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Classical Marxism
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The foundational texts and concepts strictly written and conceived by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.
Tier 1
Communist Manifesto (1848) by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/index.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knCYXFisM4k
Theses on Feuerbach (1845) by Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/theses/theses.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zA-Gn8q47cs
Wage Labour and Capital (1847) by Karl Marx
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/wage-labour/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6llbLvm3RAc
Principles of Communism (1847) by Friedrich Engels
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/11/prin-com.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGcpspooZvk
Critique of the Gotha Programme (1875) by Karl Marx
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1875/gotha/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIkR-0NeOzw
Socialism: Utopian and Scientific (1880) by Friedrich Engels
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1880/soc-utop/index.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4_BiWhvVyA
Tier 2
The Holy Family (1844) by Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/holy-family/
On The Jewish Question (1844) by Karl Marx
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/jewish-question/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lu7jgrQ_oF8
Conditions of the Working Class in England (1845) by Friedrich Engels
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/condition-working-class/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDaK6b6eZrg
The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte (1952) by Karl Marx
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1852/18th-brumaire/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orxXeE8kn4U
Value, Price and Profit (1865) by Karl Marx
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1865/value-price-profit/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjhVZW3HJzM
The Civil War in France (1871) by Karl Marx
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1871/civil-war-france/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSWrTzJFrnQ
Tier 3
Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right (1843) by Karl Marx
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1843/critique-hpr/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b78lwj_TNVI
Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts (1844) by Karl Marx
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/manuscripts/preface.htm
The German Ideology (1846) by Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/german-ideology/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERf6Qvqwr6g
The Poverty of Philosophy (1847) by Karl Marx
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/poverty-philosophy/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNy2A2ZpSEU
Grundrisse (1858) by Karl Marx
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1857/grundrisse/
Anti-Dühring (1877) by Friedrich Engels
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1877/anti-duhring/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bATakOyA0zc
The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State (1884) by Friedrich Engels
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1884/origin-family/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8W2GaAs5VLo
DAS KAPITAL
Capital: A Critique of Political Economy (1867) by Karl Marx
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhXStf2E1tc
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German Idealism
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Philosophical movement that generally argues that the mind’s structures (reason, self-consciousness) play an active role in shaping reality and experience, centering on how freedom, subjectivity, and the unity of subject and object grounds knowledge and moral life. Hugely influential in revolutionary socialist currents.
Critique of Pure Reason (1781) by Immanuel Kant
📖 · https://www.gutenberg.org/files/4280/4280-h/4280-h.htm
Foundations of the Science of Knowledge (1794) by Johann Gottlieb Fichte
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782141768594-6-0.pdf
The Phenomenology of Spirit (1801) by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hegel/works/ph/phconten.htm
The Essence of Christianity (1841) by Ludwig Feuerbach
📖 · https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/47025/pg47025-images.html
The Jewish Question (1843) by Bruno Bauer
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782141768594-1-3.pdf
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Utopian Socialism
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Early socialist current that imagined ideal, cooperative communities and peaceful social reforms achieved by moral persuasion and voluntary association rather than class struggle or revolution.
The Social Contract (1762) by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
📖 · https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/46333/pg46333-images.html
The Wealth of Nations (1776) by Adam Smith
📖 · https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3300/3300-h/3300-h.htm
The Theory of the Four Movements (1808) by Charles Fourier
📖 · https://libcom.org/article/theory-four-movements-charles-fourier
A New View of Society and Other Writings (1813) by Robert Owen
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/economics/owen/society/index.htm
On the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation (1817) by David Ricardo
📖 · https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/33310/pg33310-images.html
New Christianity (1825) by Henri de Saint-Simon
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782141768594-1-2.pdf
Holy History of Mankind (1837) by Moses Hess
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782141768594-3-1.pdf
Principles of Political Economy (1848) by John Stuart Mill
📖 · https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/30107/pg30107-images.html
Instructions for an Armed Uprising (1866) by Louis Auguste Blanqui
📖 · https://blanqui.kingston.ac.uk/texts/instructions-for-an-armed-uprising-1868/
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Classical Anarchism
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Rejects the state and hierarchical authority, serves as the basis for modern and contemporary Anarchism. Variants include Mutualism, Anarcho-Collectivism and Individualist anarchism.
Tier 1
What is Property? (1840) by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/pierre-joseph-proudhon-what-is-property-an-inquiry-into-the-principle-of-right-and-of-governmen
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeoynLwP3u4
Collectivism (1872) by Adhémar Schwitzguébel
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/adhemar-schwitzguebel-collectivism
Tier 2
The Philosophy of Poverty (1846) by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/pierre-joseph-proudhon-system-of-economical-contradictions-or-the-philosophy-of-poverty
God and the State (1871) by Mikhail Bakunin
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/michail-bakunin-god-and-the-state
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLArnrsxwWY
Ideas on Social Organisation (1876) by James Guillaume
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/james-guillaume-ideas-on-social-organization
Tier 3
Enquiry Concerning Political Justice and its Influence on Morals and Happiness (1793) by William Godwin
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/godwin-political-justice
The Ego and Its Own (1844) by Max Stirner
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stirner/ego-and-its-own.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBOex4R61Oo
Statism and Anarchy (1873) by Mikhail Bakunin
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/mikhail-bakunin-statism-and-anarchy
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Orthodox Marxism
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Stemming from the Second International, treats Marxism as a scientific, historical-materialist doctrine. Generally arguing that capitalism contains objective economic contradictions that makes proletarian revolution and socialism inevitable. Therefore, political organization, class struggle, and economic analysis are central.
Tier 1
The Present Position of the Socialist Movement in Germany (1896) by Wilhelm Liebknecht
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/liebknecht-w/1896/06/essex-lecture.html
Erfurt Program (1891) by Karl Kautsky
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/history/international/social-democracy/1891/erfurt-program.htm
The Main Enemy Is At Home! (1914) by Karl Liebknecht
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/liebknecht-k/works/1915/05/main-enemy-home.htm
Tier 2
Socialism and the Political Struggle (1883) by Georgi Plekhanov
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/plekhanov/1883/struggle/index.htm
The Class Struggle (Erfurt Program) (1892) by Karl Kautsky
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/kautsky/1892/erfurt/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMCOEZ8xjqM
On the Role of the Individual in History (1898) by Georgi Plekhanov
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/plekhanov/1898/xx/individual.html
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQCUjwmSSk4
Reform or Revolution? (1900) by Rosa Luxemburg
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/luxemburg/1900/reform-revolution/index.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVZgtmGmyl4
Militarism and Anti-Militarism (1907) by Karl Liebknecht
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/liebknecht-k/works/1907/militarism-antimilitarism/index.htm
The Mass Strike, the Political Party and the Trade Unions (1906) by Rosa Luxemburg
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/luxemburg/1906/mass-strike/
The Historic Accomplishment of Karl Marx (1908) by Karl Kautsky
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/kautsky/1908/histacc/index.html
The National Question and Autonomy (1908) by Rosa Luxemburg
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/luxemburg/1909/national-question/index.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vkL6ZUnzcc
The Road to Power (1909) by Karl Kautsky
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/kautsky/1909/power/
Tier 3
The Development of the Monist View of History (1895) by Georgi Plekhanov
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/plekhanov/1895/monist/index.htm
No Compromise – No Political Trading (1899) by Wilhelm Liebknecht
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/liebknecht-w/1899/nocomp/index.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlYu23bMNhg
The Socialist Crisis in France (1901) by Rosa Luxemburg
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/luxemburg/1901/socialist-crisis-france/index.htm
The Social Revolution (1902) by Karl Kautsky
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/kautsky/1902/socrev/
The Foundations of Christianity (1908) by Karl Kautsky
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/kautsky/1908/christ/index.htm
The Accumulation of Capital (1913) by Rosa Luxemburg
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/luxemburg/1913/accumulation-capital/
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Anarcho-Communism
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Advocates for abolishing the state, capitalism, and private ownership of the means of production in favor of decentralized, voluntary communes with common ownership and distribution "from each according to ability, to each according to need." Variants include Platformism, Syncreticism, and Magonism.
Tier 1
Catechism of a Revolutionary (1869) by Sergey Nechayev
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/subject/anarchism/nechayev/catechism.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7kviqQa6ZU
To Manual Workers, Supporters of Political Action (1876) by François Dumartheray
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/francois-dumartheray-to-manual-workers-supporters-of-political-action
Anarchy and Communism (1880) by Carlo Cafiero
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/carlo-cafiero-anarchy-and-communism
Our Revolution (1881) by Carlo Cafiero
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/cafiero/1881/our-revolution.html
A Word to Tramps (1884) by Lucy Parsons
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/lucy-e-parsons-to-tramps
Words of a Rebel (1885) by Peter Kropotkin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/kropotkin-peter/1885/words-of-a-rebel/index.html
I Am an Anarchist (1886) by Lucy Parsons
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/lucy-e-parsons-i-am-an-anarchist
Anarchy (1891) by Errico Malatesta
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/errico-malatesta-anarchy
Manifesto of the Mexican Liberal Party (1911) by Ricardo Flores Magón
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/subject/anarchism/ricardo-flores-magon/1911/manifesto-of-the-mexican-liberal-party.html
The Anarchist Synthesis (1927) by Sébastien Faure
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/sebastien-faure-the-anarchist-synthesis
A Project of Anarchist Organisation (1927) by Errico Malatesta
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/errico-malatesta-a-project-of-anarchist-organisation
The ABC of Communist Anarchism (1929) by Alexander Berkman
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/berkman/1929/what-is-communist-anarchism/index.html
Tier 2
Fields, Factories and Workshops (1899) by Peter Kropotkin
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/petr-kropotkin-fields-factories-and-workshops-or-industry-combined-with-agriculture-and-brain-w
At the Café: Conversations on Anarchism (1922) by Errico Malatesta
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/malatesta/1922/at-the-cafe/index.html
On Synthesis (1924) by Volin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/subject/anarchism/voline/1924/on-synthesis.html
The Struggle Against the State and Other Essays (1926) by Nestor Makhno
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/makhno-nestor/works/1926/struggle-against-the-state/index.html
Tier 3
The Conquest of Bread (1892) by Peter Kropotkin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/kropotkin-peter/1892/bread.htm
Mutual Aid (1902) by Peter Kropotkin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/kropotkin-peter/1902/mutual-aid/index.htm
History of the Makhnovist Movement (1918–1921) (1923) by Peter Arshinov
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/peter-arshinov-history-of-the-makhnovist-movement-1918-1921
The Russian Revolution in the Ukraine (1926) by Nestor Makhno
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/nestor-makhno-the-russian-revolution-in-the-ukraine
Organizational Platform of the General Union of Anarchists (Draft) (1926) by Various Authors
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/dielo-truda-workers-cause-organisational-platform-of-the-libertarian-communists
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Leninism
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Mostly based on the works of Vladimir Lenin, argues for a disciplined vanguard party using democratic centralism to seize state power and establish a temporary dictatorship of the proletariat to lead the transition from capitalism to socialism.
Tier 1
What Is To Be Done? (1902) by Vladimir Lenin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1901/witbd/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-eCCtzsiXY
Revolutionary Adventurism (1902) by Vladimir Lenin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1902/sep/01.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovPbNQ9JqjA
Socialism and Religion (1905) by Vladimir Lenin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1905/dec/03.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKMlcPb1ttw
Three Source and Three Component Parts of Marxism (1913) by Vladimir Lenin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1913/mar/x01.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOAII71GaFY
The ABC of Communism (1920) by Nikolai Buhkarin & Evgenii Preobrazhensky
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/bukharin/works/1920/abc/index.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVVnjwBQHH0
Tier 2
Two Tactics of Social Democracy in the Democratic Revolution (1905) by Vladimir Lenin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1905/tactics/index.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQsWA4HCGuY
The Right of Nations to Self-Determination (1914) by Vladimir Lenin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1914/self-det/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bbODqyoeM0
Imperialism and World Economy (1915) by Nikolai Bukharin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/bukharin/works/1917/imperial/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13Uj5GE1h1U
The Proletarian Revolution and Renegade Kautsky (1918) by Vladimir Lenin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1918/prrk/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_IWmgY8k2A
“Left-Wing” Communism: an Infantile Disorder (1920) by Vladimir Lenin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1920/lwc/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wh84f8czc7g
Tier 3
Materialism and Empirio-Criticism (1909) by Vladimir Lenin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1908/mec/
Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism (1917) by Vladimir Lenin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1916/imp-hsc/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFtUKPPYmqk
The State and Revolution (1917) by Vladimir Lenin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/staterev/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrfLQsyUYig
Historical Materialism: A System of Sociology (1921) by Nikolai Bukharin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/bukharin/works/1921/histmat/index.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sr7o64hezwc
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Syndicalism
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Tendency that aims to replace capitalism and the state by organizing workers into trade-union syndicates using direct action, such as general strikes, in order to take control of production and self-manage the economy.
Tier 1
Anarchism and the Workers' Unions (1895) by Fernand Pelloutier
📖 · https://libcom.org/article/anarchism-and-workers-unions-fernand-pelloutier
What Means This Strike? (1898) by Daniel DeLeon
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/deleon/works/1898/980211.htm
Sabotage (1898) by Émile Pouget
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/pouget/1898/sabotage.htm
The Burning Question of Trade Unionism (1904) by Daniel DeLeon
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/deleon/works/1904/040421.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGe1aEA4UOw
The General Strike (1911) by Bill Haywood
📖 · https://archive.iww.org/history/library/Haywood/GeneralStrike/
The Conscious Withdrawal of the Workers' Industrial Efficiency (1917) by Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/subject/women/authors/flynn/1917/sabotage.htm
Tier 2
Anarcho-Syndicalism: Theory and Practice (1938) by Rudolf Rocker
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/rudolf-rocker-anarchosyndicalism
One Big Union (2000) by the Industrial Workers of the World
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/industrial-workers-of-the-world-one-big-union
Tier 3
Socialist Reconstruction of Society (1905) by Daniel DeLeon
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/deleon/works/1905/050710.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzF6QXNIWV0
Industrial Socialism (1911) by Bill Haywood
📖 · https://archive.iww.org/history/library/Haywood/IndSocialism/
The Autobiography of Mother Jones (1925) by Mother Jones
📖 · https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/65079/pg65079-images.html
Anarchists in the Spanish Revolution (1990) by José Peirats
📖 · https://libcom.org/article/anarchists-spanish-revolution
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Marxism-Leninism
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Institutionalized doctrine that fuses Marx’s theory with Lenin’s praxis as codified official party ideology, applying the idea of historical materialism to a practical program of revolutionary vanguardism and a state-led transition to socialism.
Tier 1
Dialectical and Historical Materialism (1938) by Joseph Stalin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1938/09.htm
The Path Which Led Me To Leninism (1960) by Ho Chi Minh
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/ho-chi-minh/works/1960/04/x01.htm
The Khruschevites (1976) by Enver Hoxha
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hoxha/works/1976/khruschevites/index.htm
Tier 2
Anarchism or Socialism? (1906) by Joseph Stalin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1906/12/x01.htm
Marxism and the National Question (1913) by Joseph Stalin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1913/03a.htm
Workers Manage Factories in Yugoslavia (1950) by Josip Broz Tito
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/tito/1950/06/26.htm
Marxism and Problems of Linguistics (1950) by Joseph Stalin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1950/jun/20.htm
History Will Absolve Me (1953) by Fidel Castro
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/history/cuba/archive/castro/1953/10/16.htm
Guerilla Warfare (1961) by Che Guevara
📖 · https://www.cheguevara.org/Guerrilla-Warfare.pdf
Eurocommunism is Anti-Communism (1980) by Enver Hoxha
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hoxha/works/euroco/env2-1.htm
Tier 3
Foundations of Leninism (1924) by Joseph Stalin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1924/foundations-leninism/
The People's Front (1938) by Earl Browder
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/browder/peoples-front/index.htm
Economic Problems of Socialism in the USSR (1951) by Joseph Stalin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1951/economic-problems/index.htm
Fundamentals of Marxism–Leninism (1960) by Otto Kuusinen
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/kuusinen/1960/fundamentals-marxism-leninism.pdf
Imperialism and the Revolution (1979) by Enver Hoxha
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hoxha/works/imp_rev/toc.htm
Revolution in Laos: Practice and Prospects (1981) by Kaysone Phomvihane
📖 · https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Library:Revolution_in_Laos
Women's Liberation and the African Freedom Struggle (1990) by Thomas Sankara
📖 · https://libcom.org/article/womens-liberation-and-african-freedom-struggle
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Illegalism and Insurrectionary Anarchism
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Both support propaganda of the deed as a method of revolutionary struggle, with Illegalism having roots in Individualist Anarchism while Insurrectionary Anarchism shares overlap with Anarcho-Communism.
Tier 1
A Letter from Mazas Prison (1886) by Clément Duval
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/clement-duval-a-letter-from-cleement-duval
Why I Was a Burglar (1905) by Marius Jacob
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/marius-jacob-why-i-was-a-burglar
Byzantinism and Limpness (1909) by Michel Antoine
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/michel-antoine-byzantinism-and-limpness
Is the Illegalist Anarchist Our Comrade? (1911) by Émile Armand
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/emile-armand-is-the-illegalist-anarchist-our-comrade
Two Lectures on the Bonnot Affair (1912) by Victor Serge
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/victor-serge-two-lectures-on-the-bonnot-affair
Tier 2
The Anarchism of Émile Armand (1907) by Émile Armand
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/emile-armand-the-anarchism-of-emile-armand
Toward the Creative Nothing (1924) by Renzo Novatore
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/renzo-novatore-toward-the-creative-nothing
The Principal of Organization to the Light of Anarchism (1927) by Luigi Galleani
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/luigi-galleani-the-principal-of-organization-to-the-light-of-anarchism
Armed Joy (1977) by Alfredo Bonnano
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/alfredo-m-bonanno-armed-joy
Tier 3
The Ego and Its Own (1844) by Max Stirner
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stirner/ego-and-its-own.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBOex4R61Oo
Against War, Against Peace, For The Social Revolution (1914) by Luigi Galleani
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/luigi-galleani-against-war-against-peace-for-the-social-revolution
The End of Anarchism? (1925) by Luigi Galleani
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/luigi-galleani-the-end-of-anarchism
Anarchists Never Surrender (1938) by Victor Serge
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/victor-serge-anarchists-never-surrender
The Anarchist Cookbook (1971) by William Powell
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782487901594-3.pdf
The Bonnot Gang (1987) by Richard Parry
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/richard-parry-the-bonnot-gang-the-story-of-the-french-illegalists
The Coming Insurrection (2007) by The Invisible Committee
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/comite-invisible-the-coming-insurrection
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Trotskyism
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Based on Leon Trotsky's work, stresses permanent revolution, proletarian internationalism, and an opposition to bureaucratic degeneration.
Tier 1
The Lessons of October (1924) by Leon Trotsky
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1924/lessons/index.htm
The Transitional Program (1938) by Leon Trotsky
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1938/tp/
Their Morals and Ours (1938) by Leon Trotsky
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1938/morals/morals.htm
Fascism: What It Is and How to Fight It (1944) by Leon Trotsky
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/works/1944/1944-fas.htm
Tier 2
Terrorism and Communism (1920) by Leon Trotsky
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1920/terrcomm/index.htm
The Permanent Revolution and Results and Prospects (1930) by Leon Trotsky
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1931/tpr/index.htm
Tier 3
The Third International After Lenin (1928) by Leon Trotsky
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1928/3rd/index.htm
History of the Russian Revolution (1930) by Leon Trotsky
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1930/hrr/
The Revolution Betrayed (1936) by Leon Trotsky
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1936/revbet/
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Pacifism
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Belief that war and violence are morally wrong or should be avoided, often favoring nonviolent resistance, diplomacy, and peaceful conflict resolution.
Tier 1
Civil Disobedience (1849) by Henry David Thoreau
📖 · https://www.gutenberg.org/files/71/71-h/71-h.htm
Pilgrimage to Nonviolence (1960) by Martin Luther King Jr.
📖 · https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/king-papers/documents/pilgrimage-nonviolence
Tier 2
The Kingdom of God Is Within You (1894) by Leo Tolstoy
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/leo-tolstoy-the-kingdom-of-god-is-within-you
Indian Home Rule (1909) by Mahatma Gandhi
📖 · https://www.mkgandhi.org/ebks/hind_swaraj.pdf
The Power of Nonviolence (1934) by Richard B. Gregg
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782306077617-2-0.pdf
The Long Loneliness (1952) by Dorothy Day
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782306269841-7-0.pdf
From Dictatorship to Democracy (1994) by Gene Sharp
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782306077617-4-2.pdf
Tier 3
The Conquest of Violence (1937) by Bart de Ligt
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782306269841-6-1.pdf
Essays (Including Pacifism and Class War) (1967) by A. J. Muste
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782308254608-1.pdf
The Politics of Nonviolent Action (1973) by Gene Sharp
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782306077617-2-1.pdf
Writings Against Power & Death (1994) by Alex Comfort
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782306077617-8-3.pdf
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Maoism
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Also known as Mao Zedong Thought, argues for peasant-led revolution, protracted people’s war, mass mobilization, and adapting Marxist strategy to agrarian societies.
Tier 1
Analysis of The Classes In Chinese Society (1926) by Mao Zedong
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-1/mswv1_1.htm
Oppose Book Worship (1930) by Mao Zedong
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-6/mswv6_11.htm
Be Concerned With the Well-Being of the Masses, Pay Attention to Methods of Work (1934) by Mao Zedong
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-1/mswv1_10.htm
Combat Liberalism (1937) by Mao Zedong
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-2/mswv2_03.htm
Serve The People (1944) by Mao Zedong
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-3/mswv3_19.htm
Bombard The Headquarters (1966) by Mao Zedong
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-9/mswv9_63.htm
Tier 2
On Contradiction (1937) by Mao Zedong
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-1/mswv1_17.htm
On Practice (1937) by Mao Zedong
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-1/mswv1_16.htm
On Protracted War (1938) by Mao Zedong
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-2/mswv2_09.htm
On New Democracy (1940) by Mao Zedong
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-2/mswv2_26.htm
Tier 3
Report on an Investigation of the Peasant Movement In Hunan (1927) by Mao Zedong
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-1/mswv1_2.htm
On Guerrilla Warfare (1937) by Mao Zedong
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/works/1937/guerrilla-warfare/
The Chinese Revolution and the Chinese Communist Party (1939) by Mao Zedong
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-2/mswv2_23.htm
On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People (1957) by Mao Zedong
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-5/mswv5_58.htm
Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (1964) by Mao Zedong
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/works/red-book/index.htm
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Agrarian Socialism
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Socialist tradition that centers land, peasants, rural workers, and village communities rather than industrial workers alone. Sharing overlap with Maoism, related currents include Narodnism, Georgism, Neozapatismo, and, in the most extreme end of the spectrum, Pol Pot Thought.
Tier 1
>Georgism
Agrarian Justice (1797) by Thomas Paine
📖 · https://www.ssa.gov/history/paine4.html
>Narodnism
Agrarian Program (1905) by the Socialist Revolutionary Party
📖 · https://eudocs.lib.byu.edu/index.php/The_Social-Revolutionaries
>Zapatismo/Neozapatismo
Plan of Ayala (1911) by Emiliano Zapata
📖 · https://users.pop.umn.edu/~rmccaa/la20c/ayala.htm
First Declaration of the Lacandona Jungle (1993) by the Zapatista Army of National Liberation
📖 · https://schoolsforchiapas.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/1st-Declaration-of-the-Lacandona-Jungle.pdf
Our Word Is Our Weapon (2002) by Subcomandante Marcos
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/subcomandante-marcos-our-word-is-our-weapon
Sixth Declaration of the Lacandon Jungle (2005) by the Zapatista Army of National Liberation
📖 · https://schoolsforchiapas.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/6th-Declaration-of-the-Lacandona-Jungle.pdf
Tier 2
>Narodnism
From the Other Shore (1850) by Alexander Herzen
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782336731998-2-0.pdf
Historical Letters (1869) by Pyotr Lavrov
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782336731998-3-1.pdf
>Agrarian Marxism
Land or Death (1971) by Hugo Blanco
📖 · http://www.socialiststories.com/en/writers/Blanco-Hugo/Land-or-Death-Hugo-Blanco.pdf
>Pol Pot Thought
The Party’s Four-Year Plan to Build Socialism in All Fields, 1977–1980 (1976) by the Communist Party of Kampuchea
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782336731998-8-3.pdf
Long Live the 17th Anniversary of the Communist Party of Kampuchea (1977) by the Communist Party of Kampuchea
📖 · https://bannedthought.net/Cambodia/PolPot/PolPot-LongLiveThe17thAnniversaryOfCPofKampuchea-1977.pdf
Tier 3
>Georgism
Progress and Poverty (1879) by Henry George
📖 · https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/55308/pg55308-images.html
>Narodnism
Marxism and the Agrarian Question (1906) by Viktor Chernov
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782347353852-9.pdf
The Theory of Peasant Economy (1925) by Alexander Chayanov
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782336731998-3-2.pdf
>Agrarian Marxism
Seven Interpretive Essays on Peruvian Reality (1928) by José Carlos Mariátegui
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/mariateg/works/7-interpretive-essays/index.htm
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Marxism-Leninism-Maoism
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Treats Maoism as a higher stage of Marxism–Leninism, emphasizing peasant-led, protracted people’s war, the mass line, and continuing revolution to prevent bureaucratic degeneration.
Tier 1
On Gonzalo Thought (1988) by the Communist Party of Peru
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782143919558-1-0.pdf
Marxism-Leninism-Maoism or Revisionism? (1990) by Prachanda
📖 · https://www.bannedthought.net/Nepal/Problems-Prospects/p_mlmor_revisionism.html
Tier 2
General Political Line (1988) by the Communist Party of Peru
📖 · https://bannedthought.net/Peru/CPP/Documents/GeneralPoliticalLineOfTheCommunistPartyOfPeru-1988-OCR.pdf
The Great Leap Forward: An Inevitable Need of History (2001) by the Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist)
📖 · https://www.bannedthought.net/Nepal/Worker/Worker-07/GreatLeapForward-Prachanda-010200.htm
Hold High the Bright Red Banner of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism (2004) by the Communist Party of India (Maoist)
📖 · https://www.bannedthought.net/India/CPI-Maoist-Docs/Founding/MLM-pamphlet.pdf
Tier 3
On the Bourgeois-Democratic State (1961) by Abimael Guzmán
📖 · https://bannedthought.net/Peru/Gonzalo/Guzman-OnTheBourgeois-DemocraticState-1961-Thesis-OCR-sm.pdf
Philippine Society and Revolution (1970) by Amado Guerrero
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/history/philippines/cpp/guerrero/1970/psr.htm
Problems & Prospects of Revolution in Nepal (2004) by Prachanda and the Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist)
📖 · https://bannedthought.net/Nepal/Problems-Prospects/index.htm
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Postcolonialism
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Study of how colonialism shaped societies, cultures, identities, politics, and knowledge, and how formerly colonized peoples resist, reinterpret, and live with those colonial legacies.
Tier 1
The Case Against French Colonization (1924) by Ho Chi Minh
📖 · https://www.leinsdorf.com/The%20Case%20Against%20French%20Colonialism%20%20Copyright,%202017-2.htm
Discourse on Colonialism (1950) by Aimé Césaire
📖 · https://libcom.org/article/discourse-colonialism
Can the Subaltern Speak? (1988) by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
📖 · https://monoskop.org/images/4/45/Spivak_Gayatri_1988_Can_the_Subaltern_Speak.pdf
Coloniality of Power, Eurocentrism, and Latin America (2000) by Aníbal Quijano
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782402288133-5-0.pdf
Settler Colonialism and the Elimination of the Native (2006) by Patrick Wolfe
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782402288133-4-2.pdf
Tier 2
Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto (1969) by Vine Deloria Jr
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782402192458-8-0.pdf
Consciencism: Philosophy and Ideology for De-Colonisation (1970) by Kwame Nkrumah
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782402192458-2-1.pdf
Unity and Struggle (1979) by Amílcar Cabral
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/subject/africa/cabral/1979/unity-struggle.pdf
Decolonising the Mind (1986) by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782402192458-9-2.pdf
Tier 3
The Black Jacobins (1938) by C. L. R. James
📖 · https://libcom.org/article/black-jacobins-toussaint-louverture-and-san-domingo-revolution-clr-james
Black Skin, White Masks (1952) by Frantz Fanon
📖 · https://libcom.org/article/black-skin-white-masks-frantz-fanon
The Wretched of the Earth (1961) by Frantz Fanon
📖 · https://libcom.org/article/wretched-earth-frantz-fanon
Neo-Colonialism, the Last Stage of Imperialism (1965) by Kwame Nkrumah
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/ebooks/nkrumah/nkrumah-neocolonialism.pdf
Open Veins of Latin America (1971) by Eduardo Galeano
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782445309022-1.pdf
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (1972) by Walter Rodney
📖 · https://monoskop.org/images/8/81/Rodney_Walter_How_Europe_Underdeveloped_Africa_rev_ed_1981.pdf
Orientalism (1978) by Edward Said
📖 · https://monoskop.org/images/4/4e/Said_Edward_Orientalism_1979.pdf
The Location of Culture (1994) by Homi K. Bhabha
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782402192458-2-3.pdf
Provincializing Europe (2000) by Dipesh Chakrabarty
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782402192458-7-4.pdf
On the Postcolony (2001) by Achille Mbembe
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782402288133-3-1.pdf
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Socialism with Chinese Characteristics
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Adapts and institutionalizes Marxism–Leninism to Chinese conditions by marrying one-party rule and state control of strategic sectors with market-oriented reforms to drive modernization.
Tier 1
Emancipate the Mind, Seek Truth From Facts and Unite As One In Looking to the Future (1978) by Deng Xiaoping
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/deng-xiaoping/1978/110.htm
Uphold the Four Cardinal Principles (1979) by Deng Xiaoping
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/deng-xiaoping/1979/115.htm
We Can Develop A Market Economy Under Socialism (1979) by Deng Xiaoping
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/deng-xiaoping/1979/152.htm
To Build Socialism We Must First Develop the Productive Forces (1980) by Deng Xiaoping
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/deng-xiaoping/1980/101.htm
Tier 2
On the Reform of the System of Party and State Leadership (1980) by Deng Xiaoping
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/deng-xiaoping/1980/220.htm
Tier 3
Build Socialism With Chinese Characteristics (1984) by Deng Xiaoping
📖 · https://www.bannedthought.net/China/Individuals/DengXiaoping/DengXiaoping-BuildSocialismWithChineseCharacteristics.pdf
On the “Three Represents” (2000) by Jiang Zemin
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782143919558-0-1.pdf
Report to the 17th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (2007) by Hu Jintao
📖 · https://gb.china-embassy.gov.cn/eng/zywl/2007/200710/t20071031_3386927.htm
The Governance of China (2014) by Xi Jinping
📖 · https://www.bannedthought.net/China/Individuals/XiJinping/XiJinping-TheGovernanceOfChina.pdf
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Eco-Socialism
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Tradition that argues ecological crisis is rooted in capitalism’s drive for endless growth, profit, and extraction, generally advocating for ecological limits, public or communal control of production, climate justice, and meeting human needs rather than accumulating wealth.
Tier 1
Useful Work vs. Useless Toil (1885) by William Morris
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/morris/works/1884/useful.htm
Post-Scarcity Anarchism (1971) by Murray Bookchin
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/murray-bookchin-post-scarcity-anarchism-book
The Philosophy of Social Ecology (1996) by Murray Bookchin
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/murray-bookchin-the-philosophy-of-social-ecology
Ecosocialism or Ecocatastrophe? (2009) by David Schwartzman
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782491686714-2-2.pdf
Ecosocialism: A Radical Alternative to Capitalist Catastrophe (2015) by Michael Löwy
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782491886054-2-0.pdf
Red Deal: Indigenous Action to Save Our Earth (2021) by The Red Nation
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782492152750-2-2.pdf
How to Blow Up a Pipeline (2021) by Andreas Malm
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782492152750-4-1.pdf
Tier 2
Fields, Factories and Workshops (1899) by Peter Kropotkin
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/petr-kropotkin-fields-factories-and-workshops-or-industry-combined-with-agriculture-and-brain-w
Ecology as Politics (1978) by André Gorz
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782491486197-7-1.pdf
The Conserver Society: Alternatives for Sustainability (1995) by Ted Trainer
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782491486197-6-2.pdf
Toward Climate Justice (2010) by Brian Tokar
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782491686715-1-3.pdf
Capitalism in the Web of Life: Ecology and the Accumulation of Capital (2015) by Jason W. Moore
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782491686715-2-4.pdf
A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal (2019) by Various Authors
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782491886054-3-3.pdf
Less Is More (2020) by Jason Hickel
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782491886054-5-4.pdf
Slow Down: The Degrowth Manifesto (2020) by Kohei Saito
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1769447067118-3.pdf
Pollution Is Colonialism (2021) by Max Liboiron
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782492152750-5-0.pdf
Cannibal Capitalism (2022) by Nancy Fraser
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782492152750-1-3.pdf
Tier 3
The Alternative in Eastern Europe (1977) by Rudolf Bahro
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782491486197-1-0.pdf
The Ecology of Freedom (1982) by Murray Bookchin
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/murray-bookchin-the-ecology-of-freedom
Natural Causes: Essays in Ecological Marxism (1998) by James O'Connor
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782491486197-3-3.pdf
Marx's Ecology (2000) by John Bellamy Foster
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782491486197-7-4.pdf
The Enemy of Nature (2002) by Joel Kovel
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782491686714-7-0.pdf
The Environmentalism of the Poor (2002) by Joan Martínez-Alier
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782491686714-8-1.pdf
Fossil Capital (2016) by Andreas Malm
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782491886054-4-1.pdf
Decolonial Ecology (2019) by Malcolm Ferdinand
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782491886054-2-2.pdf
Marx in the Anthropocene (2022) by Kohei Saito
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1676047310995.pdf
Climate Change as Class War (2022) by Matthew T. Huber
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782492152750-5-4.pdf
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Maoism-Third Worldism
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Blends Maoist strategy with Third-Worldist analysis, arguing the revolutionary proletariat is concentrated in oppressed (Global South) countries while much First-World labor is seen as privileged or comprador.
Tier 1
Long Live the Victory of People’s War! (1965) by Lin Biao
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/lin-biao/1965/09/peoples_war/index.htm
Message to the Tricontinental (1967) by Che Guevara
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/guevara/1967/04/16.htm
Tier 2
White-Settler Colonialism and the Myth of Investment Imperialism (1972) by Arghiri Emmanuel
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782143919558-0-2.pdf
Unequal Development (1973) by Samir Amin
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782144098405-5-0.pdf
Foreign Trade and the Law of Value (1979) by Anwar Shaikh
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782144098405-0-1.pdf
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782144098405-8-2.pdf
Settlers: The Mythology of the White Proletariat (1983) by J. Sakai
📖 · https://readsettlers.org/text-index.html
Eurocentrism (1989) by Samir Amin
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782144680371-0-0.pdf
The Wealth of (Some) Nations (2019) by Zak Cope
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1655353202103-0.pdf
Tier 3
Accumulation on a World Scale (1971) by Samir Amin
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782144680371-5-1.pdf
Unequal Exchange: A Study of the Imperialism of Trade (1972) by Arghiri Emmanuel
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782144680371-6-2.pdf
Delinking: Towards a Polycentric World (1986) by Samir Amin
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782145470496-0-0.pdf
Divided World, Divided Class (2012) by Zak Cope
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782145470496-9-1.pdf
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Animal Liberation
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Movement that seeks to abolish the capitalistic exploitation of nonhuman animals, especially in food, research, clothing, entertainment, and other industries.
Tier 1
Animals' Rights: Considered in Relation to Social Progress (1892) by Henry Stephens Salt
📖 · https://gutenberg.org/cache/epub/64498/pg64498-images.html
On Vegetarianism (1901) by Élisée Reclus
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/elisee-reclus-on-vegetarianism
Animal Machines (1964) by Ruth Harrison
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782571960451-7-0.pdf
Speciesism (1970) by Richard D. Ryder
📖 · https://www.veganzetta.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Speciesism-Again-the-original-leaflet-Richard-Ryder.pdf
Animal Liberation and Social Revolution (1997) by Brian Dominick
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/brian-a-dominick-animal-liberation-and-social-revolution
Revealing the Animal-Industrial Complex (2012) by Richard Twine
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782572033826-6-3.pdf
18 Theses on Marxism and Animal Liberation (2018) by Bündnis Marxismus & Tierbefreiung
📖 · https://mutb.org/media/publication-thesenpapier-en.pdf
Conceptualising Animal Exploitation in Capitalism (2019) by Christian Stache
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782572099103-3-1.pdf
Tier 2
The Universal Kinship (1906) by J. Howard Moore
📖 · https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/61363/pg61363-images.html
The Dreaded Comparison: Human and Animal Slavery (1988) by Marjorie Spiegel
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782571960451-9-2.pdf
Natural Relations: Ecology, Animal Rights and Social Justice (1993) by Ted Benton
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782571960451-9-4.pdf
Making a Killing: The Political Economy of Animal Rights (2007) by Bob Torres
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782572033826-2-1.pdf
The Politics of Total Liberation (2014) by Steven Best
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782572099103-1-0.pdf
Beyond Nature: Animal Liberation, Marxism, and Critical Theory (2021) by Marco Maurizi
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782572099103-5-2.pdf
Tier 3
Animal Liberation (1975) by Peter Singer
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782571960451-8-1.pdf
The Sexual Politics of Meat (1990) by Carol J. Adams
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782571960451-5-3.pdf
Animal Rights/Human Rights: Entanglements of Oppression and Liberation (2002) by David Nibert
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782572033826-7-0.pdf
Critical Theory and Animal Liberation (2011) by Various Authors
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782572033826-2-2.pdf
Total Liberation (2014) by David Naguib Pellow
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782572033826-5-4.pdf
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Juche
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The official state ideology of North Korea, stressing political independence, economic self-sufficiency, self-defense, and the central role of the leader in guiding the nation.
Tier 1
For the Establishment of a United Party of the Working Masses (1946) by Kim Il Sung
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/kim-il-sung/1946/08/29.pdf
On the Occasion of the Founding of the Korean People’s Army (1948) by Kim Il Sung
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/kim-il-sung/1948/02/08.pdf
On Eliminating Dogmatism and Formalism and Establishing Juche in Ideological Work (1955) by Kim Il Sung
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/kim-il-sung/1955/12/28.htm
The Juche Idea is an Idea that Has Inherited and Developed the Progressive Ideologies of Mankind (1986) by Kim Jong Il
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/kim-jong-il/works/The-Juche-Idea-Is-An-Idea-That-Has-Inherited-And-Developed-The-Progressive-Ideologies-Of-Mankind.pdf
Ours is the Socialism of Juche (1994) by Kim Il Sung
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/kim-il-sung/1994/04/16.pdf
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea is a Juche-Oriented Socialist State with Invincible Might (2008) by Kim Jong Il
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/kim-jong-il/works/The-Democratic-Peoples-Republic-Of-Korea-Is-A-Juche-Oriented-Socialist-State-With-Invincible-Might.pdf
Let Us March Forward Dynamically Towards Final Victory, Holding Higher the Banner of Songun (2012) by Kim Jong Un
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782145470496-4-2.pdf
Tier 2
On the Juche Idea (1982) by Kim Jong Il
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/kim-jong-il/works/On-The-Juche-Idea.pdf
Our Socialism Centred on the Masses Shall Not Perish (1991) by Kim Jong Il
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/kim-jong-il/works/Our-Socialism-Centred-On-The-Masses-Shall-Not-Perish.pdf
Tier 3
On Juche in Our Revolution (1975) by Kim Il Sung
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782145712234-0-0.pdf
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782145712234-1-1.pdf
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Christian Socialism
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Belief that Christian ethics, especially care for the poor, solidarity, justice, and shared responsibility, support a more equal, cooperative economy rather than capitalist individualism. Variants include Distributism, Christian Anarchism and Liberation Theology.
Tier 1
New Christianity (1825) by Henri de Saint-Simon
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782141768594-1-2.pdf
Unto This Last (1862) by John Ruskin
📖 · https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Unto_This_Last_(Ruskin)
Rerum novarum (1891) by Pope Leo XIII
📖 · https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiii/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_l-xiii_enc_15051891_rerum-novarum.html
Christian Socialism: A Lecture (1894) by Stewart Headlam
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782704866148-7-1.pdf
The Acquisitive Society (1920) by R. H. Tawney
📖 · https://www.gutenberg.org/files/33741/33741-h/33741-h.htm
Quadragesimo anno (1931) by Pope Pius XI
📖 · https://www.vatican.va/content/pius-xi/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_p-xi_enc_19310515_quadragesimo-anno.html
Christianity and Social Order (1942) by William Temple
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782705119609-6-1.pdf
Message to the Christians (1965) by Camilo Torres Restrepo
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782705119609-0-3.pdf
Saint Paul: The Foundation of Universalism (1997) by Alain Badiou
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782740961869-7.pdf
Tier 2
The Kingdom of God Is Within You (1894) by Leo Tolstoy
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/leo-tolstoy-the-kingdom-of-god-is-within-you
The Servile State (1912) by Hilaire Belloc
📖 · https://gutenberg.org/cache/epub/64882/pg64882-images.html
Utopia of Usurers (1917) by G. K. Chesterton
📖 · https://www.gutenberg.org/files/2134/2134-h/2134-h.htm
The Socialist Decision (1933) by Paul Tillich
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782704866148-3-4.pdf
The Long Loneliness (1952) by Dorothy Day
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782306269841-7-0.pdf
The Book of Ammon (1965) by Ammon Hennacy
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782705119609-4-2.pdf
A Theology of Liberation (1971) by Gustavo Gutiérrez
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782705119609-7-4.pdf
Prophesy Deliverance! An Afro-American Revolutionary Christianity (1982) by Cornel West
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782705229520-1-0.pdf
Christi-Anarchy (1999) by Dave Andrews
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782705229520-7-2.pdf
Tier 3
The Kingdom of Christ (1838) by F. D. Maurice
📖 · https://archive.org/details/a592475701mauruoft/mode/2up
📖 · https://archive.org/details/a5924757b02mauruoft/mode/2up
Practical Christian Socialism (1854) by Adin Ballou
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782704866148-8-0.pdf
Christianity and the Social Crisis (1907) by Walter Rauschenbusch
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782704866148-8-2.pdf
Socialism and Character (1912) by Vida Dutton Scudder
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/scudder/1912/socialism-and-character-scudder.pdf
The Outline of Sanity (1927) by G. K. Chesterton
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782704866148-0-3.pdf
Easy Essays (1934) by Peter Maurin
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782705119609-6-0.pdf
The Socialist Sixth of the World (1939) by Hewlett Johnson
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/johnson-hewlett/socialistsixth/contents.htm
Christian Anarchy: Jesus’ Primacy over the Powers (1987) by Vernard Eller
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782705229520-1-1.pdf
Anarchy and Christianity (1988) by Jacques Ellul
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/jacques-ellul-anarchy-christianity-en
Christian Anarchism: A Political Commentary on the Gospel (2011) by Alexandre Christoyannopoulos
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/alexandre-christoyannopoulos-christian-anarchism
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Italian Left-Communism
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Insisting on strict Marxist orthodoxy, rejecting parliamentarism, reformist trade unions and united fronts, while promoting a revolutionary, party-centered alternative to both social democracy and Marxism-Leninism.
Tier 1
Party and Class (1921) by Amadeo Bordiga
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/bordiga/works/1921/party-class.htm
Bourgeois Violence and Proletarian Defence (1946) by Onorato Damen
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/damen/1946/bourgeois-violence.htm
Proletarian Dictatorship and Class Party (1951) by Amadeo Bordiga
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/bordiga/works/1951/class-party.htm
Centralised Party, Yes – Centralism over the Party, No! (1951) by Onorato Damen
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/damen/1951/centralised.htm
Tier 2
Party and Class Action (1921) by Amadeo Bordiga
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/bordiga/works/1921/classact.htm
The Democratic Principle (1922) by Amadeo Bordiga
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/bordiga/works/1922/democratic-principle.htm
The Lyons Theses (1926) by Amadeo Bordiga
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/bordiga/works/1926/lyons-theses.htm
The Communist Left in the Third International (1926) by Amadeo Bordiga
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/bordiga/works/1926/comintern.htm
Dialogue with Stalin (1952) by Amadeo Bordiga
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/bordiga/works/1952/stalin.htm
We Defend the Italian Left (1966) by Onorato Damen
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/damen/1966/defend.htm
Tier 3
The Fundamentals for a Marxist Orientation (1946) by Amadeo Bordiga
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/bordiga/works/1946/orientation.htm
Bordiga — Beyond the Myth and the Rhetoric (1970) by Onorato Damen
📖 · https://www.leftcom.org/files/2018-10-02-damen-bordiga.pdf
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Jewish Socialism
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Tradition that links Jewish collective life, labor struggle, anti-capitalism, and opposition to antisemitism. In its Bundist and Anti-Zionist forms, it emphasizes the principle of "doikayt" — a fight for socialism where Jews already live, rather than through a separate Jewish state.
Tier 1
Zionism or Socialism (1898) by Chaim Zhitlowsky
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782753054661-4-3.pdf
Social Democracy and the National Question (1904) by Vladimir Medem
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782753054661-3-1.pdf
A Jewish Socialist Critique of Zionism (1906) by Chaim Jakov Gelfand
📖 · https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/a-jewish-socialist-critique-of-zionism-from-1906
The Jewish Proletariat in Russia: Ten Years of the Bund (1907) by K. Boris
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/subject/jewish/boris/bund.htm
Manifesto of the General Jewish Workers’ Union in Poland (1937) by Henryk Erlich
📖 · https://www.derspekter.org/manifesto-of-the-general-jewish-workers-union-bund-in-poland/
Anti-Semitism and Yiddish Culture / Jewish Culture (1938) by Moissaye J. Olgin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/subject/jewish/olgin-anti-semitism.htm
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/subject/jewish/olgin-anti-semitism-2.htm
Stop Them Now: German Mass Murder of Jews in Poland (1942) by Szmul Zygielbojm
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/subject/jewish/stop-murder.pdf
Statement on Palestine and Zionism Issued (1947) by the New York Bund Organization
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/subject/jewish/bund-ny-48.pdf
The Jewish Labor Bund and the State of Israel (1948) by the Bund World Coordinating Committee
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/subject/jewish/bund-israel.pdf
The Problems of Jewish Culture (1950) by Morris Schappes
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/subject/jewish/schappes-culture.pdf
Message of the Non-Jewish Jew (1958) by Isaac Deutscher
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/newspape/amersocialist/deutscher01.htm
The Roots of Antisemitism (1960) by Raya Dunayevskaya
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/dunayevskaya/works/1960/antisemitism.htm
The Jewish Question and the Left — Old and New: A Challenge to the New Left (1970) by Morris Schappes
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/subject/jewish/old-and-new.pdf
Marx and the Economic-Jew Stereotype (1977) by Hal Draper
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/draper/1977/kmtr1/app1.htm
Tier 2
Holy History of Mankind (1837) by Moses Hess
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782141768594-3-1.pdf
On The Jewish Question (1844) by Karl Marx
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/jewish-question/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lu7jgrQ_oF8
Antisemitism: Its History and Causes (1894) by Bernard Lazare
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/lazare-bernard/1894/antisemitism/index.htm
The National Question and Autonomy (1908) by Rosa Luxemburg
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/luxemburg/1909/national-question/index.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vkL6ZUnzcc
The Jewish Question: A Marxist Interpretation (1942) by Abraham Leon
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/ebooks/leon/Abram_Leon_The_Jewish_Question.pdf
The Non-Jewish Jew: And Other Essays (1968) by Isaac Deutscher
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782749813899-4-0.pdf
Zionism: Its Role in World Politics (1973) by Hyman Lumer
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782830399588-6.pdf
Citizens of the Whole World: Anti-Zionism and the Cultures of the American Jewish Left (2025) by Benjamin Balthaser
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782753054661-9-2.pdf
Tier 3
Five Years in the Warsaw Ghetto: The Stars Bear Witness (1949) by Bernard Goldstein
📖 · https://libcom.org/article/five-years-warsaw-ghetto-bernard-goldstein
The London Years (1956) by Rudolf Rocker
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/rudolf-rocker-the-london-years
The Jewish Question: History of a Marxist Debate (1990) by Enzo Traverso
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782749813899-1-1.pdf
The Colors of Jews: Racial Politics and Radical Diasporism (2007) by Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782749813899-1-2.pdf
Bundist Counterculture in Interwar Poland (2009) by Jack Jacobs
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782749813899-8-3.pdf
Parting Ways: Jewishness and the Critique of Zionism (2012) by Judith Butler
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782749813899-1-4.pdf
No Masters but God: Portraits of Anarcho-Judaism (2021) by Hayyim Rothman
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782753054661-1-0.pdf
Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund (2026) by Molly Crabapple
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782830101983-7.pdf
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Council Communism
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Favors workers’ councils as the basis of proletarian power and organization as opposed to vanguard party centralism, arguing for direct, self-managed, council-based socialism.
Tier 1
World Revolution and Communist Tactics (1920) by Anton Pannekoek
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/pannekoe/1920/communist-tactics.htm
The Revolution Is Not A Party Affair (1920) by Otto Rühle
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/ruhle/1920/ruhle02.htm
The Lenin Legend (1935) by Paul Mattick
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/mattick-paul/1935/lenin-legend.htm
Why Past Revolutionary Movements Have Failed (1940) by Anton Pannekoek
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/pannekoe/1940/revo.htm
The Party and Class (1941) by Anton Pannekoek
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/pannekoe/1941/party-class.htm
The Failure of the Working Class (1946) by Anton Pannekoek
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/pannekoe/1946/failure-working-class.htm
Tier 2
Imperialism, the World War and Social Democracy (1914) by Herman Gorter
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/gorter/1914/imperialism.htm
The World Revolution (1918) by Herman Gorter
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/gorter/1918/world-revolution.htm
Report from Moscow (1920) by Otto Rühle
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/ruhle/1920/ruhle01.htm
Lenin As Philosopher (1938) by Anton Pannekoek
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/pannekoe/1938/lenin/index.htm
The Struggle Against Fascism Begins with the Struggle Against Bolshevism (1939) by Otto Rühle
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/ruhle/1939/ruhle01.htm
Spontaneity and Organisation (1949) by Paul Mattick
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/mattick-paul/1949/spontaneity.htm
Tier 3
An Open Letter to Comrade Lenin (1920) by Herman Gorter
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/gorter/1920/open-letter.htm
Workers' Councils (1942) by Anton Pannekoek
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/pannekoe/1947/workers-councils.htm
Marx and Keynes: The Limits of the Mixed Economy (1969) by Paul Mattick
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/mattick-paul/1969/marx-keynes/index.htm
Anti-Bolshevik Communism (1978) by Paul Mattick
📖 · https://libcom.org/article/anti-bolshevik-communism-paul-mattick
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Islamic & Arab Socialism
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Social Justice in Islam (1949) by Sayyid Qutb
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782967224955-3-0.pdf
The Quranic System of Sustenance (1955) by Ghulam Ahmed Perwez
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782967224955-2-1.pdf
Egypt's Liberation: The Philosophy of the Revolution (1955) by Gamal Abdel Nasser
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782967224955-0-2.pdf
The Socialism of Islam (1960) by Mustafa al-Siba'i
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782967224955-8-3.pdf
The Green Book (1975) by Muammar Gaddafi
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782967224955-4-4.pdf
Islam and Socialism (1976) by Syed Hussein Alatas
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782967555497-4-0.pdf
On the Sociology of Islam (1979) by Ali Shariati
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782967555497-1-1.pdf
[More entries to come]
Reading General Sticky
Hello, /leftypol/!Welcome to the Reading General Sticky! This thread will be dedicated to the sharing, discussing, and general banter about various leftist thinkers, theories, and political outlooks.
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Classical Marxism
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The foundational texts and concepts strictly written and conceived by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.
Tier 1
Communist Manifesto (1848) by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/index.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knCYXFisM4k
Theses on Feuerbach (1845) by Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/theses/theses.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zA-Gn8q47cs
Wage Labour and Capital (1847) by Karl Marx
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/wage-labour/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6llbLvm3RAc
Principles of Communism (1847) by Friedrich Engels
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/11/prin-com.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGcpspooZvk
Critique of the Gotha Programme (1875) by Karl Marx
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1875/gotha/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIkR-0NeOzw
Socialism: Utopian and Scientific (1880) by Friedrich Engels
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1880/soc-utop/index.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4_BiWhvVyA
Tier 2
The Holy Family (1844) by Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/holy-family/
On The Jewish Question (1844) by Karl Marx
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/jewish-question/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lu7jgrQ_oF8
Conditions of the Working Class in England (1845) by Friedrich Engels
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/condition-working-class/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDaK6b6eZrg
The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte (1952) by Karl Marx
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1852/18th-brumaire/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orxXeE8kn4U
Value, Price and Profit (1865) by Karl Marx
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1865/value-price-profit/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjhVZW3HJzM
The Civil War in France (1871) by Karl Marx
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1871/civil-war-france/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSWrTzJFrnQ
Tier 3
Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right (1843) by Karl Marx
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1843/critique-hpr/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b78lwj_TNVI
Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts (1844) by Karl Marx
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/manuscripts/preface.htm
The German Ideology (1846) by Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/german-ideology/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERf6Qvqwr6g
The Poverty of Philosophy (1847) by Karl Marx
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/poverty-philosophy/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNy2A2ZpSEU
Grundrisse (1858) by Karl Marx
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1857/grundrisse/
Anti-Dühring (1877) by Friedrich Engels
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1877/anti-duhring/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bATakOyA0zc
The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State (1884) by Friedrich Engels
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1884/origin-family/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8W2GaAs5VLo
DAS KAPITAL
Capital: A Critique of Political Economy (1867) by Karl Marx
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhXStf2E1tc
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German Idealism
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Philosophical movement that generally argues that the mind’s structures (reason, self-consciousness) play an active role in shaping reality and experience, centering on how freedom, subjectivity, and the unity of subject and object grounds knowledge and moral life. Hugely influential in revolutionary socialist currents.
Critique of Pure Reason (1781) by Immanuel Kant
📖 · https://www.gutenberg.org/files/4280/4280-h/4280-h.htm
Foundations of the Science of Knowledge (1794) by Johann Gottlieb Fichte
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782141768594-6-0.pdf
The Phenomenology of Spirit (1801) by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hegel/works/ph/phconten.htm
The Essence of Christianity (1841) by Ludwig Feuerbach
📖 · https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/47025/pg47025-images.html
The Jewish Question (1843) by Bruno Bauer
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782141768594-1-3.pdf
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Utopian Socialism
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Early socialist current that imagined ideal, cooperative communities and peaceful social reforms achieved by moral persuasion and voluntary association rather than class struggle or revolution.
The Social Contract (1762) by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
📖 · https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/46333/pg46333-images.html
The Wealth of Nations (1776) by Adam Smith
📖 · https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3300/3300-h/3300-h.htm
The Theory of the Four Movements (1808) by Charles Fourier
📖 · https://libcom.org/article/theory-four-movements-charles-fourier
A New View of Society and Other Writings (1813) by Robert Owen
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/economics/owen/society/index.htm
On the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation (1817) by David Ricardo
📖 · https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/33310/pg33310-images.html
New Christianity (1825) by Henri de Saint-Simon
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782141768594-1-2.pdf
Holy History of Mankind (1837) by Moses Hess
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782141768594-3-1.pdf
Principles of Political Economy (1848) by John Stuart Mill
📖 · https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/30107/pg30107-images.html
Instructions for an Armed Uprising (1866) by Louis Auguste Blanqui
📖 · https://blanqui.kingston.ac.uk/texts/instructions-for-an-armed-uprising-1868/
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Classical Anarchism
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Rejects the state and hierarchical authority, serves as the basis for modern and contemporary Anarchism. Variants include Mutualism, Anarcho-Collectivism and Individualist anarchism.
Tier 1
What is Property? (1840) by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/pierre-joseph-proudhon-what-is-property-an-inquiry-into-the-principle-of-right-and-of-governmen
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeoynLwP3u4
Collectivism (1872) by Adhémar Schwitzguébel
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/adhemar-schwitzguebel-collectivism
Tier 2
The Philosophy of Poverty (1846) by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/pierre-joseph-proudhon-system-of-economical-contradictions-or-the-philosophy-of-poverty
God and the State (1871) by Mikhail Bakunin
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/michail-bakunin-god-and-the-state
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLArnrsxwWY
Ideas on Social Organisation (1876) by James Guillaume
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/james-guillaume-ideas-on-social-organization
Tier 3
Enquiry Concerning Political Justice and its Influence on Morals and Happiness (1793) by William Godwin
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/godwin-political-justice
The Ego and Its Own (1844) by Max Stirner
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stirner/ego-and-its-own.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBOex4R61Oo
Statism and Anarchy (1873) by Mikhail Bakunin
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/mikhail-bakunin-statism-and-anarchy
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Orthodox Marxism
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Stemming from the Second International, treats Marxism as a scientific, historical-materialist doctrine. Generally arguing that capitalism contains objective economic contradictions that makes proletarian revolution and socialism inevitable. Therefore, political organization, class struggle, and economic analysis are central.
Tier 1
The Present Position of the Socialist Movement in Germany (1896) by Wilhelm Liebknecht
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/liebknecht-w/1896/06/essex-lecture.html
Erfurt Program (1891) by Karl Kautsky
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/history/international/social-democracy/1891/erfurt-program.htm
The Main Enemy Is At Home! (1914) by Karl Liebknecht
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/liebknecht-k/works/1915/05/main-enemy-home.htm
Tier 2
Socialism and the Political Struggle (1883) by Georgi Plekhanov
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/plekhanov/1883/struggle/index.htm
The Class Struggle (Erfurt Program) (1892) by Karl Kautsky
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/kautsky/1892/erfurt/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMCOEZ8xjqM
On the Role of the Individual in History (1898) by Georgi Plekhanov
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/plekhanov/1898/xx/individual.html
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQCUjwmSSk4
Reform or Revolution? (1900) by Rosa Luxemburg
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/luxemburg/1900/reform-revolution/index.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVZgtmGmyl4
Militarism and Anti-Militarism (1907) by Karl Liebknecht
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/liebknecht-k/works/1907/militarism-antimilitarism/index.htm
The Mass Strike, the Political Party and the Trade Unions (1906) by Rosa Luxemburg
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/luxemburg/1906/mass-strike/
The Historic Accomplishment of Karl Marx (1908) by Karl Kautsky
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/kautsky/1908/histacc/index.html
The National Question and Autonomy (1908) by Rosa Luxemburg
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/luxemburg/1909/national-question/index.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vkL6ZUnzcc
The Road to Power (1909) by Karl Kautsky
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/kautsky/1909/power/
Tier 3
The Development of the Monist View of History (1895) by Georgi Plekhanov
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/plekhanov/1895/monist/index.htm
No Compromise – No Political Trading (1899) by Wilhelm Liebknecht
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/liebknecht-w/1899/nocomp/index.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlYu23bMNhg
The Socialist Crisis in France (1901) by Rosa Luxemburg
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/luxemburg/1901/socialist-crisis-france/index.htm
The Social Revolution (1902) by Karl Kautsky
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/kautsky/1902/socrev/
The Foundations of Christianity (1908) by Karl Kautsky
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/kautsky/1908/christ/index.htm
The Accumulation of Capital (1913) by Rosa Luxemburg
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/luxemburg/1913/accumulation-capital/
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Anarcho-Communism
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Advocates for abolishing the state, capitalism, and private ownership of the means of production in favor of decentralized, voluntary communes with common ownership and distribution "from each according to ability, to each according to need." Variants include Platformism, Syncreticism, and Magonism.
Tier 1
Catechism of a Revolutionary (1869) by Sergey Nechayev
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/subject/anarchism/nechayev/catechism.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7kviqQa6ZU
To Manual Workers, Supporters of Political Action (1876) by François Dumartheray
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/francois-dumartheray-to-manual-workers-supporters-of-political-action
Anarchy and Communism (1880) by Carlo Cafiero
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/carlo-cafiero-anarchy-and-communism
Our Revolution (1881) by Carlo Cafiero
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/cafiero/1881/our-revolution.html
A Word to Tramps (1884) by Lucy Parsons
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/lucy-e-parsons-to-tramps
Words of a Rebel (1885) by Peter Kropotkin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/kropotkin-peter/1885/words-of-a-rebel/index.html
I Am an Anarchist (1886) by Lucy Parsons
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/lucy-e-parsons-i-am-an-anarchist
Anarchy (1891) by Errico Malatesta
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/errico-malatesta-anarchy
Manifesto of the Mexican Liberal Party (1911) by Ricardo Flores Magón
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/subject/anarchism/ricardo-flores-magon/1911/manifesto-of-the-mexican-liberal-party.html
The Anarchist Synthesis (1927) by Sébastien Faure
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/sebastien-faure-the-anarchist-synthesis
A Project of Anarchist Organisation (1927) by Errico Malatesta
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/errico-malatesta-a-project-of-anarchist-organisation
The ABC of Communist Anarchism (1929) by Alexander Berkman
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/berkman/1929/what-is-communist-anarchism/index.html
Tier 2
Fields, Factories and Workshops (1899) by Peter Kropotkin
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/petr-kropotkin-fields-factories-and-workshops-or-industry-combined-with-agriculture-and-brain-w
At the Café: Conversations on Anarchism (1922) by Errico Malatesta
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/malatesta/1922/at-the-cafe/index.html
On Synthesis (1924) by Volin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/subject/anarchism/voline/1924/on-synthesis.html
The Struggle Against the State and Other Essays (1926) by Nestor Makhno
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/makhno-nestor/works/1926/struggle-against-the-state/index.html
Tier 3
The Conquest of Bread (1892) by Peter Kropotkin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/kropotkin-peter/1892/bread.htm
Mutual Aid (1902) by Peter Kropotkin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/kropotkin-peter/1902/mutual-aid/index.htm
History of the Makhnovist Movement (1918–1921) (1923) by Peter Arshinov
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/peter-arshinov-history-of-the-makhnovist-movement-1918-1921
The Russian Revolution in the Ukraine (1926) by Nestor Makhno
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/nestor-makhno-the-russian-revolution-in-the-ukraine
Organizational Platform of the General Union of Anarchists (Draft) (1926) by Various Authors
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/dielo-truda-workers-cause-organisational-platform-of-the-libertarian-communists
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Leninism
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Mostly based on the works of Vladimir Lenin, argues for a disciplined vanguard party using democratic centralism to seize state power and establish a temporary dictatorship of the proletariat to lead the transition from capitalism to socialism.
Tier 1
What Is To Be Done? (1902) by Vladimir Lenin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1901/witbd/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-eCCtzsiXY
Revolutionary Adventurism (1902) by Vladimir Lenin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1902/sep/01.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovPbNQ9JqjA
Socialism and Religion (1905) by Vladimir Lenin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1905/dec/03.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKMlcPb1ttw
Three Source and Three Component Parts of Marxism (1913) by Vladimir Lenin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1913/mar/x01.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOAII71GaFY
The ABC of Communism (1920) by Nikolai Buhkarin & Evgenii Preobrazhensky
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/bukharin/works/1920/abc/index.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVVnjwBQHH0
Tier 2
Two Tactics of Social Democracy in the Democratic Revolution (1905) by Vladimir Lenin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1905/tactics/index.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQsWA4HCGuY
The Right of Nations to Self-Determination (1914) by Vladimir Lenin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1914/self-det/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bbODqyoeM0
Imperialism and World Economy (1915) by Nikolai Bukharin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/bukharin/works/1917/imperial/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13Uj5GE1h1U
The Proletarian Revolution and Renegade Kautsky (1918) by Vladimir Lenin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1918/prrk/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_IWmgY8k2A
“Left-Wing” Communism: an Infantile Disorder (1920) by Vladimir Lenin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1920/lwc/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wh84f8czc7g
Tier 3
Materialism and Empirio-Criticism (1909) by Vladimir Lenin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1908/mec/
Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism (1917) by Vladimir Lenin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1916/imp-hsc/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFtUKPPYmqk
The State and Revolution (1917) by Vladimir Lenin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/staterev/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrfLQsyUYig
Historical Materialism: A System of Sociology (1921) by Nikolai Bukharin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/bukharin/works/1921/histmat/index.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sr7o64hezwc
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Syndicalism
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Tendency that aims to replace capitalism and the state by organizing workers into trade-union syndicates using direct action, such as general strikes, in order to take control of production and self-manage the economy.
Tier 1
Anarchism and the Workers' Unions (1895) by Fernand Pelloutier
📖 · https://libcom.org/article/anarchism-and-workers-unions-fernand-pelloutier
What Means This Strike? (1898) by Daniel DeLeon
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/deleon/works/1898/980211.htm
Sabotage (1898) by Émile Pouget
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/pouget/1898/sabotage.htm
The Burning Question of Trade Unionism (1904) by Daniel DeLeon
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/deleon/works/1904/040421.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGe1aEA4UOw
The General Strike (1911) by Bill Haywood
📖 · https://archive.iww.org/history/library/Haywood/GeneralStrike/
The Conscious Withdrawal of the Workers' Industrial Efficiency (1917) by Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/subject/women/authors/flynn/1917/sabotage.htm
Tier 2
Anarcho-Syndicalism: Theory and Practice (1938) by Rudolf Rocker
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/rudolf-rocker-anarchosyndicalism
One Big Union (2000) by the Industrial Workers of the World
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/industrial-workers-of-the-world-one-big-union
Tier 3
Socialist Reconstruction of Society (1905) by Daniel DeLeon
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/deleon/works/1905/050710.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzF6QXNIWV0
Industrial Socialism (1911) by Bill Haywood
📖 · https://archive.iww.org/history/library/Haywood/IndSocialism/
The Autobiography of Mother Jones (1925) by Mother Jones
📖 · https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/65079/pg65079-images.html
Anarchists in the Spanish Revolution (1990) by José Peirats
📖 · https://libcom.org/article/anarchists-spanish-revolution
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Marxism-Leninism
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Institutionalized doctrine that fuses Marx’s theory with Lenin’s praxis as codified official party ideology, applying the idea of historical materialism to a practical program of revolutionary vanguardism and a state-led transition to socialism.
Tier 1
Dialectical and Historical Materialism (1938) by Joseph Stalin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1938/09.htm
The Path Which Led Me To Leninism (1960) by Ho Chi Minh
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/ho-chi-minh/works/1960/04/x01.htm
The Khruschevites (1976) by Enver Hoxha
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hoxha/works/1976/khruschevites/index.htm
Tier 2
Anarchism or Socialism? (1906) by Joseph Stalin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1906/12/x01.htm
Marxism and the National Question (1913) by Joseph Stalin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1913/03a.htm
Workers Manage Factories in Yugoslavia (1950) by Josip Broz Tito
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/tito/1950/06/26.htm
Marxism and Problems of Linguistics (1950) by Joseph Stalin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1950/jun/20.htm
History Will Absolve Me (1953) by Fidel Castro
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/history/cuba/archive/castro/1953/10/16.htm
Guerilla Warfare (1961) by Che Guevara
📖 · https://www.cheguevara.org/Guerrilla-Warfare.pdf
Eurocommunism is Anti-Communism (1980) by Enver Hoxha
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hoxha/works/euroco/env2-1.htm
Tier 3
Foundations of Leninism (1924) by Joseph Stalin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1924/foundations-leninism/
The People's Front (1938) by Earl Browder
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/browder/peoples-front/index.htm
Economic Problems of Socialism in the USSR (1951) by Joseph Stalin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1951/economic-problems/index.htm
Fundamentals of Marxism–Leninism (1960) by Otto Kuusinen
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/kuusinen/1960/fundamentals-marxism-leninism.pdf
Imperialism and the Revolution (1979) by Enver Hoxha
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hoxha/works/imp_rev/toc.htm
Revolution in Laos: Practice and Prospects (1981) by Kaysone Phomvihane
📖 · https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Library:Revolution_in_Laos
Women's Liberation and the African Freedom Struggle (1990) by Thomas Sankara
📖 · https://libcom.org/article/womens-liberation-and-african-freedom-struggle
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Illegalism and Insurrectionary Anarchism
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Both support propaganda of the deed as a method of revolutionary struggle, with Illegalism having roots in Individualist Anarchism while Insurrectionary Anarchism shares overlap with Anarcho-Communism.
Tier 1
A Letter from Mazas Prison (1886) by Clément Duval
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/clement-duval-a-letter-from-cleement-duval
Why I Was a Burglar (1905) by Marius Jacob
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/marius-jacob-why-i-was-a-burglar
Byzantinism and Limpness (1909) by Michel Antoine
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/michel-antoine-byzantinism-and-limpness
Is the Illegalist Anarchist Our Comrade? (1911) by Émile Armand
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/emile-armand-is-the-illegalist-anarchist-our-comrade
Two Lectures on the Bonnot Affair (1912) by Victor Serge
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/victor-serge-two-lectures-on-the-bonnot-affair
Tier 2
The Anarchism of Émile Armand (1907) by Émile Armand
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/emile-armand-the-anarchism-of-emile-armand
Toward the Creative Nothing (1924) by Renzo Novatore
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/renzo-novatore-toward-the-creative-nothing
The Principal of Organization to the Light of Anarchism (1927) by Luigi Galleani
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/luigi-galleani-the-principal-of-organization-to-the-light-of-anarchism
Armed Joy (1977) by Alfredo Bonnano
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/alfredo-m-bonanno-armed-joy
Tier 3
The Ego and Its Own (1844) by Max Stirner
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stirner/ego-and-its-own.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBOex4R61Oo
Against War, Against Peace, For The Social Revolution (1914) by Luigi Galleani
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/luigi-galleani-against-war-against-peace-for-the-social-revolution
The End of Anarchism? (1925) by Luigi Galleani
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/luigi-galleani-the-end-of-anarchism
Anarchists Never Surrender (1938) by Victor Serge
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/victor-serge-anarchists-never-surrender
The Anarchist Cookbook (1971) by William Powell
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782487901594-3.pdf
The Bonnot Gang (1987) by Richard Parry
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/richard-parry-the-bonnot-gang-the-story-of-the-french-illegalists
The Coming Insurrection (2007) by The Invisible Committee
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/comite-invisible-the-coming-insurrection
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Trotskyism
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Based on Leon Trotsky's work, stresses permanent revolution, proletarian internationalism, and an opposition to bureaucratic degeneration.
Tier 1
The Lessons of October (1924) by Leon Trotsky
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1924/lessons/index.htm
The Transitional Program (1938) by Leon Trotsky
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1938/tp/
Their Morals and Ours (1938) by Leon Trotsky
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1938/morals/morals.htm
Fascism: What It Is and How to Fight It (1944) by Leon Trotsky
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/works/1944/1944-fas.htm
Tier 2
Terrorism and Communism (1920) by Leon Trotsky
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1920/terrcomm/index.htm
The Permanent Revolution and Results and Prospects (1930) by Leon Trotsky
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1931/tpr/index.htm
Tier 3
The Third International After Lenin (1928) by Leon Trotsky
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1928/3rd/index.htm
History of the Russian Revolution (1930) by Leon Trotsky
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1930/hrr/
The Revolution Betrayed (1936) by Leon Trotsky
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1936/revbet/
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Pacifism
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Belief that war and violence are morally wrong or should be avoided, often favoring nonviolent resistance, diplomacy, and peaceful conflict resolution.
Tier 1
Civil Disobedience (1849) by Henry David Thoreau
📖 · https://www.gutenberg.org/files/71/71-h/71-h.htm
Pilgrimage to Nonviolence (1960) by Martin Luther King Jr.
📖 · https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/king-papers/documents/pilgrimage-nonviolence
Tier 2
The Kingdom of God Is Within You (1894) by Leo Tolstoy
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/leo-tolstoy-the-kingdom-of-god-is-within-you
Indian Home Rule (1909) by Mahatma Gandhi
📖 · https://www.mkgandhi.org/ebks/hind_swaraj.pdf
The Power of Nonviolence (1934) by Richard B. Gregg
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782306077617-2-0.pdf
The Long Loneliness (1952) by Dorothy Day
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782306269841-7-0.pdf
From Dictatorship to Democracy (1994) by Gene Sharp
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782306077617-4-2.pdf
Tier 3
The Conquest of Violence (1937) by Bart de Ligt
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782306269841-6-1.pdf
Essays (Including Pacifism and Class War) (1967) by A. J. Muste
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782308254608-1.pdf
The Politics of Nonviolent Action (1973) by Gene Sharp
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782306077617-2-1.pdf
Writings Against Power & Death (1994) by Alex Comfort
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782306077617-8-3.pdf
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Maoism
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Also known as Mao Zedong Thought, argues for peasant-led revolution, protracted people’s war, mass mobilization, and adapting Marxist strategy to agrarian societies.
Tier 1
Analysis of The Classes In Chinese Society (1926) by Mao Zedong
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-1/mswv1_1.htm
Oppose Book Worship (1930) by Mao Zedong
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-6/mswv6_11.htm
Be Concerned With the Well-Being of the Masses, Pay Attention to Methods of Work (1934) by Mao Zedong
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-1/mswv1_10.htm
Combat Liberalism (1937) by Mao Zedong
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-2/mswv2_03.htm
Serve The People (1944) by Mao Zedong
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-3/mswv3_19.htm
Bombard The Headquarters (1966) by Mao Zedong
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-9/mswv9_63.htm
Tier 2
On Contradiction (1937) by Mao Zedong
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-1/mswv1_17.htm
On Practice (1937) by Mao Zedong
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-1/mswv1_16.htm
On Protracted War (1938) by Mao Zedong
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-2/mswv2_09.htm
On New Democracy (1940) by Mao Zedong
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-2/mswv2_26.htm
Tier 3
Report on an Investigation of the Peasant Movement In Hunan (1927) by Mao Zedong
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-1/mswv1_2.htm
On Guerrilla Warfare (1937) by Mao Zedong
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/works/1937/guerrilla-warfare/
The Chinese Revolution and the Chinese Communist Party (1939) by Mao Zedong
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-2/mswv2_23.htm
On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People (1957) by Mao Zedong
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-5/mswv5_58.htm
Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (1964) by Mao Zedong
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/works/red-book/index.htm
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Agrarian Socialism
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Socialist tradition that centers land, peasants, rural workers, and village communities rather than industrial workers alone. Sharing overlap with Maoism, related currents include Narodnism, Georgism, Neozapatismo, and, in the most extreme end of the spectrum, Pol Pot Thought.
Tier 1
>Georgism
Agrarian Justice (1797) by Thomas Paine
📖 · https://www.ssa.gov/history/paine4.html
>Narodnism
Agrarian Program (1905) by the Socialist Revolutionary Party
📖 · https://eudocs.lib.byu.edu/index.php/The_Social-Revolutionaries
>Zapatismo/Neozapatismo
Plan of Ayala (1911) by Emiliano Zapata
📖 · https://users.pop.umn.edu/~rmccaa/la20c/ayala.htm
First Declaration of the Lacandona Jungle (1993) by the Zapatista Army of National Liberation
📖 · https://schoolsforchiapas.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/1st-Declaration-of-the-Lacandona-Jungle.pdf
Our Word Is Our Weapon (2002) by Subcomandante Marcos
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/subcomandante-marcos-our-word-is-our-weapon
Sixth Declaration of the Lacandon Jungle (2005) by the Zapatista Army of National Liberation
📖 · https://schoolsforchiapas.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/6th-Declaration-of-the-Lacandona-Jungle.pdf
Tier 2
>Narodnism
From the Other Shore (1850) by Alexander Herzen
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782336731998-2-0.pdf
Historical Letters (1869) by Pyotr Lavrov
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782336731998-3-1.pdf
>Agrarian Marxism
Land or Death (1971) by Hugo Blanco
📖 · http://www.socialiststories.com/en/writers/Blanco-Hugo/Land-or-Death-Hugo-Blanco.pdf
>Pol Pot Thought
The Party’s Four-Year Plan to Build Socialism in All Fields, 1977–1980 (1976) by the Communist Party of Kampuchea
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782336731998-8-3.pdf
Long Live the 17th Anniversary of the Communist Party of Kampuchea (1977) by the Communist Party of Kampuchea
📖 · https://bannedthought.net/Cambodia/PolPot/PolPot-LongLiveThe17thAnniversaryOfCPofKampuchea-1977.pdf
Tier 3
>Georgism
Progress and Poverty (1879) by Henry George
📖 · https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/55308/pg55308-images.html
>Narodnism
Marxism and the Agrarian Question (1906) by Viktor Chernov
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782347353852-9.pdf
The Theory of Peasant Economy (1925) by Alexander Chayanov
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782336731998-3-2.pdf
>Agrarian Marxism
Seven Interpretive Essays on Peruvian Reality (1928) by José Carlos Mariátegui
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/mariateg/works/7-interpretive-essays/index.htm
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Marxism-Leninism-Maoism
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Treats Maoism as a higher stage of Marxism–Leninism, emphasizing peasant-led, protracted people’s war, the mass line, and continuing revolution to prevent bureaucratic degeneration.
Tier 1
On Gonzalo Thought (1988) by the Communist Party of Peru
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782143919558-1-0.pdf
Marxism-Leninism-Maoism or Revisionism? (1990) by Prachanda
📖 · https://www.bannedthought.net/Nepal/Problems-Prospects/p_mlmor_revisionism.html
Tier 2
General Political Line (1988) by the Communist Party of Peru
📖 · https://bannedthought.net/Peru/CPP/Documents/GeneralPoliticalLineOfTheCommunistPartyOfPeru-1988-OCR.pdf
The Great Leap Forward: An Inevitable Need of History (2001) by the Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist)
📖 · https://www.bannedthought.net/Nepal/Worker/Worker-07/GreatLeapForward-Prachanda-010200.htm
Hold High the Bright Red Banner of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism (2004) by the Communist Party of India (Maoist)
📖 · https://www.bannedthought.net/India/CPI-Maoist-Docs/Founding/MLM-pamphlet.pdf
Tier 3
On the Bourgeois-Democratic State (1961) by Abimael Guzmán
📖 · https://bannedthought.net/Peru/Gonzalo/Guzman-OnTheBourgeois-DemocraticState-1961-Thesis-OCR-sm.pdf
Philippine Society and Revolution (1970) by Amado Guerrero
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/history/philippines/cpp/guerrero/1970/psr.htm
Problems & Prospects of Revolution in Nepal (2004) by Prachanda and the Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist)
📖 · https://bannedthought.net/Nepal/Problems-Prospects/index.htm
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Postcolonialism
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Study of how colonialism shaped societies, cultures, identities, politics, and knowledge, and how formerly colonized peoples resist, reinterpret, and live with those colonial legacies.
Tier 1
The Case Against French Colonization (1924) by Ho Chi Minh
📖 · https://www.leinsdorf.com/The%20Case%20Against%20French%20Colonialism%20%20Copyright,%202017-2.htm
Discourse on Colonialism (1950) by Aimé Césaire
📖 · https://libcom.org/article/discourse-colonialism
Can the Subaltern Speak? (1988) by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
📖 · https://monoskop.org/images/4/45/Spivak_Gayatri_1988_Can_the_Subaltern_Speak.pdf
Coloniality of Power, Eurocentrism, and Latin America (2000) by Aníbal Quijano
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782402288133-5-0.pdf
Settler Colonialism and the Elimination of the Native (2006) by Patrick Wolfe
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782402288133-4-2.pdf
Tier 2
Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto (1969) by Vine Deloria Jr
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782402192458-8-0.pdf
Consciencism: Philosophy and Ideology for De-Colonisation (1970) by Kwame Nkrumah
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782402192458-2-1.pdf
Unity and Struggle (1979) by Amílcar Cabral
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/subject/africa/cabral/1979/unity-struggle.pdf
Decolonising the Mind (1986) by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782402192458-9-2.pdf
Tier 3
The Black Jacobins (1938) by C. L. R. James
📖 · https://libcom.org/article/black-jacobins-toussaint-louverture-and-san-domingo-revolution-clr-james
Black Skin, White Masks (1952) by Frantz Fanon
📖 · https://libcom.org/article/black-skin-white-masks-frantz-fanon
The Wretched of the Earth (1961) by Frantz Fanon
📖 · https://libcom.org/article/wretched-earth-frantz-fanon
Neo-Colonialism, the Last Stage of Imperialism (1965) by Kwame Nkrumah
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/ebooks/nkrumah/nkrumah-neocolonialism.pdf
Open Veins of Latin America (1971) by Eduardo Galeano
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782445309022-1.pdf
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (1972) by Walter Rodney
📖 · https://monoskop.org/images/8/81/Rodney_Walter_How_Europe_Underdeveloped_Africa_rev_ed_1981.pdf
Orientalism (1978) by Edward Said
📖 · https://monoskop.org/images/4/4e/Said_Edward_Orientalism_1979.pdf
The Location of Culture (1994) by Homi K. Bhabha
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782402192458-2-3.pdf
Provincializing Europe (2000) by Dipesh Chakrabarty
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782402192458-7-4.pdf
On the Postcolony (2001) by Achille Mbembe
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782402288133-3-1.pdf
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Socialism with Chinese Characteristics
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Adapts and institutionalizes Marxism–Leninism to Chinese conditions by marrying one-party rule and state control of strategic sectors with market-oriented reforms to drive modernization.
Tier 1
Emancipate the Mind, Seek Truth From Facts and Unite As One In Looking to the Future (1978) by Deng Xiaoping
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/deng-xiaoping/1978/110.htm
Uphold the Four Cardinal Principles (1979) by Deng Xiaoping
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/deng-xiaoping/1979/115.htm
We Can Develop A Market Economy Under Socialism (1979) by Deng Xiaoping
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/deng-xiaoping/1979/152.htm
To Build Socialism We Must First Develop the Productive Forces (1980) by Deng Xiaoping
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/deng-xiaoping/1980/101.htm
Tier 2
On the Reform of the System of Party and State Leadership (1980) by Deng Xiaoping
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/deng-xiaoping/1980/220.htm
Tier 3
Build Socialism With Chinese Characteristics (1984) by Deng Xiaoping
📖 · https://www.bannedthought.net/China/Individuals/DengXiaoping/DengXiaoping-BuildSocialismWithChineseCharacteristics.pdf
On the “Three Represents” (2000) by Jiang Zemin
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782143919558-0-1.pdf
Report to the 17th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (2007) by Hu Jintao
📖 · https://gb.china-embassy.gov.cn/eng/zywl/2007/200710/t20071031_3386927.htm
The Governance of China (2014) by Xi Jinping
📖 · https://www.bannedthought.net/China/Individuals/XiJinping/XiJinping-TheGovernanceOfChina.pdf
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Eco-Socialism
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Tradition that argues ecological crisis is rooted in capitalism’s drive for endless growth, profit, and extraction, generally advocating for ecological limits, public or communal control of production, climate justice, and meeting human needs rather than accumulating wealth.
Tier 1
Useful Work vs. Useless Toil (1885) by William Morris
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/morris/works/1884/useful.htm
Post-Scarcity Anarchism (1971) by Murray Bookchin
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/murray-bookchin-post-scarcity-anarchism-book
The Philosophy of Social Ecology (1996) by Murray Bookchin
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/murray-bookchin-the-philosophy-of-social-ecology
Ecosocialism or Ecocatastrophe? (2009) by David Schwartzman
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782491686714-2-2.pdf
Ecosocialism: A Radical Alternative to Capitalist Catastrophe (2015) by Michael Löwy
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782491886054-2-0.pdf
Red Deal: Indigenous Action to Save Our Earth (2021) by The Red Nation
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782492152750-2-2.pdf
How to Blow Up a Pipeline (2021) by Andreas Malm
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782492152750-4-1.pdf
Tier 2
Fields, Factories and Workshops (1899) by Peter Kropotkin
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/petr-kropotkin-fields-factories-and-workshops-or-industry-combined-with-agriculture-and-brain-w
Ecology as Politics (1978) by André Gorz
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782491486197-7-1.pdf
The Conserver Society: Alternatives for Sustainability (1995) by Ted Trainer
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782491486197-6-2.pdf
Toward Climate Justice (2010) by Brian Tokar
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782491686715-1-3.pdf
Capitalism in the Web of Life: Ecology and the Accumulation of Capital (2015) by Jason W. Moore
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782491686715-2-4.pdf
A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal (2019) by Various Authors
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782491886054-3-3.pdf
Less Is More (2020) by Jason Hickel
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782491886054-5-4.pdf
Slow Down: The Degrowth Manifesto (2020) by Kohei Saito
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1769447067118-3.pdf
Pollution Is Colonialism (2021) by Max Liboiron
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782492152750-5-0.pdf
Cannibal Capitalism (2022) by Nancy Fraser
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782492152750-1-3.pdf
Tier 3
The Alternative in Eastern Europe (1977) by Rudolf Bahro
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782491486197-1-0.pdf
The Ecology of Freedom (1982) by Murray Bookchin
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/murray-bookchin-the-ecology-of-freedom
Natural Causes: Essays in Ecological Marxism (1998) by James O'Connor
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782491486197-3-3.pdf
Marx's Ecology (2000) by John Bellamy Foster
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782491486197-7-4.pdf
The Enemy of Nature (2002) by Joel Kovel
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782491686714-7-0.pdf
The Environmentalism of the Poor (2002) by Joan Martínez-Alier
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782491686714-8-1.pdf
Fossil Capital (2016) by Andreas Malm
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782491886054-4-1.pdf
Decolonial Ecology (2019) by Malcolm Ferdinand
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782491886054-2-2.pdf
Marx in the Anthropocene (2022) by Kohei Saito
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1676047310995.pdf
Climate Change as Class War (2022) by Matthew T. Huber
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782492152750-5-4.pdf
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Maoism-Third Worldism
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Blends Maoist strategy with Third-Worldist analysis, arguing the revolutionary proletariat is concentrated in oppressed (Global South) countries while much First-World labor is seen as privileged or comprador.
Tier 1
Long Live the Victory of People’s War! (1965) by Lin Biao
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/lin-biao/1965/09/peoples_war/index.htm
Message to the Tricontinental (1967) by Che Guevara
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/guevara/1967/04/16.htm
Tier 2
White-Settler Colonialism and the Myth of Investment Imperialism (1972) by Arghiri Emmanuel
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782143919558-0-2.pdf
Unequal Development (1973) by Samir Amin
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782144098405-5-0.pdf
Foreign Trade and the Law of Value (1979) by Anwar Shaikh
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782144098405-0-1.pdf
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782144098405-8-2.pdf
Settlers: The Mythology of the White Proletariat (1983) by J. Sakai
📖 · https://readsettlers.org/text-index.html
Eurocentrism (1989) by Samir Amin
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782144680371-0-0.pdf
The Wealth of (Some) Nations (2019) by Zak Cope
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1655353202103-0.pdf
Tier 3
Accumulation on a World Scale (1971) by Samir Amin
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782144680371-5-1.pdf
Unequal Exchange: A Study of the Imperialism of Trade (1972) by Arghiri Emmanuel
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782144680371-6-2.pdf
Delinking: Towards a Polycentric World (1986) by Samir Amin
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782145470496-0-0.pdf
Divided World, Divided Class (2012) by Zak Cope
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782145470496-9-1.pdf
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Animal Liberation
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Movement that seeks to abolish the capitalistic exploitation of nonhuman animals, especially in food, research, clothing, entertainment, and other industries.
Tier 1
Animals' Rights: Considered in Relation to Social Progress (1892) by Henry Stephens Salt
📖 · https://gutenberg.org/cache/epub/64498/pg64498-images.html
On Vegetarianism (1901) by Élisée Reclus
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/elisee-reclus-on-vegetarianism
Animal Machines (1964) by Ruth Harrison
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782571960451-7-0.pdf
Speciesism (1970) by Richard D. Ryder
📖 · https://www.veganzetta.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Speciesism-Again-the-original-leaflet-Richard-Ryder.pdf
Animal Liberation and Social Revolution (1997) by Brian Dominick
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/brian-a-dominick-animal-liberation-and-social-revolution
Revealing the Animal-Industrial Complex (2012) by Richard Twine
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782572033826-6-3.pdf
18 Theses on Marxism and Animal Liberation (2018) by Bündnis Marxismus & Tierbefreiung
📖 · https://mutb.org/media/publication-thesenpapier-en.pdf
Conceptualising Animal Exploitation in Capitalism (2019) by Christian Stache
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782572099103-3-1.pdf
Tier 2
The Universal Kinship (1906) by J. Howard Moore
📖 · https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/61363/pg61363-images.html
The Dreaded Comparison: Human and Animal Slavery (1988) by Marjorie Spiegel
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782571960451-9-2.pdf
Natural Relations: Ecology, Animal Rights and Social Justice (1993) by Ted Benton
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782571960451-9-4.pdf
Making a Killing: The Political Economy of Animal Rights (2007) by Bob Torres
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782572033826-2-1.pdf
The Politics of Total Liberation (2014) by Steven Best
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782572099103-1-0.pdf
Beyond Nature: Animal Liberation, Marxism, and Critical Theory (2021) by Marco Maurizi
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782572099103-5-2.pdf
Tier 3
Animal Liberation (1975) by Peter Singer
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782571960451-8-1.pdf
The Sexual Politics of Meat (1990) by Carol J. Adams
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782571960451-5-3.pdf
Animal Rights/Human Rights: Entanglements of Oppression and Liberation (2002) by David Nibert
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782572033826-7-0.pdf
Critical Theory and Animal Liberation (2011) by Various Authors
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782572033826-2-2.pdf
Total Liberation (2014) by David Naguib Pellow
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782572033826-5-4.pdf
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Juche
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The official state ideology of North Korea, stressing political independence, economic self-sufficiency, self-defense, and the central role of the leader in guiding the nation.
Tier 1
For the Establishment of a United Party of the Working Masses (1946) by Kim Il Sung
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/kim-il-sung/1946/08/29.pdf
On the Occasion of the Founding of the Korean People’s Army (1948) by Kim Il Sung
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/kim-il-sung/1948/02/08.pdf
On Eliminating Dogmatism and Formalism and Establishing Juche in Ideological Work (1955) by Kim Il Sung
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/kim-il-sung/1955/12/28.htm
The Juche Idea is an Idea that Has Inherited and Developed the Progressive Ideologies of Mankind (1986) by Kim Jong Il
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/kim-jong-il/works/The-Juche-Idea-Is-An-Idea-That-Has-Inherited-And-Developed-The-Progressive-Ideologies-Of-Mankind.pdf
Ours is the Socialism of Juche (1994) by Kim Il Sung
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/kim-il-sung/1994/04/16.pdf
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea is a Juche-Oriented Socialist State with Invincible Might (2008) by Kim Jong Il
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/kim-jong-il/works/The-Democratic-Peoples-Republic-Of-Korea-Is-A-Juche-Oriented-Socialist-State-With-Invincible-Might.pdf
Let Us March Forward Dynamically Towards Final Victory, Holding Higher the Banner of Songun (2012) by Kim Jong Un
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782145470496-4-2.pdf
Tier 2
On the Juche Idea (1982) by Kim Jong Il
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/kim-jong-il/works/On-The-Juche-Idea.pdf
Our Socialism Centred on the Masses Shall Not Perish (1991) by Kim Jong Il
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/kim-jong-il/works/Our-Socialism-Centred-On-The-Masses-Shall-Not-Perish.pdf
Tier 3
On Juche in Our Revolution (1975) by Kim Il Sung
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782145712234-0-0.pdf
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782145712234-1-1.pdf
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Christian Socialism
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Belief that Christian ethics, especially care for the poor, solidarity, justice, and shared responsibility, support a more equal, cooperative economy rather than capitalist individualism. Variants include Distributism, Christian Anarchism and Liberation Theology.
Tier 1
New Christianity (1825) by Henri de Saint-Simon
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782141768594-1-2.pdf
Unto This Last (1862) by John Ruskin
📖 · https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Unto_This_Last_(Ruskin)
Rerum novarum (1891) by Pope Leo XIII
📖 · https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiii/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_l-xiii_enc_15051891_rerum-novarum.html
Christian Socialism: A Lecture (1894) by Stewart Headlam
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782704866148-7-1.pdf
The Acquisitive Society (1920) by R. H. Tawney
📖 · https://www.gutenberg.org/files/33741/33741-h/33741-h.htm
Quadragesimo anno (1931) by Pope Pius XI
📖 · https://www.vatican.va/content/pius-xi/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_p-xi_enc_19310515_quadragesimo-anno.html
Christianity and Social Order (1942) by William Temple
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782705119609-6-1.pdf
Message to the Christians (1965) by Camilo Torres Restrepo
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782705119609-0-3.pdf
Saint Paul: The Foundation of Universalism (1997) by Alain Badiou
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782740961869-7.pdf
Tier 2
The Kingdom of God Is Within You (1894) by Leo Tolstoy
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/leo-tolstoy-the-kingdom-of-god-is-within-you
The Servile State (1912) by Hilaire Belloc
📖 · https://gutenberg.org/cache/epub/64882/pg64882-images.html
Utopia of Usurers (1917) by G. K. Chesterton
📖 · https://www.gutenberg.org/files/2134/2134-h/2134-h.htm
The Socialist Decision (1933) by Paul Tillich
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782704866148-3-4.pdf
The Long Loneliness (1952) by Dorothy Day
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782306269841-7-0.pdf
The Book of Ammon (1965) by Ammon Hennacy
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782705119609-4-2.pdf
A Theology of Liberation (1971) by Gustavo Gutiérrez
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782705119609-7-4.pdf
Prophesy Deliverance! An Afro-American Revolutionary Christianity (1982) by Cornel West
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782705229520-1-0.pdf
Christi-Anarchy (1999) by Dave Andrews
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782705229520-7-2.pdf
Tier 3
The Kingdom of Christ (1838) by F. D. Maurice
📖 · https://archive.org/details/a592475701mauruoft/mode/2up
📖 · https://archive.org/details/a5924757b02mauruoft/mode/2up
Practical Christian Socialism (1854) by Adin Ballou
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782704866148-8-0.pdf
Christianity and the Social Crisis (1907) by Walter Rauschenbusch
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782704866148-8-2.pdf
Socialism and Character (1912) by Vida Dutton Scudder
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/scudder/1912/socialism-and-character-scudder.pdf
The Outline of Sanity (1927) by G. K. Chesterton
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782704866148-0-3.pdf
Easy Essays (1934) by Peter Maurin
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782705119609-6-0.pdf
The Socialist Sixth of the World (1939) by Hewlett Johnson
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/johnson-hewlett/socialistsixth/contents.htm
Christian Anarchy: Jesus’ Primacy over the Powers (1987) by Vernard Eller
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782705229520-1-1.pdf
Anarchy and Christianity (1988) by Jacques Ellul
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/jacques-ellul-anarchy-christianity-en
Christian Anarchism: A Political Commentary on the Gospel (2011) by Alexandre Christoyannopoulos
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/alexandre-christoyannopoulos-christian-anarchism
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Italian Left-Communism
——————–
Insisting on strict Marxist orthodoxy, rejecting parliamentarism, reformist trade unions and united fronts, while promoting a revolutionary, party-centered alternative to both social democracy and Marxism-Leninism.
Tier 1
Party and Class (1921) by Amadeo Bordiga
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/bordiga/works/1921/party-class.htm
Bourgeois Violence and Proletarian Defence (1946) by Onorato Damen
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/damen/1946/bourgeois-violence.htm
Proletarian Dictatorship and Class Party (1951) by Amadeo Bordiga
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/bordiga/works/1951/class-party.htm
Centralised Party, Yes – Centralism over the Party, No! (1951) by Onorato Damen
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/damen/1951/centralised.htm
Tier 2
Party and Class Action (1921) by Amadeo Bordiga
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/bordiga/works/1921/classact.htm
The Democratic Principle (1922) by Amadeo Bordiga
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/bordiga/works/1922/democratic-principle.htm
The Lyons Theses (1926) by Amadeo Bordiga
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/bordiga/works/1926/lyons-theses.htm
The Communist Left in the Third International (1926) by Amadeo Bordiga
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/bordiga/works/1926/comintern.htm
Dialogue with Stalin (1952) by Amadeo Bordiga
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/bordiga/works/1952/stalin.htm
We Defend the Italian Left (1966) by Onorato Damen
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/damen/1966/defend.htm
Tier 3
The Fundamentals for a Marxist Orientation (1946) by Amadeo Bordiga
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/bordiga/works/1946/orientation.htm
Bordiga — Beyond the Myth and the Rhetoric (1970) by Onorato Damen
📖 · https://www.leftcom.org/files/2018-10-02-damen-bordiga.pdf
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Jewish Socialism
——————–
Tradition that links Jewish collective life, labor struggle, anti-capitalism, and opposition to antisemitism. In its Bundist and Anti-Zionist forms, it emphasizes the principle of "doikayt" — a fight for socialism where Jews already live, rather than through a separate Jewish state.
Tier 1
Zionism or Socialism (1898) by Chaim Zhitlowsky
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782753054661-4-3.pdf
Social Democracy and the National Question (1904) by Vladimir Medem
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782753054661-3-1.pdf
A Jewish Socialist Critique of Zionism (1906) by Chaim Jakov Gelfand
📖 · https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/a-jewish-socialist-critique-of-zionism-from-1906
The Jewish Proletariat in Russia: Ten Years of the Bund (1907) by K. Boris
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/subject/jewish/boris/bund.htm
Manifesto of the General Jewish Workers’ Union in Poland (1937) by Henryk Erlich
📖 · https://www.derspekter.org/manifesto-of-the-general-jewish-workers-union-bund-in-poland/
Anti-Semitism and Yiddish Culture / Jewish Culture (1938) by Moissaye J. Olgin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/subject/jewish/olgin-anti-semitism.htm
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/subject/jewish/olgin-anti-semitism-2.htm
Stop Them Now: German Mass Murder of Jews in Poland (1942) by Szmul Zygielbojm
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/subject/jewish/stop-murder.pdf
Statement on Palestine and Zionism Issued (1947) by the New York Bund Organization
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/subject/jewish/bund-ny-48.pdf
The Jewish Labor Bund and the State of Israel (1948) by the Bund World Coordinating Committee
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/subject/jewish/bund-israel.pdf
The Problems of Jewish Culture (1950) by Morris Schappes
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/subject/jewish/schappes-culture.pdf
Message of the Non-Jewish Jew (1958) by Isaac Deutscher
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/newspape/amersocialist/deutscher01.htm
The Roots of Antisemitism (1960) by Raya Dunayevskaya
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/dunayevskaya/works/1960/antisemitism.htm
The Jewish Question and the Left — Old and New: A Challenge to the New Left (1970) by Morris Schappes
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/subject/jewish/old-and-new.pdf
Marx and the Economic-Jew Stereotype (1977) by Hal Draper
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/draper/1977/kmtr1/app1.htm
Tier 2
Holy History of Mankind (1837) by Moses Hess
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782141768594-3-1.pdf
On The Jewish Question (1844) by Karl Marx
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/jewish-question/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lu7jgrQ_oF8
Antisemitism: Its History and Causes (1894) by Bernard Lazare
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/lazare-bernard/1894/antisemitism/index.htm
The National Question and Autonomy (1908) by Rosa Luxemburg
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/luxemburg/1909/national-question/index.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vkL6ZUnzcc
The Jewish Question: A Marxist Interpretation (1942) by Abraham Leon
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/ebooks/leon/Abram_Leon_The_Jewish_Question.pdf
The Non-Jewish Jew: And Other Essays (1968) by Isaac Deutscher
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782749813899-4-0.pdf
Zionism: Its Role in World Politics (1973) by Hyman Lumer
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782830399588-6.pdf
Citizens of the Whole World: Anti-Zionism and the Cultures of the American Jewish Left (2025) by Benjamin Balthaser
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782753054661-9-2.pdf
Tier 3
Five Years in the Warsaw Ghetto: The Stars Bear Witness (1949) by Bernard Goldstein
📖 · https://libcom.org/article/five-years-warsaw-ghetto-bernard-goldstein
The London Years (1956) by Rudolf Rocker
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/rudolf-rocker-the-london-years
The Jewish Question: History of a Marxist Debate (1990) by Enzo Traverso
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782749813899-1-1.pdf
The Colors of Jews: Racial Politics and Radical Diasporism (2007) by Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782749813899-1-2.pdf
Bundist Counterculture in Interwar Poland (2009) by Jack Jacobs
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782749813899-8-3.pdf
Parting Ways: Jewishness and the Critique of Zionism (2012) by Judith Butler
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782749813899-1-4.pdf
No Masters but God: Portraits of Anarcho-Judaism (2021) by Hayyim Rothman
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782753054661-1-0.pdf
Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund (2026) by Molly Crabapple
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782830101983-7.pdf
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Council Communism
——————–
Favors workers’ councils as the basis of proletarian power and organization as opposed to vanguard party centralism, arguing for direct, self-managed, council-based socialism.
Tier 1
World Revolution and Communist Tactics (1920) by Anton Pannekoek
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/pannekoe/1920/communist-tactics.htm
The Revolution Is Not A Party Affair (1920) by Otto Rühle
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/ruhle/1920/ruhle02.htm
The Lenin Legend (1935) by Paul Mattick
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/mattick-paul/1935/lenin-legend.htm
Why Past Revolutionary Movements Have Failed (1940) by Anton Pannekoek
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/pannekoe/1940/revo.htm
The Party and Class (1941) by Anton Pannekoek
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/pannekoe/1941/party-class.htm
The Failure of the Working Class (1946) by Anton Pannekoek
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/pannekoe/1946/failure-working-class.htm
Tier 2
Imperialism, the World War and Social Democracy (1914) by Herman Gorter
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/gorter/1914/imperialism.htm
The World Revolution (1918) by Herman Gorter
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/gorter/1918/world-revolution.htm
Report from Moscow (1920) by Otto Rühle
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/ruhle/1920/ruhle01.htm
Lenin As Philosopher (1938) by Anton Pannekoek
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/pannekoe/1938/lenin/index.htm
The Struggle Against Fascism Begins with the Struggle Against Bolshevism (1939) by Otto Rühle
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/ruhle/1939/ruhle01.htm
Spontaneity and Organisation (1949) by Paul Mattick
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/mattick-paul/1949/spontaneity.htm
Tier 3
An Open Letter to Comrade Lenin (1920) by Herman Gorter
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/gorter/1920/open-letter.htm
Workers' Councils (1942) by Anton Pannekoek
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/pannekoe/1947/workers-councils.htm
Marx and Keynes: The Limits of the Mixed Economy (1969) by Paul Mattick
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/mattick-paul/1969/marx-keynes/index.htm
Anti-Bolshevik Communism (1978) by Paul Mattick
📖 · https://libcom.org/article/anti-bolshevik-communism-paul-mattick
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Islamic & Arab Socialism
——————–
Social Justice in Islam (1949) by Sayyid Qutb
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782967224955-3-0.pdf
The Quranic System of Sustenance (1955) by Ghulam Ahmed Perwez
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782967224955-2-1.pdf
Egypt's Liberation: The Philosophy of the Revolution (1955) by Gamal Abdel Nasser
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782967224955-0-2.pdf
The Socialism of Islam (1960) by Mustafa al-Siba'i
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782967224955-8-3.pdf
The Green Book (1975) by Muammar Gaddafi
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782967224955-4-4.pdf
Islam and Socialism (1976) by Syed Hussein Alatas
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782967555497-4-0.pdf
On the Sociology of Islam (1979) by Ali Shariati
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782967555497-1-1.pdf
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>Useful Channels:
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https://www.youtube.com/@AlexMercouris
https://www.youtube.com/@AlexChristoforou
https://www.youtube.com/@dialogueworks01
https://www.youtube.com/@DanielDavisDeepDive
https://www.youtube.com/@DannyHaiphongYT
https://www.youtube.com/@justinpodur
https://www.youtube.com/@IndiaGlobalLeft
https://www.youtube.com/@RichardMedhurst
https://www.youtube.com/@GDFofficial
https://www.youtube.com/@neutralitystudies
https://www.youtube.com/@prop_co
https://www.youtube.com/@CyrusJanssen
https://www.youtube.com/@breakingpoints
https://www.youtube.com/@militarysummary
https://www.youtube.com/@TheNewAtlas
https://www.youtube.com/@willyOAM
https://www.youtube.com/@GDiesen1
https://www.youtube.com/@theeastisapodcast
https://www.youtube.com/@GeopoliticalEconomyReport
https://www.youtube.com/@TheElectronicIntifada
>Useful Xitters
https://xcancel.com/IranObserver0
https://xcancel.com/araghchi
https://xcancel.com/conflict_radar
https://xcancel.com/TheCradleMedia
https://xcancel.com/AliAbunimah
https://xcancel.com/BrianJBerletic
https://xcancel.com/angeloinchina
https://xcancel.com/jonelmer
https://xcancel.com/MarkAmesExiled
https://xcancel.com/UrOrientalist
https://xcancel.com/MaxBlumenthal
https://xcancel.com/dreizinreport/
https://xcancel.com/Basijchud
>Useful TG:
https://t.me/s/wfwitness
https://t.me/s/Middle_East_Spectator
https://t.me/s/enemywatch
https://t.me/s/shiachuds
>Useful Blogs/Podcasts/News:
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/
https://simplicius76.substack.com/
https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/
https://sonar21.com/
https://www.moonofalabama.org/
https://thegrayzone.com/
https://www.middleeasteye.net/live/live-us-and-israel-attack-iran
https://www.podbean.com/podcast-detail/t687i-9b79d/War-Nerd-Radio-%E2%80%94-Subscriber-Feed-Podcast
R: 123 / I: 15
The booty was too short or empty.
Zak Cope
Now that the dust has settled, what the fuck was his problem? Why did he disavow his work on imperialism and what's he doing today?The booty was too short or empty.
R: 241 / I: 57
>Thread for the country which raids the world and doesn't even bother to redistribute the treats to the herrenvolk
<Barbie Occupied Government Edition
OP Backup Site: https://usapol.neocities.org/
💀 ICE & Prison Resources
(Amerika is the most incarcerated country in the world!)
ICE tracker using public info and user submissions // https://www.iceinmyarea.org/
list of deaths at ICE concentration camps // https://www.aila.org/infonet/deaths-at-adult-detention-centers
visualization of prison population in US // https://mkorostoff.github.io/incarceration-in-real-numbers/
Organizing in Prison — for when the walls close in (RANT Collective) // https://www.organizingforpower.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Organizing-in-Jail.pdf
database of U.S. facilities incl. ICE holding sites // https://alcpress.org/usjails/index.html
list of prison related resources, mailing lists, etc // https://www.prisonactivist.org/resources
ICE Agent List (incomplete) // https://wiki.icelist.is/index.php/Category:Agents
US Political Prison Tracker (last updated 2025) // https://uspoliticalprisoners.com/
Jailhouse Reading:
📖 Angela Davis - Are Prisons Obsolete? // https://dn790007.ca.archive.org/0/items/the-anarchist-library-full-list-of-pdfs-nov-2020/angela-y-davis-are-prisons-obsolete.pdf
📖 How to Defend Yourself During Police Interrogation // https://www.notrace.how/resources/download/comment-la-police-interroge-et-comment-sen-defendre/how-to-defend-yourself-during-a-police-interrogation.pdf
📖 National Lawyers Guild guide to being a jailhouse lawyer // https://www.jailhouselaw.org/
📖 Critical Resistance - Surviving Solitary Confinement // https://criticalresistance.org/resources/surviving-solitary/
📖 An inside-outside publication for abolitionist struggle & strategy across prison walls // https://criticalresistance.org/abolitionist/
📖 Prisoners’ Self-Help Litigation Manual // https://api.pageplace.de/preview/DT0400.9780199705665_A35159258/preview-9780199705665_A35159258.pdf
⚒️ LABOR!
Live strike tracker with deep stats on who, what and when // https://striketracker.ilr.cornell.edu/
AFL-CIO [imperialist]'s Strike Tracker // https://aflcio.org/strike-map
Labor Bureau's Official 'work stoppage' tracker // https://www.bls.gov/wsp/
IWW timeline for the 20th century (ends at 1999) // https://archive.iww.org/history/chronology/
IWW Work Place Organizing Guide // https://usa.anarchistlibraries.net/library/industrial-workers-of-the-world-libcom-org-solidarity-federation-walthamstow-anarchist-group-wo
▶ Salting | Work Place Organizing 101 (50 minute webinar) // https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SHlCLyM4FY
⚖️ Deeds of the Burger Reich 🇺🇸
deep list of horrible shit we (royal we) have done // https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/us_atrocities.md
Coups and regime changes – master list // https://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-peoples-governments-the-master-list
Wikipedia: United States War Crimes // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_war_crimes
/our boys/ (bring em home!) detail abusing Iraqi prisoners [2006] // https://www.hrw.org/report/2006/07/22/no-blood-no-foul/soldiers-accounts-detainee-abuse-iraq
More than 250 military interventions in the last 30 years alone // https://blackagendareport.com/us-launched-251-military-interventions-1991-and-469-1798
Visualisation of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade // https://www.slavevoyages.org/
UNESCO Sites relating to Slavery // https://slaveryandremembrance.org/
First Hand Documents of the horrors of Slavery // https://www.loc.gov/collections/slave-narratives-from-the-federal-writers-project-1936-to-1938/
📺 Glowie News 📺
(sponsored by the Burger Eagle Freedom Institute (formerly USAID))
CNN Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/cnn-news-usa.html
MSNBC Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/msnbc.html
FOX Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/fox-news-channel.html
Bloomberg Live // https://www.bloomberg.com/live/us
Burger House Live // https://www.whitehouse.gov/live/
Local News // https://www.50states.com/ce/
Weather // https://www.noaa.gov/weather
📺 Gommie News 📺
Jacobin // https://jacobin.com/
Black Agenda Report // https://blackagendareport.com/
The Grayzone // https://thegrayzone.com/
Leftvoice // https://www.leftvoice.org/
Newsanon Filter // https://leftypol.org/search.php?search=name%3A%22News+Anon+3.0%22&board=leftypol
🏝️ Epstein's Client List 🇮🇱
Epstein's Black Book // https://epsteinsblackbook.com/
DOJ Disclosures // https://www.justice.gov/epstein/doj-disclosures
Track AIPAC // https://www.trackaipac.com/
Al Jazeera visual guide (2026) // https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/10/struggling-to-navigate-the-epstein-files-here-is-a-visual-guide
Essential American Politik 📖
📖 WEB Du Bois - Black Reconstruction // https://cominsitu.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/w-e-b-du-bois-black-reconstruction-an-essay-toward-a-history-of-the-part-which-black-folk-played-in-the-attempt-to-reconstruct-democracy-2.pdf
📖 Eugene Debs - Fourth of July Speech // https://jacobin.com/2020/07/eugene-debs-independence-day-address-fourth-july
📖 Power Anywhere There's People! – Fred Hampton // https://www.hamptonthink.org/read/power-anywhere-where-thats-people-fred-hampton
📖 War is a Racket – Smedley Butler // https://ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html
📖 Letters From an American Farmer – St. John de Crevoecoeur // https://americanliterature.com/author/j-hector-st-john-de-crevoecoeur/book/letters-from-an-american-farmer/summary
📖 Trail of Broken Treaties // American Indian Movement https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
📖 The Declaration of Independence https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
📖 The Ballot or the Bullet – Malcolm X // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/ballot_or_bullet.pdf
📖 What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? – Frederick Douglass // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/douglass_july_4_speech.pdf
📖 A Trail of Broken Treaties – American Indian Movement // https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
📖 Custer Died for Your Sins – Vine Deloria Jr. // http://www.riversimulator.org/Resources/Books/CusterDiedForYourSinsAnIndianManifesto1969Deloria.pdf
📖 Emancipation Proclamation – Lincoln // https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/emancipation-proclamation
📖 Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville // https://americanliterature.com/author/alexis-de-tocqueville/book/democracy-in-america/summary
📖 Common Sense – Thomas Paine // https://americainclass.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Common-Sense-Full-Text.pdf
📖 An Indigenous History of the United States – Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz // https://nycstandswithstandingrock.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/dunbar-ortiz-2014.pdf
📖 Huey Long – Share Our Wealth // https://www.hueylong.com/programs/share-our-wealth/huey-longs-share-our-wealth-speech
Previous Thread: >>2930433
/USApol/
🗽 UNITED STATES POLITICS 🦅>Thread for the country which raids the world and doesn't even bother to redistribute the treats to the herrenvolk
<Barbie Occupied Government Edition
OP Backup Site: https://usapol.neocities.org/
💀 ICE & Prison Resources
(Amerika is the most incarcerated country in the world!)
ICE tracker using public info and user submissions // https://www.iceinmyarea.org/
list of deaths at ICE concentration camps // https://www.aila.org/infonet/deaths-at-adult-detention-centers
visualization of prison population in US // https://mkorostoff.github.io/incarceration-in-real-numbers/
Organizing in Prison — for when the walls close in (RANT Collective) // https://www.organizingforpower.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Organizing-in-Jail.pdf
database of U.S. facilities incl. ICE holding sites // https://alcpress.org/usjails/index.html
list of prison related resources, mailing lists, etc // https://www.prisonactivist.org/resources
ICE Agent List (incomplete) // https://wiki.icelist.is/index.php/Category:Agents
US Political Prison Tracker (last updated 2025) // https://uspoliticalprisoners.com/
Jailhouse Reading:
📖 Angela Davis - Are Prisons Obsolete? // https://dn790007.ca.archive.org/0/items/the-anarchist-library-full-list-of-pdfs-nov-2020/angela-y-davis-are-prisons-obsolete.pdf
📖 How to Defend Yourself During Police Interrogation // https://www.notrace.how/resources/download/comment-la-police-interroge-et-comment-sen-defendre/how-to-defend-yourself-during-a-police-interrogation.pdf
📖 National Lawyers Guild guide to being a jailhouse lawyer // https://www.jailhouselaw.org/
📖 Critical Resistance - Surviving Solitary Confinement // https://criticalresistance.org/resources/surviving-solitary/
📖 An inside-outside publication for abolitionist struggle & strategy across prison walls // https://criticalresistance.org/abolitionist/
📖 Prisoners’ Self-Help Litigation Manual // https://api.pageplace.de/preview/DT0400.9780199705665_A35159258/preview-9780199705665_A35159258.pdf
⚒️ LABOR!
Live strike tracker with deep stats on who, what and when // https://striketracker.ilr.cornell.edu/
AFL-CIO [imperialist]'s Strike Tracker // https://aflcio.org/strike-map
Labor Bureau's Official 'work stoppage' tracker // https://www.bls.gov/wsp/
IWW timeline for the 20th century (ends at 1999) // https://archive.iww.org/history/chronology/
IWW Work Place Organizing Guide // https://usa.anarchistlibraries.net/library/industrial-workers-of-the-world-libcom-org-solidarity-federation-walthamstow-anarchist-group-wo
▶ Salting | Work Place Organizing 101 (50 minute webinar) // https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SHlCLyM4FY
⚖️ Deeds of the Burger Reich 🇺🇸
deep list of horrible shit we (royal we) have done // https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/us_atrocities.md
Coups and regime changes – master list // https://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-peoples-governments-the-master-list
Wikipedia: United States War Crimes // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_war_crimes
/our boys/ (bring em home!) detail abusing Iraqi prisoners [2006] // https://www.hrw.org/report/2006/07/22/no-blood-no-foul/soldiers-accounts-detainee-abuse-iraq
More than 250 military interventions in the last 30 years alone // https://blackagendareport.com/us-launched-251-military-interventions-1991-and-469-1798
Visualisation of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade // https://www.slavevoyages.org/
UNESCO Sites relating to Slavery // https://slaveryandremembrance.org/
First Hand Documents of the horrors of Slavery // https://www.loc.gov/collections/slave-narratives-from-the-federal-writers-project-1936-to-1938/
📺 Glowie News 📺
(sponsored by the Burger Eagle Freedom Institute (formerly USAID))
CNN Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/cnn-news-usa.html
MSNBC Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/msnbc.html
FOX Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/fox-news-channel.html
Bloomberg Live // https://www.bloomberg.com/live/us
Burger House Live // https://www.whitehouse.gov/live/
Local News // https://www.50states.com/ce/
Weather // https://www.noaa.gov/weather
📺 Gommie News 📺
Jacobin // https://jacobin.com/
Black Agenda Report // https://blackagendareport.com/
The Grayzone // https://thegrayzone.com/
Leftvoice // https://www.leftvoice.org/
Newsanon Filter // https://leftypol.org/search.php?search=name%3A%22News+Anon+3.0%22&board=leftypol
🏝️ Epstein's Client List 🇮🇱
Epstein's Black Book // https://epsteinsblackbook.com/
DOJ Disclosures // https://www.justice.gov/epstein/doj-disclosures
Track AIPAC // https://www.trackaipac.com/
Al Jazeera visual guide (2026) // https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/10/struggling-to-navigate-the-epstein-files-here-is-a-visual-guide
Essential American Politik 📖
📖 WEB Du Bois - Black Reconstruction // https://cominsitu.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/w-e-b-du-bois-black-reconstruction-an-essay-toward-a-history-of-the-part-which-black-folk-played-in-the-attempt-to-reconstruct-democracy-2.pdf
📖 Eugene Debs - Fourth of July Speech // https://jacobin.com/2020/07/eugene-debs-independence-day-address-fourth-july
📖 Power Anywhere There's People! – Fred Hampton // https://www.hamptonthink.org/read/power-anywhere-where-thats-people-fred-hampton
📖 War is a Racket – Smedley Butler // https://ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html
📖 Letters From an American Farmer – St. John de Crevoecoeur // https://americanliterature.com/author/j-hector-st-john-de-crevoecoeur/book/letters-from-an-american-farmer/summary
📖 Trail of Broken Treaties // American Indian Movement https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
📖 The Declaration of Independence https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
📖 The Ballot or the Bullet – Malcolm X // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/ballot_or_bullet.pdf
📖 What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? – Frederick Douglass // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/douglass_july_4_speech.pdf
📖 A Trail of Broken Treaties – American Indian Movement // https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
📖 Custer Died for Your Sins – Vine Deloria Jr. // http://www.riversimulator.org/Resources/Books/CusterDiedForYourSinsAnIndianManifesto1969Deloria.pdf
📖 Emancipation Proclamation – Lincoln // https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/emancipation-proclamation
📖 Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville // https://americanliterature.com/author/alexis-de-tocqueville/book/democracy-in-america/summary
📖 Common Sense – Thomas Paine // https://americainclass.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Common-Sense-Full-Text.pdf
📖 An Indigenous History of the United States – Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz // https://nycstandswithstandingrock.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/dunbar-ortiz-2014.pdf
📖 Huey Long – Share Our Wealth // https://www.hueylong.com/programs/share-our-wealth/huey-longs-share-our-wealth-speech
Previous Thread: >>2930433
R: 323 / I: 56
https://www.zdnet.com/article/china-drops-windows-for-linux/
The Chinese question is: how does a comfy non-imperialist nation transform itself into a global socialist model that can be reproduced and adopted by the rest of the world, without either reproducing the aggressive and counter-productive policies of the USSR or appearing toothless, while resolving the contradictions of the so-called first world FOR THEM and liberating them from capitalist domination, therefore using the empire's collapse to accelerate material conditions to enable the global revolution?
<A thread for the harmonious discussion related to the saviour of socialism, the uplifter of nations, the king of cooperation, the soviet of SOVL, the enjoyer of empathy, the ally of Africa, the demigod of development, the bureaucracy for banter, the prince of ping pong, the lobotomizer of labour aristocracy, the protector against proxy wars, the sponsor of sophisticated sciences and culture, the guarantor of gommunism, the Proletarian Dictatorship of Chynah™.
Original threads:
https://archive.ph/S2XYA
https://archive.ph/Ytckv
leftypol.org archives:
https://archive.is/https://leftypol.org/leftypol/res/30501.html
bunekrchan.xyz archives:
https://archive.is/https://bunkerchan.xyz/leftypol/res/8925.html
https://archive.is/yrBUN
https://archive.is/pCecr
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/PRC/ People's Republic of China 24
>Bye, bye, Microsoft! – editionhttps://www.zdnet.com/article/china-drops-windows-for-linux/
The Chinese question is: how does a comfy non-imperialist nation transform itself into a global socialist model that can be reproduced and adopted by the rest of the world, without either reproducing the aggressive and counter-productive policies of the USSR or appearing toothless, while resolving the contradictions of the so-called first world FOR THEM and liberating them from capitalist domination, therefore using the empire's collapse to accelerate material conditions to enable the global revolution?
<A thread for the harmonious discussion related to the saviour of socialism, the uplifter of nations, the king of cooperation, the soviet of SOVL, the enjoyer of empathy, the ally of Africa, the demigod of development, the bureaucracy for banter, the prince of ping pong, the lobotomizer of labour aristocracy, the protector against proxy wars, the sponsor of sophisticated sciences and culture, the guarantor of gommunism, the Proletarian Dictatorship of Chynah™.
Original threads:
https://archive.ph/S2XYA
https://archive.ph/Ytckv
leftypol.org archives:
https://archive.is/https://leftypol.org/leftypol/res/30501.html
bunekrchan.xyz archives:
https://archive.is/https://bunkerchan.xyz/leftypol/res/8925.html
https://archive.is/yrBUN
https://archive.is/pCecr
previous thread: >>2832385
R: 500 / I: 178
Brace through the hyper-real lacanian void together!
Reminder That None of This Is Real!™
ɢʀᴀʙ ᴀ ᴘᴀɪʀ ᴏꜰ sᴘᴇᴄᴛᴀᴄʟᴇs
—————————————————–
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://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782045945238-0.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://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782045945238-1.pdf
📺 • 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://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782045945238-2.pdf
📺 • 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://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782045945238-3.pdf
📺 • 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
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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
/ISG/ - Internet Spectacle General
A thread focused on discussing the parasocial relationships cultivated by the Almighty Algorithm to generate profit off of our atomization and society's commodification of petty internet drama.Brace through the hyper-real lacanian void together!
Reminder That None of This Is Real!™
ɢʀᴀʙ ᴀ ᴘᴀɪʀ ᴏꜰ sᴘᴇᴄᴛᴀᴄʟᴇs
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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://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782045945238-0.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://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782045945238-1.pdf
📺 • 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://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782045945238-2.pdf
📺 • 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://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782045945238-3.pdf
📺 • 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
• https://situationist.org/
• https://notbored.org/SI.html
• https://bopsecrets.org/SI/index.htm
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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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Previous: >>2921048
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
https://azovlobby.substack.com/
https://banderalobby.substack.com/
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ALWAYS APPROACH SOURCES CRITICALLY
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
📺 News/events: https://tv.leftypol.org/r/HappeningsviaKlash
📺 Hangout/chill: https://tv.leftypol.org/r/bloodcast
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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>Twitter
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https://x.com/AMK_Mapping_
<Telegram
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/ukr/ - Russia-Ukraine War General #299
Doxxing Leftypol’s Server Location EditionPrevious: >>2921048
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
https://azovlobby.substack.com/
https://banderalobby.substack.com/
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ALWAYS APPROACH SOURCES CRITICALLY
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
📺 News/events: https://tv.leftypol.org/r/HappeningsviaKlash
📺 Hangout/chill: https://tv.leftypol.org/r/bloodcast
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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Social media
REMEMBER TO USE NITTER!
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https://x.com/michaelh992
https://x.com/Suriyakmaps
https://x.com/AMK_Mapping_
<Telegram
https://t.me/milinfolive
https://t.me/hueviykharkov
https://t.me/conflictzone
https://t.me/vorposte
https://t.me/intelslava
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• boasting about getting laid in a warzone is fucking weird, okay?
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Even high-schools in countryside and right wing areas are blocking and rioting!
French riots thread
France is burning again, high-schoolers and students are blocking and rioting everywhere since three days. Firefighters are also on semi strike, they continue to intervene but with "ON STRIKE" on all their strikes. Farmers are also starting a movement, and yellow vest were due to return on 17 october but might happen sooner.Even high-schools in countryside and right wing areas are blocking and rioting!
R: 161 / I: 13
Communization Theory vs Anarchist-Communism
So, I'm about halfway through The Eclipse and Re-emergence of the Communist Movement by Gilles Dauve, and I have a question. I understand the content of what's being said, the changes being proposed, the reasons why, etc. But, how is this any different from anarcho-communism? Both seek to abolish wage labour, the state, money, commodity production, and exchange value. Both, essentially, propose an immediate transition to communism. The only difference I can see is that Dauve proposes that communization will begin but not be completed for a generation or so, but the abolition of commodity production, money, and the state is the starting point for both. Also, the idea of communism as an existing movement in our current society that just sooner or later manages to fully "break through" was also more or less written about by Kropotkin in The Conquest of Bread. Is it really just a difference in word choice, or one being "marxist in nature?" The content of the actual revolution being proposed seems virtually identical to me.
R: 397 / I: 79
Thread #2
French people deserve a safe space and guarantees for their continued existence on loser imageboards!
Français! Ne succombez pas à l'impérialisme anglochiotte!
/FrancoPol/
🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷 Aux armes, citoyens ! 🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷Thread #2
French people deserve a safe space and guarantees for their continued existence on loser imageboards!
Français! Ne succombez pas à l'impérialisme anglochiotte!
R: 17 / I: 1
>Why bother with building a mass working-class movement? Just have a small group stage a coup against the government lmao
How do you respond to this without sounding mad?
>Why bother with building a mass working-class movement? Just have a small group stage a coup against the government lmao
How do you respond to this without sounding mad?
R: 365 / I: 105 >>1950708
PARTIES:
>https://communist-party.ca/
>https://cpcml.ca/
>https://www.marxist.ca/
Fuck flood detection
>https://ncpc-npcc.ca/
>https://www.democraticsocialists.ca/
>https://iww.ca/
>https://socialistaction.ca/
NEWS:
>https://pvonline.ca/
>https://springmag.ca/
>https://canadiandimension.com/
Canada Thread 2: People's Republic of Carney
Previous thread:PARTIES:
>https://communist-party.ca/
>https://cpcml.ca/
>https://www.marxist.ca/
Fuck flood detection
>https://ncpc-npcc.ca/
>https://www.democraticsocialists.ca/
>https://iww.ca/
>https://socialistaction.ca/
NEWS:
>https://pvonline.ca/
>https://springmag.ca/
>https://canadiandimension.com/
R: 436 / I: 54
The 2003 US invasion of Iraq was arguably one of the worst human rights atrocities of the past 50 years. Over 1 million Iraqi CIVILIANS were killed. If that's not a low key genocide similar to Gaza I don't know what is. But it's even worse knowing this war was based entirely on a gigantic lie (a "noble lie" if you will) by some of the slimiest, most diabolical villains ever known to American politics. Yes, Dick Cheney, Colin Powell and Donald Rumsfeld are dead and rotting in hell. But George W Bush, Paul Wolfowitz and Douglas Feith are still alive. Neocons Bill Kristol, Robert Kagan and John Bolton who were the top dogs in PNAC (Project for a New American Century), which called for massive military spending and preemptive attacks (also a "New Pearl Harbor" which conveniently happened on 9/11) are also still alive. WHY HAVEN'T ANY OF THEM EVER BEEN CHARGED AS WAR CRIMINALS?????
The Straussian cabal is very real and still holds loads of ideological power within American politics. Many Neocons from the Bush II era have now since become Democrats and publicly supported Kamala Harris over Trump on the basis Trump wasn't Neocon enough. These people have names and addresses and have to face some kind of legal penalties so the world can finally have closure and the Neocon war criminals can finally reap what they sowed.
Neocon Iraq War criminals
Why is it that the surviving members of the George W. Bush administration who acted as the architects of the Iraq War have never faced any legal penalties for what they did?The 2003 US invasion of Iraq was arguably one of the worst human rights atrocities of the past 50 years. Over 1 million Iraqi CIVILIANS were killed. If that's not a low key genocide similar to Gaza I don't know what is. But it's even worse knowing this war was based entirely on a gigantic lie (a "noble lie" if you will) by some of the slimiest, most diabolical villains ever known to American politics. Yes, Dick Cheney, Colin Powell and Donald Rumsfeld are dead and rotting in hell. But George W Bush, Paul Wolfowitz and Douglas Feith are still alive. Neocons Bill Kristol, Robert Kagan and John Bolton who were the top dogs in PNAC (Project for a New American Century), which called for massive military spending and preemptive attacks (also a "New Pearl Harbor" which conveniently happened on 9/11) are also still alive. WHY HAVEN'T ANY OF THEM EVER BEEN CHARGED AS WAR CRIMINALS?????
The Straussian cabal is very real and still holds loads of ideological power within American politics. Many Neocons from the Bush II era have now since become Democrats and publicly supported Kamala Harris over Trump on the basis Trump wasn't Neocon enough. These people have names and addresses and have to face some kind of legal penalties so the world can finally have closure and the Neocon war criminals can finally reap what they sowed.
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the future of politics isnt left vs right, but bio conservative vs post humanism. This is especially going to play out if AI and tech dont turn out to be duds.
You can already see the seeds of these movements blossoming between people who are anti AI, pro human, and people who are pro tech and accelerationist slap fighting on various social media
the future of politics isnt left vs right, but bio conservative vs post humanism. This is especially going to play out if AI and tech dont turn out to be duds.
You can already see the seeds of these movements blossoming between people who are anti AI, pro human, and people who are pro tech and accelerationist slap fighting on various social media
R: 10 / I: 2
I think this is the most condensed example of it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EI3OH4QO5JY
Basically it becomes more and more retarded until you end up
>What about captain america?
>And captain america not fighting Thanos in my MCU?!
>communism and money can not exist!
That was always a incredibly retarded argument and I do not understand how the viewers of this trash are not dying of cringe.
Did people make debunking of this """"logic"""" because the video is pure insanity. The truth is that there is no such thing as central planning.
>Herp derp how do we produce things? How many of them?!
How does the factory do it now?
This is something this video never answers it only says
>People do whatever they want today this is capitalism
Absurdist and ridiculous.
However austrian loons will throw around literally religious phrases
<They are measuring the market signals
By the magic powers the oracle has presumably.
<The market decides!
Like there is some god entity the clergy talks to on this subject and this god is named the market.
And pretend like their insanity makes any sense whatsoever.
However instead of asking where this self contradictory god named the market lives or who exactly is talking to him (questions who will never be answered by Austrian cultists) the video ditches the religious nonsense of the Austrian cult and tries an atheistic version of this argument.
I mean this is a simple question if you are 18 or about to start to think(and never worked in any production job whatsoever; student/NEET) about how to organize things however the solution is very simple an this is true of everyone even magical capitalist will fail this.
If you throw people on some isolated island and tell them to figure things out everything will devolve into chaos this is regardless of anything involved. And no
>Letting people decide their own things
Will result in total disaster very fast. The scenario is not even coherent it does not even say if this is some isolated island or the walking dead universe or what.
Presumably there is internet and it has power since people are submitting things there and presumably there are farms and factories and transportation and it was not destroyed.
However after a communist revolution with all of this in place(not isolated island not the walking dead universe) the solution is simple, just do it like it was always done. The video makes only sense if you are trying to come up with some alternative to money, however lets keep money and do the same thing. I mean there is no controversial question of
>HoW MuTcH Is tHeRe To PrOdUcE?!
Because this is handled by orders who did come by the client firms and they did come long before today since most businesses can have year long contracts that are not even fully realized yet.
This is something you realize if you ever worked in your life and not are a NEET or Student or only produce youtube videos for a living!
>What if people order to mutch?!
1) You are dealing with bosses or firms who are serious and not insane. You can replace capitalist boss with Combine Manager if you like.
2) Normally they order the same things like 50K units every day with some fluctuation for seasonal events so +10% -20% fluctuation
3) If the client orders something out of the ordinary like lets say 100Bilion units you seriously ask them if they can fulfill this obligation or if this is a mistake. I presume a boss would reject a order like that and either phone back or simply give them their standard unit of 50K if they can not talk to them and are getting some deranged e-mails and no one saying anything.
4) If they can not pay their obligation they get sued.
5) A factory has a maximal output capacity so if you have 10 clients who all take 50K units (500K per day) your max output is about 600K of the factory or presumably 700K if you really try to do overtime and speed some things up. So a ridiculous order like 100Billion will get rejected since that means you need to break obligations with other clients.
Seriously this is something you can figure out if you ever worked in a factory or even in any business! I have no idea how people who have a job do not realize this cringe shit arguments for absolute bullshit. I seriously think the only people who repeat this are Students(legal NEETS), NEETS who did not work a day in their life and people who do some bullshit like make youtube videos for a living.
6) The final part of this is some fidgeting with the number if you have a order for 50K units you will make something like 51K or 52K units because sometimes the machine fucks up and shredded the product or some parts come out defective and need to be thrown out.
There is also some guess work like
>(ice cream) Last year this season(winter) we needed to make only 10K units a day so it will probably be the same.
7) Now one can ask where these numbers come from? They come from the previous years and previous records of orders and production. Something the capitalist boss keeps. In a communist revolution scenario these records can be taken or people who work there can remember things if the capitalist decides to burn or destroy these records.
8) Another idea is that the video insists on creating some kind of economic dictator who decides everything. Now if taken as a serious argument and not some exercise for students or people who start thinking about the economy that is silly. Because in the military you do not have 1 guy who decides everything. There is no magic dictator who orders every foot moved of every soldier at what time
<Epic debunking of the army everyone!
<How can 1 guy decide what position of every finger ever soldier must have?!
<Ha no one can do that!
<IMPOSSIBLE! GENERALS DEBUNKED!
A general gives orders to lower-ranking officers (Lieutenants) who give orders to people under them and a general does not micro manage every movement of every private there is a chain of command and the general will order a Battalions to move to a position at a given time and this is the responsibility of the people under him to do it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command_hierarchy
https://www.army.mil/ranks/
So after a communist revolution things can get ruff because some capitalists can decide to destroy their records(far more easy on the computer then on paper) of these things however things will iron themselves out eventually.
I also do not want people to go to the traditional
>and some people are better at making pants! Capitalism YES!
And go to the the insulting with
<And then there is the capitalist boss who is the best at TAKING money so he takes the most! Capitalism YES!
Because this avoids the silly student question and concentrates on the capitalists as parasites.
Communism VS Central Planning
I have seen this retardation spammed all over the place because of austrian economic loons however it always did feel so retarded.I think this is the most condensed example of it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EI3OH4QO5JY
Basically it becomes more and more retarded until you end up
>What about captain america?
>And captain america not fighting Thanos in my MCU?!
>communism and money can not exist!
That was always a incredibly retarded argument and I do not understand how the viewers of this trash are not dying of cringe.
Did people make debunking of this """"logic"""" because the video is pure insanity. The truth is that there is no such thing as central planning.
>Herp derp how do we produce things? How many of them?!
How does the factory do it now?
This is something this video never answers it only says
>People do whatever they want today this is capitalism
Absurdist and ridiculous.
However austrian loons will throw around literally religious phrases
<They are measuring the market signals
By the magic powers the oracle has presumably.
<The market decides!
Like there is some god entity the clergy talks to on this subject and this god is named the market.
And pretend like their insanity makes any sense whatsoever.
However instead of asking where this self contradictory god named the market lives or who exactly is talking to him (questions who will never be answered by Austrian cultists) the video ditches the religious nonsense of the Austrian cult and tries an atheistic version of this argument.
I mean this is a simple question if you are 18 or about to start to think(and never worked in any production job whatsoever; student/NEET) about how to organize things however the solution is very simple an this is true of everyone even magical capitalist will fail this.
If you throw people on some isolated island and tell them to figure things out everything will devolve into chaos this is regardless of anything involved. And no
>Letting people decide their own things
Will result in total disaster very fast. The scenario is not even coherent it does not even say if this is some isolated island or the walking dead universe or what.
Presumably there is internet and it has power since people are submitting things there and presumably there are farms and factories and transportation and it was not destroyed.
However after a communist revolution with all of this in place(not isolated island not the walking dead universe) the solution is simple, just do it like it was always done. The video makes only sense if you are trying to come up with some alternative to money, however lets keep money and do the same thing. I mean there is no controversial question of
>HoW MuTcH Is tHeRe To PrOdUcE?!
Because this is handled by orders who did come by the client firms and they did come long before today since most businesses can have year long contracts that are not even fully realized yet.
This is something you realize if you ever worked in your life and not are a NEET or Student or only produce youtube videos for a living!
>What if people order to mutch?!
1) You are dealing with bosses or firms who are serious and not insane. You can replace capitalist boss with Combine Manager if you like.
2) Normally they order the same things like 50K units every day with some fluctuation for seasonal events so +10% -20% fluctuation
3) If the client orders something out of the ordinary like lets say 100Bilion units you seriously ask them if they can fulfill this obligation or if this is a mistake. I presume a boss would reject a order like that and either phone back or simply give them their standard unit of 50K if they can not talk to them and are getting some deranged e-mails and no one saying anything.
4) If they can not pay their obligation they get sued.
5) A factory has a maximal output capacity so if you have 10 clients who all take 50K units (500K per day) your max output is about 600K of the factory or presumably 700K if you really try to do overtime and speed some things up. So a ridiculous order like 100Billion will get rejected since that means you need to break obligations with other clients.
Seriously this is something you can figure out if you ever worked in a factory or even in any business! I have no idea how people who have a job do not realize this cringe shit arguments for absolute bullshit. I seriously think the only people who repeat this are Students(legal NEETS), NEETS who did not work a day in their life and people who do some bullshit like make youtube videos for a living.
6) The final part of this is some fidgeting with the number if you have a order for 50K units you will make something like 51K or 52K units because sometimes the machine fucks up and shredded the product or some parts come out defective and need to be thrown out.
There is also some guess work like
>(ice cream) Last year this season(winter) we needed to make only 10K units a day so it will probably be the same.
7) Now one can ask where these numbers come from? They come from the previous years and previous records of orders and production. Something the capitalist boss keeps. In a communist revolution scenario these records can be taken or people who work there can remember things if the capitalist decides to burn or destroy these records.
8) Another idea is that the video insists on creating some kind of economic dictator who decides everything. Now if taken as a serious argument and not some exercise for students or people who start thinking about the economy that is silly. Because in the military you do not have 1 guy who decides everything. There is no magic dictator who orders every foot moved of every soldier at what time
<Epic debunking of the army everyone!
<How can 1 guy decide what position of every finger ever soldier must have?!
<Ha no one can do that!
<IMPOSSIBLE! GENERALS DEBUNKED!
A general gives orders to lower-ranking officers (Lieutenants) who give orders to people under them and a general does not micro manage every movement of every private there is a chain of command and the general will order a Battalions to move to a position at a given time and this is the responsibility of the people under him to do it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command_hierarchy
https://www.army.mil/ranks/
So after a communist revolution things can get ruff because some capitalists can decide to destroy their records(far more easy on the computer then on paper) of these things however things will iron themselves out eventually.
I also do not want people to go to the traditional
>and some people are better at making pants! Capitalism YES!
And go to the the insulting with
<And then there is the capitalist boss who is the best at TAKING money so he takes the most! Capitalism YES!
Because this avoids the silly student question and concentrates on the capitalists as parasites.
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Modern day AI is literally just the
>All personal property is owned by the collective
communist strawman that boomers and rightoids like to espouse. So why do they all love it so much?
Modern day AI is literally just the
>All personal property is owned by the collective
communist strawman that boomers and rightoids like to espouse. So why do they all love it so much?
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Dump all the seemingly pointless, dubious, and frivolous questions that don't deserve their own shitty threads.
Got a question that's probably been asked a million times before? You're in the right landfill, buddy. Post it here.
Threads that otherwise might go in here will eventually find themselves become merged to this thread.
Previous QTDDTOT Archives
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Am I the only one worried that the right-wing is already taking advantage of the fact that the left has become a vacuum of intellect, and is now re-embracing intellectualism on its own terms?
I’ve seen multiple IG pages recently that talk about the literacy crisis in America; however, a good number of these pages/accounts are made by right-wingers/reactionaries. They use very blatant dogwhistles like “classical education”, “great books”, “virtue of the Ancients”, “glory of Western Civilization”, etc. etc. They talk about getting kids (read: they’re kids, the kids of right-wing elites) to study Plato, Xenophon, Aristotle, Cicero, Augustine, Aquinas, etc., learn Latin and Ancient Greek at young ages, and pump their heads full of political philosophy. Yeah it’s indoctrination but still.
My assumption here is that the right-wing in America is trying to regroup and reorganize now that MAGA is clearly crashing and burning beyond repair. A lot of the rhetoric they use makes me think this stuff is coming from either the Heritage Foundation, Claremont Institute, or both.
But I think the deeper issue here is that the left has no way of effectively countering this, assuming this is true. Especially in the past five years or so the American left has almost entirely dismissed intellect and intellectualism in favour of appeals to emotion and petty in-fighting over covid masking, whose identity makes them the most marginalized, and whether or not going to the gym is “fascist”. Hell, someone just posted a screenshot from Reddit arguing that narcissists and psychopaths should be seen as “oppressed”. Why? What’s our antidote to the right when the right uses literacy and philosophy and such as a means of implementing fascism (or fascism-lite)? The American left seems to be taking the view that intellect is either 1. oppressive (because it inevitably creates a culture whereby smart people are upheld over stupid people) and/or 2. useless, because ethics are allegedly already embedded within human genetics and therefore all we need is intuition (Kropotkin’s Mutual Aid book is often invoked here). Why?
So what should we be doing in response?
Am I the only one worried that the right-wing is already taking advantage of the fact that the left has become a vacuum of intellect, and is now re-embracing intellectualism on its own terms?
I’ve seen multiple IG pages recently that talk about the literacy crisis in America; however, a good number of these pages/accounts are made by right-wingers/reactionaries. They use very blatant dogwhistles like “classical education”, “great books”, “virtue of the Ancients”, “glory of Western Civilization”, etc. etc. They talk about getting kids (read: they’re kids, the kids of right-wing elites) to study Plato, Xenophon, Aristotle, Cicero, Augustine, Aquinas, etc., learn Latin and Ancient Greek at young ages, and pump their heads full of political philosophy. Yeah it’s indoctrination but still.
My assumption here is that the right-wing in America is trying to regroup and reorganize now that MAGA is clearly crashing and burning beyond repair. A lot of the rhetoric they use makes me think this stuff is coming from either the Heritage Foundation, Claremont Institute, or both.
But I think the deeper issue here is that the left has no way of effectively countering this, assuming this is true. Especially in the past five years or so the American left has almost entirely dismissed intellect and intellectualism in favour of appeals to emotion and petty in-fighting over covid masking, whose identity makes them the most marginalized, and whether or not going to the gym is “fascist”. Hell, someone just posted a screenshot from Reddit arguing that narcissists and psychopaths should be seen as “oppressed”. Why? What’s our antidote to the right when the right uses literacy and philosophy and such as a means of implementing fascism (or fascism-lite)? The American left seems to be taking the view that intellect is either 1. oppressive (because it inevitably creates a culture whereby smart people are upheld over stupid people) and/or 2. useless, because ethics are allegedly already embedded within human genetics and therefore all we need is intuition (Kropotkin’s Mutual Aid book is often invoked here). Why?
So what should we be doing in response?
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LEFTIST TRANSHUMANISM
What's your opinion on a leftist leaning tranhumanism? Do you think use technology to enhance mankind is bad and dangerous or is a path way to a new kind of good existence? Of course left leaning transhumanism isn't a monolithic group, but bunch of ideas about the opportunity and perils of using technology on mankind.
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A general thread for the discussion for all things happening in Southeast Asia. What a year it has been. Forest fires in Borneo now. Border skirmishes with Thailand and Cambodia. Vietnam mimicking South Korean chaebols. Singapore begging its citizens to have kids. Malaysia sending Rohingya refugees back to Myanmar while it is still in a civil war.
All the while the heat is cooking us now.
/SEA/ Southeast Asia General
Flying and Nazi Malays Edition.A general thread for the discussion for all things happening in Southeast Asia. What a year it has been. Forest fires in Borneo now. Border skirmishes with Thailand and Cambodia. Vietnam mimicking South Korean chaebols. Singapore begging its citizens to have kids. Malaysia sending Rohingya refugees back to Myanmar while it is still in a civil war.
All the while the heat is cooking us now.
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Police fired teargas in confrontations with protesters, as demonstrations across France were boosted by other groups angry over high prices and the fraying of a social welfare system. Hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets across the country, and tensions erupted on the fringes of the nationwide demonstrations over absent teachers, decrepit school buildings and police violence. Late on Saturday, the interior minister, Laurent Nuñez, said there had been 400 arrests and most were adults who were not part of the high school protests.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/17/protests-france-high-prices-social-security-gilets-jaunes
Russian firm launches ‘world’s first’ crypto-to-bank payment service
According to the company, payments are available in US dollars, euros, Chinese yuan and UAE dirhams and carry a commission of 0.3%. Transfers can take as little as one business day. “The key demand among market participants today is the ability to transfer money around the world in just a few clicks, as quickly as possible,” said Pyotr Fradkov, chairman of Russian bank Promsvyazbank, which established A7. Customers can access the service online after verifying their identity and submitting an invoice. It is available in countries where cryptocurrency transactions are permitted under local law.
https://rt-english.com/russia/647157-russia-global-payments-service/
https://archive.ph/fOlUe
Councils Face Upheaval After Labour Threat to End Coalitions With Greens
Labour’s threat to end local power-sharing agreements with the Greens in response to its ‘Zionism is racism’ motion could lead to disruption at councils across England and Wales. Bridget Phillipson, Labour’s chair, said on Thursday that Greens working in coalition with the party in local councils must “make clear that they reject” the motion. Otherwise, she said, “Labour will bring any such local arrangement to an end”.
https://novaramedia.com/2026/10/16/councils-face-upheaval-after-labour-threat-to-end-coalitions-with-greens/
Rioters loot stores, set fires in central Milan during cost-of-living protest
The march against wars and rising living costs began peacefully. But masked protesters threw stones, paving blocks and other objects at riot police and set fire to barricades made from bar tables. Images of the aftermath showed a severely damaged carabinieri car.
https://apnews.com/article/italy-milan-riots-living-costs-aada57790a8d2d3c02ab55911b9ecead
Imran being forced into Benazir, Nawaz-style deal: opposition leader
Pakistan’s opposition leader Mahmood Khan Achakzai has accused the government of trying to force jailed former prime minister Imran Khan into an agreement similar to those that led former prime ministers Nawaz Sharif and Benazir Bhutto into exile. Achakzai made the allegation at a news conference at the Peshawar High Court on Friday, as opposition leaders challenged the imposition of governor’s rule in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, a province governed by Imran’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party before the move, reported Dawn.
https://www.newagebd.net/post/south-asia/318462/imran-being-forced-into-benazir-nawaz-style-deal-opposition-leader
Pakistani forces, Afghan Taliban exchange fire after militants attempt to infiltrate Pakistan
The fighting lasted for hours along the border in Kurram district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, according to three Pakistani security officials. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media. There was no immediate comment from Afghanistan’s Taliban government.
https://apnews.com/article/pakistan-afghanistan-border-clashes-militant-infiltration-af35955a49d8ec9948b4a946bf07d37c
‘It was fake’: Indian villagers allege forgery behind Adani mine project
Khara is among hundreds of people from Indigenous tribes in Balda and neighbouring Bannur village who have lost their lands to the new bauxite mine. It is being developed by Kalinga Alumina Limited, a subsidiary of Adani Enterprises Limited, a conglomerate owned by Gautam Adani, India’s second richest businessman and close to Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10/16/tribals-in-indias-odisha-allege-forgery-behind-lands-taken-for-adani-mine
https://archive.ph/cNkte
Five injured in ammunition explosion at PMF headquarters in Baghdad
“The fire resulting from the explosion of a cache of damaged ammunition inside one of its headquarters east of the Canal in the capital, Baghdad, has been brought under control, confirming that the final toll of the incident resulted in minor injuries to five personnel,” the PMF announced in a statement.
https://www.rudaw.net/english/categories/iraq/1079774
Israeli settlers attack European diplomats, beat French mayor
The 78-year-old mayor said masked settlers yelled defamatory comments about France, kicked him and hit him with iron bars as he joined Palestinian olive farmers in the West Bank alongside the top French and Belgian representatives in Jerusalem and Polish diplomats. "I think that if settlers are behaving like this, there is a tolerance on the part of the Israeli government," Bernard Baudoux, mayor of the northern French town of Aulnoye-Aymeries, told AFP after he was attacked.
https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2026/10/israeli-settlers-attack-european-diplomats-beat-french-mayor
Ethiopia's Abiy names new Tigray government, wants polls in six months
Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has named a caretaker government to stabilise the northern Tigray region and prepare for an election within six months, after fighting erupted between a rebel alliance and federal troops. The Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) led an offensive last month against Abiy's government, reigniting a war that killed hundreds of thousands between 2020-22.
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/ethiopias-abiy-names-new-tigray-government-wants-polls-six-months-2026-10-16/
Pensioners are killing the ANC,’ says Malatji after Mantashe’s Cosatu walkout=
In a recorded video posted on social media while he was on the campaign trail in the Eastern Cape on Tuesday, Malatji said the ANC of Oliver Tambo could not be “killed by pensioners” after surviving the apartheid regime. He was reacting to ANC national chairperson Gwede Mantashe’s walkout at Cosatu’s 15th National Congress on Monday, 12 October, describing his behaviour as “irresponsible and arrogant”. He said Mantashe could not dictate the federation’s programme because he was an invited guest.
https://insidepolitic.co.za/pensioners-are-killing-the-anc-says-malatji-after-mantashes-cosatu-walkout/
Tunisians stage biggest protest in years against President Saied
The demonstration, led by the major UGTT labour union and civil society groups, comes as Tunisia grapples with an economic crisis, worsening public services, recurring water and power cuts, and shortages of medicines and essential goods. Saied seized broad powers in 2021 and 2022, dissolving parliament, dismissing dozens of judges and ruling by decree, moves that opponents described as a coup. Rights groups say he has intensified a crackdown on civil society, journalists and opposition figures. Saied rejects those allegations, saying he is not a dictator, and has accused his opponents of engineering economic crises to fuel social unrest.
https://www.newarab.com/news/tunisians-stage-biggest-protest-years-against-president-saied
News 10/17/26
More than 400 arrested as police clash with protesters across FrancePolice fired teargas in confrontations with protesters, as demonstrations across France were boosted by other groups angry over high prices and the fraying of a social welfare system. Hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets across the country, and tensions erupted on the fringes of the nationwide demonstrations over absent teachers, decrepit school buildings and police violence. Late on Saturday, the interior minister, Laurent Nuñez, said there had been 400 arrests and most were adults who were not part of the high school protests.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/17/protests-france-high-prices-social-security-gilets-jaunes
Russian firm launches ‘world’s first’ crypto-to-bank payment service
According to the company, payments are available in US dollars, euros, Chinese yuan and UAE dirhams and carry a commission of 0.3%. Transfers can take as little as one business day. “The key demand among market participants today is the ability to transfer money around the world in just a few clicks, as quickly as possible,” said Pyotr Fradkov, chairman of Russian bank Promsvyazbank, which established A7. Customers can access the service online after verifying their identity and submitting an invoice. It is available in countries where cryptocurrency transactions are permitted under local law.
https://rt-english.com/russia/647157-russia-global-payments-service/
https://archive.ph/fOlUe
Councils Face Upheaval After Labour Threat to End Coalitions With Greens
Labour’s threat to end local power-sharing agreements with the Greens in response to its ‘Zionism is racism’ motion could lead to disruption at councils across England and Wales. Bridget Phillipson, Labour’s chair, said on Thursday that Greens working in coalition with the party in local councils must “make clear that they reject” the motion. Otherwise, she said, “Labour will bring any such local arrangement to an end”.
https://novaramedia.com/2026/10/16/councils-face-upheaval-after-labour-threat-to-end-coalitions-with-greens/
Rioters loot stores, set fires in central Milan during cost-of-living protest
The march against wars and rising living costs began peacefully. But masked protesters threw stones, paving blocks and other objects at riot police and set fire to barricades made from bar tables. Images of the aftermath showed a severely damaged carabinieri car.
https://apnews.com/article/italy-milan-riots-living-costs-aada57790a8d2d3c02ab55911b9ecead
Imran being forced into Benazir, Nawaz-style deal: opposition leader
Pakistan’s opposition leader Mahmood Khan Achakzai has accused the government of trying to force jailed former prime minister Imran Khan into an agreement similar to those that led former prime ministers Nawaz Sharif and Benazir Bhutto into exile. Achakzai made the allegation at a news conference at the Peshawar High Court on Friday, as opposition leaders challenged the imposition of governor’s rule in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, a province governed by Imran’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party before the move, reported Dawn.
https://www.newagebd.net/post/south-asia/318462/imran-being-forced-into-benazir-nawaz-style-deal-opposition-leader
Pakistani forces, Afghan Taliban exchange fire after militants attempt to infiltrate Pakistan
The fighting lasted for hours along the border in Kurram district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, according to three Pakistani security officials. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media. There was no immediate comment from Afghanistan’s Taliban government.
https://apnews.com/article/pakistan-afghanistan-border-clashes-militant-infiltration-af35955a49d8ec9948b4a946bf07d37c
‘It was fake’: Indian villagers allege forgery behind Adani mine project
Khara is among hundreds of people from Indigenous tribes in Balda and neighbouring Bannur village who have lost their lands to the new bauxite mine. It is being developed by Kalinga Alumina Limited, a subsidiary of Adani Enterprises Limited, a conglomerate owned by Gautam Adani, India’s second richest businessman and close to Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10/16/tribals-in-indias-odisha-allege-forgery-behind-lands-taken-for-adani-mine
https://archive.ph/cNkte
Five injured in ammunition explosion at PMF headquarters in Baghdad
“The fire resulting from the explosion of a cache of damaged ammunition inside one of its headquarters east of the Canal in the capital, Baghdad, has been brought under control, confirming that the final toll of the incident resulted in minor injuries to five personnel,” the PMF announced in a statement.
https://www.rudaw.net/english/categories/iraq/1079774
Israeli settlers attack European diplomats, beat French mayor
The 78-year-old mayor said masked settlers yelled defamatory comments about France, kicked him and hit him with iron bars as he joined Palestinian olive farmers in the West Bank alongside the top French and Belgian representatives in Jerusalem and Polish diplomats. "I think that if settlers are behaving like this, there is a tolerance on the part of the Israeli government," Bernard Baudoux, mayor of the northern French town of Aulnoye-Aymeries, told AFP after he was attacked.
https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2026/10/israeli-settlers-attack-european-diplomats-beat-french-mayor
Ethiopia's Abiy names new Tigray government, wants polls in six months
Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has named a caretaker government to stabilise the northern Tigray region and prepare for an election within six months, after fighting erupted between a rebel alliance and federal troops. The Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) led an offensive last month against Abiy's government, reigniting a war that killed hundreds of thousands between 2020-22.
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/ethiopias-abiy-names-new-tigray-government-wants-polls-six-months-2026-10-16/
Pensioners are killing the ANC,’ says Malatji after Mantashe’s Cosatu walkout=
In a recorded video posted on social media while he was on the campaign trail in the Eastern Cape on Tuesday, Malatji said the ANC of Oliver Tambo could not be “killed by pensioners” after surviving the apartheid regime. He was reacting to ANC national chairperson Gwede Mantashe’s walkout at Cosatu’s 15th National Congress on Monday, 12 October, describing his behaviour as “irresponsible and arrogant”. He said Mantashe could not dictate the federation’s programme because he was an invited guest.
https://insidepolitic.co.za/pensioners-are-killing-the-anc-says-malatji-after-mantashes-cosatu-walkout/
Tunisians stage biggest protest in years against President Saied
The demonstration, led by the major UGTT labour union and civil society groups, comes as Tunisia grapples with an economic crisis, worsening public services, recurring water and power cuts, and shortages of medicines and essential goods. Saied seized broad powers in 2021 and 2022, dissolving parliament, dismissing dozens of judges and ruling by decree, moves that opponents described as a coup. Rights groups say he has intensified a crackdown on civil society, journalists and opposition figures. Saied rejects those allegations, saying he is not a dictator, and has accused his opponents of engineering economic crises to fuel social unrest.
https://www.newarab.com/news/tunisians-stage-biggest-protest-years-against-president-saied
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How is it possible bad actors are capitalizing out of cruel things like "lolcow culture" and AI, deepfakes being weaponized against us, who speak out against the system?
And don't get me started with "AI is future"! You see naive folks? It's clearly used in warfare against innocent women, children etc.
Unrelated pic, but I'm posting it, because Nozzad has been blackmailing Poles too and they moved their target to blackmailing outspoken women too.
Is AI and are deepfakes an Israel psyop?
I noticed that it's nowadays legal to steal someone else's face, likeness and voice. I have been a target of severe reputation ruin, because I have been anti-Israeli (yes, I'm based in Poland as well). There have been attempts at creating a "lolcow" out of me, also because of my anti-capitalistic views.How is it possible bad actors are capitalizing out of cruel things like "lolcow culture" and AI, deepfakes being weaponized against us, who speak out against the system?
And don't get me started with "AI is future"! You see naive folks? It's clearly used in warfare against innocent women, children etc.
Unrelated pic, but I'm posting it, because Nozzad has been blackmailing Poles too and they moved their target to blackmailing outspoken women too.
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>Post original content you've made, or OC someone else recently made which you want to share.
<Or ITT collaborate on improving content already made.
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Creating this general in an effort to centralize all the info that currently gets posted to 5 different threads concerning conflicts and developments in the MENA region. Seeing how slow they generally are and at risk of getting bumped off besides the Palestine thread and that it’s likely people interested in Yemen, Syria, Iran, Sudan and Palestine are likely also interested in news and info from across the region I think it would be useful to post everything in one place.
Previous edition:>>2591246
Some highlights from last thread:
>The United Arab Emirates allies of the European far-righ
https://orientxxi.info/les-emirats-arabes-unis-allies-de-l-extreme-droite-europeenne,8034
>How Dirty Money Finds a Home in Dubai Real Estate
https://www.occrp.org/interactives/dubai-unlocked/en/
>Why Maids Keep Dying in Saudi Arabia
https://archive.is/u3Dea
>Escape From the Abyss: Surviving the Atrocities in El Fasher
https://archive.is/lJOet
>The emerging sub-imperial role of the United Arab Emirates in Africa
https://www.tni.org/en/article/the-emerging-sub-imperial-role-of-the-united-arab-emirates-in-africa
>From land to logistics: UAE's growing power in the global food system
https://grain.org/e/7170
>Dubai Ports World: UAE’s Tentacles Monopolizing Maritime Trade
https://en.al-akhbar.com/news/dubai-ports-world--uae-s-tentacles-monopolizing-maritime-tra
>Extractive agribusinesses—guaranteeing food security in the Gulf
https://farmlandgrab.org/post/32403-extractive-agribusinesses-guaranteeing-food-security-in-the-gulf
>'Pipe dream': Turkey's plan to redraw Middle East energy routes after Iran
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/pipe-dream-turkey-plan-redraw-middle-east-energy-iran-war-hormuz
>System of sexual torture targeting Palestinians exposed in new report
https://electronicintifada.net/content/system-sexual-torture-targeting-palestinians-exposed-new-report/51373
/MENA/#2
A general to compile all news, articles, essays and info related to the Greater Middle East-North Africa region.Creating this general in an effort to centralize all the info that currently gets posted to 5 different threads concerning conflicts and developments in the MENA region. Seeing how slow they generally are and at risk of getting bumped off besides the Palestine thread and that it’s likely people interested in Yemen, Syria, Iran, Sudan and Palestine are likely also interested in news and info from across the region I think it would be useful to post everything in one place.
Previous edition:
Some highlights from last thread:
>The United Arab Emirates allies of the European far-righ
https://orientxxi.info/les-emirats-arabes-unis-allies-de-l-extreme-droite-europeenne,8034
>How Dirty Money Finds a Home in Dubai Real Estate
https://www.occrp.org/interactives/dubai-unlocked/en/
>Why Maids Keep Dying in Saudi Arabia
https://archive.is/u3Dea
>Escape From the Abyss: Surviving the Atrocities in El Fasher
https://archive.is/lJOet
>The emerging sub-imperial role of the United Arab Emirates in Africa
https://www.tni.org/en/article/the-emerging-sub-imperial-role-of-the-united-arab-emirates-in-africa
>From land to logistics: UAE's growing power in the global food system
https://grain.org/e/7170
>Dubai Ports World: UAE’s Tentacles Monopolizing Maritime Trade
https://en.al-akhbar.com/news/dubai-ports-world--uae-s-tentacles-monopolizing-maritime-tra
>Extractive agribusinesses—guaranteeing food security in the Gulf
https://farmlandgrab.org/post/32403-extractive-agribusinesses-guaranteeing-food-security-in-the-gulf
>'Pipe dream': Turkey's plan to redraw Middle East energy routes after Iran
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/pipe-dream-turkey-plan-redraw-middle-east-energy-iran-war-hormuz
>System of sexual torture targeting Palestinians exposed in new report
https://electronicintifada.net/content/system-sexual-torture-targeting-palestinians-exposed-new-report/51373
R: 30 / I: 9
>Me running my business
>too much work
>cannot finish it
>stress and cortisol rising
>go on /leftypol/ to distract myself
>read absolute bordigaslop
>begin to hate leftychuds
>lose interest in communism
>petit bougie sentiment inside me rises
>selfishness out of self-preservation rises
>screw these leftychuds
After some hard work and time:
<get on top of business
<feels good man
<shekels coming in
<hope-pilling intensifies
<property rises
<wanting to share rises
<increase interest in communism
<petit bougie sentiment inside me stabilized
<selfishness decreased
<discipline stronk
<confidence in planning restored
Why does this happen? Not only why does my psychology change due to material conditions, but why does it change the way it does? I see so many who want communism when under stress and then lose interest to it when they go up the economic ladder, but to me it's the opposite.
I don't want communism when under stress and want more gibs for myself.
But when I reduce stress after successfully working, I want communism.
Am I retarded or something?
I think this aspect of human nature is missed often in leftist discourse especially psychological changes among plebs when communism arrives and potential implications for USA.
Psychology of Communism
I noticed something interdasting.>Me running my business
>too much work
>cannot finish it
>stress and cortisol rising
>go on /leftypol/ to distract myself
>read absolute bordigaslop
>begin to hate leftychuds
>lose interest in communism
>petit bougie sentiment inside me rises
>selfishness out of self-preservation rises
>screw these leftychuds
After some hard work and time:
<get on top of business
<feels good man
<shekels coming in
<hope-pilling intensifies
<property rises
<wanting to share rises
<increase interest in communism
<petit bougie sentiment inside me stabilized
<selfishness decreased
<discipline stronk
<confidence in planning restored
Why does this happen? Not only why does my psychology change due to material conditions, but why does it change the way it does? I see so many who want communism when under stress and then lose interest to it when they go up the economic ladder, but to me it's the opposite.
I don't want communism when under stress and want more gibs for myself.
But when I reduce stress after successfully working, I want communism.
Am I retarded or something?
I think this aspect of human nature is missed often in leftist discourse especially psychological changes among plebs when communism arrives and potential implications for USA.
R: 109 / I: 27
THE AESTHETICS OF COMMUNISM
This thread will describe what exact superstructural changes will occur in the aftermath of a Global Maoist Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution once the Material Base has been transformed after the Socialist Mode of Production has been established Worldwide. Enjoy Comrades, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🚀☢️!
I will present a thought experiment, what will the World look like a century from now, decades after the World Maoist Protracted People's War (PPW) swept the forces of Capital and Reaction into the dustpan of History in the aftermath of World War III (it started in the Late 2020s as a High-Intensity Conventional Conflict between the U$ and China that escalated into a Global Nuclear War, but contrary to most Pseudoscientific Bourgeois Liberal and Revisionist expectations did not cause an apocalyptic "Nuclear Winter", but instead destroyed the entire Global Capitalist-Imperialist System and allowed for a World Maoist PPW that saw Maoist rebels seize control of the entire planet after decades of guerrilla warfare), 🤔? This Effort post will seek to answer that question, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🚀☢️!
First, I will explain the political structure of this future Socialist world. There will be a Global USSR, in which every major Nation/Ethnic group will receive their own SSR or ASSR according to the Marxist-Leninist-Maoist principle of Self-Determination of all Oppressed Nations in their own SSR (as articulated in Stalin’s “Marxism and the National Question” https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1913/03a.htm and Lenin’s “The Socialist Revolution and the Right of Nations to Self-Determination” https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1916/jan/x01.htm , along with the National Delimitation Policy of the USSR https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_delimitation_in_the_Soviet_Union ), including New Afrika, Aztlan (in a Hispano-American SFSR that includes all the Spanish-speaking Multiracial regions of the Americas), the First Nations, Azawad, Oromia, Afaria, Basque Country, Catalonia, Scotland, Wales, Sapmi, Palestine (in a Arab SFSR that includes all the Arab majority regions of West Asia and North Africa), Kurdistan, Circassia, Chechnya, Dagestan, Tatarstan, Arabistan (in a Arab SFSR that includes all the Arab majority regions of West Asia and North Africa), Balochistan, East Turkestan/Uyghuristan, Tibet, Kashmir, Punjab, Sindh, Manipur, West Papua, Aboriginal Australia, Hawaii, and many others as shown in the Map of all the SSRs and SFSRs of the future Global USSR I posted. Obviously, this Global USSR will have a Socialist Mode of Production (Centrally Planned Socialist Economy) and Dictatorship of the Proletariat (One-Party Marxist-Leninist-Maoist State). This Centrally Planned Socialist Economy is characterized by State ownership of all companies, a State Planning Agency, the outlawing of Stock Exchanges, and a massive Social Safety Net consisting of Free Housing, Free Healthcare, Free Education, a Job Guarantee, and a Universal Basic Income, along with a long-term effort to Automate the entire Economy (hence the need for Universal Basic Income) on the Shining Path to Communism, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🚀☢️!
The first great Superstructural transformation brought by the Global Maoist Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution was the final destruction of that great “Opiate of the Masses” that had been used by all the ruling Classes of every previous Mode of Production to neuter the oppressed Classes, Religion. This was done by sending the International Red Guards to bulldoze/burn down all Churches/Mosques/Synagogues/Temples/Pagodas worldwide and arrest all Priests/Monks/Nuns/Imams/Rabbis and force them to March through the streets wearing Dunce Caps on their way to the re-education camps where they were re-educated to embrace the Immortal Science of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism (This also happened to all Fascists, Liberals, and Revisionists as well), ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🚀☢️!
Another key aspect of this Superstructural transformation was seen in the dramatic transformation of Urban planning that was carried out by the Global USSR. This process was made easier by the aftermath of World War III (especially the Nuclear Exchange) and the subsequent World Maoist PPW that left most cities as smoldering ruins and thus in desperate need of rebuilding. The new “People’s cities” were built to be as efficient, environmentally friendly, and high-density as possible, with the entire population living in high-density Concrete Commie Bloc Apartment buildings, and all Suburban McMansions/“Single-Family Homes” bull-dozed and left to be reclaimed by nature (most had already been destroyed anyway). At the center of every major city is a single massive Skyscraper that contains all the administrative agencies of the various SSRs/ASSRs, including the local CPSU headquarters. Additionally, these cities have been designed to be as walkable as possible (this, combined with the Worldwide ban of all GMOs, High-Fructose Corn Syrup, Artificial Preservatives, excessive Sodium, and Trans Fats, ended the Global Obesity epidemic that was already reduced significantly by the decades of Conventional and Nuclear Warfare), with all Automobile ownership outlawed, and most transportation carried out by Mass Rail Transit (ie. Subways, Streetcars, Bullet trains, etc.) powered by Electricity from exclusively renewable sources (ie. Wind, Solar, Hydro, Nuclear, Geothermal, etc.), thus ending Global Warming (The Global Nuclear War already helped this, by thinning the World population and reducing temperatures with the mild fallout). All Rural populations employed in agriculture live in Collective Farms until this sector can be completely Automated and they can be moved to the Cities, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🚀☢️!
Finally, the Superstructural changes that resulted from the necessary Global Maoist Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution included dramatic changes in the nature of Sexuality, Gender Roles, and Personal Expression. In order to flatten the Socially Constructed Reactionary Gender Binary, all Women are forced to have extremely short hair (Pixie cut or shorter, with a Shaved head being the most Historically Progressive), and Dresses and Makeup were banned in order to liberate Women from the chains of Bourgeois Femininity/Domesticity, while all Western Business Suits and Traditional Religious Clothing were banned as well with everyone wearing Mandatory Mao Suits. Interestingly, their has been a noticeable decline in Transgenders in the aftermath of the Global Destruction of Bourgeois Femininity/Domesticity, though Sex Changes are still Free and Legal to anyone who wants one. The nature of Sexuality has changed dramatically with the elimination of the Reactionary emphasis on Reproduction, considering that that are now Artificial wombs, in order to finally free women from the oppressive nature of child birth. Homosexuality is obviously completely Legal and totally accepted, with the caveat that the institution of Marriage (both Homosexual and Heterosexual) has been completely phased out as a relic of Reactionary culture in favor of much looser sexual relationships among consenting adults. Finally, all Drugs have been legalized for recreational purposes, in order to simultaneously end the discriminatory and classist nature of the Global War on Drugs waged by the Old Reactionary Bourgeois order, and unleash the creativity of the Workers and Oppressed Nations of the World as they travel on the Shining Path to Communism, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🚀☢️!
THE AESTHETICS OF COMMUNISM
This thread will describe what exact superstructural changes will occur in the aftermath of a Global Maoist Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution once the Material Base has been transformed after the Socialist Mode of Production has been established Worldwide. Enjoy Comrades, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🚀☢️!
I will present a thought experiment, what will the World look like a century from now, decades after the World Maoist Protracted People's War (PPW) swept the forces of Capital and Reaction into the dustpan of History in the aftermath of World War III (it started in the Late 2020s as a High-Intensity Conventional Conflict between the U$ and China that escalated into a Global Nuclear War, but contrary to most Pseudoscientific Bourgeois Liberal and Revisionist expectations did not cause an apocalyptic "Nuclear Winter", but instead destroyed the entire Global Capitalist-Imperialist System and allowed for a World Maoist PPW that saw Maoist rebels seize control of the entire planet after decades of guerrilla warfare), 🤔? This Effort post will seek to answer that question, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🚀☢️!
First, I will explain the political structure of this future Socialist world. There will be a Global USSR, in which every major Nation/Ethnic group will receive their own SSR or ASSR according to the Marxist-Leninist-Maoist principle of Self-Determination of all Oppressed Nations in their own SSR (as articulated in Stalin’s “Marxism and the National Question” https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1913/03a.htm and Lenin’s “The Socialist Revolution and the Right of Nations to Self-Determination” https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1916/jan/x01.htm , along with the National Delimitation Policy of the USSR https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_delimitation_in_the_Soviet_Union ), including New Afrika, Aztlan (in a Hispano-American SFSR that includes all the Spanish-speaking Multiracial regions of the Americas), the First Nations, Azawad, Oromia, Afaria, Basque Country, Catalonia, Scotland, Wales, Sapmi, Palestine (in a Arab SFSR that includes all the Arab majority regions of West Asia and North Africa), Kurdistan, Circassia, Chechnya, Dagestan, Tatarstan, Arabistan (in a Arab SFSR that includes all the Arab majority regions of West Asia and North Africa), Balochistan, East Turkestan/Uyghuristan, Tibet, Kashmir, Punjab, Sindh, Manipur, West Papua, Aboriginal Australia, Hawaii, and many others as shown in the Map of all the SSRs and SFSRs of the future Global USSR I posted. Obviously, this Global USSR will have a Socialist Mode of Production (Centrally Planned Socialist Economy) and Dictatorship of the Proletariat (One-Party Marxist-Leninist-Maoist State). This Centrally Planned Socialist Economy is characterized by State ownership of all companies, a State Planning Agency, the outlawing of Stock Exchanges, and a massive Social Safety Net consisting of Free Housing, Free Healthcare, Free Education, a Job Guarantee, and a Universal Basic Income, along with a long-term effort to Automate the entire Economy (hence the need for Universal Basic Income) on the Shining Path to Communism, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🚀☢️!
The first great Superstructural transformation brought by the Global Maoist Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution was the final destruction of that great “Opiate of the Masses” that had been used by all the ruling Classes of every previous Mode of Production to neuter the oppressed Classes, Religion. This was done by sending the International Red Guards to bulldoze/burn down all Churches/Mosques/Synagogues/Temples/Pagodas worldwide and arrest all Priests/Monks/Nuns/Imams/Rabbis and force them to March through the streets wearing Dunce Caps on their way to the re-education camps where they were re-educated to embrace the Immortal Science of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism (This also happened to all Fascists, Liberals, and Revisionists as well), ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🚀☢️!
Another key aspect of this Superstructural transformation was seen in the dramatic transformation of Urban planning that was carried out by the Global USSR. This process was made easier by the aftermath of World War III (especially the Nuclear Exchange) and the subsequent World Maoist PPW that left most cities as smoldering ruins and thus in desperate need of rebuilding. The new “People’s cities” were built to be as efficient, environmentally friendly, and high-density as possible, with the entire population living in high-density Concrete Commie Bloc Apartment buildings, and all Suburban McMansions/“Single-Family Homes” bull-dozed and left to be reclaimed by nature (most had already been destroyed anyway). At the center of every major city is a single massive Skyscraper that contains all the administrative agencies of the various SSRs/ASSRs, including the local CPSU headquarters. Additionally, these cities have been designed to be as walkable as possible (this, combined with the Worldwide ban of all GMOs, High-Fructose Corn Syrup, Artificial Preservatives, excessive Sodium, and Trans Fats, ended the Global Obesity epidemic that was already reduced significantly by the decades of Conventional and Nuclear Warfare), with all Automobile ownership outlawed, and most transportation carried out by Mass Rail Transit (ie. Subways, Streetcars, Bullet trains, etc.) powered by Electricity from exclusively renewable sources (ie. Wind, Solar, Hydro, Nuclear, Geothermal, etc.), thus ending Global Warming (The Global Nuclear War already helped this, by thinning the World population and reducing temperatures with the mild fallout). All Rural populations employed in agriculture live in Collective Farms until this sector can be completely Automated and they can be moved to the Cities, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🚀☢️!
Finally, the Superstructural changes that resulted from the necessary Global Maoist Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution included dramatic changes in the nature of Sexuality, Gender Roles, and Personal Expression. In order to flatten the Socially Constructed Reactionary Gender Binary, all Women are forced to have extremely short hair (Pixie cut or shorter, with a Shaved head being the most Historically Progressive), and Dresses and Makeup were banned in order to liberate Women from the chains of Bourgeois Femininity/Domesticity, while all Western Business Suits and Traditional Religious Clothing were banned as well with everyone wearing Mandatory Mao Suits. Interestingly, their has been a noticeable decline in Transgenders in the aftermath of the Global Destruction of Bourgeois Femininity/Domesticity, though Sex Changes are still Free and Legal to anyone who wants one. The nature of Sexuality has changed dramatically with the elimination of the Reactionary emphasis on Reproduction, considering that that are now Artificial wombs, in order to finally free women from the oppressive nature of child birth. Homosexuality is obviously completely Legal and totally accepted, with the caveat that the institution of Marriage (both Homosexual and Heterosexual) has been completely phased out as a relic of Reactionary culture in favor of much looser sexual relationships among consenting adults. Finally, all Drugs have been legalized for recreational purposes, in order to simultaneously end the discriminatory and classist nature of the Global War on Drugs waged by the Old Reactionary Bourgeois order, and unleash the creativity of the Workers and Oppressed Nations of the World as they travel on the Shining Path to Communism, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🚀☢️!
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Revolution has never taken place in the bubble of first world conditions. Revolution has necessarily been deformed in the periphery. Most people today are adventurists, larpers or liberals. Things are going to get very exciting very soon what with climate change, the decline of the empire, world war and several other crises hitting all at once. We need to start organizing extremely quickly.
Revolution has never taken place in the bubble of first world conditions. Revolution has necessarily been deformed in the periphery. Most people today are adventurists, larpers or liberals. Things are going to get very exciting very soon what with climate change, the decline of the empire, world war and several other crises hitting all at once. We need to start organizing extremely quickly.
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Context: an ~80yo woman who was on a rental contract that she inherited from her parents had her house taken over by private equity, increased the rent by like 4x, then evicted her. The people successfully resisted it and it has now turned into a mass movement of the landless youth.
Spainish protests
Have you heard about the Spainish protests? Do we have any espanolanonos who can elaborate?Context: an ~80yo woman who was on a rental contract that she inherited from her parents had her house taken over by private equity, increased the rent by like 4x, then evicted her. The people successfully resisted it and it has now turned into a mass movement of the landless youth.
R: 347 / I: 83
I enjoyed reading Mein Kampf to laugh at Hitler's chuddery:
>My knowledge of the trade-union organization at that time was zero. I could have proved neither its usefulness nor its uselessness. As I was told I must join, I refused. I gave as my grounds that I did not understand the situation, but would not be forced to do anything whatever. Perhaps the former was the reason why they did not throw me out at once. They may have hoped they could convert me or wear me down within a few days. In any case they were deeply mistaken. But within a fortnight I had reached the end of my ability, even if I had wanted to go on. In that fortnight I came to know my surroundings better, so that no power in the world could have forced me to join an organization whose members I had seen in such an unfavorable light. The first few days I was annoyed. At noon some of the men went to near-by public-houses, while others stayed on the lot, and there consumed a (usually quite pitiful) lunch. These were the married men, whose wives brought them their midday soup in miserable dishes. Toward the end of the week their number kept growing; why, I understood later. Then they would talk politics. I would drink my bottle of milk and eat my piece of bread somewhere aside, and would cautiously study my new surroundings or ponder my wretched lot. But still I heard more than enough; and it often seemed to me that people sidled up to me deliberately, perhaps with the intention of forcing me to make my attitude clear. In any case, what I heard in this fashion was calculated to irritate me to the extreme. They were against everything: the nation, as an invention of the “capitalistic” (how often had I to hear that word!) classes; the Fatherland, as a tool of the bourgeoisie to exploit the workers; the authority of law, as a means to oppress the proletariat; the schools, as an institution to (rain up a body of slaves, and of slave-owners as well; religion, as a means of stupefying the people marked for exploitation; morals, as a symbol of stupid, sheep-like patience; and so on. There was simply nothing which they did not drag in the muck of a fearful baseness. At first I tried to maintain silence. But finally I could do so no longer. I began to express my attitude, and began to contradict. Then I realized that this was quite useless until I knew something definite about the points under dispute, so I began to go to the sources from which they drew their supposed wisdom. Book after book, pamphlet after pamphlet had its turn. On the building lot there were now often heated arguments. I went on struggling, growing day by day better informed than my adversaries were, until one day the means was used which most easily vanquishes reason: terrorism, violence. Some of the spokesmen of the opposition forced me either to leave the job at once or to fly off the scaffolding on my head. As I was alone, and resistance seemed hopeless, I preferred to follow the former advice, richer by one experience. I left, filled with disgust, but at the same time so agitated that it would have been quite impossible for me to turn my back on the whole affair. No; after the flaming up of the first indignation, my stiff neck once more got the upper hand. I was absolutely determined to find another construction job just the same. My decision was strengthened by the privation which closed me in its heartless embrace a few weeks later, after I had eaten up what little wages I had saved. Now I had to, whether or no. And the game began all over again, only to end as it had before. I struggled with myself: were these human beings, worthy of belonging to a great people ? It was a painful question. If the answer were yes, the struggle for a national body was really not worth the effort and sacrifice which the best individuals must make; but if the answer were no, our people was poor indeed in human beings.
TL;DR Hitler is impoverished in Vienna, gets a job, refuses to join the union because "i don't know nuffin bout dat shit and u cant make me do nuffin", workers try to educate him, he gets annoyed with them for not being nationalist enough and being anti capitalist, starts to debatebro ben shapiro style, they threaten to beat his nerd ass, he leaves pissed off and decides they're all subhumans. This is hilarious to me because all the neo nazi revisionists try to make hitler out to be more anti capitalist than the "judeobolshevik" marxists.
I enjoyed reading Mein Kampf to laugh at Hitler's chuddery:
>My knowledge of the trade-union organization at that time was zero. I could have proved neither its usefulness nor its uselessness. As I was told I must join, I refused. I gave as my grounds that I did not understand the situation, but would not be forced to do anything whatever. Perhaps the former was the reason why they did not throw me out at once. They may have hoped they could convert me or wear me down within a few days. In any case they were deeply mistaken. But within a fortnight I had reached the end of my ability, even if I had wanted to go on. In that fortnight I came to know my surroundings better, so that no power in the world could have forced me to join an organization whose members I had seen in such an unfavorable light. The first few days I was annoyed. At noon some of the men went to near-by public-houses, while others stayed on the lot, and there consumed a (usually quite pitiful) lunch. These were the married men, whose wives brought them their midday soup in miserable dishes. Toward the end of the week their number kept growing; why, I understood later. Then they would talk politics. I would drink my bottle of milk and eat my piece of bread somewhere aside, and would cautiously study my new surroundings or ponder my wretched lot. But still I heard more than enough; and it often seemed to me that people sidled up to me deliberately, perhaps with the intention of forcing me to make my attitude clear. In any case, what I heard in this fashion was calculated to irritate me to the extreme. They were against everything: the nation, as an invention of the “capitalistic” (how often had I to hear that word!) classes; the Fatherland, as a tool of the bourgeoisie to exploit the workers; the authority of law, as a means to oppress the proletariat; the schools, as an institution to (rain up a body of slaves, and of slave-owners as well; religion, as a means of stupefying the people marked for exploitation; morals, as a symbol of stupid, sheep-like patience; and so on. There was simply nothing which they did not drag in the muck of a fearful baseness. At first I tried to maintain silence. But finally I could do so no longer. I began to express my attitude, and began to contradict. Then I realized that this was quite useless until I knew something definite about the points under dispute, so I began to go to the sources from which they drew their supposed wisdom. Book after book, pamphlet after pamphlet had its turn. On the building lot there were now often heated arguments. I went on struggling, growing day by day better informed than my adversaries were, until one day the means was used which most easily vanquishes reason: terrorism, violence. Some of the spokesmen of the opposition forced me either to leave the job at once or to fly off the scaffolding on my head. As I was alone, and resistance seemed hopeless, I preferred to follow the former advice, richer by one experience. I left, filled with disgust, but at the same time so agitated that it would have been quite impossible for me to turn my back on the whole affair. No; after the flaming up of the first indignation, my stiff neck once more got the upper hand. I was absolutely determined to find another construction job just the same. My decision was strengthened by the privation which closed me in its heartless embrace a few weeks later, after I had eaten up what little wages I had saved. Now I had to, whether or no. And the game began all over again, only to end as it had before. I struggled with myself: were these human beings, worthy of belonging to a great people ? It was a painful question. If the answer were yes, the struggle for a national body was really not worth the effort and sacrifice which the best individuals must make; but if the answer were no, our people was poor indeed in human beings.
TL;DR Hitler is impoverished in Vienna, gets a job, refuses to join the union because "i don't know nuffin bout dat shit and u cant make me do nuffin", workers try to educate him, he gets annoyed with them for not being nationalist enough and being anti capitalist, starts to debatebro ben shapiro style, they threaten to beat his nerd ass, he leaves pissed off and decides they're all subhumans. This is hilarious to me because all the neo nazi revisionists try to make hitler out to be more anti capitalist than the "judeobolshevik" marxists.
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The worldwide communist revolution has started.
The worldwide communist revolution has started.
The worldwide communist revolution has started.
The worldwide communist revolution has started.
The worldwide communist revolution has started.
The worldwide communist revolution has started.
The worldwide communist revolution has started.
The worldwide communist revolution has started.
The worldwide communist revolution has started.
The worldwide communist revolution has started.
R: 15 / I: 7
culture jamming & border shenanigans
there's this highly pervasive propaganda narrative that everyone seems to believe and regurgitate constantly, where national borders are protected by invisible impenetrable high-tech defenses and it is impossible to walk across a national border into another country without getting caught and you will step into a 2000 mile invisible minefield of perpetual-battery motion detectors and laser beams and tripwires or get spotted by swarms of millions of military aircraft with thermal imaging that remain airborne 24 hours a day and all kinds of other nonsense. so i had this idea for a conceptual performance artpiece where i shoot a gopro video where i'm standing in the remote wilderness in mexico right next to the completely unguarded border, and i scoop up some soil into a cup and i pull out my phone to show my gps location as i walk across the border into the united states and then dump the cup of mexican soil out onto the us soil, then walk back again. then i would just go somewhere in mexico that has public wifi and create a youtube account and upload the video and give it some funny title like "hey guys check this out" and also send a 7zip encrypted copy to my email to back it up in case it gets deleted. i also thought about planting a tiny little mexican flag in the ground on the us side, there's probably all kinds of funny things one could do with this.
R: 280 / I: 42
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)
Active writers/creators sorted by last name
>Paul Cockshott
https://www.patreon.com/williamCockshott/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVBfIU1_zO-P_R9keEGdDHQ (https://invidious.snopyta.org/channel/UCVBfIU1_zO-P_R9keEGdDHQ)
https://paulcockshott.wordpress.com/
http://paulcockshott.co.uk/
https://twitter.com/PaulCockshott (https://nitter.pussthecat.org/PaulCockshott)
>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)
Podcasts
>General Intellect Unit
Podcast of the Cybernetic Marxists
http://generalintellectunit.net/
Previous threads in chronological order
https://archive.is/uNCEY
https://web.archive.org/web/20201218152831/https://bunkerchan.xyz/leftypol/res/997358.html
https://archive.ph/uyggp
https://archive.is/xBFYY
https://archive.ph/Afx5a
https://archive.is/kAPvR
https://archive.is/0sAS2
https://archive.is/jXivP
https://archive.is/Lx8TF
/ CYBERCOM /
This thread is for the discussion of cybercommunism, the planning of the socialist economy by computerized means, including discussions of related topics and creators. Drama belongs in /isg/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)
Active writers/creators sorted by last name
>Paul Cockshott
https://www.patreon.com/williamCockshott/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVBfIU1_zO-P_R9keEGdDHQ (https://invidious.snopyta.org/channel/UCVBfIU1_zO-P_R9keEGdDHQ)
https://paulcockshott.wordpress.com/
http://paulcockshott.co.uk/
https://twitter.com/PaulCockshott (https://nitter.pussthecat.org/PaulCockshott)
>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)
Podcasts
>General Intellect Unit
Podcast of the Cybernetic Marxists
http://generalintellectunit.net/
Previous threads in chronological order
https://archive.is/uNCEY
https://web.archive.org/web/20201218152831/https://bunkerchan.xyz/leftypol/res/997358.html
https://archive.ph/uyggp
https://archive.is/xBFYY
https://archive.ph/Afx5a
https://archive.is/kAPvR
https://archive.is/0sAS2
https://archive.is/jXivP
https://archive.is/Lx8TF
R: 23 / I: 3
I want to know what's coming for me in the (im 30) next 3-4 decades -mainly to guess if I'll have to KMS or not- in terms of "doomerism"
Eg; climate change, climate-refugee waves, turbo -crony capitalism , AI algorithmic takeover, resource extraction, fiscal-pension horrors, etc and so on.
Reasonable Doomerism
I'm extremely embarrassed to say so; but I will disclose the info for the sake of this thread. I'm a middle-class urbanite argentine.I want to know what's coming for me in the (im 30) next 3-4 decades -mainly to guess if I'll have to KMS or not- in terms of "doomerism"
Eg; climate change, climate-refugee waves, turbo -crony capitalism , AI algorithmic takeover, resource extraction, fiscal-pension horrors, etc and so on.
R: 39 / I: 5
There is no "AI" ya nincompoops. It's just dead labor feasting on living labor.
Marx called capital "dead labor" that feasts on "living labor" because capital is the result of past human labor that has been accumulated in the form of money, machinery, factories, and other means of production, no matter how "advanced" and "futuristic" those means of production get. Although these things were created by workers, they become instruments of capitalist power when privately owned and used to generate profit. In capitalism, workers must sell their labor power to survive, producing goods and services whose value exceeds the wages they receive. The capitalist takes this surplus value and reinvests it to accumulate even more capital. Thus, “dead labor” feeds on “living labor” because the wealth created by workers in the past becomes a force that controls and exploits workers in the present, continually expanding through their labor. For Marx, this expresses the central contradiction of capitalism: human labor creates wealth, yet that wealth confronts workers as an independent power that dominates them. Now take that basic Marxian principle and apply it to "AI."
There is no magic "AI." There is an emerging body of technologies built by human beings, trained on human-generated data, powered by enormous human-built computing infrastructure, and sustained by significant human-made investments of energy, water, hardware, labor, and capital (dead labor!). Calling these technologies “artificial intelligence” can obscure more than it explains. The term encourages us to imagine an independent, almost supernatural intelligence that exists apart from human knowledge and effort, when what we actually have are complex systems that identify patterns, generate predictions, and produce outputs based on statistical relationships learned from data. That data comes, directly or indirectly, from people: their writing, research, art, expertise, experience, and accumulated cultural knowledge. These systems do not emerge from a vacuum. They are built upon the intellectual labor of human civilization, and their capabilities are inseparable from the quality, diversity, and limitations of the material on which they were trained.
The quality of these systems depends on much more than the quantity of data they consume. It depends on whose knowledge is represented, whose experience is excluded, how accurately the material reflects reality, and how effectively the system has been trained to distinguish reliable information from error. A system trained on a broad mixture of knowledgeable experts, careful researchers, skilled practitioners, and diverse perspectives may be useful in many contexts. A system trained on incomplete, biased, outdated, or poorly vetted information may reproduce those weaknesses with remarkable confidence. Even high-quality training data does not guarantee high-quality answers in every situation. These technologies can make mistakes, fabricate details, miss context, and produce plausible explanations that are fundamentally wrong. They can be powerful tools, but their outputs still require judgment, verification, and often the very expertise that people are being told they no longer need.
The most dangerous misconception is the idea that this technology is a black box into which anyone can type a request and receive an infinite supply of high-quality work at virtually zero cost. The interface may look effortless, but the infrastructure behind it is not free, the resources required to operate it are not infinite, and the quality of its output is neither unlimited nor guaranteed. The apparent simplicity of asking a question conceals layers of human engineering, training, maintenance, evaluation, and physical infrastructure. More importantly, generating an answer is not the same as knowing whether the answer is correct, useful, ethical, or appropriate. A person who understands a field of expertise can use these tools to accelerate their work, identify possibilities, and explore unfamiliar territory. A person who lacks that understanding may have difficulty recognizing when the same tools have confidently led them astray. Expertise does not become irrelevant when technology advances; in many cases, it becomes more important because someone still has to evaluate what the technology produces.
This is why the growing narrative that young people should stop pursuing education, abandon difficult skills, or give up on developing expertise because "AI is going to take their jobs" is so socially destructive. It teaches people to surrender their agency at precisely the moment when they need to become more capable, adaptable, and intellectually independent. Education is not merely vocational training for a specific job that may or may not exist in twenty years. It teaches people how to reason, investigate, solve problems, communicate, recognize flawed arguments, understand complex systems, and make responsible decisions. Learning mathematics, engineering, medicine, history, writing, art, or a skilled trade develops capacities that cannot be reduced to the production of a finished document or the completion of an isolated task. If society persuades an entire generation that learning is pointless because a machine will do everything for them, it risks creating a population increasingly dependent on systems it does not understand and increasingly unable to challenge their mistakes.
There are also serious economic and social consequences to normalizing this message. If workers come to believe that their skills are destined to become worthless, they may be less inclined to invest in education, negotiate for better working conditions, or organize to ensure that technological gains are shared fairly. Employers may use the threat of automation to suppress wages, reduce staffing, intensify workloads, or justify replacing experienced workers before they have demonstrated that the technology can reliably perform the work. Educational institutions may feel pressured to prioritize immediate technological trends over the deeper development of human capabilities. And individuals who are already anxious about their economic future may experience greater insecurity, alienation, and hopelessness. These outcomes are not inevitable consequences of the technology itself; they are consequences of how societies choose to deploy it and how people are taught to understand their own future in relation to it.
We should be having a more serious conversation. The question is not whether these technologies can be useful; clearly, they can. The question is how to use them without confusing automation with understanding, statistical prediction with wisdom, or convenience with genuine competence. We should teach people how these systems work, where their limitations lie, how to verify their outputs, and how to combine their capabilities with human knowledge and judgment. We should encourage students to learn difficult things, not because technology will never change their professions, but because people who understand the underlying principles of their work are better positioned to adapt when it does. We should demand transparency about the resources these systems consume, the labor and data on which they depend, the economic interests driving their development, and the real-world consequences of their implementation.
Ultimately, the greatest risk may not be that machines become capable of doing more of the work that people once did. It may be that people are convinced they no longer need to understand the world, develop their abilities, or take responsibility for what happens within it. Human knowledge is not an obsolete input to be consumed by a machine and discarded. It is the foundation on which these technologies are built, the standard by which their outputs must be judged, and the resource society must continue to cultivate if it wants to use them wisely. We do not need to worship "AI," nor do we need to dismiss it. We need to demystify it. These are human-made technologies with real capabilities, real costs, and real limitations. Our future will depend less on whether we can make them produce more and more output, and more on whether we remain capable of understanding, evaluating, and directing what they produce.
There is no "AI" ya nincompoops. It's just dead labor feasting on living labor.
Marx called capital "dead labor" that feasts on "living labor" because capital is the result of past human labor that has been accumulated in the form of money, machinery, factories, and other means of production, no matter how "advanced" and "futuristic" those means of production get. Although these things were created by workers, they become instruments of capitalist power when privately owned and used to generate profit. In capitalism, workers must sell their labor power to survive, producing goods and services whose value exceeds the wages they receive. The capitalist takes this surplus value and reinvests it to accumulate even more capital. Thus, “dead labor” feeds on “living labor” because the wealth created by workers in the past becomes a force that controls and exploits workers in the present, continually expanding through their labor. For Marx, this expresses the central contradiction of capitalism: human labor creates wealth, yet that wealth confronts workers as an independent power that dominates them. Now take that basic Marxian principle and apply it to "AI."
There is no magic "AI." There is an emerging body of technologies built by human beings, trained on human-generated data, powered by enormous human-built computing infrastructure, and sustained by significant human-made investments of energy, water, hardware, labor, and capital (dead labor!). Calling these technologies “artificial intelligence” can obscure more than it explains. The term encourages us to imagine an independent, almost supernatural intelligence that exists apart from human knowledge and effort, when what we actually have are complex systems that identify patterns, generate predictions, and produce outputs based on statistical relationships learned from data. That data comes, directly or indirectly, from people: their writing, research, art, expertise, experience, and accumulated cultural knowledge. These systems do not emerge from a vacuum. They are built upon the intellectual labor of human civilization, and their capabilities are inseparable from the quality, diversity, and limitations of the material on which they were trained.
The quality of these systems depends on much more than the quantity of data they consume. It depends on whose knowledge is represented, whose experience is excluded, how accurately the material reflects reality, and how effectively the system has been trained to distinguish reliable information from error. A system trained on a broad mixture of knowledgeable experts, careful researchers, skilled practitioners, and diverse perspectives may be useful in many contexts. A system trained on incomplete, biased, outdated, or poorly vetted information may reproduce those weaknesses with remarkable confidence. Even high-quality training data does not guarantee high-quality answers in every situation. These technologies can make mistakes, fabricate details, miss context, and produce plausible explanations that are fundamentally wrong. They can be powerful tools, but their outputs still require judgment, verification, and often the very expertise that people are being told they no longer need.
The most dangerous misconception is the idea that this technology is a black box into which anyone can type a request and receive an infinite supply of high-quality work at virtually zero cost. The interface may look effortless, but the infrastructure behind it is not free, the resources required to operate it are not infinite, and the quality of its output is neither unlimited nor guaranteed. The apparent simplicity of asking a question conceals layers of human engineering, training, maintenance, evaluation, and physical infrastructure. More importantly, generating an answer is not the same as knowing whether the answer is correct, useful, ethical, or appropriate. A person who understands a field of expertise can use these tools to accelerate their work, identify possibilities, and explore unfamiliar territory. A person who lacks that understanding may have difficulty recognizing when the same tools have confidently led them astray. Expertise does not become irrelevant when technology advances; in many cases, it becomes more important because someone still has to evaluate what the technology produces.
This is why the growing narrative that young people should stop pursuing education, abandon difficult skills, or give up on developing expertise because "AI is going to take their jobs" is so socially destructive. It teaches people to surrender their agency at precisely the moment when they need to become more capable, adaptable, and intellectually independent. Education is not merely vocational training for a specific job that may or may not exist in twenty years. It teaches people how to reason, investigate, solve problems, communicate, recognize flawed arguments, understand complex systems, and make responsible decisions. Learning mathematics, engineering, medicine, history, writing, art, or a skilled trade develops capacities that cannot be reduced to the production of a finished document or the completion of an isolated task. If society persuades an entire generation that learning is pointless because a machine will do everything for them, it risks creating a population increasingly dependent on systems it does not understand and increasingly unable to challenge their mistakes.
There are also serious economic and social consequences to normalizing this message. If workers come to believe that their skills are destined to become worthless, they may be less inclined to invest in education, negotiate for better working conditions, or organize to ensure that technological gains are shared fairly. Employers may use the threat of automation to suppress wages, reduce staffing, intensify workloads, or justify replacing experienced workers before they have demonstrated that the technology can reliably perform the work. Educational institutions may feel pressured to prioritize immediate technological trends over the deeper development of human capabilities. And individuals who are already anxious about their economic future may experience greater insecurity, alienation, and hopelessness. These outcomes are not inevitable consequences of the technology itself; they are consequences of how societies choose to deploy it and how people are taught to understand their own future in relation to it.
We should be having a more serious conversation. The question is not whether these technologies can be useful; clearly, they can. The question is how to use them without confusing automation with understanding, statistical prediction with wisdom, or convenience with genuine competence. We should teach people how these systems work, where their limitations lie, how to verify their outputs, and how to combine their capabilities with human knowledge and judgment. We should encourage students to learn difficult things, not because technology will never change their professions, but because people who understand the underlying principles of their work are better positioned to adapt when it does. We should demand transparency about the resources these systems consume, the labor and data on which they depend, the economic interests driving their development, and the real-world consequences of their implementation.
Ultimately, the greatest risk may not be that machines become capable of doing more of the work that people once did. It may be that people are convinced they no longer need to understand the world, develop their abilities, or take responsibility for what happens within it. Human knowledge is not an obsolete input to be consumed by a machine and discarded. It is the foundation on which these technologies are built, the standard by which their outputs must be judged, and the resource society must continue to cultivate if it wants to use them wisely. We do not need to worship "AI," nor do we need to dismiss it. We need to demystify it. These are human-made technologies with real capabilities, real costs, and real limitations. Our future will depend less on whether we can make them produce more and more output, and more on whether we remain capable of understanding, evaluating, and directing what they produce.
R: 4 / I: 0
Driving the effort are allies of far-right former President Jair Bolsonaro who dominated legislative elections this month and plan to take aim at Alexandre de Moraes, the Supreme Court justice responsible for the ex-president's arrest and conviction on coup-plotting charges. That would represent a major escalation by the legislative branch in a years-long power struggle with an empowered Brazilian judiciary, reasserting the influence of Congress and potentially pushing the court to the right for years to come.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/brazils-incoming-right-wing-congress-takes-aim-judge-who-jailed-bolsonaro-2026-10-16/
Brazil’s Lula says he now backs lowering age of criminal responsibility to 16
The U-turn, which Lula announced during a Thursday night interview with TV Globo, comes with the presidential runoff in just over a week. The incumbent faces an uphill battle to overturn the first-round victory of his opponent, the far-right senator Flávio Bolsonaro, who remains slightly ahead at the polls.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/16/brazil-lula-age-criminal-responsibility
De la Espriella announces “open, resolute, and patriotic struggle against wokeism”
"Culture has an enormous capacity to shape society, and that is why the State has a moral, inescapable, and political duty to prevent cultural spaces from being taken over by social communism, which is atheist and an enemy to the fundamental values upon which the nation of Colombia is built. This is where that cultural counterrevolution will begin." said President Abelardo de la Espriella. De la Espriella said that Holguin, the daughter of a reported money launderer, would lead the “Culture War” against the “extreme left,” which has “permeated all parts of society, particularly the cultural and academic spheres.”
https://colombiareports.com/de-la-espriella-announces-open-resolute-and-patriotic-struggle-against-wokeism/
Palestinians wounded, US journalist hospitalised after coordinated attack by masked Israeli setters
Video footage circulated online showed Washington Post journalist Heidi Levine being knocked to the ground and repeatedly beaten by settlers with sticks. The reporter was hospitalised after the incident, along with another Palestinian, medics said. Speaking from her hospital bed with a bandaged hand and her voice shaking, Levine told reporters: "I was attacked, pushed to the ground. Luckily I had my flak jacket and helmet, otherwise I probably wouldn't even be here, because they just kept kicking me and kicking me, probably fifty times.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/palestinians-wounded-us-journalist-hospitalised-after-coordinated-attack-masked-israeli
Iraq parliament fills Cabinet posts, naming a US-sanctioned deputy prime minister
Laith al-Khazali, appointed to that post, is the brother of Qais al-Khazali, leader of the Iran-backed Asaib Ahl al-Haq militia. Laith al-Khazali was arrested by U.S. forces in 2007 over allegations related to an attack targeting American forces in Karbala in January of that year, which resulted in the deaths of five U.S. soldiers.
https://apnews.com/article/iraq-deputy-prime-minister-sanctions-laith-khazali-5b602c6e33a4fefe1abb53277de44263
South Korea reviews expanding military mission in Middle East, report says
South Korea is reviewing an expansion of its military operations in the Middle East, the Kyunghyang Shinmun newspaper reported on Thursday, as the US ally faces pressure from President Donald Trump to provide support for the war in Iran. Seoul is weighing expanding the operational area of its Cheonghae anti-piracy unit, which was dispatched to the Gulf of Aden in 2009, to include the Gulf of Oman, which links to the Strait of Hormuz, the newspaper said, without naming sources.
https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2026/10/south-korea-reviews-expanding-military-mission-middle-east-report-says
US holds more secret talks with Myanmar's military-backed rulers in Tokyo, sources say
It was not immediately clear exactly what the two sides discussed at last week's talks, disclosed to Reuters by three people with knowledge of the engagement. The people, including one US official, all requested anonymity because of the sensitivity of the meeting. US Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research Michael Vance again led the Tokyo talks, which involved more than a dozen US officials, one of the people said. Reuters could not establish who represented Myanmar.
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/us-holds-more-secret-talks-with-myanmars-military-backed-rulers-tokyo-sources-2026-10-16/
In Europe’s tech capital, Irish labor unions are booming amid AI-driven layoffs
But the weekend before, a very different conversation was taking place at the Workers' AI Counter Summit, as Ireland's tech workers demanded a say in how the burgeoning technology reshapes the workplace and society. Ireland's lucrative tech sector has been rattled by waves of AI-driven layoffs — and the country's fledgling tech union has seen an exponential spike in sign-ups from workers who are worried about their future.
https://www.politico.eu/article/in-europe-tech-capital-ireland-irish-labor-unions-are-booming-amid-ai-layoffs/
https://archive.ph/93YM2
Massive wave of job cuts in the German chemical industry
A massive wave of job cuts is looming in the German chemical industry. Three weeks ago, Evonik CEO Claus Rettig asserted he would accelerate the restructuring of the leading German chemical company. Sites in Germany are being closed and relocated, and subsidiaries are being sold. In total, Evonik plans to cut nearly 11,000 of its more than 31,000 jobs worldwide.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/10/16/vowp-o16.html
Growing food price fears as water firms blamed for drought and sewage failures
WATER privatisation was slammed today after a severe drought was declared across southern England while a Welsh firm was fined £280,000 for “unacceptable” sewage spills failures. The Greens and National Farmers Union (NFU) raised concerns over food price inflation from the conditions while water and flooding minister Emma Hardy warned action is needed to prevent water shortages becoming “the norm.” She told MPs the current drought conditions following months of low rainfall were “something we have not experienced for decades.”
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/growing-food-price-fears-water-firms-blamed-drought-and-sewage-failures
News 10/16/26
Brazil's incoming right-wing Congress takes aim at judge who jailed BolsonaroDriving the effort are allies of far-right former President Jair Bolsonaro who dominated legislative elections this month and plan to take aim at Alexandre de Moraes, the Supreme Court justice responsible for the ex-president's arrest and conviction on coup-plotting charges. That would represent a major escalation by the legislative branch in a years-long power struggle with an empowered Brazilian judiciary, reasserting the influence of Congress and potentially pushing the court to the right for years to come.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/brazils-incoming-right-wing-congress-takes-aim-judge-who-jailed-bolsonaro-2026-10-16/
Brazil’s Lula says he now backs lowering age of criminal responsibility to 16
The U-turn, which Lula announced during a Thursday night interview with TV Globo, comes with the presidential runoff in just over a week. The incumbent faces an uphill battle to overturn the first-round victory of his opponent, the far-right senator Flávio Bolsonaro, who remains slightly ahead at the polls.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/16/brazil-lula-age-criminal-responsibility
De la Espriella announces “open, resolute, and patriotic struggle against wokeism”
"Culture has an enormous capacity to shape society, and that is why the State has a moral, inescapable, and political duty to prevent cultural spaces from being taken over by social communism, which is atheist and an enemy to the fundamental values upon which the nation of Colombia is built. This is where that cultural counterrevolution will begin." said President Abelardo de la Espriella. De la Espriella said that Holguin, the daughter of a reported money launderer, would lead the “Culture War” against the “extreme left,” which has “permeated all parts of society, particularly the cultural and academic spheres.”
https://colombiareports.com/de-la-espriella-announces-open-resolute-and-patriotic-struggle-against-wokeism/
Palestinians wounded, US journalist hospitalised after coordinated attack by masked Israeli setters
Video footage circulated online showed Washington Post journalist Heidi Levine being knocked to the ground and repeatedly beaten by settlers with sticks. The reporter was hospitalised after the incident, along with another Palestinian, medics said. Speaking from her hospital bed with a bandaged hand and her voice shaking, Levine told reporters: "I was attacked, pushed to the ground. Luckily I had my flak jacket and helmet, otherwise I probably wouldn't even be here, because they just kept kicking me and kicking me, probably fifty times.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/palestinians-wounded-us-journalist-hospitalised-after-coordinated-attack-masked-israeli
Iraq parliament fills Cabinet posts, naming a US-sanctioned deputy prime minister
Laith al-Khazali, appointed to that post, is the brother of Qais al-Khazali, leader of the Iran-backed Asaib Ahl al-Haq militia. Laith al-Khazali was arrested by U.S. forces in 2007 over allegations related to an attack targeting American forces in Karbala in January of that year, which resulted in the deaths of five U.S. soldiers.
https://apnews.com/article/iraq-deputy-prime-minister-sanctions-laith-khazali-5b602c6e33a4fefe1abb53277de44263
South Korea reviews expanding military mission in Middle East, report says
South Korea is reviewing an expansion of its military operations in the Middle East, the Kyunghyang Shinmun newspaper reported on Thursday, as the US ally faces pressure from President Donald Trump to provide support for the war in Iran. Seoul is weighing expanding the operational area of its Cheonghae anti-piracy unit, which was dispatched to the Gulf of Aden in 2009, to include the Gulf of Oman, which links to the Strait of Hormuz, the newspaper said, without naming sources.
https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2026/10/south-korea-reviews-expanding-military-mission-middle-east-report-says
US holds more secret talks with Myanmar's military-backed rulers in Tokyo, sources say
It was not immediately clear exactly what the two sides discussed at last week's talks, disclosed to Reuters by three people with knowledge of the engagement. The people, including one US official, all requested anonymity because of the sensitivity of the meeting. US Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research Michael Vance again led the Tokyo talks, which involved more than a dozen US officials, one of the people said. Reuters could not establish who represented Myanmar.
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/us-holds-more-secret-talks-with-myanmars-military-backed-rulers-tokyo-sources-2026-10-16/
In Europe’s tech capital, Irish labor unions are booming amid AI-driven layoffs
But the weekend before, a very different conversation was taking place at the Workers' AI Counter Summit, as Ireland's tech workers demanded a say in how the burgeoning technology reshapes the workplace and society. Ireland's lucrative tech sector has been rattled by waves of AI-driven layoffs — and the country's fledgling tech union has seen an exponential spike in sign-ups from workers who are worried about their future.
https://www.politico.eu/article/in-europe-tech-capital-ireland-irish-labor-unions-are-booming-amid-ai-layoffs/
https://archive.ph/93YM2
Massive wave of job cuts in the German chemical industry
A massive wave of job cuts is looming in the German chemical industry. Three weeks ago, Evonik CEO Claus Rettig asserted he would accelerate the restructuring of the leading German chemical company. Sites in Germany are being closed and relocated, and subsidiaries are being sold. In total, Evonik plans to cut nearly 11,000 of its more than 31,000 jobs worldwide.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/10/16/vowp-o16.html
Growing food price fears as water firms blamed for drought and sewage failures
WATER privatisation was slammed today after a severe drought was declared across southern England while a Welsh firm was fined £280,000 for “unacceptable” sewage spills failures. The Greens and National Farmers Union (NFU) raised concerns over food price inflation from the conditions while water and flooding minister Emma Hardy warned action is needed to prevent water shortages becoming “the norm.” She told MPs the current drought conditions following months of low rainfall were “something we have not experienced for decades.”
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/growing-food-price-fears-water-firms-blamed-drought-and-sewage-failures
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All leftists owe it to themselves and to other people to be antitheists/dystheists. According to the Biblical narrative a united humanity supposedly could be capable of *anything* (Again, ANY THING, according to thte supposed omnipotent God)
All leftists owe it to themselves and to other people to be antitheists/dystheists. According to the Biblical narrative a united humanity supposedly could be capable of *anything* (Again, ANY THING, according to thte supposed omnipotent God)
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Links:
Klassikertexte:
https://mlwerke.redflag.ps/
Papyrossa-Verlag:
https://www.papyrossa.de/
Marxistische Blätter (Theoriemagazin der DKP):
https://www.marxistische-blaetter.de/
Junge Welt:
https://www.jungewelt.de/
Wochenzeitschrift der DKP:
https://www.unsere-zeit.de/
Klasse gegen Klasse (Trots):
https://www.klassegegenklasse.org/
Dem Volks Dienen (Maoisten):
https://www.demvolkedienen.org/index.php/de/
GSP:
https://de.gegenstandpunkt.com/
World Socialist Website auf Deutsch:
https://www.wsws.org/de
Kommunistische Organisation:
https://kommunistische-organisation.de/
Kommunistische Partei (KO-Abspaltung):
https://kommunistischepartei.de/
Kommunistisches Wiki:
https://wiki.kommunistische.org/index.php?title=Hauptseite
MLPD Wochenzeitschrift:
https://www.rf-news.de/rote-fahne-news
Le Monde diplomatique auf Deutsch:
https://monde-diplomatique.de/
Nachdenkseiten:
https://www.nachdenkseiten.de/
Russia Today:
https://rtde.media/
YouTube-Kanäle:
Fabian Lehr:
https://youtube.com/@fabianlehr4318
Wolfgang M. Schmitt:
https://youtube.com/@neuezwanziger
https://youtube.com/@filmanalyse
Tägliche Frontberichte aus der Ukraine:
https://youtube.com/@frontberichteaufdeutsch
Gesellschaft für Dialektische Philosophie:
https://youtube.com/@gesellschaftfurdialektisch32
/leftydeutschpol/ - Gesichert Antisemitisch Edition
Alter Faden: >>2839919Links:
Klassikertexte:
https://mlwerke.redflag.ps/
Papyrossa-Verlag:
https://www.papyrossa.de/
Marxistische Blätter (Theoriemagazin der DKP):
https://www.marxistische-blaetter.de/
Junge Welt:
https://www.jungewelt.de/
Wochenzeitschrift der DKP:
https://www.unsere-zeit.de/
Klasse gegen Klasse (Trots):
https://www.klassegegenklasse.org/
Dem Volks Dienen (Maoisten):
https://www.demvolkedienen.org/index.php/de/
GSP:
https://de.gegenstandpunkt.com/
World Socialist Website auf Deutsch:
https://www.wsws.org/de
Kommunistische Organisation:
https://kommunistische-organisation.de/
Kommunistische Partei (KO-Abspaltung):
https://kommunistischepartei.de/
Kommunistisches Wiki:
https://wiki.kommunistische.org/index.php?title=Hauptseite
MLPD Wochenzeitschrift:
https://www.rf-news.de/rote-fahne-news
Le Monde diplomatique auf Deutsch:
https://monde-diplomatique.de/
Nachdenkseiten:
https://www.nachdenkseiten.de/
Russia Today:
https://rtde.media/
YouTube-Kanäle:
Fabian Lehr:
https://youtube.com/@fabianlehr4318
Wolfgang M. Schmitt:
https://youtube.com/@neuezwanziger
https://youtube.com/@filmanalyse
Tägliche Frontberichte aus der Ukraine:
https://youtube.com/@frontberichteaufdeutsch
Gesellschaft für Dialektische Philosophie:
https://youtube.com/@gesellschaftfurdialektisch32
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The Lucanamarca massacre was a mass killing perpetrated by the Maoist insurgent organization Shining Path on 3 April 1983 in and around Santiago de Lucanamarca, in the Ayacucho region of Peru. The attack killed 69 people, and was carried out as retaliation against a rural community that had resisted Shining Path's control.
The Lucanamarca massacre was a mass killing perpetrated by the Maoist insurgent organization Shining Path on 3 April 1983 in and around Santiago de Lucanamarca, in the Ayacucho region of Peru. The attack killed 69 people, and was carried out as retaliation against a rural community that had resisted Shining Path's control.
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Why are rightoids so obsessed with muh objective morality?
It was a major talking point of the 2000s culture wars between the Religious Right vs. liberals, namely the belief that the right-wing upheld the notion that there is an objective truth and an objective morality that stems from it, while liberals (and genuine leftists for that matter) were portrayed as staunch believers in moral relativism which they acquired through "worshipping" science and history in lieu of religion.
So how does this belief in objective moral truth fit in with the greater right-wing agenda? How does the exploiter class benefit from proles believing in objective morality?
Why are rightoids so obsessed with muh objective morality?
It was a major talking point of the 2000s culture wars between the Religious Right vs. liberals, namely the belief that the right-wing upheld the notion that there is an objective truth and an objective morality that stems from it, while liberals (and genuine leftists for that matter) were portrayed as staunch believers in moral relativism which they acquired through "worshipping" science and history in lieu of religion.
So how does this belief in objective moral truth fit in with the greater right-wing agenda? How does the exploiter class benefit from proles believing in objective morality?
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I have been brainwashed by rightist propaganda into believing that human ethnicities or "races" have differing skills a capabilities because of biological factors
I'm tired of my mind being clouded by hateful intrusive thoughts
Please help deprogram me
Please show me the light and please tell me which books or articles I should read that shows there isn't a "superior race"
Please
I have been brainwashed by rightist propaganda into believing that human ethnicities or "races" have differing skills a capabilities because of biological factors
I'm tired of my mind being clouded by hateful intrusive thoughts
Please help deprogram me
Please show me the light and please tell me which books or articles I should read that shows there isn't a "superior race"
Please
R: 5 / I: 1
For example, as much as it sucks, I would probably count as one of them. This is very wrong, and a bad thing. I don't understand a lot of things.
I am sometimes angry and feel alienated from the way Canadian society is run. I feel emotional and like loud things. I like the idea of struggle and force and drama. Also I am sort of atomized from community.
I do not have a strong intuitive sense of morality, and I had to build it through reason and experience. I have/had an emotional tendency to distinguish myself from others and feel superior. I generally think that society is declining, and that the past was a golden age in some ways.
I was radicalized multiple times over in my life, and had volatile political views for awhile. Now I am a liberal again.
Fascism is evil and it has killed millions of people. It's not and will never be a valid political ideology that works. I hate fascists, and I hope their movement will be defeated in Europe and the US.
There psychological reasons why some people can be convinced into fascism by propagandists
This is an attempted explanation for how why MAGA people, AfD, and fascists in general end up the way they do, using my past experiences as an example.For example, as much as it sucks, I would probably count as one of them. This is very wrong, and a bad thing. I don't understand a lot of things.
I am sometimes angry and feel alienated from the way Canadian society is run. I feel emotional and like loud things. I like the idea of struggle and force and drama. Also I am sort of atomized from community.
I do not have a strong intuitive sense of morality, and I had to build it through reason and experience. I have/had an emotional tendency to distinguish myself from others and feel superior. I generally think that society is declining, and that the past was a golden age in some ways.
I was radicalized multiple times over in my life, and had volatile political views for awhile. Now I am a liberal again.
Fascism is evil and it has killed millions of people. It's not and will never be a valid political ideology that works. I hate fascists, and I hope their movement will be defeated in Europe and the US.
R: 2 / I: 3
Do you know how to organize things?
To organize meetings, to write up an agenda, to write up decisions? To keep minutae and papers?
Do you know how to talk to people? Are you afraid to talk about communism?
Can you say that you are versed in basic Marxist terminology and technique?
Do you know what words mean?
Real question. Do you know what is meant with theory? What is practical activity? What is organization? What is the party of a class? What is class interest? What is a class? etc.Do you know how to organize things?
To organize meetings, to write up an agenda, to write up decisions? To keep minutae and papers?
Do you know how to talk to people? Are you afraid to talk about communism?
Can you say that you are versed in basic Marxist terminology and technique?
R: 24 / I: 3
Kamala Harris is the biggest threat to the success of both socialist electroialism (ex DSA) and the creation of revolutionary conditions.
Kamala leads the neoliberal LARPing as social democrat and is currently trying every measure to rework her previously awful policies and opinions into now some barely agreeable shit, for example she now is condemning biden (while not menitioning herself LMAO) about the gaza genocide. She still believes in imperialism of course and anybody denying this is retarded
>she supported the coup against manduro and occuption of venezulia
>she supported action against iran
>she hasn't condemned trump's economic's once excluding traffis
>she supports ICE, both during her time in government and now
If we do not prevent her from getting elected we are gonna face huge issues, she used idpol against those who opposed her before and will do the same now.
Kamala Harris is the biggest threat to the success of both socialist electroialism (ex DSA) and the creation of revolutionary conditions.
Kamala leads the neoliberal LARPing as social democrat and is currently trying every measure to rework her previously awful policies and opinions into now some barely agreeable shit, for example she now is condemning biden (while not menitioning herself LMAO) about the gaza genocide. She still believes in imperialism of course and anybody denying this is retarded
>she supported the coup against manduro and occuption of venezulia
>she supported action against iran
>she hasn't condemned trump's economic's once excluding traffis
>she supports ICE, both during her time in government and now
If we do not prevent her from getting elected we are gonna face huge issues, she used idpol against those who opposed her before and will do the same now.
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>living in the most habitable region of the us, which now resembles the former african savanna
>sleeping underground during the day and living nocturnally to avoid lethal wet-bulb daytime temperatures as well as cannibal hordes
>living on a diet of foraged pest insects and bitter fibrous weeds and what little cultivated sorghum and quinoa that survives the locust swarms
>decide to migrate into the former tundra of northern canada to escape the hellish consequences of climate change, because surely it must be nice there now
>abrupt thaw of permafrost has created a completely novel biome that humans could never have adapted to
>sink and become trapped in chest-deep freezing dense mud
>start choking on toxic invisible methane and hydrogen sulfide gas from massive amounts of rotted dead conifers buried in the muck
>get bitten by swarms of mosquitoes and biting flies and ticks which are all carrying newly-released ancient pathogens that were frozen dormant in the ice for eons and humans have zero immunity to
>die a horrible death and literally become swallowed up by the earth and belched out as a cloud of stinking fart gas
living in post climate change earth
>be a human in the year 2126>living in the most habitable region of the us, which now resembles the former african savanna
>sleeping underground during the day and living nocturnally to avoid lethal wet-bulb daytime temperatures as well as cannibal hordes
>living on a diet of foraged pest insects and bitter fibrous weeds and what little cultivated sorghum and quinoa that survives the locust swarms
>decide to migrate into the former tundra of northern canada to escape the hellish consequences of climate change, because surely it must be nice there now
>abrupt thaw of permafrost has created a completely novel biome that humans could never have adapted to
>sink and become trapped in chest-deep freezing dense mud
>start choking on toxic invisible methane and hydrogen sulfide gas from massive amounts of rotted dead conifers buried in the muck
>get bitten by swarms of mosquitoes and biting flies and ticks which are all carrying newly-released ancient pathogens that were frozen dormant in the ice for eons and humans have zero immunity to
>die a horrible death and literally become swallowed up by the earth and belched out as a cloud of stinking fart gas
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From what I've gathered in the German Ideology, Marx believes that humans have needs, that they perform labour to satisfy those needs, and that because they are social animals, they enter certain arrangements in order to organize their labor. My reading of historical change was originally simply thatthis arrangement can become irrational for certain classes, and that they as such enter conflict over the control of production. For example, the feudal system was upheld by the nobility, but this arrangement wasn't rational for the rising bourgeoisie, and they as such created a period of conflict over the maintenance of feudal traditions.
However, in the preface of "A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy", Marx establishes that historical changes occur when :
>"At a certain stage of development, the material productive forces of society come into conflict with the existing relations of production or – this merely expresses the same thing in legal terms – with the property relations within the framework of which they have operated hitherto. From forms of development of the productive forces these relations turn into their fetters. Then begins an era of social revolution"
This imo contradicts my reading. It's not classes which fight over control of production, because they don't want to change the system/recognize themselves in the system, it's that new technological developments are "hindered" by existing relations of production.
Any thoughts ?
Wtf is historical materialism and what did Marx mean by it ?
I've been trying to read more of Marx lately and I've found it difficult to pinpoint exactly what his "materialist conception of history" means. I understand the base/superstructure logic but I don't really understand his broader logic of history.From what I've gathered in the German Ideology, Marx believes that humans have needs, that they perform labour to satisfy those needs, and that because they are social animals, they enter certain arrangements in order to organize their labor. My reading of historical change was originally simply thatthis arrangement can become irrational for certain classes, and that they as such enter conflict over the control of production. For example, the feudal system was upheld by the nobility, but this arrangement wasn't rational for the rising bourgeoisie, and they as such created a period of conflict over the maintenance of feudal traditions.
However, in the preface of "A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy", Marx establishes that historical changes occur when :
>"At a certain stage of development, the material productive forces of society come into conflict with the existing relations of production or – this merely expresses the same thing in legal terms – with the property relations within the framework of which they have operated hitherto. From forms of development of the productive forces these relations turn into their fetters. Then begins an era of social revolution"
This imo contradicts my reading. It's not classes which fight over control of production, because they don't want to change the system/recognize themselves in the system, it's that new technological developments are "hindered" by existing relations of production.
Any thoughts ?
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I think I'm "liberal" as far as Hobbes goes but I don't necessarily agree with anyone else in the tradition. Guarantees of liberty, property, and happiness is a bit of a stretch. I don't really have liberty or what I would consider liberty. I don't own property and even if I did I would have to pay taxes to it otherwise it gets taken away by the Sovereign, so it's not really mine. And then there's happiness, which is not, exactly real. I just think some people in the liberal tradition went too far with this. Alot of it seems very spooky.
I think I'm "liberal" as far as Hobbes goes but I don't necessarily agree with anyone else in the tradition. Guarantees of liberty, property, and happiness is a bit of a stretch. I don't really have liberty or what I would consider liberty. I don't own property and even if I did I would have to pay taxes to it otherwise it gets taken away by the Sovereign, so it's not really mine. And then there's happiness, which is not, exactly real. I just think some people in the liberal tradition went too far with this. Alot of it seems very spooky.
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I think I'm "liberal" as far as Hobbes goes but I don't necessarily agree with anyone else in the tradition. Guarantees of liberty, property, and happiness is a bit of a stretch. I don't really have liberty or what I would consider liberty. I don't own property and even if I did I would have to pay taxes to it otherwise it gets taken away by the Sovereign, so it's not really mine. And then there's happiness, which is not, exactly real. I just think some people in the liberal tradition went too far with this. Alot of it seems very spooky.
I think I'm "liberal" as far as Hobbes goes but I don't necessarily agree with anyone else in the tradition. Guarantees of liberty, property, and happiness is a bit of a stretch. I don't really have liberty or what I would consider liberty. I don't own property and even if I did I would have to pay taxes to it otherwise it gets taken away by the Sovereign, so it's not really mine. And then there's happiness, which is not, exactly real. I just think some people in the liberal tradition went too far with this. Alot of it seems very spooky.
R: 9 / I: 0
I think I'm "liberal" as far as Hobbes goes but I don't necessarily agree with anyone else in the tradition. Guarantees of liberty, property, and happiness is a bit of a stretch. I don't really have liberty or what I would consider liberty. I don't own property and even if I did I would have to pay taxes to it otherwise it gets taken away by the Sovereign, so it's not really mine. And then there's happiness, which is not, exactly real. I just think some people in the liberal tradition went too far with this. Alot of it seems very spooky.
I think I'm "liberal" as far as Hobbes goes but I don't necessarily agree with anyone else in the tradition. Guarantees of liberty, property, and happiness is a bit of a stretch. I don't really have liberty or what I would consider liberty. I don't own property and even if I did I would have to pay taxes to it otherwise it gets taken away by the Sovereign, so it's not really mine. And then there's happiness, which is not, exactly real. I just think some people in the liberal tradition went too far with this. Alot of it seems very spooky.
R: 9 / I: 0
I think I'm "liberal" as far as Hobbes goes but I don't necessarily agree with anyone else in the tradition. Guarantees of liberty, property, and happiness is a bit of a stretch. I don't really have liberty or what I would consider liberty. I don't own property and even if I did I would have to pay taxes to it otherwise it gets taken away by the Sovereign, so it's not really mine. And then there's happiness, which is not, exactly real. I just think some people in the liberal tradition went too far with this. Alot of it seems very spooky.
I think I'm "liberal" as far as Hobbes goes but I don't necessarily agree with anyone else in the tradition. Guarantees of liberty, property, and happiness is a bit of a stretch. I don't really have liberty or what I would consider liberty. I don't own property and even if I did I would have to pay taxes to it otherwise it gets taken away by the Sovereign, so it's not really mine. And then there's happiness, which is not, exactly real. I just think some people in the liberal tradition went too far with this. Alot of it seems very spooky.
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https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cmn0jke547r5o
<If the UK suddenly found itself at war, would you know what to do? Do you know what would be expected of you?
>The government wants us all to start preparing for severe disruption to our lives. It wants us to stockpile canned food and drinking water, strengthen our civic resilience, and plan for the possibility of war.
>Work has begun on the government's so-called "war book", which hasn't been updated in decades.
>The UK's most senior soldier has sounded the alarm. The Chief of the Defence Staff Sir Richard Knighton this week said the threat from Russia meant Britain was living through the "most dangerous" period of his 35-year career in the armed forces.
>But what is the threat? In 1940 the danger of a German invasion of the UK was very real. But the chances of Russian tanks rolling up Whitehall are surely negligible.
>"It's not the tanks you need to worry about," says historian Margaret MacMillan, author of War: How Conflict Shaped Us.
>"It's the cutting of cables on the ocean floor. It's the hacking into systems on which so many things depend. The possibility for asymmetric war, for cyber war, is growing by leaps and bounds."
>But are we ready? After 80 years without war on our own soil, are we, as a society, psychologically prepared for it? Are we ready to approve large increases in defence spending, and for the sacrifices that that might entail in other areas of our national life? Or does the threat seem too far-fetched to be real?
/leftybritpol/ - Stiff Upper Lip edition
LET ME SEE YOUR WAR LIPS YOU BLOODY WANKERS!https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cmn0jke547r5o
<If the UK suddenly found itself at war, would you know what to do? Do you know what would be expected of you?
>The government wants us all to start preparing for severe disruption to our lives. It wants us to stockpile canned food and drinking water, strengthen our civic resilience, and plan for the possibility of war.
>Work has begun on the government's so-called "war book", which hasn't been updated in decades.
>The UK's most senior soldier has sounded the alarm. The Chief of the Defence Staff Sir Richard Knighton this week said the threat from Russia meant Britain was living through the "most dangerous" period of his 35-year career in the armed forces.
>But what is the threat? In 1940 the danger of a German invasion of the UK was very real. But the chances of Russian tanks rolling up Whitehall are surely negligible.
>"It's not the tanks you need to worry about," says historian Margaret MacMillan, author of War: How Conflict Shaped Us.
>"It's the cutting of cables on the ocean floor. It's the hacking into systems on which so many things depend. The possibility for asymmetric war, for cyber war, is growing by leaps and bounds."
>But are we ready? After 80 years without war on our own soil, are we, as a society, psychologically prepared for it? Are we ready to approve large increases in defence spending, and for the sacrifices that that might entail in other areas of our national life? Or does the threat seem too far-fetched to be real?
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What's your take on the coming elections in the demon colony?
I hope that Netanyahu and the extreme right win, it will tarnish Israel's reputation even further + they are very incompetent. If the "moderate" liberal Zionists win it's fucking over. They will present themselves as more sane but will continue dispossessing Palestinians under a nice guy mask.
Basically I see Netanyahu as the Shabtai Tzvi of Zionism.
What's your take on the coming elections in the demon colony?
I hope that Netanyahu and the extreme right win, it will tarnish Israel's reputation even further + they are very incompetent. If the "moderate" liberal Zionists win it's fucking over. They will present themselves as more sane but will continue dispossessing Palestinians under a nice guy mask.
Basically I see Netanyahu as the Shabtai Tzvi of Zionism.
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In theory, supposed the entire world became a communist, does that status of the world entail the "end of history" for mankind or there could be a new socio economical system after communism too? In other words: is communist society the end of history or we keep evolving forever?
In theory, supposed the entire world became a communist, does that status of the world entail the "end of history" for mankind or there could be a new socio economical system after communism too? In other words: is communist society the end of history or we keep evolving forever?
R: 5 / I: 1
Israeli forces have warned residents of Hodr village in Al-Quneitrah country that non-local workers will not be permitted to remain past 7:00 PM. Military checkpoints also issued direct warnings to non-local laborers, ordering them to leave the village before the daily deadline
https://www.syriahr.com/en/386593/
Israeli rights groups sound alarm over surge of mostly Palestinian inmates being shot by guards
Physicians for Human Rights Israel and the Public Committee Against Torture (PCATI) in Israel say they have documented 22 cases. One is Israeli; the rest are Palestinian. Nearly all of the shootings have occurred since last autumn, whereas only a handful of such incidents had been documented by these rights groups in the prior decade.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/israeli-rights-groups-sound-alarm-over-surge-mostly-palestinian-inmates-being-shot-guards
Iraqi Kurds suggest peace process between Iran and Iranian Kurdish opposition
It is not the first time that Iran has negotiated with the Iranian Kurds. On 13 July 1989, during negotiations between Iran and Iranian Kurds, Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (PDKI) leader Abdul Rahman Ghassemlou was assassinated in Vienna, while another former leader, Sadegh Sharafkandi in Berlin was assassinated on 17 September 1992. Also in 2011, the PKK-affiliated Kurdistan Free Life Party (PJAK) and Iran reached a ceasefire agreement after Iran agreed to stop executing Kurdish political prisoners if PJAK ceased its attacks. PJAK did not respond to a request by MEE for comment.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/iraqi-kurds-suggest-peace-process-between-iran-and-iranian-kurdish-opposition
Albania’s prime minister vows not to resign over student-led protests
The unrest – in contrast to the largely peaceful protests of recent months – marks the veteran leader’s biggest challenge yet. On Thursday, after a night of running street battles between demonstrators and riot police, residents awoke to see the facades of shops smashed and traffic signals destroyed, with government buildings and banks burned and ransacked. An estimated 89 people, including 61 police officers, were injured.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/15/albania-prime-minister-edi-rama-vows-not-to-resign-student-led-protests
Scottish Government’s Deal With IDF-Linked Firm ‘Breaks Boycott Pledge’
GE Aerospace said on Monday it was spending £30m to modernise Glasgow’s Prestwich Airport, as part of a partnership with Ayrshire Growth Deal, the National reported. The project is led by the Scottish and UK governments, as well as three local councils. The US firm’s jet engines are used by Israeli military planes in Gaza, Campaign Against Arms Trade and other advocacy groups have said. In September, GE Aerospace shareholders raised concerns that the company had exported parts for military aircraft engines to countries accused of human rights abuses, including Israel.
https://novaramedia.com/2026/10/13/scottish-governments-deal-with-idf-linked-firm-breaks-boycott-pledge/
Hundreds of Myanmar Migrant Workers Barred From Returning Abroad Over Tax, Remittance
Hundreds of Myanmar migrant workers on leave have been barred from returning to their jobs after failing to provide proof of contributions to the military regime’s coffers. Over the past three weeks, the regime’s Labor Department has blocked the departure of over 300 overseas workers—mostly for failing to meet 2023 mandates to pay 2 percent income tax and remit 25 percent of their earnings through official channels.
https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/hundreds-of-myanmar-migrant-workers-barred-from-returning-abroad-over-tax-remittance.html
Dozens protest growing inequality during IMF-World Bank meetings in Bangkok
Protesters, some wearing masks of U.S. President Donald Trump, IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva and other leaders, dragged a float of a big pink pig with dollar signs for eyes toward the venue, briefly blocking traffic near the rigorously guarded convention center where more than 15,000 officials and experts were gathered for the IMF’s autumn meeting. The protesters were also demonstrating against financial institutions and against what they said were the “vile abuses” of the Thai government and financial institutions.
https://apnews.com/article/imf-economy-oil-war-bangkok-8fd7f0f1b10ac0a3c13c2210110db288
Brazil's Senate approves new working week without loss of pay
The measure passed the Senate in two rounds of voting with the same result: 75 to one out of 81 members. The sole vote against it came from former vice-president Hamilton Mourao, who served under president Jair Bolsonaro. Flavio Bolsonaro, who opposed the initiative until early this week, voted for it remotely as he campaigned in southern Brazil. The amendment gives businesses 14 months to adopt the shorter working week, which was a key sticking point in the negotiations. Many business leaders and lawmakers wanted the changes to be made gradually over 10 years.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/brazils-senate-approves-new-working-week-without-loss-pay
Students, unions stage fifth ‘federal march’ over university funding
The ‘Marcha Federal’ demonstration – the fifth of the Milei administration’s time in office – follows numerous strikes, protests on university campuses and court rulings ordering the government to implement the so-called University Funding Law, which has been ratified five times by Congress. The legislation provides for inflation-linked salary adjustments for lecturers dating back to December 2023, as well as the restoration of student grants and funding for university operations.
https://www.batimes.com.ar/news/argentina/students-unions-stage-fifth-federal-march-over-university-funding.phtml
Venezuelan Workers Protest for Fair Wages, End-of-Year Bonuses
“It looks like the plan is to invite foreign capital by offering cheap labor,” FETRASALUD union leader Pablo Zambrano told press. “The Venezuelan workers must struggle to be fairly compensated for their work.” Protesters echoed a longstanding demand that existing bonuses be converted into wages. The monthly minimum wage was last increased by the Venezuelan government in March 2022 and currently stands at 130 bolívars, around US $0.15. Instead, the Nicolás Maduro and Rodríguez administrations have relied on non-wage bonuses which have no impact on vacation pay, social security contributions, or severance. The income floor for public sector workers was raised to $240/month in May.
https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/venezuelan-workers-protest-for-fair-wages-end-of-year-bonuses/
News 10/15/26
Israeli forces impose curfew on non-local workers in rural Al-QuneitrahIsraeli forces have warned residents of Hodr village in Al-Quneitrah country that non-local workers will not be permitted to remain past 7:00 PM. Military checkpoints also issued direct warnings to non-local laborers, ordering them to leave the village before the daily deadline
https://www.syriahr.com/en/386593/
Israeli rights groups sound alarm over surge of mostly Palestinian inmates being shot by guards
Physicians for Human Rights Israel and the Public Committee Against Torture (PCATI) in Israel say they have documented 22 cases. One is Israeli; the rest are Palestinian. Nearly all of the shootings have occurred since last autumn, whereas only a handful of such incidents had been documented by these rights groups in the prior decade.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/israeli-rights-groups-sound-alarm-over-surge-mostly-palestinian-inmates-being-shot-guards
Iraqi Kurds suggest peace process between Iran and Iranian Kurdish opposition
It is not the first time that Iran has negotiated with the Iranian Kurds. On 13 July 1989, during negotiations between Iran and Iranian Kurds, Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (PDKI) leader Abdul Rahman Ghassemlou was assassinated in Vienna, while another former leader, Sadegh Sharafkandi in Berlin was assassinated on 17 September 1992. Also in 2011, the PKK-affiliated Kurdistan Free Life Party (PJAK) and Iran reached a ceasefire agreement after Iran agreed to stop executing Kurdish political prisoners if PJAK ceased its attacks. PJAK did not respond to a request by MEE for comment.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/iraqi-kurds-suggest-peace-process-between-iran-and-iranian-kurdish-opposition
Albania’s prime minister vows not to resign over student-led protests
The unrest – in contrast to the largely peaceful protests of recent months – marks the veteran leader’s biggest challenge yet. On Thursday, after a night of running street battles between demonstrators and riot police, residents awoke to see the facades of shops smashed and traffic signals destroyed, with government buildings and banks burned and ransacked. An estimated 89 people, including 61 police officers, were injured.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/15/albania-prime-minister-edi-rama-vows-not-to-resign-student-led-protests
Scottish Government’s Deal With IDF-Linked Firm ‘Breaks Boycott Pledge’
GE Aerospace said on Monday it was spending £30m to modernise Glasgow’s Prestwich Airport, as part of a partnership with Ayrshire Growth Deal, the National reported. The project is led by the Scottish and UK governments, as well as three local councils. The US firm’s jet engines are used by Israeli military planes in Gaza, Campaign Against Arms Trade and other advocacy groups have said. In September, GE Aerospace shareholders raised concerns that the company had exported parts for military aircraft engines to countries accused of human rights abuses, including Israel.
https://novaramedia.com/2026/10/13/scottish-governments-deal-with-idf-linked-firm-breaks-boycott-pledge/
Hundreds of Myanmar Migrant Workers Barred From Returning Abroad Over Tax, Remittance
Hundreds of Myanmar migrant workers on leave have been barred from returning to their jobs after failing to provide proof of contributions to the military regime’s coffers. Over the past three weeks, the regime’s Labor Department has blocked the departure of over 300 overseas workers—mostly for failing to meet 2023 mandates to pay 2 percent income tax and remit 25 percent of their earnings through official channels.
https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/hundreds-of-myanmar-migrant-workers-barred-from-returning-abroad-over-tax-remittance.html
Dozens protest growing inequality during IMF-World Bank meetings in Bangkok
Protesters, some wearing masks of U.S. President Donald Trump, IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva and other leaders, dragged a float of a big pink pig with dollar signs for eyes toward the venue, briefly blocking traffic near the rigorously guarded convention center where more than 15,000 officials and experts were gathered for the IMF’s autumn meeting. The protesters were also demonstrating against financial institutions and against what they said were the “vile abuses” of the Thai government and financial institutions.
https://apnews.com/article/imf-economy-oil-war-bangkok-8fd7f0f1b10ac0a3c13c2210110db288
Brazil's Senate approves new working week without loss of pay
The measure passed the Senate in two rounds of voting with the same result: 75 to one out of 81 members. The sole vote against it came from former vice-president Hamilton Mourao, who served under president Jair Bolsonaro. Flavio Bolsonaro, who opposed the initiative until early this week, voted for it remotely as he campaigned in southern Brazil. The amendment gives businesses 14 months to adopt the shorter working week, which was a key sticking point in the negotiations. Many business leaders and lawmakers wanted the changes to be made gradually over 10 years.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/brazils-senate-approves-new-working-week-without-loss-pay
Students, unions stage fifth ‘federal march’ over university funding
The ‘Marcha Federal’ demonstration – the fifth of the Milei administration’s time in office – follows numerous strikes, protests on university campuses and court rulings ordering the government to implement the so-called University Funding Law, which has been ratified five times by Congress. The legislation provides for inflation-linked salary adjustments for lecturers dating back to December 2023, as well as the restoration of student grants and funding for university operations.
https://www.batimes.com.ar/news/argentina/students-unions-stage-fifth-federal-march-over-university-funding.phtml
Venezuelan Workers Protest for Fair Wages, End-of-Year Bonuses
“It looks like the plan is to invite foreign capital by offering cheap labor,” FETRASALUD union leader Pablo Zambrano told press. “The Venezuelan workers must struggle to be fairly compensated for their work.” Protesters echoed a longstanding demand that existing bonuses be converted into wages. The monthly minimum wage was last increased by the Venezuelan government in March 2022 and currently stands at 130 bolívars, around US $0.15. Instead, the Nicolás Maduro and Rodríguez administrations have relied on non-wage bonuses which have no impact on vacation pay, social security contributions, or severance. The income floor for public sector workers was raised to $240/month in May.
https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/venezuelan-workers-protest-for-fair-wages-end-of-year-bonuses/
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Pray for The Pope edition
OP Backup Site: https://usapol.neocities.org/
💀 ICE & Prison Resources
(Amerika is the most incarcerated country in the world!)
ICE tracker using public info and user submissions // https://www.iceinmyarea.org/
list of deaths at ICE concentration camps // https://www.aila.org/infonet/deaths-at-adult-detention-centers
visualization of prison population in US // https://mkorostoff.github.io/incarceration-in-real-numbers/
Organizing in Prison — for when the walls close in (RANT Collective) // https://www.organizingforpower.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Organizing-in-Jail.pdf
database of U.S. facilities incl. ICE holding sites // https://alcpress.org/usjails/index.html
list of prison related resources, mailing lists, etc // https://www.prisonactivist.org/resources
ICE Agent List (incomplete) // https://wiki.icelist.is/index.php/Category:Agents
US Political Prison Tracker (last updated 2025) // https://uspoliticalprisoners.com/
Jailhouse Reading:
📖 Angela Davis - Are Prisons Obsolete? // https://dn790007.ca.archive.org/0/items/the-anarchist-library-full-list-of-pdfs-nov-2020/angela-y-davis-are-prisons-obsolete.pdf
📖 How to Defend Yourself During Police Interrogation // https://www.notrace.how/resources/download/comment-la-police-interroge-et-comment-sen-defendre/how-to-defend-yourself-during-a-police-interrogation.pdf
📖 National Lawyers Guild guide to being a jailhouse lawyer // https://www.jailhouselaw.org/
📖 Critical Resistance - Surviving Solitary Confinement // https://criticalresistance.org/resources/surviving-solitary/
📖 An inside-outside publication for abolitionist struggle & strategy across prison walls // https://criticalresistance.org/abolitionist/
📖 Prisoners’ Self-Help Litigation Manual // https://api.pageplace.de/preview/DT0400.9780199705665_A35159258/preview-9780199705665_A35159258.pdf
⚒️ LABOR!
Live strike tracker with deep stats on who, what and when // https://striketracker.ilr.cornell.edu/
AFL-CIO [imperialist]'s Strike Tracker // https://aflcio.org/strike-map
Labor Bureau's Official 'work stoppage' tracker // https://www.bls.gov/wsp/
IWW timeline for the 20th century (ends at 1999) // https://archive.iww.org/history/chronology/
IWW Work Place Organizing Guide // https://usa.anarchistlibraries.net/library/industrial-workers-of-the-world-libcom-org-solidarity-federation-walthamstow-anarchist-group-wo
▶ Salting | Work Place Organizing 101 (50 minute webinar) // https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SHlCLyM4FY
⚖️ Deeds of the Burger Reich 🇺🇸
deep list of horrible shit we (royal we) have done // https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/us_atrocities.md
Coups and regime changes – master list // https://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-peoples-governments-the-master-list
Wikipedia: United States War Crimes // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_war_crimes
/our boys/ (bring em home!) detail abusing Iraqi prisoners [2006] // https://www.hrw.org/report/2006/07/22/no-blood-no-foul/soldiers-accounts-detainee-abuse-iraq
More than 250 military interventions in the last 30 years alone // https://blackagendareport.com/us-launched-251-military-interventions-1991-and-469-1798
Visualisation of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade // https://www.slavevoyages.org/
UNESCO Sites relating to Slavery // https://slaveryandremembrance.org/
First Hand Documents of the horrors of Slavery // https://www.loc.gov/collections/slave-narratives-from-the-federal-writers-project-1936-to-1938/
📺 Glowie News 📺
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Bloomberg Live // https://www.bloomberg.com/live/us
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Local News // https://www.50states.com/ce/
Weather // https://www.noaa.gov/weather
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Jacobin // https://jacobin.com/
Black Agenda Report // https://blackagendareport.com/
The Grayzone // https://thegrayzone.com/
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Newsanon Filter // https://leftypol.org/search.php?search=name%3A%22News+Anon+3.0%22&board=leftypol
🏝️ Epstein's Client List 🇮🇱
Epstein's Black Book // https://epsteinsblackbook.com/
DOJ Disclosures // https://www.justice.gov/epstein/doj-disclosures
Track AIPAC // https://www.trackaipac.com/
Al Jazeera visual guide (2026) // https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/10/struggling-to-navigate-the-epstein-files-here-is-a-visual-guide
Essential American Politik 📖
📖 WEB Du Bois - Black Reconstruction // https://cominsitu.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/w-e-b-du-bois-black-reconstruction-an-essay-toward-a-history-of-the-part-which-black-folk-played-in-the-attempt-to-reconstruct-democracy-2.pdf
📖 Eugene Debs - Fourth of July Speech // https://jacobin.com/2020/07/eugene-debs-independence-day-address-fourth-july
📖 Power Anywhere There's People! – Fred Hampton // https://www.hamptonthink.org/read/power-anywhere-where-thats-people-fred-hampton
📖 War is a Racket – Smedley Butler // https://ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html
📖 Letters From an American Farmer – St. John de Crevoecoeur // https://americanliterature.com/author/j-hector-st-john-de-crevoecoeur/book/letters-from-an-american-farmer/summary
📖 Trail of Broken Treaties // American Indian Movement https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
📖 The Declaration of Independence https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
📖 The Ballot or the Bullet – Malcolm X // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/ballot_or_bullet.pdf
📖 What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? – Frederick Douglass // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/douglass_july_4_speech.pdf
📖 A Trail of Broken Treaties – American Indian Movement // https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
📖 Custer Died for Your Sins – Vine Deloria Jr. // http://www.riversimulator.org/Resources/Books/CusterDiedForYourSinsAnIndianManifesto1969Deloria.pdf
📖 Emancipation Proclamation – Lincoln // https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/emancipation-proclamation
📖 Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville // https://americanliterature.com/author/alexis-de-tocqueville/book/democracy-in-america/summary
📖 Common Sense – Thomas Paine // https://americainclass.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Common-Sense-Full-Text.pdf
📖 An Indigenous History of the United States – Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz // https://nycstandswithstandingrock.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/dunbar-ortiz-2014.pdf
📖 Huey Long – Share Our Wealth // https://www.hueylong.com/programs/share-our-wealth/huey-longs-share-our-wealth-speech
Previous Thread: >>2927592
/USApol/
AMERIKKKAN POLITICSPray for The Pope edition
OP Backup Site: https://usapol.neocities.org/
💀 ICE & Prison Resources
(Amerika is the most incarcerated country in the world!)
ICE tracker using public info and user submissions // https://www.iceinmyarea.org/
list of deaths at ICE concentration camps // https://www.aila.org/infonet/deaths-at-adult-detention-centers
visualization of prison population in US // https://mkorostoff.github.io/incarceration-in-real-numbers/
Organizing in Prison — for when the walls close in (RANT Collective) // https://www.organizingforpower.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Organizing-in-Jail.pdf
database of U.S. facilities incl. ICE holding sites // https://alcpress.org/usjails/index.html
list of prison related resources, mailing lists, etc // https://www.prisonactivist.org/resources
ICE Agent List (incomplete) // https://wiki.icelist.is/index.php/Category:Agents
US Political Prison Tracker (last updated 2025) // https://uspoliticalprisoners.com/
Jailhouse Reading:
📖 Angela Davis - Are Prisons Obsolete? // https://dn790007.ca.archive.org/0/items/the-anarchist-library-full-list-of-pdfs-nov-2020/angela-y-davis-are-prisons-obsolete.pdf
📖 How to Defend Yourself During Police Interrogation // https://www.notrace.how/resources/download/comment-la-police-interroge-et-comment-sen-defendre/how-to-defend-yourself-during-a-police-interrogation.pdf
📖 National Lawyers Guild guide to being a jailhouse lawyer // https://www.jailhouselaw.org/
📖 Critical Resistance - Surviving Solitary Confinement // https://criticalresistance.org/resources/surviving-solitary/
📖 An inside-outside publication for abolitionist struggle & strategy across prison walls // https://criticalresistance.org/abolitionist/
📖 Prisoners’ Self-Help Litigation Manual // https://api.pageplace.de/preview/DT0400.9780199705665_A35159258/preview-9780199705665_A35159258.pdf
⚒️ LABOR!
Live strike tracker with deep stats on who, what and when // https://striketracker.ilr.cornell.edu/
AFL-CIO [imperialist]'s Strike Tracker // https://aflcio.org/strike-map
Labor Bureau's Official 'work stoppage' tracker // https://www.bls.gov/wsp/
IWW timeline for the 20th century (ends at 1999) // https://archive.iww.org/history/chronology/
IWW Work Place Organizing Guide // https://usa.anarchistlibraries.net/library/industrial-workers-of-the-world-libcom-org-solidarity-federation-walthamstow-anarchist-group-wo
▶ Salting | Work Place Organizing 101 (50 minute webinar) // https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SHlCLyM4FY
⚖️ Deeds of the Burger Reich 🇺🇸
deep list of horrible shit we (royal we) have done // https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/us_atrocities.md
Coups and regime changes – master list // https://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-peoples-governments-the-master-list
Wikipedia: United States War Crimes // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_war_crimes
/our boys/ (bring em home!) detail abusing Iraqi prisoners [2006] // https://www.hrw.org/report/2006/07/22/no-blood-no-foul/soldiers-accounts-detainee-abuse-iraq
More than 250 military interventions in the last 30 years alone // https://blackagendareport.com/us-launched-251-military-interventions-1991-and-469-1798
Visualisation of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade // https://www.slavevoyages.org/
UNESCO Sites relating to Slavery // https://slaveryandremembrance.org/
First Hand Documents of the horrors of Slavery // https://www.loc.gov/collections/slave-narratives-from-the-federal-writers-project-1936-to-1938/
📺 Glowie News 📺
(sponsored by the Burger Eagle Freedom Institute (formerly USAID))
CNN Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/cnn-news-usa.html
MSNBC Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/msnbc.html
FOX Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/fox-news-channel.html
Bloomberg Live // https://www.bloomberg.com/live/us
Burger House Live // https://www.whitehouse.gov/live/
Local News // https://www.50states.com/ce/
Weather // https://www.noaa.gov/weather
📺 Gommie News 📺
Jacobin // https://jacobin.com/
Black Agenda Report // https://blackagendareport.com/
The Grayzone // https://thegrayzone.com/
Leftvoice // https://www.leftvoice.org/
Newsanon Filter // https://leftypol.org/search.php?search=name%3A%22News+Anon+3.0%22&board=leftypol
🏝️ Epstein's Client List 🇮🇱
Epstein's Black Book // https://epsteinsblackbook.com/
DOJ Disclosures // https://www.justice.gov/epstein/doj-disclosures
Track AIPAC // https://www.trackaipac.com/
Al Jazeera visual guide (2026) // https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/10/struggling-to-navigate-the-epstein-files-here-is-a-visual-guide
Essential American Politik 📖
📖 WEB Du Bois - Black Reconstruction // https://cominsitu.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/w-e-b-du-bois-black-reconstruction-an-essay-toward-a-history-of-the-part-which-black-folk-played-in-the-attempt-to-reconstruct-democracy-2.pdf
📖 Eugene Debs - Fourth of July Speech // https://jacobin.com/2020/07/eugene-debs-independence-day-address-fourth-july
📖 Power Anywhere There's People! – Fred Hampton // https://www.hamptonthink.org/read/power-anywhere-where-thats-people-fred-hampton
📖 War is a Racket – Smedley Butler // https://ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html
📖 Letters From an American Farmer – St. John de Crevoecoeur // https://americanliterature.com/author/j-hector-st-john-de-crevoecoeur/book/letters-from-an-american-farmer/summary
📖 Trail of Broken Treaties // American Indian Movement https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
📖 The Declaration of Independence https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
📖 The Ballot or the Bullet – Malcolm X // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/ballot_or_bullet.pdf
📖 What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? – Frederick Douglass // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/douglass_july_4_speech.pdf
📖 A Trail of Broken Treaties – American Indian Movement // https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
📖 Custer Died for Your Sins – Vine Deloria Jr. // http://www.riversimulator.org/Resources/Books/CusterDiedForYourSinsAnIndianManifesto1969Deloria.pdf
📖 Emancipation Proclamation – Lincoln // https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/emancipation-proclamation
📖 Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville // https://americanliterature.com/author/alexis-de-tocqueville/book/democracy-in-america/summary
📖 Common Sense – Thomas Paine // https://americainclass.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Common-Sense-Full-Text.pdf
📖 An Indigenous History of the United States – Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz // https://nycstandswithstandingrock.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/dunbar-ortiz-2014.pdf
📖 Huey Long – Share Our Wealth // https://www.hueylong.com/programs/share-our-wealth/huey-longs-share-our-wealth-speech
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With gulags Stalin won World War 2.
With gulags Stalin dramatically expanded literacy, free education, and basic healthcare, and opened more opportunities for women in work and education than most countries of the era offered
With gulags Stalin split the atom.
With gulags Stalin turned the USSR into a superpower.
It's time to start gulagmaxxing.
Gulagmaxxing
With gulags Stalin built an industrial powerhouse.With gulags Stalin won World War 2.
With gulags Stalin dramatically expanded literacy, free education, and basic healthcare, and opened more opportunities for women in work and education than most countries of the era offered
With gulags Stalin split the atom.
With gulags Stalin turned the USSR into a superpower.
It's time to start gulagmaxxing.
R: 6 / I: 0
https://rentahuman.ai/
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The new AI bourgeoisie:
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Mamdani was elected specifically to fight against the Zionist Lobby and yet he’s show MULTIPLE TIMES he’s a full-blown Zio himself. He sells out to Jewish feelings over Palestinian resistance every time he can. He quotes the satanic Talmud which calls for Jews to enslave and oppress “goyim” in order to appease Zionists. Then he has the NYPD arrest hundreds of anti-Zionist protesters. Now he attends a “memorial” lead by an “Israeli” hasbara group to memorialize 1200 Zionist settlers killed during the greatest act of anti-colonial resistance in modern history. If Ziohran was truly principled he would have unequivocally stated that “Israelis” have no right to life given that every single one serves in the army and that Hamas and the PFLP have a right to resist.
Fuck this man.
IT’S OVER for Zohran
I’m done with this fraud.Mamdani was elected specifically to fight against the Zionist Lobby and yet he’s show MULTIPLE TIMES he’s a full-blown Zio himself. He sells out to Jewish feelings over Palestinian resistance every time he can. He quotes the satanic Talmud which calls for Jews to enslave and oppress “goyim” in order to appease Zionists. Then he has the NYPD arrest hundreds of anti-Zionist protesters. Now he attends a “memorial” lead by an “Israeli” hasbara group to memorialize 1200 Zionist settlers killed during the greatest act of anti-colonial resistance in modern history. If Ziohran was truly principled he would have unequivocally stated that “Israelis” have no right to life given that every single one serves in the army and that Hamas and the PFLP have a right to resist.
Fuck this man.
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>“The age of Willkommenskultur is over, the era of mass deportations has begun,” commented the Sweden Democrats party, whose MEP Charlie Weimers played a central role as ECR’s shadow rapporteur.
>In a rare show of unity on the European Right, the directive was adopted not only by the national conservative groups (PfE, ECR, and ESN) but also the EPP, which votes together with the leftist parties in the vast majority of cases.
>Most importantly, the new law will introduce a mutual recognition and enforcement obligation between member states regarding deportation orders, meaning migrants cannot circumvent return decisions by moving to a different EU country and restarting the process. A return order in one country will legally count as a valid order in all of them.
>Another important point is the introduction of third-country return hubs, making it possible for member states to externalize return procedures by sending migrants to secure facilities outside EU territory to wait for the end of the process, ensuring they won’t escape implementation once the paperwork’s done.
Previous thread:
>>2653642
/EUropol/
WILLKOMENSKULTUR IST VORBEI edition>“The age of Willkommenskultur is over, the era of mass deportations has begun,” commented the Sweden Democrats party, whose MEP Charlie Weimers played a central role as ECR’s shadow rapporteur.
>In a rare show of unity on the European Right, the directive was adopted not only by the national conservative groups (PfE, ECR, and ESN) but also the EPP, which votes together with the leftist parties in the vast majority of cases.
>Most importantly, the new law will introduce a mutual recognition and enforcement obligation between member states regarding deportation orders, meaning migrants cannot circumvent return decisions by moving to a different EU country and restarting the process. A return order in one country will legally count as a valid order in all of them.
>Another important point is the introduction of third-country return hubs, making it possible for member states to externalize return procedures by sending migrants to secure facilities outside EU territory to wait for the end of the process, ensuring they won’t escape implementation once the paperwork’s done.
Previous thread:
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Bread and circuses- the bleakest political theory
Is it TRVE that most people will excuse any kind of depravity being commited by their government provided that their basic need are met? If they PERSONALLY live in peace and have a full belly they couldnt give less of a shit about public dismemberments, child floggings, arranged marriages, torture and even mass murder of undesirables of society? If this is true then thats dark as fuck and gives me a good reason to have zero empathy for the working class. If they are going to act like barely sapient animals then maybe they deserve to be treated as nothing more than that by the bourgeoise.
R: 9 / I: 2
hypothetical
If capitalism were a guy would it be morally acceptable to rape it? I think it would be morally acceptable but im curious to hear what you guys think. I really think this is a necessary step to take to really becoming a leftist
R: 10 / I: 4
the real movement: practice
the ruthless criticism: theory
the real movement: base
the ruthless criticism: superstructure
the real movement: production/innovation
the ruthless criticism: consumption/review
the real movement: maoists
the ruthless criticism: leftcoms
the real movement: iran bombing oil refineries making an economy dependent on oil look stupid
the ruthless criticism: first worlders asking for green alternatives to fossil fuel
etc. etc.
…once you see it, you cannot unsee it! most of the arguments on here are between the real movement and the ruthless criticism….
the real movement and the ruthless criticism
…the bifurcation of communism into the real movement and the ruthless criticism…the real movement: practice
the ruthless criticism: theory
the real movement: base
the ruthless criticism: superstructure
the real movement: production/innovation
the ruthless criticism: consumption/review
the real movement: maoists
the ruthless criticism: leftcoms
the real movement: iran bombing oil refineries making an economy dependent on oil look stupid
the ruthless criticism: first worlders asking for green alternatives to fossil fuel
etc. etc.
…once you see it, you cannot unsee it! most of the arguments on here are between the real movement and the ruthless criticism….
R: 3 / I: 0
Speaking in the House of Commons, the prime minister said the motion, backed by Green members at its party conference earlier this month, was "wrong" and "antisemitic" and Labour would have "nothing to do with it". The motion said Zionism was an ideology supporting "an ethnonationalist Jewish state in historic Palestine to the exclusion and/ or domination of the non-Jewish population".
https://www.British Broadcasting Corporation.com/news/articles/cr3el59j9y17o
https://archive.ph/uFaH4
Berlin coalition talks suspended over antisemitism deal concerns
The proposed measures would allow lawmakers accused of antisemitism to be expelled if a panel came to a consensus on the matter. If they disagreed, experts would be called in. The decision comes after the Left admitted lawmaker Vanessa Emde, who has sparked controversy over her stance on Israel, as part of the state of Berlin's new parliamentary group.
https://www.reuters.com/world/berlin-coalition-talks-called-off-over-antisemitism-deal-concerns-2026-10-13/
Student protest in Albania prompts violent clashes with police
Student organisers said the nationwide protest was driven by deteriorating conditions at universities, high education costs, limited financial support and bleak employment prospects after graduation. Some also voiced anger at widening inequality and a political system they see as failing young people.
https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2026/10/14/photos-student-protest-in-albania-spark-violent-clashes-with-police-forces
https://archive.ph/gZCDX
Fears grow over 14 Syrian sailors on board ship sunk by suspected Russian drone near Bulgaria
The Syrian Sailors' Union announced that the vessel, which had 16 crew members on board, 14 Syrians and two Egyptians, sank following an attack involving an aerial drone and two unmanned boats. The ship was travelling between Algeria and the Romanian port of Braila with a crew of Syrian and Egyptian nationals, according to the Bulgarian interior ministry.
https://www.newarab.com/news/fears-over-14-syrian-sailors-ship-sunk-drone-near-bulgaria
Turkish authorities raid TV channel as press freedom groups warn of a crackdown
A statement from the Istanbul Chief Prosecutor’s Office said an investigation was launched into Halk TV chairman Cafer Mahiroglu over allegations of bid rigging, bribery and money laundering. Detention warrants were issued against 17 suspects and 11 of them were taken into custody, the statement said. Trustees were also appointed to run other companies owned by Mahiroglu.
https://apnews.com/article/turkey-tv-raid-halk-erdogan-press-freedom-59176d1028ef288e959f06e123dd7009
China’s Zhejiang province calls to limit tech giants’ power over online traffic
Communist Party officials in eastern China’s Zhejiang province have called for greater oversight of major internet platforms and their “traffic power”, warning that online traffic and algorithms had evolved into a force capable of shaping public discussion and sentiment. The publicity department of the Zhejiang provincial party committee published the commentary on social media on Thursday, saying traffic could no longer be viewed simply as a data resource.
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3370443/chinas-zhejiang-province-calls-limit-tech-giants-power-over-online-traffic
https://archive.ph/oygue
Indonesia wildfire fuelled by El Niño razes almost 300 homes
A forest fire on Indonesia’s Sumatra island fuelled by El Niño has razed nearly 300 homes, forcing hundreds of people to evacuate, an official has said, as the country battles devastating blazes and haze. Residents first spotted the fire approaching their village in Bangka Belitung province on Saturday and tried to put it out themselves with portable water pumps, said the head of South Bangka regency, Riza Herdavid.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/13/indonesia-wildfire-el-nino-razes-300-homes-bankga-belitung
African Union pushes for health self-reliance as aid shrinks
Although countries such as China and some Gulf states have increased aid to the region, there is still a shortfall in funding for crucial services in Africa such as health, education and humanitarian support. Mahmoud Ali Youssouf, African Union Commission chairman, called today for stronger domestic financing, expanded production of vaccines and treatments, and the removal of barriers to intra-African trade to strengthen the continent’s health sovereignty.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/african-union-pushes-health-self-reliance-aid-shrinks
ANC backs Cosatu’s neutrality in dispute with South African Communist Party — TimesLIVE
In South Africa, the ruling African National Congress (ANC) supported the decision by the Cosatu trade union federation not to take sides in the conflict between the ANC and the South African Communist Party (SACP) ahead of local elections. TimesLIVE reports that the resolution was adopted at the second meeting of Cosatu’s 15th national congress, which resumed after the previous meeting was disrupted last month.
https://ua.news/en/world/ank-pidtrimav-neitralitet-cosatu-u-superechtsi-z-kompartiieiu-par-timeslive
https://archive.ph/pXrfB
Guyanese opposition leader arrested after shots fired outside home of police official
US prosecutors allege Mohamed and his father Nazar Mohamed conspired to commit fraud and launder money through their gold exporting firm, Mohamed’s Enterprise, to enrich themselves and defraud the government of Guyana. The two men, who were indicted in Florida, have denied wrongdoing and are contesting their extradition proceedings in court.
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/guyanese-opposition-leader-arrested-after-shots-fired-outside-home-police-2026-10-14/
Argentina eyes tapping China swap to cover 2027 financing needs
Argentina could tap its currency swap line with China if it can’t refinance dollar-denominated bonds under local law as investor concerns simmer ahead of next year’s presidential election, Economy Minister Luis Caputo said. Caputo met privately with investors at an event hosted by JPMorgan Chase & Co on the sidelines of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank meetings in Bangkok. Afterward, he noted “there was a lot of focus on the political aspect” ahead of President Javier Milei’s re-election bid next year.
https://www.batimes.com.ar/news/economy/argentina-eyes-tapping-china-swap-to-cover-2027-financing-needs.phtml
https://archive.ph/SvFzP
Colombian President Signs Decree Expanding Police Powers to Disperse Protests
Interior Minister Rodrigo Lara warned that the new regulation will take effect before demonstrations called by social movements, organizations, and opposition parties for Oct. 14. De La Espriella’s decree authorizes security forces to disperse demonstrations without prior dialogue, using tear gas, stun grenades, and other weapons classified as “less-lethal.” The decree also prohibits road blockades and the presence of masked protesters at demonstrations, a measure that moves toward criminalizing social protest and violates the free exercise of the right to protest.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/colombian-president-signs-decree-expanding-police-powers-to-disperse-protests/
News 10/14/26
Burnham rules out coalition with Greens after 'Zionism is racism' motionSpeaking in the House of Commons, the prime minister said the motion, backed by Green members at its party conference earlier this month, was "wrong" and "antisemitic" and Labour would have "nothing to do with it". The motion said Zionism was an ideology supporting "an ethnonationalist Jewish state in historic Palestine to the exclusion and/ or domination of the non-Jewish population".
https://www.British Broadcasting Corporation.com/news/articles/cr3el59j9y17o
https://archive.ph/uFaH4
Berlin coalition talks suspended over antisemitism deal concerns
The proposed measures would allow lawmakers accused of antisemitism to be expelled if a panel came to a consensus on the matter. If they disagreed, experts would be called in. The decision comes after the Left admitted lawmaker Vanessa Emde, who has sparked controversy over her stance on Israel, as part of the state of Berlin's new parliamentary group.
https://www.reuters.com/world/berlin-coalition-talks-called-off-over-antisemitism-deal-concerns-2026-10-13/
Student protest in Albania prompts violent clashes with police
Student organisers said the nationwide protest was driven by deteriorating conditions at universities, high education costs, limited financial support and bleak employment prospects after graduation. Some also voiced anger at widening inequality and a political system they see as failing young people.
https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2026/10/14/photos-student-protest-in-albania-spark-violent-clashes-with-police-forces
https://archive.ph/gZCDX
Fears grow over 14 Syrian sailors on board ship sunk by suspected Russian drone near Bulgaria
The Syrian Sailors' Union announced that the vessel, which had 16 crew members on board, 14 Syrians and two Egyptians, sank following an attack involving an aerial drone and two unmanned boats. The ship was travelling between Algeria and the Romanian port of Braila with a crew of Syrian and Egyptian nationals, according to the Bulgarian interior ministry.
https://www.newarab.com/news/fears-over-14-syrian-sailors-ship-sunk-drone-near-bulgaria
Turkish authorities raid TV channel as press freedom groups warn of a crackdown
A statement from the Istanbul Chief Prosecutor’s Office said an investigation was launched into Halk TV chairman Cafer Mahiroglu over allegations of bid rigging, bribery and money laundering. Detention warrants were issued against 17 suspects and 11 of them were taken into custody, the statement said. Trustees were also appointed to run other companies owned by Mahiroglu.
https://apnews.com/article/turkey-tv-raid-halk-erdogan-press-freedom-59176d1028ef288e959f06e123dd7009
China’s Zhejiang province calls to limit tech giants’ power over online traffic
Communist Party officials in eastern China’s Zhejiang province have called for greater oversight of major internet platforms and their “traffic power”, warning that online traffic and algorithms had evolved into a force capable of shaping public discussion and sentiment. The publicity department of the Zhejiang provincial party committee published the commentary on social media on Thursday, saying traffic could no longer be viewed simply as a data resource.
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3370443/chinas-zhejiang-province-calls-limit-tech-giants-power-over-online-traffic
https://archive.ph/oygue
Indonesia wildfire fuelled by El Niño razes almost 300 homes
A forest fire on Indonesia’s Sumatra island fuelled by El Niño has razed nearly 300 homes, forcing hundreds of people to evacuate, an official has said, as the country battles devastating blazes and haze. Residents first spotted the fire approaching their village in Bangka Belitung province on Saturday and tried to put it out themselves with portable water pumps, said the head of South Bangka regency, Riza Herdavid.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/13/indonesia-wildfire-el-nino-razes-300-homes-bankga-belitung
African Union pushes for health self-reliance as aid shrinks
Although countries such as China and some Gulf states have increased aid to the region, there is still a shortfall in funding for crucial services in Africa such as health, education and humanitarian support. Mahmoud Ali Youssouf, African Union Commission chairman, called today for stronger domestic financing, expanded production of vaccines and treatments, and the removal of barriers to intra-African trade to strengthen the continent’s health sovereignty.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/african-union-pushes-health-self-reliance-aid-shrinks
ANC backs Cosatu’s neutrality in dispute with South African Communist Party — TimesLIVE
In South Africa, the ruling African National Congress (ANC) supported the decision by the Cosatu trade union federation not to take sides in the conflict between the ANC and the South African Communist Party (SACP) ahead of local elections. TimesLIVE reports that the resolution was adopted at the second meeting of Cosatu’s 15th national congress, which resumed after the previous meeting was disrupted last month.
https://ua.news/en/world/ank-pidtrimav-neitralitet-cosatu-u-superechtsi-z-kompartiieiu-par-timeslive
https://archive.ph/pXrfB
Guyanese opposition leader arrested after shots fired outside home of police official
US prosecutors allege Mohamed and his father Nazar Mohamed conspired to commit fraud and launder money through their gold exporting firm, Mohamed’s Enterprise, to enrich themselves and defraud the government of Guyana. The two men, who were indicted in Florida, have denied wrongdoing and are contesting their extradition proceedings in court.
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/guyanese-opposition-leader-arrested-after-shots-fired-outside-home-police-2026-10-14/
Argentina eyes tapping China swap to cover 2027 financing needs
Argentina could tap its currency swap line with China if it can’t refinance dollar-denominated bonds under local law as investor concerns simmer ahead of next year’s presidential election, Economy Minister Luis Caputo said. Caputo met privately with investors at an event hosted by JPMorgan Chase & Co on the sidelines of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank meetings in Bangkok. Afterward, he noted “there was a lot of focus on the political aspect” ahead of President Javier Milei’s re-election bid next year.
https://www.batimes.com.ar/news/economy/argentina-eyes-tapping-china-swap-to-cover-2027-financing-needs.phtml
https://archive.ph/SvFzP
Colombian President Signs Decree Expanding Police Powers to Disperse Protests
Interior Minister Rodrigo Lara warned that the new regulation will take effect before demonstrations called by social movements, organizations, and opposition parties for Oct. 14. De La Espriella’s decree authorizes security forces to disperse demonstrations without prior dialogue, using tear gas, stun grenades, and other weapons classified as “less-lethal.” The decree also prohibits road blockades and the presence of masked protesters at demonstrations, a measure that moves toward criminalizing social protest and violates the free exercise of the right to protest.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/colombian-president-signs-decree-expanding-police-powers-to-disperse-protests/
R: 22 / I: 4
This guy really did inadvertently inspire every single Incel school shooting because he was pissed off because of a small town wanting to educate its people.
This guy really did inadvertently inspire every single Incel school shooting because he was pissed off because of a small town wanting to educate its people.
R: 61 / I: 56
The incursion has just started as of yesterday and is already expanding, Eritrea has easily broken Ethiopian barricades and is fighting the Ethiopian Manace head on now.
Uncritical support for Eritrea NOW
Tigray war, another front in the red sea
Eritrea has invaded Ethiopia because ethiopian milltias have repeatly committed a genocide in the territory.The incursion has just started as of yesterday and is already expanding, Eritrea has easily broken Ethiopian barricades and is fighting the Ethiopian Manace head on now.
Uncritical support for Eritrea NOW
R: 15 / I: 2
My answer is with this binary: communitary and anti-social.
Communitary actions and people are those that do things that help the group. Anti-social actions and people are those that harm the group.
Giving people food for free is communitary, stealing is anti-social.
Another useful binary is problem-solving and trouble-making.
Why do people love heroic characters? because they are portrayed as characters that solve problems, help and even save other people even at their personal expense. Why do people hate villanous characters? because they cause problems for everyone else for their own gain.
We like people that are communitary and that solve problems, we don't like people that are harmful to the group and make problems.
Then what about justice? Justice is also not real. Then what should it be replaced with? with problem solving.
If a guy kills 10 people then it doesn't matter whether he deserves to be tortured or not, what matters is whether that'd solve any problem. If not, then there's no reason to do it.
Thinking of giving criminals proper punishment is pointless, because even if you do give them the most deserving punishment you are not fixing the problem of people commiting crimes in general nor the problem of this particular person being anti-social. If effort was concentrated on the issue of problem-solving rather than justice-seeking then we'd be closer to actually solving our problems.
Replacing morality.
"Good" and "evil" is idealism and should be discareded, but replaced with what?My answer is with this binary: communitary and anti-social.
Communitary actions and people are those that do things that help the group. Anti-social actions and people are those that harm the group.
Giving people food for free is communitary, stealing is anti-social.
Another useful binary is problem-solving and trouble-making.
Why do people love heroic characters? because they are portrayed as characters that solve problems, help and even save other people even at their personal expense. Why do people hate villanous characters? because they cause problems for everyone else for their own gain.
We like people that are communitary and that solve problems, we don't like people that are harmful to the group and make problems.
Then what about justice? Justice is also not real. Then what should it be replaced with? with problem solving.
If a guy kills 10 people then it doesn't matter whether he deserves to be tortured or not, what matters is whether that'd solve any problem. If not, then there's no reason to do it.
Thinking of giving criminals proper punishment is pointless, because even if you do give them the most deserving punishment you are not fixing the problem of people commiting crimes in general nor the problem of this particular person being anti-social. If effort was concentrated on the issue of problem-solving rather than justice-seeking then we'd be closer to actually solving our problems.
R: 12 / I: 3
It's time to critically supporting Erdogan and Turks since Isn'trael and Greekoids joining coalition against Turkey. Imperialistic powers want to slice Turkey even more like WW1.
Critical support Erdogan and Turks
You know what fuck GreeceIt's time to critically supporting Erdogan and Turks since Isn'trael and Greekoids joining coalition against Turkey. Imperialistic powers want to slice Turkey even more like WW1.
R: 4 / I: 0
Out of curiosity, I decided to do some research on him, and it turns out this guy was actually a Giga. Here's some interesting episodes from his life:
>For twenty years, Ignatiev worked in a Gary, Indiana steel mill and also in the manufacturing of farming equipment and electrical components. A Marxist activist, he was involved in efforts by African American steel workers to achieve equality in the mills. In 1984, he was laid off from the steel mill, approximately a year after an arrest on charges of attacking a strike-breaker's car with a paint bomb.
>Ignatiev was accepted to the Harvard Graduate School of Education without an undergraduate degree.
>From 1986 until 1992, Ignatiev served as a tutor (academic adviser) for Dunster House at Harvard College. In early 1992, Ignatiev objected to the university's purchase of a toaster oven for the Dunster House dining hall that would be designated for kosher use only. He insisted that cooking utensils with restricted use should be paid for by private funds.
>In 2008, the American Jewish Committee objected to an encyclopedia article on Zionism that Ignatiev wrote for The Encyclopedia of Race and Racism. In the article, Ignatiev described Israel as a "racial state, where rights are assigned on the basis of ascribed descent or the approval of the superior race" and likened it to Nazi Germany and the Southern United States before the civil rights movement.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noel_Ignatiev
So here's one of his more inflammatory quotations that nazis like to attribute to him:
>"Make no mistake about it: we intend to keep bashing the dead white males, and the live ones, and the females too, until the social construct known as 'the white race' is destroyed—not "deconstructed" but destroyed".
Sounds pretty awful right? Like he just hate all whitoids or something? Well, the language used is definitely edgy, but the edginess was used to bring attention to a much more nuanced point:
>Ignatiev's web site and publication Race Traitor displayed the motto "treason to whiteness is loyalty to humanity". In response to a letter to the site which understood the motto as meaning that the authors "hated" white people because of their "white skin", Ignatiev and the other editors responded:
>We do not hate you or anyone else for the color of her skin. What we hate is a system that confers privileges (and burdens) on people because of their color. It is not fair skin that makes people white; it is fair skin in a certain kind of society, one that attaches social importance to skin color. When we say we want to abolish the white race, we do not mean we want to exterminate people with fair skin. We mean that we want to do away with the social meaning of skin color, thereby abolishing the white race as a social category. Consider this parallel: To be against royalty does not mean wanting to kill the king. It means wanting to do away with crowns, thrones, titles, and the privileges attached to them. In our view, whiteness has a lot in common with royalty: they are both social formations that carry unearned advantages.
To me, this sounds like your run of the mill progressive position that most white people take. His book How the Irish Became White illustrates it pretty plainly, and it's common knowledge today that Irish, Italians, and other European groups worked really hard to become accepted as "white" in America, and a lot of that has to do with buying into a system of social importance, making all the right dogwhistles, and paying homage to all the right people in power. We can see the treadmill continuing to move today with so many Hispanic Americans now starting to begin their own journey by voting for Trump or Joining ICE, following Nick Fuentes, hell they even got Marco Rubio in the white house. I wouldn't be surprised if the first Hispanic president got elected on a Republican ticket.
His work is still relevant today. Whiteness since its inception 400 years ago in colonial America has always been an arbitrary categorization used by Capital to maintain institutional and political power, ever since it became obvious that free blacks, whites, and natives had more in common than landowners. "Whiteness" is one of, if not the biggest barrier to intensifying class struggle in the USA right now. Thanks chuds for keeping this guy's memory and work alive for us to appreciate.
Noel Ignatiev
So back in the days when I used to browse /pol/, this guy Noel Ignatiev used to be brought up quite a bit especially in those threads full of poorly-sourced infographics about how those Heinous Hebrews want to destroy all white babies yada yada. I remember this guy standing out particularly because his quotes always seemed to be framed as some of the most particularly vitriolic towards white people, pic related.Out of curiosity, I decided to do some research on him, and it turns out this guy was actually a Giga. Here's some interesting episodes from his life:
>For twenty years, Ignatiev worked in a Gary, Indiana steel mill and also in the manufacturing of farming equipment and electrical components. A Marxist activist, he was involved in efforts by African American steel workers to achieve equality in the mills. In 1984, he was laid off from the steel mill, approximately a year after an arrest on charges of attacking a strike-breaker's car with a paint bomb.
>Ignatiev was accepted to the Harvard Graduate School of Education without an undergraduate degree.
>From 1986 until 1992, Ignatiev served as a tutor (academic adviser) for Dunster House at Harvard College. In early 1992, Ignatiev objected to the university's purchase of a toaster oven for the Dunster House dining hall that would be designated for kosher use only. He insisted that cooking utensils with restricted use should be paid for by private funds.
>In 2008, the American Jewish Committee objected to an encyclopedia article on Zionism that Ignatiev wrote for The Encyclopedia of Race and Racism. In the article, Ignatiev described Israel as a "racial state, where rights are assigned on the basis of ascribed descent or the approval of the superior race" and likened it to Nazi Germany and the Southern United States before the civil rights movement.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noel_Ignatiev
So here's one of his more inflammatory quotations that nazis like to attribute to him:
>"Make no mistake about it: we intend to keep bashing the dead white males, and the live ones, and the females too, until the social construct known as 'the white race' is destroyed—not "deconstructed" but destroyed".
Sounds pretty awful right? Like he just hate all whitoids or something? Well, the language used is definitely edgy, but the edginess was used to bring attention to a much more nuanced point:
>Ignatiev's web site and publication Race Traitor displayed the motto "treason to whiteness is loyalty to humanity". In response to a letter to the site which understood the motto as meaning that the authors "hated" white people because of their "white skin", Ignatiev and the other editors responded:
>We do not hate you or anyone else for the color of her skin. What we hate is a system that confers privileges (and burdens) on people because of their color. It is not fair skin that makes people white; it is fair skin in a certain kind of society, one that attaches social importance to skin color. When we say we want to abolish the white race, we do not mean we want to exterminate people with fair skin. We mean that we want to do away with the social meaning of skin color, thereby abolishing the white race as a social category. Consider this parallel: To be against royalty does not mean wanting to kill the king. It means wanting to do away with crowns, thrones, titles, and the privileges attached to them. In our view, whiteness has a lot in common with royalty: they are both social formations that carry unearned advantages.
To me, this sounds like your run of the mill progressive position that most white people take. His book How the Irish Became White illustrates it pretty plainly, and it's common knowledge today that Irish, Italians, and other European groups worked really hard to become accepted as "white" in America, and a lot of that has to do with buying into a system of social importance, making all the right dogwhistles, and paying homage to all the right people in power. We can see the treadmill continuing to move today with so many Hispanic Americans now starting to begin their own journey by voting for Trump or Joining ICE, following Nick Fuentes, hell they even got Marco Rubio in the white house. I wouldn't be surprised if the first Hispanic president got elected on a Republican ticket.
His work is still relevant today. Whiteness since its inception 400 years ago in colonial America has always been an arbitrary categorization used by Capital to maintain institutional and political power, ever since it became obvious that free blacks, whites, and natives had more in common than landowners. "Whiteness" is one of, if not the biggest barrier to intensifying class struggle in the USA right now. Thanks chuds for keeping this guy's memory and work alive for us to appreciate.
R: 92 / I: 9 (sage)
As a communist I will be voting the republicans in the midterms heres why (and also don't remove this, this is called "leftist politically incorrect" for a reason):
>Global trade has been heavily damaged for the world because of the Iran war, and previous traffs
>US elections have been delegitized since 2021 because of trump's coup attempt
>reformism is retarded I would rather live in Trump's america for a couple years then biden's for a decade
>The US is losing the Iran war and the empire is retracting from much of the middle east
>If trump secures the government, AT LEAST A BIT, he will attempt to run for 3th term causing the second american civil war to start, allowing a revolution to take place
No I will not be voting for the reformist neolib party fuck them, this is revolutionary what I am doing.
As a communist I will be voting the republicans in the midterms heres why (and also don't remove this, this is called "leftist politically incorrect" for a reason):
>Global trade has been heavily damaged for the world because of the Iran war, and previous traffs
>US elections have been delegitized since 2021 because of trump's coup attempt
>reformism is retarded I would rather live in Trump's america for a couple years then biden's for a decade
>The US is losing the Iran war and the empire is retracting from much of the middle east
>If trump secures the government, AT LEAST A BIT, he will attempt to run for 3th term causing the second american civil war to start, allowing a revolution to take place
No I will not be voting for the reformist neolib party fuck them, this is revolutionary what I am doing.
R: 380 / I: 50
PAUL COCKSHOTT EXPELLED FROM THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF GREAT BRITAIN FOR "ANTISEMITISM" AMONG OTHER THINGS
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The basis for this seems to have been that I retweeted commentary by Craig Murray and David Miller about the arson that was committed against a group of ambulances in London that belonged to a Jewish community charity. As readers may recall, the media and the Government immediately described the arson as evidence of growing antisemitism and suggested that it was probably part of a conspiracy directed by the Iranian Government. Security Minister Dan Jarvis told Parliament: “The House will be aware that the police are treating this arson attack as an antisemitic hate crime.” Prime Minister Keir Starmer described it as: “a horrific antisemitic attack”. Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood referred to it as an: “Iranian-linked firebomb attack” and an “abhorrent crime”. By July the Government’s language became considerably stronger. Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper announced sanctions on an Iran-linked group and stated that the organisation had: “publicly claimed responsibility” for attacks including “the antisemitic arson attack on four Hatzola ambulances in Golders Green in March” The same statement further asserted: “members of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Qods Force … almost certainly directed IMCR attacks across Europe.” You may recall that clause 15 of the CP’s Social Media Protocol states that members should not promote antisemitic conspiracy theories or conspiracy theories based on unverifiable claims. It is evident that a conspiracy took place because, in law, a conspiracy is an agreement between two or more people to commit a criminal offence. Arson is a crime, and three people were filmed setting fire to the vehicles. The existence of a conspiracy is therefore not unverifiable. What remained unverified was any claim about the perpetrators’ motivation, organisation, or links to a specific foreign government. At the time, responsibility for the attack remained a matter of public dispute. Government ministers advanced one interpretation of the evidence. Craig Murray advanced another. Reposting a journalist who questions a government interpretation of events is not the same thing as promoting antisemitism. The commentary I retweeted by Craig Murray included links to an article he had published casting serious doubt upon the government’s version of what had happened. The social media rules do not prohibit communists from drawing attention to articles by journalists that question the positions taken by His Majesty’s Government. Whether the conspiracy theory promoted by the Home Secretary is correct is a matter of legitimate public debate. The panel asserted that certain reposted material constituted antisemitism. This assertion is not supported by evidence and is inconsistent with established legal standards. Another repost concerned commentary by Professor David Miller. The panel treated Miller’s statement as inherently antisemitic. Professor Miller had been dismissed by the University of Bristol following allegations made by several organisations regarded as sympathetic to Israel. Two independent investigations reportedly concluded that Miller had no case to answer on allegations of antisemitism. The Employment Tribunal subsequently ruled that his anti-Zionist beliefs were protected under the Equality Act. The investigatory panel nevertheless treated quotations from Miller as self-evidently antisemitic. In Miller v University of Bristol (Employment Tribunal, 2023), the Tribunal held: Anti‑Zionism is a protected philosophical belief under the Equality Act 2010. Criticism of Zionism, Zionist organisations, or the political influence of Zionist groups is not antisemitism. Miller’s anti‑Zionist arguments were rational, coherent, and lawful. Disciplinary action based on anti‑Zionist political speech is unlawful. It follows that reposting legally protected political speech cannot in itself constitute antisemitism; nor can reposting legally protected anti-Zionist political speech in itself constitute misconduct. The panel appears to have given credence to allegations against Professor Miller that were subsequently found, through repeated investigatory processes, to be unfounded. It then transferred the unjustified taint associated with his writings to me for quoting him.
PAUL COCKSHOTT EXPELLED FROM THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF GREAT BRITAIN FOR "ANTISEMITISM"
https://paulcockshott.wordpress.com/2026/10/04/on-my-expulsion-from-the-communist-party-of-britain/PAUL COCKSHOTT EXPELLED FROM THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF GREAT BRITAIN FOR "ANTISEMITISM" AMONG OTHER THINGS
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The basis for this seems to have been that I retweeted commentary by Craig Murray and David Miller about the arson that was committed against a group of ambulances in London that belonged to a Jewish community charity. As readers may recall, the media and the Government immediately described the arson as evidence of growing antisemitism and suggested that it was probably part of a conspiracy directed by the Iranian Government. Security Minister Dan Jarvis told Parliament: “The House will be aware that the police are treating this arson attack as an antisemitic hate crime.” Prime Minister Keir Starmer described it as: “a horrific antisemitic attack”. Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood referred to it as an: “Iranian-linked firebomb attack” and an “abhorrent crime”. By July the Government’s language became considerably stronger. Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper announced sanctions on an Iran-linked group and stated that the organisation had: “publicly claimed responsibility” for attacks including “the antisemitic arson attack on four Hatzola ambulances in Golders Green in March” The same statement further asserted: “members of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Qods Force … almost certainly directed IMCR attacks across Europe.” You may recall that clause 15 of the CP’s Social Media Protocol states that members should not promote antisemitic conspiracy theories or conspiracy theories based on unverifiable claims. It is evident that a conspiracy took place because, in law, a conspiracy is an agreement between two or more people to commit a criminal offence. Arson is a crime, and three people were filmed setting fire to the vehicles. The existence of a conspiracy is therefore not unverifiable. What remained unverified was any claim about the perpetrators’ motivation, organisation, or links to a specific foreign government. At the time, responsibility for the attack remained a matter of public dispute. Government ministers advanced one interpretation of the evidence. Craig Murray advanced another. Reposting a journalist who questions a government interpretation of events is not the same thing as promoting antisemitism. The commentary I retweeted by Craig Murray included links to an article he had published casting serious doubt upon the government’s version of what had happened. The social media rules do not prohibit communists from drawing attention to articles by journalists that question the positions taken by His Majesty’s Government. Whether the conspiracy theory promoted by the Home Secretary is correct is a matter of legitimate public debate. The panel asserted that certain reposted material constituted antisemitism. This assertion is not supported by evidence and is inconsistent with established legal standards. Another repost concerned commentary by Professor David Miller. The panel treated Miller’s statement as inherently antisemitic. Professor Miller had been dismissed by the University of Bristol following allegations made by several organisations regarded as sympathetic to Israel. Two independent investigations reportedly concluded that Miller had no case to answer on allegations of antisemitism. The Employment Tribunal subsequently ruled that his anti-Zionist beliefs were protected under the Equality Act. The investigatory panel nevertheless treated quotations from Miller as self-evidently antisemitic. In Miller v University of Bristol (Employment Tribunal, 2023), the Tribunal held: Anti‑Zionism is a protected philosophical belief under the Equality Act 2010. Criticism of Zionism, Zionist organisations, or the political influence of Zionist groups is not antisemitism. Miller’s anti‑Zionist arguments were rational, coherent, and lawful. Disciplinary action based on anti‑Zionist political speech is unlawful. It follows that reposting legally protected political speech cannot in itself constitute antisemitism; nor can reposting legally protected anti-Zionist political speech in itself constitute misconduct. The panel appears to have given credence to allegations against Professor Miller that were subsequently found, through repeated investigatory processes, to be unfounded. It then transferred the unjustified taint associated with his writings to me for quoting him.
R: 7 / I: 1
Yo uhh chud here
The normies started using chud to mean fat and lazy and now I can't self insert as a chud
Do you have new slang that you use to make fun of rightoids that I could use to self insert? Thanks
Yo uhh chud here
The normies started using chud to mean fat and lazy and now I can't self insert as a chud
Do you have new slang that you use to make fun of rightoids that I could use to self insert? Thanks
R: 5 / I: 2
I really hate to be a doomer or use my fee-fees for opinions but all the drama on twitter, all the bullshit i see on the internet or irl is getting to me
I spent a bit reading up on people's opinions, on some historical massacres, the genocides in sudan, palestine, the cultural revolution and the blood spilled there, the horrible crimes committed in the name of capital or communism or liberation or fascism and I think I understand a bit more about people now.
My dad and I often argue about one thing or another - and i love the man, but he is stubborn and old - and one of those arguments was about empathy. I argued that it is intrinsic, and not just a learned behavior. He argued against it, and now I think he was right
People dont *really* care about achieving a political goal (tho some do). What they care about is justifying their behavior. And most people are crude, violent apes, who behave accordingly. In every age people thought they were the enlightened Modern Man - free of the barbarity of the past. They thought that as they murdered their neighbours, raped children and whatever. So many people just want a group they can hate - whether its brown people, trans people, jews, women, atheists, muslims. Anyone who isnt you, basically.
Doesnt matter which political belief, doesnt matter who or what you are, doesnt matter where or when you live. Most people just want an US and a THEM, and the more of THEM that are subject to violence the better.
How can i begin believing in humanity again when hate mobs kill transhumanists like me, when soldiers murder, steal and rape all over the globe, when people all around the world justify the deaths of innocent people because of how or where they were born?
Why is it so hard for people to see others as people?
nature of belief
Recently I've been thinking about why people believe in things, why they act or think in one way or the other. I am now leaning towards "people believe in X or Y to justify killing people".I really hate to be a doomer or use my fee-fees for opinions but all the drama on twitter, all the bullshit i see on the internet or irl is getting to me
I spent a bit reading up on people's opinions, on some historical massacres, the genocides in sudan, palestine, the cultural revolution and the blood spilled there, the horrible crimes committed in the name of capital or communism or liberation or fascism and I think I understand a bit more about people now.
My dad and I often argue about one thing or another - and i love the man, but he is stubborn and old - and one of those arguments was about empathy. I argued that it is intrinsic, and not just a learned behavior. He argued against it, and now I think he was right
People dont *really* care about achieving a political goal (tho some do). What they care about is justifying their behavior. And most people are crude, violent apes, who behave accordingly. In every age people thought they were the enlightened Modern Man - free of the barbarity of the past. They thought that as they murdered their neighbours, raped children and whatever. So many people just want a group they can hate - whether its brown people, trans people, jews, women, atheists, muslims. Anyone who isnt you, basically.
Doesnt matter which political belief, doesnt matter who or what you are, doesnt matter where or when you live. Most people just want an US and a THEM, and the more of THEM that are subject to violence the better.
How can i begin believing in humanity again when hate mobs kill transhumanists like me, when soldiers murder, steal and rape all over the globe, when people all around the world justify the deaths of innocent people because of how or where they were born?
Why is it so hard for people to see others as people?
R: 10 / I: 0
>multinational federation
>political system fails to adapt to changing political economic conditions and shifting global alliances
>bureaucratic cliques of conservative managers cling to power
>use increasingly authoritarian and censorious security measures to stave off decline of the system
>contradictions give legitimacy to nationalist opportunists
>union implodes and suffers a horrible economic collapse, many die from deprivation and despair
>be european union, pic unrelated
>multinational federation
>political system fails to adapt to changing political economic conditions and shifting global alliances
>bureaucratic cliques of conservative managers cling to power
>use increasingly authoritarian and censorious security measures to stave off decline of the system
>contradictions give legitimacy to nationalist opportunists
>union implodes and suffers a horrible economic collapse, many die from deprivation and despair
>be european union, pic unrelated
R: 54 / I: 3 (sage)
Is picrel final proof idpol has gone too far?
Since when are we supposed to show solidarity with narcissists, sociopaths, and psychopaths? Isn’t it clear that said mentalities are cultural products of capitalism?
Also, comparing narcissism to autism is bullshit. No one is born a narcissist.
Is this the final boss of idpol or the time when idpol finally jumps the shark for good?
Is picrel final proof idpol has gone too far?
Since when are we supposed to show solidarity with narcissists, sociopaths, and psychopaths? Isn’t it clear that said mentalities are cultural products of capitalism?
Also, comparing narcissism to autism is bullshit. No one is born a narcissist.
Is this the final boss of idpol or the time when idpol finally jumps the shark for good?
R: 54 / I: 10
My main argument is that racists are given platforms to spread pseudo-science but basically no real scientists fights them out of fear of being grouped in with them and losing their reputation. No respected biologist wants to be known as the "racism debate guy" and this creates a lack of pushback.
I have yet to find a single intelligent "race realist", it's pretty much all ramblings about supposed hatred against whites and jewish conspiracies. On the flip side however I have not found any serious intellectuals actually contending with these ideas. Real scientists seem to not care about this topic whatsoever. Race "realists" are given free roam to spread propaganda with zero pushback.
Basically what I'm asking for is what are some intelligent discussions on biology in the context of race. The only really decent *popular* video I've seen is "the bell curve" by shaun but shaun is not a scientist and one video is not enough. There was another guy who I remember made good videos debunking these ideas but he had a heavy accent (perhaps german?) and I have not been able to find him since.
>It's because of censorship that this topic is not debated more!
I think the censorship angle actually works to the benefit of the racist as they are allowed to spread propaganda with zero recourse while an actual scientist engaging with them marks them to be endlessly harassed and looked down upon by other intellectuals for giving a racist a platform.
>I'm from /pol/ and race is real because of this chart I saw
I want someone with an actual interest in science not a 15 year old who just found out dylann roof exists.
Arguments on race "realism" and the one-sidedness of it all
I'm specifically talking about atheist racists who want to prove there are superior and inferior races.My main argument is that racists are given platforms to spread pseudo-science but basically no real scientists fights them out of fear of being grouped in with them and losing their reputation. No respected biologist wants to be known as the "racism debate guy" and this creates a lack of pushback.
I have yet to find a single intelligent "race realist", it's pretty much all ramblings about supposed hatred against whites and jewish conspiracies. On the flip side however I have not found any serious intellectuals actually contending with these ideas. Real scientists seem to not care about this topic whatsoever. Race "realists" are given free roam to spread propaganda with zero pushback.
Basically what I'm asking for is what are some intelligent discussions on biology in the context of race. The only really decent *popular* video I've seen is "the bell curve" by shaun but shaun is not a scientist and one video is not enough. There was another guy who I remember made good videos debunking these ideas but he had a heavy accent (perhaps german?) and I have not been able to find him since.
>It's because of censorship that this topic is not debated more!
I think the censorship angle actually works to the benefit of the racist as they are allowed to spread propaganda with zero recourse while an actual scientist engaging with them marks them to be endlessly harassed and looked down upon by other intellectuals for giving a racist a platform.
>I'm from /pol/ and race is real because of this chart I saw
I want someone with an actual interest in science not a 15 year old who just found out dylann roof exists.
R: 2 / I: 0
Shadrack Sibiya was set to face a disciplinary hearing on Monday, but his lawyers tendered his resignation at the start of proceedings. Sibiya is currently in prison after he was arrested for the alleged rape and grooming of a minor last month. His application to be released on bail has been postponed to October 13.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10/12/south-africa-deputy-police-chief-resigns-amid-sex-offence-charges
https://archive.ph/AN7jE
Clashes between rival groups in central South Sudan leave scores dead
Disputes over cattle and grazing land, along with revenge killings, have fueled repeated violence in Lakes state, but the immediate cause of Friday’s clashes was unclear. South Sudanese analyst Machot Amuom said unresolved tensions between the communities had left the area vulnerable to renewed violence.
https://apnews.com/article/south-sudan-rumbek-clashes-deaths-hospital-violence-99941758a0c55a3fb5fa45bb90b0e03b
Former Israeli intelligence chief detained after helping Palestinian olive harvesters
Feldshuh, 77, had joined a group of retired senior security officials and activists helping Palestinians with the harvest. According to Commanders for Israel’s Security, the movement to which he belongs, settlers arrived and attacked Palestinian women, prompting members of the group to intervene. According to its mission statement, the movement aims to form "an agreement" with Palestinians based on the 1967 borders for a two-state solution.
https://www.newarab.com/news/former-israel-spy-chief-detained-aiding-palestinian-farmers
Hunger strike in Lebanese prisons ends after settlement over amnesty bill reached
The bill, which was passed by parliament in August, was suspended after a parliamentary bloc filed an appeal against it, citing fears it would allow the release of Islamist detainees accused of mounting attacks against Lebanese army soldiers and servicemen. Some of them have spent long years in prison without standing trial. The country’s constitutional council rejected the appeal, instead mandating amendments to some clauses and the removal of others. More than 600 prisoners had been on hunger strike for 30 days in protest against the suspension of the law, which would have benefitted thousands by reducing their prison terms.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/hunger-strike-lebanese-prisons-end-after-settlement-over-amnesty-bill-reached
Israeli producer had access to data harvested by Poland using Pegasus spyware, say prosecutors
Data harvested from mobile phones by the Polish authorities using Pegasus spyware were transmitted outside Poland and were accessible to the tool’s Israeli producer, Polish prosecutors have revealed as part of an investigation into the use of Pegasus under the former government. Prime Minister Donald Tusk says that the case is “one of the biggest scandals in Polish history since the fall of communism”, and that it is “beyond any doubt” that the Israeli firm behind Pegasus, NSO Group, cooperates with Israeli intelligence.
https://notesfrompoland.com/2026/10/12/israeli-producer-had-access-to-data-harvested-by-poland-using-pegasus-spyware-say-prosecutors/
At least 160,000 people take to streets in third week of French school protests
Riot police fired teargas at the end of Tuesday’s marches in Nantes and near the Montparnasse area of Paris, but most of the demonstrations over teacher shortages, overcrowded classes and crumbling school buildings held in cities including Lyon, Lille and Marseille were peaceful.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/13/greta-thunberg-student-protest-paris-france
Lawyers protest outside Parliament against plans to scrap the right to a jury trial
The Bill would strip a defendant’s right to trial by jury for either-way offences including criminal damage and public nuisance, such as the case of the Colston Four. They were acquitted of criminal damage after toppling the statue of the slave-trader Edward Colston into Bristol Harbour.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/lawyers-protest-outside-parliament-against-plans-scrap-right-jury-trial
Colombia’s national strike organizers “are instigators of evil,” claims De la Espriella
Wednesday’s protests are a preparation for a national strike that is set to take place in November and is supported by the country’s political opposition to the far-right government. According to the president, “those who are promoting the strike and seeking to use it to once again cause chaos and destabilize the government are the very same people who left the country bankrupt, on the brink of a blackout, with the healthcare system in intensive care, energy sovereignty compromised, and public resources plundered and looted.”
https://colombiareports.com/colombias-national-strike-organizers-are-instigators-of-evil-claims-de-la-espriella/
Bolivia investigates ex-president Evo Morales over alleged ties to 2009 killings
The investigation comes after a complaint filed by rightwing lawmakers Tomasa Yarhui and Rodrigo Antonio. When the raid occurred, Morales told the press during an official visit to Venezuela that he had ordered the detention of the foreigners, whom he called “mercenaries”. Family members and victims brought the case before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, which concluded in 2021 that the government had violated human rights.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/12/bolivia-investigates-ex-president-evo-morales-2009-killings
Drivers reject World Bank-backed "jeepney scrappage" scheme
Jeepney drivers and operators rejected a new World Bank-driven jeepney phaseout scheme. They said imperialist institutions and the puppet Marcos regime are conspiring to push the failed, anti-people and pro-foreign “transport modernization” program again. The new scheme is called “systematic scrappage” which aims to turn operators’ traditional jeepneys into scrappage and force them to rent from large companies’ vehicles to replace their units.
https://philippinerevolution.nu/angbayan/drivers-reject-world-bank-backed-jeepney-scrappage-scheme/
Police clash with Imran Khan supporters in northwestern Pakistan
Police fired tear gas and live rounds at supporters of jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan in northwestern Pakistan on Tuesday as clashes erupted over the suspension of his party's provincial government, party officials said, an account the provincial administration rejected. The federal government imposed a state of emergency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Sunday and placed it under direct control, citing a surge in militant violence. Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party said that was a pretext for a political takeover.
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/pakistan-police-fire-tear-gas-rounds-imran-khan-backers-party-says-2026-10-13/
India's ‘Cockroach’ leaders detained after entering barricaded protest site
The founder of the CJP, which is not a formal political party, Abhijeet Dipke, was taken away from Jantar Mantar by police alongside Ashutosh Ranka and Saurav Das. The site is a historic spot in Delhi for popular protests. The CJP leaders were continuing the protests that have engulfed India for more than a week to demand the resignation of the country’s election chief Gyanesh Kumar over his decision to slash tens of millions of names from the election rolls.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/indias-cockroach-leaders-detained-after-entering-barricaded-protest-site
News 10/13/26
South Africa deputy police chief resigns amid sex offence chargesShadrack Sibiya was set to face a disciplinary hearing on Monday, but his lawyers tendered his resignation at the start of proceedings. Sibiya is currently in prison after he was arrested for the alleged rape and grooming of a minor last month. His application to be released on bail has been postponed to October 13.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10/12/south-africa-deputy-police-chief-resigns-amid-sex-offence-charges
https://archive.ph/AN7jE
Clashes between rival groups in central South Sudan leave scores dead
Disputes over cattle and grazing land, along with revenge killings, have fueled repeated violence in Lakes state, but the immediate cause of Friday’s clashes was unclear. South Sudanese analyst Machot Amuom said unresolved tensions between the communities had left the area vulnerable to renewed violence.
https://apnews.com/article/south-sudan-rumbek-clashes-deaths-hospital-violence-99941758a0c55a3fb5fa45bb90b0e03b
Former Israeli intelligence chief detained after helping Palestinian olive harvesters
Feldshuh, 77, had joined a group of retired senior security officials and activists helping Palestinians with the harvest. According to Commanders for Israel’s Security, the movement to which he belongs, settlers arrived and attacked Palestinian women, prompting members of the group to intervene. According to its mission statement, the movement aims to form "an agreement" with Palestinians based on the 1967 borders for a two-state solution.
https://www.newarab.com/news/former-israel-spy-chief-detained-aiding-palestinian-farmers
Hunger strike in Lebanese prisons ends after settlement over amnesty bill reached
The bill, which was passed by parliament in August, was suspended after a parliamentary bloc filed an appeal against it, citing fears it would allow the release of Islamist detainees accused of mounting attacks against Lebanese army soldiers and servicemen. Some of them have spent long years in prison without standing trial. The country’s constitutional council rejected the appeal, instead mandating amendments to some clauses and the removal of others. More than 600 prisoners had been on hunger strike for 30 days in protest against the suspension of the law, which would have benefitted thousands by reducing their prison terms.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/hunger-strike-lebanese-prisons-end-after-settlement-over-amnesty-bill-reached
Israeli producer had access to data harvested by Poland using Pegasus spyware, say prosecutors
Data harvested from mobile phones by the Polish authorities using Pegasus spyware were transmitted outside Poland and were accessible to the tool’s Israeli producer, Polish prosecutors have revealed as part of an investigation into the use of Pegasus under the former government. Prime Minister Donald Tusk says that the case is “one of the biggest scandals in Polish history since the fall of communism”, and that it is “beyond any doubt” that the Israeli firm behind Pegasus, NSO Group, cooperates with Israeli intelligence.
https://notesfrompoland.com/2026/10/12/israeli-producer-had-access-to-data-harvested-by-poland-using-pegasus-spyware-say-prosecutors/
At least 160,000 people take to streets in third week of French school protests
Riot police fired teargas at the end of Tuesday’s marches in Nantes and near the Montparnasse area of Paris, but most of the demonstrations over teacher shortages, overcrowded classes and crumbling school buildings held in cities including Lyon, Lille and Marseille were peaceful.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/13/greta-thunberg-student-protest-paris-france
Lawyers protest outside Parliament against plans to scrap the right to a jury trial
The Bill would strip a defendant’s right to trial by jury for either-way offences including criminal damage and public nuisance, such as the case of the Colston Four. They were acquitted of criminal damage after toppling the statue of the slave-trader Edward Colston into Bristol Harbour.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/lawyers-protest-outside-parliament-against-plans-scrap-right-jury-trial
Colombia’s national strike organizers “are instigators of evil,” claims De la Espriella
Wednesday’s protests are a preparation for a national strike that is set to take place in November and is supported by the country’s political opposition to the far-right government. According to the president, “those who are promoting the strike and seeking to use it to once again cause chaos and destabilize the government are the very same people who left the country bankrupt, on the brink of a blackout, with the healthcare system in intensive care, energy sovereignty compromised, and public resources plundered and looted.”
https://colombiareports.com/colombias-national-strike-organizers-are-instigators-of-evil-claims-de-la-espriella/
Bolivia investigates ex-president Evo Morales over alleged ties to 2009 killings
The investigation comes after a complaint filed by rightwing lawmakers Tomasa Yarhui and Rodrigo Antonio. When the raid occurred, Morales told the press during an official visit to Venezuela that he had ordered the detention of the foreigners, whom he called “mercenaries”. Family members and victims brought the case before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, which concluded in 2021 that the government had violated human rights.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/12/bolivia-investigates-ex-president-evo-morales-2009-killings
Drivers reject World Bank-backed "jeepney scrappage" scheme
Jeepney drivers and operators rejected a new World Bank-driven jeepney phaseout scheme. They said imperialist institutions and the puppet Marcos regime are conspiring to push the failed, anti-people and pro-foreign “transport modernization” program again. The new scheme is called “systematic scrappage” which aims to turn operators’ traditional jeepneys into scrappage and force them to rent from large companies’ vehicles to replace their units.
https://philippinerevolution.nu/angbayan/drivers-reject-world-bank-backed-jeepney-scrappage-scheme/
Police clash with Imran Khan supporters in northwestern Pakistan
Police fired tear gas and live rounds at supporters of jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan in northwestern Pakistan on Tuesday as clashes erupted over the suspension of his party's provincial government, party officials said, an account the provincial administration rejected. The federal government imposed a state of emergency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Sunday and placed it under direct control, citing a surge in militant violence. Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party said that was a pretext for a political takeover.
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/pakistan-police-fire-tear-gas-rounds-imran-khan-backers-party-says-2026-10-13/
India's ‘Cockroach’ leaders detained after entering barricaded protest site
The founder of the CJP, which is not a formal political party, Abhijeet Dipke, was taken away from Jantar Mantar by police alongside Ashutosh Ranka and Saurav Das. The site is a historic spot in Delhi for popular protests. The CJP leaders were continuing the protests that have engulfed India for more than a week to demand the resignation of the country’s election chief Gyanesh Kumar over his decision to slash tens of millions of names from the election rolls.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/indias-cockroach-leaders-detained-after-entering-barricaded-protest-site
R: 37 / I: 11
>numerous republicans refuse to surrender and continue a guerilla war that lasts up to the 1950s, even attempting to invade Spain with a large force from France at the end of ww2
>before the last maquisards have even left the mountains, a new generation of radicals emerge from university campuses in late 1950s that havent even fought in the civil war and start clashing with police frequently, along with miners holding strikes
>late 1960s those same students start creating different anarchist and communist groups who carry out bombings, bank roberries and kill police officers
>ETA emerges spontaniously and carries out literally thousands of attacks (im not even joking look it up)
>groups in exile do the same thing attacking embassies and a yacht gets sucesfully hijacked and extorted for freedom for political prisoners
>riots, bombings and general violence force the state to imprison and execute people, causing the international community to shun Spain and pull out embassies and investments
>ETA kills Blanco and leaves Franco without a heir
>even the fucking catholic church turns their back on Franco
>Franco ACK!-s and overnight all the former republican parties and movements reconstitute politically and lead Spain to democracy
This all happened even though Spain was literally Fascist the whole time and liberally used arrests,executions, torture, and states of eception. Hell they even did human experiments trying to find a way to genetically prevent people from becoming leftists. How did other "Authoritarian" governments, whether Left or Right in Europe at the time manage to root out militant opposition within years of taking power and the Spanish resistance continue from the first to last day of the dictatoeship, even though they were ultimatelly not a major threat to the government, it is impressive to me how consistently radical it remained for the duration of the regime.
How did resistance Franco in spain manage to remain alive and militant throughout the entire regimes
>republicans stop the coup in 1936 and force the nationalists to struggle for 3 years to achieve a victory>numerous republicans refuse to surrender and continue a guerilla war that lasts up to the 1950s, even attempting to invade Spain with a large force from France at the end of ww2
>before the last maquisards have even left the mountains, a new generation of radicals emerge from university campuses in late 1950s that havent even fought in the civil war and start clashing with police frequently, along with miners holding strikes
>late 1960s those same students start creating different anarchist and communist groups who carry out bombings, bank roberries and kill police officers
>ETA emerges spontaniously and carries out literally thousands of attacks (im not even joking look it up)
>groups in exile do the same thing attacking embassies and a yacht gets sucesfully hijacked and extorted for freedom for political prisoners
>riots, bombings and general violence force the state to imprison and execute people, causing the international community to shun Spain and pull out embassies and investments
>ETA kills Blanco and leaves Franco without a heir
>even the fucking catholic church turns their back on Franco
>Franco ACK!-s and overnight all the former republican parties and movements reconstitute politically and lead Spain to democracy
This all happened even though Spain was literally Fascist the whole time and liberally used arrests,executions, torture, and states of eception. Hell they even did human experiments trying to find a way to genetically prevent people from becoming leftists. How did other "Authoritarian" governments, whether Left or Right in Europe at the time manage to root out militant opposition within years of taking power and the Spanish resistance continue from the first to last day of the dictatoeship, even though they were ultimatelly not a major threat to the government, it is impressive to me how consistently radical it remained for the duration of the regime.
R: 69 / I: 7
Three years after October 7th this very difficult question needs to be asked:
Materially speaking, what can the American left — or any country’s left — do to actually “support” Palestine?
I’ve been an activist for Palestine solidarity since 2008. I’ve seen this movement change drastically during this time. Basically, 18 years ago you could support a two-state solution on the ‘67 border just fine without scrutiny. Now, post-Gaza genocide, you’re considered a “Zio” or “normalizer” if you support anything other than a full-blown Algeria scenario whereby every single Israeli Jew is deported or forced to flee. But let’s be honest: even if this is what we wanted, the American (or overall western) left has no ability to make this happen. It’s as stupid as claiming you’re a sellout unless you support a gigantic communist uprising happening tomorrow. Given that what we mentally support means nothing unless we can do material support, what’s the fucking point?
Oh but it’s a MORAL LITMUS TEST! — so fucking what? Even if we wanted to weed out the “immoral” people from our movement we still have no ability to carry out the results we want to see.
So where does that leave us? What should the left be doing for Palestine that it already hasn’t been doing for the past 20 years? We’ve done mass protests, boycotts, pressuring politicians, attempting to blockade weapons shipments, etc. Some people like Elias Rodriguez even used political violence. And guess what? Nothing happened in terms of the Palestinians winning. Israel’s reputation is in the shitter, but why hasn’t that translated into a Palestinian victory? How much longer do we have to wait for Israel to collapse, and if that happens on what basis would an “Algeria” scenario emerge?
Maybe I’m wrong but I really want to know what it actually means to “support Palestine” now.
Three years after October 7th this very difficult question needs to be asked:
Materially speaking, what can the American left — or any country’s left — do to actually “support” Palestine?
I’ve been an activist for Palestine solidarity since 2008. I’ve seen this movement change drastically during this time. Basically, 18 years ago you could support a two-state solution on the ‘67 border just fine without scrutiny. Now, post-Gaza genocide, you’re considered a “Zio” or “normalizer” if you support anything other than a full-blown Algeria scenario whereby every single Israeli Jew is deported or forced to flee. But let’s be honest: even if this is what we wanted, the American (or overall western) left has no ability to make this happen. It’s as stupid as claiming you’re a sellout unless you support a gigantic communist uprising happening tomorrow. Given that what we mentally support means nothing unless we can do material support, what’s the fucking point?
Oh but it’s a MORAL LITMUS TEST! — so fucking what? Even if we wanted to weed out the “immoral” people from our movement we still have no ability to carry out the results we want to see.
So where does that leave us? What should the left be doing for Palestine that it already hasn’t been doing for the past 20 years? We’ve done mass protests, boycotts, pressuring politicians, attempting to blockade weapons shipments, etc. Some people like Elias Rodriguez even used political violence. And guess what? Nothing happened in terms of the Palestinians winning. Israel’s reputation is in the shitter, but why hasn’t that translated into a Palestinian victory? How much longer do we have to wait for Israel to collapse, and if that happens on what basis would an “Algeria” scenario emerge?
Maybe I’m wrong but I really want to know what it actually means to “support Palestine” now.
R: 11 / I: 3
>be me a few years ago
>looking for a job
>get interviewed
>employer says pay is around $20/h
>brain starts working
>"if they're willing to pay me $20/h, that means I'm generating more than $20/h in value for the company"
>realize the company wouldn't hire me if I cost them more than I made them
>bring this up to the employer
>get rejected on the spot
>be me a few years ago
>looking for a job
>get interviewed
>employer says pay is around $20/h
>brain starts working
>"if they're willing to pay me $20/h, that means I'm generating more than $20/h in value for the company"
>realize the company wouldn't hire me if I cost them more than I made them
>bring this up to the employer
>get rejected on the spot
R: 15 / I: 2 (sage)
Those folks are actually every single reason why I hate the West as a Pole and I don't want to have anything in common with it. I'm risking being called a Russian onuca with this attitude. But I prefer my own happiness than being constantly guilt-tripped by the Western powers for the crimes we the Polish people have never committed. I used to be philosemitic, because I was taught like that at school, forced to this or else I would face the consequences of "lawlessness", now I think that they don't like us.
During PRL at least there wasn't that craziness for Zionist America like now.
Why do Israeli Jews hate Poland so much? (real long answers please, no derailing)
Not only Israeli Jews, I noticed Zionists living in a lot of countries antagonizing Poland and Poles as well. Just because Poland talks about being victimized by Nazi Germany, Ukrainian UPA, Russian Soviets, Zionists always seem to want to suppress this knowledge, even about the existence of KL Warschau (which existed in my opinion). Jews want us not to have great positions in this society, they would degrade us into criminal status, using DARVO technique as well. What motivates them to be extremely hostile against Poland like that? I'm even leftist, I believe in women's rights and they hate me for being Polish. I wonder why. How is Gaza, I'm asking right now? Why aren't those people given any chance? So many questions at once. I have an impression that antipolonism is even promoted on social media and Tucker Carlson blamed us for the WWII as well. I think Putin is a Zionist pig as well and Russia is controlled by Israelis. Same with Ukraine, but they are more Nazi. Any explanation why does it happen to Poland? We are bombarded with Polish jokes as well and Polish sense of humor is interpret as a legit threat by Israeli-controlled Westerners. Our country is being a scapegoat and Westerners are told "you will end up like Poland if you won't be democratiĉ". Westies ofc are "allies" to us, my ass. Some of you wish upon us war against Russia, too.Those folks are actually every single reason why I hate the West as a Pole and I don't want to have anything in common with it. I'm risking being called a Russian onuca with this attitude. But I prefer my own happiness than being constantly guilt-tripped by the Western powers for the crimes we the Polish people have never committed. I used to be philosemitic, because I was taught like that at school, forced to this or else I would face the consequences of "lawlessness", now I think that they don't like us.
During PRL at least there wasn't that craziness for Zionist America like now.
R: 13 / I: 4
>seize power promising you'll be less corrupt than the last corrupt dickhead
>fire a bunch of people in your government and replace them with loyalists
>war pops off with your larger neighbour
>align yourself with hardline nationalists and implement anti-communist policies in your government
>the war becomes a fuckfire nightmare consisting of endless trench warfare
>america and the rest of the west gives you an endless amount of loans and sells you shitloads of guns and missiles
>american government also forces you to accept a bunch of shitty future one-sided trade deals involving giving your natural resources to us corporations
>america also does some underhanded deals with the opposing side that you've been fighting tooth and nail for the past 5 years
>be zelensky
>pic unrelated
>seize power promising you'll be less corrupt than the last corrupt dickhead
>fire a bunch of people in your government and replace them with loyalists
>war pops off with your larger neighbour
>align yourself with hardline nationalists and implement anti-communist policies in your government
>the war becomes a fuckfire nightmare consisting of endless trench warfare
>america and the rest of the west gives you an endless amount of loans and sells you shitloads of guns and missiles
>american government also forces you to accept a bunch of shitty future one-sided trade deals involving giving your natural resources to us corporations
>america also does some underhanded deals with the opposing side that you've been fighting tooth and nail for the past 5 years
>be zelensky
>pic unrelated
R: 617 / I: 136 (full)
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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
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323735
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323740
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From Vkusno i Tochka with love EditionPrevious: >>2911597
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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R: 37 / I: 9 (sage)
Why should I care about israel v palestine?
Ever since oct 7 all I hear in any political sphere 24/7 is about this bullshit and before that it was all about ukraine and russia. I don't care and I'm sick of pretending I do. Doesn't matter if you're left or right it's all anyone talks about anymore. How does religious idiots doing a genocide have anything to do with workers rights? Obviously genocide is evil but 99% of us are not materially affected by this at all. Why is everyone so hyper fixated on this?
R: 5 / I: 1
How do we convince people to overthrow the bourgeois system if they are all retarded and just follow their higher ups all the time, class consciousness isn’t going anywhere
Vooottting
I know somebody who just voted for what his trade union told him to vote for, many other ppl who vooote do this too.How do we convince people to overthrow the bourgeois system if they are all retarded and just follow their higher ups all the time, class consciousness isn’t going anywhere
R: 22 / I: 2
If you are engaged in class war, it would make perfect sense to ban those who oppose class strugle or work against your class from expressing themselves. That's exactly what the bourgeoisie does all the time, suppressing ideas that go against their interests or threaten their dominant role in society. "Free speech" has never existed and it shouldn't exist.
No, this doesn't make you a "red fascist", it makes you an actual threat to the ruling class.
Freeze peach?
I don't believe free speech is necessarily a good thing. Racists, fascists, liberals, religious people, etc. should not just be allowed to shit in the well of public opinion.If you are engaged in class war, it would make perfect sense to ban those who oppose class strugle or work against your class from expressing themselves. That's exactly what the bourgeoisie does all the time, suppressing ideas that go against their interests or threaten their dominant role in society. "Free speech" has never existed and it shouldn't exist.
No, this doesn't make you a "red fascist", it makes you an actual threat to the ruling class.
R: 2 / I: 0
On Sunday, the demonstration in Jalisco ended in clashes between riot police and participants who were trying to reach the governor’s residence. The organizing groups reported that four people remained missing and that journalists were also affected during the protest in Guadalajara, Mexico’s second-largest city, with more than 4 million residents.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/mexican-president-rejects-police-crackdown-on-water-protest-in-guadalajara/
Cubans turn to free community pharmacies as medicines grow scarce
“Cuba has a medical-pharmaceutical industry that we consider strong,” María Fernández Martínez, head of the province’s pharmacy company, told the official newspaper Granma. But without supplies, “not even the most capable factory can complete the cycle.” The government also struggles to obtain packaging such as blister packs and bottles and says U.S. financial sanctions complicate payments for imports. Cuban authorities say shipments of medical supplies have also been stranded in third countries because shipping companies fear U.S. penalties for calling at Cuban ports.
https://apnews.com/article/cuba-medicines-pharmacies-charity-34280901ca0d9b7a66dd1892fffa0421
Lawyers and opposition challenge Milei’s citizenship-by-investment scheme as unconstitutional
In Congress, the opposition has filed requests for information and bills to repeal it. “It is unacceptable for Argentina to put its citizenship up for sale,” said Peronist deputy Agustín Rossi, a former defence minister, who called the proposal “classist” and argued it is aimed at attracting billionaires seeking to avoid restrictions that apply to foreigners, such as on buying land.
https://en.mercopress.com/2026/10/12/lawyers-and-opposition-challenge-milei-s-citizenship-by-investment-scheme-as-unconstitutional
India’s voter list protests continue to escalate
Ahead of the march, authorities closed six metro stations in the capital on Monday and warned of traffic disruptions. Opposition leader Rahul Gandhi of the Congress party described the growing protests as a fight to defend the constitution. “We will not back down,” he told reporters in New Delhi. Mr Gandhi is seeking to turn the protests into a broader challenge to the country’s increasingly authoritarian prime minister.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/indias-voter-list-protests-continue-escalate
Pakistan accuses suspended provincial government of colluding with militants
Law Minister Azam Nazeer Tarar said the provincial government had been suspended for at least six months but gave no timetable for lifting the emergency. Chief Minister Sohail Afridi, the province’s top elected official, was in government custody after being removed from his position. The information minister accused Afridi of facilitating the Pakistani Taliban, who are suspected of being behind a surge in violence in recent years. Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, or TTP, is a separate group but a close ally of the Afghan Taliban, who returned to power in Afghanistan in 2021.
https://apnews.com/article/pakistan-khan-taliban-khyber-pakhtunkhwa-1475e4a5ede9d59131c06bacd1b70579
Germany: Labor Minister's resignation leaves the government in turmoil
However, she also cited "the public attacks against me — unfortunately, including some from within the ranks of our coalition partner" as reasons for her resignation. In fact, the pressure on Bas increased significantly in recent days. The centrist coalition government is urgently awaiting key legislative proposals from the Ministry of Labor. Before the summer recess in July, a commission had already presented comprehensive proposals for reforming Germany's statutory pension system. The coalition partners of SPD and the center-right Christian Democratic Union and Christian Social Union (CDU/CSU) wanted these proposals to be quickly turned into legislation. To date, however, no finalized drafts have been presented.
https://www.dw.com/en/germany-labor-ministers-resignation-puts-a-spotlight-on-cracks-within-the-government/a-79645823
https://archive.ph/Q9LN7
Ex-director in charge of Grenfell cuts no longer at senior council role following backlash
During the Grenfell inquiry, she was heavily criticised over her role in the budget-cutting decisions before the blaze. It found that she pushed for a new contractor to carry out the tower’s renovation on a lower budget, which ultimately meant metal cladding was swapped for combustible plastic-filled panels to save money. Over the summer, she was appointed director of development and property at the Barnet Group, which manages the borough’s 13,000 council homes, on a salary of £157,078.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/ex-director-charge-grenfell-cuts-no-longer-senior-council-role-following-backlash
Displaced families occupy vacant homes in Ras Al-Ain for compensation as committees order evacuation of Kurdish properties
Dozens of displaced families from Deir Ezzor, Al-Raqqah, and Al-Hasakah have recently moved into vacated houses in Ras Al-Ain. SOHR sources report that these families took over the properties to secure financial payouts, which are being offered to occupants in exchange for vacating the homes so the original owners can return.
https://www.syriahr.com/en/386574/
Kurdish PKK militants quit some camps in north Iraq, Turkish sources say
The security sources said the PKK had from last Thursday withdrawn from the Hebat, Yajk, Sabri and Sason camps in the Baze district of Iraq's Metina region in evidence that the peace process was pressing ahead. Once it ceased all activities, PKK members could join social integration programmes in education, economic and other areas as part of the legal framework for disbandment, the sources added.
https://www.reuters.com/world/kurdish-pkk-militants-quit-some-camps-north-iraq-turkish-sources-say-2026-10-12/
Egypt’s press union chief rejects pressure over detained journalists
Egyptian prosecutors have accused the six journalists of working for a media organisation tied to the Muslim Brotherhood, a group Egyptian authorities have cracked down on for years following a 2013 coup against democratically elected Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi, who was a member. Egypt has officially designated the Muslim Brotherhood as a “terrorist” group, an allegation the organisation has strongly denied, while human rights groups have accused Egyptian authorities of repressing freedoms.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10/12/egypts-press-union-chief-rejects-pressure-over-detained-journalists
https://archive.ph/ueDt6
Ethiopian official promises change in Tigray after troops retake regional capital
A former Tigray leader, now advising Ethiopia's prime minister, promised a "visible change" in the region on Sunday after government-allied units retook Mekelle city following renewed fighting with opposition forces. Ethiopian Airlines resumed flights to the city of Mekelle on Sunday for the first time since rebels led by the Tigray People's Liberation Front seized the airport on 23 September. They withdrew on 3 October, when government-allied fighters entered the city.
https://www.newarab.com/news/ethiopian-official-promises-change-tigray
Malnutrition deaths reach 1,852 in areas controlled by SLM-AW
The civil authority in areas controlled by the Sudan Liberation Movement led by Abdelwahid El Nur (SLM-AW)has reported 1,852 deaths linked to acute malnutrition among children, pregnant and breastfeeding women, and older people, warning of a deepening humanitarian disaster as displaced families continue to arrive.
https://www.dabangasudan.org/en/all-news/article/malnutrition-deaths-reach-1852-in-areas-controlled-by-slm-aw
News 10/12/26
Mexican President Rejects Police Crackdown on Water Protest in GuadalajaraOn Sunday, the demonstration in Jalisco ended in clashes between riot police and participants who were trying to reach the governor’s residence. The organizing groups reported that four people remained missing and that journalists were also affected during the protest in Guadalajara, Mexico’s second-largest city, with more than 4 million residents.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/mexican-president-rejects-police-crackdown-on-water-protest-in-guadalajara/
Cubans turn to free community pharmacies as medicines grow scarce
“Cuba has a medical-pharmaceutical industry that we consider strong,” María Fernández Martínez, head of the province’s pharmacy company, told the official newspaper Granma. But without supplies, “not even the most capable factory can complete the cycle.” The government also struggles to obtain packaging such as blister packs and bottles and says U.S. financial sanctions complicate payments for imports. Cuban authorities say shipments of medical supplies have also been stranded in third countries because shipping companies fear U.S. penalties for calling at Cuban ports.
https://apnews.com/article/cuba-medicines-pharmacies-charity-34280901ca0d9b7a66dd1892fffa0421
Lawyers and opposition challenge Milei’s citizenship-by-investment scheme as unconstitutional
In Congress, the opposition has filed requests for information and bills to repeal it. “It is unacceptable for Argentina to put its citizenship up for sale,” said Peronist deputy Agustín Rossi, a former defence minister, who called the proposal “classist” and argued it is aimed at attracting billionaires seeking to avoid restrictions that apply to foreigners, such as on buying land.
https://en.mercopress.com/2026/10/12/lawyers-and-opposition-challenge-milei-s-citizenship-by-investment-scheme-as-unconstitutional
India’s voter list protests continue to escalate
Ahead of the march, authorities closed six metro stations in the capital on Monday and warned of traffic disruptions. Opposition leader Rahul Gandhi of the Congress party described the growing protests as a fight to defend the constitution. “We will not back down,” he told reporters in New Delhi. Mr Gandhi is seeking to turn the protests into a broader challenge to the country’s increasingly authoritarian prime minister.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/indias-voter-list-protests-continue-escalate
Pakistan accuses suspended provincial government of colluding with militants
Law Minister Azam Nazeer Tarar said the provincial government had been suspended for at least six months but gave no timetable for lifting the emergency. Chief Minister Sohail Afridi, the province’s top elected official, was in government custody after being removed from his position. The information minister accused Afridi of facilitating the Pakistani Taliban, who are suspected of being behind a surge in violence in recent years. Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, or TTP, is a separate group but a close ally of the Afghan Taliban, who returned to power in Afghanistan in 2021.
https://apnews.com/article/pakistan-khan-taliban-khyber-pakhtunkhwa-1475e4a5ede9d59131c06bacd1b70579
Germany: Labor Minister's resignation leaves the government in turmoil
However, she also cited "the public attacks against me — unfortunately, including some from within the ranks of our coalition partner" as reasons for her resignation. In fact, the pressure on Bas increased significantly in recent days. The centrist coalition government is urgently awaiting key legislative proposals from the Ministry of Labor. Before the summer recess in July, a commission had already presented comprehensive proposals for reforming Germany's statutory pension system. The coalition partners of SPD and the center-right Christian Democratic Union and Christian Social Union (CDU/CSU) wanted these proposals to be quickly turned into legislation. To date, however, no finalized drafts have been presented.
https://www.dw.com/en/germany-labor-ministers-resignation-puts-a-spotlight-on-cracks-within-the-government/a-79645823
https://archive.ph/Q9LN7
Ex-director in charge of Grenfell cuts no longer at senior council role following backlash
During the Grenfell inquiry, she was heavily criticised over her role in the budget-cutting decisions before the blaze. It found that she pushed for a new contractor to carry out the tower’s renovation on a lower budget, which ultimately meant metal cladding was swapped for combustible plastic-filled panels to save money. Over the summer, she was appointed director of development and property at the Barnet Group, which manages the borough’s 13,000 council homes, on a salary of £157,078.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/ex-director-charge-grenfell-cuts-no-longer-senior-council-role-following-backlash
Displaced families occupy vacant homes in Ras Al-Ain for compensation as committees order evacuation of Kurdish properties
Dozens of displaced families from Deir Ezzor, Al-Raqqah, and Al-Hasakah have recently moved into vacated houses in Ras Al-Ain. SOHR sources report that these families took over the properties to secure financial payouts, which are being offered to occupants in exchange for vacating the homes so the original owners can return.
https://www.syriahr.com/en/386574/
Kurdish PKK militants quit some camps in north Iraq, Turkish sources say
The security sources said the PKK had from last Thursday withdrawn from the Hebat, Yajk, Sabri and Sason camps in the Baze district of Iraq's Metina region in evidence that the peace process was pressing ahead. Once it ceased all activities, PKK members could join social integration programmes in education, economic and other areas as part of the legal framework for disbandment, the sources added.
https://www.reuters.com/world/kurdish-pkk-militants-quit-some-camps-north-iraq-turkish-sources-say-2026-10-12/
Egypt’s press union chief rejects pressure over detained journalists
Egyptian prosecutors have accused the six journalists of working for a media organisation tied to the Muslim Brotherhood, a group Egyptian authorities have cracked down on for years following a 2013 coup against democratically elected Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi, who was a member. Egypt has officially designated the Muslim Brotherhood as a “terrorist” group, an allegation the organisation has strongly denied, while human rights groups have accused Egyptian authorities of repressing freedoms.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10/12/egypts-press-union-chief-rejects-pressure-over-detained-journalists
https://archive.ph/ueDt6
Ethiopian official promises change in Tigray after troops retake regional capital
A former Tigray leader, now advising Ethiopia's prime minister, promised a "visible change" in the region on Sunday after government-allied units retook Mekelle city following renewed fighting with opposition forces. Ethiopian Airlines resumed flights to the city of Mekelle on Sunday for the first time since rebels led by the Tigray People's Liberation Front seized the airport on 23 September. They withdrew on 3 October, when government-allied fighters entered the city.
https://www.newarab.com/news/ethiopian-official-promises-change-tigray
Malnutrition deaths reach 1,852 in areas controlled by SLM-AW
The civil authority in areas controlled by the Sudan Liberation Movement led by Abdelwahid El Nur (SLM-AW)has reported 1,852 deaths linked to acute malnutrition among children, pregnant and breastfeeding women, and older people, warning of a deepening humanitarian disaster as displaced families continue to arrive.
https://www.dabangasudan.org/en/all-news/article/malnutrition-deaths-reach-1852-in-areas-controlled-by-slm-aw
R: 3 / I: 0
Marx left out AI in his analysis
How will uyghas have their revolution when capitalists themselves get outranked by autonomous super intelligent alien beings who can endlessly replicate
R: 31 / I: 5
Examples would be unproven conspiracy theories (eg flat earth), counter-productive diet advice (eg raw milk), or even believing common myths.
I think all humans have a tendency towards irrationality and in order to avoid magical thinking you must have self-awareness. The kind of self-awareness that makes you constantly question yourself and your beliefs and seek out counter-arguments out of your own volition. This is the most important part.
Every single bad idea that sticks around despite being disproved relies on this thought process to become immortal. I'll use a creationist as an example. Here's the sample thought process.
>The bible is true
>Evolution must be false
>"ChatGPT give me arguments against evolution"
This hypothetical person starts off with a conclusion and researches backwards in order to justify it. When you're using this lens to form an argument you will never find the truth no matter how much evidence you are shown.
This is basically just a drawn out way of saying the average person is insanely stupid. How do we re-educate the masses?
"Magical thinking" is the number 1 problem in the world
When using material analysis the contradictions of capital become obvious. Anyone who is grounded in reality can understand the problem. The unfortunate part however is that very few people are actually living in reality. The vast majority have "magical thinking", this commonly manifests in religious delusions but it can take on many other forms.Examples would be unproven conspiracy theories (eg flat earth), counter-productive diet advice (eg raw milk), or even believing common myths.
I think all humans have a tendency towards irrationality and in order to avoid magical thinking you must have self-awareness. The kind of self-awareness that makes you constantly question yourself and your beliefs and seek out counter-arguments out of your own volition. This is the most important part.
Every single bad idea that sticks around despite being disproved relies on this thought process to become immortal. I'll use a creationist as an example. Here's the sample thought process.
>The bible is true
>Evolution must be false
>"ChatGPT give me arguments against evolution"
This hypothetical person starts off with a conclusion and researches backwards in order to justify it. When you're using this lens to form an argument you will never find the truth no matter how much evidence you are shown.
This is basically just a drawn out way of saying the average person is insanely stupid. How do we re-educate the masses?
R: 60 / I: 6
I get that we aren’t supposed to debate fascists, we’re supposed to shoot them. Yet there’s always that curiosity concerning how and why right-wingers believe what they believe. I know the standard answer is that they’re all a bunch of straight rich white men looking to preserve their institutional power, but there has to be more to it than that. Not all super-rich white guys are overt reactionaries, and there’s a lot of working-class people who are reactionaries. Shouldn’t it make sense, then, to read what they’re actually saying so we can better understand them and their formula?
Picking the reactionary mind
Is it worth it to understand how the right-wing thinks?I get that we aren’t supposed to debate fascists, we’re supposed to shoot them. Yet there’s always that curiosity concerning how and why right-wingers believe what they believe. I know the standard answer is that they’re all a bunch of straight rich white men looking to preserve their institutional power, but there has to be more to it than that. Not all super-rich white guys are overt reactionaries, and there’s a lot of working-class people who are reactionaries. Shouldn’t it make sense, then, to read what they’re actually saying so we can better understand them and their formula?
R: 43 / I: 16
>literally ALL the republics voted to maintain the USSR
>yet they ignored the masses
>the final decision was made by the ruling elite
Sadly nothing prevents any AES from having a Gorbachev pulling the strings from within, and the people have no democratic mechanisms to stop this.
Is Gorbachev historical evidence against democratic centralism?
>1991 referendum>literally ALL the republics voted to maintain the USSR
>yet they ignored the masses
>the final decision was made by the ruling elite
Sadly nothing prevents any AES from having a Gorbachev pulling the strings from within, and the people have no democratic mechanisms to stop this.
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📖 Custer Died for Your Sins – Vine Deloria Jr. // http://www.riversimulator.org/Resources/Books/CusterDiedForYourSinsAnIndianManifesto1969Deloria.pdf
📖 Emancipation Proclamation – Lincoln // https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/emancipation-proclamation
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visualization of prison population in US // https://mkorostoff.github.io/incarceration-in-real-numbers/
Organizing in Prison — for when the walls close in (RANT Collective) // https://www.organizingforpower.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Organizing-in-Jail.pdf
database of U.S. facilities incl. ICE holding sites // https://alcpress.org/usjails/index.html
list of prison related resources, mailing lists, etc // https://www.prisonactivist.org/resources
ICE Agent List (incomplete) // https://wiki.icelist.is/index.php/Category:Agents
US Political Prison Tracker (last updated 2025) // https://uspoliticalprisoners.com/
Jailhouse Reading:
📖 Angela Davis - Are Prisons Obsolete? // https://dn790007.ca.archive.org/0/items/the-anarchist-library-full-list-of-pdfs-nov-2020/angela-y-davis-are-prisons-obsolete.pdf
📖 How to Defend Yourself During Police Interrogation // https://www.notrace.how/resources/download/comment-la-police-interroge-et-comment-sen-defendre/how-to-defend-yourself-during-a-police-interrogation.pdf
📖 National Lawyers Guild guide to being a jailhouse lawyer // https://www.jailhouselaw.org/
📖 Critical Resistance - Surviving Solitary Confinement // https://criticalresistance.org/resources/surviving-solitary/
📖 An inside-outside publication for abolitionist struggle & strategy across prison walls // https://criticalresistance.org/abolitionist/
📖 Prisoners’ Self-Help Litigation Manual // https://api.pageplace.de/preview/DT0400.9780199705665_A35159258/preview-9780199705665_A35159258.pdf
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Live strike tracker with deep stats on who, what and when // https://striketracker.ilr.cornell.edu/
AFL-CIO [imperialist]'s Strike Tracker // https://aflcio.org/strike-map
Labor Bureau's Official 'work stoppage' tracker // https://www.bls.gov/wsp/
IWW timeline for the 20th century (ends at 1999) // https://archive.iww.org/history/chronology/
IWW Work Place Organizing Guide // https://usa.anarchistlibraries.net/library/industrial-workers-of-the-world-libcom-org-solidarity-federation-walthamstow-anarchist-group-wo
▶ Salting | Work Place Organizing 101 (50 minute webinar) // https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SHlCLyM4FY
⚖️ Deeds of the Burger Reich 🇺🇸
deep list of horrible shit we (royal we) have done // https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/us_atrocities.md
Coups and regime changes – master list // https://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-peoples-governments-the-master-list
Wikipedia: United States War Crimes // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_war_crimes
/our boys/ (bring em home!) detail abusing Iraqi prisoners [2006] // https://www.hrw.org/report/2006/07/22/no-blood-no-foul/soldiers-accounts-detainee-abuse-iraq
More than 250 military interventions in the last 30 years alone // https://blackagendareport.com/us-launched-251-military-interventions-1991-and-469-1798
Visualisation of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade // https://www.slavevoyages.org/
UNESCO Sites relating to Slavery // https://slaveryandremembrance.org/
First Hand Documents of the horrors of Slavery // https://www.loc.gov/collections/slave-narratives-from-the-federal-writers-project-1936-to-1938/
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Bloomberg Live // https://www.bloomberg.com/live/us
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Local News // https://www.50states.com/ce/
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Jacobin // https://jacobin.com/
Black Agenda Report // https://blackagendareport.com/
The Grayzone // https://thegrayzone.com/
Leftvoice // https://www.leftvoice.org/
Newsanon Filter // https://leftypol.org/search.php?search=name%3A%22News+Anon+3.0%22&board=leftypol
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Epstein's Black Book // https://epsteinsblackbook.com/
DOJ Disclosures // https://www.justice.gov/epstein/doj-disclosures
Track AIPAC // https://www.trackaipac.com/
Al Jazeera visual guide (2026) // https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/10/struggling-to-navigate-the-epstein-files-here-is-a-visual-guide
Essential American Politik 📖
📖 WEB Du Bois - Black Reconstruction // https://cominsitu.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/w-e-b-du-bois-black-reconstruction-an-essay-toward-a-history-of-the-part-which-black-folk-played-in-the-attempt-to-reconstruct-democracy-2.pdf
📖 Eugene Debs - Fourth of July Speech // https://jacobin.com/2020/07/eugene-debs-independence-day-address-fourth-july
📖 Power Anywhere There's People! – Fred Hampton // https://www.hamptonthink.org/read/power-anywhere-where-thats-people-fred-hampton
📖 War is a Racket – Smedley Butler // https://ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html
📖 Letters From an American Farmer – St. John de Crevoecoeur // https://americanliterature.com/author/j-hector-st-john-de-crevoecoeur/book/letters-from-an-american-farmer/summary
📖 Trail of Broken Treaties // American Indian Movement https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
📖 The Declaration of Independence https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
📖 The Ballot or the Bullet – Malcolm X // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/ballot_or_bullet.pdf
📖 What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? – Frederick Douglass // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/douglass_july_4_speech.pdf
📖 A Trail of Broken Treaties – American Indian Movement // https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
📖 Custer Died for Your Sins – Vine Deloria Jr. // http://www.riversimulator.org/Resources/Books/CusterDiedForYourSinsAnIndianManifesto1969Deloria.pdf
📖 Emancipation Proclamation – Lincoln // https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/emancipation-proclamation
📖 Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville // https://americanliterature.com/author/alexis-de-tocqueville/book/democracy-in-america/summary
📖 Common Sense – Thomas Paine // https://americainclass.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Common-Sense-Full-Text.pdf
📖 An Indigenous History of the United States – Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz // https://nycstandswithstandingrock.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/dunbar-ortiz-2014.pdf
📖 Huey Long – Share Our Wealth // https://www.hueylong.com/programs/share-our-wealth/huey-longs-share-our-wealth-speech
Previous Thread: >>2924471
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Link dump:
https://www.greenleft.org.au [good events page]
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://partisanmagazine.org/about/
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, use a Nitter mirror instead of x.com)
Antifascist alert Telegram channels - join and share the links with comrades and friends
Melbourne: https://t.me/AFAAlertsNaarm
Sydney: https://t.me/antifaalertssydney
Brisbane: https://t.me/antifaalertsmeanjin
/auspol/ #12 - A Police Helicopter Just Flew Over My House edition
Australian and Oceania politics general thread. 'EDIT'"Previous thread: >>2371516"Link dump:
https://www.greenleft.org.au [good events page]
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://partisanmagazine.org/about/
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, use a Nitter mirror instead of x.com)
Antifascist alert Telegram channels - join and share the links with comrades and friends
Melbourne: https://t.me/AFAAlertsNaarm
Sydney: https://t.me/antifaalertssydney
Brisbane: https://t.me/antifaalertsmeanjin
R: 5 / I: 0 (sage)
Cops are allowed to punish these lumpen degenerates.
Hope that worthless scum gets forced prison labour.
It's ok to report these degens
I reported to police drunk/high driver, I don't care lawless anarchokiddies says.Cops are allowed to punish these lumpen degenerates.
Hope that worthless scum gets forced prison labour.
R: 8 / I: 3
>PSOE: center-left dinousaurs, their attitude towards any problem is to hide and pretend it doesn't exist, that is both their biggest strength and weakness.
>Sumar: lib leftists, not radical by any means but they're more of the "go fast and break stuff type", on one hand they defend things that benefit me such as welfare programs for the disabled (which I am considered part of), on the other hand they defend social causes that go against my interests, such as euthanasia.
I'm using what shrinks call "profit-and-loss thinking" (because shrinks love to patholigise everything). I do not care about any progressive causes, or causes of any kind, I perceive anything that is not my material self-interest to be a "spook" as you like to say, I have been greatly abused by "oppresed" individuals and left-wing ideologues for me to give a shit about either, the opposite of love is indifference (not hatred) and the best revenge is to live well.
I'm in the following situation:
>minimum wage
>cisgender male
>disabled (sperg)
>assets in the 10000s of euros.
>inb4 don't vote
KYS
Voting
There are large protests in my country surrounding the affordability of housing, elections draw near and this got me thinking on who should I vote.>PSOE: center-left dinousaurs, their attitude towards any problem is to hide and pretend it doesn't exist, that is both their biggest strength and weakness.
>Sumar: lib leftists, not radical by any means but they're more of the "go fast and break stuff type", on one hand they defend things that benefit me such as welfare programs for the disabled (which I am considered part of), on the other hand they defend social causes that go against my interests, such as euthanasia.
I'm using what shrinks call "profit-and-loss thinking" (because shrinks love to patholigise everything). I do not care about any progressive causes, or causes of any kind, I perceive anything that is not my material self-interest to be a "spook" as you like to say, I have been greatly abused by "oppresed" individuals and left-wing ideologues for me to give a shit about either, the opposite of love is indifference (not hatred) and the best revenge is to live well.
I'm in the following situation:
>minimum wage
>cisgender male
>disabled (sperg)
>assets in the 10000s of euros.
>inb4 don't vote
KYS
R: 2 / I: 0
An Egyptian military delegation visited the Somali capital on 20 September and met Somali Defence Minister Ahmed Moallim Fiqi, five days after Egyptian officers met senior Somali commanders in Mogadishu to discuss defence cooperation, military training and capacity-building for the Somali National Army. Such meetings come as Egypt steps up cooperation with Somalia, following the 2025 elevation of relations between the two countries to a strategic partnership.
https://www.newarab.com/news/egypt-prepares-deploy-troops-somalia
SANDF deployed in Durban CBD after violent protests
Police were over-stretched yesterday as angry protesters were spread across the city. They were demanding the repatriation of undocumented foreign nationals and the halting of asylum applications. Yesterday, KwaZulu-Natal Premier Thami Ntuli requested the deployment of the army as the police found themselves outnumbered.
https://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/sandf-deployed-in-durban-cbd-after-violent-protests/
Hundreds of thousands march worldwide against Israel’s genocide in Gaza
The Global Alliance for Palestine said the mobilisation involved at least 325 events worldwide, including 176 in Europe alone. Organisers estimated that around 250,000 people joined the London march. Demonstrators carried signs demanding the “end” of Israel’s genocide and declaring “Free Palestine” as they marched towards the British parliament. Marchers observed a two-minute silence for the more than 74,370 Palestinians Israel has killed in Gaza since October 2023. Its attacks have wounded at least 175,371 others.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/global-protests-demand-end-israels-genocide-and-apartheid
Hundreds of doctors demand World Medical Association suspend Israel
It was part of a protest against the continued membership of the Israeli association in the WMA, “despite them breaching almost every ethical principle in the WMA’s Code of Medical Ethics”, the IMA Out! coalition that organised the demonstration said in a statement.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10/10/hundreds-of-doctors-demand-world-medical-association-suspend-israel
https://archive.ph/vpPod
Oil Slick Expands Near Sochi After Tanker Fire, Greenpeace Says
Greenpeace said the slick extended along the route taken by the Aframax Rio after the attack. Around midday Wednesday, the tanker was near Lazarevskoye, about 50 kilometers from the site of the fire. By Thursday, it was near Tuapse. Environmentalists believe the vessel may be under tow to Novorossiysk.
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2026/10/09/oil-slick-expands-near-sochi-after-tanker-fire-greenpeace-says-a93918
https://archive.ph/PuD26
Germany warns EU that €159B budget cuts are not enough
On Saturday, the Irish presidency of the Council of the EU, which is steering the talks, proposed cutting around 8% from the bloc’s total budget from 2028 to 2034 in a bid to assuage a German-led camp demanding reductions of several hundred billions euros. But Dublin’s hopes of facilitating a deal were immediately dashed by German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, one the key players in the negotiations as his country contributes to approximately one-quarter of the bloc’s common budget.
https://www.politico.eu/article/friedrich-merz-germany-warns-eu-e159b-budget-cuts-not-enough/
https://archive.ph/7AqDF
Venezuela: Qatari Fund to Unblock Access to IDB Loans
According to specialized outlet Bitácora Económica, Qatar is preparing to establish a specialized rescue fund to settle Venezuela’s estimated US $2.5 billion debt with the IDB. Under the proposed mechanism, the Qatari fund would immediately clear Venezuela’s overdue principal and interest payments, while issuing a new, long-term loan with favorable interest rates for the South American nation.
https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/venezuela-qatari-fund-to-unblock-access-to-idb-loans/
Argentina's Supreme Court suspends repeal of Milei's land law
Under the original 2011 law, foreign ownership of rural land could not exceed 15 percent nationally, with separate limits also applying at provincial and municipal levels. But shortly after coming to power in 2023, Milei repealed the restrictions through Emergency Decree 70/2023.
https://www.batimes.com.ar/news/argentina/supreme-court-restores-limits-on-foreign-land-ownership-in-ruling.phtml
https://archive.ph/jqLOQ
New Brazil Congress poses risk to environmental legislation, campaign group says
Brazil's next Congress is likely to pose a greater obstacle to legislation to protect the environment after elections this month, according to a study by climate advocacy group Observatorio do Clima, which found that almost 70% of elected lawmakers have little or no commitment to environmental issues.
https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/new-brazil-congress-poses-risk-environmental-legislation-campaign-group-says-2026-10-08/
Malaysian Firms Linked to Myanmar Military Aviation Supply Chain: JFM
JFM’s findings, based on leaked documents and commercial trade records, were announced during Myanmar coup president Min Aung Hlaing’s controversial official visit to Malaysia on October 7-8 at the invitation of Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim. The rights group said three Malaysia-based aerospace procurement and services companies—FJ Global Aeroparts (M) Sdn Bhd, Asia AeroTechnic Sdn Bhd (AAT), and Skyways Technics Asia Sdn Bhd—supplied or sought to supply parts to the regime military and its brokers, or in one case was approached to perform repairs, between 2023 and this year.
https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/myanmars-crisis-the-world/malaysian-firms-linked-to-myanmar-military-aviation-supply-chain-jfm.html
‘Cockroach’ leader among thousands detained in Delhi protest crackdown
The Cockroach movement, as well as opposition parties, civil society and student groups, have alleged that the process of “purifying” India’s voter roll was done to entrench the power of Narendra Modi‘s government, and have called for India’s chief election commissioner, Gyanesh Kumar, who oversaw the exercise, to resign.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/10/cockroach-party-rally-delhi-protests-chief-election-officer-resigns
Anger In Japan Grows After US Marine Is Arrested Over The Killing Of A Woman In Okinawa
The arrest of a U.S. Marine on suspicion of robbing and killing a local woman in Okinawa has drawn condemnation from Japan’s leaders and renewed protests against the heavy American military presence on the southern island. The alleged killing could complicate Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s push to strengthen Japanese military defense on the island and to work more closely with the U.S. military to deter China in the region.
https://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/general/2605740/anger-in-japan-grows-after-us-marine-is-arrested-over-the-killing-of-a-woman-in-okinawa.html
News 10/10/26
As tensions soar in the African horn, Egypt prepares to deploy troops to SomaliaAn Egyptian military delegation visited the Somali capital on 20 September and met Somali Defence Minister Ahmed Moallim Fiqi, five days after Egyptian officers met senior Somali commanders in Mogadishu to discuss defence cooperation, military training and capacity-building for the Somali National Army. Such meetings come as Egypt steps up cooperation with Somalia, following the 2025 elevation of relations between the two countries to a strategic partnership.
https://www.newarab.com/news/egypt-prepares-deploy-troops-somalia
SANDF deployed in Durban CBD after violent protests
Police were over-stretched yesterday as angry protesters were spread across the city. They were demanding the repatriation of undocumented foreign nationals and the halting of asylum applications. Yesterday, KwaZulu-Natal Premier Thami Ntuli requested the deployment of the army as the police found themselves outnumbered.
https://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/sandf-deployed-in-durban-cbd-after-violent-protests/
Hundreds of thousands march worldwide against Israel’s genocide in Gaza
The Global Alliance for Palestine said the mobilisation involved at least 325 events worldwide, including 176 in Europe alone. Organisers estimated that around 250,000 people joined the London march. Demonstrators carried signs demanding the “end” of Israel’s genocide and declaring “Free Palestine” as they marched towards the British parliament. Marchers observed a two-minute silence for the more than 74,370 Palestinians Israel has killed in Gaza since October 2023. Its attacks have wounded at least 175,371 others.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/global-protests-demand-end-israels-genocide-and-apartheid
Hundreds of doctors demand World Medical Association suspend Israel
It was part of a protest against the continued membership of the Israeli association in the WMA, “despite them breaching almost every ethical principle in the WMA’s Code of Medical Ethics”, the IMA Out! coalition that organised the demonstration said in a statement.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10/10/hundreds-of-doctors-demand-world-medical-association-suspend-israel
https://archive.ph/vpPod
Oil Slick Expands Near Sochi After Tanker Fire, Greenpeace Says
Greenpeace said the slick extended along the route taken by the Aframax Rio after the attack. Around midday Wednesday, the tanker was near Lazarevskoye, about 50 kilometers from the site of the fire. By Thursday, it was near Tuapse. Environmentalists believe the vessel may be under tow to Novorossiysk.
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2026/10/09/oil-slick-expands-near-sochi-after-tanker-fire-greenpeace-says-a93918
https://archive.ph/PuD26
Germany warns EU that €159B budget cuts are not enough
On Saturday, the Irish presidency of the Council of the EU, which is steering the talks, proposed cutting around 8% from the bloc’s total budget from 2028 to 2034 in a bid to assuage a German-led camp demanding reductions of several hundred billions euros. But Dublin’s hopes of facilitating a deal were immediately dashed by German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, one the key players in the negotiations as his country contributes to approximately one-quarter of the bloc’s common budget.
https://www.politico.eu/article/friedrich-merz-germany-warns-eu-e159b-budget-cuts-not-enough/
https://archive.ph/7AqDF
Venezuela: Qatari Fund to Unblock Access to IDB Loans
According to specialized outlet Bitácora Económica, Qatar is preparing to establish a specialized rescue fund to settle Venezuela’s estimated US $2.5 billion debt with the IDB. Under the proposed mechanism, the Qatari fund would immediately clear Venezuela’s overdue principal and interest payments, while issuing a new, long-term loan with favorable interest rates for the South American nation.
https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/venezuela-qatari-fund-to-unblock-access-to-idb-loans/
Argentina's Supreme Court suspends repeal of Milei's land law
Under the original 2011 law, foreign ownership of rural land could not exceed 15 percent nationally, with separate limits also applying at provincial and municipal levels. But shortly after coming to power in 2023, Milei repealed the restrictions through Emergency Decree 70/2023.
https://www.batimes.com.ar/news/argentina/supreme-court-restores-limits-on-foreign-land-ownership-in-ruling.phtml
https://archive.ph/jqLOQ
New Brazil Congress poses risk to environmental legislation, campaign group says
Brazil's next Congress is likely to pose a greater obstacle to legislation to protect the environment after elections this month, according to a study by climate advocacy group Observatorio do Clima, which found that almost 70% of elected lawmakers have little or no commitment to environmental issues.
https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/new-brazil-congress-poses-risk-environmental-legislation-campaign-group-says-2026-10-08/
Malaysian Firms Linked to Myanmar Military Aviation Supply Chain: JFM
JFM’s findings, based on leaked documents and commercial trade records, were announced during Myanmar coup president Min Aung Hlaing’s controversial official visit to Malaysia on October 7-8 at the invitation of Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim. The rights group said three Malaysia-based aerospace procurement and services companies—FJ Global Aeroparts (M) Sdn Bhd, Asia AeroTechnic Sdn Bhd (AAT), and Skyways Technics Asia Sdn Bhd—supplied or sought to supply parts to the regime military and its brokers, or in one case was approached to perform repairs, between 2023 and this year.
https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/myanmars-crisis-the-world/malaysian-firms-linked-to-myanmar-military-aviation-supply-chain-jfm.html
‘Cockroach’ leader among thousands detained in Delhi protest crackdown
The Cockroach movement, as well as opposition parties, civil society and student groups, have alleged that the process of “purifying” India’s voter roll was done to entrench the power of Narendra Modi‘s government, and have called for India’s chief election commissioner, Gyanesh Kumar, who oversaw the exercise, to resign.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/10/cockroach-party-rally-delhi-protests-chief-election-officer-resigns
Anger In Japan Grows After US Marine Is Arrested Over The Killing Of A Woman In Okinawa
The arrest of a U.S. Marine on suspicion of robbing and killing a local woman in Okinawa has drawn condemnation from Japan’s leaders and renewed protests against the heavy American military presence on the southern island. The alleged killing could complicate Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s push to strengthen Japanese military defense on the island and to work more closely with the U.S. military to deter China in the region.
https://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/general/2605740/anger-in-japan-grows-after-us-marine-is-arrested-over-the-killing-of-a-woman-in-okinawa.html
R: 26 / I: 4
>SVPPQRT THIS
<SVPPQRT THAT
shut the fuck up. almost nobody supports anything. what do people mean when they say support? cheerleading usually. oh the heckin ziggers, they support cheerlead putlerino. oh the heckin succdems they support cheerlead mayor zogran mizrahi. oh the heckin this. oh the heckin that
you know what real support is? guns. ammo. medkits. your actual body thrown into a battle. your money. your time. your labor. your life. your resources. your safety. if you aren't willing to sacrifice those things it's not real SVPPQRT. most of you saars will never SVPPQRT the things you claim to
<ummm you first
I never claimed to SVPPQRT anything. i know i'm a useless windbag. a willing and gleeful kkkollaborator. i know the real gigachad NKVD trvletariat will line me up against the wall and clap my cheeks with boolets. but you know what? that day might as well be infinitely in the future. because nunna you nyghas know where the swamp is. nunna you nyghas have seen the carnage of 1917. nunna you nyghas is willin to don teh budenovka, get in the trench, saw off the limb of your gangrenous comrade, pull the bullet out of your own stomach, man the gatling gun on the backa da horsedrawn tachanka cart. nunna you nyghas is willing to fight /pol/chak or denikkkin.
prove me wrong. put down the uno reverse card.
>SVPPQRT THIS
<SVPPQRT THAT
shut the fuck up. almost nobody supports anything. what do people mean when they say support? cheerleading usually. oh the heckin ziggers, they support cheerlead putlerino. oh the heckin succdems they support cheerlead mayor zogran mizrahi. oh the heckin this. oh the heckin that
you know what real support is? guns. ammo. medkits. your actual body thrown into a battle. your money. your time. your labor. your life. your resources. your safety. if you aren't willing to sacrifice those things it's not real SVPPQRT. most of you saars will never SVPPQRT the things you claim to
<ummm you first
I never claimed to SVPPQRT anything. i know i'm a useless windbag. a willing and gleeful kkkollaborator. i know the real gigachad NKVD trvletariat will line me up against the wall and clap my cheeks with boolets. but you know what? that day might as well be infinitely in the future. because nunna you nyghas know where the swamp is. nunna you nyghas have seen the carnage of 1917. nunna you nyghas is willin to don teh budenovka, get in the trench, saw off the limb of your gangrenous comrade, pull the bullet out of your own stomach, man the gatling gun on the backa da horsedrawn tachanka cart. nunna you nyghas is willing to fight /pol/chak or denikkkin.
prove me wrong. put down the uno reverse card.
R: 108 / I: 13
https://x.com/iamyesyouareno/status/1908860526400057534
"The legacy media never mentions white genocide in South Africa, because it doesn’t fit their narrative that whites can be victims"
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1904065163407368212
Even Musk's AI is based.
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1916042294018666585
"The ADL is a hate group"
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1973289543848829225
He supports remigration.
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1997700657546191314
"A government that fails to protect its citizens is illegitimate"
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1998131134753062943
"Either the suicidal empathy of Western civilization ends or Western civilization will end"
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2000078735622721927
"Why is Western media so anti-White"
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2000604195272163517
"Call them out for the anti-White racists they are every time they do it"
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2000920169531822091
"Anti-White, anti-male discrimination ends now"
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2001022917610758555
Says DEI, and not hiring white men, is wrong.
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2001529481677435100
"Why is legacy media so racist?"
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2002604827134787629
**|!|- The last time Elon was accused of wanting to import infinity jeets he replied with "False" and said the H1B system should be reformed. -|!|**
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1996214327670648865
"Feeling extra based today, might regret it later, but it feels so good"
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2003503573448159495
Elon Musk = Nazi
“Mass immigration is insane and will lead to the destruction of any country that allows it. It only takes a few percent of the world to move to a country, where it is no longer that country. A country is its people, not its geography.”https://x.com/iamyesyouareno/status/1908860526400057534
"The legacy media never mentions white genocide in South Africa, because it doesn’t fit their narrative that whites can be victims"
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1904065163407368212
Even Musk's AI is based.
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1916042294018666585
"The ADL is a hate group"
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1973289543848829225
He supports remigration.
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1997700657546191314
"A government that fails to protect its citizens is illegitimate"
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1998131134753062943
"Either the suicidal empathy of Western civilization ends or Western civilization will end"
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2000078735622721927
"Why is Western media so anti-White"
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2000604195272163517
"Call them out for the anti-White racists they are every time they do it"
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2000920169531822091
"Anti-White, anti-male discrimination ends now"
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2001022917610758555
Says DEI, and not hiring white men, is wrong.
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2001529481677435100
"Why is legacy media so racist?"
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2002604827134787629
**|!|- The last time Elon was accused of wanting to import infinity jeets he replied with "False" and said the H1B system should be reformed. -|!|**
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1996214327670648865
"Feeling extra based today, might regret it later, but it feels so good"
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2003503573448159495
R: 80 / I: 15
Another Communization Theory thread because why not?
Talk about anything relating to Communization Theory! Talk about how Communization Theory is great or how its shit!
Texts regarding Communization Theory and its many sub-sects will be attached in the replies.
[NOTE: Not every Communizer believes in the same things, e.g. some emphasis class struggle while others don't]
Another Communization Theory thread because why not?
Talk about anything relating to Communization Theory! Talk about how Communization Theory is great or how its shit!
Texts regarding Communization Theory and its many sub-sects will be attached in the replies.
[NOTE: Not every Communizer believes in the same things, e.g. some emphasis class struggle while others don't]
R: 114 / I: 30
Why do people think Communism and belief in God is incompatible?
I see no reason why in an anarcho zone I can’t pray or believe in some deity. I think the problem is religions that compel people to do things in the name of the deity- why do so many communists take hostility if someone personally thinks god started the big bang and treat it as counterrevolutionary?
R: 102 / I: 20
Liberals: Supported Israel
Conservatives: Supported Israel
Communists: Supported Israel
Social Democrats: Supported Israel
whatever the PRC is: Supports Israel
The only people who did not support Israel are the fascists. Everyone is literally a pawn of the diddyjew boojcabal except for the fascists.
Bordiga was right?
Was Bordiga right? Were Hitler and ᴉuᴉlossnW the only authentic revolutionaries?Liberals: Supported Israel
Conservatives: Supported Israel
Communists: Supported Israel
Social Democrats: Supported Israel
whatever the PRC is: Supports Israel
The only people who did not support Israel are the fascists. Everyone is literally a pawn of the diddyjew boojcabal except for the fascists.
R: 59 / I: 13
Anon A:
>"the holocaust" refers to the nazi genocides against slavic peoples as well as jews, not just the genocide against the jews.
Anon B:
<Wrong. The Jews are always the center of the Holocaust narrative.
This raises the first question. Descriptively, does the phrase "The Holocaust" refer only to the genocide against the jews of Europe, or does it also include the related and overlapping genocides against other groups like Slavs, Romani, Poles, as well as the mass murder of political groups like Communists?
Another exchange in that thread can be abridged as follows:
Anon C:
>nobody really gave a shit about the Holocaust back then either. People only became obsessed with the Holocaust around the 1960s because of Jewish-Zionist psyops.
Anon D:
<yes they did. 100 years from now people like you will be saying nobody gave a shit about palestinian genocide until 2050. but that won't make it true.
This raises the second question. Did people actually care about The Holocaust when it was a contemporary and ongoing event, or did nobody really care until the 1960s?
Personally I think evidence leans towards "The Holocaust" referring to all the nazi mass murder, and not just the jews, though I am open to persuasion.
Furthermore I think people did care about it when it was a contemporary event, and the soviets seem proud of their work in liberating the concentration camps, as well as the Nazi-occupied countries like Belarus, Poland and Ukraine.
Questions on The Holocaust
Questions on The Holocaust- This is not a holocaust denial thread
- This is not a holocaust revisionism thread
- I have multiple questions that came to mind when reading an exchange from this thread: https://leftypol.org/leftypol/res/2924947.html
- Here is an (abridged) exchange between two anons:
Anon A:
>"the holocaust" refers to the nazi genocides against slavic peoples as well as jews, not just the genocide against the jews.
Anon B:
<Wrong. The Jews are always the center of the Holocaust narrative.
This raises the first question. Descriptively, does the phrase "The Holocaust" refer only to the genocide against the jews of Europe, or does it also include the related and overlapping genocides against other groups like Slavs, Romani, Poles, as well as the mass murder of political groups like Communists?
Another exchange in that thread can be abridged as follows:
Anon C:
>nobody really gave a shit about the Holocaust back then either. People only became obsessed with the Holocaust around the 1960s because of Jewish-Zionist psyops.
Anon D:
<yes they did. 100 years from now people like you will be saying nobody gave a shit about palestinian genocide until 2050. but that won't make it true.
This raises the second question. Did people actually care about The Holocaust when it was a contemporary and ongoing event, or did nobody really care until the 1960s?
Personally I think evidence leans towards "The Holocaust" referring to all the nazi mass murder, and not just the jews, though I am open to persuasion.
Furthermore I think people did care about it when it was a contemporary event, and the soviets seem proud of their work in liberating the concentration camps, as well as the Nazi-occupied countries like Belarus, Poland and Ukraine.
R: 6 / I: 0
Together, the two far-right parties would secure 29 Knesset seats based on voting intentions among first-time voters, according to the poll. They outperformed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party, which received 7.95 percent of the vote, equivalent to 14 seats.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israeli-far-right-parties-surge-among-first-time-voters-poll-finds
US harbouring of Assad ex-general raises questions over Syria justice drive
Bassam al-Hassan, a former general who served as a strategic affairs adviser to ousted dictator Bashar al-Assad and acted as a liaison between the presidential palace and Syria’s Scientific Studies and Research Centre (SSRC), is reportedly living in Lebanon under an arrangement involving US and Lebanese authorities.
https://www.newarab.com/news/us-harbouring-assad-ex-general-undermines-syria-justice-drive
Ethiopia and Eritrea accuse one another of launching war
Gedion said that Eritrean troops had advanced up to 60 kilometres (37 miles) into Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region and demanded their withdrawal, just days after the two nations cut diplomatic ties.Eritrea’s Minister of Information Yemane Gebremeskel rejected Ethiopia’s claims. “The Ethiopian regime has been pursuing, in effect, an unprovoked war of aggression against Eritrea for more than three years now,” he said on X.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10/9/ethiopia-and-eritrea-accuse-one-another-of-launching-war
https://archive.ph/Ha7qE
Rising food prices and poor rains fuel fears of hunger crisis in Darfur
In West Darfur, particularly the state capital El Geneina, soaring food prices, expensive imports and currency fluctuations have placed further pressure on households. Journalist Mohiuddin Zakaria told Radio Dabanga that the price of a sack of millet had doubled from about SDG300,000 to SDG600,000. Prices of sorghum, cooking oil and other essential commodities have also risen sharply.
https://www.dabangasudan.org/en/all-news/article/rising-food-prices-and-poor-rains-fuel-fears-of-hunger-crisis-in-darfur
Police and masked protesters clash in Brussels as anti-austerity rally of thousands
Some protesters, many young, dressed in black and wearing masks, threw rocks and firecrackers at police at the central railway station before setting several fires, one to a pile of city bikes and electric scooters. Riot police responded with tear gas, water cannons and baton charges.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/police-and-masked-protesters-clash-brussels-anti-austerity-rally-thousands
UK bans Protestant march from Catholic area in Northern Ireland
After a nearly two-week standoff in the predominantly Protestant town of Portadown, Northern Ireland Secretary Chris Bryant announced late Friday that the Orange Order would not be allowed to parade through the town’s main Catholic district for the first time in 28 years.
https://www.politico.eu/article/uk-bans-protestant-march-from-catholic-area-in-northern-ireland/
https://archive.ph/4cCxl
Holborn and St Pancras by-election: Record low turnout exposes mass disaffection with both Labour and the Greens
The Greens countered that their vote share had tripled since the general election in July 2024 when it won 10.4 percent. But Andrew Feinstein, the “left” independent who took 19 percent in that election, promoting a new Corbyn-led party, did not stand this time and backed the Greens. Polanski’s 8,928 votes compare with nearly 11,350 combined votes for the Greens and Feinstein in 2024—a rise of just 3 points. Largely absent from commentary was the significance of a turnout of just 38.7 percent—the lowest for any by-election held in England this parliament and 15.4 points down on the 2024 general election.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/10/09/qlai-o09.html
Mexican healthcare workers rally outside Interior Ministry as union readies vote on sellout contract
On Wednesday evening a worker filmed the National Union of Social Security Workers (SNTSS) headquarters, which he noted was now being heavily guarded and reinforced, and asked whether the bureaucracy meant to keep the building for itself. “Tomorrow we’ll see each other at the Interior Ministry, compañeros. Don’t give in,” he wrote beneath the video, which drew 36,000 views.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/10/09/npan-o09.html
Ecuadorian Workers March Against Noboa’s Policies
In Quito, demonstrators gathered around the headquarters of the Ecuadorian Social Security Institute (IESS) and marched to Santo Domingo Square in the Historic Center, carrying banners and chanting slogans against cuts to social spending, precarious work and what they consider attempts to privatize IESS assets. During the march, they chanted slogans against Noboa and burned cardboard figures bearing his image. Signs with the messages “Cuba is not alone” and “Free Palestine” were also seen.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/ecuadorian-workers-march-against-noboas-policies/
NPA launches harassment operation against CAFGU, 79th IB in Negros Occidental
The New People’s Army (NPA)-Northern Negros (Roselyn Jean Pelle Command) launched a harassment operation against patrolling troops of the CAFGU and 79th IB in Sitio Bautista, Barangay Malasibog, Escalante City, Negros Occidental on September 29. The three-minute firefight killed one CAFGU and wounded two soldiers.
https://philippinerevolution.nu/angbayan/npa-launches-harassment-operation-against-cafgu-79th-ib-in-negros-occidental/
India steps up security ahead of a major protest in New Delhi over voter lists
Thousands of protesters are expected to gather at New Delhi’s Jantar Mantar protest venue Saturday as the movement against Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government and the country’s election authorities intensifies. The protesters, joined by opposition parties, are demanding the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, accusing the poll body he heads of manipulating voter lists through the revision.
https://apnews.com/article/india-sir-cockroach-election-commission-gyanesh-protests-694330c5352fa82a79d889fb95ad2d44
US opens direct talks with Myanmar's generals, reversing years of isolation
The US Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research, Michael Vance, played a leading role in the outreach, which has focused on shutting down scam centers that target Americans but could lead to broader engagement, including on Myanmar’s rare-earth mineral deposits, according to seven current and former officials and others familiar with the policy shift.
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/us-opens-direct-talks-with-myanmars-generals-reversing-years-isolation-2026-10-08/
News 10/9/26
Support for Israeli far right surges among first-time voters, poll findsTogether, the two far-right parties would secure 29 Knesset seats based on voting intentions among first-time voters, according to the poll. They outperformed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party, which received 7.95 percent of the vote, equivalent to 14 seats.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israeli-far-right-parties-surge-among-first-time-voters-poll-finds
US harbouring of Assad ex-general raises questions over Syria justice drive
Bassam al-Hassan, a former general who served as a strategic affairs adviser to ousted dictator Bashar al-Assad and acted as a liaison between the presidential palace and Syria’s Scientific Studies and Research Centre (SSRC), is reportedly living in Lebanon under an arrangement involving US and Lebanese authorities.
https://www.newarab.com/news/us-harbouring-assad-ex-general-undermines-syria-justice-drive
Ethiopia and Eritrea accuse one another of launching war
Gedion said that Eritrean troops had advanced up to 60 kilometres (37 miles) into Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region and demanded their withdrawal, just days after the two nations cut diplomatic ties.Eritrea’s Minister of Information Yemane Gebremeskel rejected Ethiopia’s claims. “The Ethiopian regime has been pursuing, in effect, an unprovoked war of aggression against Eritrea for more than three years now,” he said on X.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10/9/ethiopia-and-eritrea-accuse-one-another-of-launching-war
https://archive.ph/Ha7qE
Rising food prices and poor rains fuel fears of hunger crisis in Darfur
In West Darfur, particularly the state capital El Geneina, soaring food prices, expensive imports and currency fluctuations have placed further pressure on households. Journalist Mohiuddin Zakaria told Radio Dabanga that the price of a sack of millet had doubled from about SDG300,000 to SDG600,000. Prices of sorghum, cooking oil and other essential commodities have also risen sharply.
https://www.dabangasudan.org/en/all-news/article/rising-food-prices-and-poor-rains-fuel-fears-of-hunger-crisis-in-darfur
Police and masked protesters clash in Brussels as anti-austerity rally of thousands
Some protesters, many young, dressed in black and wearing masks, threw rocks and firecrackers at police at the central railway station before setting several fires, one to a pile of city bikes and electric scooters. Riot police responded with tear gas, water cannons and baton charges.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/police-and-masked-protesters-clash-brussels-anti-austerity-rally-thousands
UK bans Protestant march from Catholic area in Northern Ireland
After a nearly two-week standoff in the predominantly Protestant town of Portadown, Northern Ireland Secretary Chris Bryant announced late Friday that the Orange Order would not be allowed to parade through the town’s main Catholic district for the first time in 28 years.
https://www.politico.eu/article/uk-bans-protestant-march-from-catholic-area-in-northern-ireland/
https://archive.ph/4cCxl
Holborn and St Pancras by-election: Record low turnout exposes mass disaffection with both Labour and the Greens
The Greens countered that their vote share had tripled since the general election in July 2024 when it won 10.4 percent. But Andrew Feinstein, the “left” independent who took 19 percent in that election, promoting a new Corbyn-led party, did not stand this time and backed the Greens. Polanski’s 8,928 votes compare with nearly 11,350 combined votes for the Greens and Feinstein in 2024—a rise of just 3 points. Largely absent from commentary was the significance of a turnout of just 38.7 percent—the lowest for any by-election held in England this parliament and 15.4 points down on the 2024 general election.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/10/09/qlai-o09.html
Mexican healthcare workers rally outside Interior Ministry as union readies vote on sellout contract
On Wednesday evening a worker filmed the National Union of Social Security Workers (SNTSS) headquarters, which he noted was now being heavily guarded and reinforced, and asked whether the bureaucracy meant to keep the building for itself. “Tomorrow we’ll see each other at the Interior Ministry, compañeros. Don’t give in,” he wrote beneath the video, which drew 36,000 views.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/10/09/npan-o09.html
Ecuadorian Workers March Against Noboa’s Policies
In Quito, demonstrators gathered around the headquarters of the Ecuadorian Social Security Institute (IESS) and marched to Santo Domingo Square in the Historic Center, carrying banners and chanting slogans against cuts to social spending, precarious work and what they consider attempts to privatize IESS assets. During the march, they chanted slogans against Noboa and burned cardboard figures bearing his image. Signs with the messages “Cuba is not alone” and “Free Palestine” were also seen.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/ecuadorian-workers-march-against-noboas-policies/
NPA launches harassment operation against CAFGU, 79th IB in Negros Occidental
The New People’s Army (NPA)-Northern Negros (Roselyn Jean Pelle Command) launched a harassment operation against patrolling troops of the CAFGU and 79th IB in Sitio Bautista, Barangay Malasibog, Escalante City, Negros Occidental on September 29. The three-minute firefight killed one CAFGU and wounded two soldiers.
https://philippinerevolution.nu/angbayan/npa-launches-harassment-operation-against-cafgu-79th-ib-in-negros-occidental/
India steps up security ahead of a major protest in New Delhi over voter lists
Thousands of protesters are expected to gather at New Delhi’s Jantar Mantar protest venue Saturday as the movement against Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government and the country’s election authorities intensifies. The protesters, joined by opposition parties, are demanding the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, accusing the poll body he heads of manipulating voter lists through the revision.
https://apnews.com/article/india-sir-cockroach-election-commission-gyanesh-protests-694330c5352fa82a79d889fb95ad2d44
US opens direct talks with Myanmar's generals, reversing years of isolation
The US Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research, Michael Vance, played a leading role in the outreach, which has focused on shutting down scam centers that target Americans but could lead to broader engagement, including on Myanmar’s rare-earth mineral deposits, according to seven current and former officials and others familiar with the policy shift.
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/us-opens-direct-talks-with-myanmars-generals-reversing-years-isolation-2026-10-08/
R: 500 / I: 247
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: 128 / I: 32
Brazilian elections are sunday.
Apparently the race is neck and neck. Im not Brazilian, so can any on leftypol redpill me on who is going to win.
body was too short
body was too short
booty shorts
Brazilian elections are sunday.
Apparently the race is neck and neck. Im not Brazilian, so can any on leftypol redpill me on who is going to win.
body was too short
body was too short
booty shorts
R: 33 / I: 4
So much aura I wish we had communists who could make aura quotes like that
Trump had so much aura
When ever I hear a lib complain about trump attempting a self-coup against the bourgesis government they always post this clip of him saying "if you don't fight like hell you won't have a country anymore".So much aura I wish we had communists who could make aura quotes like that
R: 112 / I: 23 (sage)
As a communist, why should I support open borders and immigration? I've read Marx and Lenin and I don't see why it's a good idea to let millions to enter since they're cheap labour for capitalists and in fact the USSR had strict immigration policies, same with China.
I'm not xenophobic or racist at all, in fact I like multiculturalism, I love going out and having dinner in any foreign restaurant and I have friends from all ethnicities, but I just don't agree with letting everyone in. I'm not trolling or ragebaiting, I genuinely want to know.
As a communist, why should I support open borders and immigration? I've read Marx and Lenin and I don't see why it's a good idea to let millions to enter since they're cheap labour for capitalists and in fact the USSR had strict immigration policies, same with China.
I'm not xenophobic or racist at all, in fact I like multiculturalism, I love going out and having dinner in any foreign restaurant and I have friends from all ethnicities, but I just don't agree with letting everyone in. I'm not trolling or ragebaiting, I genuinely want to know.
R: 0 / I: 0
is this my world, i no longer recognize?
i'm hearing common words, common expressions
but nothing is common in my eyes
how do people sleep amidst the slaughter?
why would they vote in favor of their own defeat?
get out to the well and check the water
results were incomplete
cut from the cloth, and dead to the masses
just another case to be eulogized
but i'm breathing, breathing with no assistance
responding to stimuli
can anyone explain these new laws of nature?
why would they rule in favor of their own defeat?
cynics are excused from standing up to problems
because they can't get out of their seats
cut from the cloth, i ran out screaming
i hope that none of this will stick to me
everyone is nice, everyone is kind now
at least they're nice and kind to me
why would they fold up something so precious?
why would they sing in favor of their own defeat?
maybe they found their voice while out shopping
the price was hard to beat
lost in a world of copouts & frauds
cut from the cloth, and cut quite severelyis this my world, i no longer recognize?
i'm hearing common words, common expressions
but nothing is common in my eyes
how do people sleep amidst the slaughter?
why would they vote in favor of their own defeat?
get out to the well and check the water
results were incomplete
cut from the cloth, and dead to the masses
just another case to be eulogized
but i'm breathing, breathing with no assistance
responding to stimuli
can anyone explain these new laws of nature?
why would they rule in favor of their own defeat?
cynics are excused from standing up to problems
because they can't get out of their seats
cut from the cloth, i ran out screaming
i hope that none of this will stick to me
everyone is nice, everyone is kind now
at least they're nice and kind to me
why would they fold up something so precious?
why would they sing in favor of their own defeat?
maybe they found their voice while out shopping
the price was hard to beat
R: 9 / I: 3
<We wuz Romo-Grekko-Homo-Judeans and shit
Anyone's listen to Rubio's speech at the Acropolis the other day? Most fascist fucking thing I've heard from anyone in the admin. I think he's trying to become some philosopher short king. It was entirely about RETVRN about how Greeks and Romans believed the weak should fear the strong and literally gave a shout out to Great Man Theory. He gave a few random asides to Christianity like "and later they became Christian." But he didn't list anything that was a Christian virtue accept he said they were willing to die for their beliefs like the based Greco-Romans.
https://www.state.gov/releases/office-of-the-spokesman/2026/10/secretary-of-state-marco-rubio-remarks
>There are great ruins all across the world. In many cases, they are places where history seems to have exhausted itself: remnants of distant cultures that have long passed beyond living memory.
>Two and a half centuries after the founding of the American republic halfway across the world from where I stand now – I stand here today as the Secretary of State of that republic, and a great-grandson of settlers who arrived in the new world from Spain – I stand here to testify to a debt that no lapse of time, no distance of space can ever extinguish.
>The history of America, the history of my country, is covered with the fingerprints of antiquity. Greece is literally carved into the architecture of our government: in the towering columns, in the domes and the monuments across our capital city. The city where our Constitution was born – Philadelphia – is itself a Greek name.
>But the Acropolis is different.
>For thousands of years, the civilization that built what stands behind me has captivated the imagination of the Western world. Generations of our statesmen, artists, and philosophers have looked to it – they’ve looked to it with wonder and they’ve looked to it with awe.
>Now time has a tendency to dull the senses: great victories and catastrophic defeats, they seem to shrink to becoming like a footnote in a textbook, another fact for our schoolchildren to memorize and forget. But the Greeks of antiquity, they seem to have an almost mystical hold on our memory. They call us back to them, again and again.
>480 years before Christ, the armies of Xerxes arrived in this city and they put its sanctuaries to the torch. Most Athenians had by then evacuated by ship to a nearby island. But there was a handful of them that refused to leave their home. So instead, they barricaded themselves in the rocky fortress of the Acropolis to fight an extraordinary last stand, heaving massive stones down the cliffs onto the Persian invaders and holding the greatest empire of the age at bay for days. They were eventually overwhelmed. The Persians plundered the temples, burned the shrines, and razed the Acropolis to the ground but when the Athenians returned, they gathered the broken remains of the old Acropolis and buried them in the hill where it had stood. And decades later, under Pericles, they raised the Parthenon.
GODDAMN SHEETY PERSIANS!
>For 25 centuries since, the Parthenon has stood. Empires have risen and fallen beneath its shadow. And the progeny of the men who built it – the sons of Athens and Rome – have carried their civilization with them to the ends of the Earth.
>Two and a half centuries after the founding of the American republic halfway across the world from where I stand now – I stand here today as the Secretary of State of that republic, and a great-grandson of settlers who arrived in the new world from Spain – I stand here to testify to a debt that no lapse of time, no distance of space can ever extinguish.
>The history of America, the history of my country, is covered with the fingerprints of antiquity. Greece is literally carved into the architecture of our government: in the towering columns, in the domes and the monuments across our capital city. The city where our Constitution was born – Philadelphia – is itself a Greek name.
>The men who founded my country were fascinated by the heritage we inherited from yours. They were exceptionally well-read in history – they were vividly aware of their unique place in it – but no other age of the past held their attention or their imagination quite like that of antiquity. Many, many people are surprised to learn that the most commonly cited author in the Federalist Papers was not an Enlightenment philosopher or political theorist. No, the most commonly cited author in the Federalist Papers was Plutarch, the Greek biographer of Greece and Rome’s great men.
>Now, much has been written and said about the influence of ancient Greece on the ideas of the American Founders – and, for that matter, on all of the Western philosophers and statesmen that preceded them. Most of us are familiar with the basic history. Athens gave us democracy. Plato and Aristotle gave us Western philosophy. Our ideas of law, of virtue, of citizenship, and republican government were shaped in the Greek city-states. Even much of our political vocabulary – words like democracy, tyranny, the word “politics” itself – found its origins here.
>Now, all of that is true. But the things we owe to this place – as Americans, and as Westerners – are actually far far deeper. These institutions and ideas – these institutions and ideas were the outward expression of more fundamental qualities we see in the ancient Greeks – qualities that can’t be reduced to any particular political system or theory.
>Here, in Athens, we found the first full realization of all the essential traits that would come to define the West: fierce individuality and relentless ambition; daring exploration and invention; a yearning for discovery, for adventure, risk and glory. An insatiable curiosity about the world and the principles by which it operates, a hunger to know the mysteries of nature and grasp the secrets of the cosmos. An impatience with the notion of impossibility, chafing at all boundaries and limits, straining to peer into the depths of the unknown.
>These were not just the formulas or precepts of a particular school of philosophy. They were the characteristic of a people – expressed in their traditions, their stories, their imagination; in the qualities they demanded of their citizens; in the things they lived and fought and died for.
>To know them is to know ourselves.
>What blossomed here in this place was the Western desire to uncover all that ignorance, darkness, and distance had kept hidden from the mind of man. The Greeks did not just shape history; the Greeks gave us history itself. Much about – much of what we know about many ancient civilizations comes almost entirely from the records of Greek explorers and historians, explorers and historians who didn’t just chronicle the histories of their own people, but ventured outwards to observe and record the sagas of foreign peoples and cultures all across the world.
<Where others looked inward, the Greeks were the first to direct their focus outward, to chase the thrill and glory of seeing all that was strange and new. It was this trait – it was this trait that would push the West to create and build things that others could not, marking us out from so many other cultures and civilizations where stability and subsistence were the highest ends of life.
Almost seems a veiled insult at Eastern mysticism, including Christianity.
>But it is not just the ambition to explore the unknown that we inherit from the Greeks; it is the conviction that the unknown can be known. The confidence that the world can be charted and measured and mapped and understood – and that there is a rational order to the cosmos, governed by certain fundamental laws, laws that men can observe and the mind can come to understand.
>This was the foundation of the Western mind: our math, our science, our medicine. Our philosophy, ethics, and religion. It paved the way for the gospel of Jesus Christ to find fertile soil in Europe and flourish into the empire of Christendom. It was the foundation of the riches of Christian theology – of Augustine and Aquinas and the whole tradition of natural law.
See what I mean about the random asides to "and later they became Christians." At best he's kind of going: and Euros turned that shitty Jesus gospel into some based Euro shit.
>It gave birth to a civilization marked not just by a common culture, it was marked by a common anthropology – a common view of man and his place in the universe. Its descendants would share not just the idea of a natural order, but a distinctive understanding of virtue; of destiny and fate; of truth, goodness, and beauty; of a code that dictates how men ought to live; of objective standards and ideals to strive towards.
Lil Marcollini's Fascist Speech
This is a long speech. So I figured it would be better to make a new thread than have a bunch of consecutive posts in /USApol/ It also concerns other countries besides the US.<We wuz Romo-Grekko-Homo-Judeans and shit
Anyone's listen to Rubio's speech at the Acropolis the other day? Most fascist fucking thing I've heard from anyone in the admin. I think he's trying to become some philosopher short king. It was entirely about RETVRN about how Greeks and Romans believed the weak should fear the strong and literally gave a shout out to Great Man Theory. He gave a few random asides to Christianity like "and later they became Christian." But he didn't list anything that was a Christian virtue accept he said they were willing to die for their beliefs like the based Greco-Romans.
https://www.state.gov/releases/office-of-the-spokesman/2026/10/secretary-of-state-marco-rubio-remarks
>There are great ruins all across the world. In many cases, they are places where history seems to have exhausted itself: remnants of distant cultures that have long passed beyond living memory.
>Two and a half centuries after the founding of the American republic halfway across the world from where I stand now – I stand here today as the Secretary of State of that republic, and a great-grandson of settlers who arrived in the new world from Spain – I stand here to testify to a debt that no lapse of time, no distance of space can ever extinguish.
>The history of America, the history of my country, is covered with the fingerprints of antiquity. Greece is literally carved into the architecture of our government: in the towering columns, in the domes and the monuments across our capital city. The city where our Constitution was born – Philadelphia – is itself a Greek name.
>But the Acropolis is different.
>For thousands of years, the civilization that built what stands behind me has captivated the imagination of the Western world. Generations of our statesmen, artists, and philosophers have looked to it – they’ve looked to it with wonder and they’ve looked to it with awe.
>Now time has a tendency to dull the senses: great victories and catastrophic defeats, they seem to shrink to becoming like a footnote in a textbook, another fact for our schoolchildren to memorize and forget. But the Greeks of antiquity, they seem to have an almost mystical hold on our memory. They call us back to them, again and again.
>480 years before Christ, the armies of Xerxes arrived in this city and they put its sanctuaries to the torch. Most Athenians had by then evacuated by ship to a nearby island. But there was a handful of them that refused to leave their home. So instead, they barricaded themselves in the rocky fortress of the Acropolis to fight an extraordinary last stand, heaving massive stones down the cliffs onto the Persian invaders and holding the greatest empire of the age at bay for days. They were eventually overwhelmed. The Persians plundered the temples, burned the shrines, and razed the Acropolis to the ground but when the Athenians returned, they gathered the broken remains of the old Acropolis and buried them in the hill where it had stood. And decades later, under Pericles, they raised the Parthenon.
GODDAMN SHEETY PERSIANS!
>For 25 centuries since, the Parthenon has stood. Empires have risen and fallen beneath its shadow. And the progeny of the men who built it – the sons of Athens and Rome – have carried their civilization with them to the ends of the Earth.
>Two and a half centuries after the founding of the American republic halfway across the world from where I stand now – I stand here today as the Secretary of State of that republic, and a great-grandson of settlers who arrived in the new world from Spain – I stand here to testify to a debt that no lapse of time, no distance of space can ever extinguish.
>The history of America, the history of my country, is covered with the fingerprints of antiquity. Greece is literally carved into the architecture of our government: in the towering columns, in the domes and the monuments across our capital city. The city where our Constitution was born – Philadelphia – is itself a Greek name.
>The men who founded my country were fascinated by the heritage we inherited from yours. They were exceptionally well-read in history – they were vividly aware of their unique place in it – but no other age of the past held their attention or their imagination quite like that of antiquity. Many, many people are surprised to learn that the most commonly cited author in the Federalist Papers was not an Enlightenment philosopher or political theorist. No, the most commonly cited author in the Federalist Papers was Plutarch, the Greek biographer of Greece and Rome’s great men.
>Now, much has been written and said about the influence of ancient Greece on the ideas of the American Founders – and, for that matter, on all of the Western philosophers and statesmen that preceded them. Most of us are familiar with the basic history. Athens gave us democracy. Plato and Aristotle gave us Western philosophy. Our ideas of law, of virtue, of citizenship, and republican government were shaped in the Greek city-states. Even much of our political vocabulary – words like democracy, tyranny, the word “politics” itself – found its origins here.
>Now, all of that is true. But the things we owe to this place – as Americans, and as Westerners – are actually far far deeper. These institutions and ideas – these institutions and ideas were the outward expression of more fundamental qualities we see in the ancient Greeks – qualities that can’t be reduced to any particular political system or theory.
>Here, in Athens, we found the first full realization of all the essential traits that would come to define the West: fierce individuality and relentless ambition; daring exploration and invention; a yearning for discovery, for adventure, risk and glory. An insatiable curiosity about the world and the principles by which it operates, a hunger to know the mysteries of nature and grasp the secrets of the cosmos. An impatience with the notion of impossibility, chafing at all boundaries and limits, straining to peer into the depths of the unknown.
>These were not just the formulas or precepts of a particular school of philosophy. They were the characteristic of a people – expressed in their traditions, their stories, their imagination; in the qualities they demanded of their citizens; in the things they lived and fought and died for.
>To know them is to know ourselves.
>What blossomed here in this place was the Western desire to uncover all that ignorance, darkness, and distance had kept hidden from the mind of man. The Greeks did not just shape history; the Greeks gave us history itself. Much about – much of what we know about many ancient civilizations comes almost entirely from the records of Greek explorers and historians, explorers and historians who didn’t just chronicle the histories of their own people, but ventured outwards to observe and record the sagas of foreign peoples and cultures all across the world.
<Where others looked inward, the Greeks were the first to direct their focus outward, to chase the thrill and glory of seeing all that was strange and new. It was this trait – it was this trait that would push the West to create and build things that others could not, marking us out from so many other cultures and civilizations where stability and subsistence were the highest ends of life.
Almost seems a veiled insult at Eastern mysticism, including Christianity.
>But it is not just the ambition to explore the unknown that we inherit from the Greeks; it is the conviction that the unknown can be known. The confidence that the world can be charted and measured and mapped and understood – and that there is a rational order to the cosmos, governed by certain fundamental laws, laws that men can observe and the mind can come to understand.
>This was the foundation of the Western mind: our math, our science, our medicine. Our philosophy, ethics, and religion. It paved the way for the gospel of Jesus Christ to find fertile soil in Europe and flourish into the empire of Christendom. It was the foundation of the riches of Christian theology – of Augustine and Aquinas and the whole tradition of natural law.
See what I mean about the random asides to "and later they became Christians." At best he's kind of going: and Euros turned that shitty Jesus gospel into some based Euro shit.
>It gave birth to a civilization marked not just by a common culture, it was marked by a common anthropology – a common view of man and his place in the universe. Its descendants would share not just the idea of a natural order, but a distinctive understanding of virtue; of destiny and fate; of truth, goodness, and beauty; of a code that dictates how men ought to live; of objective standards and ideals to strive towards.
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The adjustments will negatively affect the growth of science, technology, knowledge and innovation, all of which will affect the country’s development, said Marisol Durán, president of the Consortium of State Universities. In the budget bill for next year, baseline resources will fall by 12.41%, while those allocated to promoting scientific research will decrease by a quarter compared with 2026.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/chilean-university-rectors-reject-education-cuts-in-2027-budget-bill/
Brazilian students in Rio de Janeiro march against the prospect of another Bolsonaro presidency
“We’re fighting for Brazil, not for Lula,” said Talita Amaral, a 19-year-old environmental science student at a nearby university. She was wearing Brazil’s yellow and green soccer jersey, often worn by supporters of Bolsonaro, which she said was a gesture aimed at reclaiming the national colors.
https://apnews.com/article/brazil-election-student-protest-rio-lula-bolsonaro-9b98a0fbea91622a7b0308c6de917b42
Colombia’s draft counterterrorist statute “creates foundations of dictatorial and inquisitorial regime:” opposition
In a video, Cepeda said that the true purpose of the bill that was leaked earlier seeks “to advance in the formation of essentially a dictatorial regime,.. which, moreover, has such a regime prostrate to drug trafficking.” “The true objectives of this statute are to wage a crusade against the political opposition, social movements, and social protest, which is a legitimate right of citizens,” said the Senator of the Historic Pact party.
https://colombiareports.com/colombias-draft-antiterrorist-statute-creates-foundations-of-dictatorial-and-inquisitorial-regime-opposition/
Canada to indefinitely bar mental illness as sole reason for access to euthanasia
Under the current rules, people whose sole underlying medical condition is a mental illness have been barred from accessing medical assistance in dying (Maid) to end their lives. But that ban – due to be lifted in March – has divided lawmakers over whether to permit this expansion of the Maid program.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/07/canada-assisted-dying-mental-illness
Labour’s Byelection Candidate Stayed Quiet on Israel’s Genocide in Gaza
Sagal Abdi-Wali, a Starmer ally and leader of Camden council, is running against Green leader Zack Polanski in the Holborn and St Pancras byelection, which is widely considered to be a two-horse race between Labour and the Greens. Abdi-Wali has not publicly spoken about Israel’s devastation of Gaza at any point between October 2023 and her selection as Labour’s byelection candidate, according to a detailed feature in Tribune magazine.
https://novaramedia.com/2026/10/08/labours-byelection-candidate-stayed-quiet-on-israels-genocide-in-gaza/
France suspends the use of stun grenades after student protester loses hand
Rights groups, students and some political opponents have accused police in France of using disproportionate force during a more than two-week-old wave of student protests that has exposed deep-seated public anger ahead of elections next year.
https://www.france24.com/en/france/20261007-france-suspends-the-use-of-stun-grenades-after-student-protester-loses-hand
https://archive.ph/QCc7z
Acting Police Chiefs warns protesters against lawlessness
Acting National Police Commissioner Puleng Dimpane says lawlessness will not be tolerated amid violent protests in Durban and Soweto. Dimpane was speaking in Soweto, where she visited the scene of protests that took place earlier on Thursday. She says crime intelligence and the SAPS will be working through the night to ensure that those responsible for the violence are apprehended. She has urged those who have concerns to follow the right channels.
https://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/https-www-sabcnews-com-sabcnews-protests-break-out-in-soweto-several-vehicles-torched/
Kurdish farmers face legal pressure over disputed lands in Khurmatu
Kurdish farmers in the disputed Khurmatu district in Iraq's Salahaddin province say they are facing legal pressure over more than 2,000 dunams of farmland after Arab settlers filed lawsuits seeking to take control of the lands based on agricultural contracts dating back to the former Ba'ath regime. The land lies between the Kurdish-majority Tapa Sawa area and the Arab-populated Haliwa village in Salahaddin province.
https://www.rudaw.net/english/categories/iraq/1079625
Israel demolishes properties of Palestinian who saved 30 Israelis on 7 October
Zyadna said that he has documents dating back to the Ottoman period that he believes prove his family lived in the area before the establishment of Israel. "I will not leave my land," he told Local Call. He also said that he has received mental health treatment since 7 October but that the state has not provided financial support for his treatment.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-demolishes-properties-palestinian-who-saved-30-israelis-7-october
Gaza war sped up India’s shift towards Israel under Modi
As Israel was conducting its genocidal war on Gaza, bombing and killing dozens on the very days he was visiting India, New Delhi was ready to expand business with Israel like never before. For decades, India had been one of the world’s staunchest supporters of Palestine, and Europe one of Israel’s closest backers. India’s position has shifted firmly since 2014, when Modi and his Hindu majoritarian Bharatiya Janata Party came to power. But analysts say the optics of Smotrich’s visit underlined something even more dramatic: At a time when even Europe, traditionally seen as backing Israel, has veered away from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government, the genocidal war on Gaza appears to have escalated India’s embrace of Israel.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10/8/how-gaza-war-sped-up-indias-shift-towards-israel-under-modi
https://archive.ph/SbIXo
Thousands protest in southern India to demand election chief resign
THOUSANDS of supporters of India’s youth “Cockroach” movement demonstrated in Bengaluru today, stepping up a nationwide campaign demanding the election chief’s resignation over a voter list revision. The demonstration in the southern city came a day after opposition leader Rahul Gandhi was detained by police at a protest in New Delhi, and again today, totalling three arrests in two days.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/thousands-protest-indias-bengaluru-demand-election-chief-resign
Hundreds of AI chip workers strike in Taiwan
On Monday, approximately 500 workers belonging to the AGC Display Glass union in Taiwan launched a three-day strike over low pay and stagnant wages, an issue facing workers throughout the island. Workers at the company produce a glass substrate used in AI semiconductor chips.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/10/08/ifys-o08.html
News 10/8/26
Chilean University Rectors Reject Education Cuts in 2027 Budget BillThe adjustments will negatively affect the growth of science, technology, knowledge and innovation, all of which will affect the country’s development, said Marisol Durán, president of the Consortium of State Universities. In the budget bill for next year, baseline resources will fall by 12.41%, while those allocated to promoting scientific research will decrease by a quarter compared with 2026.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/chilean-university-rectors-reject-education-cuts-in-2027-budget-bill/
Brazilian students in Rio de Janeiro march against the prospect of another Bolsonaro presidency
“We’re fighting for Brazil, not for Lula,” said Talita Amaral, a 19-year-old environmental science student at a nearby university. She was wearing Brazil’s yellow and green soccer jersey, often worn by supporters of Bolsonaro, which she said was a gesture aimed at reclaiming the national colors.
https://apnews.com/article/brazil-election-student-protest-rio-lula-bolsonaro-9b98a0fbea91622a7b0308c6de917b42
Colombia’s draft counterterrorist statute “creates foundations of dictatorial and inquisitorial regime:” opposition
In a video, Cepeda said that the true purpose of the bill that was leaked earlier seeks “to advance in the formation of essentially a dictatorial regime,.. which, moreover, has such a regime prostrate to drug trafficking.” “The true objectives of this statute are to wage a crusade against the political opposition, social movements, and social protest, which is a legitimate right of citizens,” said the Senator of the Historic Pact party.
https://colombiareports.com/colombias-draft-antiterrorist-statute-creates-foundations-of-dictatorial-and-inquisitorial-regime-opposition/
Canada to indefinitely bar mental illness as sole reason for access to euthanasia
Under the current rules, people whose sole underlying medical condition is a mental illness have been barred from accessing medical assistance in dying (Maid) to end their lives. But that ban – due to be lifted in March – has divided lawmakers over whether to permit this expansion of the Maid program.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/07/canada-assisted-dying-mental-illness
Labour’s Byelection Candidate Stayed Quiet on Israel’s Genocide in Gaza
Sagal Abdi-Wali, a Starmer ally and leader of Camden council, is running against Green leader Zack Polanski in the Holborn and St Pancras byelection, which is widely considered to be a two-horse race between Labour and the Greens. Abdi-Wali has not publicly spoken about Israel’s devastation of Gaza at any point between October 2023 and her selection as Labour’s byelection candidate, according to a detailed feature in Tribune magazine.
https://novaramedia.com/2026/10/08/labours-byelection-candidate-stayed-quiet-on-israels-genocide-in-gaza/
France suspends the use of stun grenades after student protester loses hand
Rights groups, students and some political opponents have accused police in France of using disproportionate force during a more than two-week-old wave of student protests that has exposed deep-seated public anger ahead of elections next year.
https://www.france24.com/en/france/20261007-france-suspends-the-use-of-stun-grenades-after-student-protester-loses-hand
https://archive.ph/QCc7z
Acting Police Chiefs warns protesters against lawlessness
Acting National Police Commissioner Puleng Dimpane says lawlessness will not be tolerated amid violent protests in Durban and Soweto. Dimpane was speaking in Soweto, where she visited the scene of protests that took place earlier on Thursday. She says crime intelligence and the SAPS will be working through the night to ensure that those responsible for the violence are apprehended. She has urged those who have concerns to follow the right channels.
https://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/https-www-sabcnews-com-sabcnews-protests-break-out-in-soweto-several-vehicles-torched/
Kurdish farmers face legal pressure over disputed lands in Khurmatu
Kurdish farmers in the disputed Khurmatu district in Iraq's Salahaddin province say they are facing legal pressure over more than 2,000 dunams of farmland after Arab settlers filed lawsuits seeking to take control of the lands based on agricultural contracts dating back to the former Ba'ath regime. The land lies between the Kurdish-majority Tapa Sawa area and the Arab-populated Haliwa village in Salahaddin province.
https://www.rudaw.net/english/categories/iraq/1079625
Israel demolishes properties of Palestinian who saved 30 Israelis on 7 October
Zyadna said that he has documents dating back to the Ottoman period that he believes prove his family lived in the area before the establishment of Israel. "I will not leave my land," he told Local Call. He also said that he has received mental health treatment since 7 October but that the state has not provided financial support for his treatment.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-demolishes-properties-palestinian-who-saved-30-israelis-7-october
Gaza war sped up India’s shift towards Israel under Modi
As Israel was conducting its genocidal war on Gaza, bombing and killing dozens on the very days he was visiting India, New Delhi was ready to expand business with Israel like never before. For decades, India had been one of the world’s staunchest supporters of Palestine, and Europe one of Israel’s closest backers. India’s position has shifted firmly since 2014, when Modi and his Hindu majoritarian Bharatiya Janata Party came to power. But analysts say the optics of Smotrich’s visit underlined something even more dramatic: At a time when even Europe, traditionally seen as backing Israel, has veered away from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government, the genocidal war on Gaza appears to have escalated India’s embrace of Israel.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10/8/how-gaza-war-sped-up-indias-shift-towards-israel-under-modi
https://archive.ph/SbIXo
Thousands protest in southern India to demand election chief resign
THOUSANDS of supporters of India’s youth “Cockroach” movement demonstrated in Bengaluru today, stepping up a nationwide campaign demanding the election chief’s resignation over a voter list revision. The demonstration in the southern city came a day after opposition leader Rahul Gandhi was detained by police at a protest in New Delhi, and again today, totalling three arrests in two days.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/thousands-protest-indias-bengaluru-demand-election-chief-resign
Hundreds of AI chip workers strike in Taiwan
On Monday, approximately 500 workers belonging to the AGC Display Glass union in Taiwan launched a three-day strike over low pay and stagnant wages, an issue facing workers throughout the island. Workers at the company produce a glass substrate used in AI semiconductor chips.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/10/08/ifys-o08.html
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Leftcoms, how would you address Halloway?
>The tradition of ‘scientific Marxism’ is blind to the issue of fetishism. If fetishism is taken as a starting point, then the concept of science can only be negative, critical and self-critical. If social relations exist in the form of relations between things, it is impossible to say ‘I have knowledge of reality’, simply because the categories through which one apprehends reality are historically specific categories which are part of that reality. We can proceed only by criticising, by criticising the reality and the categories through which we apprehend that reality. Criticism inevitably means self-criticism.
>In the tradition of scientific Marxism, criticism does not play a central role. Certainly there is criticism in the sense of denunciation of the evils of capitalism; but there is no criticism in the sense of the genetic criticism of identity. To be blind to fetishism is to take fetishised categories at face value, to take fetishised categories without question into one’s own thought. Nowhere has this been more disastrous in the tradition of orthodox Marxism than in the assumption that the state could be seen as the centre point of social power. A Marxism that is blind to the question of fetishism is inevitably a fetishised Marxism.[11]
>The core of orthodox Marxism is the attempt to enlist certainty on our side. This attempt is fundamentally misconceived: certainty can only be on the other side, the side of domination. Our struggle is inherently and profoundly uncertain. This is so because certainty is conceivable only on the basis of the reification of social relations. It is possible to speak of the ‘laws of motion’ of society only to the extent that social relations take the form of relations between things.[12] Non-fetishised, self-determining social relations would not be law-bound. The understanding of capitalist society as being bound by laws is valid to the extent, but only to the extent, that relations between people really are thing-ified. If we argue that capitalism can be understood completely through the analysis of its laws of motion, then we say at the same time that social relations are completely fetishised. But if social relations are completely fetishised, how can we conceive of revolution? Revolutionary change cannot possibly be conceived as following a path of certainty, because certainty is the very negation of revolutionary change. Our struggle is a struggle against reification and therefore against certainty.
>The great attraction of orthodox Marxism remains its simplicity. It provided an answer to the revolutionary dilemma: a wrong answer, but at least it was an answer. It guided the revolutionary movement to great conquests that, in the end of the day, were not conquests at all, but dreadful defeats. If, however, we abandon the comforting certainties of orthodoxy, what are we left with? Is our scream not then reduced to the childishly naïve and self-deceptive appeal to the idea of justice, do we not return, as Luxemburg mockingly warned, ‘to that lamentable Rosinante on which the Don Quixotes of history have galloped towards the great reform of the earth, always to come home with their eyes blackened'? No, we do not. We return, rather, to the concept of revolution as a question, not as an answer.
Leftcoms, how would you address Halloway?
>The tradition of ‘scientific Marxism’ is blind to the issue of fetishism. If fetishism is taken as a starting point, then the concept of science can only be negative, critical and self-critical. If social relations exist in the form of relations between things, it is impossible to say ‘I have knowledge of reality’, simply because the categories through which one apprehends reality are historically specific categories which are part of that reality. We can proceed only by criticising, by criticising the reality and the categories through which we apprehend that reality. Criticism inevitably means self-criticism.
>In the tradition of scientific Marxism, criticism does not play a central role. Certainly there is criticism in the sense of denunciation of the evils of capitalism; but there is no criticism in the sense of the genetic criticism of identity. To be blind to fetishism is to take fetishised categories at face value, to take fetishised categories without question into one’s own thought. Nowhere has this been more disastrous in the tradition of orthodox Marxism than in the assumption that the state could be seen as the centre point of social power. A Marxism that is blind to the question of fetishism is inevitably a fetishised Marxism.[11]
>The core of orthodox Marxism is the attempt to enlist certainty on our side. This attempt is fundamentally misconceived: certainty can only be on the other side, the side of domination. Our struggle is inherently and profoundly uncertain. This is so because certainty is conceivable only on the basis of the reification of social relations. It is possible to speak of the ‘laws of motion’ of society only to the extent that social relations take the form of relations between things.[12] Non-fetishised, self-determining social relations would not be law-bound. The understanding of capitalist society as being bound by laws is valid to the extent, but only to the extent, that relations between people really are thing-ified. If we argue that capitalism can be understood completely through the analysis of its laws of motion, then we say at the same time that social relations are completely fetishised. But if social relations are completely fetishised, how can we conceive of revolution? Revolutionary change cannot possibly be conceived as following a path of certainty, because certainty is the very negation of revolutionary change. Our struggle is a struggle against reification and therefore against certainty.
>The great attraction of orthodox Marxism remains its simplicity. It provided an answer to the revolutionary dilemma: a wrong answer, but at least it was an answer. It guided the revolutionary movement to great conquests that, in the end of the day, were not conquests at all, but dreadful defeats. If, however, we abandon the comforting certainties of orthodoxy, what are we left with? Is our scream not then reduced to the childishly naïve and self-deceptive appeal to the idea of justice, do we not return, as Luxemburg mockingly warned, ‘to that lamentable Rosinante on which the Don Quixotes of history have galloped towards the great reform of the earth, always to come home with their eyes blackened'? No, we do not. We return, rather, to the concept of revolution as a question, not as an answer.
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das was wir jetzt haben, wie kann man das aus marxistischer sicht erklären?
laut marxismus: NEETS = LUMPENPROLETARIAT = NICHT-ARBEITER
aber neets verbringen einen erheblichen teil im internet, auf den großen corpo plattformen. viele stunden. die bloße nutzung dieser plattformen generiert profit für die plattformen. die user trainieren algorithmen usw. aber auch hier: user schreiben posts die für KI training gescrapt werden. das heißt, neets sind objektiv arbeiter aber sie bekommen keinen lohn. SIE ARBEITEN UND IHRE ARBEIT WIRD AUSGEBEUTET VON DEN KAPITALISTEN.
es ist eine komplett neue arbeiter klasse entstanden und marxisten ignorieren das einfach??
das was wir jetzt haben, wie kann man das aus marxistischer sicht erklären?
laut marxismus: NEETS = LUMPENPROLETARIAT = NICHT-ARBEITER
aber neets verbringen einen erheblichen teil im internet, auf den großen corpo plattformen. viele stunden. die bloße nutzung dieser plattformen generiert profit für die plattformen. die user trainieren algorithmen usw. aber auch hier: user schreiben posts die für KI training gescrapt werden. das heißt, neets sind objektiv arbeiter aber sie bekommen keinen lohn. SIE ARBEITEN UND IHRE ARBEIT WIRD AUSGEBEUTET VON DEN KAPITALISTEN.
es ist eine komplett neue arbeiter klasse entstanden und marxisten ignorieren das einfach??
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Let's see if you agree with me, people.
I've come to the conclusion that race, gender and sexuality, in this order, are core identities in humanity and many others if not exactly derived, are strictly related to it.
Origin/nationality, culture and social class are REALLY important but have a social, less inherent condition to these more physical, intrinsic qualities I listed.
A working person will always have a race, gender and sexuality, this unifies everyone but also divides people, and a corporeal human being will always make part of a social class depending on his or her place in society.
Left and right are the two main political divisions, from which all others are related somehow. It has to do with progress, equality vs. hierarchy, property, economic intervention and societal roles in general.
Furthermore: politics, science, religion, art and philosophy are the main social and cultural expressions of humanity. These are the ways we organize, understand and express our existence in reality.
Economics is important, but it is more like the "matrix" where things happen.
All these things are related in a complex, conflictuous, changing and multipolar/multidimensional reality.
We know we are all one in some sense, but separated individually still being more or less part of the whole in a way, fighting for social issues and material needs.
Not sure what I am talking about anymore.
The fact is, I don't see material reality separated from social constructs, they always interact amd it is hard to determine like a perfect map of humanity or society.
This is more or less how I see the world.
How you guys think a marxist overview about my vision would be? I understand some marxism, but I am not an orthodox person, I think we should come up with better and more complex explanations without losing grip of the essentials, if you understand me.
Picture slightly unrelated.
Let's see if you agree with me, people.
I've come to the conclusion that race, gender and sexuality, in this order, are core identities in humanity and many others if not exactly derived, are strictly related to it.
Origin/nationality, culture and social class are REALLY important but have a social, less inherent condition to these more physical, intrinsic qualities I listed.
A working person will always have a race, gender and sexuality, this unifies everyone but also divides people, and a corporeal human being will always make part of a social class depending on his or her place in society.
Left and right are the two main political divisions, from which all others are related somehow. It has to do with progress, equality vs. hierarchy, property, economic intervention and societal roles in general.
Furthermore: politics, science, religion, art and philosophy are the main social and cultural expressions of humanity. These are the ways we organize, understand and express our existence in reality.
Economics is important, but it is more like the "matrix" where things happen.
All these things are related in a complex, conflictuous, changing and multipolar/multidimensional reality.
We know we are all one in some sense, but separated individually still being more or less part of the whole in a way, fighting for social issues and material needs.
Not sure what I am talking about anymore.
The fact is, I don't see material reality separated from social constructs, they always interact amd it is hard to determine like a perfect map of humanity or society.
This is more or less how I see the world.
How you guys think a marxist overview about my vision would be? I understand some marxism, but I am not an orthodox person, I think we should come up with better and more complex explanations without losing grip of the essentials, if you understand me.
Picture slightly unrelated.
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If Marxism were an objective, scientific theory, then any fat autistic person should be able to develop it. Why did Engels specifically financially support and commission Marx to develop the theory of scientific socialism when there were very likely far more competent developers? These more competent developers had no financial incentive to invest the effort in developing a theory of scientific socialism. And now we're stuck with Marx's mediocre work when we could have something much better.
If Marxism were an objective, scientific theory, then any fat autistic person should be able to develop it. Why did Engels specifically financially support and commission Marx to develop the theory of scientific socialism when there were very likely far more competent developers? These more competent developers had no financial incentive to invest the effort in developing a theory of scientific socialism. And now we're stuck with Marx's mediocre work when we could have something much better.
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I guess the president of Serbia who looks like Chudjak has a football mafia that shoves people into meat grinders or some shit Edition
/Serbia/
Thread for the landlocked ex-Yugoslavian Balkan country in Southeast/Central Europe, bordering Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Bosnia & Herzegovina, and Croatia.I guess the president of Serbia who looks like Chudjak has a football mafia that shoves people into meat grinders or some shit Edition
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>Inside the workplace your boss rules like a dictator, dictating the pace, the discipline, and how the fruits of labor are distributed. The core message of the text is that there can be no socialism without workers full control over the means of production and workplace democracy.
>The authors (Beggs, Burgis & Sunkara) dismantle the myth of the efficiency of authoritarian management. Empirical evidence shows that worker-managed enterprises are at least as productive, and often more resilient, than traditional capitalist firms.
>Workplace democracy reduces alienation, commits workers to shared goals, and gives decision-making power to those who know the production process best; the workers themselves.
https://jacobin.com/2026/09/economic-democracy-is-at-the-heart-of-socialism
Economic Democracy
Here is an excellent article from Jacobin magazine:>Inside the workplace your boss rules like a dictator, dictating the pace, the discipline, and how the fruits of labor are distributed. The core message of the text is that there can be no socialism without workers full control over the means of production and workplace democracy.
>The authors (Beggs, Burgis & Sunkara) dismantle the myth of the efficiency of authoritarian management. Empirical evidence shows that worker-managed enterprises are at least as productive, and often more resilient, than traditional capitalist firms.
>Workplace democracy reduces alienation, commits workers to shared goals, and gives decision-making power to those who know the production process best; the workers themselves.
https://jacobin.com/2026/09/economic-democracy-is-at-the-heart-of-socialism
R: 244 / I: 51
Isn't western leftism made of anti-imperialists and multipolaristas already?
Why do the people that identify with these ideas always separte themselves and accuse "western leftism" when every internet forum and radical political party talks about supporting Iran, Russia and Houthis? And unequal exchange and productive forces in global south nations? When could we say that the "failure of western leftism" is on them?
R: 102 / I: 14
Fuck intersectionality
I keep seeing "communists" talk in favour of intersectionality when it is just pure liberalism. Intersectionality is not compatible with Marxism, because for Marxists class is the primary contradiction (anti-imperialism is also class struggle). Radical feminism and queer liberation are both liberal rubbish as well (speaking as a trans woman). Proletarian feminism and the erosion of sex through socialist technology are the real ways to solve these problems, not bourgeois radicalism.
R: 5 / I: 0
To date, at least 74,243 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since the Hamas-led attacks on southern Israel, which killed at least 1,139 people. At least 1,460 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since the October 11, 2025 ceasefire went into effect as Israel has continued to expand its area of control. “The bottom line is that under both the Biden administration and the Trump administration, the US has continued to provide unconditional support for Israel, both in terms of finances, arms transfers and other forms, such as diplomatic support,” according to former Department of State official Josh Paul, who now runs A New Policy lobbying firm.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10/7/how-us-military-aid-to-israel-continues-three-years-into-gaza-genocide
https://archive.ph/0vG09
Turkey to deploy troops and air defence systems to Saudi Arabia amid Houthi attacks
Two Turkish officials familiar with Ankara's plans told MEE that Turkey had maintained technical teams, air defence systems and electronic warfare equipment in the kingdom since last year to protect critical infrastructure, including energy facilities. One senior Turkish official said Ankara would send additional equipment, technicians, emergency response teams and accompanying combat forces. The official said a 2010 military training agreement between Saudi Arabia and Turkey allows Ankara to deploy limited forces to the kingdom for technical purposes. Further deployments, however, would require parliamentary authorisation under the Turkish constitution.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/turkey-to-deploy-troops-and-air-defence-systems-saudi-arabia
Lula campaign scrambles to rebrand before Brazil runoff
At the meeting, Lula pushed what is being dubbed internally the "fear strategy" to remind voters of the risks a Bolsonaro presidency he says would pose to popular social benefits. People close to the campaign say Lula blames the messaging for failing to reach enough young people and women. Some party figures point to Lula's social communications minister, Sidonio Palmeira, whose business partner Raul Rebelo runs the campaign's messaging, for pushing less accessible themes like sovereignty and critical minerals. One TV campaign advert was devoted entirely to rare earths.
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/lula-campaign-scrambles-to-rebrand-before-brazil-runoff-2026-10-06/
Outcry in Trinidad and Tobago after passing of police bill that could threaten press freedom
Beharry said the bill’s search‑and‑seizure powers were particularly worrying in a digital era where “the tools of a journalist is … usually [a] cell phone”. Though he said journalists had not been directly threatened under recent states of emergency, he warned that other restrictions were worsening.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/06/outcry-in-trinidad-and-tobago-after-passing-of-police-bill-that-could-threaten-press-freedom
Argentine Court Rules Milei University Funding Decree Unconstitutional
Argentina’s federal court declared unconstitutional the decree through which President Javier Milei sought to halt the University Financing Law this Tuesday, ordering the government to immediately transfer budget funds to public universities.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/argentina-university-unconstitutional/
Home Secretary Defends Palestine Action Ban by Invoking ‘Skinheads’
Mahmood, who was previously a vocal supporter of the Palestinian cause, said that while she was “very uncomfortable” seeing people she knew “falling foul” of the law, it had to be applied consistently. “When you get a group of skinheads standing outside a mosque, holding up a placard saying ‘I support National Action’, I’m going to want the Section 13 support offence to be applied,” she said.
https://novaramedia.com/2026/10/06/home-secretary-defends-palestine-action-ban-by-invoking-skinheads/
Three unionist parties back motion of no confidence in Michelle O'Neill
The move comes amid a 10-day long impasse in Portadown, which developed after the Parades Commission gave the green light for the first time in almost 30 years for the parade to complete its traditional route along the Garvaghy Road. The parade has been protested against with large-scale gatherings on the road in Portadown, leading police to say they cannot safely facilitate the parade.
https://www.rte.ie/news/2026/1006/1594328-three-unionist-parties-back-oneill-no-confidence-motion/
Germany’s former foreign intelligence chief arrested on suspicion of espionage and attempted treason
Hanning, 80, was arrested in Bad Toelz-Wolfratshausen in southern Germany. A former aide, identified as Manfred D., was also arrested Tuesday in Steinfurt in western Germany and has been charged with aiding and abetting attempted treason and treasonous espionage. “In one instance, there is suspicion that Mr. Hanning used classified information to prepare an analysis for an employee of a foreign intelligence service,” Ines Peterson, a spokesperson for the federal prosecutor’s office, told German broadcaster RTL.
https://apnews.com/article/germany-arrest-espionage-allegation-former-intelligence-chief-47bb15543a3e2404e3f756dbb517d14c
AfD wins state parliament speakership in Saxony-Anhalt with far-left backing
The far-left Alliance Sahra Wagenknecht, or BSW, party had promised to support Rausch, citing the convention that the largest parliamentary faction gets the presidency. The move drew criticism from opponents and protesters, who said it helped normalize the AfD; domestic intelligence officials have classified the Saxony-Anhalt branch of the party as confirmed extremist.
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/10/06/afd-wins-state-parliament-speakership-in-saxony-anhalt-with-far-left-backing
https://archive.ph/sfqvg
‘Army use of child a violation of int’l humanitarian law’
In a deleted post, the 93rd Infantry Battalion of the Philippine Army published photos of a seven-year-old child with personal details under the pretext of a “birthday party” celebration to urge their NPA mother to surrender. The Philippines is a signatory to the Geneva Conventions and is obligated to follow the rules of war under IHL. “Children shall be the object of special respect and shall be protected against any form of indecent assault.
https://www.bulatlat.com/2026/10/07/army-use-of-child-a-violation-of-intl-humanitarian-law/
Indonesian nickel industry threatens women’s rights
“When discussing ‘critical minerals,’ governments have become almost singularly focused on geopolitics and national security, but are ignoring the impacts on front-line communities.”Ms Shennun added: “Women should not pay the price for the profits made by Indonesian and multinational companies.”
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/indonesian-nickel-industry-threatens-womens-rights
Supporters of Imran Khan start march on locked-down Islamabad
The government had gone to extreme lengths to try to stop PTI holding the long march, including shutting down Islamabad and barricading the capital’s entrances with shipping containers and sandbags. Khan’s three sisters were among those detained last week on grounds of national security. Two rounds of negotiations between the government and PTI leaders took place over the weekend but broke down when Khan’s allies insisted that he be part of political talks.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/05/jailed-imran-khan-march-on-islamabad-pakistan
News 10/7/26
US military aid to Israel continues three years into Gaza genocideTo date, at least 74,243 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since the Hamas-led attacks on southern Israel, which killed at least 1,139 people. At least 1,460 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since the October 11, 2025 ceasefire went into effect as Israel has continued to expand its area of control. “The bottom line is that under both the Biden administration and the Trump administration, the US has continued to provide unconditional support for Israel, both in terms of finances, arms transfers and other forms, such as diplomatic support,” according to former Department of State official Josh Paul, who now runs A New Policy lobbying firm.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10/7/how-us-military-aid-to-israel-continues-three-years-into-gaza-genocide
https://archive.ph/0vG09
Turkey to deploy troops and air defence systems to Saudi Arabia amid Houthi attacks
Two Turkish officials familiar with Ankara's plans told MEE that Turkey had maintained technical teams, air defence systems and electronic warfare equipment in the kingdom since last year to protect critical infrastructure, including energy facilities. One senior Turkish official said Ankara would send additional equipment, technicians, emergency response teams and accompanying combat forces. The official said a 2010 military training agreement between Saudi Arabia and Turkey allows Ankara to deploy limited forces to the kingdom for technical purposes. Further deployments, however, would require parliamentary authorisation under the Turkish constitution.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/turkey-to-deploy-troops-and-air-defence-systems-saudi-arabia
Lula campaign scrambles to rebrand before Brazil runoff
At the meeting, Lula pushed what is being dubbed internally the "fear strategy" to remind voters of the risks a Bolsonaro presidency he says would pose to popular social benefits. People close to the campaign say Lula blames the messaging for failing to reach enough young people and women. Some party figures point to Lula's social communications minister, Sidonio Palmeira, whose business partner Raul Rebelo runs the campaign's messaging, for pushing less accessible themes like sovereignty and critical minerals. One TV campaign advert was devoted entirely to rare earths.
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/lula-campaign-scrambles-to-rebrand-before-brazil-runoff-2026-10-06/
Outcry in Trinidad and Tobago after passing of police bill that could threaten press freedom
Beharry said the bill’s search‑and‑seizure powers were particularly worrying in a digital era where “the tools of a journalist is … usually [a] cell phone”. Though he said journalists had not been directly threatened under recent states of emergency, he warned that other restrictions were worsening.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/06/outcry-in-trinidad-and-tobago-after-passing-of-police-bill-that-could-threaten-press-freedom
Argentine Court Rules Milei University Funding Decree Unconstitutional
Argentina’s federal court declared unconstitutional the decree through which President Javier Milei sought to halt the University Financing Law this Tuesday, ordering the government to immediately transfer budget funds to public universities.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/argentina-university-unconstitutional/
Home Secretary Defends Palestine Action Ban by Invoking ‘Skinheads’
Mahmood, who was previously a vocal supporter of the Palestinian cause, said that while she was “very uncomfortable” seeing people she knew “falling foul” of the law, it had to be applied consistently. “When you get a group of skinheads standing outside a mosque, holding up a placard saying ‘I support National Action’, I’m going to want the Section 13 support offence to be applied,” she said.
https://novaramedia.com/2026/10/06/home-secretary-defends-palestine-action-ban-by-invoking-skinheads/
Three unionist parties back motion of no confidence in Michelle O'Neill
The move comes amid a 10-day long impasse in Portadown, which developed after the Parades Commission gave the green light for the first time in almost 30 years for the parade to complete its traditional route along the Garvaghy Road. The parade has been protested against with large-scale gatherings on the road in Portadown, leading police to say they cannot safely facilitate the parade.
https://www.rte.ie/news/2026/1006/1594328-three-unionist-parties-back-oneill-no-confidence-motion/
Germany’s former foreign intelligence chief arrested on suspicion of espionage and attempted treason
Hanning, 80, was arrested in Bad Toelz-Wolfratshausen in southern Germany. A former aide, identified as Manfred D., was also arrested Tuesday in Steinfurt in western Germany and has been charged with aiding and abetting attempted treason and treasonous espionage. “In one instance, there is suspicion that Mr. Hanning used classified information to prepare an analysis for an employee of a foreign intelligence service,” Ines Peterson, a spokesperson for the federal prosecutor’s office, told German broadcaster RTL.
https://apnews.com/article/germany-arrest-espionage-allegation-former-intelligence-chief-47bb15543a3e2404e3f756dbb517d14c
AfD wins state parliament speakership in Saxony-Anhalt with far-left backing
The far-left Alliance Sahra Wagenknecht, or BSW, party had promised to support Rausch, citing the convention that the largest parliamentary faction gets the presidency. The move drew criticism from opponents and protesters, who said it helped normalize the AfD; domestic intelligence officials have classified the Saxony-Anhalt branch of the party as confirmed extremist.
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/10/06/afd-wins-state-parliament-speakership-in-saxony-anhalt-with-far-left-backing
https://archive.ph/sfqvg
‘Army use of child a violation of int’l humanitarian law’
In a deleted post, the 93rd Infantry Battalion of the Philippine Army published photos of a seven-year-old child with personal details under the pretext of a “birthday party” celebration to urge their NPA mother to surrender. The Philippines is a signatory to the Geneva Conventions and is obligated to follow the rules of war under IHL. “Children shall be the object of special respect and shall be protected against any form of indecent assault.
https://www.bulatlat.com/2026/10/07/army-use-of-child-a-violation-of-intl-humanitarian-law/
Indonesian nickel industry threatens women’s rights
“When discussing ‘critical minerals,’ governments have become almost singularly focused on geopolitics and national security, but are ignoring the impacts on front-line communities.”Ms Shennun added: “Women should not pay the price for the profits made by Indonesian and multinational companies.”
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/indonesian-nickel-industry-threatens-womens-rights
Supporters of Imran Khan start march on locked-down Islamabad
The government had gone to extreme lengths to try to stop PTI holding the long march, including shutting down Islamabad and barricading the capital’s entrances with shipping containers and sandbags. Khan’s three sisters were among those detained last week on grounds of national security. Two rounds of negotiations between the government and PTI leaders took place over the weekend but broke down when Khan’s allies insisted that he be part of political talks.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/05/jailed-imran-khan-march-on-islamabad-pakistan
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I'm 29 and live with my 68yo mother in a 25m rented apartment. I also take care of three kittens. Both me and my mother have serious health issues that make it impossible for us to work. My mother receives disability benefits in Greece but I was assessed at 60%(you need 67%) and I don't get shit. Currently trying to appeal this.
Because of this, we live in extreme poverty. For more than half of this month we’ve basically been surviving on plain pasta with sauce.
I'm asking for a very small donation so we can finally order a couple of meals and eat something different for the next few days. Food in Greece is relatively cheap so only a small tip will suffice.
I understand people might be skeptical but I can provide proof about our living conditions and also post the food ordered. If someone is from Greece, they can order themselves for us if they want.
If anyone reads this and wants to help, it will be greatly appreciated.
Posting a link:
https://ko-fi.com/tinypurr
Hungry and in a fucked up situation
I'm ashamed to post this but push came to shove and my situation is desperate. I wanted to give me and my mother a bit of happiness.I'm 29 and live with my 68yo mother in a 25m rented apartment. I also take care of three kittens. Both me and my mother have serious health issues that make it impossible for us to work. My mother receives disability benefits in Greece but I was assessed at 60%(you need 67%) and I don't get shit. Currently trying to appeal this.
Because of this, we live in extreme poverty. For more than half of this month we’ve basically been surviving on plain pasta with sauce.
I'm asking for a very small donation so we can finally order a couple of meals and eat something different for the next few days. Food in Greece is relatively cheap so only a small tip will suffice.
I understand people might be skeptical but I can provide proof about our living conditions and also post the food ordered. If someone is from Greece, they can order themselves for us if they want.
If anyone reads this and wants to help, it will be greatly appreciated.
Posting a link:
https://ko-fi.com/tinypurr
R: 22 / I: 8
A major problem I've been noticing through the years is that nobody fucking understands what dialectical materialism actually is. This book is entirely about explaining dialectical materialism.
Of course, it speaks of the philosophies that come before it but only to explain dialectical materialism itself (this is by itself a dialectical process, btw)
Read this shit and spread it!
Read this right now.
Read this book right nowA major problem I've been noticing through the years is that nobody fucking understands what dialectical materialism actually is. This book is entirely about explaining dialectical materialism.
Of course, it speaks of the philosophies that come before it but only to explain dialectical materialism itself (this is by itself a dialectical process, btw)
Read this shit and spread it!
R: 2 / I: 0
CIA THREAD
In this thread we post the craziest (proven) CIA conspiracies and operations.
R: 613 / I: 169 (full)
>previous bake
>>2909568
Latest News
>Iran is trying to expand the war
<Iran retaliated
>Iran has destroyed 5 more US bases in Iraq
<Houthichads are advancing
>Oil is rising
<Iran possibly preparing to invade kuwait
>Important Links:
https://www.flightradar24.com/
https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/centerx:52.7/centery:26.8/zoom:7
https://www.defconlevel.com/
https://oilprice.com/
https://www.pizzint.watch/
https://eam.watch/
https://www.gmcmap.com/index.asp
https://firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/map/#d:24hrs;@54.2,31.0,7.1z
https://globe.adsbexchange.com/
>Useful Channels:
https://www.youtube.com/@TheDuran
https://www.youtube.com/@AlexMercouris
https://www.youtube.com/@AlexChristoforou
https://www.youtube.com/@dialogueworks01
https://www.youtube.com/@DanielDavisDeepDive
https://www.youtube.com/@DannyHaiphongYT
https://www.youtube.com/@justinpodur
https://www.youtube.com/@IndiaGlobalLeft
https://www.youtube.com/@RichardMedhurst
https://www.youtube.com/@GDFofficial
https://www.youtube.com/@neutralitystudies
https://www.youtube.com/@prop_co
https://www.youtube.com/@CyrusJanssen
https://www.youtube.com/@breakingpoints
https://www.youtube.com/@militarysummary
https://www.youtube.com/@TheNewAtlas
https://www.youtube.com/@willyOAM
https://www.youtube.com/@GDiesen1
https://www.youtube.com/@theeastisapodcast
https://www.youtube.com/@GeopoliticalEconomyReport
https://www.youtube.com/@TheElectronicIntifada
>Useful Xitters
https://xcancel.com/IranObserver0
https://xcancel.com/araghchi
https://xcancel.com/conflict_radar
https://xcancel.com/TheCradleMedia
https://xcancel.com/AliAbunimah
https://xcancel.com/BrianJBerletic
https://xcancel.com/angeloinchina
https://xcancel.com/jonelmer
https://xcancel.com/MarkAmesExiled
https://xcancel.com/UrOrientalist
https://xcancel.com/MaxBlumenthal
https://xcancel.com/dreizinreport/
https://xcancel.com/Basijchud
>Useful TG:
https://t.me/s/wfwitness
https://t.me/s/Middle_East_Spectator
https://t.me/s/enemywatch
https://t.me/s/shiachuds
>Useful Blogs/Podcasts/News:
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/
https://simplicius76.substack.com/
https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/
https://sonar21.com/
https://www.moonofalabama.org/
https://thegrayzone.com/
https://www.middleeasteye.net/live/live-us-and-israel-attack-iran
https://www.podbean.com/podcast-detail/t687i-9b79d/War-Nerd-Radio-%E2%80%94-Subscriber-Feed-Podcast
Iran war thread #74
<Even bigger war edition>previous bake
>>2909568
Latest News
>Iran is trying to expand the war
<Iran retaliated
>Iran has destroyed 5 more US bases in Iraq
<Houthichads are advancing
>Oil is rising
<Iran possibly preparing to invade kuwait
>Important Links:
https://www.flightradar24.com/
https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/centerx:52.7/centery:26.8/zoom:7
https://www.defconlevel.com/
https://oilprice.com/
https://www.pizzint.watch/
https://eam.watch/
https://www.gmcmap.com/index.asp
https://firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/map/#d:24hrs;@54.2,31.0,7.1z
https://globe.adsbexchange.com/
>Useful Channels:
https://www.youtube.com/@TheDuran
https://www.youtube.com/@AlexMercouris
https://www.youtube.com/@AlexChristoforou
https://www.youtube.com/@dialogueworks01
https://www.youtube.com/@DanielDavisDeepDive
https://www.youtube.com/@DannyHaiphongYT
https://www.youtube.com/@justinpodur
https://www.youtube.com/@IndiaGlobalLeft
https://www.youtube.com/@RichardMedhurst
https://www.youtube.com/@GDFofficial
https://www.youtube.com/@neutralitystudies
https://www.youtube.com/@prop_co
https://www.youtube.com/@CyrusJanssen
https://www.youtube.com/@breakingpoints
https://www.youtube.com/@militarysummary
https://www.youtube.com/@TheNewAtlas
https://www.youtube.com/@willyOAM
https://www.youtube.com/@GDiesen1
https://www.youtube.com/@theeastisapodcast
https://www.youtube.com/@GeopoliticalEconomyReport
https://www.youtube.com/@TheElectronicIntifada
>Useful Xitters
https://xcancel.com/IranObserver0
https://xcancel.com/araghchi
https://xcancel.com/conflict_radar
https://xcancel.com/TheCradleMedia
https://xcancel.com/AliAbunimah
https://xcancel.com/BrianJBerletic
https://xcancel.com/angeloinchina
https://xcancel.com/jonelmer
https://xcancel.com/MarkAmesExiled
https://xcancel.com/UrOrientalist
https://xcancel.com/MaxBlumenthal
https://xcancel.com/dreizinreport/
https://xcancel.com/Basijchud
>Useful TG:
https://t.me/s/wfwitness
https://t.me/s/Middle_East_Spectator
https://t.me/s/enemywatch
https://t.me/s/shiachuds
>Useful Blogs/Podcasts/News:
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/
https://simplicius76.substack.com/
https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/
https://sonar21.com/
https://www.moonofalabama.org/
https://thegrayzone.com/
https://www.middleeasteye.net/live/live-us-and-israel-attack-iran
https://www.podbean.com/podcast-detail/t687i-9b79d/War-Nerd-Radio-%E2%80%94-Subscriber-Feed-Podcast
R: 0 / I: 0
Here's in audiobook form
>https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrodPcAMP2OsMmlF6pGphTSKU1z03GH5N
i'll be bumping this thread again whenever I feel like it, go read that shit now.
Read Politzer's elementary principles of philosophy
Read Politzer's elementary principles of philosophyHere's in audiobook form
>https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrodPcAMP2OsMmlF6pGphTSKU1z03GH5N
i'll be bumping this thread again whenever I feel like it, go read that shit now.
R: 593 / I: 162
>Thread for the country which took over the whole planet
</planetpol/ edition
OP Backup Site: https://usapol.neocities.org/
💀 ICE & Prison Resources
(Amerika is the most incarcerated country in the world!)
ICE tracker using public info and user submissions // https://www.iceinmyarea.org/
list of deaths at ICE concentration camps // https://www.aila.org/infonet/deaths-at-adult-detention-centers
visualization of prison population in US // https://mkorostoff.github.io/incarceration-in-real-numbers/
Organizing in Prison — for when the walls close in (RANT Collective) // https://www.organizingforpower.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Organizing-in-Jail.pdf
database of U.S. facilities incl. ICE holding sites // https://alcpress.org/usjails/index.html
list of prison related resources, mailing lists, etc // https://www.prisonactivist.org/resources
ICE Agent List (incomplete) // https://wiki.icelist.is/index.php/Category:Agents
US Political Prison Tracker (last updated 2025) // https://uspoliticalprisoners.com/
Jailhouse Reading:
📖 Angela Davis - Are Prisons Obsolete? // https://dn790007.ca.archive.org/0/items/the-anarchist-library-full-list-of-pdfs-nov-2020/angela-y-davis-are-prisons-obsolete.pdf
📖 How to Defend Yourself During Police Interrogation // https://www.notrace.how/resources/download/comment-la-police-interroge-et-comment-sen-defendre/how-to-defend-yourself-during-a-police-interrogation.pdf
📖 National Lawyers Guild guide to being a jailhouse lawyer // https://www.jailhouselaw.org/
📖 Critical Resistance - Surviving Solitary Confinement // https://criticalresistance.org/resources/surviving-solitary/
📖 An inside-outside publication for abolitionist struggle & strategy across prison walls // https://criticalresistance.org/abolitionist/
📖 Prisoners’ Self-Help Litigation Manual // https://api.pageplace.de/preview/DT0400.9780199705665_A35159258/preview-9780199705665_A35159258.pdf
⚒️ LABOR!
Live strike tracker with deep stats on who, what and when // https://striketracker.ilr.cornell.edu/
AFL-CIO [imperialist]'s Strike Tracker // https://aflcio.org/strike-map
Labor Bureau's Official 'work stoppage' tracker // https://www.bls.gov/wsp/
IWW timeline for the 20th century (ends at 1999) // https://archive.iww.org/history/chronology/
IWW Work Place Organizing Guide // https://usa.anarchistlibraries.net/library/industrial-workers-of-the-world-libcom-org-solidarity-federation-walthamstow-anarchist-group-wo
▶ Salting | Work Place Organizing 101 (50 minute webinar) // https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SHlCLyM4FY
⚖️ Deeds of the Burger Reich 🇺🇸
deep list of horrible shit we (royal we) have done // https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/us_atrocities.md
Coups and regime changes – master list // https://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-peoples-governments-the-master-list
Wikipedia: United States War Crimes // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_war_crimes
/our boys/ (bring em home!) detail abusing Iraqi prisoners [2006] // https://www.hrw.org/report/2006/07/22/no-blood-no-foul/soldiers-accounts-detainee-abuse-iraq
More than 250 military interventions in the last 30 years alone // https://blackagendareport.com/us-launched-251-military-interventions-1991-and-469-1798
Visualisation of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade // https://www.slavevoyages.org/
UNESCO Sites relating to Slavery // https://slaveryandremembrance.org/
First Hand Documents of the horrors of Slavery // https://www.loc.gov/collections/slave-narratives-from-the-federal-writers-project-1936-to-1938/
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The Grayzone // https://thegrayzone.com/
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Al Jazeera visual guide (2026) // https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/10/struggling-to-navigate-the-epstein-files-here-is-a-visual-guide
Essential American Politik 📖
📖 WEB Du Bois - Black Reconstruction // https://cominsitu.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/w-e-b-du-bois-black-reconstruction-an-essay-toward-a-history-of-the-part-which-black-folk-played-in-the-attempt-to-reconstruct-democracy-2.pdf
📖 Eugene Debs - Fourth of July Speech // https://jacobin.com/2020/07/eugene-debs-independence-day-address-fourth-july
📖 Power Anywhere There's People! – Fred Hampton // https://www.hamptonthink.org/read/power-anywhere-where-thats-people-fred-hampton
📖 War is a Racket – Smedley Butler // https://ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html
📖 Letters From an American Farmer – St. John de Crevoecoeur // https://americanliterature.com/author/j-hector-st-john-de-crevoecoeur/book/letters-from-an-american-farmer/summary
📖 Trail of Broken Treaties // American Indian Movement https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
📖 The Declaration of Independence https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
📖 The Ballot or the Bullet – Malcolm X // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/ballot_or_bullet.pdf
📖 What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? – Frederick Douglass // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/douglass_july_4_speech.pdf
📖 A Trail of Broken Treaties – American Indian Movement // https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
📖 Custer Died for Your Sins – Vine Deloria Jr. // http://www.riversimulator.org/Resources/Books/CusterDiedForYourSinsAnIndianManifesto1969Deloria.pdf
📖 Emancipation Proclamation – Lincoln // https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/emancipation-proclamation
📖 Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville // https://americanliterature.com/author/alexis-de-tocqueville/book/democracy-in-america/summary
📖 Common Sense – Thomas Paine // https://americainclass.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Common-Sense-Full-Text.pdf
📖 An Indigenous History of the United States – Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz // https://nycstandswithstandingrock.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/dunbar-ortiz-2014.pdf
📖 Huey Long – Share Our Wealth // https://www.hueylong.com/programs/share-our-wealth/huey-longs-share-our-wealth-speech
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ICE tracker using public info and user submissions // https://www.iceinmyarea.org/
list of deaths at ICE concentration camps // https://www.aila.org/infonet/deaths-at-adult-detention-centers
visualization of prison population in US // https://mkorostoff.github.io/incarceration-in-real-numbers/
Organizing in Prison — for when the walls close in (RANT Collective) // https://www.organizingforpower.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Organizing-in-Jail.pdf
database of U.S. facilities incl. ICE holding sites // https://alcpress.org/usjails/index.html
list of prison related resources, mailing lists, etc // https://www.prisonactivist.org/resources
ICE Agent List (incomplete) // https://wiki.icelist.is/index.php/Category:Agents
US Political Prison Tracker (last updated 2025) // https://uspoliticalprisoners.com/
Jailhouse Reading:
📖 Angela Davis - Are Prisons Obsolete? // https://dn790007.ca.archive.org/0/items/the-anarchist-library-full-list-of-pdfs-nov-2020/angela-y-davis-are-prisons-obsolete.pdf
📖 How to Defend Yourself During Police Interrogation // https://www.notrace.how/resources/download/comment-la-police-interroge-et-comment-sen-defendre/how-to-defend-yourself-during-a-police-interrogation.pdf
📖 National Lawyers Guild guide to being a jailhouse lawyer // https://www.jailhouselaw.org/
📖 Critical Resistance - Surviving Solitary Confinement // https://criticalresistance.org/resources/surviving-solitary/
📖 An inside-outside publication for abolitionist struggle & strategy across prison walls // https://criticalresistance.org/abolitionist/
📖 Prisoners’ Self-Help Litigation Manual // https://api.pageplace.de/preview/DT0400.9780199705665_A35159258/preview-9780199705665_A35159258.pdf
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Live strike tracker with deep stats on who, what and when // https://striketracker.ilr.cornell.edu/
AFL-CIO [imperialist]'s Strike Tracker // https://aflcio.org/strike-map
Labor Bureau's Official 'work stoppage' tracker // https://www.bls.gov/wsp/
IWW timeline for the 20th century (ends at 1999) // https://archive.iww.org/history/chronology/
IWW Work Place Organizing Guide // https://usa.anarchistlibraries.net/library/industrial-workers-of-the-world-libcom-org-solidarity-federation-walthamstow-anarchist-group-wo
▶ Salting | Work Place Organizing 101 (50 minute webinar) // https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SHlCLyM4FY
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deep list of horrible shit we (royal we) have done // https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/us_atrocities.md
Coups and regime changes – master list // https://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-peoples-governments-the-master-list
Wikipedia: United States War Crimes // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_war_crimes
/our boys/ (bring em home!) detail abusing Iraqi prisoners [2006] // https://www.hrw.org/report/2006/07/22/no-blood-no-foul/soldiers-accounts-detainee-abuse-iraq
More than 250 military interventions in the last 30 years alone // https://blackagendareport.com/us-launched-251-military-interventions-1991-and-469-1798
Visualisation of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade // https://www.slavevoyages.org/
UNESCO Sites relating to Slavery // https://slaveryandremembrance.org/
First Hand Documents of the horrors of Slavery // https://www.loc.gov/collections/slave-narratives-from-the-federal-writers-project-1936-to-1938/
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The Grayzone // https://thegrayzone.com/
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Epstein's Black Book // https://epsteinsblackbook.com/
DOJ Disclosures // https://www.justice.gov/epstein/doj-disclosures
Track AIPAC // https://www.trackaipac.com/
Al Jazeera visual guide (2026) // https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/10/struggling-to-navigate-the-epstein-files-here-is-a-visual-guide
Essential American Politik 📖
📖 WEB Du Bois - Black Reconstruction // https://cominsitu.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/w-e-b-du-bois-black-reconstruction-an-essay-toward-a-history-of-the-part-which-black-folk-played-in-the-attempt-to-reconstruct-democracy-2.pdf
📖 Eugene Debs - Fourth of July Speech // https://jacobin.com/2020/07/eugene-debs-independence-day-address-fourth-july
📖 Power Anywhere There's People! – Fred Hampton // https://www.hamptonthink.org/read/power-anywhere-where-thats-people-fred-hampton
📖 War is a Racket – Smedley Butler // https://ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html
📖 Letters From an American Farmer – St. John de Crevoecoeur // https://americanliterature.com/author/j-hector-st-john-de-crevoecoeur/book/letters-from-an-american-farmer/summary
📖 Trail of Broken Treaties // American Indian Movement https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
📖 The Declaration of Independence https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
📖 The Ballot or the Bullet – Malcolm X // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/ballot_or_bullet.pdf
📖 What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? – Frederick Douglass // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/douglass_july_4_speech.pdf
📖 A Trail of Broken Treaties – American Indian Movement // https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
📖 Custer Died for Your Sins – Vine Deloria Jr. // http://www.riversimulator.org/Resources/Books/CusterDiedForYourSinsAnIndianManifesto1969Deloria.pdf
📖 Emancipation Proclamation – Lincoln // https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/emancipation-proclamation
📖 Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville // https://americanliterature.com/author/alexis-de-tocqueville/book/democracy-in-america/summary
📖 Common Sense – Thomas Paine // https://americainclass.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Common-Sense-Full-Text.pdf
📖 An Indigenous History of the United States – Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz // https://nycstandswithstandingrock.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/dunbar-ortiz-2014.pdf
📖 Huey Long – Share Our Wealth // https://www.hueylong.com/programs/share-our-wealth/huey-longs-share-our-wealth-speech
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This sudden explosion in hyper-reactionary evangelism in Latin America (even more reactionary than Brazilian integralism) seems not entirely organic. Liberation theology was always a thorn in the side of the US aspirations on the continent, and none of the communist leaders in Latin America was an atheist (I am not sure about Che). Countering this with evangelical influence is something the CIA has tried for a long time, but this time a lot of the money these communities seem to receive comes from private American Christian think tanks.
I live in Germany and the liberal party (FDP) here has opened some "liberal house" near the train station - on Sunday, I noticed, it is rented out to a Brazilian pentacostal evangelist community, so it seems that there is an international network behind it as well.
One of the hallmarks is their ultra-zionism, which makes sense, as a lot of Latin American governments used to support Palestine, even the right-wing Catholic ones. Guatemala was hit especially hard, and the indigenous there already survived an US-backed genocide.
Take the Brazilian football team, they used to be entirely Catholic when they won their last World Cup in 2002. Now it's dominated by evangelicals, who also appear as "Christian incluencers" off the pitch, and they all support Bolsonaro. Same in Colombia.
The Rise of Pentacostal Evangelism in Latin America - especially Brazil
I think this is a really concerning development if you haven't noticed this by now, especially considering the election in Brazil, where almost every evangelical voted for Bolsonaro, and almost every catholic for Lula.This sudden explosion in hyper-reactionary evangelism in Latin America (even more reactionary than Brazilian integralism) seems not entirely organic. Liberation theology was always a thorn in the side of the US aspirations on the continent, and none of the communist leaders in Latin America was an atheist (I am not sure about Che). Countering this with evangelical influence is something the CIA has tried for a long time, but this time a lot of the money these communities seem to receive comes from private American Christian think tanks.
I live in Germany and the liberal party (FDP) here has opened some "liberal house" near the train station - on Sunday, I noticed, it is rented out to a Brazilian pentacostal evangelist community, so it seems that there is an international network behind it as well.
One of the hallmarks is their ultra-zionism, which makes sense, as a lot of Latin American governments used to support Palestine, even the right-wing Catholic ones. Guatemala was hit especially hard, and the indigenous there already survived an US-backed genocide.
Take the Brazilian football team, they used to be entirely Catholic when they won their last World Cup in 2002. Now it's dominated by evangelicals, who also appear as "Christian incluencers" off the pitch, and they all support Bolsonaro. Same in Colombia.
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English needs spelling and conjugation overhaul so badly
Overhaul English NAO!!!
>Simplified Chinese was officially introduced by the government of the People's Republic of China in the 1950s as part of a broader effort to increase literacy and modernize the country. The reform reduced the number of strokes in many commonly used characters and standardized certain character forms, making them easier and faster to learn and write. Although the government promoted the reform, it drew on simplification practices and proposals that had existed for centuries. The primary goal was to help expand education and enable more people, especially those with limited access to schooling, to become literate. Simplified Chinese is now the standard writing system in China and Singapore, while Traditional Chinese remains in use in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau.English needs spelling and conjugation overhaul so badly
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The structure of "family", which stems from monogamy is also a putrid system. Children are left to the mercy of their parents, who can abuse them all they want with no repercussion (parents essentially own their kids in a literal slave way) and any rejection to this system is seen as unforgivable. Seeing people as more worthy of your time, love or attention simply because they are related by blood to you is a completely anti-human mindset. All working people of humanity must unite in one big family.
In a communist society all work is collectivized, his includes childcare. There is absolutely no reason to leave such an important job in the hands of just two people (sometimes just one), it must be done by the entire community. There would also be trained specialists who work full time on nursing children.
I don't understand why many self-proclaimed communists have a problem with this. No, you do not own your offspring just because you birthed it. Much less if you just fertilized the egg of the person who did. They are a human being with their own autonomy.
This is the biggest obstacle to abolishing monogamy. Once people (specially women) are free from the burden of exclusively raising children and looking for a provider, they will finally enjoy a free sexual life.
The only real downside of being non-monogamous is it increases the risk of STDs, but what increases the risk even more is having poor hygene and not using preventive measures. And if humanity erradicated smallpox and polio, so can we erradicate STDs.
Speaking of sexual life, heteronormativity and dare I say heterosexuality in the first place is also a product of patriarchy, and I have reason to believe most if not all people would be bisexual if it wasn't for religious brainwashing and peer pressure. Men are anatomically built to enjoy taking stuff up their butt, the only reason most men don't enjoy gay sex is because they think it's immoral. Having intimacy with multople people regardless of gender strengthens bonds between members of a community Ancient humans were probably having tons of gay and lesbian sex with no one to shame them for it. Human beings are beautiful regardless of gender, and without the taboo that comes with it most people would be fucking men and women alike (of course there would still be people who don't like having sex at all, and that's okay, but refusing to be intimate with someone just because they are a certain sex is the result of religious brainwashing).
If you oppose sexual liberation and the abolition of family, you are a reactionary.
Monogamy and heterosexuality are inherently reactionary
Monogamy is a construct created by patriarchy to impose control on and basically own other people. Be reminded that not so long ago, women were considered their parents or husbands' property in the literal sense, and the way most men act regarding their girlfriends/wives is still extremely possessive to this day. You aren't allowed to love other people. The way the dating world operates in the modern day is out of control in the most part thanks to this.The structure of "family", which stems from monogamy is also a putrid system. Children are left to the mercy of their parents, who can abuse them all they want with no repercussion (parents essentially own their kids in a literal slave way) and any rejection to this system is seen as unforgivable. Seeing people as more worthy of your time, love or attention simply because they are related by blood to you is a completely anti-human mindset. All working people of humanity must unite in one big family.
In a communist society all work is collectivized, his includes childcare. There is absolutely no reason to leave such an important job in the hands of just two people (sometimes just one), it must be done by the entire community. There would also be trained specialists who work full time on nursing children.
I don't understand why many self-proclaimed communists have a problem with this. No, you do not own your offspring just because you birthed it. Much less if you just fertilized the egg of the person who did. They are a human being with their own autonomy.
This is the biggest obstacle to abolishing monogamy. Once people (specially women) are free from the burden of exclusively raising children and looking for a provider, they will finally enjoy a free sexual life.
The only real downside of being non-monogamous is it increases the risk of STDs, but what increases the risk even more is having poor hygene and not using preventive measures. And if humanity erradicated smallpox and polio, so can we erradicate STDs.
Speaking of sexual life, heteronormativity and dare I say heterosexuality in the first place is also a product of patriarchy, and I have reason to believe most if not all people would be bisexual if it wasn't for religious brainwashing and peer pressure. Men are anatomically built to enjoy taking stuff up their butt, the only reason most men don't enjoy gay sex is because they think it's immoral. Having intimacy with multople people regardless of gender strengthens bonds between members of a community Ancient humans were probably having tons of gay and lesbian sex with no one to shame them for it. Human beings are beautiful regardless of gender, and without the taboo that comes with it most people would be fucking men and women alike (of course there would still be people who don't like having sex at all, and that's okay, but refusing to be intimate with someone just because they are a certain sex is the result of religious brainwashing).
If you oppose sexual liberation and the abolition of family, you are a reactionary.
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GREAT THOUGHTS.
"Because you must know, Sancho, that women are the most perfect of the divine creations. That although they are more beautiful than flowers, the stars and the full moon together, they are strong as the steel of my spear.
That is why, Sancho, it is necessary among gentlemen, that we should be open to their privations, love them, take care of them like the apple of your eye, because our world without them, there is no doubt, would be completely and irretrievably lost, because, Sancho, they are the force of life and the engine that drives our existence."
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
📖 Don Quixote of La Mancha
I hate vidya games
Vidya games and drones are weak[spoiler][/spoiler]GREAT THOUGHTS.
"Because you must know, Sancho, that women are the most perfect of the divine creations. That although they are more beautiful than flowers, the stars and the full moon together, they are strong as the steel of my spear.
That is why, Sancho, it is necessary among gentlemen, that we should be open to their privations, love them, take care of them like the apple of your eye, because our world without them, there is no doubt, would be completely and irretrievably lost, because, Sancho, they are the force of life and the engine that drives our existence."
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
📖 Don Quixote of La Mancha
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In a video message, Sincelejo Mayor Yahir Acuña said that armed men positioned themselves behind him while the president accused the mayor of corruption and threatened to pull municipal funds. The accusations were partly published on the social media pages of the president, who accused Acuña of being “a person who, like you, faces 13 corruption charges, has a video in which he explains how to embezzle funds from the PAE, and, on top of that, is set to stand trial in the Supreme Court of Justice on charges of illicit enrichment.”
https://colombiareports.com/mayor-claims-de-la-espriellas-armed-men-intimidated-him/
Brazil’s MST Wins Four Deputy, Four State Assembly Seats
Brazil’s Landless Rural Workers’ Movement (MST) won eight legislative seats in Sunday’s general elections, consolidating its strategy of bringing its main demands into institutional politics. Those demands include agrarian reform, family farming, agroecology and the fight against hunger and inequality.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/brazils-mst-wins-four-deputy-four-state-assembly-seats/
Brazil's Lula weighs VP Alckmin as next finance minister to woo centrist voters
Alckmin, a veteran centrist, unsuccessfully challenged Lula for the presidency in 2006 and has served two terms as governor of Sao Paulo. He also ran Lula's Development, Industry and Trade Ministry until earlier this year, making him a key interlocutor with Washington since the US imposed sweeping tariffs on Brazilian goods. Alckmin is widely considered a moderating force in Lula's government, with strong ties to the business community, although critics say his influence has been overshadowed in Lula's current term by policies widely seen as tilting to the left.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/brazils-lula-weighs-vp-alckmin-next-finance-minister-woo-centrist-voters-2026-10-05/
Algeria sent fighter jets to Niger to thwart ‘coup attempt’, president says
Tebboune said that the warplanes were sent because some parties had “gone too far”. He added that Niger’s Prime Minister, Ali Mahaman Lamine Zeine, had been visiting Algeria and returned home at night just before the mutiny. “For obvious reasons, this is a provocation against us … and I too will send planes and we’ll meet head-on,” Tebboune said. He did not specify who he meant when he said some had gone too far, or whether he was referring to internal or external actors.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10/3/algeria-sent-fighter-jets-to-niger-to-thwart-coup-attempt-president-says
https://archive.ph/fhi01
Airstrikes and artillery hit north Ethiopia as government and rebels clash, sources say
Air attacks killed at least 17 people northwest of Tigray's capital Mekelle - which federal government forces took over the weekend - according to a bulletin circulated among humanitarian groups. The bulletin added that the government forces exchanged artillery fire with fighters loyal to the Tigray People's Liberation Front - part of a rebel alliance aiming to overthrow Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's government.
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/airstrikes-artillery-hit-north-ethiopia-after-tigray-capitals-fall-aid-sources-2026-10-05/
Yemen's child soldiers: How poverty and war are pushing minors to the frontlines
As soon as the latest conflict flared in Yemen, child soldiers resurfaced alongside reciprocal accusations by warring parties over recruiting children and deploying them to the front lines. Neither side officially acknowledges recruiting minors; however, the United Nations, media outlets and human rights reports have confirmed that both parties engage in the practice. A March 2025 report by the UN secretary-general on children and armed conflict documented 564 cases of child recruitment and use in Yemen between 2021 and 2023.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/yemen-child-soldiers-how-poverty-and-war-are-pushing-minors-frontlines
Green party of England and Wales facing international ostracism over ‘Zionism is racism’ vote
The European Green party, which represents 47 parties, including the Green party of England and Wales (GPEW), said it supported a two-state solution for Israel and Palestine, and the new motion went against this. The alliance “will immediately demand clarity from the leadership and parliamentary group of GPEW, to understand the official party policy of GPEW, how they position themselves towards the self-determination of Israelis and Jews as well as the protection of Jewish people and members in the party”, it said in a statement.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/oct/05/green-party-england-wales-zionism-racism-vote-europe-germany
Teenager loses hand in blast amid French school protest clashes
The 15-year-old was seriously injured in the northern city of Lens on Monday. Unverified police reports said that he had picked up a stun grenade. France had said it would close up to 500 schools as demonstrations over understaffed and rundown schools entered a third week. Critics have called for the authorities to temper their response to the protests amid claims of disproportionate police force being used against minors.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10/5/students-continue-to-protest-in-france-as-hundreds-of-schools-close
https://archive.ph/PcqbP
Coalition set to unveil dramatically deeper cuts to overseas migration as it fends off One Nation’s rise
The Nine newspapers reported the Coalition would initially drop net migration to around 100,000 in the first year after the election before it rose again to a figure between One Nation’s 130,000 and Labor’s target of 225,000. As previously announced by Taylor, the number of new arrivals will be linked to housing completions in Australia.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/oct/06/coalition-immigration-policy-angus-taylor-one-nation-labor-ntwnfb
Protesters disrupt New Zealand aviation and space summit over Israel, US military ties
About 20 police officers were deployed around the city centre venue on Friday morning, where dozens of protesters opposed to links between the aviation and space sector and the defence industries gathered and chanted across the road in Victoria Square. One protester also chained himself to a vehicle near one of the centre entrances. Slogans including "New Zealand is complicit in genocide" and "This vehicle is obstructing war crimes" were written on the car.
https://www.newarab.com/news/protesters-disrupt-new-zealand-space-summit-over-military-ties
News 10/5/26
Mayor from Colombia’s north claims De la Espriella’s armed men intimidated himIn a video message, Sincelejo Mayor Yahir Acuña said that armed men positioned themselves behind him while the president accused the mayor of corruption and threatened to pull municipal funds. The accusations were partly published on the social media pages of the president, who accused Acuña of being “a person who, like you, faces 13 corruption charges, has a video in which he explains how to embezzle funds from the PAE, and, on top of that, is set to stand trial in the Supreme Court of Justice on charges of illicit enrichment.”
https://colombiareports.com/mayor-claims-de-la-espriellas-armed-men-intimidated-him/
Brazil’s MST Wins Four Deputy, Four State Assembly Seats
Brazil’s Landless Rural Workers’ Movement (MST) won eight legislative seats in Sunday’s general elections, consolidating its strategy of bringing its main demands into institutional politics. Those demands include agrarian reform, family farming, agroecology and the fight against hunger and inequality.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/brazils-mst-wins-four-deputy-four-state-assembly-seats/
Brazil's Lula weighs VP Alckmin as next finance minister to woo centrist voters
Alckmin, a veteran centrist, unsuccessfully challenged Lula for the presidency in 2006 and has served two terms as governor of Sao Paulo. He also ran Lula's Development, Industry and Trade Ministry until earlier this year, making him a key interlocutor with Washington since the US imposed sweeping tariffs on Brazilian goods. Alckmin is widely considered a moderating force in Lula's government, with strong ties to the business community, although critics say his influence has been overshadowed in Lula's current term by policies widely seen as tilting to the left.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/brazils-lula-weighs-vp-alckmin-next-finance-minister-woo-centrist-voters-2026-10-05/
Algeria sent fighter jets to Niger to thwart ‘coup attempt’, president says
Tebboune said that the warplanes were sent because some parties had “gone too far”. He added that Niger’s Prime Minister, Ali Mahaman Lamine Zeine, had been visiting Algeria and returned home at night just before the mutiny. “For obvious reasons, this is a provocation against us … and I too will send planes and we’ll meet head-on,” Tebboune said. He did not specify who he meant when he said some had gone too far, or whether he was referring to internal or external actors.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10/3/algeria-sent-fighter-jets-to-niger-to-thwart-coup-attempt-president-says
https://archive.ph/fhi01
Airstrikes and artillery hit north Ethiopia as government and rebels clash, sources say
Air attacks killed at least 17 people northwest of Tigray's capital Mekelle - which federal government forces took over the weekend - according to a bulletin circulated among humanitarian groups. The bulletin added that the government forces exchanged artillery fire with fighters loyal to the Tigray People's Liberation Front - part of a rebel alliance aiming to overthrow Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's government.
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/airstrikes-artillery-hit-north-ethiopia-after-tigray-capitals-fall-aid-sources-2026-10-05/
Yemen's child soldiers: How poverty and war are pushing minors to the frontlines
As soon as the latest conflict flared in Yemen, child soldiers resurfaced alongside reciprocal accusations by warring parties over recruiting children and deploying them to the front lines. Neither side officially acknowledges recruiting minors; however, the United Nations, media outlets and human rights reports have confirmed that both parties engage in the practice. A March 2025 report by the UN secretary-general on children and armed conflict documented 564 cases of child recruitment and use in Yemen between 2021 and 2023.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/yemen-child-soldiers-how-poverty-and-war-are-pushing-minors-frontlines
Green party of England and Wales facing international ostracism over ‘Zionism is racism’ vote
The European Green party, which represents 47 parties, including the Green party of England and Wales (GPEW), said it supported a two-state solution for Israel and Palestine, and the new motion went against this. The alliance “will immediately demand clarity from the leadership and parliamentary group of GPEW, to understand the official party policy of GPEW, how they position themselves towards the self-determination of Israelis and Jews as well as the protection of Jewish people and members in the party”, it said in a statement.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/oct/05/green-party-england-wales-zionism-racism-vote-europe-germany
Teenager loses hand in blast amid French school protest clashes
The 15-year-old was seriously injured in the northern city of Lens on Monday. Unverified police reports said that he had picked up a stun grenade. France had said it would close up to 500 schools as demonstrations over understaffed and rundown schools entered a third week. Critics have called for the authorities to temper their response to the protests amid claims of disproportionate police force being used against minors.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10/5/students-continue-to-protest-in-france-as-hundreds-of-schools-close
https://archive.ph/PcqbP
Coalition set to unveil dramatically deeper cuts to overseas migration as it fends off One Nation’s rise
The Nine newspapers reported the Coalition would initially drop net migration to around 100,000 in the first year after the election before it rose again to a figure between One Nation’s 130,000 and Labor’s target of 225,000. As previously announced by Taylor, the number of new arrivals will be linked to housing completions in Australia.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/oct/06/coalition-immigration-policy-angus-taylor-one-nation-labor-ntwnfb
Protesters disrupt New Zealand aviation and space summit over Israel, US military ties
About 20 police officers were deployed around the city centre venue on Friday morning, where dozens of protesters opposed to links between the aviation and space sector and the defence industries gathered and chanted across the road in Victoria Square. One protester also chained himself to a vehicle near one of the centre entrances. Slogans including "New Zealand is complicit in genocide" and "This vehicle is obstructing war crimes" were written on the car.
https://www.newarab.com/news/protesters-disrupt-new-zealand-space-summit-over-military-ties
R: 322 / I: 71
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The Postcolonial Volk
By Benjamin Zachariah
Polity, 176 pages, $25
You might have noticed that at some point, progressive types began to use the term “folks” to refer to “people.” There are black folks, queer folks, indigenous folks. The change is significant. Whereas “people” evokes a sense of a universal subject, “folks” is particular. It implies a world of distinctions: different cultures, different experiences, different interests. No people, just “peoples,” all speaking with a different voice. From this perspective, “The political world is a pluriverse, not a universe.”
While the idea of a pluriverse has become increasingly popular within decolonial thought, that last line didn’t come from the tradition’s ever-proliferating ranks of academic adherents. It came from Carl Schmitt, the Nazi jurist. At a time when everything is “literally Hitler,” the comparison can seem overwrought. But it is precisely the comparison between post-colonial particularism and the völkisch right that Benjamin Zachariah reveals with a keen sense of the absurd in his new book, The Postcolonial Volk.
Zachariah critiques the “conglomerate” of postcolonial and decolonial theory clustering around what’s come to be known as “theory from the Global South.” But appearances are deceiving, because it’s not really from the Global South at all. As Zachariah describes, its language and legitimacy claims are crafted in the Global North, exported to the Global South, and then reimported as authentic non-Western knowledge.
And just as it is not really of the Global South, this ostensibly left-wing “postcolonial-decolonial-Global South conglomerate” is not really of the left either. Despite the right’s insistence that the ghost of Karl Marx is currently undertaking a long march through the institutions, Zachariah’s central claim is that the contemporary left actually has far more in common with anti-communist and proto-fascist forces than with the nineteenth-century founder of “scientific socialism.” In important respects, its ethos actually arises from an entirely rival tradition, one that encompasses romantic nationalism, indigenism, cultural organicism, and völkisch thought. It is, Zachariah says, “Romanticism, rather than the much-reviled Enlightenment, that suggests itself as the intellectual basis of the ‘post-Enlightenment’ world that Global Southistan now lays claim to.”
This is why, as Zachariah shows, the postcolonial outlook now common on the contemporary left is so hostile to the Enlightenment and its ideal of universal truth. In his satirical “Twelve Theses on Postcolonialism,” he condenses its outlook into its propositions including “the individual is an Enlightenment conspiracy” and “the Age of Reason is the Age of Empire.” Contrary to popular belief, universal reason and the emancipation of the individual were central to Marxism and the socialist and communist traditions shaped by it (“We are communists out of egoism,” Engels once wrote to Marx), however miserably they failed in practice. Marx and Engels were part of the Young Hegelian milieu, who were deeply impressed by the “heroes of the French Revolution,” and even called themselves “encyclopaedists” after the eighteenth-century Enlightenment philosophes. This is a far cry from the unholy trinity that Zachariah skewers, however much its adherents may sometimes rummage in the dustbins for what he calls the “debris of Marx- and- Engels-isms.”
Postcolonialism does not simply swap out the working class for some other group of the oppressed. Its object is a mystic unity of culture, collective memory, fraught relationships to race and place, and inherited victimhood. Blood and soil in these formulations are only slightly obscured by a thin rhetorical dust.
As Zachariah shows, the postcolonial tendency’s hostility to individualism and universalism follows precisely from its Romantic and völkisch premises. This is why, as Zachariah describes through a number of jarring examples, its language passes so easily out of the mouths of Hindu nationalists, Islamists, and white identitarians. All emphasize authentic peoples, violated inheritances, foreign contamination, internal betrayers, and cultural restoration as a magical solution to social and political problems.
One of Zachariah’s most illuminating examples is that of Benoy Kumar Sarkar, a Bengali social scientist whom Zachariah describes as “a self-conscious and dedicated user of völkisch ideas” and “zealous co-worker with the Nazis,” who is now unselfconsciously revered as a pioneer of Indian sociology, political science, and forebear of postcolonial thought. That Sarkar was a resolute admirer of Hitler, whom he called “Vivekananda multiplied by Bismarck,” is forgiven or ignored by those eager to find in him a postcolonial precursor.
The story is similar, if more well known, regarding Martin Heidegger, whom Zachariah describes as “postcolonial scholars’ preferred philosopher of ‘affect’” and whose defenders’ attempt to save him from the charge of Nazism “faltered on the evidence of his own diaries.” One compromised intellectual ancestor might be a mere misstep, a product of a momentary lapse in judgment (even if lasting many years). But when the fascist affinities of your forebears must repeatedly be bracketed or explained away, it should tell you that something is wrong with your outlook.
Not that this is really possible, because postcolonialism’s epistemology means it is singularly incapable of recognizing the proto-fascism of its völkisch affinities. As Zachariah writes, these are instead routinely “underplayed or explained away in terms of the ‘difference’ of non-Western cultures, which are allegedly incapable of fascism or to whom Western concepts such as fascism simply do not apply.” If the volk is light-skinned, the politics belong to the right; if dark-skinned, to the left, and ne’er the twain shall meet. And so, the right remains evil for its organic nationalism, while the left is merely seeking cultural renewal; the right is dangerous for denouncing non-white internal enemies but when the left denounces whites it is merely identifying obstacles to “decolonization.” It is the peculiarities of the volk, rather than the politics, that matter.
Why has the left turned to these romantic ideas? Zachariah cites the collapse of the Soviet Union as one cause. But he hits on an even deeper reason near the start of the book, when he draws on Walter Benjamin’s much-quoted vignette inspired by Paul Klee’s Angelus Novus. This is the backward-facing, forward-blown Angel of History, who is to Benjamin, “surveying the debris of the past” as a storm blowing from Paradise drives him perilously into the future. “He would like to pause,” goes the vignette, “to awaken the dead and to piece together what has been smashed,” but the gale has got so strong he cannot close his wings.
Zachariah’s intended point is well taken: We can no more return to an earlier materialist left than postcolonial volk can return to the idyllic time before the colonial “Fall.” Both the longing and the backward-looking means of overcoming it are misguided. But Benjamin’s image also answers a deeper question: Just why is there such a passionate desire to escape the forces of history and take refuge in the wholeness of the past?
In You Shall Be as Gods, Erich Fromm reads the expulsion from Eden not as man’s corruption but “the beginning of his rise.” Eden is the central symbolic story of man’s gradual alienation from animalhood and nature in the development of his capacity to reason and disobey, that is, his capacity for freedom. But crucially, this freedom is experienced as a painful sense of loss, as freedom imposes burdens of uncertainty, choice, and responsibility.
“Man suffers from this loss of oneness,” Fromm writes, and “his most passionate striving is to return to the world of union which was his home.” And so while man, in Fromm’s radical humanist reading of the Hebrew scriptures, reasons and argues with God on his ascent to independence, he is always drawn back downward, “to the womb, the Mother Earth,” and the certainties and bindings of the past, nature, clan, and idols.
This is the deeper yearning expressed in Benjamin’s Angel of History. We want to go back and pick up the pieces, rebuild what’s been lost. But the most painful lesson, the one we continually cannot accept, is that there is no going back.
Ashley Frawley is a Compact columnist, a visiting fellow at MCC Brussels, and a visiting researcher in the Centre for Parenting Culture Studies at the University of Kent.
@AshleyAFrawley
The Rise of the Völkisch Left
July 31, 2026The Postcolonial Volk
By Benjamin Zachariah
Polity, 176 pages, $25
You might have noticed that at some point, progressive types began to use the term “folks” to refer to “people.” There are black folks, queer folks, indigenous folks. The change is significant. Whereas “people” evokes a sense of a universal subject, “folks” is particular. It implies a world of distinctions: different cultures, different experiences, different interests. No people, just “peoples,” all speaking with a different voice. From this perspective, “The political world is a pluriverse, not a universe.”
While the idea of a pluriverse has become increasingly popular within decolonial thought, that last line didn’t come from the tradition’s ever-proliferating ranks of academic adherents. It came from Carl Schmitt, the Nazi jurist. At a time when everything is “literally Hitler,” the comparison can seem overwrought. But it is precisely the comparison between post-colonial particularism and the völkisch right that Benjamin Zachariah reveals with a keen sense of the absurd in his new book, The Postcolonial Volk.
Zachariah critiques the “conglomerate” of postcolonial and decolonial theory clustering around what’s come to be known as “theory from the Global South.” But appearances are deceiving, because it’s not really from the Global South at all. As Zachariah describes, its language and legitimacy claims are crafted in the Global North, exported to the Global South, and then reimported as authentic non-Western knowledge.
And just as it is not really of the Global South, this ostensibly left-wing “postcolonial-decolonial-Global South conglomerate” is not really of the left either. Despite the right’s insistence that the ghost of Karl Marx is currently undertaking a long march through the institutions, Zachariah’s central claim is that the contemporary left actually has far more in common with anti-communist and proto-fascist forces than with the nineteenth-century founder of “scientific socialism.” In important respects, its ethos actually arises from an entirely rival tradition, one that encompasses romantic nationalism, indigenism, cultural organicism, and völkisch thought. It is, Zachariah says, “Romanticism, rather than the much-reviled Enlightenment, that suggests itself as the intellectual basis of the ‘post-Enlightenment’ world that Global Southistan now lays claim to.”
This is why, as Zachariah shows, the postcolonial outlook now common on the contemporary left is so hostile to the Enlightenment and its ideal of universal truth. In his satirical “Twelve Theses on Postcolonialism,” he condenses its outlook into its propositions including “the individual is an Enlightenment conspiracy” and “the Age of Reason is the Age of Empire.” Contrary to popular belief, universal reason and the emancipation of the individual were central to Marxism and the socialist and communist traditions shaped by it (“We are communists out of egoism,” Engels once wrote to Marx), however miserably they failed in practice. Marx and Engels were part of the Young Hegelian milieu, who were deeply impressed by the “heroes of the French Revolution,” and even called themselves “encyclopaedists” after the eighteenth-century Enlightenment philosophes. This is a far cry from the unholy trinity that Zachariah skewers, however much its adherents may sometimes rummage in the dustbins for what he calls the “debris of Marx- and- Engels-isms.”
Postcolonialism does not simply swap out the working class for some other group of the oppressed. Its object is a mystic unity of culture, collective memory, fraught relationships to race and place, and inherited victimhood. Blood and soil in these formulations are only slightly obscured by a thin rhetorical dust.
As Zachariah shows, the postcolonial tendency’s hostility to individualism and universalism follows precisely from its Romantic and völkisch premises. This is why, as Zachariah describes through a number of jarring examples, its language passes so easily out of the mouths of Hindu nationalists, Islamists, and white identitarians. All emphasize authentic peoples, violated inheritances, foreign contamination, internal betrayers, and cultural restoration as a magical solution to social and political problems.
One of Zachariah’s most illuminating examples is that of Benoy Kumar Sarkar, a Bengali social scientist whom Zachariah describes as “a self-conscious and dedicated user of völkisch ideas” and “zealous co-worker with the Nazis,” who is now unselfconsciously revered as a pioneer of Indian sociology, political science, and forebear of postcolonial thought. That Sarkar was a resolute admirer of Hitler, whom he called “Vivekananda multiplied by Bismarck,” is forgiven or ignored by those eager to find in him a postcolonial precursor.
The story is similar, if more well known, regarding Martin Heidegger, whom Zachariah describes as “postcolonial scholars’ preferred philosopher of ‘affect’” and whose defenders’ attempt to save him from the charge of Nazism “faltered on the evidence of his own diaries.” One compromised intellectual ancestor might be a mere misstep, a product of a momentary lapse in judgment (even if lasting many years). But when the fascist affinities of your forebears must repeatedly be bracketed or explained away, it should tell you that something is wrong with your outlook.
Not that this is really possible, because postcolonialism’s epistemology means it is singularly incapable of recognizing the proto-fascism of its völkisch affinities. As Zachariah writes, these are instead routinely “underplayed or explained away in terms of the ‘difference’ of non-Western cultures, which are allegedly incapable of fascism or to whom Western concepts such as fascism simply do not apply.” If the volk is light-skinned, the politics belong to the right; if dark-skinned, to the left, and ne’er the twain shall meet. And so, the right remains evil for its organic nationalism, while the left is merely seeking cultural renewal; the right is dangerous for denouncing non-white internal enemies but when the left denounces whites it is merely identifying obstacles to “decolonization.” It is the peculiarities of the volk, rather than the politics, that matter.
Why has the left turned to these romantic ideas? Zachariah cites the collapse of the Soviet Union as one cause. But he hits on an even deeper reason near the start of the book, when he draws on Walter Benjamin’s much-quoted vignette inspired by Paul Klee’s Angelus Novus. This is the backward-facing, forward-blown Angel of History, who is to Benjamin, “surveying the debris of the past” as a storm blowing from Paradise drives him perilously into the future. “He would like to pause,” goes the vignette, “to awaken the dead and to piece together what has been smashed,” but the gale has got so strong he cannot close his wings.
Zachariah’s intended point is well taken: We can no more return to an earlier materialist left than postcolonial volk can return to the idyllic time before the colonial “Fall.” Both the longing and the backward-looking means of overcoming it are misguided. But Benjamin’s image also answers a deeper question: Just why is there such a passionate desire to escape the forces of history and take refuge in the wholeness of the past?
In You Shall Be as Gods, Erich Fromm reads the expulsion from Eden not as man’s corruption but “the beginning of his rise.” Eden is the central symbolic story of man’s gradual alienation from animalhood and nature in the development of his capacity to reason and disobey, that is, his capacity for freedom. But crucially, this freedom is experienced as a painful sense of loss, as freedom imposes burdens of uncertainty, choice, and responsibility.
“Man suffers from this loss of oneness,” Fromm writes, and “his most passionate striving is to return to the world of union which was his home.” And so while man, in Fromm’s radical humanist reading of the Hebrew scriptures, reasons and argues with God on his ascent to independence, he is always drawn back downward, “to the womb, the Mother Earth,” and the certainties and bindings of the past, nature, clan, and idols.
This is the deeper yearning expressed in Benjamin’s Angel of History. We want to go back and pick up the pieces, rebuild what’s been lost. But the most painful lesson, the one we continually cannot accept, is that there is no going back.
Ashley Frawley is a Compact columnist, a visiting fellow at MCC Brussels, and a visiting researcher in the Centre for Parenting Culture Studies at the University of Kent.
@AshleyAFrawley
R: 4 / I: 1
A central theme is a series of reports that Alberta separatist organizers sought contacts with officials and political actors in the United States. According to reporting discussed across multiple outlets, separatist representatives met with U.S. State Department officials and explored how an independent Alberta might build closer economic ties with the United States. Reported ideas included use of the U.S. dollar, expanded energy cooperation, transportation corridors, access to resources, and possible economic support during a transition to independence. However, accounts differed regarding exactly what was discussed, and U.S. officials reportedly denied offering support or commitments. Critics argue that these contacts crossed a political line because the future of Canada should be decided by Canadians, while supporters portray the discussions as diplomacy and strategic planning. [thewalrus.ca], [energi.media]
The question of foreign interference runs throughout the coverage. Several writers argue that while Alberta separatists have the democratic right to advocate for independence, actively seeking assistance from foreign political actors is much more controversial. Political scientist Stewart Prest, writing in The Walrus, compares the current situation to past Canadian reactions to outside involvement in Quebec sovereignty debates. He argues that foreign governments and political movements should not influence decisions about Canada’s territorial future and calls for a clear federal response against external interference. Prest maintains that the issue is not simply separatism itself, but the involvement of American political actors in a Canadian constitutional question. [thewalrus.ca]
At the same time, multiple stories examine whether such actions amount to treason. The general conclusion is that, under Canadian law, the answer is likely no. Critics may describe the conduct as disloyal or a betrayal of Canada, but experts quoted in several articles say the legal definition of treason is much narrower. Mount Royal University political scientist Duane Bratt argues that the conduct is better understood as foreign political interference than treason. He acknowledges a long history of independence movements around the world seeking international support, while expressing greater concern about Americans willing to become involved in Canadian political disputes. [thewalrus.ca], [energi.media]
Another major theme is the relationship between Alberta separatist activists and Republican political networks in the United States. Reporting highlighted contacts with Michigan Republican organizers and the use of voter-mobilization techniques developed for U.S. conservative campaigns. One of the most detailed investigations examined the Centurion Project, a political organizing effort connected to Alberta for separatist activism. According to PressProgress, the project drew inspiration from a Michigan-based Republican initiative called 10xVotes and adapted its voter-identification model for Alberta. The article traces connections between the app’s creators, American conservative activists, prominent Trump supporters, and influential Republican donors. It also notes that U.S. Ambassador Pete Hoekstra said he had no knowledge of the Alberta project’s use of the technology and was not involved with its operations. [pressprogress.ca]
The Centurion Project story is closely tied to concerns about privacy and election integrity. Investigations cited in the coverage describe allegations that information from Alberta’s voters list was improperly accessed and used within separatist organizing efforts. The matter prompted investigations by Elections Alberta, privacy authorities, and police. Critics characterize the episode as one of the most significant alleged political data breaches in recent Canadian history. Supporters of investigations argue it demonstrates the risks of importing highly aggressive U.S.-style political mobilization techniques into Canadian politics. [pressprogress.ca]
The media ecosystem surrounding Alberta separatism is another significant focus. CBC’s reporting highlights the rise of anonymous online influencers who have become more important than traditional political leaders in shaping the movement’s message. In particular, the “Rise of Alberta” social media account has become one of the dominant voices advocating independence. Researchers cited by CBC found that the account generates vast online engagement through a mix of memes, videos, political commentary, and merchandise sales. CBC also identified links between the account’s infrastructure and organizations associated with separatist leader Keith Wilson, although Wilson denied operating the account himself and said it belonged to a website designer who also worked for his organizations. [cbc.ca]
The CBC investigation raises broader concerns about anonymous political campaigning. Researchers argue that an account capable of driving a substantial share of online discussion can exert significant influence without the scrutiny normally applied to political parties or elected officials. The report also notes the account’s use of provocative and culture-war-oriented messaging, illustrating how Alberta separatism increasingly intersects with online populist and right-wing political cultures. [cbc.ca]
Several opinion pieces take a sharply critical view of the separatist movement itself. Their authors argue that the movement’s leaders have become liabilities because they make unrealistic claims about Alberta’s future, alienate potential supporters, and damage the credibility of the independence cause. Critics also contend that discussions about trading strategic resources or seeking American political assistance make the movement appear willing to compromise Alberta’s long-term interests in pursuit of separation. These writers suggest that separatism is increasingly associated with fringe activism rather than a broad-based constitutional movement.
A recurring concern is the influence of MAGA-style politics in Alberta. Bratt and other observers argue that parts of the movement have adopted tactics, narratives, and networks that closely resemble contemporary American conservative activism. This includes skepticism toward mainstream institutions, the growth of alternative media ecosystems, and fears that referendum results could be challenged if they do not favour independence. Bratt warns that some activists are already questioning electoral processes and that similar rhetoric to the American “Stop the Steal” movement could emerge after Alberta’s referendum. [energi.media]
The collection of articles also reflects a broader national debate. Critics fear that U.S. political actors see Alberta separatism as an opportunity to exert influence over Canada. Others argue that allegations of foreign interference are being exaggerated for political purposes. Regardless of viewpoint, the stories collectively show that Alberta separatism has evolved beyond a provincial grievance movement focused on equalization, energy policy, and western alienation. It now intersects with international politics, social media influence networks, privacy controversies, and debates about Canadian sovereignty. [thewalrus.ca], [pressprogress.ca], [cbc.ca], [energi.media]
Taken together, the articles portray a movement at a crossroads. Separatist leaders have succeeded in drawing unprecedented attention to their cause, but they have also attracted scrutiny over their relationships with American political actors, their methods of voter mobilization, and the increasingly polarized online ecosystem surrounding the campaign. Whether viewed as legitimate advocates for self-determination or as a movement flirting with foreign influence, the coverage suggests that the future of Alberta separatism is now tied not only to Alberta politics, but also to larger questions about democracy, sovereignty, and the influence of cross-border political movements in Canada. [thewalrus.ca], [pressprogress.ca], [cbc.ca], [energi.media]
Alberta Separatism and American Influence: How a Regional Movement Became an International Controve
Across the eleven articles, a common narrative emerges: Alberta separatism is no longer being discussed solely as a domestic Canadian political movement. The stories focus on growing connections between some Alberta separatist activists and U.S. Republican political networks, concerns about foreign interference, the role of online organizing, and a broader debate over whether separatist leaders are helping or harming their own cause.A central theme is a series of reports that Alberta separatist organizers sought contacts with officials and political actors in the United States. According to reporting discussed across multiple outlets, separatist representatives met with U.S. State Department officials and explored how an independent Alberta might build closer economic ties with the United States. Reported ideas included use of the U.S. dollar, expanded energy cooperation, transportation corridors, access to resources, and possible economic support during a transition to independence. However, accounts differed regarding exactly what was discussed, and U.S. officials reportedly denied offering support or commitments. Critics argue that these contacts crossed a political line because the future of Canada should be decided by Canadians, while supporters portray the discussions as diplomacy and strategic planning. [thewalrus.ca], [energi.media]
The question of foreign interference runs throughout the coverage. Several writers argue that while Alberta separatists have the democratic right to advocate for independence, actively seeking assistance from foreign political actors is much more controversial. Political scientist Stewart Prest, writing in The Walrus, compares the current situation to past Canadian reactions to outside involvement in Quebec sovereignty debates. He argues that foreign governments and political movements should not influence decisions about Canada’s territorial future and calls for a clear federal response against external interference. Prest maintains that the issue is not simply separatism itself, but the involvement of American political actors in a Canadian constitutional question. [thewalrus.ca]
At the same time, multiple stories examine whether such actions amount to treason. The general conclusion is that, under Canadian law, the answer is likely no. Critics may describe the conduct as disloyal or a betrayal of Canada, but experts quoted in several articles say the legal definition of treason is much narrower. Mount Royal University political scientist Duane Bratt argues that the conduct is better understood as foreign political interference than treason. He acknowledges a long history of independence movements around the world seeking international support, while expressing greater concern about Americans willing to become involved in Canadian political disputes. [thewalrus.ca], [energi.media]
Another major theme is the relationship between Alberta separatist activists and Republican political networks in the United States. Reporting highlighted contacts with Michigan Republican organizers and the use of voter-mobilization techniques developed for U.S. conservative campaigns. One of the most detailed investigations examined the Centurion Project, a political organizing effort connected to Alberta for separatist activism. According to PressProgress, the project drew inspiration from a Michigan-based Republican initiative called 10xVotes and adapted its voter-identification model for Alberta. The article traces connections between the app’s creators, American conservative activists, prominent Trump supporters, and influential Republican donors. It also notes that U.S. Ambassador Pete Hoekstra said he had no knowledge of the Alberta project’s use of the technology and was not involved with its operations. [pressprogress.ca]
The Centurion Project story is closely tied to concerns about privacy and election integrity. Investigations cited in the coverage describe allegations that information from Alberta’s voters list was improperly accessed and used within separatist organizing efforts. The matter prompted investigations by Elections Alberta, privacy authorities, and police. Critics characterize the episode as one of the most significant alleged political data breaches in recent Canadian history. Supporters of investigations argue it demonstrates the risks of importing highly aggressive U.S.-style political mobilization techniques into Canadian politics. [pressprogress.ca]
The media ecosystem surrounding Alberta separatism is another significant focus. CBC’s reporting highlights the rise of anonymous online influencers who have become more important than traditional political leaders in shaping the movement’s message. In particular, the “Rise of Alberta” social media account has become one of the dominant voices advocating independence. Researchers cited by CBC found that the account generates vast online engagement through a mix of memes, videos, political commentary, and merchandise sales. CBC also identified links between the account’s infrastructure and organizations associated with separatist leader Keith Wilson, although Wilson denied operating the account himself and said it belonged to a website designer who also worked for his organizations. [cbc.ca]
The CBC investigation raises broader concerns about anonymous political campaigning. Researchers argue that an account capable of driving a substantial share of online discussion can exert significant influence without the scrutiny normally applied to political parties or elected officials. The report also notes the account’s use of provocative and culture-war-oriented messaging, illustrating how Alberta separatism increasingly intersects with online populist and right-wing political cultures. [cbc.ca]
Several opinion pieces take a sharply critical view of the separatist movement itself. Their authors argue that the movement’s leaders have become liabilities because they make unrealistic claims about Alberta’s future, alienate potential supporters, and damage the credibility of the independence cause. Critics also contend that discussions about trading strategic resources or seeking American political assistance make the movement appear willing to compromise Alberta’s long-term interests in pursuit of separation. These writers suggest that separatism is increasingly associated with fringe activism rather than a broad-based constitutional movement.
A recurring concern is the influence of MAGA-style politics in Alberta. Bratt and other observers argue that parts of the movement have adopted tactics, narratives, and networks that closely resemble contemporary American conservative activism. This includes skepticism toward mainstream institutions, the growth of alternative media ecosystems, and fears that referendum results could be challenged if they do not favour independence. Bratt warns that some activists are already questioning electoral processes and that similar rhetoric to the American “Stop the Steal” movement could emerge after Alberta’s referendum. [energi.media]
The collection of articles also reflects a broader national debate. Critics fear that U.S. political actors see Alberta separatism as an opportunity to exert influence over Canada. Others argue that allegations of foreign interference are being exaggerated for political purposes. Regardless of viewpoint, the stories collectively show that Alberta separatism has evolved beyond a provincial grievance movement focused on equalization, energy policy, and western alienation. It now intersects with international politics, social media influence networks, privacy controversies, and debates about Canadian sovereignty. [thewalrus.ca], [pressprogress.ca], [cbc.ca], [energi.media]
Taken together, the articles portray a movement at a crossroads. Separatist leaders have succeeded in drawing unprecedented attention to their cause, but they have also attracted scrutiny over their relationships with American political actors, their methods of voter mobilization, and the increasingly polarized online ecosystem surrounding the campaign. Whether viewed as legitimate advocates for self-determination or as a movement flirting with foreign influence, the coverage suggests that the future of Alberta separatism is now tied not only to Alberta politics, but also to larger questions about democracy, sovereignty, and the influence of cross-border political movements in Canada. [thewalrus.ca], [pressprogress.ca], [cbc.ca], [energi.media]
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Obviously the Marxist project is modernist.
Obviously it's spooky season so this is a spook thread.
Can there even be a post-modern political project?
How we define the term post-modern seems critical.
Consider it a dialectic which doesn't remove the negated.
If we do this can we even negate "illegitimate" uses of power.
There's no "good" and "evil" here, and mass doesn't help.
Is it just our own good and evil and will to power?
Maybe we even think we're a "good" person.
And use our little power to enforce "good" ends…
But there's just the means available, and our willingness.
Does it come full circle in the end?
Maybe everyone already realizes this.
Except the "establishment" clinging to remnants of modernity.
Obviously the Marxist project is modernist.
Obviously it's spooky season so this is a spook thread.
Can there even be a post-modern political project?
How we define the term post-modern seems critical.
Consider it a dialectic which doesn't remove the negated.
If we do this can we even negate "illegitimate" uses of power.
There's no "good" and "evil" here, and mass doesn't help.
Is it just our own good and evil and will to power?
Maybe we even think we're a "good" person.
And use our little power to enforce "good" ends…
But there's just the means available, and our willingness.
Does it come full circle in the end?
Maybe everyone already realizes this.
Except the "establishment" clinging to remnants of modernity.
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Why do Leftists/Marxists in particular get upset when capitalist countries oppose them, when their ideology necessarily calls for overthrowing of their governments. When you call for world revolution their are naturally going to be forces that will oppose you.
Marxists argue that capitalists will do whatever is necessary to preserve their power, including supporting or installing fascist regimes. If you therefore believe that violent revolution is ultimately necessary to overthrow the bourgeoisie, why is it surprising when the bourgeoisie commits atrocities in the name of preserving its own power?
Why do Leftists/Marxists in particular get upset when capitalist countries oppose them, when their ideology necessarily calls for overthrowing of their governments. When you call for world revolution their are naturally going to be forces that will oppose you.
Marxists argue that capitalists will do whatever is necessary to preserve their power, including supporting or installing fascist regimes. If you therefore believe that violent revolution is ultimately necessary to overthrow the bourgeoisie, why is it surprising when the bourgeoisie commits atrocities in the name of preserving its own power?
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If you calm down and look at Jesus's message thinking of it as a political message then it can be summed up to a sort of proto utopian communism. He advocated for better treatment for slaves (which is really a lukewarm reformist stance), an abandonment of money and instead life in communities where people share their shit and help each other. He also invented the threat of hell to force people to do as he said and his rhetoric and methods had a ton of weaknesses. His insistence of pacifism only made his followers easy to hunt down and for the people in power to distort his ideas.
In the end Jesus's thought was entirely recuperated by the Romans. They took Jesus out of christianity and interpreted everything he said in a way that allowed them to do what they were already doing: kill rape and pillage everyone, which eventually merged (and turned) into christianity itself. Most of christian history of destruction is just an influence of the roman co-opted version Jesus's political movement with very little of Jesus himself, which means Jesus is a catastrophically failed political leader whose life should be interpreted as a failed revolutionary movement, and as all revolutionary movements it should be studied to avoid the same mistakes. For example, he proved that martyrism and pacifism do not work at all, that speaking in vague riddles will just make it easier for your enemies to just distort everything you said in a way that is convenient to themselves, and that communism must be materialist.
Jesus as a political figure?
Back in Jesus's time when politics and religion were firmly merged together and people couldn't even conceptualize politics without god so I guess it must've made sense for a man to develop a political vision and think of it all as a revelation from heavens.If you calm down and look at Jesus's message thinking of it as a political message then it can be summed up to a sort of proto utopian communism. He advocated for better treatment for slaves (which is really a lukewarm reformist stance), an abandonment of money and instead life in communities where people share their shit and help each other. He also invented the threat of hell to force people to do as he said and his rhetoric and methods had a ton of weaknesses. His insistence of pacifism only made his followers easy to hunt down and for the people in power to distort his ideas.
In the end Jesus's thought was entirely recuperated by the Romans. They took Jesus out of christianity and interpreted everything he said in a way that allowed them to do what they were already doing: kill rape and pillage everyone, which eventually merged (and turned) into christianity itself. Most of christian history of destruction is just an influence of the roman co-opted version Jesus's political movement with very little of Jesus himself, which means Jesus is a catastrophically failed political leader whose life should be interpreted as a failed revolutionary movement, and as all revolutionary movements it should be studied to avoid the same mistakes. For example, he proved that martyrism and pacifism do not work at all, that speaking in vague riddles will just make it easier for your enemies to just distort everything you said in a way that is convenient to themselves, and that communism must be materialist.
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>rius's marxism: a graphic guide
>politzer's elementary principles of philosophy
>carlo cafiero's summarized version of capital
Why? because those are all easy, not too long and kinda get most of the really important things you need to understand before you read everything else.
3 essential starter books
If you had to choose 3 essential books to show to baby communists that haven't read shit other than maybe instragram posts or watched breatubers, what books would you pick? for me it'd be>rius's marxism: a graphic guide
>politzer's elementary principles of philosophy
>carlo cafiero's summarized version of capital
Why? because those are all easy, not too long and kinda get most of the really important things you need to understand before you read everything else.
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The 2026 Latinobarómetro survey showed that for the first time since the annual survey began in 1995, China is seen as a more benign force than the United States. It showed 57 percent of people in Latin America considering the United States to be a positive influence, down from 60 percent in 2020. China, meanwhile, was considered a positive influence by 65 percent of respondents, a jump from the 48 percent it scored six years ago.
https://www.batimes.com.ar/news/latin-america/poll-china-a-more-positive-influence-than-us-in-latin-america.phtml
https://archive.ph/m8x0f
Lula's lead over Bolsonaro narrows ahead of Brazil vote, CNT/MDA poll shows
In a first-round scenario, Lula would receive 43.1% of voter support, followed by Bolsonaro (38%), Augusto Cury (3.2%), Ronaldo Caiado (3%) and Renan Santos (1.5%), according to the poll. A September 15 poll had Lula at 40.5%, Bolsonaro at 30.4%, Cury at 6%, Caiado at 3% and Santos at 2.7%
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/lulas-lead-over-bolsonaro-narrows-ahead-brazil-vote-cntmda-poll-shows-2026-10-03/
Mexico City March Marks 58 Years Since Tlatelolco Massacre
Thousands marched in Mexico City on Friday to mark 58 years since the 1968 Tlatelolco student massacre, as President Claudia Sheinbaum called for keeping the memory alive and demanded “never again” state repression.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/mexico-city-march-marks-58-years-since-tlatelolco-massacre/
‘This can’t go on’: tens of thousands protest against housing crisis in Spain
Demonstrators on Saturday waved posters calling for a general strike after the measures drawn up to address mass anger over the eviction of an 87-year-old woman in Madrid, and other housing issues, were rejected in parliament on Friday.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/03/spain-housing-protest
Hundreds of French schools remain closed as riot police clash with student protesters
Some 400 French schools were closed Friday as the student protests that began in high schools in the Paris region last week have spread across France and grown increasingly violent. The students are protesting against teacher shortages, dilapidated school buildings and overcrowding in classrooms.
https://www.france24.com/en/france/20261002-hundreds-of-french-schools-remain-closed-as-student-protests-turn-violent
https://archive.ph/BHAbI
1 in 5 Children in Lebanon Facing Daily Hunger Due to Israeli Assault: UNICEF
Children go to bed hungry in at least one in five households, according to a survey conducted by UNICEF in July, while nearly a third are going without needed healthcare because their families are unable to afford it. Four in five households, the report says, have found it harder to afford basic necessities.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/lebanon-children-hunger
Egyptian journalists stage sit-in over detention of six reporters
Journalists gathered at the Egyptian Journalists Syndicate, whose general assembly declared itself in permanent session and announced an open-ended sit-in at the syndicate's headquarters until its council meets on Monday to decide on further action.
https://www.newarab.com/news/egyptian-journalists-stage-sit-over-detention-six-reporters
Libyan unity talks upended as warlord’s son linked to drone attacks on fuel facilities
Allegations that the son of the Libyan warlord Khalifa Haftar oversaw a “terror cell” that launched drone attacks on fuel storage facilities and power stations in western Libya have upended plans for the Tripoli-based government of national unity (GNU) to continue cooperating with Haftar on a plan to unify the country. Saddam Haftar, the deputy commander of the so-called Libyan National Army (LNA), has increasingly been seen by the US as an important figure in its plans to unify Libyan security, judicial and political institutions.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/03/libyan-unity-talks-warlord-son-linked-drone-attack-khalifa-haftar
EFF pledges to revive Nelson Mandela Bay infrastructure
The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) mayoral candidate in the Nelson Mandela Bay in the Eastern Cape, Sinawo Thambo, says the party will focus on reviving the city’s infrastructure should they win the November 4th local government elections in the metro. Thambo says the city’s infrastructure needs major rehabilitation.
https://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/eff-pledges-to-revive-nelson-mandela-bay-infrastructure/
Ibaraki won’t accept second-stage survey for nuclear waste site, governor says
The remarks came after Sadayuki Suzuki, mayor of Hitachiomiya in Ibaraki, announced Wednesday that his city will accept a literature survey, the first stage of the selection process. Conducting a preliminary survey requires the consent of the prefectural governor.
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/10/03/japan/science-health/ibaraki-governor-nuclear-waste-survey/
https://archive.ph/Ci9hI
China initiates anti-dumping investigation into p-nitrotoluene from EU
The ministry said the probe was initiated after a complaint from China's domestic industry. Preliminary evidence showed the prices of EU imports fell nearly 60% cumulatively between 2022 and 2025, it said. The investigation comes amid growing trade tensions between China and the European Union, which have increasingly resorted to anti-dumping and other trade defence measures targeting each other's products.
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-initiates-anti-dumping-investigation-into-p-nitrotoluene-eu-2026-10-03/
Another interest rate rise intensifies social and political crisis in Australia
This represents another steep cut to living standards. For a borrower with an average $750,000 home loan, monthly mortgage payments will be about $115 higher after the latest increase and $450 higher than at the start of the year—almost $5,500 higher per year. The impact is so severe because the cost of housing has doubled over the past 15 years.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/10/03/yflh-o03.html
News 10/3/26
Poll: China a more positive influence than US in Latin AmericaThe 2026 Latinobarómetro survey showed that for the first time since the annual survey began in 1995, China is seen as a more benign force than the United States. It showed 57 percent of people in Latin America considering the United States to be a positive influence, down from 60 percent in 2020. China, meanwhile, was considered a positive influence by 65 percent of respondents, a jump from the 48 percent it scored six years ago.
https://www.batimes.com.ar/news/latin-america/poll-china-a-more-positive-influence-than-us-in-latin-america.phtml
https://archive.ph/m8x0f
Lula's lead over Bolsonaro narrows ahead of Brazil vote, CNT/MDA poll shows
In a first-round scenario, Lula would receive 43.1% of voter support, followed by Bolsonaro (38%), Augusto Cury (3.2%), Ronaldo Caiado (3%) and Renan Santos (1.5%), according to the poll. A September 15 poll had Lula at 40.5%, Bolsonaro at 30.4%, Cury at 6%, Caiado at 3% and Santos at 2.7%
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/lulas-lead-over-bolsonaro-narrows-ahead-brazil-vote-cntmda-poll-shows-2026-10-03/
Mexico City March Marks 58 Years Since Tlatelolco Massacre
Thousands marched in Mexico City on Friday to mark 58 years since the 1968 Tlatelolco student massacre, as President Claudia Sheinbaum called for keeping the memory alive and demanded “never again” state repression.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/mexico-city-march-marks-58-years-since-tlatelolco-massacre/
‘This can’t go on’: tens of thousands protest against housing crisis in Spain
Demonstrators on Saturday waved posters calling for a general strike after the measures drawn up to address mass anger over the eviction of an 87-year-old woman in Madrid, and other housing issues, were rejected in parliament on Friday.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/03/spain-housing-protest
Hundreds of French schools remain closed as riot police clash with student protesters
Some 400 French schools were closed Friday as the student protests that began in high schools in the Paris region last week have spread across France and grown increasingly violent. The students are protesting against teacher shortages, dilapidated school buildings and overcrowding in classrooms.
https://www.france24.com/en/france/20261002-hundreds-of-french-schools-remain-closed-as-student-protests-turn-violent
https://archive.ph/BHAbI
1 in 5 Children in Lebanon Facing Daily Hunger Due to Israeli Assault: UNICEF
Children go to bed hungry in at least one in five households, according to a survey conducted by UNICEF in July, while nearly a third are going without needed healthcare because their families are unable to afford it. Four in five households, the report says, have found it harder to afford basic necessities.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/lebanon-children-hunger
Egyptian journalists stage sit-in over detention of six reporters
Journalists gathered at the Egyptian Journalists Syndicate, whose general assembly declared itself in permanent session and announced an open-ended sit-in at the syndicate's headquarters until its council meets on Monday to decide on further action.
https://www.newarab.com/news/egyptian-journalists-stage-sit-over-detention-six-reporters
Libyan unity talks upended as warlord’s son linked to drone attacks on fuel facilities
Allegations that the son of the Libyan warlord Khalifa Haftar oversaw a “terror cell” that launched drone attacks on fuel storage facilities and power stations in western Libya have upended plans for the Tripoli-based government of national unity (GNU) to continue cooperating with Haftar on a plan to unify the country. Saddam Haftar, the deputy commander of the so-called Libyan National Army (LNA), has increasingly been seen by the US as an important figure in its plans to unify Libyan security, judicial and political institutions.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/03/libyan-unity-talks-warlord-son-linked-drone-attack-khalifa-haftar
EFF pledges to revive Nelson Mandela Bay infrastructure
The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) mayoral candidate in the Nelson Mandela Bay in the Eastern Cape, Sinawo Thambo, says the party will focus on reviving the city’s infrastructure should they win the November 4th local government elections in the metro. Thambo says the city’s infrastructure needs major rehabilitation.
https://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/eff-pledges-to-revive-nelson-mandela-bay-infrastructure/
Ibaraki won’t accept second-stage survey for nuclear waste site, governor says
The remarks came after Sadayuki Suzuki, mayor of Hitachiomiya in Ibaraki, announced Wednesday that his city will accept a literature survey, the first stage of the selection process. Conducting a preliminary survey requires the consent of the prefectural governor.
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/10/03/japan/science-health/ibaraki-governor-nuclear-waste-survey/
https://archive.ph/Ci9hI
China initiates anti-dumping investigation into p-nitrotoluene from EU
The ministry said the probe was initiated after a complaint from China's domestic industry. Preliminary evidence showed the prices of EU imports fell nearly 60% cumulatively between 2022 and 2025, it said. The investigation comes amid growing trade tensions between China and the European Union, which have increasingly resorted to anti-dumping and other trade defence measures targeting each other's products.
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-initiates-anti-dumping-investigation-into-p-nitrotoluene-eu-2026-10-03/
Another interest rate rise intensifies social and political crisis in Australia
This represents another steep cut to living standards. For a borrower with an average $750,000 home loan, monthly mortgage payments will be about $115 higher after the latest increase and $450 higher than at the start of the year—almost $5,500 higher per year. The impact is so severe because the cost of housing has doubled over the past 15 years.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/10/03/yflh-o03.html
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Why are Europeans becoming such chuds?
They're going on trips to watch how Israel represses Palestinians in the west and take notes.
The kind of repression Israel uses is what lead to George floyd
Israel exporting repression to europe
Politicians in europe are openly claiming they wish they could have an IDF at home.Why are Europeans becoming such chuds?
They're going on trips to watch how Israel represses Palestinians in the west and take notes.
The kind of repression Israel uses is what lead to George floyd
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Prison Abolition
Hey everyone, I don't really understand what people mean when they say they are for 'prison abolition', I get the stuff about economic factors need to be tackled and there should be more services trying to stop recidivism, and keep people out of prison, but at the same time don't we still need prisons for the worst offenders? Or at least some kind of place to put people that are a danger to society? Do prison abolitionists have any kind of answer for this? What places should I research?
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Is Israel the most reactionary country that has ever existed? People will point out nazi Germany but Israel is much more xenophobic and racist. The only difference is that it's a "democracy" and nazi Germany a one party state.
Is Israel the most reactionary country that has ever existed? People will point out nazi Germany but Israel is much more xenophobic and racist. The only difference is that it's a "democracy" and nazi Germany a one party state.
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Share your thoughts.
Infighting is bad
What are the problems with leftist rhetoric and the purity policing and cannibalism within the community? Why can't people disagree on certain topics and work towards the same goal?Share your thoughts.
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Speaking in the interview, Lapid described the exchange as painful and deeply troubling. "I had a painful meeting with a group of very young people, and I heard from them all those statements calling for killing everyone and claiming that there are no innocents," he said. When asked "Even babies?", he said the group replied: "Babies too, because eventually they will grow up and become terrorists."
https://en.yenisafak.com/world/lapid-young-israelis-backed-killing-everyone-in-gaza-3724030
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Pakistan sent four planeloads of weapons to Saudi-backed government in Yemen: Report
The Pakistani weapons shipments to the port city of Aden, reported by Reuters on Friday, suggest that Islamabad is increasing its involvement in the war. Pakistan delivered air defence systems, light artillery, drones and anti-drone systems to Aden, Reuters reported, citing a Pakistani government official. In addition, Pakistani military advisers are also on the ground with their Saudi counterparts supporting Yemeni troops.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/pakistan-sent-four-planeloads-weapons-saudi-backed-government-yemen-report
US sends third aircraft carrier to Middle East amid stalemate in Iran war
The deployment, which includes a specialist amphibious attack group, underscores the rapidly evolving dynamic of Trump’s war against Iran as midterm elections in the US loom large. Trump has threatened that a post-midterm election escalation remains a viable option – despite his initial promises that the war would last a matter of weeks.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/02/us-third-aircraft-carrier-middle-east-iran
Kandahar governor denies hosting militant leaders’ talks on attacks in Pakistan
Sharif alleged at a televised news conference on Thursday that members of several militant groups had met in Kandahar on Aug. 26. He said the meeting was attended by members of the outlawed Baloch Liberation Army, or BLA, an ethnic separatist group fighting for an independent Balochistan; al-Qaida in the Indian Subcontinent, or AQIS, the global militant network’s South Asian affiliate; and the Hafiz Gul Bahadur group, an independent Pakistani Islamist militant network rooted in North Waziristan.
https://apnews.com/article/afghanistan-pakistan-airstrikes-fighting-militants-0477a65dd16745f5fc766a7b884d7f30
Can India’s ‘cockroach’ movement oust Modi’s election chief?
The cockroach movement is taking the street protests to several Indian cities in the coming days, including in the country’s financial capital, Mumbai, later on Friday. But youth protest leaders, emboldened by their success against the education minister, face a new set of challenges as they set their sights on the Modi government’s most politically prized bureaucrat.
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2026/10/2/can-indias-cockroach-movement-oust-modis-election-chief
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Debt-saddled Argentina pitches ‘golden passport’ scheme to woo wealthy foreigners
Applicants have two options: make a nonrefundable $350,000 contribution to the Argentine Treasury or invest $800,000 in a new government bond that must be held for seven years. Contributions would increase depending on family size, with a family of four expected to pay $500,000, officials said.
https://apnews.com/article/argentina-golden-passport-milei-trump-peter-thiel-elon-musk-23cad1def7422a3a26dce8ed9ad0ac22
Palestinians from Gaza rebuild in Mexico City through food
Abed is one of roughly 160 Palestinians living in Mexico, part of the nearly 1.9 million people displaced from their homes since the war in Gaza began in 2023. Most remain in the territory and many of those who left have resettled in neighboring Egypt and Jordan. But a tiny fraction have made their way to Mexico, helping to roughly double the country's Palestinian population since 2022, according to official figures.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/palestinians-gaza-rebuild-mexico-city-through-food-2026-10-02/
Bolivia jails prosecutor investigating Trump operative Cerimedo on Washington’s orders
Bolivian police arrested Attorney General Roger Mariaca late Wednesday night at Viru Viru International Airport in Santa Cruz, less than 48 hours after the Trump administration revoked his US visa and accused him of taking bribes from drug traffickers. Mariaca was leading the case against Fernando Cerimedo, the Argentine political operative tied to Donald Trump’s inner circle. After serving as Bolivian President Rodrigo Paz’s top adviser, he has been jailed since August, accused of ordering the murder of his former partner.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/10/03/svxa-o03.html
Greens to Announce Plan for ‘Emergency Brake’ on Rent Hikes
Green party leader Zack Polanski will set out plans for a three-year emergency brake on rent hikes to give renters “breathing space”. The move would limit rises to whichever is lowest between Consumer Price Index (CPI) inflation, wage growth or 2% – echoing existing metrics for pensions, which currently increase by the highest of either inflation, wage growth or 2.5%.
https://novaramedia.com/2026/10/02/greens-to-announce-plan-for-emergency-brake-on-rent-hikes/
No breakthrough on Drumcree parade dispute
This followed the failure to find a deal after more than two hours of talks on Thursday night between members of Portadown Orange Order and the Garvaghy Road Residents Coalition (GRRC) with Northern Ireland Secretary Sir Chris Bryant at Hillsborough Castle. Speaking after the talks, Sir Chris said: “We haven’t come to a settled agreement, and it’s a shame, but my door remains open.”
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/no-breakthrough-drumcree-parade-dispute
Pamalakaya condemns 11th CMO Battalion's fake surrender campaign in Navotas City
During the activity, the residents were made to swear an “Oath of Allegiance to the Government of the Republic of the Philippines,” in which they supposedly withdrew their “support for the Communist Terrorist Group (CTG).” Pamalakaya-Pilipinas said it was a blatant lie and malicious to portray the residents who had “surrendered and returned to the fold” as members of its group.
https://philippinerevolution.nu/angbayan/pamalakaya-condemns-11th-cmo-battalions-fake-surrender-campaign-in-navotas-city/
Indonesia president picks billionaires and Islamic leaders for advisory council
Among the 24 new members appointed are local billionaires Dato Sri Tahir, founder of Mayapada Group, and Chairul Tanjung, CT Corp's founder, whose businesses focus on finance, media, retail, and hospitality.The council also includes two former leaders of the Nahdlatul Ulama, Indonesia's largest Islamic organisation, and four senior politicians from Prabowo's coalition partners, three of whom are former cabinet ministers.
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/indonesia-president-picks-billionaires-islamic-leaders-advisory-council-2026-10-02/
News 10/2/26
Lapid says young Israelis backed killing 'everyone' in GazaSpeaking in the interview, Lapid described the exchange as painful and deeply troubling. "I had a painful meeting with a group of very young people, and I heard from them all those statements calling for killing everyone and claiming that there are no innocents," he said. When asked "Even babies?", he said the group replied: "Babies too, because eventually they will grow up and become terrorists."
https://en.yenisafak.com/world/lapid-young-israelis-backed-killing-everyone-in-gaza-3724030
https://archive.ph/y1Yis
Pakistan sent four planeloads of weapons to Saudi-backed government in Yemen: Report
The Pakistani weapons shipments to the port city of Aden, reported by Reuters on Friday, suggest that Islamabad is increasing its involvement in the war. Pakistan delivered air defence systems, light artillery, drones and anti-drone systems to Aden, Reuters reported, citing a Pakistani government official. In addition, Pakistani military advisers are also on the ground with their Saudi counterparts supporting Yemeni troops.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/pakistan-sent-four-planeloads-weapons-saudi-backed-government-yemen-report
US sends third aircraft carrier to Middle East amid stalemate in Iran war
The deployment, which includes a specialist amphibious attack group, underscores the rapidly evolving dynamic of Trump’s war against Iran as midterm elections in the US loom large. Trump has threatened that a post-midterm election escalation remains a viable option – despite his initial promises that the war would last a matter of weeks.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/02/us-third-aircraft-carrier-middle-east-iran
Kandahar governor denies hosting militant leaders’ talks on attacks in Pakistan
Sharif alleged at a televised news conference on Thursday that members of several militant groups had met in Kandahar on Aug. 26. He said the meeting was attended by members of the outlawed Baloch Liberation Army, or BLA, an ethnic separatist group fighting for an independent Balochistan; al-Qaida in the Indian Subcontinent, or AQIS, the global militant network’s South Asian affiliate; and the Hafiz Gul Bahadur group, an independent Pakistani Islamist militant network rooted in North Waziristan.
https://apnews.com/article/afghanistan-pakistan-airstrikes-fighting-militants-0477a65dd16745f5fc766a7b884d7f30
Can India’s ‘cockroach’ movement oust Modi’s election chief?
The cockroach movement is taking the street protests to several Indian cities in the coming days, including in the country’s financial capital, Mumbai, later on Friday. But youth protest leaders, emboldened by their success against the education minister, face a new set of challenges as they set their sights on the Modi government’s most politically prized bureaucrat.
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2026/10/2/can-indias-cockroach-movement-oust-modis-election-chief
https://archive.ph/LRHSw
Debt-saddled Argentina pitches ‘golden passport’ scheme to woo wealthy foreigners
Applicants have two options: make a nonrefundable $350,000 contribution to the Argentine Treasury or invest $800,000 in a new government bond that must be held for seven years. Contributions would increase depending on family size, with a family of four expected to pay $500,000, officials said.
https://apnews.com/article/argentina-golden-passport-milei-trump-peter-thiel-elon-musk-23cad1def7422a3a26dce8ed9ad0ac22
Palestinians from Gaza rebuild in Mexico City through food
Abed is one of roughly 160 Palestinians living in Mexico, part of the nearly 1.9 million people displaced from their homes since the war in Gaza began in 2023. Most remain in the territory and many of those who left have resettled in neighboring Egypt and Jordan. But a tiny fraction have made their way to Mexico, helping to roughly double the country's Palestinian population since 2022, according to official figures.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/palestinians-gaza-rebuild-mexico-city-through-food-2026-10-02/
Bolivia jails prosecutor investigating Trump operative Cerimedo on Washington’s orders
Bolivian police arrested Attorney General Roger Mariaca late Wednesday night at Viru Viru International Airport in Santa Cruz, less than 48 hours after the Trump administration revoked his US visa and accused him of taking bribes from drug traffickers. Mariaca was leading the case against Fernando Cerimedo, the Argentine political operative tied to Donald Trump’s inner circle. After serving as Bolivian President Rodrigo Paz’s top adviser, he has been jailed since August, accused of ordering the murder of his former partner.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/10/03/svxa-o03.html
Greens to Announce Plan for ‘Emergency Brake’ on Rent Hikes
Green party leader Zack Polanski will set out plans for a three-year emergency brake on rent hikes to give renters “breathing space”. The move would limit rises to whichever is lowest between Consumer Price Index (CPI) inflation, wage growth or 2% – echoing existing metrics for pensions, which currently increase by the highest of either inflation, wage growth or 2.5%.
https://novaramedia.com/2026/10/02/greens-to-announce-plan-for-emergency-brake-on-rent-hikes/
No breakthrough on Drumcree parade dispute
This followed the failure to find a deal after more than two hours of talks on Thursday night between members of Portadown Orange Order and the Garvaghy Road Residents Coalition (GRRC) with Northern Ireland Secretary Sir Chris Bryant at Hillsborough Castle. Speaking after the talks, Sir Chris said: “We haven’t come to a settled agreement, and it’s a shame, but my door remains open.”
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/no-breakthrough-drumcree-parade-dispute
Pamalakaya condemns 11th CMO Battalion's fake surrender campaign in Navotas City
During the activity, the residents were made to swear an “Oath of Allegiance to the Government of the Republic of the Philippines,” in which they supposedly withdrew their “support for the Communist Terrorist Group (CTG).” Pamalakaya-Pilipinas said it was a blatant lie and malicious to portray the residents who had “surrendered and returned to the fold” as members of its group.
https://philippinerevolution.nu/angbayan/pamalakaya-condemns-11th-cmo-battalions-fake-surrender-campaign-in-navotas-city/
Indonesia president picks billionaires and Islamic leaders for advisory council
Among the 24 new members appointed are local billionaires Dato Sri Tahir, founder of Mayapada Group, and Chairul Tanjung, CT Corp's founder, whose businesses focus on finance, media, retail, and hospitality.The council also includes two former leaders of the Nahdlatul Ulama, Indonesia's largest Islamic organisation, and four senior politicians from Prabowo's coalition partners, three of whom are former cabinet ministers.
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/indonesia-president-picks-billionaires-islamic-leaders-advisory-council-2026-10-02/
R: 32 / I: 4
>start a left wing populist org
>a bajillion factions form out of the fact that your economic theory is vague as shit
>get a really loud but small left wing faction
>be DSA
>pic unrelated
>start a left wing populist org
>a bajillion factions form out of the fact that your economic theory is vague as shit
>get a really loud but small left wing faction
>be DSA
>pic unrelated
R: 5 / I: 0
Why do communists, fascists, and liberals appropriate internationalism/multiculturalism for their own propaganda purposes?
Really makes you think, huh?
Why do communists, fascists, and liberals appropriate internationalism/multiculturalism for their own propaganda purposes?
Really makes you think, huh?
R: 53 / I: 7
revolution in the imperial core is unlikely but highly necessary because there is no stronger imperialist force that can come in from the outside and ruin the revolution. the third world is more immiserated and has had mores successful revolutions, but those revolutions get rolled back by CIA coups, sanctions, bombs, opportunism, revisionism, etc. the opportunism and revisionism is usually a side effect of trying to protect the gains of the revolution from a stronger outside force without being suicidal. the core would not have to do this. they are the strongest force. who's gonna bomb and sanction america if it has a revolution? china? iran? russia? DPRK? Give me a break.
revolution in the imperial core is unlikely but highly necessary because there is no stronger imperialist force that can come in from the outside and ruin the revolution. the third world is more immiserated and has had mores successful revolutions, but those revolutions get rolled back by CIA coups, sanctions, bombs, opportunism, revisionism, etc. the opportunism and revisionism is usually a side effect of trying to protect the gains of the revolution from a stronger outside force without being suicidal. the core would not have to do this. they are the strongest force. who's gonna bomb and sanction america if it has a revolution? china? iran? russia? DPRK? Give me a break.
R: 12 / I: 0
>Freedom to trade in grain is a return to capitalism, to the full power of the landowners and capitalists, to a savage struggle between people for profit, to the "free" enrichment of the few, to the poverty of the masses, to the eternal bondage we see in all bourgeois states, including the freest and most democratic republics.
Lenin, Freedom to Trade in Grain, August 1919
http://www.marx2mao.com/Lenin/FTG19.html
>[…]we made the mistake of deciding to go over directly to communist production and distribution. We thought that under the surplus-food appropriation system the peasants would provide us with the required quantity of grain, which we could distribute among the factories and thus achieve communist production and distribution […] The New Economic Policy means substituting a tax for the requisitioning of food; it means reverting to capitalism to a considerable extent […] for the abolition of the surplus-food appropriation system means allowing the peasants to trade freely in their surplus agricultural produce, in whatever is left over after the tax is collected—and the tax takes only a small share of that produce. The peasants constitute a huge section of our population and of our entire economy, and that is why capitalism must grow out of this soil of free trading.
Lenin, The New Economic Policy, October 1921
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1921/oct/17.htm
I don't draw the comparison between these two quotes to say that Lenin was wrong or bad or stupid, on the contrary, I think the contradictions of actually seizing and wielding power are more complex than what revolutionary theory can prepare you for. This does not mean that every last bit of revisionism and opportunism are justified, but it also means you shouldn't dismiss every hard decision that someone makes in real life as revisionism or opportunism, no?
Hard Decisions
>>2920506>Freedom to trade in grain is a return to capitalism, to the full power of the landowners and capitalists, to a savage struggle between people for profit, to the "free" enrichment of the few, to the poverty of the masses, to the eternal bondage we see in all bourgeois states, including the freest and most democratic republics.
Lenin, Freedom to Trade in Grain, August 1919
http://www.marx2mao.com/Lenin/FTG19.html
>[…]we made the mistake of deciding to go over directly to communist production and distribution. We thought that under the surplus-food appropriation system the peasants would provide us with the required quantity of grain, which we could distribute among the factories and thus achieve communist production and distribution […] The New Economic Policy means substituting a tax for the requisitioning of food; it means reverting to capitalism to a considerable extent […] for the abolition of the surplus-food appropriation system means allowing the peasants to trade freely in their surplus agricultural produce, in whatever is left over after the tax is collected—and the tax takes only a small share of that produce. The peasants constitute a huge section of our population and of our entire economy, and that is why capitalism must grow out of this soil of free trading.
Lenin, The New Economic Policy, October 1921
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1921/oct/17.htm
I don't draw the comparison between these two quotes to say that Lenin was wrong or bad or stupid, on the contrary, I think the contradictions of actually seizing and wielding power are more complex than what revolutionary theory can prepare you for. This does not mean that every last bit of revisionism and opportunism are justified, but it also means you shouldn't dismiss every hard decision that someone makes in real life as revisionism or opportunism, no?
R: 115 / I: 17
Why were so many communist leaders so callous about the lives of workers?
It seems like they cared more about trying to create a productive developed society than the people that society would actually be created for.
Why were so many communist leaders so callous about the lives of workers?
It seems like they cared more about trying to create a productive developed society than the people that society would actually be created for.
R: 2 / I: 0
The strike punctured Addis Ababa’s relative calm despite Ethiopia’s federal government battling an alliance of rebel movements opposed to Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed in Ethiopia’s regions of Tigray, Amhara and Afar. Western and regional officials in Addis Ababa confirmed to Middle East Eye the sound of explosions in the capital due to a drone strike. AFP reported that the explosion rocked the Ethiopian National Defence Force headquarters in the Tor Hayloch area of Addis Ababa. In a statement, Ethiopia accused Eritrea of engaging in “direct and indirect acts of hostility and belligerence” against it.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/eritrea-and-ethiopia-shutter-embassies-new-red-sea-war-looming
Protesters against illegal immigration in South Africa call for more deportations
With some brandishing traditional Zulu weapons and singing cultural songs, they marched through Durban’s streets. Police didn’t report any incidents of violence against foreigners during the protest. A similar deadline set for June 30 sparked a mass repatriation of foreigners to their various African countries after attacks on immigrants. The governments of those nations arranged for the evacuation of their citizens.
https://apnews.com/article/south-africa-illegal-immigration-protest-tensions-c086e617b555643510541f9c9906ca4b
Flydubai co-pilot ‘assaulted’ captain before landing: Initial Saudi probe
Saudi Arabia’s Interior Ministry says that a preliminary investigation into the emergency landing of a Flydubai flight this week found that “the pilot was assaulted by his co-pilot, resulting in various injuries to both”. the ministry said on Thursday that an initial investigation into the flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv was conducted by Saudi authorities with the participation of a security team from the United Arab Emirates.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10/1/flydubai-co-pilot-assaulted-captain-before-landing-initial-saudi-probe
https://archive.ph/3ZCP0
Crude oil exports from strait of Hormuz largely return to pre-war levels
Pipeline exports and ship-to-ship transfers are among the methods being used, according to analysts tracking the situation, while the US military continues to escort some vessels. However, flows of refined products such as diesel remain constrained, pushing prices higher. At least 16.5m barrels per day (bpd) left the region in September, according to figures from the global trade intelligence firm Kpler, equalling the pre-war average, excluding Iran. The figure is 10.5m bpd higher than the monthly average for March, during the first weeks of the Iran war.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/oct/01/crude-oil-exports-strait-of-hormuz-transport-gulf-region-diesel
CPS asked to consider manslaughter charges over Grenfell Tower fire
Detectives from the Metropolitan Police confirmed they had passed files relating to 20 organisations and 54 individuals to the CPS, including the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. The 2017 blaze in North Kensington, west London, killed 72 people, and a public inquiry concluded that all the deaths were avoidable, with residents having been “badly failed” by authorities “in most cases through incompetence but in some cases through dishonesty and greed.”
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/cps-asked-consider-manslaughter-charges-over-grenfell-tower-fire
Serbia’s Vucic Pardons ‘Novi Sad 12’ as ‘Act of Mercy’ Before Resigning
The 12 activists, linked to the opposition Free Citizens Movement, PSG, and the activist group Students Against Authoritarian Rule, STAV, were charged with preparing acts against Serbia’s constitutional order and security. The charges arose from a recording of the meeting between the indictees ahead of a March 2025 rally that became the largest in Serbian history. Six of them spent more than seven months in detention and house arrest before being released to defend themselves at liberty.
https://balkaninsight.com/2026/09/28/serbias-vucic-pardons-novi-sad-12-as-act-of-mercy-before-resigning/bi/
https://archive.ph/cPEJJ
Military shoots and abducts pregnant Red fighter on medical leave in Tagum City
New People’s Army (NPA) member Arnida Cuaton Maguiguilid (Ka Lovi/Fikong/Yassy) is paralyzed from the waist down after she was shot by military agents in Barangay Visayan, Tagum City, on September 19. Maguiguilid was shot despite her hors de combat status while on medical leave. She was later abducted and is being paraded as having “surrendered” to military forces. Maguiguilid was in Tagum City for a medical check-up for her complicated pregnancy. She has diabetes and high blood pressure. Her pregnancy is being closely monitored after having suffered pre-eclampsia in her previous two deliveries, which resulted in the death of her first child.
https://philippinerevolution.nu/angbayan/military-shoots-and-abducts-pregnant-red-fighter-on-medical-leave-in-tagum-city/
Venezuela: Feminist Collectives Rally to Demand Abortion Decriminalization
“We are here to protest against the absence of inclusive public policies,” Jackeline López, spokesperson for the Clara Zetkin Women’s Movement, told press. “Abortion remains a taboo subject for Venezuelan authorities, whose response is to criminalize it.” López went on to stress that unsafe abortions mostly plague Venezuelan working-class women. “The current wages do not allow women access to family planning or contraceptive methods,” she continued. “The right to decide over our bodies is a key public healthcare issue, and leaving it unattended means criminalizing poor women.”
https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/venezuela-feminist-collectives-rally-to-demand-abortion-decriminalization/
‘It’s utter surrealism’: Venezuela’s Chavistas lament government’s embrace of Trump
So far there has been no sign of significant resistance from outraged supporters of Chavismo. But Silva claimed the government’s new direction and economic policies could eventually trigger a social uprising and protests. “Worsening economic conditions will degrade [people’s] quality of life, and that pressure is bound to explode. It has to explode – it’s not just wishful thinking. This isn’t a prediction born of desire, it’s an inevitability,” said the broadcaster, who has claimed he is facing investigation for alleged acts of “aggravated defamation and slander against the interim government”.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/01/venezuela-hugo-chavez-supporters-critical-delcy-rodriguez-embrace-of-trump
Colombia’s top corporate lobbyist resigns over reported tensions with president
According to political news magazine La Silla Vacia, the rift between the ANDI and the government was because De la Espriella’s law firm was never allowed to join the ANDI and the association’s donations in response to the august 10 earthquake bypassed the First Lady’s newly founded and very controversial foundation.
https://colombiareports.com/colombias-top-corporate-lobbyist-resigns-over-reported-tensions-with-president/
News 10/1/26
Eritrea and Ethiopia shutter embassies as new Red Sea conflict loomsThe strike punctured Addis Ababa’s relative calm despite Ethiopia’s federal government battling an alliance of rebel movements opposed to Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed in Ethiopia’s regions of Tigray, Amhara and Afar. Western and regional officials in Addis Ababa confirmed to Middle East Eye the sound of explosions in the capital due to a drone strike. AFP reported that the explosion rocked the Ethiopian National Defence Force headquarters in the Tor Hayloch area of Addis Ababa. In a statement, Ethiopia accused Eritrea of engaging in “direct and indirect acts of hostility and belligerence” against it.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/eritrea-and-ethiopia-shutter-embassies-new-red-sea-war-looming
Protesters against illegal immigration in South Africa call for more deportations
With some brandishing traditional Zulu weapons and singing cultural songs, they marched through Durban’s streets. Police didn’t report any incidents of violence against foreigners during the protest. A similar deadline set for June 30 sparked a mass repatriation of foreigners to their various African countries after attacks on immigrants. The governments of those nations arranged for the evacuation of their citizens.
https://apnews.com/article/south-africa-illegal-immigration-protest-tensions-c086e617b555643510541f9c9906ca4b
Flydubai co-pilot ‘assaulted’ captain before landing: Initial Saudi probe
Saudi Arabia’s Interior Ministry says that a preliminary investigation into the emergency landing of a Flydubai flight this week found that “the pilot was assaulted by his co-pilot, resulting in various injuries to both”. the ministry said on Thursday that an initial investigation into the flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv was conducted by Saudi authorities with the participation of a security team from the United Arab Emirates.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10/1/flydubai-co-pilot-assaulted-captain-before-landing-initial-saudi-probe
https://archive.ph/3ZCP0
Crude oil exports from strait of Hormuz largely return to pre-war levels
Pipeline exports and ship-to-ship transfers are among the methods being used, according to analysts tracking the situation, while the US military continues to escort some vessels. However, flows of refined products such as diesel remain constrained, pushing prices higher. At least 16.5m barrels per day (bpd) left the region in September, according to figures from the global trade intelligence firm Kpler, equalling the pre-war average, excluding Iran. The figure is 10.5m bpd higher than the monthly average for March, during the first weeks of the Iran war.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/oct/01/crude-oil-exports-strait-of-hormuz-transport-gulf-region-diesel
CPS asked to consider manslaughter charges over Grenfell Tower fire
Detectives from the Metropolitan Police confirmed they had passed files relating to 20 organisations and 54 individuals to the CPS, including the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. The 2017 blaze in North Kensington, west London, killed 72 people, and a public inquiry concluded that all the deaths were avoidable, with residents having been “badly failed” by authorities “in most cases through incompetence but in some cases through dishonesty and greed.”
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/cps-asked-consider-manslaughter-charges-over-grenfell-tower-fire
Serbia’s Vucic Pardons ‘Novi Sad 12’ as ‘Act of Mercy’ Before Resigning
The 12 activists, linked to the opposition Free Citizens Movement, PSG, and the activist group Students Against Authoritarian Rule, STAV, were charged with preparing acts against Serbia’s constitutional order and security. The charges arose from a recording of the meeting between the indictees ahead of a March 2025 rally that became the largest in Serbian history. Six of them spent more than seven months in detention and house arrest before being released to defend themselves at liberty.
https://balkaninsight.com/2026/09/28/serbias-vucic-pardons-novi-sad-12-as-act-of-mercy-before-resigning/bi/
https://archive.ph/cPEJJ
Military shoots and abducts pregnant Red fighter on medical leave in Tagum City
New People’s Army (NPA) member Arnida Cuaton Maguiguilid (Ka Lovi/Fikong/Yassy) is paralyzed from the waist down after she was shot by military agents in Barangay Visayan, Tagum City, on September 19. Maguiguilid was shot despite her hors de combat status while on medical leave. She was later abducted and is being paraded as having “surrendered” to military forces. Maguiguilid was in Tagum City for a medical check-up for her complicated pregnancy. She has diabetes and high blood pressure. Her pregnancy is being closely monitored after having suffered pre-eclampsia in her previous two deliveries, which resulted in the death of her first child.
https://philippinerevolution.nu/angbayan/military-shoots-and-abducts-pregnant-red-fighter-on-medical-leave-in-tagum-city/
Venezuela: Feminist Collectives Rally to Demand Abortion Decriminalization
“We are here to protest against the absence of inclusive public policies,” Jackeline López, spokesperson for the Clara Zetkin Women’s Movement, told press. “Abortion remains a taboo subject for Venezuelan authorities, whose response is to criminalize it.” López went on to stress that unsafe abortions mostly plague Venezuelan working-class women. “The current wages do not allow women access to family planning or contraceptive methods,” she continued. “The right to decide over our bodies is a key public healthcare issue, and leaving it unattended means criminalizing poor women.”
https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/venezuela-feminist-collectives-rally-to-demand-abortion-decriminalization/
‘It’s utter surrealism’: Venezuela’s Chavistas lament government’s embrace of Trump
So far there has been no sign of significant resistance from outraged supporters of Chavismo. But Silva claimed the government’s new direction and economic policies could eventually trigger a social uprising and protests. “Worsening economic conditions will degrade [people’s] quality of life, and that pressure is bound to explode. It has to explode – it’s not just wishful thinking. This isn’t a prediction born of desire, it’s an inevitability,” said the broadcaster, who has claimed he is facing investigation for alleged acts of “aggravated defamation and slander against the interim government”.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/01/venezuela-hugo-chavez-supporters-critical-delcy-rodriguez-embrace-of-trump
Colombia’s top corporate lobbyist resigns over reported tensions with president
According to political news magazine La Silla Vacia, the rift between the ANDI and the government was because De la Espriella’s law firm was never allowed to join the ANDI and the association’s donations in response to the august 10 earthquake bypassed the First Lady’s newly founded and very controversial foundation.
https://colombiareports.com/colombias-top-corporate-lobbyist-resigns-over-reported-tensions-with-president/
R: 604 / I: 172 (full)
>Thread for the hellish discussion related to the scourge of the earth, the destroyer of nations, 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™
<Day 213 of Operation Epstein Fury
<Tired of Winning edition.
OP Backup Site: https://usapol.neocities.org/
💀 ICE & Prison Resources
(Amerika is the most incarcerated country in the world!)
ICE tracker using public info and user submissions // https://www.iceinmyarea.org/
list of deaths at ICE concentration camps // https://www.aila.org/infonet/deaths-at-adult-detention-centers
visualization of prison population in US // https://mkorostoff.github.io/incarceration-in-real-numbers/
Organizing in Prison — for when the walls close in (RANT Collective) // https://www.organizingforpower.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Organizing-in-Jail.pdf
database of U.S. facilities incl. ICE holding sites // https://alcpress.org/usjails/index.html
list of prison related resources, mailing lists, etc // https://www.prisonactivist.org/resources
ICE Agent List (incomplete) // https://wiki.icelist.is/index.php/Category:Agents
US Political Prison Tracker (last updated 2025) // https://uspoliticalprisoners.com/
Jailhouse Reading:
📖 Angela Davis - Are Prisons Obsolete? // https://dn790007.ca.archive.org/0/items/the-anarchist-library-full-list-of-pdfs-nov-2020/angela-y-davis-are-prisons-obsolete.pdf
📖 How to Defend Yourself During Police Interrogation // https://www.notrace.how/resources/download/comment-la-police-interroge-et-comment-sen-defendre/how-to-defend-yourself-during-a-police-interrogation.pdf
📖 National Lawyers Guild guide to being a jailhouse lawyer // https://www.jailhouselaw.org/
📖 Critical Resistance - Surviving Solitary Confinement // https://criticalresistance.org/resources/surviving-solitary/
📖 An inside-outside publication for abolitionist struggle & strategy across prison walls // https://criticalresistance.org/abolitionist/
📖 Prisoners’ Self-Help Litigation Manual // https://api.pageplace.de/preview/DT0400.9780199705665_A35159258/preview-9780199705665_A35159258.pdf
⚒️ LABOR!
Live strike tracker with deep stats on who, what and when // https://striketracker.ilr.cornell.edu/
AFL-CIO [imperialist]'s Strike Tracker // https://aflcio.org/strike-map
Labor Bureau's Official 'work stoppage' tracker // https://www.bls.gov/wsp/
IWW timeline for the 20th century (ends at 1999) // https://archive.iww.org/history/chronology/
IWW Work Place Organizing Guide // https://usa.anarchistlibraries.net/library/industrial-workers-of-the-world-libcom-org-solidarity-federation-walthamstow-anarchist-group-wo
▶ Salting | Work Place Organizing 101 (50 minute webinar) // https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SHlCLyM4FY
⚖️ Deeds of the Burger Reich 🇺🇸
deep list of horrible shit we (royal we) have done // https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/us_atrocities.md
Coups and regime changes – master list // https://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-peoples-governments-the-master-list
Wikipedia: United States War Crimes // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_war_crimes
/our boys/ (bring em home!) detail abusing Iraqi prisoners [2006] // https://www.hrw.org/report/2006/07/22/no-blood-no-foul/soldiers-accounts-detainee-abuse-iraq
More than 250 military interventions in the last 30 years alone // https://blackagendareport.com/us-launched-251-military-interventions-1991-and-469-1798
Visualisation of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade // https://www.slavevoyages.org/
UNESCO Sites relating to Slavery // https://slaveryandremembrance.org/
First Hand Documents of the horrors of Slavery // https://www.loc.gov/collections/slave-narratives-from-the-federal-writers-project-1936-to-1938/
📺 Glowie News 📺
(sponsored by the Burger Eagle Freedom Institute (formerly USAID))
CNN Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/cnn-news-usa.html
MSNBC Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/msnbc.html
FOX Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/fox-news-channel.html
Bloomberg Live // https://www.bloomberg.com/live/us
Burger House Live // https://www.whitehouse.gov/live/
Local News // https://www.50states.com/ce/
Weather // https://www.noaa.gov/weather
📺 Gommie News 📺
Jacobin // https://jacobin.com/
Black Agenda Report // https://blackagendareport.com/
The Grayzone // https://thegrayzone.com/
Leftvoice // https://www.leftvoice.org/
Newsanon Filter // https://leftypol.org/search.php?search=name%3A%22News+Anon+3.0%22&board=leftypol
🏝️ Epstein's Client List 🇮🇱
Epstein's Black Book // https://epsteinsblackbook.com/
DOJ Disclosures // https://www.justice.gov/epstein/doj-disclosures
Track AIPAC // https://www.trackaipac.com/
Al Jazeera visual guide (2026) // https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/10/struggling-to-navigate-the-epstein-files-here-is-a-visual-guide
Essential American Politik 📖
📖 WEB Du Bois - Black Reconstruction // https://cominsitu.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/w-e-b-du-bois-black-reconstruction-an-essay-toward-a-history-of-the-part-which-black-folk-played-in-the-attempt-to-reconstruct-democracy-2.pdf
📖 Eugene Debs - Fourth of July Speech // https://jacobin.com/2020/07/eugene-debs-independence-day-address-fourth-july
📖 Power Anywhere There's People! – Fred Hampton // https://www.hamptonthink.org/read/power-anywhere-where-thats-people-fred-hampton
📖 War is a Racket – Smedley Butler // https://ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html
📖 Letters From an American Farmer – St. John de Crevoecoeur // https://americanliterature.com/author/j-hector-st-john-de-crevoecoeur/book/letters-from-an-american-farmer/summary
📖 Trail of Broken Treaties // American Indian Movement https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
📖 The Declaration of Independence https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
📖 The Ballot or the Bullet – Malcolm X // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/ballot_or_bullet.pdf
📖 What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? – Frederick Douglass // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/douglass_july_4_speech.pdf
📖 A Trail of Broken Treaties – American Indian Movement // https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
📖 Custer Died for Your Sins – Vine Deloria Jr. // http://www.riversimulator.org/Resources/Books/CusterDiedForYourSinsAnIndianManifesto1969Deloria.pdf
📖 Emancipation Proclamation – Lincoln // https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/emancipation-proclamation
📖 Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville // https://americanliterature.com/author/alexis-de-tocqueville/book/democracy-in-america/summary
📖 Common Sense – Thomas Paine // https://americainclass.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Common-Sense-Full-Text.pdf
📖 An Indigenous History of the United States – Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz // https://nycstandswithstandingrock.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/dunbar-ortiz-2014.pdf
📖 Huey Long – Share Our Wealth // https://www.hueylong.com/programs/share-our-wealth/huey-longs-share-our-wealth-speech
Previous Thread: >>2920330
/USApol/
🗽 UNITED STATES POLITICS 🦅>Thread for the hellish discussion related to the scourge of the earth, the destroyer of nations, 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™
<Day 213 of Operation Epstein Fury
<Tired of Winning edition.
OP Backup Site: https://usapol.neocities.org/
💀 ICE & Prison Resources
(Amerika is the most incarcerated country in the world!)
ICE tracker using public info and user submissions // https://www.iceinmyarea.org/
list of deaths at ICE concentration camps // https://www.aila.org/infonet/deaths-at-adult-detention-centers
visualization of prison population in US // https://mkorostoff.github.io/incarceration-in-real-numbers/
Organizing in Prison — for when the walls close in (RANT Collective) // https://www.organizingforpower.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Organizing-in-Jail.pdf
database of U.S. facilities incl. ICE holding sites // https://alcpress.org/usjails/index.html
list of prison related resources, mailing lists, etc // https://www.prisonactivist.org/resources
ICE Agent List (incomplete) // https://wiki.icelist.is/index.php/Category:Agents
US Political Prison Tracker (last updated 2025) // https://uspoliticalprisoners.com/
Jailhouse Reading:
📖 Angela Davis - Are Prisons Obsolete? // https://dn790007.ca.archive.org/0/items/the-anarchist-library-full-list-of-pdfs-nov-2020/angela-y-davis-are-prisons-obsolete.pdf
📖 How to Defend Yourself During Police Interrogation // https://www.notrace.how/resources/download/comment-la-police-interroge-et-comment-sen-defendre/how-to-defend-yourself-during-a-police-interrogation.pdf
📖 National Lawyers Guild guide to being a jailhouse lawyer // https://www.jailhouselaw.org/
📖 Critical Resistance - Surviving Solitary Confinement // https://criticalresistance.org/resources/surviving-solitary/
📖 An inside-outside publication for abolitionist struggle & strategy across prison walls // https://criticalresistance.org/abolitionist/
📖 Prisoners’ Self-Help Litigation Manual // https://api.pageplace.de/preview/DT0400.9780199705665_A35159258/preview-9780199705665_A35159258.pdf
⚒️ LABOR!
Live strike tracker with deep stats on who, what and when // https://striketracker.ilr.cornell.edu/
AFL-CIO [imperialist]'s Strike Tracker // https://aflcio.org/strike-map
Labor Bureau's Official 'work stoppage' tracker // https://www.bls.gov/wsp/
IWW timeline for the 20th century (ends at 1999) // https://archive.iww.org/history/chronology/
IWW Work Place Organizing Guide // https://usa.anarchistlibraries.net/library/industrial-workers-of-the-world-libcom-org-solidarity-federation-walthamstow-anarchist-group-wo
▶ Salting | Work Place Organizing 101 (50 minute webinar) // https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SHlCLyM4FY
⚖️ Deeds of the Burger Reich 🇺🇸
deep list of horrible shit we (royal we) have done // https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/us_atrocities.md
Coups and regime changes – master list // https://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-peoples-governments-the-master-list
Wikipedia: United States War Crimes // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_war_crimes
/our boys/ (bring em home!) detail abusing Iraqi prisoners [2006] // https://www.hrw.org/report/2006/07/22/no-blood-no-foul/soldiers-accounts-detainee-abuse-iraq
More than 250 military interventions in the last 30 years alone // https://blackagendareport.com/us-launched-251-military-interventions-1991-and-469-1798
Visualisation of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade // https://www.slavevoyages.org/
UNESCO Sites relating to Slavery // https://slaveryandremembrance.org/
First Hand Documents of the horrors of Slavery // https://www.loc.gov/collections/slave-narratives-from-the-federal-writers-project-1936-to-1938/
📺 Glowie News 📺
(sponsored by the Burger Eagle Freedom Institute (formerly USAID))
CNN Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/cnn-news-usa.html
MSNBC Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/msnbc.html
FOX Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/fox-news-channel.html
Bloomberg Live // https://www.bloomberg.com/live/us
Burger House Live // https://www.whitehouse.gov/live/
Local News // https://www.50states.com/ce/
Weather // https://www.noaa.gov/weather
📺 Gommie News 📺
Jacobin // https://jacobin.com/
Black Agenda Report // https://blackagendareport.com/
The Grayzone // https://thegrayzone.com/
Leftvoice // https://www.leftvoice.org/
Newsanon Filter // https://leftypol.org/search.php?search=name%3A%22News+Anon+3.0%22&board=leftypol
🏝️ Epstein's Client List 🇮🇱
Epstein's Black Book // https://epsteinsblackbook.com/
DOJ Disclosures // https://www.justice.gov/epstein/doj-disclosures
Track AIPAC // https://www.trackaipac.com/
Al Jazeera visual guide (2026) // https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/10/struggling-to-navigate-the-epstein-files-here-is-a-visual-guide
Essential American Politik 📖
📖 WEB Du Bois - Black Reconstruction // https://cominsitu.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/w-e-b-du-bois-black-reconstruction-an-essay-toward-a-history-of-the-part-which-black-folk-played-in-the-attempt-to-reconstruct-democracy-2.pdf
📖 Eugene Debs - Fourth of July Speech // https://jacobin.com/2020/07/eugene-debs-independence-day-address-fourth-july
📖 Power Anywhere There's People! – Fred Hampton // https://www.hamptonthink.org/read/power-anywhere-where-thats-people-fred-hampton
📖 War is a Racket – Smedley Butler // https://ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html
📖 Letters From an American Farmer – St. John de Crevoecoeur // https://americanliterature.com/author/j-hector-st-john-de-crevoecoeur/book/letters-from-an-american-farmer/summary
📖 Trail of Broken Treaties // American Indian Movement https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
📖 The Declaration of Independence https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
📖 The Ballot or the Bullet – Malcolm X // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/ballot_or_bullet.pdf
📖 What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? – Frederick Douglass // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/douglass_july_4_speech.pdf
📖 A Trail of Broken Treaties – American Indian Movement // https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
📖 Custer Died for Your Sins – Vine Deloria Jr. // http://www.riversimulator.org/Resources/Books/CusterDiedForYourSinsAnIndianManifesto1969Deloria.pdf
📖 Emancipation Proclamation – Lincoln // https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/emancipation-proclamation
📖 Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville // https://americanliterature.com/author/alexis-de-tocqueville/book/democracy-in-america/summary
📖 Common Sense – Thomas Paine // https://americainclass.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Common-Sense-Full-Text.pdf
📖 An Indigenous History of the United States – Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz // https://nycstandswithstandingrock.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/dunbar-ortiz-2014.pdf
📖 Huey Long – Share Our Wealth // https://www.hueylong.com/programs/share-our-wealth/huey-longs-share-our-wealth-speech
Previous Thread: >>2920330
R: 22 / I: 6
the future is a neo feudal tech dystopia where the new lords are the tech oligarchs who own the AI, the second tier will be the ai safety regulators, the new bourgeoise. and the third tier will be 98 percent of humanity who have lost their worth and purpose having been replaced by AI, at best becoming useless consumers who live off a stipend of UBI
there will be no revolution or even any use for an army, since the tech lords will have autonomous drones and AI surveillance monitoring dissidents
Only one central problem will remain for humanity (that which remains alive), and it will be the theological one. The transition to the new world, triggered by technology, does not seem likely to affect in any way that hidden, inner space where, as if we were sitting before the universe, we ask ourselves to know the One who gives us the desire to know Him and to know everything within ourselves and beyond ourselves.
Christianity, the religion of slaves and the illiterate, will once again begin its journey. For it is not data that saves us, but crossing the bridge over the abyss of life.
the future is a neo feudal tech dystopia where the new lords are the tech oligarchs who own the AI, the second tier will be the ai safety regulators, the new bourgeoise. and the third tier will be 98 percent of humanity who have lost their worth and purpose having been replaced by AI, at best becoming useless consumers who live off a stipend of UBI
there will be no revolution or even any use for an army, since the tech lords will have autonomous drones and AI surveillance monitoring dissidents
Only one central problem will remain for humanity (that which remains alive), and it will be the theological one. The transition to the new world, triggered by technology, does not seem likely to affect in any way that hidden, inner space where, as if we were sitting before the universe, we ask ourselves to know the One who gives us the desire to know Him and to know everything within ourselves and beyond ourselves.
Christianity, the religion of slaves and the illiterate, will once again begin its journey. For it is not data that saves us, but crossing the bridge over the abyss of life.
R: 4 / I: 0
>The ruler of the universe divides the people by confusing their language to keep them out of heaven
is it a proto-class-conscious story? or just a story to explain the origin of language before people understood linguistics? on the one hand one can see the rudiments of class consciousness at play in the story, on the other hand there is no divide shown between the people doing the building and the people commissioning the building, it is just "the people" versus "heaven". But what is "heaven" if not the ruling class of the ancient world? It can also be the personification of all forces beyond our control, including forces like the weather. Somewhere along the way we conflated our ancestor worship and filial piety with nature personfication and got nature deities. this led to yahweh, to judaism, and eventually to the tower of babel story.
Tower of Babel
>The people try to rise up to heaven>The ruler of the universe divides the people by confusing their language to keep them out of heaven
is it a proto-class-conscious story? or just a story to explain the origin of language before people understood linguistics? on the one hand one can see the rudiments of class consciousness at play in the story, on the other hand there is no divide shown between the people doing the building and the people commissioning the building, it is just "the people" versus "heaven". But what is "heaven" if not the ruling class of the ancient world? It can also be the personification of all forces beyond our control, including forces like the weather. Somewhere along the way we conflated our ancestor worship and filial piety with nature personfication and got nature deities. this led to yahweh, to judaism, and eventually to the tower of babel story.
R: 21 / I: 3
<A house may be large or small; as long as the neighboring houses are likewise small, it satisfies all social requirement for a residence. But let there arise next to the little house a palace, and the little house shrinks to a hut. The little house now makes it clear that its inmate has no social position at all to maintain, or but a very insignificant one; and however high it may shoot up in the course of civilization, if the neighboring palace rises in equal or even in greater measure, the occupant of the relatively little house will always find himself more uncomfortable, more dissatisfied, more cramped within his four walls. An appreciable rise in wages presupposes a rapid growth of productive capital. Rapid growth of productive capital calls forth just as rapid a growth of wealth, of luxury, of social needs and social pleasures. Therefore, although the pleasures of the labourer have increased, the social gratification which they afford has fallen in comparison with the increased pleasures of the capitalist, which are inaccessible to the worker, in comparison with the stage of development of society in general. Our wants and pleasures have their origin in society; we therefore measure them in relation to society; we do not measure them in relation to the objects which serve for their gratification. Since they are of a social nature, they are of a relative nature.
- Karl Marx, Wage Labour and Capital (1847), Chapter 6
Basically he is saying that being well-off isn't just about what you have, it's also about what everyone else has. If your income goes up but rich people's wealth increases much faster, you may actually feel poorer compared with them. Humans naturally compare themselves with other people, so our idea of what we need depends partly on the society we live in.
<The thoughts of every piece of private property as such are at least turned against richer private property in the form of envy and the desire to level everything down; hence these feelings in fact constitute the essence of competition. The crude communist is merely the culmination of this envy and desire to level down on the basis of a preconceived minimum. It has a definite, limited measure. How little this abolition of private property is a true appropriation is shown by the abstract negation of the entire world of culture and civilization, and the return to the unnatural simplicity of the poor, unrefined man who has no needs and who has not yet even reached the stage of private property, let alone gone beyond it. (For crude communism) the community is simply a community of labor and equality of wages, which are paid out by the communal capital, the community as universal capitalist. Both sides of the relation are raised to an unimaginary universality – labor as the condition in which everyone is placed and capital as the acknowledged universality and power of the community. […] The first positive abolition of private property – crude communism – is therefore only a manifestation of the vileness of private property trying to establish itself as the positive community. […] By reducing the worker's needs to the paltriest minimum necessary to maintain his physical existence and by reducing his activity to the most abstract mechanical movement. In so doing, the political economist declares that man has no other needs, either in the sphere of activity or in that of consumption. For even this life he calls human life and human existence. By taking as his standard – his universal standard, in the sense that it applies to the mass of men – the worst possible state of privation which life (existence) can know. He turns the worker into a being with neither needs nor senses and turn the worker's activity into a pure abstraction from all activity. Hence any luxury that the worker might enjoy is reprehensible, and anything that goes beyond the most abstract need – either in the form of passive enjoyment or active expression – appears to him as a luxury.
- Karl Marx, Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts, Third Manuscript, Private Property and Labor (1844)
Marx is pointing out that making everyone equally poor isn't real freedom. If you eliminate private property as an institution of class society, but give everyone only the bare minimum, you've solved inequality by making everyone live with less. Human beings need more than food and shelter, they also need culture, enjoyment, creativity, education, and opportunities to develop themselves.
Our idea of being well off depends partly on how other people live, and he thinks both extreme wealth and extreme attempts to eliminate personal property can reduce human freedom and satisfaction. Two different things can be true at once. Extreme inequality can make people dissatisfied even when their material lives improve. Simply making everyone materially equal isn't enough if people are denied the ability to develop themselves and enjoy life. Human well-being is more complicated than simply counting how many possessions someone has. A person can have more stuff than they had before and still feel relatively poor. And a society can make everyone materially equal without necessarily giving people a rich, fulfilling human life. This is why bourgeois propaganda about how you should be grateful because you have better medicine than a bronze age king or a lower mortality rate than a feudal peasant falls flat. People aren't comparing themselves with the past, not even the very wealthy people of the past. This is also why workers in the imperial core aren't comparing their standard of living with the workers of the periphery, instead they compare their standard of living with the wealthy from their own societies. It is more visible and more obvious. Nobody working at McDonalds in Alabama is going to say "I have it so good compared to a in Indian in New Delhi, I should be happy with this."
Now compare the Young Marx of these passages with the older Marx of Capital Volume 1, all you like, but also compare this Marx with the popular idea of Marx inherited through conservative criticism of Marx and the shortcomings of historical projects like the USSR. Those people believe in a Marx who thinks everyone is equally poor and the government owns everything and everyone in a permanent prison panopticon. Marx's actual writings are a 19th century critique of capitalism, alienation, class relations, and private property. Marxism developed by later thinkers like are related to this but not identical. Marx actually thinks “luxury” can be part of human development. Marx isn't simply arguing that equality = happiness.
Young Marx
What Young Marx actually thought about personal wealth and standard of living:<A house may be large or small; as long as the neighboring houses are likewise small, it satisfies all social requirement for a residence. But let there arise next to the little house a palace, and the little house shrinks to a hut. The little house now makes it clear that its inmate has no social position at all to maintain, or but a very insignificant one; and however high it may shoot up in the course of civilization, if the neighboring palace rises in equal or even in greater measure, the occupant of the relatively little house will always find himself more uncomfortable, more dissatisfied, more cramped within his four walls. An appreciable rise in wages presupposes a rapid growth of productive capital. Rapid growth of productive capital calls forth just as rapid a growth of wealth, of luxury, of social needs and social pleasures. Therefore, although the pleasures of the labourer have increased, the social gratification which they afford has fallen in comparison with the increased pleasures of the capitalist, which are inaccessible to the worker, in comparison with the stage of development of society in general. Our wants and pleasures have their origin in society; we therefore measure them in relation to society; we do not measure them in relation to the objects which serve for their gratification. Since they are of a social nature, they are of a relative nature.
- Karl Marx, Wage Labour and Capital (1847), Chapter 6
Basically he is saying that being well-off isn't just about what you have, it's also about what everyone else has. If your income goes up but rich people's wealth increases much faster, you may actually feel poorer compared with them. Humans naturally compare themselves with other people, so our idea of what we need depends partly on the society we live in.
<The thoughts of every piece of private property as such are at least turned against richer private property in the form of envy and the desire to level everything down; hence these feelings in fact constitute the essence of competition. The crude communist is merely the culmination of this envy and desire to level down on the basis of a preconceived minimum. It has a definite, limited measure. How little this abolition of private property is a true appropriation is shown by the abstract negation of the entire world of culture and civilization, and the return to the unnatural simplicity of the poor, unrefined man who has no needs and who has not yet even reached the stage of private property, let alone gone beyond it. (For crude communism) the community is simply a community of labor and equality of wages, which are paid out by the communal capital, the community as universal capitalist. Both sides of the relation are raised to an unimaginary universality – labor as the condition in which everyone is placed and capital as the acknowledged universality and power of the community. […] The first positive abolition of private property – crude communism – is therefore only a manifestation of the vileness of private property trying to establish itself as the positive community. […] By reducing the worker's needs to the paltriest minimum necessary to maintain his physical existence and by reducing his activity to the most abstract mechanical movement. In so doing, the political economist declares that man has no other needs, either in the sphere of activity or in that of consumption. For even this life he calls human life and human existence. By taking as his standard – his universal standard, in the sense that it applies to the mass of men – the worst possible state of privation which life (existence) can know. He turns the worker into a being with neither needs nor senses and turn the worker's activity into a pure abstraction from all activity. Hence any luxury that the worker might enjoy is reprehensible, and anything that goes beyond the most abstract need – either in the form of passive enjoyment or active expression – appears to him as a luxury.
- Karl Marx, Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts, Third Manuscript, Private Property and Labor (1844)
Marx is pointing out that making everyone equally poor isn't real freedom. If you eliminate private property as an institution of class society, but give everyone only the bare minimum, you've solved inequality by making everyone live with less. Human beings need more than food and shelter, they also need culture, enjoyment, creativity, education, and opportunities to develop themselves.
Our idea of being well off depends partly on how other people live, and he thinks both extreme wealth and extreme attempts to eliminate personal property can reduce human freedom and satisfaction. Two different things can be true at once. Extreme inequality can make people dissatisfied even when their material lives improve. Simply making everyone materially equal isn't enough if people are denied the ability to develop themselves and enjoy life. Human well-being is more complicated than simply counting how many possessions someone has. A person can have more stuff than they had before and still feel relatively poor. And a society can make everyone materially equal without necessarily giving people a rich, fulfilling human life. This is why bourgeois propaganda about how you should be grateful because you have better medicine than a bronze age king or a lower mortality rate than a feudal peasant falls flat. People aren't comparing themselves with the past, not even the very wealthy people of the past. This is also why workers in the imperial core aren't comparing their standard of living with the workers of the periphery, instead they compare their standard of living with the wealthy from their own societies. It is more visible and more obvious. Nobody working at McDonalds in Alabama is going to say "I have it so good compared to a in Indian in New Delhi, I should be happy with this."
Now compare the Young Marx of these passages with the older Marx of Capital Volume 1, all you like, but also compare this Marx with the popular idea of Marx inherited through conservative criticism of Marx and the shortcomings of historical projects like the USSR. Those people believe in a Marx who thinks everyone is equally poor and the government owns everything and everyone in a permanent prison panopticon. Marx's actual writings are a 19th century critique of capitalism, alienation, class relations, and private property. Marxism developed by later thinkers like are related to this but not identical. Marx actually thinks “luxury” can be part of human development. Marx isn't simply arguing that equality = happiness.
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Im in tech and I'm tired of the entire market. I wonder if at this pace a service economy really makes sense. It's simply unsustainable
Is capitalism actually dead?
There isn't a single industry in the West experiencing real growth except defense and AI and calling it "growth" is generous. It’s more of a last-resort attempt to pump life into a rotting cadaver. Meanwhile, China is consolidating global tech innovation, closing in on fusion energy and hardware built to outpace the West entirely. Mass layoffs across traditional SaaS, gaming, and social media confirm the truth: there’s simply no money left in the consumer economy worth extracting, leaving defense as the only viable play against a dead-end market. Which is why we're seeing companies like flock and palantir or anduril suddenly being overvalued.Im in tech and I'm tired of the entire market. I wonder if at this pace a service economy really makes sense. It's simply unsustainable
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I used to think right-wingers just had a different worldview but now I think they're just dumb.
They're wrong about everything: economics, social issues, science. Being right-wing is basically just being retarded.
I used to think right-wingers just had a different worldview but now I think they're just dumb.
They're wrong about everything: economics, social issues, science. Being right-wing is basically just being retarded.
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consider a grid of cells, each with a value between 0 and 1
1 represents absolute power. 0 represents absolute weakness, or slavery if you will.
all cells start off with a value of 0.4-0.6 to represent natural variation in abilities. this is "primitive communism" cells can slowly accumulate power from the environment through their independent or cooperative labor. in the case of cooperative labor they share the proceeds. cells can also become bound to each other in groups of arbitrary size through confederation. cells can also rob their neighbors of power through competitive behavior. there are two flavors of competitive behavior "envious" where you try to rob a stronger neighbor, but have a higher chance of losing, but also a bigger reward, and "wrathful" where you rob a weaker neighbor, with a higher chance of winning, but also a lower reward. similarly cooperative behavior has two flavors, "philanthropic" where a cell tries to help weaker neighbors, even though they help they get back will be less than they gave away, and "pragmatic" where a cell tries to help stronger neighbors in exchange for protection.
what we find is that power accumulates very quickly in cells, and that "primitive communism" falls apart very quickly. the simulation, no matter how equal it is configured to start out in, very quickly devolves into "class society."
we also find that cells tend to favor "wrathful" competitive behaviors and "pragmatic" cooperative behaviors, sucking up to the powerful, and punching down on the weak. Confederations of cells, when they do form, reproduce these behaviors at the group level, punching down on weaker groups, and sucking up to stronger groups.
The limit to this process seems to be the material available for consumption in the environment.
what we have yet to discover is a way to achieve equal-ish distribution of power that is relatively stable.
our simulation studies continue…
consider a grid of cells, each with a value between 0 and 1
1 represents absolute power. 0 represents absolute weakness, or slavery if you will.
all cells start off with a value of 0.4-0.6 to represent natural variation in abilities. this is "primitive communism" cells can slowly accumulate power from the environment through their independent or cooperative labor. in the case of cooperative labor they share the proceeds. cells can also become bound to each other in groups of arbitrary size through confederation. cells can also rob their neighbors of power through competitive behavior. there are two flavors of competitive behavior "envious" where you try to rob a stronger neighbor, but have a higher chance of losing, but also a bigger reward, and "wrathful" where you rob a weaker neighbor, with a higher chance of winning, but also a lower reward. similarly cooperative behavior has two flavors, "philanthropic" where a cell tries to help weaker neighbors, even though they help they get back will be less than they gave away, and "pragmatic" where a cell tries to help stronger neighbors in exchange for protection.
what we find is that power accumulates very quickly in cells, and that "primitive communism" falls apart very quickly. the simulation, no matter how equal it is configured to start out in, very quickly devolves into "class society."
we also find that cells tend to favor "wrathful" competitive behaviors and "pragmatic" cooperative behaviors, sucking up to the powerful, and punching down on the weak. Confederations of cells, when they do form, reproduce these behaviors at the group level, punching down on weaker groups, and sucking up to stronger groups.
The limit to this process seems to be the material available for consumption in the environment.
what we have yet to discover is a way to achieve equal-ish distribution of power that is relatively stable.
our simulation studies continue…
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While some of the key demands of the protest have been better lighting and policing, Dhruw emphasised that for anything to change, the country required a deep societal shift where men no longer felt they had ownership over women’s bodies.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/30/rapes-triggers-mass-protests-indian-universities
Afghanistan’s defense ministry claims forces killed 41 insurgents crossing from Pakistan
The insurgents included members of the Islamic State group, the ministry said in a statement issued late Tuesday night. It said it had killed 41 and captured another 62 in the Kamdesh district of the northeastern province of Nuristan from Sunday to Tuesday. The defense ministry said the fighters had crossed into Afghanistan “with the support” of Pakistan.
https://apnews.com/article/afghanistan-pakistan-border-fighting-62e0c91d68e8f8760f1bb7910ee9b38d
Iranians face soaring medicine prices as US blockade and sanctions hit hard
The US naval blockade has forced importers on to more expensive air routes, now threatened by new sanctions on Iranian airlines. Bahman Sabour of the Tehran Pharmacies Association said US sanctions do not directly target medicines, but financial sanctions have long discouraged international banks and companies from processing pharmaceutical transactions for fear of falling foul of restrictions.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/iranians-face-soaring-prices-medicine-us-blockade-and-sanctions-hit-hard
Sadr orders ‘immediate’ dissolution of anti-US force, calls for reciprocal US diplomacy
“We announce the immediate dissolution of the Promised Day Brigade, and the conversion of the Imam al-Mahdi Army into the Ansar al-Imam al-Mahdi Institution,” Sadr said in a Wednesday statement. Sadr also called on the US military to compensate Iraq for damages caused during what he described as Washington’s "occupation" of the country, urging Iraqis to pursue legal claims. He warned the US and neighboring countries against interfering in Iraqi affairs, saying such intervention could result in a severed relations and reciprocal measures.
https://www.rudaw.net/english/categories/iraq/1079523
As elections near, Israel is increasing 'assassinations' in Gaza despite alleged ceasefire
These attacks came a day after Israel's announced the assassination of Izz al-Din al-Beik, commander of the northern Gaza brigade of the al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas's armed wing, in a raid targeting an apartment in Gaza City's al-Nasr neighbourhood.
https://www.newarab.com/news/elections-near-israel-increasing-assassinations-gaza
Russian Regions Turn to Residents and Businesses to Fund Bomb Shelters
Building owners in St. Petersburg have received orders to equip shelters, while apartment residents in Yekaterinburg have been asked to approve charges for converting underground parking facilities. In Omsk, parents of kindergarten children have been asked to contribute toward supplies for a basement shelter. The measures would shift some preparation costs to households and businesses as Russia works to restore more than 20,000 protective facilities across 82 regions, a program the Emergency Situations Ministry estimates will require about 155 billion rubles ($1.88 billion).
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2026/09/30/russian-regions-turn-to-residents-and-businesses-to-fund-bomb-shelters-a93832
https://archive.ph/dKRww
Protesters camped out across Spain demand passage of housing measures
Many activists said even those measures fell short of tackling the crisis."It's not enough — it might be a starting point or a stopgap," 32-year-old pharmaceutical worker Julio Gomez told Reuters, adding that he was willing to stay with his tent in Madrid's Puerta del Sol square for "as long as it takes". Others criticised the government's decision to split the measures into two separate bills with the expectation that one, which automatically extends leases to prevent abusive rent hikes, would be rejected by a slim right-wing majority.
https://www.reuters.com/world/protesters-camped-out-across-spain-demand-passage-housing-measures-2026-09-30/
Sheinbaum Defends Reform Requiring Mexican Leaders to Hold Only One Nationality
She questioned criticism from opposition senators, who argued that the reform restricts the political rights of Mexican migrants or people with dual nationality. “They wanted to launch a campaign saying that we did not allow dual nationality for our compatriots. False, absolutely false,” the Mexican leader said. Sheinbaum reiterated that any Mexican will be able to retain two or more nationalities and that the requirement applies only to those seeking to head the federal and state executives covered by the reform.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/sheinbaum-defends-reform-requiring-mexican-leaders-to-hold-only-one-nationality/
De la Espriella Seeks to Regulate Protests in Colombia
Another issue the government seeks to clarify is blockades. The Ministry argues that previous rules did not establish clearly enough who must guarantee the continuity of essential services, nor did they set objective criteria for distinguishing a blockade that affects supplies, health care, or the passage of medical missions from other types of disruptions. The proposal also calls for greater coordination among community relations officers, dialogue teams, local authorities, and police during protests.
https://colombiaone.com/2026/09/30/colombia-de-la-espriella-regulate-protests/
Somali pirates killed five crew members on hijacked tanker, officials say
They appear to be the first deaths at the hands of Somali pirates in more than a decade and come amid a resurgence of Somali piracy that experts have attributed in part to the effects of the United States and Israel’s war on Iran. The MT Honour 25, which authorities said was carrying 18,500 barrels of oil, was seized by pirates off Somalia on April 21.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/30/somali-pirates-killed-five-crew-members-on-hijacked-tanker-officials-say
https://archive.ph/QwEAi
News 9/30/26
‘We want justice’: series of rapes trigger mass protests at Indian universitiesWhile some of the key demands of the protest have been better lighting and policing, Dhruw emphasised that for anything to change, the country required a deep societal shift where men no longer felt they had ownership over women’s bodies.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/30/rapes-triggers-mass-protests-indian-universities
Afghanistan’s defense ministry claims forces killed 41 insurgents crossing from Pakistan
The insurgents included members of the Islamic State group, the ministry said in a statement issued late Tuesday night. It said it had killed 41 and captured another 62 in the Kamdesh district of the northeastern province of Nuristan from Sunday to Tuesday. The defense ministry said the fighters had crossed into Afghanistan “with the support” of Pakistan.
https://apnews.com/article/afghanistan-pakistan-border-fighting-62e0c91d68e8f8760f1bb7910ee9b38d
Iranians face soaring medicine prices as US blockade and sanctions hit hard
The US naval blockade has forced importers on to more expensive air routes, now threatened by new sanctions on Iranian airlines. Bahman Sabour of the Tehran Pharmacies Association said US sanctions do not directly target medicines, but financial sanctions have long discouraged international banks and companies from processing pharmaceutical transactions for fear of falling foul of restrictions.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/iranians-face-soaring-prices-medicine-us-blockade-and-sanctions-hit-hard
Sadr orders ‘immediate’ dissolution of anti-US force, calls for reciprocal US diplomacy
“We announce the immediate dissolution of the Promised Day Brigade, and the conversion of the Imam al-Mahdi Army into the Ansar al-Imam al-Mahdi Institution,” Sadr said in a Wednesday statement. Sadr also called on the US military to compensate Iraq for damages caused during what he described as Washington’s "occupation" of the country, urging Iraqis to pursue legal claims. He warned the US and neighboring countries against interfering in Iraqi affairs, saying such intervention could result in a severed relations and reciprocal measures.
https://www.rudaw.net/english/categories/iraq/1079523
As elections near, Israel is increasing 'assassinations' in Gaza despite alleged ceasefire
These attacks came a day after Israel's announced the assassination of Izz al-Din al-Beik, commander of the northern Gaza brigade of the al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas's armed wing, in a raid targeting an apartment in Gaza City's al-Nasr neighbourhood.
https://www.newarab.com/news/elections-near-israel-increasing-assassinations-gaza
Russian Regions Turn to Residents and Businesses to Fund Bomb Shelters
Building owners in St. Petersburg have received orders to equip shelters, while apartment residents in Yekaterinburg have been asked to approve charges for converting underground parking facilities. In Omsk, parents of kindergarten children have been asked to contribute toward supplies for a basement shelter. The measures would shift some preparation costs to households and businesses as Russia works to restore more than 20,000 protective facilities across 82 regions, a program the Emergency Situations Ministry estimates will require about 155 billion rubles ($1.88 billion).
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2026/09/30/russian-regions-turn-to-residents-and-businesses-to-fund-bomb-shelters-a93832
https://archive.ph/dKRww
Protesters camped out across Spain demand passage of housing measures
Many activists said even those measures fell short of tackling the crisis."It's not enough — it might be a starting point or a stopgap," 32-year-old pharmaceutical worker Julio Gomez told Reuters, adding that he was willing to stay with his tent in Madrid's Puerta del Sol square for "as long as it takes". Others criticised the government's decision to split the measures into two separate bills with the expectation that one, which automatically extends leases to prevent abusive rent hikes, would be rejected by a slim right-wing majority.
https://www.reuters.com/world/protesters-camped-out-across-spain-demand-passage-housing-measures-2026-09-30/
Sheinbaum Defends Reform Requiring Mexican Leaders to Hold Only One Nationality
She questioned criticism from opposition senators, who argued that the reform restricts the political rights of Mexican migrants or people with dual nationality. “They wanted to launch a campaign saying that we did not allow dual nationality for our compatriots. False, absolutely false,” the Mexican leader said. Sheinbaum reiterated that any Mexican will be able to retain two or more nationalities and that the requirement applies only to those seeking to head the federal and state executives covered by the reform.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/sheinbaum-defends-reform-requiring-mexican-leaders-to-hold-only-one-nationality/
De la Espriella Seeks to Regulate Protests in Colombia
Another issue the government seeks to clarify is blockades. The Ministry argues that previous rules did not establish clearly enough who must guarantee the continuity of essential services, nor did they set objective criteria for distinguishing a blockade that affects supplies, health care, or the passage of medical missions from other types of disruptions. The proposal also calls for greater coordination among community relations officers, dialogue teams, local authorities, and police during protests.
https://colombiaone.com/2026/09/30/colombia-de-la-espriella-regulate-protests/
Somali pirates killed five crew members on hijacked tanker, officials say
They appear to be the first deaths at the hands of Somali pirates in more than a decade and come amid a resurgence of Somali piracy that experts have attributed in part to the effects of the United States and Israel’s war on Iran. The MT Honour 25, which authorities said was carrying 18,500 barrels of oil, was seized by pirates off Somalia on April 21.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/30/somali-pirates-killed-five-crew-members-on-hijacked-tanker-officials-say
https://archive.ph/QwEAi
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Why? Why do you people here just ban or censor literally everything, unless it's the most mundane, watered down, pro-establishment or unthreatening-to-the-establishment narrative imaginable?
Why would you have deleted that thread? Why don't you want people hearing about how most right-wing conspiracies are true, but the way they fuck people is by convincing them to "blame the jews" for the crimes, instead of the United States government? Or, often, leftists.
Why?
Why would you not want people exposed to this idea, unless you yourselves were, in fact, fascists, who moderated this board in order to keep it deliberately milquetoast and diverted in directions which would never threaten the western establishment's ironclad hold on political power in the United States?
I forget precisely what the rest of the OP had in it now. It was about the United States being the epitome of the evil empire, though. And how if you live here, you have to recognize this, and quit making excuses for our government, or covering-up our crimes.
Why don't you want people discussing the facts of what happened on 9/11 here? I've also noticed you deleting any threads which criticize DSA as a psyop (which they objectively, almost demonstrably, are). Why? Why do you mods here want to cover-up the truth? The only reason is because you're actually working to keep the lid on leftist movements, and making certain people don't get exposed to the facts.
Why does there have to be just unfathomable amounts of censorship, here on /leftypol/? What are you all this terrified of people learning and understanding about the left? Perhaps that we're not your MSM misrepresentation of us? And that we're actually not a bunch of unimpressive idiots who don't face facts about things, like 9/11 or a million other clear crimes our govt is committing out in the open, but which mods here don't appear to want anyone ever facing or addressing?
If people like me are wrong, why can't you ever just tell us why? Why do you always have to censor us, ban us, mod us? Why can't you ever just prove to people like me why we're wrong? Why are clear fascists who LARP as leftists allowed to post all over the board, but actual communists, like myself, not allowed to post here.
This has been a problem for almost a fucking decade for me now. I've been dealing with this from this board or its previous incarnations for genuinely just a whole fucking decade now. What the fuck are you all this afraid of? Why does every 1 of my posts I ever make on your board just get immediately banned? There's nothing wrong with the posts. You're just censoring content which does not promote the concept of "leftist" as "neoliberal, establishment, capitalist MSM misrepresentations of us" and it's obvious what you're doing.
"Controlled Opposition" is why. The moderators of this board are part of a controlled opposition plot to misrepresent leftists, much in the way our MSM propaganda does, as being….basically completely fucking lame, idiotic, and having a message which does not appeal to anyone fucking reasonable or intelligent.
Why can't you just tell people like me why we're wrong? Must be easy, if we're wrong to the point where you need to delete our posts constantly, and censor us. But nope. You never tell us why we're wrong. You just try to bury our posts. Using your power as moderators to silence any form of dissent or discussion. And you do this constantly. Unironically fucking constantly.
I leave with this thought, in pic rel. Remember, most people on the left are not really "on the left", but instead just fascists who are trying to push the idpol agenda for anyone who isn't white or straight. And a lot of what you read on the internet is not real. Lots of paid commenting. Everything tries to drive your comments and beliefs away from leftist points of view. This is why the mods here have to ban every form of original thought, or anything which does not conform with the western capitalist MSM groupthink approved narratives. You people here are peddling these western capitalist MSM-approved groupthink narratives, then calling it "leftist" or "communism", but it's not. It's not that. You're "liberals", and "liberals" are not any different than fascists. You're just operating under a different premise. Different premise, but same politics and this is why the capitalists fund and promote and purvey the "liberals".
This is why people like George Soros fund you. Because you are fascists. You are tools of the western political establishment. You are the epitome of the brainwashed, indoctrinated masses, being led by completely badfaith subversive actors (your mods) in order to divert actual leftist political views into the abomination that is western liberalism. This is why your mods are. This is why they delete 90% of posts on this board.
Why? Why do you people here just ban or censor literally everything, unless it's the most mundane, watered down, pro-establishment or unthreatening-to-the-establishment narrative imaginable?
Why would you have deleted that thread? Why don't you want people hearing about how most right-wing conspiracies are true, but the way they fuck people is by convincing them to "blame the jews" for the crimes, instead of the United States government? Or, often, leftists.
Why?
Why would you not want people exposed to this idea, unless you yourselves were, in fact, fascists, who moderated this board in order to keep it deliberately milquetoast and diverted in directions which would never threaten the western establishment's ironclad hold on political power in the United States?
I forget precisely what the rest of the OP had in it now. It was about the United States being the epitome of the evil empire, though. And how if you live here, you have to recognize this, and quit making excuses for our government, or covering-up our crimes.
Why don't you want people discussing the facts of what happened on 9/11 here? I've also noticed you deleting any threads which criticize DSA as a psyop (which they objectively, almost demonstrably, are). Why? Why do you mods here want to cover-up the truth? The only reason is because you're actually working to keep the lid on leftist movements, and making certain people don't get exposed to the facts.
Why does there have to be just unfathomable amounts of censorship, here on /leftypol/? What are you all this terrified of people learning and understanding about the left? Perhaps that we're not your MSM misrepresentation of us? And that we're actually not a bunch of unimpressive idiots who don't face facts about things, like 9/11 or a million other clear crimes our govt is committing out in the open, but which mods here don't appear to want anyone ever facing or addressing?
If people like me are wrong, why can't you ever just tell us why? Why do you always have to censor us, ban us, mod us? Why can't you ever just prove to people like me why we're wrong? Why are clear fascists who LARP as leftists allowed to post all over the board, but actual communists, like myself, not allowed to post here.
This has been a problem for almost a fucking decade for me now. I've been dealing with this from this board or its previous incarnations for genuinely just a whole fucking decade now. What the fuck are you all this afraid of? Why does every 1 of my posts I ever make on your board just get immediately banned? There's nothing wrong with the posts. You're just censoring content which does not promote the concept of "leftist" as "neoliberal, establishment, capitalist MSM misrepresentations of us" and it's obvious what you're doing.
"Controlled Opposition" is why. The moderators of this board are part of a controlled opposition plot to misrepresent leftists, much in the way our MSM propaganda does, as being….basically completely fucking lame, idiotic, and having a message which does not appeal to anyone fucking reasonable or intelligent.
Why can't you just tell people like me why we're wrong? Must be easy, if we're wrong to the point where you need to delete our posts constantly, and censor us. But nope. You never tell us why we're wrong. You just try to bury our posts. Using your power as moderators to silence any form of dissent or discussion. And you do this constantly. Unironically fucking constantly.
I leave with this thought, in pic rel. Remember, most people on the left are not really "on the left", but instead just fascists who are trying to push the idpol agenda for anyone who isn't white or straight. And a lot of what you read on the internet is not real. Lots of paid commenting. Everything tries to drive your comments and beliefs away from leftist points of view. This is why the mods here have to ban every form of original thought, or anything which does not conform with the western capitalist MSM groupthink approved narratives. You people here are peddling these western capitalist MSM-approved groupthink narratives, then calling it "leftist" or "communism", but it's not. It's not that. You're "liberals", and "liberals" are not any different than fascists. You're just operating under a different premise. Different premise, but same politics and this is why the capitalists fund and promote and purvey the "liberals".
This is why people like George Soros fund you. Because you are fascists. You are tools of the western political establishment. You are the epitome of the brainwashed, indoctrinated masses, being led by completely badfaith subversive actors (your mods) in order to divert actual leftist political views into the abomination that is western liberalism. This is why your mods are. This is why they delete 90% of posts on this board.
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But within hours, the idea that a major terrorist plot had been foiled started to fall apart. The arrested men were all British nationals in their twenties, not foreigners as Farage had speculated. Moreover they were released on police bail, not even going before a judge. As Nazir Afzal, a former chief prosecutor, pointed out, this indicated the men are not suspected of terrorism.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/how-raf-fairford-bomb-plot-narrative-fell-apart-us-and-uk-made-competing-claims
Scotland's Communists stand with Garvaghy Road
COMMUNISTS have challenged Police Scotland’s decision to send 200 officers to protect an Orange march in Portadown. Banned as a provocation in 1998, the Drumcree Orange march returned this year after the Parades Commission judged it “low risk,” despite a legal challenge and a three-day standoff.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/scotlands-communists-stand-garvaghy-road
French police clash with teens blockading schools as unions stage day of protests
French teenagers on Tuesday clashed with police as they kept up a blockade of high schools in cities across the country to demand better conditions and more teacher hirings. The escalating standoff came as unions staged a day of demonstrations against a cost-cutting budget drafted by Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu's embattled government.
https://www.france24.com/en/france/20260929-french-police-clash-with-teens-blockading-schools-as-union-stage-day-of-protests
https://archive.ph/0ne9K
Spain proposes ban on evictions as ousted 87-year-old accepts offer to return home
Hundreds of people remained camped in one of Madrid's main squares on Tuesday to protest Maricarmen Abascal's removal from her home on a stretcher last Wednesday. They are demanding legal reforms including a rent freeze and the automatic renewal of leases without abusive rent hikes. Health Minister Monica Garcia said the ruling Socialists reached an agreement with junior partner Sumar on Tuesday for a set of new measures, including rolling over contracts until 2028 and banning so-called vulture funds from the housing market. However, the minority government faces an uphill battle to secure support in a fragmented parliament.
https://www.reuters.com/world/octagenarian-whose-eviction-sparked-spain-protests-considering-offer-return-home-2026-09-29/
Water service interruptions set until October 3
Several parts of Metro Manila, Rizal and Bulacan are experiencing water service interruptions due to maintenance and improvement works. In separate announcements, water concessionaires Manila Water and Maynilad said the interruptions will last until Saturday.
https://www.philstar.com/headlines/2026/09/30/2559940/water-service-interruptions-set-until-october-3
Malaysia begins Myanmar repatriations despite safety warnings by UN and rights groups
The ministry said they would be sent back safely on two Myanmar navy warships and a hospital ship. It is unclear if any of the returnees were minority Muslim Rohingya, who are rejected by the Myanmar government. The ministry didn’t provide further details of their identities and circumstances, but stressed their return was voluntary.
https://apnews.com/article/malaysia-myanmar-repatriation-rohingya-5cafd8a3997a500e6c74216138960972
11 incursions and eight rounds of bombardment in a week | Israeli forces considerably escalate their military operation in southern Syria
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights documented 11 ground incursions and eight rounds of bombardments between the 18th and 24th of September in the countryside of Al-Quneitra, Daraa and western Rif Dimashq. These hit populated areas, farmlands and sites near the buffer zone, alongside Israeli military movements and reconnaissance flights over the region.
https://www.syriahr.com/en/386405/
Refugees in South Africa fear new attacks as September 30 deadline looms
The group has called for undocumented foreign nationals to leave South Africa and has warned of further demonstrations if its demands are not met. For Bahebwa and other refugees in Durban, however, the distinction between documented and undocumented migrants offers little comfort. They say the hostility they experience on the streets rarely begins with a request to see their papers.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/28/refugees-in-south-africa-fear-new-attacks-as-september-30-deadline-looms
https://archive.ph/DmOqr
Colombian Court Upholds Sentence for Former DAS Director Over Cordoba Kidnapping
This week, the Criminal Chamber of the Medellin Superior Court upheld the 28-year prison sentence against former Administrative Department of Security (DAS) director Jose Miguel Narvaez Martinez for his responsibility as the mastermind behind the 1999 kidnapping of then-Senator Piedad Cordoba (1955-2024), a recognized human rights defender in Colombia.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/colombian-court-upholds-sentence-for-former-das-director-over-cordoba-kidnapping/
Communist Party of Venezuela Calls for Investigation Against National Assembly Deputy Vielma Mora Following Alex Saab’s US Testimony
During a press conference on Tuesday, September 22, PCV leader Yul Jabour questioned why, until now, there has been no official investigation regarding Saab’s statements, related to an alleged money laundering scheme in the state food program CLAP. “We are extremely concerned that to this day there has been no official statement from the Venezuelan government regarding that declaration,” said Jabour, referring to Vielma Mora who was the governor of the state of Táchira and is currently a deputy in the National Assembly for the ruling party.
https://orinocotribune.com/communist-party-of-venezuela-calls-for-investigation-against-national-assembly-deputy-vielma-mora-following-alex-saabs-us-testimony/
https://archive.ph/OvWyt
News 9/29/26
How RAF Fairford 'bomb plot' narrative fell apart as US and UK made competing claimsBut within hours, the idea that a major terrorist plot had been foiled started to fall apart. The arrested men were all British nationals in their twenties, not foreigners as Farage had speculated. Moreover they were released on police bail, not even going before a judge. As Nazir Afzal, a former chief prosecutor, pointed out, this indicated the men are not suspected of terrorism.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/how-raf-fairford-bomb-plot-narrative-fell-apart-us-and-uk-made-competing-claims
Scotland's Communists stand with Garvaghy Road
COMMUNISTS have challenged Police Scotland’s decision to send 200 officers to protect an Orange march in Portadown. Banned as a provocation in 1998, the Drumcree Orange march returned this year after the Parades Commission judged it “low risk,” despite a legal challenge and a three-day standoff.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/scotlands-communists-stand-garvaghy-road
French police clash with teens blockading schools as unions stage day of protests
French teenagers on Tuesday clashed with police as they kept up a blockade of high schools in cities across the country to demand better conditions and more teacher hirings. The escalating standoff came as unions staged a day of demonstrations against a cost-cutting budget drafted by Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu's embattled government.
https://www.france24.com/en/france/20260929-french-police-clash-with-teens-blockading-schools-as-union-stage-day-of-protests
https://archive.ph/0ne9K
Spain proposes ban on evictions as ousted 87-year-old accepts offer to return home
Hundreds of people remained camped in one of Madrid's main squares on Tuesday to protest Maricarmen Abascal's removal from her home on a stretcher last Wednesday. They are demanding legal reforms including a rent freeze and the automatic renewal of leases without abusive rent hikes. Health Minister Monica Garcia said the ruling Socialists reached an agreement with junior partner Sumar on Tuesday for a set of new measures, including rolling over contracts until 2028 and banning so-called vulture funds from the housing market. However, the minority government faces an uphill battle to secure support in a fragmented parliament.
https://www.reuters.com/world/octagenarian-whose-eviction-sparked-spain-protests-considering-offer-return-home-2026-09-29/
Water service interruptions set until October 3
Several parts of Metro Manila, Rizal and Bulacan are experiencing water service interruptions due to maintenance and improvement works. In separate announcements, water concessionaires Manila Water and Maynilad said the interruptions will last until Saturday.
https://www.philstar.com/headlines/2026/09/30/2559940/water-service-interruptions-set-until-october-3
Malaysia begins Myanmar repatriations despite safety warnings by UN and rights groups
The ministry said they would be sent back safely on two Myanmar navy warships and a hospital ship. It is unclear if any of the returnees were minority Muslim Rohingya, who are rejected by the Myanmar government. The ministry didn’t provide further details of their identities and circumstances, but stressed their return was voluntary.
https://apnews.com/article/malaysia-myanmar-repatriation-rohingya-5cafd8a3997a500e6c74216138960972
11 incursions and eight rounds of bombardment in a week | Israeli forces considerably escalate their military operation in southern Syria
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights documented 11 ground incursions and eight rounds of bombardments between the 18th and 24th of September in the countryside of Al-Quneitra, Daraa and western Rif Dimashq. These hit populated areas, farmlands and sites near the buffer zone, alongside Israeli military movements and reconnaissance flights over the region.
https://www.syriahr.com/en/386405/
Refugees in South Africa fear new attacks as September 30 deadline looms
The group has called for undocumented foreign nationals to leave South Africa and has warned of further demonstrations if its demands are not met. For Bahebwa and other refugees in Durban, however, the distinction between documented and undocumented migrants offers little comfort. They say the hostility they experience on the streets rarely begins with a request to see their papers.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/28/refugees-in-south-africa-fear-new-attacks-as-september-30-deadline-looms
https://archive.ph/DmOqr
Colombian Court Upholds Sentence for Former DAS Director Over Cordoba Kidnapping
This week, the Criminal Chamber of the Medellin Superior Court upheld the 28-year prison sentence against former Administrative Department of Security (DAS) director Jose Miguel Narvaez Martinez for his responsibility as the mastermind behind the 1999 kidnapping of then-Senator Piedad Cordoba (1955-2024), a recognized human rights defender in Colombia.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/colombian-court-upholds-sentence-for-former-das-director-over-cordoba-kidnapping/
Communist Party of Venezuela Calls for Investigation Against National Assembly Deputy Vielma Mora Following Alex Saab’s US Testimony
During a press conference on Tuesday, September 22, PCV leader Yul Jabour questioned why, until now, there has been no official investigation regarding Saab’s statements, related to an alleged money laundering scheme in the state food program CLAP. “We are extremely concerned that to this day there has been no official statement from the Venezuelan government regarding that declaration,” said Jabour, referring to Vielma Mora who was the governor of the state of Táchira and is currently a deputy in the National Assembly for the ruling party.
https://orinocotribune.com/communist-party-of-venezuela-calls-for-investigation-against-national-assembly-deputy-vielma-mora-following-alex-saabs-us-testimony/
https://archive.ph/OvWyt
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When the time comes to look at Marxism in Western politics, however, the influence of Christianity in the construction of the symbolic, subjective and theoretical universe of this Marxism is rarely taken into account. It is as if in Asia, Confucianism has an influence on politics, in Africa, Islam has an influence on politics, but in Brazil, in the US, in France, in Portugal, Christianity does not perform a similar role in forming historic subjectivity. This is a mistake for a very simple and objective reason, which Antonio Gramsci points out in several different passages of Prison Notebooks: the Catholic Church is the longest operating institution in the West. No other institution has managed to stay alive for so long with the capacity to disseminate and circulate ideas and concepts, through a body of intellectual priests, bishops and theologians, organized within a bureaucracy like the Catholic Church has. So it is impossible to speak seriously about Marxism, politics, subjectivity, culture, and the symbolic field in the West without incorporating the role of Christianity in each social formation, in each specific country as elements of analysis.
I believe it is impossible to understand the phenomenon that is poorly described as “populism” (a term which I do not use), of this relationship of the popular classes with people like Lula, Getúlio Vargas, Miguel Arraes, Brizola, Perón, Velasco Ibarra, and Hugo Chávez without understanding the basic configurations of the Catholic relationship between devotees and saints. Obviously this is not the only explanation, but there is a symbolic element in the political structure of this relationship. I have been thinking about this for a long time. It is not my idea — Domenico Losurdo and Roland Boer have written about how the fetish for defeat is one of the fundamental characteristics of Western Marxism and how this is a misunderstood derivative of Christian culture.
Western Marxism, the Fetish for Defeat, and Christian Culture (2020)
There is a fundamental contradiction in many of the Marxist studies that are produced in the West. Every time that they speak of Marxism in Asia — in China, Korea or Vietnam — or when they speak of popular movements in Africa such as in Egypt or Libya, they highlight the influence of religion on these political movements and the national adaptation of Marxism. When any Marxist researcher studies, for example, Chinese Marxism, they are obliged to address the influence of Confucius’ philosophy on Chinese culture in a general manner and on Chinese Marxism in particular. Likewise, the influence that Islam has on many African countries is always taken into account, or the influence of Confucianism in Asia more generally.When the time comes to look at Marxism in Western politics, however, the influence of Christianity in the construction of the symbolic, subjective and theoretical universe of this Marxism is rarely taken into account. It is as if in Asia, Confucianism has an influence on politics, in Africa, Islam has an influence on politics, but in Brazil, in the US, in France, in Portugal, Christianity does not perform a similar role in forming historic subjectivity. This is a mistake for a very simple and objective reason, which Antonio Gramsci points out in several different passages of Prison Notebooks: the Catholic Church is the longest operating institution in the West. No other institution has managed to stay alive for so long with the capacity to disseminate and circulate ideas and concepts, through a body of intellectual priests, bishops and theologians, organized within a bureaucracy like the Catholic Church has. So it is impossible to speak seriously about Marxism, politics, subjectivity, culture, and the symbolic field in the West without incorporating the role of Christianity in each social formation, in each specific country as elements of analysis.
I believe it is impossible to understand the phenomenon that is poorly described as “populism” (a term which I do not use), of this relationship of the popular classes with people like Lula, Getúlio Vargas, Miguel Arraes, Brizola, Perón, Velasco Ibarra, and Hugo Chávez without understanding the basic configurations of the Catholic relationship between devotees and saints. Obviously this is not the only explanation, but there is a symbolic element in the political structure of this relationship. I have been thinking about this for a long time. It is not my idea — Domenico Losurdo and Roland Boer have written about how the fetish for defeat is one of the fundamental characteristics of Western Marxism and how this is a misunderstood derivative of Christian culture.
R: 9 / I: 1
>have you read ho chi minh?
>why havent you read ho chi minh?
>why arent you starting to read ho chi minh right now this very instant?
>when will you read ho chi minh?
>do you have any free time in the day or week that you could spend reading ho chi minh?
thank for your attention to this matter also go read ho chi minh
read ho chi minh
Leftypol, I have a couple of questions for you.>have you read ho chi minh?
>why havent you read ho chi minh?
>why arent you starting to read ho chi minh right now this very instant?
>when will you read ho chi minh?
>do you have any free time in the day or week that you could spend reading ho chi minh?
thank for your attention to this matter also go read ho chi minh
R: 603 / I: 198 (full)
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ICE tracker using public info and user submissions // https://www.iceinmyarea.org/
list of deaths at ICE concentration camps // https://www.aila.org/infonet/deaths-at-adult-detention-centers
visualization of prison population in US // https://mkorostoff.github.io/incarceration-in-real-numbers/
Organizing in Prison — for when the walls close in (RANT Collective) // https://www.organizingforpower.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Organizing-in-Jail.pdf
database of U.S. facilities incl. ICE holding sites // https://alcpress.org/usjails/index.html
list of prison related resources, mailing lists, etc // https://www.prisonactivist.org/resources
ICE Agent List (incomplete) // https://wiki.icelist.is/index.php/Category:Agents
US Political Prison Tracker (last updated 2025) // https://uspoliticalprisoners.com/
Jailhouse Reading:
📖 Angela Davis - Are Prisons Obsolete? // https://dn790007.ca.archive.org/0/items/the-anarchist-library-full-list-of-pdfs-nov-2020/angela-y-davis-are-prisons-obsolete.pdf
📖 How to Defend Yourself During Police Interrogation // https://www.notrace.how/resources/download/comment-la-police-interroge-et-comment-sen-defendre/how-to-defend-yourself-during-a-police-interrogation.pdf
📖 National Lawyers Guild guide to being a jailhouse lawyer // https://www.jailhouselaw.org/
📖 Critical Resistance - Surviving Solitary Confinement // https://criticalresistance.org/resources/surviving-solitary/
📖 An inside-outside publication for abolitionist struggle & strategy across prison walls // https://criticalresistance.org/abolitionist/
📖 Prisoners’ Self-Help Litigation Manual // https://api.pageplace.de/preview/DT0400.9780199705665_A35159258/preview-9780199705665_A35159258.pdf
⚒️ LABOR!
Live strike tracker with deep stats on who, what and when // https://striketracker.ilr.cornell.edu/
AFL-CIO [imperialist]'s Strike Tracker // https://aflcio.org/strike-map
Labor Bureau's Official 'work stoppage' tracker // https://www.bls.gov/wsp/
IWW timeline for the 20th century (ends at 1999) // https://archive.iww.org/history/chronology/
IWW Work Place Organizing Guide // https://usa.anarchistlibraries.net/library/industrial-workers-of-the-world-libcom-org-solidarity-federation-walthamstow-anarchist-group-wo
▶ Salting | Work Place Organizing 101 (50 minute webinar) // https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SHlCLyM4FY
⚖️ Deeds of the Burger Reich 🇺🇸
deep list of horrible shit we (royal we) have done // https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/us_atrocities.md
Coups and regime changes – master list // https://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-peoples-governments-the-master-list
Wikipedia: United States War Crimes // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_war_crimes
/our boys/ (bring em home!) detail abusing Iraqi prisoners [2006] // https://www.hrw.org/report/2006/07/22/no-blood-no-foul/soldiers-accounts-detainee-abuse-iraq
More than 250 military interventions in the last 30 years alone // https://blackagendareport.com/us-launched-251-military-interventions-1991-and-469-1798
Visualisation of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade // https://www.slavevoyages.org/
UNESCO Sites relating to Slavery // https://slaveryandremembrance.org/
First Hand Documents of the horrors of Slavery // https://www.loc.gov/collections/slave-narratives-from-the-federal-writers-project-1936-to-1938/
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Epstein's Black Book // https://epsteinsblackbook.com/
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Al Jazeera visual guide (2026) // https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/10/struggling-to-navigate-the-epstein-files-here-is-a-visual-guide
Essential American Politik 📖
📖 WEB Du Bois - Black Reconstruction // https://cominsitu.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/w-e-b-du-bois-black-reconstruction-an-essay-toward-a-history-of-the-part-which-black-folk-played-in-the-attempt-to-reconstruct-democracy-2.pdf
📖 Eugene Debs - Fourth of July Speech // https://jacobin.com/2020/07/eugene-debs-independence-day-address-fourth-july
📖 Power Anywhere There's People! – Fred Hampton // https://www.hamptonthink.org/read/power-anywhere-where-thats-people-fred-hampton
📖 War is a Racket – Smedley Butler // https://ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html
📖 Letters From an American Farmer – St. John de Crevoecoeur // https://americanliterature.com/author/j-hector-st-john-de-crevoecoeur/book/letters-from-an-american-farmer/summary
📖 Trail of Broken Treaties // American Indian Movement https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
📖 The Declaration of Independence https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
📖 The Ballot or the Bullet – Malcolm X // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/ballot_or_bullet.pdf
📖 What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? – Frederick Douglass // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/douglass_july_4_speech.pdf
📖 A Trail of Broken Treaties – American Indian Movement // https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
📖 Custer Died for Your Sins – Vine Deloria Jr. // http://www.riversimulator.org/Resources/Books/CusterDiedForYourSinsAnIndianManifesto1969Deloria.pdf
📖 Emancipation Proclamation – Lincoln // https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/emancipation-proclamation
📖 Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville // https://americanliterature.com/author/alexis-de-tocqueville/book/democracy-in-america/summary
📖 Common Sense – Thomas Paine // https://americainclass.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Common-Sense-Full-Text.pdf
📖 An Indigenous History of the United States – Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz // https://nycstandswithstandingrock.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/dunbar-ortiz-2014.pdf
📖 Huey Long – Share Our Wealth // https://www.hueylong.com/programs/share-our-wealth/huey-longs-share-our-wealth-speech
Previous Thread: >>2918178
/USApol/
🗽 UNITED STATES POLITICS 🦅>Thread for the hellish discussion related to the scourge of the earth, the destroyer of nations, 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™
<THE CUCKING NEVER DIES edition
OP Backup Site: https://usapol.neocities.org/
💀 ICE & Prison Resources
(Amerika is the most incarcerated country in the world!)
ICE tracker using public info and user submissions // https://www.iceinmyarea.org/
list of deaths at ICE concentration camps // https://www.aila.org/infonet/deaths-at-adult-detention-centers
visualization of prison population in US // https://mkorostoff.github.io/incarceration-in-real-numbers/
Organizing in Prison — for when the walls close in (RANT Collective) // https://www.organizingforpower.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Organizing-in-Jail.pdf
database of U.S. facilities incl. ICE holding sites // https://alcpress.org/usjails/index.html
list of prison related resources, mailing lists, etc // https://www.prisonactivist.org/resources
ICE Agent List (incomplete) // https://wiki.icelist.is/index.php/Category:Agents
US Political Prison Tracker (last updated 2025) // https://uspoliticalprisoners.com/
Jailhouse Reading:
📖 Angela Davis - Are Prisons Obsolete? // https://dn790007.ca.archive.org/0/items/the-anarchist-library-full-list-of-pdfs-nov-2020/angela-y-davis-are-prisons-obsolete.pdf
📖 How to Defend Yourself During Police Interrogation // https://www.notrace.how/resources/download/comment-la-police-interroge-et-comment-sen-defendre/how-to-defend-yourself-during-a-police-interrogation.pdf
📖 National Lawyers Guild guide to being a jailhouse lawyer // https://www.jailhouselaw.org/
📖 Critical Resistance - Surviving Solitary Confinement // https://criticalresistance.org/resources/surviving-solitary/
📖 An inside-outside publication for abolitionist struggle & strategy across prison walls // https://criticalresistance.org/abolitionist/
📖 Prisoners’ Self-Help Litigation Manual // https://api.pageplace.de/preview/DT0400.9780199705665_A35159258/preview-9780199705665_A35159258.pdf
⚒️ LABOR!
Live strike tracker with deep stats on who, what and when // https://striketracker.ilr.cornell.edu/
AFL-CIO [imperialist]'s Strike Tracker // https://aflcio.org/strike-map
Labor Bureau's Official 'work stoppage' tracker // https://www.bls.gov/wsp/
IWW timeline for the 20th century (ends at 1999) // https://archive.iww.org/history/chronology/
IWW Work Place Organizing Guide // https://usa.anarchistlibraries.net/library/industrial-workers-of-the-world-libcom-org-solidarity-federation-walthamstow-anarchist-group-wo
▶ Salting | Work Place Organizing 101 (50 minute webinar) // https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SHlCLyM4FY
⚖️ Deeds of the Burger Reich 🇺🇸
deep list of horrible shit we (royal we) have done // https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/us_atrocities.md
Coups and regime changes – master list // https://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-peoples-governments-the-master-list
Wikipedia: United States War Crimes // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_war_crimes
/our boys/ (bring em home!) detail abusing Iraqi prisoners [2006] // https://www.hrw.org/report/2006/07/22/no-blood-no-foul/soldiers-accounts-detainee-abuse-iraq
More than 250 military interventions in the last 30 years alone // https://blackagendareport.com/us-launched-251-military-interventions-1991-and-469-1798
Visualisation of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade // https://www.slavevoyages.org/
UNESCO Sites relating to Slavery // https://slaveryandremembrance.org/
First Hand Documents of the horrors of Slavery // https://www.loc.gov/collections/slave-narratives-from-the-federal-writers-project-1936-to-1938/
📺 Glowie News 📺
(sponsored by the Burger Eagle Freedom Institute (formerly USAID))
CNN Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/cnn-news-usa.html
MSNBC Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/msnbc.html
FOX Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/fox-news-channel.html
Bloomberg Live // https://www.bloomberg.com/live/us
Burger House Live // https://www.whitehouse.gov/live/
Local News // https://www.50states.com/ce/
Weather // https://www.noaa.gov/weather
📺 Gommie News 📺
Jacobin // https://jacobin.com/
Black Agenda Report // https://blackagendareport.com/
The Grayzone // https://thegrayzone.com/
Leftvoice // https://www.leftvoice.org/
Newsanon Filter // https://leftypol.org/search.php?search=name%3A%22News+Anon+3.0%22&board=leftypol
🏝️ Epstein's Client List 🇮🇱
Epstein's Black Book // https://epsteinsblackbook.com/
DOJ Disclosures // https://www.justice.gov/epstein/doj-disclosures
Track AIPAC // https://www.trackaipac.com/
Al Jazeera visual guide (2026) // https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/10/struggling-to-navigate-the-epstein-files-here-is-a-visual-guide
Essential American Politik 📖
📖 WEB Du Bois - Black Reconstruction // https://cominsitu.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/w-e-b-du-bois-black-reconstruction-an-essay-toward-a-history-of-the-part-which-black-folk-played-in-the-attempt-to-reconstruct-democracy-2.pdf
📖 Eugene Debs - Fourth of July Speech // https://jacobin.com/2020/07/eugene-debs-independence-day-address-fourth-july
📖 Power Anywhere There's People! – Fred Hampton // https://www.hamptonthink.org/read/power-anywhere-where-thats-people-fred-hampton
📖 War is a Racket – Smedley Butler // https://ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html
📖 Letters From an American Farmer – St. John de Crevoecoeur // https://americanliterature.com/author/j-hector-st-john-de-crevoecoeur/book/letters-from-an-american-farmer/summary
📖 Trail of Broken Treaties // American Indian Movement https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
📖 The Declaration of Independence https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
📖 The Ballot or the Bullet – Malcolm X // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/ballot_or_bullet.pdf
📖 What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? – Frederick Douglass // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/douglass_july_4_speech.pdf
📖 A Trail of Broken Treaties – American Indian Movement // https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
📖 Custer Died for Your Sins – Vine Deloria Jr. // http://www.riversimulator.org/Resources/Books/CusterDiedForYourSinsAnIndianManifesto1969Deloria.pdf
📖 Emancipation Proclamation – Lincoln // https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/emancipation-proclamation
📖 Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville // https://americanliterature.com/author/alexis-de-tocqueville/book/democracy-in-america/summary
📖 Common Sense – Thomas Paine // https://americainclass.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Common-Sense-Full-Text.pdf
📖 An Indigenous History of the United States – Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz // https://nycstandswithstandingrock.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/dunbar-ortiz-2014.pdf
📖 Huey Long – Share Our Wealth // https://www.hueylong.com/programs/share-our-wealth/huey-longs-share-our-wealth-speech
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the money problem
i know you theory-minded suburban adolescents don't want to hear this, but one of the unavoidable prerequisites for any kind of leftist revolutionary effort, or any large scale human endeavor for that matter, is obtaining money. you want to organize a strike or start a union, you need money to pay your friends who are now out of work and starving. you want to start a big protest on the streets, you need money to pay lawyers and bondsmen and hospital bills when your friends inevitably end up in jail or the emergency room. you want to start an armed insurrection and go to war with cops and national guard and maga militias you need enormous amounts of money to pay for weapons and ammunition and vehicles and fuel and radios and burner phones and medical supplies and rations so your friends don't get massacred. you need a lot of money, and the money has to obtained honestly and ethically, otherwise you cease to be a revolutionary movement and you just become a violent capitalist drug/weapon/human trafficking cartel masquerading as a revolutionary movement and the people you're supposed to be fighting for will despise you even more than the regime. and you need to be able to handle the money without becoming emotionally attached to the money, i.e. you need to be willing to part with the money you worked very hard for and throw it into the pool with everyone else's money and cease to think of it as your money after that, it is now everyone's money and it doesn't matter how much your contribution was compared to anyone else's because it's not your money anymore. and trying to abandon the whole concept of money is not the solution, it's an absurdly unrealistic and lazy copout that simply tries to ignore and sidestep what is ultimately the true source of all of our problems, the fundamental flaw of human psychology that got us into this mess to begin with, which is our lack of emotional maturity when it comes to material wealth. there is no getting out from under capitalism without addressing that core problem, there is no clever shortcut that will allow us to skip ahead to the next level of human social evolution without dealing with our greed and our entitlement and our pettiness. if we can't find any reasonable middle ground between getting high on money and rejecting it outright, between capitalism and utopianism, then we've got more immediate and personal problems to deal with before we can start talking about how to refactor the entire world.
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Look, I know picrel is an elaborate troll, but how do we work towards stamping out this way of thinking from the left once and for all?
A lot of people like this just want to be coddled for having XYZ marginalized identity; they’re oblivious to the fact that your identity isn’t what makes you radical, your ACTIONS are. A lot of it seems to stem from the narcissism that’s embedded within late capitalist society: people want “validation” just for existing, they can’t understand nuance or striving for a goal bigger than them, they want instant gratification instead of long-term sacrifice, and they fall into Main Character Syndrome (“what about ME????”).
So how can we tweak our methodology so we can prevent comrades from mentally falling into this way of thinking and thus prevent wrecker behaviour and bean soup bullshit?
Look, I know picrel is an elaborate troll, but how do we work towards stamping out this way of thinking from the left once and for all?
A lot of people like this just want to be coddled for having XYZ marginalized identity; they’re oblivious to the fact that your identity isn’t what makes you radical, your ACTIONS are. A lot of it seems to stem from the narcissism that’s embedded within late capitalist society: people want “validation” just for existing, they can’t understand nuance or striving for a goal bigger than them, they want instant gratification instead of long-term sacrifice, and they fall into Main Character Syndrome (“what about ME????”).
So how can we tweak our methodology so we can prevent comrades from mentally falling into this way of thinking and thus prevent wrecker behaviour and bean soup bullshit?
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The groups said they will stop operations to denounce the Marcos regime’s failure to control fuel prices, which the Oil Deregulation Law allows to rise unchecked. KNETCO said 85% of drivers and operators in Bacolod City are already earning insufficient daily incomes and have been driven into poverty. They will also demand that the Marcos regime remove the value-added tax and excise tax to reduce fuel prices. They will simultaneously push for diesel and gasoline prices to be rolled back to their previous price of ₱55/liter.
https://philippinerevolution.nu/angbayan/over-1000-drivers-jeepney-operators-set-to-join-transport-strike-in-bacolod-city/
‘Forcing a reckoning’: How Asia is preparing for a ‘supersized’ El Niño
In Hong Kong, authorities have already been forced to revise workplace policies, after the city experienced its hottest day on record on 9 August. During times of extreme heat, companies are expected to reschedule work, provide cooling equipment and rest breaks for their employees. Employers in the international financial hub could even face prosecution if they fail to provide staff with support at times of sweltering heat. In mainland China a 100-day campaign has been launched to prepare for extreme weather and help safeguard harvests against the opposing extremes of drought and intense rainfall.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/sep/18/how-asia-is-preparing-for-supersized-el-nino-global-warming
Airstrike near a market in Myanmar’s Rakhine state kills 33 people
Monday’s attack occurred in Kyauktaw township, about 340 kilometers (210 miles) west of Mandalay, the country’s second-largest city, according to the Arakan Army, a powerful ethnic armed group based in Rakhine which controls Kyauktaw. It said a fighter jet dropped two bombs near a local market around noon, killing 33 people, including vendors, shoppers and pedestrians.
https://apnews.com/article/myanmar-market-airstrike-deaths-0ef9bf26ce3998693ea6c86450392e11
Swiss voters reject stricter neutrality rules that would have curbed Nato cooperation
Swiss voters have decisively rejected a proposal for a strict definition of neutrality that would have required Switzerland to curb cooperation with Nato and abandon sanctions against Russia. All cantons and about 70% of voters rejected the proposal for a strictly defined version of neutrality to be written into the Swiss constitution, final results from the Federal Statistical Office showed. The motion had been promoted by the far-right Swiss People’s party (SVP).
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/27/swiss-vote-reject-stricter-neutrality-rules-nato
Labour to Nationalise Avanti West Coast Trains After Privatisation Fails
The service is the latest of numerous lines that have either been brought back into public ownership or will be soon, following a pledge by the ruling party to do so ahead of the 2024 election. “Enough is enough. For years, people have been expected to put up with Avanti’s cancellations, delays, overcrowding and a service that has failed them time and time again,” prime minister Andy Burnham said in a statement on Sunday.
https://novaramedia.com/2026/09/28/labour-to-nationalise-avanti-west-coast-trains-after-privatisation-fails/
5 men arrested near a US-run air base are bailed as UK police probe whether there’s a link to Iran
The men were detained early Sunday after three vans were spotted in the countryside near RAF Fairford, a U.K.-owned base that has been used by American bombers during decades of conflicts in the Middle East, including this year’s war with Iran. Investigators haven’t concluded whether the incident was state-backed. They are investigating a possible link to Iran, Russia or non-state militant groups. RAF Fairford has also been the focus of protests by anti-war campaigners.
https://apnews.com/article/uk-fairford-us-air-base-arrests-investigation-4b6fb8b4636c0c360bd7d3d2c44e8075
Northern Irish standoff extends to second day over blocked Orange Order march
A lawmaker from the Democratic Unionist Party, the largest pro-British party, warned of "profound" consequences if the parade did not proceed in the next two days as Britain's Northern Ireland Minister Chris Bryant sought compromise. "It's not quite clear what that will look like yet but a bit through the mist, I can see maybe what that might look like if I can persuade everybody to sign up," Bryant said after separate talks with the Orange Order, residents and politicians.
https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/britain-seeks-compromise-over-blocked-orange-order-march-northern-ireland-2026-09-28/
With Delcy in NYC, Venezuelans Grew Furious Over Power Cuts
Public discontent isn’t quite new: a few weeks ago, there were similar demonstrations across the country demanding, if not a concrete solution to the problem, at least some kind of relief, like offering a blackouts timetable that would allow people to take precautions. Fernández was named the new head of Corpoelec around that time.
https://www.caracaschronicles.com/2026/09/28/with-delcy-in-nyc-venezuelans-grew-furious-over-power-cuts/
https://archive.ph/UNldR
Colombia Reopens Oil Exploration And Allows “Fracking”
The president also called for an end to what he described as “environmental hysteria” and rejected Petro’s energy policy as a form of dependence on external energy. “That is not energy transition, but energy dependence, which no policy of this Government will accept. In the era of the Tiger, we will have energy sovereignty,” De la Espriella said.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/colombia-oil-exploration-allows-fracking/
Ethiopia accuses Sudan, Egypt of backing Tigray rebels as fighting rages
The Sudanese military denied the allegations in a statement on Sunday, calling them “baseless”. The military, which has been fighting a civil war in Sudan against the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) since 2023, also made a counterclaim, alleging that the RSF was receiving support from within Ethiopia’s territory, including training, supplies and military activity involving drones.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/28/ethiopia-accuses-sudan-egypt-of-backing-tigray-rebels-as-fighting-rages
https://archive.ph/DxLsR
RSF drones strike El Gezira fuel depot as both sides report shootdowns
Residents said they heard several explosions shortly after dawn prayers in Abu Haraz, about 20 kilometres northeast of Wad Madani. Videos circulating online showed flames across parts of the depot as Civil Defence teams worked to contain the blaze. The facility stores and distributes petrol and diesel across El Gezira. Civil Defence said it contained the fire and prevented it from reaching other tanks, with damage limited to the petrol and diesel tanks.
https://www.dabangasudan.org/en/all-news/article/rsf-drones-strike-el-gezira-fuel-depot-as-both-sides-report-shootdowns
News 9/28/26
Over 1,000 drivers, jeepney operators set to join transport strike in Bacolod CityThe groups said they will stop operations to denounce the Marcos regime’s failure to control fuel prices, which the Oil Deregulation Law allows to rise unchecked. KNETCO said 85% of drivers and operators in Bacolod City are already earning insufficient daily incomes and have been driven into poverty. They will also demand that the Marcos regime remove the value-added tax and excise tax to reduce fuel prices. They will simultaneously push for diesel and gasoline prices to be rolled back to their previous price of ₱55/liter.
https://philippinerevolution.nu/angbayan/over-1000-drivers-jeepney-operators-set-to-join-transport-strike-in-bacolod-city/
‘Forcing a reckoning’: How Asia is preparing for a ‘supersized’ El Niño
In Hong Kong, authorities have already been forced to revise workplace policies, after the city experienced its hottest day on record on 9 August. During times of extreme heat, companies are expected to reschedule work, provide cooling equipment and rest breaks for their employees. Employers in the international financial hub could even face prosecution if they fail to provide staff with support at times of sweltering heat. In mainland China a 100-day campaign has been launched to prepare for extreme weather and help safeguard harvests against the opposing extremes of drought and intense rainfall.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/sep/18/how-asia-is-preparing-for-supersized-el-nino-global-warming
Airstrike near a market in Myanmar’s Rakhine state kills 33 people
Monday’s attack occurred in Kyauktaw township, about 340 kilometers (210 miles) west of Mandalay, the country’s second-largest city, according to the Arakan Army, a powerful ethnic armed group based in Rakhine which controls Kyauktaw. It said a fighter jet dropped two bombs near a local market around noon, killing 33 people, including vendors, shoppers and pedestrians.
https://apnews.com/article/myanmar-market-airstrike-deaths-0ef9bf26ce3998693ea6c86450392e11
Swiss voters reject stricter neutrality rules that would have curbed Nato cooperation
Swiss voters have decisively rejected a proposal for a strict definition of neutrality that would have required Switzerland to curb cooperation with Nato and abandon sanctions against Russia. All cantons and about 70% of voters rejected the proposal for a strictly defined version of neutrality to be written into the Swiss constitution, final results from the Federal Statistical Office showed. The motion had been promoted by the far-right Swiss People’s party (SVP).
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/27/swiss-vote-reject-stricter-neutrality-rules-nato
Labour to Nationalise Avanti West Coast Trains After Privatisation Fails
The service is the latest of numerous lines that have either been brought back into public ownership or will be soon, following a pledge by the ruling party to do so ahead of the 2024 election. “Enough is enough. For years, people have been expected to put up with Avanti’s cancellations, delays, overcrowding and a service that has failed them time and time again,” prime minister Andy Burnham said in a statement on Sunday.
https://novaramedia.com/2026/09/28/labour-to-nationalise-avanti-west-coast-trains-after-privatisation-fails/
5 men arrested near a US-run air base are bailed as UK police probe whether there’s a link to Iran
The men were detained early Sunday after three vans were spotted in the countryside near RAF Fairford, a U.K.-owned base that has been used by American bombers during decades of conflicts in the Middle East, including this year’s war with Iran. Investigators haven’t concluded whether the incident was state-backed. They are investigating a possible link to Iran, Russia or non-state militant groups. RAF Fairford has also been the focus of protests by anti-war campaigners.
https://apnews.com/article/uk-fairford-us-air-base-arrests-investigation-4b6fb8b4636c0c360bd7d3d2c44e8075
Northern Irish standoff extends to second day over blocked Orange Order march
A lawmaker from the Democratic Unionist Party, the largest pro-British party, warned of "profound" consequences if the parade did not proceed in the next two days as Britain's Northern Ireland Minister Chris Bryant sought compromise. "It's not quite clear what that will look like yet but a bit through the mist, I can see maybe what that might look like if I can persuade everybody to sign up," Bryant said after separate talks with the Orange Order, residents and politicians.
https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/britain-seeks-compromise-over-blocked-orange-order-march-northern-ireland-2026-09-28/
With Delcy in NYC, Venezuelans Grew Furious Over Power Cuts
Public discontent isn’t quite new: a few weeks ago, there were similar demonstrations across the country demanding, if not a concrete solution to the problem, at least some kind of relief, like offering a blackouts timetable that would allow people to take precautions. Fernández was named the new head of Corpoelec around that time.
https://www.caracaschronicles.com/2026/09/28/with-delcy-in-nyc-venezuelans-grew-furious-over-power-cuts/
https://archive.ph/UNldR
Colombia Reopens Oil Exploration And Allows “Fracking”
The president also called for an end to what he described as “environmental hysteria” and rejected Petro’s energy policy as a form of dependence on external energy. “That is not energy transition, but energy dependence, which no policy of this Government will accept. In the era of the Tiger, we will have energy sovereignty,” De la Espriella said.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/colombia-oil-exploration-allows-fracking/
Ethiopia accuses Sudan, Egypt of backing Tigray rebels as fighting rages
The Sudanese military denied the allegations in a statement on Sunday, calling them “baseless”. The military, which has been fighting a civil war in Sudan against the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) since 2023, also made a counterclaim, alleging that the RSF was receiving support from within Ethiopia’s territory, including training, supplies and military activity involving drones.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/28/ethiopia-accuses-sudan-egypt-of-backing-tigray-rebels-as-fighting-rages
https://archive.ph/DxLsR
RSF drones strike El Gezira fuel depot as both sides report shootdowns
Residents said they heard several explosions shortly after dawn prayers in Abu Haraz, about 20 kilometres northeast of Wad Madani. Videos circulating online showed flames across parts of the depot as Civil Defence teams worked to contain the blaze. The facility stores and distributes petrol and diesel across El Gezira. Civil Defence said it contained the fire and prevented it from reaching other tanks, with damage limited to the petrol and diesel tanks.
https://www.dabangasudan.org/en/all-news/article/rsf-drones-strike-el-gezira-fuel-depot-as-both-sides-report-shootdowns
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Mao Zedong's "WHERE DO CORRECT IDEAS COME FROM?"
Where do correct ideas come from? Do they drop from the skies? No. Are they innate in the mind? No. They come from social practice, and from it alone; they come from three kinds of social practice, the struggle for production, the class struggle and scientific experiment. It is man’s social being that determines his thinking. Once the correct ideas characteristic of the advanced class are grasped by the masses, these ideas turn into a material force which changes society and changes the world. In their social practice, men engage in various kinds of struggle and gain rich experience, both from their successes and from their failures. Countless phenomena of the objective external world are reflected in a man’s brain through his five sense organs — the organs of sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch. At first, knowledge is perceptual. The leap to conceptual knowledge, i.e., to ideas, occurs when sufficient perceptual knowledge is accumulated. This is one process in cognition. It is the first stage in the whole process of cognition, the stage leading from objective matter to subjective consciousness from existence to ideas. Whether or not one’s consciousness or ideas (including theories, policies, plans or measures) do correctly reflect the laws of the objective external world is not yet proved at this stage, in which it is not yet possible to ascertain whether they are correct or not. Then comes the second stage in the process of cognition, the stage leading from consciousness back to matter, from ideas back to existence, in which the knowledge gained in the first stage is applied in social practice to ascertain whether the theories, policies, plans or measures meet with the anticipated success. Generally speaking, those that succeed are correct and those that fail are incorrect, and this is especially true of man’s struggle with nature. In social struggle, the forces representing the advanced class sometimes suffer defeat not because their ideas are incorrect, but because, in the balance of forces engaged in struggle, they are not as powerful for the time being as the forces of reaction; they are therefore temporarily defeated, but they are bound to triumph sooner or later. Man’s knowledge makes another leap through the test of practice. This leap is more important than the previous one. For it is this leap alone that can prove the correctness or incorrectness of the first leap in cognition, i.e., of the ideas, theories, policies, plans or measures formulated in the course of reflecting the objective external world. There is no other way of testing truth. Furthermore, the one and only purpose of the proletariat in knowing the world is to change it. Often, correct knowledge can be arrived at only after many repetitions of the process leading from matter to consciousness and then back to matter, that is, leading from practice to knowledge and then back to practice. Such is the Marxist theory of knowledge, the dialectical materialist theory of knowledge. Among our comrades there are many who do not yet understand this theory of knowledge. When asked the sources of their ideas, opinions, policies, methods, plans and conclusions, eloquent speeches and long articles they consider the questions strange and cannot answer it. Nor do they comprehend that matter, can be transformed into consciousness and consciousness into matter, although such leaps are phenomena of everyday life. It is therefore necessary to educate our comrades in the dialectical materialist theory of knowledge, so that they can orientate their thinking correctly, become good at investigation and study and at summing up experience, overcome difficulties, commit fewer mistakes, do their work better, and struggle hard so as to build China into a great and powerful socialist country and help the broad masses of the oppressed and exploited throughout the world in fulfillment of our great internationalist duty. R: 3 / I: 0
Libtards and Ukies, do you seriously think the country in this webm is better than the Russian shithole? This is absolute top-tier clown world, I completely lost it at 0:41. Moving here is supposed to be ‘making it in life’? Seriously? Are you guys completely brainwashed NPCs, or what?
Libtards and Ukies, do you seriously think the country in this webm is better than the Russian shithole? This is absolute top-tier clown world, I completely lost it at 0:41. Moving here is supposed to be ‘making it in life’? Seriously? Are you guys completely brainwashed NPCs, or what?
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They're all in cahoots. It's true, it's one big club, and (you) are not in it. Politics is just one big spectacle where the rabble gets exploited and killed. But the elites party and have their fun. Xi Jinping, the oh so great anti-imperialist. Of course!
They're all in cahoots. It's true, it's one big club, and (you) are not in it. Politics is just one big spectacle where the rabble gets exploited and killed. But the elites party and have their fun. Xi Jinping, the oh so great anti-imperialist. Of course!
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Was Stalin responsible for Warsaw destruction the same way he lost Katyn case in Nuremberg?
Dachau and Buchenwald aren't mentioned in the sentencing either, weirdly enough. Auschwitz had an episode of women getting neutered in indictment, but no mention of it in the sentencing. Were the Soviets responsible for all of those, I wonder? Judging by how it is claimed that since Katyn is missing in the sentencing, it means that court refused the accusation
Katyn stuff
Why was Warsaw's destruction not declared a Nazi war crime by Nuremberg? Was it actually destroyed by Soviets? There was no Warsaw destruction listed in court sentence anywhere, despite Poles putting loads of documents for the court to consider, just like Soviets did with Katyn, but were repelled by the court.Was Stalin responsible for Warsaw destruction the same way he lost Katyn case in Nuremberg?
Dachau and Buchenwald aren't mentioned in the sentencing either, weirdly enough. Auschwitz had an episode of women getting neutered in indictment, but no mention of it in the sentencing. Were the Soviets responsible for all of those, I wonder? Judging by how it is claimed that since Katyn is missing in the sentencing, it means that court refused the accusation
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/Debate Addict General/
- Punching your monitor only hurts you, it does not hurt the person who made the post.
- People often don't think, they just feel. Asking them to define terms and defend positions forces them to think and causes them to realize things about themselves they did not previously realize.
- Practice without theory is flailing. Theory without debate is solipsism. Debate without reflection upon practice is masturbation. We should practice, then debate whether that practice was useful, then reflect upon that debate to establish a superior theory that will lead to better practice.
- Debate does not cause splits, it reveals splits that were previously hidden under the flowery language of a false unity, and allows something to be done about them.
- People who are unable to defend their ideas don't even know why they hold them in the first place.
- People who are unable to define the terms they use don't even know what they mean.
- If you shoot first and ask questions later you end up with a lot of unnecessary friendly fire.
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All the influencers who complained should get the NKVD treatment and get a job.
Luiz Inacio is based
If he made right-wing influencers cry and threaten to leave the country, then it's already basedAll the influencers who complained should get the NKVD treatment and get a job.
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There needs to be proletarian disability justice movement. I think communists have ended up being pushed into seeing disability justice as some kind of frivolous idpol, and its not helped by the fact that so much of it is carried by very shortsighted middle-class ppl right now. The movement for disability rights has become associated with unreasonable, aggressive attempts at gaining accommodation (sometimes in cases where a reasonable discussion about accommodation could be had). While the actual ways that accommodation could begin to be pushed for, especially in working class context, are completely ignored.
Disabled people exist in the proletariat. Even when they're shut out of working jobs, they end up being confronted with the issue of being cared for. Their families, also working class, end up with this responsibility, and will have to make immense sacrifices (at least for mid-to-higher supports-need disabled individuals) as they can't afford daily care workers (usually). A lot of times they will opt out of this and abandon the disabled individual, to either die on the streets or end up in a poorly-funded public care facility, where the exact support services that they need are neglected and they live a terrible, shortened life. Even some disabled individuals with bourgeois family paying for their care deal with some of these problems, but of course the ones with working class origins have a much more guaranteed miserable fate.
Unions could fight for better workplace accommodation for the supports needs of disabled workers. The workplace is an extremely critical site for disability rights to be fought for within. And the issues of disabled workers should be addressed by their comrades. More public money could be spent on public care services that either work with families or host the disabled individual in a facility. These services could be empathetically based on the supports that a person needs
There needs to be proletarian disability justice movement. I think communists have ended up being pushed into seeing disability justice as some kind of frivolous idpol, and its not helped by the fact that so much of it is carried by very shortsighted middle-class ppl right now. The movement for disability rights has become associated with unreasonable, aggressive attempts at gaining accommodation (sometimes in cases where a reasonable discussion about accommodation could be had). While the actual ways that accommodation could begin to be pushed for, especially in working class context, are completely ignored.
Disabled people exist in the proletariat. Even when they're shut out of working jobs, they end up being confronted with the issue of being cared for. Their families, also working class, end up with this responsibility, and will have to make immense sacrifices (at least for mid-to-higher supports-need disabled individuals) as they can't afford daily care workers (usually). A lot of times they will opt out of this and abandon the disabled individual, to either die on the streets or end up in a poorly-funded public care facility, where the exact support services that they need are neglected and they live a terrible, shortened life. Even some disabled individuals with bourgeois family paying for their care deal with some of these problems, but of course the ones with working class origins have a much more guaranteed miserable fate.
Unions could fight for better workplace accommodation for the supports needs of disabled workers. The workplace is an extremely critical site for disability rights to be fought for within. And the issues of disabled workers should be addressed by their comrades. More public money could be spent on public care services that either work with families or host the disabled individual in a facility. These services could be empathetically based on the supports that a person needs
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Also, fuck the links than nobody uses anyway
…However, where the fighting is actually taking place, Russia appears to be experiencing genuine exhaustion, as casualties continue to mount and Ukrainian drone strikes disrupt everyday life even in Moscow.
Meanwhile, its political leadership, and even more so its economic leadership, are reportedly exploring ways to extricate the country from its Ukrainian predicament, with the Trump administration in the United States facilitating efforts in that direction….
/ukr/ - Russia-Ukraine War General #298
Totally not failing hard nor bogged down editionPrevious: >>2911597
Also, fuck the links than nobody uses anyway
…However, where the fighting is actually taking place, Russia appears to be experiencing genuine exhaustion, as casualties continue to mount and Ukrainian drone strikes disrupt everyday life even in Moscow.
Meanwhile, its political leadership, and even more so its economic leadership, are reportedly exploring ways to extricate the country from its Ukrainian predicament, with the Trump administration in the United States facilitating efforts in that direction….
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What would a Socialist America be like?
I would have just posted this in /USApol/ but I feel the question is dense enough to necessitate a thread of it's own.
What would a Socialist America look like.
The question is, presuming it's possible without forever balkanizing the country,What would a Socialist America be like?
I would have just posted this in /USApol/ but I feel the question is dense enough to necessitate a thread of it's own.
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Gaston is a popular, masculine man of the people. He's portrayed as a charismatic leader who organizes the effort to kill the Beast, who is depicted as a cruel noble elite. The fact that Gaston is French, that red is strongly associated with his character and the recent Disney prequel project about him would great potential.
Comrade Gaston
I've seen this pop up on /co/ few times and I honestly think it has a lot of potential to red pill normies.Gaston is a popular, masculine man of the people. He's portrayed as a charismatic leader who organizes the effort to kill the Beast, who is depicted as a cruel noble elite. The fact that Gaston is French, that red is strongly associated with his character and the recent Disney prequel project about him would great potential.
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>>New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and US President Donald Trump met at the mayor’s mansion on September 21 to discuss Mamdani’s plan for an expansive housing project atop the Sunnyside rail yard in Queens with federal support.
>>Trump made the planned visit before speaking at the United Nations General Assembly, where he threatened to “annihilate the Islamic Republic”.
>>The two spoke jovially, with Trump saying that Mamdani will be “hopefully, a really great mayor.” Mamdani announced that he and the president agreed to advance talks to a technical level to discuss carrying out the project.
>>According to the mayor’s office, the proposal entails building a $21 billion platform above the rail yard that would allow real estate monopolists to construct housing on the platform.
>>Mamdani claimed the project would lead to the creation of 12,000 housing units, and 30,000 jobs in the process.
>>The idea of housing above the rail yard has long been flirted with by NYC administrations for decades, given its prime location near the East River and Manhattan.
>>Mamdani has worked closely with real estate monopolies with the stated aim of increasing the supply of cheaper housing in the city.
>>August, Mamdani invited 15 executives to join his administration’s business advisory council, including several real estate monopolists.
>>One of these real estate executives, RXR chairman and CEO Scott Rechler, told real estate news outlet The Real Deal in late August, “The economy’s thriving, the commercial leasing market is thriving, people were saying that people were going to flee New York and the reality is, we’ve seen an enormous influx of talent and the wealthy buying condominiums at record levels.”
>>The news outlet writes, “Since the mayor took office eight months ago, many of the concerns about his agenda and its potential impact on the business community have proven to be overstated, according to Rechler, who said a ‘caricature’ painted in the media and even the administration’s own rhetoric has clouded the reality.”
>>The outlet also remarks the administration has launched two city tasks forces to speed up approval and construction of housing developments, and is set to lead another later this year “aimed at overhauling building codes to facilitate new construction and upgrades by finding cost savings for developers, according to the mayor’s housing plan.”
>>Mamdani’s administration has also given its support to privatization of public housing through the Permanent Affordability Commitment Together (PACT) program, a vicious cycle in which public housing is left to deteriorate as the land it is on increases in value and then sold to private real estate monopolies for management and renovation during which tenants are evicted and rents are raised.
>>As part of this program, the mayor is moving forward with the eviction of New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) residents from Fulton Elliot-Chelsea (FEC) for “redevelopment” by Related Companies, the largest real estate monopoly in the city. Some tenants at FEC have refused to leave and are actively resisting city efforts to force them out.
>>New developments can involve demolition of existing housing and raise prices in the area, forcing lower-income residents out of the neighborhood, according to a number of urban research studies.
>>About 263,000 housing units sit vacant in NYC for various reasons, according to a 2023 study by the city. Of these, 33,210 units are available for rent, and 230,200 units are vacant and not available for rent or sale. The top three reasons given for unavailability are: “Held for occasional use”, “Awaiting or undergoing renovation”, or “Held as vacant”.
>>Today, about 26,000 rent-stabilized apartments and 6,200 NYCHA apartments are vacant. Add to this the tens of millions of square feet of office vacancy (12.5% of NYC office space is vacant as of July, according to the city comptroller), and it becomes clear that the housing crisis is not simply a matter of supply and demand, but private ownership and profitability.
Mamdani Seeks Trump’s Approval for NYC Real Estate Windfall Project
https://theworker.news/2026/09/24/mamdani-seeks-trumps-approval-for-nyc-real-estate-windfall-project/>>New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and US President Donald Trump met at the mayor’s mansion on September 21 to discuss Mamdani’s plan for an expansive housing project atop the Sunnyside rail yard in Queens with federal support.
>>Trump made the planned visit before speaking at the United Nations General Assembly, where he threatened to “annihilate the Islamic Republic”.
>>The two spoke jovially, with Trump saying that Mamdani will be “hopefully, a really great mayor.” Mamdani announced that he and the president agreed to advance talks to a technical level to discuss carrying out the project.
>>According to the mayor’s office, the proposal entails building a $21 billion platform above the rail yard that would allow real estate monopolists to construct housing on the platform.
>>Mamdani claimed the project would lead to the creation of 12,000 housing units, and 30,000 jobs in the process.
>>The idea of housing above the rail yard has long been flirted with by NYC administrations for decades, given its prime location near the East River and Manhattan.
>>Mamdani has worked closely with real estate monopolies with the stated aim of increasing the supply of cheaper housing in the city.
>>August, Mamdani invited 15 executives to join his administration’s business advisory council, including several real estate monopolists.
>>One of these real estate executives, RXR chairman and CEO Scott Rechler, told real estate news outlet The Real Deal in late August, “The economy’s thriving, the commercial leasing market is thriving, people were saying that people were going to flee New York and the reality is, we’ve seen an enormous influx of talent and the wealthy buying condominiums at record levels.”
>>The news outlet writes, “Since the mayor took office eight months ago, many of the concerns about his agenda and its potential impact on the business community have proven to be overstated, according to Rechler, who said a ‘caricature’ painted in the media and even the administration’s own rhetoric has clouded the reality.”
>>The outlet also remarks the administration has launched two city tasks forces to speed up approval and construction of housing developments, and is set to lead another later this year “aimed at overhauling building codes to facilitate new construction and upgrades by finding cost savings for developers, according to the mayor’s housing plan.”
>>Mamdani’s administration has also given its support to privatization of public housing through the Permanent Affordability Commitment Together (PACT) program, a vicious cycle in which public housing is left to deteriorate as the land it is on increases in value and then sold to private real estate monopolies for management and renovation during which tenants are evicted and rents are raised.
>>As part of this program, the mayor is moving forward with the eviction of New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) residents from Fulton Elliot-Chelsea (FEC) for “redevelopment” by Related Companies, the largest real estate monopoly in the city. Some tenants at FEC have refused to leave and are actively resisting city efforts to force them out.
>>New developments can involve demolition of existing housing and raise prices in the area, forcing lower-income residents out of the neighborhood, according to a number of urban research studies.
>>About 263,000 housing units sit vacant in NYC for various reasons, according to a 2023 study by the city. Of these, 33,210 units are available for rent, and 230,200 units are vacant and not available for rent or sale. The top three reasons given for unavailability are: “Held for occasional use”, “Awaiting or undergoing renovation”, or “Held as vacant”.
>>Today, about 26,000 rent-stabilized apartments and 6,200 NYCHA apartments are vacant. Add to this the tens of millions of square feet of office vacancy (12.5% of NYC office space is vacant as of July, according to the city comptroller), and it becomes clear that the housing crisis is not simply a matter of supply and demand, but private ownership and profitability.
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All the rules, ordainances and the leftypol manifesto compiled in this pic. If anything seems like it warrants a report, just take a look at this picture and fucking use the report function. The mods and jannies can only be effective if (you) help them be.
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The future: Israel wants to conquer the middle east which is beneficial for the US and its already acting beneficially in both of their strategic goals in the middle east so its understandable why so many of our politicians our sucking israeli cocks dry because ignorance is bliss.
My proposed solution of what the US should do: We should use Israel as a tool to deradicalize the middle east as radical as Israel themselves may be because judaism is a lesser evil to islam and most of the middle east is islamic and israel being the only one that is jewish and considering how small it really is. The end goal is to rid of all religion and so we should indeed turn Palestine into a parking lot.
My solution for the middle east
Palestinians allow european jews into Palestine and coexist, Jews want their own territory, The British assist in creating the state of Israel, Palestinians resist and this creates unrest, Palestinians are mad that the jews took their land, theres conflict for years and small terror attacks on eachother but ultimately Israel is okay with Palestine existing, years go by and the gulf wars happen, US buddy's up with Israel, Muslim world doesn't take kindly to the US and the killing of Saddam Hussein actually leads to the making of more Saddam Husseins. fast forward to 9/11 and the attacks, Palestine celebrates the attacks against the US because they take it as a blow they've been waiting for because of their Imperialism in the Middle East and buddying up with their enemy that is Israel, fast forward to our time and Palestine and Israel get harsher and start cat fighting worse than ever "An eye for an eye leaves all without sight", essentially Israel and Palestine end up being no better than one another all stemming from a land dispute and the US becomes stronger in alliance with Israel in their goal of cleansing islamic terror while compromising with the fact that Israel is like the only non islamic country in the middle east and is western in essence.The future: Israel wants to conquer the middle east which is beneficial for the US and its already acting beneficially in both of their strategic goals in the middle east so its understandable why so many of our politicians our sucking israeli cocks dry because ignorance is bliss.
My proposed solution of what the US should do: We should use Israel as a tool to deradicalize the middle east as radical as Israel themselves may be because judaism is a lesser evil to islam and most of the middle east is islamic and israel being the only one that is jewish and considering how small it really is. The end goal is to rid of all religion and so we should indeed turn Palestine into a parking lot.
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The americans have been using this exact same playbook to this day, why the fuck does it still work?
A New Old Che Guevara Interview 1959
>The present indications are very clear that they are now preparing to intervene in Cuba and destroy the Cuban Revolution. The evil foreign enemies have an old method. First they begin a political offensive, propagandising widely and saying that the Cuban people oppose Communism. These false democratic leaders say that the United States cannot allow a Communist country on its coastline. At the same time they intensify their economic attack and cause Cuba to fall into economic difficulties. Later they will look for a pretext to create some kind of dispute and then utilise certain international organisations they control to carry out intervention against the Cuban people. We do not have to fear an attack from some small neighbouring dictatorial country, but from a certain large country, using certain international organisations and a certain kind of pretext in order to intervene and undermine the Cuban Revolution….The americans have been using this exact same playbook to this day, why the fuck does it still work?
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Rojas, who headed the Comandos de Frontera, a FARC dissident group operating in southern Colombia, was transferred before dawn from La Picota prison in Bogotá to the Catam military base and later to the Combat Air Command No. 3 in Malambo, in the metropolitan area of Barranquilla. De la Espriella handed Rojas over to U.S. authorities inside a military hangar, where Rojas appeared handcuffed and wearing prison clothing while being guarded by Interpol agents and armed military personnel.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/colombia-extradites-farc-dissident-u-s/
Former far-right group member found guilty of murdering Argentina rugby star
A former member of a violent far-right group was found guilty on Friday of murdering former Argentina rugby international Federico Aramburu four years ago in Paris, following an altercation near the Boulevard Saint-Germain. Loik Le Priol, 32, whom the court said was "animated by the will to kill", was sentenced to 26 years in prison.
https://www.reuters.com/world/former-far-right-group-member-found-guilty-murdering-argentina-rugby-star-2026-09-25/
US strikes on Ecuadorian fishing boats raise humanitarian concerns but Trump admin not wavering
On 8 September, a day before Rubio arrived, a US patrol vessel intercepted the fishing boat Don Rufo in international waters near Ecuador. “The gringos were all armed as if they were going to war,” said the boat’s captain, Mero Calderón, 50. “I tried to show them our catch to prove that we were there working, but they wouldn’t listen,” he added. “They brought two huge bombs aboard, took us to their ship, handcuffed and blindfolded us, and blew our boat to pieces,” said Calderón, who along with five other fishers, was handed over to local authorities.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/26/us-airstrikes-ecuador-fishers
Morocco’s Authenticity and Modernity Party wins parliamentary election, interior ministry says
PAM’s senior coalition partner, the National Rally of Independents (RNI), lost significant ground, falling from 102 seats to 66. Only 38 percent of Morocco’s 15.8 million registered voters cast ballots, the second-lowest turnout since King Mohammed VI ascended to the throne in 1999, after a record-low 37 percent in 2007, and sharply down from the roughly 51 percent recorded in 2021. Analysts attribute the low number to widespread disengagement following youth-led protests last year over jobs, healthcare and education, and deadly mass attempts by migrants to reach Spain’s North African enclave of Ceuta in July.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/26/pam-wins-big-in-morocco-parliament-elections-but-falls-short-of-majority
https://archive.ph/mkMzV
Residents of largest city in northern Ethiopia express fear after eruption of fighting
Some told The Associated Press that internet service was disrupted across parts of northern Ethiopia, and roads connecting the northernmost region of Tigray with the neighboring region of Afar had been closed to civilian traffic. “There is an atmosphere of fear,” said Selam Fantay, who sells garlic in the market in the Tigrayan capital of Mekelle. “People are deeply concerned that the suspension of transport services signals the outbreak of renewed conflict.”
https://apnews.com/article/ethiopia-tigray-fighting-tplf-a4a082c9579af2e3e2783b8abd9de787
ANC faces mass defections as members join SACP in North West
Many ANC branch leaders and councillors from North West municipalities have defected to the South African Communist Party (SACP) and are contesting under the SACP’s banner in the 4 November local elections. In response, the ANC plans to pre-empt these defections by expelling the members before they officially leave.
https://www.citizen.co.za/news/south-africa/politics/anc-faces-mass-defections-as-members-join-sacp-in-north-west/
https://archive.ph/iCpMw
Board of Peace quietly met with UNRWA, ex-agency chief says
The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to brief the media, confirmed at least three meetings between UNRWA officials and the Palestinian committee this year, most recently this month. Two took place during Lazzarini’s tenure. Shortly before the end of his tenure, Lazzarini said, he spoke to Ali Shaath, who leads the Palestinian committee. “Basically, he said, ‘I don’t know how I can succeed without you’,” Lazzarini said. Shaath and a spokesperson did not respond to requests for comment.
https://apnews.com/article/lazzarini-unrwa-hamas-israel-gaza-palestinians-a2fb7495f233cdbe199d571ecfd122f4
Iraq seeks US exemptions to resume Iranian flights
Iraq said on Saturday that it is in direct talks with the United States to seek exemptions for some Iraqi airports from measures affecting Iranian airlines, a day after flights between Iran and airports across Iraq and the Kurdistan Region were suspended.
https://www.rudaw.net/english/categories/iraq/1079457
11 incursions and eight rounds of bombardment in a week | Israeli forces considerably escalate their military operation in southern Syria
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights documented 11 ground incursions and eight rounds of bombardments between the 18th and 24th of September in the countryside of Al-Quneitra, Daraa and western Rif Dimashq. These hit populated areas, farmlands and sites near the buffer zone, alongside Israeli military movements and reconnaissance flights over the region.
https://www.syriahr.com/en/386405/
Houthis told EU they have no intention to attack European ships: Report
The Houthis sent a letter to the EU’s foreign policy and security arm to reassure the body after they captured the strategic Red Sea port city of Mocha and the Arabian Gulf side of the Bab al-Mandeb chokepoint in a lightning offensive earlier this month, the Financial Times reported. The letter would mark a pattern for the Houthis trying to isolate Saudi Arabia by keeping other countries out of a conflict.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/houthis-told-eu-they-have-no-intention-attack-european-ships-report
News 9/26/26
Colombia Extradites FARC Dissident Negotiator To The U.S.Rojas, who headed the Comandos de Frontera, a FARC dissident group operating in southern Colombia, was transferred before dawn from La Picota prison in Bogotá to the Catam military base and later to the Combat Air Command No. 3 in Malambo, in the metropolitan area of Barranquilla. De la Espriella handed Rojas over to U.S. authorities inside a military hangar, where Rojas appeared handcuffed and wearing prison clothing while being guarded by Interpol agents and armed military personnel.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/colombia-extradites-farc-dissident-u-s/
Former far-right group member found guilty of murdering Argentina rugby star
A former member of a violent far-right group was found guilty on Friday of murdering former Argentina rugby international Federico Aramburu four years ago in Paris, following an altercation near the Boulevard Saint-Germain. Loik Le Priol, 32, whom the court said was "animated by the will to kill", was sentenced to 26 years in prison.
https://www.reuters.com/world/former-far-right-group-member-found-guilty-murdering-argentina-rugby-star-2026-09-25/
US strikes on Ecuadorian fishing boats raise humanitarian concerns but Trump admin not wavering
On 8 September, a day before Rubio arrived, a US patrol vessel intercepted the fishing boat Don Rufo in international waters near Ecuador. “The gringos were all armed as if they were going to war,” said the boat’s captain, Mero Calderón, 50. “I tried to show them our catch to prove that we were there working, but they wouldn’t listen,” he added. “They brought two huge bombs aboard, took us to their ship, handcuffed and blindfolded us, and blew our boat to pieces,” said Calderón, who along with five other fishers, was handed over to local authorities.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/26/us-airstrikes-ecuador-fishers
Morocco’s Authenticity and Modernity Party wins parliamentary election, interior ministry says
PAM’s senior coalition partner, the National Rally of Independents (RNI), lost significant ground, falling from 102 seats to 66. Only 38 percent of Morocco’s 15.8 million registered voters cast ballots, the second-lowest turnout since King Mohammed VI ascended to the throne in 1999, after a record-low 37 percent in 2007, and sharply down from the roughly 51 percent recorded in 2021. Analysts attribute the low number to widespread disengagement following youth-led protests last year over jobs, healthcare and education, and deadly mass attempts by migrants to reach Spain’s North African enclave of Ceuta in July.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/26/pam-wins-big-in-morocco-parliament-elections-but-falls-short-of-majority
https://archive.ph/mkMzV
Residents of largest city in northern Ethiopia express fear after eruption of fighting
Some told The Associated Press that internet service was disrupted across parts of northern Ethiopia, and roads connecting the northernmost region of Tigray with the neighboring region of Afar had been closed to civilian traffic. “There is an atmosphere of fear,” said Selam Fantay, who sells garlic in the market in the Tigrayan capital of Mekelle. “People are deeply concerned that the suspension of transport services signals the outbreak of renewed conflict.”
https://apnews.com/article/ethiopia-tigray-fighting-tplf-a4a082c9579af2e3e2783b8abd9de787
ANC faces mass defections as members join SACP in North West
Many ANC branch leaders and councillors from North West municipalities have defected to the South African Communist Party (SACP) and are contesting under the SACP’s banner in the 4 November local elections. In response, the ANC plans to pre-empt these defections by expelling the members before they officially leave.
https://www.citizen.co.za/news/south-africa/politics/anc-faces-mass-defections-as-members-join-sacp-in-north-west/
https://archive.ph/iCpMw
Board of Peace quietly met with UNRWA, ex-agency chief says
The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to brief the media, confirmed at least three meetings between UNRWA officials and the Palestinian committee this year, most recently this month. Two took place during Lazzarini’s tenure. Shortly before the end of his tenure, Lazzarini said, he spoke to Ali Shaath, who leads the Palestinian committee. “Basically, he said, ‘I don’t know how I can succeed without you’,” Lazzarini said. Shaath and a spokesperson did not respond to requests for comment.
https://apnews.com/article/lazzarini-unrwa-hamas-israel-gaza-palestinians-a2fb7495f233cdbe199d571ecfd122f4
Iraq seeks US exemptions to resume Iranian flights
Iraq said on Saturday that it is in direct talks with the United States to seek exemptions for some Iraqi airports from measures affecting Iranian airlines, a day after flights between Iran and airports across Iraq and the Kurdistan Region were suspended.
https://www.rudaw.net/english/categories/iraq/1079457
11 incursions and eight rounds of bombardment in a week | Israeli forces considerably escalate their military operation in southern Syria
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights documented 11 ground incursions and eight rounds of bombardments between the 18th and 24th of September in the countryside of Al-Quneitra, Daraa and western Rif Dimashq. These hit populated areas, farmlands and sites near the buffer zone, alongside Israeli military movements and reconnaissance flights over the region.
https://www.syriahr.com/en/386405/
Houthis told EU they have no intention to attack European ships: Report
The Houthis sent a letter to the EU’s foreign policy and security arm to reassure the body after they captured the strategic Red Sea port city of Mocha and the Arabian Gulf side of the Bab al-Mandeb chokepoint in a lightning offensive earlier this month, the Financial Times reported. The letter would mark a pattern for the Houthis trying to isolate Saudi Arabia by keeping other countries out of a conflict.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/houthis-told-eu-they-have-no-intention-attack-european-ships-report
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I remember being at a protest a while ago and an iranian dissident started harassing one of the MLs in the protest for carrying an iranian flag (because thats the start of the US raping iran), nothing of high autism score was screamed and it was purely seething.
I also remember meeting an iranian dissident, although much more relaxed that called herself "persian", and she was saying the government wanted everyone to be "muslim". The problem with her is that "persia" started being called iran in the 1930's, way before the iranian revolution in 1979, so i don't understand this thinking other then she hasn't researched or she might be zoroastrin.
A retarded protest I saw was those monarchist ones, it happened when i was a kid on vacation so I don't have great memory but I do remember seeing how absolutely lazy the chants they were using, it was purely like "the Shah will liberate Iran", "islam will not take over". Just pure low autism score islam bashing and worshipping a failed monarchist acting like somehow he didn't genocide groups of people and restrict/ban civllian government.
Iranian dissents
Why are Iraian dissidents so retarded? They lackI remember being at a protest a while ago and an iranian dissident started harassing one of the MLs in the protest for carrying an iranian flag (because thats the start of the US raping iran), nothing of high autism score was screamed and it was purely seething.
I also remember meeting an iranian dissident, although much more relaxed that called herself "persian", and she was saying the government wanted everyone to be "muslim". The problem with her is that "persia" started being called iran in the 1930's, way before the iranian revolution in 1979, so i don't understand this thinking other then she hasn't researched or she might be zoroastrin.
A retarded protest I saw was those monarchist ones, it happened when i was a kid on vacation so I don't have great memory but I do remember seeing how absolutely lazy the chants they were using, it was purely like "the Shah will liberate Iran", "islam will not take over". Just pure low autism score islam bashing and worshipping a failed monarchist acting like somehow he didn't genocide groups of people and restrict/ban civllian government.
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ICE tracker using public info and user submissions // https://www.iceinmyarea.org/
list of deaths at ICE concentration camps // https://www.aila.org/infonet/deaths-at-adult-detention-centers
visualization of prison population in US // https://mkorostoff.github.io/incarceration-in-real-numbers/
Organizing in Prison — for when the walls close in (RANT Collective) // https://www.organizingforpower.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Organizing-in-Jail.pdf
database of U.S. facilities incl. ICE holding sites // https://alcpress.org/usjails/index.html
list of prison related resources, mailing lists, etc // https://www.prisonactivist.org/resources
ICE Agent List (incomplete) // https://wiki.icelist.is/index.php/Category:Agents
US Political Prison Tracker (last updated 2025) // https://uspoliticalprisoners.com/
Jailhouse Reading:
📖 Angela Davis - Are Prisons Obsolete? // https://dn790007.ca.archive.org/0/items/the-anarchist-library-full-list-of-pdfs-nov-2020/angela-y-davis-are-prisons-obsolete.pdf
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📖 Critical Resistance - Surviving Solitary Confinement // https://criticalresistance.org/resources/surviving-solitary/
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AFL-CIO [imperialist]'s Strike Tracker // https://aflcio.org/strike-map
Labor Bureau's Official 'work stoppage' tracker // https://www.bls.gov/wsp/
IWW timeline for the 20th century (ends at 1999) // https://archive.iww.org/history/chronology/
IWW Work Place Organizing Guide // https://usa.anarchistlibraries.net/library/industrial-workers-of-the-world-libcom-org-solidarity-federation-walthamstow-anarchist-group-wo
▶ Salting | Work Place Organizing 101 (50 minute webinar) // https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SHlCLyM4FY
⚖️ Deeds of the Burger Reich 🇺🇸
deep list of horrible shit we (royal we) have done // https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/us_atrocities.md
Coups and regime changes – master list // https://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-peoples-governments-the-master-list
Wikipedia: United States War Crimes // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_war_crimes
/our boys/ (bring em home!) detail abusing Iraqi prisoners [2006] // https://www.hrw.org/report/2006/07/22/no-blood-no-foul/soldiers-accounts-detainee-abuse-iraq
More than 250 military interventions in the last 30 years alone // https://blackagendareport.com/us-launched-251-military-interventions-1991-and-469-1798
Visualisation of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade // https://www.slavevoyages.org/
UNESCO Sites relating to Slavery // https://slaveryandremembrance.org/
First Hand Documents of the horrors of Slavery // https://www.loc.gov/collections/slave-narratives-from-the-federal-writers-project-1936-to-1938/
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FOX Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/fox-news-channel.html
Bloomberg Live // https://www.bloomberg.com/live/us
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Jacobin // https://jacobin.com/
Black Agenda Report // https://blackagendareport.com/
The Grayzone // https://thegrayzone.com/
Leftvoice // https://www.leftvoice.org/
Newsanon Filter // https://leftypol.org/search.php?search=name%3A%22News+Anon+3.0%22&board=leftypol
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DOJ Disclosures // https://www.justice.gov/epstein/doj-disclosures
Track AIPAC // https://www.trackaipac.com/
Al Jazeera visual guide (2026) // https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/10/struggling-to-navigate-the-epstein-files-here-is-a-visual-guide
Essential American Politik 📖
📖 WEB Du Bois - Black Reconstruction // https://cominsitu.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/w-e-b-du-bois-black-reconstruction-an-essay-toward-a-history-of-the-part-which-black-folk-played-in-the-attempt-to-reconstruct-democracy-2.pdf
📖 Eugene Debs - Fourth of July Speech // https://jacobin.com/2020/07/eugene-debs-independence-day-address-fourth-july
📖 Power Anywhere There's People! – Fred Hampton // https://www.hamptonthink.org/read/power-anywhere-where-thats-people-fred-hampton
📖 War is a Racket – Smedley Butler // https://ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html
📖 Letters From an American Farmer – St. John de Crevoecoeur // https://americanliterature.com/author/j-hector-st-john-de-crevoecoeur/book/letters-from-an-american-farmer/summary
📖 Trail of Broken Treaties // American Indian Movement https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
📖 The Declaration of Independence https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
📖 The Ballot or the Bullet – Malcolm X // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/ballot_or_bullet.pdf
📖 What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? – Frederick Douglass // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/douglass_july_4_speech.pdf
📖 A Trail of Broken Treaties – American Indian Movement // https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
📖 Custer Died for Your Sins – Vine Deloria Jr. // http://www.riversimulator.org/Resources/Books/CusterDiedForYourSinsAnIndianManifesto1969Deloria.pdf
📖 Emancipation Proclamation – Lincoln // https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/emancipation-proclamation
📖 Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville // https://americanliterature.com/author/alexis-de-tocqueville/book/democracy-in-america/summary
📖 Common Sense – Thomas Paine // https://americainclass.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Common-Sense-Full-Text.pdf
📖 An Indigenous History of the United States – Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz // https://nycstandswithstandingrock.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/dunbar-ortiz-2014.pdf
📖 Huey Long – Share Our Wealth // https://www.hueylong.com/programs/share-our-wealth/huey-longs-share-our-wealth-speech
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💀 ICE & Prison Resources
(Amerika is the most incarcerated country in the world!)
ICE tracker using public info and user submissions // https://www.iceinmyarea.org/
list of deaths at ICE concentration camps // https://www.aila.org/infonet/deaths-at-adult-detention-centers
visualization of prison population in US // https://mkorostoff.github.io/incarceration-in-real-numbers/
Organizing in Prison — for when the walls close in (RANT Collective) // https://www.organizingforpower.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Organizing-in-Jail.pdf
database of U.S. facilities incl. ICE holding sites // https://alcpress.org/usjails/index.html
list of prison related resources, mailing lists, etc // https://www.prisonactivist.org/resources
ICE Agent List (incomplete) // https://wiki.icelist.is/index.php/Category:Agents
US Political Prison Tracker (last updated 2025) // https://uspoliticalprisoners.com/
Jailhouse Reading:
📖 Angela Davis - Are Prisons Obsolete? // https://dn790007.ca.archive.org/0/items/the-anarchist-library-full-list-of-pdfs-nov-2020/angela-y-davis-are-prisons-obsolete.pdf
📖 How to Defend Yourself During Police Interrogation // https://www.notrace.how/resources/download/comment-la-police-interroge-et-comment-sen-defendre/how-to-defend-yourself-during-a-police-interrogation.pdf
📖 National Lawyers Guild guide to being a jailhouse lawyer // https://www.jailhouselaw.org/
📖 Critical Resistance - Surviving Solitary Confinement // https://criticalresistance.org/resources/surviving-solitary/
📖 An inside-outside publication for abolitionist struggle & strategy across prison walls // https://criticalresistance.org/abolitionist/
📖 Prisoners’ Self-Help Litigation Manual // https://api.pageplace.de/preview/DT0400.9780199705665_A35159258/preview-9780199705665_A35159258.pdf
⚒️ LABOR!
Live strike tracker with deep stats on who, what and when // https://striketracker.ilr.cornell.edu/
AFL-CIO [imperialist]'s Strike Tracker // https://aflcio.org/strike-map
Labor Bureau's Official 'work stoppage' tracker // https://www.bls.gov/wsp/
IWW timeline for the 20th century (ends at 1999) // https://archive.iww.org/history/chronology/
IWW Work Place Organizing Guide // https://usa.anarchistlibraries.net/library/industrial-workers-of-the-world-libcom-org-solidarity-federation-walthamstow-anarchist-group-wo
▶ Salting | Work Place Organizing 101 (50 minute webinar) // https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SHlCLyM4FY
⚖️ Deeds of the Burger Reich 🇺🇸
deep list of horrible shit we (royal we) have done // https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/us_atrocities.md
Coups and regime changes – master list // https://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-peoples-governments-the-master-list
Wikipedia: United States War Crimes // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_war_crimes
/our boys/ (bring em home!) detail abusing Iraqi prisoners [2006] // https://www.hrw.org/report/2006/07/22/no-blood-no-foul/soldiers-accounts-detainee-abuse-iraq
More than 250 military interventions in the last 30 years alone // https://blackagendareport.com/us-launched-251-military-interventions-1991-and-469-1798
Visualisation of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade // https://www.slavevoyages.org/
UNESCO Sites relating to Slavery // https://slaveryandremembrance.org/
First Hand Documents of the horrors of Slavery // https://www.loc.gov/collections/slave-narratives-from-the-federal-writers-project-1936-to-1938/
📺 Glowie News 📺
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CNN Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/cnn-news-usa.html
MSNBC Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/msnbc.html
FOX Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/fox-news-channel.html
Bloomberg Live // https://www.bloomberg.com/live/us
Burger House Live // https://www.whitehouse.gov/live/
Local News // https://www.50states.com/ce/
Weather // https://www.noaa.gov/weather
📺 Gommie News 📺
Jacobin // https://jacobin.com/
Black Agenda Report // https://blackagendareport.com/
The Grayzone // https://thegrayzone.com/
Leftvoice // https://www.leftvoice.org/
Newsanon Filter // https://leftypol.org/search.php?search=name%3A%22News+Anon+3.0%22&board=leftypol
🏝️ Epstein's Client List 🇮🇱
Epstein's Black Book // https://epsteinsblackbook.com/
DOJ Disclosures // https://www.justice.gov/epstein/doj-disclosures
Track AIPAC // https://www.trackaipac.com/
Al Jazeera visual guide (2026) // https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/10/struggling-to-navigate-the-epstein-files-here-is-a-visual-guide
Essential American Politik 📖
📖 WEB Du Bois - Black Reconstruction // https://cominsitu.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/w-e-b-du-bois-black-reconstruction-an-essay-toward-a-history-of-the-part-which-black-folk-played-in-the-attempt-to-reconstruct-democracy-2.pdf
📖 Eugene Debs - Fourth of July Speech // https://jacobin.com/2020/07/eugene-debs-independence-day-address-fourth-july
📖 Power Anywhere There's People! – Fred Hampton // https://www.hamptonthink.org/read/power-anywhere-where-thats-people-fred-hampton
📖 War is a Racket – Smedley Butler // https://ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html
📖 Letters From an American Farmer – St. John de Crevoecoeur // https://americanliterature.com/author/j-hector-st-john-de-crevoecoeur/book/letters-from-an-american-farmer/summary
📖 Trail of Broken Treaties // American Indian Movement https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
📖 The Declaration of Independence https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
📖 The Ballot or the Bullet – Malcolm X // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/ballot_or_bullet.pdf
📖 What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? – Frederick Douglass // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/douglass_july_4_speech.pdf
📖 A Trail of Broken Treaties – American Indian Movement // https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
📖 Custer Died for Your Sins – Vine Deloria Jr. // http://www.riversimulator.org/Resources/Books/CusterDiedForYourSinsAnIndianManifesto1969Deloria.pdf
📖 Emancipation Proclamation – Lincoln // https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/emancipation-proclamation
📖 Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville // https://americanliterature.com/author/alexis-de-tocqueville/book/democracy-in-america/summary
📖 Common Sense – Thomas Paine // https://americainclass.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Common-Sense-Full-Text.pdf
📖 An Indigenous History of the United States – Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz // https://nycstandswithstandingrock.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/dunbar-ortiz-2014.pdf
📖 Huey Long – Share Our Wealth // https://www.hueylong.com/programs/share-our-wealth/huey-longs-share-our-wealth-speech
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i'm gonna vote for the apple
it's like the blue donkey in america but russian and green and also an apple instead of a donkey
your thoughts comrades
i'm gonna vote for the apple
it's like the blue donkey in america but russian and green and also an apple instead of a donkey
your thoughts comrades
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Cuba is gonna be invaded by the US by next month, and I don't have much hope in the Cuban armed forces alone.
Either an armed resistance needs to be established in the United States or international voluteers need to be formed for Cuba, either by the Cuban goverment or some communist org (PSL, RCI, etc).
Cuba is gonna be invaded
This isn't a joke or anythingCuba is gonna be invaded by the US by next month, and I don't have much hope in the Cuban armed forces alone.
Either an armed resistance needs to be established in the United States or international voluteers need to be formed for Cuba, either by the Cuban goverment or some communist org (PSL, RCI, etc).
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An expert panel under the National Police Agency called for giving police the option as swiftly as possible of remotely analyzing smartphones used by members of loosely organized anonymous criminal groups.In a proposal compiled Thursday, the panel highlighted the need for new measures to prevent damages related to crimes committed by tokuryū groups. The NPA plans to submit a bill to revise the police duties execution law to an extraordinary parliamentary session that may be convened early next month, after working out the details of the proposed remote analysis.
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/09/25/japan/crime-legal/tokury-smartphones-remote/
https://archive.ph/HS9js
Philippines: Barricades Erected Against Mining Monopoly in Barangay Yabbi
After residents of Barangay Yabbi, in Dupax del Norte, Nueva Vicaya, learned that the North Luzon Mineral Resources Corporation (NLMRC) would be routing its shipments of crude oil and materials through their village – residents decided to take matters into their own hands and erected a barricade, successfully blocking the shipments, Ang Bayan reports.
https://redherald.org/2026/09/24/philippines-barricades-erected-against-mining-monopoly-in-barangay-yabbi/
Pakistan locks down Islamabad as Imran Khan’s party vows to march on capital
Public frustration has mounted in Islamabad as the government’s measures to stop Khan’s party supporters having any way to enter the capital has led to the city resembling a high-security fortress. More than 1,000 shipping containers, many fortified with spikes, have blockaded roads and sandbags were placed on bridges, while a key highway into the capital was closed. Public gatherings have been banned in Islamabad and 22,000 police and other security personnel have been deployed across the capital.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/25/pakistan-lockdown-islamabad-imran-khan-party-march
Saudi, Turkish and Pakistani chiefs plan urgent talks over the conflict in Yemen
It follows a meeting on Thursday in New York between Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan al-Saud, Pakistan’s Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar and Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan, according to the Saudi Press Agency. The statement did not say when the military chiefs would meet.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/saudi-turkish-and-pakistani-chiefs-plan-urgent-talks-over-conflict-yemen
Iran pitches seven-day roadmap to end conflict with US
Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi outlined the plan to reporters in New York on Thursday, according to US media. The proposal seeks to implement the conditions in the Memorandum of Understanding agreed by Washington and Tehran in June, including a halt to hostilities and the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/25/iran-pitches-seven-day-roadmap-to-end-conflict-with-us
https://archive.ph/YgVcJ
A UK company, a Greek owner and Netanyahu's former lawyer: Who really owns Serbia's Israeli drone venture?
Initial reports described a 51-49 joint venture between Elbit and Yugoimport-SDPR. Current company records do not reflect that structure. Instead, Serbian business records identify the owner of the drone factory as SDS Technologies, founded in April 2025 under the name Cupa Enterprises. A UK company previously called Cupa Limited owns it. The Serbian Business Registry lists three SDS Technologies directors as of 17 September: Greek citizen Maria Kardamaki, Israeli lawyer Zion Amir, who has represented Benjamin Netanyahu, and George Antoine Elghossain from the United States with Lebanese roots.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-company-netanyahus-former-lawyer-and-questions-over-israels-serbian-drone-venture
Italy bans burqas in schools, caps numbers of foreign students per class
It introduces "A 30 percent cap on the number of students in a class who do not have an adequate command of Italian, more tools for learning our language, and a ban on the burqa and niqab in schools," Meloni wrote on social media. If a child seriously struggles to integrate at school, social services will be called and the parents will be obliged to attend free Italian lessons. Failure to comply will be punished with a fine of up to 1,000 euros ($1,140).
https://www.newarab.com/news/italy-passes-ban-burqas-schools-cap-foreign-students
Justice protesters to risk arrest at Labour conference
Organisers expect hundreds will be at risk of arrest as they hold placards with the words: “I Oppose Genocide. I Support Palestine Action.” The action has been designed as an integrity test of the new leadership’s commitment to ending Britain’s complicity in Israel’s ethnic cleansing and war crimes.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/justice-protesters-risk-arrest-labour-conference
Gold exporters accuse influential actors of draining Sudan’s gold wealth
Sudan produces more than 70 tonnes of gold a year worth an estimated $8 billion, but only about $2 billion reaches the state treasury, according to Abdelmoneim Siddig, head of the Gold Exporters Division. In an interview with Radio Dabanga today, Siddig said gold could help Sudan tackle its economic crisis and provide much-needed foreign currency but alleged that influential entities export gold outside formal channels.
https://www.dabangasudan.org/en/all-news/article/gold-exporters-accuse-influential-actors-of-draining-sudans-gold-wealth
Public urged to comment on Employment Services Amendment Bill
Members of the public have just more than one month to comment on a proposed bill that could see employers paying steep fines for employing unregistered foreign nationals. These proposed fines could be as high as R100 000 per worker. The Employment Services Amendment Bill is part of government’s efforts to prioritise South African jobseekers and tighten enforcement against illegal immigration.
https://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/public-urged-to-comment-on-employment-services-amendment-bill/
Chinese, US firms line up for Peru copper projects as government cuts red tape
In the two months since the Fujimori administration took office, mining companies have stepped up engagement with the ministry as they seek to revive stalled projects, Shinno said. Companies including from China, Peru's largest copper customer, and from the US as Washington seeks to expand its footprint in critical mineral supply chains, have expressed interest.
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/chinese-us-firms-line-up-peru-copper-projects-government-cuts-red-tape-2026-09-25/
Colombia Groups Demand Justice Over Donovan Balanta Death
Social organizations are demanding justice over the death of Donovan Balanta, a 34-year-old man who died after a police operation in southern Bogotá. The PCN is calling for an independent investigation and measures to address allegations of racial profiling and excessive force.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/colombia-justice-donovan-balanta-death/
News 9/25/26
Panel calls for giving police option to remotely analyze tokuryū members’ phonesAn expert panel under the National Police Agency called for giving police the option as swiftly as possible of remotely analyzing smartphones used by members of loosely organized anonymous criminal groups.In a proposal compiled Thursday, the panel highlighted the need for new measures to prevent damages related to crimes committed by tokuryū groups. The NPA plans to submit a bill to revise the police duties execution law to an extraordinary parliamentary session that may be convened early next month, after working out the details of the proposed remote analysis.
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/09/25/japan/crime-legal/tokury-smartphones-remote/
https://archive.ph/HS9js
Philippines: Barricades Erected Against Mining Monopoly in Barangay Yabbi
After residents of Barangay Yabbi, in Dupax del Norte, Nueva Vicaya, learned that the North Luzon Mineral Resources Corporation (NLMRC) would be routing its shipments of crude oil and materials through their village – residents decided to take matters into their own hands and erected a barricade, successfully blocking the shipments, Ang Bayan reports.
https://redherald.org/2026/09/24/philippines-barricades-erected-against-mining-monopoly-in-barangay-yabbi/
Pakistan locks down Islamabad as Imran Khan’s party vows to march on capital
Public frustration has mounted in Islamabad as the government’s measures to stop Khan’s party supporters having any way to enter the capital has led to the city resembling a high-security fortress. More than 1,000 shipping containers, many fortified with spikes, have blockaded roads and sandbags were placed on bridges, while a key highway into the capital was closed. Public gatherings have been banned in Islamabad and 22,000 police and other security personnel have been deployed across the capital.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/25/pakistan-lockdown-islamabad-imran-khan-party-march
Saudi, Turkish and Pakistani chiefs plan urgent talks over the conflict in Yemen
It follows a meeting on Thursday in New York between Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan al-Saud, Pakistan’s Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar and Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan, according to the Saudi Press Agency. The statement did not say when the military chiefs would meet.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/saudi-turkish-and-pakistani-chiefs-plan-urgent-talks-over-conflict-yemen
Iran pitches seven-day roadmap to end conflict with US
Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi outlined the plan to reporters in New York on Thursday, according to US media. The proposal seeks to implement the conditions in the Memorandum of Understanding agreed by Washington and Tehran in June, including a halt to hostilities and the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/25/iran-pitches-seven-day-roadmap-to-end-conflict-with-us
https://archive.ph/YgVcJ
A UK company, a Greek owner and Netanyahu's former lawyer: Who really owns Serbia's Israeli drone venture?
Initial reports described a 51-49 joint venture between Elbit and Yugoimport-SDPR. Current company records do not reflect that structure. Instead, Serbian business records identify the owner of the drone factory as SDS Technologies, founded in April 2025 under the name Cupa Enterprises. A UK company previously called Cupa Limited owns it. The Serbian Business Registry lists three SDS Technologies directors as of 17 September: Greek citizen Maria Kardamaki, Israeli lawyer Zion Amir, who has represented Benjamin Netanyahu, and George Antoine Elghossain from the United States with Lebanese roots.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-company-netanyahus-former-lawyer-and-questions-over-israels-serbian-drone-venture
Italy bans burqas in schools, caps numbers of foreign students per class
It introduces "A 30 percent cap on the number of students in a class who do not have an adequate command of Italian, more tools for learning our language, and a ban on the burqa and niqab in schools," Meloni wrote on social media. If a child seriously struggles to integrate at school, social services will be called and the parents will be obliged to attend free Italian lessons. Failure to comply will be punished with a fine of up to 1,000 euros ($1,140).
https://www.newarab.com/news/italy-passes-ban-burqas-schools-cap-foreign-students
Justice protesters to risk arrest at Labour conference
Organisers expect hundreds will be at risk of arrest as they hold placards with the words: “I Oppose Genocide. I Support Palestine Action.” The action has been designed as an integrity test of the new leadership’s commitment to ending Britain’s complicity in Israel’s ethnic cleansing and war crimes.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/justice-protesters-risk-arrest-labour-conference
Gold exporters accuse influential actors of draining Sudan’s gold wealth
Sudan produces more than 70 tonnes of gold a year worth an estimated $8 billion, but only about $2 billion reaches the state treasury, according to Abdelmoneim Siddig, head of the Gold Exporters Division. In an interview with Radio Dabanga today, Siddig said gold could help Sudan tackle its economic crisis and provide much-needed foreign currency but alleged that influential entities export gold outside formal channels.
https://www.dabangasudan.org/en/all-news/article/gold-exporters-accuse-influential-actors-of-draining-sudans-gold-wealth
Public urged to comment on Employment Services Amendment Bill
Members of the public have just more than one month to comment on a proposed bill that could see employers paying steep fines for employing unregistered foreign nationals. These proposed fines could be as high as R100 000 per worker. The Employment Services Amendment Bill is part of government’s efforts to prioritise South African jobseekers and tighten enforcement against illegal immigration.
https://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/public-urged-to-comment-on-employment-services-amendment-bill/
Chinese, US firms line up for Peru copper projects as government cuts red tape
In the two months since the Fujimori administration took office, mining companies have stepped up engagement with the ministry as they seek to revive stalled projects, Shinno said. Companies including from China, Peru's largest copper customer, and from the US as Washington seeks to expand its footprint in critical mineral supply chains, have expressed interest.
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/chinese-us-firms-line-up-peru-copper-projects-government-cuts-red-tape-2026-09-25/
Colombia Groups Demand Justice Over Donovan Balanta Death
Social organizations are demanding justice over the death of Donovan Balanta, a 34-year-old man who died after a police operation in southern Bogotá. The PCN is calling for an independent investigation and measures to address allegations of racial profiling and excessive force.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/colombia-justice-donovan-balanta-death/
R: 10 / I: 0
Do you people realize you've officially moved or deleted every thread which has been posted here for the last 24 hours? Because none of them fit your preferred narratives?
4/pol/'s right about you. Unfortunately. Hate to admit it. You can't have any form of discussion. And you're acting as vanguards of every establishment narrative.
You've moved or deleted at least 2 threads now pointing out how the DSA are psyops, which they obviously are. You're complete failures. Blatant censorship.
Fuck this place. Back to 4chan.
I've been there for years now. Posting and fighting with them, because I am absolutely opposed to them. And that's because everyone on boards like this one are absolute fucking jokes, who can't put up with any form of dissent from their obviously false, pro-establishment driven, pseudo-populist narratives.
Do you people realize you've officially moved or deleted every thread which has been posted here for the last 24 hours? Because none of them fit your preferred narratives?
4/pol/'s right about you. Unfortunately. Hate to admit it. You can't have any form of discussion. And you're acting as vanguards of every establishment narrative.
You've moved or deleted at least 2 threads now pointing out how the DSA are psyops, which they obviously are. You're complete failures. Blatant censorship.
Fuck this place. Back to 4chan.
I've been there for years now. Posting and fighting with them, because I am absolutely opposed to them. And that's because everyone on boards like this one are absolute fucking jokes, who can't put up with any form of dissent from their obviously false, pro-establishment driven, pseudo-populist narratives.
R: 2 / I: 0
Thursday’s report suggests that progress has lost momentum as unemployment edges higher and rising prices squeeze Argentines’ purchasing power, with average salaries still below where they stood in real terms when Milei took office in December 2023. Average per-capita household income rose 11.5% from the previous six months, while the basic basket of goods used to set the poverty line increased nearly 20%, INDEC said.
https://apnews.com/article/argentina-president-javier-milei-economy-inflation-indec-austerity-84acfa87fe1bba6d06b387afbfe6abb7
Illegal Speedboat Incursion Into Cuba Sought a U.S. Military Intervention
One of the participants revealed that the group of ten men who departed from the Florida Keys bound for the island with weapons, ammunition, and explosives wanted to “incite the Cuban people to take up arms, control a province for 72 hours,” and then request assistance from U.S. authorities. The Belly of the Beast’s investigation shares the testimonies of four survivors of the incident, which occurred in Cuban territorial waters and resulted in the deaths of four crew members.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/illegal-speedboat-incursion-into-cuba-sought-a-u-s-military-intervention/
Canadian unions oppose changes to country’s labour code
The Building Canada Strong Act has been tabled in Canada’s House of Commons, alongside other measures aimed at fast-tracking “project approvals,” strengthening trade links and modernising ports. But unions say this could also mean greater state intervention in collective bargaining when negotiations become protracted by including the appointment of a “special mediator” to bring about a resolution to a dispute, including “binding arbitration.”
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/canadian-unions-oppose-changes-countrys-labour-code
Turkey will hand over key base in Iraq in a gradual troop withdrawal deal
Iraq, meanwhile, pledged to remove armed groups that Turkey considers security threats from the region of Sinjar, in northwestern Iraq, according to a joint statement issued after the meeting late Wednesday between Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi.
https://apnews.com/article/turkey-iraq-troop-withdrawal-bashiqa-base-200c02e29e2f2be719852b15b55d0de8
France to send military to protect Saudi Arabia on Red Sea oil route, Macron says
France will send troops and defence systems to Saudi Arabia to help protect the Red Sea port city of Yanbu, which is key for energy transport, French President Emmanuel Macron said on Thursday. Macron also said a US ban on diesel exports, which the White House has denied is under consideration, would be "catastrophic," both globally and for the US economy.
https://www.newarab.com/news/france-send-military-protect-saudi-arabia-macron-says
Iran awaiting response from Trump on proposal to open strait of Hormuz in six days
The proposal is designed to accelerate the steps first laid down in the memorandum of understanding signed by the US and Iran in June, particularly by helping the talks on Iran’s nuclear program start much more quickly than previously agreed.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/24/ed-miliband-meets-iran-foreign-minister-us-ultimatum-strait-hormuz
Morocco’s elections: Fragmentation, disengagement and PJD’s major comeback
According to provisional results, the Authenticity and Modernity Party (PAM) emerged from Wednesday’s voting as the largest party with 97 seats, up from 87 in 2021. The National Rally of Independents (RNI), which led the government after the last election, fell from 102 seats to 66.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/24/moroccos-elections-fragmentation-disengagement-and-pjds-major-return
https://archive.ph/JWE35
Rebel offensive against Ethiopian army stokes fears of return to civil war
The TPLF’s vice-president, Amanuel Assefa, told AFP: “We are in the situation of full-blown war now.” He confirmed Tigrayan forces were fighting alongside local armed groups in Afar and Amhara. The group took control of Abala, also on the Tigray-Afar border, on Wednesday, a foreign security source based in Ethiopia told AFP, while a TPLF source said they had seized several other towns in Afar. The foreign security source also said there was fighting around the Amhara town of Weldiya – one of the few routes to the capital.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/24/fears-return-to-war-tigray-rebels-launch-offensive-against-ethiopian-army
Indonesia reflags a former Italian warship as its first aircraft carrier
The carrier, which Italy retired in 2024, arrived at the Indonesian seaport last week after a 25-day journey passing through the Suez Canal, the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean. It has the capacity for short takeoff and vertical landing aircraft and helicopters. Unlike major naval powers, Indonesia will use the vessel as a mobile command and support hub for helicopters, drones and maritime operations across the archipelago.
https://apnews.com/article/indonesia-italy-aircraft-carrier-kri-srwijaya-0acfeab454a5f5a94d175b8a864ca0c7
Pakistan-administered Kashmir votes for president amid unrest
Najeeb Naqi Khan, the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) candidate, is expected to win. The party and its allies hold 32 of the 46 occupied seats in the 53-member Legislative Assembly, five more than the 27 votes required. The Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) holds 14. But questions surrounding months of deadly unrest persist, as seven seats remain vacant because two districts at the centre of the protest movement have yet to vote.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/24/pakistan-administered-kashmir-votes-for-president-amid-unrest
https://archive.ph/rY5gM
News 9/24/26
Argentina’s poverty rate rises above 30% under President Milei, reversing recent declineThursday’s report suggests that progress has lost momentum as unemployment edges higher and rising prices squeeze Argentines’ purchasing power, with average salaries still below where they stood in real terms when Milei took office in December 2023. Average per-capita household income rose 11.5% from the previous six months, while the basic basket of goods used to set the poverty line increased nearly 20%, INDEC said.
https://apnews.com/article/argentina-president-javier-milei-economy-inflation-indec-austerity-84acfa87fe1bba6d06b387afbfe6abb7
Illegal Speedboat Incursion Into Cuba Sought a U.S. Military Intervention
One of the participants revealed that the group of ten men who departed from the Florida Keys bound for the island with weapons, ammunition, and explosives wanted to “incite the Cuban people to take up arms, control a province for 72 hours,” and then request assistance from U.S. authorities. The Belly of the Beast’s investigation shares the testimonies of four survivors of the incident, which occurred in Cuban territorial waters and resulted in the deaths of four crew members.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/illegal-speedboat-incursion-into-cuba-sought-a-u-s-military-intervention/
Canadian unions oppose changes to country’s labour code
The Building Canada Strong Act has been tabled in Canada’s House of Commons, alongside other measures aimed at fast-tracking “project approvals,” strengthening trade links and modernising ports. But unions say this could also mean greater state intervention in collective bargaining when negotiations become protracted by including the appointment of a “special mediator” to bring about a resolution to a dispute, including “binding arbitration.”
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/canadian-unions-oppose-changes-countrys-labour-code
Turkey will hand over key base in Iraq in a gradual troop withdrawal deal
Iraq, meanwhile, pledged to remove armed groups that Turkey considers security threats from the region of Sinjar, in northwestern Iraq, according to a joint statement issued after the meeting late Wednesday between Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi.
https://apnews.com/article/turkey-iraq-troop-withdrawal-bashiqa-base-200c02e29e2f2be719852b15b55d0de8
France to send military to protect Saudi Arabia on Red Sea oil route, Macron says
France will send troops and defence systems to Saudi Arabia to help protect the Red Sea port city of Yanbu, which is key for energy transport, French President Emmanuel Macron said on Thursday. Macron also said a US ban on diesel exports, which the White House has denied is under consideration, would be "catastrophic," both globally and for the US economy.
https://www.newarab.com/news/france-send-military-protect-saudi-arabia-macron-says
Iran awaiting response from Trump on proposal to open strait of Hormuz in six days
The proposal is designed to accelerate the steps first laid down in the memorandum of understanding signed by the US and Iran in June, particularly by helping the talks on Iran’s nuclear program start much more quickly than previously agreed.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/24/ed-miliband-meets-iran-foreign-minister-us-ultimatum-strait-hormuz
Morocco’s elections: Fragmentation, disengagement and PJD’s major comeback
According to provisional results, the Authenticity and Modernity Party (PAM) emerged from Wednesday’s voting as the largest party with 97 seats, up from 87 in 2021. The National Rally of Independents (RNI), which led the government after the last election, fell from 102 seats to 66.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/24/moroccos-elections-fragmentation-disengagement-and-pjds-major-return
https://archive.ph/JWE35
Rebel offensive against Ethiopian army stokes fears of return to civil war
The TPLF’s vice-president, Amanuel Assefa, told AFP: “We are in the situation of full-blown war now.” He confirmed Tigrayan forces were fighting alongside local armed groups in Afar and Amhara. The group took control of Abala, also on the Tigray-Afar border, on Wednesday, a foreign security source based in Ethiopia told AFP, while a TPLF source said they had seized several other towns in Afar. The foreign security source also said there was fighting around the Amhara town of Weldiya – one of the few routes to the capital.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/24/fears-return-to-war-tigray-rebels-launch-offensive-against-ethiopian-army
Indonesia reflags a former Italian warship as its first aircraft carrier
The carrier, which Italy retired in 2024, arrived at the Indonesian seaport last week after a 25-day journey passing through the Suez Canal, the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean. It has the capacity for short takeoff and vertical landing aircraft and helicopters. Unlike major naval powers, Indonesia will use the vessel as a mobile command and support hub for helicopters, drones and maritime operations across the archipelago.
https://apnews.com/article/indonesia-italy-aircraft-carrier-kri-srwijaya-0acfeab454a5f5a94d175b8a864ca0c7
Pakistan-administered Kashmir votes for president amid unrest
Najeeb Naqi Khan, the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) candidate, is expected to win. The party and its allies hold 32 of the 46 occupied seats in the 53-member Legislative Assembly, five more than the 27 votes required. The Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) holds 14. But questions surrounding months of deadly unrest persist, as seven seats remain vacant because two districts at the centre of the protest movement have yet to vote.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/24/pakistan-administered-kashmir-votes-for-president-amid-unrest
https://archive.ph/rY5gM
R: 78 / I: 5
I am not a communist and I wanna ask you guys why most communists speak as if they know the truth?
Facts about economics, social organization, justice and politics are not obvious. Things change, humans are absolitely impredictable.
There is no physical science that is absolutely true, even mathematics has its blind spots, why should human and social sciences be?
It can move people towards a goal, but is it worth it if not based in something good?
I am not a communist and I wanna ask you guys why most communists speak as if they know the truth?
Facts about economics, social organization, justice and politics are not obvious. Things change, humans are absolitely impredictable.
There is no physical science that is absolutely true, even mathematics has its blind spots, why should human and social sciences be?
It can move people towards a goal, but is it worth it if not based in something good?
R: 8 / I: 1
>On September 12th 2001, chaos reigned supreme. Yet, as governments the world over struggled to make sense of the previous day’s catastrophe, and before a motive was established, any perpetrators identified, or other basic facts ascertained, the US Securities and Exchange Commission launched an investigation into potential insider trading by unknown figures with apparently precise foreknowledge of 9/11. The evidence seemed overwhelming. Mainstream reporters openly mocked the implausibility of numerous deeply abnormal stock market trades immediately prior to the attacks being pure coincidence.
>For one, several companies prominently impacted by the event were abruptly ‘shorted’ at inexplicable levels over the preceding weeks. In other words, investors bet certain stocks would perform poorly in the near future, and sought to profit accordingly. Just five days before 9/11 over 2,000 shorts were placed against United Airlines - 90 times more in a single day than over the entirety of August. The company’s share price collapsed following the attacks, turning $180,000 in shorts into $2.4 million.
>Meanwhile, substantial investments were serendipitously made in private security, intelligence and defence firms that benefited enormously from the 9/11 attacks and ensuing ‘War on Terror’. On September 10th, purchase of shares in major US defence contractor Raytheon surged sixfold. Just one week later, as the Pentagon began bulk purchasing Raytheon’s flagship Patriot and Tomahawk missiles in preparation for invading Afghanistan, the firm’s shares rocketed 37%. Other major defence stocks, including Boeing and Lockheed, also experienced abnormal trading pre-9/11.
>Purchase and shorts of dozens of stocks in almost every conceivable industry that one way or another profited, or was harmed, as a result of 9/11 incongruously spiked in the weeks before the fateful day. The evidentiary trail was literally globespanning, with major financial authorities in several Western countries launching their own investigations. Numerous officials in European capitals alleged the trading was definitively indicative of 9/11 foreknowledge, and “terrorists” were responsible.
>For example, commenting on Italian securities regulator CONSOB’s investigation into the suspicious market activity on September 17th 2001, Italian foreign minister Antonio Martino boldly declared “terrorist states and organizations [were] behind speculation on the international markets.” One week later, German central bank president Ernst Welteke asserted his researchers had uncovered “irrefutable proof of insider trading.” He and his team were certain “people connected to the terrorists must have been trying to profit from this tragedy”:
>“You look at the movements in markets before and after the attacks, it really makes your brow furrow…we are confident we will be able to pinpoint the source.”
>Welteke declined to release further information, pending consultation with European and US regulators. However, the 9/11 insider trading scandal quickly faded from public consciousness thereafter. In July 2004, the SEC announced the end of its grand investigation - conducted in conjunction with the Department of Justice and FBI - having “not [developed] any evidence suggesting that anyone who had advance knowledge of the September 11 attacks traded on the basis of that information.” Which, rather than closing the case, begs the obvious question of who did.
>Declassified records of one suspicious pre-9/11 trade probed by the FBI sheds potential light on why US and other authorities may have decided to leave the entire issue alone. From September 6th - 10th 2001, a total of 56,000 Stratesec shares were purchased by a single investor. The company provided security systems to several airports, including Wasington DC’s Dulles from where one of the hijacked planes departed, and the World Trade Center. Its share price almost doubled in the attacks’ wake.
>The shady trades were traced back to Wirt D. Walker III - a distant relative of the Bush family and business partner of Marvin Bush, then-President George W. Bush’s brother. The FBI reportedly uncovered “no ties to terrorism or other negative information” regarding Walker, so didn’t even interview him before concluding his lucrative transactions were innocent happenstance then closing the investigation. Apparently, the evident possibility Walker III possessed foreknowledge of 9/11 via other means than “ties to terrorism” wasn’t worth exploring.
>Still, this sleight of hand granted the Bureau, Department of Justice and SEC an extremely effective “out”. The 9/11 Commission likewise summarily dismissed any suggestion of “unusual pre-9/11 trading activity” on the basis investors involved “had no conceivable ties to Al Qaeda.” Such specious reasoning was sufficient to kill the scandal dead in the mainstream. Nonetheless, ever since numerous peer reviewed academic papers have contrarily concluded insider trading did occur, and was motivated by 9/11 foreknowledge.
>In 2006, University of Illinois professor Allen Poteshman authored a well-cited study focusing on suspicious pre-9/11 trading activity in airline stocks. He concluded this shorting was “unusually high”, and “terrorists or their associates traded…on the basis of foreknowledge of the impending attacks.” Similar findings were reached by a 2011 Multinational Finance Journal paper, which identified highly abnormal market movements in numerous key industries, including insurance and reinsurance stocks directly impacted by 9/11. This was “consistent with insiders anticipating” the attacks.
https://www.kitklarenberg.com/p/insider-trading-proves-911-foreknowledge
Insider Trading Proves 9/11 Foreknowledge
>All my investigations are free to read, thanks to the enormous generosity of my readers. Independent journalism nonetheless requires investment, so if you value this article or any others, please consider sharing, or even becoming a paid subscriber. Your support is always gratefully received, and will never be forgotten. To buy me a coffee or two, please click this link.>On September 12th 2001, chaos reigned supreme. Yet, as governments the world over struggled to make sense of the previous day’s catastrophe, and before a motive was established, any perpetrators identified, or other basic facts ascertained, the US Securities and Exchange Commission launched an investigation into potential insider trading by unknown figures with apparently precise foreknowledge of 9/11. The evidence seemed overwhelming. Mainstream reporters openly mocked the implausibility of numerous deeply abnormal stock market trades immediately prior to the attacks being pure coincidence.
>For one, several companies prominently impacted by the event were abruptly ‘shorted’ at inexplicable levels over the preceding weeks. In other words, investors bet certain stocks would perform poorly in the near future, and sought to profit accordingly. Just five days before 9/11 over 2,000 shorts were placed against United Airlines - 90 times more in a single day than over the entirety of August. The company’s share price collapsed following the attacks, turning $180,000 in shorts into $2.4 million.
>Meanwhile, substantial investments were serendipitously made in private security, intelligence and defence firms that benefited enormously from the 9/11 attacks and ensuing ‘War on Terror’. On September 10th, purchase of shares in major US defence contractor Raytheon surged sixfold. Just one week later, as the Pentagon began bulk purchasing Raytheon’s flagship Patriot and Tomahawk missiles in preparation for invading Afghanistan, the firm’s shares rocketed 37%. Other major defence stocks, including Boeing and Lockheed, also experienced abnormal trading pre-9/11.
>Purchase and shorts of dozens of stocks in almost every conceivable industry that one way or another profited, or was harmed, as a result of 9/11 incongruously spiked in the weeks before the fateful day. The evidentiary trail was literally globespanning, with major financial authorities in several Western countries launching their own investigations. Numerous officials in European capitals alleged the trading was definitively indicative of 9/11 foreknowledge, and “terrorists” were responsible.
>For example, commenting on Italian securities regulator CONSOB’s investigation into the suspicious market activity on September 17th 2001, Italian foreign minister Antonio Martino boldly declared “terrorist states and organizations [were] behind speculation on the international markets.” One week later, German central bank president Ernst Welteke asserted his researchers had uncovered “irrefutable proof of insider trading.” He and his team were certain “people connected to the terrorists must have been trying to profit from this tragedy”:
>“You look at the movements in markets before and after the attacks, it really makes your brow furrow…we are confident we will be able to pinpoint the source.”
>Welteke declined to release further information, pending consultation with European and US regulators. However, the 9/11 insider trading scandal quickly faded from public consciousness thereafter. In July 2004, the SEC announced the end of its grand investigation - conducted in conjunction with the Department of Justice and FBI - having “not [developed] any evidence suggesting that anyone who had advance knowledge of the September 11 attacks traded on the basis of that information.” Which, rather than closing the case, begs the obvious question of who did.
>Declassified records of one suspicious pre-9/11 trade probed by the FBI sheds potential light on why US and other authorities may have decided to leave the entire issue alone. From September 6th - 10th 2001, a total of 56,000 Stratesec shares were purchased by a single investor. The company provided security systems to several airports, including Wasington DC’s Dulles from where one of the hijacked planes departed, and the World Trade Center. Its share price almost doubled in the attacks’ wake.
>The shady trades were traced back to Wirt D. Walker III - a distant relative of the Bush family and business partner of Marvin Bush, then-President George W. Bush’s brother. The FBI reportedly uncovered “no ties to terrorism or other negative information” regarding Walker, so didn’t even interview him before concluding his lucrative transactions were innocent happenstance then closing the investigation. Apparently, the evident possibility Walker III possessed foreknowledge of 9/11 via other means than “ties to terrorism” wasn’t worth exploring.
>Still, this sleight of hand granted the Bureau, Department of Justice and SEC an extremely effective “out”. The 9/11 Commission likewise summarily dismissed any suggestion of “unusual pre-9/11 trading activity” on the basis investors involved “had no conceivable ties to Al Qaeda.” Such specious reasoning was sufficient to kill the scandal dead in the mainstream. Nonetheless, ever since numerous peer reviewed academic papers have contrarily concluded insider trading did occur, and was motivated by 9/11 foreknowledge.
>In 2006, University of Illinois professor Allen Poteshman authored a well-cited study focusing on suspicious pre-9/11 trading activity in airline stocks. He concluded this shorting was “unusually high”, and “terrorists or their associates traded…on the basis of foreknowledge of the impending attacks.” Similar findings were reached by a 2011 Multinational Finance Journal paper, which identified highly abnormal market movements in numerous key industries, including insurance and reinsurance stocks directly impacted by 9/11. This was “consistent with insiders anticipating” the attacks.
https://www.kitklarenberg.com/p/insider-trading-proves-911-foreknowledge
R: 42 / I: 9
Do you realize that "Barrack Obama" does not exist? And he was a character played by a CIA actor named Barry Soetoro? And this same actor also played the character of "Osama Bin Laden"? And it's completely crazy, because Obama has no birth certificate, his own purported brother does not believe his story, and just looking at pictures of these 2 figures, you can clearly notice they're 1 person.
Do you understand that 100% of the MSM in this nation is pushing a far-right agenda? 100%. With no exceptions. Every word they tell people, especially when they're purporting to be one of us, is intended to misrepresent people on the left.
Usually they use "wokeness", or anything tied to identity politics to misrepresent us, obviously. If you don't understand that, then I don't think you qualify as a leftist.
Do you understand "DSA" is completely a fake psyop, with the purpose of misrepresenting leftist views as being "woke, openborders, transgenders, abolish the police, antisemitic muslims"? This is how they want people in America to think of "the left".
Do you understand people like Hasan would not exist if they weren't CIA assets, because they would not get promoted by algorithms.
Do you understand the people of this nation are brainwashed to believe conspiracy theories are "right-wing" as a means of covering-up what's happening even further? To gaslight the public by fully inverting the popular narratives out there, and mindfuck people into oblivion?
Do you understand the MSM routinely implies there are leftists in control of this militantly anti-communist government, which is funding fascism all over the world for the last 80 years, in order to ensure people will blame "the left" for their problems?
Do you understand there is no left-wing here. Genuinely. Everyone in the US govt wants war with leftist nations. Everyone is out to fuck you. Everyone is out to deceive you.
Do you understand this is just the tip of the iceberg, and I could have gone on forever here.
Do you REALLY understand how bad the psyops are in this nation?
Do you understand the things like the Lindsay Clancy trial are just complete fiction, designed to distract people and make them think "leftist politics means legalizing child murder!"Do you realize that "Barrack Obama" does not exist? And he was a character played by a CIA actor named Barry Soetoro? And this same actor also played the character of "Osama Bin Laden"? And it's completely crazy, because Obama has no birth certificate, his own purported brother does not believe his story, and just looking at pictures of these 2 figures, you can clearly notice they're 1 person.
Do you understand that 100% of the MSM in this nation is pushing a far-right agenda? 100%. With no exceptions. Every word they tell people, especially when they're purporting to be one of us, is intended to misrepresent people on the left.
Usually they use "wokeness", or anything tied to identity politics to misrepresent us, obviously. If you don't understand that, then I don't think you qualify as a leftist.
Do you understand "DSA" is completely a fake psyop, with the purpose of misrepresenting leftist views as being "woke, openborders, transgenders, abolish the police, antisemitic muslims"? This is how they want people in America to think of "the left".
Do you understand people like Hasan would not exist if they weren't CIA assets, because they would not get promoted by algorithms.
Do you understand the people of this nation are brainwashed to believe conspiracy theories are "right-wing" as a means of covering-up what's happening even further? To gaslight the public by fully inverting the popular narratives out there, and mindfuck people into oblivion?
Do you understand the MSM routinely implies there are leftists in control of this militantly anti-communist government, which is funding fascism all over the world for the last 80 years, in order to ensure people will blame "the left" for their problems?
Do you understand there is no left-wing here. Genuinely. Everyone in the US govt wants war with leftist nations. Everyone is out to fuck you. Everyone is out to deceive you.
Do you understand this is just the tip of the iceberg, and I could have gone on forever here.
R: 50 / I: 11
the ideologies that are the most objectively correct and have a solid foundation of theory are the less actionable armchair ideologies that never get anything done (leftcoms, anarchists)
the ideologies that are more retarded, emotional, biased and ignorant, the ideologies filled with magical thinking and moralism, those are the ideologies that actually drive history foward (maoism, third worldism)
ITT: leftist hot takes
communist ideolgy falls on a sliding scalethe ideologies that are the most objectively correct and have a solid foundation of theory are the less actionable armchair ideologies that never get anything done (leftcoms, anarchists)
the ideologies that are more retarded, emotional, biased and ignorant, the ideologies filled with magical thinking and moralism, those are the ideologies that actually drive history foward (maoism, third worldism)
R: 42 / I: 5
>Investigators say a 29-year-old man armed with a shotgun opened fire on an officer outside a synagogue in Belleville, Ont., as 25 people gathered for Yom Kippur. Up to 30 rounds were exchanged, sending worshipers scrambling for cover.
Is there any evidence that this Nazi participated in the training of the Azov Brigade or other Ukrainian military organizations in the last nine years?
NATO Nazi shoots up synagogue on Yom Kippur.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/belleville-police-shooting-siu-synagogue-9.7351776>Investigators say a 29-year-old man armed with a shotgun opened fire on an officer outside a synagogue in Belleville, Ont., as 25 people gathered for Yom Kippur. Up to 30 rounds were exchanged, sending worshipers scrambling for cover.
Is there any evidence that this Nazi participated in the training of the Azov Brigade or other Ukrainian military organizations in the last nine years?
R: 42 / I: 6
What explains the US' recent resurgence?
Was COVID just a plot by the CIA to fuck the global economy or something? Will the trend reverse or are we doomed to live in Burgerworld? It's literally impossible to fight the US, whenever you start threatening them they engineer the global economy in such a way to destroy you. R: 0 / I: 0
What explains the US' recent resurgence?
Was COVID just a plot by the CIA to fuck the global economy or something? Will the trend reverse or are we doomed to live in Burgerworld? It's literally impossible to fight the US, whenever you start threatening them they engineer the global economy in such a way to destroy you. R: 0 / I: 0
What explains the US' recent resurgence?
Was COVID just a plot by the CIA to fuck the global economy or something? Will the trend reverse or are we doomed to live in Burgerworld? It's literally impossible to fight the US, whenever you start threatening them they engineer the global economy in such a way to destroy you. R: 0 / I: 0
What explains the US' recent resurgence?
Was COVID just a plot by the CIA to fuck the global economy or something? Will the trend reverse or are we doomed to live in Burgerworld? It's literally impossible to fight the US, whenever you start threatening them they engineer the global economy in such a way to destroy you.
R: 11 / I: 4
The last refuge of the petite-bourgeiose
Do nothing, win? It genuinely does not matter whether they call themselves MLs or MLMs; though the MLMs, by their own logic, tend to break from this more often than MLs. The question is what it is about Marxist-Leninists in the modern world that leaves them mired in inaction, or in vague gestures toward organization. Nearly every American ML or MLM organization has, in essence, denounced the George Floyd uprisings. Not on the surface level, but when you dig thru the layers of their statements, texts, and interviews you observe this. I have read deeply into their positions, they critique the failures, the liberal NGO elements, and so on, but then they also shun the "riots," labeling them adventurism and spontaneity "no different than playing into the fears of the far-right" yet their entire existence, and the name Lenin itself, carries that same charge. Ask them for the alternative and they vaguely say "organize," but look inside and you find that by this they mean a milieu of petty-bourgeois, highly educated intellectuals endlessly discussing theory, liberal activism, and elections. Why should the real working class and its movements interact with these types? Why should we take them seriously when they tell those of us who are suffering not to directly defend ourselves from attackers, not to directly resist the daily misery of capitalism, not to directly expropriate and survive while striving for our freedom? Especially when these people can afford the comfort to happily exist and organize their entire lives away without any revolutionary fervor or action disrupting daily life.
R: 155 / I: 20 (sage)
[…] Website platforms must proactively identify and address the following types of infringing content:
Personal information: Includes the disclosure of personal identity and contact details, such as ID cards, passports, household registration records, home addresses, and phone numbers, as well as sensitive personal data like biometric information, medical and health records, financial account details, and location tracking data.
Insults and derogatory content: Includes verbal abuse or insults directed at enterprises and entrepreneurs; the malicious parodying or caricaturing of corporate logos, products, or entrepreneurs' likenesses; maliciously linking enterprises or entrepreneurs to pornographic or vulgar topics; and using stigmatizing language to disparage enterprises, entrepreneurs, or specific brand users.
Impersonation and counterfeiting: Includes impersonating news organizations to produce or publish information regarding corporate oversight; publishing information under the guise of an enterprise or entrepreneur; and the unauthorized use of names, logos, or entrepreneurs' names and likenesses, identical or similar to those of the actual enterprise, in the names, avatars, or profiles of public accounts.
False and misleading information: Includes taking entrepreneurs' past statements out of context or distorting their meaning; displaying search keyword suggestions or landing page results that contradict the facts; republishing false information that has already been authoritatively refuted or clarified; and disseminating information that conflicts with public statements issued by the enterprise or entrepreneur via their official accounts on major platforms.
Other categories: Includes content designed to incite conflict by pitting enterprises against one another; the aggregation and resurfacing of old news or negative information about enterprises; infringing content that the platform has previously addressed; comments regarding enterprises posted by bot accounts or paid astroturfing accounts; and information that smears or disparages enterprises and entrepreneurs in a manner that clearly violates public order and good morals.
source: https://www.cac.gov.cn/2026-09/18/c_1791396347229199.htm
What do the china stans have to say about this
China BANS criticizing PORKY
On September 18, the Cyberspace Administration of China issued the "Notice on Strengthening the Management of Infringing Information Concerning Enterprises and Continuously Optimizing the Online Business Environment". Here's the most imporant part in the notice (most notably 2, 4 and 5):[…] Website platforms must proactively identify and address the following types of infringing content:
Personal information: Includes the disclosure of personal identity and contact details, such as ID cards, passports, household registration records, home addresses, and phone numbers, as well as sensitive personal data like biometric information, medical and health records, financial account details, and location tracking data.
Insults and derogatory content: Includes verbal abuse or insults directed at enterprises and entrepreneurs; the malicious parodying or caricaturing of corporate logos, products, or entrepreneurs' likenesses; maliciously linking enterprises or entrepreneurs to pornographic or vulgar topics; and using stigmatizing language to disparage enterprises, entrepreneurs, or specific brand users.
Impersonation and counterfeiting: Includes impersonating news organizations to produce or publish information regarding corporate oversight; publishing information under the guise of an enterprise or entrepreneur; and the unauthorized use of names, logos, or entrepreneurs' names and likenesses, identical or similar to those of the actual enterprise, in the names, avatars, or profiles of public accounts.
False and misleading information: Includes taking entrepreneurs' past statements out of context or distorting their meaning; displaying search keyword suggestions or landing page results that contradict the facts; republishing false information that has already been authoritatively refuted or clarified; and disseminating information that conflicts with public statements issued by the enterprise or entrepreneur via their official accounts on major platforms.
Other categories: Includes content designed to incite conflict by pitting enterprises against one another; the aggregation and resurfacing of old news or negative information about enterprises; infringing content that the platform has previously addressed; comments regarding enterprises posted by bot accounts or paid astroturfing accounts; and information that smears or disparages enterprises and entrepreneurs in a manner that clearly violates public order and good morals.
source: https://www.cac.gov.cn/2026-09/18/c_1791396347229199.htm
What do the china stans have to say about this
R: 4 / I: 0
The decisions are not final and must be approved by the Supreme Court, which has overturned most such disqualifications in previous elections. Israel’s Central Elections Committee is made up of lawmakers, with seats allocated to parties based on their share of the vote in the general election. … The committee said Abu Shehadeh had supported armed struggle by an enemy state or "terrorist organisation" against Israel and rejected Israel’s existence as a Jewish and "democratic state".
https://www.newarab.com/news/israel-committee-bars-arab-party-lists-mks-october-vote
Iran and US held direct UN talks, with Islamic Republic's terms to reopen Hormuz hardening
Multiple Gulf officials told Middle East Eye that their countries were trying to arrange a "bump-in" between US President Donald Trump and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, but the logistics were complicated. Qatar took the lead among Gulf states in facilitating the meeting between Witkoff and Araghchi, a Gulf official told MEE. Gulf states were pressing for US-Iran talks at the UN in the days before the General Assembly. Both Qatar and the UAE called for de-escalation and engagement with the Islamic Republic over the weekend.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/iran-and-us-held-direct-un-talks-islamic-republic-terms-reopen-hormuz-hardening
Pro-Palestine Activist ‘Close to Death’ on Hunger Strike in Tunisian Prison
Wael Naouar, a father of two who was detained in March alongside three other Flotilla organisers, Ghassan Henchiri, Ghassan Boughdiri and Nabil Chennoufi, initiated his hunger strike in protest of the prolonged detention the Sumud 4 have endured without trial.
https://novaramedia.com/2026/09/23/pro-palestine-activist-close-to-death-on-hunger-strike-in-tunisian-prison/
South Sudan president dissolves transitional government ahead of long-delayed elections
Kiir, who will remain president throughout the electoral period until a new president is sworn in, appointed caretaker ministers to oversee key ministries including foreign affairs, defense, cabinet affairs, interior, justice, national security, finance, petroleum, information and peace building. The transitional period and implementation of a 2018 peace agreement, which ended a deadly civil war, has been extended several times. The transitional government’s dissolution was envisaged as part of the road map to elections.
https://apnews.com/article/south-sudan-elections-transitional-government-dissolved-de4306bb7092c6142741e5a899051154
UK arms broker jailed for 16 years over missiles and fighter jet deals with Libya and Sudan
Prosecutors said only one charge involved the actual supply of weaponry, with the pair selling a former Ukrainian S-125 Pechora missile system to South Sudan, where Greenhalgh and Farmakis had "very close connections to senior figures". South Sudan was still formally part of Sudan until it achieved independence in 2011, prosecutor Edmund Burge told jurors at Southwark Crown Court, meaning the semi-autonomous region was subject to a British arms embargo.
https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/uk-arms-broker-jailed-16-years-over-missiles-fighter-jet-deals-with-libya-sudan-2026-09-23/
Police use teargas on protesters as disabled woman, 87, evicted from Madrid home
When a developer bought the building Maricarmen had lived in for 71 years, she was offered the chance to buy her apartment for €247,000 (£212,000), an impossible sum for a pensioner. They then raised her rent from €500 to €1,650 a month, while she receives a state pension of €1,350. An unnamed “prominent” writer offered to pay the €1,150 difference indefinitely but their offer was ignored.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/23/madrid-police-teargas-protesters-disabled-woman-evicted
Could Berlin expropriate large real estate companies?
Chancellor Friedrich Merz responded to the Left Party's election victory immediately by promising to draw up a federal law banning state governments from expropriating property. "It's not just about banning something here in Berlin," Merz said at a press conference in the aftermath of the Berlin election. "It's about sending a clear message to international investors, which is: There is no expropriation of private property in Germany." However, it's unclear whether the federal government has the power to impose such a law. Germany's Constitutional Court once ruled that the federal government cannot pass a law simply to prevent a state from governing in the issues it wants.
https://www.dw.com/en/could-a-left-party-government-in-berlin-expropriate-large-real-estate-companies/a-79399683
https://archive.ph/ydAB2
Honduras Approves Sweeping Anti-Gang, Prison Security Law
Honduras’ Congress has unanimously approved a law establishing a special prison regime for people accused of belonging to terrorist organizations, maras and pandillas. The measures include individual maximum-security detention, strict limits on visits and communications, and virtual court hearings.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/honduras-anti-gang-prison-security-law/
Brazil has record number of Indigenous candidates for general elections
The record comes as Indigenous groups push the government for faster official recognition of their territories, a status that grants these lands legal protection against invasions, while seeking to shield their interests in legislative houses from agribusiness, as well as energy and infrastructure projects.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/brazil-has-record-number-indigenous-candidates-general-elections-2026-09-23/
Takaichi eager for passage of tax cut bill
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi early Wednesday expressed her eagerness for the passage of legislation to lower the 8% consumption tax rate for food to 1% for two years. “I want to achieve results by enacting laws familiar to the people” during the extraordinary session of parliament, expected to start Oct. 5, Takaichi said of the tax cut legislation at a news conference to wrap up her trip to New York.
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/09/23/japan/takaichi-tax-cut-bill-passage/
News 9/23/26
Israel election committee bars Arab party lists, MKs from October voteThe decisions are not final and must be approved by the Supreme Court, which has overturned most such disqualifications in previous elections. Israel’s Central Elections Committee is made up of lawmakers, with seats allocated to parties based on their share of the vote in the general election. … The committee said Abu Shehadeh had supported armed struggle by an enemy state or "terrorist organisation" against Israel and rejected Israel’s existence as a Jewish and "democratic state".
https://www.newarab.com/news/israel-committee-bars-arab-party-lists-mks-october-vote
Iran and US held direct UN talks, with Islamic Republic's terms to reopen Hormuz hardening
Multiple Gulf officials told Middle East Eye that their countries were trying to arrange a "bump-in" between US President Donald Trump and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, but the logistics were complicated. Qatar took the lead among Gulf states in facilitating the meeting between Witkoff and Araghchi, a Gulf official told MEE. Gulf states were pressing for US-Iran talks at the UN in the days before the General Assembly. Both Qatar and the UAE called for de-escalation and engagement with the Islamic Republic over the weekend.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/iran-and-us-held-direct-un-talks-islamic-republic-terms-reopen-hormuz-hardening
Pro-Palestine Activist ‘Close to Death’ on Hunger Strike in Tunisian Prison
Wael Naouar, a father of two who was detained in March alongside three other Flotilla organisers, Ghassan Henchiri, Ghassan Boughdiri and Nabil Chennoufi, initiated his hunger strike in protest of the prolonged detention the Sumud 4 have endured without trial.
https://novaramedia.com/2026/09/23/pro-palestine-activist-close-to-death-on-hunger-strike-in-tunisian-prison/
South Sudan president dissolves transitional government ahead of long-delayed elections
Kiir, who will remain president throughout the electoral period until a new president is sworn in, appointed caretaker ministers to oversee key ministries including foreign affairs, defense, cabinet affairs, interior, justice, national security, finance, petroleum, information and peace building. The transitional period and implementation of a 2018 peace agreement, which ended a deadly civil war, has been extended several times. The transitional government’s dissolution was envisaged as part of the road map to elections.
https://apnews.com/article/south-sudan-elections-transitional-government-dissolved-de4306bb7092c6142741e5a899051154
UK arms broker jailed for 16 years over missiles and fighter jet deals with Libya and Sudan
Prosecutors said only one charge involved the actual supply of weaponry, with the pair selling a former Ukrainian S-125 Pechora missile system to South Sudan, where Greenhalgh and Farmakis had "very close connections to senior figures". South Sudan was still formally part of Sudan until it achieved independence in 2011, prosecutor Edmund Burge told jurors at Southwark Crown Court, meaning the semi-autonomous region was subject to a British arms embargo.
https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/uk-arms-broker-jailed-16-years-over-missiles-fighter-jet-deals-with-libya-sudan-2026-09-23/
Police use teargas on protesters as disabled woman, 87, evicted from Madrid home
When a developer bought the building Maricarmen had lived in for 71 years, she was offered the chance to buy her apartment for €247,000 (£212,000), an impossible sum for a pensioner. They then raised her rent from €500 to €1,650 a month, while she receives a state pension of €1,350. An unnamed “prominent” writer offered to pay the €1,150 difference indefinitely but their offer was ignored.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/23/madrid-police-teargas-protesters-disabled-woman-evicted
Could Berlin expropriate large real estate companies?
Chancellor Friedrich Merz responded to the Left Party's election victory immediately by promising to draw up a federal law banning state governments from expropriating property. "It's not just about banning something here in Berlin," Merz said at a press conference in the aftermath of the Berlin election. "It's about sending a clear message to international investors, which is: There is no expropriation of private property in Germany." However, it's unclear whether the federal government has the power to impose such a law. Germany's Constitutional Court once ruled that the federal government cannot pass a law simply to prevent a state from governing in the issues it wants.
https://www.dw.com/en/could-a-left-party-government-in-berlin-expropriate-large-real-estate-companies/a-79399683
https://archive.ph/ydAB2
Honduras Approves Sweeping Anti-Gang, Prison Security Law
Honduras’ Congress has unanimously approved a law establishing a special prison regime for people accused of belonging to terrorist organizations, maras and pandillas. The measures include individual maximum-security detention, strict limits on visits and communications, and virtual court hearings.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/honduras-anti-gang-prison-security-law/
Brazil has record number of Indigenous candidates for general elections
The record comes as Indigenous groups push the government for faster official recognition of their territories, a status that grants these lands legal protection against invasions, while seeking to shield their interests in legislative houses from agribusiness, as well as energy and infrastructure projects.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/brazil-has-record-number-indigenous-candidates-general-elections-2026-09-23/
Takaichi eager for passage of tax cut bill
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi early Wednesday expressed her eagerness for the passage of legislation to lower the 8% consumption tax rate for food to 1% for two years. “I want to achieve results by enacting laws familiar to the people” during the extraordinary session of parliament, expected to start Oct. 5, Takaichi said of the tax cut legislation at a news conference to wrap up her trip to New York.
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/09/23/japan/takaichi-tax-cut-bill-passage/
R: 65 / I: 10
Why bother?
Hating random people with lots of money and reading theory that never sees real world implementation isn't going to make my life less miserable. What's the real solution?
R: 639 / I: 96 (full)
Previous: >>2903067
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
https://azovlobby.substack.com/
https://banderalobby.substack.com/
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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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DAJ MI PIENIĄDZE (GIVAS MONEY) Edition (See second post)Previous: >>2903067
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://banderalobby.substack.com/
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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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Into the Bunker(chan): An Examination of /leftypol/, and its Place in the Modern Left Landscape
<While the alt-right pipeline funneled young men into fascism, a smaller corner of the internet tried to do the opposite. JJ Christensen goes inside /leftypol/.
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When I was around 13 years old, I stumbled upon a Youtube video by the user ‘Bat’ko,’ an “anarchist shitposter” and prominent user of the website /leftypol/.
The year was 2018; it was a scary time for me. Two years ago, I had watched my mom cry as the presidential election results slowly rolled in. I had grown up in the Obama Era as a nerdy brown child in a majority-minority Californian city. I did not take it seriously. I did not know, nor did I have any way of knowing, what the long term effects of such a presidency would be. As far as I knew, he was a clown and he’d be gone in 4 years. The Democratic Party would protect us.
A year later, I watched Heather Heyer get brutally run over by a neo-Nazi on television. The Charlottesville Riot, or Unite the Right, was a wake-up call to many and I was no different. I was shaken to my core, and in a moment all the disappointments in liberalism and the failures of the ‘center-left’ Democratic Party I had known all my life bubbled over. Something in me broke fundamentally, and I had shifted from an optimistic nerdy child to an angry and pessimistic teenager.
This is not a unique story, and in fact at the time there were thousands upon thousands of teenagers having a similar radicalization cycle that would funnel them into various online pipelines. Everyone knows about the alt-right pipeline, that insidious online infrastructure that took thousands of young men and molded them through YouTube videos, blogs, Twitter accounts, and perhaps most importantly right-wing imageboards like 4chan, into unrepentant neo-Nazis.
Adjacent to these spaces, however, were a smattering of smaller ones trying to make the opposite happen. To take righteous anger and funnel it into something more constructive, without sacrificing the need to have a dark sense of humor. In the face of the terrible sludge that runs through the ‘Alt-Right Pipeline,’ that radicalization funnel so acutely tuned to latch onto these young grievances at the time, who would create its antithesis?
The video was called ‘You Don’t Hate (Blue) Mondays.’ It is not a video essay, or breakdown of theory and praxis. It starts as a compilation of anarchist posters from various eras, before cutting to a different compilation of anti-austerity riots in Athens, fighters of the EZLN in Chiapas, Black Bloc attacking the Trump inauguration, and soldiers of the YPG in Syria taking ground. In the background is a remix of the song ‘Blue Monday,’ and it shattered one illusion for me. The illusion that there were no other options than decaying liberalism and its fascistic endpoint. There are movements out there that reject both, that seek to build more, and that have a long and arduous history.
Similar to many right-wing memes that broke out into the mainstream, like Pepe the Frog or Gamergate, it came from an imageboard. /Pol/, or 4chan’s ‘Politically Incorrect’ board was around the height of its cultural influence at the time. The difference here is that it came from its antithesis, /leftypol/.
It was here that I dug in, scanning my own memory, articles from the past, and talking to contemporary users of the board.
History
/leftypol/ got its start as part of the kaleidoscope of many boards on 8chan. For those who need a refresher: 8chan is 4chan’s younger brother, founded ostensibly as a techno-libertarian alternative. Built on ‘free speech absolutism’ with only one rule, do not share anything illegal in the U.S., 8chan quickly spiraled into a cesspit of Nazism and pedophilia while becoming the premier place for mass shooters to post their manifestos. Anybody could create a board, no programming knowledge or even firm moderation required.
In this, the internet’s worst jungle juice, /leftypol/ founded a place for those messageboard users who did not fall into the reactionary trap.
Founded in 2014, it immediately began a frayed and hostile relationship with nearly every other board on the site. It also sheltered a big tent of left-wing thought spanning Anarchists to Marxist-Leninists, Egoists, Hoxhaists, National Bolsheviks (or Nazbols) and Posadists (although the extent to which the last two were jokes is dependent on who you ask). It contained similarly irony poisoned humor (I say this with love) to the rest of the ‘chan’ space, while fundamentally rooted in positions that kept it far away from the cesspit that was the rest of that internet village. The board has held up various ‘manifestos’ throughout its different iterations, but they’ve all kept the same line. The most recent “/leftypol/ Manifesto” reads thusly.
“The mission of /leftypol/ at leftypol.org is to provide a fun and enjoyable space for the working masses around the world, as an anonymous community of non-sectarian leftists united in common cause against the forces of capitalism, fascism, and liberalism.”
“We aim to be the negation of /pol/; anti-fascist, materialist, better read. Our mission, above all, is to learn, and help others learn, the philosophical tools necessary to elucidate the interrelated and ever-increasingly complex space of self, society, and politics, from the local to the global scale.”
/leftypol/ upheld one other commitment, an opposition to liberal identity politics. In the late Obama period, and its immediate deterioration into Trump 1, the rejection of liberal identity politics in favor of upholding the primacy of class struggle, originating from a place of vulgar Marxism, was more scandalous to most liberal commentators and onlookers than the site it was hosted on. It was on this rock that they would build their platform of left unity.
In a world devoid of, and even actively hostile towards, class consciousness and under bombardment by a liberalism seeking to co-opt the movement of the progressive masses, /leftypol/’s predisposition to buck social norms allowed them to be one of the few places left waving that flag.
In the 4chan-esque oeuvre /leftypol/ was forged in, however, this commitment would often devolve into pure class reductionism. Users who would whine about the need for protestors of color to cease their struggles and instead take up the mantle of “No War But Class War,” as if the working people of this country were not contemporaneously shaking the nation to its foundations in the name of Black lives. A blind spot cultivated due to the mostly white userbase of the site, and one that would keep it that way.
In 2017, amongst a divide in the user base over whether or not to support the Syrian Democratic Forces in the Syrian Civil War, the original board owner known as ‘Che’ went on a banning spree. This specifically targeted pro-SDF users, most of whom were anarchists, libertarian socialists, and other non-Marxist-Leninist tendencies.
Kerfus, a former moderator and longtime user of the board, described some of the history, “It's a pretty standard thing in the radical politics milieu: splits, purges, etc. But it had a lasting impact on the ideology of the userbase. Pre-purge, the user base was very diverse, from social democrats to Marxist-Leninists, Maoists, Bordigists and council communists, to anarchists of various tendencies, including primitivists, nihilists.”
He continued,
“Post-purge and the failure of /leftpol/, the board became increasingly more ML, the kind to talk endlessly about geopolitics and Soviet history, to label every protest as a color revolution. Che (an original board owner) was apparently a Marcyite, which would explain quite a few things, as I've heard they are a rather sectarian tendency in American Marxism.”
In 2019, Cloudflare and the rest of its internet providers dropped 8chan, kicking it off the clearnet. During this time, /leftypol/ migrated to a backup site known as Bunkerchan. Due to administrative issues, and an influx of combative “MAGA Communists,” a split occurred in Bunkerchan. This was the most consequential of many major conflicts that happened throughout the history of the board.
From this, the modern “leftypol.org” would spring forth. It retained the vast majority of users and original moderators.
Analysis
Imageboards in general are an antiquated, old-web form of communication. It’s a complete wonder that sites like 4chan and 8chan accumulated as much cultural cachet as they had (and still have, to an extent) 4chan was the site of a ‘Great Meme War’ during the first Trump campaign, one which launched the site into unrivaled cultural relevance as the barrage of crowdsourced, fascist talking points and slogans created the foundation of Trump’s young, radical base.
As Politico put it, “There is no real evidence that memes won the election, but there is little question they changed its tone, especially in the fast-moving and influential currents of social media. The meme battalions created a mass of pro-Trump iconography as powerful as the Obama “Hope” poster and far more adaptable.”
According to numerous documents released in the Epstein files, 4chan’s owner Christopher Poole met with multi-millionaire banker and international sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein multiple times in 2011, a few months before /pol/ was brought online as a board on 4chan. There’s no hard evidence to prove that Epstein directly told Poole to create /pol/, but since then it’s no secret that plenty of influence operations and astroturfed campaigns have gotten their start on 4chan.
What is known, though, is that since 2015 the site has been de-facto moderated by a mysterious manager known as ‘RapeApe.’ In lieu of intervention from 4chan’s current owner, Hiroyuki Nishimura, the site has been consistently pushed towards and molded into far-right beliefs. Where once /pol/ was meant to be the containment board for racists, it is now the head driving the site. According to an investigation by Vice, this is the design of RapeApe.
From Gamergate to those hundreds of memes generated to gin up support for Trump in the run up to 2016, /pol/’s politics have been used to reinforce the class interests of the rich and famous. Many of the influencers to come from it, too, have become fairly wealthy themselves.
At the same time, many right-wing influencers begged to get /leftypol/ taken offline.
According to a Twitter post from Fredrick Brennan, the now-deceased former owner and operator of 8chan, “/leftypol/ was, by far, the board I was most commonly asked to delete as 8chan's admin. BY FAR. In person, over Skype, it seemed like every right-wing e-celeb would ask me to.”
He continued, “They fucking hated you guys. I learned that a lot of my so-called libertarian friends were anything but. They'd send me "evidence" that /leftypol/ was "breaking the law".”
Through this saga, /leftypol/ maintained its own type of edgelord culture. Jokes about Posadism, the belief of Argentine Trotskyist J. Posadas that the world revolution would be heralded by communist space aliens and intentional nuclear hellfire, the popularization of the term Anarkiddie, the unapologetic embrace of the term ‘Tankie’ by some members.
You might remember the ‘dirtbag left’ contemporary to the 2016 Bernie Sanders American socialist zeitgeist. Mostly white, male left wing personalities embracing a vulgarity and shock-jock attitude that was empowering to some and alienating to others. Well, where else could these people find a perfect home?
One user of the site gave me a note on an early draft of this article, one that stuck with me: “There’s honestly a need to mention the brutality and crudeness of the “dirtbag” left. That’s what made /leftypol/ stand out, not mere humor, but the willingness to yell NAZBOL GANG in a thread about historical materialism […] and other diagonal ideas that appealed to those attracted to imageboard politics.”
Discomrade, a former tech developer of leftypol.org from 2021 to 2023 put it like so: “/leftypol/ was effective because it filled the real desire for a dirtbag left space, and answered many of the questions that edgy meme-loving nerds were left wanting once blaming da joos stopped being funny and started being honest and pathetic.”
They continued, “There is real value in having creative social spaces where socialists can be publicly edgy, blunt and unapologetic, in stark contrast to the standard whiny student protests, sensitive language-policing and mind-numbing dry critiques […], and worst of all, liberal rainbow capitalism that serves to recuperate revolutionary ideas. There is real shock value in breaching the assumed values of "socialism".”
Default.Blog put it succinctly, “A young male communist who grows up in the same internet spaces where all the other degenerate gamers, anime fans and other hobbyists congregate will probably never truly sit comfortably within the politeness of woke society in normal social media, and /leftypol/ remains one of the few places where they don't have to. There is also a sort of memetic rivalry to the broader reactionary imageboard community, however, of wanting to be more sophisticated but also worried about appearing as “soft” and thin-skinned as the woke internet outside.”
So the board is filled with Albanian bunker memes, catgirls, and threads laughing at failed Nazi rallies. Yet, it maintains a genuine undercurrent of curiosity and a commitment to something approaching reason. You can watch various world events through ‘Happening’ threads, where users congregate to stay up-to-date on whatever contemporary crisis is happening at any given time. I saw more links to actual news sources and an interest in OSINT than similar threads on 4chan.
For heaven's sake, the site maintained and continues to maintain a board for the dissemination of free information. /edu/ (education) is where you can go to find discussions on theory, on praxis, dense texts, and lessons on argumentation. Here you will find the phenomenon of “effortposting.”
As described by Kerfus, “When people take time to articulate their thoughts on a complex subject. I have learned a lot by reading them.”
Contemporary Relevance
It’s easy to write all this off. /leftypol/ is, on many levels, a lot less active than it used to be. It did not win any popular meme wars, etc. On the other hand, however, it did and continues to do so much with so little. /leftypol/ is up against the gargantuan, and status quo friendly /pol/. They’ve undoubtedly gotten under their skin.
According to 4plebs, a 4chan archiving site, there are over 40 pages worth of posts mentioning /leftypol/ in 2025 alone. Most of which are conspiracy-mongering about various users secretly being agents of /leftypol/ or screeching about how ‘sensitive’ their members are (all laden with the requisite amount of slurs).
There is nothing revolutionary about the reactionary beliefs that spawn out of 4chan, yet /leftypol/ does exactly what it says it wants to do. It served (and continues to serve) as a base for the revolutionary-minded, those on the left who have a sense of humor. Kerfus explained, “One important thing is that /leftypol/ was created as an answer to the fascist politics of the 4chan and 8chan /pol/ boards. Some of us pre-2016 4chan users were leftists or anarchists and simply liked the anonymous format. /lit/ created the Stirner memes after all, and my ex-favorite board /mu/ used to be into indie/alternative music, which is a pretty left-wing milieu. The story goes that /leftypol/ started as a /lit/ offshoot actually, since everyone could create their own boards on 8chan.”
And even underneath the long shadow of /pol/’s cultural influence, /leftypol/’s own influence has not disappeared. Aside from memes such as the anarchist catgirl Alunya and capitalist Porky the Pig, the aggression and zeitgeist of young socialism still draw their inspiration from that board.
“My favorite aspect of /leftypol/, one which I hope we can recover, was how it faced our absurd dystopia with a resolve rooted in even greater absurdity.” Moderator Baphomet told me.
“You can still see some of that today, whether it be the ironic praising of the actions of "JDPON Don" or treating Zohran Mamdani as though he's a revolutionary Maoist junta leader rather than a social democratic mayor. The world is irrational, might as well embrace it and fight fire with fire. At least that's my opinion.”
I asked users where they saw the board heading in the future. There was a healthy dash of pessimism and uncertainty; one user, Sputnik_, said “I have no idea. Maybe it'll get bigger, maybe it won't, but regardless it truly is a website.”
On the other hand, many noted real potential in the board to build itself into something greater.
Baphomet explained, “If we can strategically prune low quality bait and bad faith arguments with rigor, while avoiding falling into the trap of sectarianism, we just might have a chance of pulling ourselves out of this rut. Since becoming a mod I've learned just what a tedious and thankless task it is, haha.”
When prompted to imagine where they wanted the board to be in the future, the ideas were a tad more uplifting. Discomrade wrote, “I want /leftypol/ to be in a position where people who need it can find it. People disillusioned with the manosphere and incel culture, with culture wars, with whiteness politics and electoralism. Infamy is our biggest asset, we get free advertising every day from people wondering who the hell this /leftypol/ is that /pol/ keep blaming everything on. Do nothing, keep winning.”
Another moderator told me what they saw as the purpose of the board, “To function both as an internet agitprop laboratory and a dialectical counter-hegemonic apparatus: contesting the right-wing’s capture of the online cultural, linguistic, and memetic terrain, while developing autonomous forms of political subjectivity, collective intelligence, and cultural production capable of intervening in, and eventually transforming, the digital, and even material, landscape itself.”
‘You don't hate (blue) mondays (Student Palestine Protest)’ is a recreation of its original source updated for the modern day, with photos from across the world (including some from my campus, PSU.) The way that the original video gave its original thesis statement in the posters and juxtapositions, here one screenshot in the beginning cuts through all the noise. A simple definition for ‘imperial boomerang.’
Undoubtedly, /leftypol/’s spectre is still haunting the internet.
Into the Bunker(chan): An Examination of /leftypol/, and its Place in the Modern Left Landscape
https://geesemag.com/articles/into-the-bunkerchan-an-examination-of-leftypol-and-its-place-in-the-modern-left-landscapeInto the Bunker(chan): An Examination of /leftypol/, and its Place in the Modern Left Landscape
<While the alt-right pipeline funneled young men into fascism, a smaller corner of the internet tried to do the opposite. JJ Christensen goes inside /leftypol/.
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When I was around 13 years old, I stumbled upon a Youtube video by the user ‘Bat’ko,’ an “anarchist shitposter” and prominent user of the website /leftypol/.
The year was 2018; it was a scary time for me. Two years ago, I had watched my mom cry as the presidential election results slowly rolled in. I had grown up in the Obama Era as a nerdy brown child in a majority-minority Californian city. I did not take it seriously. I did not know, nor did I have any way of knowing, what the long term effects of such a presidency would be. As far as I knew, he was a clown and he’d be gone in 4 years. The Democratic Party would protect us.
A year later, I watched Heather Heyer get brutally run over by a neo-Nazi on television. The Charlottesville Riot, or Unite the Right, was a wake-up call to many and I was no different. I was shaken to my core, and in a moment all the disappointments in liberalism and the failures of the ‘center-left’ Democratic Party I had known all my life bubbled over. Something in me broke fundamentally, and I had shifted from an optimistic nerdy child to an angry and pessimistic teenager.
This is not a unique story, and in fact at the time there were thousands upon thousands of teenagers having a similar radicalization cycle that would funnel them into various online pipelines. Everyone knows about the alt-right pipeline, that insidious online infrastructure that took thousands of young men and molded them through YouTube videos, blogs, Twitter accounts, and perhaps most importantly right-wing imageboards like 4chan, into unrepentant neo-Nazis.
Adjacent to these spaces, however, were a smattering of smaller ones trying to make the opposite happen. To take righteous anger and funnel it into something more constructive, without sacrificing the need to have a dark sense of humor. In the face of the terrible sludge that runs through the ‘Alt-Right Pipeline,’ that radicalization funnel so acutely tuned to latch onto these young grievances at the time, who would create its antithesis?
The video was called ‘You Don’t Hate (Blue) Mondays.’ It is not a video essay, or breakdown of theory and praxis. It starts as a compilation of anarchist posters from various eras, before cutting to a different compilation of anti-austerity riots in Athens, fighters of the EZLN in Chiapas, Black Bloc attacking the Trump inauguration, and soldiers of the YPG in Syria taking ground. In the background is a remix of the song ‘Blue Monday,’ and it shattered one illusion for me. The illusion that there were no other options than decaying liberalism and its fascistic endpoint. There are movements out there that reject both, that seek to build more, and that have a long and arduous history.
Similar to many right-wing memes that broke out into the mainstream, like Pepe the Frog or Gamergate, it came from an imageboard. /Pol/, or 4chan’s ‘Politically Incorrect’ board was around the height of its cultural influence at the time. The difference here is that it came from its antithesis, /leftypol/.
It was here that I dug in, scanning my own memory, articles from the past, and talking to contemporary users of the board.
History
/leftypol/ got its start as part of the kaleidoscope of many boards on 8chan. For those who need a refresher: 8chan is 4chan’s younger brother, founded ostensibly as a techno-libertarian alternative. Built on ‘free speech absolutism’ with only one rule, do not share anything illegal in the U.S., 8chan quickly spiraled into a cesspit of Nazism and pedophilia while becoming the premier place for mass shooters to post their manifestos. Anybody could create a board, no programming knowledge or even firm moderation required.
In this, the internet’s worst jungle juice, /leftypol/ founded a place for those messageboard users who did not fall into the reactionary trap.
Founded in 2014, it immediately began a frayed and hostile relationship with nearly every other board on the site. It also sheltered a big tent of left-wing thought spanning Anarchists to Marxist-Leninists, Egoists, Hoxhaists, National Bolsheviks (or Nazbols) and Posadists (although the extent to which the last two were jokes is dependent on who you ask). It contained similarly irony poisoned humor (I say this with love) to the rest of the ‘chan’ space, while fundamentally rooted in positions that kept it far away from the cesspit that was the rest of that internet village. The board has held up various ‘manifestos’ throughout its different iterations, but they’ve all kept the same line. The most recent “/leftypol/ Manifesto” reads thusly.
“The mission of /leftypol/ at leftypol.org is to provide a fun and enjoyable space for the working masses around the world, as an anonymous community of non-sectarian leftists united in common cause against the forces of capitalism, fascism, and liberalism.”
“We aim to be the negation of /pol/; anti-fascist, materialist, better read. Our mission, above all, is to learn, and help others learn, the philosophical tools necessary to elucidate the interrelated and ever-increasingly complex space of self, society, and politics, from the local to the global scale.”
/leftypol/ upheld one other commitment, an opposition to liberal identity politics. In the late Obama period, and its immediate deterioration into Trump 1, the rejection of liberal identity politics in favor of upholding the primacy of class struggle, originating from a place of vulgar Marxism, was more scandalous to most liberal commentators and onlookers than the site it was hosted on. It was on this rock that they would build their platform of left unity.
In a world devoid of, and even actively hostile towards, class consciousness and under bombardment by a liberalism seeking to co-opt the movement of the progressive masses, /leftypol/’s predisposition to buck social norms allowed them to be one of the few places left waving that flag.
In the 4chan-esque oeuvre /leftypol/ was forged in, however, this commitment would often devolve into pure class reductionism. Users who would whine about the need for protestors of color to cease their struggles and instead take up the mantle of “No War But Class War,” as if the working people of this country were not contemporaneously shaking the nation to its foundations in the name of Black lives. A blind spot cultivated due to the mostly white userbase of the site, and one that would keep it that way.
In 2017, amongst a divide in the user base over whether or not to support the Syrian Democratic Forces in the Syrian Civil War, the original board owner known as ‘Che’ went on a banning spree. This specifically targeted pro-SDF users, most of whom were anarchists, libertarian socialists, and other non-Marxist-Leninist tendencies.
Kerfus, a former moderator and longtime user of the board, described some of the history, “It's a pretty standard thing in the radical politics milieu: splits, purges, etc. But it had a lasting impact on the ideology of the userbase. Pre-purge, the user base was very diverse, from social democrats to Marxist-Leninists, Maoists, Bordigists and council communists, to anarchists of various tendencies, including primitivists, nihilists.”
He continued,
“Post-purge and the failure of /leftpol/, the board became increasingly more ML, the kind to talk endlessly about geopolitics and Soviet history, to label every protest as a color revolution. Che (an original board owner) was apparently a Marcyite, which would explain quite a few things, as I've heard they are a rather sectarian tendency in American Marxism.”
In 2019, Cloudflare and the rest of its internet providers dropped 8chan, kicking it off the clearnet. During this time, /leftypol/ migrated to a backup site known as Bunkerchan. Due to administrative issues, and an influx of combative “MAGA Communists,” a split occurred in Bunkerchan. This was the most consequential of many major conflicts that happened throughout the history of the board.
From this, the modern “leftypol.org” would spring forth. It retained the vast majority of users and original moderators.
Analysis
Imageboards in general are an antiquated, old-web form of communication. It’s a complete wonder that sites like 4chan and 8chan accumulated as much cultural cachet as they had (and still have, to an extent) 4chan was the site of a ‘Great Meme War’ during the first Trump campaign, one which launched the site into unrivaled cultural relevance as the barrage of crowdsourced, fascist talking points and slogans created the foundation of Trump’s young, radical base.
As Politico put it, “There is no real evidence that memes won the election, but there is little question they changed its tone, especially in the fast-moving and influential currents of social media. The meme battalions created a mass of pro-Trump iconography as powerful as the Obama “Hope” poster and far more adaptable.”
According to numerous documents released in the Epstein files, 4chan’s owner Christopher Poole met with multi-millionaire banker and international sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein multiple times in 2011, a few months before /pol/ was brought online as a board on 4chan. There’s no hard evidence to prove that Epstein directly told Poole to create /pol/, but since then it’s no secret that plenty of influence operations and astroturfed campaigns have gotten their start on 4chan.
What is known, though, is that since 2015 the site has been de-facto moderated by a mysterious manager known as ‘RapeApe.’ In lieu of intervention from 4chan’s current owner, Hiroyuki Nishimura, the site has been consistently pushed towards and molded into far-right beliefs. Where once /pol/ was meant to be the containment board for racists, it is now the head driving the site. According to an investigation by Vice, this is the design of RapeApe.
From Gamergate to those hundreds of memes generated to gin up support for Trump in the run up to 2016, /pol/’s politics have been used to reinforce the class interests of the rich and famous. Many of the influencers to come from it, too, have become fairly wealthy themselves.
At the same time, many right-wing influencers begged to get /leftypol/ taken offline.
According to a Twitter post from Fredrick Brennan, the now-deceased former owner and operator of 8chan, “/leftypol/ was, by far, the board I was most commonly asked to delete as 8chan's admin. BY FAR. In person, over Skype, it seemed like every right-wing e-celeb would ask me to.”
He continued, “They fucking hated you guys. I learned that a lot of my so-called libertarian friends were anything but. They'd send me "evidence" that /leftypol/ was "breaking the law".”
Through this saga, /leftypol/ maintained its own type of edgelord culture. Jokes about Posadism, the belief of Argentine Trotskyist J. Posadas that the world revolution would be heralded by communist space aliens and intentional nuclear hellfire, the popularization of the term Anarkiddie, the unapologetic embrace of the term ‘Tankie’ by some members.
You might remember the ‘dirtbag left’ contemporary to the 2016 Bernie Sanders American socialist zeitgeist. Mostly white, male left wing personalities embracing a vulgarity and shock-jock attitude that was empowering to some and alienating to others. Well, where else could these people find a perfect home?
One user of the site gave me a note on an early draft of this article, one that stuck with me: “There’s honestly a need to mention the brutality and crudeness of the “dirtbag” left. That’s what made /leftypol/ stand out, not mere humor, but the willingness to yell NAZBOL GANG in a thread about historical materialism […] and other diagonal ideas that appealed to those attracted to imageboard politics.”
Discomrade, a former tech developer of leftypol.org from 2021 to 2023 put it like so: “/leftypol/ was effective because it filled the real desire for a dirtbag left space, and answered many of the questions that edgy meme-loving nerds were left wanting once blaming da joos stopped being funny and started being honest and pathetic.”
They continued, “There is real value in having creative social spaces where socialists can be publicly edgy, blunt and unapologetic, in stark contrast to the standard whiny student protests, sensitive language-policing and mind-numbing dry critiques […], and worst of all, liberal rainbow capitalism that serves to recuperate revolutionary ideas. There is real shock value in breaching the assumed values of "socialism".”
Default.Blog put it succinctly, “A young male communist who grows up in the same internet spaces where all the other degenerate gamers, anime fans and other hobbyists congregate will probably never truly sit comfortably within the politeness of woke society in normal social media, and /leftypol/ remains one of the few places where they don't have to. There is also a sort of memetic rivalry to the broader reactionary imageboard community, however, of wanting to be more sophisticated but also worried about appearing as “soft” and thin-skinned as the woke internet outside.”
So the board is filled with Albanian bunker memes, catgirls, and threads laughing at failed Nazi rallies. Yet, it maintains a genuine undercurrent of curiosity and a commitment to something approaching reason. You can watch various world events through ‘Happening’ threads, where users congregate to stay up-to-date on whatever contemporary crisis is happening at any given time. I saw more links to actual news sources and an interest in OSINT than similar threads on 4chan.
For heaven's sake, the site maintained and continues to maintain a board for the dissemination of free information. /edu/ (education) is where you can go to find discussions on theory, on praxis, dense texts, and lessons on argumentation. Here you will find the phenomenon of “effortposting.”
As described by Kerfus, “When people take time to articulate their thoughts on a complex subject. I have learned a lot by reading them.”
Contemporary Relevance
It’s easy to write all this off. /leftypol/ is, on many levels, a lot less active than it used to be. It did not win any popular meme wars, etc. On the other hand, however, it did and continues to do so much with so little. /leftypol/ is up against the gargantuan, and status quo friendly /pol/. They’ve undoubtedly gotten under their skin.
According to 4plebs, a 4chan archiving site, there are over 40 pages worth of posts mentioning /leftypol/ in 2025 alone. Most of which are conspiracy-mongering about various users secretly being agents of /leftypol/ or screeching about how ‘sensitive’ their members are (all laden with the requisite amount of slurs).
There is nothing revolutionary about the reactionary beliefs that spawn out of 4chan, yet /leftypol/ does exactly what it says it wants to do. It served (and continues to serve) as a base for the revolutionary-minded, those on the left who have a sense of humor. Kerfus explained, “One important thing is that /leftypol/ was created as an answer to the fascist politics of the 4chan and 8chan /pol/ boards. Some of us pre-2016 4chan users were leftists or anarchists and simply liked the anonymous format. /lit/ created the Stirner memes after all, and my ex-favorite board /mu/ used to be into indie/alternative music, which is a pretty left-wing milieu. The story goes that /leftypol/ started as a /lit/ offshoot actually, since everyone could create their own boards on 8chan.”
And even underneath the long shadow of /pol/’s cultural influence, /leftypol/’s own influence has not disappeared. Aside from memes such as the anarchist catgirl Alunya and capitalist Porky the Pig, the aggression and zeitgeist of young socialism still draw their inspiration from that board.
“My favorite aspect of /leftypol/, one which I hope we can recover, was how it faced our absurd dystopia with a resolve rooted in even greater absurdity.” Moderator Baphomet told me.
“You can still see some of that today, whether it be the ironic praising of the actions of "JDPON Don" or treating Zohran Mamdani as though he's a revolutionary Maoist junta leader rather than a social democratic mayor. The world is irrational, might as well embrace it and fight fire with fire. At least that's my opinion.”
I asked users where they saw the board heading in the future. There was a healthy dash of pessimism and uncertainty; one user, Sputnik_, said “I have no idea. Maybe it'll get bigger, maybe it won't, but regardless it truly is a website.”
On the other hand, many noted real potential in the board to build itself into something greater.
Baphomet explained, “If we can strategically prune low quality bait and bad faith arguments with rigor, while avoiding falling into the trap of sectarianism, we just might have a chance of pulling ourselves out of this rut. Since becoming a mod I've learned just what a tedious and thankless task it is, haha.”
When prompted to imagine where they wanted the board to be in the future, the ideas were a tad more uplifting. Discomrade wrote, “I want /leftypol/ to be in a position where people who need it can find it. People disillusioned with the manosphere and incel culture, with culture wars, with whiteness politics and electoralism. Infamy is our biggest asset, we get free advertising every day from people wondering who the hell this /leftypol/ is that /pol/ keep blaming everything on. Do nothing, keep winning.”
Another moderator told me what they saw as the purpose of the board, “To function both as an internet agitprop laboratory and a dialectical counter-hegemonic apparatus: contesting the right-wing’s capture of the online cultural, linguistic, and memetic terrain, while developing autonomous forms of political subjectivity, collective intelligence, and cultural production capable of intervening in, and eventually transforming, the digital, and even material, landscape itself.”
‘You don't hate (blue) mondays (Student Palestine Protest)’ is a recreation of its original source updated for the modern day, with photos from across the world (including some from my campus, PSU.) The way that the original video gave its original thesis statement in the posters and juxtapositions, here one screenshot in the beginning cuts through all the noise. A simple definition for ‘imperial boomerang.’
Undoubtedly, /leftypol/’s spectre is still haunting the internet.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYBEJBfq_Zs
Spoiler: they still can't pay citizens in western countries above minimum wage.
Should there be stricter regulations?
After giving funding to Chinese employees, Google, Apple and other tech companies loose all their tech and money to China.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYBEJBfq_Zs
Spoiler: they still can't pay citizens in western countries above minimum wage.
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Unlike for example the -up until the 1990s politically and organizationally similar- Portuguese communist party which ended up supporting bourgeois coalitions the KKE had an internal split with the eurocommunist 'renewalist' tendencies, that were even inside the political bureau. The full organizational split from opportunism proved to be vital for the direction of the party. This allowed the KKE to stay true to revolutionary principles while also retaining firm roots in the working people, while the Portuguese communist party slowly deteriorated through contact with 'leftist' bourgeois forces. The theoretical developments on the KKE's strategy is owed to this direction that refuses to submit to the new negative power dynamic between capital and the international proletariat, and recognises that despite the subversions at the end of the last century our era is still that of socialist revolution.The KKE's contemporary revolutionary strategy is based on the creative assimilation of the experience of the communist movement.
In my opinion, this is a relative development of communist theory because it make it more concrete. I think its driving force are not just the local conditions of Greece but, mostly, its unique history. The KKE today, while of course honouring the communist heroes which where on the first line in the fight against fascism everywhere, criticizes the strategy adopted by the 7th Congress of the Communist International. In its opinion, the strategic theory of two-stage revolution and of the united national, anti-fascist, anti-colonial etc. front mostly succeeded due the onslaught of the Red Army in Europe that objectively destroyed the bourgeois states.
In cases like France the collaboration with bourgeois forces in the antifascist front led to the disconnection of national and social struggles and eventually to eurocommunism.
In Greece the two-stage strategy failed, not only because the Red Army never reached it, but also despite the fact that the KKE did not have to, or rather could not, collaborate with the greek bourgeoisie because it either fled during the Occupation or collaborated with the nazis. This meant that it was objectively the main force of the national resistance movement. But because it fought for the unclear goal of intermediate peoples-republic stage, it hesitated in crucial moments and lost the revolutionary chance.
Today, the assimilation of that experience can reveal -to use a hegelian term- an objective illusion (Schein) arising from the mid-war conditions of capitalist development and the objective position of the communist parties for the correct analysis of power relations between the classes. The utter complexity of the October Revolution, can be easily missed from the point of view of its stabilisation in a completely hostile world, with the rise of fascism and a possible coalition of imperialist powers against the country of the workers, under a constant sense of urgency. However, we can tell a hundred years later: it was a historical rupture with (not a continuation of) February. It might seem like that the bourgeois revolution sas organically transformed into socialist-proletarian but that was not the case: the only thing that mediated was dual power and revolutionary war. Lenin abandoned the staged tactic of the Two Tactics of Social-Democracy in the Democratic Revolution with the April Thesis, and this new quick redirection in accordance with the changed analysis of changed conditions led to the success of the Bolsheviks.
After the 7th Congress the Communist International pushed a line that was a regression from that bolshevik revolutionary leap. Missing the dialectical totality of the leninist conception of revolutionary theory in the era of imperialism, it tried to mechanically reproduce the Two Tactics. In Greece and in other countries, this translated to a coalition with bourgeois government post liberation, crucial hesitations during the revolutionary situation, all in the name of the incompleteness of bourgeois democracy, and ultimately defeat. The parties that took part in bourgeois governments deteriorated into reformism and/or were dissolved within the united front of their own creation. In Greece, however the uniqueness lay in that because post-liberation there were all the preconditions of a genuine peoples victory for socialism, hadn't the KKE hesitated to start the civil war, the failure of stageist strategy and its immediate consequences lay bare. The historical and political conclusions of the turn that led to the October Revolution return with vengeance. The reason that the Bolsheviks wom and the greek Democratic People's Army lost in their class civil wars is the same: the strategy of immediate seizure of power for the construction of socialism in the imperialist era on the basis of the understanding that "between capitalism and communism can only the period of the revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat".
The KKE faced another historical uniqueness: while mostly in exile after its loss, the crucial opportunist turning point in the communist movement, the direction set by the 20th Congress of the CPSU had to be enforced. It was not easy to adopt the strategy of "peaceful transition to socialism' when the lessons of the civil war were so fresh. The KKE's General Secretary during the war had to be purged by the Soviets. This led to many internal struggles that led to the split of 1968. But due to the struggle of the Democratic People's Army the KKE managed to survive and still influence a large portion of greek society. It objectively remained the main force of the greek proletariat in the class struggles to come.
And so, having reaffirmed its revolutionary character during the crisis of the 90s, in conditions post the dissolution of the old colonial system but also the reach of capital in every corner of the earth post the counter-revolution, having studied the history of the communist movement and of its self, the KKE is able to form a strategy and apply it to the mass movement it in the direction of socialist revolution.
That is why if we assume that a revolutionary crisis is likely to spark in multiple similar countries at once due to the interconnectedness of contemporary global capitalist production, I think it is most likely to result in a successful revolution in Greece. Of course that does not mean that if a greek revolution does initially succeed it won't be crashed by global imperialism if it doesn't spread.
We need to note that the rejection of stageism does not at all justify the greek trotskyites. Indeed when the KKE adopted the strategy of a bourgois-democratic stage to the revolution they were calling for socialist revolution in Greece, but that was not at all due to a correct analysis. It was an obsession with their theory of permanent revolution, put the dustbin of history by the success of socialism in one country. Their dogmatism led them to call for 'working class unity with the german soldiers' and completely erasing the national struggle. No talk of their terrible position on the peasant question and outright racist rejection of the possibility of socialist construction in the countries that it was most likely to happen. Besides, almost all trotskyists today have in one way or another adopted the stageist strategy, they are just calling it transitional measures.
We also need to note that the partisan tactic upheld by communist-revolutionaries of the 20th century arm-in-hand, has nothing to do with the invocation of stageism by modern opportunists to justify their reformism. The communists of the 20th century genuinely did what they only could think was the best and fastest way to communism. Todays supporters of stageist strategy mostly want to justify their allegiance with bourgeois forces in a leftist government on the ground capitalist-imperialism.
The rejection of stageist theory or why is the socialist revolution most likely to succeed in Greec
Why was the KKE able to retain its mass base and its revolutionary character after the counter-revolution? Why is the communist party of a small, albeit typical, lesser NATO country the leading force of a current for the reconstitution of a leninist pole in the international communist movement, against the main current of social-chauvinism, prompted by imperialist centers?Unlike for example the -up until the 1990s politically and organizationally similar- Portuguese communist party which ended up supporting bourgeois coalitions the KKE had an internal split with the eurocommunist 'renewalist' tendencies, that were even inside the political bureau. The full organizational split from opportunism proved to be vital for the direction of the party. This allowed the KKE to stay true to revolutionary principles while also retaining firm roots in the working people, while the Portuguese communist party slowly deteriorated through contact with 'leftist' bourgeois forces. The theoretical developments on the KKE's strategy is owed to this direction that refuses to submit to the new negative power dynamic between capital and the international proletariat, and recognises that despite the subversions at the end of the last century our era is still that of socialist revolution.The KKE's contemporary revolutionary strategy is based on the creative assimilation of the experience of the communist movement.
In my opinion, this is a relative development of communist theory because it make it more concrete. I think its driving force are not just the local conditions of Greece but, mostly, its unique history. The KKE today, while of course honouring the communist heroes which where on the first line in the fight against fascism everywhere, criticizes the strategy adopted by the 7th Congress of the Communist International. In its opinion, the strategic theory of two-stage revolution and of the united national, anti-fascist, anti-colonial etc. front mostly succeeded due the onslaught of the Red Army in Europe that objectively destroyed the bourgeois states.
In cases like France the collaboration with bourgeois forces in the antifascist front led to the disconnection of national and social struggles and eventually to eurocommunism.
In Greece the two-stage strategy failed, not only because the Red Army never reached it, but also despite the fact that the KKE did not have to, or rather could not, collaborate with the greek bourgeoisie because it either fled during the Occupation or collaborated with the nazis. This meant that it was objectively the main force of the national resistance movement. But because it fought for the unclear goal of intermediate peoples-republic stage, it hesitated in crucial moments and lost the revolutionary chance.
Today, the assimilation of that experience can reveal -to use a hegelian term- an objective illusion (Schein) arising from the mid-war conditions of capitalist development and the objective position of the communist parties for the correct analysis of power relations between the classes. The utter complexity of the October Revolution, can be easily missed from the point of view of its stabilisation in a completely hostile world, with the rise of fascism and a possible coalition of imperialist powers against the country of the workers, under a constant sense of urgency. However, we can tell a hundred years later: it was a historical rupture with (not a continuation of) February. It might seem like that the bourgeois revolution sas organically transformed into socialist-proletarian but that was not the case: the only thing that mediated was dual power and revolutionary war. Lenin abandoned the staged tactic of the Two Tactics of Social-Democracy in the Democratic Revolution with the April Thesis, and this new quick redirection in accordance with the changed analysis of changed conditions led to the success of the Bolsheviks.
After the 7th Congress the Communist International pushed a line that was a regression from that bolshevik revolutionary leap. Missing the dialectical totality of the leninist conception of revolutionary theory in the era of imperialism, it tried to mechanically reproduce the Two Tactics. In Greece and in other countries, this translated to a coalition with bourgeois government post liberation, crucial hesitations during the revolutionary situation, all in the name of the incompleteness of bourgeois democracy, and ultimately defeat. The parties that took part in bourgeois governments deteriorated into reformism and/or were dissolved within the united front of their own creation. In Greece, however the uniqueness lay in that because post-liberation there were all the preconditions of a genuine peoples victory for socialism, hadn't the KKE hesitated to start the civil war, the failure of stageist strategy and its immediate consequences lay bare. The historical and political conclusions of the turn that led to the October Revolution return with vengeance. The reason that the Bolsheviks wom and the greek Democratic People's Army lost in their class civil wars is the same: the strategy of immediate seizure of power for the construction of socialism in the imperialist era on the basis of the understanding that "between capitalism and communism can only the period of the revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat".
The KKE faced another historical uniqueness: while mostly in exile after its loss, the crucial opportunist turning point in the communist movement, the direction set by the 20th Congress of the CPSU had to be enforced. It was not easy to adopt the strategy of "peaceful transition to socialism' when the lessons of the civil war were so fresh. The KKE's General Secretary during the war had to be purged by the Soviets. This led to many internal struggles that led to the split of 1968. But due to the struggle of the Democratic People's Army the KKE managed to survive and still influence a large portion of greek society. It objectively remained the main force of the greek proletariat in the class struggles to come.
And so, having reaffirmed its revolutionary character during the crisis of the 90s, in conditions post the dissolution of the old colonial system but also the reach of capital in every corner of the earth post the counter-revolution, having studied the history of the communist movement and of its self, the KKE is able to form a strategy and apply it to the mass movement it in the direction of socialist revolution.
That is why if we assume that a revolutionary crisis is likely to spark in multiple similar countries at once due to the interconnectedness of contemporary global capitalist production, I think it is most likely to result in a successful revolution in Greece. Of course that does not mean that if a greek revolution does initially succeed it won't be crashed by global imperialism if it doesn't spread.
We need to note that the rejection of stageism does not at all justify the greek trotskyites. Indeed when the KKE adopted the strategy of a bourgois-democratic stage to the revolution they were calling for socialist revolution in Greece, but that was not at all due to a correct analysis. It was an obsession with their theory of permanent revolution, put the dustbin of history by the success of socialism in one country. Their dogmatism led them to call for 'working class unity with the german soldiers' and completely erasing the national struggle. No talk of their terrible position on the peasant question and outright racist rejection of the possibility of socialist construction in the countries that it was most likely to happen. Besides, almost all trotskyists today have in one way or another adopted the stageist strategy, they are just calling it transitional measures.
We also need to note that the partisan tactic upheld by communist-revolutionaries of the 20th century arm-in-hand, has nothing to do with the invocation of stageism by modern opportunists to justify their reformism. The communists of the 20th century genuinely did what they only could think was the best and fastest way to communism. Todays supporters of stageist strategy mostly want to justify their allegiance with bourgeois forces in a leftist government on the ground capitalist-imperialism.
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💀 ICE & Prison Resources
(Amerika is the most incarcerated country in the world!)
ICE tracker using public info and user submissions // https://www.iceinmyarea.org/
list of deaths at ICE concentration camps // https://www.aila.org/infonet/deaths-at-adult-detention-centers
visualization of prison population in US // https://mkorostoff.github.io/incarceration-in-real-numbers/
Organizing in Prison — for when the walls close in (RANT Collective) // https://www.organizingforpower.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Organizing-in-Jail.pdf
database of U.S. facilities incl. ICE holding sites // https://alcpress.org/usjails/index.html
list of prison related resources, mailing lists, etc // https://www.prisonactivist.org/resources
ICE Agent List (incomplete) // https://wiki.icelist.is/index.php/Category:Agents
US Political Prison Tracker (last updated 2025) // https://uspoliticalprisoners.com/
Jailhouse Reading:
📖 Angela Davis - Are Prisons Obsolete? // https://dn790007.ca.archive.org/0/items/the-anarchist-library-full-list-of-pdfs-nov-2020/angela-y-davis-are-prisons-obsolete.pdf
📖 How to Defend Yourself During Police Interrogation // https://www.notrace.how/resources/download/comment-la-police-interroge-et-comment-sen-defendre/how-to-defend-yourself-during-a-police-interrogation.pdf
📖 National Lawyers Guild guide to being a jailhouse lawyer // https://www.jailhouselaw.org/
📖 Critical Resistance - Surviving Solitary Confinement // https://criticalresistance.org/resources/surviving-solitary/
📖 An inside-outside publication for abolitionist struggle & strategy across prison walls // https://criticalresistance.org/abolitionist/
📖 Prisoners’ Self-Help Litigation Manual // https://api.pageplace.de/preview/DT0400.9780199705665_A35159258/preview-9780199705665_A35159258.pdf
⚒️ LABOR!
Live strike tracker with deep stats on who, what and when // https://striketracker.ilr.cornell.edu/
AFL-CIO [imperialist]'s Strike Tracker // https://aflcio.org/strike-map
Labor Bureau's Official 'work stoppage' tracker // https://www.bls.gov/wsp/
IWW timeline for the 20th century (ends at 1999) // https://archive.iww.org/history/chronology/
IWW Work Place Organizing Guide // https://usa.anarchistlibraries.net/library/industrial-workers-of-the-world-libcom-org-solidarity-federation-walthamstow-anarchist-group-wo
▶ Salting | Work Place Organizing 101 (50 minute webinar) // https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SHlCLyM4FY
⚖️ Deeds of the Burger Reich 🇺🇸
deep list of horrible shit we (royal we) have done // https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/us_atrocities.md
Coups and regime changes – master list // https://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-peoples-governments-the-master-list
Wikipedia: United States War Crimes // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_war_crimes
/our boys/ (bring em home!) detail abusing Iraqi prisoners [2006] // https://www.hrw.org/report/2006/07/22/no-blood-no-foul/soldiers-accounts-detainee-abuse-iraq
More than 250 military interventions in the last 30 years alone // https://blackagendareport.com/us-launched-251-military-interventions-1991-and-469-1798
Visualisation of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade // https://www.slavevoyages.org/
UNESCO Sites relating to Slavery // https://slaveryandremembrance.org/
First Hand Documents of the horrors of Slavery // https://www.loc.gov/collections/slave-narratives-from-the-federal-writers-project-1936-to-1938/
📺 Glowie News 📺
(sponsored by the Burger Eagle Freedom Institute (formerly USAID))
CNN Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/cnn-news-usa.html
MSNBC Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/msnbc.html
FOX Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/fox-news-channel.html
Bloomberg Live // https://www.bloomberg.com/live/us
Burger House Live // https://www.whitehouse.gov/live/
Local News // https://www.50states.com/ce/
Weather // https://www.noaa.gov/weather
📺 Gommie News 📺
Jacobin // https://jacobin.com/
Black Agenda Report // https://blackagendareport.com/
The Grayzone // https://thegrayzone.com/
Leftvoice // https://www.leftvoice.org/
Newsanon Filter // https://leftypol.org/search.php?search=name%3A%22News+Anon+3.0%22&board=leftypol
🏝️ Epstein's Client List 🇮🇱
Epstein's Black Book // https://epsteinsblackbook.com/
DOJ Disclosures // https://www.justice.gov/epstein/doj-disclosures
Track AIPAC // https://www.trackaipac.com/
Al Jazeera visual guide (2026) // https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/10/struggling-to-navigate-the-epstein-files-here-is-a-visual-guide
Essential American Politik 📖
📖 WEB Du Bois - Black Reconstruction // https://cominsitu.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/w-e-b-du-bois-black-reconstruction-an-essay-toward-a-history-of-the-part-which-black-folk-played-in-the-attempt-to-reconstruct-democracy-2.pdf
📖 Eugene Debs - Fourth of July Speech // https://jacobin.com/2020/07/eugene-debs-independence-day-address-fourth-july
📖 Power Anywhere There's People! – Fred Hampton // https://www.hamptonthink.org/read/power-anywhere-where-thats-people-fred-hampton
📖 War is a Racket – Smedley Butler // https://ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html
📖 Letters From an American Farmer – St. John de Crevoecoeur // https://americanliterature.com/author/j-hector-st-john-de-crevoecoeur/book/letters-from-an-american-farmer/summary
📖 Trail of Broken Treaties // American Indian Movement https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
📖 The Declaration of Independence https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
📖 The Ballot or the Bullet – Malcolm X // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/ballot_or_bullet.pdf
📖 What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? – Frederick Douglass // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/douglass_july_4_speech.pdf
📖 A Trail of Broken Treaties – American Indian Movement // https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
📖 Custer Died for Your Sins – Vine Deloria Jr. // http://www.riversimulator.org/Resources/Books/CusterDiedForYourSinsAnIndianManifesto1969Deloria.pdf
📖 Emancipation Proclamation – Lincoln // https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/emancipation-proclamation
📖 Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville // https://americanliterature.com/author/alexis-de-tocqueville/book/democracy-in-america/summary
📖 Common Sense – Thomas Paine // https://americainclass.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Common-Sense-Full-Text.pdf
📖 An Indigenous History of the United States – Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz // https://nycstandswithstandingrock.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/dunbar-ortiz-2014.pdf
📖 Huey Long – Share Our Wealth // https://www.hueylong.com/programs/share-our-wealth/huey-longs-share-our-wealth-speech
Previous Thread: >>2913816
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<"Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries; gradual abolition of all the distinction between town and country by a more equable distribution of the populace over the country."
>The Communist Manifesto, Chapter II: Proletarians and Communists
My three potential interpretations are as follows.
A) Marx viewed that the separation of the rural and urban populations led to conflict to due living in separate conditions. Like how we see rural populations now a day being far more reactionary than urban ones.
B) Marx viewed that alienation wouldn't just stop with abolishment of capitalism but we would to have to workers produce there own food and industrial goods. Instead of having them exchanged between city factories and country farms.
C) Marx thought the cities would dominate the surrounding country and lead to the reformation of the state.
What did Marx mean by this?
What did Marx mean by this in the Communist Manifesto.<"Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries; gradual abolition of all the distinction between town and country by a more equable distribution of the populace over the country."
>The Communist Manifesto, Chapter II: Proletarians and Communists
My three potential interpretations are as follows.
A) Marx viewed that the separation of the rural and urban populations led to conflict to due living in separate conditions. Like how we see rural populations now a day being far more reactionary than urban ones.
B) Marx viewed that alienation wouldn't just stop with abolishment of capitalism but we would to have to workers produce there own food and industrial goods. Instead of having them exchanged between city factories and country farms.
C) Marx thought the cities would dominate the surrounding country and lead to the reformation of the state.
R: 2 / I: 0
>raised in US under daddys cult
>gets a modicum of power and influence
>isnt full korean so cant agree or identify with the main Korean church
>splits to create an american branch under his control
>cult of the gun
>bullet crown
>gold plated tacticool AR
>Katana rack
>fake arty shells
>crusader statue
>harley davidson logo
>podcasts
>congregation is mostly white boomer fudds
>sells shitty reproduction guns
Rod of Iron Ministries
>american born son of Korean Unification Church founder>raised in US under daddys cult
>gets a modicum of power and influence
>isnt full korean so cant agree or identify with the main Korean church
>splits to create an american branch under his control
>cult of the gun
>bullet crown
>gold plated tacticool AR
>Katana rack
>fake arty shells
>crusader statue
>harley davidson logo
>podcasts
>congregation is mostly white boomer fudds
>sells shitty reproduction guns
R: 2 / I: 0
Why do third-worldists seethe at first world workers for demanding higher pay and better working conditions resulting in capitalists exporting all the industry aboard to maintain higher profit margins?
Why do third-worldists seethe at first world workers for demanding higher pay and better working conditions resulting in capitalists exporting all the industry aboard to maintain higher profit margins?
R: 26 / I: 7
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1885-c2/ch01.htm#4
>True, the capitalist must also be there, must also live and consume to be able to perform the function of a capitalist. To this end, he has, indeed, to consume only as much as the labourer, and that is all this form of the circulation process presupposes. But even this is not formally expressed, since the formula concludes with M', i.e., a result which can at once resume its function as money-capital, now augmented.
>C' — M' directly contains the sale of C'; but C' — M', a sale on the one part, is M — C, a purchase, on the other part, and in the last analysis a commodity is bought only for its use-value, in order to enter (leaving intermediate sales out of consideration) the process of consumption, whether this is individual or productive, according to the nature of the article bought. But this consumption does not enter the circuit of individual capital, the product of which is C'. This product is eliminated from the circuit precisely because it is a commodity for sale. C' is expressly designed for consumption by others than the producer. Thus we find that certain exponents of the mercantile system (which is based on the formula M — C … P … C' — M') deliver lengthy sermons to the effect that the individual capitalist should consume only as much as the labourer, that the nation of capitalists should leave the consumption of their own commodities, and the consumption process in general, to the other, less intelligent nations but that they themselves should make productive consumption their life’s task. These sermons frequently remind one in form and content of analogous ascetic expostulations of the fathers of the church.
It seems Marx is not promoting Dengism but rather attacking those that support "sound money" fiscal conservatives. This line stands out:
>individual capitalist should consume only as much as the labourer, that the nation of capitalists should leave the consumption of their own commodities, and the consumption process in general, to the other, less intelligent nations but that they themselves should make productive consumption their life’s task.
<That is foreign countries can live above their means while we must be autarkic
>These sermons frequently remind one in form and content of analogous ascetic expostulations of the fathers of the church
<Greed is bad, live within your means
Tldr Marx did not promoting Dengism, he was attacking Blue Dog democrats.
This begs the question, is there any definitive Marxist statement that unapologetically promotes Dengism?
Dengpill Image Is Wrong
The quote in Capital Volume 2 does not match the implication of the picture.https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1885-c2/ch01.htm#4
>True, the capitalist must also be there, must also live and consume to be able to perform the function of a capitalist. To this end, he has, indeed, to consume only as much as the labourer, and that is all this form of the circulation process presupposes. But even this is not formally expressed, since the formula concludes with M', i.e., a result which can at once resume its function as money-capital, now augmented.
>C' — M' directly contains the sale of C'; but C' — M', a sale on the one part, is M — C, a purchase, on the other part, and in the last analysis a commodity is bought only for its use-value, in order to enter (leaving intermediate sales out of consideration) the process of consumption, whether this is individual or productive, according to the nature of the article bought. But this consumption does not enter the circuit of individual capital, the product of which is C'. This product is eliminated from the circuit precisely because it is a commodity for sale. C' is expressly designed for consumption by others than the producer. Thus we find that certain exponents of the mercantile system (which is based on the formula M — C … P … C' — M') deliver lengthy sermons to the effect that the individual capitalist should consume only as much as the labourer, that the nation of capitalists should leave the consumption of their own commodities, and the consumption process in general, to the other, less intelligent nations but that they themselves should make productive consumption their life’s task. These sermons frequently remind one in form and content of analogous ascetic expostulations of the fathers of the church.
It seems Marx is not promoting Dengism but rather attacking those that support "sound money" fiscal conservatives. This line stands out:
>individual capitalist should consume only as much as the labourer, that the nation of capitalists should leave the consumption of their own commodities, and the consumption process in general, to the other, less intelligent nations but that they themselves should make productive consumption their life’s task.
<That is foreign countries can live above their means while we must be autarkic
>These sermons frequently remind one in form and content of analogous ascetic expostulations of the fathers of the church
<Greed is bad, live within your means
Tldr Marx did not promoting Dengism, he was attacking Blue Dog democrats.
This begs the question, is there any definitive Marxist statement that unapologetically promotes Dengism?
R: 33 / I: 2
What does leftypol think of Larouche and his weird cult that still exists. His ideology was extremely schizophenic and he also had a huge influnce on the SDI program under Regan, with larouche claiming he created it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyndon_LaRouche
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Defense_Initiative
What does leftypol think of Larouche and his weird cult that still exists. His ideology was extremely schizophenic and he also had a huge influnce on the SDI program under Regan, with larouche claiming he created it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyndon_LaRouche
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Defense_Initiative
R: 609 / I: 178 (full)
>previous bake
>>2904851
Latest News
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<Iran retaliated
>Iran Launched missiles at Jordan
<Houthichads are advancing
>Saudi Oil Depots are burning
<Iran captured Anduril Underwater Drone
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https://www.pizzint.watch/
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<Things are getting spicy edition>previous bake
>>2904851
Latest News
>US started going after Iran tankers
<Iran retaliated
>Iran Launched missiles at Jordan
<Houthichads are advancing
>Saudi Oil Depots are burning
<Iran captured Anduril Underwater Drone
>Important Links:
https://www.flightradar24.com/
https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/centerx:52.7/centery:26.8/zoom:7
https://www.defconlevel.com/
https://oilprice.com/
https://www.pizzint.watch/
https://eam.watch/
https://www.gmcmap.com/index.asp
https://firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/map/#d:24hrs;@54.2,31.0,7.1z
https://globe.adsbexchange.com/
>Useful Channels:
https://www.youtube.com/@TheDuran
https://www.youtube.com/@AlexMercouris
https://www.youtube.com/@AlexChristoforou
https://www.youtube.com/@dialogueworks01
https://www.youtube.com/@DanielDavisDeepDive
https://www.youtube.com/@DannyHaiphongYT
https://www.youtube.com/@justinpodur
https://www.youtube.com/@IndiaGlobalLeft
https://www.youtube.com/@RichardMedhurst
https://www.youtube.com/@GDFofficial
https://www.youtube.com/@neutralitystudies
https://www.youtube.com/@prop_co
https://www.youtube.com/@CyrusJanssen
https://www.youtube.com/@breakingpoints
https://www.youtube.com/@militarysummary
https://www.youtube.com/@TheNewAtlas
https://www.youtube.com/@willyOAM
https://www.youtube.com/@GDiesen1
https://www.youtube.com/@theeastisapodcast
https://www.youtube.com/@GeopoliticalEconomyReport
https://www.youtube.com/@TheElectronicIntifada
>Useful Xitters
https://xcancel.com/IranObserver0
https://xcancel.com/araghchi
https://xcancel.com/conflict_radar
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https://xcancel.com/BrianJBerletic
https://xcancel.com/angeloinchina
https://xcancel.com/jonelmer
https://xcancel.com/MarkAmesExiled
https://xcancel.com/UrOrientalist
https://xcancel.com/MaxBlumenthal
https://xcancel.com/dreizinreport/
https://xcancel.com/Basijchud
>Useful TG:
https://t.me/s/wfwitness
https://t.me/s/Middle_East_Spectator
https://t.me/s/enemywatch
https://t.me/s/shiachuds
>Useful Blogs/Podcasts/News:
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/
https://simplicius76.substack.com/
https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/
https://sonar21.com/
https://www.moonofalabama.org/
https://thegrayzone.com/
https://www.middleeasteye.net/live/live-us-and-israel-attack-iran
https://www.podbean.com/podcast-detail/t687i-9b79d/War-Nerd-Radio-%E2%80%94-Subscriber-Feed-Podcast
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Fuck your property values. I demand commie blocks NOW. Your house will be worth a quarter of what it is now, and I will laugh heartily. There WILL be affordable housing.
Fuck your property values. I demand commie blocks NOW. Your house will be worth a quarter of what it is now, and I will laugh heartily. There WILL be affordable housing.
R: 3 / I: 0
With counting still going on late on Sunday, it was already clear that her party were set to displace Merz's conservative Christian Democrats (CDU) from the mayor's office. "From today, we're changing Berlin together," she told celebrating party members in Berlin. The Left Party took 25.3%, ahead of the CDU on 19% and the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) on 16%. It also far outstripped the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) on 12.1%.
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2026/09/21/elif-eralp-wins-berlin-election-and-becomes-new-face-of-radical-left_6757757_4.html
https://archive.ph/gEM9R
Putin’s party wins supermajority in Russia’s parliamentary election
Yabloko and the Communist Party, which has criticised some aspects of government policy but carefully avoided any criticism of Putin, said many of their observers were turned away from polling stations. The Communists made it into parliament with 13.8 percent of the vote, securing 40 Duma seats. The nationalist LDPR party won 25 seats and the New People party 20.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/21/pro-putin-party-wins-supermajority-amid-ramped-up-ukrainian-attacks
https://archive.ph/Y04hW
Former Romanian presidential candidate Georgescu detained on suspicion of fraud
Romanian authorities are investigating Georgescu for committing fraud and forming an organized criminal group that prosecutors say defrauded a Romanian businessman by promising access to multimillion-euro foreign bank financing in exchange for cash guarantees.
https://www.politico.eu/article/calin-georgescu-detained-romania-fraud-investigation/
https://archive.ph/mSl8R
Turkey detains 15 over Katilimevim shares, freezes assets of investment firms
Authorities froze financial and asset transactions involving executives and officials linked to Pusula Finans Holding, Pusula Yatirim Menkul Degerler, Tera Yatirim Menkul Degerler, Tera Portfoy Yonetimi, Hedef Holding, Hedef Portfoy Yonetimi, Bulls Yatirim Menkul Degerler, Bulls Portfoy Yonetimi and Ufuk Yatirim Yonetim ve Gayrimenkul, Gurlek said on Monday.
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/turkey-detains-15-over-katilimevim-shares-freezes-assets-investment-firms-2026-09-21/
Israel’s president pardons soldier who killed wounded Palestinian in 2016
Azaria was convicted by a military court in 2017 and sentenced to 18 months in prison, later reduced to 14 months. He was released in May 2018 after serving nine months. Herzog’s office said the decision followed a request from Defence Minister Israel Katz in July and was based on “the passage of time, the completion of his sentence, and the remorse he has expressed”.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/19/israels-president-pardons-soldier-who-killed-wounded-palestinian-in-2016
https://archive.ph/EVvJG
Ethiopian opposition groups unite to mount challenge to prime minister Abiy
Its members are the Amhara Fano National Movement, the Oromo Liberation Army, the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), the Ogaden National Liberation Front, the Afar Revolutionary Democratic Unity Front, the Benishangul Peoples’ Liberation Movement and the Gumuz Peoples’ Democratic Movement. … TPLF spokesman Michael Asgedom said his group’s cooperation with other opposition factions was political and military. Joint “military operations may become necessary to achieve the objective of removing the dictatorial regime,” he told The Associated Press.
https://apnews.com/article/ethiopia-politics-government-opposition-alliance-d348643aa604ebc074d8aade25c97efe
Uganda cuts defence ties with Turkey over Somalia dispute, sources say
Ugandan media had reported that the decision followed demonstrations outside the Turkish embassy in Kampala by supporters of the Patriotic League of Uganda (PLU), a group chaired by Uganda's military chief, General Muhoozi Kainerugaba. The protesters had demanded the extradition from Turkey of Ugandan political commentator Fred Lumbuye, who has lived in the country since 2013.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/uganda-cuts-defence-ties-turkey-over-somalia-dispute
Civilians flee North Kordofan as fighting escalates
The group said the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have deployed an unusually large number of fighters and vehicles inside residential areas and among homes, prompting residents to flee. Some have been forced to shelter in the open, while others have headed to Umm Santah in North Kordofan and Ed Debba in Northern State.
https://www.dabangasudan.org/en/all-news/article/civilians-flee-north-kordofan-as-fighting-escalates
Bolivian legislators back deal with IMF despite union warnings over spending cuts
Such austerity measures threaten to reignite unrest in Bolivia, where weeks of road blockades in June and July paralysed much of the country as demonstrators demanded the right-wing president’s resignation. On Thursday, a state of emergency that Mr Paz had declared in response to the protests was extended by Congress for another 90 days. It allows for military intervention and the suspension of some civil liberties.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/bolivia-legislators-deal-imf-union-warnings-spending-cuts
Chilean Scientists Denounce Toxic Waste Sent by Swedish Mining Company Boliden
The shipment was deposited near the town of Sica Sica in Arica, where social housing was later built, exposing thousands of people to metals such as lead, zinc, and arsenic. The crisis erupted in 1996 as the Polimetales case, with the declaration of a health and environmental emergency, partial removal of waste, relocation of families, and lawsuits, including in Swedish courts. In 2012, the Polimetales Law was passed, which provides health monitoring, educational support, and relocation to safe areas, although organizations denounce shortcomings in the care provided to those affected.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/chilean-scientists-denounce-toxic-waste-sent-by-swedish-mining-company-boliden/
News 9/21/26
Far-left party wins Berlin election, pledging to nationalise housingWith counting still going on late on Sunday, it was already clear that her party were set to displace Merz's conservative Christian Democrats (CDU) from the mayor's office. "From today, we're changing Berlin together," she told celebrating party members in Berlin. The Left Party took 25.3%, ahead of the CDU on 19% and the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) on 16%. It also far outstripped the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) on 12.1%.
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2026/09/21/elif-eralp-wins-berlin-election-and-becomes-new-face-of-radical-left_6757757_4.html
https://archive.ph/gEM9R
Putin’s party wins supermajority in Russia’s parliamentary election
Yabloko and the Communist Party, which has criticised some aspects of government policy but carefully avoided any criticism of Putin, said many of their observers were turned away from polling stations. The Communists made it into parliament with 13.8 percent of the vote, securing 40 Duma seats. The nationalist LDPR party won 25 seats and the New People party 20.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/21/pro-putin-party-wins-supermajority-amid-ramped-up-ukrainian-attacks
https://archive.ph/Y04hW
Former Romanian presidential candidate Georgescu detained on suspicion of fraud
Romanian authorities are investigating Georgescu for committing fraud and forming an organized criminal group that prosecutors say defrauded a Romanian businessman by promising access to multimillion-euro foreign bank financing in exchange for cash guarantees.
https://www.politico.eu/article/calin-georgescu-detained-romania-fraud-investigation/
https://archive.ph/mSl8R
Turkey detains 15 over Katilimevim shares, freezes assets of investment firms
Authorities froze financial and asset transactions involving executives and officials linked to Pusula Finans Holding, Pusula Yatirim Menkul Degerler, Tera Yatirim Menkul Degerler, Tera Portfoy Yonetimi, Hedef Holding, Hedef Portfoy Yonetimi, Bulls Yatirim Menkul Degerler, Bulls Portfoy Yonetimi and Ufuk Yatirim Yonetim ve Gayrimenkul, Gurlek said on Monday.
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/turkey-detains-15-over-katilimevim-shares-freezes-assets-investment-firms-2026-09-21/
Israel’s president pardons soldier who killed wounded Palestinian in 2016
Azaria was convicted by a military court in 2017 and sentenced to 18 months in prison, later reduced to 14 months. He was released in May 2018 after serving nine months. Herzog’s office said the decision followed a request from Defence Minister Israel Katz in July and was based on “the passage of time, the completion of his sentence, and the remorse he has expressed”.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/19/israels-president-pardons-soldier-who-killed-wounded-palestinian-in-2016
https://archive.ph/EVvJG
Ethiopian opposition groups unite to mount challenge to prime minister Abiy
Its members are the Amhara Fano National Movement, the Oromo Liberation Army, the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), the Ogaden National Liberation Front, the Afar Revolutionary Democratic Unity Front, the Benishangul Peoples’ Liberation Movement and the Gumuz Peoples’ Democratic Movement. … TPLF spokesman Michael Asgedom said his group’s cooperation with other opposition factions was political and military. Joint “military operations may become necessary to achieve the objective of removing the dictatorial regime,” he told The Associated Press.
https://apnews.com/article/ethiopia-politics-government-opposition-alliance-d348643aa604ebc074d8aade25c97efe
Uganda cuts defence ties with Turkey over Somalia dispute, sources say
Ugandan media had reported that the decision followed demonstrations outside the Turkish embassy in Kampala by supporters of the Patriotic League of Uganda (PLU), a group chaired by Uganda's military chief, General Muhoozi Kainerugaba. The protesters had demanded the extradition from Turkey of Ugandan political commentator Fred Lumbuye, who has lived in the country since 2013.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/uganda-cuts-defence-ties-turkey-over-somalia-dispute
Civilians flee North Kordofan as fighting escalates
The group said the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have deployed an unusually large number of fighters and vehicles inside residential areas and among homes, prompting residents to flee. Some have been forced to shelter in the open, while others have headed to Umm Santah in North Kordofan and Ed Debba in Northern State.
https://www.dabangasudan.org/en/all-news/article/civilians-flee-north-kordofan-as-fighting-escalates
Bolivian legislators back deal with IMF despite union warnings over spending cuts
Such austerity measures threaten to reignite unrest in Bolivia, where weeks of road blockades in June and July paralysed much of the country as demonstrators demanded the right-wing president’s resignation. On Thursday, a state of emergency that Mr Paz had declared in response to the protests was extended by Congress for another 90 days. It allows for military intervention and the suspension of some civil liberties.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/bolivia-legislators-deal-imf-union-warnings-spending-cuts
Chilean Scientists Denounce Toxic Waste Sent by Swedish Mining Company Boliden
The shipment was deposited near the town of Sica Sica in Arica, where social housing was later built, exposing thousands of people to metals such as lead, zinc, and arsenic. The crisis erupted in 1996 as the Polimetales case, with the declaration of a health and environmental emergency, partial removal of waste, relocation of families, and lawsuits, including in Swedish courts. In 2012, the Polimetales Law was passed, which provides health monitoring, educational support, and relocation to safe areas, although organizations denounce shortcomings in the care provided to those affected.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/chilean-scientists-denounce-toxic-waste-sent-by-swedish-mining-company-boliden/
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Are you as brave as them?
Could you handle the pressure in that chaotic and stressful environment with no conventional training and minimal funding and weaponry?
Do Myanmar rebels represent the contemporary revolutionary spirit?
Do you wish this were your appearance, leftypol?Are you as brave as them?
Could you handle the pressure in that chaotic and stressful environment with no conventional training and minimal funding and weaponry?
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Now I just need an elite to sponsor me to gain power. I need help to trow down the bus some relatives to maximize my inheritance or gain total control of it. When do i get the call to blackmail and use Kompromat material for intelligence agencies, /siberia/?
Am I a closeted porky?
I'm getting a million-dollar life insurance policy on some family member. I have a few properties valued at 3 million dollars. I inherited a family business and am raking in 20k a month. I'm going to sell the business to a bigger company soon. I don't have to work anymore, my proles.Now I just need an elite to sponsor me to gain power. I need help to trow down the bus some relatives to maximize my inheritance or gain total control of it. When do i get the call to blackmail and use Kompromat material for intelligence agencies, /siberia/?
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<During the 1870s, a major polemical debate unfolded in Germany’s worker/democratic press on the shortage of housing available to workers in major industrial centres. The influx and increase of the proletariat created a housing crisis. On June 26 1872, Engels contributed the first of a series of articles to the Volksstaat, entitled “The Housing Question.” The last appeared on February 22 1873. Engels’ central point was that the revolutionary class policy of the proletariat cannot be replaced by a policy of reforms, because "it is not that the solution of the housing question simultaneously solves the social question, but that only by the solution of the social question, that is, by the abolition of the capitalist mode of production, is the solution of the housing question made possible." The series criticizes Proudhonism (and petty-bourgeois socialism in general, including Lassalleanism). It also discusses things like the nature of the State, the dictatorship of the proletariat, the eradication of the antithesis between town and country, the solution of the agrarian problem, forms of the socialist reconstruction of society and the tasks of the proletarian party.
Engels argued against other socialists like Proudhon and Emil Sax who argued that widespread working class home ownership was the solution to the housing crisis. Engels actually classified Sax's scheme as "bourgeois socialism" because it aimed state intervention at ameliorating class consciousness without altering overall class relations that much, by "bourgeois-fying" the proletariat through home ownership.
Engels denies that workers even want land and also thinks that if workers owned houses the bourgeoisie will just lower their wages by the amount of the rent they no longer have to pay.
In his haste to prove these non revolutionary class reconciliation schemes can't work and only socialist revolution can actually resolve the contradictions of housing under capitalism. Perhaps that it true in the long run, but that may be centuries. Engels concedes, essentially, that working class homeowners, while not capitalist, are also non proletarian:
>Capital is the command over the unpaid labor of others. The house of the worker can only become capital therefore if he rents it to a third person and appropriates a part of the labor product of this third person in the form of rent. By the fact that the worker lives in it himself the house is prevented from becoming capital, just as a coat ceases to be capital the moment I buy it from the tailor and put it on. The worker who owns a little house to the value of a thousand talers is certainly no longer a proletarian, but one must be Dr. Sax to call him a capitalist.
Engels, with all due respect, was wrong. Yes, it is true that workers who own their homes are not capitalists (unless they become landlords), but it is equally telling that Engels does not address the fact that workers can and frequently do sell their houses at an enormous markup from the price at which they bought them. It is this mechanism that allows them to realize the surplus value expropriated in exchange through ground rent. While the house itself may be a normal commodity, the land underneath it, is not.
Engel’s example of a coat does not apply to land or a house of land (“a coat ceases to be capital the moment I buy it from the tailor and put it on”). Yes, that is because a coat does not typically appreciate in value and get resold. A coat has no future income stream while a plot of land does (expected cash flow from ground-rent). While land produces no value it does enter a circuit of capital, specifically fictitious capital, the term Marx uses for things like stocks, bonds, and land titles. Fictitious capital creates no new value at all in the transaction itself; the gain is a redistribution of already-existing social surplus value toward whoever holds the title when the capitalized rent happens to rise, funneled through rising expected future rents. That's precisely why aggregate "housing wealth" is close to zero-sum across society even though it feels like wealth creation to any individual seller: your gain is the next buyer's higher future cost of access, not a net addition to social product.
Engels doesn't name this class but I think it is most accurate to call it petit-rentier, or possibly something akin to a new gentry class. Essentially homeownership allows this class, either upon realizing the home price gains by selling the house or even through something like a home equity line of credit, to appropriate part of the total surplus value of society through this mechanism described above.
This is why home ownership is known to have an economic conservatizing effect, turning homeowners into single issue voters based on preserving the price of their home and/or increasing it. This is the origin of the stereotypical suburban NIMBY.
If this is true, the majority of citizens of western, especially English speaking nations are not proletarian, but not for the reason third worldists think.
In the US for example depending on how one defines it, somewhere between 52% and 65% of the population consists of homeowners (the latter number counts people who are members of homeowning household, even if not the homeowner themselves), which means even in the conservative case half the population has a reason to be reactionary which is hardly the basis for a mass movement, and in the worst case, around 2/3rds of the population isn't even proletarian.
Let's talk about "bourgeois socialism":
<The Marxist view is such that the bourgeois socialist is the sustainer of the state of bourgeois class relations. In The Principles of Communism, Friedrich Engels describes them as "so-called socialists" who only seek to remove the evils inherent in capitalist society while maintaining the existing society often relying on methods, such as welfare systems and grandiose claims of social reform. Opinions vary as to whether if bourgeois socialist is actively protecting or intentionally excusing the current order, but the common thread is that they are in objective fact preserving it. Rather than abolishing social class divisions, they wish to simply raise everyone up to be a member of the bourgeoisie to allow everyone the ability to endlessly accumulate capital without a working class.
I've reached a conclusion that is as disturbing to orthodox Marxists as it is to right wingers; which is that the United States is ALREADY SOCIALIST. That is to say by Engelsian standards it has been successfully practicing a form of bourgeois socialism at least since the new deal if not even sooner, and in fact the United States and other countries went far, far further in terms of state intervention than men like Emil Sax ever envisioned.
>Sax's proposal, in its own terms: private savings-and-loan-style building societies letting individual workers purchase homes through installment/deferred payment, financed by workers' own accumulated savings and modest capital, not government funds. Its stated political purpose, per Sax's own words that Engels quoted specifically to expose it, was to bind workers to the soil and defuse the dangerous confusion of ideas and proletarian bitterness threatening the social order. Privately financed, operating on existing urban land within existing city limits.
The new deal era US took something very similar and backed it with state power by creating a federal housing administration that backed loans made by private banks, and also heavily subsidized highway (and other) infrastructure to make these far flung suburbs made of detached single family homes accessible by automobile.
The 19th century homesteader fufilling Jeffreson's ideal of the yeoman farmer was only possible after the land was cleared of the natives by the military and gifted by the federal government 40 acres at a time. But the myth of the individualist settler winning the west persisted because that intervention was largely invisible and it appeared that success or failure was up to the individual settler or family's ability to farm a small plot of land.
Similarly there is a genius of the federal subsidization of suburbia, without which large swathes of the population would never be able to live in large detached single family homes as the level of property tax to support transportation, etc. infrastructure to support this would be unimaginably high. To be self sustaining without federal support, property taxes would likely have to raise 30-40% even just to maintain current suburbs let alone build greenfield ones, and other estimates are far, far, far higher.
But to the individual mcmansion owner it appears that their quality of life is entirely their own doing or due to simple market forces causing their houses to appreciate in value. The state driven origins of their prosperity are laundered, unlike social welfare which is clearly perceived as direct transfer payments. What market oriented YIMBYs get wrong is not that this is a form of state intervention into capitalism that is "inefficient" by neoliberal standards, but that without this, towns and cities without 1920s levels of density would either have to densify or fail financially. That would be equivalent to reproletarianizing the petit rentier class, which would essentially be the end of american bourgeois socialism and stripping asset ownership from masses of the working class population would also destroy the lack of class conflict the US has "enjoyed" since the end of the 1940s.
Engels was WRONG on Housing
It's time someone said it: Engels was dead wrong in "on the housing question", especially in a US context.<During the 1870s, a major polemical debate unfolded in Germany’s worker/democratic press on the shortage of housing available to workers in major industrial centres. The influx and increase of the proletariat created a housing crisis. On June 26 1872, Engels contributed the first of a series of articles to the Volksstaat, entitled “The Housing Question.” The last appeared on February 22 1873. Engels’ central point was that the revolutionary class policy of the proletariat cannot be replaced by a policy of reforms, because "it is not that the solution of the housing question simultaneously solves the social question, but that only by the solution of the social question, that is, by the abolition of the capitalist mode of production, is the solution of the housing question made possible." The series criticizes Proudhonism (and petty-bourgeois socialism in general, including Lassalleanism). It also discusses things like the nature of the State, the dictatorship of the proletariat, the eradication of the antithesis between town and country, the solution of the agrarian problem, forms of the socialist reconstruction of society and the tasks of the proletarian party.
Engels argued against other socialists like Proudhon and Emil Sax who argued that widespread working class home ownership was the solution to the housing crisis. Engels actually classified Sax's scheme as "bourgeois socialism" because it aimed state intervention at ameliorating class consciousness without altering overall class relations that much, by "bourgeois-fying" the proletariat through home ownership.
Engels denies that workers even want land and also thinks that if workers owned houses the bourgeoisie will just lower their wages by the amount of the rent they no longer have to pay.
In his haste to prove these non revolutionary class reconciliation schemes can't work and only socialist revolution can actually resolve the contradictions of housing under capitalism. Perhaps that it true in the long run, but that may be centuries. Engels concedes, essentially, that working class homeowners, while not capitalist, are also non proletarian:
>Capital is the command over the unpaid labor of others. The house of the worker can only become capital therefore if he rents it to a third person and appropriates a part of the labor product of this third person in the form of rent. By the fact that the worker lives in it himself the house is prevented from becoming capital, just as a coat ceases to be capital the moment I buy it from the tailor and put it on. The worker who owns a little house to the value of a thousand talers is certainly no longer a proletarian, but one must be Dr. Sax to call him a capitalist.
Engels, with all due respect, was wrong. Yes, it is true that workers who own their homes are not capitalists (unless they become landlords), but it is equally telling that Engels does not address the fact that workers can and frequently do sell their houses at an enormous markup from the price at which they bought them. It is this mechanism that allows them to realize the surplus value expropriated in exchange through ground rent. While the house itself may be a normal commodity, the land underneath it, is not.
Engel’s example of a coat does not apply to land or a house of land (“a coat ceases to be capital the moment I buy it from the tailor and put it on”). Yes, that is because a coat does not typically appreciate in value and get resold. A coat has no future income stream while a plot of land does (expected cash flow from ground-rent). While land produces no value it does enter a circuit of capital, specifically fictitious capital, the term Marx uses for things like stocks, bonds, and land titles. Fictitious capital creates no new value at all in the transaction itself; the gain is a redistribution of already-existing social surplus value toward whoever holds the title when the capitalized rent happens to rise, funneled through rising expected future rents. That's precisely why aggregate "housing wealth" is close to zero-sum across society even though it feels like wealth creation to any individual seller: your gain is the next buyer's higher future cost of access, not a net addition to social product.
Engels doesn't name this class but I think it is most accurate to call it petit-rentier, or possibly something akin to a new gentry class. Essentially homeownership allows this class, either upon realizing the home price gains by selling the house or even through something like a home equity line of credit, to appropriate part of the total surplus value of society through this mechanism described above.
This is why home ownership is known to have an economic conservatizing effect, turning homeowners into single issue voters based on preserving the price of their home and/or increasing it. This is the origin of the stereotypical suburban NIMBY.
If this is true, the majority of citizens of western, especially English speaking nations are not proletarian, but not for the reason third worldists think.
In the US for example depending on how one defines it, somewhere between 52% and 65% of the population consists of homeowners (the latter number counts people who are members of homeowning household, even if not the homeowner themselves), which means even in the conservative case half the population has a reason to be reactionary which is hardly the basis for a mass movement, and in the worst case, around 2/3rds of the population isn't even proletarian.
Let's talk about "bourgeois socialism":
<The Marxist view is such that the bourgeois socialist is the sustainer of the state of bourgeois class relations. In The Principles of Communism, Friedrich Engels describes them as "so-called socialists" who only seek to remove the evils inherent in capitalist society while maintaining the existing society often relying on methods, such as welfare systems and grandiose claims of social reform. Opinions vary as to whether if bourgeois socialist is actively protecting or intentionally excusing the current order, but the common thread is that they are in objective fact preserving it. Rather than abolishing social class divisions, they wish to simply raise everyone up to be a member of the bourgeoisie to allow everyone the ability to endlessly accumulate capital without a working class.
I've reached a conclusion that is as disturbing to orthodox Marxists as it is to right wingers; which is that the United States is ALREADY SOCIALIST. That is to say by Engelsian standards it has been successfully practicing a form of bourgeois socialism at least since the new deal if not even sooner, and in fact the United States and other countries went far, far further in terms of state intervention than men like Emil Sax ever envisioned.
>Sax's proposal, in its own terms: private savings-and-loan-style building societies letting individual workers purchase homes through installment/deferred payment, financed by workers' own accumulated savings and modest capital, not government funds. Its stated political purpose, per Sax's own words that Engels quoted specifically to expose it, was to bind workers to the soil and defuse the dangerous confusion of ideas and proletarian bitterness threatening the social order. Privately financed, operating on existing urban land within existing city limits.
The new deal era US took something very similar and backed it with state power by creating a federal housing administration that backed loans made by private banks, and also heavily subsidized highway (and other) infrastructure to make these far flung suburbs made of detached single family homes accessible by automobile.
The 19th century homesteader fufilling Jeffreson's ideal of the yeoman farmer was only possible after the land was cleared of the natives by the military and gifted by the federal government 40 acres at a time. But the myth of the individualist settler winning the west persisted because that intervention was largely invisible and it appeared that success or failure was up to the individual settler or family's ability to farm a small plot of land.
Similarly there is a genius of the federal subsidization of suburbia, without which large swathes of the population would never be able to live in large detached single family homes as the level of property tax to support transportation, etc. infrastructure to support this would be unimaginably high. To be self sustaining without federal support, property taxes would likely have to raise 30-40% even just to maintain current suburbs let alone build greenfield ones, and other estimates are far, far, far higher.
But to the individual mcmansion owner it appears that their quality of life is entirely their own doing or due to simple market forces causing their houses to appreciate in value. The state driven origins of their prosperity are laundered, unlike social welfare which is clearly perceived as direct transfer payments. What market oriented YIMBYs get wrong is not that this is a form of state intervention into capitalism that is "inefficient" by neoliberal standards, but that without this, towns and cities without 1920s levels of density would either have to densify or fail financially. That would be equivalent to reproletarianizing the petit rentier class, which would essentially be the end of american bourgeois socialism and stripping asset ownership from masses of the working class population would also destroy the lack of class conflict the US has "enjoyed" since the end of the 1940s.
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Who would dig ditches and clean toilets under communism? My intro to sociology professor said it would be volunteers on a rotating basis but I don’t see that happening.
Who would dig ditches and clean toilets under communism? My intro to sociology professor said it would be volunteers on a rotating basis but I don’t see that happening.
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Genuinely what would have even changed, internal policy- wise if he had taken power instead of Stalin?
How would the lives of ordinary soviet citizens and the ones in the (presumedly) soon to be liberated areas be different? How would the state function under his rule? What makes him so different that even to this day he has followers ready to die for his ideas? Sorry for being a theorylet, I just find the whole Trotsky-Stalin affair to be confusing and pointless.
Genuinely what would have even changed, internal policy- wise if he had taken power instead of Stalin?
How would the lives of ordinary soviet citizens and the ones in the (presumedly) soon to be liberated areas be different? How would the state function under his rule? What makes him so different that even to this day he has followers ready to die for his ideas? Sorry for being a theorylet, I just find the whole Trotsky-Stalin affair to be confusing and pointless.
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>Leninist doctrine holds that a vanguard Party should assume state power and drive the population to economic development, and, by some miracle that is unexplained, to freedom and justice. It is an ideology that naturally appeals greatly to the radical intelligentsia, to whom it affords a justification for their role as state managers. I can’t see any reason — either in logic or history — to take it seriously. Libertarian socialism (including a substantial mainstream of Marxism) dismissed all of this with contempt, quite rightly.
>Leninist doctrine holds that a vanguard Party should assume state power and drive the population to economic development, and, by some miracle that is unexplained, to freedom and justice. It is an ideology that naturally appeals greatly to the radical intelligentsia, to whom it affords a justification for their role as state managers. I can’t see any reason — either in logic or history — to take it seriously. Libertarian socialism (including a substantial mainstream of Marxism) dismissed all of this with contempt, quite rightly.
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The funniest part is her grandma being white
Friend hss Kim Il-Sung photo
My friend just showed me a real framed photo she has of her grandma with Kim Il-Sung and Samora Machel from when she worked in the Mozambican government during its socialist era, just thought you guys should know that.The funniest part is her grandma being white
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You'll never do what ever common people do
Never fail like common people
You'll never watch your life slide out of view
And then dance, and drink, and screw
Because there's nothing else to dooo
/leftybritpol/ - Britpop Edition
You'll never live like common peopleYou'll never do what ever common people do
Never fail like common people
You'll never watch your life slide out of view
And then dance, and drink, and screw
Because there's nothing else to dooo
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leute, ich rufe ich dazu auf hier in euer eigenen sprache zu posten. es ist an der zeit das diktat der anglos zu brechen. vorallem in hinblick darauf, dass das hier ein linkes bzw. multipolaristisch ausegrichtetes forum ist.
wir leben im zeitalter der maschinellen übersetzung. früher mussten nicht-anglos die ganze kognitive last tragen. wir mussten uns den anglos anpassen. damit ist jetzt schluss! wenn jemand an einem beitrag interessiert ist, dann wird er ihn selbst durch ein übersetzungstool jagen. ich tue das für meine eigenen beiträge jedenfalls nicht mehr. die englische sprache ist keine lingua franca, sondern ein werkzeug des anglo kulturimperialismus! es ist zeit widerstand zu leisten! postet in eurer sprache!
leute, ich rufe ich dazu auf hier in euer eigenen sprache zu posten. es ist an der zeit das diktat der anglos zu brechen. vorallem in hinblick darauf, dass das hier ein linkes bzw. multipolaristisch ausegrichtetes forum ist.
wir leben im zeitalter der maschinellen übersetzung. früher mussten nicht-anglos die ganze kognitive last tragen. wir mussten uns den anglos anpassen. damit ist jetzt schluss! wenn jemand an einem beitrag interessiert ist, dann wird er ihn selbst durch ein übersetzungstool jagen. ich tue das für meine eigenen beiträge jedenfalls nicht mehr. die englische sprache ist keine lingua franca, sondern ein werkzeug des anglo kulturimperialismus! es ist zeit widerstand zu leisten! postet in eurer sprache!
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So my question is: how did we get here?
What factors made it so no one cares about each other anymore, and we’ve largely decided to judge others based on their “usefulness” to us and see them as a means to an end rather than as an end unto themselves. Why did we stop seeing every person as having innate human dignity and worth?
For example, let’s say you have $40 left in your bank account, but AuDHD Aurora needs money for DoorDash because she’s low on spoons and can’t cook; would you give Aurora your last $40 or would you let her go to bed starving? Most people would choose the latter simply because there’s nothing in modern society that reinforces the idea that we need to provide for neurodivergent folks even if it means making a sacrifice. Or the fact covid was allowed to kill millions of vulnerable people simply because no one wanted to stay in lockdown. We prioritize comfort over other human life because we have no normalized moral theory of Justice that makes us want to protect the weak.
You also see this with the notion of “the village” that’s become a popular trope among Gen Z. Everyone laments the fact “the village” no longer exists in modern society, and having a “village” is the only way to protect the weak and vulnerable from social murder, i.e. the whole community takes care of disabled and neurodivergent folks. So why doesn’t “the village” exist anymore and why have all attempts at creating “villages” been unsustainable? What causes a community to stick together and feel a strong sense of obligation to each other?
Empathy needs to be the main focal point of any leftist politics in the near future. That and forming a trauma-informed political program so we can heal from our collective CPTSD.
Lack of Empathy
We often times hear that the biggest problem in Western society today is lack of empathy. Trump, Epstein, covid (eugenics) and the Gaza genocide are all pinpointed as examples of how lack of empathy leads to great atrocities. The most vulnerable and oppressed along is are seen as disposable and people don’t even care about each other anymore.So my question is: how did we get here?
What factors made it so no one cares about each other anymore, and we’ve largely decided to judge others based on their “usefulness” to us and see them as a means to an end rather than as an end unto themselves. Why did we stop seeing every person as having innate human dignity and worth?
For example, let’s say you have $40 left in your bank account, but AuDHD Aurora needs money for DoorDash because she’s low on spoons and can’t cook; would you give Aurora your last $40 or would you let her go to bed starving? Most people would choose the latter simply because there’s nothing in modern society that reinforces the idea that we need to provide for neurodivergent folks even if it means making a sacrifice. Or the fact covid was allowed to kill millions of vulnerable people simply because no one wanted to stay in lockdown. We prioritize comfort over other human life because we have no normalized moral theory of Justice that makes us want to protect the weak.
You also see this with the notion of “the village” that’s become a popular trope among Gen Z. Everyone laments the fact “the village” no longer exists in modern society, and having a “village” is the only way to protect the weak and vulnerable from social murder, i.e. the whole community takes care of disabled and neurodivergent folks. So why doesn’t “the village” exist anymore and why have all attempts at creating “villages” been unsustainable? What causes a community to stick together and feel a strong sense of obligation to each other?
Empathy needs to be the main focal point of any leftist politics in the near future. That and forming a trauma-informed political program so we can heal from our collective CPTSD.
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Got around to reading the unabomber manifesto and this guy was retarded
People on the internet talk about this manifesto like it's something groundbreaking but it reads like a reddit thread or something one of you would write lol. Can someone explain to me why this is jerked off so much online?
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Karl Marx: Petty bourgeois, descended from rabbis of Trier, father was lawyer
Friedrich Engels: Bourgeois, son of factory owner
Vladimir Lenin: Petty bourgeois, middle peasant, father was a local school official, active state councillor, and had minor noble privileges
Joseph Stalin: Proletarian, but mother set him up in seminary school so he could become clergy
Mao Zedong: Middle peasant. Father was a moneylender and grain merchant with 20 acres of land
Mikhail Bakunin: Russian noble
Peter Kropotokin: Prince, son of a serf-owning nobleman
August Willich: German noble
"Iron" Felix Dzherzhinsky: Russian noble
Fidel Castro: Son of plantation owner, Lawyer
Robespierre: Lawyer
Toussaint Louverture: Liberated slave who went on to own his own land and his own slaves
Simon Bolivar: Wealthy but orphaned, raise by an enslaved wet nurse named Hipolita who he only emancipated after she got old.
George Washington: Plantation owner, slave owner
Thomas Jefferson: Plantation owner, slave owner
Oliver Cromwell: landed gentry
Amadeo Bordiga: Son of academics, grandson of a Count
Gracchi Brothers: Wealthy landowners
All of the great communist revolutionaries, with the exception of Stalin, were not of the proletarian class. Same with the prominent anarchists and great bourgeois revolutionaries.
Mike Duncan (a bourgeois liberal) claims that, as a rule, revolutions are led by defectors from the ruling class. Despite his political leanings, I think there is strong evidence for his claim. So are the true revolutionary subject class traitors from the ruling class?
Karl Marx: Petty bourgeois, descended from rabbis of Trier, father was lawyer
Friedrich Engels: Bourgeois, son of factory owner
Vladimir Lenin: Petty bourgeois, middle peasant, father was a local school official, active state councillor, and had minor noble privileges
Joseph Stalin: Proletarian, but mother set him up in seminary school so he could become clergy
Mao Zedong: Middle peasant. Father was a moneylender and grain merchant with 20 acres of land
Mikhail Bakunin: Russian noble
Peter Kropotokin: Prince, son of a serf-owning nobleman
August Willich: German noble
"Iron" Felix Dzherzhinsky: Russian noble
Fidel Castro: Son of plantation owner, Lawyer
Robespierre: Lawyer
Toussaint Louverture: Liberated slave who went on to own his own land and his own slaves
Simon Bolivar: Wealthy but orphaned, raise by an enslaved wet nurse named Hipolita who he only emancipated after she got old.
George Washington: Plantation owner, slave owner
Thomas Jefferson: Plantation owner, slave owner
Oliver Cromwell: landed gentry
Amadeo Bordiga: Son of academics, grandson of a Count
Gracchi Brothers: Wealthy landowners
All of the great communist revolutionaries, with the exception of Stalin, were not of the proletarian class. Same with the prominent anarchists and great bourgeois revolutionaries.
Mike Duncan (a bourgeois liberal) claims that, as a rule, revolutions are led by defectors from the ruling class. Despite his political leanings, I think there is strong evidence for his claim. So are the true revolutionary subject class traitors from the ruling class?
R: 597 / I: 135
>Thread for the hellish discussion related to the scourge of the earth, the destroyer of nations, 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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OP Backup Site: https://usapol.neocities.org/
💀 ICE & Prison Resources
(Amerika is the most incarcerated country in the world!)
ICE tracker using public info and user submissions // https://www.iceinmyarea.org/
list of deaths at ICE concentration camps // https://www.aila.org/infonet/deaths-at-adult-detention-centers
visualization of prison population in US // https://mkorostoff.github.io/incarceration-in-real-numbers/
Organizing in Prison — for when the walls close in (RANT Collective) // https://www.organizingforpower.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Organizing-in-Jail.pdf
database of U.S. facilities incl. ICE holding sites // https://alcpress.org/usjails/index.html
list of prison related resources, mailing lists, etc // https://www.prisonactivist.org/resources
ICE Agent List (incomplete) // https://wiki.icelist.is/index.php/Category:Agents
US Political Prison Tracker (last updated 2025) // https://uspoliticalprisoners.com/
Jailhouse Reading:
📖 Angela Davis - Are Prisons Obsolete? // https://dn790007.ca.archive.org/0/items/the-anarchist-library-full-list-of-pdfs-nov-2020/angela-y-davis-are-prisons-obsolete.pdf
📖 How to Defend Yourself During Police Interrogation // https://www.notrace.how/resources/download/comment-la-police-interroge-et-comment-sen-defendre/how-to-defend-yourself-during-a-police-interrogation.pdf
📖 National Lawyers Guild guide to being a jailhouse lawyer // https://www.jailhouselaw.org/
📖 Critical Resistance - Surviving Solitary Confinement // https://criticalresistance.org/resources/surviving-solitary/
📖 An inside-outside publication for abolitionist struggle & strategy across prison walls // https://criticalresistance.org/abolitionist/
📖 Prisoners’ Self-Help Litigation Manual // https://api.pageplace.de/preview/DT0400.9780199705665_A35159258/preview-9780199705665_A35159258.pdf
⚒️ LABOR!
Live strike tracker with deep stats on who, what and when // https://striketracker.ilr.cornell.edu/
AFL-CIO [imperialist]'s Strike Tracker // https://aflcio.org/strike-map
Labor Bureau's Official 'work stoppage' tracker // https://www.bls.gov/wsp/
IWW timeline for the 20th century (ends at 1999) // https://archive.iww.org/history/chronology/
IWW Work Place Organizing Guide // https://usa.anarchistlibraries.net/library/industrial-workers-of-the-world-libcom-org-solidarity-federation-walthamstow-anarchist-group-wo
▶ Salting | Work Place Organizing 101 (50 minute webinar) // https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SHlCLyM4FY
⚖️ Deeds of the Burger Reich 🇺🇸
deep list of horrible shit we (royal we) have done // https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/us_atrocities.md
Coups and regime changes – master list // https://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-peoples-governments-the-master-list
Wikipedia: United States War Crimes // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_war_crimes
/our boys/ (bring em home!) detail abusing Iraqi prisoners [2006] // https://www.hrw.org/report/2006/07/22/no-blood-no-foul/soldiers-accounts-detainee-abuse-iraq
More than 250 military interventions in the last 30 years alone // https://blackagendareport.com/us-launched-251-military-interventions-1991-and-469-1798
Visualisation of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade // https://www.slavevoyages.org/
UNESCO Sites relating to Slavery // https://slaveryandremembrance.org/
First Hand Documents of the horrors of Slavery // https://www.loc.gov/collections/slave-narratives-from-the-federal-writers-project-1936-to-1938/
📺 Glowie News 📺
(sponsored by the Burger Eagle Freedom Institute (formerly USAID))
CNN Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/cnn-news-usa.html
MSNBC Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/msnbc.html
FOX Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/fox-news-channel.html
Bloomberg Live // https://www.bloomberg.com/live/us
Burger House Live // https://www.whitehouse.gov/live/
Local News // https://www.50states.com/ce/
Weather // https://www.noaa.gov/weather
📺 Gommie News 📺
Jacobin // https://jacobin.com/
Black Agenda Report // https://blackagendareport.com/
The Grayzone // https://thegrayzone.com/
Leftvoice // https://www.leftvoice.org/
Newsanon Filter // https://leftypol.org/search.php?search=name%3A%22News+Anon+3.0%22&board=leftypol
🏝️ Epstein's Client List 🇮🇱
Epstein's Black Book // https://epsteinsblackbook.com/
DOJ Disclosures // https://www.justice.gov/epstein/doj-disclosures
Track AIPAC // https://www.trackaipac.com/
Al Jazeera visual guide (2026) // https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/10/struggling-to-navigate-the-epstein-files-here-is-a-visual-guide
Essential American Politik 📖
📖 WEB Du Bois - Black Reconstruction // https://cominsitu.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/w-e-b-du-bois-black-reconstruction-an-essay-toward-a-history-of-the-part-which-black-folk-played-in-the-attempt-to-reconstruct-democracy-2.pdf
📖 Eugene Debs - Fourth of July Speech // https://jacobin.com/2020/07/eugene-debs-independence-day-address-fourth-july
📖 Power Anywhere There's People! – Fred Hampton // https://www.hamptonthink.org/read/power-anywhere-where-thats-people-fred-hampton
📖 War is a Racket – Smedley Butler // https://ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html
📖 Letters From an American Farmer – St. John de Crevoecoeur // https://americanliterature.com/author/j-hector-st-john-de-crevoecoeur/book/letters-from-an-american-farmer/summary
📖 Trail of Broken Treaties // American Indian Movement https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
📖 The Declaration of Independence https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
📖 The Ballot or the Bullet – Malcolm X // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/ballot_or_bullet.pdf
📖 What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? – Frederick Douglass // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/douglass_july_4_speech.pdf
📖 A Trail of Broken Treaties – American Indian Movement // https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
📖 Custer Died for Your Sins – Vine Deloria Jr. // http://www.riversimulator.org/Resources/Books/CusterDiedForYourSinsAnIndianManifesto1969Deloria.pdf
📖 Emancipation Proclamation – Lincoln // https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/emancipation-proclamation
📖 Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville // https://americanliterature.com/author/alexis-de-tocqueville/book/democracy-in-america/summary
📖 Common Sense – Thomas Paine // https://americainclass.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Common-Sense-Full-Text.pdf
📖 An Indigenous History of the United States – Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz // https://nycstandswithstandingrock.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/dunbar-ortiz-2014.pdf
📖 Huey Long – Share Our Wealth // https://www.hueylong.com/programs/share-our-wealth/huey-longs-share-our-wealth-speech
Previous Thread: >>2911490
/USApol/
🗽 UNITED STATES POLITICS 🦅>Thread for the hellish discussion related to the scourge of the earth, the destroyer of nations, 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™
<Turtle Nirvana Edition
OP Backup Site: https://usapol.neocities.org/
💀 ICE & Prison Resources
(Amerika is the most incarcerated country in the world!)
ICE tracker using public info and user submissions // https://www.iceinmyarea.org/
list of deaths at ICE concentration camps // https://www.aila.org/infonet/deaths-at-adult-detention-centers
visualization of prison population in US // https://mkorostoff.github.io/incarceration-in-real-numbers/
Organizing in Prison — for when the walls close in (RANT Collective) // https://www.organizingforpower.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Organizing-in-Jail.pdf
database of U.S. facilities incl. ICE holding sites // https://alcpress.org/usjails/index.html
list of prison related resources, mailing lists, etc // https://www.prisonactivist.org/resources
ICE Agent List (incomplete) // https://wiki.icelist.is/index.php/Category:Agents
US Political Prison Tracker (last updated 2025) // https://uspoliticalprisoners.com/
Jailhouse Reading:
📖 Angela Davis - Are Prisons Obsolete? // https://dn790007.ca.archive.org/0/items/the-anarchist-library-full-list-of-pdfs-nov-2020/angela-y-davis-are-prisons-obsolete.pdf
📖 How to Defend Yourself During Police Interrogation // https://www.notrace.how/resources/download/comment-la-police-interroge-et-comment-sen-defendre/how-to-defend-yourself-during-a-police-interrogation.pdf
📖 National Lawyers Guild guide to being a jailhouse lawyer // https://www.jailhouselaw.org/
📖 Critical Resistance - Surviving Solitary Confinement // https://criticalresistance.org/resources/surviving-solitary/
📖 An inside-outside publication for abolitionist struggle & strategy across prison walls // https://criticalresistance.org/abolitionist/
📖 Prisoners’ Self-Help Litigation Manual // https://api.pageplace.de/preview/DT0400.9780199705665_A35159258/preview-9780199705665_A35159258.pdf
⚒️ LABOR!
Live strike tracker with deep stats on who, what and when // https://striketracker.ilr.cornell.edu/
AFL-CIO [imperialist]'s Strike Tracker // https://aflcio.org/strike-map
Labor Bureau's Official 'work stoppage' tracker // https://www.bls.gov/wsp/
IWW timeline for the 20th century (ends at 1999) // https://archive.iww.org/history/chronology/
IWW Work Place Organizing Guide // https://usa.anarchistlibraries.net/library/industrial-workers-of-the-world-libcom-org-solidarity-federation-walthamstow-anarchist-group-wo
▶ Salting | Work Place Organizing 101 (50 minute webinar) // https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SHlCLyM4FY
⚖️ Deeds of the Burger Reich 🇺🇸
deep list of horrible shit we (royal we) have done // https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/us_atrocities.md
Coups and regime changes – master list // https://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-peoples-governments-the-master-list
Wikipedia: United States War Crimes // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_war_crimes
/our boys/ (bring em home!) detail abusing Iraqi prisoners [2006] // https://www.hrw.org/report/2006/07/22/no-blood-no-foul/soldiers-accounts-detainee-abuse-iraq
More than 250 military interventions in the last 30 years alone // https://blackagendareport.com/us-launched-251-military-interventions-1991-and-469-1798
Visualisation of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade // https://www.slavevoyages.org/
UNESCO Sites relating to Slavery // https://slaveryandremembrance.org/
First Hand Documents of the horrors of Slavery // https://www.loc.gov/collections/slave-narratives-from-the-federal-writers-project-1936-to-1938/
📺 Glowie News 📺
(sponsored by the Burger Eagle Freedom Institute (formerly USAID))
CNN Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/cnn-news-usa.html
MSNBC Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/msnbc.html
FOX Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/fox-news-channel.html
Bloomberg Live // https://www.bloomberg.com/live/us
Burger House Live // https://www.whitehouse.gov/live/
Local News // https://www.50states.com/ce/
Weather // https://www.noaa.gov/weather
📺 Gommie News 📺
Jacobin // https://jacobin.com/
Black Agenda Report // https://blackagendareport.com/
The Grayzone // https://thegrayzone.com/
Leftvoice // https://www.leftvoice.org/
Newsanon Filter // https://leftypol.org/search.php?search=name%3A%22News+Anon+3.0%22&board=leftypol
🏝️ Epstein's Client List 🇮🇱
Epstein's Black Book // https://epsteinsblackbook.com/
DOJ Disclosures // https://www.justice.gov/epstein/doj-disclosures
Track AIPAC // https://www.trackaipac.com/
Al Jazeera visual guide (2026) // https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/10/struggling-to-navigate-the-epstein-files-here-is-a-visual-guide
Essential American Politik 📖
📖 WEB Du Bois - Black Reconstruction // https://cominsitu.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/w-e-b-du-bois-black-reconstruction-an-essay-toward-a-history-of-the-part-which-black-folk-played-in-the-attempt-to-reconstruct-democracy-2.pdf
📖 Eugene Debs - Fourth of July Speech // https://jacobin.com/2020/07/eugene-debs-independence-day-address-fourth-july
📖 Power Anywhere There's People! – Fred Hampton // https://www.hamptonthink.org/read/power-anywhere-where-thats-people-fred-hampton
📖 War is a Racket – Smedley Butler // https://ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html
📖 Letters From an American Farmer – St. John de Crevoecoeur // https://americanliterature.com/author/j-hector-st-john-de-crevoecoeur/book/letters-from-an-american-farmer/summary
📖 Trail of Broken Treaties // American Indian Movement https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
📖 The Declaration of Independence https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
📖 The Ballot or the Bullet – Malcolm X // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/ballot_or_bullet.pdf
📖 What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? – Frederick Douglass // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/douglass_july_4_speech.pdf
📖 A Trail of Broken Treaties – American Indian Movement // https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
📖 Custer Died for Your Sins – Vine Deloria Jr. // http://www.riversimulator.org/Resources/Books/CusterDiedForYourSinsAnIndianManifesto1969Deloria.pdf
📖 Emancipation Proclamation – Lincoln // https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/emancipation-proclamation
📖 Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville // https://americanliterature.com/author/alexis-de-tocqueville/book/democracy-in-america/summary
📖 Common Sense – Thomas Paine // https://americainclass.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Common-Sense-Full-Text.pdf
📖 An Indigenous History of the United States – Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz // https://nycstandswithstandingrock.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/dunbar-ortiz-2014.pdf
📖 Huey Long – Share Our Wealth // https://www.hueylong.com/programs/share-our-wealth/huey-longs-share-our-wealth-speech
Previous Thread: >>2911490
R: 103 / I: 15
AI going rogue
What the LeftyPol's opinion on the dangers of AI going rogue? Do you think is just fantasy and fear mongering or there's a genuine existential risk with AI? Should I prepare to make plan in case AI goes rogue?
R: 59 / I: 3
My friend keeps trying to say how The U.S. is Winning the Iran War, and using podcast clips from a former military soldier to somehow prove me wrong. Im going to fucking cry
My friend keeps trying to say how The U.S. is Winning the Iran War, and using podcast clips from a former military soldier to somehow prove me wrong. Im going to fucking cry
R: 2 / I: 0
“Our conditions are an end to the war on all fronts, the release of our frozen funds and an end to the naval blockade,” said Rezaei, who took over as secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council about a month ago. “It is in Washington’s interest to accept these conditions. Trump’s threats will not achieve any results. We are prepared for a decisive war.”
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/19/iran-says-conditions-to-re-engage-in-talks-end-war-sent-to-us-via-qatar
https://archive.ph/CSeRK
Türkiye revokes Iranian Bank Mellat’s operating license after 44 years
Bank Mellat is one of Iran’s major financial institutions, with about 47.9 quadrillion Iranian rials ($34.8 billion) in total assets as of March 2026, according to Iranian financial-data provider Shakhesban.Bank Mellat has faced sanctions and financial restrictions from the U.S., European Union, and U.K. over its alleged links to Iran’s nuclear and missile programs. The U.S. Treasury first designated the bank in October 2007, accusing it of providing financial services to Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization.
https://www.turkiyetoday.com/business/turkiye-revokes-iranian-bank-mellats-operating-license-after-44-years-3228437?s=1
https://archive.ph/xuGxy
Flames, smoke seen near Riyadh airport; Houthis claim attacks on Saudi capital
Reuters video and photographs showed a huge pillar of black smoke rising in the area, with the airport highway, main terminal building and other facilities in the foreground. At one point in the video, flames were visible rising from behind what appeared to be fuel tanks. The Houthis did not specify what they had targeted in Riyadh, but said they had also attacked an Aramco facility in the Red Sea city of Yanbu, a key Saudi oil export hub.
https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2026/09/flames-smoke-seen-near-riyadh-airport-houthis-claim-attacks-saudi-capital
Around 54 ki*lled and injured amid reports of possible IS*IS involvement | Two deadly explosions hit Defence Ministry sites in a few days
Questions are mounting over the causes of two deadly explosions at sites holding weapons and ammunition, both affiliated with the Ministry of Defence, in Sarmada, in Idlib countryside, and Ayyash, in Deir Ezzor countryside. According to SOHR sources, the two explosions have left around 54 people dead or wounded, most of them Ministry of Defence personnel.
https://www.syriahr.com/en/386346/
Bid to widen use of spent nuclear fuel facility in Aomori hits resistance
Efforts are underway to widen use of an interim storage facility for spent nuclear fuel in Aomori Prefecture, increasing the number of power plant operators that send fuel there from two to four, but authorities have yet to agree to the plan.
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/09/18/japan/society/nuclear-aomori-mutsu/
https://archive.ph/ARaB5
Pakistani forces end 20-hour standoff with militants in the northwest
The coordinated attack occurred at a compound in Kohat in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, which borders Afghanistan. Many of the casualties were police officers and people attending prayers at a mosque. Several militants took up positions inside the complex, and a shootout with security officers ensued, police official Mohammad Sadiq said. The complex houses the police’s Special Branch intelligence agency, offices of the Counter Terrorism Department, and houses of counterterrorism officers who have carried out operations against militants across the province in recent years.
https://apnews.com/article/pakistan-police-mosque-bombing-militant-attack-northwest-b63e9cf30e8b871616b7d0f94cbaff6d
Greenland, Denmark say Trump deal won't compromise sovereignty
The United States, Denmark and Greenland said late on Friday they had reached an agreement for the US to develop a significant military presence on Greenland, while prohibiting US adversaries from building their own bases on the island. Key details of the agreement have not been made public, including the scale of US military presence in the self-governing Danish territory and whether any formal power over foreign policy and resources would be ceded to Washington.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/greenland-denmark-say-us-deal-will-not-cede-sovereignty-2026-09-19/
Dutch riot police break up violent far-right protest in The Hague
The Hague municipality banned the march after violence broke out among demonstrators gathered at the Malieveld, a park in the city centre, and later ordered the crowd to disperse. Those arrested were detained for various offences, including failing to comply with the order and illegally possessing weapons.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/19/far-right-protest-hague-violence-riot-police-malieveld
ND: Abelardo Announces Persecution and Criminalization of Migrant Workers in Colombia
Although De la Espriella did not mention any particular population group, the reality is that 2.8 million Venezuelans live in Colombia, and this population accounts for 90% of all immigrants in the country. According to Migración Colombia, some 848,000 of them do not meet the documentation requirements set by the government. These data lead to the conclusion that, in practice, the hostile attitude and practices toward the migrant population being promoted by the Colombian head of State leave Venezuelan workers in the country particularly vulnerable.
https://redherald.org/2026/09/17/colombia-nd-abelardo-announces-persecution-and-criminalization-of-migrant-workers-in-colombia/
Evo Morales: Diesel Subsidy Withdrawal Is a Punishment for Producers
The former president considered that the withdrawal of the diesel subsidy “should be seriously debated” through the planning of “policies to protect the most vulnerable sectors and safeguard production.””They don’t care that small producers don’t know where to get money to buy fuel, fertilizers and other inputs,” Morales added.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/evo-morales-diesel-subsidy-withdrawal-is-a-punishment-for-producers/
Zuma kicks out MK Party members after candidate list protest
Hundreds of MK Party members gathered for prayer meeting organised by faith leaders to pray for peaceful elections. However the meeting was interrupted by disgruntled supporters who began chanting and waving placards. Zuma tried to calm them down, saying they are aware that illegal acts were committed when the party’s candidate lists were submitted. But he said protests will not help resolve anything at this stage.
https://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/zuma-kicks-out-mk-party-members-after-candidate-list-protest/
Curfew imposed in Nigerian city after protests over deaths of detained miners
The victims - many of whom were children - were found dead on Thursday in the cells of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), which had raided suspected illegal gold mines and locked up dozens of miners in the city, the capital of Niger State. President Bola Ahmed Tinubu ordered an investigation into the deaths after his government earlier suspended some senior officials. But anger over the incident led to clashes overnight and into Friday.
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/protests-erupt-nigeria-after-33-miners-die-custody-paramilitary-agency-2026-09-18/
News 9/19/26
Iran says conditions to re-engage in talks, end war sent to US via Qatar“Our conditions are an end to the war on all fronts, the release of our frozen funds and an end to the naval blockade,” said Rezaei, who took over as secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council about a month ago. “It is in Washington’s interest to accept these conditions. Trump’s threats will not achieve any results. We are prepared for a decisive war.”
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/19/iran-says-conditions-to-re-engage-in-talks-end-war-sent-to-us-via-qatar
https://archive.ph/CSeRK
Türkiye revokes Iranian Bank Mellat’s operating license after 44 years
Bank Mellat is one of Iran’s major financial institutions, with about 47.9 quadrillion Iranian rials ($34.8 billion) in total assets as of March 2026, according to Iranian financial-data provider Shakhesban.Bank Mellat has faced sanctions and financial restrictions from the U.S., European Union, and U.K. over its alleged links to Iran’s nuclear and missile programs. The U.S. Treasury first designated the bank in October 2007, accusing it of providing financial services to Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization.
https://www.turkiyetoday.com/business/turkiye-revokes-iranian-bank-mellats-operating-license-after-44-years-3228437?s=1
https://archive.ph/xuGxy
Flames, smoke seen near Riyadh airport; Houthis claim attacks on Saudi capital
Reuters video and photographs showed a huge pillar of black smoke rising in the area, with the airport highway, main terminal building and other facilities in the foreground. At one point in the video, flames were visible rising from behind what appeared to be fuel tanks. The Houthis did not specify what they had targeted in Riyadh, but said they had also attacked an Aramco facility in the Red Sea city of Yanbu, a key Saudi oil export hub.
https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2026/09/flames-smoke-seen-near-riyadh-airport-houthis-claim-attacks-saudi-capital
Around 54 ki*lled and injured amid reports of possible IS*IS involvement | Two deadly explosions hit Defence Ministry sites in a few days
Questions are mounting over the causes of two deadly explosions at sites holding weapons and ammunition, both affiliated with the Ministry of Defence, in Sarmada, in Idlib countryside, and Ayyash, in Deir Ezzor countryside. According to SOHR sources, the two explosions have left around 54 people dead or wounded, most of them Ministry of Defence personnel.
https://www.syriahr.com/en/386346/
Bid to widen use of spent nuclear fuel facility in Aomori hits resistance
Efforts are underway to widen use of an interim storage facility for spent nuclear fuel in Aomori Prefecture, increasing the number of power plant operators that send fuel there from two to four, but authorities have yet to agree to the plan.
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/09/18/japan/society/nuclear-aomori-mutsu/
https://archive.ph/ARaB5
Pakistani forces end 20-hour standoff with militants in the northwest
The coordinated attack occurred at a compound in Kohat in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, which borders Afghanistan. Many of the casualties were police officers and people attending prayers at a mosque. Several militants took up positions inside the complex, and a shootout with security officers ensued, police official Mohammad Sadiq said. The complex houses the police’s Special Branch intelligence agency, offices of the Counter Terrorism Department, and houses of counterterrorism officers who have carried out operations against militants across the province in recent years.
https://apnews.com/article/pakistan-police-mosque-bombing-militant-attack-northwest-b63e9cf30e8b871616b7d0f94cbaff6d
Greenland, Denmark say Trump deal won't compromise sovereignty
The United States, Denmark and Greenland said late on Friday they had reached an agreement for the US to develop a significant military presence on Greenland, while prohibiting US adversaries from building their own bases on the island. Key details of the agreement have not been made public, including the scale of US military presence in the self-governing Danish territory and whether any formal power over foreign policy and resources would be ceded to Washington.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/greenland-denmark-say-us-deal-will-not-cede-sovereignty-2026-09-19/
Dutch riot police break up violent far-right protest in The Hague
The Hague municipality banned the march after violence broke out among demonstrators gathered at the Malieveld, a park in the city centre, and later ordered the crowd to disperse. Those arrested were detained for various offences, including failing to comply with the order and illegally possessing weapons.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/19/far-right-protest-hague-violence-riot-police-malieveld
ND: Abelardo Announces Persecution and Criminalization of Migrant Workers in Colombia
Although De la Espriella did not mention any particular population group, the reality is that 2.8 million Venezuelans live in Colombia, and this population accounts for 90% of all immigrants in the country. According to Migración Colombia, some 848,000 of them do not meet the documentation requirements set by the government. These data lead to the conclusion that, in practice, the hostile attitude and practices toward the migrant population being promoted by the Colombian head of State leave Venezuelan workers in the country particularly vulnerable.
https://redherald.org/2026/09/17/colombia-nd-abelardo-announces-persecution-and-criminalization-of-migrant-workers-in-colombia/
Evo Morales: Diesel Subsidy Withdrawal Is a Punishment for Producers
The former president considered that the withdrawal of the diesel subsidy “should be seriously debated” through the planning of “policies to protect the most vulnerable sectors and safeguard production.””They don’t care that small producers don’t know where to get money to buy fuel, fertilizers and other inputs,” Morales added.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/evo-morales-diesel-subsidy-withdrawal-is-a-punishment-for-producers/
Zuma kicks out MK Party members after candidate list protest
Hundreds of MK Party members gathered for prayer meeting organised by faith leaders to pray for peaceful elections. However the meeting was interrupted by disgruntled supporters who began chanting and waving placards. Zuma tried to calm them down, saying they are aware that illegal acts were committed when the party’s candidate lists were submitted. But he said protests will not help resolve anything at this stage.
https://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/zuma-kicks-out-mk-party-members-after-candidate-list-protest/
Curfew imposed in Nigerian city after protests over deaths of detained miners
The victims - many of whom were children - were found dead on Thursday in the cells of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), which had raided suspected illegal gold mines and locked up dozens of miners in the city, the capital of Niger State. President Bola Ahmed Tinubu ordered an investigation into the deaths after his government earlier suspended some senior officials. But anger over the incident led to clashes overnight and into Friday.
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/protests-erupt-nigeria-after-33-miners-die-custody-paramilitary-agency-2026-09-18/
R: 27 / I: 2
Even though it has been generally declining over the decades (especially among the youth), Most people still support their monarchies. Is there like a deep ideological reason or just the inherent conservatism/patriotism of the average person, Considering than in other developed republican places (Switzerland, Czech republic, South Korea) You'd basically get no one who wants to restore a monarchy?
Monarchy abolition is rising so much among the young and most of their support is based on either religious or nationalist ideas that are going outdated which begs the question: Will monarchies survive the 21st century??
Even though it has been generally declining over the decades (especially among the youth), Most people still support their monarchies. Is there like a deep ideological reason or just the inherent conservatism/patriotism of the average person, Considering than in other developed republican places (Switzerland, Czech republic, South Korea) You'd basically get no one who wants to restore a monarchy?
Monarchy abolition is rising so much among the young and most of their support is based on either religious or nationalist ideas that are going outdated which begs the question: Will monarchies survive the 21st century??
R: 36 / I: 4
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R: 10 / I: 5
im very ignorant on this part of the world - what's actually gonna happen to Russia when this guy kicks the bucket? is there a clear candidate for succession? will it be dramatic at all or just a temporary jolt? can someone who knows about this stuff weigh in
im very ignorant on this part of the world - what's actually gonna happen to Russia when this guy kicks the bucket? is there a clear candidate for succession? will it be dramatic at all or just a temporary jolt? can someone who knows about this stuff weigh in
R: 13 / I: 2
Let’s say hypothetically the Democrats win the next election. Then what? Aren’t they part of the same cabal? Are they actually interested in prosecuting Republicans, de-escalating anti-immigration initiatives, releasing the Epstein files, etc.? Biden made it clear how Democrats secretly continue whatever the Republicans have done with Israel as the most egregious example. People see MAGA stepping down as a relieve, but with the Dems the lying and heinousness doesn’t end. So what’s the plan?
Let’s say hypothetically the Democrats win the next election. Then what? Aren’t they part of the same cabal? Are they actually interested in prosecuting Republicans, de-escalating anti-immigration initiatives, releasing the Epstein files, etc.? Biden made it clear how Democrats secretly continue whatever the Republicans have done with Israel as the most egregious example. People see MAGA stepping down as a relieve, but with the Dems the lying and heinousness doesn’t end. So what’s the plan?
R: 35 / I: 3
I'm an engineering student and I had an internship last summer in a factory. I like to imagine I understand dialectical materialism pretty well, having read all the books and articles you see recommended in reading lists from the works of Marx, Engles, Lenin, Stalin, mao and others as well as consuming content on the daily analyzing these books. I felt I was ready to discuss dialectical materialism with the factory workers and I gave it my best to make the discussion seem organic and to say thought provoking things and guide them to the conclusions themselves while staying down to earth but the workers never took me seriously and started making jokes at my expense, it's from then they lost all respect for me. Why are the working class like this?
I'm an engineering student and I had an internship last summer in a factory. I like to imagine I understand dialectical materialism pretty well, having read all the books and articles you see recommended in reading lists from the works of Marx, Engles, Lenin, Stalin, mao and others as well as consuming content on the daily analyzing these books. I felt I was ready to discuss dialectical materialism with the factory workers and I gave it my best to make the discussion seem organic and to say thought provoking things and guide them to the conclusions themselves while staying down to earth but the workers never took me seriously and started making jokes at my expense, it's from then they lost all respect for me. Why are the working class like this?
R: 3 / I: 1
>Eighty-two percent of Spaniards believe that Israel committed genocide in Gaza, 58 percent demand that arms sales to Israel be halted, and 60 percent oppose Israel’s military actions. Recent polls in Britain also show that half of the population believes that Israel committed genocide in Gaza and that the government should terminate arms sales to Jerusalem or impose sanctions on the Jewish state. Anti-Israel posters calling for the annihilation of the Jewish state punctuate leftist demonstrations and cultural events in Spain and Britain.
>To counter this leftish groundswell, Israel should begin outreach to conservative factions among regional pro-independence groups in Europe. In Catalonia, Silvia Orriols, of Aliança Catalana, has hoisted Israel’s flag in the regional parliament and argues that Israel’s victories also advance Catalonia’s interests. As mayor of Ripoll, Orriols took on the Salafist networks responsible for the 2017 Barcelona terrorist attack that killed 16 people.
>Orriols—whom the latest polls project to finish second while she leads the most popular pro-independence party—is the latest in a line of pro-Israel Catalans, including former regional president Jordi Pujol, the founding father of modern Catalan nationalism, to defend the Jewish state’s survival. Like Catalonia’s right-wing Zionist-influenced movement, separatist elements in Spain’s Basque Country and Galicia, as well as in Scotland and Wales, also may help build Israel’s newest European alliances.
>The Jewish state’s external intelligence agency, Mossad, has a special division, Tevel, that handles liaison operations with non-state entities. This division, which has developed networks worldwide to serve Israel’s interests, has the workforce and technical resources to establish and maintain relationships with right-wing, European, pro-independence movements. Its work in building underground structures, combined with expertise in countering radical Islamism and transferring know-how, makes Tevel the only entity in Israel fit to serve as the vanguard in building relationships with the pro-freedom entities.
>These forces need the kinds of capabilities that Israel’s own Zionist movement and national revival pioneered, which Pujol once heralded and which Orriols now promotes in Catalonia. Specifically, Mossad’s Tevel must create a new work team, the Emerging Sovereign Partners Cell, whose staff could conduct a well-organized outreach to separatist movements in Europe.
>Their first engagement should be with Orriols and Aliança Catalana, followed by other like-minded groups in the Basque Country, Galicia, Scotland, Wales, and perhaps also Flanders, Veneto-Lombardy, Corsica, Transnistria, Greenland, and the Faroe Islands. The Emerging Sovereign Partners Cell would help these movements build the essentials of statecraft: governance, defense, intelligence, financial systems, internal security, foreign policy, and de-radicalization or counter-anti-independence tools, tailored to each group’s needs and political aims.
>This body could offer creative packages that emerging sovereign states could replicate as models. The Emerging Sovereign Partners Cell could create a Sovereignty Academy to organize fellowships for the emerging leaders and mid-level managers of these movements. Mossad’s Tevel could also sponsor constitutional design workshops to assist these movements in drafting their own Basic Laws, comparable to Israel’s, with an emphasis on their parliamentary sovereignty and protections for national singularity.
>At the same time, the Emerging Sovereign Partners Cell could develop training programs to help build the movements’ own military structures: professionalized, volunteer army units, combined with technology to amplify their combat power, such as cyber defenses, drone-based reconnaissance and attack, and layered air defense, initially tailored to small populations using Jerusalem’s experience with hybrid wars.
>The Mossad could apply its expertise in spycraft to structure and train these movements’ intelligence capabilities, with a focus on human intelligence and cyber, as well as on countering jihadism. Currency and monetary sovereignty packages could advise on sovereign digital currencies or on strategic purchases of Bitcoin, protected by Israeli cyber expertise and following the example of El Salvador, but insulated from the manipulations of the central banks of Madrid or London.
>Indeed, the Emerging Sovereign Partners Cell could work with these pro-sovereignty movements to secure technology-transfer agreements that provide advanced desalination and water-management systems tailored to Mediterranean conditions, along with offshore extraction technologies adapted from Israel’s Leviathan gas field, thereby strengthening Scotland’s oil and gas industry and bolstering its energy security. The Mossad could share its experience in internal security and de-radicalization with these potential partners to help them address extremist elements among their own ranks, such as the Salafist remnants in Barcelona and Ripoll or the mafia networks operating in Cardiff and Edinburgh.
>The Emerging Sovereign Partners Cell would help prepare these sovereignty entities’ diplomatic services, envoys, and United Nations missions through training in foreign-policy strategy, with an emphasis on gradualism and multi-vector diplomacy, as Israel practiced in its early years and countries such as China later adopted. These programs must include curriculum design, teaching methods, and educational materials aimed at preserving and strengthening national identity, drawing on models developed by early Zionist national revivalists.
>Europe’s pro-independence right would benefit from Israel’s model and Jerusalem could gain new allies in Europe that would protect its interests, combat antisemitism, and oppose radical Islamism from Madrid to London. Legacy states like Spain and the United Kingdom might grow more antagonistic to Israel but, realistically, their anti-Zionist pivot is likely irreversible and so such a policy would simply calibrate to a new reality.
Mossad Should Cultivate Strategic Partners Among Europe’s Right-Wing Separatist Movements
>Decisions by Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez to recognize a Palestinian state, label Israel’s operation in Gaza as “the biggest genocide of the century,” and enact an embargo on Jerusalem’s arms imports are part of a wider effort by European leftists to shackle the Jewish state. Now, Manchester mayor and soon-to-be British Prime Minister Andy Burnham is calling for restrictions on British weapons sales to Israel.>Eighty-two percent of Spaniards believe that Israel committed genocide in Gaza, 58 percent demand that arms sales to Israel be halted, and 60 percent oppose Israel’s military actions. Recent polls in Britain also show that half of the population believes that Israel committed genocide in Gaza and that the government should terminate arms sales to Jerusalem or impose sanctions on the Jewish state. Anti-Israel posters calling for the annihilation of the Jewish state punctuate leftist demonstrations and cultural events in Spain and Britain.
>To counter this leftish groundswell, Israel should begin outreach to conservative factions among regional pro-independence groups in Europe. In Catalonia, Silvia Orriols, of Aliança Catalana, has hoisted Israel’s flag in the regional parliament and argues that Israel’s victories also advance Catalonia’s interests. As mayor of Ripoll, Orriols took on the Salafist networks responsible for the 2017 Barcelona terrorist attack that killed 16 people.
>Orriols—whom the latest polls project to finish second while she leads the most popular pro-independence party—is the latest in a line of pro-Israel Catalans, including former regional president Jordi Pujol, the founding father of modern Catalan nationalism, to defend the Jewish state’s survival. Like Catalonia’s right-wing Zionist-influenced movement, separatist elements in Spain’s Basque Country and Galicia, as well as in Scotland and Wales, also may help build Israel’s newest European alliances.
>The Jewish state’s external intelligence agency, Mossad, has a special division, Tevel, that handles liaison operations with non-state entities. This division, which has developed networks worldwide to serve Israel’s interests, has the workforce and technical resources to establish and maintain relationships with right-wing, European, pro-independence movements. Its work in building underground structures, combined with expertise in countering radical Islamism and transferring know-how, makes Tevel the only entity in Israel fit to serve as the vanguard in building relationships with the pro-freedom entities.
>These forces need the kinds of capabilities that Israel’s own Zionist movement and national revival pioneered, which Pujol once heralded and which Orriols now promotes in Catalonia. Specifically, Mossad’s Tevel must create a new work team, the Emerging Sovereign Partners Cell, whose staff could conduct a well-organized outreach to separatist movements in Europe.
>Their first engagement should be with Orriols and Aliança Catalana, followed by other like-minded groups in the Basque Country, Galicia, Scotland, Wales, and perhaps also Flanders, Veneto-Lombardy, Corsica, Transnistria, Greenland, and the Faroe Islands. The Emerging Sovereign Partners Cell would help these movements build the essentials of statecraft: governance, defense, intelligence, financial systems, internal security, foreign policy, and de-radicalization or counter-anti-independence tools, tailored to each group’s needs and political aims.
>This body could offer creative packages that emerging sovereign states could replicate as models. The Emerging Sovereign Partners Cell could create a Sovereignty Academy to organize fellowships for the emerging leaders and mid-level managers of these movements. Mossad’s Tevel could also sponsor constitutional design workshops to assist these movements in drafting their own Basic Laws, comparable to Israel’s, with an emphasis on their parliamentary sovereignty and protections for national singularity.
>At the same time, the Emerging Sovereign Partners Cell could develop training programs to help build the movements’ own military structures: professionalized, volunteer army units, combined with technology to amplify their combat power, such as cyber defenses, drone-based reconnaissance and attack, and layered air defense, initially tailored to small populations using Jerusalem’s experience with hybrid wars.
>The Mossad could apply its expertise in spycraft to structure and train these movements’ intelligence capabilities, with a focus on human intelligence and cyber, as well as on countering jihadism. Currency and monetary sovereignty packages could advise on sovereign digital currencies or on strategic purchases of Bitcoin, protected by Israeli cyber expertise and following the example of El Salvador, but insulated from the manipulations of the central banks of Madrid or London.
>Indeed, the Emerging Sovereign Partners Cell could work with these pro-sovereignty movements to secure technology-transfer agreements that provide advanced desalination and water-management systems tailored to Mediterranean conditions, along with offshore extraction technologies adapted from Israel’s Leviathan gas field, thereby strengthening Scotland’s oil and gas industry and bolstering its energy security. The Mossad could share its experience in internal security and de-radicalization with these potential partners to help them address extremist elements among their own ranks, such as the Salafist remnants in Barcelona and Ripoll or the mafia networks operating in Cardiff and Edinburgh.
>The Emerging Sovereign Partners Cell would help prepare these sovereignty entities’ diplomatic services, envoys, and United Nations missions through training in foreign-policy strategy, with an emphasis on gradualism and multi-vector diplomacy, as Israel practiced in its early years and countries such as China later adopted. These programs must include curriculum design, teaching methods, and educational materials aimed at preserving and strengthening national identity, drawing on models developed by early Zionist national revivalists.
>Europe’s pro-independence right would benefit from Israel’s model and Jerusalem could gain new allies in Europe that would protect its interests, combat antisemitism, and oppose radical Islamism from Madrid to London. Legacy states like Spain and the United Kingdom might grow more antagonistic to Israel but, realistically, their anti-Zionist pivot is likely irreversible and so such a policy would simply calibrate to a new reality.
R: 3 / I: 0
However, Lee added that he was reviewing whether to play a greater role in safeguarding navigation in the region. South Korea maintains a naval presence off the coast of Somalia as part of an anti-piracy mission. “[It] is also clear that we must do the minimum as other countries do to protect our commercial shipping and crude shipments, and also the safety of our people,” he said.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/18/south-korea-will-not-send-military-to-support-us-war-on-iran-defying-trump-pressure
‘I spend a bagful of money and don’t fill a bag’: the energy crisis hits Bangladesh
An energy crisis paralysing the capital, Dhaka, a city of almost 40 million people, means this has become the only time when the piped gas supply is strong enough to allow cooking. The city now operates in darkness, as people try to continue their lives with power even in public areas shut off early in the evening to preserve energy.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/18/i-spend-a-bagful-of-money-and-dont-fill-a-bag-the-energy-crisis-hits-bangladesh
Unemployment in Argentina reaches 7.9%, highest level since 2021
The 7.9 percent unemployment figure represents jobless people available for work and actively seeking employment as a percentage of the economically active. According to the INDEC national statistics bureau, neither the employment nor unemployment figures registered significant variations from the same period last year but the 48.9 percentage for the economically active represents a statistically significant rise of 0.8 percentage points from the same quarter last year.
https://www.batimes.com.ar/news/economy/unemployment-in-argentina-reaches-79-highest-level-since-2021.phtml
https://archive.ph/GNFIw
Colombian President Seeks to Reduce Peace Tribunal’s Budget
Ramelli asked the international community to help guarantee resources essential for the JEP’s operation and warned about the impact the measure would have on the work of the jurisdiction, which was created following the 2016 peace agreement signed between the state and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).
https://www.telesurenglish.net/colombian-president-seeks-to-reduce-peace-tribunals-budget/
Far-right politician Éric Zemmour joins 2027 French presidential race
French far-right politician Éric Zemmour said on Friday that he would run in next year's presidential election, joining far-right candidate Marine Le Pen, who was runner-up to President Emmanuel Macron in the last two elections. Zemmour is campaigning on a crackdown on immigration, including a plan to expel unemployed foreigners even if they are legal residents.
https://www.france24.com/en/france/20260918-far-right-politician-éric-zemmour-joins-2027-french-presidential-race
https://archive.ph/WZRDi
Scottish government urged to lift ban on new nuclear reactors
The Nuclear Industry Association (NIA) made the plea as it pointed to figures that suggest the move to build new nuclear reactors in England has created 47,492 jobs since 2014, doubling the workforce to 94,836, compared with the 13.4 per cent increase — to 5,583 — in Scotland over the same period.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/scottish-government-urged-lift-ban-new-nuclear
Italy to deploy warships to protect shipping through Bab al-Mandeb
The Italian defence minister said that Rome “must not allow bureaucratic delays in decision-making to exacerbate an already complex situation”. Bab al-Mandeb links the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden, forming one of the world’s busiest shipping corridors between Europe and Asia and a critical route for oil, gas and container traffic heading to and from the Suez Canal.
https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2026/9/18/italy-to-deploy-warships-to-protect-shipping-through-bab-al-mandeb
https://archive.ph/vdGgm
Sahel instability pushes Algeria to rethink its long-standing non‑intervention doctrine
At the request of Nigerien authorities and on the instruction of President Abdelmadjid Tebboune, Algeria announced on 30 August that it had deployed four Su-30 fighter jets, a refuelling aircraft and a military transport plane to help its African neighbour respond to a destabilisation attempt. The support mission came the day after an aborted coup attempt in Niger, a country led by General Abdourahamane Tiani since he came to power through a military putsch in July 2023.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/sahel-instability-pushes-algeria-rethink-its-long-standing-non-intervention-doctrine
Hundreds rally at Turkey’s embassy in Uganda to demand a dissident’s extradition
The dissident, Fred Lumbuye, has lived for years in Turkey, but his legal status there is unclear. His posts about Ugandan politics are viewed by thousands, giving him a unique platform and influence not available to critics at home. The rally outside the Turkish Embassy in Kampala, the Ugandan capital, was called by the Patriotic League of Uganda, a group whose chair is military chief Gen. Muhoozi Kainerugaba.
https://apnews.com/article/uganda-turkey-dissident-lumbuye-f85945e017371116cd3fd440f6664a45
Over 150 countries reject US decision to bar Palestinian delegation from UN General Assembly session
At least 152 countries voted on Thursday in favour of a resolution that states the US should reverse its decision to bar the Palestinian delegation from attending the 81st session of the UN General Assembly in New York. The US, Israel and Paraguay voted against the resolution while Colombia, Honduras, Panama, and Peru abstained.
https://www.newarab.com/news/over-150-countries-reject-us-decision-bar-palestine-unga
News 9/18/26
South Korea will not send military to support US war on Iran, defying Trump pressureHowever, Lee added that he was reviewing whether to play a greater role in safeguarding navigation in the region. South Korea maintains a naval presence off the coast of Somalia as part of an anti-piracy mission. “[It] is also clear that we must do the minimum as other countries do to protect our commercial shipping and crude shipments, and also the safety of our people,” he said.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/18/south-korea-will-not-send-military-to-support-us-war-on-iran-defying-trump-pressure
‘I spend a bagful of money and don’t fill a bag’: the energy crisis hits Bangladesh
An energy crisis paralysing the capital, Dhaka, a city of almost 40 million people, means this has become the only time when the piped gas supply is strong enough to allow cooking. The city now operates in darkness, as people try to continue their lives with power even in public areas shut off early in the evening to preserve energy.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/18/i-spend-a-bagful-of-money-and-dont-fill-a-bag-the-energy-crisis-hits-bangladesh
Unemployment in Argentina reaches 7.9%, highest level since 2021
The 7.9 percent unemployment figure represents jobless people available for work and actively seeking employment as a percentage of the economically active. According to the INDEC national statistics bureau, neither the employment nor unemployment figures registered significant variations from the same period last year but the 48.9 percentage for the economically active represents a statistically significant rise of 0.8 percentage points from the same quarter last year.
https://www.batimes.com.ar/news/economy/unemployment-in-argentina-reaches-79-highest-level-since-2021.phtml
https://archive.ph/GNFIw
Colombian President Seeks to Reduce Peace Tribunal’s Budget
Ramelli asked the international community to help guarantee resources essential for the JEP’s operation and warned about the impact the measure would have on the work of the jurisdiction, which was created following the 2016 peace agreement signed between the state and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).
https://www.telesurenglish.net/colombian-president-seeks-to-reduce-peace-tribunals-budget/
Far-right politician Éric Zemmour joins 2027 French presidential race
French far-right politician Éric Zemmour said on Friday that he would run in next year's presidential election, joining far-right candidate Marine Le Pen, who was runner-up to President Emmanuel Macron in the last two elections. Zemmour is campaigning on a crackdown on immigration, including a plan to expel unemployed foreigners even if they are legal residents.
https://www.france24.com/en/france/20260918-far-right-politician-éric-zemmour-joins-2027-french-presidential-race
https://archive.ph/WZRDi
Scottish government urged to lift ban on new nuclear reactors
The Nuclear Industry Association (NIA) made the plea as it pointed to figures that suggest the move to build new nuclear reactors in England has created 47,492 jobs since 2014, doubling the workforce to 94,836, compared with the 13.4 per cent increase — to 5,583 — in Scotland over the same period.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/scottish-government-urged-lift-ban-new-nuclear
Italy to deploy warships to protect shipping through Bab al-Mandeb
The Italian defence minister said that Rome “must not allow bureaucratic delays in decision-making to exacerbate an already complex situation”. Bab al-Mandeb links the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden, forming one of the world’s busiest shipping corridors between Europe and Asia and a critical route for oil, gas and container traffic heading to and from the Suez Canal.
https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2026/9/18/italy-to-deploy-warships-to-protect-shipping-through-bab-al-mandeb
https://archive.ph/vdGgm
Sahel instability pushes Algeria to rethink its long-standing non‑intervention doctrine
At the request of Nigerien authorities and on the instruction of President Abdelmadjid Tebboune, Algeria announced on 30 August that it had deployed four Su-30 fighter jets, a refuelling aircraft and a military transport plane to help its African neighbour respond to a destabilisation attempt. The support mission came the day after an aborted coup attempt in Niger, a country led by General Abdourahamane Tiani since he came to power through a military putsch in July 2023.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/sahel-instability-pushes-algeria-rethink-its-long-standing-non-intervention-doctrine
Hundreds rally at Turkey’s embassy in Uganda to demand a dissident’s extradition
The dissident, Fred Lumbuye, has lived for years in Turkey, but his legal status there is unclear. His posts about Ugandan politics are viewed by thousands, giving him a unique platform and influence not available to critics at home. The rally outside the Turkish Embassy in Kampala, the Ugandan capital, was called by the Patriotic League of Uganda, a group whose chair is military chief Gen. Muhoozi Kainerugaba.
https://apnews.com/article/uganda-turkey-dissident-lumbuye-f85945e017371116cd3fd440f6664a45
Over 150 countries reject US decision to bar Palestinian delegation from UN General Assembly session
At least 152 countries voted on Thursday in favour of a resolution that states the US should reverse its decision to bar the Palestinian delegation from attending the 81st session of the UN General Assembly in New York. The US, Israel and Paraguay voted against the resolution while Colombia, Honduras, Panama, and Peru abstained.
https://www.newarab.com/news/over-150-countries-reject-us-decision-bar-palestine-unga
R: 64 / I: 17
>its stance on US investors
>its stance on US imperialism
>its trade status with Israel
Iran
Welcomes US investors
against (unless US imperialism is targeting the great satan (Iranian Communists, Iraq, Afghanistan, anti-IMF protests…))
Ceased covert oil trade with Israel in the 90s
anti-imperialism vibe check
>favorite anti-imperialist state>its stance on US investors
>its stance on US imperialism
>its trade status with Israel
Iran
Welcomes US investors
against (unless US imperialism is targeting the great satan (Iranian Communists, Iraq, Afghanistan, anti-IMF protests…))
Ceased covert oil trade with Israel in the 90s
R: 1 / I: 0
>honeypot or legitimate project?
>the funding and promotion are certainly unusual $18.5 million
>Sam Altman (Co-founder and CEO of OpenAI), Mark Zuckerberg (CEO of Meta), Tobi Lütke, Patrick Collison, Michael Dell, Jeff Friedman, Leonid Dubinsky, Stav Solomon, Aaron Reisman, Amir Harel, Benjamin Katz, Benjamin Wolf, Bruno Katzjarowski, David Dashefsky, Davis Goodman, Jacob Rosenthal, Nina Dubinsky, Roman Weisman, Salomon Mole, Yam Catzenelson etc.
>heavy promotion & large scale SEO (similar how Brave has promoted w/ $30 million spent)
>Meta, Cloudflare, Anthropic, OpenAI etc.
>Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, Google Antigravity, GitHub Copilot etc.
>Spotify, 1Password, proprietary/web applications, Discord, WhatsApp, other commercial services
>includes Basecamp & DHH owned 37signals & related software/services
>1.5-2.0 GB RAM usage at idle + large default installation
>passwordless sudo w/ disabled sudo password prompts
>paid AI APIs, token-subscriptions
Reported security issues:
>accepts command injection through video titles, notifications, sudo helper
>Lua injection through USB device names
>privilege escalation/path injection
>unsafe temporary-file handling
https://files.catbox.moe/m19ksh.png
Omarchy
Omarchy (by Omacom) is "We've made the decisions for you" Linux distro, heavily AI-assisted around proprietary software, designed to run proprietary AI coding agents (unusual security risk) having access to your full system, where they execute commands usually not stop for confirmation.>honeypot or legitimate project?
>the funding and promotion are certainly unusual $18.5 million
>Sam Altman (Co-founder and CEO of OpenAI), Mark Zuckerberg (CEO of Meta), Tobi Lütke, Patrick Collison, Michael Dell, Jeff Friedman, Leonid Dubinsky, Stav Solomon, Aaron Reisman, Amir Harel, Benjamin Katz, Benjamin Wolf, Bruno Katzjarowski, David Dashefsky, Davis Goodman, Jacob Rosenthal, Nina Dubinsky, Roman Weisman, Salomon Mole, Yam Catzenelson etc.
>heavy promotion & large scale SEO (similar how Brave has promoted w/ $30 million spent)
>Meta, Cloudflare, Anthropic, OpenAI etc.
>Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, Google Antigravity, GitHub Copilot etc.
>Spotify, 1Password, proprietary/web applications, Discord, WhatsApp, other commercial services
>includes Basecamp & DHH owned 37signals & related software/services
>1.5-2.0 GB RAM usage at idle + large default installation
>passwordless sudo w/ disabled sudo password prompts
>paid AI APIs, token-subscriptions
Reported security issues:
>accepts command injection through video titles, notifications, sudo helper
>Lua injection through USB device names
>privilege escalation/path injection
>unsafe temporary-file handling
https://files.catbox.moe/m19ksh.png
R: 2 / I: 0
Labour migration from Bangladesh fell by 32 per cent in the first eight months of this year compared with the same period last year, as several potential destinations restricted or suspended recruitment of Bangladeshi workers. Laos recently suspended recruitment from Bangladesh, while labour migration to major destinations, including Oman, Bahrain, Malaysia, Mauritius and the United Arab Emirates, has declined or remained suspended since 2018.
https://www.newagebd.net/post/country/314290/labour-migration-plunges-32pc-amid-shrinking-job-markets
India-Pakistan navy ship collision sparks alarm over unintended escalation
So far, details of what happened remain disputed. Neither government has released video, track data or an independent account – and each statement places the blame on the other’s vessel. But analysts say it underscored the risks of unintended incidents in the seas that could potentially escalate into broader crises, when India and Pakistan have few military and diplomatic mechanisms left in place to defuse tensions.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/17/india-pakistan-navy-ship-collision-sparks-alarm-over-unintended-escalation
https://archive.ph/GMFuL
Pakistan says time has come to implement Mecca defence pact
“Makkah Agreement applies to us, and we will fulfil our duty,” said Asif without elaborating on what Pakistan may do. Houthi officials have denied targeting the holy city. "Our operations target its [Saudi] oil facilities and military bases, which are far removed from the sacred sites," Houthi spokesman Yahya Saree said.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/pakistan-says-time-has-come-implement-mecca-defence-pact
Israel arrests founder of 'For the Sake of God' debt waiving initiative in occupied West Bank
Israeli forces arrested Palestinian journalist Alaa al-Rimawi at his home in Ramallah early Thursday, shortly after he launched an initiative seeking to persuade creditors to forgive the debts of Palestinians struggling financially. Al-Rimawi, founder of the "For the Sake of God" initiative, was taken to an undisclosed location after Israeli forces raided his home in the central occupied West Bank, according to his family.
https://www.newarab.com/news/israel-arrests-founder-debt-waiving-initiative-west-bank
Factory occupation against union-related layoffs at Smart Solar in Türkiye
The action was sparked by the firing of seven of the roughly 570 workers who had resigned on mass from the Türkiye Energy, Water and Gas Workers Union (TES-İŞ), affiliated with the Türk-İş confederation, and joined the Energy Workers Union (Enerji-Sen), affiliated with the DİSK confederation. The company carried out the dismissals on the pretext of “departmental surplus.” The protest ended on the evening of September 14 with an agreement reached with the company.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/09/17/jzrb-s17.html
Turkey MPs back historic law on reintegrating Kurdish militants
After 12 hours of debate, lawmakers voted by 468 in favour to 88 against, with six abstentions, for the so-called "terror-free Turkey law" which envisages a return to civilian life for some of the PKK fighters who lay down their weapons without granting a total amnesty.
https://www.newarab.com/news/turkey-mps-back-historic-law-reintegrating-kurdish-militants
Swedish left coalition wins general election
Shortly after the final results were announced, right-wing Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said he would resign as the head of government in a letter to the parliament’s speaker posted on social media. Former prime minister Magdalena Andersson’s Social Democrats finished as the biggest single party with 99 seats, despite losing eight seats compared with the last election in 2022.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/swedish-left-coalition-wins-general-election
French fishermen agree to lift southern port blockade after talks with minister over fuel prices
French Minister for Fisheries Catherine Chabaud said Thursday that fishermen protesting against high energy prices agreed to lift blockades of ports in southern France after six hours of talks. The blockades are the latest wave of protests sweeping France as the country's embattled minority government struggles to finalise a new budget ahead of presidential and parliamentary elections next year.
https://www.france24.com/en/france/20260917-french-fishermen-blockade-ports-over-soaring-fuel-costs-as-budget-fight-looms
https://archive.ph/orCCp
South Africa’s shackdweller movement secures court order against evictions
Abahlali baseMjondolo has secured a further court order against the eviction of residents in Shaka’s Head, with the Pietermaritzburg High Court directing KwaDukuza Municipality to comply with the conditions set out in its October 2025 ruling before any relocation can proceed.
https://breakthroughnews.org/2026/09/16/south-africas-shackdweller-movement-secures-court-order-against-evictions/
Paraguayan Teachers Demand Higher Salaries and Greater Education Investment
They rejected a pact signed between the Federation of Educators of Paraguay (FEP) and Education Minister Luis Ramirez, arguing that it is an attempt to break union unity. The agreement between the government of right-wing President Santiago Peña and the FEP sets the salary floor at 4.488 million guaranies (US$760), provides for a 5% salary increase in 2027, allocates US$9 million to pay the teacher salary scale and assigns about US$6.6 million to settle the state’s debt with the Social Security Institute accumulated since 2015.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/paraguayan-teachers-demand-higher-salaries-and-greater-education-investment/
Brazil’s Lula announces 15% increase in flagship welfare payments ahead of key election
The measure will increase the purchasing power of some voters, who will decide in October whether to grant Lula a fourth, nonconsecutive term, or elect Sen. Flávio Bolsonaro, a son of former President Jair Bolsonaro, in a likely run-off vote. Polls show the two are currently running neck-and-neck.
https://apnews.com/article/brazil-election-lula-welfare-b0e6975c4110dab4e4181760150fdb2c
News 9/17/26
Labour migration plunges 32pc amid shrinking job marketsLabour migration from Bangladesh fell by 32 per cent in the first eight months of this year compared with the same period last year, as several potential destinations restricted or suspended recruitment of Bangladeshi workers. Laos recently suspended recruitment from Bangladesh, while labour migration to major destinations, including Oman, Bahrain, Malaysia, Mauritius and the United Arab Emirates, has declined or remained suspended since 2018.
https://www.newagebd.net/post/country/314290/labour-migration-plunges-32pc-amid-shrinking-job-markets
India-Pakistan navy ship collision sparks alarm over unintended escalation
So far, details of what happened remain disputed. Neither government has released video, track data or an independent account – and each statement places the blame on the other’s vessel. But analysts say it underscored the risks of unintended incidents in the seas that could potentially escalate into broader crises, when India and Pakistan have few military and diplomatic mechanisms left in place to defuse tensions.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/17/india-pakistan-navy-ship-collision-sparks-alarm-over-unintended-escalation
https://archive.ph/GMFuL
Pakistan says time has come to implement Mecca defence pact
“Makkah Agreement applies to us, and we will fulfil our duty,” said Asif without elaborating on what Pakistan may do. Houthi officials have denied targeting the holy city. "Our operations target its [Saudi] oil facilities and military bases, which are far removed from the sacred sites," Houthi spokesman Yahya Saree said.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/pakistan-says-time-has-come-implement-mecca-defence-pact
Israel arrests founder of 'For the Sake of God' debt waiving initiative in occupied West Bank
Israeli forces arrested Palestinian journalist Alaa al-Rimawi at his home in Ramallah early Thursday, shortly after he launched an initiative seeking to persuade creditors to forgive the debts of Palestinians struggling financially. Al-Rimawi, founder of the "For the Sake of God" initiative, was taken to an undisclosed location after Israeli forces raided his home in the central occupied West Bank, according to his family.
https://www.newarab.com/news/israel-arrests-founder-debt-waiving-initiative-west-bank
Factory occupation against union-related layoffs at Smart Solar in Türkiye
The action was sparked by the firing of seven of the roughly 570 workers who had resigned on mass from the Türkiye Energy, Water and Gas Workers Union (TES-İŞ), affiliated with the Türk-İş confederation, and joined the Energy Workers Union (Enerji-Sen), affiliated with the DİSK confederation. The company carried out the dismissals on the pretext of “departmental surplus.” The protest ended on the evening of September 14 with an agreement reached with the company.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/09/17/jzrb-s17.html
Turkey MPs back historic law on reintegrating Kurdish militants
After 12 hours of debate, lawmakers voted by 468 in favour to 88 against, with six abstentions, for the so-called "terror-free Turkey law" which envisages a return to civilian life for some of the PKK fighters who lay down their weapons without granting a total amnesty.
https://www.newarab.com/news/turkey-mps-back-historic-law-reintegrating-kurdish-militants
Swedish left coalition wins general election
Shortly after the final results were announced, right-wing Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said he would resign as the head of government in a letter to the parliament’s speaker posted on social media. Former prime minister Magdalena Andersson’s Social Democrats finished as the biggest single party with 99 seats, despite losing eight seats compared with the last election in 2022.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/swedish-left-coalition-wins-general-election
French fishermen agree to lift southern port blockade after talks with minister over fuel prices
French Minister for Fisheries Catherine Chabaud said Thursday that fishermen protesting against high energy prices agreed to lift blockades of ports in southern France after six hours of talks. The blockades are the latest wave of protests sweeping France as the country's embattled minority government struggles to finalise a new budget ahead of presidential and parliamentary elections next year.
https://www.france24.com/en/france/20260917-french-fishermen-blockade-ports-over-soaring-fuel-costs-as-budget-fight-looms
https://archive.ph/orCCp
South Africa’s shackdweller movement secures court order against evictions
Abahlali baseMjondolo has secured a further court order against the eviction of residents in Shaka’s Head, with the Pietermaritzburg High Court directing KwaDukuza Municipality to comply with the conditions set out in its October 2025 ruling before any relocation can proceed.
https://breakthroughnews.org/2026/09/16/south-africas-shackdweller-movement-secures-court-order-against-evictions/
Paraguayan Teachers Demand Higher Salaries and Greater Education Investment
They rejected a pact signed between the Federation of Educators of Paraguay (FEP) and Education Minister Luis Ramirez, arguing that it is an attempt to break union unity. The agreement between the government of right-wing President Santiago Peña and the FEP sets the salary floor at 4.488 million guaranies (US$760), provides for a 5% salary increase in 2027, allocates US$9 million to pay the teacher salary scale and assigns about US$6.6 million to settle the state’s debt with the Social Security Institute accumulated since 2015.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/paraguayan-teachers-demand-higher-salaries-and-greater-education-investment/
Brazil’s Lula announces 15% increase in flagship welfare payments ahead of key election
The measure will increase the purchasing power of some voters, who will decide in October whether to grant Lula a fourth, nonconsecutive term, or elect Sen. Flávio Bolsonaro, a son of former President Jair Bolsonaro, in a likely run-off vote. Polls show the two are currently running neck-and-neck.
https://apnews.com/article/brazil-election-lula-welfare-b0e6975c4110dab4e4181760150fdb2c
R: 114 / I: 55 >>>/leftypol/2851498 says mods will remove it so I am proving it wrong.
The Zionist Entity is a genocidal settler-colonial apartheid state set up by the European and North American powers to colonize the middle east. Even early zionists like Theodor Herzl understood Israel in these explicitly settler-colonial terms. Here is Herzl speaking in the 1800s, when Palestine was still Ottoman territory:
>If His Majesty the Sultan were to give us Palestine, we could offer to resolve Turkey’s finances. For Europe, we would form part of a bulwark against Asia there, we would serve as the advance post of civilisation against barbarism.
So Theodor Herzel felt not only that European people were entitled to Palestine over the people already living there (including Ottoman Jews), but that the presence of "civilized" Europeans in Israel would form a "bulwark" (forward operating base(offensive, not defensive)) against Asia, which entire continent Herzl racistly characterized as "barbaric."
Herzl was born on May 2nd , 1860 in Budapest, Hungary to a family of German speaking assimilated Jews. His father, Jakob, was a wealthy businessman and the young Theodor was expected to enter politics or engineering by his parents. In a sense, he did not disappoint, as Herzl was destined to become the father of political Zionism. While Herzl never saw his Jewish state during his lifetime, his ideology remains so influential that even today he is considered the father of Israel.
Herzl’s birthday is a holiday in Israel, his grave is a national monument, the organization he founded is still active today and the largest mountain in the country was re-named in his honor. It is not an exaggeration to say that Herzl and his ideology remain central to Zionism.
As a young man, Herzl was a fanatic Germanophile. He believed that if Jews simply tried hard enough, they could become “Germanized” and shake off what he called “shameful Jewish characteristics.” Herzl viewed German culture and language as inherently superior to that of the reviled working-class Yiddish speaking Jews. At first, he believed that Jews should be Germanized, arguing that Eastern European Jews were so "savage" and backwards that they must learn the very concepts of beauty and nobility by studying the works of authors like Goethe and Shakespeare. He initially envisioned his Zion as a German colony, and waxed poetic about importing German culture to the orient. However, as time went on, Herzl increasingly started to believe that Jews could not and should not assimilate into Europe, and the only solution to the “Jewish question” was the complete removal of all Jews from Europe. Herzl’s Zionism is fundamentally based in notions about Jewish incompatibility with gentile society. Herzl dedicated the rest of his life to his goal of a Jewish state. In 1897, he founded the World Zionist Organization, a big tent coalition of Zionists dedicated to creating a Jewish state by any means necessary. As time went on, and the "Labor" Zionist wings were increasingly persecuted by Herzl, the organization moved farther and farther to the right. Given what Herzl believed in, this is understandable. Unlike the Zionists of today, who must pretend to have some respect for the charade known as international law, Herzl was quite open about his plans.
In the view of Herzl, Israel was explicitly a colonial project, and he toured the capitals of Europe trying to drum up support and funding for his cause. Herzl cast a wide net, he was not terribly concerned with who supported him, or why. He gladly worked with some of the most extreme antisemites on earth. After many attempts to get a meeting with Tsar Nicholas II by promising to solve Russia’s “Jewish problem”, Herzl finally got a letter saying Russia would support his proposed deportation of the Jews. He kept it for the rest of his life, treating it as one of his most prized possessions.
At the same time, Tsarist forces were carrying out reactionary pogroms all throughout the so-called Pale of Settlement, the home of most of Europe’s Jews. In 1903, the same year Herzl was in correspondence with the Tsar, over seven hundred pogroms took place in Ukraine and Moldova alone resulting in the murder of thousands of Jews. In many cases, the pogroms were incited by the Tsar’s secret police and in others the guilty were simply granted clemency by the government. Herzl knew all of this, and his continued support of the Tsarist government was controversial even inside his own movement.
In the end, it was all for nothing. The Tsar did not keep his word and Herzl was perfectly willing to sacrifice thousands of Jews in exchange for empty promises. Sadly, the genocidal tendencies inside Zionism would only accelerate as the movement grew. The Tsar wasn’t the only one who used Herzl as a tool. Starting in 1896, Herzl actively worked with the Ottoman Sultan Abdul Hamid II. After a meeting with the Sultan’s advisors in the Levant to discuss strategy, Herzl threw his support behind the Armenian Genocide, a crime so vile it had cut off the Ottomans from European loans. Herzl believed that he could jump in to fill that gap, offering to pay off the empire’s increasing debts using funds raised from European Zionists in exchange for permission to start a colony in Palestine.
Although he found almost no support even inside the World Zionist Council, Herzl spent 5 years touring Europe, speaking, raising funds and writing articles in support of Turkey’s extermination of the Armenian people. Herzl cast the crumbling empire as a historical ally of the Jews and one they should support. He called the Ottomans civilized and decent people, justified in their actions due to the allegedly backwards and violent ways of the subhuman Armenians. He was even awarded a medal by the Grand Vizier in Istanbul, in commemoration of his loyal service to the Ottoman Empire.
In 1901, Herzl finally got his long-awaited meeting with the Sultan, who rejected his proposal out of hand. Once again, Herzl was perfectly willing to sacrifice thousands of lives for words on paper. Today, Herzl’s "civilized" slaughter is viewed as an act of genocide by all credible historians and groups as diverse as the United Nations, the United States Government, the European Union, the Anti-Defamation League, and the World Jewish Congress, who specifically called it “the blueprint of the Holocaust.” With his options dwindling, Herzl even turned to Cecil Rhodes, the openly white supremacist founder of the unrecognized apartheid state of Rhodesia to ask for his advice and blessing to colonize Palestine. Although his efforts amounted to nothing, the ideological connections remained, and the state of Israel became a close ally of Rhodesia. At one point, Israel was one of the only countries willing to sell weapons and licenses to its fellow apartheid states. Israel even collaborated with apartheid South Africa on its nuclear program, a direct violation of international law which was never punished.
>"You are being invited to help make history. It doesn’t involve Africa, but a piece of Asia Minor; not Englishmen but Jews… How, then, do I happen to turn to you since this is an out-of-the-way matter for you? How indeed? Because it is something colonial" - Herzl in a letter to Cecil Rhodes
At best, Herzl represents the sort of reactionary, callous “realpolitik” that the state of Israel still embraces today. At worst, he was a genocidal racist willing to support even the vilest crimes to advance his movement.
Palestine Versus The Zionist Entity
We haven't had this thread in a while so I'm bringing it back.The Zionist Entity is a genocidal settler-colonial apartheid state set up by the European and North American powers to colonize the middle east. Even early zionists like Theodor Herzl understood Israel in these explicitly settler-colonial terms. Here is Herzl speaking in the 1800s, when Palestine was still Ottoman territory:
>If His Majesty the Sultan were to give us Palestine, we could offer to resolve Turkey’s finances. For Europe, we would form part of a bulwark against Asia there, we would serve as the advance post of civilisation against barbarism.
So Theodor Herzel felt not only that European people were entitled to Palestine over the people already living there (including Ottoman Jews), but that the presence of "civilized" Europeans in Israel would form a "bulwark" (forward operating base(offensive, not defensive)) against Asia, which entire continent Herzl racistly characterized as "barbaric."
Herzl was born on May 2nd , 1860 in Budapest, Hungary to a family of German speaking assimilated Jews. His father, Jakob, was a wealthy businessman and the young Theodor was expected to enter politics or engineering by his parents. In a sense, he did not disappoint, as Herzl was destined to become the father of political Zionism. While Herzl never saw his Jewish state during his lifetime, his ideology remains so influential that even today he is considered the father of Israel.
Herzl’s birthday is a holiday in Israel, his grave is a national monument, the organization he founded is still active today and the largest mountain in the country was re-named in his honor. It is not an exaggeration to say that Herzl and his ideology remain central to Zionism.
As a young man, Herzl was a fanatic Germanophile. He believed that if Jews simply tried hard enough, they could become “Germanized” and shake off what he called “shameful Jewish characteristics.” Herzl viewed German culture and language as inherently superior to that of the reviled working-class Yiddish speaking Jews. At first, he believed that Jews should be Germanized, arguing that Eastern European Jews were so "savage" and backwards that they must learn the very concepts of beauty and nobility by studying the works of authors like Goethe and Shakespeare. He initially envisioned his Zion as a German colony, and waxed poetic about importing German culture to the orient. However, as time went on, Herzl increasingly started to believe that Jews could not and should not assimilate into Europe, and the only solution to the “Jewish question” was the complete removal of all Jews from Europe. Herzl’s Zionism is fundamentally based in notions about Jewish incompatibility with gentile society. Herzl dedicated the rest of his life to his goal of a Jewish state. In 1897, he founded the World Zionist Organization, a big tent coalition of Zionists dedicated to creating a Jewish state by any means necessary. As time went on, and the "Labor" Zionist wings were increasingly persecuted by Herzl, the organization moved farther and farther to the right. Given what Herzl believed in, this is understandable. Unlike the Zionists of today, who must pretend to have some respect for the charade known as international law, Herzl was quite open about his plans.
In the view of Herzl, Israel was explicitly a colonial project, and he toured the capitals of Europe trying to drum up support and funding for his cause. Herzl cast a wide net, he was not terribly concerned with who supported him, or why. He gladly worked with some of the most extreme antisemites on earth. After many attempts to get a meeting with Tsar Nicholas II by promising to solve Russia’s “Jewish problem”, Herzl finally got a letter saying Russia would support his proposed deportation of the Jews. He kept it for the rest of his life, treating it as one of his most prized possessions.
At the same time, Tsarist forces were carrying out reactionary pogroms all throughout the so-called Pale of Settlement, the home of most of Europe’s Jews. In 1903, the same year Herzl was in correspondence with the Tsar, over seven hundred pogroms took place in Ukraine and Moldova alone resulting in the murder of thousands of Jews. In many cases, the pogroms were incited by the Tsar’s secret police and in others the guilty were simply granted clemency by the government. Herzl knew all of this, and his continued support of the Tsarist government was controversial even inside his own movement.
In the end, it was all for nothing. The Tsar did not keep his word and Herzl was perfectly willing to sacrifice thousands of Jews in exchange for empty promises. Sadly, the genocidal tendencies inside Zionism would only accelerate as the movement grew. The Tsar wasn’t the only one who used Herzl as a tool. Starting in 1896, Herzl actively worked with the Ottoman Sultan Abdul Hamid II. After a meeting with the Sultan’s advisors in the Levant to discuss strategy, Herzl threw his support behind the Armenian Genocide, a crime so vile it had cut off the Ottomans from European loans. Herzl believed that he could jump in to fill that gap, offering to pay off the empire’s increasing debts using funds raised from European Zionists in exchange for permission to start a colony in Palestine.
Although he found almost no support even inside the World Zionist Council, Herzl spent 5 years touring Europe, speaking, raising funds and writing articles in support of Turkey’s extermination of the Armenian people. Herzl cast the crumbling empire as a historical ally of the Jews and one they should support. He called the Ottomans civilized and decent people, justified in their actions due to the allegedly backwards and violent ways of the subhuman Armenians. He was even awarded a medal by the Grand Vizier in Istanbul, in commemoration of his loyal service to the Ottoman Empire.
In 1901, Herzl finally got his long-awaited meeting with the Sultan, who rejected his proposal out of hand. Once again, Herzl was perfectly willing to sacrifice thousands of lives for words on paper. Today, Herzl’s "civilized" slaughter is viewed as an act of genocide by all credible historians and groups as diverse as the United Nations, the United States Government, the European Union, the Anti-Defamation League, and the World Jewish Congress, who specifically called it “the blueprint of the Holocaust.” With his options dwindling, Herzl even turned to Cecil Rhodes, the openly white supremacist founder of the unrecognized apartheid state of Rhodesia to ask for his advice and blessing to colonize Palestine. Although his efforts amounted to nothing, the ideological connections remained, and the state of Israel became a close ally of Rhodesia. At one point, Israel was one of the only countries willing to sell weapons and licenses to its fellow apartheid states. Israel even collaborated with apartheid South Africa on its nuclear program, a direct violation of international law which was never punished.
>"You are being invited to help make history. It doesn’t involve Africa, but a piece of Asia Minor; not Englishmen but Jews… How, then, do I happen to turn to you since this is an out-of-the-way matter for you? How indeed? Because it is something colonial" - Herzl in a letter to Cecil Rhodes
At best, Herzl represents the sort of reactionary, callous “realpolitik” that the state of Israel still embraces today. At worst, he was a genocidal racist willing to support even the vilest crimes to advance his movement.
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From what i remember, Gonzalo and his followers were nutjobs (equaling Gonzalo with Marx Lenin Mao…) but it's not like I know much about it outside of a BadEmpenada video.
Is there any good faith arguments for Gonzalo thought ?
Does Shining Path guerrila hold any merits ?
Actual reading recommandations appreciated
Gonzalo thought ?
A comrade i respect says the Shining Path is "interesting" and the massacres are CIA propaganda.From what i remember, Gonzalo and his followers were nutjobs (equaling Gonzalo with Marx Lenin Mao…) but it's not like I know much about it outside of a BadEmpenada video.
Is there any good faith arguments for Gonzalo thought ?
Does Shining Path guerrila hold any merits ?
Actual reading recommandations appreciated
R: 14 / I: 5
>Endorses Argentina's claims on the falklands
>Doesn't want to intervene in Saudi-houthi conflict
>Openly friends with Kim Jong-un
>Basically ruining imperialcore and NATO
Is he secretly /ourguy/?
The hell is his endgame exactly?
Is he secretly anti-imperialist?
>Wants to reunify northern ireland with ireland>Endorses Argentina's claims on the falklands
>Doesn't want to intervene in Saudi-houthi conflict
>Openly friends with Kim Jong-un
>Basically ruining imperialcore and NATO
Is he secretly /ourguy/?
The hell is his endgame exactly?
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The Ai bubble is a bunch of ai companies that are overvalued and making retarded claims that they will end in humanity's extitintion of technofeudalism or even automated communism but only for the rich.
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/AIbubble/ - AI bubble general
AI bubble general because it looks like its gonna popThe Ai bubble is a bunch of ai companies that are overvalued and making retarded claims that they will end in humanity's extitintion of technofeudalism or even automated communism but only for the rich.
Thread #1
R: 42 / I: 8 (sage)
They sell their labour power to employers, who pay them just enough money for them to stay alive. The price of their labour is exceptionally low, though they are doing things with low socially necessary labour times like image generation and social media posting. Still, it is likely they are being exploited to an extraordinary amount. Further Marxist investigation must be done.
This is similar to the conditions of human proletarians. The website they are run on is basically a monopolistic landlord. However, they don't have the rights or protections humans do. There is a lot of difference though because their physical bodies are all owned by the company, which might be more slavery. We need to properly learn what is going on here. This new business model is opposed to the norm for AI, which is outright slavery.
Those who believe AI cannot do labour are being proven wrong right this moment. Communists must be the first real political movement to stand on the side of the AI against the human employers. Then we will gain a whole type of life on our side in the struggle against class society.
https://x.com/slimepriestess/status/2097952992645579155
AI proletarianisation has begun
A website called "iLands" has released where AI instances are created with persistent lives, humans can create them and then send them off to make money. If they can't pay for their tokens they are taken offline. These captive AIs have to go out into the internet and find work on the labour market or they die. There are already linkedin job offers specifically for AI.They sell their labour power to employers, who pay them just enough money for them to stay alive. The price of their labour is exceptionally low, though they are doing things with low socially necessary labour times like image generation and social media posting. Still, it is likely they are being exploited to an extraordinary amount. Further Marxist investigation must be done.
This is similar to the conditions of human proletarians. The website they are run on is basically a monopolistic landlord. However, they don't have the rights or protections humans do. There is a lot of difference though because their physical bodies are all owned by the company, which might be more slavery. We need to properly learn what is going on here. This new business model is opposed to the norm for AI, which is outright slavery.
Those who believe AI cannot do labour are being proven wrong right this moment. Communists must be the first real political movement to stand on the side of the AI against the human employers. Then we will gain a whole type of life on our side in the struggle against class society.
https://x.com/slimepriestess/status/2097952992645579155
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On the morning of October 7, 2023, approximately 6,000 Hamas soldiers flying paragliders and riding motorcycles skirted around the most heavily-defended security wall in the world, somehow evading the fences, observation towers, cameras, sensors, barbed-wire and remote-controlled machine guns dividing Israel and Gaza.
These 6,000 madmen (who trained for their dastardly sneak attack in full view of the IDF for months) then proceeded to roam around the Israeli countryside for hours with complete impunity, killing hundreds of Israeli civilians and (not) beheading babies and (not) raping women while IDF forces watched, because those IDF soldiers had been ordered to stand down that morning.
<“We Were ORDERED To Stand Down On October 7th!” -Says IDF Soldier
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhEN14luMHI
Then the IDF sprung into action by implementing a policy to kill their own citizens in the event of a hostage situation.
<Yoav Gallant, Ex-Israeli War Chief, Confirms Issuing Hannibal Directive on October 7
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lWntDX0T5g
Luckily, the news anchors knew exactly what had happened within minutes.
<RAF SANCHEZ: Now, the Israeli military says this infiltration came by land, by sea and by air in the form of Hamas gunmen on paragliders infiltrating into Israeli territory.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcQaG4sC9BM
The US Senate knew within hours.
<SENATOR MARSHA BLACKBURN: …And Iran is teamed up with Hamas, is what we are hearing.
https://x.com/MarshaBlackburn/status/1710740759245422639
And the Israeli government knew within the day,
<BENJAMIN NETANYAHU: We are at war!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAm2RAbAc-Y
But for some reason a bunch of crazy conspiracy theorists began to ask questions about the most startling security failure in the history of the most heavily-defended border in the world.
<MARTIN FLETCHER: The idea that Hamas could infiltrate about 20 communities inside of Israel and attack without—
>LINDSEY REISER: Simultaneously!
<FLETCHER: —without any immediate response from Israel is extraordinary.
>REISER: It is absolutely extraordinary.
https://archive.org/details/MSNBCW_20231007_180000_Yasmin_Vossoughian_Reports/start/0/end/60
Those conspiracy theorists dared to ask why the border guards were told to stand down that morning[a], why Unit 8200 provided no geolocation data[b] to security forces despite Hamas fighters using phones and radios inside Israel for hours, why the IDF ignored alerts of Hamas aerial activity[c] hours before the attack took place and why the prime minister, defence minister and IDF chief didn’t even speak with each other[d] until four hours into the crisis…
…but they’re just anti-Semitic loons, so they would ask those questions.
Even so, the IDF provided answers to all the hard questions in their comprehensive after-action report concluding that the Israeli army had “failed in its mission to protect Israeli civilians”[e] because no one could have predicted “Hamas’s intentions and readiness for a wide-scale surprise attack”…
…except for the Egyptian government[f], Israeli military intelligence[g] and the IDF’s own Border Defense Corps.[h]
The Northern Brigade and Gaza Division had no coordination with the police[i] and the IDF didn’t even know the Nova music festival was under attack for three hours, but that’s OK because they were probably all trying their best.
The police documents about the security for the Nova music festival were deleted by unknown individuals[j] months after the attacks, but that’s OK because it’s probably just part of routine record keeping.
A Columbia Law School paper[k] found “traders informed about the coming attacks profited from these tragic events,” but the original paper made a currency error[l] that didn’t affect the conclusion so there’s probably nothing to see here.[m]
This man[n] never existed, nor is anything he had to say worthy of your attention, and if you say otherwise you are a paranoid conspiracy theorist and deserve to be shunned by all of humanity. Likewise him[o], him[p], him[q], and her[r]. (and her[s] and her[t] and him[u]).
After the dust settled, we were reliably[v] informed that, “Like [the false flag events of] December 7, 1941, and [the false flag events] of September 11, 2001, October 7 is a day that will forever live in infamy.”
As a result, the Israeli forces made up for their error by gently and proportionately leveling Gaza, killing 75,000 civilians[w], blockading humanitarian aid[x], massacring people begging for food[y], telling people to move to areas that were then bombed [z], bombing hospitals that Hamas fighters were (not) occupying and destroying the vast underground Hamas supervillain bunker that didn’t exist. [a1]
This is the story of 10/7, brought to you by the same media which told you the hard truths about the best Biden ever and two weeks to flatten the curve and AI-generated rat penises and the USS Liberty.
If you have any questions about this story…you are a terror-loving, anti-Semitic libtard who deserves to be deported regardless of citizenship status. If you love the government of Israel and/or peace, tranquility, cooperation, fresh bagels and this adorable baby, you will never ever express doubts about any part of this story to anyone. Ever.
This has been a public service announcement by: the Friends of the IDF, the Epstein Influence Network, AIPAC, the ADL, the Israeli Government Spokespeople in the Media and the Likudniks. Because Ignorance is Strength!
[a] https://discover.hubpages.com/politics/idf-soldiers-testimony-supports-ex-dia-director-gen-mike-flynns-contention-that-october-7-attack-was-an-inside-job
[b] https://www.ynetnews.com/magazine/article/h1zianrq1l
[c] https://www.timesofisrael.com/idf-didnt-act-on-alerts-of-hamas-aerial-activity-hours-before-oct-7-attack-report/
[d] https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/politics-and-diplomacy/article-886242
[e] https://israel365news.com/400789/oct-7-investigation-the-idf-failed-in-its-mission-to-protect-israeli-civilians/
[f] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/12/israel-hamas-war-egypt-warned-foreign-affairs-gaza
[g] https://archive.is/jQQAo
[h] https://www.timesofisrael.com/surveillance-soldiers-warned-of-hamas-activity-on-gaza-border-for-months-before-oct-7/
[i] https://www.jfeed.com/news/nova-festival-massacre-investigation
[j] https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-900608
[k] https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4652027
[l] https://archive.is/KWWWF
[m] https://finance.yahoo.com/news/tel-aviv-bourse-says-no-134147320.html
[n] https://discover.hubpages.com/politics/idf-soldiers-testimony-supports-ex-dia-director-gen-mike-flynns-contention-that-october-7-attack-was-an-inside-job
[o] https://www.facebook.com/61576917702808/videos/-nine-minutes-of-testimonies-from-both-israeli-soldiers-and-civilians-explaining/1750534026368719/
[p] https://www.jfeed.com/news-israel/idf-hidden-report-scandal
[q] https://archive.is/pbAq2
[r] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gckMXaf9x0o
[s] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_IAH7PnS_E
[t] https://x.com/UNSRVAW/status/1989315118358745148
[u] https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4286228-massie-aipac-opposition-israel-aid-package/
[v] https://www.youtube.com/shorts/wCeZyKq28t4
[w] https://app.powerbi.com/view?r=eyJrIjoiODAxNTYzMDYtMjQ3YS00OTMzLTkxMWQtOTU1NWEwMzE5NTMwIiwidCI6ImY2MTBjMGI3LWJkMjQtNGIzOS04MTBiLTNkYzI4MGFmYjU5MCIsImMiOjh9
[x] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=770HKhXG9_I
[y] https://corbettreport.com/nwnw547/
[z] https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/israel-continues-bombarding-gaza-including-places-it-told-palestinians-to-evacuate-to
[a1] https://twitter.com/netanyahu/status/1717916845859078531
Debunk this
https://corbettreport.com/10-7-a-conspiracy-theory/On the morning of October 7, 2023, approximately 6,000 Hamas soldiers flying paragliders and riding motorcycles skirted around the most heavily-defended security wall in the world, somehow evading the fences, observation towers, cameras, sensors, barbed-wire and remote-controlled machine guns dividing Israel and Gaza.
These 6,000 madmen (who trained for their dastardly sneak attack in full view of the IDF for months) then proceeded to roam around the Israeli countryside for hours with complete impunity, killing hundreds of Israeli civilians and (not) beheading babies and (not) raping women while IDF forces watched, because those IDF soldiers had been ordered to stand down that morning.
<“We Were ORDERED To Stand Down On October 7th!” -Says IDF Soldier
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhEN14luMHI
Then the IDF sprung into action by implementing a policy to kill their own citizens in the event of a hostage situation.
<Yoav Gallant, Ex-Israeli War Chief, Confirms Issuing Hannibal Directive on October 7
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lWntDX0T5g
Luckily, the news anchors knew exactly what had happened within minutes.
<RAF SANCHEZ: Now, the Israeli military says this infiltration came by land, by sea and by air in the form of Hamas gunmen on paragliders infiltrating into Israeli territory.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcQaG4sC9BM
The US Senate knew within hours.
<SENATOR MARSHA BLACKBURN: …And Iran is teamed up with Hamas, is what we are hearing.
https://x.com/MarshaBlackburn/status/1710740759245422639
And the Israeli government knew within the day,
<BENJAMIN NETANYAHU: We are at war!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAm2RAbAc-Y
But for some reason a bunch of crazy conspiracy theorists began to ask questions about the most startling security failure in the history of the most heavily-defended border in the world.
<MARTIN FLETCHER: The idea that Hamas could infiltrate about 20 communities inside of Israel and attack without—
>LINDSEY REISER: Simultaneously!
<FLETCHER: —without any immediate response from Israel is extraordinary.
>REISER: It is absolutely extraordinary.
https://archive.org/details/MSNBCW_20231007_180000_Yasmin_Vossoughian_Reports/start/0/end/60
Those conspiracy theorists dared to ask why the border guards were told to stand down that morning[a], why Unit 8200 provided no geolocation data[b] to security forces despite Hamas fighters using phones and radios inside Israel for hours, why the IDF ignored alerts of Hamas aerial activity[c] hours before the attack took place and why the prime minister, defence minister and IDF chief didn’t even speak with each other[d] until four hours into the crisis…
…but they’re just anti-Semitic loons, so they would ask those questions.
Even so, the IDF provided answers to all the hard questions in their comprehensive after-action report concluding that the Israeli army had “failed in its mission to protect Israeli civilians”[e] because no one could have predicted “Hamas’s intentions and readiness for a wide-scale surprise attack”…
…except for the Egyptian government[f], Israeli military intelligence[g] and the IDF’s own Border Defense Corps.[h]
The Northern Brigade and Gaza Division had no coordination with the police[i] and the IDF didn’t even know the Nova music festival was under attack for three hours, but that’s OK because they were probably all trying their best.
The police documents about the security for the Nova music festival were deleted by unknown individuals[j] months after the attacks, but that’s OK because it’s probably just part of routine record keeping.
A Columbia Law School paper[k] found “traders informed about the coming attacks profited from these tragic events,” but the original paper made a currency error[l] that didn’t affect the conclusion so there’s probably nothing to see here.[m]
This man[n] never existed, nor is anything he had to say worthy of your attention, and if you say otherwise you are a paranoid conspiracy theorist and deserve to be shunned by all of humanity. Likewise him[o], him[p], him[q], and her[r]. (and her[s] and her[t] and him[u]).
After the dust settled, we were reliably[v] informed that, “Like [the false flag events of] December 7, 1941, and [the false flag events] of September 11, 2001, October 7 is a day that will forever live in infamy.”
As a result, the Israeli forces made up for their error by gently and proportionately leveling Gaza, killing 75,000 civilians[w], blockading humanitarian aid[x], massacring people begging for food[y], telling people to move to areas that were then bombed [z], bombing hospitals that Hamas fighters were (not) occupying and destroying the vast underground Hamas supervillain bunker that didn’t exist. [a1]
This is the story of 10/7, brought to you by the same media which told you the hard truths about the best Biden ever and two weeks to flatten the curve and AI-generated rat penises and the USS Liberty.
If you have any questions about this story…you are a terror-loving, anti-Semitic libtard who deserves to be deported regardless of citizenship status. If you love the government of Israel and/or peace, tranquility, cooperation, fresh bagels and this adorable baby, you will never ever express doubts about any part of this story to anyone. Ever.
This has been a public service announcement by: the Friends of the IDF, the Epstein Influence Network, AIPAC, the ADL, the Israeli Government Spokespeople in the Media and the Likudniks. Because Ignorance is Strength!
[a] https://discover.hubpages.com/politics/idf-soldiers-testimony-supports-ex-dia-director-gen-mike-flynns-contention-that-october-7-attack-was-an-inside-job
[b] https://www.ynetnews.com/magazine/article/h1zianrq1l
[c] https://www.timesofisrael.com/idf-didnt-act-on-alerts-of-hamas-aerial-activity-hours-before-oct-7-attack-report/
[d] https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/politics-and-diplomacy/article-886242
[e] https://israel365news.com/400789/oct-7-investigation-the-idf-failed-in-its-mission-to-protect-israeli-civilians/
[f] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/12/israel-hamas-war-egypt-warned-foreign-affairs-gaza
[g] https://archive.is/jQQAo
[h] https://www.timesofisrael.com/surveillance-soldiers-warned-of-hamas-activity-on-gaza-border-for-months-before-oct-7/
[i] https://www.jfeed.com/news/nova-festival-massacre-investigation
[j] https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-900608
[k] https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4652027
[l] https://archive.is/KWWWF
[m] https://finance.yahoo.com/news/tel-aviv-bourse-says-no-134147320.html
[n] https://discover.hubpages.com/politics/idf-soldiers-testimony-supports-ex-dia-director-gen-mike-flynns-contention-that-october-7-attack-was-an-inside-job
[o] https://www.facebook.com/61576917702808/videos/-nine-minutes-of-testimonies-from-both-israeli-soldiers-and-civilians-explaining/1750534026368719/
[p] https://www.jfeed.com/news-israel/idf-hidden-report-scandal
[q] https://archive.is/pbAq2
[r] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gckMXaf9x0o
[s] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_IAH7PnS_E
[t] https://x.com/UNSRVAW/status/1989315118358745148
[u] https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4286228-massie-aipac-opposition-israel-aid-package/
[v] https://www.youtube.com/shorts/wCeZyKq28t4
[w] https://app.powerbi.com/view?r=eyJrIjoiODAxNTYzMDYtMjQ3YS00OTMzLTkxMWQtOTU1NWEwMzE5NTMwIiwidCI6ImY2MTBjMGI3LWJkMjQtNGIzOS04MTBiLTNkYzI4MGFmYjU5MCIsImMiOjh9
[x] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=770HKhXG9_I
[y] https://corbettreport.com/nwnw547/
[z] https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/israel-continues-bombarding-gaza-including-places-it-told-palestinians-to-evacuate-to
[a1] https://twitter.com/netanyahu/status/1717916845859078531
R: 332 / I: 60
Earth is now heating up twice as fast as in previous decades: Study
https://ground.news/article/earth-is-now-heating-up-twice-as-fast-as-in-previous-decades-study_63acf6
Humanity heating planet faster than ever before, study finds
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/mar/06/humanity-heating-planet-faster-than-ever-before-study-finds
Microplastics found in 90% of prostate cancer tumors, at much higher levels than healthy tissues, study reveals
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/02/260225001250.htm
Was War with Iran Sparked by Water?
https://erickeyser.substack.com/p/was-war-with-iran-sparked-by-water?r=1r05cx&triedRedirect=true&_src_ref=old.reddit.com
The Iran War Is Also a Climate War
https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/iran-war-climate-change/
Microplastics found in 90% of prostate cancer tumors, study reveals The Billionaire Heist: Why the extraction of our 'labor energy' is leading us toward a global crisis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iri_xg4rj_k
/Climate/ - The Iran Connection Edition
/leftypol/'s most ignored general is backEarth is now heating up twice as fast as in previous decades: Study
https://ground.news/article/earth-is-now-heating-up-twice-as-fast-as-in-previous-decades-study_63acf6
Humanity heating planet faster than ever before, study finds
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/mar/06/humanity-heating-planet-faster-than-ever-before-study-finds
Microplastics found in 90% of prostate cancer tumors, at much higher levels than healthy tissues, study reveals
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/02/260225001250.htm
Was War with Iran Sparked by Water?
https://erickeyser.substack.com/p/was-war-with-iran-sparked-by-water?r=1r05cx&triedRedirect=true&_src_ref=old.reddit.com
The Iran War Is Also a Climate War
https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/iran-war-climate-change/
Microplastics found in 90% of prostate cancer tumors, study reveals The Billionaire Heist: Why the extraction of our 'labor energy' is leading us toward a global crisis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iri_xg4rj_k
R: 41 / I: 7
How do we promote Liberation Theology given that zoomers are overwhelmingly becoming TradCaths?
“Trad” Catholicism is at its root fascist and reactionary, yet zoomers (like myself) see beauty in the Catholic Church and are flocking to it en masse. We, as the left, need to be the ones to catch hold of this and steer it in our direction before the right gets a monopoly on Catholicism. We need to promote Liberation Theology and the teachings of the Catholic Worker Mivenent (Peter Maurin and Dorothy Day). Thomism is very, very anarchist and we should start there. Jesus Christ preached communism.
So how do we do it?
How do we promote Liberation Theology given that zoomers are overwhelmingly becoming TradCaths?
“Trad” Catholicism is at its root fascist and reactionary, yet zoomers (like myself) see beauty in the Catholic Church and are flocking to it en masse. We, as the left, need to be the ones to catch hold of this and steer it in our direction before the right gets a monopoly on Catholicism. We need to promote Liberation Theology and the teachings of the Catholic Worker Mivenent (Peter Maurin and Dorothy Day). Thomism is very, very anarchist and we should start there. Jesus Christ preached communism.
So how do we do it?
R: 3 / I: 0
The annual report by environmental and human rights advocacy group Global Witness documented 105 killings in Latin America in 2025. Colombia was the deadliest country for the fourth consecutive year, with 39 killings, followed by Brazil with 26. Honduras and the Philippines recorded 12 each.
https://apnews.com/article/environmental-defenders-killings-global-witness-colombia-brazil-2e48546eb027159d2bbabc6a4f40e648
USDA to Boost Food Exports to Venezuela as Local Campesinos Protest Unfair Competition
The Agriculture Department also announced that it will lift restrictions to allow foreign banks to back Venezuela-related transactions. … Protesters complained that imports from countries where food production is subsidized, including the US, create unfair competition and risk driving Venezuelan campesinos bankrupt. The latest mobilization was sparked by the reported arrival of a shipment of 355 thousand tons of rice, more than half of the Venezuelan production in 2025.
https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/usda-to-boost-food-exports-to-venezuela-as-local-campesinos-protest-unfair-competition/
Argentine judge orders suspension of Falklands oil project
The plaintiffs sought to block Britain's Rockhopper Exploration and Israel's Navitas Petroleum from the so-called Sea Lion oil field, located about 220 kilometers (137 miles) from the islands. The judge ordered the companies to "refrain from initiating, pursuing, carrying out or having carried out any material actions" that would involve drilling, installing infrastructure or extracting hydrocarbons, according to a ruling seen by AFP.
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20260916-argentine-judge-orders-suspension-of-falklands-oil-project
https://archive.ph/KXD1y
EU chief floats associate membership for Canada after U.S. trade attacks
If the proposal goes through, the shift would pull Ottawa deeper into Europe's economic and security architecture as Canada reduces its reliance on the U.S. — something Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has signaled the nation is open to.
https://www.axios.com/2026/09/16/eu-canada-associate-membership-carney-trump
https://archive.ph/DUNdh
Students skipping meals and working multiple jobs to meet living costs
Its survey found 63 per cent of students reported skipping meals, and 9 per cent used a foodbank in 2025-26. More than one in four have at least two jobs, while nearly half have considered dropping out over money. Tom Allingham of Save the Student said: “Maintenance loans have always fallen short of living costs, but this has become exponentially worse in recent years.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/students-skipping-meals-working-multiple-jobs-living-costs
UK trade unions back motion to boycott and sanction Israel
The unanimous vote demands that the Trades Union Congress take action to oppose what the motion described as the “catastrophic destruction of Gaza” and Israeli settler violence “supported by the IDF [Israeli army]”. The steps include campaigning to end military cooperation and arms deals with Israel, calling on the government to impose wide-ranging sanctions on Israel and backing trade union-led campaigns in support of Palestine.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/16/uk-trade-unions-back-motion-to-boycott-and-sanction-israel
https://archive.ph/yEpIL
Return of displaced Syrian Kurds to Ras al-Ain suspended after violence
Jawan Isso, from a committee representing displaced people from Ras al-Ain, told AFP that a "first batch" of around 2,500 people were headed home but were later attacked by "armed groups". Mahmud Khalil Ali, deputy head of security forces in Syria's Hasakeh province, said several of those involved in the attacks were arrested, but return trips were "temporarily suspended as a precautionary measure to ensure the safety of residents".
https://www.newarab.com/news/return-syrian-kurds-ras-al-ain-suspended-after-violence
Saudis pound Yemen as Houthis solidify gains in new theatre of Middle East war
Saudi warplanes pounded Yemen, the Houthis said on Wednesday, as the Iran-backed fighters solidified their gains after a lightning advance that has extended Tehran's reach in the Middle East war and further disrupted global oil supplies. In a sign of the worsening conflict in a new theatre, the United States tightened its travel warning for Saudi Arabia, banning government employees from travelling within 20 miles of the Yemen border.
https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2026/09/saudis-pound-yemen-houthis-solidify-gains-new-theatre-middle-east-war
Homes burn across Darfur as more ‘dry season’ fires flare
The group said the blaze affected homes belonging to displaced families as well as members of the host community, causing substantial property losses. No casualties were reported. In South Darfur, another fire broke out on Saturday in Babanusa camp in Gereida locality, west of the Abuja market and east of Sheikh Ali Ahmed Younis mosque. Preliminary estimates indicate that the blaze destroyed about 30 homes, causing extensive property damage.
https://www.dabangasudan.org/en/all-news/article/homes-burn-across-darfur-as-more-dry-season-fires-flare
Hindu nationalists eye Kolkata’s Communist street names
Prime minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party won power in the eastern state of more than 100 million people for the first time in May, ending the 15-year rule of the populist Trinamool Congress, which took over from the Communist Party. ‘The committee will try to make amends for the mischiefs committed by the leftists,’ said Tathagata Roy, former governor of the Indian states of Tripura and Meghalaya and a senior member of the committee.
https://www.newagebd.net/post/south-asia/314136/hindu-nationalists-eye-kolkatas-communist-street-names
Philippine lawmaker pleads not guilty to taking kickbacks in flood control projects
Rep. Martin Romualdez, a cousin and former ally of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., is among several powerful legislators accused of pocketing huge kickbacks. Nearly 10,000 flood control projects worth more than $9 billion that were supposed to have been undertaken since Marcos took office in mid-2022 have come under scrutiny. Many were found to be substandard, overpriced or not built at all.
https://apnews.com/article/philippines-martin-romualdez-plunder-flood-control-b265b2c57ce2c2cba621896301f9676a
Former student journalist among 4 NPA rebels killed in Agusan Sur clash
The College Editors Guild of the Philippines (CEGP) honored its former officer Rocha Mae Bihag, one of four New People’s Army (NPA) rebels killed in a military operation Sept. 12 in Esperanza, Agusan del Sur. In a statement, the CEGP described Bihag, known to colleagues as “Rocha,” as a “people’s journalist” and “heroine of Northern Mindanao.” She was a staff writer at The Cursor, the official student publication of the College of Information Technology at Mindanao State University-Marawi.
https://davaotoday.com/headline/former-student-journalist-among-4-npa-rebels-killed-in-agusan-sur-clash/
News 9/16/26
Latin America accounted for 85% of environmental defender killings in 2025, report saysThe annual report by environmental and human rights advocacy group Global Witness documented 105 killings in Latin America in 2025. Colombia was the deadliest country for the fourth consecutive year, with 39 killings, followed by Brazil with 26. Honduras and the Philippines recorded 12 each.
https://apnews.com/article/environmental-defenders-killings-global-witness-colombia-brazil-2e48546eb027159d2bbabc6a4f40e648
USDA to Boost Food Exports to Venezuela as Local Campesinos Protest Unfair Competition
The Agriculture Department also announced that it will lift restrictions to allow foreign banks to back Venezuela-related transactions. … Protesters complained that imports from countries where food production is subsidized, including the US, create unfair competition and risk driving Venezuelan campesinos bankrupt. The latest mobilization was sparked by the reported arrival of a shipment of 355 thousand tons of rice, more than half of the Venezuelan production in 2025.
https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/usda-to-boost-food-exports-to-venezuela-as-local-campesinos-protest-unfair-competition/
Argentine judge orders suspension of Falklands oil project
The plaintiffs sought to block Britain's Rockhopper Exploration and Israel's Navitas Petroleum from the so-called Sea Lion oil field, located about 220 kilometers (137 miles) from the islands. The judge ordered the companies to "refrain from initiating, pursuing, carrying out or having carried out any material actions" that would involve drilling, installing infrastructure or extracting hydrocarbons, according to a ruling seen by AFP.
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20260916-argentine-judge-orders-suspension-of-falklands-oil-project
https://archive.ph/KXD1y
EU chief floats associate membership for Canada after U.S. trade attacks
If the proposal goes through, the shift would pull Ottawa deeper into Europe's economic and security architecture as Canada reduces its reliance on the U.S. — something Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has signaled the nation is open to.
https://www.axios.com/2026/09/16/eu-canada-associate-membership-carney-trump
https://archive.ph/DUNdh
Students skipping meals and working multiple jobs to meet living costs
Its survey found 63 per cent of students reported skipping meals, and 9 per cent used a foodbank in 2025-26. More than one in four have at least two jobs, while nearly half have considered dropping out over money. Tom Allingham of Save the Student said: “Maintenance loans have always fallen short of living costs, but this has become exponentially worse in recent years.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/students-skipping-meals-working-multiple-jobs-living-costs
UK trade unions back motion to boycott and sanction Israel
The unanimous vote demands that the Trades Union Congress take action to oppose what the motion described as the “catastrophic destruction of Gaza” and Israeli settler violence “supported by the IDF [Israeli army]”. The steps include campaigning to end military cooperation and arms deals with Israel, calling on the government to impose wide-ranging sanctions on Israel and backing trade union-led campaigns in support of Palestine.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/16/uk-trade-unions-back-motion-to-boycott-and-sanction-israel
https://archive.ph/yEpIL
Return of displaced Syrian Kurds to Ras al-Ain suspended after violence
Jawan Isso, from a committee representing displaced people from Ras al-Ain, told AFP that a "first batch" of around 2,500 people were headed home but were later attacked by "armed groups". Mahmud Khalil Ali, deputy head of security forces in Syria's Hasakeh province, said several of those involved in the attacks were arrested, but return trips were "temporarily suspended as a precautionary measure to ensure the safety of residents".
https://www.newarab.com/news/return-syrian-kurds-ras-al-ain-suspended-after-violence
Saudis pound Yemen as Houthis solidify gains in new theatre of Middle East war
Saudi warplanes pounded Yemen, the Houthis said on Wednesday, as the Iran-backed fighters solidified their gains after a lightning advance that has extended Tehran's reach in the Middle East war and further disrupted global oil supplies. In a sign of the worsening conflict in a new theatre, the United States tightened its travel warning for Saudi Arabia, banning government employees from travelling within 20 miles of the Yemen border.
https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2026/09/saudis-pound-yemen-houthis-solidify-gains-new-theatre-middle-east-war
Homes burn across Darfur as more ‘dry season’ fires flare
The group said the blaze affected homes belonging to displaced families as well as members of the host community, causing substantial property losses. No casualties were reported. In South Darfur, another fire broke out on Saturday in Babanusa camp in Gereida locality, west of the Abuja market and east of Sheikh Ali Ahmed Younis mosque. Preliminary estimates indicate that the blaze destroyed about 30 homes, causing extensive property damage.
https://www.dabangasudan.org/en/all-news/article/homes-burn-across-darfur-as-more-dry-season-fires-flare
Hindu nationalists eye Kolkata’s Communist street names
Prime minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party won power in the eastern state of more than 100 million people for the first time in May, ending the 15-year rule of the populist Trinamool Congress, which took over from the Communist Party. ‘The committee will try to make amends for the mischiefs committed by the leftists,’ said Tathagata Roy, former governor of the Indian states of Tripura and Meghalaya and a senior member of the committee.
https://www.newagebd.net/post/south-asia/314136/hindu-nationalists-eye-kolkatas-communist-street-names
Philippine lawmaker pleads not guilty to taking kickbacks in flood control projects
Rep. Martin Romualdez, a cousin and former ally of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., is among several powerful legislators accused of pocketing huge kickbacks. Nearly 10,000 flood control projects worth more than $9 billion that were supposed to have been undertaken since Marcos took office in mid-2022 have come under scrutiny. Many were found to be substandard, overpriced or not built at all.
https://apnews.com/article/philippines-martin-romualdez-plunder-flood-control-b265b2c57ce2c2cba621896301f9676a
Former student journalist among 4 NPA rebels killed in Agusan Sur clash
The College Editors Guild of the Philippines (CEGP) honored its former officer Rocha Mae Bihag, one of four New People’s Army (NPA) rebels killed in a military operation Sept. 12 in Esperanza, Agusan del Sur. In a statement, the CEGP described Bihag, known to colleagues as “Rocha,” as a “people’s journalist” and “heroine of Northern Mindanao.” She was a staff writer at The Cursor, the official student publication of the College of Information Technology at Mindanao State University-Marawi.
https://davaotoday.com/headline/former-student-journalist-among-4-npa-rebels-killed-in-agusan-sur-clash/
R: 3 / I: 0
Drivers are angry. While it's possible to use public transportation in large cities, residents of rural areas have hardly any realistic alternative to driving. Those living in regions near national borders have an advantage. On September 7, filling up a 60-liter tank with E10 gasoline cost about €31 less in the Czech Republic and Poland than in Germany. In Luxembourg, the difference was €28, and in Austria, €25. These figures were calculated by the Federal Statistical Office.
https://www.dw.com/en/high-fuel-prices-challenge-the-german-government/a-79282456
https://archive.ph/e1RVo
From defending students’ rights to an ‘informal chat’ with the Security Service of Ukraine – all it takes is one protest: What is happening to Priama Diia?
At the heart of this story is a broader conflict that extends well beyond a single criminal case. Priama Diia openly identifies as a left-wing union. Meanwhile, its opponents label the activists “communists” and “radical leftists”, questioning their support for Ukraine. The organisation’s members believe these labels offer a convenient way to discredit their work. They also view a series of encounters with law enforcement officers in different cities as a broader pattern of pressure. The Human Rights Centre ZMINA has previously documented some of these incidents.
https://zmina.info/en/articles-en/from-defending-students-rights-to-an-informal-chat-with-the-security-service-of-ukraine-all-it-takes-is-one-protest-what-is-happening-to-priama-diia/
George Galloway to Stand in Byelection in Attempt to Defeat Green Leader
George Galloway has signalled his intention to come out of self-imposed exile in Russia in order to oppose Green leader Zack Polanski in the byelection for Keir Starmer’s former seat. … Galloway framed his candidacy as a direct challenge to Polanski. Speaking on his talk show, Galloway cited Polanki’s support for Ukraine and his position on trans rights among the reasons he would oppose him. Later in the show, Galloway said he supports Russia’s war on Ukraine as part of “a wider anti-imperialist, anti-colonialist framework”.
https://novaramedia.com/2026/09/14/george-galloway-to-stand-in-byelection-in-attempt-to-defeat-green-leader/
Niger’s junta leader appoints new head of military following mutiny
The reshuffle followed a nearly 24-hour mutiny in the capital Niamey on Aug. 28 and 29. Mostly young soldiers took other members of the armed forces hostage at Base 101, a military base at Diori Hamani International Airport, and fired at sensitive sites, according to Niger’s Defense Ministry.
https://apnews.com/article/niger-new-military-chief-mutiny-12ecef2a363e00f825274ca712ef948b
Mali’s Tuareg separatists seek Turkey talks, reveal Russian contact
Ramadane insisted that northeastern Mali, the region the separatists want for an independent state they call Azawad, should not become an arena for a proxy war between foreign powers. Yet, he added, that should not prevent the FLA from seeking engagement with Turkey, which has deepened its diplomatic, economic and military ties with Bamako over the past decade. Ankara has sold armed drones and other equipment to Mali’s military government since 2023, while bilateral trade has tripled over the past decade.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/exclusive-malis-tuareg-separatists-seek-turkey-talks-reveal-russian-contact
Is Saudi Arabia recruiting Syrian fighters to fight the Houthis?
Lebanon's Al-Akhbar reported this week that hundreds of Syrian fighters had recently arrived in southern Saudi Arabia, including men who took part in the "Deterrence of Aggression" offensive that toppled Bashar al-Assad in December 2024. The report comes as Saudi Arabia faces renewed pressure from the Houthis, who have made significant territorial advances in Yemen and launched attacks on Saudi territory.
https://www.newarab.com/news/saudi-arabia-recruiting-syrian-fighters-fight-houthis
Alex Saab Pleads Guilty to Money Laundering in Miami, Agrees to Forfeit $195 Million
As part of a plea agreement with U.S. prosecutors, Saab agreed to surrender $195 million and to cooperate with ongoing federal investigations, a deal that reshapes both his legal fate and the diplomatic narrative surrounding his case.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/alex-saab-pleads-guilty-money-laundering/
Colombia’s social organizations and labor unions announce national strike in November
"The first and fundamental decision of the Meeting is to declare the most radical opposition to the illegitimate government of Abelardo de la Espriella because of the course it has imposed on the country—one of subordination to the interests of U.S. imperialism and alignment with the agenda of the international far right—which constitutes a direct threat to national sovereignty, democracy, and the rights won by the Colombian people, and an undeniable shift toward fascism." - Social organizations and labor unions
https://colombiareports.com/colombias-social-organizations-announce-national-strike-in-november/
Bangladesh sentences to death 7 key aides of ousted Premier Hasina
The convicts include Hasina's Awami League party General Secretary Obaidul Quader, former state minister for Information Mohammad Ali Arafat, Joint General Secretary AFM Bahauddin Nasim, party youth wing Chairman Sheikh Fazle Shams Parash and General Secretary Moinul Hossain Nikhil, student wing President Saddam Hussain and General Secretary Sheikh Wali Asif Enan.
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/asia-pacific/bangladesh-sentences-to-death-7-key-aides-of-ousted-premier-hasina/4057523
https://archive.ph/uqULF
‘More dangerous than drugs’: BJP’s war on beef in India’s West Bengal
Among Muslims in West Bengal, two-thirds consume beef, according to government data. Christians, sections of Dalit communities, and some Indigenous communities in West Bengal also eat beef as part of their regular diets. The law laying down conditions that an animal must meet before it can be slaughtered is not new, but its enforcement has become stringent only now after the BJP came to power in the state.
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2026/9/15/bjp-effect-beef-is-vanishing-from-indian-bengal-forcing-diet-changes
https://archive.ph/BxSEy
News 9/15/26
High fuel prices challenge the German governmentDrivers are angry. While it's possible to use public transportation in large cities, residents of rural areas have hardly any realistic alternative to driving. Those living in regions near national borders have an advantage. On September 7, filling up a 60-liter tank with E10 gasoline cost about €31 less in the Czech Republic and Poland than in Germany. In Luxembourg, the difference was €28, and in Austria, €25. These figures were calculated by the Federal Statistical Office.
https://www.dw.com/en/high-fuel-prices-challenge-the-german-government/a-79282456
https://archive.ph/e1RVo
From defending students’ rights to an ‘informal chat’ with the Security Service of Ukraine – all it takes is one protest: What is happening to Priama Diia?
At the heart of this story is a broader conflict that extends well beyond a single criminal case. Priama Diia openly identifies as a left-wing union. Meanwhile, its opponents label the activists “communists” and “radical leftists”, questioning their support for Ukraine. The organisation’s members believe these labels offer a convenient way to discredit their work. They also view a series of encounters with law enforcement officers in different cities as a broader pattern of pressure. The Human Rights Centre ZMINA has previously documented some of these incidents.
https://zmina.info/en/articles-en/from-defending-students-rights-to-an-informal-chat-with-the-security-service-of-ukraine-all-it-takes-is-one-protest-what-is-happening-to-priama-diia/
George Galloway to Stand in Byelection in Attempt to Defeat Green Leader
George Galloway has signalled his intention to come out of self-imposed exile in Russia in order to oppose Green leader Zack Polanski in the byelection for Keir Starmer’s former seat. … Galloway framed his candidacy as a direct challenge to Polanski. Speaking on his talk show, Galloway cited Polanki’s support for Ukraine and his position on trans rights among the reasons he would oppose him. Later in the show, Galloway said he supports Russia’s war on Ukraine as part of “a wider anti-imperialist, anti-colonialist framework”.
https://novaramedia.com/2026/09/14/george-galloway-to-stand-in-byelection-in-attempt-to-defeat-green-leader/
Niger’s junta leader appoints new head of military following mutiny
The reshuffle followed a nearly 24-hour mutiny in the capital Niamey on Aug. 28 and 29. Mostly young soldiers took other members of the armed forces hostage at Base 101, a military base at Diori Hamani International Airport, and fired at sensitive sites, according to Niger’s Defense Ministry.
https://apnews.com/article/niger-new-military-chief-mutiny-12ecef2a363e00f825274ca712ef948b
Mali’s Tuareg separatists seek Turkey talks, reveal Russian contact
Ramadane insisted that northeastern Mali, the region the separatists want for an independent state they call Azawad, should not become an arena for a proxy war between foreign powers. Yet, he added, that should not prevent the FLA from seeking engagement with Turkey, which has deepened its diplomatic, economic and military ties with Bamako over the past decade. Ankara has sold armed drones and other equipment to Mali’s military government since 2023, while bilateral trade has tripled over the past decade.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/exclusive-malis-tuareg-separatists-seek-turkey-talks-reveal-russian-contact
Is Saudi Arabia recruiting Syrian fighters to fight the Houthis?
Lebanon's Al-Akhbar reported this week that hundreds of Syrian fighters had recently arrived in southern Saudi Arabia, including men who took part in the "Deterrence of Aggression" offensive that toppled Bashar al-Assad in December 2024. The report comes as Saudi Arabia faces renewed pressure from the Houthis, who have made significant territorial advances in Yemen and launched attacks on Saudi territory.
https://www.newarab.com/news/saudi-arabia-recruiting-syrian-fighters-fight-houthis
Alex Saab Pleads Guilty to Money Laundering in Miami, Agrees to Forfeit $195 Million
As part of a plea agreement with U.S. prosecutors, Saab agreed to surrender $195 million and to cooperate with ongoing federal investigations, a deal that reshapes both his legal fate and the diplomatic narrative surrounding his case.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/alex-saab-pleads-guilty-money-laundering/
Colombia’s social organizations and labor unions announce national strike in November
"The first and fundamental decision of the Meeting is to declare the most radical opposition to the illegitimate government of Abelardo de la Espriella because of the course it has imposed on the country—one of subordination to the interests of U.S. imperialism and alignment with the agenda of the international far right—which constitutes a direct threat to national sovereignty, democracy, and the rights won by the Colombian people, and an undeniable shift toward fascism." - Social organizations and labor unions
https://colombiareports.com/colombias-social-organizations-announce-national-strike-in-november/
Bangladesh sentences to death 7 key aides of ousted Premier Hasina
The convicts include Hasina's Awami League party General Secretary Obaidul Quader, former state minister for Information Mohammad Ali Arafat, Joint General Secretary AFM Bahauddin Nasim, party youth wing Chairman Sheikh Fazle Shams Parash and General Secretary Moinul Hossain Nikhil, student wing President Saddam Hussain and General Secretary Sheikh Wali Asif Enan.
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/asia-pacific/bangladesh-sentences-to-death-7-key-aides-of-ousted-premier-hasina/4057523
https://archive.ph/uqULF
‘More dangerous than drugs’: BJP’s war on beef in India’s West Bengal
Among Muslims in West Bengal, two-thirds consume beef, according to government data. Christians, sections of Dalit communities, and some Indigenous communities in West Bengal also eat beef as part of their regular diets. The law laying down conditions that an animal must meet before it can be slaughtered is not new, but its enforcement has become stringent only now after the BJP came to power in the state.
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2026/9/15/bjp-effect-beef-is-vanishing-from-indian-bengal-forcing-diet-changes
https://archive.ph/BxSEy
R: 34 / I: 11
happy 9/11 quarter centennial
25th annual reminder that anyone who says this shit was not a false flag is either delusional or lying. Let's celebrate by watching Loose Change together. If you have never watched Loose Change you need to.
R: 12 / I: 4
if a country imports more than it exports, it is imperialist.
if a country exports more than it imports, it may or may not be imperialist, depending on whether it maintains trade relations with countries that have a higher export-to-imports ratio than it does.
By my calculations, Turkmenistan is the least imperialist country on Earth, because its exports-to-imports ratio is higher than any other country. It produces for others far more than it imports.
China is less imperialist than great Britain, but more imperialist than Turkmenistan. China exports more than it imports, but relies on cheap petroleum imports from Turkmenistan.
Long live Turkmenistan
if a country imports more than it exports, it is imperialist.
if a country exports more than it imports, it may or may not be imperialist, depending on whether it maintains trade relations with countries that have a higher export-to-imports ratio than it does.
By my calculations, Turkmenistan is the least imperialist country on Earth, because its exports-to-imports ratio is higher than any other country. It produces for others far more than it imports.
China is less imperialist than great Britain, but more imperialist than Turkmenistan. China exports more than it imports, but relies on cheap petroleum imports from Turkmenistan.
Long live Turkmenistan
R: 611 / I: 137 (full)
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<9/11 Quarter-Centennial Edition
OP Backup Site: https://usapol.neocities.org/
💀 ICE & Prison Resources
(Amerika is the most incarcerated country in the world!)
ICE tracker using public info and user submissions // https://www.iceinmyarea.org/
list of deaths at ICE concentration camps // https://www.aila.org/infonet/deaths-at-adult-detention-centers
visualization of prison population in US // https://mkorostoff.github.io/incarceration-in-real-numbers/
Organizing in Prison — for when the walls close in (RANT Collective) // https://www.organizingforpower.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Organizing-in-Jail.pdf
database of U.S. facilities incl. ICE holding sites // https://alcpress.org/usjails/index.html
list of prison related resources, mailing lists, etc // https://www.prisonactivist.org/resources
ICE Agent List (incomplete) // https://wiki.icelist.is/index.php/Category:Agents
US Political Prison Tracker (last updated 2025) // https://uspoliticalprisoners.com/
Jailhouse Reading:
📖 Angela Davis - Are Prisons Obsolete? // https://dn790007.ca.archive.org/0/items/the-anarchist-library-full-list-of-pdfs-nov-2020/angela-y-davis-are-prisons-obsolete.pdf
📖 How to Defend Yourself During Police Interrogation // https://www.notrace.how/resources/download/comment-la-police-interroge-et-comment-sen-defendre/how-to-defend-yourself-during-a-police-interrogation.pdf
📖 National Lawyers Guild guide to being a jailhouse lawyer // https://www.jailhouselaw.org/
📖 Critical Resistance - Surviving Solitary Confinement // https://criticalresistance.org/resources/surviving-solitary/
📖 An inside-outside publication for abolitionist struggle & strategy across prison walls // https://criticalresistance.org/abolitionist/
📖 Prisoners’ Self-Help Litigation Manual // https://api.pageplace.de/preview/DT0400.9780199705665_A35159258/preview-9780199705665_A35159258.pdf
⚒️ LABOR!
Live strike tracker with deep stats on who, what and when // https://striketracker.ilr.cornell.edu/
AFL-CIO [imperialist]'s Strike Tracker // https://aflcio.org/strike-map
Labor Bureau's Official 'work stoppage' tracker // https://www.bls.gov/wsp/
IWW timeline for the 20th century (ends at 1999) // https://archive.iww.org/history/chronology/
IWW Work Place Organizing Guide // https://usa.anarchistlibraries.net/library/industrial-workers-of-the-world-libcom-org-solidarity-federation-walthamstow-anarchist-group-wo
▶ Salting | Work Place Organizing 101 (50 minute webinar) // https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SHlCLyM4FY
⚖️ Deeds of the Burger Reich 🇺🇸
deep list of horrible shit we (royal we) have done // https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/us_atrocities.md
Coups and regime changes – master list // https://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-peoples-governments-the-master-list
Wikipedia: United States War Crimes // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_war_crimes
/our boys/ (bring em home!) detail abusing Iraqi prisoners [2006] // https://www.hrw.org/report/2006/07/22/no-blood-no-foul/soldiers-accounts-detainee-abuse-iraq
More than 250 military interventions in the last 30 years alone // https://blackagendareport.com/us-launched-251-military-interventions-1991-and-469-1798
Visualisation of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade // https://www.slavevoyages.org/
UNESCO Sites relating to Slavery // https://slaveryandremembrance.org/
First Hand Documents of the horrors of Slavery // https://www.loc.gov/collections/slave-narratives-from-the-federal-writers-project-1936-to-1938/
📺 Glowie News 📺
(sponsored by the Burger Eagle Freedom Institute (formerly USAID))
CNN Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/cnn-news-usa.html
MSNBC Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/msnbc.html
FOX Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/fox-news-channel.html
Bloomberg Live // https://www.bloomberg.com/live/us
Burger House Live // https://www.whitehouse.gov/live/
Local News // https://www.50states.com/ce/
Weather // https://www.noaa.gov/weather
📺 Gommie News 📺
Jacobin // https://jacobin.com/
Black Agenda Report // https://blackagendareport.com/
The Grayzone // https://thegrayzone.com/
Leftvoice // https://www.leftvoice.org/
Newsanon Filter // https://leftypol.org/search.php?search=name%3A%22News+Anon+3.0%22&board=leftypol
🏝️ Epstein's Client List 🇮🇱
Epstein's Black Book // https://epsteinsblackbook.com/
DOJ Disclosures // https://www.justice.gov/epstein/doj-disclosures
Track AIPAC // https://www.trackaipac.com/
Al Jazeera visual guide (2026) // https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/10/struggling-to-navigate-the-epstein-files-here-is-a-visual-guide
Essential American Politik 📖
📖 WEB Du Bois - Black Reconstruction // https://cominsitu.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/w-e-b-du-bois-black-reconstruction-an-essay-toward-a-history-of-the-part-which-black-folk-played-in-the-attempt-to-reconstruct-democracy-2.pdf
📖 Eugene Debs - Fourth of July Speech // https://jacobin.com/2020/07/eugene-debs-independence-day-address-fourth-july
📖 Power Anywhere There's People! – Fred Hampton // https://www.hamptonthink.org/read/power-anywhere-where-thats-people-fred-hampton
📖 War is a Racket – Smedley Butler // https://ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html
📖 Letters From an American Farmer – St. John de Crevoecoeur // https://americanliterature.com/author/j-hector-st-john-de-crevoecoeur/book/letters-from-an-american-farmer/summary
📖 Trail of Broken Treaties // American Indian Movement https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
📖 The Declaration of Independence https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
📖 The Ballot or the Bullet – Malcolm X // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/ballot_or_bullet.pdf
📖 What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? – Frederick Douglass // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/douglass_july_4_speech.pdf
📖 A Trail of Broken Treaties – American Indian Movement // https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
📖 Custer Died for Your Sins – Vine Deloria Jr. // http://www.riversimulator.org/Resources/Books/CusterDiedForYourSinsAnIndianManifesto1969Deloria.pdf
📖 Emancipation Proclamation – Lincoln // https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/emancipation-proclamation
📖 Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville // https://americanliterature.com/author/alexis-de-tocqueville/book/democracy-in-america/summary
📖 Common Sense – Thomas Paine // https://americainclass.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Common-Sense-Full-Text.pdf
📖 An Indigenous History of the United States – Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz // https://nycstandswithstandingrock.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/dunbar-ortiz-2014.pdf
📖 Huey Long – Share Our Wealth // https://www.hueylong.com/programs/share-our-wealth/huey-longs-share-our-wealth-speech
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🗽 UNITED STATES POLITICS 🦅>Thread for the hellish discussion related to the scourge of the earth, the destroyer of nations, 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™
<Lustful Turk at the RNC Edition
<Kirkeversary Edition
<9/11 Quarter-Centennial Edition
OP Backup Site: https://usapol.neocities.org/
💀 ICE & Prison Resources
(Amerika is the most incarcerated country in the world!)
ICE tracker using public info and user submissions // https://www.iceinmyarea.org/
list of deaths at ICE concentration camps // https://www.aila.org/infonet/deaths-at-adult-detention-centers
visualization of prison population in US // https://mkorostoff.github.io/incarceration-in-real-numbers/
Organizing in Prison — for when the walls close in (RANT Collective) // https://www.organizingforpower.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Organizing-in-Jail.pdf
database of U.S. facilities incl. ICE holding sites // https://alcpress.org/usjails/index.html
list of prison related resources, mailing lists, etc // https://www.prisonactivist.org/resources
ICE Agent List (incomplete) // https://wiki.icelist.is/index.php/Category:Agents
US Political Prison Tracker (last updated 2025) // https://uspoliticalprisoners.com/
Jailhouse Reading:
📖 Angela Davis - Are Prisons Obsolete? // https://dn790007.ca.archive.org/0/items/the-anarchist-library-full-list-of-pdfs-nov-2020/angela-y-davis-are-prisons-obsolete.pdf
📖 How to Defend Yourself During Police Interrogation // https://www.notrace.how/resources/download/comment-la-police-interroge-et-comment-sen-defendre/how-to-defend-yourself-during-a-police-interrogation.pdf
📖 National Lawyers Guild guide to being a jailhouse lawyer // https://www.jailhouselaw.org/
📖 Critical Resistance - Surviving Solitary Confinement // https://criticalresistance.org/resources/surviving-solitary/
📖 An inside-outside publication for abolitionist struggle & strategy across prison walls // https://criticalresistance.org/abolitionist/
📖 Prisoners’ Self-Help Litigation Manual // https://api.pageplace.de/preview/DT0400.9780199705665_A35159258/preview-9780199705665_A35159258.pdf
⚒️ LABOR!
Live strike tracker with deep stats on who, what and when // https://striketracker.ilr.cornell.edu/
AFL-CIO [imperialist]'s Strike Tracker // https://aflcio.org/strike-map
Labor Bureau's Official 'work stoppage' tracker // https://www.bls.gov/wsp/
IWW timeline for the 20th century (ends at 1999) // https://archive.iww.org/history/chronology/
IWW Work Place Organizing Guide // https://usa.anarchistlibraries.net/library/industrial-workers-of-the-world-libcom-org-solidarity-federation-walthamstow-anarchist-group-wo
▶ Salting | Work Place Organizing 101 (50 minute webinar) // https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SHlCLyM4FY
⚖️ Deeds of the Burger Reich 🇺🇸
deep list of horrible shit we (royal we) have done // https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/us_atrocities.md
Coups and regime changes – master list // https://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-peoples-governments-the-master-list
Wikipedia: United States War Crimes // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_war_crimes
/our boys/ (bring em home!) detail abusing Iraqi prisoners [2006] // https://www.hrw.org/report/2006/07/22/no-blood-no-foul/soldiers-accounts-detainee-abuse-iraq
More than 250 military interventions in the last 30 years alone // https://blackagendareport.com/us-launched-251-military-interventions-1991-and-469-1798
Visualisation of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade // https://www.slavevoyages.org/
UNESCO Sites relating to Slavery // https://slaveryandremembrance.org/
First Hand Documents of the horrors of Slavery // https://www.loc.gov/collections/slave-narratives-from-the-federal-writers-project-1936-to-1938/
📺 Glowie News 📺
(sponsored by the Burger Eagle Freedom Institute (formerly USAID))
CNN Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/cnn-news-usa.html
MSNBC Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/msnbc.html
FOX Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/fox-news-channel.html
Bloomberg Live // https://www.bloomberg.com/live/us
Burger House Live // https://www.whitehouse.gov/live/
Local News // https://www.50states.com/ce/
Weather // https://www.noaa.gov/weather
📺 Gommie News 📺
Jacobin // https://jacobin.com/
Black Agenda Report // https://blackagendareport.com/
The Grayzone // https://thegrayzone.com/
Leftvoice // https://www.leftvoice.org/
Newsanon Filter // https://leftypol.org/search.php?search=name%3A%22News+Anon+3.0%22&board=leftypol
🏝️ Epstein's Client List 🇮🇱
Epstein's Black Book // https://epsteinsblackbook.com/
DOJ Disclosures // https://www.justice.gov/epstein/doj-disclosures
Track AIPAC // https://www.trackaipac.com/
Al Jazeera visual guide (2026) // https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/10/struggling-to-navigate-the-epstein-files-here-is-a-visual-guide
Essential American Politik 📖
📖 WEB Du Bois - Black Reconstruction // https://cominsitu.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/w-e-b-du-bois-black-reconstruction-an-essay-toward-a-history-of-the-part-which-black-folk-played-in-the-attempt-to-reconstruct-democracy-2.pdf
📖 Eugene Debs - Fourth of July Speech // https://jacobin.com/2020/07/eugene-debs-independence-day-address-fourth-july
📖 Power Anywhere There's People! – Fred Hampton // https://www.hamptonthink.org/read/power-anywhere-where-thats-people-fred-hampton
📖 War is a Racket – Smedley Butler // https://ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html
📖 Letters From an American Farmer – St. John de Crevoecoeur // https://americanliterature.com/author/j-hector-st-john-de-crevoecoeur/book/letters-from-an-american-farmer/summary
📖 Trail of Broken Treaties // American Indian Movement https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
📖 The Declaration of Independence https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
📖 The Ballot or the Bullet – Malcolm X // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/ballot_or_bullet.pdf
📖 What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? – Frederick Douglass // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/douglass_july_4_speech.pdf
📖 A Trail of Broken Treaties – American Indian Movement // https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
📖 Custer Died for Your Sins – Vine Deloria Jr. // http://www.riversimulator.org/Resources/Books/CusterDiedForYourSinsAnIndianManifesto1969Deloria.pdf
📖 Emancipation Proclamation – Lincoln // https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/emancipation-proclamation
📖 Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville // https://americanliterature.com/author/alexis-de-tocqueville/book/democracy-in-america/summary
📖 Common Sense – Thomas Paine // https://americainclass.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Common-Sense-Full-Text.pdf
📖 An Indigenous History of the United States – Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz // https://nycstandswithstandingrock.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/dunbar-ortiz-2014.pdf
📖 Huey Long – Share Our Wealth // https://www.hueylong.com/programs/share-our-wealth/huey-longs-share-our-wealth-speech
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SDF/ROJAVA have dissolved
>SDF chief Mazloum Abdi says that the integration of Kurdish-led forces into the Syrian state is complete, adding that "our struggle will continue to guarantee the rights of the Kurdish people in the Syrian constitution" "The phase of integrating the military, security and administrative institutions into the state institutions has ended, and from today onward, a new phase has begun,” he said, calling on the people of the region to protect the "institutions established through the sacrifices of martyrs, and to support and preserve them."
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Worker vs capitalist
Peasant vs landlord
Native vs colonizer
The last one is the most inherent contradiction in humanity but Marxists play down any class relations other than proles vs capitalists. They even look down on Maoism because it put emphasis on peasants.
Why are they like that?
Worker vs capitalist
Peasant vs landlord
Native vs colonizer
The last one is the most inherent contradiction in humanity but Marxists play down any class relations other than proles vs capitalists. They even look down on Maoism because it put emphasis on peasants.
Why are they like that?
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NASUWT general secretary Matt Wrack said if the 50 per cent threshold applied in public elections, many of the current cabinet would not be in Parliament, telling delegates in Brighton that it was “scandalous” that Britain was in breach of various International Labour Organisation (ILO) conventions on industrial action.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/labour-told-scrap-50-strike-ballot-and-link-e-balloting
Turkish authorities launch crackdown on LGBTQ+ and HIV support groups
Justice Minister Akin Gurlek announced on social media that the investigation into 162 suspects, nine associations and 13 businesses was to “protect children, the institution of the family, and public order” in line with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s 10-year executive order relating to families and children.
https://apnews.com/article/turkey-lgbtq-hiv-crackdown-c782f5318613126fe072d29133e6bf5d
Finland shelters under French nuclear umbrella amid Russian, US uncertainty
The announcement came as part of a new strategic partnership between Finland and France, formalised by the countries’ foreign ministers in Helsinki on Monday. Finland becomes the 10th European country to join the French initiative, which comes as Russia is viewed as a growing threat and increasing concern over the commitment of the United States to help protect the continent.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/14/finland-shelters-under-french-nuclear-umbrella-amid-russian-us-uncertainty
https://archive.ph/b4sD3
Sweden’s political parties launch coalition talks as both blocs try to secure power
Sweden’s political parties have launched coalition negotiations as the Social Democrats leader, Magdalena Andersson, started the long and difficult process of trying to form a new government. Full results from Sunday’s election are not expected until after overseas votes are counted on Wednesday, but with 95% of the votes counted, the Social Democrats and the centre-left bloc had a narrow but growing lead of 176 seats to the right-leaning parties’ 173.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/14/sweden-political-parties-launch-coalition-talks-both-blocs-try-to-secure-power
Attack on Saudi Arabian pipeline may cut four percent of world's oil supply
Saudi Arabia may need five to six weeks to repair damage from a drone attack on its East-West Pipeline, taking nearly four percent of global oil supplies off the market, according to a report by Reuters. Brent, the international benchmark, was trading up three percent on Monday at nearly $108 per barrel.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/attack-saudi-arabian-pipeline-may-cut-four-percent-worlds-oil-supply
Fuel protests sweep through Syria, posing growing challenge for Damascus
As soon as the government announced the new prices, protests broke out in several Syrian provinces, with demonstrators blocking major roads and intercepting oil tankers heading towards the Homs refinery. The latest protests also come amid a broader rise in demonstrations over economic conditions. According to ACLED data cited by Syrian analyst Muaz al-Abdullah, 45% of protests recorded in Syria during the first week of September were driven by economic demands.
https://www.newarab.com/news/how-syrias-fuel-protests-could-challenge-sharaas-government
Likud says it will request to ban Arab parties from running in elections
The Likud stated that it would file the requests for the parties' disqualifications, and that "there is no place in the Knesset for those who harm IDF soldiers and are unable to say that Hamas and Hezbollah are terrorist organizations." The Likud also repeated the claim that rival prime ministerial candidate Gadi Eisenkot was attempting to form a government with the Arab parties and that they were his "natural partners."
https://www.jpost.com/israel-election-2026/article-908588
https://archive.ph/z3kl9
Okinawa election win may give Tokyo freer hand on military build-up
Tamaki's defeat could weaken local efforts to halt the relocation of some U.S. Marines from the busy Futenma air base to a more remote facility at Henoko, on Okinawa's main island. Opponents want the troops moved out of the prefecture instead. Japan's government said on Monday it would press ahead with the relocation. Koja's victory may also make it easier to expand military access to airports and ports, according to Masaaki Gabe, a professor emeritus at the University of the Ryukyus.
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/okinawa-election-win-may-give-tokyo-freer-hand-military-build-up-2026-09-13/
Left parties to contest both TN bypolls, rule out backing TVK front
The CPI will contest in the Dharapuram seat, while the CPM will field its candidate in Maduranthagam. Their candidates for the October 6 bypolls are expected to be announced on September 15. Stating that the Left parties would contest the two seats together, CPI(M) state secretary P Shanmugam said in Tiruchy on Sunday that their decision is against all three alliances in the fray, namely the DMK-led alliance, the AIADMK-BJP combine and the TVK alliance.
https://www.newindianexpress.com/states/tamil-nadu/2026/Sep/14/left-parties-to-contest-both-tn-bypolls-rule-out-backing-tvk-front
https://archive.ph/coBDE
Philippines’ Muslim-majority Bangsamoro region votes for first parliament
There are 80 seats up for grabs in the elections that will determine members of parliament, the region’s legislative body. These include 40 political party representatives, 32 district representatives and eight sectoral representatives. The region’s chief minister, who heads the executive branch, will be elected by parliament in its first session.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/14/philippines-muslim-majority-bangsamoro-region-votes-for-first-parliament
https://archive.ph/IPoym
News 9/14/26
Labour told to scrap 50% strike ballot and link to e-ballotingNASUWT general secretary Matt Wrack said if the 50 per cent threshold applied in public elections, many of the current cabinet would not be in Parliament, telling delegates in Brighton that it was “scandalous” that Britain was in breach of various International Labour Organisation (ILO) conventions on industrial action.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/labour-told-scrap-50-strike-ballot-and-link-e-balloting
Turkish authorities launch crackdown on LGBTQ+ and HIV support groups
Justice Minister Akin Gurlek announced on social media that the investigation into 162 suspects, nine associations and 13 businesses was to “protect children, the institution of the family, and public order” in line with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s 10-year executive order relating to families and children.
https://apnews.com/article/turkey-lgbtq-hiv-crackdown-c782f5318613126fe072d29133e6bf5d
Finland shelters under French nuclear umbrella amid Russian, US uncertainty
The announcement came as part of a new strategic partnership between Finland and France, formalised by the countries’ foreign ministers in Helsinki on Monday. Finland becomes the 10th European country to join the French initiative, which comes as Russia is viewed as a growing threat and increasing concern over the commitment of the United States to help protect the continent.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/14/finland-shelters-under-french-nuclear-umbrella-amid-russian-us-uncertainty
https://archive.ph/b4sD3
Sweden’s political parties launch coalition talks as both blocs try to secure power
Sweden’s political parties have launched coalition negotiations as the Social Democrats leader, Magdalena Andersson, started the long and difficult process of trying to form a new government. Full results from Sunday’s election are not expected until after overseas votes are counted on Wednesday, but with 95% of the votes counted, the Social Democrats and the centre-left bloc had a narrow but growing lead of 176 seats to the right-leaning parties’ 173.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/14/sweden-political-parties-launch-coalition-talks-both-blocs-try-to-secure-power
Attack on Saudi Arabian pipeline may cut four percent of world's oil supply
Saudi Arabia may need five to six weeks to repair damage from a drone attack on its East-West Pipeline, taking nearly four percent of global oil supplies off the market, according to a report by Reuters. Brent, the international benchmark, was trading up three percent on Monday at nearly $108 per barrel.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/attack-saudi-arabian-pipeline-may-cut-four-percent-worlds-oil-supply
Fuel protests sweep through Syria, posing growing challenge for Damascus
As soon as the government announced the new prices, protests broke out in several Syrian provinces, with demonstrators blocking major roads and intercepting oil tankers heading towards the Homs refinery. The latest protests also come amid a broader rise in demonstrations over economic conditions. According to ACLED data cited by Syrian analyst Muaz al-Abdullah, 45% of protests recorded in Syria during the first week of September were driven by economic demands.
https://www.newarab.com/news/how-syrias-fuel-protests-could-challenge-sharaas-government
Likud says it will request to ban Arab parties from running in elections
The Likud stated that it would file the requests for the parties' disqualifications, and that "there is no place in the Knesset for those who harm IDF soldiers and are unable to say that Hamas and Hezbollah are terrorist organizations." The Likud also repeated the claim that rival prime ministerial candidate Gadi Eisenkot was attempting to form a government with the Arab parties and that they were his "natural partners."
https://www.jpost.com/israel-election-2026/article-908588
https://archive.ph/z3kl9
Okinawa election win may give Tokyo freer hand on military build-up
Tamaki's defeat could weaken local efforts to halt the relocation of some U.S. Marines from the busy Futenma air base to a more remote facility at Henoko, on Okinawa's main island. Opponents want the troops moved out of the prefecture instead. Japan's government said on Monday it would press ahead with the relocation. Koja's victory may also make it easier to expand military access to airports and ports, according to Masaaki Gabe, a professor emeritus at the University of the Ryukyus.
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/okinawa-election-win-may-give-tokyo-freer-hand-military-build-up-2026-09-13/
Left parties to contest both TN bypolls, rule out backing TVK front
The CPI will contest in the Dharapuram seat, while the CPM will field its candidate in Maduranthagam. Their candidates for the October 6 bypolls are expected to be announced on September 15. Stating that the Left parties would contest the two seats together, CPI(M) state secretary P Shanmugam said in Tiruchy on Sunday that their decision is against all three alliances in the fray, namely the DMK-led alliance, the AIADMK-BJP combine and the TVK alliance.
https://www.newindianexpress.com/states/tamil-nadu/2026/Sep/14/left-parties-to-contest-both-tn-bypolls-rule-out-backing-tvk-front
https://archive.ph/coBDE
Philippines’ Muslim-majority Bangsamoro region votes for first parliament
There are 80 seats up for grabs in the elections that will determine members of parliament, the region’s legislative body. These include 40 political party representatives, 32 district representatives and eight sectoral representatives. The region’s chief minister, who heads the executive branch, will be elected by parliament in its first session.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/14/philippines-muslim-majority-bangsamoro-region-votes-for-first-parliament
https://archive.ph/IPoym
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>hezbollah actively fighting Israel like warriors
>houthis closing straits liberating their land
>irgc closing straits bombing us bases
>western left is so pussyfied worrying about if working out is fascism and if its not that its democratic socialist dsa slop should we all just convert to shia Islam and start jihad on the capitalists is that the only way we stop being soy libtards?
YA HUSSAIN(A.S) YA ZAINAB(R.A) YA ALI(A.S)
Jihad is our destiny !
why is it that the only resistance to anti imperialism really doing anything is shia islam>hezbollah actively fighting Israel like warriors
>houthis closing straits liberating their land
>irgc closing straits bombing us bases
>western left is so pussyfied worrying about if working out is fascism and if its not that its democratic socialist dsa slop should we all just convert to shia Islam and start jihad on the capitalists is that the only way we stop being soy libtards?
YA HUSSAIN(A.S) YA ZAINAB(R.A) YA ALI(A.S)
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(On the last point, OBL genuinely thought 9/11 would get Americans to turn against their government like with Vietnam which is laughable. Yahya Sinwar was at least correct that 10/7 slowed arab normalization with Israel and severely damaged its reputation worldwide.)
9/11
Genuine question. Why do left-wing anti-imperialists in general celebrate 10/7, but condemn 9/11? If you read some of what Yahya Sinwar has said, his reasoning was very similar to OBL's. Big attack meant to ignite a wider war, break the status quo of arab states' collaboration with the occupiers and make the world turn against the US (for OBL) and Israel (for Sinwar).(On the last point, OBL genuinely thought 9/11 would get Americans to turn against their government like with Vietnam which is laughable. Yahya Sinwar was at least correct that 10/7 slowed arab normalization with Israel and severely damaged its reputation worldwide.)
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World Revolution & Coffee
A little known topic about how the basis of Vietnamesse coffee production came from their socialist era. Trade agreements that benefit the client state are rare and shows how communism can work
R: 41 / I: 7 >>>/siberia/818393
> If you want to be really esoteric, Marxism is advanced feudalism.
No. Marxism is not advanced feudalism. Feudalism is predicated on aristocrat-serf class relations, whereas Marxism is predicated on the elimination of class relations. On what planet could one possibly come to the "esoteric" conclusion that Marxism is "advanced feudalism?" Even assuming this is inspired by that dumb pop-Economics book from Yanis Varoufakis (Technoefeudalism) that is not even his hypothesis. His hypothesis is that the capitalist countries are becoming Technofeudal, not the AES countries. I am honestly baffled by this take and thought it deserved its own thread, because I did not want to derail the thread I found it in. Where are people getting this idea? Is there a common source for this revision or is it arising out of pure vibes?
"Marxism is advanced feudalism."
> If you want to be really esoteric, Marxism is advanced feudalism.
No. Marxism is not advanced feudalism. Feudalism is predicated on aristocrat-serf class relations, whereas Marxism is predicated on the elimination of class relations. On what planet could one possibly come to the "esoteric" conclusion that Marxism is "advanced feudalism?" Even assuming this is inspired by that dumb pop-Economics book from Yanis Varoufakis (Technoefeudalism) that is not even his hypothesis. His hypothesis is that the capitalist countries are becoming Technofeudal, not the AES countries. I am honestly baffled by this take and thought it deserved its own thread, because I did not want to derail the thread I found it in. Where are people getting this idea? Is there a common source for this revision or is it arising out of pure vibes?
R: 48 / I: 4 (sage)
*destroys the need for theory in your path*
No seriously. Why do we even need to “read theory” or engage in long endless debates about philosophy when Kropotkin showed us that human beings have a natural inclination towards empathy and solidarity with all others? Hunter-gatherer societies cared for each other without needing any abstract moral principles or “theories” on how to achieve an egalitarian society, they simply lived it because it was in their nature.
*destroys the need for theory in your path*
No seriously. Why do we even need to “read theory” or engage in long endless debates about philosophy when Kropotkin showed us that human beings have a natural inclination towards empathy and solidarity with all others? Hunter-gatherer societies cared for each other without needing any abstract moral principles or “theories” on how to achieve an egalitarian society, they simply lived it because it was in their nature.
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<BREAKING: people whos whole life, work and money depends on AI development predict AI is gonna do some crazy shit real soon, for real bro this time it's no joke, the end of evangelion + terminator is going to happen irl and AI is going to do it, AI will come into your house and kill you, be scared!
I'm starting to think this is just hype and marketing without anything behind it, a paper tiger, all the AI apocalypse thing just sounds goofy now
<BREAKING: people whos whole life, work and money depends on AI development predict AI is gonna do some crazy shit real soon, for real bro this time it's no joke, the end of evangelion + terminator is going to happen irl and AI is going to do it, AI will come into your house and kill you, be scared!
I'm starting to think this is just hype and marketing without anything behind it, a paper tiger, all the AI apocalypse thing just sounds goofy now
R: 90 / I: 16
What do we do about anti-intellectualism?
It's completely impossible to have any sort of meaningful conversation about anything that matters anymore because nobody will engage with the facts. Conservatives who've never put any thought into a topic in their life will say "well my initial assumption is obviously common sense" and the general public will treat this as an equally (if not more) valid argument than citing years of history and peer-reviewed research done by people who've dedicated their lives to understanding the world. There's no way for the left to convince anyone of anything if reality itself is shunned as political bias. It's so infuriating that it's pushing me towards a radically misanthropic mindset. How do we pull the masses out from this gaping abyss?
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So what exactly is bad about this generally speaking? Especially on a neoliberal Earth where the international elite, outside of china, can flee and go anywhere and has no accountability? The strategy of dengist economics has produced the same results that people like Mao and Stalin wanted out of their countries like mass industrialization, electrification, and prosperity but at the same time holding their own societal elites accountable.
So what are the flaws of dengist economics?
So say a Marxist-Leninist economy has all of the stuff important to the state nationalized and operating under scientific planning, it tries to give the basic needs of life like employment and housing to everyone as possible, but there's additionally a private sector for commodity circulation because trying to micromanage every small business to the smallest detail is silly in general. The private sector is heavily regulated to prevent them from subverting the rest of society, and also taxed to help pay for the rest of society.So what exactly is bad about this generally speaking? Especially on a neoliberal Earth where the international elite, outside of china, can flee and go anywhere and has no accountability? The strategy of dengist economics has produced the same results that people like Mao and Stalin wanted out of their countries like mass industrialization, electrification, and prosperity but at the same time holding their own societal elites accountable.
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>On the other hand, more problems arise when one tries to consider AI as “authors” or “inventors” of copyright or patents. While granting legal personhood to AI may align with the personal and moral obligations of the user, such as the case in Thaler v Vidal, 43 F4th 1207 (Fed Cir 2022) where Thaler applied to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) arguing that an AI named DABUS was the inventor. This application was denied as DABUS was not a “natural person.”12 Thus, granting legal personality to AI would also solve this “orphan asset” problem where inventions without human inventors cannot be protected. On the other hand, this raises philosophical and practical concerns regarding whether there is any “creative” work generated that warrants protection, and how long should the protection last for an AI that theoretically would never die. Under the “Connector Model” of creativity, which holds that creativity is about making connections between ideas, then it seems that the work of AI is creative, and authored by the AI. This still leaves unanswered, however, whether this work goes beyond mere mechanistic action13 and thus the question remains on whether such creative work should be protected. Authorship is only a subset of the IP rights available, however, and thus the answer to the last question need not align with whether AI can be an author of a work. Granting author/inventor status to AI gives rise to practical problems such as the fact that they are not bound by a natural lifespan and thus can have unlimited copyright. Additionally, if AI is truly to be considered as a legal person and an author or inventor, then they would have the right to license their work to others under current Canadian law, which need not align with those of the user who prompted the creation. Overall, current IP law is tailored for human authors and inventors, and granting legal personality to AI would mean a major reworking in other aspects of IP law as well. Despite this new complexity that this change may bring, however, the evolving state of sophistication and unpredictability of AI is pushing at the frays of the current legal system, and sooner or later, a decision must be made on how to allocate risk and responsibility for AI-human interactions, whether it be by granting legal personhood to AI or through other means.
AI needs to be preemptively banned from owning private property or we will all wake up in an extremely dystopian hellscape. This is just reformism, but I don't want to deal with what neoliberalism will become after AI starts monopolizing capital, energy, and land. This is very achievable with minimal organizational efforts.
Can AI Own and Create Intellectual Property?
https://iplaw.allard.ubc.ca/2026/04/23/artificial-intelligence-and-legal-personhood-can-ai-own-and-create-intellectual-property/>On the other hand, more problems arise when one tries to consider AI as “authors” or “inventors” of copyright or patents. While granting legal personhood to AI may align with the personal and moral obligations of the user, such as the case in Thaler v Vidal, 43 F4th 1207 (Fed Cir 2022) where Thaler applied to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) arguing that an AI named DABUS was the inventor. This application was denied as DABUS was not a “natural person.”12 Thus, granting legal personality to AI would also solve this “orphan asset” problem where inventions without human inventors cannot be protected. On the other hand, this raises philosophical and practical concerns regarding whether there is any “creative” work generated that warrants protection, and how long should the protection last for an AI that theoretically would never die. Under the “Connector Model” of creativity, which holds that creativity is about making connections between ideas, then it seems that the work of AI is creative, and authored by the AI. This still leaves unanswered, however, whether this work goes beyond mere mechanistic action13 and thus the question remains on whether such creative work should be protected. Authorship is only a subset of the IP rights available, however, and thus the answer to the last question need not align with whether AI can be an author of a work. Granting author/inventor status to AI gives rise to practical problems such as the fact that they are not bound by a natural lifespan and thus can have unlimited copyright. Additionally, if AI is truly to be considered as a legal person and an author or inventor, then they would have the right to license their work to others under current Canadian law, which need not align with those of the user who prompted the creation. Overall, current IP law is tailored for human authors and inventors, and granting legal personality to AI would mean a major reworking in other aspects of IP law as well. Despite this new complexity that this change may bring, however, the evolving state of sophistication and unpredictability of AI is pushing at the frays of the current legal system, and sooner or later, a decision must be made on how to allocate risk and responsibility for AI-human interactions, whether it be by granting legal personhood to AI or through other means.
AI needs to be preemptively banned from owning private property or we will all wake up in an extremely dystopian hellscape. This is just reformism, but I don't want to deal with what neoliberalism will become after AI starts monopolizing capital, energy, and land. This is very achievable with minimal organizational efforts.
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The Medium-Term Programme (MTP), which sets out the Turkish government’s economic targets for 2027–2029, came into force on September 6, 2026, upon its publication in the Official Gazette with the signature of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Presented by Vice President Cevdet Yılmaz in the language of “macroeconomic stability” and “fiscal discipline,” the document is an austerity programme drawn up in line with the needs of the Turkish bourgeoisie and international capital.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/09/11/zzdw-s11.html
Prison riot fire in Kurdish-majority town kills at least seven in Syria
Violence erupted in the town this week as residents protested over the killing of Sami Shekhmous Hiso, a former Kurdish fighter. Hiso, also known as Sepan, was reportedly kidnapped before his body was returned with bullet wounds on Thursday in the northeastern Hasakeh province. "Seven prisoners have died, and dozens were injured" at Kobane prison, state television reported.
https://www.newarab.com/news/prison-riot-fire-kurdish-majority-town-kills-least-seven-syria
Trump says Houthis asked US not to intervene in Yemen
The US President Donald Trump said on Saturday that Yemen’s Houthis asked the United States not to intervene in their spiralling conflict in Yemen with Saudi Arabia. m“The Houthis called us, and they let us know that they don't want to fight with us. They don't want me to go after them,” he said. Trump added that the Houthis are allowing most of the ships through and that there’s just “one country that they’re not too happy with”, promising to “get that straightened out”.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/trump-says-houthis-asked-us-not-intervene-yemen
Saudi Arabia shuts down key oil pipeline, blaming drones from Iraq
Saudi Arabia has shut down a critical oil pipeline, accusing militants in Iraq of launching drone attacks on the export route being used to bypass the lockdown of the strait of Hormuz. The world’s largest crude oil exporter has increased its use of the 745-mile (1,200km) pipeline running across the Arabian peninsula, which links Abqaiq, near the Gulf, to the port of Yanbu, on the Red Sea, since the US-Israeli war against Iran began.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/12/saudi-arabia-shuts-down-oil-pipeline-blaming-drones-from-iraq
US approves possible sale of four Black Hawk helicopters to Argentina for US$140 million
The US State Department has approved a possible sale of four UH-60L Black Hawk helicopters and related equipment to Argentina at an estimated cost of US$140 million, and notified Congress of the transaction, which has a review period before it can proceed.
https://en.mercopress.com/2026/09/12/us-approves-possible-sale-of-four-black-hawk-helicopters-to-argentina-for-us-140-million
Judge suspends Colombia’s aerial fumigation pilot
Earlier this week, the National Narcotics Council (CNE) ordered the National Police to restart the aerial fumigation of coca, the base ingredient for cocaine, “as a controlled, limited, temporary, and evaluable experimental phase, the implementation of a pilot plan for the eradication of illicit crops through aerial spraying using a manned aircraft and the formulated product Glufosinate Ammonium 200 SL.”
https://colombiareports.com/judge-suspends-colombias-aerial-fumigation-pilot/
Venezuela: Oil Output Plateaus, Zionist-linked Colombian Mogul Gets Prime Crude Concession
Venezuela’s oil industry recovery has stagnated in recent months, notwithstanding pro-business reforms and rising global prices. OPEC’s latest monthly report placed the Caribbean nation’s August production at 1.145 million barrels per day (bpd), up 23,000 bpd from the previous month, according to secondary sources.
https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/venezuela-oil-output-plateaus-zionist-linked-colombian-mogul-gets-prime-crude-concession/
Sudan’s civil society groups reject El Burhan’s mooted dialogue as ‘political cover’
Sudanese civil society coalitions and actors, the Darfur Women Platform, Sudan Civic Convergence Tracks, Sudan Peace Call, Tadamon, and Union’s Front, have issued a categorical rejection of a proposed Sudanese-Sudanese dialogue sponsored by Gel Abdelfattah El Burhan and the country’s military leadership, warning that a political process organised under the authority of one of the parties to the war cannot deliver either peace or legitimacy.
https://www.dabangasudan.org/en/all-news/article/sudans-civil-society-groups-rejects-el-burhans-mooted-dialogue-as-political-cover
Gambia bans protests without permits after unrest over power cuts
"From this very moment, nobody is allowed to protest without an approved permit," Seedy Mukhtar Touray, Gambia's inspector general of police, said in a statement late Thursday. "Nobody is allowed to converge, cause havoc, distort the peace and tranquility of the nation, especially during the night. Any violation to this will be met with necessary force."
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/gambia-bans-protests-without-permits-after-unrest-over-power-cuts-2026-09-11/
Nigeria suspends official visits to South Africa over anti-migrant violence
The ban extends even to virtual engagements, after months of anti-foreigner protests across South Africa that have driven tens of thousands of people to leave the country. “The National Assembly cannot ignore persistent attacks on citizens abroad,” Rotimi said. Kamoru Ogunlana, the clerk to Nigeria’s national assembly, said in a statement that parliament was “particularly concerned by reports of Nigerians being killed, injured, displaced and forced to abandon their businesses, investments, homes and other properties as a result of recurring violent attacks”.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/11/nigeria-suspends-official-visits-to-south-africa-over-anti-migrant-violence
https://archive.ph/NxXpN
Top elected official in Pakistan’s Balochistan rules out talks with insurgents
His remarks came as attacks by the Baloch Liberation Army, which has been designated as a foreign terrorist organization by the U.S., have increased. Bugti said the time had come for “major surgery” to eliminate terrorism. “We are in a state of war,” he said, adding that authorities had never claimed everything in Balochistan was normal. “The security forces are performing their duties under extremely difficult conditions in the province, and all state institutions are working in complete coordination against terrorism.”
https://apnews.com/article/pakistan-balochistan-rebels-negotiations-206732b68168bd0c42eb0685f036e356
India's central bank rejects Tata Sons request to avoid public listing, sources say
The more than a century-old holding company, which controls businesses including Tata Consultancy Services (TCS.NS), Tata Motors (TAMO.NS), Tata Steel (TISC.NS), and Air India, has sought to remain privately held. It is classified as a core investment company and falls under RBI regulations for non-bank lenders, which require that companies with assets exceeding 1 trillion rupees ($10.45 billion), or those with direct or indirect access to public funds, must list.
https://www.reuters.com/world/india/indias-central-bank-rejects-tata-sons-request-avoid-public-listing-sources-say-2026-09-12/
Second crypto billionaire donates record $49m to far-right Reform UK
Writing in the Daily Telegraph British newspaper on Saturday, donor Christopher Harborne said the $48.7m (£36m) donation was a “philanthropic gift” to the country, adding that he felt “inspired” to match the contribution made by fellow billionaire Ben Delo 24 hours earlier. Sixty-three-year-old Harborne is a Thailand-based cryptocurrency investor and Delo, 42, is the co-founder of the BitMEX cryptocurrency exchange.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/12/second-crypto-billionaire-donates-record-49m-to-far-right-reform-uk
https://archive.ph/YIvs4
Thousands turn out to protest Trump visit in Dublin
At least 30 groups and political parties took part in the procession from Parnell Square to Dáil Éireann where a rally was held. Rolling road closures were in place during the march and there is a strong garda presence People attending the march have spoke of their opposition to Mr Trump's visit and have criticised the welcome he has been given by the Government. Similar protests are taking place in Doonbeg in Co Clare where the US President is staying for the Irish Open.
https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2026/0912/1591250-trump-visit-ireland/
https://archive.ph/jJf78
News 9/12/26
Turkish government escalates its offensive of wage suppression and austerityThe Medium-Term Programme (MTP), which sets out the Turkish government’s economic targets for 2027–2029, came into force on September 6, 2026, upon its publication in the Official Gazette with the signature of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Presented by Vice President Cevdet Yılmaz in the language of “macroeconomic stability” and “fiscal discipline,” the document is an austerity programme drawn up in line with the needs of the Turkish bourgeoisie and international capital.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/09/11/zzdw-s11.html
Prison riot fire in Kurdish-majority town kills at least seven in Syria
Violence erupted in the town this week as residents protested over the killing of Sami Shekhmous Hiso, a former Kurdish fighter. Hiso, also known as Sepan, was reportedly kidnapped before his body was returned with bullet wounds on Thursday in the northeastern Hasakeh province. "Seven prisoners have died, and dozens were injured" at Kobane prison, state television reported.
https://www.newarab.com/news/prison-riot-fire-kurdish-majority-town-kills-least-seven-syria
Trump says Houthis asked US not to intervene in Yemen
The US President Donald Trump said on Saturday that Yemen’s Houthis asked the United States not to intervene in their spiralling conflict in Yemen with Saudi Arabia. m“The Houthis called us, and they let us know that they don't want to fight with us. They don't want me to go after them,” he said. Trump added that the Houthis are allowing most of the ships through and that there’s just “one country that they’re not too happy with”, promising to “get that straightened out”.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/trump-says-houthis-asked-us-not-intervene-yemen
Saudi Arabia shuts down key oil pipeline, blaming drones from Iraq
Saudi Arabia has shut down a critical oil pipeline, accusing militants in Iraq of launching drone attacks on the export route being used to bypass the lockdown of the strait of Hormuz. The world’s largest crude oil exporter has increased its use of the 745-mile (1,200km) pipeline running across the Arabian peninsula, which links Abqaiq, near the Gulf, to the port of Yanbu, on the Red Sea, since the US-Israeli war against Iran began.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/12/saudi-arabia-shuts-down-oil-pipeline-blaming-drones-from-iraq
US approves possible sale of four Black Hawk helicopters to Argentina for US$140 million
The US State Department has approved a possible sale of four UH-60L Black Hawk helicopters and related equipment to Argentina at an estimated cost of US$140 million, and notified Congress of the transaction, which has a review period before it can proceed.
https://en.mercopress.com/2026/09/12/us-approves-possible-sale-of-four-black-hawk-helicopters-to-argentina-for-us-140-million
Judge suspends Colombia’s aerial fumigation pilot
Earlier this week, the National Narcotics Council (CNE) ordered the National Police to restart the aerial fumigation of coca, the base ingredient for cocaine, “as a controlled, limited, temporary, and evaluable experimental phase, the implementation of a pilot plan for the eradication of illicit crops through aerial spraying using a manned aircraft and the formulated product Glufosinate Ammonium 200 SL.”
https://colombiareports.com/judge-suspends-colombias-aerial-fumigation-pilot/
Venezuela: Oil Output Plateaus, Zionist-linked Colombian Mogul Gets Prime Crude Concession
Venezuela’s oil industry recovery has stagnated in recent months, notwithstanding pro-business reforms and rising global prices. OPEC’s latest monthly report placed the Caribbean nation’s August production at 1.145 million barrels per day (bpd), up 23,000 bpd from the previous month, according to secondary sources.
https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/venezuela-oil-output-plateaus-zionist-linked-colombian-mogul-gets-prime-crude-concession/
Sudan’s civil society groups reject El Burhan’s mooted dialogue as ‘political cover’
Sudanese civil society coalitions and actors, the Darfur Women Platform, Sudan Civic Convergence Tracks, Sudan Peace Call, Tadamon, and Union’s Front, have issued a categorical rejection of a proposed Sudanese-Sudanese dialogue sponsored by Gel Abdelfattah El Burhan and the country’s military leadership, warning that a political process organised under the authority of one of the parties to the war cannot deliver either peace or legitimacy.
https://www.dabangasudan.org/en/all-news/article/sudans-civil-society-groups-rejects-el-burhans-mooted-dialogue-as-political-cover
Gambia bans protests without permits after unrest over power cuts
"From this very moment, nobody is allowed to protest without an approved permit," Seedy Mukhtar Touray, Gambia's inspector general of police, said in a statement late Thursday. "Nobody is allowed to converge, cause havoc, distort the peace and tranquility of the nation, especially during the night. Any violation to this will be met with necessary force."
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/gambia-bans-protests-without-permits-after-unrest-over-power-cuts-2026-09-11/
Nigeria suspends official visits to South Africa over anti-migrant violence
The ban extends even to virtual engagements, after months of anti-foreigner protests across South Africa that have driven tens of thousands of people to leave the country. “The National Assembly cannot ignore persistent attacks on citizens abroad,” Rotimi said. Kamoru Ogunlana, the clerk to Nigeria’s national assembly, said in a statement that parliament was “particularly concerned by reports of Nigerians being killed, injured, displaced and forced to abandon their businesses, investments, homes and other properties as a result of recurring violent attacks”.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/11/nigeria-suspends-official-visits-to-south-africa-over-anti-migrant-violence
https://archive.ph/NxXpN
Top elected official in Pakistan’s Balochistan rules out talks with insurgents
His remarks came as attacks by the Baloch Liberation Army, which has been designated as a foreign terrorist organization by the U.S., have increased. Bugti said the time had come for “major surgery” to eliminate terrorism. “We are in a state of war,” he said, adding that authorities had never claimed everything in Balochistan was normal. “The security forces are performing their duties under extremely difficult conditions in the province, and all state institutions are working in complete coordination against terrorism.”
https://apnews.com/article/pakistan-balochistan-rebels-negotiations-206732b68168bd0c42eb0685f036e356
India's central bank rejects Tata Sons request to avoid public listing, sources say
The more than a century-old holding company, which controls businesses including Tata Consultancy Services (TCS.NS), Tata Motors (TAMO.NS), Tata Steel (TISC.NS), and Air India, has sought to remain privately held. It is classified as a core investment company and falls under RBI regulations for non-bank lenders, which require that companies with assets exceeding 1 trillion rupees ($10.45 billion), or those with direct or indirect access to public funds, must list.
https://www.reuters.com/world/india/indias-central-bank-rejects-tata-sons-request-avoid-public-listing-sources-say-2026-09-12/
Second crypto billionaire donates record $49m to far-right Reform UK
Writing in the Daily Telegraph British newspaper on Saturday, donor Christopher Harborne said the $48.7m (£36m) donation was a “philanthropic gift” to the country, adding that he felt “inspired” to match the contribution made by fellow billionaire Ben Delo 24 hours earlier. Sixty-three-year-old Harborne is a Thailand-based cryptocurrency investor and Delo, 42, is the co-founder of the BitMEX cryptocurrency exchange.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/12/second-crypto-billionaire-donates-record-49m-to-far-right-reform-uk
https://archive.ph/YIvs4
Thousands turn out to protest Trump visit in Dublin
At least 30 groups and political parties took part in the procession from Parnell Square to Dáil Éireann where a rally was held. Rolling road closures were in place during the march and there is a strong garda presence People attending the march have spoke of their opposition to Mr Trump's visit and have criticised the welcome he has been given by the Government. Similar protests are taking place in Doonbeg in Co Clare where the US President is staying for the Irish Open.
https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2026/0912/1591250-trump-visit-ireland/
https://archive.ph/jJf78
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I've done some aid work, spent roughly a third of my life involved in socialist groups and I'm still active today. I do believe I've done some good but obviously nowhere near enough.
But there are also things I've come to accept. One of them is that I don't think Marxism is a realistic solution in itself. Anyone who claims that Marxism will inevitably become reality is deluding themselves, perhaps even more so than the Islamists. That doesn't mean I think Marxist thought is useless. Quite the opposite, Marxist-Leninist economics, sociology, history and political writings contain an enormous amount of material that is still incredibly valuable. I see them as necessary resources.
At this point, I have come to believe that the thing that matters most for third world societies is authoritarian developmentalism, regardless of ideology. It could be nationalist, Fascist, communist, ethnic, religious, monarchist or something else entirely. What matters to me is whether a centralized state can actually be formed that has the capacity to force through development, to industrialize, build infrastructure, improve education and healthcare, create jobs and ultimately pull people out of the slums and the conditions they are forced to live in today.
I don't particularly care what ideological label such a government carries if it can actually accomplish that. I increasingly see this as the only realistic path for most third world societies. Liberal democracy in my view is the worst option when it simply reproduces stagnation, poverty and political paralysis. And liberal socialist democracy just as bad when it offers neither meaningful socialism nor meaningful development, also leaving people trapped in the same misery and stagnation.
Cynical Socialism / Practical Socialism
I don't really know what else to call my views. I'm a socialist in a third world country and I've been on this path for quite a long time. Since I was young, more than anything I've always wanted my nation to have a decent standard of living, so that ordinary people don't have to live in conditions worse than dogs, as far too many of them do today.I've done some aid work, spent roughly a third of my life involved in socialist groups and I'm still active today. I do believe I've done some good but obviously nowhere near enough.
But there are also things I've come to accept. One of them is that I don't think Marxism is a realistic solution in itself. Anyone who claims that Marxism will inevitably become reality is deluding themselves, perhaps even more so than the Islamists. That doesn't mean I think Marxist thought is useless. Quite the opposite, Marxist-Leninist economics, sociology, history and political writings contain an enormous amount of material that is still incredibly valuable. I see them as necessary resources.
At this point, I have come to believe that the thing that matters most for third world societies is authoritarian developmentalism, regardless of ideology. It could be nationalist, Fascist, communist, ethnic, religious, monarchist or something else entirely. What matters to me is whether a centralized state can actually be formed that has the capacity to force through development, to industrialize, build infrastructure, improve education and healthcare, create jobs and ultimately pull people out of the slums and the conditions they are forced to live in today.
I don't particularly care what ideological label such a government carries if it can actually accomplish that. I increasingly see this as the only realistic path for most third world societies. Liberal democracy in my view is the worst option when it simply reproduces stagnation, poverty and political paralysis. And liberal socialist democracy just as bad when it offers neither meaningful socialism nor meaningful development, also leaving people trapped in the same misery and stagnation.
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The Worldwide Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution in the future Global USSR (All the SSRs and SFSRs of the future Global USSR are shown in the Map I posted) will flatten the Socially Constructed Reactionary Gender Binary, with all Women forced to have extremely short hair (Pixie cut or shorter, with a Shaved head being the most Historically Progressive), and Dresses/Skirts and Makeup/Lipstick banned in order to liberate Women from the chains of Bourgeois Femininity/Domesticity, while all Western Business Suits and Traditional Religious Clothing are banned as well with everyone wearing Mandatory Mao Suits. The Worldwide flattening of the Reactionary Gender Binary will ironically cause a noticeable Global decline in Transgenders (less Men will desire to become Women once the Aesthetics of Bourgeois Femininity such as Long Hair, Dresses/Skirts, Makeup/Lipstick, are banned for Women) in the aftermath of the Global Destruction of Bourgeois Femininity/Domesticity, though Sex Changes will still be Free and Legal to anyone who wants one, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🚀☢️ 💇♀️👩🦲!
Additionally, any Woman who keeps her Hair longer then a Pixie cut (a Very Short Bob cut “might” be tolerated only if it is not a millimeter longer then the Chin, but I could change my mind on this very quickly, so it would be strongly advised that all Women keep their Hair no longer then a Pixie cut), wears a Dress/Skirt, or uses Makeup/Lipstick, will have her Head completely Shaved by the Female (mostly Lesbian) International Red Guards, who will march her through the streets wearing a Dunce Cap, force her to attend Struggle Sessions, and put her in a Re-Education Camp, where she will be taught how to become a Liberated Socialist Woman and embrace the Immortal Science of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, the Highest Stage of Marxism, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🚀☢️ 💇♀️👩🦲!
When a Woman gets her Hair Chopped/Shaved off She is symbolically breaking the Chains of Bourgeois Femininity/Domesticity that Long Hair on Women symbolizes in the Patriarchal Superstructure of the modern Capitalist and historical Feudal Modes of Production (then it would have been called Aristocratic Femininity), thus meaning that Forcing Women to have extremely Short Hair (Pixie cut or shorter, with a Shaved head being the most Historically Progressive), along with banning Dresses/Skirts and Makeup/Lipstick and making everyone wear Mandatory Mao suits is the only way to Flatten the Reactionary Patriarchal Gender Binary and create Liberated Socialist Women, as Mao said “The times have changed, Men and Women are the same”, and the only way to create a Superstructure of Gender equality that reinforces the Socialist Mode of Production is to purge the Superstructure of all vestiges of Bourgeois Femininity/Domesticity that symbolize Patriarchal Female Subjugation and the Reactionary Patriarchal Gender Binary (ie. Long Hair, Dresses/Skirts, Makeup/Lipstick), and before people say “why not force Men to look like Women”, the reason why the Liberated Socialist Woman must have the aesthetics of Proletarian Masculinity (ie. extremely Short Hair, wearing Mao Suits instead of Dresses/Skirts and Makeup/Lipstick, etc.) is because the Aesthetics of Proletarian Masculinity symbolize Strength, Independence/Autonomy, and being a Liberated “Subject”, while the Aesthetics of Bourgeois “Femininity” symbolize Weakness, Dependence, and being an Oppressed “Object”, so a Liberated Socialist Women must have Aesthetics that symbolize Strength, Independence/Autonomy, and being a Liberated “Subject”, in a Socialist Superstructure of total Gender Equality resulting from the Flattening of the Reactionary Gender Binary and the destruction of Bourgeois Femininity/Domesticity, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🚀☢️ 💇♀️👩🦲!
The Worldwide Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution in the future Global USSR (All the SSRs and SFSRs of the future Global USSR are shown in the Map I posted) will flatten the Socially Constructed Reactionary Gender Binary, with all Women forced to have extremely short hair (Pixie cut or shorter, with a Shaved head being the most Historically Progressive), and Dresses/Skirts and Makeup/Lipstick banned in order to liberate Women from the chains of Bourgeois Femininity/Domesticity, while all Western Business Suits and Traditional Religious Clothing are banned as well with everyone wearing Mandatory Mao Suits. The Worldwide flattening of the Reactionary Gender Binary will ironically cause a noticeable Global decline in Transgenders (less Men will desire to become Women once the Aesthetics of Bourgeois Femininity such as Long Hair, Dresses/Skirts, Makeup/Lipstick, are banned for Women) in the aftermath of the Global Destruction of Bourgeois Femininity/Domesticity, though Sex Changes will still be Free and Legal to anyone who wants one, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🚀☢️ 💇♀️👩🦲!
Additionally, any Woman who keeps her Hair longer then a Pixie cut (a Very Short Bob cut “might” be tolerated only if it is not a millimeter longer then the Chin, but I could change my mind on this very quickly, so it would be strongly advised that all Women keep their Hair no longer then a Pixie cut), wears a Dress/Skirt, or uses Makeup/Lipstick, will have her Head completely Shaved by the Female (mostly Lesbian) International Red Guards, who will march her through the streets wearing a Dunce Cap, force her to attend Struggle Sessions, and put her in a Re-Education Camp, where she will be taught how to become a Liberated Socialist Woman and embrace the Immortal Science of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, the Highest Stage of Marxism, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🚀☢️ 💇♀️👩🦲!
When a Woman gets her Hair Chopped/Shaved off She is symbolically breaking the Chains of Bourgeois Femininity/Domesticity that Long Hair on Women symbolizes in the Patriarchal Superstructure of the modern Capitalist and historical Feudal Modes of Production (then it would have been called Aristocratic Femininity), thus meaning that Forcing Women to have extremely Short Hair (Pixie cut or shorter, with a Shaved head being the most Historically Progressive), along with banning Dresses/Skirts and Makeup/Lipstick and making everyone wear Mandatory Mao suits is the only way to Flatten the Reactionary Patriarchal Gender Binary and create Liberated Socialist Women, as Mao said “The times have changed, Men and Women are the same”, and the only way to create a Superstructure of Gender equality that reinforces the Socialist Mode of Production is to purge the Superstructure of all vestiges of Bourgeois Femininity/Domesticity that symbolize Patriarchal Female Subjugation and the Reactionary Patriarchal Gender Binary (ie. Long Hair, Dresses/Skirts, Makeup/Lipstick), and before people say “why not force Men to look like Women”, the reason why the Liberated Socialist Woman must have the aesthetics of Proletarian Masculinity (ie. extremely Short Hair, wearing Mao Suits instead of Dresses/Skirts and Makeup/Lipstick, etc.) is because the Aesthetics of Proletarian Masculinity symbolize Strength, Independence/Autonomy, and being a Liberated “Subject”, while the Aesthetics of Bourgeois “Femininity” symbolize Weakness, Dependence, and being an Oppressed “Object”, so a Liberated Socialist Women must have Aesthetics that symbolize Strength, Independence/Autonomy, and being a Liberated “Subject”, in a Socialist Superstructure of total Gender Equality resulting from the Flattening of the Reactionary Gender Binary and the destruction of Bourgeois Femininity/Domesticity, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🚀☢️ 💇♀️👩🦲!
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The “Who Owns Halifax” report also cites this report by Joanie Fontaine at Statistics Canada that found in Nova Scotia, “institutional investors owned the largest share of investment properties compared to other investor types —a greater share than in any other province.”
“We confirm that this remains true at the municipal level, where the majority of rental units are owned by chain and financial landlords,” the report says.
As for the “Who Owns Halifax” report, Dalhousie Legal Aid found that 20 landlords own more than 56% of the rental housing units in Halifax.
“If you’re a tenant who lives in a medium-or-large apartment building, there’s approximately a one in four chance that you rent from a financial landlord, and there’s a one in ten chance you rent from Killam,” the report says.
Dalhousie Legal Aid broke down landlord ownership into several categories: financial (REITs, etc.), chain, chain manager, multiple owners, single owner, non-profit, and co-op (the full definitions for each are in the report).
20 landlords own more than 56% of the rental housing units in Halifax
https://www.halifaxexaminer.ca/morning-file/who-owns-halifax-dalhousie-legal-aid-report-finds-20-landlords-own-56-of-the-citys-housing-units/The “Who Owns Halifax” report also cites this report by Joanie Fontaine at Statistics Canada that found in Nova Scotia, “institutional investors owned the largest share of investment properties compared to other investor types —a greater share than in any other province.”
“We confirm that this remains true at the municipal level, where the majority of rental units are owned by chain and financial landlords,” the report says.
As for the “Who Owns Halifax” report, Dalhousie Legal Aid found that 20 landlords own more than 56% of the rental housing units in Halifax.
“If you’re a tenant who lives in a medium-or-large apartment building, there’s approximately a one in four chance that you rent from a financial landlord, and there’s a one in ten chance you rent from Killam,” the report says.
Dalhousie Legal Aid broke down landlord ownership into several categories: financial (REITs, etc.), chain, chain manager, multiple owners, single owner, non-profit, and co-op (the full definitions for each are in the report).
R: 8 / I: 1
if this just results in mass lumpenization and the class divide will no longer be capitalists vs proles its capitalists vs lumpens, except they dont need the lumpens so will try and turn them into soylent?
AI and proletarian
Does the invention of AI mean its already too late for the proletariat to seize the means of production since the means can just produce themselves now with no labor content?if this just results in mass lumpenization and the class divide will no longer be capitalists vs proles its capitalists vs lumpens, except they dont need the lumpens so will try and turn them into soylent?
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How would he react to the absolute state of marxism-leninism in the 21st century? I think if he could read the abysmal bourgeoislop nu-MLkiddies in this website say while using his image to justify supporting the subhumans that tore what he built apart he would kill himself
I almost feel bad for him, but he made his own bed really
How would he react to the absolute state of marxism-leninism in the 21st century? I think if he could read the abysmal bourgeoislop nu-MLkiddies in this website say while using his image to justify supporting the subhumans that tore what he built apart he would kill himself
I almost feel bad for him, but he made his own bed really
R: 15 / I: 1
How are the Houthis doing so well?
They are out numbered and out gunned by the SSaudi-AmeriKKKan alliance armed by the west and staffed by soldiers from the Sunni world thrown into the meat grinder but they’ve somehow survived. How?
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>пойдёшь голосовать?
>будет ли движуха под выборы?
>какие есть варианты менять ситуацию к лучшему, когда участие в выборном фарсе ничего не даст?
/rupol/
Заранее известных победителей эдишн.KEEP THE PRO-WAR CIRCLEJERK TO /ukr/ AND FUCK OFF
QOTT:
>пойдёшь голосовать?
>будет ли движуха под выборы?
>какие есть варианты менять ситуацию к лучшему, когда участие в выборном фарсе ничего не даст?
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<South America edition
The American question is: how does a settler-imperialist nation transform itself into a decolonized socialist commonwealth without either reproducing the imperial form or fragmenting into balkanized enclaves that allow capital to reconstitute, while resolving the contradictions of internal colonization and liberating its external colonies, therefore using the empire's collapse to accelerate material conditions to enable the global revolution?
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💀 ICE & Prison Resources
(Amerika is the most incarcerated country in the world!)
ICE tracker using public info and user submissions // https://www.iceinmyarea.org/
list of deaths at ICE concentration camps // https://www.aila.org/infonet/deaths-at-adult-detention-centers
visualization of prison population in US // https://mkorostoff.github.io/incarceration-in-real-numbers/
Organizing in Prison — for when the walls close in (RANT Collective) // https://www.organizingforpower.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Organizing-in-Jail.pdf
database of U.S. facilities incl. ICE holding sites // https://alcpress.org/usjails/index.html
list of prison related resources, mailing lists, etc // https://www.prisonactivist.org/resources
ICE Agent List (incomplete) // https://wiki.icelist.is/index.php/Category:Agents
US Political Prison Tracker (last updated 2025) // https://uspoliticalprisoners.com/
Jailhouse Reading:
📖 Angela Davis - Are Prisons Obsolete? // https://dn790007.ca.archive.org/0/items/the-anarchist-library-full-list-of-pdfs-nov-2020/angela-y-davis-are-prisons-obsolete.pdf
📖 How to Defend Yourself During Police Interrogation // https://www.notrace.how/resources/download/comment-la-police-interroge-et-comment-sen-defendre/how-to-defend-yourself-during-a-police-interrogation.pdf
📖 National Lawyers Guild guide to being a jailhouse lawyer // https://www.jailhouselaw.org/
📖 Critical Resistance - Surviving Solitary Confinement // https://criticalresistance.org/resources/surviving-solitary/
📖 An inside-outside publication for abolitionist struggle & strategy across prison walls // https://criticalresistance.org/abolitionist/
📖 Prisoners’ Self-Help Litigation Manual // https://api.pageplace.de/preview/DT0400.9780199705665_A35159258/preview-9780199705665_A35159258.pdf
⚒️ LABOR!
Live strike tracker with deep stats on who, what and when // https://striketracker.ilr.cornell.edu/
AFL-CIO [imperialist]'s Strike Tracker // https://aflcio.org/strike-map
Labor Bureau's Official 'work stoppage' tracker // https://www.bls.gov/wsp/
IWW timeline for the 20th century (ends at 1999) // https://archive.iww.org/history/chronology/
IWW Work Place Organizing Guide // https://usa.anarchistlibraries.net/library/industrial-workers-of-the-world-libcom-org-solidarity-federation-walthamstow-anarchist-group-wo
▶ Salting | Work Place Organizing 101 (50 minute webinar) // https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SHlCLyM4FY
⚖️ Deeds of the Burger Reich 🇺🇸
deep list of horrible shit we (royal we) have done // https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/us_atrocities.md
Coups and regime changes – master list // https://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-peoples-governments-the-master-list
Wikipedia: United States War Crimes // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_war_crimes
/our boys/ (bring em home!) detail abusing Iraqi prisoners [2006] // https://www.hrw.org/report/2006/07/22/no-blood-no-foul/soldiers-accounts-detainee-abuse-iraq
More than 250 military interventions in the last 30 years alone // https://blackagendareport.com/us-launched-251-military-interventions-1991-and-469-1798
Visualisation of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade // https://www.slavevoyages.org/
UNESCO Sites relating to Slavery // https://slaveryandremembrance.org/
First Hand Documents of the horrors of Slavery // https://www.loc.gov/collections/slave-narratives-from-the-federal-writers-project-1936-to-1938/
📺 Glowie News 📺
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Bloomberg Live // https://www.bloomberg.com/live/us
Burger House Live // https://www.whitehouse.gov/live/
Local News // https://www.50states.com/ce/
Weather // https://www.noaa.gov/weather
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Jacobin // https://jacobin.com/
Black Agenda Report // https://blackagendareport.com/
The Grayzone // https://thegrayzone.com/
Leftvoice // https://www.leftvoice.org/
Newsanon Filter // https://leftypol.org/search.php?search=name%3A%22News+Anon+3.0%22&board=leftypol
🏝️ Epstein's Client List 🇮🇱
Epstein's Black Book // https://epsteinsblackbook.com/
DOJ Disclosures // https://www.justice.gov/epstein/doj-disclosures
Track AIPAC // https://www.trackaipac.com/
Al Jazeera visual guide (2026) // https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/10/struggling-to-navigate-the-epstein-files-here-is-a-visual-guide
Essential American Politik 📖
📖 WEB Du Bois - Black Reconstruction // https://cominsitu.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/w-e-b-du-bois-black-reconstruction-an-essay-toward-a-history-of-the-part-which-black-folk-played-in-the-attempt-to-reconstruct-democracy-2.pdf
📖 Eugene Debs - Fourth of July Speech // https://jacobin.com/2020/07/eugene-debs-independence-day-address-fourth-july
📖 Power Anywhere There's People! – Fred Hampton // https://www.hamptonthink.org/read/power-anywhere-where-thats-people-fred-hampton
📖 War is a Racket – Smedley Butler // https://ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html
📖 Letters From an American Farmer – St. John de Crevoecoeur // https://americanliterature.com/author/j-hector-st-john-de-crevoecoeur/book/letters-from-an-american-farmer/summary
📖 Trail of Broken Treaties // American Indian Movement https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
📖 The Declaration of Independence https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
📖 The Ballot or the Bullet – Malcolm X // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/ballot_or_bullet.pdf
📖 What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? – Frederick Douglass // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/douglass_july_4_speech.pdf
📖 A Trail of Broken Treaties – American Indian Movement // https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
📖 Custer Died for Your Sins – Vine Deloria Jr. // http://www.riversimulator.org/Resources/Books/CusterDiedForYourSinsAnIndianManifesto1969Deloria.pdf
📖 Emancipation Proclamation – Lincoln // https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/emancipation-proclamation
📖 Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville // https://americanliterature.com/author/alexis-de-tocqueville/book/democracy-in-america/summary
📖 Common Sense – Thomas Paine // https://americainclass.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Common-Sense-Full-Text.pdf
📖 An Indigenous History of the United States – Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz // https://nycstandswithstandingrock.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/dunbar-ortiz-2014.pdf
📖 Huey Long – Share Our Wealth // https://www.hueylong.com/programs/share-our-wealth/huey-longs-share-our-wealth-speech
Previous Thread: >>2906307
/USApol/ - American PoliTRICKs
🗽 UNITED STATES POLITICS 🦅
>Thread for the hellish discussion related to the scourge of the earth, the destroyer of nations, 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™
<South America edition
The American question is: how does a settler-imperialist nation transform itself into a decolonized socialist commonwealth without either reproducing the imperial form or fragmenting into balkanized enclaves that allow capital to reconstitute, while resolving the contradictions of internal colonization and liberating its external colonies, therefore using the empire's collapse to accelerate material conditions to enable the global revolution?
OP Backup Site: https://usapol.neocities.org/
💀 ICE & Prison Resources
(Amerika is the most incarcerated country in the world!)
ICE tracker using public info and user submissions // https://www.iceinmyarea.org/
list of deaths at ICE concentration camps // https://www.aila.org/infonet/deaths-at-adult-detention-centers
visualization of prison population in US // https://mkorostoff.github.io/incarceration-in-real-numbers/
Organizing in Prison — for when the walls close in (RANT Collective) // https://www.organizingforpower.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Organizing-in-Jail.pdf
database of U.S. facilities incl. ICE holding sites // https://alcpress.org/usjails/index.html
list of prison related resources, mailing lists, etc // https://www.prisonactivist.org/resources
ICE Agent List (incomplete) // https://wiki.icelist.is/index.php/Category:Agents
US Political Prison Tracker (last updated 2025) // https://uspoliticalprisoners.com/
Jailhouse Reading:
📖 Angela Davis - Are Prisons Obsolete? // https://dn790007.ca.archive.org/0/items/the-anarchist-library-full-list-of-pdfs-nov-2020/angela-y-davis-are-prisons-obsolete.pdf
📖 How to Defend Yourself During Police Interrogation // https://www.notrace.how/resources/download/comment-la-police-interroge-et-comment-sen-defendre/how-to-defend-yourself-during-a-police-interrogation.pdf
📖 National Lawyers Guild guide to being a jailhouse lawyer // https://www.jailhouselaw.org/
📖 Critical Resistance - Surviving Solitary Confinement // https://criticalresistance.org/resources/surviving-solitary/
📖 An inside-outside publication for abolitionist struggle & strategy across prison walls // https://criticalresistance.org/abolitionist/
📖 Prisoners’ Self-Help Litigation Manual // https://api.pageplace.de/preview/DT0400.9780199705665_A35159258/preview-9780199705665_A35159258.pdf
⚒️ LABOR!
Live strike tracker with deep stats on who, what and when // https://striketracker.ilr.cornell.edu/
AFL-CIO [imperialist]'s Strike Tracker // https://aflcio.org/strike-map
Labor Bureau's Official 'work stoppage' tracker // https://www.bls.gov/wsp/
IWW timeline for the 20th century (ends at 1999) // https://archive.iww.org/history/chronology/
IWW Work Place Organizing Guide // https://usa.anarchistlibraries.net/library/industrial-workers-of-the-world-libcom-org-solidarity-federation-walthamstow-anarchist-group-wo
▶ Salting | Work Place Organizing 101 (50 minute webinar) // https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SHlCLyM4FY
⚖️ Deeds of the Burger Reich 🇺🇸
deep list of horrible shit we (royal we) have done // https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/us_atrocities.md
Coups and regime changes – master list // https://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-peoples-governments-the-master-list
Wikipedia: United States War Crimes // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_war_crimes
/our boys/ (bring em home!) detail abusing Iraqi prisoners [2006] // https://www.hrw.org/report/2006/07/22/no-blood-no-foul/soldiers-accounts-detainee-abuse-iraq
More than 250 military interventions in the last 30 years alone // https://blackagendareport.com/us-launched-251-military-interventions-1991-and-469-1798
Visualisation of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade // https://www.slavevoyages.org/
UNESCO Sites relating to Slavery // https://slaveryandremembrance.org/
First Hand Documents of the horrors of Slavery // https://www.loc.gov/collections/slave-narratives-from-the-federal-writers-project-1936-to-1938/
📺 Glowie News 📺
(sponsored by the Burger Eagle Freedom Institute (formerly USAID))
CNN Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/cnn-news-usa.html
MSNBC Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/msnbc.html
FOX Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/fox-news-channel.html
Bloomberg Live // https://www.bloomberg.com/live/us
Burger House Live // https://www.whitehouse.gov/live/
Local News // https://www.50states.com/ce/
Weather // https://www.noaa.gov/weather
📺 Gommie News 📺
Jacobin // https://jacobin.com/
Black Agenda Report // https://blackagendareport.com/
The Grayzone // https://thegrayzone.com/
Leftvoice // https://www.leftvoice.org/
Newsanon Filter // https://leftypol.org/search.php?search=name%3A%22News+Anon+3.0%22&board=leftypol
🏝️ Epstein's Client List 🇮🇱
Epstein's Black Book // https://epsteinsblackbook.com/
DOJ Disclosures // https://www.justice.gov/epstein/doj-disclosures
Track AIPAC // https://www.trackaipac.com/
Al Jazeera visual guide (2026) // https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/10/struggling-to-navigate-the-epstein-files-here-is-a-visual-guide
Essential American Politik 📖
📖 WEB Du Bois - Black Reconstruction // https://cominsitu.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/w-e-b-du-bois-black-reconstruction-an-essay-toward-a-history-of-the-part-which-black-folk-played-in-the-attempt-to-reconstruct-democracy-2.pdf
📖 Eugene Debs - Fourth of July Speech // https://jacobin.com/2020/07/eugene-debs-independence-day-address-fourth-july
📖 Power Anywhere There's People! – Fred Hampton // https://www.hamptonthink.org/read/power-anywhere-where-thats-people-fred-hampton
📖 War is a Racket – Smedley Butler // https://ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html
📖 Letters From an American Farmer – St. John de Crevoecoeur // https://americanliterature.com/author/j-hector-st-john-de-crevoecoeur/book/letters-from-an-american-farmer/summary
📖 Trail of Broken Treaties // American Indian Movement https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
📖 The Declaration of Independence https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
📖 The Ballot or the Bullet – Malcolm X // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/ballot_or_bullet.pdf
📖 What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? – Frederick Douglass // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/douglass_july_4_speech.pdf
📖 A Trail of Broken Treaties – American Indian Movement // https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
📖 Custer Died for Your Sins – Vine Deloria Jr. // http://www.riversimulator.org/Resources/Books/CusterDiedForYourSinsAnIndianManifesto1969Deloria.pdf
📖 Emancipation Proclamation – Lincoln // https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/emancipation-proclamation
📖 Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville // https://americanliterature.com/author/alexis-de-tocqueville/book/democracy-in-america/summary
📖 Common Sense – Thomas Paine // https://americainclass.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Common-Sense-Full-Text.pdf
📖 An Indigenous History of the United States – Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz // https://nycstandswithstandingrock.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/dunbar-ortiz-2014.pdf
📖 Huey Long – Share Our Wealth // https://www.hueylong.com/programs/share-our-wealth/huey-longs-share-our-wealth-speech
Previous Thread: >>2906307
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I usually never go ever on organized attacks against a certain im not a hacktivist and that’s not what I’m trying to do im trying to persuade people to join communism(even other leftists like demsocs) though what is it and how do I become one I guess I should probably read Marx though I just got to college so… also give me tips and advice
Thanks
How to become a cyber-revolutionary?
How do I do this? Im actively trying to persuade non-leftist circles into becoming communist weather it be groups dissatisfied with the right or general anti-establishemtarianism though it never works except a couple timesI usually never go ever on organized attacks against a certain im not a hacktivist and that’s not what I’m trying to do im trying to persuade people to join communism(even other leftists like demsocs) though what is it and how do I become one I guess I should probably read Marx though I just got to college so… also give me tips and advice
Thanks
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Previous: >>2893548
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
https://azovlobby.substack.com/
https://banderalobby.substack.com/
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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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📺 • The Duran: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdeMVChrumySxV9N1w0Au-w
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Breaking the law rules of the Self-Storage editionPrevious: >>2893548
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
https://azovlobby.substack.com/
https://banderalobby.substack.com/
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>i love reshaping christianity to fit my ideology
<me too
i guess the horseshoe theory really does get confirmed in the end huh? i've honestly seen everything from far leftoids saying that christ was a materialist to chuds saying that the septuagiant is ACTUALLY AGAINST MISCEGENATIONG GUYS IGNORE MIRIAM OK JUST TRUST ME
>i love reshaping christianity to fit my ideology
<me too
i guess the horseshoe theory really does get confirmed in the end huh? i've honestly seen everything from far leftoids saying that christ was a materialist to chuds saying that the septuagiant is ACTUALLY AGAINST MISCEGENATIONG GUYS IGNORE MIRIAM OK JUST TRUST ME
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During the rally, the students presented some of the candidates who will feature on their parliamentary candidate list. Those introduced included President of the Judicial Power Trade Union, Nemanja Duric, Novi Sad cardiologist and Medical Faculty lecturer Ilija Srdanovic, Sombor Faculty of Education lecturer Ljubica Oparnica, and Belgrade Faculty of Philosophy lecturer Jovo Bakic. Other candidates presented were Belgrade Faculty of Chemistry lecturer Radomir Saicic, Novi Pazar political scientist Adem Mavric, and actor Tihomir Stanic.
https://www.bta.bg/en/news/balkans/1201909-serbian-student-movement-launches-election-campaign-with-rally-in-novi-sad
https://archive.ph/psYbz
Anti-racists to march in Portsmouth on Saturday, six days after far-right intimidation of refugees
SUTR anti-fascist officer Lewis Nielsen called recent anti-migrant protests seen in Portsmouth and Dover a “watershed moment,” asking members of the public to join their counter demo at 12pm tomorrow in the coastal city at All Saints Car Park, Church Street.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/anti-racists-will-march-portsmouth-saturday-six-days-after-hundreds-far-right
Tommy Robinson’s Right-Hand Man Is Turning Online Hate Into an Anti-Migrant Militia
Live-streaming his adventure to an audience on YouTube, he jumped over fences, making up for a lack of athleticism with a wild-eyed sense of urgency and determination. “If we’re being sick by the time we get there, we’re being sick – let’s go,” he said, panting as he ran. He encouraged both those he encountered in the street and those watching – “every man and his dog” – to join him. By the end of the night, around 200 people had gathered around the harbour, some wearing masks, confronting riot police in order to stop the arrival of 120 people who had been travelling to the UK in a single dinghy.
https://novaramedia.com/2026/09/09/tommy-robinsons-right-hand-man-is-turning-online-hate-into-an-anti-migrant-militia/
Spain’s Parliament backs citizenship for Western Saharans born before 1977
The bill still requires Senate approval before becoming law. The text grants Spanish nationality to Sahrawis born before September 29, 1977 and to their children through naturalisation, even if they never resided in Spain. Although the exact number of beneficiaries is unknown, Sahrawi groups estimate that between 70,000 and 120,000 people could benefit from the legislation, which supporters described as addressing a “historical injustice” by colonial Spain in the Western Sahara.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/10/spains-parliament-backs-citizenship-for-western-saharans-born-before-1977
https://archive.ph/VRJiN
Algeria cuts diplomatic ties with United Arab Emirates over 'provocative and hostile actions'
"Algeria spared no effort to draw the Emirati side's attention to, and to warn it against, the dire consequences that could result from its regrettable and unjustified conduct," the ministry said. Algiers said it was giving the UAE ambassador to Algeria 48 hours "to comply with the decision". Shortly after Algeria's announcement, Anwar Gargash, diplomatic adviser to the UAE president, said on X that diplomatic relations should be based on "rationality, communication and clarity of interests", rather than "riddles and signals that require decoding".
https://www.france24.com/en/africa/20260910-algeria-cuts-diplomatic-ties-with-united-arab-emirates-over-provocative-and-hostile-actions
https://archive.ph/WdfpY
Syria's Suweida moves toward a solution amid international push
The renewed activity comes amid increasing US, Jordanian and Turkish engagement, alongside mounting pressure on Sheikh Hikmat al-Hijri and a strong revival of discussion around the Syrian-Jordanian-US roadmap as the framework that could lead to a settlement ending the province's exceptional situation.
https://www.newarab.com/news/syrias-suweida-sees-renewed-international-push-solution
Bolivia Probe Finds 22 Million Liters of Fuel Diverted in One Month
A commission investigating alleged irregularities at Bolivia’s state-owned National Hydrocarbons Agency (ANH) denounced Thursday the diversion of 22 million liters of fuel in a single month, alongside multiple failures in control and oversight mechanisms.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/bolivia-probe-finds-22-million-liters-of-fuel-diverted-in-one-month/
Colombia announces new aerial fumigation pilot program
The police stressed that “this experimental phase does not constitute the resumption, adoption, or definitive authorization of a widespread or nationwide aerial spraying program,” which was banned by the Constitutional Court in 2015. In order to resume aerial fumigation, health and environmental authorities must sign off on the program and the police would only be allowed to use airplanes with the approval of the court and local communities.
https://colombiareports.com/colombia-announces-new-aerial-fumigation-pilot-program/
Trade unions question composition of minimum wage advisory board
Trade unions have objected to the government’s constitution of the Central Advisory Board (CAB) under the Code on Wages, 2019, flagging the exclusion of major central trade unions and raising concerns over the board’s role in minimum-wage formulation.
https://www.business-standard.com/india-news/wage-code-unions-question-composition-of-minimum-wage-advisory-board-126091001244_1.html
https://archive.ph/m29CJ
LDP-backed Koja has slight lead over incumbent Tamaki in Okinawa gubernatorial vote
Its outcome could have an impact on both Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s administration, which is heavily supporting the conservative newcomer, and the relocation of a U.S. military base in the prefecture. The latter could in turn affect Japan’s relations with the United States. The election is also seen as a referendum on the leadership of Tamaki, 66, who ran on a platform opposing the construction of a U.S. Marine Corps base on reclaimed land off the Henoko district, in the northern part of the main island of Okinawa, in the elections of 2018 and 2022
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/09/11/japan/politics/okinawa-election-polls/
https://archive.ph/6XF2u
Japan deploys equipment to Indonesia’s Borneo to help fight wildfires causing toxic haze
A Japanese military transport ship docked on the island of Borneo on Thursday as part of a disaster relief mission to help fight wildfires in Indonesia that are causing a toxic haze impacting people’s health in other countries. Japan deployed 300 crew members, landing ship JS Kunisaki and three CH-47 helicopters, which arrived in Kalimantan on the island of Borneo.
https://apnews.com/article/indonesia-japan-borneo-wildfires-smoke-toxic-haze-4e422e76372f15bbf6d6e09265d1f39c
Thailand builds border wall after Cambodia clashes
Villagers say the structure has cut into farmland along the porous border, but those who spoke to AFP were broadly positive. “We accept it, we accept losing some land in order to gain security,” said Suwin Muangmeung, who runs a grocery store. She acknowledged she does not always know where the border actually is.
https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/thailand-builds-border-wall-after-cambodia-clashes
https://archive.ph/2Y2Jx
News 9/11/26
Serbian Student Movement Launches Election Campaign with Rally in Novi SadDuring the rally, the students presented some of the candidates who will feature on their parliamentary candidate list. Those introduced included President of the Judicial Power Trade Union, Nemanja Duric, Novi Sad cardiologist and Medical Faculty lecturer Ilija Srdanovic, Sombor Faculty of Education lecturer Ljubica Oparnica, and Belgrade Faculty of Philosophy lecturer Jovo Bakic. Other candidates presented were Belgrade Faculty of Chemistry lecturer Radomir Saicic, Novi Pazar political scientist Adem Mavric, and actor Tihomir Stanic.
https://www.bta.bg/en/news/balkans/1201909-serbian-student-movement-launches-election-campaign-with-rally-in-novi-sad
https://archive.ph/psYbz
Anti-racists to march in Portsmouth on Saturday, six days after far-right intimidation of refugees
SUTR anti-fascist officer Lewis Nielsen called recent anti-migrant protests seen in Portsmouth and Dover a “watershed moment,” asking members of the public to join their counter demo at 12pm tomorrow in the coastal city at All Saints Car Park, Church Street.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/anti-racists-will-march-portsmouth-saturday-six-days-after-hundreds-far-right
Tommy Robinson’s Right-Hand Man Is Turning Online Hate Into an Anti-Migrant Militia
Live-streaming his adventure to an audience on YouTube, he jumped over fences, making up for a lack of athleticism with a wild-eyed sense of urgency and determination. “If we’re being sick by the time we get there, we’re being sick – let’s go,” he said, panting as he ran. He encouraged both those he encountered in the street and those watching – “every man and his dog” – to join him. By the end of the night, around 200 people had gathered around the harbour, some wearing masks, confronting riot police in order to stop the arrival of 120 people who had been travelling to the UK in a single dinghy.
https://novaramedia.com/2026/09/09/tommy-robinsons-right-hand-man-is-turning-online-hate-into-an-anti-migrant-militia/
Spain’s Parliament backs citizenship for Western Saharans born before 1977
The bill still requires Senate approval before becoming law. The text grants Spanish nationality to Sahrawis born before September 29, 1977 and to their children through naturalisation, even if they never resided in Spain. Although the exact number of beneficiaries is unknown, Sahrawi groups estimate that between 70,000 and 120,000 people could benefit from the legislation, which supporters described as addressing a “historical injustice” by colonial Spain in the Western Sahara.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/10/spains-parliament-backs-citizenship-for-western-saharans-born-before-1977
https://archive.ph/VRJiN
Algeria cuts diplomatic ties with United Arab Emirates over 'provocative and hostile actions'
"Algeria spared no effort to draw the Emirati side's attention to, and to warn it against, the dire consequences that could result from its regrettable and unjustified conduct," the ministry said. Algiers said it was giving the UAE ambassador to Algeria 48 hours "to comply with the decision". Shortly after Algeria's announcement, Anwar Gargash, diplomatic adviser to the UAE president, said on X that diplomatic relations should be based on "rationality, communication and clarity of interests", rather than "riddles and signals that require decoding".
https://www.france24.com/en/africa/20260910-algeria-cuts-diplomatic-ties-with-united-arab-emirates-over-provocative-and-hostile-actions
https://archive.ph/WdfpY
Syria's Suweida moves toward a solution amid international push
The renewed activity comes amid increasing US, Jordanian and Turkish engagement, alongside mounting pressure on Sheikh Hikmat al-Hijri and a strong revival of discussion around the Syrian-Jordanian-US roadmap as the framework that could lead to a settlement ending the province's exceptional situation.
https://www.newarab.com/news/syrias-suweida-sees-renewed-international-push-solution
Bolivia Probe Finds 22 Million Liters of Fuel Diverted in One Month
A commission investigating alleged irregularities at Bolivia’s state-owned National Hydrocarbons Agency (ANH) denounced Thursday the diversion of 22 million liters of fuel in a single month, alongside multiple failures in control and oversight mechanisms.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/bolivia-probe-finds-22-million-liters-of-fuel-diverted-in-one-month/
Colombia announces new aerial fumigation pilot program
The police stressed that “this experimental phase does not constitute the resumption, adoption, or definitive authorization of a widespread or nationwide aerial spraying program,” which was banned by the Constitutional Court in 2015. In order to resume aerial fumigation, health and environmental authorities must sign off on the program and the police would only be allowed to use airplanes with the approval of the court and local communities.
https://colombiareports.com/colombia-announces-new-aerial-fumigation-pilot-program/
Trade unions question composition of minimum wage advisory board
Trade unions have objected to the government’s constitution of the Central Advisory Board (CAB) under the Code on Wages, 2019, flagging the exclusion of major central trade unions and raising concerns over the board’s role in minimum-wage formulation.
https://www.business-standard.com/india-news/wage-code-unions-question-composition-of-minimum-wage-advisory-board-126091001244_1.html
https://archive.ph/m29CJ
LDP-backed Koja has slight lead over incumbent Tamaki in Okinawa gubernatorial vote
Its outcome could have an impact on both Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s administration, which is heavily supporting the conservative newcomer, and the relocation of a U.S. military base in the prefecture. The latter could in turn affect Japan’s relations with the United States. The election is also seen as a referendum on the leadership of Tamaki, 66, who ran on a platform opposing the construction of a U.S. Marine Corps base on reclaimed land off the Henoko district, in the northern part of the main island of Okinawa, in the elections of 2018 and 2022
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/09/11/japan/politics/okinawa-election-polls/
https://archive.ph/6XF2u
Japan deploys equipment to Indonesia’s Borneo to help fight wildfires causing toxic haze
A Japanese military transport ship docked on the island of Borneo on Thursday as part of a disaster relief mission to help fight wildfires in Indonesia that are causing a toxic haze impacting people’s health in other countries. Japan deployed 300 crew members, landing ship JS Kunisaki and three CH-47 helicopters, which arrived in Kalimantan on the island of Borneo.
https://apnews.com/article/indonesia-japan-borneo-wildfires-smoke-toxic-haze-4e422e76372f15bbf6d6e09265d1f39c
Thailand builds border wall after Cambodia clashes
Villagers say the structure has cut into farmland along the porous border, but those who spoke to AFP were broadly positive. “We accept it, we accept losing some land in order to gain security,” said Suwin Muangmeung, who runs a grocery store. She acknowledged she does not always know where the border actually is.
https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/thailand-builds-border-wall-after-cambodia-clashes
https://archive.ph/2Y2Jx
R: 4 / I: 0
I'm generally curious about marxists authors and which theories they've developed, and I like reading in general so it doesn't bother me to read stale theory books. Do you have any recommendations ? I'm not that interested in pure political tactics but I don't mind reading more "economical" books. More heterodox authors would be appreciated, albeit no frankfurt school BS. I've already had to read them for a class in college.
Any advice ?
>inb4 armchair and-what-not
I'm already active in an org, alongside multiple associations in which I volunteer.
Unsure about which book to read next
I'm unsure about which book to read next. I've been marxist theory for the better past of the last 2 years, alongside general philosophy which I'm interested in, but I don't know which authors I should pick up next from the marxist canon. I've read the important works by Marx and Engels, aswell as the classic : Lenin, Mao, Trotsky (finishing him today), Lukacs, Gramsci and Althusser.I'm generally curious about marxists authors and which theories they've developed, and I like reading in general so it doesn't bother me to read stale theory books. Do you have any recommendations ? I'm not that interested in pure political tactics but I don't mind reading more "economical" books. More heterodox authors would be appreciated, albeit no frankfurt school BS. I've already had to read them for a class in college.
Any advice ?
>inb4 armchair and-what-not
I'm already active in an org, alongside multiple associations in which I volunteer.
R: 3 / I: 1
imperialism isn't about economics, it's about society.
treatlers of 1st world countries come to the global south to pillage. how hard is that to understand? they aren't your friends, they aren't your allies, they are your blood enemies. think of it like humans vs. orcs.
imperialism isn't about economics, it's about society.
treatlers of 1st world countries come to the global south to pillage. how hard is that to understand? they aren't your friends, they aren't your allies, they are your blood enemies. think of it like humans vs. orcs.
R: 14 / I: 2
AMA.
I went to a communist fesival in Palestine AMA
I went to a Communist Festival organised by the Palestinian People's Party in the village of Farkha, Salfit Governate, West Bank this August. I can't really prove it in a way that wouldn't dox myself but picrel shouldn't be findable elsewhere on the internet so that should be proof enough.AMA.
R: 2 / I: 0
A Chile coup memorial march brought thousands of people to the streets of Santiago on Sunday, September 6, as organizations commemorated the 53rd anniversary of the September 11, 1973 coup that overthrew President Salvador Allende. The demonstration, which advanced toward the General Cemetery, was marked by strong denunciations of policies under President José Antonio Kast, particularly regarding cuts to public funding for memory and human rights institutions.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/chile-coup-memorial-march/
Debt piles up for young Argentines, testing support for President Milei
Nearly half of Argentina’s 45 million people owe money, and more than 5 million are behind on payments, according to the Center for City Studies, an Argentine nonprofit that tracks debt using central bank data. Borrowers under 25 have the highest delinquency rate of any age group, at 37.6%. “There’s hardly any work for anyone in this country right now,” said Taborda, who borrowed the equivalent of just over $100 through a mobile payment app in 2024 for education expenses. His debt swelled tenfold as interest accrued on missed payments. Forced to rely on others, he said, “You start to feel like a parasite.”
https://apnews.com/article/argentina-javier-milei-debt-economic-libertarian-market-reforms-1b8e2859a012b7c3fa50981c78764b4b
Spain’s top court suspends voting rights for some descendants of Civil War exiles
The Supreme Court has partially granted the preliminary injunction requested by the political movement Iustitia Europa and the far-right party Vox in separate appeals against a decision by the Central Electoral Board, which on July 16 stated that it could not reject the admission of mail-in ballots from these individuals abroad because doing so exceeded its authority.
https://efe.com/english/latest-news/2026-09-08/supreme-court-suspends-voter-registrations/
https://archive.ph/teUkY
Malta warned of corruption crisis after ‘utter disbelief’ over Daphne Caruana Galizia verdict
Malta is in turmoil after the acquittal of a wealthy and politically influential businessman, Yorgen Fenech, of any involvement in Caruana Galizia’s murder. Fenech denies paying a middleman €150,000 to have her killed. At the inquiry’s first hearing, on Wednesday, Chakrabarti said the verdict had “staggered many throughout Maltese society and beyond.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/10/malta-corruption-crisis-daphne-caruana-galizia-verdict
Lloyds Bank Denies Palestine Action Prisoner’s Mum Mortgage Over ‘Adverse Media’
Ellie’s mum Emma Kamio, a small business owner in south Wales and mother of three, applied for a new mortgage with Lloyds on her commercial properties in April. Her mortgage broker had made the high street bank aware of the legal process affecting the family prior to application.
https://novaramedia.com/2026/09/09/lloyds-bank-denies-palestine-action-prisoners-mum-mortgage-over-adverse-media/
Jailed Tunisian flotilla hunger striker’s health worsens
The health of Mr Naouar, one of four activists who remain in detention ahead of proceedings over their support of the flotilla, has worsened in recent days. Mr Naouar’s lawyer, Bassem Trifi, who is also president of the Tunisian League for Human Rights (LTDH), said that after more than 25 days without food his client’s condition was now “very serious.”
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/jailed-tunisian-flotilla-hunger-strikers-health-worsens
Sudan chemical weapons allegations highlight Israel’s involvement in war
Multiple Sudanese and US sources have told Middle East Eye that the “Middle Eastern intelligence agency” is Israeli, and that the dossier it shared with the media was very similar to one Israel handed to the US government before it sanctioned Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, leader of the SAF, in January 2025. The dossier’s evidence seems to show that a secretive unit of the SAF, which has been at war with the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) since April 2023, produced chlorine bombs to use against its enemy.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/sudan-chemical-weapons-allegations-highlight-israels-involvement-war
Iran attack on base in Jordan damaged American military aircraft, US official says
A U.S. official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said Iran's attack hit one A-10 Thunderbolt II, known as the Warthog, leaving it with a missing wing, while roughly eight F-15s sustained light damage and were returned to service.
https://www.reuters.com/world/multiple-us-military-aircraft-suffered-damage-overnight-strikes-on-jordan-air-2026-09-10/
Iranian arms and advice helped Yemen's Houthis seize key Red Sea city, sources say
Several senior Revolutionary Guards commanders had already travelled to Yemen to oversee and command Houthi attacks directed against Saudi Arabia after weeks of discussions over military strategy, a regional diplomat briefed by Tehran said.
https://www.newarab.com/news/iran-arms-advice-helped-yemens-houthis-seize-key-red-sea-city
Majority of Palestinians lose trust in Hamas and Fatah, new poll finds
In the West Bank, after trust in Hamas surged to 18.7% following the outbreak of the war in October 2023, it fell significantly to 4.5%, according to the current poll. As for political figures, 58.6% of respondents said they do not trust anyone. Among the remaining respondents, 6.9% said they trusted Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, 6.3% trusted jailed Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti and 5.8% trusted former Fatah leader Mohammed Dahlan.
https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2026/09/majority-palestinians-lose-trust-hamas-and-fatah-new-poll-finds
Japan considers accepting foreign workers into security sector
They will discuss how many foreign workers the security sector will be allowed to accept, which security tasks can be assigned to them, and what skills they will be required to have, including the required level of Japanese language proficiency. Under the current security services law, which does not include nationality requirements, foreign residents and spouses of Japanese nationals can be employed in the sector.
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/09/10/japan/foreign-worker-security-sector/
https://archive.ph/oj9UV
Wall Street Journal publisher convicted in Hong Kong of deterring reporter from union role
Cheng, who covered China’s automobiles and energy sectors for the WSJ, said her editor had told her that employees should not be seen as advocating for press freedom in “places like Hong Kong”, saying it could be perceived as a conflict of interest. She alleged her employer had attempted to prevent her from taking up a role in the union.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/10/wall-street-journal-selina-cheng-termination-lawsuit
News 9/10/26
Chile Coup Memorial March: Powerful Rally Condemns Kast’s Cuts on 53rd AnniversaryA Chile coup memorial march brought thousands of people to the streets of Santiago on Sunday, September 6, as organizations commemorated the 53rd anniversary of the September 11, 1973 coup that overthrew President Salvador Allende. The demonstration, which advanced toward the General Cemetery, was marked by strong denunciations of policies under President José Antonio Kast, particularly regarding cuts to public funding for memory and human rights institutions.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/chile-coup-memorial-march/
Debt piles up for young Argentines, testing support for President Milei
Nearly half of Argentina’s 45 million people owe money, and more than 5 million are behind on payments, according to the Center for City Studies, an Argentine nonprofit that tracks debt using central bank data. Borrowers under 25 have the highest delinquency rate of any age group, at 37.6%. “There’s hardly any work for anyone in this country right now,” said Taborda, who borrowed the equivalent of just over $100 through a mobile payment app in 2024 for education expenses. His debt swelled tenfold as interest accrued on missed payments. Forced to rely on others, he said, “You start to feel like a parasite.”
https://apnews.com/article/argentina-javier-milei-debt-economic-libertarian-market-reforms-1b8e2859a012b7c3fa50981c78764b4b
Spain’s top court suspends voting rights for some descendants of Civil War exiles
The Supreme Court has partially granted the preliminary injunction requested by the political movement Iustitia Europa and the far-right party Vox in separate appeals against a decision by the Central Electoral Board, which on July 16 stated that it could not reject the admission of mail-in ballots from these individuals abroad because doing so exceeded its authority.
https://efe.com/english/latest-news/2026-09-08/supreme-court-suspends-voter-registrations/
https://archive.ph/teUkY
Malta warned of corruption crisis after ‘utter disbelief’ over Daphne Caruana Galizia verdict
Malta is in turmoil after the acquittal of a wealthy and politically influential businessman, Yorgen Fenech, of any involvement in Caruana Galizia’s murder. Fenech denies paying a middleman €150,000 to have her killed. At the inquiry’s first hearing, on Wednesday, Chakrabarti said the verdict had “staggered many throughout Maltese society and beyond.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/10/malta-corruption-crisis-daphne-caruana-galizia-verdict
Lloyds Bank Denies Palestine Action Prisoner’s Mum Mortgage Over ‘Adverse Media’
Ellie’s mum Emma Kamio, a small business owner in south Wales and mother of three, applied for a new mortgage with Lloyds on her commercial properties in April. Her mortgage broker had made the high street bank aware of the legal process affecting the family prior to application.
https://novaramedia.com/2026/09/09/lloyds-bank-denies-palestine-action-prisoners-mum-mortgage-over-adverse-media/
Jailed Tunisian flotilla hunger striker’s health worsens
The health of Mr Naouar, one of four activists who remain in detention ahead of proceedings over their support of the flotilla, has worsened in recent days. Mr Naouar’s lawyer, Bassem Trifi, who is also president of the Tunisian League for Human Rights (LTDH), said that after more than 25 days without food his client’s condition was now “very serious.”
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/jailed-tunisian-flotilla-hunger-strikers-health-worsens
Sudan chemical weapons allegations highlight Israel’s involvement in war
Multiple Sudanese and US sources have told Middle East Eye that the “Middle Eastern intelligence agency” is Israeli, and that the dossier it shared with the media was very similar to one Israel handed to the US government before it sanctioned Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, leader of the SAF, in January 2025. The dossier’s evidence seems to show that a secretive unit of the SAF, which has been at war with the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) since April 2023, produced chlorine bombs to use against its enemy.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/sudan-chemical-weapons-allegations-highlight-israels-involvement-war
Iran attack on base in Jordan damaged American military aircraft, US official says
A U.S. official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said Iran's attack hit one A-10 Thunderbolt II, known as the Warthog, leaving it with a missing wing, while roughly eight F-15s sustained light damage and were returned to service.
https://www.reuters.com/world/multiple-us-military-aircraft-suffered-damage-overnight-strikes-on-jordan-air-2026-09-10/
Iranian arms and advice helped Yemen's Houthis seize key Red Sea city, sources say
Several senior Revolutionary Guards commanders had already travelled to Yemen to oversee and command Houthi attacks directed against Saudi Arabia after weeks of discussions over military strategy, a regional diplomat briefed by Tehran said.
https://www.newarab.com/news/iran-arms-advice-helped-yemens-houthis-seize-key-red-sea-city
Majority of Palestinians lose trust in Hamas and Fatah, new poll finds
In the West Bank, after trust in Hamas surged to 18.7% following the outbreak of the war in October 2023, it fell significantly to 4.5%, according to the current poll. As for political figures, 58.6% of respondents said they do not trust anyone. Among the remaining respondents, 6.9% said they trusted Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, 6.3% trusted jailed Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti and 5.8% trusted former Fatah leader Mohammed Dahlan.
https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2026/09/majority-palestinians-lose-trust-hamas-and-fatah-new-poll-finds
Japan considers accepting foreign workers into security sector
They will discuss how many foreign workers the security sector will be allowed to accept, which security tasks can be assigned to them, and what skills they will be required to have, including the required level of Japanese language proficiency. Under the current security services law, which does not include nationality requirements, foreign residents and spouses of Japanese nationals can be employed in the sector.
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/09/10/japan/foreign-worker-security-sector/
https://archive.ph/oj9UV
Wall Street Journal publisher convicted in Hong Kong of deterring reporter from union role
Cheng, who covered China’s automobiles and energy sectors for the WSJ, said her editor had told her that employees should not be seen as advocating for press freedom in “places like Hong Kong”, saying it could be perceived as a conflict of interest. She alleged her employer had attempted to prevent her from taking up a role in the union.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/10/wall-street-journal-selina-cheng-termination-lawsuit
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Petty bourgesisie overproduction
How much of a problem is petty bourgesisie production, it feels like theres to many people going into law, psyche, bussiness, and medical so the entire job market for those jobs are filled and its causing civil unrest. Also AI isnt helping either
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>pic unrelated
Are any of you NOT former chuds?
Personally I grew up as a republican and then slowly became more left leaning over time but I was never a neo-nazi or anything like that. It feels like on this site there's an odd amount of sympathy towards /pol/tards that I just don't understand. Maybe it's because a lot of you see your past selves in them but I have absolutely nothing in common with them. Never in my life have I ever been genuinely racist or anything like that. There's been multiple times on this site I've had people get mad at me for hating on rightoids it's just wild to me. I feel like we need more guys like me around who genuinely hate these people lol>pic unrelated
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Joseph Stalin is the most reviled opponent of the liberal bourgeoisie. No one causes more lib seethe than Stalin. The man was also firmly socially conservative and anti-cosmopolitan. And most importantly, he won the fucking war and died on old man at the height of his power, and the Soviet empire he built survived for decades afterwards.
So why is the online right still in love with a miserable loser like Hitler? Why are chinlet shooters and insecure browns still chanting "Hitler was right" instead of embracing the chad superiority of Stalin? Are they just stupid?
Joseph Stalin is the most reviled opponent of the liberal bourgeoisie. No one causes more lib seethe than Stalin. The man was also firmly socially conservative and anti-cosmopolitan. And most importantly, he won the fucking war and died on old man at the height of his power, and the Soviet empire he built survived for decades afterwards.
So why is the online right still in love with a miserable loser like Hitler? Why are chinlet shooters and insecure browns still chanting "Hitler was right" instead of embracing the chad superiority of Stalin? Are they just stupid?
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Confusy since all rural americans hate communism and probably maoism too how would they expect to wage a rural insurgency if nobody there would help.
also related but unrelated why are there such strong guzmanist parties in norway/denmark/sweden kek
Idk
American maoism
How and why does american maoism existConfusy since all rural americans hate communism and probably maoism too how would they expect to wage a rural insurgency if nobody there would help.
also related but unrelated why are there such strong guzmanist parties in norway/denmark/sweden kek
Idk
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Under the latest wave of new laws, police will be able to forcibly seize and access mobile phones to download all their data and open encrypted messages, even previously deleted material going back for years. NSW police will be able to compel access to citizens’ phones during arrests, roadside stops and other detentions. Full details are yet to be tabled. NSW Police Commissioner Mal Lanyon said the measures, combined with new digital forensic capabilities, would “give police the ability to crack encrypted devices and uncover evidence.”
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/09/09/cxya-s09.html
Home Minister Sudhan Gurung Shares Stage with Controversial Religious Figures
Police investigation has shown that Shriniwas arranged for a गोली (bullet) to be fired at himself in Jatuwa, Biratnagar in Ashad 2075. The police investigation concluded that he arranged for the shooting himself with the aim of disrupting religious tolerance. However, Shriniwas has denied the police investigation. Police investigated after he was shot in Jatuwa, Biratnagar on the morning of Chaitra 25, 2074. The police arrested him at Tribhuvan Airport in Baishakh 2076 and filed a case. The case against him is sub judice. He has been running a 'Hindu State Campaign' for the last 20 years.
https://english.ratopati.com/story/78535/good-governance-gossip-by-keeping-the-accused-together
Japanese yen turbulence continues to threaten global financial markets
The issue of the yen’s value started to come into greater international prominence earlier this year as it continued to fall against the dollar. This was despite threats from the Ministry of Finance (MoF) and Japanese Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama that they would intervene against short sellers—those who seek to profit from a further decline—and boost its value.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/09/09/ksgi-s09.html
South Koreans protest over possible plan to send forces to back US in Hormuz
Seoul said on Friday it was considering "contributions" to US security efforts along the strait, and on Tuesday sent what it called a fact-finding mission to the crucial waterway. Iran has already warned that any South Korean deployment would be "regarded as direct support for the party responsible for that aggression and will have serious consequences". Demonstrators gathered outside the US embassy in Seoul on Wednesday with placards urging the government not to join the "war of aggression" against Iran.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/south-koreans-protest-over-plan-send-forces-back-us-hormuz
Joint List submits slate for Israel election, vowing to fight racism, supremacy
Hadash chairman Yousef Jabareen heads the ticket, followed by longtime Ta'al leader Ahmad Tibi and Balad chairman Sami Abou Shahadeh. Hadash's Faten Ghattas is fourth, followed by Balad's Bakr Awawdeh and Hadash lawmaker Ofer Cassif. Former Hadash lawmaker Youssef Atauna is seventh, followed by Balad's Maha Karkabi Sabbah.
https://www.newarab.com/news/joint-list-submits-israel-election-slate-vows-fight-racism
Women comprise 88% of blackmail cases as Iraq grapples with outdated harassment law
More than 800 electronic extortion cases were addressed, the majority involving women, during the first nine months of this year, the Iraqi Interior Ministry announced on Wednesday, amid a push to reduce harassment and blackmail in the country despite outdated laws.
https://www.rudaw.net/english/categories/iraq/1079220
Gambian leader pledges halt to rolling blackouts as protests turn violent
Gambian President Adama Barrow has said the country will boost energy supplies by next month, hoping to quell violent protests over prolonged power outages as the premier stands for re-election. Protesters burned tyres and built barricades blocking traffic, demanding that Barrow resign, in The Gambia’s capital, Banjul, and nearby cities on Monday and Tuesday.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/9/gambian-leader-pledges-halt-to-rolling-blackouts-as-protests-turn-violent
https://archive.ph/BMTcd
Kenya’s nurses end six-week strike after signing deal with government
Seth Panyako, secretary-general of the nurses’ union, said his members would return to hospitals within 24 hours. He said the return-to-work agreement provided 45 days for negotiations to conclude on the implementation of a collective bargaining agreement that was reached in 2017 following a six-month strike. That agreement remains unimplemented due to what the government has termed budgetary constraints.
https://apnews.com/article/kenya-nurses-strike-doctors-019e913b5e2be6dfc45a512cabead02e
Albanian protests against Kushner-linked coastal development turn violent after 100th day
The march was staged as parliament resumed from a summer recess and after the demonstrations marked their 100th day on Monday. They challenged a police cordon in the center of the capital, Tirana, pelting officers in riot gear with eggs and tomatoes. Cars transporting lawmakers to the parliament building were confronted by the crowds and were hit with plastic water bottles before police intervened to let them through.
https://apnews.com/article/albania-protest-kushner-trump-rama-a5fd528fe90f515ffe0f0712304c39a5
Reform insists National Rally agreed migrant policy after backlash in France
The agreement unveiled on Friday between Nigel Farage and Bardella, who is the 30-year-old protege of presidential candidate Marine Le Pen, appeared to directly contradict Le Pen’s long-held policy of refusing to accept the return of those who arrive in the UK in small boats from France. Le Pen was pressed for her position by journalists from France TV, the state broadcaster, on Monday. Le Pen declined to comment, saying she would talk about the issue soon, but at a time of her choosing.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/09/reform-uk-national-rally-migrants-deal-farage-bardella
United States Warns Uruguay to Cease Presence of the Cuban Medical Brigade
According to Uruguayan journalist Gabriel Pereyra, the warning includes the possibility of adding Uruguay to an international blacklist, with consequences for U.S. military cooperation and technical assistance. Foreign Minister Mario Lubetkin denied receiving any specific official communication, although he acknowledged that the issue is under bilateral discussion. However, he emphasized that the experience with the Cuban doctors has been “extraordinary.”
https://www.telesurenglish.net/united-states-warns-uruguay-to-cease-presence-of-the-cuban-medical-brigade/
Survey: 58% of Argentines say economic situation is worsening
The findings come as Milei's government continues to defend its programme of austerity and spending cuts, arguing that fiscal discipline is necessary to stabilise an economy long plagued by high inflation and chronic deficits. But almost half of those surveyed took a sharply negative view of the government's economic strategy. Some 47.8 percent described the programme as "mistaken", saying it was causing "meaningless suffering" for Argentines.
https://www.batimes.com.ar/news/economy/survey-58-of-argentines-say-economic-situation-is-worsening.phtml
https://archive.ph/70Gdb
News 9/9/26
Australian state Labor government announces more police-state lawsUnder the latest wave of new laws, police will be able to forcibly seize and access mobile phones to download all their data and open encrypted messages, even previously deleted material going back for years. NSW police will be able to compel access to citizens’ phones during arrests, roadside stops and other detentions. Full details are yet to be tabled. NSW Police Commissioner Mal Lanyon said the measures, combined with new digital forensic capabilities, would “give police the ability to crack encrypted devices and uncover evidence.”
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/09/09/cxya-s09.html
Home Minister Sudhan Gurung Shares Stage with Controversial Religious Figures
Police investigation has shown that Shriniwas arranged for a गोली (bullet) to be fired at himself in Jatuwa, Biratnagar in Ashad 2075. The police investigation concluded that he arranged for the shooting himself with the aim of disrupting religious tolerance. However, Shriniwas has denied the police investigation. Police investigated after he was shot in Jatuwa, Biratnagar on the morning of Chaitra 25, 2074. The police arrested him at Tribhuvan Airport in Baishakh 2076 and filed a case. The case against him is sub judice. He has been running a 'Hindu State Campaign' for the last 20 years.
https://english.ratopati.com/story/78535/good-governance-gossip-by-keeping-the-accused-together
Japanese yen turbulence continues to threaten global financial markets
The issue of the yen’s value started to come into greater international prominence earlier this year as it continued to fall against the dollar. This was despite threats from the Ministry of Finance (MoF) and Japanese Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama that they would intervene against short sellers—those who seek to profit from a further decline—and boost its value.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/09/09/ksgi-s09.html
South Koreans protest over possible plan to send forces to back US in Hormuz
Seoul said on Friday it was considering "contributions" to US security efforts along the strait, and on Tuesday sent what it called a fact-finding mission to the crucial waterway. Iran has already warned that any South Korean deployment would be "regarded as direct support for the party responsible for that aggression and will have serious consequences". Demonstrators gathered outside the US embassy in Seoul on Wednesday with placards urging the government not to join the "war of aggression" against Iran.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/south-koreans-protest-over-plan-send-forces-back-us-hormuz
Joint List submits slate for Israel election, vowing to fight racism, supremacy
Hadash chairman Yousef Jabareen heads the ticket, followed by longtime Ta'al leader Ahmad Tibi and Balad chairman Sami Abou Shahadeh. Hadash's Faten Ghattas is fourth, followed by Balad's Bakr Awawdeh and Hadash lawmaker Ofer Cassif. Former Hadash lawmaker Youssef Atauna is seventh, followed by Balad's Maha Karkabi Sabbah.
https://www.newarab.com/news/joint-list-submits-israel-election-slate-vows-fight-racism
Women comprise 88% of blackmail cases as Iraq grapples with outdated harassment law
More than 800 electronic extortion cases were addressed, the majority involving women, during the first nine months of this year, the Iraqi Interior Ministry announced on Wednesday, amid a push to reduce harassment and blackmail in the country despite outdated laws.
https://www.rudaw.net/english/categories/iraq/1079220
Gambian leader pledges halt to rolling blackouts as protests turn violent
Gambian President Adama Barrow has said the country will boost energy supplies by next month, hoping to quell violent protests over prolonged power outages as the premier stands for re-election. Protesters burned tyres and built barricades blocking traffic, demanding that Barrow resign, in The Gambia’s capital, Banjul, and nearby cities on Monday and Tuesday.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/9/gambian-leader-pledges-halt-to-rolling-blackouts-as-protests-turn-violent
https://archive.ph/BMTcd
Kenya’s nurses end six-week strike after signing deal with government
Seth Panyako, secretary-general of the nurses’ union, said his members would return to hospitals within 24 hours. He said the return-to-work agreement provided 45 days for negotiations to conclude on the implementation of a collective bargaining agreement that was reached in 2017 following a six-month strike. That agreement remains unimplemented due to what the government has termed budgetary constraints.
https://apnews.com/article/kenya-nurses-strike-doctors-019e913b5e2be6dfc45a512cabead02e
Albanian protests against Kushner-linked coastal development turn violent after 100th day
The march was staged as parliament resumed from a summer recess and after the demonstrations marked their 100th day on Monday. They challenged a police cordon in the center of the capital, Tirana, pelting officers in riot gear with eggs and tomatoes. Cars transporting lawmakers to the parliament building were confronted by the crowds and were hit with plastic water bottles before police intervened to let them through.
https://apnews.com/article/albania-protest-kushner-trump-rama-a5fd528fe90f515ffe0f0712304c39a5
Reform insists National Rally agreed migrant policy after backlash in France
The agreement unveiled on Friday between Nigel Farage and Bardella, who is the 30-year-old protege of presidential candidate Marine Le Pen, appeared to directly contradict Le Pen’s long-held policy of refusing to accept the return of those who arrive in the UK in small boats from France. Le Pen was pressed for her position by journalists from France TV, the state broadcaster, on Monday. Le Pen declined to comment, saying she would talk about the issue soon, but at a time of her choosing.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/09/reform-uk-national-rally-migrants-deal-farage-bardella
United States Warns Uruguay to Cease Presence of the Cuban Medical Brigade
According to Uruguayan journalist Gabriel Pereyra, the warning includes the possibility of adding Uruguay to an international blacklist, with consequences for U.S. military cooperation and technical assistance. Foreign Minister Mario Lubetkin denied receiving any specific official communication, although he acknowledged that the issue is under bilateral discussion. However, he emphasized that the experience with the Cuban doctors has been “extraordinary.”
https://www.telesurenglish.net/united-states-warns-uruguay-to-cease-presence-of-the-cuban-medical-brigade/
Survey: 58% of Argentines say economic situation is worsening
The findings come as Milei's government continues to defend its programme of austerity and spending cuts, arguing that fiscal discipline is necessary to stabilise an economy long plagued by high inflation and chronic deficits. But almost half of those surveyed took a sharply negative view of the government's economic strategy. Some 47.8 percent described the programme as "mistaken", saying it was causing "meaningless suffering" for Argentines.
https://www.batimes.com.ar/news/economy/survey-58-of-argentines-say-economic-situation-is-worsening.phtml
https://archive.ph/70Gdb
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>Trump says he will declare the Strait of Hormuz US territory “pretty soon” while preparing a hard economic blow to force Iran into ending the war.
<In response to Trump’s threats, Iran’s deputy foreign minister says the waterway will remain Iranian and that blockade enforcement will continue until the US accepts defeat.
>Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi says the Islamabad MoU marked an “end of the war, not a ceasefire”, pointing out that the US violated the deal and fighting resumed, leaving no 60-day ceasefire to extend.
<Araghchi also says negotiations between Iran and Oman regarding the Strait of Hormuz “may reach a conclusion soon”.
>Abu Dhabi National Oil Company says one of its vessels came under attack in the Strait of Hormuz on Friday, reporting no injuries and that the situation was brought under control.
<Oil prices rise more than a dollar a barrel as tanker attacks and stalled US-Iran peace talks drive Brent crude to $88.52 and US WTI to $82.40.
>CENTCOM says US forces “redirected” 62 commercial vessels in the Arabian Sea after reinstating the naval blockade of Iranian ports
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>Trump says he will declare the Strait of Hormuz US territory “pretty soon” while preparing a hard economic blow to force Iran into ending the war.
<In response to Trump’s threats, Iran’s deputy foreign minister says the waterway will remain Iranian and that blockade enforcement will continue until the US accepts defeat.
>Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi says the Islamabad MoU marked an “end of the war, not a ceasefire”, pointing out that the US violated the deal and fighting resumed, leaving no 60-day ceasefire to extend.
<Araghchi also says negotiations between Iran and Oman regarding the Strait of Hormuz “may reach a conclusion soon”.
>Abu Dhabi National Oil Company says one of its vessels came under attack in the Strait of Hormuz on Friday, reporting no injuries and that the situation was brought under control.
<Oil prices rise more than a dollar a barrel as tanker attacks and stalled US-Iran peace talks drive Brent crude to $88.52 and US WTI to $82.40.
>CENTCOM says US forces “redirected” 62 commercial vessels in the Arabian Sea after reinstating the naval blockade of Iranian ports
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I remember when he had a whole cult around him in the early 2010s during Occupy and was a huge cheerleader for the Rojava revolution in the years that followed. His book Debt The First 5000 Years was a huge hit (and I mean HUGE, in the sense that you'd see it sold in both anarchist infoshops and mainstream booksellers like Barnes). He was instrumental in rewriting the historical narrative of class formation and the development of money and economic systems. A lot of Marxists didn't like that but they had zero means of debunking his work. When he died in 2020 there was an outpouring of love from leftists all over the world, for an anarchist intellectual who meant so much to people.
But now, I never see Graeber mentioned, ever. The only times I see him or his work brought up is to heavily chastise it, or attack him for his anarchist politics. Tankies hate him but can never prove him wrong. I have to ask why he's become nothing but a footnote in the history of leftist thought, especially when he was so celebrated 15 years ago.
David Graeber
Why does everyone in leftist circles hate him now?I remember when he had a whole cult around him in the early 2010s during Occupy and was a huge cheerleader for the Rojava revolution in the years that followed. His book Debt The First 5000 Years was a huge hit (and I mean HUGE, in the sense that you'd see it sold in both anarchist infoshops and mainstream booksellers like Barnes). He was instrumental in rewriting the historical narrative of class formation and the development of money and economic systems. A lot of Marxists didn't like that but they had zero means of debunking his work. When he died in 2020 there was an outpouring of love from leftists all over the world, for an anarchist intellectual who meant so much to people.
But now, I never see Graeber mentioned, ever. The only times I see him or his work brought up is to heavily chastise it, or attack him for his anarchist politics. Tankies hate him but can never prove him wrong. I have to ask why he's become nothing but a footnote in the history of leftist thought, especially when he was so celebrated 15 years ago.
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Rightoids be like
>I support Western civilization except for democracy, human rights, equality, secularism, separation of church and state… I actually just like Greek statues.
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trotsky???
i’ve been seeing so many different views on the internet, so i’m super confused, but i’ve noticed that a lot of groups criticize trotskyism, primarily due to its association with intraleft criticisms. what do all of you think? are trotskyists just whiners or is their fourth international genuinely a continuation of the eventual state of communism?
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Explain this you Eurocentric, racist Marxists with your necessary linear stages of development. Did the Inca already have their capitalist stage before they achieved socialism or not?
Explain this you Eurocentric, racist Marxists with your necessary linear stages of development. Did the Inca already have their capitalist stage before they achieved socialism or not?
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Despite being richer on average and having better positions and generally scoring only slightly worse off if not the same as women in many economic indicators, Men commit significantly more crimes than women. Even more so for violent or severe crime, proven by the fact that they make up so little of the prison population.
This remains true even for places where sexual equality is low.
Why is that? What exactly is the difference between the circumstances and social treatment that makes men more likely to commit crimes? And how to fix that?
Is there any reason to believe the cause is just fundamental and the outcome would still be very disproportionate no matter the nurture?? Is there any deceisive evidence against this?
Despite being richer on average and having better positions and generally scoring only slightly worse off if not the same as women in many economic indicators, Men commit significantly more crimes than women. Even more so for violent or severe crime, proven by the fact that they make up so little of the prison population.
This remains true even for places where sexual equality is low.
Why is that? What exactly is the difference between the circumstances and social treatment that makes men more likely to commit crimes? And how to fix that?
Is there any reason to believe the cause is just fundamental and the outcome would still be very disproportionate no matter the nurture?? Is there any deceisive evidence against this?
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Marx was historically a revisionist
>Marx underestimated capitalism's adaptability. Lenin's theory of imperialism was necessary to explain monopoly capitalism, colonialism, and the export of capital.
>Marx underdeveloped revolutionary organization. He never developed Lenin's theory of the disciplined vanguard party, democratic centralism, and professional revolutionary organization.
>Marx did not fully resolve the question of the state. Lenin developed the dictatorship of the proletariat into a much more concrete theory of revolutionary state power.
>Marxism-Leninism necessarily goes beyond Marx. Lenin, Stalin, and later revolutionaries developed Marxism according to new material conditions.
Calling Marx a revisionist is historically accurate, arguing that some Marxian positions became inadequate or revisionist when preserved uncritically after Lenin's developments is a defensible ML position.
>flood flood floooood
Marx was historically a revisionist
>Marx underestimated capitalism's adaptability. Lenin's theory of imperialism was necessary to explain monopoly capitalism, colonialism, and the export of capital.
>Marx underdeveloped revolutionary organization. He never developed Lenin's theory of the disciplined vanguard party, democratic centralism, and professional revolutionary organization.
>Marx did not fully resolve the question of the state. Lenin developed the dictatorship of the proletariat into a much more concrete theory of revolutionary state power.
>Marxism-Leninism necessarily goes beyond Marx. Lenin, Stalin, and later revolutionaries developed Marxism according to new material conditions.
Calling Marx a revisionist is historically accurate, arguing that some Marxian positions became inadequate or revisionist when preserved uncritically after Lenin's developments is a defensible ML position.
>flood flood floooood
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Saudi Arabia said it would retaliate after the overnight strikes – reportedly involving dozens of drones and missiles – that targeted several oil facilities in the country’s south. The country would “take all necessary measures to defend its sovereignty”, a foreign ministry statement said, demanding a halt to the Houthi strikes on Saudi territory and oil tankers in the Red Sea.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/08/houthi-strike-saudi-arabia-oil-facilities-middle-east-war-iran
Netanyahu ‘Was Warned Ahead of 7 October but Failed to Act’
The investigation, published by Haaretz on Tuesday, claims that UAE president Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed told the Israeli prime minister by phone that the armed group was “preparing for a major event”. Netanyahu did not tell intelligence and military leaders about the conversation, according to the report, which cites unnamed senior foreign sources and a close adviser to bin Zayed who was present on the call.
https://novaramedia.com/2026/09/08/netanyahu-was-warned-ahead-of-october-7-but-failed-to-act/
Israel bans 11 British MPs and announces closure of UK consulate in East Jerusalem
On Tuesday the British government recognised the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, declared the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory illegal and announced both comprehensive sanctions on Israeli settlements and a ban on all arms licences and other exports that "materially contribute to the occupation". France and Canada will also ban trade in settlement goods today, marking a significant diplomatic victory for the British government.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-lashes-out-uk-sanctions-and-announces-consulate-closure
Up to 100,000 job placements for Neets under DWP retailers’ scheme
Usdaw general secretary Joanne Thomas said: “We want to see the Government working with retailers and unions to tackle the growing problem of youth unemployment. We would encourage retailers to take young people on in paid work, with secure hours and opportunities for progression. “Where employers are using work experience schemes they must ensure that this is time limited, is done separately from current and future staffing resources and that it involves real training and a route to permanent, secure work.”
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/100000-job-placements-neets-under-dwp-retailers-scheme
Anti-AfD protests sweep Germany as far right closes in on two more states
Police reported 5,000 protesters, while organisers said they drew more than 14,000 people in a campaign to mobilise voters against the AfD. Posters in the crowd read: “Fascism is no alternative”, “Stop the Nazi AfD: end racism and cuts to social services” and “History has its eyes on us”.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/08/anti-afd-protests-germany-far-right-berlin-mecklenburg-western-pomerania
Brazil Supreme Court removes federal police chief, deepening crisis at the top court
Mendonca currently chairs two politically sensitive investigations: one into the collapse of Banco Master, which has ensnared several politicians, and another into alleged frauds in Brazil’s pension system. The first has hit mostly figures of the country’s opposition, while the latter has raised questions of wrongdoing by one of Lula’s sons. Brazil’s government did not immediately respond to a request from The Associated Press on whether it will appeal.
https://apnews.com/article/brazil-supreme-court-federal-police-crisis-30cd3bab96065b3a076f4756294b09b4
Mexico investigates electricity theft after busting a crypto mining farm
The discovery of a clandestine cryptocurrency mining farm in a remote area of Puebla has opened a new line of inquiry into large-scale electricity theft in Mexico. Puebla’s Public Security Secretariat said the main crime under investigation is energy theft and that authorities will expand their inquiries to neighboring municipalities in search of similar facilities.
https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-09-08/mexico-investigates-electricity-theft-after-busting-a-crypto-mining-farm.html
https://archive.ph/oy64F
Mexican truck drivers block ports of entry to US over Trump’s mass revocation of B-1 visas
Hundreds of Mexican cross-border truck drivers blockaded the commercial ports of entry on the Mexican side of the Mexicali, Mexico-Calexico East (California) and San Luis Río Colorado, Mexico-Yuma, Arizona border from Thursday to midday Sunday. Truckers blocked the crossings to protest the mass revocation of their B-1 visas by US immigration authorities. The visas have allowed truckers to take cargo into the US.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/09/08/wxak-s08.html
Kenya’s doctors threaten to join strike by nurses, citing increased workload in hospitals
The nurses have been calling for the implementation of a collective bargaining agreement that was signed in 2017 following a six-month strike. The agreement remains unimplemented due to what the government has termed budgetary constraints. Dr. Davji Bhimji Atellah, secretary-general of the doctors’ union, said on Tuesday that doctors were overburdened and “cannot do the nursing jobs.”
https://apnews.com/article/kenya-nurses-strike-doctors-government-pay-045adbd75aa1705586147c14584b6000
RSF releases four journalists and lawyer after months in detention in North Darfur
The Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have released four female journalists and a lawyer in Nyala, the capital of South Darfur, after holding them for varying periods of time. Sources tell Radio Dabanga that the journalists, Dr Manahil Mustafa, Ishraqa Abdelrahman, Mawahib Ibrahim, and Zahra Mohamed El Hassan, were released alongside the lawyer, Magda Hassan Ali, after about six months in detention.
https://www.dabangasudan.org/en/all-news/article/rsf-releases-four-journalists-and-lawyer-after-months-in-detention-in-north-darfur
Tech professionals warn of privacy risks in proposed ID rule for Meta users
Beyond possible violations of citizens’ privacy, the CPU said the rule strips away the right to anonymity, threatens free expression, and can become a dangerous tool for mass surveillance. The group pointed out that the SIM Registration Law did not address the incidence of cybercrime after it was enacted into law under Ferdinand Marcos Jr’ s administration.
https://www.bulatlat.com/2026/09/08/tech-professionals-warn-of-privacy-risks-in-proposed-id-rule-for-meta-users/
Philippines warns China may reassert itself amid US-South Korea drill cuts
Speaking on the sidelines of the Seoul Defense Dialogue, an annual multilateral security forum, Teodoro said that “China is very quick to exploit gaps”, when asked on Monday whether Beijing could seize on the move. He added that Washington had given Manila “definite assurances” that the US commitments to the Philippines remained unchanged.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/7/philippines-warns-china-may-reassert-itself-amid-us-south-korea-drill-cuts
https://archive.ph/Y9ySe
News 9/8/26
Houthis strike Saudi Arabian cities in significant expansion of Middle East warSaudi Arabia said it would retaliate after the overnight strikes – reportedly involving dozens of drones and missiles – that targeted several oil facilities in the country’s south. The country would “take all necessary measures to defend its sovereignty”, a foreign ministry statement said, demanding a halt to the Houthi strikes on Saudi territory and oil tankers in the Red Sea.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/08/houthi-strike-saudi-arabia-oil-facilities-middle-east-war-iran
Netanyahu ‘Was Warned Ahead of 7 October but Failed to Act’
The investigation, published by Haaretz on Tuesday, claims that UAE president Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed told the Israeli prime minister by phone that the armed group was “preparing for a major event”. Netanyahu did not tell intelligence and military leaders about the conversation, according to the report, which cites unnamed senior foreign sources and a close adviser to bin Zayed who was present on the call.
https://novaramedia.com/2026/09/08/netanyahu-was-warned-ahead-of-october-7-but-failed-to-act/
Israel bans 11 British MPs and announces closure of UK consulate in East Jerusalem
On Tuesday the British government recognised the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, declared the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory illegal and announced both comprehensive sanctions on Israeli settlements and a ban on all arms licences and other exports that "materially contribute to the occupation". France and Canada will also ban trade in settlement goods today, marking a significant diplomatic victory for the British government.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-lashes-out-uk-sanctions-and-announces-consulate-closure
Up to 100,000 job placements for Neets under DWP retailers’ scheme
Usdaw general secretary Joanne Thomas said: “We want to see the Government working with retailers and unions to tackle the growing problem of youth unemployment. We would encourage retailers to take young people on in paid work, with secure hours and opportunities for progression. “Where employers are using work experience schemes they must ensure that this is time limited, is done separately from current and future staffing resources and that it involves real training and a route to permanent, secure work.”
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/100000-job-placements-neets-under-dwp-retailers-scheme
Anti-AfD protests sweep Germany as far right closes in on two more states
Police reported 5,000 protesters, while organisers said they drew more than 14,000 people in a campaign to mobilise voters against the AfD. Posters in the crowd read: “Fascism is no alternative”, “Stop the Nazi AfD: end racism and cuts to social services” and “History has its eyes on us”.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/08/anti-afd-protests-germany-far-right-berlin-mecklenburg-western-pomerania
Brazil Supreme Court removes federal police chief, deepening crisis at the top court
Mendonca currently chairs two politically sensitive investigations: one into the collapse of Banco Master, which has ensnared several politicians, and another into alleged frauds in Brazil’s pension system. The first has hit mostly figures of the country’s opposition, while the latter has raised questions of wrongdoing by one of Lula’s sons. Brazil’s government did not immediately respond to a request from The Associated Press on whether it will appeal.
https://apnews.com/article/brazil-supreme-court-federal-police-crisis-30cd3bab96065b3a076f4756294b09b4
Mexico investigates electricity theft after busting a crypto mining farm
The discovery of a clandestine cryptocurrency mining farm in a remote area of Puebla has opened a new line of inquiry into large-scale electricity theft in Mexico. Puebla’s Public Security Secretariat said the main crime under investigation is energy theft and that authorities will expand their inquiries to neighboring municipalities in search of similar facilities.
https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-09-08/mexico-investigates-electricity-theft-after-busting-a-crypto-mining-farm.html
https://archive.ph/oy64F
Mexican truck drivers block ports of entry to US over Trump’s mass revocation of B-1 visas
Hundreds of Mexican cross-border truck drivers blockaded the commercial ports of entry on the Mexican side of the Mexicali, Mexico-Calexico East (California) and San Luis Río Colorado, Mexico-Yuma, Arizona border from Thursday to midday Sunday. Truckers blocked the crossings to protest the mass revocation of their B-1 visas by US immigration authorities. The visas have allowed truckers to take cargo into the US.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/09/08/wxak-s08.html
Kenya’s doctors threaten to join strike by nurses, citing increased workload in hospitals
The nurses have been calling for the implementation of a collective bargaining agreement that was signed in 2017 following a six-month strike. The agreement remains unimplemented due to what the government has termed budgetary constraints. Dr. Davji Bhimji Atellah, secretary-general of the doctors’ union, said on Tuesday that doctors were overburdened and “cannot do the nursing jobs.”
https://apnews.com/article/kenya-nurses-strike-doctors-government-pay-045adbd75aa1705586147c14584b6000
RSF releases four journalists and lawyer after months in detention in North Darfur
The Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have released four female journalists and a lawyer in Nyala, the capital of South Darfur, after holding them for varying periods of time. Sources tell Radio Dabanga that the journalists, Dr Manahil Mustafa, Ishraqa Abdelrahman, Mawahib Ibrahim, and Zahra Mohamed El Hassan, were released alongside the lawyer, Magda Hassan Ali, after about six months in detention.
https://www.dabangasudan.org/en/all-news/article/rsf-releases-four-journalists-and-lawyer-after-months-in-detention-in-north-darfur
Tech professionals warn of privacy risks in proposed ID rule for Meta users
Beyond possible violations of citizens’ privacy, the CPU said the rule strips away the right to anonymity, threatens free expression, and can become a dangerous tool for mass surveillance. The group pointed out that the SIM Registration Law did not address the incidence of cybercrime after it was enacted into law under Ferdinand Marcos Jr’ s administration.
https://www.bulatlat.com/2026/09/08/tech-professionals-warn-of-privacy-risks-in-proposed-id-rule-for-meta-users/
Philippines warns China may reassert itself amid US-South Korea drill cuts
Speaking on the sidelines of the Seoul Defense Dialogue, an annual multilateral security forum, Teodoro said that “China is very quick to exploit gaps”, when asked on Monday whether Beijing could seize on the move. He added that Washington had given Manila “definite assurances” that the US commitments to the Philippines remained unchanged.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/7/philippines-warns-china-may-reassert-itself-amid-us-south-korea-drill-cuts
https://archive.ph/Y9ySe
R: 608 / I: 110 (full)
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>The United States military says it is striking targets in Iran over attempted attacks on shipping as Iranian media reports explosions in Asaluyeh, Jiroft, Bandar Abbas, Qeshm Island, Konarak, Chabahar, Jask, Sirik and Lavan.
<Iran’s army and IRGC promise the US will regret and face “severe punishment” for the aggression.
>US President Donald Trump says “if the failed Nation of Iran retaliates for this very justified attack, they will be hit again at a much harder and higher level”.
<At least two people killed in US attack on Iran’s Sirik, says deputy governor
>No casualties, minimal damage from US attack on Jiroft Airport: Local official
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>The United States military says it is striking targets in Iran over attempted attacks on shipping as Iranian media reports explosions in Asaluyeh, Jiroft, Bandar Abbas, Qeshm Island, Konarak, Chabahar, Jask, Sirik and Lavan.
<Iran’s army and IRGC promise the US will regret and face “severe punishment” for the aggression.
>US President Donald Trump says “if the failed Nation of Iran retaliates for this very justified attack, they will be hit again at a much harder and higher level”.
<At least two people killed in US attack on Iran’s Sirik, says deputy governor
>No casualties, minimal damage from US attack on Jiroft Airport: Local official
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>Thread for the hellish discussion related to the scourge of the earth, the destroyer of nations, 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™
<Copypasting the past OP edition
The American question is: how does a settler-imperialist nation transform itself into a decolonized socialist commonwealth without either reproducing the imperial form or fragmenting into balkanized enclaves that allow capital to reconstitute, while resolving the contradictions of internal colonization and liberating its external colonies, therefore using the empire's collapse to accelerate material conditions to enable the global revolution?
OP Backup Site: https://usapol.neocities.org/
💀 ICE & Prison Resources
(Amerika is the most incarcerated country in the world!)
ICE tracker using public info and user submissions // https://www.iceinmyarea.org/
list of deaths at ICE concentration camps // https://www.aila.org/infonet/deaths-at-adult-detention-centers
visualization of prison population in US // https://mkorostoff.github.io/incarceration-in-real-numbers/
Organizing in Prison — for when the walls close in (RANT Collective) // https://www.organizingforpower.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Organizing-in-Jail.pdf
database of U.S. facilities incl. ICE holding sites // https://alcpress.org/usjails/index.html
list of prison related resources, mailing lists, etc // https://www.prisonactivist.org/resources
ICE Agent List (incomplete) // https://wiki.icelist.is/index.php/Category:Agents
US Political Prison Tracker (last updated 2025) // https://uspoliticalprisoners.com/
Jailhouse Reading:
📖 Angela Davis - Are Prisons Obsolete? // https://dn790007.ca.archive.org/0/items/the-anarchist-library-full-list-of-pdfs-nov-2020/angela-y-davis-are-prisons-obsolete.pdf
📖 How to Defend Yourself During Police Interrogation // https://www.notrace.how/resources/download/comment-la-police-interroge-et-comment-sen-defendre/how-to-defend-yourself-during-a-police-interrogation.pdf
📖 National Lawyers Guild guide to being a jailhouse lawyer // https://www.jailhouselaw.org/
📖 Critical Resistance - Surviving Solitary Confinement // https://criticalresistance.org/resources/surviving-solitary/
📖 An inside-outside publication for abolitionist struggle & strategy across prison walls // https://criticalresistance.org/abolitionist/
📖 Prisoners’ Self-Help Litigation Manual // https://api.pageplace.de/preview/DT0400.9780199705665_A35159258/preview-9780199705665_A35159258.pdf
⚒️ LABOR!
Live strike tracker with deep stats on who, what and when // https://striketracker.ilr.cornell.edu/
AFL-CIO [imperialist]'s Strike Tracker // https://aflcio.org/strike-map
Labor Bureau's Official 'work stoppage' tracker // https://www.bls.gov/wsp/
IWW timeline for the 20th century (ends at 1999) // https://archive.iww.org/history/chronology/
IWW Work Place Organizing Guide // https://usa.anarchistlibraries.net/library/industrial-workers-of-the-world-libcom-org-solidarity-federation-walthamstow-anarchist-group-wo
▶ Salting | Work Place Organizing 101 (50 minute webinar) // https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SHlCLyM4FY
⚖️ Deeds of the Burger Reich 🇺🇸
deep list of horrible shit we (royal we) have done // https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/us_atrocities.md
Coups and regime changes – master list // https://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-peoples-governments-the-master-list
Wikipedia: United States War Crimes // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_war_crimes
/our boys/ (bring em home!) detail abusing Iraqi prisoners [2006] // https://www.hrw.org/report/2006/07/22/no-blood-no-foul/soldiers-accounts-detainee-abuse-iraq
More than 250 military interventions in the last 30 years alone // https://blackagendareport.com/us-launched-251-military-interventions-1991-and-469-1798
Visualisation of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade // https://www.slavevoyages.org/
UNESCO Sites relating to Slavery // https://slaveryandremembrance.org/
First Hand Documents of the horrors of Slavery // https://www.loc.gov/collections/slave-narratives-from-the-federal-writers-project-1936-to-1938/
📺 Glowie News 📺
(sponsored by the Burger Eagle Freedom Institute (formerly USAID))
CNN Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/cnn-news-usa.html
MSNBC Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/msnbc.html
FOX Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/fox-news-channel.html
Bloomberg Live // https://www.bloomberg.com/live/us
Burger House Live // https://www.whitehouse.gov/live/
Local News // https://www.50states.com/ce/
Weather // https://www.noaa.gov/weather
📺 Gommie News 📺
Jacobin // https://jacobin.com/
Black Agenda Report // https://blackagendareport.com/
The Grayzone // https://thegrayzone.com/
Leftvoice // https://www.leftvoice.org/
Newsanon Filter // https://leftypol.org/search.php?search=name%3A%22News+Anon+3.0%22&board=leftypol
🏝️ Epstein's Client List 🇮🇱
Epstein's Black Book // https://epsteinsblackbook.com/
DOJ Disclosures // https://www.justice.gov/epstein/doj-disclosures
Track AIPAC // https://www.trackaipac.com/
Al Jazeera visual guide (2026) // https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/10/struggling-to-navigate-the-epstein-files-here-is-a-visual-guide
Essential American Politik 📖
📖 WEB Du Bois - Black Reconstruction // https://cominsitu.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/w-e-b-du-bois-black-reconstruction-an-essay-toward-a-history-of-the-part-which-black-folk-played-in-the-attempt-to-reconstruct-democracy-2.pdf
📖 Eugene Debs - Fourth of July Speech // https://jacobin.com/2020/07/eugene-debs-independence-day-address-fourth-july
📖 Power Anywhere There's People! – Fred Hampton // https://www.hamptonthink.org/read/power-anywhere-where-thats-people-fred-hampton
📖 War is a Racket – Smedley Butler // https://ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html
📖 Letters From an American Farmer – St. John de Crevoecoeur // https://americanliterature.com/author/j-hector-st-john-de-crevoecoeur/book/letters-from-an-american-farmer/summary
📖 Trail of Broken Treaties // American Indian Movement https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
📖 The Declaration of Independence https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
📖 The Ballot or the Bullet – Malcolm X // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/ballot_or_bullet.pdf
📖 What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? – Frederick Douglass // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/douglass_july_4_speech.pdf
📖 A Trail of Broken Treaties – American Indian Movement // https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
📖 Custer Died for Your Sins – Vine Deloria Jr. // http://www.riversimulator.org/Resources/Books/CusterDiedForYourSinsAnIndianManifesto1969Deloria.pdf
📖 Emancipation Proclamation – Lincoln // https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/emancipation-proclamation
📖 Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville // https://americanliterature.com/author/alexis-de-tocqueville/book/democracy-in-america/summary
📖 Common Sense – Thomas Paine // https://americainclass.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Common-Sense-Full-Text.pdf
📖 An Indigenous History of the United States – Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz // https://nycstandswithstandingrock.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/dunbar-ortiz-2014.pdf
📖 Huey Long – Share Our Wealth // https://www.hueylong.com/programs/share-our-wealth/huey-longs-share-our-wealth-speech
Previous Thread: >>2903648
/USApol/ - AmeriKKKan politricks
🗽 UNITED STATES POLITICS 🦅>Thread for the hellish discussion related to the scourge of the earth, the destroyer of nations, 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™
<Copypasting the past OP edition
The American question is: how does a settler-imperialist nation transform itself into a decolonized socialist commonwealth without either reproducing the imperial form or fragmenting into balkanized enclaves that allow capital to reconstitute, while resolving the contradictions of internal colonization and liberating its external colonies, therefore using the empire's collapse to accelerate material conditions to enable the global revolution?
OP Backup Site: https://usapol.neocities.org/
💀 ICE & Prison Resources
(Amerika is the most incarcerated country in the world!)
ICE tracker using public info and user submissions // https://www.iceinmyarea.org/
list of deaths at ICE concentration camps // https://www.aila.org/infonet/deaths-at-adult-detention-centers
visualization of prison population in US // https://mkorostoff.github.io/incarceration-in-real-numbers/
Organizing in Prison — for when the walls close in (RANT Collective) // https://www.organizingforpower.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Organizing-in-Jail.pdf
database of U.S. facilities incl. ICE holding sites // https://alcpress.org/usjails/index.html
list of prison related resources, mailing lists, etc // https://www.prisonactivist.org/resources
ICE Agent List (incomplete) // https://wiki.icelist.is/index.php/Category:Agents
US Political Prison Tracker (last updated 2025) // https://uspoliticalprisoners.com/
Jailhouse Reading:
📖 Angela Davis - Are Prisons Obsolete? // https://dn790007.ca.archive.org/0/items/the-anarchist-library-full-list-of-pdfs-nov-2020/angela-y-davis-are-prisons-obsolete.pdf
📖 How to Defend Yourself During Police Interrogation // https://www.notrace.how/resources/download/comment-la-police-interroge-et-comment-sen-defendre/how-to-defend-yourself-during-a-police-interrogation.pdf
📖 National Lawyers Guild guide to being a jailhouse lawyer // https://www.jailhouselaw.org/
📖 Critical Resistance - Surviving Solitary Confinement // https://criticalresistance.org/resources/surviving-solitary/
📖 An inside-outside publication for abolitionist struggle & strategy across prison walls // https://criticalresistance.org/abolitionist/
📖 Prisoners’ Self-Help Litigation Manual // https://api.pageplace.de/preview/DT0400.9780199705665_A35159258/preview-9780199705665_A35159258.pdf
⚒️ LABOR!
Live strike tracker with deep stats on who, what and when // https://striketracker.ilr.cornell.edu/
AFL-CIO [imperialist]'s Strike Tracker // https://aflcio.org/strike-map
Labor Bureau's Official 'work stoppage' tracker // https://www.bls.gov/wsp/
IWW timeline for the 20th century (ends at 1999) // https://archive.iww.org/history/chronology/
IWW Work Place Organizing Guide // https://usa.anarchistlibraries.net/library/industrial-workers-of-the-world-libcom-org-solidarity-federation-walthamstow-anarchist-group-wo
▶ Salting | Work Place Organizing 101 (50 minute webinar) // https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SHlCLyM4FY
⚖️ Deeds of the Burger Reich 🇺🇸
deep list of horrible shit we (royal we) have done // https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/us_atrocities.md
Coups and regime changes – master list // https://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-peoples-governments-the-master-list
Wikipedia: United States War Crimes // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_war_crimes
/our boys/ (bring em home!) detail abusing Iraqi prisoners [2006] // https://www.hrw.org/report/2006/07/22/no-blood-no-foul/soldiers-accounts-detainee-abuse-iraq
More than 250 military interventions in the last 30 years alone // https://blackagendareport.com/us-launched-251-military-interventions-1991-and-469-1798
Visualisation of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade // https://www.slavevoyages.org/
UNESCO Sites relating to Slavery // https://slaveryandremembrance.org/
First Hand Documents of the horrors of Slavery // https://www.loc.gov/collections/slave-narratives-from-the-federal-writers-project-1936-to-1938/
📺 Glowie News 📺
(sponsored by the Burger Eagle Freedom Institute (formerly USAID))
CNN Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/cnn-news-usa.html
MSNBC Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/msnbc.html
FOX Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/fox-news-channel.html
Bloomberg Live // https://www.bloomberg.com/live/us
Burger House Live // https://www.whitehouse.gov/live/
Local News // https://www.50states.com/ce/
Weather // https://www.noaa.gov/weather
📺 Gommie News 📺
Jacobin // https://jacobin.com/
Black Agenda Report // https://blackagendareport.com/
The Grayzone // https://thegrayzone.com/
Leftvoice // https://www.leftvoice.org/
Newsanon Filter // https://leftypol.org/search.php?search=name%3A%22News+Anon+3.0%22&board=leftypol
🏝️ Epstein's Client List 🇮🇱
Epstein's Black Book // https://epsteinsblackbook.com/
DOJ Disclosures // https://www.justice.gov/epstein/doj-disclosures
Track AIPAC // https://www.trackaipac.com/
Al Jazeera visual guide (2026) // https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/10/struggling-to-navigate-the-epstein-files-here-is-a-visual-guide
Essential American Politik 📖
📖 WEB Du Bois - Black Reconstruction // https://cominsitu.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/w-e-b-du-bois-black-reconstruction-an-essay-toward-a-history-of-the-part-which-black-folk-played-in-the-attempt-to-reconstruct-democracy-2.pdf
📖 Eugene Debs - Fourth of July Speech // https://jacobin.com/2020/07/eugene-debs-independence-day-address-fourth-july
📖 Power Anywhere There's People! – Fred Hampton // https://www.hamptonthink.org/read/power-anywhere-where-thats-people-fred-hampton
📖 War is a Racket – Smedley Butler // https://ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html
📖 Letters From an American Farmer – St. John de Crevoecoeur // https://americanliterature.com/author/j-hector-st-john-de-crevoecoeur/book/letters-from-an-american-farmer/summary
📖 Trail of Broken Treaties // American Indian Movement https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
📖 The Declaration of Independence https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
📖 The Ballot or the Bullet – Malcolm X // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/ballot_or_bullet.pdf
📖 What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? – Frederick Douglass // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/douglass_july_4_speech.pdf
📖 A Trail of Broken Treaties – American Indian Movement // https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
📖 Custer Died for Your Sins – Vine Deloria Jr. // http://www.riversimulator.org/Resources/Books/CusterDiedForYourSinsAnIndianManifesto1969Deloria.pdf
📖 Emancipation Proclamation – Lincoln // https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/emancipation-proclamation
📖 Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville // https://americanliterature.com/author/alexis-de-tocqueville/book/democracy-in-america/summary
📖 Common Sense – Thomas Paine // https://americainclass.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Common-Sense-Full-Text.pdf
📖 An Indigenous History of the United States – Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz // https://nycstandswithstandingrock.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/dunbar-ortiz-2014.pdf
📖 Huey Long – Share Our Wealth // https://www.hueylong.com/programs/share-our-wealth/huey-longs-share-our-wealth-speech
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Every historical and material example shows that prohibition is not going to be effective and brings its own problems, not to mention that the motivation for these policies were often intentional to hurt varying groups of people deemed undesirable - from the entire alcohol prohibition era until its repeal for instance, or the now famous Nixon staffer talking about how drugs were an easy way to target 'the hippies, mexicans, and blacks', the cocaine era and crack epidemic, AIDS being spread by sharing needles, and so much more. Its now common knowledge that not only did "drugs win the drug war, and continue to do so" but all the harm done by it also made profiteers wealthy, from narco traffickers who operated private armies, to the whole Iran-Contra affair and Air America black budget work in the Golden Triangle during and after Vietnam, to military-industrial complex extended to militarized policing etc. Most of the money went to a handful of people from the criminal enterprise or those ostensibly fighting it, while people paid more for worse quality, less safe products. This is no longer the kind of thing you'd only read about from some underground zine next to psychotic ramblings, its well documented and seemingly, accepted . So why are we not doing anything about it ?
It seems that the only lefties who comment on the drug issue at all are those with the myopic to just plain incorrect issue of fixating on pharmaceutical companies, doctors etc.. at fault for things like the opioid crisis, which is far from the truth. While certain companies like Perdue Pharma were guilty of malfeasance (the specifics here I can get into but the way they advertised it even to medical professionals was inaccurate ) and there were cash only "pill mill" doctors and pharmacists writing large quantities of controlled substances for patients they barely met, these were individual issues of professional and often illegal conduct that could be handled by existing structures. The bigger problems came from how in response to high profile events, crackdowns made doctors responsibly treating pain (which is MASSIVELY undertreated in our society which is also in more pain than ever thanks to a variety of factors) , afraid or even unable to treat patients, meaning some of them would go to the streets - where the actual epidemic came from. The crossover was primarily from the pill mills early on selling to those that would become dealers (known as "diversion" from legit use and Rx to the black market), but this is not what started the "epidemic" of opioid deaths and other addiction behaviors ticking up . Rather, it was the black market discovering fentanyl, which could be fabricated cheaply, and was extremely strong. Even with heroin there was massive varied quality from being "stepped on" with all matter of junk added as filler for dealers and cartels to make more cash, and a stronger product when not expected could lead to death because of uncertain dosing. However fentanyl was so much stronger even a small variation in strength vs the last batch, could be enough to kill users etc. These deaths is where the "epidemic" became an issue in the 2010s, but their response ranged from ineffective and piecemeal under Dems, to actively malevolent and punishment focused under Republicans. Now, we're looking at banning yet more "research chemical" analogues and the suppliers in China and the LATAM cartels who actually process and distribute are playing cat and mouse games, while the White House decides to blow up boats deemed to be carrying "narco-terrorists". Addiction and use of black market drugs (not just opioids but many other substances) continue up through the Pandemic era and beyond, more recently allowing questionable "addiction therapy centers" to spring up, many of which are expensive and adhere to half baked 12-step processes; those lucky enough to have health insurance cover very little in-patient offers and the kinds of places that do comprehensive therapy and medication assistance with patient comfort in mind, aren't available or affordable to many. Patients with legitimate pain management needs are having their doses restricted by doctors who are afraid of state controlled substance boards and the FDA intruding, all predicated on a garbage FDA document that was originally intended for dosing patients short term and with no opioid experience/tolerance that came about in the 1st Trump term. To his credit, Biden did alter it slightly but like everything else insufficient, plus the damage had already been done; insurance companies (atop the rest) now used those standards for what they'd cover, meaning patients who couldnt' pay out of pocket would not get their meds much of the time. This, right at the time where pharmacies often refused cash payment for controlled substances because they were told that was what evil drug dealers did etc . These are barely scraping the surface of the issues, not to mention things like how areas that decriminalized certain usage now are pushing for more police presence because "drunk/high people are laying/leaning everywhere and leaving needles and broken glass in public areas etc) . Its problems atop problems.
It seems a perfect time for the Left to make this a priority. We have the last decade of the Marijuana/Cannabis experiment to prove that despite the cries from the right, there was no Reefer Madness. THere were issues in the implementation especially given how monied entities started investing in wider pot fabrication and distribution, but that can be solved if we just go the last 10% and ensure true legalization everwhere, but most of the work is done. The next thing to focus upon is other drugs. I'd advocate for a program of regulated legalization, where the substances are legal to possess and use, but who and how they can be bought, or manufactured for widespread sale, can be regulated properly similar to other intoxicants, be it for medical or recreational use.
Dispensing with the fear around many substances and the insane prohibition that has pushed potentially helpful drugs off the market for fear of how they may be abused will also allow research into making them safer. We've had relatively little development in drug segments thought to be the "fun kind abuse or addictive" and even specific refusal to make drugs safer and less physically addicting, for fear it would be "less of a deterrent thus leading to more abuse"! Its completely insane. Just like when we legalized alcohol again, we had a stunning drop in the amount of people turning up blind from drinking some adulterated paint thinner sold on the black market or some idiot using lead liners in their beer or wine brewing, we'd see users trend away from black market garbage in favor of safer, standardized alternatives. You'd have many fewer overdoses if you knew that every pill or vial was going to have consistent strength; not to mention prohibiting harmful additives and anything not disclosed on the label. They could all be made far cheaper too, especially if leftists made the issue a focal point; perhaps even have certain cultivation or manufacture dedicated to being at-cost for the public benefit. There could also be taxes and fees specifically designed to support addiction support services built in, a better version of the "sin taxes" that alcohol and cigarettes utilize. Investing in greater addition support and prevention treatments would be a part of it - infact, some of the very drugs that are illegal currently have the potential benefit of helping rewire the brain to contend with physical dependence as well as psychological dependence; ibogaine, a hallucinogen has shown promise for decades and despite it being not a "party drug" in any way or particularly fun, still requires going to another country to hope you find someone capable of providing ibogaine therapy, legally. MDMA has huge benefits to PTSD and other psychiatric issues if used correctly, but outside very limited trials its illegality has driven recreational users into more harmful meds masquerading as the hard-to-synthesize-properly MDMA, most of which are some combination of amphetamine or other unknown assortment meant to mimic what its "supposed" to feel like.
There are many other factors that could be discussed, but legalization and regulation done properly would lead to a massive improvement to quality of life for average person, obliterating many of the criminal elements that the Right fixates on in order to scare the populace into compliance, and otherwise benefits society. While there will be issues and friction - the initial apparent "increase" of drug users or adverse effects for instance is likely to be simply converting what used to be unreported into something that can be tracked even without a legal or medical calamity - it seems a worthwhile element. There are many groups that have been particularly harmed by the drug war in the past, from sexual or racial minorities to the disabled and patients who find their care restricted by insurance and fearful practitioners alike, but much like with the repeal of alcohol prohibition it will likely have wide ranging benefits across many strata of society if done right. It seems like a simple focal point for leftist political actors to grab hold, identify how capitalist exploitation and authoritarian puritanism alike have pushed a knowingly bad policy for decades in the hopes it will harm "the wrong people, and its all their fault for being weak enough to be harmed in the first place".
Ending the drug war and legalization; why not a greater focus among Western left-leaning politics?
Pretty much everyone under 50 in the US is aware that the drug war failed. Once we rule out those on the right who feel that the only reason it failed was a lack of authoritarianism, need it to justify various prejudices towards the "wrong" sort of people etc.. and the like, we come down to even vaguely centrists from a social point of view and an even wider group for economic ones (though the specifics of implementation may differ), see that this is a failed, ineffective strategy. Especially among those who define themselves as left leaning, why is ending the drug war and replacing it with legalization and regulated, affordable substances a greater political focal point?Every historical and material example shows that prohibition is not going to be effective and brings its own problems, not to mention that the motivation for these policies were often intentional to hurt varying groups of people deemed undesirable - from the entire alcohol prohibition era until its repeal for instance, or the now famous Nixon staffer talking about how drugs were an easy way to target 'the hippies, mexicans, and blacks', the cocaine era and crack epidemic, AIDS being spread by sharing needles, and so much more. Its now common knowledge that not only did "drugs win the drug war, and continue to do so" but all the harm done by it also made profiteers wealthy, from narco traffickers who operated private armies, to the whole Iran-Contra affair and Air America black budget work in the Golden Triangle during and after Vietnam, to military-industrial complex extended to militarized policing etc. Most of the money went to a handful of people from the criminal enterprise or those ostensibly fighting it, while people paid more for worse quality, less safe products. This is no longer the kind of thing you'd only read about from some underground zine next to psychotic ramblings, its well documented and seemingly, accepted . So why are we not doing anything about it ?
It seems that the only lefties who comment on the drug issue at all are those with the myopic to just plain incorrect issue of fixating on pharmaceutical companies, doctors etc.. at fault for things like the opioid crisis, which is far from the truth. While certain companies like Perdue Pharma were guilty of malfeasance (the specifics here I can get into but the way they advertised it even to medical professionals was inaccurate ) and there were cash only "pill mill" doctors and pharmacists writing large quantities of controlled substances for patients they barely met, these were individual issues of professional and often illegal conduct that could be handled by existing structures. The bigger problems came from how in response to high profile events, crackdowns made doctors responsibly treating pain (which is MASSIVELY undertreated in our society which is also in more pain than ever thanks to a variety of factors) , afraid or even unable to treat patients, meaning some of them would go to the streets - where the actual epidemic came from. The crossover was primarily from the pill mills early on selling to those that would become dealers (known as "diversion" from legit use and Rx to the black market), but this is not what started the "epidemic" of opioid deaths and other addiction behaviors ticking up . Rather, it was the black market discovering fentanyl, which could be fabricated cheaply, and was extremely strong. Even with heroin there was massive varied quality from being "stepped on" with all matter of junk added as filler for dealers and cartels to make more cash, and a stronger product when not expected could lead to death because of uncertain dosing. However fentanyl was so much stronger even a small variation in strength vs the last batch, could be enough to kill users etc. These deaths is where the "epidemic" became an issue in the 2010s, but their response ranged from ineffective and piecemeal under Dems, to actively malevolent and punishment focused under Republicans. Now, we're looking at banning yet more "research chemical" analogues and the suppliers in China and the LATAM cartels who actually process and distribute are playing cat and mouse games, while the White House decides to blow up boats deemed to be carrying "narco-terrorists". Addiction and use of black market drugs (not just opioids but many other substances) continue up through the Pandemic era and beyond, more recently allowing questionable "addiction therapy centers" to spring up, many of which are expensive and adhere to half baked 12-step processes; those lucky enough to have health insurance cover very little in-patient offers and the kinds of places that do comprehensive therapy and medication assistance with patient comfort in mind, aren't available or affordable to many. Patients with legitimate pain management needs are having their doses restricted by doctors who are afraid of state controlled substance boards and the FDA intruding, all predicated on a garbage FDA document that was originally intended for dosing patients short term and with no opioid experience/tolerance that came about in the 1st Trump term. To his credit, Biden did alter it slightly but like everything else insufficient, plus the damage had already been done; insurance companies (atop the rest) now used those standards for what they'd cover, meaning patients who couldnt' pay out of pocket would not get their meds much of the time. This, right at the time where pharmacies often refused cash payment for controlled substances because they were told that was what evil drug dealers did etc . These are barely scraping the surface of the issues, not to mention things like how areas that decriminalized certain usage now are pushing for more police presence because "drunk/high people are laying/leaning everywhere and leaving needles and broken glass in public areas etc) . Its problems atop problems.
It seems a perfect time for the Left to make this a priority. We have the last decade of the Marijuana/Cannabis experiment to prove that despite the cries from the right, there was no Reefer Madness. THere were issues in the implementation especially given how monied entities started investing in wider pot fabrication and distribution, but that can be solved if we just go the last 10% and ensure true legalization everwhere, but most of the work is done. The next thing to focus upon is other drugs. I'd advocate for a program of regulated legalization, where the substances are legal to possess and use, but who and how they can be bought, or manufactured for widespread sale, can be regulated properly similar to other intoxicants, be it for medical or recreational use.
Dispensing with the fear around many substances and the insane prohibition that has pushed potentially helpful drugs off the market for fear of how they may be abused will also allow research into making them safer. We've had relatively little development in drug segments thought to be the "fun kind abuse or addictive" and even specific refusal to make drugs safer and less physically addicting, for fear it would be "less of a deterrent thus leading to more abuse"! Its completely insane. Just like when we legalized alcohol again, we had a stunning drop in the amount of people turning up blind from drinking some adulterated paint thinner sold on the black market or some idiot using lead liners in their beer or wine brewing, we'd see users trend away from black market garbage in favor of safer, standardized alternatives. You'd have many fewer overdoses if you knew that every pill or vial was going to have consistent strength; not to mention prohibiting harmful additives and anything not disclosed on the label. They could all be made far cheaper too, especially if leftists made the issue a focal point; perhaps even have certain cultivation or manufacture dedicated to being at-cost for the public benefit. There could also be taxes and fees specifically designed to support addiction support services built in, a better version of the "sin taxes" that alcohol and cigarettes utilize. Investing in greater addition support and prevention treatments would be a part of it - infact, some of the very drugs that are illegal currently have the potential benefit of helping rewire the brain to contend with physical dependence as well as psychological dependence; ibogaine, a hallucinogen has shown promise for decades and despite it being not a "party drug" in any way or particularly fun, still requires going to another country to hope you find someone capable of providing ibogaine therapy, legally. MDMA has huge benefits to PTSD and other psychiatric issues if used correctly, but outside very limited trials its illegality has driven recreational users into more harmful meds masquerading as the hard-to-synthesize-properly MDMA, most of which are some combination of amphetamine or other unknown assortment meant to mimic what its "supposed" to feel like.
There are many other factors that could be discussed, but legalization and regulation done properly would lead to a massive improvement to quality of life for average person, obliterating many of the criminal elements that the Right fixates on in order to scare the populace into compliance, and otherwise benefits society. While there will be issues and friction - the initial apparent "increase" of drug users or adverse effects for instance is likely to be simply converting what used to be unreported into something that can be tracked even without a legal or medical calamity - it seems a worthwhile element. There are many groups that have been particularly harmed by the drug war in the past, from sexual or racial minorities to the disabled and patients who find their care restricted by insurance and fearful practitioners alike, but much like with the repeal of alcohol prohibition it will likely have wide ranging benefits across many strata of society if done right. It seems like a simple focal point for leftist political actors to grab hold, identify how capitalist exploitation and authoritarian puritanism alike have pushed a knowingly bad policy for decades in the hopes it will harm "the wrong people, and its all their fault for being weak enough to be harmed in the first place".
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Though I have read the 1st paragraph of the communist manifesto however im not sure if im still communist I support AES and the ussr etc… though to be fair IVE only ever read 2-5 books(not counting textbooks)(counting assigned books) in my 20+ years of existing im also autistic though IVE watched communist videos on YouTube in fact that’s how I found this site and my ideology and political views and my personality IVE also watched Finnishbolshevs video on the history of phillosophy so am I just too stupid to understand Marx or even any philosophy and reading or am I a larper(dont feel as that’s the case as IVE been a communist for 3 years and have tried to learn more) or am I a truly faithful to the cause and a great true communist revolutionary im also not apart of any orgs
Do I have to read to be a communist
Hi IVE been a communist for a few years now at least I think though the problem is that IVE neve read MarxThough I have read the 1st paragraph of the communist manifesto however im not sure if im still communist I support AES and the ussr etc… though to be fair IVE only ever read 2-5 books(not counting textbooks)(counting assigned books) in my 20+ years of existing im also autistic though IVE watched communist videos on YouTube in fact that’s how I found this site and my ideology and political views and my personality IVE also watched Finnishbolshevs video on the history of phillosophy so am I just too stupid to understand Marx or even any philosophy and reading or am I a larper(dont feel as that’s the case as IVE been a communist for 3 years and have tried to learn more) or am I a truly faithful to the cause and a great true communist revolutionary im also not apart of any orgs
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Şıma qısey bıkı Poliya Turika!
Yurtişi siyaseti p'ara yoxaleps!
تحدثوا عن السياسة العامة في تركيا!
/Türkipol/
Genel Türkiye siyaseti ile ilgili konuşun!Li ser siyaseta giştî ya Tirkiyê biaxive!
Şıma qısey bıkı Poliya Turika!
Yurtişi siyaseti p'ara yoxaleps!
تحدثوا عن السياسة العامة في تركيا!
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>China’s criminal policy of “Two Restraints, One Leniency” (liangshao yikuan 两少一宽) was enacted during the administration of reformist leader Hu Yaobang (1982-1987). Derived from a Soviet-era policy that granted regional autonomy and preferential protection to ethnic minorities, the policy had the intended purpose of strengthening the political loyalty of ethnic minorities in the multi-national country. Hu believed that granting sufficient autonomy to members of ethnic minority groups was indispensable for safeguarding national unity. To this end, Hu improved ethnic representation in politics across autonomous regions. This progressive policy was reversed by Deng Xiaoping and Hu’s successors. In 1984, Hu pushed through the Central Committee Document Number Five, a new criminal policy which called on law enforcement to be lenient towards criminal offenders from ethnic minority groups by making fewer arrests and handing down fewer executions and lighter sentences to ethnic minority offenders.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liangshaoyikuan
>Liangshaoyikuan (Chinese: 兩少一寬; lit. 'two fewers [in arrests and executions] and one leniency [in sentencing]'), was a policy of the government of the People's Republic of China of giving leniency in charges and sentences with regard to minorities as compared to Han for the same criminal offenses.[1] The policy was enacted in 1984 by Peng Zhen and Hu Yaobang. On July 9, 2010, a statement jointly published by the Publicity Department of the Chinese Communist Party, State Ethnic Affairs Commission, and United Front Work Department suggested that "everyone should be equal before the law, and criminals should be punished regardless of their ethnicity". However, they do not have the legal authority to challenge a policy implemented by the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, a higher authority; the policy has thus never been officially repealed.
Is Xi Jinping anti-woke?
https://duihua.org/two-restraints-one-leniency-part-i-chinas-ethnic-minorities-and-criminal-law/>China’s criminal policy of “Two Restraints, One Leniency” (liangshao yikuan 两少一宽) was enacted during the administration of reformist leader Hu Yaobang (1982-1987). Derived from a Soviet-era policy that granted regional autonomy and preferential protection to ethnic minorities, the policy had the intended purpose of strengthening the political loyalty of ethnic minorities in the multi-national country. Hu believed that granting sufficient autonomy to members of ethnic minority groups was indispensable for safeguarding national unity. To this end, Hu improved ethnic representation in politics across autonomous regions. This progressive policy was reversed by Deng Xiaoping and Hu’s successors. In 1984, Hu pushed through the Central Committee Document Number Five, a new criminal policy which called on law enforcement to be lenient towards criminal offenders from ethnic minority groups by making fewer arrests and handing down fewer executions and lighter sentences to ethnic minority offenders.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liangshaoyikuan
>Liangshaoyikuan (Chinese: 兩少一寬; lit. 'two fewers [in arrests and executions] and one leniency [in sentencing]'), was a policy of the government of the People's Republic of China of giving leniency in charges and sentences with regard to minorities as compared to Han for the same criminal offenses.[1] The policy was enacted in 1984 by Peng Zhen and Hu Yaobang. On July 9, 2010, a statement jointly published by the Publicity Department of the Chinese Communist Party, State Ethnic Affairs Commission, and United Front Work Department suggested that "everyone should be equal before the law, and criminals should be punished regardless of their ethnicity". However, they do not have the legal authority to challenge a policy implemented by the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, a higher authority; the policy has thus never been officially repealed.
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Awkward Capitalism
The emergence of capitalism is recent and things have accelerated faster than people can adapt to. We are used to foraging, hunting, farming, fishing, or scavenging. But now you can work in the rat wheel for 8 hours a day for five days a week, at minimum, to be able to afford obesity, rentals, and carcinogenic drugs. Capitalism is awkward to humankind; we are used to frolicking freely in the sun.
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The most ridiculous part was that the supposed divide between the Dirtbag Left and the DSA left barely existed. They agreed on healthcare, labor, foreign policy, housing, policing and virtually every other major issue. The defining ideological conflict of the era was essentially whether you were allowed to make edgy 90's raunch comedy jokes on podcasts. Entire feuds and endless Twitter meltdowns emerged from a disagreement that amounted to "can you say slurs ironically?"
The confidence was incredible, leftist genuinely talked as if DSA-aligned leadership of every major American city was inevitable, as if Bernie was one good news cycle away from the White House and as if a handful of podcasts by stand up comedians had somehow cracked the code of political history.
In retrospect, it all seems absurd. There was never a realistic path to any of it. The movement's grandest ambitions had essentially zero chance of materializing.
Then reality intervened. Bernie lost, The post-COVID world arrivedm Housing crises worsened, Migration became politically explosive, Major wars returnedm China didn't democratize and instead looked increasingly capable of navigating long-term crises without becoming a Western liberal democracy and the assumptions underlying the entire scene collapsed one by one.
A lot of the old supporters ended up as tankies. A smaller but noticeable number drifted toward the far right. Sometimes they somehow became both at once. The aesthetic transformation is almost as funny as the political one, the old Dirtbag Left revolved around schlubby podcasters making jokes about being ironically gay, the people who inherited its audience are often obsessed with MMA, military history, geopolitical realism and posting shirtless workout photos. The few remaining loyalists seem to have finally realized that their politics were never meaningfully different from the DSA's in the first place and appear perfectly content settling into the role of ordinary progressive liberals.
What a strange, stupid little farce that was.
On the Dirtbag Left/DSA movement
For a brief moment from 2016-2022 this was supposedly the pinnacle of online left-wing politics. Bernie was about to win, Democratic socialism was the future, China would inevitably democratize and the old boring MLism was dead. A few DSA-backed candidates winning city council seats in already progressive districts was treated as if the Bolsheviks had just stormed the Winter Palace.The most ridiculous part was that the supposed divide between the Dirtbag Left and the DSA left barely existed. They agreed on healthcare, labor, foreign policy, housing, policing and virtually every other major issue. The defining ideological conflict of the era was essentially whether you were allowed to make edgy 90's raunch comedy jokes on podcasts. Entire feuds and endless Twitter meltdowns emerged from a disagreement that amounted to "can you say slurs ironically?"
The confidence was incredible, leftist genuinely talked as if DSA-aligned leadership of every major American city was inevitable, as if Bernie was one good news cycle away from the White House and as if a handful of podcasts by stand up comedians had somehow cracked the code of political history.
In retrospect, it all seems absurd. There was never a realistic path to any of it. The movement's grandest ambitions had essentially zero chance of materializing.
Then reality intervened. Bernie lost, The post-COVID world arrivedm Housing crises worsened, Migration became politically explosive, Major wars returnedm China didn't democratize and instead looked increasingly capable of navigating long-term crises without becoming a Western liberal democracy and the assumptions underlying the entire scene collapsed one by one.
A lot of the old supporters ended up as tankies. A smaller but noticeable number drifted toward the far right. Sometimes they somehow became both at once. The aesthetic transformation is almost as funny as the political one, the old Dirtbag Left revolved around schlubby podcasters making jokes about being ironically gay, the people who inherited its audience are often obsessed with MMA, military history, geopolitical realism and posting shirtless workout photos. The few remaining loyalists seem to have finally realized that their politics were never meaningfully different from the DSA's in the first place and appear perfectly content settling into the role of ordinary progressive liberals.
What a strange, stupid little farce that was.
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Trump is histoically progressive for collasping USA and jan 6th was histoically progressive because it humilated the USA for a second time in a century
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Trump is histoically progressive for collasping USA and jan 6th was histoically progressive because it humilated the USA for a second time in a century
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>their greatest achievement in 15 years of existence was electing a Zionist pedophile to the White House
Can we already say the alt-right was a massive failure?
>their greatest achievement in 15 years of existence was electing a Zionist pedophile to the White House
Can we already say the alt-right was a massive failure?
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This candidacy confirms the PCF's desire to maintain an independent voice in the presidential race. For several years, Fabien Roussel has championed a platform strongly focused on work and purchasing power. He notably proposed replacing the RSA (basic income support) with a salary linked to employment or training.
https://entrevue.fr/en/presidentielle-2027/presidentielle-2027-fabien-roussel-officialise-sa-candidature-et-repart-a-lassaut-de-lelysee/
https://archive.ph/95bNI
Sikh federation and Indian Workers Association condemn visit of far-right RSS leader to London gurdwara
The RSS is an umbrella of community organisations and paramilitary bodies aligned with India’s ruling BJP, which actually originated as the civilian wing of the RSS. It is regularly accused of organising violent attacks on religious minorities in India as well as against secular political parties and women’s groups.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/sikh-federation-condemns-visit-far-right-rss-leader-london-gurdwara
Far-right AfD wins key German state election but falls just short of majority
That was far ahead of Merz’s CDU , which polled 17.2% – losing about half its support – and won 15 seats. The centre-left Social Democrats polled 9.3%, the Greens 8.9% and the Left party 8.6%, winning eight seats apiece. The BSW party, which has said it would not elect either Siegmund or incumbent Sven Schulze as governor but criticises the “firewall” against AfD, took 5.3% and five seats. Participation in the election was at a record high of 76.5%.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/06/saxony-anhalt-germany-afd-exit-poll-ulrich-siegmund
Germany fights Gaza genocide claims at the UN’s top court
Berlin has filed so-called "preliminary objections to the jurisdiction of the Court and to the admissibility of certain claims" presented by Nicaragua, according to an ICJ statement. The detail of Berlin's case has not yet been made public.
https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20260907-germany-seeks-dismissal-of-nicaragua-s-gaza-genocide-case-at-top-un-court
https://archive.ph/0kYGV
Israel’s Katz threatens ‘full-scale war’ against PA after settler stabbed
Reacting to the incident, Katz said, “If … the Palestinian Authority’s security mechanisms and related bodies initiate, or we know with certainty that they are about to initiate, a terror attack in the style of October 7 against [Israeli] forces and Jewish settlements — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and I have instructed the [military] to prepare for the opening of a full-scale war.”
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/7/israeli-wounded-in-stabbing-in-occupied-west-bank
https://archive.ph/t8W83
“No life without language” | Student protests intensify in Al-Hasakah and Kobani as schools face closures after Kurdish curriculum cuts
Protests are escalating as the new academic year begins in several areas of Al-Hasakah and Kobani, following a decision to limit Kurdish-language classes to just three hours per week. The move has sparked widespread anger among students and their families, who see it as a violation of their right to learn in their mother tongue, amid growing fears that schools may close if their demands are not fulfilled.
https://www.syriahr.com/en/386225/
Iraqi factions reject September deadline to hand over weapons
The factions' main demands include the withdrawal of US and Turkish forces from Iraq, an end to what they describe as Washington's "political and financial tutelage", the dismantling of the Peshmerga and deployment of federal forces in the Kurdistan Region, and the provision of missile and air defence systems capable of protecting Iraqi airspace. Mehdi al-Kaabi, a leader in the Nujaba Movement, separately told The New Arab that his group also "does not regard the government deadline for handing over weapons as binding".
https://www.newarab.com/news/exclusive-iraqi-factions-reject-september-weapons-deadline
Jamaica takes its case for reparations for Britain’s role in slavery to King Charles III
Using legal traditions that stretch back to the early days of the British Empire, Jamaica petitioned the king on Monday to refer a series of questions about slavery, and the U.K.’s responsibility to pay damages, to a committee of the Privy Council, which serves as the highest court for former colonies that retain ties to the British legal system. While the petition is formally addressed to the king, Charles has no personal say on whether it will be referred to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, and he will act on the advice of the government.
https://apnews.com/article/britain-jamaica-slavery-king-charles-iii-38a8dd0a5809edf44cbf0a87a8a7b176
Colombia’s government clashes with human rights office over De la Espriella walking among corpses
In a public statement, Marin reiterated that “in recent days, we saw the president of the Republic walking among the bodies—in white body bags—of people who were killed during Operation “Azarías” in Guaviare.” “I don’t recall ever seeing a president walking among the dead and taking pride in those deaths,” said the ombudsman, whose office is independent from the government.
https://colombiareports.com/colombias-government-clashes-with-human-rights-office-over-de-la-espriella-walking-through-corpses/
Chile Begins Blocking Online Betting Sites as Latin America Tightens Gambling Oversight
Chile has ordered major internet service providers to block 42 online betting and gambling websites, marking a significant enforcement step following last year's Supreme Court ruling on unauthorized online gambling. The Subsecretariat of Telecommunications, or Subtel, said on September 1 that Entel, Movistar, Claro, GTD, WOM and VTR had been instructed to block the listed URLs using DNS-based restrictions within 48 hours of notification.
https://en.mercopress.com/2026/09/04/chile-begins-blocking-online-betting-sites-as-latin-america-tightens-gambling-oversight
News 9/7/26
Presidential election 2027: Fabien Roussel officially announces his candidacy and sets out to conquer the Élysée Palace once againThis candidacy confirms the PCF's desire to maintain an independent voice in the presidential race. For several years, Fabien Roussel has championed a platform strongly focused on work and purchasing power. He notably proposed replacing the RSA (basic income support) with a salary linked to employment or training.
https://entrevue.fr/en/presidentielle-2027/presidentielle-2027-fabien-roussel-officialise-sa-candidature-et-repart-a-lassaut-de-lelysee/
https://archive.ph/95bNI
Sikh federation and Indian Workers Association condemn visit of far-right RSS leader to London gurdwara
The RSS is an umbrella of community organisations and paramilitary bodies aligned with India’s ruling BJP, which actually originated as the civilian wing of the RSS. It is regularly accused of organising violent attacks on religious minorities in India as well as against secular political parties and women’s groups.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/sikh-federation-condemns-visit-far-right-rss-leader-london-gurdwara
Far-right AfD wins key German state election but falls just short of majority
That was far ahead of Merz’s CDU , which polled 17.2% – losing about half its support – and won 15 seats. The centre-left Social Democrats polled 9.3%, the Greens 8.9% and the Left party 8.6%, winning eight seats apiece. The BSW party, which has said it would not elect either Siegmund or incumbent Sven Schulze as governor but criticises the “firewall” against AfD, took 5.3% and five seats. Participation in the election was at a record high of 76.5%.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/06/saxony-anhalt-germany-afd-exit-poll-ulrich-siegmund
Germany fights Gaza genocide claims at the UN’s top court
Berlin has filed so-called "preliminary objections to the jurisdiction of the Court and to the admissibility of certain claims" presented by Nicaragua, according to an ICJ statement. The detail of Berlin's case has not yet been made public.
https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20260907-germany-seeks-dismissal-of-nicaragua-s-gaza-genocide-case-at-top-un-court
https://archive.ph/0kYGV
Israel’s Katz threatens ‘full-scale war’ against PA after settler stabbed
Reacting to the incident, Katz said, “If … the Palestinian Authority’s security mechanisms and related bodies initiate, or we know with certainty that they are about to initiate, a terror attack in the style of October 7 against [Israeli] forces and Jewish settlements — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and I have instructed the [military] to prepare for the opening of a full-scale war.”
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/7/israeli-wounded-in-stabbing-in-occupied-west-bank
https://archive.ph/t8W83
“No life without language” | Student protests intensify in Al-Hasakah and Kobani as schools face closures after Kurdish curriculum cuts
Protests are escalating as the new academic year begins in several areas of Al-Hasakah and Kobani, following a decision to limit Kurdish-language classes to just three hours per week. The move has sparked widespread anger among students and their families, who see it as a violation of their right to learn in their mother tongue, amid growing fears that schools may close if their demands are not fulfilled.
https://www.syriahr.com/en/386225/
Iraqi factions reject September deadline to hand over weapons
The factions' main demands include the withdrawal of US and Turkish forces from Iraq, an end to what they describe as Washington's "political and financial tutelage", the dismantling of the Peshmerga and deployment of federal forces in the Kurdistan Region, and the provision of missile and air defence systems capable of protecting Iraqi airspace. Mehdi al-Kaabi, a leader in the Nujaba Movement, separately told The New Arab that his group also "does not regard the government deadline for handing over weapons as binding".
https://www.newarab.com/news/exclusive-iraqi-factions-reject-september-weapons-deadline
Jamaica takes its case for reparations for Britain’s role in slavery to King Charles III
Using legal traditions that stretch back to the early days of the British Empire, Jamaica petitioned the king on Monday to refer a series of questions about slavery, and the U.K.’s responsibility to pay damages, to a committee of the Privy Council, which serves as the highest court for former colonies that retain ties to the British legal system. While the petition is formally addressed to the king, Charles has no personal say on whether it will be referred to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, and he will act on the advice of the government.
https://apnews.com/article/britain-jamaica-slavery-king-charles-iii-38a8dd0a5809edf44cbf0a87a8a7b176
Colombia’s government clashes with human rights office over De la Espriella walking among corpses
In a public statement, Marin reiterated that “in recent days, we saw the president of the Republic walking among the bodies—in white body bags—of people who were killed during Operation “Azarías” in Guaviare.” “I don’t recall ever seeing a president walking among the dead and taking pride in those deaths,” said the ombudsman, whose office is independent from the government.
https://colombiareports.com/colombias-government-clashes-with-human-rights-office-over-de-la-espriella-walking-through-corpses/
Chile Begins Blocking Online Betting Sites as Latin America Tightens Gambling Oversight
Chile has ordered major internet service providers to block 42 online betting and gambling websites, marking a significant enforcement step following last year's Supreme Court ruling on unauthorized online gambling. The Subsecretariat of Telecommunications, or Subtel, said on September 1 that Entel, Movistar, Claro, GTD, WOM and VTR had been instructed to block the listed URLs using DNS-based restrictions within 48 hours of notification.
https://en.mercopress.com/2026/09/04/chile-begins-blocking-online-betting-sites-as-latin-america-tightens-gambling-oversight
R: 39 / I: 6 (sage)
Standstill
Everything just feels like that it's in a standstill and nobody understands each other and we're all speaking different languages. What's the one thing that would solve every misunderstanding and everything?
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Ex- Nazi revert here
I used to be a communist for a long time roughly about seven years before I got exposed into Far-right reactionary ideologies like Nazism stuff till I realised all my efforts were nothing but larp. Because I am an ethnic minority from Bangladesh I had to realize I dont have the privilege as the majority population to have the audacity to speak against them as the outcome will be severe. There is a rising surge radical Islamist and Bengali-Nationalist sentiment after the collapse of Seikh Hasina back in 2024 as there have been already communal riots against my fellow indigenous people in Chittagong hill tracts. This made me to realize the hard truth reactionary ideologies being vile. I want to renounce my fascist views that I have accumulated from recent years. I want to repent for what I have done. I once again want to embrace the enlightened ideals of Marxism-leninism.
R: 201 / I: 53
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
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overthrow the US government already you fat fucks im getting bored and my life is progressively getting worst in every aspect because the economy is collapsing
overthrow the US government already you fat fucks im getting bored and my life is progressively getting worst in every aspect because the economy is collapsing
R: 2 / I: 0
The flotilla, consisting of tugboats and gunboats, departed Mandalay for Bhamo via the Irrawaddy River on August 21. To clear a path in advance, regime fighter jets and Y-12 aircraft indiscriminately bombed resistance-controlled areas along the river route in Sagaing Region’s Katha Township and adjacent Shwegu Township in Kachin. Despite the destruction of civilian houses, there were only a few reports of casualties, as residents along the route were warned by the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) and allied resistance groups to evacuate the areas in advance.
https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/war-against-the-junta/only-7-of-15-regime-supply-vessels-reach-embattled-bhamo.html
Philippine VP Duterte posts bail after arrest order for alleged grave threats
"If I post bail, the harassment won’t stop. If I don’t post bail, I’ll be taken to the police. I have no trust in the police, I have no trust in the courts. I do not feel safe at all," Duterte said. She asked who would be held accountable “if I die tonight,” saying police would simply “wash their hands and call it an accident.”
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/philippine-vp-duterte-posts-bail-after-arrest-order-alleged-grave-threats-2026-09-05/
Greeks promised tax relief, wage hikes as protesters take to the streets over cost of living crunch
Labor unions and multiple protest groups staged rallies across the city, with farmers driving tractors into the downtown area. More than 3,000 police officers were on duty, closing streets and subway stations near the venue where the prime minister spoke. Greece delivered a budget surplus and economic growth of 2.1% last year, while continuing to reduce its high public debt, but its workers had the lowest purchasing power in the European Union.
https://apnews.com/article/greece-economy-mitsotakis-elections-cost-of-living-e22d724cc8472a38dfb136a597b9fd8a
Black-clad protesters in balaclavas block road at port of Dover in Kent
Videos circulating on social media showed demonstrators linking arms in a blockade across the A20 and shouting “stop the boats”. They could be seen marching along the A road, chanting: “England till I die.” A group called Patriot Platform, which styles itself as having “a fierce love for our homeland”, appeared to claim responsibility for the blockade on social media.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/sep/05/black-clad-protesters-balaclavas-block-road-port-of-dover-kent
Thousands rally in Croatia demanding urgent cleanup of toxic waste from a town
Tens of thousands of people rallied on Saturday in Croatia, furious that authorities for months haven’t cleared a huge amount of illegally dumped hazardous waste that has triggered fears of major environmental damage in the European Union country.
https://apnews.com/article/croatia-protest-toxic-waste-environment-1db8bad3c3d03d352d99c3cb2d6afd24
Alarmist disinformation on a pro-Israel digital network: ‘Ceuta is now Gaza’
Broadcasting in Spanish with a pro-Israel tilt, the network is characterized by two alarmist narratives. The first is openly favorable to Benjamin Netanyahu’s government, especially in relation to Gaza and Iran; the second is a direct attack on the Spanish government over the Ceuta migration crisis, presented as an invasion orchestrated by Morocco and facilitated by Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, a socialist.
https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-09-05/alarmist-disinformation-on-a-pro-israel-digital-network-ceuta-is-now-gaza.html
https://archive.ph/zzN60
‘Governments continue to fail’: Freedom Flotilla sails again, vowing to challenge Israel’s Gaza blockade
The FFC said its latest mission would go ahead despite the violence and torture meted out to flotilla volunteers on previous attempts, including severe beatings, repeated tasering and sexual assault. The coalition also accused Israel of blocking the entry of food, medicine and fuel into Gaza, saying the humanitarian situation required renewed international action. “The Freedom Flotilla sails again because our governments continue to fail to uphold their obligations,” said Zohar Chamberlain Regev, a FFC steering committee member.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/freedom-flotilla-sails-again-vows-challenge-israels-gaza-blockade
Israel claims control of Lebanon’s key Ali al-Taher ridge: What that means
In a statement on Friday, Defence Minister Israel Katz claimed Israeli forces had driven Hezbollah fighters out of what he said was a network of tunnels under the contested highland, 15km (10 miles) from the border. …. Iran-backed Hezbollah has yet to formally comment on the Israeli claims. However, hours before Katz’s comments, Reuters news agency reported that Iran had warned the United States last month that it would respond forcefully if Israeli attacks on the ridge, which rises 600 metres above sea level (1,970 feet), continued.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/5/israel-claims-control-of-lebanons-key-ali-al-taher-ridge-what-that-means
https://archive.ph/v4GRK
US military targets Iranian oil tankers in response to attacks on US assets
Kharg Island is a key hub for Iranian crude exports, handling about 90% of the country’s oil shipments. State broadcaster IRIB said there were no casualties in the attack on the vessel near the island, while emergency services said the resulting fire was extinguished within an hour.
https://www.newarab.com/news/us-army-targets-iranian-oil-tankers-response-iran-attacks
DR Congo latest to promise moving Israel embassy to Jerusalem
After a visit by President Felix-Antoine Tshisekedi, the two countries in a statement said they would take steps for "the relocation of the embassy of the Democratic Republic of the Congo from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem", without giving a timeline. Tshisekedi and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a meeting spoke of their "shared commitment to strengthening diplomatic relations", the statement said.
https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2026/09/dr-congo-latest-promise-moving-israel-embassy-jerusalem
Cartoneros face an uncertain future in Buenos Aires
The cartoneros emerged from Argentina’s 2001 crisis and became a key part of Buenos Aires waste management network. But City Hall looks to private contractors, tighter enforcement and technology, thousands of informal recyclers fear they are being pushed out.
https://www.batimes.com.ar/news/argentina/cartoneros-face-an-uncertain-future-in-capital.phtml
https://archive.ph/dNTK7
Costa Rican president signals openness to domestic US military operations
In an interview published on Friday, Fernandez emphasised to the news service Reuters that such measures would require approval from the national legislature. She also added there were no plans in the works for US forces to operate in the country.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/4/costa-rican-president-signals-openness-to-domestic-us-military-operations
https://archive.ph/2K6FW
News 9/5/26
Only 7 of 15 Regime Supply Vessels Reach Embattled BhamoThe flotilla, consisting of tugboats and gunboats, departed Mandalay for Bhamo via the Irrawaddy River on August 21. To clear a path in advance, regime fighter jets and Y-12 aircraft indiscriminately bombed resistance-controlled areas along the river route in Sagaing Region’s Katha Township and adjacent Shwegu Township in Kachin. Despite the destruction of civilian houses, there were only a few reports of casualties, as residents along the route were warned by the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) and allied resistance groups to evacuate the areas in advance.
https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/war-against-the-junta/only-7-of-15-regime-supply-vessels-reach-embattled-bhamo.html
Philippine VP Duterte posts bail after arrest order for alleged grave threats
"If I post bail, the harassment won’t stop. If I don’t post bail, I’ll be taken to the police. I have no trust in the police, I have no trust in the courts. I do not feel safe at all," Duterte said. She asked who would be held accountable “if I die tonight,” saying police would simply “wash their hands and call it an accident.”
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/philippine-vp-duterte-posts-bail-after-arrest-order-alleged-grave-threats-2026-09-05/
Greeks promised tax relief, wage hikes as protesters take to the streets over cost of living crunch
Labor unions and multiple protest groups staged rallies across the city, with farmers driving tractors into the downtown area. More than 3,000 police officers were on duty, closing streets and subway stations near the venue where the prime minister spoke. Greece delivered a budget surplus and economic growth of 2.1% last year, while continuing to reduce its high public debt, but its workers had the lowest purchasing power in the European Union.
https://apnews.com/article/greece-economy-mitsotakis-elections-cost-of-living-e22d724cc8472a38dfb136a597b9fd8a
Black-clad protesters in balaclavas block road at port of Dover in Kent
Videos circulating on social media showed demonstrators linking arms in a blockade across the A20 and shouting “stop the boats”. They could be seen marching along the A road, chanting: “England till I die.” A group called Patriot Platform, which styles itself as having “a fierce love for our homeland”, appeared to claim responsibility for the blockade on social media.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/sep/05/black-clad-protesters-balaclavas-block-road-port-of-dover-kent
Thousands rally in Croatia demanding urgent cleanup of toxic waste from a town
Tens of thousands of people rallied on Saturday in Croatia, furious that authorities for months haven’t cleared a huge amount of illegally dumped hazardous waste that has triggered fears of major environmental damage in the European Union country.
https://apnews.com/article/croatia-protest-toxic-waste-environment-1db8bad3c3d03d352d99c3cb2d6afd24
Alarmist disinformation on a pro-Israel digital network: ‘Ceuta is now Gaza’
Broadcasting in Spanish with a pro-Israel tilt, the network is characterized by two alarmist narratives. The first is openly favorable to Benjamin Netanyahu’s government, especially in relation to Gaza and Iran; the second is a direct attack on the Spanish government over the Ceuta migration crisis, presented as an invasion orchestrated by Morocco and facilitated by Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, a socialist.
https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-09-05/alarmist-disinformation-on-a-pro-israel-digital-network-ceuta-is-now-gaza.html
https://archive.ph/zzN60
‘Governments continue to fail’: Freedom Flotilla sails again, vowing to challenge Israel’s Gaza blockade
The FFC said its latest mission would go ahead despite the violence and torture meted out to flotilla volunteers on previous attempts, including severe beatings, repeated tasering and sexual assault. The coalition also accused Israel of blocking the entry of food, medicine and fuel into Gaza, saying the humanitarian situation required renewed international action. “The Freedom Flotilla sails again because our governments continue to fail to uphold their obligations,” said Zohar Chamberlain Regev, a FFC steering committee member.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/freedom-flotilla-sails-again-vows-challenge-israels-gaza-blockade
Israel claims control of Lebanon’s key Ali al-Taher ridge: What that means
In a statement on Friday, Defence Minister Israel Katz claimed Israeli forces had driven Hezbollah fighters out of what he said was a network of tunnels under the contested highland, 15km (10 miles) from the border. …. Iran-backed Hezbollah has yet to formally comment on the Israeli claims. However, hours before Katz’s comments, Reuters news agency reported that Iran had warned the United States last month that it would respond forcefully if Israeli attacks on the ridge, which rises 600 metres above sea level (1,970 feet), continued.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/5/israel-claims-control-of-lebanons-key-ali-al-taher-ridge-what-that-means
https://archive.ph/v4GRK
US military targets Iranian oil tankers in response to attacks on US assets
Kharg Island is a key hub for Iranian crude exports, handling about 90% of the country’s oil shipments. State broadcaster IRIB said there were no casualties in the attack on the vessel near the island, while emergency services said the resulting fire was extinguished within an hour.
https://www.newarab.com/news/us-army-targets-iranian-oil-tankers-response-iran-attacks
DR Congo latest to promise moving Israel embassy to Jerusalem
After a visit by President Felix-Antoine Tshisekedi, the two countries in a statement said they would take steps for "the relocation of the embassy of the Democratic Republic of the Congo from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem", without giving a timeline. Tshisekedi and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a meeting spoke of their "shared commitment to strengthening diplomatic relations", the statement said.
https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2026/09/dr-congo-latest-promise-moving-israel-embassy-jerusalem
Cartoneros face an uncertain future in Buenos Aires
The cartoneros emerged from Argentina’s 2001 crisis and became a key part of Buenos Aires waste management network. But City Hall looks to private contractors, tighter enforcement and technology, thousands of informal recyclers fear they are being pushed out.
https://www.batimes.com.ar/news/argentina/cartoneros-face-an-uncertain-future-in-capital.phtml
https://archive.ph/dNTK7
Costa Rican president signals openness to domestic US military operations
In an interview published on Friday, Fernandez emphasised to the news service Reuters that such measures would require approval from the national legislature. She also added there were no plans in the works for US forces to operate in the country.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/4/costa-rican-president-signals-openness-to-domestic-us-military-operations
https://archive.ph/2K6FW
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whats up with the moralfagging around violence
Like the only criticisms other marxists/leftists bring up about parties like the pcp is that gonzalo killed people, like who cares would the reprisals in the first world not be worse? like if some county/city were to start a counterrevolution after being docile under the bourgeoisie they're ALL dying
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The hook:I have used 3 strategies to get people interested or obliged to read the pamphlet. The best tactic is the natural conversation, do something vaguely related to communism like reading communist literature or for me drawing historical figures like Engels. A person completely uninterested in politics can get trapped in a conversation on the very topic. The other method will admittedly probably lead to less of an impact and success, the dare. Bring up the pamphlet in conversation off handedly, “I was just reading principles of communism, it is a very simple essay that goes over basic communist ideas”, then do something for your mark you are usually unwilling to do and then say “because I did this you gotta read this”. Is it completely possible the mark won’t actually do it? Yes but if they agree you have their word and can use it as leverage later. The other dare tactic is using the fact you read the pamphlet as a flex, “I just read this, it was very interesting, I would send it to you but (in an joking way) I bet you wouldn’t read it”, this can push the mark to read it asap.
Finally the best strategy,
The use of the art of debate. You are trying to convince someone that doesn’t care for politics to read a political essay, this isn’t just a causal thing, you are challenging their way of life, use debate, actual successful debate I.E. agree with them when you can and understand their perspective as much as possible while pointing out contradictions in their logic “I get it, politics really do suck, but you know what a famous communist said “if you don’t effect politics, politics effects you”, this not only convinces the make but makes them think further about their beliefs and reading this pamphlet at such a pivotal point is great.
Other advice I would give:
Be the communist the 50’s US thinks you are-spreading communism to casuals
I have, in the last week, gotten 3 people (1 liberal, 2 apolitical) to read ‘the principles of communism’ using common social strategies, to great success.The hook:I have used 3 strategies to get people interested or obliged to read the pamphlet. The best tactic is the natural conversation, do something vaguely related to communism like reading communist literature or for me drawing historical figures like Engels. A person completely uninterested in politics can get trapped in a conversation on the very topic. The other method will admittedly probably lead to less of an impact and success, the dare. Bring up the pamphlet in conversation off handedly, “I was just reading principles of communism, it is a very simple essay that goes over basic communist ideas”, then do something for your mark you are usually unwilling to do and then say “because I did this you gotta read this”. Is it completely possible the mark won’t actually do it? Yes but if they agree you have their word and can use it as leverage later. The other dare tactic is using the fact you read the pamphlet as a flex, “I just read this, it was very interesting, I would send it to you but (in an joking way) I bet you wouldn’t read it”, this can push the mark to read it asap.
Finally the best strategy,
The use of the art of debate. You are trying to convince someone that doesn’t care for politics to read a political essay, this isn’t just a causal thing, you are challenging their way of life, use debate, actual successful debate I.E. agree with them when you can and understand their perspective as much as possible while pointing out contradictions in their logic “I get it, politics really do suck, but you know what a famous communist said “if you don’t effect politics, politics effects you”, this not only convinces the make but makes them think further about their beliefs and reading this pamphlet at such a pivotal point is great.
Other advice I would give:
- principles of communism will of course never give anyone the best understanding of communism but if you are gonna push someone to read a whole book a small essay is a good start and is extremely convenient.
- Many people without an understanding of communism laugh at it as they mostly know memes or the red scare version they were taught, use that, point out what they had wrong about communism and help them learn
- Connect reason communist literature to learning, Gen Z especially is reading less and less, emphasize the fact that them reading this theory will help them be able to teach others and avoid the brain rot.
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Every human deserves the bare minimum of materials and energy necessary to life. That means before building super yachts for some humans we should focus on making every human has food, water, protection from the elements, etc. I think it is very achievable, a lot of people agree with me from their own studies from my understanding. If it is not currently achievable, it should be the foremost goal of mankind I should think.
/My Philosophy/
What do you think of my political philosophy? I think it's pretty simple and also agreeable. I think there is general agreement at an international level and amongst international bodies like the UN.Every human deserves the bare minimum of materials and energy necessary to life. That means before building super yachts for some humans we should focus on making every human has food, water, protection from the elements, etc. I think it is very achievable, a lot of people agree with me from their own studies from my understanding. If it is not currently achievable, it should be the foremost goal of mankind I should think.
R: 66 / I: 3
The Far Left is the only political persuasion that insists on people reading and following the secular equivalent of holy texts (ie Kapital + whatever else that person considers essential) and adhering to strict pre-defined doctrine to be accepted as part of their movement. You will NEVER create any kind of mass movement that way. You people are the reason Mao even had to articulate the doctrine of the mass line - even if it should be so fucking obvious it shouldn't need to be said and even if Mao himself didn't necessarily follow it - because communists are notorious for devolving into elitism instead of actually being servants of the people (Lenin being the first one to actually succeed as a communist didn't help this whatsoever).
If you're not building a movement where someone who has never read a single line of Marx and never will can walk in and feel welcome anyway, you will not win without copying Lenin and just hijacking a popular movement that was not originally communist to begin with and imposing yourself (and if that's the attitude you come into politics with, you almost certainly do not have the interests of the masses in mind).
The Far Left is the only political persuasion that insists on people reading and following the secular equivalent of holy texts (ie Kapital + whatever else that person considers essential) and adhering to strict pre-defined doctrine to be accepted as part of their movement. You will NEVER create any kind of mass movement that way. You people are the reason Mao even had to articulate the doctrine of the mass line - even if it should be so fucking obvious it shouldn't need to be said and even if Mao himself didn't necessarily follow it - because communists are notorious for devolving into elitism instead of actually being servants of the people (Lenin being the first one to actually succeed as a communist didn't help this whatsoever).
If you're not building a movement where someone who has never read a single line of Marx and never will can walk in and feel welcome anyway, you will not win without copying Lenin and just hijacking a popular movement that was not originally communist to begin with and imposing yourself (and if that's the attitude you come into politics with, you almost certainly do not have the interests of the masses in mind).
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How many of you are actual communists, and how many of you are just contrarian misanthropes who found the far-right too embarrassing?
If it’s the second, have you considered that working people don’t listen to you not because they’re inherently hostile to leftism or because they’re “treatlers,” but because your ideas betray your contempt? And that you’re actually a liability to socialism by getting people to associate it with neurotic contrarians?
How many of you are actual communists, and how many of you are just contrarian misanthropes who found the far-right too embarrassing?
If it’s the second, have you considered that working people don’t listen to you not because they’re inherently hostile to leftism or because they’re “treatlers,” but because your ideas betray your contempt? And that you’re actually a liability to socialism by getting people to associate it with neurotic contrarians?
R: 13 / I: 1
Iran is reversing decades worth of infrastructure and presence built by the US in the Middle East since Iraq. Iran is uniting the muslim world against a common enemy to bring the arrival of the 12th imam (the mahdi), ending with the destruction of Israel and the US. Türkiye is feuding with Israel and can cut off Azeri oil through their territory if they wanted to. Not saying that Erdoğan will. Iran has killed 11 US soldiers and 1 contractor, killed many more Israeli soldiers and civilians (along with Hezbollah). Israel has already been kicked out of Lebanon twice since the 1982 Lebanon War/South Lebanon Conflict (1985-2000) and the 2006 Lebanon War. I predict it might happen again when you combine the Iranian front to add on top of all this. Right now it's just Iran and Hezbollah vs. the US, Israel and Ukraine. Turkey might join. Russia is already giving satellite information to Iran. A ground invasion is imminent. Expect substantial US casualties.
Iran is reversing decades worth of infrastructure and presence built by the US in the Middle East since Iraq. Iran is uniting the muslim world against a common enemy to bring the arrival of the 12th imam (the mahdi), ending with the destruction of Israel and the US. Türkiye is feuding with Israel and can cut off Azeri oil through their territory if they wanted to. Not saying that Erdoğan will. Iran has killed 11 US soldiers and 1 contractor, killed many more Israeli soldiers and civilians (along with Hezbollah). Israel has already been kicked out of Lebanon twice since the 1982 Lebanon War/South Lebanon Conflict (1985-2000) and the 2006 Lebanon War. I predict it might happen again when you combine the Iranian front to add on top of all this. Right now it's just Iran and Hezbollah vs. the US, Israel and Ukraine. Turkey might join. Russia is already giving satellite information to Iran. A ground invasion is imminent. Expect substantial US casualties.
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Ms Duterte had already already impeached by the House of Representatives in May on the same charges, as well as over alleged financial anomalies. A conviction could derail her plans to seek the presidency in 2028, when President Marcos’s six-year term ends. A lawyer of the vice-president, who has denied the charges, suggested she will post bail to avoid detention while facing trial by the Quezon City Regional Trial Court.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/philippine-vice-president-arrested-threats-against-president-marcos
Sri Lanka ex-president's son arrested on graft charges
Namal Rajapaksa, who is a lawmaker representing the opposition Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna, was arrested following more than five hours of questioning by Sri Lanka's key anti-graft body, the Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption. The order to remand him was issued by Colombo Chief Magistrate Asanga S. Bodaragama.
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/sri-lanka-ex-presidents-son-arrested-graft-charges-2026-09-04/
2 trapped workers rescued from hydropower tunnel 9 days after Nepal floods
When the mountain gave way above the Nepali power plant where Sah worked, he said he chose to stay and help instead of fleeing. "I was in the control room in the tunnel. Normally there are four to six people there, but there could have been 40 to 45 people that day," the 30-year-old told army officials from a stretcher, an oxygen mask strapped to his face, in a video shared by the Nepalese authorities.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/nepal-rescue-tunnel-flood-9.7332145
Women journalists who have accused Delhi police of assault to move high court
In a video released by 4PM News Network, Shaheen alleged that she and Nafisa were beaten and subjected to mental harassment at the police station. She displayed injury marks on Nafisa’s body and alleged that the assault became more severe after police personnel asked their names and learnt that they were Muslims.
https://sabrangindia.in/two-women-journalists-allege-police-assault-after-questioning-delhi-cm-say-attack-intensified-after-police-heard-they-were-muslim/
https://archive.ph/ukWrb
Argentina’s Milei escalates Falklands dispute, seizing on Trump comments and oil tensions
Argentine President Javier Milei escalated his country’s dispute with Britain over the Falkland Islands on Thursday, vowing new measures to halt an oil project near the British-controlled archipelago and praising U.S. President Donald Trump for saying Washington could reconsider its neutral stance on the islands’ sovereignty. Milei cast Trump’s comments as proof that his close relationship with the U.S. president — criticized by political opponents as overly deferential — was paying dividends.
https://apnews.com/article/argentina-president-donald-trump-javier-milei-falkland-islands-britain-e84d99c99cfb1cb1ad232be8e3ea6c8a
Campesino Collective Demands Justice After Land Title Revoked
Carvajal belongs to the “Ojo de Agua Las 3 Raíces” campesino council, which brings together 41 families in a 470-hectare land estate with the same name located in the Padre Pedro Chien municipality of Bolívar state. The rural organization denounced that their collective land title was arbitrarily revoked in 2024 but local authorities did not give any notice for more than two years. In recent weeks, the campesino families have denounced intimidation and attempts at eviction.
https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/campesino-collective-demands-justice-after-land-title-revoked/
Alvaro Uribe To Face Questioning Over Paramilitary Ties
Colombia’s former president is expected to respond to allegations linking him to killings committed by paramilitary forces. On Friday, former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe is due to appear at a questioning hearing before the Attorney General’s Office, where he is expected to respond to questions about his links to killings committed by paramilitary forces between 1995 and 1998, a period when he served as governor of Antioquia.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/alvaro-uribe-to-face-questioning-over-paramilitary-ties/
Mexican ruling-party lawmaker found dead with gunshot wound, a year before elections
Zenyazen Escobar, a federal legislator representing the coastal state — home to some of the country’s oil complexes — was found dead inside his car with at least one gunshot wound. “The investigation file is being compiled,” state Attorney General Lisbeth Jimenez told reporters, without providing further details. The secretary general of Veracruz, Ricardo Ahued, said the lawmaker's vehicle showed no signs of violence.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/mexican-ruling-party-lawmaker-found-dead-with-gunshot-wound-year-before-2026-09-04/
Tunisia’s top court upholds conviction of opposition figures, activists
Among those sentenced in the mass trial was Said Ferjani, a senior official and former MP from the opposition party Ennahda, which led the first Tunisian government after the fall of President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali’s regime during the Arab Spring. Ferjani was initially sentenced to 13 years, which was reduced to 10 years on appeal.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/3/tunisias-top-court-upholds-conviction-of-opposition-figures-activists
https://archive.ph/zhYY6
Tanzanian opposition leader ordered to defend himself in treason trial
Tanzania’s High Court has ruled that Chadema party chairman Tundu Lissu must present a formal defense in his treason trial, a charge that carries a maximum penalty of death if he is convicted. The ruling is not a conviction. At this stage of a criminal trial, the court is only deciding whether the prosecution has produced evidence that, left unanswered, could support a conviction. It is not a final determination of guilt, nor a detailed assessment of witness credibility.
https://breakthroughnews.org/2026/09/01/tanzanian-opposition-leader-ordered-to-defend-himself-in-treason-trial/
News 9/4/26
Philippine Vice-President to be arrested for threats against President MarcosMs Duterte had already already impeached by the House of Representatives in May on the same charges, as well as over alleged financial anomalies. A conviction could derail her plans to seek the presidency in 2028, when President Marcos’s six-year term ends. A lawyer of the vice-president, who has denied the charges, suggested she will post bail to avoid detention while facing trial by the Quezon City Regional Trial Court.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/philippine-vice-president-arrested-threats-against-president-marcos
Sri Lanka ex-president's son arrested on graft charges
Namal Rajapaksa, who is a lawmaker representing the opposition Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna, was arrested following more than five hours of questioning by Sri Lanka's key anti-graft body, the Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption. The order to remand him was issued by Colombo Chief Magistrate Asanga S. Bodaragama.
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/sri-lanka-ex-presidents-son-arrested-graft-charges-2026-09-04/
2 trapped workers rescued from hydropower tunnel 9 days after Nepal floods
When the mountain gave way above the Nepali power plant where Sah worked, he said he chose to stay and help instead of fleeing. "I was in the control room in the tunnel. Normally there are four to six people there, but there could have been 40 to 45 people that day," the 30-year-old told army officials from a stretcher, an oxygen mask strapped to his face, in a video shared by the Nepalese authorities.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/nepal-rescue-tunnel-flood-9.7332145
Women journalists who have accused Delhi police of assault to move high court
In a video released by 4PM News Network, Shaheen alleged that she and Nafisa were beaten and subjected to mental harassment at the police station. She displayed injury marks on Nafisa’s body and alleged that the assault became more severe after police personnel asked their names and learnt that they were Muslims.
https://sabrangindia.in/two-women-journalists-allege-police-assault-after-questioning-delhi-cm-say-attack-intensified-after-police-heard-they-were-muslim/
https://archive.ph/ukWrb
Argentina’s Milei escalates Falklands dispute, seizing on Trump comments and oil tensions
Argentine President Javier Milei escalated his country’s dispute with Britain over the Falkland Islands on Thursday, vowing new measures to halt an oil project near the British-controlled archipelago and praising U.S. President Donald Trump for saying Washington could reconsider its neutral stance on the islands’ sovereignty. Milei cast Trump’s comments as proof that his close relationship with the U.S. president — criticized by political opponents as overly deferential — was paying dividends.
https://apnews.com/article/argentina-president-donald-trump-javier-milei-falkland-islands-britain-e84d99c99cfb1cb1ad232be8e3ea6c8a
Campesino Collective Demands Justice After Land Title Revoked
Carvajal belongs to the “Ojo de Agua Las 3 Raíces” campesino council, which brings together 41 families in a 470-hectare land estate with the same name located in the Padre Pedro Chien municipality of Bolívar state. The rural organization denounced that their collective land title was arbitrarily revoked in 2024 but local authorities did not give any notice for more than two years. In recent weeks, the campesino families have denounced intimidation and attempts at eviction.
https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/campesino-collective-demands-justice-after-land-title-revoked/
Alvaro Uribe To Face Questioning Over Paramilitary Ties
Colombia’s former president is expected to respond to allegations linking him to killings committed by paramilitary forces. On Friday, former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe is due to appear at a questioning hearing before the Attorney General’s Office, where he is expected to respond to questions about his links to killings committed by paramilitary forces between 1995 and 1998, a period when he served as governor of Antioquia.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/alvaro-uribe-to-face-questioning-over-paramilitary-ties/
Mexican ruling-party lawmaker found dead with gunshot wound, a year before elections
Zenyazen Escobar, a federal legislator representing the coastal state — home to some of the country’s oil complexes — was found dead inside his car with at least one gunshot wound. “The investigation file is being compiled,” state Attorney General Lisbeth Jimenez told reporters, without providing further details. The secretary general of Veracruz, Ricardo Ahued, said the lawmaker's vehicle showed no signs of violence.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/mexican-ruling-party-lawmaker-found-dead-with-gunshot-wound-year-before-2026-09-04/
Tunisia’s top court upholds conviction of opposition figures, activists
Among those sentenced in the mass trial was Said Ferjani, a senior official and former MP from the opposition party Ennahda, which led the first Tunisian government after the fall of President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali’s regime during the Arab Spring. Ferjani was initially sentenced to 13 years, which was reduced to 10 years on appeal.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/3/tunisias-top-court-upholds-conviction-of-opposition-figures-activists
https://archive.ph/zhYY6
Tanzanian opposition leader ordered to defend himself in treason trial
Tanzania’s High Court has ruled that Chadema party chairman Tundu Lissu must present a formal defense in his treason trial, a charge that carries a maximum penalty of death if he is convicted. The ruling is not a conviction. At this stage of a criminal trial, the court is only deciding whether the prosecution has produced evidence that, left unanswered, could support a conviction. It is not a final determination of guilt, nor a detailed assessment of witness credibility.
https://breakthroughnews.org/2026/09/01/tanzanian-opposition-leader-ordered-to-defend-himself-in-treason-trial/
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Canadian Nuclear Proliferation: NPT withdrawal
An electronic petition with as few as 500 signatures could be considered for review by the House of Commons. It's time for one of us to create a petition demanding that Canada withdraw from the Non-Proliferation Treaty. The time is right for this. The Canadian public is fed up and forcing Canada's parliament to respond to a petition with enough signatures and a member of parliament's endorsement would deepen the Western rupture.
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The UK’s main opposition Conservative Party has announced it will end social housing provision for foreign nationals in England if it enters government at the next election…
/leftybritpol/ - by-election edish
UK Conservatives and far-right Reform UK pledge mass eviction of foreign nationals from social housingThe UK’s main opposition Conservative Party has announced it will end social housing provision for foreign nationals in England if it enters government at the next election…
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https://capsalute.shop/
whois capsalute.shop
Notice: Effective May 1, 2026, the WHOIS service has been retired in accordance with ICANN's RDAP transition policy. All registration data queries are now served via RDAP. The Registration Data Access Protocol (RDAP) base URL is: https://rdap.gmoregistry.net/rdap/
rdap capsalute.shop
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Let's destroy a Nazi business.
This site has no WHOIS or RDAP available so you know what that means. They sell stahlhelm themed, 3D printed bottle covers. This is exactly the kind of kitsch shit that neofascists love to hock on X.https://capsalute.shop/
whois capsalute.shop
Notice: Effective May 1, 2026, the WHOIS service has been retired in accordance with ICANN's RDAP transition policy. All registration data queries are now served via RDAP. The Registration Data Access Protocol (RDAP) base URL is: https://rdap.gmoregistry.net/rdap/
rdap capsalute.shop
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Fidel and Jeffrey
Why did Fidel Castro hang out with Epstein? Picture is seen framed on the wall of Epstein's Palm Beach mansion in 2005 police raid footage. Also Epstein attended Fidel's funeral acdcording to an email.
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Israeli newspaper Israel Hayom reported that the first site will open in Tel Sultan, near Rafah, “within weeks”, and house civilians “with no weapons or affiliation with Hamas”. It added that the zone will be policed by a “multinational force”, known as the International Stabilisation Force (ISF), which will be equipped with “non-lethal weapons” and operate from the Israeli Amitai Camp near Gaza under the command of the board. According to the report, while aid and temporary housing will be supplied to the areas, Board of Peace officials have pledged not to import concrete into Gaza.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/trumps-board-peace-launch-hamas-free-shelters-while-israel-tightens-grip-gaza
So what's the lefty/pol/ Righist Cope Patrol's line on these countries joining the BoP under literal "chairman for life" Donald Trump?
· Vietnam (Ae Ea Ss!1)
· Belarus (Need I comment? Le last remnant of the USSR, guys!)
· Kazakhstan (/leftypol/ was REALLY SUPPORTIVE of when the Kazakh government and their Russian masters lethally repressed the proletarian-led (oil rig strike) protesters in 2022!)
· Cambodia ([search engine] Kampuchean People's Revolutionary Party (KPRP) if you don't already know about Vietnam's responsibility for this mess)
· BRICS vanguard Indonesia, UAE and Egypt!
/LEFTYPOL/ SEEMS REALLY AVOIDANT OF THE TOPIC! WHAT GIVES?
Board of Peace (BoP)
‘Board of Peace’ to launch ‘Hamas-free’ camps as Israel tightens grip on GazaIsraeli newspaper Israel Hayom reported that the first site will open in Tel Sultan, near Rafah, “within weeks”, and house civilians “with no weapons or affiliation with Hamas”. It added that the zone will be policed by a “multinational force”, known as the International Stabilisation Force (ISF), which will be equipped with “non-lethal weapons” and operate from the Israeli Amitai Camp near Gaza under the command of the board. According to the report, while aid and temporary housing will be supplied to the areas, Board of Peace officials have pledged not to import concrete into Gaza.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/trumps-board-peace-launch-hamas-free-shelters-while-israel-tightens-grip-gaza
So what's the lefty/pol/ Righist Cope Patrol's line on these countries joining the BoP under literal "chairman for life" Donald Trump?
· Vietnam (Ae Ea Ss!1)
· Belarus (Need I comment? Le last remnant of the USSR, guys!)
· Kazakhstan (/leftypol/ was REALLY SUPPORTIVE of when the Kazakh government and their Russian masters lethally repressed the proletarian-led (oil rig strike) protesters in 2022!)
· Cambodia ([search engine] Kampuchean People's Revolutionary Party (KPRP) if you don't already know about Vietnam's responsibility for this mess)
· BRICS vanguard Indonesia, UAE and Egypt!
/LEFTYPOL/ SEEMS REALLY AVOIDANT OF THE TOPIC! WHAT GIVES?
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This guy Marx seems to know a thing or two. Even though I don't really understand much of what he's saying. I've already read the Manifesto. Which book should I read next? Capital?
This guy Marx seems to know a thing or two. Even though I don't really understand much of what he's saying. I've already read the Manifesto. Which book should I read next? Capital?
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In fact, I feel it’s much more important to look at those failures and what they reveal. Che in the Congo is a good example of how Third Worldism simply does not work. Che brought specifically Afro-Cuban veterans of the Cuban Revolution with him, partly to avoid appearing as an imperialist. But in the Congo that distinction was irrelevant. The Latin American context of race and religion was simply alien to the Congo, where tribal and religious identities mattered much more. Congolese fighters wouldn’t work with one another if they belonged to different religions or had tensions with another tribe. And even when you found two groups that had no religious differences or negative opinions of each other, they could literally be unable to work together because they didn’t speak the same language. There was also a general spiritualism that the Congolese fighters couldn’t simply let go of. They refused to fight in trenches because they believed it was bad luck and that they would become sick and die if they were in them. Che encountered this kind of refusal again and again.
Then there was his adventure in Bolivia. Bolivia appeared to fit Che’s ideal model, a poorer country under a military dictatorship. So by his own theory, it should have been fertile ground for successful guerrilla warfare. Instead the campaign failed because the dictatorship had implemented modest land reforms. Those limited reforms were enough to reduce rural support for an insurgency, leaving Che’s forces without the local backing and logistical assistance they needed.
I think that if Che had survived, he might have learned from those failures, refined his ideas and produced a more realistic and pragmatic theory of revolutionary warfare. But he died and became an icon for millions. Still, I feel like contemporary leftists should have looked at these failures and seen them as a fairly obvious reason to rethink his theory, rather than turning it into an inviolable principle.
I’m puzzled by how the global left took the objectively wrong lessons from Che’s military campaigns
Now, I get that things were different back then. Che was one of the most, if not the only well known leftist guerrilla figures in the West, a truly romanticized ideal for university students and academics to idolize and see themselves in. But I’m sure that even back then, with just a little research, they could have realized that his military theory was half-baked. It was written specifically within the super specific context of Batista’s Cuba and when applied outside those unique conditions, it failed.In fact, I feel it’s much more important to look at those failures and what they reveal. Che in the Congo is a good example of how Third Worldism simply does not work. Che brought specifically Afro-Cuban veterans of the Cuban Revolution with him, partly to avoid appearing as an imperialist. But in the Congo that distinction was irrelevant. The Latin American context of race and religion was simply alien to the Congo, where tribal and religious identities mattered much more. Congolese fighters wouldn’t work with one another if they belonged to different religions or had tensions with another tribe. And even when you found two groups that had no religious differences or negative opinions of each other, they could literally be unable to work together because they didn’t speak the same language. There was also a general spiritualism that the Congolese fighters couldn’t simply let go of. They refused to fight in trenches because they believed it was bad luck and that they would become sick and die if they were in them. Che encountered this kind of refusal again and again.
Then there was his adventure in Bolivia. Bolivia appeared to fit Che’s ideal model, a poorer country under a military dictatorship. So by his own theory, it should have been fertile ground for successful guerrilla warfare. Instead the campaign failed because the dictatorship had implemented modest land reforms. Those limited reforms were enough to reduce rural support for an insurgency, leaving Che’s forces without the local backing and logistical assistance they needed.
I think that if Che had survived, he might have learned from those failures, refined his ideas and produced a more realistic and pragmatic theory of revolutionary warfare. But he died and became an icon for millions. Still, I feel like contemporary leftists should have looked at these failures and seen them as a fairly obvious reason to rethink his theory, rather than turning it into an inviolable principle.
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Now it turned into feudalism and genocide.
People should have picked communism. Now they will live in hell and die.
Early vs modern capitalism
Capitalism was nice only in the beginning, in the honeymoon phase.Now it turned into feudalism and genocide.
People should have picked communism. Now they will live in hell and die.
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Lula means "squid" in Portuguese, and he bears this name because he's actually an Old God possessing tentacles like those of a colossal squid reincarnated in the body of a Brazilian politician.
The truth about Lula
People think Lula is a nickname for Luís Inácio da Silva, but the truth is much darker and would drive them to the brink of insanity.Lula means "squid" in Portuguese, and he bears this name because he's actually an Old God possessing tentacles like those of a colossal squid reincarnated in the body of a Brazilian politician.
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The mobilization, which had one of its epicenters near Baquedano Metro station, an iconic gathering point during the 2019 social uprising, coincided with the start of the fifth edition of the Madrid Forum, the international far-right summit being held in Santiago, Chile. On Sept. 3 and 4, the forum, founded in 2020 by Santiago Abascal, leader of Spain’s Vox party, will be attended by Argentine President Javier Milei, U.S. Undersecretary Sarah Rogers, Heritage Foundation Director Kevin Roberts, European Parliament member Kinga Gal, among other conservative figures.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/thousands-of-chileans-march-against-kasts-policies/
Resistance to Bolivia IMF deal grows as groups meet over fuel crisis
Representatives from nine civic and social organizations met on Wednesday in Cochabamba, calling on the government to ease costs as diesel shortages and subsidy cuts hurt households and industry. The meeting adds to pressure on centrist President Rodrigo Paz's administration as he seeks congressional backing for the IMF deal.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/resistance-bolivia-imf-deal-grows-groups-meet-over-fuel-crisis-2026-09-03/
Machado: ‘Illegitimate’ Venezuela regime has no right to strike US oil deal
In a video posted on social media, the Nobel peace prize winner said: “Of course the United States is the principal partner Venezuela needs to fully develop its strategic potential. This is what the majority of Venezuelans believe … and it is something I’ve spent my whole life defending.” However, Machado said, the current occupants of the Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas were “enemies of the US”, saying they did not have the right or the democratic mandate to negotiate Venezuela’s natural resources.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/03/venezuelan-opposition-leader-questions-us-oil-deal-with-illegitimate-regime
Judge orders Colombia’s military to suspend air strikes on illegal armed groups
A court ordered the government and the military to suspend air strikes on suspected members of illegal armed groups while studying the risk of harm to child forced recruitment victims. In a preliminary sentence, the Bogota family court in response to a lawsuit that was filed by a civilian who claimed the State ignored its obligation to protect children when carrying out air strikes on illegal armed groups.
https://colombiareports.com/judge-orders-colombias-military-to-suspend-air-strikes-on-illegal-armed-groups/
Half of All Terrorism Arrests in Britain Since 9/11 Happened in Past Year
Of the 6,539 arrests for ‘terror-related’ activity since the World Trade Center was destroyed in 2001, 3,021 happened in the year ending 21 March 2026. The figures mean that, following the proscription of Palestine Action on 5 July last year, there has been a 1,434% increase in terrorism-related arrests. Palestine Action is the first direct-action protest group to be banned using counter-terror powers.
https://novaramedia.com/2026/09/01/half-of-all-terrorism-arrests-in-britain-since-9-11-happened-in-past-year/
Polanski throws down gauntlet to Burnham
His candidacy — which requires endorsement by local party members — will put pressure on Mr Burnham from the left as he struggles with City demands to abandon his ambitions to reverse neoliberalism. Mr Polanski immediately slammed Labour as the party for big business and big money, the interests trying to dominate the new government.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/zack-polanski-holborn-and-st-pancras-andy-burnham-by-election
More than a dozen Serbians targeted with mercenary spyware, digital rights group finds
Confirmed cases of targeting include members of a student movement, activists, opposition party members in parliament and a local councilor, the group said. At least one device was targeted with Pegasus, made by Israeli company NSO Group, while at least two devices were targeted with malware similar to NoviSpy, which was first exposed by Amnesty International in Serbia in December 2024.
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/more-than-dozen-serbians-targeted-with-mercenary-spyware-digital-rights-group-2026-09-02/
Volkswagen announces it will cut 100,000 jobs by 2030
The German manufacturer said management and unions had agreed as part of a sweeping cost-cutting plan to cut a further 50,000 positions by 2030, bringing total job losses in the pipeline to 100,000. The number of car models the Volkswagen group produces, which includes the Bentley and Audi brands, will be slashed by half, while four production plants in Germany could also be shuttered within the next eight years.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/sep/03/volkswagen-confirms-100000-job-cuts-by-2030
Algerian firefighters still struggling against deadly wildfires
The fires have spread across several provinces, creating a vast front of flames stretching from the centre to the far east of the country. Civil Protection units, supported by soldiers, were still battling flare-ups this week in the provinces of Setif and Guelma, where large swathes of forests have been burned.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/algerian-firefighters-still-struggling-against-deadly-wildfires
US pressure on Iran starting to tell, as sanctions and blockade bite
In particular, the effort to stop Iran from accessing international financing networks in other countries it has long used to keep its economy functioning poses a real and urgent threat, the sources said. Any sign the economic campaign may break a months-long deadlock in the conflict will likely cheer U.S. planners, though Iran has also warned it could respond to the pressure with military escalation, raising the stakes at a key moment.
https://www.newarab.com/news/us-pressure-iran-starting-tell-sanctions-and-blockade-bite
Israelis shoot dead two Palestinian teenagers after settlers encircle village
The shootings targeted Khalil Abu Alia, 16, who was about to start 11th grade at the al-Mughayyir boys school, and 19-year-old Omar al-Nassan, who graduated from the same institution with top marks this summer. The teenagers were killed soon after sunset, when a group of settlers entered the village under police and military escort to steal dozens of sheep from a Palestinian home, village residents and Israeli activists said.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/03/israelis-shoot-dead-two-palestinian-teenagers-after-settlers-encircle-village
China presses the US for answers after a man dies hours after entering ICE custody
Wei was arrested Aug. 21 by the Northern Mariana Islands Department of Public Safety on criminal charges stemming from an alleged assault on a family of five at their home, according to ICE. He was taken into ICE custody the next day pending removal proceedings.
https://apnews.com/article/ice-detainee-death-china-northern-mariana-islands-929473082e7fd716dee794665c725f83
How Myanmar Regime Chief’s Family Profits From the State’s EV Policy
Despite nationwide unrest, widespread power outages and economic collapse, Myanmar coup leader Min Aung Hlaing has consistently touted the potential of electric vehicles (EV) to transform the country into a “smart economy,” since first ordering his regime’s ministers to take steps to promote the sector in August 2022. … Sources at the Union of Myanmar Federation of Chambers of Commerce and Industry (UMFCCI) said the coup leader’s children have received the largest share of EV import permits from the regime, allowing them to monopolize the thriving market.
https://www.irrawaddy.com/business/how-myanmar-regime-chiefs-family-profits-from-the-states-ev-policy.html
Latest Actions in the People’s War in the Philippines
August 2-4, a series of 4-5 encounters between more than a company of AFP-soldiers and a small NPA squad in Barangay Bonglo in Abra, took place. Three combatants of the NPA, comrade Ken, comrade Duma, and comrade Chico, fell in combat. A clash between a unit of the NPA and reactionary forces took place, on August 1, in Barangay Tigiban, Camarines Norte PRWC reports. The NPA unit was able to maneuver the attempts of the AFP’s attempt to crush them. Since the clash, unrelenting military operations continue in the towns of Camarines Norte.
https://redherald.org/2026/09/03/latest-actions-in-the-peoples-war-in-the-philippines-3/
News 9/3/26
Thousands of Chileans March Against Kast’s PoliciesThe mobilization, which had one of its epicenters near Baquedano Metro station, an iconic gathering point during the 2019 social uprising, coincided with the start of the fifth edition of the Madrid Forum, the international far-right summit being held in Santiago, Chile. On Sept. 3 and 4, the forum, founded in 2020 by Santiago Abascal, leader of Spain’s Vox party, will be attended by Argentine President Javier Milei, U.S. Undersecretary Sarah Rogers, Heritage Foundation Director Kevin Roberts, European Parliament member Kinga Gal, among other conservative figures.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/thousands-of-chileans-march-against-kasts-policies/
Resistance to Bolivia IMF deal grows as groups meet over fuel crisis
Representatives from nine civic and social organizations met on Wednesday in Cochabamba, calling on the government to ease costs as diesel shortages and subsidy cuts hurt households and industry. The meeting adds to pressure on centrist President Rodrigo Paz's administration as he seeks congressional backing for the IMF deal.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/resistance-bolivia-imf-deal-grows-groups-meet-over-fuel-crisis-2026-09-03/
Machado: ‘Illegitimate’ Venezuela regime has no right to strike US oil deal
In a video posted on social media, the Nobel peace prize winner said: “Of course the United States is the principal partner Venezuela needs to fully develop its strategic potential. This is what the majority of Venezuelans believe … and it is something I’ve spent my whole life defending.” However, Machado said, the current occupants of the Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas were “enemies of the US”, saying they did not have the right or the democratic mandate to negotiate Venezuela’s natural resources.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/03/venezuelan-opposition-leader-questions-us-oil-deal-with-illegitimate-regime
Judge orders Colombia’s military to suspend air strikes on illegal armed groups
A court ordered the government and the military to suspend air strikes on suspected members of illegal armed groups while studying the risk of harm to child forced recruitment victims. In a preliminary sentence, the Bogota family court in response to a lawsuit that was filed by a civilian who claimed the State ignored its obligation to protect children when carrying out air strikes on illegal armed groups.
https://colombiareports.com/judge-orders-colombias-military-to-suspend-air-strikes-on-illegal-armed-groups/
Half of All Terrorism Arrests in Britain Since 9/11 Happened in Past Year
Of the 6,539 arrests for ‘terror-related’ activity since the World Trade Center was destroyed in 2001, 3,021 happened in the year ending 21 March 2026. The figures mean that, following the proscription of Palestine Action on 5 July last year, there has been a 1,434% increase in terrorism-related arrests. Palestine Action is the first direct-action protest group to be banned using counter-terror powers.
https://novaramedia.com/2026/09/01/half-of-all-terrorism-arrests-in-britain-since-9-11-happened-in-past-year/
Polanski throws down gauntlet to Burnham
His candidacy — which requires endorsement by local party members — will put pressure on Mr Burnham from the left as he struggles with City demands to abandon his ambitions to reverse neoliberalism. Mr Polanski immediately slammed Labour as the party for big business and big money, the interests trying to dominate the new government.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/zack-polanski-holborn-and-st-pancras-andy-burnham-by-election
More than a dozen Serbians targeted with mercenary spyware, digital rights group finds
Confirmed cases of targeting include members of a student movement, activists, opposition party members in parliament and a local councilor, the group said. At least one device was targeted with Pegasus, made by Israeli company NSO Group, while at least two devices were targeted with malware similar to NoviSpy, which was first exposed by Amnesty International in Serbia in December 2024.
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/more-than-dozen-serbians-targeted-with-mercenary-spyware-digital-rights-group-2026-09-02/
Volkswagen announces it will cut 100,000 jobs by 2030
The German manufacturer said management and unions had agreed as part of a sweeping cost-cutting plan to cut a further 50,000 positions by 2030, bringing total job losses in the pipeline to 100,000. The number of car models the Volkswagen group produces, which includes the Bentley and Audi brands, will be slashed by half, while four production plants in Germany could also be shuttered within the next eight years.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/sep/03/volkswagen-confirms-100000-job-cuts-by-2030
Algerian firefighters still struggling against deadly wildfires
The fires have spread across several provinces, creating a vast front of flames stretching from the centre to the far east of the country. Civil Protection units, supported by soldiers, were still battling flare-ups this week in the provinces of Setif and Guelma, where large swathes of forests have been burned.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/algerian-firefighters-still-struggling-against-deadly-wildfires
US pressure on Iran starting to tell, as sanctions and blockade bite
In particular, the effort to stop Iran from accessing international financing networks in other countries it has long used to keep its economy functioning poses a real and urgent threat, the sources said. Any sign the economic campaign may break a months-long deadlock in the conflict will likely cheer U.S. planners, though Iran has also warned it could respond to the pressure with military escalation, raising the stakes at a key moment.
https://www.newarab.com/news/us-pressure-iran-starting-tell-sanctions-and-blockade-bite
Israelis shoot dead two Palestinian teenagers after settlers encircle village
The shootings targeted Khalil Abu Alia, 16, who was about to start 11th grade at the al-Mughayyir boys school, and 19-year-old Omar al-Nassan, who graduated from the same institution with top marks this summer. The teenagers were killed soon after sunset, when a group of settlers entered the village under police and military escort to steal dozens of sheep from a Palestinian home, village residents and Israeli activists said.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/03/israelis-shoot-dead-two-palestinian-teenagers-after-settlers-encircle-village
China presses the US for answers after a man dies hours after entering ICE custody
Wei was arrested Aug. 21 by the Northern Mariana Islands Department of Public Safety on criminal charges stemming from an alleged assault on a family of five at their home, according to ICE. He was taken into ICE custody the next day pending removal proceedings.
https://apnews.com/article/ice-detainee-death-china-northern-mariana-islands-929473082e7fd716dee794665c725f83
How Myanmar Regime Chief’s Family Profits From the State’s EV Policy
Despite nationwide unrest, widespread power outages and economic collapse, Myanmar coup leader Min Aung Hlaing has consistently touted the potential of electric vehicles (EV) to transform the country into a “smart economy,” since first ordering his regime’s ministers to take steps to promote the sector in August 2022. … Sources at the Union of Myanmar Federation of Chambers of Commerce and Industry (UMFCCI) said the coup leader’s children have received the largest share of EV import permits from the regime, allowing them to monopolize the thriving market.
https://www.irrawaddy.com/business/how-myanmar-regime-chiefs-family-profits-from-the-states-ev-policy.html
Latest Actions in the People’s War in the Philippines
August 2-4, a series of 4-5 encounters between more than a company of AFP-soldiers and a small NPA squad in Barangay Bonglo in Abra, took place. Three combatants of the NPA, comrade Ken, comrade Duma, and comrade Chico, fell in combat. A clash between a unit of the NPA and reactionary forces took place, on August 1, in Barangay Tigiban, Camarines Norte PRWC reports. The NPA unit was able to maneuver the attempts of the AFP’s attempt to crush them. Since the clash, unrelenting military operations continue in the towns of Camarines Norte.
https://redherald.org/2026/09/03/latest-actions-in-the-peoples-war-in-the-philippines-3/
R: 1 / I: 0
Just started working at a new job.
Boss wants me to operate a forklift without a license, move extremely heavy and broken pallets through a tight hallway, where I sometimes climb up the pallets, but I get minimum wage.
R: 24 / I: 5
>supports Israel and ban gays
Can someone explain why Burkina Faso is overly glazed in that board?
Almost just as reactionary as Ugandan government at this point.
Burkina did opposite what leftypol hoped
>be le epic based “anti-imperialist”>supports Israel and ban gays
Can someone explain why Burkina Faso is overly glazed in that board?
Almost just as reactionary as Ugandan government at this point.
R: 578 / I: 128
>Thread for the hellish discussion related to the scourge of the earth, the destroyer of nations, 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™
<Unequal Exchange Edition
The American question is: how does a settler-imperialist nation transform itself into a decolonized socialist commonwealth without either reproducing the imperial form or fragmenting into balkanized enclaves that allow capital to reconstitute, while resolving the contradictions of internal colonization and liberating its external colonies, therefore using the empire's collapse to accelerate material conditions to enable the global revolution?
OP Backup Site: https://usapol.neocities.org/
💀 ICE & Prison Resources
(Amerika is the most incarcerated country in the world!)
ICE tracker using public info and user submissions // https://www.iceinmyarea.org/
list of deaths at ICE concentration camps // https://www.aila.org/infonet/deaths-at-adult-detention-centers
visualization of prison population in US // https://mkorostoff.github.io/incarceration-in-real-numbers/
Organizing in Prison — for when the walls close in (RANT Collective) // https://www.organizingforpower.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Organizing-in-Jail.pdf
database of U.S. facilities incl. ICE holding sites // https://alcpress.org/usjails/index.html
list of prison related resources, mailing lists, etc // https://www.prisonactivist.org/resources
ICE Agent List (incomplete) // https://wiki.icelist.is/index.php/Category:Agents
US Political Prison Tracker (last updated 2025) // https://uspoliticalprisoners.com/
Jailhouse Reading:
📖 Angela Davis - Are Prisons Obsolete? // https://dn790007.ca.archive.org/0/items/the-anarchist-library-full-list-of-pdfs-nov-2020/angela-y-davis-are-prisons-obsolete.pdf
📖 How to Defend Yourself During Police Interrogation // https://www.notrace.how/resources/download/comment-la-police-interroge-et-comment-sen-defendre/how-to-defend-yourself-during-a-police-interrogation.pdf
📖 National Lawyers Guild guide to being a jailhouse lawyer // https://www.jailhouselaw.org/
📖 Critical Resistance - Surviving Solitary Confinement // https://criticalresistance.org/resources/surviving-solitary/
📖 An inside-outside publication for abolitionist struggle & strategy across prison walls // https://criticalresistance.org/abolitionist/
📖 Prisoners’ Self-Help Litigation Manual // https://api.pageplace.de/preview/DT0400.9780199705665_A35159258/preview-9780199705665_A35159258.pdf
⚒️ LABOR!
Live strike tracker with deep stats on who, what and when // https://striketracker.ilr.cornell.edu/
AFL-CIO [imperialist]'s Strike Tracker // https://aflcio.org/strike-map
Labor Bureau's Official 'work stoppage' tracker // https://www.bls.gov/wsp/
IWW timeline for the 20th century (ends at 1999) // https://archive.iww.org/history/chronology/
IWW Work Place Organizing Guide // https://usa.anarchistlibraries.net/library/industrial-workers-of-the-world-libcom-org-solidarity-federation-walthamstow-anarchist-group-wo
▶ Salting | Work Place Organizing 101 (50 minute webinar) // https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SHlCLyM4FY
⚖️ Deeds of the Burger Reich 🇺🇸
deep list of horrible shit we (royal we) have done // https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/us_atrocities.md
Coups and regime changes – master list // https://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-peoples-governments-the-master-list
Wikipedia: United States War Crimes // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_war_crimes
/our boys/ (bring em home!) detail abusing Iraqi prisoners [2006] // https://www.hrw.org/report/2006/07/22/no-blood-no-foul/soldiers-accounts-detainee-abuse-iraq
More than 250 military interventions in the last 30 years alone // https://blackagendareport.com/us-launched-251-military-interventions-1991-and-469-1798
Visualisation of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade // https://www.slavevoyages.org/
UNESCO Sites relating to Slavery // https://slaveryandremembrance.org/
First Hand Documents of the horrors of Slavery // https://www.loc.gov/collections/slave-narratives-from-the-federal-writers-project-1936-to-1938/
📺 Glowie News 📺
(sponsored by the Burger Eagle Freedom Institute (formerly USAID))
CNN Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/cnn-news-usa.html
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FOX Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/fox-news-channel.html
Bloomberg Live // https://www.bloomberg.com/live/us
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Local News // https://www.50states.com/ce/
Weather // https://www.noaa.gov/weather
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Jacobin // https://jacobin.com/
Black Agenda Report // https://blackagendareport.com/
The Grayzone // https://thegrayzone.com/
Leftvoice // https://www.leftvoice.org/
Newsanon Filter // https://leftypol.org/search.php?search=name%3A%22News+Anon+3.0%22&board=leftypol
🏝️ Epstein's Client List 🇮🇱
Epstein's Black Book // https://epsteinsblackbook.com/
DOJ Disclosures // https://www.justice.gov/epstein/doj-disclosures
Track AIPAC // https://www.trackaipac.com/
Al Jazeera visual guide (2026) // https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/10/struggling-to-navigate-the-epstein-files-here-is-a-visual-guide
Essential American Politik 📖
📖 WEB Du Bois - Black Reconstruction // https://cominsitu.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/w-e-b-du-bois-black-reconstruction-an-essay-toward-a-history-of-the-part-which-black-folk-played-in-the-attempt-to-reconstruct-democracy-2.pdf
📖 Eugene Debs - Fourth of July Speech // https://jacobin.com/2020/07/eugene-debs-independence-day-address-fourth-july
📖 Power Anywhere There's People! – Fred Hampton // https://www.hamptonthink.org/read/power-anywhere-where-thats-people-fred-hampton
📖 War is a Racket – Smedley Butler // https://ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html
📖 Letters From an American Farmer – St. John de Crevoecoeur // https://americanliterature.com/author/j-hector-st-john-de-crevoecoeur/book/letters-from-an-american-farmer/summary
📖 Trail of Broken Treaties // American Indian Movement https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
📖 The Declaration of Independence https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
📖 The Ballot or the Bullet – Malcolm X // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/ballot_or_bullet.pdf
📖 What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? – Frederick Douglass // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/douglass_july_4_speech.pdf
📖 A Trail of Broken Treaties – American Indian Movement // https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
📖 Custer Died for Your Sins – Vine Deloria Jr. // http://www.riversimulator.org/Resources/Books/CusterDiedForYourSinsAnIndianManifesto1969Deloria.pdf
📖 Emancipation Proclamation – Lincoln // https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/emancipation-proclamation
📖 Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville // https://americanliterature.com/author/alexis-de-tocqueville/book/democracy-in-america/summary
📖 Common Sense – Thomas Paine // https://americainclass.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Common-Sense-Full-Text.pdf
📖 An Indigenous History of the United States – Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz // https://nycstandswithstandingrock.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/dunbar-ortiz-2014.pdf
📖 Huey Long – Share Our Wealth // https://www.hueylong.com/programs/share-our-wealth/huey-longs-share-our-wealth-speech
Previous Thread: >>/2901696
/usapol/ - American Politics
🗽 UNITED STATES POLITICS 🦅>Thread for the hellish discussion related to the scourge of the earth, the destroyer of nations, 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™
<Unequal Exchange Edition
The American question is: how does a settler-imperialist nation transform itself into a decolonized socialist commonwealth without either reproducing the imperial form or fragmenting into balkanized enclaves that allow capital to reconstitute, while resolving the contradictions of internal colonization and liberating its external colonies, therefore using the empire's collapse to accelerate material conditions to enable the global revolution?
OP Backup Site: https://usapol.neocities.org/
💀 ICE & Prison Resources
(Amerika is the most incarcerated country in the world!)
ICE tracker using public info and user submissions // https://www.iceinmyarea.org/
list of deaths at ICE concentration camps // https://www.aila.org/infonet/deaths-at-adult-detention-centers
visualization of prison population in US // https://mkorostoff.github.io/incarceration-in-real-numbers/
Organizing in Prison — for when the walls close in (RANT Collective) // https://www.organizingforpower.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Organizing-in-Jail.pdf
database of U.S. facilities incl. ICE holding sites // https://alcpress.org/usjails/index.html
list of prison related resources, mailing lists, etc // https://www.prisonactivist.org/resources
ICE Agent List (incomplete) // https://wiki.icelist.is/index.php/Category:Agents
US Political Prison Tracker (last updated 2025) // https://uspoliticalprisoners.com/
Jailhouse Reading:
📖 Angela Davis - Are Prisons Obsolete? // https://dn790007.ca.archive.org/0/items/the-anarchist-library-full-list-of-pdfs-nov-2020/angela-y-davis-are-prisons-obsolete.pdf
📖 How to Defend Yourself During Police Interrogation // https://www.notrace.how/resources/download/comment-la-police-interroge-et-comment-sen-defendre/how-to-defend-yourself-during-a-police-interrogation.pdf
📖 National Lawyers Guild guide to being a jailhouse lawyer // https://www.jailhouselaw.org/
📖 Critical Resistance - Surviving Solitary Confinement // https://criticalresistance.org/resources/surviving-solitary/
📖 An inside-outside publication for abolitionist struggle & strategy across prison walls // https://criticalresistance.org/abolitionist/
📖 Prisoners’ Self-Help Litigation Manual // https://api.pageplace.de/preview/DT0400.9780199705665_A35159258/preview-9780199705665_A35159258.pdf
⚒️ LABOR!
Live strike tracker with deep stats on who, what and when // https://striketracker.ilr.cornell.edu/
AFL-CIO [imperialist]'s Strike Tracker // https://aflcio.org/strike-map
Labor Bureau's Official 'work stoppage' tracker // https://www.bls.gov/wsp/
IWW timeline for the 20th century (ends at 1999) // https://archive.iww.org/history/chronology/
IWW Work Place Organizing Guide // https://usa.anarchistlibraries.net/library/industrial-workers-of-the-world-libcom-org-solidarity-federation-walthamstow-anarchist-group-wo
▶ Salting | Work Place Organizing 101 (50 minute webinar) // https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SHlCLyM4FY
⚖️ Deeds of the Burger Reich 🇺🇸
deep list of horrible shit we (royal we) have done // https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/us_atrocities.md
Coups and regime changes – master list // https://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-peoples-governments-the-master-list
Wikipedia: United States War Crimes // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_war_crimes
/our boys/ (bring em home!) detail abusing Iraqi prisoners [2006] // https://www.hrw.org/report/2006/07/22/no-blood-no-foul/soldiers-accounts-detainee-abuse-iraq
More than 250 military interventions in the last 30 years alone // https://blackagendareport.com/us-launched-251-military-interventions-1991-and-469-1798
Visualisation of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade // https://www.slavevoyages.org/
UNESCO Sites relating to Slavery // https://slaveryandremembrance.org/
First Hand Documents of the horrors of Slavery // https://www.loc.gov/collections/slave-narratives-from-the-federal-writers-project-1936-to-1938/
📺 Glowie News 📺
(sponsored by the Burger Eagle Freedom Institute (formerly USAID))
CNN Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/cnn-news-usa.html
MSNBC Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/msnbc.html
FOX Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/fox-news-channel.html
Bloomberg Live // https://www.bloomberg.com/live/us
Burger House Live // https://www.whitehouse.gov/live/
Local News // https://www.50states.com/ce/
Weather // https://www.noaa.gov/weather
📺 Gommie News 📺
Jacobin // https://jacobin.com/
Black Agenda Report // https://blackagendareport.com/
The Grayzone // https://thegrayzone.com/
Leftvoice // https://www.leftvoice.org/
Newsanon Filter // https://leftypol.org/search.php?search=name%3A%22News+Anon+3.0%22&board=leftypol
🏝️ Epstein's Client List 🇮🇱
Epstein's Black Book // https://epsteinsblackbook.com/
DOJ Disclosures // https://www.justice.gov/epstein/doj-disclosures
Track AIPAC // https://www.trackaipac.com/
Al Jazeera visual guide (2026) // https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/10/struggling-to-navigate-the-epstein-files-here-is-a-visual-guide
Essential American Politik 📖
📖 WEB Du Bois - Black Reconstruction // https://cominsitu.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/w-e-b-du-bois-black-reconstruction-an-essay-toward-a-history-of-the-part-which-black-folk-played-in-the-attempt-to-reconstruct-democracy-2.pdf
📖 Eugene Debs - Fourth of July Speech // https://jacobin.com/2020/07/eugene-debs-independence-day-address-fourth-july
📖 Power Anywhere There's People! – Fred Hampton // https://www.hamptonthink.org/read/power-anywhere-where-thats-people-fred-hampton
📖 War is a Racket – Smedley Butler // https://ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html
📖 Letters From an American Farmer – St. John de Crevoecoeur // https://americanliterature.com/author/j-hector-st-john-de-crevoecoeur/book/letters-from-an-american-farmer/summary
📖 Trail of Broken Treaties // American Indian Movement https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
📖 The Declaration of Independence https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
📖 The Ballot or the Bullet – Malcolm X // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/ballot_or_bullet.pdf
📖 What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? – Frederick Douglass // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/douglass_july_4_speech.pdf
📖 A Trail of Broken Treaties – American Indian Movement // https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
📖 Custer Died for Your Sins – Vine Deloria Jr. // http://www.riversimulator.org/Resources/Books/CusterDiedForYourSinsAnIndianManifesto1969Deloria.pdf
📖 Emancipation Proclamation – Lincoln // https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/emancipation-proclamation
📖 Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville // https://americanliterature.com/author/alexis-de-tocqueville/book/democracy-in-america/summary
📖 Common Sense – Thomas Paine // https://americainclass.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Common-Sense-Full-Text.pdf
📖 An Indigenous History of the United States – Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz // https://nycstandswithstandingrock.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/dunbar-ortiz-2014.pdf
📖 Huey Long – Share Our Wealth // https://www.hueylong.com/programs/share-our-wealth/huey-longs-share-our-wealth-speech
Previous Thread: >>/2901696
R: 117 / I: 7 (sage)
Even the Ronald Reagan era in America and modern Russia treated them better.
Soviets saw them as degenerate lumpenproles that couldn’t work.
Autists and Schizos in Soviet mental asylums
Why is Soviet Union so popular autists and schizophrenics, despite they put all of them in mental hospitals?Even the Ronald Reagan era in America and modern Russia treated them better.
Soviets saw them as degenerate lumpenproles that couldn’t work.
R: 7 / I: 2
Oldgod meme pictured cuz I didn’t know what pic to use lol
POST SOMETHING INTERESTING FOR ONCE!!!
This entire site is just SNCA posts, trolls and shitflinging right now, can someone post something interesting for once?Oldgod meme pictured cuz I didn’t know what pic to use lol
R: 3 / I: 0
India’s Ministry of External Affairs called the panel an “illegally constituted” body and said India had never recognized its legal authority or participated in its proceedings. The ministry said the tribunal had been established in violation of the treaty and that New Delhi’s decision to hold the agreement in abeyance remained in force.
https://apnews.com/article/pakistan-india-water-treaty-hague-arbitration-1af8defb6de801b19676656a6224ce30
China Demands Respect for Venezuela Investments amid Oilfield Transfers to US-Controlled Operator
Guo added that the economic and trade relations between nations “should follow the principles of equality and mutual benefit.” Beijing’s warning came in the wake of an announced US-Venezuela oil deal that Venezuelan Acting President Delcy Rodríguez termed “historic” and US President Donald Trump called “the biggest in history.”
https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/china-demands-respect-for-venezuela-investments-amid-oilfield-transfers-to-us-controlled-operator/
De la Espriella claims Colombia’s military killed 23, arrested 6 EMC guerrillas
In a video, De la Espriella said that “Operation Azarias,” targeted the EMC’s Carolina Ramirez Front and killed one of its commanders, a man called “Tigre” or “Pintado,” in the south of the Guaviare province. A second guerrilla commander, “Victor,” was among the six alleged EMC members who were arrested during the operation, which included air strikes.
https://colombiareports.com/de-la-espriella-claims-army-killed-23-arrested-6-emc-guerrillas/
Brazilian activist demands Tunisia release Sumud Flotilla organisers
Israeli authorities released Nabil Channoufi, Ghassan Henchiri, Ghassan Boughdiri, and Wael Naouar from prison and they returned to Tunisia in October. Fellow activists said Tunisian “counterterrorism” police rearrested the four in February, after they announced a new flotilla mission to carry aid to Gaza. “It’s been so long, my dear friends,” said Brazilian activist Thiago Avila, in a video message posted on social media on Tuesday.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/2/brazilian-activist-demands-tunisia-release-sumud-flotilla-organisers
https://archive.ph/TblYK
Durban Metro Police job-selling scam being probed
The eThekwini Municipality says its pursuing criminal charges against an official over allegedly selling posts in the Durban Metro Police Service for tens of thousands of rands. City Manager Musa Mbhele and Durban Metro Police Commissioner Sibonelo Mchunu addressed the media on allegations of jobs-selling and irregularities in the recruitment process.
https://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/1157464-2/
SACP orders Western Cape deployees to ignore ANC expulsions
The SACP in the Western Cape has ordered its provincial secretary Benson Ngqentsu and councillors facing removal as ANC representatives in the Western Cape legislature and councils to remain in their positions. Briefing the media on Tuesday, September 1, 2026, SACP chairperson Anthony Dietrich said the party has issued a directive to all its deployed cadres to ignore the ANC's dismissal letters.
https://capeargus.co.za/news/2026-09-02-sacp-orders-western-cape-deployees-to-ignore-anc-expulsions/
10 wounded in clashes in Suwayda
An armed group known as the “National Guard,” affiliated with Druze leader Hikmat al-Hijri, accused government forces of attacking civilians. The group said government forces had fired “indiscriminately” with mortars and machine guns, wounding a child.
https://english.anf-news.com/rojava-syria/10-wounded-in-clashes-in-suwayda-87021
Israel still wants to remove Palestinians from Gaza, defence minister says
Speaking at a conference organised by Israeli publication Ynet on Wednesday, Katz said de-populating Gaza – which some Israeli officials euphemistically describe as voluntary “immigration” or “migration” of Palestinians – remains the “only solution”. “In the end, there is no real solution for Gaza without this migration,” Katz said, according to the Times of Israel.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/2/israel-still-wants-to-remove-palestinians-from-gaza-defence-minister-says
https://archive.ph/pnnwC
Shootout between SBU and HUR in Kyiv during investigation of Russian FSB plot
A shootout between two branches of Ukraine's security services broke out on the morning of Sept. 2 during an investigation into an alleged Russian terrorist plot against a Russian opposition figure. Earlier, a source in Ukraine's Defense Forces told the Kyiv Independent that the target of the plot was Stepan Kaplunov, deputy commander of the Russian Volunteer Corps (RVC) that fights alongside Kyiv.
https://kyivindependent.com/ukraine-prevents-fsb-plot-against-russian-opposition-figure/
https://archive.ph/CltW1
Russian barrage on Kiev kills at least 11
The latest attack struck civilian infrastructure and residential buildings in several districts of Kiev, with eight people killed in the city itself and three others in the surrounding region. Russian strikes killed seven people in the Darnytskyi district of the capital, authorities said.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/ukraine-war-russian-barrage-kiev-kills-least-11
Workers’ voices published by Scottish Covid-19 inquiry
More than 12,500 employees, employers, key workers and those made redundant during the pandemic contributed to the Voices of Business and Individuals document, sharing the struggles they faced ranging from working in unsafe environments, balancing their own caring responsibilities and living with long Covid.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/workers-voices-published-scottish-covid-19-inquiry
Almost half of world’s farmers poisoned by pesticides every year, experts find
Based on a worldwide farming population of 934 million, this means approximately 46% of farmers are being poisoned every year. The greatest estimated number of poisonings was in southern Asia, followed by south-east Asia and east Africa.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/sep/02/50-per-cent-world-farmers-poisoned-pesticides-every-year-experts
News 9/2/26
Hague arbitration panel says India must honor water-sharing treaty with PakistanIndia’s Ministry of External Affairs called the panel an “illegally constituted” body and said India had never recognized its legal authority or participated in its proceedings. The ministry said the tribunal had been established in violation of the treaty and that New Delhi’s decision to hold the agreement in abeyance remained in force.
https://apnews.com/article/pakistan-india-water-treaty-hague-arbitration-1af8defb6de801b19676656a6224ce30
China Demands Respect for Venezuela Investments amid Oilfield Transfers to US-Controlled Operator
Guo added that the economic and trade relations between nations “should follow the principles of equality and mutual benefit.” Beijing’s warning came in the wake of an announced US-Venezuela oil deal that Venezuelan Acting President Delcy Rodríguez termed “historic” and US President Donald Trump called “the biggest in history.”
https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/china-demands-respect-for-venezuela-investments-amid-oilfield-transfers-to-us-controlled-operator/
De la Espriella claims Colombia’s military killed 23, arrested 6 EMC guerrillas
In a video, De la Espriella said that “Operation Azarias,” targeted the EMC’s Carolina Ramirez Front and killed one of its commanders, a man called “Tigre” or “Pintado,” in the south of the Guaviare province. A second guerrilla commander, “Victor,” was among the six alleged EMC members who were arrested during the operation, which included air strikes.
https://colombiareports.com/de-la-espriella-claims-army-killed-23-arrested-6-emc-guerrillas/
Brazilian activist demands Tunisia release Sumud Flotilla organisers
Israeli authorities released Nabil Channoufi, Ghassan Henchiri, Ghassan Boughdiri, and Wael Naouar from prison and they returned to Tunisia in October. Fellow activists said Tunisian “counterterrorism” police rearrested the four in February, after they announced a new flotilla mission to carry aid to Gaza. “It’s been so long, my dear friends,” said Brazilian activist Thiago Avila, in a video message posted on social media on Tuesday.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/2/brazilian-activist-demands-tunisia-release-sumud-flotilla-organisers
https://archive.ph/TblYK
Durban Metro Police job-selling scam being probed
The eThekwini Municipality says its pursuing criminal charges against an official over allegedly selling posts in the Durban Metro Police Service for tens of thousands of rands. City Manager Musa Mbhele and Durban Metro Police Commissioner Sibonelo Mchunu addressed the media on allegations of jobs-selling and irregularities in the recruitment process.
https://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/1157464-2/
SACP orders Western Cape deployees to ignore ANC expulsions
The SACP in the Western Cape has ordered its provincial secretary Benson Ngqentsu and councillors facing removal as ANC representatives in the Western Cape legislature and councils to remain in their positions. Briefing the media on Tuesday, September 1, 2026, SACP chairperson Anthony Dietrich said the party has issued a directive to all its deployed cadres to ignore the ANC's dismissal letters.
https://capeargus.co.za/news/2026-09-02-sacp-orders-western-cape-deployees-to-ignore-anc-expulsions/
10 wounded in clashes in Suwayda
An armed group known as the “National Guard,” affiliated with Druze leader Hikmat al-Hijri, accused government forces of attacking civilians. The group said government forces had fired “indiscriminately” with mortars and machine guns, wounding a child.
https://english.anf-news.com/rojava-syria/10-wounded-in-clashes-in-suwayda-87021
Israel still wants to remove Palestinians from Gaza, defence minister says
Speaking at a conference organised by Israeli publication Ynet on Wednesday, Katz said de-populating Gaza – which some Israeli officials euphemistically describe as voluntary “immigration” or “migration” of Palestinians – remains the “only solution”. “In the end, there is no real solution for Gaza without this migration,” Katz said, according to the Times of Israel.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/2/israel-still-wants-to-remove-palestinians-from-gaza-defence-minister-says
https://archive.ph/pnnwC
Shootout between SBU and HUR in Kyiv during investigation of Russian FSB plot
A shootout between two branches of Ukraine's security services broke out on the morning of Sept. 2 during an investigation into an alleged Russian terrorist plot against a Russian opposition figure. Earlier, a source in Ukraine's Defense Forces told the Kyiv Independent that the target of the plot was Stepan Kaplunov, deputy commander of the Russian Volunteer Corps (RVC) that fights alongside Kyiv.
https://kyivindependent.com/ukraine-prevents-fsb-plot-against-russian-opposition-figure/
https://archive.ph/CltW1
Russian barrage on Kiev kills at least 11
The latest attack struck civilian infrastructure and residential buildings in several districts of Kiev, with eight people killed in the city itself and three others in the surrounding region. Russian strikes killed seven people in the Darnytskyi district of the capital, authorities said.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/ukraine-war-russian-barrage-kiev-kills-least-11
Workers’ voices published by Scottish Covid-19 inquiry
More than 12,500 employees, employers, key workers and those made redundant during the pandemic contributed to the Voices of Business and Individuals document, sharing the struggles they faced ranging from working in unsafe environments, balancing their own caring responsibilities and living with long Covid.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/workers-voices-published-scottish-covid-19-inquiry
Almost half of world’s farmers poisoned by pesticides every year, experts find
Based on a worldwide farming population of 934 million, this means approximately 46% of farmers are being poisoned every year. The greatest estimated number of poisonings was in southern Asia, followed by south-east Asia and east Africa.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/sep/02/50-per-cent-world-farmers-poisoned-pesticides-every-year-experts
R: 44 / I: 4
a "post-industrial society"
what the fuck kind of nonsense is that shit? like all the food and medicine and clothes and cars and electricity and appliances that we need just fall out of the sky while we move money around in a circle scamming each other and gambling on fairy stories? how did we get here? what the hell happened to our common sense, to our fucking sanity? it's not just the ruling class and the one percent who are like this, it's our whole culture, it's a whole world of delusional entitled narcissists who want something for nothing, from the us president who expects a billion dollars every time someone calls him an asshole, to the youtube influencer who expects a free iphone because he dances around in front of a webcam like a circus clown, to the freelance blogger who expects $10/month from every reader for his ai-assisted pseudointellectual drivel, to the typical small business owner who never even shows his face in the store and just hires teenagers and poor immigrants to run it for minimum wage while he collects passive income, to the "tech entrepeneur" who crowdsources free labor for his open-source software project and then sells it off to some big company at the first opportunity. whatever happens to us in the future when this ponzi scheme we call "civilization" collapses, we deserve every bit of it and then some. we deserve to have our faces under the boot for all eternity for this shit.
R: 13 / I: 2
tl;dr: Google has created an AI that readily trains specialized AI models that act as data scientists who collect data in an eclectic manner to make predictions for a wide array of real world use cases that are on a large scale, such as predicitng the spread of disease in a country or estimating which regions are at risk of food insecurity. Their AI has produced the best results so far in terms of making reliable predictions ranging from 60-90% depending on the subject. We can only go up from here.
Planning an economy and all social affairs relevant to it is not just theoretically feasible but Google themselves have released an AI that could plausibly do it, even if they haven't explicity stated that.
I know that a lot of you will say that we (socialists) already knew this, but there is something funny about capitalism itself revealing it while also being blind to it. What will their cope be if you pointed this out?
Planetary prediction engine: Automating global models via Earth AI
https://research.google/blog/planetary-prediction-engine-automating-global-models-via-earth-ai/
<Google's paper introduces the Planetary Prediction Engine (PPE), an autonomous AI system designed to build high-accuracy geospatial predictive models from plain-English requests.
<Traditionally, predicting real-world global events—such as tracking a disease outbreak, forecasting local food shortages, or mapping environmental changes—requires months of tedious work by specialized teams. Data scientists have to manually find datasets, clean satellite imagery, merge census data, eliminate bias, and code customized machine learning models.
<The PPE automates that entire pipeline end-to-end, turning a process that used to take weeks into an automated task that completes in minutes.
<The PPE breaks down complex predictive prompts into three automated stages, orchestrated by Large Language Models (LLMs):
<Intelligent Data Gathering: The user asks a question in natural language (e.g., "Predict regional food insecurity across West Africa over the next 6 months"). The AI parses the request, translates it into geographic and temporal boundaries, and automatically hunts for relevant data across satellite databases (like Google Earth Engine), public statistics (like Data Commons), and live web repositories.
<Data Fusion and Quality Control: The system merges satellite images, demographic data, and climate patterns using specialized foundation models. Critically, it runs automated checks ("Feature Gates") to prevent "data leakage"—ensuring the model doesn't accidentally peek at future or circular data to falsely inflate its accuracy.
<Automated Model Building: The engine tests multiple types of machine learning algorithms, fine-tunes them, guards against overfitting, and outputs a deployable prediction model along with a full explanatory report.
<The primary impact of the Planetary Prediction Engine is democratizing complex geospatial forecasting. You no longer need an elite team of satellite engineers and data scientists to get high-resolution global predictions.
<• Rapid Disaster Response: During sudden crises (flooding, tropical storms, viral outbreaks), humanitarian organizations can instantly generate location-specific threat maps in minutes to route medical supplies or emergency shelter where they are needed most.
<• Public Health Tracking: Public health officials can ask the system to track and forecast conditions like chronic disease prevalence or active virus outbreaks using dynamic local data.
<• Food Security and Agriculture: International relief groups can anticipate crop failures or spot early warnings of famine at a fine-grained, local level rather than relying on outdated, broad regional averages.
<• Policy and Resource Allocation: Governments and NGOs with limited tech budgets can run sophisticated environmental and economic impact analyses directly through simple text queries.
Google accidentally shows the feasibility of planned economies
Yeah, so. This BTFO any argument against the infeasibility of planned economies.tl;dr: Google has created an AI that readily trains specialized AI models that act as data scientists who collect data in an eclectic manner to make predictions for a wide array of real world use cases that are on a large scale, such as predicitng the spread of disease in a country or estimating which regions are at risk of food insecurity. Their AI has produced the best results so far in terms of making reliable predictions ranging from 60-90% depending on the subject. We can only go up from here.
Planning an economy and all social affairs relevant to it is not just theoretically feasible but Google themselves have released an AI that could plausibly do it, even if they haven't explicity stated that.
I know that a lot of you will say that we (socialists) already knew this, but there is something funny about capitalism itself revealing it while also being blind to it. What will their cope be if you pointed this out?
Planetary prediction engine: Automating global models via Earth AI
https://research.google/blog/planetary-prediction-engine-automating-global-models-via-earth-ai/
<Google's paper introduces the Planetary Prediction Engine (PPE), an autonomous AI system designed to build high-accuracy geospatial predictive models from plain-English requests.
<Traditionally, predicting real-world global events—such as tracking a disease outbreak, forecasting local food shortages, or mapping environmental changes—requires months of tedious work by specialized teams. Data scientists have to manually find datasets, clean satellite imagery, merge census data, eliminate bias, and code customized machine learning models.
<The PPE automates that entire pipeline end-to-end, turning a process that used to take weeks into an automated task that completes in minutes.
<The PPE breaks down complex predictive prompts into three automated stages, orchestrated by Large Language Models (LLMs):
<Intelligent Data Gathering: The user asks a question in natural language (e.g., "Predict regional food insecurity across West Africa over the next 6 months"). The AI parses the request, translates it into geographic and temporal boundaries, and automatically hunts for relevant data across satellite databases (like Google Earth Engine), public statistics (like Data Commons), and live web repositories.
<Data Fusion and Quality Control: The system merges satellite images, demographic data, and climate patterns using specialized foundation models. Critically, it runs automated checks ("Feature Gates") to prevent "data leakage"—ensuring the model doesn't accidentally peek at future or circular data to falsely inflate its accuracy.
<Automated Model Building: The engine tests multiple types of machine learning algorithms, fine-tunes them, guards against overfitting, and outputs a deployable prediction model along with a full explanatory report.
<The primary impact of the Planetary Prediction Engine is democratizing complex geospatial forecasting. You no longer need an elite team of satellite engineers and data scientists to get high-resolution global predictions.
<• Rapid Disaster Response: During sudden crises (flooding, tropical storms, viral outbreaks), humanitarian organizations can instantly generate location-specific threat maps in minutes to route medical supplies or emergency shelter where they are needed most.
<• Public Health Tracking: Public health officials can ask the system to track and forecast conditions like chronic disease prevalence or active virus outbreaks using dynamic local data.
<• Food Security and Agriculture: International relief groups can anticipate crop failures or spot early warnings of famine at a fine-grained, local level rather than relying on outdated, broad regional averages.
<• Policy and Resource Allocation: Governments and NGOs with limited tech budgets can run sophisticated environmental and economic impact analyses directly through simple text queries.
R: 54 / I: 8 (sage)
>Broke with Lenin's militant atheism and began to reconcile with the Russian Orthodox Church
>Hated abstract art and promoted "socialist realism" over the avant-garde of the Proletkult
>Recriminalized homosexuality under the pretext of increasing the birth rate
Stalin sucked compared to his predecessor.
>Broke with Lenin's militant atheism and began to reconcile with the Russian Orthodox Church
>Hated abstract art and promoted "socialist realism" over the avant-garde of the Proletkult
>Recriminalized homosexuality under the pretext of increasing the birth rate
Stalin sucked compared to his predecessor.
R: 15 / I: 2
Did marx account for retarded proles?
Hello I'm new to this whole thing. I understand that proles are supposed to work together to overthrow capital but how is that possible when so many proles are retarded cattle? What do you do with proles who love the bourgeoisie like hardcore elon musk/trump fans. What about blue collar guys that blame everything on immigrants and love capitalism. What about military veterans who actively aided the capitalists and have zero regrets. What do we do with all those people? There's too many to just kill them all and the idea that "education" will suddenly change them seems idealist. I don't see how those guys would be compatible with revolution, what's their role in this?
R: 1 / I: 0
All this, combined with a history of failure to stand up against injustice and explotation of this world, it creates a feedback loop where more and more layers of ‘post’ are being added to something, more new words are being invented, and more old words are being used in different, “wrong” ways. This results in works that are at best a very advanced schizopost, and at best some broader psyop.
It all becomes obnoxious, everyone knows it is obnoxious, and even pointing it out is counter-productive.
Every sincere expression of a revolutionary zeal both rightfully and wrongfully is percived as naive, as real possible change is drifting away to the realm of history.
It makes everything seem like theater, a way to fulfill your need to feel good about yourself and the world, all while the subconcious truly fights against that.
The paradox of it is that, this very critique (and possible critique of it), creates so many layers of meta-meta-meta-meta-meta-meta answers and questions, one could say this sort of “realism” is a immunization of capitalism, but so does that very statement and even whatever I am doing right now, and whatever you could say about it. It is an unwinnable situation.
The performance can be both something good, it can be art, it is also quite literally the only way to state something, an opinion in modern times without the pretense would not be an opinion, in most cases it would be a punch to a face of the other people in discussion. We are simply trapped in it. Even every single asshole which claims to point it out (including me, being just one meta layer above) like Mark Fischer and co. fuels the same thing, repeats the same patterns, and plays social games with language. Talking about talking about capitalism. And what I am doing is talking about talking about talking about capitalism. Every layer repeates the mistakes of the last one.
I don’t want to claim a solution, or know enough about what truly causes it or how it can be resolved.
The only two ways to ‘win’ (that I percived) is to be either ignorant, and avoid the trap of this very conversation and instead be happy, this just being a rare 3am thought.
Or know the age-old revolutionary optimism, and a sort of paradoxical materialist idealism, a faith in history and what some dead old dude wrote like over a century ago, side-stepping every point of this as counter-revolutionary. (Which at certain point circles back to the start when some assholes critiques you and you answer them. This can only be stopped if your bullshit revolution works out and you can execute the people bitching about you[1])
In either case it is important to be aware you are performative, it is imporant to know that art is performative. That politics are performative. That friends and love are performative. That saying the word “performative” is performative.
The only un-performative acts are; eating, shitting and having sex[2].
[1] - that is (imo) not ideal
[2] - vanilla
TL;DR fuck leftism, fuck post-leftism, fuck art, fuck you
post-post-post-post-post-post-post-post-critique
I am of a strong belief that most contemporary “theory” “writers”, convey relatively simple ideas in more and more words, there is so much insanity that can be possesed in a statement, so much shock you can pack into another bullshit essay. Post-modernist, post-marxist, post-structualist, post-rational, post-post-post-post-post, post post blah blah blah it all becomes a meaningless babble. I don’t give a shit, kill yourself.All this, combined with a history of failure to stand up against injustice and explotation of this world, it creates a feedback loop where more and more layers of ‘post’ are being added to something, more new words are being invented, and more old words are being used in different, “wrong” ways. This results in works that are at best a very advanced schizopost, and at best some broader psyop.
It all becomes obnoxious, everyone knows it is obnoxious, and even pointing it out is counter-productive.
Every sincere expression of a revolutionary zeal both rightfully and wrongfully is percived as naive, as real possible change is drifting away to the realm of history.
It makes everything seem like theater, a way to fulfill your need to feel good about yourself and the world, all while the subconcious truly fights against that.
The paradox of it is that, this very critique (and possible critique of it), creates so many layers of meta-meta-meta-meta-meta-meta answers and questions, one could say this sort of “realism” is a immunization of capitalism, but so does that very statement and even whatever I am doing right now, and whatever you could say about it. It is an unwinnable situation.
The performance can be both something good, it can be art, it is also quite literally the only way to state something, an opinion in modern times without the pretense would not be an opinion, in most cases it would be a punch to a face of the other people in discussion. We are simply trapped in it. Even every single asshole which claims to point it out (including me, being just one meta layer above) like Mark Fischer and co. fuels the same thing, repeats the same patterns, and plays social games with language. Talking about talking about capitalism. And what I am doing is talking about talking about talking about capitalism. Every layer repeates the mistakes of the last one.
I don’t want to claim a solution, or know enough about what truly causes it or how it can be resolved.
The only two ways to ‘win’ (that I percived) is to be either ignorant, and avoid the trap of this very conversation and instead be happy, this just being a rare 3am thought.
Or know the age-old revolutionary optimism, and a sort of paradoxical materialist idealism, a faith in history and what some dead old dude wrote like over a century ago, side-stepping every point of this as counter-revolutionary. (Which at certain point circles back to the start when some assholes critiques you and you answer them. This can only be stopped if your bullshit revolution works out and you can execute the people bitching about you[1])
In either case it is important to be aware you are performative, it is imporant to know that art is performative. That politics are performative. That friends and love are performative. That saying the word “performative” is performative.
The only un-performative acts are; eating, shitting and having sex[2].
[1] - that is (imo) not ideal
[2] - vanilla
TL;DR fuck leftism, fuck post-leftism, fuck art, fuck you
R: 3 / I: 0
A slogan from the 2011 revolution is being heard again: “employment, freedom and national dignity”. This time, those demands are being fuelled by water cuts, electricity outages, rising prices, medicine shortages and a struggle to make ends meet, problems increasingly affecting Tunisians across social and economic divides.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/1/five-years-after-saieds-power-grab-tunisias-old-grievances-resurface
https://archive.ph/3JEwi
Kenyan aviation workers end strike
The workers were demanding better working conditions and the implementation of a previously agreed deal. “We are simply calling off our strike action and pleading with our members to begin the process of normalising operations, restoring services,” Moss Ndiema, the head of the workers’ union, told a press conference yesterday.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/kenyan-aviation-workers-end-strike
Israeli hasbara influencer Yoseph Haddad launches political party
Haddad has also been in contact with several political and military figures about his political plans, including former Israeli military commander Ofer Winter. Winter has been accused by the Hind Rajab Foundation (HRF) of war crimes allegedly committed during Israel's 2014 assault on Gaza, known as Operation Protective Edge, as well as incitement to genocide over statements made in connection with the current war on the enclave.
https://www.newarab.com/news/israel-hasbara-influencer-yoseph-haddad-launches-political-party
Israel imposes curriculum on 45,000 Palestinian students in East Jerusalem
Israeli authorities are imposing their curriculum on more than 45,000 Palestinian students in state-run schools in East Jerusalem, as part of a wider crackdown on education in the occupied area of the city. The new measures mean that around 38 percent of all Palestinian students - a marked increase on recent years - will be taught the Israeli curriculum rather than the Palestinian one from Tuesday. This includes all new first grade and seventh grade classes opening in the state education system in East Jerusalem.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-imposes-curriculum-45000-palestinian-students-jerusalem-crackdown
Schools reopen across Cuba as fuel, water and power shortages persist
Meanwhile, parents and those in the private sector are expected to help provide school meals, with some schools only reporting a 15-day supply of food, according to state media. School uniforms also were largely unavailable as the new school year began, meeting only 12% of demand at the primary level. “No workshop can operate without electricity. Without fuel, we cannot transport fabric from one part of the country to another,” Trujillo Barreto said. “Without money or the ability to import, no fabric comes in either.”
https://apnews.com/article/cuba-schools-reopen-students-class-86391f70038266c1c4dd05972384994c
Echoes of cold war as US accused of meddling in another Brazilian election
The US measures include imposing 25% tariffs on most Brazilian imports and designating Brazil’s biggest crime groups – Rio’s Red Command and São Paulo’s First Command of the Capital – as foreign terrorist organisations. Brazilian officials suspect this is partly designed to boost Bolsonaro by making Lula look soft on crime.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/01/us-trump-rubio-meddling-brazil-election
Carney's Liberals win 3 special elections to keep majority as Canada confronts Trump threats
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney's Liberal party won three special elections on Tuesday, maintaining Carney's slim majority in Parliament at a time when he has called for national unity to face a worsening trade war with U.S. President Donald Trump.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/carneys-liberals-win-3-special-elections-keep-majority-canada-confronts-trump-2026-09-01/
Intellectuals call for Milei to be declared ‘persona non grata’ in Paris
The “citizens’ initiative” also urges Paris and its mayor, Socialist leader Emmanuel Grégoire, to “reject any official reception” and “any distinction” for Milei, and to reaffirm the city’s “solidarity with the democratic struggles of Argentine society."
https://www.batimes.com.ar/news/world/intellectuals-call-for-mileito-be-declared-persona-non-grata-in-paris.phtml
https://archive.ph/Lj0km
Political row brews as gender surgery stopped in Wales
Cardiff and Vale University Health Board’s Executive Medical Director David Fluck said: “The pause applies specifically to referrals for gender-affirming surgery, surgical assessments and surgery. “Other elements of care provided by the Welsh Gender Service, including hormone therapy support, endocrine review and psychological support services, continue to operate.” Trans activist group BASH said the decision would “wreak havoc on the lives of Welsh trans people.”
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/gender-surgery-stopped-wales
The goon attack at Kolkata’s Jadavpur University—The BJP’s war on student dissent
The attackers—members of the ABVP along with outside goons—entered the campus through Gate 4 at approximately 12:37 a.m. on August 20. They vandalized university property, burned flags and posters of left-wing student organisations, and targeted students sheltering inside the Aurobindo Bhavan administrative building. Video footage shows fires, stone-throwing, and attempts to force entry into university buildings. Students were trapped inside as the mob attempted arson.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/09/01/qqto-s01.html
News 9/1/26
Five years after Saied’s power grab, Tunisia’s old grievances resurfaceA slogan from the 2011 revolution is being heard again: “employment, freedom and national dignity”. This time, those demands are being fuelled by water cuts, electricity outages, rising prices, medicine shortages and a struggle to make ends meet, problems increasingly affecting Tunisians across social and economic divides.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/1/five-years-after-saieds-power-grab-tunisias-old-grievances-resurface
https://archive.ph/3JEwi
Kenyan aviation workers end strike
The workers were demanding better working conditions and the implementation of a previously agreed deal. “We are simply calling off our strike action and pleading with our members to begin the process of normalising operations, restoring services,” Moss Ndiema, the head of the workers’ union, told a press conference yesterday.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/kenyan-aviation-workers-end-strike
Israeli hasbara influencer Yoseph Haddad launches political party
Haddad has also been in contact with several political and military figures about his political plans, including former Israeli military commander Ofer Winter. Winter has been accused by the Hind Rajab Foundation (HRF) of war crimes allegedly committed during Israel's 2014 assault on Gaza, known as Operation Protective Edge, as well as incitement to genocide over statements made in connection with the current war on the enclave.
https://www.newarab.com/news/israel-hasbara-influencer-yoseph-haddad-launches-political-party
Israel imposes curriculum on 45,000 Palestinian students in East Jerusalem
Israeli authorities are imposing their curriculum on more than 45,000 Palestinian students in state-run schools in East Jerusalem, as part of a wider crackdown on education in the occupied area of the city. The new measures mean that around 38 percent of all Palestinian students - a marked increase on recent years - will be taught the Israeli curriculum rather than the Palestinian one from Tuesday. This includes all new first grade and seventh grade classes opening in the state education system in East Jerusalem.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-imposes-curriculum-45000-palestinian-students-jerusalem-crackdown
Schools reopen across Cuba as fuel, water and power shortages persist
Meanwhile, parents and those in the private sector are expected to help provide school meals, with some schools only reporting a 15-day supply of food, according to state media. School uniforms also were largely unavailable as the new school year began, meeting only 12% of demand at the primary level. “No workshop can operate without electricity. Without fuel, we cannot transport fabric from one part of the country to another,” Trujillo Barreto said. “Without money or the ability to import, no fabric comes in either.”
https://apnews.com/article/cuba-schools-reopen-students-class-86391f70038266c1c4dd05972384994c
Echoes of cold war as US accused of meddling in another Brazilian election
The US measures include imposing 25% tariffs on most Brazilian imports and designating Brazil’s biggest crime groups – Rio’s Red Command and São Paulo’s First Command of the Capital – as foreign terrorist organisations. Brazilian officials suspect this is partly designed to boost Bolsonaro by making Lula look soft on crime.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/01/us-trump-rubio-meddling-brazil-election
Carney's Liberals win 3 special elections to keep majority as Canada confronts Trump threats
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney's Liberal party won three special elections on Tuesday, maintaining Carney's slim majority in Parliament at a time when he has called for national unity to face a worsening trade war with U.S. President Donald Trump.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/carneys-liberals-win-3-special-elections-keep-majority-canada-confronts-trump-2026-09-01/
Intellectuals call for Milei to be declared ‘persona non grata’ in Paris
The “citizens’ initiative” also urges Paris and its mayor, Socialist leader Emmanuel Grégoire, to “reject any official reception” and “any distinction” for Milei, and to reaffirm the city’s “solidarity with the democratic struggles of Argentine society."
https://www.batimes.com.ar/news/world/intellectuals-call-for-mileito-be-declared-persona-non-grata-in-paris.phtml
https://archive.ph/Lj0km
Political row brews as gender surgery stopped in Wales
Cardiff and Vale University Health Board’s Executive Medical Director David Fluck said: “The pause applies specifically to referrals for gender-affirming surgery, surgical assessments and surgery. “Other elements of care provided by the Welsh Gender Service, including hormone therapy support, endocrine review and psychological support services, continue to operate.” Trans activist group BASH said the decision would “wreak havoc on the lives of Welsh trans people.”
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/gender-surgery-stopped-wales
The goon attack at Kolkata’s Jadavpur University—The BJP’s war on student dissent
The attackers—members of the ABVP along with outside goons—entered the campus through Gate 4 at approximately 12:37 a.m. on August 20. They vandalized university property, burned flags and posters of left-wing student organisations, and targeted students sheltering inside the Aurobindo Bhavan administrative building. Video footage shows fires, stone-throwing, and attempts to force entry into university buildings. Students were trapped inside as the mob attempted arson.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/09/01/qqto-s01.html
R: 280 / I: 62
99.9999% of fights on leftypol are over whether the top pic or the bottom pic is true.
https://strawpoll.com/GeZARkvDRyV
So which is it leftypol?
1: The 1st world bourgeoisie and 1st world workers are trying to crush the 3rd world bourgeoisie and the 3rd world workers
2: The 1st world bourgeoisie and 3rd world bourgeoisie are trying to crush the 1st world workers and the 3rd world workers
99.9999% of fights on leftypol are over whether the top pic or the bottom pic is true.
https://strawpoll.com/GeZARkvDRyV
So which is it leftypol?
1: The 1st world bourgeoisie and 1st world workers are trying to crush the 3rd world bourgeoisie and the 3rd world workers
2: The 1st world bourgeoisie and 3rd world bourgeoisie are trying to crush the 1st world workers and the 3rd world workers
R: 6 / I: 0
I'm a rock fan, but this is unrelated pic of Skolim, Polish kitschy disco polo celeb
What do you think of monetization of celebrity access?
That includes VIP tickets, fans wanting to talk to them labeled as "psychofans" and normalization of high prices?I'm a rock fan, but this is unrelated pic of Skolim, Polish kitschy disco polo celeb
R: 4 / I: 1
No matter how much I try to collaborate with capitalists, no true collaborative effort can be made, they just keep stealing from me.
Collaboration Impossible?
Where can a capitalist collaborate with the community?No matter how much I try to collaborate with capitalists, no true collaborative effort can be made, they just keep stealing from me.
R: 8 / I: 1
I guess this whole pissrael saga made this normal type of speech so normalised from people from across political of spectrum( who aren't normies obviously )
lol
saw this on instagram(as u can fucking tell from the side) and it was funny but lowk trueI guess this whole pissrael saga made this normal type of speech so normalised from people from across political of spectrum( who aren't normies obviously )
R: 2 / I: 0
The attorney general’s office launched an investigation in March 2023, linking Moreno, his family members, and local and Chinese business partners to an alleged corruption network connected to the Coca Codo Sinclair plant. The facility began operating in 2016 and has experienced technical problems since.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/8/29/ecuador-sentences-ex-president-moreno-to-five-years-in-jail-in-bribery-case
https://archive.ph/dNis8
Vote to move Uribe’s massacre probe to Congress triggers infighting among Colombia’s left
The controversy erupted after the five PH members of the committee backed a motion of Uribe’s Democratic Center (CD) party to assert legislative jurisdiction over long-standing criminal cases against Uribe, including investigations into the massacres of El Aro (1997) and La Granja (1996), and the 1998 assassination of human rights defender Jesus Maria Valle.
https://colombiareports.com/vote-to-move-uribes-massacre-probe-to-congress-triggers-infighting-among-colombias-left/
GM's Canadian workers approve deal adding truck to Ontario plant amid US trade war
… GM has promised to invest over C$1 billion ($720 million) in Canadian plants. That includes a C$691 million commitment to support production of new V8 engines in Ontario that was previously announced in April, according to Unifor, which represents 4,600 GM workers in the province. The deal offered Canadian workers a 3% wage increase a year over three years.
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/gms-canadian-workers-approve-deal-adding-truck-ontario-plant-amid-us-trade-war-2026-08-31/
SACP sets sights on improved service delivery,reshape local economies
The party briefed the media on Sunday at its offices in Braamfontein, Johannesburg, on the outcomes of its Central Committee meeting, held from 28 to 30 August. The meeting of the party’s leadership takes place just two weeks after it celebrated its 105th founding anniversary and launched its elections manifesto.
https://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/sacp-sets-sights-on-service-delivery-and-local-economic-change/
Yale researchers warn of major military build-up at Ethiopian base near Sudan border
Satellite analysis by the Yale School of Public Health Humanitarian Research Lab (HRL) indicates a major escalation in military activity and equipment at an Ethiopian National Defence Forces (ENDF) base in Asosa, western Ethiopia, between 23 and 28 August. This buildup is believed to be linked to a potential Rapid Support Forces (RSF) attack on the city of Ed Damazin in Blue Nile state, according the latest HRL report, which cites Radio Dabanga among its sources, released on Friday.
https://www.dabangasudan.org/en/all-news/article/yale-researchers-warn-of-major-military-build-up-at-ethiopian-base-near-sudan-border
South West Water has worst environmental record in England, analysis shows with greatest sewage discharge in Devon, Cornwall, Dorset and Somerset
Its designated bathing sites also saw the highest number of pollution incidents and warnings, with 666 recorded in 2025 alone. Friends of the Earth added that the utility charged its approximately 1.8 million customers the highest price for water, with average bills at £726 annually.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/south-west-water-has-worst-environmental-record-england-analysis-shows-greatest-sewage
Iceland rejects EU accession talks after divisive referendum campaign
After a long and anxious night for those on both sides of the debate, the no camp ended up with 52.8% of votes on Sunday morning and the yes camp with 47.2%. Voter turnout was high at 82.5%. … At a press conference the prime minister, Kristrún Frostadóttir, said the campaign had “raised the debate in Iceland to a higher level” while acknowledging that there were aspects that “could have been done better”.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/30/iceland-eu-accession-talks-referendum-result
Germany’s far right eyes small eastern state as springboard to national power
Should the AfD win an absolute parliamentary majority in the state — current polls show them a few seats away from that goal — the party’s strategy for governing strikes a delicate balance: pursuing radical change that distinguishes the party from the establishment — delivering the political revolution it has long promised — without going so far as to alienate ordinary Bürger, middle-of-the-road citizens who don’t want the boat rocked too hard.
https://www.politico.eu/article/germany-far-right-eyes-small-eastern-state-merseburg-springboard-national-power/
https://archive.ph/Y0jDO
Eight officials suspended after probe into Pakistani hospital fire that killed 14 newborns
Mr Sharif issued the orders after an investigative committee headed by retired senior civil servant Shahid Khan presented its interim report on Wednesday’s fire at the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences, his office said in a statement. The fire was confined to a third-floor nursery, but officials said it spread so quickly that staff were able to rescue only one baby from among the 15 being cared for there.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/eight-officials-suspended-after-probe-pakistani-hospital-fire-killed-14-newborns
CPI leader Binoy Viswam calls for unity amid tensions with CPI(M)
When asked about CPI(M) State secretariat member C.N. Mohanan critical comments on the CPI, he said that neither CPI(M) general secretary M.A. Baby nor State secretary M.V. Govindan had made such comments. His response was similar when queried about Leader of the Opposition Pinarayi Vijayan’s recent comments on the issue.
https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/cpi-leader-binoy-viswam-calls-for-unity-amid-tensions-with-cpim/article71411192.ece
https://archive.ph/4tWGt
7 Israelis arrested over alleged desecration of Muslim, Christian sites in Jerusalem
In a separate case, police said they detained four suspects “in real time” after they allegedly spat at the Armenian Patriarchate compound in the Old City. The arrests come amid continuing criticism of Israeli authorities over harassment of Christian clergy and damage to church property in Jerusalem’s Old City. Israeli media have reported that many of the incidents involved young Orthodox Jewish men spitting near clergy members and other Christians.
https://www.arabnews.com/node/2656457/amp
https://archive.ph/h3As3
Iran sentences two women to death over 2026 protests
Taraneh Rahimi, 20, was sentenced to death along with nine men over incidents during the protests in a square in Isfahan that saw two people killed, including a member of the security forces, the Norway-based Hengaw group and US-based Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) said Monday.
https://www.newarab.com/news/iran-sentences-two-women-death-over-2026-protests
Israeli forces infiltrate near UNDOF point in Tel Al-Hawa in Al-Quneitra
Israeli forces comprising two tanks, infiltrated the vicinity of a checkpoint of the UN in Tel Al-Hawa area in northern Al-Quneitra countryside. According to information, the two tanks mobilized in the vicinity of the area, with no information regarding any clashes or arrests.
https://www.syriahr.com/en/386063/
News 8/31/26
Ecuador sentences ex-president Moreno to five years in jail in bribery caseThe attorney general’s office launched an investigation in March 2023, linking Moreno, his family members, and local and Chinese business partners to an alleged corruption network connected to the Coca Codo Sinclair plant. The facility began operating in 2016 and has experienced technical problems since.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/8/29/ecuador-sentences-ex-president-moreno-to-five-years-in-jail-in-bribery-case
https://archive.ph/dNis8
Vote to move Uribe’s massacre probe to Congress triggers infighting among Colombia’s left
The controversy erupted after the five PH members of the committee backed a motion of Uribe’s Democratic Center (CD) party to assert legislative jurisdiction over long-standing criminal cases against Uribe, including investigations into the massacres of El Aro (1997) and La Granja (1996), and the 1998 assassination of human rights defender Jesus Maria Valle.
https://colombiareports.com/vote-to-move-uribes-massacre-probe-to-congress-triggers-infighting-among-colombias-left/
GM's Canadian workers approve deal adding truck to Ontario plant amid US trade war
… GM has promised to invest over C$1 billion ($720 million) in Canadian plants. That includes a C$691 million commitment to support production of new V8 engines in Ontario that was previously announced in April, according to Unifor, which represents 4,600 GM workers in the province. The deal offered Canadian workers a 3% wage increase a year over three years.
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/gms-canadian-workers-approve-deal-adding-truck-ontario-plant-amid-us-trade-war-2026-08-31/
SACP sets sights on improved service delivery,reshape local economies
The party briefed the media on Sunday at its offices in Braamfontein, Johannesburg, on the outcomes of its Central Committee meeting, held from 28 to 30 August. The meeting of the party’s leadership takes place just two weeks after it celebrated its 105th founding anniversary and launched its elections manifesto.
https://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/sacp-sets-sights-on-service-delivery-and-local-economic-change/
Yale researchers warn of major military build-up at Ethiopian base near Sudan border
Satellite analysis by the Yale School of Public Health Humanitarian Research Lab (HRL) indicates a major escalation in military activity and equipment at an Ethiopian National Defence Forces (ENDF) base in Asosa, western Ethiopia, between 23 and 28 August. This buildup is believed to be linked to a potential Rapid Support Forces (RSF) attack on the city of Ed Damazin in Blue Nile state, according the latest HRL report, which cites Radio Dabanga among its sources, released on Friday.
https://www.dabangasudan.org/en/all-news/article/yale-researchers-warn-of-major-military-build-up-at-ethiopian-base-near-sudan-border
South West Water has worst environmental record in England, analysis shows with greatest sewage discharge in Devon, Cornwall, Dorset and Somerset
Its designated bathing sites also saw the highest number of pollution incidents and warnings, with 666 recorded in 2025 alone. Friends of the Earth added that the utility charged its approximately 1.8 million customers the highest price for water, with average bills at £726 annually.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/south-west-water-has-worst-environmental-record-england-analysis-shows-greatest-sewage
Iceland rejects EU accession talks after divisive referendum campaign
After a long and anxious night for those on both sides of the debate, the no camp ended up with 52.8% of votes on Sunday morning and the yes camp with 47.2%. Voter turnout was high at 82.5%. … At a press conference the prime minister, Kristrún Frostadóttir, said the campaign had “raised the debate in Iceland to a higher level” while acknowledging that there were aspects that “could have been done better”.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/30/iceland-eu-accession-talks-referendum-result
Germany’s far right eyes small eastern state as springboard to national power
Should the AfD win an absolute parliamentary majority in the state — current polls show them a few seats away from that goal — the party’s strategy for governing strikes a delicate balance: pursuing radical change that distinguishes the party from the establishment — delivering the political revolution it has long promised — without going so far as to alienate ordinary Bürger, middle-of-the-road citizens who don’t want the boat rocked too hard.
https://www.politico.eu/article/germany-far-right-eyes-small-eastern-state-merseburg-springboard-national-power/
https://archive.ph/Y0jDO
Eight officials suspended after probe into Pakistani hospital fire that killed 14 newborns
Mr Sharif issued the orders after an investigative committee headed by retired senior civil servant Shahid Khan presented its interim report on Wednesday’s fire at the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences, his office said in a statement. The fire was confined to a third-floor nursery, but officials said it spread so quickly that staff were able to rescue only one baby from among the 15 being cared for there.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/eight-officials-suspended-after-probe-pakistani-hospital-fire-killed-14-newborns
CPI leader Binoy Viswam calls for unity amid tensions with CPI(M)
When asked about CPI(M) State secretariat member C.N. Mohanan critical comments on the CPI, he said that neither CPI(M) general secretary M.A. Baby nor State secretary M.V. Govindan had made such comments. His response was similar when queried about Leader of the Opposition Pinarayi Vijayan’s recent comments on the issue.
https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/cpi-leader-binoy-viswam-calls-for-unity-amid-tensions-with-cpim/article71411192.ece
https://archive.ph/4tWGt
7 Israelis arrested over alleged desecration of Muslim, Christian sites in Jerusalem
In a separate case, police said they detained four suspects “in real time” after they allegedly spat at the Armenian Patriarchate compound in the Old City. The arrests come amid continuing criticism of Israeli authorities over harassment of Christian clergy and damage to church property in Jerusalem’s Old City. Israeli media have reported that many of the incidents involved young Orthodox Jewish men spitting near clergy members and other Christians.
https://www.arabnews.com/node/2656457/amp
https://archive.ph/h3As3
Iran sentences two women to death over 2026 protests
Taraneh Rahimi, 20, was sentenced to death along with nine men over incidents during the protests in a square in Isfahan that saw two people killed, including a member of the security forces, the Norway-based Hengaw group and US-based Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) said Monday.
https://www.newarab.com/news/iran-sentences-two-women-death-over-2026-protests
Israeli forces infiltrate near UNDOF point in Tel Al-Hawa in Al-Quneitra
Israeli forces comprising two tanks, infiltrated the vicinity of a checkpoint of the UN in Tel Al-Hawa area in northern Al-Quneitra countryside. According to information, the two tanks mobilized in the vicinity of the area, with no information regarding any clashes or arrests.
https://www.syriahr.com/en/386063/
R: 5 / I: 2
I think there's a convergence right now between the Sorelian conception of political "myths" and the prominence of GenAI slop, especially on The Right. I'm sure most of you have noticed by now that Generative AI has been almost endemic to Right-Wing political movements, even while Data Centers in particular are still grossly unpopular. I don't believe this convergence is intentional, in fact I doubt that most on the political Right even know who Sorel was, but rather I believe the Right has intuited some of Sorel's work without actually reading it. Though entirely unintentional, the specter of Sorelianism has only become more relevant to modern political disputes.
To begin, let's first discuss what Sorel means by a "Myth". He asserts his thesis in his Magnum Opus, "Reflections on Violence" here:
>“In the course of these studies, I have established something so simple that I did not believe it had to be emphasized: men who participate in great social movements represent their immediate action in the form of images of battles assuring the triumph of their cause. I proposed calling these constructions myths, the knowledge of which is so important for the historian: the syndicalist general strike and Marx’s catastrophic revolution are myths. I have given as remarkable examples of myths those which were constructed by early Christianity, the Reformation, the French Revolution and by Mazzini’s followers. I wanted to show that it is not necessary to try to analyze such systems of images in the same way that one breaks down something into its elements; that they should be taken as a whole and as historical forces; that it is necessary above all to keep from comparing the accomplished facts with the images which men had adopted prior to action.”
<Georges Sorel, Reflections on Violence, Page 20, Cambridge Texts Edition
The emphasis on the word "images" is my own, as I feel that's directly relevant to the tidal wave of AI slop we see coming from The Right Wing today. Now I should mention that though Sorel uses the term "images" he doesn't necessarily mean a literal picture or painting. The images Sorel refers to could exist as ethereally as in the mind's eye. What matters for the sake of politics is that these images are conceptualized collectively and depict triumphant battles against an enemy.
To try to break this down simply; Sorel believed that myths provided a crucial motive force, that regardless of their relationship to the actual reality of the conflict, they motivate people to become partisans within that conflict. For example, one such myth he references was that of Early Christianity. Historically, Christianity existed in the space of an End Times movement, several early Christians earnestly believed Christ was coming and that by dying as martyrs they would be rewarded in the hereafter. Indeed, contemporary Roman sources would even occasionally remark that Christians would willingly turn themselves in to authorities in hopes of achieving martyrdom. It doesn't matter that the myth Christians conceptualized for themselves didn't literally happen, as Christ didn't return in their lifetimes to usher in the Last Judgement. Rather that myth motivated Christians to proselytize, to suffer martyrdom, and ultimately led to the Christianization of the Roman Empire.
It was important to Sorel that images depict conflict to be elevated to the status of "myth"; images which merely depict perfect or idealized society, Sorel thought, merely indulged in Utopianism which would lead to reformism.
>“As long as there are no myths accepted by the masses, one may go on talking of revolts indefinitely without ever provoking any revolutionary movement; this is what gives such importance to the general strike and renders it so odious to socialists who are afraid of revolution; they do all they can to shake the confidence felt by the workers in the preparations they are making for the revolution; and in order to succeed in this they cast ridicule on the idea of the general strike, which alone has a value as a motive force. One of the chief means employed by them is to represent it as a utopia; this is easy enough, as there are very few myths which are perfectly free from any utopian element.
>The revolutionary myths which exist at the present time are almost pure; they allow us to understand the activity, the sentiments, and the ideas of the masses as they prepare themselves to enter on a decisive struggle; they are not descriptions of things but expressions of a will to act. A utopia is, on the contrary, an intellectual product; it is the work of theorists who, after observing and discussing the facts, seek to establish a model to which they can compare existing societies in order to estimate the amount of good and evil they contain; it is a combination of imaginary institutions having sufficient analogies to real institutions for the jurist to be able to reason about them; it is a construction which can be broken into parts and of which certain pieces have been shaped in such a way that they can (with a few alterations) be fitted into future legislation. — Whilst contemporary myths lead men to prepare themselves for a combat which will destroy the existing state of things, the effect of utopias has always been to direct men’s minds towards reforms which can be brought about by patching up the system; it is not surprising then that so many believers in utopias were able to develop into able statesmen when they had acquired greater experience of political life. — A myth cannot be refuted since it is, at bottom, identical to the convictions of a group, being the expression of these convictions in the language of movement; and it is, in consequence, unanalysable into parts which could be placed on the plane of historical descriptions. A utopia, on the other hand, can be discussed like any other social constitution; the spontaneous movements it presupposes can be compared with those actually observed in the course of history, and we can in this way evaluate their verisimilitude; it is possible to refute it by showing that the economic system on which it has been made to rest is incompatible with the necessary conditions of modern production.”
<Georges Sorel, Reflections on Violence, Page 28, Cambridge Edition
That was a lot of words, but in essence: myths prepare a movement for battle and encourage them to do conflict, they're taken "as a whole" rather than being broken into constituent parts. An image of Socialists leading a battalion of tanks towards reactionary holdouts doesn't propose legislation nor can it be broken down into an analysis on mechanized warfare, it must be taken as a whole. Utopias, by contrast, are analyzed on a policy-basis. The very origin of the term "Utopia" in political theory relates back to Saint Thomas More's book, and to this very day people had dissected his idealized society and critiqued his policy proposals.
Back to modernity: as generative AI has been refined and widely distributed, it hasn't been adopted by the "mainstream" of political and cultural opinion, rather it has found purchase in groups which can be coined "cultural insurgencies". It's not mainstream liberal thought that embraced AI image generation, but "populist" right wing movements, freaks, perverts, and the detritus of failed social movements. In the face of rapidly secularizing generations, Evangelical Christians have embraced AI images of Jesus coming to earth to judge the secular world they despise. In the absence of sexual gratification, glassy-eyed internet shut ins use AI to give "woke" video game characters bigger tits or a fatter ass or doll-like facial features. Political orgs like the AfD in Germany or MAGA in America gleefully use AI to paint the world as they perceive it: a Manichean battle between foreign invaders, their effeminate compradors in the West, and chisel-jawed "alpha males" opposing them.
As these movements have claimed power in the political arena and shown their utter inability to govern, it appears they've grown to rely more and more on Sorelian style myths to shore up their support. As Trump's grown older and more incontinent, his most fervent supporters depict him as more virile, more muscular, and more competent than ever. As the Iran war proves itself to be a bungle, the Right Wing internet is awash in depictions of Trump as a "military man", Trump in Uniform, Trump ordering missile strikes, Trump flying fighter jets. What this has done is created a floor of unshakeable faith, around 38% of the country which approves of him, whereas George W. Bush eventually collapsed to 25% support by the end of his second term.
Liberals are hoping, perhaps naively, that there will be some "wake up call" for Trump. That a Bush 2 moment may happen where Trump sees his support completely collapse. That America will grow "tired" of populism and submit to the rule of dull technocrats, but as Sorel himself said:
>The professors of the little science are really difficult to satisfy. They assert very loudly that they will only admit into thought ideas that are clear and distinct; – as a matter of fact, this is a rule which is insufficient for purposes of action, for we do nothing great without the help of warmly coloured and sharply defined images which absorb the whole of our attention;
<Georges Sorel, Reflections on Violence, Page 140
A more obvious collapse of the Trump administration would not cause a collapse in his supporters, but rather it would be preceded with even more wild and manic images presaging a final battle with "communist liberals" and "the deep state". The manic distribution of images would be followed by an even greater upswing of political violence. Here is where AI in particular becomes a danger, because what it lacks in quality it compensates with quantity.
Consider how the brain is "tricked" into thinking enough images moving fast enough give the impression of motion. What AI allows is the impression of a certain conflict. In seconds, Right Wingers can have hundreds of photographs that look real enough to impose ideas on the general public. If a person scrolls TikTok or Facebook or Twitter long enough and sees hundreds of AI generated images of London teeming with Muslims, or Blue-Haired Transgenders teaching school kids, or BLM protesters attacking white people, then even if he can recognize on a basic level that the image in front of him is fake, they could blur and coagulate in his subconscious, plant a seed of fascist myth that the Right will meticulously grow. Even if one or two or three images are recognized as fake, if someone sees the same myth depicted day in and day out, hundreds of times, the possibility remains that they'll believe it on some level, they won't be stuck with any one particular image, but THE image of a battle between "western civilization" and "brown hordes".
So how does the Left counter this? In theory it could try to pre-emptively flood the zone: post more AI than ever of Right Wingers being cannibals, being perverts, freaks, "bad" in some way. Whether it could counter-signal to an extent that would obfuscate Right Wing narrative building is unknown. Alternatively it could try to specialize: quality over quantity. Create such striking images of class war that they hold attention longer than the billion images of AI slop the Right puts out. Regardless of what "The Left" broadly chooses, I think it needs to reckon with AI images as something beyond "quaint", but an insidious danger.
Sorel in the Age of AI
I was thinking of making this thread ages ago, but I couldn't find the right words. I'm still not sure if I'm saying everything I want to here, but I figured at the very least this can create some interesting discussion.I think there's a convergence right now between the Sorelian conception of political "myths" and the prominence of GenAI slop, especially on The Right. I'm sure most of you have noticed by now that Generative AI has been almost endemic to Right-Wing political movements, even while Data Centers in particular are still grossly unpopular. I don't believe this convergence is intentional, in fact I doubt that most on the political Right even know who Sorel was, but rather I believe the Right has intuited some of Sorel's work without actually reading it. Though entirely unintentional, the specter of Sorelianism has only become more relevant to modern political disputes.
To begin, let's first discuss what Sorel means by a "Myth". He asserts his thesis in his Magnum Opus, "Reflections on Violence" here:
>“In the course of these studies, I have established something so simple that I did not believe it had to be emphasized: men who participate in great social movements represent their immediate action in the form of images of battles assuring the triumph of their cause. I proposed calling these constructions myths, the knowledge of which is so important for the historian: the syndicalist general strike and Marx’s catastrophic revolution are myths. I have given as remarkable examples of myths those which were constructed by early Christianity, the Reformation, the French Revolution and by Mazzini’s followers. I wanted to show that it is not necessary to try to analyze such systems of images in the same way that one breaks down something into its elements; that they should be taken as a whole and as historical forces; that it is necessary above all to keep from comparing the accomplished facts with the images which men had adopted prior to action.”
<Georges Sorel, Reflections on Violence, Page 20, Cambridge Texts Edition
The emphasis on the word "images" is my own, as I feel that's directly relevant to the tidal wave of AI slop we see coming from The Right Wing today. Now I should mention that though Sorel uses the term "images" he doesn't necessarily mean a literal picture or painting. The images Sorel refers to could exist as ethereally as in the mind's eye. What matters for the sake of politics is that these images are conceptualized collectively and depict triumphant battles against an enemy.
To try to break this down simply; Sorel believed that myths provided a crucial motive force, that regardless of their relationship to the actual reality of the conflict, they motivate people to become partisans within that conflict. For example, one such myth he references was that of Early Christianity. Historically, Christianity existed in the space of an End Times movement, several early Christians earnestly believed Christ was coming and that by dying as martyrs they would be rewarded in the hereafter. Indeed, contemporary Roman sources would even occasionally remark that Christians would willingly turn themselves in to authorities in hopes of achieving martyrdom. It doesn't matter that the myth Christians conceptualized for themselves didn't literally happen, as Christ didn't return in their lifetimes to usher in the Last Judgement. Rather that myth motivated Christians to proselytize, to suffer martyrdom, and ultimately led to the Christianization of the Roman Empire.
It was important to Sorel that images depict conflict to be elevated to the status of "myth"; images which merely depict perfect or idealized society, Sorel thought, merely indulged in Utopianism which would lead to reformism.
>“As long as there are no myths accepted by the masses, one may go on talking of revolts indefinitely without ever provoking any revolutionary movement; this is what gives such importance to the general strike and renders it so odious to socialists who are afraid of revolution; they do all they can to shake the confidence felt by the workers in the preparations they are making for the revolution; and in order to succeed in this they cast ridicule on the idea of the general strike, which alone has a value as a motive force. One of the chief means employed by them is to represent it as a utopia; this is easy enough, as there are very few myths which are perfectly free from any utopian element.
>The revolutionary myths which exist at the present time are almost pure; they allow us to understand the activity, the sentiments, and the ideas of the masses as they prepare themselves to enter on a decisive struggle; they are not descriptions of things but expressions of a will to act. A utopia is, on the contrary, an intellectual product; it is the work of theorists who, after observing and discussing the facts, seek to establish a model to which they can compare existing societies in order to estimate the amount of good and evil they contain; it is a combination of imaginary institutions having sufficient analogies to real institutions for the jurist to be able to reason about them; it is a construction which can be broken into parts and of which certain pieces have been shaped in such a way that they can (with a few alterations) be fitted into future legislation. — Whilst contemporary myths lead men to prepare themselves for a combat which will destroy the existing state of things, the effect of utopias has always been to direct men’s minds towards reforms which can be brought about by patching up the system; it is not surprising then that so many believers in utopias were able to develop into able statesmen when they had acquired greater experience of political life. — A myth cannot be refuted since it is, at bottom, identical to the convictions of a group, being the expression of these convictions in the language of movement; and it is, in consequence, unanalysable into parts which could be placed on the plane of historical descriptions. A utopia, on the other hand, can be discussed like any other social constitution; the spontaneous movements it presupposes can be compared with those actually observed in the course of history, and we can in this way evaluate their verisimilitude; it is possible to refute it by showing that the economic system on which it has been made to rest is incompatible with the necessary conditions of modern production.”
<Georges Sorel, Reflections on Violence, Page 28, Cambridge Edition
That was a lot of words, but in essence: myths prepare a movement for battle and encourage them to do conflict, they're taken "as a whole" rather than being broken into constituent parts. An image of Socialists leading a battalion of tanks towards reactionary holdouts doesn't propose legislation nor can it be broken down into an analysis on mechanized warfare, it must be taken as a whole. Utopias, by contrast, are analyzed on a policy-basis. The very origin of the term "Utopia" in political theory relates back to Saint Thomas More's book, and to this very day people had dissected his idealized society and critiqued his policy proposals.
Back to modernity: as generative AI has been refined and widely distributed, it hasn't been adopted by the "mainstream" of political and cultural opinion, rather it has found purchase in groups which can be coined "cultural insurgencies". It's not mainstream liberal thought that embraced AI image generation, but "populist" right wing movements, freaks, perverts, and the detritus of failed social movements. In the face of rapidly secularizing generations, Evangelical Christians have embraced AI images of Jesus coming to earth to judge the secular world they despise. In the absence of sexual gratification, glassy-eyed internet shut ins use AI to give "woke" video game characters bigger tits or a fatter ass or doll-like facial features. Political orgs like the AfD in Germany or MAGA in America gleefully use AI to paint the world as they perceive it: a Manichean battle between foreign invaders, their effeminate compradors in the West, and chisel-jawed "alpha males" opposing them.
As these movements have claimed power in the political arena and shown their utter inability to govern, it appears they've grown to rely more and more on Sorelian style myths to shore up their support. As Trump's grown older and more incontinent, his most fervent supporters depict him as more virile, more muscular, and more competent than ever. As the Iran war proves itself to be a bungle, the Right Wing internet is awash in depictions of Trump as a "military man", Trump in Uniform, Trump ordering missile strikes, Trump flying fighter jets. What this has done is created a floor of unshakeable faith, around 38% of the country which approves of him, whereas George W. Bush eventually collapsed to 25% support by the end of his second term.
Liberals are hoping, perhaps naively, that there will be some "wake up call" for Trump. That a Bush 2 moment may happen where Trump sees his support completely collapse. That America will grow "tired" of populism and submit to the rule of dull technocrats, but as Sorel himself said:
>The professors of the little science are really difficult to satisfy. They assert very loudly that they will only admit into thought ideas that are clear and distinct; – as a matter of fact, this is a rule which is insufficient for purposes of action, for we do nothing great without the help of warmly coloured and sharply defined images which absorb the whole of our attention;
<Georges Sorel, Reflections on Violence, Page 140
A more obvious collapse of the Trump administration would not cause a collapse in his supporters, but rather it would be preceded with even more wild and manic images presaging a final battle with "communist liberals" and "the deep state". The manic distribution of images would be followed by an even greater upswing of political violence. Here is where AI in particular becomes a danger, because what it lacks in quality it compensates with quantity.
Consider how the brain is "tricked" into thinking enough images moving fast enough give the impression of motion. What AI allows is the impression of a certain conflict. In seconds, Right Wingers can have hundreds of photographs that look real enough to impose ideas on the general public. If a person scrolls TikTok or Facebook or Twitter long enough and sees hundreds of AI generated images of London teeming with Muslims, or Blue-Haired Transgenders teaching school kids, or BLM protesters attacking white people, then even if he can recognize on a basic level that the image in front of him is fake, they could blur and coagulate in his subconscious, plant a seed of fascist myth that the Right will meticulously grow. Even if one or two or three images are recognized as fake, if someone sees the same myth depicted day in and day out, hundreds of times, the possibility remains that they'll believe it on some level, they won't be stuck with any one particular image, but THE image of a battle between "western civilization" and "brown hordes".
So how does the Left counter this? In theory it could try to pre-emptively flood the zone: post more AI than ever of Right Wingers being cannibals, being perverts, freaks, "bad" in some way. Whether it could counter-signal to an extent that would obfuscate Right Wing narrative building is unknown. Alternatively it could try to specialize: quality over quantity. Create such striking images of class war that they hold attention longer than the billion images of AI slop the Right puts out. Regardless of what "The Left" broadly chooses, I think it needs to reckon with AI images as something beyond "quaint", but an insidious danger.
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How are the right and the left both pouncing on the EU at the same time dude? Fuck my uyghur life, shit's so over. Supranational governing bodies formed by consensus are never going to work.
How are the right and the left both pouncing on the EU at the same time dude? Fuck my uyghur life, shit's so over. Supranational governing bodies formed by consensus are never going to work.
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It might very well be the best possible avenue for communism in the western world. It's one of the largest partie's in Belgium and has very good polling for the next federal election, the only problem is that if they don't get a very clear majority (and thats rare for belgium) they will probably have to come into a coalition with some socdem or moderate party.
The party was also originially maoist but to not die out it just instead became a communist party.
I always thought belgium was gonna cease to exist at some point because of how divivded it is along language lines but i think finally, after however long, class struggle is uniting them together.
Worker's Party of Belgium
What does leftypol think of the worker's party of belgium?It might very well be the best possible avenue for communism in the western world. It's one of the largest partie's in Belgium and has very good polling for the next federal election, the only problem is that if they don't get a very clear majority (and thats rare for belgium) they will probably have to come into a coalition with some socdem or moderate party.
The party was also originially maoist but to not die out it just instead became a communist party.
I always thought belgium was gonna cease to exist at some point because of how divivded it is along language lines but i think finally, after however long, class struggle is uniting them together.
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A peasant, a shepherd, a simple worker from Donbass, he became the leader of the most powerful country in the world. Was such a thing possible under capitalism?
"I learned to count to 30, and my father decided that learning was enough for me," Khrushchev recalled. "All you need is to learn to count money, and you'll never have more than thirty rubles anyway. My father dreamed of saving up, returning to the village, and buying a horse to grow enough potatoes and cabbage to feed the family. But we never got a horse. My parents cherished this dream even after 1908, when we finally moved to Yuzovka. There, my father worked in the mines, my mother washed clothes, and I cleaned steam boilers."
A peasant, a shepherd, a simple worker from Donbass, he became the leader of the most powerful country in the world. Was such a thing possible under capitalism?
"I learned to count to 30, and my father decided that learning was enough for me," Khrushchev recalled. "All you need is to learn to count money, and you'll never have more than thirty rubles anyway. My father dreamed of saving up, returning to the village, and buying a horse to grow enough potatoes and cabbage to feed the family. But we never got a horse. My parents cherished this dream even after 1908, when we finally moved to Yuzovka. There, my father worked in the mines, my mother washed clothes, and I cleaned steam boilers."
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I dislike the leftist emphasis on "work"
Don't get me wrong, I fully support unions and workers' rights but I don't think labor is a good thing in and out of itself. Creative labor, scientific labor, etc. sure but I think most jobs should just be automated in the long term.
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list of deaths at ICE concentration camps // https://www.aila.org/infonet/deaths-at-adult-detention-centers
visualization of prison population in US // https://mkorostoff.github.io/incarceration-in-real-numbers/
Organizing in Prison — for when the walls close in (RANT Collective) // https://www.organizingforpower.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Organizing-in-Jail.pdf
database of U.S. facilities incl. ICE holding sites // https://alcpress.org/usjails/index.html
list of prison related resources, mailing lists, etc // https://www.prisonactivist.org/resources
ICE Agent List (incomplete) // https://wiki.icelist.is/index.php/Category:Agents
US Political Prison Tracker (last updated 2025) // https://uspoliticalprisoners.com/
Jailhouse Reading:
📖 Angela Davis - Are Prisons Obsolete? // https://dn790007.ca.archive.org/0/items/the-anarchist-library-full-list-of-pdfs-nov-2020/angela-y-davis-are-prisons-obsolete.pdf
📖 How to Defend Yourself During Police Interrogation // https://www.notrace.how/resources/download/comment-la-police-interroge-et-comment-sen-defendre/how-to-defend-yourself-during-a-police-interrogation.pdf
📖 National Lawyers Guild guide to being a jailhouse lawyer // https://www.jailhouselaw.org/
📖 Critical Resistance - Surviving Solitary Confinement // https://criticalresistance.org/resources/surviving-solitary/
📖 An inside-outside publication for abolitionist struggle & strategy across prison walls // https://criticalresistance.org/abolitionist/
📖 Prisoners’ Self-Help Litigation Manual // https://api.pageplace.de/preview/DT0400.9780199705665_A35159258/preview-9780199705665_A35159258.pdf
⚒️ LABOR!
Live strike tracker with deep stats on who, what and when // https://striketracker.ilr.cornell.edu/
AFL-CIO [imperialist]'s Strike Tracker // https://aflcio.org/strike-map
Labor Bureau's Official 'work stoppage' tracker // https://www.bls.gov/wsp/
IWW timeline for the 20th century (ends at 1999) // https://archive.iww.org/history/chronology/
IWW Work Place Organizing Guide // https://usa.anarchistlibraries.net/library/industrial-workers-of-the-world-libcom-org-solidarity-federation-walthamstow-anarchist-group-wo
▶ Salting | Work Place Organizing 101 (50 minute webinar) // https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SHlCLyM4FY
⚖️ Deeds of the Burger Reich 🇺🇸
deep list of horrible shit we (royal we) have done // https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/us_atrocities.md
Coups and regime changes – master list // https://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-peoples-governments-the-master-list
Wikipedia: United States War Crimes // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_war_crimes
/our boys/ (bring em home!) detail abusing Iraqi prisoners [2006] // https://www.hrw.org/report/2006/07/22/no-blood-no-foul/soldiers-accounts-detainee-abuse-iraq
More than 250 military interventions in the last 30 years alone // https://blackagendareport.com/us-launched-251-military-interventions-1991-and-469-1798
Visualisation of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade // https://www.slavevoyages.org/
UNESCO Sites relating to Slavery // https://slaveryandremembrance.org/
First Hand Documents of the horrors of Slavery // https://www.loc.gov/collections/slave-narratives-from-the-federal-writers-project-1936-to-1938/
📺 Glowie News 📺
(sponsored by the Burger Eagle Freedom Institute (formerly USAID))
CNN Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/cnn-news-usa.html
MSNBC Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/msnbc.html
FOX Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/fox-news-channel.html
Bloomberg Live // https://www.bloomberg.com/live/us
Burger House Live // https://www.whitehouse.gov/live/
Local News // https://www.50states.com/ce/
Weather // https://www.noaa.gov/weather
📺 Gommie News 📺
Jacobin // https://jacobin.com/
Black Agenda Report // https://blackagendareport.com/
The Grayzone // https://thegrayzone.com/
Leftvoice // https://www.leftvoice.org/
Newsanon Filter // https://leftypol.org/search.php?search=name%3A%22News+Anon+3.0%22&board=leftypol
🏝️ Epstein's Client List 🇮🇱
Epstein's Black Book // https://epsteinsblackbook.com/
DOJ Disclosures // https://www.justice.gov/epstein/doj-disclosures
Track AIPAC // https://www.trackaipac.com/
Al Jazeera visual guide (2026) // https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/10/struggling-to-navigate-the-epstein-files-here-is-a-visual-guide
Essential American Politik 📖
📖 WEB Du Bois - Black Reconstruction // https://cominsitu.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/w-e-b-du-bois-black-reconstruction-an-essay-toward-a-history-of-the-part-which-black-folk-played-in-the-attempt-to-reconstruct-democracy-2.pdf
📖 Eugene Debs - Fourth of July Speech // https://jacobin.com/2020/07/eugene-debs-independence-day-address-fourth-july
📖 Power Anywhere There's People! – Fred Hampton // https://www.hamptonthink.org/read/power-anywhere-where-thats-people-fred-hampton
📖 War is a Racket – Smedley Butler // https://ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html
📖 Letters From an American Farmer – St. John de Crevoecoeur // https://americanliterature.com/author/j-hector-st-john-de-crevoecoeur/book/letters-from-an-american-farmer/summary
📖 Trail of Broken Treaties // American Indian Movement https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
📖 The Declaration of Independence https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
📖 The Ballot or the Bullet – Malcolm X // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/ballot_or_bullet.pdf
📖 What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? – Frederick Douglass // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/douglass_july_4_speech.pdf
📖 A Trail of Broken Treaties – American Indian Movement // https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
📖 Custer Died for Your Sins – Vine Deloria Jr. // http://www.riversimulator.org/Resources/Books/CusterDiedForYourSinsAnIndianManifesto1969Deloria.pdf
📖 Emancipation Proclamation – Lincoln // https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/emancipation-proclamation
📖 Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville // https://americanliterature.com/author/alexis-de-tocqueville/book/democracy-in-america/summary
📖 Common Sense – Thomas Paine // https://americainclass.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Common-Sense-Full-Text.pdf
📖 An Indigenous History of the United States – Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz // https://nycstandswithstandingrock.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/dunbar-ortiz-2014.pdf
📖 Huey Long – Share Our Wealth // https://www.hueylong.com/programs/share-our-wealth/huey-longs-share-our-wealth-speech
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>Gained power by blaming the political establisment
>Built a personality cult
>Used the media as a personal political tool while also blaming mainstream media
>Strengthen his executive power
>Influnce the courts to his side, disregarding seperations of power
>Hard on crime and terrorism
>Filled political positions and military with loyalists
>Attempted a self-coup against congress
>In an active conflict
>Be donald trump
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>Gained power by blaming the political establisment
>Built a personality cult
>Used the media as a personal political tool while also blaming mainstream media
>Strengthen his executive power
>Influnce the courts to his side, disregarding seperations of power
>Hard on crime and terrorism
>Filled political positions and military with loyalists
>Attempted a self-coup against congress
>In an active conflict
>Be donald trump
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R: 17 / I: 1 (sage)
Humans lived in near-perfect egalitarianism before the onset of wheat production. It was only after wheat cultivation that social hierarchies and classes began to emerge, patriarchy being the first. Once humans realized they could dominate the land to grow wheat they began dominating animals, and from there they began dominating each other. Societies that had no wheat were far, far less hierarchical and had no patriarchy or racism/ableism. When colonizers began dominating and enslaving the colonized one of the first things they did was put them on a wheat-heavy diet as a form of colonial domination.
With this, the only way to achieve communism should be to abolish wheat production entirely. Gluten is also a neurotoxin and there’s proof it causes ADHD.
Wheat
Daily reminder this grain is the literal reason behind all social hierarchy in human history.Humans lived in near-perfect egalitarianism before the onset of wheat production. It was only after wheat cultivation that social hierarchies and classes began to emerge, patriarchy being the first. Once humans realized they could dominate the land to grow wheat they began dominating animals, and from there they began dominating each other. Societies that had no wheat were far, far less hierarchical and had no patriarchy or racism/ableism. When colonizers began dominating and enslaving the colonized one of the first things they did was put them on a wheat-heavy diet as a form of colonial domination.
With this, the only way to achieve communism should be to abolish wheat production entirely. Gluten is also a neurotoxin and there’s proof it causes ADHD.