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Why is there no massive outrage of Ann Widcombe being murdered. Like not even 10% the outrage of Charlie Kirk being killed. I didn’t even know she was murdered I thought she was just some old chud who died of natural causes.

>>2875720
>because it happened quietly (they only discovered her when someone decided to do a health check to her place iirc)
>because it happened in the UK
>because it happened to a not very public person

Gene Hackman death had more attention because it was in the US and he was a famous actor.

literally who

She isn't brown.

>>>/leftybritpol/



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Of you’ve followed recent news, then it’s not hard to see that an increasing portion of young men are turning to the right whilst the left is greying its hair. Part of the reason is due to the “4chan-ification“ of mainstream social media which, depending on whom you ask, is occurring either because big tech has found that the best way to retain young males is by turning their apps into 4chan, or because of the right-wing turn within the big tech cartel that has successfully lobbied the US government on its behalf for years on end, itself since as liberal democracy falters so fascism is unleashed to protect capital and part of it involves turning normies into chuds and wignats to prep them into war mode jingoism.

But something else is at play, and that would be how the left (especially left-liberals) has often adopted ageism for opportunistic reasons, whether it’s by dismissing the concerns of young men even when they’re part of their own electorate, belittling their opposition by infantilising them, or when they dismiss criticism of them by using adultist language (e.g.,: “Let the adults in the room speak”). Now, not everything I mentioned is exclusive to the political left, as plenty of rightists and centrists use the same tactics I mentioned. Nevertheless, it doesn’t do mainstream leftists any favor when they do it too out of political and rhetorical expedience as well as to dismiss opposition against them in facile ways.

But it’s not the elders who are at fault, as younger leftists are responsible for the current predicament by either validating these adultist beliefs or by remaining silent on it. An example of enabling would be ”puriteens” who will vociferously try to shut down any discourse on sexuality (even if it relates to that of LGBTQ+ youth) based on ageist premises, and they’re partly the reason for the resurgence of purity culture among zoomers.

And then there’s the obvious unwillingness within most leftists to challenge ageist laws such as the voting age limit and the current age ID regimes that are spreading across the world. So their inaction isn’t just enabling the oppression of youths, but that of everybody else as well.

I could list many other problems, but you get the point: If the left really wants to gain ground among young people, they should campaign for the self-determination of young people too, for…

NO ONE IS FREE UNTIL EVERYBODY IS FREED!

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*If

**More images I couldn’t post because the site wouldn’t resize it. It mostly goes against the ableist logic used to deny self-determination to young people by the left under the excuse of “science”. Also applies to other dumb age limits like those for voting and entering into political office.

it's not a left or right thing, it's just how most people are when they get old, they become self-righteous and cynical and bitter and they resent the youth and they resent the world in general for changing in ways that they can no longer keep up with because their neuroplasticity has atrophied from age and living a stable privileged routine life and not challenging themselves or questioning their reality anymore. just as it requires more and more work and discipline to maintain a trim youthful physique as one ages, the same goes for the brain.

>An example of enabling would be ”puriteens” who will vociferously try to shut down any discourse on sexuality (even if it relates to that of LGBTQ+ youth)
uygha the "puriteens" you seethe so much are only ~1-2% of youth population and offline they're a non factor. Plus they clam up when you tell them the crackdown on sex stuff would affect the gay romance and smut they like.



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I understand a regular strike; you deprive a corporation of income and customers until they meet your demands. Makes perfect sense. But what does a hunger strike accomplish? You're doing the equivalent of holding your breath until your parents do what you want, except the parents in this metaphor don't give a shit if you die.

It seems like a completely infantile form of strike that would never produce any results, and yet there are numerous historical examples of it being used by even prominent political figures, let alone the cattle class. What's going on here?
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>>2875426

Comrades,

The revolutionary movement has always understood a truth that the imperialist mind cannot grasp, when a conscious revolutionary with a mass movement behind them approaches the final threshold of life, it does not signal defeat it ignites a chain reaction of liberated energy that shakes the foundations of the oppressor's order.

History provides us with irrefutable examples. When Comrade Bobby Sands and his heroic Irish republican comrades faced the imperialist gallows of British captivity, their conscious decision to sacrifice their physical bodies for the cause did not end their struggle it detonated it. Mass riots erupted, coordinated attacks were launched, and all sects of the Irish left and republican forces united in righteous fury. The same revolutionary phenomenon occurred when Greek anarchist comrades undertook their principled hunger strike against the bourgeois anti-leftist prisons, the masses responded in support with militant action, with street battles, with the unmistakable eruption of collective revolutionary will.

This is not coincidence. This is dialectics of human consciousness. This is the science of revolutionary consciousness in motion.

The Juche idea teaches us that consciousness is not an abstraction or divorce from Marxist materialism, it is a real, material force. Human consciousness, when forged through struggle, when tempered by the fires of class conflict, becomes a tangible weapon. Energy is real. The energy of the conscious worker, the energy of the revolutionary fighter, the energy of the masses united in a single purpose, this energy accumulates, concentrates, and when released, it transforms the objective conditions of struggle.

When a conscious revolutionary nears death, that accumulated energy does not dissipate. It is transferred. It activates. It "opens up the breach for future energies" The martyrdom of a single revolutionary, fully conscious of their role in history, fully aware that their physical body is the last weapon they possess, serves as a catalyst. Their sacrifice is immortalized, and it focuses the scattered energy of the masses, crystallizes the contradictions of the system, and transforms passive sympathy into active combatancy.

This is the revolutionary dialectic at its most potent, when forced into a corner, the conscious workPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

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>>2875422
>hunger strikes are hardcore, arguably more so than suiciding yourself because it's a slow death and shows absolute determination
Is starving yourself really that hardcore? I once went a couple weeks without eating and I wasn't even protesting anything. Maybe I just can't relate enough to the gluttonous nature of the average Joe to properly appreciate hunger strikes.

>>2875506
Big difference between anorexia, fasting, and hunger strike, intention being the main one

>>2875422
It's also enjoyable now that it's broadcasted online for whoever you're protesting against, they can enjoy your slow deterioration every day while they enjoy their breakfast

>>2875534
The point is to bring attention, if you're not the only one watching then they're succeeding



 

India protest movement holds capital sit-in as police crack down on demonstrators
Thursday’s demonstrations at Jantar Mantar, a designated protest site in New Delhi, followed overnight clashes in which police used tear gas and batons to disperse crowds, the second such confrontation this week. On Monday, thousands of protesters had defied restrictions and marched toward Parliament before police broke up the demonstration with tear gas and batons.
https://apnews.com/article/india-cockroach-party-youth-movement-protest-modi-d226d142657cd297c3d4232716a8a626

Media groups decry harassment of journalists, activist during protest
In a statement, the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) said members of the Southern Police District allegedly arrested environmental activist and Bulatlat contributor Jian Sanz while taking photos during a mobilization in connection with the visit of United States State Secretary Marco Rubio in the country for the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Foreign Ministers’ Meeting.
https://www.bulatlat.com/2026/07/23/media-groups-decry-harassment-of-journalists-activist-during-protest/

Pakistan rejects Amnesty's call for investigation into air strike on Kabul rehabilitation centre
The human rights group says the attack amounts to a war crime, but Pakistan dismissed the allegations today, claiming the operation was a lawful act of self-defence. Foreign Ministry spokesman Tahir Andrabi told a news briefing in Islamabad that Pakistan “completely rejects the allegations,” saying it was “unfortunate” that such serious claims had been made “without any credible evidence.”
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/pakistan-rejects-amnestys-call-investigation-air-strike-kabul-rehabilitation-centre

Split in Turkish opposition CHP becomes official: Özgür Özel announces new party
At least Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

Always and forever, tybna

Democrats say Social Security boss’ message pushed misleading statements on Trump tax law’s benefits
The New Deal-era program carries significant weight with voters, millions of whom rely on it, making talk of cutting benefits unpopular. Adding to the potency of the issue is the program’s looming funding shortfall. Democrats and Republicans are competing this November for control of the narrowly divided House, with the Senate increasingly in play, injecting an incentive for both sides to press their advantages.
https://apnews.com/article/social-security-bisignano-message-taxes-democrats-bb6a1a4f0c9d18f5ece322068c920f8b

‘An Abuse of the USGS, the Environment, and Our Intellects’: Trump Admin Uses Public Lands Report to Push Coal
President Donald Trump’s administration has dedicated over $1 billion to boosting the coal industry, and on Thursday announced a report about reserves beneath federally managed public lands, with Interior Secretary Doug Burgum claiming that the polluting fossil fuel “is more important than ever to the production of electricity.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-clean-coal

Alaska sends 3,000 letters asking voters to verify their citizenship ahead of this year’s elections
The Alaska letter asks recipients to affirm their citizenship status via letter, phone or email, and Beecher said the division is not requiring paperwork or documentation. Those who receive the letter are moved to a list of “inactive” voters. If the division doesn’t hear back from the recipient, they still would be able to cast a special kind of ballot that also requires voters to attest to their qualifications to vote, she said.
https://apnews.com/article/alaska-elections-citizenship-voting-primary-9e4db5ee464efe244928e3c9db119ff6

Wisconsin protesters demand justice for man shot dead by police
Late on Wednesday demonstrators gathered at the scene and ​at the Capitol, where an outdoor concert wasPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Episode 564: Sugar(TrueAnon)
An examination of the strike at the C&H Sugar Refinery in Crockett, California, and its place in history and the present.
https://www.patreon.com/TrueAnonPod/posts/episode-564-164636509

Repression Intensifies in Bolivia with Arrest of Prominent Peasant Leaders
On Saturday, July 17, one month after the government in Bolivia declared a state of emergency, right-wing president Rodrigo Paz arrested movement leaders David Mamani, of the Tupac Katari Federation, who was in hiding, and David Quispe Machaca, of the Unified Confederation of Peasant Workers (CSUTCB). The government has accused both leaders of “terrorism.” This is the same argument the government uses to criminalize and persecute those who mobilized during the more than 50 days of blockades. La Izquierda Diario (Left Voice’s sister site in Bolivia) demands freedom for David Quispe, David Mamani, Vicente Salazar, and all those detained during the May and June mobilizations! Strikingly, following these arrests, the Bolivian Workers’ Central (COB) quickly published its call for dialogue with the government of Rodrigo Paz. Not only that, but the commission for reviewing and monitoring judicial processes is no longer even included in these discussions. It’s important to remember that the Paz government was able to impose the state of emergency thanks to the betrayal of COB leader, Mario Argollo and the National Executive Committee (CEN) of the COB, through their signing of an agreement on June 19. These new arrests come amid the escalating persecution that the Paz government is carrying our, thanks to the impunity afforded by the state of emergency. To date, the La Paz Departmental Prosecutor’s Office itself has reported that 114 criminal cases have been opened, 75 of which were initiated ex officio.
https://www.leftvoice.org/repression-intensifies-in-bolivia-with-arrest-of-prominent-peasant-leaders/

Marco Rubio and the Myth of the “Communist Refugee”
Fox News host Martha MacCallum recently interviewed New York City Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) co-chair Gustavo Gordillo, clashing over wPost too long. Click here to view the full text.



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Doesn't really need to be addressed though there are many on xitter (or maybe my algorithm is weird idk), any words from the mlms and is there anything Marxist about it

>>2875247
>Doesn't really need to be addressed

>>2875247
>>2875249
I'm mutuals with a guy like this. He considers himself a Third Positionist rather than a Nazi. From what I've seen they take ideas from both the right and the left, quoting Lenin in one post and Goebbels in another. They anti-capitalist and basically wants every nation to be North Korea. The only consistent position is hating Jews.

I don't care what retards on Twitter are doing

>>2875247
I remember some years ago people claiming Chinese intellectuals were studying Carl Schmitt. To what end, I have no idea.

fbi ahh ideology



 

Any predictions for the outcome of the 2026 American midterm elections?

Any socialists on the ballot?

Any guesses as to how the redistributing/gerrymandering issue will play into things?

How do you think issues like Trump’s wars, the tariffs, ICE raids, Black issues, Medicare For All, the climate, voting rights, abortion, trans issues, autistic/neurodivergent issues, and Palestine will affect the outcome? For instance, are we seeing a split in the Democrats over Palestine and other foreign policy issues?
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When Mr. Wilimos debates with Mr. Cooper and Mr. Whatley. It will be here. Stay tuned.

>>2842692
God, if only.

Nirav shah is officially endorsed by Jack wilimos campaign. Let’s see what happens next.

Now, we officially endorse Troy Jackson. May he not disappoint.

I think the economy is going to shit the bed hard some time in September and even with Trump and his allied Republicans eating incredible amounts of shit the Democrats are still going to hardly move the needle because all their energy is focused on combatting the DSA instead of Trump.



 

People here spend a lot of time arguing over whether historical socialist states were either great successes or complete disasters, but not much time talking about *why* specific things actually worked or failed. So here's a simple question:

>Pick one success and one failure from any historical socialist state.


Not necessarily the biggest or most famous examples, just the ones you think have the most to teach us. What happened? Why did it succeed or fail? Was it a matter of policy, leadership, material conditions, foreign pressure, bureaucracy, ideology, or something else? I'm less interested in moral judgments and more interested in what lessons can actually be drawn from it. Could be the USSR, China, Cuba, Vietnam, Yugoslavia, the GDR, Burkina Faso under Sankara, or anywhere else.

Bonus points if you pick something other than the usual "USSR industrialization" or "Great Leap Forward."
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>success
Reform and opening up, which succeeded in large part because Mao built the basis for it by building up literacy and smashing "traditional" culture. Fundamentally, productive forces were not and are not yet developed enough for communism and recognising this reality and adapting to it while maintaining party rule is commendable. In general, export-led development is a good strategy because you cannot force external actors to buy your products, so you have to develop things of the quality and type actually desired.
>failure
Gorbachev's attempted reforms. Nobody actually understood the Soviet economy or how it worked so each attempted tweak made things worse. The more valuable lesson, however, is that an ideological approach was just about the worst approach possible to reform. Gorbachev went back to Lenin to pick up many of his worst ideas (like giving nationalities more power based on Lenin's decisions in the 1920s) and was still fretting about how to maintain worker co-ops and not-really do capitalism even while moving to a market economy, which just confused things further. By the time it was generally recognised that the USSR had to move towards a market economy if it wanted to survive, it was already impossible to do so.

That China is regarded as a betrayer of communism as an ideal while the USSR is looked back on wistfully for martyring itself against underlying reality is an unfortunate emotional impulse that should be checked. It doesn't matter if the cat is black or white, so long as it hasn't committed suicide there's hope for it yet.

>>2869748
>the alliance workers ,peasants and medieval knights
nahh Im not feeling it, they were already larping as knights with those grey pointy hats that resembled helmets, also putting a sword on the symbol would've been too much

>>2869748
>I believe that had this been adopted, the alliance between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union would have endured
Please look up "Operation Barbarossa".

ussr best decision:
calling geopolitics bourgeois pseudo-science
ussr worst decision:
calling state capitalism socialism

Not sure, but i'd say Lenin invading Poland immediately after the civil war like the whole of the USSR wasn't in shambles is certainly one of them



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Obviously the corporate class seeks exponential growth at all costs. From that perspective the most evil actions will make a kind of internal sense. But what doesn't make sense is that so many of the decisions made by major Western corporations seem actively self-destructive. It's almost the equivalent of internal sabotage or following spectacularly bad advice, yet they all seem to be doing it.

You can see it across the auto industry, fast food, retail, entertainment. pretty much everywhere. Like If I were an amoral, profit-maximizing CEO, I'd focus on keeping my customer base in the imperial core happy, well-fed, and dependent, while paying workers in the developing world as little as possible and using coercion to suppress resistance if necessary. That would at least be internally consistent with maximizing profits. Instead companies keep raising prices, cutting quality and generally making life worse for their own customers. These decisions aren't just going to fuck them over in the long term, they're imploding their businesses right now, yet they all keep making them anyway. This trend seems to have accelerated after COVID. What happened?
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>>2868659
>acha bhai mai totally aik amreki agent ho

It's also very easy to put something in google translate to pretend to be fluent in a language so you can pretend to be from another country.

>>2869269
That user's IP does read as being in Karachi for whatever that's worth. It's not impossible to find someone from outside the west online you know.

>>2867535
yet another instance where the best marxist analysis comes from an-nils

idk why i use this fossil flag. are there any good recent theoretical works from this bloc? nihilist communism is a must-read on here. I find myself agreeing with the encylopedie des nuisances types about stuff

>>2867494
>What happened?
TRPF https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tendency_of_the_rate_of_profit_to_fall

>>2867535
>neoliberalism, in which the ability for capital to innovate and build anything was entirely abandoned in favor of what is essentially a scam
There were innovations. The '90s info-tech boom (and its aftershocks with Uber/social media slop and now AI) and also the biomedical revolution were notable. Melinda Cooper wrote about stuff like Monsanto patents of biology

>>2867970
>the stereotypical Gen X angst was rooted in the feeling that there was too much abundance and security, that life somehow "sucked" because they had to show up every day to a clean, comfortable office cubicle, which was treated as if it were its own kind of hell.
nu metal like Korn = working class chud music for the pioneer footsoldiers of the satanic empire
hipster alt-rock like The Strokes = petite bourgeois cannibal settler music for the downwardly mobile Jeffrey Epstein PMC class

>>2867536
Tbh a lot of corporations probably ARE more incompetent now, in large part because of the exodus of older professionals from the economy in the wake of covid, and the prevalence of the opposition to all the aspects of a healthy corporate culture that would lead to both cultivating competence in a workforce as well as creating a resilient social structure to perpetuate that.

For example, one of the current corporate culture's most cherished ideas is that knowledge and people are perfectly fungible. There's no effort to keep those with institutional knowledge because the idea that people or individuals are essential or necessary is anathema to the principle that anyone can be discarded at any time and replaced at will. You can see this manifested in the drive for AI, where things like human creativity which requires the accumulation and development of a great deal of knowledge and experience is attempting to be mechanized out of existence.

Tl;dr: competency is disappearing because those that had it have left the industry and the mechanisms for transferring that competency have atrophied or been intentionally degraded.



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Do you guy think the democratic socialists will become major players in future us politics? seeing as people want le third option away from the dems and republicans while being too retarded for communism or fascism past its basic utranationalist principles do you think they'll turn to demsocs or some other form of governance? (pic super rel)
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>>2875118
Bernie wasn't left-Trump. Bernie surrendered which made Bernie's entire coalition scatter across the spectrum. If there is an actual fighter who is prepared to get down with the DNC establishment there can be some longevity here

>>2874983
So DSA should start doing entryism to the GOP instead of the DNC?

>>2875193
I'd love that if all the centrist Dems went over to the GOP and turned them more sane/lib and then the chud wing and the Christian nationalists end up politically homeless.

>>2874800
A right-wing split the supported the invasion of Socialist Vietnam?

>>2875195
Yes. The DSA founders supported the Vietnam War at first.



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PERU ELECTIONS 2026
PENCILMAN FOREVER IN OUR HEARTS
Well dear leftypol, the country with more presidents in the decade now has to again elect one. After the debacle of Pencilman I, the betrayal of Dinamita Boluarte, the r*pist lapdog of Jeri and the sarcophagus of current Balcazar comes the rematch. Roberto Sanchez, exminister in Castillo's goverment is practically the second round candidate with Fujimori (no explanation needed). Now, he is being bombarded by the press to debilitate his campaing and with all the sloganeering as always (statist, terrierist, betrayer, etc).
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Peru literally sold their country to Japan on a silver platter ffs

>>2837114
Jokes on you everything that could be sold has been sold. Don't you know the Fujimori privatisacion and constitutional prohibition on creating state owned enterprises?

>>2838177
>Milei is a great ally of China
describe how he is an ally in 10 different and concrete ways


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what do you call this?



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