it.

>>2641453
Unfortunately our future is inevitably tied to the US. We could never have a revolution on our own without one south of the border since it would be swiftly crushed.
>>2641864
I'd be down for the Pearson Pennant tbqh, maybe with the white and red reversed.

>>2642932
Stop being a doomer
If the US invaded canada the US would starve itself from water and oil and food

>>2641520
>>2642932
If backwards middle eastern countries are able to resist US imperialism, Canada most certainly can.

>>2641870
>historically progressive
Stop throwing around terminology at random.

>>2647832
In the next 10 years at this rate

>>2647871
theory is just vibes but more verbose

>Man is training crow to attack maga hats
Crows vs Vultures.

American: Collectivism le bad
Trve?

>>2647525
I guarantee that hardcore MAGA will find ways to believe that trump is not dead.

>A rotten spirit is making itself felt in our party in Germany, not so much among the masses as among the leaders
~ Karl Marx, 1877

Revisionism was a reformist trend in the left that came around the Second International after Friedrich Engels' death. It was founded by Eduard Bernstein, who was a German marxist theoretician of the SPD influenced by Fabianism. Revisionism called for a revision of Marxism on the basis that it had become outdated, even obsolete. However, this revision soon turned into straight up abandoning chunks of Marxism and replacing them with liberal ideas. Bernstein tried to replace the materialism of Marxism with neo-kantian philosophy, challenged the Labor theory of value and the dictatorship of the proletariat, argued that capitalism's crises/contradictions were stopping, that capital was becoming less concentrated and more democratized. That the real task of the working class was to win reforms in the capitalist system: The final goal of socialism meant nothing, the day to day movement everything. Capitalism wasn't a reactionary doomed system but was evolving into socialism. Kautsky called it the "Abandonment of the fundamental principles and conceptions of scientific socialism". Lenin called it, "A trend hostile to Marxism within Marxism itself".
>Bernstein would have nothing to do with the idea of revolution or insurrection. The term, "Dictatorship of the Proletariat" was to him an unfortunate phrase which must be dropped. The Socialist movement should not attack the Liberals too severely. Indeed, Socialism was but the legitimate heir of Liberalism and continued the tasks of that great historical movement. Liberalism was no obstacle to Socialism, but a good starting point. "There is actually no real liberal thought which does not also belong to the elements of the ideas of socialism." Socialism could be called "organizing Liberalism" because Socialism, too, freed the individual who must be the basic starting point
https://www.marxists.org/archive/weisbord/conquest20.htm

Several figures on the left denounced revisionism, like Kautsky, Bebel, Lenin, Rosa, De Leon and Jaures. Revisionism was officially repudiated by the Second International at the 1903 congress of Dresden and 1904 Amsterdam:
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>>2639941
the ICL demarcation line between Marxism and Revisionism is this:
"The current demarcation line between Marxism and revisionism consists
in: 1) acknowledging or not acknowledging Maoism as the third, new and
higher stage of Marxism and the necessity to combat revisionism and all
opportunism; 2) acknowledging or not acknowledging the omnipotence of
revolutionary violence in order to make revolution in each one’s own coun-
try; 3) acknowledging or not acknowledging the necessity to demolish the
old state apparatus and replace the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie with the
dictatorship of the proletariat; 4) acknowledging or not acknowledging the
necessity of the revolutionary party of the proletariat. 5) acknowledging or
not acknowledging the necessity of proletarian internationalism."

>>2640168
Lmao was in the middle of typing this when I saw your reply

>>2643980
My frustration with the ICL definition, as with much of their writing, is that many of their assertions about what these basic principles even are, stemming from the PCP, introduce confusion and (to me) speak to an underdeveloped line. There are certainly worse definitions out there, but I wouldn't use this to explain anti-revisionism to the uninitiated, as you are here.

For example:
>acknowledging or not acknowledging the omnipotence of revolutionary violence in order to make revolution in each one’s own country
and
>acknowledging or not acknowledging the necessity of proletarian internationalism
I agree with these two points, but how exactly does the ICL assess these "acknowledgements" in practice? Does proletarian internationalism in the present period necessarily entail supporting the reconstitution of the Comintern? Does acknowledging the omnipotence of revolutionary violence mean adopting Protracted People's War as a universal strategy for revolution, or will the broader view of People's War expressed by RIM and MIM suffice? Additionally, while I must emphasize that I don't disagree with any of this in principle, my experience with ICL-aligned folks IRL has been one of constant frustration and inability to unite despite that. In the US, at least, the ICL appears to be reproducing the same petty bourgeois, white chauvinist errors of the old RCP, and so I would posit that these points are in some way insufficient to fully demarcating revisionism and anti-revisionism in a universal way.

>>2643980
How about you revise deez nuts

>>2646310
>considered the US to be the true achievement of communism, given that everyone was more or less opulent there according to him.
So a typical westoid imperialist-socialist, then.
Just enslave the whole world bro and you can have socialism for the bourgeoisie (WOW, YOU DON'T SAY?)

peak soccdem thought

>>2647739
I think the statement was provocative but he did have a somewhat weird relation to Marxist thought.

>>2647744
Socialism is socialized production + socialized, surplus, mere sozialized surplus isn't socialism

So it doesn't work either way

>>2646749
Anon you are misinterpreting Fukuyama either deliberately or accidentally. Fukuyama did not say that desire for recognition is detached from material relations; what he argued is that *once* material deprivation is fulfilled thymos will become the centrepoint of conflict. He did not discount the fact that a lot of struggle for dignity is also accompanied by struggle for economic rights and social; where he disagreed with is with the traditional (vulgar) Marxist distinction that class antagonism is the sole origin and motivation of desire for recognition, something which Marx himself denied! (And you cannot seriously believe in this, and then believe in imperialism at the same time. How do you explain struggle over dignity in the imperial core then? Especially at the interclass level? ). This also disguises a crucial fact; left unsaid in this disagreement is that you agreed with Fukuyama's framing of recognition between individuals, you simply believe that the Fukuyamaist conception of Zootopia-like legal recognition is hollow liberalism. Dugin would agree, but for a completely different reason

>>2647793
>what he argued is that *once* material deprivation is fulfilled thymos will become the centrepoint of conflict.
I know anon, this is why we were talking about Kojève, and not Fukuyama. For Kojève, recognition doesn't come "after" the material satisfaction, it exists all the time and is a core part of human life (in fact, it defines it)
Nonetheless, this is also a poor argument by Fukuyama. Derrida in Spectres of Marx talks about this : saying that market capitalism is the end of times because it satisfies material needs whilst millions die of hunger is a bit silly.

>thymos will become the centrepoint of conflict
That's also what Fukuyama gets wrong. Thymos isn't a thing per-se, it's something that exists as a medium to signify "this is injust/this is undignified" in relation to some structure or object. Thymos is inherently tied to the institutions. Ergo, if the material structure changes, then so does the recognition desires. I was actually surprised that this was the core of Fukuyama's argument, because it doesn't really contradicts marxism but rather ignores it. It ignores that material structure changes, which is the fundamental reason why people also change consciously (and thus have all kinds of perpetually different thymotic desires).

>where he disagreed with is with the traditional (vulgar) […]
I haven't read his book in a while but isn't his claim that marx was an economism that only focused on the material satisfaction ?

>left unsaid in this disagreement is that you agreed with Fukuyama's framing of recognition between individuals
I do, and I think that most marxists implicitly do. What causes the revolution isn't a necessary element, but the contingent expression of unsatisfied "thymos" and material conditions (which really englobe thymos anyway).