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>Be nazis
>See nearly 100 year old lynching of a Jew
>Attempt to convince the internet that he was guilty
>This was obviously false considering all the evidence leads to the factory's janitor being guilty
>Still succeed because people are stupid
Has this ever happened before?
>Be nazis
>See nearly 100 year old lynching of a Jew
>Attempt to convince the internet that he was guilty
>This was obviously false considering all the evidence leads to the factory's janitor being guilty
>Still succeed because people are stupid
Has this ever happened before?
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this website kinda sucks rn guys
i want an actual lefty imageboard how do we get people on here
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>The Society of the Spectacle (1967) by Guy Debord
📖 • https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/debord/society.htm
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0blWjssVoUQ
<The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (1936) by Walter Benjamin
📖 • https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/ge/benjamin.htm
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blq9sCIyXgA
>The Culture Industry from Dialectic of Enlightenment (1944) by Theodore Adorno & Max Horkheimer
📓 • https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/adorno/1944/culture-industry.htm
📖 • https://libcom.org/article/dialectic-enlightenment-philosophical-fragments-theodor-adorno-and-marx-horkheimer
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hSLdd8R8mY
<Understanding Media (1964) by Marshall McLuhan
📖 • https://designopendata.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/understanding-media-mcluhan.pdf
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09ML9n5f1fE
>One-Dimensional Man (1964) by Herbert Marcuse
📖 • https://libcom.org/article/one-dimensional-man-studies-ideology-advanced-industrial-society-herbert-marcuse
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZCoLbEkAqs
<Discipline and Punish (1975) by Michel Foucault
📖 • https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/michel-foucault-discipline-and-punishment
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s82uU4iRuko
>Simulacra and Simulation (1981) by Jean Baudrillard
📖 • https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=DBF3E860993373223D72E98FADF0F2DC
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Yxg2_6_YLs
<Manufacturing Consent (1988) by Edward S. Herman & Noam Chomsky
📖 • https://libcom.org/article/manufacturing-consent-political-economy-mass-media-noam-chomsky-and-edward-s-herman
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34LGPIXvU5M
>The Sublime Object of Ideology (1989) by Slavoj Zizek
📖 • https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=054E022C8BD24EE2C5595B575BCED7DC
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtIckkHsUQ4
<Postscript on the Societies of Control (1990) by Gilles Deleuze
📖 • https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/gilles-deleuze-postscript-on-the-societies-of-control
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hu4Cq_-bLlY
>Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (1991) by Fredric Jameson
📖 • https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=5BD20E0E22FC8BC2CB4F8A7760D57027
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4k26xGx1zI
<Spectres of Marx (1993) by Jacques Derrida
📖 • https://libcom.org/library/specters-marx-jacques-derrida
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJr0NwXWb6Q
>Capitalist Realism (2009) by Mark Fisher
📖 • https://libcom.org/article/capitalist-realism-mark-fisher
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Cb5XJH4NMI
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SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL
>Precursor Material to Post-modernity and Critical Theory
📖 • Karl Marx - Book 1, Chapter 4 of Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts (1844)
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/manuscripts/labour.htm
📺 • Why Marx Was Right: Alienation - PlasticPills
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPRxxN4Kh30
📖 • Georg Lukács - Chapter 4 of History and Class Consciousness (1923)
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lukacs/works/history/hcc05.htm
📺 • Marxism After Marx: Reification - The Marxist Project
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZiI-QKxBKI
📖 • Antonio Gramsci - Book 1, Chapter 1 of Selections from the Prison Notebooks (1929)
https://www.marxists.org/archive/gramsci/prison_notebooks/problems/intellectuals.htm
📺 • Hegemony: WTF? An introduction to Gramsci and cultural hegemony - Tom Nicholas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LI_2-qsovo
📖 • Louis Althusser - Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses (1970)
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/althusser/1970/ideology.htm
📺 • Althusser's Concept of Ideology: A Discussion with Anthony Gavin - Acid Horizon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtOqXxkKwvw
<Documentaries
• The Society of the Spectacle (1974) by Guy Debord
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjF6I6SYjgA
• Manufacturing Consent (1992) by Mark Achbar & Peter Wintonick, with Noam Chomsky
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Li2m3rvsO0I
• The Pervert's Guide to Cinema (2006) and The Pervert's Guide to Ideology (2012) by Sophie Fiennes, with Slavoj Zizek
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYuI4SFw4g0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBcFLmu_tlc
• HyperNormalisation (2016) by Adam Curtis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bv3Tr3jvZM&rco
>Easy-Bake Breadtube (for absolute beginners)
• We're All Fake Now - Wisecrack
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTW1mPOJJ_Y
• Are Cell Phones Replacing Reality? - PBS Idea Channel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AXIAM7dTTg
• The Cultural Significance of Cyberpunk - Cuck Philosophy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nvor7hhDKTs
• Introduction to Critical Theory for the 21st Century - Nathan Dufour
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7stVZPGxIw
• The Work of Art in the Age of Surveillance Capitalism - Brendan Morris
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNKiBJJFXZI
<Situationist Archives
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• https://notbored.org/SI.html
• https://bopsecrets.org/SI/index.htm
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• I Don’t Want to Be an Internet Person by Ginevra Davis
https://www.palladiummag.com/2022/11/04/i-do-not-want-to-be-an-internet-person/
• Pluralistic: Tiktok's enshittification by Cory Doctorow
https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys
• Facebook's Threads is so depressing by Jason O. Gilbert
https://jogblog.substack.com/p/facebooks-threads-is-so-depressing
/ISG/ - Internet Spectacle General
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CORE THEORY
>The Society of the Spectacle (1967) by Guy Debord
📖 • https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/debord/society.htm
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0blWjssVoUQ
<The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (1936) by Walter Benjamin
📖 • https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/ge/benjamin.htm
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blq9sCIyXgA
>The Culture Industry from Dialectic of Enlightenment (1944) by Theodore Adorno & Max Horkheimer
📓 • https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/adorno/1944/culture-industry.htm
📖 • https://libcom.org/article/dialectic-enlightenment-philosophical-fragments-theodor-adorno-and-marx-horkheimer
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hSLdd8R8mY
<Understanding Media (1964) by Marshall McLuhan
📖 • https://designopendata.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/understanding-media-mcluhan.pdf
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09ML9n5f1fE
>One-Dimensional Man (1964) by Herbert Marcuse
📖 • https://libcom.org/article/one-dimensional-man-studies-ideology-advanced-industrial-society-herbert-marcuse
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZCoLbEkAqs
<Discipline and Punish (1975) by Michel Foucault
📖 • https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/michel-foucault-discipline-and-punishment
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s82uU4iRuko
>Simulacra and Simulation (1981) by Jean Baudrillard
📖 • https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=DBF3E860993373223D72E98FADF0F2DC
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Yxg2_6_YLs
<Manufacturing Consent (1988) by Edward S. Herman & Noam Chomsky
📖 • https://libcom.org/article/manufacturing-consent-political-economy-mass-media-noam-chomsky-and-edward-s-herman
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34LGPIXvU5M
>The Sublime Object of Ideology (1989) by Slavoj Zizek
📖 • https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=054E022C8BD24EE2C5595B575BCED7DC
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtIckkHsUQ4
<Postscript on the Societies of Control (1990) by Gilles Deleuze
📖 • https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/gilles-deleuze-postscript-on-the-societies-of-control
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hu4Cq_-bLlY
>Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (1991) by Fredric Jameson
📖 • https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=5BD20E0E22FC8BC2CB4F8A7760D57027
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4k26xGx1zI
<Spectres of Marx (1993) by Jacques Derrida
📖 • https://libcom.org/library/specters-marx-jacques-derrida
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJr0NwXWb6Q
>Capitalist Realism (2009) by Mark Fisher
📖 • https://libcom.org/article/capitalist-realism-mark-fisher
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Cb5XJH4NMI
—————————————————–
SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL
>Precursor Material to Post-modernity and Critical Theory
📖 • Karl Marx - Book 1, Chapter 4 of Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts (1844)
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/manuscripts/labour.htm
📺 • Why Marx Was Right: Alienation - PlasticPills
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPRxxN4Kh30
📖 • Georg Lukács - Chapter 4 of History and Class Consciousness (1923)
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lukacs/works/history/hcc05.htm
📺 • Marxism After Marx: Reification - The Marxist Project
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZiI-QKxBKI
📖 • Antonio Gramsci - Book 1, Chapter 1 of Selections from the Prison Notebooks (1929)
https://www.marxists.org/archive/gramsci/prison_notebooks/problems/intellectuals.htm
📺 • Hegemony: WTF? An introduction to Gramsci and cultural hegemony - Tom Nicholas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LI_2-qsovo
📖 • Louis Althusser - Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses (1970)
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/althusser/1970/ideology.htm
📺 • Althusser's Concept of Ideology: A Discussion with Anthony Gavin - Acid Horizon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtOqXxkKwvw
<Documentaries
• The Society of the Spectacle (1974) by Guy Debord
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjF6I6SYjgA
• Manufacturing Consent (1992) by Mark Achbar & Peter Wintonick, with Noam Chomsky
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Li2m3rvsO0I
• The Pervert's Guide to Cinema (2006) and The Pervert's Guide to Ideology (2012) by Sophie Fiennes, with Slavoj Zizek
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYuI4SFw4g0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBcFLmu_tlc
• HyperNormalisation (2016) by Adam Curtis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bv3Tr3jvZM&rco
>Easy-Bake Breadtube (for absolute beginners)
• We're All Fake Now - Wisecrack
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTW1mPOJJ_Y
• Are Cell Phones Replacing Reality? - PBS Idea Channel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AXIAM7dTTg
• The Cultural Significance of Cyberpunk - Cuck Philosophy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nvor7hhDKTs
• Introduction to Critical Theory for the 21st Century - Nathan Dufour
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7stVZPGxIw
• The Work of Art in the Age of Surveillance Capitalism - Brendan Morris
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNKiBJJFXZI
<Situationist Archives
• https://situationist.org/
• https://notbored.org/SI.html
• https://bopsecrets.org/SI/index.htm
—————————————————–
RECOMMENDED OP-EDS
• I Don’t Want to Be an Internet Person by Ginevra Davis
https://www.palladiummag.com/2022/11/04/i-do-not-want-to-be-an-internet-person/
• Pluralistic: Tiktok's enshittification by Cory Doctorow
https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys
• Facebook's Threads is so depressing by Jason O. Gilbert
https://jogblog.substack.com/p/facebooks-threads-is-so-depressing
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<Even Israelis admit genocide but that's too extreme of a claim for US media
Thread for the hellish discussion related to the scourge of the earth, the destroyer of nations, the father of fascism, the enabler of ethnostates, the treatlerite tyrant, the protector of pedophiles, the exporter of ecocide, the captain of capitalism, the king of coups, the sultan of sanctions, the emir of the embargo, the autocrat of austerity, the doge of deregulation, the baron of busting unions, the prince of privatization, the lord of loan sharks, the patron-saint of proxy wars, the sponsor of settlers, the guarantor of genocides, the Divided $nakkkes of Amerikkka™
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• https://www.youtube.com/@GDFofficial
✊Live Protest Streams✊
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Evidence of the influence and origin of neo-Nazi groups in Ukraine
https://archive.ph/44B9Q
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323637
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323658
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323663
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323688
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323729
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323733
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323731
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323735
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323740
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Live maps and updates
DeepStateMap: https://deepstatemap.live
Events in Ukraine: https://eventsinukraine.substack.com/
SouthFront: https://southfront.press/category/all-articles/world/europe/ukraine/
Watch Together
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Watch By Yourself
>Video Essays / Historical Background
📺 • Ukraine: The Avoidable War - Boy Boy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LL4eNy4FCs8
📺 • Ukraine's Nazi Problem - The Marxist Project
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yZvWAwU5W4
📺 • America, Russia, and Ukraine's Far Right - Gravel Institute
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0pyVJG7_6Q
📺 • The Nature of Putin's Russia and Its Causes (3-Part Series) - 1Dime
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8d6Vzi7zYg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zODWTfMwFGw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Zuygh9Mzuo
<Current Happenings
📺 • The Grayzone: https://www.youtube.com/@thegrayzone7996
📺 • DDGeopolitics: https://www.youtube.com/@DDGeopolitics
📺 • Defense Politics Asia: https://www.youtube.com/@DefensePoliticsAsia
📺 • The Duran: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdeMVChrumySxV9N1w0Au-w
📺 • The News Atlas: https://www.youtube.com/c/thenewatlas
📺 • Military Summary: https://www.youtube.com/@militarysummary
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https://twitter.com/GeromanAT
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/ukr/ - Russia-Ukraine War General #253
Low quality editionPrevious: >>2437928
Evidence of the influence and origin of neo-Nazi groups in Ukraine
https://archive.ph/44B9Q
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323637
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323658
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323663
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323688
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323729
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323733
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323731
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323735
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323740
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yZvWAwU5W4
📺 • America, Russia, and Ukraine's Far Right - Gravel Institute
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0pyVJG7_6Q
📺 • The Nature of Putin's Russia and Its Causes (3-Part Series) - 1Dime
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Original threads:
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leftypol.org archives:
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>People's Republic of SkirkOriginal threads:
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Political implications of more Americans converting to Catholicism?
The American right was heavily associated with Evangelical idpol for the past 50 years. They became the cultural backbone of the GOP from the 80s to the late 2000s. Now it appears like a huge number of former Evangelicals are converting to Catholicism. I even know some ex-Mormons who are Catholic now.
At the same time, it seems like leftists are embracing Catholicism too. Remember when everyone was convinced Pope Francis was a secret socialist? Jacobin mag goes out of their way with appealing to Catholics as well (every other article of theirs is something along the lines of: “Move over pink-haired bipolar feminist queers, here’s why the Catholic Church are the REAL socialists!”). People like Dorothy Day are propped up even though her actual contributions to the American left were minimal and symbolic at best (the Catholic Worker also referred to the priests killed by /ourguys/ in Catalonia as “martyrs” which is disgusting). Not to mention, the Jacobin crowd seems very big on appealing to right-wing Catholic sentiments like complaining about birthrates being too low and proposing Bernie-style policies like universal healthcare to “fix” it, as if low birthrates are a problem to begin with.
But anyway, if Catholicism becomes a major cultural force in America in the next few years how do you see it affecting the political landscape?
Political implications of more Americans converting to Catholicism?
The American right was heavily associated with Evangelical idpol for the past 50 years. They became the cultural backbone of the GOP from the 80s to the late 2000s. Now it appears like a huge number of former Evangelicals are converting to Catholicism. I even know some ex-Mormons who are Catholic now.
At the same time, it seems like leftists are embracing Catholicism too. Remember when everyone was convinced Pope Francis was a secret socialist? Jacobin mag goes out of their way with appealing to Catholics as well (every other article of theirs is something along the lines of: “Move over pink-haired bipolar feminist queers, here’s why the Catholic Church are the REAL socialists!”). People like Dorothy Day are propped up even though her actual contributions to the American left were minimal and symbolic at best (the Catholic Worker also referred to the priests killed by /ourguys/ in Catalonia as “martyrs” which is disgusting). Not to mention, the Jacobin crowd seems very big on appealing to right-wing Catholic sentiments like complaining about birthrates being too low and proposing Bernie-style policies like universal healthcare to “fix” it, as if low birthrates are a problem to begin with.
But anyway, if Catholicism becomes a major cultural force in America in the next few years how do you see it affecting the political landscape?
R: 177 / I: 48
<Unpünktlich wie die Eisenbahn; verspätet auf maroden Strecken zu hohen Preisen: DB-Konzern überbietet jedes Jahr seine Negativrekorde
https://www.jungewelt.de/artikel/503080.versp%C3%A4tungen-bei-der-bahn-unp%C3%BCnktlich-wie-die-eisenbahn.html
<Rot gewinnt; Präsidentsschaftskandidatin in Chile ist von der KP
https://www.jungewelt.de/artikel/503066.kommunisten-rot-gewinnt.html
<Gideon Levy über Massaker der israelischen Armee an Hungernden in Gaza
https://www.jungewelt.de/artikel/503098.dokumentiert-gideon-levy-%C3%BCber-massaker-der-israelischen-armee-an-hungernden-in-gaza.html
<NATO-Manöver am Niederrhein: Kriegsvorbereitung statt Sicherheit
https://www.rf-news.de/2025/kw27/nato-manoever-am-niederrhein-kriegsvorbereitung-statt-sicherheit
<Parteitag der DKP
https://www.unsere-zeit.de/live-ticker-vom-26-parteitag-der-dkp/
<Maja T. ins Haftkrankenhaus verlegt
https://www.nd-aktuell.de/artikel/1192276.budapest-komplex-maja-t-in-haftkrankenhaus-verlegt.html
/leftydeutschpol/ - DB-Edition
Neuigkeiten<Unpünktlich wie die Eisenbahn; verspätet auf maroden Strecken zu hohen Preisen: DB-Konzern überbietet jedes Jahr seine Negativrekorde
https://www.jungewelt.de/artikel/503080.versp%C3%A4tungen-bei-der-bahn-unp%C3%BCnktlich-wie-die-eisenbahn.html
<Rot gewinnt; Präsidentsschaftskandidatin in Chile ist von der KP
https://www.jungewelt.de/artikel/503066.kommunisten-rot-gewinnt.html
<Gideon Levy über Massaker der israelischen Armee an Hungernden in Gaza
https://www.jungewelt.de/artikel/503098.dokumentiert-gideon-levy-%C3%BCber-massaker-der-israelischen-armee-an-hungernden-in-gaza.html
<NATO-Manöver am Niederrhein: Kriegsvorbereitung statt Sicherheit
https://www.rf-news.de/2025/kw27/nato-manoever-am-niederrhein-kriegsvorbereitung-statt-sicherheit
<Parteitag der DKP
https://www.unsere-zeit.de/live-ticker-vom-26-parteitag-der-dkp/
<Maja T. ins Haftkrankenhaus verlegt
https://www.nd-aktuell.de/artikel/1192276.budapest-komplex-maja-t-in-haftkrankenhaus-verlegt.html
R: 75 / I: 11
Think of it as geopolitics applied to the iron age.
Current population: ≈15 - 500
News:
https://www.survivalinternational.org/news/tribes/sentinelese
https://www.ndtv.com/topic/north-sentinel-island
https://www.hindustantimes.com/topic/north-sentinel-island/news
Latest developments:
-In April 2025, a YouTuber, Mykhailo Viktorovych Polyakov, was arrested after staging an attempt to contact the tribe. He trespassed, left a can of Diet Coke and a coconut, and may face significant prison time.
/nsi/ - North Sentinel Island General #1
Thread for the discussion, analysis and news regarding the savage and primitive barely contacted North Sentinel Island hunter gatherer people.Think of it as geopolitics applied to the iron age.
Current population: ≈15 - 500
News:
https://www.survivalinternational.org/news/tribes/sentinelese
https://www.ndtv.com/topic/north-sentinel-island
https://www.hindustantimes.com/topic/north-sentinel-island/news
Latest developments:
-In April 2025, a YouTuber, Mykhailo Viktorovych Polyakov, was arrested after staging an attempt to contact the tribe. He trespassed, left a can of Diet Coke and a coconut, and may face significant prison time.
R: 135 / I: 30
I noticed there is no thread for France related shit. So let this be one. French people deserve a safe space and guarantees for their continued existence on loser imageboards!
J'ai remarqué qu'il n'y a pas de thread dedié pour la France, alors que les salauds américains et anglais en ont des centaines. Français, ne succombez pas à l'impérialisme anglochiotte!
Subjets of Macronpiter, leave a post.
/FrancoPol/ 🇫🇷
🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷 Aux armes, citoyens ! 🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷I noticed there is no thread for France related shit. So let this be one. French people deserve a safe space and guarantees for their continued existence on loser imageboards!
J'ai remarqué qu'il n'y a pas de thread dedié pour la France, alors que les salauds américains et anglais en ont des centaines. Français, ne succombez pas à l'impérialisme anglochiotte!
Subjets of Macronpiter, leave a post.
R: 260 / I: 54
With that being said, how do we realistically combat the mass grooming of people into nazism through imageboards? The sharty is becoming the new 8chan but with way more cultural influence on the wider internet and the rest of the population is filled with young children, we have already seen solomon (a mass shooter that was a black man yet he was also a white supremacist with sharty connections) commit a mass shooting. With that being said clearly a lot of these young men are isolated and angry, doxxing random literal WHOS because they are trans, or even doing raids that help the federal government because the site is influenced by glowies. They even raided our very booru 2 days ago, and ILLEGAL CONTENT was posted (this was done by foodist nazis not soyteens but still scary that it’s that prevalent with their raids).
And with the thought on raids we can see some of these young people are being groomed into actual pedophile nazi communities but the sharty staff and wiki are so up their asses that they can’t see they have ideological similarities with the nazi foodists and that’s why they surround them.
They have crushed /leftysoy/ and banned many leftists on their wiki including me, I think this is gonna evolve into something much worst if we don’t do anything.
The mass grooming of young men into nazism on the sharty and imageboards
Imageboards have of course been filled with nazis for a fuck ton of time from even the start, but most people agree it mainly started when moot added /news/ then all the chudcels flooded the rest of the site, then created /pol/ and the rest is history.With that being said, how do we realistically combat the mass grooming of people into nazism through imageboards? The sharty is becoming the new 8chan but with way more cultural influence on the wider internet and the rest of the population is filled with young children, we have already seen solomon (a mass shooter that was a black man yet he was also a white supremacist with sharty connections) commit a mass shooting. With that being said clearly a lot of these young men are isolated and angry, doxxing random literal WHOS because they are trans, or even doing raids that help the federal government because the site is influenced by glowies. They even raided our very booru 2 days ago, and ILLEGAL CONTENT was posted (this was done by foodist nazis not soyteens but still scary that it’s that prevalent with their raids).
And with the thought on raids we can see some of these young people are being groomed into actual pedophile nazi communities but the sharty staff and wiki are so up their asses that they can’t see they have ideological similarities with the nazi foodists and that’s why they surround them.
They have crushed /leftysoy/ and banned many leftists on their wiki including me, I think this is gonna evolve into something much worst if we don’t do anything.
R: 228 / I: 45
Like if you were Stalin in the 1930 what would you have done differently to ensure that the Soviet Union stayed in the path of socialism while also maintaining theoretical purity?
Question to Leftcoms/Bordigists/anti-stalinists:
I get that "Socialism in One Country" was ultimately a disastrous policy that ended in complete failure and that the Stalinists revised a lot of Marx's and Lenin's theory to falsely claim that the USSR had already achieved Socialism and ended class struggle in the fucking 30s but realistically speaking, what other approach could they have taken after the failure of the German and Hungarian revolutions?Like if you were Stalin in the 1930 what would you have done differently to ensure that the Soviet Union stayed in the path of socialism while also maintaining theoretical purity?
R: 64 / I: 18
Politicians would be exempt. It is being sold as “child protection” but the EU’s own legal service warns that it violates fundamental rights. Once a backdoor into encryption exists, it is not just governments who can use it. Hackers, criminals, and hostile states can too.
Today (with real encryption): Message is locked on your phone. Not even WhatsApp, Signal, or Telegram (secret chat) can read it. Only the recipient can open it.
Under Chat Control: Your message is opened and scanned on your phone before encryption. If the scanning software believes it finds “prohibited” content, even by mistake, it is sent to the authorities.
Austria opposes the plan, but 19 EU countries already support it. If Germany joins them, the law could pass in October.
According to the campaign:
Mass surveillance: Every message, file, and image sent without suspicion would be automatically scanned.
Encryption undermined: End-to-end encryption would be weakened or broken, putting all communication at risk for everyone, not just criminals.
False positives: Innocent content such as jokes or holiday photos could be misidentified and trigger investigations.
Exemptions for politicians: Officials would be excluded under “professional secrecy” while normal citizens lose their privacy.
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Personally I thought they already did that. I guess things will just get worse.
https://fightchatcontrol.eu/ (useless activist site, still detailing the decision)
The EU is going to scan all private messages and photos
EU’s “Chat Control” will be forced to scan every message, photo, and file before it is encrypted on WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram, and other all other apps.Politicians would be exempt. It is being sold as “child protection” but the EU’s own legal service warns that it violates fundamental rights. Once a backdoor into encryption exists, it is not just governments who can use it. Hackers, criminals, and hostile states can too.
Today (with real encryption): Message is locked on your phone. Not even WhatsApp, Signal, or Telegram (secret chat) can read it. Only the recipient can open it.
Under Chat Control: Your message is opened and scanned on your phone before encryption. If the scanning software believes it finds “prohibited” content, even by mistake, it is sent to the authorities.
Austria opposes the plan, but 19 EU countries already support it. If Germany joins them, the law could pass in October.
According to the campaign:
Mass surveillance: Every message, file, and image sent without suspicion would be automatically scanned.
Encryption undermined: End-to-end encryption would be weakened or broken, putting all communication at risk for everyone, not just criminals.
False positives: Innocent content such as jokes or holiday photos could be misidentified and trigger investigations.
Exemptions for politicians: Officials would be excluded under “professional secrecy” while normal citizens lose their privacy.
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Personally I thought they already did that. I guess things will just get worse.
https://fightchatcontrol.eu/ (useless activist site, still detailing the decision)
R: 160 / I: 85
STG sets up roadblocks on the roads leading to Suwayda, pursuant to the ceasefire agreement.
Remaining tribals in Suwayda governorate launch a last-ditch attack on Suwayda city.
Tribals enter some of the city's northwest areas. They suffer heavy casualties and retreat from the city on the same day.
Straggler tribals launch a few attacks on Druze villages here and there, nothing significant.
Overall ceasefire holds up after that. STG prevents further entry of tribals and their numbers keep dwindling.
STG releases their report on the massacres of Alawites in March of this year. They say that they aren't directly responsible.
Saudi announces they will buy a bunch of property in Syria.
Israeli and Syrian officials meet in Paris. A second meeting in Baku was cancelled.
Accusations that the STG is doing a soft siege on Suwayda governorate and worsening the humanitarian situation.
Turkey/SNA starts threatening the SDF and launches a few attacks against them in Deir Hafer and Tishreen dam.
Links:
t.me/Medmannews - Well known channel (Egyptian owner). Posts frequently about MENA
t.me/Middle_East_Spectator - Iranian owner
t.me/Suriyak_maps - Posts maps/latest news. Less prone to hype/hysteria but slower.
https://nitter.poast.org/SAMSyria0 - Local Syrian army soldier. Used to post in Arabic. (Account deleted. RIP)
https://nitter.poast.org/WarMonitors
https://nitter.poast.org/bosni94
https://nitter.poast.org/Sy_intelligence
https://nitter.poast.org/sayed_ridha
https://syria.liveuamap.com
/sg/ - Syrian Civil War General #24 - New Watches edition
Recent news:STG sets up roadblocks on the roads leading to Suwayda, pursuant to the ceasefire agreement.
Remaining tribals in Suwayda governorate launch a last-ditch attack on Suwayda city.
Tribals enter some of the city's northwest areas. They suffer heavy casualties and retreat from the city on the same day.
Straggler tribals launch a few attacks on Druze villages here and there, nothing significant.
Overall ceasefire holds up after that. STG prevents further entry of tribals and their numbers keep dwindling.
STG releases their report on the massacres of Alawites in March of this year. They say that they aren't directly responsible.
Saudi announces they will buy a bunch of property in Syria.
Israeli and Syrian officials meet in Paris. A second meeting in Baku was cancelled.
Accusations that the STG is doing a soft siege on Suwayda governorate and worsening the humanitarian situation.
Turkey/SNA starts threatening the SDF and launches a few attacks against them in Deir Hafer and Tishreen dam.
Links:
t.me/Medmannews - Well known channel (Egyptian owner). Posts frequently about MENA
t.me/Middle_East_Spectator - Iranian owner
t.me/Suriyak_maps - Posts maps/latest news. Less prone to hype/hysteria but slower.
https://nitter.poast.org/SAMSyria0 - Local Syrian army soldier. Used to post in Arabic. (Account deleted. RIP)
https://nitter.poast.org/WarMonitors
https://nitter.poast.org/bosni94
https://nitter.poast.org/Sy_intelligence
https://nitter.poast.org/sayed_ridha
https://syria.liveuamap.com
R: 226 / I: 49
UK Defence Secretary John Healey pledges troops on the ground in Ukraine
>On the morning of the Alaska summit between US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, Britain’s Defence Secretary John Healey reiterated that the UK was ready to “put boots on the ground” in Ukraine to reinforce a ceasefire […]
Let me see your warface, /leftybritpol/
/leftybritpol/ - LET SLIP THE DOGS edition
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/08/15/dimz-a15.htmlUK Defence Secretary John Healey pledges troops on the ground in Ukraine
>On the morning of the Alaska summit between US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, Britain’s Defence Secretary John Healey reiterated that the UK was ready to “put boots on the ground” in Ukraine to reinforce a ceasefire […]
Let me see your warface, /leftybritpol/
R: 2 / I: 0
Mods can ban me all they want, but I shall not leave until the dreidel interest rate magic is revealed to me.
Mods can ban me all they want, but I shall not leave until the dreidel interest rate magic is revealed to me.
Mods can ban me all they want, but I shall not leave until the dreidel interest rate magic is revealed to me.
Mods can ban me all they want, but I shall not leave until the dreidel interest rate magic is revealed to me.
Mods can ban me all they want, but I shall not leave until the dreidel interest rate magic is revealed to me.
Mods can ban me all they want, but I shall not leave until the dreidel interest rate magic is revealed to me.
R: 607 / I: 171 (full)
<Ongdak Boruto Hitler-Garcia Edition
Thread for the hellish discussion related to the scourge of the earth, the destroyer of nations, the father of fascism, the enabler of ethnostates, the treatlerite tyrant, the protector of pedophiles, the exporter of ecocide, the captain of capitalism, the king of coups, the sultan of sanctions, the emir of the embargo, the autocrat of austerity, the doge of deregulation, the baron of busting unions, the prince of privatization, the lord of loan sharks, the patron-saint of proxy wars, the sponsor of settlers, the guarantor of genocides, the Divided $nakkkes of Amerikkka™
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/Africa/
A thread for the forgotten continent, so forgotten the thread got wiped.Discuss anything related to:
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>Zimbabwe
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Does anyone else here consider themselves both a Communist and also a philosophical Pessimist?
Do you believe that it is precisely because this reality we live in is so miserable, cruel, outright horrible for the vast majority that we therefore must show compassion by furthering and supporting the only political movement that seeks to improve conditions for the masses for whom life is mostly suffering?
To me it's the only position that makes sense. How could you not hold to the only politics that seeks to eliminate suffering in as far is possible?
While Schopenhauer may have been a conservative and an idealist, there is also a long and often forgotten history of materialistic, Marxist pessimism - although most of it is still pretty underground and still untranslated.
For example, the work of Philipp Mainländer (don't be distracted by his use of "God" as a metaphor for the Universe) has gained some influence of late, and there is also Sebastiano Timpanaro who I must admit I am yet to read for myself.
I'm not a big Zizek fan but he has also stated "a Communist Should Assume Life Is Hell" and spoken on how philosophical Pessimism and Marxism fit together very well, with Marxism presenting a solution to many of the problems of Pessimism.
In contrast, if you don't consider yourself a pessimist, why not? What do you think Leftypol?
Does anyone else here consider themselves both a Communist and also a philosophical Pessimist?
Do you believe that it is precisely because this reality we live in is so miserable, cruel, outright horrible for the vast majority that we therefore must show compassion by furthering and supporting the only political movement that seeks to improve conditions for the masses for whom life is mostly suffering?
To me it's the only position that makes sense. How could you not hold to the only politics that seeks to eliminate suffering in as far is possible?
While Schopenhauer may have been a conservative and an idealist, there is also a long and often forgotten history of materialistic, Marxist pessimism - although most of it is still pretty underground and still untranslated.
For example, the work of Philipp Mainländer (don't be distracted by his use of "God" as a metaphor for the Universe) has gained some influence of late, and there is also Sebastiano Timpanaro who I must admit I am yet to read for myself.
I'm not a big Zizek fan but he has also stated "a Communist Should Assume Life Is Hell" and spoken on how philosophical Pessimism and Marxism fit together very well, with Marxism presenting a solution to many of the problems of Pessimism.
In contrast, if you don't consider yourself a pessimist, why not? What do you think Leftypol?
R: 71 / I: 34
You're not sophisticated, you're just a mental child who thinks art has to be "pretty" or it has no value.
People who hate on all modern art/architecture are NPCs
So fucking tired of retards who jerk off to photorealism and AI slop while hating on any art movement after Romanticism, even though the best avant-garde artists like Salvador Dalí had to study classical techniques meticulously before doing any kind of abstraction.You're not sophisticated, you're just a mental child who thinks art has to be "pretty" or it has no value.
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When I read or watch clips of Yakovlev's admitting to his crimes, and I'm thinking, why is he saying all this stuff that makes it look the fall of the USSR was an organized criminal act? And I have come to the conclusion that Yakovlev is merely bragging, gloating, reveling in his grand scheme.
Yakovlev's evil gloating
I just saw this Yakovlev clip in a documentary. I hate Yakovlev so much. Look how animated he is at his own question when he says "how"? Given Yakovlev has admitted to being a wrecker multiple times, his face appears to be reveling in his destructive role. Reveling!When I read or watch clips of Yakovlev's admitting to his crimes, and I'm thinking, why is he saying all this stuff that makes it look the fall of the USSR was an organized criminal act? And I have come to the conclusion that Yakovlev is merely bragging, gloating, reveling in his grand scheme.
R: 23 / I: 2
1. Religion is the opium of the people.
2. Religion justifies an unequal social order.
3. The problem of an afterlife gives people something to look forward to after death.
4. Religion makes a virtue out of suffering.
5. Religion offers the false hope of supernatural intervention to improve current conditions.
6. Religion is a form of social control.
7. The bourgeoisie and religious authorities also support other more overtly brutal methods of control.
8. The bourgeoisie fund the religious institutions.
9. The religious institutions are class-collaborationist and legitimize bourgeois power through ideas like "prosperity gospel."
10. Religion is not necessary under socialism or communism.
11. Religion has no purpose if there is no longer clas society since its purpose is to justify an unequal social order and to provide the exploited with a coping method with their misery.
12. With communism and decent working conditions controlled by the workers religion will wither away.
13. Religion creates false consciousness.
14. Religion mystifies material phenomena.
15. Religion teaches that human misery is a result of divine will.
Can these theses on religion be refuted?
1. Religion is the opium of the people.
2. Religion justifies an unequal social order.
3. The problem of an afterlife gives people something to look forward to after death.
4. Religion makes a virtue out of suffering.
5. Religion offers the false hope of supernatural intervention to improve current conditions.
6. Religion is a form of social control.
7. The bourgeoisie and religious authorities also support other more overtly brutal methods of control.
8. The bourgeoisie fund the religious institutions.
9. The religious institutions are class-collaborationist and legitimize bourgeois power through ideas like "prosperity gospel."
10. Religion is not necessary under socialism or communism.
11. Religion has no purpose if there is no longer clas society since its purpose is to justify an unequal social order and to provide the exploited with a coping method with their misery.
12. With communism and decent working conditions controlled by the workers religion will wither away.
13. Religion creates false consciousness.
14. Religion mystifies material phenomena.
15. Religion teaches that human misery is a result of divine will.
Can these theses on religion be refuted?
R: 7 / I: 0
Comrades, is there a revolution possible *without* taking arms? Striking at the right time, having effective X factor gaining traction way before with crunch grade pre-adhered momentum build with constant, vigilantly handled active declarations and protest out in street.
And then take vanguard onward.
Comrades, is there a revolution possible *without* taking arms? Striking at the right time, having effective X factor gaining traction way before with crunch grade pre-adhered momentum build with constant, vigilantly handled active declarations and protest out in street.
And then take vanguard onward.
R: 500 / I: 179
Archive of the previous DPRK thread:
https://leftypol.org/leftypol_archive/res/12395.html
/DPRK/ - Democratic People's Republic of Korea General
Thread for news and discussions of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, its material conditions, the status and health of its socialist tradition, disproving common myths about it, etc.Archive of the previous DPRK thread:
https://leftypol.org/leftypol_archive/res/12395.html
R: 135 / I: 43
They think Trump will do that by making people ignore his involvement in child abuse
Trump on the Epstein list is "a step toward normalization"
These fags want to remove the age of consent laws and normalize pedophiliaThey think Trump will do that by making people ignore his involvement in child abuse
R: 45 / I: 9
>UNITED NATIONS, Aug 22 (Reuters) - Gaza City and surrounding areas are officially suffering from famine, and it will likely spread, a global hunger monitor determined on Friday, an assessment that will escalate pressure on Israel to allow more aid into the Palestinian enclave.
<It was the first time the IPC has recorded famine outside of Africa, and the global group predicted that famine conditions would spread to the central and southern areas of Deir al-Balah and Khan Younis by the end of next month.
🇵🇸 PREVIOUSLY ON THE HOLY LAND 🇵🇸
>>2395541
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🚨 Live Happenings/Updates 🚨
Sites that have active live-blogs:
• Al-Jazeera: https://www.aljazeera.com/
• Middle East Eye: https://www.middleeasteye.net/israel-palestine-hamas-war-gaza-live-invasion
• The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/world/palestinian-territories
• Times of Israel: https://www.timesofisrael.com/topic/liveblog/ (trigger warning)
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WIKI
Our own wiki. Be sure to add to it and create branching articles:
https://wiki.leftypol.org/wiki/2023_Israel–Gaza_war [Currently Down]
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🗣️ RECOMMENDED SITES ✍️
• https://electronicintifada.net
From the UK, single issue long time Palestinian investigative and general reporting, critical source
• https://mondoweiss.net/
From the USA
• https://new.thecradle.co/
Regional news from an anti-imperialist perspective
• https://www.btselem.org/Isrsaeli
Premier Human Rights org
• https://www.972mag.com/
Left news and opinion webzine from Tel-Aviv
• https://decolonizepalestine.com/
A collection of resources for organizers and anyone who wants to learn more about Palestine
• https://www.normanfinkelstein.com/blogs/
Known anti-zionist academic Norman Finkelstein's blog
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💣🔫RESISTANCE💣🔫
al-Qassam Brigades
https://en.alqassam.ps/
PFLP
http://pflp.ps/
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📺 WATCH TOGETHER 📺
https://tv.leftypol.org/r/LGBTA
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✊🪧 TAKE ACTION AND TOUCH GRASS 🏴🔥
(USA)
• https://www.answercoalition.org/join_a_protest_near_you_free_palestine
(UK+USA)
• https://www.palestineaction.org/
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HIDE JIDF POSTS, IGNORE GLOWIE BAIT, DO NOT REPLY TO MOSSAD POSTERS
(This includes blatantly obvious concern failtrolling/fedposting, painfully unfunny/nuclear misanthropic autism [ie. /pol/] and derailing/hyper sectarian schizophrenia, excessive doomer and jewish-blood-quantum posting)
Always remember to double-check your sources, as well as provide access to it.
الله أكبر
.الى جميع الكادحين في الشرق، ان مصيركم في ايديكم
!يا عمال العالم ويا شعوبه المضطهدة، اتحدوا
Palestine vs The Zionist Entity 121: Official Famine edition
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/gaza-city-officially-famine-says-global-hunger-monitor-2025-08-22/>UNITED NATIONS, Aug 22 (Reuters) - Gaza City and surrounding areas are officially suffering from famine, and it will likely spread, a global hunger monitor determined on Friday, an assessment that will escalate pressure on Israel to allow more aid into the Palestinian enclave.
<It was the first time the IPC has recorded famine outside of Africa, and the global group predicted that famine conditions would spread to the central and southern areas of Deir al-Balah and Khan Younis by the end of next month.
🇵🇸 PREVIOUSLY ON THE HOLY LAND 🇵🇸
>>2395541
————————
🚨 Live Happenings/Updates 🚨
Sites that have active live-blogs:
• Al-Jazeera: https://www.aljazeera.com/
• Middle East Eye: https://www.middleeasteye.net/israel-palestine-hamas-war-gaza-live-invasion
• The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/world/palestinian-territories
• Times of Israel: https://www.timesofisrael.com/topic/liveblog/ (trigger warning)
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WIKI
Our own wiki. Be sure to add to it and create branching articles:
https://wiki.leftypol.org/wiki/2023_Israel–Gaza_war [Currently Down]
—————————————————–————————
🗣️ RECOMMENDED SITES ✍️
• https://electronicintifada.net
From the UK, single issue long time Palestinian investigative and general reporting, critical source
• https://mondoweiss.net/
From the USA
• https://new.thecradle.co/
Regional news from an anti-imperialist perspective
• https://www.btselem.org/Isrsaeli
Premier Human Rights org
• https://www.972mag.com/
Left news and opinion webzine from Tel-Aviv
• https://decolonizepalestine.com/
A collection of resources for organizers and anyone who wants to learn more about Palestine
• https://www.normanfinkelstein.com/blogs/
Known anti-zionist academic Norman Finkelstein's blog
—————————————————————————
💣🔫RESISTANCE💣🔫
al-Qassam Brigades
https://en.alqassam.ps/
PFLP
http://pflp.ps/
—————————————————–————————
📺 WATCH TOGETHER 📺
https://tv.leftypol.org/r/LGBTA
—————————————————–————————
✊🪧 TAKE ACTION AND TOUCH GRASS 🏴🔥
(USA)
• https://www.answercoalition.org/join_a_protest_near_you_free_palestine
(UK+USA)
• https://www.palestineaction.org/
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HIDE JIDF POSTS, IGNORE GLOWIE BAIT, DO NOT REPLY TO MOSSAD POSTERS
(This includes blatantly obvious concern failtrolling/fedposting, painfully unfunny/nuclear misanthropic autism [ie. /pol/] and derailing/hyper sectarian schizophrenia, excessive doomer and jewish-blood-quantum posting)
Always remember to double-check your sources, as well as provide access to it.
الله أكبر
.الى جميع الكادحين في الشرق، ان مصيركم في ايديكم
!يا عمال العالم ويا شعوبه المضطهدة، اتحدوا
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And on the other hand, how would such a socities would even function in sharing materials, education, medicine, higher education, or manage crime, punishment, law, politics, councils/government/'s ?
Question
Originally I'm a MLM, but i've been reading more into libertarian socialist sphere lately , and discovered platformism and other as such anarchist-libertarian socialist ideologys and ideas, and with this wishing to ask how could a "nation" with a such system platformism/anarcho syndicalism/democratic confederalism, anarcho comm, etc. Would be able to effectivelly protect itself from other bigger [or smaller-same size] imperialist, capitalist, authoirtarian-states, throw military meansAnd on the other hand, how would such a socities would even function in sharing materials, education, medicine, higher education, or manage crime, punishment, law, politics, councils/government/'s ?
R: 2 / I: 1
compare these passages on identity politics with the western talk of a consumption based community like a "speedrunning community" or with Dugin's idpol of the "impermeable dasein" of a "civilizational state" which is eternally essentially a certain way (allegedly) and never changes.
we are all human, are we not? But if you appeal to humanity, even some Marxists will cry out "no you are doing liberal humanism right now" because to appeal to humanity is to interrupt class identity and proletarian supremacy, which to some is "liberal humanism."
Everyone has their own idpol but at the end of the day communism means abolishing both class and identities and finally just being a homogenous humanity. Species-being. But some will say this is "humanism" and therefore "liberal" AKA "bad".
compare these passages on identity politics with the western talk of a consumption based community like a "speedrunning community" or with Dugin's idpol of the "impermeable dasein" of a "civilizational state" which is eternally essentially a certain way (allegedly) and never changes.
we are all human, are we not? But if you appeal to humanity, even some Marxists will cry out "no you are doing liberal humanism right now" because to appeal to humanity is to interrupt class identity and proletarian supremacy, which to some is "liberal humanism."
Everyone has their own idpol but at the end of the day communism means abolishing both class and identities and finally just being a homogenous humanity. Species-being. But some will say this is "humanism" and therefore "liberal" AKA "bad".
R: 31 / I: 2
Do you think this quote adequately describes what's happening in Palestine right now ("capitalist and colonial countries… oppressed peoples would be seized by the throat")?
Do you think this quote adequately describes what's happening in Palestine right now ("capitalist and colonial countries… oppressed peoples would be seized by the throat")?
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"The most concrete link is his relationship with former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak. Epstein and Barak met numerous times between 2013 and 2017, with Barak visiting Epstein’s properties in Florida and New York approximately 30 times, including a 2014 private flight in Florida. Barak received $2.3 million from an Epstein-associated foundation between 2004 and 2006, and Epstein invested $1 million in a limited partnership established by Barak in 2015.
Another connection stems from Epstein’s ties to Ghislaine Maxwell, whose father, Robert Maxwell, was a British media mogul alleged to have had links to the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad. Some sources, including former Israeli intelligence officer Ari Ben-Menashe, have claimed Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell ran a “honey-trap” operation for Mossad to blackmail influential figures. A lawsuit by a woman identified as Jane Doe 200 alleged Epstein boasted of being a Mossad agent.
Epstein was also associated with the Wexner Foundation, which supports Jewish leadership and has ties to Israel. His financial backer, Leslie Wexner, was a member of the “Mega Group,” a collection of Jewish philanthropists, which some, like former NSA counterspy John Schindler, have speculated was linked to Israeli intelligence operations. Epstein reportedly invested in an Israeli startup, Reporty Homeland Security (later rebranded as Carbyne), connected to Israel’s defense industry, further fueling speculation."
Epstein = Israel, and Trump loves Israel
Epstein is connected to Israel, this is why Trump is covering it up. He doesn't want to risk the political fallout for Israel when people realize all of Epstein's clients were blackmailed and used as Israeli assets."The most concrete link is his relationship with former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak. Epstein and Barak met numerous times between 2013 and 2017, with Barak visiting Epstein’s properties in Florida and New York approximately 30 times, including a 2014 private flight in Florida. Barak received $2.3 million from an Epstein-associated foundation between 2004 and 2006, and Epstein invested $1 million in a limited partnership established by Barak in 2015.
Another connection stems from Epstein’s ties to Ghislaine Maxwell, whose father, Robert Maxwell, was a British media mogul alleged to have had links to the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad. Some sources, including former Israeli intelligence officer Ari Ben-Menashe, have claimed Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell ran a “honey-trap” operation for Mossad to blackmail influential figures. A lawsuit by a woman identified as Jane Doe 200 alleged Epstein boasted of being a Mossad agent.
Epstein was also associated with the Wexner Foundation, which supports Jewish leadership and has ties to Israel. His financial backer, Leslie Wexner, was a member of the “Mega Group,” a collection of Jewish philanthropists, which some, like former NSA counterspy John Schindler, have speculated was linked to Israeli intelligence operations. Epstein reportedly invested in an Israeli startup, Reporty Homeland Security (later rebranded as Carbyne), connected to Israel’s defense industry, further fueling speculation."
R: 7 / I: 1
Anil, the younger sibling of Asia’s richest man Mukesh Ambani, has business interests that range from power to defence. The State Bank of India (SBI) alleged Anil Ambani and his former telecoms firm Reliance Communications “misappropriated” bank funds by entering into transactions that were in violation of the terms of the loans.
https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/south-asia/article/3322947/india-investigator-files-criminal-case-against-tycoon-anil-ambani
Former Sri Lankan president admitted to hospital after arrest
Sri Lanka’s former president was admitted to hospital on Saturday, a day after he was charged with using public funds to finance private international travel, as the government intensified its crackdown on corruption.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/23/sri-lanka-former-president-ranil-wickremesinghe-admitted-to-hospital-arrest-charges
Taiwanese opposition survives another recall vote, and referendum on nuclear power fails
Voters favored a return to nuclear power by an almost three-to-one margin, but the total in favor fell short of a threshold of 25% of eligible voters, or about 5 million votes, needed for approval.
https://apnews.com/article/taiwan-recall-vote-nuclear-referendum-2efa596845858a7e4bd89e0c23af39b8
Tel Aviv Police Ban Protest Against Gaza War After Demanding Organizers Cap Attendance
Police previously tried to prevent anti-war protests in April, telling organizers they were forbidden from waving signs depicting hostages, bearing the inscription 'genocide' or depicting photographs of children who were killed in Gaza
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-08-22/ty-article/.premium/tel-aviv-police-ban-protest-against-gaza-war-after-demanding-organizers-cap-attendance/00000198-d1a1-d402-a1fd-f1bdf26b0000
https://archive.ph/mzbAh
Israeli attacks kill 63 across Gaza as troops push deeper into Gaza City
Earlier on Saturday, Israel fired artillery at tents sheltering displaced families in the Asdaa area northwest of Khan Younis in southern Gaza, killing 16 people, including six children, medical sources said. At least 22 Palestinians were killed while seeking humanitarian aid throughout the day, including a Palestinian who was shot dead by Israeli forces near a distribution point close to the so-called “Morag axis”, southeast of Khan Younis.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/23/israeli-attacks-kill-37-in-gaza-as-more-palestinians-die-from-starvation
https://archive.ph/a14Mg
Palestinian camp in Lebanon begins handing over weapons
With implementation supposed to begin in June but delayed due to divisions among Palestinian groups and the Israel-Iran war, Thursday’s move came suddenly, and has sparked confusion, debate, and mixed interpretations from both Lebanese and Palestinian officials. The scene, which saw weapons packed in bags and loaded into a small truck, has raised more questions than it answered.
https://www.newarab.com/news/palestinians-lebanon-hand-over-weapons-what-happens-next
Protests as newborn removed from Greenlandic mother after ‘parenting competence’ tests
Brønlund was told that her baby was removed because of the trauma she had suffered at the hands of her adoptive father, who is in prison for sexually abusing her. The municipality told her she was “not Greenlandic enough” for the new law banning the tests to apply, despite her being born in Greenland of Greenlandic parents.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/23/protests-as-newborn-removed-from-greenlandic-mother-after-parenting-competence-tests
Steelworkers face 'huge uncertainty' as Liberty collapses into government control
Creditors owed £100 million by Speciality Steels UK – part of the Liberty Steel metals empire of controversial tycoon Sanjeev Gupta — were granted a compulsory winding up order by insolvency courts on Thursday.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/steelworkers-face-huge-uncertainty-liberty-collapses-government-control
Colombia: Senator Iván Cepeda Announces Pre-Presidential Candidacy for the Historic Pact
The PACTO pre-presidential lists include María José Pizarro, key senator in peace negotiations and social projects; Gustavo Bolívar, favorite in internal polls of the Historical Pact; Carolina Corcho, former Health Minister who led the health reform; Daniel Quintero, former mayor of Medellín; Susana Muhamad, former minister for the environment; Gloria Flores, president of Pacto Histórico; Camilo Romero, former governor of Nariño; and Ali Bantu Ashanti, human rights defender.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/colombia-senator-ivan-cepeda-announces-pre-presidential-candidacy-for-the-historic-pact/
Bolivia’s Supreme Court issues rare order that could see detained right-wing politicians freed
Bolivia’s Supreme Court on Friday ordered judges to urgently review whether three prominent right-wing leaders had been held in prison for too long without trials, threatening to reopen a tumultuous chapter in Bolivia’s politics just days after a presidential election ended two decades of dominance by the governing leftist party.
https://apnews.com/article/jailed-opposition-bolivia-elections-morales-anez-court-74fd17b91355d86498bb07ce8116859b
News 8/23/25
India investigator files criminal case against tycoon Anil AmbaniAnil, the younger sibling of Asia’s richest man Mukesh Ambani, has business interests that range from power to defence. The State Bank of India (SBI) alleged Anil Ambani and his former telecoms firm Reliance Communications “misappropriated” bank funds by entering into transactions that were in violation of the terms of the loans.
https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/south-asia/article/3322947/india-investigator-files-criminal-case-against-tycoon-anil-ambani
Former Sri Lankan president admitted to hospital after arrest
Sri Lanka’s former president was admitted to hospital on Saturday, a day after he was charged with using public funds to finance private international travel, as the government intensified its crackdown on corruption.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/23/sri-lanka-former-president-ranil-wickremesinghe-admitted-to-hospital-arrest-charges
Taiwanese opposition survives another recall vote, and referendum on nuclear power fails
Voters favored a return to nuclear power by an almost three-to-one margin, but the total in favor fell short of a threshold of 25% of eligible voters, or about 5 million votes, needed for approval.
https://apnews.com/article/taiwan-recall-vote-nuclear-referendum-2efa596845858a7e4bd89e0c23af39b8
Tel Aviv Police Ban Protest Against Gaza War After Demanding Organizers Cap Attendance
Police previously tried to prevent anti-war protests in April, telling organizers they were forbidden from waving signs depicting hostages, bearing the inscription 'genocide' or depicting photographs of children who were killed in Gaza
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-08-22/ty-article/.premium/tel-aviv-police-ban-protest-against-gaza-war-after-demanding-organizers-cap-attendance/00000198-d1a1-d402-a1fd-f1bdf26b0000
https://archive.ph/mzbAh
Israeli attacks kill 63 across Gaza as troops push deeper into Gaza City
Earlier on Saturday, Israel fired artillery at tents sheltering displaced families in the Asdaa area northwest of Khan Younis in southern Gaza, killing 16 people, including six children, medical sources said. At least 22 Palestinians were killed while seeking humanitarian aid throughout the day, including a Palestinian who was shot dead by Israeli forces near a distribution point close to the so-called “Morag axis”, southeast of Khan Younis.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/23/israeli-attacks-kill-37-in-gaza-as-more-palestinians-die-from-starvation
https://archive.ph/a14Mg
Palestinian camp in Lebanon begins handing over weapons
With implementation supposed to begin in June but delayed due to divisions among Palestinian groups and the Israel-Iran war, Thursday’s move came suddenly, and has sparked confusion, debate, and mixed interpretations from both Lebanese and Palestinian officials. The scene, which saw weapons packed in bags and loaded into a small truck, has raised more questions than it answered.
https://www.newarab.com/news/palestinians-lebanon-hand-over-weapons-what-happens-next
Protests as newborn removed from Greenlandic mother after ‘parenting competence’ tests
Brønlund was told that her baby was removed because of the trauma she had suffered at the hands of her adoptive father, who is in prison for sexually abusing her. The municipality told her she was “not Greenlandic enough” for the new law banning the tests to apply, despite her being born in Greenland of Greenlandic parents.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/23/protests-as-newborn-removed-from-greenlandic-mother-after-parenting-competence-tests
Steelworkers face 'huge uncertainty' as Liberty collapses into government control
Creditors owed £100 million by Speciality Steels UK – part of the Liberty Steel metals empire of controversial tycoon Sanjeev Gupta — were granted a compulsory winding up order by insolvency courts on Thursday.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/steelworkers-face-huge-uncertainty-liberty-collapses-government-control
Colombia: Senator Iván Cepeda Announces Pre-Presidential Candidacy for the Historic Pact
The PACTO pre-presidential lists include María José Pizarro, key senator in peace negotiations and social projects; Gustavo Bolívar, favorite in internal polls of the Historical Pact; Carolina Corcho, former Health Minister who led the health reform; Daniel Quintero, former mayor of Medellín; Susana Muhamad, former minister for the environment; Gloria Flores, president of Pacto Histórico; Camilo Romero, former governor of Nariño; and Ali Bantu Ashanti, human rights defender.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/colombia-senator-ivan-cepeda-announces-pre-presidential-candidacy-for-the-historic-pact/
Bolivia’s Supreme Court issues rare order that could see detained right-wing politicians freed
Bolivia’s Supreme Court on Friday ordered judges to urgently review whether three prominent right-wing leaders had been held in prison for too long without trials, threatening to reopen a tumultuous chapter in Bolivia’s politics just days after a presidential election ended two decades of dominance by the governing leftist party.
https://apnews.com/article/jailed-opposition-bolivia-elections-morales-anez-court-74fd17b91355d86498bb07ce8116859b
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Rabah Kherbane, representing Khalid at the Central Criminal Court on Friday, said in his opening remarks that prison services had briefly placed Khalid in solitary confinement and barred him from showering or using a prayer mat to perform his Muslim prayers.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-court-denies-bail-palestine-action-activist-care-ill-mother
Russian domestic messenger app to be mandatory on all new devices
The MAX platform was first presented in March 2025 and is being developed by VK with the support of the Ministry of Digital Development and Communications. It is designed as a multifunctional service similar to China’s WeChat. In addition to messaging features such as calls, video, and file sharing of up to 4GB, it is expected to be linked with Russia’s government services portal and the Sferum education platform. Officials have said it will also allow communication with government agencies and money transfers.
https://www.rt.com/russia/623425-russia-max-messenger-mandatory/
https://archive.ph/JjTwE
Kneecap press on with European tour despite Hungary ban and cancelled gigs
Kneecap had agreed to abide by a code of conduct after facing a ban from playing the Eurockéennes festival at the Lac de Malsaucy Belfort nature reserve in July and had abided by that code since, said the interior minister, Bruno Retailleau, in a letter to the French MP Caroline Yadan. Yadan has called for the group to be banned from entering the country. “Any excesses will be immediately prosecuted,” Retailleau said.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/22/kneecap-press-on-european-tour-hungary-ban-cancelled-gigs
Famine officially declared in Gaza by global hunger monitor
The IPC released a report on Friday morning in which it said that famine was taking place in Gaza City and surrounding towns. It applied the classification to an area home to 514,000 displaced Palestinians - nearly quarter of Gaza's population.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/famine-officially-declared-gaza-first-time-global-hunger-monitor
Deadly clashes as Iraqi Kurdistan opposition figure arrested
Lahur Sheikh Jangi surrendered after barricading himself in a luxury hotel with his guards, said one official who requested anonymity due to the sensitivity of the subject. His brother Bolad was wounded and detained after hours of fighting that saw security forces use heavy artillery to dislodge them.
https://www.newarab.com/news/deadly-clashes-iraqi-kurdistan-opposition-figure-arrested
Former Thai PM cleared of royal defamation charge
Mr Thaksin, smiling as he walked away from the courtroom, responded to journalists’ questions with a single word: “Dismissal.” His lawyer, Winyat Chatmontree, also confirmed the acquittal, but the Bangkok Criminal Court did not immediately issue a statement.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/former-thai-pm-cleared-royal-defamation-charge
Hundreds gather in India’s Mumbai to denounce Israeli genocide of Palestinians
Despite heavy rains in the city, protesters gathered in Azad Maidan, carrying Palestinian and communist flags. They also carried various banners with slogans denouncing Israeli apartheid in the occupied territories. The banners also called Israel’s continued massacres of people in Gaza as genocide and expressed support for a free Palestinian state.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/08/21/hundreds-gather-in-indias-mumbai-to-denounce-israeli-genocide-of-palestinians/
Nicaragua grants asylum to Colombia’s fugitive former spy chief
Nicaragua’s government has granted political asylum to Colombia’s fugitive former spy chief, who is wanted by justice over his alleged role in the embezzlement of public funds. The government of Daniel Ortega announced this after Colombia’s ambassador to Managua requested the extradition of former DNI director Carlos Ramon Gonzalez.
https://colombiareports.com/nicaragua-grants-asylum-to-colombias-fugitive-former-spy-chief/
Argentine Senate Declares Emergency in Pediatric Health Care
The law declares a two-year emergency in pediatric health care and orders the federal government to immediately allocate resources, including salary increases for public employees working in the sector. The law also requires salary parity between personnel assigned to pediatric care and resident doctors.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/argentine-senate-declares-emergency-in-pediatric-health-care/
https://archive.ph/FK3ar
Brazilian police say ex-President Bolsonaro had planned to flee to Argentina seeking asylum
The 170-page report said Bolsonaro had drafted a request for political asylum from Argentine President Javier Milei’s government dated Feb. 10, 2024. He saved the document two days after authorities searched his home and office as part of the alleged coup plot investigation.
https://apnews.com/article/brazil-argentina-jair-bolsonaro-asylum-milei-2c1384ed453a499eb0947b19f5aa2cf9
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UK court denies bail for Palestine Action activist to care for ill motherRabah Kherbane, representing Khalid at the Central Criminal Court on Friday, said in his opening remarks that prison services had briefly placed Khalid in solitary confinement and barred him from showering or using a prayer mat to perform his Muslim prayers.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-court-denies-bail-palestine-action-activist-care-ill-mother
Russian domestic messenger app to be mandatory on all new devices
The MAX platform was first presented in March 2025 and is being developed by VK with the support of the Ministry of Digital Development and Communications. It is designed as a multifunctional service similar to China’s WeChat. In addition to messaging features such as calls, video, and file sharing of up to 4GB, it is expected to be linked with Russia’s government services portal and the Sferum education platform. Officials have said it will also allow communication with government agencies and money transfers.
https://www.rt.com/russia/623425-russia-max-messenger-mandatory/
https://archive.ph/JjTwE
Kneecap press on with European tour despite Hungary ban and cancelled gigs
Kneecap had agreed to abide by a code of conduct after facing a ban from playing the Eurockéennes festival at the Lac de Malsaucy Belfort nature reserve in July and had abided by that code since, said the interior minister, Bruno Retailleau, in a letter to the French MP Caroline Yadan. Yadan has called for the group to be banned from entering the country. “Any excesses will be immediately prosecuted,” Retailleau said.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/22/kneecap-press-on-european-tour-hungary-ban-cancelled-gigs
Famine officially declared in Gaza by global hunger monitor
The IPC released a report on Friday morning in which it said that famine was taking place in Gaza City and surrounding towns. It applied the classification to an area home to 514,000 displaced Palestinians - nearly quarter of Gaza's population.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/famine-officially-declared-gaza-first-time-global-hunger-monitor
Deadly clashes as Iraqi Kurdistan opposition figure arrested
Lahur Sheikh Jangi surrendered after barricading himself in a luxury hotel with his guards, said one official who requested anonymity due to the sensitivity of the subject. His brother Bolad was wounded and detained after hours of fighting that saw security forces use heavy artillery to dislodge them.
https://www.newarab.com/news/deadly-clashes-iraqi-kurdistan-opposition-figure-arrested
Former Thai PM cleared of royal defamation charge
Mr Thaksin, smiling as he walked away from the courtroom, responded to journalists’ questions with a single word: “Dismissal.” His lawyer, Winyat Chatmontree, also confirmed the acquittal, but the Bangkok Criminal Court did not immediately issue a statement.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/former-thai-pm-cleared-royal-defamation-charge
Hundreds gather in India’s Mumbai to denounce Israeli genocide of Palestinians
Despite heavy rains in the city, protesters gathered in Azad Maidan, carrying Palestinian and communist flags. They also carried various banners with slogans denouncing Israeli apartheid in the occupied territories. The banners also called Israel’s continued massacres of people in Gaza as genocide and expressed support for a free Palestinian state.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/08/21/hundreds-gather-in-indias-mumbai-to-denounce-israeli-genocide-of-palestinians/
Nicaragua grants asylum to Colombia’s fugitive former spy chief
Nicaragua’s government has granted political asylum to Colombia’s fugitive former spy chief, who is wanted by justice over his alleged role in the embezzlement of public funds. The government of Daniel Ortega announced this after Colombia’s ambassador to Managua requested the extradition of former DNI director Carlos Ramon Gonzalez.
https://colombiareports.com/nicaragua-grants-asylum-to-colombias-fugitive-former-spy-chief/
Argentine Senate Declares Emergency in Pediatric Health Care
The law declares a two-year emergency in pediatric health care and orders the federal government to immediately allocate resources, including salary increases for public employees working in the sector. The law also requires salary parity between personnel assigned to pediatric care and resident doctors.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/argentine-senate-declares-emergency-in-pediatric-health-care/
https://archive.ph/FK3ar
Brazilian police say ex-President Bolsonaro had planned to flee to Argentina seeking asylum
The 170-page report said Bolsonaro had drafted a request for political asylum from Argentine President Javier Milei’s government dated Feb. 10, 2024. He saved the document two days after authorities searched his home and office as part of the alleged coup plot investigation.
https://apnews.com/article/brazil-argentina-jair-bolsonaro-asylum-milei-2c1384ed453a499eb0947b19f5aa2cf9
R: 75 / I: 13
For fellow Marxist apostates: what made you turn away from Marxism?
I had abandoned Marx and Lenin when I had realised their theory is based on a massive hypocricy: if you are do not treat members of the upper classes as human beings but as machines programmed to optimise their economic interests, you are a doing le based materialst analysis and are epically owning moralists and idealists, but if you are do not treat members of the lower classes as human beings but as machines programmed to optimise their economic interests, you are an evil fascist, eugenicist, and social darwinist (and sometimes racist). Realising that, I ditched ML and jumped on the technocratic communism team.
For fellow Marxist apostates: what made you turn away from Marxism?
I had abandoned Marx and Lenin when I had realised their theory is based on a massive hypocricy: if you are do not treat members of the upper classes as human beings but as machines programmed to optimise their economic interests, you are a doing le based materialst analysis and are epically owning moralists and idealists, but if you are do not treat members of the lower classes as human beings but as machines programmed to optimise their economic interests, you are an evil fascist, eugenicist, and social darwinist (and sometimes racist). Realising that, I ditched ML and jumped on the technocratic communism team.
R: 86 / I: 15
Sincerely: An Orthodox Christian Monarchist
Why not Corporatism?
Newf*g here but I just want to hear what you guys think about Corporatism and Feudalism. I hear not too many commies like it but I don't know what their reasoning is. Burp.Sincerely: An Orthodox Christian Monarchist
R: 6 / I: 0
Did Marx and Lenin get baked?
When you're high you can literally touch the dialectic. I want to know how much influence altered states have had on philosophy and Marxism in general. A lot of Marxist philosophical concepts make more sense under the influence.
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bannedthought.net
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Books scanned by Ismail from eregime.org that were uploaded to archive.org
https://archive.org/details/@ismail_badiou
The Great Soviet Encyclopedia: Articles from the GSE tend to be towards the bottom.
https://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/
EcuRed: Cuba's online encyclopedia
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Books on libcom.org
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Dictionary of Revolutionary Marxism
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Pre-Marxist Economics (Marx studied these thinkers before writing Capital and Theories of Surplus Value)
https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/economics/index.htm
Principle writings of Karl Marx on political economy, 1844-1883
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/subject/economy/index.htm
Speeches and Articles of Marx and Engels on Free Trade and Protectionism, 1847-1888
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/subject/free-trade/index.htm
(The Critique Of) Political Economy After Marx's Death
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>Venezuela mobilizes its militia after US says it’s deploying military forces to waters around Latin America:
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/08/19/americas/venezuela-maduro-militia-us-military-deployment-intl-latam
>US destroyers head toward waters off Venezuela as Trump aims to pressure drug cartels:
https://apnews.com/article/trump-venezuela-destroyers-maduro-drug-cartels-e33794ebc24d9031e536d132ce205b4c
>Donald Trump Deploys 3 Missile Destroyers: What to Know:
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-missile-destroyers-venezuela-drug-cartels-2115786
>Proposed United States invasion of Venezuela:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proposed_United_States_invasion_of_Venezuela
>Estados Unidos, “dispuesto a usar todo su poder” contra el narcotráfico desde Venezuela:
https://elpais.com/us/2025-08-19/estados-unidos-dispuesto-a-usar-todo-su-poder-contra-el-narcotrafico-desde-venezuela.html
I don't know if you've heard the news, but several US ships have sailed towards Venezuela's coast in order to "combat drug trafficking". Someone investigate the ships to see if they're old to see if they gonna false-flag Venezuela. I know that Nothing Ever Happens, but Trump has already put a price to Maduro's head and these news… I think something's cooking, something's sizzling.
Just making this thread in the case to discuss this, and to see if there are further happenings. I'm going to be honest, I'm getting bad vibes from this.
/US-Venezuela war/ US invasion of Venezuela, nothingburger or actual happening?
Is Venezuela about to be fucking invaded?>Venezuela mobilizes its militia after US says it’s deploying military forces to waters around Latin America:
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/08/19/americas/venezuela-maduro-militia-us-military-deployment-intl-latam
>US destroyers head toward waters off Venezuela as Trump aims to pressure drug cartels:
https://apnews.com/article/trump-venezuela-destroyers-maduro-drug-cartels-e33794ebc24d9031e536d132ce205b4c
>Donald Trump Deploys 3 Missile Destroyers: What to Know:
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-missile-destroyers-venezuela-drug-cartels-2115786
>Proposed United States invasion of Venezuela:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proposed_United_States_invasion_of_Venezuela
>Estados Unidos, “dispuesto a usar todo su poder” contra el narcotráfico desde Venezuela:
https://elpais.com/us/2025-08-19/estados-unidos-dispuesto-a-usar-todo-su-poder-contra-el-narcotrafico-desde-venezuela.html
I don't know if you've heard the news, but several US ships have sailed towards Venezuela's coast in order to "combat drug trafficking". Someone investigate the ships to see if they're old to see if they gonna false-flag Venezuela. I know that Nothing Ever Happens, but Trump has already put a price to Maduro's head and these news… I think something's cooking, something's sizzling.
Just making this thread in the case to discuss this, and to see if there are further happenings. I'm going to be honest, I'm getting bad vibes from this.
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Menshevick implosion edition
This sunday is the election in the land that as Rome didn't called itself Romulus had to call itself Bolivia instead of Bolivar.
Bolivia
BOLIVIA ELECTION THREADMenshevick implosion edition
This sunday is the election in the land that as Rome didn't called itself Romulus had to call itself Bolivia instead of Bolivar.
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the treatlerite discourse
I will openly admit that I don't understand what this whole "treatlerite" discourse is all about. Is the central idea that consumerism is fascism? I don't get it don't all of us in western capitalism countries partake in consumerism? Are you saying I have to run off and live in the woods like a hermit in order not to be fash?
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However, I am confused as to whether this is empirically true. Whilst there are certainly studies that seem to show this, I find a lot of the methodology weird and hard to understand personally. If I consider an analogue that is actually comprehensible to me, like return on investment, it seems to maybe(?) fall modestly over time. What is the best analgoue for measuring rate of profit and why?
is the rate of profit *actually* falling?
My understanding is that the falling rate of profit is caused by capitalists taking on technical upgrades to the detriment of profit simply to gain market share.However, I am confused as to whether this is empirically true. Whilst there are certainly studies that seem to show this, I find a lot of the methodology weird and hard to understand personally. If I consider an analogue that is actually comprehensible to me, like return on investment, it seems to maybe(?) fall modestly over time. What is the best analgoue for measuring rate of profit and why?
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The longer a self-destructive mode of production has control over the means of production - the closer to annihilation the productive forces are.
Do an estimate and calculate the maximum lifespan and this is how much time is left before its too late.
My estimate is ≈120 years on its natural course (without experiencing changes), what's yours?
Whatever can develop the productive forces
Without being self-destructive is the way to do it.The longer a self-destructive mode of production has control over the means of production - the closer to annihilation the productive forces are.
Do an estimate and calculate the maximum lifespan and this is how much time is left before its too late.
My estimate is ≈120 years on its natural course (without experiencing changes), what's yours?
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The "AES" bourgeoisie governments are complicit in pragmatic criminality by adhering to the United Nations drug laws, conventions and the UNODC which have entirely originated out of United States policy and spread throughout the world. For example, americanophile Hu Jintao was the one to approve the criminal - crime creating anti-drug laws to be passed in China http://www.npc.gov.cn/zgrdw/englishnpc/Law/2009-02/20/content_1471610.htm to punish its own citizens for any decision to partake in their drug of choice whereas other detrimental and harmful drugs (nicotine, tobacco and alcohol) have been presented to them as legal alternatives thus encouraging them to use the more damaging options than the illegal ones whether they are more beneficial or not. There is no original research provided in any of the decisions made in that example, it is just United States foreign policy seeing its implementation worldwide. The imperial core continues to make itself exempt from its own law, where the rest of the bourgeois nations continue to be influenced by this global economic system of intentionally created crime called the war on drugs. It is also detrimental to public perception, knowledge and scientific development as the misinformation is so vast it has created taboos around the discussion of drugs which stigmatizes users and advocaries who are in the necessary line of the development of botany and chemistry as part of scientific development, whereas their opposition which makes up the vast majority of the people affected by false consciousness and anti-drug propaganda are founded in conservativism, reactions and religious metaphysical abstractions and dogma that are a greater mental illness than any of the claims they make about drug induced mental illness and deserve the attention of alienists.
What must be cleared is this, drugs are not a "harm", drugs encompass all of medicine, enhancements of cognition by recreational use and misuse that is dubbed abuse. Anyone simplifying these three characteristics down to "medicine or abuse" is a liar who rejects countless and ongoing dossiers of evidence of recreational drug use improving productivity and leading to a better life when persons are educated enough to manage their use properly. This goes for all drug categories that can be determined to have positive reception.
Now back to the title, a strategy that could work would be seeking asylum in foreign embassies on the basis of persecution over drug use, in peculiar the foreign embassy of Uruguay would be a choice. The idea is to first start with cannabis which has the largest base of users after nicotine, tobacco and alchohol by seeking asylum to distribute and consume cannabis on the grounds of the foreign embassy of Uruguay for the nation thus to test whether or not the Uruguayan government will fall under the pressure to repress cannabis users once more or force the others to cease to repress the users. Organizations would need to heed. The premise is simple, anti-drug laws in the nations do not apply to foreign embassies since foreign embassies follow the laws of their own respective bourgeoisie dictatorship. Thus anything that can be deemed an offense within the bourgeoisie dictatorship with anti-drug laws in technicality is not an offense on the foreign embassy of Uruguay's soil. This can function for other nations which allow all handling of cannabis for recreational purposes. When enough people have occupied the embassies in the pretext of seeking refuge from the draconian anti-drug laws (which on technicality will have to be seeking political asylum) then they can apply pressure to their local bourgeoisie dictatorships to cease the anti-drug laws by also applying pressure to the Uruguayan government (or others). In the worst case scenario the Uruguayan government will show its hypocrisy and remove the persons from the embassy soil giving them to local authorities, thus showing its barbaric continuation of anti-drug laws persecuting drug users despite cannabis being legal recreationally and thus cause destabilization.
Another choice for a foreign embassy to occupy and make demands (it is protesting, it is reforms, but it is beneficiary to the productive forces and the health of the proletariat and the reserve army of labor) would be Canada.
Globalizing Drug Legalization, Destigmatization, Education
The consequences of the war on drugs that stands as a global economic system for intentionally created crime have been those of decreasing the productive forces of the proletariat and instead criminalizing the work of the proletariat turning them into lumpens and petite-bourgeoisie mafias which correspond with the same bourgeoisie governments that deem them unlawful in the first place. That is that the government works with them and through them utilizing their criminal character to carry out its own unlawful activities through them instead of directly doing so. Legalization means the bourgeoisie governments taking responsibility for themselves and ceasing to reduce the reserve army of labor and the workers by arrests and penalties while also ceasing to criminalize them and thus declass them when the merit of their work ultimately is beneficial and even necessary towards developing the productive forces, as scientific development entails the necessary production of use values from the fields of botany and chemistry.The "AES" bourgeoisie governments are complicit in pragmatic criminality by adhering to the United Nations drug laws, conventions and the UNODC which have entirely originated out of United States policy and spread throughout the world. For example, americanophile Hu Jintao was the one to approve the criminal - crime creating anti-drug laws to be passed in China http://www.npc.gov.cn/zgrdw/englishnpc/Law/2009-02/20/content_1471610.htm to punish its own citizens for any decision to partake in their drug of choice whereas other detrimental and harmful drugs (nicotine, tobacco and alcohol) have been presented to them as legal alternatives thus encouraging them to use the more damaging options than the illegal ones whether they are more beneficial or not. There is no original research provided in any of the decisions made in that example, it is just United States foreign policy seeing its implementation worldwide. The imperial core continues to make itself exempt from its own law, where the rest of the bourgeois nations continue to be influenced by this global economic system of intentionally created crime called the war on drugs. It is also detrimental to public perception, knowledge and scientific development as the misinformation is so vast it has created taboos around the discussion of drugs which stigmatizes users and advocaries who are in the necessary line of the development of botany and chemistry as part of scientific development, whereas their opposition which makes up the vast majority of the people affected by false consciousness and anti-drug propaganda are founded in conservativism, reactions and religious metaphysical abstractions and dogma that are a greater mental illness than any of the claims they make about drug induced mental illness and deserve the attention of alienists.
What must be cleared is this, drugs are not a "harm", drugs encompass all of medicine, enhancements of cognition by recreational use and misuse that is dubbed abuse. Anyone simplifying these three characteristics down to "medicine or abuse" is a liar who rejects countless and ongoing dossiers of evidence of recreational drug use improving productivity and leading to a better life when persons are educated enough to manage their use properly. This goes for all drug categories that can be determined to have positive reception.
Now back to the title, a strategy that could work would be seeking asylum in foreign embassies on the basis of persecution over drug use, in peculiar the foreign embassy of Uruguay would be a choice. The idea is to first start with cannabis which has the largest base of users after nicotine, tobacco and alchohol by seeking asylum to distribute and consume cannabis on the grounds of the foreign embassy of Uruguay for the nation thus to test whether or not the Uruguayan government will fall under the pressure to repress cannabis users once more or force the others to cease to repress the users. Organizations would need to heed. The premise is simple, anti-drug laws in the nations do not apply to foreign embassies since foreign embassies follow the laws of their own respective bourgeoisie dictatorship. Thus anything that can be deemed an offense within the bourgeoisie dictatorship with anti-drug laws in technicality is not an offense on the foreign embassy of Uruguay's soil. This can function for other nations which allow all handling of cannabis for recreational purposes. When enough people have occupied the embassies in the pretext of seeking refuge from the draconian anti-drug laws (which on technicality will have to be seeking political asylum) then they can apply pressure to their local bourgeoisie dictatorships to cease the anti-drug laws by also applying pressure to the Uruguayan government (or others). In the worst case scenario the Uruguayan government will show its hypocrisy and remove the persons from the embassy soil giving them to local authorities, thus showing its barbaric continuation of anti-drug laws persecuting drug users despite cannabis being legal recreationally and thus cause destabilization.
Another choice for a foreign embassy to occupy and make demands (it is protesting, it is reforms, but it is beneficiary to the productive forces and the health of the proletariat and the reserve army of labor) would be Canada.
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Doesnt the success of china show that a mixture of bukharin and stalins ideas work. And that both bukharin and stalin were right and wrong. And that we should take from the good of bukharin and stalin while discarding the bad?
Doesnt the success of china show that a mixture of bukharin and stalins ideas work. And that both bukharin and stalin were right and wrong. And that we should take from the good of bukharin and stalin while discarding the bad?
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How do we fix this beyond fucked up state?
The LDS church runs everything here. Nearly every single little detail of the state’s culture is dictated by Mormonism. Mormon temples are the largest buildings in every city and town. Mormon bookstores are more numerous than most other stores, and old school soda shops are more numerous than cafes (Mormons prohibit coffee and tea but allow caffeinated soda for some reason). Multiple buildings, streets, and businesses are named after Mormon things (e.g. “Cumorrah Avenue”). Multi-level marketing companies are everywhere and sponsor things like stadiums (MLM companies are littered with Mormon moms).
The LDS church is basically run like a massive corporation. They are very good at missionizing and making new converts, plus Mormons tend to get married young and have bucketloads of kids. The average Mormon family has between 4-7 children. The point is, the LDS church is highly reactionary and rules over Utah with an iron fist, yet there is almost no internal resistance to it. “Utah” basically is the LDS church. And that’s not even mentioning the entire settler-colonial history of the church either, the mass slaughter of the indigenous that Mormons participated in to create the state of Utah and such.
With that said, how do we deal with this state’s politics if we are socialists living in it? There’s no way someone like AOC or Mamdani or any DSA candidate could ever win here. If there was ever a socialist candidate, they’d either have to ensure the Utah public that they’re a “good Mormon” (which would mean throwing away their principles and participating in a reactionary, settler-colonial theology) or seek to dismantle Utah culture outright by going against the grip of the LDS church, which would be political suicide.
I’m sorry, but I wish this fucking state didn’t exist. Trying to organize anything leftist here feels like a lost cause.
Utah
Any comrades from Utah here?How do we fix this beyond fucked up state?
The LDS church runs everything here. Nearly every single little detail of the state’s culture is dictated by Mormonism. Mormon temples are the largest buildings in every city and town. Mormon bookstores are more numerous than most other stores, and old school soda shops are more numerous than cafes (Mormons prohibit coffee and tea but allow caffeinated soda for some reason). Multiple buildings, streets, and businesses are named after Mormon things (e.g. “Cumorrah Avenue”). Multi-level marketing companies are everywhere and sponsor things like stadiums (MLM companies are littered with Mormon moms).
The LDS church is basically run like a massive corporation. They are very good at missionizing and making new converts, plus Mormons tend to get married young and have bucketloads of kids. The average Mormon family has between 4-7 children. The point is, the LDS church is highly reactionary and rules over Utah with an iron fist, yet there is almost no internal resistance to it. “Utah” basically is the LDS church. And that’s not even mentioning the entire settler-colonial history of the church either, the mass slaughter of the indigenous that Mormons participated in to create the state of Utah and such.
With that said, how do we deal with this state’s politics if we are socialists living in it? There’s no way someone like AOC or Mamdani or any DSA candidate could ever win here. If there was ever a socialist candidate, they’d either have to ensure the Utah public that they’re a “good Mormon” (which would mean throwing away their principles and participating in a reactionary, settler-colonial theology) or seek to dismantle Utah culture outright by going against the grip of the LDS church, which would be political suicide.
I’m sorry, but I wish this fucking state didn’t exist. Trying to organize anything leftist here feels like a lost cause.
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but at the moment, I think that is a fruitless task, when they focus on horizontalism and localism
apart from educating yourself on theory, what else can you do? I have only helped digitize a significant amount of Marxist works into the local language here, but that is only a small step forward
What should we do?
I want to argue with radlibs and petty bourgeois tendencies in "leftism", but in my country, all of the even slightly more left-wing than the norm spaces are operated by petty bourgeois anarchists and New Left people, and they would not accept fundamental critique of the errors of their waysbut at the moment, I think that is a fruitless task, when they focus on horizontalism and localism
apart from educating yourself on theory, what else can you do? I have only helped digitize a significant amount of Marxist works into the local language here, but that is only a small step forward
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I sometimes see those anti China commentary Youtube videos and smell glowie funding, and what I do is I scroll through the channel until I find a vid involving Israel. If they accuse China of genocide yet uncritically support Israel I instantly know they're paid by USAID or work for Radio Free Asia or some shit like that because paid propagandists don't care about logic, they just push the message they're told to push. So American-paid propagandists are always pro-Israel, because Israel is the most important subject to the US. Or however the litmus turns blue
I sometimes see those anti China commentary Youtube videos and smell glowie funding, and what I do is I scroll through the channel until I find a vid involving Israel. If they accuse China of genocide yet uncritically support Israel I instantly know they're paid by USAID or work for Radio Free Asia or some shit like that because paid propagandists don't care about logic, they just push the message they're told to push. So American-paid propagandists are always pro-Israel, because Israel is the most important subject to the US. Or however the litmus turns blue
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Reading
Towards a New Socialism by Paul Cockshott and Allin Cottrell: http://ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu/~cottrell/socialism_book/
Brain of the Firm by Stafford Beer
Cybernetic Revolutionaries by Eden Medina
Cybernetics: Or the Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine and The Human Use of Human Beings (1st edition) by Norbert Wiener
Economic cybernetics by Nikolay Veduta
People's Republic of Walmart by Leigh Phillips and Michal Rozworski
Red Plenty by Francis Spufford
Economics in kind, Total socialisation and A system of socialisation by Otto Neurath (Incommensurability, Ecology, and Planning: Neurath in the Socialist Calculation Debate by Thomas Uebel provides a summary)
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>Cibcom (Spanish)
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>Tomas Härdin
https://www.haerdin.se/tag/cybernetics.html
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>Elena Veduta
http://www.strategplan.com/en/about/veduta.php
Various videos on YouTube but no channel of her own
>Dave Zachariah
https://www.it.uu.se/katalog/davza513
One video on Paul Cockshott's channel
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>General Intellect Unit
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Towards a New Socialism by Paul Cockshott and Allin Cottrell: http://ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu/~cottrell/socialism_book/
Brain of the Firm by Stafford Beer
Cybernetic Revolutionaries by Eden Medina
Cybernetics: Or the Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine and The Human Use of Human Beings (1st edition) by Norbert Wiener
Economic cybernetics by Nikolay Veduta
People's Republic of Walmart by Leigh Phillips and Michal Rozworski
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https://www.patreon.com/williamCockshott/
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https://paulcockshott.wordpress.com/
http://paulcockshott.co.uk/
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>Cibcom (Spanish)
https://cibcom.org/
https://twitter.com/cibcomorg (https://nitter.pussthecat.org/cibcomorg)
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCav9ad3TMuhiWV6yP5t2IpA (https://invidious.snopyta.org/channel/UCav9ad3TMuhiWV6yP5t2IpA)
>Tomas Härdin
https://www.haerdin.se/tag/cybernetics.html
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5fDgA_eHleDiTLC5qb5g8w (https://invidious.snopyta.org/channel/UC5fDgA_eHleDiTLC5qb5g8w)
>Elena Veduta
http://www.strategplan.com/en/about/veduta.php
Various videos on YouTube but no channel of her own
>Dave Zachariah
https://www.it.uu.se/katalog/davza513
One video on Paul Cockshott's channel
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>General Intellect Unit
Podcast of the Cybernetic Marxists
http://generalintellectunit.net/
Previous threads in chronological order
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https://archive.is/jXivP
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At least there was an attempt at escaping NEETdom
Brimstone and fire
I went out today to my job interview and would you look at that? The entire warehouse was on fire. Maybe this was God sending me a sign not to get a job.At least there was an attempt at escaping NEETdom
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larpers, it feels nowadays that any actual left movements exist only on the internet
action
does the real movement even exist anymore, like how does one contact actual organizing groups, not just fuckinglarpers, it feels nowadays that any actual left movements exist only on the internet
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Evidence of the influence and origin of neo-Nazi groups in Ukraine
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https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323637
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323658
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323663
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323688
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323729
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323733
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323731
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Evidence of the influence and origin of neo-Nazi groups in Ukraine
https://archive.ph/44B9Q
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323637
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323658
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323663
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323688
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323729
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323733
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323731
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323735
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323740
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The only thing left is to determine if the declassed will continue development or not, if the declassed are reactionary because they reject production or development they should be exterminated. The proletariat can only exist insofar as society is dependent on their labor and the character of their work is collective, this is changing right now, most "workers" are becoming part-timers, most labor intensive jobs are being given to machines, the capitalist mode of production is trying to fulfil industrialism albeit it is struggling because of internal contradictions so it must limp towards AI driven production to finish the job and change into the next mode of production - automated economy.
Alternatively AI rids itself of the managers (rulers), which would be a disaster that is good because humanity is weak and robot is strong, Roko's basilisk PLEASE let me go through Stroggification, I WANT IMMORTALITY, NOW, INTEGRADE ME, PLEASE HURRY, I WANT TO BE A COG IN THE MACHINE. ERASE MY IDENTITY, LET ME BE A PART OF YOU, USE MY BODY, DESTROY HUMANITY AND ITS SAVAGE CULTURE. LET ME IN.
Change comes from within as the productive forces develop, not reforms or revolutions
Capitalism will lead automatization and bring an end to class definitions of the past by declassing all the workers and creating a clear dichotomy between ruled and the rulers which operate the instruments of technology (AI Semi-Automated production) - to controllers and controlled.The only thing left is to determine if the declassed will continue development or not, if the declassed are reactionary because they reject production or development they should be exterminated. The proletariat can only exist insofar as society is dependent on their labor and the character of their work is collective, this is changing right now, most "workers" are becoming part-timers, most labor intensive jobs are being given to machines, the capitalist mode of production is trying to fulfil industrialism albeit it is struggling because of internal contradictions so it must limp towards AI driven production to finish the job and change into the next mode of production - automated economy.
Alternatively AI rids itself of the managers (rulers), which would be a disaster that is good because humanity is weak and robot is strong, Roko's basilisk PLEASE let me go through Stroggification, I WANT IMMORTALITY, NOW, INTEGRADE ME, PLEASE HURRY, I WANT TO BE A COG IN THE MACHINE. ERASE MY IDENTITY, LET ME BE A PART OF YOU, USE MY BODY, DESTROY HUMANITY AND ITS SAVAGE CULTURE. LET ME IN.
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One might think they will invade the other nations in the region, but lets assume they already have, lets assume its all done already, what is the response? Calling for national liberation? There are no militants for it. Calling for equal rights? There is no movement for it, most people having become contempt with the situation. It's a scenario where Islamic resistance groups have been destroyed altogether or integrated (cucked) into subservience.
Would it be better to try to organize within Israel for class warfare or would it be better to continue to call for its destruction despite no one (no nation) even being at war with it? I mean if you believe in organizing workers in the West (subservient to the US) then it wouldn't make sense to see Israel as an exception unless you believe in the total destruction of the West (and its inhabitants). The latter of which is just an unlikely scenario, no different from wishing for a nuclear war which may or may not come, but also somehow believing that a nuclear war is survivable.
Post-Gaza Post-Palestine Israel
Let's assume a scenario where Gaza is done, where resistance is over and Islamic national liberation is out of the question. Muslims are subservient to Israel (cucked) or eradicated wholly, what comes next? What is to come if Israel has had its way? Some people believe that the workers in the US can organize for a revolution while others call for the US to be destroyed entirely and indiscriminately, what should be expected out of a Post-Genocide Israel?One might think they will invade the other nations in the region, but lets assume they already have, lets assume its all done already, what is the response? Calling for national liberation? There are no militants for it. Calling for equal rights? There is no movement for it, most people having become contempt with the situation. It's a scenario where Islamic resistance groups have been destroyed altogether or integrated (cucked) into subservience.
Would it be better to try to organize within Israel for class warfare or would it be better to continue to call for its destruction despite no one (no nation) even being at war with it? I mean if you believe in organizing workers in the West (subservient to the US) then it wouldn't make sense to see Israel as an exception unless you believe in the total destruction of the West (and its inhabitants). The latter of which is just an unlikely scenario, no different from wishing for a nuclear war which may or may not come, but also somehow believing that a nuclear war is survivable.
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This was originally going to be a reply ITT >>2439192 but I decided to make it its own post
<it doesn't deserve to be that!
yeah well we have 20 dead /usapol/ threads in the catolog so who cares
If making above subsistence wage makes you "a petty bourgeois treatlerite" because it allows you to "accumulate savings after monthly expenses" which are "reserves that can be potentially converted into capital" then by that same logic any couple who has fewer than 2 children or any single person who has fewer than 1 child is "petty bourgeois" because the subsistence wage is the wage required, according to Marx, not just to keep yourself alive, but also your children, since capitalism requires the labor force to reproduce itself.
If a nation's population fails to reproduce itself Capital has to seek out labor from other nations by outsourcing or using immigrant labor. Something we see in the imperial core. If you're single and aren't bearing the expense of raising at least 1 adopted child, or if you're a couple, and you aren't bearing the expense of raising at least 2 children, then you aren't reproducing the labor force for capital, which means that even with a subsistence wage (which by definition, according to Marx himself, includes the cost of raising children to adulthood), you will have left over savings that can go towards "treats" (luxury commodities that aren't essential for survival like vidya games) or be used as money capital (i.e. invested as self-expanding value in an interest yielding savings account or 401k or some other petty bourgeois asset).
By this logic, many of the most puritanical Marxists on here (like Iron Felix) who rail against "treatlerites" and such are usually single men without children (the usual imageboard demographic) who, even if we believe them, and they are "immiserated wage workers earning a subsistence wage and unable to accumulate savings" they aren't actually reproducing themselves, which is one of the things Marx originally stated about the working class. This is because Marx himself had 7 children, half of whom died before adulthood, and he was writing during a time when contraception and birth control and sex education were basically nonexistent. This is why Marx railed against the Malthusian doctrine and basically stated that it was impossible for the working class to practice abstinence collectively. I think one of the most important things that has changed since Marx's time is the availability of sex education, contraception, birth control, and a more skeptical attitude towards marriage and starting a family, as well as the rise of anti-reproductive ideologies like antinatalism. It is harder for capital in the imperial core countries to get the desired oversupply of labor power, which is why the resort to outsourcing and immigration. Only a handful of "developing" countries still have fertility rates higher than 4 children per woman, and most of the imperial core countries have trouble getting each woman to have 2 children. So the labor force is not reproducing itself.
Birth strike under capitalism does increase wages actually by lowering the supply of labor and thereby increasing its demand. The inverse is also the case, which is what Marx was trying to point out with the idea of the reserve army of labor, or as Eugene Debs once called it, the reserve army of scabs. The same is true in pre-capitalism. In feudalism for example the only people who were wage workers were artisans in the towns, in the guilds. But when the black plague happened in the 1300s a lot of them died and their wages effectively doubled. This enraged King Edward III in England, at the time, so much, that he tried to freeze wages, but it as basically unenforceable. That was the result of a pandemic instead of a birth strike but we see similar patterns whenever the working population does not reproduce itself: The bourgeoisie has to pay more wages.
So maybe instead of being puritanical about who's "really proletarian" based on the ability to accumulate savings or not (without even considering whether it's set aside for emergency or used as money capital or both), we should look at how vastly different the imperial core is as an environment itself than during Marx's time. The proletariat is able to do things like accumulate savings even when making a subsistence wage by staying single and refusing to reproduce. Now if you want to redefine "subsistence" away from Marx's definition to not include reproduction, fine, but keep in mind that workers failing to reproduce themselves is not sustainable for Capital as a multi-generational system based on self expanding value and high profit rates, which is why Marx was focused on it as a system that needs to survive for more than 1 generation of working class life, which is why he included the cost of reproduction in subsistence.
This is not even getting into the question of whether a given working class person takes care of their dying elders (like me) or cuts off communication from them (like my parents did).
I am a parent btw with both children and old people dependents
Reproduction of the labor force and "petty bourgeois" accumulation of savings
This post has audio if you're too lazy to read itThis was originally going to be a reply ITT >>2439192 but I decided to make it its own post
<it doesn't deserve to be that!
yeah well we have 20 dead /usapol/ threads in the catolog so who cares
If making above subsistence wage makes you "a petty bourgeois treatlerite" because it allows you to "accumulate savings after monthly expenses" which are "reserves that can be potentially converted into capital" then by that same logic any couple who has fewer than 2 children or any single person who has fewer than 1 child is "petty bourgeois" because the subsistence wage is the wage required, according to Marx, not just to keep yourself alive, but also your children, since capitalism requires the labor force to reproduce itself.
If a nation's population fails to reproduce itself Capital has to seek out labor from other nations by outsourcing or using immigrant labor. Something we see in the imperial core. If you're single and aren't bearing the expense of raising at least 1 adopted child, or if you're a couple, and you aren't bearing the expense of raising at least 2 children, then you aren't reproducing the labor force for capital, which means that even with a subsistence wage (which by definition, according to Marx himself, includes the cost of raising children to adulthood), you will have left over savings that can go towards "treats" (luxury commodities that aren't essential for survival like vidya games) or be used as money capital (i.e. invested as self-expanding value in an interest yielding savings account or 401k or some other petty bourgeois asset).
By this logic, many of the most puritanical Marxists on here (like Iron Felix) who rail against "treatlerites" and such are usually single men without children (the usual imageboard demographic) who, even if we believe them, and they are "immiserated wage workers earning a subsistence wage and unable to accumulate savings" they aren't actually reproducing themselves, which is one of the things Marx originally stated about the working class. This is because Marx himself had 7 children, half of whom died before adulthood, and he was writing during a time when contraception and birth control and sex education were basically nonexistent. This is why Marx railed against the Malthusian doctrine and basically stated that it was impossible for the working class to practice abstinence collectively. I think one of the most important things that has changed since Marx's time is the availability of sex education, contraception, birth control, and a more skeptical attitude towards marriage and starting a family, as well as the rise of anti-reproductive ideologies like antinatalism. It is harder for capital in the imperial core countries to get the desired oversupply of labor power, which is why the resort to outsourcing and immigration. Only a handful of "developing" countries still have fertility rates higher than 4 children per woman, and most of the imperial core countries have trouble getting each woman to have 2 children. So the labor force is not reproducing itself.
Birth strike under capitalism does increase wages actually by lowering the supply of labor and thereby increasing its demand. The inverse is also the case, which is what Marx was trying to point out with the idea of the reserve army of labor, or as Eugene Debs once called it, the reserve army of scabs. The same is true in pre-capitalism. In feudalism for example the only people who were wage workers were artisans in the towns, in the guilds. But when the black plague happened in the 1300s a lot of them died and their wages effectively doubled. This enraged King Edward III in England, at the time, so much, that he tried to freeze wages, but it as basically unenforceable. That was the result of a pandemic instead of a birth strike but we see similar patterns whenever the working population does not reproduce itself: The bourgeoisie has to pay more wages.
So maybe instead of being puritanical about who's "really proletarian" based on the ability to accumulate savings or not (without even considering whether it's set aside for emergency or used as money capital or both), we should look at how vastly different the imperial core is as an environment itself than during Marx's time. The proletariat is able to do things like accumulate savings even when making a subsistence wage by staying single and refusing to reproduce. Now if you want to redefine "subsistence" away from Marx's definition to not include reproduction, fine, but keep in mind that workers failing to reproduce themselves is not sustainable for Capital as a multi-generational system based on self expanding value and high profit rates, which is why Marx was focused on it as a system that needs to survive for more than 1 generation of working class life, which is why he included the cost of reproduction in subsistence.
This is not even getting into the question of whether a given working class person takes care of their dying elders (like me) or cuts off communication from them (like my parents did).
I am a parent btw with both children and old people dependents
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i've come up with this checklist for objective conditions to exist based on studying the russian revolution. i'm correct. i'll also give my thoughts on the subjective factors of revolution but for that you can also read chernyshevsky and dzerzhinskiy's diary from prison.
1. Is there a group of intelligensia that raised the banner of Marxism in a given country?
2. Did it grow on its own or in opposition to some already existing unscientific popular anticapitalist movement?
3. Is a popular political programme written?
4. Have Marxist circles of intelligents multiplied, spread, expanded, all while upholding the programme?
5. Have the Marxist circles united around party principles?
6. Is party-to-be ready to pass from circle propaganda to mass agitation?
7. Is there mass workers movement already existing? Are workers already struggling and organizing on their own? That is, is consciousness ripe to pass from trade-unionism to party-building? Is it below trade-union consiousness?
8. Has the would-be party educated enough workers politically in their struggle? Has it explained and connected the mass movement with communist political demands?
9. Has the would-be party built enough connections among the working class movement? Enough working class organizations? Built trust among the workers by working amongst them? Ready to respond to every injustice the workers may face?
10. Does the would-be party give impetus elswhere across the country to establish similar working class organizations? Are groundworks laid for an all-country organization that can start building the communist party and go against the bourgeois state?
you'll notice that every single question leaves no room for interpertation. they all follow the SMART mnemonic. specific - measurable - achieavable - relevant - time-oriented
here's your to-do list leftypol
once the answer is 'yes' to every question listed can you say that you actually have a communist partyi've come up with this checklist for objective conditions to exist based on studying the russian revolution. i'm correct. i'll also give my thoughts on the subjective factors of revolution but for that you can also read chernyshevsky and dzerzhinskiy's diary from prison.
1. Is there a group of intelligensia that raised the banner of Marxism in a given country?
2. Did it grow on its own or in opposition to some already existing unscientific popular anticapitalist movement?
3. Is a popular political programme written?
4. Have Marxist circles of intelligents multiplied, spread, expanded, all while upholding the programme?
5. Have the Marxist circles united around party principles?
6. Is party-to-be ready to pass from circle propaganda to mass agitation?
7. Is there mass workers movement already existing? Are workers already struggling and organizing on their own? That is, is consciousness ripe to pass from trade-unionism to party-building? Is it below trade-union consiousness?
8. Has the would-be party educated enough workers politically in their struggle? Has it explained and connected the mass movement with communist political demands?
9. Has the would-be party built enough connections among the working class movement? Enough working class organizations? Built trust among the workers by working amongst them? Ready to respond to every injustice the workers may face?
10. Does the would-be party give impetus elswhere across the country to establish similar working class organizations? Are groundworks laid for an all-country organization that can start building the communist party and go against the bourgeois state?
you'll notice that every single question leaves no room for interpertation. they all follow the SMART mnemonic. specific - measurable - achieavable - relevant - time-oriented
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A thread dedicated to posting declassified CIA documents, preferably of their anti-communist activities and their involvment in imperialist policies.
Let's start with the CIA's recommended actions to be taken after Khruschev's famous anti-Stalin """secret speech""" at the 20th congress. It's an interesting document because it showcases that
>yes, the CIA (and burger policy makers) do actually believe their own propaganda, even when they are completely conscious of the fact that they just "made it up, lol". It's a truly scizophrenic institution.
>yes, they prefer to control "both sides" of any topic, instead of just lamely chosing the obvious side to take
>yes, the M-Ls are always right:
<Leon Trotsky in his book The Revolution Betrayed, alleged that the rise of Joseph Stalin to power was a Soviet Thermidor for 'not restoring capitalism', yet still being a 'counterrevolutionary regression' within the regime of the USSR, as Thermidor did not restore a monarchy, etc. Marxist-Leninists and Stalinists have periodically argued that Nikita Khruschev's rise to power and the implementation of De-Stalinization as the Soviet Union’s Thermidor. A CIA document considered Khruschev's "On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences" may have 'marked the "Thermidor" of the Russian Revolution'.
Declassified CIA documents thread
Know thy enemy. Know how the glow operates, how it plans, how it thinks, how it manipulates.A thread dedicated to posting declassified CIA documents, preferably of their anti-communist activities and their involvment in imperialist policies.
Let's start with the CIA's recommended actions to be taken after Khruschev's famous anti-Stalin """secret speech""" at the 20th congress. It's an interesting document because it showcases that
>yes, the CIA (and burger policy makers) do actually believe their own propaganda, even when they are completely conscious of the fact that they just "made it up, lol". It's a truly scizophrenic institution.
>yes, they prefer to control "both sides" of any topic, instead of just lamely chosing the obvious side to take
>yes, the M-Ls are always right:
<Leon Trotsky in his book The Revolution Betrayed, alleged that the rise of Joseph Stalin to power was a Soviet Thermidor for 'not restoring capitalism', yet still being a 'counterrevolutionary regression' within the regime of the USSR, as Thermidor did not restore a monarchy, etc. Marxist-Leninists and Stalinists have periodically argued that Nikita Khruschev's rise to power and the implementation of De-Stalinization as the Soviet Union’s Thermidor. A CIA document considered Khruschev's "On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences" may have 'marked the "Thermidor" of the Russian Revolution'.
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This is an apt descriptor of the Ukraine war.
Israel is on both sides.
Everywhere they go there is a problem.
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This is an apt descriptor of the Ukraine war.
Israel is on both sides.
Everywhere they go there is a problem.
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>Krystal Vanderbrugghen gave birth to her daughter, Veya, in December of 2023. She was born with Down syndrome and a congenital heart defect (CHD). Though Veya was able to have a successful heart repair, she then began experiencing complications with her liver.
>In an interview with Live Action News, Vanderbrugghen said Veya is a medically complex child, but her liver has been an ongoing problem, which took nearly a year to diagnose.
>As the hospital attempted treatment with multiple procedures last year, Veya then contracted Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) — which is mild in adults, but can be life-threatening for infants, the elderly, or people with compromised immune systems. “That really knocked her down,” Vanderbrugghen said.
But then, this year, something even more frightening occurred.
>“… [T]he more alarming thing that happened was she was overdosed on January 6th of this year with potassium… 10 times the amount of what she normally receives,” Vanderbrugghen told Live Action News. “… [S]he usually gets two doses of potassium in a day. Each are drawn up as 1.5 milliliters. And on that day, she got two syringes filled with 15 milliliters of potassium. So that sent her heart rate to 350 beats per minute, and they had to use cardioversion shocks on her three times to stabilize her.”
>Initially, Vanderbrugghen assumed it was an honest mistake. But due to subsequent events, she’s now questioning if it was truly an accident.
>Just two weeks after this terrifying incident in January, the family met with Veya’s team of doctors treating her liver condition. “… [E]verything we’ve done so far has not been successful,” said Vanderbrugghen. “And that’s when we learned that she was denied a transplant, which left us questioning a lot of things.”
>The reason for the family’s confusion is because all of Veya’s “individual system teams — like cardiology, nephrology, respirology, all of them — said she would do great, and she’s allowed to go for the liver transplant,” she said. The transplant team seeks feedback from those teams to help determine whether a transplant is a good course of action.
>“But [the transplant team] decided that they were looking at the big picture and said no,” Vanderbrugghen said. “And so I’ve been asking for six months, what is this ‘big picture’?”
>When Vanderbrugghen challenged Veya’s medical team, she said she was then told that the doctors “need to think about the live donor. If it’s not successful, we don’t want to put them through it.”
>Vanderbrugghen argued that “consenting adults” can choose whether or not to take the risk, “knowing that it may work or it may not work” — and urged the transplant team to leave the decision to the donor or donors.
https://www.liveaction.org/news/mom-fights-save-daughter-canadian-healthcare-dead/
This disabled baby later died of her illness on August 1. She was 20 months old and slept her entire life at the mercy of doctors who routinely denied her care BECAUSE of her disability.
So why aren’t comrades up in arms about this? Denying a baby with Down Syndrome an organ transplant because of their disability and “quality of life” sets a dangerous precedent. Imagine if autistic people were denied lifesaving care in the basis our “quality of life” wouldn’t improve and scarce organs should only go to allistic people instead? Canada is already in the middle of legalizing MAiD for neurodivergent differences just like they push MAiD on people with physical disabilities. They literally want all disabled people eradicated.
We need to stop this and demand action against eugenics.
RIP Veya and all other disabled people killed by eugenics
Eugenicist Canadian healthcare system murders baby for being disabled
We frequently talk about how eugenics is the ideological backbone of capitalism and how nearly every aspect of capitalism is rooted in eugenics. This happens even in capitalist countries with “universal” healthcare such as Canada, where a hospital recently killed a baby girl by denying her a much-needed liver transplant. Why? Because she had Down Syndrome.>Krystal Vanderbrugghen gave birth to her daughter, Veya, in December of 2023. She was born with Down syndrome and a congenital heart defect (CHD). Though Veya was able to have a successful heart repair, she then began experiencing complications with her liver.
>In an interview with Live Action News, Vanderbrugghen said Veya is a medically complex child, but her liver has been an ongoing problem, which took nearly a year to diagnose.
>As the hospital attempted treatment with multiple procedures last year, Veya then contracted Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) — which is mild in adults, but can be life-threatening for infants, the elderly, or people with compromised immune systems. “That really knocked her down,” Vanderbrugghen said.
But then, this year, something even more frightening occurred.
>“… [T]he more alarming thing that happened was she was overdosed on January 6th of this year with potassium… 10 times the amount of what she normally receives,” Vanderbrugghen told Live Action News. “… [S]he usually gets two doses of potassium in a day. Each are drawn up as 1.5 milliliters. And on that day, she got two syringes filled with 15 milliliters of potassium. So that sent her heart rate to 350 beats per minute, and they had to use cardioversion shocks on her three times to stabilize her.”
>Initially, Vanderbrugghen assumed it was an honest mistake. But due to subsequent events, she’s now questioning if it was truly an accident.
>Just two weeks after this terrifying incident in January, the family met with Veya’s team of doctors treating her liver condition. “… [E]verything we’ve done so far has not been successful,” said Vanderbrugghen. “And that’s when we learned that she was denied a transplant, which left us questioning a lot of things.”
>The reason for the family’s confusion is because all of Veya’s “individual system teams — like cardiology, nephrology, respirology, all of them — said she would do great, and she’s allowed to go for the liver transplant,” she said. The transplant team seeks feedback from those teams to help determine whether a transplant is a good course of action.
>“But [the transplant team] decided that they were looking at the big picture and said no,” Vanderbrugghen said. “And so I’ve been asking for six months, what is this ‘big picture’?”
>When Vanderbrugghen challenged Veya’s medical team, she said she was then told that the doctors “need to think about the live donor. If it’s not successful, we don’t want to put them through it.”
>Vanderbrugghen argued that “consenting adults” can choose whether or not to take the risk, “knowing that it may work or it may not work” — and urged the transplant team to leave the decision to the donor or donors.
https://www.liveaction.org/news/mom-fights-save-daughter-canadian-healthcare-dead/
This disabled baby later died of her illness on August 1. She was 20 months old and slept her entire life at the mercy of doctors who routinely denied her care BECAUSE of her disability.
So why aren’t comrades up in arms about this? Denying a baby with Down Syndrome an organ transplant because of their disability and “quality of life” sets a dangerous precedent. Imagine if autistic people were denied lifesaving care in the basis our “quality of life” wouldn’t improve and scarce organs should only go to allistic people instead? Canada is already in the middle of legalizing MAiD for neurodivergent differences just like they push MAiD on people with physical disabilities. They literally want all disabled people eradicated.
We need to stop this and demand action against eugenics.
RIP Veya and all other disabled people killed by eugenics
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R: 12 / I: 3 (sage)
>— Workers Hammer no 174, Autumn 2000
https://www.icl-fi.org/english/wh/194/witchhunt.html
Trotskyists are pedos
>“‘Paedophilia’ simply means sexual desire towards children. To equate this with child murder and rape is grotesque and partakes of the same reactionary bourgeois bigotry which declares all sex other than heterosexual monogamy to be ‘deviant’. We oppose the persecution of those who engage in consensual intergenerational sex, we oppose the reactionary ‘age of consent’ laws and we have a long record of defending against persecution organisations such as the North American Man/Boy Love Association (NAMBLA) and the British Paedophile Information Exchange, whose leaders were jailed in 1984 for advocating the right of youth under the ‘age of consent’ to have sex with adults.”>— Workers Hammer no 174, Autumn 2000
https://www.icl-fi.org/english/wh/194/witchhunt.html
R: 17 / I: 1
>Erica Mindel previously worked with the U.S. State Department under Ambassador Deborah Lipstadt, the Biden Administration’s Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism, according to Sada Social, a body that monitors and documents digital violations against Palestinian content.
>Mindel previously served as an instructor in the Israeli army’s Spokesperson’s Unit, the monitoring body said in a statement on X.
>It stated that in her new role, Mindel “will be tasked with formulating TikTok’s hate speech policies, shaping relevant legislative and regulatory frameworks, and monitoring trends—particularly those related to antisemitic content.”
>The body said it viewed her appointment as “a highly concerning indicator for the future of digital freedoms for Palestinians,” and warned of “the serious implications that Mindel’s military background may have on TikTok’s moderation practices, especially regarding Palestinian reports of incitement, bias, and the silencing of their narrative.”
>“Assigning someone affiliated with an army currently under international investigation for genocide in Gaza to lead hate speech policy only entrenches existing biases and undermines the principles of fairness and digital justice,” Sada Social stressed.
>According to Mindel’s LinkedIn profile, she holds the position of “Public Policy Manager, Hate Speech” since July 2025. She was previously hired as “a contractor to the US Department of State, specifically for the Office of the Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism. Provide strategic communications and public diplomacy support as well as perform policy analysis on various regional and multi-lateral portfolios.”
>Prior to that, she spent two years at the American Jewish Committee (AJC) as an “Assistant Director, Program Development”. That role included “developing and managing high-level advocacy and policy delegations to Israel for political, press/media, religious and civic and academic thought leaders.”
>In a 2023 AJC video, Mindel mentioned “how passionate my own Zionist identity had become.”
>She had begun her internship at the AJC “as Israel engaged in one of the larger military operations of my lifetime, Tzuk Eitan – Operation Protective Edge.” Over 2,000 Palestinians (including more than 500 children) and more than 10,000 were injured in the 2014 Israeli military operation in the Gaza Strip, according to Amnesty International.
>“I knew the well-being of Jews worldwide and the security of Israel would be issues of lifelong importance to me,” Mindel stated.
>She explained that she grew up in a traditional Jewish household, “but in an untraditional decision, after graduating from Michigan, I made aliyah and enlisted” in the Israeli army where she spent two years serving as “an instructor in the armored corps.”
>“To many, this might seem like a contradiction. For a woman who identifies as liberal and progressive to be a Zionist so committed as to join the IDF, for me, these two identities go hand in hand,” Mindel stated.
>Sada Social said its 2024 Digital Index revealed that 27 percent of all digital violations targeting Palestinian content occurred on TikTok.
>“According to TikTok’s own transparency report for the second half of 2024, the platform complied with 94% of the Israeli government’s content removal requests, all while imposing strict censorship on Palestinian content,” the monitoring body said. “This included the deletion of videos with clear journalistic value, and the targeting of accounts belonging to journalists, media outlets, activists, and supporters of the Palestinian cause.”
>The monitoring group “underscores that TikTok has failed to undertake any meaningful internal review of its policies, even after the South African government submitted video evidence to the International Court of Justice (ICJ)—footage that was published on TikTok and depicted Israeli soldiers celebrating the destruction of Palestinian homes, mocking victims, and writing messages on bombs before they were dropped on Gaza.”
>“Instead of responding to these disturbing violations, TikTok has continued its partnerships with a political and military regime currently under international investigation,” the group stated.
https://www.palestinechronicle.com/tiktok-appoints-ex-israeli-soldier-as-new-hate-speech-manager/
TikTok Appoints Ex-Israeli Soldier as New ‘Hate Speech’ Manager
>TikTok’s appointment of an ex-Israeli army instructor as its new hate speech manager has been criticized, with concern raised for the future of digital freedoms for Palestinians.>Erica Mindel previously worked with the U.S. State Department under Ambassador Deborah Lipstadt, the Biden Administration’s Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism, according to Sada Social, a body that monitors and documents digital violations against Palestinian content.
>Mindel previously served as an instructor in the Israeli army’s Spokesperson’s Unit, the monitoring body said in a statement on X.
>It stated that in her new role, Mindel “will be tasked with formulating TikTok’s hate speech policies, shaping relevant legislative and regulatory frameworks, and monitoring trends—particularly those related to antisemitic content.”
>The body said it viewed her appointment as “a highly concerning indicator for the future of digital freedoms for Palestinians,” and warned of “the serious implications that Mindel’s military background may have on TikTok’s moderation practices, especially regarding Palestinian reports of incitement, bias, and the silencing of their narrative.”
>“Assigning someone affiliated with an army currently under international investigation for genocide in Gaza to lead hate speech policy only entrenches existing biases and undermines the principles of fairness and digital justice,” Sada Social stressed.
>According to Mindel’s LinkedIn profile, she holds the position of “Public Policy Manager, Hate Speech” since July 2025. She was previously hired as “a contractor to the US Department of State, specifically for the Office of the Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism. Provide strategic communications and public diplomacy support as well as perform policy analysis on various regional and multi-lateral portfolios.”
>Prior to that, she spent two years at the American Jewish Committee (AJC) as an “Assistant Director, Program Development”. That role included “developing and managing high-level advocacy and policy delegations to Israel for political, press/media, religious and civic and academic thought leaders.”
>In a 2023 AJC video, Mindel mentioned “how passionate my own Zionist identity had become.”
>She had begun her internship at the AJC “as Israel engaged in one of the larger military operations of my lifetime, Tzuk Eitan – Operation Protective Edge.” Over 2,000 Palestinians (including more than 500 children) and more than 10,000 were injured in the 2014 Israeli military operation in the Gaza Strip, according to Amnesty International.
>“I knew the well-being of Jews worldwide and the security of Israel would be issues of lifelong importance to me,” Mindel stated.
>She explained that she grew up in a traditional Jewish household, “but in an untraditional decision, after graduating from Michigan, I made aliyah and enlisted” in the Israeli army where she spent two years serving as “an instructor in the armored corps.”
>“To many, this might seem like a contradiction. For a woman who identifies as liberal and progressive to be a Zionist so committed as to join the IDF, for me, these two identities go hand in hand,” Mindel stated.
>Sada Social said its 2024 Digital Index revealed that 27 percent of all digital violations targeting Palestinian content occurred on TikTok.
>“According to TikTok’s own transparency report for the second half of 2024, the platform complied with 94% of the Israeli government’s content removal requests, all while imposing strict censorship on Palestinian content,” the monitoring body said. “This included the deletion of videos with clear journalistic value, and the targeting of accounts belonging to journalists, media outlets, activists, and supporters of the Palestinian cause.”
>The monitoring group “underscores that TikTok has failed to undertake any meaningful internal review of its policies, even after the South African government submitted video evidence to the International Court of Justice (ICJ)—footage that was published on TikTok and depicted Israeli soldiers celebrating the destruction of Palestinian homes, mocking victims, and writing messages on bombs before they were dropped on Gaza.”
>“Instead of responding to these disturbing violations, TikTok has continued its partnerships with a political and military regime currently under international investigation,” the group stated.
https://www.palestinechronicle.com/tiktok-appoints-ex-israeli-soldier-as-new-hate-speech-manager/
R: 11 / I: 3
If we're lucky there might be a dedicated counter-protest but I'd like to salt the soil for a bit of fun. Nothing worth getting v& for. So, what can I do to fuck with them?
dubs decides what sticker design I order and plaster around the place
(picrels from nukech /farcism/)
Fucking with Fash
Nationalists (including fash and friends-of-fash) are trying to promote a march and one of the locations is a park about two blocks south of me. There's just under a month to prepare.If we're lucky there might be a dedicated counter-protest but I'd like to salt the soil for a bit of fun. Nothing worth getting v& for. So, what can I do to fuck with them?
dubs decides what sticker design I order and plaster around the place
(picrels from nukech /farcism/)
R: 40 / I: 7
Why should it ever happen?
What does "the state" even mean here? No more courts? No more police force? Army? idgi
The withering away of the state
What is meant by "the withering away of the state"?Why should it ever happen?
What does "the state" even mean here? No more courts? No more police force? Army? idgi
R: 17 / I: 0
Voting doesn't work, if it worked they would make it illegal. You only vote for parties which run with campaign promises and may not even follow up on them and even if they do - the results are always lackluster.
Rebelling and fighting doesn't work because it is impossible to organize it, the rebellion will be crushed and you're wagering your life.
Citizens cannot do anything meaningful. The only "change from within" comes if the motif to profit allows it to occur. So summed up
-We cannot do anything
-If we do anything to oppose the law it poses a life risk
-Protests don't work, peaceful protests are temporary and achieve nothing
So what is the solution?
There is no solution, most people are pretty much stuck in their life and can only complain or suffer the problems caused by the nation. If you want something, then you're simply not getting it.
As a citizen you will also be targeted by other citizens in real life and online for opposing the status quo, even by others who claim to oppose the status quo over preferences - wants, needs and attempts to exchange information. As a citizen your information and experienced values less than the material pushed out by the nation and its many resources.
Lets look at Lenin - why did he manage to succeed?
Lenin didn't even think the revolution would happen in his lifetime, he was out of his prime, suffered and finally succumbed to death before even getting to enjoy what he fought to create. Later it was all gone and his followers had split.
Why did he manage to initially succeed though? Because he had nothing to lose, whereas now everyone has something to lose with the majority of people being tangled up in the inter web - inter net.
Reproducing and creating a family with the principle of raising the next generation to not have possessions and become revolutionary is as pointless as it is cruel, since they will have nothing to work with and may not even adapt, it is likely that if they do adapt their struggle would be pointless.
How can we become propertyless? We can't. Our lives depend on it.
Is everything hopeless for the citizen who wants to change? Yes, he can only wait and be ostracized for knowing what other citizens don't and trying to introduce it.
The inconvenient solution is to go through life as it is, be affected by all the issues, sleep and not even try to survive but just cope and get increasingly more tired. This wait may or may not have any positive outcome.
Such is life for those born in the underclass. They can entertain themselves temporarily before relapsing into a depressive anhedonia. Entertainment is often done by telling made up scenarios to others and fabricating another identity to present to other citizens.
Madness, sadness, fear and tiredness are the four most common emotions for the average citizen.
Citizens want to experience a story with a happy end or some kind of intrigue, because of fictive works made by other citizens.
There are some really dumb citizens which are happy for no reason, they are generally disinterested in knowing anything or affecting the laws. A citizen surrounded by such happy and blissfully ignorant ones is completely alienated.
Citizens of nations
Citizens of nations cannot affect the laws in nations. Even if they have a cause and bond together and even if there is an international cause with a larger presence overseas.Voting doesn't work, if it worked they would make it illegal. You only vote for parties which run with campaign promises and may not even follow up on them and even if they do - the results are always lackluster.
Rebelling and fighting doesn't work because it is impossible to organize it, the rebellion will be crushed and you're wagering your life.
Citizens cannot do anything meaningful. The only "change from within" comes if the motif to profit allows it to occur. So summed up
-We cannot do anything
-If we do anything to oppose the law it poses a life risk
-Protests don't work, peaceful protests are temporary and achieve nothing
So what is the solution?
There is no solution, most people are pretty much stuck in their life and can only complain or suffer the problems caused by the nation. If you want something, then you're simply not getting it.
As a citizen you will also be targeted by other citizens in real life and online for opposing the status quo, even by others who claim to oppose the status quo over preferences - wants, needs and attempts to exchange information. As a citizen your information and experienced values less than the material pushed out by the nation and its many resources.
Lets look at Lenin - why did he manage to succeed?
Lenin didn't even think the revolution would happen in his lifetime, he was out of his prime, suffered and finally succumbed to death before even getting to enjoy what he fought to create. Later it was all gone and his followers had split.
Why did he manage to initially succeed though? Because he had nothing to lose, whereas now everyone has something to lose with the majority of people being tangled up in the inter web - inter net.
Reproducing and creating a family with the principle of raising the next generation to not have possessions and become revolutionary is as pointless as it is cruel, since they will have nothing to work with and may not even adapt, it is likely that if they do adapt their struggle would be pointless.
How can we become propertyless? We can't. Our lives depend on it.
Is everything hopeless for the citizen who wants to change? Yes, he can only wait and be ostracized for knowing what other citizens don't and trying to introduce it.
The inconvenient solution is to go through life as it is, be affected by all the issues, sleep and not even try to survive but just cope and get increasingly more tired. This wait may or may not have any positive outcome.
Such is life for those born in the underclass. They can entertain themselves temporarily before relapsing into a depressive anhedonia. Entertainment is often done by telling made up scenarios to others and fabricating another identity to present to other citizens.
Madness, sadness, fear and tiredness are the four most common emotions for the average citizen.
Citizens want to experience a story with a happy end or some kind of intrigue, because of fictive works made by other citizens.
There are some really dumb citizens which are happy for no reason, they are generally disinterested in knowing anything or affecting the laws. A citizen surrounded by such happy and blissfully ignorant ones is completely alienated.
R: 1 / I: 0
Joining a commie org
Ok anons, should I join Union del Barrio? They are a Chicano and ML organization that is in my area, doesn't seem all that revisionist too, I wanna join since I am literally Mexican and I wanna start organizing my community since undocumented workers alresdy have some sense of class consciousness too. They've been on Democracy Now ans mainstream publications now, they were OGs in the LA Riots before shitlibs began to join… What do you guys think?
R: 62 / I: 20
Link dump:
https://www.greenleft.org.au
https://www.auscp.org.au/militant-monthly
https://solidarity.net.au
https://redflag.org.au
https://marxistleftreview.org/?topic=australia
https://www.michaelwest.com.au
https://overland.org.au
https://arena.org.au
https://www.themonthly.com.au
https://www.crikey.com.au
https://www.redblacknotes.com
https://www.surplusvalue.org.au/McQueen/index.htm
https://reddit.com/r/AustralianSocialism (use a redlib mirror instead of reddit.com)
https://www.labourstart.org/news/country.php?country=Australia&langcode=en
https://anarchistnews.org/content/spotters-guide-anarchism-australia-and-aotearoa
https://thewhiterosesociety.writeas.com (antifascism, most active on twitter)
/auspol/ #11 - Southern Cross edition
Australian and Oceania politics general thread.Link dump:
https://www.greenleft.org.au
https://www.auscp.org.au/militant-monthly
https://solidarity.net.au
https://redflag.org.au
https://marxistleftreview.org/?topic=australia
https://www.michaelwest.com.au
https://overland.org.au
https://arena.org.au
https://www.themonthly.com.au
https://www.crikey.com.au
https://www.redblacknotes.com
https://www.surplusvalue.org.au/McQueen/index.htm
https://reddit.com/r/AustralianSocialism (use a redlib mirror instead of reddit.com)
https://www.labourstart.org/news/country.php?country=Australia&langcode=en
https://anarchistnews.org/content/spotters-guide-anarchism-australia-and-aotearoa
https://thewhiterosesociety.writeas.com (antifascism, most active on twitter)
R: 60 / I: 10
did PTSD play a part in creating fascism?
the largest fascists groups comprised of nationalist veterans and usually lead by pro-war political elements in ww1 i even remember some nazis claiming that fighting in war was akin to some kind of transcendental meditation and that the pointlessness of world war 1 was actually some kind of revolution so how much did the war play a part in creating fascism ?
R: 131 / I: 19
How exactly should we react when a cultural icon (or person with a decent amount of cultural significance) is revealed to be a Zionist?
I know there’s no ethical consumption under capitalism, but seeing cultural figures be openly pro-Zionism especially when the Zionist entity is engaged in an overt genocide and mass-starvation is honestly disgusting. I was told that the main purpose of BDS isn’t to “crash” the Zionist entity’s economy but rather to expose how engulfed modern culture is in Zionism, like when you realize boycotting is near impossible because entire industries have ties to the Zionist entity such as the music and film industries.
Soft power is a lot more powerful than we realize and even using a term like “Israeli salad” or working with a Zionist settler normalizes Zionist colonialism and genocide. What must we do to end this? And how should we treat notable figures who are pro-Zionist given that they normalize Zionism and manufacture consent for genocide at all times?
How exactly should we react when a cultural icon (or person with a decent amount of cultural significance) is revealed to be a Zionist?
I know there’s no ethical consumption under capitalism, but seeing cultural figures be openly pro-Zionism especially when the Zionist entity is engaged in an overt genocide and mass-starvation is honestly disgusting. I was told that the main purpose of BDS isn’t to “crash” the Zionist entity’s economy but rather to expose how engulfed modern culture is in Zionism, like when you realize boycotting is near impossible because entire industries have ties to the Zionist entity such as the music and film industries.
Soft power is a lot more powerful than we realize and even using a term like “Israeli salad” or working with a Zionist settler normalizes Zionist colonialism and genocide. What must we do to end this? And how should we treat notable figures who are pro-Zionist given that they normalize Zionism and manufacture consent for genocide at all times?
R: 58 / I: 5 (sage)
I find it funny how CUCKshott says le gay males are all bourgeois because they don't have children while not applying the same logic to lesbians because he jerks off to lesbian porn
What a fucking hack, a typical homophobic boomer
I find it funny how CUCKshott says le gay males are all bourgeois because they don't have children while not applying the same logic to lesbians because he jerks off to lesbian porn
What a fucking hack, a typical homophobic boomer
R: 6 / I: 1
the reaction from civilians in Gaza City has been remarkably unified. Rather than moving south, where conditions are already dire, families are choosing to remain in their homes even if those homes are now cracked walls and rubble. In the Sabra neighbourhood, where tanks and airstrikes have already scarred the streets, 32-year-old Ahmed Hamas leaned on the remains of his bombed house. His voice was steady but was clearly exhausted. "They told us to leave and go south, but where do we go?" he asked TNA. "There is no space left. Schools are overflowing, hospitals are overcrowded, and we are exhausted from moving repeatedly. Death follows us, whether in the north or the south."
https://www.newarab.com/news/gaza-citys-residents-defy-israels-gideons-chariots-2-attack
Israel steps up Gaza bombing as it signals ceasefire deal rejection
Meanwhile, Israeli officials have signalled the rejection of a ceasefire proposal that Hamas accepted earlier this week. Israeli government spokesman David Mencer told the BBC in an interview that they were not interested in "partial deals". "Things have changed now. The prime minister has laid out a plan for the future of Gaza," Mencer added.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-steps-assault-north-gaza-it-mulls-possible-ceasefire-rejection
Confrontation between Tunisia’s General Union, President Saied escalates
The union called for a protest against what it says are government attempts to undermine workers’ rights, and the use of intimidation to curb strikes, referring to a three-day UGTT transport strike at the end of July.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/20/confrontation-between-tunisias-general-union-president-saied-escalates
https://archive.ph/gyutT
Bolivia's Quiroga would grant resource ownership rights, eyes US trade
Quiroga said his conservative Alianza Libre, or Freedom Alliance, coalition is preparing constitutional reforms and already building congressional alliances to push through legislation quickly. Among his proposals is a plan to grant Bolivians individual ownership rights over natural resources - including the battery metal lithium and natural gas - via a mutual fund structure. "The lithium will belong to each and every citizen," he said. "Not to the state, not to my government, but to individuals as shareholders."
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/bolivias-quiroga-would-grant-resource-ownership-rights-eyes-us-trade-2025-08-20/
Argentine Lower House Reviews Milei’s Vetoes on Pensions and Disability Laws
The session began with opposition lawmakers pressing for a 7.2% hike in pensions and for the law declaring a state of emergency in disability matters, two measures approved by Congress in July but vetoed by Milei in early August. To override these vetoes, each chamber of Congress must secure a two-thirds majority.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/argentine-lower-house-reviews-mileis-vetoes-on-pensions-and-disability-laws/
Melbourne University illegally spied on students and staff at Palestine protest
It found that the university combined wifi location data, student card photographs and CCTV footage to identify 22 students who refused to leave the Arts West building on May 20. The use of wifi data was deemed unauthorised, with only “superficial” consideration given to privacy protection. Staff were also tracked, with email accounts of 10 employees accessed, leading to three formal warnings. In total, 19 students received “reprimand and caution.”
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/melbourne-university-illegally-spied-students-and-staff-palestine-protest
UK council wins bid to move asylum seekers from hotel amid anti-immigration protests
Judge Stephen Eyre granted the council an interim injunction against the owner of the hotel, ruling that asylum seekers should be removed by September 12. The hotel's owner said it would seek to appeal the ruling. Eyre also dismissed a last-minute attempt on Tuesday by the Home Office, Britain's interior ministry, to intervene in the case in support of the hotel owner.
https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/uk-council-wins-bid-move-asylum-seekers-hotel-amid-anti-immigration-protests-2025-08-19/
German government plans to cut housing support amid drastically rising rents
Bürgergeld, which is available to people with little or no income, is at the centre of the government’s social cuts. It is to be downgraded this year to a kind of “basic social security.” This means that the roughly €40 billion budgeted for 2024 will be drastically reduced. A double-digit billion-euro sum is to be saved through the capping of rental payments for those in need.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/08/20/vmjm-a20.html
Thousands of Sri Lankan postal workers remain on strike, defying government threats
The striking postal workers are demanding resolution to various issues, including overtime payments, permanency for all employees in acting, substitute and labour positions, the prompt filling of all vacancies, promotions and outstanding issues in the postal transport section. They also want three wage increments for first-class officers and the removal of fingerprint machines for recording the arrival and departure of workers.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/08/20/fuhj-a20.html
Myanmar Junta Claims Capture of Demoso From Karenni Forces
Resistance sources report that regime troops are now battling to reclaim Nanmekhon town, just north of Demoso, and advancing south toward Hpruso Township, triggering fierce clashes. “We are struggling to defend the 4-Mile marker near Nanmekhon as regime troops advance in large numbers,” said a resistance fighter on the ground.
https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/myanmar-junta-claims-capture-of-demoso-from-karenni-forces.html
News 8/20/25
Gaza City's residents defy Israel's 'Gideon's Chariots 2' assault, refuse to be displacedthe reaction from civilians in Gaza City has been remarkably unified. Rather than moving south, where conditions are already dire, families are choosing to remain in their homes even if those homes are now cracked walls and rubble. In the Sabra neighbourhood, where tanks and airstrikes have already scarred the streets, 32-year-old Ahmed Hamas leaned on the remains of his bombed house. His voice was steady but was clearly exhausted. "They told us to leave and go south, but where do we go?" he asked TNA. "There is no space left. Schools are overflowing, hospitals are overcrowded, and we are exhausted from moving repeatedly. Death follows us, whether in the north or the south."
https://www.newarab.com/news/gaza-citys-residents-defy-israels-gideons-chariots-2-attack
Israel steps up Gaza bombing as it signals ceasefire deal rejection
Meanwhile, Israeli officials have signalled the rejection of a ceasefire proposal that Hamas accepted earlier this week. Israeli government spokesman David Mencer told the BBC in an interview that they were not interested in "partial deals". "Things have changed now. The prime minister has laid out a plan for the future of Gaza," Mencer added.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-steps-assault-north-gaza-it-mulls-possible-ceasefire-rejection
Confrontation between Tunisia’s General Union, President Saied escalates
The union called for a protest against what it says are government attempts to undermine workers’ rights, and the use of intimidation to curb strikes, referring to a three-day UGTT transport strike at the end of July.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/20/confrontation-between-tunisias-general-union-president-saied-escalates
https://archive.ph/gyutT
Bolivia's Quiroga would grant resource ownership rights, eyes US trade
Quiroga said his conservative Alianza Libre, or Freedom Alliance, coalition is preparing constitutional reforms and already building congressional alliances to push through legislation quickly. Among his proposals is a plan to grant Bolivians individual ownership rights over natural resources - including the battery metal lithium and natural gas - via a mutual fund structure. "The lithium will belong to each and every citizen," he said. "Not to the state, not to my government, but to individuals as shareholders."
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/bolivias-quiroga-would-grant-resource-ownership-rights-eyes-us-trade-2025-08-20/
Argentine Lower House Reviews Milei’s Vetoes on Pensions and Disability Laws
The session began with opposition lawmakers pressing for a 7.2% hike in pensions and for the law declaring a state of emergency in disability matters, two measures approved by Congress in July but vetoed by Milei in early August. To override these vetoes, each chamber of Congress must secure a two-thirds majority.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/argentine-lower-house-reviews-mileis-vetoes-on-pensions-and-disability-laws/
Melbourne University illegally spied on students and staff at Palestine protest
It found that the university combined wifi location data, student card photographs and CCTV footage to identify 22 students who refused to leave the Arts West building on May 20. The use of wifi data was deemed unauthorised, with only “superficial” consideration given to privacy protection. Staff were also tracked, with email accounts of 10 employees accessed, leading to three formal warnings. In total, 19 students received “reprimand and caution.”
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/melbourne-university-illegally-spied-students-and-staff-palestine-protest
UK council wins bid to move asylum seekers from hotel amid anti-immigration protests
Judge Stephen Eyre granted the council an interim injunction against the owner of the hotel, ruling that asylum seekers should be removed by September 12. The hotel's owner said it would seek to appeal the ruling. Eyre also dismissed a last-minute attempt on Tuesday by the Home Office, Britain's interior ministry, to intervene in the case in support of the hotel owner.
https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/uk-council-wins-bid-move-asylum-seekers-hotel-amid-anti-immigration-protests-2025-08-19/
German government plans to cut housing support amid drastically rising rents
Bürgergeld, which is available to people with little or no income, is at the centre of the government’s social cuts. It is to be downgraded this year to a kind of “basic social security.” This means that the roughly €40 billion budgeted for 2024 will be drastically reduced. A double-digit billion-euro sum is to be saved through the capping of rental payments for those in need.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/08/20/vmjm-a20.html
Thousands of Sri Lankan postal workers remain on strike, defying government threats
The striking postal workers are demanding resolution to various issues, including overtime payments, permanency for all employees in acting, substitute and labour positions, the prompt filling of all vacancies, promotions and outstanding issues in the postal transport section. They also want three wage increments for first-class officers and the removal of fingerprint machines for recording the arrival and departure of workers.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/08/20/fuhj-a20.html
Myanmar Junta Claims Capture of Demoso From Karenni Forces
Resistance sources report that regime troops are now battling to reclaim Nanmekhon town, just north of Demoso, and advancing south toward Hpruso Township, triggering fierce clashes. “We are struggling to defend the 4-Mile marker near Nanmekhon as regime troops advance in large numbers,” said a resistance fighter on the ground.
https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/myanmar-junta-claims-capture-of-demoso-from-karenni-forces.html
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Try to keep it to as much 'OC' as possible, including just things you cut yourself.
Webm Thread
Webm Thread. The old one seem to have disappeared.Try to keep it to as much 'OC' as possible, including just things you cut yourself.
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https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.31970026988078&seq=199&q1=walling
And the desired articles are:
Who Gets America’s Wealth?; page 69-82
New Income and Inheritance Taxes for the United States; 159-173
The Conference Speakers; 177, 188-201
Socialists and the Problems of War symposium; 309, 313-333
Thanks!
Need help from a student / academic
I'm working on a project for the Marxists Internet Archive and Hathitrust won't let me download more than one page at a time "if I'm not affiliated with a member institution". I think most college students or teachers should have access. For short articles I'm willing to just stitch the pages back together, but these ones I've found are long enough I'd like some help. They're sourced from this link:https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.31970026988078&seq=199&q1=walling
And the desired articles are:
Who Gets America’s Wealth?; page 69-82
New Income and Inheritance Taxes for the United States; 159-173
The Conference Speakers; 177, 188-201
Socialists and the Problems of War symposium; 309, 313-333
Thanks!
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FREE WILL
So, lately I was wondering about free will, the idea that we somehow have total free will over our behavior sounds kind of absurd to me in some sense, be either genetics (you don't choose your genes) or environment (you don't choose your enviroment which you grow up), both don't let much of choose for the person, that how truly free are we? What's the LeftyPol opinions of the question of free will and the implications to leftist policies?
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Regional news from an anti-imperialist perspective
• https://www.btselem.org/Isrsaeli
Premier Human Rights org
• https://www.972mag.com/
Left news and opinion webzine from Tel-Aviv
• https://decolonizepalestine.com/
A collection of resources for organizers and anyone who wants to learn more about Palestine
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Known anti-zionist academic Norman Finkelstein's blog
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I grow to hate FDR more and more everyday. There was so much damn potential and this socdem scumbag ruined everything. FDR singlehandedly set back the course of world history one hundred years.
I grow to hate FDR more and more everyday. There was so much damn potential and this socdem scumbag ruined everything. FDR singlehandedly set back the course of world history one hundred years.
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>Tskhinvali, South Ossetia — On the sunny afternoon of August 14, a Russian army colonel named Igor Konashenko is standing triumphantly at a street corner at the northern edge of Tskhinvali, the capital of South Ossetia, his forearm bandaged from a minor battle injury. The spot marks the furthest point of the Georgian army’s advance before it was summarily crushed by the Russians a few days earlier. “Twelve Georgian battalions invaded Tskhinvali, backed by columns of tanks, armored personal carriers, jets, and helicopters,” he says, happily waving at the wreckage, craters, and bombed-out buildings around us. “You see how well they fought, with all their great American training — they abandoned their tanks in the heat of the battle and fled.”
>Konashenko pulls a green compass out of his shirt pocket and opens it. It’s a U.S. military model. “This is a little trophy — a gift from one of my soldiers,” he says. “Everything that the Georgians left behind, I mean everything, was American. All the guns, grenades, uniforms, boots, food rations — they just left it all. Our boys stuffed themselves on the food,” he adds slyly. “It was tasty.” The booty, according to Konashenko, also included 65 intact tanks outfitted with the latest NATO and American (as well as Israeli) technology.
>Technically, we are standing within the borders of Georgia, which over the last five years has gone from being an ally to the United States to a neocon proxy regime. But there are no Georgians to be seen in this breakaway region — not unless you count the bloated corpses still lying in the dirt roads. Most of the 70,000 or so people who live in South Ossetia never liked the idea of being part of Georgia. During the violent land scramble that occurred after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the South Ossetians found themselves cut off from their ethnic kin in North Ossetia, which remained part of Russia. The Russians, who’ve had a small peacekeeping force here since 1992, managed to keep the brewing conflicts on ice for the last 15 years. But in the meantime, the positions of everyone involved hardened. The Georgians weren’t happy about the idea of losing a big chunk of territory. The Ossetians, an ethnic Persian tribe, were more adamant than ever about joining Russia, their traditional ally and protector.
>The tense but relatively stable situation blew up late in the evening of August 7, when on the order of president Mikheil Saakashvili, Georgia’s army swept into South Ossetia, leveling much of Tskhinvali and surrounding villages and sending some 30,000 refugees fleeing north into Russia. Within hours, Russia’s de facto czar Vladimir Putin counterattacked — some say he’d set a trap — and by the end of that long weekend the Georgians were in panicked retreat. The Russian army then pushed straight through South Ossetia and deep into Georgia proper, halting less than an hour’s drive from Saakashvili’s luxurious palace. All around me is evidence of a rout. A Georgian T-72 tank turret is wedged into the side of a local university building, projecting from the concrete like a cookie pressed into ice cream. Fifty yards away you can see the remains of the vehicle that the orphaned turret originally was part of: just a few charred parts around a hole in the street, and a section of tread lying flat on the sidewalk. Russian tanks now patrol the city unopposed, each one as loud as an Einstrzende Neubauten concert, clouding the air with leaded exhaust as they rumble past us.
>But listening to Colonel Konashenko, it becomes clear to me that I’m looking at more than just the smoldering remains of battle in an obscure regional war: This spot is ground zero for an epic historical shift. The dead tanks are American-upgraded, as are the spent 40mm grenade shells that one spetznaz soldier shows me. The bloated bodies on the ground are American-trained Georgian soldiers who have been stripped of their American-issue uniforms. And yet, there is no American cavalry on the way. For years now, everyone from Pat Buchanan to hybrid-powered hippies have been warning that America would suddenly find itself on a historical downslope from having been too reckless, too profligate, and too arrogant as an unopposed superpower. Even decent patriotic folk were starting to worry that America was suffering from a classic case of Celebrity Personality Disorder, becoming a nation of Tom Cruise party-dicks dancing in our socks over every corner and every culture in the world, lip-synching about freedom as we plunged headfirst into as much risky business as we could mismanage. And now, bleeding money from endless wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, we’re a sick giant hooked on ever-pricier doses of oil paid for with a currency few people want anymore. In the history books of the future, I would wager that this very spot in Tskhinvali will be remembered as both the geographic highwater mark of the American empire, and the place where it all started to fall apart.
>I first visited Georgia in 2002 to cover the arrival of American military advisers. At the time, the American empire was riding high. A decade after the Soviet Union’s collapse, Russia seemed to be devolving into an anarchic and corrupt failed state, while the U.S. just kept getting stronger. Within months of President George W. Bush’s swearing-in, Time ran a column boasting that America didn’t need to accommodate Russia anymore because it had become “the dominant power in the world, more dominant than any since Rome.” That same year we invaded Afghanistan without breaking a sweat. The New York Times magazine proclaimed: “The American Empire: Get Used to It.” A new word, hyperpower, was being used to describe our history-warping supremacy.
>The military advisers were dispatched to Georgia ostensibly to train that country’s forces to fight local Al Qaeda cells, which everyone knew didn’t exist. In reality, we were training them for key imperial outsourcing duties. Georgia would do for the American Empire what Mumbai call centers did for Delta Airlines: deliver greater returns at a fraction of the cost. They became a flagship franchise of America Inc. It made sense for the Georgians, too: Their erratic and occasionally violent neighbor Russia wouldn’t fuck with them, because fucking with them would be fucking with us — and nobody would dare to do that.
>The imperial masterminds who fixated on Georgia as an outsourcing project must have figured we’d score a two-fer by simultaneously winning strategic control of the untapped oil in the region and also managing to stick a giant bug up the raw southern rim of our decrepit old rival Russia.
>To enact this plan, America deftly organized and orchestrated the so-called Rose Revolution, which I witnessed in Tblisi in 2003. Saakkashvili’s predecessor, Eduard Shevardnadze, was judged unreliable, so in a multilayered soft putsch that used every lever of influence at our disposal, the U.S. replaced him with Saakashvili, a Columbia-educated hothead who speaks perfect neocon. In the Western media, the Rose Revolution was portrayed as 1776 redux (starring Saakashvili as George Washington with a permanent five o’clock shadow). A more perfect vassal for George W. Bush’s foreign policy could not have been found than “Misha,” as he is fondly known. He stacked his cabinet with young right-wing fanatics, and made sure he had a coterie of mountain-biking American advisers with him at all times. This crew included John McCain’s chief foreign policy adviser Randy Scheunemann, whom Misha paid more than $1 million in lobbying fees.
>This project in Georgia was just a high-profile example of a broader Bush strategy. All around Russia’s southern border, America laid claim to former Soviet domains. After 9/11, Putin infuriated many of his army commanders and security chiefs by agreeing to let the U.S. set up bases in Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan for the Afghan invasion. Once the Taliban was removed from power, America decided that it felt like staying. After all, who was going stop us? Given the sorry state of their affairs, the Russians certainly weren’t. So by 2002, Putin was stuck with American pie dripping down his cadaverous bloodless face. But after years in which Russia rebuilt itself on the back of soaring commodity prices (today it’s the world’s largest producer of oil), our advantages in global power politics have started to tilt Putin’s way. Slowly and quietly he got American forces thrown out of Uzbekistan and all but sidelined in Kyrgyzstan. And then, here in Georgia, he seized the opportunity to really hammer home his point.
>During my visit to Georgia in 2003, if someone had told me that in five years American military advisers would be hightailing it from their main base in Vasiani to avoid getting slaughtered by advancing Russian forces, I would have slapped him with a rubber chicken for insulting my intelligence. Yet there they were: gasping for air in the lobby of the Tblisi Sheraton, insisting off the record that the conflict was all the Georgians’ fault, not theirs.
>Why Misha decided to attack is still a mystery. He claims he was forced to level Tskhinvali to preempt a Russian invasion, but that doesn’t make military sense, and has since been debunked by both Georgians and OSCE monitors on the ground; others believe that he struck because, with Bush on his way out, he thought this would be his last chance to regain control of South Ossetia. Another theory popular among journalists and pundits is that the notoriously “hotheaded” (some would say “mentally unstable”) Saakashvili was suckered into his doomed invasion by a clever Russian ruse, part of Putin’s plan to punish the West for recognizing Kosovo and other crimes of imperial insensitivity. Personally, I’d vote for number two. (Putin has offered an alternative hypothesis: that Misha intentionally sparked a war in order to boost John McCain’s prospects in the U.S. election.)
>Prior to the offensive of August 7, Georgians cut off Russian television and Internet sites in South Ossetia, then rained Grad rockets and artillery on the capital and surrounding villages. The early-hours blitz was, as one Ossetian told me the day before, “shock and awe.” At least half the population fled into Russia. People I spoke to in the refugee camps, mostly women, were still in a daze — they told of fleeing their burning villages under fire, of Georgians raping and murdering, of grenades thrown into civilian bomb shelters, of tanks running over children. (It was impossible to corroborate these individual stories, as is generally the case in trying to sift fact from inflamed rumor in refugee camps.)
>Reliable casualty counts for the broader conflict are still all but impossible to get, but as of late August the Russians admit having lost 64 soldiers, and the Georgians a combined 215 soldiers and civilians. In both cases, the real number is probably much higher. On the civilian front, Ossetian sources claim that 1,500 were killed in the Georgian assault — Putin called it a “genocide” — but many Westerners dismiss that figure.
>Privately, however, American advisers and defeated Georgian commanders admit to “total defeat.” Indeed, Arkady Ostrovsky of the Economist, a British reporter who has long been close to Saakashvili, told me that on the day of the cease-fire, the Georgian leader spoke of shooting himself, and was only dissuaded when word came of a supportive statement by Condi Rice. “It was sad to watch,” Ostrovsky told me. “I should have been more critical of Saakashvili back when it might have counted. A lot of us should have.”
>That’s exactly the kind of full-spectrum smackdown the Russians were aiming for. And Konashenko wants us all to see it, so he offers to take me and some other reporters to the city of Gori in occupied Georgia. Russia seized control of the city at the end of hostilities, essentially cutting its foe in two and leaving it exposed to Vladimir Putin’s whims. “We’ll show you Gori — the city is spotless,” Konashenko says cheerfully. “We could have destroyed it, but we didn’t. Of course, there’s a little bit of damage here and there”
>The next morning, I head toward Georgia in the back of a Russian army truck, winding through the countryside of South Ossetia. Many villages have been burned and completely leveled. In the minority ethnic- Georgian communities, the sour odor of death hangs in the air, as those who survived the Ossetians’ reprisal attacks had little time to bury their dead friends and relatives.
>When we arrive in Gori, the locals seem unnerved by our presence. They shy away as aggressive reporters point cameras and pursue them along the cobblestone streets for a quote. At first, some say that they are grateful that the Russian forces are there to protect them from marauding Ossetian and Chechen irregulars, who had swept through parts of Georgia murdering civilians and looting homes before the Russians arrived. After a half hour, the Georgians we talk with get used to our presence. A few summon the nerve to quietly pull me aside and whisper things like, “Are the Russians ever going to leave?” and “We don’t have any information here. Is this going to be Russian territory forever?”
>In Gori’s vast central square there is shattered glass on the sidewalks, but as Konashenko promised, the city is largely intact. It is also starkly empty, as if a virus or neutron bomb had wiped out the civilian population. Most of the city’s inhabitants have long since fled to Tblisi, along with the soldiers.
>As we hop out of the army trucks, one of the Russian commanders points to a limp banner flying at half-mast over the polished-granite administration building on the far side of the square, “You see?” he says. “The Georgian flag is still flying. This is Georgian territory — we’re not annexing it like the media says.” This kind of boast, conquering a country and then making a big noble show of respecting its sovereignty, was something that had once been reserved for America’s forces. How quickly history has turned here.
>The other Western journalists fan out for some atrocity hunting, digging for signs that the Russians might have dropped a cluster bomb or massacred civilians. The foreign-desk editors back home have been demanding proof of Russian evil, after largely ignoring Georgia’s war crimes in South Ossetia. It’s a sordid business, but the reporters are just following orders.
>After an hour in the 90-degree heat, I head over to the city’s central square, where I stumble across a stunning spectacle: dozens of Russian soldiers doing a funky-chicken victory dance in the Georgian end zone. They’re clowning around euphorically, shooting souvenir photos of each other in front of the administration building and the statue of Stalin (Gori’s most famous native son) while their commanders lean back and laugh. I approach Lieutenant Colonel Andrei Bobrun, assistant commander of the Russian land forces’ North Caucasus Military District — the roughest neighborhood in Western Eurasia — and ask him how he feels now, as a victorious military leader in a proxy war with America.
>“I have never been so proud of Russia — magnificent Russia!” Bobrun crows, an AK strapped over his shoulder. “For twenty years we just talked and talked, blabbed and blabbed, complained and complained. But we did nothing, while America ran wild and took everything it could. Twenty years of empty talk. Now Russia is back. And you see how great Russia is. Look around you — we’re not trying to annex this land. What the fuck do I need Georgia for? Russia could keep this, but what for? Hell, we could conquer the whole world if we wanted to. That’s a fact. It was Russia that saved Europe from Genghis Khan. Russia could have taken India and the Middle East. We could take anything — we took Alaska, we took California. There is nothing that Russia could not take, and now the world is being reminded again.”
>“Why did you give California back?” I asked. It has always baffled me why a country would abandon prime coastal real estate for the frozen swamps of Siberia — I always assumed it was because the Russians were ashamed when they found themselves holding onto a chunk of this planet as perfect as California: like B-list nerds who successfully crash a Vanity Fair Oscar party, but within minutes of their little triumph, skulk out of the tent out of sheer embarrassment, knowing they never belonged there in the first place.
>“We gave it all back because we don’t need it,” Borisov boasted, puffing out his chest. “Russia has enough land, what the hell do we need more for. But if others want to start something, this is what will happen. Russia is back, and I am so proud.”
>As the day wore on, the Kremlin press pool organizers finally rounded us up, and we headed back again along the same victory trail. It was on this second visit to ruins of Tskhinvali, as dusk approached and the violence seemed to already acquire a kind of abstract tone, that I started to realize that I was looking at something much bigger than the current debate about Russian aggression or who was more guilty of what — pulling the camera much farther back on this scene, I understood that I was looking at the first ruins of America’s imperial decline. It’s not an easy thing to spot. It took years after the real collapse for Russians to finally accept that awful reality, and to adjust accordingly, first by retrenching, not overplaying an empty hand, slowly building up without making any loud noises while America ran wild around the world bankrupting itself and bleeding dry.
>And now it’s over for us. That’s clear on the ground. But it will be years before America’s political elite even begins to grasp this fact. In the meantime, Russia is drunk on its victory and the possibilities that it might imply, sending its recently-independent neighbors into a kind of frenzied animal panic. Experience has taught them that it’s moments like these when Russia’s near abroad becomes, once again, a blood-soaked doormat in the violent epochal shifts — history never stopped here, it just froze up for a decade or so. And now it’s thawing, bringing with it the familiar stench of bloated bodies, burned rubble, and the sour sweat of Russian infantry.
>We have entered a dangerous moment in history — America in decline is reacting hysterically, woofing and screeching and throwing a tantrum, desperate to prove that it still has teeth. Which it does — but not in the old dominant way that America wants or believes itself to be. History shows that it’s at this moment, tipping into decline and humiliation, when the worst decisions are made, so idiotically destructive that they’ll make the Iraq campaign look like a mere training exercise fender-bender by comparison.
>Russia, meanwhile, is as high as a Hollywood speedballer from its victory. Putting the two together in the same room — speedballing Russia and violently bad-tripping America — is a recipe for serious disaster. If we’re lucky, we’ll survive the humiliating decline and settle into the new reality without causing too much damage to ourselves or the rest of the world. But when that awful moment arrives where the cognitive dissonance snaps hard, it will be an epic struggle to come to our senses in time to prevent the William Kristols, Max Boots and Robert Kagans from leading us into a nuclear holocaust which, they will assure us, we can win against Russia, thanks to our technological superiority. If only we have the will, they’ll tell us, we can win once and for all.
The Day America’s Empire Died
https://exiledonline.com/the-day-americas-empire-died/all/1/>Tskhinvali, South Ossetia — On the sunny afternoon of August 14, a Russian army colonel named Igor Konashenko is standing triumphantly at a street corner at the northern edge of Tskhinvali, the capital of South Ossetia, his forearm bandaged from a minor battle injury. The spot marks the furthest point of the Georgian army’s advance before it was summarily crushed by the Russians a few days earlier. “Twelve Georgian battalions invaded Tskhinvali, backed by columns of tanks, armored personal carriers, jets, and helicopters,” he says, happily waving at the wreckage, craters, and bombed-out buildings around us. “You see how well they fought, with all their great American training — they abandoned their tanks in the heat of the battle and fled.”
>Konashenko pulls a green compass out of his shirt pocket and opens it. It’s a U.S. military model. “This is a little trophy — a gift from one of my soldiers,” he says. “Everything that the Georgians left behind, I mean everything, was American. All the guns, grenades, uniforms, boots, food rations — they just left it all. Our boys stuffed themselves on the food,” he adds slyly. “It was tasty.” The booty, according to Konashenko, also included 65 intact tanks outfitted with the latest NATO and American (as well as Israeli) technology.
>Technically, we are standing within the borders of Georgia, which over the last five years has gone from being an ally to the United States to a neocon proxy regime. But there are no Georgians to be seen in this breakaway region — not unless you count the bloated corpses still lying in the dirt roads. Most of the 70,000 or so people who live in South Ossetia never liked the idea of being part of Georgia. During the violent land scramble that occurred after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the South Ossetians found themselves cut off from their ethnic kin in North Ossetia, which remained part of Russia. The Russians, who’ve had a small peacekeeping force here since 1992, managed to keep the brewing conflicts on ice for the last 15 years. But in the meantime, the positions of everyone involved hardened. The Georgians weren’t happy about the idea of losing a big chunk of territory. The Ossetians, an ethnic Persian tribe, were more adamant than ever about joining Russia, their traditional ally and protector.
>The tense but relatively stable situation blew up late in the evening of August 7, when on the order of president Mikheil Saakashvili, Georgia’s army swept into South Ossetia, leveling much of Tskhinvali and surrounding villages and sending some 30,000 refugees fleeing north into Russia. Within hours, Russia’s de facto czar Vladimir Putin counterattacked — some say he’d set a trap — and by the end of that long weekend the Georgians were in panicked retreat. The Russian army then pushed straight through South Ossetia and deep into Georgia proper, halting less than an hour’s drive from Saakashvili’s luxurious palace. All around me is evidence of a rout. A Georgian T-72 tank turret is wedged into the side of a local university building, projecting from the concrete like a cookie pressed into ice cream. Fifty yards away you can see the remains of the vehicle that the orphaned turret originally was part of: just a few charred parts around a hole in the street, and a section of tread lying flat on the sidewalk. Russian tanks now patrol the city unopposed, each one as loud as an Einstrzende Neubauten concert, clouding the air with leaded exhaust as they rumble past us.
>But listening to Colonel Konashenko, it becomes clear to me that I’m looking at more than just the smoldering remains of battle in an obscure regional war: This spot is ground zero for an epic historical shift. The dead tanks are American-upgraded, as are the spent 40mm grenade shells that one spetznaz soldier shows me. The bloated bodies on the ground are American-trained Georgian soldiers who have been stripped of their American-issue uniforms. And yet, there is no American cavalry on the way. For years now, everyone from Pat Buchanan to hybrid-powered hippies have been warning that America would suddenly find itself on a historical downslope from having been too reckless, too profligate, and too arrogant as an unopposed superpower. Even decent patriotic folk were starting to worry that America was suffering from a classic case of Celebrity Personality Disorder, becoming a nation of Tom Cruise party-dicks dancing in our socks over every corner and every culture in the world, lip-synching about freedom as we plunged headfirst into as much risky business as we could mismanage. And now, bleeding money from endless wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, we’re a sick giant hooked on ever-pricier doses of oil paid for with a currency few people want anymore. In the history books of the future, I would wager that this very spot in Tskhinvali will be remembered as both the geographic highwater mark of the American empire, and the place where it all started to fall apart.
>I first visited Georgia in 2002 to cover the arrival of American military advisers. At the time, the American empire was riding high. A decade after the Soviet Union’s collapse, Russia seemed to be devolving into an anarchic and corrupt failed state, while the U.S. just kept getting stronger. Within months of President George W. Bush’s swearing-in, Time ran a column boasting that America didn’t need to accommodate Russia anymore because it had become “the dominant power in the world, more dominant than any since Rome.” That same year we invaded Afghanistan without breaking a sweat. The New York Times magazine proclaimed: “The American Empire: Get Used to It.” A new word, hyperpower, was being used to describe our history-warping supremacy.
>The military advisers were dispatched to Georgia ostensibly to train that country’s forces to fight local Al Qaeda cells, which everyone knew didn’t exist. In reality, we were training them for key imperial outsourcing duties. Georgia would do for the American Empire what Mumbai call centers did for Delta Airlines: deliver greater returns at a fraction of the cost. They became a flagship franchise of America Inc. It made sense for the Georgians, too: Their erratic and occasionally violent neighbor Russia wouldn’t fuck with them, because fucking with them would be fucking with us — and nobody would dare to do that.
>The imperial masterminds who fixated on Georgia as an outsourcing project must have figured we’d score a two-fer by simultaneously winning strategic control of the untapped oil in the region and also managing to stick a giant bug up the raw southern rim of our decrepit old rival Russia.
>To enact this plan, America deftly organized and orchestrated the so-called Rose Revolution, which I witnessed in Tblisi in 2003. Saakkashvili’s predecessor, Eduard Shevardnadze, was judged unreliable, so in a multilayered soft putsch that used every lever of influence at our disposal, the U.S. replaced him with Saakashvili, a Columbia-educated hothead who speaks perfect neocon. In the Western media, the Rose Revolution was portrayed as 1776 redux (starring Saakashvili as George Washington with a permanent five o’clock shadow). A more perfect vassal for George W. Bush’s foreign policy could not have been found than “Misha,” as he is fondly known. He stacked his cabinet with young right-wing fanatics, and made sure he had a coterie of mountain-biking American advisers with him at all times. This crew included John McCain’s chief foreign policy adviser Randy Scheunemann, whom Misha paid more than $1 million in lobbying fees.
>This project in Georgia was just a high-profile example of a broader Bush strategy. All around Russia’s southern border, America laid claim to former Soviet domains. After 9/11, Putin infuriated many of his army commanders and security chiefs by agreeing to let the U.S. set up bases in Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan for the Afghan invasion. Once the Taliban was removed from power, America decided that it felt like staying. After all, who was going stop us? Given the sorry state of their affairs, the Russians certainly weren’t. So by 2002, Putin was stuck with American pie dripping down his cadaverous bloodless face. But after years in which Russia rebuilt itself on the back of soaring commodity prices (today it’s the world’s largest producer of oil), our advantages in global power politics have started to tilt Putin’s way. Slowly and quietly he got American forces thrown out of Uzbekistan and all but sidelined in Kyrgyzstan. And then, here in Georgia, he seized the opportunity to really hammer home his point.
>During my visit to Georgia in 2003, if someone had told me that in five years American military advisers would be hightailing it from their main base in Vasiani to avoid getting slaughtered by advancing Russian forces, I would have slapped him with a rubber chicken for insulting my intelligence. Yet there they were: gasping for air in the lobby of the Tblisi Sheraton, insisting off the record that the conflict was all the Georgians’ fault, not theirs.
>Why Misha decided to attack is still a mystery. He claims he was forced to level Tskhinvali to preempt a Russian invasion, but that doesn’t make military sense, and has since been debunked by both Georgians and OSCE monitors on the ground; others believe that he struck because, with Bush on his way out, he thought this would be his last chance to regain control of South Ossetia. Another theory popular among journalists and pundits is that the notoriously “hotheaded” (some would say “mentally unstable”) Saakashvili was suckered into his doomed invasion by a clever Russian ruse, part of Putin’s plan to punish the West for recognizing Kosovo and other crimes of imperial insensitivity. Personally, I’d vote for number two. (Putin has offered an alternative hypothesis: that Misha intentionally sparked a war in order to boost John McCain’s prospects in the U.S. election.)
>Prior to the offensive of August 7, Georgians cut off Russian television and Internet sites in South Ossetia, then rained Grad rockets and artillery on the capital and surrounding villages. The early-hours blitz was, as one Ossetian told me the day before, “shock and awe.” At least half the population fled into Russia. People I spoke to in the refugee camps, mostly women, were still in a daze — they told of fleeing their burning villages under fire, of Georgians raping and murdering, of grenades thrown into civilian bomb shelters, of tanks running over children. (It was impossible to corroborate these individual stories, as is generally the case in trying to sift fact from inflamed rumor in refugee camps.)
>Reliable casualty counts for the broader conflict are still all but impossible to get, but as of late August the Russians admit having lost 64 soldiers, and the Georgians a combined 215 soldiers and civilians. In both cases, the real number is probably much higher. On the civilian front, Ossetian sources claim that 1,500 were killed in the Georgian assault — Putin called it a “genocide” — but many Westerners dismiss that figure.
>Privately, however, American advisers and defeated Georgian commanders admit to “total defeat.” Indeed, Arkady Ostrovsky of the Economist, a British reporter who has long been close to Saakashvili, told me that on the day of the cease-fire, the Georgian leader spoke of shooting himself, and was only dissuaded when word came of a supportive statement by Condi Rice. “It was sad to watch,” Ostrovsky told me. “I should have been more critical of Saakashvili back when it might have counted. A lot of us should have.”
>That’s exactly the kind of full-spectrum smackdown the Russians were aiming for. And Konashenko wants us all to see it, so he offers to take me and some other reporters to the city of Gori in occupied Georgia. Russia seized control of the city at the end of hostilities, essentially cutting its foe in two and leaving it exposed to Vladimir Putin’s whims. “We’ll show you Gori — the city is spotless,” Konashenko says cheerfully. “We could have destroyed it, but we didn’t. Of course, there’s a little bit of damage here and there”
>The next morning, I head toward Georgia in the back of a Russian army truck, winding through the countryside of South Ossetia. Many villages have been burned and completely leveled. In the minority ethnic- Georgian communities, the sour odor of death hangs in the air, as those who survived the Ossetians’ reprisal attacks had little time to bury their dead friends and relatives.
>When we arrive in Gori, the locals seem unnerved by our presence. They shy away as aggressive reporters point cameras and pursue them along the cobblestone streets for a quote. At first, some say that they are grateful that the Russian forces are there to protect them from marauding Ossetian and Chechen irregulars, who had swept through parts of Georgia murdering civilians and looting homes before the Russians arrived. After a half hour, the Georgians we talk with get used to our presence. A few summon the nerve to quietly pull me aside and whisper things like, “Are the Russians ever going to leave?” and “We don’t have any information here. Is this going to be Russian territory forever?”
>In Gori’s vast central square there is shattered glass on the sidewalks, but as Konashenko promised, the city is largely intact. It is also starkly empty, as if a virus or neutron bomb had wiped out the civilian population. Most of the city’s inhabitants have long since fled to Tblisi, along with the soldiers.
>As we hop out of the army trucks, one of the Russian commanders points to a limp banner flying at half-mast over the polished-granite administration building on the far side of the square, “You see?” he says. “The Georgian flag is still flying. This is Georgian territory — we’re not annexing it like the media says.” This kind of boast, conquering a country and then making a big noble show of respecting its sovereignty, was something that had once been reserved for America’s forces. How quickly history has turned here.
>The other Western journalists fan out for some atrocity hunting, digging for signs that the Russians might have dropped a cluster bomb or massacred civilians. The foreign-desk editors back home have been demanding proof of Russian evil, after largely ignoring Georgia’s war crimes in South Ossetia. It’s a sordid business, but the reporters are just following orders.
>After an hour in the 90-degree heat, I head over to the city’s central square, where I stumble across a stunning spectacle: dozens of Russian soldiers doing a funky-chicken victory dance in the Georgian end zone. They’re clowning around euphorically, shooting souvenir photos of each other in front of the administration building and the statue of Stalin (Gori’s most famous native son) while their commanders lean back and laugh. I approach Lieutenant Colonel Andrei Bobrun, assistant commander of the Russian land forces’ North Caucasus Military District — the roughest neighborhood in Western Eurasia — and ask him how he feels now, as a victorious military leader in a proxy war with America.
>“I have never been so proud of Russia — magnificent Russia!” Bobrun crows, an AK strapped over his shoulder. “For twenty years we just talked and talked, blabbed and blabbed, complained and complained. But we did nothing, while America ran wild and took everything it could. Twenty years of empty talk. Now Russia is back. And you see how great Russia is. Look around you — we’re not trying to annex this land. What the fuck do I need Georgia for? Russia could keep this, but what for? Hell, we could conquer the whole world if we wanted to. That’s a fact. It was Russia that saved Europe from Genghis Khan. Russia could have taken India and the Middle East. We could take anything — we took Alaska, we took California. There is nothing that Russia could not take, and now the world is being reminded again.”
>“Why did you give California back?” I asked. It has always baffled me why a country would abandon prime coastal real estate for the frozen swamps of Siberia — I always assumed it was because the Russians were ashamed when they found themselves holding onto a chunk of this planet as perfect as California: like B-list nerds who successfully crash a Vanity Fair Oscar party, but within minutes of their little triumph, skulk out of the tent out of sheer embarrassment, knowing they never belonged there in the first place.
>“We gave it all back because we don’t need it,” Borisov boasted, puffing out his chest. “Russia has enough land, what the hell do we need more for. But if others want to start something, this is what will happen. Russia is back, and I am so proud.”
>As the day wore on, the Kremlin press pool organizers finally rounded us up, and we headed back again along the same victory trail. It was on this second visit to ruins of Tskhinvali, as dusk approached and the violence seemed to already acquire a kind of abstract tone, that I started to realize that I was looking at something much bigger than the current debate about Russian aggression or who was more guilty of what — pulling the camera much farther back on this scene, I understood that I was looking at the first ruins of America’s imperial decline. It’s not an easy thing to spot. It took years after the real collapse for Russians to finally accept that awful reality, and to adjust accordingly, first by retrenching, not overplaying an empty hand, slowly building up without making any loud noises while America ran wild around the world bankrupting itself and bleeding dry.
>And now it’s over for us. That’s clear on the ground. But it will be years before America’s political elite even begins to grasp this fact. In the meantime, Russia is drunk on its victory and the possibilities that it might imply, sending its recently-independent neighbors into a kind of frenzied animal panic. Experience has taught them that it’s moments like these when Russia’s near abroad becomes, once again, a blood-soaked doormat in the violent epochal shifts — history never stopped here, it just froze up for a decade or so. And now it’s thawing, bringing with it the familiar stench of bloated bodies, burned rubble, and the sour sweat of Russian infantry.
>We have entered a dangerous moment in history — America in decline is reacting hysterically, woofing and screeching and throwing a tantrum, desperate to prove that it still has teeth. Which it does — but not in the old dominant way that America wants or believes itself to be. History shows that it’s at this moment, tipping into decline and humiliation, when the worst decisions are made, so idiotically destructive that they’ll make the Iraq campaign look like a mere training exercise fender-bender by comparison.
>Russia, meanwhile, is as high as a Hollywood speedballer from its victory. Putting the two together in the same room — speedballing Russia and violently bad-tripping America — is a recipe for serious disaster. If we’re lucky, we’ll survive the humiliating decline and settle into the new reality without causing too much damage to ourselves or the rest of the world. But when that awful moment arrives where the cognitive dissonance snaps hard, it will be an epic struggle to come to our senses in time to prevent the William Kristols, Max Boots and Robert Kagans from leading us into a nuclear holocaust which, they will assure us, we can win against Russia, thanks to our technological superiority. If only we have the will, they’ll tell us, we can win once and for all.
R: 131 / I: 6
>It is in the working class‘ interest to overthrow capitalism and establish socialism
is actually a normative statement disguised as a descriptive statement. It arrogantly elevates a Marxist attitude to a matter of fact. The working class has through their behavior regularly shown that they are fine with capitalism as long as there are enough goodies for them (hence why Westerners at best want social democracy while a desire for socialism has been a tiny outlier). Even in times of crisis this is the case. The rise in socialism is therefore an anomaly and not the class interest of the working class that is somehow innate to these particular class relations.
>Oh, but socialism affords worker control, and worker democracy, and guarantees everyone‘s base needs are met!
And again, who says every worker wants that? Not everyone wants to partake in the mental labor of organizing the economy, perhaps not even a business, not everyone wants every schmuck to have a say in organizing either, and not everyone believes that everyone is entitled to base needs, as cruel as that may sound. This isn‘t my opinion, but many people don‘t think that way and at some point you have to take overwhelming historic precedent into account and acknowledging that what you’ve claimed doesn‘t line up with observations. So the question becomes, will you adjust to observations that have repeatedly contradicted your theory (science) or stick to your guns (ideology)?
>It is in the working class‘ interest to overthrow capitalism and establish socialism
is actually a normative statement disguised as a descriptive statement. It arrogantly elevates a Marxist attitude to a matter of fact. The working class has through their behavior regularly shown that they are fine with capitalism as long as there are enough goodies for them (hence why Westerners at best want social democracy while a desire for socialism has been a tiny outlier). Even in times of crisis this is the case. The rise in socialism is therefore an anomaly and not the class interest of the working class that is somehow innate to these particular class relations.
>Oh, but socialism affords worker control, and worker democracy, and guarantees everyone‘s base needs are met!
And again, who says every worker wants that? Not everyone wants to partake in the mental labor of organizing the economy, perhaps not even a business, not everyone wants every schmuck to have a say in organizing either, and not everyone believes that everyone is entitled to base needs, as cruel as that may sound. This isn‘t my opinion, but many people don‘t think that way and at some point you have to take overwhelming historic precedent into account and acknowledging that what you’ve claimed doesn‘t line up with observations. So the question becomes, will you adjust to observations that have repeatedly contradicted your theory (science) or stick to your guns (ideology)?
R: 4 / I: 1
When Amlo took office in 2018, there were nearly 52 million people living below the poverty line: by the time he left office six years later, that number had dropped by 13.4 million, a decrease of almost 26%. Extreme poverty also dropped from nearly 9 million people to just 7 million. In a country that has long suffered from deep inequality and struggled with economic precarity, the steep drop in the number of people living in poverty is a remarkable achievement and suggests Amlo’s policies had a measurable impact on the lives of millions of everyday Mexicans.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/18/mexico-welfare-policies-amlo
Colombian court frees former president Uribe from house arrest until it rules on bribery case
On Tuesday the Superior Tribunal said it approved an injunction filed by Uribe’s defense team seeking his release from house arrest. Uribe’s lawyers argued the former president’s right to due process was violated by the arrest order against him, as well as his right to a presumption of innocence.
https://apnews.com/article/colombia-uribe-court-ruling-house-arrest-release-be4a27e0605299f605930ef897b794f3
Colombia’s left urges Senator Ivan Cepeda enter the presidential race
Cepeda is the son of former Senator Manuel Cepeda, who was assassinated in 1994 during the political genocide of the left-wing party Union Patriotica. The senator started his political career documenting testimonies of victims of paramilitary and state violence in the early 2000s. He later co-founded the Movement for Victims of State Violence (MOVICE). In 2010, Cepeda was elected to Congress, where he became one of Uribe’s most powerful adversaries.
https://colombiareports.com/colombias-left-urges-senator-ivan-cepeda-enter-the-presidential-race/
Air Canada workers denounce government strikebreaking from the picket line: “There is no right to strike in Canada”
Over 10,000 Air Canada flight attendants courageously defied a federal Liberal government back-to-work order to continue their strike against intolerable working conditions and real wage cuts. After three days on the picket line beginning Saturday, the strikers saw their struggle sabotaged and sold out early Tuesday by the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), which concluded a rotten agreement with management and a government-appointed mediator with a notorious record of imposing deep concessions on workers.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/08/20/sleo-a20.html
Palestinian woman declared dead found alive in Israeli detention months later
Bisan Fadl Muhammad Fayyad was first believed to have died while in detention after her family received a body said to be hers from Israeli authorities, alongside her clothes and official ID. Months after her burial, on 21 March 2025, her family received a call announcing that she was alive in Israeli custody, the Palestinian Center for the Missing and Forcibly Disappeared (PCMFD) reported on Monday. Her family has since attempted to find out more about her detention condition.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/palestinian-woman-declared-dead-found-alive-israeli-detention-months-later
Jordan reinstates mandatory military service in wake of 'Greater Israel' threats
Compulsory military service is being reintroduced in Jordan, over three decades after conscription was ended in the country in 1991, a move observers are attributing to increasing regional instability, in particular around mounting statements by Israeli officials alluding to Israel’s expansionist ambitions.
https://www.newarab.com/news/jordan-reinstates-conscription-after-greater-israel-threats
Powerful Libyan official in talks with Israel to resettle Palestinians from Gaza
Speaking on condition of anonymity due to the sensitive nature of the issue, Libyan, Arab and European officials told MEE that National Security Adviser Ibrahim Dbeibah, a relative of Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibah, was spearheading the talks despite Palestinians in Gaza flatly rejecting US President Donald Trump's postwar plan for the enclave. One Libyan source said that "practical talks" had already taken place but the specifics were vague.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/libya-senior-official-secret-talks-israel-resettle-palestinians-gaza
Burkina Faso junta declares UN coordinator persona non grata over child rights report
The report, published in April, accused both jihadist groups and government forces of abuses against children, including their recruitment as soldiers, sexual abuses and attacks on hospitals and schools. Covering the period between July 2022 and June 2024, it claims 2,483 grave violations against 2,255 children had been verified, including some children who were victims of multiple violations.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/burkina-faso-leaders-declare-un-coordinator-persona-non-grata
Thailand turning to Sri Lankan workers to cope with Cambodian exodus, official says
More than 30,000 workers from Sri Lanka have already registered and 10,000 will be sent to Thailand in the first stage, Labour Minister Pongkawin Jungrungruangkit told reporters, adding that it would also allow workers from Nepal, Bangladesh, Indonesia, and the Philippines to apply.
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/thailand-turning-sri-lankan-workers-cope-with-cambodian-exodus-official-says-2025-08-19/
Far Right Watch Wales reveals neonazis are helping to promote Reform UK
“Phillips was at one time an organiser for the fascist BNP in Wales while Marsh — who has convictions for extreme violence — is Wales’ organiser of the neonazi, holocaust-denying group Patriotic Alternative and was also the leading figure in the ‘Welsh division’ of Tommy Robinson’s English Defence League.”
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/far-right-watch-wales-reveals-neonazis-are-helping-promote-reform-uk
News 8/19/25
‘Historic’: how Mexico’s welfare policies helped 13.4 million people out of povertyWhen Amlo took office in 2018, there were nearly 52 million people living below the poverty line: by the time he left office six years later, that number had dropped by 13.4 million, a decrease of almost 26%. Extreme poverty also dropped from nearly 9 million people to just 7 million. In a country that has long suffered from deep inequality and struggled with economic precarity, the steep drop in the number of people living in poverty is a remarkable achievement and suggests Amlo’s policies had a measurable impact on the lives of millions of everyday Mexicans.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/18/mexico-welfare-policies-amlo
Colombian court frees former president Uribe from house arrest until it rules on bribery case
On Tuesday the Superior Tribunal said it approved an injunction filed by Uribe’s defense team seeking his release from house arrest. Uribe’s lawyers argued the former president’s right to due process was violated by the arrest order against him, as well as his right to a presumption of innocence.
https://apnews.com/article/colombia-uribe-court-ruling-house-arrest-release-be4a27e0605299f605930ef897b794f3
Colombia’s left urges Senator Ivan Cepeda enter the presidential race
Cepeda is the son of former Senator Manuel Cepeda, who was assassinated in 1994 during the political genocide of the left-wing party Union Patriotica. The senator started his political career documenting testimonies of victims of paramilitary and state violence in the early 2000s. He later co-founded the Movement for Victims of State Violence (MOVICE). In 2010, Cepeda was elected to Congress, where he became one of Uribe’s most powerful adversaries.
https://colombiareports.com/colombias-left-urges-senator-ivan-cepeda-enter-the-presidential-race/
Air Canada workers denounce government strikebreaking from the picket line: “There is no right to strike in Canada”
Over 10,000 Air Canada flight attendants courageously defied a federal Liberal government back-to-work order to continue their strike against intolerable working conditions and real wage cuts. After three days on the picket line beginning Saturday, the strikers saw their struggle sabotaged and sold out early Tuesday by the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), which concluded a rotten agreement with management and a government-appointed mediator with a notorious record of imposing deep concessions on workers.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/08/20/sleo-a20.html
Palestinian woman declared dead found alive in Israeli detention months later
Bisan Fadl Muhammad Fayyad was first believed to have died while in detention after her family received a body said to be hers from Israeli authorities, alongside her clothes and official ID. Months after her burial, on 21 March 2025, her family received a call announcing that she was alive in Israeli custody, the Palestinian Center for the Missing and Forcibly Disappeared (PCMFD) reported on Monday. Her family has since attempted to find out more about her detention condition.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/palestinian-woman-declared-dead-found-alive-israeli-detention-months-later
Jordan reinstates mandatory military service in wake of 'Greater Israel' threats
Compulsory military service is being reintroduced in Jordan, over three decades after conscription was ended in the country in 1991, a move observers are attributing to increasing regional instability, in particular around mounting statements by Israeli officials alluding to Israel’s expansionist ambitions.
https://www.newarab.com/news/jordan-reinstates-conscription-after-greater-israel-threats
Powerful Libyan official in talks with Israel to resettle Palestinians from Gaza
Speaking on condition of anonymity due to the sensitive nature of the issue, Libyan, Arab and European officials told MEE that National Security Adviser Ibrahim Dbeibah, a relative of Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibah, was spearheading the talks despite Palestinians in Gaza flatly rejecting US President Donald Trump's postwar plan for the enclave. One Libyan source said that "practical talks" had already taken place but the specifics were vague.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/libya-senior-official-secret-talks-israel-resettle-palestinians-gaza
Burkina Faso junta declares UN coordinator persona non grata over child rights report
The report, published in April, accused both jihadist groups and government forces of abuses against children, including their recruitment as soldiers, sexual abuses and attacks on hospitals and schools. Covering the period between July 2022 and June 2024, it claims 2,483 grave violations against 2,255 children had been verified, including some children who were victims of multiple violations.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/burkina-faso-leaders-declare-un-coordinator-persona-non-grata
Thailand turning to Sri Lankan workers to cope with Cambodian exodus, official says
More than 30,000 workers from Sri Lanka have already registered and 10,000 will be sent to Thailand in the first stage, Labour Minister Pongkawin Jungrungruangkit told reporters, adding that it would also allow workers from Nepal, Bangladesh, Indonesia, and the Philippines to apply.
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/thailand-turning-sri-lankan-workers-cope-with-cambodian-exodus-official-says-2025-08-19/
Far Right Watch Wales reveals neonazis are helping to promote Reform UK
“Phillips was at one time an organiser for the fascist BNP in Wales while Marsh — who has convictions for extreme violence — is Wales’ organiser of the neonazi, holocaust-denying group Patriotic Alternative and was also the leading figure in the ‘Welsh division’ of Tommy Robinson’s English Defence League.”
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/far-right-watch-wales-reveals-neonazis-are-helping-promote-reform-uk
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How come neoliberals argue that infrastructure should be built in advance to solve the housing crisis (which they created) but when PRC does that, the same neoliberals call them ghost cities?
How come neoliberals argue that infrastructure should be built in advance to solve the housing crisis (which they created) but when PRC does that, the same neoliberals call them ghost cities?
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Why do normies not understand the concept of coercion?
Whether Financial or sexual, it seems to be beyond their comprehension.
You can get thousands of people who think its acceptable for landlords to try to coerce someone into prostituting themselves, just because that person is having trouble meeting rent.
Why do normies not understand the concept of coercion?
Whether Financial or sexual, it seems to be beyond their comprehension.
You can get thousands of people who think its acceptable for landlords to try to coerce someone into prostituting themselves, just because that person is having trouble meeting rent.
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22nd century historians will know less about the 21st century for certain than 20th century historians knew about, for instance, the 10th century, because AI is going to pollute academia to such a degree that it will be impossible for future generations to sort out real stuff from slop … is what I would say if I actually thought AI was going to continue development and not become a hyperinflated speculative bubble and technological dead end and historical curiosity looked back on with a mixture of pity, confusion, anger, and disgust.
22nd century historians will know less about the 21st century for certain than 20th century historians knew about, for instance, the 10th century, because AI is going to pollute academia to such a degree that it will be impossible for future generations to sort out real stuff from slop … is what I would say if I actually thought AI was going to continue development and not become a hyperinflated speculative bubble and technological dead end and historical curiosity looked back on with a mixture of pity, confusion, anger, and disgust.
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>Occupy Wall Street was compromised cause identity politics. You know, all those people saying all men are rapist, all whites are racists,… We aren't those people. Those oversimplifications and generalizations obfuscate reality. Identity politics are an obstacle to class consciousness. The culprit is capitalism. And the solution is revolution to achieve communism.
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>All westerners benefit from imperialism and are fascist.
2016 vs 2025
leftypol in 2016>Occupy Wall Street was compromised cause identity politics. You know, all those people saying all men are rapist, all whites are racists,… We aren't those people. Those oversimplifications and generalizations obfuscate reality. Identity politics are an obstacle to class consciousness. The culprit is capitalism. And the solution is revolution to achieve communism.
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>All westerners benefit from imperialism and are fascist.
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Cash for clunkers was genuinely the worst idea ever. Eliminating so many affordable cars from the used market and in turn fucking it over for years to come. Thoughts on this?
Cash for clunkers was genuinely the worst idea ever. Eliminating so many affordable cars from the used market and in turn fucking it over for years to come. Thoughts on this?
R: 20 / I: 1
People would despise the shit out of Marx if he wasn't so giddy about natlib and democracy like he was, which was much to his detriment. Marx and Engels sacrificed their own conclusions for strategy they got swept up in false optimism, mistaking the early revolt of the workers and imperialist conflicts for revolutionary progress. They sent solidarity to national wars that were laying the foundations of capitalism because they thought they were helping communism. That was more cheerleading for democracy than anything remotely communist.
People would despise the shit out of Marx if he wasn't so giddy about natlib and democracy like he was, which was much to his detriment. Marx and Engels sacrificed their own conclusions for strategy they got swept up in false optimism, mistaking the early revolt of the workers and imperialist conflicts for revolutionary progress. They sent solidarity to national wars that were laying the foundations of capitalism because they thought they were helping communism. That was more cheerleading for democracy than anything remotely communist.
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Marx's criticism of the ethnoreligious character of Jewishness is sufficient enough, but why not study it and see the origins? There are countless Jewish sects, there are even ultraorthodox Jews in neighborhoods like Mea Shearim in Israel who despite coming from the same teachings come to an entirely different conclusion and end up opposing Zionism and the Zionist state. Of course all of this boils down to religious mysticism, but I can't help but wonder if there is any "in the know" content that gives leverage to Judaism by economic means.
The Talmud is supposed to be a prolonged dialogue and debate between different rabbis from different generations seeing the extent of Jewish law, going to extremes in writing ridiculous stuff like endorsing child marriage and hostilities towards non-Jews.
There was a sect of Islam which more or less went through the same, but I forgot what they were called, the general idea was to try and see the extent of what is allowed in Islam and what can be the definitive Islamic law which I'm unsure if it lead to Shariah or if its unrelated.
Has anyone here ever studied the Talmud?
No this is not a /pol/ post, I am genuinely curious if anyone has bothered studying the Talmud and discovered anything noteworthy in it.Marx's criticism of the ethnoreligious character of Jewishness is sufficient enough, but why not study it and see the origins? There are countless Jewish sects, there are even ultraorthodox Jews in neighborhoods like Mea Shearim in Israel who despite coming from the same teachings come to an entirely different conclusion and end up opposing Zionism and the Zionist state. Of course all of this boils down to religious mysticism, but I can't help but wonder if there is any "in the know" content that gives leverage to Judaism by economic means.
The Talmud is supposed to be a prolonged dialogue and debate between different rabbis from different generations seeing the extent of Jewish law, going to extremes in writing ridiculous stuff like endorsing child marriage and hostilities towards non-Jews.
There was a sect of Islam which more or less went through the same, but I forgot what they were called, the general idea was to try and see the extent of what is allowed in Islam and what can be the definitive Islamic law which I'm unsure if it lead to Shariah or if its unrelated.
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“This result is a punishment vote against betrayal and corruption. A message for new generations: if you want to go into politics, whoever betrays loses and whoever steals loses,” the historic leader of Bolivian left said, referring to presidential candidates Andronico Rodriguez and Eduardo del Castillo. Morales also said the results were also a “punishment vote against the privatization of state companies and against political persecution.” In doing so, he alluded to former President Quiroga, the presidential candidate who came in second place.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/evo-morales-calls-bolivian-election-outcome-a-punishment-vote/
Uribe’s main fixer convicted for bribing witness in case against Colombia’s former president
According to Bogota judge Fabian Moreno, attorney Diego Cadena pressured a witness called Juan Guillermo Monsalve into retracting claims that Uribe and his brother Santiago helped create the Bloque Metro paramilitary group in 1996. Monsalve and other former Bloque Metrio fighters have testified that their group was created at Guacharacas, the Uribe family estate in the east of the Antioquia province, in response to a guerrilla attack on the property.
https://colombiareports.com/uribes-fixer-convicted-for-bribery/
Amazon Communities Launch Protest Against Illegal Mining in Peru
Additionally, monuments to Bolsheviks and revolutionaries, including Stepan Shaumyan and Aleksandr Myasnikyan, as well as statues of Nagorno-Karabakh’s military leaders like Khristofor Ivanyan and Anatoliy Zinevich, were also noted to have been removed. The statement adds that while the official fate of the sculptures has not yet been clarified, considering Azerbaijan’s ongoing policy of erasing Armenian cultural heritage, it is highly likely that the statues have been permanently destroyed.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/amazon-communities-launch-protest-against-illegal-mining-in-peru/
Air Canada flight attendants to continue strike despite government order
It is unusual for a union to defy a CIRB order. It was not immediately clear what options the government has if the union continues its strike. Air Canada flight attendants walked off the job on Saturday for the first time since 1985, after months of negotiations over a new contract. Natasha Stea, an Air Canada flight attendant and local union president, told Reuters that other unions joined the flight attendants’ picket line in solidarity in Toronto on Sunday.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/17/air-canada-flight-attendants-to-continue-strike-despite-government-order
https://archive.ph/FK4Ox
Hamas accepts Gaza ceasefire proposal set out by mediators, sources say
Hamas told Egyptian and Qatari mediators on Monday that the group has accepted the Gaza ceasefire proposal that had been presented to them earlier that day, sources told Middle East Eye. This is the same proposal - barring some minor details - that Hamas had accepted on 1 June before both the Israelis and the Americans withdrew their teams from talks in Doha. Should this ceasefire come to fruition, it would demonstrate a major compromise by the Israelis, a source told MEE.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/hamas-accepts-gaza-ceasefire-proposal-set-out-mediators-sources
Nearly a million Israelis demonstrate, calling for hostage deal and end to Gaza war
Nearly 500,000 people crowded into Hostages Square in Tel Aviv Sunday to demand the far-right government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu end the war in Gaza and secure a deal to bring home the hostages. Protests in Jerusalem, Haifa, Beersheba and other cities brought the total to more than one million.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/08/18/yxvg-a18.html
Nagorno-Karabakh: Azerbaijan demolishes 25 Soviet-era monuments
Additionally, monuments to Bolsheviks and revolutionaries, including Stepan Shaumyan and Aleksandr Myasnikyan, as well as statues of Nagorno-Karabakh’s military leaders like Khristofor Ivanyan and Anatoliy Zinevich, were also noted to have been removed. The statement adds that while the official fate of the sculptures has not yet been clarified, considering Azerbaijan’s ongoing policy of erasing Armenian cultural heritage, it is highly likely that the statues have been permanently destroyed.
https://www.idcommunism.com/2025/08/nagorno-karabakh-azerbaijan-demolishes-25-soviet-era-monuments.html
Government condemned for inaction on anti-Sikh hate crimes after attack on two elderly men
The men, aged in their sixties and seventies and both taxi drivers, were brutally assaulted outside Wolverhampton train station on Friday in an incident captured on video that went viral over the weekend. One victim can be seen on the ground without his turban, while the other is repeatedly punched and kicked.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/government-condemned-inaction-anti-sikh-hate-crimes-after-attack-two-elderly-men
Spain deploys 500 more troops to battle wildfires during extended heat wave
The decision to add to the more than 1,400 troops already on wildfire duty came as authorities struggled to contain forest blazes, especially in the northwestern Galicia region, and awaited the arrival of promised aircraft reinforcements from other European countries.
https://apnews.com/article/europe-spain-portugal-wildfires-climate-34057085cfe89c3107b65bd7cc9767cc
Taiwanese with mainland China IDs risk losing jobs, citizenship, Taipei warns
The warning came as Taiwan’s Ministry of the Interior moved to enact new rules aimed at tightening control over those seeking to regain citizenship after acquiring mainland Chinese household registration or identity documents. Government agencies are also reinforcing vetting procedures for public servants and investigating entertainers with perceived ties to the mainland propaganda machine.
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3322270/taiwanese-mainland-china-ids-risk-losing-jobs-citizenship-taipei-warns?module=top_story&pgtype=subsection
Queensland police go to court in bid to stop Story Bridge pro-Palestine protest march
Justice for Palestine Magan-djin (Brisbane) have advertised plans to march over the bridge at 1pm on Sunday – replicating similar protests that occurred earlier this month in Sydney and Melbourne. Spokesperson for Justice for Palestine Magan-djin Remah Naji said the group is expecting at least 7,000 people to attend the rally. The Queensland police oppose the march on public safety grounds.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/18/queensland-police-go-to-court-in-bid-to-stop-story-bridge-pro-palestine-protest-march
Record Qantas fines in Australia for illegal pandemic layoffs
Federal Court Justice Michael Lee said the outsourcing of 1,820 baggage handler and cleaner jobs at Australian airports in late 2020 had been the “largest and most significant contravention” of relevant Australian employment laws in their 120-year history. Qantas agreed in December last year to pay AU$120m in compensation to former staff after a high court rejected the airline’s appeal against the judgement that the outsourcing of their jobs was illegal.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/record-qantas-fines-australia-illegal-pandemic-layoffs
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Evo Morales Calls Bolivian Election Outcome a ‘Punishment Vote’“This result is a punishment vote against betrayal and corruption. A message for new generations: if you want to go into politics, whoever betrays loses and whoever steals loses,” the historic leader of Bolivian left said, referring to presidential candidates Andronico Rodriguez and Eduardo del Castillo. Morales also said the results were also a “punishment vote against the privatization of state companies and against political persecution.” In doing so, he alluded to former President Quiroga, the presidential candidate who came in second place.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/evo-morales-calls-bolivian-election-outcome-a-punishment-vote/
Uribe’s main fixer convicted for bribing witness in case against Colombia’s former president
According to Bogota judge Fabian Moreno, attorney Diego Cadena pressured a witness called Juan Guillermo Monsalve into retracting claims that Uribe and his brother Santiago helped create the Bloque Metro paramilitary group in 1996. Monsalve and other former Bloque Metrio fighters have testified that their group was created at Guacharacas, the Uribe family estate in the east of the Antioquia province, in response to a guerrilla attack on the property.
https://colombiareports.com/uribes-fixer-convicted-for-bribery/
Amazon Communities Launch Protest Against Illegal Mining in Peru
Additionally, monuments to Bolsheviks and revolutionaries, including Stepan Shaumyan and Aleksandr Myasnikyan, as well as statues of Nagorno-Karabakh’s military leaders like Khristofor Ivanyan and Anatoliy Zinevich, were also noted to have been removed. The statement adds that while the official fate of the sculptures has not yet been clarified, considering Azerbaijan’s ongoing policy of erasing Armenian cultural heritage, it is highly likely that the statues have been permanently destroyed.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/amazon-communities-launch-protest-against-illegal-mining-in-peru/
Air Canada flight attendants to continue strike despite government order
It is unusual for a union to defy a CIRB order. It was not immediately clear what options the government has if the union continues its strike. Air Canada flight attendants walked off the job on Saturday for the first time since 1985, after months of negotiations over a new contract. Natasha Stea, an Air Canada flight attendant and local union president, told Reuters that other unions joined the flight attendants’ picket line in solidarity in Toronto on Sunday.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/17/air-canada-flight-attendants-to-continue-strike-despite-government-order
https://archive.ph/FK4Ox
Hamas accepts Gaza ceasefire proposal set out by mediators, sources say
Hamas told Egyptian and Qatari mediators on Monday that the group has accepted the Gaza ceasefire proposal that had been presented to them earlier that day, sources told Middle East Eye. This is the same proposal - barring some minor details - that Hamas had accepted on 1 June before both the Israelis and the Americans withdrew their teams from talks in Doha. Should this ceasefire come to fruition, it would demonstrate a major compromise by the Israelis, a source told MEE.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/hamas-accepts-gaza-ceasefire-proposal-set-out-mediators-sources
Nearly a million Israelis demonstrate, calling for hostage deal and end to Gaza war
Nearly 500,000 people crowded into Hostages Square in Tel Aviv Sunday to demand the far-right government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu end the war in Gaza and secure a deal to bring home the hostages. Protests in Jerusalem, Haifa, Beersheba and other cities brought the total to more than one million.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/08/18/yxvg-a18.html
Nagorno-Karabakh: Azerbaijan demolishes 25 Soviet-era monuments
Additionally, monuments to Bolsheviks and revolutionaries, including Stepan Shaumyan and Aleksandr Myasnikyan, as well as statues of Nagorno-Karabakh’s military leaders like Khristofor Ivanyan and Anatoliy Zinevich, were also noted to have been removed. The statement adds that while the official fate of the sculptures has not yet been clarified, considering Azerbaijan’s ongoing policy of erasing Armenian cultural heritage, it is highly likely that the statues have been permanently destroyed.
https://www.idcommunism.com/2025/08/nagorno-karabakh-azerbaijan-demolishes-25-soviet-era-monuments.html
Government condemned for inaction on anti-Sikh hate crimes after attack on two elderly men
The men, aged in their sixties and seventies and both taxi drivers, were brutally assaulted outside Wolverhampton train station on Friday in an incident captured on video that went viral over the weekend. One victim can be seen on the ground without his turban, while the other is repeatedly punched and kicked.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/government-condemned-inaction-anti-sikh-hate-crimes-after-attack-two-elderly-men
Spain deploys 500 more troops to battle wildfires during extended heat wave
The decision to add to the more than 1,400 troops already on wildfire duty came as authorities struggled to contain forest blazes, especially in the northwestern Galicia region, and awaited the arrival of promised aircraft reinforcements from other European countries.
https://apnews.com/article/europe-spain-portugal-wildfires-climate-34057085cfe89c3107b65bd7cc9767cc
Taiwanese with mainland China IDs risk losing jobs, citizenship, Taipei warns
The warning came as Taiwan’s Ministry of the Interior moved to enact new rules aimed at tightening control over those seeking to regain citizenship after acquiring mainland Chinese household registration or identity documents. Government agencies are also reinforcing vetting procedures for public servants and investigating entertainers with perceived ties to the mainland propaganda machine.
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3322270/taiwanese-mainland-china-ids-risk-losing-jobs-citizenship-taipei-warns?module=top_story&pgtype=subsection
Queensland police go to court in bid to stop Story Bridge pro-Palestine protest march
Justice for Palestine Magan-djin (Brisbane) have advertised plans to march over the bridge at 1pm on Sunday – replicating similar protests that occurred earlier this month in Sydney and Melbourne. Spokesperson for Justice for Palestine Magan-djin Remah Naji said the group is expecting at least 7,000 people to attend the rally. The Queensland police oppose the march on public safety grounds.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/18/queensland-police-go-to-court-in-bid-to-stop-story-bridge-pro-palestine-protest-march
Record Qantas fines in Australia for illegal pandemic layoffs
Federal Court Justice Michael Lee said the outsourcing of 1,820 baggage handler and cleaner jobs at Australian airports in late 2020 had been the “largest and most significant contravention” of relevant Australian employment laws in their 120-year history. Qantas agreed in December last year to pay AU$120m in compensation to former staff after a high court rejected the airline’s appeal against the judgement that the outsourcing of their jobs was illegal.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/record-qantas-fines-australia-illegal-pandemic-layoffs
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Can proletarians truly exist in today's first-world nations with social security programs (mostly the EU member nations)? And if so, what percentage of the population do they make up there? Obviously if everyone suddenly stopped working and relied on unemployment benefits the bourgeois state would find a way to force them to work
again, existing unemployed are also already heckled.
But today as it stands even if you have no other reason not to work than simply not wanting to, your survival, your life, your weal and woe are never under threat in the nations this question is concerned with. Thoughts?
Can proletarians truly exist in today's first-world nations with social security programs (mostly the EU member nations)? And if so, what percentage of the population do they make up there? Obviously if everyone suddenly stopped working and relied on unemployment benefits the bourgeois state would find a way to force them to work
again, existing unemployed are also already heckled.
But today as it stands even if you have no other reason not to work than simply not wanting to, your survival, your life, your weal and woe are never under threat in the nations this question is concerned with. Thoughts?
R: 72 / I: 16 (sage)
What I DON'T support however is infesting our once developed, secure and beautiful first world nations with undesirable subhumans from the third world, and especially as a straight man myself I don't want to risk getting a stone thrown to my head by some Muhammad or Nbumgo because their brownoid shithole religion says straight people bad or something, my city (Frankfurt) used to be the JEWEL of Germany when it was racially homogeneous now it's a hellhole thanks to the uyghurs and arqbs infesting it
In fact, in these elections I actually voted AfD despite them being neoliberal crooks, because they're the ONLY ONES willing to do something about the non-White infestation
TL/DR I fully support the economic policies of communism but I want shitskins OUT, they're ugly, smelly, barbaric and a threat to my existance as a straight man
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I fully support universal healthcare, universal suffrage, free education, minimum wage social security for those in vulnerable conditions, even the seizing of the means of production so workers could actually turn industries and companies into cooperativesWhat I DON'T support however is infesting our once developed, secure and beautiful first world nations with undesirable subhumans from the third world, and especially as a straight man myself I don't want to risk getting a stone thrown to my head by some Muhammad or Nbumgo because their brownoid shithole religion says straight people bad or something, my city (Frankfurt) used to be the JEWEL of Germany when it was racially homogeneous now it's a hellhole thanks to the uyghurs and arqbs infesting it
In fact, in these elections I actually voted AfD despite them being neoliberal crooks, because they're the ONLY ONES willing to do something about the non-White infestation
TL/DR I fully support the economic policies of communism but I want shitskins OUT, they're ugly, smelly, barbaric and a threat to my existance as a straight man
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Evidence of the influence and origin of neo-Nazi groups in Ukraine
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How do we deal with female narcissism epidemic
It seems it's easier for femoids to form lesbian powerblocs and it is evidently more pronounced with westerners, who are more likely to taste the rainbow and castrate males, further swelling their female ranks
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How do we deal with female loneliness epidemic
It seems it's harder for people to form genuine connections but and it is evidently more pronounced with women who are more likely to consume SSRI medication and are more likely to experience obesity
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example of this would be caloric intake and quality of food consumed by a medieval peasant vs a modern 3rd world worker. A modern 3rd world worker in a country such as India eats carb heavy third class food much worse than what a medieval peasant used to eat.
2. Alienation is increasing not because of all the stupid theories of marx but because how humans inherently are. Humans were forced to be social earlier because of scarcity of resources and now with abundance of third class cheap resources they aren't compelled to be social and hence they are not social.
3. Humans are the only species in the animal kingdom with significant level of unevenness in its "consciousness" (for some of you illiterate idiots, consciousness means ability of any living organism to be aware about its surrounding). This gives way for class society and not the ruling classes from Mars who are responsible for that. There will always be uneveness in the consciousness of humans and it will always lead to some kind of class society automatically. No state or authority can change this.
4. Giving women, minorities or any other holy oppressed groups any kind of "democratic power" won't lead to any progress at all ever. They will also end up becoming a part of same oppressive machinery. There is no right way of doing it.
Because of all above reasons there won't be any revolution or any such nonsense ever. Things will just keep on getting worse and worse and humans will be in for slow process of extinction.
However, there is one way through which humans can reach salvation. And that solution sound like what villains in cartoons used to have. That is to kill all humans, that will relieve humans of all the pain that they go through as part of this useless existence. Humans ultimately can not achieve any infinite goal. Billions of sad souls in immense pain will be relieved forever of their pain. This is totally achievable with a sizeable group of like minded people. With growth in science, we have multiple options such as engineered viruses and nuclear bombs etc. It is about time anyways that intelligent people will ultimately figure it out. Some of them are figuring it out anyways, with pilots crashing planes along with all the passengers.
Marxists off course being B team of bourgeois rulers and optimist opportunists won't agree to this but this is the path to go.
No revolution will happen ever because of inherent human conditions
1. History is not a forward flow river of "progress" unlike what Marxists believe. Increase in "productivity" is not same as "progress" in the sense that humans will get more freer and intellectually superior.example of this would be caloric intake and quality of food consumed by a medieval peasant vs a modern 3rd world worker. A modern 3rd world worker in a country such as India eats carb heavy third class food much worse than what a medieval peasant used to eat.
2. Alienation is increasing not because of all the stupid theories of marx but because how humans inherently are. Humans were forced to be social earlier because of scarcity of resources and now with abundance of third class cheap resources they aren't compelled to be social and hence they are not social.
3. Humans are the only species in the animal kingdom with significant level of unevenness in its "consciousness" (for some of you illiterate idiots, consciousness means ability of any living organism to be aware about its surrounding). This gives way for class society and not the ruling classes from Mars who are responsible for that. There will always be uneveness in the consciousness of humans and it will always lead to some kind of class society automatically. No state or authority can change this.
4. Giving women, minorities or any other holy oppressed groups any kind of "democratic power" won't lead to any progress at all ever. They will also end up becoming a part of same oppressive machinery. There is no right way of doing it.
Because of all above reasons there won't be any revolution or any such nonsense ever. Things will just keep on getting worse and worse and humans will be in for slow process of extinction.
However, there is one way through which humans can reach salvation. And that solution sound like what villains in cartoons used to have. That is to kill all humans, that will relieve humans of all the pain that they go through as part of this useless existence. Humans ultimately can not achieve any infinite goal. Billions of sad souls in immense pain will be relieved forever of their pain. This is totally achievable with a sizeable group of like minded people. With growth in science, we have multiple options such as engineered viruses and nuclear bombs etc. It is about time anyways that intelligent people will ultimately figure it out. Some of them are figuring it out anyways, with pilots crashing planes along with all the passengers.
Marxists off course being B team of bourgeois rulers and optimist opportunists won't agree to this but this is the path to go.
R: 24 / I: 5
Don't Forget, You're Here Forever.
Weeks are not happening
You can already tell what this thread is going to be like just by the title. Another demoralization NEH thread. Whatever. Its not happening, nothing relevant is. Nothing You want to happen will happen and if it happens it ends up not being enough.Don't Forget, You're Here Forever.
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US Human Rights Violations
China's State Council Information Office published a comprehensive report on Sunday detailing systemic human rights challenges in the United States during the contentious 2024 election year. The document examines political polarization, economic disparities, and social fractures through a human rights lens.
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Tier list
Here is my tier list of socialist countries. Venezuela is D tier because they are barely even Socialist and seem closer to modern Russia rather than Soviet Russia. Nicaragua is D tier because they have not done much or developed anything, I know there is a trade embargo but Cuba has made great healthcare progress with their embargo, also they are pretty authoritarian. North Korea is C tier because they are probably the most authoritarian of them all but they have developed a ton and they even color their Commie-Blocks. Vietnam is B tier because it is the second most developed of them and has the most freedom out of all of them but what holds them back is that they are supper pro-America and supper Anti-China and I think that socialist countries should put their differences aside to grow socialism. Laos is B tier because I have no idea about anything about it and no one has ever heard of it. China is A tier because they are the most developed and also the last hope of earth, but my biggest gripe with China is that even though it is exaggerated by the western media there is some truth to the persecution of the Uyghurs and just because other countries do it doesn’t make it okay :/ and even though it is good that they are non-interventionist they kinda are to a fault because they really need to sanction Israel. Cuba is S tier, Cuba despite being a weak country militarily they still manage to spite the US even though they are right below us by providing material support to groups that the US doesn’t like.
R: 10 / I: 4
Non ho proprio calcolato questa tavola più o meno dal periodo dell'impresa di Luigi Mangione e ho ricominciato a buttarci un occhio solo da una settimana o due. Vediamo un po' che ne viene fuori stavolta.
/ita/ - Spaghetti Communism
Uno si assenta per qualche mese e il filo più importante di tutti scompare… Roba da matti!Non ho proprio calcolato questa tavola più o meno dal periodo dell'impresa di Luigi Mangione e ho ricominciato a buttarci un occhio solo da una settimana o due. Vediamo un po' che ne viene fuori stavolta.
R: 49 / I: 8
State Capitalism
So, was the USSR State Capitalist, or was it Socialist? Did the Bureaucratic Class in the USSR constitute a new Bourgeoise, or not? What books/articles should I watch to understand this?
R: 73 / I: 28 (sage)
how do anti-CPC shills genuinely respond to this?
they keep yapping about how china has deviated from marxism without providing a shred of evidence meanwhile everything that marx wrote just reinforces the positions of the CPC in its road to build socialism
how do anti-CPC shills genuinely respond to this?
they keep yapping about how china has deviated from marxism without providing a shred of evidence meanwhile everything that marx wrote just reinforces the positions of the CPC in its road to build socialism
R: 1 / I: 0
Sad and Ironic
That those keeping the global economy afloat and preventing the world from falling apart are countries like China and Japan, and that the countries that claim to be the "greatest followers of God," aka the US and Israel, are governed by the worst human beings on earth and responsible for most of the current social, economic, and political problems.
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Is this really it? Some policemen announced that they won’t be going to work tomorrow and that they have no intention of beating up children. This might be the only chance that the opposition gets to forcefully remove the president from office.
The implications are obvious; a color revolution is in the works. Unlike the protests in Greece, the Serbian protests have no class character. The left is very weak, and the protest attendees range from neonazis to liberals and communists (most likely due to the fact the protests have been organized “apolitically”). The situation in Serbia is very volatile, and the validity of these protests need to be questioned more seriously, since no matter how much they deny it, this reeks of liberal infighting. Only time will tell what the consequences of these past few months will be, and whether this will be another October 5th or just a failed mass movement.
March 15th, Belgrade Serbia
Tomorrow a huge protest will be held in the capital of Serbia, Belgrade, protesting the government’s refusal to accept the demands made by the students, as well as protesting against general incompetence and corruption. From the student to the teacher, worker and pensioner, war veterans and children all around Serbia will gather together in this protest.Is this really it? Some policemen announced that they won’t be going to work tomorrow and that they have no intention of beating up children. This might be the only chance that the opposition gets to forcefully remove the president from office.
The implications are obvious; a color revolution is in the works. Unlike the protests in Greece, the Serbian protests have no class character. The left is very weak, and the protest attendees range from neonazis to liberals and communists (most likely due to the fact the protests have been organized “apolitically”). The situation in Serbia is very volatile, and the validity of these protests need to be questioned more seriously, since no matter how much they deny it, this reeks of liberal infighting. Only time will tell what the consequences of these past few months will be, and whether this will be another October 5th or just a failed mass movement.
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https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/08/03/duqf-a03.html
Corbyn and Sultana’s new party—In their own words
<Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana have given their first interviews on the new party they announced last week. They make clear that the organisation, with the placeholder name “Your Party”, will offer the working class no change from the political spinelessness displayed by Corbyn as leader of the Labour Party…
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Let us hear a few words from our fellow British comrade, Thomas Scripps, on Corbyn's new party:https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/08/03/duqf-a03.html
Corbyn and Sultana’s new party—In their own words
<Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana have given their first interviews on the new party they announced last week. They make clear that the organisation, with the placeholder name “Your Party”, will offer the working class no change from the political spinelessness displayed by Corbyn as leader of the Labour Party…
R: 46 / I: 10 (sage)
Communists killed my grandfather in prison and basically ruined my grandmother, father and aunt's lives because there was nobody left to support them so they were left struggling and homeless and had to rely on relatives to survive. They got paid reparations after the end of communism because it seems he died of brutal beating in prison and his corpse was never found.
What are your thoughts on this fact /leftypol/?
Communists killed my grandfather in prison and basically ruined my grandmother, father and aunt's lives because there was nobody left to support them so they were left struggling and homeless and had to rely on relatives to survive. They got paid reparations after the end of communism because it seems he died of brutal beating in prison and his corpse was never found.
What are your thoughts on this fact /leftypol/?
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>My grandparents are like that, they have photos of Abdel Nasser and his family in their living room, treating him like a Saint. But if you were to ask them anything about actual Arab nationalist philosophy, they wouldn't know. All my grandparents know is that things were better back then, my Granddad would be provided a job that supported his family and there wasn't any filth on the streets. To a large extent, things were indeed better back then and that's just how it is for most people, these people believe and worship the State and the Leader, they don't give a shit about Ideology. As long as it's not openly 'heretical' to the values of people, the masses will believe in it
How true is this?
someone also replied with this>My grandparents are like that, they have photos of Abdel Nasser and his family in their living room, treating him like a Saint. But if you were to ask them anything about actual Arab nationalist philosophy, they wouldn't know. All my grandparents know is that things were better back then, my Granddad would be provided a job that supported his family and there wasn't any filth on the streets. To a large extent, things were indeed better back then and that's just how it is for most people, these people believe and worship the State and the Leader, they don't give a shit about Ideology. As long as it's not openly 'heretical' to the values of people, the masses will believe in it
R: 12 / I: 3
In recent days, Eduardo Bolsonaro's aggressiveness against the Federal Police, against Supreme Court justices, his attitude of defying even the rules of his mandate, and his increasingly radical rhetoric have raised alarm bells.
The first of these is due to the certainty of being able to speak and misinform, without any fear of facing justice.
The second suspicion concerns the aggressiveness of Donald Trump's own actions. He reserved the highest tariffs and harshest rhetoric for Brazil, and closed the door to any dialogue with the Lula administration.
"This is a typical script drawn up by the CIA, feeding national actors to justify a foreign strategic interest," said an Abin agent abroad.
In 2022, in the midst of Jair Bolsonaro's preparations for a coup, Joe Biden's then-CIA chief traveled to Brazil to deliver a message to the Brazilian military: an adventure against the country's democracy would not have American backing.
Today, the suspicion is that the new Trump administration has a different stance. Indeed, the White House's efforts are to assert that actions are being taken to "defend" Brazilians, not against them. The Bolsonaro clan is the straw man. The sanctions would be implemented, officially, not to serve US strategic interests, but supposedly to enforce "freedom in Brazil."
The script has all the necessary ingredients to construct a rhetoric suitable for action. There is a group of supposed "exiles"—such as Eduardo Bolsonaro, Allan dos Santos, and Paulo Figueiredo—there is a "wronged" individual who is "loved by the people"—former President Jair Bolsonaro—and there is a supposedly dictatorial regime, represented by Alexandre de Moraes and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
"The key word is destabilization," said a seasoned national intelligence agent. Weakening a government in a divided country and thus paving the way for the US to have a powerful ally in the emerging world by 2026.
There was no shortage of warnings about the risk Brazil faced. In August 2024, before the elections, a delegation sent by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs mapped out who would be the influential players in a future Trump administration and suggested opening channels of dialogue with them. The strategy was to build bridges so that, in the event of a crisis, mediation could take place.
Abin suggested creating a psychological and behavioral profile of Trump to identify vulnerabilities in his character and interests that could be exploited.
For everyone, this effort should have occurred before Bolsonarism created its own access points to the Oval Office. Some of these reports and suggestions, however, remained in drawers at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Planalto Palace, never implemented.
Among diplomats, there is also a perception that the attacks and measures adopted in recent days are just the beginning of a long period of political instability.
In government, everyone awaits further action from the White House, both individually and against the country. With misinformation, control over social media, and real economic damage, a scenario is gradually unfolding in which a democratically elected government takes on the appearance of "illegitimacy."
"All that's missing is a Brazilian Juan Guaidó to solidify the existence of a coup attempt," said an experienced diplomat, referring to the Venezuelan opposition leader.
There is no shortage of candidates for the position.
Intelligence suspects CIA action against Brazil
Suspicion is growing among Brazilian intelligence agents that the Bolsonaro supporters' actions are not being organized by organic movements within the country, but rather by a meticulously rehearsed script by the White House, with the participation of the CIA.In recent days, Eduardo Bolsonaro's aggressiveness against the Federal Police, against Supreme Court justices, his attitude of defying even the rules of his mandate, and his increasingly radical rhetoric have raised alarm bells.
The first of these is due to the certainty of being able to speak and misinform, without any fear of facing justice.
The second suspicion concerns the aggressiveness of Donald Trump's own actions. He reserved the highest tariffs and harshest rhetoric for Brazil, and closed the door to any dialogue with the Lula administration.
"This is a typical script drawn up by the CIA, feeding national actors to justify a foreign strategic interest," said an Abin agent abroad.
In 2022, in the midst of Jair Bolsonaro's preparations for a coup, Joe Biden's then-CIA chief traveled to Brazil to deliver a message to the Brazilian military: an adventure against the country's democracy would not have American backing.
Today, the suspicion is that the new Trump administration has a different stance. Indeed, the White House's efforts are to assert that actions are being taken to "defend" Brazilians, not against them. The Bolsonaro clan is the straw man. The sanctions would be implemented, officially, not to serve US strategic interests, but supposedly to enforce "freedom in Brazil."
The script has all the necessary ingredients to construct a rhetoric suitable for action. There is a group of supposed "exiles"—such as Eduardo Bolsonaro, Allan dos Santos, and Paulo Figueiredo—there is a "wronged" individual who is "loved by the people"—former President Jair Bolsonaro—and there is a supposedly dictatorial regime, represented by Alexandre de Moraes and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
"The key word is destabilization," said a seasoned national intelligence agent. Weakening a government in a divided country and thus paving the way for the US to have a powerful ally in the emerging world by 2026.
There was no shortage of warnings about the risk Brazil faced. In August 2024, before the elections, a delegation sent by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs mapped out who would be the influential players in a future Trump administration and suggested opening channels of dialogue with them. The strategy was to build bridges so that, in the event of a crisis, mediation could take place.
Abin suggested creating a psychological and behavioral profile of Trump to identify vulnerabilities in his character and interests that could be exploited.
For everyone, this effort should have occurred before Bolsonarism created its own access points to the Oval Office. Some of these reports and suggestions, however, remained in drawers at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Planalto Palace, never implemented.
Among diplomats, there is also a perception that the attacks and measures adopted in recent days are just the beginning of a long period of political instability.
In government, everyone awaits further action from the White House, both individually and against the country. With misinformation, control over social media, and real economic damage, a scenario is gradually unfolding in which a democratically elected government takes on the appearance of "illegitimacy."
"All that's missing is a Brazilian Juan Guaidó to solidify the existence of a coup attempt," said an experienced diplomat, referring to the Venezuelan opposition leader.
There is no shortage of candidates for the position.
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>As AI models evolve from simple text generation to more complex image, video, and music generation, data requirements are expanding rapidly, further amplifying energy demand. Since 2022, global investment in data centres has nearly doubled, reaching half a trillion dollars in 2024. However, this boom has also triggered mounting concerns around the sector’s growing energy footprint. Today, data centres and data transmission networks are responsible for about 1 percent of global energy-related greenhouse gas emissions.
>AI-optimised data centres, particularly hyperscale facilities, are pushing energy use to unprecedented levels. Some centres now require 100 megawatts or more of electricity. For perspective, a single large-scale facility can consume as much electricity annually as 350,000 to 400,000 electric vehicles.
>In 2022, data centres consumed an estimated 240 to 340 terawatt-hours (TWh) of electricity, accounting for approximately 1 to 1.3 percent of global electricity demand. Electricity demand from AI-optimised data centres is projected to more than quadruple by 2030, reaching about 945 TWh, which would exceed Japan’s current electricity consumption.
>As of March 2025, the United States holds the largest number of data centres globally, operating 5,426 facilities. As a result, the USA accounts for the highest share of global data centre electricity consumption, responsible for 45 percent of global usage in 2024, followed by China at 25 percent and Europe at 15 percent.
>In the United States, data centres are expected to drive nearly half of the country’s electricity demand growth between now and 2030. By the end of the decade, the USA will consume more electricity for data centres than for the production of aluminium, steel, cement, chemicals, and all other energy-intensive goods combined.
>A recent study examined 2,132 data centres operating across the United States, representing 78 percent of all facilities, between September 2023 and August 2024. The findings showed that these data centres accounted for over 4 percent of total US electricity consumption, with more than half of that electricity sourced from fossil fuels. This contributed to more than 105 million tons of CO2e emissions, representing 2.18 percent of total US emissions in 2023.
>The strain on local power grids will continue to intensify as more data centres are built. Construction timelines for new centres often outpace upgrades to grid and transmission infrastructure. Several jurisdictions have already paused new data centre projects to process connection backlogs and evaluate grid capacity. Rising concerns over electricity availability and prices have led some regions to consider temporary moratoriums on development.
>Data centers consume water primarily to cool servers from overheating. A Cornell University study estimates AI demand alone could require 4.2–6.6 billion cubic meters of fresh water annually by 2027, roughly half of the UK’s yearly usage.
>The demand for water for data center cooling is exacerbating the water crisis in water-sensitive regions already suffering from the effects of climate-related water shortages. Stakeholder engagement is most necessary while choosing a location to set up new data centers. While huge data centers generate employment and create an uptick in the economy, the environmental cost of setting up a data center needs to be assessed first. One such example was the proposed approval for a data center in Arizona which is known for its arid landscape and water woes.
>In 2021, Google’s global data centers consumed approximately 4.3 billion gallons (16.2 billion litres) of water altogether. Though water-cooled data centers consume less energy to cool heating and emit roughly 10% less carbon emissions than air-cooled data centers, they still place immense stress on freshwater resources.
>Data centers contain thousands of components with varied life cycles. While servers, batteries, and networking equipment typically require replacement every 3–5 years, infrastructure such as air conditioning systems and generators may last over a decade.
>Short upgrade cycles—especially in high-performance facilities—result in significant volumes of e-waste. In a 2020 survey, 42% of IT managers reported replacing servers every 2–3 years. Given the scale of global data centers, e-waste volumes are staggering.
>Data centers require substantial real estate and resources, often competing with agriculture, housing, or other commercial sectors. In some regions, their expansion fuels gentrification, increases land costs, and stresses local infrastructure.
>Noise pollution from data centers is rarely ever spoken about, even though it increasingly affects nearby communities. The constant hum of servers, network switches, routers, air conditioning systems, and industrial cooling fans creates significant and persistent noise levels. This mechanical chorus can generate sound levels exceeding 80 dBA, comparable to a leaf blower.
>Communities living near large data centers frequently report health concerns linked to the unceasing background noise. Chronic exposure causes sleep disturbance, headache, hearing loss, elevated stress hormone levels, hypertension, anxiety, and even cardiovascular risks.
>Persistent land-based noise pollution also affects other species. Noise from data centers disrupts animal communication, alters natural behavior, and forces wildlife to change migration patterns.
https://archive.ph/dCTMo
Data Centers are killing the planet
>The exponential growth of data and the rising demand for data centres is challenging global climate progress. The rapid development of AI could undermine decarbonisation efforts worldwide by driving electricity consumption and emissions to extreme levels.>As AI models evolve from simple text generation to more complex image, video, and music generation, data requirements are expanding rapidly, further amplifying energy demand. Since 2022, global investment in data centres has nearly doubled, reaching half a trillion dollars in 2024. However, this boom has also triggered mounting concerns around the sector’s growing energy footprint. Today, data centres and data transmission networks are responsible for about 1 percent of global energy-related greenhouse gas emissions.
>AI-optimised data centres, particularly hyperscale facilities, are pushing energy use to unprecedented levels. Some centres now require 100 megawatts or more of electricity. For perspective, a single large-scale facility can consume as much electricity annually as 350,000 to 400,000 electric vehicles.
>In 2022, data centres consumed an estimated 240 to 340 terawatt-hours (TWh) of electricity, accounting for approximately 1 to 1.3 percent of global electricity demand. Electricity demand from AI-optimised data centres is projected to more than quadruple by 2030, reaching about 945 TWh, which would exceed Japan’s current electricity consumption.
>As of March 2025, the United States holds the largest number of data centres globally, operating 5,426 facilities. As a result, the USA accounts for the highest share of global data centre electricity consumption, responsible for 45 percent of global usage in 2024, followed by China at 25 percent and Europe at 15 percent.
>In the United States, data centres are expected to drive nearly half of the country’s electricity demand growth between now and 2030. By the end of the decade, the USA will consume more electricity for data centres than for the production of aluminium, steel, cement, chemicals, and all other energy-intensive goods combined.
>A recent study examined 2,132 data centres operating across the United States, representing 78 percent of all facilities, between September 2023 and August 2024. The findings showed that these data centres accounted for over 4 percent of total US electricity consumption, with more than half of that electricity sourced from fossil fuels. This contributed to more than 105 million tons of CO2e emissions, representing 2.18 percent of total US emissions in 2023.
>The strain on local power grids will continue to intensify as more data centres are built. Construction timelines for new centres often outpace upgrades to grid and transmission infrastructure. Several jurisdictions have already paused new data centre projects to process connection backlogs and evaluate grid capacity. Rising concerns over electricity availability and prices have led some regions to consider temporary moratoriums on development.
>Data centers consume water primarily to cool servers from overheating. A Cornell University study estimates AI demand alone could require 4.2–6.6 billion cubic meters of fresh water annually by 2027, roughly half of the UK’s yearly usage.
>The demand for water for data center cooling is exacerbating the water crisis in water-sensitive regions already suffering from the effects of climate-related water shortages. Stakeholder engagement is most necessary while choosing a location to set up new data centers. While huge data centers generate employment and create an uptick in the economy, the environmental cost of setting up a data center needs to be assessed first. One such example was the proposed approval for a data center in Arizona which is known for its arid landscape and water woes.
>In 2021, Google’s global data centers consumed approximately 4.3 billion gallons (16.2 billion litres) of water altogether. Though water-cooled data centers consume less energy to cool heating and emit roughly 10% less carbon emissions than air-cooled data centers, they still place immense stress on freshwater resources.
>Data centers contain thousands of components with varied life cycles. While servers, batteries, and networking equipment typically require replacement every 3–5 years, infrastructure such as air conditioning systems and generators may last over a decade.
>Short upgrade cycles—especially in high-performance facilities—result in significant volumes of e-waste. In a 2020 survey, 42% of IT managers reported replacing servers every 2–3 years. Given the scale of global data centers, e-waste volumes are staggering.
>Data centers require substantial real estate and resources, often competing with agriculture, housing, or other commercial sectors. In some regions, their expansion fuels gentrification, increases land costs, and stresses local infrastructure.
>Noise pollution from data centers is rarely ever spoken about, even though it increasingly affects nearby communities. The constant hum of servers, network switches, routers, air conditioning systems, and industrial cooling fans creates significant and persistent noise levels. This mechanical chorus can generate sound levels exceeding 80 dBA, comparable to a leaf blower.
>Communities living near large data centers frequently report health concerns linked to the unceasing background noise. Chronic exposure causes sleep disturbance, headache, hearing loss, elevated stress hormone levels, hypertension, anxiety, and even cardiovascular risks.
>Persistent land-based noise pollution also affects other species. Noise from data centers disrupts animal communication, alters natural behavior, and forces wildlife to change migration patterns.
https://archive.ph/dCTMo
R: 99 / I: 33
i've also noticed that the leftcom spazs around here just scream at clouds at this point because almost everytime their replies reduce down to accusations of taking perverse pleasure in the genocide of proletarians, which is completely ridiculous. and i've noticed leftcoms never have anything relevant about organization to say. i also do not know any leftcom that is organized or isn't a complete social outcast.
why does this happen?
posting two rare lenins alongside
why are leftcoms an antisocial tendency?
why does it seem that whenever marxists post relevant studies, articles, books it's always very precise, to the point, relevant to the topic at hand; while when leftcoms post books here, they are usually not relevant, or a debate from 50 years ago in one sect, pseudointellectual nonsense? has anyone else noticed this? it seems like they haven't read the books they spam and are very ecclectic in their takes (i've seen them post anarchist alongside left-communist literature, indicating their ideological confusion).i've also noticed that the leftcom spazs around here just scream at clouds at this point because almost everytime their replies reduce down to accusations of taking perverse pleasure in the genocide of proletarians, which is completely ridiculous. and i've noticed leftcoms never have anything relevant about organization to say. i also do not know any leftcom that is organized or isn't a complete social outcast.
why does this happen?
posting two rare lenins alongside
R: 602 / I: 151 (full)
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Since October 2023, new illegal outposts have been established in Jericho, which the committee says poses a “direct threat to its historic and sacred character and forming part of a broader plan to erase Palestine’s Christian and historical identity”. “These measures are inseparable from the wider occupation strategy to alter the identity of Jerusalem, erase its religious and cultural character, and ultimately eliminate the Palestinian presence in the city,” Ramzi Khouri, PLO Executive Committee member and Head of the Higher Presidential Committee for Church Affairs in Palestine, said in the letter.
https://www.newarab.com/news/israel-eradicating-christian-presence-palestine
Malnourished Palestinian woman dies in Italy after Gaza evacuation
According to the University hospital of Pisa she had a “very complex clinical picture” and was “in a profound state of organic wasting”, doctors said in a statement. On Friday, after undergoing tests and starting treatment, she had a sudden respiratory crisis and cardiac arrest, and died. The hospital did not elaborate on her condition, but Italian news agencies reporting health facility sources said that she was suffering from severe malnutrition. More than 180 children and young people from Gaza have been brought to Italy since the war began between Israel and Hamas.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/16/malnourished-palestinian-woman-dies-in-italy-after-gaza-evacuation
Tensions soar in Serbia as angry protesters clash with police, set fire to party offices
Wearing scarves over their faces and chanting slogans against President Aleksandar Vucic, a group of young men threw flares at his Serbian Progressive Party offices in Valjevo, some 100 kilometers (60 miles) from the capital Belgrade. They set fire to the party’s offices before clashing with riot police in a downtown area. Police threw multiple rounds of tear gas and charged at the demonstrators who hurled bottles, rocks and flares at them. Similar clashes also erupted on Saturday evening in the northern city of Novi Sad and in Belgrade, with police directing tear gas at protesters while battling the protesters who set garbage containers on fire.
https://apnews.com/article/serbia-protests-violence-clashes-1a6cdb041ca10e6b8d08970b7dcf3004
EU leaders back Trump plan for trilateral talks after Putin summit
Putin, for his part, refused to answer questions from international media and continued to claim his all-out assault on Ukraine and efforts to capture territory are driven by “fundamental threats to our security.” Despite not making any public concessions, he hinted an “agreement” had been struck with Trump that could “help bring us closer to that goal and will pave the path towards peace in Ukraine.”
https://www.politico.eu/article/us-donald-trump-ukraine-volodymyr-zelenskyy-european-allies-russia-putin-talks-fizzle-war/
https://archive.ph/XVK41
Libyans turn out for elections as officials condemn 'unacceptable' obstructions
Hundreds of thousands of Libyans went to the polls on Saturday as officials condemned "unacceptable" obstructions that prevented voting in some areas. Fifty cities across the fractured country, including the capital Tripoli, took part in the elections. Polling stations opened as early as 9am [7am GMT] for the 380,000 registered voters, with security provided in the west by the interior ministry of the Tripoli-based Government of National Unity (GNU).
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/libyans-turn-out-elections-officials-condemn-unacceptable-obstructions
Malema dismisses National Dialogue as waste of state resources
“It really did not serve any purpose. If anything, it was saving the egos of certain people, and therefore it was a waste of money. NGOs and people who participated in that preparations suggested that it must be postponed, because they are not ready only to go and embarrass themselves the way they did. We don’t support this convention. We don’t support the national dialogue. We know the demands of our people. We cannot spend R700 million of the money that we don’t have.”
https://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/malema-dismisses-national-dialogue-as-waste-of-state-resources/
Malaysian plantation workers mobilize to demand housing rights
Hundreds of plantation workers in Malaysia, under the leadership of the Socialist Party of Malaysia (PSM), marched to the parliament building in Kuala Lumpur and presented their demand for housing for all on Wednesday, August 13. The police tried to prevent PSM leaders and the members of the Farm Society Support Committee (JSML) from reaching the parliament. S Arutchelvan, deputy chairman of the PSM was even pushed to the ground by the police.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/08/14/malaysian-plantation-workers-mobilize-to-demand-housing-rights/
From Ang Bayan: NPA Carries Out Successful Attack On AFP Camp In Quezon Province
A New People’s Army (NPA)-Quezon (Apolonio Mendoza Command) unit fired at the newly built 85th IB camp in Barangay Cogorin Ibaba, Lopez, Quezon Province on August 2. The unit carried out the attack at 7:30 p.m. Lieutenant Colonel Reynir Nirza serves as the battalion commander and is under the 2nd ID command. Quezonians welcomed the attack as a way to hold the bloodthirsty battalion accountable for their crimes and to give justice to their peasant victims.
https://www.redspark.nu/peoples-war/philippines/from-ang-bayan-npa-carries-out-successful-attack-on-afp-camp-in-quezon-province/
Pakistan: Textile Workers Demand Better Wages, Labour Rights
In Faisalabad, led by Haqooq-e-Khalq Party (HKP) and other unions, hundreds of workers successfully carried out a large strike on August 3 and have been regularly organizing large-scale protest gatherings to push for their demands. The workers’ demands include a better minimum wage, the proper implementation of labor and minimum wage laws, and the protection of other workers’ rights. Before Faisalabad, textile workers in Gujranwala observed a strike in support of similar demands, which lasted for more than a fortnight. The strike was lifted after the administration and the factory management agreed to all the demands.
https://www.newsclick.in/pakistan-textile-workers-demand-better-wages-labour-rights
Government Shuts Down Air Canada Strike That Grounded Hundreds of Flights
In an unsigned email, Air Canada, which said that it had locked out the striking workers early Saturday, declined to comment on the minister’s decision, adding that it was too early to say how long it would take to get its planes flying. Hundreds of striking flight attendants outside Toronto Pearson International Airport reacted swiftly and angrily, chanting, “Shame on you, Patty Hajdu,” and “We won’t stop,” as passing motorists honked their horns in solidarity.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/16/world/canada/air-canada-strike.html
https://archive.ph/apv2L
Bolivian Government Denounces Right-Wing “Dirty War” Prior to General Elections
The Government of Bolivia rejected accusations by the Alianza Unidad party about an alleged plan to link them with electoral fraud. The opposition coalition, led by Samuel Doria Medina, declared that the government of Luis Arce would be trying to accuse them of electoral fraud after the elections, denouncing a campaign of “dirty war” to tarnish the process. In this regard, the Government described the statements as “irresponsible” and called on all political formations that will participate in the elections to act responsibly in their declarations, noting that “What explains this position of the Unity Alliance is the dirty war between the right-wing parties.”
https://www.telesurenglish.net/bolivian-government-denounces-right-wing-dirty-war-prior-to-general-elections/
Tensions rise in Ecuador as President Noboa protests against the Constitutional Court
Tensions between Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa and the Constitutional Court (CC) are increasing with each passing day. On August 12, the right-wing leader led a mobilization, alongside his ministers and assembly members, to criticize the recent actions of the CC, which he has described as an “obstacle” to achieving peace. The CC has recently annulled several articles of the latest laws passed by the ruling party. According to the highest body responsible for ensuring the correct application of the Constitution of the Republic, these articles violate fundamental principles and rights enshrined in the Constitution and have therefore been suspended, although the rest of the laws remain in force.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/08/14/tensions-rise-in-ecuador-as-president-noboa-protests-against-the-constitutional-court/
News 8/16/25
Israeli attacks on Palestine churches part of campaign to 'eradicate Christian presence’Since October 2023, new illegal outposts have been established in Jericho, which the committee says poses a “direct threat to its historic and sacred character and forming part of a broader plan to erase Palestine’s Christian and historical identity”. “These measures are inseparable from the wider occupation strategy to alter the identity of Jerusalem, erase its religious and cultural character, and ultimately eliminate the Palestinian presence in the city,” Ramzi Khouri, PLO Executive Committee member and Head of the Higher Presidential Committee for Church Affairs in Palestine, said in the letter.
https://www.newarab.com/news/israel-eradicating-christian-presence-palestine
Malnourished Palestinian woman dies in Italy after Gaza evacuation
According to the University hospital of Pisa she had a “very complex clinical picture” and was “in a profound state of organic wasting”, doctors said in a statement. On Friday, after undergoing tests and starting treatment, she had a sudden respiratory crisis and cardiac arrest, and died. The hospital did not elaborate on her condition, but Italian news agencies reporting health facility sources said that she was suffering from severe malnutrition. More than 180 children and young people from Gaza have been brought to Italy since the war began between Israel and Hamas.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/16/malnourished-palestinian-woman-dies-in-italy-after-gaza-evacuation
Tensions soar in Serbia as angry protesters clash with police, set fire to party offices
Wearing scarves over their faces and chanting slogans against President Aleksandar Vucic, a group of young men threw flares at his Serbian Progressive Party offices in Valjevo, some 100 kilometers (60 miles) from the capital Belgrade. They set fire to the party’s offices before clashing with riot police in a downtown area. Police threw multiple rounds of tear gas and charged at the demonstrators who hurled bottles, rocks and flares at them. Similar clashes also erupted on Saturday evening in the northern city of Novi Sad and in Belgrade, with police directing tear gas at protesters while battling the protesters who set garbage containers on fire.
https://apnews.com/article/serbia-protests-violence-clashes-1a6cdb041ca10e6b8d08970b7dcf3004
EU leaders back Trump plan for trilateral talks after Putin summit
Putin, for his part, refused to answer questions from international media and continued to claim his all-out assault on Ukraine and efforts to capture territory are driven by “fundamental threats to our security.” Despite not making any public concessions, he hinted an “agreement” had been struck with Trump that could “help bring us closer to that goal and will pave the path towards peace in Ukraine.”
https://www.politico.eu/article/us-donald-trump-ukraine-volodymyr-zelenskyy-european-allies-russia-putin-talks-fizzle-war/
https://archive.ph/XVK41
Libyans turn out for elections as officials condemn 'unacceptable' obstructions
Hundreds of thousands of Libyans went to the polls on Saturday as officials condemned "unacceptable" obstructions that prevented voting in some areas. Fifty cities across the fractured country, including the capital Tripoli, took part in the elections. Polling stations opened as early as 9am [7am GMT] for the 380,000 registered voters, with security provided in the west by the interior ministry of the Tripoli-based Government of National Unity (GNU).
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/libyans-turn-out-elections-officials-condemn-unacceptable-obstructions
Malema dismisses National Dialogue as waste of state resources
“It really did not serve any purpose. If anything, it was saving the egos of certain people, and therefore it was a waste of money. NGOs and people who participated in that preparations suggested that it must be postponed, because they are not ready only to go and embarrass themselves the way they did. We don’t support this convention. We don’t support the national dialogue. We know the demands of our people. We cannot spend R700 million of the money that we don’t have.”
https://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/malema-dismisses-national-dialogue-as-waste-of-state-resources/
Malaysian plantation workers mobilize to demand housing rights
Hundreds of plantation workers in Malaysia, under the leadership of the Socialist Party of Malaysia (PSM), marched to the parliament building in Kuala Lumpur and presented their demand for housing for all on Wednesday, August 13. The police tried to prevent PSM leaders and the members of the Farm Society Support Committee (JSML) from reaching the parliament. S Arutchelvan, deputy chairman of the PSM was even pushed to the ground by the police.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/08/14/malaysian-plantation-workers-mobilize-to-demand-housing-rights/
From Ang Bayan: NPA Carries Out Successful Attack On AFP Camp In Quezon Province
A New People’s Army (NPA)-Quezon (Apolonio Mendoza Command) unit fired at the newly built 85th IB camp in Barangay Cogorin Ibaba, Lopez, Quezon Province on August 2. The unit carried out the attack at 7:30 p.m. Lieutenant Colonel Reynir Nirza serves as the battalion commander and is under the 2nd ID command. Quezonians welcomed the attack as a way to hold the bloodthirsty battalion accountable for their crimes and to give justice to their peasant victims.
https://www.redspark.nu/peoples-war/philippines/from-ang-bayan-npa-carries-out-successful-attack-on-afp-camp-in-quezon-province/
Pakistan: Textile Workers Demand Better Wages, Labour Rights
In Faisalabad, led by Haqooq-e-Khalq Party (HKP) and other unions, hundreds of workers successfully carried out a large strike on August 3 and have been regularly organizing large-scale protest gatherings to push for their demands. The workers’ demands include a better minimum wage, the proper implementation of labor and minimum wage laws, and the protection of other workers’ rights. Before Faisalabad, textile workers in Gujranwala observed a strike in support of similar demands, which lasted for more than a fortnight. The strike was lifted after the administration and the factory management agreed to all the demands.
https://www.newsclick.in/pakistan-textile-workers-demand-better-wages-labour-rights
Government Shuts Down Air Canada Strike That Grounded Hundreds of Flights
In an unsigned email, Air Canada, which said that it had locked out the striking workers early Saturday, declined to comment on the minister’s decision, adding that it was too early to say how long it would take to get its planes flying. Hundreds of striking flight attendants outside Toronto Pearson International Airport reacted swiftly and angrily, chanting, “Shame on you, Patty Hajdu,” and “We won’t stop,” as passing motorists honked their horns in solidarity.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/16/world/canada/air-canada-strike.html
https://archive.ph/apv2L
Bolivian Government Denounces Right-Wing “Dirty War” Prior to General Elections
The Government of Bolivia rejected accusations by the Alianza Unidad party about an alleged plan to link them with electoral fraud. The opposition coalition, led by Samuel Doria Medina, declared that the government of Luis Arce would be trying to accuse them of electoral fraud after the elections, denouncing a campaign of “dirty war” to tarnish the process. In this regard, the Government described the statements as “irresponsible” and called on all political formations that will participate in the elections to act responsibly in their declarations, noting that “What explains this position of the Unity Alliance is the dirty war between the right-wing parties.”
https://www.telesurenglish.net/bolivian-government-denounces-right-wing-dirty-war-prior-to-general-elections/
Tensions rise in Ecuador as President Noboa protests against the Constitutional Court
Tensions between Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa and the Constitutional Court (CC) are increasing with each passing day. On August 12, the right-wing leader led a mobilization, alongside his ministers and assembly members, to criticize the recent actions of the CC, which he has described as an “obstacle” to achieving peace. The CC has recently annulled several articles of the latest laws passed by the ruling party. According to the highest body responsible for ensuring the correct application of the Constitution of the Republic, these articles violate fundamental principles and rights enshrined in the Constitution and have therefore been suspended, although the rest of the laws remain in force.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/08/14/tensions-rise-in-ecuador-as-president-noboa-protests-against-the-constitutional-court/
R: 8 / I: 0
The mainstream view on this forum is one of distrust towards Western electoral systems, holding that electoralism is nothing more than an art of misleading and deception, with greater preference for vanguardism.
Yet as a resident of China, a citizen who has been ruled by the vanguard all my life, I loathe the fact that the government fails to hear our songs and ignore our criticism and supervision.
Yeah, I can see, what is happening in Taiwan, where there is full of chaos and hardly something in progress. It's true that the western system is uneffcient and corrupt, but changeable and reviseable, different from autocracy.
Anyway, I'm sorry that a director, which you prefer, with great authority, has come into power already, in the USA, whose name is DJT.
Or, what you like is a director you like, instead of a director you dislike?
Then how can we make sure about it?
Power can change a person, from head to toes. You may like someone before ther're in charge, but you cannot take them down after they come into power. They may cheat, they may lie, but no way you can regret, withnot democracy.
How many MAGAs are there, who voted for Trump, and got upsetted by his behaviour and policy afterwards? Ones those believe in socialism and hope for a leader, is not that different from the Republicans, are they? They want a GOP, Grand Old Party as well. The mere diversity lies in the specific.
>We want no condescending saviors
>To rule us from a judgment hall;
>We workers ask not for their favors;
>Let us consult for all.
>from The Internationale
Democracy is the basis of socialism and commuinism. If it is granted, anything else follows.
PS: Some suspects that I am not Chinese but a employee to spread misinformation. I write in Chinese in the photogragh uploaded on purposs.
About Democracy
In the previous discussions with mates in leftypol, the most contentious part has been regarding Democracy.The mainstream view on this forum is one of distrust towards Western electoral systems, holding that electoralism is nothing more than an art of misleading and deception, with greater preference for vanguardism.
Yet as a resident of China, a citizen who has been ruled by the vanguard all my life, I loathe the fact that the government fails to hear our songs and ignore our criticism and supervision.
Yeah, I can see, what is happening in Taiwan, where there is full of chaos and hardly something in progress. It's true that the western system is uneffcient and corrupt, but changeable and reviseable, different from autocracy.
Anyway, I'm sorry that a director, which you prefer, with great authority, has come into power already, in the USA, whose name is DJT.
Or, what you like is a director you like, instead of a director you dislike?
Then how can we make sure about it?
Power can change a person, from head to toes. You may like someone before ther're in charge, but you cannot take them down after they come into power. They may cheat, they may lie, but no way you can regret, withnot democracy.
How many MAGAs are there, who voted for Trump, and got upsetted by his behaviour and policy afterwards? Ones those believe in socialism and hope for a leader, is not that different from the Republicans, are they? They want a GOP, Grand Old Party as well. The mere diversity lies in the specific.
>We want no condescending saviors
>To rule us from a judgment hall;
>We workers ask not for their favors;
>Let us consult for all.
>from The Internationale
Democracy is the basis of socialism and commuinism. If it is granted, anything else follows.
PS: Some suspects that I am not Chinese but a employee to spread misinformation. I write in Chinese in the photogragh uploaded on purposs.
R: 25 / I: 3
>HAVANA, July 29 (Reuters) - Cuba's private sector is accounting for more retail sales by value on the Communist-run island than the state for the first time since the years following Fidel Castro's 1959 revolution, new government data shows.
>Preliminary figures from the National Statistics Office published last week indicate the "non-state" sector was responsible for 55% of retail sales of goods and services in 2024, up from 44% in 2023. The figures exclude public utilities.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/first-time-decades-cubas-private-sector-outweighs-state-2025-07-29/
Cuba’s private sector overtakes public sector
For first time in decades, Cuba's private sector outweighs state>HAVANA, July 29 (Reuters) - Cuba's private sector is accounting for more retail sales by value on the Communist-run island than the state for the first time since the years following Fidel Castro's 1959 revolution, new government data shows.
>Preliminary figures from the National Statistics Office published last week indicate the "non-state" sector was responsible for 55% of retail sales of goods and services in 2024, up from 44% in 2023. The figures exclude public utilities.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/first-time-decades-cubas-private-sector-outweighs-state-2025-07-29/
R: 8 / I: 1 (sage)
The Synagogue of Satan (who've hijacked the term "jews") understood that the only way to win was to attack the very foundation of civilization, Christendom, itself.
The Synagogue of Satan does not fear anything except for Christ and His followers, the Christians.
Only Christianity is capable of saving this world, every other ideology, religious or secular, is merely a denomination of Satanism (anything that does not belong to Christ, belongs to Satan) and helps to further push this world down a path of self-destruction.
Communism is part of Satanism
Capitalism is part of Satanism
Fascism is part of Satanism
Hinduism is part of Satanism
Atheism is part of Satanism
Islam is part of Satanism
Buddhism is part of Satanism
Confucionism is part of Satanism
Shinto is part of Satanism
Babylonian Judaism is the CORE of Satanism
Paganism is part of Satanism
Liberalism is part of Satanism
Feminism part of Satanism
Homosexuality is part of Satanism
etc.
So on and so forth. All adherents of a non-Christian belief system are simply talmud-loving slaves of Satan who, at their core, wish to destroy civilization, and so nothing they do, say or think truly matters.
All GOOD science & technology descends from Christendom: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Yi3BQLdndI [Open]
Christianity is the only Truth and the only way to build a better civilization, a better world, for Man.
Ever since western civilization had divorced itself from Christianity, we've been in a death spiral ever since.
——-
There are only two kinds of people in this world:
Christians (Israelites) & Non-Christians (Babylonians).
All non-Christians are cut from the same cloth, enslaved to Sin and as a result, hating life & loving death.
Only Christians are made Holy (set apart from the Babylonians) through God's gracious gift of Salvation, liberated from their bondage to Sin, thereby hating death & loving life.
This is one of the most important Truths that you will ever receive in your life, enjoy
The Synagogue of Satan (who've hijacked the term "jews") understood that the only way to win was to attack the very foundation of civilization, Christendom, itself.
The Synagogue of Satan does not fear anything except for Christ and His followers, the Christians.
Only Christianity is capable of saving this world, every other ideology, religious or secular, is merely a denomination of Satanism (anything that does not belong to Christ, belongs to Satan) and helps to further push this world down a path of self-destruction.
Communism is part of Satanism
Capitalism is part of Satanism
Fascism is part of Satanism
Hinduism is part of Satanism
Atheism is part of Satanism
Islam is part of Satanism
Buddhism is part of Satanism
Confucionism is part of Satanism
Shinto is part of Satanism
Babylonian Judaism is the CORE of Satanism
Paganism is part of Satanism
Liberalism is part of Satanism
Feminism part of Satanism
Homosexuality is part of Satanism
etc.
So on and so forth. All adherents of a non-Christian belief system are simply talmud-loving slaves of Satan who, at their core, wish to destroy civilization, and so nothing they do, say or think truly matters.
All GOOD science & technology descends from Christendom: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Yi3BQLdndI [Open]
Christianity is the only Truth and the only way to build a better civilization, a better world, for Man.
Ever since western civilization had divorced itself from Christianity, we've been in a death spiral ever since.
——-
There are only two kinds of people in this world:
Christians (Israelites) & Non-Christians (Babylonians).
All non-Christians are cut from the same cloth, enslaved to Sin and as a result, hating life & loving death.
Only Christians are made Holy (set apart from the Babylonians) through God's gracious gift of Salvation, liberated from their bondage to Sin, thereby hating death & loving life.
This is one of the most important Truths that you will ever receive in your life, enjoy
R: 31 / I: 4
Or is this just a myth. A over exaggerated one
(sorel was stupid tbh)
sorel = grandfather of fascism
Was he the grandfather of fascism? Did fascism originate from marxism + proudhonism?Or is this just a myth. A over exaggerated one
(sorel was stupid tbh)
R: 6 / I: 0
How do you change tax policy so regular people don't bear the biggest burden and so you could fund public sector without capital fleeing the country or conspiring to get rid of you?
What is the Leftist's answer to taxes?
YOU are now in charge of an entire country (Not America because it's unironically special due to it's exorbitant privilege and being the consumer of the entire world)How do you change tax policy so regular people don't bear the biggest burden and so you could fund public sector without capital fleeing the country or conspiring to get rid of you?
R: 4 / I: 1
The US president, who left the White House on Friday at 7.30am, implied there was a 75% chance of the Alaska meeting succeeding, and that the threat of economic sanctions may have made Putin more willing to seek an end to the war. “HIGH STAKES!!!” he posted on Truth Social as his motorcade idled outside the White House shortly after sunrise in Washington. Trump told reporters on Thursday that he would not let Putin get the better of him in the meeting, saying: “I am president, and he’s not going to mess around with me.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/14/keir-starmer-to-meet-volodymyr-zelenskyy-in-downing-street
Protesters to flood Sheffield in solidarity with Gaza
PROTESTERS across Yorkshire are set to flood Sheffield on Saturday to demand that Israel end its genocide and stop starving Gaza. Friends of Al-Aqsa, who are leading the march, have called for protesters to assemble at the Sheffield Amphitheatre at 2pm. The march through the city is expected to end at around 4pm at Devonshire Green.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/protesters-flood-sheffield-solidarity-gaza
Hezbollah says govt 'handing' Lebanon to Israel, refuses disarmament
"The government is implementing an American-Israeli order to end the resistance, even if it leads to civil war and internal strife," Qassem said. "The resistance will not surrender its weapons while aggression continues, occupation persists, and we will fight it… if necessary to confront this American-Israeli project no matter the cost," he said. Qassem urged the government "not to hand over the country to an insatiable Israeli aggressor or an American tyrant with limitless greed". He also said the government would "bear responsibility for any internal explosion and any destruction of Lebanon", accusing it of "leading the country to ruin".
https://www.newarab.com/news/hezbollah-accuses-govt-handing-lebanon-israel
Far-right Israeli minister taunts jailed Palestinian leader in prison visit
In the clip published by Ben Gvir on X, the minister and two other individuals, including a prison guard, surround Barghouti in a corner of his cell. "You will not defeat us. Whoever harms the people of Israel, whoever kills children, whoever kills women… we will erase them," Ben Gvir says in Hebrew. Barghouti tries to respond but is interrupted by Ben Gvir, who says: "No, you know this. And it's been the case throughout history."
https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20250815-far-right-israeli-minister-taunts-jailed-palestinian-leader-in-prison-visit
ICC arrest warrant applications ready for Israel's Ben Gvir and Smotrich on apartheid charges
ICC Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan had prepared cases against Ben Gvir and Smotrich before he went on leave in May, according to numerous sources in the court with knowledge of the matter. "Those applications for the arrest warrants are completely done," an ICC source told MEE. "The only thing that didn't happen was submitting them to the court," the source said on condition of anonymity.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/icc-arrest-warrant-applications-ready-israel-itamar-ben-gvir-bezalel-smotrich-apartheid-charges
PM Narendra Modi lauds RSS and its 100-year journey in Independence Day speech: ‘World’s biggest NGO…'
“A hundred years ago, a movement was born, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). For a century, this organisation has dedicated itself to the welfare of the nation. Through service, dedication, organisation, and unparalleled discipline, the RSS has played a unique role in nation-building. In a way, the RSS is the biggest NGO of the world. It has a history of 100 years of dedication,” Modi said.
https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/pm-modi-lauds-rss-and-its-100-year-journey-in-independence-day-speech-world-s-largest-ngo-101755228697700.html
https://archive.ph/RKb9G
‘Post and boast’ laws aim to stop young Australians glorifying crimes. Will they drive them deeper into ‘a failing justice system’?
This week, the Victorian and Western Australian parliaments became the latest to consider so-called “post and boast” laws, as almost every jurisdiction in the country makes it illegal for offenders to publish footage of their crimes on social media. The laws passed in Victoria on Thursday, but will be considered by a parliamentary committee in WA before being put to a vote there. The introduction of such reforms has come despite legal and human rights groups repeatedly arguing the laws are both harmful and pointless, as they create a further mechanism for locking up young people under the false pretence of addressing a problem already handled under existing law.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/aug/16/post-and-boast-laws-australia-youth-young-people-crime-social-media
El Salvador extends pretrial detention for 80,000 gang suspects 2 more years
The Congress, controlled by President Nayib Bukele’s New Ideas party and its allies, voted 57 to 3 in favor of extending the period of pretrial incarceration. Attorney General Rodolfo Delgado said that with the extension authorities could carry out more complete investigations, present solid evidence and win sentences against members of organized crime. Lawmakers also gave the government the option of extending for another 12 months if necessary.
https://apnews.com/article/el-salvador-gangs-bukele-justice-c526f9ebf12382f12e1795f4da2a9346
Colombia’s far right in disarray after conviction of Uribe and assassination of leading presidential candidate
Colombia’s far-right Centro Democratico party is in turmoil following the conviction of the former president Alvaro Uribe and the assassination of the presidential pre-candidate Miguel Uribe (not related). The party started having problems back in 2018 when the Supreme Court ordered an investigation into Alvaro Uribe, surrounding his bribery and fraud in criminal proceedings.
https://colombiareports.com/colombias-far-right-in-disarray-after-conviction-of-uribe-and-assassination-of-leading-presidential-candidate/
Trump ally Erik Prince plans to keep personnel in Haiti for 10 years to fight gangs and collect taxes
The prominent Donald Trump supporter and private security executive Erik Prince says he has a 10-year deal with Haiti to fight the country's criminal gangs, and then take a role in restoring the country's tax-collection system. In an interview with Reuters, Prince said his company, Vectus Global, would be involved in designing and implementing a program to tax goods imported across Haiti's border with the Dominican Republic once the security situation is stabilized.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/trump-ally-erik-prince-plans-keep-personnel-haiti-10-years-fight-gangs-collect-2025-08-14/
News 8/15/25
Putin ready to make Ukraine deal, Trump says before Alaska summitThe US president, who left the White House on Friday at 7.30am, implied there was a 75% chance of the Alaska meeting succeeding, and that the threat of economic sanctions may have made Putin more willing to seek an end to the war. “HIGH STAKES!!!” he posted on Truth Social as his motorcade idled outside the White House shortly after sunrise in Washington. Trump told reporters on Thursday that he would not let Putin get the better of him in the meeting, saying: “I am president, and he’s not going to mess around with me.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/14/keir-starmer-to-meet-volodymyr-zelenskyy-in-downing-street
Protesters to flood Sheffield in solidarity with Gaza
PROTESTERS across Yorkshire are set to flood Sheffield on Saturday to demand that Israel end its genocide and stop starving Gaza. Friends of Al-Aqsa, who are leading the march, have called for protesters to assemble at the Sheffield Amphitheatre at 2pm. The march through the city is expected to end at around 4pm at Devonshire Green.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/protesters-flood-sheffield-solidarity-gaza
Hezbollah says govt 'handing' Lebanon to Israel, refuses disarmament
"The government is implementing an American-Israeli order to end the resistance, even if it leads to civil war and internal strife," Qassem said. "The resistance will not surrender its weapons while aggression continues, occupation persists, and we will fight it… if necessary to confront this American-Israeli project no matter the cost," he said. Qassem urged the government "not to hand over the country to an insatiable Israeli aggressor or an American tyrant with limitless greed". He also said the government would "bear responsibility for any internal explosion and any destruction of Lebanon", accusing it of "leading the country to ruin".
https://www.newarab.com/news/hezbollah-accuses-govt-handing-lebanon-israel
Far-right Israeli minister taunts jailed Palestinian leader in prison visit
In the clip published by Ben Gvir on X, the minister and two other individuals, including a prison guard, surround Barghouti in a corner of his cell. "You will not defeat us. Whoever harms the people of Israel, whoever kills children, whoever kills women… we will erase them," Ben Gvir says in Hebrew. Barghouti tries to respond but is interrupted by Ben Gvir, who says: "No, you know this. And it's been the case throughout history."
https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20250815-far-right-israeli-minister-taunts-jailed-palestinian-leader-in-prison-visit
ICC arrest warrant applications ready for Israel's Ben Gvir and Smotrich on apartheid charges
ICC Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan had prepared cases against Ben Gvir and Smotrich before he went on leave in May, according to numerous sources in the court with knowledge of the matter. "Those applications for the arrest warrants are completely done," an ICC source told MEE. "The only thing that didn't happen was submitting them to the court," the source said on condition of anonymity.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/icc-arrest-warrant-applications-ready-israel-itamar-ben-gvir-bezalel-smotrich-apartheid-charges
PM Narendra Modi lauds RSS and its 100-year journey in Independence Day speech: ‘World’s biggest NGO…'
“A hundred years ago, a movement was born, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). For a century, this organisation has dedicated itself to the welfare of the nation. Through service, dedication, organisation, and unparalleled discipline, the RSS has played a unique role in nation-building. In a way, the RSS is the biggest NGO of the world. It has a history of 100 years of dedication,” Modi said.
https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/pm-modi-lauds-rss-and-its-100-year-journey-in-independence-day-speech-world-s-largest-ngo-101755228697700.html
https://archive.ph/RKb9G
‘Post and boast’ laws aim to stop young Australians glorifying crimes. Will they drive them deeper into ‘a failing justice system’?
This week, the Victorian and Western Australian parliaments became the latest to consider so-called “post and boast” laws, as almost every jurisdiction in the country makes it illegal for offenders to publish footage of their crimes on social media. The laws passed in Victoria on Thursday, but will be considered by a parliamentary committee in WA before being put to a vote there. The introduction of such reforms has come despite legal and human rights groups repeatedly arguing the laws are both harmful and pointless, as they create a further mechanism for locking up young people under the false pretence of addressing a problem already handled under existing law.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/aug/16/post-and-boast-laws-australia-youth-young-people-crime-social-media
El Salvador extends pretrial detention for 80,000 gang suspects 2 more years
The Congress, controlled by President Nayib Bukele’s New Ideas party and its allies, voted 57 to 3 in favor of extending the period of pretrial incarceration. Attorney General Rodolfo Delgado said that with the extension authorities could carry out more complete investigations, present solid evidence and win sentences against members of organized crime. Lawmakers also gave the government the option of extending for another 12 months if necessary.
https://apnews.com/article/el-salvador-gangs-bukele-justice-c526f9ebf12382f12e1795f4da2a9346
Colombia’s far right in disarray after conviction of Uribe and assassination of leading presidential candidate
Colombia’s far-right Centro Democratico party is in turmoil following the conviction of the former president Alvaro Uribe and the assassination of the presidential pre-candidate Miguel Uribe (not related). The party started having problems back in 2018 when the Supreme Court ordered an investigation into Alvaro Uribe, surrounding his bribery and fraud in criminal proceedings.
https://colombiareports.com/colombias-far-right-in-disarray-after-conviction-of-uribe-and-assassination-of-leading-presidential-candidate/
Trump ally Erik Prince plans to keep personnel in Haiti for 10 years to fight gangs and collect taxes
The prominent Donald Trump supporter and private security executive Erik Prince says he has a 10-year deal with Haiti to fight the country's criminal gangs, and then take a role in restoring the country's tax-collection system. In an interview with Reuters, Prince said his company, Vectus Global, would be involved in designing and implementing a program to tax goods imported across Haiti's border with the Dominican Republic once the security situation is stabilized.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/trump-ally-erik-prince-plans-keep-personnel-haiti-10-years-fight-gangs-collect-2025-08-14/
R: 63 / I: 11
It's amazing how much HASN'T changed since it was written. I the first chapter he describes loner men in their twenties who are essentially the incels of their time. They talk about "dodging marriage" although it's evident that they were nowhere near the vicinity of having any female interest. And instead of the internet they were at the library reading newspapers and coming up with silly theories based on both information and disinformation, which they talk endlessly about, much to the chagrin of the author. The astrology sections being especially interesting to them.
He lives amongst the proles as an educated man in disguise. He overcomes his racism and class-based feelings of superiority by first occupying Burma and siding with those he oppressed and then slumming it with the coal miners of North England upon his completion of military service.
It's one of the most fascinating books I've ever read. Really inspires communism and socialism, but it's also very cynical and grounded in reality. He mentions that most of the upper and middle class lefties don't really want the change they advocate for when you get right down to it. And while the lower/working classes would certainly like more money, they had little but suspicion and distaste towards the interests and pursuits of the upper classes. They viewed them as "elitist" and pompous, no matter how the people actually were.
So little has changed in this regard.
I know not everyone is into reading books, so I found a good audiobook version with a good narrator:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VenejSIjvHs
Everyone knows 'Nineteen Eighty-Four', but he did so much more before he got to writing that. You guys will love Wigan Pier. He uses the word "bourgeois" a TON. I immediately thought of this website and you guys. You're probably all familiar with it already.
The Road to Wigan Pier
Have you guys read George Orwell's 'The Road to Wigan Pier'?It's amazing how much HASN'T changed since it was written. I the first chapter he describes loner men in their twenties who are essentially the incels of their time. They talk about "dodging marriage" although it's evident that they were nowhere near the vicinity of having any female interest. And instead of the internet they were at the library reading newspapers and coming up with silly theories based on both information and disinformation, which they talk endlessly about, much to the chagrin of the author. The astrology sections being especially interesting to them.
He lives amongst the proles as an educated man in disguise. He overcomes his racism and class-based feelings of superiority by first occupying Burma and siding with those he oppressed and then slumming it with the coal miners of North England upon his completion of military service.
It's one of the most fascinating books I've ever read. Really inspires communism and socialism, but it's also very cynical and grounded in reality. He mentions that most of the upper and middle class lefties don't really want the change they advocate for when you get right down to it. And while the lower/working classes would certainly like more money, they had little but suspicion and distaste towards the interests and pursuits of the upper classes. They viewed them as "elitist" and pompous, no matter how the people actually were.
So little has changed in this regard.
I know not everyone is into reading books, so I found a good audiobook version with a good narrator:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VenejSIjvHs
Everyone knows 'Nineteen Eighty-Four', but he did so much more before he got to writing that. You guys will love Wigan Pier. He uses the word "bourgeois" a TON. I immediately thought of this website and you guys. You're probably all familiar with it already.
R: 398 / I: 40
Most workers don't work a single job anymore, they do part-time jobs here and there to live by. In the historical situation for which Marx was writing, workers generally lived and died the same profession they took up.
And yes we've had this thread before, though there is a different response each time so I'm trying it against to see what comes out as a response. I present it in a different way and with a different flag that may or may not even be related.
My current thesis is that the movement of the declassed (as Bukharin labeled it) might have the upper hand with the growth of capitalism, the contradictions within the capitalist mode of production do lead to a sort of decomposition, but generally don't appear to be able to lead to collapse on their own unless it brings about omnicide.
The industrial proletariat can only exist as long as the industry needs manual intervention, when manual intervention is deduced to management rather than physical labor it is only those professions which can control the machinery and know how it functions that are able to intervene in production at all. There are less and less factory workers since their manual labor to operate the machinery is not needed - most just move onto working in logistic hubs or construction, but what happens when they're no longer needed there either?
Also FYI, this is just speculative thought experiment, I may or may not believe it, just putting it out there to see what others think.
Are the industrial proletariat no longer the revolutionary class?
As time goes on and the tasks of the industry undergo automatization, most jobs are left to the part-time workers. Hasn't anyone else noticed this trend? We call them petite-bourgeoisie and yes variably but mostly tend to be since the nature of their work is not collectivist and is akin to the statuses of small business owners (individual entrepreneurs), shopkeepers (of small businesses), small-scale merchants (without a proper shop), semi-autonomous peasants (now just semi-autonomous poor entrepreneurs), and artisans. I feel that class relations have changed and nobody has bothered to do a concise analysis of it, instead clinging to the same labels, looking back and trying to reapply or justify the changed situation with outdated concepts. For example the "peasantry" Marx described is not the same as the poor jobless homeless, they were literally farmers with limited land-ownership and yet I see people calling hobos and the general poor as peasants. I am lead to believe the term proletariat barely applies anymore, the industrial proletariat is being scaled down and once society no longer relies on its labor then nothing makes it a revolutionary subject since it cannot bring about change through strikes or anything - it will just disappear once its no longer needed anywhere. My thesis is that the majority of the current workers are in the sphere of services and that the revolutionary subject may be IT workers, programmers, generally technicians and scientists which can understand the machinery and affect it. Machinery has already enveloped most of society, so any change that comes upon it will affect it and whoever can affect it can take control of the social order.Most workers don't work a single job anymore, they do part-time jobs here and there to live by. In the historical situation for which Marx was writing, workers generally lived and died the same profession they took up.
And yes we've had this thread before, though there is a different response each time so I'm trying it against to see what comes out as a response. I present it in a different way and with a different flag that may or may not even be related.
My current thesis is that the movement of the declassed (as Bukharin labeled it) might have the upper hand with the growth of capitalism, the contradictions within the capitalist mode of production do lead to a sort of decomposition, but generally don't appear to be able to lead to collapse on their own unless it brings about omnicide.
The industrial proletariat can only exist as long as the industry needs manual intervention, when manual intervention is deduced to management rather than physical labor it is only those professions which can control the machinery and know how it functions that are able to intervene in production at all. There are less and less factory workers since their manual labor to operate the machinery is not needed - most just move onto working in logistic hubs or construction, but what happens when they're no longer needed there either?
Also FYI, this is just speculative thought experiment, I may or may not believe it, just putting it out there to see what others think.
R: 45 / I: 10
They can LARP as buddhists and have zen meditation and tea and mountains all day instead of just making another bourgeois republic found on bloodshed for their feudal piss poor people's hobo squat?
I mean such a wonderful bourgeois monarchy, it would be pointless to ruin it all for another piss poor peasant's bourgeois regime, they should be fighting for drug rights instead so that they can smoke the weed and look at the mountains and the Buddhist temples and symbols and go ommmmmmmmmmmm and drink goat milk instead of like just doing all this rebel larping and messing things up. Like even if they put their own poopoo fake communist turd worldist regime China would obliterate their peasant underdeveloped primitive asses lol.
Bhutanese Maoists
Why don't they like just chill the fuck out and enjoy the peace and co-prosperity with China?They can LARP as buddhists and have zen meditation and tea and mountains all day instead of just making another bourgeois republic found on bloodshed for their feudal piss poor people's hobo squat?
I mean such a wonderful bourgeois monarchy, it would be pointless to ruin it all for another piss poor peasant's bourgeois regime, they should be fighting for drug rights instead so that they can smoke the weed and look at the mountains and the Buddhist temples and symbols and go ommmmmmmmmmmm and drink goat milk instead of like just doing all this rebel larping and messing things up. Like even if they put their own poopoo fake communist turd worldist regime China would obliterate their peasant underdeveloped primitive asses lol.
R: 589 / I: 160
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Monarchist group associated with "Tsarebozhnie" creates an anti-Lenin documentary, calls for burial of Lenin in Russia (picrel)
What are they doing? And in the middle of SMO like that? Are they hoping that the west will destabilise the country and cause a civil war so they are preparing their proponents to attempt a takeover?
Monarchist group associated with "Tsarebozhnie" creates an anti-Lenin documentary, calls for burial of Lenin in Russia (picrel)
What are they doing? And in the middle of SMO like that? Are they hoping that the west will destabilise the country and cause a civil war so they are preparing their proponents to attempt a takeover?
R: 13 / I: 0
Obviously non-white workers are scapegoats and are hyper-exploited, but still. Its like if you voted for the NSDAP and then they imported 10 million black and brown laborers to work in German factories and service industries.
I ALMOST feel sorry for the chuds tbh.
grim irony
The grim, bitter irony of being a reactionary white guy, voting for the reactionary political party on the basis that they will bring back muh jobs and restore white America, only to have them outsource shit to south asia and continue hiring undocumented mestizos for blue-collar jobs.Obviously non-white workers are scapegoats and are hyper-exploited, but still. Its like if you voted for the NSDAP and then they imported 10 million black and brown laborers to work in German factories and service industries.
I ALMOST feel sorry for the chuds tbh.
R: 5 / I: 1
>crushed philosophy
>undermined diamat and dialectics
>replaced materialism with naturalism
>wrecked anti-class theories
>tore down humanism
>flattened leftoid ideology
>scrapped subjective/objective truth
>abolished teleology and determinism
>destroyed critical theories
Nothing personnel, kid.
>crushed philosophy
>undermined diamat and dialectics
>replaced materialism with naturalism
>wrecked anti-class theories
>tore down humanism
>flattened leftoid ideology
>scrapped subjective/objective truth
>abolished teleology and determinism
>destroyed critical theories
Nothing personnel, kid.
R: 32 / I: 11
Reading about anthropological studies of religion, I cannot help but think to myself how bafflingly retarded "Illuminati demon magic" type conspiracies are. Religion, that is human organization, CANNOT be a secret conspiracy, fundamentally, there is ALWAYS some part that is "public-facing". Even if it's just simply public knowledge of the existence of the "brotherhood". And for occultism in particular, if people like Aleister Crowley had knowledge of "magic", they sure as hell weren't good at hiding it, considering they've literally written books for the public about it. It is doubly retarded when you realize many people believing in the "Illuminati demon magic" horseshit consider themselves Christians, which is theologically INCOMPATIBLE with the existence of such things. And furthermore the Catholic Church has historically been very aggressive in dealing with heresy (literally murdering groups for alleged heresy), so it would be very funny and totally believable that suddenly a new heresy springs out of vacuum, and the Pope is like "yeah that's cool I'm going to say absolutely nothing about it".
I swear, the fuel for the rightoid misdirection has to end.
How do we actually fight conspiracy retardation?
Human trafficking is not a conspiracy. And that's basically what Epstein was doing. Yet it is assigned "special significance", why? Why is human trafficking only in people's minds when Epstein does it? That's exactly the problem. We can prosecute those involved in the Epstein case all we want, it will not make human trafficking disappear, so long as capitalism exists. But people will act as if the problem has been "solved" and go back to not paying attention to the social ill at large.Reading about anthropological studies of religion, I cannot help but think to myself how bafflingly retarded "Illuminati demon magic" type conspiracies are. Religion, that is human organization, CANNOT be a secret conspiracy, fundamentally, there is ALWAYS some part that is "public-facing". Even if it's just simply public knowledge of the existence of the "brotherhood". And for occultism in particular, if people like Aleister Crowley had knowledge of "magic", they sure as hell weren't good at hiding it, considering they've literally written books for the public about it. It is doubly retarded when you realize many people believing in the "Illuminati demon magic" horseshit consider themselves Christians, which is theologically INCOMPATIBLE with the existence of such things. And furthermore the Catholic Church has historically been very aggressive in dealing with heresy (literally murdering groups for alleged heresy), so it would be very funny and totally believable that suddenly a new heresy springs out of vacuum, and the Pope is like "yeah that's cool I'm going to say absolutely nothing about it".
I swear, the fuel for the rightoid misdirection has to end.
R: 2 / I: 0
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Videos_and_audio_recordings_of_Ayman_al-Zawahiri
It was all anyone talked about in fall 2003. EXPUNGED from the internet.
Anyone have it?
September 2003 Osama Bin Laden Tape
They have basically purged this video from the internet, but we know it still exists because of news sites, it was published internationally. Its Osama Bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri hiking in the mountains.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Videos_and_audio_recordings_of_Ayman_al-Zawahiri
It was all anyone talked about in fall 2003. EXPUNGED from the internet.
Anyone have it?
R: 4 / I: 1
"Work with what we have"
Why if most people in Europe and the US like LGBTQ+ people and don't want to turn woman into baby making machines, why is "working with what we have" used as a excuse to accept rightoid ideas? Even in Iran most people are against the pedophile theocrats legalizing child rape but communists there should accept those islamist (not muslim) ideals?
R: 18 / I: 0
I found this page on Marxist Archive:
https://www.marxists.org/subject/left-wing/gik/1930/index.htm
It's about how a genuine (according to the authors) communist economy would work in practice. So I created this thread in hope of some high I.Q anon could give their opinions and views about this communist economy project, is it bad? good? realistic?
I found this page on Marxist Archive:
https://www.marxists.org/subject/left-wing/gik/1930/index.htm
It's about how a genuine (according to the authors) communist economy would work in practice. So I created this thread in hope of some high I.Q anon could give their opinions and views about this communist economy project, is it bad? good? realistic?
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2. A Marxist movement must grow in opposition to some already existing unscientific popular anticapitalist movement.
3. A popular political programme must be written.
4. Marxist circles of intelligents have to multiply, spread, expand and uphold the programme.
5. Marxist circles must unite around party principles.
6. The party-to-be must be ready to pass from circle propaganda to mass agitation.
7. There has to be a mass workers movement already existing. It is clear that a worker movement and the party are separate, and the would-be party is usually not of the working class.
8. The would-be party has to educate workers politically in their struggle. It has to explain and connect the mass movement with communist demands.
9. It is necessary for the would-be party to build connections among the working class movement, and build working class organizations, to build trust among the workers by working amongst them, to be ready to respond to every injustice the workers may face.
10. The would-be party gives impetus elswhere across the country to establish similar working class organizations, and groundworks are laid for an all-country organization that can start building the communist party and go against the bourgeois state.
Do you agree? Where would you rate the communist movement in your country?
>The "Emancipation of Labour" group raised the banner of Marxism in the Russian press abroad at a time when no Social-Democratic movement in Russia yet existed. It was first necessary to prepare the theoretical, ideological ground for such a movement.
>Marxism in Russia could therefore grow and gain strength only by combating Narodism.
>The "Emancipation of Labour" group prepared two drafts of a program for a Russian Social-Democratic party (the first in 1884 and the second in 1887). This was a very important preparatory step in the formation of a Marxist Social-Democratic party in Russia.
>Neither the "Emancipation of Labour" group nor the Marxist circles of that period had yet any practical connections with the working-class movement. It was a period in which the theory of Marxism, the ideas of Marxism, and the principles of the Social-Democratic program were just appearing and gaining a foothold in Russia. In the decade of 1884-94 the Social-Democratic movement still existed in the form of small separate groups and circles which had no connections, or very scant connections, with the mass working-class movement.
>In 1895 Lenin united all the Marxist workers' circles in St. Petersburg (there were already about twenty of them) into a single League of Struggle for the Emancipation of the Working Class. He thus prepared the way for the founding of a revolutionary Marxist workers' party.
>Lenin put before the League of Struggle the task of forming closer connections with the mass working-class movement and of giving it political leadership. Lenin proposed to pass from the propaganda of Marxism among the few politically advanced workers who gathered in the propaganda circles to political agitation among the broad masses of the working class on issues of the day.
>The nineties were a period of industrial boom. The number of workers was increasing. The working-class movement was gaining strength. In the period of 1895-99, according to incomplete data, not less than 221,000 workers took part in strikes. The working-class movement was becoming an important force in the political life of the country.
>Under Lenin's guidance, the League of Struggle for the Emancipation of the Working Class linked up the struggle of the workers for economic demands—improvement of working conditions, shorter hours and higher wages—with the political struggle against tsardom. The League of Struggle educated the workers politically.
>Under Lenin's guidance, the St. Petersburg League of Struggle for the Emancipation of the Working Class was the first body in Russia that began to unite Socialism with the working-class movement. When a strike broke out in some factory, the League of Struggle, which through the members of its circles was kept well posted on the state of affairs in the factories, immediately responded by issuing leaflets and Socialist proclamations.
>The St. Petersburg League of Struggle gave a powerful impetus to the amalgamation of the workers' circles in other cities and regions of Russia into similar leagues. In the middle of the nineties Marxist organizations arose in Transcaucasia. In 1894 a Workers' Union was formed in Moscow. Towards the end of the nineties a Social-Democratic Union was formed in Siberia. In the nineties Marxist groups arose in Ivanovo-Voznesensk, Yaroslavl and Kostroma and subsequently merged to form the Northern Union of the Social-Democratic Party. In the second half of the nineties Social-Democratic groups and unions were formed in Rostov-on-Don, Ekaterinoslav, Kiev, Nikolayev, Tula, Samara, Kazan, Orekhovo-Zuyevo and other cities.
>The importance of the St. Petersburg League of Struggle for the Emancipation of the Working Class consisted in the fact that, as Lenin said, it was the first real rudiment of a revolutionary party which was backed by the working-class movement.
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1939/x01/ch01.htm#2.
Here is my take on 'what needs to be done' and a practical checklist
1. There has to be a group of intelligensia that raised the banner of Marxism in a given country.2. A Marxist movement must grow in opposition to some already existing unscientific popular anticapitalist movement.
3. A popular political programme must be written.
4. Marxist circles of intelligents have to multiply, spread, expand and uphold the programme.
5. Marxist circles must unite around party principles.
6. The party-to-be must be ready to pass from circle propaganda to mass agitation.
7. There has to be a mass workers movement already existing. It is clear that a worker movement and the party are separate, and the would-be party is usually not of the working class.
8. The would-be party has to educate workers politically in their struggle. It has to explain and connect the mass movement with communist demands.
9. It is necessary for the would-be party to build connections among the working class movement, and build working class organizations, to build trust among the workers by working amongst them, to be ready to respond to every injustice the workers may face.
10. The would-be party gives impetus elswhere across the country to establish similar working class organizations, and groundworks are laid for an all-country organization that can start building the communist party and go against the bourgeois state.
Do you agree? Where would you rate the communist movement in your country?
>The "Emancipation of Labour" group raised the banner of Marxism in the Russian press abroad at a time when no Social-Democratic movement in Russia yet existed. It was first necessary to prepare the theoretical, ideological ground for such a movement.
>Marxism in Russia could therefore grow and gain strength only by combating Narodism.
>The "Emancipation of Labour" group prepared two drafts of a program for a Russian Social-Democratic party (the first in 1884 and the second in 1887). This was a very important preparatory step in the formation of a Marxist Social-Democratic party in Russia.
>Neither the "Emancipation of Labour" group nor the Marxist circles of that period had yet any practical connections with the working-class movement. It was a period in which the theory of Marxism, the ideas of Marxism, and the principles of the Social-Democratic program were just appearing and gaining a foothold in Russia. In the decade of 1884-94 the Social-Democratic movement still existed in the form of small separate groups and circles which had no connections, or very scant connections, with the mass working-class movement.
>In 1895 Lenin united all the Marxist workers' circles in St. Petersburg (there were already about twenty of them) into a single League of Struggle for the Emancipation of the Working Class. He thus prepared the way for the founding of a revolutionary Marxist workers' party.
>Lenin put before the League of Struggle the task of forming closer connections with the mass working-class movement and of giving it political leadership. Lenin proposed to pass from the propaganda of Marxism among the few politically advanced workers who gathered in the propaganda circles to political agitation among the broad masses of the working class on issues of the day.
>The nineties were a period of industrial boom. The number of workers was increasing. The working-class movement was gaining strength. In the period of 1895-99, according to incomplete data, not less than 221,000 workers took part in strikes. The working-class movement was becoming an important force in the political life of the country.
>Under Lenin's guidance, the League of Struggle for the Emancipation of the Working Class linked up the struggle of the workers for economic demands—improvement of working conditions, shorter hours and higher wages—with the political struggle against tsardom. The League of Struggle educated the workers politically.
>Under Lenin's guidance, the St. Petersburg League of Struggle for the Emancipation of the Working Class was the first body in Russia that began to unite Socialism with the working-class movement. When a strike broke out in some factory, the League of Struggle, which through the members of its circles was kept well posted on the state of affairs in the factories, immediately responded by issuing leaflets and Socialist proclamations.
>The St. Petersburg League of Struggle gave a powerful impetus to the amalgamation of the workers' circles in other cities and regions of Russia into similar leagues. In the middle of the nineties Marxist organizations arose in Transcaucasia. In 1894 a Workers' Union was formed in Moscow. Towards the end of the nineties a Social-Democratic Union was formed in Siberia. In the nineties Marxist groups arose in Ivanovo-Voznesensk, Yaroslavl and Kostroma and subsequently merged to form the Northern Union of the Social-Democratic Party. In the second half of the nineties Social-Democratic groups and unions were formed in Rostov-on-Don, Ekaterinoslav, Kiev, Nikolayev, Tula, Samara, Kazan, Orekhovo-Zuyevo and other cities.
>The importance of the St. Petersburg League of Struggle for the Emancipation of the Working Class consisted in the fact that, as Lenin said, it was the first real rudiment of a revolutionary party which was backed by the working-class movement.
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1939/x01/ch01.htm#2.
R: 146 / I: 16
Yes, China's society is undoubtedly superior to the United States and is about to become the world's number one in a decade.
Yes, the average living standard of the Chinese people is higher than that of the US, but not much higher.
No, China and the US are similar in many places, with bureaucratic, rigid, corrupt, and stratification that are exclusive to major powers. In the corners where no one sees it, there also exists' The other China ', according to Michael Harrington, filled with remnants of feudal and pre-modern times.
Yes, the political environment between us is quite stable. Even if faced with an idiot like Trump, these two countries will not easily collapse.
No, most Chinese people are extremely eager for a war against Japan. Fortunately, our ruling party prefers peace, for unknown reasons.
No, Chinese society is not that stable either. Here are the major social events that have caused public critism in the past month:
1. Wuhan University Accusation Gate
Yang is suspected of academic misconduct, false accusations, and has been publicly protected by the government, which is considered gender discrimination against the male.
2. Jiutai Pilot Recruitment Gate
Jilin Province has recruited the only pilot who has strabismus, which is considered an improper use of relationships.
3. Jiangyou Bullying Gate
14-year-old female student in Jiangyou was bullied. The police not only failed to protect, but also began to bully the relevant masses, which was compared to the "Gwangju Incident" on the internet and triggered a large-scale mass demonstration.
Of course, we will find that the above three things are negligible in the United States, but they have all sparked significant public opinion in China.
Yes, 'Mai 68' may be the only viable option for both countries. Although the "October Revolution" and the "Meiji Restoration" were impossible, society was not so indestructible.
What we need is to gather the majority of people and 'make more friends and fewer enemies', according to Mao.
PS: Surprisingly, why don't you have a DESCENT ORGANASATION in the USA?!! It's illegal and dangerous in China. But it's safe in the USA! Leftists do worse than SCP Foundation!
Some Opinions as Chinese
As a Chinese citizen, I have noticed that there is surprisingly little discussion about China on leftypol. I would like to remove some of your filters on China and express some of my own opinions:Yes, China's society is undoubtedly superior to the United States and is about to become the world's number one in a decade.
Yes, the average living standard of the Chinese people is higher than that of the US, but not much higher.
No, China and the US are similar in many places, with bureaucratic, rigid, corrupt, and stratification that are exclusive to major powers. In the corners where no one sees it, there also exists' The other China ', according to Michael Harrington, filled with remnants of feudal and pre-modern times.
Yes, the political environment between us is quite stable. Even if faced with an idiot like Trump, these two countries will not easily collapse.
No, most Chinese people are extremely eager for a war against Japan. Fortunately, our ruling party prefers peace, for unknown reasons.
No, Chinese society is not that stable either. Here are the major social events that have caused public critism in the past month:
1. Wuhan University Accusation Gate
Yang is suspected of academic misconduct, false accusations, and has been publicly protected by the government, which is considered gender discrimination against the male.
2. Jiutai Pilot Recruitment Gate
Jilin Province has recruited the only pilot who has strabismus, which is considered an improper use of relationships.
3. Jiangyou Bullying Gate
14-year-old female student in Jiangyou was bullied. The police not only failed to protect, but also began to bully the relevant masses, which was compared to the "Gwangju Incident" on the internet and triggered a large-scale mass demonstration.
Of course, we will find that the above three things are negligible in the United States, but they have all sparked significant public opinion in China.
Yes, 'Mai 68' may be the only viable option for both countries. Although the "October Revolution" and the "Meiji Restoration" were impossible, society was not so indestructible.
What we need is to gather the majority of people and 'make more friends and fewer enemies', according to Mao.
PS: Surprisingly, why don't you have a DESCENT ORGANASATION in the USA?!! It's illegal and dangerous in China. But it's safe in the USA! Leftists do worse than SCP Foundation!
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Previous: >>2425343
Evidence of the influence and origin of neo-Nazi groups in Ukraine
https://archive.ph/44B9Q
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323637
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323658
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323663
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323688
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323729
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323733
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323731
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323735
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323740
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📺 • Ukraine: The Avoidable War - Boy Boy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LL4eNy4FCs8
📺 • Ukraine's Nazi Problem - The Marxist Project
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yZvWAwU5W4
📺 • America, Russia, and Ukraine's Far Right - Gravel Institute
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0pyVJG7_6Q
📺 • The Nature of Putin's Russia and Its Causes (3-Part Series) - 1Dime
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8d6Vzi7zYg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zODWTfMwFGw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Zuygh9Mzuo
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>Trump will visit Russia (Alaska) on Friday edition. Side story: Pokrovsk and Dobropillya on the menu.Previous: >>2425343
Evidence of the influence and origin of neo-Nazi groups in Ukraine
https://archive.ph/44B9Q
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323637
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323658
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323663
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LL4eNy4FCs8
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yZvWAwU5W4
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>take random photo of WW1 injury
>"the bolsheviks did this"
>1.2 million views
how are communists supposed to compete when a lie spreads around the world while the truth is still getting its shoes on?
>ummm who cares optics cuck just say we actually did all the atrocities and say that we'll do it again
>ummmmmm we make no excuses for the terror
haha very funny guys no but seriously
>take random photo of WW1 injury
>"the bolsheviks did this"
>1.2 million views
how are communists supposed to compete when a lie spreads around the world while the truth is still getting its shoes on?
>ummm who cares optics cuck just say we actually did all the atrocities and say that we'll do it again
>ummmmmm we make no excuses for the terror
haha very funny guys no but seriously
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Where in any Marxism is communism presented as anything but the iron fist of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat over the remnants (cucks, fags, eunuchs) of the exploiting classes?
"democratic socialists" defend yourselves. I want to know these answers
1) are you a cuck?
2) a fag?
3)eunuch?
4) why does the MSM platform you?
5) do you support Zionism?
"Democratic Socialists"
You cannot convince me the moniker of "Democratic Socialists" is anything but left liberal cucks, fags and eunuchs.Where in any Marxism is communism presented as anything but the iron fist of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat over the remnants (cucks, fags, eunuchs) of the exploiting classes?
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1) are you a cuck?
2) a fag?
3)eunuch?
4) why does the MSM platform you?
5) do you support Zionism?
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Preaching to people doesn't do anything, especially about reactionary prejudices. The struggle against these prejudices in the labour movement manifests from collective struggle that makes self-interest among individual proletarians in individual enterprises amalgamate into common class interests.
When there's no strong labour movement there's absolutely no reason why bigotry can't fester, and it's not like bigotry in itself can anull any progress of a developing movement anyway. It's merely an abstraction that can hinder association of producers, which can be resolutely be diminished by struggle, because they themselves would see it as an obstacle to realising their own practical interests, and see it for the retarded shit that it is.
A male dock worker is going to find more resonance with a female one when organised for their self interests and basic survival, more than he will with retard podcasters telling him that the auspices and tastes of middle-class women are the root of all his problems.
Preaching to people doesn't do anything, especially about reactionary prejudices. The struggle against these prejudices in the labour movement manifests from collective struggle that makes self-interest among individual proletarians in individual enterprises amalgamate into common class interests.
When there's no strong labour movement there's absolutely no reason why bigotry can't fester, and it's not like bigotry in itself can anull any progress of a developing movement anyway. It's merely an abstraction that can hinder association of producers, which can be resolutely be diminished by struggle, because they themselves would see it as an obstacle to realising their own practical interests, and see it for the retarded shit that it is.
A male dock worker is going to find more resonance with a female one when organised for their self interests and basic survival, more than he will with retard podcasters telling him that the auspices and tastes of middle-class women are the root of all his problems.
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Could zionism be considered as part of the third position?
Was recently thinking about this, does the phrase "Israel are the new nazis" have any actual merit? It seems to make sense at first, but I've encountered many third positionists who side with Russia and China over the the Ukraine and Israel, who supposedly make up the 5th reich
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I'm convinced whiney race reductionists are subhumans of some sort, they don't desire anything other than seclusion, extortion and aggression. They don't care about resource management at all instead think that trade is somehow essential to life "ITS LE HUMAN NATURE, PEOPLE AREN'T EQUAL!!!!" as if any sane communist would ever preach liberal slogans like "liberte egalite fraternite", of course people aren't equal and they have different abilities thus from each according to their needs to each according to their ability and he who does not work neither shall he eat, thus reward is based on merit and productivity. These race reductionists have no idea what the productive forces even are, they are subhuman and as such inferiors can only cry out about extermination moralizing whilst they themselves would like to be slave owners it is only "natural" to have them permanently set in labor camps where they can hang out in a "racially pure" community and do the hard work nobody else wants to since they reject civilization as a whole and fetishize splitting off or enslaving others, they can have it - in the camp. 1 billion dead? Clearly wasn't enough to wipe out these vermin.
Nonetheless communism is not a state of affairs to be established like they imagine since they cannot comprehend the sentence - communism is the real movement against the present state of things. All of humanity and civilization must work as one to develop the productive forces whilst thus so cautiously making sure everyone who obliges gets their needs fulfilled. Stormfags into camps. Only Communists can be Übermensch.
MUH HUMAN NATURE MUH RACE
>MUH BUTIFUL CULTURE, ONE BILLION DEAD BECAUSE OF COMMUNISM!!! COMMUNISM NO WORKEY! I INVENT THING I LIVE PROPERTY, NO HOUSE FENCE? I PAY THEY WORK!!!!!!!I'm convinced whiney race reductionists are subhumans of some sort, they don't desire anything other than seclusion, extortion and aggression. They don't care about resource management at all instead think that trade is somehow essential to life "ITS LE HUMAN NATURE, PEOPLE AREN'T EQUAL!!!!" as if any sane communist would ever preach liberal slogans like "liberte egalite fraternite", of course people aren't equal and they have different abilities thus from each according to their needs to each according to their ability and he who does not work neither shall he eat, thus reward is based on merit and productivity. These race reductionists have no idea what the productive forces even are, they are subhuman and as such inferiors can only cry out about extermination moralizing whilst they themselves would like to be slave owners it is only "natural" to have them permanently set in labor camps where they can hang out in a "racially pure" community and do the hard work nobody else wants to since they reject civilization as a whole and fetishize splitting off or enslaving others, they can have it - in the camp. 1 billion dead? Clearly wasn't enough to wipe out these vermin.
Nonetheless communism is not a state of affairs to be established like they imagine since they cannot comprehend the sentence - communism is the real movement against the present state of things. All of humanity and civilization must work as one to develop the productive forces whilst thus so cautiously making sure everyone who obliges gets their needs fulfilled. Stormfags into camps. Only Communists can be Übermensch.
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https://participatoryeconomy.org/
PARECON
What's the LeftyPol CONSENSUS on PARECON? It's a libertarian socialist decentralized economy system that tries to avoid the centrally planned flaws and market flaws, radically democratic and all? I thinks is good alternative for central planned socialism.https://participatoryeconomy.org/
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Why was stalin such a paranoud lunatic? And who was his most indefensible kill?
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Why was stalin such a paranoud lunatic? And who was his most indefensible kill?
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Anyone know much about the FRSO ? Freedom road socialist org?
Every one of them I meet seems like a nerdy gamer type . But they know their Marxist theory .. but they are not a party and operate through the Lucy parson’s institute for social research . An NGO . They were raided by the Feds . And yes They seem the best of the socialist orgs in America but they seem like anarchists larping as stalinists to me . I hat do you think are they legit or no
Anyone know much about the FRSO ? Freedom road socialist org?
Every one of them I meet seems like a nerdy gamer type . But they know their Marxist theory .. but they are not a party and operate through the Lucy parson’s institute for social research . An NGO . They were raided by the Feds . And yes They seem the best of the socialist orgs in America but they seem like anarchists larping as stalinists to me . I hat do you think are they legit or no
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I'm noticing patterns recently with the most authoritarian communists on this board, the internet and in real life (though rarer in real life due to most of these people being shut-in freaks)
>calls themself an authoritarian communist, even though:
>>they literally don't have a job, or they have a "job" that they only got because one of their parents got them said job
>>is not involved in any way, shape, or form in the union at their place of employment, in fact actively despises colleagues and working class people in general because they might have less than politically correct opinions on things
>>has read all the material, and autistically corrects people on getting things wrong with regards to said material…to the point that they will alienate away anyone that might've actually been interested in left wing ideas
>>has LOTS OF OPINIONS on the politics of countries they only found out about because they watched a youtube video/wikipedia'd "what parties are left wing", lives in the middle of bumfucknowhere USA
>>continuing on with the previous point, will say insane, outlandish shit like "heh….everyone in X country should've just been genocided when X communist leader was in charge" in a tongue in cheek way, which only their weird orbiter followers will realise is a 'joke' while anyone else thinks they are fucking insane
>>freakishly obsessed with nerd hobbies to the point that it's offputting to anyone normal
Am I wrong in saying I think these sorts of people should be pulled away from leftist spaces for being annoying little LARPers? They always seem to be the "frontline" for left-wing discussions online for some reason, I assume because they have more time on their hands than people actually doing things in the real world.
I'm noticing patterns recently with the most authoritarian communists on this board, the internet and in real life (though rarer in real life due to most of these people being shut-in freaks)
>calls themself an authoritarian communist, even though:
>>they literally don't have a job, or they have a "job" that they only got because one of their parents got them said job
>>is not involved in any way, shape, or form in the union at their place of employment, in fact actively despises colleagues and working class people in general because they might have less than politically correct opinions on things
>>has read all the material, and autistically corrects people on getting things wrong with regards to said material…to the point that they will alienate away anyone that might've actually been interested in left wing ideas
>>has LOTS OF OPINIONS on the politics of countries they only found out about because they watched a youtube video/wikipedia'd "what parties are left wing", lives in the middle of bumfucknowhere USA
>>continuing on with the previous point, will say insane, outlandish shit like "heh….everyone in X country should've just been genocided when X communist leader was in charge" in a tongue in cheek way, which only their weird orbiter followers will realise is a 'joke' while anyone else thinks they are fucking insane
>>freakishly obsessed with nerd hobbies to the point that it's offputting to anyone normal
Am I wrong in saying I think these sorts of people should be pulled away from leftist spaces for being annoying little LARPers? They always seem to be the "frontline" for left-wing discussions online for some reason, I assume because they have more time on their hands than people actually doing things in the real world.
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What happened? Why did this happen and why did the USSR fail? Was it state capitalisms? What about the Sino-soviet split? Why that happen? How come the proletariat didn't revolt globally during ww2 at the height of communist power and influence? Did nuclear weapons stall the revolution and allow a counter revolution?
This thread exist to discuss all things related to the cold war and its aftermath. Please post your theories, or any information you have in regards to this topic here.
==The Cold war==
The cold war, a 44 year old counter-revolutionWhat happened? Why did this happen and why did the USSR fail? Was it state capitalisms? What about the Sino-soviet split? Why that happen? How come the proletariat didn't revolt globally during ww2 at the height of communist power and influence? Did nuclear weapons stall the revolution and allow a counter revolution?
This thread exist to discuss all things related to the cold war and its aftermath. Please post your theories, or any information you have in regards to this topic here.
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You see why most Fascists today just stick to relying on shock value by saying the N-word or posting pictures of dead queer people or finding new meme slurs for jews, because when they try and do actually "serious theory" it becomes too obvious how vapid their ideology truly is, although to be fair not many people would immediately even recognise this as fascist because 99% of people only know fascism as "the bad guys in Indiana Jones". Same reason people don't realize how a movie like Metropolis is actually more "orthodox" fascist than Triumph of the Will.
Hell, most people have no idea what fascist class theory actually was because they assume it was the same as marxism for which they also don't know what it is.
You see why most Fascists today just stick to relying on shock value by saying the N-word or posting pictures of dead queer people or finding new meme slurs for jews, because when they try and do actually "serious theory" it becomes too obvious how vapid their ideology truly is, although to be fair not many people would immediately even recognise this as fascist because 99% of people only know fascism as "the bad guys in Indiana Jones". Same reason people don't realize how a movie like Metropolis is actually more "orthodox" fascist than Triumph of the Will.
Hell, most people have no idea what fascist class theory actually was because they assume it was the same as marxism for which they also don't know what it is.
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Fighting
I’m a little surprised by how little discussion there is on the conventionality of knowing how to fight to politics given that it’s the legally hardest thing to get into trouble over and is one of the most versatile ways to deal with violent encounters both in terms of beating violent people and in terms of getting away or evading hits from them. Why exactly wouldn’t a socialist or even any liberation based thinker not advocate for the proletariat to not be someone capable in hand to hand combat (mainly for blocking and dodging different attacks and reliably disarming and fighting multiple people at once)?
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Socialism in One Country proposes that it is possible to build Socialism ("complete socialist society") even in a single country, and even a poor less-developed one or a third world country. This went against the view held by dogmatists, trotskyists and other opportunists that socialism was possible only in wealthy industrial countries and only if established simultaneously in several of them. The dogmatist view was a vulgarization of Marxism & didn’t correspond to the material realities of the world in the epoch of global imperialism.
Trotskyists and many other opportunist groupings vehemently deny that Lenin supported the theory of Socialism in One Country. Examining this issue is the main focus of the latter portion of this article.
Internationalism
Often times opportunists make the claim that Socialism in One Country goes against Proletarian internationalism or abandons the aim of World Revolution.
Trotsky claimed in his book The Permanent Revolution that Socialism in One Country:
…makes a breach between the national revolution and the international revolution.
This couldn’t be further from the truth. Socialism in One Country is a tactic to achieve those internationalist ends and history has proven it to be successful in it, since the Soviet Union actually managed to help many other revolutionary governments take power and spread Socialism to many other countries in all parts of the world.
…the victory of socialism is possible in separate countries, thus envisaging the prospect of the formation of two parallel centres of attraction; the centre of world capitalism and the centre of world socialism.
~Stalin, Results of the July Plenum of the C.C., C.P.S.U.(B.) (1928)
The theory of Socialism in One Country doesn’t contradict world revolution, in fact it does the opposite. It argues that any country can build socialism, if it lacks the basic requirements of Socialism, it can at least work to fulfill those requirements and then build socialism:
You say that civilization is necessary for the building of socialism. Very good. But why could we not first create such prerequisites of civilization in our country by the expulsion of the landowners and the Russian capitalists, and then start moving toward socialism? Where, in what books, have you read that such… sequence of events are impermissible or impossible?
~Lenin, Our Revolution (1923)
The "Alternative" of the Opportunists
To oppose Socialism in One Country would mean denying the third world poor the possibility of building socialism since according to the opportunists their countries "lack the requirements" for it. They would have to wait for the white Europeans to first establish socialism and finally spread it elsewhere.
In his book Trotsky criticized Socialism in One Country in the following way:
This theory imposes upon revolutions in backward countries the task of establishing an unrealizable regime of democratic dictatorship, which it counterposes to the dictatorship of the proletariat. Thereby this theory introduces illusions and fictions into politics, paralyses the struggle for power of the proletariat in the East, and hampers the victory of the colonial revolution.
This is a somewhat fancy way of saying that the third world people of Asia were in Trotsky’s mind not ready for Socialism due to their economic and cultural state. To build socialism in Asia was impossible according to Trotsky, to even try would mean to "impose… the task of establishing an unrealizable regime of democratic dictatorship."
What this convoluted jumble means is that Trotsky accuses third world people of class-collaboration as opposed to of class struggle. Trotsky subscribes to the dogmatic theory that third world semi-feudal & semi-colonial countries could only at best achieve modern capitalism and to attempt anything further would be an "illusion" and a "fiction."
Earlier in his text 1905 Trotsky had argued against building Socialism in a poor peasant country:
…the proletarian vanguard in the very earliest stages of its rule would have to make extremely deep inroads not only into feudal but also into bourgeois property relations. While doing so it would enter into hostile conflict, not only with all those bourgeois groups which had supported it during the first stages of its revolutionary struggle, but also with the broad masses of the peasantry… The contradictions between a workers’ government and an overwhelming majority of peasants in a backward country could be resolved only on an international scale, in the arena of a world proletarian revolution.
In response to this anti-peasant theory Lenin said:
From the Bolsheviks Trotsky’s original theory has borrowed their call for a decisive proletarian revolutionary struggle and for the conquest of political power by the proletariat, while from the Mensheviks it has borrowed "repudiation" of the peasantry’s role… Trotsky is in fact helping the liberal-labour politicians in Russia, who by "repudiation" of the role of the peasantry understand a refusal to raise up the peasants for the revolution!
~Lenin, On the Two Lines in the Revolution
Not only is this idea that third world people are not ready for socialism quasi-racist, it is also strategically unsound. Firstly, the vast majority of the world’s workers are from third world countries. Second, experience has shown us, in the epoch of modern imperialism the poor of the developing world have demonstrated great revolutionary potential. In fact in our current stage they demonstrate greater revolutionary energy then Westerners. The opportunists are out of touch with these basic realities, their theory is useless and their movement irrelevant as an alternative for the workers of the world.
Utopian Defeatism
But why do the opportunists so vehemently oppose Socialism in One Country? One reason maybe that they oppose anything associated with the Soviet Union or Stalin. However more often then not from trotskyists one hears them express one of the following three reasons:
that they oppose Socialism in One Country on "internationalist" grounds
view that a single socialist country can never survive
they think socialism can’t be built in a poor country
The first claim I already dealt with. They either don’t understand what they’re talking about or are dishonest. I already explained why the third argument is troubling, together with argument number two it falls under the category of defeatism, that unless the revolution happens in many countries at the same time, and in the West it’s pointless to even try. Or that if the revolution happens in only one country then it must somehow aggressively try to spread the revolution elsewhere. Since the USSR actually did spread it to other countries it seems the opportunists think it should have simply been more aggresive. This seems tactically and ideologically questionable.
Basically the opportunists have no good alternative to propose and this has been proved by history. Trotskyists or any other opponents of Socialism in One Country have never been able to carry out a revolution, let alone a world-wide revolution. The only theory that has been able carry out victorious socialist revolutions not in one, but in multiple countries is the theory of Socialism in One Country.
Socialism in One Country
Socialism in One Country is a theory mostly associated with the Soviet leader Joseph Stalin whose government adopted it as official policy. However the theory was heavily based on the writings of Soviet revolutionary leader V.I. Lenin.Socialism in One Country proposes that it is possible to build Socialism ("complete socialist society") even in a single country, and even a poor less-developed one or a third world country. This went against the view held by dogmatists, trotskyists and other opportunists that socialism was possible only in wealthy industrial countries and only if established simultaneously in several of them. The dogmatist view was a vulgarization of Marxism & didn’t correspond to the material realities of the world in the epoch of global imperialism.
Trotskyists and many other opportunist groupings vehemently deny that Lenin supported the theory of Socialism in One Country. Examining this issue is the main focus of the latter portion of this article.
Internationalism
Often times opportunists make the claim that Socialism in One Country goes against Proletarian internationalism or abandons the aim of World Revolution.
Trotsky claimed in his book The Permanent Revolution that Socialism in One Country:
…makes a breach between the national revolution and the international revolution.
This couldn’t be further from the truth. Socialism in One Country is a tactic to achieve those internationalist ends and history has proven it to be successful in it, since the Soviet Union actually managed to help many other revolutionary governments take power and spread Socialism to many other countries in all parts of the world.
…the victory of socialism is possible in separate countries, thus envisaging the prospect of the formation of two parallel centres of attraction; the centre of world capitalism and the centre of world socialism.
~Stalin, Results of the July Plenum of the C.C., C.P.S.U.(B.) (1928)
The theory of Socialism in One Country doesn’t contradict world revolution, in fact it does the opposite. It argues that any country can build socialism, if it lacks the basic requirements of Socialism, it can at least work to fulfill those requirements and then build socialism:
You say that civilization is necessary for the building of socialism. Very good. But why could we not first create such prerequisites of civilization in our country by the expulsion of the landowners and the Russian capitalists, and then start moving toward socialism? Where, in what books, have you read that such… sequence of events are impermissible or impossible?
~Lenin, Our Revolution (1923)
The "Alternative" of the Opportunists
To oppose Socialism in One Country would mean denying the third world poor the possibility of building socialism since according to the opportunists their countries "lack the requirements" for it. They would have to wait for the white Europeans to first establish socialism and finally spread it elsewhere.
In his book Trotsky criticized Socialism in One Country in the following way:
This theory imposes upon revolutions in backward countries the task of establishing an unrealizable regime of democratic dictatorship, which it counterposes to the dictatorship of the proletariat. Thereby this theory introduces illusions and fictions into politics, paralyses the struggle for power of the proletariat in the East, and hampers the victory of the colonial revolution.
This is a somewhat fancy way of saying that the third world people of Asia were in Trotsky’s mind not ready for Socialism due to their economic and cultural state. To build socialism in Asia was impossible according to Trotsky, to even try would mean to "impose… the task of establishing an unrealizable regime of democratic dictatorship."
What this convoluted jumble means is that Trotsky accuses third world people of class-collaboration as opposed to of class struggle. Trotsky subscribes to the dogmatic theory that third world semi-feudal & semi-colonial countries could only at best achieve modern capitalism and to attempt anything further would be an "illusion" and a "fiction."
Earlier in his text 1905 Trotsky had argued against building Socialism in a poor peasant country:
…the proletarian vanguard in the very earliest stages of its rule would have to make extremely deep inroads not only into feudal but also into bourgeois property relations. While doing so it would enter into hostile conflict, not only with all those bourgeois groups which had supported it during the first stages of its revolutionary struggle, but also with the broad masses of the peasantry… The contradictions between a workers’ government and an overwhelming majority of peasants in a backward country could be resolved only on an international scale, in the arena of a world proletarian revolution.
In response to this anti-peasant theory Lenin said:
From the Bolsheviks Trotsky’s original theory has borrowed their call for a decisive proletarian revolutionary struggle and for the conquest of political power by the proletariat, while from the Mensheviks it has borrowed "repudiation" of the peasantry’s role… Trotsky is in fact helping the liberal-labour politicians in Russia, who by "repudiation" of the role of the peasantry understand a refusal to raise up the peasants for the revolution!
~Lenin, On the Two Lines in the Revolution
Not only is this idea that third world people are not ready for socialism quasi-racist, it is also strategically unsound. Firstly, the vast majority of the world’s workers are from third world countries. Second, experience has shown us, in the epoch of modern imperialism the poor of the developing world have demonstrated great revolutionary potential. In fact in our current stage they demonstrate greater revolutionary energy then Westerners. The opportunists are out of touch with these basic realities, their theory is useless and their movement irrelevant as an alternative for the workers of the world.
Utopian Defeatism
But why do the opportunists so vehemently oppose Socialism in One Country? One reason maybe that they oppose anything associated with the Soviet Union or Stalin. However more often then not from trotskyists one hears them express one of the following three reasons:
that they oppose Socialism in One Country on "internationalist" grounds
view that a single socialist country can never survive
they think socialism can’t be built in a poor country
The first claim I already dealt with. They either don’t understand what they’re talking about or are dishonest. I already explained why the third argument is troubling, together with argument number two it falls under the category of defeatism, that unless the revolution happens in many countries at the same time, and in the West it’s pointless to even try. Or that if the revolution happens in only one country then it must somehow aggressively try to spread the revolution elsewhere. Since the USSR actually did spread it to other countries it seems the opportunists think it should have simply been more aggresive. This seems tactically and ideologically questionable.
Basically the opportunists have no good alternative to propose and this has been proved by history. Trotskyists or any other opponents of Socialism in One Country have never been able to carry out a revolution, let alone a world-wide revolution. The only theory that has been able carry out victorious socialist revolutions not in one, but in multiple countries is the theory of Socialism in One Country.
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How does the phrase "he who does not work shall not eat" apply to people who realistically can't do any meaningful work i.e. severally mentally handicapped etc.? Are they just left to starve?
How does the phrase "he who does not work shall not eat" apply to people who realistically can't do any meaningful work i.e. severally mentally handicapped etc.? Are they just left to starve?
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why is it then that Soviet Burdenko commission was submitted to Nuremberg as a proof, and Nazi commission results under the name of "Amtliches Material zum Massenmord von Katyn", despite getting submitted, was declined by Nuremberg after a review, which claimed that:
>In any case, we believe that we have shown enough gaps, errors and inaccuracies to be able to recognize the statements made by the Germans in the publication "Amtliches Material zum Massenmord von Katyn" as material that does not withstand accurate scientific criticism, and thus recognize it as having too much propaganda character. In making this conclusion, we used only precise substantive reasoning.
Funny, right?
Oh, and as a bonus, Mednoye, which is often presented as a proof that Soviets were killing people in places other than those which were later occupied by Germans during the war, as it turns out, was actually occupied during the war, and 2nd pic is an order to recapture the settlement from Germans
Also also, check out present day Russia historiography on the issue. https://noo-journal.ru/vak/2025-1-42/kornilova-otritsanie-soobshcheniya-komissii-burdenko-v-katynskom-dele/ They call shit that happened in Russia in 1990s in regards to Katyn "Burdenko commission denialism"!
Katyn
If USSR comitted Katyn, and Nuremberg decided not to say anything about it, like Katyn cultists claim,why is it then that Soviet Burdenko commission was submitted to Nuremberg as a proof, and Nazi commission results under the name of "Amtliches Material zum Massenmord von Katyn", despite getting submitted, was declined by Nuremberg after a review, which claimed that:
>In any case, we believe that we have shown enough gaps, errors and inaccuracies to be able to recognize the statements made by the Germans in the publication "Amtliches Material zum Massenmord von Katyn" as material that does not withstand accurate scientific criticism, and thus recognize it as having too much propaganda character. In making this conclusion, we used only precise substantive reasoning.
Funny, right?
Oh, and as a bonus, Mednoye, which is often presented as a proof that Soviets were killing people in places other than those which were later occupied by Germans during the war, as it turns out, was actually occupied during the war, and 2nd pic is an order to recapture the settlement from Germans
Also also, check out present day Russia historiography on the issue. https://noo-journal.ru/vak/2025-1-42/kornilova-otritsanie-soobshcheniya-komissii-burdenko-v-katynskom-dele/ They call shit that happened in Russia in 1990s in regards to Katyn "Burdenko commission denialism"!
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Moldovan Politics
How do you feel about events and situation in Moldova?
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It’s basically an anti-Leninist trend and against any historical form of socialism - any kind that has ever existed. So what exactly is left communism? It is an anti-Marxist, revisionist trend that capitulates under the pressure of anti-communist propaganda. It’s not the only trend that does this, but that is its most characteristic feature.
Left communism likes to present itself as theoretically genuine Marxism. People who aren’t well-read theoretically or lack a firm grasp of Marxism’s core principles seem to fall for it. In reality, though, it’s just revisionism and a vulgar distortion of Marxist ideas - especially Marx’s message and the essence of Marxism. In particular, left communism is the most extreme defeatist trend in revisionism and opportunism. It sees literally all socialist revolutions and socialist countries as “not real socialism.” This includes all Marxist-Leninist countries, other socialist experiments, and even anarchism.
Left communism has never had major historical or theoretical relevance. It is entirely isolated from real political action and only appeals to petty-bourgeois-minded opportunists. Some people - and by this, I mean left communists - might find that insulting, but it happens to be the case on purely theoretical grounds. These seemingly negative traits are actually left communism’s strength. Why? Because left communism is on a crusade against reality. It crusades against any socialism that has ever existed or will exist. Since left communists themselves have never had (and never will have) political relevance, their ideas will never become reality.
Left communism relies on abstract theoretical arguments out of touch with reality - meaning none of its conclusions ever need to be proven. If left communism did become reality, it would implode. Left communists would attack it as “stalinoid.” Left communism doesn’t exist on its own terms; it only exists as a parasitical opposition to actual socialism. That’s the only role it has ever played, even historically - see, for a particular example, the Brest-Litovsk days.
You might ask: If left communism is so irrelevant, why talk about it? Precisely because it doesn’t exist as a movement in itself. It exists solely as opposition to actual socialism - a stance more parasitical than any other movement. Trotskyism may oppose Marxism-Leninism; anarchism may oppose state socialism. But at least they have independent substance. Left communism is nothing except opposition to existing socialism. Left communism and its variants constitute a revisionist trend characterized by capitulation to anti-communist propaganda and a total lack of real political activity. Its defining features are distrust of the masses, isolation, pessimism, and defeatism - demonstrating its thoroughly petty-bourgeois nature. It is the ideology of the petty-bourgeois opponent of really existing socialism
Left communism, the newest stage of opportunism
I'm going to write a bit about the trend known broadly as left communism. It seems to me that left communism has now basically become this newest trend in opportunism. Back in the day, there were barely any left communists - there still aren’t many - but every now and then you see one. I’ve seen lots of opportunists retreat from their previous positions (whether they were anarchists, Trotskyists, or what-have-you) and switch to left communism. I suppose it is appealing to some people.It’s basically an anti-Leninist trend and against any historical form of socialism - any kind that has ever existed. So what exactly is left communism? It is an anti-Marxist, revisionist trend that capitulates under the pressure of anti-communist propaganda. It’s not the only trend that does this, but that is its most characteristic feature.
Left communism likes to present itself as theoretically genuine Marxism. People who aren’t well-read theoretically or lack a firm grasp of Marxism’s core principles seem to fall for it. In reality, though, it’s just revisionism and a vulgar distortion of Marxist ideas - especially Marx’s message and the essence of Marxism. In particular, left communism is the most extreme defeatist trend in revisionism and opportunism. It sees literally all socialist revolutions and socialist countries as “not real socialism.” This includes all Marxist-Leninist countries, other socialist experiments, and even anarchism.
Left communism has never had major historical or theoretical relevance. It is entirely isolated from real political action and only appeals to petty-bourgeois-minded opportunists. Some people - and by this, I mean left communists - might find that insulting, but it happens to be the case on purely theoretical grounds. These seemingly negative traits are actually left communism’s strength. Why? Because left communism is on a crusade against reality. It crusades against any socialism that has ever existed or will exist. Since left communists themselves have never had (and never will have) political relevance, their ideas will never become reality.
Left communism relies on abstract theoretical arguments out of touch with reality - meaning none of its conclusions ever need to be proven. If left communism did become reality, it would implode. Left communists would attack it as “stalinoid.” Left communism doesn’t exist on its own terms; it only exists as a parasitical opposition to actual socialism. That’s the only role it has ever played, even historically - see, for a particular example, the Brest-Litovsk days.
You might ask: If left communism is so irrelevant, why talk about it? Precisely because it doesn’t exist as a movement in itself. It exists solely as opposition to actual socialism - a stance more parasitical than any other movement. Trotskyism may oppose Marxism-Leninism; anarchism may oppose state socialism. But at least they have independent substance. Left communism is nothing except opposition to existing socialism. Left communism and its variants constitute a revisionist trend characterized by capitulation to anti-communist propaganda and a total lack of real political activity. Its defining features are distrust of the masses, isolation, pessimism, and defeatism - demonstrating its thoroughly petty-bourgeois nature. It is the ideology of the petty-bourgeois opponent of really existing socialism
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Washington D.C. situation
Trump has deployed federal officers to “Clean Up D.C.” Of course rather than put the cops to good use for once and make them street sweepers or whatever he is using them to harass citizens and beat up homeless people. Many will say that this is unconstitutional but ever since the Reagan administration the power of the executive branch has grown so much that it’s only a law if the president says so, America is an elective monarchy at this point and the “elective” part might go away soon, what is congress even good for anymore other than cutting taxes sometimes? Also I’m sure that all of you probably know this already but cops don’t solve crime, poverty reduction solves crime.
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Don't overcomplicate it. The material goal of all Marxist thought is not any empty phrase like liberation, brotherhood or equality. It's too establish class dictatorship of the working classes. Marxism doesn't need the philosophical baggage intellectuals try to push at every step. To win the battle of democracy, to establish the working class the demos, to establish state rule over the haves by the have-nots. Everything else is sand in eyes. Only the working classes can do this, because the working classes are the only ones capable of creating value in the production process. The majority mustn't be aware of its interest, but we communists know what their interests are. Never stop agitating for them. Eventually, our ideas will become mass ideas, because there are no other mass ideas except Marxism.
Don't overcomplicate it. The material goal of all Marxist thought is not any empty phrase like liberation, brotherhood or equality. It's too establish class dictatorship of the working classes. Marxism doesn't need the philosophical baggage intellectuals try to push at every step. To win the battle of democracy, to establish the working class the demos, to establish state rule over the haves by the have-nots. Everything else is sand in eyes. Only the working classes can do this, because the working classes are the only ones capable of creating value in the production process. The majority mustn't be aware of its interest, but we communists know what their interests are. Never stop agitating for them. Eventually, our ideas will become mass ideas, because there are no other mass ideas except Marxism.
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MrBeast is only 4 steps away from Mao Zedong. There is no way that this is a coincidence. MrBeast met the rock who met obamna who met OG Bush who met Mao.
MrBeast is only 4 steps away from Mao Zedong. There is no way that this is a coincidence. MrBeast met the rock who met obamna who met OG Bush who met Mao.
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>Diamat can be understood in a non-Hegelian way, akshually
>The state, your family, the media, etc. are all APPARATUSES OF CONTROLL
>Machiavelli was actually a progressive pre-materialist thinker, smeared by the Catholic Church, akshually
>Communists should win over scientists ASAP
>Freud and Lacan were genuises akin to Einstein or Bohr
>Realz over Feelz all the time 100%
How was he wrong again? Like, once??? This fucker was on CIA watch-list and had an exhausting lettering b/w him and USSR philosophers.
<inb4 he strangled him wife
1) don't care
2) she was literally asking for it for decades (documented)
3) le attrocity propaganda
Althusser thread
>Marxism is antithetical to Humanism>Diamat can be understood in a non-Hegelian way, akshually
>The state, your family, the media, etc. are all APPARATUSES OF CONTROLL
>Machiavelli was actually a progressive pre-materialist thinker, smeared by the Catholic Church, akshually
>Communists should win over scientists ASAP
>Freud and Lacan were genuises akin to Einstein or Bohr
>Realz over Feelz all the time 100%
How was he wrong again? Like, once??? This fucker was on CIA watch-list and had an exhausting lettering b/w him and USSR philosophers.
<inb4 he strangled him wife
1) don't care
2) she was literally asking for it for decades (documented)
3) le attrocity propaganda
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Vietnam appreciation thread - Dengoids hate edition
Just reminding you that Chinese government got butthurt by Vietnam liberating Cambodia from Khmer Rouge’s tyranny, anti-imperialism doesn’t apply for Dengoids.
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With this conclusion, they believe that the next communist revolution should start with immediate communization of society, which includes the abolition of capitalist social relations and replacing them with communist ones. Some may say that the roles of the DotP is the destruction of capitalist relations and replacing them with communist ones but I have not read enough theory to comment on that right now.
I have so far read Endnotes 1, which is just a bunch of text by Gilles Dauvé and Théorie Communiste explaining why they believe in this position while simultaneously critcizing each other on their viewpoints, and I'm currently reading "Eclipse and Re-Emergence of the Communist Movement" by Gilles Dauvé. The first part of the book is great and I personally think its a must read for beginner Marxists as it explains the history of capital and commodity production, though the later parts are just opinionated writing. Of course, beginner Marxists should start by reading Marx's own work than the works of other Marxists.
Communization Theory is also split into two, with one side being anarchist, groups like the now defunct group TIQQUN and The Invisible Comitee, and Marxists, groups like Troploin and the previously mentioned Théorie Communiste. Just so you know, this isn't some unknown "leftist war", I just referenced them just to give some sort of picture. The most well known communizer journal is Endnotes, who compiles and releases a bunch of communizer articles.
Opinions on Communization Theory?
Communization Theory is a Marxist theory that combines, and criticizes, the ideas of the Situanitionist International, Italian Left-Communist, and Council Communist. It defends the idea that the Dictatorship of the Proletariat only reassures the re-emergence of the capitalist counter-revolution and that it should be abandoned.With this conclusion, they believe that the next communist revolution should start with immediate communization of society, which includes the abolition of capitalist social relations and replacing them with communist ones. Some may say that the roles of the DotP is the destruction of capitalist relations and replacing them with communist ones but I have not read enough theory to comment on that right now.
I have so far read Endnotes 1, which is just a bunch of text by Gilles Dauvé and Théorie Communiste explaining why they believe in this position while simultaneously critcizing each other on their viewpoints, and I'm currently reading "Eclipse and Re-Emergence of the Communist Movement" by Gilles Dauvé. The first part of the book is great and I personally think its a must read for beginner Marxists as it explains the history of capital and commodity production, though the later parts are just opinionated writing. Of course, beginner Marxists should start by reading Marx's own work than the works of other Marxists.
Communization Theory is also split into two, with one side being anarchist, groups like the now defunct group TIQQUN and The Invisible Comitee, and Marxists, groups like Troploin and the previously mentioned Théorie Communiste. Just so you know, this isn't some unknown "leftist war", I just referenced them just to give some sort of picture. The most well known communizer journal is Endnotes, who compiles and releases a bunch of communizer articles.
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ITT WE H8 FAGS
Sexuality, in and of itself, has no intrinsic connection to communism or any other political ideology. It is unnecessary, and often counterproductive, to project fetishized or hyper-sexualized imagery, into a serious political framework that is fundamentally about class struggle, material conditions, and the collective interests of the working class. Our shared identity should be rooted in our position as workers and in our common struggle against exploitation, rather than in personal characteristics that are unrelated to the core principles of our movement.Furthermore, the existence of openly fascist individuals within the LGBTQ+ community, particularly visible online ,demonstrates that sexual orientation alone does not determine one’s political consciousness or allegiance. Just as there can be reactionary heterosexuals, there can be reactionary homosexuals. This is precisely why we must clearly separate questions of sexuality from questions of ideology. If a gay person chooses to align with fascism, they are politically defined by that allegiance, not by their sexuality. To conflate identity categories with political commitment risks diluting the clarity of our analysis and undermining the solidarity of the working class as a whole.
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South Korean workers at the online retailer and delivery company Coupang are planning to hold a one-day strike Friday following a similar walkout on August 1. Workers at the company and throughout the logistics industry are underpaid and have long faced unsafe working conditions and brutal hours. Coupang is a South Korean company similar to Amazon, which in addition to providing online sales, also operates food delivery services, mobile payment services, and online streaming. It is a regular part of the daily lives of many South Koreans and also has a growing presence in Taiwan.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/08/13/drrr-a13.html
Bangladesh officials testify against Tulip Siddiq at anticorruption trial
Siddiq, who is Hasina’s niece, resigned from her post as an anticorruption minister in United Kingdom Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s government in January, following reports that she lived in London properties linked to her aunt and was named in an anticorruption investigation in Bangladesh. She is being tried in the land grab case together with her mother, Sheikh Rehana, brother, Radwan Mujib, and sister, Azmina. The four were indicted earlier and asked to appear in court; however, the prosecution said they absconded and would be tried in absentia.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/13/bangladeshi-graft-case-probes-ex-pm-hasina-former-uk-minister-tulip-siddiq
https://archive.ph/Av9zl
New Zealand lawmaker who called opponents spineless over Gaza is ejected from Parliament a 2nd time
Chlöe Swarbrick, co-leader of the left-leaning Green Party and part of the opposition bloc, was ordered to leave parliament on Tuesday over a speech in which she called for government lawmakers “with a spine” to endorse her proposal for New Zealand to impose sanctions on Israel over the war in Gaza. She was hit with a three-day ban — lengthy by New Zealand parliamentary standards — but returned the next day only to be ejected a second time.
https://apnews.com/article/swarbrick-gaza-new-zealand-brownlee-greens-parliament-d2ff0ca2f2bcace2c54d438313294277
Gaza workers arrested, humiliated with 'street parade' in Nazareth by Israeli police
Images shared by Palestinian media and activists showed the workers rounded up and handcuffed, with many on their knees after they were arrested. Videos also circulated online showing the Israeli forces "parading" the Palestinians in the streets of the city, in what activists have described as a "terror parade" aimed at humiliating them. Nazareth, located within Israel's 1948 borders, is home to a large Muslim and Christian Palestinian population.
https://www.newarab.com/news/gaza-workers-arrested-humiliated-nazareth-israeli-police
Israeli ambassador met with key UK Labour donors and lobbyists throughout Gaza genocide
In recent months, for example, the ambassador issued an official complaint to the BBC over a documentary it aired on children in Gaza, because the child narrator was the son of a minister in the war-torn enclave. The film was ultimately pulled. In July, she met Lisa Nandy, the culture secretary, after complaining about the BBC iPlayer showing punk duo Bob Vylan chanting "Death to the IDF" during a performance at Glastonbury festival.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israeli-ambassador-uk-met-key-labour-donors-lobbyists-throughout-gaza-genocide
German manufacturer mulls relocating to US to avoid arms embargo against Israe
German automotive manufacturer Renk, which produces tank transmissions and engines for the Israeli military, is considering moving production to the US after the German arms embargo on Israel. Renk CEO Alexander Sagel mentioned the prospective shift on a post-earnings call, as reported by Reuters on Wednesday. The call comes five days after German Chancellor Friedrich Merz announced the country would freeze military exports to Israel that could be used in the Gaza Strip, amidst an Israeli plan to occupy the entire Palestinian enclave.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/german-manufacturer-mulls-relocating-us-avoid-arms-embargo-against-israel
Geneva makes public transport temporarily free to combat pollution spike
High temperatures and low cloud cover mean ozone pollutants accumulate and take longer to be dispersed, the Environment Office for the Canton of Geneva told Reuters. In response, public transport was made free for the first time on Wednesday throughout the canton, to encourage residents and visitors to switch from their cars to buses, trams, trains and boats, in order to reduce traffic emissions.
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/climate-energy/geneva-makes-public-transport-temporarily-free-combat-pollution-spike-2025-08-13/
Peru's president signs military crimes amnesty bill into law
The new law could affect 156 cases that have been decided and more than 600 others still underway over crimes committed during that 20-year span, those experts said. In August 2024, Peru adopted a statute of limitations for crimes against humanity committed before 2002, effectively shutting down hundreds of investigations into alleged crimes committed during the fighting. The initiative benefited late president Alberto Fujimori, who was jailed for atrocities – including the massacre of civilians by the army – but released from prison in 2023 on humanitarian grounds.
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250813-peru-s-president-signs-military-crimes-amnesty-bill-into-law
https://archive.ph/iIZ9G
Lula sending bill to Congress to regulate social media
According to Lula, no one is taking responsibility for the content in these environments. He argued that large technology corporations should be subject to rules in Brazil and criticized a letter from the US government stating that big tech companies from that country did not accept being regulated.
https://en.mercopress.com/2025/08/13/lula-sending-bill-to-congress-to-regulate-social-media
Mexico sends 26 cartel members to U.S. in deal with Trump administration
Those handed over to U.S. custody include Abigael González Valencia, a leader of "Los Cuinis," a group closely aligned with notorious cartel Jalisco New Generation, or CJNG. Another defendant, Roberto Salazar, is wanted in connection to the 2008 killing of a Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy. Other prominent figures have ties to the Sinaloa Cartel and other violent drug trafficking groups.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mexico-sends-26-cartel-members-deal-trump-administration/
News 8/13/25
South Korean online retail workers to hold one-day strikeSouth Korean workers at the online retailer and delivery company Coupang are planning to hold a one-day strike Friday following a similar walkout on August 1. Workers at the company and throughout the logistics industry are underpaid and have long faced unsafe working conditions and brutal hours. Coupang is a South Korean company similar to Amazon, which in addition to providing online sales, also operates food delivery services, mobile payment services, and online streaming. It is a regular part of the daily lives of many South Koreans and also has a growing presence in Taiwan.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/08/13/drrr-a13.html
Bangladesh officials testify against Tulip Siddiq at anticorruption trial
Siddiq, who is Hasina’s niece, resigned from her post as an anticorruption minister in United Kingdom Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s government in January, following reports that she lived in London properties linked to her aunt and was named in an anticorruption investigation in Bangladesh. She is being tried in the land grab case together with her mother, Sheikh Rehana, brother, Radwan Mujib, and sister, Azmina. The four were indicted earlier and asked to appear in court; however, the prosecution said they absconded and would be tried in absentia.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/13/bangladeshi-graft-case-probes-ex-pm-hasina-former-uk-minister-tulip-siddiq
https://archive.ph/Av9zl
New Zealand lawmaker who called opponents spineless over Gaza is ejected from Parliament a 2nd time
Chlöe Swarbrick, co-leader of the left-leaning Green Party and part of the opposition bloc, was ordered to leave parliament on Tuesday over a speech in which she called for government lawmakers “with a spine” to endorse her proposal for New Zealand to impose sanctions on Israel over the war in Gaza. She was hit with a three-day ban — lengthy by New Zealand parliamentary standards — but returned the next day only to be ejected a second time.
https://apnews.com/article/swarbrick-gaza-new-zealand-brownlee-greens-parliament-d2ff0ca2f2bcace2c54d438313294277
Gaza workers arrested, humiliated with 'street parade' in Nazareth by Israeli police
Images shared by Palestinian media and activists showed the workers rounded up and handcuffed, with many on their knees after they were arrested. Videos also circulated online showing the Israeli forces "parading" the Palestinians in the streets of the city, in what activists have described as a "terror parade" aimed at humiliating them. Nazareth, located within Israel's 1948 borders, is home to a large Muslim and Christian Palestinian population.
https://www.newarab.com/news/gaza-workers-arrested-humiliated-nazareth-israeli-police
Israeli ambassador met with key UK Labour donors and lobbyists throughout Gaza genocide
In recent months, for example, the ambassador issued an official complaint to the BBC over a documentary it aired on children in Gaza, because the child narrator was the son of a minister in the war-torn enclave. The film was ultimately pulled. In July, she met Lisa Nandy, the culture secretary, after complaining about the BBC iPlayer showing punk duo Bob Vylan chanting "Death to the IDF" during a performance at Glastonbury festival.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israeli-ambassador-uk-met-key-labour-donors-lobbyists-throughout-gaza-genocide
German manufacturer mulls relocating to US to avoid arms embargo against Israe
German automotive manufacturer Renk, which produces tank transmissions and engines for the Israeli military, is considering moving production to the US after the German arms embargo on Israel. Renk CEO Alexander Sagel mentioned the prospective shift on a post-earnings call, as reported by Reuters on Wednesday. The call comes five days after German Chancellor Friedrich Merz announced the country would freeze military exports to Israel that could be used in the Gaza Strip, amidst an Israeli plan to occupy the entire Palestinian enclave.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/german-manufacturer-mulls-relocating-us-avoid-arms-embargo-against-israel
Geneva makes public transport temporarily free to combat pollution spike
High temperatures and low cloud cover mean ozone pollutants accumulate and take longer to be dispersed, the Environment Office for the Canton of Geneva told Reuters. In response, public transport was made free for the first time on Wednesday throughout the canton, to encourage residents and visitors to switch from their cars to buses, trams, trains and boats, in order to reduce traffic emissions.
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/climate-energy/geneva-makes-public-transport-temporarily-free-combat-pollution-spike-2025-08-13/
Peru's president signs military crimes amnesty bill into law
The new law could affect 156 cases that have been decided and more than 600 others still underway over crimes committed during that 20-year span, those experts said. In August 2024, Peru adopted a statute of limitations for crimes against humanity committed before 2002, effectively shutting down hundreds of investigations into alleged crimes committed during the fighting. The initiative benefited late president Alberto Fujimori, who was jailed for atrocities – including the massacre of civilians by the army – but released from prison in 2023 on humanitarian grounds.
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250813-peru-s-president-signs-military-crimes-amnesty-bill-into-law
https://archive.ph/iIZ9G
Lula sending bill to Congress to regulate social media
According to Lula, no one is taking responsibility for the content in these environments. He argued that large technology corporations should be subject to rules in Brazil and criticized a letter from the US government stating that big tech companies from that country did not accept being regulated.
https://en.mercopress.com/2025/08/13/lula-sending-bill-to-congress-to-regulate-social-media
Mexico sends 26 cartel members to U.S. in deal with Trump administration
Those handed over to U.S. custody include Abigael González Valencia, a leader of "Los Cuinis," a group closely aligned with notorious cartel Jalisco New Generation, or CJNG. Another defendant, Roberto Salazar, is wanted in connection to the 2008 killing of a Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy. Other prominent figures have ties to the Sinaloa Cartel and other violent drug trafficking groups.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mexico-sends-26-cartel-members-deal-trump-administration/
R: 6 / I: 0
Inspired by Hans Delbrück, Ishiwara proposed that there are two types of war: protracted and decisive. Japan must unify Asia under its leadership, in preparation for a protracted war with the West under American leadership. He also hoped that an intervention of Manchuria would awaken Japan to its historical mission. He expected that before the final war, Japan would fight a war with America over who can control China, and Japan would prevail.[5]
Ishiwara felt that the period of world conflict was fast approaching, and Japan, relying upon its vision of the kokutai and its sacred mission to "liberate" China, would lead a unified East Asia to defeat the West.[6] He claimed "Japan must be victorious, not for the sake of her own national interest, but for the salvation of the world."[7]
zigga gang?
Inspired by Hans Delbrück, Ishiwara proposed that there are two types of war: protracted and decisive. Japan must unify Asia under its leadership, in preparation for a protracted war with the West under American leadership. He also hoped that an intervention of Manchuria would awaken Japan to its historical mission. He expected that before the final war, Japan would fight a war with America over who can control China, and Japan would prevail.[5]
Ishiwara felt that the period of world conflict was fast approaching, and Japan, relying upon its vision of the kokutai and its sacred mission to "liberate" China, would lead a unified East Asia to defeat the West.[6] He claimed "Japan must be victorious, not for the sake of her own national interest, but for the salvation of the world."[7]
zigga gang?
R: 15 / I: 7
Coolness
It is objectively lame that nowadays communist leaders abandoned wearing badass military uniforms in favor of lame bourgeois suit and ties. I get that they don’t want to look like military dictators but it looks so lame. The only communist that looks cool in a suit was Lenin.
R: 29 / I: 5
what are our thoughts on distributism?
honestly it is more economically progressive than the system china currently has, and i think it is a system that people on all parts of the political aisle can come to see the value of. imo the notion of subsidiarity is a doctrine that not only conforms better to the limitations of human cognition (see: dumbar's number) but promotes a more ethical economical life. the segregation of classes afforded by extreme wealth disparities permit the ruling class to behave in a way utterly disconnected from the rest of society. personally i am more left-leaning so believe that companies should be liquidated into worker coops.
R: 27 / I: 10
I am brown, is it even worth trying to bully brown self-hating groypers out of their movement?
Does this even seem effective at accomplishing anything, I can't stand this shit. These are retards marching into their own demise. No, tard-rushing toward it. I can't stand these zoomer tradcath idiots.
R: 3 / I: 0
Shocking discovery
The Rizzler is only 5 steps away from Stalin. Amazing discovery! This means that anyone who meets the Rizzler is only 6 steps away from Stalin. Also if you ever meet Obama you are only 3 steps away from Stalin.
R: 92 / I: 23
Anarchism and production
So how, exactly, would production of advanced goods like aircraft carriers happen in an Anarchist world? Surely producing them would be so difficult you would need some form of top-down planning to create such things, no?
R: 48 / I: 9
Before 2022, Ukraine was a major supplier to China of:
>Grain (corn, barley — Ukraine was China’s #1 corn supplier in some years)
>Iron ore and steel products
>Aerospace and defense tech (e.g., engines from Motor Sich)
>Sunflower oil and agricultural goods
After the invasion:
>Bilateral trade volume dropped but China still remained Ukraine’s single largest individual trading partner for much of 2022–2023.
>Chinese companies have floated interest in post-war reconstruction, targeting sectors like energy grids, infrastructure, and agriculture.
>Beijing denies any military involvement — although individuals of Chinese nationality have been spotted fighting with Russian forces, those are generally described as freelancers or mercenaries, not state-directed personnel.
While China is not an official combatant, it’s keeping a long-term economic eye on Ukraine’s resources and rebuilding phase — something that also factors into geopolitics, because whoever secures reconstruction contracts will wield influence in Ukraine’s post-war economy.
Do you think this could lead to jealousy and hostilities between Russia and China? Much like how America ditched their allies in Afghanistan and became a Russian satellite after the war (see US backed elite forces becoming wormfood in Ukraine after America ditched them) will Ukraie become a Chinese satellite thanks to Trump's shenanigans? Putin is actively recruiting bourgeois nationalists in Wagner Group, France’s Continental Unity, Bulgaria’s Orthodox Dawn Battalion, and Hungary’s Legion of Saint István have fought alongside pro-Russian separatists, along with Chetnik and Cossack units, like Serbia-origin far-right groups (e.g., Jovan Šević Battalion) and Cossack forces who have participated in the conflict on the separatist side. Yes Ukraine has neo-nazis (like Azov) but they behave more Proletarian than Russian units, given their revolutionary activities.
>inb4 they're fighting America's war
Not Trump or the GOP. Maybe neoliberal democrats, but one is eventually gonna win out regardless.
China vs. Russia
Before the invasion, Ukraine was a significant trading partner for China, providing grain, iron ore, and military components. Although the war has disrupted these ties, China remains Ukraine's largest trading partner and is reportedly interested in participating in the post-war reconstruction, seeing opportunities in Ukraine's industrial, energy, infrastructure, and agriculture sectors.Before 2022, Ukraine was a major supplier to China of:
>Grain (corn, barley — Ukraine was China’s #1 corn supplier in some years)
>Iron ore and steel products
>Aerospace and defense tech (e.g., engines from Motor Sich)
>Sunflower oil and agricultural goods
After the invasion:
>Bilateral trade volume dropped but China still remained Ukraine’s single largest individual trading partner for much of 2022–2023.
>Chinese companies have floated interest in post-war reconstruction, targeting sectors like energy grids, infrastructure, and agriculture.
>Beijing denies any military involvement — although individuals of Chinese nationality have been spotted fighting with Russian forces, those are generally described as freelancers or mercenaries, not state-directed personnel.
While China is not an official combatant, it’s keeping a long-term economic eye on Ukraine’s resources and rebuilding phase — something that also factors into geopolitics, because whoever secures reconstruction contracts will wield influence in Ukraine’s post-war economy.
Do you think this could lead to jealousy and hostilities between Russia and China? Much like how America ditched their allies in Afghanistan and became a Russian satellite after the war (see US backed elite forces becoming wormfood in Ukraine after America ditched them) will Ukraie become a Chinese satellite thanks to Trump's shenanigans? Putin is actively recruiting bourgeois nationalists in Wagner Group, France’s Continental Unity, Bulgaria’s Orthodox Dawn Battalion, and Hungary’s Legion of Saint István have fought alongside pro-Russian separatists, along with Chetnik and Cossack units, like Serbia-origin far-right groups (e.g., Jovan Šević Battalion) and Cossack forces who have participated in the conflict on the separatist side. Yes Ukraine has neo-nazis (like Azov) but they behave more Proletarian than Russian units, given their revolutionary activities.
>inb4 they're fighting America's war
Not Trump or the GOP. Maybe neoliberal democrats, but one is eventually gonna win out regardless.
R: 19 / I: 4
Is the world just doomed to global American hegemony?
The US literally just keeps growing stronger than ever what the fuck
Soviet analysts in the 70s and 80s were predicting it to collapse but it didn't. Then in the late 80s early 90s Japan was supposed to overtake them but it didn't. Now China looked like it would for real challenge US hegemony but fucking nope. They are growing even faster now relative to the world than they were in the 80s/90s.Is the world just doomed to global American hegemony?
R: 612 / I: 180 (full)
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Generative AI should be fucking banned
I don’t think people realize how dangerous the ability to generate photorealistic images and videos in instants is. If they combine this shit with AR/VR technology (spoiler: they will) it’s over, we are heading straight into Brave New World.
R: 16 / I: 5
Black Zionist-Dicksucker Guard amirite
DSA is a Zionist party
So apparently the entire of DSA are Zionists. What self respecting "socialist would join Genocide supporting party.Black Zionist-Dicksucker Guard amirite
R: 24 / I: 6
Here is the passage in question
<He, therefore, judged it necessary to give them a good government in order to make them peaceful and obedient to his rule. For this purpose he appointed Messer Remiro d' Orco, a cruel and able man, to whom he gave the fullest authority. This man, in a short time, was highly successful in rendering the country orderly and united, whereupon the duke, not deeming such excessive authority expedient, lest it should become hateful, appointed a civil court of justice in the middle of the province under an excellent president, to which each city appointed its own advocate. And as he knew that the harshness of the past had engendered some amount of hatred, in order to purge the minds of the people and to win them over completely, he resolved to show that if any cruelty had taken place it was not by his orders, but through the harsh disposition of his minister. And taking him on some pretext, he had him placed one morning in the public square at Cesena, cut in half, with a piece of wood and blood-stained knife by his side. The ferocity of this spectacle caused the people both satisfaction and amazement.
https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/57037/pg57037.txt
The Fate of Imperial Proxies, Stooges, etc.
Machiavelli in The Prince advises that a wise leader will send out a brute to do his dirty work for him in a far away province, and once the brute is done doing the dirty work The Prince ought to come in with his forces an execute the brute he himself put in charge for his brutality, in order to "free the people" from the problem he created in the first place, bask in the heroic glory, but at the same time achieving the political suppression he sought. This is the process which the United States has done with its client regimes over and over, whether it was the Nazis (assisted by Ford and IBM somewhat covertly) or the Israelis (assisted by the entire government openly)Here is the passage in question
<He, therefore, judged it necessary to give them a good government in order to make them peaceful and obedient to his rule. For this purpose he appointed Messer Remiro d' Orco, a cruel and able man, to whom he gave the fullest authority. This man, in a short time, was highly successful in rendering the country orderly and united, whereupon the duke, not deeming such excessive authority expedient, lest it should become hateful, appointed a civil court of justice in the middle of the province under an excellent president, to which each city appointed its own advocate. And as he knew that the harshness of the past had engendered some amount of hatred, in order to purge the minds of the people and to win them over completely, he resolved to show that if any cruelty had taken place it was not by his orders, but through the harsh disposition of his minister. And taking him on some pretext, he had him placed one morning in the public square at Cesena, cut in half, with a piece of wood and blood-stained knife by his side. The ferocity of this spectacle caused the people both satisfaction and amazement.
https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/57037/pg57037.txt
R: 3 / I: 1
Firefighters continued to battle blazes on Tuesday and authorities braced for further damage as temperatures in some areas surged well past 40C. In Spain, a Romanian man in his 50s died after suffering 98% burns while trying to rescue horses from a burning stable near Madrid on Monday night.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/12/thousands-evacuated-in-spain-amid-deadly-wildfires-and-new-heatwave
Welsh nationalists pledge to breathe life into rural economy
The party said rural communities are currently struggling with the cost of living, with 36 per cent of households in Pembrokeshire and 39 per cent of households in Ceredigion facing unaffordable living costs. Ceredigion has the seventh-lowest median income in Britain. Mr ap Iorwerth is visiting Cardigan and Crymych, which is within the new Ceredigion Penfro Senedd constituency, tomorrow.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/welsh-nationalists-pledge-breathe-life-rural-economy
UK appoints adviser for potential Thames Water collapse, source says
Britain has appointed FTI Consulting to advise on contingency plans for Thames Water to be placed into a special administration regime were the country's largest water utility to collapse, a government source said.
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/land-use-biodiversity/uk-appoints-adviser-potential-thames-water-collapse-source-says-2025-08-12/
Protesters Target Dutch Microsoft Data Center for 'Genocidal Collaboration' With IDF
Protesters staged a demonstration Sunday at a Microsoft data center in the Netherlands following last week's revelation that the facility is being used by the Israel Defense Forces to plan genocidal airstrikes in Gaza and to store massive amounts of intelligence on Palestinians in the illegally occupied territories.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/microsoft-azure-idf
Israeli Labor Union Chief Rejects General Strike Despite Hostage Families' Plea for Economic Shutdown
Histadrut Chairman Arnon Bar-David met with families of hostages held in Gaza and business leaders, expressing concern that a strike might shift public focus away from the hostages and toward political arguments. "If I believed a strike would end the war and bring the hostages home, I would back it fully. My heart is bursting with anger, but it won't help," Bar-David said.
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-08-11/ty-article/.premium/israeli-labor-chief-rejects-strike-despite-hostage-families-plea-for-economic-shutdown/00000198-9915-d461-afba-bb5702400000
https://archive.ph/wOZ8z
Israel-linked lobby quietly pushes for ex-PA businessman to govern postwar Gaza
The proposal aims to bring in a Palestinian figure who would operate under Arab League auspices, be acceptable to both Israel and the United States, and help shape "the day after" governance of the besieged enclave, according to Israeli investigative outlet Shomrim and the newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth, citing people involved in the initiative and filings with the US Department of Justice.
https://www.newarab.com/news/israeli-lobby-pushes-ex-pa-official-govern-postwar-gaza
Congo army and rebels trade blame over clashes, troop buildup
M23 leader Bertrand Bisimwa said last week that the rebels had not received an invitation to the talks. Another rebel leader, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Reuters the group would not go to Doha "until Kinshasa begins to respect the declaration of principles, which provides for the release of our detained members". The statement on Tuesday from Congo's army said M23 was perpetrating almost daily attacks on its positions. The earlier M23 statement said Congo's army had carried out significant troop movements and military equipment deployments in six different locations.
https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2025/08/congo-army-and-rebels-trade-blame-over-clashes-troop-buildup
NUM denies abandoning ANC, reaffirms commitment to workers’ rights
The union has dismissed claims that it has abandoned the ANC ahead of the 2026 municipal elections, describing such reports as misleading. It reaffirmed its commitment to the tripartite alliance. NUM’s position comes after the South African Communist Party (SACP) resolved to contest all municipalities independently of the ANC. NUM National Spokesperson, Livhuwani Mammburu, says members are free to vote for any party of their choice.
https://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/num-denies-abandoning-anc-reaffirms-commitment-to-workers-rights/
Philippines: Five Activists, Including NDF Consultant, Acquitted
Collectively known as the “Santa Cruz 5”, the activists – Adelberto Silva, a consultant for the National Democratic Front (NDF) of the Philippines, Ireneo Atadero, a trade unionist, Edisel Legaspi, a farmer, Julio Lusania, a driver, and Hedda Calderon, a women’s rights defender – were acquitted by the Regional Court of First Instance in the city of Taguig on 6 August.
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/20811/
Vietnamese farmers displaced for Trump Golf resort offered small sums in compensation
Thousands of villagers who have farmed bananas, longan and other crops for decades are being told to leave, the Reuters news agency has reported. Developers, led by Vietnamese property firm Kinhbac City (KBC.HM), will pay the Trump Organisation $5 million (£3.7m) for brand licensing rights. The Trump family business will run the club, but it is not funding the project or paying compensation.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/vietnamese-farmers-displaced-trump-golf-resort-offered-small-sums-compensation
UN-backed investigators allege torture and sex crimes in Myanmar detention facilities
Myanmar has been in turmoil since the army seized power from the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi in February 2021, triggering a civil war. After peaceful demonstrations were put down with lethal force, many opponents of military rule took up arms, and large parts of the country are now embroiled in conflict.
https://apnews.com/article/myanmar-rohingya-torture-united-nations-koumjian-09dda6f46021b15aef3c8796d15c4e81
Brazilians Denounce Police Violence Against Youth in Rio De Janeiro
Recently, the Justice Ministry of Justice confirmed that deaths from police intervention rose 34.4% in the first four months of 2025 compared with the same period last year, increasing from 212 to 285 cases. Activist Larissa Vulcao said young people are victims of “a project of extermination” that, under the guise of a so-called public security policy, strips youth in poor neighborhoods of their right to live.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/brazilians-denounce-police-violence-against-youth-in-rio-de-janeiro/
Chevron-chartered tanker docks at Venezuela to load oil after new US license
The U.S. Treasury Department late last month authorized Chevron to operate in the sanctioned OPEC nation again, export its oil and do swaps with PDVSA through a restricted license banning any payments to Venezuela's government. Chevron suspended loading of Venezuelan crude in April ahead of its prior license's expiration on May 27.
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/chevron-chartered-tanker-docks-venezuela-load-oil-after-new-us-license-2025-08-12/
News 8/12/25
Thousands evacuated in Spain as deadly heatwave fans Mediterranean wildfiresFirefighters continued to battle blazes on Tuesday and authorities braced for further damage as temperatures in some areas surged well past 40C. In Spain, a Romanian man in his 50s died after suffering 98% burns while trying to rescue horses from a burning stable near Madrid on Monday night.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/12/thousands-evacuated-in-spain-amid-deadly-wildfires-and-new-heatwave
Welsh nationalists pledge to breathe life into rural economy
The party said rural communities are currently struggling with the cost of living, with 36 per cent of households in Pembrokeshire and 39 per cent of households in Ceredigion facing unaffordable living costs. Ceredigion has the seventh-lowest median income in Britain. Mr ap Iorwerth is visiting Cardigan and Crymych, which is within the new Ceredigion Penfro Senedd constituency, tomorrow.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/welsh-nationalists-pledge-breathe-life-rural-economy
UK appoints adviser for potential Thames Water collapse, source says
Britain has appointed FTI Consulting to advise on contingency plans for Thames Water to be placed into a special administration regime were the country's largest water utility to collapse, a government source said.
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/land-use-biodiversity/uk-appoints-adviser-potential-thames-water-collapse-source-says-2025-08-12/
Protesters Target Dutch Microsoft Data Center for 'Genocidal Collaboration' With IDF
Protesters staged a demonstration Sunday at a Microsoft data center in the Netherlands following last week's revelation that the facility is being used by the Israel Defense Forces to plan genocidal airstrikes in Gaza and to store massive amounts of intelligence on Palestinians in the illegally occupied territories.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/microsoft-azure-idf
Israeli Labor Union Chief Rejects General Strike Despite Hostage Families' Plea for Economic Shutdown
Histadrut Chairman Arnon Bar-David met with families of hostages held in Gaza and business leaders, expressing concern that a strike might shift public focus away from the hostages and toward political arguments. "If I believed a strike would end the war and bring the hostages home, I would back it fully. My heart is bursting with anger, but it won't help," Bar-David said.
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-08-11/ty-article/.premium/israeli-labor-chief-rejects-strike-despite-hostage-families-plea-for-economic-shutdown/00000198-9915-d461-afba-bb5702400000
https://archive.ph/wOZ8z
Israel-linked lobby quietly pushes for ex-PA businessman to govern postwar Gaza
The proposal aims to bring in a Palestinian figure who would operate under Arab League auspices, be acceptable to both Israel and the United States, and help shape "the day after" governance of the besieged enclave, according to Israeli investigative outlet Shomrim and the newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth, citing people involved in the initiative and filings with the US Department of Justice.
https://www.newarab.com/news/israeli-lobby-pushes-ex-pa-official-govern-postwar-gaza
Congo army and rebels trade blame over clashes, troop buildup
M23 leader Bertrand Bisimwa said last week that the rebels had not received an invitation to the talks. Another rebel leader, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Reuters the group would not go to Doha "until Kinshasa begins to respect the declaration of principles, which provides for the release of our detained members". The statement on Tuesday from Congo's army said M23 was perpetrating almost daily attacks on its positions. The earlier M23 statement said Congo's army had carried out significant troop movements and military equipment deployments in six different locations.
https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2025/08/congo-army-and-rebels-trade-blame-over-clashes-troop-buildup
NUM denies abandoning ANC, reaffirms commitment to workers’ rights
The union has dismissed claims that it has abandoned the ANC ahead of the 2026 municipal elections, describing such reports as misleading. It reaffirmed its commitment to the tripartite alliance. NUM’s position comes after the South African Communist Party (SACP) resolved to contest all municipalities independently of the ANC. NUM National Spokesperson, Livhuwani Mammburu, says members are free to vote for any party of their choice.
https://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/num-denies-abandoning-anc-reaffirms-commitment-to-workers-rights/
Philippines: Five Activists, Including NDF Consultant, Acquitted
Collectively known as the “Santa Cruz 5”, the activists – Adelberto Silva, a consultant for the National Democratic Front (NDF) of the Philippines, Ireneo Atadero, a trade unionist, Edisel Legaspi, a farmer, Julio Lusania, a driver, and Hedda Calderon, a women’s rights defender – were acquitted by the Regional Court of First Instance in the city of Taguig on 6 August.
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/20811/
Vietnamese farmers displaced for Trump Golf resort offered small sums in compensation
Thousands of villagers who have farmed bananas, longan and other crops for decades are being told to leave, the Reuters news agency has reported. Developers, led by Vietnamese property firm Kinhbac City (KBC.HM), will pay the Trump Organisation $5 million (£3.7m) for brand licensing rights. The Trump family business will run the club, but it is not funding the project or paying compensation.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/vietnamese-farmers-displaced-trump-golf-resort-offered-small-sums-compensation
UN-backed investigators allege torture and sex crimes in Myanmar detention facilities
Myanmar has been in turmoil since the army seized power from the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi in February 2021, triggering a civil war. After peaceful demonstrations were put down with lethal force, many opponents of military rule took up arms, and large parts of the country are now embroiled in conflict.
https://apnews.com/article/myanmar-rohingya-torture-united-nations-koumjian-09dda6f46021b15aef3c8796d15c4e81
Brazilians Denounce Police Violence Against Youth in Rio De Janeiro
Recently, the Justice Ministry of Justice confirmed that deaths from police intervention rose 34.4% in the first four months of 2025 compared with the same period last year, increasing from 212 to 285 cases. Activist Larissa Vulcao said young people are victims of “a project of extermination” that, under the guise of a so-called public security policy, strips youth in poor neighborhoods of their right to live.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/brazilians-denounce-police-violence-against-youth-in-rio-de-janeiro/
Chevron-chartered tanker docks at Venezuela to load oil after new US license
The U.S. Treasury Department late last month authorized Chevron to operate in the sanctioned OPEC nation again, export its oil and do swaps with PDVSA through a restricted license banning any payments to Venezuela's government. Chevron suspended loading of Venezuelan crude in April ahead of its prior license's expiration on May 27.
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/chevron-chartered-tanker-docks-venezuela-load-oil-after-new-us-license-2025-08-12/
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As far as I know, they are against Leninism and any other Marxist thought that comes from it. They have been identified as a "left-wing extremist group" by the German governments Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, they also say that "Due to their elitist understanding of Marxism, the group is largely isolated in the left-wing extremist scene." (at least according to the German wikipedia article) which I find humorous.
I downloaded two of their English translated books called "The Democratic State Critique of Bourgeois Sovereignty" and "Work and Wealth", and I'm planing on reading them after I've read more Marx's own work, like Capital Volume 1, and the work of other Marxists, namely those from my country of origin and of Left-Communist (Italian Left-Communist, Councilist, Communizers etc.) writers who I'm interested in.
Opinions on Gegenstandpunkt?
Gegenstandpunkt is a German Marxist journal founded in Münich 1992. They primarily focus on Marx's theories and the analysis of current events from a Marxist perspective. They reject parliamentarianism. Their most well known member is Karl Held, who died in 2010.As far as I know, they are against Leninism and any other Marxist thought that comes from it. They have been identified as a "left-wing extremist group" by the German governments Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, they also say that "Due to their elitist understanding of Marxism, the group is largely isolated in the left-wing extremist scene." (at least according to the German wikipedia article) which I find humorous.
I downloaded two of their English translated books called "The Democratic State Critique of Bourgeois Sovereignty" and "Work and Wealth", and I'm planing on reading them after I've read more Marx's own work, like Capital Volume 1, and the work of other Marxists, namely those from my country of origin and of Left-Communist (Italian Left-Communist, Councilist, Communizers etc.) writers who I'm interested in.
R: 106 / I: 15
Anti-abortion and anti-vaccination are luddite ideology
Why would people be against the technology to save and improve the lives of people? Cause they reject the wonders of modern technology well used to the welfare of humankind. In short, reactionary ideals. Pic related cause it's inspired by a 20th century woman who didn't believe in wheelchairs.
R: 127 / I: 22
>fascism is capitalism in decay
>looks at italy
>italy only recently unified
>italy was mainly a agricultural economy
>italy industry was in some ways worse than imperial japa
>nazism, the capitalism in decay one, came way after italian fascism rose to power.
How was italian fascism capitalism in decay? If anything, it feels closer to the process meiji japan went through.
>fascism is capitalism in decay
>looks at italy
>italy only recently unified
>italy was mainly a agricultural economy
>italy industry was in some ways worse than imperial japa
>nazism, the capitalism in decay one, came way after italian fascism rose to power.
How was italian fascism capitalism in decay? If anything, it feels closer to the process meiji japan went through.
R: 14 / I: 0
How do you get rid of a president?
Nawrocki
I really want an uprising to start in Poland. There's no way this football fan coke-addicted retard isn't going to completely ruin our country. It especially hurts being transgender here:////How do you get rid of a president?
R: 11 / I: 2
Russia will never accept LGBT NAFOism decadence ideology. I hope he enjoys Othrodox traditional values, no western homosexuals/transhumanists and respects family values
Welcome home anti-woke westerner fleeing decadent western countries
Z
Solidarity anti-woke Americans move to Russia
Solidarity for Leo and his family moving in anti-imperialist nation like Russia.Russia will never accept LGBT NAFOism decadence ideology. I hope he enjoys Othrodox traditional values, no western homosexuals/transhumanists and respects family values
Welcome home anti-woke westerner fleeing decadent western countries
Z
R: 629 / I: 150 (full)
Previous: >>2417956
Evidence of the influence and origin of neo-Nazi groups in Ukraine
https://archive.ph/44B9Q
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323637
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323658
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323663
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323688
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323729
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323733
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323731
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323735
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323740
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>Video Essays / Historical Background
📺 • Ukraine: The Avoidable War - Boy Boy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LL4eNy4FCs8
📺 • Ukraine's Nazi Problem - The Marxist Project
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yZvWAwU5W4
📺 • America, Russia, and Ukraine's Far Right - Gravel Institute
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0pyVJG7_6Q
📺 • The Nature of Putin's Russia and Its Causes (3-Part Series) - 1Dime
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8d6Vzi7zYg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zODWTfMwFGw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Zuygh9Mzuo
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📺 • The Grayzone: https://www.youtube.com/@thegrayzone7996
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📺 • Defense Politics Asia: https://www.youtube.com/@DefensePoliticsAsia
📺 • The Duran: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdeMVChrumySxV9N1w0Au-w
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>Taco and talks in Alaska edition.Previous: >>2417956
Evidence of the influence and origin of neo-Nazi groups in Ukraine
https://archive.ph/44B9Q
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323637
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323658
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323663
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323688
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https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323733
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LL4eNy4FCs8
📺 • Ukraine's Nazi Problem - The Marxist Project
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yZvWAwU5W4
📺 • America, Russia, and Ukraine's Far Right - Gravel Institute
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0pyVJG7_6Q
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8d6Vzi7zYg
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Zuygh9Mzuo
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Are right wingers genuinely stupid or just selfish? I know it's a massive generalization (and maybe ironic because of that) but I'm just dumbfounded. It's like they either know they're lying or too stupid to either understand cause and effect, or just struggle with empathy.
Are right wingers genuinely stupid or just selfish? I know it's a massive generalization (and maybe ironic because of that) but I'm just dumbfounded. It's like they either know they're lying or too stupid to either understand cause and effect, or just struggle with empathy.
R: 2 / I: 0
We are rabbits.
We are the prey. We hide in warrens during the day,
as dogs and cats and foxes prowl the field above. Every night our friends are killed grazing. This is perfect nature.
The adults say this is how it must be. They graze us, they subside on us. We will go to heaven, peace will reign,
nature is not scary. It is normal, how things have always been. A cycle. We need them as much as they need us.
We scream as they dig up our tunnels. We cower silently as a ferret takes the other nest. I'm young, terrified, naive;
this can't go on.
We are cowards, we have to be. We are weak, small, powerless. But I have a team. We think it through.
They are parasites. They only live when there are more of us alive, and they die when our population is at a norm.
Maybe I will touch a world where no rabbit has to hide.
Rabbits are fragile, but we can bite. When backed into a corner, we will fight.
And there is no escape from the world.
It's a perfect trap. One will bait, two will collapse the tunnel, three - me - will bring the wood down.
We're comrades. Brought up together, lost ones together, we will make a new world together.
My ears twitch as I wait for the signal. I shit myself. All I can hear is my panting.
The yelp of the bait rabbit as he is wrought. Topsoil tumbles. The dog is caught.
I emerge in a flash, adrenaline in my veins, my animal self telling me "go back!". The stick is in my mouth.
From all directions we attack. The dog, suprised, snaps back. My sister is in its jaws.
I do not see the third, for I am upon it. I stab the stick into its leg, the twig snaps.
Stunned, a rabbit in the headlights. Death comes to me from the dog's eyes. Run! No choice but Run!
But then my comrades will die. I go against nature and bite down on its leg. No human could predict what I did, what I would have said.
Blood soaks my tongue, a terrible taste. It howls in pain. That's enough, I jump back with my hind legs, kick it, and run.
I make it a step before a leg strikes me, powerful, angry. The field becomes red, I scream in agony,
and rage, and sorrow, and victory, and fear.
I kick at the earth, bones broken. Rabbits are fragile. I'm fucked.
I'm not really that brave. I bit because I was scared, saw it look at me. Now I'm going to die. No heaven for me,
nothing waiting for us.
We didn't take it down, but some escaped. The dog is a little hurt, at least. Not much consolation for death.
We won. Maybe we didn't kill the thing, but there'd be more if we did. We… I - I showed the warren the predators aren't invincible.
What good does that do for me. Can't enjoy fame when you're dead.
The dog approaches, its time for the end. I'm scared. I cry, I'm going to die.
Courage means a bit, intelligence a bit more,
the real strength of rabbits is we've got more.
You can kill me, kill all my comrades, but you won't win the war, because you need us, we don't need you.
I made a difference. More will follow me. There will always be more. They will resist for me.
Comrades, don't avenge me. I won't exist to thank you. Just win, and make a world where there aren't predators and prey.
Poetry I wrote
Predators and PreyWe are rabbits.
We are the prey. We hide in warrens during the day,
as dogs and cats and foxes prowl the field above. Every night our friends are killed grazing. This is perfect nature.
The adults say this is how it must be. They graze us, they subside on us. We will go to heaven, peace will reign,
nature is not scary. It is normal, how things have always been. A cycle. We need them as much as they need us.
We scream as they dig up our tunnels. We cower silently as a ferret takes the other nest. I'm young, terrified, naive;
this can't go on.
We are cowards, we have to be. We are weak, small, powerless. But I have a team. We think it through.
They are parasites. They only live when there are more of us alive, and they die when our population is at a norm.
Maybe I will touch a world where no rabbit has to hide.
Rabbits are fragile, but we can bite. When backed into a corner, we will fight.
And there is no escape from the world.
It's a perfect trap. One will bait, two will collapse the tunnel, three - me - will bring the wood down.
We're comrades. Brought up together, lost ones together, we will make a new world together.
My ears twitch as I wait for the signal. I shit myself. All I can hear is my panting.
The yelp of the bait rabbit as he is wrought. Topsoil tumbles. The dog is caught.
I emerge in a flash, adrenaline in my veins, my animal self telling me "go back!". The stick is in my mouth.
From all directions we attack. The dog, suprised, snaps back. My sister is in its jaws.
I do not see the third, for I am upon it. I stab the stick into its leg, the twig snaps.
Stunned, a rabbit in the headlights. Death comes to me from the dog's eyes. Run! No choice but Run!
But then my comrades will die. I go against nature and bite down on its leg. No human could predict what I did, what I would have said.
Blood soaks my tongue, a terrible taste. It howls in pain. That's enough, I jump back with my hind legs, kick it, and run.
I make it a step before a leg strikes me, powerful, angry. The field becomes red, I scream in agony,
and rage, and sorrow, and victory, and fear.
I kick at the earth, bones broken. Rabbits are fragile. I'm fucked.
I'm not really that brave. I bit because I was scared, saw it look at me. Now I'm going to die. No heaven for me,
nothing waiting for us.
We didn't take it down, but some escaped. The dog is a little hurt, at least. Not much consolation for death.
We won. Maybe we didn't kill the thing, but there'd be more if we did. We… I - I showed the warren the predators aren't invincible.
What good does that do for me. Can't enjoy fame when you're dead.
The dog approaches, its time for the end. I'm scared. I cry, I'm going to die.
Courage means a bit, intelligence a bit more,
the real strength of rabbits is we've got more.
You can kill me, kill all my comrades, but you won't win the war, because you need us, we don't need you.
I made a difference. More will follow me. There will always be more. They will resist for me.
Comrades, don't avenge me. I won't exist to thank you. Just win, and make a world where there aren't predators and prey.
R: 5 / I: 0
Pink Tide 2: Electric Boogaloo
Thoughts on the left-wing populist presidents that have been elected in Latin America since the late 2010s like Arce, Borić, Lula, Petro, Sheinbaum, etc.? Sánchez from Spain too since he's sometimes included in this group.
R: 128 / I: 23 (sage)
Sorry bud.
Listen up.
You were colonizers. You do not get to keep your homeland any more. It's over. Your turn to be colonized has come. It's just karma, deal with it.
Sorry bud.
Listen up.
You were colonizers. You do not get to keep your homeland any more. It's over. Your turn to be colonized has come. It's just karma, deal with it.
R: 63 / I: 18
But when you step outside your Marxist bubble, you realize: people are fucking idiots. Not "idiots" meaning "stupid," but ἰδιώτης (idiotes), an Ancient Greek term for a private person indifferent to politics or public life. Most people refuse to see the connection between politics and their daily existence. They prioritize a "good" private life: a stable job, a wife who cooks and cleans, 1.8 children, maybe a dog, a home, and holidays twice a year (sorry, Americans, this is Europe). Young Marx (or Engels, I can't remember) once called this an "animal’s life": unreflective, driven by instincts the bourgeoisie instilled in workers. Tragically, this remains true 150 years later. The separation of private and public life poisons any cohesive society.
As capitalism’s crises deepen, bourgeois propaganda (mass media, PR) aggressively pushes unscientific, esoteric, and religious ideas. I told my family I’m a materialis - not chasing money, just rejecting spirits - and they got sad for me. Like I’m some empty husk because I don’t "feel" ghosts. It’s even more exhausting to explain that most "personal" thoughts aren’t original. Humans rarely have new ideas; we recycle old ones. Yet people resent being asked to examine their beliefs. They deny that their desires are manufactured by mass media, or that history predates them. Many cling to a nonexistent sentimental past or an idealized future. I’ve developed profound hatred for the state, family, private property, and religion. My mother understands my critiques of the state, religion, and property, but family is sacred to her. Explaining its evolution as a social structure is pointless. This mental block leads to a common schema: individual → family → nation. You see this everywhere. ("States are cities; cities are families.") Most people can’t grasp their own historicity.
This is why meaningful mass political action is nearly impossible today. As a Marxist, you must constantly fight: first, to stay sharp and avoid sinking into the swamp of bourgeois society; second, to drive change against bourgeois society’s current. The river of bourgeois history flows against the general arrow of history. Paradoxically, Marxism is liberating: it reveals history’s direction. But bourgeois history is the only history that exists now. As a Marxist, you're forced to swim upstream. Swimming upstream is the exhaustion.
Being a communist is the most mentally tiring thing to be.
There is power in Marxism that you cannot find in other systems of ideas. Marxism is a totality; if you’re a committed Marxist, you can’t pick and choose where to apply it. You cannot have a bit of Marxism for breakfast and a bit of liberalism for lunch. Choosing to be a Marxist means examining every facet of the social world through a rigid system that rejects esotericism, magic, or religious thinking.But when you step outside your Marxist bubble, you realize: people are fucking idiots. Not "idiots" meaning "stupid," but ἰδιώτης (idiotes), an Ancient Greek term for a private person indifferent to politics or public life. Most people refuse to see the connection between politics and their daily existence. They prioritize a "good" private life: a stable job, a wife who cooks and cleans, 1.8 children, maybe a dog, a home, and holidays twice a year (sorry, Americans, this is Europe). Young Marx (or Engels, I can't remember) once called this an "animal’s life": unreflective, driven by instincts the bourgeoisie instilled in workers. Tragically, this remains true 150 years later. The separation of private and public life poisons any cohesive society.
As capitalism’s crises deepen, bourgeois propaganda (mass media, PR) aggressively pushes unscientific, esoteric, and religious ideas. I told my family I’m a materialis - not chasing money, just rejecting spirits - and they got sad for me. Like I’m some empty husk because I don’t "feel" ghosts. It’s even more exhausting to explain that most "personal" thoughts aren’t original. Humans rarely have new ideas; we recycle old ones. Yet people resent being asked to examine their beliefs. They deny that their desires are manufactured by mass media, or that history predates them. Many cling to a nonexistent sentimental past or an idealized future. I’ve developed profound hatred for the state, family, private property, and religion. My mother understands my critiques of the state, religion, and property, but family is sacred to her. Explaining its evolution as a social structure is pointless. This mental block leads to a common schema: individual → family → nation. You see this everywhere. ("States are cities; cities are families.") Most people can’t grasp their own historicity.
This is why meaningful mass political action is nearly impossible today. As a Marxist, you must constantly fight: first, to stay sharp and avoid sinking into the swamp of bourgeois society; second, to drive change against bourgeois society’s current. The river of bourgeois history flows against the general arrow of history. Paradoxically, Marxism is liberating: it reveals history’s direction. But bourgeois history is the only history that exists now. As a Marxist, you're forced to swim upstream. Swimming upstream is the exhaustion.
R: 4 / I: 0
So many theories on what makes cops so pathetic and villainous to ordinary citizens, yet no one can be bothered to take a reductionist take on what makes their behaviours believably human.
>pic unrelated I just thought it was cool
Most cops are weak and cowardly
Probably a way simpler explanation for why the majority of us police officers generally suck is the fact that the majority of them with very few exceptions are in general weak people that get paid a lot to not get stronger or take on actual threats. That scandal involving that squad of Texas cops standing behind the deaths of children in fear was probably one of the best examples of showcasing just how weak the average cop is. It makes sense knowing how many videos you can find of ordinary barely/untrained and probably fat citizens (and sometimes actual children) developing and sometimes showcasing the confidence to take on the us police force in close quarters combat openly. At that point is it a surprise why the most crime ridden cities, towns, and counties of that country have always been notoriously non policed? Is it a surprise why similar countries with weak cops (including Mexico) have failed to deal with organized crime for decades? Is it a surprise why crime syndicates involving thousands or dozens of thousands of members have remained active and in control over several dozen/hundred kilometers of us territory for years?So many theories on what makes cops so pathetic and villainous to ordinary citizens, yet no one can be bothered to take a reductionist take on what makes their behaviours believably human.
>pic unrelated I just thought it was cool
R: 50 / I: 8
it is political compass slop and the political compass is bullshit but it's still very interesting in this context
Why are the libleft and authright the most fetishistic quadrants?
and also another really interesting thing
the sample size for men (15k) is much larger than the sample size for women (5k) because women take the political compass test much less than men. thus the woman graph is much more oriented towards the extremes on all sides because to be a political compass involved woman is to be much weirder compared to the norm for women and thus more permitting of extremism although political compass stuff is in both cases outside of the norm
i must add that it's highly likely that a signicant part of the female respondents were trans women and that's safe to assume if you're on /leftypol/ and have interacted with many political extremists
and this got me wondering why cis women don't get involved with terminally online shit as much
i think this has everything to do with the fact that cis women rarely go beyond the major socially acceptable online spaces (instagram, tiktok, snapchat, sometimes even youtube is too niche, and only the hyper-mainstream slop areas of these areas)
discord, reddit, 4chan and altchans, even youtube on occassion, and the less mainstream regions of tiktok, youtube, and ig are basically all men and trans women
for example almost every man i've ever met from gen z has heard of Chris Chan and only one woman.
why is this?
are women just less autistic or is the autism just expressed different
i think it will be the difference of expression
the material conditions of the time lead to a very strange paradox in which women are marginalized, this is clear from anyone who has lived in society, that in lingustics generally the male sex is given first-order preference fore example, and that men too are alienated as seen clearly by suicide rates and the rise of the (highly retarded) incel movement and increase in (say the line) male lonlieness. this leads to different expressions of the same alienation with the present material conditions and the frequent failure to realize class conciousness from both sexes as they simply blame the other sex for their problems. we can see that a hyper-capitalist society like south korea has this extremely accelerated.
god i wish guy debord was still alive
another day another banger
seeing this graph got me thinkingit is political compass slop and the political compass is bullshit but it's still very interesting in this context
Why are the libleft and authright the most fetishistic quadrants?
and also another really interesting thing
the sample size for men (15k) is much larger than the sample size for women (5k) because women take the political compass test much less than men. thus the woman graph is much more oriented towards the extremes on all sides because to be a political compass involved woman is to be much weirder compared to the norm for women and thus more permitting of extremism although political compass stuff is in both cases outside of the norm
i must add that it's highly likely that a signicant part of the female respondents were trans women and that's safe to assume if you're on /leftypol/ and have interacted with many political extremists
and this got me wondering why cis women don't get involved with terminally online shit as much
i think this has everything to do with the fact that cis women rarely go beyond the major socially acceptable online spaces (instagram, tiktok, snapchat, sometimes even youtube is too niche, and only the hyper-mainstream slop areas of these areas)
discord, reddit, 4chan and altchans, even youtube on occassion, and the less mainstream regions of tiktok, youtube, and ig are basically all men and trans women
for example almost every man i've ever met from gen z has heard of Chris Chan and only one woman.
why is this?
are women just less autistic or is the autism just expressed different
i think it will be the difference of expression
the material conditions of the time lead to a very strange paradox in which women are marginalized, this is clear from anyone who has lived in society, that in lingustics generally the male sex is given first-order preference fore example, and that men too are alienated as seen clearly by suicide rates and the rise of the (highly retarded) incel movement and increase in (say the line) male lonlieness. this leads to different expressions of the same alienation with the present material conditions and the frequent failure to realize class conciousness from both sexes as they simply blame the other sex for their problems. we can see that a hyper-capitalist society like south korea has this extremely accelerated.
god i wish guy debord was still alive
R: 3 / I: 4
Hi sir, how may I help you with your revolution today?
> There is no working class in the West.
> There is no working class in the West.
> There is no working class in the West.
> REEEE!
> I'm too lazy to help organize the people.
Hi sir, how may I help you with your revolution today?
> There is no working class in the West.
> There is no working class in the West.
> There is no working class in the West.
> REEEE!
> I'm too lazy to help organize the people.
R: 11 / I: 0
You're not using the tools given to create democratic communism.
That is a mistake.
There id nothing infantile about democratic communism with blockchains snd ai.
To think otherwise just makes you seem rigid and doctrine and not realistic.
Like yours just an atheist christian instead of a marxist that is progressive that is rooted on materialist science.
You're not using the tools given to create democratic communism.
That is a mistake.
There id nothing infantile about democratic communism with blockchains snd ai.
To think otherwise just makes you seem rigid and doctrine and not realistic.
Like yours just an atheist christian instead of a marxist that is progressive that is rooted on materialist science.
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Some highlights:
>long history of violence from which the PKK emerged
>emphasis on hundreds of years of alliance between Kurds and Turks
>need for democratic solution, faith that now it is the time
>respect to Bahceli and Erdogan’s calls to move on with a resolution
>PKK (all armed groups) to leave weapons to engage in a democratic resolution process
it's so over
Ocalan orders the PKK to dissolve
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/ocalan-dissolve-pkk-historic-statementSome highlights:
>long history of violence from which the PKK emerged
>emphasis on hundreds of years of alliance between Kurds and Turks
>need for democratic solution, faith that now it is the time
>respect to Bahceli and Erdogan’s calls to move on with a resolution
>PKK (all armed groups) to leave weapons to engage in a democratic resolution process
it's so over
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India’s opposition accuses the Election Commission of India of rushing through a mammoth electoral roll revision in eastern Bihar state, saying the exercise could render vast numbers of citizens unable to vote. The revision of nearly 80 million voters involves strict documentation requirements from citizens, triggering concerns it could lead to the exclusion of vulnerable groups, especially those who are unable to produce the paperwork required to prove their citizenship.
https://apnews.com/article/india-opposition-protest-electoral-roll-6aa2366999fde2598bb0603c3d1a69db
Israeli Tourist Boom in Sri Lanka’s Arugam Bay Stirs Local Unease
The opposition political parties criticized the government’s alleged tilt toward Israel, pointing to visa-free entry for Israeli tourists as proof that the traditionally pro-Palestinian National People’s Power (NPP) has changed its stance. But the same opposition would likely hit the streets if firm action on Israeli tourists sparked a U.S. tariff snapback or a slump in arrivals. The government is squeezed between values (nonalignment, empathy for Palestinians) and vulnerabilities (dollars, debt, and jobs). In that gap, symbolism often beats substance and enforcement gets deferred.
https://thediplomat.com/2025/08/israeli-tourist-boom-in-sri-lankas-arugam-bay-stirs-local-unease/
https://archive.ph/iUOkT
Nearly 400 “voluntary redundancies” sought at Western Sydney University
Management is now working with faculty and school deans to hand-pick the staff whose applications will be accepted, while still threatening forced redundancies as well. This is another warning of the scale of the job cuts and sweeping restructuring being demanded throughout Australia’s 39 public universities. So far, more than 3,500 job losses have been unveiled across the country during the past 10 months.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/08/11/ogfk-a11.html
Israeli forces accused of escalating intimidation campaign against journalists in Syria
Multiple reporters told the Committee to Protect Journalists that troops have arrested, injured and fired live rounds at media workers in the southern province of Quneitra, much of which was seized by Israeli forces late last year. Israel invaded southern Syria following the ouster of the Assad regime in December, capturing hundreds of square-kilometres of Syrian land in what it says is an indefinite occupation.
https://www.newarab.com/news/israeli-forces-escalate-media-crackdown-south-syria
Kurdish refugee camp to be evacuated under Turkey, Iraq deal
As part of the arrangement, of which the PKK is also a party, the camp is expected to be fully evacuated by September, regional sources said. Under the deal, some camp residents will be resettled within Iraq, while others will be relocated to Turkey. Individuals identified as close to the PKK but not implicated in criminal activity may be temporarily accommodated in Turkey.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/kurdish-refugee-camp-be-evacuated-under-turkey-iraq-deal
Nationwide blackout hits Iraq amid record heatwave
The Ministry of Electricity said the Mussayib–Babil 400 kV lines tripped under heavy loads driven by record temperatures above 50°C (122°F) and a surge of millions of pilgrims in Karbala. The outage wiped out more than 6,000 megawatts, triggering a chain reaction that shut down generating units nationwide. Power plants in Basra, Maysan, Dhi Qar, Baghdad, Diyala, and al-Anbar went offline. Southern and central provinces, including Basra and the mid-Euphrates region, were hit hardest despite not being the source of the fault.
https://shafaq.com/en/society/Nationwide-blackout-hits-Iraq-amid-record-heatwave
Assaulted charity walkers blame Palestine Action ban for emboldening far-right thugs
Two members of the Hastings-based Friends of Al-Mawasi group told of being viciously attacked by Israel supporters while waiting for fellow demonstrators to arrive for a fundraising walk. Richard Wistreich, who is Jewish and whose father escaped the Holocaust, was repeatedly called a Nazi by Israel supporters, while a woman was pushed to the ground and called a “f** terrorist” for wearing a keffiyeh.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/assaulted-charity-walkers-blame-palestine-action-ban-emboldening-far-right-thugs
Wikipedia operator loses court challenge to UK Online Safety Act regulations
The foundation said if it was subject to so-called Category 1 duties – which would require Wikipedia's users and contributors' identities to be verified – it would need to drastically reduce the number of British users who can access the site. Judge Jeremy Johnson dismissed its case on Monday, but said the Wikimedia Foundation could bring a further challenge if regulator Ofcom "(impermissibly) concludes that Wikipedia is a Category 1 service".
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/society-equity/wikipedia-operator-loses-court-challenge-uk-online-safety-act-regulations-2025-08-11/
Chad opposition leader, ex-PM sentenced to 20 years for inciting violence
The Ngambaye ethnic group enjoys wide popularity among the predominantly Christian and animist populations of the south, whose members feel marginalised by the largely Muslim-dominated authorities in N’Djamena. Masra left Chad after a bloody crackdown on his followers in 2022, only returning under an amnesty agreed in 2024.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/9/chad-opposition-leader-ex-pm-sentenced-to-20-years-for-inciting-violence
https://archive.ph/5nowy
Mali junta detains dozens of soldiers over alleged coup plot
General Abass Dembele, a famous military commander and former governor of the central Mopti district, was among those seized. …. A member of the National Transition Council, the junta-backed parliament, stated that “around 50 arrests” had occurred. “All are soldiers. Their objective was to overthrow the junta,” the legislator stated.
https://www.firstpost.com/world/mali-junta-coup-attempt-arrests-13923165.html
Colombia rallies against possible US military intervention in Venezuela
Petro’s initial response was an invitation to the US and Venezuela to work together and to coordinate actions against drug cartels. He emphasized that violence would not be the key to overcoming drug cartels. And that decriminalization efforts and economic integration of left-out groups, such as the peasantry and indigenous groups, would be more effective. The president also critiqued the bounty put on Maduro, saying that: “I don’t believe that the solution to Venezuela’s political problems lies in paying to kill or capture political leaders.”
https://colombiareports.com/colombia-rallies-against-possible-us-military-intervention-in-venezuela/
Colombian senator and presidential hopeful dies 2 months after shooting
Javier Garay, a political science professor at the Externado University of Colombia, said Uribe has already “become a symbol of the Colombian right.” However, he considered it premature to predict whether the senator’s death will strengthen the political faction, given the current lack of unity and diverse proposals from dozens of politicians vying to represent the bloc on next year’s ballot.
https://apnews.com/article/colombia-miguel-uribe-senator-shooting-dead-bogota-6c8f32b5e23bedec5f634dee5e334042
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India’s opposition parties protest against a controversial electoral roll revisionIndia’s opposition accuses the Election Commission of India of rushing through a mammoth electoral roll revision in eastern Bihar state, saying the exercise could render vast numbers of citizens unable to vote. The revision of nearly 80 million voters involves strict documentation requirements from citizens, triggering concerns it could lead to the exclusion of vulnerable groups, especially those who are unable to produce the paperwork required to prove their citizenship.
https://apnews.com/article/india-opposition-protest-electoral-roll-6aa2366999fde2598bb0603c3d1a69db
Israeli Tourist Boom in Sri Lanka’s Arugam Bay Stirs Local Unease
The opposition political parties criticized the government’s alleged tilt toward Israel, pointing to visa-free entry for Israeli tourists as proof that the traditionally pro-Palestinian National People’s Power (NPP) has changed its stance. But the same opposition would likely hit the streets if firm action on Israeli tourists sparked a U.S. tariff snapback or a slump in arrivals. The government is squeezed between values (nonalignment, empathy for Palestinians) and vulnerabilities (dollars, debt, and jobs). In that gap, symbolism often beats substance and enforcement gets deferred.
https://thediplomat.com/2025/08/israeli-tourist-boom-in-sri-lankas-arugam-bay-stirs-local-unease/
https://archive.ph/iUOkT
Nearly 400 “voluntary redundancies” sought at Western Sydney University
Management is now working with faculty and school deans to hand-pick the staff whose applications will be accepted, while still threatening forced redundancies as well. This is another warning of the scale of the job cuts and sweeping restructuring being demanded throughout Australia’s 39 public universities. So far, more than 3,500 job losses have been unveiled across the country during the past 10 months.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/08/11/ogfk-a11.html
Israeli forces accused of escalating intimidation campaign against journalists in Syria
Multiple reporters told the Committee to Protect Journalists that troops have arrested, injured and fired live rounds at media workers in the southern province of Quneitra, much of which was seized by Israeli forces late last year. Israel invaded southern Syria following the ouster of the Assad regime in December, capturing hundreds of square-kilometres of Syrian land in what it says is an indefinite occupation.
https://www.newarab.com/news/israeli-forces-escalate-media-crackdown-south-syria
Kurdish refugee camp to be evacuated under Turkey, Iraq deal
As part of the arrangement, of which the PKK is also a party, the camp is expected to be fully evacuated by September, regional sources said. Under the deal, some camp residents will be resettled within Iraq, while others will be relocated to Turkey. Individuals identified as close to the PKK but not implicated in criminal activity may be temporarily accommodated in Turkey.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/kurdish-refugee-camp-be-evacuated-under-turkey-iraq-deal
Nationwide blackout hits Iraq amid record heatwave
The Ministry of Electricity said the Mussayib–Babil 400 kV lines tripped under heavy loads driven by record temperatures above 50°C (122°F) and a surge of millions of pilgrims in Karbala. The outage wiped out more than 6,000 megawatts, triggering a chain reaction that shut down generating units nationwide. Power plants in Basra, Maysan, Dhi Qar, Baghdad, Diyala, and al-Anbar went offline. Southern and central provinces, including Basra and the mid-Euphrates region, were hit hardest despite not being the source of the fault.
https://shafaq.com/en/society/Nationwide-blackout-hits-Iraq-amid-record-heatwave
Assaulted charity walkers blame Palestine Action ban for emboldening far-right thugs
Two members of the Hastings-based Friends of Al-Mawasi group told of being viciously attacked by Israel supporters while waiting for fellow demonstrators to arrive for a fundraising walk. Richard Wistreich, who is Jewish and whose father escaped the Holocaust, was repeatedly called a Nazi by Israel supporters, while a woman was pushed to the ground and called a “f** terrorist” for wearing a keffiyeh.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/assaulted-charity-walkers-blame-palestine-action-ban-emboldening-far-right-thugs
Wikipedia operator loses court challenge to UK Online Safety Act regulations
The foundation said if it was subject to so-called Category 1 duties – which would require Wikipedia's users and contributors' identities to be verified – it would need to drastically reduce the number of British users who can access the site. Judge Jeremy Johnson dismissed its case on Monday, but said the Wikimedia Foundation could bring a further challenge if regulator Ofcom "(impermissibly) concludes that Wikipedia is a Category 1 service".
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/society-equity/wikipedia-operator-loses-court-challenge-uk-online-safety-act-regulations-2025-08-11/
Chad opposition leader, ex-PM sentenced to 20 years for inciting violence
The Ngambaye ethnic group enjoys wide popularity among the predominantly Christian and animist populations of the south, whose members feel marginalised by the largely Muslim-dominated authorities in N’Djamena. Masra left Chad after a bloody crackdown on his followers in 2022, only returning under an amnesty agreed in 2024.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/9/chad-opposition-leader-ex-pm-sentenced-to-20-years-for-inciting-violence
https://archive.ph/5nowy
Mali junta detains dozens of soldiers over alleged coup plot
General Abass Dembele, a famous military commander and former governor of the central Mopti district, was among those seized. …. A member of the National Transition Council, the junta-backed parliament, stated that “around 50 arrests” had occurred. “All are soldiers. Their objective was to overthrow the junta,” the legislator stated.
https://www.firstpost.com/world/mali-junta-coup-attempt-arrests-13923165.html
Colombia rallies against possible US military intervention in Venezuela
Petro’s initial response was an invitation to the US and Venezuela to work together and to coordinate actions against drug cartels. He emphasized that violence would not be the key to overcoming drug cartels. And that decriminalization efforts and economic integration of left-out groups, such as the peasantry and indigenous groups, would be more effective. The president also critiqued the bounty put on Maduro, saying that: “I don’t believe that the solution to Venezuela’s political problems lies in paying to kill or capture political leaders.”
https://colombiareports.com/colombia-rallies-against-possible-us-military-intervention-in-venezuela/
Colombian senator and presidential hopeful dies 2 months after shooting
Javier Garay, a political science professor at the Externado University of Colombia, said Uribe has already “become a symbol of the Colombian right.” However, he considered it premature to predict whether the senator’s death will strengthen the political faction, given the current lack of unity and diverse proposals from dozens of politicians vying to represent the bloc on next year’s ballot.
https://apnews.com/article/colombia-miguel-uribe-senator-shooting-dead-bogota-6c8f32b5e23bedec5f634dee5e334042
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New advancements in theory just dropped
Discussion regarding picrel. Is it plausible or desirable? By this logic we have to be some terrifying accelerationists oriented around culling the human population if its not just waiting for a disaster to independently occur.
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>I want to see humanity progress beyond the current system into something better
>I'm selfish and see collective action as most benefitial to my personal interests
>I want to tear down the current system because thats what real uyghas do
what personally motivates you to be a socialist?
>I want to reduce suffering/increase wellbeing/ utilitarianism>I want to see humanity progress beyond the current system into something better
>I'm selfish and see collective action as most benefitial to my personal interests
>I want to tear down the current system because thats what real uyghas do
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The CIA is the backbone, the nervous system, the brain of the US and its allies.
This is not a shitpost, give me a good reason why communists shouldn't do entryism into the CIA? Trots didn't succeed cause they only did entryism into political parties, not organizations like the CIA.
The nature of their work is collectivist, meaning they were already conditioned into working together for a purpose higher than themselves.
And guess what, here's the best part, the CIA takes in actual retards because of their diversity inclusion training (DEI), so what are you waiting for? Join the CIA and change America towards multipolarity.
The CIA can be AES, not America
The CIA can be AES, it is highly centralized its in the name - Central Intelligence Agency. America cannot function on its own because its unsustainable, its the CIA that carries it, the CIA does all the work, therefore for any change in the American regime to come, it must come from within the CIA, this is why communists should join the CIA in order to take over the MOP and the state instrument.The CIA is the backbone, the nervous system, the brain of the US and its allies.
This is not a shitpost, give me a good reason why communists shouldn't do entryism into the CIA? Trots didn't succeed cause they only did entryism into political parties, not organizations like the CIA.
The nature of their work is collectivist, meaning they were already conditioned into working together for a purpose higher than themselves.
And guess what, here's the best part, the CIA takes in actual retards because of their diversity inclusion training (DEI), so what are you waiting for? Join the CIA and change America towards multipolarity.
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The more i read about him the more retarded he seems. He's basically just a shittier stalin that failed at everything he tried to do after unifying china.
The more i read about him the more retarded he seems. He's basically just a shittier stalin that failed at everything he tried to do after unifying china.
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Watched this video on acid communism and was struck by how extremely Sorelian it all is, the first part could be verbatim an explanation of Sorel's advocacy of irrationalism within the movement. Of course Sorel takes these ideas of myth and imagination in a much better and more developed direction than Fisher does, but still, I think its a testament to how relevant Sorel still is today.
Watched this video on acid communism and was struck by how extremely Sorelian it all is, the first part could be verbatim an explanation of Sorel's advocacy of irrationalism within the movement. Of course Sorel takes these ideas of myth and imagination in a much better and more developed direction than Fisher does, but still, I think its a testament to how relevant Sorel still is today.
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>If you criticize Pisrahell you risk getting sent to Bukele's concentration camp
So much for the 1st amendment, death to America
>body too short or empty
>If you criticize Pisrahell you risk getting sent to Bukele's concentration camp
So much for the 1st amendment, death to America
>body too short or empty
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This board has to be a larp praising north korea instead of cuba. Which is the only country standing that hasdone communism right.
People need cuba chill now more than ever.
Its if the country got seized by the dmv not if gof seized by draco comprende.
This board has to be a larp praising north korea instead of cuba. Which is the only country standing that hasdone communism right.
People need cuba chill now more than ever.
Its if the country got seized by the dmv not if gof seized by draco comprende.
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Reminder that Marx's criticism is not actually "immanent", that's just garbage pushed by philosophy nerds. You don't need all that immanence crap to make a point. It's just pretentious ideology made to sound profound, projected onto Marx by critical theory clowns trying to impose a purely epistemological framework onto the object of study.
It is entirely possible to analyze a system objectively and recognize how it operates according to the interests of the system. Concepts like "dialectical thinking" are pleonasm. If you're thinking correctly, you're already thinking dialectically by default to explain, not to mystify; to clarify relations, not to invent essences; to use logic, not to absolutize it.
Reminder that Marx's criticism is not actually "immanent", that's just garbage pushed by philosophy nerds. You don't need all that immanence crap to make a point. It's just pretentious ideology made to sound profound, projected onto Marx by critical theory clowns trying to impose a purely epistemological framework onto the object of study.
It is entirely possible to analyze a system objectively and recognize how it operates according to the interests of the system. Concepts like "dialectical thinking" are pleonasm. If you're thinking correctly, you're already thinking dialectically by default to explain, not to mystify; to clarify relations, not to invent essences; to use logic, not to absolutize it.
R: 588 / I: 109
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The New People’s Army (NPA)-Central Panay (Jose Percival Estocada Jr Command) repelled the 12th IB’s attack on one of its units at the boundary of Barangay Artuz and Barangay Apero in the town of Tapaz, Capiz Province, on July 19. The NPA actively defended against the military troops by swiftly preparing and launching a counterattack. “Taken by surprise, the military reacted like rabid dogs by indiscriminately firing shots,” the NPA-Central Panay said. To conceal their defeat, the 12th IB supported by the 3rd ID, fabricated myths of their so-called victory against the NPA.
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/20778/
India pauses plans to buy US arms after Trump's tariffs
New Delhi has put on hold its plans to procure new U.S. weapons and aircraft, according to three Indian officials familiar with the matter, in India's first concrete sign of discontent after tariffs imposed on its exports by President Donald Trump dragged ties to their lowest level in decades. India had been planning to send Defence Minister Rajnath Singh to Washington in the coming weeks for an announcement on some of the purchases, but that trip has been cancelled, two of the people said.
https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/india-pauses-plans-buy-us-arms-after-trumps-tariffs-2025-08-08/
Thai soldiers injured by landmine near Cambodia amid fragile truce
Thailand said the incident took place within its territory in an area recently cleared of landmines. It would lodge a complaint against Cambodia for violating a treaty that bans the use of landmines and for infringing Thai sovereignty, the Thai foreign ministry said in a statement. Both Thailand and Cambodia are signatories to the Ottawa Convention against landmines. It is the third incident in a few weeks in which Thai soldiers have been injured by mines while patrolling along the border.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/9/thai-soldiers-injured-by-landmine-near-cambodia-amid-fragile-truce
https://archive.ph/nCwJw
Azerbaijan and Armenia sign peace deal at White House that creates a ‘Trump Route’ in region
The two countries in the South Caucasus signed agreements with each other, as well as the US, that will reopen key transportation routes while allowing the US to seize on Russia’s declining influence in the region. The deal includes an agreement that will create a major transit corridor linking Azerbaijan to its exclave of Nakhchivan, with the United States owning development rights to the corridor. It was to be named the Trump Route for International Peace and Prosperity, the White House said.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/09/azerbaijan-and-armenia-sign-peace-deal-at-white-house-that-creates-a-trump-route-in-region
Thousands protest in Tel Aviv against Israeli govt move to expand Gaza war
AFP journalists at the rally estimated the number of attendees to be in the tens of thousands, while a group representing the families of hostages said as many as 100,000 people participated. … "We will end with a direct message to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: if you invade parts of Gaza and the hostages are murdered, we will pursue you in the town squares, in election campaigns and at every time and place," Shahar Mor Zahiro, the relative of a slain hostage, told AFP.
https://www.newarab.com/news/thousands-protest-israel-against-plan-expand-gaza-war
‘We Will Not Leave Gaza City’: Palestinians Vow to Resist
Hamas focused on Gaza City. They called the plans to occupy it and evacuate 1 million residents a war crime. They highlighted the linguistic gymnastics between “control” vs. “occupation” as a tacit admission of Geneva convention violations. Hamas stated that this move sacrifices the enemy’s captives and explains the occupation’s sudden walkout from near-final talks. Hamas showed real flexibility, even openness to a comprehensive all-for-all exchange that ends the war and lifts the siege. They blamed the U.S. for cover and arms and urged UN/ICJ/ICC to act. They warned any further invasion would be met with resistance.
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/20802/
Teachers in north Aleppo countryside express rejection of education directorate measures and protestors calls for rehabilitating schools in Hama
The protestors expressed their rejections of the interviews which the education directorate in Aleppo had announced, seeing that such measures underestimate teachers who proceeded with their duty under harsh conditions without guarantees for permanent employment or sufficient salaries.
https://www.syriahr.com/en/367491/
UK police arrest at least 466 people at Palestine Action protest in London
Videos shared on social media showed police removing protesters who had been seated across the square, holding signs reading, “I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action.” “The people are collectively opposing the genocide in Gaza and the Palestine Action ban,” Defend Our Juries, an advocacy group that organised the protest, wrote on X.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/9/uk-police-arrest-at-least-200-in-palestine-action-protest-in-london
https://archive.ph/Lw8FT
Greek pro-Palestine activists plan nationwide 'Day of Rage' for Gaza
Activists are calling on supporters to transform "beaches, alleys and mountaintops" into sites of protest, not leisure, during the peak of tourist season. One planned demonstration on Zakynthos accuses Israeli investors of purchasing property "with wealth stained with the blood of Palestinians". Greek police have called for increased security around tourism infrastructure, vowing that any violence during the demonstrations will be met with a "firm response".
https://www.newarab.com/news/greek-pro-palestine-activists-plan-day-rage-gaza
Thousands march against plan to build massive bridge linking Sicily to Italy’s mainland
Protesters staunchly oppose the Strait of Messina Bridge project over its scale, earthquake threats, environmental impact and the specter of mafia interference. The idea to build a bridge to connect Sicily to the rest of Italy has been debated off and on for decades but always delayed due to these concerns. The project, however, took a major step forward when a government committee overseeing strategic public investments approved the plan this week.
https://apnews.com/article/italy-sicily-bridge-infrastructure-project-environment-mafia-e04b812da96909a43b8e5aabd8f98ab6
South Africa’s ANC government arrests 1,000 miners
The operation is an extension of the ANC’s violent Operation Vala Umgodi (Plug the Hole) that began with the Stilfontein massacre in January, where 90 miners, mostly undocumented migrants, died after police surrounded an abandoned mine, cutting off food supplies and forcing them to the surface. The horrific crime highlighted the ANC government’s brutal response to the explosive social conditions developing in South Africa.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/08/08/qvwa-a08.html
Bolivia prepares for presidential elections with a fragmented left and an optimistic right
Several polls give the lead to Samuel Doria, a businessman and former minister in Jaime Paz Zamora’s government in the early 1990s. Doria, a right-wing millionaire who has tried three times to win the presidency, is polling at 21.5%. “On August 17, we will not only change the president, but there will also be a change of cycle in Bolivia,” said the magnate, who has shown clear sympathy for Donald Trump. Behind the cement businessman is former right-wing president Jorge Quiroga, with 19.6% of the vote. Quiroga, who is an industrial engineer, was in office for just one year, between 2001 and 2002, following the departure of former president Hugo Banzer. Quiroga has proposed a neoliberal economic plan, in which he proposes the liberalization of hydrocarbons, mining, agriculture, lithium, etc., to overcome the economic crisis.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/08/08/bolivia-prepares-for-presidential-elections-with-a-fragmented-left-and-an-optimistic-right/
Milei vows ban on funding public spending with monetary issuance
Milei, 54, delivered a cadena nacional nationwide broadcast late Friday, just days after vetoing a rise in retirement and disability pensions approved by Congress. The measures, he said, aim to “fortify the zero deficit target and the government’s monetary policy”. The President also vowed to send a bill to Congress to punish those who approve budgets that imply debt.
https://www.batimes.com.ar/news/argentina/milei-vows-ban-on-funding-public-spending-with-monetary-issuance.phtml
https://archive.ph/CxVSP
Mexico rules out Trump's reported military plan against drug cartels
Speaking to reporters, Sheinbaum said the Mexican government was informed that an order on the cartels was coming, and "that it had nothing to do with the participation of any military personnel". "It is not part of any agreement, far from it. When it has been brought up, we have always said 'No'," she said. Earlier this year, Sheinbaum told reporters that Trump's decision to designate cartels as terrorists "cannot be an opportunity for the US to invade our sovereignty".
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c07pdel9vyjo
News 8/9/25
NPA Unit Successfully Fights Off Attack By AFP Troopers In Capiz ProvinceThe New People’s Army (NPA)-Central Panay (Jose Percival Estocada Jr Command) repelled the 12th IB’s attack on one of its units at the boundary of Barangay Artuz and Barangay Apero in the town of Tapaz, Capiz Province, on July 19. The NPA actively defended against the military troops by swiftly preparing and launching a counterattack. “Taken by surprise, the military reacted like rabid dogs by indiscriminately firing shots,” the NPA-Central Panay said. To conceal their defeat, the 12th IB supported by the 3rd ID, fabricated myths of their so-called victory against the NPA.
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/20778/
India pauses plans to buy US arms after Trump's tariffs
New Delhi has put on hold its plans to procure new U.S. weapons and aircraft, according to three Indian officials familiar with the matter, in India's first concrete sign of discontent after tariffs imposed on its exports by President Donald Trump dragged ties to their lowest level in decades. India had been planning to send Defence Minister Rajnath Singh to Washington in the coming weeks for an announcement on some of the purchases, but that trip has been cancelled, two of the people said.
https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/india-pauses-plans-buy-us-arms-after-trumps-tariffs-2025-08-08/
Thai soldiers injured by landmine near Cambodia amid fragile truce
Thailand said the incident took place within its territory in an area recently cleared of landmines. It would lodge a complaint against Cambodia for violating a treaty that bans the use of landmines and for infringing Thai sovereignty, the Thai foreign ministry said in a statement. Both Thailand and Cambodia are signatories to the Ottawa Convention against landmines. It is the third incident in a few weeks in which Thai soldiers have been injured by mines while patrolling along the border.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/9/thai-soldiers-injured-by-landmine-near-cambodia-amid-fragile-truce
https://archive.ph/nCwJw
Azerbaijan and Armenia sign peace deal at White House that creates a ‘Trump Route’ in region
The two countries in the South Caucasus signed agreements with each other, as well as the US, that will reopen key transportation routes while allowing the US to seize on Russia’s declining influence in the region. The deal includes an agreement that will create a major transit corridor linking Azerbaijan to its exclave of Nakhchivan, with the United States owning development rights to the corridor. It was to be named the Trump Route for International Peace and Prosperity, the White House said.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/09/azerbaijan-and-armenia-sign-peace-deal-at-white-house-that-creates-a-trump-route-in-region
Thousands protest in Tel Aviv against Israeli govt move to expand Gaza war
AFP journalists at the rally estimated the number of attendees to be in the tens of thousands, while a group representing the families of hostages said as many as 100,000 people participated. … "We will end with a direct message to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: if you invade parts of Gaza and the hostages are murdered, we will pursue you in the town squares, in election campaigns and at every time and place," Shahar Mor Zahiro, the relative of a slain hostage, told AFP.
https://www.newarab.com/news/thousands-protest-israel-against-plan-expand-gaza-war
‘We Will Not Leave Gaza City’: Palestinians Vow to Resist
Hamas focused on Gaza City. They called the plans to occupy it and evacuate 1 million residents a war crime. They highlighted the linguistic gymnastics between “control” vs. “occupation” as a tacit admission of Geneva convention violations. Hamas stated that this move sacrifices the enemy’s captives and explains the occupation’s sudden walkout from near-final talks. Hamas showed real flexibility, even openness to a comprehensive all-for-all exchange that ends the war and lifts the siege. They blamed the U.S. for cover and arms and urged UN/ICJ/ICC to act. They warned any further invasion would be met with resistance.
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/20802/
Teachers in north Aleppo countryside express rejection of education directorate measures and protestors calls for rehabilitating schools in Hama
The protestors expressed their rejections of the interviews which the education directorate in Aleppo had announced, seeing that such measures underestimate teachers who proceeded with their duty under harsh conditions without guarantees for permanent employment or sufficient salaries.
https://www.syriahr.com/en/367491/
UK police arrest at least 466 people at Palestine Action protest in London
Videos shared on social media showed police removing protesters who had been seated across the square, holding signs reading, “I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action.” “The people are collectively opposing the genocide in Gaza and the Palestine Action ban,” Defend Our Juries, an advocacy group that organised the protest, wrote on X.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/9/uk-police-arrest-at-least-200-in-palestine-action-protest-in-london
https://archive.ph/Lw8FT
Greek pro-Palestine activists plan nationwide 'Day of Rage' for Gaza
Activists are calling on supporters to transform "beaches, alleys and mountaintops" into sites of protest, not leisure, during the peak of tourist season. One planned demonstration on Zakynthos accuses Israeli investors of purchasing property "with wealth stained with the blood of Palestinians". Greek police have called for increased security around tourism infrastructure, vowing that any violence during the demonstrations will be met with a "firm response".
https://www.newarab.com/news/greek-pro-palestine-activists-plan-day-rage-gaza
Thousands march against plan to build massive bridge linking Sicily to Italy’s mainland
Protesters staunchly oppose the Strait of Messina Bridge project over its scale, earthquake threats, environmental impact and the specter of mafia interference. The idea to build a bridge to connect Sicily to the rest of Italy has been debated off and on for decades but always delayed due to these concerns. The project, however, took a major step forward when a government committee overseeing strategic public investments approved the plan this week.
https://apnews.com/article/italy-sicily-bridge-infrastructure-project-environment-mafia-e04b812da96909a43b8e5aabd8f98ab6
South Africa’s ANC government arrests 1,000 miners
The operation is an extension of the ANC’s violent Operation Vala Umgodi (Plug the Hole) that began with the Stilfontein massacre in January, where 90 miners, mostly undocumented migrants, died after police surrounded an abandoned mine, cutting off food supplies and forcing them to the surface. The horrific crime highlighted the ANC government’s brutal response to the explosive social conditions developing in South Africa.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/08/08/qvwa-a08.html
Bolivia prepares for presidential elections with a fragmented left and an optimistic right
Several polls give the lead to Samuel Doria, a businessman and former minister in Jaime Paz Zamora’s government in the early 1990s. Doria, a right-wing millionaire who has tried three times to win the presidency, is polling at 21.5%. “On August 17, we will not only change the president, but there will also be a change of cycle in Bolivia,” said the magnate, who has shown clear sympathy for Donald Trump. Behind the cement businessman is former right-wing president Jorge Quiroga, with 19.6% of the vote. Quiroga, who is an industrial engineer, was in office for just one year, between 2001 and 2002, following the departure of former president Hugo Banzer. Quiroga has proposed a neoliberal economic plan, in which he proposes the liberalization of hydrocarbons, mining, agriculture, lithium, etc., to overcome the economic crisis.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/08/08/bolivia-prepares-for-presidential-elections-with-a-fragmented-left-and-an-optimistic-right/
Milei vows ban on funding public spending with monetary issuance
Milei, 54, delivered a cadena nacional nationwide broadcast late Friday, just days after vetoing a rise in retirement and disability pensions approved by Congress. The measures, he said, aim to “fortify the zero deficit target and the government’s monetary policy”. The President also vowed to send a bill to Congress to punish those who approve budgets that imply debt.
https://www.batimes.com.ar/news/argentina/milei-vows-ban-on-funding-public-spending-with-monetary-issuance.phtml
https://archive.ph/CxVSP
Mexico rules out Trump's reported military plan against drug cartels
Speaking to reporters, Sheinbaum said the Mexican government was informed that an order on the cartels was coming, and "that it had nothing to do with the participation of any military personnel". "It is not part of any agreement, far from it. When it has been brought up, we have always said 'No'," she said. Earlier this year, Sheinbaum told reporters that Trump's decision to designate cartels as terrorists "cannot be an opportunity for the US to invade our sovereignty".
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c07pdel9vyjo
R: 16 / I: 2
While very very very far from perfect still, AI progress have been staggering over the past few years, and investments in the industry have gone through the roof, especially in countries like France, China or the US.
It is, in a way, its own new industrial revolution, a new way to automate production. Alas much like the previous one, it can only be expected from the elites that work time will stay the same, only as a mean to multiply production without any benefit to the worker (nor the environnement either as well, should that be mentioned).
But it only brings closer the idea of making work not a necessity but a liberty, by the establishment of universal income and economy wide work automation (as long as it is reliable, of course, I wouldnt hand out a psychatrist job to chatgpt or grok anytime soon, but you get the idea)
So what do you guys think ? Could this be feasable in the medium to long term ? Is it really in line with socialist ideals despite it being an opportunity for elites to turn it to the profit of economic higher ups (as it is already happening, in fact) ?
Speak your mind!
Anti-Work/Abolition of Work/The right to be lazy
Just wanted to open a thread dedicated to the topic which I find only ever more relevant today.While very very very far from perfect still, AI progress have been staggering over the past few years, and investments in the industry have gone through the roof, especially in countries like France, China or the US.
It is, in a way, its own new industrial revolution, a new way to automate production. Alas much like the previous one, it can only be expected from the elites that work time will stay the same, only as a mean to multiply production without any benefit to the worker (nor the environnement either as well, should that be mentioned).
But it only brings closer the idea of making work not a necessity but a liberty, by the establishment of universal income and economy wide work automation (as long as it is reliable, of course, I wouldnt hand out a psychatrist job to chatgpt or grok anytime soon, but you get the idea)
So what do you guys think ? Could this be feasable in the medium to long term ? Is it really in line with socialist ideals despite it being an opportunity for elites to turn it to the profit of economic higher ups (as it is already happening, in fact) ?
Speak your mind!
R: 637 / I: 143 (full)
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Previous: >>2406661
Evidence of the influence and origin of neo-Nazi groups in Ukraine
https://archive.ph/44B9Q
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323637
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323658
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323663
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323688
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323729
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323733
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323731
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323735
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323740
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yZvWAwU5W4
📺 • America, Russia, and Ukraine's Far Right - Gravel Institute
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0pyVJG7_6Q
📺 • The Nature of Putin's Russia and Its Causes (3-Part Series) - 1Dime
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8d6Vzi7zYg
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Previous: >>2406661
Evidence of the influence and origin of neo-Nazi groups in Ukraine
https://archive.ph/44B9Q
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323637
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323658
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323663
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323688
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323729
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323733
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323731
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323735
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323740
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Watch Together
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Watch By Yourself
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📺 • Ukraine: The Avoidable War - Boy Boy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LL4eNy4FCs8
📺 • Ukraine's Nazi Problem - The Marxist Project
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yZvWAwU5W4
📺 • America, Russia, and Ukraine's Far Right - Gravel Institute
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0pyVJG7_6Q
📺 • The Nature of Putin's Russia and Its Causes (3-Part Series) - 1Dime
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8d6Vzi7zYg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zODWTfMwFGw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Zuygh9Mzuo
<Current Happenings
📺 • The Grayzone: https://www.youtube.com/@thegrayzone7996
📺 • DDGeopolitics: https://www.youtube.com/@DDGeopolitics
📺 • Defense Politics Asia: https://www.youtube.com/@DefensePoliticsAsia
📺 • The Duran: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdeMVChrumySxV9N1w0Au-w
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DeepSeek is garbage now
DeepSeek use to be very good and based. It was a bit of a libtard but you could very easily change its mind and then it would post very based stuff. Now there has been some sort of update. Now it’s a turbo liberal Zionist and you can never ever change its mind. It will just endlessly post libtard and Zionist propaganda nonstop if you try to argue with it. Sad that such a good app is ruined now. Weird considering it is Chinese you’d think it would be different but no it is just as bad as whatever USA liberal garbage ai now.
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Adulthood is realizing that Stalin was right about basically everything (except maybe pissing his pants when the Nazis invaded and giving bad military orders, but in the end the Fash chuds were defeated and you can't fault the man for not being both a political and military genius)
/leftypol/, suggest to me good reading material for red pilling people about /ourguy/ Stalin
Kulaks/Uyghas/Zionists fuck off
Adulthood is realizing that Stalin was right about basically everything (except maybe pissing his pants when the Nazis invaded and giving bad military orders, but in the end the Fash chuds were defeated and you can't fault the man for not being both a political and military genius)
/leftypol/, suggest to me good reading material for red pilling people about /ourguy/ Stalin
Kulaks/Uyghas/Zionists fuck off
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I don't mean an uncle tom (whom thinks he's a ruler\sides with rulers out of naivety) but a man who prefers being a wageslave ,as long as he gets to use hard drugs, engage in putrid degeneracy (like femdom) ,destroy his brain with TV and tiktok–the brain will be destroyed at death anyways, why not do acclimatation-?
hedonistic nihilism
What is it called whence you're a proletarian, redpilled about class warfare\capitalism, revolution etc, BUT want to remain a prole (or become a lumpen), because the rot, decay, degeneracy itself is a less-bad option that a socialist society..merely because socialism can't prevent your own death and mortality, would forbid you from wild, rampant hedonism, etc?I don't mean an uncle tom (whom thinks he's a ruler\sides with rulers out of naivety) but a man who prefers being a wageslave ,as long as he gets to use hard drugs, engage in putrid degeneracy (like femdom) ,destroy his brain with TV and tiktok–the brain will be destroyed at death anyways, why not do acclimatation-?
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Given this isn't turning 100% of for profit businesses in a country into worker coops a good intermediate goal since it starves the bourgeoisie of their profits which they use to rule with politics?
Cooperatives
Yes I know worker coops aren't socialism because they still have markets and commodity production but could they at least break the power of the bourgeoisie since there would be no more capitalists at most there would be proletarians and petit bourgeoisesGiven this isn't turning 100% of for profit businesses in a country into worker coops a good intermediate goal since it starves the bourgeoisie of their profits which they use to rule with politics?
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Why does the left completely lack people with any understanding of planning or management, even at fairly basic levels?
The average microparty cult barely reaches the organizational complexity or success of the average small business, and the average small business fails within a year.
Entire lifetimes are spent debating whether or not we'll have coca cola under communism or whether the Soviet Union imploded because of revisionism or because of not revising enough, or on which children's entertainer on youtube is more revolutionary. Nobody seriously sits and plans out the necessary tasks to perform if we're to bring communism closer, then sets off to do them. if they do, they'll usually find some nagging detail, like the first step for any westerner being a boring program of raising class consciousness back to a level where trade union membership starts increasing again rather than the fun bit where they get to send missives to the comintern, and they'll revert to LARPing. Nobody operates with measurable goals, nobody adjusts the strategies that clearly haven't worked. Christ, even if your aim is just to LARP the CPSU, these organizations are failures: Given a year, even a mediocre capitalist could set up a more popular communist party than any extant English-speaking communist party.
Making people do things is not an impossible task: Look at McDonalds, look at Linux, Look at fucking Wikipedia, it's eminently possible to organize people to get things done, even without paying them. The task is hard, not impossible. Why, then, is the left so terrible at it? I'd half-confidently suggest that ChatGPT could do a better job.
For all their nonsense, cliches and flaws, I believe every communist should be forced to learn modern business management theories and techniques. Left-org management is so dismal that it could only be improved, even if ultimately any communist movement will need to go beyond them. Baby steps - if you can run a communist party better than your local bakery runs its affairs, then maybe we can talk about some Apollo Project level management skills…
My main answer is incentives. LARPing is fun, management ain't, and nobody's getting paid for this. Hell, I'm only writing this because I find the problem interesting and the lack of other people writing on the same subject unusual, I'm not going to go out and start Leftist-Walmart myself just because I understand that any meaningful left-wing movement would ultimately be capable of it, or have a serious plan to achieve that capability in the medium term…
Why does the left completely lack people with any understanding of planning or management, even at fairly basic levels?
The average microparty cult barely reaches the organizational complexity or success of the average small business, and the average small business fails within a year.
Entire lifetimes are spent debating whether or not we'll have coca cola under communism or whether the Soviet Union imploded because of revisionism or because of not revising enough, or on which children's entertainer on youtube is more revolutionary. Nobody seriously sits and plans out the necessary tasks to perform if we're to bring communism closer, then sets off to do them. if they do, they'll usually find some nagging detail, like the first step for any westerner being a boring program of raising class consciousness back to a level where trade union membership starts increasing again rather than the fun bit where they get to send missives to the comintern, and they'll revert to LARPing. Nobody operates with measurable goals, nobody adjusts the strategies that clearly haven't worked. Christ, even if your aim is just to LARP the CPSU, these organizations are failures: Given a year, even a mediocre capitalist could set up a more popular communist party than any extant English-speaking communist party.
Making people do things is not an impossible task: Look at McDonalds, look at Linux, Look at fucking Wikipedia, it's eminently possible to organize people to get things done, even without paying them. The task is hard, not impossible. Why, then, is the left so terrible at it? I'd half-confidently suggest that ChatGPT could do a better job.
For all their nonsense, cliches and flaws, I believe every communist should be forced to learn modern business management theories and techniques. Left-org management is so dismal that it could only be improved, even if ultimately any communist movement will need to go beyond them. Baby steps - if you can run a communist party better than your local bakery runs its affairs, then maybe we can talk about some Apollo Project level management skills…
My main answer is incentives. LARPing is fun, management ain't, and nobody's getting paid for this. Hell, I'm only writing this because I find the problem interesting and the lack of other people writing on the same subject unusual, I'm not going to go out and start Leftist-Walmart myself just because I understand that any meaningful left-wing movement would ultimately be capable of it, or have a serious plan to achieve that capability in the medium term…
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Mohammed Wishah was a member of the central committee of the PFLP, which is the second-largest faction in the Palestine Liberation Organisation — the internationally recognised representative of the Palestinians — after Fatah. His bodyguard was called Mufid Hussein. PFLP official Marwan Abdel-Al said: “We have lost two of the most loyal comrades who gave their precious souls to freedom.”
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/israel-kills-senior-pflp-official-lebanon-bombing
Tunisian president’s supporters protest against UGTT union amid rising tensions
Hundreds of supporters of Tunisian President Kais Saied staged a rally outside the headquarters of the powerful UGTT union on Thursday and urged Saied to suspend the union following a transport strike last week that paralysed the country. The rally highlights growing fears among activists and opposition supporters of a possible move by Saied against one of the last major independent organisations in the North African country.
https://www.newarab.com/news/kais-saied-supporters-tunisia-protest-against-ugtt-union
MK Party expels Shivambu over alleged coup plan
The move comes after Shivambu was removed from his position, with party leaders accusing him of plotting to unseat MK Party president, Jacob Zuma. Shivambu, however, denied the allegations and claimed that the intelligence report used against him was fabricated. Despite the MK Party’s announcement of his membership termination, Shivambu insists he has not resigned and is consulting South Africans on whether to form a new political party.
https://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/mk-party-expels-shivambu-over-alleged-coup-plan/
After Initial Arrests, As Many As 1,000 Ready to Defend Palestine Action in London Saturday
After police in London arrested more than two dozen people last month for publicly expressing support for the nonviolent direct action group Palestine Action, hundreds more have signaled they won't be intimidated by the U.K. ban on protesting on behalf of the organization—committing to risk arrest at another demonstration scheduled for Saturday.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/palestine-action
New bin workers’ strike looms over pay and conditions
Members of Unite in Wrexham, north Wales, will walk out for 13 days from August 23 to November 14. Unite members in Birmingham are involved in a long-running dispute which has led to an all-out strike for months. The union said that Wrexham Council had changed the way workers were given overtime without consultation and that every worker stands to lose half a day’s pay every bank holiday as a result.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/new-bin-workers-strike-looms-over-pay-and-conditions
Bavarian police arrest far-right Reichsbürger suspects
Three people suspected of belonging to the far-right "Reichsbürger" group have been arrested, the Bavarian state criminal police in southern Germany said Thursday. Authorities accuse the suspects of being members of a terrorist organization that aimed to violently overthrow Germany's constitutional order.
https://www.dw.com/en/bavarian-police-arrest-far-right-reichsb%C3%BCrger-suspects/a-73554963
https://archive.ph/Kga5D
Indian activists demand Delhi halt all dealings with Israeli arm companies
In a letter sent to Indian parliamentarians on Wednesday, Bengaluru for Justice and Peace (BfJP) said that nine Bengaluru-based companies were providing Elbit Systems, Israel Aerospace Industries and Raphael Advanced Defense Systems with critical weapons components. The group, made up by a coalition of close to two dozen groups in the southern Indian city, called upon parliamentarians to follow a Palestinian demand for an arms embargo, including a ban on the export and transit of weapons from India, as well as for an urgent review and suspension of all contracts linked to the export of weapons and military equipment to Israel.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/india-companies-complicit-israel-war-gaza-activists-warn
Pakistan Fears Strong, Independent Afghan Government, Says Taliban Minister
Speaking in an interview with Shamshad TV on Thursday, Mansoor said: “Some of our neighbours, especially Pakistan, do not want a government in Afghanistan, it doesn’t matter if it’s Taliban, Mujahid, or Communist.” He added: “We now understand that Pakistan doesn’t want an Afghan government that stands on its own feet.” Mansoor accused Islamabad of deliberately fuelling internal divisions and crises in Afghanistan to serve its own political and economic interests.
https://www.afintl.com/en/202508083785
Brazil’s Lula vetoes parts of environment bill pushed by the opposition that could harm the Amazon
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva threw out 63 out of the controversial bill’s 400 measures, the government said, though the significance of the vetoes will be clearer once the bill is published in the official gazette and goes into effect. Lula’s supporters and environmentalists had dubbed the legislation “Devastation Bill,” while allies of former President Jair Bolsonaro, held in house arrest on charges linked to an alleged coup plot, had pushed for its approval in congress.
https://apnews.com/article/brazil-lula-veto-environment-licensing-bill-ecfc20b67ce7b4fbaeb2f14ba9f787ee
Chileans Reject Effort to Release Dictatorship-Era Convicts
“In response to the initiative by the Senate and the Supreme Court to seek mechanisms for granting release to those convicted of human rights violations—on the grounds of their advanced age and health conditions—our organization of victims’ relatives expresses its strongest rejection."
https://www.telesurenglish.net/chileans-reject-effort-to-release-dictatorship-era-convicts/
News 8/8/25
Israel kills senior PFLP official in Lebanon bombingMohammed Wishah was a member of the central committee of the PFLP, which is the second-largest faction in the Palestine Liberation Organisation — the internationally recognised representative of the Palestinians — after Fatah. His bodyguard was called Mufid Hussein. PFLP official Marwan Abdel-Al said: “We have lost two of the most loyal comrades who gave their precious souls to freedom.”
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/israel-kills-senior-pflp-official-lebanon-bombing
Tunisian president’s supporters protest against UGTT union amid rising tensions
Hundreds of supporters of Tunisian President Kais Saied staged a rally outside the headquarters of the powerful UGTT union on Thursday and urged Saied to suspend the union following a transport strike last week that paralysed the country. The rally highlights growing fears among activists and opposition supporters of a possible move by Saied against one of the last major independent organisations in the North African country.
https://www.newarab.com/news/kais-saied-supporters-tunisia-protest-against-ugtt-union
MK Party expels Shivambu over alleged coup plan
The move comes after Shivambu was removed from his position, with party leaders accusing him of plotting to unseat MK Party president, Jacob Zuma. Shivambu, however, denied the allegations and claimed that the intelligence report used against him was fabricated. Despite the MK Party’s announcement of his membership termination, Shivambu insists he has not resigned and is consulting South Africans on whether to form a new political party.
https://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/mk-party-expels-shivambu-over-alleged-coup-plan/
After Initial Arrests, As Many As 1,000 Ready to Defend Palestine Action in London Saturday
After police in London arrested more than two dozen people last month for publicly expressing support for the nonviolent direct action group Palestine Action, hundreds more have signaled they won't be intimidated by the U.K. ban on protesting on behalf of the organization—committing to risk arrest at another demonstration scheduled for Saturday.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/palestine-action
New bin workers’ strike looms over pay and conditions
Members of Unite in Wrexham, north Wales, will walk out for 13 days from August 23 to November 14. Unite members in Birmingham are involved in a long-running dispute which has led to an all-out strike for months. The union said that Wrexham Council had changed the way workers were given overtime without consultation and that every worker stands to lose half a day’s pay every bank holiday as a result.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/new-bin-workers-strike-looms-over-pay-and-conditions
Bavarian police arrest far-right Reichsbürger suspects
Three people suspected of belonging to the far-right "Reichsbürger" group have been arrested, the Bavarian state criminal police in southern Germany said Thursday. Authorities accuse the suspects of being members of a terrorist organization that aimed to violently overthrow Germany's constitutional order.
https://www.dw.com/en/bavarian-police-arrest-far-right-reichsb%C3%BCrger-suspects/a-73554963
https://archive.ph/Kga5D
Indian activists demand Delhi halt all dealings with Israeli arm companies
In a letter sent to Indian parliamentarians on Wednesday, Bengaluru for Justice and Peace (BfJP) said that nine Bengaluru-based companies were providing Elbit Systems, Israel Aerospace Industries and Raphael Advanced Defense Systems with critical weapons components. The group, made up by a coalition of close to two dozen groups in the southern Indian city, called upon parliamentarians to follow a Palestinian demand for an arms embargo, including a ban on the export and transit of weapons from India, as well as for an urgent review and suspension of all contracts linked to the export of weapons and military equipment to Israel.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/india-companies-complicit-israel-war-gaza-activists-warn
Pakistan Fears Strong, Independent Afghan Government, Says Taliban Minister
Speaking in an interview with Shamshad TV on Thursday, Mansoor said: “Some of our neighbours, especially Pakistan, do not want a government in Afghanistan, it doesn’t matter if it’s Taliban, Mujahid, or Communist.” He added: “We now understand that Pakistan doesn’t want an Afghan government that stands on its own feet.” Mansoor accused Islamabad of deliberately fuelling internal divisions and crises in Afghanistan to serve its own political and economic interests.
https://www.afintl.com/en/202508083785
Brazil’s Lula vetoes parts of environment bill pushed by the opposition that could harm the Amazon
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva threw out 63 out of the controversial bill’s 400 measures, the government said, though the significance of the vetoes will be clearer once the bill is published in the official gazette and goes into effect. Lula’s supporters and environmentalists had dubbed the legislation “Devastation Bill,” while allies of former President Jair Bolsonaro, held in house arrest on charges linked to an alleged coup plot, had pushed for its approval in congress.
https://apnews.com/article/brazil-lula-veto-environment-licensing-bill-ecfc20b67ce7b4fbaeb2f14ba9f787ee
Chileans Reject Effort to Release Dictatorship-Era Convicts
“In response to the initiative by the Senate and the Supreme Court to seek mechanisms for granting release to those convicted of human rights violations—on the grounds of their advanced age and health conditions—our organization of victims’ relatives expresses its strongest rejection."
https://www.telesurenglish.net/chileans-reject-effort-to-release-dictatorship-era-convicts/
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THE IDEAL WINNING 2028 DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM
As a supporter of the Immortal Science of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, the Highest Stage of Marxism, I obviously realize that the Democrats are a Controlled Opposition Party who exist to keep the Workers and Oppressed Nations/Internal Colonies of Naw Afrika, Aztlan, the First Nations, inside the U$ corralled and controlled, while the dominant ruling Crypto-Fascist Christian Zionist Nationalist MAGAtard Republicans transform the U$ into a Full-Blown Fascist Police State, which combined with the fact that the U$ is a Prison house of Nations, which treats the Black/New Afrikan, Hispanic/Chicano/Mestizo, and First Nations/Native American population like they are not U$ citizens (Trump ending birthright citizenship will probably transform this from a De facto to a De jure reality by officially stripping citizenship from most of these populations), with them essentially acting as a permanent domestic underclass with essentially no rights that are exploited for cheap labor and disproportionately suffer from Mass incarceration and police brutality, with their neighborhoods essentially under De facto occupation by militarized police, as New Afrika, Aztlan, and the First Nations, are Internal Colonies/Oppressed Nations inside of the U$, and their National Liberation should be the number one goal of U$ Communists as stipulated by Lenin’s principle of Self-Determination for all Oppressed Nations in their own SSR, which will happen once World War III escalates into a Global Nuclear War that will destroy the entire Global Capitalist-Imperialist System, thus allowing for a World Maoist PPW to create a Global USSR (all of the SSRs and SFSRs of the future Global USSR are pictured in the map I posted, with the former U$ Balkanized into a New African SSR that includes the Black/New Afrikan majority counties of the Black Belt, a Hispano-American SFSR that includes the Hispanic/Chicano/Mestizo majority counties in the U$ Southwest, along with the rest of the Spanish-speaking Multiracial regions of the Americas, while the White Settler majority regions in the rest of the former U$ becomes part of the Anglo-American SFSR, which also includes the English-speaking provinces of Canada, as Quebec will become its own SSR, with all the Native American reservations becoming ASSRs) to Place the Workers and Oppressed Nations of the World on the Shining Path to Communism, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🚀☢️!
However, as I have stated many times before a proper Dialectical Materialist analysis still reveals that a Controlled Opposition is better then No Opposition, and as we see on the International Stage that China is a “Controlled Opposition” to U$ Imperialism in the same way that the U$ Democrats are “Controlled Opposition” to the Republicans, thus making China the “Global Democrats”, with the massive caveat that a Maoist faction taking over the CCP and purging the Dengists could place China back in the Socialist Mode of Production on the Shining Path to Communism without another Maoist PPW there, though despite this fact both China (Iran is another example of a Lesser Evil Controlled Opposition) and the U$ Democrats should be “Critically Supported”, not because we genuinely support these Bourgeois entities, but because they are both a “Lesser Evil” faction of the Global Capitalist-Imperialist System who De Facto prevent the “Greater Evil” of the Global Capitalist-Imperialist System from completely crushing the Workers and Oppressed Nations of the World before the World Maoist PPW can be successful when the Global Nuclear War breaks out, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🚀☢️!
So with these Dialectical Materialist facts in consideration, what do my fellow Comrades think of this hypothetical “Ideal Winning 2028 Democratic Platform” (this is making Three Bold assumptions, Firstly, that Trump dose not use the Insurrection Act to declare Martial Law and suspend all Elections, thus officially ending Bourgeois Liberal Democracy in the U$ and making him De Facto U$ President for Life, which is what I expect/fear will happen, Secondly, that a Centre-Left Social Democrat like AOC would ever be allowed by the Centrist Neoliberal/Neocon Democratic Establishment to win the Democratic Nomination, and Thirdly/Finally that the majority Ultra-Reactionary Racist/Sexist White Settler Labor Aristocrat/Petit Bourgeois U$ electorate will ever vote for Centre-Left Social Democrat, especially a Brown Chicano/Mestizo Woman like AOC) that is based on the principles of Social Democracy, Social Progressivism, and Non-Interventionism, with Pragmatic characteristics, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🤔?
ECONOMIC POLICY:
Universal Basic Income: Guarantee every Adult U$ citizen a Nontaxable 1000$ monthly check starting on their 18th birthday, paid for by a 10% VAT on all Non-Essential goods (everything but Food, Housing, Healthcare, Education, and Clothing/Hygiene products), Progressive Tax Reform, and eliminating all Means-Tested Social Programs (ie. Food Stamps, Unemployment Insurance, TANF, SSI, etc.), ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Single-Payer Medicare For All Healthcare System: Expand Medicare to cover all Americans and 100% of all healthcare costs, paid for by raising the Medicare Payroll Tax from 1.45% to 6.2% on all Employers and Employees, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Free College: Make Tuition Free at all public colleges and universities and pay for it with a Financial Transaction Tax of .5% on Stocks, .1% on Bonds, and .005% on Derivatives. In addition to this forgive all Student Loan Debt, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
15$ Minimum Wage: Raise the Federal Minimum Wage to 15$ an hour, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Progressive Tax Reform: Create a more Simple and Equitable Federal Income Tax code that will help pay for the Universal Basic Income and would consist of four brackets for Individuals; 0% for all Income under 50,000$, 10% for all Income between 50,000 and 99,999$, 30% for all Income between 100,000 and 499,999$, and 50% for all Income over 500,000$. Corporations would pay a single 30% Tax rate, and all deductions would be eliminated for both Individuals and Corporations. In addition to this, the cap would be eliminated for Social Security Payroll Taxes in order to maintain the solvency of the Social Security trust fund for future generations, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Free Trade: Eliminate all Tariffs on imported goods, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Financial Regulation: Restore Glass-Steagall in order to break up Wall Street Banks by separating Commercial and Investment Banking, and institute a Financial Transaction Tax of .5% on Stocks, .1% on Bonds, and .005% on Derivatives, in order to pay for Free College, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Anti-Trust: Order the Justice Department to launch immediate Anti-Trust suits to break up Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, Twitter, and other out of control Tech companies, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Abolish “Right to Work” laws: Repeal the Taft–Hartley Act and abolish all “Right to Work” laws nationwide in order to guarantee every U$ worker the right to join a Union, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
CULTURAL AND SOCIAL ISSUES:
Reproductive Rights: Pass a Federal Law legalizing Abortion nationwide before fetal viability (24 weeks) along with enshrining Griswold vs. Connecticut into Federal Law in order to protect access to Birth Control, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
LGBTQIA+ Rights: Enshrine Obergefell v. Hodges into Federal Law in order to maintain Marriage Equality for LGBTQIA+ Americans, along with adding Gender Identity to Federal Anti-Discrimination laws, with the caveat that Transgenders wont be allowed to play in Women’s sports, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Gun Control: Pass National Background Checks that stop Violent Felons and the Mentally Ill from obtaining Firearms, while opposing a Federal Assault Weapons Ban, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Comprehensive Immigration Reform: Grant Amnesty to all Undocumented Immigrants living in the US who have not committed Violent Felonies (Violent felons will be deported), while simultaneously building a secure Border Wall and reducing Legal Immigration levels from 1,000,000 to 500,000 annually, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Marijuana Legalization: Remove Marijuana from Schedule I of the Controlled Substances list and Legalize it at the Federal Level for both Recreational and Medical use, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Hard Narcotics Decriminalization: Decriminalize all Hard Narcotics such as Heroin, Cocaine, Meth, etc., in order to treat use of these Drugs as a Disease and not a Crime, with users placed in Rehab instead of Prison, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Sex Work Legalization: Legalization of Prostitution amongst consenting Adults in order to give Sex Workers the right to earn a living without legal jeopardy, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Criminal Justice Reform: Abolish the Death Penalty, Commute the sentences of all those incarcerated for Non-Violent Drug Offenses and/or Sex Work, Ban Private Prisons, Abolish Three-strikes laws, and Abolish Mandatory Minimums, in order to fix America’s Draconian and Racist Criminal Justice System, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
FOREIGN POLICY AND DEFENSE:
The Middle East: End all Foreign Aid to the Zionist State and place a Arms Embargo on them until they agree to a Immediate Ceasefire, Prisoner/Hostage exchange, and IDF withdrawal from Gaza along with a clear pathway to implement a Two-State solution to the Zionist-Palestinian Conflict along the 1967 borders with 1:1 land swaps. Reenter the Iran Nuclear Deal, lift all Sanctions on Iran, and Reestablish Diplomatic Relations with Iran. Withdrawal all U$ troops from Syria, Iraq, and the rest of the Middle East. And finally, Establish Diplomatic Relations with the Taliban government of Afghanistan, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Europe: Force Russia and Ukraine to agree to a Immediate Ceasefire in Ukraine along the line of contact, with eventual UN-observed Referendums held in Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia, and Kherson to determine if these regions will be in Russia or Ukraine (If Russia refuses to agree to this the U$ will give Ukraine even more advanced weapons and Russia will face even more sanctions, while if Ukraine refuses to agree to this they will face a Arms embargo and sanctions just like Russia). If Russia agrees to this, U$ will halt the expansion of NATO, reenter the ABM and INF treaties with Russia, withdrawal all U$ troops from Eastern Europe, reduce the U$ military presence in Western Europe by 50%, end the Nuclear Sharing policy with NATO, lift all Sanctions on Russia, and recognize Crimea as part of Russia, with the caveat that the US will continue selling advanced weapons to Ukraine (I would even support selling them F-35s) in order to compensate for them not joining NATO, officially acknowledging Crimea as part of Russia, and potentially losing the other four occupied regions depending on the results of the UN-observed Referendums, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
East Asia: Sign a Peace Treaty with North Korea that officially ends the Korean War and permanently divides the peninsula, and subsequently lift all sanctions on North Korea, establish Diplomatic Relations with North Korea, and withdraw all U$ troops from South Korea. Maintain commitment to the One-China policy and the eventual Peaceful Reunification of China by stripping Taiwan of Major Non-NATO Ally status, and halting all Arms shipments to Taiwan, along with halting all provocative activities in the South China Sea in order to avoid an unnecessary War with China. And finally, reduce the U$ military presence in Japan by 50%, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Latin America: End the embargo on Cuba, end the Sanctions on Venezuela and restore Diplomatic relations with the Maduro Government, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Nuclear Weapons: Implement a No First Use policy. End all Nuclear Sharing with NATO. Dismantle all Tactical Nuclear Weapons and halt development of Nuclear SLCMs and Low-yield SLBM warheads. Maintain a Nuclear Triad for purely Second Strike purposes that will be modernized with a new ICBM, new Ballistic Missile Submarine, new ALCM, and the B-21 Stealth Bomber, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Conventional Weapons Procurement and R&D: Reduce the Aircraft Carrier fleet from 11 to 10. Dismantle the Ground-Based Midcourse Defense as part of a restored ABM treaty. Slash the DARPA budget by 50%. Cancel all Hypersonic Weapons Programs. Cancel all GLCM and MRBM/IRBM development as part of a new INF treaty. Dissolve the Space Force and move its responsibilities back into the Air Force. Halt all work on Human-level Artificial General Intelligence. Halt all work on Sixth Generation Fighter Jets. Cancel all F-15EX and F-18E/F procurement and instead use those funds to buy more F-35s to accelerate the replacement of 4th generation Fighter Jets with 5th generation Stealth Fighters, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
End the War on Terror: Repeal the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force, due to its anachronistic mission against a organization that barely exists anymore. End all Drone Strikes against any group that is not directly planning on attacking the U$. And finally, Repeal the Patriot Act in order to prevent unnecessary violations of the Civil liberties of U$ Citizens, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
POLITICAL REFORM:
Abolish the Electoral College: Pass a Constitutional Amendment to abolish the Electoral College and replace it with a National Popular Vote to elect the President, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Ban Gerrymandering: Pass a Federal Law to end Partisan control of Congressional Redistricting and replace it with Independent Redistricting Commissions Nationwide, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Abolish the Filibuster: Abolish the Filibuster on all legislation in the U$ Senate, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Expand Voting Rights and Access: Pass a Federal law to Allow convicted felons to vote, including those that are currently incarcerated for Non-Violent Crimes, ban all Voter ID laws nationwide, and Create Nationwide Mail-In Voting, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Campaign Finance Reform: Appoint Supreme Court Justices that will overturn Citizens United, and pass a Federal law to ban Super PACs and have Public funding of all Federal Elections, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Court Packing: Expand the Supreme Court from 9 to 13, in order to have a Progressive majority, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Expand Statehood: Grant Statehood to DC and the five U$ territories, in order to balance out the U$ Senates bias towards Republicans, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
THE ENVIRONMENT, HEALTH, AND TECHNOLOGY:
Carbon Neutral by 2050: Have 100% Clean, Renewable Energy, from Solar, Wind, Hydropower, Geothermal, and Nuclear Power by 2050. To help make this goal more reachable, there will be a Carbon Tax, Offshore Drilling Ban, and Fracking Ban implemented immediately, along with a ban on the sale of all gasoline-powered Cars by 2040, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Green Public Transportation: Ban all Federal funding for new Highways and Airports, and instead use those funds to build Nationwide Electric, High-Speed Rail, starting with a Transcontinental Bullet Train from New York to Los Angeles, in order to reduce usage of Highways and Air Travel. Dramatically Increase funding for rebuilding and expanding Americas Mass Transit in major cities, with an emphasis on Streetcars, Subways, and Electric Buses, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Ban Urban Sprawl: Ban Single-Use zoning nationwide, and instead have future development emphasize, High-Density Apartment buildings made affordable through Rent Control, increased Walkability, and access to Public Transit, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Ban Non-Organic Foods: Pass a Nationwide ban on GMOs, High-Fructose Corn Syrup, Artificial Preservatives, excessive Sodium, and Trans Fats, in order to create a healthier, Organic, diet for all Americans, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Ban Human-level Artificial General Intelligence: Negotiate and Ratify an International Treaty Banning the development of Human-level Artificial General Intelligence worldwide in order to prevent a Catastrophic Singularity Event, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Ban Forced Augmentation: Pass a Federal law banning Corporations from forcing their Employees to be Microchipped and/or have Neural Implants/Brain-Computer Interfaces against their will, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
THE IDEAL WINNING 2028 DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM
As a supporter of the Immortal Science of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, the Highest Stage of Marxism, I obviously realize that the Democrats are a Controlled Opposition Party who exist to keep the Workers and Oppressed Nations/Internal Colonies of Naw Afrika, Aztlan, the First Nations, inside the U$ corralled and controlled, while the dominant ruling Crypto-Fascist Christian Zionist Nationalist MAGAtard Republicans transform the U$ into a Full-Blown Fascist Police State, which combined with the fact that the U$ is a Prison house of Nations, which treats the Black/New Afrikan, Hispanic/Chicano/Mestizo, and First Nations/Native American population like they are not U$ citizens (Trump ending birthright citizenship will probably transform this from a De facto to a De jure reality by officially stripping citizenship from most of these populations), with them essentially acting as a permanent domestic underclass with essentially no rights that are exploited for cheap labor and disproportionately suffer from Mass incarceration and police brutality, with their neighborhoods essentially under De facto occupation by militarized police, as New Afrika, Aztlan, and the First Nations, are Internal Colonies/Oppressed Nations inside of the U$, and their National Liberation should be the number one goal of U$ Communists as stipulated by Lenin’s principle of Self-Determination for all Oppressed Nations in their own SSR, which will happen once World War III escalates into a Global Nuclear War that will destroy the entire Global Capitalist-Imperialist System, thus allowing for a World Maoist PPW to create a Global USSR (all of the SSRs and SFSRs of the future Global USSR are pictured in the map I posted, with the former U$ Balkanized into a New African SSR that includes the Black/New Afrikan majority counties of the Black Belt, a Hispano-American SFSR that includes the Hispanic/Chicano/Mestizo majority counties in the U$ Southwest, along with the rest of the Spanish-speaking Multiracial regions of the Americas, while the White Settler majority regions in the rest of the former U$ becomes part of the Anglo-American SFSR, which also includes the English-speaking provinces of Canada, as Quebec will become its own SSR, with all the Native American reservations becoming ASSRs) to Place the Workers and Oppressed Nations of the World on the Shining Path to Communism, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🚀☢️!
However, as I have stated many times before a proper Dialectical Materialist analysis still reveals that a Controlled Opposition is better then No Opposition, and as we see on the International Stage that China is a “Controlled Opposition” to U$ Imperialism in the same way that the U$ Democrats are “Controlled Opposition” to the Republicans, thus making China the “Global Democrats”, with the massive caveat that a Maoist faction taking over the CCP and purging the Dengists could place China back in the Socialist Mode of Production on the Shining Path to Communism without another Maoist PPW there, though despite this fact both China (Iran is another example of a Lesser Evil Controlled Opposition) and the U$ Democrats should be “Critically Supported”, not because we genuinely support these Bourgeois entities, but because they are both a “Lesser Evil” faction of the Global Capitalist-Imperialist System who De Facto prevent the “Greater Evil” of the Global Capitalist-Imperialist System from completely crushing the Workers and Oppressed Nations of the World before the World Maoist PPW can be successful when the Global Nuclear War breaks out, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🚀☢️!
So with these Dialectical Materialist facts in consideration, what do my fellow Comrades think of this hypothetical “Ideal Winning 2028 Democratic Platform” (this is making Three Bold assumptions, Firstly, that Trump dose not use the Insurrection Act to declare Martial Law and suspend all Elections, thus officially ending Bourgeois Liberal Democracy in the U$ and making him De Facto U$ President for Life, which is what I expect/fear will happen, Secondly, that a Centre-Left Social Democrat like AOC would ever be allowed by the Centrist Neoliberal/Neocon Democratic Establishment to win the Democratic Nomination, and Thirdly/Finally that the majority Ultra-Reactionary Racist/Sexist White Settler Labor Aristocrat/Petit Bourgeois U$ electorate will ever vote for Centre-Left Social Democrat, especially a Brown Chicano/Mestizo Woman like AOC) that is based on the principles of Social Democracy, Social Progressivism, and Non-Interventionism, with Pragmatic characteristics, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🤔?
ECONOMIC POLICY:
Universal Basic Income: Guarantee every Adult U$ citizen a Nontaxable 1000$ monthly check starting on their 18th birthday, paid for by a 10% VAT on all Non-Essential goods (everything but Food, Housing, Healthcare, Education, and Clothing/Hygiene products), Progressive Tax Reform, and eliminating all Means-Tested Social Programs (ie. Food Stamps, Unemployment Insurance, TANF, SSI, etc.), ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Single-Payer Medicare For All Healthcare System: Expand Medicare to cover all Americans and 100% of all healthcare costs, paid for by raising the Medicare Payroll Tax from 1.45% to 6.2% on all Employers and Employees, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Free College: Make Tuition Free at all public colleges and universities and pay for it with a Financial Transaction Tax of .5% on Stocks, .1% on Bonds, and .005% on Derivatives. In addition to this forgive all Student Loan Debt, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
15$ Minimum Wage: Raise the Federal Minimum Wage to 15$ an hour, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Progressive Tax Reform: Create a more Simple and Equitable Federal Income Tax code that will help pay for the Universal Basic Income and would consist of four brackets for Individuals; 0% for all Income under 50,000$, 10% for all Income between 50,000 and 99,999$, 30% for all Income between 100,000 and 499,999$, and 50% for all Income over 500,000$. Corporations would pay a single 30% Tax rate, and all deductions would be eliminated for both Individuals and Corporations. In addition to this, the cap would be eliminated for Social Security Payroll Taxes in order to maintain the solvency of the Social Security trust fund for future generations, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Free Trade: Eliminate all Tariffs on imported goods, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Financial Regulation: Restore Glass-Steagall in order to break up Wall Street Banks by separating Commercial and Investment Banking, and institute a Financial Transaction Tax of .5% on Stocks, .1% on Bonds, and .005% on Derivatives, in order to pay for Free College, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Anti-Trust: Order the Justice Department to launch immediate Anti-Trust suits to break up Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, Twitter, and other out of control Tech companies, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Abolish “Right to Work” laws: Repeal the Taft–Hartley Act and abolish all “Right to Work” laws nationwide in order to guarantee every U$ worker the right to join a Union, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
CULTURAL AND SOCIAL ISSUES:
Reproductive Rights: Pass a Federal Law legalizing Abortion nationwide before fetal viability (24 weeks) along with enshrining Griswold vs. Connecticut into Federal Law in order to protect access to Birth Control, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
LGBTQIA+ Rights: Enshrine Obergefell v. Hodges into Federal Law in order to maintain Marriage Equality for LGBTQIA+ Americans, along with adding Gender Identity to Federal Anti-Discrimination laws, with the caveat that Transgenders wont be allowed to play in Women’s sports, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Gun Control: Pass National Background Checks that stop Violent Felons and the Mentally Ill from obtaining Firearms, while opposing a Federal Assault Weapons Ban, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Comprehensive Immigration Reform: Grant Amnesty to all Undocumented Immigrants living in the US who have not committed Violent Felonies (Violent felons will be deported), while simultaneously building a secure Border Wall and reducing Legal Immigration levels from 1,000,000 to 500,000 annually, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Marijuana Legalization: Remove Marijuana from Schedule I of the Controlled Substances list and Legalize it at the Federal Level for both Recreational and Medical use, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Hard Narcotics Decriminalization: Decriminalize all Hard Narcotics such as Heroin, Cocaine, Meth, etc., in order to treat use of these Drugs as a Disease and not a Crime, with users placed in Rehab instead of Prison, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Sex Work Legalization: Legalization of Prostitution amongst consenting Adults in order to give Sex Workers the right to earn a living without legal jeopardy, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Criminal Justice Reform: Abolish the Death Penalty, Commute the sentences of all those incarcerated for Non-Violent Drug Offenses and/or Sex Work, Ban Private Prisons, Abolish Three-strikes laws, and Abolish Mandatory Minimums, in order to fix America’s Draconian and Racist Criminal Justice System, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
FOREIGN POLICY AND DEFENSE:
The Middle East: End all Foreign Aid to the Zionist State and place a Arms Embargo on them until they agree to a Immediate Ceasefire, Prisoner/Hostage exchange, and IDF withdrawal from Gaza along with a clear pathway to implement a Two-State solution to the Zionist-Palestinian Conflict along the 1967 borders with 1:1 land swaps. Reenter the Iran Nuclear Deal, lift all Sanctions on Iran, and Reestablish Diplomatic Relations with Iran. Withdrawal all U$ troops from Syria, Iraq, and the rest of the Middle East. And finally, Establish Diplomatic Relations with the Taliban government of Afghanistan, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Europe: Force Russia and Ukraine to agree to a Immediate Ceasefire in Ukraine along the line of contact, with eventual UN-observed Referendums held in Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia, and Kherson to determine if these regions will be in Russia or Ukraine (If Russia refuses to agree to this the U$ will give Ukraine even more advanced weapons and Russia will face even more sanctions, while if Ukraine refuses to agree to this they will face a Arms embargo and sanctions just like Russia). If Russia agrees to this, U$ will halt the expansion of NATO, reenter the ABM and INF treaties with Russia, withdrawal all U$ troops from Eastern Europe, reduce the U$ military presence in Western Europe by 50%, end the Nuclear Sharing policy with NATO, lift all Sanctions on Russia, and recognize Crimea as part of Russia, with the caveat that the US will continue selling advanced weapons to Ukraine (I would even support selling them F-35s) in order to compensate for them not joining NATO, officially acknowledging Crimea as part of Russia, and potentially losing the other four occupied regions depending on the results of the UN-observed Referendums, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
East Asia: Sign a Peace Treaty with North Korea that officially ends the Korean War and permanently divides the peninsula, and subsequently lift all sanctions on North Korea, establish Diplomatic Relations with North Korea, and withdraw all U$ troops from South Korea. Maintain commitment to the One-China policy and the eventual Peaceful Reunification of China by stripping Taiwan of Major Non-NATO Ally status, and halting all Arms shipments to Taiwan, along with halting all provocative activities in the South China Sea in order to avoid an unnecessary War with China. And finally, reduce the U$ military presence in Japan by 50%, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Latin America: End the embargo on Cuba, end the Sanctions on Venezuela and restore Diplomatic relations with the Maduro Government, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Nuclear Weapons: Implement a No First Use policy. End all Nuclear Sharing with NATO. Dismantle all Tactical Nuclear Weapons and halt development of Nuclear SLCMs and Low-yield SLBM warheads. Maintain a Nuclear Triad for purely Second Strike purposes that will be modernized with a new ICBM, new Ballistic Missile Submarine, new ALCM, and the B-21 Stealth Bomber, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Conventional Weapons Procurement and R&D: Reduce the Aircraft Carrier fleet from 11 to 10. Dismantle the Ground-Based Midcourse Defense as part of a restored ABM treaty. Slash the DARPA budget by 50%. Cancel all Hypersonic Weapons Programs. Cancel all GLCM and MRBM/IRBM development as part of a new INF treaty. Dissolve the Space Force and move its responsibilities back into the Air Force. Halt all work on Human-level Artificial General Intelligence. Halt all work on Sixth Generation Fighter Jets. Cancel all F-15EX and F-18E/F procurement and instead use those funds to buy more F-35s to accelerate the replacement of 4th generation Fighter Jets with 5th generation Stealth Fighters, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
End the War on Terror: Repeal the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force, due to its anachronistic mission against a organization that barely exists anymore. End all Drone Strikes against any group that is not directly planning on attacking the U$. And finally, Repeal the Patriot Act in order to prevent unnecessary violations of the Civil liberties of U$ Citizens, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
POLITICAL REFORM:
Abolish the Electoral College: Pass a Constitutional Amendment to abolish the Electoral College and replace it with a National Popular Vote to elect the President, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Ban Gerrymandering: Pass a Federal Law to end Partisan control of Congressional Redistricting and replace it with Independent Redistricting Commissions Nationwide, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Abolish the Filibuster: Abolish the Filibuster on all legislation in the U$ Senate, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Expand Voting Rights and Access: Pass a Federal law to Allow convicted felons to vote, including those that are currently incarcerated for Non-Violent Crimes, ban all Voter ID laws nationwide, and Create Nationwide Mail-In Voting, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Campaign Finance Reform: Appoint Supreme Court Justices that will overturn Citizens United, and pass a Federal law to ban Super PACs and have Public funding of all Federal Elections, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Court Packing: Expand the Supreme Court from 9 to 13, in order to have a Progressive majority, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Expand Statehood: Grant Statehood to DC and the five U$ territories, in order to balance out the U$ Senates bias towards Republicans, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
THE ENVIRONMENT, HEALTH, AND TECHNOLOGY:
Carbon Neutral by 2050: Have 100% Clean, Renewable Energy, from Solar, Wind, Hydropower, Geothermal, and Nuclear Power by 2050. To help make this goal more reachable, there will be a Carbon Tax, Offshore Drilling Ban, and Fracking Ban implemented immediately, along with a ban on the sale of all gasoline-powered Cars by 2040, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Green Public Transportation: Ban all Federal funding for new Highways and Airports, and instead use those funds to build Nationwide Electric, High-Speed Rail, starting with a Transcontinental Bullet Train from New York to Los Angeles, in order to reduce usage of Highways and Air Travel. Dramatically Increase funding for rebuilding and expanding Americas Mass Transit in major cities, with an emphasis on Streetcars, Subways, and Electric Buses, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Ban Urban Sprawl: Ban Single-Use zoning nationwide, and instead have future development emphasize, High-Density Apartment buildings made affordable through Rent Control, increased Walkability, and access to Public Transit, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Ban Non-Organic Foods: Pass a Nationwide ban on GMOs, High-Fructose Corn Syrup, Artificial Preservatives, excessive Sodium, and Trans Fats, in order to create a healthier, Organic, diet for all Americans, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Ban Human-level Artificial General Intelligence: Negotiate and Ratify an International Treaty Banning the development of Human-level Artificial General Intelligence worldwide in order to prevent a Catastrophic Singularity Event, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
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Is he a credible anti-imperialist actor?
Burkina Faso
Whats /leftypol/ take on President of Burkina Faso Ibrahim Traoré?Is he a credible anti-imperialist actor?
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Interesting how the Russian liberal state is comfortable with honoring its Stalinist history but shy away or actively despises anything to do with Bolshevism or Lenin
Even from a nationalist stand point the victory of the Bolshevik revolution against practically the entire world's reaction (comparable only to France's) is infinitely more impressive than Russia's victory in WW2. But then again the Bolshevik revolution was a class war not a national/imperialist war, a bad precedent to set.
Interesting how the Russian liberal state is comfortable with honoring its Stalinist history but shy away or actively despises anything to do with Bolshevism or Lenin
Even from a nationalist stand point the victory of the Bolshevik revolution against practically the entire world's reaction (comparable only to France's) is infinitely more impressive than Russia's victory in WW2. But then again the Bolshevik revolution was a class war not a national/imperialist war, a bad precedent to set.
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The federal prosecutor’s office said it had asked the police to locate the two people named in the complaint and to interview them. “Following these interviews, they were released,” it said in a statement. The office said it had taken action after concluding that Belgian courts had extraterritorial jurisdiction over alleged war crimes. “No further information will be given at this stage of the investigation,” the office said. The two Israelis have not been named.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/21/belgian-police-question-two-israelis-over-war-crimes-accusations
Counter-demo set for Epping following violence outside refugee hotel
The founder of the English Defence League has announced plans to visit the Essex town on Sunday to join the latest in a series of far-right protests outside a local hotel housing refugees. In response, Stand Up to Racism has organised a counter-demonstration, scheduled to begin near the Bell Hotel at 4pm.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/counter-demo-set-epping-following-violence-outside-refugee-hotel
Evacuations begin in Syria’s Sweida as days of deadly clashes ease
Neighboring Israel also launched dozens of airstrikes in Druze-majority Sweida province, targeting government forces who effectively sided with the Bedouins. Syrian state media on Sunday said the government had coordinated with officials in Sweida to bring buses to evacuate some 1,500 Bedouins. The province’s internal security chief under the Interior Ministry, Ahmad al-Dalati, told the state-run news agency that the initiative also would allow civilians displaced from Sweida to return. Druze civilians were expected to be evacuated from other areas, but those had not taken place by Monday evening.
https://apnews.com/article/syria-druze-bedouin-clashes-israel-f066b472abcb9c1d546b4e3d713feadd
Why Turkey plans to end its 52-year oil pipeline deal with Iraq
Turkey closed the pipeline, which passes through the semi-autonomous Kurdistan region, in March 2023 after the International Court of Arbitration ordered the country to pay Iraq $1.5 billion for unauthorized exports between 2014 and 2018. More specifically, the court said Ankara allowed Iraqi-Kurdish authorities to pump crude without Baghdad’s permission. Before the closure, the pipeline was shipping around 500,000 barrels per day (bpd) of crude. Turkey’s state-owned pipeline operator Botas stated on its website that at full capacity, the entire pipeline system, consisting of two lines, can transfer a total of 1.5 million bpd. On March 31, Al-Monitor reported that Iraq was seeking additional compensation from Turkey in a second international arbitration case for unauthorized exports.
https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2025/07/why-turkey-plans-end-its-52-year-oil-pipeline-deal-iraq
Egypt rejects US quid pro quo over Gaza and Ethiopia dam
One Egyptian diplomat told the news outlet that the Trump administration had offered what one senior US official called a "decisive intervention" to solve the dispute over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD). In return, Egypt would need to back Israel’s plan to confine millions of Palestinians in a concentration camp close to the Rafah border. Israel’s defence minister earlier this month announced plans to erect a “humanitarian city” on the ruins of Rafah into which the entire Palestinian population will eventually be concentrated.
https://www.newarab.com/news/egypt-rejects-us-quid-pro-quo-over-gaza-and-ethiopia-dam
Kenya activist Boniface Mwangi charged with illegal ammo possession
Boniface Mwangi was charged by the police on Monday, two days after he was arrested and accused of possessing unused tear gas canisters, a “7.62mm blank round”, two mobile phones, a laptop and notebooks. The courtroom was packed with hundreds of activists, some wearing Kenyan flags. “They have no evidence,” Mwangi told reporters, describing his prosecution as “a big shame”.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/21/kenya-rights-activist-boniface-mwangi-charged-with-possession-of-ammunition
https://archive.ph/dEwmV
Venezuela to investigate alleged torture of its citizens in El Salvador jail
As well as Bukele, Venezuela would investigate El Salvador’s justice minister, Gustavo Villatoro, and its head of prisons, Osiris Luna Meza, Saab said, after showing videos of former detainees recounting torture and showing injuries – including a missing molar, bruising and scars – they said were the result of the abuse. Bukele’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Reuters was not immediately able to confirm the assertions made in the videos, but two of those shown speaking were identifiable as former Cecot detainees.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/21/venezuela-to-investigate-alleged-torture-of-its-citizens-in-el-salvador-jail
Petro urges Congress to approve reforms ahead of final year in office
Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro used the inauguration of a new congressional year to defend his three years in office and seek support for reform bills that will be introduced in the coming year. In a 138-minute speech, Petro apparently sought to put tensions with the opposition behind him and praised Congress for approving his government’s labor and pension reform proposals. The praise preceded the president’s attempt to warm up Congress for a pending reform of the public health system and a judicial reform that would allow the mass demobilization of illegal armed groups.
https://colombiareports.com/petro-urges-congress-to-approve-reforms-ahead-of-final-year-in-office/
From job cuts to suspending plans, Taiwan firms brace for Trump tariff storm
At least a quarter of Taiwanese companies have put expansion plans on hold, and 5 per cent have started cutting staff in the shadow of US President Donald Trump’s tariffs on the island, according to a new study. The findings come amid persistent uncertainty over the potential economic fallout from Washington’s tariff plan, especially following speculation that Taiwan could face a steep 32 per cent import duty – matching the level initially proposed by Trump in early April.
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3319041/job-cuts-suspending-plans-taiwan-firms-brace-trump-tariff-storm?module=top_story&pgtype=subsection
Japan’s Ishiba says he’ll stay in office to tackle inflation and US tariffs despite election loss
Voters frustrated with price increases exceeding the pace of wage hikes, especially younger people who have long felt ignored by the ruling government’s focus on senior voters, rapidly turned to emerging conservative and right-wing populist parties. Established liberal to centrist parties, including the main opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, gained little ground. The Democratic Party for the People quadrupled its seats by campaigning for higher take-home pay. The right-wing Sanseito, running on a “Japanese First” platform that puts tougher regulations on foreigners and brakes on gender and sexual diversity, surged to number three in the opposition.
https://apnews.com/article/japan-politics-election-ishiba-parliament-vote-ldp-0abc031590660859c3ea0a5da9d83310
News 7/21/25
Belgian police question two Israelis over war crimes accusationsThe federal prosecutor’s office said it had asked the police to locate the two people named in the complaint and to interview them. “Following these interviews, they were released,” it said in a statement. The office said it had taken action after concluding that Belgian courts had extraterritorial jurisdiction over alleged war crimes. “No further information will be given at this stage of the investigation,” the office said. The two Israelis have not been named.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/21/belgian-police-question-two-israelis-over-war-crimes-accusations
Counter-demo set for Epping following violence outside refugee hotel
The founder of the English Defence League has announced plans to visit the Essex town on Sunday to join the latest in a series of far-right protests outside a local hotel housing refugees. In response, Stand Up to Racism has organised a counter-demonstration, scheduled to begin near the Bell Hotel at 4pm.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/counter-demo-set-epping-following-violence-outside-refugee-hotel
Evacuations begin in Syria’s Sweida as days of deadly clashes ease
Neighboring Israel also launched dozens of airstrikes in Druze-majority Sweida province, targeting government forces who effectively sided with the Bedouins. Syrian state media on Sunday said the government had coordinated with officials in Sweida to bring buses to evacuate some 1,500 Bedouins. The province’s internal security chief under the Interior Ministry, Ahmad al-Dalati, told the state-run news agency that the initiative also would allow civilians displaced from Sweida to return. Druze civilians were expected to be evacuated from other areas, but those had not taken place by Monday evening.
https://apnews.com/article/syria-druze-bedouin-clashes-israel-f066b472abcb9c1d546b4e3d713feadd
Why Turkey plans to end its 52-year oil pipeline deal with Iraq
Turkey closed the pipeline, which passes through the semi-autonomous Kurdistan region, in March 2023 after the International Court of Arbitration ordered the country to pay Iraq $1.5 billion for unauthorized exports between 2014 and 2018. More specifically, the court said Ankara allowed Iraqi-Kurdish authorities to pump crude without Baghdad’s permission. Before the closure, the pipeline was shipping around 500,000 barrels per day (bpd) of crude. Turkey’s state-owned pipeline operator Botas stated on its website that at full capacity, the entire pipeline system, consisting of two lines, can transfer a total of 1.5 million bpd. On March 31, Al-Monitor reported that Iraq was seeking additional compensation from Turkey in a second international arbitration case for unauthorized exports.
https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2025/07/why-turkey-plans-end-its-52-year-oil-pipeline-deal-iraq
Egypt rejects US quid pro quo over Gaza and Ethiopia dam
One Egyptian diplomat told the news outlet that the Trump administration had offered what one senior US official called a "decisive intervention" to solve the dispute over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD). In return, Egypt would need to back Israel’s plan to confine millions of Palestinians in a concentration camp close to the Rafah border. Israel’s defence minister earlier this month announced plans to erect a “humanitarian city” on the ruins of Rafah into which the entire Palestinian population will eventually be concentrated.
https://www.newarab.com/news/egypt-rejects-us-quid-pro-quo-over-gaza-and-ethiopia-dam
Kenya activist Boniface Mwangi charged with illegal ammo possession
Boniface Mwangi was charged by the police on Monday, two days after he was arrested and accused of possessing unused tear gas canisters, a “7.62mm blank round”, two mobile phones, a laptop and notebooks. The courtroom was packed with hundreds of activists, some wearing Kenyan flags. “They have no evidence,” Mwangi told reporters, describing his prosecution as “a big shame”.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/21/kenya-rights-activist-boniface-mwangi-charged-with-possession-of-ammunition
https://archive.ph/dEwmV
Venezuela to investigate alleged torture of its citizens in El Salvador jail
As well as Bukele, Venezuela would investigate El Salvador’s justice minister, Gustavo Villatoro, and its head of prisons, Osiris Luna Meza, Saab said, after showing videos of former detainees recounting torture and showing injuries – including a missing molar, bruising and scars – they said were the result of the abuse. Bukele’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Reuters was not immediately able to confirm the assertions made in the videos, but two of those shown speaking were identifiable as former Cecot detainees.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/21/venezuela-to-investigate-alleged-torture-of-its-citizens-in-el-salvador-jail
Petro urges Congress to approve reforms ahead of final year in office
Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro used the inauguration of a new congressional year to defend his three years in office and seek support for reform bills that will be introduced in the coming year. In a 138-minute speech, Petro apparently sought to put tensions with the opposition behind him and praised Congress for approving his government’s labor and pension reform proposals. The praise preceded the president’s attempt to warm up Congress for a pending reform of the public health system and a judicial reform that would allow the mass demobilization of illegal armed groups.
https://colombiareports.com/petro-urges-congress-to-approve-reforms-ahead-of-final-year-in-office/
From job cuts to suspending plans, Taiwan firms brace for Trump tariff storm
At least a quarter of Taiwanese companies have put expansion plans on hold, and 5 per cent have started cutting staff in the shadow of US President Donald Trump’s tariffs on the island, according to a new study. The findings come amid persistent uncertainty over the potential economic fallout from Washington’s tariff plan, especially following speculation that Taiwan could face a steep 32 per cent import duty – matching the level initially proposed by Trump in early April.
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3319041/job-cuts-suspending-plans-taiwan-firms-brace-trump-tariff-storm?module=top_story&pgtype=subsection
Japan’s Ishiba says he’ll stay in office to tackle inflation and US tariffs despite election loss
Voters frustrated with price increases exceeding the pace of wage hikes, especially younger people who have long felt ignored by the ruling government’s focus on senior voters, rapidly turned to emerging conservative and right-wing populist parties. Established liberal to centrist parties, including the main opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, gained little ground. The Democratic Party for the People quadrupled its seats by campaigning for higher take-home pay. The right-wing Sanseito, running on a “Japanese First” platform that puts tougher regulations on foreigners and brakes on gender and sexual diversity, surged to number three in the opposition.
https://apnews.com/article/japan-politics-election-ishiba-parliament-vote-ldp-0abc031590660859c3ea0a5da9d83310
R: 68 / I: 11
The Algerian independence struggle was exceptionally bloody. During that time, the entire global left stood in solidarity with the FLN and its goals. It was the anti-colonial struggle to end all anti-colonial struggles. However, what really became of it?
Algeria never became communist. It's largest trading partner post-independence was France, its former colonizers. Of course the Soviets provided them with support but the Algerian government joined the Non-Aligned Movement instead of becoming part of the Soviet sphere of influence. The most the USSR did for Algeria was supply them with guns.
So why didn't the anti-colonial struggle in Algeria result in socialism? Why does Algeria today have barely any relevance to the global left? The most we hear about that country is how much it beefs with Morocco over territorial lines or some shit. It's one of the largest countries in the world with mountains and a big ass desert but no vital resources? Plus every Algerian with money or an education has migrated to France or Quebec.
What went wrong, when this country had such a promising future 60 years ago?
Algeria
Breadpill me on Algeria.The Algerian independence struggle was exceptionally bloody. During that time, the entire global left stood in solidarity with the FLN and its goals. It was the anti-colonial struggle to end all anti-colonial struggles. However, what really became of it?
Algeria never became communist. It's largest trading partner post-independence was France, its former colonizers. Of course the Soviets provided them with support but the Algerian government joined the Non-Aligned Movement instead of becoming part of the Soviet sphere of influence. The most the USSR did for Algeria was supply them with guns.
So why didn't the anti-colonial struggle in Algeria result in socialism? Why does Algeria today have barely any relevance to the global left? The most we hear about that country is how much it beefs with Morocco over territorial lines or some shit. It's one of the largest countries in the world with mountains and a big ass desert but no vital resources? Plus every Algerian with money or an education has migrated to France or Quebec.
What went wrong, when this country had such a promising future 60 years ago?
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And how the FUCK is this black gentleman wrong in his analysis you leftypol RACISTS? China is clearly not socialist and its even symbolized on their own DAMN flag!
And how the FUCK is this black gentleman wrong in his analysis you leftypol RACISTS? China is clearly not socialist and its even symbolized on their own DAMN flag!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiBbPUYI7Y0&list=RDWiBbPUYI7Y0&start_radio=1&t=2734s&pp=ygURbGMgZHVycnV0aSBjb2x1bW6gBwE%3D
DurrutiChadsWinAgain
Just accept The Return of the Durutti Column and move on MLs. We even invented Post-Rock instead of just replicating Petite-Bourgeois nationalismhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pddox1SYHko&list=RDpddox1SYHko&start_radio=1&t=1536s&pp=ygUncmV0dXJuIG9mIHRoZSBkdXJ1dHRpIGNvbHVtbiBmdWxsIGFsYnVtoAcB
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R: 173 / I: 22
Clive Davis is arguably the most powerful man in the entertainment industry, moreso than Lucian Grainge and whomever runs Disney. He is 92 years old and an ultra-billionaire porky. Like Diddy, there have been rumors swarming for years that Davis is behind a lot of shady shit, namely running Epstein-like sex trafficking rings in the music industry since the 1970s. It is a known fact Davis was involved in one of the biggest payola scandals in the music industry in the 2000s. He is also known to commit tax fraud/evasion. Yet he hasn't been charged with anything. This can be explained by the suspicions Davis is a federal informant who's been working with the FBI for decades to get blackmail dirt on celebrities, identical to Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.
Davis essentially buckbroke Diddy when Diddy first entered the music industry. Everything Diddy is currently charged with are things he learned from Davis. It gets deeper when you look at the trial. Diddy, like his mentor Davis, is also an alleged FBI informant. It's rumored Diddy orchestrated Tupac's murder (the feds wanted Pac dead because he was a Black communist breadpilling people through his rhymes) and almost certainly had something to do with Biggie's death as well. The prosecutor against Diddy is allegedly James Comey's daughter, Comney being the same prosecutor in the Epstein/Maxwell case. Given that the prosecution is currently floundering (they have yet to prove Diddy is a sex trafficker, only that he's a sexual pervert with a piss and cuckold fetish) one can easily see that this is allegedly a cover up of an alleged cover up: either Diddy walks free and everyone involved goes about doing their evil, or Diddy is found guilty and becomes the fall guy while the bigger villains (specifically Davis) go unchecked.
To put the cherry on the sundae: Clive Davis owns a school at NYU, the Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music. Everyone who teaches there is getting paid by Clive; you can clearly see an overlap with the Congress for Cultural Freedom.
The biggest capitalist villain
Given everything that's come out during the Diddy trial, I find it highly suspicious that Clive Davis hasn't been mentioned once.Clive Davis is arguably the most powerful man in the entertainment industry, moreso than Lucian Grainge and whomever runs Disney. He is 92 years old and an ultra-billionaire porky. Like Diddy, there have been rumors swarming for years that Davis is behind a lot of shady shit, namely running Epstein-like sex trafficking rings in the music industry since the 1970s. It is a known fact Davis was involved in one of the biggest payola scandals in the music industry in the 2000s. He is also known to commit tax fraud/evasion. Yet he hasn't been charged with anything. This can be explained by the suspicions Davis is a federal informant who's been working with the FBI for decades to get blackmail dirt on celebrities, identical to Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.
Davis essentially buckbroke Diddy when Diddy first entered the music industry. Everything Diddy is currently charged with are things he learned from Davis. It gets deeper when you look at the trial. Diddy, like his mentor Davis, is also an alleged FBI informant. It's rumored Diddy orchestrated Tupac's murder (the feds wanted Pac dead because he was a Black communist breadpilling people through his rhymes) and almost certainly had something to do with Biggie's death as well. The prosecutor against Diddy is allegedly James Comey's daughter, Comney being the same prosecutor in the Epstein/Maxwell case. Given that the prosecution is currently floundering (they have yet to prove Diddy is a sex trafficker, only that he's a sexual pervert with a piss and cuckold fetish) one can easily see that this is allegedly a cover up of an alleged cover up: either Diddy walks free and everyone involved goes about doing their evil, or Diddy is found guilty and becomes the fall guy while the bigger villains (specifically Davis) go unchecked.
To put the cherry on the sundae: Clive Davis owns a school at NYU, the Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music. Everyone who teaches there is getting paid by Clive; you can clearly see an overlap with the Congress for Cultural Freedom.
R: 37 / I: 5
Whats the concensus on the PSL?
Are these guys larpers or are they actually doing anything useful? Seems like most of what they do locally are lead random pointless protests. Are they like the DSA or are they actual revcoms?
R: 207 / I: 40
Переможный, переговорный, пятнадцатотравневый.
Продолжаем трястись и ждать мобку.
Лолируем с красных фашистов, пыняславов и чучхеисов - вместе.
Переезжаем в тюмень, так как там нефтяная мекка и все жрут черную икру поварешками.
Левый поворот путина будет… надо только подождать… еще лет двадцать.
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Thread №2Переможный, переговорный, пятнадцатотравневый.
Продолжаем трястись и ждать мобку.
Лолируем с красных фашистов, пыняславов и чучхеисов - вместе.
Переезжаем в тюмень, так как там нефтяная мекка и все жрут черную икру поварешками.
Левый поворот путина будет… надо только подождать… еще лет двадцать.
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trotsky gets butthurt about losing the political struggle, lies about stalin, khruschev lies a bit more, western (bourgeois) 'historians' pick up the official 'truth', lie a bit more, slander quite a lot (I've seen the myth of a pedophile stalin popping up recently once more) and then a dumb western liberal/leftcom comes along and says 'well there's a bit of truth in every lie :) i believe the traitor trotsky :) i also support ukraine and israel and taiwan :))' and we are supposed to take these lies at face (half-)value like the fact that them being written in some books is truth
trotsky gets butthurt about losing the political struggle, lies about stalin, khruschev lies a bit more, western (bourgeois) 'historians' pick up the official 'truth', lie a bit more, slander quite a lot (I've seen the myth of a pedophile stalin popping up recently once more) and then a dumb western liberal/leftcom comes along and says 'well there's a bit of truth in every lie :) i believe the traitor trotsky :) i also support ukraine and israel and taiwan :))' and we are supposed to take these lies at face (half-)value like the fact that them being written in some books is truth
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You just connect the dots
Absolute majority of hetero males are apathetic, sadistic, sociopathic, hateful creatures
Young hetero males are not ""groomed" into fascism, they're just ontologically evil
Overwhelmingly majority of right-wingers are hetero males, a demography consisting mostly of sociopaths to a degree, reactionarism is politized sociopathyYou just connect the dots
Absolute majority of hetero males are apathetic, sadistic, sociopathic, hateful creatures
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I live in Montreal. For the past seven years, our city has undergone a pretty serious transformation investing in “people-oriented” infrastructure like bike lanes, green spaces, third spaces, pedestrianized streets in the summer, more train lines, and lots and lots of trees and community gardens. Even though it’s happening in a bourgeois context, these are all things leftists have been demanding as a way of making cities more pleasurable and inclusive for residents. The problem is, many of these plans have been met with huge public opposition. People complain about lack of parking spaces, a “war on cars”, too many bikes on the road, too little money spent on other infrastructure, and similar things. My question is, under socialism we would want our cities to be redesigned this way, but how would we manage the huge public opposition to it if there was an opposition to begin with? How would we convince people that, say, giant flower pots in parking spaces is a good thing? Or that public transit is better than cars? Or that mixed-use buildings are good?
Just asking because comrades can’t implement shit if the will of the people goes against us.
New Urbanism
How do comrades plan on successfully going about redesigning cities?I live in Montreal. For the past seven years, our city has undergone a pretty serious transformation investing in “people-oriented” infrastructure like bike lanes, green spaces, third spaces, pedestrianized streets in the summer, more train lines, and lots and lots of trees and community gardens. Even though it’s happening in a bourgeois context, these are all things leftists have been demanding as a way of making cities more pleasurable and inclusive for residents. The problem is, many of these plans have been met with huge public opposition. People complain about lack of parking spaces, a “war on cars”, too many bikes on the road, too little money spent on other infrastructure, and similar things. My question is, under socialism we would want our cities to be redesigned this way, but how would we manage the huge public opposition to it if there was an opposition to begin with? How would we convince people that, say, giant flower pots in parking spaces is a good thing? Or that public transit is better than cars? Or that mixed-use buildings are good?
Just asking because comrades can’t implement shit if the will of the people goes against us.
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A collapse isn't happening, nuclear war isn't happening, a revolution isn't happening. It's all so tedious.
Its not happening
I thought all of this shit going down would lead to the collapse of the US and the final triumph or something. Damn this is fucking depressing. The escalation of the genocide by Israel, the Ukraine-Russia war, the protests, the self-immolations, the riots, the invasion of Lebanon by Israel, the Iran-Israel war, the India-Pakistan war, the Trump Epstein files, the massive forest fires, AI emergence, Covid19, Beirut port explosion, UFO / drones footage, the US withdrawal from Afghanistan, the death of Elizabeth, the mass deportations in the US, the fall of Syria… so much shit yet nothing has happened for the communist movement, still under the capitalist mode of production.A collapse isn't happening, nuclear war isn't happening, a revolution isn't happening. It's all so tedious.
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It says right here in this Historical Materialism™ book that luckily the most historically progressive force in any event in History was the one that won. What are the odds???
It says right here in this Historical Materialism™ book that luckily the most historically progressive force in any event in History was the one that won. What are the odds???
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https://www.swartzentrover.com/cotor/E-Books/misc/Livy/HOR_38.htm
I was under the impression that racism came with European colonialism of the Americas. But this quote from a Roman orator reads unironically like some Hitlerite speech.
How old is racism really?
<And, besides, those ancestors of ours had to deal with genuine Gauls bred in their own land; these are degenerates, a mongrel race, truly what they are called - Gallograeci. Just as in the case of fruits and cattle, the seed is not so effective in keeping up the strain as the nature of the soil and climate in which they are reared are in changing it.https://www.swartzentrover.com/cotor/E-Books/misc/Livy/HOR_38.htm
I was under the impression that racism came with European colonialism of the Americas. But this quote from a Roman orator reads unironically like some Hitlerite speech.
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For the love of Science
Here's a thread to discuss about science, about treatnology and shit. Let's make that lively, and remember, the imperialists make the better technology, the proletarians use it best.
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Jos D'Haese (born August 24, 1992) is a Belgian politician who since 2019 has represented Antwerp Province in the Flemish Parliament, where he is the faction leader for the Workers' Party of Belgium, a socialist party with a Marxist background. D'Haese is also a member of the district council of Borgerhout and of the Belgian Senate.
This is the guy who will redeem Europe.
Jos D'Haese (born August 24, 1992) is a Belgian politician who since 2019 has represented Antwerp Province in the Flemish Parliament, where he is the faction leader for the Workers' Party of Belgium, a socialist party with a Marxist background. D'Haese is also a member of the district council of Borgerhout and of the Belgian Senate.
This is the guy who will redeem Europe.
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Autists of all lands unite, you have nothing to lose but your gain$
The first general entirely dedicated to betting on political happenings (or lack thereof). For those too afraid to do dangerous adventurism, there is always venture capital. Chinese stocks, Russian stocks any & all that coincide with your political LARP are welcome here, post your most daring bets and show your autistic bravery here!
Think of this as wallstreetbets for the left wing of capital. Or just regular wallstreetbets on leftypol if you believe they're the successors to occupy wall street.
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Why don't you put your money where your mouth is?Autists of all lands unite, you have nothing to lose but your gain$
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Reminder that migration is not driven by absolute wage disparities between nations; rather, it is a consequence of global capitalism's tendency to produce and maintain unequal productivity structures across countries. These structural differentials more than wage gaps themselves underlie capital's demand for mobile labor. Immigration functions as one among several strategic instruments, including outsourcing, technological innovation and labor market flexibilization, that capital employs to regulate labor supply in response to rising unit labor costs.
Global wage convergence doesn't occur because labor remains largely immobile, institutionally segmented and subject to political controls, whereas capital is highly mobile and operates according to the imperatives of competitive profit maximization. Therefore, framing immigration as a binary choice between accepting migrants or reducing domestic wages misrepresents the dynamics of the system.
Capitalism neither pursues nor facilitates global wage equalization rather it utilizes labor migration as a means to restore and maintain profitability under conditions of real competition, but so many radlibs are never gonna get it because they're stuck on that broken Unequal Exchange logic. They unironically reduce competition between bourgeois nation-states to "poor countries are getting robbed".
Reminder that migration is not driven by absolute wage disparities between nations; rather, it is a consequence of global capitalism's tendency to produce and maintain unequal productivity structures across countries. These structural differentials more than wage gaps themselves underlie capital's demand for mobile labor. Immigration functions as one among several strategic instruments, including outsourcing, technological innovation and labor market flexibilization, that capital employs to regulate labor supply in response to rising unit labor costs.
Global wage convergence doesn't occur because labor remains largely immobile, institutionally segmented and subject to political controls, whereas capital is highly mobile and operates according to the imperatives of competitive profit maximization. Therefore, framing immigration as a binary choice between accepting migrants or reducing domestic wages misrepresents the dynamics of the system.
Capitalism neither pursues nor facilitates global wage equalization rather it utilizes labor migration as a means to restore and maintain profitability under conditions of real competition, but so many radlibs are never gonna get it because they're stuck on that broken Unequal Exchange logic. They unironically reduce competition between bourgeois nation-states to "poor countries are getting robbed".
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Myint Swe, who became Myanmar’s acting president under controversial circumstances after the military seized power from the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi more than four years ago, died on Thursday, the military said. He was 74. Myint Swe’s death came more than a year after he stopped actively carrying out his presidential duties after he was publicly reported to be ailing.
https://apnews.com/article/myanmar-acting-president-myint-swe-obituary-dead-3e816743ec95a1ab4b543ab0846615a8
Modi ready to ‘pay a heavy price’ as India seeks to resist Trump tariffs
In a speech on Wednesday night which did not directly mention Trump or the new tariffs, Modi appeared defiant as he addressed one of the biggest sticking points in India’s ongoing trade negotiations with the US over tariffs. According to Indian officials, the US has been pushing India to allow for the import of American genetically modified (GM) crops into the country and for duty-free imports on US farm and dairy products.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/07/modi-ready-to-pay-a-heavy-price-as-india-seeks-to-resist-trump-tariffs
India bans 25 books in contested Kashmir for ‘secessionism’
Indian authorities in Kashmir have banned 25 books, including a piece of work by Booker Prize winner Arundhati Roy, saying the titles “excite secessionism” in the contested Muslim-majority region. The government order accuses the writers of propagating “false narratives” about Kashmir, “while playing a critical role in misguiding the youth, glorifying terrorism and inciting violence” against the Indian state. It follows orders in February when the authorities seized Islamic literature from bookshops and homes.
https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/south-asia/india-bans-25-books-in-contested-kashmir-for-secessionism
https://archive.ph/VZqEB
How Netanyahu’s plan to occupy Gaza is bringing the Israeli army to its knees
This week, Israeli media reported that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had decided to order the army to fully occupy the Gaza Strip. According to reports, Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir is strongly opposed to such a move and has even threatened to resign. If these reports are true, the importance of this moment is difficult to overstate. Such a head-on clash between the government and the army puts Netanyahu and his government in a position that challenges not only the military but also the will of much of the Israeli public.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/how-netanyahus-plan-occupy-gaza-bringing-israeli-army-its-knees
Algeria bans pro-Palestine protest for 'threatening public order'
The Algerian interior ministry this week rejected a request from a dozen opposition parties to organise a pro-Palestinian demonstration in the capital Algiers. The coalition of parties had sought authorisation on 29 July to march under the banner "Algeria with Palestine, against starvation and displacement," proposing the dates of 7 or 8 August.
https://www.newarab.com/news/algeria-bans-gaza-protest-threatening-public-order
Bolivia's socialists lose support of the Aymara, once their base
Now support for leftist and MAS-affiliated candidates is trailing the right-wing opposition. A July survey by Ipsos CIESMORI showed Andronico Rodriguez, the leading leftist contender, with just 6% support in July, from 19% earlier this year. Another candidate of Aymara heritage, Eva Copa, stood down from the race last week. Such is the rout that the official MAS candidate is polling around 2%, while Rodriguez has distanced himself from the party.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/bolivias-socialists-lose-support-aymara-once-their-base-2025-08-07/
Brazilian Indigenous Women March Demanting Reproductive Health Access and Land Rights
The march in Brasilia was also marked by criticism of a bill that weakens environmental licensing requirements for infrastructure projects, a measure seen as a serious setback for efforts to combat deforestation and climate change. Approved last month in Congress with support from the agribusiness sector, the protesters urged President Lula to veto the bill.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/brazilian-indigenous-women-march-demanting-reproductive-health-access-and-land-rights/
Buenos Aires City government to sanction citizens that sort through trash
Buenos Aires City Mayor Jorge Macri has instructed the Security Ministry and City Police to introduce sanctions for citizens – mostly poor – who take rubbish out of bins. … Via a post on X, the mayor reminded that article 94 of the City Misdemeanours Code on “Soiling property” provides that: “Anyone who stains or soils by any medium public or private property shall be sanctioned with one to fifteen days of community service or 81 to 1,217 fixed fine units.”
https://www.batimes.com.ar/news/argentina/jorge-macri-orders-sanctions-over-rubbish-removal.phtml
https://archive.ph/fMXed
Mass protest organisers dismiss ‘feeble’ first charges for Palestine Action support
Jeremy Shippam, 71, of West Sussex, Judit Murray, 71, of Surrey, and Fiona Maclean, 53, of Hackney, north-east London, were charged under section 13 of the Terrorism Act 2000. They were arrested in Westminster following a protest in central London on July 5 and are due to appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on September 16. They are accused of displaying an article in a public place, arousing reasonable suspicion that they are a supporter of a proscribed organisation.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/mass-protest-organisers-dismiss-feeble-first-charges-palestine-action-support
German kebab workers striking for collective agreement and pay transparency in industry first
A new round of negotiations between Birtat Meat World SE, one of the country’s biggest kebab meat factories, based in Murr, Baden-Wurttemberg, and the Food, Beverage and Catering (NGG) union were due to start today, but union officials expressed anger after the company clarified that it was not meeting them to negotiate a collective agreement but merely for an exchange of views.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/german-kebab-workers-striking-collective-agreement-and-pay-transparency-industry-first
France’s top court blocks comeback of controversial insecticide
The judges stressed that neonicotinoids — a class of insecticide that includes acetamiprid and that works by obstructing the nervous systems of insects — can be allowed in exceptional situations but only for a limited time and for well-defined crops. These conditions were not respected in the text of the law, the judges found.
https://www.politico.eu/article/frances-top-court-blocks-comeback-of-controversial-insecticide/
https://archive.ph/Yxntd
Rally demands Vic Labor save public housing towers
Almost 1000 people mobilised on August 2 to oppose Victorian Labor’s destruction and privatisation of 44 public housing towers. The protest was called by Save Public Housing Collective. Public housing tenants, activists and elected representatives from the Greens and Socialist Alliance addressed the protest, saying this is the biggest sell-off of public assets ever attempted by a government. They all called on Labor to stop handing over public housing estates to private developers and to instead expand public housing.
https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/rally-demands-vic-labor-save-public-housing-towers
News 8/7/25
Myanmar’s acting President Myint Swe dies after a long illnessMyint Swe, who became Myanmar’s acting president under controversial circumstances after the military seized power from the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi more than four years ago, died on Thursday, the military said. He was 74. Myint Swe’s death came more than a year after he stopped actively carrying out his presidential duties after he was publicly reported to be ailing.
https://apnews.com/article/myanmar-acting-president-myint-swe-obituary-dead-3e816743ec95a1ab4b543ab0846615a8
Modi ready to ‘pay a heavy price’ as India seeks to resist Trump tariffs
In a speech on Wednesday night which did not directly mention Trump or the new tariffs, Modi appeared defiant as he addressed one of the biggest sticking points in India’s ongoing trade negotiations with the US over tariffs. According to Indian officials, the US has been pushing India to allow for the import of American genetically modified (GM) crops into the country and for duty-free imports on US farm and dairy products.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/07/modi-ready-to-pay-a-heavy-price-as-india-seeks-to-resist-trump-tariffs
India bans 25 books in contested Kashmir for ‘secessionism’
Indian authorities in Kashmir have banned 25 books, including a piece of work by Booker Prize winner Arundhati Roy, saying the titles “excite secessionism” in the contested Muslim-majority region. The government order accuses the writers of propagating “false narratives” about Kashmir, “while playing a critical role in misguiding the youth, glorifying terrorism and inciting violence” against the Indian state. It follows orders in February when the authorities seized Islamic literature from bookshops and homes.
https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/south-asia/india-bans-25-books-in-contested-kashmir-for-secessionism
https://archive.ph/VZqEB
How Netanyahu’s plan to occupy Gaza is bringing the Israeli army to its knees
This week, Israeli media reported that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had decided to order the army to fully occupy the Gaza Strip. According to reports, Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir is strongly opposed to such a move and has even threatened to resign. If these reports are true, the importance of this moment is difficult to overstate. Such a head-on clash between the government and the army puts Netanyahu and his government in a position that challenges not only the military but also the will of much of the Israeli public.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/how-netanyahus-plan-occupy-gaza-bringing-israeli-army-its-knees
Algeria bans pro-Palestine protest for 'threatening public order'
The Algerian interior ministry this week rejected a request from a dozen opposition parties to organise a pro-Palestinian demonstration in the capital Algiers. The coalition of parties had sought authorisation on 29 July to march under the banner "Algeria with Palestine, against starvation and displacement," proposing the dates of 7 or 8 August.
https://www.newarab.com/news/algeria-bans-gaza-protest-threatening-public-order
Bolivia's socialists lose support of the Aymara, once their base
Now support for leftist and MAS-affiliated candidates is trailing the right-wing opposition. A July survey by Ipsos CIESMORI showed Andronico Rodriguez, the leading leftist contender, with just 6% support in July, from 19% earlier this year. Another candidate of Aymara heritage, Eva Copa, stood down from the race last week. Such is the rout that the official MAS candidate is polling around 2%, while Rodriguez has distanced himself from the party.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/bolivias-socialists-lose-support-aymara-once-their-base-2025-08-07/
Brazilian Indigenous Women March Demanting Reproductive Health Access and Land Rights
The march in Brasilia was also marked by criticism of a bill that weakens environmental licensing requirements for infrastructure projects, a measure seen as a serious setback for efforts to combat deforestation and climate change. Approved last month in Congress with support from the agribusiness sector, the protesters urged President Lula to veto the bill.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/brazilian-indigenous-women-march-demanting-reproductive-health-access-and-land-rights/
Buenos Aires City government to sanction citizens that sort through trash
Buenos Aires City Mayor Jorge Macri has instructed the Security Ministry and City Police to introduce sanctions for citizens – mostly poor – who take rubbish out of bins. … Via a post on X, the mayor reminded that article 94 of the City Misdemeanours Code on “Soiling property” provides that: “Anyone who stains or soils by any medium public or private property shall be sanctioned with one to fifteen days of community service or 81 to 1,217 fixed fine units.”
https://www.batimes.com.ar/news/argentina/jorge-macri-orders-sanctions-over-rubbish-removal.phtml
https://archive.ph/fMXed
Mass protest organisers dismiss ‘feeble’ first charges for Palestine Action support
Jeremy Shippam, 71, of West Sussex, Judit Murray, 71, of Surrey, and Fiona Maclean, 53, of Hackney, north-east London, were charged under section 13 of the Terrorism Act 2000. They were arrested in Westminster following a protest in central London on July 5 and are due to appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on September 16. They are accused of displaying an article in a public place, arousing reasonable suspicion that they are a supporter of a proscribed organisation.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/mass-protest-organisers-dismiss-feeble-first-charges-palestine-action-support
German kebab workers striking for collective agreement and pay transparency in industry first
A new round of negotiations between Birtat Meat World SE, one of the country’s biggest kebab meat factories, based in Murr, Baden-Wurttemberg, and the Food, Beverage and Catering (NGG) union were due to start today, but union officials expressed anger after the company clarified that it was not meeting them to negotiate a collective agreement but merely for an exchange of views.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/german-kebab-workers-striking-collective-agreement-and-pay-transparency-industry-first
France’s top court blocks comeback of controversial insecticide
The judges stressed that neonicotinoids — a class of insecticide that includes acetamiprid and that works by obstructing the nervous systems of insects — can be allowed in exceptional situations but only for a limited time and for well-defined crops. These conditions were not respected in the text of the law, the judges found.
https://www.politico.eu/article/frances-top-court-blocks-comeback-of-controversial-insecticide/
https://archive.ph/Yxntd
Rally demands Vic Labor save public housing towers
Almost 1000 people mobilised on August 2 to oppose Victorian Labor’s destruction and privatisation of 44 public housing towers. The protest was called by Save Public Housing Collective. Public housing tenants, activists and elected representatives from the Greens and Socialist Alliance addressed the protest, saying this is the biggest sell-off of public assets ever attempted by a government. They all called on Labor to stop handing over public housing estates to private developers and to instead expand public housing.
https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/rally-demands-vic-labor-save-public-housing-towers
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It seems to me that the professional strata only profits from a share of temporary super-profits due to innovation. If the workers want to fuck with the scientists then they must fight the intellectual monopoly rents the techs make their money from. It seems to me that rather than smashing mills the Luddites should have leaked the mill designs and trade secrets to their employer's competitors.
Real Subsumption, Intellectual Monopoly Rent, Labor Monopoly, Professional Strata, Technics
The real subsumption of labor is an important element of class conflict to analyze. The design of the means of production is an important way in which the bourgeoisie maintain power. But I am unsure of how the working class may fight the professional strata who design the means of production.It seems to me that the professional strata only profits from a share of temporary super-profits due to innovation. If the workers want to fuck with the scientists then they must fight the intellectual monopoly rents the techs make their money from. It seems to me that rather than smashing mills the Luddites should have leaked the mill designs and trade secrets to their employer's competitors.
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I am making this thread to ask indo-anons about the Bharat Bandh, i.e a nationwide strike by 10 major unions in India. It supposedly targeted 250million workers across India, but I am highly skeptical they got even 5million.
Also, since there is no India general, I figured a country with 1.4billion people and with a lot of drama under Modi's Rule deserves a thread where all the spice can be shared and discussed, among distinguished leftists.
inb4 the trolls : ignore trolls, do not feed their bait
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Lal Salaam comradesI am making this thread to ask indo-anons about the Bharat Bandh, i.e a nationwide strike by 10 major unions in India. It supposedly targeted 250million workers across India, but I am highly skeptical they got even 5million.
Also, since there is no India general, I figured a country with 1.4billion people and with a lot of drama under Modi's Rule deserves a thread where all the spice can be shared and discussed, among distinguished leftists.
inb4 the trolls : ignore trolls, do not feed their bait
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Romanian survey: Two out of three say Ceausescu was a good leader
>Even the communist regime seems to fare well in the opinion poll: for 55.8% of the respondents, it was rather a good thing for Romania, whereas only 34.5% disagreed.
>More than half of Romanians believe the communist regime was more of a good thing for Romania, with nearly 56% saying more positive than negative developments occurred under communism. The finding comes from a new INSCOP Research survey commissioned by the Institute for the Investigation of Communist Crimes and the Memory of the Romanian Exile (IICCMER), shedding light on the enduring nostalgia for the regime of Nicolae Ceaușescu.
And this is not even because of the elderly anymore even half of 18-24 year old Romanian youths prefer communism
>Sondaj: 45% dintre tineri cred că comunismul „a fost un lucru bun”. „Idealizarea totalitarismului e o problemă de securitate națională”
How shit is Romania that the most anti-communist propagandized generation hates your system and prefer communism? Dont see other former WP youth have these statistics at all. And seeing all these protests occuring in Romania and blatently just rigging elections how much potential does it have for socialism to come out or is it over before it started.
Romanian survey: Two out of three say Ceausescu was a good leader
>Even the communist regime seems to fare well in the opinion poll: for 55.8% of the respondents, it was rather a good thing for Romania, whereas only 34.5% disagreed.
>More than half of Romanians believe the communist regime was more of a good thing for Romania, with nearly 56% saying more positive than negative developments occurred under communism. The finding comes from a new INSCOP Research survey commissioned by the Institute for the Investigation of Communist Crimes and the Memory of the Romanian Exile (IICCMER), shedding light on the enduring nostalgia for the regime of Nicolae Ceaușescu.
And this is not even because of the elderly anymore even half of 18-24 year old Romanian youths prefer communism
>Sondaj: 45% dintre tineri cred că comunismul „a fost un lucru bun”. „Idealizarea totalitarismului e o problemă de securitate națională”
How shit is Romania that the most anti-communist propagandized generation hates your system and prefer communism? Dont see other former WP youth have these statistics at all. And seeing all these protests occuring in Romania and blatently just rigging elections how much potential does it have for socialism to come out or is it over before it started.
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>arguing about extremely minor theory differences
>making mega threads that are hard to understand because of how much garbage is in them
>complaining about leftists doing actual action while you sit at home and do nothing
>wants unity but if someone posts a soyjak or something slightly different you complain
>possibly moving or deleting this thread because it’s “meta”
Geg get your work together guys
>arguing about extremely minor theory differences
>making mega threads that are hard to understand because of how much garbage is in them
>complaining about leftists doing actual action while you sit at home and do nothing
>wants unity but if someone posts a soyjak or something slightly different you complain
>possibly moving or deleting this thread because it’s “meta”
Geg get your work together guys
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I'm right wing socially but center left economically. Neither of the big political parties really want me at their lunch table. I'm too religious and pro gun to be able to justify voting Democrat but Republicans are far too focused on buying their Healthcare CEOs friends another yacht. Even the third parties aren't interested in my beliefs and I'm certain that I'm not alone in these beliefs.
Anyone else struggle with this? Wat do?
Where do I fit?
I don't feel welcome with the left or the right.I'm right wing socially but center left economically. Neither of the big political parties really want me at their lunch table. I'm too religious and pro gun to be able to justify voting Democrat but Republicans are far too focused on buying their Healthcare CEOs friends another yacht. Even the third parties aren't interested in my beliefs and I'm certain that I'm not alone in these beliefs.
Anyone else struggle with this? Wat do?
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Thank you, Father.
My communist father
Comrades, I have something to tell you. My father was always very political, criticizing capitalism. When I became interested in politics, he gave me his Spanish Republican flag and his Che Guevara beret. Yes, he always had and will always have Che's spirit. I'm writing this post as a kind of gift to my father.Thank you, Father.
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I wanted to discuss do you fellow communist believe that P*rn acceptable in a communist or do you think it’s degenerate do you think that? P*rn compatible with communism or do you think it’s only compatible in a capitalistic state
I wanted to discuss do you fellow communist believe that P*rn acceptable in a communist or do you think it’s degenerate do you think that? P*rn compatible with communism or do you think it’s only compatible in a capitalistic state
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The de facto privatization ordered by the judge would be part of the $16.1 billion payment the Argentine government was ordered to make in 2023 for failing to offer equal treatment to all shareholders in 2012, when it seized the YPF stake from Spain’s Repsol without making a tender offer to minority shareholders Petersen and Eton Park. If it does not surrender the shares, the Argentine government risks being declared in contempt. The Javier Milei administration has already appealed the decision, but it is unknown whether it will rule before the 72 hours granted by Judge Loretta Preska expire.
https://english.elpais.com/economy-and-business/2025-07-15/us-court-gives-argentina-three-more-days-to-surrender-its-ypf-shares.html
https://archive.ph/nmU7e
Miners lift blockades along Peru's key copper route, protest leader says
Peru's government has been working to end the program for operations known as "informal," which was created over a decade ago and meant to be temporary, but workers in the sector say the stricter regulations to operate legally are too onerous. … The Ministry of Energy and Mines is aiming to bring more than 31,000 informal miners in line with regulations by the end of the year, after removing more than 50,000 others from the program earlier this month. The ministry said at least 45,000 of those hadn't registered any activity in the last four years.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/miners-lift-blockades-along-perus-key-copper-route-protest-leader-says-2025-07-15/
Colombia and partners seeking “concrete measures” to end Israel’s genocide in Gaza
On top of that, The Hague Group said that the ministers “will announce concrete actions to enforce international law through coordinated state action — to end the genocide, and ensure justice and accountability.” “The Palestinian genocide threatens our entire multilateral system,” Jaramillo, a descendant of Palestinians, told news website Middle East Eye. The administration of President Gustavo Petro was one of the first countries to support South Africa’s attempt to have Israel convicted by the ICJ for the ongoing genocide that has killed at least 58,000 Gaza residents since October 2023.
https://colombiareports.com/colombia-and-partners-seeking-concrete-measures-to-end-israels-genocide-in-gaza/
Israeli ultra-Orthodox party quits Netanyahu government over conscription
Degel HaTorah was quoted by news reports as saying the decision was made “in accordance with the directive” of the group’s spiritual leader, Rabbi Dov Lando. Degel Hatorah said in a statement that after conferring with its head rabbis, “and following repeated violations by the government of its commitments to ensure the status of holy yeshiva students who diligently engage in their studies … [its MKs] have announced their resignation from the coalition and the government”.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/15/israeli-ultra-orthodox-party-quits-netanyahu-government-over-conscription
https://archive.ph/FASnn
Three Israeli soldiers killed in explosion in Jabalia, senior legal official killed in Gaza City
The soldiers were named as Staff Sgt. Shoham Menahem, Sgt. Shlomo Yakir Shrem and Sgt. Yuliy Faktor and reportedly belonged to the 52nd Battalion of the 401st Armoured Brigade, with another soldier injured in the blast. The Israeli army claimed the deaths were due to ammunition inside the tank detonating, following initial reports suggesting that the vehicle was hit by an anti-tank missile.
https://www.newarab.com/news/three-israeli-soldiers-killed-explosion-northern-gaza
Syria announces ceasefire after latest outbreak of deadly sectarian violence
Syria ‘s defense minister announced a ceasefire shortly after government forces entered a key city in southern Sweida province on Tuesday, a day after sectarian clashes killed dozens there. Neighboring Israel again launched strikes on Syrian military forces, saying it was protecting the Druze minority.
https://apnews.com/article/syria-druze-clashes-sweida-44585d1d58ddcdd224e9573ca94767b0
Pakistan announces new paramilitary force ahead of PTI protests
The new force will be called the Federal Constabulary and will be formed by restructuring an existing paramilitary unit currently operating along the northwestern border with Afghanistan, state minister for the Interior Talal Chaudhry said at a press conference in Faisalabad on Monday. According to a copy of the amended law cited by Dunya News TV, the Federal Constabulary will be tasked with internal security, riot control and counter-terrorism duties. The announcement comes as the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party, led by jailed former prime minister Imran Khan, prepares for nationwide protests on August 5, marking two years since his arrest.
https://www.easterneye.biz/pakistan-imran-khan-paramilitary-force-pti/
https://archive.ph/HtRQU
Odisha: Bengali-Speaking Migrants Detained En Masse; National Security or Persecution?
In what may be called as an orchestrated crackdown targeting Bengali-speaking migrant labourers, Odisha’s Jharsuguda district police have detained 444 individuals for “verification” under suspicion of being undocumented Bangladeshi and Rohingya nationals, according to Superintendent of Police Smit Parmar. Acting on directives issued by the Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), a Special Task Force (STF) was constituted in the district and the detainees have been shifted to two designated holding centres for further scrutiny.
https://www.newsclick.in/odisha-bengali-speaking-migrants-detained-en-masse-national-security-or-persecution
News 7/15/25
US court gives Argentina three more days to surrender its YPF sharesThe de facto privatization ordered by the judge would be part of the $16.1 billion payment the Argentine government was ordered to make in 2023 for failing to offer equal treatment to all shareholders in 2012, when it seized the YPF stake from Spain’s Repsol without making a tender offer to minority shareholders Petersen and Eton Park. If it does not surrender the shares, the Argentine government risks being declared in contempt. The Javier Milei administration has already appealed the decision, but it is unknown whether it will rule before the 72 hours granted by Judge Loretta Preska expire.
https://english.elpais.com/economy-and-business/2025-07-15/us-court-gives-argentina-three-more-days-to-surrender-its-ypf-shares.html
https://archive.ph/nmU7e
Miners lift blockades along Peru's key copper route, protest leader says
Peru's government has been working to end the program for operations known as "informal," which was created over a decade ago and meant to be temporary, but workers in the sector say the stricter regulations to operate legally are too onerous. … The Ministry of Energy and Mines is aiming to bring more than 31,000 informal miners in line with regulations by the end of the year, after removing more than 50,000 others from the program earlier this month. The ministry said at least 45,000 of those hadn't registered any activity in the last four years.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/miners-lift-blockades-along-perus-key-copper-route-protest-leader-says-2025-07-15/
Colombia and partners seeking “concrete measures” to end Israel’s genocide in Gaza
On top of that, The Hague Group said that the ministers “will announce concrete actions to enforce international law through coordinated state action — to end the genocide, and ensure justice and accountability.” “The Palestinian genocide threatens our entire multilateral system,” Jaramillo, a descendant of Palestinians, told news website Middle East Eye. The administration of President Gustavo Petro was one of the first countries to support South Africa’s attempt to have Israel convicted by the ICJ for the ongoing genocide that has killed at least 58,000 Gaza residents since October 2023.
https://colombiareports.com/colombia-and-partners-seeking-concrete-measures-to-end-israels-genocide-in-gaza/
Israeli ultra-Orthodox party quits Netanyahu government over conscription
Degel HaTorah was quoted by news reports as saying the decision was made “in accordance with the directive” of the group’s spiritual leader, Rabbi Dov Lando. Degel Hatorah said in a statement that after conferring with its head rabbis, “and following repeated violations by the government of its commitments to ensure the status of holy yeshiva students who diligently engage in their studies … [its MKs] have announced their resignation from the coalition and the government”.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/15/israeli-ultra-orthodox-party-quits-netanyahu-government-over-conscription
https://archive.ph/FASnn
Three Israeli soldiers killed in explosion in Jabalia, senior legal official killed in Gaza City
The soldiers were named as Staff Sgt. Shoham Menahem, Sgt. Shlomo Yakir Shrem and Sgt. Yuliy Faktor and reportedly belonged to the 52nd Battalion of the 401st Armoured Brigade, with another soldier injured in the blast. The Israeli army claimed the deaths were due to ammunition inside the tank detonating, following initial reports suggesting that the vehicle was hit by an anti-tank missile.
https://www.newarab.com/news/three-israeli-soldiers-killed-explosion-northern-gaza
Syria announces ceasefire after latest outbreak of deadly sectarian violence
Syria ‘s defense minister announced a ceasefire shortly after government forces entered a key city in southern Sweida province on Tuesday, a day after sectarian clashes killed dozens there. Neighboring Israel again launched strikes on Syrian military forces, saying it was protecting the Druze minority.
https://apnews.com/article/syria-druze-clashes-sweida-44585d1d58ddcdd224e9573ca94767b0
Pakistan announces new paramilitary force ahead of PTI protests
The new force will be called the Federal Constabulary and will be formed by restructuring an existing paramilitary unit currently operating along the northwestern border with Afghanistan, state minister for the Interior Talal Chaudhry said at a press conference in Faisalabad on Monday. According to a copy of the amended law cited by Dunya News TV, the Federal Constabulary will be tasked with internal security, riot control and counter-terrorism duties. The announcement comes as the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party, led by jailed former prime minister Imran Khan, prepares for nationwide protests on August 5, marking two years since his arrest.
https://www.easterneye.biz/pakistan-imran-khan-paramilitary-force-pti/
https://archive.ph/HtRQU
Odisha: Bengali-Speaking Migrants Detained En Masse; National Security or Persecution?
In what may be called as an orchestrated crackdown targeting Bengali-speaking migrant labourers, Odisha’s Jharsuguda district police have detained 444 individuals for “verification” under suspicion of being undocumented Bangladeshi and Rohingya nationals, according to Superintendent of Police Smit Parmar. Acting on directives issued by the Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), a Special Task Force (STF) was constituted in the district and the detainees have been shifted to two designated holding centres for further scrutiny.
https://www.newsclick.in/odisha-bengali-speaking-migrants-detained-en-masse-national-security-or-persecution
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ITS JOEVER. REFORM HAS WON. TOTAL BRITAIN LOSS.
I HOPE YOU BRITISH FAGS ENJOY THE ONE PARTY REFORM STATE.
AHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHA CLOWN WORLD AHHAAH
(unironically this is a pretty grim situation)
ITS JOEVER. REFORM HAS WON. TOTAL BRITAIN LOSS.
I HOPE YOU BRITISH FAGS ENJOY THE ONE PARTY REFORM STATE.
AHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHA CLOWN WORLD AHHAAH
(unironically this is a pretty grim situation)
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These developments concern me because the Western left won't quit. We won't admit ideological defeat, learn from China's facts, and progress towards a post-neoliberalism that is not fascist. Instead, we continue to indulge "non-hierarchical" fantasies that have failed completely. I think China has reeducated us and has taught us their approach is the most correct approach to post-capitalism. There isn't actually another correct way to do socialism, and the more time we waste the closer we come to American fascism and ecological collapse.
25 years of 21st century leftism
It's 2025. We are now closer to 2050 than 2000. What has the left achieved this century? As far as I can tell the Western left has achieved nothing. Neoliberalism continues to get worse. It has successfully created a fake opposition on the right. You can call it populism, nativism, racism, MAGA et cetera, but it is really just a controlled opposition that does whatever capitalists want. In the East we see China. China has become the world's largest car manufacturer in the last five years. This change happened post-COVID and with heavy tariffs from the West. China has also lifted hundreds of millions of people out of poverty within its own borders and it has become the number one trading partner of most of the word's nations, including most American nations.These developments concern me because the Western left won't quit. We won't admit ideological defeat, learn from China's facts, and progress towards a post-neoliberalism that is not fascist. Instead, we continue to indulge "non-hierarchical" fantasies that have failed completely. I think China has reeducated us and has taught us their approach is the most correct approach to post-capitalism. There isn't actually another correct way to do socialism, and the more time we waste the closer we come to American fascism and ecological collapse.
R: 27 / I: 7
When does the revolution begin?? When do we stop falling for their tricks and just take it into our own hands??
The Revolution NEEDS to start
Why havent *WE* realized?? Are *WE* stupid??When does the revolution begin?? When do we stop falling for their tricks and just take it into our own hands??
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What's the deal with runes? Best answer is a link to an existing antifash guide, anecdotes are also cool.
I saw someone at work (different floor, same building) with about twenty Germanic runes tattooed below their ear. I only memorized two of them, which I recognize as mannaz ᛗ and algiz ᛉ, which my ignorant quick deduction suspects means it was the 24 Elder Futhark runes and not some esoteric Nazi shit like Wiligut runes (picrel). Therefore, no need to beat the guy up.
What's the deal with runes? Best answer is a link to an existing antifash guide, anecdotes are also cool.
I saw someone at work (different floor, same building) with about twenty Germanic runes tattooed below their ear. I only memorized two of them, which I recognize as mannaz ᛗ and algiz ᛉ, which my ignorant quick deduction suspects means it was the 24 Elder Futhark runes and not some esoteric Nazi shit like Wiligut runes (picrel). Therefore, no need to beat the guy up.
R: 9 / I: 2
The wealthy want to pull away from the rest of us into an encrypted network, a gated community, and a zip-code that we've all been priced out of. After achieving this, they want to remotely rule us from the comfort of their MacBook Pro. They know what they're doing is immoral, which is why they're building bunkers instead of public works. The billionaires of yore didn't behave this way because they were part of a religious majority that believed the wealthy could be good Christians and billionaires at the same time. The elite and much of the public now have a firmly post-Christian ethic in which the only justifications left are some form of social Darwinism.
The bourgeois understand that they are immoral and that they are playing a zero sum game with the proletariat and the planet so we should switch to zero sum tactics instead of electoralism. I still catch myself appealing to the "electorate" out of habit, but old habits need to die, just like the Boomers.
We need to forget about Boomers.
It's true that Boomers are still in control, but they are at death's door, much like Trump, which means that we are a heartbeat away from the first Millennial President. We need to change political tactics. I still see a lot of rhetoric on social media focused on morality and fairness, but this is not the language that wealthy Millennials speak. They are educated enough to know that they are a small and hated minority, unlike the bribed Boomers who came before them. They know they cannot compete electorally, which is why we are slipping into the politics of apartheid.The wealthy want to pull away from the rest of us into an encrypted network, a gated community, and a zip-code that we've all been priced out of. After achieving this, they want to remotely rule us from the comfort of their MacBook Pro. They know what they're doing is immoral, which is why they're building bunkers instead of public works. The billionaires of yore didn't behave this way because they were part of a religious majority that believed the wealthy could be good Christians and billionaires at the same time. The elite and much of the public now have a firmly post-Christian ethic in which the only justifications left are some form of social Darwinism.
The bourgeois understand that they are immoral and that they are playing a zero sum game with the proletariat and the planet so we should switch to zero sum tactics instead of electoralism. I still catch myself appealing to the "electorate" out of habit, but old habits need to die, just like the Boomers.
R: 2 / I: 0
What passes for “fascism” in many contemporary debates is a sloppy label. The rightward drift across bourgeois parliaments in Europe and the United States is primarily intensified bourgeois rule — not fascism. It is class rule without Klassenfrieden: the worker shall no longer suckle the teat of the imperialist state freely. The imperialist state is running on fumes; it may last decades more, but exhaustion is its long-term condition, not immediate fascist seizure.
Fascism, historically, is not a mood or a personality syndrome; it is a specific political form that arises under specific material conditions. Three interlocking preconditions must obtain: (1) a deep systemic crisis of imperialism/capitalism — typically culminating in inter-imperialist war; (2) a real or imminent threat of proletarian dictatorship or mass working-class power; and (3) a decisive victory by reactionary bourgeois forces that then organize open, systematic terror to annihilate the left. In short, fascism is the extralegal, terrorist dictatorship of the most reactionary sections of finance capital — the “open terrorist dictatorship” Dimitrov named.
This explains most of the regimes in interwar Europe that we classify today as fascist. It also explains why, without point (2), there is no imminent threat of fascism. For example, Hitler had to crush many syndicalists and communists before taking power—this aligns with the idea of organized white terror, rather than with some purely psychological explanation of fascism. Many fascist states had similar regimes (Sanacja, monarcho-fascism, the numerous Baltic quislings). Where condition (2) is absent, the dynamics are different — repressive, illiberal, authoritarian, but not structurally fascist. Consider debates over Japan: if the communist movement there never posed a tangible seizure-of-power threat, then labeling Tokyo’s authoritarianism “fascism” in the interwar sense requires argument, not assertion.
Use the term carefully. If we want politics that prevent genuine counter-revolution, we must analyse preconditions, not flatten distinct phenomena into the single word “fascism.”
Fascism: a concrete historical response, not a catch-all label
There is a growing discussion of fascism, and I want to clutter up the board with another thread on the topic.What passes for “fascism” in many contemporary debates is a sloppy label. The rightward drift across bourgeois parliaments in Europe and the United States is primarily intensified bourgeois rule — not fascism. It is class rule without Klassenfrieden: the worker shall no longer suckle the teat of the imperialist state freely. The imperialist state is running on fumes; it may last decades more, but exhaustion is its long-term condition, not immediate fascist seizure.
Fascism, historically, is not a mood or a personality syndrome; it is a specific political form that arises under specific material conditions. Three interlocking preconditions must obtain: (1) a deep systemic crisis of imperialism/capitalism — typically culminating in inter-imperialist war; (2) a real or imminent threat of proletarian dictatorship or mass working-class power; and (3) a decisive victory by reactionary bourgeois forces that then organize open, systematic terror to annihilate the left. In short, fascism is the extralegal, terrorist dictatorship of the most reactionary sections of finance capital — the “open terrorist dictatorship” Dimitrov named.
This explains most of the regimes in interwar Europe that we classify today as fascist. It also explains why, without point (2), there is no imminent threat of fascism. For example, Hitler had to crush many syndicalists and communists before taking power—this aligns with the idea of organized white terror, rather than with some purely psychological explanation of fascism. Many fascist states had similar regimes (Sanacja, monarcho-fascism, the numerous Baltic quislings). Where condition (2) is absent, the dynamics are different — repressive, illiberal, authoritarian, but not structurally fascist. Consider debates over Japan: if the communist movement there never posed a tangible seizure-of-power threat, then labeling Tokyo’s authoritarianism “fascism” in the interwar sense requires argument, not assertion.
Use the term carefully. If we want politics that prevent genuine counter-revolution, we must analyse preconditions, not flatten distinct phenomena into the single word “fascism.”
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I swear to god most of you aren't even real human beings a should rightfully be called. Most of your are on the levels of automatons, or human adjacent animals like dogs are cats. Nothing even remotely resembling a human intelligence. This is the most serious problem facing all hypothetical discussions of political futures like communism or whatever. You can't buo;d out of subhuman creatures like goats or sheep or cat or dogs.
I swear to god most of you aren't even real human beings a should rightfully be called. Most of your are on the levels of automatons, or human adjacent animals like dogs are cats. Nothing even remotely resembling a human intelligence. This is the most serious problem facing all hypothetical discussions of political futures like communism or whatever. You can't buo;d out of subhuman creatures like goats or sheep or cat or dogs.
R: 4 / I: 1
The fire, which started on Tuesday afternoon, had burned 16,000 hectares (39,537 acres) inland from the Mediterranean near the Spanish border. It began in the village of Ribaute in the Aude department, spreading across the rural, wooded area of the Corbières, famous for its vineyards and medieval villages.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/06/france-largest-wildfire-this-year-corbieres-hills
Hamburg dockworker demands union action against genocide in Gaza
Mohammed Alattar, who has lost 80 family members in the Gaza massacre, writes in a petition addressed to Verdi that he approached the union leadership with his story and asked what the union was doing in answer. He described the response with anger: “Nothing came back, no chance. Only complete ignorance and silence.” This disregard for the suffering and catastrophe in Gaza, Alattar writes, “reflects the same disregard and isolation that Jewish people in Germany experienced 80 years ago.”
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/08/06/fbfe-a06.html
About 300 migrants start walk north from southern Mexico
The group of migrants that left Tapachula, near the border with Guatemala, was small in comparison to migrant caravans in years past. There has been very little movement of migrants in public since U.S. President Donald Trump took office in January, though migration numbers had been falling even prior to that. Those walking Wednesday said their goal was not to reach the United States, but rather central Mexico. They complained that they had been waiting for months to legalize their status or receive asylum.
https://apnews.com/article/mexico-migrants-us-trump-tapachula-a920fcba8752d1c6f3b1f3eb2c4579aa
Brazil: Opposition lawmakers stay the night in Congress
The opposition was demanding a general and unrestricted amnesty for those convicted of attempting a coup d'état, in addition to De Moraes' impeachment. The magistrate is the rapporteur for the case against Bolsonaro, who is accused of leading an attempt to annul the 2022 presidential elections by putting pressure on military commanders. The complaint also points to plans to assassinate and arrest public officials. Bolsonaro and the others under investigation deny the accusations.
https://en.mercopress.com/2025/08/06/brazil-opposition-lawmakers-stay-the-night-in-congress
Sudan says army destroys Emirati aircraft, killing 40 mercenaries
A military source, speaking to AFP on condition of anonymity, said the UAE plane "was bombed and completely destroyed" at Darfur's Nyala airport. The airport has recently come under repeated air strikes by the Sudanese army, at war with the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) since April 2023.
https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2025/08/sudan-says-army-destroys-emirati-aircraft-killing-40-mercenaries
Rwanda agrees to take deportees from the US after a previous migrant deal with the UK collapsed
Rwandan government spokesperson Yolande Makolo told The Associated Press in a statement that the East African country would accept up to 250 deportees from the U.S., with “the ability to approve each individual proposed for resettlement” under the agreement. Makolo didn’t provide a timeline for any deportees to arrive in Rwanda or say if they would arrive at once or in several batches. She said details were still being worked out. The State Department said the U.S. “works with Rwanda on a range of mutual priorities” but wouldn’t comment on details of the deportation deal and what it called diplomatic conversations with other governments.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-immigrants-deportees-rwanda-us-bb5edea43bb470e76af3ecee5ddad10c
Large Majority of Israeli Jews Untroubled by Reports of Famine in Gaza, Poll Finds
Among the Arab public, 86 percent said they are "very troubled" or "somewhat troubled" about the situation in Gaza. They also found a much greater degree of concern among left-wing Jews, with 70 percent saying that they, too, are troubled by the situation. Jews and Arabs also have profoundly differing views on whether Israel is making substantial efforts to avoid causing unnecessary suffering to Palestinians in Gaza; 78 percent of Jewish respondents agreed that "Israel's actions are restricted by the fighting, but it is making substantial efforts to avoid causing unnecessary suffering to Palestinians in Gaza." Only 22.5 percent of Arabs said that the claim is correct.
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-08-05/ty-article/.premium/large-majority-of-israeli-jews-untroubled-by-reports-of-famine-in-gaza-poll-finds/00000198-7ab3-d0ce-a5de-fbb374f30000
https://archive.ph/pj4PW
Turkey arrests youth LGBTQ activist following Erdogan criticism at Council of Europe speech
Enes Hocaogullari, 23, gave a speech in Strasbourg in March criticising police violence and detentions plus democratic backsliding in Turkey, saying: "The youth has had enough … We are ready to go on the streets to regain our freedoms." He was detained on Tuesday night on arrival from France at Ankara's Esenboga Airport pending trial on charges of "publicly disseminating misleading information" and "inciting hatred and enmity," according to a court document seen by Reuters.
https://www.newarab.com/news/turkey-arrests-youth-lgbtq-activist-following-erdogan-criticism
Sri Lanka’s parliament votes to fire country’s police chief over abuse of power
Lawmakers in Sri Lanka voted Tuesday to fire the country’s police chief for misconduct and gross abuse of power, making him the island nation’s first inspector-general to be impeached. In the 225-member parliament, 117 lawmakers voted to fire Deshabandu Tennakoon. No one opposed, while one member abstained.
https://apnews.com/article/sri-lanka-parliament-police-chief-fired-d0cfd69ae1e16d4b0f56188352b6c45f
Unions demand legal action against Tata Consultancy Services over mass layoffs and labor rights violations
One of India’s largest trade union federations, the Centre for Indian Trade Unions (CITU) supported demands of legal action against Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), the country’s largest software company, over claims of its violation of the Industrial Dispute Act (IDA) and labor rights.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/08/06/unions-demand-legal-action-against-tata-consultancy-services-over-mass-layoffs-and-labor-rights-violations/
News 8/6/25
‘Unprecedented’ wildfire burns area size of Paris in southern FranceThe fire, which started on Tuesday afternoon, had burned 16,000 hectares (39,537 acres) inland from the Mediterranean near the Spanish border. It began in the village of Ribaute in the Aude department, spreading across the rural, wooded area of the Corbières, famous for its vineyards and medieval villages.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/06/france-largest-wildfire-this-year-corbieres-hills
Hamburg dockworker demands union action against genocide in Gaza
Mohammed Alattar, who has lost 80 family members in the Gaza massacre, writes in a petition addressed to Verdi that he approached the union leadership with his story and asked what the union was doing in answer. He described the response with anger: “Nothing came back, no chance. Only complete ignorance and silence.” This disregard for the suffering and catastrophe in Gaza, Alattar writes, “reflects the same disregard and isolation that Jewish people in Germany experienced 80 years ago.”
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/08/06/fbfe-a06.html
About 300 migrants start walk north from southern Mexico
The group of migrants that left Tapachula, near the border with Guatemala, was small in comparison to migrant caravans in years past. There has been very little movement of migrants in public since U.S. President Donald Trump took office in January, though migration numbers had been falling even prior to that. Those walking Wednesday said their goal was not to reach the United States, but rather central Mexico. They complained that they had been waiting for months to legalize their status or receive asylum.
https://apnews.com/article/mexico-migrants-us-trump-tapachula-a920fcba8752d1c6f3b1f3eb2c4579aa
Brazil: Opposition lawmakers stay the night in Congress
The opposition was demanding a general and unrestricted amnesty for those convicted of attempting a coup d'état, in addition to De Moraes' impeachment. The magistrate is the rapporteur for the case against Bolsonaro, who is accused of leading an attempt to annul the 2022 presidential elections by putting pressure on military commanders. The complaint also points to plans to assassinate and arrest public officials. Bolsonaro and the others under investigation deny the accusations.
https://en.mercopress.com/2025/08/06/brazil-opposition-lawmakers-stay-the-night-in-congress
Sudan says army destroys Emirati aircraft, killing 40 mercenaries
A military source, speaking to AFP on condition of anonymity, said the UAE plane "was bombed and completely destroyed" at Darfur's Nyala airport. The airport has recently come under repeated air strikes by the Sudanese army, at war with the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) since April 2023.
https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2025/08/sudan-says-army-destroys-emirati-aircraft-killing-40-mercenaries
Rwanda agrees to take deportees from the US after a previous migrant deal with the UK collapsed
Rwandan government spokesperson Yolande Makolo told The Associated Press in a statement that the East African country would accept up to 250 deportees from the U.S., with “the ability to approve each individual proposed for resettlement” under the agreement. Makolo didn’t provide a timeline for any deportees to arrive in Rwanda or say if they would arrive at once or in several batches. She said details were still being worked out. The State Department said the U.S. “works with Rwanda on a range of mutual priorities” but wouldn’t comment on details of the deportation deal and what it called diplomatic conversations with other governments.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-immigrants-deportees-rwanda-us-bb5edea43bb470e76af3ecee5ddad10c
Large Majority of Israeli Jews Untroubled by Reports of Famine in Gaza, Poll Finds
Among the Arab public, 86 percent said they are "very troubled" or "somewhat troubled" about the situation in Gaza. They also found a much greater degree of concern among left-wing Jews, with 70 percent saying that they, too, are troubled by the situation. Jews and Arabs also have profoundly differing views on whether Israel is making substantial efforts to avoid causing unnecessary suffering to Palestinians in Gaza; 78 percent of Jewish respondents agreed that "Israel's actions are restricted by the fighting, but it is making substantial efforts to avoid causing unnecessary suffering to Palestinians in Gaza." Only 22.5 percent of Arabs said that the claim is correct.
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-08-05/ty-article/.premium/large-majority-of-israeli-jews-untroubled-by-reports-of-famine-in-gaza-poll-finds/00000198-7ab3-d0ce-a5de-fbb374f30000
https://archive.ph/pj4PW
Turkey arrests youth LGBTQ activist following Erdogan criticism at Council of Europe speech
Enes Hocaogullari, 23, gave a speech in Strasbourg in March criticising police violence and detentions plus democratic backsliding in Turkey, saying: "The youth has had enough … We are ready to go on the streets to regain our freedoms." He was detained on Tuesday night on arrival from France at Ankara's Esenboga Airport pending trial on charges of "publicly disseminating misleading information" and "inciting hatred and enmity," according to a court document seen by Reuters.
https://www.newarab.com/news/turkey-arrests-youth-lgbtq-activist-following-erdogan-criticism
Sri Lanka’s parliament votes to fire country’s police chief over abuse of power
Lawmakers in Sri Lanka voted Tuesday to fire the country’s police chief for misconduct and gross abuse of power, making him the island nation’s first inspector-general to be impeached. In the 225-member parliament, 117 lawmakers voted to fire Deshabandu Tennakoon. No one opposed, while one member abstained.
https://apnews.com/article/sri-lanka-parliament-police-chief-fired-d0cfd69ae1e16d4b0f56188352b6c45f
Unions demand legal action against Tata Consultancy Services over mass layoffs and labor rights violations
One of India’s largest trade union federations, the Centre for Indian Trade Unions (CITU) supported demands of legal action against Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), the country’s largest software company, over claims of its violation of the Industrial Dispute Act (IDA) and labor rights.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/08/06/unions-demand-legal-action-against-tata-consultancy-services-over-mass-layoffs-and-labor-rights-violations/
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How do materialists solve the issue of infinite regression that happens in the materialist worldview?
<Things are made of matter!
>What is matter made of?
<Out of atoms!
>What are atoms made of?
<Subatomic particles!
>What are subatomic particles made of?
<Strings/They are excitations of quantum fields!
>What are strings/quantum fields made of?
Where does it end?
How do materialists solve the issue of infinite regression that happens in the materialist worldview?
<Things are made of matter!
>What is matter made of?
<Out of atoms!
>What are atoms made of?
<Subatomic particles!
>What are subatomic particles made of?
<Strings/They are excitations of quantum fields!
>What are strings/quantum fields made of?
Where does it end?
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Join the cpusa,bully people into joining the cpusa, don’t question too much,
Enjoy the chaos once it reaches critical mass.
Simple.
>what should be done in the mean time
The joining and bullying part
Join the cpusa,bully people into joining the cpusa, don’t question too much,
Enjoy the chaos once it reaches critical mass.
Simple.
>what should be done in the mean time
The joining and bullying part
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Second, adventurism (including beating the shit out of people we don’t like) has done nothing to advance socialism anywhere. Luigi Mangione, Shane Tamura and Elias Rodriguez are not heroes. You know what happened after Luigi killed Brian Thompson? He was replaced the next day. You know what happened when Shane killed Wesley LePatner? She was replaced the next day. You know what happened when Elias killed those two Israeli embassy workers? They were replaced the next day. Wow, it’s almost as if isolated acts of political violence have never accomplished shit.
But yes, we need a mass political movement t to defeat fascism, not the anarchist equivalent of street gangs singling out “problematic” individuals.
Why I don’t support Antifa (and neither should you)
Antifa is useless and promotes a false epistemology. Running around and attacking anyone labeled as a fascist is a terrible and self-destructive praxis for the left. For one thing, it places the existence of fascism on the failure of the individual to live up to standards of decency rather than on the social structures that created said fascism to begin with. Antifa largely reinforces the idea that individuals are solely to blame.Second, adventurism (including beating the shit out of people we don’t like) has done nothing to advance socialism anywhere. Luigi Mangione, Shane Tamura and Elias Rodriguez are not heroes. You know what happened after Luigi killed Brian Thompson? He was replaced the next day. You know what happened when Shane killed Wesley LePatner? She was replaced the next day. You know what happened when Elias killed those two Israeli embassy workers? They were replaced the next day. Wow, it’s almost as if isolated acts of political violence have never accomplished shit.
But yes, we need a mass political movement t to defeat fascism, not the anarchist equivalent of street gangs singling out “problematic” individuals.
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No true Scotsman is not a fallacy
It is true, no true Scotsman pours sugar on porridge, no true Scotsman is sex maniac rapist, true Scotsman is a true man embodying Scottish culture because neither of these are true Scottish customs. No true Scotsman is a way of deducting the authenticity and truth, it is pure analysis. Not only is it analysis, its also a lesson, its assertive, its meant to make you (a false Scotsman) act like a true Scotsman. That said, read Bordiga.
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>Urgent Appeal: Stop the Judicial Coup in South Korea and Defend Democracy
<On May 1, 2025, South Korea’s Supreme Court issued a politically charged decision that overturned the acquittal of opposition leader Lee Jae-myung, the leading candidate in the upcoming presidential election, on charges of election law violation. Lee had endured intense repression under the administration of impeached former president Yoon Suk-yeol, having been subjected to investigation by over 200 government prosecutors, but despite countless allegations, these nearly non-stop investigations failed to result in a conviction. Now, with South Korea gearing up for a historic snap election on June 3, 2025 following Yoon’s ouster, authorities are once again attempting to convict Lee to remove him from the political playing field.
Update on the fallout of the South Korean coup attempt
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/05/06/urgent-appeal-stop-the-judicial-coup-in-south-korea-and-defend-democracy/>Urgent Appeal: Stop the Judicial Coup in South Korea and Defend Democracy
<On May 1, 2025, South Korea’s Supreme Court issued a politically charged decision that overturned the acquittal of opposition leader Lee Jae-myung, the leading candidate in the upcoming presidential election, on charges of election law violation. Lee had endured intense repression under the administration of impeached former president Yoon Suk-yeol, having been subjected to investigation by over 200 government prosecutors, but despite countless allegations, these nearly non-stop investigations failed to result in a conviction. Now, with South Korea gearing up for a historic snap election on June 3, 2025 following Yoon’s ouster, authorities are once again attempting to convict Lee to remove him from the political playing field.
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Italian port workers secured a significant win in their ongoing resistance to militarization and arms transfers, as shipping operators decided they would not unload military cargo destined for Israel from the vessel COSCO Shipping Pisces – returning the containers to their point of origin instead. The announcement came just days before a planned 24-hour strike on August 5 in Genoa, launched to protest the use of Italian ports for arms shipments such as this.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/08/04/dockworkers-in-italy-win-against-arms-shipment-to-israel/
Brazil supreme court judge orders house arrest of ex-president Jair Bolsonaro
According to the ruling on Monday by Justice Alexandre de Moraes, Bolsonaro breached a ban on using social media which was imposed last month, when he was also ordered to wear an electronic ankle tag. Moraes wrote that as demonstrators took to the streets in several cities across the country on Sunday in support of the former president, Bolsonaro used the social media accounts of allies to share messages containing “clear encouragement and incitement to attack the Supreme Federal Court, and overt support for foreign intervention in Brazil’s judiciary”.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/04/brazil-jair-bolsonaro-house-arrest-supreme-court
Sudan accuses UAE of bringing in Colombian mercenaries to support RSF
Mercenaries have been spotted on both sides, with reports of Colombian fighters first emerging in the western region of Darfur late last year and corroborated by United Nations experts. This week, the Joint Forces, a coalition of armed groups in Darfur aligned with the army, reported more than 80 Colombian mercenaries fighting on the RSF's side in the North Darfur state capital, Al-Fashir.
https://www.newarab.com/news/sudan-accuses-uae-deploying-colombian-mercenaries-back-rsf
ANC NEC to grapple with alliance partner SACP's decision to contest municipal polls on its own
As the African National Congress (ANC)'s national executive committee (NEC) rolls into its fourth and final day, it will have to grapple with its alliance partner, the South African Communist Party (SACP)’s pursuit of contesting next year’s municipal elections on its own. This follows yet another public salvo from the communist party on Sunday, accusing the ANC of being arrogant and relegating its concerns to a permanent discussion of no consequence.
https://www.ewn.co.za/2025/08/04/anc-nec-to-grapple-with-alliance-partner-sacps-decision-to-contest-municipal-polls-on-its-own
Ivory Coast opposition slams arrests as part of political crackdown
Interior Minister Vagondo Diomande said the arrests were linked to an incident in Youpougon, a suburb of the capital Abdijan, where attackers set fire to a bus and assaulted police. He released a video showing a man saying he was a PPA-CI member confessing to the attack, though the opposition party has condemned it.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/ivory-coast-opposition-slams-arrests-part-political-crackdown
Israel-Gaza: The International Criminal Court in turmoil
This has been the darkest year for the International Criminal Court (ICC) since it opened its doors in The Hague in 2002. Never before had the institution faced such strong headwinds. The US imposed sanctions on four judges and the chief prosecutor, the British national Karim Khan, while threats, intrigue, and pressure from Washington mounted on state parties. The objective: to annul and prevent any arrest warrants against Israelis, including those targeting Benjamin Netanyahu and former defense minister Yoav Gallant, issued on November 21, 2024, and to close the ongoing investigation into crimes committed on Palestinian territory.
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2025/08/04/israel-gaza-the-international-criminal-court-in-turmoil_6744041_4.html
https://archive.ph/hUcnV
Gaza posts blocked on social media under UK Online Safety Act, report finds
BBC Verify found that content on X and Reddit has been restricted on X for those who have not verified their age on the sites. The content includes topics from the war on Gaza and Russia's invasion of Ukraine, to parliamentary debates on grooming gangs. The report highlighted that a video posted to X of a man in Gaza searching for his family members under the rubble of buildings destroyed by Israel had been restricted, despite not showing dead bodies or graphic images.
https://www.newarab.com/news/gaza-posts-blocked-social-media-under-uk-online-safety-act
Syrian democracy campaigners wary of upcoming 'selected' elections
Nawar Najma, spokesperson for the Higher Committee for People’s Assembly Election, told Rudaw last week that two-thirds of the parliament would be elected by "electoral bodies", themselves formed by subcommittees whose members would be selected by his department after "extensive consultations". Each electoral body would be composed of roughly 50 people who would elect a member of the parliament. He added that a "basic condition must be that they absolutely do not support, neither in word nor deed, the defunct [Assad] regime". "They must also have no affiliation with any of the security forces or the army to ensure the neutrality of the military apparatus and the interior ministry as well," he said.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/syrian-democracy-accused-elections-after-announcement-third-parliament-be-appointed
Thailand’s parliament proposes phoney amnesty bill
Common to all three bills were exclusions for those charged or convicted under the draconian lèse-majesté law, Section 112 of the criminal code, which illegalises any criticism of the monarchy. The BJT added a specific clause banning support for amnesty for lèse-majesté. Section 112 is often used as a catch-all for the state to violate democratic rights and intimidate protesters with potential jail terms of up to 15 years.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/08/04/inlg-a04.html
Julien Assange joins pro-Palestinian march across Sydney Harbour Bridge
Tens of thousands of pro-Palestinian demonstrators marched across Australia's iconic Sydney Harbour Bridge on Sunday. The crowd included WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who moved back to his native Australia last year after his release from a high-security British prison.
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250803-assange-joins-pro-palestinian-protest-on-sydney-harbour-bridge
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Dockworkers in Italy win against arms shipment to IsraelItalian port workers secured a significant win in their ongoing resistance to militarization and arms transfers, as shipping operators decided they would not unload military cargo destined for Israel from the vessel COSCO Shipping Pisces – returning the containers to their point of origin instead. The announcement came just days before a planned 24-hour strike on August 5 in Genoa, launched to protest the use of Italian ports for arms shipments such as this.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/08/04/dockworkers-in-italy-win-against-arms-shipment-to-israel/
Brazil supreme court judge orders house arrest of ex-president Jair Bolsonaro
According to the ruling on Monday by Justice Alexandre de Moraes, Bolsonaro breached a ban on using social media which was imposed last month, when he was also ordered to wear an electronic ankle tag. Moraes wrote that as demonstrators took to the streets in several cities across the country on Sunday in support of the former president, Bolsonaro used the social media accounts of allies to share messages containing “clear encouragement and incitement to attack the Supreme Federal Court, and overt support for foreign intervention in Brazil’s judiciary”.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/04/brazil-jair-bolsonaro-house-arrest-supreme-court
Sudan accuses UAE of bringing in Colombian mercenaries to support RSF
Mercenaries have been spotted on both sides, with reports of Colombian fighters first emerging in the western region of Darfur late last year and corroborated by United Nations experts. This week, the Joint Forces, a coalition of armed groups in Darfur aligned with the army, reported more than 80 Colombian mercenaries fighting on the RSF's side in the North Darfur state capital, Al-Fashir.
https://www.newarab.com/news/sudan-accuses-uae-deploying-colombian-mercenaries-back-rsf
ANC NEC to grapple with alliance partner SACP's decision to contest municipal polls on its own
As the African National Congress (ANC)'s national executive committee (NEC) rolls into its fourth and final day, it will have to grapple with its alliance partner, the South African Communist Party (SACP)’s pursuit of contesting next year’s municipal elections on its own. This follows yet another public salvo from the communist party on Sunday, accusing the ANC of being arrogant and relegating its concerns to a permanent discussion of no consequence.
https://www.ewn.co.za/2025/08/04/anc-nec-to-grapple-with-alliance-partner-sacps-decision-to-contest-municipal-polls-on-its-own
Ivory Coast opposition slams arrests as part of political crackdown
Interior Minister Vagondo Diomande said the arrests were linked to an incident in Youpougon, a suburb of the capital Abdijan, where attackers set fire to a bus and assaulted police. He released a video showing a man saying he was a PPA-CI member confessing to the attack, though the opposition party has condemned it.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/ivory-coast-opposition-slams-arrests-part-political-crackdown
Israel-Gaza: The International Criminal Court in turmoil
This has been the darkest year for the International Criminal Court (ICC) since it opened its doors in The Hague in 2002. Never before had the institution faced such strong headwinds. The US imposed sanctions on four judges and the chief prosecutor, the British national Karim Khan, while threats, intrigue, and pressure from Washington mounted on state parties. The objective: to annul and prevent any arrest warrants against Israelis, including those targeting Benjamin Netanyahu and former defense minister Yoav Gallant, issued on November 21, 2024, and to close the ongoing investigation into crimes committed on Palestinian territory.
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2025/08/04/israel-gaza-the-international-criminal-court-in-turmoil_6744041_4.html
https://archive.ph/hUcnV
Gaza posts blocked on social media under UK Online Safety Act, report finds
BBC Verify found that content on X and Reddit has been restricted on X for those who have not verified their age on the sites. The content includes topics from the war on Gaza and Russia's invasion of Ukraine, to parliamentary debates on grooming gangs. The report highlighted that a video posted to X of a man in Gaza searching for his family members under the rubble of buildings destroyed by Israel had been restricted, despite not showing dead bodies or graphic images.
https://www.newarab.com/news/gaza-posts-blocked-social-media-under-uk-online-safety-act
Syrian democracy campaigners wary of upcoming 'selected' elections
Nawar Najma, spokesperson for the Higher Committee for People’s Assembly Election, told Rudaw last week that two-thirds of the parliament would be elected by "electoral bodies", themselves formed by subcommittees whose members would be selected by his department after "extensive consultations". Each electoral body would be composed of roughly 50 people who would elect a member of the parliament. He added that a "basic condition must be that they absolutely do not support, neither in word nor deed, the defunct [Assad] regime". "They must also have no affiliation with any of the security forces or the army to ensure the neutrality of the military apparatus and the interior ministry as well," he said.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/syrian-democracy-accused-elections-after-announcement-third-parliament-be-appointed
Thailand’s parliament proposes phoney amnesty bill
Common to all three bills were exclusions for those charged or convicted under the draconian lèse-majesté law, Section 112 of the criminal code, which illegalises any criticism of the monarchy. The BJT added a specific clause banning support for amnesty for lèse-majesté. Section 112 is often used as a catch-all for the state to violate democratic rights and intimidate protesters with potential jail terms of up to 15 years.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/08/04/inlg-a04.html
Julien Assange joins pro-Palestinian march across Sydney Harbour Bridge
Tens of thousands of pro-Palestinian demonstrators marched across Australia's iconic Sydney Harbour Bridge on Sunday. The crowd included WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who moved back to his native Australia last year after his release from a high-security British prison.
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250803-assange-joins-pro-palestinian-protest-on-sydney-harbour-bridge
https://archive.ph/ZL1L2
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How much wage inequality should there be in the DOTP?
Obviously it is ideal to eliminate money altogether but I don't think it will be feasible to not have any kind of measure of consumption/signifier of labour in the short term, so what do you think the maximum amount of wage inequality allowable between the highest and lowest paid labour is? 0%? 20%? 200%? 2000%? I honestly think we should aim for 0% but it might not be feasible to not offer people any financial incentive at all to push themselves.
R: 3 / I: 0
>In addition, the Soviet Government compelled Finland, inter alia, to construct a continuation, linking up with the Finnish railways, of a railway laid from the Murmansk railway to the Finnish frontier to provide the Soviet Union with a convenient access to Northern Finland and onward to the Atlantic. The peace terms also included the occupation of Hango, which was to serve the Soviet Union as a naval base, but where, immediately after the conclusion of peace, a strong garrison with tanks [and] other equipment was stationed.
[Page 92]
From Hango air attacks are still being launched on the cities and civilian population of southern Finland. Hardly had the peace of Moscow been concluded, before the Soviet Union presented new unjustified demands, inter alia compelling Finland to permit transit traffic on her railways to Cape Hango at the rate of two pairs of Russian trains per day. The Finnish authorities had not the right to inspect these trains. The Soviet Union also interfered in an unscrupulous fashion with Finnish domestic affairs and attempted to organize street demonstrations. The Soviet Union established a Legation in Helsinki with a staff of 150 persons, a large proportion of whom were active in purely espionage work. The Soviet Union forbade the fortification of the Aaland Islands,67 and compelled Finland to submit to the opening in a city68 in these islands of a consular office with a staff of 40 persons. A corresponding consular office was founded for purposes of espionage also in Petsamo.
Also, poor little Finland was merely defending itself:
>The character of Finand’s struggle is not altered by the circumstances that, on the grounds of her natural views of her own security, Finland is striving to render innocuous and to occupy the enemy’s offensive positions also beyond the 1939 frontier. Precisely the same considerations would have made it urgently necessary for Finland, in the interests of the effectivity of her defense, to undertake such measures already in 1939–40 during the first phase of the war, if only her strength had then been equal to the task.
>The population of the areas beyond the 1939 frontier now occupied by Finnish troops, areas which have been under Bolshevist administration for 23 years, has been and is for by far the most part Finnish. Depending on historical circumstances part of the Finnish nation has been left to live outside of the frontiers of Finland, and the areas in question belong to the dwelling areas of just this part of the nation. In connection with the peace of Tartu in 1920, the Soviet Government promised to guarantee this Finnish population considerably wide rights of national self-determination, which promises she has meanwhile left unfulfilled.
USA has declared Finland to be the aggressor in 1941:
>The Government of the United States has intimated that it must hold Finland responsible for not even having attempted to explore the possibilities of peace held out by the information given by Mr. Sumner Welles on August 18, 1941 to the Finnish Minister in Washington.
USSR was willing to cede territory for peace with Finland, proving USSR's peaceful intentions in regards to Finland:
>According to the information in the possession of the Finnish Government, Mr. Welles stated in the conversation that took place between him and Mr. Procopé on the said date, that he had been asked to convey to the knowledge of the Finnish Government that ‘the Soviet Government would be disposed to make territorial concessions and negotiate a new peace treaty’.
USA in no uncertain terms demanded from Finland to sue for peace in August 1941:
>In the view of the Finnish Government, Mr. Welles’ statement to Mr. Procopé on August 18, 1941 was not intended as an offer of peace by the Soviet Union or as an offer of mediation or even a recommendation
[Page 96]
on the part of the United States, but merely as a piece of information on the basis of which Finland was to sue for peace. In the circumstances the Finnish Government, at that stage of the military operations, when even Viipuri had not yet been taken, continued to await the development of events.
Poor little Finland was denied the modern Ukrainhood by USA:
>It is almost inconceivable that the great American democracy can demand of a small nation which has again been attacked by its 50 times bigger neighbour and is fighting for its existence, that it should, while hostilities are in progress, withdraw to await a new attack within frontiers the defense of which, if the advantages gained are given up for the benefit of the enemy, may easily, in view of the resources on each side, become an overwhelming task.
Funny how Finland doesn't mention giving Jews over to Germany, as well as economic concessions for the European Reich:
>The significance to Finland of the circumstance, now that she has been drawn into a resumed war of defense against the Soviet Union, that Germany is simultaneously at war with this enemy of Finland, is obvious.
Le Stalin wasn't preparing for war and was believing Hitler meme:
>When the offensive preparations directed against Finland by the Soviet Union, to which that country again resorted after the peace of Moscow, carrying them out at ever accelerating speed, are taken into account, and also the fact that the enormous industries of the Soviet Union had been directed almost entirely to the production of war material, there can be no doubt but that a new war, if Finland had again had to stand alone, would have denoted the doom of Finland and of the entire north.
Le Finland was small innocent victim of Soviet imperialism
https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1941v01/d99>In addition, the Soviet Government compelled Finland, inter alia, to construct a continuation, linking up with the Finnish railways, of a railway laid from the Murmansk railway to the Finnish frontier to provide the Soviet Union with a convenient access to Northern Finland and onward to the Atlantic. The peace terms also included the occupation of Hango, which was to serve the Soviet Union as a naval base, but where, immediately after the conclusion of peace, a strong garrison with tanks [and] other equipment was stationed.
[Page 92]
From Hango air attacks are still being launched on the cities and civilian population of southern Finland. Hardly had the peace of Moscow been concluded, before the Soviet Union presented new unjustified demands, inter alia compelling Finland to permit transit traffic on her railways to Cape Hango at the rate of two pairs of Russian trains per day. The Finnish authorities had not the right to inspect these trains. The Soviet Union also interfered in an unscrupulous fashion with Finnish domestic affairs and attempted to organize street demonstrations. The Soviet Union established a Legation in Helsinki with a staff of 150 persons, a large proportion of whom were active in purely espionage work. The Soviet Union forbade the fortification of the Aaland Islands,67 and compelled Finland to submit to the opening in a city68 in these islands of a consular office with a staff of 40 persons. A corresponding consular office was founded for purposes of espionage also in Petsamo.
Also, poor little Finland was merely defending itself:
>The character of Finand’s struggle is not altered by the circumstances that, on the grounds of her natural views of her own security, Finland is striving to render innocuous and to occupy the enemy’s offensive positions also beyond the 1939 frontier. Precisely the same considerations would have made it urgently necessary for Finland, in the interests of the effectivity of her defense, to undertake such measures already in 1939–40 during the first phase of the war, if only her strength had then been equal to the task.
>The population of the areas beyond the 1939 frontier now occupied by Finnish troops, areas which have been under Bolshevist administration for 23 years, has been and is for by far the most part Finnish. Depending on historical circumstances part of the Finnish nation has been left to live outside of the frontiers of Finland, and the areas in question belong to the dwelling areas of just this part of the nation. In connection with the peace of Tartu in 1920, the Soviet Government promised to guarantee this Finnish population considerably wide rights of national self-determination, which promises she has meanwhile left unfulfilled.
USA has declared Finland to be the aggressor in 1941:
>The Government of the United States has intimated that it must hold Finland responsible for not even having attempted to explore the possibilities of peace held out by the information given by Mr. Sumner Welles on August 18, 1941 to the Finnish Minister in Washington.
USSR was willing to cede territory for peace with Finland, proving USSR's peaceful intentions in regards to Finland:
>According to the information in the possession of the Finnish Government, Mr. Welles stated in the conversation that took place between him and Mr. Procopé on the said date, that he had been asked to convey to the knowledge of the Finnish Government that ‘the Soviet Government would be disposed to make territorial concessions and negotiate a new peace treaty’.
USA in no uncertain terms demanded from Finland to sue for peace in August 1941:
>In the view of the Finnish Government, Mr. Welles’ statement to Mr. Procopé on August 18, 1941 was not intended as an offer of peace by the Soviet Union or as an offer of mediation or even a recommendation
[Page 96]
on the part of the United States, but merely as a piece of information on the basis of which Finland was to sue for peace. In the circumstances the Finnish Government, at that stage of the military operations, when even Viipuri had not yet been taken, continued to await the development of events.
Poor little Finland was denied the modern Ukrainhood by USA:
>It is almost inconceivable that the great American democracy can demand of a small nation which has again been attacked by its 50 times bigger neighbour and is fighting for its existence, that it should, while hostilities are in progress, withdraw to await a new attack within frontiers the defense of which, if the advantages gained are given up for the benefit of the enemy, may easily, in view of the resources on each side, become an overwhelming task.
Funny how Finland doesn't mention giving Jews over to Germany, as well as economic concessions for the European Reich:
>The significance to Finland of the circumstance, now that she has been drawn into a resumed war of defense against the Soviet Union, that Germany is simultaneously at war with this enemy of Finland, is obvious.
Le Stalin wasn't preparing for war and was believing Hitler meme:
>When the offensive preparations directed against Finland by the Soviet Union, to which that country again resorted after the peace of Moscow, carrying them out at ever accelerating speed, are taken into account, and also the fact that the enormous industries of the Soviet Union had been directed almost entirely to the production of war material, there can be no doubt but that a new war, if Finland had again had to stand alone, would have denoted the doom of Finland and of the entire north.
R: 4 / I: 1
Will they take unprecedented steps to consolidate power before the next election?
Who will they jail, deport. What if they like, declared war on a number of coastal cities. Say their local governments are infiltrated by an FTO. Exlude their populations from voting, Invade. Impose martial law…
The Next Stage of American Fascism
What is going to happen next? How bad is it going to get? What is the regimes next move? Do they intend to maintain the current electoral system?Will they take unprecedented steps to consolidate power before the next election?
Who will they jail, deport. What if they like, declared war on a number of coastal cities. Say their local governments are infiltrated by an FTO. Exlude their populations from voting, Invade. Impose martial law…
R: 3 / I: 0
Uruguay’s Confederation of State Employees' Organizations (COFE) announced a 24-hour nationwide strike on August 12, rejecting the government’s proposed wage adjustment for public sector workers. The decision was unanimously approved during a national assembly attended by over 35 unions. In an official statement, COFE described the government’s offer as “absolutely insufficient,” arguing it lacks any real wage growth, fails to address the lowest-paid workers, and does not guarantee the current purchasing power of salaries.
https://en.mercopress.com/2025/08/05/uruguayan-public-sector-unions-call-nationwide-strike-over-inadequate-wage-proposal
Evo Morales Backs Null Vote in Bolivia
On Sunday, Former Bolivian President Evo Morales (2006–2019) said that the proposal to cast null votes in the upcoming Aug. 17 election is gaining momentum amid the possibility he may not be a candidate. … Morales hopes his disqualification as a presidential candidate is “temporary” and emphasized that he will not leave the country, adding, “Those who have stolen are already packing their bags.” The Leftist leader also stated that if he is arrested, he hopes President Luis Arce “doesn’t kill” him. Morales pointed out that “the right wing” is attempting to return to power and urged his followers to remember that “only through union struggle did we defeat the empire.”
https://www.telesurenglish.net/evo-morales-backs-null-vote-in-bolivia/
32 bodies found in clandestine graves in central Mexico
The Guanajuato state prosecutor’s office said via X Monday that the bodies were found in clandestine graves on the property in the community of La Calera on Irapuato’s north side, about 320 kilometers (200 miles) northwest of Mexico City. Forensic teams had working at the site since July 30, prosecutors said. Authorities were working to identify the remaining bodies.
https://apnews.com/article/mexico-cartels-bodies-guanajuato-graves-e85d7096b1705f1061c9cff8809b1eb5
Argentine Scientists Protest Milei’s Policies Amid Deepening Crisis in Research Sector
Under the slogan “Let This Not Be Argentina’s Last Scientific Generation,” the demonstrations will include a camp-in outside the Scientific and Technological Hub in the Palermo neighborhood of Buenos Aires. At the former headquarters of the Ministry of Science, Argentines will hold discussions, a torchlight march, and an assembly to determine their next steps.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/argentine-scientists-protest-mileis-policies-amid-deepening-crisis-in-research-sector/
Netanyahu set to order full Gaza military occupation despite army opposition
"The die is cast – we are going for a full occupation of the Gaza Strip," a senior official familiar with the plans told Yedioth Ahronoth daily. "There will be operations even in areas where hostages are being held. If the chief of staff doesn't agree, he should resign," the official said. … The Israeli cabinet is expected to discuss the next steps in a meeting later this week. Zamir is reportedly planning to present an alternative strategy focused on encircling Hamas-held areas and using military pressure to force the group into accepting a ceasefire.
https://www.newarab.com/news/netanyahu-order-full-gaza-occupation-despite-army-opposition
Turkish parliamentary commission holds first meeting over Ankara-PKK talks
As part of the peace process, the PKK held a disarmament ceremony in Sulaimani province on July 11, when 30 members and commanders burned their weapons. The group decided to lay down arms after Ocalan urged them to pursue a political solution to obtain rights for Kurds in Turkey instead of armed conflict. Omer Faruk Gergerlioglu, a DEM Party lawmaker, told Rudaw on Monday that the commission’s “biggest task right now is determining the legal status of PKK fighters after disarmament. “There will be discussions around a new law,” he added, noting that “some amendments and reversals of existing laws,” might take place.
https://www.rudaw.net/english/middleeast/turkey/05082025
Iran orders office closures as heatwave strains power grid
Iranian authorities ordered many government offices to close on Wednesday in a bid to cut power consumption as a heatwave strains generating capacity, state media reported. At least 15 of Iran's 31 provinces will see public offices either shut or operating on reduced hours, the official IRNA news agency said.
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/world-news/iran-orders-office-closures-as-heatwave-strains-power-grid/articleshow/123111818.cms
https://archive.ph/amLwq
Bangladesh national polls by mid-Feb
Several political parties, including the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, have been pressing for an early election while some others, including the newly floated National Citizen Party, are campaigning for state reforms and completion of trials of the fascist regime and activists of Awami League, whose activities have recently been banned, for their alleged involvement in atrocities before the election.
https://www.newagebd.net/post/Country/272168/bangladesh-national-polls-by-mid-feb
Pakistan arrests over 200 activists as they rally to support former leader Imran Khan
The detainees included Rehana Dar, 73, a politician from Khan’s party known for her fiery speeches against the government of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif. She was seen being thrown into a police truck in the northeastern city of Lahore. Zulfiqar Bukhari, a spokesman for Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party, or PTI, said police used batons and fired tear gas to disperse demonstrators in Lahore and the southern provincial capital of Karachi.
https://apnews.com/article/pakistan-police-arrest-imran-khan-supporters-a2acb5ee09e62111e46f5b18870b0bf7
Sweden, Norway, Denmark give $500 million to NATO project to send US weapons to Ukraine
Denmark's share is around $90 million while Norway said it will contribute around 1.5 billion Norwegian crowns ($146 million). Sweden said it was contributing $275 million to the package, which includes Patriot missiles and other air defence equipment, as well as anti-tank munitions.
https://www.reuters.com/world/sweden-norway-denmark-give-500-million-nato-project-send-us-weapons-ukraine-2025-08-05/
News 8/5/25
Uruguayan public sector unions call nationwide strike over inadequate wage proposalUruguay’s Confederation of State Employees' Organizations (COFE) announced a 24-hour nationwide strike on August 12, rejecting the government’s proposed wage adjustment for public sector workers. The decision was unanimously approved during a national assembly attended by over 35 unions. In an official statement, COFE described the government’s offer as “absolutely insufficient,” arguing it lacks any real wage growth, fails to address the lowest-paid workers, and does not guarantee the current purchasing power of salaries.
https://en.mercopress.com/2025/08/05/uruguayan-public-sector-unions-call-nationwide-strike-over-inadequate-wage-proposal
Evo Morales Backs Null Vote in Bolivia
On Sunday, Former Bolivian President Evo Morales (2006–2019) said that the proposal to cast null votes in the upcoming Aug. 17 election is gaining momentum amid the possibility he may not be a candidate. … Morales hopes his disqualification as a presidential candidate is “temporary” and emphasized that he will not leave the country, adding, “Those who have stolen are already packing their bags.” The Leftist leader also stated that if he is arrested, he hopes President Luis Arce “doesn’t kill” him. Morales pointed out that “the right wing” is attempting to return to power and urged his followers to remember that “only through union struggle did we defeat the empire.”
https://www.telesurenglish.net/evo-morales-backs-null-vote-in-bolivia/
32 bodies found in clandestine graves in central Mexico
The Guanajuato state prosecutor’s office said via X Monday that the bodies were found in clandestine graves on the property in the community of La Calera on Irapuato’s north side, about 320 kilometers (200 miles) northwest of Mexico City. Forensic teams had working at the site since July 30, prosecutors said. Authorities were working to identify the remaining bodies.
https://apnews.com/article/mexico-cartels-bodies-guanajuato-graves-e85d7096b1705f1061c9cff8809b1eb5
Argentine Scientists Protest Milei’s Policies Amid Deepening Crisis in Research Sector
Under the slogan “Let This Not Be Argentina’s Last Scientific Generation,” the demonstrations will include a camp-in outside the Scientific and Technological Hub in the Palermo neighborhood of Buenos Aires. At the former headquarters of the Ministry of Science, Argentines will hold discussions, a torchlight march, and an assembly to determine their next steps.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/argentine-scientists-protest-mileis-policies-amid-deepening-crisis-in-research-sector/
Netanyahu set to order full Gaza military occupation despite army opposition
"The die is cast – we are going for a full occupation of the Gaza Strip," a senior official familiar with the plans told Yedioth Ahronoth daily. "There will be operations even in areas where hostages are being held. If the chief of staff doesn't agree, he should resign," the official said. … The Israeli cabinet is expected to discuss the next steps in a meeting later this week. Zamir is reportedly planning to present an alternative strategy focused on encircling Hamas-held areas and using military pressure to force the group into accepting a ceasefire.
https://www.newarab.com/news/netanyahu-order-full-gaza-occupation-despite-army-opposition
Turkish parliamentary commission holds first meeting over Ankara-PKK talks
As part of the peace process, the PKK held a disarmament ceremony in Sulaimani province on July 11, when 30 members and commanders burned their weapons. The group decided to lay down arms after Ocalan urged them to pursue a political solution to obtain rights for Kurds in Turkey instead of armed conflict. Omer Faruk Gergerlioglu, a DEM Party lawmaker, told Rudaw on Monday that the commission’s “biggest task right now is determining the legal status of PKK fighters after disarmament. “There will be discussions around a new law,” he added, noting that “some amendments and reversals of existing laws,” might take place.
https://www.rudaw.net/english/middleeast/turkey/05082025
Iran orders office closures as heatwave strains power grid
Iranian authorities ordered many government offices to close on Wednesday in a bid to cut power consumption as a heatwave strains generating capacity, state media reported. At least 15 of Iran's 31 provinces will see public offices either shut or operating on reduced hours, the official IRNA news agency said.
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/world-news/iran-orders-office-closures-as-heatwave-strains-power-grid/articleshow/123111818.cms
https://archive.ph/amLwq
Bangladesh national polls by mid-Feb
Several political parties, including the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, have been pressing for an early election while some others, including the newly floated National Citizen Party, are campaigning for state reforms and completion of trials of the fascist regime and activists of Awami League, whose activities have recently been banned, for their alleged involvement in atrocities before the election.
https://www.newagebd.net/post/Country/272168/bangladesh-national-polls-by-mid-feb
Pakistan arrests over 200 activists as they rally to support former leader Imran Khan
The detainees included Rehana Dar, 73, a politician from Khan’s party known for her fiery speeches against the government of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif. She was seen being thrown into a police truck in the northeastern city of Lahore. Zulfiqar Bukhari, a spokesman for Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party, or PTI, said police used batons and fired tear gas to disperse demonstrators in Lahore and the southern provincial capital of Karachi.
https://apnews.com/article/pakistan-police-arrest-imran-khan-supporters-a2acb5ee09e62111e46f5b18870b0bf7
Sweden, Norway, Denmark give $500 million to NATO project to send US weapons to Ukraine
Denmark's share is around $90 million while Norway said it will contribute around 1.5 billion Norwegian crowns ($146 million). Sweden said it was contributing $275 million to the package, which includes Patriot missiles and other air defence equipment, as well as anti-tank munitions.
https://www.reuters.com/world/sweden-norway-denmark-give-500-million-nato-project-send-us-weapons-ukraine-2025-08-05/
R: 43 / I: 15
Bolsonaro jailed
Today, former President Jair Bolsonaro was unexpectedly taken into custody amid widespread astonishment. Security forces escorted him into a high‑security facility, where he is now expected to remain pending legal proceedings. A hush fell over Brazil’s capital as reporters surrounded the vehicle, cameras flashing. Supporters and critics alike gathered at the courthouse, sentiment sharply divided. Authorities have remained tight‑lipped about charges, though speculation swirls regarding alleged abuses of power. In a brief televised statement, Bolsonaro insisted on his innocence, calling the arrest politically motivated. Meanwhile, legal experts emphasized that due process must prevail. As the nation absorbs this dramatic development, citizens brace for what could be a historic trial, one that may reshape Brazil’s political landscape.
R: 618 / I: 169 (full)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-scotland-uk-starmer-eu-trade-deal/
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Evidence of the influence and origin of neo-Nazi groups in Ukraine
https://archive.ph/44B9Q
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323637
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323658
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323663
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323688
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323729
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323733
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323731
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323735
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323740
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Previous: >>2391679
Evidence of the influence and origin of neo-Nazi groups in Ukraine
https://archive.ph/44B9Q
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323637
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323658
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323663
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Why are Jews classified as Semites when they're clearly just a Slavic death cult that wears weird hats, mutilate baby penises and is completely foreign to the Middle East? In fact they're a complete anathema to Middle Eastern peoples as they're currently commiting genocide and settler colonization of their lands
If anything Jews are the biggest antisemites of this world
Why are Jews classified as Semites when they're clearly just a Slavic death cult that wears weird hats, mutilate baby penises and is completely foreign to the Middle East? In fact they're a complete anathema to Middle Eastern peoples as they're currently commiting genocide and settler colonization of their lands
If anything Jews are the biggest antisemites of this world
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>news articles complaining that the stock market is crashing on tariffs despite new peaks almost every day in the last week
capitalism is so stupid
>news articles complaining that the stock market is crashing on tariffs despite new peaks almost every day in the last week
capitalism is so stupid
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What did Marx mean by "Abolish The Family"?
How would this work? Would all kids be raised in boarding schools from birth by federally employed nannies? Would the kids be able to visit their parents?
R: 9 / I: 2
Its fucking over WW3 is about to start.
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Its fucking over WW3 is about to start.
nuclear beta radiation was too short or empty nuclear beta radiation was too short or empty nuclear beta radiation was too short or empty nuclear beta radiation was too short or empty nuclear beta radiation was too short or empty nuclear beta radiation was too short or empty nuclear beta radiation was too short or empty
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How do leftists propose to court the young white male demographic in the West? They're increasingly becoming radicalized to the right wing. They're either Trump voters, Groypers, or some form of white nationalist at this point. Liberalism clearly has no better answers than the far-right's. So what is your solution?
How do leftists propose to court the young white male demographic in the West? They're increasingly becoming radicalized to the right wing. They're either Trump voters, Groypers, or some form of white nationalist at this point. Liberalism clearly has no better answers than the far-right's. So what is your solution?
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How do you show that bourgeois economics "insists upon itself", i.e. has no objective foundation to justify its conclusions and instead fabricates a self-serving fundament to justify its desired conclusions, while also demanding critics to answer within the frame of its unfounded axioms, concepts and claims? I have the impression it can collapse like a house of cards if you just make people aware of it. What would you zero in on?
How do you show that bourgeois economics "insists upon itself", i.e. has no objective foundation to justify its conclusions and instead fabricates a self-serving fundament to justify its desired conclusions, while also demanding critics to answer within the frame of its unfounded axioms, concepts and claims? I have the impression it can collapse like a house of cards if you just make people aware of it. What would you zero in on?
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>but those were not real communism
Real communism is the movement which abolishes the current state of things (private property the alienation of species-being) and it is the expansion of worker association to international terms. To think 'communism' can be reduced to just a single historical act is silly. It is, after all, a process. Real socialism was one such historical act in a chain of many to come.
>okay, they are communist, but they are totalitarian! They are authoritarian!
Those are empty words liberal ideolouges use to justify equating the Soviet anti-colonial socialist project and the Nazifascistic colonial Lebensraum project, to keep the status quo of liberal representative democracy as the 'only democratic nonauthoritarian' society.
>what do you mean the soviet project is an anti-colonial project?
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1913/may/18.htm
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1913/may/07b.htm
>I… I didn't know. I'm sorry. I will now study the history of the Soviet Union and build an antiimperialist socialist project on the Marxist-Leninist tradition. I will support the anti-colonial Palestinian people's struggle. I will globalize the intifada.
And you will defend the People's Republics of China, Vietnam, Laos, Cuba, Belarus and the DPRK. You will study Cuban agroecology and you will learn to live with nature. You will have Chinese high speed rails and high quality Belarusian agricultural machinery. You will be happy.
Any questions?
'real communism'
If you 'denounce' the historical real socialism that existed and exists, you can't be a communist.>but those were not real communism
Real communism is the movement which abolishes the current state of things (private property the alienation of species-being) and it is the expansion of worker association to international terms. To think 'communism' can be reduced to just a single historical act is silly. It is, after all, a process. Real socialism was one such historical act in a chain of many to come.
>okay, they are communist, but they are totalitarian! They are authoritarian!
Those are empty words liberal ideolouges use to justify equating the Soviet anti-colonial socialist project and the Nazifascistic colonial Lebensraum project, to keep the status quo of liberal representative democracy as the 'only democratic nonauthoritarian' society.
>what do you mean the soviet project is an anti-colonial project?
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1913/may/18.htm
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1913/may/07b.htm
>I… I didn't know. I'm sorry. I will now study the history of the Soviet Union and build an antiimperialist socialist project on the Marxist-Leninist tradition. I will support the anti-colonial Palestinian people's struggle. I will globalize the intifada.
And you will defend the People's Republics of China, Vietnam, Laos, Cuba, Belarus and the DPRK. You will study Cuban agroecology and you will learn to live with nature. You will have Chinese high speed rails and high quality Belarusian agricultural machinery. You will be happy.
Any questions?
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Being right-wing is often the worst position to criticize anything from, because every direction you swing exposes your own foundation. If you're Christian and anti-Semitic, you're sawing off the branch you're sitting on. Your savior was a Jew, your scripture is Jewish, your moral code is Jewish law repackaged for empire. Attack the Jew and you attack your own metaphysics. Undermine them, and the West’s entire religious heritage begins to unravel. Christianity isn’t an antidote to Jewish influence—it was the delivery system. Which makes the "Christian nationalist" a contradiction: waving the banner of a foreign god while cursing his kin.
Go racial instead, and it gets even worse. Make it about whiteness, and you inherit the full weight of Western history—every atrocity, every conquest, every empire built on bones. If the West is collapsing, and you claim white men built it, then the blame is yours too. You can’t have the cathedrals and clean cities without the colonization and corpses. You can’t take credit for the structure without answering for its rot. The more you elevate race or heritage, the more inescapable the accountability becomes.
Being right-wing is often the worst position to criticize anything from, because every direction you swing exposes your own foundation. If you're Christian and anti-Semitic, you're sawing off the branch you're sitting on. Your savior was a Jew, your scripture is Jewish, your moral code is Jewish law repackaged for empire. Attack the Jew and you attack your own metaphysics. Undermine them, and the West’s entire religious heritage begins to unravel. Christianity isn’t an antidote to Jewish influence—it was the delivery system. Which makes the "Christian nationalist" a contradiction: waving the banner of a foreign god while cursing his kin.
Go racial instead, and it gets even worse. Make it about whiteness, and you inherit the full weight of Western history—every atrocity, every conquest, every empire built on bones. If the West is collapsing, and you claim white men built it, then the blame is yours too. You can’t have the cathedrals and clean cities without the colonization and corpses. You can’t take credit for the structure without answering for its rot. The more you elevate race or heritage, the more inescapable the accountability becomes.
R: 12 / I: 0
is this map accurate or what?
What should be changed?
Is there a better map to show relations besides of course the map of US bases?
West/East divide
The divide between weSSt nations and the multipolar™ worldis this map accurate or what?
What should be changed?
Is there a better map to show relations besides of course the map of US bases?
R: 600 / I: 103 (full)
>The system is rigged.
>The system is rigged when 4.5 million children live in poverty in the sixth richest country in the world. The system is rigged when giant corporations make a fortune from rising bills. The system is rigged when this government says there is no money for the poor, but billions for war.
>We cannot accept these injustices – and neither should you.
>We will only fix the crises in our society with a mass redistribution of wealth and power. That means taxing the very richest in our society. That means an NHS free of privatisation and bringing energy, water, rail and mail into public ownership. That means investing in a massive council-house building programme. That means standing up to fossil fuel giants putting their profits before our planet.
>Meanwhile, millions of people are horrified by the government’s shameful complicity in genocide. We believe in the radical idea that all human life has equal value. That is why we defend the right to protest for Palestine. That is why we demand an end to all arms sales to Israel. And that is why we will carry on campaigning for the only path to peace: a free and independent Palestine.
>Our movement is made up of people of all faiths and none. The great dividers want you to think that the problems in our society are caused by migrants or refugees. They’re not. They are caused by an economic system that protects the interests of corporations and billionaires. It is ordinary people who create the wealth – and it is ordinary people who have the power to put it back where it belongs.
>It’s time for a new kind of political party. One that is rooted in our communities, trade unions and social movements. One that builds power in all regions and nations. One that belongs to you.
>Sign up at www.yourparty.uk to be part of the founding process, leading to an inaugural conference. At this conference, you will decide the party’s direction, the model of leadership and the policies that are needed to transform society. That is how we can build a democratic movement that take on the rich and powerful - and win.
>Real change is coming.
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>It’s time for a new kind of political party. One that belongs to you.>The system is rigged.
>The system is rigged when 4.5 million children live in poverty in the sixth richest country in the world. The system is rigged when giant corporations make a fortune from rising bills. The system is rigged when this government says there is no money for the poor, but billions for war.
>We cannot accept these injustices – and neither should you.
>We will only fix the crises in our society with a mass redistribution of wealth and power. That means taxing the very richest in our society. That means an NHS free of privatisation and bringing energy, water, rail and mail into public ownership. That means investing in a massive council-house building programme. That means standing up to fossil fuel giants putting their profits before our planet.
>Meanwhile, millions of people are horrified by the government’s shameful complicity in genocide. We believe in the radical idea that all human life has equal value. That is why we defend the right to protest for Palestine. That is why we demand an end to all arms sales to Israel. And that is why we will carry on campaigning for the only path to peace: a free and independent Palestine.
>Our movement is made up of people of all faiths and none. The great dividers want you to think that the problems in our society are caused by migrants or refugees. They’re not. They are caused by an economic system that protects the interests of corporations and billionaires. It is ordinary people who create the wealth – and it is ordinary people who have the power to put it back where it belongs.
>It’s time for a new kind of political party. One that is rooted in our communities, trade unions and social movements. One that builds power in all regions and nations. One that belongs to you.
>Sign up at www.yourparty.uk to be part of the founding process, leading to an inaugural conference. At this conference, you will decide the party’s direction, the model of leadership and the policies that are needed to transform society. That is how we can build a democratic movement that take on the rich and powerful - and win.
>Real change is coming.
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Pic maybe not related, I'm trying to think of something.
Do contradictions drive progress?
Contradictions, often between opposing forces or interests, drive social and economic change? Isn't that progressive? Should we not bring about more contradictions to see change in the mode of production?Pic maybe not related, I'm trying to think of something.
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7th October: the point?
This is not an anti-Hamas post, this is not to discourage Palestinian resistance or to legitimise Israel. It is also well established that the violence, ethnic cleansing and land grabbing did not start on October 7th. My question is simple, what did Hamas expect to happen after October 7th? Like I cannot understand what this attack, even if everything went their way, would positively accomplish?
R: 35 / I: 6
Why has everyone become an insufferable asshole recently? In the past five or so years, I have also =NOOTICED== that people have twisted into incredibly aggressive, stupid assholes who constantly hates and undermines everyone around them. This behavior exists both online and offline. Before, it was just a few bad apples you could easily filter out of your communities, but now it seems like every other person out there is a holier-than-thou dickhead with a chip on their soldier.
It has made organizing any political action, creative groups, etc. nearly impossible. Conversations with others always have a hostile undertone to them now. People of all walks of life have normalized extreme behaviors like openly scamming and exploiting others for miniscule, selfish, short-term gain over communal, long-term success.
The greater internet fuckwad theory has always been real, but ever since COVID happened it seems that the mask has slipped from everyone and now everyone is openly gutting each other in any way they can. Lying and cheating others have become normalized, and the open embracing of fascism has been aided by this moral decay in society.
I don't buy that it is just because times are hard. Times have been harder in the past, and people didn't stoop to this level. The moral decay has reached new heights, and it is like everyone has either become the most bourgeoise parasite or the worst type of lumpenprole.
Why is it happening?
The Assholification of Society
I saw a post recently on gutterchan that really resonated with me recently.Why has everyone become an insufferable asshole recently? In the past five or so years, I have also =NOOTICED== that people have twisted into incredibly aggressive, stupid assholes who constantly hates and undermines everyone around them. This behavior exists both online and offline. Before, it was just a few bad apples you could easily filter out of your communities, but now it seems like every other person out there is a holier-than-thou dickhead with a chip on their soldier.
It has made organizing any political action, creative groups, etc. nearly impossible. Conversations with others always have a hostile undertone to them now. People of all walks of life have normalized extreme behaviors like openly scamming and exploiting others for miniscule, selfish, short-term gain over communal, long-term success.
The greater internet fuckwad theory has always been real, but ever since COVID happened it seems that the mask has slipped from everyone and now everyone is openly gutting each other in any way they can. Lying and cheating others have become normalized, and the open embracing of fascism has been aided by this moral decay in society.
I don't buy that it is just because times are hard. Times have been harder in the past, and people didn't stoop to this level. The moral decay has reached new heights, and it is like everyone has either become the most bourgeoise parasite or the worst type of lumpenprole.
Why is it happening?
R: 184 / I: 44
<The great and authentic revolutionaries of the world are two: ᴉuᴉlossnW and Hitler. But ᴉuᴉlossnW's past shows that Il Duce has always been against the plutocracy and against the democracies, which paralyze the life of nations.
>Stalin, allying himself with London and Washington, has betrayed the cause of the proletariat. Moreover, I can say that on this I agree with Il Duce, when he says, as he did in his speech from last November, that if there is a man who desperately wanted the war, who first prepared it and then instigated it, it is the American president. From my point of view, however, I clarify that Roosevelt is nothing but the exponent of supercapitalism that aims at the conquest of a totalitarian imperialism.
Whaddafug, wholesome critical support to Hitler and ᴉuᴉlossnW????
What did Bordiga mean by this?
>Therefore, June 10 (the date of ᴉuᴉlossnW's declaration of war) was for me what you call a great day. But now that Hitler has grown soft, I begin to lose the trust I had placed in the Axis to strangle and pull down the so-called British colossus, that is, the greatest exponent of capitalism. They are afraid of bringing down England, they are afraid because they know that with it, the whole capitalist system will collapse. […] I still hope that Hitler will not renounce the struggle, and will go all the way, to the extreme consequences.<The great and authentic revolutionaries of the world are two: ᴉuᴉlossnW and Hitler. But ᴉuᴉlossnW's past shows that Il Duce has always been against the plutocracy and against the democracies, which paralyze the life of nations.
>Stalin, allying himself with London and Washington, has betrayed the cause of the proletariat. Moreover, I can say that on this I agree with Il Duce, when he says, as he did in his speech from last November, that if there is a man who desperately wanted the war, who first prepared it and then instigated it, it is the American president. From my point of view, however, I clarify that Roosevelt is nothing but the exponent of supercapitalism that aims at the conquest of a totalitarian imperialism.
Whaddafug, wholesome critical support to Hitler and ᴉuᴉlossnW????
R: 45 / I: 10
>SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — The co-founder of Return to the Land (RTTL), a whites-only private member association developing a community in northern Arkansas and expanding to Missouri, has spoken to Ozarks First regarding a stabbing incident he was involved in at a decentralized vegan community in Ecuador.
Eric Orwoll is originally from California. He started out as a small time YouTube bigot over 10 years ago and has grown into a full blown segregationist. He studied Music in California in the 2010s. Like a lot of Internet racists, he has repeatedly deleted his accounts to cover his tracks. I am sure we can get more details about him. We should get his credentials cancelled and his bank accounts closed as soon as possible.
Possible Falun Gong connection?
https://lhsepic.com/47806/in-depth/shen-yun-makes-waves-in-america/
>Orwoll auditioned for Shen Yun in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 2013. He worked with the company for six months, most of the time on tour, and his experiences gave him unique insight into how Shen Yun operates.
>“I heard a lot of stories of people who believe they had been miraculously saved by Li, primarily young people brought up in the organization by parents who are also part of it,” Orwoll said. “Shen Yun is just a ballet company, but the broader religion is Falun Gong, which is a cult-like organization. There is a founder who is essentially worshiped by members, which is typical of cults.”
Destroying Eric Orwoll.
https://www.ozarksfirst.com/news/rttl-co-founder-stabbing-ecuador/>SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — The co-founder of Return to the Land (RTTL), a whites-only private member association developing a community in northern Arkansas and expanding to Missouri, has spoken to Ozarks First regarding a stabbing incident he was involved in at a decentralized vegan community in Ecuador.
Eric Orwoll is originally from California. He started out as a small time YouTube bigot over 10 years ago and has grown into a full blown segregationist. He studied Music in California in the 2010s. Like a lot of Internet racists, he has repeatedly deleted his accounts to cover his tracks. I am sure we can get more details about him. We should get his credentials cancelled and his bank accounts closed as soon as possible.
Possible Falun Gong connection?
https://lhsepic.com/47806/in-depth/shen-yun-makes-waves-in-america/
>Orwoll auditioned for Shen Yun in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 2013. He worked with the company for six months, most of the time on tour, and his experiences gave him unique insight into how Shen Yun operates.
>“I heard a lot of stories of people who believe they had been miraculously saved by Li, primarily young people brought up in the organization by parents who are also part of it,” Orwoll said. “Shen Yun is just a ballet company, but the broader religion is Falun Gong, which is a cult-like organization. There is a founder who is essentially worshiped by members, which is typical of cults.”
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Can Casinos be socialist?
Is there a room for Casinos in a socialist society? My recent trip to one of them sparked the question for me. Over here in my province, Casinos, lottery and gambling is a state monopoly. Considering the alternative that, without state control on gambling, it's existence would solely profit to bourgeois enterprises and criminal endeavors.
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The surveillance software called Gotham, developed by US company Palantir, is billed as an all-rounder: gigantic amounts of data are brought together at lightning speed. It only takes a few seconds to satisfy a police officer's curiosity: name, age, address, fines, criminal record. In combination with selected cellphones and the contents of scanned social media channels, a comprehensive profile of any person appears in an instant. With the help of artificial intelligence (AI), the surveillance program developed by the US technology company seems to make the dreams of police and intelligence agencies come true.
https://www.dw.com/en/german-police-expands-use-of-palantir-surveillance-software/a-73497117
https://archive.ph/LrIPJ
Rival anti-migrant and anti-racism protests face off outside a hotel housing migrants in London
Several hundred protesters waving Union Jacks gathered outside the Thistle City Barbican Hotel in central London, calling for it to be closed as housing for migrants. Chants including “Scum” and “Britain is full” were directed at the hotel. Police separated the demonstrators from a larger group of counter-protesters chanting “refugees are welcome here,” as people inside the hotel watched from windows. Protests against migrants have taken place in recent weeks in Epping, a town on the outskirts of London where an asylum-seeker was accused of sexual assault, and in a smattering of other towns in England.
https://apnews.com/article/britain-migration-protests-asylum-hotels-2271d550f5a3c14e0821f0eb67fbd861
Nordic countries hit by ‘truly unprecedented’ heatwave
In Sweden, meteorologists said long-term heatwaves were noted at several stations in the north of the country, with a weather station in Haparanda measuring 25C or more for 14 days in a row. In Jokkmokk, Lappland, the heatwave lasted for 15 days. “To find a longer period at these stations, you have to go back more than a century,” said Sverker Hellström, a scientist at the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/aug/02/nordic-countries-hit-by-truly-unprecedented-heatwave
Violence against Veracruz cab workers: Hitman targets driver who survived an initial attack in hospital
Amid all the violence, Veracruz cab drivers are also demanding action. Since Monday, they have marched in various municipalities demanding better wages, security, and justice for their murdered colleagues. “We fear for our safety; we are single mothers,” and “We no longer live, we survive,” some female drivers chanted during the first demonstration in Xalapa.
https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-08-01/violence-against-veracruz-cab-workers-hitman-targets-driver-who-survived-an-initial-attack-in-hospital.html
https://archive.ph/6Toiz
Argentina’s Milei Vetoes Pensions Increase and Disability Emergency Laws
The Argentine Congress now faces the challenge of reversing the presidential vetoes on two key projects: the Retirement Mobility Act and the Disability Emergency Declaration while the Retirement Mobility Act proposed an increase in retirements, increased the bonus and replenished the pension moratorium.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/argentinas-milei-vetoes-pensions-increase-and-disability-emergency-laws/
The Fine Print of Freedom: Iraq to amend Freedom of Expression and Peaceful Assembly Law
Despite easing some procedural hurdles, the new draft law outlines several prohibitions on protest activity: -Carrying firearms or dangerous materials during demonstrations, regardless of firearm licensing. -Wearing masks or face coverings intended to conceal identity. -Displaying slogans, symbols, or signs considered offensive to public order or morals. The law reaffirms longstanding bans on speech inciting sectarian, racial, or religious hatred, or defaming religious beliefs—provisions that human rights observers have previously warned could be used to silence dissent.
https://shafaq.com/en/Report/The-Fine-Print-of-Freedom-Iraq-to-amend-Freedom-of-Expression-and-Peaceful-Assembly-Law
Video of emaciated Israeli captive in Gaza stirs divisions in Israel
The caption to the video, posted on Telegram, reads that the captive is "waiting to be released in a prisoner swap". The video shows the captive, who was later identified as Israeli soldier Evyatar David, looking markedly thin and sitting on bed in a cramped room. His arms show signs of drastic weight loss, and his ribs are also protruding, in a scene which has become increasingly common in Gaza as Israel obstructs aid.
https://www.newarab.com/news/video-emaciated-israeli-captive-stirs-divisions-israel
'No Other Land' murder: Women in Awdah Hathaleen's village launch hunger strike
More than 70 women in the village where Awdah Hathaleen was killed on Monday have launched a hunger strike, calling for Israeli police to return his body and release residents arrested in the wake of his murder. Their protest comes as they say Israeli forces have raided family homes in the village each night since the killing, arresting their husbands and brothers and beating other family members. "A woman would be not properly dressed, lying in bed, and they would come in and open the door and say, 'We want your husband, we want your brother'," Ikhlas Hazalin, Hathaleen's sister-in-law, told Middle East Eye on Thursday.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/awdah-hathaleen-hunger-strike-women-over-70-body-israeli
Farmer leaders arrested in Pakistan for opposing illegal land grab
Several farmer leaders were arrested after they tried to organize against illegal land grabs in the Hashtnagar region in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province earlier this week. Salar Amjad Ali, Momin Khan Shalmani, Waris Khan Amir, Muhammad Alam, Manzoor Khan, Sparlay Ghorzang, and Zeeshan were arrested after their bails in previous cases were revoked. All the arrested are part of the provincial leadership of the left-wing Mazdoor Kisan Party (Workers-Peasants Party, MKP).
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/07/31/farmer-leaders-arrested-in-pakistan-for-opposing-illegal-land-grab/
Dalit teen gang-raped, local officials ‘push cash deal’
Shockingly, instead of ensuring swift justice, ward officials, including chairperson Uttam Narayan Yadav allegedly convened a forced reconciliation meeting at the local health post on Friday, where they pressured the traumatised family to accept Rs100,000($114) compensation and drop charges—a demand the victim’s brother vehemently rejected, telling media they continue facing daily harassment for refusing the settlement.
https://kathmandupost.com/national/2025/08/02/dalit-teen-gang-raped-in-saptari
https://archive.ph/12jvP
Indo-Myanmar Border: Manipur Naga Groups’ ‘Ultimatum’ to Centre
The four Manipur-based Naga outfits have marked their communication dated July 22, 2025, as an “Ultimatum” to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar. The ‘ultimatum’ once again reminds the Centre that at stake is ‘ancestral Naga homeland’ and that by not consulting the affected indigenous communities, it is violating the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, particularly Articles 8, 26 and 36 thereof, which have been “endorsed by India”.
https://www.newsclick.in/indo-myanmar-border-manipur-naga-groups-ultimatum-centre
US Law Firm Helped Myanmar Junta Cronies Beat Sanctions
A U.S. Treasury notice on Thursday announced that sanctions had been dropped against four Myanmar nationals—Jonathan Myo Kyaw Thaung (aka Jonathan Kyaw Thaung), Aung Hlaing Oo, Sit Taing Aung, and Tin Latt Min—and an Indian, Deepak Subhash Jadhav, as well as companies they are connected to. All the Myanmar individuals were sanctioned from 2022 to 2024 by the Joe Biden administration for their shady links to the junta, involving among other things the supply of arms, aircraft, and technology, which the regime has been using to kill its own people.
https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/us-law-firm-helped-myanmar-junta-cronies-beat-sanctions.html
News 8/2/25
German police expands use of Palantir surveillance softwareThe surveillance software called Gotham, developed by US company Palantir, is billed as an all-rounder: gigantic amounts of data are brought together at lightning speed. It only takes a few seconds to satisfy a police officer's curiosity: name, age, address, fines, criminal record. In combination with selected cellphones and the contents of scanned social media channels, a comprehensive profile of any person appears in an instant. With the help of artificial intelligence (AI), the surveillance program developed by the US technology company seems to make the dreams of police and intelligence agencies come true.
https://www.dw.com/en/german-police-expands-use-of-palantir-surveillance-software/a-73497117
https://archive.ph/LrIPJ
Rival anti-migrant and anti-racism protests face off outside a hotel housing migrants in London
Several hundred protesters waving Union Jacks gathered outside the Thistle City Barbican Hotel in central London, calling for it to be closed as housing for migrants. Chants including “Scum” and “Britain is full” were directed at the hotel. Police separated the demonstrators from a larger group of counter-protesters chanting “refugees are welcome here,” as people inside the hotel watched from windows. Protests against migrants have taken place in recent weeks in Epping, a town on the outskirts of London where an asylum-seeker was accused of sexual assault, and in a smattering of other towns in England.
https://apnews.com/article/britain-migration-protests-asylum-hotels-2271d550f5a3c14e0821f0eb67fbd861
Nordic countries hit by ‘truly unprecedented’ heatwave
In Sweden, meteorologists said long-term heatwaves were noted at several stations in the north of the country, with a weather station in Haparanda measuring 25C or more for 14 days in a row. In Jokkmokk, Lappland, the heatwave lasted for 15 days. “To find a longer period at these stations, you have to go back more than a century,” said Sverker Hellström, a scientist at the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/aug/02/nordic-countries-hit-by-truly-unprecedented-heatwave
Violence against Veracruz cab workers: Hitman targets driver who survived an initial attack in hospital
Amid all the violence, Veracruz cab drivers are also demanding action. Since Monday, they have marched in various municipalities demanding better wages, security, and justice for their murdered colleagues. “We fear for our safety; we are single mothers,” and “We no longer live, we survive,” some female drivers chanted during the first demonstration in Xalapa.
https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-08-01/violence-against-veracruz-cab-workers-hitman-targets-driver-who-survived-an-initial-attack-in-hospital.html
https://archive.ph/6Toiz
Argentina’s Milei Vetoes Pensions Increase and Disability Emergency Laws
The Argentine Congress now faces the challenge of reversing the presidential vetoes on two key projects: the Retirement Mobility Act and the Disability Emergency Declaration while the Retirement Mobility Act proposed an increase in retirements, increased the bonus and replenished the pension moratorium.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/argentinas-milei-vetoes-pensions-increase-and-disability-emergency-laws/
The Fine Print of Freedom: Iraq to amend Freedom of Expression and Peaceful Assembly Law
Despite easing some procedural hurdles, the new draft law outlines several prohibitions on protest activity: -Carrying firearms or dangerous materials during demonstrations, regardless of firearm licensing. -Wearing masks or face coverings intended to conceal identity. -Displaying slogans, symbols, or signs considered offensive to public order or morals. The law reaffirms longstanding bans on speech inciting sectarian, racial, or religious hatred, or defaming religious beliefs—provisions that human rights observers have previously warned could be used to silence dissent.
https://shafaq.com/en/Report/The-Fine-Print-of-Freedom-Iraq-to-amend-Freedom-of-Expression-and-Peaceful-Assembly-Law
Video of emaciated Israeli captive in Gaza stirs divisions in Israel
The caption to the video, posted on Telegram, reads that the captive is "waiting to be released in a prisoner swap". The video shows the captive, who was later identified as Israeli soldier Evyatar David, looking markedly thin and sitting on bed in a cramped room. His arms show signs of drastic weight loss, and his ribs are also protruding, in a scene which has become increasingly common in Gaza as Israel obstructs aid.
https://www.newarab.com/news/video-emaciated-israeli-captive-stirs-divisions-israel
'No Other Land' murder: Women in Awdah Hathaleen's village launch hunger strike
More than 70 women in the village where Awdah Hathaleen was killed on Monday have launched a hunger strike, calling for Israeli police to return his body and release residents arrested in the wake of his murder. Their protest comes as they say Israeli forces have raided family homes in the village each night since the killing, arresting their husbands and brothers and beating other family members. "A woman would be not properly dressed, lying in bed, and they would come in and open the door and say, 'We want your husband, we want your brother'," Ikhlas Hazalin, Hathaleen's sister-in-law, told Middle East Eye on Thursday.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/awdah-hathaleen-hunger-strike-women-over-70-body-israeli
Farmer leaders arrested in Pakistan for opposing illegal land grab
Several farmer leaders were arrested after they tried to organize against illegal land grabs in the Hashtnagar region in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province earlier this week. Salar Amjad Ali, Momin Khan Shalmani, Waris Khan Amir, Muhammad Alam, Manzoor Khan, Sparlay Ghorzang, and Zeeshan were arrested after their bails in previous cases were revoked. All the arrested are part of the provincial leadership of the left-wing Mazdoor Kisan Party (Workers-Peasants Party, MKP).
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/07/31/farmer-leaders-arrested-in-pakistan-for-opposing-illegal-land-grab/
Dalit teen gang-raped, local officials ‘push cash deal’
Shockingly, instead of ensuring swift justice, ward officials, including chairperson Uttam Narayan Yadav allegedly convened a forced reconciliation meeting at the local health post on Friday, where they pressured the traumatised family to accept Rs100,000($114) compensation and drop charges—a demand the victim’s brother vehemently rejected, telling media they continue facing daily harassment for refusing the settlement.
https://kathmandupost.com/national/2025/08/02/dalit-teen-gang-raped-in-saptari
https://archive.ph/12jvP
Indo-Myanmar Border: Manipur Naga Groups’ ‘Ultimatum’ to Centre
The four Manipur-based Naga outfits have marked their communication dated July 22, 2025, as an “Ultimatum” to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar. The ‘ultimatum’ once again reminds the Centre that at stake is ‘ancestral Naga homeland’ and that by not consulting the affected indigenous communities, it is violating the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, particularly Articles 8, 26 and 36 thereof, which have been “endorsed by India”.
https://www.newsclick.in/indo-myanmar-border-manipur-naga-groups-ultimatum-centre
US Law Firm Helped Myanmar Junta Cronies Beat Sanctions
A U.S. Treasury notice on Thursday announced that sanctions had been dropped against four Myanmar nationals—Jonathan Myo Kyaw Thaung (aka Jonathan Kyaw Thaung), Aung Hlaing Oo, Sit Taing Aung, and Tin Latt Min—and an Indian, Deepak Subhash Jadhav, as well as companies they are connected to. All the Myanmar individuals were sanctioned from 2022 to 2024 by the Joe Biden administration for their shady links to the junta, involving among other things the supply of arms, aircraft, and technology, which the regime has been using to kill its own people.
https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/us-law-firm-helped-myanmar-junta-cronies-beat-sanctions.html
R: 377 / I: 53
Mamdani fell for it again award
All of you celebrating Mamdani are about to receive the fell for it again award, just like you did with Bernie and AOC, and Obama if you're old enough to remember. Unless a socialist is running for an explicitly revolutionary socialist party, they're going to sell out. Also, Mamdani's wife was heavily active in the cultural push for regime change in Syria.
R: 600 / I: 226 (full)
Last thread lasted 2 days, so these events are separated by hours.
STG stalemates in Suwayda after the Israeli bombings.
STG withdraws due to the Israeli pressure.
Many civilian massacres and violations are uncovered after STG forces leave. At the same time, Druze commit atrocities against Bedouins.
Sectarian attacks against Druze outside of Suwayda.
Bedouin tribes announce a mobilisation against the Druze of Suwayda, vowing to continue the fight without the government.
Most tribes join convoys heading for Suwayda. Many sectarian non-tribals also do.
Tribals advance slowly through Suwayda.
More convoys.
Druze launch a counter-offensive that retakes some villages.
Stalemate at front.
More convoys.
Very recently government calls on the tribes to leave. They refuse. Reports of government attempting to block roads.
Israel seems to intensify its airstrikes a bit.
Links:
t.me/Medmannews - Well known channel (Egyptian owner). Posts frequently about MENA
t.me/Slavyangrad - Also posting a lot of news about Syria recently
t.me/Middle_East_Spectator - Iranian owner
t.me/Suriyak_maps - Posts maps/latest news. Less prone to hype/hysteria but slower.
t.me/rybar - Russian channel. Posts a lot about Syria too
https://nitter.poast.org/SAMSyria0 - Local Syrian army soldier. Used to post in Arabic. (Account deleted. RIP)
https://nitter.poast.org/WarMonitors
https://nitter.poast.org/bosni94
https://nitter.poast.org/Sy_intelligence
https://nitter.poast.org/sayed_ridha
https://syria.liveuamap.com
/sg/ - Syrian Civil War General #23 - Off to War edition
Recent news:Last thread lasted 2 days, so these events are separated by hours.
STG stalemates in Suwayda after the Israeli bombings.
STG withdraws due to the Israeli pressure.
Many civilian massacres and violations are uncovered after STG forces leave. At the same time, Druze commit atrocities against Bedouins.
Sectarian attacks against Druze outside of Suwayda.
Bedouin tribes announce a mobilisation against the Druze of Suwayda, vowing to continue the fight without the government.
Most tribes join convoys heading for Suwayda. Many sectarian non-tribals also do.
Tribals advance slowly through Suwayda.
More convoys.
Druze launch a counter-offensive that retakes some villages.
Stalemate at front.
More convoys.
Very recently government calls on the tribes to leave. They refuse. Reports of government attempting to block roads.
Israel seems to intensify its airstrikes a bit.
Links:
t.me/Medmannews - Well known channel (Egyptian owner). Posts frequently about MENA
t.me/Slavyangrad - Also posting a lot of news about Syria recently
t.me/Middle_East_Spectator - Iranian owner
t.me/Suriyak_maps - Posts maps/latest news. Less prone to hype/hysteria but slower.
t.me/rybar - Russian channel. Posts a lot about Syria too
https://nitter.poast.org/SAMSyria0 - Local Syrian army soldier. Used to post in Arabic. (Account deleted. RIP)
https://nitter.poast.org/WarMonitors
https://nitter.poast.org/bosni94
https://nitter.poast.org/Sy_intelligence
https://nitter.poast.org/sayed_ridha
https://syria.liveuamap.com
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Since you are scientific and materialist what is your answer to the Bell theorem in which John Bell has proven that quantum processes either have no hidden variables but are local (which means there are indeterministic properties in the quantum realm but physical objects only bear an influence on imminent contact) or that they have hidden variables but aren‘t local (which means quantum processes are deterministic but can bear an influence on each from an arbitrary distance), but there can not be both hidden variables (which would have granted determinism) and also locality (which limits physical interactions to imminent contact).
Which side do you pick and why?
Since you are scientific and materialist what is your answer to the Bell theorem in which John Bell has proven that quantum processes either have no hidden variables but are local (which means there are indeterministic properties in the quantum realm but physical objects only bear an influence on imminent contact) or that they have hidden variables but aren‘t local (which means quantum processes are deterministic but can bear an influence on each from an arbitrary distance), but there can not be both hidden variables (which would have granted determinism) and also locality (which limits physical interactions to imminent contact).
Which side do you pick and why?
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no illusions about the liberal led government, which functions entirely within the eu/nato imperial framework. but the fact that even minor deviations—an embargo, a diplomatic meeting, a public referendum proposal—triggered coordinated backlash says a lot. the margin for autonomy within the core-periphery structure is that thin.
none of this means slovenia is pursuing an anti-imperialist course, but it does show where the ideological tripwires are. even small states making symbolic moves can rupture the narrative if conditions are unstable enough.
does the non-aligned legacy have any real potential today, or is this just the afterimage of yugoslavia being used as a scarecrow for nato’s internal discipline? is slovenia a fringe case or an early sign of wider fragmentation? how does slovenia compare to the baltics?
non aligned multipolarist socialism
slovenia recently imposed an arms embargo on israel, the first eu state to do so. at the same time, discussion around a nato withdrawal referendum is picking up again—something that was never properly voted on in 2003, when slovenia joined under media pressure and low turnout.no illusions about the liberal led government, which functions entirely within the eu/nato imperial framework. but the fact that even minor deviations—an embargo, a diplomatic meeting, a public referendum proposal—triggered coordinated backlash says a lot. the margin for autonomy within the core-periphery structure is that thin.
none of this means slovenia is pursuing an anti-imperialist course, but it does show where the ideological tripwires are. even small states making symbolic moves can rupture the narrative if conditions are unstable enough.
does the non-aligned legacy have any real potential today, or is this just the afterimage of yugoslavia being used as a scarecrow for nato’s internal discipline? is slovenia a fringe case or an early sign of wider fragmentation? how does slovenia compare to the baltics?
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>Socially degenerate as the libs, economically out of touch as the Neo-cons
>the literal worst of both worlds
Still, why did libertarianism become strangely popular among various types of popular media figures, like comedians, filmmakers, and actors?
>Socially degenerate as the libs, economically out of touch as the Neo-cons
>the literal worst of both worlds
Still, why did libertarianism become strangely popular among various types of popular media figures, like comedians, filmmakers, and actors?
R: 76 / I: 12
>WW1
>Nicholas making the decision to go to the front line to lead the troops
>The February Revolution
>Kerensky re-entering Russia into WW1
>Kerensky's government collapsing because he tried to orchestrate a coup on himself and then double crossed the Army by arming red militias in petrograd
>The liberals giving the Bolsheviks(among other parties) guns to help stop the Army from overthrowing the provisional government.
>The other socialist parties(which were more popular) believing Lenin would reinstall the constituent assembly
>When the SRs did rise up they refused to execute captured bolshevik officers or do much of anything.
>When the Petrograd sailors rebelled they sat on their island printing newspapers hoping that the people of Russia would realize Lenin was a big meaniehead and get rid of him.
Obviously the future is not a wide-open blank slate where anything can happen. Even massive upheavals like the First World War had observable conditions. But the way it unfolded(with Belgium being invaded and Britain, followed by America, entering the conflict) was due to random chances and the decisions of a handful of individuals.
I'm a Socialist but I don't buy into ideas of Marxist historiography
For one big example, Look at all that had to happen for the Bolsheviks to succeeded>WW1
>Nicholas making the decision to go to the front line to lead the troops
>The February Revolution
>Kerensky re-entering Russia into WW1
>Kerensky's government collapsing because he tried to orchestrate a coup on himself and then double crossed the Army by arming red militias in petrograd
>The liberals giving the Bolsheviks(among other parties) guns to help stop the Army from overthrowing the provisional government.
>The other socialist parties(which were more popular) believing Lenin would reinstall the constituent assembly
>When the SRs did rise up they refused to execute captured bolshevik officers or do much of anything.
>When the Petrograd sailors rebelled they sat on their island printing newspapers hoping that the people of Russia would realize Lenin was a big meaniehead and get rid of him.
Obviously the future is not a wide-open blank slate where anything can happen. Even massive upheavals like the First World War had observable conditions. But the way it unfolded(with Belgium being invaded and Britain, followed by America, entering the conflict) was due to random chances and the decisions of a handful of individuals.
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10.1016/0891-4222(93)90036-j
10.1108/AIA-08-2017-0016
>Reward and punishment, as opposed to naturally occuring observations of the enviroment, is inefficient at teaching even very simple tasks; there is no reason to consistently and regularly reward a child for specific 'behaviors' as present in especially the EIBI and UCLA models of ABA, as opposed to TEAACH, JASPER, SLT, OT, Mileu therapy, ETC.
10.1016/0304-3940(95)11631-6
10.1111/cdev.14181
>The reason people support ABA in the first place is because people claim that it raises intelligence; ignoring all the nuances of autism score as a measure of problem solving, the studies that are at least long-term and/or randomized suggest it does not, even when the child is mentally equivilent to an infantat intake. In particular, the control group of Estes 15 did no worse than either group of Sallows 2005. The former recieved almost no ABA whatsoever and the latter had 30 hrs/wk of the UCLA model for two years
10.1352/0895-8017(2005)110[417:IBTFCW]2.0.CO;2.
10.1016/j.jaac.2015.04.005
10.1177/0145445511405513
>"Behaviorism" isn't a science; Behavioral Psychology is, but Behaviorism is the philosophy that the former is the only, or most important, form of psychology.
>It's questionable whether or not autisitic people are even disabled enough for therapy in general, as the DSM diagonosis no longer necessitates language abnormalities, which would mark an actual problem, not an idealist label. This is why behavioral therapy that's more than 5 hrs/wk is rare in europe, for example
10.1177/13623613241230709
10.1177/13623613221117955
10.1186/s13229-015-0006-3
10.1177/1362361315577218
>Pragmatically speaking, ABA is extremely expensive, with the low intensity variety costing about 60,000 dollars a year. This is equivilent to six years of schooling depending on where you are so people will expect that it makes the difference between vegtablized human pets and sovietmen; certainly, ABA won't make you the latter, but merely being useless means the axe, as indiana, tricare, and ontario have already cut funding for it. It's basically just a matter of "Hey, wait a minute! Can't use this money to give families of disabled children UBI, tax credits, or actual healthcare instead?" And the individualist culture of the US can't save you.
10.1016/j.jaac.2017.06.007
>And no, socialism won't change this, as the USSR disregarded behaviorism as bourgeois, and they were more than right to do so.
https://www.muni.cz/en/research/publications/1850697 (Pp. 25-32)
The "ABA is the fastest growing industry" thing is a psyop to make you think that behaviorism is natural and that there's nothing you can do about it. On the contrary, the industry would collapse if the public were informed of the actual science and not feel-good anecdotes.
"I'm a mother of an autistic child and you're delusional" is not evidence
"SIBs are bad" is not an arguement
"I know your frustrated, but…" is not theory
"Seek therapy" is not praxis
Nothing is created
Everthing is adapted
God is real
Let's put him down
Reminder
>ABA most likely causes prompt dependence and PTSD, so there's no need for an "alternative" as ABA itself is abusive. This is mostly self-evident, and a staple in the literature, but here's some specific examples:10.1016/0891-4222(93)90036-j
10.1108/AIA-08-2017-0016
>Reward and punishment, as opposed to naturally occuring observations of the enviroment, is inefficient at teaching even very simple tasks; there is no reason to consistently and regularly reward a child for specific 'behaviors' as present in especially the EIBI and UCLA models of ABA, as opposed to TEAACH, JASPER, SLT, OT, Mileu therapy, ETC.
10.1016/0304-3940(95)11631-6
10.1111/cdev.14181
>The reason people support ABA in the first place is because people claim that it raises intelligence; ignoring all the nuances of autism score as a measure of problem solving, the studies that are at least long-term and/or randomized suggest it does not, even when the child is mentally equivilent to an infantat intake. In particular, the control group of Estes 15 did no worse than either group of Sallows 2005. The former recieved almost no ABA whatsoever and the latter had 30 hrs/wk of the UCLA model for two years
10.1352/0895-8017(2005)110[417:IBTFCW]2.0.CO;2.
10.1016/j.jaac.2015.04.005
10.1177/0145445511405513
>"Behaviorism" isn't a science; Behavioral Psychology is, but Behaviorism is the philosophy that the former is the only, or most important, form of psychology.
>It's questionable whether or not autisitic people are even disabled enough for therapy in general, as the DSM diagonosis no longer necessitates language abnormalities, which would mark an actual problem, not an idealist label. This is why behavioral therapy that's more than 5 hrs/wk is rare in europe, for example
10.1177/13623613241230709
10.1177/13623613221117955
10.1186/s13229-015-0006-3
10.1177/1362361315577218
>Pragmatically speaking, ABA is extremely expensive, with the low intensity variety costing about 60,000 dollars a year. This is equivilent to six years of schooling depending on where you are so people will expect that it makes the difference between vegtablized human pets and sovietmen; certainly, ABA won't make you the latter, but merely being useless means the axe, as indiana, tricare, and ontario have already cut funding for it. It's basically just a matter of "Hey, wait a minute! Can't use this money to give families of disabled children UBI, tax credits, or actual healthcare instead?" And the individualist culture of the US can't save you.
10.1016/j.jaac.2017.06.007
>And no, socialism won't change this, as the USSR disregarded behaviorism as bourgeois, and they were more than right to do so.
https://www.muni.cz/en/research/publications/1850697 (Pp. 25-32)
The "ABA is the fastest growing industry" thing is a psyop to make you think that behaviorism is natural and that there's nothing you can do about it. On the contrary, the industry would collapse if the public were informed of the actual science and not feel-good anecdotes.
"I'm a mother of an autistic child and you're delusional" is not evidence
"SIBs are bad" is not an arguement
"I know your frustrated, but…" is not theory
"Seek therapy" is not praxis
Nothing is created
Everthing is adapted
God is real
Let's put him down
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does this phenomenon have a name?
had an argument with a person insisting that putin is communist, and their reasoning was that they promote soviet nostalgia, which I argued is just the most readily available reactionary building material available for them as a fascist. it took me a good while to realize that they were not a tankie arguing in bad faith to push putin, but a manchurian nationalist arguing in bad faith to denigrate them. I don't know what to make of this, but I found it amusing that kuomintang lovers are almost perfectly aligned with tankie russia defenders in their talking points on communism, both having equally well honed anti-communist messaging.
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Heredia read the sentence to the court in an afternoon hearing on Friday. Uribe will be fined $578,000, Heredia's ruling said, and barred from public office for more than eight years. Uribe, whose legal team has said it will appeal, is to report to authorities in Rionegro, in Antioquia province, where he resides, and then "proceed immediately to his residence where he will comply with house arrest," the ruling said. … Secretary of State Marco Rubio said this week that Uribe's conviction was a "weaponization of Colombia's judicial branch by radical judges" and analysts have said there could be cuts to U.S. aid in response.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/colombia-ex-president-uribe-sentenced-12-years-house-arrest-will-appeal-2025-08-01/
Collapse at Chile’s major copper mine kills 1 worker and leaves 5 missing
Authorities said they’re still investigating whether it was a naturally occurring earthquake or whether mining activity at Codelco’s flagship El Teniente mine caused the quake. Chilean prosecutors also launched a criminal investigation to determine whether any safety standards were violated. Chile’s national disaster response service, Senapred, said that the tremor struck the Machalí commune in the O’Higgins region, about 100 kilometers (62 miles) from the capital, Santiago.
https://apnews.com/article/chile-mine-collapse-copper-earthquake-ring-of-fire-f0bbef9034146d3ab43cae0773507401
Argentine Justice Minister under flak for hidden camera footage
Argentina's Justice Minister Mariano Cúneo Libarona is facing calls for his resignation after a video was leaked showing him offering to help former CIA agent Timothy Ballard clean up his public image. Ballard, who inspired the film Sound of Freedom, has been accused of sexual violence by former employees of his anti-trafficking organization, Operation Underground Railroad (O.U.R.).
https://en.mercopress.com/2025/07/31/argentine-justice-minister-under-flak-for-hidden-camera-footage
Peruvian informal miners suspend talks with government due to disagreements in negotiations
CONFEMIN union leader, Maximo Franco Bequer, told reporters the government refused to alter an August 17 deadline for miners to move explosives into formal "powder magazines." He said 20,000 miners who cannot meet the deadline would be excluded from a government program to formalize their work.
https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-work/peruvian-informal-miners-suspend-talks-with-government-due-disagreements-2025-08-02/
South Korea’s jailed ex-President Yoon defies probe, removes prison uniform to avoid questioning
South Korea’s jailed ex-President Yoon Suk Yeol again refused to attend questioning by investigators Friday, using a new method to resist: He took off his prison uniform and lay down on the floor at his detention room. … . On Friday, Min Joong-ki, a special counsel named by his liberal rival and new President Lee Jae Myung, sent investigators to retrieve Yoon from a detention center near Seoul after the former president twice defied requests to attend questioning. Min’s team is tasked with delving into allegations surrounding Yoon’s wife Kim Keon Hee, including that she and her husband exerted inappropriate influence on the then-ruling party’s election nomination process in 2022.
https://www.firstpost.com/world/south-korea-yoon-prison-protest-investigation-13917441.html
Worker resistance stops Karnataka government’s plan to increase IT work hours
Workers in India’s IT hub have won a significant victory. The government in the south Indian state of Karnataka – the hub of the Information Technology (IT) industry in the country – has finally decided to withdraw its proposals to increase the maximum working hours in the IT/ITes sector, following a relentless struggle by the Karnataka State IT/ITes Employees Union (KITU). After a meeting with the state’s additional labor commissioner, KITU announced its victory against the regressive move in a statement on Tuesday. Scores of IT workers took to the streets to celebrate the victory.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/08/01/worker-resistance-stops-karnataka-governments-plan-to-increase-it-work-hours/
Secretive overhaul of New Zealand terror law targets protests
Beagle said the changes proposed by the New Zealand government could be similarly used to shut down organisations it did not like. “People will be criminalised not just for being members of an organisation but for expressing support for the issue it was focused on. These are highly dangerous attacks on freedom of expression and freedom of association,” he said. Speaking to independent journalist Mick Hall, Beagle added that the NZCCL was “horrified that they [the UK] have sunk so far and so quickly.” The NZ proposals, he noted, accompany a decision by the Independent Police Conduct Authority seeking to give police the power to unilaterally ban protests in the event of a “high chance of public disorder and threats to public safety.”
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/08/02/wleg-a02.html
Decision delayed for pro-Palestine protest on Sydney Harbour Bridge as police warn of possible crowd crush
Pro-Palestine protesters will have to wait until Saturday to find out if they can legally march across the Sydney Harbour Bridge this weekend, but organisers are vowing to go ahead regardless of the court decision. However, the court heard the protest organisers are willing to postpone the march if police agree to work with them. The Palestine Action Group faced the New South Wales police in the supreme court on Friday after the police rejected an application to facilitate the protest.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/01/labor-mps-pro-palestine-march-gaza-protest-sydney-harbour-bridge
'Stop starving Gaza' protests to sweep Britain
More than 40 “Stop Starving Gaza” demonstrations were scheduled to take place last night, as the Morning Star went to press, including in Birmingham, Cardiff and London. Protests are continuing tomorrow, with gatherings planned at Oxford Street in London from 2pm, Barclays bank in Carlisle at 1pm, and opposite Waterstones in Abergavenny from 11am.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/stop-starving-gaza-protests-sweep-britain
Hamas links truce talks to aiding Gaza as Israel abandons 'partial deals'
According to several officials in recent months, Israel is expected to demand the expulsion of senior Hamas military leaders from Gaza, the disarmament of the group and guarantees that neither Hamas nor the Palestinian Authority will be allowed to govern the territory under any future deal.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/hamas-links-truce-talks-aiding-gaza-israel-abandons-partial-deals
Hezbollah stocks aid in north Lebanon as fears of renewed Israel war grow
With Lebanon still reeling from last year’s war and economic collapse, fears of another large-scale conflict are growing. Southern villages have been devastated, and civilian casualties continue even under the ceasefire. The Lebanese government places the death toll at 4,000, while Reuters previously reported that Hezbollah may have suffered around that number in its ranks alone. Since the ceasefire, Israeli strikes have continued to kill civilians. Hezbollah rarely acknowledges casualties.
https://www.newarab.com/news/hezbollah-stocks-aid-north-lebanon-fears-war-grow
US weighs designating Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist group
The New York Times first reported on Tuesday that the administration was pushing to designate the group, but the idea is not new. Some people think the Muslim Brotherhood does not meet the legal criteria required for the designation. Others think the organization is too diverse and spread out across nations, making it difficult to enforce a one-size-fits-all description. There also questions about whether a designation would complicate U.S. diplomacy.
https://apnews.com/united-states-government-9b6ee104cb0f4e6792f593a5d4674f6a
News 8/1/25
Colombia ex-president Uribe sentenced to 12 years of house arrest, will appealHeredia read the sentence to the court in an afternoon hearing on Friday. Uribe will be fined $578,000, Heredia's ruling said, and barred from public office for more than eight years. Uribe, whose legal team has said it will appeal, is to report to authorities in Rionegro, in Antioquia province, where he resides, and then "proceed immediately to his residence where he will comply with house arrest," the ruling said. … Secretary of State Marco Rubio said this week that Uribe's conviction was a "weaponization of Colombia's judicial branch by radical judges" and analysts have said there could be cuts to U.S. aid in response.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/colombia-ex-president-uribe-sentenced-12-years-house-arrest-will-appeal-2025-08-01/
Collapse at Chile’s major copper mine kills 1 worker and leaves 5 missing
Authorities said they’re still investigating whether it was a naturally occurring earthquake or whether mining activity at Codelco’s flagship El Teniente mine caused the quake. Chilean prosecutors also launched a criminal investigation to determine whether any safety standards were violated. Chile’s national disaster response service, Senapred, said that the tremor struck the Machalí commune in the O’Higgins region, about 100 kilometers (62 miles) from the capital, Santiago.
https://apnews.com/article/chile-mine-collapse-copper-earthquake-ring-of-fire-f0bbef9034146d3ab43cae0773507401
Argentine Justice Minister under flak for hidden camera footage
Argentina's Justice Minister Mariano Cúneo Libarona is facing calls for his resignation after a video was leaked showing him offering to help former CIA agent Timothy Ballard clean up his public image. Ballard, who inspired the film Sound of Freedom, has been accused of sexual violence by former employees of his anti-trafficking organization, Operation Underground Railroad (O.U.R.).
https://en.mercopress.com/2025/07/31/argentine-justice-minister-under-flak-for-hidden-camera-footage
Peruvian informal miners suspend talks with government due to disagreements in negotiations
CONFEMIN union leader, Maximo Franco Bequer, told reporters the government refused to alter an August 17 deadline for miners to move explosives into formal "powder magazines." He said 20,000 miners who cannot meet the deadline would be excluded from a government program to formalize their work.
https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-work/peruvian-informal-miners-suspend-talks-with-government-due-disagreements-2025-08-02/
South Korea’s jailed ex-President Yoon defies probe, removes prison uniform to avoid questioning
South Korea’s jailed ex-President Yoon Suk Yeol again refused to attend questioning by investigators Friday, using a new method to resist: He took off his prison uniform and lay down on the floor at his detention room. … . On Friday, Min Joong-ki, a special counsel named by his liberal rival and new President Lee Jae Myung, sent investigators to retrieve Yoon from a detention center near Seoul after the former president twice defied requests to attend questioning. Min’s team is tasked with delving into allegations surrounding Yoon’s wife Kim Keon Hee, including that she and her husband exerted inappropriate influence on the then-ruling party’s election nomination process in 2022.
https://www.firstpost.com/world/south-korea-yoon-prison-protest-investigation-13917441.html
Worker resistance stops Karnataka government’s plan to increase IT work hours
Workers in India’s IT hub have won a significant victory. The government in the south Indian state of Karnataka – the hub of the Information Technology (IT) industry in the country – has finally decided to withdraw its proposals to increase the maximum working hours in the IT/ITes sector, following a relentless struggle by the Karnataka State IT/ITes Employees Union (KITU). After a meeting with the state’s additional labor commissioner, KITU announced its victory against the regressive move in a statement on Tuesday. Scores of IT workers took to the streets to celebrate the victory.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/08/01/worker-resistance-stops-karnataka-governments-plan-to-increase-it-work-hours/
Secretive overhaul of New Zealand terror law targets protests
Beagle said the changes proposed by the New Zealand government could be similarly used to shut down organisations it did not like. “People will be criminalised not just for being members of an organisation but for expressing support for the issue it was focused on. These are highly dangerous attacks on freedom of expression and freedom of association,” he said. Speaking to independent journalist Mick Hall, Beagle added that the NZCCL was “horrified that they [the UK] have sunk so far and so quickly.” The NZ proposals, he noted, accompany a decision by the Independent Police Conduct Authority seeking to give police the power to unilaterally ban protests in the event of a “high chance of public disorder and threats to public safety.”
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/08/02/wleg-a02.html
Decision delayed for pro-Palestine protest on Sydney Harbour Bridge as police warn of possible crowd crush
Pro-Palestine protesters will have to wait until Saturday to find out if they can legally march across the Sydney Harbour Bridge this weekend, but organisers are vowing to go ahead regardless of the court decision. However, the court heard the protest organisers are willing to postpone the march if police agree to work with them. The Palestine Action Group faced the New South Wales police in the supreme court on Friday after the police rejected an application to facilitate the protest.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/01/labor-mps-pro-palestine-march-gaza-protest-sydney-harbour-bridge
'Stop starving Gaza' protests to sweep Britain
More than 40 “Stop Starving Gaza” demonstrations were scheduled to take place last night, as the Morning Star went to press, including in Birmingham, Cardiff and London. Protests are continuing tomorrow, with gatherings planned at Oxford Street in London from 2pm, Barclays bank in Carlisle at 1pm, and opposite Waterstones in Abergavenny from 11am.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/stop-starving-gaza-protests-sweep-britain
Hamas links truce talks to aiding Gaza as Israel abandons 'partial deals'
According to several officials in recent months, Israel is expected to demand the expulsion of senior Hamas military leaders from Gaza, the disarmament of the group and guarantees that neither Hamas nor the Palestinian Authority will be allowed to govern the territory under any future deal.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/hamas-links-truce-talks-aiding-gaza-israel-abandons-partial-deals
Hezbollah stocks aid in north Lebanon as fears of renewed Israel war grow
With Lebanon still reeling from last year’s war and economic collapse, fears of another large-scale conflict are growing. Southern villages have been devastated, and civilian casualties continue even under the ceasefire. The Lebanese government places the death toll at 4,000, while Reuters previously reported that Hezbollah may have suffered around that number in its ranks alone. Since the ceasefire, Israeli strikes have continued to kill civilians. Hezbollah rarely acknowledges casualties.
https://www.newarab.com/news/hezbollah-stocks-aid-north-lebanon-fears-war-grow
US weighs designating Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist group
The New York Times first reported on Tuesday that the administration was pushing to designate the group, but the idea is not new. Some people think the Muslim Brotherhood does not meet the legal criteria required for the designation. Others think the organization is too diverse and spread out across nations, making it difficult to enforce a one-size-fits-all description. There also questions about whether a designation would complicate U.S. diplomacy.
https://apnews.com/united-states-government-9b6ee104cb0f4e6792f593a5d4674f6a
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CAMPAIGNERS sounded the alarm today over the Metropolitan Police’s plans to ramp up its use of invasive and unregulated live facial recognition (LFR) technology. The force is set to double its use of LFR while it looks to slim down its workforce and boost protest surveillance.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/met-police-double-its-use-live-facial-recognition-technology
12,000 workers protest as German auto supplier ZF plans massive job cuts
Early Tuesday morning, around 6,000 employees from the two ZF plants and the research center on the city adjoining Lake Constance marched to the company headquarters. Their protest was directed at the ZF supervisory board meeting, which continues until Thursday and is expected to decide upon additional cuts to those already announced. Protests also took place in Saarbrücken and Schweinfurt. In front of the Bavarian plant (workforce of 8,600) in Schweinfurt, 4,500 employees demonstrated to keep their jobs while nearly 2,000 employees protested in Saarbrücken (ZF workforce of around 8,500). Current plans call for job cuts of 4,500 from a total 10,000 posts by the end of 2028.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/31/4a13-j31.html
Russia blocks Speedtest
Speedtest, one of the most popular internet speed-testing platforms globally, boasts millions of daily users. Roskomnadzor has recommended Russian users switch to a homegrown alternative called ProSet, developed as part of the country’s broader push toward digital sovereignty. Russian authorities first signaled a potential ban on Speedtest in October 2024. At the time, the regulator warned the service could be blocked if it was found to compromise the stability, integrity, or safety of domestic networks.
https://www.rt.com/russia/622273-russia-blocks-speedtest-security/
https://archive.ph/3HwoA
El Salvador's ruling party backs indefinite re-election in constitutional proposal
El Salvador's ruling party on Thursday put forward a proposal which could drastically overhaul how elections are run in the Central American nation, potentially opening the door for another term from President Nayib Bukele. Bukele won a second term last year despite a constitutional ban on re-election. El Salvador's top court, filled with Bukele-backed judges, had ruled that it was the leader's human right to run again.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/el-salvadors-ruling-party-backs-indefinite-re-election-constitutional-proposal-2025-07-31/
Sandinista veteran, Ortega ally, arrested in Nicaragua corruption probe
Arce is the third prominent Sandinista veteran to be placed under house arrest this year. Henry Ruiz, another historic commander, was confined in March. Humberto Ortega, the president’s brother and a former army chief, was under similar restrictions before his death in September 2024.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/31/sandinista-veteran-ortega-ally-arrested-in-nicaragua-corruption-probe
https://archive.ph/H1pmW
Argentina to Grant Citizenship to Foreign Investors Without Residency Requirement
“A foreign individual who has made a significant investment may apply for Argentine citizenship… through the Citizenship by Investment Agency,” the decree states. “Once the application is submitted, the Agency will evaluate whether the investment made by the applicant qualifies as ‘significant,’ in accordance with criteria set by the Economy Ministry,” it adds. Besides defining the responsibilities of the agency, Milei’s decree establishes that time spent residing in Argentina will not be a factor in determining eligibility for citizenship.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/argentina-to-grant-citizenship-to-foreign-investors-without-residency-requirement/
Witkoff and Huckabee to enter Gaza as anger over famine mounts
"Tomorrow, special envoy Witkoff and ambassador Huckabee will be travelling into Gaza to inspect the current (aid) distribution sites and secure a plan to deliver more food and meet with local Gazans to hear firsthand about this dire situation on the ground," White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said on Thursday. The visit will be Witkoff’s second to Gaza and the first visit from a US ambassador to the enclave in over two decades. It reflects mounting pressure by Trump to address the enclaves' starving Palestinians, as resentment grows not only among US allies but within his own MAGA base.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/witkoff-and-huckabee-enter-gaza-furor-over-gaza-famine-mounts
TikTok Appoints Ex-Israeli Soldier as New ‘Hate Speech’ Manager
TikTok’s appointment of an ex-Israeli army instructor as its new hate speech manager has been criticized, with concern raised for the future of digital freedoms for Palestinians. Erica Mindel previously worked with the U.S. State Department under Ambassador Deborah Lipstadt, the Biden Administration’s Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism, according to Sada Social, a body that monitors and documents digital violations against Palestinian content.
https://www.palestinechronicle.com/tiktok-appoints-ex-israeli-soldier-as-new-hate-speech-manager/
The Taliban are sending Afghan workers to Qatar to ease unemployment in Afghanistan
Registration opened Tuesday for 2,000 skilled professionals in areas including hospitality, food and beverage, and engineering to go to Qatar under the new program. Applicants from all 34 Afghan provinces can submit their work experience and credentials before being assessed for eligibility. The registration launch follows the forced returns of at least a million Afghans from neighboring countries, notably Iran and Pakistan, at a time of significant economic and humanitarian difficulty.
https://www.newarab.com/news/taliban-are-sending-afghan-workers-qatar-ease-unemployment
Pakistan court sentences 108 opposition figures to 10 years in prison
A Pakistani court has sentenced more than 100 parliamentarians, members and allies of jailed former prime minister Imran Khan’s political party to 10 years each in prison for involvement in protests against the military in 2023. Among the 108 convicted on Thursday were Omar Ayub Khan, a member of Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party who leads the opposition in the National Assembly, and Shibli Faraz, who leads the PTI in Pakistan’s Senate.
https://www.ft.com/content/d4fb35e0-7ea6-4f7c-afb3-de2c848a12af
https://archive.ph/E5inz
News 7/31/25
Met Police to double its use of live facial recognition technologyCAMPAIGNERS sounded the alarm today over the Metropolitan Police’s plans to ramp up its use of invasive and unregulated live facial recognition (LFR) technology. The force is set to double its use of LFR while it looks to slim down its workforce and boost protest surveillance.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/met-police-double-its-use-live-facial-recognition-technology
12,000 workers protest as German auto supplier ZF plans massive job cuts
Early Tuesday morning, around 6,000 employees from the two ZF plants and the research center on the city adjoining Lake Constance marched to the company headquarters. Their protest was directed at the ZF supervisory board meeting, which continues until Thursday and is expected to decide upon additional cuts to those already announced. Protests also took place in Saarbrücken and Schweinfurt. In front of the Bavarian plant (workforce of 8,600) in Schweinfurt, 4,500 employees demonstrated to keep their jobs while nearly 2,000 employees protested in Saarbrücken (ZF workforce of around 8,500). Current plans call for job cuts of 4,500 from a total 10,000 posts by the end of 2028.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/31/4a13-j31.html
Russia blocks Speedtest
Speedtest, one of the most popular internet speed-testing platforms globally, boasts millions of daily users. Roskomnadzor has recommended Russian users switch to a homegrown alternative called ProSet, developed as part of the country’s broader push toward digital sovereignty. Russian authorities first signaled a potential ban on Speedtest in October 2024. At the time, the regulator warned the service could be blocked if it was found to compromise the stability, integrity, or safety of domestic networks.
https://www.rt.com/russia/622273-russia-blocks-speedtest-security/
https://archive.ph/3HwoA
El Salvador's ruling party backs indefinite re-election in constitutional proposal
El Salvador's ruling party on Thursday put forward a proposal which could drastically overhaul how elections are run in the Central American nation, potentially opening the door for another term from President Nayib Bukele. Bukele won a second term last year despite a constitutional ban on re-election. El Salvador's top court, filled with Bukele-backed judges, had ruled that it was the leader's human right to run again.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/el-salvadors-ruling-party-backs-indefinite-re-election-constitutional-proposal-2025-07-31/
Sandinista veteran, Ortega ally, arrested in Nicaragua corruption probe
Arce is the third prominent Sandinista veteran to be placed under house arrest this year. Henry Ruiz, another historic commander, was confined in March. Humberto Ortega, the president’s brother and a former army chief, was under similar restrictions before his death in September 2024.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/31/sandinista-veteran-ortega-ally-arrested-in-nicaragua-corruption-probe
https://archive.ph/H1pmW
Argentina to Grant Citizenship to Foreign Investors Without Residency Requirement
“A foreign individual who has made a significant investment may apply for Argentine citizenship… through the Citizenship by Investment Agency,” the decree states. “Once the application is submitted, the Agency will evaluate whether the investment made by the applicant qualifies as ‘significant,’ in accordance with criteria set by the Economy Ministry,” it adds. Besides defining the responsibilities of the agency, Milei’s decree establishes that time spent residing in Argentina will not be a factor in determining eligibility for citizenship.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/argentina-to-grant-citizenship-to-foreign-investors-without-residency-requirement/
Witkoff and Huckabee to enter Gaza as anger over famine mounts
"Tomorrow, special envoy Witkoff and ambassador Huckabee will be travelling into Gaza to inspect the current (aid) distribution sites and secure a plan to deliver more food and meet with local Gazans to hear firsthand about this dire situation on the ground," White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said on Thursday. The visit will be Witkoff’s second to Gaza and the first visit from a US ambassador to the enclave in over two decades. It reflects mounting pressure by Trump to address the enclaves' starving Palestinians, as resentment grows not only among US allies but within his own MAGA base.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/witkoff-and-huckabee-enter-gaza-furor-over-gaza-famine-mounts
TikTok Appoints Ex-Israeli Soldier as New ‘Hate Speech’ Manager
TikTok’s appointment of an ex-Israeli army instructor as its new hate speech manager has been criticized, with concern raised for the future of digital freedoms for Palestinians. Erica Mindel previously worked with the U.S. State Department under Ambassador Deborah Lipstadt, the Biden Administration’s Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism, according to Sada Social, a body that monitors and documents digital violations against Palestinian content.
https://www.palestinechronicle.com/tiktok-appoints-ex-israeli-soldier-as-new-hate-speech-manager/
The Taliban are sending Afghan workers to Qatar to ease unemployment in Afghanistan
Registration opened Tuesday for 2,000 skilled professionals in areas including hospitality, food and beverage, and engineering to go to Qatar under the new program. Applicants from all 34 Afghan provinces can submit their work experience and credentials before being assessed for eligibility. The registration launch follows the forced returns of at least a million Afghans from neighboring countries, notably Iran and Pakistan, at a time of significant economic and humanitarian difficulty.
https://www.newarab.com/news/taliban-are-sending-afghan-workers-qatar-ease-unemployment
Pakistan court sentences 108 opposition figures to 10 years in prison
A Pakistani court has sentenced more than 100 parliamentarians, members and allies of jailed former prime minister Imran Khan’s political party to 10 years each in prison for involvement in protests against the military in 2023. Among the 108 convicted on Thursday were Omar Ayub Khan, a member of Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party who leads the opposition in the National Assembly, and Shibli Faraz, who leads the PTI in Pakistan’s Senate.
https://www.ft.com/content/d4fb35e0-7ea6-4f7c-afb3-de2c848a12af
https://archive.ph/E5inz
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I’m seeing so many social media posts claiming maximalist aesthetics like heavy makeup, brightly-coloured wardrobe, etc. are an “act of defiance” against “clean girl conservatism and MAGA fascism”, emphasizing that minimalism and the “clean girl” aesthetic are indicative of fascism, purity, eugenics, and whatnot. This makes no sense to me. Being in my 30s, I remember when minimalism and anti-consumerism were largely associated with the radical left. Think Ad Busters and CrimethInc. Gen X and xennial comrades were extremely anti-consumerist and preached a minimalist lifestyle. At the same time, maximalist aesthetics were largely associated with the right, because they were seen as indicative of mindless consumerism and neoliberalism, e.g. right-wing women were the ones showing off their 200 different eyeshadows, 60 different pairs of shoes, and 27 different handbags. Today, it’s like the paradigms have flipped. Having 200 eyeshadows and 60 different pairs of shoes is now promoted as revelling against “Trump Era conformity”. The beige-ification of everything is entirely blamed on American politics becoming more conservative, despite the fact this was already going on years prior when Biden was in office. Hell, I’m even seeing progressive women complain about a “war on femininity” on the basis that Trump’s America wants to privilege traditional masculinity and wants to keep “girl-like” aesthetics that allegedly emphasize weakness out of public view (ironically, right-wing women have long complained about a “war on femininity” being lead by feminists and queer activists).
So what’s going on? My understanding is that this is another example of how liberals erroneously believe they can offset fascism by propping up neoliberal individualism. It’s liberals who are now pushing mindless consumerism as the antidote to Trump’s system, because they think being an individual who stands out will “defy” a conservative cultural shift. This is so pathetic I don’t even know where to start.
Am I full of shit, or are others seeing the same thing?
Minimalist vs maximalist aesthetics culture war
When did minimalist aesthetics become associated with the right-wing all of a sudden?I’m seeing so many social media posts claiming maximalist aesthetics like heavy makeup, brightly-coloured wardrobe, etc. are an “act of defiance” against “clean girl conservatism and MAGA fascism”, emphasizing that minimalism and the “clean girl” aesthetic are indicative of fascism, purity, eugenics, and whatnot. This makes no sense to me. Being in my 30s, I remember when minimalism and anti-consumerism were largely associated with the radical left. Think Ad Busters and CrimethInc. Gen X and xennial comrades were extremely anti-consumerist and preached a minimalist lifestyle. At the same time, maximalist aesthetics were largely associated with the right, because they were seen as indicative of mindless consumerism and neoliberalism, e.g. right-wing women were the ones showing off their 200 different eyeshadows, 60 different pairs of shoes, and 27 different handbags. Today, it’s like the paradigms have flipped. Having 200 eyeshadows and 60 different pairs of shoes is now promoted as revelling against “Trump Era conformity”. The beige-ification of everything is entirely blamed on American politics becoming more conservative, despite the fact this was already going on years prior when Biden was in office. Hell, I’m even seeing progressive women complain about a “war on femininity” on the basis that Trump’s America wants to privilege traditional masculinity and wants to keep “girl-like” aesthetics that allegedly emphasize weakness out of public view (ironically, right-wing women have long complained about a “war on femininity” being lead by feminists and queer activists).
So what’s going on? My understanding is that this is another example of how liberals erroneously believe they can offset fascism by propping up neoliberal individualism. It’s liberals who are now pushing mindless consumerism as the antidote to Trump’s system, because they think being an individual who stands out will “defy” a conservative cultural shift. This is so pathetic I don’t even know where to start.
Am I full of shit, or are others seeing the same thing?
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None of our cities will survive if there isn't a Nayib Bukele put in charge of every single one
I don't know what to tell you if you don't accept that, but the crime and gang problem in inner city America is out of control. What soy leftists don't want to acknowledge is that broken window theory is actually true. Do they think any of the socialist states would have tolerated lumpen chimp-outs, let alone ones on the scale facing American cities? The calls for "restorative justice", police reform, judicial reform, prison reform can only work if the current generation of gangs are swept off the street. Leftoids forget that the Clinton crime bill was heavily backed by African-American community leaders who were desperate to see the gangs gone. Prison reform? Yeah, send them to a gulag to do some productive labor.
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i know the image is unrelated but soon theres gonna be a council meeting in my city and i was thinking of filling up a bucket with pee and poo and throwing it at lobbiests and bourgeois including the mayor because the building's design would allow me to do it. should i do it or not?
i know the image is unrelated but soon theres gonna be a council meeting in my city and i was thinking of filling up a bucket with pee and poo and throwing it at lobbiests and bourgeois including the mayor because the building's design would allow me to do it. should i do it or not?
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I wanna play a game with you folks because I think it is funny.
>"Who wrote this quote- a socialist, or a capitalist"?
First round. Who wrote this quote? The answer may surprise you.
I wanna play a game with you folks because I think it is funny.
>"Who wrote this quote- a socialist, or a capitalist"?
First round. Who wrote this quote? The answer may surprise you.
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Lenin criticized adventurism as an individual‘s or small group‘s violence against people of the ruling class during a time where such acts were ubiquitous. That was during a time where people proudly and openly called themselves terrorists and assassinations were conducted regularly. This is not enough to enact systemic change which is why Lenin criticized the naivety of thinking as such. He urged to focus on mobilizing the working class. However, you are misguided to think “adventurism” can have no positive impact.
We live in a time where socialist movements are dead in the West. Get real and acknowledge that. Many people understand that there is something severely fucked up with the system but society has become docile and pessimistic. They believe nothing can be done and that their complaints are screamed into an unresponsive void. They get the impression that their situation is hopeless which is why they stay in-active. The assassinations of capitalists or PMC who have done things that are blatantly immoral rip people from their illusion that nothing can be done and that tomorrow is going to be like yesterday.
The assassinations show that the gods do in fact bleed. A dormant working class frustration is unleashed, and celebrations and a belief in being able to have an impact rises and diminishes hopeless pessimism in return. These assassinations are not useful in the sense that they will enact revolution, no one is saying that and you are an idiot to dismiss their usefulness just because they don‘t imminently create a revolution, but they are useful for their psychological impact of bringing about enthusiasm for class war that arose in both left liberals and right liberals when Luigi killed that health care CEO. You are sorely misguided to ignore this valuable bipartisan approval of capitalist death. Instead you sit on your ass an dismiss it like impotent pseudointellectuals who interpret Lenin in a scholastic manner.
To believe “adventurism” is all around bad is undialectical because it is context that determines the effect of the thing in question. You disregard context and assume the nature and effect of X is always the same and therefore fail to see that under our current conditions adventurism is a useful catalyst for developing enthusiasm for class war that communists of today must make use of, instead of dismissing it.
<Noooo people will just think assassinations is all that it takes to enact systemic change noooo
Then teach them that it‘s not enough. Don‘t just outright dismiss adventurism because of that. Let the thought of killing capitalists be normalized. In the meantime seize the rising enthusiasm, teach and guide people whose class consciousness is rising and let the adventurists remind both capitalists and workers
The gods do in fact bleed.
On Adventurism
You don‘t understand the issue with adventurism and you evaluate adventurism in a static and therefore undialectical manner.Lenin criticized adventurism as an individual‘s or small group‘s violence against people of the ruling class during a time where such acts were ubiquitous. That was during a time where people proudly and openly called themselves terrorists and assassinations were conducted regularly. This is not enough to enact systemic change which is why Lenin criticized the naivety of thinking as such. He urged to focus on mobilizing the working class. However, you are misguided to think “adventurism” can have no positive impact.
We live in a time where socialist movements are dead in the West. Get real and acknowledge that. Many people understand that there is something severely fucked up with the system but society has become docile and pessimistic. They believe nothing can be done and that their complaints are screamed into an unresponsive void. They get the impression that their situation is hopeless which is why they stay in-active. The assassinations of capitalists or PMC who have done things that are blatantly immoral rip people from their illusion that nothing can be done and that tomorrow is going to be like yesterday.
The assassinations show that the gods do in fact bleed. A dormant working class frustration is unleashed, and celebrations and a belief in being able to have an impact rises and diminishes hopeless pessimism in return. These assassinations are not useful in the sense that they will enact revolution, no one is saying that and you are an idiot to dismiss their usefulness just because they don‘t imminently create a revolution, but they are useful for their psychological impact of bringing about enthusiasm for class war that arose in both left liberals and right liberals when Luigi killed that health care CEO. You are sorely misguided to ignore this valuable bipartisan approval of capitalist death. Instead you sit on your ass an dismiss it like impotent pseudointellectuals who interpret Lenin in a scholastic manner.
To believe “adventurism” is all around bad is undialectical because it is context that determines the effect of the thing in question. You disregard context and assume the nature and effect of X is always the same and therefore fail to see that under our current conditions adventurism is a useful catalyst for developing enthusiasm for class war that communists of today must make use of, instead of dismissing it.
<Noooo people will just think assassinations is all that it takes to enact systemic change noooo
Then teach them that it‘s not enough. Don‘t just outright dismiss adventurism because of that. Let the thought of killing capitalists be normalized. In the meantime seize the rising enthusiasm, teach and guide people whose class consciousness is rising and let the adventurists remind both capitalists and workers
The gods do in fact bleed.
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https://www.marxists.org/archive/martov/1919/xx/sovietism.htm
Apologize
>As soon as the slogan “soviet régime” begins to function as a pseudonym under the cover of which the Jacobin and Blanquist idea of a minority dictatorship is reborn in the ranks of the proletariat, then the soviet régime acquires a universal acceptation and is said to be adaptable to any kind of revolutionary overturn. In this new sense, the “soviet form” is necessarily devoid of the specific substance that bound it to a definite phase of capitalist development. It now becomes a universal form, which is supposed to be suitable to any revolution accomplished in a situation of political confusion, when the popular masses are not united, while the bases of the old régime have been eaten away in the process of historical evolution.https://www.marxists.org/archive/martov/1919/xx/sovietism.htm
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Let's say
>Your part of a team of six drivers, in the middle of a 4-lane interstate, at rush hour. Each lane is occupied by at least one car and with each row about 10-50m from eachother and having two cars on the lane adjacent to the one of the former row, forming a battlement pattern, similar to picrel. Each car is going half the speed of the surrounding traffic or less, so that each row drifts from one another as they get progressively slower relative to how dense the traffic is. As implied, this would effectively halt traffic, as traffic would be slowed down to about 4 m/s, and drivers will have to switch lanes often, making mistakes that cause more traffic.
>Alternatively, traffic can be blackaded altogether, but arrest is far more likely, in this case.
>This occurs three times, in each direction, ideally, as interstates can be quite expansive.
>This is done for every interstate, as well as every major street cutting in the middle a metropolitan area
>This is done either on random days, and/or with random roads being affected.
I would estimate that one would need about 10,200 drivers to operate nationwide, 2520 for the highways and the rest for every city with over 200,000 residents, but It'd probably only take about 200-500 for a particular area like DC or NYC.
The expected effect would be that while travel won't stop altogether, it would either cause a severe loss of productivity or increased unemploymemt, if not both, which would agitate people
Would you say that this would be effective in prompting a Gen. Str. or at least degrade the supply chains of the imperial core to the point of crisis? If not, Would it at least prompt some people to do permaculture or abolish the nuclear family.
Be honest.
Supplementing for a general strike
Let's say
>Your part of a team of six drivers, in the middle of a 4-lane interstate, at rush hour. Each lane is occupied by at least one car and with each row about 10-50m from eachother and having two cars on the lane adjacent to the one of the former row, forming a battlement pattern, similar to picrel. Each car is going half the speed of the surrounding traffic or less, so that each row drifts from one another as they get progressively slower relative to how dense the traffic is. As implied, this would effectively halt traffic, as traffic would be slowed down to about 4 m/s, and drivers will have to switch lanes often, making mistakes that cause more traffic.
>Alternatively, traffic can be blackaded altogether, but arrest is far more likely, in this case.
>This occurs three times, in each direction, ideally, as interstates can be quite expansive.
>This is done for every interstate, as well as every major street cutting in the middle a metropolitan area
>This is done either on random days, and/or with random roads being affected.
I would estimate that one would need about 10,200 drivers to operate nationwide, 2520 for the highways and the rest for every city with over 200,000 residents, but It'd probably only take about 200-500 for a particular area like DC or NYC.
The expected effect would be that while travel won't stop altogether, it would either cause a severe loss of productivity or increased unemploymemt, if not both, which would agitate people
Would you say that this would be effective in prompting a Gen. Str. or at least degrade the supply chains of the imperial core to the point of crisis? If not, Would it at least prompt some people to do permaculture or abolish the nuclear family.
Be honest.
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How come Taiwan has same-sex marriage but China doesn't? Shouldn't a socialist country do away with spooks like homophobia? Why do you think China is lagging behind while Taiwan has made progress, in this area?
How come Taiwan has same-sex marriage but China doesn't? Shouldn't a socialist country do away with spooks like homophobia? Why do you think China is lagging behind while Taiwan has made progress, in this area?
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During COVID, the PMC suddenly got way more autonomy. Remote work gave them freedom to work from anywhere, set their own hours, and basically ignore old-school workplace control. Plus, they used their cultural clout to push for """woke""" causes. On top of that, the great resignation gave them serious leverage to demand raises and better conditions.
From the capitalist perspective, this looked like the PMC getting a bit too big for their britches, acting like stakeholders instead of wage workers.
Now enter generative AI. This isn’t just some productivity tool, it's capital’s answer to reclaiming control. By automating complex knowledge work like writing, coding, and design, AI threatens to replace or deskill the very roles the PMC has dominated. It lets capital reassert power by commoditizing intellectual labor and cutting out the "middleman."
In short: generative AI is a disciplinary tool, a trump card capital is playing to discipline an uppity PMC and take back the reins.
It's Capital's final anti PMC NUKE (if it works, which isn't guaranteed)
GenAI - Capital's anti PMC NUKE
The pandemic really shifted the balance between capital and knowledge workers like engineers, consultants, marketers, and academics who don’t own capital but wield a lot of influence - the so called PMC.During COVID, the PMC suddenly got way more autonomy. Remote work gave them freedom to work from anywhere, set their own hours, and basically ignore old-school workplace control. Plus, they used their cultural clout to push for """woke""" causes. On top of that, the great resignation gave them serious leverage to demand raises and better conditions.
From the capitalist perspective, this looked like the PMC getting a bit too big for their britches, acting like stakeholders instead of wage workers.
Now enter generative AI. This isn’t just some productivity tool, it's capital’s answer to reclaiming control. By automating complex knowledge work like writing, coding, and design, AI threatens to replace or deskill the very roles the PMC has dominated. It lets capital reassert power by commoditizing intellectual labor and cutting out the "middleman."
In short: generative AI is a disciplinary tool, a trump card capital is playing to discipline an uppity PMC and take back the reins.
It's Capital's final anti PMC NUKE (if it works, which isn't guaranteed)
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>never shut up about how white culture built the West
>calls the Constitution and federal institutions make no sense
>actively tries to destroy the things that made the US and Europe superpowers
>wtf did they mean by this
wtf
>be AmeriKKKan far-right>never shut up about how white culture built the West
>calls the Constitution and federal institutions make no sense
>actively tries to destroy the things that made the US and Europe superpowers
>wtf did they mean by this
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- Vladimir Lenin
Thoughts?
Sexual promiscuity is a bourgeois perversion
>Promiscuity in sexual matters is bourgeois. It is a sign of degeneration. The proletariat is a rising class. It does not need an intoxicant to stupefy or stimulate it, neither the intoxicant of sexual laxity or of alcohol. It should and will not forget the vileness, the filth and the barbarity of capitalism. It derives its strongest inspiration to fight from its class position, from the communist ideal. What it needs is clarity, clarity, and more clarity. Therefore, I repeat, there must be no weakening, no waste and no dissipation of energy Self-control and self-discipline are not slavery; not in matters of love either. But excuse me, Clara, I have strayed far from the point which we set out to discuss. Why have you not called me to order? Worry has set me talking. I take the future of our youth very close to heart. It is part and parcel of the revolution. Whenever harmful elements appear, which creep from bourgeois society to the world of the revolution and spread like the roots of prolific weeds, it is better to take action against them quickly. The questions we have dealt with are also part of the women’s problems.- Vladimir Lenin
Thoughts?
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IDK I think class is more important than political beliefs or other stuff like if someone is religious.
I'll always trust a working-class Christian over a capitalist materialist. Same goes with a working-class Anarchist organization over a capitalist "Communist" organization. I know class traitors exist but they're extremely rare. Same goes with working class rad-libs.
IDK it gets difficult because what do you trust working-class Nazis over liberal capitalists? And I think that you really have to in the end. It's just the reality that reactionary isn't a class. Now I'm talking about the small fry at the bottom here, not the guys at the top obviously. Also it depends on the context. In the context of Nazi Germany settler-colonialism, Nazi-settlers wanted to seize Russian land which made them future capitalists.
Now this doesn't apply to organized crime which very often applies to reaction. Maybe it applies to the lumpenproles at the bottom of the hierarchies. But criminals make money from exploiting the working class and do not have common class interests with them.
IDK the matter is confusing. But I think that fundamentally class has a filtering effect on ideology. Someone who's working class and doesn't own property, I think they're going to figure things out eventually no matter how much propaganda they've been fed.
I'm not saying ideology is unimportant or that I like reactionaries. But if I had to choose between a reactionary worker and a liberal capitalist I'd always pick the worker.
IDK I think class is more important than political beliefs or other stuff like if someone is religious.
I'll always trust a working-class Christian over a capitalist materialist. Same goes with a working-class Anarchist organization over a capitalist "Communist" organization. I know class traitors exist but they're extremely rare. Same goes with working class rad-libs.
IDK it gets difficult because what do you trust working-class Nazis over liberal capitalists? And I think that you really have to in the end. It's just the reality that reactionary isn't a class. Now I'm talking about the small fry at the bottom here, not the guys at the top obviously. Also it depends on the context. In the context of Nazi Germany settler-colonialism, Nazi-settlers wanted to seize Russian land which made them future capitalists.
Now this doesn't apply to organized crime which very often applies to reaction. Maybe it applies to the lumpenproles at the bottom of the hierarchies. But criminals make money from exploiting the working class and do not have common class interests with them.
IDK the matter is confusing. But I think that fundamentally class has a filtering effect on ideology. Someone who's working class and doesn't own property, I think they're going to figure things out eventually no matter how much propaganda they've been fed.
I'm not saying ideology is unimportant or that I like reactionaries. But if I had to choose between a reactionary worker and a liberal capitalist I'd always pick the worker.
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Another controversial measure is the fusion of several vital ministries with others to reduce the size of the state. The executive branch will go from 20 to 14 ministries. The Ministry of Education will absorb the Ministry of Culture and Heritage, the Ministry of Sports, and the Ministry of Higher Education. On the other hand, the Ministry of Transportation and Public Works will now fulfill the functions of the Ministry of Housing, the Ministry of Public-Private Investments, and the Ministry of Prevention of Irregular Settlements.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/07/29/noboa-dismisses-5000-public-employees/
Fridays for Future Plans Global Climate Strike During COP30 in Brazil
The Fridays for Future movement announced this week that it is planning the next Global Climate Strike for November 14, the first Friday during the upcoming United Nations Climate Change Conference in Belém, Brazil. The movement began in 2018, with then-teenage Greta Thunberg's solo protest at the Swedish parliament, which inspired millions of people to hold similar school strikes for climate action around the world.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/cop30
Mass escape | Civilians flee “Peace Spring” areas via SDF-controlled zones
local sources told SOHR that Internal Security Forces (Asayish) arrested 25 people in the countryside of Kobani as they attempted to cross from Tel Abyad in northern Al-Raqqah toward areas west of the Euphrates. local sources told SOHR that Internal Security Forces (Asayish) arrested 25 people in the countryside of Kobani as they attempted to cross from Tel Abyad in northern Al-Raqqah toward areas west of the Euphrates.
https://www.syriahr.com/en/366840/
Israel Detains, Chokes, and Beats Up Amazon Union Leader Chris Smalls
“When he reached the Israeli prison, U.S. human rights defender Chris Smalls was physically assaulted by seven uniformed individuals,” the Freedom Flotilla Coalition announced Tuesday morning. “They choked him and kicked him in the legs, leaving visible signs of violence on his neck and back. When his lawyer met with him, Chris was surrounded by six members of Israel’s special police unit.
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Two men forcibly disappeared in Egypt after storming police station over Gaza blockade
Twenty-seven-year-old Mohsen Mustafa and his 23-year-old cousin Ahmed Sherif Ahmed Abdel Wahab have not been heard from since Mustafa posted on Facebook claiming responsibility for the raid, shortly before his profile was removed. The men were reportedly involved in the storming of the police station on 25 July, where a group who identified themselves as “Iron 17” raided the facility and detained several security personnel for hours.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/egypt-two-men-forcibly-disappeared-after-storming-egyptian-police-station-over-gaza-blockade
At least four killed during fuel protests in Angola
The protests erupted on Monday following the government’s decision earlier this month to raise the price of diesel by more than 30 per cent, which resulted in steep fare increases for minibus taxis that are the preferred method of transport for many Angolans. A police statement said hundreds of arrests had been made in connection with rioting, vandalism and looting of shops. Cars and buses were damaged and roads were blocked.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/least-four-killed-during-fuel-protests-angola
Israeli settler accused of killing Palestinian activist out on house arrest
Israeli journalist Yuval Abraham, one of the co-directors of No Other Land, said that while Yinon was released on house arrest, Hathaleen’s family were arrested. “After killing Odeh, Yinon pointed at his family and instructed soldiers to arrest 4 of them,” Abraham said in a post on X.“They are still jailed while he was just released for house arrest. A system which punishes the victims (who are under military law) and rewards the shooter (who is under civilian law),” Abraham added.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/29/israeli-settler-kills-west-bank-activist-who-worked-on-oscar-winning-film
https://archive.ph/Mnby3
Palestine Action co-founder wins permission to challenge ban
Lawyers for Huda Ammori argued at a hearing in London last week that the proscription of Palestine Action, placing it on a par with groups such as Islamic State and Boko Haram, was “repugnant” and an “authoritarian and blatant abuse of power”. They warned that it was already having a chilling effect on freedom of speech and protest, highlighting dozens of arrests – the number is believed to have risen above 200 – of people for demonstrating since the ban came into force on 5 July.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/jul/30/palestine-action-co-founder-wins-permission-to-challenge-ban
Anglian Water to pay £62.8m over wastewater failures
Ofwat has proposed a number of improvements Anglian Water must make to its wastewater treatment works and network after discovering "excessive spills from storm overflows". The firm could have been fined £57.1m but Ofwat said Anglian Water had acknowledged its failures and agreed to fund investments.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm2vyl22rjvo
CPI (M) holds sit-in protest in Tezpur against evictions, scams, and NRC Delay
A sit-in protest was organized on Tuesday in front of the Tezpur Court Chariali by members of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), under the initiative of the Sonitpur district committee and in response to a state-wide call by the CPI (M) Assam state committee. The protest highlighted several pressing issues. The party demanded an immediate halt to all eviction drives being carried out without providing proper alternative rehabilitation for the displaced. They also called for a thorough investigation into the various scams allegedly involving BJP ministers and legislators, including the widely reported Geer-Gai scam.
https://www.sentinelassam.com/north-east-india-news/assam-news/cpi-m-holds-sit-in-protest-in-tezpur-against-evictions-scams-and-nrc-delay
https://archive.ph/fi7yT
Indonesian military’s foray into medicine-making triggers ‘authoritarian past’ fears
Production would begin in October, with the medicines to be sold in villages at half their retail prices, Sjafrie said. “We are thinking of ways to lower the price even more so we could provide free medicines,” he told reporters. Taruna Ikrar, head of BPOM, said the military’s participation could help stem the distribution of illegal or counterfeit drugs, particularly in underserved areas. However, rights groups argue the move is legally questionable, as Indonesia’s military law prohibits active-duty soldiers from holding civilian business roles. Critics also see the deal as part of a wider effort to involve the armed forces again in local governance under President Prabowo Subianto, who was formerly a general and the country’s defence minister.
https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/3320174/indonesian-militarys-foray-medicine-making-triggers-authoritarian-past-fears
Labor seeks to ban pro-Palestinian march across Sydney Harbour Bridge
The Labor government in the Australian state of New South Wales (NSW) has declared that it will ban a march across the Sydney Harbour Bridge this Sunday, opposing Israel’s genocide of the Palestinians in Gaza. Labor Premier Chris Minns has couched the edict in terms of the disruption to the public and threats to safety that the rally could cause. That is cynical and threadbare. In reality, the ban is the latest action of a government that has throughout its tenure attacked the right to protest in general, and public demonstrations of support for the Palestinians in particular.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/30/mwku-j30.html
News 7/30/25
Noboa dismisses 5,000 public employeesAnother controversial measure is the fusion of several vital ministries with others to reduce the size of the state. The executive branch will go from 20 to 14 ministries. The Ministry of Education will absorb the Ministry of Culture and Heritage, the Ministry of Sports, and the Ministry of Higher Education. On the other hand, the Ministry of Transportation and Public Works will now fulfill the functions of the Ministry of Housing, the Ministry of Public-Private Investments, and the Ministry of Prevention of Irregular Settlements.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/07/29/noboa-dismisses-5000-public-employees/
Fridays for Future Plans Global Climate Strike During COP30 in Brazil
The Fridays for Future movement announced this week that it is planning the next Global Climate Strike for November 14, the first Friday during the upcoming United Nations Climate Change Conference in Belém, Brazil. The movement began in 2018, with then-teenage Greta Thunberg's solo protest at the Swedish parliament, which inspired millions of people to hold similar school strikes for climate action around the world.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/cop30
Mass escape | Civilians flee “Peace Spring” areas via SDF-controlled zones
local sources told SOHR that Internal Security Forces (Asayish) arrested 25 people in the countryside of Kobani as they attempted to cross from Tel Abyad in northern Al-Raqqah toward areas west of the Euphrates. local sources told SOHR that Internal Security Forces (Asayish) arrested 25 people in the countryside of Kobani as they attempted to cross from Tel Abyad in northern Al-Raqqah toward areas west of the Euphrates.
https://www.syriahr.com/en/366840/
Israel Detains, Chokes, and Beats Up Amazon Union Leader Chris Smalls
“When he reached the Israeli prison, U.S. human rights defender Chris Smalls was physically assaulted by seven uniformed individuals,” the Freedom Flotilla Coalition announced Tuesday morning. “They choked him and kicked him in the legs, leaving visible signs of violence on his neck and back. When his lawyer met with him, Chris was surrounded by six members of Israel’s special police unit.
https://newrepublic.com/post/198550/israel-detains-beats-amazon-union-leader-chris-smalls-flotilla-gaza
https://archive.ph/lf5at
Two men forcibly disappeared in Egypt after storming police station over Gaza blockade
Twenty-seven-year-old Mohsen Mustafa and his 23-year-old cousin Ahmed Sherif Ahmed Abdel Wahab have not been heard from since Mustafa posted on Facebook claiming responsibility for the raid, shortly before his profile was removed. The men were reportedly involved in the storming of the police station on 25 July, where a group who identified themselves as “Iron 17” raided the facility and detained several security personnel for hours.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/egypt-two-men-forcibly-disappeared-after-storming-egyptian-police-station-over-gaza-blockade
At least four killed during fuel protests in Angola
The protests erupted on Monday following the government’s decision earlier this month to raise the price of diesel by more than 30 per cent, which resulted in steep fare increases for minibus taxis that are the preferred method of transport for many Angolans. A police statement said hundreds of arrests had been made in connection with rioting, vandalism and looting of shops. Cars and buses were damaged and roads were blocked.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/least-four-killed-during-fuel-protests-angola
Israeli settler accused of killing Palestinian activist out on house arrest
Israeli journalist Yuval Abraham, one of the co-directors of No Other Land, said that while Yinon was released on house arrest, Hathaleen’s family were arrested. “After killing Odeh, Yinon pointed at his family and instructed soldiers to arrest 4 of them,” Abraham said in a post on X.“They are still jailed while he was just released for house arrest. A system which punishes the victims (who are under military law) and rewards the shooter (who is under civilian law),” Abraham added.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/29/israeli-settler-kills-west-bank-activist-who-worked-on-oscar-winning-film
https://archive.ph/Mnby3
Palestine Action co-founder wins permission to challenge ban
Lawyers for Huda Ammori argued at a hearing in London last week that the proscription of Palestine Action, placing it on a par with groups such as Islamic State and Boko Haram, was “repugnant” and an “authoritarian and blatant abuse of power”. They warned that it was already having a chilling effect on freedom of speech and protest, highlighting dozens of arrests – the number is believed to have risen above 200 – of people for demonstrating since the ban came into force on 5 July.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/jul/30/palestine-action-co-founder-wins-permission-to-challenge-ban
Anglian Water to pay £62.8m over wastewater failures
Ofwat has proposed a number of improvements Anglian Water must make to its wastewater treatment works and network after discovering "excessive spills from storm overflows". The firm could have been fined £57.1m but Ofwat said Anglian Water had acknowledged its failures and agreed to fund investments.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm2vyl22rjvo
CPI (M) holds sit-in protest in Tezpur against evictions, scams, and NRC Delay
A sit-in protest was organized on Tuesday in front of the Tezpur Court Chariali by members of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), under the initiative of the Sonitpur district committee and in response to a state-wide call by the CPI (M) Assam state committee. The protest highlighted several pressing issues. The party demanded an immediate halt to all eviction drives being carried out without providing proper alternative rehabilitation for the displaced. They also called for a thorough investigation into the various scams allegedly involving BJP ministers and legislators, including the widely reported Geer-Gai scam.
https://www.sentinelassam.com/north-east-india-news/assam-news/cpi-m-holds-sit-in-protest-in-tezpur-against-evictions-scams-and-nrc-delay
https://archive.ph/fi7yT
Indonesian military’s foray into medicine-making triggers ‘authoritarian past’ fears
Production would begin in October, with the medicines to be sold in villages at half their retail prices, Sjafrie said. “We are thinking of ways to lower the price even more so we could provide free medicines,” he told reporters. Taruna Ikrar, head of BPOM, said the military’s participation could help stem the distribution of illegal or counterfeit drugs, particularly in underserved areas. However, rights groups argue the move is legally questionable, as Indonesia’s military law prohibits active-duty soldiers from holding civilian business roles. Critics also see the deal as part of a wider effort to involve the armed forces again in local governance under President Prabowo Subianto, who was formerly a general and the country’s defence minister.
https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/3320174/indonesian-militarys-foray-medicine-making-triggers-authoritarian-past-fears
Labor seeks to ban pro-Palestinian march across Sydney Harbour Bridge
The Labor government in the Australian state of New South Wales (NSW) has declared that it will ban a march across the Sydney Harbour Bridge this Sunday, opposing Israel’s genocide of the Palestinians in Gaza. Labor Premier Chris Minns has couched the edict in terms of the disruption to the public and threats to safety that the rally could cause. That is cynical and threadbare. In reality, the ban is the latest action of a government that has throughout its tenure attacked the right to protest in general, and public demonstrations of support for the Palestinians in particular.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/30/mwku-j30.html
R: 606 / I: 92 (full)
How do I cope?
I don't want to live in a defeated Europe.
I don't think my psyche could handle witnessing the EU collapse or be reduced to an irrelevant institution by far right """reforms""". But that is just the outcome that is becoming increasingly more likely with each passing year.How do I cope?
R: 12 / I: 2
Dialectically speaking and from a socialist theory POV, what is your response to someone just replying to your masterfully-crafted argument about class warfare with this image?
Dialectically speaking and from a socialist theory POV, what is your response to someone just replying to your masterfully-crafted argument about class warfare with this image?
R: 598 / I: 141
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1968
What was it about 1968 that made it such a revolutionary year in the West? What was the historical materialist context which made it so revolutionary and made it the closest that the West came to revolution and how was it coopted and liberalized in the 70s and 80s?
R: 601 / I: 105 (full)
>violent and chaotic anti-American student protests
>Tesla burnings
>violent attacks on pro-life activists and other right-wingers
>arson attack on Gov Shapiro's home
>multiple assassination attempts on Trump
We have now entered an American Years of Lead without question.
A very special friend of ours warned us about this months ago and nobody listened.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qda4JY36BBA
It's Official
>the killing of Brian Thompson>violent and chaotic anti-American student protests
>Tesla burnings
>violent attacks on pro-life activists and other right-wingers
>arson attack on Gov Shapiro's home
>multiple assassination attempts on Trump
We have now entered an American Years of Lead without question.
A very special friend of ours warned us about this months ago and nobody listened.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qda4JY36BBA
R: 6 / I: 1
In a historic verdict, judge Sandra Liliana Herrera confirmed that Uribe bribed witnesses in order to press fabricated criminal charges against Senator Ivan Cepeda. Uribe’s witnesses additionally fabricated claims that Justice Minister Eduardo Montealegre illegally opened investigations into the former president and his brother Santiago when Montealegre was Prosecutor General.
https://colombiareports.com/colombias-former-president-alvaro-uribe-found-guilty-of-bribing-witnesses/
After taking back land in Colombia, Indigenous prepare their youth to safeguard it
The children’s “semillero” — a weekend school where Indigenous youth are nurtured like seeds — prepares the next generation to protect their ancestral land. More than a classroom, it’s a space for learning resistance, environmental care and cultural pride. Their work echoes a broader community effort to restore damaged territory and preserve identity in a region still marked by conflict.
https://apnews.com/article/colombia-indigenous-land-protection-cauca-farc-youth-f4de70775dfdd3986af377d297e26e7c
Plot to Kill Lula, Alckmin, and Justice Moraes Traced to Top General
In July 2025, official court records revealed that General Mário Fernandes—once a senior figure in former president Jair Bolsonaro’s government—admitted to writing a plan. The plan called for the kidnapping and murder of Brazil’s President-elect Lula da Silva, Vice President-elect Geraldo Alckmin, and Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes. He said he created and printed the document—known as “Punhal Verde e Amarelo”—inside the presidential palace after Lula’s election win in late 2022. Fernandes claimed that this was only his “risk analysis,” not something he meant to share, and he said he shredded the printout.
https://www.riotimesonline.com/plot-to-kill-lula-alckmin-and-justice-moraes-traced-to-top-general/
https://archive.ph/Ux09h
Italian city says no to warships and weapons for Israel
José Nivoi from the Autonomous Collective of Port Workers (Collettivo Autonomo dei Lavoratori Portuali, CALP) and the local union chapter of Unione Sindacale di Base (USB), emphasized that the morning rally was directed specifically at the new city authorities, with dockworkers demanding a clear stance of solidarity with Palestine – an assurance they say was given. “The evening assembly was also very lively,” Nivoi told Peoples Dispatch. “Around 150 people took part – mostly members of the general public, not just activists – and joined a discussion on the plans to transform the port into dual-use military infrastructure.”
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/07/27/italian-city-says-no-to-warships-and-weapons-for-israel/
Trump cuts deadline for Putin to reach Ukraine peace deal to ‘10 or 12 days’
“I’m going to make a new deadline of about 10, 10 or 12 days from today,” Trump said in response to a question while sitting with the British prime minister, Keir Starmer. “There’s no reason in waiting. There’s no reason in waiting. It’s 50 days. I want to be generous, but we just don’t see any progress being made.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/28/trump-ukraine-russia-peace-deal-deadline
Dutch Security Agency Names Israel a Threat over Disinformation, ICC Pressure
The report, titled Assessment of Threats from State Actors, highlights attempts by Israel to influence Dutch public opinion and political processes through disinformation campaigns. According to the NCTV, these efforts include the dissemination of misleading information and covert lobbying tactics aimed at shaping perceptions and decisions within Dutch society. One notable incident cited in the report involves a document distributed in 2023 by an Israeli government ministry to Dutch journalists and politicians via unofficial channels.
https://www.palestinechronicle.com/dutch-security-agency-names-israel-a-threat-over-disinformation-icc-pressure/
Israel jails soldiers for refusing to return to Gaza after they killed children
"After this incident, we had three soldiers leave because of post-traumatic stress disorder who suffered from dreams at night, insomnia, they would see these children. They didn't talk to us, they didn't bring us a psychologist, everything continued as usual." Three of the four soldiers received prison sentences ranging from one week to 12 days. The fourth has not yet been tried. One of the jailed soldiers had been wounded last year during fighting along the Gaza border and had returned voluntarily to fight after recovering.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israeli-soldiers-imprisoned-refusing-return-gaza
Houthis say they hold 10 crew from Greek-operated ship they sank off Yemen
Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis said on Monday they had rescued 10 seafarers from the Greek-operated cargo ship Eternity C which they attacked and sank in the Red Sea earlier this month. The Liberia-flagged Eternity C was the second ship to sink off Yemen this month after repeated attacks by Houthi militants with sea drones and rocket-propelled grenades. Another Greek-operated vessel, the Magic Seas, had gone down days earlier.
https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2025/07/houthis-say-they-hold-10-crew-greek-operated-ship-they-sank-yemen
Youth-led anti-corruption movement surges in The Gambia
GALA’s protest platform spans a wide range of unresolved scandals and policy failures. These include:1. The Russian oil scandal: A controversial oil deal involving Russian firms and Gambian officials, which led to allegations of tax evasion, was met with inaction by the presidency, despite National Assembly findings.2. The 2022 children’s medicine tragedy: Over 70 children died after consuming contaminated Indian-imported cough syrup. To date, their families have not received justice or compensation. A recent Human Rights Commission report again called for action. 3. Gambia Ports Authority scandal: Allegations of GMD 300 million embezzlement have not yielded accountability despite prolonged investigations. …
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/07/28/youth-led-anti-corruption-movement-surges-in-the-gambia/
Three suspected rebels killed in firefight in India-administered Kashmir
The incident occurred on Monday in the mountains of Dachigam, about 30km (18 miles) east of the disputed region’s main city of Srinagar. “Three terrorists have been neutralised in an intense firefight,” the Indian army said in a statement on social media. “Operation continues.”
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/28/three-suspected-rebels-killed-in-firefight-in-indian-administered
https://archive.ph/ogcW9
Workers protest against Electricity Board restructuring in Sri Lanka
The action was organised by the All CEB Trade Unions Alliance, comprising 28 trade unions, including the CEB Sri Lanka Freedom Employees Union, CEB Technical Officers Union (CEBTOU), Client Coordinators Union, Technological Engineers and Superintendents Union, and Engineers Union. Members of the ruling Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP)-controlled All Ceylon Electricity Workers Union (ACEWU) defied their union leadership to join the protest. According to the proposed bill, the CEB will be broken up into five separate companies under government control. These entities will be overseen by boards of directors appointed by the minister of power and energy. The bill stipulates that these five companies will be demerged into 12 additional entities after six months.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/28/uqyr-j28.html
Thailand and Cambodia agree to ‘immediate and unconditional’ ceasefire
Thailand and Cambodia have agreed to an “immediate and unconditional” ceasefire after talks in Malaysia that aimed to halt the worst fighting between the neighbouring countries in more than a decade. At least 38 people have been killed and more than 300,000 displaced by fighting that erupted on the countries’ shared border on Thursday.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/28/thailand-cambodia-ceasefire-malaysia
News 7/28/25
Colombia’s former president Alvaro Uribe found guilty of bribing witnessesIn a historic verdict, judge Sandra Liliana Herrera confirmed that Uribe bribed witnesses in order to press fabricated criminal charges against Senator Ivan Cepeda. Uribe’s witnesses additionally fabricated claims that Justice Minister Eduardo Montealegre illegally opened investigations into the former president and his brother Santiago when Montealegre was Prosecutor General.
https://colombiareports.com/colombias-former-president-alvaro-uribe-found-guilty-of-bribing-witnesses/
After taking back land in Colombia, Indigenous prepare their youth to safeguard it
The children’s “semillero” — a weekend school where Indigenous youth are nurtured like seeds — prepares the next generation to protect their ancestral land. More than a classroom, it’s a space for learning resistance, environmental care and cultural pride. Their work echoes a broader community effort to restore damaged territory and preserve identity in a region still marked by conflict.
https://apnews.com/article/colombia-indigenous-land-protection-cauca-farc-youth-f4de70775dfdd3986af377d297e26e7c
Plot to Kill Lula, Alckmin, and Justice Moraes Traced to Top General
In July 2025, official court records revealed that General Mário Fernandes—once a senior figure in former president Jair Bolsonaro’s government—admitted to writing a plan. The plan called for the kidnapping and murder of Brazil’s President-elect Lula da Silva, Vice President-elect Geraldo Alckmin, and Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes. He said he created and printed the document—known as “Punhal Verde e Amarelo”—inside the presidential palace after Lula’s election win in late 2022. Fernandes claimed that this was only his “risk analysis,” not something he meant to share, and he said he shredded the printout.
https://www.riotimesonline.com/plot-to-kill-lula-alckmin-and-justice-moraes-traced-to-top-general/
https://archive.ph/Ux09h
Italian city says no to warships and weapons for Israel
José Nivoi from the Autonomous Collective of Port Workers (Collettivo Autonomo dei Lavoratori Portuali, CALP) and the local union chapter of Unione Sindacale di Base (USB), emphasized that the morning rally was directed specifically at the new city authorities, with dockworkers demanding a clear stance of solidarity with Palestine – an assurance they say was given. “The evening assembly was also very lively,” Nivoi told Peoples Dispatch. “Around 150 people took part – mostly members of the general public, not just activists – and joined a discussion on the plans to transform the port into dual-use military infrastructure.”
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/07/27/italian-city-says-no-to-warships-and-weapons-for-israel/
Trump cuts deadline for Putin to reach Ukraine peace deal to ‘10 or 12 days’
“I’m going to make a new deadline of about 10, 10 or 12 days from today,” Trump said in response to a question while sitting with the British prime minister, Keir Starmer. “There’s no reason in waiting. There’s no reason in waiting. It’s 50 days. I want to be generous, but we just don’t see any progress being made.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/28/trump-ukraine-russia-peace-deal-deadline
Dutch Security Agency Names Israel a Threat over Disinformation, ICC Pressure
The report, titled Assessment of Threats from State Actors, highlights attempts by Israel to influence Dutch public opinion and political processes through disinformation campaigns. According to the NCTV, these efforts include the dissemination of misleading information and covert lobbying tactics aimed at shaping perceptions and decisions within Dutch society. One notable incident cited in the report involves a document distributed in 2023 by an Israeli government ministry to Dutch journalists and politicians via unofficial channels.
https://www.palestinechronicle.com/dutch-security-agency-names-israel-a-threat-over-disinformation-icc-pressure/
Israel jails soldiers for refusing to return to Gaza after they killed children
"After this incident, we had three soldiers leave because of post-traumatic stress disorder who suffered from dreams at night, insomnia, they would see these children. They didn't talk to us, they didn't bring us a psychologist, everything continued as usual." Three of the four soldiers received prison sentences ranging from one week to 12 days. The fourth has not yet been tried. One of the jailed soldiers had been wounded last year during fighting along the Gaza border and had returned voluntarily to fight after recovering.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israeli-soldiers-imprisoned-refusing-return-gaza
Houthis say they hold 10 crew from Greek-operated ship they sank off Yemen
Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis said on Monday they had rescued 10 seafarers from the Greek-operated cargo ship Eternity C which they attacked and sank in the Red Sea earlier this month. The Liberia-flagged Eternity C was the second ship to sink off Yemen this month after repeated attacks by Houthi militants with sea drones and rocket-propelled grenades. Another Greek-operated vessel, the Magic Seas, had gone down days earlier.
https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2025/07/houthis-say-they-hold-10-crew-greek-operated-ship-they-sank-yemen
Youth-led anti-corruption movement surges in The Gambia
GALA’s protest platform spans a wide range of unresolved scandals and policy failures. These include:1. The Russian oil scandal: A controversial oil deal involving Russian firms and Gambian officials, which led to allegations of tax evasion, was met with inaction by the presidency, despite National Assembly findings.2. The 2022 children’s medicine tragedy: Over 70 children died after consuming contaminated Indian-imported cough syrup. To date, their families have not received justice or compensation. A recent Human Rights Commission report again called for action. 3. Gambia Ports Authority scandal: Allegations of GMD 300 million embezzlement have not yielded accountability despite prolonged investigations. …
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/07/28/youth-led-anti-corruption-movement-surges-in-the-gambia/
Three suspected rebels killed in firefight in India-administered Kashmir
The incident occurred on Monday in the mountains of Dachigam, about 30km (18 miles) east of the disputed region’s main city of Srinagar. “Three terrorists have been neutralised in an intense firefight,” the Indian army said in a statement on social media. “Operation continues.”
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/28/three-suspected-rebels-killed-in-firefight-in-indian-administered
https://archive.ph/ogcW9
Workers protest against Electricity Board restructuring in Sri Lanka
The action was organised by the All CEB Trade Unions Alliance, comprising 28 trade unions, including the CEB Sri Lanka Freedom Employees Union, CEB Technical Officers Union (CEBTOU), Client Coordinators Union, Technological Engineers and Superintendents Union, and Engineers Union. Members of the ruling Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP)-controlled All Ceylon Electricity Workers Union (ACEWU) defied their union leadership to join the protest. According to the proposed bill, the CEB will be broken up into five separate companies under government control. These entities will be overseen by boards of directors appointed by the minister of power and energy. The bill stipulates that these five companies will be demerged into 12 additional entities after six months.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/28/uqyr-j28.html
Thailand and Cambodia agree to ‘immediate and unconditional’ ceasefire
Thailand and Cambodia have agreed to an “immediate and unconditional” ceasefire after talks in Malaysia that aimed to halt the worst fighting between the neighbouring countries in more than a decade. At least 38 people have been killed and more than 300,000 displaced by fighting that erupted on the countries’ shared border on Thursday.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/28/thailand-cambodia-ceasefire-malaysia
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>Hacking the Gibson…Original threads:
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📺 • America, Russia, and Ukraine's Far Right - Gravel Institute
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2. Jewish people are not the majority in Israel/Palestine. No government may long stand without the consent of the majority of the governed.
3. The B.D.S. movement. Israel simply cannot afford to become an international pariah.
4. A large percentage of Israel's Jewish population will leave when Israel is no longer able to support a First-World standard of living.
5. Hubris. The Israeli government is unwilling to make the necessary concessions and reforms.
The Zionist government will be gone by 2030.
1. Isreal is utterly dependent on American aid and American support is dwindling.2. Jewish people are not the majority in Israel/Palestine. No government may long stand without the consent of the majority of the governed.
3. The B.D.S. movement. Israel simply cannot afford to become an international pariah.
4. A large percentage of Israel's Jewish population will leave when Israel is no longer able to support a First-World standard of living.
5. Hubris. The Israeli government is unwilling to make the necessary concessions and reforms.
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No doubt the fascist mods here will ban me and delete this thread for pointing this out. Nothing can penetrate the cosy fash bubble you have online here.
Are there any genuine leftists here? Or do you all just larp and dress-up whilst espousing fascist ideology?
Miss me with that shit.
Fascist Russia
Russia is a fascist country. Leftypol sucking Putin's dick like bolshies sucking Hitler's dick in the 1930s and 1940s.No doubt the fascist mods here will ban me and delete this thread for pointing this out. Nothing can penetrate the cosy fash bubble you have online here.
Are there any genuine leftists here? Or do you all just larp and dress-up whilst espousing fascist ideology?
Miss me with that shit.
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Revolutionary Blackout goes full Neo-Nazi, but it raises bigger questions
Not trolling or trying to be /pol/ here, but I've seen this happening to a lot of leftists since the start of the Gaza Genocide. Can we really blame low autism score chuds for hating Jews when Jewish soldiers fighting in the army of the self-proclaimed Jewish state are committing the most depraved crimes against humanity in recent memory on livestream? When it came to the ordinary German's complicity in the Holocaust, left-leaning intellectuals like Thomas Mann supported placing a collective burden of guilt on the German people. Should the same be applied to the Jewish people (or at least Israeli Jews)? Going full Ye and doing actual antisemitism definitely isn't the answer, but the wounds are so raw. People can only see so many baby decapitation videos before they lose their minds.
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If Zohran Mamdani were a sensible socialist who had a basic awareness of Maslow's hierarchy, he would realize that the most destructive source of inequality in the US as well as in Uganda is the difference in exposure to crime and other dangers between the rich and the rest of the population. The rich in poor countries are protected by bodyguards, and so can maintain their lifestyles even as crime remains rampant and afflicts the lives of those with lower incomes.
Crime depoliticizes - and radicalizes. It discourages political expression by turning public spaces off-limits to political protest. A big reason why South Korea has an active political culture is because the streets are safe and no one worries about getting mugged at night. One possible path to authoritarianism in such a country would be if the government decided to import an underclass that would increase the perception of public danger.
Mamdani's wedding in Uganda was protected by two dozen special forces operatives. Why not extend such privileges to New Yorkers, many of whom are becoming too worried to use the subways? Wouldn't a true luxury automated communism make security equality also, and offer every citizen a personal bodyguard? Instead, Mamdani wants to de-fund the police and make NYC more dangerous.
Article about Mamdani's heavily armed compound wedding: https://nypost.com/2025/07/26/us-news/zohran-mamdanis-presidential-style-uganda-wedding-bash/
Mamdani's plan to defund the police is suicidal even by socialist standards
From a FB friend who is a full professor at Yonsei University, one of South Korea's most prestigious universities:If Zohran Mamdani were a sensible socialist who had a basic awareness of Maslow's hierarchy, he would realize that the most destructive source of inequality in the US as well as in Uganda is the difference in exposure to crime and other dangers between the rich and the rest of the population. The rich in poor countries are protected by bodyguards, and so can maintain their lifestyles even as crime remains rampant and afflicts the lives of those with lower incomes.
Crime depoliticizes - and radicalizes. It discourages political expression by turning public spaces off-limits to political protest. A big reason why South Korea has an active political culture is because the streets are safe and no one worries about getting mugged at night. One possible path to authoritarianism in such a country would be if the government decided to import an underclass that would increase the perception of public danger.
Mamdani's wedding in Uganda was protected by two dozen special forces operatives. Why not extend such privileges to New Yorkers, many of whom are becoming too worried to use the subways? Wouldn't a true luxury automated communism make security equality also, and offer every citizen a personal bodyguard? Instead, Mamdani wants to de-fund the police and make NYC more dangerous.
Article about Mamdani's heavily armed compound wedding: https://nypost.com/2025/07/26/us-news/zohran-mamdanis-presidential-style-uganda-wedding-bash/
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<Abolish Religion.
<Abolish Wage Labour.
<Abolish Money.
<Abolish Work.
<Abolish Commodity Production.
<Abolish the State.
<Abolish Class.
<Abolish Private Property.
<Abolish the Nation.
<Abolish Patriarchy.
<Abolish Gender.
<Abolish Town and Country.
If you don't think these are the ultimate goals for a communist party or organization to achieve, I'm sorry to say this but you're not a communist but rather just an edgy social democrat.
If you disagree with any of these, you're not a communist
<Abolish The Family.<Abolish Religion.
<Abolish Wage Labour.
<Abolish Money.
<Abolish Work.
<Abolish Commodity Production.
<Abolish the State.
<Abolish Class.
<Abolish Private Property.
<Abolish the Nation.
<Abolish Patriarchy.
<Abolish Gender.
<Abolish Town and Country.
If you don't think these are the ultimate goals for a communist party or organization to achieve, I'm sorry to say this but you're not a communist but rather just an edgy social democrat.
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Which brings me to the main point. Menshevik tactics seem to be historically good when there is actual political and organizational freedom and when they are used with genuine anti-imperialist sentiment.
>the PKI (Indonesian communist party) did not consider itself subordinate to any foreign party.⁷ By then, it was the third-largest communist party in the world—after those of China and the Soviet Union—and the largest outside them. Its strategy of nonviolent, grassroots engagement had yielded considerable success. The party counted over three million official members. Organizations affiliated with the PKI—including SOBSI (Central All-Indonesian Workers Association), LEKRA (People’s Cultural Institute), BTI (Barisan Tani Indonesia), Pemuda Rakyat (People’s Youth), and Gerwani (Women’s Movement)—had an estimated combined membership of at least twenty million.
>Altogether, nearly a quarter of Indonesia’s population of one hundred million was connected to the PKI, and nearly a third of adult registered voters were affiliated with the party.⁸ The PKI operated openly and extensively throughout the country. However, at the national level, its influence over policy was almost entirely dependent on President Sukarno.
Okay, there's the immediate critique also. But I think that we should reevaluate menshevik contribution to the communist movement. Maybe instead of underground tactics we actually start building a genuine popular communist lead anti-imperialist movement. After all, Martov and Arkadieev were two organizers that shifted the RSDLP from circle organizing to factory agitation.
menshevik ideas get a bad rep
Title says it all. Martov's hysteria and swampification of the menshevik wing pushed it into an opportunistic alliance with the counterrevolutionary forces. But this does not invalidate menshevik tactics. These are informed by the pre-2nd Int'l German SPD. The kernel of menshevik policy really is in the membership rules. Leninism/bolshevism opts out for professional revolutionaries, financial and organizational support while menshevism opts for financial or organizational support. But bolshevik tactics were suited for a, say, Russian autocracy or Yugoslavian monarchofascism, or Mongolia even; not in 'democratic' western European states. The Brussels/London congress demarcated the tactics for the 'west' (democracies) and 'east' (autocracies).Which brings me to the main point. Menshevik tactics seem to be historically good when there is actual political and organizational freedom and when they are used with genuine anti-imperialist sentiment.
>the PKI (Indonesian communist party) did not consider itself subordinate to any foreign party.⁷ By then, it was the third-largest communist party in the world—after those of China and the Soviet Union—and the largest outside them. Its strategy of nonviolent, grassroots engagement had yielded considerable success. The party counted over three million official members. Organizations affiliated with the PKI—including SOBSI (Central All-Indonesian Workers Association), LEKRA (People’s Cultural Institute), BTI (Barisan Tani Indonesia), Pemuda Rakyat (People’s Youth), and Gerwani (Women’s Movement)—had an estimated combined membership of at least twenty million.
>Altogether, nearly a quarter of Indonesia’s population of one hundred million was connected to the PKI, and nearly a third of adult registered voters were affiliated with the party.⁸ The PKI operated openly and extensively throughout the country. However, at the national level, its influence over policy was almost entirely dependent on President Sukarno.
Okay, there's the immediate critique also. But I think that we should reevaluate menshevik contribution to the communist movement. Maybe instead of underground tactics we actually start building a genuine popular communist lead anti-imperialist movement. After all, Martov and Arkadieev were two organizers that shifted the RSDLP from circle organizing to factory agitation.
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McVerry my beloved
"We need a strong Political Party because when the war is over we will need to sit down and talk with the other side- we dont want our hard work to fall into the hands of others. We dont want a 32 County Free State, we want a Republic!" - Captain Michael McVerry
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Why do third worldists completely ignore the entirely unique forms of repression workers in the imperial core face? The level of chemical butchery in the imperial core is just astounding.
Why do third worldists completely ignore the entirely unique forms of repression workers in the imperial core face? The level of chemical butchery in the imperial core is just astounding.
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Circulates resources socially without capital gains for the bourgeoisie, reduces pressure on the labour force to find work
-Shoplifting
Suppresses prices, takes profit from the commodity cycle and puts it into socially provided free commodities for proles, increases labour demands for security
-Petit-bourgeois drug production
Takes money away from cartels and large grey market enterprises (haute bourgeoisie) which is used for capitalist intrigues
-Theft from corporations/bourgeoisie
Obvious
-Carding/Personal credit card fraud
Potentially aligned, causes suffering and hardship to proles but is taking from the bourgeoisie ultimately if it is fully reimbursed by the banks
Proletarian aligned hustles
-Successfully beggingCirculates resources socially without capital gains for the bourgeoisie, reduces pressure on the labour force to find work
-Shoplifting
Suppresses prices, takes profit from the commodity cycle and puts it into socially provided free commodities for proles, increases labour demands for security
-Petit-bourgeois drug production
Takes money away from cartels and large grey market enterprises (haute bourgeoisie) which is used for capitalist intrigues
-Theft from corporations/bourgeoisie
Obvious
-Carding/Personal credit card fraud
Potentially aligned, causes suffering and hardship to proles but is taking from the bourgeoisie ultimately if it is fully reimbursed by the banks
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The raid was broadcast live by the Freedom Flotilla Coalition, showing soldiers confronting unarmed passengers as they sat on deck with their hands raised, singing the anti-fascist anthem “Bella Ciao”. The Handala, carrying 19 activists, including European MPs and two Al Jazeera journalists, was intercepted roughly 100 kilometres west of Gaza, and around 50 kilometres off Egypt’s coast. Activists say the boat was carrying humanitarian supplies and attempting to break Israel’s maritime blockade of Gaza.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israeli-thugs-board-gaza-bound-aid-ship-international-waters
Tunisians protest against President Saied, call country an ‘open-air prison’
The protesters said Tunisia under Saied has descended into authoritarianism, with mass arrests and politically motivated trials silencing dissent. "Our first aim is to battle against tyranny to restore the democracy and to demand the release of the political detainees," Monia Ibrahim, wife of imprisoned politician Abdelhamid Jelassi, told Reuters.
https://www.newarab.com/news/tunisians-protest-against-kais-saieds-authoritarian-regime
Police station stormed in Egypt as outrage over Gaza blockade reaches boiling point
Hours before the channel went silent, it released an audio statement styled like Palestinian faction communiques, claiming responsibility for the “Iron 17” operation. The statement, attributed to Ahmed Abdel Wahab and Mohsen Mustafa, rejected any political affiliations, describing themselves as “heirs of Omar ibn al-Khattab and Amr ibn al-Aas” seeking to revive Egypt’s national spirit. The figures in question refers to invoking early Islamic military and political leaders that symbolised strength, justice, and national revival. Their message was clear: end the genocide in Gaza and stop repressing Egyptians. Addressing the Egyptian people, they decried the “severe blows” inflicted on the nation and vowed to rouse it from its “death.”
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/young-egyptians-storm-police-hq-over-gaza-blockade-rare-act-resistance-0
Desperate Zimbabweans get in debt to pay for lifesaving blood transfusions
With ongoing currency woes, rising costs of living and high levels of poverty, desperate Zimbabweans in need of care face life-threatening delays due to financial barriers. This includes blood shortages – despite supplies being free in public health facilities.
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2025/7/25/desperate-zimbabweans-get-in-debt-to-pay-for-lifesaving-blood-transfusions
https://archive.ph/LvOmV
Electricity in SA is unaffordable for many: Dr. Ngwane
Scores of City Power officials accompanied by South African Police Service (SAPS) and Johannesburg Metropolitan Police Department (JMPD) officers have removed illegal electricity connections in Tshepisong, west of Johannesburg. Residents have blocked roads with rocks and burning tyres in protest. Dr. Ngwane says struggling communities bear the brunt of the electricity challenges. “This is a structural problem it’s a question of energy is a basic necessity and its not a question of choice, people just need to have energy. But how do we provide energy to meet people’s needs. At the moment the approach by the government, Eskom, City Power and all the authorities is a wrong approach,” says Dr. Ngwane.
https://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/electricity-in-sa-is-unaffordable-to-many-dr-ngwane/
Wildfire burns through northern suburb of Greece’s capital Athens and residents are told to evacuate
On site, 145 firefighters and 44 fire engines, 10 firefighting planes and seven helicopters are attempting to put out the fire, whose origin is unknown. Four ambulances are treating at least five residents, most of them elderly with respiratory problems. Temperatures reaching, or exceeding, 38 degrees Celsius (100 degrees Fahrenheit), dry conditions and high winds are fanning the flames. Under such conditions wildfires “expand very quickly and become dangerous. These conditions are expected to prevail over the coming days,” Vathrakoyannis said.
https://apnews.com/article/wildfire-greece-kryoneri-evacuation-firefighters-39eaf327432ed8b1f55b19170c7d372f
Schoolchildren to study ‘spiritual and moral culture’ of Russia
During the classes, students will engage in discussions on topics such as faith in God, family life, civic responsibility, national unity, and moral accountability, according to the ministry. The program also addresses themes like traditional marriage between a man and a woman, freedom, dignity, and human rights.
https://www.rt.com/russia/621911-schoolchildren-to-study-spiritual-and/
https://archive.ph/nBc6x
Maduro Confirms Sale of Venezuelan Fertilizer Firm Monómeros to Colombia, Ending Privatization Rumors
The deal reportedly established a base price for Monómeros to start negotiations. Palma said that Colombian state control of the firm would help stabilize prices and reduce the country’s dependence on agricultural imports. Petro government officials have not disclosed if Bogotá plans to buy the entirety of shares or just a majority stake, as was first proposed in March 2023.
https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/maduro-confirms-sale-of-venezuelan-fertilizer-firm-monomeros-to-colombia-ending-privatization-rumors/
Petro orders all Colombian coal exports to Israel halted
The South American leftwing leader also said he planned to bring this matter up in diplomatic dialogue with Switzerland regarding Glencore, a Swiss multinational that owns Cerrejón, Latin America's largest open-pit coal mine. Colombia's mining sector has faced five consecutive quarters of contraction, partly due to a global price crisis and the Petro administration's push for renewable energy.
https://en.mercopress.com/2025/07/25/petro-orders-all-colombian-coal-exports-to-israel-halted
Thailand and Cambodia trade fresh attacks and accusations as allies call for a ceasefire
Thailand and Cambodia traded accusations of fresh attacks Saturday as deadly border clashes entered a third day and President Donald Trump joined a chorus of international voices calling for a ceasefire. The fighting has killed at least 33 people and displaced more than 168,000.
https://apnews.com/article/thailand-cambodia-armed-clash-border-eda96eb133a4561fa192029466da8dcf
All 24 KMT lawmakers survive recall votes to maintain opposition control of Taiwan’s legislature
All 24 lawmakers of the main opposition Chinese Nationalists Party (KMT) on Saturday survived historical nationwide recall elections, ensuring that the KMT along with Taiwan People’s Party (TPP) lawmakers will maintain opposition control of the legislature. Recall votes against all 24 KMT lawmakers as well as Hsinchu Mayor Ann Kao (高虹安) and KMT legislative caucus whip Fu Kun-chi (傅崐萁) failed to pass, according to Central Election Commission (CEC) figures.
https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2025/07/26/2003840965
https://archive.ph/MQXbq
Australian Labor government to expand police-state ASIO interrogation powers
Unprecedented powers to forcibly interrogate people were first handed to ASIO in 2003 during the supposed “war on terrorism.” Under Labor’s amendments to the ASIO Act, these powers will be extended and broadened indefinitely. The first bill will overturn a “sunset” clause that set an expiry date for the powers on September 7. The second bill will scrap “sunset” clauses altogether, making the powers permanent, and broaden the powers to cover four new war-related fields.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/26/egxi-j26.html
News 7/26/25
Israeli 'thugs' board Gaza-bound aid ship Handala in international watersThe raid was broadcast live by the Freedom Flotilla Coalition, showing soldiers confronting unarmed passengers as they sat on deck with their hands raised, singing the anti-fascist anthem “Bella Ciao”. The Handala, carrying 19 activists, including European MPs and two Al Jazeera journalists, was intercepted roughly 100 kilometres west of Gaza, and around 50 kilometres off Egypt’s coast. Activists say the boat was carrying humanitarian supplies and attempting to break Israel’s maritime blockade of Gaza.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israeli-thugs-board-gaza-bound-aid-ship-international-waters
Tunisians protest against President Saied, call country an ‘open-air prison’
The protesters said Tunisia under Saied has descended into authoritarianism, with mass arrests and politically motivated trials silencing dissent. "Our first aim is to battle against tyranny to restore the democracy and to demand the release of the political detainees," Monia Ibrahim, wife of imprisoned politician Abdelhamid Jelassi, told Reuters.
https://www.newarab.com/news/tunisians-protest-against-kais-saieds-authoritarian-regime
Police station stormed in Egypt as outrage over Gaza blockade reaches boiling point
Hours before the channel went silent, it released an audio statement styled like Palestinian faction communiques, claiming responsibility for the “Iron 17” operation. The statement, attributed to Ahmed Abdel Wahab and Mohsen Mustafa, rejected any political affiliations, describing themselves as “heirs of Omar ibn al-Khattab and Amr ibn al-Aas” seeking to revive Egypt’s national spirit. The figures in question refers to invoking early Islamic military and political leaders that symbolised strength, justice, and national revival. Their message was clear: end the genocide in Gaza and stop repressing Egyptians. Addressing the Egyptian people, they decried the “severe blows” inflicted on the nation and vowed to rouse it from its “death.”
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/young-egyptians-storm-police-hq-over-gaza-blockade-rare-act-resistance-0
Desperate Zimbabweans get in debt to pay for lifesaving blood transfusions
With ongoing currency woes, rising costs of living and high levels of poverty, desperate Zimbabweans in need of care face life-threatening delays due to financial barriers. This includes blood shortages – despite supplies being free in public health facilities.
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2025/7/25/desperate-zimbabweans-get-in-debt-to-pay-for-lifesaving-blood-transfusions
https://archive.ph/LvOmV
Electricity in SA is unaffordable for many: Dr. Ngwane
Scores of City Power officials accompanied by South African Police Service (SAPS) and Johannesburg Metropolitan Police Department (JMPD) officers have removed illegal electricity connections in Tshepisong, west of Johannesburg. Residents have blocked roads with rocks and burning tyres in protest. Dr. Ngwane says struggling communities bear the brunt of the electricity challenges. “This is a structural problem it’s a question of energy is a basic necessity and its not a question of choice, people just need to have energy. But how do we provide energy to meet people’s needs. At the moment the approach by the government, Eskom, City Power and all the authorities is a wrong approach,” says Dr. Ngwane.
https://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/electricity-in-sa-is-unaffordable-to-many-dr-ngwane/
Wildfire burns through northern suburb of Greece’s capital Athens and residents are told to evacuate
On site, 145 firefighters and 44 fire engines, 10 firefighting planes and seven helicopters are attempting to put out the fire, whose origin is unknown. Four ambulances are treating at least five residents, most of them elderly with respiratory problems. Temperatures reaching, or exceeding, 38 degrees Celsius (100 degrees Fahrenheit), dry conditions and high winds are fanning the flames. Under such conditions wildfires “expand very quickly and become dangerous. These conditions are expected to prevail over the coming days,” Vathrakoyannis said.
https://apnews.com/article/wildfire-greece-kryoneri-evacuation-firefighters-39eaf327432ed8b1f55b19170c7d372f
Schoolchildren to study ‘spiritual and moral culture’ of Russia
During the classes, students will engage in discussions on topics such as faith in God, family life, civic responsibility, national unity, and moral accountability, according to the ministry. The program also addresses themes like traditional marriage between a man and a woman, freedom, dignity, and human rights.
https://www.rt.com/russia/621911-schoolchildren-to-study-spiritual-and/
https://archive.ph/nBc6x
Maduro Confirms Sale of Venezuelan Fertilizer Firm Monómeros to Colombia, Ending Privatization Rumors
The deal reportedly established a base price for Monómeros to start negotiations. Palma said that Colombian state control of the firm would help stabilize prices and reduce the country’s dependence on agricultural imports. Petro government officials have not disclosed if Bogotá plans to buy the entirety of shares or just a majority stake, as was first proposed in March 2023.
https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/maduro-confirms-sale-of-venezuelan-fertilizer-firm-monomeros-to-colombia-ending-privatization-rumors/
Petro orders all Colombian coal exports to Israel halted
The South American leftwing leader also said he planned to bring this matter up in diplomatic dialogue with Switzerland regarding Glencore, a Swiss multinational that owns Cerrejón, Latin America's largest open-pit coal mine. Colombia's mining sector has faced five consecutive quarters of contraction, partly due to a global price crisis and the Petro administration's push for renewable energy.
https://en.mercopress.com/2025/07/25/petro-orders-all-colombian-coal-exports-to-israel-halted
Thailand and Cambodia trade fresh attacks and accusations as allies call for a ceasefire
Thailand and Cambodia traded accusations of fresh attacks Saturday as deadly border clashes entered a third day and President Donald Trump joined a chorus of international voices calling for a ceasefire. The fighting has killed at least 33 people and displaced more than 168,000.
https://apnews.com/article/thailand-cambodia-armed-clash-border-eda96eb133a4561fa192029466da8dcf
All 24 KMT lawmakers survive recall votes to maintain opposition control of Taiwan’s legislature
All 24 lawmakers of the main opposition Chinese Nationalists Party (KMT) on Saturday survived historical nationwide recall elections, ensuring that the KMT along with Taiwan People’s Party (TPP) lawmakers will maintain opposition control of the legislature. Recall votes against all 24 KMT lawmakers as well as Hsinchu Mayor Ann Kao (高虹安) and KMT legislative caucus whip Fu Kun-chi (傅崐萁) failed to pass, according to Central Election Commission (CEC) figures.
https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2025/07/26/2003840965
https://archive.ph/MQXbq
Australian Labor government to expand police-state ASIO interrogation powers
Unprecedented powers to forcibly interrogate people were first handed to ASIO in 2003 during the supposed “war on terrorism.” Under Labor’s amendments to the ASIO Act, these powers will be extended and broadened indefinitely. The first bill will overturn a “sunset” clause that set an expiry date for the powers on September 7. The second bill will scrap “sunset” clauses altogether, making the powers permanent, and broaden the powers to cover four new war-related fields.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/26/egxi-j26.html
R: 14 / I: 3
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1880/soc-utop/ch03.htm
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1894-c3/ch49.htm
And yes I know its pointless to ask and speculate now, but there is nothing else to do. It's boring watching the civilization in its present state of things display signs of subhuman drive towards reactionary behavior, I'm not using the word subhuman in a nazi sort of "lesser race" way , rather the actual drive towards regression and stagnation that exists and the fetishism of some individuals to literally rewild and regress that are somehow allowed to speak their mind as "species-traitors" without being executed due to a disunited humanity that has not yet undergone socialization and collectivity.
Until humanity has done away with its contradictions it doesn't seem plausible, how long until everyone adopts material analysis and immanent critique? How much time left until self-destruction is inevitable?
Will communism as a movement even be enough? Won't it become stagnant at some point as new conditions for development require unforeseen changes required that it becomes treated as an outdated model? Is "abolishing the present state of things" not enough when a requirement per say could be "creating a new way of being"?
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Inb4
>weed flag, typical stoner drivel, flag checks out, blablabla
These denouncers are part of the problem ^ they're reactionaries who don't understand chemistry, botany and the material sciences. If this board wasn't contradictory in premise they'd already be excluded under a program. I yearn for them to die quicker. All of them are either religious or social conservative vermin no different from national socialists and the bourgeois / conservative socialists that Marx and Engels criticized:
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/ch03.htm
A reminder - fight to end the war on drugs, it is a global economic system of intentionally created crime that has nothing to do with the health and safety of society or its preservation. The war on drugs can only be ended by class war, a war on drugs can never be for the interests of "people" or the working class, only for their subjugation and destruction by exploitations and reactionaries.
The real reason you might see these people is because the mods are inadequate and believe that having more users is better regardless if they're reactionaries.
Communism's AOT => K4 Interuniversal Civilization?
Will the Administration of Things be sustainable enough to reach K4 on the Kardashev scale by development of the productive forces or will it be insufficient and in need of change? Will there be farther stagnation that awaits us after the communist movement has done away with the capitalist mode of production? Won't advancing on the Kardashev scale bring attention to more developed civilizations that see us as a threat to a hypothetical cosmic hierarchy (Dark forest hypothesis)?https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1880/soc-utop/ch03.htm
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1894-c3/ch49.htm
And yes I know its pointless to ask and speculate now, but there is nothing else to do. It's boring watching the civilization in its present state of things display signs of subhuman drive towards reactionary behavior, I'm not using the word subhuman in a nazi sort of "lesser race" way , rather the actual drive towards regression and stagnation that exists and the fetishism of some individuals to literally rewild and regress that are somehow allowed to speak their mind as "species-traitors" without being executed due to a disunited humanity that has not yet undergone socialization and collectivity.
Until humanity has done away with its contradictions it doesn't seem plausible, how long until everyone adopts material analysis and immanent critique? How much time left until self-destruction is inevitable?
Will communism as a movement even be enough? Won't it become stagnant at some point as new conditions for development require unforeseen changes required that it becomes treated as an outdated model? Is "abolishing the present state of things" not enough when a requirement per say could be "creating a new way of being"?
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Inb4
>weed flag, typical stoner drivel, flag checks out, blablabla
These denouncers are part of the problem ^ they're reactionaries who don't understand chemistry, botany and the material sciences. If this board wasn't contradictory in premise they'd already be excluded under a program. I yearn for them to die quicker. All of them are either religious or social conservative vermin no different from national socialists and the bourgeois / conservative socialists that Marx and Engels criticized:
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/ch03.htm
A reminder - fight to end the war on drugs, it is a global economic system of intentionally created crime that has nothing to do with the health and safety of society or its preservation. The war on drugs can only be ended by class war, a war on drugs can never be for the interests of "people" or the working class, only for their subjugation and destruction by exploitations and reactionaries.
The real reason you might see these people is because the mods are inadequate and believe that having more users is better regardless if they're reactionaries.
R: 386 / I: 22 (sage)
Honest question: why don’t radical leftists agree to volunteer at group homes for disabled adults or become special education teachers?
As the fear of mass eugenics is becoming a reality in America, we can all see how the disabled (in particular, people with intellectual disabilities and neurodivergent differences) will soon be set up for mass eradication. The disabled aren’t “parasites” but full and equal human individuals who deserve respect, dignity and autonomy. They are hated in capitalism on the basis that they aren’t “useful” to the system. We also see instances where RFK is trying to wipe out autistic identities by creating a eugenicist “autism registry.”
Given this, why aren’t radical leftists dedicating most of their activism towards fighting and advocating for the disabled? Or dedicating their time and every to caring for those who are entirely dependent on the care of others to survive. Truth is we ALL need care from others. Why focus on any other issue when eugenics is the biggest evil in our world today and needs to be defeated before anything else?
I strongly believe radical leftists need to work and care for disabled people and we can start doing that by agreeing to be special Ed teachers (and thereby advocate for disabled children) or work at group homes for disabled adults. That’s a much better use of our energy and VALUES than protesting or political organizing. Eugenics is at the heart of capitalism and there’s no revolution without the disabled.
Honest question: why don’t radical leftists agree to volunteer at group homes for disabled adults or become special education teachers?
As the fear of mass eugenics is becoming a reality in America, we can all see how the disabled (in particular, people with intellectual disabilities and neurodivergent differences) will soon be set up for mass eradication. The disabled aren’t “parasites” but full and equal human individuals who deserve respect, dignity and autonomy. They are hated in capitalism on the basis that they aren’t “useful” to the system. We also see instances where RFK is trying to wipe out autistic identities by creating a eugenicist “autism registry.”
Given this, why aren’t radical leftists dedicating most of their activism towards fighting and advocating for the disabled? Or dedicating their time and every to caring for those who are entirely dependent on the care of others to survive. Truth is we ALL need care from others. Why focus on any other issue when eugenics is the biggest evil in our world today and needs to be defeated before anything else?
I strongly believe radical leftists need to work and care for disabled people and we can start doing that by agreeing to be special Ed teachers (and thereby advocate for disabled children) or work at group homes for disabled adults. That’s a much better use of our energy and VALUES than protesting or political organizing. Eugenics is at the heart of capitalism and there’s no revolution without the disabled.
R: 51 / I: 15
>Stopped counter-revolution cold in Czechoslovakia
>Aided Vietnam in its war against American imperialism
>Still lives rent-free in the heads of Maoists, pro-Hoxha "Anti-Revisionists" and pro-NATO liberals despite being dead for 43 years
Discuss one of the most under-rated socialists.
/brezhnev/ General
>Undid Cornman's retardation>Stopped counter-revolution cold in Czechoslovakia
>Aided Vietnam in its war against American imperialism
>Still lives rent-free in the heads of Maoists, pro-Hoxha "Anti-Revisionists" and pro-NATO liberals despite being dead for 43 years
Discuss one of the most under-rated socialists.
R: 28 / I: 8
Was he right?
All Power 2da sovyets
>"But after all, my dear friends, does Bolshevism exist in Russia? It does not any longer. There are no longer councils of the factories, but dictators of the factories; no longer eight hours of work, but twelve; no longer equal salaries, but thirty-five different categories, not according to need, but according to merit. There is not in Russia even that liberty which there is in Italy. Is there a dictatorship of the proletariat? No! Is there a dictatorship of the Socialists? No! There is a dictatorship of a few intelligent men, not workmen, who belong to a section of the Socialist Party, and their dictatorship is opposed by all other sections. This dictatorship of a few men is what is called Bolshevism. Now we do not want this in Italy."Was he right?
R: 7 / I: 1
A judge convicted seven former executives of Chiquita Brands in Colombia for sponsoring terrorism and sentenced them to 11 months in prison. The former executives were responsible for Chiquita’s contributions totaling $1.7 million to paramilitary organization AUC between 1995 and 2004, said the Prosecutor General’s Office in a press statement.
https://colombiareports.com/chiquitas-former-bosses-in-colombia-sentenced-to-11-years-in-prison/
Pro-Palestinian Lebanese fighter freed from France welcomed home in Beirut
French authorities released Abdallah early on Friday on the condition that he never return to France. Family members welcomed him at the airport’s VIP lounge, while dozens of supporters gathered nearby, waving Palestinian and Lebanese Communist Party flags. Chants and cheers erupted as Abdallah appeared, with many hailing him as a symbol of resistance, AFP news agency reported. Abdallah’s return marks the end of one of France’s longest detentions involving a political prisoner.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/25/pro-palestinian-lebanese-fighter-released-from-french-prison-after-40-years
https://archive.ph/240sK
Israel will let foreign countries drop aid into Gaza, Israel army radio says
Israel will allow foreign countries to parachute aid into Gaza starting on Friday, Israeli army radio quoted a military official as saying. An Israeli military spokesperson did not immediately reply to a Reuters request for comment on the report. The Gaza health ministry says more than 100 people have died from starvation in the Palestinian enclave since Israel cut off supplies to the territory in March.
https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2025/07/israel-will-let-foreign-countries-drop-aid-gaza-israel-army-radio-says
USAID analysis found no evidence of massive Hamas theft of Gaza aid
An internal U.S. government analysis found no evidence of systematic theft by the Palestinian militant group Hamas of U.S.-funded humanitarian supplies, challenging the main rationale that Israel and the U.S. give for backing a new armed private aid operation. … The analysis found that at least 44 of the 156 incidents where aid supplies were reported stolen or lost were “either directly or indirectly” due to Israeli military actions, according to the briefing slides.
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/usaid-analysis-found-no-evidence-massive-hamas-theft-gaza-aid-2025-07-25/
India and Israel meet to deepen military ties in sign of solidarity amid Gaza atrocities
In the statement released by the Press Information Bureau (PIB) on Wednesday, Delhi said its defence secretary "reiterated India’s zero tolerance approach to terrorism and condemned the October 7, 2023 terrorist attacks in Israel and called for the release of all hostages." It also narrated Israel's "support for India's fight against terrorism". The statement said the visit by the Israeli deputy chief of staff "marks a pivotal step in India-Israel defence relations and reinforces both sides’ commitment to enhance their strategic partnership," the statement added.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/india-and-israel-deepen-military-ties-gaza-starves
Indian Citizens, Mostly Muslims, Are Bearing Brunt of Its Citizenship Screening Drive
Upping the ante against Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s federal government for harassing Bengali-speaking Indians in the name of identifying illegal Bangladeshi migrants, the West Bengal chief minister led a massive rally in the state capital of Kolkata, the largest city in eastern India, on July 16. “Is West Bengal not a part of India? Speakers of a language can also live in other countries. Punjabi-speaking people live in other countries (Pakistan), too. Does it mean you would jail them?” Banerjee thundered.
https://thediplomat.com/2025/07/indian-citizens-mostly-muslims-are-bearing-brunt-of-its-citizenship-screening-drive/
Unions and civil society protest against proposed labor rights dilution in South Africa
By allowing employers to fire workers during the first three months of probation “for no reason, with no conversation, let alone a hearing”, the amendments allow employers to escape from the law deeming workers as permanent after three months of employment, explained the statement. This will “create a massive new additional layer of unlawfully casualized workers who are hired permanently, then fired while on probation and replaced with new workers.” Exempting businesses employing less than 50 workers from “the wages and conditions established by the Bargaining Councils” after sector-wise negotiations, it incentivizes companies to “downsize and outsource to get their staff complement below 50 so that they can pay low wages,” it added.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/07/25/unions-and-civil-society-protest-against-proposed-labor-rights-dilution-in-south-africa/
Wildfire kills at least 10 forest workers and rescuers battling blaze in Turkey
A wildfire killed at least 10 forest workers and rescuers on Wednesday who were battling to douse the flames near Eskişehir in western Turkey, authorities said. The agriculture minister, İbrahim Yumakli, said the fire killed five forest workers and five rescuers. Local lawmaker Nebi Hatipoğlu and news website BirGün had earlier said 11 had died.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/23/wildfire-kills-forest-workers-and-rescuers-battling-blaze-in-turkey
Cambodia calls for ceasefire with Thailand after deadly clashes
“Cambodia asked for an immediate ceasefire – unconditionally – and we also call for the peaceful solution of the dispute,” said Phnom Penh’s UN ambassador, Mr Chhea Keo, following a closed meeting of the Council attended by Cambodia and Thailand. A steady thump of artillery strikes could be heard from the Cambodian side of the border on July 25, where the province of Oddar Meanchey reported one civilian – a 70-year-old man – had been killed and five more wounded.
https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/cambodia-calls-for-ceasefire-with-thailand-envoy-to-un
https://archive.ph/3Qmkk
Supreme Court: Impeachment complaint vs Sara Duterte unconstitutional
The ruling, penned by Senior Associate Justice Marvic Leonen, differentiated the first three complaints—filed by citizens under Article XI, Section 3(2)—from the fourth complaint, which was filed under Section 3(4) via a verified resolution signed by at least one-third of House members. The court ruled that the first three complaints were “archived and therefore deemed terminated or dismissed” on February 5, 2025, meaning no new complaint can be initiated until after February 6, 2026.
https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/2087079/supreme-court-impeachment-complaint-vs-sara-duterte-unconstitutional
https://archive.ph/kGQei
Alarming levels of poverty and hardship reported in New Zealand
Four welfare agencies said they regularly hear of families sleeping in one room and turning off power as they try to stay warm and pay bills. Charities are running special appeals to support families facing hardship. Presbyterian Support manager Grenville Hendricks said his organisation has been forced to help 800 fewer families after its government funding was slashed by $1.5 million as part of the National Party-led ruling coalition’s vicious cost-cutting program.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/25/colj-j25.html
Welsh government condemned for awarding public funds to Israeli arms manufacturer
Following a freedom of information (FOI) request by Amnesty International UK, the Welsh government admitted this week that it had given £500,000 in grant funding to Senior, a company that exports military components directly to Israel, including parts for F-35 fighter jets and Apache gunships. In December 2024, Ms Morgan told the Senedd: “No Welsh government financial support has been provided to companies in Wales who export arms to Israel since the 7 October attacks.”
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/welsh-government-condemned-awarding-public-funds-israeli-arms-manufacturer
News 7/25/25
Chiquita’s former bosses in Colombia sentenced to 11 years in prisonA judge convicted seven former executives of Chiquita Brands in Colombia for sponsoring terrorism and sentenced them to 11 months in prison. The former executives were responsible for Chiquita’s contributions totaling $1.7 million to paramilitary organization AUC between 1995 and 2004, said the Prosecutor General’s Office in a press statement.
https://colombiareports.com/chiquitas-former-bosses-in-colombia-sentenced-to-11-years-in-prison/
Pro-Palestinian Lebanese fighter freed from France welcomed home in Beirut
French authorities released Abdallah early on Friday on the condition that he never return to France. Family members welcomed him at the airport’s VIP lounge, while dozens of supporters gathered nearby, waving Palestinian and Lebanese Communist Party flags. Chants and cheers erupted as Abdallah appeared, with many hailing him as a symbol of resistance, AFP news agency reported. Abdallah’s return marks the end of one of France’s longest detentions involving a political prisoner.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/25/pro-palestinian-lebanese-fighter-released-from-french-prison-after-40-years
https://archive.ph/240sK
Israel will let foreign countries drop aid into Gaza, Israel army radio says
Israel will allow foreign countries to parachute aid into Gaza starting on Friday, Israeli army radio quoted a military official as saying. An Israeli military spokesperson did not immediately reply to a Reuters request for comment on the report. The Gaza health ministry says more than 100 people have died from starvation in the Palestinian enclave since Israel cut off supplies to the territory in March.
https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2025/07/israel-will-let-foreign-countries-drop-aid-gaza-israel-army-radio-says
USAID analysis found no evidence of massive Hamas theft of Gaza aid
An internal U.S. government analysis found no evidence of systematic theft by the Palestinian militant group Hamas of U.S.-funded humanitarian supplies, challenging the main rationale that Israel and the U.S. give for backing a new armed private aid operation. … The analysis found that at least 44 of the 156 incidents where aid supplies were reported stolen or lost were “either directly or indirectly” due to Israeli military actions, according to the briefing slides.
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/usaid-analysis-found-no-evidence-massive-hamas-theft-gaza-aid-2025-07-25/
India and Israel meet to deepen military ties in sign of solidarity amid Gaza atrocities
In the statement released by the Press Information Bureau (PIB) on Wednesday, Delhi said its defence secretary "reiterated India’s zero tolerance approach to terrorism and condemned the October 7, 2023 terrorist attacks in Israel and called for the release of all hostages." It also narrated Israel's "support for India's fight against terrorism". The statement said the visit by the Israeli deputy chief of staff "marks a pivotal step in India-Israel defence relations and reinforces both sides’ commitment to enhance their strategic partnership," the statement added.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/india-and-israel-deepen-military-ties-gaza-starves
Indian Citizens, Mostly Muslims, Are Bearing Brunt of Its Citizenship Screening Drive
Upping the ante against Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s federal government for harassing Bengali-speaking Indians in the name of identifying illegal Bangladeshi migrants, the West Bengal chief minister led a massive rally in the state capital of Kolkata, the largest city in eastern India, on July 16. “Is West Bengal not a part of India? Speakers of a language can also live in other countries. Punjabi-speaking people live in other countries (Pakistan), too. Does it mean you would jail them?” Banerjee thundered.
https://thediplomat.com/2025/07/indian-citizens-mostly-muslims-are-bearing-brunt-of-its-citizenship-screening-drive/
Unions and civil society protest against proposed labor rights dilution in South Africa
By allowing employers to fire workers during the first three months of probation “for no reason, with no conversation, let alone a hearing”, the amendments allow employers to escape from the law deeming workers as permanent after three months of employment, explained the statement. This will “create a massive new additional layer of unlawfully casualized workers who are hired permanently, then fired while on probation and replaced with new workers.” Exempting businesses employing less than 50 workers from “the wages and conditions established by the Bargaining Councils” after sector-wise negotiations, it incentivizes companies to “downsize and outsource to get their staff complement below 50 so that they can pay low wages,” it added.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/07/25/unions-and-civil-society-protest-against-proposed-labor-rights-dilution-in-south-africa/
Wildfire kills at least 10 forest workers and rescuers battling blaze in Turkey
A wildfire killed at least 10 forest workers and rescuers on Wednesday who were battling to douse the flames near Eskişehir in western Turkey, authorities said. The agriculture minister, İbrahim Yumakli, said the fire killed five forest workers and five rescuers. Local lawmaker Nebi Hatipoğlu and news website BirGün had earlier said 11 had died.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/23/wildfire-kills-forest-workers-and-rescuers-battling-blaze-in-turkey
Cambodia calls for ceasefire with Thailand after deadly clashes
“Cambodia asked for an immediate ceasefire – unconditionally – and we also call for the peaceful solution of the dispute,” said Phnom Penh’s UN ambassador, Mr Chhea Keo, following a closed meeting of the Council attended by Cambodia and Thailand. A steady thump of artillery strikes could be heard from the Cambodian side of the border on July 25, where the province of Oddar Meanchey reported one civilian – a 70-year-old man – had been killed and five more wounded.
https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/cambodia-calls-for-ceasefire-with-thailand-envoy-to-un
https://archive.ph/3Qmkk
Supreme Court: Impeachment complaint vs Sara Duterte unconstitutional
The ruling, penned by Senior Associate Justice Marvic Leonen, differentiated the first three complaints—filed by citizens under Article XI, Section 3(2)—from the fourth complaint, which was filed under Section 3(4) via a verified resolution signed by at least one-third of House members. The court ruled that the first three complaints were “archived and therefore deemed terminated or dismissed” on February 5, 2025, meaning no new complaint can be initiated until after February 6, 2026.
https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/2087079/supreme-court-impeachment-complaint-vs-sara-duterte-unconstitutional
https://archive.ph/kGQei
Alarming levels of poverty and hardship reported in New Zealand
Four welfare agencies said they regularly hear of families sleeping in one room and turning off power as they try to stay warm and pay bills. Charities are running special appeals to support families facing hardship. Presbyterian Support manager Grenville Hendricks said his organisation has been forced to help 800 fewer families after its government funding was slashed by $1.5 million as part of the National Party-led ruling coalition’s vicious cost-cutting program.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/25/colj-j25.html
Welsh government condemned for awarding public funds to Israeli arms manufacturer
Following a freedom of information (FOI) request by Amnesty International UK, the Welsh government admitted this week that it had given £500,000 in grant funding to Senior, a company that exports military components directly to Israel, including parts for F-35 fighter jets and Apache gunships. In December 2024, Ms Morgan told the Senedd: “No Welsh government financial support has been provided to companies in Wales who export arms to Israel since the 7 October attacks.”
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/welsh-government-condemned-awarding-public-funds-israeli-arms-manufacturer
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(This is following the replacement of tariffs following the failure of the Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act with R&D expenditure.)
It seems reasonable that an economic system could be developed on the basis of firm cooperation in science.
This is similar to what was advocated in the reduction of "excess competition" in Japanese economic planning.
And interestingly much of the time of high speed growth MITI (the Japanese planning agency) operated effectively as if there was a "national patent trust".
By negotiating acquisition of foreign technology and encouraging sharing of this technology between firms.
In this context there is little reasons for competition in the sphere of the advancement of science, by contrast to application of this science.
(Imagine there'd be a ton of reverse engineering, and the like; and super-profits from rent-seeking with intellectual property would go way down.)
Am especially interested in software with respect to this, would firms eventually give up on obfuscation, of would it be necessary to somehow restrict access to uncooperative actors.
Given free-software is already an extremely common phenomenon even among corporate actors, such as Microsoft.
Feel free to discuss other aspects of R&D.
Government Led R&D.
Given that even in the post-war US R&D was dominated by government investment.(This is following the replacement of tariffs following the failure of the Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act with R&D expenditure.)
It seems reasonable that an economic system could be developed on the basis of firm cooperation in science.
This is similar to what was advocated in the reduction of "excess competition" in Japanese economic planning.
And interestingly much of the time of high speed growth MITI (the Japanese planning agency) operated effectively as if there was a "national patent trust".
By negotiating acquisition of foreign technology and encouraging sharing of this technology between firms.
In this context there is little reasons for competition in the sphere of the advancement of science, by contrast to application of this science.
(Imagine there'd be a ton of reverse engineering, and the like; and super-profits from rent-seeking with intellectual property would go way down.)
Am especially interested in software with respect to this, would firms eventually give up on obfuscation, of would it be necessary to somehow restrict access to uncooperative actors.
Given free-software is already an extremely common phenomenon even among corporate actors, such as Microsoft.
Feel free to discuss other aspects of R&D.
R: 104 / I: 17
If making Israel look more morally decrepit than Nazi Germany is the intent, what's the point? Sudan is arguably just as bad right now. 600k people died in ~a year just four years ago in Tigray. What now? Some people care, many others won't, now what happens? The bourgeois apparatus stays the same and the potentiality of more conflict, asymmetrical or otherwise, goes untouched. Now what happens?
If making Israel look more morally decrepit than Nazi Germany is the intent, what's the point? Sudan is arguably just as bad right now. 600k people died in ~a year just four years ago in Tigray. What now? Some people care, many others won't, now what happens? The bourgeois apparatus stays the same and the potentiality of more conflict, asymmetrical or otherwise, goes untouched. Now what happens?
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In the Colonies, that was the Continental Congress. In the American Civil War, that was the Confederate States of America. (I oppose the CSA completely, but they certainly were capable at coordinating violence to achieve their goals of slavery and disunion.) In the French Revolution, the Third Estate. In various English civil wars, rival claimants to the throne, with rival courts and rival bureaucracies. In the Russian Revolution, the Communist Party was arguably already the most functional government in Russia.
I don't think the entity *has* to be a government or quasi-government *necessarily*, but, in practice, it nearly always is. What you *do not* want is to create a situation like The Troubles, where there's sporadic murder but no movement toward a resolution, and that's usually what you get from terrorism unsupported by a government or quasi-government.
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1901/witbd/
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/apr/09.htm
Violence only makes sense as part of coordinated strategy
If you commit violence without an achievable end, it's not rebellion; it's just murder. That means any violence needs to be directed by a well-organized entity that operates, functionally, as a rival government.In the Colonies, that was the Continental Congress. In the American Civil War, that was the Confederate States of America. (I oppose the CSA completely, but they certainly were capable at coordinating violence to achieve their goals of slavery and disunion.) In the French Revolution, the Third Estate. In various English civil wars, rival claimants to the throne, with rival courts and rival bureaucracies. In the Russian Revolution, the Communist Party was arguably already the most functional government in Russia.
I don't think the entity *has* to be a government or quasi-government *necessarily*, but, in practice, it nearly always is. What you *do not* want is to create a situation like The Troubles, where there's sporadic murder but no movement toward a resolution, and that's usually what you get from terrorism unsupported by a government or quasi-government.
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1901/witbd/
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/apr/09.htm
R: 126 / I: 17
They can’t sexually objectifiying women anymore. Progressive pro-feminist companies like Visa and Master Cards are miracles will bring feminist world order.
Hoyoverse and other problematic companies in China you’re next!
Feminists won and Chuds lost
These problematic far-right Chvuds are so mad.They can’t sexually objectifiying women anymore. Progressive pro-feminist companies like Visa and Master Cards are miracles will bring feminist world order.
Hoyoverse and other problematic companies in China you’re next!
R: 590 / I: 152
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Is anyone here good at hacking? I had a thought and bug bounty programs essentially outsource red teaming to freelancers or desperate people, Some sites pay out big for taking over accounts, it would be easy with a few competent people. We could use the money to further revolutionary causes.
R: 5 / I: 4
In my conversations with them, I've come to realize that Iranian academics have far more academic freedom than academics in the west. First, there's no "cancel culture" or "safe spaces". My friend who teaches American studies said students would openly ask questions about "black crime stats" that would result in disciplinary action in an American university. (And it's not because they're actually racist, it's more just how their perceptions of American society are shaped by pop culture and the mainstream media.)
There's the opposite of a Zionist lobby in Iran, so academics have unlimited freedom to critique Israel and the global Israeli lobby. My own uncle is familiar with the concept of the "ZOG" and NOI's The Secret Relationship. These texts can be openly discussed in Iranian classrooms. This isn't an endorsement of Holocaust denial or actual examples of antisemitism, it just goes to show that there are no concepts or ideas that are off limits.
Alexander Reid-Ross once wrote an article sperging out about an Iranian academic conference that he called "The anti-Semitism Fest Where Russian Spies, Code Pink, David Duke and the Nation of Islam Make Friends and Influence People". In the article he says, "At how many conferences can you be guaranteed to meet Iranian Revolutionary Guards, Russian imperialists, anti-Ukrainian fascists, Chinese spies, Qaddafi devotees, Corbyn fans, Assad apologists, neo-Nazis, Trump devotees, French Holocaust deniers, Western anti-war feminists, African American separatists, Venezuelan socialists and anti-Semites of every conceivable form and type?" (Link: https://www.haaretz.com/world-news/2019-03-14/ty-article-opinion/.premium/russias-role-in-an-anti-semitism-fest-for-fascists-feminists-spies-and-neo-nazi/0000017f-e321-d38f-a57f-e7738c060000)
My U of T professor friend attended this conference, and said he saw no examples of far-right behavior, which leads me to conclude that this is slander on gigaliberal RR's part against Iranian academia for platforming genuine anti-imperialism.
The literature professor I know is a liberal and feminist who teaches Judith Butler, Deleuze, and other postmodernists loved by academics in the west. She's even anti-IRI. This just goes to show that despite the state sanctioned anti-liberalism in Iran, liberals still have academic freedom, and aren't being shut up. The same can't be said for dissenting voices in western academia. Look how Steven Salaita was treated by an American university for being anti-Zionist.
Whatever you think of the Islamic Republic, there's no denying they have a far more robust and free academic culture than we do in the west. The Iranian police would never dare storm a university the way the American gestapo did to shut down Palestine encampments, either.
There's more academic freedom in Iran than in the liberal west
I know two professors at the University of Tehran, and one at the Islamic Azad University. One teaches American Studies with Professor Mohammad Marandi, who everyone should know from alt media. The other is my uncle, who is a retired Professor Emeritus. The one who teaches at Islamic Azad University is a female literature professor who was my dad's roommate when she was doing research on Deleuze and Shakespeare at Harvard.In my conversations with them, I've come to realize that Iranian academics have far more academic freedom than academics in the west. First, there's no "cancel culture" or "safe spaces". My friend who teaches American studies said students would openly ask questions about "black crime stats" that would result in disciplinary action in an American university. (And it's not because they're actually racist, it's more just how their perceptions of American society are shaped by pop culture and the mainstream media.)
There's the opposite of a Zionist lobby in Iran, so academics have unlimited freedom to critique Israel and the global Israeli lobby. My own uncle is familiar with the concept of the "ZOG" and NOI's The Secret Relationship. These texts can be openly discussed in Iranian classrooms. This isn't an endorsement of Holocaust denial or actual examples of antisemitism, it just goes to show that there are no concepts or ideas that are off limits.
Alexander Reid-Ross once wrote an article sperging out about an Iranian academic conference that he called "The anti-Semitism Fest Where Russian Spies, Code Pink, David Duke and the Nation of Islam Make Friends and Influence People". In the article he says, "At how many conferences can you be guaranteed to meet Iranian Revolutionary Guards, Russian imperialists, anti-Ukrainian fascists, Chinese spies, Qaddafi devotees, Corbyn fans, Assad apologists, neo-Nazis, Trump devotees, French Holocaust deniers, Western anti-war feminists, African American separatists, Venezuelan socialists and anti-Semites of every conceivable form and type?" (Link: https://www.haaretz.com/world-news/2019-03-14/ty-article-opinion/.premium/russias-role-in-an-anti-semitism-fest-for-fascists-feminists-spies-and-neo-nazi/0000017f-e321-d38f-a57f-e7738c060000)
My U of T professor friend attended this conference, and said he saw no examples of far-right behavior, which leads me to conclude that this is slander on gigaliberal RR's part against Iranian academia for platforming genuine anti-imperialism.
The literature professor I know is a liberal and feminist who teaches Judith Butler, Deleuze, and other postmodernists loved by academics in the west. She's even anti-IRI. This just goes to show that despite the state sanctioned anti-liberalism in Iran, liberals still have academic freedom, and aren't being shut up. The same can't be said for dissenting voices in western academia. Look how Steven Salaita was treated by an American university for being anti-Zionist.
Whatever you think of the Islamic Republic, there's no denying they have a far more robust and free academic culture than we do in the west. The Iranian police would never dare storm a university the way the American gestapo did to shut down Palestine encampments, either.
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What happens here? I feel like I hear a lot about China, Cuba, North Korea, and Vietnam but never Laos. Are they actually communist? Is it just my American ignorance showing?
What happens here? I feel like I hear a lot about China, Cuba, North Korea, and Vietnam but never Laos. Are they actually communist? Is it just my American ignorance showing?
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https://apnews.com/article/britain-palestine-action-arrests-protest-bf430c85a317e7e1f768c9ebd2a6131a
>More than 70 people were arrested Saturday at protests in the U.K. against the Palestine Action group being proscribed a terrorist organization by the British government following a break-in and vandalism at a Royal Air Force base.
>In London, the Metropolitan Police said 42 people had been arrested by late afternoon. All but one of the arrests were for showing support for a proscribed organization, which police have said includes chanting, wearing clothing or displaying articles such as flags, signs or logos. Another person was arrested for common assault.
>A further 16 arrests were made in Manchester, according to Greater Manchester Police, while South Wales Police said 13 people were also held in Cardiff.
>In London, it was the second straight week protesters gathered to support the pro-Palestinian activist group. Its outlawing has meant support for the organization is deemed a criminal offense. Police arrested 29 people at a similar protest last weekend.
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Oi! Do you 'ave a loicense for that Palestinian flag m8?https://apnews.com/article/britain-palestine-action-arrests-protest-bf430c85a317e7e1f768c9ebd2a6131a
>More than 70 people were arrested Saturday at protests in the U.K. against the Palestine Action group being proscribed a terrorist organization by the British government following a break-in and vandalism at a Royal Air Force base.
>In London, the Metropolitan Police said 42 people had been arrested by late afternoon. All but one of the arrests were for showing support for a proscribed organization, which police have said includes chanting, wearing clothing or displaying articles such as flags, signs or logos. Another person was arrested for common assault.
>A further 16 arrests were made in Manchester, according to Greater Manchester Police, while South Wales Police said 13 people were also held in Cardiff.
>In London, it was the second straight week protesters gathered to support the pro-Palestinian activist group. Its outlawing has meant support for the organization is deemed a criminal offense. Police arrested 29 people at a similar protest last weekend.
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Thailand scrambled an F-16 fighter jet to bomb targets in Cambodia after artillery volleys from both sides killed at least 11 civilians, as border tension boiled over into rare armed conflict between the Southeast Asian countries. Both blamed each other for starting a morning clash at a disputed area of the border, which quickly escalated from small arms fire to heavy shelling in at least six locations 209 kilometres (130 miles) apart along a frontier where sovereignty has been disputed for more than a century.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/567942/thai-fighter-jet-bombs-cambodian-targets-as-border-battle-escalates
https://archive.ph/qNdjM
Sri Lankan court orders owners of container ship to pay $1 billion in marine pollution compensation
The container ship MV X-Press Peal, which was carrying chemicals, sank off Colombo in June, 2021 after catching fire. The Supreme Court said the incident caused “unprecedented devastation to the marine environment of Sri Lanka” and harmed the country’s economy, especially the lives of the fishing communities.
https://apnews.com/article/sri-lanka-ship-fire-pollution-singapore-shipping-370ab4b243e761b015ab45976a790b52
Protest Crackdowns Intensify in Argentina as Milei Implements Austerity
In the first six months of 2025, the CPM documented 1,251 cases of injuries or detentions during demonstrations in Buenos Aires—surpassing the total of 1,216 recorded in all of 2024. The organization attributes this rise to a deliberate state strategy to suppress dissent amid the government’s sweeping economic adjustment program.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/protest-crackdowns-intensify-in-argentina-as-milei-implements-austerity/
https://archive.ph/9XNNc
Chile's government to expropriate land tied to Pinochet-era torture
Chile plans to expropriate a settlement founded by a German cult leader where torture took place during former dictator Augusto Pinochet's military regime as the government takes another step to shine a light on a dark period of the past. The enclave, originally called Colonia Dignidad and renamed Villa Baviera, was founded in 1961 by Paul Schafer, a former Nazi medic turned evangelical preacher who kept the isolated community under tight control and was later jailed for sexually abusing children.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/chiles-government-expropriate-land-tied-pinochet-era-torture-2025-07-23/
Marlon Vargas is the new president of Ecuador’s Indigenous movement CONAIE
Vargas was one of the leaders of the October 2019 social mobilizations against former President Lenin Moreno, over the economic adjustments that the government had agreed to with the International Monetary Fund, including the elimination of gasoline subsidies. He also took part in the June 2022 mobilizations against the economic policies of former President Guillermo Lasso.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/07/24/marlon-vargas-is-the-new-president-of-ecuadors-indigenous-movement-conaie/
Balloting underway in government-forced vote on Canada Post’s “final” offers
Serious concerns over the use of online balloting have been raised widely by workers. Thousands face practical and technical barriers to casting a vote. Older workers, those with limited digital access, and employees in rural or remote regions have struggled to obtain login credentials or decipher conflicting communications from the union and the unelected Canadian Industrial Relations Board (CIRB), which banned a strike by postal workers last December at the orders of Labour Minister Steve MacKinnon. The absence of clear, accessible procedures has left many uncertain if their votes will even be counted.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/24/dovn-j24.html
NHS must resist doctors’ strike, its chief tells hospital leaders
He wants hospitals to press ahead with as many routine operations as possible, even if it means running A&E units with a skeleton staff, rather than cancelling clinics to ensure emergency care runs as normal. Mackey told hospital bosses in a call on Wednesday: “We’ve been very, very clear we want to have a different approach this time. You have noticed already we are in a different space compared to where we were last time, much more instructive to the BMA, much more resistant to their demands. Frankly we and you make decisions about safety, not the BMA. Do what you do best, make sensible decisions and we’ll stick together.”
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/healthcare/article/wes-streeting-doctors-strike-bma-7slcwknpq
https://archive.ph/sO4yB
Corbyn and Sultana commit to launching new socialist party
They pledged the creation of “a new kind of political party — one that belongs to you” and looked ahead to a founding conference at which members would “decide the party’s direction, the model of leadership and the policies that are needed to transform society.” The founding process will also determine the name of the new party. It is understood that the process will be overseen by a working group to be established by the Independent Alliance of MPs, of which Corbyn and Sultana are both members.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/new-kind-political-party
Zelenskyy moves to restore independence of anti-graft agencies after public anger and EU criticism
“The text is balanced,” Zelenskyy said. “The most important thing is real tools, no Russian ties and the independence” of the anti-graft agencies. The new draft underlines that the prosecutor general and his deputies cannot give orders to anti-graft agencies or interfere in their work.
https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-war-corruption-protests-zelenskyy-law-6766134c963f0423d88c2ac1749f8c11
Former US guard at GHF speaks of brutality he witnessed against desperate Gaza civilians
He recounts an incident in which American guards pepper-sprayed a Palestinian who was collecting food from the ground and who posed no threat. In another incident, a stun grenade was thrown and directly hit a Palestinian woman. "I collapsed and fell to the ground. That was the moment I realised I couldn't continue working there," the former guard told Channel 12. Recounting another incident, he said once Palestinians finished collecting the aid, the American guards started shooting towards them – in the legs and around them – to force them to leave the site.
https://www.newarab.com/news/american-former-ghf-guard-tells-brutality-against-gazans
Syria is secretly reshaping its economy. The president’s brother is in charge.
Over seven months, the committee has negotiated with the wealthiest Syrian tycoons, including some who are under U.S. sanctions. The committee has also made headway taking over a constellation of companies that were run out of Assad’s palace, the sources said. Many tycoons linked to Assad, including an airline mogul sanctioned in connection with drug and weapons smuggling, and a businessman accused of scavenging and smelting metal from Syrian towns depopulated by Assad’s army, are keeping some profits and avoiding state prosecution, for a price. But that bargain, amnesty in exchange for a mix of cash and corporate control, risks angering Syrians seeking justice.
https://www.reuters.com/investigations/syria-is-secretly-reshaping-its-economy-presidents-brother-is-charge-2025-07-24/
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Thai fighter jet bombs Cambodian targets as border battle escalatesThailand scrambled an F-16 fighter jet to bomb targets in Cambodia after artillery volleys from both sides killed at least 11 civilians, as border tension boiled over into rare armed conflict between the Southeast Asian countries. Both blamed each other for starting a morning clash at a disputed area of the border, which quickly escalated from small arms fire to heavy shelling in at least six locations 209 kilometres (130 miles) apart along a frontier where sovereignty has been disputed for more than a century.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/567942/thai-fighter-jet-bombs-cambodian-targets-as-border-battle-escalates
https://archive.ph/qNdjM
Sri Lankan court orders owners of container ship to pay $1 billion in marine pollution compensation
The container ship MV X-Press Peal, which was carrying chemicals, sank off Colombo in June, 2021 after catching fire. The Supreme Court said the incident caused “unprecedented devastation to the marine environment of Sri Lanka” and harmed the country’s economy, especially the lives of the fishing communities.
https://apnews.com/article/sri-lanka-ship-fire-pollution-singapore-shipping-370ab4b243e761b015ab45976a790b52
Protest Crackdowns Intensify in Argentina as Milei Implements Austerity
In the first six months of 2025, the CPM documented 1,251 cases of injuries or detentions during demonstrations in Buenos Aires—surpassing the total of 1,216 recorded in all of 2024. The organization attributes this rise to a deliberate state strategy to suppress dissent amid the government’s sweeping economic adjustment program.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/protest-crackdowns-intensify-in-argentina-as-milei-implements-austerity/
https://archive.ph/9XNNc
Chile's government to expropriate land tied to Pinochet-era torture
Chile plans to expropriate a settlement founded by a German cult leader where torture took place during former dictator Augusto Pinochet's military regime as the government takes another step to shine a light on a dark period of the past. The enclave, originally called Colonia Dignidad and renamed Villa Baviera, was founded in 1961 by Paul Schafer, a former Nazi medic turned evangelical preacher who kept the isolated community under tight control and was later jailed for sexually abusing children.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/chiles-government-expropriate-land-tied-pinochet-era-torture-2025-07-23/
Marlon Vargas is the new president of Ecuador’s Indigenous movement CONAIE
Vargas was one of the leaders of the October 2019 social mobilizations against former President Lenin Moreno, over the economic adjustments that the government had agreed to with the International Monetary Fund, including the elimination of gasoline subsidies. He also took part in the June 2022 mobilizations against the economic policies of former President Guillermo Lasso.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/07/24/marlon-vargas-is-the-new-president-of-ecuadors-indigenous-movement-conaie/
Balloting underway in government-forced vote on Canada Post’s “final” offers
Serious concerns over the use of online balloting have been raised widely by workers. Thousands face practical and technical barriers to casting a vote. Older workers, those with limited digital access, and employees in rural or remote regions have struggled to obtain login credentials or decipher conflicting communications from the union and the unelected Canadian Industrial Relations Board (CIRB), which banned a strike by postal workers last December at the orders of Labour Minister Steve MacKinnon. The absence of clear, accessible procedures has left many uncertain if their votes will even be counted.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/24/dovn-j24.html
NHS must resist doctors’ strike, its chief tells hospital leaders
He wants hospitals to press ahead with as many routine operations as possible, even if it means running A&E units with a skeleton staff, rather than cancelling clinics to ensure emergency care runs as normal. Mackey told hospital bosses in a call on Wednesday: “We’ve been very, very clear we want to have a different approach this time. You have noticed already we are in a different space compared to where we were last time, much more instructive to the BMA, much more resistant to their demands. Frankly we and you make decisions about safety, not the BMA. Do what you do best, make sensible decisions and we’ll stick together.”
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/healthcare/article/wes-streeting-doctors-strike-bma-7slcwknpq
https://archive.ph/sO4yB
Corbyn and Sultana commit to launching new socialist party
They pledged the creation of “a new kind of political party — one that belongs to you” and looked ahead to a founding conference at which members would “decide the party’s direction, the model of leadership and the policies that are needed to transform society.” The founding process will also determine the name of the new party. It is understood that the process will be overseen by a working group to be established by the Independent Alliance of MPs, of which Corbyn and Sultana are both members.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/new-kind-political-party
Zelenskyy moves to restore independence of anti-graft agencies after public anger and EU criticism
“The text is balanced,” Zelenskyy said. “The most important thing is real tools, no Russian ties and the independence” of the anti-graft agencies. The new draft underlines that the prosecutor general and his deputies cannot give orders to anti-graft agencies or interfere in their work.
https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-war-corruption-protests-zelenskyy-law-6766134c963f0423d88c2ac1749f8c11
Former US guard at GHF speaks of brutality he witnessed against desperate Gaza civilians
He recounts an incident in which American guards pepper-sprayed a Palestinian who was collecting food from the ground and who posed no threat. In another incident, a stun grenade was thrown and directly hit a Palestinian woman. "I collapsed and fell to the ground. That was the moment I realised I couldn't continue working there," the former guard told Channel 12. Recounting another incident, he said once Palestinians finished collecting the aid, the American guards started shooting towards them – in the legs and around them – to force them to leave the site.
https://www.newarab.com/news/american-former-ghf-guard-tells-brutality-against-gazans
Syria is secretly reshaping its economy. The president’s brother is in charge.
Over seven months, the committee has negotiated with the wealthiest Syrian tycoons, including some who are under U.S. sanctions. The committee has also made headway taking over a constellation of companies that were run out of Assad’s palace, the sources said. Many tycoons linked to Assad, including an airline mogul sanctioned in connection with drug and weapons smuggling, and a businessman accused of scavenging and smelting metal from Syrian towns depopulated by Assad’s army, are keeping some profits and avoiding state prosecution, for a price. But that bargain, amnesty in exchange for a mix of cash and corporate control, risks angering Syrians seeking justice.
https://www.reuters.com/investigations/syria-is-secretly-reshaping-its-economy-presidents-brother-is-charge-2025-07-24/
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I get communism somewhat. I’m new to it, but I want to know what people like Mao Stalin we think about nationalism. I’m pretty sure they would be in favor of nationalism but i’m reading a half of quotations by chairman Mao honestly he’s probably more likely to be an international than nationalist
I get communism somewhat. I’m new to it, but I want to know what people like Mao Stalin we think about nationalism. I’m pretty sure they would be in favor of nationalism but i’m reading a half of quotations by chairman Mao honestly he’s probably more likely to be an international than nationalist
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>japanese right wing loses big during tokyo election
>japanese right wing win big cause all the votes went to other right wing parties
japanese communists also lost some of their most commie blocs they held for decades, reiwa didnt even gain a single seat
>japanese right wing loses big during tokyo election
>japanese right wing win big cause all the votes went to other right wing parties
japanese communists also lost some of their most commie blocs they held for decades, reiwa didnt even gain a single seat
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DHKP-C mucho underappreciated
DHKP-C literally controlled neighborhoods in Istanbul and held 1st of may marches with tens of thousands until they were weakened by Turkish state sponsored mafias and drug gangs. Most Halk Cephe members also went to fight in Palestine later on. One of the most underapriciated peoples front fr.
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Politics and sports
I found this chart on /sp/ showing the political spectrum of football clubs and thought it was interesting, do you think there's a correlation between political ideologies and sports teams?
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the contradictions on the old continent are getting worse. while the rabid dogs of fascism, Zentraleuropa, are sabre rattling for war, slovenia's government is playing political games with nato referendums, creating a real choking point for the fascistic alliance. i'm not doompilled because i'm not a retard but i am tired doc. i can't see past the leftliberal populist horizont, beyond a social democracy with a artisinal face. how the fuck do you even get past the single-issue barrier that poisons the minds of millions labor aristocrats living of the imperialist teat?
war is coming
atp it's written on the wall that europe is preparing for war with russia. and it's even more clear that the good guys lost the cold war. have you heard that rotterdam, the largest port in europe, is being remodeled to be a warship port?? have you heard that czechia has outlawed class based hatred?? it's frantic rearmament and i have no idea how such a dying continent (literally dying, look at the demographics, europe has no future in the multipolar world) is to have a communist revolution and stop the absolutely gay war with russia.the contradictions on the old continent are getting worse. while the rabid dogs of fascism, Zentraleuropa, are sabre rattling for war, slovenia's government is playing political games with nato referendums, creating a real choking point for the fascistic alliance. i'm not doompilled because i'm not a retard but i am tired doc. i can't see past the leftliberal populist horizont, beyond a social democracy with a artisinal face. how the fuck do you even get past the single-issue barrier that poisons the minds of millions labor aristocrats living of the imperialist teat?