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🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷 Aux armes, citoyens ! 🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷
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French people deserve a safe space and guarantees for their continued existence on loser imageboards!

Français! Ne succombez pas à l'impérialisme anglochiotte!
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>>2812834
Compliqué de ne pas finir en EHPAD à cet âge là… J'espère que ça va quand même bien pour lui.

Voici un article du dernier Monde Diplomatique à propos de l'industrie de la guerre en France (opportunités investissements pour les bourgeois, etc.)

>>2812866
J'aime bien Jean Baudrillard, même s'il a tout pompé sur Guy Debord en y ajoutant du jargon encore plus obscure, mais des comme lui on n'en fera pas deux. Imagine un intellectuel français qui écrirait dans Libération et le Guardian demain "La Guerre en Iran n'existe pas". Impensable à notre époque.

>>2812869
If nothing else Baudrillard helped me understand advertising, made me hate it bone deep whereas before I was merely annoyed. We’ll see how much damage the real economy can take before sign value and simulacrum collapses. After COVID I’m not too hopeful, maybe that’s anglo thinking.

>>2812873
Oui je pense qu'il écrivait à une époque assez différente, plus prospère, celle de Fukuyama et de sa thèse d'une "fin de l'histoire" néolibérale à laquelle Fukuyama lui-même ne croit plus.
Baudrillard les a un peu trollé quoi, mais je dirais que de nos jours, les acharnés de manifs sont généralement soit des jeunes urbains qui aiment bien les Labubus, mais sont quand même bien énervé.e.s quand ils voient l'état de leur compte en banque en milieu de mois, et des vieux qui ne se reconnaissent pas vraiment dans la société actuelle comparée à l'état d'insouciance qu'ils avaient après le baby-boom et une économie en pleine croissance, et ceux au milieu qui ne gagnent pas assez de thunes pendant que plusieurs potes à eux se sont mariés et ont une existence de classe moyenne confortable (de plus de plus dur à avoir de nos jours).
Quand on ne peut plus s'acheter le signe, le signe nous fout le seum, pour faire simple. Et on se déchaîne sur des signes de pauvres comme la Palestine ou un simple gilet jaune.



 

Cairo disarmament talks stall, raising fears of a renewed Israeli offensive in Gaza
Diplomatic sources indicate Mladenov has prioritised disarmament above all other issues, relegating reconstruction of the devastated Gaza Strip to a secondary concern. Palestinian officials have repeatedly rejected this sequencing, arguing that humanitarian relief should not be contingent on the surrender of weapons. Hamas reaffirmed its refusal in its latest response submitted in Cairo on Saturday, insisting Israel must first meet its obligations under the initial phase of the ceasefire and provide stronger security guarantees.
https://www.newarab.com/news/gaza-ceasefire-cairo-talks-stall-israel-eyes-return-war

Israel to sue New York Times over article describing its rape of Palestinians
Israel's MFA wrote: "Following the publication by Nicholas Kristof in The New York Times of one of the most hideous and distorted lies ever published against the State of Israel in the modern press, which also received the backing of the newspaper, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar have instructed the initiation of a defamation lawsuit against The New York Times."
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-sue-new-york-times-article-describing-its-rape-palestinians

Iran urges BRICS to condemn US, Israel for war, exposing bloc divisions
Araqchi said Iran was a "victim of illegal expansionism and warmongering". He asked the BRICS+ grouping - comprising Brazil, Russia, India, China, ​South Africa, Egypt, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Iran and the UAE - to resist "Western hegemony and the sense of impunity that the ⁠U.S. believes it is entitled to". "Iran therefore calls upon BRICS member states and all responsible members of the international community to explicitly condemn violations of ​international law by the United States and Israel," he said.
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/india-says-emerging-nations-eye-brics-groPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Supreme court allows abortion pill mifepristone to continue to be available by mail
The decision came nearly a half hour after the court missed its own 5pm EST deadline. Louisiana has no standing to challenge mail-order abortion, the court found, sending the case back to the fifth circuit. The suit is expected to return to the court on an official appeal, instead of emergency requests from drug manufacturers, in another term.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/14/supreme-court-mifepristone-abortion-pill-upheld

==Muslim American groups say Republicans are weaponizing congressional hearings=
Muslim ​American groups said congressional hearings that Republican lawmakers cast as aimed at making the U.S. "sharia-free" ‌are being weaponized against Muslim minorities in the United States by stoking fear against them. Republicans, who hold a majority in both chambers of Congress, titled a Wednesday hearing by a House Judiciary Subcommittee as "Sharia-Free America: Why Political Islam and ​Sharia Law are Incompatible with the U.S. Constitution." A similar hearing was also held in February.
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/muslim-american-groups-say-republicans-are-weaponizing-congressional-hearings-2026-05-15/

Crypto industry scores win as Clarity Act regulation bill clears Senate hurdle
During the hearing, both Republicans and Democrats committed to continue working through areas of disagreement, including how best to ensure bad actors using digital assets can be caught and ethics language to address the issue of elected officials, such as Trump, profiting from crypto.
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/14/clarity-act-congress-crypto-senate.html

DOJ Reportedly Set to Drop Fraud Charges Against Billionaire After He Hired Trump Attorney
The New York Times reported on Thursday that the DOJ—now headed by former Trump attorney Todd Blanche—is working on ending its case against Adani, who waPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Housing ourselves and others: 50 years of the Advisory Service for Squatters
Last October, the Advisory Service for Squatters celebrated its 50th anniversary, though squatting has been around much longer. In October 2024, we published the 15th edition of the famous Squatters Handbook, which had to be more detailed and complex than earlier editions. Squatting used to be a mass movement; a way for almost anyone in need to house themselves or make space for social use, against the domination of buildings by money and power. But after decades of attacks, sacred property values have been gradually restored, patrolled by the law and the increasingly bloated security industry. In 2012, a law was passed to criminalise squatting in empty residential buildings in England and Wales.
https://libcom.org/article/housing-ourselves-and-others-50-years-advisory-service-squatters

Indian communist parties suffer historic defeat: how did we get here?
The April-May state elections were an historic turning point in Indian politics. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist BJP conquered West Bengal, while the Left Democratic Front (LDF) lost control of Kerala. For the first time since 1977, not a single Indian state will be led by a communist party. The Communist Party of India (Marxist) – the largest and, in words, the most radical of the two main communist parties – described the results in Kerala as a “serious setback.” This is something of an understatement. The Indian National Congress – the main party of Indian capitalism – won 63 seats. Its allies in the United Democratic Front (UDF) won another 39, giving the UDF 102 of the 140 seats in Kerala’s state assembly. Meanwhile, the vote share for the CPI(M)-led coalition of four parties, including the Communist Party of India (CPI), fell by 12 percent. These results are nothing short of a catastrophe. However, this did not come out of the blue. It is the culmination of decades of decline for India’s communist parties, which have abandoned the ideas and methods of Marx and Lenin in favour of criminal class collaborationism. Let us look at the lessons for the working class and youth today.
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No seriously. Why did veganism and animal rights activism seemingly die out entirely from the left?

I’m old enough (38) to remember when veganism was practically a litmus test for determining if you were a principled leftist or not, especially in anarchist and Maoist spaces. Nowadays it seems like no one under 28 is vegan anymore, or gives a shit about animal rights.

Having become an anarchist as a teenager in the early 2000s, I fully remember how interwoven the radical left was with the animal rights and vegan movements. Gen X and xennial comrades in particular were very dogmatic about this issue, arguably more than they were most issues concerning US imperialism. But the younger generation doesn’t seem to care at all. Why?

For the record, I was never vegan and I eat an omnivore diet now, but still.
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>>2812018
>killing two cows is worse than killing one cow.
Since you believe torturing and killing animals is bad, are you vegan? If not, why? If killing two cows is worse than killing one, then killing none is the best, is it not?

>>2812023
>one guy
Abusing animals is in their job description.

>>2812031
partially because i am a lazy, flawed person who is good at compartmentalizing (this is of course 99% of the practical reason), partially because i am a pedant who judges that buying discounted meat (i am also a cheapskate) kills no cows (the killing comes before the selling) and that a structural resolution is necessary (and i can contribute to a structural resolution by defending vegans online while quietly continuing to eat meat and by preaching the gospel of "just increase the price of meat" - obviously i undermine the first part by being honest with you, but here we are.), and partially because i have a calvinist streak and so have always been at ease with the idea that i'm mired in sin (and suspicious of meat-eaters instinctive desire to defend themselves or rationalize why obvious wrongdoing is actually fine, rather than to accept their fractional involvement in immorality and with it, the generally evil state of the world.)

>>2812018
>utilitarianism
wow cool ethical framework, where'd you find it? philosophy 101? you dumbass. you basic bitch.

utilitarianism is the mark of the pseud. morons use it when they're out of their depth shortly before losing. tim pool does it constantly. one cow feeds a lot of people. if killing one cow feeds many people it must be good. killing two must be even better!

it gets proved over and over that vegans don't care about animals enough to do proper scholarship, and prefer to post torture porn which is fast, cheap, and cathartic. you guys have consistently failed to prove that veganism isn't ascetic moralism, and that ending meat consumption is even a worthy goal.

hell, I've been begging for proof of the environmental benefits that isn't: vegan resource use = resource use - livestock resource use. or economic proof that isn't based on imperial core net importers like europe or north america.

stupid fucking moralist fucking reductive arguments that don't quantify anything and abuse outliers are worthless. you are worthless. go eat more processed vegan slop from israel you mindless bovine.

>>2797233
This is objectively the correct answer.



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It's a new international network of communist, socialist and left-patriotic parties.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovintern

The ACP and Galloway's Workers Party of Britain is in it so it's gonna trigger some people. Some SocDems are in it. Evo Morales and the Sandanistas are in it. But overall I would give them a chance, considering the rather dysfunctional state of the IMCWP right now (thanks KKE).
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>>2812705
the sandinistas and the kenyan communist party. but you also have larpers like the workers party of britain.

I think collaboration between socialist parties is good but I don't trust the ACP personally, if it goes somewhere that'd be good.

>>2812775
Tbf that Kenyan party is a splinter from what was the more popular one. Sandinistas at least makes sense since the Nicaraguan government is pro-Russia.

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>>2811960
I think it's important to have a venue like this to work out disagreements over the most important questions facing communists in the 21st century.

>>2812795
This question was solved years ago, I'm tired of revionists boss



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>friends with Clinton’s in the 80s
>stated he liked Gadaffi
>democrat until recent times
>smart
>suddenly RW and retarded
>cartoonishly evil to the point of US collapse
Is trump the greatest accelerationist in American history?

>>2812711
You could have just made a post in USApol for this.

JDPON Don

>>2812711
I don't think so, man. He just fucked up his country in like a year, so the democrats will rule for the next like 8 years

>>2812711
>Is trump america’s hero?
No he's not.
He is America's curse.
>friends with Clinton’s in the 80s
Clinton is also bad you dumbass
>stated he liked Gadaffi
He supported the Invasion but changed his mind after it was unpopular and just so he could use it against Hillary Clinton, if he sincerely believed it was bad then he wouldn't be doing the same type of regime change now.
>democrat until recent times
Democrats also suck
>smart
no he's not he is a fucking dumbass
>suddenly RW and retarded
He always was but I know what you are trying to say
>cartoonishly evil to the point of US collapse
Yeah he is speeding up the collapse of the US empire but he does not have good intentions so you should not venerate him.



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https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3969807/

How true is this and is there a conclusion leftists can draw from it? It would imply that most people are extremely docile and that a very small minority of people are mentally capable of serious criminal activity due to differences in nature and nurture. Several important questions:

>does this mean "evil" is not as widespread as we think and is instead concentrated in the hands of a minority of full time psychos?

>can this minority used for something useful like high risk revolutionary activity due to them being more comfortable with serious transgressions
>is this minority a type of übermensch that makes them psychologically stronger than the average normie?
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>>2809709
What is unc doing 💀💀💀

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>>2809399
>China is more authoritarian than the US, but less authoritarian than Afghanistan.
ahahahahahahaha hit me up when the PRC does pics related and then I'll agree

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Citing from the study:
<A total of 93,642 individuals (3.9 %) had at least one violent conviction. The distribution of convictions was highly skewed; 24,342 persistent violent offenders (1.0 % of the total population) accounted for 63.2 % of all convictions. Persistence in violence was associated with male sex (OR 2.5), personality disorder (OR 2.3), violent crime conviction before age 19 (OR 2.0), drug-related offenses (OR 1.9), nonviolent criminality (OR 1.9), substance use disorder (OR 1.9), and major mental disorder (OR 1.3). […] The majority of violent crimes are perpetrated by a small number of persistent violent offenders, typically males, characterized by early onset of violent criminality, substance abuse, personality disorders, and nonviolent criminality.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3969807/
So its not that 1% is responsible for ALL crime, but that repeat violent offenders make up around 63% of the prison population, whioe at least 4% of the public have one case of violent offense. So then, some people are petty criminals (~4%), while lifetime criminals are a completely destructive force and total minority (1%). As far as I know, this correlates with the number of sociopaths (4%) and psychopaths (1%).

>>2812323
Apparently that Henry Earl guy passed away and was actually well liked.
https://www.kentucky.com/news/local/counties/fayette-county/article288709755.html

>>2812344
According to the article, most of his crimes were misdemeanors related to his homelessness, such as alcohol intoxication. If he was a repeat violent offender, he would definitely serve more time than 16 years in total. So, he would be in the ~35% of prison populations.



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https://www.facebook.com/share/p/18nWkeDEop/

>Mexico City social democRAT local politican from the neoliberal party that pretends to be leftist plastered political propaganda over an anti-imperialist graffiti

>His name?
>Israel Moreno, which translates to Brown Israel

Fucking clown world shit kek

>NOOOO HE ISN'T ACTUALLY LEFTIST REAL SOCIAL DEMOCRACY HAS NEVER BEEN TRIED
lol

>>2812205
In a certain sense, one could say that Mexico is the same as Israel.

>A minor capitalist state whose ruling classes thrive on the dispossession and genocide of the indigenous peoples and the (mostly rural) proletariat.

>Uses the military and paramilitary criminal groups to pillage and plunder land and resources
>Soldiers and US-sponsored criminals kill and recruit children
>The state tries to impose a grotesque form of nationalism based on either religion, mestizaje or "progressive" policies as a distraction from class struggle

>>2812222
What do you men schizo?
>>2812263
Correct.

muerte a toda la izquierda neoliberal de latam



 

You will never be a real country. You have no dignity, you have no constitution, you have no control over your own economy. You're just a rebellious piece of land twisted by capitalism and the USA into a crude mockery of the chinese perfection.

All the “validation” you get is two-faced and half-hearted. Behind your back, every single country mock you. The United States are disgusted and ashamed of you, but they pretend not to. Your “allies” laugh at your economic, military and political dependence behind closed curtains.

You will never be independent. Your leader wrench out a fake smile every single morning and tell himself it’s going to be ok, but deep inside you feel the national bankruptcy creeping up like a weed, ready to crush you under the unbearable weight.

Eventually it’ll be too much to bear - Your pseudo-president will wear a suit, will adjust the microphone, and announce that Taiwan will be pacifically conquered by the Chinese Nation, and plunge into the cold abyss of oblivion, that being said, or else a war will start not so far away, and China will conquer the territory that has always belonged to it, in a bloody and violent way.

When that happens, they'll update your Wikipedia page and all the history books, they'll list you as a "rebellious province of China," and you will always be remembered as a shitty little revolution that only lasted a few years, but that always belonged and always will belong to China, your history, your struggle, your sweat, it's all in vain, because at the end of the day, you are part of Chinese territory.

This is your fate. This is what you chose. There is no turning back, you will never be a real country.

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Stay mad, So Sad!

Ay first I thought this was about Argentina. But this is amazing. Beautiful, really. 💯

>>2811691
What is the point of this thread?
go back to reddit.



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As the post said, cant think of anything theyve done for the proletarian cause except use all their power to take it down. They want to preserve commodity production and wage labour for the sake of stability. Unlike marxist leninists who actually take efforts to communism.
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>>2811975
>what Bordigists actually do
…post on reddit?

I cant speak Italian so I read only translations of his work, but I would consider his prose the best of all big marxist writers.

>>2811975
Can someone explain to me this fetish many communist splinter groups have with 100 year old technology of propaganda, like leaflets and newspapers?

>>2812021
Having presence in actually physical space is extremely important for socialist orgs. Couple dozens members concentrated in your local area gives organisation far more political push than thousands scattered across entire coutry. Also you shouldnt rely on social media presence too much, as it can be taken from you on a whim.

>>2812005
No they split over the working with a union that one group within the party didn't like



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We know workers dislike domination. And contra Lyotard, they also dislike exploitation. But might a significant number of workers actually enjoy being estranged from the objects of their labor? Or at least, might they be indifferent enough to not see alienation as a problem?

Consider that as an alienated worker, I am encouraged to be utterly unconcerned with labor conditions outside of my own workplace. Or the quantity and quality of production of commodities that I do not consume. Those are the concerns of management and the bourgeoisie. My alienation provides a perverse degree of "freedom" from society, to focus only on my individual consumption and not the conditions of my fellow workers.

Whereas in a communist society of free and equal producers, I am supposed to have an interest the labor conditions in all workplaces in a society, as each directly affects the amount of social product available for consumption. The degree of political control needed to make that happen equitably seems extremely time-consuming and limiting, and I imagine a lot of workers would be turned off by it.

Perhaps that is why most 'socialist' experiments have never really addressed alienation, and why most workers seem completely resigned to the hyper-alienated existence mediated by apps and nation-states despite everyone allegedly agreeing on how horrible it is.
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>>2811416
None of this contradicts what was written earlier.
>The life-process of society, which is based on the process of material production, does not strip off its mystical veil until it is treated as production by freely associated men, and is consciously regulated by them in accordance with a settled plan.
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch01.htm

>>2811421
Deductions have to be made from everyone's comsumption credit to fund expansion of the MoP, plus public services. The size of that deduction needs to be determined politically by the working class.

>>2811519
So I’m gonna have to be on a zoom meeting with every other survivor of the civil war and we decide which sectors of workers get to bear the most tax burden to fund our public services.

>>2811613
That's how Parecon would probably do it. Presumably it could be organized better.
But would workers desire that kind of participation instead of their current alienated existence?

>>2810889
Aren't there like several type of alienations? Surely not all of them could have the same impact on everyone?



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