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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
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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
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Evidence of the influence and origin of neo-Nazi groups in Ukraine
https://archive.ph/44B9Q
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323637
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323658
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323663
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323688
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323729
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323733
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323731
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323735
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323740
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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Leftists have a problem with MLoids, but among rightards, there's literally no empathy.
Why are right-wingers so inhumane?
The average right-wing post mocks the deaths of innocent people. Not only do they mock, but they also try to justify it by digging into the victim's past or attempting to blame them for their own death.Leftists have a problem with MLoids, but among rightards, there's literally no empathy.
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<Bloodzalo Thought edition
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🛠️ Strike Tracker ⚒️
https://striketracker.ilr.cornell.edu/
🇺🇸 Deeds of the Burger Reich 🇺🇸
https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/us_atrocities.md
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🛠️ Strike Tracker ⚒️
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🇺🇸 Deeds of the Burger Reich 🇺🇸
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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
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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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List of people who ought to be killed
Here's a list of sad sacks begging to be battered by an anti-aircraft battery:ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ
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>previous bake
>>2917350
Latest News
>Israel planning invasion of jordan, probably so bibi can delay elections
<The PLC in yemen is advancing against the houthis
>USA has withdrawn from Iraq
<Houthichads are defending
>Oil is at $92.3
>flood
>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 #75 no flod this tim
<WW3 time>previous bake
>>2917350
Latest News
>Israel planning invasion of jordan, probably so bibi can delay elections
<The PLC in yemen is advancing against the houthis
>USA has withdrawn from Iraq
<Houthichads are defending
>Oil is at $92.3
>flood
>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: 500 / I: 126
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
/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
—————————————————–
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
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Opinion Zionism as Racism: The Soviet Ploy Used to 'Explain' Israel and Hamas
https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/2023-12-13/ty-article-opinion/.premium/zionism-as-racism-the-soviet-ploy-used-to-explain-israel-and-hamas/0000018c-6261-de43-affd-f663727c0000
>The preponderance of Hamas apologists emerging among some in the progressive left reveals that not only is the "Big Red Lie" back, it's more potent than ever.
The ‘Z’ word: Reclaiming Zionism
https://thejewishindependent.com.au/the-z-word-reclaiming-zionism/
Zionism is racism debate ‘unhelpful’, says Scottish Green co-leader
https://www.eastrennews.co.uk/news/national/26646170.zionism-racism-debate-unhelpful-says-scottish-green-co-leader/
Equality watchdog writes to Greens over 'Zionism is racism' motion
https://www.British Broadcasting Corporation.co.uk/news/articles/cmly0np1gldvo
Fighting Delegitimization: The United Nation’s “Zionism Is Racism” Resolution, a Case Study
https://www.worldjewishcongress.org/en/85th-anniversary/fighting-delegitimization-the-united-nations-zionism-is-racism-resolution-a-case-study
>On November 10, 1975, the UN General Assembly adopted G.A. Resolution 3379, which declared Zionism to be “a form of racism and racial discrimnation.” The resolution also cited the political declaration adopted at the Conference of Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Non-Aligned Countries held at Lima, Peru, on August 25–30, 1975, which had condemned Zionism “as a threat to world peace” and a “racist and imperialist ideology.”
>This resolution—most commonly referred to as the “Zionism is racism” resolution— came onto the scene against the backdrop of the Cold War. At that time, the United Nations was a forum in which countries often vied for the approval of, and were aligned with, one of the two great powers. Beginning in the 1960s, following the June 1967 Six-Day War, the Soviet Union began promoting the concept of “Zionism-equals-racism” as a way to strengthen its relations with, and support for, the Arab countries in their ongoing conflict with the State of Israel. The very essence of Zion- ism as the Jewish movement of national liberation and self-determination, which created the only democratic society in the Middle East where Jews and Arabs could live alongside one another, was deliberately distorted into its own antithesis. According to Israel’s enemies, which after 1967 included almost all of the Communist states and many of the so-called non-aligned countries, any manifestation of Jewish national rights was deemed hostile to Arab claims to the entirety of the territory between the Mediterranean and the Jordan River. Thus, anti-Zionism became a staple of foreign policy not just for Arab and Communist governments, but also for those countries that wanted to burnish their so-called “anti-imperialist” credentials. This process accelerated as Egypt, the Arab world’s most populous country, began moving away from the Soviet sphere of influence in the Middle East. In 1973, the UN General Assembly passed an anti-apartheid resolution that condemned “the unholy alliance between Portuguese colonialism, South African racism, Zionism and Israeli imperialism.”
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/leftybritpol/ Zionism is Racism! edition
GRETA SPEAKS!Opinion Zionism as Racism: The Soviet Ploy Used to 'Explain' Israel and Hamas
https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/2023-12-13/ty-article-opinion/.premium/zionism-as-racism-the-soviet-ploy-used-to-explain-israel-and-hamas/0000018c-6261-de43-affd-f663727c0000
>The preponderance of Hamas apologists emerging among some in the progressive left reveals that not only is the "Big Red Lie" back, it's more potent than ever.
The ‘Z’ word: Reclaiming Zionism
https://thejewishindependent.com.au/the-z-word-reclaiming-zionism/
Zionism is racism debate ‘unhelpful’, says Scottish Green co-leader
https://www.eastrennews.co.uk/news/national/26646170.zionism-racism-debate-unhelpful-says-scottish-green-co-leader/
Equality watchdog writes to Greens over 'Zionism is racism' motion
https://www.British Broadcasting Corporation.co.uk/news/articles/cmly0np1gldvo
Fighting Delegitimization: The United Nation’s “Zionism Is Racism” Resolution, a Case Study
https://www.worldjewishcongress.org/en/85th-anniversary/fighting-delegitimization-the-united-nations-zionism-is-racism-resolution-a-case-study
>On November 10, 1975, the UN General Assembly adopted G.A. Resolution 3379, which declared Zionism to be “a form of racism and racial discrimnation.” The resolution also cited the political declaration adopted at the Conference of Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Non-Aligned Countries held at Lima, Peru, on August 25–30, 1975, which had condemned Zionism “as a threat to world peace” and a “racist and imperialist ideology.”
>This resolution—most commonly referred to as the “Zionism is racism” resolution— came onto the scene against the backdrop of the Cold War. At that time, the United Nations was a forum in which countries often vied for the approval of, and were aligned with, one of the two great powers. Beginning in the 1960s, following the June 1967 Six-Day War, the Soviet Union began promoting the concept of “Zionism-equals-racism” as a way to strengthen its relations with, and support for, the Arab countries in their ongoing conflict with the State of Israel. The very essence of Zion- ism as the Jewish movement of national liberation and self-determination, which created the only democratic society in the Middle East where Jews and Arabs could live alongside one another, was deliberately distorted into its own antithesis. According to Israel’s enemies, which after 1967 included almost all of the Communist states and many of the so-called non-aligned countries, any manifestation of Jewish national rights was deemed hostile to Arab claims to the entirety of the territory between the Mediterranean and the Jordan River. Thus, anti-Zionism became a staple of foreign policy not just for Arab and Communist governments, but also for those countries that wanted to burnish their so-called “anti-imperialist” credentials. This process accelerated as Egypt, the Arab world’s most populous country, began moving away from the Soviet sphere of influence in the Middle East. In 1973, the UN General Assembly passed an anti-apartheid resolution that condemned “the unholy alliance between Portuguese colonialism, South African racism, Zionism and Israeli imperialism.”
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Got a question that's probably been asked a million times before? You're in the right landfill, buddy. Post it here.
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/QTDDTOT/ Questions That Don't Deserve Their Own Thread
Previous thread: >>2745331Dump all the seemingly pointless, dubious, and frivolous questions that don't deserve their own shitty threads.
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>>2950550
>[Alex Jones] was also talking about how he prefers the Class Reductionist Left over the Intersectionality Crowd, and how he has read Hegel.
interesting. Personally I find "class reductionism" and "intersectionality" to be a false dichotomy. What is disparagingly called "class reductionism" is nothing more than the recognition of class struggle as the base struggle. Intersectionality, from that point of view, is merely the study of all the ways in which the proletariat can be further subdivided and pit against one another. From the standpoint of the defense of proletarian revolution, and from the standpoint of "class reductionism", it is essential to understand the intersectional nature of struggles, to united the proletariat, and prevent their division by bourgeois forces along non-class lines. The bourgeoisie can also be dvided on intersectional issues. For example the national and comprador bourgeoisie. The core and periphery bourgeoisie. The industrial and financial bourgeoisie. The male and female bourgeoisie. The cishet and queer bourgeoisie. The bourgeoisie all fight each other over these issues just like the proletariat done. What should be done, then, is that intersectional principles should be applied strategically by the revolutionary proletariat to provoke infighting among the bourgeoisie, and to maintain unity among the proletariat. But currently that is not done.
class reductionism "versus" intersectionality?
class reductionism "versus" intersectionality? no, class reductionism AND intersectionality.>>2950550
>[Alex Jones] was also talking about how he prefers the Class Reductionist Left over the Intersectionality Crowd, and how he has read Hegel.
interesting. Personally I find "class reductionism" and "intersectionality" to be a false dichotomy. What is disparagingly called "class reductionism" is nothing more than the recognition of class struggle as the base struggle. Intersectionality, from that point of view, is merely the study of all the ways in which the proletariat can be further subdivided and pit against one another. From the standpoint of the defense of proletarian revolution, and from the standpoint of "class reductionism", it is essential to understand the intersectional nature of struggles, to united the proletariat, and prevent their division by bourgeois forces along non-class lines. The bourgeoisie can also be dvided on intersectional issues. For example the national and comprador bourgeoisie. The core and periphery bourgeoisie. The industrial and financial bourgeoisie. The male and female bourgeoisie. The cishet and queer bourgeoisie. The bourgeoisie all fight each other over these issues just like the proletariat done. What should be done, then, is that intersectional principles should be applied strategically by the revolutionary proletariat to provoke infighting among the bourgeoisie, and to maintain unity among the proletariat. But currently that is not done.
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/O9A/ Esoteric Fascism and it's derivatives General
General duscussion thread Inspired by the sucess of the Esoteric Hitlerism threads we used to have a while ago - talk about the O9A,Atomwaffen, and their modern knockoffs that are so often in the news these days. Thread to materially analyze and generally discuss anything you want about these groups from a leftist perspective.
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How to become an influencer?
It seems, unfortunately, that politics has devolved into personality cults around internet characters (Hasan, haz/hinkle, destiny, fuentes etc.). Call it fake if you want, but these personality cults & their online communities form the political machines that mobilize the largest amounts of people outside of established politics. Made this thread for sharing resources & ideas as to how to become an influencer & how to use the internet for actually productive purposes.
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I have yet to hear a good takedown of this guy. He always cites sources, he always gives the Bolsheviks a fair shake in his analysis, and he seems sincerely more interested in studying and learning from the mistakes of the early USSR than many self described communists, who, if they bother read sources at all, only uncritically read primary sources form that era if they are written from the perspective of the central committee, rather than rank and file party members, or "losers" who were later purged. The few times have seen his videos posted here before I have seen very short bitter responses: "Anticommunist propaganda" But I was never able to get those anons to actually clarify what they meant by that, and it seemed to me that they didn't actually have any specific critiques, like "he is wrong about A, B, and C, because reasons X, Y, and Z." It seemed more like a prejudiced and kneejerk reaction, of "just don't watch this." basically treating it the same as if it was some fascist dreck. So what's the deal? Can anyone take a real shot at this guy? And I don't mean personal attacks or simply discouraging people from watching it all. Or surface-level reactions to titles and thumbnails. I mean why are his sources wrong, why is he wrong, why are his conclusions wrong. Inb4
>breadtube isg
nah this guy flies to russia, reads primary sources in the archives, translates them into english, cross references and interprets, this is actually some of the most scholarly and respectful work I've ever seen on the early USSR.
NojRants
>NojRantsI have yet to hear a good takedown of this guy. He always cites sources, he always gives the Bolsheviks a fair shake in his analysis, and he seems sincerely more interested in studying and learning from the mistakes of the early USSR than many self described communists, who, if they bother read sources at all, only uncritically read primary sources form that era if they are written from the perspective of the central committee, rather than rank and file party members, or "losers" who were later purged. The few times have seen his videos posted here before I have seen very short bitter responses: "Anticommunist propaganda" But I was never able to get those anons to actually clarify what they meant by that, and it seemed to me that they didn't actually have any specific critiques, like "he is wrong about A, B, and C, because reasons X, Y, and Z." It seemed more like a prejudiced and kneejerk reaction, of "just don't watch this." basically treating it the same as if it was some fascist dreck. So what's the deal? Can anyone take a real shot at this guy? And I don't mean personal attacks or simply discouraging people from watching it all. Or surface-level reactions to titles and thumbnails. I mean why are his sources wrong, why is he wrong, why are his conclusions wrong. Inb4
>breadtube isg
nah this guy flies to russia, reads primary sources in the archives, translates them into english, cross references and interprets, this is actually some of the most scholarly and respectful work I've ever seen on the early USSR.
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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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What’s the point?
>Reformists/Democratic socialists become capitalists when they realize it’s politically in their interest for staying in power and getting re-elected, or they were always petite-capitalists and were placed in power by capitalists to create the illusion of opposition.
>Marxism-Leninist states reproduced many capitalist relations to maintain their party power instead of fighting for class struggle. All of them have been declining even as capitalism is in crisis, similar problems to the reformists but for different reasons.
>Trotskyists are overrated study/newspaper groups that just split over and over, constantly claiming to build dual power but never to actually fight for the revolution. Have gotten progressively worst overtime, going from successful albeit limited entryism to just commodity production of books, many of the parties are developing capitalist relations while claiming to oppose capitalism.
>Maoists have failed to achieve state power with the single exception of Nepal, with it ending its maoist government as of 2026 and only really existing to industrialize states to capitalism. Also created a bunch of cults that achieved nothing over then distorting Maoism into a personalist religion.
>Anarchists have failed to overthrow the state for a sustained effort of time Rojava only existed because ISIS collapsed not because it offered an alternative to the state apparatus and fell apart right as a real state killed it. Many anarchists claim to oppose the state yet support Ukraine in the imperialist conflict ongoing there, they also support many national liberation movements directly contradicting themselves, and also lack any theoretical work that can interpret the power through an objective material lens.
>Hoxhaists are underrated but still useless study groups to irrelevant boomer parties that are reactionary in many aspects. It is also inherently contradictory, while claiming to uphold class struggle it often is used for Albanian nationalist symbolism.
>bordigists will never organize, or do anything other then observe and wait for the “class party” that has never came and never will because you don’t organize a mass party by not organizing. Claims Stalin was a gravedigger of the revolution but instead of criticizing the specific organizational structure that created Stalinism they instead simplifying everything to capitalist relations and international isolation, without realizing organic centralism and the sectarianism would reproduce the same results.
It’s sad, and these are the only ones I have mentioned there’s like 80 other with the same problems. Nothing is true anymore nothing will happen it makes me sad that I will have to live in wage slavery forever. Somebody prove me wrong idk
What’s the point?
>Reformists/Democratic socialists become capitalists when they realize it’s politically in their interest for staying in power and getting re-elected, or they were always petite-capitalists and were placed in power by capitalists to create the illusion of opposition.
>Marxism-Leninist states reproduced many capitalist relations to maintain their party power instead of fighting for class struggle. All of them have been declining even as capitalism is in crisis, similar problems to the reformists but for different reasons.
>Trotskyists are overrated study/newspaper groups that just split over and over, constantly claiming to build dual power but never to actually fight for the revolution. Have gotten progressively worst overtime, going from successful albeit limited entryism to just commodity production of books, many of the parties are developing capitalist relations while claiming to oppose capitalism.
>Maoists have failed to achieve state power with the single exception of Nepal, with it ending its maoist government as of 2026 and only really existing to industrialize states to capitalism. Also created a bunch of cults that achieved nothing over then distorting Maoism into a personalist religion.
>Anarchists have failed to overthrow the state for a sustained effort of time Rojava only existed because ISIS collapsed not because it offered an alternative to the state apparatus and fell apart right as a real state killed it. Many anarchists claim to oppose the state yet support Ukraine in the imperialist conflict ongoing there, they also support many national liberation movements directly contradicting themselves, and also lack any theoretical work that can interpret the power through an objective material lens.
>Hoxhaists are underrated but still useless study groups to irrelevant boomer parties that are reactionary in many aspects. It is also inherently contradictory, while claiming to uphold class struggle it often is used for Albanian nationalist symbolism.
>bordigists will never organize, or do anything other then observe and wait for the “class party” that has never came and never will because you don’t organize a mass party by not organizing. Claims Stalin was a gravedigger of the revolution but instead of criticizing the specific organizational structure that created Stalinism they instead simplifying everything to capitalist relations and international isolation, without realizing organic centralism and the sectarianism would reproduce the same results.
It’s sad, and these are the only ones I have mentioned there’s like 80 other with the same problems. Nothing is true anymore nothing will happen it makes me sad that I will have to live in wage slavery forever. Somebody prove me wrong idk
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I mean, what was the dream of the black slave in colonial times? Was it to go back to Africa? No, not generally. The Back to Africa movement was mostly of free northern Blacks initially. Black slaves generally wanted an existence independent of their master's farm, meaning, they wanted a farm of their own. This was by far the common dream of freedmen, to get their own farm on their own land. Going back to the oldest colonial times, any slaves that managed to get freedom would get their land plot right in the colonial frontier. So it was in the interest of blacks to get Indian land to settle on just as much the white, the difference was only that the white needed to get out of indentured servitude and pay a sum to a land speculator, whereas the black of course had to seize a miracle of leaving slavery. So I'm not arguing both were the same, but ultimately, their desired endgoals were. Look at picrel from the Museum of the City of New York. These freed black slaves objectively had the material interest of those Mohawk lands being conquered, and those threatening their plots getting exterminated.
I mean, in Settlers by Sakai, white people going along with Bacon's Rebellion is ridiculed, and of course Bacon was a scum of the Earth. For those who don't know, Bacon accused the government of Virginia of being secretly pro-native because it was too slow in exterminating them, and so he tried to overthrow the government. When he failed and was about to get executed for treason, he made demagogic promises to free whites from debt bondage so people would fight for him. So Sakai ridicules that whites fought for Bacon's dream of a faster extermination of Indians, but black people also fought for Bacon, since he also promised freedom from slavery. So neither white nor black saw his very vocal goal of faster genocide as a deal breaker, both sides saw it as just fine if it meant they got theirs. This is just US history.
Really, if anything, that proves that even a genocidal freak like Bacon saw black people as not threatening to his Virginia, and of course not, because black people were never against the carving of any of the 50 states out of Indian land, because they were always a part of the society that formed them even if they were from a most oppressed segment of it.
Going all the way back to Phillis Wheatley, was she arguing that black people cannot realize liberation within a settler colony against them? No, quite the opposite, she was praising the settler colony, begging the King to decree black people as equal colonists.
>Twas mercy brought me from my Pagan land,
>Taught my benighted soul to understand That there's a God, that there's a Savior too: Once I redemption neither sought nor knew.
She here is extolling the culture of her new society, that she is glad to be born in this new more cultured land. And I'm not knocking her for this, this is just an expression of black people in the colonies considering themselves as within the colonial society. She understood Christianity as part of the cultural world into which she had been incorporated.
Then you go to Frederick Douglass, who was quite vocal about his dream: the extermination of the Indian so that a White-and-Black US Civilization could spread from sea-to-sea.
>We are not going to die out, I say. Those who liken us to the Indians make one mistake. They overlook the fact that the negro is more like the white man than the Indian, in his tastes and tendencies, and disposition to accept civilization. You see the Indian, too proud to beg, disdaining your civilization, standing at the corners of the streets, wrapped in his blanket,—refusing to imitate, refusing to follow the fashion,—with a few bead purses and baskets to sell. In his dignity and destitution, he rejects our civilization, and the consequence is, that he dies or retreats before the onward march of your civilization, from the Atlantic to the lakes, and from the lakes to the great rivers. He sees with no complacency your railroads, your steamboats, your canals, your electric wire. No thrill of joy is awakened in his heart by the announcement of any improvement in the means of transmitting intelligence or spreading civilization among men. He sees the ploughshare of American civilization tearing up the venerated graves of his ancestors, his heart sickens, and he retreats before the onward march of civilization. Taking warning by the appearance of the honey bees, six months in advance of your coming, he disappears on the western slope of the Rocky Mountains. He dislikes your civilization, dislikes and distrusts you.
>It is not so with the negro. He loves you and remains with you, under all circumstances, in slavery and in freedom. You do not see him wearing a blanket, but coats cut in the latest European fashion. If you should see him going down [a] street on a rainy day, you would think there was a man walking there, if he had his back to you. He looks like a man, acts like a man, feels like a man, and the office of this Society is to make him a man among men. (Applause.) He does not die out.
and then
>He will not go to Liberia, because he has immense love of country. There is nothing left for you, but to incorporate him completely into the American body politic: admit him to the ballot-box, admit him to Congress, give him a seat on the benches of your courts, let him ride upon your highways and your byways and your railroads and everywhere, on equal terms with everybody else
https://frederickdouglasspapersproject.com/s/digitaledition/item/17959
And then,
>The proposed donation of the public lands to actual settlers—to the landless masses as free homesteads—the peopling of the national domain with an enterprising, intelligent, and hardy race of emigrants—transforming the savage wilderness into flourishing civilized communities, multiplying new states, and adding immensely to the wealth and productive industry of the nation [would] extend the area of freedom [and] would increase the political power of the North and West—the power of the people—would dangerously menace the perpetuity of the institution of slavery and the democratic slaveholding aristocracy built upon it.
This is even more explicit, the anti-slavery struggle, the primary struggle for black Americans, is directly benefited by the creation of new states, "transforming the savage wilderness," etc.
This is not to denigrate Douglass; this is basically the same as the progressive white US Americans of the time, Thomas Sumner and Mark Twain and whatnot. But it shows that black struggle was not in opposition to the settler colony at all, and black people's interests were ultimately not so distinct to whites in regards to Indians. They were not against the US, but were fighting for black participation within it. There's a reason he praised the constitution as a glorious liberty document, it really is a founding document for the nation he claimed as his own. This is why Twain can argue for genocide of Indians but also write a nationalist story in Huckleberry Finn of a black man and white boy sailing the Mississippi together.
Douglass was followed by a split in two factions, one following Booker T. Washington and the other being the Back to Africa movement. The latter is so obviously settler-colonial I'll ignore it in this post (meaning, Marcus Garvey, Elijah Muhammad, pre-Hajj Malcolm X, etc). But Booker T. Washington's entire shtick was in his roadmap for how black people could realize political actualization within the US state, expressed in Up From Slavery. Again, at this time in Reconstruction, are black people trying to refuse the settler state? No, they want land to farm on and they want eventual integration into US society as equal participants. Now, his roadmap of course ended in quite the disaster for black suffrage, but it doesn't change that his goal was the goal of practically all black americans of his day. Outside of a few northern Back to Africa guys, he was the undisputed leader of the black community. So when he argues for black integration in the US state, this is not some token Candace Owens saying nonsense that only whites listen to, this was an expression of black attitudes of his time.
Then, we get to WEB DuBois. This is after the extermination of Indians left them as being not really a demographic threat anymore, and thus we see a new US approach to them with the Indian New Deal under FDR. As such, DuBois is not explicitly against the Indians as Douglass was, but still, he is very clearly in favor of US nationalism. If you read Black Reconstruction, he even goes as far as to consider black americans to essentially be the vanguard of US Nationalist ideals, the real flag bearers for the US nationalist narrative. So he's not against US society at all, in Souls of Black Folk he's very clear that his end-goal is a black community able to assert itself as a factor in US society, and thus cooperate with whites to create a US black-and-white culture. He is very favorable to the US nationalist tradition.
Then, we have others like Paul Robeson. His most famous quote from his interrogation at the HUAC was his saying that the US is his country just as much as it is for the white. Again, this is not to denigrate him, this is just an acknowledgement of what the black struggle always was, to realize black ownership of a portion of the US national idea. Then, we have King and the rest. King's main catchphrase, "black equality," really gives the game away does it not? And this is again, not to put down the man. And he was successful, generally! Black people today in the US absolutely see their political actualization in the state as do white people. There is no relevance issues like bias in the job market has to how black people today view the state and relate to Indians. There is none.
Black Americans and Settler Society
People like to say that Black americans cannot be settlers, but why? What does someone's ancestor being forced in a slave ship in 1770 differ from someone being deported from Britain for a crime? What does being over-policed have to do with relations to native Indians? Objectively speaking, black americans practically always considered themselves to be a component part of the US national project. This is a common theme throughout the black liberation struggle. Indigenous nations represented competing political sovereignty. They had their own territorial claims and collective identities, this being a threat to the foundation of the US national project. Black Americans, meanwhile, were understood as a population within American society, even if begrudgingly so. Thus, the black struggle was always to secure an equal spot in US society, never to actually challenge its establishment.I mean, what was the dream of the black slave in colonial times? Was it to go back to Africa? No, not generally. The Back to Africa movement was mostly of free northern Blacks initially. Black slaves generally wanted an existence independent of their master's farm, meaning, they wanted a farm of their own. This was by far the common dream of freedmen, to get their own farm on their own land. Going back to the oldest colonial times, any slaves that managed to get freedom would get their land plot right in the colonial frontier. So it was in the interest of blacks to get Indian land to settle on just as much the white, the difference was only that the white needed to get out of indentured servitude and pay a sum to a land speculator, whereas the black of course had to seize a miracle of leaving slavery. So I'm not arguing both were the same, but ultimately, their desired endgoals were. Look at picrel from the Museum of the City of New York. These freed black slaves objectively had the material interest of those Mohawk lands being conquered, and those threatening their plots getting exterminated.
I mean, in Settlers by Sakai, white people going along with Bacon's Rebellion is ridiculed, and of course Bacon was a scum of the Earth. For those who don't know, Bacon accused the government of Virginia of being secretly pro-native because it was too slow in exterminating them, and so he tried to overthrow the government. When he failed and was about to get executed for treason, he made demagogic promises to free whites from debt bondage so people would fight for him. So Sakai ridicules that whites fought for Bacon's dream of a faster extermination of Indians, but black people also fought for Bacon, since he also promised freedom from slavery. So neither white nor black saw his very vocal goal of faster genocide as a deal breaker, both sides saw it as just fine if it meant they got theirs. This is just US history.
Really, if anything, that proves that even a genocidal freak like Bacon saw black people as not threatening to his Virginia, and of course not, because black people were never against the carving of any of the 50 states out of Indian land, because they were always a part of the society that formed them even if they were from a most oppressed segment of it.
Going all the way back to Phillis Wheatley, was she arguing that black people cannot realize liberation within a settler colony against them? No, quite the opposite, she was praising the settler colony, begging the King to decree black people as equal colonists.
>Twas mercy brought me from my Pagan land,
>Taught my benighted soul to understand That there's a God, that there's a Savior too: Once I redemption neither sought nor knew.
She here is extolling the culture of her new society, that she is glad to be born in this new more cultured land. And I'm not knocking her for this, this is just an expression of black people in the colonies considering themselves as within the colonial society. She understood Christianity as part of the cultural world into which she had been incorporated.
Then you go to Frederick Douglass, who was quite vocal about his dream: the extermination of the Indian so that a White-and-Black US Civilization could spread from sea-to-sea.
>We are not going to die out, I say. Those who liken us to the Indians make one mistake. They overlook the fact that the negro is more like the white man than the Indian, in his tastes and tendencies, and disposition to accept civilization. You see the Indian, too proud to beg, disdaining your civilization, standing at the corners of the streets, wrapped in his blanket,—refusing to imitate, refusing to follow the fashion,—with a few bead purses and baskets to sell. In his dignity and destitution, he rejects our civilization, and the consequence is, that he dies or retreats before the onward march of your civilization, from the Atlantic to the lakes, and from the lakes to the great rivers. He sees with no complacency your railroads, your steamboats, your canals, your electric wire. No thrill of joy is awakened in his heart by the announcement of any improvement in the means of transmitting intelligence or spreading civilization among men. He sees the ploughshare of American civilization tearing up the venerated graves of his ancestors, his heart sickens, and he retreats before the onward march of civilization. Taking warning by the appearance of the honey bees, six months in advance of your coming, he disappears on the western slope of the Rocky Mountains. He dislikes your civilization, dislikes and distrusts you.
>It is not so with the negro. He loves you and remains with you, under all circumstances, in slavery and in freedom. You do not see him wearing a blanket, but coats cut in the latest European fashion. If you should see him going down [a] street on a rainy day, you would think there was a man walking there, if he had his back to you. He looks like a man, acts like a man, feels like a man, and the office of this Society is to make him a man among men. (Applause.) He does not die out.
and then
>He will not go to Liberia, because he has immense love of country. There is nothing left for you, but to incorporate him completely into the American body politic: admit him to the ballot-box, admit him to Congress, give him a seat on the benches of your courts, let him ride upon your highways and your byways and your railroads and everywhere, on equal terms with everybody else
https://frederickdouglasspapersproject.com/s/digitaledition/item/17959
And then,
>The proposed donation of the public lands to actual settlers—to the landless masses as free homesteads—the peopling of the national domain with an enterprising, intelligent, and hardy race of emigrants—transforming the savage wilderness into flourishing civilized communities, multiplying new states, and adding immensely to the wealth and productive industry of the nation [would] extend the area of freedom [and] would increase the political power of the North and West—the power of the people—would dangerously menace the perpetuity of the institution of slavery and the democratic slaveholding aristocracy built upon it.
This is even more explicit, the anti-slavery struggle, the primary struggle for black Americans, is directly benefited by the creation of new states, "transforming the savage wilderness," etc.
This is not to denigrate Douglass; this is basically the same as the progressive white US Americans of the time, Thomas Sumner and Mark Twain and whatnot. But it shows that black struggle was not in opposition to the settler colony at all, and black people's interests were ultimately not so distinct to whites in regards to Indians. They were not against the US, but were fighting for black participation within it. There's a reason he praised the constitution as a glorious liberty document, it really is a founding document for the nation he claimed as his own. This is why Twain can argue for genocide of Indians but also write a nationalist story in Huckleberry Finn of a black man and white boy sailing the Mississippi together.
Douglass was followed by a split in two factions, one following Booker T. Washington and the other being the Back to Africa movement. The latter is so obviously settler-colonial I'll ignore it in this post (meaning, Marcus Garvey, Elijah Muhammad, pre-Hajj Malcolm X, etc). But Booker T. Washington's entire shtick was in his roadmap for how black people could realize political actualization within the US state, expressed in Up From Slavery. Again, at this time in Reconstruction, are black people trying to refuse the settler state? No, they want land to farm on and they want eventual integration into US society as equal participants. Now, his roadmap of course ended in quite the disaster for black suffrage, but it doesn't change that his goal was the goal of practically all black americans of his day. Outside of a few northern Back to Africa guys, he was the undisputed leader of the black community. So when he argues for black integration in the US state, this is not some token Candace Owens saying nonsense that only whites listen to, this was an expression of black attitudes of his time.
Then, we get to WEB DuBois. This is after the extermination of Indians left them as being not really a demographic threat anymore, and thus we see a new US approach to them with the Indian New Deal under FDR. As such, DuBois is not explicitly against the Indians as Douglass was, but still, he is very clearly in favor of US nationalism. If you read Black Reconstruction, he even goes as far as to consider black americans to essentially be the vanguard of US Nationalist ideals, the real flag bearers for the US nationalist narrative. So he's not against US society at all, in Souls of Black Folk he's very clear that his end-goal is a black community able to assert itself as a factor in US society, and thus cooperate with whites to create a US black-and-white culture. He is very favorable to the US nationalist tradition.
Then, we have others like Paul Robeson. His most famous quote from his interrogation at the HUAC was his saying that the US is his country just as much as it is for the white. Again, this is not to denigrate him, this is just an acknowledgement of what the black struggle always was, to realize black ownership of a portion of the US national idea. Then, we have King and the rest. King's main catchphrase, "black equality," really gives the game away does it not? And this is again, not to put down the man. And he was successful, generally! Black people today in the US absolutely see their political actualization in the state as do white people. There is no relevance issues like bias in the job market has to how black people today view the state and relate to Indians. There is none.
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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?
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>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?
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The austerity measures target subsidies for large families, childbirth benefits, education, healthcare, housing and utilities, sports and physical culture, and the entire basket of services that fall under the label “social policy” in the federal budget, according to an analysis just released by the National Institute of Economic Forecasting at the Russian Academy of Sciences (INP-RAN). Based on the Ministry of Finance’s figures, social spending will fall by 15.2 percent next year.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/11/06/mjin-n06.html
UK Government to Extend Palantir’s NHS Contract by Two Years
Ministers had the option of triggering a break clause in the contract in February. However, a review concluded that removing Palantir and switching providers within four months would be too disruptive, the FT reported, with ministers drawing up plans to potentially replace it with a British alternative in two years’ time instead.
https://novaramedia.com/2026/11/06/uk-government-to-extend-palantirs-nhs-contract-by-two-years/
Sporadic clashes between police and protesters as renewed demonstrations sweep France
Tens of thousands of people turned out once again on Saturday to denounce France's rising cost of living, with largely peaceful demonstrations taking place in major cities across the country. Police used teargas to drive groups of protesters from Paris's Place de la Nation after some individuals allegedly threw projectiles at the assembled riot police.
https://www.france24.com/en/france/20261107-sporadic-clashes-between-police-and-protesters-as-renewed-demonstrations-sweep-france
Merz’s conservatives poised to nominate Germany’s first woman president
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s conservative bloc and the center-left Social Democratic Party (SPD) will nominate Aigner to succeed outgoing German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, the officials told BILD, which, like POLITICO, is part of the Axel Springer Global Reporters Network. Both officials were granted anonymity to discuss internal party matters freely. Aigner’s nomination will officially be announced Monday, according to the officials.
https://www.politico.eu/article/merz-conservatives-poised-nominate-ilse-aigner-first-woman-president-germany/
https://archive.ph/3p17F
Pakistani astronaut to board Shenzhou 24 and become the first foreigner on China’s space station
According to the China Manned Space Agency, the Pakistani astronaut would complete a short on-orbit flight and then return to Earth aboard the Shenzhou 23 spacecraft, China’s official news agency Xinhua reported, without specifying the launch date. The mission would mark the first joint flight involving Chinese and foreign astronauts in the history of China’s manned space program, it said.
https://apnews.com/article/china-pakistani-astronaut-space-station-5f41ab023758265d421bb4b57ebe931f
The Philippines’ ‘solar surge’ leaves many Filipinos behind
Residential installations – solar panels that are below 100 KW or are registered under the Philippines Net-Metering Program – make up around 245 megawatts (MW) of the country’s 1,846-MW solar capacity, according to 2025 data from the Institute for Climate and Sustainable Cities. While the majority of that capacity is from utility-scale installations (projects above 1 MW), residential installations have outpaced commercial installations (projects above 100 KW).
https://www.bulatlat.com/2026/11/06/the-philippines-solar-surge-leaves-many-filipinos-behind/
Pedro Alliana Sworn In as Paraguay’s President After Peña’s Removal
Alliana’s rise cannot be separated from Horacio Cartes, the former President and dominant figure of the Colorado Party. Within the party’s powerful Honor Colorado movement, Alliana ranked among Cartes’s principal allies. That loyalty carried him to the party’s top position.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/alliana-sworn-in-paraguay-president/
TikTok Owner ByteDance Weighs Data Center Expansion in Brazil
The Beijing-based company is seeking a developer to oversee the second phase of a project at an industrial port in the state of Ceara, where it benefits from tax breaks for data exports, according to people familiar with the process who asked not to be named discussing private information. At stake is Brazil’s push to remain a competitive data center builder at a time when countries, including Chile and Argentina, are offering incentives and creating infrastructure to capture the same types of investments.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-11-06/tiktok-owner-bytedance-weighs-data-center-expansion-in-brazil
https://archive.ph/dMENg
Canada's unemployment rate reaches six-month high
Canada's unemployment rate rose to a six-month high in October with the economy shedding a net total of 4,700 jobs, as the private sector and full-time employment both declined, data showed on Friday. The jobless rate edged up to 6.7% from 6.5% in September, Statistics Canada said, marking its highest level since April when it hit 6.9%. October's job losses take the total number this year to 46,000.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/canadas-unemployment-rate-edges-up-six-month-high-october-2026-11-06/
Ten European countries share evidence on alleged torture of Gaza flotilla activists
Most of the states represented at the meeting were primarily interested in gathering information that could support cases they have already opened, or may pursue, in their own jurisdictions. These focus on alleged crimes committed against their citizens during the flotilla raid in October 2025 and when a second humanitarian mission was intercepted by Israeli forces in international waters in May this year, the sources said.
https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-11-02/ten-european-countries-share-evidence-on-alleged-torture-of-gaza-flotilla-activists.html
Yemeni gov’t forces report advances as Houthis say deadly strikes hit Sanaa
In a separate statement, government forces spokesman, Colonel Majed al-Nazili, said the army had carried out 875 attacks on Houthi positions on Saturday, “neutralising” about 130 Houthi commanders and fighters and destroying or disabling 50 vehicles and missile launchers.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/11/7/yemeni-govt-forces-report-advances-as-houthis-say-deadly-strikes-hit-sanaa
https://archive.ph/dzQoi
Israel opposition courts Haredim while rejecting Palestinian parties
The disagreement intensified on Friday when Avigdor Lieberman, leader of the secular nationalist Yisrael Beytenu party, announced that he was prepared to compromise on military conscription for ultra-Orthodox Jews, reversing years of opposition to exemptions. However, Lieberman reiterated his refusal to support any government dependent on Palestinian parties, including through parliamentary abstentions that would allow a minority administration to take office. The dispute has left Eisenkot's four-party opposition bloc, which holds just 48 seats in Israel's 120-member Knesset, weighing two competing routes to power.
https://www.newarab.com/news/eisenkot-israeli-ex-general-tasked-forming-new-govt
News 11/7/26
Russian government axes social spendingThe austerity measures target subsidies for large families, childbirth benefits, education, healthcare, housing and utilities, sports and physical culture, and the entire basket of services that fall under the label “social policy” in the federal budget, according to an analysis just released by the National Institute of Economic Forecasting at the Russian Academy of Sciences (INP-RAN). Based on the Ministry of Finance’s figures, social spending will fall by 15.2 percent next year.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/11/06/mjin-n06.html
UK Government to Extend Palantir’s NHS Contract by Two Years
Ministers had the option of triggering a break clause in the contract in February. However, a review concluded that removing Palantir and switching providers within four months would be too disruptive, the FT reported, with ministers drawing up plans to potentially replace it with a British alternative in two years’ time instead.
https://novaramedia.com/2026/11/06/uk-government-to-extend-palantirs-nhs-contract-by-two-years/
Sporadic clashes between police and protesters as renewed demonstrations sweep France
Tens of thousands of people turned out once again on Saturday to denounce France's rising cost of living, with largely peaceful demonstrations taking place in major cities across the country. Police used teargas to drive groups of protesters from Paris's Place de la Nation after some individuals allegedly threw projectiles at the assembled riot police.
https://www.france24.com/en/france/20261107-sporadic-clashes-between-police-and-protesters-as-renewed-demonstrations-sweep-france
Merz’s conservatives poised to nominate Germany’s first woman president
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s conservative bloc and the center-left Social Democratic Party (SPD) will nominate Aigner to succeed outgoing German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, the officials told BILD, which, like POLITICO, is part of the Axel Springer Global Reporters Network. Both officials were granted anonymity to discuss internal party matters freely. Aigner’s nomination will officially be announced Monday, according to the officials.
https://www.politico.eu/article/merz-conservatives-poised-nominate-ilse-aigner-first-woman-president-germany/
https://archive.ph/3p17F
Pakistani astronaut to board Shenzhou 24 and become the first foreigner on China’s space station
According to the China Manned Space Agency, the Pakistani astronaut would complete a short on-orbit flight and then return to Earth aboard the Shenzhou 23 spacecraft, China’s official news agency Xinhua reported, without specifying the launch date. The mission would mark the first joint flight involving Chinese and foreign astronauts in the history of China’s manned space program, it said.
https://apnews.com/article/china-pakistani-astronaut-space-station-5f41ab023758265d421bb4b57ebe931f
The Philippines’ ‘solar surge’ leaves many Filipinos behind
Residential installations – solar panels that are below 100 KW or are registered under the Philippines Net-Metering Program – make up around 245 megawatts (MW) of the country’s 1,846-MW solar capacity, according to 2025 data from the Institute for Climate and Sustainable Cities. While the majority of that capacity is from utility-scale installations (projects above 1 MW), residential installations have outpaced commercial installations (projects above 100 KW).
https://www.bulatlat.com/2026/11/06/the-philippines-solar-surge-leaves-many-filipinos-behind/
Pedro Alliana Sworn In as Paraguay’s President After Peña’s Removal
Alliana’s rise cannot be separated from Horacio Cartes, the former President and dominant figure of the Colorado Party. Within the party’s powerful Honor Colorado movement, Alliana ranked among Cartes’s principal allies. That loyalty carried him to the party’s top position.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/alliana-sworn-in-paraguay-president/
TikTok Owner ByteDance Weighs Data Center Expansion in Brazil
The Beijing-based company is seeking a developer to oversee the second phase of a project at an industrial port in the state of Ceara, where it benefits from tax breaks for data exports, according to people familiar with the process who asked not to be named discussing private information. At stake is Brazil’s push to remain a competitive data center builder at a time when countries, including Chile and Argentina, are offering incentives and creating infrastructure to capture the same types of investments.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-11-06/tiktok-owner-bytedance-weighs-data-center-expansion-in-brazil
https://archive.ph/dMENg
Canada's unemployment rate reaches six-month high
Canada's unemployment rate rose to a six-month high in October with the economy shedding a net total of 4,700 jobs, as the private sector and full-time employment both declined, data showed on Friday. The jobless rate edged up to 6.7% from 6.5% in September, Statistics Canada said, marking its highest level since April when it hit 6.9%. October's job losses take the total number this year to 46,000.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/canadas-unemployment-rate-edges-up-six-month-high-october-2026-11-06/
Ten European countries share evidence on alleged torture of Gaza flotilla activists
Most of the states represented at the meeting were primarily interested in gathering information that could support cases they have already opened, or may pursue, in their own jurisdictions. These focus on alleged crimes committed against their citizens during the flotilla raid in October 2025 and when a second humanitarian mission was intercepted by Israeli forces in international waters in May this year, the sources said.
https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-11-02/ten-european-countries-share-evidence-on-alleged-torture-of-gaza-flotilla-activists.html
Yemeni gov’t forces report advances as Houthis say deadly strikes hit Sanaa
In a separate statement, government forces spokesman, Colonel Majed al-Nazili, said the army had carried out 875 attacks on Houthi positions on Saturday, “neutralising” about 130 Houthi commanders and fighters and destroying or disabling 50 vehicles and missile launchers.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/11/7/yemeni-govt-forces-report-advances-as-houthis-say-deadly-strikes-hit-sanaa
https://archive.ph/dzQoi
Israel opposition courts Haredim while rejecting Palestinian parties
The disagreement intensified on Friday when Avigdor Lieberman, leader of the secular nationalist Yisrael Beytenu party, announced that he was prepared to compromise on military conscription for ultra-Orthodox Jews, reversing years of opposition to exemptions. However, Lieberman reiterated his refusal to support any government dependent on Palestinian parties, including through parliamentary abstentions that would allow a minority administration to take office. The dispute has left Eisenkot's four-party opposition bloc, which holds just 48 seats in Israel's 120-member Knesset, weighing two competing routes to power.
https://www.newarab.com/news/eisenkot-israeli-ex-general-tasked-forming-new-govt
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Why is anyone still a marxist-leninist? It's legacy is failure and throwing away the greatest chance for worldwide communist revolution that was the 20th century.
Why is anyone still a marxist-leninist? It's legacy is failure and throwing away the greatest chance for worldwide communist revolution that was the 20th century.
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Li ser siyaseta giştî ya Tirkiyê biaxive!
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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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.
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France imposes curfews in parts of Paris, other cities after weekend of riots
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/frances-macron-declines-interior-ministers-offer-resign-2026-10-19/
>French authorities set curfews in parts of several cities on Monday, including Paris, Lille and Nice, as they faced pressure over security failings after a weekend of riots and looting stemming from nationwide anti-government protests.
Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu had ruled out a blanket curfew in Paris but not a state of emergency, and had said it was more appropriate for now to apply partial and localised curfews.
>"My determination to restore order is absolute," he told reporters.
Paris police said they had issued orders barring protests in certain areas of the French capital from 8 p.m. (1800 GMT) and had issued a curfew around the Place de la Republique and Les Halles from 11:00 p.m. Both would remain in effect until 6 a.m. on Tuesday morning.
>"A police deployment is in place to ensure strict compliance with these measures," the police said in a statement.
>A source in Lecornu's office said a curfew for minors had been set between 8 p.m. and 6 a.m. for the next two days in Lille, Douai, Wattignies and Denain with the agreement of the local mayors.
French Riots Thread 2
THE HERO APPEARSFrance imposes curfews in parts of Paris, other cities after weekend of riots
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/frances-macron-declines-interior-ministers-offer-resign-2026-10-19/
>French authorities set curfews in parts of several cities on Monday, including Paris, Lille and Nice, as they faced pressure over security failings after a weekend of riots and looting stemming from nationwide anti-government protests.
Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu had ruled out a blanket curfew in Paris but not a state of emergency, and had said it was more appropriate for now to apply partial and localised curfews.
>"My determination to restore order is absolute," he told reporters.
Paris police said they had issued orders barring protests in certain areas of the French capital from 8 p.m. (1800 GMT) and had issued a curfew around the Place de la Republique and Les Halles from 11:00 p.m. Both would remain in effect until 6 a.m. on Tuesday morning.
>"A police deployment is in place to ensure strict compliance with these measures," the police said in a statement.
>A source in Lecornu's office said a curfew for minors had been set between 8 p.m. and 6 a.m. for the next two days in Lille, Douai, Wattignies and Denain with the agreement of the local mayors.
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Yet, despite the name "Red Scare", they all seem to be snooty reactionaries now? The vibe I get is that while they still affect as hipster bohemians, they've long since given up Karl Marx for Thomas Carlyle and other reactionary anti-capitalist writers.
Or maybe I'm completely wrong? Someone please fill me in, the fanbase for this show is utterly bizarre.
Red Scare podcast
I know absolutely nothing about this podcast other than that their fans seem to be hyperliterate and that /r/rsbookclub pops up over and over and over again whenever I'm looking for discussion of classic literature.Yet, despite the name "Red Scare", they all seem to be snooty reactionaries now? The vibe I get is that while they still affect as hipster bohemians, they've long since given up Karl Marx for Thomas Carlyle and other reactionary anti-capitalist writers.
Or maybe I'm completely wrong? Someone please fill me in, the fanbase for this show is utterly bizarre.
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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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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
R: 379 / I: 96
>“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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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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Yup, Venezuela is totally still going for socialism, this is just true based dengist Delcy bringing Venezuela into 21'st century socialism.
Seriously why the actual fuck did anyone try to argue otherwise? It's so clear that we don't need nationalized state assets for socialism and we should undo the damages done by seizing the assets of the proletarian peripheral bourgeois.
Yup, Venezuela is totally still going for socialism, this is just true based dengist Delcy bringing Venezuela into 21'st century socialism.
Seriously why the actual fuck did anyone try to argue otherwise? It's so clear that we don't need nationalized state assets for socialism and we should undo the damages done by seizing the assets of the proletarian peripheral bourgeois.
R: 33 / I: 26 (sage)
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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.
R: 424 / I: 94
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: 336 / I: 79
Discuss anything related to:
>Algeria
>Angola
>Benin
>Botswana
>Burkina Faso
>Burundi
>Cabo Verde
>Cameroon
>Central African Republic (CAR)
>Chad
>Comoros
>Congo, Democratic Republic of the
>Congo, Republic of the
>Cote d’Ivoire
>Djibouti
>Egypt
>Equatorial Guinea
>Eritrea
>Eswatini
>Ethiopia
>Gabon
>Gambia
>Ghana
>Guinea
>Guinea-Bissau
>Kenya
>Lesotho
>Liberia
>Libya
>Madagascar
>Malawi
>Mali
>Mauritania
>Mauritius
>Morocco
>Mozambique
>Namibia
>Niger
>Nigeria
>Rwanda
>Sao Tome and Principe
>Senegal
>Seychelles
>Sierra Leone
>Somalia
>South Africa
>South Sudan
>Sudan
>Tanzania
>Togo
>Tunisia
>Uganda
>Zambia
>Zimbabwe
/Africa/
A thread for the forgotten continent, so forgotten the thread got wiped.Discuss anything related to:
>Algeria
>Angola
>Benin
>Botswana
>Burkina Faso
>Burundi
>Cabo Verde
>Cameroon
>Central African Republic (CAR)
>Chad
>Comoros
>Congo, Democratic Republic of the
>Congo, Republic of the
>Cote d’Ivoire
>Djibouti
>Egypt
>Equatorial Guinea
>Eritrea
>Eswatini
>Ethiopia
>Gabon
>Gambia
>Ghana
>Guinea
>Guinea-Bissau
>Kenya
>Lesotho
>Liberia
>Libya
>Madagascar
>Malawi
>Mali
>Mauritania
>Mauritius
>Morocco
>Mozambique
>Namibia
>Niger
>Nigeria
>Rwanda
>Sao Tome and Principe
>Senegal
>Seychelles
>Sierra Leone
>Somalia
>South Africa
>South Sudan
>Sudan
>Tanzania
>Togo
>Tunisia
>Uganda
>Zambia
>Zimbabwe
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It didn’t work and Comando Vermelho eventually completely abandoned the ideology though they still maintain the name and imagery.
Comando Vermelho is proof the lumpenproletariat have no revolutionary potential
For those of you who aren’t familiar with Brazil, there’s a criminal organization called Comando Vermelho (Red Commando) which is one of the largest in the country today. It was founded during the military dictatorship when communist activists were imprisoned in the same cells as common criminals and taught them guerrila warfare tactics, in the hopes this would start a revolution.It didn’t work and Comando Vermelho eventually completely abandoned the ideology though they still maintain the name and imagery.
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Last Monday, the central bank ordered Ueno into resolution over insolvency, freezing the deposits of 3 million customers, leaving hundreds of thousands of families without access to money for food and basic daily expenses. Bank executives were arrested, and people took to the streets in massive protests.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/nov/05/paraguay-president-santiago-pena-resigns
US escalates economic campaign against Cuba and targets China-based suppliers
In total, eight entities and two individuals were targeted, including China National Electronic Import and Export Company and Beijing H&C Technologies, two China-based companies that the U.S. is accusing of procuring weapons and selling surveillance and security equipment to the Cuban government. Washington’s campaign against Havana has only accelerated in recent months, with public spats between their representatives at the United Nations and on social media.
https://apnews.com/article/cuba-sanctions-castro-trump-rubio-china-93e6ce1f2cf83f2f4f74842babf694c6
Broken Agreements: The Struggle of Venezuelan Small-Scale Coffee Producers
As I toured the villages in the aforementioned parishes, there was one common complaint: “the established prices are not being upheld,” in reference to both the coffee-roasting plants and the traditional intermediaries. This has been a recurring issue in recent years. From October 12 to October 24, prices varied between $205 and $245 per quintal, significantly below the agreed-upon figures. And though there was a slight upward trend, time runs against producers, especially the smaller ones. They must sell in order to settle pending debts or meet other financial commitments from the harvest work. At the same time, according to local sources, buyers are paying $280 or $285 for shipments of 50 quintals or more, volumes that only large-scale producers can meet.
https://venezuelanalysis.com/images/broken-agreements-the-struggle-of-venezuelan-small-scale-coffee-producers/
Myanmar to hold by-elections in April, including in areas where fighting persists
The elections will fill vacancies left by elected representatives who took ministerial or government posts and will include areas previously unable to vote because of conflict. The vote is unlikely to change the balance of power in the national parliament currently controlled by the military-backed Union Solidarity and Development Party, but it may provide a measure of public support for the parties contesting the vote.
https://apnews.com/article/myanmar-elections-military-suu-kyi-e7b58e72b02aa241af5d46ab03682ba1
Tech stock rout, driven by US AI fears, continues in Asian trading
Market authorities in South Korea paused trading on Friday as prices plunged across the region. Global markets have been rattled by a sharp fall in the trading price of tech stocks, which is driven by fears that the Democrats’ victory in the US midterm elections will increase regulatory scrutiny of AI and slow the country’s data centre build-out.
https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2026/11/6/tech-stock-rout-driven-by-us-ai-fears-continues-in-asian-trading
https://archive.ph/dgFuM
IFJ calls out political arrest of journalist in Bangladesh
Mr Chowdhury is accused of “building a narrative” supportive of former prime minister Sheikh Hasina during mass 2024 protests that were violently repressed. He is one of 232 individuals named in a case filed by the father of student protester Md Arif, who was killed by police, and has been jailed as the death of Arif is investigated. Bangladeshi journalists’ union the BMSF said it “strongly condemns the arrest” and demands Mr Chowdhury’s immediate release.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/ifj-calls-out-political-arrest-journalist-bangladesh
'The alternative to diplomacy is war': Polisario warns of risks after collapse of Western Sahara UN mission
The Polisario Front’s top diplomat told Middle East Eye that they were largely optimistic over the outcome as they had long viewed Minurso as ineffective at best and complicit with Morocco at worst. The failed US resolution would have removed the word “referendum” from the mission’s name, changing it to the United Nations Mission in Western Sahara, and made Morocco's much-maligned "autonomy plan" for the Western Sahara the only basis for further progress.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/alternative-to-diplomacy-is-war-polisario-warns-risks-after-collapse-western-sahara-un-mission
The UAE Is Secretly Helping Ansarallah Fight Saudi Arabia in Yemen
Specifically, various UAE-aligned Yemeni forces have been providing targeting assistance to Ansarallah in their battle against Saudi-backed government forces in Yemen while Abu Dhabi has looked the other way, the sources said. According to two sources with knowledge of the covert arrangement, the UAE’s assistance has also included direct sharing of intelligence by the UAE itself to Ansarallah for the purpose of targeting Saudi-backed forces.
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/uae-yemen-ansarallah-houthis-saudi-arabia-covert
Unions begin consultation process with university amid risk to 188 jobs
The unions met with the university on Wednesday, with further weekly meetings expected as the parties commit to working together. They said in a joint statement today: “Following a request from the trade unions, the university has confirmed it will not issue any dismissal notices to impacted staff in this calendar year.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/unions-begin-consultation-process-university-amid-risk-188-jobs
Activists break into building site of Microsoft datacentre in Amsterdam
Protesters from Geef Tegengas, a Dutch direct action group, clashed with police while breaking into a construction site at Westpoort, Amsterdam, where some members climbed a crane, lit flares and tied helium balloons to equipment. The action comes amid Europe-wide resistance to the rapid expansion of energy-hungry AI, with more than 100 groups involved in a two-day series of protests to demand moratoria on the construction of new datacentres.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/nov/06/activists-break-into-building-site-of-microsoft-datacentre-in-amsterdam
News 11/6/26
Paraguay’s president quits after millions of people’s savings frozen in bank crisisLast Monday, the central bank ordered Ueno into resolution over insolvency, freezing the deposits of 3 million customers, leaving hundreds of thousands of families without access to money for food and basic daily expenses. Bank executives were arrested, and people took to the streets in massive protests.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/nov/05/paraguay-president-santiago-pena-resigns
US escalates economic campaign against Cuba and targets China-based suppliers
In total, eight entities and two individuals were targeted, including China National Electronic Import and Export Company and Beijing H&C Technologies, two China-based companies that the U.S. is accusing of procuring weapons and selling surveillance and security equipment to the Cuban government. Washington’s campaign against Havana has only accelerated in recent months, with public spats between their representatives at the United Nations and on social media.
https://apnews.com/article/cuba-sanctions-castro-trump-rubio-china-93e6ce1f2cf83f2f4f74842babf694c6
Broken Agreements: The Struggle of Venezuelan Small-Scale Coffee Producers
As I toured the villages in the aforementioned parishes, there was one common complaint: “the established prices are not being upheld,” in reference to both the coffee-roasting plants and the traditional intermediaries. This has been a recurring issue in recent years. From October 12 to October 24, prices varied between $205 and $245 per quintal, significantly below the agreed-upon figures. And though there was a slight upward trend, time runs against producers, especially the smaller ones. They must sell in order to settle pending debts or meet other financial commitments from the harvest work. At the same time, according to local sources, buyers are paying $280 or $285 for shipments of 50 quintals or more, volumes that only large-scale producers can meet.
https://venezuelanalysis.com/images/broken-agreements-the-struggle-of-venezuelan-small-scale-coffee-producers/
Myanmar to hold by-elections in April, including in areas where fighting persists
The elections will fill vacancies left by elected representatives who took ministerial or government posts and will include areas previously unable to vote because of conflict. The vote is unlikely to change the balance of power in the national parliament currently controlled by the military-backed Union Solidarity and Development Party, but it may provide a measure of public support for the parties contesting the vote.
https://apnews.com/article/myanmar-elections-military-suu-kyi-e7b58e72b02aa241af5d46ab03682ba1
Tech stock rout, driven by US AI fears, continues in Asian trading
Market authorities in South Korea paused trading on Friday as prices plunged across the region. Global markets have been rattled by a sharp fall in the trading price of tech stocks, which is driven by fears that the Democrats’ victory in the US midterm elections will increase regulatory scrutiny of AI and slow the country’s data centre build-out.
https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2026/11/6/tech-stock-rout-driven-by-us-ai-fears-continues-in-asian-trading
https://archive.ph/dgFuM
IFJ calls out political arrest of journalist in Bangladesh
Mr Chowdhury is accused of “building a narrative” supportive of former prime minister Sheikh Hasina during mass 2024 protests that were violently repressed. He is one of 232 individuals named in a case filed by the father of student protester Md Arif, who was killed by police, and has been jailed as the death of Arif is investigated. Bangladeshi journalists’ union the BMSF said it “strongly condemns the arrest” and demands Mr Chowdhury’s immediate release.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/ifj-calls-out-political-arrest-journalist-bangladesh
'The alternative to diplomacy is war': Polisario warns of risks after collapse of Western Sahara UN mission
The Polisario Front’s top diplomat told Middle East Eye that they were largely optimistic over the outcome as they had long viewed Minurso as ineffective at best and complicit with Morocco at worst. The failed US resolution would have removed the word “referendum” from the mission’s name, changing it to the United Nations Mission in Western Sahara, and made Morocco's much-maligned "autonomy plan" for the Western Sahara the only basis for further progress.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/alternative-to-diplomacy-is-war-polisario-warns-risks-after-collapse-western-sahara-un-mission
The UAE Is Secretly Helping Ansarallah Fight Saudi Arabia in Yemen
Specifically, various UAE-aligned Yemeni forces have been providing targeting assistance to Ansarallah in their battle against Saudi-backed government forces in Yemen while Abu Dhabi has looked the other way, the sources said. According to two sources with knowledge of the covert arrangement, the UAE’s assistance has also included direct sharing of intelligence by the UAE itself to Ansarallah for the purpose of targeting Saudi-backed forces.
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/uae-yemen-ansarallah-houthis-saudi-arabia-covert
Unions begin consultation process with university amid risk to 188 jobs
The unions met with the university on Wednesday, with further weekly meetings expected as the parties commit to working together. They said in a joint statement today: “Following a request from the trade unions, the university has confirmed it will not issue any dismissal notices to impacted staff in this calendar year.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/unions-begin-consultation-process-university-amid-risk-188-jobs
Activists break into building site of Microsoft datacentre in Amsterdam
Protesters from Geef Tegengas, a Dutch direct action group, clashed with police while breaking into a construction site at Westpoort, Amsterdam, where some members climbed a crane, lit flares and tied helium balloons to equipment. The action comes amid Europe-wide resistance to the rapid expansion of energy-hungry AI, with more than 100 groups involved in a two-day series of protests to demand moratoria on the construction of new datacentres.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/nov/06/activists-break-into-building-site-of-microsoft-datacentre-in-amsterdam
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Europe and Persian Gulf has many sorry mistakes of countries with around million people, not a hint of economic independence, no real military, no influence, only real political "independence" is to choose who they vassalize themselves to, and if they choose poorly the people will pay the price. The current UN system insists (thanks to historic precedence) that they should be treated mostly the same as world superpowers in international affairs. Most of eastern Europe is full of this "small business owner" tier of a country.
I'm not arguing against people's right to govern themselves or local governance. But to me it's obvious that this is one major fault in current world politics. Many countries in UN are literally just extra votes for one superpower or another, bought and paid for by financial dependence and assistance. How do we remedy this? Restructuring or collapse of the UN system is coming in the not so far future. People are talking that security council does not represent the actual balance of power anymore while it includes countries like France and UK, but excludes countries like India, Brazil and Iran. People don't look at the issue of small countries and their minuscule and still outsizes influence that creates distortions and makes it even harder to move forward in international affairs. Not to speak of the inefficiencies it creates when every mini and micro state has it's own laws, social services, police, etc (because that makes them a state). In many places the differences between countries are minuscule and are already eroding by cooperation between countries. European federation would make sense to me if in practice all the people pushing it wouldn't be the fucking EU and liberal closeted fascists and idiots.
International politics and peoples' right a to state in 21st century
What is the point of pretending that nation-states are an organic and useful political project in the modern world? Lenin most famously promised nations of Russian empire independence (with some tactical considerations, mostly regarding colonies). Not every swampy town with dozen people automatically has some god given right to secede and form a new country as long as they fight for it, nor should we applaud it.Europe and Persian Gulf has many sorry mistakes of countries with around million people, not a hint of economic independence, no real military, no influence, only real political "independence" is to choose who they vassalize themselves to, and if they choose poorly the people will pay the price. The current UN system insists (thanks to historic precedence) that they should be treated mostly the same as world superpowers in international affairs. Most of eastern Europe is full of this "small business owner" tier of a country.
I'm not arguing against people's right to govern themselves or local governance. But to me it's obvious that this is one major fault in current world politics. Many countries in UN are literally just extra votes for one superpower or another, bought and paid for by financial dependence and assistance. How do we remedy this? Restructuring or collapse of the UN system is coming in the not so far future. People are talking that security council does not represent the actual balance of power anymore while it includes countries like France and UK, but excludes countries like India, Brazil and Iran. People don't look at the issue of small countries and their minuscule and still outsizes influence that creates distortions and makes it even harder to move forward in international affairs. Not to speak of the inefficiencies it creates when every mini and micro state has it's own laws, social services, police, etc (because that makes them a state). In many places the differences between countries are minuscule and are already eroding by cooperation between countries. European federation would make sense to me if in practice all the people pushing it wouldn't be the fucking EU and liberal closeted fascists and idiots.
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So what would drugs look like under socialist states in the future? Would it be the same bans? American leftists are more open to drugs than foreign ones, because of the war on drugs and the history. Were leftist in USA tricked into becoming pro drug? Or is this the way, the future?
Drugs and Socialism
Is there such a thing as a socialist state that would decriminalize drug use? It seems like liberal democracies have started leaning toward leniency when it comes to individual freedom and drug use. The West has become more open about many drugs. Most socialist states, or former socialist states, were very anti-drug. But a good number of leftists around the world today do use some kind of drug not all but many.So what would drugs look like under socialist states in the future? Would it be the same bans? American leftists are more open to drugs than foreign ones, because of the war on drugs and the history. Were leftist in USA tricked into becoming pro drug? Or is this the way, the future?
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Manica di degenerati. Non mi aspettavo proprio che dopo un mese d'assenza, il filo cadesse dalla tavola. Vabè, leftypol ormai è l'ombra di quello che era soltanto qualche anno fa, ma c'è un limite a tutto.
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ITALIANS DO IT BETTERManica di degenerati. Non mi aspettavo proprio che dopo un mese d'assenza, il filo cadesse dalla tavola. Vabè, leftypol ormai è l'ombra di quello che era soltanto qualche anno fa, ma c'è un limite a tutto.
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Over the past 150 years, much of the left has been convinced that the only way to actually establish socialism is through violent revolution. The only way to really bring about a "dictatorship of the proletariat" or a "federation of anarchist communes" or whatever the ideal is, is to take up arms, start a civil war, and shoot enough people until we come out on top. And sure, historically that's been the case. The Bolsheviks had to fight a full ass civil war because the anti-communist elements of the Russian army decided they would rather fight and die than live under communism. In the few cases where Marxists were elected to power such as with Allende they ended up overthrown by the military or succumb to liberalism. If one simply looks at what was then it seems obvious that the answer is violent revolution, and yet perhaps this is not the only path.
Let's look at the recent electoral victories against neo-fascists which nonetheless have the backing of the working classes. Hungary, Brazil, Serbia, and as of last night America. Obviously plenty of liberals were involved in these victories, but it cannot be denied that the proletariat have been supportive of them, and we cannot simply discard the will of the proletariat just because it's not revolutionary enough for our liking. And rather than chimp out and start a civil war, the fascists have either fled or meekly caved, abandoning their tough talk of killing libtards at the first sign of trouble. The fact of the matter is that unlike the fascists of yesteryear, our current fascists are abject cowards who fold the moment they get serious pushback. And if they fold that easily, perhaps armed insurrection is not strictly necessary.
This is by no means a call to embrace liberalism or social democracy, or to preserve the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie. Rather this thread exists to postulate that perhaps, maybe, could using the existing institutions and electoralism to reform a state into a dictatorship of the proletariat work? Could Lassalle be vindicated in the grim dark future of the 21st century? Would it be worth it if it means fewer lives lost? What obstacles might we face with these methods and how might we overcome them while still nominally adhering to the principles of liberal democracy? I think that in this day and age this is a conversation worth having, and that we should reexamine how effective militant revolutionary rhetoric actually is
The viability of reformist socialism, or: was Lassalle right
Okay so before you post your Jewish nigger succdem memes at me, hear me out, I may be cooking here.Over the past 150 years, much of the left has been convinced that the only way to actually establish socialism is through violent revolution. The only way to really bring about a "dictatorship of the proletariat" or a "federation of anarchist communes" or whatever the ideal is, is to take up arms, start a civil war, and shoot enough people until we come out on top. And sure, historically that's been the case. The Bolsheviks had to fight a full ass civil war because the anti-communist elements of the Russian army decided they would rather fight and die than live under communism. In the few cases where Marxists were elected to power such as with Allende they ended up overthrown by the military or succumb to liberalism. If one simply looks at what was then it seems obvious that the answer is violent revolution, and yet perhaps this is not the only path.
Let's look at the recent electoral victories against neo-fascists which nonetheless have the backing of the working classes. Hungary, Brazil, Serbia, and as of last night America. Obviously plenty of liberals were involved in these victories, but it cannot be denied that the proletariat have been supportive of them, and we cannot simply discard the will of the proletariat just because it's not revolutionary enough for our liking. And rather than chimp out and start a civil war, the fascists have either fled or meekly caved, abandoning their tough talk of killing libtards at the first sign of trouble. The fact of the matter is that unlike the fascists of yesteryear, our current fascists are abject cowards who fold the moment they get serious pushback. And if they fold that easily, perhaps armed insurrection is not strictly necessary.
This is by no means a call to embrace liberalism or social democracy, or to preserve the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie. Rather this thread exists to postulate that perhaps, maybe, could using the existing institutions and electoralism to reform a state into a dictatorship of the proletariat work? Could Lassalle be vindicated in the grim dark future of the 21st century? Would it be worth it if it means fewer lives lost? What obstacles might we face with these methods and how might we overcome them while still nominally adhering to the principles of liberal democracy? I think that in this day and age this is a conversation worth having, and that we should reexamine how effective militant revolutionary rhetoric actually is
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What even was this pig?
Supposedly its paper mache or something, but like, what was the purpose of this demonstration of sorts? I suppose it was just for fun and to pass the time.
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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/
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Reading
Towards a New Socialism by Paul Cockshott and Allin Cottrell: http://ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu/~cottrell/socialism_book/
Brain of the Firm by Stafford Beer
Cybernetic Revolutionaries by Eden Medina
Cybernetics: Or the Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine and The Human Use of Human Beings (1st edition) by Norbert Wiener
Economic cybernetics by Nikolay Veduta
People's Republic of Walmart by Leigh Phillips and Michal Rozworski
Red Plenty by Francis Spufford
Economics in kind, Total socialisation and A system of socialisation by Otto Neurath (Incommensurability, Ecology, and Planning: Neurath in the Socialist Calculation Debate by Thomas Uebel provides a summary)
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
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RCI
Have any anons here worked with these guys or know someone who does? If so, what do you think? I'm considering joining one of the groups affiliated with them and I'd like to hear whatever they are from fellow leftyfags
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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
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The South African Communist Party (SACP) is emerging as one of the surprise performers in the 2026 local government elections after contesting separately from its long-time alliance partner, the African National Congress (ANC). Early results show the SACP polling particularly strongly in the Eastern Cape, where it has secured more than 6% of the vote, and is third behind the ANC and the Democratic Alliance (DA), while outperforming both the United Democratic Movement (UDM) and the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF). The party is also recording encouraging support in Limpopo and the North West.
https://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/sacp-emerges-as-one-of-the-surprise-performers-of-lge-2026/
Kenya’s mining ambitions raise fears for farms and ancestral graves
Farmers fear losing the land that feeds them. Community elders worry about damage to a forest where their ancestors are buried. Both are demanding answers about Kenya’s plans to mine valuable minerals beneath Mrima Hill, a forested area rich in niobium and rare earth elements.
https://apnews.com/article/kenya-rare-earth-minerals-mining-mrima-hill-sacred-forest-ancestral-graves-bff1808954d85249f2df92265e6df194
Arab-led Joint List says it will back Eisenkot to form Israel's next government
The alliance, which comprises three Arab-led factions, said its decision came despite the opposition's failure to sufficiently challenge Netanyahu's political direction, incitement against Arab citizens and attempts to undermine the legitimacy of their electoral choices. However, the endorsements do not necessarily mean the Arab parties will join an Eisenkot-led government. The Joint List has said it is prepared to support an opposition government from outside the governing coalition, rather than take ministerial positions.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/arab-led-joint-list-says-it-will-back-eisenkot-form-israels-next-government
PUK quits Iraqi Kurdistan government, deepening power struggle
The announcement came a day after the regional parliament met for the first time after nearly two years of political paralysis. The session was boycotted by the PUK and allied parties that had pushed for the KDP to postpone it until a consensus could be reached on the allocation of top government positions.
https://www.newarab.com/news/puk-quits-iraqi-kurdistan-government-deepening-power-struggle
Reform Councillor Charged With Rape and Making Indecent Images of a Child
George Madgwick, 37, represents North East Havant on the council, where he leads the Reform group. He was charged on Tuesday with a total of 35 offences, which also include eight counts of actual bodily harm, two counts of assault by penetration, two counts of sexual assault and two counts of controlling and coercive behaviour.
https://novaramedia.com/2026/11/03/reform-councillor-charged-with-rape-and-making-indecent-images-of-a-child/
France on strike: 1,500 walkouts and 250 marches for a different future
A third of the country’s schools were closed and work stopped at oil refineries and nuclear plants. Transport ground to a halt in many regions, and hundreds of thousands marched against the government despite last-minute police instructions rerouting many of the planned demonstrations.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/france-strike-1500-walkouts-and-250-marches-different-future
Milei links socialism to fascism in speech in front of Spainish PM Sánchez
A central theme was his contention that socialism and fascism share the same characteristics. Drawing on a phrase attributed to writer and diplomat Salvador de Madariaga, he declared: “Socialism is fascist in politics and fascism is socialist in economics.” “Both doctrines (socialism and fascism) concentrate control over individual decisions in the hands of a minority and make economic dependence an instrument of political domination,” he continued. “The fascist maxim, everything within the State, nothing outside the State, nothing against the State, describes socialist states,” Milei said.
https://www.batimes.com.ar/news/world/milei-links-socialism-to-fascism-in-speech-before-spain-pm-sanchez.phtml
https://archive.ph/fMIPa
Colombia’s labor unions and social organizations call national strike on November 19
In a press statement, the organizations accused De la Espriella of, among other things, dismantling the “social, environmental, trade union, and labor rights achieved during the government of Gustavo Petro,” and surrendering sovereignty and kneeling before the imperialist government of the United States.”
https://colombiareports.com/colombias-labor-unions-and-social-organizations-call-national-strike-on-november-19/
US Pushing for Permanent Venezuela Military Presence: New York Times
The US currently has SOFA agreements in place with several Latin American countries, including Paraguay, Ecuador, Panama, and Trinidad and Tobago, to “address shared threats such as drug trafficking and transnational organized crime.” Washington likewise operates multiple bases in the hemisphere and recently launched the “Shield of the Americas” initiative alongside regional allies with the declared purpose of tackling transnational crime and illegal immigration.
https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/us-pushing-for-permanent-venezuela-military-presence-new-york-times/
South Korea says it will expand naval operations closer to strait of Hormuz
The government is to submit a motion to parliament that would expand the Cheonghae unit’s area of operation to waters near the port of Duqm in Oman, which is about 650km (403 miles) away from the strait. The motion also needs to be approved by President Lee Jae Myung and the cabinet.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/nov/05/south-korea-to-expand-anti-piracy-unit-strait-of-hormuz
News 11/5/26
SACP emerges as surprise performer in 2026 LGE after ANC splitThe South African Communist Party (SACP) is emerging as one of the surprise performers in the 2026 local government elections after contesting separately from its long-time alliance partner, the African National Congress (ANC). Early results show the SACP polling particularly strongly in the Eastern Cape, where it has secured more than 6% of the vote, and is third behind the ANC and the Democratic Alliance (DA), while outperforming both the United Democratic Movement (UDM) and the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF). The party is also recording encouraging support in Limpopo and the North West.
https://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/sacp-emerges-as-one-of-the-surprise-performers-of-lge-2026/
Kenya’s mining ambitions raise fears for farms and ancestral graves
Farmers fear losing the land that feeds them. Community elders worry about damage to a forest where their ancestors are buried. Both are demanding answers about Kenya’s plans to mine valuable minerals beneath Mrima Hill, a forested area rich in niobium and rare earth elements.
https://apnews.com/article/kenya-rare-earth-minerals-mining-mrima-hill-sacred-forest-ancestral-graves-bff1808954d85249f2df92265e6df194
Arab-led Joint List says it will back Eisenkot to form Israel's next government
The alliance, which comprises three Arab-led factions, said its decision came despite the opposition's failure to sufficiently challenge Netanyahu's political direction, incitement against Arab citizens and attempts to undermine the legitimacy of their electoral choices. However, the endorsements do not necessarily mean the Arab parties will join an Eisenkot-led government. The Joint List has said it is prepared to support an opposition government from outside the governing coalition, rather than take ministerial positions.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/arab-led-joint-list-says-it-will-back-eisenkot-form-israels-next-government
PUK quits Iraqi Kurdistan government, deepening power struggle
The announcement came a day after the regional parliament met for the first time after nearly two years of political paralysis. The session was boycotted by the PUK and allied parties that had pushed for the KDP to postpone it until a consensus could be reached on the allocation of top government positions.
https://www.newarab.com/news/puk-quits-iraqi-kurdistan-government-deepening-power-struggle
Reform Councillor Charged With Rape and Making Indecent Images of a Child
George Madgwick, 37, represents North East Havant on the council, where he leads the Reform group. He was charged on Tuesday with a total of 35 offences, which also include eight counts of actual bodily harm, two counts of assault by penetration, two counts of sexual assault and two counts of controlling and coercive behaviour.
https://novaramedia.com/2026/11/03/reform-councillor-charged-with-rape-and-making-indecent-images-of-a-child/
France on strike: 1,500 walkouts and 250 marches for a different future
A third of the country’s schools were closed and work stopped at oil refineries and nuclear plants. Transport ground to a halt in many regions, and hundreds of thousands marched against the government despite last-minute police instructions rerouting many of the planned demonstrations.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/france-strike-1500-walkouts-and-250-marches-different-future
Milei links socialism to fascism in speech in front of Spainish PM Sánchez
A central theme was his contention that socialism and fascism share the same characteristics. Drawing on a phrase attributed to writer and diplomat Salvador de Madariaga, he declared: “Socialism is fascist in politics and fascism is socialist in economics.” “Both doctrines (socialism and fascism) concentrate control over individual decisions in the hands of a minority and make economic dependence an instrument of political domination,” he continued. “The fascist maxim, everything within the State, nothing outside the State, nothing against the State, describes socialist states,” Milei said.
https://www.batimes.com.ar/news/world/milei-links-socialism-to-fascism-in-speech-before-spain-pm-sanchez.phtml
https://archive.ph/fMIPa
Colombia’s labor unions and social organizations call national strike on November 19
In a press statement, the organizations accused De la Espriella of, among other things, dismantling the “social, environmental, trade union, and labor rights achieved during the government of Gustavo Petro,” and surrendering sovereignty and kneeling before the imperialist government of the United States.”
https://colombiareports.com/colombias-labor-unions-and-social-organizations-call-national-strike-on-november-19/
US Pushing for Permanent Venezuela Military Presence: New York Times
The US currently has SOFA agreements in place with several Latin American countries, including Paraguay, Ecuador, Panama, and Trinidad and Tobago, to “address shared threats such as drug trafficking and transnational organized crime.” Washington likewise operates multiple bases in the hemisphere and recently launched the “Shield of the Americas” initiative alongside regional allies with the declared purpose of tackling transnational crime and illegal immigration.
https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/us-pushing-for-permanent-venezuela-military-presence-new-york-times/
South Korea says it will expand naval operations closer to strait of Hormuz
The government is to submit a motion to parliament that would expand the Cheonghae unit’s area of operation to waters near the port of Duqm in Oman, which is about 650km (403 miles) away from the strait. The motion also needs to be approved by President Lee Jae Myung and the cabinet.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/nov/05/south-korea-to-expand-anti-piracy-unit-strait-of-hormuz
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> African nations seek security ties with Turkey through ‘Somalia model’
>'Pipe dream': Turkey's plan to redraw Middle East energy routes after Iran
>Saudi Arabia seeks Qatar-style Turkish military base
why he is so successful
> African nations seek security ties with Turkey through ‘Somalia model’
>'Pipe dream': Turkey's plan to redraw Middle East energy routes after Iran
>Saudi Arabia seeks Qatar-style Turkish military base
why he is so successful
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bannedthought.net
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Books scanned by Ismail from eregime.org that were uploaded to archive.org
https://archive.org/details/@ismail_badiou
The Great Soviet Encyclopedia: Articles from the GSE tend to be towards the bottom.
https://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/
EcuRed: Cuba's online encyclopedia
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Books on libcom.org
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Dictionary of Revolutionary Marxism
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/EDU/ ebook share thread
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Pre-Marxist Economics (Marx studied these thinkers before writing Capital and Theories of Surplus Value)
https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/economics/index.htm
Principle writings of Karl Marx on political economy, 1844-1883
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/subject/economy/index.htm
Speeches and Articles of Marx and Engels on Free Trade and Protectionism, 1847-1888
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Then the MLs
Then the anti-imperialists
Then the dengists/ziggers
A new world is rising. An spectre has been haunting leftypol and now it's not only materialised, but breaching containment even between libs.
It's ultra time. May the councils have power to bring wage labor down.
The torch of radical vogue is passing to a new subject
First the anarchists were in vogueThen the MLs
Then the anti-imperialists
Then the dengists/ziggers
A new world is rising. An spectre has been haunting leftypol and now it's not only materialised, but breaching containment even between libs.
It's ultra time. May the councils have power to bring wage labor down.
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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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Material analysis for why the jucheschizo now posts Muslim porn
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Material analysis for why the jucheschizo now posts Muslim porn
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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?
/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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Do some of you still find the concept of the Old Left, particularly those who hold socially conservative views while maintaining economically left-wing or anti-capitalist positions, politically foreign or difficult to reconcile with contemporary left-wing politics in America?
I'm asking this because a little while ago, a person sent me a message saying that the concept of socially conservative leftists was somewhat foreign to them, as the variation of leftism that most people here are exposed to tends to incorporate both economically left-wing and socially progressive values. Initially, they assumed an inherent contradiction between being socially conservative and economically left-wing, since the two are often treated as politically incompatible in contemporary American politics.
However, historically, that hasn't always been the case, especially when you look at older generations of leftists, traditional labor movements, and socialist movements outside the Western world(e.g., Christians for National Liberation (CNL) in the Philippines, Nyerere's Ujamaa in Tanzania, Nasserism in Egypt, and Ba'athist Arab socialism in Iraq, etc.), where anti-capitalist economic positions have often coexisted with socially conservative attitudes toward religion, family structures, gender roles, etc.
I grew up in this tradition, as did my father and his father before him (none of whom were particularly religious, btw). The men in my life believed that a post-capitalist society would still need socially conservative values in order to promote a functional collective because, say, for example, if you're trying to build a society around collective ownership and mutual responsibility, how exactly would that society function if everyone prioritized their individual desires over their obligations to their families and communities?
From their perspective, simply abolishing capitalism wouldn't mitigate selfishness or the tendency to prioritize personal interests over the collective good. They believed that traditional family structures, intergenerational obligations, and certain cultural expectations helped cultivate the sense of responsibility necessary for a socialist society to function. In other words, economic collectivism needed to be accompanied by a social and cultural framework that encouraged people to place the well-being of their communities above their individual interests. My father isn't a campist either, and he doesn't believe leftists should automatically defend authoritarian governments because they oppose Western imperialism; his social conservatism is rooted more in his connection to our culture and his desire to preserve cultural continuity and collective responsibility across the generations.
Since migrating here in my youth, I've obviously adopted many socially progressive values that differ from those of my father, grandfather, and my entire hometown. However, my support for these values largely comes from my belief that people shouldn't be forced to adhere to traditional cultural expectations simply because they're considered essential to maintaining social cohesion or preserving cultural identity. I tend to view it through an analogy where a particular therapeutic modality might be appropriate for one person but not necessarily for another. Just because someone finds a culturally conservative life meaningful or fulfilling doesn't mean we should assume that everyone else would benefit from following that same path.
But I digress. Do some of you still find socially conservative leftists hard to wrap your head around, or is this something you're already familiar with
Do some of you still find the concept of the Old Left, particularly those who hold socially conservative views while maintaining economically left-wing or anti-capitalist positions, politically foreign or difficult to reconcile with contemporary left-wing politics in America?
I'm asking this because a little while ago, a person sent me a message saying that the concept of socially conservative leftists was somewhat foreign to them, as the variation of leftism that most people here are exposed to tends to incorporate both economically left-wing and socially progressive values. Initially, they assumed an inherent contradiction between being socially conservative and economically left-wing, since the two are often treated as politically incompatible in contemporary American politics.
However, historically, that hasn't always been the case, especially when you look at older generations of leftists, traditional labor movements, and socialist movements outside the Western world(e.g., Christians for National Liberation (CNL) in the Philippines, Nyerere's Ujamaa in Tanzania, Nasserism in Egypt, and Ba'athist Arab socialism in Iraq, etc.), where anti-capitalist economic positions have often coexisted with socially conservative attitudes toward religion, family structures, gender roles, etc.
I grew up in this tradition, as did my father and his father before him (none of whom were particularly religious, btw). The men in my life believed that a post-capitalist society would still need socially conservative values in order to promote a functional collective because, say, for example, if you're trying to build a society around collective ownership and mutual responsibility, how exactly would that society function if everyone prioritized their individual desires over their obligations to their families and communities?
From their perspective, simply abolishing capitalism wouldn't mitigate selfishness or the tendency to prioritize personal interests over the collective good. They believed that traditional family structures, intergenerational obligations, and certain cultural expectations helped cultivate the sense of responsibility necessary for a socialist society to function. In other words, economic collectivism needed to be accompanied by a social and cultural framework that encouraged people to place the well-being of their communities above their individual interests. My father isn't a campist either, and he doesn't believe leftists should automatically defend authoritarian governments because they oppose Western imperialism; his social conservatism is rooted more in his connection to our culture and his desire to preserve cultural continuity and collective responsibility across the generations.
Since migrating here in my youth, I've obviously adopted many socially progressive values that differ from those of my father, grandfather, and my entire hometown. However, my support for these values largely comes from my belief that people shouldn't be forced to adhere to traditional cultural expectations simply because they're considered essential to maintaining social cohesion or preserving cultural identity. I tend to view it through an analogy where a particular therapeutic modality might be appropriate for one person but not necessarily for another. Just because someone finds a culturally conservative life meaningful or fulfilling doesn't mean we should assume that everyone else would benefit from following that same path.
But I digress. Do some of you still find socially conservative leftists hard to wrap your head around, or is this something you're already familiar with
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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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/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
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I personally subscribe to the idea that we shouldn't hold back when discussing the negative aspects of religion, whether it's Christianity, Islam, or any other religion, especially in academia. However, I also recognize that these discussions can have political consequences, particularly when conservatives use criticisms of religious teachings to justify prejudice, discrimination, or hostility toward religious minorities.
That being said, I don't think the potential for these criticisms to be weaponized should automatically discourage us from critically examining the theological contents of a religion, especially when certain teachings have historically been used to justify oppressive social and political practices. Otherwise, we risk applying different standards of scrutiny depending on which religion we're discussing.
As a leftist, I don't really like it when other leftists focus exclusively on Western imperialism, NATO, and European colonialism when discussing the negative aspects of non-Western societies and religious traditions. While these historical and political forces have undoubtedly influenced how religion has developed and been practiced, I don't think it's academically sound to attribute every problematic theological teaching or social practice to Western influence. Doing so can inadvertently strip non-Western societies of their own historical agency, as though their religious and political institutions were incapable of developing oppressive practices independently of European colonialism.
I know that Western liberals and leftists often use phrases like "All religions are like this," "Christianity does that too," or "It's not exclusive to Islam" when responding to criticisms of Islamic theology. And while I don't necessarily disagree with those statements, I think they sometimes miss the point of the criticism being made. Just because Christianity has similar teachings or a history of comparable religious behavior doesn't mean those found within Islam should be exempt from scrutiny. If anything, shouldn't that be an argument for holding both religions to the same standard rather than using one to deflect criticism of the other?
I don't think it's particularly controversial in left-wing spaces to criticize Biblical passages concerning slavery, the treatment of women, homosexuality, or divinely sanctioned violence. Yet, when discussing similar subjects within Islamic theology, I've noticed that some people become more concerned about the political implications of the criticism itself rather than engaging with its actual substance.
Again, I'm not suggesting that Muslims universally interpret their religious texts in the same way, nor am I arguing that Islamic theology is inherently more oppressive than Christian or Jewish theology. However, there's a difference between acknowledging that complexity and being unwilling to critically examine the theological foundations themselves. We should be able to discuss whether particular Quranic passages, hadiths, or actions attributed to Muhammad are morally defensible without automatically treating such discussions as attacks against Muslims especially in Academic spaces.
To be frank with you, I'm someone originally from the Global South who attended ESL classes during my youth, and pretty much all my homies are first-generation immigrants (e.g., Jews, Arab Muslims, Arab Christians, Turks, and Kurds). Our conversations about religion, politics, and culture aren't always what Western progressives would consider politically correct. We're pretty comfortable criticizing each other's cultural traditions, including our own, and we don't necessarily interpret those criticisms as personal attacks against our identities. That said, this doesn't mean prejudices don't exist within our communities or that everyone from these backgrounds approaches these conversations the same way. However, I sometimes get the impression that Western progressives still remain uncomfortable with these discussions than the people who actually grew up within the religious and cultural backgrounds being criticized.
What are your thoughts?
Is there a way to critically examine Islamic theology without that criticism being interpreted as pr
prejudice against Muslims or that you want regime change somewhere?I personally subscribe to the idea that we shouldn't hold back when discussing the negative aspects of religion, whether it's Christianity, Islam, or any other religion, especially in academia. However, I also recognize that these discussions can have political consequences, particularly when conservatives use criticisms of religious teachings to justify prejudice, discrimination, or hostility toward religious minorities.
That being said, I don't think the potential for these criticisms to be weaponized should automatically discourage us from critically examining the theological contents of a religion, especially when certain teachings have historically been used to justify oppressive social and political practices. Otherwise, we risk applying different standards of scrutiny depending on which religion we're discussing.
As a leftist, I don't really like it when other leftists focus exclusively on Western imperialism, NATO, and European colonialism when discussing the negative aspects of non-Western societies and religious traditions. While these historical and political forces have undoubtedly influenced how religion has developed and been practiced, I don't think it's academically sound to attribute every problematic theological teaching or social practice to Western influence. Doing so can inadvertently strip non-Western societies of their own historical agency, as though their religious and political institutions were incapable of developing oppressive practices independently of European colonialism.
I know that Western liberals and leftists often use phrases like "All religions are like this," "Christianity does that too," or "It's not exclusive to Islam" when responding to criticisms of Islamic theology. And while I don't necessarily disagree with those statements, I think they sometimes miss the point of the criticism being made. Just because Christianity has similar teachings or a history of comparable religious behavior doesn't mean those found within Islam should be exempt from scrutiny. If anything, shouldn't that be an argument for holding both religions to the same standard rather than using one to deflect criticism of the other?
I don't think it's particularly controversial in left-wing spaces to criticize Biblical passages concerning slavery, the treatment of women, homosexuality, or divinely sanctioned violence. Yet, when discussing similar subjects within Islamic theology, I've noticed that some people become more concerned about the political implications of the criticism itself rather than engaging with its actual substance.
Again, I'm not suggesting that Muslims universally interpret their religious texts in the same way, nor am I arguing that Islamic theology is inherently more oppressive than Christian or Jewish theology. However, there's a difference between acknowledging that complexity and being unwilling to critically examine the theological foundations themselves. We should be able to discuss whether particular Quranic passages, hadiths, or actions attributed to Muhammad are morally defensible without automatically treating such discussions as attacks against Muslims especially in Academic spaces.
To be frank with you, I'm someone originally from the Global South who attended ESL classes during my youth, and pretty much all my homies are first-generation immigrants (e.g., Jews, Arab Muslims, Arab Christians, Turks, and Kurds). Our conversations about religion, politics, and culture aren't always what Western progressives would consider politically correct. We're pretty comfortable criticizing each other's cultural traditions, including our own, and we don't necessarily interpret those criticisms as personal attacks against our identities. That said, this doesn't mean prejudices don't exist within our communities or that everyone from these backgrounds approaches these conversations the same way. However, I sometimes get the impression that Western progressives still remain uncomfortable with these discussions than the people who actually grew up within the religious and cultural backgrounds being criticized.
What are your thoughts?
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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
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I am worried about how capital will transform after this jndustrial revolution fleshes out. There is not a single job I can think of that cannot be stripped of labour-value and worth to society - even the systems automating functional work can end up automating themselves & their creation, with nothing but CEO-technocrats aligning said systems for personal benefits.
What the fuck happened to this guy?
I remember "Yang Gang" was everywhere in the late 2010s, he saw what AI was going to do before anyone besides MIT's AI LAB even knew what LLMs were, how did he lose relevancy PRECISELY when he was most needed?I am worried about how capital will transform after this jndustrial revolution fleshes out. There is not a single job I can think of that cannot be stripped of labour-value and worth to society - even the systems automating functional work can end up automating themselves & their creation, with nothing but CEO-technocrats aligning said systems for personal benefits.
R: 557 / I: 317
>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.
If your original content is good enough, it would most likely be shared on the /leftypol/ twitter account!
Make sure to follow us and feel free to leave suggestions on this thread~
https://twitter.com/leftypol_org
https://xcancel.com/leftypol_org
Previous Thread (Mods, archive pls?)>>2515750
New Booru:
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OC Thread 19.0
Thread dedicated to /leftypol/ original content.>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.
If your original content is good enough, it would most likely be shared on the /leftypol/ twitter account!
Make sure to follow us and feel free to leave suggestions on this thread~
https://twitter.com/leftypol_org
https://xcancel.com/leftypol_org
Previous Thread (Mods, archive pls?)
New Booru:
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R: 6 / I: 2
Glory to the DSA
Thanks to Chairman Mamdani's guidance, the left is ascending in the imperial core! Can't wait for 2028! A red wave is coming! I can feel it! I know I am speaking for all of us when I say 4 more years for Mamdani! 4 More years for AOC! Long people the United Soviet States of America! My faith in Christ and Marx has been restored, so chuffed.
R: 213 / I: 57
They think Trump will do that by making people ignore his involvement in child abuse
Trump on the Epstein list is "a step toward normalization"
These fags want to remove the age of consent laws and normalize pedophiliaThey think Trump will do that by making people ignore his involvement in child abuse
R: 12 / I: 4
Let us dream too. Give me your dream balkamerika
Balkanising America - let's play pretend
murican chuds routinely fantasise about balkanising Russia, China, Iran (to a lesser degree Turkey and India too), and have actually balkanised the USSR and Yugoslavia in the past.Let us dream too. Give me your dream balkamerika
R: 2 / I: 0
we need to take advantage of republicans weakness, not just laughter but intentional shifting of public consciousness, the maga movement is an irrational exploitative scourge on this country and destroying it is one step we must take to make the standard more progressive.
We must shift the goal post using rhetoric, not safe language but aggressive language that is honest and representative of the people.
Americas brand of Conservatism must become a laughable ideology that no one takes seriously.
TLDR; We need to start a grassroots movement on the internet to start calling Trump “lame duck Donald”
we need to take advantage of republicans weakness, not just laughter but intentional shifting of public consciousness, the maga movement is an irrational exploitative scourge on this country and destroying it is one step we must take to make the standard more progressive.
We must shift the goal post using rhetoric, not safe language but aggressive language that is honest and representative of the people.
Americas brand of Conservatism must become a laughable ideology that no one takes seriously.
TLDR; We need to start a grassroots movement on the internet to start calling Trump “lame duck Donald”
R: 9 / I: 4
TOTAL CHUD DEATH
Welcome to the United Islamo-Bolshevik States of America! Will the orangeman go to jail? or will the democrats do nothing at all, like always. DOes nothing ever happen?
R: 46 / I: 2
Why do westoid liberals obsessed with the Dalai Lama? Like he was this heckin wholesome person who was fighting against le tyranny and was a heckin good person, now that's funny because now everyone hates him
Why do westoid liberals obsessed with the Dalai Lama? Like he was this heckin wholesome person who was fighting against le tyranny and was a heckin good person, now that's funny because now everyone hates him
R: 4 / I: 0
"The new wage structure will be implemented from December, and workers will receive their first salaries under the revised pay scale in January," Akter said. The six-member board was formed this week amid growing labour unrest and includes representatives of workers and factory owners. It is responsible for reviewing pay in Bangladesh's garment industry. Workers are demanding the monthly minimum wage be raised to 30,000 taka ($242) from 12,500 taka, saying rising food, housing and transport costs have eroded their purchasing power.
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/bangladesh-wage-board-meets-garment-worker-protests-continue-2026-11-04/
Regime Threatens Migrant Workers in Thailand Over Document Boycott
Migrants are boycotting the CI process as the cash-strapped junta attempts to wring more money out of them. Workers applying for the document must now prove that they remit at least 25 percent of their wages to Myanmar through official channels, as well as a 2 percent income tax payment. Official channels offer far less favorable exchange rates than unofficial channels.
https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/regime-threatens-migrant-workers-in-thailand-over-document-boycott.html
Fisherfolk and community residents hold Revillas accountable for demolition in Cavite
“The floating houses here in Longos are now being destroyed and suddenly dragged away without notice. I could not stop it because the perpetrators are coast guards. I could do nothing—even my dog was taken away,” recounted Ricardo Bagongong, fisherfolk leader and organizer of Pambansang Lakas ng Mamamalakaya ng Pilipinas (Pamalakaya, or National Federation of Small Fisherfolk Organizations in the Philippines)-Cavite.
https://philippinerevolution.nu/angbayan/fisherfolk-and-community-residents-hold-revillas-accountable-for-demolition-in-cavite/
Indonesia deploys thousands of troops after generals arrested over wiretapping allegations
Authorities have not confirmed that the deployment is connected to the wiretapping probe. The first phase began on Monday with 2,100 personnel from units already stationed in Jakarta. Troops from outside the capital were to start arriving Wednesday, bringing the total number of personnel involved to 20,980, according to the navy operations assistant, Vice Adm. Yayan Sofiyan.
https://apnews.com/article/indonesia-security-forces-deployment-wiretapping-8e598661a904d8af89b35ea04d420506
UK to deploy facial recognition in biggest-ever immigration crackdown
The technology will be used to identify people “seeking to re-enter the UK unlawfully”, target those subject to removal action and to crack down on broader “immigration-related criminality”. The Home Office states the cameras will be used to locate undocumented people so it can resolve their cases, which it says will reduce “disruption to the wider public compared to repeated enforcement visits at residential addresses or workplaces”.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/nov/04/uk-deploy-facial-recognition-biggest-ever-immigration-crackdown
Almost 200,000 people at risk of needing foodbanks in Northern Ireland
While the charity welcomed action announced in the UK government’s Budget last week to tackle the cost of living, it urged the Stormont Executive to redouble its efforts to ensure more people in Northern Ireland can afford at least the essentials.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/almost-200000-people-risk-needing-foodbanks-northern-ireland
Danish students join European protest wave against education funding cuts
Since 1970, all students enrolled in schools or university in Denmark over the age of 18 have automatically received the student allowance regardless of their parents’ income. Students currently receive 1,154 kroner ($173) a month for those who live with their parents, and 7,426 kroner ($1,116) for those who live on their own. Under the new government proposal, the allowance would be abolished for students living with parents earning over 700,000 Danish kroner ($105,248).
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/11/4/danish-students-join-european-protest-wave-against-education-funding-cuts
https://archive.ph/MdRXI
Israel punishes Palestinian prisoners with solitary confinement for making a cake
The prisoners at Lavi prison had saved up food over several days to make the cake in order to express hope that the vote will lead to the minister's exit from the government. Prison guards found the cake in a cell, prompting officials to take disciplinary measures against the eight and send them to solitary confinement. Ben-Gvir praised prison officials for the decision and mocked prisoners' lack of access to food.
https://www.newarab.com/news/israel-puts-palestinian-prisoners-solitary-making-cake
Armed young men move among civilians amid tensions in Al-Hasakah
The incident comes amid continuing threats and attacks against Kurdish students and protesters demanding the right to education in their mother tongue.
https://www.syriahr.com/en/387808/
Iran-aligned Iraqi armed faction rejects amendment to parliamentary law
The amendments target core articles in the draft legislation to place PMF brigades – which include Nujaba – under a unified military command, prevent the force from rivaling the Iraqi Army in armament and organization, and relocate its bases outside major cities. The revisions also restrict the independent movement of PMF units, reduce the sweeping privileges of faction leaders and regiment commanders, enforce stricter retirement rules, and sever ties between armed factions and political parties.
https://www.rudaw.net/english/categories/iraq/1080024
US contractor admits passing US top-secret information to Ethiopia in its war against rebels
Lemma, of Silver Spring, Maryland, pleaded guilty Tuesday to conspiring to transmit national defense information to a foreign government. He worked as an information technology contractor at the State Department, Justice Department and National Reconnaissance Office, prosecutors said.
https://apnews.com/article/ethiopia-espionage-contractor-intelligence-us-topsecret-2665bd9c0ffb8a50ad406e2b55ea85dd
ANC faces anger over poor services as South Africans vote in local elections
The former liberation movement, which Nelson Mandela led to power in 1994 at the end of apartheid as South Africa’s first black president, is still likely to be the largest party. However, polls showed it getting less than a third of the vote, down from 45.6% at the last municipal elections in 2021 and 40.2% in 2024’s national elections.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/nov/04/anc-south-africa-local-elections-water-outages-power-cuts
News 11/4/26
Bangladesh agrees new garment pay scale from December amid protests"The new wage structure will be implemented from December, and workers will receive their first salaries under the revised pay scale in January," Akter said. The six-member board was formed this week amid growing labour unrest and includes representatives of workers and factory owners. It is responsible for reviewing pay in Bangladesh's garment industry. Workers are demanding the monthly minimum wage be raised to 30,000 taka ($242) from 12,500 taka, saying rising food, housing and transport costs have eroded their purchasing power.
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/bangladesh-wage-board-meets-garment-worker-protests-continue-2026-11-04/
Regime Threatens Migrant Workers in Thailand Over Document Boycott
Migrants are boycotting the CI process as the cash-strapped junta attempts to wring more money out of them. Workers applying for the document must now prove that they remit at least 25 percent of their wages to Myanmar through official channels, as well as a 2 percent income tax payment. Official channels offer far less favorable exchange rates than unofficial channels.
https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/regime-threatens-migrant-workers-in-thailand-over-document-boycott.html
Fisherfolk and community residents hold Revillas accountable for demolition in Cavite
“The floating houses here in Longos are now being destroyed and suddenly dragged away without notice. I could not stop it because the perpetrators are coast guards. I could do nothing—even my dog was taken away,” recounted Ricardo Bagongong, fisherfolk leader and organizer of Pambansang Lakas ng Mamamalakaya ng Pilipinas (Pamalakaya, or National Federation of Small Fisherfolk Organizations in the Philippines)-Cavite.
https://philippinerevolution.nu/angbayan/fisherfolk-and-community-residents-hold-revillas-accountable-for-demolition-in-cavite/
Indonesia deploys thousands of troops after generals arrested over wiretapping allegations
Authorities have not confirmed that the deployment is connected to the wiretapping probe. The first phase began on Monday with 2,100 personnel from units already stationed in Jakarta. Troops from outside the capital were to start arriving Wednesday, bringing the total number of personnel involved to 20,980, according to the navy operations assistant, Vice Adm. Yayan Sofiyan.
https://apnews.com/article/indonesia-security-forces-deployment-wiretapping-8e598661a904d8af89b35ea04d420506
UK to deploy facial recognition in biggest-ever immigration crackdown
The technology will be used to identify people “seeking to re-enter the UK unlawfully”, target those subject to removal action and to crack down on broader “immigration-related criminality”. The Home Office states the cameras will be used to locate undocumented people so it can resolve their cases, which it says will reduce “disruption to the wider public compared to repeated enforcement visits at residential addresses or workplaces”.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/nov/04/uk-deploy-facial-recognition-biggest-ever-immigration-crackdown
Almost 200,000 people at risk of needing foodbanks in Northern Ireland
While the charity welcomed action announced in the UK government’s Budget last week to tackle the cost of living, it urged the Stormont Executive to redouble its efforts to ensure more people in Northern Ireland can afford at least the essentials.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/almost-200000-people-risk-needing-foodbanks-northern-ireland
Danish students join European protest wave against education funding cuts
Since 1970, all students enrolled in schools or university in Denmark over the age of 18 have automatically received the student allowance regardless of their parents’ income. Students currently receive 1,154 kroner ($173) a month for those who live with their parents, and 7,426 kroner ($1,116) for those who live on their own. Under the new government proposal, the allowance would be abolished for students living with parents earning over 700,000 Danish kroner ($105,248).
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/11/4/danish-students-join-european-protest-wave-against-education-funding-cuts
https://archive.ph/MdRXI
Israel punishes Palestinian prisoners with solitary confinement for making a cake
The prisoners at Lavi prison had saved up food over several days to make the cake in order to express hope that the vote will lead to the minister's exit from the government. Prison guards found the cake in a cell, prompting officials to take disciplinary measures against the eight and send them to solitary confinement. Ben-Gvir praised prison officials for the decision and mocked prisoners' lack of access to food.
https://www.newarab.com/news/israel-puts-palestinian-prisoners-solitary-making-cake
Armed young men move among civilians amid tensions in Al-Hasakah
The incident comes amid continuing threats and attacks against Kurdish students and protesters demanding the right to education in their mother tongue.
https://www.syriahr.com/en/387808/
Iran-aligned Iraqi armed faction rejects amendment to parliamentary law
The amendments target core articles in the draft legislation to place PMF brigades – which include Nujaba – under a unified military command, prevent the force from rivaling the Iraqi Army in armament and organization, and relocate its bases outside major cities. The revisions also restrict the independent movement of PMF units, reduce the sweeping privileges of faction leaders and regiment commanders, enforce stricter retirement rules, and sever ties between armed factions and political parties.
https://www.rudaw.net/english/categories/iraq/1080024
US contractor admits passing US top-secret information to Ethiopia in its war against rebels
Lemma, of Silver Spring, Maryland, pleaded guilty Tuesday to conspiring to transmit national defense information to a foreign government. He worked as an information technology contractor at the State Department, Justice Department and National Reconnaissance Office, prosecutors said.
https://apnews.com/article/ethiopia-espionage-contractor-intelligence-us-topsecret-2665bd9c0ffb8a50ad406e2b55ea85dd
ANC faces anger over poor services as South Africans vote in local elections
The former liberation movement, which Nelson Mandela led to power in 1994 at the end of apartheid as South Africa’s first black president, is still likely to be the largest party. However, polls showed it getting less than a third of the vote, down from 45.6% at the last municipal elections in 2021 and 40.2% in 2024’s national elections.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/nov/04/anc-south-africa-local-elections-water-outages-power-cuts
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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.
R: 2 / I: 1
>oy vey shut it down, the goyim know too much
this is what neo nazis say whenever they notice the jews, and then they perceive that the jews are shutting down their noticing.
now i have heard some non-nazis start to say this because of zionism and so on, which is fine, i am not opposed to anti-zionism
my question is much more general
the idea is that jews, being a bigoted ingroup who are prejudice towards an outgroup, "goyim", deploy strategies which are effective at maintaining their power and privilege over the outgroup, and if these strategies are noticed by the outgroup, they change their strategies into new strategies which have not yet been noticed and are difficult to counter… my question is this… isn't that just smart? isn't that just adaptation? shouldn't everyone try to do that in order to win? why is it bad when jews do it, and what is the difference from when whites, bourgeoisie, or even proletarian vanguards do it?
shouldn't you try really hard to shut down the pattern noticing of your enemies? shouldn't you try really hard to employ strategies which are difficult to counter and go unnoticed by your enemies? What's so jewish about that?
>oy vey shut it down, the goyim know too much
this is what neo nazis say whenever they notice the jews, and then they perceive that the jews are shutting down their noticing.
now i have heard some non-nazis start to say this because of zionism and so on, which is fine, i am not opposed to anti-zionism
my question is much more general
the idea is that jews, being a bigoted ingroup who are prejudice towards an outgroup, "goyim", deploy strategies which are effective at maintaining their power and privilege over the outgroup, and if these strategies are noticed by the outgroup, they change their strategies into new strategies which have not yet been noticed and are difficult to counter… my question is this… isn't that just smart? isn't that just adaptation? shouldn't everyone try to do that in order to win? why is it bad when jews do it, and what is the difference from when whites, bourgeoisie, or even proletarian vanguards do it?
shouldn't you try really hard to shut down the pattern noticing of your enemies? shouldn't you try really hard to employ strategies which are difficult to counter and go unnoticed by your enemies? What's so jewish about that?
R: 622 / I: 156 (full)
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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.
R: 620 / I: 159 (full)
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https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323729
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323733
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If you think about it, complete freedom of speech isn't really freedom of speech, because only the rich with their think tanks and bot farms will be able to control opinion, while marginalized people, on the contrary, won't be able to speak out due to bullying and general hostility towards them.
If you think about it, complete freedom of speech isn't really freedom of speech, because only the rich with their think tanks and bot farms will be able to control opinion, while marginalized people, on the contrary, won't be able to speak out due to bullying and general hostility towards them.
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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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Discussion on Neo-Dengists
What is the leftypol consensus on Western Neo-Dengist economics, specifically economists such as Isabella Weber, that are making huge waves right now?
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>The senate will almost be won by the dems, but by 1 senator it will still be a republican hold
>The impeachment process of trump will begin immidently after midterms, easily passing congress but will be held up in the senate and likely fail to actually remove him from office
>Trump will anounce an national emergency related to the midterm election
>Republicans will accuse voter fraud was commited by dems
>Gridlock will happen throughout the rest of 2026-2029, with congress passing nearly nothing
>because of the said gridlock, trump will continue using executive to continue everything
>1-5 dem congress members will be arrested by the FBI in relation to voter fraud, causing a crisis
>moderate dems will roll over but the DSA will declare a general strike against the executive branch
>the general strike will expand to over 4 million
>second great depression or something
>Trump attempts to run in 2028 using the national crisis as justification
>DSA runs nationally in 2028
>dems start attempt to purge the DSA from its party
>in 2028 the election will say trump lost in democrat media, while republican media will claim he won
>second civil war
My Predictions:
>The dems will win congress (duh)>The senate will almost be won by the dems, but by 1 senator it will still be a republican hold
>The impeachment process of trump will begin immidently after midterms, easily passing congress but will be held up in the senate and likely fail to actually remove him from office
>Trump will anounce an national emergency related to the midterm election
>Republicans will accuse voter fraud was commited by dems
>Gridlock will happen throughout the rest of 2026-2029, with congress passing nearly nothing
>because of the said gridlock, trump will continue using executive to continue everything
>1-5 dem congress members will be arrested by the FBI in relation to voter fraud, causing a crisis
>moderate dems will roll over but the DSA will declare a general strike against the executive branch
>the general strike will expand to over 4 million
>second great depression or something
>Trump attempts to run in 2028 using the national crisis as justification
>DSA runs nationally in 2028
>dems start attempt to purge the DSA from its party
>in 2028 the election will say trump lost in democrat media, while republican media will claim he won
>second civil war
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It's Tuesday, November 3rd. And midterms in the USA. So, I'm reminding you that if you haven't voted already, it's time to vote.
GO VOTE.
GO TO THE POLLS AND GO VOTE.
Brazil could do it.
It's Tuesday, November 3rd. And midterms in the USA. So, I'm reminding you that if you haven't voted already, it's time to vote.
GO VOTE.
GO TO THE POLLS AND GO VOTE.
Brazil could do it.
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Has there ever been a case in history where a party publicly backed a genocide that it recognized and condemned? Or is this a newly found decadence introduced to this world by capital?
>by August 2025, the State Council Information Office's "Report on Human Rights Violations in the United States in 2024" accused Israel of committing genocide in Gaza with the complicity of the United States.
>The Haifa Bayport, which is operated by China's state-owned Shanghai International Port Group (SIPG), donated dozens of armored containers to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) as part of local corporate and social support efforts during the conflict.
>Israeli military units have predominantly utilized Autel EVO drones—commercial quadcopters produced by the Chinese company Autel that are built for photography and retail for roughly $3,000 according to Al-Jazeera.
Has there ever been a case in history where a party publicly backed a genocide that it recognized and condemned? Or is this a newly found decadence introduced to this world by capital?
>by August 2025, the State Council Information Office's "Report on Human Rights Violations in the United States in 2024" accused Israel of committing genocide in Gaza with the complicity of the United States.
>The Haifa Bayport, which is operated by China's state-owned Shanghai International Port Group (SIPG), donated dozens of armored containers to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) as part of local corporate and social support efforts during the conflict.
>Israeli military units have predominantly utilized Autel EVO drones—commercial quadcopters produced by the Chinese company Autel that are built for photography and retail for roughly $3,000 according to Al-Jazeera.
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Police identified the suspects as Presidential Chief of Staff Gen. Listyo Sigit Prabowo, National Police Legal Division head Insp. Gen. Ahrie Sonta Nasution and Insp. Gen. Eko Hadi Santoso, a senior instructor at the National Police Education and Training Institute. All three were detained at the National Police headquarters detention center, Safrudin said.
https://apnews.com/article/indonesia-police-illegal-wiretapping-president-prabowo-subianto-6355095547af3e3a0dc2b22768a09d35
Bangladesh garment workers stage fourth day of wage protests
In Ashulia, police fired tear gas and sound grenades after protesters threw bricks and stones at law enforcement personnel, said Mohammad Mominul Islam Bhuiyan, superintendent of Ashulia Industrial Police. Similar crowd-control measures were used in Dhaka's Mirpur area, police said. Additional security forces were deployed to contain the unrest, police said. Several factories in Gazipur and Ashulia again suspended operations or declared holidays after nearly 700 factories shut a day earlier.
https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/bangladesh-garment-workers-stage-fourth-day-wage-protests-2026-11-03/
Tens of thousands protest against Narendra Modi regime in Delhi
Opposition leaders have alleged the process gives Modi’s ruling Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) an electoral advantage, and have called for the resignation and impeachment of the chief election commissioner, Gyanesh Kumar. The BJP has denied the claims.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/nov/01/india-opposition-protest-rally-delhi
China’s Communist Party plenum targets passive ‘nice’ guys in anti-corruption push
The party has long criticised cadres who play it safe by being “nice” and trade political favours to build their own cliques, but explicitly targeting such behaviour in the fifth plenum’s core resolution marks a rare escalation. The timing of the warning is also significant, coming ahead of the party reshuffle expected at the next national congress in late 2027.
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3373017/chinas-communist-party-plenum-targets-passive-nice-guys-anti-corruption-push?module=top_story&pgtype=section
https://archive.ph/k89As
Foreign fighters attempt to flee Syria through Kobani
According to sources, they chose the Kobani route because they feared being arrested and sent back to Syria elsewhere, believing they had a better chance of reaching Turkey through a predominantly Kurdish area. The attempted departure comes amid uncertainty over the future of foreign fighters in Syria, including possible integration into the new military structure and the fate of units with foreign fighters in their ranks.
https://www.syriahr.com/en/387744/
Lebanon cuts power to public bodies as electricity crisis deepens
The decision, which began to take effect on Monday, marks a further escalation in Energy Minister Joe Saddi’s dispute with the government. Saddi recently began boycotting cabinet meetings over what he claims is the government’s failure to address his demands to increase power supply, reduce the burden of fuel costs and settle unpaid bills to the state-owned electricity company.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/11/3/lebanon-cuts-power-to-public-bodies-as-electricity-crisis-deepens
https://archive.ph/jmOhP
French judges probe war crimes complaint against Israeli army in Lebanon
The strike occurred "just a few hours before the ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hezbollah came into effect," the complaint stated, citing detailed research by Amnesty International and Forensic Architecture into the incident. AFP has reached out to the Israeli military for comment. Cherri told AFP he had taken legal action "for the dignity of all civilian victims".
https://www.newarab.com/news/french-judges-probe-complaint-israeli-war-crimes-lebanon
Students blockade French schools, universities as trade unions prepare for nationwide strike
Students blockaded at least 48 high schools in France on Tuesday, according to local authorities, as the country's trade unions prepare for a nationwide strike planned for November 5. The USL student union said 500 schools were blocked, while thousands of students also marched in Paris and several other cities.
https://www.france24.com/en/france/20261103-students-blockade-dozens-of-french-schools-and-universities
https://archive.ph/pjHJM
Europe on alert after supermarket freezers hit by cyber-attacks in 10 countries
Supermarkets have reported problems in Belgium, Estonia, Finland, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal, Germany and Sweden, and the significant increase in freezer temperatures has forced retailers to discard food. Temperatures in chains across Europe reportedly rose as high as 50C (122F). No-one has yet admitted carrying out the cyber-attacks.
https://www.British Broadcasting Corporation.com/news/articles/cwy8lm1m59mvo
https://archive.ph/lSw8c
Piles of rubbish, power cuts and potholes: anger grows over Johannesburg’s run-down infrastructure
One person said she had had no power for six months. Another said her mother had been forced to turn to loan sharks after receiving energy bills as high as 6,000 rand a month when her monthly pension was 2,000 rand. “If there is any organisation that is dysfunctional it is this organisation … it is failing,” one man said, drawing huge cheers from the audience.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/nov/01/anger-over-johannesburgs-run-down-infrastructure-elections
News 11/3/26
Indonesia detains 3 police generals suspected of wiretapping presidentPolice identified the suspects as Presidential Chief of Staff Gen. Listyo Sigit Prabowo, National Police Legal Division head Insp. Gen. Ahrie Sonta Nasution and Insp. Gen. Eko Hadi Santoso, a senior instructor at the National Police Education and Training Institute. All three were detained at the National Police headquarters detention center, Safrudin said.
https://apnews.com/article/indonesia-police-illegal-wiretapping-president-prabowo-subianto-6355095547af3e3a0dc2b22768a09d35
Bangladesh garment workers stage fourth day of wage protests
In Ashulia, police fired tear gas and sound grenades after protesters threw bricks and stones at law enforcement personnel, said Mohammad Mominul Islam Bhuiyan, superintendent of Ashulia Industrial Police. Similar crowd-control measures were used in Dhaka's Mirpur area, police said. Additional security forces were deployed to contain the unrest, police said. Several factories in Gazipur and Ashulia again suspended operations or declared holidays after nearly 700 factories shut a day earlier.
https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/bangladesh-garment-workers-stage-fourth-day-wage-protests-2026-11-03/
Tens of thousands protest against Narendra Modi regime in Delhi
Opposition leaders have alleged the process gives Modi’s ruling Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) an electoral advantage, and have called for the resignation and impeachment of the chief election commissioner, Gyanesh Kumar. The BJP has denied the claims.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/nov/01/india-opposition-protest-rally-delhi
China’s Communist Party plenum targets passive ‘nice’ guys in anti-corruption push
The party has long criticised cadres who play it safe by being “nice” and trade political favours to build their own cliques, but explicitly targeting such behaviour in the fifth plenum’s core resolution marks a rare escalation. The timing of the warning is also significant, coming ahead of the party reshuffle expected at the next national congress in late 2027.
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3373017/chinas-communist-party-plenum-targets-passive-nice-guys-anti-corruption-push?module=top_story&pgtype=section
https://archive.ph/k89As
Foreign fighters attempt to flee Syria through Kobani
According to sources, they chose the Kobani route because they feared being arrested and sent back to Syria elsewhere, believing they had a better chance of reaching Turkey through a predominantly Kurdish area. The attempted departure comes amid uncertainty over the future of foreign fighters in Syria, including possible integration into the new military structure and the fate of units with foreign fighters in their ranks.
https://www.syriahr.com/en/387744/
Lebanon cuts power to public bodies as electricity crisis deepens
The decision, which began to take effect on Monday, marks a further escalation in Energy Minister Joe Saddi’s dispute with the government. Saddi recently began boycotting cabinet meetings over what he claims is the government’s failure to address his demands to increase power supply, reduce the burden of fuel costs and settle unpaid bills to the state-owned electricity company.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/11/3/lebanon-cuts-power-to-public-bodies-as-electricity-crisis-deepens
https://archive.ph/jmOhP
French judges probe war crimes complaint against Israeli army in Lebanon
The strike occurred "just a few hours before the ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hezbollah came into effect," the complaint stated, citing detailed research by Amnesty International and Forensic Architecture into the incident. AFP has reached out to the Israeli military for comment. Cherri told AFP he had taken legal action "for the dignity of all civilian victims".
https://www.newarab.com/news/french-judges-probe-complaint-israeli-war-crimes-lebanon
Students blockade French schools, universities as trade unions prepare for nationwide strike
Students blockaded at least 48 high schools in France on Tuesday, according to local authorities, as the country's trade unions prepare for a nationwide strike planned for November 5. The USL student union said 500 schools were blocked, while thousands of students also marched in Paris and several other cities.
https://www.france24.com/en/france/20261103-students-blockade-dozens-of-french-schools-and-universities
https://archive.ph/pjHJM
Europe on alert after supermarket freezers hit by cyber-attacks in 10 countries
Supermarkets have reported problems in Belgium, Estonia, Finland, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal, Germany and Sweden, and the significant increase in freezer temperatures has forced retailers to discard food. Temperatures in chains across Europe reportedly rose as high as 50C (122F). No-one has yet admitted carrying out the cyber-attacks.
https://www.British Broadcasting Corporation.com/news/articles/cwy8lm1m59mvo
https://archive.ph/lSw8c
Piles of rubbish, power cuts and potholes: anger grows over Johannesburg’s run-down infrastructure
One person said she had had no power for six months. Another said her mother had been forced to turn to loan sharks after receiving energy bills as high as 6,000 rand a month when her monthly pension was 2,000 rand. “If there is any organisation that is dysfunctional it is this organisation … it is failing,” one man said, drawing huge cheers from the audience.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/nov/01/anger-over-johannesburgs-run-down-infrastructure-elections
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is reviosnist china today similar to a social_facist state?
i can't help but notice that the similarites between modren china today and pinochet's chile and italy under ᴉuᴉlossnW during the early years, i am a user from China myself btw
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class structure in the periphery isn't the same as in the imperial core, that much should be obvious to anyone familiar with the concept of imperialism/who's familiar with lenin's works or even some more recent books like monopoly capital by sweezy
is it then reasonable to treat books like catherine liu's book on PMC as anything more than a fun fact on how fruits of labour captured by MNCs via FDI get distributed in the imperial core with no relevance to your country's situation at large?
I ask because I got into an argument with someone over a podcast that talked about this, I essentially said that it is futile to discuss it in the periphery and it was somehow a "controversial" opinion to have
I dont want to post any random images so I attach a drawing I did
class structure in the periphery isn't the same as in the imperial core, that much should be obvious to anyone familiar with the concept of imperialism/who's familiar with lenin's works or even some more recent books like monopoly capital by sweezy
is it then reasonable to treat books like catherine liu's book on PMC as anything more than a fun fact on how fruits of labour captured by MNCs via FDI get distributed in the imperial core with no relevance to your country's situation at large?
I ask because I got into an argument with someone over a podcast that talked about this, I essentially said that it is futile to discuss it in the periphery and it was somehow a "controversial" opinion to have
I dont want to post any random images so I attach a drawing I did
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I came across these posts online. Does this mean there’s an American Christo-fascist conspiracy in the world that uses anti-LGBT populism to promote its agenda?
Translation of the post:
<Because since 2013, Russia has been involved in promoting a multinational conservative-religious propaganda campaign.
<Before 2013, nobody really cared about the fight for gay rights. In fact, anti-discrimination laws were even being prepared for adoption. These laws were supposed to protect LGBT people in the workplace and pave the way for further reforms.
<But in 2013, Russia was visited by Scott Douglas Lively, a right-wing conservative from California and one of the main architects of the international anti-gay propaganda movement. And I'm not fucking joking about the main architect part.
<He toured Europe and Africa, delivering lectures in every country, funded by churches and religious organizations, while meeting with local politicians and lawmakers. In every country he visited, he told Europeans and Africans about the supposed homosexual threat that was destroying their nations and would lead to their extinction. HE EVEN BROUGHT THE SAME PROGRAM TO AFRICA, USING THE SAME METHODS! He talked about how the United States wanted to corrupt them and lower their birth rates.
<He was responsible for introducing the death penalty for homosexuality in Uganda. He arrived in the country and began spreading fear among the local population. A few years later, they passed a law introducing the death penalty for homosexual acts.
<After that, he visited nine former Soviet countries. In eight out of those nine countries, discriminatory laws against LGBT people were passed following his visits.
<In 2007, he arrived in Russia and visited 50 Russian cities, delivering lectures and meeting with local politicians in each of them.
<In 2013, he wrote an open letter to the Russian people, urging the authorities to pass a law banning gay propaganda as soon as possible, warning them about the supposed threat.
<In 2013, the first version of Russia's anti-LGBT propaganda law was introduced.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Lively
<But this was only the beginning. Scott Lively was also active in countries of the Third World. He was helping spread fascist propaganda throughout Africa and the former USSR.
<Meanwhile, the bigwigs in the United States were preparing for a massive comeback of fascism in 2016.
<In 2016, under the cover of Trump's presidential campaign, a torrent of criticism and memes flooded popular culture:
"transhumanistS DIE IN 40% OF CASES! A NEOVAGINA IS A FESTERING WOUND FULL OF WORMS! UGLY FAGGOTS WANT TO KILL AND RAPE YOUR CHILDREN! TRANSGENDERISM WAS INVENTED BY JEWISH DOCTOR MONEY, WHO CUT OFF INFANTS' DICKS!"
<The comeback — a counterattack by uneducated fascists who had been hiding in society all this time, preparing for their return — had begun.
<At the same time, Britain experienced the biggest TERF surge in its history. The country itself left the EU, declaring that it no longer wanted anything to do with the "Gayropeans." Rowling, instead of writing more stories about wizards, began writing books about how transgender people murder women out of envy of their femininity.
<At the same time, this "youth culture" began filling up with inflated, completely fabricated news stories about how transgender people were destroying video games and how Netflix shows were boring because they featured faggotry.
<The sheer scale and amount of insane money poured into this gigantic international campaign cannot be underestimated!
<Even if, for fuck's sake, Elon Musk bought Twitter just to post about how doctors performing gender-affirming care on children should face the death penalty, his fucking entourage didn't hesitate to buy an entire information platform just so Musk could promote the film What Is a Woman?
The other pics show a letter to Putin from Lively, a homophobic website that praises Lively, and related photos.
I came across these posts online. Does this mean there’s an American Christo-fascist conspiracy in the world that uses anti-LGBT populism to promote its agenda?
Translation of the post:
<Because since 2013, Russia has been involved in promoting a multinational conservative-religious propaganda campaign.
<Before 2013, nobody really cared about the fight for gay rights. In fact, anti-discrimination laws were even being prepared for adoption. These laws were supposed to protect LGBT people in the workplace and pave the way for further reforms.
<But in 2013, Russia was visited by Scott Douglas Lively, a right-wing conservative from California and one of the main architects of the international anti-gay propaganda movement. And I'm not fucking joking about the main architect part.
<He toured Europe and Africa, delivering lectures in every country, funded by churches and religious organizations, while meeting with local politicians and lawmakers. In every country he visited, he told Europeans and Africans about the supposed homosexual threat that was destroying their nations and would lead to their extinction. HE EVEN BROUGHT THE SAME PROGRAM TO AFRICA, USING THE SAME METHODS! He talked about how the United States wanted to corrupt them and lower their birth rates.
<He was responsible for introducing the death penalty for homosexuality in Uganda. He arrived in the country and began spreading fear among the local population. A few years later, they passed a law introducing the death penalty for homosexual acts.
<After that, he visited nine former Soviet countries. In eight out of those nine countries, discriminatory laws against LGBT people were passed following his visits.
<In 2007, he arrived in Russia and visited 50 Russian cities, delivering lectures and meeting with local politicians in each of them.
<In 2013, he wrote an open letter to the Russian people, urging the authorities to pass a law banning gay propaganda as soon as possible, warning them about the supposed threat.
<In 2013, the first version of Russia's anti-LGBT propaganda law was introduced.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Lively
<But this was only the beginning. Scott Lively was also active in countries of the Third World. He was helping spread fascist propaganda throughout Africa and the former USSR.
<Meanwhile, the bigwigs in the United States were preparing for a massive comeback of fascism in 2016.
<In 2016, under the cover of Trump's presidential campaign, a torrent of criticism and memes flooded popular culture:
"transhumanistS DIE IN 40% OF CASES! A NEOVAGINA IS A FESTERING WOUND FULL OF WORMS! UGLY FAGGOTS WANT TO KILL AND RAPE YOUR CHILDREN! TRANSGENDERISM WAS INVENTED BY JEWISH DOCTOR MONEY, WHO CUT OFF INFANTS' DICKS!"
<The comeback — a counterattack by uneducated fascists who had been hiding in society all this time, preparing for their return — had begun.
<At the same time, Britain experienced the biggest TERF surge in its history. The country itself left the EU, declaring that it no longer wanted anything to do with the "Gayropeans." Rowling, instead of writing more stories about wizards, began writing books about how transgender people murder women out of envy of their femininity.
<At the same time, this "youth culture" began filling up with inflated, completely fabricated news stories about how transgender people were destroying video games and how Netflix shows were boring because they featured faggotry.
<The sheer scale and amount of insane money poured into this gigantic international campaign cannot be underestimated!
<Even if, for fuck's sake, Elon Musk bought Twitter just to post about how doctors performing gender-affirming care on children should face the death penalty, his fucking entourage didn't hesitate to buy an entire information platform just so Musk could promote the film What Is a Woman?
The other pics show a letter to Putin from Lively, a homophobic website that praises Lively, and related photos.
R: 5 / I: 0
Why do liberal and labor zionists always praise david ben gurion and golda meir as "the good ones" and say that they wanted peaceful coexinstence? Is this true or it's propaganda?
Why do liberal and labor zionists always praise david ben gurion and golda meir as "the good ones" and say that they wanted peaceful coexinstence? Is this true or it's propaganda?
R: 20 / I: 3 (sage)
But going back to the main topic, I do consider Ahmed al-Sharaa a slightly better alternative to the Assad family, although that doesn't mean I'm giving his administration a free pass. While I'm not aware of any conclusive evidence that al-Sharaa personally ordered the massacres of ethnic and religious minorities, particularly Alawites and Druze, forces affiliated with his government have been implicated in these atrocities. There have also been serious concerns about the treatment of Kurds, particularly during the fighting between government forces and the SDF.
I understand that al-Sharaa doesn't necessarily have complete control over every armed faction operating under his government, especially given how fragmented Syria became during the civil war. However, that doesn't absolve his administration of responsibility for protecting civilians or holding those responsible for these atrocities accountable. I also think it's worth recognizing that Syria is emerging from decades of authoritarian rule under the Assad family, followed by more than a decade of civil war. I don't expect the country to become a functioning liberal democracy overnight, but I do think it's reasonable to expect its new leadership to genuinely commit to protecting minorities and allowing political dissent.
Regarding his domestic legislative initiatives, I think some of the changes introduced under his administration are worth acknowledging. For instance, his government established commissions to investigate crimes committed under the Assad regime and locate missing Syrians. In January 2026, al-Sharaa also issued a decree recognizing Kurdish cultural and linguistic rights, granting citizenship to Kurds affected by the discriminatory 1962 census, and making Nowruz a national holiday. More recently, Syria's transitional parliament voted to abolish the notorious Counter-Terrorism Court that Assad used to prosecute political opponents.
However, I still have reservations about the amount of power concentrated in al-Sharaa's presidency. Although the transitional constitutional declaration provides certain protections for civil liberties, it also gives him considerable influence over the legislature and judiciary. I'm also concerned that the transitional justice process primarily focuses on crimes committed by the Assad regime rather than abuses committed by other armed groups, including those affiliated with the current government. I do think there is a difference between recognizing that some progress has been made and assuming that Syria is inevitably heading toward democracy. Ultimately, I think what matters is whether these reforms actually translate into meaningful protections for ordinary Syrians, regardless of their religious, ethnic, or political backgrounds.
What are your thoughts/feelings regarding the man?
What do you think of Ahmed al-Sharaa's administration in Syria so far?
Unfortunately, I've seen quite a few people, particularly campists, argue that the Assad family was a better alternative to Ahmed al-Sharaa's administration, largely because the former maintained close relations with Russia and Iran and was seen as a bastion against American imperialism. Personally, as someone who opposes imperialism regardless of where it comes from, whether it's the West, the Middle East, Russia, or elsewhere. I find it rather tragic that these people seem to be missing the forest for the trees. They're so focused on the geopolitical allegiances of the Assad regime that they overlook how its policies and actions actually affected the Syrian people. Just because a government opposes American imperialism doesn't mean it can't engage in oppression or facilitate imperialism itself.But going back to the main topic, I do consider Ahmed al-Sharaa a slightly better alternative to the Assad family, although that doesn't mean I'm giving his administration a free pass. While I'm not aware of any conclusive evidence that al-Sharaa personally ordered the massacres of ethnic and religious minorities, particularly Alawites and Druze, forces affiliated with his government have been implicated in these atrocities. There have also been serious concerns about the treatment of Kurds, particularly during the fighting between government forces and the SDF.
I understand that al-Sharaa doesn't necessarily have complete control over every armed faction operating under his government, especially given how fragmented Syria became during the civil war. However, that doesn't absolve his administration of responsibility for protecting civilians or holding those responsible for these atrocities accountable. I also think it's worth recognizing that Syria is emerging from decades of authoritarian rule under the Assad family, followed by more than a decade of civil war. I don't expect the country to become a functioning liberal democracy overnight, but I do think it's reasonable to expect its new leadership to genuinely commit to protecting minorities and allowing political dissent.
Regarding his domestic legislative initiatives, I think some of the changes introduced under his administration are worth acknowledging. For instance, his government established commissions to investigate crimes committed under the Assad regime and locate missing Syrians. In January 2026, al-Sharaa also issued a decree recognizing Kurdish cultural and linguistic rights, granting citizenship to Kurds affected by the discriminatory 1962 census, and making Nowruz a national holiday. More recently, Syria's transitional parliament voted to abolish the notorious Counter-Terrorism Court that Assad used to prosecute political opponents.
However, I still have reservations about the amount of power concentrated in al-Sharaa's presidency. Although the transitional constitutional declaration provides certain protections for civil liberties, it also gives him considerable influence over the legislature and judiciary. I'm also concerned that the transitional justice process primarily focuses on crimes committed by the Assad regime rather than abuses committed by other armed groups, including those affiliated with the current government. I do think there is a difference between recognizing that some progress has been made and assuming that Syria is inevitably heading toward democracy. Ultimately, I think what matters is whether these reforms actually translate into meaningful protections for ordinary Syrians, regardless of their religious, ethnic, or political backgrounds.
What are your thoughts/feelings regarding the man?
R: 8 / I: 3 (sage)
We have all been issued a license to kill the capitalists most responsible for climate change. Nothing else actually matters, and if we do not demonstrate the ability to use lethal force against those most responsible for the destruction of the biosphere then the global proletariat will never look to us for leadership. I don't want to debate the merits of "adventurism" versus "revolutionary violence" anymore. Billionaires are over consuming so they should be culled, and we should be the people who do the culling.
Global warming will breach 1.5°C.
https://news.un.org/en/story/2026/10/1168634We have all been issued a license to kill the capitalists most responsible for climate change. Nothing else actually matters, and if we do not demonstrate the ability to use lethal force against those most responsible for the destruction of the biosphere then the global proletariat will never look to us for leadership. I don't want to debate the merits of "adventurism" versus "revolutionary violence" anymore. Billionaires are over consuming so they should be culled, and we should be the people who do the culling.
R: 16 / I: 1
Who objectively has more unchecked Authoritarian power within their own government:
The US president
The General Secretary of the CPC
The General Secretary of the CPSU
The Monarch of the United Kingdom
Because it feels to me like all the complaining about "authoritarianism" coming from constitutional bourgeois republics is insincere nonsense if you actually do a comparative analysis of these roles
Who objectively has more unchecked Authoritarian power within their own government:
The US president
The General Secretary of the CPC
The General Secretary of the CPSU
The Monarch of the United Kingdom
Because it feels to me like all the complaining about "authoritarianism" coming from constitutional bourgeois republics is insincere nonsense if you actually do a comparative analysis of these roles
R: 597 / I: 121 (sage)
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R: 15 / I: 4
They hated him because he told them the truth
Why are we so viscerally hated for always being right? Why does this not make more people rethink their political allegiances? Why does nobody want to learn from history except for us? Do they just have their heads so far up their asses that they think of predicting the future as witchcraft or something? Seeing the idiotic way normies behave time and time again is so utterly infuriating it almost makes me wish I was dumber.
R: 2 / I: 0
About 500 factories were temporarily shuttered after the protests began on Saturday. Thousands of workers have taken to the streets, facing tear gas and sound grenades from police. In an attempt to quell the demonstrations, Bangladesh formed a new wage board on Sunday to review the minimum wage for garment workers. Prime Minister Tarique Rahman, meanwhile, held an emergency meeting with his ministers and advisers. Workers are seeking a minimum monthly wage of 30,000 taka ($242), more than double the current wage of 12,500 taka ($101).
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/11/2/bangladesh-garment-factories-disrupted-as-protests-continue-for-third-day
https://archive.ph/knGLA
Milei's boom-and-bust economy sparks exodus from Buenos Aires
While investors including billionaire Peter Thiel plow money into oil and gas down south, lithium in the north and copper out west, those investments haven’t yet trickled down to the real economy in Buenos Aires and other metro areas that tend to determine presidential elections. Instead, job losses, soaring utility bills and indebted households solidify a feeling among middle class Argentines that the economic growth is evading them. Over 32,000 businesses have closed since he took office, bringing the total number of private-sector employers to the lowest level since 2007.
https://www.batimes.com.ar/news/economy/mileis-boom-and-bust-economy-sparks-exodus-from-buenos-aires.phtml
https://archive.ph/y2Ppl
Powerful Haitian gang leader writes UN seeking dialogue as clashes intensify
Wilson Joseph, best known as Lanmò Sanjou and leader of the 400 Mawozo gang, sent the letter on Monday, and the U.N. has received it, a source who wasn’t authorized to discuss the situation confirmed. The letter calls 400 Mawozo a “rebel group” and was sent from Plaine du Cul-de-Sac, where a group of four Salvadoran aviation technicians were attacked on Oct. 18 and remain missing.
https://apnews.com/article/lanmo-sanjou-letter-un-gang-violence-wilson-josph-374dfb531e5c919c3139649c7d63cefe
Ukraine and Russia report fake emergency alerts after cyberattack targets apps
Russia’s Emergency Ministry said hackers sent a false alert across 33 of Russia’s 89 regions. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said all state agencies faced constant cyber threats and must improve their cybersecurity. Meanwhile, a localised humanitarian ceasefire in the Kherson region expired at midnight, hours before multiple Russian drone attacks.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/ukraine-and-russia-report-fake-emergency-alerts-after-cyberattack-targets-apps
Unions gain access to thousands of Google workers after UK employment rights overhaul
Google DeepMind is expected to strike a separate agreement, with the Communication Workers Union and the Unite union seeking recognition there. The deal follows a similar agreement between Prospect and Meta, which owns Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram and employs about 5,000 people in the UK. The agreements will allow unions to communicate with non-unionised workers and encourage them to join.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/nov/02/unions-google-workers-uk-employment-rights
Petition to ban French right-wing TV channel clears 600,000 signatures after racist killing
A petition calling for right-wing television channel CNews to be taken off-air cleared 600,000 signatures on Monday after a Frenchman shot and killed a French national of Congolese origin and wounded seven others. The 39-year-old shooter is believed to have been an avid watcher of CNews, which is owned by ultra-conservative billionaire Vincent Bolloré and has been accused of promoting far-right anti-immigrant views.
https://www.france24.com/en/france/20261102-petition-to-ban-french-right-wing-tv-channel-clears-500-000-signatures-after-racist-killing
https://archive.ph/Ljzpv
UNRWA staffers in Gaza vow more protests amid salary cuts, dismissals
Mustafa al-Ghoul told The New Arab at a demonstration organised by UNRWA's Arab Staff union on Monday in the Nuseirat refugee camp that the union planned further measures, emphasising that "this is not the end of the road".
https://www.newarab.com/news/unrwa-staffers-gaza-protest-amid-cuts-dismissals
Houthis launched cross border raids on Saudi military posts, sources say
The small-scale raids have targeted border posts in Saudi Arabia’s rugged, mountainous southwest. At least one raid occurred at the end of October, the officials told MEE. The western official told MEE that the Houthis, officially known as Ansar Allah, appear to have captured specific small arms that are known only to be used by Saudi border security forces.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/houthis-launched-cross-border-raids-saudi-arabian-military-posts-sources-say
Ethiopia attacks kill civilians as health system nears collapse, WHO chief says
Renewed fighting has effectively shattered a November 2022 peace agreement between the federal government and rebel forces in the Tigray region, stoking fears of a wider conflict. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, in a statement posted on X, said children were among those reportedly killed at the Jaari 2 displacement camp in Amhara. In Rama, in neighbouring Tigray, several people were reportedly killed while trying to get food.
https://www.newarab.com/news/ethiopia-attacks-kill-civilians-health-system-nears-collapse
Vote ANC or SACP? Cosatu unions divided ahead of Wednesday's election
Samwu's Limpopo provincial secretary Patrick Aphane said the union’s stance was in line with the national conference resolution that stated it must show support “for the ANC where it is strong and the SACP where it is strong”. “SACP in Limpopo can’t be found on the ground, but the ANC is on the ground. The other thing is that SACP may be strong in what is called voter district and as Samwu, we are not organising there. We are not organising in branches, but we are organising in municipalities,” Aphane said.
https://thenational.co.za/news/2026-11-02-vote-anc-or-sacp-cosatu-unions-divided-ahead-of-wednesday-s-election/
https://archive.ph/z2i1H
News 11/2/26
Bangladesh garment factories disrupted as protests continue for third dayAbout 500 factories were temporarily shuttered after the protests began on Saturday. Thousands of workers have taken to the streets, facing tear gas and sound grenades from police. In an attempt to quell the demonstrations, Bangladesh formed a new wage board on Sunday to review the minimum wage for garment workers. Prime Minister Tarique Rahman, meanwhile, held an emergency meeting with his ministers and advisers. Workers are seeking a minimum monthly wage of 30,000 taka ($242), more than double the current wage of 12,500 taka ($101).
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/11/2/bangladesh-garment-factories-disrupted-as-protests-continue-for-third-day
https://archive.ph/knGLA
Milei's boom-and-bust economy sparks exodus from Buenos Aires
While investors including billionaire Peter Thiel plow money into oil and gas down south, lithium in the north and copper out west, those investments haven’t yet trickled down to the real economy in Buenos Aires and other metro areas that tend to determine presidential elections. Instead, job losses, soaring utility bills and indebted households solidify a feeling among middle class Argentines that the economic growth is evading them. Over 32,000 businesses have closed since he took office, bringing the total number of private-sector employers to the lowest level since 2007.
https://www.batimes.com.ar/news/economy/mileis-boom-and-bust-economy-sparks-exodus-from-buenos-aires.phtml
https://archive.ph/y2Ppl
Powerful Haitian gang leader writes UN seeking dialogue as clashes intensify
Wilson Joseph, best known as Lanmò Sanjou and leader of the 400 Mawozo gang, sent the letter on Monday, and the U.N. has received it, a source who wasn’t authorized to discuss the situation confirmed. The letter calls 400 Mawozo a “rebel group” and was sent from Plaine du Cul-de-Sac, where a group of four Salvadoran aviation technicians were attacked on Oct. 18 and remain missing.
https://apnews.com/article/lanmo-sanjou-letter-un-gang-violence-wilson-josph-374dfb531e5c919c3139649c7d63cefe
Ukraine and Russia report fake emergency alerts after cyberattack targets apps
Russia’s Emergency Ministry said hackers sent a false alert across 33 of Russia’s 89 regions. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said all state agencies faced constant cyber threats and must improve their cybersecurity. Meanwhile, a localised humanitarian ceasefire in the Kherson region expired at midnight, hours before multiple Russian drone attacks.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/ukraine-and-russia-report-fake-emergency-alerts-after-cyberattack-targets-apps
Unions gain access to thousands of Google workers after UK employment rights overhaul
Google DeepMind is expected to strike a separate agreement, with the Communication Workers Union and the Unite union seeking recognition there. The deal follows a similar agreement between Prospect and Meta, which owns Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram and employs about 5,000 people in the UK. The agreements will allow unions to communicate with non-unionised workers and encourage them to join.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/nov/02/unions-google-workers-uk-employment-rights
Petition to ban French right-wing TV channel clears 600,000 signatures after racist killing
A petition calling for right-wing television channel CNews to be taken off-air cleared 600,000 signatures on Monday after a Frenchman shot and killed a French national of Congolese origin and wounded seven others. The 39-year-old shooter is believed to have been an avid watcher of CNews, which is owned by ultra-conservative billionaire Vincent Bolloré and has been accused of promoting far-right anti-immigrant views.
https://www.france24.com/en/france/20261102-petition-to-ban-french-right-wing-tv-channel-clears-500-000-signatures-after-racist-killing
https://archive.ph/Ljzpv
UNRWA staffers in Gaza vow more protests amid salary cuts, dismissals
Mustafa al-Ghoul told The New Arab at a demonstration organised by UNRWA's Arab Staff union on Monday in the Nuseirat refugee camp that the union planned further measures, emphasising that "this is not the end of the road".
https://www.newarab.com/news/unrwa-staffers-gaza-protest-amid-cuts-dismissals
Houthis launched cross border raids on Saudi military posts, sources say
The small-scale raids have targeted border posts in Saudi Arabia’s rugged, mountainous southwest. At least one raid occurred at the end of October, the officials told MEE. The western official told MEE that the Houthis, officially known as Ansar Allah, appear to have captured specific small arms that are known only to be used by Saudi border security forces.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/houthis-launched-cross-border-raids-saudi-arabian-military-posts-sources-say
Ethiopia attacks kill civilians as health system nears collapse, WHO chief says
Renewed fighting has effectively shattered a November 2022 peace agreement between the federal government and rebel forces in the Tigray region, stoking fears of a wider conflict. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, in a statement posted on X, said children were among those reportedly killed at the Jaari 2 displacement camp in Amhara. In Rama, in neighbouring Tigray, several people were reportedly killed while trying to get food.
https://www.newarab.com/news/ethiopia-attacks-kill-civilians-health-system-nears-collapse
Vote ANC or SACP? Cosatu unions divided ahead of Wednesday's election
Samwu's Limpopo provincial secretary Patrick Aphane said the union’s stance was in line with the national conference resolution that stated it must show support “for the ANC where it is strong and the SACP where it is strong”. “SACP in Limpopo can’t be found on the ground, but the ANC is on the ground. The other thing is that SACP may be strong in what is called voter district and as Samwu, we are not organising there. We are not organising in branches, but we are organising in municipalities,” Aphane said.
https://thenational.co.za/news/2026-11-02-vote-anc-or-sacp-cosatu-unions-divided-ahead-of-wednesday-s-election/
https://archive.ph/z2i1H
R: 1 / I: 0
If you believe the world is in crisis, doesn't a crisis warrant radical response?
The main thing that bothers me about centrism, liberalism, or even soc-dem progressives, is that they seemingly agree that we are facing multiple compounding crises, but also don't want to rock the boat too much in trying to address them.
There even seems to be consensus now about "taxing the rich", but some sort of naive optimism that the system itself isn't the problem and that maybe the next Elon Musk will be a good guy who builds wells in Africa or something. It's not a coincidence that this network of Peter Theil, Palantir, Meta, exists and operates the way it does.
What is so scary about far left politics that keeps people in the center? For me it feels like a hestitancy to actually implement any real change or believe change is really possible, to quote Mark Fisher -"it is easier to imaging the end of the world than an end to capitalism".
People don't want to engage in revolutionary politics because it might mean things get worse, and people don't want to let go of the Starbucks and brunch,SNL, Taylor Swift normalcy that they are trying to maintain, but if you agree that the climate crisis exists then that's all going to burn away anyway. President AOC isn't going to stop it.
It reminds me of the early months of Covid, before it hit the US. "I'm more concerned about anti asian racism that the virus", "It's just a flu", remember it wasn't just the political right saying "it's just a flu" before it became officially a pandemic? That's the same place we are politically right now, but the lockdowns are coming.
Is there a point where electoralism fails for you? If republicans try something in 2028 is there a line where revolutionary politics becomes reasonable, or are you going to write to your elected representative about the gestapo?
I'm sympathetic to those who say revolution is untenable because of their obligations to their family or don't want to risk their own safety. I'm not sympathetic to people who "worry about extermism on both sides" while seemingly agreeing the climate is fucked.
Sorry if I think the french protests are much more effective than jumping up and down in an inflatable frog costume.
If you believe the world is in crisis, doesn't a crisis warrant radical response?
The main thing that bothers me about centrism, liberalism, or even soc-dem progressives, is that they seemingly agree that we are facing multiple compounding crises, but also don't want to rock the boat too much in trying to address them.
There even seems to be consensus now about "taxing the rich", but some sort of naive optimism that the system itself isn't the problem and that maybe the next Elon Musk will be a good guy who builds wells in Africa or something. It's not a coincidence that this network of Peter Theil, Palantir, Meta, exists and operates the way it does.
What is so scary about far left politics that keeps people in the center? For me it feels like a hestitancy to actually implement any real change or believe change is really possible, to quote Mark Fisher -"it is easier to imaging the end of the world than an end to capitalism".
People don't want to engage in revolutionary politics because it might mean things get worse, and people don't want to let go of the Starbucks and brunch,SNL, Taylor Swift normalcy that they are trying to maintain, but if you agree that the climate crisis exists then that's all going to burn away anyway. President AOC isn't going to stop it.
It reminds me of the early months of Covid, before it hit the US. "I'm more concerned about anti asian racism that the virus", "It's just a flu", remember it wasn't just the political right saying "it's just a flu" before it became officially a pandemic? That's the same place we are politically right now, but the lockdowns are coming.
Is there a point where electoralism fails for you? If republicans try something in 2028 is there a line where revolutionary politics becomes reasonable, or are you going to write to your elected representative about the gestapo?
I'm sympathetic to those who say revolution is untenable because of their obligations to their family or don't want to risk their own safety. I'm not sympathetic to people who "worry about extermism on both sides" while seemingly agreeing the climate is fucked.
Sorry if I think the french protests are much more effective than jumping up and down in an inflatable frog costume.
R: 36 / I: 5
It's insane how everything Marx said would happen is happening. The MOP is constantly being revolutionized, people are constantly being pushed out of their jobs, the rate of profit is constantly falling so they have to find new ways to squeeze the proles. The contradictions are intensifying. Young people are increasingly waking up to the scam that almost every aspect of life is. Some might be doomers, but I am feeling pretty optimistic with how Porky can't seem to help himself. They used to give us treats to calm us down, but ol' Pot Belly can't even be bothered to do that anymore
It's insane how everything Marx said would happen is happening. The MOP is constantly being revolutionized, people are constantly being pushed out of their jobs, the rate of profit is constantly falling so they have to find new ways to squeeze the proles. The contradictions are intensifying. Young people are increasingly waking up to the scam that almost every aspect of life is. Some might be doomers, but I am feeling pretty optimistic with how Porky can't seem to help himself. They used to give us treats to calm us down, but ol' Pot Belly can't even be bothered to do that anymore
R: 32 / I: 7
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: 622 / I: 161 (full)
>never forget democrats also suck edition
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⚖️ 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: >>2938203
/USApol/
🗽 UNITED STATES POLITICS 🦅>never forget democrats also suck edition
<no, seriously, some of you need a reminder 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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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?
R: 13 / I: 4
Proletarianization of PMC
With AI now cutting so many jobs, especially in CompSci but other jobs as well that are normally defined as PMC and them now having to settle for things like working retail or fast food (at least temporarily before getting a job in your field), how will that effect the consciousness of these people. Now, the dream is that they all become class conscious, and they see the woes of the working class and gain sympathy. But I also see a sort of resentment and elitism that could form. Seeing the work as beneath them and resenting the regular joes that have to work that job full time.
R: 3 / I: 0
Workers of the Communist Party of India, Communist Party of India (Marxist) and Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) on Saturday staged a demonstration in the town to highlight the failure of the National Democratic Alliance government at the Centre and Puducherry to control the prices of essential commodities.
https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/puducherry/left-parties-stage-protest-against-price-rise-in-puducherry/article71649394.ece
https://archive.ph/y0vPM
Japan pushes to remove Myanmar from global financial watchdog's blacklist
Japan wants the Financial Action Task Force to drop requirements that its members apply enhanced screening to financial transactions with Myanmar to avoid money laundering and terrorist financing, said a senior Japanese government official and another person familiar with the matter.
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/japan-pushes-remove-myanmar-global-financial-watchdogs-blacklist-2026-10-30/
China’s record-breaking exports of clean tech are making a big dent in emissions, report says
China is by far the largest global supplier of renewable energy equipment, from solar panels and wind turbines to electric vehicles and batteries. Most of what it makes is sold domestically, but a sizeable share is exported. In the first nine months of 2026, CREA tracked a 61% increase in exports of electric vehicles, a 45% jump in shipments of wind turbines, a 39% spike in battery exports and 22% growth in overseas sales of solar equipment, compared to the same period last year.
https://apnews.com/article/emissions-china-renewable-iran-exports-solar-7e690fb8b89f8faa82fa241bf551940e
9 years later, parents still seek answers over son’s killing amid ‘drug war’
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https://www.bulatlat.com/2026/10/30/9-years-later-parents-still-seek-answers-over-sons-killing-amid-drug-war/
Azerbaijan’s president’s absence from regional meeting fuels speculation of rift with Turkey
Turkey and Azerbaijan are traditional allies with deep cultural and ethnic ties and often describe themselves as being “one nation, two states.” But tensions have emerged recently following criticism in Turkey about Azerbaijan’s decision to ban the wearing of hijabs in schools and over Baku’s growing ties with Israel.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/azerbaijans-presidents-absence-regional-meeting-fuels-speculation-rift-turkey
Syria mulls joining Mecca defence pact, foreign minister says
Speaking at the Pillars of Regional Security event at the IISS Manama Dialogue 2026, Shaibani emphasised that the security of the Gulf is an "integral part of Syrian regional security", and that Damascus stands with the Gulf states and their people in confronting cross-border militias.
https://www.newarab.com/news/syria-mulls-joining-mecca-defence-pact-shaibani
UN Western Sahara peacekeeping mission left in limbo after US-Russia veto standoff
The dispute centred on Morocco's autonomy plan for the disputed territory, with Washington seeking to strengthen the plan's position as the basis for negotiations.The double veto blocked the council's annual renewal of the mission, which it has routinely extended in previous years. The US-drafted resolution would have established Morocco's autonomy plan as the sole basis for negotiations and reduced the military component of the UN peacekeeping mission. It would also have extended the mission's mandate for another year.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/un-peacekeeping-mission-western-sahara-remain-without-mandate-after-russia-and-us-veto-each
‘Plantation tourism’: court victory signals hope in Jamaica’s fight to keep beaches public
“People’s rights are more important these days than ever, and people keep on trying to encroach on our fundamental freedoms,” she said, calling the privatisation of beaches a colonial legacy. But for Jabbem, her swim was not the most significant milestone this month in its fight for public access.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/31/jamaicans-beach-access-fight-court-victory-hope
Venezuela: Rodríguez Pledges to Return Nationalized Assets to Former Owners
After enacting a pro-business overhaul of hydrocarbon and mining legislation earlier this year, the Venezuelan parliament is on the verge of approving the partial privatization of the electricity sector. Foreign companies are likewise in talks to acquire the country’s largest aluminum smelter, while a consortium headed by Sunergon Oil is reportedly pushing the takeover of several industrial plants associated with the oil industry. Business sector representative Luigi Pisella, who heads the commission, recently proposed a law enshrining multinational corporate participation in privatized public entities alongside local capital.
https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/venezuela-rodriguez-pledges-to-return-nationalized-assets-to-former-owners/
Tension and clashes as hundreds of thousands protest again in France
A coalition of youth organisations and unions representing high school and university students said nearly half a million people took part, including 200,000 in Paris. The authorities put the nationwide turnout at 320,000, including 70,000 in the capital. Marches in the capital began peacefully, but turned violent as protesters gathered near the point where the main march was due to end on Saturday. Bins and street furniture were set alight, and plumes of smoke could be seen rising over the city.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10/31/tension-and-clashes-as-hundreds-of-thousands-protest-again-in-france
https://archive.ph/XxiKo
Tusk defends suspension of Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal president as protesters gather again
ime Minister Donald Tusk said on Saturday that his government would press ahead with efforts to restore the independence of Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal, as hundreds of protesters gathered for a second night against the suspension of the court’s president. The pro-European government said the suspension is necessary to restore judicial independence, while critics from the opposition have likened it to a “coup d’etat.”
https://thehill.com/homenews/ap/ap-international/ap-tusk-defends-suspension-of-polands-constitutional-tribunal-president-as-protesters-gather-again/
https://archive.ph/txjyr
Almost 140 arrested at protest against Palestine Action ban outside US embassy in London
Hundreds of people gathered outside the US embassy in Battersea, south London, holding signs that read: “I oppose genocide, I support Palestine Action.” Demonstrators also held a vigil in support of the group outside the US consulate in Edinburgh.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/oct/31/protest-against-palestine-action-ban-outside-us-embassy-in-london
News 10/31/26
Left parties stage protest against price rise in PuducherryWorkers of the Communist Party of India, Communist Party of India (Marxist) and Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) on Saturday staged a demonstration in the town to highlight the failure of the National Democratic Alliance government at the Centre and Puducherry to control the prices of essential commodities.
https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/puducherry/left-parties-stage-protest-against-price-rise-in-puducherry/article71649394.ece
https://archive.ph/y0vPM
Japan pushes to remove Myanmar from global financial watchdog's blacklist
Japan wants the Financial Action Task Force to drop requirements that its members apply enhanced screening to financial transactions with Myanmar to avoid money laundering and terrorist financing, said a senior Japanese government official and another person familiar with the matter.
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/japan-pushes-remove-myanmar-global-financial-watchdogs-blacklist-2026-10-30/
China’s record-breaking exports of clean tech are making a big dent in emissions, report says
China is by far the largest global supplier of renewable energy equipment, from solar panels and wind turbines to electric vehicles and batteries. Most of what it makes is sold domestically, but a sizeable share is exported. In the first nine months of 2026, CREA tracked a 61% increase in exports of electric vehicles, a 45% jump in shipments of wind turbines, a 39% spike in battery exports and 22% growth in overseas sales of solar equipment, compared to the same period last year.
https://apnews.com/article/emissions-china-renewable-iran-exports-solar-7e690fb8b89f8faa82fa241bf551940e
9 years later, parents still seek answers over son’s killing amid ‘drug war’
Nine years after their son was killed in former president Rodrigo Duterte’s drug war, Nanette and Bong Castillo stepped forward to the Truth Commission’s fifth Public Truth-Telling Session on October 23 to recount what they believe happened to Aldrin Castillo and seek answers on his death. They believe that the case of their son may have been a case of mistaken-identity, while the police and medical records reviewed by forensic pathologist Raquel Fortun exposed significant gaps in the original documentation of Aldrin’s death.
https://www.bulatlat.com/2026/10/30/9-years-later-parents-still-seek-answers-over-sons-killing-amid-drug-war/
Azerbaijan’s president’s absence from regional meeting fuels speculation of rift with Turkey
Turkey and Azerbaijan are traditional allies with deep cultural and ethnic ties and often describe themselves as being “one nation, two states.” But tensions have emerged recently following criticism in Turkey about Azerbaijan’s decision to ban the wearing of hijabs in schools and over Baku’s growing ties with Israel.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/azerbaijans-presidents-absence-regional-meeting-fuels-speculation-rift-turkey
Syria mulls joining Mecca defence pact, foreign minister says
Speaking at the Pillars of Regional Security event at the IISS Manama Dialogue 2026, Shaibani emphasised that the security of the Gulf is an "integral part of Syrian regional security", and that Damascus stands with the Gulf states and their people in confronting cross-border militias.
https://www.newarab.com/news/syria-mulls-joining-mecca-defence-pact-shaibani
UN Western Sahara peacekeeping mission left in limbo after US-Russia veto standoff
The dispute centred on Morocco's autonomy plan for the disputed territory, with Washington seeking to strengthen the plan's position as the basis for negotiations.The double veto blocked the council's annual renewal of the mission, which it has routinely extended in previous years. The US-drafted resolution would have established Morocco's autonomy plan as the sole basis for negotiations and reduced the military component of the UN peacekeeping mission. It would also have extended the mission's mandate for another year.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/un-peacekeeping-mission-western-sahara-remain-without-mandate-after-russia-and-us-veto-each
‘Plantation tourism’: court victory signals hope in Jamaica’s fight to keep beaches public
“People’s rights are more important these days than ever, and people keep on trying to encroach on our fundamental freedoms,” she said, calling the privatisation of beaches a colonial legacy. But for Jabbem, her swim was not the most significant milestone this month in its fight for public access.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/31/jamaicans-beach-access-fight-court-victory-hope
Venezuela: Rodríguez Pledges to Return Nationalized Assets to Former Owners
After enacting a pro-business overhaul of hydrocarbon and mining legislation earlier this year, the Venezuelan parliament is on the verge of approving the partial privatization of the electricity sector. Foreign companies are likewise in talks to acquire the country’s largest aluminum smelter, while a consortium headed by Sunergon Oil is reportedly pushing the takeover of several industrial plants associated with the oil industry. Business sector representative Luigi Pisella, who heads the commission, recently proposed a law enshrining multinational corporate participation in privatized public entities alongside local capital.
https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/venezuela-rodriguez-pledges-to-return-nationalized-assets-to-former-owners/
Tension and clashes as hundreds of thousands protest again in France
A coalition of youth organisations and unions representing high school and university students said nearly half a million people took part, including 200,000 in Paris. The authorities put the nationwide turnout at 320,000, including 70,000 in the capital. Marches in the capital began peacefully, but turned violent as protesters gathered near the point where the main march was due to end on Saturday. Bins and street furniture were set alight, and plumes of smoke could be seen rising over the city.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10/31/tension-and-clashes-as-hundreds-of-thousands-protest-again-in-france
https://archive.ph/XxiKo
Tusk defends suspension of Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal president as protesters gather again
ime Minister Donald Tusk said on Saturday that his government would press ahead with efforts to restore the independence of Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal, as hundreds of protesters gathered for a second night against the suspension of the court’s president. The pro-European government said the suspension is necessary to restore judicial independence, while critics from the opposition have likened it to a “coup d’etat.”
https://thehill.com/homenews/ap/ap-international/ap-tusk-defends-suspension-of-polands-constitutional-tribunal-president-as-protesters-gather-again/
https://archive.ph/txjyr
Almost 140 arrested at protest against Palestine Action ban outside US embassy in London
Hundreds of people gathered outside the US embassy in Battersea, south London, holding signs that read: “I oppose genocide, I support Palestine Action.” Demonstrators also held a vigil in support of the group outside the US consulate in Edinburgh.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/oct/31/protest-against-palestine-action-ban-outside-us-embassy-in-london
R: 123 / I: 24
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.
R: 60 / I: 4
I fucking hate Nationalist Organizing, can I join the left o algo
I am in a Nationalist Organization, but I am so tired of it. Our Previous Local Branch Leader has left temporarly and now has family affairs, so we are stuck with a Reactionary Capitalist Petit Bourzoa, who is nothing like a proper Third Positionist ought to be. He doesn't care about the Organizations Ideology or Ideals, isn't up to date with what the rest of the Branches are Doing, Is a complete Hedonist and Gangsterist, He is lazy and passes responsibillity to others, including me, he takes bad decisions and even took a lighter from me. I don't even know he got this position. I am the most active in my branch and have even done theory lectures (which the leadership now wants to take it away because "nobody is going to read the books"), and have been thrice as much time as him in it. We got a new temporary branch leader, who I have better relations with and he is far better, but because of Personal Affairs he didn't have time, so this Degen took over. The only reason He got it I suspect, whilst I have been sidelined by the Organization leadership again and again, is because I am an Autist with no Great Facial Hair, with a quite annoying voice, a thin posture, are too theoretical (even though I am the one suggesting most actions, which then get sidelined by leadership) and come from a Leftist Family. Not to mention, I have no chance with the organization's Women. I feel so sad, seeing my Local University Branch of Leftists (with simillar views to that of my parents) organizing, making speeches, doing activism and syndical work, probably reading theory and also getting into fights with ANTIFA and Tankie types (i.e. the stuff I want to do, under my nationalist syndicalist and communtarian worldview). They all seem very friendly, instead of the 90IQ normalfags I am stuck with. Plus, the Girls are very Friendly and Nice and Pretty, and I could probably get one as my girlfriend. And I would probably be one of the most masculine members of my local branch, instead of being viewed as a weird alien creature which everyone laughs at behind the scenes. They would probably be compassionate about me being an Autist, instead of making fun of me for being Weird. And my activism would probably be rewarded, instead of being seen as me being a follower. My Parents would also be proud of me, instead of thinking I am an idiotic fascist loser. I could also publically critisize all the Cuckservatives, Ancoms, and MLs that plague my university. I can def Chameleon my way over there. I will have kept some Conservatives Social Views, that are based on my Religion (like thinking Abortion is a Sin, although I feel like that would be a big no no, but these guys don't even do anything pro Abortion, or atleast not too much of it). I could focus on my AntiCapitalist, ProPalestinian, AntiCorruption, ProSyndicalistAction and AntiAI stances and get in. It's hard Being a Biological Leftist, but with a Mind of a Nationalist. Call it ideological Dysphoria. Are the Problems I explained in my organization found in leftist ones, or are they unique to our spaces.
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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.
R: 3 / I: 0
Strike organisers the No Harbour for Genocide campaign, alongside dockworkers’ unions in France, Italy, Greece, Spain, Turkey, Morocco and Cyprus, described today’s events as the largest co-ordinated port action ever held. “For one day, 52,000 containers stand idle, carrying $2.8 billion (£2bn) worth of goods, before the next day’s backlog, the work stoppages and the general strike in Italy are counted,” No Harbour for Genocide campaign said in an Instagram post today.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/dockworkers-and-activists-block-ports-across-world-protest-against-war-genocide-and-arms
Elbit factory targeted in Palestine Action raid was set to deliver 'immediate shipment of drones' to Israel, court hears
Five defendants - Qesser Zuhrah, 21, Zahra Farooque, 26, Kamran Ahmed, 29, Heba Muraisi, 31, and Liam Mullany, 34 - are facing charges of criminal damage and violent disorder at Woolwich Crown Court in connection with the break-in at an Elbit Systems factory in Filton, near Bristol, on 6 August 2024. Giving evidence this week, Zuhrah, who said she helped coordinate the action, told jurors that she had first heard of the Filton site when others in the group raised concerns "about an immediate shipment of weapons" set to leave the factory and that, as a result, the action had been "speedtracked".
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/elbit-factory-targeted-palestine-action-raid-was-set-deliver-immediate-shipment-drones-israel
Germany and France brace for protests on Halloween weekend
Police plan to deploy thousands of additional officers across the country. Some luxury jewellery shops and clothing stores have boarded up windows to protect against potential looting or violence. Protests in Germany are led by a group dubbed “GenZ regelt!”, which translates to “Gen Z has got this!”. The German protest movement’s complaints include the high cost of living, poorly maintained schools, government spending cuts and, more broadly, politicians taking decisions with little regard for the younger generation.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10/31/germany-and-france-brace-for-protests-on-halloween-weekend
https://archive.ph/8b3h5
Ex-Communist Party Lawmaker in Murmansk Accused of Passing Sensitive Information to Ukraine
Stepakhno is the latest Communist Party member to face criminal prosecution following State Duma and regional elections late last month, during which the ruling United Russia party gained a supermajority in the lower house of Russian parliament.
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2026/10/30/ex-communist-party-lawmaker-in-murmansk-accused-of-passing-sensitive-information-to-ukraine-a94133
https://archive.ph/4zxiz
Israel: Tibi urges Eisenkot to show 'courage' and form minority government with Palestinians
Palestinian lawmaker Ahmad Tibi has urged Israeli opposition leader Gadi Eisenkot to show political courage and work with Arab parties to end Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s rule. In an interview with Middle East Eye on Friday, Tibi called on Eisenkot to summon “the courage of [former prime minister] Yitzhak Rabin”. In 1993, Rabin’s minority government of 56 seats relied on Palestinian-led parties for parliamentary support, amid the push to advance the Oslo Accords.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-tibi-urges-eisenkot-show-courage-and-form-minority-government-palestinians
Colombia’s government presents “Economic Rescue Bill”
The bill grants extraordinary powers to President Abelardo de la Espriella to slash government spending by decree and includes a tax reform that includes higher sales tax rates on gasoline, coffee, cigarettes and vegetables. The bill also includes tax breaks for corporations in an attempt to increase investment. While on campaign, De la Espriella powers vowed a 40% reduction of the State, which the bill falls short of doing.
https://colombiareports.com/colombias-government-presents-economic-rescue-bill/
Brazil Launches Measures Against Political Harassment at Work After Runoff
Brazil’s Public Labor Prosecutor’s Office (MPT) has registered 3,396 complaints of electoral harassment in the workplace since President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s runoff victory, and the federal government has announced emergency measures to stop retaliation against workers for their political views.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/brazil-measure-political-harassment-work/
"Modi govt cannot snatch away these rights and powers of the people": CPI's D Raja slams crackdown on protests ahead of Nov 1 rally
Addressing the broader governance model of the current administration, Raja trained his guns on the systematic curbing of public spaces designated for democratic agitation, specifically pointing to the restrictions placed on historic protest hubs like Jantar Mantar.
https://www.aninews.in/news/national/politics/modi-govt-cannot-snatch-away-these-rights-and-powers-of-the-people-cpis-d-raja-slams-crackdown-on-protests-ahead-of-nov-1-rally20261030145027/
https://archive.ph/Nn0sy
Patriotic groups hold rally against mining conference in Pasay City
Patriotic and environmental groups marched to Conrad Manila, an expensive hotel in Pasay City, on October 27, where the Mining Philippines International Conference and Exhibition 2026 was being held under the theme “From Global Trend to National Strategy: Developing the Philippines’ Critical Minerals Playbook.” The Chamber of Mines of the Philippines (CMP) organized the conference, which mining companies, investors, government officials, and legislators attended from October 27-28 to “shape the future of the industry.”
https://philippinerevolution.nu/angbayan/patriotic-groups-hold-rally-against-mining-conference-in-pasay-city/
‘We’re not freaks’: police raid sparks concern for Taiwan’s LGBT-friendly image
Josh was having a drink at Commander D, a popular gay bar in Taipei, on a Saturday afternoon when several police officers suddenly burst in. “Squat down and don’t move,” they shouted. Bewildered, he looked around to see the bar owner being handcuffed and forced to his knees. The 28-year-old was among 51 customers to be rounded up and taken away for questioning over suspected breaches of public decency rules.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/31/taiwan-gay-bar-police-raid-lgbt-pride-parade
News 10/30/26
Dockworkers and activists block ports across the world in protest against war, genocide and the arms tradeStrike organisers the No Harbour for Genocide campaign, alongside dockworkers’ unions in France, Italy, Greece, Spain, Turkey, Morocco and Cyprus, described today’s events as the largest co-ordinated port action ever held. “For one day, 52,000 containers stand idle, carrying $2.8 billion (£2bn) worth of goods, before the next day’s backlog, the work stoppages and the general strike in Italy are counted,” No Harbour for Genocide campaign said in an Instagram post today.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/dockworkers-and-activists-block-ports-across-world-protest-against-war-genocide-and-arms
Elbit factory targeted in Palestine Action raid was set to deliver 'immediate shipment of drones' to Israel, court hears
Five defendants - Qesser Zuhrah, 21, Zahra Farooque, 26, Kamran Ahmed, 29, Heba Muraisi, 31, and Liam Mullany, 34 - are facing charges of criminal damage and violent disorder at Woolwich Crown Court in connection with the break-in at an Elbit Systems factory in Filton, near Bristol, on 6 August 2024. Giving evidence this week, Zuhrah, who said she helped coordinate the action, told jurors that she had first heard of the Filton site when others in the group raised concerns "about an immediate shipment of weapons" set to leave the factory and that, as a result, the action had been "speedtracked".
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/elbit-factory-targeted-palestine-action-raid-was-set-deliver-immediate-shipment-drones-israel
Germany and France brace for protests on Halloween weekend
Police plan to deploy thousands of additional officers across the country. Some luxury jewellery shops and clothing stores have boarded up windows to protect against potential looting or violence. Protests in Germany are led by a group dubbed “GenZ regelt!”, which translates to “Gen Z has got this!”. The German protest movement’s complaints include the high cost of living, poorly maintained schools, government spending cuts and, more broadly, politicians taking decisions with little regard for the younger generation.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10/31/germany-and-france-brace-for-protests-on-halloween-weekend
https://archive.ph/8b3h5
Ex-Communist Party Lawmaker in Murmansk Accused of Passing Sensitive Information to Ukraine
Stepakhno is the latest Communist Party member to face criminal prosecution following State Duma and regional elections late last month, during which the ruling United Russia party gained a supermajority in the lower house of Russian parliament.
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2026/10/30/ex-communist-party-lawmaker-in-murmansk-accused-of-passing-sensitive-information-to-ukraine-a94133
https://archive.ph/4zxiz
Israel: Tibi urges Eisenkot to show 'courage' and form minority government with Palestinians
Palestinian lawmaker Ahmad Tibi has urged Israeli opposition leader Gadi Eisenkot to show political courage and work with Arab parties to end Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s rule. In an interview with Middle East Eye on Friday, Tibi called on Eisenkot to summon “the courage of [former prime minister] Yitzhak Rabin”. In 1993, Rabin’s minority government of 56 seats relied on Palestinian-led parties for parliamentary support, amid the push to advance the Oslo Accords.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-tibi-urges-eisenkot-show-courage-and-form-minority-government-palestinians
Colombia’s government presents “Economic Rescue Bill”
The bill grants extraordinary powers to President Abelardo de la Espriella to slash government spending by decree and includes a tax reform that includes higher sales tax rates on gasoline, coffee, cigarettes and vegetables. The bill also includes tax breaks for corporations in an attempt to increase investment. While on campaign, De la Espriella powers vowed a 40% reduction of the State, which the bill falls short of doing.
https://colombiareports.com/colombias-government-presents-economic-rescue-bill/
Brazil Launches Measures Against Political Harassment at Work After Runoff
Brazil’s Public Labor Prosecutor’s Office (MPT) has registered 3,396 complaints of electoral harassment in the workplace since President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s runoff victory, and the federal government has announced emergency measures to stop retaliation against workers for their political views.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/brazil-measure-political-harassment-work/
"Modi govt cannot snatch away these rights and powers of the people": CPI's D Raja slams crackdown on protests ahead of Nov 1 rally
Addressing the broader governance model of the current administration, Raja trained his guns on the systematic curbing of public spaces designated for democratic agitation, specifically pointing to the restrictions placed on historic protest hubs like Jantar Mantar.
https://www.aninews.in/news/national/politics/modi-govt-cannot-snatch-away-these-rights-and-powers-of-the-people-cpis-d-raja-slams-crackdown-on-protests-ahead-of-nov-1-rally20261030145027/
https://archive.ph/Nn0sy
Patriotic groups hold rally against mining conference in Pasay City
Patriotic and environmental groups marched to Conrad Manila, an expensive hotel in Pasay City, on October 27, where the Mining Philippines International Conference and Exhibition 2026 was being held under the theme “From Global Trend to National Strategy: Developing the Philippines’ Critical Minerals Playbook.” The Chamber of Mines of the Philippines (CMP) organized the conference, which mining companies, investors, government officials, and legislators attended from October 27-28 to “shape the future of the industry.”
https://philippinerevolution.nu/angbayan/patriotic-groups-hold-rally-against-mining-conference-in-pasay-city/
‘We’re not freaks’: police raid sparks concern for Taiwan’s LGBT-friendly image
Josh was having a drink at Commander D, a popular gay bar in Taipei, on a Saturday afternoon when several police officers suddenly burst in. “Squat down and don’t move,” they shouted. Bewildered, he looked around to see the bar owner being handcuffed and forced to his knees. The 28-year-old was among 51 customers to be rounded up and taken away for questioning over suspected breaches of public decency rules.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/31/taiwan-gay-bar-police-raid-lgbt-pride-parade
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Is anime bourgeois? Like fumos, figures and so on. Weeb consumerism is outrageous even compared to others.
meow. meow. meow. meow. meow.
Is anime bourgeois? Like fumos, figures and so on. Weeb consumerism is outrageous even compared to others.
meow. meow. meow. meow. meow.
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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: 5 / I: 0
El Salvador will send over 2,000 soldiers to Haiti to rescue missing personnel and support anti-gang security operations, its foreign ministry said on Wednesday, while Haiti's electoral council postponed planned presidential elections to next year. The Caribbean's most populous nation has not held elections since 2016 and its last president was assassinated in 2021. Successive transitional leaders have postponed a vote citing insecurity as armed criminal organizations expand their territories.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/haiti-postpones-first-presidential-election-decade-july-2027-2026-10-29/
Venezuelan Gov’t Demands Return of UK-Held Gold, Eyes Production Increase
The freeze on the reserves, currently valued at around US $4 billion, dates back to the United Kingdom’s refusal to recognize Nicolás Maduro’s 2018 reelection. A year later, opposition leader Juan Guaidó formally asked British authorities to prevent the Venezuelan government from accessing the gold. During a cabinet meeting on Wednesday, Rodríguez described the ongoing freeze as a theft.
https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/venezuelan-govt-demands-return-of-uk-held-gold-eyes-production-increase/
Carney government announces plans to privatize major Canadian airports
At the Canada Investment Summit held in Toronto last month, Prime Minister Mark Carney unveiled plans to open up Canada’s four largest airports to private investors. The government’s goal is to free up “the capital that is tied up in those airports” so it can be “redeployed potentially in other ventures that will grow our economy.”
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/10/29/hwen-o29.html
Netanyahu claims Palestinians ‘stole’ elections as Qatar slams 'ridiculous and dangerous' allegations
Israeli politicians and media outlets aligned with the government have accused Qatar of funding efforts to boost turnout among Palestinian citizens of Israel. Netanyahu’s son, Yair, echoed the allegations on X, claiming Qatar, Turkey and other Arab states had stolen the election. Qatar rejected the accusations, calling them “ridiculous and dangerous”.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/qatar-rejects-ridiculous-israels-likud-claims-election-interference
Anger in Syria over government 'inaction' after deadly Jordanian airstrikes
Jordan’s military said Monday that its air force had struck what it described as terrorist sites in the southern Syrian province of Daraa, targeting groups it said were linked to a deadly shooting at a church in southern Jordan which killed nine people on 23 October, a rare incident in the kingdom. Jordanian authorities said they arrested three suspects behind the shooting.
https://www.newarab.com/news/anger-syria-over-govt-inaction-after-jordanian-airstrikes
Sudan accuses Ethiopia of launching 162 drone attacks from its territory
The officials said the drones had been launched from bases in Assosa, Bahir Dar, and locations along the Sudanese border, following flight paths alongside South Sudan. They identified several types of aircraft allegedly used, including modified kamikaze drones and long-range models. These included Chinese-made drones and the Turkish-made Bayraktar Akıncı and Bayraktar TB2, they said.
https://www.dabangasudan.org/en/all-news/article/sudan-accuses-ethiopia-of-launching-162-drone-attacks-from-its-territory
Russia sending fighter jets and air defences to Ethiopia
Ethiopia has received 12 Russian Su-35 fighter jets and will acquire four S-400 air defence batteries, in a deal experts say strengthens Moscow’s foothold in the Horn of Africa while bolstering Addis Ababa’s military amid conflict at home and tensions with neighbouring Eritrea. Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed announced the deal in Moscow during the two-day Russia-Africa Summit.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10/29/why-is-russia-sending-fighter-jets-and-air-defences-to-ethiopia
https://archive.ph/7dxLO
Burnham and Healey back benefits cuts
Mr Burnham stressed during a visit to a Derby factory that the government wants “to get the welfare bill down as quickly as possible, and we’re working flat out to that end.” Mr Healey, for his part, said: “We have to bring the benefits bill down. You don’t do that by crude cuts, especially when people are feeling the cost-of-living pressures.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/burnham-and-healey-back-benefits-cuts
French Senate backs 'make rioters pay' bill despite rights concerns
France's Senate on Wednesday approved a bill authorising rioters to be held financially accountable for damage caused during social unrest, with penalties of up to €10,000 and possible welfare benefit seizures. Rights groups warn the legislation could undermine the public's fundamental right to protest.
https://www.france24.com/en/france/20261028-french-senate-backs-bill-to-make-protesters-pay-for-unrest-damage-despite-rights-concern
https://archive.ph/xqdiV
Berlin's Left leader Elif Eralp under fire over Der Spiegel interview
Eralp, whose Left Party (Die Linke) came out on top in local elections in Berlin last month, appeared to suggest in remarks made during an internal authorization process for an interview that she gave to Der Spiegel that she couldn't make references to a particular pro-Palestinian activist out of fear for her own safety. "I can't put myself and my family in danger for Der Spiegel," the magazine cites her as having written in a Word Document edit, which was inadvertently sent back to the reporters. "What do we do now? Cancel the whole interview?" she is cited as having asked her press officer and other party colleagues, while stating in another remark, "I should never have agreed to this interview."
https://www.dw.com/en/berlins-elif-eralp-under-fire-over-der-spiegel-interview/a-79799766
https://archive.ph/9xInv
Hong Kong’s John Lee apologises for Tai Po fire, unveils reforms as housing chief resigns
A grim-faced Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu and seven other top officials bowed their heads in apology on Thursday at the start of a press briefing, the first time his administration had directly expressed regret since the blaze on November 26 at Wang Fuk Court killed 168 people and displaced 1,984 families.
https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3372634/hong-kongs-john-lee-apologises-tai-po-fire-unveils-reforms-housing-chief-resigns?module=top_story&pgtype=section
https://archive.ph/S5edm
Farmers reiterate demand for genuine agrarian reform
Farmers from Southern Tagalog and Central Luzon expressed deep frustration by the state’s suggestion to use buckets to collect water. They decried the lack of government aid like subsidies for the dry spells, leaving many without food to sustain themselves and their families.
https://www.bulatlat.com/2026/10/24/farmers-reiterate-demand-for-genuine-agrarian-reform/
News 10/29/26
El Salvador to send over 2,000 soldiers to Haiti for rescue while elections postponedEl Salvador will send over 2,000 soldiers to Haiti to rescue missing personnel and support anti-gang security operations, its foreign ministry said on Wednesday, while Haiti's electoral council postponed planned presidential elections to next year. The Caribbean's most populous nation has not held elections since 2016 and its last president was assassinated in 2021. Successive transitional leaders have postponed a vote citing insecurity as armed criminal organizations expand their territories.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/haiti-postpones-first-presidential-election-decade-july-2027-2026-10-29/
Venezuelan Gov’t Demands Return of UK-Held Gold, Eyes Production Increase
The freeze on the reserves, currently valued at around US $4 billion, dates back to the United Kingdom’s refusal to recognize Nicolás Maduro’s 2018 reelection. A year later, opposition leader Juan Guaidó formally asked British authorities to prevent the Venezuelan government from accessing the gold. During a cabinet meeting on Wednesday, Rodríguez described the ongoing freeze as a theft.
https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/venezuelan-govt-demands-return-of-uk-held-gold-eyes-production-increase/
Carney government announces plans to privatize major Canadian airports
At the Canada Investment Summit held in Toronto last month, Prime Minister Mark Carney unveiled plans to open up Canada’s four largest airports to private investors. The government’s goal is to free up “the capital that is tied up in those airports” so it can be “redeployed potentially in other ventures that will grow our economy.”
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/10/29/hwen-o29.html
Netanyahu claims Palestinians ‘stole’ elections as Qatar slams 'ridiculous and dangerous' allegations
Israeli politicians and media outlets aligned with the government have accused Qatar of funding efforts to boost turnout among Palestinian citizens of Israel. Netanyahu’s son, Yair, echoed the allegations on X, claiming Qatar, Turkey and other Arab states had stolen the election. Qatar rejected the accusations, calling them “ridiculous and dangerous”.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/qatar-rejects-ridiculous-israels-likud-claims-election-interference
Anger in Syria over government 'inaction' after deadly Jordanian airstrikes
Jordan’s military said Monday that its air force had struck what it described as terrorist sites in the southern Syrian province of Daraa, targeting groups it said were linked to a deadly shooting at a church in southern Jordan which killed nine people on 23 October, a rare incident in the kingdom. Jordanian authorities said they arrested three suspects behind the shooting.
https://www.newarab.com/news/anger-syria-over-govt-inaction-after-jordanian-airstrikes
Sudan accuses Ethiopia of launching 162 drone attacks from its territory
The officials said the drones had been launched from bases in Assosa, Bahir Dar, and locations along the Sudanese border, following flight paths alongside South Sudan. They identified several types of aircraft allegedly used, including modified kamikaze drones and long-range models. These included Chinese-made drones and the Turkish-made Bayraktar Akıncı and Bayraktar TB2, they said.
https://www.dabangasudan.org/en/all-news/article/sudan-accuses-ethiopia-of-launching-162-drone-attacks-from-its-territory
Russia sending fighter jets and air defences to Ethiopia
Ethiopia has received 12 Russian Su-35 fighter jets and will acquire four S-400 air defence batteries, in a deal experts say strengthens Moscow’s foothold in the Horn of Africa while bolstering Addis Ababa’s military amid conflict at home and tensions with neighbouring Eritrea. Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed announced the deal in Moscow during the two-day Russia-Africa Summit.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10/29/why-is-russia-sending-fighter-jets-and-air-defences-to-ethiopia
https://archive.ph/7dxLO
Burnham and Healey back benefits cuts
Mr Burnham stressed during a visit to a Derby factory that the government wants “to get the welfare bill down as quickly as possible, and we’re working flat out to that end.” Mr Healey, for his part, said: “We have to bring the benefits bill down. You don’t do that by crude cuts, especially when people are feeling the cost-of-living pressures.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/burnham-and-healey-back-benefits-cuts
French Senate backs 'make rioters pay' bill despite rights concerns
France's Senate on Wednesday approved a bill authorising rioters to be held financially accountable for damage caused during social unrest, with penalties of up to €10,000 and possible welfare benefit seizures. Rights groups warn the legislation could undermine the public's fundamental right to protest.
https://www.france24.com/en/france/20261028-french-senate-backs-bill-to-make-protesters-pay-for-unrest-damage-despite-rights-concern
https://archive.ph/xqdiV
Berlin's Left leader Elif Eralp under fire over Der Spiegel interview
Eralp, whose Left Party (Die Linke) came out on top in local elections in Berlin last month, appeared to suggest in remarks made during an internal authorization process for an interview that she gave to Der Spiegel that she couldn't make references to a particular pro-Palestinian activist out of fear for her own safety. "I can't put myself and my family in danger for Der Spiegel," the magazine cites her as having written in a Word Document edit, which was inadvertently sent back to the reporters. "What do we do now? Cancel the whole interview?" she is cited as having asked her press officer and other party colleagues, while stating in another remark, "I should never have agreed to this interview."
https://www.dw.com/en/berlins-elif-eralp-under-fire-over-der-spiegel-interview/a-79799766
https://archive.ph/9xInv
Hong Kong’s John Lee apologises for Tai Po fire, unveils reforms as housing chief resigns
A grim-faced Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu and seven other top officials bowed their heads in apology on Thursday at the start of a press briefing, the first time his administration had directly expressed regret since the blaze on November 26 at Wang Fuk Court killed 168 people and displaced 1,984 families.
https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3372634/hong-kongs-john-lee-apologises-tai-po-fire-unveils-reforms-housing-chief-resigns?module=top_story&pgtype=section
https://archive.ph/S5edm
Farmers reiterate demand for genuine agrarian reform
Farmers from Southern Tagalog and Central Luzon expressed deep frustration by the state’s suggestion to use buckets to collect water. They decried the lack of government aid like subsidies for the dry spells, leaving many without food to sustain themselves and their families.
https://www.bulatlat.com/2026/10/24/farmers-reiterate-demand-for-genuine-agrarian-reform/
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Do you guys genuinely criticize Social Democracy? Because to me it doesn't seem like you people understand why Social Democracy is bad.
When the US and Europe adopted social democratic policies in the past, it led to genuine improvement in the standard of living of workers. It also led to the complete collapse of revollutionary communism, and even the communist parties themselves became SocDem in all but their name.
And then what happened? Everyone lived happily ever after? No, obviously when the RoP started hurting, all that was clawed back. And the bigger and more important criticism is that we don't want to put a bandaid on capitalism in the first place, we want to abolish capitalism entirely.
That's why communists of the past criticized social democracy. It was not an easy thing to criticize. We had to actively criticize people who were making genuine improvements to worker's lives, and that made real communism unpopular.
And now we are in 2026 with a minor resurgence in social democracy. People post Lassalle memes, but what I want to know is what are your honest thoughts?
Do you really have the guts to criticize social democrats at a time when the capitalist class is almost universally hated? Do you have the principles and persistence to explain why social democracy is bad and are you capable of explaining to the workers what communism is actually about?
Just want to hear your honest thoughts.
Do you guys genuinely criticize Social Democracy? Because to me it doesn't seem like you people understand why Social Democracy is bad.
When the US and Europe adopted social democratic policies in the past, it led to genuine improvement in the standard of living of workers. It also led to the complete collapse of revollutionary communism, and even the communist parties themselves became SocDem in all but their name.
And then what happened? Everyone lived happily ever after? No, obviously when the RoP started hurting, all that was clawed back. And the bigger and more important criticism is that we don't want to put a bandaid on capitalism in the first place, we want to abolish capitalism entirely.
That's why communists of the past criticized social democracy. It was not an easy thing to criticize. We had to actively criticize people who were making genuine improvements to worker's lives, and that made real communism unpopular.
And now we are in 2026 with a minor resurgence in social democracy. People post Lassalle memes, but what I want to know is what are your honest thoughts?
Do you really have the guts to criticize social democrats at a time when the capitalist class is almost universally hated? Do you have the principles and persistence to explain why social democracy is bad and are you capable of explaining to the workers what communism is actually about?
Just want to hear your honest thoughts.
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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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The whole US-China "conflict" is totally fake.
Both these countries pretend to oppose the other and use the threat of "US dominance" or "Chinese dominance" to force other countries to join their blocs, while simultaneously attacking the middle powers who are the real threat to US-China axis (which are Europe, Russia, Japan, India, Iran, Brazil, Indonesia, Gulf monarchies, Canada etc)
This why these two faggot countries never actually hurt each other and engage in proxy wars and economic wars that only end up hurting the middle powers.
The correct course of action for middle powers is to rapidly distance themselves from US and China. Build domestic software, domestic finance, high tech and de-dollarize to reduce dependence on US. Re-industrialize and engage in mercantilism to protect domestic industry, to reduce dependence on China.
The whole US-China "conflict" is totally fake.
Both these countries pretend to oppose the other and use the threat of "US dominance" or "Chinese dominance" to force other countries to join their blocs, while simultaneously attacking the middle powers who are the real threat to US-China axis (which are Europe, Russia, Japan, India, Iran, Brazil, Indonesia, Gulf monarchies, Canada etc)
This why these two faggot countries never actually hurt each other and engage in proxy wars and economic wars that only end up hurting the middle powers.
The correct course of action for middle powers is to rapidly distance themselves from US and China. Build domestic software, domestic finance, high tech and de-dollarize to reduce dependence on US. Re-industrialize and engage in mercantilism to protect domestic industry, to reduce dependence on China.
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The movement started as a protest against the proposed luxury tourism developments in Portonovo, Sazan Island, Zvërnec, and Baks-Rrjoll, it was supported by Jared Kushner (trump's son-in-law). The developments would've caused ecological damage to the coastal regions, and if you don't know Albania has a long history of its enviroment being destroyed.
The protest has expanded to include protests against western influnce and the social democrat NATO government in general, with several government buildings being burned down and even a storming of the parilament and a fire lit inside of it earlier this month.
The PKSH (Communist Party of Albania) has also voiced it's support of the protests and have seen a jump in membership from students during the crisis, the party has usually been filled with boomers and low electorial gains but its changing.
https://www.idcommunism.com/2026/10/communist-party-of-albania-backs-student-protests-against-rama-denounces-police-repression.html
ALBANIA
It is plainly shocking that the ongoing protest movement in Albania (dubbed the Flamingo Revolution) is barely being mentioned here!The movement started as a protest against the proposed luxury tourism developments in Portonovo, Sazan Island, Zvërnec, and Baks-Rrjoll, it was supported by Jared Kushner (trump's son-in-law). The developments would've caused ecological damage to the coastal regions, and if you don't know Albania has a long history of its enviroment being destroyed.
The protest has expanded to include protests against western influnce and the social democrat NATO government in general, with several government buildings being burned down and even a storming of the parilament and a fire lit inside of it earlier this month.
The PKSH (Communist Party of Albania) has also voiced it's support of the protests and have seen a jump in membership from students during the crisis, the party has usually been filled with boomers and low electorial gains but its changing.
https://www.idcommunism.com/2026/10/communist-party-of-albania-backs-student-protests-against-rama-denounces-police-repression.html
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Fish & chips, the ultimate proletarian dish
Fish and chips is, without a doubt, the ultimate proletarian dish. It has everything you would want to have in a meal (mainly fish and chips). It makes you feel full after eating it. And most importantly it tastes delicious. No wonder the bourgeois institutions are trying to destroy this gift from the proletarian gods by claiming that "overfishing" is a thing. Do your proletarian duty by enjoying fish and chips at least twice a week.
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After landing on a private jet with his family in Miami, Florida, on Wednesday morning, the far-right senator published the claim in a letter – even though his own party has recognised the legitimate victory of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, as have all of Brazil’s institutions, and international observers who monitored and endorsed the vote.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/28/flavio-bolsonaro-miami-us-fleeing-brazilian-election-defeat
IMF strikes preliminary Argentina deal as market return dims
Still, a key ingredient to Argentina repaying its IMF programme in the long term is its return to international capital markets, which Milei has postponed in hopes of securing lower interest rates. Argentina’s sovereign bonds currently feature yields over 12 percent, which effectively close the window on a return in the near term.
https://www.batimes.com.ar/news/economy/imf-strikes-preliminary-argentina-deal-as-market-return-dims.phtml
https://archive.ph/wWT5Y
Colombia’s opposition announces criminal charges against De la Espriella over ties to drug traffickers
The president and his appointees are part of a revolving door system of people who, before being appointed to government positions, defended the interests of drug traffickers and paramilitaries associated with De la Espriella and his businesses, according to the opposition leader. For example, the president put Diana Patrica Bravo, a former prosecutor and partner at his law firm De la Espriella Lawyers, in charge of The Society of Special Assets (SAE), which controls assets that were seized from drug traffickers.
https://colombiareports.com/colombias-opposition-announces-criminal-charges-against-de-la-espriella-over-agrarian-counterreform/
France promises to replace its university admissions after riots and thousands of arrests
Ministers also pledged up to 4 billion euros ($4.5 billion) in loans for school renovations, alongside smaller classes, more teaching and higher education posts and increased student grants. The concessions target the school grievances that helped ignite the unrest. But the movement has widened to include workers demanding relief from rising living costs, making the government’s task tougher than simply resolving a dispute over university admissions.
https://apnews.com/article/france-high-schools-protests-macron-66403512e943e3aee4cdca64ecccfe33
Unions ‘concerned' by spending cuts to fill £4.7bn defence plan blackhole
TUC general secretary Paul Nowak warned “any cuts to departmental capital budgets will be met with real concern” and it is “vital” ministers engage with public-sector unions to reverse the impact of austerity ahead of the Spending Review. University and College Union general secretary Jo Grady said: “It is wrong to commit to huge increases in spending on weapons and war while vital services struggle.”
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/unions-concerned-spending-cuts-fill-ps47bn-defence-plan-blackhole
Thousands rally outside Portugal's parliament over housing crisis, police operations
Tuesday's protest followed baton-charging police operations to dismantle tent camps set up by housing activists in Lisbon and Porto on Sunday, sparking allegations of excessive force. Rally organisers said several thousand people packed the area. Police gave no crowd estimate. The Portuguese protests echo recent demonstrations in Spain and elsewhere across Europe over housing shortages and surging rents.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/thousands-rally-outside-portugals-parliament-over-housing-crisis-police-2026-10-27/
Balad leader blasts ‘racist’ exclusion of Arab parties in Israel
Al Jazeera’s Nour Odeh, reporting from Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, said Netanyahu “has scared off everybody from talking to the Palestinian Israeli parties”, leaving him best placed to “call the shots”. She said that Eisenkot and his allies have indicated that they want a Zionist government and “do not want to form a government” with the Arab parties, leaving them few options.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10/28/balad-leader-blasts-racist-exclusion-of-arab-parties-in-israel
https://archive.ph/iF8tI
Strike on Darfur market killed civilians selling food to fighters, witnesses say
More than 100 people were killed and 113 others were wounded on Monday in a Sudanese military drone strike on a busy market in Nyala, the capital of the South Darfur province, said Emergency Lawyers, a rights group tracking violence. The group said many of those killed and wounded were women and children.
https://www.newarab.com/news/darfur-market-strike-killed-civilians-selling-food-fighters
Media groups challenge India’s new privacy law
The media groups told the Indian Supreme Court that the move amounts to pre-censorship and could lead to newsrooms shutting down. A group of 21 news publishers, including companies owned by billionaires Mukesh Ambani and Gautam Adani, challenged Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s law on Tuesday, arguing it would trample upon investigative work and allow the government to identify journalists’ sources. Madhavi Goradia Divan, the lawyer for the Digital News Publishers Association (DNPA), told judges the law “is changing the whole concept of what is news.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/media-groups-challenge-indias-new-privacy-law
Nationalist Regime Supporters Turn Against China Over Northern Shan
The renewed criticism comes after the Shan State Joint Action Committee (SSJAC)—an ethnic coalition comprising the Shan State Progress Party/Shan State Army (SSPP/SSA), the Shan Nationalities League for Democracy (SNLD), and a Shan militia group—issued a statement on Oct. 23 accusing Kokang’s Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA) of imposing Chinese language in schools, granting land rights to foreigners, and erasing local traditions in territories it seized during Operation 1027. The MNDAA swiftly rejected the allegations as unfounded. Earlier this month, Shan civil society organizations released an open letter warning that the MNDAA’s cultural and administrative practices threaten ethnic coexistence and the stability of the China–Myanmar border.
https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/myanmar-china-watch/nationalist-regime-supporters-turn-against-china-over-northern-shan.html
News 10/28/26
Flávio Bolsonaro calls himself the ‘leader of Brazil’ after fleeing to MiamiAfter landing on a private jet with his family in Miami, Florida, on Wednesday morning, the far-right senator published the claim in a letter – even though his own party has recognised the legitimate victory of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, as have all of Brazil’s institutions, and international observers who monitored and endorsed the vote.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/28/flavio-bolsonaro-miami-us-fleeing-brazilian-election-defeat
IMF strikes preliminary Argentina deal as market return dims
Still, a key ingredient to Argentina repaying its IMF programme in the long term is its return to international capital markets, which Milei has postponed in hopes of securing lower interest rates. Argentina’s sovereign bonds currently feature yields over 12 percent, which effectively close the window on a return in the near term.
https://www.batimes.com.ar/news/economy/imf-strikes-preliminary-argentina-deal-as-market-return-dims.phtml
https://archive.ph/wWT5Y
Colombia’s opposition announces criminal charges against De la Espriella over ties to drug traffickers
The president and his appointees are part of a revolving door system of people who, before being appointed to government positions, defended the interests of drug traffickers and paramilitaries associated with De la Espriella and his businesses, according to the opposition leader. For example, the president put Diana Patrica Bravo, a former prosecutor and partner at his law firm De la Espriella Lawyers, in charge of The Society of Special Assets (SAE), which controls assets that were seized from drug traffickers.
https://colombiareports.com/colombias-opposition-announces-criminal-charges-against-de-la-espriella-over-agrarian-counterreform/
France promises to replace its university admissions after riots and thousands of arrests
Ministers also pledged up to 4 billion euros ($4.5 billion) in loans for school renovations, alongside smaller classes, more teaching and higher education posts and increased student grants. The concessions target the school grievances that helped ignite the unrest. But the movement has widened to include workers demanding relief from rising living costs, making the government’s task tougher than simply resolving a dispute over university admissions.
https://apnews.com/article/france-high-schools-protests-macron-66403512e943e3aee4cdca64ecccfe33
Unions ‘concerned' by spending cuts to fill £4.7bn defence plan blackhole
TUC general secretary Paul Nowak warned “any cuts to departmental capital budgets will be met with real concern” and it is “vital” ministers engage with public-sector unions to reverse the impact of austerity ahead of the Spending Review. University and College Union general secretary Jo Grady said: “It is wrong to commit to huge increases in spending on weapons and war while vital services struggle.”
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/unions-concerned-spending-cuts-fill-ps47bn-defence-plan-blackhole
Thousands rally outside Portugal's parliament over housing crisis, police operations
Tuesday's protest followed baton-charging police operations to dismantle tent camps set up by housing activists in Lisbon and Porto on Sunday, sparking allegations of excessive force. Rally organisers said several thousand people packed the area. Police gave no crowd estimate. The Portuguese protests echo recent demonstrations in Spain and elsewhere across Europe over housing shortages and surging rents.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/thousands-rally-outside-portugals-parliament-over-housing-crisis-police-2026-10-27/
Balad leader blasts ‘racist’ exclusion of Arab parties in Israel
Al Jazeera’s Nour Odeh, reporting from Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, said Netanyahu “has scared off everybody from talking to the Palestinian Israeli parties”, leaving him best placed to “call the shots”. She said that Eisenkot and his allies have indicated that they want a Zionist government and “do not want to form a government” with the Arab parties, leaving them few options.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10/28/balad-leader-blasts-racist-exclusion-of-arab-parties-in-israel
https://archive.ph/iF8tI
Strike on Darfur market killed civilians selling food to fighters, witnesses say
More than 100 people were killed and 113 others were wounded on Monday in a Sudanese military drone strike on a busy market in Nyala, the capital of the South Darfur province, said Emergency Lawyers, a rights group tracking violence. The group said many of those killed and wounded were women and children.
https://www.newarab.com/news/darfur-market-strike-killed-civilians-selling-food-fighters
Media groups challenge India’s new privacy law
The media groups told the Indian Supreme Court that the move amounts to pre-censorship and could lead to newsrooms shutting down. A group of 21 news publishers, including companies owned by billionaires Mukesh Ambani and Gautam Adani, challenged Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s law on Tuesday, arguing it would trample upon investigative work and allow the government to identify journalists’ sources. Madhavi Goradia Divan, the lawyer for the Digital News Publishers Association (DNPA), told judges the law “is changing the whole concept of what is news.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/media-groups-challenge-indias-new-privacy-law
Nationalist Regime Supporters Turn Against China Over Northern Shan
The renewed criticism comes after the Shan State Joint Action Committee (SSJAC)—an ethnic coalition comprising the Shan State Progress Party/Shan State Army (SSPP/SSA), the Shan Nationalities League for Democracy (SNLD), and a Shan militia group—issued a statement on Oct. 23 accusing Kokang’s Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA) of imposing Chinese language in schools, granting land rights to foreigners, and erasing local traditions in territories it seized during Operation 1027. The MNDAA swiftly rejected the allegations as unfounded. Earlier this month, Shan civil society organizations released an open letter warning that the MNDAA’s cultural and administrative practices threaten ethnic coexistence and the stability of the China–Myanmar border.
https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/myanmar-china-watch/nationalist-regime-supporters-turn-against-china-over-northern-shan.html
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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.
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Can anyone explain to me why is south American just filled to the brim with reactionaries that their left has to work overtime just not to let a fascist get elected?
Why are they on permanent crisis/polarized mode?
Bonus if answers are from SA.
What's wrong with south america?
I'm a mere observer and don't have much of a background:Can anyone explain to me why is south American just filled to the brim with reactionaries that their left has to work overtime just not to let a fascist get elected?
Why are they on permanent crisis/polarized mode?
Bonus if answers are from SA.
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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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▶ 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: >>2935955
/USAPOL/
🗽 UNITED STATES POLITICS 🦅>Thread for the civil war
<You're an Indian 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: >>2935955
R: 27 / I: 2
Stupid question.
How come elections tend to always be like 49%/51% but not something spectacular like 70%/30%?
It feels to me like its programmed so that one tendency never have too much power.
What gives?
Stupid question.
How come elections tend to always be like 49%/51% but not something spectacular like 70%/30%?
It feels to me like its programmed so that one tendency never have too much power.
What gives?
R: 11 / I: 2
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?
R: 405 / I: 54
PAUL COCKSHOTT EXPELLED FROM THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF GREAT BRITAIN FOR "ANTISEMITISM" AMONG OTHER THINGS
Quote:
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
Quote:
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: 24 / I: 3
house slave/field slave
butler/serf
cavalry/infantry
office worker/manual laborer
unionized/non-unionized
first worlder/third worlder
and that's not even getting into identity (cis/trans) biology (male/female) lifestyle (no kids/kids) and habits (no addictions/addictions)
how do you unite the international proletariat which is so easily divided and conquered? even on here people would rather attack each other for anything from gooning habits to religion rather than talk about class struggle.
house slave/field slave
marx says oppressor vs. oppressed but there will always be oppressed less vs. oppressed morehouse slave/field slave
butler/serf
cavalry/infantry
office worker/manual laborer
unionized/non-unionized
first worlder/third worlder
and that's not even getting into identity (cis/trans) biology (male/female) lifestyle (no kids/kids) and habits (no addictions/addictions)
how do you unite the international proletariat which is so easily divided and conquered? even on here people would rather attack each other for anything from gooning habits to religion rather than talk about class struggle.
R: 2 / I: 0
A spokesperson for Bolsonaro did not respond to a request for comment. Bolsonaro’s brother, Eduardo Bolsonaro, who lives in Texas, had publicly encouraged him to leave Brazil if he lost the election. Bolsonaro has touted his relationship with U.S. President Donald Trump and visited the White House in May. The family connections go deeper: His brother Eduardo Bolsonaro was convicted in absentia in June of illegally lobbying the Trump administration and sentenced to four years in prison. A warrant was recently issued for his arrest.
https://apnews.com/article/brazil-flavio-bolsonaro-passport-lula-1f64bda20de066eeea04349e0319820a
Venezuelan: Acting Rodríguez Gov’t Advances Fiscal, Labor Reforms
“We seek to lower the barriers to formalization across all sectors, particularly for the smallest businesses, entrepreneurs, and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs),” he stressed. Rodríguez also announced a review of the registry of Special Taxpayers, known as “special contributors,” with the list reduced from 132,000 to around 44,000. These are individuals or legal entities that, because of their high income or assets, are subject to additional tax obligations.
https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/venezuelan-acting-rodriguez-govt-advances-fiscal-labor-reforms/
Around 1,000 soldiers from El Salvador have deployed to Haiti, source says
It remains unclear who will command the new Salvadoran contingent, and how long they will operate in the Caribbean country. The government, which has gone without elected leaders for years, has struggled to rally foreign support to fight armed gangs that have taken control of much of the capital and surrounding regions, triggering violence that has displaced nearly 1.5 million people.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/around-1000-soldiers-el-salvador-have-deployed-haiti-source-says-2026-10-27/
Exit polls following Israeli elections indicate no clear winner
According to exit polls, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s bloc is projected to secure 50 seats, while the bloc led by opposition candidate Gadi Eisenkot is expected to win 52 or 53 seats. Sixty-one seats are needed to form a majority government. Arab parties are projected to collectively win 18 seats. Polling stations closed at 10pm (20:00 GMT) local time. Preliminary results are expected on Wednesday, followed by a final tally on Friday. The official results are due to be published on November 4, eight days after the vote.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10/27/exit-polls-following-israeli-elections-indicate-no-clear-winner
https://archive.ph/5wyEf
'Autocratic capture': Rights groups say UAE diplomat Lana Nusseibeh too dangerous to lead UN
Her candidacy drew immediate criticism, owing to the UAE's support for parties accused of genocide, namely the breakaway paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in Sudan, as well as Israel, whose acts of genocide in Gaza continue despite a year-long ceasefire. Some members of the former Biden administration, as well as other former US diplomats, praised her on social media, and Abu Dhabi's close ties with Washington may indeed prove a boon for her candidacy.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/autocratic-capture-rights-groups-say-uae-diplomat-lana-nusseibeh-too-dangerous-lead-un
Yemen's Houthis say they hit Saudi Ras Tanura oil refinery with missile
The Houthis also said they had attacked Saudi military aircraft and repelled an advance by Saudi-backed forces near the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, an important Red Sea shipping route. The Houthis' military spokesperson, Yahya Saree, said the strike on the Ras Tanura refinery had caused a fire at the complex, which also includes a shipping terminal and is located on the Gulf, west of the Strait of Hormuz.
https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2026/10/yemens-houthis-say-they-hit-saudi-ras-tanura-oil-refinery-missile
IMC and anti-migration groups agree to tackle illegal immigration
The partnership will focus on addressing illegal migration, the hijacking of owned buildings and other challenges linked to migration. Kubayi confirmed that the discussions had been lengthy but fruitful. “They told us that what they oppose is illegal migration and are not against foreign nationals. They expressed interest to work with government to deal with the social challenges that stem from the anti-migration tensions.” Kubayi says the groups have also agreed to join hands with government in some of the migration-related litigation against the state.
https://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/imc-and-anti-migration-groups-agree-to-tackle-illegal-immigration/
British politicians among international delegates barred from entering West Bank
The delegation of 23 people, including four elected representatives, was drawn from countries including France, Spain, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Greece, Holland, Ireland and the US. It included the Labour MP Clive Lewis, the Scottish National party MP Lara Bird, the Scottish Greens MSP Kate Nevens and the former Labour MP Sam Tarry.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/26/british-politicians-among-international-delegates-barred-from-entering-west-bank
2 men charged with UK national security offenses over incident at US-run military base in England
Both suspects spoke in court to confirm their names, addresses and dates of birth. Essghir was ordered detained until his next hearing, while Abdulkarim, who attended court in a wheelchair, was granted bail. Both are due to appear in court again on Nov. 20. Six other men have been arrested and released on bail as police investigations continue.
https://apnews.com/article/uk-us-air-base-charges-08e70681b4524de2d620f2ec7d337098
Rights groups say proposed French law to make rioters pay for damage is anti-democratic
Critics have said that a proposed French law that would make rioters liable to pay thousands of euros for any damage they cause is anti-democratic, as it could undermine the legitimate right to protest. The government put forward the law in a bid to quell looting and vandalism on the fringes of ongoing national protests over poor conditions in French schools and the high cost of living.
https://www.france24.com/en/france/20261027-rights-groups-say-proposed-french-law-to-make-rioters-pay-for-damage-anti-democratic
https://archive.ph/MFl2t
On nuclear policy, Koizumi agrees with Finnish defense chief: Japan ‘must not be naive’
Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi on Tuesday said he had discussed Finland’s decision to allow nuclear weapons onto its soil with the Nordic country’s defense chief during a meeting a day earlier, as Japan weighs a similar policy shift. Koizumi held talks Monday with Finnish Defense Minister Antti Hakkanen, with the pair agreeing to beef up defense cooperation hours after the two countries inked a defense equipment and technology transfer agreement.
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/10/27/japan/japan-koizumi-finland-nuclear-weapons/
https://archive.ph/bq8Uu
Philippines defends bounty for fugitive senator wanted by ICC
Presidential Communications Undersecretary Claire Castro said in an interview with state-run Radyo Pilipinas that the bounty was an operational strategy of the Interior Minister and the Philippine National Police, when asked whether it had been ordered or approved by President Ferdinand Marcos Jr
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/philippines-defends-bounty-fugitive-senator-wanted-by-icc-2026-10-26/
News 10/27/26
Brazil’s Flávio Bolsonaro leaves Brazil for the United States, according to multiple media reportsA spokesperson for Bolsonaro did not respond to a request for comment. Bolsonaro’s brother, Eduardo Bolsonaro, who lives in Texas, had publicly encouraged him to leave Brazil if he lost the election. Bolsonaro has touted his relationship with U.S. President Donald Trump and visited the White House in May. The family connections go deeper: His brother Eduardo Bolsonaro was convicted in absentia in June of illegally lobbying the Trump administration and sentenced to four years in prison. A warrant was recently issued for his arrest.
https://apnews.com/article/brazil-flavio-bolsonaro-passport-lula-1f64bda20de066eeea04349e0319820a
Venezuelan: Acting Rodríguez Gov’t Advances Fiscal, Labor Reforms
“We seek to lower the barriers to formalization across all sectors, particularly for the smallest businesses, entrepreneurs, and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs),” he stressed. Rodríguez also announced a review of the registry of Special Taxpayers, known as “special contributors,” with the list reduced from 132,000 to around 44,000. These are individuals or legal entities that, because of their high income or assets, are subject to additional tax obligations.
https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/venezuelan-acting-rodriguez-govt-advances-fiscal-labor-reforms/
Around 1,000 soldiers from El Salvador have deployed to Haiti, source says
It remains unclear who will command the new Salvadoran contingent, and how long they will operate in the Caribbean country. The government, which has gone without elected leaders for years, has struggled to rally foreign support to fight armed gangs that have taken control of much of the capital and surrounding regions, triggering violence that has displaced nearly 1.5 million people.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/around-1000-soldiers-el-salvador-have-deployed-haiti-source-says-2026-10-27/
Exit polls following Israeli elections indicate no clear winner
According to exit polls, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s bloc is projected to secure 50 seats, while the bloc led by opposition candidate Gadi Eisenkot is expected to win 52 or 53 seats. Sixty-one seats are needed to form a majority government. Arab parties are projected to collectively win 18 seats. Polling stations closed at 10pm (20:00 GMT) local time. Preliminary results are expected on Wednesday, followed by a final tally on Friday. The official results are due to be published on November 4, eight days after the vote.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10/27/exit-polls-following-israeli-elections-indicate-no-clear-winner
https://archive.ph/5wyEf
'Autocratic capture': Rights groups say UAE diplomat Lana Nusseibeh too dangerous to lead UN
Her candidacy drew immediate criticism, owing to the UAE's support for parties accused of genocide, namely the breakaway paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in Sudan, as well as Israel, whose acts of genocide in Gaza continue despite a year-long ceasefire. Some members of the former Biden administration, as well as other former US diplomats, praised her on social media, and Abu Dhabi's close ties with Washington may indeed prove a boon for her candidacy.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/autocratic-capture-rights-groups-say-uae-diplomat-lana-nusseibeh-too-dangerous-lead-un
Yemen's Houthis say they hit Saudi Ras Tanura oil refinery with missile
The Houthis also said they had attacked Saudi military aircraft and repelled an advance by Saudi-backed forces near the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, an important Red Sea shipping route. The Houthis' military spokesperson, Yahya Saree, said the strike on the Ras Tanura refinery had caused a fire at the complex, which also includes a shipping terminal and is located on the Gulf, west of the Strait of Hormuz.
https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2026/10/yemens-houthis-say-they-hit-saudi-ras-tanura-oil-refinery-missile
IMC and anti-migration groups agree to tackle illegal immigration
The partnership will focus on addressing illegal migration, the hijacking of owned buildings and other challenges linked to migration. Kubayi confirmed that the discussions had been lengthy but fruitful. “They told us that what they oppose is illegal migration and are not against foreign nationals. They expressed interest to work with government to deal with the social challenges that stem from the anti-migration tensions.” Kubayi says the groups have also agreed to join hands with government in some of the migration-related litigation against the state.
https://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/imc-and-anti-migration-groups-agree-to-tackle-illegal-immigration/
British politicians among international delegates barred from entering West Bank
The delegation of 23 people, including four elected representatives, was drawn from countries including France, Spain, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Greece, Holland, Ireland and the US. It included the Labour MP Clive Lewis, the Scottish National party MP Lara Bird, the Scottish Greens MSP Kate Nevens and the former Labour MP Sam Tarry.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/26/british-politicians-among-international-delegates-barred-from-entering-west-bank
2 men charged with UK national security offenses over incident at US-run military base in England
Both suspects spoke in court to confirm their names, addresses and dates of birth. Essghir was ordered detained until his next hearing, while Abdulkarim, who attended court in a wheelchair, was granted bail. Both are due to appear in court again on Nov. 20. Six other men have been arrested and released on bail as police investigations continue.
https://apnews.com/article/uk-us-air-base-charges-08e70681b4524de2d620f2ec7d337098
Rights groups say proposed French law to make rioters pay for damage is anti-democratic
Critics have said that a proposed French law that would make rioters liable to pay thousands of euros for any damage they cause is anti-democratic, as it could undermine the legitimate right to protest. The government put forward the law in a bid to quell looting and vandalism on the fringes of ongoing national protests over poor conditions in French schools and the high cost of living.
https://www.france24.com/en/france/20261027-rights-groups-say-proposed-french-law-to-make-rioters-pay-for-damage-anti-democratic
https://archive.ph/MFl2t
On nuclear policy, Koizumi agrees with Finnish defense chief: Japan ‘must not be naive’
Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi on Tuesday said he had discussed Finland’s decision to allow nuclear weapons onto its soil with the Nordic country’s defense chief during a meeting a day earlier, as Japan weighs a similar policy shift. Koizumi held talks Monday with Finnish Defense Minister Antti Hakkanen, with the pair agreeing to beef up defense cooperation hours after the two countries inked a defense equipment and technology transfer agreement.
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/10/27/japan/japan-koizumi-finland-nuclear-weapons/
https://archive.ph/bq8Uu
Philippines defends bounty for fugitive senator wanted by ICC
Presidential Communications Undersecretary Claire Castro said in an interview with state-run Radyo Pilipinas that the bounty was an operational strategy of the Interior Minister and the Philippine National Police, when asked whether it had been ordered or approved by President Ferdinand Marcos Jr
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/philippines-defends-bounty-fugitive-senator-wanted-by-icc-2026-10-26/
R: 9 / I: 2 (sage)
How do we fix this /leftypol/?
We need to at least critically support anti EU/NATO like AFD against UkroNazis.
Emergency Anti-imperialist Thread
First LGBT Neoliberalglobohomoism got Hungary and now it got Serbia also.How do we fix this /leftypol/?
We need to at least critically support anti EU/NATO like AFD against UkroNazis.
R: 14 / I: 5
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.
R: 1 / I: 0
Books
Let's talk about books. I love books. Not reading them (in fact I dislike that), but just looking at them, having them, and thinking about them. Any books you've been touching or thinking about or looking at lately?
R: 22 / I: 6
Making a Hearts of Iron 4 internet mod, any interesting concepts and ideas for the leftypol nation?
There is currently two ways the nation can progress, a hard left election / coup or a democratization. Each path includes awesome wars and much LARP.
The playable nations on release will include the soyball (you know who i mean, i don't know if there's a filter that bans you if you mention the website here lol), kiwifarms, 4chan and leftypol.
Making a Hearts of Iron 4 internet mod, any interesting concepts and ideas for the leftypol nation?
There is currently two ways the nation can progress, a hard left election / coup or a democratization. Each path includes awesome wars and much LARP.
The playable nations on release will include the soyball (you know who i mean, i don't know if there's a filter that bans you if you mention the website here lol), kiwifarms, 4chan and leftypol.
R: 5 / I: 0
Mr Vucic told supporters at his party’s election night event in Belgrade: “It is now clear that we have lost and the Students’ List has won,” though he blamed the media, alleged interference by unnamed European countries and the “American deep state” for the loss. Radomir Saicic, a Students’ List candidate, said “tonight is not just about results. “It is about people who believed and continued to fight,” he said. “This is a victory over fear. It is nobody’s trophy, it is a citizen’s victory. But victory carries responsibility.”
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/student-led-serbian-movement-ousts-right-wing-leader-aleksandar-vucic-seismic-win
Berlin’s Plan to Take Back Homes Will Cost Europe’s Biggest Landlord £7bn
Die Linke, which won Berlin’s state elections in September, has agreed to talks with the city’s Greens and Social Democrats as part of plans to transfer ownership of flats from companies that own more than 10,000 apartments, with the legislation scheduled to be brought forward in 2028. Any apartments owned above that 10,000 threshold would have to be transferred into public ownership as part of the policy, with Die Linke proposing an average compensation of around €100,000 per apartment – around 40% below the market value.
https://novaramedia.com/2026/10/23/berlins-plan-to-take-back-homes-will-cost-europes-biggest-landlord-7bn/
‘Still Just a Child’: The Russian Teenagers Fighting and Dying in Ukraine
The pro-war Orthodox Christian VKontakte group Synodik, which has about 50,000 followers, carries dozens of obituaries for soldiers who were teenagers when the invasion began. In Orthodox Christianity, a synodik is a list of names of the living or the dead who are remembered in prayers and church services. Likewise, Synodik’s members pray for Russian soldiers like they would in a real church. The comments, mostly posted by women, are filled with Orthodox prayers, animated images of icons and cross emojis.
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2026/10/26/still-just-a-child-the-russian-teenagers-fighting-and-dying-in-ukraine-a94045
Colombia’s government claims Petro exploited 48 women as president
“Forty-eight women are already speaking with us about how, through a contract and an OPS, they were trapped and exploited in order to be with President Petro,” said Rios. Former DAPRE director Angie Rodriguez, who was sacked by Petro in July, doubled down on her successor’s allegations and asked the former president to prove that the president managed a network of women, including child transvestites.
https://colombiareports.com/colombias-government-claims-petro-exploited-48-women-as-president/
Brazil heads back to the future as Flavio Bolsonaro refuses to recognize Lula win
Right-wing Brazilian Senator Flavio Bolsonaro has followed his imprisoned father's lead by refusing to concede defeat to leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who won a historic fourth term in Sunday's presidential election. Bolsonaro, the son of former President Jair Bolsonaro, called into question a late-Sunday decision by a Lula-appointed Supreme Court justice that extended voting by two hours over alleged public transport irregularities. The senator said he would ask for the result to be annulled.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/brazil-heads-back-future-flavio-bolsonaro-refuses-recognize-lula-win-2026-10-26/
Biochemists in Paraguay Join National Strike
The biochemists are demanding a salary increase of 2 million guaraníes, equivalent to approximately 347 US dollars at the current exchange rate. According to biochemist Laila Peña, a professional employed by the Ministry of Public Health and Social Welfare earns 4.3 million guaraníes (746 US dollars), while a temporary contract worker receives between 3.2 and 3.6 million guaraníes (between 555 and 625 US dollars).
https://www.telesurenglish.net/biochemists-in-paraguay-join-national-strike/
Netanyahu reportedly pressured military to attack Iran in run-up to election
Israel’s Channel 12 news reported that the prime minister and the armed forces chief of staff, Lt Gen Eyal Zamir, clashed in recent days over a directive to the military which could “potentially spark an immediate conflagration with Iran at a very sensitive juncture”, by provoking a miscalculation by Iran. Zamir is reported to have requested the directive, the details of which were not specified, to be presented to him in writing.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/26/netanyahu-reportedly-pressured-israel-military-attack-iran-runup-to-election
Fears of intimidation of Palestinian voters as Israeli election 'observers' allowed to carry guns
Adalah attorney Ariel Remez, who led the petition, told The New Arab: "by declining to intervene, the Court has left Palestinian voters exposed to intimidation and placed responsibility for any violence on Election Day on the police and National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, a minister previously convicted of incitement to racism who has driven the mass arming of Israeli civilians."
https://www.newarab.com/news/fears-palestinians-israel-election-observers-allowed-guns
'No fuel to keep babies warm': shortages push hospitals in Yemen's Taiz to brink
Taiz has been largely isolated since October 3, with fighting preventing humanitarian supplies from entering and civilians from leaving, following an escalation in clashes between the Saudi-backed government and the Iran-aligned Houthi movement.
https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2026/10/no-fuel-keep-babies-warm-shortages-push-hospitals-yemens-taiz-brink
Drone strikes cut power across southeast Sudan, operator says
The operator accused the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces — which have been fighting a civil war with the army for around 3-1/2 years — of knocking out power in four states, which cover about half the territory currently held by the military. …. Power was cut in Sennar, Al Qadarif, White Nile and Gezira states, threatening the stability of the whole national grid, the operator said. The attacks hit stations in the towns and areas of Sinja, El Hawata, Al Fao and Mashkour, as well as Al-Junaid in Gezira State, causing "severe damage" and "major destruction" to equipment, it added.
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/drone-strikes-cut-power-across-southeast-sudan-operator-says-2026-10-26/
Japanese prosecutors charge US marine suspected of robbing and killing woman
Devin Jacob Ballard, a 20-year-old lance corporal assigned to Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in Okinawa, is charged with fatally strangling Anna Yagi, 39, at a hotel in the city and stealing from her a backpack containing a wallet, the public broadcaster NHK reported.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/26/japanese-prosecuters-charge-marine-killing
Communist Party opposes proposed counterterror organised crime laws
The CPSL has said it recognises the need to combat terrorism, organised crime and threats to public security, having itself suffered violence during both the civil conflict and the 1987-90 period. Full text of the statement: The Communist Party of Sri Lanka (CPSL) expresses its strongest opposition to the proposed Protection of the State from Terrorism Bill and the Prevention of Organised Crimes Bill, which together represent a grave threat to democracy, fundamental rights, and the freedoms guaranteed to the people of Sri Lanka.
https://island.lk/communist-party-opposes-proposed-counterterror-organised-crime-laws/
News 10/26/26
Student-led Serbian movement ousts right-wing leader Aleksandar Vucic in seismic winMr Vucic told supporters at his party’s election night event in Belgrade: “It is now clear that we have lost and the Students’ List has won,” though he blamed the media, alleged interference by unnamed European countries and the “American deep state” for the loss. Radomir Saicic, a Students’ List candidate, said “tonight is not just about results. “It is about people who believed and continued to fight,” he said. “This is a victory over fear. It is nobody’s trophy, it is a citizen’s victory. But victory carries responsibility.”
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/student-led-serbian-movement-ousts-right-wing-leader-aleksandar-vucic-seismic-win
Berlin’s Plan to Take Back Homes Will Cost Europe’s Biggest Landlord £7bn
Die Linke, which won Berlin’s state elections in September, has agreed to talks with the city’s Greens and Social Democrats as part of plans to transfer ownership of flats from companies that own more than 10,000 apartments, with the legislation scheduled to be brought forward in 2028. Any apartments owned above that 10,000 threshold would have to be transferred into public ownership as part of the policy, with Die Linke proposing an average compensation of around €100,000 per apartment – around 40% below the market value.
https://novaramedia.com/2026/10/23/berlins-plan-to-take-back-homes-will-cost-europes-biggest-landlord-7bn/
‘Still Just a Child’: The Russian Teenagers Fighting and Dying in Ukraine
The pro-war Orthodox Christian VKontakte group Synodik, which has about 50,000 followers, carries dozens of obituaries for soldiers who were teenagers when the invasion began. In Orthodox Christianity, a synodik is a list of names of the living or the dead who are remembered in prayers and church services. Likewise, Synodik’s members pray for Russian soldiers like they would in a real church. The comments, mostly posted by women, are filled with Orthodox prayers, animated images of icons and cross emojis.
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2026/10/26/still-just-a-child-the-russian-teenagers-fighting-and-dying-in-ukraine-a94045
Colombia’s government claims Petro exploited 48 women as president
“Forty-eight women are already speaking with us about how, through a contract and an OPS, they were trapped and exploited in order to be with President Petro,” said Rios. Former DAPRE director Angie Rodriguez, who was sacked by Petro in July, doubled down on her successor’s allegations and asked the former president to prove that the president managed a network of women, including child transvestites.
https://colombiareports.com/colombias-government-claims-petro-exploited-48-women-as-president/
Brazil heads back to the future as Flavio Bolsonaro refuses to recognize Lula win
Right-wing Brazilian Senator Flavio Bolsonaro has followed his imprisoned father's lead by refusing to concede defeat to leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who won a historic fourth term in Sunday's presidential election. Bolsonaro, the son of former President Jair Bolsonaro, called into question a late-Sunday decision by a Lula-appointed Supreme Court justice that extended voting by two hours over alleged public transport irregularities. The senator said he would ask for the result to be annulled.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/brazil-heads-back-future-flavio-bolsonaro-refuses-recognize-lula-win-2026-10-26/
Biochemists in Paraguay Join National Strike
The biochemists are demanding a salary increase of 2 million guaraníes, equivalent to approximately 347 US dollars at the current exchange rate. According to biochemist Laila Peña, a professional employed by the Ministry of Public Health and Social Welfare earns 4.3 million guaraníes (746 US dollars), while a temporary contract worker receives between 3.2 and 3.6 million guaraníes (between 555 and 625 US dollars).
https://www.telesurenglish.net/biochemists-in-paraguay-join-national-strike/
Netanyahu reportedly pressured military to attack Iran in run-up to election
Israel’s Channel 12 news reported that the prime minister and the armed forces chief of staff, Lt Gen Eyal Zamir, clashed in recent days over a directive to the military which could “potentially spark an immediate conflagration with Iran at a very sensitive juncture”, by provoking a miscalculation by Iran. Zamir is reported to have requested the directive, the details of which were not specified, to be presented to him in writing.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/26/netanyahu-reportedly-pressured-israel-military-attack-iran-runup-to-election
Fears of intimidation of Palestinian voters as Israeli election 'observers' allowed to carry guns
Adalah attorney Ariel Remez, who led the petition, told The New Arab: "by declining to intervene, the Court has left Palestinian voters exposed to intimidation and placed responsibility for any violence on Election Day on the police and National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, a minister previously convicted of incitement to racism who has driven the mass arming of Israeli civilians."
https://www.newarab.com/news/fears-palestinians-israel-election-observers-allowed-guns
'No fuel to keep babies warm': shortages push hospitals in Yemen's Taiz to brink
Taiz has been largely isolated since October 3, with fighting preventing humanitarian supplies from entering and civilians from leaving, following an escalation in clashes between the Saudi-backed government and the Iran-aligned Houthi movement.
https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2026/10/no-fuel-keep-babies-warm-shortages-push-hospitals-yemens-taiz-brink
Drone strikes cut power across southeast Sudan, operator says
The operator accused the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces — which have been fighting a civil war with the army for around 3-1/2 years — of knocking out power in four states, which cover about half the territory currently held by the military. …. Power was cut in Sennar, Al Qadarif, White Nile and Gezira states, threatening the stability of the whole national grid, the operator said. The attacks hit stations in the towns and areas of Sinja, El Hawata, Al Fao and Mashkour, as well as Al-Junaid in Gezira State, causing "severe damage" and "major destruction" to equipment, it added.
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/drone-strikes-cut-power-across-southeast-sudan-operator-says-2026-10-26/
Japanese prosecutors charge US marine suspected of robbing and killing woman
Devin Jacob Ballard, a 20-year-old lance corporal assigned to Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in Okinawa, is charged with fatally strangling Anna Yagi, 39, at a hotel in the city and stealing from her a backpack containing a wallet, the public broadcaster NHK reported.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/26/japanese-prosecuters-charge-marine-killing
Communist Party opposes proposed counterterror organised crime laws
The CPSL has said it recognises the need to combat terrorism, organised crime and threats to public security, having itself suffered violence during both the civil conflict and the 1987-90 period. Full text of the statement: The Communist Party of Sri Lanka (CPSL) expresses its strongest opposition to the proposed Protection of the State from Terrorism Bill and the Prevention of Organised Crimes Bill, which together represent a grave threat to democracy, fundamental rights, and the freedoms guaranteed to the people of Sri Lanka.
https://island.lk/communist-party-opposes-proposed-counterterror-organised-crime-laws/
R: 35 / I: 12
Just a reminder to vote trvmp
>trump has destablized the USA
>traffis have destroyed US hegmony/capitalism
>Losing in iran
>Contradictions in capitalism are only accelerating
>DSA is winning (even if its reformism it shows people are becoming recepitive to socialism again).
Just a reminder to vote trvmp
>trump has destablized the USA
>traffis have destroyed US hegmony/capitalism
>Losing in iran
>Contradictions in capitalism are only accelerating
>DSA is winning (even if its reformism it shows people are becoming recepitive to socialism again).
R: 10 / 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?
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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
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The essence of Grift is to create a problem that exists but doesn't need to exist, and to repeatedly sell a whackamole solution to it that doesn't get at the root cause of the problem.
My favorite 2 are law enforcement and drug rehab.
Drug rehab doesn't actually remove addictive substances from society, it just charges people exorbitant fees to "Recover" no drug rehab center actually has a long term financial interest in seeing drug addiction permanently eradicated.
Law enforcement officials often cause or exacerbate crime by being military occupiers of urban communities they don't even live in. Crime takes the form of resistance against the police, and the police view the population they "enforce the laws" against as disobedient animals. A cop loves nothing more than to plant drugs on a homeless person and use that as a pretext for arresting them, or to bait a person into illegal behavior through provocation, as a pretext for arresting them. Pig stations get more budgets based on the arrests they make and tickets they give, so there is a direct incentive for them to create more crime to get more budget, even if it means creating crime that would otherwise not exist. Crime is a byproduct of policing also because capital hungers for prison labor, which comes more cheaply and with less legal protections than the standard "free" working class population.
The essence of Grift is to create a problem that exists but doesn't need to exist, and to repeatedly sell a whackamole solution to it that doesn't get at the root cause of the problem.
My favorite 2 are law enforcement and drug rehab.
Drug rehab doesn't actually remove addictive substances from society, it just charges people exorbitant fees to "Recover" no drug rehab center actually has a long term financial interest in seeing drug addiction permanently eradicated.
Law enforcement officials often cause or exacerbate crime by being military occupiers of urban communities they don't even live in. Crime takes the form of resistance against the police, and the police view the population they "enforce the laws" against as disobedient animals. A cop loves nothing more than to plant drugs on a homeless person and use that as a pretext for arresting them, or to bait a person into illegal behavior through provocation, as a pretext for arresting them. Pig stations get more budgets based on the arrests they make and tickets they give, so there is a direct incentive for them to create more crime to get more budget, even if it means creating crime that would otherwise not exist. Crime is a byproduct of policing also because capital hungers for prison labor, which comes more cheaply and with less legal protections than the standard "free" working class population.
R: 6 / I: 1
If god isnt real then why whenever I do a ritual and pray to god for specfic event to happen in my life or globally it happens
>words words words words words words
If god isnt real then why whenever I do a ritual and pray to god for specfic event to happen in my life or globally it happens
>words words words words words words
R: 33 / I: 5
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?
R: 15 / I: 6
>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: 3 / I: 4
books/studies/docs on socialist symbolism and iconography
It’s a topic I’ve been thinking about, the history of socialist symbols and icons, not so much in terms of their actual politics, but in terms of how people who lived under these political systems related to them. Many didn’t necessarily understand the political processes or ideology behind the systems, but they genuinely liked these systems and embraced them enough to apply their own traditional forms of praise and reverence to them. This could mean displaying portraits of prominent communist figures in their homes, creating effigies of them, or adopting the hammer and sickle or variations of it as a kind of national or cultural symbol.
R: 0 / I: 0
PORRA
eu amo lula
lula vive em mim
é 13 porra
eu quase cheguei a rezar pro lula ganhar daquele bosta fascista do flavio bolsonaro
lula
VAI CARALHO, AQUI É LULAPORRA
eu amo lula
lula vive em mim
é 13 porra
eu quase cheguei a rezar pro lula ganhar daquele bosta fascista do flavio bolsonaro
R: 104 / I: 15
Occuptions, student strikes, riotting, and arson don't overthrow the state only dual power (ex establishing parallel political Institutions) will make these amount to anything beyond a histotical footnote. The only form of dual power that exists is theoractial, and I will give credit to the students attempting to create assembies and trade unions also attempting so, but unless THEY ACTUALLY DO IT the protests will be a fail.
And if these fail the state will just have more of a justifcation to further its surveillance state and prevent anymore uprisings, this is why the USA looks pathetic right now its not because people aren't mad its because the bourgesis state kidnaps anyone who attempts them and aids reformist liberals.
TLDR no organization dual power = these protests will die out and stregthen the bourgesis state in the long-term.
2026 French protests will die out
The ongoing student, and non-student protests (and also those of Belgium, Italy, and Albania to a weaker extent) are promising signs of revolution, BUT if this is only the start it is the end.Occuptions, student strikes, riotting, and arson don't overthrow the state only dual power (ex establishing parallel political Institutions) will make these amount to anything beyond a histotical footnote. The only form of dual power that exists is theoractial, and I will give credit to the students attempting to create assembies and trade unions also attempting so, but unless THEY ACTUALLY DO IT the protests will be a fail.
And if these fail the state will just have more of a justifcation to further its surveillance state and prevent anymore uprisings, this is why the USA looks pathetic right now its not because people aren't mad its because the bourgesis state kidnaps anyone who attempts them and aids reformist liberals.
TLDR no organization dual power = these protests will die out and stregthen the bourgesis state in the long-term.
R: 0 / I: 0
O que será do Brasil governado por Zognaro?
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O que será do Brasil governado por Zognaro?
Body was too short body was too short body was too short body was too short body was too short body was too short body was too short body was too short body was too short body was too short
R: 61 / I: 8
Is there anything we can do to revive interest in communism, or is the real movement dead forever?
Is the Communist fandom dying?
Feels like there's a lot less people talking about communism these days. There's fewer people sharing communist memes on social media, and fewer people discussing their favorite communist countries and movements. And /leftypol/ is definitely slower than its peak in the late 2010s.Is there anything we can do to revive interest in communism, or is the real movement dead forever?
R: 5 / I: 1 (sage)
>when will you wake up?
My question is this how do we as Marxists deal with the dialectical materialism of race? Asians and Jews are 100IQ+, whites are 100IQ, Latinos are 90IQ, Indians are 75IQ, and blacks are 65IQ. This shows up in disparate cultural and societal structures. How do you think we can build a communist society when people at 90 autism score or lower cannot understand counterfactuals i.e. hypothetical situations?
Race Materialism
I have been a communist since I was 9 or 10. I have read Engel's, Marx, Lenin, Mao, etcetera…>when will you wake up?
My question is this how do we as Marxists deal with the dialectical materialism of race? Asians and Jews are 100IQ+, whites are 100IQ, Latinos are 90IQ, Indians are 75IQ, and blacks are 65IQ. This shows up in disparate cultural and societal structures. How do you think we can build a communist society when people at 90 autism score or lower cannot understand counterfactuals i.e. hypothetical situations?
R: 30 / I: 5
>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: 5 / I: 2
XI JINPING
Comrades and friends,
Today, we gather to celebrate the 105th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China. We meet to reflect on the glorious journey our Party has traveled, to look ahead to the bright prospects for the cause of our Party and our people, and to rally all Party members and the Chinese people to march with confidence and courage toward the goal of building a great modern socialist country and realizing the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
First, on behalf of our Party’s Central Committee, I would like to extend greetings to all members of our Party on this occasion. I also wish to warmly congratulate the recipients of the July 1 Medal, as well as the outstanding Party members, exemplary Party affairs workers, and advanced primary-level Party organizations from across the country being honored here today.
Comrades and friends,
One hundred and five years ago, out of the great awakening of the Chinese people and the Chinese nation and the close integration of Marxism-Leninism with the Chinese workers’ movement, the Communist Party of China was born. From that moment on, the Chinese people and the Chinese nation had in the Party a truly dependable anchor. The long-enfeebled and impoverished China, embattled by internal turmoil and foreign aggression, thus embarked on a historic and earthshaking transformation.
Over the past 105 years, our Party has remained true to its original aspiration and founding mission: to seek happiness for the Chinese people and rejuvenation for the Chinese nation. With a deep insight into the prevailing trends of global development and an accurate grasp of the principal challenges facing Chinese society in each historical period, it has united and led the Chinese people in pursuing tireless endeavor. Together, we have achieved great accomplishments in the new-democratic revolution; in socialist revolution and construction; in reform, opening up, and socialist modernization; and in socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era—writing the most magnificent chapter in the millennia-long history of the Chinese nation.
Through 105 years of tireless endeavor, we have fundamentally reshaped the future and destiny of the Chinese people. Our Party led the people through a great and surging struggle, toppling the three mountains of imperialism, feudalism, and bureaucrat-capitalism and founding the People’s Republic of China where the people become the masters of the country, thus finally bringing an end to the semi-colonial, semi-feudal history of old China. We achieved a historic transformation in living standards, rising from bare subsistence to moderate prosperity in general, and then to moderate prosperity in all respects. Today, the Chinese people hold their future firmly in their own hands, and with confidence, self-reliance, and strength, they are striding toward an even brighter tomorrow.
Through 105 years of tireless endeavor, we have carved out the right path toward national rejuvenation. Throughout the periods of revolution, construction, reform, and the new era, our Party has led the people through untold hardships, charting and following the path of socialism with Chinese characteristics. In just a few decades, we have completed an industrialization process that took developed countries several centuries, and in doing so, we have achieved the two miracles of rapid economic growth and enduring social stability. Today, the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation is advancing with irresistible momentum, unfolding prospects brighter than ever before.
Through 105 years of tireless endeavor, we have demonstrated the immense vitality of Marxism. Our Party has consistently integrated the basic tenets of Marxism with China’s specific realities and the best elements of its traditional culture, continuously adapting Marxism to the Chinese context and the needs of the times. This has given rise to Mao Zedong Thought, Deng Xiaoping Theory, the Theory of Three Represents, the Scientific Outlook on Development, and the Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, enriching and developing Marxism in the process. Today, all the vigor and vitality of Chinese socialism stand as ample proof of Marxism’s scientific nature and objective truth, its people-centered and practical orientation, and its openness and capacity to advance with the times.
Through 105 years of tireless endeavor, we have profoundly influenced the course of world history. Always standing on the right side of history and on the side of human progress, our Party has, through its continuing efforts, profoundly reshaped the trajectory and landscape of global development. Today, by leading the people in advancing Chinese modernization, we have created a new form of human civilization and broadened the pathways by which developing countries can achieve modernization. By promoting the building of a community with a shared future for humanity, we are contributing Chinese wisdom, Chinese solutions, and Chinese strength to resolving the major challenges facing humankind. Under the Party’s leadership, socialist China is recognized the world over as a builder of world peace, a contributor to global development, and a defender of the international order.
Through 105 years of tireless endeavor, we have forged a strong Communist Party of China. Ever mindful of its nature and purpose as a Marxist party and the goals toward which it strives, our Party has carried forward its great founding spirit. Through every hardship, our will has been tempered; through every trial, we have emerged only stronger. Today, our Party is the world’s largest governing party, with significant influence on the global stage. Having the wholehearted endorsement and support of our people, it serves as the strong leadership core of the cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics. Without question, it has proved itself fully worthy of being called a great, glorious, and correct party.
Comrades and friends,
We owe all that we have achieved over the past 105 years to the tireless endeavor of the Chinese people, united and led by generation after generation of Chinese Communists. These Chinese Communists, with Comrades Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping, Jiang Zemin, and Hu Jintao as their chief representatives, have made tremendous and historic contributions to the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. To them, we pay the highest tribute.
Let us take this moment to honor the memory of Comrades Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai, Liu Shaoqi, Zhu De, Deng Xiaoping, Chen Yun, and other revolutionaries of the older generation, and the memory of Comrade Jiang Zemin. We honor as well the revolutionary martyrs and noble-minded patriots who gave their lives, or devoted their all, to national independence, the liberation of the people, the prosperity of the nation, and the happiness of the people. The monumental contributions they made to our country and our nation are engraved forever in the annals of history, and their lofty spirit will endure in the hearts of millions upon millions of our people.
The people are the creators of history; they are the true heroes. Here, on behalf of the Central Committee, I would like to pay our highest respects to people working diligently on every front across the nation, and to public figures from all sectors of society. I would like to extend our sincere greetings to our fellow countrymen and women in the Hong Kong and Macao special administrative regions, in Taiwan, and residing overseas. And I would like to express our heartfelt gratitude to people and friends around the world who have shown friendship to the Chinese people and understanding and support for China’s endeavors in revolution, construction, and reform.
Comrades and friends,
Our Party has been able to achieve one glory after another over its 105-year journey and earn the recognition of history and the people, fundamentally because it possesses the following fine qualities unmatched by any other political party or force.
• A dedication to the pursuit of truth enables our Party to always advance in the right direction. Regarding Marxism as a powerful intellectual instrument for transforming both our subjective and objective worlds, our Party has remained committed to freeing the mind, seeking truth from facts, advancing with the times, and taking a realistic and pragmatic approach. It has endeavored to reveal and apply the truth within the evolving contradictions of society, to test and develop that truth through practice, and to use new theories to guide new practice. This ensures that the cause of the Party and the people always advances in the right direction.
• Deep roots among the people enable our Party to always stand on solid ground. Based on the firm belief that this country is the people and the people are the country, our Party has committed itself to serving the public good and governing for the people. It has consciously fulfilled its fundamental purpose of wholeheartedly serving the people, standing firmly with the people, sharing their aspirations, and working alongside them. All this has created a strong and unshakable foundation for our Party.
• A determination to shoulder its historic mission enables our Party to always maintain the strategic initiative. Guided by the lofty ideal of communism and a firm commitment to achieving lasting greatness for the Chinese nation, our Party has carried upon its shoulders the heavy responsibilities entrusted to it by history and the people. Aligning long-term goals with objectives of each stage, it has defined its central tasks in response to changes in the principal challenge facing Chinese society, and it has formulated and implemented the correct line, principles, and policies to maintain leadership and initiative in advancing our development.
• A readiness to adapt to the trends of development enables our Party to always remain at the forefront of the times. With a keen sense of history and a broad global vision, our Party has maintained a clear grasp of China’s actual conditions and the defining themes of the times, proactively identifying, responding to, and steering changes. Forging ahead with determination and a pioneering spirit, it has ensured that all its undertakings advance with the times, conform to the objective laws of development, and are innovative in nature. In this way, it has steered the country and the nation forward in step with the logic of history and the trends of development, fully proving itself a pioneer of the times and the backbone of the nation.
• The courage and competence to carry on its fight enable our Party to always maintain firm confidence in victory. Bearing in mind the interests of the people, the country, and the nation as well as its ideals and convictions, our Party has fought bravely and forged ahead against all odds without fear of sacrifice. No matter how formidable the adversary, how treacherous the path, or how severe the challenge, it has remained undaunted and unyielding. With an iron will that no storm or difficulty can shake, it has inspired the people of the entire country to advance from one victory to the next.
• A commitment to self-strengthening enables our Party to always retain its vitality. Keenly aware that it takes a good blacksmith to forge good steel, our Party is committed to examining itself through the lens of the changing times, keeping itself alert through a strong awareness of potential dangers, and improving itself in a spirit of self-reform. We attach great importance to self-improvement and are determined to remove any elements that would harm the Party’s advanced nature and integrity and any viruses that would erode the Party’s health. It is through this revolutionary tempering that our Party has grown ever stronger.
These fine qualities hold the key to the success of the Communist Party of China. We must continue to develop and carry forward these qualities in line with new realities to ensure that the Party never changes its nature, its convictions, or its character and always maintains strong creativity, cohesion, and capability.
Comrades and friends,
Great accomplishments are built through aspiration and diligence. To fulfill the Party’s mission and tasks on the new journey in the new era, all Chinese Communists must stand firm in confidence and carry on our endeavor, continuously delivering new feats worthy of the times and the people.
• To remain confident and carry on our endeavor, we must uphold the Party’s basic theory, basic line, and basic policy. These are major achievements secured through painstaking exploration by the Party and the people, and they serve as the fundamental guide for advancing the development of the Party and the country. On the journey ahead, the whole Party must maintain the resolve to keep to our path and uphold our convictions. We must uphold the Party’s overall leadership and the centralized, unified leadership of the Central Committee, thoroughly implement the Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, and remain confident in the path, theory, system, and culture of Chinese socialism. We must build on past achievements to advance our cause, and break new ground while upholding fundamental principles. With all this, our view will never be obscured by passing clouds, and we will brave the wind and waves without ever losing our bearings.
• To remain confident and carry on our endeavor, we must rely closely on the people to make further achievements. Upholding and developing socialism with Chinese characteristics is a shared undertaking of the entire Party and the people across the country. On the journey ahead, the whole Party must work with renewed drive and resolve to rally the Chinese people and lead them in breaking new ground. We must ensure coordinated implementation of the Five-Sphere Integrated Plan and the Four-Pronged Comprehensive Strategy, fully and faithfully apply the new development philosophy, and move faster to create a new pattern of development through solid progress in pursuing high-quality development. Acting on the people-centered development philosophy, we must promote whole-process people’s democracy and consolidate and strengthen the great unity of all ethnic groups, of all Chinese people, and of all sons and daughters of the Chinese nation. By unleashing the motivation, initiative, and creativity of more than one billion Chinese people, we will create a mighty force for advancing Chinese modernization.
• To remain confident and carry on our endeavor, we must proactively address risks and challenges on the road ahead. China remains in a stage of development where strategic opportunities exist alongside risks and challenges, and uncertainties and unforeseen factors are on the rise. We must be prepared at all times to brave high winds, choppy waters, and even dangerous storms. On the journey ahead, the whole Party must heighten our awareness of potential dangers, keep in mind worst-case scenarios, and strengthen our readiness and competence to carry on our fight. We must better balance domestic and international imperatives, ensure both development and security, and build up our ability to rationally anticipate changes, promptly identify risks, and effectively address challenges. Through these efforts, we will ensure that the giant ship of national rejuvenation can navigate turbulent waters and continue sailing steadily forward.
• To remain confident and carry on our endeavor, we must continue to promote the building of a community with a shared future for humanity. With changes unseen in a century unfolding at an ever faster pace, the world has entered a new period of turbulence and transformation. Humanity once again stands at a crossroads, facing a choice about which way to turn. On the journey ahead, we will follow the will of the people and the trend of the times. We will uphold peace, development, cooperation, and mutual benefit, champion the common values of all humanity, and work to foster a new type of international relations. We will act on the Global Development Initiative, the Global Security Initiative, the Global Civilizations Initiative, and the Global Governance Initiative to inject greater positive energy into world peace and development.
• To remain confident and carry on our endeavor, we must make unremitting efforts to promote full and rigorous Party self-governance, which remains an ongoing process. On the journey ahead, we must fully implement the thinking on Party development for the new era as well as the overall requirements for strengthening the Party in this era. We will focus on enhancing the Party’s capacity for long-term governance, preserving its advanced nature and integrity, and maintaining its close bond with the people. To this end, we will improve the system for exercising full and rigorous Party self-governance, strengthen the Party in all respects with reinforcing its political foundation as the overarching guide, and keep waging the tough, protracted, and all-out battle against corruption. We will further strengthen our Party’s capacity for political leadership, theoretical guidance, organizing the people, and inspiring society, so as to ensure that the Party always remains the strong leadership core in the historic endeavor to uphold and develop socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era.
90 Years of the Long March
Speech at the Ceremony Marking the 105th Anniversary of the Founding of the Communist Party of ChinaXI JINPING
Comrades and friends,
Today, we gather to celebrate the 105th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China. We meet to reflect on the glorious journey our Party has traveled, to look ahead to the bright prospects for the cause of our Party and our people, and to rally all Party members and the Chinese people to march with confidence and courage toward the goal of building a great modern socialist country and realizing the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
First, on behalf of our Party’s Central Committee, I would like to extend greetings to all members of our Party on this occasion. I also wish to warmly congratulate the recipients of the July 1 Medal, as well as the outstanding Party members, exemplary Party affairs workers, and advanced primary-level Party organizations from across the country being honored here today.
Comrades and friends,
One hundred and five years ago, out of the great awakening of the Chinese people and the Chinese nation and the close integration of Marxism-Leninism with the Chinese workers’ movement, the Communist Party of China was born. From that moment on, the Chinese people and the Chinese nation had in the Party a truly dependable anchor. The long-enfeebled and impoverished China, embattled by internal turmoil and foreign aggression, thus embarked on a historic and earthshaking transformation.
Over the past 105 years, our Party has remained true to its original aspiration and founding mission: to seek happiness for the Chinese people and rejuvenation for the Chinese nation. With a deep insight into the prevailing trends of global development and an accurate grasp of the principal challenges facing Chinese society in each historical period, it has united and led the Chinese people in pursuing tireless endeavor. Together, we have achieved great accomplishments in the new-democratic revolution; in socialist revolution and construction; in reform, opening up, and socialist modernization; and in socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era—writing the most magnificent chapter in the millennia-long history of the Chinese nation.
Through 105 years of tireless endeavor, we have fundamentally reshaped the future and destiny of the Chinese people. Our Party led the people through a great and surging struggle, toppling the three mountains of imperialism, feudalism, and bureaucrat-capitalism and founding the People’s Republic of China where the people become the masters of the country, thus finally bringing an end to the semi-colonial, semi-feudal history of old China. We achieved a historic transformation in living standards, rising from bare subsistence to moderate prosperity in general, and then to moderate prosperity in all respects. Today, the Chinese people hold their future firmly in their own hands, and with confidence, self-reliance, and strength, they are striding toward an even brighter tomorrow.
Through 105 years of tireless endeavor, we have carved out the right path toward national rejuvenation. Throughout the periods of revolution, construction, reform, and the new era, our Party has led the people through untold hardships, charting and following the path of socialism with Chinese characteristics. In just a few decades, we have completed an industrialization process that took developed countries several centuries, and in doing so, we have achieved the two miracles of rapid economic growth and enduring social stability. Today, the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation is advancing with irresistible momentum, unfolding prospects brighter than ever before.
Through 105 years of tireless endeavor, we have demonstrated the immense vitality of Marxism. Our Party has consistently integrated the basic tenets of Marxism with China’s specific realities and the best elements of its traditional culture, continuously adapting Marxism to the Chinese context and the needs of the times. This has given rise to Mao Zedong Thought, Deng Xiaoping Theory, the Theory of Three Represents, the Scientific Outlook on Development, and the Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, enriching and developing Marxism in the process. Today, all the vigor and vitality of Chinese socialism stand as ample proof of Marxism’s scientific nature and objective truth, its people-centered and practical orientation, and its openness and capacity to advance with the times.
Through 105 years of tireless endeavor, we have profoundly influenced the course of world history. Always standing on the right side of history and on the side of human progress, our Party has, through its continuing efforts, profoundly reshaped the trajectory and landscape of global development. Today, by leading the people in advancing Chinese modernization, we have created a new form of human civilization and broadened the pathways by which developing countries can achieve modernization. By promoting the building of a community with a shared future for humanity, we are contributing Chinese wisdom, Chinese solutions, and Chinese strength to resolving the major challenges facing humankind. Under the Party’s leadership, socialist China is recognized the world over as a builder of world peace, a contributor to global development, and a defender of the international order.
Through 105 years of tireless endeavor, we have forged a strong Communist Party of China. Ever mindful of its nature and purpose as a Marxist party and the goals toward which it strives, our Party has carried forward its great founding spirit. Through every hardship, our will has been tempered; through every trial, we have emerged only stronger. Today, our Party is the world’s largest governing party, with significant influence on the global stage. Having the wholehearted endorsement and support of our people, it serves as the strong leadership core of the cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics. Without question, it has proved itself fully worthy of being called a great, glorious, and correct party.
Comrades and friends,
We owe all that we have achieved over the past 105 years to the tireless endeavor of the Chinese people, united and led by generation after generation of Chinese Communists. These Chinese Communists, with Comrades Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping, Jiang Zemin, and Hu Jintao as their chief representatives, have made tremendous and historic contributions to the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. To them, we pay the highest tribute.
Let us take this moment to honor the memory of Comrades Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai, Liu Shaoqi, Zhu De, Deng Xiaoping, Chen Yun, and other revolutionaries of the older generation, and the memory of Comrade Jiang Zemin. We honor as well the revolutionary martyrs and noble-minded patriots who gave their lives, or devoted their all, to national independence, the liberation of the people, the prosperity of the nation, and the happiness of the people. The monumental contributions they made to our country and our nation are engraved forever in the annals of history, and their lofty spirit will endure in the hearts of millions upon millions of our people.
The people are the creators of history; they are the true heroes. Here, on behalf of the Central Committee, I would like to pay our highest respects to people working diligently on every front across the nation, and to public figures from all sectors of society. I would like to extend our sincere greetings to our fellow countrymen and women in the Hong Kong and Macao special administrative regions, in Taiwan, and residing overseas. And I would like to express our heartfelt gratitude to people and friends around the world who have shown friendship to the Chinese people and understanding and support for China’s endeavors in revolution, construction, and reform.
Comrades and friends,
Our Party has been able to achieve one glory after another over its 105-year journey and earn the recognition of history and the people, fundamentally because it possesses the following fine qualities unmatched by any other political party or force.
• A dedication to the pursuit of truth enables our Party to always advance in the right direction. Regarding Marxism as a powerful intellectual instrument for transforming both our subjective and objective worlds, our Party has remained committed to freeing the mind, seeking truth from facts, advancing with the times, and taking a realistic and pragmatic approach. It has endeavored to reveal and apply the truth within the evolving contradictions of society, to test and develop that truth through practice, and to use new theories to guide new practice. This ensures that the cause of the Party and the people always advances in the right direction.
• Deep roots among the people enable our Party to always stand on solid ground. Based on the firm belief that this country is the people and the people are the country, our Party has committed itself to serving the public good and governing for the people. It has consciously fulfilled its fundamental purpose of wholeheartedly serving the people, standing firmly with the people, sharing their aspirations, and working alongside them. All this has created a strong and unshakable foundation for our Party.
• A determination to shoulder its historic mission enables our Party to always maintain the strategic initiative. Guided by the lofty ideal of communism and a firm commitment to achieving lasting greatness for the Chinese nation, our Party has carried upon its shoulders the heavy responsibilities entrusted to it by history and the people. Aligning long-term goals with objectives of each stage, it has defined its central tasks in response to changes in the principal challenge facing Chinese society, and it has formulated and implemented the correct line, principles, and policies to maintain leadership and initiative in advancing our development.
• A readiness to adapt to the trends of development enables our Party to always remain at the forefront of the times. With a keen sense of history and a broad global vision, our Party has maintained a clear grasp of China’s actual conditions and the defining themes of the times, proactively identifying, responding to, and steering changes. Forging ahead with determination and a pioneering spirit, it has ensured that all its undertakings advance with the times, conform to the objective laws of development, and are innovative in nature. In this way, it has steered the country and the nation forward in step with the logic of history and the trends of development, fully proving itself a pioneer of the times and the backbone of the nation.
• The courage and competence to carry on its fight enable our Party to always maintain firm confidence in victory. Bearing in mind the interests of the people, the country, and the nation as well as its ideals and convictions, our Party has fought bravely and forged ahead against all odds without fear of sacrifice. No matter how formidable the adversary, how treacherous the path, or how severe the challenge, it has remained undaunted and unyielding. With an iron will that no storm or difficulty can shake, it has inspired the people of the entire country to advance from one victory to the next.
• A commitment to self-strengthening enables our Party to always retain its vitality. Keenly aware that it takes a good blacksmith to forge good steel, our Party is committed to examining itself through the lens of the changing times, keeping itself alert through a strong awareness of potential dangers, and improving itself in a spirit of self-reform. We attach great importance to self-improvement and are determined to remove any elements that would harm the Party’s advanced nature and integrity and any viruses that would erode the Party’s health. It is through this revolutionary tempering that our Party has grown ever stronger.
These fine qualities hold the key to the success of the Communist Party of China. We must continue to develop and carry forward these qualities in line with new realities to ensure that the Party never changes its nature, its convictions, or its character and always maintains strong creativity, cohesion, and capability.
Comrades and friends,
Great accomplishments are built through aspiration and diligence. To fulfill the Party’s mission and tasks on the new journey in the new era, all Chinese Communists must stand firm in confidence and carry on our endeavor, continuously delivering new feats worthy of the times and the people.
• To remain confident and carry on our endeavor, we must uphold the Party’s basic theory, basic line, and basic policy. These are major achievements secured through painstaking exploration by the Party and the people, and they serve as the fundamental guide for advancing the development of the Party and the country. On the journey ahead, the whole Party must maintain the resolve to keep to our path and uphold our convictions. We must uphold the Party’s overall leadership and the centralized, unified leadership of the Central Committee, thoroughly implement the Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, and remain confident in the path, theory, system, and culture of Chinese socialism. We must build on past achievements to advance our cause, and break new ground while upholding fundamental principles. With all this, our view will never be obscured by passing clouds, and we will brave the wind and waves without ever losing our bearings.
• To remain confident and carry on our endeavor, we must rely closely on the people to make further achievements. Upholding and developing socialism with Chinese characteristics is a shared undertaking of the entire Party and the people across the country. On the journey ahead, the whole Party must work with renewed drive and resolve to rally the Chinese people and lead them in breaking new ground. We must ensure coordinated implementation of the Five-Sphere Integrated Plan and the Four-Pronged Comprehensive Strategy, fully and faithfully apply the new development philosophy, and move faster to create a new pattern of development through solid progress in pursuing high-quality development. Acting on the people-centered development philosophy, we must promote whole-process people’s democracy and consolidate and strengthen the great unity of all ethnic groups, of all Chinese people, and of all sons and daughters of the Chinese nation. By unleashing the motivation, initiative, and creativity of more than one billion Chinese people, we will create a mighty force for advancing Chinese modernization.
• To remain confident and carry on our endeavor, we must proactively address risks and challenges on the road ahead. China remains in a stage of development where strategic opportunities exist alongside risks and challenges, and uncertainties and unforeseen factors are on the rise. We must be prepared at all times to brave high winds, choppy waters, and even dangerous storms. On the journey ahead, the whole Party must heighten our awareness of potential dangers, keep in mind worst-case scenarios, and strengthen our readiness and competence to carry on our fight. We must better balance domestic and international imperatives, ensure both development and security, and build up our ability to rationally anticipate changes, promptly identify risks, and effectively address challenges. Through these efforts, we will ensure that the giant ship of national rejuvenation can navigate turbulent waters and continue sailing steadily forward.
• To remain confident and carry on our endeavor, we must continue to promote the building of a community with a shared future for humanity. With changes unseen in a century unfolding at an ever faster pace, the world has entered a new period of turbulence and transformation. Humanity once again stands at a crossroads, facing a choice about which way to turn. On the journey ahead, we will follow the will of the people and the trend of the times. We will uphold peace, development, cooperation, and mutual benefit, champion the common values of all humanity, and work to foster a new type of international relations. We will act on the Global Development Initiative, the Global Security Initiative, the Global Civilizations Initiative, and the Global Governance Initiative to inject greater positive energy into world peace and development.
• To remain confident and carry on our endeavor, we must make unremitting efforts to promote full and rigorous Party self-governance, which remains an ongoing process. On the journey ahead, we must fully implement the thinking on Party development for the new era as well as the overall requirements for strengthening the Party in this era. We will focus on enhancing the Party’s capacity for long-term governance, preserving its advanced nature and integrity, and maintaining its close bond with the people. To this end, we will improve the system for exercising full and rigorous Party self-governance, strengthen the Party in all respects with reinforcing its political foundation as the overarching guide, and keep waging the tough, protracted, and all-out battle against corruption. We will further strengthen our Party’s capacity for political leadership, theoretical guidance, organizing the people, and inspiring society, so as to ensure that the Party always remains the strong leadership core in the historic endeavor to uphold and develop socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era.
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Why do so many of these "revolutions" happen with students? I dont get it, students are not even proles. They are mostly parasites living on their parents income, or they get paid to study in some European social democracies. Some of them work in part time, but they rarely actually participate in worker struggles at their work, they just protest for stupid shit like "democracy" or "muh welfare gibs"
Its retarded, I hate it so much. I fully support the bourgeoisie cracking down on students.
Why do so many of these "revolutions" happen with students? I dont get it, students are not even proles. They are mostly parasites living on their parents income, or they get paid to study in some European social democracies. Some of them work in part time, but they rarely actually participate in worker struggles at their work, they just protest for stupid shit like "democracy" or "muh welfare gibs"
Its retarded, I hate it so much. I fully support the bourgeoisie cracking down on students.
R: 10 / I: 1
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: 28 / I: 4
Gen-Z revolution in the west is le good something something.
Just admit it you only care about East Vs West and give zero fucks about Gen-Z
East Vs West campism is retarded
Gen-Z revolution in east is le bad and something something CIAGen-Z revolution in the west is le good something something.
Just admit it you only care about East Vs West and give zero fucks about Gen-Z
R: 607 / I: 216 (full)
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📖 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
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📖 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
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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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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
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“The reported events do not constitute a criminal offence,” the judge said in a ruling. He also wrote that investor losses and the rise and fall in the currency’s price were insufficient to establish fraud. In his ruling, Martinez de Giorgi said that Milei’s institutional standing could have given the launch “greater impact” when he posted about it, but that does not translate into a fraudulent scheme.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10/24/argentinian-judge-drops-fraud-investigation-into-milei-over-crypto-scandal
https://archive.ph/A1DLu
Bolivia Prison Project: Santa Cruz Plans Alarming Bukele-Style Jail 2026
Velasco said his administration is seeking international financing to build the prison, which would be named “La Tumba”—The Tomb. The facility would be located in an isolated area of the Chaco cruceño, far from major urban centers, to ensure a strict confinement regime. According to the governor, the prison would operate with permanent surveillance and severely restricted communication with the outside world. Inmates would be allowed to contact relatives only through authorized video calls.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/bolivia-prison-project/
More than one million Lula supporters rally on eve of Brazilian election runoff
On Saturday, under a fierce sun, red-clad crowds packed the 2.5-mile Copacabana beach in an attempt to help Lula clinch a dramatic and unprecedented comeback. Never since the return of democracy to Brazil in the 1980s has the first-round loser managed to bounce back. Josias Silva, a 61-year-old truck driver, voiced confidence that his 80-year-old president, who was first elected in 2002, would win a fourth non-consecutive term. He carried a homemade sign to the carnival-like procession reading: “Lula re-elected. Tomorrow will be a new day.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/24/lula-da-silva-supporters-rally-eve-brazil-election-runoff-bolsonaro
US envoy accuses Druze sheikh of using its backing to persecute other members of the community
Barrack, the US ambassador to Turkey and special envoy for Syria, made the remarks in an interview with the commentator Mario Nawfal published on X on Friday. Barrack said his concern was not Israel but “a particular Druze sheikh”, whom he accused of using perceived Israeli backing and an apparent alignment with Washington to persecute other Druze. “But let me tell you what, it’s not Israel that worries me. It’s a particular Druze sheikh who utilises the perception of Israeli backing and some alignment with America to persecute other Druze”.Barrack did not name the sheikh in the remarks. However, his comments come amid tensions surrounding Hikmat al-Hijri, a prominent Druze spiritual leader in Sweida who opposes Damascus's authority, called for Israeli support and advocated for independence from Syria.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/us-envoy-accuses-druze-sheikh-using-us-backing-persecute-other-community
Sudan’s soaring fuel prices make getting by harder for workers=
Azhari’s minibus uses three gallons (11 litres) of petrol a day, costing him about 105,000 Sudanese pounds ($11.30 a day, according to Sudan’s parallel-market exchange rate). With fuel increasingly difficult to obtain, he now spends two days on the road and a third day queuing for fuel.
https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2026/10/24/sudans-soaring-fuel-prices-makes-getting-by-harder-for-workers
https://archive.ph/pfDzv
W. Cape water restrictions announcement expected early next month
“We urge all water users to remain mindful of their consumption and use water responsibly. Water conservation is indeed a collective responsibility, and every effort contributes to the sustainable management of our water resources. We are also counting down to the 2nd of November, when we are going to rerun the water resource model to confirm the need for and magnitude of water restrictions,” says Bila-Mupariwa.
https://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/wc-water-restrictions-announcement-expected-early-next-month/
ICC prosecutor says court making ‘significant progress’ despite US sanctions
Some ICC staff had however encountered banking problems, she said, even though the US sanctions on the court were not due to take effect until six months from 9 October, the date of their announcement. She said the banks were “over-complying” to minimise risk while there was uncertainty over the ultimate scope of the measures.
https://www.theguardian.com/law/2026/oct/24/icc-deputy-prosecutor-nazhat-shameem-khan-marco-rubio-us-sanctions
Road march begins demanding protection of national resources, sovereignty
The two-day road march began at 10am on Friday in front of the National Press Club. From the march, they called for the cancellation of plans to hand over the management of Chittagong Port to foreign entities, to halt the initiative to involve Bangladesh in "imperialist war alliances" through Starlink and economic corridors and to disclose all agreements signed with hegemonic states during previous governments—annulling those that contradict national interests.
https://www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/384962/road-march-begins-demanding-protection-of-national
Myanmar Rare Earth Exports Surge Amid Illusion of Regime Control
Before late 2024, Kachin’s rare earth mining hubs were controlled by the New Democratic Army–Kachin (NDA-K), a junta-aligned militia turned Border Guard Force (BGF) led by warlord Zakhung Ting Ying. Under NDA-K control, rare earth extraction expanded with virtually no environmental oversight, generating tens of millions of dollars in informal taxes and dividends shared between militia leaders and top generals in Naypyitaw. Their control collapsed in October 2024 when the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) launched a major territorial offensive. The KIA routed NDA-K forces and seized the mines in Chipwi and Pangwa, with victory placing Myanmar’s primary HREE extraction infrastructure under the direct administrative control of an armed group actively fighting the military regime.
https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/myanmar-rare-earth-exports-surge-amid-illusion-of-regime-control.html
Violence flares in Paris after largely peaceful protests across France
Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators marched in France on Saturday, with largely peaceful rallies giving way to clashes in Paris and Marseille as night fell despite a huge security operation aimed at preventing a repeat of last week's unrest. The Interior Ministry said 410,000 people took part in protests nationwide, though unions said the true figure was twice as high.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/france-mounts-huge-security-operation-protesters-prepare-march-2026-10-24/
Palantir Targets MPs With ‘Intimidating’ Letters
Palantir’s letter to Corbyn listed his comments relating to the firm in the Commons on 1 June as part of a debate on the appointment of Peter Mandelson to the post of US ambassador despite his well-documented friendship with the late paedophile Jeffrey Epstein. Mandelson’s now-shuttered lobbying firm Global Counsel counted Palantir among its clients.
https://novaramedia.com/2026/10/22/palantir-targets-mps-with-intimidating-letters/
Far-right thugs launch failed attack on SWP meeting in Glasgow
The meeting was called to hear from the city’s striking university workers as well as a speaker from Paris sharing their experiences of the ongoing revolt there, and went ahead despite the best efforts of the band of balaclava-clad fascists. In black attire, the mob – a number of whom were recognised by witnesses as being involved in recent attempted pogroms and the violent clashes witnessed on Glasgow Green in July – attempted to kick the venue’s door, hurling abuse and threats of violence at those who stood firm to prevent them.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/far-right-thugs-launch-failed-attack-swp-meeting-glasgow
News 10/24/26
Argentinian judge drops fraud investigation into Milei over crypto scandal“The reported events do not constitute a criminal offence,” the judge said in a ruling. He also wrote that investor losses and the rise and fall in the currency’s price were insufficient to establish fraud. In his ruling, Martinez de Giorgi said that Milei’s institutional standing could have given the launch “greater impact” when he posted about it, but that does not translate into a fraudulent scheme.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10/24/argentinian-judge-drops-fraud-investigation-into-milei-over-crypto-scandal
https://archive.ph/A1DLu
Bolivia Prison Project: Santa Cruz Plans Alarming Bukele-Style Jail 2026
Velasco said his administration is seeking international financing to build the prison, which would be named “La Tumba”—The Tomb. The facility would be located in an isolated area of the Chaco cruceño, far from major urban centers, to ensure a strict confinement regime. According to the governor, the prison would operate with permanent surveillance and severely restricted communication with the outside world. Inmates would be allowed to contact relatives only through authorized video calls.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/bolivia-prison-project/
More than one million Lula supporters rally on eve of Brazilian election runoff
On Saturday, under a fierce sun, red-clad crowds packed the 2.5-mile Copacabana beach in an attempt to help Lula clinch a dramatic and unprecedented comeback. Never since the return of democracy to Brazil in the 1980s has the first-round loser managed to bounce back. Josias Silva, a 61-year-old truck driver, voiced confidence that his 80-year-old president, who was first elected in 2002, would win a fourth non-consecutive term. He carried a homemade sign to the carnival-like procession reading: “Lula re-elected. Tomorrow will be a new day.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/24/lula-da-silva-supporters-rally-eve-brazil-election-runoff-bolsonaro
US envoy accuses Druze sheikh of using its backing to persecute other members of the community
Barrack, the US ambassador to Turkey and special envoy for Syria, made the remarks in an interview with the commentator Mario Nawfal published on X on Friday. Barrack said his concern was not Israel but “a particular Druze sheikh”, whom he accused of using perceived Israeli backing and an apparent alignment with Washington to persecute other Druze. “But let me tell you what, it’s not Israel that worries me. It’s a particular Druze sheikh who utilises the perception of Israeli backing and some alignment with America to persecute other Druze”.Barrack did not name the sheikh in the remarks. However, his comments come amid tensions surrounding Hikmat al-Hijri, a prominent Druze spiritual leader in Sweida who opposes Damascus's authority, called for Israeli support and advocated for independence from Syria.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/us-envoy-accuses-druze-sheikh-using-us-backing-persecute-other-community
Sudan’s soaring fuel prices make getting by harder for workers=
Azhari’s minibus uses three gallons (11 litres) of petrol a day, costing him about 105,000 Sudanese pounds ($11.30 a day, according to Sudan’s parallel-market exchange rate). With fuel increasingly difficult to obtain, he now spends two days on the road and a third day queuing for fuel.
https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2026/10/24/sudans-soaring-fuel-prices-makes-getting-by-harder-for-workers
https://archive.ph/pfDzv
W. Cape water restrictions announcement expected early next month
“We urge all water users to remain mindful of their consumption and use water responsibly. Water conservation is indeed a collective responsibility, and every effort contributes to the sustainable management of our water resources. We are also counting down to the 2nd of November, when we are going to rerun the water resource model to confirm the need for and magnitude of water restrictions,” says Bila-Mupariwa.
https://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/wc-water-restrictions-announcement-expected-early-next-month/
ICC prosecutor says court making ‘significant progress’ despite US sanctions
Some ICC staff had however encountered banking problems, she said, even though the US sanctions on the court were not due to take effect until six months from 9 October, the date of their announcement. She said the banks were “over-complying” to minimise risk while there was uncertainty over the ultimate scope of the measures.
https://www.theguardian.com/law/2026/oct/24/icc-deputy-prosecutor-nazhat-shameem-khan-marco-rubio-us-sanctions
Road march begins demanding protection of national resources, sovereignty
The two-day road march began at 10am on Friday in front of the National Press Club. From the march, they called for the cancellation of plans to hand over the management of Chittagong Port to foreign entities, to halt the initiative to involve Bangladesh in "imperialist war alliances" through Starlink and economic corridors and to disclose all agreements signed with hegemonic states during previous governments—annulling those that contradict national interests.
https://www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/384962/road-march-begins-demanding-protection-of-national
Myanmar Rare Earth Exports Surge Amid Illusion of Regime Control
Before late 2024, Kachin’s rare earth mining hubs were controlled by the New Democratic Army–Kachin (NDA-K), a junta-aligned militia turned Border Guard Force (BGF) led by warlord Zakhung Ting Ying. Under NDA-K control, rare earth extraction expanded with virtually no environmental oversight, generating tens of millions of dollars in informal taxes and dividends shared between militia leaders and top generals in Naypyitaw. Their control collapsed in October 2024 when the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) launched a major territorial offensive. The KIA routed NDA-K forces and seized the mines in Chipwi and Pangwa, with victory placing Myanmar’s primary HREE extraction infrastructure under the direct administrative control of an armed group actively fighting the military regime.
https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/myanmar-rare-earth-exports-surge-amid-illusion-of-regime-control.html
Violence flares in Paris after largely peaceful protests across France
Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators marched in France on Saturday, with largely peaceful rallies giving way to clashes in Paris and Marseille as night fell despite a huge security operation aimed at preventing a repeat of last week's unrest. The Interior Ministry said 410,000 people took part in protests nationwide, though unions said the true figure was twice as high.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/france-mounts-huge-security-operation-protesters-prepare-march-2026-10-24/
Palantir Targets MPs With ‘Intimidating’ Letters
Palantir’s letter to Corbyn listed his comments relating to the firm in the Commons on 1 June as part of a debate on the appointment of Peter Mandelson to the post of US ambassador despite his well-documented friendship with the late paedophile Jeffrey Epstein. Mandelson’s now-shuttered lobbying firm Global Counsel counted Palantir among its clients.
https://novaramedia.com/2026/10/22/palantir-targets-mps-with-intimidating-letters/
Far-right thugs launch failed attack on SWP meeting in Glasgow
The meeting was called to hear from the city’s striking university workers as well as a speaker from Paris sharing their experiences of the ongoing revolt there, and went ahead despite the best efforts of the band of balaclava-clad fascists. In black attire, the mob – a number of whom were recognised by witnesses as being involved in recent attempted pogroms and the violent clashes witnessed on Glasgow Green in July – attempted to kick the venue’s door, hurling abuse and threats of violence at those who stood firm to prevent them.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/far-right-thugs-launch-failed-attack-swp-meeting-glasgow
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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/anonstails
Hungry and in a fked 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/anonstails
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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.
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Genuinely, what is the psychology of guys who like both Nazi Germany and the USSR? I've encountered quite a few of them. Some are Westerners, while others are from the third world. from what I've seen most of them don't seem to have any real political beliefs beyond hating the US. Is that really all there is to it?
Genuinely, what is the psychology of guys who like both Nazi Germany and the USSR? I've encountered quite a few of them. Some are Westerners, while others are from the third world. from what I've seen most of them don't seem to have any real political beliefs beyond hating the US. Is that really all there is to it?
R: 30 / I: 1
In 1956, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev denounced Joseph Stalin and Stalinism in the speech "On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences" and began the de-Stalinization of the USSR. Mao and the Chinese leadership were appalled as the PRC and the USSR progressively diverged in their interpretations and applications of Leninist theory. By 1961, their intractable ideological differences provoked the PRC's formal denunciation of Soviet communism as the work of "revisionist traitors" in the USSR.[1] The PRC also declared the Soviet Union social imperialist.[3] The Soviet Union, in turn, criticized Mao Zedong and China's practices during the subsequent Cultural Revolution. For Eastern Bloc countries, the Sino-Soviet split was a question of who would lead the revolution for world communism, and to whom (China or the USSR) the vanguard parties of the world would turn for political advice, financial aid, and military assistance.[4] In that vein, both countries competed for the leadership of world communism through the revolutionary parties native to the countries in their spheres of influence.[5] The conflict culminated after the Zhenbao Island border incident in 1969, after which the Soviet Union reportedly considered the possibility of launching a large-scale nuclear strike against China, and the Chinese leadership, including Mao, was evacuated from Beijing, before both sides eventually returned to diplomatic negotiations.[6][7][8][9][10][11]
In the Western world, the Sino-Soviet split transformed the bi-polar cold war into a tri-polar cold war. The rivalry facilitated Mao's realization of Sino-American rapprochement with the US president Richard Nixon's visit to China in 1972. In the West, the policies of triangular diplomacy and linkage emerged.[12] Like the Tito–Stalin split, the occurrence of the Sino-Soviet split also weakened the concept of monolithic communism, the Western perception that the communist nations were ideologically, and therefore politically, united.[13][14] However, the USSR and China both continued to cooperate with North Vietnam during the Vietnam War into the 1970s, despite rivalry elsewhere.[15] Historically, the Sino-Soviet split facilitated the Marxist–Leninist Realpolitik with which Mao established the tri-polar geopolitics (PRC–USA–USSR) of the late-period Cold War (1956–1991) to create an anti-Soviet front, which Maoists connected to the Three Worlds Theory.[3] According to Lüthi, there is "no documentary evidence that the Chinese or the Soviets thought about their relationship within a triangular framework during the period."[16]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Soviet_split
SINO SOVIET SPLIT DISCUSSION THREAD. WHAT WENT WRONG??
The Sino-Soviet split was the gradual worsening of relations between the People’s Republic of China and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) during the Cold War. This was primarily caused by divergences that arose from their different interpretations and practical applications of Marxism–Leninism, as influenced by their respective geopolitics during the Cold War of 1947–1991.[1] In the late 1950s and early 1960s, Sino-Soviet debates about the interpretation of orthodox Marxism became specific disputes about the Soviet Union's policies of national de-Stalinization and international peaceful coexistence with the Western Bloc, which Chinese leader Mao Zedong decried as revisionism. Against that ideological background, China took a belligerent stance towards the Western world, and publicly rejected the Soviet Union's policy of peaceful coexistence between the Western Bloc and Eastern Bloc.[1] In addition, China resented the Soviet Union's growing ties with India due to factors such as the Sino-Indian border dispute, while the Soviet Union feared that Mao was unconcerned about the drastic consequences of nuclear warfare.[2]In 1956, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev denounced Joseph Stalin and Stalinism in the speech "On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences" and began the de-Stalinization of the USSR. Mao and the Chinese leadership were appalled as the PRC and the USSR progressively diverged in their interpretations and applications of Leninist theory. By 1961, their intractable ideological differences provoked the PRC's formal denunciation of Soviet communism as the work of "revisionist traitors" in the USSR.[1] The PRC also declared the Soviet Union social imperialist.[3] The Soviet Union, in turn, criticized Mao Zedong and China's practices during the subsequent Cultural Revolution. For Eastern Bloc countries, the Sino-Soviet split was a question of who would lead the revolution for world communism, and to whom (China or the USSR) the vanguard parties of the world would turn for political advice, financial aid, and military assistance.[4] In that vein, both countries competed for the leadership of world communism through the revolutionary parties native to the countries in their spheres of influence.[5] The conflict culminated after the Zhenbao Island border incident in 1969, after which the Soviet Union reportedly considered the possibility of launching a large-scale nuclear strike against China, and the Chinese leadership, including Mao, was evacuated from Beijing, before both sides eventually returned to diplomatic negotiations.[6][7][8][9][10][11]
In the Western world, the Sino-Soviet split transformed the bi-polar cold war into a tri-polar cold war. The rivalry facilitated Mao's realization of Sino-American rapprochement with the US president Richard Nixon's visit to China in 1972. In the West, the policies of triangular diplomacy and linkage emerged.[12] Like the Tito–Stalin split, the occurrence of the Sino-Soviet split also weakened the concept of monolithic communism, the Western perception that the communist nations were ideologically, and therefore politically, united.[13][14] However, the USSR and China both continued to cooperate with North Vietnam during the Vietnam War into the 1970s, despite rivalry elsewhere.[15] Historically, the Sino-Soviet split facilitated the Marxist–Leninist Realpolitik with which Mao established the tri-polar geopolitics (PRC–USA–USSR) of the late-period Cold War (1956–1991) to create an anti-Soviet front, which Maoists connected to the Three Worlds Theory.[3] According to Lüthi, there is "no documentary evidence that the Chinese or the Soviets thought about their relationship within a triangular framework during the period."[16]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Soviet_split
R: 15 / I: 6
So..I heard you like progress. Progress is always good, right?
It's always so good, and so proper, to be progressive after all.
You wouldn't want to be a CONSERVATIVE or God forbid, a REACTIONARY, would you? Yeah.. Why would we like those people..
So..I heard you like progress. Progress is always good, right?
It's always so good, and so proper, to be progressive after all.
You wouldn't want to be a CONSERVATIVE or God forbid, a REACTIONARY, would you? Yeah.. Why would we like those people..
R: 45 / I: 11
Questions I'd like to make progress on:
* Is voting productive?
* Is voteposting productive?
* What memetic strategies are most effective for this issue?
Re. voteposting in the us
Every two years there is a new flood of "voteposting" (i.e. dunking on shitlibs who think voting is sufficient praxis by mockingly parroting dem messaging). I believe this was started by Clinton's "pokemon go to the polls," which was emblematic of the disconnect between the Democratic party and young leftists. Voteposting is, admittedly, very funny, but I worry that the message that voteposting gets across is that voting is useless. Unless I'm seriously mistaken, voting does seem to be a utility gain on average, even if the candidate we vote for only sucks marginally less than the other guy.Questions I'd like to make progress on:
* Is voting productive?
* Is voteposting productive?
* What memetic strategies are most effective for this issue?
R: 196 / I: 19 (sage)
Dengism is retarded
>created a national bourgesisie that constantly has to be purged because they obviously oppose the state
>created an economic bubble that caused the GDP and living standards to collapse by 1993
>the industrial base for it was only even possible because of maoist central planning years earlier
>is not giga
>is retarded
Dengism is retarded
>created a national bourgesisie that constantly has to be purged because they obviously oppose the state
>created an economic bubble that caused the GDP and living standards to collapse by 1993
>the industrial base for it was only even possible because of maoist central planning years earlier
>is not giga
>is retarded
R: 54 / I: 15
>Punish kids for 3 generations because traitors or some shit
>Russia evil wants to destabilize poor South Korea
>Kim Jong Un secret good guy
>Russia destabilized Venezuela somehow?
Why don't Russia and China make games where you fight USA/NATO with cinematic campaigns?
I would love to play that.
Video games are the most efficient ways of delivering propaganda and you can tell just by how much controversy they generate and the youtube video essays rebuttals that come afterwards.
Only the west is taking advantage of this. Meanwhile China is trying to get on the west's good graces. Even Russia with its shitty philosophical Atomic Heart bullshit didn't cut it.
No. They must make Chinese COD where you do Black Ops shit like blow up Data Centers and Liberate an ICE facility, followed by a TNO The Fire Rises-style civil war missions. Trust me, American slop consumers would love that shit. I could write the campaign and in any decently run universe I would get an Oscar for it.
Anybody got any ideas how the anti-imperialist countries can make COD-like games?
Only based game developers out there are the ones that made Knights of Al-Aqsa.
Lenin: Video Games Are the New Cinema
>Typical zionist projection slop on North Korea>Punish kids for 3 generations because traitors or some shit
>Russia evil wants to destabilize poor South Korea
>Kim Jong Un secret good guy
>Russia destabilized Venezuela somehow?
Why don't Russia and China make games where you fight USA/NATO with cinematic campaigns?
I would love to play that.
Video games are the most efficient ways of delivering propaganda and you can tell just by how much controversy they generate and the youtube video essays rebuttals that come afterwards.
Only the west is taking advantage of this. Meanwhile China is trying to get on the west's good graces. Even Russia with its shitty philosophical Atomic Heart bullshit didn't cut it.
No. They must make Chinese COD where you do Black Ops shit like blow up Data Centers and Liberate an ICE facility, followed by a TNO The Fire Rises-style civil war missions. Trust me, American slop consumers would love that shit. I could write the campaign and in any decently run universe I would get an Oscar for it.
Anybody got any ideas how the anti-imperialist countries can make COD-like games?
Only based game developers out there are the ones that made Knights of Al-Aqsa.
R: 3 / I: 1
President Emmanuel Macron, who according to aides is postponing a visit later this month to Nigeria and Senegal amid the crisis, held a meeting of his defence council of top ministers and officials and was to meet security forces. He also hosted for the first time representatives of high school pupils, whose protests over conditions at their schools sparked the movement that has broadened into a nationwide show of anger against the government at the rising cost of living.
https://www.newarab.com/news/france-deploy-70000-police-ahead-new-protests
German youth plan France-style mass protests
Gen Z regelt's website clearly states that the initiative is "against all violence," whether directed at people or property. Police say they are "vigilant and relaxed," adding that they intend to protect people's right to congregate and express their opinions. Still, images of massive damage and public violence from France, Italy and Spain have raised concerns among domestic policymakers and police, who have warned against allowing the protests to be hijacked by left-wing extremists.
https://www.dw.com/en/german-youth-plan-france-style-mass-protests/a-79727133
Massive student-led rally marches in Belgrade ahead of Serbian election
The Student List, a leaderless movement of student-backed candidates, wants to end more than 14 years of rule by Vucic’s rightwing populist Serbian Progressive party (SNS) in Sunday’s vote. Civil society groups have said the campaign has been marred by intimidation, arrests and misuse of public resources.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/23/serbia-election-student-list-rally-belgrade-aleksandar-vucic
Protests spread across Syria amid surge in Israeli incursions in the south
Participants voiced support for Syria’s territorial unity and called for an end to Israeli incursions and violations against civilians. They also urged the international community to respond to the continuing military activity in the south. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) has documented 1,234 Israeli incursions into Syrian territory since the fall of the Al-Assad regime on 8 December 2024, including 130 between 1 and 23 October 2026.
https://www.syriahr.com/en/387080/
Israel prepares full West Bank lockdown after Hebron shooting
Two Palestinians opened fire on Israeli troops at a checkpoint in northern Hebron early in the day. The Israeli army said two soldiers were killed and three others wounded. The two Palestinians were shot dead after a 20-minute exchange of fire. Israeli media said the men belonged to the same family in Hebron. Netanyahu said he ordered Hebron’s closure, alongside preparations for a full lockdown across the West Bank.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-prepares-full-west-bank-lockdown-after-hebron-shooting
Lebanon-Israel talks in US end without breakthrough as attacks continue
Two days of military talks between Lebanon and Israel at the headquarters of US Central Command (CENTCOM) in Tampa, Florida, appear to have ended without a breakthrough, as Israel continues its attacks on southern Lebanon and rejects Lebanese demands for a third-party mechanism to verify the Lebanese army's operations.
https://www.newarab.com/news/lebanon-israel-talks-us-end-without-breakthrough
Foreign citizen beaten to death during march in South Africa as anti-immigrant tensions flare
Police said the group approached the man, who was standing at the side of a road during a march through the streets of Durban’s city center, and assaulted him. Police did not immediately give the man’s nationality or details on what the march was related to. They said the victim was in his 30s or early 40s, and they were still trying to identify suspects in the attack.
https://apnews.com/article/immigration-migrant-south-africa-killed-protest-b34160c6e58b65b6da05e888af054ce8
Allegations of torture and abuse shadow a Fulani-led vigilante group despite its role in clamping down on kidnappers.
The group’s growing role in fighting kidnapping has also brought the organisation under scrutiny. While some residents credit its members with saving lives, others accuse them of serious abuses. One man says they held him for more than two months and beat him so badly that he lost consciousness. The two accounts reveal the uneasy place occupied by armed community vigilantes in a region where formal security forces have struggled to contain kidnapping and cattle rustling.
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/longform/2026/10/23/pulaku-the-two-faces-of-nigerias-vigilantes
https://archive.ph/MdbEF
Sudanese rights group warns of torture fears after arrests in Blue Nile
At least eight civilians have been arrested in Roseires in Sudan’s Blue Nile state, by the Joint Security Cell (JSC) and are being held without access to lawyers or family members, according to a statement by the Human Rights and Development Organisation (HUDO Centre) this week, which fears they may be subjected to torture.
https://www.dabangasudan.org/en/all-news/article/sudanese-rights-group-warns-of-torture-fears-after-arrests-in-blue-nile
The Mexican prosecutor who let CIA agents into Chihuahua fled in May and remains at large
Authorities have maintained that the CIA agents played no direct role in the dismantling of the drug laboratory targeted in the operation. But nor were they strangers to staff at the Chihuahua Attorney General’s Office then headed by César Jáuregui Moreno. In the preceding months, they had taken part in activities ranging from training and instruction to operational planning.
https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-10-23/the-mexican-prosecutor-who-let-cia-agents-into-chihuahua-fled-in-may-and-remains-at-large.html
https://archive.ph/Wf7PO
De la Espriella sacks interior minister after Congress bungles Colombia’s 2027 budget
The incoming interior minister is an ultra conservative Catholic with ties to the Society of St. Pius X, which considers the modernizing reforms of the Catholic Church heresies and errors, and was declared in a schism with the church in June. In Colombian politics and particularly among the opposition, Ordoñez is mainly remembered as the inspector general who illegally removed former President Gustavo Petro from his post as mayor of Bogota in 2013.
https://colombiareports.com/de-la-espriella-sacks-interior-minister-after-congress-bungles-colombias-2027-budget/
Former Ecuadorian left presidential candidate Luisa Gonzalez denounces ‘absurd’ arrest
Ms Gonzalez faces charges of irregular financing of her 2023 presidential campaign, which her supporters say are “lawfare” as the Donald Trump-aligned Daniel Noboa regime represses its political opponents. She came second to Mr Noboa in the 2023 and 2025 elections with 47 and 44 per cent of the vote respectively.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/former-ecuadorian-left-presidential-candidate-luisa-gonzalez-denounces-absurd-arrest
News 10/23/26
France to deploy 70,000 police ahead of new protestsPresident Emmanuel Macron, who according to aides is postponing a visit later this month to Nigeria and Senegal amid the crisis, held a meeting of his defence council of top ministers and officials and was to meet security forces. He also hosted for the first time representatives of high school pupils, whose protests over conditions at their schools sparked the movement that has broadened into a nationwide show of anger against the government at the rising cost of living.
https://www.newarab.com/news/france-deploy-70000-police-ahead-new-protests
German youth plan France-style mass protests
Gen Z regelt's website clearly states that the initiative is "against all violence," whether directed at people or property. Police say they are "vigilant and relaxed," adding that they intend to protect people's right to congregate and express their opinions. Still, images of massive damage and public violence from France, Italy and Spain have raised concerns among domestic policymakers and police, who have warned against allowing the protests to be hijacked by left-wing extremists.
https://www.dw.com/en/german-youth-plan-france-style-mass-protests/a-79727133
Massive student-led rally marches in Belgrade ahead of Serbian election
The Student List, a leaderless movement of student-backed candidates, wants to end more than 14 years of rule by Vucic’s rightwing populist Serbian Progressive party (SNS) in Sunday’s vote. Civil society groups have said the campaign has been marred by intimidation, arrests and misuse of public resources.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/23/serbia-election-student-list-rally-belgrade-aleksandar-vucic
Protests spread across Syria amid surge in Israeli incursions in the south
Participants voiced support for Syria’s territorial unity and called for an end to Israeli incursions and violations against civilians. They also urged the international community to respond to the continuing military activity in the south. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) has documented 1,234 Israeli incursions into Syrian territory since the fall of the Al-Assad regime on 8 December 2024, including 130 between 1 and 23 October 2026.
https://www.syriahr.com/en/387080/
Israel prepares full West Bank lockdown after Hebron shooting
Two Palestinians opened fire on Israeli troops at a checkpoint in northern Hebron early in the day. The Israeli army said two soldiers were killed and three others wounded. The two Palestinians were shot dead after a 20-minute exchange of fire. Israeli media said the men belonged to the same family in Hebron. Netanyahu said he ordered Hebron’s closure, alongside preparations for a full lockdown across the West Bank.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-prepares-full-west-bank-lockdown-after-hebron-shooting
Lebanon-Israel talks in US end without breakthrough as attacks continue
Two days of military talks between Lebanon and Israel at the headquarters of US Central Command (CENTCOM) in Tampa, Florida, appear to have ended without a breakthrough, as Israel continues its attacks on southern Lebanon and rejects Lebanese demands for a third-party mechanism to verify the Lebanese army's operations.
https://www.newarab.com/news/lebanon-israel-talks-us-end-without-breakthrough
Foreign citizen beaten to death during march in South Africa as anti-immigrant tensions flare
Police said the group approached the man, who was standing at the side of a road during a march through the streets of Durban’s city center, and assaulted him. Police did not immediately give the man’s nationality or details on what the march was related to. They said the victim was in his 30s or early 40s, and they were still trying to identify suspects in the attack.
https://apnews.com/article/immigration-migrant-south-africa-killed-protest-b34160c6e58b65b6da05e888af054ce8
Allegations of torture and abuse shadow a Fulani-led vigilante group despite its role in clamping down on kidnappers.
The group’s growing role in fighting kidnapping has also brought the organisation under scrutiny. While some residents credit its members with saving lives, others accuse them of serious abuses. One man says they held him for more than two months and beat him so badly that he lost consciousness. The two accounts reveal the uneasy place occupied by armed community vigilantes in a region where formal security forces have struggled to contain kidnapping and cattle rustling.
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/longform/2026/10/23/pulaku-the-two-faces-of-nigerias-vigilantes
https://archive.ph/MdbEF
Sudanese rights group warns of torture fears after arrests in Blue Nile
At least eight civilians have been arrested in Roseires in Sudan’s Blue Nile state, by the Joint Security Cell (JSC) and are being held without access to lawyers or family members, according to a statement by the Human Rights and Development Organisation (HUDO Centre) this week, which fears they may be subjected to torture.
https://www.dabangasudan.org/en/all-news/article/sudanese-rights-group-warns-of-torture-fears-after-arrests-in-blue-nile
The Mexican prosecutor who let CIA agents into Chihuahua fled in May and remains at large
Authorities have maintained that the CIA agents played no direct role in the dismantling of the drug laboratory targeted in the operation. But nor were they strangers to staff at the Chihuahua Attorney General’s Office then headed by César Jáuregui Moreno. In the preceding months, they had taken part in activities ranging from training and instruction to operational planning.
https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-10-23/the-mexican-prosecutor-who-let-cia-agents-into-chihuahua-fled-in-may-and-remains-at-large.html
https://archive.ph/Wf7PO
De la Espriella sacks interior minister after Congress bungles Colombia’s 2027 budget
The incoming interior minister is an ultra conservative Catholic with ties to the Society of St. Pius X, which considers the modernizing reforms of the Catholic Church heresies and errors, and was declared in a schism with the church in June. In Colombian politics and particularly among the opposition, Ordoñez is mainly remembered as the inspector general who illegally removed former President Gustavo Petro from his post as mayor of Bogota in 2013.
https://colombiareports.com/de-la-espriella-sacks-interior-minister-after-congress-bungles-colombias-2027-budget/
Former Ecuadorian left presidential candidate Luisa Gonzalez denounces ‘absurd’ arrest
Ms Gonzalez faces charges of irregular financing of her 2023 presidential campaign, which her supporters say are “lawfare” as the Donald Trump-aligned Daniel Noboa regime represses its political opponents. She came second to Mr Noboa in the 2023 and 2025 elections with 47 and 44 per cent of the vote respectively.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/former-ecuadorian-left-presidential-candidate-luisa-gonzalez-denounces-absurd-arrest
R: 42 / I: 4
What Can be Done According to Communization Theory
According to Communization Theory, what can communists actually do in terms of action. Is it actually like some users on here say, that communists and communist organizations can't even serve a supplementary role in the real movement? Is it really just sitting back and waiting for the proletariat to spontaneously rise up and then finally communists should get involved?
R: 594 / I: 218
>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
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/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
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R: 87 / I: 16
This is just an extension of the altright diverting understandable rage against the current state of things but pinning all the blame on "le juice" and I fucking hate it. It's specially frustrating for me how many people with revolutionary potential fall for this trick.
Of course, zionism is a very big problem affecting not just Palestine but also other countries where Israel is doing colonialist extraction (it's happening a lot in Latin America) and most jews support Israel but reducing your worldview to simply "Israel bad joos bad" doesn't lead anywhere and as I said makes you ripe to become coopted by far-right retards. "Israel bad" becomes "Hitler good" way too fast way too often.
I'm pissed off that's all.
Jew fatigue
I'm tired of seeing people missing the point entirely. "It's the zionists" "It's the epsteins" "it's dajoos" even.This is just an extension of the altright diverting understandable rage against the current state of things but pinning all the blame on "le juice" and I fucking hate it. It's specially frustrating for me how many people with revolutionary potential fall for this trick.
Of course, zionism is a very big problem affecting not just Palestine but also other countries where Israel is doing colonialist extraction (it's happening a lot in Latin America) and most jews support Israel but reducing your worldview to simply "Israel bad joos bad" doesn't lead anywhere and as I said makes you ripe to become coopted by far-right retards. "Israel bad" becomes "Hitler good" way too fast way too often.
I'm pissed off that's all.
R: 6 / I: 0
Communist calisthenics?
If anarchist calisthenics is to break the law in small ways just to develop the habit and thus be ready to fuck shit up in an uprising, what would communist calisthenics be?
R: 640 / I: 155 (full)
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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Events in Ukraine: https://eventsinukraine.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
<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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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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Events in Ukraine: https://eventsinukraine.substack.com/
SouthFront: https://southfront.press/category/all-articles/world/europe/ukraine/
Watch Together
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📺 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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R: 1 / I: 1
G - Vasily Gordov (Commander of the troops of the Volga Military District).
R - Chief of Staff, Major General Filipp Rybalchenko.
Recorded by the MGB (Ministry of State Security) in 1946, this conversation became the reason for the execution of both men. It was declassified in 1991.
R. – The winter crops are lost, of course. Stalin passed through here, did he really not look out the window? Everyone is so dissatisfied with life; they speak about it completely openly, on trains, everywhere, they just speak outright.
G. – Eh! Nowadays everything is built on bribes and sycophancy. And they sidelined me in a flash because I refused to engage in bootlicking.
R. – Yes, everything is built on bribes. And look at what is happening all around: incredible hunger, everyone is dissatisfied. "Newspapers are nothing but lies" — that's what everybody is saying. They’ve installed so many ministers, bloated the bureaucracy. Just like in the old days — a priest, a constable, a village elder, 77 people sitting on the back of every peasant — it’s exactly the same now! And now the empty chatter about elections has started up again.
G. – Where are you going to vote?
R. – I'm not going to fucking vote. I'm not going anywhere. Such a situation can only exist in our country; only here can people be treated this way. Abroad, they treat the unemployed better than they treat generals here!
G. – In the past, one man ruled [referring to the Tsar], and we had everything. Now there are so many ministers, and it’s of no use whatsoever.
R. – We lack the bare necessities. We've literally become beggars. Only the government lives well, while the broad masses are living in poverty. I’m just amazed — does Stalin really not see how people are living?
….
R. – They think that once Stalin is gone, the kolkhozes [collective farms] will be gone too…
G - Vasily Gordov (Commander of the troops of the Volga Military District).
R - Chief of Staff, Major General Filipp Rybalchenko.
Recorded by the MGB (Ministry of State Security) in 1946, this conversation became the reason for the execution of both men. It was declassified in 1991.
R. – The winter crops are lost, of course. Stalin passed through here, did he really not look out the window? Everyone is so dissatisfied with life; they speak about it completely openly, on trains, everywhere, they just speak outright.
G. – Eh! Nowadays everything is built on bribes and sycophancy. And they sidelined me in a flash because I refused to engage in bootlicking.
R. – Yes, everything is built on bribes. And look at what is happening all around: incredible hunger, everyone is dissatisfied. "Newspapers are nothing but lies" — that's what everybody is saying. They’ve installed so many ministers, bloated the bureaucracy. Just like in the old days — a priest, a constable, a village elder, 77 people sitting on the back of every peasant — it’s exactly the same now! And now the empty chatter about elections has started up again.
G. – Where are you going to vote?
R. – I'm not going to fucking vote. I'm not going anywhere. Such a situation can only exist in our country; only here can people be treated this way. Abroad, they treat the unemployed better than they treat generals here!
G. – In the past, one man ruled [referring to the Tsar], and we had everything. Now there are so many ministers, and it’s of no use whatsoever.
R. – We lack the bare necessities. We've literally become beggars. Only the government lives well, while the broad masses are living in poverty. I’m just amazed — does Stalin really not see how people are living?
….
R. – They think that once Stalin is gone, the kolkhozes [collective farms] will be gone too…
R: 24 / I: 0 (sage)
1 in 3 incels have already dropped out of the workforce. Right wingers were spamming Self Improvement content everywhere for years in a desperate attempt to keep incels in the workforce. Shifting the blame on the individual while the problem is societal. Gym memberships, protein supplements, books and courses, were all a gimmick. A false hope selling industry, making a profit out of young men's misery.
Today, the looksmaxxing culture is just the new rebrand of the Self Improvement industry. Same fraud, different name. And right wingers are behind the spam.
Truth is societal problems CANNOT be fixed with atomic solutions. This is insanity, it's like trying to repair your house during an earthquake. Even if everyone became a male model tomorrow women would still chase 20% of the best men. You cannot outcompete billions.
There's only one solution and both left wingers and right wingers tremble before hearing it but its the truth. State mandated relationships. Ban dating apps who give women infinite options and milk men out of money and start regulating the dating market.
Use AI to match people and ban serial dating and break ups without a serious justification. Until then, the West will only keep getting worse and more men will drop out of school and the workforce
The West CANNOT survive if it doesn't solve the incel crisis
>https://www.mcgill.ca/newsroom/channels/news/researchers-delve-incels-rejection-work-and-study-3653691 in 3 incels have already dropped out of the workforce. Right wingers were spamming Self Improvement content everywhere for years in a desperate attempt to keep incels in the workforce. Shifting the blame on the individual while the problem is societal. Gym memberships, protein supplements, books and courses, were all a gimmick. A false hope selling industry, making a profit out of young men's misery.
Today, the looksmaxxing culture is just the new rebrand of the Self Improvement industry. Same fraud, different name. And right wingers are behind the spam.
Truth is societal problems CANNOT be fixed with atomic solutions. This is insanity, it's like trying to repair your house during an earthquake. Even if everyone became a male model tomorrow women would still chase 20% of the best men. You cannot outcompete billions.
There's only one solution and both left wingers and right wingers tremble before hearing it but its the truth. State mandated relationships. Ban dating apps who give women infinite options and milk men out of money and start regulating the dating market.
Use AI to match people and ban serial dating and break ups without a serious justification. Until then, the West will only keep getting worse and more men will drop out of school and the workforce
R: 50 / I: 16
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.
R: 39 / I: 0
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, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🚀☢️ 💇♀️👩🦲!
R: 2 / I: 0
The two leaders of the Cockroach Janta party (CJP) movement, Saurav Das and Ashutosh Ranka, had spent a week in Delhi’s Tihar jail after being arrested by Delhi police last week. On Wednesday, a special magistrate ordered that Das and Ranka be released, despite efforts by police to keep them in prison. They were made to sign a bond pledging no further breach of peace.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/21/india-cockroach-movement-leaders-released-protests-government-crackdown
RMCH interns go on indefinite work stoppage
A man, who allegedly attempted suicide by consuming pesticide in front of the National Press Club in Dhaka on Tuesday, is now in stable condition, according to police. Abul Hasan Mia, who claimed that power, energy and mineral resources minister autism scorebal Hassan Mahmood owed him money, was taken to Dhaka Medical College Hospital after he took pesticide at about 3:30pm on Tuesday.
https://www.newagebd.net/post/country/318981/rmch-interns-go-on-indefinite-work-stoppage
Tunisia jails opposition politician for four years over social media posts
Intern doctors at Rajshahi Medical College Hospital began an indefinite work stoppage on Wednesday, demanding adequate medicines, medical supplies and security at the government hospital. The 252 interns, under the banner of the Intern Doctors Society, stopped work at 8:00am, saying they faced threats and occasional attacks when asking patients’ relatives to buy essential items, including cannulas, saline and syringes, from outside.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10/21/tunisia-jails-opposition-politician-for-four-years-over-social-media-posts
https://archive.ph/ZlVZr
Khartoum airport under drone fire as safety concerns mount
Five successive waves of drone attacks attributed to the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have struck Khartoum, including areas around the capital’s international airport, killing a man and four children and raising fresh concerns over aviation safety. The attacks targeted seven locations across the city, according to Radio Dabanga. Air defences reportedly intercepted threats directed at the airport and its facilities, while a drone fell in an unoccupied area east of the runway, with no casualties reported at the site.
https://www.dabangasudan.org/en/all-news/article/khartoum-airport-under-drone-fire-as-safety-concerns-mount
Thousands of Greek students, teachers protest over education, pay
About 10,000 demonstrators, including school and university students, rallied peacefully in central Athens and suburbs, police said. Others joined rallies in cities across the country, all voicing their solidarity with growing protests in France and elsewhere in Europe over soaring living costs and over what they called crumbling school conditions.
https://www.reuters.com/world/thousands-greek-students-teachers-protest-over-education-pay-2026-10-21/
Booking.com under investigation by EU regulators over fake listings and scams
The European Commission, which regulates the world’s biggest tech companies operating in the EU, said Booking.com may have breached the EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA) with its “absolutely substandard” approach to tackling fraudulent listings and phishing scams, where criminals impersonate a third party to trick people to hand over money.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/21/bookingcom-under-investigation-eu-regulators-fake-listings-scams
Millions starting winter with average £220 fuel debts and bills set to rise in January
MORE than nine million households will start winter in energy debt or with no credit, with many worried about paying rising bills up from 28 to 40 per cent this year, research showed today. Analysis by price comparison site Uswitch.com also found that more than three million households owe their suppliers an estimated £750 million — an average of £220 each.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/millions-starting-winter-average-ps220-fuel-debts-and-bills-set-rise-january
Venezuelans Select State-Funded Local Projects in New Popular Consultation
More than 37,000 proposals, debated and prioritized in local assemblies under the Seven Transformations (7T) framework, were put to a vote in 5,418 communes and communal circuits. Most options focused on infrastructure and basic service repairs, including addressing water supply and electricity issues. In this event, and for the first time, over 400 condominium boards took part as well. Venezuelan Acting President Delcy Rodríguez announced the expansion of the electoral exercise to residential instances outside the traditional popular power organizations.
https://venezuelanalysis.com/images/venezuelans-select-state-funded-local-projects-in-new-popular-consultation/
Bolivia Lawmakers Demand Orobe Into Alleged Plot to Abduct Evo Morales
Bolivian lawmakers from several political parties are demanding an impartial investigation into audio recordings allegedly detailing a plan to abduct former President Evo Morales, including the procurement of surveillance equipment, contacts with foreign actors and a budget of up to 8 million bolivianos ($685,000).
https://www.telesurenglish.net/bolivia-alleged-plot-abduct-evo-morales/
Indigenous voters in Brazil’s Amazon fear missing runoff after court denies transportation
Voters in Amazonas state will choose a governor and president in Sunday’s runoff between President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Sen. Flávio Bolsonaro, a far-right candidate and son of former President Jair Bolsonaro. … Most people in the Amazon live in urban areas, but thousands reside in tiny villages several days from the nearest city by boat, including the Javari Valley, one of the Amazon’s most remote regions and home to several Indigenous communities living in isolation. Its population is estimated at about 6,300, according to official data.
https://apnews.com/article/brazil-elections-amazon-rainforest-indigenous-c487c12f92cffaf7bc41f71c806f1442
News 10/21/26
Indian court orders release of two leaders of Cockroach movementThe two leaders of the Cockroach Janta party (CJP) movement, Saurav Das and Ashutosh Ranka, had spent a week in Delhi’s Tihar jail after being arrested by Delhi police last week. On Wednesday, a special magistrate ordered that Das and Ranka be released, despite efforts by police to keep them in prison. They were made to sign a bond pledging no further breach of peace.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/21/india-cockroach-movement-leaders-released-protests-government-crackdown
RMCH interns go on indefinite work stoppage
A man, who allegedly attempted suicide by consuming pesticide in front of the National Press Club in Dhaka on Tuesday, is now in stable condition, according to police. Abul Hasan Mia, who claimed that power, energy and mineral resources minister autism scorebal Hassan Mahmood owed him money, was taken to Dhaka Medical College Hospital after he took pesticide at about 3:30pm on Tuesday.
https://www.newagebd.net/post/country/318981/rmch-interns-go-on-indefinite-work-stoppage
Tunisia jails opposition politician for four years over social media posts
Intern doctors at Rajshahi Medical College Hospital began an indefinite work stoppage on Wednesday, demanding adequate medicines, medical supplies and security at the government hospital. The 252 interns, under the banner of the Intern Doctors Society, stopped work at 8:00am, saying they faced threats and occasional attacks when asking patients’ relatives to buy essential items, including cannulas, saline and syringes, from outside.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10/21/tunisia-jails-opposition-politician-for-four-years-over-social-media-posts
https://archive.ph/ZlVZr
Khartoum airport under drone fire as safety concerns mount
Five successive waves of drone attacks attributed to the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have struck Khartoum, including areas around the capital’s international airport, killing a man and four children and raising fresh concerns over aviation safety. The attacks targeted seven locations across the city, according to Radio Dabanga. Air defences reportedly intercepted threats directed at the airport and its facilities, while a drone fell in an unoccupied area east of the runway, with no casualties reported at the site.
https://www.dabangasudan.org/en/all-news/article/khartoum-airport-under-drone-fire-as-safety-concerns-mount
Thousands of Greek students, teachers protest over education, pay
About 10,000 demonstrators, including school and university students, rallied peacefully in central Athens and suburbs, police said. Others joined rallies in cities across the country, all voicing their solidarity with growing protests in France and elsewhere in Europe over soaring living costs and over what they called crumbling school conditions.
https://www.reuters.com/world/thousands-greek-students-teachers-protest-over-education-pay-2026-10-21/
Booking.com under investigation by EU regulators over fake listings and scams
The European Commission, which regulates the world’s biggest tech companies operating in the EU, said Booking.com may have breached the EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA) with its “absolutely substandard” approach to tackling fraudulent listings and phishing scams, where criminals impersonate a third party to trick people to hand over money.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/21/bookingcom-under-investigation-eu-regulators-fake-listings-scams
Millions starting winter with average £220 fuel debts and bills set to rise in January
MORE than nine million households will start winter in energy debt or with no credit, with many worried about paying rising bills up from 28 to 40 per cent this year, research showed today. Analysis by price comparison site Uswitch.com also found that more than three million households owe their suppliers an estimated £750 million — an average of £220 each.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/millions-starting-winter-average-ps220-fuel-debts-and-bills-set-rise-january
Venezuelans Select State-Funded Local Projects in New Popular Consultation
More than 37,000 proposals, debated and prioritized in local assemblies under the Seven Transformations (7T) framework, were put to a vote in 5,418 communes and communal circuits. Most options focused on infrastructure and basic service repairs, including addressing water supply and electricity issues. In this event, and for the first time, over 400 condominium boards took part as well. Venezuelan Acting President Delcy Rodríguez announced the expansion of the electoral exercise to residential instances outside the traditional popular power organizations.
https://venezuelanalysis.com/images/venezuelans-select-state-funded-local-projects-in-new-popular-consultation/
Bolivia Lawmakers Demand Orobe Into Alleged Plot to Abduct Evo Morales
Bolivian lawmakers from several political parties are demanding an impartial investigation into audio recordings allegedly detailing a plan to abduct former President Evo Morales, including the procurement of surveillance equipment, contacts with foreign actors and a budget of up to 8 million bolivianos ($685,000).
https://www.telesurenglish.net/bolivia-alleged-plot-abduct-evo-morales/
Indigenous voters in Brazil’s Amazon fear missing runoff after court denies transportation
Voters in Amazonas state will choose a governor and president in Sunday’s runoff between President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Sen. Flávio Bolsonaro, a far-right candidate and son of former President Jair Bolsonaro. … Most people in the Amazon live in urban areas, but thousands reside in tiny villages several days from the nearest city by boat, including the Javari Valley, one of the Amazon’s most remote regions and home to several Indigenous communities living in isolation. Its population is estimated at about 6,300, according to official data.
https://apnews.com/article/brazil-elections-amazon-rainforest-indigenous-c487c12f92cffaf7bc41f71c806f1442
R: 30 / I: 2 (sage)
Leftypol is a contradiction.
Why do you need a /pol/ if your ideas can be expressed on every mainstream site without censorship? Before you mention talks of forced censorship and interpreted oppression. Those are rare events. In practice, you are rarely censored.
R: 35 / I: 5
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: 3 / I: 0
Warning: session.upload_progress.enabled must be set to "Off" in your php.ini file to mitigate the PHP vulnerability. All PHP version 5, 7, 8 are affected.
https://xitter.cf/k_firsov/status/2112641845926989944
https://xitter.cf/J4ck3LSyN/status/2112703096443097263
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/php-warns-admins-of-two-critical-flaws-emergency-patches-coming-tomorrow/
https://prostack.uk/blog/critical-php-security-update-october-2026/
https://www.reddit.com/r/PHP/comments/1xb2utu/upcoming_critical_php_security_release/
Reload PHP-FPM (or whatever process manager you're using) after you're done (e.g. sudo systemctl reload php7.3-fpm) to apply changes.
Find your php version with "php -v". Mine is 7.3.x so my php.ini is located in /etc/php/7.3/fpm/php.ini. It may be different for your installation or distro. Search "session.upload_progress.enabled" in that file, uncomment it and set it to Off:
session.upload_progress.enabled = Off
In order to test that it is actually off, create and view a test PHP file like check-progress.php with the below code:
<?php
echo 'session.upload_progress.enabled is: ';
echo ini_get('session.upload_progress.enabled') ? 'On' : 'Off';
Warning: session.upload_progress.enabled must be set to "Off" in your php.ini file to mitigate the PHP vulnerability. All PHP version 5, 7, 8 are affected.
https://xitter.cf/k_firsov/status/2112641845926989944
https://xitter.cf/J4ck3LSyN/status/2112703096443097263
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/php-warns-admins-of-two-critical-flaws-emergency-patches-coming-tomorrow/
https://prostack.uk/blog/critical-php-security-update-october-2026/
https://www.reddit.com/r/PHP/comments/1xb2utu/upcoming_critical_php_security_release/
Reload PHP-FPM (or whatever process manager you're using) after you're done (e.g. sudo systemctl reload php7.3-fpm) to apply changes.
Find your php version with "php -v". Mine is 7.3.x so my php.ini is located in /etc/php/7.3/fpm/php.ini. It may be different for your installation or distro. Search "session.upload_progress.enabled" in that file, uncomment it and set it to Off:
session.upload_progress.enabled = Off
In order to test that it is actually off, create and view a test PHP file like check-progress.php with the below code:
<?php
echo 'session.upload_progress.enabled is: ';
echo ini_get('session.upload_progress.enabled') ? 'On' : 'Off';
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I can't see communism as a path to liberation because the masses, society and the hivemind are tyranical too.
don't get me wrong, capitalism takes away your freedom too, but stop gaslighting me into thinking capital is the only cause of societal ills, mass conformity, hive thinking, wrong think, constantly trying to shape you into something you are not, I have seen this in leftist spaces too, just a popularity contest.
I'm still anti capitalism but stop with the bullshit of all we need is community community is tyranny by the majority.
I can't see communism as a path to liberation because the masses, society and the hivemind are tyranical too.
don't get me wrong, capitalism takes away your freedom too, but stop gaslighting me into thinking capital is the only cause of societal ills, mass conformity, hive thinking, wrong think, constantly trying to shape you into something you are not, I have seen this in leftist spaces too, just a popularity contest.
I'm still anti capitalism but stop with the bullshit of all we need is community community is tyranny by the majority.
R: 14 / I: 2
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.
R: 41 / I: 5
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.
R: 2 / I: 0
While Albania, Kazakhstan and Kosovo have also agreed to contribute troops, Morocco is expected to be the first to put boots on the ground, officials familiar with the Board of Peace's plans told TOI in July. In comments to the Israeli outlet on Monday, the Board of Peace official said the training of up to 500 personnel began in Morocco around late August. It involved an initial group of officers and instructors, followed by the broader contingent.
https://www.newarab.com/news/hundreds-moroccan-personnel-trained-gaza-force-deployment
Israel's Ben-Gvir poised for election gains as young voters turn to far right
"I used to think he was a bit crazy, but then I actually looked at what he was saying, and it all made sense," said Gavriel Marmon, an 18-year-old student and first-time voter from Beit Shemesh near Jerusalem. Marmon points to Ben-Gvir's sponsoring of a law passed in March that makes hanging the default sentence for Palestinians convicted of attacks on Israelis, which Ben-Gvir celebrated with the noose cake and a noose lapel pin. The bill is likely to be struck down by the Israeli courts, in part because it would not apply the same punishment to Jews.
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israels-ben-gvir-poised-election-gains-young-voters-turn-far-right-2026-10-20/
UK to deploy fighter jets to protect Saudi Arabia from Houthi attacks
RAF Typhoon fighters are to be used in efforts to protect Saudi Arabia from attack by Yemen’s Houthis, flying protective missions over the country’s cities and critical infrastructure as western allies increase their intervention in the escalating conflict. The operation – the most significant military mission signed off by Andy Burnham as prime minister – will involve RAF pilots attempting to shoot down Houthi missiles and drones, which attacked Saudi airports and oil facilities.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/oct/20/uk-raf-typhoon-fighters-saudi-arabia-houthi-attacks
Burnham Rejects Corbyn’s Call for Inquiry Into UK’s Role in Gaza Genocide
The government rejected that call in response to a written question in parliament on Monday, arguing there were “extensive mechanisms already available for parliamentary accountability and oversight”. Burnham has continued the policy of his predecessor Keir Starmer by allowing the sale of military equipment to Israel, in defiance of widespread calls for a full arms embargo, including by UN experts.
https://novaramedia.com/2026/10/20/burnham-rejects-corbyns-call-for-inquiry-into-uks-role-in-gaza-genocide/
Paris sees calm following curfew to quell protests
At least 2,400 people were arrested across France on Saturday after some protesters set cars on fire, stormed public buildings and engulfed a historic city hall in flames in response to police violence, amid nationwide protests against rising living costs and poor conditions in schools.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/paris-sees-calm-following-curfew-quell-protests
Italy to deploy 500 troops to Milan after days of protests and looting
The government of the far-right prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, is also planning to swiftly approve tougher new security measures, including extending preventive detention for minors, cracking down on youth gangs and banning gatherings for people deemed a threat to public order, Italian media reported on Tuesday.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/20/milan-luxury-shops-close-italy-to-deploy-troops-youth-protests-europe
Thousands Flee as Regime Troops Push Into Myanmar’s Oil Hub
Resistance forces have controlled the area since 2022, repelling repeated efforts to choke off their crucial revenue stream. However, a regime offensive backed by 1,000 troops gained a foothold on May 24, seizing the Well-2 oil field in Tae Gyi village. The latest push began on October 18, when regime reinforcements arrived in Kamma town, Pakokku Township while gyrocopters bombed the nearby village of Ohntaw, killing five people, including children, and injuring four others.
https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/thousands-flee-as-regime-troops-push-into-myanmars-oil-hub.html
17 Filipino workers in British Columbia fight back against labor trafficking
The 17 migrant workers who came from Taiwan, worked over four months in Newfoundland as seasonal workers at a seafood processing plant. After their seasonal employment, they were referred to HHIS recruiters Cherry May Ricafort and Vincent Macalipay to process extension of work permits. According to the workers, the two allegedly took advantage of the situation knowing that they were newcomers and that their work statuses were about to expire.
https://www.bulatlat.com/2026/10/15/17-filipino-workers-in-british-columbia-fight-back-against-labor-trafficking/
Cuba accuses US of letting terrorists operate with impunity after speedboat raid
Cuba said on Monday that its investigation, which included confessions from those detained by its authorities, found that some of those involved in training insurgents remain at large in the US. "It is also important to highlight … the crimes still being committed today by individuals and organizations that, from within the United States, provided the property used to carry out these acts, arranged and secured land and maritime transport, and facilitated the purchase and stockpiling of weaponry," said Cuban prosecutor Edward Roberts.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/cuba-accuses-us-letting-terrorists-operate-with-impunity-after-speedboat-raid-2026-10-20/
Colombia’s Congress Approves 2027 Budget Over Opposition Objections
Colombia’s Congress approved the 2027 national budget of 200 billion dollars on October 20, igniting a backlash from opposition lawmakers who say the plan favors debt payments and financial interests over education, peace and regional development.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/colombia-approves-2027-budget-objections/
Alberta rejects move towards independence from Canada
With more than 1.5 million votes counted, the majority supported remaining while about 24 per cent backed beginning a process toward independence, according to unofficial results from Elections Alberta. The referendum was not a direct vote on independence as approval would have set Alberta on a path toward a future vote on independence.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/alberta-rejects-move-toward-independence-canada
News 10/20/26
Hundreds of Moroccan personnel trained for Gaza force deploymentWhile Albania, Kazakhstan and Kosovo have also agreed to contribute troops, Morocco is expected to be the first to put boots on the ground, officials familiar with the Board of Peace's plans told TOI in July. In comments to the Israeli outlet on Monday, the Board of Peace official said the training of up to 500 personnel began in Morocco around late August. It involved an initial group of officers and instructors, followed by the broader contingent.
https://www.newarab.com/news/hundreds-moroccan-personnel-trained-gaza-force-deployment
Israel's Ben-Gvir poised for election gains as young voters turn to far right
"I used to think he was a bit crazy, but then I actually looked at what he was saying, and it all made sense," said Gavriel Marmon, an 18-year-old student and first-time voter from Beit Shemesh near Jerusalem. Marmon points to Ben-Gvir's sponsoring of a law passed in March that makes hanging the default sentence for Palestinians convicted of attacks on Israelis, which Ben-Gvir celebrated with the noose cake and a noose lapel pin. The bill is likely to be struck down by the Israeli courts, in part because it would not apply the same punishment to Jews.
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israels-ben-gvir-poised-election-gains-young-voters-turn-far-right-2026-10-20/
UK to deploy fighter jets to protect Saudi Arabia from Houthi attacks
RAF Typhoon fighters are to be used in efforts to protect Saudi Arabia from attack by Yemen’s Houthis, flying protective missions over the country’s cities and critical infrastructure as western allies increase their intervention in the escalating conflict. The operation – the most significant military mission signed off by Andy Burnham as prime minister – will involve RAF pilots attempting to shoot down Houthi missiles and drones, which attacked Saudi airports and oil facilities.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/oct/20/uk-raf-typhoon-fighters-saudi-arabia-houthi-attacks
Burnham Rejects Corbyn’s Call for Inquiry Into UK’s Role in Gaza Genocide
The government rejected that call in response to a written question in parliament on Monday, arguing there were “extensive mechanisms already available for parliamentary accountability and oversight”. Burnham has continued the policy of his predecessor Keir Starmer by allowing the sale of military equipment to Israel, in defiance of widespread calls for a full arms embargo, including by UN experts.
https://novaramedia.com/2026/10/20/burnham-rejects-corbyns-call-for-inquiry-into-uks-role-in-gaza-genocide/
Paris sees calm following curfew to quell protests
At least 2,400 people were arrested across France on Saturday after some protesters set cars on fire, stormed public buildings and engulfed a historic city hall in flames in response to police violence, amid nationwide protests against rising living costs and poor conditions in schools.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/paris-sees-calm-following-curfew-quell-protests
Italy to deploy 500 troops to Milan after days of protests and looting
The government of the far-right prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, is also planning to swiftly approve tougher new security measures, including extending preventive detention for minors, cracking down on youth gangs and banning gatherings for people deemed a threat to public order, Italian media reported on Tuesday.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/20/milan-luxury-shops-close-italy-to-deploy-troops-youth-protests-europe
Thousands Flee as Regime Troops Push Into Myanmar’s Oil Hub
Resistance forces have controlled the area since 2022, repelling repeated efforts to choke off their crucial revenue stream. However, a regime offensive backed by 1,000 troops gained a foothold on May 24, seizing the Well-2 oil field in Tae Gyi village. The latest push began on October 18, when regime reinforcements arrived in Kamma town, Pakokku Township while gyrocopters bombed the nearby village of Ohntaw, killing five people, including children, and injuring four others.
https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/thousands-flee-as-regime-troops-push-into-myanmars-oil-hub.html
17 Filipino workers in British Columbia fight back against labor trafficking
The 17 migrant workers who came from Taiwan, worked over four months in Newfoundland as seasonal workers at a seafood processing plant. After their seasonal employment, they were referred to HHIS recruiters Cherry May Ricafort and Vincent Macalipay to process extension of work permits. According to the workers, the two allegedly took advantage of the situation knowing that they were newcomers and that their work statuses were about to expire.
https://www.bulatlat.com/2026/10/15/17-filipino-workers-in-british-columbia-fight-back-against-labor-trafficking/
Cuba accuses US of letting terrorists operate with impunity after speedboat raid
Cuba said on Monday that its investigation, which included confessions from those detained by its authorities, found that some of those involved in training insurgents remain at large in the US. "It is also important to highlight … the crimes still being committed today by individuals and organizations that, from within the United States, provided the property used to carry out these acts, arranged and secured land and maritime transport, and facilitated the purchase and stockpiling of weaponry," said Cuban prosecutor Edward Roberts.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/cuba-accuses-us-letting-terrorists-operate-with-impunity-after-speedboat-raid-2026-10-20/
Colombia’s Congress Approves 2027 Budget Over Opposition Objections
Colombia’s Congress approved the 2027 national budget of 200 billion dollars on October 20, igniting a backlash from opposition lawmakers who say the plan favors debt payments and financial interests over education, peace and regional development.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/colombia-approves-2027-budget-objections/
Alberta rejects move towards independence from Canada
With more than 1.5 million votes counted, the majority supported remaining while about 24 per cent backed beginning a process toward independence, according to unofficial results from Elections Alberta. The referendum was not a direct vote on independence as approval would have set Alberta on a path toward a future vote on independence.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/alberta-rejects-move-toward-independence-canada
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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.
R: 5 / I: 0 (sage)
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Nordics and Eugenics abortions
Nordic countries are the biggest Nazis in Europe. Progressive woke feminists called it progressive, but instead the doing Eugenics programs against the downs. Finland will be the first denazification after UKKKraine and then rest of the Nazi Nordics.Z
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>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: 137 / I: 17
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.
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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.
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y did felix hate cpusanon more than da mods?
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y did felix hate cpusanon more than da mods?
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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!
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I am surprised curious idk im sometimes told i look like a boy idk !!I really dont think i do but plebbit chuds tell me i do.
Do i
Do i look like a girl@!I am surprised curious idk im sometimes told i look like a boy idk !!I really dont think i do but plebbit chuds tell me i do.
R: 3 / I: 0
The Balkan country is holding a tense election this weekend that is seen as a showdown between the protesting student movement and Vucic, who is seeking to extend his right-wing Serbian Progressive Party’s 14-year rule. In September, digital rights groups reported that at least 14 activists and students had their phones hacked and infected with spyware, including NSO Group’s Pegasus.
https://apnews.com/article/serbia-spyware-election-vucic-pegasus-students-a0c86f8d3776246f1065120a6057e064
Amazon ‘Uses AI in Warehouses to Predict Whether Workers Will Join Unions’
The online retail giant uses a tool called Atlas in an apparent bid to predict acts of dissent by workers in the UK, the US and Canada, a document released as part of court proceedings between Amazon and Canadian union Unifor show. The document, which appears to be a training manual for company leaders, has led the GMB Union to accuse Amazon of using “Orwellian” AI tools to spy on workers. “Workers deserve to be able to work free of the fear of excessive surveillance,” said GMB organiser Rachel Fagan.“If Amazon bosses are using Atlas or similar AI-fuelled systems in the UK, the British public deserve to know”.
https://novaramedia.com/2026/10/19/amazon-uses-ai-in-warehouses-to-predict-whether-workers-will-join-unions/
French government calls for localised curfew to curb rioting and looting
He said details of curfewed areas would be provided later in the day. The instructions come as Interior Minister Laurent Nunez offered his resignation on Sunday but President Emmanuel Macron asked him to stay on to respond to police needs in an emergency situation.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/french-government-calls-localised-curfew-curb-rioting-and-looting
Argentina steps up drive to shrink public-sector workforce
President Javier Milei’s government has launched a voluntary redundancy scheme aimed at eliminating a further 20,000 public-sector jobs, adding to the more than 77,000 posts already cut during his administration. The scheme, established by Decree 1203/2026, published in the Official Gazette on Monday, offers financial compensation of up to the equivalent of 25 gross monthly salaries.
https://www.batimes.com.ar/news/economy/argentina-steps-up-drive-to-shrink-public-sector-workforce.phtml
https://archive.ph/QLcNj
Lula’s campaign takes alleged Meta favouritism towards Bolsonaro to the UN and federal police
The coalition backing Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s re-election on Saturday reported to the UN alleged unequal treatment by Meta, the owner of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, in favour of his rival, Senator Flávio Bolsonaro, and asked the Prosecutor General’s Office and the Federal Police to investigate possible illegal funding of his campaign. Meta attributes the incidents to technical errors.
https://en.mercopress.com/2026/10/18/lula-s-campaign-takes-alleged-meta-favouritism-towards-bolsonaro-to-the-un-and-federal-police
Swiss, US Authorities Remove Individual Sanctions Against Venezuelan Officials
Switzerland’s Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA) has lifted “precautionary asset freezes” against Marleny Contreras, wife of Venezuelan Interior, Justice, and Peace Minister Diosdado Cabello, and United Socialist Party (PSUV) lawmaker Jorge Arreaza. The country’s authorities stated that their inclusion on a list of sanctioned Venezuelan officials was “a mistake” after determining that neither holds assets in Swiss territory nor faces corruption accusations.
https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/swiss-us-authorities-remove-individual-sanctions-against-venezuelan-officials/
Albertans vote on path to independence as Carney fights to keep Canada united
More than 1.35 million Albertans, or 43% of eligible voters, cast advance or special ballots ahead of the referendum, far exceeding the 810,000 who voted early in the 2023 provincial election. Polls on Monday will be open from 9 a.m. until 8 p.m., with results on the independence question expected in the hours after voting closes. But even if Albertans reject the proposal, separatist leaders say the movement that has transformed a fringe cause into a force in provincial politics is not going away.
https://abcnews.com/International/wireStory/albertans-vote-path-independence-carney-fights-canada-united-137370162
Egypt postpones Sisi's Saudi troop deployment vote to next week
Lawmakers delayed the vote after debating whether Egyptian forces should be sent to Saudi Arabia to support its confrontation with Yemen's Houthi rebels. Sisi has requested parliamentary authorisation to provide air defence forces and logistical support to help Saudi Arabia counter Houthi missiles and drones. The Egyptian National Defence Council, chaired by the president, has also expressed Cairo's readiness to provide Saudi Arabia with necessary and available forms of assistance.
https://www.newarab.com/news/egypt-postpones-sisis-saudi-troop-deployment-vote-next-week
Druze families’ homes seized and occupied after owners leave Ashrafiyat Sahnaya
The latest incidents follow previous violations against properties belonging to Druze residents in Sahnaya and Ashrafiyat Sahnaya. Independent reports documented raids, looting and damage to dozens of homes during the violence in late April 2025, as well as the movement of Druze families from rural Damascus to Al-Suwaidaa and other areas amid security concerns and pressure on residents. According to Sheikh Yasser, some of the homes had previously been raided and searched on the stated grounds of looking for weapons before they were later seized.
https://www.syriahr.com/en/386849/
WFP cuts aid to 500,000 Palestinians in Gaza amid funding shortages
In a statement on Monday, the United Nations agency said it received less than half as much funding for its Palestine operation in 2026 as in previous years. It said it urgently needs a further $450 million to maintain critical operations in the occupied Palestinian territory over the next six months.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10/19/wfp-cuts-aid-to-500000-palestinians-in-gaza-amid-funding-shortages
https://archive.ph/MnQU0
Virac bishop calls for halt to mining in Catanduanes
Most Rev. Luisito Occiano, D.D., Bishop of Virac, is calling for a moratorium or temporary halt to all proposed and ongoing mining activities in Catanduanes. The call stands until the necessary safeguards for the environment and communities that may be affected are ensured. In his pastoral letter issued on October 14, Bishop Occiano urged the faithful, government officials, mining proponents and other sectors to unite in protecting the island from destructive mining.
https://philippinerevolution.nu/angbayan/virac-bishop-calls-for-halt-to-mining-in-catanduanes/
BNP struggles to enforce party discipline
The party’s struggle to enforce discipline became clear this month after two of its leaders were embroiled in controversies. One of them resigns as a lawmaker while the other stepped down as state minister. Despite a series of expulsions, suspensions, and dissolutions of committees, reports of extortion, violence, internal feuds, and abuse of power continue to surface almost by the day.
https://www.newagebd.net/post/politics/318711/bnp-struggles-to-enforce-party-discipline
News 10/19/26
Serbian rector’s phone was infected with spyware during student protests, group saysThe Balkan country is holding a tense election this weekend that is seen as a showdown between the protesting student movement and Vucic, who is seeking to extend his right-wing Serbian Progressive Party’s 14-year rule. In September, digital rights groups reported that at least 14 activists and students had their phones hacked and infected with spyware, including NSO Group’s Pegasus.
https://apnews.com/article/serbia-spyware-election-vucic-pegasus-students-a0c86f8d3776246f1065120a6057e064
Amazon ‘Uses AI in Warehouses to Predict Whether Workers Will Join Unions’
The online retail giant uses a tool called Atlas in an apparent bid to predict acts of dissent by workers in the UK, the US and Canada, a document released as part of court proceedings between Amazon and Canadian union Unifor show. The document, which appears to be a training manual for company leaders, has led the GMB Union to accuse Amazon of using “Orwellian” AI tools to spy on workers. “Workers deserve to be able to work free of the fear of excessive surveillance,” said GMB organiser Rachel Fagan.“If Amazon bosses are using Atlas or similar AI-fuelled systems in the UK, the British public deserve to know”.
https://novaramedia.com/2026/10/19/amazon-uses-ai-in-warehouses-to-predict-whether-workers-will-join-unions/
French government calls for localised curfew to curb rioting and looting
He said details of curfewed areas would be provided later in the day. The instructions come as Interior Minister Laurent Nunez offered his resignation on Sunday but President Emmanuel Macron asked him to stay on to respond to police needs in an emergency situation.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/french-government-calls-localised-curfew-curb-rioting-and-looting
Argentina steps up drive to shrink public-sector workforce
President Javier Milei’s government has launched a voluntary redundancy scheme aimed at eliminating a further 20,000 public-sector jobs, adding to the more than 77,000 posts already cut during his administration. The scheme, established by Decree 1203/2026, published in the Official Gazette on Monday, offers financial compensation of up to the equivalent of 25 gross monthly salaries.
https://www.batimes.com.ar/news/economy/argentina-steps-up-drive-to-shrink-public-sector-workforce.phtml
https://archive.ph/QLcNj
Lula’s campaign takes alleged Meta favouritism towards Bolsonaro to the UN and federal police
The coalition backing Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s re-election on Saturday reported to the UN alleged unequal treatment by Meta, the owner of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, in favour of his rival, Senator Flávio Bolsonaro, and asked the Prosecutor General’s Office and the Federal Police to investigate possible illegal funding of his campaign. Meta attributes the incidents to technical errors.
https://en.mercopress.com/2026/10/18/lula-s-campaign-takes-alleged-meta-favouritism-towards-bolsonaro-to-the-un-and-federal-police
Swiss, US Authorities Remove Individual Sanctions Against Venezuelan Officials
Switzerland’s Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA) has lifted “precautionary asset freezes” against Marleny Contreras, wife of Venezuelan Interior, Justice, and Peace Minister Diosdado Cabello, and United Socialist Party (PSUV) lawmaker Jorge Arreaza. The country’s authorities stated that their inclusion on a list of sanctioned Venezuelan officials was “a mistake” after determining that neither holds assets in Swiss territory nor faces corruption accusations.
https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/swiss-us-authorities-remove-individual-sanctions-against-venezuelan-officials/
Albertans vote on path to independence as Carney fights to keep Canada united
More than 1.35 million Albertans, or 43% of eligible voters, cast advance or special ballots ahead of the referendum, far exceeding the 810,000 who voted early in the 2023 provincial election. Polls on Monday will be open from 9 a.m. until 8 p.m., with results on the independence question expected in the hours after voting closes. But even if Albertans reject the proposal, separatist leaders say the movement that has transformed a fringe cause into a force in provincial politics is not going away.
https://abcnews.com/International/wireStory/albertans-vote-path-independence-carney-fights-canada-united-137370162
Egypt postpones Sisi's Saudi troop deployment vote to next week
Lawmakers delayed the vote after debating whether Egyptian forces should be sent to Saudi Arabia to support its confrontation with Yemen's Houthi rebels. Sisi has requested parliamentary authorisation to provide air defence forces and logistical support to help Saudi Arabia counter Houthi missiles and drones. The Egyptian National Defence Council, chaired by the president, has also expressed Cairo's readiness to provide Saudi Arabia with necessary and available forms of assistance.
https://www.newarab.com/news/egypt-postpones-sisis-saudi-troop-deployment-vote-next-week
Druze families’ homes seized and occupied after owners leave Ashrafiyat Sahnaya
The latest incidents follow previous violations against properties belonging to Druze residents in Sahnaya and Ashrafiyat Sahnaya. Independent reports documented raids, looting and damage to dozens of homes during the violence in late April 2025, as well as the movement of Druze families from rural Damascus to Al-Suwaidaa and other areas amid security concerns and pressure on residents. According to Sheikh Yasser, some of the homes had previously been raided and searched on the stated grounds of looking for weapons before they were later seized.
https://www.syriahr.com/en/386849/
WFP cuts aid to 500,000 Palestinians in Gaza amid funding shortages
In a statement on Monday, the United Nations agency said it received less than half as much funding for its Palestine operation in 2026 as in previous years. It said it urgently needs a further $450 million to maintain critical operations in the occupied Palestinian territory over the next six months.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10/19/wfp-cuts-aid-to-500000-palestinians-in-gaza-amid-funding-shortages
https://archive.ph/MnQU0
Virac bishop calls for halt to mining in Catanduanes
Most Rev. Luisito Occiano, D.D., Bishop of Virac, is calling for a moratorium or temporary halt to all proposed and ongoing mining activities in Catanduanes. The call stands until the necessary safeguards for the environment and communities that may be affected are ensured. In his pastoral letter issued on October 14, Bishop Occiano urged the faithful, government officials, mining proponents and other sectors to unite in protecting the island from destructive mining.
https://philippinerevolution.nu/angbayan/virac-bishop-calls-for-halt-to-mining-in-catanduanes/
BNP struggles to enforce party discipline
The party’s struggle to enforce discipline became clear this month after two of its leaders were embroiled in controversies. One of them resigns as a lawmaker while the other stepped down as state minister. Despite a series of expulsions, suspensions, and dissolutions of committees, reports of extortion, violence, internal feuds, and abuse of power continue to surface almost by the day.
https://www.newagebd.net/post/politics/318711/bnp-struggles-to-enforce-party-discipline
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Celebrity culture and class warfare
it's funny that "parasocial relationships" is a buzzword weaponized against me, because I'm of lower-middle class background. Musicians and socialities are doing something called "networking" and they aren't decried for it. Alas we live in a capitalistic society and we aren't allowed doing the same things.
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A recent Reddit post asks: “So, AI takes over, everyone has lost their job and only 10 trillionaires own everything. Now what?” The author goes on: “Meta, Open AI, and Amazon own everything, cool beans! No one can work; therefore, no one has money to buy any of the horse shit temu slop they prime on Amazon now. Won’t everything just implode from there?” The post gives voice to the anxiety and despair that has greeted recent advances in artificial intelligence. Many foresee a future in which America becomes a hellscape of unemployment and penury, in which data centers and ghost towns prevail outside of the fortified coastal retreats where tech oligarchs live.
Does it have to be that way? Sixty years ago, a discussion of computer automation took place that was the opposite in tone and tenor. In 1964, Michael Harrington, Robert Theobald, Robert Heilbroner, and a host of other leading progressive figures of the era issued a memorandum entitled “The Triple Revolution,” in which they predicted that the “cybernetic revolution” would result in “potentially unlimited output … that will require little cooperation from human beings.” Such utopian speculations were common at the time. Marshall McLuhan, in Understanding Media, predicted automation would encourage “imaginative participation in society.”
Needless to say, these dreams of post-industrial abundance didn’t come to pass. But a less well-remembered document of the same period, while affected by the same blithe optimism, laid out a framework for understanding technological change that could help us understand the challenges we face today. In 1969, a small circulation journal, Radical America, published a long essay by the historian Martin J. Sklar entitled, “On the Proletarian Revolution and the End of Political Economy.” Basing his analysis on a neo-Marxist framework that may be relevant today, particularly with the emergence of artificial intelligence, Sklar offered a theory of what he called the “disaccumulation of capital” that provides a window through which to view the liberatory promise, as well as the looming peril, of automation. It is a difficult read—Sklar said it was written for “militant readers”—but it helps explain what is happening to the American economy today.
Sklar took his cue from Karl Marx’s theory of capital accumulation. For Marx, the central engine of growth is the accumulation of capital, which he regards as equivalent to the accumulation of labor time. According to the labor theory of value—which was embraced by Adam Smith and David Ricardo as well as Marx—the exchange value of consumer goods and of capital goods (plant, equipment, raw materials) is measured in the labor time it takes to produce them. There have been numerous byzantine attempts to create a formula that would convert exchange values into prices, but the usefulness of Marx’s theory doesn’t rest on that. The labor theory is a way of describing the labor process and division of labor that takes place in capitalist production.
The accumulation of capital, achieved when the profit from sales is invested, consists of the accumulation of labor time. Thus, during the period of rapid industrialization from the Civil War to the 1920s, there was not just an accumulation of goods and factories, but also of work-hours and of workers. From 1900 to 1920, for instance, the number of manufacturing workers doubled from five to ten million. As Marx stated in Capital, “Accumulation of capital is, therefore, increase of the proletariat.” America looked at the time as if it were going to become a giant factory with a labor force divided between a sprawling working class and small capitalist class. This vision of the future informed the socialism of Eugene Debs as well as the progressivism of Herbert Croly and Thorstein Veblen. This accumulation of capital entailed a Protestant ethic of deferred consumption. The business class cited the deferral of consumption for investment and saving as the justification for its existence and also as the justification for reducing wages or resisting demands to increase wages or to limit the work week. Work, thrift, saving, and efficiency were the moral and economic guideposts to capital accumulation.
But according to Sklar—and he had copious data to prove it—during the 1920s, the output of goods soared but the hours spent producing them, and the number of workers engaged in producing them, stopped increasing. What he called the “disaccumulation of capital” began. He didn’t think disaccumulation would immediately replace accumulation, but that it was becoming a persistent tendency within capitalism. It would replace accumulation only under socialism.
In the 1920s, electricity spread to almost all workplaces, along with new technology and forms of work organization such as the assembly line. The manufacturing workforce slightly shrunk during the decade, and farm employment also continued falling. (According to the Census, the number of manufacturing workers fell from 8,997,921 in 1919 to 8,838,743 in 1929, while the number of farm workers continued falling from 11.3 million to 10.5 million.) The amount of physical capital grew, but capital, as crystallized labor time, disaccumulated. Some economists at the time, including John Maynard Keynes and George Soule, noticed this, and remarked upon its significance. However, this development and what it meant were soon buried under the rubble of the Great Depression, until Sklar resurrected it in his 1969 essay.
Sklar contended that disaccumulation—and the new forces of production behind it—created the potential for an increase in economic and personal freedom. Labor would no longer have to be devoted primarily to the perpetuation, or reproduction, of the working class itself. Disaccumulation, Sklar wrote, “means that less and less labor power is required for the production of the goods necessary for sustaining and reproducing physical and social life. The people are increasingly freed to apply their labor, or life-time, to other pursuits and fields of endeavor.” Disaccumulation also upended the moral logic of capitalism. “The hitherto necessary contradiction, in the absolute sense, of the necessity of deferring immediate consumption as the condition of expanded production capacity, falls away,” Sklar wrote.
There were two potential consequences of this. First, the capitalist class itself—as the enforcer of deferred consumption and the reinvestment of savings—would lose the principal justification for its existence. (Keynes famously predicted the “euthanasia of the rentier, and consequently, the euthanasia of the cumulative oppressive power of the capitalist to exploit the scarcity-value of capital.”) Secondly, the elimination of the need to defer consumption would begin to undercut the basis for the Protestant work ethic and its celebration of self-sacrifice.
Some thinkers of the ’60s foresaw that the onset of automation and the disappearance of drudgery would enlarge the role of play and leisure in people’s lives. In Life against Death, Norman O. Brown called for the embrace of “polymorphous perversity.” But Sklar was more focused on the redefinition of work and on an end to what Marx had called “alienated labor.” Sklar’s views were similar to those he cited of the Young Intellectuals of the 1920s, who “insisted upon the right of all persons to engage in directly self-expressing and self-fulfilling work, and upon the principle that work, properly, constituted not a means to life, but one of the more important expressions of life.”
Sklar foresaw the disaccumulation of capital as a precondition for a full-blown socialism—what the young Marx called communism. In The German Ideology, Marx described a communist society as one in which “nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes.” In this way, he declared, it becomes “possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner … without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, herdsman or critic.” Along more abstract lines, Sklar wrote that “the objective of socialism is a society where people increasingly express their freedom … in dealing with necessity, and where they open greater and greater areas for discretionary, voluntary life-activity.”
Sklar contended that if capitalism were replaced by socialism in the new disaccumulationist economy, the age-old relationship of power between an owner-manager class and a working class or peasantry, which was justified as a means of extracting a surplus, would no longer hold. The new economy, which was being created by the transition from the accumulation to the disaccumulation of capital, would make possible Marx’s vision of a fully democratic society.
“Sklar foresaw the disaccumulation of capital as a precondition for a full-blown socialism.”
“Recreation and simple exercise have become a big business.”
Sklar wrote his essay at a time of political ferment when many people in “the movement” believed an imminent revolution would shake the foundations of capitalism. In his 1969 essay, he wrote of a “swelling movement for revolutionary socialism.”Of course, this revolution was not to be. Sklar recognized, however, that within the social relations of capitalism, the liberatory potential for disaccumulation was being thwarted. That was his key insight, and it remains valid.
The tendency toward disaccumulation helped to bring about the Great Depression of the 1930s. It created a surplus of capital, which was no longer needed for reinvestment in goods production, and which flowed into speculative bubbles that finally burst. Disaccumulation also led to technological unemployment, which increased the ranks of the long-term unemployed. Capitalism finally survived the Great Depression through military spending outside the civilian market during World War II. After World War II, government continued to supplement private production and consumer demand. But more importantly, businesses extended capitalist relations of production “beyond the sphere of goods-production, finance, distribution, and exchange, to all other social spheres.”
During this phase, capitalism—no longer confined to goods production for the perpetuation of the working class and for capitalist luxury—spread to niches that had formerly been outside the market—from fast-food restaurants (which replaced the family dinner at home) to health clubs, theme parks, and retirement villages. Recreation and simple exercise have become a big business. In Marx’s terms, what had been production for use has become production for exchange. As a result, service employment now dominates the economy. In 1943, for instance, manufacturing accounted for 38.9 percent of employment; by the end of 2024, it comprised about 8 percent. About 80 percent of working Americans produce services.
New industries, like aircraft, aerospace, and computer technology, have also arisen, and expanded initially through the accumulation of capital. But Sklar’s theory assumed that they, too, would eventually reach a level of productivity where production would expand, but labor hours would not. Here is what the rise in computer and electronic parts manufacturing looks like over the last forty years:
How AI Threatens Capitalism
October 19, 2026A recent Reddit post asks: “So, AI takes over, everyone has lost their job and only 10 trillionaires own everything. Now what?” The author goes on: “Meta, Open AI, and Amazon own everything, cool beans! No one can work; therefore, no one has money to buy any of the horse shit temu slop they prime on Amazon now. Won’t everything just implode from there?” The post gives voice to the anxiety and despair that has greeted recent advances in artificial intelligence. Many foresee a future in which America becomes a hellscape of unemployment and penury, in which data centers and ghost towns prevail outside of the fortified coastal retreats where tech oligarchs live.
Does it have to be that way? Sixty years ago, a discussion of computer automation took place that was the opposite in tone and tenor. In 1964, Michael Harrington, Robert Theobald, Robert Heilbroner, and a host of other leading progressive figures of the era issued a memorandum entitled “The Triple Revolution,” in which they predicted that the “cybernetic revolution” would result in “potentially unlimited output … that will require little cooperation from human beings.” Such utopian speculations were common at the time. Marshall McLuhan, in Understanding Media, predicted automation would encourage “imaginative participation in society.”
Needless to say, these dreams of post-industrial abundance didn’t come to pass. But a less well-remembered document of the same period, while affected by the same blithe optimism, laid out a framework for understanding technological change that could help us understand the challenges we face today. In 1969, a small circulation journal, Radical America, published a long essay by the historian Martin J. Sklar entitled, “On the Proletarian Revolution and the End of Political Economy.” Basing his analysis on a neo-Marxist framework that may be relevant today, particularly with the emergence of artificial intelligence, Sklar offered a theory of what he called the “disaccumulation of capital” that provides a window through which to view the liberatory promise, as well as the looming peril, of automation. It is a difficult read—Sklar said it was written for “militant readers”—but it helps explain what is happening to the American economy today.
Sklar took his cue from Karl Marx’s theory of capital accumulation. For Marx, the central engine of growth is the accumulation of capital, which he regards as equivalent to the accumulation of labor time. According to the labor theory of value—which was embraced by Adam Smith and David Ricardo as well as Marx—the exchange value of consumer goods and of capital goods (plant, equipment, raw materials) is measured in the labor time it takes to produce them. There have been numerous byzantine attempts to create a formula that would convert exchange values into prices, but the usefulness of Marx’s theory doesn’t rest on that. The labor theory is a way of describing the labor process and division of labor that takes place in capitalist production.
The accumulation of capital, achieved when the profit from sales is invested, consists of the accumulation of labor time. Thus, during the period of rapid industrialization from the Civil War to the 1920s, there was not just an accumulation of goods and factories, but also of work-hours and of workers. From 1900 to 1920, for instance, the number of manufacturing workers doubled from five to ten million. As Marx stated in Capital, “Accumulation of capital is, therefore, increase of the proletariat.” America looked at the time as if it were going to become a giant factory with a labor force divided between a sprawling working class and small capitalist class. This vision of the future informed the socialism of Eugene Debs as well as the progressivism of Herbert Croly and Thorstein Veblen. This accumulation of capital entailed a Protestant ethic of deferred consumption. The business class cited the deferral of consumption for investment and saving as the justification for its existence and also as the justification for reducing wages or resisting demands to increase wages or to limit the work week. Work, thrift, saving, and efficiency were the moral and economic guideposts to capital accumulation.
But according to Sklar—and he had copious data to prove it—during the 1920s, the output of goods soared but the hours spent producing them, and the number of workers engaged in producing them, stopped increasing. What he called the “disaccumulation of capital” began. He didn’t think disaccumulation would immediately replace accumulation, but that it was becoming a persistent tendency within capitalism. It would replace accumulation only under socialism.
In the 1920s, electricity spread to almost all workplaces, along with new technology and forms of work organization such as the assembly line. The manufacturing workforce slightly shrunk during the decade, and farm employment also continued falling. (According to the Census, the number of manufacturing workers fell from 8,997,921 in 1919 to 8,838,743 in 1929, while the number of farm workers continued falling from 11.3 million to 10.5 million.) The amount of physical capital grew, but capital, as crystallized labor time, disaccumulated. Some economists at the time, including John Maynard Keynes and George Soule, noticed this, and remarked upon its significance. However, this development and what it meant were soon buried under the rubble of the Great Depression, until Sklar resurrected it in his 1969 essay.
Sklar contended that disaccumulation—and the new forces of production behind it—created the potential for an increase in economic and personal freedom. Labor would no longer have to be devoted primarily to the perpetuation, or reproduction, of the working class itself. Disaccumulation, Sklar wrote, “means that less and less labor power is required for the production of the goods necessary for sustaining and reproducing physical and social life. The people are increasingly freed to apply their labor, or life-time, to other pursuits and fields of endeavor.” Disaccumulation also upended the moral logic of capitalism. “The hitherto necessary contradiction, in the absolute sense, of the necessity of deferring immediate consumption as the condition of expanded production capacity, falls away,” Sklar wrote.
There were two potential consequences of this. First, the capitalist class itself—as the enforcer of deferred consumption and the reinvestment of savings—would lose the principal justification for its existence. (Keynes famously predicted the “euthanasia of the rentier, and consequently, the euthanasia of the cumulative oppressive power of the capitalist to exploit the scarcity-value of capital.”) Secondly, the elimination of the need to defer consumption would begin to undercut the basis for the Protestant work ethic and its celebration of self-sacrifice.
Some thinkers of the ’60s foresaw that the onset of automation and the disappearance of drudgery would enlarge the role of play and leisure in people’s lives. In Life against Death, Norman O. Brown called for the embrace of “polymorphous perversity.” But Sklar was more focused on the redefinition of work and on an end to what Marx had called “alienated labor.” Sklar’s views were similar to those he cited of the Young Intellectuals of the 1920s, who “insisted upon the right of all persons to engage in directly self-expressing and self-fulfilling work, and upon the principle that work, properly, constituted not a means to life, but one of the more important expressions of life.”
Sklar foresaw the disaccumulation of capital as a precondition for a full-blown socialism—what the young Marx called communism. In The German Ideology, Marx described a communist society as one in which “nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes.” In this way, he declared, it becomes “possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner … without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, herdsman or critic.” Along more abstract lines, Sklar wrote that “the objective of socialism is a society where people increasingly express their freedom … in dealing with necessity, and where they open greater and greater areas for discretionary, voluntary life-activity.”
Sklar contended that if capitalism were replaced by socialism in the new disaccumulationist economy, the age-old relationship of power between an owner-manager class and a working class or peasantry, which was justified as a means of extracting a surplus, would no longer hold. The new economy, which was being created by the transition from the accumulation to the disaccumulation of capital, would make possible Marx’s vision of a fully democratic society.
“Sklar foresaw the disaccumulation of capital as a precondition for a full-blown socialism.”
“Recreation and simple exercise have become a big business.”
Sklar wrote his essay at a time of political ferment when many people in “the movement” believed an imminent revolution would shake the foundations of capitalism. In his 1969 essay, he wrote of a “swelling movement for revolutionary socialism.”Of course, this revolution was not to be. Sklar recognized, however, that within the social relations of capitalism, the liberatory potential for disaccumulation was being thwarted. That was his key insight, and it remains valid.
The tendency toward disaccumulation helped to bring about the Great Depression of the 1930s. It created a surplus of capital, which was no longer needed for reinvestment in goods production, and which flowed into speculative bubbles that finally burst. Disaccumulation also led to technological unemployment, which increased the ranks of the long-term unemployed. Capitalism finally survived the Great Depression through military spending outside the civilian market during World War II. After World War II, government continued to supplement private production and consumer demand. But more importantly, businesses extended capitalist relations of production “beyond the sphere of goods-production, finance, distribution, and exchange, to all other social spheres.”
During this phase, capitalism—no longer confined to goods production for the perpetuation of the working class and for capitalist luxury—spread to niches that had formerly been outside the market—from fast-food restaurants (which replaced the family dinner at home) to health clubs, theme parks, and retirement villages. Recreation and simple exercise have become a big business. In Marx’s terms, what had been production for use has become production for exchange. As a result, service employment now dominates the economy. In 1943, for instance, manufacturing accounted for 38.9 percent of employment; by the end of 2024, it comprised about 8 percent. About 80 percent of working Americans produce services.
New industries, like aircraft, aerospace, and computer technology, have also arisen, and expanded initially through the accumulation of capital. But Sklar’s theory assumed that they, too, would eventually reach a level of productivity where production would expand, but labor hours would not. Here is what the rise in computer and electronic parts manufacturing looks like over the last forty years:
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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.
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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
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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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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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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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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.
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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.
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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
R: 6 / I: 3
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)
R: 51 / I: 12
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.
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.
R: 11 / I: 0
>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
R: 606 / I: 98 (full)
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?
R: 602 / I: 203 (full)
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 📺
(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: >>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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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.
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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.
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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?
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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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https://rentahuman.ai/
https://rentahuman.ai/
The new AI bourgeoisie:
Before you were exploited by actual humans who you might be able to relate to one some level as humans. Now with RentAHuman you can be exploited by soulless inhuman AI "agents."https://rentahuman.ai/
https://rentahuman.ai/
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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.
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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
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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….
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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: 60 / I: 51
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: 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: 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: 55 / 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: 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: 612 / I: 135 (full)
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Evidence of the influence and origin of neo-Nazi groups in Ukraine
https://archive.ph/44B9Q
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323637
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323658
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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
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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.
R: 602 / I: 204 (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
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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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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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/USApol/
🗽 UNITED STATES POLITICS 🦅>Thread for the country which raids the world and doesn't even bother to redistribute the treats to the herrenvolk
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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
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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: 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: 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: 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.
R: 3 / I: 0
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.
R: 41 / I: 12
>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
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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.
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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
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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!
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CIA THREAD
In this thread we post the craziest (proven) CIA conspiracies and operations.
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>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
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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
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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.
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>Thread for the country which took over the whole planet
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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/
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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: >>2922719
/USApol/
🗽 UNITED STATES POLITICS 🦅>Thread for the country which took over the whole planet
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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: >>2922719
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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
R: 23 / I: 6 (sage)
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.
R: 3 / I: 0
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: 166 / I: 61
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
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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]
R: 84 / I: 24
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.
R: 6 / I: 1
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?
R: 11 / I: 3
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.
R: 15 / I: 3
>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.
R: 3 / I: 0
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.
R: 2 / I: 0
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.
R: 4 / I: 1
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
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/
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/
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>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
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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?
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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.
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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/
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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™
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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/
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🏝️ Epstein's Client List 🇮🇱
Epstein's Black Book // https://epsteinsblackbook.com/
DOJ Disclosures // https://www.justice.gov/epstein/doj-disclosures
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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: >>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
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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.
R: 43 / I: 2
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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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
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⚖️ 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/
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📖 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
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📖 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
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R: 40 / I: 12
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.
R: 15 / I: 4
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.
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>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
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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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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™.
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>Gigabazed EditionA 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™.
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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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Want to report but dont know what to report? say no more
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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>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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visualization of prison population in US // https://mkorostoff.github.io/incarceration-in-real-numbers/
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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: >>2916136
/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™
<POSIWID 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: >>2916136
R: 32 / I: 2
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
R: 2 / I: 0
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/
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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.
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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
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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: 49 / 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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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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/ukr/ - Russia-Ukraine War General #297
DAJ MI PIENIĄDZE (GIVAS MONEY) Edition (See second post)Previous:
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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📺 • DDGeopolitics: https://www.youtube.com/@DDGeopolitics
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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/.
FULL TEXT:
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.
R: 0 / I: 0
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.
R: 13 / I: 4
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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Politicians, rights groups and other activists joined the Paris demonstration, among them Mathilde Panot of the hard-left France Unbowed (LFI) party. "The police kill already," Panot told the crowd, calling for the bill to be voted down in the Senate. "In the Republic there can be no organised police impunity," she added. "In the Republic, there cannot be a category of citizens who have the right of life or death over other citizens."
https://www.france24.com/en/france/20260920-thousands-protest-in-france-against-bill-expanding-protections-for-police-use-of-force
https://archive.ph/1plYf
Nothing ‘to be ashamed of:’ EU’s center-right clashes with Socialists over far-right votes
He added he is against putting up a firewall to keep out far-right forces “because it leads into badly behaving kids on the other side of the fence.” “We should go beyond that. On some issues, I think that they [the far right are relatively sane. On some other issues, there’s insanity,” he added, while insisting a majority of votes in Parliament will involve the mainstream parties.
https://www.politico.eu/article/nothing-to-be-ashamed-of-eus-center-right-clashes-with-socialists-over-far-right-votes-mika-aaltola/
https://archive.ph/6kkiS
UK's Burnham agrees to Saudi request for refuelling support
British Prime Minister Andy Burnham said on Monday he had agreed to a request from Saudi Arabia to provide defensive air-to-air refuelling for a limited time period, a move he described as helping to stabilise the wider region. Riyadh requested support after the Houthis, who control the most populous parts of Yemen, intensified their attacks on Saudi Arabia, a new front in the wider war that began with U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran in late February.
https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/uks-burnham-agrees-saudi-request-refuelling-support-2026-09-21/
Iraq extends armed groups disarmament deadline to June 2027
Iraqi Prime Minister Ali Al-Zaidi has agreed with leaders of the country's powerful pro-Iran political bloc to give armed groups until June 2027 to complete their disarmament, sources in Baghdad told The New Arab, extending a process initially expected to conclude by the end of September.
https://www.newarab.com/news/iraq-extends-armed-groups-disarmament-deadline-june-2027
ICC took no steps to withdraw Netanyahu arrest warrant, deputy prosecutor says
The ICC issued arrest warrants in November 2024 for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his then defence minister, Yoav Gallant, over alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Gaza since October 2023. Since then, the US has imposed sanctions on most of the court's leadership, including the former chief prosecutor Karim Khan, the two deputy prosecutors, and nine judges including the court's president.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/icc-took-no-steps-withdraw-netanyahu-arrest-warrant-deputy-prosecutor-says
China presses Iran to help rein in Houthis after Saudi appeal, sources say
Riyadh turned to China for help after the Houthis made rapid advances along the Red Sea coast and around the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, moves that have left Saudi oil exports and shipping more exposed, the sources said. China has publicly called for restraint, dialogue and the restoration of safe navigation, but its private message went further than the public statements, they said.
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-presses-iran-help-rein-houthis-after-saudi-appeal-sources-say-2026-09-17/
Australia investigating how F-35 fighter jet parts bound for US went missing in Hong Kong
Marles said “very much everything that has occurred at the Australian end” would be reviewed, but claimed the technology parts were not “sensitive”, as first reported by Politico over the weekend. The parts, which were being transported by another unknown third party on behalf of manufacturer, Lockheed Martin, still remain unaccounted for months later following their unplanned diversion to Hong Kong.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/22/australia-investigating-how-f-35-fighter-jet-parts-bound-for-us-went-missing-in-hong-kong
Ironing, finishing workers face worst heat stress in RMG factories
Workers in ironing and finishing sections of Bangladesh’s garment factories are spending more than three-quarters of their working hours under high or severe heat stress, according to a new report from Cornell University’s Global Labor Institute that quantifies, for the first time, both the human and financial toll of extreme heat on South Asia’s largest export industry.
https://www.newagebd.net/post/apparel/314956/ironing-finishing-workers-face-worst-heat-stress-in-rmg-factories
Imran Khan's entire immediate family detained in Pakistan
On Sunday, the former prime minister’s sister Aleema Khan was detained at her residence in Lahore as part of a crackdown by authorities ahead of the protest. PTI spokesperson Sheikh Waqas Akram blasted the arrests, saying Ms Khan was detained “because she refused to stay silent about her brother’s illegal detention, solitary confinement, and denial of medical care.”
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/imran-khans-entire-immediate-family-detained-pakistan
Pakistan says it killed 28 militants, Afghan Taliban and UN report three civilian deaths
Hours earlier, Afghan Taliban officials accused Islamabad of killing at least three civilians in overnight airstrikes on Afghan territory. The UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) confirmed the deaths of three civilians: a man, a woman and a girl. The attacks broke nearly three months of relative calm.
https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2026/09/pakistan-says-it-killed-28-militants-afghan-taliban-and-un-report-three-civilian
Colombia’s war crimes tribunal warns ICC that De la Espriella supports “worst attack in history”
Colombia’s war crimes tribunal JEP said that it would warn the United Nations and the International Criminal Court about plans of President Abelardo de la Espriella to cut its budget. In a statement, JEP president Alejandro Ramelli raised the alarm warned about a pending proposal by far-right Senator Enrique Gomez (National Salvation) to reduce the tribunal’s budget by COP100 billion ($31.6 million), which received De la Espriella’s support.
https://colombiareports.com/colombias-war-crimes-tribunal-warns-icc-that-de-la-espriella-supports-worst-attack-in-history/
Venezuelan delegation in NY seeks debt, energy deals
In one of her first meetings, she held talks with Inter American Development Bank President Ilan Goldfajn. She later met International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva, and World Bank President Ajay Banga, in separate meetings, according to state TV and sources. "Her visit will have a big focus on debt restructuring, funds and payments," one of the sources said.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/venezuelan-delegation-led-by-rodriguez-discuss-debt-energy-us-sources-say-2026-09-21/
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Thousands protest in France against bill expanding protections for police use of forcePoliticians, rights groups and other activists joined the Paris demonstration, among them Mathilde Panot of the hard-left France Unbowed (LFI) party. "The police kill already," Panot told the crowd, calling for the bill to be voted down in the Senate. "In the Republic there can be no organised police impunity," she added. "In the Republic, there cannot be a category of citizens who have the right of life or death over other citizens."
https://www.france24.com/en/france/20260920-thousands-protest-in-france-against-bill-expanding-protections-for-police-use-of-force
https://archive.ph/1plYf
Nothing ‘to be ashamed of:’ EU’s center-right clashes with Socialists over far-right votes
He added he is against putting up a firewall to keep out far-right forces “because it leads into badly behaving kids on the other side of the fence.” “We should go beyond that. On some issues, I think that they [the far right are relatively sane. On some other issues, there’s insanity,” he added, while insisting a majority of votes in Parliament will involve the mainstream parties.
https://www.politico.eu/article/nothing-to-be-ashamed-of-eus-center-right-clashes-with-socialists-over-far-right-votes-mika-aaltola/
https://archive.ph/6kkiS
UK's Burnham agrees to Saudi request for refuelling support
British Prime Minister Andy Burnham said on Monday he had agreed to a request from Saudi Arabia to provide defensive air-to-air refuelling for a limited time period, a move he described as helping to stabilise the wider region. Riyadh requested support after the Houthis, who control the most populous parts of Yemen, intensified their attacks on Saudi Arabia, a new front in the wider war that began with U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran in late February.
https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/uks-burnham-agrees-saudi-request-refuelling-support-2026-09-21/
Iraq extends armed groups disarmament deadline to June 2027
Iraqi Prime Minister Ali Al-Zaidi has agreed with leaders of the country's powerful pro-Iran political bloc to give armed groups until June 2027 to complete their disarmament, sources in Baghdad told The New Arab, extending a process initially expected to conclude by the end of September.
https://www.newarab.com/news/iraq-extends-armed-groups-disarmament-deadline-june-2027
ICC took no steps to withdraw Netanyahu arrest warrant, deputy prosecutor says
The ICC issued arrest warrants in November 2024 for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his then defence minister, Yoav Gallant, over alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Gaza since October 2023. Since then, the US has imposed sanctions on most of the court's leadership, including the former chief prosecutor Karim Khan, the two deputy prosecutors, and nine judges including the court's president.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/icc-took-no-steps-withdraw-netanyahu-arrest-warrant-deputy-prosecutor-says
China presses Iran to help rein in Houthis after Saudi appeal, sources say
Riyadh turned to China for help after the Houthis made rapid advances along the Red Sea coast and around the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, moves that have left Saudi oil exports and shipping more exposed, the sources said. China has publicly called for restraint, dialogue and the restoration of safe navigation, but its private message went further than the public statements, they said.
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-presses-iran-help-rein-houthis-after-saudi-appeal-sources-say-2026-09-17/
Australia investigating how F-35 fighter jet parts bound for US went missing in Hong Kong
Marles said “very much everything that has occurred at the Australian end” would be reviewed, but claimed the technology parts were not “sensitive”, as first reported by Politico over the weekend. The parts, which were being transported by another unknown third party on behalf of manufacturer, Lockheed Martin, still remain unaccounted for months later following their unplanned diversion to Hong Kong.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/22/australia-investigating-how-f-35-fighter-jet-parts-bound-for-us-went-missing-in-hong-kong
Ironing, finishing workers face worst heat stress in RMG factories
Workers in ironing and finishing sections of Bangladesh’s garment factories are spending more than three-quarters of their working hours under high or severe heat stress, according to a new report from Cornell University’s Global Labor Institute that quantifies, for the first time, both the human and financial toll of extreme heat on South Asia’s largest export industry.
https://www.newagebd.net/post/apparel/314956/ironing-finishing-workers-face-worst-heat-stress-in-rmg-factories
Imran Khan's entire immediate family detained in Pakistan
On Sunday, the former prime minister’s sister Aleema Khan was detained at her residence in Lahore as part of a crackdown by authorities ahead of the protest. PTI spokesperson Sheikh Waqas Akram blasted the arrests, saying Ms Khan was detained “because she refused to stay silent about her brother’s illegal detention, solitary confinement, and denial of medical care.”
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/imran-khans-entire-immediate-family-detained-pakistan
Pakistan says it killed 28 militants, Afghan Taliban and UN report three civilian deaths
Hours earlier, Afghan Taliban officials accused Islamabad of killing at least three civilians in overnight airstrikes on Afghan territory. The UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) confirmed the deaths of three civilians: a man, a woman and a girl. The attacks broke nearly three months of relative calm.
https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2026/09/pakistan-says-it-killed-28-militants-afghan-taliban-and-un-report-three-civilian
Colombia’s war crimes tribunal warns ICC that De la Espriella supports “worst attack in history”
Colombia’s war crimes tribunal JEP said that it would warn the United Nations and the International Criminal Court about plans of President Abelardo de la Espriella to cut its budget. In a statement, JEP president Alejandro Ramelli raised the alarm warned about a pending proposal by far-right Senator Enrique Gomez (National Salvation) to reduce the tribunal’s budget by COP100 billion ($31.6 million), which received De la Espriella’s support.
https://colombiareports.com/colombias-war-crimes-tribunal-warns-icc-that-de-la-espriella-supports-worst-attack-in-history/
Venezuelan delegation in NY seeks debt, energy deals
In one of her first meetings, she held talks with Inter American Development Bank President Ilan Goldfajn. She later met International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva, and World Bank President Ajay Banga, in separate meetings, according to state TV and sources. "Her visit will have a big focus on debt restructuring, funds and payments," one of the sources said.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/venezuelan-delegation-led-by-rodriguez-discuss-debt-energy-us-sources-say-2026-09-21/
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Wikipedia: United States War Crimes // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_war_crimes
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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/
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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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'chives included
/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™
<SOLD MY SOVL 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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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
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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<"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: 608 / I: 110 (full)
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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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
>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
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https://xcancel.com/conflict_radar
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https://xcancel.com/AliAbunimah
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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:
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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
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/Iran/ - Iran War Thread #73
<Things are getting spicy edition>previous bake
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
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
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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?
R: 30 / I: 6
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/?
R: 71 / I: 10
<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.