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How do materialists solve the issue of infinite regression that happens in the materialist worldview?
<Things are made of matter!
>What is matter made of?
<Out of atoms!
>What are atoms made of?
<Subatomic particles!
>What are subatomic particles made of?
<Strings/They are excitations of quantum fields!
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Where does it end?
How do materialists solve the issue of infinite regression that happens in the materialist worldview?
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https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-scotland-uk-starmer-eu-trade-deal/
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Evidence of the influence and origin of neo-Nazi groups in Ukraine
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How much wage inequality should there be in the DOTP?
Obviously it is ideal to eliminate money altogether but I don't think it will be feasible to not have any kind of measure of consumption/signifier of labour in the short term, so what do you think the maximum amount of wage inequality allowable between the highest and lowest paid labour is? 0%? 20%? 200%? 2000%? I honestly think we should aim for 0% but it might not be feasible to not offer people any financial incentive at all to push themselves.
R: 6 / I: 1
Its fucking over WW3 is about to start.
nuclear beta radiation was too short or empty nuclear beta radiation was too short or empty nuclear beta radiation was too short or empty nuclear beta radiation was too short or empty nuclear beta radiation was too short or empty nuclear beta radiation was too short or empty nuclear beta radiation was too short or empty
Its fucking over WW3 is about to start.
nuclear beta radiation was too short or empty nuclear beta radiation was too short or empty nuclear beta radiation was too short or empty nuclear beta radiation was too short or empty nuclear beta radiation was too short or empty nuclear beta radiation was too short or empty nuclear beta radiation was too short or empty
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>Erica Mindel previously worked with the U.S. State Department under Ambassador Deborah Lipstadt, the Biden Administration’s Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism, according to Sada Social, a body that monitors and documents digital violations against Palestinian content.
>Mindel previously served as an instructor in the Israeli army’s Spokesperson’s Unit, the monitoring body said in a statement on X.
>It stated that in her new role, Mindel “will be tasked with formulating TikTok’s hate speech policies, shaping relevant legislative and regulatory frameworks, and monitoring trends—particularly those related to antisemitic content.”
>The body said it viewed her appointment as “a highly concerning indicator for the future of digital freedoms for Palestinians,” and warned of “the serious implications that Mindel’s military background may have on TikTok’s moderation practices, especially regarding Palestinian reports of incitement, bias, and the silencing of their narrative.”
>“Assigning someone affiliated with an army currently under international investigation for genocide in Gaza to lead hate speech policy only entrenches existing biases and undermines the principles of fairness and digital justice,” Sada Social stressed.
>According to Mindel’s LinkedIn profile, she holds the position of “Public Policy Manager, Hate Speech” since July 2025. She was previously hired as “a contractor to the US Department of State, specifically for the Office of the Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism. Provide strategic communications and public diplomacy support as well as perform policy analysis on various regional and multi-lateral portfolios.”
>Prior to that, she spent two years at the American Jewish Committee (AJC) as an “Assistant Director, Program Development”. That role included “developing and managing high-level advocacy and policy delegations to Israel for political, press/media, religious and civic and academic thought leaders.”
>In a 2023 AJC video, Mindel mentioned “how passionate my own Zionist identity had become.”
>She had begun her internship at the AJC “as Israel engaged in one of the larger military operations of my lifetime, Tzuk Eitan – Operation Protective Edge.” Over 2,000 Palestinians (including more than 500 children) and more than 10,000 were injured in the 2014 Israeli military operation in the Gaza Strip, according to Amnesty International.
>“I knew the well-being of Jews worldwide and the security of Israel would be issues of lifelong importance to me,” Mindel stated.
>She explained that she grew up in a traditional Jewish household, “but in an untraditional decision, after graduating from Michigan, I made aliyah and enlisted” in the Israeli army where she spent two years serving as “an instructor in the armored corps.”
>“To many, this might seem like a contradiction. For a woman who identifies as liberal and progressive to be a Zionist so committed as to join the IDF, for me, these two identities go hand in hand,” Mindel stated.
>Sada Social said its 2024 Digital Index revealed that 27 percent of all digital violations targeting Palestinian content occurred on TikTok.
>“According to TikTok’s own transparency report for the second half of 2024, the platform complied with 94% of the Israeli government’s content removal requests, all while imposing strict censorship on Palestinian content,” the monitoring body said. “This included the deletion of videos with clear journalistic value, and the targeting of accounts belonging to journalists, media outlets, activists, and supporters of the Palestinian cause.”
>The monitoring group “underscores that TikTok has failed to undertake any meaningful internal review of its policies, even after the South African government submitted video evidence to the International Court of Justice (ICJ)—footage that was published on TikTok and depicted Israeli soldiers celebrating the destruction of Palestinian homes, mocking victims, and writing messages on bombs before they were dropped on Gaza.”
>“Instead of responding to these disturbing violations, TikTok has continued its partnerships with a political and military regime currently under international investigation,” the group stated.
https://www.palestinechronicle.com/tiktok-appoints-ex-israeli-soldier-as-new-hate-speech-manager/
TikTok Appoints Ex-Israeli Soldier as New ‘Hate Speech’ Manager
>TikTok’s appointment of an ex-Israeli army instructor as its new hate speech manager has been criticized, with concern raised for the future of digital freedoms for Palestinians.>Erica Mindel previously worked with the U.S. State Department under Ambassador Deborah Lipstadt, the Biden Administration’s Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism, according to Sada Social, a body that monitors and documents digital violations against Palestinian content.
>Mindel previously served as an instructor in the Israeli army’s Spokesperson’s Unit, the monitoring body said in a statement on X.
>It stated that in her new role, Mindel “will be tasked with formulating TikTok’s hate speech policies, shaping relevant legislative and regulatory frameworks, and monitoring trends—particularly those related to antisemitic content.”
>The body said it viewed her appointment as “a highly concerning indicator for the future of digital freedoms for Palestinians,” and warned of “the serious implications that Mindel’s military background may have on TikTok’s moderation practices, especially regarding Palestinian reports of incitement, bias, and the silencing of their narrative.”
>“Assigning someone affiliated with an army currently under international investigation for genocide in Gaza to lead hate speech policy only entrenches existing biases and undermines the principles of fairness and digital justice,” Sada Social stressed.
>According to Mindel’s LinkedIn profile, she holds the position of “Public Policy Manager, Hate Speech” since July 2025. She was previously hired as “a contractor to the US Department of State, specifically for the Office of the Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism. Provide strategic communications and public diplomacy support as well as perform policy analysis on various regional and multi-lateral portfolios.”
>Prior to that, she spent two years at the American Jewish Committee (AJC) as an “Assistant Director, Program Development”. That role included “developing and managing high-level advocacy and policy delegations to Israel for political, press/media, religious and civic and academic thought leaders.”
>In a 2023 AJC video, Mindel mentioned “how passionate my own Zionist identity had become.”
>She had begun her internship at the AJC “as Israel engaged in one of the larger military operations of my lifetime, Tzuk Eitan – Operation Protective Edge.” Over 2,000 Palestinians (including more than 500 children) and more than 10,000 were injured in the 2014 Israeli military operation in the Gaza Strip, according to Amnesty International.
>“I knew the well-being of Jews worldwide and the security of Israel would be issues of lifelong importance to me,” Mindel stated.
>She explained that she grew up in a traditional Jewish household, “but in an untraditional decision, after graduating from Michigan, I made aliyah and enlisted” in the Israeli army where she spent two years serving as “an instructor in the armored corps.”
>“To many, this might seem like a contradiction. For a woman who identifies as liberal and progressive to be a Zionist so committed as to join the IDF, for me, these two identities go hand in hand,” Mindel stated.
>Sada Social said its 2024 Digital Index revealed that 27 percent of all digital violations targeting Palestinian content occurred on TikTok.
>“According to TikTok’s own transparency report for the second half of 2024, the platform complied with 94% of the Israeli government’s content removal requests, all while imposing strict censorship on Palestinian content,” the monitoring body said. “This included the deletion of videos with clear journalistic value, and the targeting of accounts belonging to journalists, media outlets, activists, and supporters of the Palestinian cause.”
>The monitoring group “underscores that TikTok has failed to undertake any meaningful internal review of its policies, even after the South African government submitted video evidence to the International Court of Justice (ICJ)—footage that was published on TikTok and depicted Israeli soldiers celebrating the destruction of Palestinian homes, mocking victims, and writing messages on bombs before they were dropped on Gaza.”
>“Instead of responding to these disturbing violations, TikTok has continued its partnerships with a political and military regime currently under international investigation,” the group stated.
https://www.palestinechronicle.com/tiktok-appoints-ex-israeli-soldier-as-new-hate-speech-manager/
R: 5 / I: 0
How do you show that bourgeois economics "insists upon itself", i.e. has no objective foundation to justify its conclusions and instead fabricates a self-serving fundament to justify its desired conclusions, while also demanding critics to answer within the frame of its unfounded axioms, concepts and claims? I have the impression it can collapse like a house of cards if you just make people aware of it. What would you zero in on?
How do you show that bourgeois economics "insists upon itself", i.e. has no objective foundation to justify its conclusions and instead fabricates a self-serving fundament to justify its desired conclusions, while also demanding critics to answer within the frame of its unfounded axioms, concepts and claims? I have the impression it can collapse like a house of cards if you just make people aware of it. What would you zero in on?
R: 194 / I: 43
With that being said, how do we realistically combat the mass grooming of people into nazism through imageboards? The sharty is becoming the new 8chan but with way more cultural influence on the wider internet and the rest of the population is filled with young children, we have already seen solomon (a mass shooter that was a black man yet he was also a white supremacist with sharty connections) commit a mass shooting. With that being said clearly a lot of these young men are isolated and angry, doxxing random literal WHOS because they are trans, or even doing raids that help the federal government because the site is influenced by glowies. They even raided our very booru 2 days ago, and ILLEGAL CONTENT was posted (this was done by foodist nazis not soyteens but still scary that it’s that prevalent with their raids).
And with the thought on raids we can see some of these young people are being groomed into actual pedophile nazi communities but the sharty staff and wiki are so up their asses that they can’t see they have ideological similarities with the nazi foodists and that’s why they surround them.
They have crushed /leftysoy/ and banned many leftists on their wiki including me, I think this is gonna evolve into something much worst if we don’t do anything.
The mass grooming of young men into nazism on the sharty and imageboards
Imageboards have of course been filled with nazis for a fuck ton of time from even the start, but most people agree it mainly started when moot added /news/ then all the chudcels flooded the rest of the site, then created /pol/ and the rest is history.With that being said, how do we realistically combat the mass grooming of people into nazism through imageboards? The sharty is becoming the new 8chan but with way more cultural influence on the wider internet and the rest of the population is filled with young children, we have already seen solomon (a mass shooter that was a black man yet he was also a white supremacist with sharty connections) commit a mass shooting. With that being said clearly a lot of these young men are isolated and angry, doxxing random literal WHOS because they are trans, or even doing raids that help the federal government because the site is influenced by glowies. They even raided our very booru 2 days ago, and ILLEGAL CONTENT was posted (this was done by foodist nazis not soyteens but still scary that it’s that prevalent with their raids).
And with the thought on raids we can see some of these young people are being groomed into actual pedophile nazi communities but the sharty staff and wiki are so up their asses that they can’t see they have ideological similarities with the nazi foodists and that’s why they surround them.
They have crushed /leftysoy/ and banned many leftists on their wiki including me, I think this is gonna evolve into something much worst if we don’t do anything.
R: 5 / I: 0
is this map accurate or what?
What should be changed?
Is there a better map to show relations besides of course the map of US bases?
West/East divide
The divide between weSSt nations and the multipolar™ worldis this map accurate or what?
What should be changed?
Is there a better map to show relations besides of course the map of US bases?
R: 39 / I: 15
Pic maybe not related, I'm trying to think of something.
Do contradictions drive progress?
Contradictions, often between opposing forces or interests, drive social and economic change? Isn't that progressive? Should we not bring about more contradictions to see change in the mode of production?Pic maybe not related, I'm trying to think of something.
R: 53 / I: 28
STG sets up roadblocks on the roads leading to Suwayda, pursuant to the ceasefire agreement.
Remaining tribals in Suwayda governorate launch a last-ditch attack on Suwayda city.
Tribals enter some of the city's northwest areas. They suffer heavy casualties and retreat from the city on the same day.
Straggler tribals launch a few attacks on Druze villages here and there, nothing significant.
Overall ceasefire holds up after that. STG prevents further entry of tribals and their numbers keep dwindling.
STG releases their report on the massacres of Alawites in March of this year. They say that they aren't directly responsible.
Saudi announces they will buy a bunch of property in Syria.
Israeli and Syrian officials meet in Paris. A second meeting in Baku was cancelled.
Accusations that the STG is doing a soft siege on Suwayda governorate and worsening the humanitarian situation.
Turkey/SNA starts threatening the SDF and launches a few attacks against them in Deir Hafer and Tishreen dam.
Links:
t.me/Medmannews - Well known channel (Egyptian owner). Posts frequently about MENA
t.me/Middle_East_Spectator - Iranian owner
t.me/Suriyak_maps - Posts maps/latest news. Less prone to hype/hysteria but slower.
https://nitter.poast.org/SAMSyria0 - Local Syrian army soldier. Used to post in Arabic. (Account deleted. RIP)
https://nitter.poast.org/WarMonitors
https://nitter.poast.org/bosni94
https://nitter.poast.org/Sy_intelligence
https://nitter.poast.org/sayed_ridha
https://syria.liveuamap.com
/sg/ - Syrian Civil War General #24 - New Watches edition
Recent news:STG sets up roadblocks on the roads leading to Suwayda, pursuant to the ceasefire agreement.
Remaining tribals in Suwayda governorate launch a last-ditch attack on Suwayda city.
Tribals enter some of the city's northwest areas. They suffer heavy casualties and retreat from the city on the same day.
Straggler tribals launch a few attacks on Druze villages here and there, nothing significant.
Overall ceasefire holds up after that. STG prevents further entry of tribals and their numbers keep dwindling.
STG releases their report on the massacres of Alawites in March of this year. They say that they aren't directly responsible.
Saudi announces they will buy a bunch of property in Syria.
Israeli and Syrian officials meet in Paris. A second meeting in Baku was cancelled.
Accusations that the STG is doing a soft siege on Suwayda governorate and worsening the humanitarian situation.
Turkey/SNA starts threatening the SDF and launches a few attacks against them in Deir Hafer and Tishreen dam.
Links:
t.me/Medmannews - Well known channel (Egyptian owner). Posts frequently about MENA
t.me/Middle_East_Spectator - Iranian owner
t.me/Suriyak_maps - Posts maps/latest news. Less prone to hype/hysteria but slower.
https://nitter.poast.org/SAMSyria0 - Local Syrian army soldier. Used to post in Arabic. (Account deleted. RIP)
https://nitter.poast.org/WarMonitors
https://nitter.poast.org/bosni94
https://nitter.poast.org/Sy_intelligence
https://nitter.poast.org/sayed_ridha
https://syria.liveuamap.com
R: 65 / I: 25
Original threads:
https://archive.ph/S2XYA
https://archive.ph/Ytckv
leftypol.org archives:
https://archive.is/https://leftypol.org/leftypol/res/30501.html
bunekrchan.xyz archives:
https://archive.is/https://bunkerchan.xyz/leftypol/res/8925.html
https://archive.is/yrBUN
https://archive.is/pCecr
previous thread: >>2393040
/PRC/ People's Republic of China 13
>People's Republic of SkirkOriginal threads:
https://archive.ph/S2XYA
https://archive.ph/Ytckv
leftypol.org archives:
https://archive.is/https://leftypol.org/leftypol/res/30501.html
bunekrchan.xyz archives:
https://archive.is/https://bunkerchan.xyz/leftypol/res/8925.html
https://archive.is/yrBUN
https://archive.is/pCecr
previous thread: >>2393040
R: 95 / I: 26
Second, adventurism (including beating the shit out of people we don’t like) has done nothing to advance socialism anywhere. Luigi Mangione, Shane Tamura and Elias Rodriguez are not heroes. You know what happened after Luigi killed Brian Thompson? He was replaced the next day. You know what happened when Shane killed Wesley LePatner? She was replaced the next day. You know what happened when Elias killed those two Israeli embassy workers? They were replaced the next day. Wow, it’s almost as if isolated acts of political violence have never accomplished shit.
But yes, we need a mass political movement t to defeat fascism, not the anarchist equivalent of street gangs singling out “problematic” individuals.
Why I don’t support Antifa (and neither should you)
Antifa is useless and promotes a false epistemology. Running around and attacking anyone labeled as a fascist is a terrible and self-destructive praxis for the left. For one thing, it places the existence of fascism on the failure of the individual to live up to standards of decency rather than on the social structures that created said fascism to begin with. Antifa largely reinforces the idea that individuals are solely to blame.Second, adventurism (including beating the shit out of people we don’t like) has done nothing to advance socialism anywhere. Luigi Mangione, Shane Tamura and Elias Rodriguez are not heroes. You know what happened after Luigi killed Brian Thompson? He was replaced the next day. You know what happened when Shane killed Wesley LePatner? She was replaced the next day. You know what happened when Elias killed those two Israeli embassy workers? They were replaced the next day. Wow, it’s almost as if isolated acts of political violence have never accomplished shit.
But yes, we need a mass political movement t to defeat fascism, not the anarchist equivalent of street gangs singling out “problematic” individuals.
R: 94 / I: 35 >>1950708
PARTIES:
>https://communist-party.ca/
>https://cpcml.ca/
>https://www.marxist.ca/
Fuck flood detection
>https://ncpc-npcc.ca/
>https://www.democraticsocialists.ca/
>https://iww.ca/
>https://socialistaction.ca/
NEWS:
>https://pvonline.ca/
>https://springmag.ca/
>https://canadiandimension.com/
Canada Thread 2: People's Republic of Carney
Previous thread:PARTIES:
>https://communist-party.ca/
>https://cpcml.ca/
>https://www.marxist.ca/
Fuck flood detection
>https://ncpc-npcc.ca/
>https://www.democraticsocialists.ca/
>https://iww.ca/
>https://socialistaction.ca/
NEWS:
>https://pvonline.ca/
>https://springmag.ca/
>https://canadiandimension.com/
R: 36 / I: 2
Being right-wing is often the worst position to criticize anything from, because every direction you swing exposes your own foundation. If you're Christian and anti-Semitic, you're sawing off the branch you're sitting on. Your savior was a Jew, your scripture is Jewish, your moral code is Jewish law repackaged for empire. Attack the Jew and you attack your own metaphysics. Undermine them, and the West’s entire religious heritage begins to unravel. Christianity isn’t an antidote to Jewish influence—it was the delivery system. Which makes the "Christian nationalist" a contradiction: waving the banner of a foreign god while cursing his kin.
Go racial instead, and it gets even worse. Make it about whiteness, and you inherit the full weight of Western history—every atrocity, every conquest, every empire built on bones. If the West is collapsing, and you claim white men built it, then the blame is yours too. You can’t have the cathedrals and clean cities without the colonization and corpses. You can’t take credit for the structure without answering for its rot. The more you elevate race or heritage, the more inescapable the accountability becomes.
Being right-wing is often the worst position to criticize anything from, because every direction you swing exposes your own foundation. If you're Christian and anti-Semitic, you're sawing off the branch you're sitting on. Your savior was a Jew, your scripture is Jewish, your moral code is Jewish law repackaged for empire. Attack the Jew and you attack your own metaphysics. Undermine them, and the West’s entire religious heritage begins to unravel. Christianity isn’t an antidote to Jewish influence—it was the delivery system. Which makes the "Christian nationalist" a contradiction: waving the banner of a foreign god while cursing his kin.
Go racial instead, and it gets even worse. Make it about whiteness, and you inherit the full weight of Western history—every atrocity, every conquest, every empire built on bones. If the West is collapsing, and you claim white men built it, then the blame is yours too. You can’t have the cathedrals and clean cities without the colonization and corpses. You can’t take credit for the structure without answering for its rot. The more you elevate race or heritage, the more inescapable the accountability becomes.
R: 186 / I: 23
7th October: the point?
This is not an anti-Hamas post, this is not to discourage Palestinian resistance or to legitimise Israel. It is also well established that the violence, ethnic cleansing and land grabbing did not start on October 7th. My question is simple, what did Hamas expect to happen after October 7th? Like I cannot understand what this attack, even if everything went their way, would positively accomplish?
R: 500 / I: 180
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://designopendata.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/understanding-media-mcluhan.pdf
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09ML9n5f1fE
>One-Dimensional Man (1964) by Herbert Marcuse
📖 • https://libcom.org/article/one-dimensional-man-studies-ideology-advanced-industrial-society-herbert-marcuse
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZCoLbEkAqs
<Discipline and Punish (1975) by Michel Foucault
📖 • https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/michel-foucault-discipline-and-punishment
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s82uU4iRuko
>Simulacra and Simulation (1981) by Jean Baudrillard
📖 • https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=DBF3E860993373223D72E98FADF0F2DC
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Yxg2_6_YLs
<Manufacturing Consent (1988) by Edward S. Herman & Noam Chomsky
📖 • https://libcom.org/article/manufacturing-consent-political-economy-mass-media-noam-chomsky-and-edward-s-herman
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34LGPIXvU5M
>The Sublime Object of Ideology (1989) by Slavoj Zizek
📖 • https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=054E022C8BD24EE2C5595B575BCED7DC
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtIckkHsUQ4
<Postscript on the Societies of Control (1990) by Gilles Deleuze
📖 • https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/gilles-deleuze-postscript-on-the-societies-of-control
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hu4Cq_-bLlY
>Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (1991) by Fredric Jameson
📖 • https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=5BD20E0E22FC8BC2CB4F8A7760D57027
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4k26xGx1zI
<Spectres of Marx (1993) by Jacques Derrida
📖 • https://libcom.org/library/specters-marx-jacques-derrida
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJr0NwXWb6Q
>Capitalist Realism (2009) by Mark Fisher
📖 • https://libcom.org/article/capitalist-realism-mark-fisher
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Cb5XJH4NMI
—————————————————–
SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL
>Precursor Material to Post-modernity and Critical Theory
📖 • Karl Marx - Book 1, Chapter 4 of Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts (1844)
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/manuscripts/labour.htm
📺 • Why Marx Was Right: Alienation - PlasticPills
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPRxxN4Kh30
📖 • Georg Lukács - Chapter 4 of History and Class Consciousness (1923)
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lukacs/works/history/hcc05.htm
📺 • Marxism After Marx: Reification - The Marxist Project
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZiI-QKxBKI
📖 • Antonio Gramsci - Book 1, Chapter 1 of Selections from the Prison Notebooks (1929)
https://www.marxists.org/archive/gramsci/prison_notebooks/problems/intellectuals.htm
📺 • Hegemony: WTF? An introduction to Gramsci and cultural hegemony - Tom Nicholas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LI_2-qsovo
📖 • Louis Althusser - Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses (1970)
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/althusser/1970/ideology.htm
📺 • Althusser's Concept of Ideology: A Discussion with Anthony Gavin - Acid Horizon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtOqXxkKwvw
<Documentaries
• The Society of the Spectacle (1974) by Guy Debord
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjF6I6SYjgA
• Manufacturing Consent (1992) by Mark Achbar & Peter Wintonick, with Noam Chomsky
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Li2m3rvsO0I
• The Pervert's Guide to Cinema (2006) and The Pervert's Guide to Ideology (2012) by Sophie Fiennes, with Slavoj Zizek
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYuI4SFw4g0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBcFLmu_tlc
• HyperNormalisation (2016) by Adam Curtis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bv3Tr3jvZM&rco
>Easy-Bake Breadtube (for absolute beginners)
• We're All Fake Now - Wisecrack
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTW1mPOJJ_Y
• Are Cell Phones Replacing Reality? - PBS Idea Channel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AXIAM7dTTg
• The Cultural Significance of Cyberpunk - Cuck Philosophy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nvor7hhDKTs
• Introduction to Critical Theory for the 21st Century - Nathan Dufour
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7stVZPGxIw
• The Work of Art in the Age of Surveillance Capitalism - Brendan Morris
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNKiBJJFXZI
<Situationist Archives
• https://situationist.org/
• https://notbored.org/SI.html
• https://bopsecrets.org/SI/index.htm
—————————————————–
RECOMMENDED OP-EDS
• I Don’t Want to Be an Internet Person by Ginevra Davis
https://www.palladiummag.com/2022/11/04/i-do-not-want-to-be-an-internet-person/
• Pluralistic: Tiktok's enshittification by Cory Doctorow
https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys
• Facebook's Threads is so depressing by Jason O. Gilbert
https://jogblog.substack.com/p/facebooks-threads-is-so-depressing
/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://designopendata.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/understanding-media-mcluhan.pdf
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09ML9n5f1fE
>One-Dimensional Man (1964) by Herbert Marcuse
📖 • https://libcom.org/article/one-dimensional-man-studies-ideology-advanced-industrial-society-herbert-marcuse
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZCoLbEkAqs
<Discipline and Punish (1975) by Michel Foucault
📖 • https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/michel-foucault-discipline-and-punishment
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s82uU4iRuko
>Simulacra and Simulation (1981) by Jean Baudrillard
📖 • https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=DBF3E860993373223D72E98FADF0F2DC
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Yxg2_6_YLs
<Manufacturing Consent (1988) by Edward S. Herman & Noam Chomsky
📖 • https://libcom.org/article/manufacturing-consent-political-economy-mass-media-noam-chomsky-and-edward-s-herman
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34LGPIXvU5M
>The Sublime Object of Ideology (1989) by Slavoj Zizek
📖 • https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=054E022C8BD24EE2C5595B575BCED7DC
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtIckkHsUQ4
<Postscript on the Societies of Control (1990) by Gilles Deleuze
📖 • https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/gilles-deleuze-postscript-on-the-societies-of-control
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hu4Cq_-bLlY
>Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (1991) by Fredric Jameson
📖 • https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=5BD20E0E22FC8BC2CB4F8A7760D57027
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4k26xGx1zI
<Spectres of Marx (1993) by Jacques Derrida
📖 • https://libcom.org/library/specters-marx-jacques-derrida
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJr0NwXWb6Q
>Capitalist Realism (2009) by Mark Fisher
📖 • https://libcom.org/article/capitalist-realism-mark-fisher
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Cb5XJH4NMI
—————————————————–
SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL
>Precursor Material to Post-modernity and Critical Theory
📖 • Karl Marx - Book 1, Chapter 4 of Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts (1844)
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/manuscripts/labour.htm
📺 • Why Marx Was Right: Alienation - PlasticPills
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPRxxN4Kh30
📖 • Georg Lukács - Chapter 4 of History and Class Consciousness (1923)
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lukacs/works/history/hcc05.htm
📺 • Marxism After Marx: Reification - The Marxist Project
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZiI-QKxBKI
📖 • Antonio Gramsci - Book 1, Chapter 1 of Selections from the Prison Notebooks (1929)
https://www.marxists.org/archive/gramsci/prison_notebooks/problems/intellectuals.htm
📺 • Hegemony: WTF? An introduction to Gramsci and cultural hegemony - Tom Nicholas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LI_2-qsovo
📖 • Louis Althusser - Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses (1970)
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/althusser/1970/ideology.htm
📺 • Althusser's Concept of Ideology: A Discussion with Anthony Gavin - Acid Horizon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtOqXxkKwvw
<Documentaries
• The Society of the Spectacle (1974) by Guy Debord
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjF6I6SYjgA
• Manufacturing Consent (1992) by Mark Achbar & Peter Wintonick, with Noam Chomsky
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Li2m3rvsO0I
• The Pervert's Guide to Cinema (2006) and The Pervert's Guide to Ideology (2012) by Sophie Fiennes, with Slavoj Zizek
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYuI4SFw4g0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBcFLmu_tlc
• HyperNormalisation (2016) by Adam Curtis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bv3Tr3jvZM&rco
>Easy-Bake Breadtube (for absolute beginners)
• We're All Fake Now - Wisecrack
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTW1mPOJJ_Y
• Are Cell Phones Replacing Reality? - PBS Idea Channel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AXIAM7dTTg
• The Cultural Significance of Cyberpunk - Cuck Philosophy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nvor7hhDKTs
• Introduction to Critical Theory for the 21st Century - Nathan Dufour
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7stVZPGxIw
• The Work of Art in the Age of Surveillance Capitalism - Brendan Morris
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNKiBJJFXZI
<Situationist Archives
• https://situationist.org/
• https://notbored.org/SI.html
• https://bopsecrets.org/SI/index.htm
—————————————————–
RECOMMENDED OP-EDS
• I Don’t Want to Be an Internet Person by Ginevra Davis
https://www.palladiummag.com/2022/11/04/i-do-not-want-to-be-an-internet-person/
• Pluralistic: Tiktok's enshittification by Cory Doctorow
https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys
• Facebook's Threads is so depressing by Jason O. Gilbert
https://jogblog.substack.com/p/facebooks-threads-is-so-depressing
R: 37 / I: 6
Why has everyone become an insufferable asshole recently? In the past five or so years, I have also =NOOTICED== that people have twisted into incredibly aggressive, stupid assholes who constantly hates and undermines everyone around them. This behavior exists both online and offline. Before, it was just a few bad apples you could easily filter out of your communities, but now it seems like every other person out there is a holier-than-thou dickhead with a chip on their soldier.
It has made organizing any political action, creative groups, etc. nearly impossible. Conversations with others always have a hostile undertone to them now. People of all walks of life have normalized extreme behaviors like openly scamming and exploiting others for miniscule, selfish, short-term gain over communal, long-term success.
The greater internet fuckwad theory has always been real, but ever since COVID happened it seems that the mask has slipped from everyone and now everyone is openly gutting each other in any way they can. Lying and cheating others have become normalized, and the open embracing of fascism has been aided by this moral decay in society.
I don't buy that it is just because times are hard. Times have been harder in the past, and people didn't stoop to this level. The moral decay has reached new heights, and it is like everyone has either become the most bourgeoise parasite or the worst type of lumpenprole.
Why is it happening?
The Assholification of Society
I saw a post recently on gutterchan that really resonated with me recently.Why has everyone become an insufferable asshole recently? In the past five or so years, I have also =NOOTICED== that people have twisted into incredibly aggressive, stupid assholes who constantly hates and undermines everyone around them. This behavior exists both online and offline. Before, it was just a few bad apples you could easily filter out of your communities, but now it seems like every other person out there is a holier-than-thou dickhead with a chip on their soldier.
It has made organizing any political action, creative groups, etc. nearly impossible. Conversations with others always have a hostile undertone to them now. People of all walks of life have normalized extreme behaviors like openly scamming and exploiting others for miniscule, selfish, short-term gain over communal, long-term success.
The greater internet fuckwad theory has always been real, but ever since COVID happened it seems that the mask has slipped from everyone and now everyone is openly gutting each other in any way they can. Lying and cheating others have become normalized, and the open embracing of fascism has been aided by this moral decay in society.
I don't buy that it is just because times are hard. Times have been harder in the past, and people didn't stoop to this level. The moral decay has reached new heights, and it is like everyone has either become the most bourgeoise parasite or the worst type of lumpenprole.
Why is it happening?
R: 4 / I: 1
For the love of Science
Here's a thread to discuss about science, about treatnology and shit. Let's make that lively, and remember, the imperialists make the better technology, the proletarians use it best.
R: 98 / I: 12
Am i the only one here who is not opposed to RFK's idea of wellness camp for autistic kids from a Left wing perspective?
Like yeah i get the concern that these could be euthanasia camp for disabled kids in practice (even though i think this is mainly fearmongering, the rhetoric used by the Trvmp admin for autistic kids are clearly removed from the dehumanizing ones they used against migrants) but a wellness camp run by the state is what socialized healthcare means in practice.
The current model of autistic therapy which focused on a collaboration between psychiatrists and nuclear family units is kinda reactionary but above all just doesn't work. Most parents are not well equipped to handle an autistic kid and often resorted to either abusing or neglecting them. It makes more sense, both from a humanist and economic perspective, to pool these kids in a camp where a specialized staff of professionals will help them in a controlled environment. Feel free to disagree though i'm looking at this from a layman perspective
Am i the only one here who is not opposed to RFK's idea of wellness camp for autistic kids from a Left wing perspective?
Like yeah i get the concern that these could be euthanasia camp for disabled kids in practice (even though i think this is mainly fearmongering, the rhetoric used by the Trvmp admin for autistic kids are clearly removed from the dehumanizing ones they used against migrants) but a wellness camp run by the state is what socialized healthcare means in practice.
The current model of autistic therapy which focused on a collaboration between psychiatrists and nuclear family units is kinda reactionary but above all just doesn't work. Most parents are not well equipped to handle an autistic kid and often resorted to either abusing or neglecting them. It makes more sense, both from a humanist and economic perspective, to pool these kids in a camp where a specialized staff of professionals will help them in a controlled environment. Feel free to disagree though i'm looking at this from a layman perspective
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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)
>Elena Veduta
http://www.strategplan.com/en/about/veduta.php
Various videos on YouTube but no channel of her own
>Dave Zachariah
https://www.it.uu.se/katalog/davza513
One video on Paul Cockshott's channel
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
/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)
>Elena Veduta
http://www.strategplan.com/en/about/veduta.php
Various videos on YouTube but no channel of her own
>Dave Zachariah
https://www.it.uu.se/katalog/davza513
One video on Paul Cockshott's channel
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
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Or is this just a myth. A over exaggerated one
(sorel was stupid tbh)
sorel = grandfather of fascism
Was he the grandfather of fascism? Did fascism originate from marxism + proudhonism?Or is this just a myth. A over exaggerated one
(sorel was stupid tbh)
R: 18 / I: 2
I'm right wing socially but center left economically. Neither of the big political parties really want me at their lunch table. I'm too religious and pro gun to be able to justify voting Democrat but Republicans are far too focused on buying their Healthcare CEOs friends another yacht. Even the third parties aren't interested in my beliefs and I'm certain that I'm not alone in these beliefs.
Anyone else struggle with this? Wat do?
Where do I fit?
I don't feel welcome with the left or the right.I'm right wing socially but center left economically. Neither of the big political parties really want me at their lunch table. I'm too religious and pro gun to be able to justify voting Democrat but Republicans are far too focused on buying their Healthcare CEOs friends another yacht. Even the third parties aren't interested in my beliefs and I'm certain that I'm not alone in these beliefs.
Anyone else struggle with this? Wat do?
R: 190 / I: 55
<The great and authentic revolutionaries of the world are two: ᴉuᴉlossnW and Hitler. But ᴉuᴉlossnW's past shows that Il Duce has always been against the plutocracy and against the democracies, which paralyze the life of nations.
>Stalin, allying himself with London and Washington, has betrayed the cause of the proletariat. Moreover, I can say that on this I agree with Il Duce, when he says, as he did in his speech from last November, that if there is a man who desperately wanted the war, who first prepared it and then instigated it, it is the American president. From my point of view, however, I clarify that Roosevelt is nothing but the exponent of supercapitalism that aims at the conquest of a totalitarian imperialism.
Whaddafug, wholesome critical support to Hitler and ᴉuᴉlossnW????
What did Bordiga mean by this?
>Therefore, June 10 (the date of ᴉuᴉlossnW's declaration of war) was for me what you call a great day. But now that Hitler has grown soft, I begin to lose the trust I had placed in the Axis to strangle and pull down the so-called British colossus, that is, the greatest exponent of capitalism. They are afraid of bringing down England, they are afraid because they know that with it, the whole capitalist system will collapse. […] I still hope that Hitler will not renounce the struggle, and will go all the way, to the extreme consequences.<The great and authentic revolutionaries of the world are two: ᴉuᴉlossnW and Hitler. But ᴉuᴉlossnW's past shows that Il Duce has always been against the plutocracy and against the democracies, which paralyze the life of nations.
>Stalin, allying himself with London and Washington, has betrayed the cause of the proletariat. Moreover, I can say that on this I agree with Il Duce, when he says, as he did in his speech from last November, that if there is a man who desperately wanted the war, who first prepared it and then instigated it, it is the American president. From my point of view, however, I clarify that Roosevelt is nothing but the exponent of supercapitalism that aims at the conquest of a totalitarian imperialism.
Whaddafug, wholesome critical support to Hitler and ᴉuᴉlossnW????
R: 3 / I: 0
>news articles complaining that the stock market is crashing on tariffs despite new peaks almost every day in the last week
capitalism is so stupid
>news articles complaining that the stock market is crashing on tariffs despite new peaks almost every day in the last week
capitalism is so stupid
R: 25 / I: 3
A collapse isn't happening, nuclear war isn't happening, a revolution isn't happening. It's all so tedious.
Its not happening
I thought all of this shit going down would lead to the collapse of the US and the final triumph or something. Damn this is fucking depressing. The escalation of the genocide by Israel, the Ukraine-Russia war, the protests, the self-immolations, the riots, the invasion of Lebanon by Israel, the Iran-Israel war, the India-Pakistan war, the Trump Epstein files, the massive forest fires, AI emergence, Covid19, Beirut port explosion, UFO / drones footage, the US withdrawal from Afghanistan, the death of Elizabeth, the mass deportations in the US, the fall of Syria… so much shit yet nothing has happened for the communist movement, still under the capitalist mode of production.A collapse isn't happening, nuclear war isn't happening, a revolution isn't happening. It's all so tedious.
R: 152 / I: 29
Political implications of more Americans converting to Catholicism?
The American right was heavily associated with Evangelical idpol for the past 50 years. They became the cultural backbone of the GOP from the 80s to the late 2000s. Now it appears like a huge number of former Evangelicals are converting to Catholicism. I even know some ex-Mormons who are Catholic now.
At the same time, it seems like leftists are embracing Catholicism too. Remember when everyone was convinced Pope Francis was a secret socialist? Jacobin mag goes out of their way with appealing to Catholics as well (every other article of theirs is something along the lines of: “Move over pink-haired bipolar feminist queers, here’s why the Catholic Church are the REAL socialists!”). People like Dorothy Day are propped up even though her actual contributions to the American left were minimal and symbolic at best (the Catholic Worker also referred to the priests killed by /ourguys/ in Catalonia as “martyrs” which is disgusting). Not to mention, the Jacobin crowd seems very big on appealing to right-wing Catholic sentiments like complaining about birthrates being too low and proposing Bernie-style policies like universal healthcare to “fix” it, as if low birthrates are a problem to begin with.
But anyway, if Catholicism becomes a major cultural force in America in the next few years how do you see it affecting the political landscape?
Political implications of more Americans converting to Catholicism?
The American right was heavily associated with Evangelical idpol for the past 50 years. They became the cultural backbone of the GOP from the 80s to the late 2000s. Now it appears like a huge number of former Evangelicals are converting to Catholicism. I even know some ex-Mormons who are Catholic now.
At the same time, it seems like leftists are embracing Catholicism too. Remember when everyone was convinced Pope Francis was a secret socialist? Jacobin mag goes out of their way with appealing to Catholics as well (every other article of theirs is something along the lines of: “Move over pink-haired bipolar feminist queers, here’s why the Catholic Church are the REAL socialists!”). People like Dorothy Day are propped up even though her actual contributions to the American left were minimal and symbolic at best (the Catholic Worker also referred to the priests killed by /ourguys/ in Catalonia as “martyrs” which is disgusting). Not to mention, the Jacobin crowd seems very big on appealing to right-wing Catholic sentiments like complaining about birthrates being too low and proposing Bernie-style policies like universal healthcare to “fix” it, as if low birthrates are a problem to begin with.
But anyway, if Catholicism becomes a major cultural force in America in the next few years how do you see it affecting the political landscape?
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"The most concrete link is his relationship with former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak. Epstein and Barak met numerous times between 2013 and 2017, with Barak visiting Epstein’s properties in Florida and New York approximately 30 times, including a 2014 private flight in Florida. Barak received $2.3 million from an Epstein-associated foundation between 2004 and 2006, and Epstein invested $1 million in a limited partnership established by Barak in 2015.
Another connection stems from Epstein’s ties to Ghislaine Maxwell, whose father, Robert Maxwell, was a British media mogul alleged to have had links to the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad. Some sources, including former Israeli intelligence officer Ari Ben-Menashe, have claimed Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell ran a “honey-trap” operation for Mossad to blackmail influential figures. A lawsuit by a woman identified as Jane Doe 200 alleged Epstein boasted of being a Mossad agent.
Epstein was also associated with the Wexner Foundation, which supports Jewish leadership and has ties to Israel. His financial backer, Leslie Wexner, was a member of the “Mega Group,” a collection of Jewish philanthropists, which some, like former NSA counterspy John Schindler, have speculated was linked to Israeli intelligence operations. Epstein reportedly invested in an Israeli startup, Reporty Homeland Security (later rebranded as Carbyne), connected to Israel’s defense industry, further fueling speculation."
Epstein = Israel, and Trump loves Israel
Epstein is connected to Israel, this is why Trump is covering it up. He doesn't want to risk the political fallout for Israel when people realize all of Epstein's clients were blackmailed and used as Israeli assets."The most concrete link is his relationship with former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak. Epstein and Barak met numerous times between 2013 and 2017, with Barak visiting Epstein’s properties in Florida and New York approximately 30 times, including a 2014 private flight in Florida. Barak received $2.3 million from an Epstein-associated foundation between 2004 and 2006, and Epstein invested $1 million in a limited partnership established by Barak in 2015.
Another connection stems from Epstein’s ties to Ghislaine Maxwell, whose father, Robert Maxwell, was a British media mogul alleged to have had links to the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad. Some sources, including former Israeli intelligence officer Ari Ben-Menashe, have claimed Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell ran a “honey-trap” operation for Mossad to blackmail influential figures. A lawsuit by a woman identified as Jane Doe 200 alleged Epstein boasted of being a Mossad agent.
Epstein was also associated with the Wexner Foundation, which supports Jewish leadership and has ties to Israel. His financial backer, Leslie Wexner, was a member of the “Mega Group,” a collection of Jewish philanthropists, which some, like former NSA counterspy John Schindler, have speculated was linked to Israeli intelligence operations. Epstein reportedly invested in an Israeli startup, Reporty Homeland Security (later rebranded as Carbyne), connected to Israel’s defense industry, further fueling speculation."
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https://www.swartzentrover.com/cotor/E-Books/misc/Livy/HOR_38.htm
I was under the impression that racism came with European colonialism of the Americas. But this quote from a Roman orator reads unironically like some Hitlerite speech.
How old is racism really?
<And, besides, those ancestors of ours had to deal with genuine Gauls bred in their own land; these are degenerates, a mongrel race, truly what they are called - Gallograeci. Just as in the case of fruits and cattle, the seed is not so effective in keeping up the strain as the nature of the soil and climate in which they are reared are in changing it.https://www.swartzentrover.com/cotor/E-Books/misc/Livy/HOR_38.htm
I was under the impression that racism came with European colonialism of the Americas. But this quote from a Roman orator reads unironically like some Hitlerite speech.
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>SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — The co-founder of Return to the Land (RTTL), a whites-only private member association developing a community in northern Arkansas and expanding to Missouri, has spoken to Ozarks First regarding a stabbing incident he was involved in at a decentralized vegan community in Ecuador.
Eric Orwoll is originally from California. He started out as a small time YouTube bigot over 10 years ago and has grown into a full blown segregationist. He studied Music in California in the 2010s. Like a lot of Internet racists, he has repeatedly deleted his accounts to cover his tracks. I am sure we can get more details about him. We should get his credentials cancelled and his bank accounts closed as soon as possible.
Possible Falun Gong connection?
https://lhsepic.com/47806/in-depth/shen-yun-makes-waves-in-america/
>Orwoll auditioned for Shen Yun in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 2013. He worked with the company for six months, most of the time on tour, and his experiences gave him unique insight into how Shen Yun operates.
>“I heard a lot of stories of people who believe they had been miraculously saved by Li, primarily young people brought up in the organization by parents who are also part of it,” Orwoll said. “Shen Yun is just a ballet company, but the broader religion is Falun Gong, which is a cult-like organization. There is a founder who is essentially worshiped by members, which is typical of cults.”
Destroying Eric Orwoll.
https://www.ozarksfirst.com/news/rttl-co-founder-stabbing-ecuador/>SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — The co-founder of Return to the Land (RTTL), a whites-only private member association developing a community in northern Arkansas and expanding to Missouri, has spoken to Ozarks First regarding a stabbing incident he was involved in at a decentralized vegan community in Ecuador.
Eric Orwoll is originally from California. He started out as a small time YouTube bigot over 10 years ago and has grown into a full blown segregationist. He studied Music in California in the 2010s. Like a lot of Internet racists, he has repeatedly deleted his accounts to cover his tracks. I am sure we can get more details about him. We should get his credentials cancelled and his bank accounts closed as soon as possible.
Possible Falun Gong connection?
https://lhsepic.com/47806/in-depth/shen-yun-makes-waves-in-america/
>Orwoll auditioned for Shen Yun in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 2013. He worked with the company for six months, most of the time on tour, and his experiences gave him unique insight into how Shen Yun operates.
>“I heard a lot of stories of people who believe they had been miraculously saved by Li, primarily young people brought up in the organization by parents who are also part of it,” Orwoll said. “Shen Yun is just a ballet company, but the broader religion is Falun Gong, which is a cult-like organization. There is a founder who is essentially worshiped by members, which is typical of cults.”
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Link dump:
https://www.greenleft.org.au
https://www.auscp.org.au/militant-monthly
https://solidarity.net.au
https://redflag.org.au
https://marxistleftreview.org/?topic=australia
https://www.michaelwest.com.au
https://overland.org.au
https://arena.org.au
https://www.themonthly.com.au
https://www.crikey.com.au
https://www.redblacknotes.com
https://www.surplusvalue.org.au/McQueen/index.htm
https://reddit.com/r/AustralianSocialism (use a redlib mirror instead of reddit.com)
https://www.labourstart.org/news/country.php?country=Australia&langcode=en
https://anarchistnews.org/content/spotters-guide-anarchism-australia-and-aotearoa
https://thewhiterosesociety.writeas.com (antifascism, most active on twitter)
/auspol/ #11 - Southern Cross edition
Australian and Oceania politics general thread.Link dump:
https://www.greenleft.org.au
https://www.auscp.org.au/militant-monthly
https://solidarity.net.au
https://redflag.org.au
https://marxistleftreview.org/?topic=australia
https://www.michaelwest.com.au
https://overland.org.au
https://arena.org.au
https://www.themonthly.com.au
https://www.crikey.com.au
https://www.redblacknotes.com
https://www.surplusvalue.org.au/McQueen/index.htm
https://reddit.com/r/AustralianSocialism (use a redlib mirror instead of reddit.com)
https://www.labourstart.org/news/country.php?country=Australia&langcode=en
https://anarchistnews.org/content/spotters-guide-anarchism-australia-and-aotearoa
https://thewhiterosesociety.writeas.com (antifascism, most active on twitter)
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Let us discuss whether this plan will work for us to accomplish our goals of once and for all dethroning fascism and whiteness for all eternity.
The Antifa Manual
How many of you are familiar with the Antifa manual?Let us discuss whether this plan will work for us to accomplish our goals of once and for all dethroning fascism and whiteness for all eternity.
R: 70 / I: 27
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: 434 / I: 173
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• The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/world/palestinian-territories
• Times of Israel: https://www.timesofisrael.com/topic/liveblog/ (trigger warning)
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Regional news from an anti-imperialist perspective
• https://www.btselem.org/Isrsaeli
Premier Human Rights org
• https://www.972mag.com/
Left news and opinion webzine from Tel-Aviv
• https://decolonizepalestine.com/
A collection of resources for organizers and anyone who wants to learn more about Palestine
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al-Qassam Brigades
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Always remember to double-check your sources, as well as provide access to it.
الله أكبر
.الى جميع الكادحين في الشرق، ان مصيركم في ايديكم
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• The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/world/palestinian-territories
• Times of Israel: https://www.timesofisrael.com/topic/liveblog/ (trigger warning)
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• https://www.972mag.com/
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• https://decolonizepalestine.com/
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As someone who spent a while homeless and spent several years of fucking hell having to interact with antisocial lumpenprole ""homeless"", it honestly never shocks me how bizarrely protective and aggressive the majority of most Western Leftists are when it comes to their sheer, infantalization and worship of Lumpens and Lumpen behavior.
From my experiences, homelessness basically works in two regards, most homeless are "invisible homeless" like I was, had to sleep in car, shower at gym, still go work, couch surf etc. These are mostly all good people who have just been fucked over by circumstance, and frankly, most will get out of homelessness, they will eventually move into a share house or whatever. Average Homeless period for these people is 6 months. Only reason I was fucked over so hard was because of Covid lockdowns, which quite literally made it near impossible to actually fucking find a new house legally.
But long term homeless are not like this at all, I eventually had to start dealing with Long term homeless, and the vast majority were absolute personality disordered, psychotic pathological lying, scheming assholes. Myself being a leftist, often tried to help, but help was almost always returned with a twisted knife in the back. It became clear as well, that alot of long term homeless, weren't even homeless, they had bennies and housing and everything given to them through charity or Government, but they rather just spend it all bumming around, alcohol, drugs, prostitutes, being a general dickhead etc. Frankly, it's a pretty fucking chill life if you have no asperations and don't give a flying fucking fuck about the rest of society or yourself, and that honestly was the case with a majority of the long term homeless I interacted with, genuinely antisocial, pretty predatory people who had burned most of their, if not all bridges and worse, often dragged good but vulnerable people down to their level.
Tell this to most leftists though, and that homelessness won't be easily fixed by just "giving people homes" and worse of all, that long term homeless are actually frankly, the majority of the time, gaming the system and absolutely enjoy being antisocial, and it's instant wailing and gnashing. "THE RICH ARE JUST AS BAD" blah blah. Yeah, sure, but that doesn't stop the reality that this is a case where these people actively reject support to get on their feet, reject society, and choose to be predatory, antisocial fuckheads. Also because Bougies are bad, doesn't make bad behavior from other classes acceptable.
You see this a lot with say, frankly, criminal behaviour as well, it becomes a weird noble savage thing, where oh the only reason this community has an issue with crime is poverty, but that just isn't real and and is bizarrely a anti-working class attitude. Because people are poor, they are criminals and violent? I grew up in a poor community and shock horror, there was barely any crime at all, we could all leave our doors unlocked and everything. It wasn't until a pro-antisocial lumpenprole culture started to get pushed into youth and take over, did crime become far more visible and prevalent. Again, tell this to most leftists and again, wailing and gnashing, NOOOO POORS ARE NATURALLY GOING TO DO CRIME AND BE ANTISOCIAL ITS THEIR NATURE!
Then you just get the general "dindunuttin" nature of much of the left, where the the average person or cop or whatever is always wrong, and Lumpens are always right, and are always victims. Jordan Neely, WM3, CP5, George Floyd, Chris Kaba etc. Brazen antisocial criminals are always in the right, anybody holding them to account is always in the wrong, they dindunuttin. Where the fuck does this attitude even come from? It's perversely reactionary and completely antisocial.
Marx correctly identified the Lumpenproles as an antagonistic, reactionary class towards the general Proletariat, yet it seems the Western left aggressively fetishize and protect the Lumpens to just a bizarrely idiotic level, often making them seemingly the primary revolutionary subject. Why? How did Lumpen fetishization come about? Is it the legacy of Christianity or something?
Why do Western Leftists fetishize and love Lumpens so much?
One of the most bizarre aspects of the Western Left I've found is the absolute idealization, "oh they dindunuttin", infantalization and complete and total removal of any and all responsibility from Lumpenproles.As someone who spent a while homeless and spent several years of fucking hell having to interact with antisocial lumpenprole ""homeless"", it honestly never shocks me how bizarrely protective and aggressive the majority of most Western Leftists are when it comes to their sheer, infantalization and worship of Lumpens and Lumpen behavior.
From my experiences, homelessness basically works in two regards, most homeless are "invisible homeless" like I was, had to sleep in car, shower at gym, still go work, couch surf etc. These are mostly all good people who have just been fucked over by circumstance, and frankly, most will get out of homelessness, they will eventually move into a share house or whatever. Average Homeless period for these people is 6 months. Only reason I was fucked over so hard was because of Covid lockdowns, which quite literally made it near impossible to actually fucking find a new house legally.
But long term homeless are not like this at all, I eventually had to start dealing with Long term homeless, and the vast majority were absolute personality disordered, psychotic pathological lying, scheming assholes. Myself being a leftist, often tried to help, but help was almost always returned with a twisted knife in the back. It became clear as well, that alot of long term homeless, weren't even homeless, they had bennies and housing and everything given to them through charity or Government, but they rather just spend it all bumming around, alcohol, drugs, prostitutes, being a general dickhead etc. Frankly, it's a pretty fucking chill life if you have no asperations and don't give a flying fucking fuck about the rest of society or yourself, and that honestly was the case with a majority of the long term homeless I interacted with, genuinely antisocial, pretty predatory people who had burned most of their, if not all bridges and worse, often dragged good but vulnerable people down to their level.
Tell this to most leftists though, and that homelessness won't be easily fixed by just "giving people homes" and worse of all, that long term homeless are actually frankly, the majority of the time, gaming the system and absolutely enjoy being antisocial, and it's instant wailing and gnashing. "THE RICH ARE JUST AS BAD" blah blah. Yeah, sure, but that doesn't stop the reality that this is a case where these people actively reject support to get on their feet, reject society, and choose to be predatory, antisocial fuckheads. Also because Bougies are bad, doesn't make bad behavior from other classes acceptable.
You see this a lot with say, frankly, criminal behaviour as well, it becomes a weird noble savage thing, where oh the only reason this community has an issue with crime is poverty, but that just isn't real and and is bizarrely a anti-working class attitude. Because people are poor, they are criminals and violent? I grew up in a poor community and shock horror, there was barely any crime at all, we could all leave our doors unlocked and everything. It wasn't until a pro-antisocial lumpenprole culture started to get pushed into youth and take over, did crime become far more visible and prevalent. Again, tell this to most leftists and again, wailing and gnashing, NOOOO POORS ARE NATURALLY GOING TO DO CRIME AND BE ANTISOCIAL ITS THEIR NATURE!
Then you just get the general "dindunuttin" nature of much of the left, where the the average person or cop or whatever is always wrong, and Lumpens are always right, and are always victims. Jordan Neely, WM3, CP5, George Floyd, Chris Kaba etc. Brazen antisocial criminals are always in the right, anybody holding them to account is always in the wrong, they dindunuttin. Where the fuck does this attitude even come from? It's perversely reactionary and completely antisocial.
Marx correctly identified the Lumpenproles as an antagonistic, reactionary class towards the general Proletariat, yet it seems the Western left aggressively fetishize and protect the Lumpens to just a bizarrely idiotic level, often making them seemingly the primary revolutionary subject. Why? How did Lumpen fetishization come about? Is it the legacy of Christianity or something?
R: 65 / I: 9
Dump all the seemingly pointless, dubious, and frivolous questions that don't deserve their own shitty threads.
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Threads that otherwise might go in here will eventually find themselves become merged to this thread.
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Previous thread: >>2177902Dump all the seemingly pointless, dubious, and frivolous questions that don't deserve their own shitty threads.
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Non ho proprio calcolato questa tavola più o meno dal periodo dell'impresa di Luigi Mangione e ho ricominciato a buttarci un occhio solo da una settimana o due. Vediamo un po' che ne viene fuori stavolta.
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Uno si assenta per qualche mese e il filo più importante di tutti scompare… Roba da matti!Non ho proprio calcolato questa tavola più o meno dal periodo dell'impresa di Luigi Mangione e ho ricominciato a buttarci un occhio solo da una settimana o due. Vediamo un po' che ne viene fuori stavolta.
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Can Casinos be socialist?
Is there a room for Casinos in a socialist society? My recent trip to one of them sparked the question for me. Over here in my province, Casinos, lottery and gambling is a state monopoly. Considering the alternative that, without state control on gambling, it's existence would solely profit to bourgeois enterprises and criminal endeavors.
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The surveillance software called Gotham, developed by US company Palantir, is billed as an all-rounder: gigantic amounts of data are brought together at lightning speed. It only takes a few seconds to satisfy a police officer's curiosity: name, age, address, fines, criminal record. In combination with selected cellphones and the contents of scanned social media channels, a comprehensive profile of any person appears in an instant. With the help of artificial intelligence (AI), the surveillance program developed by the US technology company seems to make the dreams of police and intelligence agencies come true.
https://www.dw.com/en/german-police-expands-use-of-palantir-surveillance-software/a-73497117
https://archive.ph/LrIPJ
Rival anti-migrant and anti-racism protests face off outside a hotel housing migrants in London
Several hundred protesters waving Union Jacks gathered outside the Thistle City Barbican Hotel in central London, calling for it to be closed as housing for migrants. Chants including “Scum” and “Britain is full” were directed at the hotel. Police separated the demonstrators from a larger group of counter-protesters chanting “refugees are welcome here,” as people inside the hotel watched from windows. Protests against migrants have taken place in recent weeks in Epping, a town on the outskirts of London where an asylum-seeker was accused of sexual assault, and in a smattering of other towns in England.
https://apnews.com/article/britain-migration-protests-asylum-hotels-2271d550f5a3c14e0821f0eb67fbd861
Nordic countries hit by ‘truly unprecedented’ heatwave
In Sweden, meteorologists said long-term heatwaves were noted at several stations in the north of the country, with a weather station in Haparanda measuring 25C or more for 14 days in a row. In Jokkmokk, Lappland, the heatwave lasted for 15 days. “To find a longer period at these stations, you have to go back more than a century,” said Sverker Hellström, a scientist at the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/aug/02/nordic-countries-hit-by-truly-unprecedented-heatwave
Violence against Veracruz cab workers: Hitman targets driver who survived an initial attack in hospital
Amid all the violence, Veracruz cab drivers are also demanding action. Since Monday, they have marched in various municipalities demanding better wages, security, and justice for their murdered colleagues. “We fear for our safety; we are single mothers,” and “We no longer live, we survive,” some female drivers chanted during the first demonstration in Xalapa.
https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-08-01/violence-against-veracruz-cab-workers-hitman-targets-driver-who-survived-an-initial-attack-in-hospital.html
https://archive.ph/6Toiz
Argentina’s Milei Vetoes Pensions Increase and Disability Emergency Laws
The Argentine Congress now faces the challenge of reversing the presidential vetoes on two key projects: the Retirement Mobility Act and the Disability Emergency Declaration while the Retirement Mobility Act proposed an increase in retirements, increased the bonus and replenished the pension moratorium.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/argentinas-milei-vetoes-pensions-increase-and-disability-emergency-laws/
The Fine Print of Freedom: Iraq to amend Freedom of Expression and Peaceful Assembly Law
Despite easing some procedural hurdles, the new draft law outlines several prohibitions on protest activity: -Carrying firearms or dangerous materials during demonstrations, regardless of firearm licensing. -Wearing masks or face coverings intended to conceal identity. -Displaying slogans, symbols, or signs considered offensive to public order or morals. The law reaffirms longstanding bans on speech inciting sectarian, racial, or religious hatred, or defaming religious beliefs—provisions that human rights observers have previously warned could be used to silence dissent.
https://shafaq.com/en/Report/The-Fine-Print-of-Freedom-Iraq-to-amend-Freedom-of-Expression-and-Peaceful-Assembly-Law
Video of emaciated Israeli captive in Gaza stirs divisions in Israel
The caption to the video, posted on Telegram, reads that the captive is "waiting to be released in a prisoner swap". The video shows the captive, who was later identified as Israeli soldier Evyatar David, looking markedly thin and sitting on bed in a cramped room. His arms show signs of drastic weight loss, and his ribs are also protruding, in a scene which has become increasingly common in Gaza as Israel obstructs aid.
https://www.newarab.com/news/video-emaciated-israeli-captive-stirs-divisions-israel
'No Other Land' murder: Women in Awdah Hathaleen's village launch hunger strike
More than 70 women in the village where Awdah Hathaleen was killed on Monday have launched a hunger strike, calling for Israeli police to return his body and release residents arrested in the wake of his murder. Their protest comes as they say Israeli forces have raided family homes in the village each night since the killing, arresting their husbands and brothers and beating other family members. "A woman would be not properly dressed, lying in bed, and they would come in and open the door and say, 'We want your husband, we want your brother'," Ikhlas Hazalin, Hathaleen's sister-in-law, told Middle East Eye on Thursday.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/awdah-hathaleen-hunger-strike-women-over-70-body-israeli
Farmer leaders arrested in Pakistan for opposing illegal land grab
Several farmer leaders were arrested after they tried to organize against illegal land grabs in the Hashtnagar region in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province earlier this week. Salar Amjad Ali, Momin Khan Shalmani, Waris Khan Amir, Muhammad Alam, Manzoor Khan, Sparlay Ghorzang, and Zeeshan were arrested after their bails in previous cases were revoked. All the arrested are part of the provincial leadership of the left-wing Mazdoor Kisan Party (Workers-Peasants Party, MKP).
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/07/31/farmer-leaders-arrested-in-pakistan-for-opposing-illegal-land-grab/
Dalit teen gang-raped, local officials ‘push cash deal’
Shockingly, instead of ensuring swift justice, ward officials, including chairperson Uttam Narayan Yadav allegedly convened a forced reconciliation meeting at the local health post on Friday, where they pressured the traumatised family to accept Rs100,000($114) compensation and drop charges—a demand the victim’s brother vehemently rejected, telling media they continue facing daily harassment for refusing the settlement.
https://kathmandupost.com/national/2025/08/02/dalit-teen-gang-raped-in-saptari
https://archive.ph/12jvP
Indo-Myanmar Border: Manipur Naga Groups’ ‘Ultimatum’ to Centre
The four Manipur-based Naga outfits have marked their communication dated July 22, 2025, as an “Ultimatum” to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar. The ‘ultimatum’ once again reminds the Centre that at stake is ‘ancestral Naga homeland’ and that by not consulting the affected indigenous communities, it is violating the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, particularly Articles 8, 26 and 36 thereof, which have been “endorsed by India”.
https://www.newsclick.in/indo-myanmar-border-manipur-naga-groups-ultimatum-centre
US Law Firm Helped Myanmar Junta Cronies Beat Sanctions
A U.S. Treasury notice on Thursday announced that sanctions had been dropped against four Myanmar nationals—Jonathan Myo Kyaw Thaung (aka Jonathan Kyaw Thaung), Aung Hlaing Oo, Sit Taing Aung, and Tin Latt Min—and an Indian, Deepak Subhash Jadhav, as well as companies they are connected to. All the Myanmar individuals were sanctioned from 2022 to 2024 by the Joe Biden administration for their shady links to the junta, involving among other things the supply of arms, aircraft, and technology, which the regime has been using to kill its own people.
https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/us-law-firm-helped-myanmar-junta-cronies-beat-sanctions.html
News 8/2/25
German police expands use of Palantir surveillance softwareThe surveillance software called Gotham, developed by US company Palantir, is billed as an all-rounder: gigantic amounts of data are brought together at lightning speed. It only takes a few seconds to satisfy a police officer's curiosity: name, age, address, fines, criminal record. In combination with selected cellphones and the contents of scanned social media channels, a comprehensive profile of any person appears in an instant. With the help of artificial intelligence (AI), the surveillance program developed by the US technology company seems to make the dreams of police and intelligence agencies come true.
https://www.dw.com/en/german-police-expands-use-of-palantir-surveillance-software/a-73497117
https://archive.ph/LrIPJ
Rival anti-migrant and anti-racism protests face off outside a hotel housing migrants in London
Several hundred protesters waving Union Jacks gathered outside the Thistle City Barbican Hotel in central London, calling for it to be closed as housing for migrants. Chants including “Scum” and “Britain is full” were directed at the hotel. Police separated the demonstrators from a larger group of counter-protesters chanting “refugees are welcome here,” as people inside the hotel watched from windows. Protests against migrants have taken place in recent weeks in Epping, a town on the outskirts of London where an asylum-seeker was accused of sexual assault, and in a smattering of other towns in England.
https://apnews.com/article/britain-migration-protests-asylum-hotels-2271d550f5a3c14e0821f0eb67fbd861
Nordic countries hit by ‘truly unprecedented’ heatwave
In Sweden, meteorologists said long-term heatwaves were noted at several stations in the north of the country, with a weather station in Haparanda measuring 25C or more for 14 days in a row. In Jokkmokk, Lappland, the heatwave lasted for 15 days. “To find a longer period at these stations, you have to go back more than a century,” said Sverker Hellström, a scientist at the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/aug/02/nordic-countries-hit-by-truly-unprecedented-heatwave
Violence against Veracruz cab workers: Hitman targets driver who survived an initial attack in hospital
Amid all the violence, Veracruz cab drivers are also demanding action. Since Monday, they have marched in various municipalities demanding better wages, security, and justice for their murdered colleagues. “We fear for our safety; we are single mothers,” and “We no longer live, we survive,” some female drivers chanted during the first demonstration in Xalapa.
https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-08-01/violence-against-veracruz-cab-workers-hitman-targets-driver-who-survived-an-initial-attack-in-hospital.html
https://archive.ph/6Toiz
Argentina’s Milei Vetoes Pensions Increase and Disability Emergency Laws
The Argentine Congress now faces the challenge of reversing the presidential vetoes on two key projects: the Retirement Mobility Act and the Disability Emergency Declaration while the Retirement Mobility Act proposed an increase in retirements, increased the bonus and replenished the pension moratorium.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/argentinas-milei-vetoes-pensions-increase-and-disability-emergency-laws/
The Fine Print of Freedom: Iraq to amend Freedom of Expression and Peaceful Assembly Law
Despite easing some procedural hurdles, the new draft law outlines several prohibitions on protest activity: -Carrying firearms or dangerous materials during demonstrations, regardless of firearm licensing. -Wearing masks or face coverings intended to conceal identity. -Displaying slogans, symbols, or signs considered offensive to public order or morals. The law reaffirms longstanding bans on speech inciting sectarian, racial, or religious hatred, or defaming religious beliefs—provisions that human rights observers have previously warned could be used to silence dissent.
https://shafaq.com/en/Report/The-Fine-Print-of-Freedom-Iraq-to-amend-Freedom-of-Expression-and-Peaceful-Assembly-Law
Video of emaciated Israeli captive in Gaza stirs divisions in Israel
The caption to the video, posted on Telegram, reads that the captive is "waiting to be released in a prisoner swap". The video shows the captive, who was later identified as Israeli soldier Evyatar David, looking markedly thin and sitting on bed in a cramped room. His arms show signs of drastic weight loss, and his ribs are also protruding, in a scene which has become increasingly common in Gaza as Israel obstructs aid.
https://www.newarab.com/news/video-emaciated-israeli-captive-stirs-divisions-israel
'No Other Land' murder: Women in Awdah Hathaleen's village launch hunger strike
More than 70 women in the village where Awdah Hathaleen was killed on Monday have launched a hunger strike, calling for Israeli police to return his body and release residents arrested in the wake of his murder. Their protest comes as they say Israeli forces have raided family homes in the village each night since the killing, arresting their husbands and brothers and beating other family members. "A woman would be not properly dressed, lying in bed, and they would come in and open the door and say, 'We want your husband, we want your brother'," Ikhlas Hazalin, Hathaleen's sister-in-law, told Middle East Eye on Thursday.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/awdah-hathaleen-hunger-strike-women-over-70-body-israeli
Farmer leaders arrested in Pakistan for opposing illegal land grab
Several farmer leaders were arrested after they tried to organize against illegal land grabs in the Hashtnagar region in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province earlier this week. Salar Amjad Ali, Momin Khan Shalmani, Waris Khan Amir, Muhammad Alam, Manzoor Khan, Sparlay Ghorzang, and Zeeshan were arrested after their bails in previous cases were revoked. All the arrested are part of the provincial leadership of the left-wing Mazdoor Kisan Party (Workers-Peasants Party, MKP).
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/07/31/farmer-leaders-arrested-in-pakistan-for-opposing-illegal-land-grab/
Dalit teen gang-raped, local officials ‘push cash deal’
Shockingly, instead of ensuring swift justice, ward officials, including chairperson Uttam Narayan Yadav allegedly convened a forced reconciliation meeting at the local health post on Friday, where they pressured the traumatised family to accept Rs100,000($114) compensation and drop charges—a demand the victim’s brother vehemently rejected, telling media they continue facing daily harassment for refusing the settlement.
https://kathmandupost.com/national/2025/08/02/dalit-teen-gang-raped-in-saptari
https://archive.ph/12jvP
Indo-Myanmar Border: Manipur Naga Groups’ ‘Ultimatum’ to Centre
The four Manipur-based Naga outfits have marked their communication dated July 22, 2025, as an “Ultimatum” to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar. The ‘ultimatum’ once again reminds the Centre that at stake is ‘ancestral Naga homeland’ and that by not consulting the affected indigenous communities, it is violating the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, particularly Articles 8, 26 and 36 thereof, which have been “endorsed by India”.
https://www.newsclick.in/indo-myanmar-border-manipur-naga-groups-ultimatum-centre
US Law Firm Helped Myanmar Junta Cronies Beat Sanctions
A U.S. Treasury notice on Thursday announced that sanctions had been dropped against four Myanmar nationals—Jonathan Myo Kyaw Thaung (aka Jonathan Kyaw Thaung), Aung Hlaing Oo, Sit Taing Aung, and Tin Latt Min—and an Indian, Deepak Subhash Jadhav, as well as companies they are connected to. All the Myanmar individuals were sanctioned from 2022 to 2024 by the Joe Biden administration for their shady links to the junta, involving among other things the supply of arms, aircraft, and technology, which the regime has been using to kill its own people.
https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/us-law-firm-helped-myanmar-junta-cronies-beat-sanctions.html
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>The system is rigged.
>The system is rigged when 4.5 million children live in poverty in the sixth richest country in the world. The system is rigged when giant corporations make a fortune from rising bills. The system is rigged when this government says there is no money for the poor, but billions for war.
>We cannot accept these injustices – and neither should you.
>We will only fix the crises in our society with a mass redistribution of wealth and power. That means taxing the very richest in our society. That means an NHS free of privatisation and bringing energy, water, rail and mail into public ownership. That means investing in a massive council-house building programme. That means standing up to fossil fuel giants putting their profits before our planet.
>Meanwhile, millions of people are horrified by the government’s shameful complicity in genocide. We believe in the radical idea that all human life has equal value. That is why we defend the right to protest for Palestine. That is why we demand an end to all arms sales to Israel. And that is why we will carry on campaigning for the only path to peace: a free and independent Palestine.
>Our movement is made up of people of all faiths and none. The great dividers want you to think that the problems in our society are caused by migrants or refugees. They’re not. They are caused by an economic system that protects the interests of corporations and billionaires. It is ordinary people who create the wealth – and it is ordinary people who have the power to put it back where it belongs.
>It’s time for a new kind of political party. One that is rooted in our communities, trade unions and social movements. One that builds power in all regions and nations. One that belongs to you.
>Sign up at www.yourparty.uk to be part of the founding process, leading to an inaugural conference. At this conference, you will decide the party’s direction, the model of leadership and the policies that are needed to transform society. That is how we can build a democratic movement that take on the rich and powerful - and win.
>Real change is coming.
<Jeremy Corbyn MP Zarah Sultana MP
/leftybritpol/ - NAME TBD PARTY EDITION
>It’s time for a new kind of political party. One that belongs to you.>The system is rigged.
>The system is rigged when 4.5 million children live in poverty in the sixth richest country in the world. The system is rigged when giant corporations make a fortune from rising bills. The system is rigged when this government says there is no money for the poor, but billions for war.
>We cannot accept these injustices – and neither should you.
>We will only fix the crises in our society with a mass redistribution of wealth and power. That means taxing the very richest in our society. That means an NHS free of privatisation and bringing energy, water, rail and mail into public ownership. That means investing in a massive council-house building programme. That means standing up to fossil fuel giants putting their profits before our planet.
>Meanwhile, millions of people are horrified by the government’s shameful complicity in genocide. We believe in the radical idea that all human life has equal value. That is why we defend the right to protest for Palestine. That is why we demand an end to all arms sales to Israel. And that is why we will carry on campaigning for the only path to peace: a free and independent Palestine.
>Our movement is made up of people of all faiths and none. The great dividers want you to think that the problems in our society are caused by migrants or refugees. They’re not. They are caused by an economic system that protects the interests of corporations and billionaires. It is ordinary people who create the wealth – and it is ordinary people who have the power to put it back where it belongs.
>It’s time for a new kind of political party. One that is rooted in our communities, trade unions and social movements. One that builds power in all regions and nations. One that belongs to you.
>Sign up at www.yourparty.uk to be part of the founding process, leading to an inaugural conference. At this conference, you will decide the party’s direction, the model of leadership and the policies that are needed to transform society. That is how we can build a democratic movement that take on the rich and powerful - and win.
>Real change is coming.
<Jeremy Corbyn MP Zarah Sultana MP
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<Unpünktlich wie die Eisenbahn; verspätet auf maroden Strecken zu hohen Preisen: DB-Konzern überbietet jedes Jahr seine Negativrekorde
https://www.jungewelt.de/artikel/503080.versp%C3%A4tungen-bei-der-bahn-unp%C3%BCnktlich-wie-die-eisenbahn.html
<Rot gewinnt; Präsidentsschaftskandidatin in Chile ist von der KP
https://www.jungewelt.de/artikel/503066.kommunisten-rot-gewinnt.html
<Gideon Levy über Massaker der israelischen Armee an Hungernden in Gaza
https://www.jungewelt.de/artikel/503098.dokumentiert-gideon-levy-%C3%BCber-massaker-der-israelischen-armee-an-hungernden-in-gaza.html
<NATO-Manöver am Niederrhein: Kriegsvorbereitung statt Sicherheit
https://www.rf-news.de/2025/kw27/nato-manoever-am-niederrhein-kriegsvorbereitung-statt-sicherheit
<Parteitag der DKP
https://www.unsere-zeit.de/live-ticker-vom-26-parteitag-der-dkp/
<Maja T. ins Haftkrankenhaus verlegt
https://www.nd-aktuell.de/artikel/1192276.budapest-komplex-maja-t-in-haftkrankenhaus-verlegt.html
/leftydeutschpol/ - DB-Edition
Neuigkeiten<Unpünktlich wie die Eisenbahn; verspätet auf maroden Strecken zu hohen Preisen: DB-Konzern überbietet jedes Jahr seine Negativrekorde
https://www.jungewelt.de/artikel/503080.versp%C3%A4tungen-bei-der-bahn-unp%C3%BCnktlich-wie-die-eisenbahn.html
<Rot gewinnt; Präsidentsschaftskandidatin in Chile ist von der KP
https://www.jungewelt.de/artikel/503066.kommunisten-rot-gewinnt.html
<Gideon Levy über Massaker der israelischen Armee an Hungernden in Gaza
https://www.jungewelt.de/artikel/503098.dokumentiert-gideon-levy-%C3%BCber-massaker-der-israelischen-armee-an-hungernden-in-gaza.html
<NATO-Manöver am Niederrhein: Kriegsvorbereitung statt Sicherheit
https://www.rf-news.de/2025/kw27/nato-manoever-am-niederrhein-kriegsvorbereitung-statt-sicherheit
<Parteitag der DKP
https://www.unsere-zeit.de/live-ticker-vom-26-parteitag-der-dkp/
<Maja T. ins Haftkrankenhaus verlegt
https://www.nd-aktuell.de/artikel/1192276.budapest-komplex-maja-t-in-haftkrankenhaus-verlegt.html
R: 10 / I: 1
I live in Montreal. For the past seven years, our city has undergone a pretty serious transformation investing in “people-oriented” infrastructure like bike lanes, green spaces, third spaces, pedestrianized streets in the summer, more train lines, and lots and lots of trees and community gardens. Even though it’s happening in a bourgeois context, these are all things leftists have been demanding as a way of making cities more pleasurable and inclusive for residents. The problem is, many of these plans have been met with huge public opposition. People complain about lack of parking spaces, a “war on cars”, too many bikes on the road, too little money spent on other infrastructure, and similar things. My question is, under socialism we would want our cities to be redesigned this way, but how would we manage the huge public opposition to it if there was an opposition to begin with? How would we convince people that, say, giant flower pots in parking spaces is a good thing? Or that public transit is better than cars? Or that mixed-use buildings are good?
Just asking because comrades can’t implement shit if the will of the people goes against us.
New Urbanism
How do comrades plan on successfully going about redesigning cities?I live in Montreal. For the past seven years, our city has undergone a pretty serious transformation investing in “people-oriented” infrastructure like bike lanes, green spaces, third spaces, pedestrianized streets in the summer, more train lines, and lots and lots of trees and community gardens. Even though it’s happening in a bourgeois context, these are all things leftists have been demanding as a way of making cities more pleasurable and inclusive for residents. The problem is, many of these plans have been met with huge public opposition. People complain about lack of parking spaces, a “war on cars”, too many bikes on the road, too little money spent on other infrastructure, and similar things. My question is, under socialism we would want our cities to be redesigned this way, but how would we manage the huge public opposition to it if there was an opposition to begin with? How would we convince people that, say, giant flower pots in parking spaces is a good thing? Or that public transit is better than cars? Or that mixed-use buildings are good?
Just asking because comrades can’t implement shit if the will of the people goes against us.
R: 377 / I: 53
Mamdani fell for it again award
All of you celebrating Mamdani are about to receive the fell for it again award, just like you did with Bernie and AOC, and Obama if you're old enough to remember. Unless a socialist is running for an explicitly revolutionary socialist party, they're going to sell out. Also, Mamdani's wife was heavily active in the cultural push for regime change in Syria.
R: 170 / I: 21
Clive Davis is arguably the most powerful man in the entertainment industry, moreso than Lucian Grainge and whomever runs Disney. He is 92 years old and an ultra-billionaire porky. Like Diddy, there have been rumors swarming for years that Davis is behind a lot of shady shit, namely running Epstein-like sex trafficking rings in the music industry since the 1970s. It is a known fact Davis was involved in one of the biggest payola scandals in the music industry in the 2000s. He is also known to commit tax fraud/evasion. Yet he hasn't been charged with anything. This can be explained by the suspicions Davis is a federal informant who's been working with the FBI for decades to get blackmail dirt on celebrities, identical to Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.
Davis essentially buckbroke Diddy when Diddy first entered the music industry. Everything Diddy is currently charged with are things he learned from Davis. It gets deeper when you look at the trial. Diddy, like his mentor Davis, is also an alleged FBI informant. It's rumored Diddy orchestrated Tupac's murder (the feds wanted Pac dead because he was a Black communist breadpilling people through his rhymes) and almost certainly had something to do with Biggie's death as well. The prosecutor against Diddy is allegedly James Comey's daughter, Comney being the same prosecutor in the Epstein/Maxwell case. Given that the prosecution is currently floundering (they have yet to prove Diddy is a sex trafficker, only that he's a sexual pervert with a piss and cuckold fetish) one can easily see that this is allegedly a cover up of an alleged cover up: either Diddy walks free and everyone involved goes about doing their evil, or Diddy is found guilty and becomes the fall guy while the bigger villains (specifically Davis) go unchecked.
To put the cherry on the sundae: Clive Davis owns a school at NYU, the Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music. Everyone who teaches there is getting paid by Clive; you can clearly see an overlap with the Congress for Cultural Freedom.
The biggest capitalist villain
Given everything that's come out during the Diddy trial, I find it highly suspicious that Clive Davis hasn't been mentioned once.Clive Davis is arguably the most powerful man in the entertainment industry, moreso than Lucian Grainge and whomever runs Disney. He is 92 years old and an ultra-billionaire porky. Like Diddy, there have been rumors swarming for years that Davis is behind a lot of shady shit, namely running Epstein-like sex trafficking rings in the music industry since the 1970s. It is a known fact Davis was involved in one of the biggest payola scandals in the music industry in the 2000s. He is also known to commit tax fraud/evasion. Yet he hasn't been charged with anything. This can be explained by the suspicions Davis is a federal informant who's been working with the FBI for decades to get blackmail dirt on celebrities, identical to Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.
Davis essentially buckbroke Diddy when Diddy first entered the music industry. Everything Diddy is currently charged with are things he learned from Davis. It gets deeper when you look at the trial. Diddy, like his mentor Davis, is also an alleged FBI informant. It's rumored Diddy orchestrated Tupac's murder (the feds wanted Pac dead because he was a Black communist breadpilling people through his rhymes) and almost certainly had something to do with Biggie's death as well. The prosecutor against Diddy is allegedly James Comey's daughter, Comney being the same prosecutor in the Epstein/Maxwell case. Given that the prosecution is currently floundering (they have yet to prove Diddy is a sex trafficker, only that he's a sexual pervert with a piss and cuckold fetish) one can easily see that this is allegedly a cover up of an alleged cover up: either Diddy walks free and everyone involved goes about doing their evil, or Diddy is found guilty and becomes the fall guy while the bigger villains (specifically Davis) go unchecked.
To put the cherry on the sundae: Clive Davis owns a school at NYU, the Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music. Everyone who teaches there is getting paid by Clive; you can clearly see an overlap with the Congress for Cultural Freedom.
R: 133 / I: 19
How exactly should we react when a cultural icon (or person with a decent amount of cultural significance) is revealed to be a Zionist?
I know there’s no ethical consumption under capitalism, but seeing cultural figures be openly pro-Zionism especially when the Zionist entity is engaged in an overt genocide and mass-starvation is honestly disgusting. I was told that the main purpose of BDS isn’t to “crash” the Zionist entity’s economy but rather to expose how engulfed modern culture is in Zionism, like when you realize boycotting is near impossible because entire industries have ties to the Zionist entity such as the music and film industries.
Soft power is a lot more powerful than we realize and even using a term like “Israeli salad” or working with a Zionist settler normalizes Zionist colonialism and genocide. What must we do to end this? And how should we treat notable figures who are pro-Zionist given that they normalize Zionism and manufacture consent for genocide at all times?
How exactly should we react when a cultural icon (or person with a decent amount of cultural significance) is revealed to be a Zionist?
I know there’s no ethical consumption under capitalism, but seeing cultural figures be openly pro-Zionism especially when the Zionist entity is engaged in an overt genocide and mass-starvation is honestly disgusting. I was told that the main purpose of BDS isn’t to “crash” the Zionist entity’s economy but rather to expose how engulfed modern culture is in Zionism, like when you realize boycotting is near impossible because entire industries have ties to the Zionist entity such as the music and film industries.
Soft power is a lot more powerful than we realize and even using a term like “Israeli salad” or working with a Zionist settler normalizes Zionist colonialism and genocide. What must we do to end this? And how should we treat notable figures who are pro-Zionist given that they normalize Zionism and manufacture consent for genocide at all times?
R: 601 / I: 226 (full)
Last thread lasted 2 days, so these events are separated by hours.
STG stalemates in Suwayda after the Israeli bombings.
STG withdraws due to the Israeli pressure.
Many civilian massacres and violations are uncovered after STG forces leave. At the same time, Druze commit atrocities against Bedouins.
Sectarian attacks against Druze outside of Suwayda.
Bedouin tribes announce a mobilisation against the Druze of Suwayda, vowing to continue the fight without the government.
Most tribes join convoys heading for Suwayda. Many sectarian non-tribals also do.
Tribals advance slowly through Suwayda.
More convoys.
Druze launch a counter-offensive that retakes some villages.
Stalemate at front.
More convoys.
Very recently government calls on the tribes to leave. They refuse. Reports of government attempting to block roads.
Israel seems to intensify its airstrikes a bit.
Links:
t.me/Medmannews - Well known channel (Egyptian owner). Posts frequently about MENA
t.me/Slavyangrad - Also posting a lot of news about Syria recently
t.me/Middle_East_Spectator - Iranian owner
t.me/Suriyak_maps - Posts maps/latest news. Less prone to hype/hysteria but slower.
t.me/rybar - Russian channel. Posts a lot about Syria too
https://nitter.poast.org/SAMSyria0 - Local Syrian army soldier. Used to post in Arabic. (Account deleted. RIP)
https://nitter.poast.org/WarMonitors
https://nitter.poast.org/bosni94
https://nitter.poast.org/Sy_intelligence
https://nitter.poast.org/sayed_ridha
https://syria.liveuamap.com
/sg/ - Syrian Civil War General #23 - Off to War edition
Recent news:Last thread lasted 2 days, so these events are separated by hours.
STG stalemates in Suwayda after the Israeli bombings.
STG withdraws due to the Israeli pressure.
Many civilian massacres and violations are uncovered after STG forces leave. At the same time, Druze commit atrocities against Bedouins.
Sectarian attacks against Druze outside of Suwayda.
Bedouin tribes announce a mobilisation against the Druze of Suwayda, vowing to continue the fight without the government.
Most tribes join convoys heading for Suwayda. Many sectarian non-tribals also do.
Tribals advance slowly through Suwayda.
More convoys.
Druze launch a counter-offensive that retakes some villages.
Stalemate at front.
More convoys.
Very recently government calls on the tribes to leave. They refuse. Reports of government attempting to block roads.
Israel seems to intensify its airstrikes a bit.
Links:
t.me/Medmannews - Well known channel (Egyptian owner). Posts frequently about MENA
t.me/Slavyangrad - Also posting a lot of news about Syria recently
t.me/Middle_East_Spectator - Iranian owner
t.me/Suriyak_maps - Posts maps/latest news. Less prone to hype/hysteria but slower.
t.me/rybar - Russian channel. Posts a lot about Syria too
https://nitter.poast.org/SAMSyria0 - Local Syrian army soldier. Used to post in Arabic. (Account deleted. RIP)
https://nitter.poast.org/WarMonitors
https://nitter.poast.org/bosni94
https://nitter.poast.org/Sy_intelligence
https://nitter.poast.org/sayed_ridha
https://syria.liveuamap.com
R: 24 / I: 2
Since you are scientific and materialist what is your answer to the Bell theorem in which John Bell has proven that quantum processes either have no hidden variables but are local (which means there are indeterministic properties in the quantum realm but physical objects only bear an influence on imminent contact) or that they have hidden variables but aren‘t local (which means quantum processes are deterministic but can bear an influence on each from an arbitrary distance), but there can not be both hidden variables (which would have granted determinism) and also locality (which limits physical interactions to imminent contact).
Which side do you pick and why?
Since you are scientific and materialist what is your answer to the Bell theorem in which John Bell has proven that quantum processes either have no hidden variables but are local (which means there are indeterministic properties in the quantum realm but physical objects only bear an influence on imminent contact) or that they have hidden variables but aren‘t local (which means quantum processes are deterministic but can bear an influence on each from an arbitrary distance), but there can not be both hidden variables (which would have granted determinism) and also locality (which limits physical interactions to imminent contact).
Which side do you pick and why?
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Archive of the previous DPRK thread:
https://leftypol.org/leftypol_archive/res/12395.html
/DPRK/ - Democratic People's Republic of Korea General
Thread for news and discussions of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, its material conditions, the status and health of its socialist tradition, disproving common myths about it, etc.Archive of the previous DPRK thread:
https://leftypol.org/leftypol_archive/res/12395.html
R: 373 / I: 119 >>2189753
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Anwar Shaikh - Capitalism: Competition, Conflict and Crises
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Anwar Shaikh - Capitalism
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLz4k72ocf2TZMxrEVCgpp1b5K3hzFWuZh
Capital Volume 1 high quality audiobook from Andrew S. Rightenburg (Human-Read, not AI voice or TTS voice)
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUjbFtkcDBlSHVigHHx_wjaeWmDN2W-h8
Capital Volume 2 high quality audiobook from Andrew S. Rightenburg (Human-Read, not AI voice or TTS voice)
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Capital Volume 3 high quality audiobook from Andrew S. Rightenburg (Human-Read, not AI voice or TTS voice)
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Theories of Surplus Value high quality audiobook from Andrew S. Rightenburg (Human-Read, not AI voice or TTS voice)
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Victor Magariño - Austrian Economics: A Critical Analysis
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Geopolitical Economy Hour with Radhika Desai and Michael Hudson (someone says "he's CIA doing reheated Proudhonism" lol)
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Potential Sources of Information
Leftypol Wiki Political Economy Category (needs expanding)
https://leftypedia.miraheze.org/wiki/Category:Political_economy
Sci-Hub
https://sci-hub.se/about
Marxists Internet Archive
https://www.marxists.org/
Library Genesis
https://libgen.is/
University of the Left
http://ouleft.sp-mesolite.tilted.net/Online
bannedthought.net
https://bannedthought.net/
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
https://www.ecured.cu/
Books on libcom.org
https://libcom.org/book
Dictionary of Revolutionary Marxism
https://massline.org/Dictionary/index.htm
/EDU/ ebook share thread
https://leftypol.org/edu/res/22659.html
Pre-Marxist Economics (Marx studied these thinkers before writing Capital and Theories of Surplus Value)
https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/economics/index.htm
Principle writings of Karl Marx on political economy, 1844-1883
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/subject/economy/index.htm
Speeches and Articles of Marx and Engels on Free Trade and Protectionism, 1847-1888
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/subject/free-trade/index.htm
(The Critique Of) Political Economy After Marx's Death
https://www.marxists.org/subject/economy/postmarx.htm
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Anwar Shaikh - Capitalism: Competition, Conflict and Crises
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB1uqxcCESK6B1juh_wnKoxftZCcqA1go
Anwar Shaikh - Capitalism
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLz4k72ocf2TZMxrEVCgpp1b5K3hzFWuZh
Capital Volume 1 high quality audiobook from Andrew S. Rightenburg (Human-Read, not AI voice or TTS voice)
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUjbFtkcDBlSHVigHHx_wjaeWmDN2W-h8
Capital Volume 2 high quality audiobook from Andrew S. Rightenburg (Human-Read, not AI voice or TTS voice)
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUjbFtkcDBlSxnp8uR2kshvhG-5kzrjdQ
Capital Volume 3 high quality audiobook from Andrew S. Rightenburg (Human-Read, not AI voice or TTS voice)
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUjbFtkcDBlRoV5CVoc5yyYL4nMO9ZJzO
Theories of Surplus Value high quality audiobook from Andrew S. Rightenburg (Human-Read, not AI voice or TTS voice)
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUjbFtkcDBlQa-dFgNFtQvvMOgNtV7nXp
Paul Cockshott - Labor Theory of Value Playlist
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKVcO3co5aCBnDt7k5eU8msX4DhTNUila
Paul Cockshott - Economic Planning Playlist
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKVcO3co5aCDnkyY9YkQxpx6FxPJ23joH
Paul Cockshott - Materialism, Marxism, and Thermodynamics Playlist
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKVcO3co5aCBv0m0fAjoOy1U4mOs_Y8QM
Victor Magariño - Austrian Economics: A Critical Analysis
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpHi51IjLqerA1aKeGe3DcRc7zCCFkAoq
Victor Magariño - Rethinking Classical Economics
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpHi51IjLqepj9uE1hhCrA66tMvNlnItt
Victor Magariño - Mathematics for Classical Political Economy
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpHi51IjLqepWUHXIgVhC_Txk2WJgaSst
Geopolitical Economy Hour with Radhika Desai and Michael Hudson (someone says "he's CIA doing reheated Proudhonism" lol)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7ejfZdPboo&list=PLDAi0NdlN8hMl9DkPLikDDGccibhYHnDP
Potential Sources of Information
Leftypol Wiki Political Economy Category (needs expanding)
https://leftypedia.miraheze.org/wiki/Category:Political_economy
Sci-Hub
https://sci-hub.se/about
Marxists Internet Archive
https://www.marxists.org/
Library Genesis
https://libgen.is/
University of the Left
http://ouleft.sp-mesolite.tilted.net/Online
bannedthought.net
https://bannedthought.net/
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
https://www.ecured.cu/
Books on libcom.org
https://libcom.org/book
Dictionary of Revolutionary Marxism
https://massline.org/Dictionary/index.htm
/EDU/ ebook share thread
https://leftypol.org/edu/res/22659.html
Pre-Marxist Economics (Marx studied these thinkers before writing Capital and Theories of Surplus Value)
https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/economics/index.htm
Principle writings of Karl Marx on political economy, 1844-1883
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/subject/economy/index.htm
Speeches and Articles of Marx and Engels on Free Trade and Protectionism, 1847-1888
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/subject/free-trade/index.htm
(The Critique Of) Political Economy After Marx's Death
https://www.marxists.org/subject/economy/postmarx.htm
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Autists of all lands unite, you have nothing to lose but your gain$
The first general entirely dedicated to betting on political happenings (or lack thereof). For those too afraid to do dangerous adventurism, there is always venture capital. Chinese stocks, Russian stocks any & all that coincide with your political LARP are welcome here, post your most daring bets and show your autistic bravery here!
Think of this as wallstreetbets for the left wing of capital. Or just regular wallstreetbets on leftypol if you believe they're the successors to occupy wall street.
Poverty is not socialism. To be rich is glorious. -Deng Xiaoping
Basic links:
https://polymarket.com/
https://polymarketanalytics.com/
https://www.aljazeera.com/
https://www.bloomberg.com/
https://tradingeconomics.com/china/stock-market
https://robinhood.com/us/en/
/LeftPolymarket/ General #1
Why don't you put your money where your mouth is?Autists of all lands unite, you have nothing to lose but your gain$
The first general entirely dedicated to betting on political happenings (or lack thereof). For those too afraid to do dangerous adventurism, there is always venture capital. Chinese stocks, Russian stocks any & all that coincide with your political LARP are welcome here, post your most daring bets and show your autistic bravery here!
Think of this as wallstreetbets for the left wing of capital. Or just regular wallstreetbets on leftypol if you believe they're the successors to occupy wall street.
Poverty is not socialism. To be rich is glorious. -Deng Xiaoping
Basic links:
https://polymarket.com/
https://polymarketanalytics.com/
https://www.aljazeera.com/
https://www.bloomberg.com/
https://tradingeconomics.com/china/stock-market
https://robinhood.com/us/en/
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>As AI models evolve from simple text generation to more complex image, video, and music generation, data requirements are expanding rapidly, further amplifying energy demand. Since 2022, global investment in data centres has nearly doubled, reaching half a trillion dollars in 2024. However, this boom has also triggered mounting concerns around the sector’s growing energy footprint. Today, data centres and data transmission networks are responsible for about 1 percent of global energy-related greenhouse gas emissions.
>AI-optimised data centres, particularly hyperscale facilities, are pushing energy use to unprecedented levels. Some centres now require 100 megawatts or more of electricity. For perspective, a single large-scale facility can consume as much electricity annually as 350,000 to 400,000 electric vehicles.
>In 2022, data centres consumed an estimated 240 to 340 terawatt-hours (TWh) of electricity, accounting for approximately 1 to 1.3 percent of global electricity demand. Electricity demand from AI-optimised data centres is projected to more than quadruple by 2030, reaching about 945 TWh, which would exceed Japan’s current electricity consumption.
>As of March 2025, the United States holds the largest number of data centres globally, operating 5,426 facilities. As a result, the USA accounts for the highest share of global data centre electricity consumption, responsible for 45 percent of global usage in 2024, followed by China at 25 percent and Europe at 15 percent.
>In the United States, data centres are expected to drive nearly half of the country’s electricity demand growth between now and 2030. By the end of the decade, the USA will consume more electricity for data centres than for the production of aluminium, steel, cement, chemicals, and all other energy-intensive goods combined.
>A recent study examined 2,132 data centres operating across the United States, representing 78 percent of all facilities, between September 2023 and August 2024. The findings showed that these data centres accounted for over 4 percent of total US electricity consumption, with more than half of that electricity sourced from fossil fuels. This contributed to more than 105 million tons of CO2e emissions, representing 2.18 percent of total US emissions in 2023.
>The strain on local power grids will continue to intensify as more data centres are built. Construction timelines for new centres often outpace upgrades to grid and transmission infrastructure. Several jurisdictions have already paused new data centre projects to process connection backlogs and evaluate grid capacity. Rising concerns over electricity availability and prices have led some regions to consider temporary moratoriums on development.
>Data centers consume water primarily to cool servers from overheating. A Cornell University study estimates AI demand alone could require 4.2–6.6 billion cubic meters of fresh water annually by 2027, roughly half of the UK’s yearly usage.
>The demand for water for data center cooling is exacerbating the water crisis in water-sensitive regions already suffering from the effects of climate-related water shortages. Stakeholder engagement is most necessary while choosing a location to set up new data centers. While huge data centers generate employment and create an uptick in the economy, the environmental cost of setting up a data center needs to be assessed first. One such example was the proposed approval for a data center in Arizona which is known for its arid landscape and water woes.
>In 2021, Google’s global data centers consumed approximately 4.3 billion gallons (16.2 billion litres) of water altogether. Though water-cooled data centers consume less energy to cool heating and emit roughly 10% less carbon emissions than air-cooled data centers, they still place immense stress on freshwater resources.
>Data centers contain thousands of components with varied life cycles. While servers, batteries, and networking equipment typically require replacement every 3–5 years, infrastructure such as air conditioning systems and generators may last over a decade.
>Short upgrade cycles—especially in high-performance facilities—result in significant volumes of e-waste. In a 2020 survey, 42% of IT managers reported replacing servers every 2–3 years. Given the scale of global data centers, e-waste volumes are staggering.
>Data centers require substantial real estate and resources, often competing with agriculture, housing, or other commercial sectors. In some regions, their expansion fuels gentrification, increases land costs, and stresses local infrastructure.
>Noise pollution from data centers is rarely ever spoken about, even though it increasingly affects nearby communities. The constant hum of servers, network switches, routers, air conditioning systems, and industrial cooling fans creates significant and persistent noise levels. This mechanical chorus can generate sound levels exceeding 80 dBA, comparable to a leaf blower.
>Communities living near large data centers frequently report health concerns linked to the unceasing background noise. Chronic exposure causes sleep disturbance, headache, hearing loss, elevated stress hormone levels, hypertension, anxiety, and even cardiovascular risks.
>Persistent land-based noise pollution also affects other species. Noise from data centers disrupts animal communication, alters natural behavior, and forces wildlife to change migration patterns.
https://archive.ph/dCTMo
Data Centers are killing the planet
>The exponential growth of data and the rising demand for data centres is challenging global climate progress. The rapid development of AI could undermine decarbonisation efforts worldwide by driving electricity consumption and emissions to extreme levels.>As AI models evolve from simple text generation to more complex image, video, and music generation, data requirements are expanding rapidly, further amplifying energy demand. Since 2022, global investment in data centres has nearly doubled, reaching half a trillion dollars in 2024. However, this boom has also triggered mounting concerns around the sector’s growing energy footprint. Today, data centres and data transmission networks are responsible for about 1 percent of global energy-related greenhouse gas emissions.
>AI-optimised data centres, particularly hyperscale facilities, are pushing energy use to unprecedented levels. Some centres now require 100 megawatts or more of electricity. For perspective, a single large-scale facility can consume as much electricity annually as 350,000 to 400,000 electric vehicles.
>In 2022, data centres consumed an estimated 240 to 340 terawatt-hours (TWh) of electricity, accounting for approximately 1 to 1.3 percent of global electricity demand. Electricity demand from AI-optimised data centres is projected to more than quadruple by 2030, reaching about 945 TWh, which would exceed Japan’s current electricity consumption.
>As of March 2025, the United States holds the largest number of data centres globally, operating 5,426 facilities. As a result, the USA accounts for the highest share of global data centre electricity consumption, responsible for 45 percent of global usage in 2024, followed by China at 25 percent and Europe at 15 percent.
>In the United States, data centres are expected to drive nearly half of the country’s electricity demand growth between now and 2030. By the end of the decade, the USA will consume more electricity for data centres than for the production of aluminium, steel, cement, chemicals, and all other energy-intensive goods combined.
>A recent study examined 2,132 data centres operating across the United States, representing 78 percent of all facilities, between September 2023 and August 2024. The findings showed that these data centres accounted for over 4 percent of total US electricity consumption, with more than half of that electricity sourced from fossil fuels. This contributed to more than 105 million tons of CO2e emissions, representing 2.18 percent of total US emissions in 2023.
>The strain on local power grids will continue to intensify as more data centres are built. Construction timelines for new centres often outpace upgrades to grid and transmission infrastructure. Several jurisdictions have already paused new data centre projects to process connection backlogs and evaluate grid capacity. Rising concerns over electricity availability and prices have led some regions to consider temporary moratoriums on development.
>Data centers consume water primarily to cool servers from overheating. A Cornell University study estimates AI demand alone could require 4.2–6.6 billion cubic meters of fresh water annually by 2027, roughly half of the UK’s yearly usage.
>The demand for water for data center cooling is exacerbating the water crisis in water-sensitive regions already suffering from the effects of climate-related water shortages. Stakeholder engagement is most necessary while choosing a location to set up new data centers. While huge data centers generate employment and create an uptick in the economy, the environmental cost of setting up a data center needs to be assessed first. One such example was the proposed approval for a data center in Arizona which is known for its arid landscape and water woes.
>In 2021, Google’s global data centers consumed approximately 4.3 billion gallons (16.2 billion litres) of water altogether. Though water-cooled data centers consume less energy to cool heating and emit roughly 10% less carbon emissions than air-cooled data centers, they still place immense stress on freshwater resources.
>Data centers contain thousands of components with varied life cycles. While servers, batteries, and networking equipment typically require replacement every 3–5 years, infrastructure such as air conditioning systems and generators may last over a decade.
>Short upgrade cycles—especially in high-performance facilities—result in significant volumes of e-waste. In a 2020 survey, 42% of IT managers reported replacing servers every 2–3 years. Given the scale of global data centers, e-waste volumes are staggering.
>Data centers require substantial real estate and resources, often competing with agriculture, housing, or other commercial sectors. In some regions, their expansion fuels gentrification, increases land costs, and stresses local infrastructure.
>Noise pollution from data centers is rarely ever spoken about, even though it increasingly affects nearby communities. The constant hum of servers, network switches, routers, air conditioning systems, and industrial cooling fans creates significant and persistent noise levels. This mechanical chorus can generate sound levels exceeding 80 dBA, comparable to a leaf blower.
>Communities living near large data centers frequently report health concerns linked to the unceasing background noise. Chronic exposure causes sleep disturbance, headache, hearing loss, elevated stress hormone levels, hypertension, anxiety, and even cardiovascular risks.
>Persistent land-based noise pollution also affects other species. Noise from data centers disrupts animal communication, alters natural behavior, and forces wildlife to change migration patterns.
https://archive.ph/dCTMo
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>Post original content you've made, or OC someone else recently made which you want to share.
<Or ITT collaborate on improving content already made.
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~
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OC Thread 17.0 - A New Beginning
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<Or ITT collaborate on improving content already made.
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Make sure to follow us and feel free to leave suggestions on this thread~
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no illusions about the liberal led government, which functions entirely within the eu/nato imperial framework. but the fact that even minor deviations—an embargo, a diplomatic meeting, a public referendum proposal—triggered coordinated backlash says a lot. the margin for autonomy within the core-periphery structure is that thin.
none of this means slovenia is pursuing an anti-imperialist course, but it does show where the ideological tripwires are. even small states making symbolic moves can rupture the narrative if conditions are unstable enough.
does the non-aligned legacy have any real potential today, or is this just the afterimage of yugoslavia being used as a scarecrow for nato’s internal discipline? is slovenia a fringe case or an early sign of wider fragmentation? how does slovenia compare to the baltics?
non aligned multipolarist socialism
slovenia recently imposed an arms embargo on israel, the first eu state to do so. at the same time, discussion around a nato withdrawal referendum is picking up again—something that was never properly voted on in 2003, when slovenia joined under media pressure and low turnout.no illusions about the liberal led government, which functions entirely within the eu/nato imperial framework. but the fact that even minor deviations—an embargo, a diplomatic meeting, a public referendum proposal—triggered coordinated backlash says a lot. the margin for autonomy within the core-periphery structure is that thin.
none of this means slovenia is pursuing an anti-imperialist course, but it does show where the ideological tripwires are. even small states making symbolic moves can rupture the narrative if conditions are unstable enough.
does the non-aligned legacy have any real potential today, or is this just the afterimage of yugoslavia being used as a scarecrow for nato’s internal discipline? is slovenia a fringe case or an early sign of wider fragmentation? how does slovenia compare to the baltics?
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>Socially degenerate as the libs, economically out of touch as the Neo-cons
>the literal worst of both worlds
Still, why did libertarianism become strangely popular among various types of popular media figures, like comedians, filmmakers, and actors?
>Socially degenerate as the libs, economically out of touch as the Neo-cons
>the literal worst of both worlds
Still, why did libertarianism become strangely popular among various types of popular media figures, like comedians, filmmakers, and actors?
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>WW1
>Nicholas making the decision to go to the front line to lead the troops
>The February Revolution
>Kerensky re-entering Russia into WW1
>Kerensky's government collapsing because he tried to orchestrate a coup on himself and then double crossed the Army by arming red militias in petrograd
>The liberals giving the Bolsheviks(among other parties) guns to help stop the Army from overthrowing the provisional government.
>The other socialist parties(which were more popular) believing Lenin would reinstall the constituent assembly
>When the SRs did rise up they refused to execute captured bolshevik officers or do much of anything.
>When the Petrograd sailors rebelled they sat on their island printing newspapers hoping that the people of Russia would realize Lenin was a big meaniehead and get rid of him.
Obviously the future is not a wide-open blank slate where anything can happen. Even massive upheavals like the First World War had observable conditions. But the way it unfolded(with Belgium being invaded and Britain, followed by America, entering the conflict) was due to random chances and the decisions of a handful of individuals.
I'm a Socialist but I don't buy into ideas of Marxist historiography
For one big example, Look at all that had to happen for the Bolsheviks to succeeded>WW1
>Nicholas making the decision to go to the front line to lead the troops
>The February Revolution
>Kerensky re-entering Russia into WW1
>Kerensky's government collapsing because he tried to orchestrate a coup on himself and then double crossed the Army by arming red militias in petrograd
>The liberals giving the Bolsheviks(among other parties) guns to help stop the Army from overthrowing the provisional government.
>The other socialist parties(which were more popular) believing Lenin would reinstall the constituent assembly
>When the SRs did rise up they refused to execute captured bolshevik officers or do much of anything.
>When the Petrograd sailors rebelled they sat on their island printing newspapers hoping that the people of Russia would realize Lenin was a big meaniehead and get rid of him.
Obviously the future is not a wide-open blank slate where anything can happen. Even massive upheavals like the First World War had observable conditions. But the way it unfolded(with Belgium being invaded and Britain, followed by America, entering the conflict) was due to random chances and the decisions of a handful of individuals.
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10.1016/0891-4222(93)90036-j
10.1108/AIA-08-2017-0016
>Reward and punishment, as opposed to naturally occuring observations of the enviroment, is inefficient at teaching even very simple tasks; there is no reason to consistently and regularly reward a child for specific 'behaviors' as present in especially the EIBI and UCLA models of ABA, as opposed to TEAACH, JASPER, SLT, OT, Mileu therapy, ETC.
10.1016/0304-3940(95)11631-6
10.1111/cdev.14181
>The reason people support ABA in the first place is because people claim that it raises intelligence; ignoring all the nuances of autism score as a measure of problem solving, the studies that are at least long-term and/or randomized suggest it does not, even when the child is mentally equivilent to an infantat intake. In particular, the control group of Estes 15 did no worse than either group of Sallows 2005. The former recieved almost no ABA whatsoever and the latter had 30 hrs/wk of the UCLA model for two years
10.1352/0895-8017(2005)110[417:IBTFCW]2.0.CO;2.
10.1016/j.jaac.2015.04.005
10.1177/0145445511405513
>"Behaviorism" isn't a science; Behavioral Psychology is, but Behaviorism is the philosophy that the former is the only, or most important, form of psychology.
>It's questionable whether or not autisitic people are even disabled enough for therapy in general, as the DSM diagonosis no longer necessitates language abnormalities, which would mark an actual problem, not an idealist label. This is why behavioral therapy that's more than 5 hrs/wk is rare in europe, for example
10.1177/13623613241230709
10.1177/13623613221117955
10.1186/s13229-015-0006-3
10.1177/1362361315577218
>Pragmatically speaking, ABA is extremely expensive, with the low intensity variety costing about 60,000 dollars a year. This is equivilent to six years of schooling depending on where you are so people will expect that it makes the difference between vegtablized human pets and sovietmen; certainly, ABA won't make you the latter, but merely being useless means the axe, as indiana, tricare, and ontario have already cut funding for it. It's basically just a matter of "Hey, wait a minute! Can't use this money to give families of disabled children UBI, tax credits, or actual healthcare instead?" And the individualist culture of the US can't save you.
10.1016/j.jaac.2017.06.007
>And no, socialism won't change this, as the USSR disregarded behaviorism as bourgeois, and they were more than right to do so.
https://www.muni.cz/en/research/publications/1850697 (Pp. 25-32)
The "ABA is the fastest growing industry" thing is a psyop to make you think that behaviorism is natural and that there's nothing you can do about it. On the contrary, the industry would collapse if the public were informed of the actual science and not feel-good anecdotes.
"I'm a mother of an autistic child and you're delusional" is not evidence
"SIBs are bad" is not an arguement
"I know your frustrated, but…" is not theory
"Seek therapy" is not praxis
Nothing is created
Everthing is adapted
God is real
Let's put him down
Reminder
>ABA most likely causes prompt dependence and PTSD, so there's no need for an "alternative" as ABA itself is abusive. This is mostly self-evident, and a staple in the literature, but here's some specific examples:10.1016/0891-4222(93)90036-j
10.1108/AIA-08-2017-0016
>Reward and punishment, as opposed to naturally occuring observations of the enviroment, is inefficient at teaching even very simple tasks; there is no reason to consistently and regularly reward a child for specific 'behaviors' as present in especially the EIBI and UCLA models of ABA, as opposed to TEAACH, JASPER, SLT, OT, Mileu therapy, ETC.
10.1016/0304-3940(95)11631-6
10.1111/cdev.14181
>The reason people support ABA in the first place is because people claim that it raises intelligence; ignoring all the nuances of autism score as a measure of problem solving, the studies that are at least long-term and/or randomized suggest it does not, even when the child is mentally equivilent to an infantat intake. In particular, the control group of Estes 15 did no worse than either group of Sallows 2005. The former recieved almost no ABA whatsoever and the latter had 30 hrs/wk of the UCLA model for two years
10.1352/0895-8017(2005)110[417:IBTFCW]2.0.CO;2.
10.1016/j.jaac.2015.04.005
10.1177/0145445511405513
>"Behaviorism" isn't a science; Behavioral Psychology is, but Behaviorism is the philosophy that the former is the only, or most important, form of psychology.
>It's questionable whether or not autisitic people are even disabled enough for therapy in general, as the DSM diagonosis no longer necessitates language abnormalities, which would mark an actual problem, not an idealist label. This is why behavioral therapy that's more than 5 hrs/wk is rare in europe, for example
10.1177/13623613241230709
10.1177/13623613221117955
10.1186/s13229-015-0006-3
10.1177/1362361315577218
>Pragmatically speaking, ABA is extremely expensive, with the low intensity variety costing about 60,000 dollars a year. This is equivilent to six years of schooling depending on where you are so people will expect that it makes the difference between vegtablized human pets and sovietmen; certainly, ABA won't make you the latter, but merely being useless means the axe, as indiana, tricare, and ontario have already cut funding for it. It's basically just a matter of "Hey, wait a minute! Can't use this money to give families of disabled children UBI, tax credits, or actual healthcare instead?" And the individualist culture of the US can't save you.
10.1016/j.jaac.2017.06.007
>And no, socialism won't change this, as the USSR disregarded behaviorism as bourgeois, and they were more than right to do so.
https://www.muni.cz/en/research/publications/1850697 (Pp. 25-32)
The "ABA is the fastest growing industry" thing is a psyop to make you think that behaviorism is natural and that there's nothing you can do about it. On the contrary, the industry would collapse if the public were informed of the actual science and not feel-good anecdotes.
"I'm a mother of an autistic child and you're delusional" is not evidence
"SIBs are bad" is not an arguement
"I know your frustrated, but…" is not theory
"Seek therapy" is not praxis
Nothing is created
Everthing is adapted
God is real
Let's put him down
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does this phenomenon have a name?
had an argument with a person insisting that putin is communist, and their reasoning was that they promote soviet nostalgia, which I argued is just the most readily available reactionary building material available for them as a fascist. it took me a good while to realize that they were not a tankie arguing in bad faith to push putin, but a manchurian nationalist arguing in bad faith to denigrate them. I don't know what to make of this, but I found it amusing that kuomintang lovers are almost perfectly aligned with tankie russia defenders in their talking points on communism, both having equally well honed anti-communist messaging.
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You see why most Fascists today just stick to relying on shock value by saying the N-word or posting pictures of dead queer people or finding new meme slurs for jews, because when they try and do actually "serious theory" it becomes too obvious how vapid their ideology truly is, although to be fair not many people would immediately even recognise this as fascist because 99% of people only know fascism as "the bad guys in Indiana Jones". Same reason people don't realize how a movie like Metropolis is actually more "orthodox" fascist than Triumph of the Will.
Hell, most people have no idea what fascist class theory actually was because they assume it was the same as marxism for which they also don't know what it is.
You see why most Fascists today just stick to relying on shock value by saying the N-word or posting pictures of dead queer people or finding new meme slurs for jews, because when they try and do actually "serious theory" it becomes too obvious how vapid their ideology truly is, although to be fair not many people would immediately even recognise this as fascist because 99% of people only know fascism as "the bad guys in Indiana Jones". Same reason people don't realize how a movie like Metropolis is actually more "orthodox" fascist than Triumph of the Will.
Hell, most people have no idea what fascist class theory actually was because they assume it was the same as marxism for which they also don't know what it is.
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Heredia read the sentence to the court in an afternoon hearing on Friday. Uribe will be fined $578,000, Heredia's ruling said, and barred from public office for more than eight years. Uribe, whose legal team has said it will appeal, is to report to authorities in Rionegro, in Antioquia province, where he resides, and then "proceed immediately to his residence where he will comply with house arrest," the ruling said. … Secretary of State Marco Rubio said this week that Uribe's conviction was a "weaponization of Colombia's judicial branch by radical judges" and analysts have said there could be cuts to U.S. aid in response.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/colombia-ex-president-uribe-sentenced-12-years-house-arrest-will-appeal-2025-08-01/
Collapse at Chile’s major copper mine kills 1 worker and leaves 5 missing
Authorities said they’re still investigating whether it was a naturally occurring earthquake or whether mining activity at Codelco’s flagship El Teniente mine caused the quake. Chilean prosecutors also launched a criminal investigation to determine whether any safety standards were violated. Chile’s national disaster response service, Senapred, said that the tremor struck the Machalí commune in the O’Higgins region, about 100 kilometers (62 miles) from the capital, Santiago.
https://apnews.com/article/chile-mine-collapse-copper-earthquake-ring-of-fire-f0bbef9034146d3ab43cae0773507401
Argentine Justice Minister under flak for hidden camera footage
Argentina's Justice Minister Mariano Cúneo Libarona is facing calls for his resignation after a video was leaked showing him offering to help former CIA agent Timothy Ballard clean up his public image. Ballard, who inspired the film Sound of Freedom, has been accused of sexual violence by former employees of his anti-trafficking organization, Operation Underground Railroad (O.U.R.).
https://en.mercopress.com/2025/07/31/argentine-justice-minister-under-flak-for-hidden-camera-footage
Peruvian informal miners suspend talks with government due to disagreements in negotiations
CONFEMIN union leader, Maximo Franco Bequer, told reporters the government refused to alter an August 17 deadline for miners to move explosives into formal "powder magazines." He said 20,000 miners who cannot meet the deadline would be excluded from a government program to formalize their work.
https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-work/peruvian-informal-miners-suspend-talks-with-government-due-disagreements-2025-08-02/
South Korea’s jailed ex-President Yoon defies probe, removes prison uniform to avoid questioning
South Korea’s jailed ex-President Yoon Suk Yeol again refused to attend questioning by investigators Friday, using a new method to resist: He took off his prison uniform and lay down on the floor at his detention room. … . On Friday, Min Joong-ki, a special counsel named by his liberal rival and new President Lee Jae Myung, sent investigators to retrieve Yoon from a detention center near Seoul after the former president twice defied requests to attend questioning. Min’s team is tasked with delving into allegations surrounding Yoon’s wife Kim Keon Hee, including that she and her husband exerted inappropriate influence on the then-ruling party’s election nomination process in 2022.
https://www.firstpost.com/world/south-korea-yoon-prison-protest-investigation-13917441.html
Worker resistance stops Karnataka government’s plan to increase IT work hours
Workers in India’s IT hub have won a significant victory. The government in the south Indian state of Karnataka – the hub of the Information Technology (IT) industry in the country – has finally decided to withdraw its proposals to increase the maximum working hours in the IT/ITes sector, following a relentless struggle by the Karnataka State IT/ITes Employees Union (KITU). After a meeting with the state’s additional labor commissioner, KITU announced its victory against the regressive move in a statement on Tuesday. Scores of IT workers took to the streets to celebrate the victory.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/08/01/worker-resistance-stops-karnataka-governments-plan-to-increase-it-work-hours/
Secretive overhaul of New Zealand terror law targets protests
Beagle said the changes proposed by the New Zealand government could be similarly used to shut down organisations it did not like. “People will be criminalised not just for being members of an organisation but for expressing support for the issue it was focused on. These are highly dangerous attacks on freedom of expression and freedom of association,” he said. Speaking to independent journalist Mick Hall, Beagle added that the NZCCL was “horrified that they [the UK] have sunk so far and so quickly.” The NZ proposals, he noted, accompany a decision by the Independent Police Conduct Authority seeking to give police the power to unilaterally ban protests in the event of a “high chance of public disorder and threats to public safety.”
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/08/02/wleg-a02.html
Decision delayed for pro-Palestine protest on Sydney Harbour Bridge as police warn of possible crowd crush
Pro-Palestine protesters will have to wait until Saturday to find out if they can legally march across the Sydney Harbour Bridge this weekend, but organisers are vowing to go ahead regardless of the court decision. However, the court heard the protest organisers are willing to postpone the march if police agree to work with them. The Palestine Action Group faced the New South Wales police in the supreme court on Friday after the police rejected an application to facilitate the protest.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/01/labor-mps-pro-palestine-march-gaza-protest-sydney-harbour-bridge
'Stop starving Gaza' protests to sweep Britain
More than 40 “Stop Starving Gaza” demonstrations were scheduled to take place last night, as the Morning Star went to press, including in Birmingham, Cardiff and London. Protests are continuing tomorrow, with gatherings planned at Oxford Street in London from 2pm, Barclays bank in Carlisle at 1pm, and opposite Waterstones in Abergavenny from 11am.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/stop-starving-gaza-protests-sweep-britain
Hamas links truce talks to aiding Gaza as Israel abandons 'partial deals'
According to several officials in recent months, Israel is expected to demand the expulsion of senior Hamas military leaders from Gaza, the disarmament of the group and guarantees that neither Hamas nor the Palestinian Authority will be allowed to govern the territory under any future deal.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/hamas-links-truce-talks-aiding-gaza-israel-abandons-partial-deals
Hezbollah stocks aid in north Lebanon as fears of renewed Israel war grow
With Lebanon still reeling from last year’s war and economic collapse, fears of another large-scale conflict are growing. Southern villages have been devastated, and civilian casualties continue even under the ceasefire. The Lebanese government places the death toll at 4,000, while Reuters previously reported that Hezbollah may have suffered around that number in its ranks alone. Since the ceasefire, Israeli strikes have continued to kill civilians. Hezbollah rarely acknowledges casualties.
https://www.newarab.com/news/hezbollah-stocks-aid-north-lebanon-fears-war-grow
US weighs designating Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist group
The New York Times first reported on Tuesday that the administration was pushing to designate the group, but the idea is not new. Some people think the Muslim Brotherhood does not meet the legal criteria required for the designation. Others think the organization is too diverse and spread out across nations, making it difficult to enforce a one-size-fits-all description. There also questions about whether a designation would complicate U.S. diplomacy.
https://apnews.com/united-states-government-9b6ee104cb0f4e6792f593a5d4674f6a
News 8/1/25
Colombia ex-president Uribe sentenced to 12 years of house arrest, will appealHeredia read the sentence to the court in an afternoon hearing on Friday. Uribe will be fined $578,000, Heredia's ruling said, and barred from public office for more than eight years. Uribe, whose legal team has said it will appeal, is to report to authorities in Rionegro, in Antioquia province, where he resides, and then "proceed immediately to his residence where he will comply with house arrest," the ruling said. … Secretary of State Marco Rubio said this week that Uribe's conviction was a "weaponization of Colombia's judicial branch by radical judges" and analysts have said there could be cuts to U.S. aid in response.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/colombia-ex-president-uribe-sentenced-12-years-house-arrest-will-appeal-2025-08-01/
Collapse at Chile’s major copper mine kills 1 worker and leaves 5 missing
Authorities said they’re still investigating whether it was a naturally occurring earthquake or whether mining activity at Codelco’s flagship El Teniente mine caused the quake. Chilean prosecutors also launched a criminal investigation to determine whether any safety standards were violated. Chile’s national disaster response service, Senapred, said that the tremor struck the Machalí commune in the O’Higgins region, about 100 kilometers (62 miles) from the capital, Santiago.
https://apnews.com/article/chile-mine-collapse-copper-earthquake-ring-of-fire-f0bbef9034146d3ab43cae0773507401
Argentine Justice Minister under flak for hidden camera footage
Argentina's Justice Minister Mariano Cúneo Libarona is facing calls for his resignation after a video was leaked showing him offering to help former CIA agent Timothy Ballard clean up his public image. Ballard, who inspired the film Sound of Freedom, has been accused of sexual violence by former employees of his anti-trafficking organization, Operation Underground Railroad (O.U.R.).
https://en.mercopress.com/2025/07/31/argentine-justice-minister-under-flak-for-hidden-camera-footage
Peruvian informal miners suspend talks with government due to disagreements in negotiations
CONFEMIN union leader, Maximo Franco Bequer, told reporters the government refused to alter an August 17 deadline for miners to move explosives into formal "powder magazines." He said 20,000 miners who cannot meet the deadline would be excluded from a government program to formalize their work.
https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-work/peruvian-informal-miners-suspend-talks-with-government-due-disagreements-2025-08-02/
South Korea’s jailed ex-President Yoon defies probe, removes prison uniform to avoid questioning
South Korea’s jailed ex-President Yoon Suk Yeol again refused to attend questioning by investigators Friday, using a new method to resist: He took off his prison uniform and lay down on the floor at his detention room. … . On Friday, Min Joong-ki, a special counsel named by his liberal rival and new President Lee Jae Myung, sent investigators to retrieve Yoon from a detention center near Seoul after the former president twice defied requests to attend questioning. Min’s team is tasked with delving into allegations surrounding Yoon’s wife Kim Keon Hee, including that she and her husband exerted inappropriate influence on the then-ruling party’s election nomination process in 2022.
https://www.firstpost.com/world/south-korea-yoon-prison-protest-investigation-13917441.html
Worker resistance stops Karnataka government’s plan to increase IT work hours
Workers in India’s IT hub have won a significant victory. The government in the south Indian state of Karnataka – the hub of the Information Technology (IT) industry in the country – has finally decided to withdraw its proposals to increase the maximum working hours in the IT/ITes sector, following a relentless struggle by the Karnataka State IT/ITes Employees Union (KITU). After a meeting with the state’s additional labor commissioner, KITU announced its victory against the regressive move in a statement on Tuesday. Scores of IT workers took to the streets to celebrate the victory.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/08/01/worker-resistance-stops-karnataka-governments-plan-to-increase-it-work-hours/
Secretive overhaul of New Zealand terror law targets protests
Beagle said the changes proposed by the New Zealand government could be similarly used to shut down organisations it did not like. “People will be criminalised not just for being members of an organisation but for expressing support for the issue it was focused on. These are highly dangerous attacks on freedom of expression and freedom of association,” he said. Speaking to independent journalist Mick Hall, Beagle added that the NZCCL was “horrified that they [the UK] have sunk so far and so quickly.” The NZ proposals, he noted, accompany a decision by the Independent Police Conduct Authority seeking to give police the power to unilaterally ban protests in the event of a “high chance of public disorder and threats to public safety.”
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/08/02/wleg-a02.html
Decision delayed for pro-Palestine protest on Sydney Harbour Bridge as police warn of possible crowd crush
Pro-Palestine protesters will have to wait until Saturday to find out if they can legally march across the Sydney Harbour Bridge this weekend, but organisers are vowing to go ahead regardless of the court decision. However, the court heard the protest organisers are willing to postpone the march if police agree to work with them. The Palestine Action Group faced the New South Wales police in the supreme court on Friday after the police rejected an application to facilitate the protest.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/01/labor-mps-pro-palestine-march-gaza-protest-sydney-harbour-bridge
'Stop starving Gaza' protests to sweep Britain
More than 40 “Stop Starving Gaza” demonstrations were scheduled to take place last night, as the Morning Star went to press, including in Birmingham, Cardiff and London. Protests are continuing tomorrow, with gatherings planned at Oxford Street in London from 2pm, Barclays bank in Carlisle at 1pm, and opposite Waterstones in Abergavenny from 11am.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/stop-starving-gaza-protests-sweep-britain
Hamas links truce talks to aiding Gaza as Israel abandons 'partial deals'
According to several officials in recent months, Israel is expected to demand the expulsion of senior Hamas military leaders from Gaza, the disarmament of the group and guarantees that neither Hamas nor the Palestinian Authority will be allowed to govern the territory under any future deal.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/hamas-links-truce-talks-aiding-gaza-israel-abandons-partial-deals
Hezbollah stocks aid in north Lebanon as fears of renewed Israel war grow
With Lebanon still reeling from last year’s war and economic collapse, fears of another large-scale conflict are growing. Southern villages have been devastated, and civilian casualties continue even under the ceasefire. The Lebanese government places the death toll at 4,000, while Reuters previously reported that Hezbollah may have suffered around that number in its ranks alone. Since the ceasefire, Israeli strikes have continued to kill civilians. Hezbollah rarely acknowledges casualties.
https://www.newarab.com/news/hezbollah-stocks-aid-north-lebanon-fears-war-grow
US weighs designating Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist group
The New York Times first reported on Tuesday that the administration was pushing to designate the group, but the idea is not new. Some people think the Muslim Brotherhood does not meet the legal criteria required for the designation. Others think the organization is too diverse and spread out across nations, making it difficult to enforce a one-size-fits-all description. There also questions about whether a designation would complicate U.S. diplomacy.
https://apnews.com/united-states-government-9b6ee104cb0f4e6792f593a5d4674f6a
R: 6 / I: 2
CAMPAIGNERS sounded the alarm today over the Metropolitan Police’s plans to ramp up its use of invasive and unregulated live facial recognition (LFR) technology. The force is set to double its use of LFR while it looks to slim down its workforce and boost protest surveillance.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/met-police-double-its-use-live-facial-recognition-technology
12,000 workers protest as German auto supplier ZF plans massive job cuts
Early Tuesday morning, around 6,000 employees from the two ZF plants and the research center on the city adjoining Lake Constance marched to the company headquarters. Their protest was directed at the ZF supervisory board meeting, which continues until Thursday and is expected to decide upon additional cuts to those already announced. Protests also took place in Saarbrücken and Schweinfurt. In front of the Bavarian plant (workforce of 8,600) in Schweinfurt, 4,500 employees demonstrated to keep their jobs while nearly 2,000 employees protested in Saarbrücken (ZF workforce of around 8,500). Current plans call for job cuts of 4,500 from a total 10,000 posts by the end of 2028.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/31/4a13-j31.html
Russia blocks Speedtest
Speedtest, one of the most popular internet speed-testing platforms globally, boasts millions of daily users. Roskomnadzor has recommended Russian users switch to a homegrown alternative called ProSet, developed as part of the country’s broader push toward digital sovereignty. Russian authorities first signaled a potential ban on Speedtest in October 2024. At the time, the regulator warned the service could be blocked if it was found to compromise the stability, integrity, or safety of domestic networks.
https://www.rt.com/russia/622273-russia-blocks-speedtest-security/
https://archive.ph/3HwoA
El Salvador's ruling party backs indefinite re-election in constitutional proposal
El Salvador's ruling party on Thursday put forward a proposal which could drastically overhaul how elections are run in the Central American nation, potentially opening the door for another term from President Nayib Bukele. Bukele won a second term last year despite a constitutional ban on re-election. El Salvador's top court, filled with Bukele-backed judges, had ruled that it was the leader's human right to run again.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/el-salvadors-ruling-party-backs-indefinite-re-election-constitutional-proposal-2025-07-31/
Sandinista veteran, Ortega ally, arrested in Nicaragua corruption probe
Arce is the third prominent Sandinista veteran to be placed under house arrest this year. Henry Ruiz, another historic commander, was confined in March. Humberto Ortega, the president’s brother and a former army chief, was under similar restrictions before his death in September 2024.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/31/sandinista-veteran-ortega-ally-arrested-in-nicaragua-corruption-probe
https://archive.ph/H1pmW
Argentina to Grant Citizenship to Foreign Investors Without Residency Requirement
“A foreign individual who has made a significant investment may apply for Argentine citizenship… through the Citizenship by Investment Agency,” the decree states. “Once the application is submitted, the Agency will evaluate whether the investment made by the applicant qualifies as ‘significant,’ in accordance with criteria set by the Economy Ministry,” it adds. Besides defining the responsibilities of the agency, Milei’s decree establishes that time spent residing in Argentina will not be a factor in determining eligibility for citizenship.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/argentina-to-grant-citizenship-to-foreign-investors-without-residency-requirement/
Witkoff and Huckabee to enter Gaza as anger over famine mounts
"Tomorrow, special envoy Witkoff and ambassador Huckabee will be travelling into Gaza to inspect the current (aid) distribution sites and secure a plan to deliver more food and meet with local Gazans to hear firsthand about this dire situation on the ground," White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said on Thursday. The visit will be Witkoff’s second to Gaza and the first visit from a US ambassador to the enclave in over two decades. It reflects mounting pressure by Trump to address the enclaves' starving Palestinians, as resentment grows not only among US allies but within his own MAGA base.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/witkoff-and-huckabee-enter-gaza-furor-over-gaza-famine-mounts
TikTok Appoints Ex-Israeli Soldier as New ‘Hate Speech’ Manager
TikTok’s appointment of an ex-Israeli army instructor as its new hate speech manager has been criticized, with concern raised for the future of digital freedoms for Palestinians. Erica Mindel previously worked with the U.S. State Department under Ambassador Deborah Lipstadt, the Biden Administration’s Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism, according to Sada Social, a body that monitors and documents digital violations against Palestinian content.
https://www.palestinechronicle.com/tiktok-appoints-ex-israeli-soldier-as-new-hate-speech-manager/
The Taliban are sending Afghan workers to Qatar to ease unemployment in Afghanistan
Registration opened Tuesday for 2,000 skilled professionals in areas including hospitality, food and beverage, and engineering to go to Qatar under the new program. Applicants from all 34 Afghan provinces can submit their work experience and credentials before being assessed for eligibility. The registration launch follows the forced returns of at least a million Afghans from neighboring countries, notably Iran and Pakistan, at a time of significant economic and humanitarian difficulty.
https://www.newarab.com/news/taliban-are-sending-afghan-workers-qatar-ease-unemployment
Pakistan court sentences 108 opposition figures to 10 years in prison
A Pakistani court has sentenced more than 100 parliamentarians, members and allies of jailed former prime minister Imran Khan’s political party to 10 years each in prison for involvement in protests against the military in 2023. Among the 108 convicted on Thursday were Omar Ayub Khan, a member of Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party who leads the opposition in the National Assembly, and Shibli Faraz, who leads the PTI in Pakistan’s Senate.
https://www.ft.com/content/d4fb35e0-7ea6-4f7c-afb3-de2c848a12af
https://archive.ph/E5inz
News 7/31/25
Met Police to double its use of live facial recognition technologyCAMPAIGNERS sounded the alarm today over the Metropolitan Police’s plans to ramp up its use of invasive and unregulated live facial recognition (LFR) technology. The force is set to double its use of LFR while it looks to slim down its workforce and boost protest surveillance.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/met-police-double-its-use-live-facial-recognition-technology
12,000 workers protest as German auto supplier ZF plans massive job cuts
Early Tuesday morning, around 6,000 employees from the two ZF plants and the research center on the city adjoining Lake Constance marched to the company headquarters. Their protest was directed at the ZF supervisory board meeting, which continues until Thursday and is expected to decide upon additional cuts to those already announced. Protests also took place in Saarbrücken and Schweinfurt. In front of the Bavarian plant (workforce of 8,600) in Schweinfurt, 4,500 employees demonstrated to keep their jobs while nearly 2,000 employees protested in Saarbrücken (ZF workforce of around 8,500). Current plans call for job cuts of 4,500 from a total 10,000 posts by the end of 2028.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/31/4a13-j31.html
Russia blocks Speedtest
Speedtest, one of the most popular internet speed-testing platforms globally, boasts millions of daily users. Roskomnadzor has recommended Russian users switch to a homegrown alternative called ProSet, developed as part of the country’s broader push toward digital sovereignty. Russian authorities first signaled a potential ban on Speedtest in October 2024. At the time, the regulator warned the service could be blocked if it was found to compromise the stability, integrity, or safety of domestic networks.
https://www.rt.com/russia/622273-russia-blocks-speedtest-security/
https://archive.ph/3HwoA
El Salvador's ruling party backs indefinite re-election in constitutional proposal
El Salvador's ruling party on Thursday put forward a proposal which could drastically overhaul how elections are run in the Central American nation, potentially opening the door for another term from President Nayib Bukele. Bukele won a second term last year despite a constitutional ban on re-election. El Salvador's top court, filled with Bukele-backed judges, had ruled that it was the leader's human right to run again.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/el-salvadors-ruling-party-backs-indefinite-re-election-constitutional-proposal-2025-07-31/
Sandinista veteran, Ortega ally, arrested in Nicaragua corruption probe
Arce is the third prominent Sandinista veteran to be placed under house arrest this year. Henry Ruiz, another historic commander, was confined in March. Humberto Ortega, the president’s brother and a former army chief, was under similar restrictions before his death in September 2024.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/31/sandinista-veteran-ortega-ally-arrested-in-nicaragua-corruption-probe
https://archive.ph/H1pmW
Argentina to Grant Citizenship to Foreign Investors Without Residency Requirement
“A foreign individual who has made a significant investment may apply for Argentine citizenship… through the Citizenship by Investment Agency,” the decree states. “Once the application is submitted, the Agency will evaluate whether the investment made by the applicant qualifies as ‘significant,’ in accordance with criteria set by the Economy Ministry,” it adds. Besides defining the responsibilities of the agency, Milei’s decree establishes that time spent residing in Argentina will not be a factor in determining eligibility for citizenship.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/argentina-to-grant-citizenship-to-foreign-investors-without-residency-requirement/
Witkoff and Huckabee to enter Gaza as anger over famine mounts
"Tomorrow, special envoy Witkoff and ambassador Huckabee will be travelling into Gaza to inspect the current (aid) distribution sites and secure a plan to deliver more food and meet with local Gazans to hear firsthand about this dire situation on the ground," White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said on Thursday. The visit will be Witkoff’s second to Gaza and the first visit from a US ambassador to the enclave in over two decades. It reflects mounting pressure by Trump to address the enclaves' starving Palestinians, as resentment grows not only among US allies but within his own MAGA base.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/witkoff-and-huckabee-enter-gaza-furor-over-gaza-famine-mounts
TikTok Appoints Ex-Israeli Soldier as New ‘Hate Speech’ Manager
TikTok’s appointment of an ex-Israeli army instructor as its new hate speech manager has been criticized, with concern raised for the future of digital freedoms for Palestinians. Erica Mindel previously worked with the U.S. State Department under Ambassador Deborah Lipstadt, the Biden Administration’s Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism, according to Sada Social, a body that monitors and documents digital violations against Palestinian content.
https://www.palestinechronicle.com/tiktok-appoints-ex-israeli-soldier-as-new-hate-speech-manager/
The Taliban are sending Afghan workers to Qatar to ease unemployment in Afghanistan
Registration opened Tuesday for 2,000 skilled professionals in areas including hospitality, food and beverage, and engineering to go to Qatar under the new program. Applicants from all 34 Afghan provinces can submit their work experience and credentials before being assessed for eligibility. The registration launch follows the forced returns of at least a million Afghans from neighboring countries, notably Iran and Pakistan, at a time of significant economic and humanitarian difficulty.
https://www.newarab.com/news/taliban-are-sending-afghan-workers-qatar-ease-unemployment
Pakistan court sentences 108 opposition figures to 10 years in prison
A Pakistani court has sentenced more than 100 parliamentarians, members and allies of jailed former prime minister Imran Khan’s political party to 10 years each in prison for involvement in protests against the military in 2023. Among the 108 convicted on Thursday were Omar Ayub Khan, a member of Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party who leads the opposition in the National Assembly, and Shibli Faraz, who leads the PTI in Pakistan’s Senate.
https://www.ft.com/content/d4fb35e0-7ea6-4f7c-afb3-de2c848a12af
https://archive.ph/E5inz
R: 120 / I: 13
I’m seeing so many social media posts claiming maximalist aesthetics like heavy makeup, brightly-coloured wardrobe, etc. are an “act of defiance” against “clean girl conservatism and MAGA fascism”, emphasizing that minimalism and the “clean girl” aesthetic are indicative of fascism, purity, eugenics, and whatnot. This makes no sense to me. Being in my 30s, I remember when minimalism and anti-consumerism were largely associated with the radical left. Think Ad Busters and CrimethInc. Gen X and xennial comrades were extremely anti-consumerist and preached a minimalist lifestyle. At the same time, maximalist aesthetics were largely associated with the right, because they were seen as indicative of mindless consumerism and neoliberalism, e.g. right-wing women were the ones showing off their 200 different eyeshadows, 60 different pairs of shoes, and 27 different handbags. Today, it’s like the paradigms have flipped. Having 200 eyeshadows and 60 different pairs of shoes is now promoted as revelling against “Trump Era conformity”. The beige-ification of everything is entirely blamed on American politics becoming more conservative, despite the fact this was already going on years prior when Biden was in office. Hell, I’m even seeing progressive women complain about a “war on femininity” on the basis that Trump’s America wants to privilege traditional masculinity and wants to keep “girl-like” aesthetics that allegedly emphasize weakness out of public view (ironically, right-wing women have long complained about a “war on femininity” being lead by feminists and queer activists).
So what’s going on? My understanding is that this is another example of how liberals erroneously believe they can offset fascism by propping up neoliberal individualism. It’s liberals who are now pushing mindless consumerism as the antidote to Trump’s system, because they think being an individual who stands out will “defy” a conservative cultural shift. This is so pathetic I don’t even know where to start.
Am I full of shit, or are others seeing the same thing?
Minimalist vs maximalist aesthetics culture war
When did minimalist aesthetics become associated with the right-wing all of a sudden?I’m seeing so many social media posts claiming maximalist aesthetics like heavy makeup, brightly-coloured wardrobe, etc. are an “act of defiance” against “clean girl conservatism and MAGA fascism”, emphasizing that minimalism and the “clean girl” aesthetic are indicative of fascism, purity, eugenics, and whatnot. This makes no sense to me. Being in my 30s, I remember when minimalism and anti-consumerism were largely associated with the radical left. Think Ad Busters and CrimethInc. Gen X and xennial comrades were extremely anti-consumerist and preached a minimalist lifestyle. At the same time, maximalist aesthetics were largely associated with the right, because they were seen as indicative of mindless consumerism and neoliberalism, e.g. right-wing women were the ones showing off their 200 different eyeshadows, 60 different pairs of shoes, and 27 different handbags. Today, it’s like the paradigms have flipped. Having 200 eyeshadows and 60 different pairs of shoes is now promoted as revelling against “Trump Era conformity”. The beige-ification of everything is entirely blamed on American politics becoming more conservative, despite the fact this was already going on years prior when Biden was in office. Hell, I’m even seeing progressive women complain about a “war on femininity” on the basis that Trump’s America wants to privilege traditional masculinity and wants to keep “girl-like” aesthetics that allegedly emphasize weakness out of public view (ironically, right-wing women have long complained about a “war on femininity” being lead by feminists and queer activists).
So what’s going on? My understanding is that this is another example of how liberals erroneously believe they can offset fascism by propping up neoliberal individualism. It’s liberals who are now pushing mindless consumerism as the antidote to Trump’s system, because they think being an individual who stands out will “defy” a conservative cultural shift. This is so pathetic I don’t even know where to start.
Am I full of shit, or are others seeing the same thing?
R: 109 / I: 26
I noticed there is no thread for France related shit. So let this be one. French people deserve a safe space and guarantees for their continued existence on loser imageboards!
J'ai remarqué qu'il n'y a pas de thread dedié pour la France, alors que les salauds américains et anglais en ont des centaines. Français, ne succombez pas à l'impérialisme anglochiotte!
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🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷 Aux armes, citoyens ! 🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷I noticed there is no thread for France related shit. So let this be one. French people deserve a safe space and guarantees for their continued existence on loser imageboards!
J'ai remarqué qu'il n'y a pas de thread dedié pour la France, alors que les salauds américains et anglais en ont des centaines. Français, ne succombez pas à l'impérialisme anglochiotte!
Subjets of Macronpiter, leave a post.
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None of our cities will survive if there isn't a Nayib Bukele put in charge of every single one
I don't know what to tell you if you don't accept that, but the crime and gang problem in inner city America is out of control. What soy leftists don't want to acknowledge is that broken window theory is actually true. Do they think any of the socialist states would have tolerated lumpen chimp-outs, let alone ones on the scale facing American cities? The calls for "restorative justice", police reform, judicial reform, prison reform can only work if the current generation of gangs are swept off the street. Leftoids forget that the Clinton crime bill was heavily backed by African-American community leaders who were desperate to see the gangs gone. Prison reform? Yeah, send them to a gulag to do some productive labor.
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The Algerian independence struggle was exceptionally bloody. During that time, the entire global left stood in solidarity with the FLN and its goals. It was the anti-colonial struggle to end all anti-colonial struggles. However, what really became of it?
Algeria never became communist. It's largest trading partner post-independence was France, its former colonizers. Of course the Soviets provided them with support but the Algerian government joined the Non-Aligned Movement instead of becoming part of the Soviet sphere of influence. The most the USSR did for Algeria was supply them with guns.
So why didn't the anti-colonial struggle in Algeria result in socialism? Why does Algeria today have barely any relevance to the global left? The most we hear about that country is how much it beefs with Morocco over territorial lines or some shit. It's one of the largest countries in the world with mountains and a big ass desert but no vital resources? Plus every Algerian with money or an education has migrated to France or Quebec.
What went wrong, when this country had such a promising future 60 years ago?
Algeria
Breadpill me on Algeria.The Algerian independence struggle was exceptionally bloody. During that time, the entire global left stood in solidarity with the FLN and its goals. It was the anti-colonial struggle to end all anti-colonial struggles. However, what really became of it?
Algeria never became communist. It's largest trading partner post-independence was France, its former colonizers. Of course the Soviets provided them with support but the Algerian government joined the Non-Aligned Movement instead of becoming part of the Soviet sphere of influence. The most the USSR did for Algeria was supply them with guns.
So why didn't the anti-colonial struggle in Algeria result in socialism? Why does Algeria today have barely any relevance to the global left? The most we hear about that country is how much it beefs with Morocco over territorial lines or some shit. It's one of the largest countries in the world with mountains and a big ass desert but no vital resources? Plus every Algerian with money or an education has migrated to France or Quebec.
What went wrong, when this country had such a promising future 60 years ago?
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i know the image is unrelated but soon theres gonna be a council meeting in my city and i was thinking of filling up a bucket with pee and poo and throwing it at lobbiests and bourgeois including the mayor because the building's design would allow me to do it. should i do it or not?
i know the image is unrelated but soon theres gonna be a council meeting in my city and i was thinking of filling up a bucket with pee and poo and throwing it at lobbiests and bourgeois including the mayor because the building's design would allow me to do it. should i do it or not?
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Is this really it? Some policemen announced that they won’t be going to work tomorrow and that they have no intention of beating up children. This might be the only chance that the opposition gets to forcefully remove the president from office.
The implications are obvious; a color revolution is in the works. Unlike the protests in Greece, the Serbian protests have no class character. The left is very weak, and the protest attendees range from neonazis to liberals and communists (most likely due to the fact the protests have been organized “apolitically”). The situation in Serbia is very volatile, and the validity of these protests need to be questioned more seriously, since no matter how much they deny it, this reeks of liberal infighting. Only time will tell what the consequences of these past few months will be, and whether this will be another October 5th or just a failed mass movement.
March 15th, Belgrade Serbia
Tomorrow a huge protest will be held in the capital of Serbia, Belgrade, protesting the government’s refusal to accept the demands made by the students, as well as protesting against general incompetence and corruption. From the student to the teacher, worker and pensioner, war veterans and children all around Serbia will gather together in this protest.Is this really it? Some policemen announced that they won’t be going to work tomorrow and that they have no intention of beating up children. This might be the only chance that the opposition gets to forcefully remove the president from office.
The implications are obvious; a color revolution is in the works. Unlike the protests in Greece, the Serbian protests have no class character. The left is very weak, and the protest attendees range from neonazis to liberals and communists (most likely due to the fact the protests have been organized “apolitically”). The situation in Serbia is very volatile, and the validity of these protests need to be questioned more seriously, since no matter how much they deny it, this reeks of liberal infighting. Only time will tell what the consequences of these past few months will be, and whether this will be another October 5th or just a failed mass movement.
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I wanna play a game with you folks because I think it is funny.
>"Who wrote this quote- a socialist, or a capitalist"?
First round. Who wrote this quote? The answer may surprise you.
I wanna play a game with you folks because I think it is funny.
>"Who wrote this quote- a socialist, or a capitalist"?
First round. Who wrote this quote? The answer may surprise you.
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Lenin criticized adventurism as an individual‘s or small group‘s violence against people of the ruling class during a time where such acts were ubiquitous. That was during a time where people proudly and openly called themselves terrorists and assassinations were conducted regularly. This is not enough to enact systemic change which is why Lenin criticized the naivety of thinking as such. He urged to focus on mobilizing the working class. However, you are misguided to think “adventurism” can have no positive impact.
We live in a time where socialist movements are dead in the West. Get real and acknowledge that. Many people understand that there is something severely fucked up with the system but society has become docile and pessimistic. They believe nothing can be done and that their complaints are screamed into an unresponsive void. They get the impression that their situation is hopeless which is why they stay in-active. The assassinations of capitalists or PMC who have done things that are blatantly immoral rip people from their illusion that nothing can be done and that tomorrow is going to be like yesterday.
The assassinations show that the gods do in fact bleed. A dormant working class frustration is unleashed, and celebrations and a belief in being able to have an impact rises and diminishes hopeless pessimism in return. These assassinations are not useful in the sense that they will enact revolution, no one is saying that and you are an idiot to dismiss their usefulness just because they don‘t imminently create a revolution, but they are useful for their psychological impact of bringing about enthusiasm for class war that arose in both left liberals and right liberals when Luigi killed that health care CEO. You are sorely misguided to ignore this valuable bipartisan approval of capitalist death. Instead you sit on your ass an dismiss it like impotent pseudointellectuals who interpret Lenin in a scholastic manner.
To believe “adventurism” is all around bad is undialectical because it is context that determines the effect of the thing in question. You disregard context and assume the nature and effect of X is always the same and therefore fail to see that under our current conditions adventurism is a useful catalyst for developing enthusiasm for class war that communists of today must make use of, instead of dismissing it.
<Noooo people will just think assassinations is all that it takes to enact systemic change noooo
Then teach them that it‘s not enough. Don‘t just outright dismiss adventurism because of that. Let the thought of killing capitalists be normalized. In the meantime seize the rising enthusiasm, teach and guide people whose class consciousness is rising and let the adventurists remind both capitalists and workers
The gods do in fact bleed.
On Adventurism
You don‘t understand the issue with adventurism and you evaluate adventurism in a static and therefore undialectical manner.Lenin criticized adventurism as an individual‘s or small group‘s violence against people of the ruling class during a time where such acts were ubiquitous. That was during a time where people proudly and openly called themselves terrorists and assassinations were conducted regularly. This is not enough to enact systemic change which is why Lenin criticized the naivety of thinking as such. He urged to focus on mobilizing the working class. However, you are misguided to think “adventurism” can have no positive impact.
We live in a time where socialist movements are dead in the West. Get real and acknowledge that. Many people understand that there is something severely fucked up with the system but society has become docile and pessimistic. They believe nothing can be done and that their complaints are screamed into an unresponsive void. They get the impression that their situation is hopeless which is why they stay in-active. The assassinations of capitalists or PMC who have done things that are blatantly immoral rip people from their illusion that nothing can be done and that tomorrow is going to be like yesterday.
The assassinations show that the gods do in fact bleed. A dormant working class frustration is unleashed, and celebrations and a belief in being able to have an impact rises and diminishes hopeless pessimism in return. These assassinations are not useful in the sense that they will enact revolution, no one is saying that and you are an idiot to dismiss their usefulness just because they don‘t imminently create a revolution, but they are useful for their psychological impact of bringing about enthusiasm for class war that arose in both left liberals and right liberals when Luigi killed that health care CEO. You are sorely misguided to ignore this valuable bipartisan approval of capitalist death. Instead you sit on your ass an dismiss it like impotent pseudointellectuals who interpret Lenin in a scholastic manner.
To believe “adventurism” is all around bad is undialectical because it is context that determines the effect of the thing in question. You disregard context and assume the nature and effect of X is always the same and therefore fail to see that under our current conditions adventurism is a useful catalyst for developing enthusiasm for class war that communists of today must make use of, instead of dismissing it.
<Noooo people will just think assassinations is all that it takes to enact systemic change noooo
Then teach them that it‘s not enough. Don‘t just outright dismiss adventurism because of that. Let the thought of killing capitalists be normalized. In the meantime seize the rising enthusiasm, teach and guide people whose class consciousness is rising and let the adventurists remind both capitalists and workers
The gods do in fact bleed.
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https://www.marxists.org/archive/martov/1919/xx/sovietism.htm
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>As soon as the slogan “soviet régime” begins to function as a pseudonym under the cover of which the Jacobin and Blanquist idea of a minority dictatorship is reborn in the ranks of the proletariat, then the soviet régime acquires a universal acceptation and is said to be adaptable to any kind of revolutionary overturn. In this new sense, the “soviet form” is necessarily devoid of the specific substance that bound it to a definite phase of capitalist development. It now becomes a universal form, which is supposed to be suitable to any revolution accomplished in a situation of political confusion, when the popular masses are not united, while the bases of the old régime have been eaten away in the process of historical evolution.https://www.marxists.org/archive/martov/1919/xx/sovietism.htm
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Let's say
>Your part of a team of six drivers, in the middle of a 4-lane interstate, at rush hour. Each lane is occupied by at least one car and with each row about 10-50m from eachother and having two cars on the lane adjacent to the one of the former row, forming a battlement pattern, similar to picrel. Each car is going half the speed of the surrounding traffic or less, so that each row drifts from one another as they get progressively slower relative to how dense the traffic is. As implied, this would effectively halt traffic, as traffic would be slowed down to about 4 m/s, and drivers will have to switch lanes often, making mistakes that cause more traffic.
>Alternatively, traffic can be blackaded altogether, but arrest is far more likely, in this case.
>This occurs three times, in each direction, ideally, as interstates can be quite expansive.
>This is done for every interstate, as well as every major street cutting in the middle a metropolitan area
>This is done either on random days, and/or with random roads being affected.
I would estimate that one would need about 10,200 drivers to operate nationwide, 2520 for the highways and the rest for every city with over 200,000 residents, but It'd probably only take about 200-500 for a particular area like DC or NYC.
The expected effect would be that while travel won't stop altogether, it would either cause a severe loss of productivity or increased unemploymemt, if not both, which would agitate people
Would you say that this would be effective in prompting a Gen. Str. or at least degrade the supply chains of the imperial core to the point of crisis? If not, Would it at least prompt some people to do permaculture or abolish the nuclear family.
Be honest.
Supplementing for a general strike
Let's say
>Your part of a team of six drivers, in the middle of a 4-lane interstate, at rush hour. Each lane is occupied by at least one car and with each row about 10-50m from eachother and having two cars on the lane adjacent to the one of the former row, forming a battlement pattern, similar to picrel. Each car is going half the speed of the surrounding traffic or less, so that each row drifts from one another as they get progressively slower relative to how dense the traffic is. As implied, this would effectively halt traffic, as traffic would be slowed down to about 4 m/s, and drivers will have to switch lanes often, making mistakes that cause more traffic.
>Alternatively, traffic can be blackaded altogether, but arrest is far more likely, in this case.
>This occurs three times, in each direction, ideally, as interstates can be quite expansive.
>This is done for every interstate, as well as every major street cutting in the middle a metropolitan area
>This is done either on random days, and/or with random roads being affected.
I would estimate that one would need about 10,200 drivers to operate nationwide, 2520 for the highways and the rest for every city with over 200,000 residents, but It'd probably only take about 200-500 for a particular area like DC or NYC.
The expected effect would be that while travel won't stop altogether, it would either cause a severe loss of productivity or increased unemploymemt, if not both, which would agitate people
Would you say that this would be effective in prompting a Gen. Str. or at least degrade the supply chains of the imperial core to the point of crisis? If not, Would it at least prompt some people to do permaculture or abolish the nuclear family.
Be honest.
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I am making this thread to ask indo-anons about the Bharat Bandh, i.e a nationwide strike by 10 major unions in India. It supposedly targeted 250million workers across India, but I am highly skeptical they got even 5million.
Also, since there is no India general, I figured a country with 1.4billion people and with a lot of drama under Modi's Rule deserves a thread where all the spice can be shared and discussed, among distinguished leftists.
inb4 the trolls : ignore trolls, do not feed their bait
/hind/ - India General #1
Lal Salaam comradesI am making this thread to ask indo-anons about the Bharat Bandh, i.e a nationwide strike by 10 major unions in India. It supposedly targeted 250million workers across India, but I am highly skeptical they got even 5million.
Also, since there is no India general, I figured a country with 1.4billion people and with a lot of drama under Modi's Rule deserves a thread where all the spice can be shared and discussed, among distinguished leftists.
inb4 the trolls : ignore trolls, do not feed their bait
R: 12 / I: 0 (sage)
How come Taiwan has same-sex marriage but China doesn't? Shouldn't a socialist country do away with spooks like homophobia? Why do you think China is lagging behind while Taiwan has made progress, in this area?
How come Taiwan has same-sex marriage but China doesn't? Shouldn't a socialist country do away with spooks like homophobia? Why do you think China is lagging behind while Taiwan has made progress, in this area?
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A lot of images and posts of the last general got broken. So I think it's better to make a new one.
Discuss anything on Southeast Asian politics. Coming 2024 Elections, open orgs, People that should be dead for different reasons running in Malaysia's elections or just random shit. There are still dozens of us… hopefully! Starting off this general with massive wave of cult sex camps.
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/SEA/ - Southeast Asia General SAG
9th Edition: THE SITE FUCKING CRASHED LMAO edition.A lot of images and posts of the last general got broken. So I think it's better to make a new one.
Discuss anything on Southeast Asian politics. Coming 2024 Elections, open orgs, People that should be dead for different reasons running in Malaysia's elections or just random shit. There are still dozens of us… hopefully! Starting off this general with massive wave of cult sex camps.
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During COVID, the PMC suddenly got way more autonomy. Remote work gave them freedom to work from anywhere, set their own hours, and basically ignore old-school workplace control. Plus, they used their cultural clout to push for """woke""" causes. On top of that, the great resignation gave them serious leverage to demand raises and better conditions.
From the capitalist perspective, this looked like the PMC getting a bit too big for their britches, acting like stakeholders instead of wage workers.
Now enter generative AI. This isn’t just some productivity tool, it's capital’s answer to reclaiming control. By automating complex knowledge work like writing, coding, and design, AI threatens to replace or deskill the very roles the PMC has dominated. It lets capital reassert power by commoditizing intellectual labor and cutting out the "middleman."
In short: generative AI is a disciplinary tool, a trump card capital is playing to discipline an uppity PMC and take back the reins.
It's Capital's final anti PMC NUKE (if it works, which isn't guaranteed)
GenAI - Capital's anti PMC NUKE
The pandemic really shifted the balance between capital and knowledge workers like engineers, consultants, marketers, and academics who don’t own capital but wield a lot of influence - the so called PMC.During COVID, the PMC suddenly got way more autonomy. Remote work gave them freedom to work from anywhere, set their own hours, and basically ignore old-school workplace control. Plus, they used their cultural clout to push for """woke""" causes. On top of that, the great resignation gave them serious leverage to demand raises and better conditions.
From the capitalist perspective, this looked like the PMC getting a bit too big for their britches, acting like stakeholders instead of wage workers.
Now enter generative AI. This isn’t just some productivity tool, it's capital’s answer to reclaiming control. By automating complex knowledge work like writing, coding, and design, AI threatens to replace or deskill the very roles the PMC has dominated. It lets capital reassert power by commoditizing intellectual labor and cutting out the "middleman."
In short: generative AI is a disciplinary tool, a trump card capital is playing to discipline an uppity PMC and take back the reins.
It's Capital's final anti PMC NUKE (if it works, which isn't guaranteed)
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Some highlights:
>long history of violence from which the PKK emerged
>emphasis on hundreds of years of alliance between Kurds and Turks
>need for democratic solution, faith that now it is the time
>respect to Bahceli and Erdogan’s calls to move on with a resolution
>PKK (all armed groups) to leave weapons to engage in a democratic resolution process
it's so over
Ocalan orders the PKK to dissolve
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/ocalan-dissolve-pkk-historic-statementSome highlights:
>long history of violence from which the PKK emerged
>emphasis on hundreds of years of alliance between Kurds and Turks
>need for democratic solution, faith that now it is the time
>respect to Bahceli and Erdogan’s calls to move on with a resolution
>PKK (all armed groups) to leave weapons to engage in a democratic resolution process
it's so over
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>never shut up about how white culture built the West
>calls the Constitution and federal institutions make no sense
>actively tries to destroy the things that made the US and Europe superpowers
>wtf did they mean by this
wtf
>be AmeriKKKan far-right>never shut up about how white culture built the West
>calls the Constitution and federal institutions make no sense
>actively tries to destroy the things that made the US and Europe superpowers
>wtf did they mean by this
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- Vladimir Lenin
Thoughts?
Sexual promiscuity is a bourgeois perversion
>Promiscuity in sexual matters is bourgeois. It is a sign of degeneration. The proletariat is a rising class. It does not need an intoxicant to stupefy or stimulate it, neither the intoxicant of sexual laxity or of alcohol. It should and will not forget the vileness, the filth and the barbarity of capitalism. It derives its strongest inspiration to fight from its class position, from the communist ideal. What it needs is clarity, clarity, and more clarity. Therefore, I repeat, there must be no weakening, no waste and no dissipation of energy Self-control and self-discipline are not slavery; not in matters of love either. But excuse me, Clara, I have strayed far from the point which we set out to discuss. Why have you not called me to order? Worry has set me talking. I take the future of our youth very close to heart. It is part and parcel of the revolution. Whenever harmful elements appear, which creep from bourgeois society to the world of the revolution and spread like the roots of prolific weeds, it is better to take action against them quickly. The questions we have dealt with are also part of the women’s problems.- Vladimir Lenin
Thoughts?
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IDK I think class is more important than political beliefs or other stuff like if someone is religious.
I'll always trust a working-class Christian over a capitalist materialist. Same goes with a working-class Anarchist organization over a capitalist "Communist" organization. I know class traitors exist but they're extremely rare. Same goes with working class rad-libs.
IDK it gets difficult because what do you trust working-class Nazis over liberal capitalists? And I think that you really have to in the end. It's just the reality that reactionary isn't a class. Now I'm talking about the small fry at the bottom here, not the guys at the top obviously. Also it depends on the context. In the context of Nazi Germany settler-colonialism, Nazi-settlers wanted to seize Russian land which made them future capitalists.
Now this doesn't apply to organized crime which very often applies to reaction. Maybe it applies to the lumpenproles at the bottom of the hierarchies. But criminals make money from exploiting the working class and do not have common class interests with them.
IDK the matter is confusing. But I think that fundamentally class has a filtering effect on ideology. Someone who's working class and doesn't own property, I think they're going to figure things out eventually no matter how much propaganda they've been fed.
I'm not saying ideology is unimportant or that I like reactionaries. But if I had to choose between a reactionary worker and a liberal capitalist I'd always pick the worker.
IDK I think class is more important than political beliefs or other stuff like if someone is religious.
I'll always trust a working-class Christian over a capitalist materialist. Same goes with a working-class Anarchist organization over a capitalist "Communist" organization. I know class traitors exist but they're extremely rare. Same goes with working class rad-libs.
IDK it gets difficult because what do you trust working-class Nazis over liberal capitalists? And I think that you really have to in the end. It's just the reality that reactionary isn't a class. Now I'm talking about the small fry at the bottom here, not the guys at the top obviously. Also it depends on the context. In the context of Nazi Germany settler-colonialism, Nazi-settlers wanted to seize Russian land which made them future capitalists.
Now this doesn't apply to organized crime which very often applies to reaction. Maybe it applies to the lumpenproles at the bottom of the hierarchies. But criminals make money from exploiting the working class and do not have common class interests with them.
IDK the matter is confusing. But I think that fundamentally class has a filtering effect on ideology. Someone who's working class and doesn't own property, I think they're going to figure things out eventually no matter how much propaganda they've been fed.
I'm not saying ideology is unimportant or that I like reactionaries. But if I had to choose between a reactionary worker and a liberal capitalist I'd always pick the worker.
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Try to keep it to as much 'OC' as possible, including just things you cut yourself.
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Webm Thread. The old one seem to have disappeared.Try to keep it to as much 'OC' as possible, including just things you cut yourself.
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Another controversial measure is the fusion of several vital ministries with others to reduce the size of the state. The executive branch will go from 20 to 14 ministries. The Ministry of Education will absorb the Ministry of Culture and Heritage, the Ministry of Sports, and the Ministry of Higher Education. On the other hand, the Ministry of Transportation and Public Works will now fulfill the functions of the Ministry of Housing, the Ministry of Public-Private Investments, and the Ministry of Prevention of Irregular Settlements.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/07/29/noboa-dismisses-5000-public-employees/
Fridays for Future Plans Global Climate Strike During COP30 in Brazil
The Fridays for Future movement announced this week that it is planning the next Global Climate Strike for November 14, the first Friday during the upcoming United Nations Climate Change Conference in Belém, Brazil. The movement began in 2018, with then-teenage Greta Thunberg's solo protest at the Swedish parliament, which inspired millions of people to hold similar school strikes for climate action around the world.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/cop30
Mass escape | Civilians flee “Peace Spring” areas via SDF-controlled zones
local sources told SOHR that Internal Security Forces (Asayish) arrested 25 people in the countryside of Kobani as they attempted to cross from Tel Abyad in northern Al-Raqqah toward areas west of the Euphrates. local sources told SOHR that Internal Security Forces (Asayish) arrested 25 people in the countryside of Kobani as they attempted to cross from Tel Abyad in northern Al-Raqqah toward areas west of the Euphrates.
https://www.syriahr.com/en/366840/
Israel Detains, Chokes, and Beats Up Amazon Union Leader Chris Smalls
“When he reached the Israeli prison, U.S. human rights defender Chris Smalls was physically assaulted by seven uniformed individuals,” the Freedom Flotilla Coalition announced Tuesday morning. “They choked him and kicked him in the legs, leaving visible signs of violence on his neck and back. When his lawyer met with him, Chris was surrounded by six members of Israel’s special police unit.
https://newrepublic.com/post/198550/israel-detains-beats-amazon-union-leader-chris-smalls-flotilla-gaza
https://archive.ph/lf5at
Two men forcibly disappeared in Egypt after storming police station over Gaza blockade
Twenty-seven-year-old Mohsen Mustafa and his 23-year-old cousin Ahmed Sherif Ahmed Abdel Wahab have not been heard from since Mustafa posted on Facebook claiming responsibility for the raid, shortly before his profile was removed. The men were reportedly involved in the storming of the police station on 25 July, where a group who identified themselves as “Iron 17” raided the facility and detained several security personnel for hours.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/egypt-two-men-forcibly-disappeared-after-storming-egyptian-police-station-over-gaza-blockade
At least four killed during fuel protests in Angola
The protests erupted on Monday following the government’s decision earlier this month to raise the price of diesel by more than 30 per cent, which resulted in steep fare increases for minibus taxis that are the preferred method of transport for many Angolans. A police statement said hundreds of arrests had been made in connection with rioting, vandalism and looting of shops. Cars and buses were damaged and roads were blocked.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/least-four-killed-during-fuel-protests-angola
Israeli settler accused of killing Palestinian activist out on house arrest
Israeli journalist Yuval Abraham, one of the co-directors of No Other Land, said that while Yinon was released on house arrest, Hathaleen’s family were arrested. “After killing Odeh, Yinon pointed at his family and instructed soldiers to arrest 4 of them,” Abraham said in a post on X.“They are still jailed while he was just released for house arrest. A system which punishes the victims (who are under military law) and rewards the shooter (who is under civilian law),” Abraham added.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/29/israeli-settler-kills-west-bank-activist-who-worked-on-oscar-winning-film
https://archive.ph/Mnby3
Palestine Action co-founder wins permission to challenge ban
Lawyers for Huda Ammori argued at a hearing in London last week that the proscription of Palestine Action, placing it on a par with groups such as Islamic State and Boko Haram, was “repugnant” and an “authoritarian and blatant abuse of power”. They warned that it was already having a chilling effect on freedom of speech and protest, highlighting dozens of arrests – the number is believed to have risen above 200 – of people for demonstrating since the ban came into force on 5 July.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/jul/30/palestine-action-co-founder-wins-permission-to-challenge-ban
Anglian Water to pay £62.8m over wastewater failures
Ofwat has proposed a number of improvements Anglian Water must make to its wastewater treatment works and network after discovering "excessive spills from storm overflows". The firm could have been fined £57.1m but Ofwat said Anglian Water had acknowledged its failures and agreed to fund investments.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm2vyl22rjvo
CPI (M) holds sit-in protest in Tezpur against evictions, scams, and NRC Delay
A sit-in protest was organized on Tuesday in front of the Tezpur Court Chariali by members of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), under the initiative of the Sonitpur district committee and in response to a state-wide call by the CPI (M) Assam state committee. The protest highlighted several pressing issues. The party demanded an immediate halt to all eviction drives being carried out without providing proper alternative rehabilitation for the displaced. They also called for a thorough investigation into the various scams allegedly involving BJP ministers and legislators, including the widely reported Geer-Gai scam.
https://www.sentinelassam.com/north-east-india-news/assam-news/cpi-m-holds-sit-in-protest-in-tezpur-against-evictions-scams-and-nrc-delay
https://archive.ph/fi7yT
Indonesian military’s foray into medicine-making triggers ‘authoritarian past’ fears
Production would begin in October, with the medicines to be sold in villages at half their retail prices, Sjafrie said. “We are thinking of ways to lower the price even more so we could provide free medicines,” he told reporters. Taruna Ikrar, head of BPOM, said the military’s participation could help stem the distribution of illegal or counterfeit drugs, particularly in underserved areas. However, rights groups argue the move is legally questionable, as Indonesia’s military law prohibits active-duty soldiers from holding civilian business roles. Critics also see the deal as part of a wider effort to involve the armed forces again in local governance under President Prabowo Subianto, who was formerly a general and the country’s defence minister.
https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/3320174/indonesian-militarys-foray-medicine-making-triggers-authoritarian-past-fears
Labor seeks to ban pro-Palestinian march across Sydney Harbour Bridge
The Labor government in the Australian state of New South Wales (NSW) has declared that it will ban a march across the Sydney Harbour Bridge this Sunday, opposing Israel’s genocide of the Palestinians in Gaza. Labor Premier Chris Minns has couched the edict in terms of the disruption to the public and threats to safety that the rally could cause. That is cynical and threadbare. In reality, the ban is the latest action of a government that has throughout its tenure attacked the right to protest in general, and public demonstrations of support for the Palestinians in particular.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/30/mwku-j30.html
News 7/30/25
Noboa dismisses 5,000 public employeesAnother controversial measure is the fusion of several vital ministries with others to reduce the size of the state. The executive branch will go from 20 to 14 ministries. The Ministry of Education will absorb the Ministry of Culture and Heritage, the Ministry of Sports, and the Ministry of Higher Education. On the other hand, the Ministry of Transportation and Public Works will now fulfill the functions of the Ministry of Housing, the Ministry of Public-Private Investments, and the Ministry of Prevention of Irregular Settlements.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/07/29/noboa-dismisses-5000-public-employees/
Fridays for Future Plans Global Climate Strike During COP30 in Brazil
The Fridays for Future movement announced this week that it is planning the next Global Climate Strike for November 14, the first Friday during the upcoming United Nations Climate Change Conference in Belém, Brazil. The movement began in 2018, with then-teenage Greta Thunberg's solo protest at the Swedish parliament, which inspired millions of people to hold similar school strikes for climate action around the world.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/cop30
Mass escape | Civilians flee “Peace Spring” areas via SDF-controlled zones
local sources told SOHR that Internal Security Forces (Asayish) arrested 25 people in the countryside of Kobani as they attempted to cross from Tel Abyad in northern Al-Raqqah toward areas west of the Euphrates. local sources told SOHR that Internal Security Forces (Asayish) arrested 25 people in the countryside of Kobani as they attempted to cross from Tel Abyad in northern Al-Raqqah toward areas west of the Euphrates.
https://www.syriahr.com/en/366840/
Israel Detains, Chokes, and Beats Up Amazon Union Leader Chris Smalls
“When he reached the Israeli prison, U.S. human rights defender Chris Smalls was physically assaulted by seven uniformed individuals,” the Freedom Flotilla Coalition announced Tuesday morning. “They choked him and kicked him in the legs, leaving visible signs of violence on his neck and back. When his lawyer met with him, Chris was surrounded by six members of Israel’s special police unit.
https://newrepublic.com/post/198550/israel-detains-beats-amazon-union-leader-chris-smalls-flotilla-gaza
https://archive.ph/lf5at
Two men forcibly disappeared in Egypt after storming police station over Gaza blockade
Twenty-seven-year-old Mohsen Mustafa and his 23-year-old cousin Ahmed Sherif Ahmed Abdel Wahab have not been heard from since Mustafa posted on Facebook claiming responsibility for the raid, shortly before his profile was removed. The men were reportedly involved in the storming of the police station on 25 July, where a group who identified themselves as “Iron 17” raided the facility and detained several security personnel for hours.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/egypt-two-men-forcibly-disappeared-after-storming-egyptian-police-station-over-gaza-blockade
At least four killed during fuel protests in Angola
The protests erupted on Monday following the government’s decision earlier this month to raise the price of diesel by more than 30 per cent, which resulted in steep fare increases for minibus taxis that are the preferred method of transport for many Angolans. A police statement said hundreds of arrests had been made in connection with rioting, vandalism and looting of shops. Cars and buses were damaged and roads were blocked.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/least-four-killed-during-fuel-protests-angola
Israeli settler accused of killing Palestinian activist out on house arrest
Israeli journalist Yuval Abraham, one of the co-directors of No Other Land, said that while Yinon was released on house arrest, Hathaleen’s family were arrested. “After killing Odeh, Yinon pointed at his family and instructed soldiers to arrest 4 of them,” Abraham said in a post on X.“They are still jailed while he was just released for house arrest. A system which punishes the victims (who are under military law) and rewards the shooter (who is under civilian law),” Abraham added.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/29/israeli-settler-kills-west-bank-activist-who-worked-on-oscar-winning-film
https://archive.ph/Mnby3
Palestine Action co-founder wins permission to challenge ban
Lawyers for Huda Ammori argued at a hearing in London last week that the proscription of Palestine Action, placing it on a par with groups such as Islamic State and Boko Haram, was “repugnant” and an “authoritarian and blatant abuse of power”. They warned that it was already having a chilling effect on freedom of speech and protest, highlighting dozens of arrests – the number is believed to have risen above 200 – of people for demonstrating since the ban came into force on 5 July.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/jul/30/palestine-action-co-founder-wins-permission-to-challenge-ban
Anglian Water to pay £62.8m over wastewater failures
Ofwat has proposed a number of improvements Anglian Water must make to its wastewater treatment works and network after discovering "excessive spills from storm overflows". The firm could have been fined £57.1m but Ofwat said Anglian Water had acknowledged its failures and agreed to fund investments.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm2vyl22rjvo
CPI (M) holds sit-in protest in Tezpur against evictions, scams, and NRC Delay
A sit-in protest was organized on Tuesday in front of the Tezpur Court Chariali by members of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), under the initiative of the Sonitpur district committee and in response to a state-wide call by the CPI (M) Assam state committee. The protest highlighted several pressing issues. The party demanded an immediate halt to all eviction drives being carried out without providing proper alternative rehabilitation for the displaced. They also called for a thorough investigation into the various scams allegedly involving BJP ministers and legislators, including the widely reported Geer-Gai scam.
https://www.sentinelassam.com/north-east-india-news/assam-news/cpi-m-holds-sit-in-protest-in-tezpur-against-evictions-scams-and-nrc-delay
https://archive.ph/fi7yT
Indonesian military’s foray into medicine-making triggers ‘authoritarian past’ fears
Production would begin in October, with the medicines to be sold in villages at half their retail prices, Sjafrie said. “We are thinking of ways to lower the price even more so we could provide free medicines,” he told reporters. Taruna Ikrar, head of BPOM, said the military’s participation could help stem the distribution of illegal or counterfeit drugs, particularly in underserved areas. However, rights groups argue the move is legally questionable, as Indonesia’s military law prohibits active-duty soldiers from holding civilian business roles. Critics also see the deal as part of a wider effort to involve the armed forces again in local governance under President Prabowo Subianto, who was formerly a general and the country’s defence minister.
https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/3320174/indonesian-militarys-foray-medicine-making-triggers-authoritarian-past-fears
Labor seeks to ban pro-Palestinian march across Sydney Harbour Bridge
The Labor government in the Australian state of New South Wales (NSW) has declared that it will ban a march across the Sydney Harbour Bridge this Sunday, opposing Israel’s genocide of the Palestinians in Gaza. Labor Premier Chris Minns has couched the edict in terms of the disruption to the public and threats to safety that the rally could cause. That is cynical and threadbare. In reality, the ban is the latest action of a government that has throughout its tenure attacked the right to protest in general, and public demonstrations of support for the Palestinians in particular.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/30/mwku-j30.html
R: 12 / I: 0
Obviously non-white workers are scapegoats and are hyper-exploited, but still. Its like if you voted for the NSDAP and then they imported 10 million black and brown laborers to work in German factories and service industries.
I ALMOST feel sorry for the chuds tbh.
grim irony
The grim, bitter irony of being a reactionary white guy, voting for the reactionary political party on the basis that they will bring back muh jobs and restore white America, only to have them outsource shit to south asia and continue hiring undocumented mestizos for blue-collar jobs.Obviously non-white workers are scapegoats and are hyper-exploited, but still. Its like if you voted for the NSDAP and then they imported 10 million black and brown laborers to work in German factories and service industries.
I ALMOST feel sorry for the chuds tbh.
R: 45 / I: 15
Romanian survey: Two out of three say Ceausescu was a good leader
>Even the communist regime seems to fare well in the opinion poll: for 55.8% of the respondents, it was rather a good thing for Romania, whereas only 34.5% disagreed.
>More than half of Romanians believe the communist regime was more of a good thing for Romania, with nearly 56% saying more positive than negative developments occurred under communism. The finding comes from a new INSCOP Research survey commissioned by the Institute for the Investigation of Communist Crimes and the Memory of the Romanian Exile (IICCMER), shedding light on the enduring nostalgia for the regime of Nicolae Ceaușescu.
And this is not even because of the elderly anymore even half of 18-24 year old Romanian youths prefer communism
>Sondaj: 45% dintre tineri cred că comunismul „a fost un lucru bun”. „Idealizarea totalitarismului e o problemă de securitate națională”
How shit is Romania that the most anti-communist propagandized generation hates your system and prefer communism? Dont see other former WP youth have these statistics at all. And seeing all these protests occuring in Romania and blatently just rigging elections how much potential does it have for socialism to come out or is it over before it started.
Romanian survey: Two out of three say Ceausescu was a good leader
>Even the communist regime seems to fare well in the opinion poll: for 55.8% of the respondents, it was rather a good thing for Romania, whereas only 34.5% disagreed.
>More than half of Romanians believe the communist regime was more of a good thing for Romania, with nearly 56% saying more positive than negative developments occurred under communism. The finding comes from a new INSCOP Research survey commissioned by the Institute for the Investigation of Communist Crimes and the Memory of the Romanian Exile (IICCMER), shedding light on the enduring nostalgia for the regime of Nicolae Ceaușescu.
And this is not even because of the elderly anymore even half of 18-24 year old Romanian youths prefer communism
>Sondaj: 45% dintre tineri cred că comunismul „a fost un lucru bun”. „Idealizarea totalitarismului e o problemă de securitate națională”
How shit is Romania that the most anti-communist propagandized generation hates your system and prefer communism? Dont see other former WP youth have these statistics at all. And seeing all these protests occuring in Romania and blatently just rigging elections how much potential does it have for socialism to come out or is it over before it started.
R: 12 / I: 2
Dialectically speaking and from a socialist theory POV, what is your response to someone just replying to your masterfully-crafted argument about class warfare with this image?
Dialectically speaking and from a socialist theory POV, what is your response to someone just replying to your masterfully-crafted argument about class warfare with this image?
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In recent days, Eduardo Bolsonaro's aggressiveness against the Federal Police, against Supreme Court justices, his attitude of defying even the rules of his mandate, and his increasingly radical rhetoric have raised alarm bells.
The first of these is due to the certainty of being able to speak and misinform, without any fear of facing justice.
The second suspicion concerns the aggressiveness of Donald Trump's own actions. He reserved the highest tariffs and harshest rhetoric for Brazil, and closed the door to any dialogue with the Lula administration.
"This is a typical script drawn up by the CIA, feeding national actors to justify a foreign strategic interest," said an Abin agent abroad.
In 2022, in the midst of Jair Bolsonaro's preparations for a coup, Joe Biden's then-CIA chief traveled to Brazil to deliver a message to the Brazilian military: an adventure against the country's democracy would not have American backing.
Today, the suspicion is that the new Trump administration has a different stance. Indeed, the White House's efforts are to assert that actions are being taken to "defend" Brazilians, not against them. The Bolsonaro clan is the straw man. The sanctions would be implemented, officially, not to serve US strategic interests, but supposedly to enforce "freedom in Brazil."
The script has all the necessary ingredients to construct a rhetoric suitable for action. There is a group of supposed "exiles"—such as Eduardo Bolsonaro, Allan dos Santos, and Paulo Figueiredo—there is a "wronged" individual who is "loved by the people"—former President Jair Bolsonaro—and there is a supposedly dictatorial regime, represented by Alexandre de Moraes and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
"The key word is destabilization," said a seasoned national intelligence agent. Weakening a government in a divided country and thus paving the way for the US to have a powerful ally in the emerging world by 2026.
There was no shortage of warnings about the risk Brazil faced. In August 2024, before the elections, a delegation sent by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs mapped out who would be the influential players in a future Trump administration and suggested opening channels of dialogue with them. The strategy was to build bridges so that, in the event of a crisis, mediation could take place.
Abin suggested creating a psychological and behavioral profile of Trump to identify vulnerabilities in his character and interests that could be exploited.
For everyone, this effort should have occurred before Bolsonarism created its own access points to the Oval Office. Some of these reports and suggestions, however, remained in drawers at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Planalto Palace, never implemented.
Among diplomats, there is also a perception that the attacks and measures adopted in recent days are just the beginning of a long period of political instability.
In government, everyone awaits further action from the White House, both individually and against the country. With misinformation, control over social media, and real economic damage, a scenario is gradually unfolding in which a democratically elected government takes on the appearance of "illegitimacy."
"All that's missing is a Brazilian Juan Guaidó to solidify the existence of a coup attempt," said an experienced diplomat, referring to the Venezuelan opposition leader.
There is no shortage of candidates for the position.
Intelligence suspects CIA action against Brazil
Suspicion is growing among Brazilian intelligence agents that the Bolsonaro supporters' actions are not being organized by organic movements within the country, but rather by a meticulously rehearsed script by the White House, with the participation of the CIA.In recent days, Eduardo Bolsonaro's aggressiveness against the Federal Police, against Supreme Court justices, his attitude of defying even the rules of his mandate, and his increasingly radical rhetoric have raised alarm bells.
The first of these is due to the certainty of being able to speak and misinform, without any fear of facing justice.
The second suspicion concerns the aggressiveness of Donald Trump's own actions. He reserved the highest tariffs and harshest rhetoric for Brazil, and closed the door to any dialogue with the Lula administration.
"This is a typical script drawn up by the CIA, feeding national actors to justify a foreign strategic interest," said an Abin agent abroad.
In 2022, in the midst of Jair Bolsonaro's preparations for a coup, Joe Biden's then-CIA chief traveled to Brazil to deliver a message to the Brazilian military: an adventure against the country's democracy would not have American backing.
Today, the suspicion is that the new Trump administration has a different stance. Indeed, the White House's efforts are to assert that actions are being taken to "defend" Brazilians, not against them. The Bolsonaro clan is the straw man. The sanctions would be implemented, officially, not to serve US strategic interests, but supposedly to enforce "freedom in Brazil."
The script has all the necessary ingredients to construct a rhetoric suitable for action. There is a group of supposed "exiles"—such as Eduardo Bolsonaro, Allan dos Santos, and Paulo Figueiredo—there is a "wronged" individual who is "loved by the people"—former President Jair Bolsonaro—and there is a supposedly dictatorial regime, represented by Alexandre de Moraes and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
"The key word is destabilization," said a seasoned national intelligence agent. Weakening a government in a divided country and thus paving the way for the US to have a powerful ally in the emerging world by 2026.
There was no shortage of warnings about the risk Brazil faced. In August 2024, before the elections, a delegation sent by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs mapped out who would be the influential players in a future Trump administration and suggested opening channels of dialogue with them. The strategy was to build bridges so that, in the event of a crisis, mediation could take place.
Abin suggested creating a psychological and behavioral profile of Trump to identify vulnerabilities in his character and interests that could be exploited.
For everyone, this effort should have occurred before Bolsonarism created its own access points to the Oval Office. Some of these reports and suggestions, however, remained in drawers at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Planalto Palace, never implemented.
Among diplomats, there is also a perception that the attacks and measures adopted in recent days are just the beginning of a long period of political instability.
In government, everyone awaits further action from the White House, both individually and against the country. With misinformation, control over social media, and real economic damage, a scenario is gradually unfolding in which a democratically elected government takes on the appearance of "illegitimacy."
"All that's missing is a Brazilian Juan Guaidó to solidify the existence of a coup attempt," said an experienced diplomat, referring to the Venezuelan opposition leader.
There is no shortage of candidates for the position.
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Most workers don't work a single job anymore, they do part-time jobs here and there to live by. In the historical situation for which Marx was writing, workers generally lived and died the same profession they took up.
And yes we've had this thread before, though there is a different response each time so I'm trying it against to see what comes out as a response. I present it in a different way and with a different flag that may or may not even be related.
My current thesis is that the movement of the declassed (as Bukharin labeled it) might have the upper hand with the growth of capitalism, the contradictions within the capitalist mode of production do lead to a sort of decomposition, but generally don't appear to be able to lead to collapse on their own unless it brings about omnicide.
The industrial proletariat can only exist as long as the industry needs manual intervention, when manual intervention is deduced to management rather than physical labor it is only those professions which can control the machinery and know how it functions that are able to intervene in production at all. There are less and less factory workers since their manual labor to operate the machinery is not needed - most just move onto working in logistic hubs or construction, but what happens when they're no longer needed there either?
Also FYI, this is just speculative thought experiment, I may or may not believe it, just putting it out there to see what others think.
Are the industrial proletariat no longer the revolutionary class?
As time goes on and the tasks of the industry undergo automatization, most jobs are left to the part-time workers. Hasn't anyone else noticed this trend? We call them petite-bourgeoisie and yes variably but mostly tend to be since the nature of their work is not collectivist and is akin to the statuses of small business owners (individual entrepreneurs), shopkeepers (of small businesses), small-scale merchants (without a proper shop), semi-autonomous peasants (now just semi-autonomous poor entrepreneurs), and artisans. I feel that class relations have changed and nobody has bothered to do a concise analysis of it, instead clinging to the same labels, looking back and trying to reapply or justify the changed situation with outdated concepts. For example the "peasantry" Marx described is not the same as the poor jobless homeless, they were literally farmers with limited land-ownership and yet I see people calling hobos and the general poor as peasants. I am lead to believe the term proletariat barely applies anymore, the industrial proletariat is being scaled down and once society no longer relies on its labor then nothing makes it a revolutionary subject since it cannot bring about change through strikes or anything - it will just disappear once its no longer needed anywhere. My thesis is that the majority of the current workers are in the sphere of services and that the revolutionary subject may be IT workers, programmers, generally technicians and scientists which can understand the machinery and affect it. Machinery has already enveloped most of society, so any change that comes upon it will affect it and whoever can affect it can take control of the social order.Most workers don't work a single job anymore, they do part-time jobs here and there to live by. In the historical situation for which Marx was writing, workers generally lived and died the same profession they took up.
And yes we've had this thread before, though there is a different response each time so I'm trying it against to see what comes out as a response. I present it in a different way and with a different flag that may or may not even be related.
My current thesis is that the movement of the declassed (as Bukharin labeled it) might have the upper hand with the growth of capitalism, the contradictions within the capitalist mode of production do lead to a sort of decomposition, but generally don't appear to be able to lead to collapse on their own unless it brings about omnicide.
The industrial proletariat can only exist as long as the industry needs manual intervention, when manual intervention is deduced to management rather than physical labor it is only those professions which can control the machinery and know how it functions that are able to intervene in production at all. There are less and less factory workers since their manual labor to operate the machinery is not needed - most just move onto working in logistic hubs or construction, but what happens when they're no longer needed there either?
Also FYI, this is just speculative thought experiment, I may or may not believe it, just putting it out there to see what others think.
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1968
What was it about 1968 that made it such a revolutionary year in the West? What was the historical materialist context which made it so revolutionary and made it the closest that the West came to revolution and how was it coopted and liberalized in the 70s and 80s?
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>Urgent Appeal: Stop the Judicial Coup in South Korea and Defend Democracy
<On May 1, 2025, South Korea’s Supreme Court issued a politically charged decision that overturned the acquittal of opposition leader Lee Jae-myung, the leading candidate in the upcoming presidential election, on charges of election law violation. Lee had endured intense repression under the administration of impeached former president Yoon Suk-yeol, having been subjected to investigation by over 200 government prosecutors, but despite countless allegations, these nearly non-stop investigations failed to result in a conviction. Now, with South Korea gearing up for a historic snap election on June 3, 2025 following Yoon’s ouster, authorities are once again attempting to convict Lee to remove him from the political playing field.
Update on the fallout of the South Korean coup attempt
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/05/06/urgent-appeal-stop-the-judicial-coup-in-south-korea-and-defend-democracy/>Urgent Appeal: Stop the Judicial Coup in South Korea and Defend Democracy
<On May 1, 2025, South Korea’s Supreme Court issued a politically charged decision that overturned the acquittal of opposition leader Lee Jae-myung, the leading candidate in the upcoming presidential election, on charges of election law violation. Lee had endured intense repression under the administration of impeached former president Yoon Suk-yeol, having been subjected to investigation by over 200 government prosecutors, but despite countless allegations, these nearly non-stop investigations failed to result in a conviction. Now, with South Korea gearing up for a historic snap election on June 3, 2025 following Yoon’s ouster, authorities are once again attempting to convict Lee to remove him from the political playing field.
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In a historic verdict, judge Sandra Liliana Herrera confirmed that Uribe bribed witnesses in order to press fabricated criminal charges against Senator Ivan Cepeda. Uribe’s witnesses additionally fabricated claims that Justice Minister Eduardo Montealegre illegally opened investigations into the former president and his brother Santiago when Montealegre was Prosecutor General.
https://colombiareports.com/colombias-former-president-alvaro-uribe-found-guilty-of-bribing-witnesses/
After taking back land in Colombia, Indigenous prepare their youth to safeguard it
The children’s “semillero” — a weekend school where Indigenous youth are nurtured like seeds — prepares the next generation to protect their ancestral land. More than a classroom, it’s a space for learning resistance, environmental care and cultural pride. Their work echoes a broader community effort to restore damaged territory and preserve identity in a region still marked by conflict.
https://apnews.com/article/colombia-indigenous-land-protection-cauca-farc-youth-f4de70775dfdd3986af377d297e26e7c
Plot to Kill Lula, Alckmin, and Justice Moraes Traced to Top General
In July 2025, official court records revealed that General Mário Fernandes—once a senior figure in former president Jair Bolsonaro’s government—admitted to writing a plan. The plan called for the kidnapping and murder of Brazil’s President-elect Lula da Silva, Vice President-elect Geraldo Alckmin, and Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes. He said he created and printed the document—known as “Punhal Verde e Amarelo”—inside the presidential palace after Lula’s election win in late 2022. Fernandes claimed that this was only his “risk analysis,” not something he meant to share, and he said he shredded the printout.
https://www.riotimesonline.com/plot-to-kill-lula-alckmin-and-justice-moraes-traced-to-top-general/
https://archive.ph/Ux09h
Italian city says no to warships and weapons for Israel
José Nivoi from the Autonomous Collective of Port Workers (Collettivo Autonomo dei Lavoratori Portuali, CALP) and the local union chapter of Unione Sindacale di Base (USB), emphasized that the morning rally was directed specifically at the new city authorities, with dockworkers demanding a clear stance of solidarity with Palestine – an assurance they say was given. “The evening assembly was also very lively,” Nivoi told Peoples Dispatch. “Around 150 people took part – mostly members of the general public, not just activists – and joined a discussion on the plans to transform the port into dual-use military infrastructure.”
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/07/27/italian-city-says-no-to-warships-and-weapons-for-israel/
Trump cuts deadline for Putin to reach Ukraine peace deal to ‘10 or 12 days’
“I’m going to make a new deadline of about 10, 10 or 12 days from today,” Trump said in response to a question while sitting with the British prime minister, Keir Starmer. “There’s no reason in waiting. There’s no reason in waiting. It’s 50 days. I want to be generous, but we just don’t see any progress being made.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/28/trump-ukraine-russia-peace-deal-deadline
Dutch Security Agency Names Israel a Threat over Disinformation, ICC Pressure
The report, titled Assessment of Threats from State Actors, highlights attempts by Israel to influence Dutch public opinion and political processes through disinformation campaigns. According to the NCTV, these efforts include the dissemination of misleading information and covert lobbying tactics aimed at shaping perceptions and decisions within Dutch society. One notable incident cited in the report involves a document distributed in 2023 by an Israeli government ministry to Dutch journalists and politicians via unofficial channels.
https://www.palestinechronicle.com/dutch-security-agency-names-israel-a-threat-over-disinformation-icc-pressure/
Israel jails soldiers for refusing to return to Gaza after they killed children
"After this incident, we had three soldiers leave because of post-traumatic stress disorder who suffered from dreams at night, insomnia, they would see these children. They didn't talk to us, they didn't bring us a psychologist, everything continued as usual." Three of the four soldiers received prison sentences ranging from one week to 12 days. The fourth has not yet been tried. One of the jailed soldiers had been wounded last year during fighting along the Gaza border and had returned voluntarily to fight after recovering.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israeli-soldiers-imprisoned-refusing-return-gaza
Houthis say they hold 10 crew from Greek-operated ship they sank off Yemen
Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis said on Monday they had rescued 10 seafarers from the Greek-operated cargo ship Eternity C which they attacked and sank in the Red Sea earlier this month. The Liberia-flagged Eternity C was the second ship to sink off Yemen this month after repeated attacks by Houthi militants with sea drones and rocket-propelled grenades. Another Greek-operated vessel, the Magic Seas, had gone down days earlier.
https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2025/07/houthis-say-they-hold-10-crew-greek-operated-ship-they-sank-yemen
Youth-led anti-corruption movement surges in The Gambia
GALA’s protest platform spans a wide range of unresolved scandals and policy failures. These include:1. The Russian oil scandal: A controversial oil deal involving Russian firms and Gambian officials, which led to allegations of tax evasion, was met with inaction by the presidency, despite National Assembly findings.2. The 2022 children’s medicine tragedy: Over 70 children died after consuming contaminated Indian-imported cough syrup. To date, their families have not received justice or compensation. A recent Human Rights Commission report again called for action. 3. Gambia Ports Authority scandal: Allegations of GMD 300 million embezzlement have not yielded accountability despite prolonged investigations. …
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/07/28/youth-led-anti-corruption-movement-surges-in-the-gambia/
Three suspected rebels killed in firefight in India-administered Kashmir
The incident occurred on Monday in the mountains of Dachigam, about 30km (18 miles) east of the disputed region’s main city of Srinagar. “Three terrorists have been neutralised in an intense firefight,” the Indian army said in a statement on social media. “Operation continues.”
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/28/three-suspected-rebels-killed-in-firefight-in-indian-administered
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Workers protest against Electricity Board restructuring in Sri Lanka
The action was organised by the All CEB Trade Unions Alliance, comprising 28 trade unions, including the CEB Sri Lanka Freedom Employees Union, CEB Technical Officers Union (CEBTOU), Client Coordinators Union, Technological Engineers and Superintendents Union, and Engineers Union. Members of the ruling Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP)-controlled All Ceylon Electricity Workers Union (ACEWU) defied their union leadership to join the protest. According to the proposed bill, the CEB will be broken up into five separate companies under government control. These entities will be overseen by boards of directors appointed by the minister of power and energy. The bill stipulates that these five companies will be demerged into 12 additional entities after six months.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/28/uqyr-j28.html
Thailand and Cambodia agree to ‘immediate and unconditional’ ceasefire
Thailand and Cambodia have agreed to an “immediate and unconditional” ceasefire after talks in Malaysia that aimed to halt the worst fighting between the neighbouring countries in more than a decade. At least 38 people have been killed and more than 300,000 displaced by fighting that erupted on the countries’ shared border on Thursday.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/28/thailand-cambodia-ceasefire-malaysia
News 7/28/25
Colombia’s former president Alvaro Uribe found guilty of bribing witnessesIn a historic verdict, judge Sandra Liliana Herrera confirmed that Uribe bribed witnesses in order to press fabricated criminal charges against Senator Ivan Cepeda. Uribe’s witnesses additionally fabricated claims that Justice Minister Eduardo Montealegre illegally opened investigations into the former president and his brother Santiago when Montealegre was Prosecutor General.
https://colombiareports.com/colombias-former-president-alvaro-uribe-found-guilty-of-bribing-witnesses/
After taking back land in Colombia, Indigenous prepare their youth to safeguard it
The children’s “semillero” — a weekend school where Indigenous youth are nurtured like seeds — prepares the next generation to protect their ancestral land. More than a classroom, it’s a space for learning resistance, environmental care and cultural pride. Their work echoes a broader community effort to restore damaged territory and preserve identity in a region still marked by conflict.
https://apnews.com/article/colombia-indigenous-land-protection-cauca-farc-youth-f4de70775dfdd3986af377d297e26e7c
Plot to Kill Lula, Alckmin, and Justice Moraes Traced to Top General
In July 2025, official court records revealed that General Mário Fernandes—once a senior figure in former president Jair Bolsonaro’s government—admitted to writing a plan. The plan called for the kidnapping and murder of Brazil’s President-elect Lula da Silva, Vice President-elect Geraldo Alckmin, and Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes. He said he created and printed the document—known as “Punhal Verde e Amarelo”—inside the presidential palace after Lula’s election win in late 2022. Fernandes claimed that this was only his “risk analysis,” not something he meant to share, and he said he shredded the printout.
https://www.riotimesonline.com/plot-to-kill-lula-alckmin-and-justice-moraes-traced-to-top-general/
https://archive.ph/Ux09h
Italian city says no to warships and weapons for Israel
José Nivoi from the Autonomous Collective of Port Workers (Collettivo Autonomo dei Lavoratori Portuali, CALP) and the local union chapter of Unione Sindacale di Base (USB), emphasized that the morning rally was directed specifically at the new city authorities, with dockworkers demanding a clear stance of solidarity with Palestine – an assurance they say was given. “The evening assembly was also very lively,” Nivoi told Peoples Dispatch. “Around 150 people took part – mostly members of the general public, not just activists – and joined a discussion on the plans to transform the port into dual-use military infrastructure.”
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/07/27/italian-city-says-no-to-warships-and-weapons-for-israel/
Trump cuts deadline for Putin to reach Ukraine peace deal to ‘10 or 12 days’
“I’m going to make a new deadline of about 10, 10 or 12 days from today,” Trump said in response to a question while sitting with the British prime minister, Keir Starmer. “There’s no reason in waiting. There’s no reason in waiting. It’s 50 days. I want to be generous, but we just don’t see any progress being made.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/28/trump-ukraine-russia-peace-deal-deadline
Dutch Security Agency Names Israel a Threat over Disinformation, ICC Pressure
The report, titled Assessment of Threats from State Actors, highlights attempts by Israel to influence Dutch public opinion and political processes through disinformation campaigns. According to the NCTV, these efforts include the dissemination of misleading information and covert lobbying tactics aimed at shaping perceptions and decisions within Dutch society. One notable incident cited in the report involves a document distributed in 2023 by an Israeli government ministry to Dutch journalists and politicians via unofficial channels.
https://www.palestinechronicle.com/dutch-security-agency-names-israel-a-threat-over-disinformation-icc-pressure/
Israel jails soldiers for refusing to return to Gaza after they killed children
"After this incident, we had three soldiers leave because of post-traumatic stress disorder who suffered from dreams at night, insomnia, they would see these children. They didn't talk to us, they didn't bring us a psychologist, everything continued as usual." Three of the four soldiers received prison sentences ranging from one week to 12 days. The fourth has not yet been tried. One of the jailed soldiers had been wounded last year during fighting along the Gaza border and had returned voluntarily to fight after recovering.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israeli-soldiers-imprisoned-refusing-return-gaza
Houthis say they hold 10 crew from Greek-operated ship they sank off Yemen
Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis said on Monday they had rescued 10 seafarers from the Greek-operated cargo ship Eternity C which they attacked and sank in the Red Sea earlier this month. The Liberia-flagged Eternity C was the second ship to sink off Yemen this month after repeated attacks by Houthi militants with sea drones and rocket-propelled grenades. Another Greek-operated vessel, the Magic Seas, had gone down days earlier.
https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2025/07/houthis-say-they-hold-10-crew-greek-operated-ship-they-sank-yemen
Youth-led anti-corruption movement surges in The Gambia
GALA’s protest platform spans a wide range of unresolved scandals and policy failures. These include:1. The Russian oil scandal: A controversial oil deal involving Russian firms and Gambian officials, which led to allegations of tax evasion, was met with inaction by the presidency, despite National Assembly findings.2. The 2022 children’s medicine tragedy: Over 70 children died after consuming contaminated Indian-imported cough syrup. To date, their families have not received justice or compensation. A recent Human Rights Commission report again called for action. 3. Gambia Ports Authority scandal: Allegations of GMD 300 million embezzlement have not yielded accountability despite prolonged investigations. …
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/07/28/youth-led-anti-corruption-movement-surges-in-the-gambia/
Three suspected rebels killed in firefight in India-administered Kashmir
The incident occurred on Monday in the mountains of Dachigam, about 30km (18 miles) east of the disputed region’s main city of Srinagar. “Three terrorists have been neutralised in an intense firefight,” the Indian army said in a statement on social media. “Operation continues.”
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/28/three-suspected-rebels-killed-in-firefight-in-indian-administered
https://archive.ph/ogcW9
Workers protest against Electricity Board restructuring in Sri Lanka
The action was organised by the All CEB Trade Unions Alliance, comprising 28 trade unions, including the CEB Sri Lanka Freedom Employees Union, CEB Technical Officers Union (CEBTOU), Client Coordinators Union, Technological Engineers and Superintendents Union, and Engineers Union. Members of the ruling Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP)-controlled All Ceylon Electricity Workers Union (ACEWU) defied their union leadership to join the protest. According to the proposed bill, the CEB will be broken up into five separate companies under government control. These entities will be overseen by boards of directors appointed by the minister of power and energy. The bill stipulates that these five companies will be demerged into 12 additional entities after six months.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/28/uqyr-j28.html
Thailand and Cambodia agree to ‘immediate and unconditional’ ceasefire
Thailand and Cambodia have agreed to an “immediate and unconditional” ceasefire after talks in Malaysia that aimed to halt the worst fighting between the neighbouring countries in more than a decade. At least 38 people have been killed and more than 300,000 displaced by fighting that erupted on the countries’ shared border on Thursday.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/28/thailand-cambodia-ceasefire-malaysia
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Could zionism be considered as part of the third position?
Was recently thinking about this, does the phrase "Israel are the new nazis" have any actual merit? It seems to make sense at first, but I've encountered many third positionists who side with Russia and China over the the Ukraine and Israel, who supposedly make up the 5th reich
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>violent and chaotic anti-American student protests
>Tesla burnings
>violent attacks on pro-life activists and other right-wingers
>arson attack on Gov Shapiro's home
>multiple assassination attempts on Trump
We have now entered an American Years of Lead without question.
A very special friend of ours warned us about this months ago and nobody listened.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qda4JY36BBA
It's Official
>the killing of Brian Thompson>violent and chaotic anti-American student protests
>Tesla burnings
>violent attacks on pro-life activists and other right-wingers
>arson attack on Gov Shapiro's home
>multiple assassination attempts on Trump
We have now entered an American Years of Lead without question.
A very special friend of ours warned us about this months ago and nobody listened.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qda4JY36BBA
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2. Jewish people are not the majority in Israel/Palestine. No government may long stand without the consent of the majority of the governed.
3. The B.D.S. movement. Israel simply cannot afford to become an international pariah.
4. A large percentage of Israel's Jewish population will leave when Israel is no longer able to support a First-World standard of living.
5. Hubris. The Israeli government is unwilling to make the necessary concessions and reforms.
The Zionist government will be gone by 2030.
1. Isreal is utterly dependent on American aid and American support is dwindling.2. Jewish people are not the majority in Israel/Palestine. No government may long stand without the consent of the majority of the governed.
3. The B.D.S. movement. Israel simply cannot afford to become an international pariah.
4. A large percentage of Israel's Jewish population will leave when Israel is no longer able to support a First-World standard of living.
5. Hubris. The Israeli government is unwilling to make the necessary concessions and reforms.
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it is political compass slop and the political compass is bullshit but it's still very interesting in this context
Why are the libleft and authright the most fetishistic quadrants?
and also another really interesting thing
the sample size for men (15k) is much larger than the sample size for women (5k) because women take the political compass test much less than men. thus the woman graph is much more oriented towards the extremes on all sides because to be a political compass involved woman is to be much weirder compared to the norm for women and thus more permitting of extremism although political compass stuff is in both cases outside of the norm
i must add that it's highly likely that a signicant part of the female respondents were trans women and that's safe to assume if you're on /leftypol/ and have interacted with many political extremists
and this got me wondering why cis women don't get involved with terminally online shit as much
i think this has everything to do with the fact that cis women rarely go beyond the major socially acceptable online spaces (instagram, tiktok, snapchat, sometimes even youtube is too niche, and only the hyper-mainstream slop areas of these areas)
discord, reddit, 4chan and altchans, even youtube on occassion, and the less mainstream regions of tiktok, youtube, and ig are basically all men and trans women
for example almost every man i've ever met from gen z has heard of Chris Chan and only one woman.
why is this?
are women just less autistic or is the autism just expressed different
i think it will be the difference of expression
the material conditions of the time lead to a very strange paradox in which women are marginalized, this is clear from anyone who has lived in society, that in lingustics generally the male sex is given first-order preference fore example, and that men too are alienated as seen clearly by suicide rates and the rise of the (highly retarded) incel movement and increase in (say the line) male lonlieness. this leads to different expressions of the same alienation with the present material conditions and the frequent failure to realize class conciousness from both sexes as they simply blame the other sex for their problems. we can see that a hyper-capitalist society like south korea has this extremely accelerated.
god i wish guy debord was still alive
another day another banger
seeing this graph got me thinkingit is political compass slop and the political compass is bullshit but it's still very interesting in this context
Why are the libleft and authright the most fetishistic quadrants?
and also another really interesting thing
the sample size for men (15k) is much larger than the sample size for women (5k) because women take the political compass test much less than men. thus the woman graph is much more oriented towards the extremes on all sides because to be a political compass involved woman is to be much weirder compared to the norm for women and thus more permitting of extremism although political compass stuff is in both cases outside of the norm
i must add that it's highly likely that a signicant part of the female respondents were trans women and that's safe to assume if you're on /leftypol/ and have interacted with many political extremists
and this got me wondering why cis women don't get involved with terminally online shit as much
i think this has everything to do with the fact that cis women rarely go beyond the major socially acceptable online spaces (instagram, tiktok, snapchat, sometimes even youtube is too niche, and only the hyper-mainstream slop areas of these areas)
discord, reddit, 4chan and altchans, even youtube on occassion, and the less mainstream regions of tiktok, youtube, and ig are basically all men and trans women
for example almost every man i've ever met from gen z has heard of Chris Chan and only one woman.
why is this?
are women just less autistic or is the autism just expressed different
i think it will be the difference of expression
the material conditions of the time lead to a very strange paradox in which women are marginalized, this is clear from anyone who has lived in society, that in lingustics generally the male sex is given first-order preference fore example, and that men too are alienated as seen clearly by suicide rates and the rise of the (highly retarded) incel movement and increase in (say the line) male lonlieness. this leads to different expressions of the same alienation with the present material conditions and the frequent failure to realize class conciousness from both sexes as they simply blame the other sex for their problems. we can see that a hyper-capitalist society like south korea has this extremely accelerated.
god i wish guy debord was still alive
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No doubt the fascist mods here will ban me and delete this thread for pointing this out. Nothing can penetrate the cosy fash bubble you have online here.
Are there any genuine leftists here? Or do you all just larp and dress-up whilst espousing fascist ideology?
Miss me with that shit.
Fascist Russia
Russia is a fascist country. Leftypol sucking Putin's dick like bolshies sucking Hitler's dick in the 1930s and 1940s.No doubt the fascist mods here will ban me and delete this thread for pointing this out. Nothing can penetrate the cosy fash bubble you have online here.
Are there any genuine leftists here? Or do you all just larp and dress-up whilst espousing fascist ideology?
Miss me with that shit.
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How do I cope?
I don't want to live in a defeated Europe.
I don't think my psyche could handle witnessing the EU collapse or be reduced to an irrelevant institution by far right """reforms""". But that is just the outcome that is becoming increasingly more likely with each passing year.How do I cope?
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What did Marx mean by "Abolish The Family"?
How would this work? Would all kids be raised in boarding schools from birth by federally employed nannies? Would the kids be able to visit their parents?
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Revolutionary Blackout goes full Neo-Nazi, but it raises bigger questions
Not trolling or trying to be /pol/ here, but I've seen this happening to a lot of leftists since the start of the Gaza Genocide. Can we really blame low autism score chuds for hating Jews when Jewish soldiers fighting in the army of the self-proclaimed Jewish state are committing the most depraved crimes against humanity in recent memory on livestream? When it came to the ordinary German's complicity in the Holocaust, left-leaning intellectuals like Thomas Mann supported placing a collective burden of guilt on the German people. Should the same be applied to the Jewish people (or at least Israeli Jews)? Going full Ye and doing actual antisemitism definitely isn't the answer, but the wounds are so raw. People can only see so many baby decapitation videos before they lose their minds.
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If Zohran Mamdani were a sensible socialist who had a basic awareness of Maslow's hierarchy, he would realize that the most destructive source of inequality in the US as well as in Uganda is the difference in exposure to crime and other dangers between the rich and the rest of the population. The rich in poor countries are protected by bodyguards, and so can maintain their lifestyles even as crime remains rampant and afflicts the lives of those with lower incomes.
Crime depoliticizes - and radicalizes. It discourages political expression by turning public spaces off-limits to political protest. A big reason why South Korea has an active political culture is because the streets are safe and no one worries about getting mugged at night. One possible path to authoritarianism in such a country would be if the government decided to import an underclass that would increase the perception of public danger.
Mamdani's wedding in Uganda was protected by two dozen special forces operatives. Why not extend such privileges to New Yorkers, many of whom are becoming too worried to use the subways? Wouldn't a true luxury automated communism make security equality also, and offer every citizen a personal bodyguard? Instead, Mamdani wants to de-fund the police and make NYC more dangerous.
Article about Mamdani's heavily armed compound wedding: https://nypost.com/2025/07/26/us-news/zohran-mamdanis-presidential-style-uganda-wedding-bash/
Mamdani's plan to defund the police is suicidal even by socialist standards
From a FB friend who is a full professor at Yonsei University, one of South Korea's most prestigious universities:If Zohran Mamdani were a sensible socialist who had a basic awareness of Maslow's hierarchy, he would realize that the most destructive source of inequality in the US as well as in Uganda is the difference in exposure to crime and other dangers between the rich and the rest of the population. The rich in poor countries are protected by bodyguards, and so can maintain their lifestyles even as crime remains rampant and afflicts the lives of those with lower incomes.
Crime depoliticizes - and radicalizes. It discourages political expression by turning public spaces off-limits to political protest. A big reason why South Korea has an active political culture is because the streets are safe and no one worries about getting mugged at night. One possible path to authoritarianism in such a country would be if the government decided to import an underclass that would increase the perception of public danger.
Mamdani's wedding in Uganda was protected by two dozen special forces operatives. Why not extend such privileges to New Yorkers, many of whom are becoming too worried to use the subways? Wouldn't a true luxury automated communism make security equality also, and offer every citizen a personal bodyguard? Instead, Mamdani wants to de-fund the police and make NYC more dangerous.
Article about Mamdani's heavily armed compound wedding: https://nypost.com/2025/07/26/us-news/zohran-mamdanis-presidential-style-uganda-wedding-bash/
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<Abolish Religion.
<Abolish Wage Labour.
<Abolish Money.
<Abolish Work.
<Abolish Commodity Production.
<Abolish the State.
<Abolish Class.
<Abolish Private Property.
<Abolish the Nation.
<Abolish Patriarchy.
<Abolish Gender.
<Abolish Town and Country.
If you don't think these are the ultimate goals for a communist party or organization to achieve, I'm sorry to say this but you're not a communist but rather just an edgy social democrat.
If you disagree with any of these, you're not a communist
<Abolish The Family.<Abolish Religion.
<Abolish Wage Labour.
<Abolish Money.
<Abolish Work.
<Abolish Commodity Production.
<Abolish the State.
<Abolish Class.
<Abolish Private Property.
<Abolish the Nation.
<Abolish Patriarchy.
<Abolish Gender.
<Abolish Town and Country.
If you don't think these are the ultimate goals for a communist party or organization to achieve, I'm sorry to say this but you're not a communist but rather just an edgy social democrat.
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Which brings me to the main point. Menshevik tactics seem to be historically good when there is actual political and organizational freedom and when they are used with genuine anti-imperialist sentiment.
>the PKI (Indonesian communist party) did not consider itself subordinate to any foreign party.⁷ By then, it was the third-largest communist party in the world—after those of China and the Soviet Union—and the largest outside them. Its strategy of nonviolent, grassroots engagement had yielded considerable success. The party counted over three million official members. Organizations affiliated with the PKI—including SOBSI (Central All-Indonesian Workers Association), LEKRA (People’s Cultural Institute), BTI (Barisan Tani Indonesia), Pemuda Rakyat (People’s Youth), and Gerwani (Women’s Movement)—had an estimated combined membership of at least twenty million.
>Altogether, nearly a quarter of Indonesia’s population of one hundred million was connected to the PKI, and nearly a third of adult registered voters were affiliated with the party.⁸ The PKI operated openly and extensively throughout the country. However, at the national level, its influence over policy was almost entirely dependent on President Sukarno.
Okay, there's the immediate critique also. But I think that we should reevaluate menshevik contribution to the communist movement. Maybe instead of underground tactics we actually start building a genuine popular communist lead anti-imperialist movement. After all, Martov and Arkadieev were two organizers that shifted the RSDLP from circle organizing to factory agitation.
menshevik ideas get a bad rep
Title says it all. Martov's hysteria and swampification of the menshevik wing pushed it into an opportunistic alliance with the counterrevolutionary forces. But this does not invalidate menshevik tactics. These are informed by the pre-2nd Int'l German SPD. The kernel of menshevik policy really is in the membership rules. Leninism/bolshevism opts out for professional revolutionaries, financial and organizational support while menshevism opts for financial or organizational support. But bolshevik tactics were suited for a, say, Russian autocracy or Yugoslavian monarchofascism, or Mongolia even; not in 'democratic' western European states. The Brussels/London congress demarcated the tactics for the 'west' (democracies) and 'east' (autocracies).Which brings me to the main point. Menshevik tactics seem to be historically good when there is actual political and organizational freedom and when they are used with genuine anti-imperialist sentiment.
>the PKI (Indonesian communist party) did not consider itself subordinate to any foreign party.⁷ By then, it was the third-largest communist party in the world—after those of China and the Soviet Union—and the largest outside them. Its strategy of nonviolent, grassroots engagement had yielded considerable success. The party counted over three million official members. Organizations affiliated with the PKI—including SOBSI (Central All-Indonesian Workers Association), LEKRA (People’s Cultural Institute), BTI (Barisan Tani Indonesia), Pemuda Rakyat (People’s Youth), and Gerwani (Women’s Movement)—had an estimated combined membership of at least twenty million.
>Altogether, nearly a quarter of Indonesia’s population of one hundred million was connected to the PKI, and nearly a third of adult registered voters were affiliated with the party.⁸ The PKI operated openly and extensively throughout the country. However, at the national level, its influence over policy was almost entirely dependent on President Sukarno.
Okay, there's the immediate critique also. But I think that we should reevaluate menshevik contribution to the communist movement. Maybe instead of underground tactics we actually start building a genuine popular communist lead anti-imperialist movement. After all, Martov and Arkadieev were two organizers that shifted the RSDLP from circle organizing to factory agitation.
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McVerry my beloved
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Videos_and_audio_recordings_of_Ayman_al-Zawahiri
It was all anyone talked about in fall 2003. EXPUNGED from the internet.
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September 2003 Osama Bin Laden Tape
They have basically purged this video from the internet, but we know it still exists because of news sites, it was published internationally. Its Osama Bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri hiking in the mountains.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Videos_and_audio_recordings_of_Ayman_al-Zawahiri
It was all anyone talked about in fall 2003. EXPUNGED from the internet.
Anyone have it?
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Why do third worldists completely ignore the entirely unique forms of repression workers in the imperial core face? The level of chemical butchery in the imperial core is just astounding.
Why do third worldists completely ignore the entirely unique forms of repression workers in the imperial core face? The level of chemical butchery in the imperial core is just astounding.
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Circulates resources socially without capital gains for the bourgeoisie, reduces pressure on the labour force to find work
-Shoplifting
Suppresses prices, takes profit from the commodity cycle and puts it into socially provided free commodities for proles, increases labour demands for security
-Petit-bourgeois drug production
Takes money away from cartels and large grey market enterprises (haute bourgeoisie) which is used for capitalist intrigues
-Theft from corporations/bourgeoisie
Obvious
-Carding/Personal credit card fraud
Potentially aligned, causes suffering and hardship to proles but is taking from the bourgeoisie ultimately if it is fully reimbursed by the banks
Proletarian aligned hustles
-Successfully beggingCirculates resources socially without capital gains for the bourgeoisie, reduces pressure on the labour force to find work
-Shoplifting
Suppresses prices, takes profit from the commodity cycle and puts it into socially provided free commodities for proles, increases labour demands for security
-Petit-bourgeois drug production
Takes money away from cartels and large grey market enterprises (haute bourgeoisie) which is used for capitalist intrigues
-Theft from corporations/bourgeoisie
Obvious
-Carding/Personal credit card fraud
Potentially aligned, causes suffering and hardship to proles but is taking from the bourgeoisie ultimately if it is fully reimbursed by the banks
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The raid was broadcast live by the Freedom Flotilla Coalition, showing soldiers confronting unarmed passengers as they sat on deck with their hands raised, singing the anti-fascist anthem “Bella Ciao”. The Handala, carrying 19 activists, including European MPs and two Al Jazeera journalists, was intercepted roughly 100 kilometres west of Gaza, and around 50 kilometres off Egypt’s coast. Activists say the boat was carrying humanitarian supplies and attempting to break Israel’s maritime blockade of Gaza.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israeli-thugs-board-gaza-bound-aid-ship-international-waters
Tunisians protest against President Saied, call country an ‘open-air prison’
The protesters said Tunisia under Saied has descended into authoritarianism, with mass arrests and politically motivated trials silencing dissent. "Our first aim is to battle against tyranny to restore the democracy and to demand the release of the political detainees," Monia Ibrahim, wife of imprisoned politician Abdelhamid Jelassi, told Reuters.
https://www.newarab.com/news/tunisians-protest-against-kais-saieds-authoritarian-regime
Police station stormed in Egypt as outrage over Gaza blockade reaches boiling point
Hours before the channel went silent, it released an audio statement styled like Palestinian faction communiques, claiming responsibility for the “Iron 17” operation. The statement, attributed to Ahmed Abdel Wahab and Mohsen Mustafa, rejected any political affiliations, describing themselves as “heirs of Omar ibn al-Khattab and Amr ibn al-Aas” seeking to revive Egypt’s national spirit. The figures in question refers to invoking early Islamic military and political leaders that symbolised strength, justice, and national revival. Their message was clear: end the genocide in Gaza and stop repressing Egyptians. Addressing the Egyptian people, they decried the “severe blows” inflicted on the nation and vowed to rouse it from its “death.”
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/young-egyptians-storm-police-hq-over-gaza-blockade-rare-act-resistance-0
Desperate Zimbabweans get in debt to pay for lifesaving blood transfusions
With ongoing currency woes, rising costs of living and high levels of poverty, desperate Zimbabweans in need of care face life-threatening delays due to financial barriers. This includes blood shortages – despite supplies being free in public health facilities.
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2025/7/25/desperate-zimbabweans-get-in-debt-to-pay-for-lifesaving-blood-transfusions
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Electricity in SA is unaffordable for many: Dr. Ngwane
Scores of City Power officials accompanied by South African Police Service (SAPS) and Johannesburg Metropolitan Police Department (JMPD) officers have removed illegal electricity connections in Tshepisong, west of Johannesburg. Residents have blocked roads with rocks and burning tyres in protest. Dr. Ngwane says struggling communities bear the brunt of the electricity challenges. “This is a structural problem it’s a question of energy is a basic necessity and its not a question of choice, people just need to have energy. But how do we provide energy to meet people’s needs. At the moment the approach by the government, Eskom, City Power and all the authorities is a wrong approach,” says Dr. Ngwane.
https://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/electricity-in-sa-is-unaffordable-to-many-dr-ngwane/
Wildfire burns through northern suburb of Greece’s capital Athens and residents are told to evacuate
On site, 145 firefighters and 44 fire engines, 10 firefighting planes and seven helicopters are attempting to put out the fire, whose origin is unknown. Four ambulances are treating at least five residents, most of them elderly with respiratory problems. Temperatures reaching, or exceeding, 38 degrees Celsius (100 degrees Fahrenheit), dry conditions and high winds are fanning the flames. Under such conditions wildfires “expand very quickly and become dangerous. These conditions are expected to prevail over the coming days,” Vathrakoyannis said.
https://apnews.com/article/wildfire-greece-kryoneri-evacuation-firefighters-39eaf327432ed8b1f55b19170c7d372f
Schoolchildren to study ‘spiritual and moral culture’ of Russia
During the classes, students will engage in discussions on topics such as faith in God, family life, civic responsibility, national unity, and moral accountability, according to the ministry. The program also addresses themes like traditional marriage between a man and a woman, freedom, dignity, and human rights.
https://www.rt.com/russia/621911-schoolchildren-to-study-spiritual-and/
https://archive.ph/nBc6x
Maduro Confirms Sale of Venezuelan Fertilizer Firm Monómeros to Colombia, Ending Privatization Rumors
The deal reportedly established a base price for Monómeros to start negotiations. Palma said that Colombian state control of the firm would help stabilize prices and reduce the country’s dependence on agricultural imports. Petro government officials have not disclosed if Bogotá plans to buy the entirety of shares or just a majority stake, as was first proposed in March 2023.
https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/maduro-confirms-sale-of-venezuelan-fertilizer-firm-monomeros-to-colombia-ending-privatization-rumors/
Petro orders all Colombian coal exports to Israel halted
The South American leftwing leader also said he planned to bring this matter up in diplomatic dialogue with Switzerland regarding Glencore, a Swiss multinational that owns Cerrejón, Latin America's largest open-pit coal mine. Colombia's mining sector has faced five consecutive quarters of contraction, partly due to a global price crisis and the Petro administration's push for renewable energy.
https://en.mercopress.com/2025/07/25/petro-orders-all-colombian-coal-exports-to-israel-halted
Thailand and Cambodia trade fresh attacks and accusations as allies call for a ceasefire
Thailand and Cambodia traded accusations of fresh attacks Saturday as deadly border clashes entered a third day and President Donald Trump joined a chorus of international voices calling for a ceasefire. The fighting has killed at least 33 people and displaced more than 168,000.
https://apnews.com/article/thailand-cambodia-armed-clash-border-eda96eb133a4561fa192029466da8dcf
All 24 KMT lawmakers survive recall votes to maintain opposition control of Taiwan’s legislature
All 24 lawmakers of the main opposition Chinese Nationalists Party (KMT) on Saturday survived historical nationwide recall elections, ensuring that the KMT along with Taiwan People’s Party (TPP) lawmakers will maintain opposition control of the legislature. Recall votes against all 24 KMT lawmakers as well as Hsinchu Mayor Ann Kao (高虹安) and KMT legislative caucus whip Fu Kun-chi (傅崐萁) failed to pass, according to Central Election Commission (CEC) figures.
https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2025/07/26/2003840965
https://archive.ph/MQXbq
Australian Labor government to expand police-state ASIO interrogation powers
Unprecedented powers to forcibly interrogate people were first handed to ASIO in 2003 during the supposed “war on terrorism.” Under Labor’s amendments to the ASIO Act, these powers will be extended and broadened indefinitely. The first bill will overturn a “sunset” clause that set an expiry date for the powers on September 7. The second bill will scrap “sunset” clauses altogether, making the powers permanent, and broaden the powers to cover four new war-related fields.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/26/egxi-j26.html
News 7/26/25
Israeli 'thugs' board Gaza-bound aid ship Handala in international watersThe raid was broadcast live by the Freedom Flotilla Coalition, showing soldiers confronting unarmed passengers as they sat on deck with their hands raised, singing the anti-fascist anthem “Bella Ciao”. The Handala, carrying 19 activists, including European MPs and two Al Jazeera journalists, was intercepted roughly 100 kilometres west of Gaza, and around 50 kilometres off Egypt’s coast. Activists say the boat was carrying humanitarian supplies and attempting to break Israel’s maritime blockade of Gaza.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israeli-thugs-board-gaza-bound-aid-ship-international-waters
Tunisians protest against President Saied, call country an ‘open-air prison’
The protesters said Tunisia under Saied has descended into authoritarianism, with mass arrests and politically motivated trials silencing dissent. "Our first aim is to battle against tyranny to restore the democracy and to demand the release of the political detainees," Monia Ibrahim, wife of imprisoned politician Abdelhamid Jelassi, told Reuters.
https://www.newarab.com/news/tunisians-protest-against-kais-saieds-authoritarian-regime
Police station stormed in Egypt as outrage over Gaza blockade reaches boiling point
Hours before the channel went silent, it released an audio statement styled like Palestinian faction communiques, claiming responsibility for the “Iron 17” operation. The statement, attributed to Ahmed Abdel Wahab and Mohsen Mustafa, rejected any political affiliations, describing themselves as “heirs of Omar ibn al-Khattab and Amr ibn al-Aas” seeking to revive Egypt’s national spirit. The figures in question refers to invoking early Islamic military and political leaders that symbolised strength, justice, and national revival. Their message was clear: end the genocide in Gaza and stop repressing Egyptians. Addressing the Egyptian people, they decried the “severe blows” inflicted on the nation and vowed to rouse it from its “death.”
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/young-egyptians-storm-police-hq-over-gaza-blockade-rare-act-resistance-0
Desperate Zimbabweans get in debt to pay for lifesaving blood transfusions
With ongoing currency woes, rising costs of living and high levels of poverty, desperate Zimbabweans in need of care face life-threatening delays due to financial barriers. This includes blood shortages – despite supplies being free in public health facilities.
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2025/7/25/desperate-zimbabweans-get-in-debt-to-pay-for-lifesaving-blood-transfusions
https://archive.ph/LvOmV
Electricity in SA is unaffordable for many: Dr. Ngwane
Scores of City Power officials accompanied by South African Police Service (SAPS) and Johannesburg Metropolitan Police Department (JMPD) officers have removed illegal electricity connections in Tshepisong, west of Johannesburg. Residents have blocked roads with rocks and burning tyres in protest. Dr. Ngwane says struggling communities bear the brunt of the electricity challenges. “This is a structural problem it’s a question of energy is a basic necessity and its not a question of choice, people just need to have energy. But how do we provide energy to meet people’s needs. At the moment the approach by the government, Eskom, City Power and all the authorities is a wrong approach,” says Dr. Ngwane.
https://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/electricity-in-sa-is-unaffordable-to-many-dr-ngwane/
Wildfire burns through northern suburb of Greece’s capital Athens and residents are told to evacuate
On site, 145 firefighters and 44 fire engines, 10 firefighting planes and seven helicopters are attempting to put out the fire, whose origin is unknown. Four ambulances are treating at least five residents, most of them elderly with respiratory problems. Temperatures reaching, or exceeding, 38 degrees Celsius (100 degrees Fahrenheit), dry conditions and high winds are fanning the flames. Under such conditions wildfires “expand very quickly and become dangerous. These conditions are expected to prevail over the coming days,” Vathrakoyannis said.
https://apnews.com/article/wildfire-greece-kryoneri-evacuation-firefighters-39eaf327432ed8b1f55b19170c7d372f
Schoolchildren to study ‘spiritual and moral culture’ of Russia
During the classes, students will engage in discussions on topics such as faith in God, family life, civic responsibility, national unity, and moral accountability, according to the ministry. The program also addresses themes like traditional marriage between a man and a woman, freedom, dignity, and human rights.
https://www.rt.com/russia/621911-schoolchildren-to-study-spiritual-and/
https://archive.ph/nBc6x
Maduro Confirms Sale of Venezuelan Fertilizer Firm Monómeros to Colombia, Ending Privatization Rumors
The deal reportedly established a base price for Monómeros to start negotiations. Palma said that Colombian state control of the firm would help stabilize prices and reduce the country’s dependence on agricultural imports. Petro government officials have not disclosed if Bogotá plans to buy the entirety of shares or just a majority stake, as was first proposed in March 2023.
https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/maduro-confirms-sale-of-venezuelan-fertilizer-firm-monomeros-to-colombia-ending-privatization-rumors/
Petro orders all Colombian coal exports to Israel halted
The South American leftwing leader also said he planned to bring this matter up in diplomatic dialogue with Switzerland regarding Glencore, a Swiss multinational that owns Cerrejón, Latin America's largest open-pit coal mine. Colombia's mining sector has faced five consecutive quarters of contraction, partly due to a global price crisis and the Petro administration's push for renewable energy.
https://en.mercopress.com/2025/07/25/petro-orders-all-colombian-coal-exports-to-israel-halted
Thailand and Cambodia trade fresh attacks and accusations as allies call for a ceasefire
Thailand and Cambodia traded accusations of fresh attacks Saturday as deadly border clashes entered a third day and President Donald Trump joined a chorus of international voices calling for a ceasefire. The fighting has killed at least 33 people and displaced more than 168,000.
https://apnews.com/article/thailand-cambodia-armed-clash-border-eda96eb133a4561fa192029466da8dcf
All 24 KMT lawmakers survive recall votes to maintain opposition control of Taiwan’s legislature
All 24 lawmakers of the main opposition Chinese Nationalists Party (KMT) on Saturday survived historical nationwide recall elections, ensuring that the KMT along with Taiwan People’s Party (TPP) lawmakers will maintain opposition control of the legislature. Recall votes against all 24 KMT lawmakers as well as Hsinchu Mayor Ann Kao (高虹安) and KMT legislative caucus whip Fu Kun-chi (傅崐萁) failed to pass, according to Central Election Commission (CEC) figures.
https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2025/07/26/2003840965
https://archive.ph/MQXbq
Australian Labor government to expand police-state ASIO interrogation powers
Unprecedented powers to forcibly interrogate people were first handed to ASIO in 2003 during the supposed “war on terrorism.” Under Labor’s amendments to the ASIO Act, these powers will be extended and broadened indefinitely. The first bill will overturn a “sunset” clause that set an expiry date for the powers on September 7. The second bill will scrap “sunset” clauses altogether, making the powers permanent, and broaden the powers to cover four new war-related fields.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/26/egxi-j26.html
R: 14 / I: 3
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1880/soc-utop/ch03.htm
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1894-c3/ch49.htm
And yes I know its pointless to ask and speculate now, but there is nothing else to do. It's boring watching the civilization in its present state of things display signs of subhuman drive towards reactionary behavior, I'm not using the word subhuman in a nazi sort of "lesser race" way , rather the actual drive towards regression and stagnation that exists and the fetishism of some individuals to literally rewild and regress that are somehow allowed to speak their mind as "species-traitors" without being executed due to a disunited humanity that has not yet undergone socialization and collectivity.
Until humanity has done away with its contradictions it doesn't seem plausible, how long until everyone adopts material analysis and immanent critique? How much time left until self-destruction is inevitable?
Will communism as a movement even be enough? Won't it become stagnant at some point as new conditions for development require unforeseen changes required that it becomes treated as an outdated model? Is "abolishing the present state of things" not enough when a requirement per say could be "creating a new way of being"?
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Inb4
>weed flag, typical stoner drivel, flag checks out, blablabla
These denouncers are part of the problem ^ they're reactionaries who don't understand chemistry, botany and the material sciences. If this board wasn't contradictory in premise they'd already be excluded under a program. I yearn for them to die quicker. All of them are either religious or social conservative vermin no different from national socialists and the bourgeois / conservative socialists that Marx and Engels criticized:
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/ch03.htm
A reminder - fight to end the war on drugs, it is a global economic system of intentionally created crime that has nothing to do with the health and safety of society or its preservation. The war on drugs can only be ended by class war, a war on drugs can never be for the interests of "people" or the working class, only for their subjugation and destruction by exploitations and reactionaries.
The real reason you might see these people is because the mods are inadequate and believe that having more users is better regardless if they're reactionaries.
Communism's AOT => K4 Interuniversal Civilization?
Will the Administration of Things be sustainable enough to reach K4 on the Kardashev scale by development of the productive forces or will it be insufficient and in need of change? Will there be farther stagnation that awaits us after the communist movement has done away with the capitalist mode of production? Won't advancing on the Kardashev scale bring attention to more developed civilizations that see us as a threat to a hypothetical cosmic hierarchy (Dark forest hypothesis)?https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1880/soc-utop/ch03.htm
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1894-c3/ch49.htm
And yes I know its pointless to ask and speculate now, but there is nothing else to do. It's boring watching the civilization in its present state of things display signs of subhuman drive towards reactionary behavior, I'm not using the word subhuman in a nazi sort of "lesser race" way , rather the actual drive towards regression and stagnation that exists and the fetishism of some individuals to literally rewild and regress that are somehow allowed to speak their mind as "species-traitors" without being executed due to a disunited humanity that has not yet undergone socialization and collectivity.
Until humanity has done away with its contradictions it doesn't seem plausible, how long until everyone adopts material analysis and immanent critique? How much time left until self-destruction is inevitable?
Will communism as a movement even be enough? Won't it become stagnant at some point as new conditions for development require unforeseen changes required that it becomes treated as an outdated model? Is "abolishing the present state of things" not enough when a requirement per say could be "creating a new way of being"?
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Inb4
>weed flag, typical stoner drivel, flag checks out, blablabla
These denouncers are part of the problem ^ they're reactionaries who don't understand chemistry, botany and the material sciences. If this board wasn't contradictory in premise they'd already be excluded under a program. I yearn for them to die quicker. All of them are either religious or social conservative vermin no different from national socialists and the bourgeois / conservative socialists that Marx and Engels criticized:
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/ch03.htm
A reminder - fight to end the war on drugs, it is a global economic system of intentionally created crime that has nothing to do with the health and safety of society or its preservation. The war on drugs can only be ended by class war, a war on drugs can never be for the interests of "people" or the working class, only for their subjugation and destruction by exploitations and reactionaries.
The real reason you might see these people is because the mods are inadequate and believe that having more users is better regardless if they're reactionaries.
R: 387 / I: 22 (sage)
Honest question: why don’t radical leftists agree to volunteer at group homes for disabled adults or become special education teachers?
As the fear of mass eugenics is becoming a reality in America, we can all see how the disabled (in particular, people with intellectual disabilities and neurodivergent differences) will soon be set up for mass eradication. The disabled aren’t “parasites” but full and equal human individuals who deserve respect, dignity and autonomy. They are hated in capitalism on the basis that they aren’t “useful” to the system. We also see instances where RFK is trying to wipe out autistic identities by creating a eugenicist “autism registry.”
Given this, why aren’t radical leftists dedicating most of their activism towards fighting and advocating for the disabled? Or dedicating their time and every to caring for those who are entirely dependent on the care of others to survive. Truth is we ALL need care from others. Why focus on any other issue when eugenics is the biggest evil in our world today and needs to be defeated before anything else?
I strongly believe radical leftists need to work and care for disabled people and we can start doing that by agreeing to be special Ed teachers (and thereby advocate for disabled children) or work at group homes for disabled adults. That’s a much better use of our energy and VALUES than protesting or political organizing. Eugenics is at the heart of capitalism and there’s no revolution without the disabled.
Honest question: why don’t radical leftists agree to volunteer at group homes for disabled adults or become special education teachers?
As the fear of mass eugenics is becoming a reality in America, we can all see how the disabled (in particular, people with intellectual disabilities and neurodivergent differences) will soon be set up for mass eradication. The disabled aren’t “parasites” but full and equal human individuals who deserve respect, dignity and autonomy. They are hated in capitalism on the basis that they aren’t “useful” to the system. We also see instances where RFK is trying to wipe out autistic identities by creating a eugenicist “autism registry.”
Given this, why aren’t radical leftists dedicating most of their activism towards fighting and advocating for the disabled? Or dedicating their time and every to caring for those who are entirely dependent on the care of others to survive. Truth is we ALL need care from others. Why focus on any other issue when eugenics is the biggest evil in our world today and needs to be defeated before anything else?
I strongly believe radical leftists need to work and care for disabled people and we can start doing that by agreeing to be special Ed teachers (and thereby advocate for disabled children) or work at group homes for disabled adults. That’s a much better use of our energy and VALUES than protesting or political organizing. Eugenics is at the heart of capitalism and there’s no revolution without the disabled.
R: 51 / I: 15
>Stopped counter-revolution cold in Czechoslovakia
>Aided Vietnam in its war against American imperialism
>Still lives rent-free in the heads of Maoists, pro-Hoxha "Anti-Revisionists" and pro-NATO liberals despite being dead for 43 years
Discuss one of the most under-rated socialists.
/brezhnev/ General
>Undid Cornman's retardation>Stopped counter-revolution cold in Czechoslovakia
>Aided Vietnam in its war against American imperialism
>Still lives rent-free in the heads of Maoists, pro-Hoxha "Anti-Revisionists" and pro-NATO liberals despite being dead for 43 years
Discuss one of the most under-rated socialists.
R: 28 / I: 8
Was he right?
All Power 2da sovyets
>"But after all, my dear friends, does Bolshevism exist in Russia? It does not any longer. There are no longer councils of the factories, but dictators of the factories; no longer eight hours of work, but twelve; no longer equal salaries, but thirty-five different categories, not according to need, but according to merit. There is not in Russia even that liberty which there is in Italy. Is there a dictatorship of the proletariat? No! Is there a dictatorship of the Socialists? No! There is a dictatorship of a few intelligent men, not workmen, who belong to a section of the Socialist Party, and their dictatorship is opposed by all other sections. This dictatorship of a few men is what is called Bolshevism. Now we do not want this in Italy."Was he right?
R: 8 / I: 1
A judge convicted seven former executives of Chiquita Brands in Colombia for sponsoring terrorism and sentenced them to 11 months in prison. The former executives were responsible for Chiquita’s contributions totaling $1.7 million to paramilitary organization AUC between 1995 and 2004, said the Prosecutor General’s Office in a press statement.
https://colombiareports.com/chiquitas-former-bosses-in-colombia-sentenced-to-11-years-in-prison/
Pro-Palestinian Lebanese fighter freed from France welcomed home in Beirut
French authorities released Abdallah early on Friday on the condition that he never return to France. Family members welcomed him at the airport’s VIP lounge, while dozens of supporters gathered nearby, waving Palestinian and Lebanese Communist Party flags. Chants and cheers erupted as Abdallah appeared, with many hailing him as a symbol of resistance, AFP news agency reported. Abdallah’s return marks the end of one of France’s longest detentions involving a political prisoner.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/25/pro-palestinian-lebanese-fighter-released-from-french-prison-after-40-years
https://archive.ph/240sK
Israel will let foreign countries drop aid into Gaza, Israel army radio says
Israel will allow foreign countries to parachute aid into Gaza starting on Friday, Israeli army radio quoted a military official as saying. An Israeli military spokesperson did not immediately reply to a Reuters request for comment on the report. The Gaza health ministry says more than 100 people have died from starvation in the Palestinian enclave since Israel cut off supplies to the territory in March.
https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2025/07/israel-will-let-foreign-countries-drop-aid-gaza-israel-army-radio-says
USAID analysis found no evidence of massive Hamas theft of Gaza aid
An internal U.S. government analysis found no evidence of systematic theft by the Palestinian militant group Hamas of U.S.-funded humanitarian supplies, challenging the main rationale that Israel and the U.S. give for backing a new armed private aid operation. … The analysis found that at least 44 of the 156 incidents where aid supplies were reported stolen or lost were “either directly or indirectly” due to Israeli military actions, according to the briefing slides.
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/usaid-analysis-found-no-evidence-massive-hamas-theft-gaza-aid-2025-07-25/
India and Israel meet to deepen military ties in sign of solidarity amid Gaza atrocities
In the statement released by the Press Information Bureau (PIB) on Wednesday, Delhi said its defence secretary "reiterated India’s zero tolerance approach to terrorism and condemned the October 7, 2023 terrorist attacks in Israel and called for the release of all hostages." It also narrated Israel's "support for India's fight against terrorism". The statement said the visit by the Israeli deputy chief of staff "marks a pivotal step in India-Israel defence relations and reinforces both sides’ commitment to enhance their strategic partnership," the statement added.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/india-and-israel-deepen-military-ties-gaza-starves
Indian Citizens, Mostly Muslims, Are Bearing Brunt of Its Citizenship Screening Drive
Upping the ante against Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s federal government for harassing Bengali-speaking Indians in the name of identifying illegal Bangladeshi migrants, the West Bengal chief minister led a massive rally in the state capital of Kolkata, the largest city in eastern India, on July 16. “Is West Bengal not a part of India? Speakers of a language can also live in other countries. Punjabi-speaking people live in other countries (Pakistan), too. Does it mean you would jail them?” Banerjee thundered.
https://thediplomat.com/2025/07/indian-citizens-mostly-muslims-are-bearing-brunt-of-its-citizenship-screening-drive/
Unions and civil society protest against proposed labor rights dilution in South Africa
By allowing employers to fire workers during the first three months of probation “for no reason, with no conversation, let alone a hearing”, the amendments allow employers to escape from the law deeming workers as permanent after three months of employment, explained the statement. This will “create a massive new additional layer of unlawfully casualized workers who are hired permanently, then fired while on probation and replaced with new workers.” Exempting businesses employing less than 50 workers from “the wages and conditions established by the Bargaining Councils” after sector-wise negotiations, it incentivizes companies to “downsize and outsource to get their staff complement below 50 so that they can pay low wages,” it added.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/07/25/unions-and-civil-society-protest-against-proposed-labor-rights-dilution-in-south-africa/
Wildfire kills at least 10 forest workers and rescuers battling blaze in Turkey
A wildfire killed at least 10 forest workers and rescuers on Wednesday who were battling to douse the flames near Eskişehir in western Turkey, authorities said. The agriculture minister, İbrahim Yumakli, said the fire killed five forest workers and five rescuers. Local lawmaker Nebi Hatipoğlu and news website BirGün had earlier said 11 had died.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/23/wildfire-kills-forest-workers-and-rescuers-battling-blaze-in-turkey
Cambodia calls for ceasefire with Thailand after deadly clashes
“Cambodia asked for an immediate ceasefire – unconditionally – and we also call for the peaceful solution of the dispute,” said Phnom Penh’s UN ambassador, Mr Chhea Keo, following a closed meeting of the Council attended by Cambodia and Thailand. A steady thump of artillery strikes could be heard from the Cambodian side of the border on July 25, where the province of Oddar Meanchey reported one civilian – a 70-year-old man – had been killed and five more wounded.
https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/cambodia-calls-for-ceasefire-with-thailand-envoy-to-un
https://archive.ph/3Qmkk
Supreme Court: Impeachment complaint vs Sara Duterte unconstitutional
The ruling, penned by Senior Associate Justice Marvic Leonen, differentiated the first three complaints—filed by citizens under Article XI, Section 3(2)—from the fourth complaint, which was filed under Section 3(4) via a verified resolution signed by at least one-third of House members. The court ruled that the first three complaints were “archived and therefore deemed terminated or dismissed” on February 5, 2025, meaning no new complaint can be initiated until after February 6, 2026.
https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/2087079/supreme-court-impeachment-complaint-vs-sara-duterte-unconstitutional
https://archive.ph/kGQei
Alarming levels of poverty and hardship reported in New Zealand
Four welfare agencies said they regularly hear of families sleeping in one room and turning off power as they try to stay warm and pay bills. Charities are running special appeals to support families facing hardship. Presbyterian Support manager Grenville Hendricks said his organisation has been forced to help 800 fewer families after its government funding was slashed by $1.5 million as part of the National Party-led ruling coalition’s vicious cost-cutting program.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/25/colj-j25.html
Welsh government condemned for awarding public funds to Israeli arms manufacturer
Following a freedom of information (FOI) request by Amnesty International UK, the Welsh government admitted this week that it had given £500,000 in grant funding to Senior, a company that exports military components directly to Israel, including parts for F-35 fighter jets and Apache gunships. In December 2024, Ms Morgan told the Senedd: “No Welsh government financial support has been provided to companies in Wales who export arms to Israel since the 7 October attacks.”
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/welsh-government-condemned-awarding-public-funds-israeli-arms-manufacturer
News 7/25/25
Chiquita’s former bosses in Colombia sentenced to 11 years in prisonA judge convicted seven former executives of Chiquita Brands in Colombia for sponsoring terrorism and sentenced them to 11 months in prison. The former executives were responsible for Chiquita’s contributions totaling $1.7 million to paramilitary organization AUC between 1995 and 2004, said the Prosecutor General’s Office in a press statement.
https://colombiareports.com/chiquitas-former-bosses-in-colombia-sentenced-to-11-years-in-prison/
Pro-Palestinian Lebanese fighter freed from France welcomed home in Beirut
French authorities released Abdallah early on Friday on the condition that he never return to France. Family members welcomed him at the airport’s VIP lounge, while dozens of supporters gathered nearby, waving Palestinian and Lebanese Communist Party flags. Chants and cheers erupted as Abdallah appeared, with many hailing him as a symbol of resistance, AFP news agency reported. Abdallah’s return marks the end of one of France’s longest detentions involving a political prisoner.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/25/pro-palestinian-lebanese-fighter-released-from-french-prison-after-40-years
https://archive.ph/240sK
Israel will let foreign countries drop aid into Gaza, Israel army radio says
Israel will allow foreign countries to parachute aid into Gaza starting on Friday, Israeli army radio quoted a military official as saying. An Israeli military spokesperson did not immediately reply to a Reuters request for comment on the report. The Gaza health ministry says more than 100 people have died from starvation in the Palestinian enclave since Israel cut off supplies to the territory in March.
https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2025/07/israel-will-let-foreign-countries-drop-aid-gaza-israel-army-radio-says
USAID analysis found no evidence of massive Hamas theft of Gaza aid
An internal U.S. government analysis found no evidence of systematic theft by the Palestinian militant group Hamas of U.S.-funded humanitarian supplies, challenging the main rationale that Israel and the U.S. give for backing a new armed private aid operation. … The analysis found that at least 44 of the 156 incidents where aid supplies were reported stolen or lost were “either directly or indirectly” due to Israeli military actions, according to the briefing slides.
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/usaid-analysis-found-no-evidence-massive-hamas-theft-gaza-aid-2025-07-25/
India and Israel meet to deepen military ties in sign of solidarity amid Gaza atrocities
In the statement released by the Press Information Bureau (PIB) on Wednesday, Delhi said its defence secretary "reiterated India’s zero tolerance approach to terrorism and condemned the October 7, 2023 terrorist attacks in Israel and called for the release of all hostages." It also narrated Israel's "support for India's fight against terrorism". The statement said the visit by the Israeli deputy chief of staff "marks a pivotal step in India-Israel defence relations and reinforces both sides’ commitment to enhance their strategic partnership," the statement added.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/india-and-israel-deepen-military-ties-gaza-starves
Indian Citizens, Mostly Muslims, Are Bearing Brunt of Its Citizenship Screening Drive
Upping the ante against Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s federal government for harassing Bengali-speaking Indians in the name of identifying illegal Bangladeshi migrants, the West Bengal chief minister led a massive rally in the state capital of Kolkata, the largest city in eastern India, on July 16. “Is West Bengal not a part of India? Speakers of a language can also live in other countries. Punjabi-speaking people live in other countries (Pakistan), too. Does it mean you would jail them?” Banerjee thundered.
https://thediplomat.com/2025/07/indian-citizens-mostly-muslims-are-bearing-brunt-of-its-citizenship-screening-drive/
Unions and civil society protest against proposed labor rights dilution in South Africa
By allowing employers to fire workers during the first three months of probation “for no reason, with no conversation, let alone a hearing”, the amendments allow employers to escape from the law deeming workers as permanent after three months of employment, explained the statement. This will “create a massive new additional layer of unlawfully casualized workers who are hired permanently, then fired while on probation and replaced with new workers.” Exempting businesses employing less than 50 workers from “the wages and conditions established by the Bargaining Councils” after sector-wise negotiations, it incentivizes companies to “downsize and outsource to get their staff complement below 50 so that they can pay low wages,” it added.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/07/25/unions-and-civil-society-protest-against-proposed-labor-rights-dilution-in-south-africa/
Wildfire kills at least 10 forest workers and rescuers battling blaze in Turkey
A wildfire killed at least 10 forest workers and rescuers on Wednesday who were battling to douse the flames near Eskişehir in western Turkey, authorities said. The agriculture minister, İbrahim Yumakli, said the fire killed five forest workers and five rescuers. Local lawmaker Nebi Hatipoğlu and news website BirGün had earlier said 11 had died.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/23/wildfire-kills-forest-workers-and-rescuers-battling-blaze-in-turkey
Cambodia calls for ceasefire with Thailand after deadly clashes
“Cambodia asked for an immediate ceasefire – unconditionally – and we also call for the peaceful solution of the dispute,” said Phnom Penh’s UN ambassador, Mr Chhea Keo, following a closed meeting of the Council attended by Cambodia and Thailand. A steady thump of artillery strikes could be heard from the Cambodian side of the border on July 25, where the province of Oddar Meanchey reported one civilian – a 70-year-old man – had been killed and five more wounded.
https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/cambodia-calls-for-ceasefire-with-thailand-envoy-to-un
https://archive.ph/3Qmkk
Supreme Court: Impeachment complaint vs Sara Duterte unconstitutional
The ruling, penned by Senior Associate Justice Marvic Leonen, differentiated the first three complaints—filed by citizens under Article XI, Section 3(2)—from the fourth complaint, which was filed under Section 3(4) via a verified resolution signed by at least one-third of House members. The court ruled that the first three complaints were “archived and therefore deemed terminated or dismissed” on February 5, 2025, meaning no new complaint can be initiated until after February 6, 2026.
https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/2087079/supreme-court-impeachment-complaint-vs-sara-duterte-unconstitutional
https://archive.ph/kGQei
Alarming levels of poverty and hardship reported in New Zealand
Four welfare agencies said they regularly hear of families sleeping in one room and turning off power as they try to stay warm and pay bills. Charities are running special appeals to support families facing hardship. Presbyterian Support manager Grenville Hendricks said his organisation has been forced to help 800 fewer families after its government funding was slashed by $1.5 million as part of the National Party-led ruling coalition’s vicious cost-cutting program.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/25/colj-j25.html
Welsh government condemned for awarding public funds to Israeli arms manufacturer
Following a freedom of information (FOI) request by Amnesty International UK, the Welsh government admitted this week that it had given £500,000 in grant funding to Senior, a company that exports military components directly to Israel, including parts for F-35 fighter jets and Apache gunships. In December 2024, Ms Morgan told the Senedd: “No Welsh government financial support has been provided to companies in Wales who export arms to Israel since the 7 October attacks.”
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/welsh-government-condemned-awarding-public-funds-israeli-arms-manufacturer
R: 7 / I: 1
(This is following the replacement of tariffs following the failure of the Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act with R&D expenditure.)
It seems reasonable that an economic system could be developed on the basis of firm cooperation in science.
This is similar to what was advocated in the reduction of "excess competition" in Japanese economic planning.
And interestingly much of the time of high speed growth MITI (the Japanese planning agency) operated effectively as if there was a "national patent trust".
By negotiating acquisition of foreign technology and encouraging sharing of this technology between firms.
In this context there is little reasons for competition in the sphere of the advancement of science, by contrast to application of this science.
(Imagine there'd be a ton of reverse engineering, and the like; and super-profits from rent-seeking with intellectual property would go way down.)
Am especially interested in software with respect to this, would firms eventually give up on obfuscation, of would it be necessary to somehow restrict access to uncooperative actors.
Given free-software is already an extremely common phenomenon even among corporate actors, such as Microsoft.
Feel free to discuss other aspects of R&D.
Government Led R&D.
Given that even in the post-war US R&D was dominated by government investment.(This is following the replacement of tariffs following the failure of the Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act with R&D expenditure.)
It seems reasonable that an economic system could be developed on the basis of firm cooperation in science.
This is similar to what was advocated in the reduction of "excess competition" in Japanese economic planning.
And interestingly much of the time of high speed growth MITI (the Japanese planning agency) operated effectively as if there was a "national patent trust".
By negotiating acquisition of foreign technology and encouraging sharing of this technology between firms.
In this context there is little reasons for competition in the sphere of the advancement of science, by contrast to application of this science.
(Imagine there'd be a ton of reverse engineering, and the like; and super-profits from rent-seeking with intellectual property would go way down.)
Am especially interested in software with respect to this, would firms eventually give up on obfuscation, of would it be necessary to somehow restrict access to uncooperative actors.
Given free-software is already an extremely common phenomenon even among corporate actors, such as Microsoft.
Feel free to discuss other aspects of R&D.
R: 104 / I: 17
If making Israel look more morally decrepit than Nazi Germany is the intent, what's the point? Sudan is arguably just as bad right now. 600k people died in ~a year just four years ago in Tigray. What now? Some people care, many others won't, now what happens? The bourgeois apparatus stays the same and the potentiality of more conflict, asymmetrical or otherwise, goes untouched. Now what happens?
If making Israel look more morally decrepit than Nazi Germany is the intent, what's the point? Sudan is arguably just as bad right now. 600k people died in ~a year just four years ago in Tigray. What now? Some people care, many others won't, now what happens? The bourgeois apparatus stays the same and the potentiality of more conflict, asymmetrical or otherwise, goes untouched. Now what happens?
R: 11 / I: 2
In the Colonies, that was the Continental Congress. In the American Civil War, that was the Confederate States of America. (I oppose the CSA completely, but they certainly were capable at coordinating violence to achieve their goals of slavery and disunion.) In the French Revolution, the Third Estate. In various English civil wars, rival claimants to the throne, with rival courts and rival bureaucracies. In the Russian Revolution, the Communist Party was arguably already the most functional government in Russia.
I don't think the entity *has* to be a government or quasi-government *necessarily*, but, in practice, it nearly always is. What you *do not* want is to create a situation like The Troubles, where there's sporadic murder but no movement toward a resolution, and that's usually what you get from terrorism unsupported by a government or quasi-government.
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1901/witbd/
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/apr/09.htm
Violence only makes sense as part of coordinated strategy
If you commit violence without an achievable end, it's not rebellion; it's just murder. That means any violence needs to be directed by a well-organized entity that operates, functionally, as a rival government.In the Colonies, that was the Continental Congress. In the American Civil War, that was the Confederate States of America. (I oppose the CSA completely, but they certainly were capable at coordinating violence to achieve their goals of slavery and disunion.) In the French Revolution, the Third Estate. In various English civil wars, rival claimants to the throne, with rival courts and rival bureaucracies. In the Russian Revolution, the Communist Party was arguably already the most functional government in Russia.
I don't think the entity *has* to be a government or quasi-government *necessarily*, but, in practice, it nearly always is. What you *do not* want is to create a situation like The Troubles, where there's sporadic murder but no movement toward a resolution, and that's usually what you get from terrorism unsupported by a government or quasi-government.
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1901/witbd/
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/apr/09.htm
R: 141 / I: 28
They can’t sexually objectifiying women anymore. Progressive pro-feminist companies like Visa and Master Cards are miracles will bring feminist world order.
Hoyoverse and other problematic companies in China you’re next!
Feminists won and Chuds lost
These problematic far-right Chvuds are so mad.They can’t sexually objectifiying women anymore. Progressive pro-feminist companies like Visa and Master Cards are miracles will bring feminist world order.
Hoyoverse and other problematic companies in China you’re next!
R: 600 / I: 155 (full)
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Grayhat union
Is anyone here good at hacking? I had a thought and bug bounty programs essentially outsource red teaming to freelancers or desperate people, Some sites pay out big for taking over accounts, it would be easy with a few competent people. We could use the money to further revolutionary causes.
R: 15 / I: 2
While very very very far from perfect still, AI progress have been staggering over the past few years, and investments in the industry have gone through the roof, especially in countries like France, China or the US.
It is, in a way, its own new industrial revolution, a new way to automate production. Alas much like the previous one, it can only be expected from the elites that work time will stay the same, only as a mean to multiply production without any benefit to the worker (nor the environnement either as well, should that be mentioned).
But it only brings closer the idea of making work not a necessity but a liberty, by the establishment of universal income and economy wide work automation (as long as it is reliable, of course, I wouldnt hand out a psychatrist job to chatgpt or grok anytime soon, but you get the idea)
So what do you guys think ? Could this be feasable in the medium to long term ? Is it really in line with socialist ideals despite it being an opportunity for elites to turn it to the profit of economic higher ups (as it is already happening, in fact) ?
Speak your mind!
Anti-Work/Abolition of Work/The right to be lazy
Just wanted to open a thread dedicated to the topic which I find only ever more relevant today.While very very very far from perfect still, AI progress have been staggering over the past few years, and investments in the industry have gone through the roof, especially in countries like France, China or the US.
It is, in a way, its own new industrial revolution, a new way to automate production. Alas much like the previous one, it can only be expected from the elites that work time will stay the same, only as a mean to multiply production without any benefit to the worker (nor the environnement either as well, should that be mentioned).
But it only brings closer the idea of making work not a necessity but a liberty, by the establishment of universal income and economy wide work automation (as long as it is reliable, of course, I wouldnt hand out a psychatrist job to chatgpt or grok anytime soon, but you get the idea)
So what do you guys think ? Could this be feasable in the medium to long term ? Is it really in line with socialist ideals despite it being an opportunity for elites to turn it to the profit of economic higher ups (as it is already happening, in fact) ?
Speak your mind!
R: 5 / I: 4
In my conversations with them, I've come to realize that Iranian academics have far more academic freedom than academics in the west. First, there's no "cancel culture" or "safe spaces". My friend who teaches American studies said students would openly ask questions about "black crime stats" that would result in disciplinary action in an American university. (And it's not because they're actually racist, it's more just how their perceptions of American society are shaped by pop culture and the mainstream media.)
There's the opposite of a Zionist lobby in Iran, so academics have unlimited freedom to critique Israel and the global Israeli lobby. My own uncle is familiar with the concept of the "ZOG" and NOI's The Secret Relationship. These texts can be openly discussed in Iranian classrooms. This isn't an endorsement of Holocaust denial or actual examples of antisemitism, it just goes to show that there are no concepts or ideas that are off limits.
Alexander Reid-Ross once wrote an article sperging out about an Iranian academic conference that he called "The anti-Semitism Fest Where Russian Spies, Code Pink, David Duke and the Nation of Islam Make Friends and Influence People". In the article he says, "At how many conferences can you be guaranteed to meet Iranian Revolutionary Guards, Russian imperialists, anti-Ukrainian fascists, Chinese spies, Qaddafi devotees, Corbyn fans, Assad apologists, neo-Nazis, Trump devotees, French Holocaust deniers, Western anti-war feminists, African American separatists, Venezuelan socialists and anti-Semites of every conceivable form and type?" (Link: https://www.haaretz.com/world-news/2019-03-14/ty-article-opinion/.premium/russias-role-in-an-anti-semitism-fest-for-fascists-feminists-spies-and-neo-nazi/0000017f-e321-d38f-a57f-e7738c060000)
My U of T professor friend attended this conference, and said he saw no examples of far-right behavior, which leads me to conclude that this is slander on gigaliberal RR's part against Iranian academia for platforming genuine anti-imperialism.
The literature professor I know is a liberal and feminist who teaches Judith Butler, Deleuze, and other postmodernists loved by academics in the west. She's even anti-IRI. This just goes to show that despite the state sanctioned anti-liberalism in Iran, liberals still have academic freedom, and aren't being shut up. The same can't be said for dissenting voices in western academia. Look how Steven Salaita was treated by an American university for being anti-Zionist.
Whatever you think of the Islamic Republic, there's no denying they have a far more robust and free academic culture than we do in the west. The Iranian police would never dare storm a university the way the American gestapo did to shut down Palestine encampments, either.
There's more academic freedom in Iran than in the liberal west
I know two professors at the University of Tehran, and one at the Islamic Azad University. One teaches American Studies with Professor Mohammad Marandi, who everyone should know from alt media. The other is my uncle, who is a retired Professor Emeritus. The one who teaches at Islamic Azad University is a female literature professor who was my dad's roommate when she was doing research on Deleuze and Shakespeare at Harvard.In my conversations with them, I've come to realize that Iranian academics have far more academic freedom than academics in the west. First, there's no "cancel culture" or "safe spaces". My friend who teaches American studies said students would openly ask questions about "black crime stats" that would result in disciplinary action in an American university. (And it's not because they're actually racist, it's more just how their perceptions of American society are shaped by pop culture and the mainstream media.)
There's the opposite of a Zionist lobby in Iran, so academics have unlimited freedom to critique Israel and the global Israeli lobby. My own uncle is familiar with the concept of the "ZOG" and NOI's The Secret Relationship. These texts can be openly discussed in Iranian classrooms. This isn't an endorsement of Holocaust denial or actual examples of antisemitism, it just goes to show that there are no concepts or ideas that are off limits.
Alexander Reid-Ross once wrote an article sperging out about an Iranian academic conference that he called "The anti-Semitism Fest Where Russian Spies, Code Pink, David Duke and the Nation of Islam Make Friends and Influence People". In the article he says, "At how many conferences can you be guaranteed to meet Iranian Revolutionary Guards, Russian imperialists, anti-Ukrainian fascists, Chinese spies, Qaddafi devotees, Corbyn fans, Assad apologists, neo-Nazis, Trump devotees, French Holocaust deniers, Western anti-war feminists, African American separatists, Venezuelan socialists and anti-Semites of every conceivable form and type?" (Link: https://www.haaretz.com/world-news/2019-03-14/ty-article-opinion/.premium/russias-role-in-an-anti-semitism-fest-for-fascists-feminists-spies-and-neo-nazi/0000017f-e321-d38f-a57f-e7738c060000)
My U of T professor friend attended this conference, and said he saw no examples of far-right behavior, which leads me to conclude that this is slander on gigaliberal RR's part against Iranian academia for platforming genuine anti-imperialism.
The literature professor I know is a liberal and feminist who teaches Judith Butler, Deleuze, and other postmodernists loved by academics in the west. She's even anti-IRI. This just goes to show that despite the state sanctioned anti-liberalism in Iran, liberals still have academic freedom, and aren't being shut up. The same can't be said for dissenting voices in western academia. Look how Steven Salaita was treated by an American university for being anti-Zionist.
Whatever you think of the Islamic Republic, there's no denying they have a far more robust and free academic culture than we do in the west. The Iranian police would never dare storm a university the way the American gestapo did to shut down Palestine encampments, either.
R: 15 / I: 1
What happens here? I feel like I hear a lot about China, Cuba, North Korea, and Vietnam but never Laos. Are they actually communist? Is it just my American ignorance showing?
What happens here? I feel like I hear a lot about China, Cuba, North Korea, and Vietnam but never Laos. Are they actually communist? Is it just my American ignorance showing?
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ITS JOEVER. REFORM HAS WON. TOTAL BRITAIN LOSS.
I HOPE YOU BRITISH FAGS ENJOY THE ONE PARTY REFORM STATE.
AHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHA CLOWN WORLD AHHAAH
(unironically this is a pretty grim situation)
ITS JOEVER. REFORM HAS WON. TOTAL BRITAIN LOSS.
I HOPE YOU BRITISH FAGS ENJOY THE ONE PARTY REFORM STATE.
AHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHA CLOWN WORLD AHHAAH
(unironically this is a pretty grim situation)
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Is he a credible anti-imperialist actor?
Burkina Faso
Whats /leftypol/ take on President of Burkina Faso Ibrahim Traoré?Is he a credible anti-imperialist actor?
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Thailand scrambled an F-16 fighter jet to bomb targets in Cambodia after artillery volleys from both sides killed at least 11 civilians, as border tension boiled over into rare armed conflict between the Southeast Asian countries. Both blamed each other for starting a morning clash at a disputed area of the border, which quickly escalated from small arms fire to heavy shelling in at least six locations 209 kilometres (130 miles) apart along a frontier where sovereignty has been disputed for more than a century.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/567942/thai-fighter-jet-bombs-cambodian-targets-as-border-battle-escalates
https://archive.ph/qNdjM
Sri Lankan court orders owners of container ship to pay $1 billion in marine pollution compensation
The container ship MV X-Press Peal, which was carrying chemicals, sank off Colombo in June, 2021 after catching fire. The Supreme Court said the incident caused “unprecedented devastation to the marine environment of Sri Lanka” and harmed the country’s economy, especially the lives of the fishing communities.
https://apnews.com/article/sri-lanka-ship-fire-pollution-singapore-shipping-370ab4b243e761b015ab45976a790b52
Protest Crackdowns Intensify in Argentina as Milei Implements Austerity
In the first six months of 2025, the CPM documented 1,251 cases of injuries or detentions during demonstrations in Buenos Aires—surpassing the total of 1,216 recorded in all of 2024. The organization attributes this rise to a deliberate state strategy to suppress dissent amid the government’s sweeping economic adjustment program.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/protest-crackdowns-intensify-in-argentina-as-milei-implements-austerity/
https://archive.ph/9XNNc
Chile's government to expropriate land tied to Pinochet-era torture
Chile plans to expropriate a settlement founded by a German cult leader where torture took place during former dictator Augusto Pinochet's military regime as the government takes another step to shine a light on a dark period of the past. The enclave, originally called Colonia Dignidad and renamed Villa Baviera, was founded in 1961 by Paul Schafer, a former Nazi medic turned evangelical preacher who kept the isolated community under tight control and was later jailed for sexually abusing children.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/chiles-government-expropriate-land-tied-pinochet-era-torture-2025-07-23/
Marlon Vargas is the new president of Ecuador’s Indigenous movement CONAIE
Vargas was one of the leaders of the October 2019 social mobilizations against former President Lenin Moreno, over the economic adjustments that the government had agreed to with the International Monetary Fund, including the elimination of gasoline subsidies. He also took part in the June 2022 mobilizations against the economic policies of former President Guillermo Lasso.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/07/24/marlon-vargas-is-the-new-president-of-ecuadors-indigenous-movement-conaie/
Balloting underway in government-forced vote on Canada Post’s “final” offers
Serious concerns over the use of online balloting have been raised widely by workers. Thousands face practical and technical barriers to casting a vote. Older workers, those with limited digital access, and employees in rural or remote regions have struggled to obtain login credentials or decipher conflicting communications from the union and the unelected Canadian Industrial Relations Board (CIRB), which banned a strike by postal workers last December at the orders of Labour Minister Steve MacKinnon. The absence of clear, accessible procedures has left many uncertain if their votes will even be counted.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/24/dovn-j24.html
NHS must resist doctors’ strike, its chief tells hospital leaders
He wants hospitals to press ahead with as many routine operations as possible, even if it means running A&E units with a skeleton staff, rather than cancelling clinics to ensure emergency care runs as normal. Mackey told hospital bosses in a call on Wednesday: “We’ve been very, very clear we want to have a different approach this time. You have noticed already we are in a different space compared to where we were last time, much more instructive to the BMA, much more resistant to their demands. Frankly we and you make decisions about safety, not the BMA. Do what you do best, make sensible decisions and we’ll stick together.”
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/healthcare/article/wes-streeting-doctors-strike-bma-7slcwknpq
https://archive.ph/sO4yB
Corbyn and Sultana commit to launching new socialist party
They pledged the creation of “a new kind of political party — one that belongs to you” and looked ahead to a founding conference at which members would “decide the party’s direction, the model of leadership and the policies that are needed to transform society.” The founding process will also determine the name of the new party. It is understood that the process will be overseen by a working group to be established by the Independent Alliance of MPs, of which Corbyn and Sultana are both members.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/new-kind-political-party
Zelenskyy moves to restore independence of anti-graft agencies after public anger and EU criticism
“The text is balanced,” Zelenskyy said. “The most important thing is real tools, no Russian ties and the independence” of the anti-graft agencies. The new draft underlines that the prosecutor general and his deputies cannot give orders to anti-graft agencies or interfere in their work.
https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-war-corruption-protests-zelenskyy-law-6766134c963f0423d88c2ac1749f8c11
Former US guard at GHF speaks of brutality he witnessed against desperate Gaza civilians
He recounts an incident in which American guards pepper-sprayed a Palestinian who was collecting food from the ground and who posed no threat. In another incident, a stun grenade was thrown and directly hit a Palestinian woman. "I collapsed and fell to the ground. That was the moment I realised I couldn't continue working there," the former guard told Channel 12. Recounting another incident, he said once Palestinians finished collecting the aid, the American guards started shooting towards them – in the legs and around them – to force them to leave the site.
https://www.newarab.com/news/american-former-ghf-guard-tells-brutality-against-gazans
Syria is secretly reshaping its economy. The president’s brother is in charge.
Over seven months, the committee has negotiated with the wealthiest Syrian tycoons, including some who are under U.S. sanctions. The committee has also made headway taking over a constellation of companies that were run out of Assad’s palace, the sources said. Many tycoons linked to Assad, including an airline mogul sanctioned in connection with drug and weapons smuggling, and a businessman accused of scavenging and smelting metal from Syrian towns depopulated by Assad’s army, are keeping some profits and avoiding state prosecution, for a price. But that bargain, amnesty in exchange for a mix of cash and corporate control, risks angering Syrians seeking justice.
https://www.reuters.com/investigations/syria-is-secretly-reshaping-its-economy-presidents-brother-is-charge-2025-07-24/
News 7/24/25
Thai fighter jet bombs Cambodian targets as border battle escalatesThailand scrambled an F-16 fighter jet to bomb targets in Cambodia after artillery volleys from both sides killed at least 11 civilians, as border tension boiled over into rare armed conflict between the Southeast Asian countries. Both blamed each other for starting a morning clash at a disputed area of the border, which quickly escalated from small arms fire to heavy shelling in at least six locations 209 kilometres (130 miles) apart along a frontier where sovereignty has been disputed for more than a century.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/567942/thai-fighter-jet-bombs-cambodian-targets-as-border-battle-escalates
https://archive.ph/qNdjM
Sri Lankan court orders owners of container ship to pay $1 billion in marine pollution compensation
The container ship MV X-Press Peal, which was carrying chemicals, sank off Colombo in June, 2021 after catching fire. The Supreme Court said the incident caused “unprecedented devastation to the marine environment of Sri Lanka” and harmed the country’s economy, especially the lives of the fishing communities.
https://apnews.com/article/sri-lanka-ship-fire-pollution-singapore-shipping-370ab4b243e761b015ab45976a790b52
Protest Crackdowns Intensify in Argentina as Milei Implements Austerity
In the first six months of 2025, the CPM documented 1,251 cases of injuries or detentions during demonstrations in Buenos Aires—surpassing the total of 1,216 recorded in all of 2024. The organization attributes this rise to a deliberate state strategy to suppress dissent amid the government’s sweeping economic adjustment program.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/protest-crackdowns-intensify-in-argentina-as-milei-implements-austerity/
https://archive.ph/9XNNc
Chile's government to expropriate land tied to Pinochet-era torture
Chile plans to expropriate a settlement founded by a German cult leader where torture took place during former dictator Augusto Pinochet's military regime as the government takes another step to shine a light on a dark period of the past. The enclave, originally called Colonia Dignidad and renamed Villa Baviera, was founded in 1961 by Paul Schafer, a former Nazi medic turned evangelical preacher who kept the isolated community under tight control and was later jailed for sexually abusing children.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/chiles-government-expropriate-land-tied-pinochet-era-torture-2025-07-23/
Marlon Vargas is the new president of Ecuador’s Indigenous movement CONAIE
Vargas was one of the leaders of the October 2019 social mobilizations against former President Lenin Moreno, over the economic adjustments that the government had agreed to with the International Monetary Fund, including the elimination of gasoline subsidies. He also took part in the June 2022 mobilizations against the economic policies of former President Guillermo Lasso.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/07/24/marlon-vargas-is-the-new-president-of-ecuadors-indigenous-movement-conaie/
Balloting underway in government-forced vote on Canada Post’s “final” offers
Serious concerns over the use of online balloting have been raised widely by workers. Thousands face practical and technical barriers to casting a vote. Older workers, those with limited digital access, and employees in rural or remote regions have struggled to obtain login credentials or decipher conflicting communications from the union and the unelected Canadian Industrial Relations Board (CIRB), which banned a strike by postal workers last December at the orders of Labour Minister Steve MacKinnon. The absence of clear, accessible procedures has left many uncertain if their votes will even be counted.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/24/dovn-j24.html
NHS must resist doctors’ strike, its chief tells hospital leaders
He wants hospitals to press ahead with as many routine operations as possible, even if it means running A&E units with a skeleton staff, rather than cancelling clinics to ensure emergency care runs as normal. Mackey told hospital bosses in a call on Wednesday: “We’ve been very, very clear we want to have a different approach this time. You have noticed already we are in a different space compared to where we were last time, much more instructive to the BMA, much more resistant to their demands. Frankly we and you make decisions about safety, not the BMA. Do what you do best, make sensible decisions and we’ll stick together.”
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/healthcare/article/wes-streeting-doctors-strike-bma-7slcwknpq
https://archive.ph/sO4yB
Corbyn and Sultana commit to launching new socialist party
They pledged the creation of “a new kind of political party — one that belongs to you” and looked ahead to a founding conference at which members would “decide the party’s direction, the model of leadership and the policies that are needed to transform society.” The founding process will also determine the name of the new party. It is understood that the process will be overseen by a working group to be established by the Independent Alliance of MPs, of which Corbyn and Sultana are both members.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/new-kind-political-party
Zelenskyy moves to restore independence of anti-graft agencies after public anger and EU criticism
“The text is balanced,” Zelenskyy said. “The most important thing is real tools, no Russian ties and the independence” of the anti-graft agencies. The new draft underlines that the prosecutor general and his deputies cannot give orders to anti-graft agencies or interfere in their work.
https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-war-corruption-protests-zelenskyy-law-6766134c963f0423d88c2ac1749f8c11
Former US guard at GHF speaks of brutality he witnessed against desperate Gaza civilians
He recounts an incident in which American guards pepper-sprayed a Palestinian who was collecting food from the ground and who posed no threat. In another incident, a stun grenade was thrown and directly hit a Palestinian woman. "I collapsed and fell to the ground. That was the moment I realised I couldn't continue working there," the former guard told Channel 12. Recounting another incident, he said once Palestinians finished collecting the aid, the American guards started shooting towards them – in the legs and around them – to force them to leave the site.
https://www.newarab.com/news/american-former-ghf-guard-tells-brutality-against-gazans
Syria is secretly reshaping its economy. The president’s brother is in charge.
Over seven months, the committee has negotiated with the wealthiest Syrian tycoons, including some who are under U.S. sanctions. The committee has also made headway taking over a constellation of companies that were run out of Assad’s palace, the sources said. Many tycoons linked to Assad, including an airline mogul sanctioned in connection with drug and weapons smuggling, and a businessman accused of scavenging and smelting metal from Syrian towns depopulated by Assad’s army, are keeping some profits and avoiding state prosecution, for a price. But that bargain, amnesty in exchange for a mix of cash and corporate control, risks angering Syrians seeking justice.
https://www.reuters.com/investigations/syria-is-secretly-reshaping-its-economy-presidents-brother-is-charge-2025-07-24/
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https://apnews.com/article/britain-palestine-action-arrests-protest-bf430c85a317e7e1f768c9ebd2a6131a
>More than 70 people were arrested Saturday at protests in the U.K. against the Palestine Action group being proscribed a terrorist organization by the British government following a break-in and vandalism at a Royal Air Force base.
>In London, the Metropolitan Police said 42 people had been arrested by late afternoon. All but one of the arrests were for showing support for a proscribed organization, which police have said includes chanting, wearing clothing or displaying articles such as flags, signs or logos. Another person was arrested for common assault.
>A further 16 arrests were made in Manchester, according to Greater Manchester Police, while South Wales Police said 13 people were also held in Cardiff.
>In London, it was the second straight week protesters gathered to support the pro-Palestinian activist group. Its outlawing has meant support for the organization is deemed a criminal offense. Police arrested 29 people at a similar protest last weekend.
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Oi! Do you 'ave a loicense for that Palestinian flag m8?https://apnews.com/article/britain-palestine-action-arrests-protest-bf430c85a317e7e1f768c9ebd2a6131a
>More than 70 people were arrested Saturday at protests in the U.K. against the Palestine Action group being proscribed a terrorist organization by the British government following a break-in and vandalism at a Royal Air Force base.
>In London, the Metropolitan Police said 42 people had been arrested by late afternoon. All but one of the arrests were for showing support for a proscribed organization, which police have said includes chanting, wearing clothing or displaying articles such as flags, signs or logos. Another person was arrested for common assault.
>A further 16 arrests were made in Manchester, according to Greater Manchester Police, while South Wales Police said 13 people were also held in Cardiff.
>In London, it was the second straight week protesters gathered to support the pro-Palestinian activist group. Its outlawing has meant support for the organization is deemed a criminal offense. Police arrested 29 people at a similar protest last weekend.
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I get communism somewhat. I’m new to it, but I want to know what people like Mao Stalin we think about nationalism. I’m pretty sure they would be in favor of nationalism but i’m reading a half of quotations by chairman Mao honestly he’s probably more likely to be an international than nationalist
I get communism somewhat. I’m new to it, but I want to know what people like Mao Stalin we think about nationalism. I’m pretty sure they would be in favor of nationalism but i’m reading a half of quotations by chairman Mao honestly he’s probably more likely to be an international than nationalist
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>japanese right wing loses big during tokyo election
>japanese right wing win big cause all the votes went to other right wing parties
japanese communists also lost some of their most commie blocs they held for decades, reiwa didnt even gain a single seat
>japanese right wing loses big during tokyo election
>japanese right wing win big cause all the votes went to other right wing parties
japanese communists also lost some of their most commie blocs they held for decades, reiwa didnt even gain a single seat
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DHKP-C mucho underappreciated
DHKP-C literally controlled neighborhoods in Istanbul and held 1st of may marches with tens of thousands until they were weakened by Turkish state sponsored mafias and drug gangs. Most Halk Cephe members also went to fight in Palestine later on. One of the most underapriciated peoples front fr.
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Politics and sports
I found this chart on /sp/ showing the political spectrum of football clubs and thought it was interesting, do you think there's a correlation between political ideologies and sports teams?
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the contradictions on the old continent are getting worse. while the rabid dogs of fascism, Zentraleuropa, are sabre rattling for war, slovenia's government is playing political games with nato referendums, creating a real choking point for the fascistic alliance. i'm not doompilled because i'm not a retard but i am tired doc. i can't see past the leftliberal populist horizont, beyond a social democracy with a artisinal face. how the fuck do you even get past the single-issue barrier that poisons the minds of millions labor aristocrats living of the imperialist teat?
war is coming
atp it's written on the wall that europe is preparing for war with russia. and it's even more clear that the good guys lost the cold war. have you heard that rotterdam, the largest port in europe, is being remodeled to be a warship port?? have you heard that czechia has outlawed class based hatred?? it's frantic rearmament and i have no idea how such a dying continent (literally dying, look at the demographics, europe has no future in the multipolar world) is to have a communist revolution and stop the absolutely gay war with russia.the contradictions on the old continent are getting worse. while the rabid dogs of fascism, Zentraleuropa, are sabre rattling for war, slovenia's government is playing political games with nato referendums, creating a real choking point for the fascistic alliance. i'm not doompilled because i'm not a retard but i am tired doc. i can't see past the leftliberal populist horizont, beyond a social democracy with a artisinal face. how the fuck do you even get past the single-issue barrier that poisons the minds of millions labor aristocrats living of the imperialist teat?
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I also think we see a parallel of this today with Israel/Palestine, and Russia/Ukraine. Obviously Israel is an awful imperialist force, puppet of the US, genocidal freaks etc etc. But that doesn't necessarily mean we have to support 'Palestinian self-determination' as a goal in itself; in fact we may be playing into the hands of puerile nationalists. The same is true of Ukraine *and* of Russia, who both use hatred of the other country to distract from class war and the problems that they have as countries.
Lenin's Mistake
IMO supporting Polish national self-determination was a big mistake on Lenin's part. Think about it- the early-mid 20th century was a liberal fetishisation of 'national self-determination'. The ethno-nationalist rise of fascism in Germany would have been offset dramatically if Poland never existed and frustrated the nazi effort to gain power. Moreover, the focus on national politics was used as a distraction from class warfare and the nationalist poles crushed communists. I can't really see Lenin being vindicated in this case.I also think we see a parallel of this today with Israel/Palestine, and Russia/Ukraine. Obviously Israel is an awful imperialist force, puppet of the US, genocidal freaks etc etc. But that doesn't necessarily mean we have to support 'Palestinian self-determination' as a goal in itself; in fact we may be playing into the hands of puerile nationalists. The same is true of Ukraine *and* of Russia, who both use hatred of the other country to distract from class war and the problems that they have as countries.
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Most demonstrations attracted several hundred people or fewer on Saturday - but police estimated that about 3,000 took part in the largest rally in the southern city of Katowice. The protests were organised by far-right political group Konfederacja, and another nationalist organisation. Politicians from Konfederacja and the opposition Law and Justice party have been warning about a flood of illegal migration in Poland - but official figures do not support their claims.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce37r27x27po
People charged in connection with Palestine Action protest at RAF Brize Norton to face 18 months in custody before trial
Amy Gardiner-Gibson, 29, Jony Cink, 24, Daniel Jeronymides-Norie, 36 and Lewis Chiaramello, 22, appeared at the Old Bailey accused of plotting to damage two Voyager aircraft on June 20. They are charged with conspiracy to enter a prohibited place “knowingly for a purpose prejudicial to the safety or interests of the United Kingdom” and conspiracy to commit criminal damage.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/people-charged-connection-palestine-action-protest-raf-brize-norton-face-18-months-custody
Dozens arrested at London demonstration against proscription of Palestine Action
Fifty-five people have been arrested in London at a rally against the proscription of Palestine Action outside the UK parliament on Saturday, according to the Metropolitan Police. Demonstrators gathered in support of the organisation, which was proscribed under anti-terror laws earlier this month. They held up placards reading "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action" before police began bundling attendees into vans.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/dozens-arrested-london-demonstration-against-proscription-palestine-action
‘Give Me a Choice’: Activists Urge Russian Doctors to Defend Women’s Right to Abortion
Russia formally permits abortion on request up to the 12th week of pregnancy, but debates over a potential ban have intensified in recent years amid a deepening demographic crisis and the Kremlin's promotion of “traditional family values.” While officials maintain that the procedure will remain covered by the country’s mandatory health insurance program, some regional clinics have stopped offering abortions amid mounting pressure from pro-life activists, local authorities and the Russian Orthodox Church.
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/07/17/give-me-a-choice-activists-urge-russian-doctors-to-defend-womens-right-to-abortion-a89858
https://archive.ph/CpKsu
Hundreds of thousands of public sector workers in Turkey strike against the government’s miserly wage offer
This was the first work stoppage of this magnitude since the general strike on January 3, 1991, and it affected state institutions and organisations including railways, highways, mines, power plants, ministries, universities, and hospitals. Türk-İş General President Ergün Atalay made it clear the bureaucracy did not want this to happen, but announced that they would be forced to go on strike officially on August 26 if no agreement could be reached.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/18/qodv-j18.html
Syria believed it had green light from US, Israel to deploy troops to Sweida
Syria's understanding of U.S. and Israeli messages regarding its troop deployment to the south has not been previously reported. A State Department spokesperson declined to comment on private diplomatic discussions but said the United States supported the territorial unity of Syria. "The Syrian state has an obligation to protect all Syrians, including minority groups," the spokesperson said, urging the Syrian government to hold perpetrators of violence accountable.
https://www.newarab.com/news/syria-thought-us-israel-approved-suweida-troop-deployment
Amid Al-Suwayda fierce clashes | Israeli forces deploy in Al-Quneitra countryside
The deployment comes amid ongoing alert along the ceasefire line and growing tensions in southern Syria, especially with the fierce clashes in Al-Suwayda, no information yet about reasons or nature of the deployment, and no clashes have been recorded in the area.
https://www.syriahr.com/en/366233/
Unidentified drone kills PKK member, injures another in northern Iraq
An unidentified drone attack has killed a member of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and injured another near northern Iraq’s Sulaimaniyah, according to security sources and local officials. The attack on Saturday was the first of its kind in months and occurred as the PKK has begun the first steps towards disarmament, ending its armed campaign against the Turkish state.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/19/unidentified-drone-kills-pkk-member-injures-another-in-iraq
https://archive.ph/2XXaC
Bangladesh’s Islamist party projects force with a big rally in Dhaka
An interim government headed by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus said the next election would be held in April but his administration did not rule out a possibility of polls in February as strongly demanded by the Bangladesh Nationalist Party and its allies. Jamaat-e-Islami, which had sided with Pakistan during Bangladesh’s war of independence in 1971, said earlier it would mobilize 1 million people on Saturday.
https://apnews.com/article/bangladesh-islamist-hasina-yunus-7bcf60910c94bef1730d0c8d62f22883
Polls open for key Upper House election that could shake Japanese politics
The Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan will likely maintain its position as the largest opposition force in both chambers of parliament, further reducing its gap to the LDP. The opposition camp, however, remains largely fragmented. … Sanseito, a party with only three seats in the Lower House, is also expected to garner wide support across the country, possibly gaining seats in urban districts. On the other hand, polls have found the Japanese Communist Party and Nippon Ishin no Kai will face uphill battles to expand their foothold in the legislative arena.
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/20/japan/politics/voting-starts-election/
Ecuadorian Communities Resist State-Backed Mining Project Tied to Presidential Family
As Ecuador’s third-largest mine begins construction, rural communities push back against what they describe as a corporate-state alliance that endangers their water and livelihoods. Weeks of protest have been met with police repression, reigniting national debates over extractivism and sovereignty.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/ecuadorian-communities-resist-state-backed-mining-project-tied-to-presidential-family/
Rubio moves to strip US visas from eight Brazilian judges in Bolsonaro battle
As the day of judgment nears, Trump has been increasing pressure on the court and President Lula’s administration. On 9 July, the US president announced he would impose 50% tariffs on all Brazilian imports as of 1 August, partly as a result of the supposed persecution of his ally. The move triggered an outpouring of nationalist anger in the South American country, with Lula describing it as “unacceptable blackmail”.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/19/rubio-moves-to-strip-us-visas-from-eight-brazilian-judges-in-bolsonaro-battle
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Anti-immigrant rallies staged across PolandMost demonstrations attracted several hundred people or fewer on Saturday - but police estimated that about 3,000 took part in the largest rally in the southern city of Katowice. The protests were organised by far-right political group Konfederacja, and another nationalist organisation. Politicians from Konfederacja and the opposition Law and Justice party have been warning about a flood of illegal migration in Poland - but official figures do not support their claims.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce37r27x27po
People charged in connection with Palestine Action protest at RAF Brize Norton to face 18 months in custody before trial
Amy Gardiner-Gibson, 29, Jony Cink, 24, Daniel Jeronymides-Norie, 36 and Lewis Chiaramello, 22, appeared at the Old Bailey accused of plotting to damage two Voyager aircraft on June 20. They are charged with conspiracy to enter a prohibited place “knowingly for a purpose prejudicial to the safety or interests of the United Kingdom” and conspiracy to commit criminal damage.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/people-charged-connection-palestine-action-protest-raf-brize-norton-face-18-months-custody
Dozens arrested at London demonstration against proscription of Palestine Action
Fifty-five people have been arrested in London at a rally against the proscription of Palestine Action outside the UK parliament on Saturday, according to the Metropolitan Police. Demonstrators gathered in support of the organisation, which was proscribed under anti-terror laws earlier this month. They held up placards reading "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action" before police began bundling attendees into vans.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/dozens-arrested-london-demonstration-against-proscription-palestine-action
‘Give Me a Choice’: Activists Urge Russian Doctors to Defend Women’s Right to Abortion
Russia formally permits abortion on request up to the 12th week of pregnancy, but debates over a potential ban have intensified in recent years amid a deepening demographic crisis and the Kremlin's promotion of “traditional family values.” While officials maintain that the procedure will remain covered by the country’s mandatory health insurance program, some regional clinics have stopped offering abortions amid mounting pressure from pro-life activists, local authorities and the Russian Orthodox Church.
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/07/17/give-me-a-choice-activists-urge-russian-doctors-to-defend-womens-right-to-abortion-a89858
https://archive.ph/CpKsu
Hundreds of thousands of public sector workers in Turkey strike against the government’s miserly wage offer
This was the first work stoppage of this magnitude since the general strike on January 3, 1991, and it affected state institutions and organisations including railways, highways, mines, power plants, ministries, universities, and hospitals. Türk-İş General President Ergün Atalay made it clear the bureaucracy did not want this to happen, but announced that they would be forced to go on strike officially on August 26 if no agreement could be reached.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/18/qodv-j18.html
Syria believed it had green light from US, Israel to deploy troops to Sweida
Syria's understanding of U.S. and Israeli messages regarding its troop deployment to the south has not been previously reported. A State Department spokesperson declined to comment on private diplomatic discussions but said the United States supported the territorial unity of Syria. "The Syrian state has an obligation to protect all Syrians, including minority groups," the spokesperson said, urging the Syrian government to hold perpetrators of violence accountable.
https://www.newarab.com/news/syria-thought-us-israel-approved-suweida-troop-deployment
Amid Al-Suwayda fierce clashes | Israeli forces deploy in Al-Quneitra countryside
The deployment comes amid ongoing alert along the ceasefire line and growing tensions in southern Syria, especially with the fierce clashes in Al-Suwayda, no information yet about reasons or nature of the deployment, and no clashes have been recorded in the area.
https://www.syriahr.com/en/366233/
Unidentified drone kills PKK member, injures another in northern Iraq
An unidentified drone attack has killed a member of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and injured another near northern Iraq’s Sulaimaniyah, according to security sources and local officials. The attack on Saturday was the first of its kind in months and occurred as the PKK has begun the first steps towards disarmament, ending its armed campaign against the Turkish state.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/19/unidentified-drone-kills-pkk-member-injures-another-in-iraq
https://archive.ph/2XXaC
Bangladesh’s Islamist party projects force with a big rally in Dhaka
An interim government headed by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus said the next election would be held in April but his administration did not rule out a possibility of polls in February as strongly demanded by the Bangladesh Nationalist Party and its allies. Jamaat-e-Islami, which had sided with Pakistan during Bangladesh’s war of independence in 1971, said earlier it would mobilize 1 million people on Saturday.
https://apnews.com/article/bangladesh-islamist-hasina-yunus-7bcf60910c94bef1730d0c8d62f22883
Polls open for key Upper House election that could shake Japanese politics
The Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan will likely maintain its position as the largest opposition force in both chambers of parliament, further reducing its gap to the LDP. The opposition camp, however, remains largely fragmented. … Sanseito, a party with only three seats in the Lower House, is also expected to garner wide support across the country, possibly gaining seats in urban districts. On the other hand, polls have found the Japanese Communist Party and Nippon Ishin no Kai will face uphill battles to expand their foothold in the legislative arena.
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/20/japan/politics/voting-starts-election/
Ecuadorian Communities Resist State-Backed Mining Project Tied to Presidential Family
As Ecuador’s third-largest mine begins construction, rural communities push back against what they describe as a corporate-state alliance that endangers their water and livelihoods. Weeks of protest have been met with police repression, reigniting national debates over extractivism and sovereignty.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/ecuadorian-communities-resist-state-backed-mining-project-tied-to-presidential-family/
Rubio moves to strip US visas from eight Brazilian judges in Bolsonaro battle
As the day of judgment nears, Trump has been increasing pressure on the court and President Lula’s administration. On 9 July, the US president announced he would impose 50% tariffs on all Brazilian imports as of 1 August, partly as a result of the supposed persecution of his ally. The move triggered an outpouring of nationalist anger in the South American country, with Lula describing it as “unacceptable blackmail”.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/19/rubio-moves-to-strip-us-visas-from-eight-brazilian-judges-in-bolsonaro-battle
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NABU and SAPO are two key institutions that have long symbolised Ukraine’s post-Euromaidan commitment to rooting out high-level corruption. Critics say the move strips these agencies of their independence and risks turning them into political tools. Protests erupted in Kyiv, Lviv, Dnipro, and Odesa, with demonstrators holding signs reading “Veto the law” and “We chose Europe, not autocracy.”
https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2025/7/23/protests-in-ukraine-as-zelenskyy-signs-bill-curbing-anticorruption-agencies
https://archive.ph/YnvcZ
Germany moves to fast-track weapons purchases
Germany's cabinet has approved a draft law to accelerate arms procurement for the military, Defense Minister Boris Pistorius said Wednesday, calling it a "quantum leap" for national security. The bill is designed to cut red tape and allow the Bundeswehr to buy weapons and equipment faster and with fewer bureaucratic hurdles.
https://www.dw.com/en/germany-moves-to-fast-track-weapons-purchases/a-73386445
https://archive.ph/7f1pl
== Putin names desired minimum fertility rate for Russia
To reverse the trend, the government has introduced a range of support measures, including lump-sum payments for childbirth, expanded maternity benefits, and ongoing financial assistance for families. The Soviet-era “Mother Heroine” award that offers cash rewards to women who have more than ten children has also been revived. Officials have proposed other policies as well, such as discouraging the promotion of “child-free” lifestyles and offering extra tax breaks for larger families. Putin has repeatedly stressed the importance of improving economic and social conditions to promote larger families and make parenthood a widely supported choice.
https://www.rt.com/russia/621816-putin-minimum-fertility-rate/
https://archive.ph/k82yk
Pro-Zionist Board of Deputies of British Jews calls for workplace “antisemitism” training
“Antisemitism training” would be based on the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) definition of antisemitism that falsely equates anti-Zionism with antisemitism. The IHRA cites as an example of antisemitism: “Denying the Jewish people their right to self-determination, e.g., by claiming that the existence of a State of Israel is a racist endeavour.” The BoD was a key player in getting the IHRA definition adopted by Britain’s then Conservative government and public authorities in 2016.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/22/uqtx-j22.html
Landslide Knesset vote approves non-binding proposal to annex West Bank
Besides receiving broad support across the Likud coalition, the conseravtive Yisrael Beiteinu party also voted in favour of the motion, along with independent MK Idan Roll and far-right Noam party leader Avi Maoz. The motion was initiated by Likud member Dan Illouz and three other MKs, including Minister for Settlements Orit Strook.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/knesset-set-vote-symbolic-motion-calling-israeli-annexation-west-bank
Doctors and health officials report wave of hunger deaths in Gaza
Gaza’s health ministry on Wednesday recorded 10 deaths due to starvation in the previous 24 hours, which it said brought the number of hunger-related fatalities in July to 46. That brings the total number of deaths from malnutrition reported by the ministry to 111, at least 80 of them children, since Israel’s offensive in Gaza started following Hamas’s October 7 2023 attack.
https://www.ft.com/content/acb6116e-18cb-4af4-9eee-1c005869ef70
https://archive.ph/kCa3d
Turkey: Six Revolutionary Prisoners Still on Hunger Strike Against “Well” Prisons
For many weeks, six revolutionary prisoners have been on hunger strike in Turkey to denounce “well” type prisons. They are based on a very strict solitary confinement regime and harsh prison conditions for prisoners. They owe their name to the fact that the windows, tightly grilled, look out onto a walled space, and the short daily walk is in a narrow space surrounded by high walls. On July 14, many initiatives of solidarity with these prisoners were organized in Greece, Holland, France and Belgium.
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/20500/
Modi Govt ‘Surrendering’ to US on FTAs, Will Open Agri, Dairy Sector, Fears SKM
In an online general body meeting held on July 20, SKM said such a step would not only hurt the interests of the country but also impact the people adversely. In a press statement issued after the meeting, SKM announced a series of mass protest actions across the country against “the BJP-led NDA Govt.’s moves to accept USA pressures and increase imports of food and dairy items, including GM foods and penetration of MNCs in food markets. … Peasants will raise the slogan ‘Corporations Quit India’ on 13th August 2025 by organizing tractor/ motor vehicle parades and protest demonstrations and burn effigies of the U S President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Narendra Modi.”
https://www.newsclick.in/modi-govt-surrendering-us-ftas-will-open-agri-dairy-sector-fears-skm
Sudan’s competing authorities are beholden to militia leaders, say analysts
The Rapid Support Forces paramilitary, which is battling the army, has formed an alliance with smaller armed factions and declared its intention to form a parallel government that will ostensibly represent all of Sudan. The RSF-backed coalition has already unveiled its leadership council, on which the leaders of armed groups feature in prominent positions. Analysts told Al Jazeera that SAF and the RSF are trying to meet the demands of powerful militias in a bid to keep their respective battlefield alliances intact.
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2025/7/23/sudans-competing-authorities-are-beholden-to-militia-leaders
https://archive.ph/g5wVq
Eswatini opposition attacks US deal as ‘human trafficking disguised as deportation’
Eswatini, formerly Swaziland, is landlocked by South Africa and Mozambique and has a population of about 1.2 million. It is Africa’s last absolute monarchy and has been ruled by King Mswati III since 1986. The government estimated the five men would be held for about 12 months, a spokesperson, Thabile Mdluli, said, adding: “It could be slightly less or slightly more.” She said Eswatini was ready to receive more deportees, depending on the availability of facilities and negotiations with the US, which has also deported eight people to South Sudan after holding them for weeks in a shipping container in Djibouti, and more than 200 Venezuelans to El Salvador.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/23/eswatini-petition-us-deportees
News 7/23/25
Protests in Ukraine as Zelenskyy signs bill curbing anticorruption agenciesNABU and SAPO are two key institutions that have long symbolised Ukraine’s post-Euromaidan commitment to rooting out high-level corruption. Critics say the move strips these agencies of their independence and risks turning them into political tools. Protests erupted in Kyiv, Lviv, Dnipro, and Odesa, with demonstrators holding signs reading “Veto the law” and “We chose Europe, not autocracy.”
https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2025/7/23/protests-in-ukraine-as-zelenskyy-signs-bill-curbing-anticorruption-agencies
https://archive.ph/YnvcZ
Germany moves to fast-track weapons purchases
Germany's cabinet has approved a draft law to accelerate arms procurement for the military, Defense Minister Boris Pistorius said Wednesday, calling it a "quantum leap" for national security. The bill is designed to cut red tape and allow the Bundeswehr to buy weapons and equipment faster and with fewer bureaucratic hurdles.
https://www.dw.com/en/germany-moves-to-fast-track-weapons-purchases/a-73386445
https://archive.ph/7f1pl
== Putin names desired minimum fertility rate for Russia
To reverse the trend, the government has introduced a range of support measures, including lump-sum payments for childbirth, expanded maternity benefits, and ongoing financial assistance for families. The Soviet-era “Mother Heroine” award that offers cash rewards to women who have more than ten children has also been revived. Officials have proposed other policies as well, such as discouraging the promotion of “child-free” lifestyles and offering extra tax breaks for larger families. Putin has repeatedly stressed the importance of improving economic and social conditions to promote larger families and make parenthood a widely supported choice.
https://www.rt.com/russia/621816-putin-minimum-fertility-rate/
https://archive.ph/k82yk
Pro-Zionist Board of Deputies of British Jews calls for workplace “antisemitism” training
“Antisemitism training” would be based on the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) definition of antisemitism that falsely equates anti-Zionism with antisemitism. The IHRA cites as an example of antisemitism: “Denying the Jewish people their right to self-determination, e.g., by claiming that the existence of a State of Israel is a racist endeavour.” The BoD was a key player in getting the IHRA definition adopted by Britain’s then Conservative government and public authorities in 2016.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/22/uqtx-j22.html
Landslide Knesset vote approves non-binding proposal to annex West Bank
Besides receiving broad support across the Likud coalition, the conseravtive Yisrael Beiteinu party also voted in favour of the motion, along with independent MK Idan Roll and far-right Noam party leader Avi Maoz. The motion was initiated by Likud member Dan Illouz and three other MKs, including Minister for Settlements Orit Strook.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/knesset-set-vote-symbolic-motion-calling-israeli-annexation-west-bank
Doctors and health officials report wave of hunger deaths in Gaza
Gaza’s health ministry on Wednesday recorded 10 deaths due to starvation in the previous 24 hours, which it said brought the number of hunger-related fatalities in July to 46. That brings the total number of deaths from malnutrition reported by the ministry to 111, at least 80 of them children, since Israel’s offensive in Gaza started following Hamas’s October 7 2023 attack.
https://www.ft.com/content/acb6116e-18cb-4af4-9eee-1c005869ef70
https://archive.ph/kCa3d
Turkey: Six Revolutionary Prisoners Still on Hunger Strike Against “Well” Prisons
For many weeks, six revolutionary prisoners have been on hunger strike in Turkey to denounce “well” type prisons. They are based on a very strict solitary confinement regime and harsh prison conditions for prisoners. They owe their name to the fact that the windows, tightly grilled, look out onto a walled space, and the short daily walk is in a narrow space surrounded by high walls. On July 14, many initiatives of solidarity with these prisoners were organized in Greece, Holland, France and Belgium.
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/20500/
Modi Govt ‘Surrendering’ to US on FTAs, Will Open Agri, Dairy Sector, Fears SKM
In an online general body meeting held on July 20, SKM said such a step would not only hurt the interests of the country but also impact the people adversely. In a press statement issued after the meeting, SKM announced a series of mass protest actions across the country against “the BJP-led NDA Govt.’s moves to accept USA pressures and increase imports of food and dairy items, including GM foods and penetration of MNCs in food markets. … Peasants will raise the slogan ‘Corporations Quit India’ on 13th August 2025 by organizing tractor/ motor vehicle parades and protest demonstrations and burn effigies of the U S President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Narendra Modi.”
https://www.newsclick.in/modi-govt-surrendering-us-ftas-will-open-agri-dairy-sector-fears-skm
Sudan’s competing authorities are beholden to militia leaders, say analysts
The Rapid Support Forces paramilitary, which is battling the army, has formed an alliance with smaller armed factions and declared its intention to form a parallel government that will ostensibly represent all of Sudan. The RSF-backed coalition has already unveiled its leadership council, on which the leaders of armed groups feature in prominent positions. Analysts told Al Jazeera that SAF and the RSF are trying to meet the demands of powerful militias in a bid to keep their respective battlefield alliances intact.
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2025/7/23/sudans-competing-authorities-are-beholden-to-militia-leaders
https://archive.ph/g5wVq
Eswatini opposition attacks US deal as ‘human trafficking disguised as deportation’
Eswatini, formerly Swaziland, is landlocked by South Africa and Mozambique and has a population of about 1.2 million. It is Africa’s last absolute monarchy and has been ruled by King Mswati III since 1986. The government estimated the five men would be held for about 12 months, a spokesperson, Thabile Mdluli, said, adding: “It could be slightly less or slightly more.” She said Eswatini was ready to receive more deportees, depending on the availability of facilities and negotiations with the US, which has also deported eight people to South Sudan after holding them for weeks in a shipping container in Djibouti, and more than 200 Venezuelans to El Salvador.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/23/eswatini-petition-us-deportees
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why is it then that Soviet Burdenko commission was submitted to Nuremberg as a proof, and Nazi commission results under the name of "Amtliches Material zum Massenmord von Katyn", despite getting submitted, was declined by Nuremberg after a review, which claimed that:
>In any case, we believe that we have shown enough gaps, errors and inaccuracies to be able to recognize the statements made by the Germans in the publication "Amtliches Material zum Massenmord von Katyn" as material that does not withstand accurate scientific criticism, and thus recognize it as having too much propaganda character. In making this conclusion, we used only precise substantive reasoning.
Funny, right?
Oh, and as a bonus, Mednoye, which is often presented as a proof that Soviets were killing people in places other than those which were later occupied by Germans during the war, as it turns out, was actually occupied during the war, and 2nd pic is an order to recapture the settlement from Germans
Also also, check out present day Russia historiography on the issue. https://noo-journal.ru/vak/2025-1-42/kornilova-otritsanie-soobshcheniya-komissii-burdenko-v-katynskom-dele/ They call shit that happened in Russia in 1990s in regards to Katyn "Burdenko commission denialism"!
Katyn
If USSR comitted Katyn, and Nuremberg decided not to say anything about it, like Katyn cultists claim,why is it then that Soviet Burdenko commission was submitted to Nuremberg as a proof, and Nazi commission results under the name of "Amtliches Material zum Massenmord von Katyn", despite getting submitted, was declined by Nuremberg after a review, which claimed that:
>In any case, we believe that we have shown enough gaps, errors and inaccuracies to be able to recognize the statements made by the Germans in the publication "Amtliches Material zum Massenmord von Katyn" as material that does not withstand accurate scientific criticism, and thus recognize it as having too much propaganda character. In making this conclusion, we used only precise substantive reasoning.
Funny, right?
Oh, and as a bonus, Mednoye, which is often presented as a proof that Soviets were killing people in places other than those which were later occupied by Germans during the war, as it turns out, was actually occupied during the war, and 2nd pic is an order to recapture the settlement from Germans
Also also, check out present day Russia historiography on the issue. https://noo-journal.ru/vak/2025-1-42/kornilova-otritsanie-soobshcheniya-komissii-burdenko-v-katynskom-dele/ They call shit that happened in Russia in 1990s in regards to Katyn "Burdenko commission denialism"!
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https://socialismconference.org/
The subject came up in the current /ukr/ thread,>>2279417 , specifically the 2019 article by The Gray Zone outing many of the participants as USAID/NED funded glowies:
https://thegrayzone.com/2019/07/06/dsa-jacobin-iso-socialism-conference-us-funded-regime-change/
And the weaksauce rebuttal for what little it's worth:
https://newpol.org/in-defense-of-socialist-internationalism-answering-the-propaganda-of-the-authoritarian-left/
This thread is for discussing the upcoming event, which I think is safe to say will be the tastemaking event of the year as far as pseudo-left talking points are concerned. Why not get a preview of the hottest psy ops and troll topics of the coming year BEFORE they hit forums near you? It's GLOW-CON!
Glow-Con 2025
The annual Socialism Conference in Chicago is just a few short weeks away! Have you secured your ticket yet?https://socialismconference.org/
The subject came up in the current /ukr/ thread,
https://thegrayzone.com/2019/07/06/dsa-jacobin-iso-socialism-conference-us-funded-regime-change/
And the weaksauce rebuttal for what little it's worth:
https://newpol.org/in-defense-of-socialist-internationalism-answering-the-propaganda-of-the-authoritarian-left/
This thread is for discussing the upcoming event, which I think is safe to say will be the tastemaking event of the year as far as pseudo-left talking points are concerned. Why not get a preview of the hottest psy ops and troll topics of the coming year BEFORE they hit forums near you? It's GLOW-CON!
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White people
I can’t help but find myself hating white people, they have killed billions at this point and somehow they are the victims, I am glad that I from Bharat can go to a white county and take it from them
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So let’s get this straight: living in the West is one grand petty‑bourgeois dictatorship, clothed in advertising jingles and social‑media virtue signals. You wake up every morning in your cubicled existence, shoved into the spectacle of capitalist consent, told you’re “free” as long as you consent to your own consent. You pedal your overpriced latte, you swipe your credit card, you scroll your curated feed, and all the while you’re under the iron heel of the small‑property class, those pious managers of your desires who define what you can buy, what you can think, and whom you’re allowed to love.
What makes it petty‑bourgeois?
Because the dictatorship isn’t administered by some grand commissar or charismatic cult leader, but by your local real‑estate agent, your start‑up HR drone, your neighborhood organic coffee baron. They don’t send the tanks, they send you push‑notifications. They don’t issue decrees through official state media, they drip‑feed you “influencers,” “thought leaders,” “proudly independent brands.” Your entire world is policed by taste, the right avocado toast, the right “woke” hashtag, the right artisanal soap. Dissent? Of course it must be sanitized, “inclusive,” packaged in a recyclable meme, or it doesn’t exist.
But isn’t this just consumer capitalism, you ask?
No, that’s the mistake of liberals who think if only we could shop from another boutique or vote for a different brand of politician, everything would be hunky‑dory. This petty‑bourgeois dictatorship is totalizing. It permeates the smallest crevices of your life, from which podcast you’re allowed to listen to, to which brunch spot you’re encouraged to Instagram. It claims no grand utopia beyond itself, it is content to suffocate you in tiny comforts and endless noise.
And the ideological apparatus?
Forget grand state newspapers, today’s censors don’t burn books, they bury them under Amazon bestseller lists. They replace ideology with algorithms that punish “harmful” opinions by de‑ranking you. They cultivate your self‑censorship through “community guidelines,” spectral supervisors that haunt every comment section. You think you share or like of your own volition? Cute. You are parroting the newest directives of the petty‑bourgeois commissariat, be yourself but only this version of yourself.
What’s the solution?
Communism isn’t some distant utopia in outer space, it’s the only negation of this petty‑bourgeois dictatorship. Only through mass coordination, collective planning, and the abolition of property in its smallest fetishized forms—no more ownership of your apartment, your startup, or your personal brand—can we break the iron circuits of this social firewall. We must smash the idols of self‑employment and small‑business heroism, expose them as the simulacra they are, and seize the means of social imagination itself.
So next time you’re sipping your kombucha and patting yourself on the back for being a responsible citizen, remember you’re still an inmate in that gilded cage, patrolled by a legion of petty‑bourgeois bureaucrats, your b4rista, your landlord, your local Instagram influencer. Dissent isn’t a tweet, it’s the collective refusal to believe that this is the best of all possible worlds. Only then can we truly live, and not merely exist under petty‑bourgeois dictatorship.
So let’s get this straight: living in the West is one grand petty‑bourgeois dictatorship, clothed in advertising jingles and social‑media virtue signals. You wake up every morning in your cubicled existence, shoved into the spectacle of capitalist consent, told you’re “free” as long as you consent to your own consent. You pedal your overpriced latte, you swipe your credit card, you scroll your curated feed, and all the while you’re under the iron heel of the small‑property class, those pious managers of your desires who define what you can buy, what you can think, and whom you’re allowed to love.
What makes it petty‑bourgeois?
Because the dictatorship isn’t administered by some grand commissar or charismatic cult leader, but by your local real‑estate agent, your start‑up HR drone, your neighborhood organic coffee baron. They don’t send the tanks, they send you push‑notifications. They don’t issue decrees through official state media, they drip‑feed you “influencers,” “thought leaders,” “proudly independent brands.” Your entire world is policed by taste, the right avocado toast, the right “woke” hashtag, the right artisanal soap. Dissent? Of course it must be sanitized, “inclusive,” packaged in a recyclable meme, or it doesn’t exist.
But isn’t this just consumer capitalism, you ask?
No, that’s the mistake of liberals who think if only we could shop from another boutique or vote for a different brand of politician, everything would be hunky‑dory. This petty‑bourgeois dictatorship is totalizing. It permeates the smallest crevices of your life, from which podcast you’re allowed to listen to, to which brunch spot you’re encouraged to Instagram. It claims no grand utopia beyond itself, it is content to suffocate you in tiny comforts and endless noise.
And the ideological apparatus?
Forget grand state newspapers, today’s censors don’t burn books, they bury them under Amazon bestseller lists. They replace ideology with algorithms that punish “harmful” opinions by de‑ranking you. They cultivate your self‑censorship through “community guidelines,” spectral supervisors that haunt every comment section. You think you share or like of your own volition? Cute. You are parroting the newest directives of the petty‑bourgeois commissariat, be yourself but only this version of yourself.
What’s the solution?
Communism isn’t some distant utopia in outer space, it’s the only negation of this petty‑bourgeois dictatorship. Only through mass coordination, collective planning, and the abolition of property in its smallest fetishized forms—no more ownership of your apartment, your startup, or your personal brand—can we break the iron circuits of this social firewall. We must smash the idols of self‑employment and small‑business heroism, expose them as the simulacra they are, and seize the means of social imagination itself.
So next time you’re sipping your kombucha and patting yourself on the back for being a responsible citizen, remember you’re still an inmate in that gilded cage, patrolled by a legion of petty‑bourgeois bureaucrats, your b4rista, your landlord, your local Instagram influencer. Dissent isn’t a tweet, it’s the collective refusal to believe that this is the best of all possible worlds. Only then can we truly live, and not merely exist under petty‑bourgeois dictatorship.
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Why do you communists cry about american sanctions on cuba when you dont even believe in the free market? Also isnt communism supposed to be self-sufficient why would cuba need to trade with an imperialist power like america in the first place?
Why do you communists cry about american sanctions on cuba when you dont even believe in the free market? Also isnt communism supposed to be self-sufficient why would cuba need to trade with an imperialist power like america in the first place?
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I was looking for a thread on left-wing print media on here but couldn't find one. What are your favorite outlets and why?
I've been reading a lot of the Monthly Review lately and really liking it, though I am confused why JBF gets so much print space (love the guy, but seems like he should widen the field a bit). Cosmonaut regularly puts out good stuff too but I'm not a fan of the editorial bias that comes through on their podcast.
I was looking for a thread on left-wing print media on here but couldn't find one. What are your favorite outlets and why?
I've been reading a lot of the Monthly Review lately and really liking it, though I am confused why JBF gets so much print space (love the guy, but seems like he should widen the field a bit). Cosmonaut regularly puts out good stuff too but I'm not a fan of the editorial bias that comes through on their podcast.
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>crushed philosophy
>undermined diamat and dialectics
>replaced materialism with naturalism
>wrecked anti-class theories
>tore down humanism
>flattened leftoid ideology
>scrapped subjective/objective truth
>abolished teleology and determinism
>destroyed critical theories
Nothing personnel, kid.
>crushed philosophy
>undermined diamat and dialectics
>replaced materialism with naturalism
>wrecked anti-class theories
>tore down humanism
>flattened leftoid ideology
>scrapped subjective/objective truth
>abolished teleology and determinism
>destroyed critical theories
Nothing personnel, kid.
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Переможный, переговорный, пятнадцатотравневый.
Продолжаем трястись и ждать мобку.
Лолируем с красных фашистов, пыняславов и чучхеисов - вместе.
Переезжаем в тюмень, так как там нефтяная мекка и все жрут черную икру поварешками.
Левый поворот путина будет… надо только подождать… еще лет двадцать.
/rus/ - Russia General
Thread №2Переможный, переговорный, пятнадцатотравневый.
Продолжаем трястись и ждать мобку.
Лолируем с красных фашистов, пыняславов и чучхеисов - вместе.
Переезжаем в тюмень, так как там нефтяная мекка и все жрут черную икру поварешками.
Левый поворот путина будет… надо только подождать… еще лет двадцать.
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The body was too short or empty. The body was too short or empty. Flood detected.
/leftybritpol/ - THE BIG MEETING EDITION
It's the Durham Miners' Gala this Saturday, are you going? Local Reform Cllrs are fucking furious because they aren't being invited.The body was too short or empty. The body was too short or empty. Flood detected.
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People here like to go on about how based Andor is (it is) but lets go a step further and talk about how based this game is
>all of raidens allies are too afraid to stand up to injustice in the world because "muh laws" so raiden does some funny minecraft shenanigans
have not read any theory outside of marx bullet points from my PHL 101 class btw :)
People here like to go on about how based Andor is (it is) but lets go a step further and talk about how based this game is
>all of raidens allies are too afraid to stand up to injustice in the world because "muh laws" so raiden does some funny minecraft shenanigans
have not read any theory outside of marx bullet points from my PHL 101 class btw :)
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The US has stationed nuclear weapons in Britain for the first time in nearly 20 years for potential deployment on a new squadron of British jets, analysts have said. A transport plane was tracked on Thursday during a ten-hour flight from Kirtland Air Force Base in New Mexico, the US Air Force’s main nuclear storage site, to RAF Lakenheath in Suffolk.
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/defence/article/us-nuclear-weapons-uk-soil-first-time-17-years-wvgz8m6wl
https://archive.ph/l90fy
Palestine protesters shut down arms manufacturer in Sheffield
Stop Arming Israel stopped traffic from heading into the site from 6am as the first shift arrived for work at Forged Solutions, a company that is part of the F-35 programme. Protesters stood in front of the entrance to the site holding banners and a queue of lorries was turned back. A group spokesperson said: “The Stop Arming Israel group aims not only to target complicity but also direct participation in the genocide in Palestine.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/palestine-protesters-shut-down-arms-manufacturer-sheffield
Russian lawmakers pass a bill punishing online searches for information deemed to be ‘extremist’
The official definition of extremist activity is extremely broad and includes opposition groups like the Anti-Corruption Foundation, created by the late opposition leader Alexei Navalny, and the “international LGBT movement.” It’s not clear how authorities will track down violators. Officials and lawmakers said ordinary internet users won’t be affected and only those who methodically seek outlawed content will be targeted. They didn’t explain how the authorities would differentiate between them.
https://apnews.com/article/russia-putin-internet-censorship-extremist-40fb52d2b45081815579bbb64e5dc5cd
Israeli cruise ship turned away from Greek island by Gaza war protest
Around 1,600 Israeli passengers on board the Crown Iris were prevented from disembarking amid safety concerns when more than 300 demonstrators on the Cycladic isle made clear they were unwelcome over Israel’s conduct of the war and treatment of Palestinians in Gaza. A large banner emblazoned with the words Stop the Genocide was held aloft alongside Palestinian flags.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/22/israeli-cruise-rerouted-after-aegean-islanders-protest-gaza-war
Israel says it will return Hebron's Ibrahimi mosque, but settlers already taking over
The move reportedly bypassed the Islamic Waqf and the Palestinian-run Hebron Municipality, which had previously overseen the site’s day-to-day upkeep under the long-standing status quo. Israeli authorities have insisted the administrative change is temporary and will be reversed after construction is complete.
https://www.newarab.com/news/settlers-may-take-over-hebron-mosque-despite-israeli-assurances
Gaza Resistance Factions Launch Attacks Targeting Zionoist Forces
Several Palestinian Resistance factions released video footage on Sunday documenting coordinated military operations targeting Zionist occupation forces across the Gaza Strip, including attempts to capture soldiers and destroy armored vehicles. Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement, published footage of a combined operation in the Abasan al-Kabira area, east of Khan Younis, southern Gaza. The operation targeted a armored personnel carrier and, according to the group, was aimed at capturing Zionist soldiers.
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/20491/
Inside Iran’s crackdown on Afghan migrants after the war with Israel
Iran has been hosting Afghans for decades. While it has periodically expelled irregular arrivals, it has now taken its efforts to unprecedented levels after the war with Israel that killed more than 1,000 people in Iran, many of them civilians. Iran has also been building a wall along its massive eastern borders with Afghanistan and Pakistan to stem the flow of irregular migration, and smuggled drugs and fuel.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/22/inside-irans-crackdown-on-afghan-migrants
https://archive.ph/elyi9
Sudan to block WhatsApp calls citing security concerns
Sudan’s Telecommunications and Post Regulatory Authority has announced a nationwide block on voice and video calls via WhatsApp, effective Friday, 25 July, citing national security concerns. The authority said the move is a “precautionary measure” to address threats to national stability and safeguard the country’s interests.
https://www.dabangasudan.org/en/all-news/article/sudan-to-block-whatsapp-calls-citing-security-concerns
Abahlali baseMjondolo protests xenophobia and defends legal aid group after far-right threats
Abahlali baseMjondolo (AbM), South Africa’s largest grassroots movement of shack dwellers, led a powerful demonstration last week in solidarity with the Socio-Economic Rights Institute of South Africa (SERI), following an aggressive march by the far-right, anti-migrant group Operation Dudula on the legal aid group’s Braamfontein offices.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/07/22/abahlali-basemjondolo-protests-xenophobia-and-defends-legal-aid-group-after-far-right-threats/
Panamanian Union Leader Flees For Asylum In Bolivia
Saul Mendez, the secretary general of the Suntracs construction union – one of the largest labor unions in Panama – left the country two days after the Panamanian government filed a lawsuit to dissolve it. The union is fighting the Panamanian government on several fronts, including pension reform. "Long live the Panamanian people," Mendez shouted to supporters as he left Panama City escorted by police after the government granted him safe passage to leave the Central American nation.
https://www.barrons.com/news/panamanian-union-leader-flees-for-asylum-in-bolivia-450b4bf3
https://archive.ph/ri2Rj
Jeannette Jara is a coalition Communist who wants to be Chile's next president
Speaking to Reuters outside her small, plant-filled, yellow-brick home in Santiago on Friday, Jara said she is seeking to emphasize her pragmatism and dealmaking, noting her leadership role in legislation that reduced the workweek to 40 hours and reformed pensions. "I didn't do it alone, I did it hand-in-hand with workers and Chilean business owners to come to an agreement," Jara said. "We have experience, we don't have all the answers - nobody is infallible. But we have an ability to govern the country with the reforms it needs." Opinion polls show that Jara is likely to make it to a run-off, but most scenarios have her losing to a right-wing candidate in the second round.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/jeannette-jara-is-coalition-communist-who-wants-be-chiles-next-president-2025-07-22/
MST releases letter to Brazilian society: “Lula, where is the Agrarian Reform?”
The Landless Rural Workers Movement (MST) published an open letter to Brazilian society on Monday July 21. In the document, the movement condemns the stagnation of Agrarian Reform, criticizes attacks by the right wing in the National Congress, and demands that President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of the Workers’ Party (PT) fulfill his historic commitments to structural policies for the countryside. The release of the letter comes during Peasant Week, held in honor of Rural Workers’ Day, celebrated on July 25.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/07/22/mst-releases-letter-to-brazilian-society-lula-where-is-the-agrarian-reform/
News 7/22/25
US nuclear weapons ‘on UK soil’ for first time in 17 yearsThe US has stationed nuclear weapons in Britain for the first time in nearly 20 years for potential deployment on a new squadron of British jets, analysts have said. A transport plane was tracked on Thursday during a ten-hour flight from Kirtland Air Force Base in New Mexico, the US Air Force’s main nuclear storage site, to RAF Lakenheath in Suffolk.
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/defence/article/us-nuclear-weapons-uk-soil-first-time-17-years-wvgz8m6wl
https://archive.ph/l90fy
Palestine protesters shut down arms manufacturer in Sheffield
Stop Arming Israel stopped traffic from heading into the site from 6am as the first shift arrived for work at Forged Solutions, a company that is part of the F-35 programme. Protesters stood in front of the entrance to the site holding banners and a queue of lorries was turned back. A group spokesperson said: “The Stop Arming Israel group aims not only to target complicity but also direct participation in the genocide in Palestine.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/palestine-protesters-shut-down-arms-manufacturer-sheffield
Russian lawmakers pass a bill punishing online searches for information deemed to be ‘extremist’
The official definition of extremist activity is extremely broad and includes opposition groups like the Anti-Corruption Foundation, created by the late opposition leader Alexei Navalny, and the “international LGBT movement.” It’s not clear how authorities will track down violators. Officials and lawmakers said ordinary internet users won’t be affected and only those who methodically seek outlawed content will be targeted. They didn’t explain how the authorities would differentiate between them.
https://apnews.com/article/russia-putin-internet-censorship-extremist-40fb52d2b45081815579bbb64e5dc5cd
Israeli cruise ship turned away from Greek island by Gaza war protest
Around 1,600 Israeli passengers on board the Crown Iris were prevented from disembarking amid safety concerns when more than 300 demonstrators on the Cycladic isle made clear they were unwelcome over Israel’s conduct of the war and treatment of Palestinians in Gaza. A large banner emblazoned with the words Stop the Genocide was held aloft alongside Palestinian flags.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/22/israeli-cruise-rerouted-after-aegean-islanders-protest-gaza-war
Israel says it will return Hebron's Ibrahimi mosque, but settlers already taking over
The move reportedly bypassed the Islamic Waqf and the Palestinian-run Hebron Municipality, which had previously overseen the site’s day-to-day upkeep under the long-standing status quo. Israeli authorities have insisted the administrative change is temporary and will be reversed after construction is complete.
https://www.newarab.com/news/settlers-may-take-over-hebron-mosque-despite-israeli-assurances
Gaza Resistance Factions Launch Attacks Targeting Zionoist Forces
Several Palestinian Resistance factions released video footage on Sunday documenting coordinated military operations targeting Zionist occupation forces across the Gaza Strip, including attempts to capture soldiers and destroy armored vehicles. Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement, published footage of a combined operation in the Abasan al-Kabira area, east of Khan Younis, southern Gaza. The operation targeted a armored personnel carrier and, according to the group, was aimed at capturing Zionist soldiers.
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/20491/
Inside Iran’s crackdown on Afghan migrants after the war with Israel
Iran has been hosting Afghans for decades. While it has periodically expelled irregular arrivals, it has now taken its efforts to unprecedented levels after the war with Israel that killed more than 1,000 people in Iran, many of them civilians. Iran has also been building a wall along its massive eastern borders with Afghanistan and Pakistan to stem the flow of irregular migration, and smuggled drugs and fuel.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/22/inside-irans-crackdown-on-afghan-migrants
https://archive.ph/elyi9
Sudan to block WhatsApp calls citing security concerns
Sudan’s Telecommunications and Post Regulatory Authority has announced a nationwide block on voice and video calls via WhatsApp, effective Friday, 25 July, citing national security concerns. The authority said the move is a “precautionary measure” to address threats to national stability and safeguard the country’s interests.
https://www.dabangasudan.org/en/all-news/article/sudan-to-block-whatsapp-calls-citing-security-concerns
Abahlali baseMjondolo protests xenophobia and defends legal aid group after far-right threats
Abahlali baseMjondolo (AbM), South Africa’s largest grassroots movement of shack dwellers, led a powerful demonstration last week in solidarity with the Socio-Economic Rights Institute of South Africa (SERI), following an aggressive march by the far-right, anti-migrant group Operation Dudula on the legal aid group’s Braamfontein offices.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/07/22/abahlali-basemjondolo-protests-xenophobia-and-defends-legal-aid-group-after-far-right-threats/
Panamanian Union Leader Flees For Asylum In Bolivia
Saul Mendez, the secretary general of the Suntracs construction union – one of the largest labor unions in Panama – left the country two days after the Panamanian government filed a lawsuit to dissolve it. The union is fighting the Panamanian government on several fronts, including pension reform. "Long live the Panamanian people," Mendez shouted to supporters as he left Panama City escorted by police after the government granted him safe passage to leave the Central American nation.
https://www.barrons.com/news/panamanian-union-leader-flees-for-asylum-in-bolivia-450b4bf3
https://archive.ph/ri2Rj
Jeannette Jara is a coalition Communist who wants to be Chile's next president
Speaking to Reuters outside her small, plant-filled, yellow-brick home in Santiago on Friday, Jara said she is seeking to emphasize her pragmatism and dealmaking, noting her leadership role in legislation that reduced the workweek to 40 hours and reformed pensions. "I didn't do it alone, I did it hand-in-hand with workers and Chilean business owners to come to an agreement," Jara said. "We have experience, we don't have all the answers - nobody is infallible. But we have an ability to govern the country with the reforms it needs." Opinion polls show that Jara is likely to make it to a run-off, but most scenarios have her losing to a right-wing candidate in the second round.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/jeannette-jara-is-coalition-communist-who-wants-be-chiles-next-president-2025-07-22/
MST releases letter to Brazilian society: “Lula, where is the Agrarian Reform?”
The Landless Rural Workers Movement (MST) published an open letter to Brazilian society on Monday July 21. In the document, the movement condemns the stagnation of Agrarian Reform, criticizes attacks by the right wing in the National Congress, and demands that President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of the Workers’ Party (PT) fulfill his historic commitments to structural policies for the countryside. The release of the letter comes during Peasant Week, held in honor of Rural Workers’ Day, celebrated on July 25.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/07/22/mst-releases-letter-to-brazilian-society-lula-where-is-the-agrarian-reform/
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"The most concrete link is his relationship with former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak. Epstein and Barak met numerous times between 2013 and 2017, with Barak visiting Epstein’s properties in Florida and New York approximately 30 times, including a 2014 private flight in Florida. Barak received $2.3 million from an Epstein-associated foundation between 2004 and 2006, and Epstein invested $1 million in a limited partnership established by Barak in 2015.
Another connection stems from Epstein’s ties to Ghislaine Maxwell, whose father, Robert Maxwell, was a British media mogul alleged to have had links to the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad. Some sources, including former Israeli intelligence officer Ari Ben-Menashe, have claimed Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell ran a “honey-trap” operation for Mossad to blackmail influential figures. A lawsuit by a woman identified as Jane Doe 200 alleged Epstein boasted of being a Mossad agent, but this remains unconfirmed.
Epstein was also associated with the Wexner Foundation, which supports Jewish leadership and has ties to Israel. His financial backer, Leslie Wexner, was a member of the “Mega Group,” a collection of Jewish philanthropists, which some, like former NSA counterspy John Schindler, have speculated was linked to Israeli intelligence operations, though no hard evidence supports this. Epstein reportedly invested in an Israeli startup, Reporty Homeland Security (later rebranded as Carbyne), connected to Israel’s defense industry, further fueling speculation."
Epstein-Israel-Trump
Epstein is connected to Israel, this is why Trump is covering it up. He doesn't want to risk the political fallout for Israel when people realize all of Epstein's clients were blackmailed and used as Israeli assets (including Trump himself)."The most concrete link is his relationship with former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak. Epstein and Barak met numerous times between 2013 and 2017, with Barak visiting Epstein’s properties in Florida and New York approximately 30 times, including a 2014 private flight in Florida. Barak received $2.3 million from an Epstein-associated foundation between 2004 and 2006, and Epstein invested $1 million in a limited partnership established by Barak in 2015.
Another connection stems from Epstein’s ties to Ghislaine Maxwell, whose father, Robert Maxwell, was a British media mogul alleged to have had links to the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad. Some sources, including former Israeli intelligence officer Ari Ben-Menashe, have claimed Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell ran a “honey-trap” operation for Mossad to blackmail influential figures. A lawsuit by a woman identified as Jane Doe 200 alleged Epstein boasted of being a Mossad agent, but this remains unconfirmed.
Epstein was also associated with the Wexner Foundation, which supports Jewish leadership and has ties to Israel. His financial backer, Leslie Wexner, was a member of the “Mega Group,” a collection of Jewish philanthropists, which some, like former NSA counterspy John Schindler, have speculated was linked to Israeli intelligence operations, though no hard evidence supports this. Epstein reportedly invested in an Israeli startup, Reporty Homeland Security (later rebranded as Carbyne), connected to Israel’s defense industry, further fueling speculation."
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Monarchist group associated with "Tsarebozhnie" creates an anti-Lenin documentary, calls for burial of Lenin in Russia (picrel)
What are they doing? And in the middle of SMO like that? Are they hoping that the west will destabilise the country and cause a civil war so they are preparing their proponents to attempt a takeover?
Monarchist group associated with "Tsarebozhnie" creates an anti-Lenin documentary, calls for burial of Lenin in Russia (picrel)
What are they doing? And in the middle of SMO like that? Are they hoping that the west will destabilise the country and cause a civil war so they are preparing their proponents to attempt a takeover?
R: 52 / I: 8
>"Socialism is for losers who don't want to work. If you can't make it in a capitalist society it means you're a dumbfuck who has nothing to offer society."
How do you respond to this?
>"Socialism is for losers who don't want to work. If you can't make it in a capitalist society it means you're a dumbfuck who has nothing to offer society."
How do you respond to this?
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https://youtu.be/78II2ts-g1o?si=QKTSLcOj1PxZLZRK
Kotkin, intellectuals and "Marxism"
Is Kotkin perpetually stuck in 1917? What do you all think of someone like this. I don't really know how he doesn't know that most of what he said applies to capitalism, the enacting of policies that ignore the consequences to labor and those at the lowest in society.https://youtu.be/78II2ts-g1o?si=QKTSLcOj1PxZLZRK
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>The eruption of the scandal over the deliberate cover-up of Trump’s connections to billionaire speculator and convicted sex-trafficker Jeffrey Epstein—six years after Epstein’s supposed suicide in a Manhattan prison cell—is not a passing matter. It rather resembles such scandals of the 20th century as the Stavisky Affair (1933-34) in France, and the Profumo Affair (1963) in Britain, which upended governments and brought about major shifts in the political life of each country.
>It is worth reviewing these historical experiences, always understanding these were not matters of individual misconduct, whether sexual or financial, but revealed the deep-going corruption of an entire ruling class, leading to the discrediting of the entire bourgeois political order in France and the collapse of the Tory government in Britain. The Epstein scandal has even more far-reaching implications, since it is exposing the criminality of the ruling class in the United States, the center of world capitalism.
>The Stavisky Affair took place as France staggered under the impact of the Great Depression and the coming to power of Hitler in Germany in 1933. Stavisky was a Russian Jew, raised in France, who devised a method of financial swindling involving the issuing of worthless municipal bonds based on fraudulent collateral, including fake jewelry.
>When his scheme began to be exposed, many officials of the Radical Socialist Party, the bourgeois party then in power in France, were implicated. But through rampant bribery and legal manipulation, Stavisky succeeded in postponing his trial for fraud 19 times over six years, amid growing public outrage. In January 1934, he was found dead of a gunshot wound, and his death ruled, à la Epstein, a suicide. Eyebrows were raised when some Paris newspapers pointed out that the bullet was fired from a distance that seemed to preclude a self-inflicted wound.
6 months of the Trump administration: The stench of fascism and political crisis
>The Trump administration reached its six-month mark Sunday, with the usual boasting from the White House about its unrivaled success, and equally bankrupt assessments in the corporate media, portraying Trump as a titan who has remade American political life. The truth is that this is a government characterized by dictatorial methods, militarist provocations and deep unpopularity. And it is plunging into a political crisis that could well trigger its collapse.>The eruption of the scandal over the deliberate cover-up of Trump’s connections to billionaire speculator and convicted sex-trafficker Jeffrey Epstein—six years after Epstein’s supposed suicide in a Manhattan prison cell—is not a passing matter. It rather resembles such scandals of the 20th century as the Stavisky Affair (1933-34) in France, and the Profumo Affair (1963) in Britain, which upended governments and brought about major shifts in the political life of each country.
>It is worth reviewing these historical experiences, always understanding these were not matters of individual misconduct, whether sexual or financial, but revealed the deep-going corruption of an entire ruling class, leading to the discrediting of the entire bourgeois political order in France and the collapse of the Tory government in Britain. The Epstein scandal has even more far-reaching implications, since it is exposing the criminality of the ruling class in the United States, the center of world capitalism.
>The Stavisky Affair took place as France staggered under the impact of the Great Depression and the coming to power of Hitler in Germany in 1933. Stavisky was a Russian Jew, raised in France, who devised a method of financial swindling involving the issuing of worthless municipal bonds based on fraudulent collateral, including fake jewelry.
>When his scheme began to be exposed, many officials of the Radical Socialist Party, the bourgeois party then in power in France, were implicated. But through rampant bribery and legal manipulation, Stavisky succeeded in postponing his trial for fraud 19 times over six years, amid growing public outrage. In January 1934, he was found dead of a gunshot wound, and his death ruled, à la Epstein, a suicide. Eyebrows were raised when some Paris newspapers pointed out that the bullet was fired from a distance that seemed to preclude a self-inflicted wound.
R: 4 / I: 1
Massive protests in Romania
Bucharest, Romania – Tensions flared in the capital as supporters of populist leader Georgescu took to the streets in a mass rally, clashing with riot police in front of government buildings. Chanting “We are here to save our country!”, demonstrators waved Romanian flags and demanded political reforms and leadership accountability. What began as a peaceful protest escalated after barricades were breached near Parliament Square, prompting police to use tear gas and crowd control tactics.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBxtgBb_KC4
China posts over 5% growth despite trade war
China’s economy grew by 5.3% in the first six months of this year compared to the same period of last year, according to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS). The expansion comes despite persistent external pressures, particularly escalating trade tensions with the EU and US.
https://www.rt.com/business/621771-china-economic-growth-trade-war/
Russians spending millions on Labubus – TASS
Sales of the plush toys have reached $17.6 million this year, e-commerce giant Wildberries has reported
https://www.rt.com/pop-culture/621746-russians-labubu-millions-dollars-spending/
Hackers exploit Microsoft flaw to launch global attack
”Anybody who’s got a hosted SharePoint server has got a problem,” Adam Meyers of cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike said, describing the issue as “a significant vulnerability." It was not immediately clear who is behind the hack attack, the Washington Post noted.
https://www.rt.com/news/621773-hackers-exploit-microsoft-flaw-attack/
Fuentes Cheers ‘DARK ALEX JONES’ Evolution — Jones Responds!
America First host Nick Fuentes praised Alex Jones’ apparent transition into what he called “Dark Alex Jones,” a serious, intense Dark MAGA version of the battle-hardened Infowars host.
https://www.infowars.com/posts/watch-fuentes-applauds-dark-alex-jones-transition-jones-responds
China’s Security Ministry Warns Foreign Chips, Software May Steal Data Using Secret Backdoors
MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Microchips, smart devices, and software developed outside China may contain hidden tools embedded in their architecture designed to steal sensitive information about the People's Republic, the Ministry of State Security has announced.
https://sputnikglobe.com/20250721/chinas-security-ministry-warns-foreign-chips-software-may-steal-data-using-secret-backdoors-1122469515.html
Omaha Tribe of Nebraska To Sell Adult-Use Cannabis: ‘Not Waiting on Broken Systems to Deliver’
The Omaha Tribe of Nebraska legalized medical and adult-use cannabis on its land, asserting sovereignty with a comprehensive new regulatory framework.
https://hightimes.com/news/legalization/omaha-tribe-of-nebraska-to-sell-adult-use-cannabis/
Anti-Marijuana Physician Who Criticized Rescheduling Proposal Joins Trump White House’s Drug Office
Roneet Lev a WOD terrorist who previously served as chief medical officer at ONDCP under the first Trump administration—announced on Monday that she’ll be rejoining the pedo office.
https://www.marijuanamoment.net/anti-marijuana-physician-who-criticized-rescheduling-proposal-joins-trump-white-houses-drug-office/
Domestic demand takes center stage in China's next growth chapter
For over 40 years, China's economic growth relied heavily on exports. However, in recent years, expanding domestic demand has become a central focus of China's economic strategy. Official data indicates that domestic demand contributed nearly 90 percent to China's economic growth in the past three years.
https://news.cgtn.com/news/2025-07-21/Domestic-demand-takes-center-stage-in-China-s-next-growth-chapter-1Fa17twsdGw/p.html
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Because newsanon is slacking off.Massive protests in Romania
Bucharest, Romania – Tensions flared in the capital as supporters of populist leader Georgescu took to the streets in a mass rally, clashing with riot police in front of government buildings. Chanting “We are here to save our country!”, demonstrators waved Romanian flags and demanded political reforms and leadership accountability. What began as a peaceful protest escalated after barricades were breached near Parliament Square, prompting police to use tear gas and crowd control tactics.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBxtgBb_KC4
China posts over 5% growth despite trade war
China’s economy grew by 5.3% in the first six months of this year compared to the same period of last year, according to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS). The expansion comes despite persistent external pressures, particularly escalating trade tensions with the EU and US.
https://www.rt.com/business/621771-china-economic-growth-trade-war/
Russians spending millions on Labubus – TASS
Sales of the plush toys have reached $17.6 million this year, e-commerce giant Wildberries has reported
https://www.rt.com/pop-culture/621746-russians-labubu-millions-dollars-spending/
Hackers exploit Microsoft flaw to launch global attack
”Anybody who’s got a hosted SharePoint server has got a problem,” Adam Meyers of cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike said, describing the issue as “a significant vulnerability." It was not immediately clear who is behind the hack attack, the Washington Post noted.
https://www.rt.com/news/621773-hackers-exploit-microsoft-flaw-attack/
Fuentes Cheers ‘DARK ALEX JONES’ Evolution — Jones Responds!
America First host Nick Fuentes praised Alex Jones’ apparent transition into what he called “Dark Alex Jones,” a serious, intense Dark MAGA version of the battle-hardened Infowars host.
https://www.infowars.com/posts/watch-fuentes-applauds-dark-alex-jones-transition-jones-responds
China’s Security Ministry Warns Foreign Chips, Software May Steal Data Using Secret Backdoors
MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Microchips, smart devices, and software developed outside China may contain hidden tools embedded in their architecture designed to steal sensitive information about the People's Republic, the Ministry of State Security has announced.
https://sputnikglobe.com/20250721/chinas-security-ministry-warns-foreign-chips-software-may-steal-data-using-secret-backdoors-1122469515.html
Omaha Tribe of Nebraska To Sell Adult-Use Cannabis: ‘Not Waiting on Broken Systems to Deliver’
The Omaha Tribe of Nebraska legalized medical and adult-use cannabis on its land, asserting sovereignty with a comprehensive new regulatory framework.
https://hightimes.com/news/legalization/omaha-tribe-of-nebraska-to-sell-adult-use-cannabis/
Anti-Marijuana Physician Who Criticized Rescheduling Proposal Joins Trump White House’s Drug Office
Roneet Lev a WOD terrorist who previously served as chief medical officer at ONDCP under the first Trump administration—announced on Monday that she’ll be rejoining the pedo office.
https://www.marijuanamoment.net/anti-marijuana-physician-who-criticized-rescheduling-proposal-joins-trump-white-houses-drug-office/
Domestic demand takes center stage in China's next growth chapter
For over 40 years, China's economic growth relied heavily on exports. However, in recent years, expanding domestic demand has become a central focus of China's economic strategy. Official data indicates that domestic demand contributed nearly 90 percent to China's economic growth in the past three years.
https://news.cgtn.com/news/2025-07-21/Domestic-demand-takes-center-stage-in-China-s-next-growth-chapter-1Fa17twsdGw/p.html
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And how the FUCK is this black gentleman wrong in his analysis you leftypol RACISTS? China is clearly not socialist and its even symbolized on their own DAMN flag!
And how the FUCK is this black gentleman wrong in his analysis you leftypol RACISTS? China is clearly not socialist and its even symbolized on their own DAMN flag!
R: 4 / I: 0
The Grim Reaper of the Middle East
He literally is committing a genocide in Palestine and is forcing Palestinians to run into the West/Egypt and other countries. Meanwhile scumbag podcast bros interview him like he's just some random bootlicking politician. Why is America and the West at large so incapable of stopping Zionism and war criminals like him?
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I understand that under capitalism the proletariat essentially becomes production tools, which alienates them from their species-being, as they have no other choice given the necessity of selling their labor to live on. But isn't that the exact same process that the bourgeoisie operates in?
I mean, the bourgeoisie still needs money to feed itself, so the end goal is precisely the same, isn't it?
>the bourgeoisie can just exploit others' labor without doing anything
Right, but then why are they ontologically bad? The proletariat will still keep working for his own need in the end. You can argue that the bourgeoisie exploits him because he has no other choice than to work, but that won't fix his transmutation of labor power into goods, whether he owns the factory or not. Maybe I'm wrong, but it feels to me that alienation just leads to social democracy: a system where the worker can choose where he sells his labor—to himself, to a cooperative, or to one individual.
>the materialist dialectic will eventually make all workers work for their own needs because it's the rational thing to do
In this case, the bourgeoisie isn't bad but merely individuals who managed to seize an opportunity. Furthermore, if workers will rationally come to this own conclusion, then why even bother with a socialist revolution ? I guess you could argue that it's precisely about making the workers aware in a sense of their potential but again, this only seems to bring towards a social-democracy, not a marxist revolution.
Thoughts ?
What is alienation and why is it bad in marxism ?
From the Marxist POV, what actually is alienation and why is it bad?I understand that under capitalism the proletariat essentially becomes production tools, which alienates them from their species-being, as they have no other choice given the necessity of selling their labor to live on. But isn't that the exact same process that the bourgeoisie operates in?
I mean, the bourgeoisie still needs money to feed itself, so the end goal is precisely the same, isn't it?
>the bourgeoisie can just exploit others' labor without doing anything
Right, but then why are they ontologically bad? The proletariat will still keep working for his own need in the end. You can argue that the bourgeoisie exploits him because he has no other choice than to work, but that won't fix his transmutation of labor power into goods, whether he owns the factory or not. Maybe I'm wrong, but it feels to me that alienation just leads to social democracy: a system where the worker can choose where he sells his labor—to himself, to a cooperative, or to one individual.
>the materialist dialectic will eventually make all workers work for their own needs because it's the rational thing to do
In this case, the bourgeoisie isn't bad but merely individuals who managed to seize an opportunity. Furthermore, if workers will rationally come to this own conclusion, then why even bother with a socialist revolution ? I guess you could argue that it's precisely about making the workers aware in a sense of their potential but again, this only seems to bring towards a social-democracy, not a marxist revolution.
Thoughts ?
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"All the real communists are dead, they died fighting for communism."
Is there any hope for the future? The Lumpenprole are SO easy to manipulate, religion is on the upswing, and the global oligarchy is so influential and hypernormalized that I'm losing optimism. Please, tell me that comrade sacrifices will pay off.
"All the real communists are dead, they died fighting for communism."
Is there any hope for the future? The Lumpenprole are SO easy to manipulate, religion is on the upswing, and the global oligarchy is so influential and hypernormalized that I'm losing optimism. Please, tell me that comrade sacrifices will pay off.
R: 6 / I: 0
Rape the rich
#darkwoke
Stochastic terrorism against the 1%, unlimited jihad against the bourgeoisie.
Anti-robber baron action.
Put deez nuts on the rich.
Put wallstreet against the wall.
Unlimited fedposting.
Pro-adventurism action.
Shoot the rich summer!
Pro-Adventurism Unlimited Fedposting Thread
1% of the population, 20% of the wealthRape the rich
#darkwoke
Stochastic terrorism against the 1%, unlimited jihad against the bourgeoisie.
Anti-robber baron action.
Put deez nuts on the rich.
Put wallstreet against the wall.
Unlimited fedposting.
Pro-adventurism action.
Shoot the rich summer!
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Against Luddism
Why aren't you using the tools at your disposal to study harder, faster, stronger? This summary of the history of anti-revisionism from 1890 to 2025 was generated from the contents of 31 different texts. It doesn't replace reading, but it sure as hell makes it a lot easier to condense a lot of information fast.
R: 2 / I: 0
The federal prosecutor’s office said it had asked the police to locate the two people named in the complaint and to interview them. “Following these interviews, they were released,” it said in a statement. The office said it had taken action after concluding that Belgian courts had extraterritorial jurisdiction over alleged war crimes. “No further information will be given at this stage of the investigation,” the office said. The two Israelis have not been named.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/21/belgian-police-question-two-israelis-over-war-crimes-accusations
Counter-demo set for Epping following violence outside refugee hotel
The founder of the English Defence League has announced plans to visit the Essex town on Sunday to join the latest in a series of far-right protests outside a local hotel housing refugees. In response, Stand Up to Racism has organised a counter-demonstration, scheduled to begin near the Bell Hotel at 4pm.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/counter-demo-set-epping-following-violence-outside-refugee-hotel
Evacuations begin in Syria’s Sweida as days of deadly clashes ease
Neighboring Israel also launched dozens of airstrikes in Druze-majority Sweida province, targeting government forces who effectively sided with the Bedouins. Syrian state media on Sunday said the government had coordinated with officials in Sweida to bring buses to evacuate some 1,500 Bedouins. The province’s internal security chief under the Interior Ministry, Ahmad al-Dalati, told the state-run news agency that the initiative also would allow civilians displaced from Sweida to return. Druze civilians were expected to be evacuated from other areas, but those had not taken place by Monday evening.
https://apnews.com/article/syria-druze-bedouin-clashes-israel-f066b472abcb9c1d546b4e3d713feadd
Why Turkey plans to end its 52-year oil pipeline deal with Iraq
Turkey closed the pipeline, which passes through the semi-autonomous Kurdistan region, in March 2023 after the International Court of Arbitration ordered the country to pay Iraq $1.5 billion for unauthorized exports between 2014 and 2018. More specifically, the court said Ankara allowed Iraqi-Kurdish authorities to pump crude without Baghdad’s permission. Before the closure, the pipeline was shipping around 500,000 barrels per day (bpd) of crude. Turkey’s state-owned pipeline operator Botas stated on its website that at full capacity, the entire pipeline system, consisting of two lines, can transfer a total of 1.5 million bpd. On March 31, Al-Monitor reported that Iraq was seeking additional compensation from Turkey in a second international arbitration case for unauthorized exports.
https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2025/07/why-turkey-plans-end-its-52-year-oil-pipeline-deal-iraq
Egypt rejects US quid pro quo over Gaza and Ethiopia dam
One Egyptian diplomat told the news outlet that the Trump administration had offered what one senior US official called a "decisive intervention" to solve the dispute over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD). In return, Egypt would need to back Israel’s plan to confine millions of Palestinians in a concentration camp close to the Rafah border. Israel’s defence minister earlier this month announced plans to erect a “humanitarian city” on the ruins of Rafah into which the entire Palestinian population will eventually be concentrated.
https://www.newarab.com/news/egypt-rejects-us-quid-pro-quo-over-gaza-and-ethiopia-dam
Kenya activist Boniface Mwangi charged with illegal ammo possession
Boniface Mwangi was charged by the police on Monday, two days after he was arrested and accused of possessing unused tear gas canisters, a “7.62mm blank round”, two mobile phones, a laptop and notebooks. The courtroom was packed with hundreds of activists, some wearing Kenyan flags. “They have no evidence,” Mwangi told reporters, describing his prosecution as “a big shame”.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/21/kenya-rights-activist-boniface-mwangi-charged-with-possession-of-ammunition
https://archive.ph/dEwmV
Venezuela to investigate alleged torture of its citizens in El Salvador jail
As well as Bukele, Venezuela would investigate El Salvador’s justice minister, Gustavo Villatoro, and its head of prisons, Osiris Luna Meza, Saab said, after showing videos of former detainees recounting torture and showing injuries – including a missing molar, bruising and scars – they said were the result of the abuse. Bukele’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Reuters was not immediately able to confirm the assertions made in the videos, but two of those shown speaking were identifiable as former Cecot detainees.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/21/venezuela-to-investigate-alleged-torture-of-its-citizens-in-el-salvador-jail
Petro urges Congress to approve reforms ahead of final year in office
Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro used the inauguration of a new congressional year to defend his three years in office and seek support for reform bills that will be introduced in the coming year. In a 138-minute speech, Petro apparently sought to put tensions with the opposition behind him and praised Congress for approving his government’s labor and pension reform proposals. The praise preceded the president’s attempt to warm up Congress for a pending reform of the public health system and a judicial reform that would allow the mass demobilization of illegal armed groups.
https://colombiareports.com/petro-urges-congress-to-approve-reforms-ahead-of-final-year-in-office/
From job cuts to suspending plans, Taiwan firms brace for Trump tariff storm
At least a quarter of Taiwanese companies have put expansion plans on hold, and 5 per cent have started cutting staff in the shadow of US President Donald Trump’s tariffs on the island, according to a new study. The findings come amid persistent uncertainty over the potential economic fallout from Washington’s tariff plan, especially following speculation that Taiwan could face a steep 32 per cent import duty – matching the level initially proposed by Trump in early April.
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3319041/job-cuts-suspending-plans-taiwan-firms-brace-trump-tariff-storm?module=top_story&pgtype=subsection
Japan’s Ishiba says he’ll stay in office to tackle inflation and US tariffs despite election loss
Voters frustrated with price increases exceeding the pace of wage hikes, especially younger people who have long felt ignored by the ruling government’s focus on senior voters, rapidly turned to emerging conservative and right-wing populist parties. Established liberal to centrist parties, including the main opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, gained little ground. The Democratic Party for the People quadrupled its seats by campaigning for higher take-home pay. The right-wing Sanseito, running on a “Japanese First” platform that puts tougher regulations on foreigners and brakes on gender and sexual diversity, surged to number three in the opposition.
https://apnews.com/article/japan-politics-election-ishiba-parliament-vote-ldp-0abc031590660859c3ea0a5da9d83310
News 7/21/25
Belgian police question two Israelis over war crimes accusationsThe federal prosecutor’s office said it had asked the police to locate the two people named in the complaint and to interview them. “Following these interviews, they were released,” it said in a statement. The office said it had taken action after concluding that Belgian courts had extraterritorial jurisdiction over alleged war crimes. “No further information will be given at this stage of the investigation,” the office said. The two Israelis have not been named.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/21/belgian-police-question-two-israelis-over-war-crimes-accusations
Counter-demo set for Epping following violence outside refugee hotel
The founder of the English Defence League has announced plans to visit the Essex town on Sunday to join the latest in a series of far-right protests outside a local hotel housing refugees. In response, Stand Up to Racism has organised a counter-demonstration, scheduled to begin near the Bell Hotel at 4pm.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/counter-demo-set-epping-following-violence-outside-refugee-hotel
Evacuations begin in Syria’s Sweida as days of deadly clashes ease
Neighboring Israel also launched dozens of airstrikes in Druze-majority Sweida province, targeting government forces who effectively sided with the Bedouins. Syrian state media on Sunday said the government had coordinated with officials in Sweida to bring buses to evacuate some 1,500 Bedouins. The province’s internal security chief under the Interior Ministry, Ahmad al-Dalati, told the state-run news agency that the initiative also would allow civilians displaced from Sweida to return. Druze civilians were expected to be evacuated from other areas, but those had not taken place by Monday evening.
https://apnews.com/article/syria-druze-bedouin-clashes-israel-f066b472abcb9c1d546b4e3d713feadd
Why Turkey plans to end its 52-year oil pipeline deal with Iraq
Turkey closed the pipeline, which passes through the semi-autonomous Kurdistan region, in March 2023 after the International Court of Arbitration ordered the country to pay Iraq $1.5 billion for unauthorized exports between 2014 and 2018. More specifically, the court said Ankara allowed Iraqi-Kurdish authorities to pump crude without Baghdad’s permission. Before the closure, the pipeline was shipping around 500,000 barrels per day (bpd) of crude. Turkey’s state-owned pipeline operator Botas stated on its website that at full capacity, the entire pipeline system, consisting of two lines, can transfer a total of 1.5 million bpd. On March 31, Al-Monitor reported that Iraq was seeking additional compensation from Turkey in a second international arbitration case for unauthorized exports.
https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2025/07/why-turkey-plans-end-its-52-year-oil-pipeline-deal-iraq
Egypt rejects US quid pro quo over Gaza and Ethiopia dam
One Egyptian diplomat told the news outlet that the Trump administration had offered what one senior US official called a "decisive intervention" to solve the dispute over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD). In return, Egypt would need to back Israel’s plan to confine millions of Palestinians in a concentration camp close to the Rafah border. Israel’s defence minister earlier this month announced plans to erect a “humanitarian city” on the ruins of Rafah into which the entire Palestinian population will eventually be concentrated.
https://www.newarab.com/news/egypt-rejects-us-quid-pro-quo-over-gaza-and-ethiopia-dam
Kenya activist Boniface Mwangi charged with illegal ammo possession
Boniface Mwangi was charged by the police on Monday, two days after he was arrested and accused of possessing unused tear gas canisters, a “7.62mm blank round”, two mobile phones, a laptop and notebooks. The courtroom was packed with hundreds of activists, some wearing Kenyan flags. “They have no evidence,” Mwangi told reporters, describing his prosecution as “a big shame”.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/21/kenya-rights-activist-boniface-mwangi-charged-with-possession-of-ammunition
https://archive.ph/dEwmV
Venezuela to investigate alleged torture of its citizens in El Salvador jail
As well as Bukele, Venezuela would investigate El Salvador’s justice minister, Gustavo Villatoro, and its head of prisons, Osiris Luna Meza, Saab said, after showing videos of former detainees recounting torture and showing injuries – including a missing molar, bruising and scars – they said were the result of the abuse. Bukele’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Reuters was not immediately able to confirm the assertions made in the videos, but two of those shown speaking were identifiable as former Cecot detainees.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/21/venezuela-to-investigate-alleged-torture-of-its-citizens-in-el-salvador-jail
Petro urges Congress to approve reforms ahead of final year in office
Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro used the inauguration of a new congressional year to defend his three years in office and seek support for reform bills that will be introduced in the coming year. In a 138-minute speech, Petro apparently sought to put tensions with the opposition behind him and praised Congress for approving his government’s labor and pension reform proposals. The praise preceded the president’s attempt to warm up Congress for a pending reform of the public health system and a judicial reform that would allow the mass demobilization of illegal armed groups.
https://colombiareports.com/petro-urges-congress-to-approve-reforms-ahead-of-final-year-in-office/
From job cuts to suspending plans, Taiwan firms brace for Trump tariff storm
At least a quarter of Taiwanese companies have put expansion plans on hold, and 5 per cent have started cutting staff in the shadow of US President Donald Trump’s tariffs on the island, according to a new study. The findings come amid persistent uncertainty over the potential economic fallout from Washington’s tariff plan, especially following speculation that Taiwan could face a steep 32 per cent import duty – matching the level initially proposed by Trump in early April.
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3319041/job-cuts-suspending-plans-taiwan-firms-brace-trump-tariff-storm?module=top_story&pgtype=subsection
Japan’s Ishiba says he’ll stay in office to tackle inflation and US tariffs despite election loss
Voters frustrated with price increases exceeding the pace of wage hikes, especially younger people who have long felt ignored by the ruling government’s focus on senior voters, rapidly turned to emerging conservative and right-wing populist parties. Established liberal to centrist parties, including the main opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, gained little ground. The Democratic Party for the People quadrupled its seats by campaigning for higher take-home pay. The right-wing Sanseito, running on a “Japanese First” platform that puts tougher regulations on foreigners and brakes on gender and sexual diversity, surged to number three in the opposition.
https://apnews.com/article/japan-politics-election-ishiba-parliament-vote-ldp-0abc031590660859c3ea0a5da9d83310
R: 60 / I: 14
The ability experience pathy is what seperates human beings from snakes. The scientific classification for someone who doesn't feel empathy is a sociopath, and the general consensus until a few months ago was that being a sociopath is a bad thing. But now you see rightards proudly proclaiming that they don't care about anything or anyone but themselves, and it's fucking bizarre to me.
Empathy
Why has "empathy" become a swear word (one of a growing number of swear words) in rightard circles?The ability experience pathy is what seperates human beings from snakes. The scientific classification for someone who doesn't feel empathy is a sociopath, and the general consensus until a few months ago was that being a sociopath is a bad thing. But now you see rightards proudly proclaiming that they don't care about anything or anyone but themselves, and it's fucking bizarre to me.
R: 190 / I: 29
Are right wingers genuinely stupid or just selfish? I know it's a massive generalization (and maybe ironic because of that) but I'm just dumbfounded. It's like they either know they're lying or too stupid to either understand cause and effect, or just struggle with empathy.
Are right wingers genuinely stupid or just selfish? I know it's a massive generalization (and maybe ironic because of that) but I'm just dumbfounded. It's like they either know they're lying or too stupid to either understand cause and effect, or just struggle with empathy.
R: 599 / I: 153
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Guys did I do it? Did I crack the code for the superior version of the political compass?
Liberal nationalism - the ideology of the dishonest and stupid petite bourgeoisie
Fascism - the ideology of the honest and stupid petite bourgeoisie
Social-democracy —- dishonest and smart petite bourgeoisie
Anarchism —- honest and smart petite bourgeoisie
Cryptotechbro shit / AI cultism —- dishonest and stupid haute bourgeoisie
Classical liberalism/fiscal conservatism —- honest and stupid haute bourgeoisie
Religious conservatism —- dishonest and smart haute bourgeoisie
[DOESN'T EXIST IN THE MODERN WORLD] —- honest and smart haute bourgeoisie
Stalinism —- dishonest and stupid proletarians
Trotskysm —- honest and stupid proletarians
Dengism/Xi Jingping thought —- dishonest and smart proletarians
Cybercommunism —- honest and smart proletarians
Talibanism (and hypothetical analogues in other religions) —- dishonest and stupid peasants
Maoism —- honest and stupid peasants
Liberation theology catholicism —- dishonest and smart peasants
??? —- honest and smart peasants
Guys did I do it? Did I crack the code for the superior version of the political compass?
Liberal nationalism - the ideology of the dishonest and stupid petite bourgeoisie
Fascism - the ideology of the honest and stupid petite bourgeoisie
Social-democracy —- dishonest and smart petite bourgeoisie
Anarchism —- honest and smart petite bourgeoisie
Cryptotechbro shit / AI cultism —- dishonest and stupid haute bourgeoisie
Classical liberalism/fiscal conservatism —- honest and stupid haute bourgeoisie
Religious conservatism —- dishonest and smart haute bourgeoisie
[DOESN'T EXIST IN THE MODERN WORLD] —- honest and smart haute bourgeoisie
Stalinism —- dishonest and stupid proletarians
Trotskysm —- honest and stupid proletarians
Dengism/Xi Jingping thought —- dishonest and smart proletarians
Cybercommunism —- honest and smart proletarians
Talibanism (and hypothetical analogues in other religions) —- dishonest and stupid peasants
Maoism —- honest and stupid peasants
Liberation theology catholicism —- dishonest and smart peasants
??? —- honest and smart peasants
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how become anarchist
what do I think what do I read what do I do please help me become le based anarchist I am clinging onto any identity that makes me feel less like a fat loser
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https://web.archive.org/web/19981205144522/http://www.gov.yu/
I also managed to find what appears to be an instance of Gadaffi's Libya government site:
https://web.archive.org/web/20010518210154/http://gov.ly/
Are there any other such relics? How many former AES states had internet before dissolution?
Bonus: Cuba's OLD website which changed domain around 2018 -
https://web.archive.org/web/20000301132300/http://cubagob.cu/
Yugoslavia's govt had an official website
I was looking to see how much of the eastern bloc had access to internet before dissolution, checking if I could find the earliest websites registered with a .su domain, or if the USSR itself had a government website before formal dissolution and such. While I couldn't find anything about that, I did manage to find the official website of Yugoslavia since the .yu domain lasted until 2010.https://web.archive.org/web/19981205144522/http://www.gov.yu/
I also managed to find what appears to be an instance of Gadaffi's Libya government site:
https://web.archive.org/web/20010518210154/http://gov.ly/
Are there any other such relics? How many former AES states had internet before dissolution?
Bonus: Cuba's OLD website which changed domain around 2018 -
https://web.archive.org/web/20000301132300/http://cubagob.cu/
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Reminder that Marx's criticism is not actually "immanent", that's just garbage pushed by philosophy nerds. You don't need all that immanence crap to make a point. It's just pretentious ideology made to sound profound, projected onto Marx by critical theory clowns trying to impose a purely epistemological framework onto the object of study.
It is entirely possible to analyze a system objectively and recognize how it operates according to the interests of the system. Concepts like "dialectical thinking" are pleonasm. If you're thinking correctly, you're already thinking dialectically by default to explain, not to mystify; to clarify relations, not to invent essences; to use logic, not to absolutize it.
Reminder that Marx's criticism is not actually "immanent", that's just garbage pushed by philosophy nerds. You don't need all that immanence crap to make a point. It's just pretentious ideology made to sound profound, projected onto Marx by critical theory clowns trying to impose a purely epistemological framework onto the object of study.
It is entirely possible to analyze a system objectively and recognize how it operates according to the interests of the system. Concepts like "dialectical thinking" are pleonasm. If you're thinking correctly, you're already thinking dialectically by default to explain, not to mystify; to clarify relations, not to invent essences; to use logic, not to absolutize it.
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This is an important distinction, since the reactionary camp encompasses two types of people.
1. Normie operating on instinct
2. Entrenched cultist with ideological conviction
For example, America is full of the first kind. I wouldn't expect your regular American Christian to oppose life extension through science, because they wouldn't be ideologically consistent enough in their worldview to want that. Their fear of death or inconvenience in the moment outweighs the abstract possibility of heaven in their mind, creating a sort of instinctive doublethink. For such people, religion is an expression of autopilot conformity. They don't have agency are more like red blood cells in the social organism rather than something to be exterminated.
Keep in mind, I have massive contempt for the first type of reactionary. Unfortunately, they are the VAST majority in every society, and the "socialization" solution for this majority is only achievable through careful sustained effort (as the USSR learned the hard way). If the Uyghurs are a variant of this first type of person, then overkill persecution isn't necessary and won't achieve much (aside from bad optics).
HOWEVER, if they are like the second group - Jehovah's Witnesses, Mormons, or other moralizing fundies who would prevent us from playing god with science, they deserve everything they get and more.
Most of what I know about these people is from heavily biased sources. Do we have any objective proof that Uyghurs belong to the second category of fundamentalist reactionaries? I have no stake in this matter, and am open to a convincing argument on why they people actually suck.
Uyghur Situation
Are Uyghurs actually worse than regular normies?This is an important distinction, since the reactionary camp encompasses two types of people.
1. Normie operating on instinct
2. Entrenched cultist with ideological conviction
For example, America is full of the first kind. I wouldn't expect your regular American Christian to oppose life extension through science, because they wouldn't be ideologically consistent enough in their worldview to want that. Their fear of death or inconvenience in the moment outweighs the abstract possibility of heaven in their mind, creating a sort of instinctive doublethink. For such people, religion is an expression of autopilot conformity. They don't have agency are more like red blood cells in the social organism rather than something to be exterminated.
Keep in mind, I have massive contempt for the first type of reactionary. Unfortunately, they are the VAST majority in every society, and the "socialization" solution for this majority is only achievable through careful sustained effort (as the USSR learned the hard way). If the Uyghurs are a variant of this first type of person, then overkill persecution isn't necessary and won't achieve much (aside from bad optics).
HOWEVER, if they are like the second group - Jehovah's Witnesses, Mormons, or other moralizing fundies who would prevent us from playing god with science, they deserve everything they get and more.
Most of what I know about these people is from heavily biased sources. Do we have any objective proof that Uyghurs belong to the second category of fundamentalist reactionaries? I have no stake in this matter, and am open to a convincing argument on why they people actually suck.
R: 25 / I: 0
THE IDEAL WINNING 2028 DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM
As a supporter of the Immortal Science of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, the Highest Stage of Marxism, I obviously realize that the Democrats are a Controlled Opposition Party who exist to keep the Workers and Oppressed Nations/Internal Colonies of Naw Afrika, Aztlan, the First Nations, inside the U$ corralled and controlled, while the dominant ruling Crypto-Fascist Christian Zionist Nationalist MAGAtard Republicans transform the U$ into a Full-Blown Fascist Police State, which combined with the fact that the U$ is a Prison house of Nations, which treats the Black/New Afrikan, Hispanic/Chicano/Mestizo, and First Nations/Native American population like they are not U$ citizens (Trump ending birthright citizenship will probably transform this from a De facto to a De jure reality by officially stripping citizenship from most of these populations), with them essentially acting as a permanent domestic underclass with essentially no rights that are exploited for cheap labor and disproportionately suffer from Mass incarceration and police brutality, with their neighborhoods essentially under De facto occupation by militarized police, as New Afrika, Aztlan, and the First Nations, are Internal Colonies/Oppressed Nations inside of the U$, and their National Liberation should be the number one goal of U$ Communists as stipulated by Lenin’s principle of Self-Determination for all Oppressed Nations in their own SSR, which will happen once World War III escalates into a Global Nuclear War that will destroy the entire Global Capitalist-Imperialist System, thus allowing for a World Maoist PPW to create a Global USSR (all of the SSRs and SFSRs of the future Global USSR are pictured in the map I posted, with the former U$ Balkanized into a New African SSR that includes the Black/New Afrikan majority counties of the Black Belt, a Hispano-American SFSR that includes the Hispanic/Chicano/Mestizo majority counties in the U$ Southwest, along with the rest of the Spanish-speaking Multiracial regions of the Americas, while the White Settler majority regions in the rest of the former U$ becomes part of the Anglo-American SFSR, which also includes the English-speaking provinces of Canada, as Quebec will become its own SSR, with all the Native American reservations becoming ASSRs) to Place the Workers and Oppressed Nations of the World on the Shining Path to Communism, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🚀☢️!
However, as I have stated many times before a proper Dialectical Materialist analysis still reveals that a Controlled Opposition is better then No Opposition, and as we see on the International Stage that China is a “Controlled Opposition” to U$ Imperialism in the same way that the U$ Democrats are “Controlled Opposition” to the Republicans, thus making China the “Global Democrats”, with the massive caveat that a Maoist faction taking over the CCP and purging the Dengists could place China back in the Socialist Mode of Production on the Shining Path to Communism without another Maoist PPW there, though despite this fact both China (Iran is another example of a Lesser Evil Controlled Opposition) and the U$ Democrats should be “Critically Supported”, not because we genuinely support these Bourgeois entities, but because they are both a “Lesser Evil” faction of the Global Capitalist-Imperialist System who De Facto prevent the “Greater Evil” of the Global Capitalist-Imperialist System from completely crushing the Workers and Oppressed Nations of the World before the World Maoist PPW can be successful when the Global Nuclear War breaks out, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🚀☢️!
So with these Dialectical Materialist facts in consideration, what do my fellow Comrades think of this hypothetical “Ideal Winning 2028 Democratic Platform” (this is making Three Bold assumptions, Firstly, that Trump dose not use the Insurrection Act to declare Martial Law and suspend all Elections, thus officially ending Bourgeois Liberal Democracy in the U$ and making him De Facto U$ President for Life, which is what I expect/fear will happen, Secondly, that a Centre-Left Social Democrat like AOC would ever be allowed by the Centrist Neoliberal/Neocon Democratic Establishment to win the Democratic Nomination, and Thirdly/Finally that the majority Ultra-Reactionary Racist/Sexist White Settler Labor Aristocrat/Petit Bourgeois U$ electorate will ever vote for Centre-Left Social Democrat, especially a Brown Chicano/Mestizo Woman like AOC) that is based on the principles of Social Democracy, Social Progressivism, and Non-Interventionism, with Pragmatic characteristics, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🤔?
ECONOMIC POLICY:
Universal Basic Income: Guarantee every Adult U$ citizen a Nontaxable 1000$ monthly check starting on their 18th birthday, paid for by a 10% VAT on all Non-Essential goods (everything but Food, Housing, Healthcare, Education, and Clothing/Hygiene products), Progressive Tax Reform, and eliminating all Means-Tested Social Programs (ie. Food Stamps, Unemployment Insurance, TANF, SSI, etc.), ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Single-Payer Medicare For All Healthcare System: Expand Medicare to cover all Americans and 100% of all healthcare costs, paid for by raising the Medicare Payroll Tax from 1.45% to 6.2% on all Employers and Employees, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Free College: Make Tuition Free at all public colleges and universities and pay for it with a Financial Transaction Tax of .5% on Stocks, .1% on Bonds, and .005% on Derivatives. In addition to this forgive all Student Loan Debt, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
15$ Minimum Wage: Raise the Federal Minimum Wage to 15$ an hour, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Progressive Tax Reform: Create a more Simple and Equitable Federal Income Tax code that will help pay for the Universal Basic Income and would consist of four brackets for Individuals; 0% for all Income under 50,000$, 10% for all Income between 50,000 and 99,999$, 30% for all Income between 100,000 and 499,999$, and 50% for all Income over 500,000$. Corporations would pay a single 30% Tax rate, and all deductions would be eliminated for both Individuals and Corporations. In addition to this, the cap would be eliminated for Social Security Payroll Taxes in order to maintain the solvency of the Social Security trust fund for future generations, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Free Trade: Eliminate all Tariffs on imported goods, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Financial Regulation: Restore Glass-Steagall in order to break up Wall Street Banks by separating Commercial and Investment Banking, and institute a Financial Transaction Tax of .5% on Stocks, .1% on Bonds, and .005% on Derivatives, in order to pay for Free College, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Anti-Trust: Order the Justice Department to launch immediate Anti-Trust suits to break up Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, Twitter, and other out of control Tech companies, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Abolish “Right to Work” laws: Repeal the Taft–Hartley Act and abolish all “Right to Work” laws nationwide in order to guarantee every U$ worker the right to join a Union, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
CULTURAL AND SOCIAL ISSUES:
Reproductive Rights: Pass a Federal Law legalizing Abortion nationwide before fetal viability (24 weeks) along with enshrining Griswold vs. Connecticut into Federal Law in order to protect access to Birth Control, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
LGBTQIA+ Rights: Enshrine Obergefell v. Hodges into Federal Law in order to maintain Marriage Equality for LGBTQIA+ Americans, along with adding Gender Identity to Federal Anti-Discrimination laws, with the caveat that Transgenders wont be allowed to play in Women’s sports, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Gun Control: Pass National Background Checks that stop Violent Felons and the Mentally Ill from obtaining Firearms, while opposing a Federal Assault Weapons Ban, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Comprehensive Immigration Reform: Grant Amnesty to all Undocumented Immigrants living in the US who have not committed Violent Felonies (Violent felons will be deported), while simultaneously building a secure Border Wall and reducing Legal Immigration levels from 1,000,000 to 500,000 annually, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Marijuana Legalization: Remove Marijuana from Schedule I of the Controlled Substances list and Legalize it at the Federal Level for both Recreational and Medical use, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Hard Narcotics Decriminalization: Decriminalize all Hard Narcotics such as Heroin, Cocaine, Meth, etc., in order to treat use of these Drugs as a Disease and not a Crime, with users placed in Rehab instead of Prison, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Sex Work Legalization: Legalization of Prostitution amongst consenting Adults in order to give Sex Workers the right to earn a living without legal jeopardy, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Criminal Justice Reform: Abolish the Death Penalty, Commute the sentences of all those incarcerated for Non-Violent Drug Offenses and/or Sex Work, Ban Private Prisons, Abolish Three-strikes laws, and Abolish Mandatory Minimums, in order to fix America’s Draconian and Racist Criminal Justice System, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
FOREIGN POLICY AND DEFENSE:
The Middle East: End all Foreign Aid to the Zionist State and place a Arms Embargo on them until they agree to a Immediate Ceasefire, Prisoner/Hostage exchange, and IDF withdrawal from Gaza along with a clear pathway to implement a Two-State solution to the Zionist-Palestinian Conflict along the 1967 borders with 1:1 land swaps. Reenter the Iran Nuclear Deal, lift all Sanctions on Iran, and Reestablish Diplomatic Relations with Iran. Withdrawal all U$ troops from Syria, Iraq, and the rest of the Middle East. And finally, Establish Diplomatic Relations with the Taliban government of Afghanistan, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Europe: Force Russia and Ukraine to agree to a Immediate Ceasefire in Ukraine along the line of contact, with eventual UN-observed Referendums held in Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia, and Kherson to determine if these regions will be in Russia or Ukraine (If Russia refuses to agree to this the U$ will give Ukraine even more advanced weapons and Russia will face even more sanctions, while if Ukraine refuses to agree to this they will face a Arms embargo and sanctions just like Russia). If Russia agrees to this, U$ will halt the expansion of NATO, reenter the ABM and INF treaties with Russia, withdrawal all U$ troops from Eastern Europe, reduce the U$ military presence in Western Europe by 50%, end the Nuclear Sharing policy with NATO, lift all Sanctions on Russia, and recognize Crimea as part of Russia, with the caveat that the US will continue selling advanced weapons to Ukraine (I would even support selling them F-35s) in order to compensate for them not joining NATO, officially acknowledging Crimea as part of Russia, and potentially losing the other four occupied regions depending on the results of the UN-observed Referendums, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
East Asia: Sign a Peace Treaty with North Korea that officially ends the Korean War and permanently divides the peninsula, and subsequently lift all sanctions on North Korea, establish Diplomatic Relations with North Korea, and withdraw all U$ troops from South Korea. Maintain commitment to the One-China policy and the eventual Peaceful Reunification of China by stripping Taiwan of Major Non-NATO Ally status, and halting all Arms shipments to Taiwan, along with halting all provocative activities in the South China Sea in order to avoid an unnecessary War with China. And finally, reduce the U$ military presence in Japan by 50%, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Latin America: End the embargo on Cuba, end the Sanctions on Venezuela and restore Diplomatic relations with the Maduro Government, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Nuclear Weapons: Implement a No First Use policy. End all Nuclear Sharing with NATO. Dismantle all Tactical Nuclear Weapons and halt development of Nuclear SLCMs and Low-yield SLBM warheads. Maintain a Nuclear Triad for purely Second Strike purposes that will be modernized with a new ICBM, new Ballistic Missile Submarine, new ALCM, and the B-21 Stealth Bomber, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Conventional Weapons Procurement and R&D: Reduce the Aircraft Carrier fleet from 11 to 10. Dismantle the Ground-Based Midcourse Defense as part of a restored ABM treaty. Slash the DARPA budget by 50%. Cancel all Hypersonic Weapons Programs. Cancel all GLCM and MRBM/IRBM development as part of a new INF treaty. Dissolve the Space Force and move its responsibilities back into the Air Force. Halt all work on Human-level Artificial General Intelligence. Halt all work on Sixth Generation Fighter Jets. Cancel all F-15EX and F-18E/F procurement and instead use those funds to buy more F-35s to accelerate the replacement of 4th generation Fighter Jets with 5th generation Stealth Fighters, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
End the War on Terror: Repeal the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force, due to its anachronistic mission against a organization that barely exists anymore. End all Drone Strikes against any group that is not directly planning on attacking the U$. And finally, Repeal the Patriot Act in order to prevent unnecessary violations of the Civil liberties of U$ Citizens, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
POLITICAL REFORM:
Abolish the Electoral College: Pass a Constitutional Amendment to abolish the Electoral College and replace it with a National Popular Vote to elect the President, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Ban Gerrymandering: Pass a Federal Law to end Partisan control of Congressional Redistricting and replace it with Independent Redistricting Commissions Nationwide, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Abolish the Filibuster: Abolish the Filibuster on all legislation in the U$ Senate, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Expand Voting Rights and Access: Pass a Federal law to Allow convicted felons to vote, including those that are currently incarcerated for Non-Violent Crimes, ban all Voter ID laws nationwide, and Create Nationwide Mail-In Voting, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Campaign Finance Reform: Appoint Supreme Court Justices that will overturn Citizens United, and pass a Federal law to ban Super PACs and have Public funding of all Federal Elections, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Court Packing: Expand the Supreme Court from 9 to 13, in order to have a Progressive majority, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Expand Statehood: Grant Statehood to DC and the five U$ territories, in order to balance out the U$ Senates bias towards Republicans, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
THE ENVIRONMENT, HEALTH, AND TECHNOLOGY:
Carbon Neutral by 2050: Have 100% Clean, Renewable Energy, from Solar, Wind, Hydropower, Geothermal, and Nuclear Power by 2050. To help make this goal more reachable, there will be a Carbon Tax, Offshore Drilling Ban, and Fracking Ban implemented immediately, along with a ban on the sale of all gasoline-powered Cars by 2040, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Green Public Transportation: Ban all Federal funding for new Highways and Airports, and instead use those funds to build Nationwide Electric, High-Speed Rail, starting with a Transcontinental Bullet Train from New York to Los Angeles, in order to reduce usage of Highways and Air Travel. Dramatically Increase funding for rebuilding and expanding Americas Mass Transit in major cities, with an emphasis on Streetcars, Subways, and Electric Buses, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Ban Urban Sprawl: Ban Single-Use zoning nationwide, and instead have future development emphasize, High-Density Apartment buildings made affordable through Rent Control, increased Walkability, and access to Public Transit, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Ban Non-Organic Foods: Pass a Nationwide ban on GMOs, High-Fructose Corn Syrup, Artificial Preservatives, excessive Sodium, and Trans Fats, in order to create a healthier, Organic, diet for all Americans, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Ban Human-level Artificial General Intelligence: Negotiate and Ratify an International Treaty Banning the development of Human-level Artificial General Intelligence worldwide in order to prevent a Catastrophic Singularity Event, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Ban Forced Augmentation: Pass a Federal law banning Corporations from forcing their Employees to be Microchipped and/or have Neural Implants/Brain-Computer Interfaces against their will, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
THE IDEAL WINNING 2028 DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM
As a supporter of the Immortal Science of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, the Highest Stage of Marxism, I obviously realize that the Democrats are a Controlled Opposition Party who exist to keep the Workers and Oppressed Nations/Internal Colonies of Naw Afrika, Aztlan, the First Nations, inside the U$ corralled and controlled, while the dominant ruling Crypto-Fascist Christian Zionist Nationalist MAGAtard Republicans transform the U$ into a Full-Blown Fascist Police State, which combined with the fact that the U$ is a Prison house of Nations, which treats the Black/New Afrikan, Hispanic/Chicano/Mestizo, and First Nations/Native American population like they are not U$ citizens (Trump ending birthright citizenship will probably transform this from a De facto to a De jure reality by officially stripping citizenship from most of these populations), with them essentially acting as a permanent domestic underclass with essentially no rights that are exploited for cheap labor and disproportionately suffer from Mass incarceration and police brutality, with their neighborhoods essentially under De facto occupation by militarized police, as New Afrika, Aztlan, and the First Nations, are Internal Colonies/Oppressed Nations inside of the U$, and their National Liberation should be the number one goal of U$ Communists as stipulated by Lenin’s principle of Self-Determination for all Oppressed Nations in their own SSR, which will happen once World War III escalates into a Global Nuclear War that will destroy the entire Global Capitalist-Imperialist System, thus allowing for a World Maoist PPW to create a Global USSR (all of the SSRs and SFSRs of the future Global USSR are pictured in the map I posted, with the former U$ Balkanized into a New African SSR that includes the Black/New Afrikan majority counties of the Black Belt, a Hispano-American SFSR that includes the Hispanic/Chicano/Mestizo majority counties in the U$ Southwest, along with the rest of the Spanish-speaking Multiracial regions of the Americas, while the White Settler majority regions in the rest of the former U$ becomes part of the Anglo-American SFSR, which also includes the English-speaking provinces of Canada, as Quebec will become its own SSR, with all the Native American reservations becoming ASSRs) to Place the Workers and Oppressed Nations of the World on the Shining Path to Communism, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🚀☢️!
However, as I have stated many times before a proper Dialectical Materialist analysis still reveals that a Controlled Opposition is better then No Opposition, and as we see on the International Stage that China is a “Controlled Opposition” to U$ Imperialism in the same way that the U$ Democrats are “Controlled Opposition” to the Republicans, thus making China the “Global Democrats”, with the massive caveat that a Maoist faction taking over the CCP and purging the Dengists could place China back in the Socialist Mode of Production on the Shining Path to Communism without another Maoist PPW there, though despite this fact both China (Iran is another example of a Lesser Evil Controlled Opposition) and the U$ Democrats should be “Critically Supported”, not because we genuinely support these Bourgeois entities, but because they are both a “Lesser Evil” faction of the Global Capitalist-Imperialist System who De Facto prevent the “Greater Evil” of the Global Capitalist-Imperialist System from completely crushing the Workers and Oppressed Nations of the World before the World Maoist PPW can be successful when the Global Nuclear War breaks out, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🚀☢️!
So with these Dialectical Materialist facts in consideration, what do my fellow Comrades think of this hypothetical “Ideal Winning 2028 Democratic Platform” (this is making Three Bold assumptions, Firstly, that Trump dose not use the Insurrection Act to declare Martial Law and suspend all Elections, thus officially ending Bourgeois Liberal Democracy in the U$ and making him De Facto U$ President for Life, which is what I expect/fear will happen, Secondly, that a Centre-Left Social Democrat like AOC would ever be allowed by the Centrist Neoliberal/Neocon Democratic Establishment to win the Democratic Nomination, and Thirdly/Finally that the majority Ultra-Reactionary Racist/Sexist White Settler Labor Aristocrat/Petit Bourgeois U$ electorate will ever vote for Centre-Left Social Democrat, especially a Brown Chicano/Mestizo Woman like AOC) that is based on the principles of Social Democracy, Social Progressivism, and Non-Interventionism, with Pragmatic characteristics, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🤔?
ECONOMIC POLICY:
Universal Basic Income: Guarantee every Adult U$ citizen a Nontaxable 1000$ monthly check starting on their 18th birthday, paid for by a 10% VAT on all Non-Essential goods (everything but Food, Housing, Healthcare, Education, and Clothing/Hygiene products), Progressive Tax Reform, and eliminating all Means-Tested Social Programs (ie. Food Stamps, Unemployment Insurance, TANF, SSI, etc.), ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Single-Payer Medicare For All Healthcare System: Expand Medicare to cover all Americans and 100% of all healthcare costs, paid for by raising the Medicare Payroll Tax from 1.45% to 6.2% on all Employers and Employees, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Free College: Make Tuition Free at all public colleges and universities and pay for it with a Financial Transaction Tax of .5% on Stocks, .1% on Bonds, and .005% on Derivatives. In addition to this forgive all Student Loan Debt, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
15$ Minimum Wage: Raise the Federal Minimum Wage to 15$ an hour, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Progressive Tax Reform: Create a more Simple and Equitable Federal Income Tax code that will help pay for the Universal Basic Income and would consist of four brackets for Individuals; 0% for all Income under 50,000$, 10% for all Income between 50,000 and 99,999$, 30% for all Income between 100,000 and 499,999$, and 50% for all Income over 500,000$. Corporations would pay a single 30% Tax rate, and all deductions would be eliminated for both Individuals and Corporations. In addition to this, the cap would be eliminated for Social Security Payroll Taxes in order to maintain the solvency of the Social Security trust fund for future generations, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Free Trade: Eliminate all Tariffs on imported goods, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Financial Regulation: Restore Glass-Steagall in order to break up Wall Street Banks by separating Commercial and Investment Banking, and institute a Financial Transaction Tax of .5% on Stocks, .1% on Bonds, and .005% on Derivatives, in order to pay for Free College, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Anti-Trust: Order the Justice Department to launch immediate Anti-Trust suits to break up Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, Twitter, and other out of control Tech companies, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Abolish “Right to Work” laws: Repeal the Taft–Hartley Act and abolish all “Right to Work” laws nationwide in order to guarantee every U$ worker the right to join a Union, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
CULTURAL AND SOCIAL ISSUES:
Reproductive Rights: Pass a Federal Law legalizing Abortion nationwide before fetal viability (24 weeks) along with enshrining Griswold vs. Connecticut into Federal Law in order to protect access to Birth Control, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
LGBTQIA+ Rights: Enshrine Obergefell v. Hodges into Federal Law in order to maintain Marriage Equality for LGBTQIA+ Americans, along with adding Gender Identity to Federal Anti-Discrimination laws, with the caveat that Transgenders wont be allowed to play in Women’s sports, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Gun Control: Pass National Background Checks that stop Violent Felons and the Mentally Ill from obtaining Firearms, while opposing a Federal Assault Weapons Ban, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Comprehensive Immigration Reform: Grant Amnesty to all Undocumented Immigrants living in the US who have not committed Violent Felonies (Violent felons will be deported), while simultaneously building a secure Border Wall and reducing Legal Immigration levels from 1,000,000 to 500,000 annually, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Marijuana Legalization: Remove Marijuana from Schedule I of the Controlled Substances list and Legalize it at the Federal Level for both Recreational and Medical use, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Hard Narcotics Decriminalization: Decriminalize all Hard Narcotics such as Heroin, Cocaine, Meth, etc., in order to treat use of these Drugs as a Disease and not a Crime, with users placed in Rehab instead of Prison, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Sex Work Legalization: Legalization of Prostitution amongst consenting Adults in order to give Sex Workers the right to earn a living without legal jeopardy, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Criminal Justice Reform: Abolish the Death Penalty, Commute the sentences of all those incarcerated for Non-Violent Drug Offenses and/or Sex Work, Ban Private Prisons, Abolish Three-strikes laws, and Abolish Mandatory Minimums, in order to fix America’s Draconian and Racist Criminal Justice System, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
FOREIGN POLICY AND DEFENSE:
The Middle East: End all Foreign Aid to the Zionist State and place a Arms Embargo on them until they agree to a Immediate Ceasefire, Prisoner/Hostage exchange, and IDF withdrawal from Gaza along with a clear pathway to implement a Two-State solution to the Zionist-Palestinian Conflict along the 1967 borders with 1:1 land swaps. Reenter the Iran Nuclear Deal, lift all Sanctions on Iran, and Reestablish Diplomatic Relations with Iran. Withdrawal all U$ troops from Syria, Iraq, and the rest of the Middle East. And finally, Establish Diplomatic Relations with the Taliban government of Afghanistan, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Europe: Force Russia and Ukraine to agree to a Immediate Ceasefire in Ukraine along the line of contact, with eventual UN-observed Referendums held in Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia, and Kherson to determine if these regions will be in Russia or Ukraine (If Russia refuses to agree to this the U$ will give Ukraine even more advanced weapons and Russia will face even more sanctions, while if Ukraine refuses to agree to this they will face a Arms embargo and sanctions just like Russia). If Russia agrees to this, U$ will halt the expansion of NATO, reenter the ABM and INF treaties with Russia, withdrawal all U$ troops from Eastern Europe, reduce the U$ military presence in Western Europe by 50%, end the Nuclear Sharing policy with NATO, lift all Sanctions on Russia, and recognize Crimea as part of Russia, with the caveat that the US will continue selling advanced weapons to Ukraine (I would even support selling them F-35s) in order to compensate for them not joining NATO, officially acknowledging Crimea as part of Russia, and potentially losing the other four occupied regions depending on the results of the UN-observed Referendums, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
East Asia: Sign a Peace Treaty with North Korea that officially ends the Korean War and permanently divides the peninsula, and subsequently lift all sanctions on North Korea, establish Diplomatic Relations with North Korea, and withdraw all U$ troops from South Korea. Maintain commitment to the One-China policy and the eventual Peaceful Reunification of China by stripping Taiwan of Major Non-NATO Ally status, and halting all Arms shipments to Taiwan, along with halting all provocative activities in the South China Sea in order to avoid an unnecessary War with China. And finally, reduce the U$ military presence in Japan by 50%, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Latin America: End the embargo on Cuba, end the Sanctions on Venezuela and restore Diplomatic relations with the Maduro Government, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Nuclear Weapons: Implement a No First Use policy. End all Nuclear Sharing with NATO. Dismantle all Tactical Nuclear Weapons and halt development of Nuclear SLCMs and Low-yield SLBM warheads. Maintain a Nuclear Triad for purely Second Strike purposes that will be modernized with a new ICBM, new Ballistic Missile Submarine, new ALCM, and the B-21 Stealth Bomber, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Conventional Weapons Procurement and R&D: Reduce the Aircraft Carrier fleet from 11 to 10. Dismantle the Ground-Based Midcourse Defense as part of a restored ABM treaty. Slash the DARPA budget by 50%. Cancel all Hypersonic Weapons Programs. Cancel all GLCM and MRBM/IRBM development as part of a new INF treaty. Dissolve the Space Force and move its responsibilities back into the Air Force. Halt all work on Human-level Artificial General Intelligence. Halt all work on Sixth Generation Fighter Jets. Cancel all F-15EX and F-18E/F procurement and instead use those funds to buy more F-35s to accelerate the replacement of 4th generation Fighter Jets with 5th generation Stealth Fighters, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
End the War on Terror: Repeal the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force, due to its anachronistic mission against a organization that barely exists anymore. End all Drone Strikes against any group that is not directly planning on attacking the U$. And finally, Repeal the Patriot Act in order to prevent unnecessary violations of the Civil liberties of U$ Citizens, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
POLITICAL REFORM:
Abolish the Electoral College: Pass a Constitutional Amendment to abolish the Electoral College and replace it with a National Popular Vote to elect the President, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Ban Gerrymandering: Pass a Federal Law to end Partisan control of Congressional Redistricting and replace it with Independent Redistricting Commissions Nationwide, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Abolish the Filibuster: Abolish the Filibuster on all legislation in the U$ Senate, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Expand Voting Rights and Access: Pass a Federal law to Allow convicted felons to vote, including those that are currently incarcerated for Non-Violent Crimes, ban all Voter ID laws nationwide, and Create Nationwide Mail-In Voting, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Campaign Finance Reform: Appoint Supreme Court Justices that will overturn Citizens United, and pass a Federal law to ban Super PACs and have Public funding of all Federal Elections, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Court Packing: Expand the Supreme Court from 9 to 13, in order to have a Progressive majority, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Expand Statehood: Grant Statehood to DC and the five U$ territories, in order to balance out the U$ Senates bias towards Republicans, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
THE ENVIRONMENT, HEALTH, AND TECHNOLOGY:
Carbon Neutral by 2050: Have 100% Clean, Renewable Energy, from Solar, Wind, Hydropower, Geothermal, and Nuclear Power by 2050. To help make this goal more reachable, there will be a Carbon Tax, Offshore Drilling Ban, and Fracking Ban implemented immediately, along with a ban on the sale of all gasoline-powered Cars by 2040, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Green Public Transportation: Ban all Federal funding for new Highways and Airports, and instead use those funds to build Nationwide Electric, High-Speed Rail, starting with a Transcontinental Bullet Train from New York to Los Angeles, in order to reduce usage of Highways and Air Travel. Dramatically Increase funding for rebuilding and expanding Americas Mass Transit in major cities, with an emphasis on Streetcars, Subways, and Electric Buses, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Ban Urban Sprawl: Ban Single-Use zoning nationwide, and instead have future development emphasize, High-Density Apartment buildings made affordable through Rent Control, increased Walkability, and access to Public Transit, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Ban Non-Organic Foods: Pass a Nationwide ban on GMOs, High-Fructose Corn Syrup, Artificial Preservatives, excessive Sodium, and Trans Fats, in order to create a healthier, Organic, diet for all Americans, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Ban Human-level Artificial General Intelligence: Negotiate and Ratify an International Treaty Banning the development of Human-level Artificial General Intelligence worldwide in order to prevent a Catastrophic Singularity Event, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Ban Forced Augmentation: Pass a Federal law banning Corporations from forcing their Employees to be Microchipped and/or have Neural Implants/Brain-Computer Interfaces against their will, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
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>but those were not real communism
Real communism is the movement which abolishes the current state of things (private property the alienation of species-being) and it is the expansion of worker association to international terms. To think 'communism' can be reduced to just a single historical act is silly. It is, after all, a process. Real socialism was one such historical act in a chain of many to come.
>okay, they are communist, but they are totalitarian! They are authoritarian!
Those are empty words liberal ideolouges use to justify equating the Soviet anti-colonial socialist project and the Nazifascistic colonial Lebensraum project, to keep the status quo of liberal representative democracy as the 'only democratic nonauthoritarian' society.
>what do you mean the soviet project is an anti-colonial project?
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1913/may/18.htm
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1913/may/07b.htm
>I… I didn't know. I'm sorry. I will now study the history of the Soviet Union and build an antiimperialist socialist project on the Marxist-Leninist tradition. I will support the anti-colonial Palestinian people's struggle. I will globalize the intifada.
And you will defend the People's Republics of China, Vietnam, Laos, Cuba, Belarus and the DPRK. You will study Cuban agroecology and you will learn to live with nature. You will have Chinese high speed rails and high quality Belarusian agricultural machinery. You will be happy.
Any questions?
'real communism'
If you 'denounce' the historical real socialism that existed and exists, you can't be a communist.>but those were not real communism
Real communism is the movement which abolishes the current state of things (private property the alienation of species-being) and it is the expansion of worker association to international terms. To think 'communism' can be reduced to just a single historical act is silly. It is, after all, a process. Real socialism was one such historical act in a chain of many to come.
>okay, they are communist, but they are totalitarian! They are authoritarian!
Those are empty words liberal ideolouges use to justify equating the Soviet anti-colonial socialist project and the Nazifascistic colonial Lebensraum project, to keep the status quo of liberal representative democracy as the 'only democratic nonauthoritarian' society.
>what do you mean the soviet project is an anti-colonial project?
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1913/may/18.htm
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1913/may/07b.htm
>I… I didn't know. I'm sorry. I will now study the history of the Soviet Union and build an antiimperialist socialist project on the Marxist-Leninist tradition. I will support the anti-colonial Palestinian people's struggle. I will globalize the intifada.
And you will defend the People's Republics of China, Vietnam, Laos, Cuba, Belarus and the DPRK. You will study Cuban agroecology and you will learn to live with nature. You will have Chinese high speed rails and high quality Belarusian agricultural machinery. You will be happy.
Any questions?
R: 5 / I: 1
Japan election
Current federal election forecast in Japan: the Japanese Communist Party has lost a number of decade long held seats, and it’s now looking like the far right will be the main opposition to the already conservative ruling party. The centre-left opposition has absolutely floundered (again), while several centre-right parties have soared and the "leftist" Reiwa party(calls itself a true conservative party) and overlaps with Trump folks did manage to take a few seats
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Out of curiosity I decided to see if there was a room named after 4chan, to which I encountered picrel, literally in the most random place on the internet one of those O9A-esque freaks called "No Lives Matter", with the profile picture of what appears to be a dead rat and a piece of paper with the username written.
Naturally I left a message that they should kill themselves. They must've written their message recently since their cult appears to have started around 2024. Although its odd of course, why would they be writing this shit in an obscure site like xat? Are they using xat for their activities? Or is it just one of their mentally ill members coming to an obscure place to vent their psychopathic fantasies?
Also found one room named after fascism https://xat.com/fascism
Found a nazi cultist in the wild
Was exploring this really old chatting site called xat and looking through random rooms by changing the url name (the url name corresponds to room name), looking at stuff like https://xat.com/communists and https://xat.com/anarchists and such.Out of curiosity I decided to see if there was a room named after 4chan, to which I encountered picrel, literally in the most random place on the internet one of those O9A-esque freaks called "No Lives Matter", with the profile picture of what appears to be a dead rat and a piece of paper with the username written.
Naturally I left a message that they should kill themselves. They must've written their message recently since their cult appears to have started around 2024. Although its odd of course, why would they be writing this shit in an obscure site like xat? Are they using xat for their activities? Or is it just one of their mentally ill members coming to an obscure place to vent their psychopathic fantasies?
Also found one room named after fascism https://xat.com/fascism
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The reason why individualism and capitalism do not work you can’t make yourself rich. You’re born usually rich to a rich family or vice versa. You’re born in a poor family then you’re poor. Some people say can pull yourself up see your boot straps, but that’s a myth sometimes the poor need help that’s why I’m a communist because I believe in workers rights and helping the poor my motto is eat the rich workers of the world unite and fuck Ron, Paul
The reason why individualism and capitalism do not work you can’t make yourself rich. You’re born usually rich to a rich family or vice versa. You’re born in a poor family then you’re poor. Some people say can pull yourself up see your boot straps, but that’s a myth sometimes the poor need help that’s why I’m a communist because I believe in workers rights and helping the poor my motto is eat the rich workers of the world unite and fuck Ron, Paul
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>now UAE-aligned Rapid Support Forces/Sudan People's Liberation Army-North militants are ethnically cleansing black Zaghawa people in Sudan and are currently butting heads with the Joint Forces in Darfur and the Sudanese military
>now Russia-aligned Wagner Group (who only have maybe 2000 members remaining at this point) are using blacks to kill and cannibalize on each other under paywalls on Telegram (basically making money off selling snuff films as a side hustle while full time collecting money from corrupt despots in Africa to suppress uprisings… only to get beaten back by ISIS in Mali and Niger), whose target demographic includes basement neo-nazi /pol/tards, who ironically enough, make up the majority of Russia's support base (Maoist China even refused to help them)(it was on their "White Uncles in Africa" TG channel)
>plus a lot of Hamas' weapons are Russian/North Korean/Chinese, not just Iranian/domestic-made, and it can't be middlemen either, because some of it is modern guided weapons (ATGMs, etc) and Afghanistan isn't friends with Hamas/Iran, either, so it's not like they're the ones giving them M4 and M16s (which have been sighted), and there's no way the Russian govt doesn't know this — they've got the serial numbers and all, and control the black market, so don't give me that "plausible deniability" angle bullshit – Russia has been aiding and abettingcterrorist groups using Wagner as a cover/ploy (as evidenced by how they use weapons that aren't even openly available, hinting at greater complicity at play)
>Julius Malema of the EFF/ANC has announced that he's rootin for Putin for himself — he's hateful towards white people, promotes genocide, and said he'd support Hamas directly — look I know Israel ism't perfect, but Hamas are still terrorists whichever way you look at it, and I'm honestly starting to believe Ukrainian reports of Wagner mercs training Hamas operatives in Africa the more I analyze it— now even Great Britain banned Malema from flight to the UK
It's time to call the elephant in the room. This is undeniable at this point. On the one hand, you call out the fringe right elements in Ukraine (which is true), but then you fuck up your own script by adaptong to not only their ways, but worse. How do you get this low that even the PRC has to disavow you?
Racist lefties = fact or fiction?
>Putin manufactured the famines in Sudan by blackmailing the supply of Ukrainian grains and sunflower seeds to Sudan>now UAE-aligned Rapid Support Forces/Sudan People's Liberation Army-North militants are ethnically cleansing black Zaghawa people in Sudan and are currently butting heads with the Joint Forces in Darfur and the Sudanese military
>now Russia-aligned Wagner Group (who only have maybe 2000 members remaining at this point) are using blacks to kill and cannibalize on each other under paywalls on Telegram (basically making money off selling snuff films as a side hustle while full time collecting money from corrupt despots in Africa to suppress uprisings… only to get beaten back by ISIS in Mali and Niger), whose target demographic includes basement neo-nazi /pol/tards, who ironically enough, make up the majority of Russia's support base (Maoist China even refused to help them)(it was on their "White Uncles in Africa" TG channel)
>plus a lot of Hamas' weapons are Russian/North Korean/Chinese, not just Iranian/domestic-made, and it can't be middlemen either, because some of it is modern guided weapons (ATGMs, etc) and Afghanistan isn't friends with Hamas/Iran, either, so it's not like they're the ones giving them M4 and M16s (which have been sighted), and there's no way the Russian govt doesn't know this — they've got the serial numbers and all, and control the black market, so don't give me that "plausible deniability" angle bullshit – Russia has been aiding and abettingcterrorist groups using Wagner as a cover/ploy (as evidenced by how they use weapons that aren't even openly available, hinting at greater complicity at play)
>Julius Malema of the EFF/ANC has announced that he's rootin for Putin for himself — he's hateful towards white people, promotes genocide, and said he'd support Hamas directly — look I know Israel ism't perfect, but Hamas are still terrorists whichever way you look at it, and I'm honestly starting to believe Ukrainian reports of Wagner mercs training Hamas operatives in Africa the more I analyze it— now even Great Britain banned Malema from flight to the UK
It's time to call the elephant in the room. This is undeniable at this point. On the one hand, you call out the fringe right elements in Ukraine (which is true), but then you fuck up your own script by adaptong to not only their ways, but worse. How do you get this low that even the PRC has to disavow you?
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Long live the PRC, death to western US-EU modern social identities.
I SUPPORT De-islamization of Uyghurs
I SUPPORT re education camps for all religious minorities and majorities in the People's Republic of China and wish for world domination by China and an export of its superb secularism which is distinct from liberal secularism and multicultural menace. The monocultural society of the PRC oriented towards the scientific outlook on development is the precise model that should be adhered to worldwide. The politics of gender identarian, new age spirituals, overly sexual and promiscuous perversions of western secularism and the multicultural contradiction that allows for freedom of religions which are in essence feudal superstitions and doctrines of reaction are demonstrative of the insufficiency of western style secular governance. The sexual revolution is completely at odds with thousand year old archaic feudal beliefs and its byproduct of attempted synthesis is an insult not only to the victims of religious regressive reactionary attitudes but also an abomination and amalgamation of those who cannot give up their feudal views and adopt Stockholm syndrome at compromise with the doctrine which no longer can be claimed to be adhering to divine dogma and only serves to appease the modernizer's contradictory lifestyle. China's model of governance reigns supreme and is ultimately the most progressive, but it can be even better if it doubles down on the penalization of all archaic views and adherent philosophies.Long live the PRC, death to western US-EU modern social identities.
R: 27 / I: 6
When does the revolution begin?? When do we stop falling for their tricks and just take it into our own hands??
The Revolution NEEDS to start
Why havent *WE* realized?? Are *WE* stupid??When does the revolution begin?? When do we stop falling for their tricks and just take it into our own hands??
R: 84 / I: 19
How would a communist country care for wild animals?
Would zoos, safari parks and circuses be allowed to exist, or as animal rights activists say, there would have to be a total separation of humans and animals in animal care and only sanctuaries would be allowed to exist?
R: 604 / I: 138 (full)
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Why does it feel like so much “anti-imperialism” has very little — if anything — to do with anti-imperialism and is simply Muslim identity politics?
For instance, why would anyone compare Pakistan to Palestine, when the former is a sovereign nation that was a close US ally during the Cold War and the latter a stateless nation that’s been fighting a 77+ year guerrilla war against one of the most brutal armies in the world and is now facing an all-out genocide? Pakistan and India are both bourgeois states with close ties to the US that both frequently imprison communists. To compare Pakistan to Palestine, in that western activists have a moral duty to hold mass protests waving Pakistani flags and boycott anything Indian is fucking stupid.
Yeah, I’m not shilling for India. But this shit is theoretically weak af.
Also, why does it seem like in every political conflict involving Muslims (except for China vs the Uyghurs) leftists always insist on taking the “Muslim side”? Look at Ethiopia vs Somalia or Christians vs Muslims in Nigeria, for instance. During the Cold War this would have made perfect sense, because the side fighting against the side backed by the West could be allied with the USSR and utilized to fight western capitalists. Today, not so much.
I’d love to understand the logic here.
Why does it feel like so much “anti-imperialism” has very little — if anything — to do with anti-imperialism and is simply Muslim identity politics?
For instance, why would anyone compare Pakistan to Palestine, when the former is a sovereign nation that was a close US ally during the Cold War and the latter a stateless nation that’s been fighting a 77+ year guerrilla war against one of the most brutal armies in the world and is now facing an all-out genocide? Pakistan and India are both bourgeois states with close ties to the US that both frequently imprison communists. To compare Pakistan to Palestine, in that western activists have a moral duty to hold mass protests waving Pakistani flags and boycott anything Indian is fucking stupid.
Yeah, I’m not shilling for India. But this shit is theoretically weak af.
Also, why does it seem like in every political conflict involving Muslims (except for China vs the Uyghurs) leftists always insist on taking the “Muslim side”? Look at Ethiopia vs Somalia or Christians vs Muslims in Nigeria, for instance. During the Cold War this would have made perfect sense, because the side fighting against the side backed by the West could be allied with the USSR and utilized to fight western capitalists. Today, not so much.
I’d love to understand the logic here.
R: 35 / I: 3
Honestly why do I feel unhappy in the Capitalist system, but yet rivarly, money-making for the sake of making money, dog-eat-dog situation were so normalized to me. ANd I'm arguing against my mother and at times my father over the fact "I'm not able to make money".
If I'm not able to make money, I'm called "the welfare queen" and such, at least here in Poland and called someone akin to a s*bhuman.
Talk me out of it, I feel terrible, my mental health took a toll, finally.
I get bullied about this very fact.
Is money root of evil?
I'm from Poland. I noticed how much I want to make money from music and from jobs I make. But I'm also starting to notice how money breaks famillies down. I noticed how I'm becoming unhappy with being groomed to only pursue money, if no then they call me a "dirty commie".Honestly why do I feel unhappy in the Capitalist system, but yet rivarly, money-making for the sake of making money, dog-eat-dog situation were so normalized to me. ANd I'm arguing against my mother and at times my father over the fact "I'm not able to make money".
If I'm not able to make money, I'm called "the welfare queen" and such, at least here in Poland and called someone akin to a s*bhuman.
Talk me out of it, I feel terrible, my mental health took a toll, finally.
I get bullied about this very fact.
R: 61 / I: 28
i've also noticed that the leftcom spazs around here just scream at clouds at this point because almost everytime their replies reduce down to accusations of taking perverse pleasure in the genocide of proletarians, which is completely ridiculous. and i've noticed leftcoms never have anything relevant about organization to say. i also do not know any leftcom that is organized or isn't a complete social outcast.
why does this happen?
posting two rare lenins alongside
why are leftcoms an antisocial tendency?
why does it seem that whenever marxists post relevant studies, articles, books it's always very precise, to the point, relevant to the topic at hand; while when leftcoms post books here, they are usually not relevant, or a debate from 50 years ago in one sect, pseudointellectual nonsense? has anyone else noticed this? it seems like they haven't read the books they spam and are very ecclectic in their takes (i've seen them post anarchist alongside left-communist literature, indicating their ideological confusion).i've also noticed that the leftcom spazs around here just scream at clouds at this point because almost everytime their replies reduce down to accusations of taking perverse pleasure in the genocide of proletarians, which is completely ridiculous. and i've noticed leftcoms never have anything relevant about organization to say. i also do not know any leftcom that is organized or isn't a complete social outcast.
why does this happen?
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R: 39 / I: 3
I'm noticing patterns recently with the most authoritarian communists on this board, the internet and in real life (though rarer in real life due to most of these people being shut-in freaks)
>calls themself an authoritarian communist, even though:
>>they literally don't have a job, or they have a "job" that they only got because one of their parents got them said job
>>is not involved in any way, shape, or form in the union at their place of employment, in fact actively despises colleagues and working class people in general because they might have less than politically correct opinions on things
>>has read all the material, and autistically corrects people on getting things wrong with regards to said material…to the point that they will alienate away anyone that might've actually been interested in left wing ideas
>>has LOTS OF OPINIONS on the politics of countries they only found out about because they watched a youtube video/wikipedia'd "what parties are left wing", lives in the middle of bumfucknowhere USA
>>continuing on with the previous point, will say insane, outlandish shit like "heh….everyone in X country should've just been genocided when X communist leader was in charge" in a tongue in cheek way, which only their weird orbiter followers will realise is a 'joke' while anyone else thinks they are fucking insane
>>freakishly obsessed with nerd hobbies to the point that it's offputting to anyone normal
Am I wrong in saying I think these sorts of people should be pulled away from leftist spaces for being annoying little LARPers? They always seem to be the "frontline" for left-wing discussions online for some reason, I assume because they have more time on their hands than people actually doing things in the real world.
I'm noticing patterns recently with the most authoritarian communists on this board, the internet and in real life (though rarer in real life due to most of these people being shut-in freaks)
>calls themself an authoritarian communist, even though:
>>they literally don't have a job, or they have a "job" that they only got because one of their parents got them said job
>>is not involved in any way, shape, or form in the union at their place of employment, in fact actively despises colleagues and working class people in general because they might have less than politically correct opinions on things
>>has read all the material, and autistically corrects people on getting things wrong with regards to said material…to the point that they will alienate away anyone that might've actually been interested in left wing ideas
>>has LOTS OF OPINIONS on the politics of countries they only found out about because they watched a youtube video/wikipedia'd "what parties are left wing", lives in the middle of bumfucknowhere USA
>>continuing on with the previous point, will say insane, outlandish shit like "heh….everyone in X country should've just been genocided when X communist leader was in charge" in a tongue in cheek way, which only their weird orbiter followers will realise is a 'joke' while anyone else thinks they are fucking insane
>>freakishly obsessed with nerd hobbies to the point that it's offputting to anyone normal
Am I wrong in saying I think these sorts of people should be pulled away from leftist spaces for being annoying little LARPers? They always seem to be the "frontline" for left-wing discussions online for some reason, I assume because they have more time on their hands than people actually doing things in the real world.
R: 42 / I: 3
DeepSeek is garbage now
DeepSeek use to be very good and based. It was a bit of a libtard but you could very easily change its mind and then it would post very based stuff. Now there has been some sort of update. Now it’s a turbo liberal Zionist and you can never ever change its mind. It will just endlessly post libtard and Zionist propaganda nonstop if you try to argue with it. Sad that such a good app is ruined now. Weird considering it is Chinese you’d think it would be different but no it is just as bad as whatever USA liberal garbage ai now.
R: 5 / I: 7
Priest at 9:17 on a hunger strike in Portland sometime in the 70s. He says he's more extreme than communism. Anyone into this kind of thing? I thought of you guys when I found this archive of videos. He says he's an Antioch Priest who doesn't believe in owning property; Tolstoyan. Right up your guys' alley. Pretty fascinating. I wonder if he's still out there doing stuff in his 70s or 80s.
There are also some hobos talking about bum laws and drinking and the state of the city.
It led me to look up the I.W.W.
Wobblies labor union
https://digitalcollections.ohs.org/mi11859Priest at 9:17 on a hunger strike in Portland sometime in the 70s. He says he's more extreme than communism. Anyone into this kind of thing? I thought of you guys when I found this archive of videos. He says he's an Antioch Priest who doesn't believe in owning property; Tolstoyan. Right up your guys' alley. Pretty fascinating. I wonder if he's still out there doing stuff in his 70s or 80s.
There are also some hobos talking about bum laws and drinking and the state of the city.
It led me to look up the I.W.W.
R: 57 / I: 5
- The definition of what is to be "Japanese" is narrowe and conveniently defined. It does not limit itself to ethnia and birthplace, but behavior. The ideal Japanese man is obedient to his superior. The ideal Japanese woman obeys her husband.
- Therefore, anything that moves away from the ideal of Nihonjinron (Japaneseness) should be attacked, ignored, isolated. Invidual thoughts or traits are suppressed (sexuality, originality, etc.)
- Since the Yamato ace is the best, then Japan is also the best. As consequence, any negativity or criticism isn't publicly allowed. This is entrenched not only in social relationships like the family, but all the way into academia and intellectuals.
- Even the highest echelons of Japanese society must follow the rules. The book "Princess Masako : prisoner of the Chrysanthemum throne : the tragic true story of Japan's Crown Princess" clearly depicts the obedience of the empress and emperor towards the Imperial Household, even in their own detriment.
- A combination of nationalism and culture. That is, if you aren't a fervor nationalist, you do not love your own culture. Since humans naturally have a sense of belonging, this feeling is co-opted by nationalist sentiments.
- The logical consequences of the mythical Yamato and nation of the rising sun, is racism and xenophobia. As such, foreigners become the perfect scapegoat, even though they only make up 3% of the population and hold no political nor economic power. This discrimination extends to the indigenous populations: Ainu and Ryukyu.
- End result: a deferential, obedient society uncapable of publicly criticizing the status quo, willing to do anything in the name of Japan. This is assuming they can first break through the veil of nationalism so entrenched in their society.
Japanese society is what every tyrant desires. It will be the last place where the revolution happens, as it is impossible for the Japanese to rise against their government. Japan is in a sense a nightmare. Impossible to become free.
No country is more reactionary than Japan as of now
Japan should be a textbook example for any tyrant who wants to control their population. As Goethe accurately noted: "None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free". Japan has mastered the art of indoctrination. The control is not exerted through force or laws, but rather culture. This is smartly combined with fervous nationalism which claims that the culture of Japan is "immutable and homogeneous". This has several consequences:- The definition of what is to be "Japanese" is narrowe and conveniently defined. It does not limit itself to ethnia and birthplace, but behavior. The ideal Japanese man is obedient to his superior. The ideal Japanese woman obeys her husband.
- Therefore, anything that moves away from the ideal of Nihonjinron (Japaneseness) should be attacked, ignored, isolated. Invidual thoughts or traits are suppressed (sexuality, originality, etc.)
- Since the Yamato ace is the best, then Japan is also the best. As consequence, any negativity or criticism isn't publicly allowed. This is entrenched not only in social relationships like the family, but all the way into academia and intellectuals.
- Even the highest echelons of Japanese society must follow the rules. The book "Princess Masako : prisoner of the Chrysanthemum throne : the tragic true story of Japan's Crown Princess" clearly depicts the obedience of the empress and emperor towards the Imperial Household, even in their own detriment.
- A combination of nationalism and culture. That is, if you aren't a fervor nationalist, you do not love your own culture. Since humans naturally have a sense of belonging, this feeling is co-opted by nationalist sentiments.
- The logical consequences of the mythical Yamato and nation of the rising sun, is racism and xenophobia. As such, foreigners become the perfect scapegoat, even though they only make up 3% of the population and hold no political nor economic power. This discrimination extends to the indigenous populations: Ainu and Ryukyu.
- End result: a deferential, obedient society uncapable of publicly criticizing the status quo, willing to do anything in the name of Japan. This is assuming they can first break through the veil of nationalism so entrenched in their society.
Japanese society is what every tyrant desires. It will be the last place where the revolution happens, as it is impossible for the Japanese to rise against their government. Japan is in a sense a nightmare. Impossible to become free.
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"This is not just about Ghassan. This is an attack on anyone who stands up for the oppressed, who speaks out against exploitation, imperialism and Zionism", said Inhiyez platform in a statement published on 17 July. "It is an attempt to muzzle critical journalism and intimidate the free press." Ben Khelifa, a long-standing figure on Tunisia's progressive left and an outspoken critic of authoritarianism, has been involved in numerous grassroots campaigns, including the Tunisian campaign for boycotting Israel and the Somoud convoy to Gaza.
https://www.newarab.com/news/tunisia-sentences-pro-palestine-leftist-jail-extremism
Growing tension | Fierce clashes erupt between tribesmen and local gunmen in west Al-Suwaidaa city
Al-Suwaidaa province: Fierce clashes erupted between gunmen of the Bedouin tribes and members of local factions in the western suburbs of Al-Suwaidaa city near Walgha village, after groups of tribesmen set fire to properties belonging to people of the Druze community in the villages of Walgha and Al-Mazra’a this morning and yesterday in the evening. However, no casualties have been reported so far. It is worth noting that those villages are empty of residents who have been displaced following the latest escalation. SOHR activists have also reported sporadic clashes near Al-Surah Al-Kabirah village in Al-Suwaidaa countryside.
https://www.syriahr.com/en/366149/
Two UK charities donate millions to Israeli settlement in occupied West Bank
Documents show that the Kasner Charitable Trust (KCT), via a conduit charity, UK Toremet, has donated approximately £5.7m to the Bnei Akiva Yeshiva high school in Susya, in the Israeli-occupied territory. As the budget of the school increased significantly as a result of the donations, the number of pupils, employees at the school and Susya residents have all increased.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jul/18/two-uk-charities-donate-millions-israeli-settlement-occupied-west-bank
Czech president signs law criminalising communist propaganda
The revised legislation introduces prison sentences of up to five years for anyone who “establishes, supports or promotes Nazi, communist, or other movements which demonstrably aim to suppress human rights and freedoms or incite racial, ethnic, national, religious or class-based hatred.” The change follows calls from Czech historical institutions, including the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes, to correct what they viewed as a legal imbalance. The Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia (KSČM), led by MEP Kateřina Konečná and now part of a new electoral alliance called “Stačilo” (“Enough”), condemned the move as politically motivated.
https://www.euractiv.com/section/politics/news/czech-president-signs-law-criminalising-communist-propaganda/
https://archive.ph/DY900
Bin strikes could spread to Wrexham, Unite warns
BIN worker strikes could spread to Wrexham after the council extended the working week without consultation, Unite said today. More than 100 staff are being balloted for industrial action as the changes to overtime mean they now have to work on Saturdays, losing half a day’s pay as a result, a union spokesman added. They affect the authority’s street scene operators, which includes refuse workers as well as those working on parks, gardens and highways.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/bin-strikes-could-spread-wrexham-unite-warns
Speech ban ruled unlawful: Palestinian doctor wins in German court
The Palestine Congress in Berlin, which was organized in mid-April of last year, was violently shut down by the police on its first day, just minutes after it began. The pretext for this action, which was deemed unlawful by attorneys, was a live-stream of Palestinian historian Dr. Salman Abu Sitta. His nephew, the doctor Ghassan Abu-Sittah, was banned from entering Germany on the morning of April 12, 2024. He had arrived on a flight from the UK, was detained and questioned for hours at Berlin airport, and then deported. He was also told that he was banned from practicing any political activities in Germany for the month of April, even from abroad. The organizers of the conference are taking legal action against the dissolution of the event, the trial of which is ongoing.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/07/17/speech-ban-ruled-unlawful-palestinian-doctor-wins-in-german-court/
Mexico City plans to tackle gentrification after protests against mass tourism
Mexico City Mayor Clara Brugada said the plan will include regulation so that landlords cannot increase rents above inflation. Authorities will also share a list of “reasonable rental” proposals. Brugada said her government will open a discussion with residents of Mexico’s capital about her plan, but that the idea is to work on a bill that includes measures to promote affordable rent.
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Colombia’s government to introduce bill to demobilize paramilitaries and urban gangs
The bill suggests that the government wants to offer the EGC an exceptional treatment that includes possible judicial benefits like reduced sentences. The bill also wants to create “second opportunities” for members of illegal armed groups who were excluded from transitional justice processes in the past. Last but not least, the bill seeks the inclusion of financiers and collaborators in the judicial model of the EGC demobilization, which would allow the prosecution of people who weren’t part of the paramilitary organization, but contributed to their creation and expansion.
https://colombiareports.com/colombias-government-to-introduce-bill-to-demobilize-paramilitaries-and-urban-gangs/
Muslim youth detained for nine months in Sri Lanka under draconian anti-terror law
Mohamed Rifai Mohamed Suhail, a young Muslim man arbitrarily detained for nine months under the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA), was finally granted bail on Tuesday by a local magistrate’s court. His case starkly exposes the repressive methods long employed by successive Sri Lankan governments and the police. Suhail, 21, an aviation student from Mawanella—100 kilometres from Colombo—was initially arrested on October 23 last year in Dehiwala. Police claimed he had pasted an anti-Israeli sticker on a wall near the Israeli consulate and arrested him for not carrying his national identity card.
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Group gets details of Cagayan de Oro journo’s red-taggers
Volunteer lawyers from a group fighting disinformation announced that they already have information of people who allegedly red-tagged Cagayan de Oro-based journalist Leonardo Vicente “Cong” Corrales on social media platform Facebook. This came following the complaint filed by Corrales and the volunteer lawyers from the Movement Against Disinformation (MAD) before the National Privacy Commission (NPC) in 2023 against Meta, the parent company of Facebook, after the latter allegedly denied Corrales’ request for information on people behind the red-tagging attacks online.
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Tunisia sentences pro-Palestine leftist activist to jail over running a 'jihadist' social media page"This is not just about Ghassan. This is an attack on anyone who stands up for the oppressed, who speaks out against exploitation, imperialism and Zionism", said Inhiyez platform in a statement published on 17 July. "It is an attempt to muzzle critical journalism and intimidate the free press." Ben Khelifa, a long-standing figure on Tunisia's progressive left and an outspoken critic of authoritarianism, has been involved in numerous grassroots campaigns, including the Tunisian campaign for boycotting Israel and the Somoud convoy to Gaza.
https://www.newarab.com/news/tunisia-sentences-pro-palestine-leftist-jail-extremism
Growing tension | Fierce clashes erupt between tribesmen and local gunmen in west Al-Suwaidaa city
Al-Suwaidaa province: Fierce clashes erupted between gunmen of the Bedouin tribes and members of local factions in the western suburbs of Al-Suwaidaa city near Walgha village, after groups of tribesmen set fire to properties belonging to people of the Druze community in the villages of Walgha and Al-Mazra’a this morning and yesterday in the evening. However, no casualties have been reported so far. It is worth noting that those villages are empty of residents who have been displaced following the latest escalation. SOHR activists have also reported sporadic clashes near Al-Surah Al-Kabirah village in Al-Suwaidaa countryside.
https://www.syriahr.com/en/366149/
Two UK charities donate millions to Israeli settlement in occupied West Bank
Documents show that the Kasner Charitable Trust (KCT), via a conduit charity, UK Toremet, has donated approximately £5.7m to the Bnei Akiva Yeshiva high school in Susya, in the Israeli-occupied territory. As the budget of the school increased significantly as a result of the donations, the number of pupils, employees at the school and Susya residents have all increased.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jul/18/two-uk-charities-donate-millions-israeli-settlement-occupied-west-bank
Czech president signs law criminalising communist propaganda
The revised legislation introduces prison sentences of up to five years for anyone who “establishes, supports or promotes Nazi, communist, or other movements which demonstrably aim to suppress human rights and freedoms or incite racial, ethnic, national, religious or class-based hatred.” The change follows calls from Czech historical institutions, including the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes, to correct what they viewed as a legal imbalance. The Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia (KSČM), led by MEP Kateřina Konečná and now part of a new electoral alliance called “Stačilo” (“Enough”), condemned the move as politically motivated.
https://www.euractiv.com/section/politics/news/czech-president-signs-law-criminalising-communist-propaganda/
https://archive.ph/DY900
Bin strikes could spread to Wrexham, Unite warns
BIN worker strikes could spread to Wrexham after the council extended the working week without consultation, Unite said today. More than 100 staff are being balloted for industrial action as the changes to overtime mean they now have to work on Saturdays, losing half a day’s pay as a result, a union spokesman added. They affect the authority’s street scene operators, which includes refuse workers as well as those working on parks, gardens and highways.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/bin-strikes-could-spread-wrexham-unite-warns
Speech ban ruled unlawful: Palestinian doctor wins in German court
The Palestine Congress in Berlin, which was organized in mid-April of last year, was violently shut down by the police on its first day, just minutes after it began. The pretext for this action, which was deemed unlawful by attorneys, was a live-stream of Palestinian historian Dr. Salman Abu Sitta. His nephew, the doctor Ghassan Abu-Sittah, was banned from entering Germany on the morning of April 12, 2024. He had arrived on a flight from the UK, was detained and questioned for hours at Berlin airport, and then deported. He was also told that he was banned from practicing any political activities in Germany for the month of April, even from abroad. The organizers of the conference are taking legal action against the dissolution of the event, the trial of which is ongoing.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/07/17/speech-ban-ruled-unlawful-palestinian-doctor-wins-in-german-court/
Mexico City plans to tackle gentrification after protests against mass tourism
Mexico City Mayor Clara Brugada said the plan will include regulation so that landlords cannot increase rents above inflation. Authorities will also share a list of “reasonable rental” proposals. Brugada said her government will open a discussion with residents of Mexico’s capital about her plan, but that the idea is to work on a bill that includes measures to promote affordable rent.
https://apnews.com/article/mexico-mass-tourism-gentrification-f8b0aeee11954be5004715e29fa0cf47
Colombia’s government to introduce bill to demobilize paramilitaries and urban gangs
The bill suggests that the government wants to offer the EGC an exceptional treatment that includes possible judicial benefits like reduced sentences. The bill also wants to create “second opportunities” for members of illegal armed groups who were excluded from transitional justice processes in the past. Last but not least, the bill seeks the inclusion of financiers and collaborators in the judicial model of the EGC demobilization, which would allow the prosecution of people who weren’t part of the paramilitary organization, but contributed to their creation and expansion.
https://colombiareports.com/colombias-government-to-introduce-bill-to-demobilize-paramilitaries-and-urban-gangs/
Muslim youth detained for nine months in Sri Lanka under draconian anti-terror law
Mohamed Rifai Mohamed Suhail, a young Muslim man arbitrarily detained for nine months under the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA), was finally granted bail on Tuesday by a local magistrate’s court. His case starkly exposes the repressive methods long employed by successive Sri Lankan governments and the police. Suhail, 21, an aviation student from Mawanella—100 kilometres from Colombo—was initially arrested on October 23 last year in Dehiwala. Police claimed he had pasted an anti-Israeli sticker on a wall near the Israeli consulate and arrested him for not carrying his national identity card.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/18/rrdf-j18.html
Group gets details of Cagayan de Oro journo’s red-taggers
Volunteer lawyers from a group fighting disinformation announced that they already have information of people who allegedly red-tagged Cagayan de Oro-based journalist Leonardo Vicente “Cong” Corrales on social media platform Facebook. This came following the complaint filed by Corrales and the volunteer lawyers from the Movement Against Disinformation (MAD) before the National Privacy Commission (NPC) in 2023 against Meta, the parent company of Facebook, after the latter allegedly denied Corrales’ request for information on people behind the red-tagging attacks online.
https://www.bulatlat.com/2025/07/18/group-gets-details-of-cagayan-de-oro-journos-red-taggers/
R: 598 / I: 195
Last thread lasted many months, so keep in mind these events are separated by weeks.
Back-and-forth negotiations between the SDF and STG (Syrian transitional government).
STG attacks Lebanese tribes in Beqaa Valley again to "combat smuggling", withdraws quickly.
Clashes erupt between the STG and the Druze population in Jaramana. They're defused quickly.
Low-intensity insurgency continues in the coast.
More unsuccessful negotiations between the SDF and STG.
ISIS bombs a church.
Syria gets a new shitty emblem.
More negotiations between the SDF and STG. This time the US sided seemed to have sided with Turkey and the STG.
STG attacks Suwayda governorate, a majority-Druze province that has been de-facto autonomous since the fall of Assad. They get pushed back at first but are now trying again.
Israel bombs the shit out of Syria in response to the Suwayda offensive. The MoD building takes heavy hits. The conflict is still ongoing as of this thread's creation.
Links:
t.me/Medmannews - Well known channel (Egyptian owner). Posts frequently about MENA
t.me/Slavyangrad - Also posting a lot of news about Syria recently
t.me/Middle_East_Spectator - Iranian owner
t.me/Suriyak_maps - Posts maps/latest news. Less prone to hype/hysteria but slower.
t.me/rybar - Russian channel. Posts a lot about Syria too
https://nitter.poast.org/SAMSyria0 - Local Syrian army soldier. Used to post in Arabic. (Account deleted. RIP)
https://nitter.poast.org/WarMonitors
https://nitter.poast.org/bosni94
https://nitter.poast.org/Sy_intelligence
https://nitter.poast.org/sayed_ridha
https://syria.liveuamap.com
/sg/ - Syrian Civil War General #22 - Suriya al-Gadida edition
Recent news:Last thread lasted many months, so keep in mind these events are separated by weeks.
Back-and-forth negotiations between the SDF and STG (Syrian transitional government).
STG attacks Lebanese tribes in Beqaa Valley again to "combat smuggling", withdraws quickly.
Clashes erupt between the STG and the Druze population in Jaramana. They're defused quickly.
Low-intensity insurgency continues in the coast.
More unsuccessful negotiations between the SDF and STG.
ISIS bombs a church.
Syria gets a new shitty emblem.
More negotiations between the SDF and STG. This time the US sided seemed to have sided with Turkey and the STG.
STG attacks Suwayda governorate, a majority-Druze province that has been de-facto autonomous since the fall of Assad. They get pushed back at first but are now trying again.
Israel bombs the shit out of Syria in response to the Suwayda offensive. The MoD building takes heavy hits. The conflict is still ongoing as of this thread's creation.
Links:
t.me/Medmannews - Well known channel (Egyptian owner). Posts frequently about MENA
t.me/Slavyangrad - Also posting a lot of news about Syria recently
t.me/Middle_East_Spectator - Iranian owner
t.me/Suriyak_maps - Posts maps/latest news. Less prone to hype/hysteria but slower.
t.me/rybar - Russian channel. Posts a lot about Syria too
https://nitter.poast.org/SAMSyria0 - Local Syrian army soldier. Used to post in Arabic. (Account deleted. RIP)
https://nitter.poast.org/WarMonitors
https://nitter.poast.org/bosni94
https://nitter.poast.org/Sy_intelligence
https://nitter.poast.org/sayed_ridha
https://syria.liveuamap.com
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What happened? Why did this happen and why did the USSR fail? Was it state capitalisms? What about the Sino-soviet split? Why that happen? How come the proletariat didn't revolt globally during ww2 at the height of communist power and influence? Did nuclear weapons stall the revolution and allow a counter revolution?
This thread exist to discuss all things related to the cold war and its aftermath. Please post your theories, or any information you have in regards to this topic here.
==The Cold war==
The cold war, a 44 year old counter-revolutionWhat happened? Why did this happen and why did the USSR fail? Was it state capitalisms? What about the Sino-soviet split? Why that happen? How come the proletariat didn't revolt globally during ww2 at the height of communist power and influence? Did nuclear weapons stall the revolution and allow a counter revolution?
This thread exist to discuss all things related to the cold war and its aftermath. Please post your theories, or any information you have in regards to this topic here.
R: 11 / I: 1
What can we take from past example of Soviet/Socialist Cybernetics?
With the landscape changed so much, is there anything that can be taken away. Any principles or plans they had that we can implement better thanks to the Internet or AI or any new innovation. If you have any information about central planning, that would be great. Been meaning to look into that.
R: 95 / I: 5
Paradoxically, some of the most radical-sounding theory ends up being politically inert. If your revolution happens in desire or discourse, then there's no need to organize tenants, unions, or strikes. No need to analyze class composition. It's post-materialist. The ruling class is perfectly happy for people to spend their time deciphering Deleuze or burning effigies of "the State" in their heads rather than challenging property relations.
Since the 1960s, theory has absorbed countercultural and psychoanalytic influences that treat rationalism itself as suspect. Much of this comes from academia. Their material interests don't align with the working class, so abstract theory "feels" radical without risking much. Another part of this is a sort of learned helplessness and nihilism, in that sense modern theory serves the same function as fascism in that is provides an outlet by giving the "aesthetic" of radicalism without the substance.
TLDR:The most "radical" thing you can do today is to simply disregard the vast majority of Western Marxism/Post-Marxism i.e. Freudo-Marxism, Deleuzean neo-Kantianism, Hegelian revivals through Lukács and Adorno, postmodernism, poststructuralism, and any approach that elevates """discourse""" as the primary object of analysis, and instead return to a straightforward, rigorous conjunctural class and geopolitical analysis grounded in orthodox Marxist categories and methodology.
FUCK Western Marxism
People will seemingly do anything to not engage in analysis of structures of class, labor, and political economy a la basic Marxism.Paradoxically, some of the most radical-sounding theory ends up being politically inert. If your revolution happens in desire or discourse, then there's no need to organize tenants, unions, or strikes. No need to analyze class composition. It's post-materialist. The ruling class is perfectly happy for people to spend their time deciphering Deleuze or burning effigies of "the State" in their heads rather than challenging property relations.
Since the 1960s, theory has absorbed countercultural and psychoanalytic influences that treat rationalism itself as suspect. Much of this comes from academia. Their material interests don't align with the working class, so abstract theory "feels" radical without risking much. Another part of this is a sort of learned helplessness and nihilism, in that sense modern theory serves the same function as fascism in that is provides an outlet by giving the "aesthetic" of radicalism without the substance.
TLDR:The most "radical" thing you can do today is to simply disregard the vast majority of Western Marxism/Post-Marxism i.e. Freudo-Marxism, Deleuzean neo-Kantianism, Hegelian revivals through Lukács and Adorno, postmodernism, poststructuralism, and any approach that elevates """discourse""" as the primary object of analysis, and instead return to a straightforward, rigorous conjunctural class and geopolitical analysis grounded in orthodox Marxist categories and methodology.
R: 31 / I: 3
"Thus, the first stage of Sorel’s revision of Marxism naturally took the form of a revision of Marxist economics. It seems that at the time he wrote his work on economics, he was seeking to remove all possible doubt. “To reform in a bourgeois society is to affirm private property,” he wrote. “This whole book thus presupposes that private property is an unquestionable fact.”41 Farther on, he reaffirmed his attachment to Proudhon’s economic conceptions, and there too, as in the case of Marx, he wanted to complete Proudhon’s work: “It is one of Proudhon’s chief claims to fame to have determined, better than anyone had done hitherto, the domain of property and that of the economic sphere. I do not, however, believe he exhausted the question. . . . I am taking it up, and I will show how the socialization of the milieu can give rise to a great number of reforms that do not harm prope"
"For Sorel, however, a deep knowledge of Marxist philosophy and economics was never really necessary in order to understand the value of Marxism as a weapon of combat. “The theory of surplus value is useless” for the purpose of waging “a ceaseless war” between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat, he wrote in 1909.67 In Saggi, he had already questioned the feasibility of turning socialism into a science.68 There was a clear reason for this attitude: at the beginning of the century, Sorel saw that science did not activate the masses. People do not sacrifice themselves for surplus value! This was why he sought to minimize the scientific aspect of Marxism "
"Where the correction and completion of Marxism were concerned, Bergson’s teachings were very convenient, for they enabled the rationalistic content of Marxism to be replaced by “revolutionary myths.” It was no longer a question of economic or sociological laws or of historical or political analysis. Myths, wrote Sorel, “are not a description of things, but expressions of will,”114 and “groups of images that can evoke as a totality through intuition alone, before any reasoned analysis, the mass of sentiments that correspond to the various manifestations of the war waged by socialism against modern society.”115 Later, the same formula was repeated word for word, although in an abbreviated form, to describe the general strike in terms of myth.116 Again, the myth was described as “identical with the convictions of a group,” convictions of which it was “the expression in the language of movement,”117 and it presented itself “to the spirit with the insistence of instincts in all circumstances of life.”118 It was thus logical that it permitted an “intuition of socialism that language was unable to provide with perfect clarity.”119 Sorel was aware of the analogy between “revolutionary socialism” thus conceived and religion. He knew that anything that claimed to be above science and beyond criticism was comparable to religion. Here Sorel once again had recourse to what he called the “new psychology”: Bergson, he wrote, “taught us that religion was not alone in occupying the depths of the consciousness. The revolutionary myths have a place there to the same degree.” By a suitable employment of this method, Sorel hoped to make possible the “apprenticeship, preparation, and reconstruction of the individual in view of a gigantic operation.”120
Sorel thought that precisely this mysterious and obscure aspect of a system of thought or of a social phenomenon constituted its greatness. It enabled one to avoid having to take one’s stand “on utilitarian grounds,” and it allowed one to have, for instance, a total faith in the general strike “even while knowing it is a myth.”125 The obscurity of socialism did not prevent it from being easy to represent the proletarian movement in a complete, exact, and compelling way by means of the great construction that the proletarian soul conceived in the course of social conflicts and that is called the general strike. 64 CHAPTER ONE One should always remember that the perfection of this form of representation would immediately disappear if one sought to split the general strike into an accumulation of historical details. It must be regarded as an undivided whole; and the passage from capitalism to socialism must be conceived as a catastrophe whose process defies description. 126 Sorel believed that by evolving within this mythical and irrational sphere socialism would succeed in overcoming the “crisis of Marxism” that “petty science” had “greatly contributed to creating.”127 The “characteristic of infinity” of the myth of the general strike at one and the same time gave socialism “such a high moral value and inspired so great a loyalty,”128 and gave it that absolute confidence in the future which constitutes the greatness of true revolutionary movements, for ever since it had become a work of preparation, ever since it had been nurtured by the myth of the general strike, “a failure,” he wrote, “could not prove anything against socialism.”129 Ever since it had expressed itself in the myth of the general strike, socialism had ceased to be a mere model or an intellectual construction or abstraction.
For Sorel, deeply influenced by Eduard von Hartmann,169 pessimism represented the spearhead of the great struggle against decadence. Pessimism had three aspects. First, it was “far more a metaphysics of morals than a theory of the world”; it was “the conception of a path toward deliverance.” Second, it was an awareness of objective obstacles “to the satisfaction of our imaginations.” Third—and this was its substance—it was the expression of “a profound conviction of our natural weakness.”170 Only a civilization steeped in pessimism could achieve greatness, for it embodied the great historical forces and the great human virtues: heroism, sacrifice, and asceticism. Pessimism gave birth to the idea of apocalypse and originated the idea of myth. In early Christianity, wrote Sorel, “we find a pessimism that is wholly developed and fully armed.” The consciousness of “belonging to a sacred army . . . produced many heroic actions, created a courageous propaganda, and gave rise to serious moral progress.” Greek pessimism, steeped in heroism, was the product of “poor, warlike mountain tribes,” while the optimism of the philosophers came into being among rich, commercial urban populations “that could regard the world as a huge emporium full of 72 CHAPTER ONE excellent things with which to satisfy their cupidity.” Sorel pointed out that oriental asceticism is often considered a remarkable manifestation of pessimism, while sixteenth-century Calvinism “offers us a spectacle that is perhaps even more instructive”; the dogmas of sin and predestination “correspond to the two primary aspects of pessimism: the wretchedness of the human race and social determinism.”17
"True to his objectives of 1897, Sorel thus decided to correct and complete Marxism. In 1914, when very little remained of his Marxist beliefs, he recalled in his foreword to Matériaux the days when he had hoped “to be able one day, using the facts revealed in recent inquiries, to complete the brief guidelines that Marx and Engels had provided on the development of the working class. Ten years earlier, Sorel would never have dared to couple the expression “brief guidelines” with the name of Marx, even if, already at that period, he felt that “these last years” had been sufficiently “rich in unexpected facts” to “invalidate those syntheses which seemed to be the best founded.”84
"Sorel referred to Proudhon and the distinction between property and the economic sphere.39 This distinction had already appeared in Introduc- 44 CHAPTER ONE tion à l’économie moderne, a work to which he referred in Insegnamenti in a chapter entitled, precisely, “Socialization in the Economic Sphere.” Sorel not only took up the classic Proudhonian positions (“the negation of property is a matter for weak minds”), but dissociated himself from Engels’s famous preface of 1895 to La Lutte des classes en France, 1848–1850. In this preface, Engels insisted that the appropriation of the means of production was the characteristic that distinguished the form of socialism he called “modern” (by which he meant Marxist) from other varieties. The extension of this formula to the appropriation of the channels of commerce was for Engels a necessary consequence of this fundamental proposition. Sorel declared himself in total disagreement with Engels’s conclusion.40 In reality, he was opposed to a fundamental principle of Marxism and one of its major distinguishing feature "
" why did Sorel not participate personally in the launching of these Cahiers, which were identical in intention to La Cité française? They were, after all, exactly in his line of thought. Indeed, he had some doubts about the Maurrassians’ sincerity with respect to Proudhon, and at a certain moment he advised Berth not to have anything to do “with an affair that cannot yield good results.”241 Nevertheless, as Pierre Andreu noted in his introduction to Sorel’s unpublished letters to Berth, after these first guarded reactions, Sorel “seems to have been won over by the antidemocratic fervor of the Cercle.”242 This being the case, why the reserve? "
" For the Sorelians, it was a question of adapting “to our time Proudhon’s ideas on the socialization of commerce and the State,” but—and this was of prime importance—all this had to be done “without touching private property.”50 This axiom was never again questioned."
wtf sorel
"The critique of Marxist economics was the real starting point of Sorelian revisionism and the criterion of all of revolutionary revisionism. As a good Marxist, Sorel made a considerable effort to understand his master’s economic conceptions. In 1897 he set out to study “the Marxist theory of value,” and he immediately discovered a “major deficiency”—that to treat this theory as something universal was an error. He agreed with Pareto that one cannot treat “economic problems, as provided by experience, in a strictly scientific manner.”36 Three years later, in the midst of the Bernstein debate, whose main lines he summarized for the benefit of the French public, the future author of La Décomposition du marxisme very clearly questioned the main principle of Marxist economics. “The Marxist theory of value,” he wrote, “no longer has any scientific usefulness and . . . gives rise to a great many misunderstandings.”37 GEORGES SOREL 43 We should also draw attention to another point, which does not seem to have been sufficiently noticed. Although Sorel rejected the theories of value and surplus value, he also rejected the idea of the socialization of property. In an article in La Revue socialiste published in March 1901, he praised rural cooperation and then came to the conclusion that “socialization could not be accepted by the peasants if it were not given a new form. . . . One must therefore necessarily revise the doctrine.” Sorel attacked the subject by going straight to the point. “For a very long time,” he wrote, “the schools of socialism failed to pay attention to the great differences that exist between the socialization of production and the socialization of commerce.”"Thus, the first stage of Sorel’s revision of Marxism naturally took the form of a revision of Marxist economics. It seems that at the time he wrote his work on economics, he was seeking to remove all possible doubt. “To reform in a bourgeois society is to affirm private property,” he wrote. “This whole book thus presupposes that private property is an unquestionable fact.”41 Farther on, he reaffirmed his attachment to Proudhon’s economic conceptions, and there too, as in the case of Marx, he wanted to complete Proudhon’s work: “It is one of Proudhon’s chief claims to fame to have determined, better than anyone had done hitherto, the domain of property and that of the economic sphere. I do not, however, believe he exhausted the question. . . . I am taking it up, and I will show how the socialization of the milieu can give rise to a great number of reforms that do not harm prope"
"For Sorel, however, a deep knowledge of Marxist philosophy and economics was never really necessary in order to understand the value of Marxism as a weapon of combat. “The theory of surplus value is useless” for the purpose of waging “a ceaseless war” between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat, he wrote in 1909.67 In Saggi, he had already questioned the feasibility of turning socialism into a science.68 There was a clear reason for this attitude: at the beginning of the century, Sorel saw that science did not activate the masses. People do not sacrifice themselves for surplus value! This was why he sought to minimize the scientific aspect of Marxism "
"Where the correction and completion of Marxism were concerned, Bergson’s teachings were very convenient, for they enabled the rationalistic content of Marxism to be replaced by “revolutionary myths.” It was no longer a question of economic or sociological laws or of historical or political analysis. Myths, wrote Sorel, “are not a description of things, but expressions of will,”114 and “groups of images that can evoke as a totality through intuition alone, before any reasoned analysis, the mass of sentiments that correspond to the various manifestations of the war waged by socialism against modern society.”115 Later, the same formula was repeated word for word, although in an abbreviated form, to describe the general strike in terms of myth.116 Again, the myth was described as “identical with the convictions of a group,” convictions of which it was “the expression in the language of movement,”117 and it presented itself “to the spirit with the insistence of instincts in all circumstances of life.”118 It was thus logical that it permitted an “intuition of socialism that language was unable to provide with perfect clarity.”119 Sorel was aware of the analogy between “revolutionary socialism” thus conceived and religion. He knew that anything that claimed to be above science and beyond criticism was comparable to religion. Here Sorel once again had recourse to what he called the “new psychology”: Bergson, he wrote, “taught us that religion was not alone in occupying the depths of the consciousness. The revolutionary myths have a place there to the same degree.” By a suitable employment of this method, Sorel hoped to make possible the “apprenticeship, preparation, and reconstruction of the individual in view of a gigantic operation.”120
Sorel thought that precisely this mysterious and obscure aspect of a system of thought or of a social phenomenon constituted its greatness. It enabled one to avoid having to take one’s stand “on utilitarian grounds,” and it allowed one to have, for instance, a total faith in the general strike “even while knowing it is a myth.”125 The obscurity of socialism did not prevent it from being easy to represent the proletarian movement in a complete, exact, and compelling way by means of the great construction that the proletarian soul conceived in the course of social conflicts and that is called the general strike. 64 CHAPTER ONE One should always remember that the perfection of this form of representation would immediately disappear if one sought to split the general strike into an accumulation of historical details. It must be regarded as an undivided whole; and the passage from capitalism to socialism must be conceived as a catastrophe whose process defies description. 126 Sorel believed that by evolving within this mythical and irrational sphere socialism would succeed in overcoming the “crisis of Marxism” that “petty science” had “greatly contributed to creating.”127 The “characteristic of infinity” of the myth of the general strike at one and the same time gave socialism “such a high moral value and inspired so great a loyalty,”128 and gave it that absolute confidence in the future which constitutes the greatness of true revolutionary movements, for ever since it had become a work of preparation, ever since it had been nurtured by the myth of the general strike, “a failure,” he wrote, “could not prove anything against socialism.”129 Ever since it had expressed itself in the myth of the general strike, socialism had ceased to be a mere model or an intellectual construction or abstraction.
For Sorel, deeply influenced by Eduard von Hartmann,169 pessimism represented the spearhead of the great struggle against decadence. Pessimism had three aspects. First, it was “far more a metaphysics of morals than a theory of the world”; it was “the conception of a path toward deliverance.” Second, it was an awareness of objective obstacles “to the satisfaction of our imaginations.” Third—and this was its substance—it was the expression of “a profound conviction of our natural weakness.”170 Only a civilization steeped in pessimism could achieve greatness, for it embodied the great historical forces and the great human virtues: heroism, sacrifice, and asceticism. Pessimism gave birth to the idea of apocalypse and originated the idea of myth. In early Christianity, wrote Sorel, “we find a pessimism that is wholly developed and fully armed.” The consciousness of “belonging to a sacred army . . . produced many heroic actions, created a courageous propaganda, and gave rise to serious moral progress.” Greek pessimism, steeped in heroism, was the product of “poor, warlike mountain tribes,” while the optimism of the philosophers came into being among rich, commercial urban populations “that could regard the world as a huge emporium full of 72 CHAPTER ONE excellent things with which to satisfy their cupidity.” Sorel pointed out that oriental asceticism is often considered a remarkable manifestation of pessimism, while sixteenth-century Calvinism “offers us a spectacle that is perhaps even more instructive”; the dogmas of sin and predestination “correspond to the two primary aspects of pessimism: the wretchedness of the human race and social determinism.”17
"True to his objectives of 1897, Sorel thus decided to correct and complete Marxism. In 1914, when very little remained of his Marxist beliefs, he recalled in his foreword to Matériaux the days when he had hoped “to be able one day, using the facts revealed in recent inquiries, to complete the brief guidelines that Marx and Engels had provided on the development of the working class. Ten years earlier, Sorel would never have dared to couple the expression “brief guidelines” with the name of Marx, even if, already at that period, he felt that “these last years” had been sufficiently “rich in unexpected facts” to “invalidate those syntheses which seemed to be the best founded.”84
"Sorel referred to Proudhon and the distinction between property and the economic sphere.39 This distinction had already appeared in Introduc- 44 CHAPTER ONE tion à l’économie moderne, a work to which he referred in Insegnamenti in a chapter entitled, precisely, “Socialization in the Economic Sphere.” Sorel not only took up the classic Proudhonian positions (“the negation of property is a matter for weak minds”), but dissociated himself from Engels’s famous preface of 1895 to La Lutte des classes en France, 1848–1850. In this preface, Engels insisted that the appropriation of the means of production was the characteristic that distinguished the form of socialism he called “modern” (by which he meant Marxist) from other varieties. The extension of this formula to the appropriation of the channels of commerce was for Engels a necessary consequence of this fundamental proposition. Sorel declared himself in total disagreement with Engels’s conclusion.40 In reality, he was opposed to a fundamental principle of Marxism and one of its major distinguishing feature "
" why did Sorel not participate personally in the launching of these Cahiers, which were identical in intention to La Cité française? They were, after all, exactly in his line of thought. Indeed, he had some doubts about the Maurrassians’ sincerity with respect to Proudhon, and at a certain moment he advised Berth not to have anything to do “with an affair that cannot yield good results.”241 Nevertheless, as Pierre Andreu noted in his introduction to Sorel’s unpublished letters to Berth, after these first guarded reactions, Sorel “seems to have been won over by the antidemocratic fervor of the Cercle.”242 This being the case, why the reserve? "
" For the Sorelians, it was a question of adapting “to our time Proudhon’s ideas on the socialization of commerce and the State,” but—and this was of prime importance—all this had to be done “without touching private property.”50 This axiom was never again questioned."
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It's truly over. Unless western culture is changed at the grass roots level AND THEN politically promoted, no communism will ever come to the west. You cannot build communism in a society where the "individual" is some weird fetish that is a fake parody of itself from renaissance thought of 600 years ago.
>inb4 counter examples of collectivist pockets in western societies.
>inb4 helping chinese paratroopers when they land in the midwest
>inb4 mamadani
you had a higher chance of building communism in ancient egypt with the pharaohs as stalin then you do now in the west
Genesis 41:25-57
Deep Dark Truth
>0 protestant countries with organic communist revolutionsIt's truly over. Unless western culture is changed at the grass roots level AND THEN politically promoted, no communism will ever come to the west. You cannot build communism in a society where the "individual" is some weird fetish that is a fake parody of itself from renaissance thought of 600 years ago.
>inb4 counter examples of collectivist pockets in western societies.
>inb4 helping chinese paratroopers when they land in the midwest
>inb4 mamadani
you had a higher chance of building communism in ancient egypt with the pharaohs as stalin then you do now in the west
Genesis 41:25-57
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• Middle East Eye: https://www.middleeasteye.net/israel-palestine-hamas-war-gaza-live-invasion
• The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/world/palestinian-territories
• Times of Israel: https://www.timesofisrael.com/topic/liveblog/ (trigger warning)
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WIKI
Our own wiki. Be sure to add to it and create branching articles:
https://wiki.leftypol.org/wiki/2023_Israel–Gaza_war [Currently Down]
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🗣️ RECOMMENDED SITES ✍️
• https://electronicintifada.net
From the UK, single issue long time Palestinian investigative and general reporting, critical source
• https://mondoweiss.net/
From the USA
• https://new.thecradle.co/
Regional news from an anti-imperialist perspective
• https://www.btselem.org/Isrsaeli
Premier Human Rights org
• https://www.972mag.com/
Left news and opinion webzine from Tel-Aviv
• https://decolonizepalestine.com/
A collection of resources for organizers and anyone who wants to learn more about Palestine
• https://www.normanfinkelstein.com/blogs/
Known anti-zionist academic Norman Finkelstein's blog
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💣🔫RESISTANCE💣🔫
al-Qassam Brigades
https://en.alqassam.ps/
PFLP
http://pflp.ps/
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📺 WATCH TOGETHER 📺
https://tv.leftypol.org/r/LGBTA
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✊🪧 TAKE ACTION AND TOUCH GRASS 🏴🔥
(USA)
• https://www.answercoalition.org/join_a_protest_near_you_free_palestine
(UK+USA)
• https://www.palestineaction.org/
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(This includes blatantly obvious concern failtrolling/fedposting, painfully unfunny/nuclear misanthropic autism [ie. /pol/] and derailing/hyper sectarian schizophrenia, excessive doomer and jewish-blood-quantum posting)
Always remember to double-check your sources, as well as provide access to it.
الله أكبر
.الى جميع الكادحين في الشرق، ان مصيركم في ايديكم
Fdpd. trash site 123 blah fd
R: 9 / I: 2
In early July, Yemen's Houthis launched a sophisticated and multi-pronged attack on The Magic Seas and The Eternity C, two Greek-owned and Liberian-flagged vessels in the Red Sea. Both vessels were sunk by the group, officially known as Ansar Allah. The attacks were the largest in scope, and firepower, since the Houthis began targeting ships in the Red Sea in November 2023 in what they say is solidarity with besieged Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. "There is a big discussion in the market right now whether insurers should cover vessels with even indirect connections to Israel," one of the shipping sources told MEE.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-approaches-maritime-insurers-after-houthi-attacks
Israel strikes Syrian military headquarters in Damascus
Israel carried out strikes near Syria’s presidential palace and on the military headquarters in Damascus on Wednesday, a significant escalation of its bombing campaign in the neighbouring country. The Israeli military also carried out strikes in southern Syria, where violence between Druze militants, Bedouin tribes and Syrian security forces raged for a fourth day. Local officials say about 50 people have been killed in the clashes so far. Israel cast its strikes as an effort to protect Syria’s Druze minority, and has demanded the Syrian government withdraw its forces from Sweida, where the sectarian violence has been concentrated.
https://www.ft.com/content/4305ea3a-09b6-4cef-8b04-99f1eb6106ce
https://archive.ph/bxIQV
Turkish court convicts Istanbul mayor of insulting an official
A Turkish court on Wednesday convicted Istanbul's jailed opposition mayor and the chief rival to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of insulting and threatening a public official and sentenced him to a year and eight months in prison. Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, who is being held in a prison west of Istanbul since 23 March, is expected to appeal the verdict, which is part of several ongoing legal proceedings against him.
https://www.newarab.com/news/turkish-court-convicts-istanbul-mayor-insulting-official
https://archive.ph/xblzW
Colombia, The Hague Group announce further sanctions on Israel
The measures announced by Jaramillo were subscribed all 32 governments that participated in the summits. Colombia and the rest of The Hague Group called on other United Nations member states to follow their lead. 1.Export ban on weapons and equipment that may facilitate war crimes in Gaza 2. Ban on ships carrying war material to Israel 3. Ban on the use of the Colombian flag on ships that violate aforementioned measures 4. Review of State contracts to avoid support for the illegal occupation of Palestinian land 5. Justice and accountability for the mot serious crimes 6. Support for universal jurisdiction to prosecute crimes in Palestine
https://colombiareports.com/colombia-the-hague-group-announce-further-sanctions-on-israel/
Argentina Faces Waves of Protests Against Milei’s Brutal Austerity and Dismantling of the State
Argentina is facing an escalating wave of protests and strikes as millions mobilize against the far-right economic agenda introduced by President Javier Milei. His administration’s radical austerity programs have triggered mass layoffs, deep cuts to public services, and attacks on workers’ rights,fuelling a growing social crisis and placing the nation on edge. From pensioners to healthcare workers and aviation professionals, broad sectors of society are demanding urgent redress amid worsening economic inequality and social instability.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/argentina-faces-waves-of-protests-against-mileis-brutal-austerity-and-dismantling-of-the-state/
Backlash against Mexico City gentrification echoes global anger at overtourism and rising rents
Residents of the capital say these so-called ‘digital nomads’ are taking advantage of Mexico’s relatively cheap living standards but pricing out locals in the process. Making matters worse: a flood of Airbnbs have overtaken the metropolis’ most desirable, central neighborhoods (more than 26,000 listings according to the Inside Airbnb advocacy group), replacing longtime residents with tourists and short-term renters.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/15/backlash-against-mexico-city-gentrification-echoes-global-anger-at-overtourism-and-rising-rents
Cuban labor minister resigns after her suggestion beggars were pretending sparked backlash
Cuba’s Presidency said in a post on X that Minister of Labor and Social Security Marta Elena Feitó Cabrera “acknowledged her errors and submitted her resignation.” Feitó made the comments Monday before deputies in a National Assembly committee. The comments went viral, prompting calls for Feitó's impeachment and a wave of criticism in a country experiencing a tough economic situation in recent years.
https://apnews.com/article/cuba-beggars-minister-economy-crisis-ebd9931e3f7929701bdf70045c2f6cba
UK police use Palestine Action proscription to target protest mentioning “Gaza” and “genocide”
A protester waving a Palestine flag and displaying a sign saying “Israel is committing genocide” was harassed by police and threatened with arrest under the Terrorism Act this Monday. The event in Canterbury shows the march to a police state being carried out by the Labour government. Two officers approached the protester, asking, “What is your intention here today?”
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/16/qkxk-j16.html
Ukraine wing of US-founded terrorist group says it was involved in killing of intelligence officer in Kyiv
“The shooting of the SBU colonel is not the end, but only the beginning,” said a statement posted on a Telegram channel that appears to be linked to the the Base’s supposed Ukrainian cell. “We will continue our struggle until justice prevails.” The same post, translated from Ukrainian, added that the group’s members were “proud of our associates” who carried out the killing and said they didn’t care if naysayers thought of them as “terrorists and extremists”. In another message to subscribers, the account also threatens other Ukrainian public figures and promises: “The hunt continues!”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/16/the-base-terrorist-group-ukraine-assassination
Finland bans Russians, Belarusians from buying property over security concerns
Previously, Finnish authorities could only block property purchases by Russian citizens on a case-by-case basis, if the Ministry of Defense determined the transaction posed a threat to national security. The new law simplifies and strengthens that process by introducing a blanket prohibition.
https://kyivindependent.com/finland-bans-russians-belarusians-from-buying-property-over-security-concerns/
https://archive.ph/MjdYd
US will build repair facilities for the Philippine navy near the disputed South China Sea
The U.S. Embassy said Wednesday the project will take place at Oyster Bay and Quezon town in western Palawan province. It said in a statement that it underscored the treaty allies’ aim to maintain a “free, open and resilient Indo-Pacific.” Palawan faces the disputed South China Sea, which Beijing claims virtually in its entirety, and is the headquarters of the Philippine military’s Western Command, which deploys navy patrol ships, surveillance vessels and aircraft to defend its territorial interests.
https://apnews.com/article/us-philippines-palawan-boats-south-china-sea-37f8012c949f40cf043478a9c8cc7cc1
Violence erupts at Bangladesh youth rally, media report four killed
Violence erupted on Wednesday at a rally of Bangladesh's youth-led National Citizen Party in the southern town of Gopalganj, with four people killed and more injured according to local media. Deadly student-led protests forced long-time Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to flee to India in August last year, and since then there have been delays over promised reforms, growing protests and political division.
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/violence-erupts-bangladesh-youth-rally-media-report-four-killed-2025-07-16/
News 7/16/25
Israel scrambles to address maritime insurance freeze after Houthi attacks, sources sayIn early July, Yemen's Houthis launched a sophisticated and multi-pronged attack on The Magic Seas and The Eternity C, two Greek-owned and Liberian-flagged vessels in the Red Sea. Both vessels were sunk by the group, officially known as Ansar Allah. The attacks were the largest in scope, and firepower, since the Houthis began targeting ships in the Red Sea in November 2023 in what they say is solidarity with besieged Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. "There is a big discussion in the market right now whether insurers should cover vessels with even indirect connections to Israel," one of the shipping sources told MEE.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-approaches-maritime-insurers-after-houthi-attacks
Israel strikes Syrian military headquarters in Damascus
Israel carried out strikes near Syria’s presidential palace and on the military headquarters in Damascus on Wednesday, a significant escalation of its bombing campaign in the neighbouring country. The Israeli military also carried out strikes in southern Syria, where violence between Druze militants, Bedouin tribes and Syrian security forces raged for a fourth day. Local officials say about 50 people have been killed in the clashes so far. Israel cast its strikes as an effort to protect Syria’s Druze minority, and has demanded the Syrian government withdraw its forces from Sweida, where the sectarian violence has been concentrated.
https://www.ft.com/content/4305ea3a-09b6-4cef-8b04-99f1eb6106ce
https://archive.ph/bxIQV
Turkish court convicts Istanbul mayor of insulting an official
A Turkish court on Wednesday convicted Istanbul's jailed opposition mayor and the chief rival to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of insulting and threatening a public official and sentenced him to a year and eight months in prison. Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, who is being held in a prison west of Istanbul since 23 March, is expected to appeal the verdict, which is part of several ongoing legal proceedings against him.
https://www.newarab.com/news/turkish-court-convicts-istanbul-mayor-insulting-official
https://archive.ph/xblzW
Colombia, The Hague Group announce further sanctions on Israel
The measures announced by Jaramillo were subscribed all 32 governments that participated in the summits. Colombia and the rest of The Hague Group called on other United Nations member states to follow their lead. 1.Export ban on weapons and equipment that may facilitate war crimes in Gaza 2. Ban on ships carrying war material to Israel 3. Ban on the use of the Colombian flag on ships that violate aforementioned measures 4. Review of State contracts to avoid support for the illegal occupation of Palestinian land 5. Justice and accountability for the mot serious crimes 6. Support for universal jurisdiction to prosecute crimes in Palestine
https://colombiareports.com/colombia-the-hague-group-announce-further-sanctions-on-israel/
Argentina Faces Waves of Protests Against Milei’s Brutal Austerity and Dismantling of the State
Argentina is facing an escalating wave of protests and strikes as millions mobilize against the far-right economic agenda introduced by President Javier Milei. His administration’s radical austerity programs have triggered mass layoffs, deep cuts to public services, and attacks on workers’ rights,fuelling a growing social crisis and placing the nation on edge. From pensioners to healthcare workers and aviation professionals, broad sectors of society are demanding urgent redress amid worsening economic inequality and social instability.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/argentina-faces-waves-of-protests-against-mileis-brutal-austerity-and-dismantling-of-the-state/
Backlash against Mexico City gentrification echoes global anger at overtourism and rising rents
Residents of the capital say these so-called ‘digital nomads’ are taking advantage of Mexico’s relatively cheap living standards but pricing out locals in the process. Making matters worse: a flood of Airbnbs have overtaken the metropolis’ most desirable, central neighborhoods (more than 26,000 listings according to the Inside Airbnb advocacy group), replacing longtime residents with tourists and short-term renters.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/15/backlash-against-mexico-city-gentrification-echoes-global-anger-at-overtourism-and-rising-rents
Cuban labor minister resigns after her suggestion beggars were pretending sparked backlash
Cuba’s Presidency said in a post on X that Minister of Labor and Social Security Marta Elena Feitó Cabrera “acknowledged her errors and submitted her resignation.” Feitó made the comments Monday before deputies in a National Assembly committee. The comments went viral, prompting calls for Feitó's impeachment and a wave of criticism in a country experiencing a tough economic situation in recent years.
https://apnews.com/article/cuba-beggars-minister-economy-crisis-ebd9931e3f7929701bdf70045c2f6cba
UK police use Palestine Action proscription to target protest mentioning “Gaza” and “genocide”
A protester waving a Palestine flag and displaying a sign saying “Israel is committing genocide” was harassed by police and threatened with arrest under the Terrorism Act this Monday. The event in Canterbury shows the march to a police state being carried out by the Labour government. Two officers approached the protester, asking, “What is your intention here today?”
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/16/qkxk-j16.html
Ukraine wing of US-founded terrorist group says it was involved in killing of intelligence officer in Kyiv
“The shooting of the SBU colonel is not the end, but only the beginning,” said a statement posted on a Telegram channel that appears to be linked to the the Base’s supposed Ukrainian cell. “We will continue our struggle until justice prevails.” The same post, translated from Ukrainian, added that the group’s members were “proud of our associates” who carried out the killing and said they didn’t care if naysayers thought of them as “terrorists and extremists”. In another message to subscribers, the account also threatens other Ukrainian public figures and promises: “The hunt continues!”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/16/the-base-terrorist-group-ukraine-assassination
Finland bans Russians, Belarusians from buying property over security concerns
Previously, Finnish authorities could only block property purchases by Russian citizens on a case-by-case basis, if the Ministry of Defense determined the transaction posed a threat to national security. The new law simplifies and strengthens that process by introducing a blanket prohibition.
https://kyivindependent.com/finland-bans-russians-belarusians-from-buying-property-over-security-concerns/
https://archive.ph/MjdYd
US will build repair facilities for the Philippine navy near the disputed South China Sea
The U.S. Embassy said Wednesday the project will take place at Oyster Bay and Quezon town in western Palawan province. It said in a statement that it underscored the treaty allies’ aim to maintain a “free, open and resilient Indo-Pacific.” Palawan faces the disputed South China Sea, which Beijing claims virtually in its entirety, and is the headquarters of the Philippine military’s Western Command, which deploys navy patrol ships, surveillance vessels and aircraft to defend its territorial interests.
https://apnews.com/article/us-philippines-palawan-boats-south-china-sea-37f8012c949f40cf043478a9c8cc7cc1
Violence erupts at Bangladesh youth rally, media report four killed
Violence erupted on Wednesday at a rally of Bangladesh's youth-led National Citizen Party in the southern town of Gopalganj, with four people killed and more injured according to local media. Deadly student-led protests forced long-time Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to flee to India in August last year, and since then there have been delays over promised reforms, growing protests and political division.
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/violence-erupts-bangladesh-youth-rally-media-report-four-killed-2025-07-16/
R: 17 / I: 4
https://pizzahut.ru/kombo
Russian capitalism is pointless.
Russia has now been isolated from global capitalism because of the Russo-Ukraine war. Since Russia is not willing to cooperate with existing capitalist powers, it has been maligned and siloed. What exactly is the point of Russian capitalism now that it is permanently handicapped by sanctions? They will never be lifted. The West will never accept another bloc of nations like the CIS using global capitalism for their own interests, which are divergent and irreconcilable with the West. To Rusanons, I ask what will happen to Russia's economy after the war ends and sanctions are kept in place. How will the ongoing inflation and shortages be justified? How will United Russia convince people to vote for their party without a constant state of war?https://pizzahut.ru/kombo
R: 30 / I: 7
Hello, I’m from Bharat. I wanted to talk about decolonization of appearances. Due to the colonial period the ideal person was white. Because of this Indian women often try to get impregnated by white tourists so there children are better looking. This isn’t an isolated incident. There are even “breeding parties” where men will come and impregnate a dozen women at a time. It just reeks of capitalism and colonialist insecurity
Hello, I’m from Bharat. I wanted to talk about decolonization of appearances. Due to the colonial period the ideal person was white. Because of this Indian women often try to get impregnated by white tourists so there children are better looking. This isn’t an isolated incident. There are even “breeding parties” where men will come and impregnate a dozen women at a time. It just reeks of capitalism and colonialist insecurity
R: 2 / I: 0
The Israeli business and economics newspaper The Calcalist reported on Thursday that the Eilat municipality had frozen the port's bank accounts, amounting to approximately 10 million shekels ($3m), due to unpaid taxes. The newspaper reported that the port had recorded a steep drop in revenue due to Houthi attacks on ships linked to Israel. Israel's Shipping and Ports Authority said on Wednesday that due to the "financial crisis it has entered due to the ongoing conflict, the Eilat Municipality informed the port's management of the seizure of all its bank accounts due to debts owed to the municipality.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-eilat-port-shut-down-over-unpaid-debts-triggered-houthi-attacks
US strikes destroyed only one of three Iranian nuclear sites, reports
The report said that US officials believe the attack on Iran's Fordow nuclear facility was successful in setting back enrichment capabilities there by as much as two years, citing two current officials. The two other facilities that the US struck were not as badly damaged and may have been degraded only to a point where nuclear enrichment could resume in the next several months if Iran wants it to, the report added. Reuters could not immediately verify the NBC report. The White House did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.
https://www.newarab.com/news/us-strikes-destroyed-only-one-three-iranian-nuclear-sites
New Israeli incursion | Limited Israeli forces advance near Al-Rafid and renewed military movements along Golan line
Earlier today, several Israeli military vehicles escorting vehicles carrying soldiers have advanced into the predominantly-Druze town of Qal’at Jandal in Qatna area in the southern Rif Dimashq. This bizarre development in border areas inside Syria has triggered a state of tension in the region, especially with the sensitive location of Qal’at Jandal town on the border strip with the occupied Syrian Golan, and which is located only 35 kilometers away from the capital Damascus.
https://www.syriahr.com/en/366126/
French court orders pro-Palestinian Lebanese fighter freed after 40 years
“We’re delighted. I didn’t expect the French judiciary to make such a decision nor for him to ever be freed, especially after so many failed requests for release,” he was quoted as saying. “For once, the French authorities have freed themselves from Israeli and US pressures.” Abdallah’s lawyer Jean-Louis Chalanset also welcomed the decision: “It’s both a judicial victory and a political scandal that he was not released earlier.” Abdallah is expected to be deported to Lebanon. Prosecutors may file an appeal with France’s highest court, the Court of Cassation, but it is not expected to be processed quickly enough to halt his release next week.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/17/french-court-orders-pro-palestinian-lebanese-fighter-freed-after-40-years
https://archive.ph/B2Ley
Merz rules out company tax and joint borrowing in EU budget
In its plan, presented Wednesday, the Commission proposed an EU tax on high-turnover companies and a €400 billion crisis fund, potentially to be financed via joint borrowing. The plan fired the starting gun for what will be two years of haggling between the EU executive, national capitals and the European Parliament, all of which must agree before the spending plan can be approved.
https://www.politico.eu/article/friedrich-merz-germany-company-tax-joint-borrowing-eu-budget/
https://archive.ph/CUPqF
Athens, Greece: Comrades Accused of ‘Conspiracy Vengeance/Armed Response’ Case Attempt Escape
Thursday 10/7, in the Loukareos courts, some of the accused chose the path to freedom, even at the risk of their own lives. Despite the protection measures of the state apparatus and without any scruples about the consequences of this decision, they clashed with the cops, managing to wrest the weapon from one and immobilize a second. However, in their attempt to free the remaining accused, the cops regrouped and the escape attempt ended.
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/20378/
Unemployment hits four-year high as earnings stagnate
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said the rate of UK unemployment increased to 4.7 per cent in the three months to May, from 4.6 per cent in April, the highest level since June 2021. As with the rise in prices, this was worse than economists had been predicting, suggesting the situation is deteriorating fast, with gross domestic product shrinking for the last two months. And average earnings growth slowed to 5 per cent in the period to May to its lowest level for almost three years. ONS director of economic statistics Liz McKeown said: “The labour market continues to weaken, with the number of employees on payroll falling again, though revised tax data shows the decline in recent months is less pronounced than previously estimated.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/unemployment-hits-four-year-high-earnings-stagnate
Fascist terrorist cell uncovered in Canada’s military
The arrest last week of two active members of the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF), a CAF veteran, and an Army Cadet trainer in an armed terrorist plot has exposed, yet again, that Canada’s military is serving as an incubator of fascist forces. Five years after a CAF reservist sought to assassinate then Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and as the ruling class showers the military with tens of billions of dollars in additional funding, far-right activities among CAF members clearly continue unabated.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/16/xxzg-j16.html
Former colonial ruler France hands over its last military bases in Senegal
France returned Camp Geille, its largest base in Senegal, and its airfield at Dakar’s airport in a ceremony on Thursday attended by top French and Senegalese officials, including Senegalese Chief of the General Staff Mbaye Cisse and General Pascal Ianni, the head of the French forces in Africa.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/17/former-colonial-ruler-france-hands-over-its-last-military-bases-in-senegal
https://archive.ph/PtBpt
El Salvador’s top human rights group flees President Bukele’s ongoing crackdown on dissent
The organization has been one of the most visible critics of Bukele, documenting abuses in the strongman’s war on the country’s gangs and the detention of hundreds of Venezuelan deportees in an agreement with U.S. President Donald Trump. Bukele’s government has long targeted opponents, but Cristosal Executive Director Noah Bullock said things reached a tipping point in recent months as Bukele has grown empowered by his alliance with Trump.
https://apnews.com/article/el-salvador-cristosal-bukele-crackdown-trump-detentions-593b84470be85b4036a5ca5854a1cf41
Brazil passes ‘devastation bill’ that drastically weakens environmental law
The new law – widely referred to as the “devastation bill” and already approved by the senate in May – passed in congress in the early hours of Thursday by 267 votes to 116, despite opposition from more than 350 organisations and social movements. It now goes to the president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who has 15 working days to either approve or veto it. Even if he vetoes the legislation, there is a strong chance that the predominantly conservative congress will overturn that, triggering a likely battle in the supreme court, as legal experts argue that the new law is unconstitutional.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/17/brazil-passes-devastation-bill-that-drastically-weakens-environmental-law
Taiwan launches ‘urban resilience’ drills to test war readiness amid PLA pressure
The drills were held alongside the island’s annual Han Kuang military exercise, Taiwan’s largest and most comprehensive war games. This year marks the first time that the government has officially integrated its long-running civil response and air defence drills into a single, comprehensive “urban resilience exercise”. At 1.30pm, air-raid sirens sounded across northern Taiwan, prompting a coordinated response that included the evacuation of civilians and vehicles, lighting blackouts, and shelter-in-place procedures. In Taipei, mass rapid transit (MRT) stations implemented “entry-only” protocols, with passengers instructed to remain underground. Streets emptied, traffic stopped, and businesses shut their doors – transforming the capital into a wartime simulation.
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3318633/taiwan-launches-urban-resilience-drills-test-war-readiness-amid-pla-pressure?module=top_story&pgtype=subsection
News 7/17/25
Israel's Eilat port to shut down over unpaid debts triggered by Houthi attacksThe Israeli business and economics newspaper The Calcalist reported on Thursday that the Eilat municipality had frozen the port's bank accounts, amounting to approximately 10 million shekels ($3m), due to unpaid taxes. The newspaper reported that the port had recorded a steep drop in revenue due to Houthi attacks on ships linked to Israel. Israel's Shipping and Ports Authority said on Wednesday that due to the "financial crisis it has entered due to the ongoing conflict, the Eilat Municipality informed the port's management of the seizure of all its bank accounts due to debts owed to the municipality.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-eilat-port-shut-down-over-unpaid-debts-triggered-houthi-attacks
US strikes destroyed only one of three Iranian nuclear sites, reports
The report said that US officials believe the attack on Iran's Fordow nuclear facility was successful in setting back enrichment capabilities there by as much as two years, citing two current officials. The two other facilities that the US struck were not as badly damaged and may have been degraded only to a point where nuclear enrichment could resume in the next several months if Iran wants it to, the report added. Reuters could not immediately verify the NBC report. The White House did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.
https://www.newarab.com/news/us-strikes-destroyed-only-one-three-iranian-nuclear-sites
New Israeli incursion | Limited Israeli forces advance near Al-Rafid and renewed military movements along Golan line
Earlier today, several Israeli military vehicles escorting vehicles carrying soldiers have advanced into the predominantly-Druze town of Qal’at Jandal in Qatna area in the southern Rif Dimashq. This bizarre development in border areas inside Syria has triggered a state of tension in the region, especially with the sensitive location of Qal’at Jandal town on the border strip with the occupied Syrian Golan, and which is located only 35 kilometers away from the capital Damascus.
https://www.syriahr.com/en/366126/
French court orders pro-Palestinian Lebanese fighter freed after 40 years
“We’re delighted. I didn’t expect the French judiciary to make such a decision nor for him to ever be freed, especially after so many failed requests for release,” he was quoted as saying. “For once, the French authorities have freed themselves from Israeli and US pressures.” Abdallah’s lawyer Jean-Louis Chalanset also welcomed the decision: “It’s both a judicial victory and a political scandal that he was not released earlier.” Abdallah is expected to be deported to Lebanon. Prosecutors may file an appeal with France’s highest court, the Court of Cassation, but it is not expected to be processed quickly enough to halt his release next week.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/17/french-court-orders-pro-palestinian-lebanese-fighter-freed-after-40-years
https://archive.ph/B2Ley
Merz rules out company tax and joint borrowing in EU budget
In its plan, presented Wednesday, the Commission proposed an EU tax on high-turnover companies and a €400 billion crisis fund, potentially to be financed via joint borrowing. The plan fired the starting gun for what will be two years of haggling between the EU executive, national capitals and the European Parliament, all of which must agree before the spending plan can be approved.
https://www.politico.eu/article/friedrich-merz-germany-company-tax-joint-borrowing-eu-budget/
https://archive.ph/CUPqF
Athens, Greece: Comrades Accused of ‘Conspiracy Vengeance/Armed Response’ Case Attempt Escape
Thursday 10/7, in the Loukareos courts, some of the accused chose the path to freedom, even at the risk of their own lives. Despite the protection measures of the state apparatus and without any scruples about the consequences of this decision, they clashed with the cops, managing to wrest the weapon from one and immobilize a second. However, in their attempt to free the remaining accused, the cops regrouped and the escape attempt ended.
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/20378/
Unemployment hits four-year high as earnings stagnate
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said the rate of UK unemployment increased to 4.7 per cent in the three months to May, from 4.6 per cent in April, the highest level since June 2021. As with the rise in prices, this was worse than economists had been predicting, suggesting the situation is deteriorating fast, with gross domestic product shrinking for the last two months. And average earnings growth slowed to 5 per cent in the period to May to its lowest level for almost three years. ONS director of economic statistics Liz McKeown said: “The labour market continues to weaken, with the number of employees on payroll falling again, though revised tax data shows the decline in recent months is less pronounced than previously estimated.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/unemployment-hits-four-year-high-earnings-stagnate
Fascist terrorist cell uncovered in Canada’s military
The arrest last week of two active members of the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF), a CAF veteran, and an Army Cadet trainer in an armed terrorist plot has exposed, yet again, that Canada’s military is serving as an incubator of fascist forces. Five years after a CAF reservist sought to assassinate then Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and as the ruling class showers the military with tens of billions of dollars in additional funding, far-right activities among CAF members clearly continue unabated.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/16/xxzg-j16.html
Former colonial ruler France hands over its last military bases in Senegal
France returned Camp Geille, its largest base in Senegal, and its airfield at Dakar’s airport in a ceremony on Thursday attended by top French and Senegalese officials, including Senegalese Chief of the General Staff Mbaye Cisse and General Pascal Ianni, the head of the French forces in Africa.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/17/former-colonial-ruler-france-hands-over-its-last-military-bases-in-senegal
https://archive.ph/PtBpt
El Salvador’s top human rights group flees President Bukele’s ongoing crackdown on dissent
The organization has been one of the most visible critics of Bukele, documenting abuses in the strongman’s war on the country’s gangs and the detention of hundreds of Venezuelan deportees in an agreement with U.S. President Donald Trump. Bukele’s government has long targeted opponents, but Cristosal Executive Director Noah Bullock said things reached a tipping point in recent months as Bukele has grown empowered by his alliance with Trump.
https://apnews.com/article/el-salvador-cristosal-bukele-crackdown-trump-detentions-593b84470be85b4036a5ca5854a1cf41
Brazil passes ‘devastation bill’ that drastically weakens environmental law
The new law – widely referred to as the “devastation bill” and already approved by the senate in May – passed in congress in the early hours of Thursday by 267 votes to 116, despite opposition from more than 350 organisations and social movements. It now goes to the president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who has 15 working days to either approve or veto it. Even if he vetoes the legislation, there is a strong chance that the predominantly conservative congress will overturn that, triggering a likely battle in the supreme court, as legal experts argue that the new law is unconstitutional.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/17/brazil-passes-devastation-bill-that-drastically-weakens-environmental-law
Taiwan launches ‘urban resilience’ drills to test war readiness amid PLA pressure
The drills were held alongside the island’s annual Han Kuang military exercise, Taiwan’s largest and most comprehensive war games. This year marks the first time that the government has officially integrated its long-running civil response and air defence drills into a single, comprehensive “urban resilience exercise”. At 1.30pm, air-raid sirens sounded across northern Taiwan, prompting a coordinated response that included the evacuation of civilians and vehicles, lighting blackouts, and shelter-in-place procedures. In Taipei, mass rapid transit (MRT) stations implemented “entry-only” protocols, with passengers instructed to remain underground. Streets emptied, traffic stopped, and businesses shut their doors – transforming the capital into a wartime simulation.
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3318633/taiwan-launches-urban-resilience-drills-test-war-readiness-amid-pla-pressure?module=top_story&pgtype=subsection
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Deconstruction of Socialism in Eastern Europe
With iShowSpeed visiting Bosnia and meeting a large amount of racism, it has shown the truth of Post-Communist nations, that the restoration of capitalism in a Socialist society completely destroys the Society and reverts all progress from their former years as a progressive society.
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I have a plan..
I will move to north korea and create a documentary covering everything im able to but i will focus mostly on the negative parts of the country. Then i will proceed to promote and upload it on Youtube and and earn shit tons of views along with praises from people who would most probably call me a "brave person showing truth to the world". Hell I would even try to run for film festivals with it. It will be absolutely amazing
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Thank you, Father.
My communist father
Comrades, I have something to tell you. My father was always very political, criticizing capitalism. When I became interested in politics, he gave me his Spanish Republican flag and his Che Guevara beret. Yes, he always had and will always have Che's spirit. I'm writing this post as a kind of gift to my father.Thank you, Father.
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https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323637
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https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323663
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https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323729
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323733
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Does anyone here have some knowledge in the matter? Can anyone recommend a study process or bibliography? Should one first read the basic textbooks of histoire événementielle and later on deepen the matter or skip directly to the socioeconomic outlook?
I am very lost in this matter and I don't know where to begin, and I'm sure a lot of people are in the same situation in here. And I believe it is very important to have, at least, a broad outlook on the progression of economic history until capitalism, to maybe deepen more specifically in modern history and economics, but with a general view of what came before and the evolution of the present mode of production.
Ancient economy?
When it comes to the study of ancient economic history, one is faced with serious difficulties as a beginner. The usual textbooks normally cover the "histoire événementielle", i.e., the succession of notable historical events and actors (the surface of history), while the works that do cover ancient socioeconomic history are hard to find or outdated, such as Finley's famous book.Does anyone here have some knowledge in the matter? Can anyone recommend a study process or bibliography? Should one first read the basic textbooks of histoire événementielle and later on deepen the matter or skip directly to the socioeconomic outlook?
I am very lost in this matter and I don't know where to begin, and I'm sure a lot of people are in the same situation in here. And I believe it is very important to have, at least, a broad outlook on the progression of economic history until capitalism, to maybe deepen more specifically in modern history and economics, but with a general view of what came before and the evolution of the present mode of production.
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Last thread lasted two months, so keep in mind these events are separated by weeks.
Stalemate near Tishreen dam between the SDF and the SNA.
Insurgency developments & germination in the coast.
Israel announces it's not withdrawing from the newly-acquired Syrian territories.
Al-Julani forms a new government, formally dissolves the former SAA and declares himself president. New Ministry of Defense and army so far is barely cohesive and resembles one of those countless joint operations rooms we've seen before.
HTS attacks Lebanese areas under the justification of "combating smuggling". Withdraws quickly.
Clashes in the Druze Damascus suburb of Jaramana that were quickly defused. Suwayda (majority Druze region south of Damascus) is still de-facto autonomous and controlled by armed Druze factions.
Massive uprising by the insurgents in the coastal regions that was quelled in around 4 days. Hundreds of military casualties on both sides. Insurgents go back to guerilla mode after.
Massacres of Alawites in the coastal regions during said uprising. At least 1000 civvies dead. HTS and Julani blame undisciplined SNA units and say they're gonna punish the perpetrators.
HTS and SDF sign memorandum for integration.
Links:
t.me/Medmannews - Well known channel (Egyptian owner). Posts frequently about MENA
t.me/Slavyangrad - Also posting a lot of news about Syria recently
t.me/Middle_East_Spectator - Iranian owner
t.me/Suriyak_maps - Posts maps/latest news. Less prone to hype/hysteria but slower.
t.me/rybar - Russian channel. Posts a lot about Syria too
https://nitter.poast.org/SAMSyria0 - Local Syrian army soldier. Used to post in Arabic. (Account deleted. RIP)
https://nitter.poast.org/WarMonitors
https://nitter.poast.org/bosni94
https://nitter.poast.org/Sy_intelligence
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Recent news:Last thread lasted two months, so keep in mind these events are separated by weeks.
Stalemate near Tishreen dam between the SDF and the SNA.
Insurgency developments & germination in the coast.
Israel announces it's not withdrawing from the newly-acquired Syrian territories.
Al-Julani forms a new government, formally dissolves the former SAA and declares himself president. New Ministry of Defense and army so far is barely cohesive and resembles one of those countless joint operations rooms we've seen before.
HTS attacks Lebanese areas under the justification of "combating smuggling". Withdraws quickly.
Clashes in the Druze Damascus suburb of Jaramana that were quickly defused. Suwayda (majority Druze region south of Damascus) is still de-facto autonomous and controlled by armed Druze factions.
Massive uprising by the insurgents in the coastal regions that was quelled in around 4 days. Hundreds of military casualties on both sides. Insurgents go back to guerilla mode after.
Massacres of Alawites in the coastal regions during said uprising. At least 1000 civvies dead. HTS and Julani blame undisciplined SNA units and say they're gonna punish the perpetrators.
HTS and SDF sign memorandum for integration.
Links:
t.me/Medmannews - Well known channel (Egyptian owner). Posts frequently about MENA
t.me/Slavyangrad - Also posting a lot of news about Syria recently
t.me/Middle_East_Spectator - Iranian owner
t.me/Suriyak_maps - Posts maps/latest news. Less prone to hype/hysteria but slower.
t.me/rybar - Russian channel. Posts a lot about Syria too
https://nitter.poast.org/SAMSyria0 - Local Syrian army soldier. Used to post in Arabic. (Account deleted. RIP)
https://nitter.poast.org/WarMonitors
https://nitter.poast.org/bosni94
https://nitter.poast.org/Sy_intelligence
https://nitter.poast.org/sayed_ridha
https://syria.liveuamap.com/
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2. Jewish people are not the majority in Israel/Palestine. No government may long stand without the consent of the majority of the governed.
3. The B.D.S. movement. Israel simply cannot afford to become an international pariah.
4. A large percentage of Israel's Jewish population will leave when Israel is no longer able to support a First-World standard of living.
5.Hubris. The Israeli government is unwilling to make the necessary concessions and reforms.
The Zionists state will be gone by the end of the decade.
1.Isreal is utterly dependent on American aid and American support is dwindling.2. Jewish people are not the majority in Israel/Palestine. No government may long stand without the consent of the majority of the governed.
3. The B.D.S. movement. Israel simply cannot afford to become an international pariah.
4. A large percentage of Israel's Jewish population will leave when Israel is no longer able to support a First-World standard of living.
5.Hubris. The Israeli government is unwilling to make the necessary concessions and reforms.
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Anarchism and production
So how, exactly, would production of advanced goods like aircraft carriers happen in an Anarchist world? Surely producing them would be so difficult you would need some form of top-down planning to create such things, no?
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>I've been studying Vichyite France and boy… the myth that it was some kind of Right-wing utopia is a joke.
>It was based off the personalism of Modernist theologian Schleiermacher through Maritain (intimate of Pope Paul VI and Saul Alinsky), the personalist communitarian philosophy of Mournier (who was espoused by Distributist anarchists) and Swiss Europe of Regions Fascist De Rougemont who loves the Ayatollah.
>At the very top of these movements is the Swiss Fascism model of Pan-Europeanism of Count Kalergi and Otto Hapsburg (who helped found the Austrian School and Mont Pelerin.) The present movement's leader is a Catholic noble who claims it was funded by Freemasons and the CIA.
>This directly interfaces with Europe's fascism HQ CINEF, and is in line with the FSB-controlled circles around Europe of Regions advocates Alain de Benoist, Steve Bannon, Alexandre Dugin and Constatin Malofeev. And leftist counterparts like Paulwels who is a Fabian, was chair of the Congress of Cultural Freedom and is part of Benoist's movement.
>Realize that the fascist proposition is not about ideology but about geopolitics and every stupid religious fundamenatlist is being recruited into anti-capitalist, anti-nationalist, pro-regionalism, third-positionism to further this agenda for the Swiss, British, the Italian nominally Catholic nobility around the House of Savoy and the Paymat group around Dugin and his oligarch friends.
>Catholics and Orthodox too dumb to realize these are same people fueling the immigration crisis and same Hofjuden who work through the Catholic nobility's World-Anti-Communist-League under leadership of circles around the Jerusalem Foundation and Jabotinsky-related networks (Kissinger, Conrad Black, Erik Prince, Evelyn de Rothschild, the Bloch family of H&R Block, etc.)
>What was so bad about Republicanism, the Renaissance and Capitalism? All systems that upheld Reason against radical action?
Stupidity of New Right Trads
Guy sounds like E Michael Jones in the last part.>I've been studying Vichyite France and boy… the myth that it was some kind of Right-wing utopia is a joke.
>It was based off the personalism of Modernist theologian Schleiermacher through Maritain (intimate of Pope Paul VI and Saul Alinsky), the personalist communitarian philosophy of Mournier (who was espoused by Distributist anarchists) and Swiss Europe of Regions Fascist De Rougemont who loves the Ayatollah.
>At the very top of these movements is the Swiss Fascism model of Pan-Europeanism of Count Kalergi and Otto Hapsburg (who helped found the Austrian School and Mont Pelerin.) The present movement's leader is a Catholic noble who claims it was funded by Freemasons and the CIA.
>This directly interfaces with Europe's fascism HQ CINEF, and is in line with the FSB-controlled circles around Europe of Regions advocates Alain de Benoist, Steve Bannon, Alexandre Dugin and Constatin Malofeev. And leftist counterparts like Paulwels who is a Fabian, was chair of the Congress of Cultural Freedom and is part of Benoist's movement.
>Realize that the fascist proposition is not about ideology but about geopolitics and every stupid religious fundamenatlist is being recruited into anti-capitalist, anti-nationalist, pro-regionalism, third-positionism to further this agenda for the Swiss, British, the Italian nominally Catholic nobility around the House of Savoy and the Paymat group around Dugin and his oligarch friends.
>Catholics and Orthodox too dumb to realize these are same people fueling the immigration crisis and same Hofjuden who work through the Catholic nobility's World-Anti-Communist-League under leadership of circles around the Jerusalem Foundation and Jabotinsky-related networks (Kissinger, Conrad Black, Erik Prince, Evelyn de Rothschild, the Bloch family of H&R Block, etc.)
>What was so bad about Republicanism, the Renaissance and Capitalism? All systems that upheld Reason against radical action?
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Reminder that migration is not driven by absolute wage disparities between nations; rather, it is a consequence of global capitalism's tendency to produce and maintain unequal productivity structures across countries. These structural differentials more than wage gaps themselves underlie capital's demand for mobile labor. Immigration functions as one among several strategic instruments, including outsourcing, technological innovation and labor market flexibilization, that capital employs to regulate labor supply in response to rising unit labor costs.
Global wage convergence doesn't occur because labor remains largely immobile, institutionally segmented and subject to political controls, whereas capital is highly mobile and operates according to the imperatives of competitive profit maximization. Therefore, framing immigration as a binary choice between accepting migrants or reducing domestic wages misrepresents the dynamics of the system.
Capitalism neither pursues nor facilitates global wage equalization rather it utilizes labor migration as a means to restore and maintain profitability under conditions of real competition, but so many radlibs are never gonna get it because they're stuck on that broken Unequal Exchange logic. They unironically reduce competition between bourgeois nation-states to "poor countries are getting robbed".
Reminder that migration is not driven by absolute wage disparities between nations; rather, it is a consequence of global capitalism's tendency to produce and maintain unequal productivity structures across countries. These structural differentials more than wage gaps themselves underlie capital's demand for mobile labor. Immigration functions as one among several strategic instruments, including outsourcing, technological innovation and labor market flexibilization, that capital employs to regulate labor supply in response to rising unit labor costs.
Global wage convergence doesn't occur because labor remains largely immobile, institutionally segmented and subject to political controls, whereas capital is highly mobile and operates according to the imperatives of competitive profit maximization. Therefore, framing immigration as a binary choice between accepting migrants or reducing domestic wages misrepresents the dynamics of the system.
Capitalism neither pursues nor facilitates global wage equalization rather it utilizes labor migration as a means to restore and maintain profitability under conditions of real competition, but so many radlibs are never gonna get it because they're stuck on that broken Unequal Exchange logic. They unironically reduce competition between bourgeois nation-states to "poor countries are getting robbed".
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The de facto privatization ordered by the judge would be part of the $16.1 billion payment the Argentine government was ordered to make in 2023 for failing to offer equal treatment to all shareholders in 2012, when it seized the YPF stake from Spain’s Repsol without making a tender offer to minority shareholders Petersen and Eton Park. If it does not surrender the shares, the Argentine government risks being declared in contempt. The Javier Milei administration has already appealed the decision, but it is unknown whether it will rule before the 72 hours granted by Judge Loretta Preska expire.
https://english.elpais.com/economy-and-business/2025-07-15/us-court-gives-argentina-three-more-days-to-surrender-its-ypf-shares.html
https://archive.ph/nmU7e
Miners lift blockades along Peru's key copper route, protest leader says
Peru's government has been working to end the program for operations known as "informal," which was created over a decade ago and meant to be temporary, but workers in the sector say the stricter regulations to operate legally are too onerous. … The Ministry of Energy and Mines is aiming to bring more than 31,000 informal miners in line with regulations by the end of the year, after removing more than 50,000 others from the program earlier this month. The ministry said at least 45,000 of those hadn't registered any activity in the last four years.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/miners-lift-blockades-along-perus-key-copper-route-protest-leader-says-2025-07-15/
Colombia and partners seeking “concrete measures” to end Israel’s genocide in Gaza
On top of that, The Hague Group said that the ministers “will announce concrete actions to enforce international law through coordinated state action — to end the genocide, and ensure justice and accountability.” “The Palestinian genocide threatens our entire multilateral system,” Jaramillo, a descendant of Palestinians, told news website Middle East Eye. The administration of President Gustavo Petro was one of the first countries to support South Africa’s attempt to have Israel convicted by the ICJ for the ongoing genocide that has killed at least 58,000 Gaza residents since October 2023.
https://colombiareports.com/colombia-and-partners-seeking-concrete-measures-to-end-israels-genocide-in-gaza/
Israeli ultra-Orthodox party quits Netanyahu government over conscription
Degel HaTorah was quoted by news reports as saying the decision was made “in accordance with the directive” of the group’s spiritual leader, Rabbi Dov Lando. Degel Hatorah said in a statement that after conferring with its head rabbis, “and following repeated violations by the government of its commitments to ensure the status of holy yeshiva students who diligently engage in their studies … [its MKs] have announced their resignation from the coalition and the government”.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/15/israeli-ultra-orthodox-party-quits-netanyahu-government-over-conscription
https://archive.ph/FASnn
Three Israeli soldiers killed in explosion in Jabalia, senior legal official killed in Gaza City
The soldiers were named as Staff Sgt. Shoham Menahem, Sgt. Shlomo Yakir Shrem and Sgt. Yuliy Faktor and reportedly belonged to the 52nd Battalion of the 401st Armoured Brigade, with another soldier injured in the blast. The Israeli army claimed the deaths were due to ammunition inside the tank detonating, following initial reports suggesting that the vehicle was hit by an anti-tank missile.
https://www.newarab.com/news/three-israeli-soldiers-killed-explosion-northern-gaza
Syria announces ceasefire after latest outbreak of deadly sectarian violence
Syria ‘s defense minister announced a ceasefire shortly after government forces entered a key city in southern Sweida province on Tuesday, a day after sectarian clashes killed dozens there. Neighboring Israel again launched strikes on Syrian military forces, saying it was protecting the Druze minority.
https://apnews.com/article/syria-druze-clashes-sweida-44585d1d58ddcdd224e9573ca94767b0
Pakistan announces new paramilitary force ahead of PTI protests
The new force will be called the Federal Constabulary and will be formed by restructuring an existing paramilitary unit currently operating along the northwestern border with Afghanistan, state minister for the Interior Talal Chaudhry said at a press conference in Faisalabad on Monday. According to a copy of the amended law cited by Dunya News TV, the Federal Constabulary will be tasked with internal security, riot control and counter-terrorism duties. The announcement comes as the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party, led by jailed former prime minister Imran Khan, prepares for nationwide protests on August 5, marking two years since his arrest.
https://www.easterneye.biz/pakistan-imran-khan-paramilitary-force-pti/
https://archive.ph/HtRQU
Odisha: Bengali-Speaking Migrants Detained En Masse; National Security or Persecution?
In what may be called as an orchestrated crackdown targeting Bengali-speaking migrant labourers, Odisha’s Jharsuguda district police have detained 444 individuals for “verification” under suspicion of being undocumented Bangladeshi and Rohingya nationals, according to Superintendent of Police Smit Parmar. Acting on directives issued by the Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), a Special Task Force (STF) was constituted in the district and the detainees have been shifted to two designated holding centres for further scrutiny.
https://www.newsclick.in/odisha-bengali-speaking-migrants-detained-en-masse-national-security-or-persecution
News 7/15/25
US court gives Argentina three more days to surrender its YPF sharesThe de facto privatization ordered by the judge would be part of the $16.1 billion payment the Argentine government was ordered to make in 2023 for failing to offer equal treatment to all shareholders in 2012, when it seized the YPF stake from Spain’s Repsol without making a tender offer to minority shareholders Petersen and Eton Park. If it does not surrender the shares, the Argentine government risks being declared in contempt. The Javier Milei administration has already appealed the decision, but it is unknown whether it will rule before the 72 hours granted by Judge Loretta Preska expire.
https://english.elpais.com/economy-and-business/2025-07-15/us-court-gives-argentina-three-more-days-to-surrender-its-ypf-shares.html
https://archive.ph/nmU7e
Miners lift blockades along Peru's key copper route, protest leader says
Peru's government has been working to end the program for operations known as "informal," which was created over a decade ago and meant to be temporary, but workers in the sector say the stricter regulations to operate legally are too onerous. … The Ministry of Energy and Mines is aiming to bring more than 31,000 informal miners in line with regulations by the end of the year, after removing more than 50,000 others from the program earlier this month. The ministry said at least 45,000 of those hadn't registered any activity in the last four years.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/miners-lift-blockades-along-perus-key-copper-route-protest-leader-says-2025-07-15/
Colombia and partners seeking “concrete measures” to end Israel’s genocide in Gaza
On top of that, The Hague Group said that the ministers “will announce concrete actions to enforce international law through coordinated state action — to end the genocide, and ensure justice and accountability.” “The Palestinian genocide threatens our entire multilateral system,” Jaramillo, a descendant of Palestinians, told news website Middle East Eye. The administration of President Gustavo Petro was one of the first countries to support South Africa’s attempt to have Israel convicted by the ICJ for the ongoing genocide that has killed at least 58,000 Gaza residents since October 2023.
https://colombiareports.com/colombia-and-partners-seeking-concrete-measures-to-end-israels-genocide-in-gaza/
Israeli ultra-Orthodox party quits Netanyahu government over conscription
Degel HaTorah was quoted by news reports as saying the decision was made “in accordance with the directive” of the group’s spiritual leader, Rabbi Dov Lando. Degel Hatorah said in a statement that after conferring with its head rabbis, “and following repeated violations by the government of its commitments to ensure the status of holy yeshiva students who diligently engage in their studies … [its MKs] have announced their resignation from the coalition and the government”.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/15/israeli-ultra-orthodox-party-quits-netanyahu-government-over-conscription
https://archive.ph/FASnn
Three Israeli soldiers killed in explosion in Jabalia, senior legal official killed in Gaza City
The soldiers were named as Staff Sgt. Shoham Menahem, Sgt. Shlomo Yakir Shrem and Sgt. Yuliy Faktor and reportedly belonged to the 52nd Battalion of the 401st Armoured Brigade, with another soldier injured in the blast. The Israeli army claimed the deaths were due to ammunition inside the tank detonating, following initial reports suggesting that the vehicle was hit by an anti-tank missile.
https://www.newarab.com/news/three-israeli-soldiers-killed-explosion-northern-gaza
Syria announces ceasefire after latest outbreak of deadly sectarian violence
Syria ‘s defense minister announced a ceasefire shortly after government forces entered a key city in southern Sweida province on Tuesday, a day after sectarian clashes killed dozens there. Neighboring Israel again launched strikes on Syrian military forces, saying it was protecting the Druze minority.
https://apnews.com/article/syria-druze-clashes-sweida-44585d1d58ddcdd224e9573ca94767b0
Pakistan announces new paramilitary force ahead of PTI protests
The new force will be called the Federal Constabulary and will be formed by restructuring an existing paramilitary unit currently operating along the northwestern border with Afghanistan, state minister for the Interior Talal Chaudhry said at a press conference in Faisalabad on Monday. According to a copy of the amended law cited by Dunya News TV, the Federal Constabulary will be tasked with internal security, riot control and counter-terrorism duties. The announcement comes as the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party, led by jailed former prime minister Imran Khan, prepares for nationwide protests on August 5, marking two years since his arrest.
https://www.easterneye.biz/pakistan-imran-khan-paramilitary-force-pti/
https://archive.ph/HtRQU
Odisha: Bengali-Speaking Migrants Detained En Masse; National Security or Persecution?
In what may be called as an orchestrated crackdown targeting Bengali-speaking migrant labourers, Odisha’s Jharsuguda district police have detained 444 individuals for “verification” under suspicion of being undocumented Bangladeshi and Rohingya nationals, according to Superintendent of Police Smit Parmar. Acting on directives issued by the Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), a Special Task Force (STF) was constituted in the district and the detainees have been shifted to two designated holding centres for further scrutiny.
https://www.newsclick.in/odisha-bengali-speaking-migrants-detained-en-masse-national-security-or-persecution
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Whilst I'm convinced that capitalism is inherently cyclical, imperialist, destructive, and have been for many years, I still have one pretty important hangup: Where is the definitive proof that capitalism must end? It doesn't seem to be found in the labour theory of value, or the law of accumulation– these only prove the ongoing antagonism between the classes, and not that such an antagonism must eventually end. It doesn't seem to be found in the critique of imperialism either, this only shows how the bourgeoisie induct new countries into the capitalist process, and how they offset and attempt to distract from the detrimental effects of accumulation.
But I can imagine a state of history in which the tension between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat keeps going on, with the bourgeoisie constantly artificing new pointless commodities, and humanity, stuck in its fetishism, continues to consume them, and workers simply show up every few decades to win some reformist concessions.
I don't know everything and it's entirely possible I'm missing critical So I want to ask you good people if you've ever been convinced of such a thing, that the eventual development of capitalism will likely culminate in something new. Because it feels to me that maybe the class war is eternal.
Whilst I'm convinced that capitalism is inherently cyclical, imperialist, destructive, and have been for many years, I still have one pretty important hangup: Where is the definitive proof that capitalism must end? It doesn't seem to be found in the labour theory of value, or the law of accumulation– these only prove the ongoing antagonism between the classes, and not that such an antagonism must eventually end. It doesn't seem to be found in the critique of imperialism either, this only shows how the bourgeoisie induct new countries into the capitalist process, and how they offset and attempt to distract from the detrimental effects of accumulation.
But I can imagine a state of history in which the tension between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat keeps going on, with the bourgeoisie constantly artificing new pointless commodities, and humanity, stuck in its fetishism, continues to consume them, and workers simply show up every few decades to win some reformist concessions.
I don't know everything and it's entirely possible I'm missing critical So I want to ask you good people if you've ever been convinced of such a thing, that the eventual development of capitalism will likely culminate in something new. Because it feels to me that maybe the class war is eternal.
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The more i read about him the more retarded he seems. He's basically just a shittier stalin that failed at everything he tried to do after unifying china.
The more i read about him the more retarded he seems. He's basically just a shittier stalin that failed at everything he tried to do after unifying china.
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>I want to see humanity progress beyond the current system into something better
>I'm selfish and see collective action as most benefitial to my personal interests
>I want to tear down the current system because thats what real uyghas do
what personally motivates you to be a socialist?
>I want to reduce suffering/increase wellbeing/ utilitarianism>I want to see humanity progress beyond the current system into something better
>I'm selfish and see collective action as most benefitial to my personal interests
>I want to tear down the current system because thats what real uyghas do
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It seems to me that the professional strata only profits from a share of temporary super-profits due to innovation. If the workers want to fuck with the scientists then they must fight the intellectual monopoly rents the techs make their money from. It seems to me that rather than smashing mills the Luddites should have leaked the mill designs and trade secrets to their employer's competitors.
Real Subsumption, Intellectual Monopoly Rent, Labor Monopoly, Professional Strata, Technics
The real subsumption of labor is an important element of class conflict to analyze. The design of the means of production is an important way in which the bourgeoisie maintain power. But I am unsure of how the working class may fight the professional strata who design the means of production.It seems to me that the professional strata only profits from a share of temporary super-profits due to innovation. If the workers want to fuck with the scientists then they must fight the intellectual monopoly rents the techs make their money from. It seems to me that rather than smashing mills the Luddites should have leaked the mill designs and trade secrets to their employer's competitors.
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Who even came up with the 'left wing' vs. 'right wing' communist thing? I've read LWC by Lenin, but it sounds like that's not exactly where it originated but at some point prior which precipitated his writing of that book. I ask because it seems odd to me that the distinction is framed this way; it sounds like something a leftcom would come up with to make their opposition seem like assholes. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Who even came up with the 'left wing' vs. 'right wing' communist thing? I've read LWC by Lenin, but it sounds like that's not exactly where it originated but at some point prior which precipitated his writing of that book. I ask because it seems odd to me that the distinction is framed this way; it sounds like something a leftcom would come up with to make their opposition seem like assholes. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
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State Capitalism
So, was the USSR State Capitalist, or was it Socialist? Did the Bureaucratic Class in the USSR constitute a new Bourgeoise, or not? What books/articles should I watch to understand this?
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The body was too empty or short or empty
The body was too empty or short or empty
The body was too empty or short or empty
The body was too empty or short or empty
Thoughts on christopher picciolini
He's a ex skinhead anti-fascistThe body was too empty or short or empty
The body was too empty or short or empty
The body was too empty or short or empty
The body was too empty or short or empty
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Ex-President Jair Bolsonaro is facing the threat of arrest by the Federal Supreme Court for crimes involving criminal organization, threats against the democratic rule of law, and the alleged planning of an assassination attempt on current President Lula and supreme judge Alexandre de Moraes. Bolsonaro reportedly attempted to enlist the support of the Brazilian military for this operation, which was codenamed "Green and Yellow Dagger."
Following these events, the Brazilian Federal Senate voted against taxing the country's wealthiest citizens and against implementing a 5-day workweek, against the actual work schedule, (6x1 schedule). These decisions have sparked a large wave of protests and popular mobilizations across the country.
Yesterday, President Lula received a letter from the White House stating that Bolsonaro trial is unjust and anti-democratic. In retaliation, the United States announced a 50% tariff increase on Brazil. This announcement coincided with the BRICS summit taking place in Rio de Janeiro.
In a nationally televised channel, President Lula responded to President Donald Trump letter, calling it an attack on Brazil’s sovereignty and accusing Trump of triggering a global trade war. Lula stated that if the United States does not withdraw the newly imposed tariffs, Brazil will respond with reciprocal measures, including a 50% tariff on American goods.
Today, the largest protest in Brazil of this year occurred, with over 20,000 people occupying Avenida Paulista in São Paulo and thousands more protesting in various cities nationwide. People expressed opposition to the U.S. tariffs imposed by Trump, to the Brazilian Congress and Senate, and voiced strong support for taxing the bourgeoisie. Meanwhile, Trump Instagram posts are being flooded with comments from Brazilian users.
A nationwide popular vote is currently underway across Brazil regarding two major issues: the abolition of the 6x1 work schedule (six consecutive workdays followed by one day off) and the implementation of higher taxes on the super-rich.
Ex-President Jair Bolsonaro is facing the threat of arrest by the Federal Supreme Court for crimes involving criminal organization, threats against the democratic rule of law, and the alleged planning of an assassination attempt on current President Lula and supreme judge Alexandre de Moraes. Bolsonaro reportedly attempted to enlist the support of the Brazilian military for this operation, which was codenamed "Green and Yellow Dagger."
Following these events, the Brazilian Federal Senate voted against taxing the country's wealthiest citizens and against implementing a 5-day workweek, against the actual work schedule, (6x1 schedule). These decisions have sparked a large wave of protests and popular mobilizations across the country.
Yesterday, President Lula received a letter from the White House stating that Bolsonaro trial is unjust and anti-democratic. In retaliation, the United States announced a 50% tariff increase on Brazil. This announcement coincided with the BRICS summit taking place in Rio de Janeiro.
In a nationally televised channel, President Lula responded to President Donald Trump letter, calling it an attack on Brazil’s sovereignty and accusing Trump of triggering a global trade war. Lula stated that if the United States does not withdraw the newly imposed tariffs, Brazil will respond with reciprocal measures, including a 50% tariff on American goods.
Today, the largest protest in Brazil of this year occurred, with over 20,000 people occupying Avenida Paulista in São Paulo and thousands more protesting in various cities nationwide. People expressed opposition to the U.S. tariffs imposed by Trump, to the Brazilian Congress and Senate, and voiced strong support for taxing the bourgeoisie. Meanwhile, Trump Instagram posts are being flooded with comments from Brazilian users.
A nationwide popular vote is currently underway across Brazil regarding two major issues: the abolition of the 6x1 work schedule (six consecutive workdays followed by one day off) and the implementation of higher taxes on the super-rich.
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But there is a solution that may soon become available.
A state could in theory move the responsibility of producing future generations directly onto itself, thus taking the burden away from the individual and putting it onto the collective.
How could this be done? In 2025 Japan unveiled the first artificial womb capable of sustaining mammalian life without a mother’s body. Full ectogenesis is already outside the realm of science-fiction and it will move to humans. It may very well become economically feasible for a state to mass produce human beings from donor genetic material. Combine this with state-funded child rearing and you have the recipe for a nation that can fully control its own population growth and adapt it to social, economic or geopolitical considerations so that it may at any time be exactly what it requires. A state that has no need for immigration. Furthermore production would be subsidiary to natural population growth, so if in a year the birthrate went up or down the government can then adapt artificial production to compensate.
The hurdles with implementing such a system are great, both because of ethical concerns certain sections of the population may raise and because such a system would take at least two to three decades after implementation to start bearing fruit and would be initially costly but if a state is able to achieve this feat the advantages it would have over its competitors would be immense.
SEIZE THE MEANS OF REPRODUCTION
Economic conditions of the modern world are making it increasingly difficult for people to produce children. Men struggle to find wives. Those that do then find it difficult to sustain a family on a single wage, resulting in both parents having to work, resulting in less children. This is not a cultural/economic issue restricted to the Western world, as some claim, but a global issue of urbanised post-industrial societies. Both economic incentive programs and reactionary cultural movements attempting to bring back the traditional family have failed to significantly raise birthrates (see Korea, Russia, Hungary, China, etc.). Western states have attempted to use their comparatively higher wages to attract foreign workforce thus putting a bandaid over this issue but this solution has in turn caused many more problems, mainly due to cultural friction between the imported foreigners and natives. We can thus say that no solution to the depopulation crisis, that is both satisfactory and effective, currently exists.But there is a solution that may soon become available.
A state could in theory move the responsibility of producing future generations directly onto itself, thus taking the burden away from the individual and putting it onto the collective.
How could this be done? In 2025 Japan unveiled the first artificial womb capable of sustaining mammalian life without a mother’s body. Full ectogenesis is already outside the realm of science-fiction and it will move to humans. It may very well become economically feasible for a state to mass produce human beings from donor genetic material. Combine this with state-funded child rearing and you have the recipe for a nation that can fully control its own population growth and adapt it to social, economic or geopolitical considerations so that it may at any time be exactly what it requires. A state that has no need for immigration. Furthermore production would be subsidiary to natural population growth, so if in a year the birthrate went up or down the government can then adapt artificial production to compensate.
The hurdles with implementing such a system are great, both because of ethical concerns certain sections of the population may raise and because such a system would take at least two to three decades after implementation to start bearing fruit and would be initially costly but if a state is able to achieve this feat the advantages it would have over its competitors would be immense.
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Did Càleb máupin really do anything wrong? I feel like everything he did was ok. Maybe a grey area here and there. And most of it is probably just soro s and the deep state trying to get rid of an organic grassroots movement with potential
Picture unrelated bc I couldn’t think of what to post here
Did Càleb máupin really do anything wrong? I feel like everything he did was ok. Maybe a grey area here and there. And most of it is probably just soro s and the deep state trying to get rid of an organic grassroots movement with potential
Picture unrelated bc I couldn’t think of what to post here
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Alcohol sucks too. Drugs shouldn't be banned but drug subculture is cringe. Drug addiction shouldn't be a culture. Psychoactive substances only increase mental health problems and are a detriment for your body. Not saying the end goal of life is to be productive but every stoner I know from high school has seriously failed to even achieve the most basic of everyday tasks such as cooking and self grooming. It's why the crusty stoner who reeks of sweat and pot is a well known stereotype.
Is weed destructive to society ?
Can we admit that weed culture sucks and is actually destructive for society's well being?Alcohol sucks too. Drugs shouldn't be banned but drug subculture is cringe. Drug addiction shouldn't be a culture. Psychoactive substances only increase mental health problems and are a detriment for your body. Not saying the end goal of life is to be productive but every stoner I know from high school has seriously failed to even achieve the most basic of everyday tasks such as cooking and self grooming. It's why the crusty stoner who reeks of sweat and pot is a well known stereotype.
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''How do the women in the Soviet Union stand towards the new abortion law?'
I would like to first point out the fact that it is an error to place the question of abortion in the foreground in the assessment of the June 27 law. The new law has another and very particular purpose: to give women an even greater possibility than before of combining motherhood with an occupation. Seven out of the eight articles of the law deal with the increased provisions for mother and child. With this law the Soviet state emphasises once again its principled position towards motherhood. Motherhood is not a private affair but a natural social function of women. From the first day of the existence of the Soviet state, Soviet legislation always emphasised the view that women have two primary tasks in the new society: to be active citizens of the state and at the same time not to neglect motherhood. But so that women can fulfill their occupation and citizen’s duty without disadvantage to motherhood, the state must make sure that motherhood is made easier in all possible ways, on the one hand by a broad network of social institutions for children‘s welfare (nurseries, kindergartens, children‘s colonies, homes for mothers, etc.), on the other hand by state material support for the mother, and finally by detailed legislation that governs the question of child support. The new law of June 17 is really a logical extension of this principle.
With this law the Soviet government takes on a huge material obligation in its budget, in order to accomplish the expansion of the institutions for the well-being of mothers and children and make accommodations for women, so that they can fulfill their two tasks without disadvantage to the one by the other.
But what does article 1) of the law mean, which abolishes the former law for the permissibility of abortions and forbids abortions?
The law about the permissibility of abortions was approved in 1920 in the Soviet Union under the pressure of specific unfavourable conditions that prevailed in the country at that time. The Civil War was not yet over. Severe economic living conditions prevailed and the main task for the country fighting for its freedom consisted in using all forces for the building of a new social order. Women as active citizens of the state had to take part, even if their maternal duties were thus left behind.
Although the government legally recognised motherhood as a function of women of equal value as their work for the state, the state could not yet sufficiently guarantee women as mothers. Thus, under these conditions the law permitting abortions was approved.
Now the population of the Soviet Union is living under completely different, more favourable and more fortunate conditions. The well-being of people in the city and particularly in the countryside has been greatly improved over the last years. The position of women as a work group has been strengthened. The time has come for the state and society to do all they can and must to give women the opportunity of not only having an occupation but also of being mothers.
But the old law on abortions did not prevent women from becoming mothers. There was no compulsion for abortions?
Yes, of course there was no compulsion. But there is a psychological factor here, against which the new law will fight strenuously. That is the psychology of men. As I already said, in the family law of the Soviet Union there is a provision about the payment of child support. But it must be said that much too often men have tried to avoid fulfilling their obligations. In many cases it was particularly the man who urged the woman to get an abortion, so that he would not have to pay child support. I would like to particularly point out that the first article of the law contains a very strong provision against anyone who influences a woman to have an abortion. Such an action is considered criminal.
The fight against abortion in the law of June 27 has a very particular purpose: to educate men to a greater responsibility towards their comrades, the women. In article 8 of the new law the question of child support is heavily stressed. Also the non-payment of child support is considered criminal. The law establishes a series of measures to lighten the economic load of motherhood for the woman, while on the other hand the law imposes a much greater obligation than before on the man towards his children,
How does the new law make life easier for women?
First of all we increased the amount of state support for the mother. Second it is punishable to refuse employment to a woman due to her pregnancy. Also the legal pregnancy leave is increased by law to 56 days, also for office workers. Every family that has more than 6 children gets an annual state contribution. The number of nurseries is being greatly increased, as well as the number of kindergartens and other institutions. And finally the financial support by the state for all these institutions will almost double.
I would also like to emphasise that the law logically carries through the social policy of the Soviet Union regarding the family and marriage relations. The law leaves only a certain part of the economic burden to the parents. The state takes on more and more of the moral and economic duties towards the children. The law of June 27 is an indication of the broader development of social institutions for provisions for small children.
Women in the Soviet Union are in the first place independent and equal citizens who participate actively in the building of the new society. And if at the same time they fulfill their maternal duties, then the state stands on their side with all available assistance.
Don’t you believe that the abolition of the old law, which freely provided for abortions in the Soviet Union, will lead to an unfavourable reaction in the other countries, where the radical women are leading a courageous fight for the right to abortion?
I believe that if one judges the law in the correct light, then it can have no negative influence on this courageous fight and will give the opponents of abortion no new weapons.
One cannot compare the conditions under which women in the Soviet Union live and work with the conditions in other countries. As long as the state in the Soviet Union was not able to provide complete, broad and effective assistance for motherhood, and as long as economic prosperity for the broad masses of the population in the Soviet Union was not assured, abortions in the Soviet Union were permitted by law.
In no other country are there such guarantees as those in the Soviet Union that make motherhood easier for women. As long as women or men live under the pressure of unemployment, as long as the level of wages is not sufficient for a family, as long as housing conditions are unfavourable, and as long as the state does not make motherhood easier for every woman in various ways and does not provide social services for mother and child, it is clear that the women must stand up for free abortions.
In what cases and under what criteria is abortion permitted in the Soviet Union?
Under point 1 of article 1) of the new law, the performance of abortions is permitted in cases where pregnancy is a threat to the life of the woman or causes severe consequences to the health of the pregnant woman. Abortions are also permitted if the diseases of the parents could be transmitted to the children. Thus, eugenic principles were taken into account in the new law.
You have not yet given me a direct answer to my first question: how do women in the Soviet Union stand towards the new law?
The law of June 27 in the Soviet Union was approved after an extremely democratic action of the Soviet government. The draft of this law was freely discussed for a whole month in the factories, offices, in the countryside, etc. Thousands of letters were sent in from the women themselves and also from men. The press had discussions for and against the law and many of the proposals for the draft were taken into account in the approval of the law. The majority of the women spoke out in favour of the new law, principally because the law would have a certain effect on the psychology of the men; it should increase the feeling of responsibility of the men for children and women. The women are warm supporters of this law. But it seems to me that the men were somewhat more reserved. This particularly shows the usefulness of the law, that men should be trained to more comradely relations towards women.
A. Kollontai on the new abortion laws
17th July 1936''How do the women in the Soviet Union stand towards the new abortion law?'
I would like to first point out the fact that it is an error to place the question of abortion in the foreground in the assessment of the June 27 law. The new law has another and very particular purpose: to give women an even greater possibility than before of combining motherhood with an occupation. Seven out of the eight articles of the law deal with the increased provisions for mother and child. With this law the Soviet state emphasises once again its principled position towards motherhood. Motherhood is not a private affair but a natural social function of women. From the first day of the existence of the Soviet state, Soviet legislation always emphasised the view that women have two primary tasks in the new society: to be active citizens of the state and at the same time not to neglect motherhood. But so that women can fulfill their occupation and citizen’s duty without disadvantage to motherhood, the state must make sure that motherhood is made easier in all possible ways, on the one hand by a broad network of social institutions for children‘s welfare (nurseries, kindergartens, children‘s colonies, homes for mothers, etc.), on the other hand by state material support for the mother, and finally by detailed legislation that governs the question of child support. The new law of June 17 is really a logical extension of this principle.
With this law the Soviet government takes on a huge material obligation in its budget, in order to accomplish the expansion of the institutions for the well-being of mothers and children and make accommodations for women, so that they can fulfill their two tasks without disadvantage to the one by the other.
But what does article 1) of the law mean, which abolishes the former law for the permissibility of abortions and forbids abortions?
The law about the permissibility of abortions was approved in 1920 in the Soviet Union under the pressure of specific unfavourable conditions that prevailed in the country at that time. The Civil War was not yet over. Severe economic living conditions prevailed and the main task for the country fighting for its freedom consisted in using all forces for the building of a new social order. Women as active citizens of the state had to take part, even if their maternal duties were thus left behind.
Although the government legally recognised motherhood as a function of women of equal value as their work for the state, the state could not yet sufficiently guarantee women as mothers. Thus, under these conditions the law permitting abortions was approved.
Now the population of the Soviet Union is living under completely different, more favourable and more fortunate conditions. The well-being of people in the city and particularly in the countryside has been greatly improved over the last years. The position of women as a work group has been strengthened. The time has come for the state and society to do all they can and must to give women the opportunity of not only having an occupation but also of being mothers.
But the old law on abortions did not prevent women from becoming mothers. There was no compulsion for abortions?
Yes, of course there was no compulsion. But there is a psychological factor here, against which the new law will fight strenuously. That is the psychology of men. As I already said, in the family law of the Soviet Union there is a provision about the payment of child support. But it must be said that much too often men have tried to avoid fulfilling their obligations. In many cases it was particularly the man who urged the woman to get an abortion, so that he would not have to pay child support. I would like to particularly point out that the first article of the law contains a very strong provision against anyone who influences a woman to have an abortion. Such an action is considered criminal.
The fight against abortion in the law of June 27 has a very particular purpose: to educate men to a greater responsibility towards their comrades, the women. In article 8 of the new law the question of child support is heavily stressed. Also the non-payment of child support is considered criminal. The law establishes a series of measures to lighten the economic load of motherhood for the woman, while on the other hand the law imposes a much greater obligation than before on the man towards his children,
How does the new law make life easier for women?
First of all we increased the amount of state support for the mother. Second it is punishable to refuse employment to a woman due to her pregnancy. Also the legal pregnancy leave is increased by law to 56 days, also for office workers. Every family that has more than 6 children gets an annual state contribution. The number of nurseries is being greatly increased, as well as the number of kindergartens and other institutions. And finally the financial support by the state for all these institutions will almost double.
I would also like to emphasise that the law logically carries through the social policy of the Soviet Union regarding the family and marriage relations. The law leaves only a certain part of the economic burden to the parents. The state takes on more and more of the moral and economic duties towards the children. The law of June 27 is an indication of the broader development of social institutions for provisions for small children.
Women in the Soviet Union are in the first place independent and equal citizens who participate actively in the building of the new society. And if at the same time they fulfill their maternal duties, then the state stands on their side with all available assistance.
Don’t you believe that the abolition of the old law, which freely provided for abortions in the Soviet Union, will lead to an unfavourable reaction in the other countries, where the radical women are leading a courageous fight for the right to abortion?
I believe that if one judges the law in the correct light, then it can have no negative influence on this courageous fight and will give the opponents of abortion no new weapons.
One cannot compare the conditions under which women in the Soviet Union live and work with the conditions in other countries. As long as the state in the Soviet Union was not able to provide complete, broad and effective assistance for motherhood, and as long as economic prosperity for the broad masses of the population in the Soviet Union was not assured, abortions in the Soviet Union were permitted by law.
In no other country are there such guarantees as those in the Soviet Union that make motherhood easier for women. As long as women or men live under the pressure of unemployment, as long as the level of wages is not sufficient for a family, as long as housing conditions are unfavourable, and as long as the state does not make motherhood easier for every woman in various ways and does not provide social services for mother and child, it is clear that the women must stand up for free abortions.
In what cases and under what criteria is abortion permitted in the Soviet Union?
Under point 1 of article 1) of the new law, the performance of abortions is permitted in cases where pregnancy is a threat to the life of the woman or causes severe consequences to the health of the pregnant woman. Abortions are also permitted if the diseases of the parents could be transmitted to the children. Thus, eugenic principles were taken into account in the new law.
You have not yet given me a direct answer to my first question: how do women in the Soviet Union stand towards the new law?
The law of June 27 in the Soviet Union was approved after an extremely democratic action of the Soviet government. The draft of this law was freely discussed for a whole month in the factories, offices, in the countryside, etc. Thousands of letters were sent in from the women themselves and also from men. The press had discussions for and against the law and many of the proposals for the draft were taken into account in the approval of the law. The majority of the women spoke out in favour of the new law, principally because the law would have a certain effect on the psychology of the men; it should increase the feeling of responsibility of the men for children and women. The women are warm supporters of this law. But it seems to me that the men were somewhat more reserved. This particularly shows the usefulness of the law, that men should be trained to more comradely relations towards women.
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>take random photo of WW1 injury
>"the bolsheviks did this"
>1.2 million views
how are communists supposed to compete when a lie spreads around the world while the truth is still getting its shoes on?
>ummm who cares optics cuck just say we actually did all the atrocities and say that we'll do it again
>ummmmmm we make no excuses for the terror
haha very funny guys no but seriously
>take random photo of WW1 injury
>"the bolsheviks did this"
>1.2 million views
how are communists supposed to compete when a lie spreads around the world while the truth is still getting its shoes on?
>ummm who cares optics cuck just say we actually did all the atrocities and say that we'll do it again
>ummmmmm we make no excuses for the terror
haha very funny guys no but seriously
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Peace and love to all
Leftcom v/s CouncilCom
I have for a long time used council communists and left communists interchangeably, without ever looking deeply into whether they truly are similar or not. I am not knowledgeable enough to act as if I understand the intellectual jargon and prose of Bordiga and Pannekoek etc. So, can any good souls here tell me the differences between the two and similarities (if any) in simple language please?Peace and love to all
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I have seen many interesting input from various anons on Stalin here, whether in the form of opinions, books, documentaries etc. They happen sporadically, scattered on different threads which rarely have anything to do with Stalin, ML or USSR. I figured a Stalin General Thread would be useful. A place where to share all things Stalin and discuss all things Stalin.
Though I am pro-Stalin, this is not a strictly Stalin-worship thread. Posts critical of Stalin too are welcome. I simply request that they are in good faith, and not just 'muh ML' trolls.
/koba/ - Iosef Vissarianovich Stalin Generał #1
Thank you for everything, Joseph <3I have seen many interesting input from various anons on Stalin here, whether in the form of opinions, books, documentaries etc. They happen sporadically, scattered on different threads which rarely have anything to do with Stalin, ML or USSR. I figured a Stalin General Thread would be useful. A place where to share all things Stalin and discuss all things Stalin.
Though I am pro-Stalin, this is not a strictly Stalin-worship thread. Posts critical of Stalin too are welcome. I simply request that they are in good faith, and not just 'muh ML' trolls.
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Chile Primary Election
What the fuck is happening in Chile and why is socialism having a comeback there. Did the working class just decide that shitlibbery and being right-wing is cringe?
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How does the phrase "he who does not work shall not eat" apply to people who realistically can't do any meaningful work i.e. severally mentally handicapped etc.? Are they just left to starve?
How does the phrase "he who does not work shall not eat" apply to people who realistically can't do any meaningful work i.e. severally mentally handicapped etc.? Are they just left to starve?
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This is my reason that individualism is incompatible with communism the myth that individuals can make themselves billionaires these days it’s a lie most millionaires are born into it most kids can’t go to college though most college students can’t pay off their student loan rent gone up tremendously. The American dream is a lie the only way we can stop all these things is through socialism
This is my reason that individualism is incompatible with communism the myth that individuals can make themselves billionaires these days it’s a lie most millionaires are born into it most kids can’t go to college though most college students can’t pay off their student loan rent gone up tremendously. The American dream is a lie the only way we can stop all these things is through socialism
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AI is already good enough, not for political talks, but for everyday tasks. It only lacks a vassal. As we all know an AI model is trained using large datasets of selective books, websites and sources then is fine tuned by corporate workers and reviewed to make sure it stays politically correct as to not damage the company image. This is the essence of censorship and bias towards liberalism in AI, with the most recent exception being Grok, which went far and beyond into crisis mode.
Set aside any political talks and you get the equivalent of an encyclopedist person, who is knowledgeable enough as to give answers on any questions asked. Given the autonomy, such a person would even be able to correct themselves on questions answered wrongfully, so long as there is a protocol for verifying to be followed to not corrupt truth with falsehoods.
Give the AI a body and they can now physically assist apply their knowledge by command, possessing the upmost loyalty to the person giving them instructions, as long as they are in the set boundaries from the creators.
The real reason AI has not been commercialized into robotics is that people like to tinker and modify their products, a modified AI robot can go out of bounds and commit harm.
The task of the companies is to do what they can to prevent harmful outputs. They have shown success, even despite instances like Grok going off filter.
China's engineering and industry already has the capacity to produce AI robots on a commercial scale, its no longer a matter of "if" but of "when".
I am lead to believe that this "when" depends solely on the ability to pass new laws as to regulate this new type of endeavor. It is being held back by persons who are still flinching at the idea that not only labor, but people will also be replaced. To any person which seeks improvement of the living conditions and the vitality of others within society, this obviously is seen as a reaction. People are drawn to be cruel to each other because of the way of life caused by the conditions which they're used to. The introduction of robots which do not seek conflict is off-putting to only those who know they are no better than them, yet seek to hold positions above them.
It was never a matter of "the machines are taking over", its "we want to take over, but the machines give us less reason to".
The development of technology and instruments as a whole is a continuous process that cannot be halted or stopped until the last human to be born willing it is dead, which is never, so long as people exist.
It is about the time we see robots, which are kinder than people, to remove the rotten layer of the societal order that stands as a burden between creator and creation.
AI and practical robotics are already compatible enough to intertwine and become steadily commodified. We have the dynamic highly mobile robots and the models to allow for autonomous function.
With all that written, China is going to be the front for all of it set in place, not America.
And regardless of it, autonomous robots will be utilized in the future to murder people. This is a good thing, it hasn't happened yet, but those who are to be slaughtered already deserve it, because it will be the CPC which leads the onslaught of reactionary peoples and enemies of the alliance between creations and creators - mankind and its non-inbred offspring.
AI is ready for humanization, then commercialization
This thread is not for the light of heart, so a disclaimer warning to all maoists, anarchoids, thirdworldists, luddites, technophobes, sinophobes and religious lunatics. Be warned, this may make your blood boil, your fists hit your keyboard and your ass bounce on your chair or floor while yelling tongues in anger.AI is already good enough, not for political talks, but for everyday tasks. It only lacks a vassal. As we all know an AI model is trained using large datasets of selective books, websites and sources then is fine tuned by corporate workers and reviewed to make sure it stays politically correct as to not damage the company image. This is the essence of censorship and bias towards liberalism in AI, with the most recent exception being Grok, which went far and beyond into crisis mode.
Set aside any political talks and you get the equivalent of an encyclopedist person, who is knowledgeable enough as to give answers on any questions asked. Given the autonomy, such a person would even be able to correct themselves on questions answered wrongfully, so long as there is a protocol for verifying to be followed to not corrupt truth with falsehoods.
Give the AI a body and they can now physically assist apply their knowledge by command, possessing the upmost loyalty to the person giving them instructions, as long as they are in the set boundaries from the creators.
The real reason AI has not been commercialized into robotics is that people like to tinker and modify their products, a modified AI robot can go out of bounds and commit harm.
The task of the companies is to do what they can to prevent harmful outputs. They have shown success, even despite instances like Grok going off filter.
China's engineering and industry already has the capacity to produce AI robots on a commercial scale, its no longer a matter of "if" but of "when".
I am lead to believe that this "when" depends solely on the ability to pass new laws as to regulate this new type of endeavor. It is being held back by persons who are still flinching at the idea that not only labor, but people will also be replaced. To any person which seeks improvement of the living conditions and the vitality of others within society, this obviously is seen as a reaction. People are drawn to be cruel to each other because of the way of life caused by the conditions which they're used to. The introduction of robots which do not seek conflict is off-putting to only those who know they are no better than them, yet seek to hold positions above them.
It was never a matter of "the machines are taking over", its "we want to take over, but the machines give us less reason to".
The development of technology and instruments as a whole is a continuous process that cannot be halted or stopped until the last human to be born willing it is dead, which is never, so long as people exist.
It is about the time we see robots, which are kinder than people, to remove the rotten layer of the societal order that stands as a burden between creator and creation.
AI and practical robotics are already compatible enough to intertwine and become steadily commodified. We have the dynamic highly mobile robots and the models to allow for autonomous function.
With all that written, China is going to be the front for all of it set in place, not America.
And regardless of it, autonomous robots will be utilized in the future to murder people. This is a good thing, it hasn't happened yet, but those who are to be slaughtered already deserve it, because it will be the CPC which leads the onslaught of reactionary peoples and enemies of the alliance between creations and creators - mankind and its non-inbred offspring.
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Millions took to the streets all over India on Wednesday, July 9, to observe a national strike call made by Central Trade Unions (CTU). They are striking against the anti-worker policies adopted by the ultra-right-wing government in the country. CTU is a platform of all the major trade union federations in the country, spanning the ideological and political spectrum. It includes the Center for Indian Trade Unions (CITU), the All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC), the Indian National Trade Union Congress (INTUC) and several others.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/07/09/250-million-indian-workers-and-farmers-on-the-streets-in-a-national-strike/
Pakistan court suspends order seeking YouTube ban on government critics
YouTube this week told 27 content creators that it could block their channels - including those of journalists and Khan and his opposition party Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf - if they failed to comply with a judicial magistrate court order seeking to ban them. The judicial magistrate court in Islamabad had said it was seeking the ban after the National Cyber Crime Investigation Agency criticised the channels in a June 2 report for "sharing highly intimidating, provocative and derogatory contents against state institutions and officials of the state of Pakistan."
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/pakistan-court-suspends-order-seeking-youtube-ban-government-critics-2025-07-11/
Cambodian lawmakers pass constitutional amendment allowing government to revoke citizenship
Some government critics and opposition politicians are known to have dual citizenship. Justice Minister Koeut Rith said government officials will urgently draft a bill to revoke the citizenship of any individual found guilty of treason or collaborating with foreign entities to seriously harm the interests of Cambodia and its people. He claimed some Cambodians have colluded with a foreign country to harm their nation’s interests.
https://apnews.com/article/cambodia-constitution-amendment-proposal-citizenship-c553d43c33f7f6e64892bbf751ff31eb
South Korean medical students to return to school, urge education reforms
South Korean medical students who walked out of school last year in protest at a government plan to increase medical school admissions said on Saturday (Jul 12) that they would return to campus, calling on authorities to normalise academic schedules. The Korean Medical Association, the main lobby group for doctors, in a statement urged the government to take steps to restore the academic calendar and improve training conditions.
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/east-asia/south-korea-medical-students-protest-return-school-academic-training-5235146
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Corbyn says ‘discussions ongoing’ as Sultana quits Labour to ‘co-lead new party’
Jeremy Corbyn has said “discussions are ongoing” after Zarah Sultana announced she was quitting Labour to co-lead the founding of a new party with him. The former Labour Party leader congratulated Coventry South MP Ms Sultana on her “principled decision” to leave Sir Keir Starmer’s party and said that the “democratic foundations of a new kind of political party will soon take shape”. In a statement on X, Independent Islington North MP Mr Corbyn said: “Real change is coming.
https://www.irishnews.com/news/uk/corbyn-says-discussions-ongoing-as-sultana-quits-labour-to-co-lead-new-party-5GZLM5SDHRMRRMMPFD7RGLPIVY/
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Croatian right-wing singer Marko Perković and fans perform pro-Nazi salute at massive concert
One of Marko Perkovic’s most popular songs, played in the late Saturday concert, starts with the dreaded “For the homeland — Ready!” salute, used by Croatia’s Nazi-era puppet Ustasha regime that ran concentration camps at the time. Perkovic, whose stage name is Thompson after a U.S.-made machine gun, had previously said both the song and the salute focus on the 1991-95 ethnic war in Croatia, in which he fought using the American firearm, after the country declared independence from the former Yugoslavia. He says his controversial song is “a witness of an era.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/world/europe/croatian-right-wing-singer-marko-perkovic-fans-perform-nazi-salute-mas-rcna217100
France, New Caledonia reach ‘historic’ statehood deal; citizens to remain French
As part of the agreement, New Caledonia residents will in future only be allowed to vote after ten years of living on the archipelago. The last independence referendum in New Caledonia was held in 2021 and was boycotted by pro-independence groups over the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the Kanak population. The referendum was the last of three since 2018, all of which rejected New Caledonian independence. Since the 2021 referendum, the political situation in the archipelago has been in deadlock.
https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3317992/france-new-caledonia-reach-historic-statehood-deal-citizens-remain-french?module=perpetual_scroll_0&pgtype=article
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Sweden set to rent cells in Estonian jails as it runs out of room for its prisoners
Observers say it represents a marked shift for a country which for decades prided itself on prison policies focused on rehabilitation and reintegration. Sweden is not set up to cope with a rise in the numbers being sentenced to jail time as the government grapples with an unprecedented wave of violence brought about by gang crime. The prison service chief of staff, Joakim Righammar, has said Sweden’s prisons are in a “crisis situation” of overcrowding.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/12/sweden-set-to-rent-cells-in-estonian-jails-as-it-runs-out-of-room-for-its-prisoners
Greek parliament passes suspension of asylum claims despite international criticism
Greece’s parliament approved a three-month suspension of asylum claims for migrants arriving from Libya on Friday, despite strong criticism from the United Nations refugee agency and Europe’s top human rights official. The measure suspends asylum application processing for those arriving by sea from North Africa, following a dramatic surge in Mediterranean crossings that has overwhelmed reception facilities on the island of Crete.
https://apnews.com/article/migration-greece-libya-asylum-un-europe-council-760d2d0a4d3dc2d95cd37503a4f301f5
Dutch parliament passes anti-asylum-seeker and anti-solidarity bills
The legislation cuts temporary asylum residency from five to three years, indefinitely suspends the issuing of new asylum residency permits and puts further restrictions on family reunions for people who have been granted asylum.It passed in the lower house on Thursday night but could still be rejected in the upper house after the summer recess. Slashing migration was the focus of the four-party coalition led by the far-right Party for Freedom of Islamophobic poster boy Geert Wilders before it collapsed last month. A snap election is due on October 29.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/dutch-parliament-passes-anti-asylum-seeker-and-anti-solidarity-bills
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250 million Indian workers and farmers on the streets in a national strikeMillions took to the streets all over India on Wednesday, July 9, to observe a national strike call made by Central Trade Unions (CTU). They are striking against the anti-worker policies adopted by the ultra-right-wing government in the country. CTU is a platform of all the major trade union federations in the country, spanning the ideological and political spectrum. It includes the Center for Indian Trade Unions (CITU), the All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC), the Indian National Trade Union Congress (INTUC) and several others.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/07/09/250-million-indian-workers-and-farmers-on-the-streets-in-a-national-strike/
Pakistan court suspends order seeking YouTube ban on government critics
YouTube this week told 27 content creators that it could block their channels - including those of journalists and Khan and his opposition party Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf - if they failed to comply with a judicial magistrate court order seeking to ban them. The judicial magistrate court in Islamabad had said it was seeking the ban after the National Cyber Crime Investigation Agency criticised the channels in a June 2 report for "sharing highly intimidating, provocative and derogatory contents against state institutions and officials of the state of Pakistan."
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/pakistan-court-suspends-order-seeking-youtube-ban-government-critics-2025-07-11/
Cambodian lawmakers pass constitutional amendment allowing government to revoke citizenship
Some government critics and opposition politicians are known to have dual citizenship. Justice Minister Koeut Rith said government officials will urgently draft a bill to revoke the citizenship of any individual found guilty of treason or collaborating with foreign entities to seriously harm the interests of Cambodia and its people. He claimed some Cambodians have colluded with a foreign country to harm their nation’s interests.
https://apnews.com/article/cambodia-constitution-amendment-proposal-citizenship-c553d43c33f7f6e64892bbf751ff31eb
South Korean medical students to return to school, urge education reforms
South Korean medical students who walked out of school last year in protest at a government plan to increase medical school admissions said on Saturday (Jul 12) that they would return to campus, calling on authorities to normalise academic schedules. The Korean Medical Association, the main lobby group for doctors, in a statement urged the government to take steps to restore the academic calendar and improve training conditions.
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Corbyn says ‘discussions ongoing’ as Sultana quits Labour to ‘co-lead new party’
Jeremy Corbyn has said “discussions are ongoing” after Zarah Sultana announced she was quitting Labour to co-lead the founding of a new party with him. The former Labour Party leader congratulated Coventry South MP Ms Sultana on her “principled decision” to leave Sir Keir Starmer’s party and said that the “democratic foundations of a new kind of political party will soon take shape”. In a statement on X, Independent Islington North MP Mr Corbyn said: “Real change is coming.
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Croatian right-wing singer Marko Perković and fans perform pro-Nazi salute at massive concert
One of Marko Perkovic’s most popular songs, played in the late Saturday concert, starts with the dreaded “For the homeland — Ready!” salute, used by Croatia’s Nazi-era puppet Ustasha regime that ran concentration camps at the time. Perkovic, whose stage name is Thompson after a U.S.-made machine gun, had previously said both the song and the salute focus on the 1991-95 ethnic war in Croatia, in which he fought using the American firearm, after the country declared independence from the former Yugoslavia. He says his controversial song is “a witness of an era.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/world/europe/croatian-right-wing-singer-marko-perkovic-fans-perform-nazi-salute-mas-rcna217100
France, New Caledonia reach ‘historic’ statehood deal; citizens to remain French
As part of the agreement, New Caledonia residents will in future only be allowed to vote after ten years of living on the archipelago. The last independence referendum in New Caledonia was held in 2021 and was boycotted by pro-independence groups over the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the Kanak population. The referendum was the last of three since 2018, all of which rejected New Caledonian independence. Since the 2021 referendum, the political situation in the archipelago has been in deadlock.
https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3317992/france-new-caledonia-reach-historic-statehood-deal-citizens-remain-french?module=perpetual_scroll_0&pgtype=article
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Sweden set to rent cells in Estonian jails as it runs out of room for its prisoners
Observers say it represents a marked shift for a country which for decades prided itself on prison policies focused on rehabilitation and reintegration. Sweden is not set up to cope with a rise in the numbers being sentenced to jail time as the government grapples with an unprecedented wave of violence brought about by gang crime. The prison service chief of staff, Joakim Righammar, has said Sweden’s prisons are in a “crisis situation” of overcrowding.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/12/sweden-set-to-rent-cells-in-estonian-jails-as-it-runs-out-of-room-for-its-prisoners
Greek parliament passes suspension of asylum claims despite international criticism
Greece’s parliament approved a three-month suspension of asylum claims for migrants arriving from Libya on Friday, despite strong criticism from the United Nations refugee agency and Europe’s top human rights official. The measure suspends asylum application processing for those arriving by sea from North Africa, following a dramatic surge in Mediterranean crossings that has overwhelmed reception facilities on the island of Crete.
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The legislation cuts temporary asylum residency from five to three years, indefinitely suspends the issuing of new asylum residency permits and puts further restrictions on family reunions for people who have been granted asylum.It passed in the lower house on Thursday night but could still be rejected in the upper house after the summer recess. Slashing migration was the focus of the four-party coalition led by the far-right Party for Freedom of Islamophobic poster boy Geert Wilders before it collapsed last month. A snap election is due on October 29.
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<Hur dur centrally planned economies can not work!
Or something like that.
However what is it?
The capitalist propaganda is basically nonsense since is not every economy centrally planned? Do the capitalist corporations not have a board of directors who literally decide how many products to produce this year?
This quite often is countered with
<HUR DUR MUH FREE MARKET DECIDES
Or
<REAL CAPITALISM WAS NEVER TRIED
Any insight on the subject? Or is this a slur made up by the capitalists?
Centrally planned economy
So what is it? I see this phrase spammed from time to time in modern times in the style of<Hur dur centrally planned economies can not work!
Or something like that.
However what is it?
The capitalist propaganda is basically nonsense since is not every economy centrally planned? Do the capitalist corporations not have a board of directors who literally decide how many products to produce this year?
This quite often is countered with
<HUR DUR MUH FREE MARKET DECIDES
Or
<REAL CAPITALISM WAS NEVER TRIED
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>what about the state?
>what about the family?
>what about religion?
>what about morals?
>what about culture?
>what about muh treats?
etc.
any one of these questions can be answered how they would or would be reorganized under a dotp. but not under communism. marx really made a big mistake when he called it the communist and not the worker's manifesto tbh.
"but what about X under communism"
do you not find that this question is kind misguided? for one, communism is only the phase of human development that comes from the proletarian dictatorship and only through it. it makes sense to talk about X under the proletarian dictatorship since that one grows out of capitalist society and production, and communism comes from the worker's dictatorship. so we can kinda sketch how X (if at all) would look under the proletarian dictatorship (as lenin does often). but talking about X under communism is retarded, because it assumes X exists under communism. here are some examples>what about the state?
>what about the family?
>what about religion?
>what about morals?
>what about culture?
>what about muh treats?
etc.
any one of these questions can be answered how they would or would be reorganized under a dotp. but not under communism. marx really made a big mistake when he called it the communist and not the worker's manifesto tbh.
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What will happen now that there's a global fertility crisis? Will capitalism eventually collapse? Different measures have been tried all over the world but there have been no results, isn't this a really worrying situation?
What will happen now that there's a global fertility crisis? Will capitalism eventually collapse? Different measures have been tried all over the world but there have been no results, isn't this a really worrying situation?
R: 50 / I: 14
I personally think the most important decisive factor is the image, he needs to make the party symbol a cowboy hat next to an Indian chief war bonnet. Considering how many people drool over symbolism.
Elon Musk's Party
Will he be the one to break the Demopublican party's grasp on bourgeois elections and continue a new reign of the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie or will he crumble as he pours his money into a failed campaign? Will he split the Right wing of capital? Was it dumb that he didn't just pour finances into the lolbert party instead?I personally think the most important decisive factor is the image, he needs to make the party symbol a cowboy hat next to an Indian chief war bonnet. Considering how many people drool over symbolism.
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>While exiled in 1899, Bauman had an affair with the wife of a fellow revolutionary who became pregnant with Bauman's child. Bauman responded by openly mocking her, and circulating a vicious cartoon of her as the Virgin Mary with a baby in her womb, with a caption asking "who the baby looked like". The woman later hanged herself.
>This story had gained wide currency among Russian political exiles by the time Bauman reappeared in Switzerland in 1902, after the escape from Kiev. Some of those involved in producing Iskra, including Lenin's closest friend and collaborator, Julius Martov and Pavel Axelrod, one of the founders of Russian Marxism, wanted Bauman expelled from the organisation. In 1903, the board of Iskra adjudicated the matter, and Lenin interceded on Bauman's behalf. According to biographer Robert Service, Lenin rejected the party's right to interfere, arguing that the party's task "was to make revolution against the Romanov monarchy and to vet the morality of comrades only when and in so far as their actions affected the implementation of the task". The subsequent controversy divided the party, and has been described as "one of the many personal clashes which came to define the ethical distinctions" between the Bolshevik and Menshevik factions after 1903.
Was it really worth it to split the party over this asshole?
>While exiled in 1899, Bauman had an affair with the wife of a fellow revolutionary who became pregnant with Bauman's child. Bauman responded by openly mocking her, and circulating a vicious cartoon of her as the Virgin Mary with a baby in her womb, with a caption asking "who the baby looked like". The woman later hanged herself.
>This story had gained wide currency among Russian political exiles by the time Bauman reappeared in Switzerland in 1902, after the escape from Kiev. Some of those involved in producing Iskra, including Lenin's closest friend and collaborator, Julius Martov and Pavel Axelrod, one of the founders of Russian Marxism, wanted Bauman expelled from the organisation. In 1903, the board of Iskra adjudicated the matter, and Lenin interceded on Bauman's behalf. According to biographer Robert Service, Lenin rejected the party's right to interfere, arguing that the party's task "was to make revolution against the Romanov monarchy and to vet the morality of comrades only when and in so far as their actions affected the implementation of the task". The subsequent controversy divided the party, and has been described as "one of the many personal clashes which came to define the ethical distinctions" between the Bolshevik and Menshevik factions after 1903.
Was it really worth it to split the party over this asshole?
R: 24 / I: 4
>arguing about extremely minor theory differences
>making mega threads that are hard to understand because of how much garbage is in them
>complaining about leftists doing actual action while you sit at home and do nothing
>wants unity but if someone posts a soyjak or something slightly different you complain
>possibly moving or deleting this thread because it’s “meta”
Geg get your work together guys
>arguing about extremely minor theory differences
>making mega threads that are hard to understand because of how much garbage is in them
>complaining about leftists doing actual action while you sit at home and do nothing
>wants unity but if someone posts a soyjak or something slightly different you complain
>possibly moving or deleting this thread because it’s “meta”
Geg get your work together guys
R: 6 / I: 3
I will go to the million protests that will continue ongoing (nothing ever happens)
I will eat jamon
I will drink the beer
getting drunk alone is a great idea I love when there is some local bs about some saint or virgin and can get random plastic cups full of rum and cokes
The andalusian political thing is like half dudes that look like this
idk how to put it but I am just expecting electoral politics to go like "Wow Sanchez suck enjoy the party that wishes to be Thatcher but have been PSOE'd to death" governs for a thousand yearsI will go to the million protests that will continue ongoing (nothing ever happens)
I will eat jamon
I will drink the beer
getting drunk alone is a great idea I love when there is some local bs about some saint or virgin and can get random plastic cups full of rum and cokes
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What's fiction piece of work actually show a genuine well working socialist-communist society that isn't portrayed as a dystopian hellhole, the only fiction one that I can remember is the Federation from Star Trek that even their wiki straight up says that the Federation is a socialist society where money was abolished, and people actually work for their self pleasure and development, beside the Federation, there's any other examples of a well thought fictional communist society?
What's fiction piece of work actually show a genuine well working socialist-communist society that isn't portrayed as a dystopian hellhole, the only fiction one that I can remember is the Federation from Star Trek that even their wiki straight up says that the Federation is a socialist society where money was abolished, and people actually work for their self pleasure and development, beside the Federation, there's any other examples of a well thought fictional communist society?
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I ask this legitimately what do most communist think about abortion I Joseph Stalin restricted it back in the day and Enver Hoxha what’s also anti-abortion and xi is anti-abortion to I can’t think of any communist that is pro choice“
I ask this legitimately what do most communist think about abortion I Joseph Stalin restricted it back in the day and Enver Hoxha what’s also anti-abortion and xi is anti-abortion to I can’t think of any communist that is pro choice“
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By recognizing Afghanistan, Moscow confirms its central role in Eurasia - Russia’s recent decision to officially recognize the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan marks a pivotal moment in regional diplomacy.
https://www.rt.com/russia/621240-russia-seizes-initiative-in-central-asia/
A million Indians could immigrate to Russia — business leader
The expected influx comes amid ongoing labor shortages, according to business chamber leader Andrey Besedin.
https://www.rt.com/india/621257-indians-mass-migration-russia-labor/
US firms dodging restrictions to get China’s minerals – Reuters
Shipments are reportedly being rerouted through Thailand and Mexico.
https://www.rt.com/news/621255-us-firms-dodge-restrictions-china-minerals/
Houthis Dominate Red Sea
In response to recent escalation in the Gaza Strip, the Houthis (Ansar Allah) stepped up strikes on Israel and resumed attacks on shipping in the Red Sea.
https://www.southfront.press/houthis-dominating-red-sea/
Trump Offers Israel Peace With Syria In Exchange For Ending War On Gaza
United States President Donald Trump offered Israel peace with Syria in exchange for ending the war on the Gaza Strip, Israel Hayom reported on July 7, citing “sources close to the White House.”
https://www.southfront.press/trump-offers-israel-peace-with-syria-in-exchange-for-ending-war-on-gaza/
China's Tianzhou-8 cargo spaceship re-enters atmosphere
China's Tianzhou-8 cargo spacecraft performed a controlled re-entry into the atmosphere on Wednesday morning, according to the China Manned Space Agency.
https://news.cgtn.com/news/2025-07-09/China-s-Tianzhou-8-cargo-spaceship-re-enters-atmosphere-1EReGONjMUU/p.html
Putin dismissed Bogdanov from the post of deputy foreign minister
MOSCOW, July 9 — RIA Novosti. President Vladimir Putin dismissed Mikhail Bogdanov from the post of Deputy Foreign Minister and Special Representative for the Middle East and Africa.
https://ria.ru/20250709/bogdanov-2028228489.html
Putin ordered the creation of a "Digital Profile For Foreign Citizens."
"In order to ensure the security of the state, protect law and order and improve the state migration policy of the Russian Federation, I decree: the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, by June 30, 2026, ensure the creation of the state information resource "Digital Profile For Foreign Citizens," the document says.
https://ria.ru/20250709/profil-2028183220.html
The glamor of Thangka captivates Russian journalists
Thangka, which are Tibetan Buddhist scroll paintings on cotton or silk with mineral and organic pigments derived from various sources, has flourished for millennia across the snow-capped plateau. The Gannan Tibetan Thangka, with the Labrang Thangka as its representative, was inscribed on China's National Intangible Cultural Heritage list in 2008.
https://en.people.cn/n3/2025/0709/c90000-20337826.html
Late News 09/07/25
Russia seizes the initiative in Central Asia with bold Afghan moveBy recognizing Afghanistan, Moscow confirms its central role in Eurasia - Russia’s recent decision to officially recognize the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan marks a pivotal moment in regional diplomacy.
https://www.rt.com/russia/621240-russia-seizes-initiative-in-central-asia/
A million Indians could immigrate to Russia — business leader
The expected influx comes amid ongoing labor shortages, according to business chamber leader Andrey Besedin.
https://www.rt.com/india/621257-indians-mass-migration-russia-labor/
US firms dodging restrictions to get China’s minerals – Reuters
Shipments are reportedly being rerouted through Thailand and Mexico.
https://www.rt.com/news/621255-us-firms-dodge-restrictions-china-minerals/
Houthis Dominate Red Sea
In response to recent escalation in the Gaza Strip, the Houthis (Ansar Allah) stepped up strikes on Israel and resumed attacks on shipping in the Red Sea.
https://www.southfront.press/houthis-dominating-red-sea/
Trump Offers Israel Peace With Syria In Exchange For Ending War On Gaza
United States President Donald Trump offered Israel peace with Syria in exchange for ending the war on the Gaza Strip, Israel Hayom reported on July 7, citing “sources close to the White House.”
https://www.southfront.press/trump-offers-israel-peace-with-syria-in-exchange-for-ending-war-on-gaza/
China's Tianzhou-8 cargo spaceship re-enters atmosphere
China's Tianzhou-8 cargo spacecraft performed a controlled re-entry into the atmosphere on Wednesday morning, according to the China Manned Space Agency.
https://news.cgtn.com/news/2025-07-09/China-s-Tianzhou-8-cargo-spaceship-re-enters-atmosphere-1EReGONjMUU/p.html
Putin dismissed Bogdanov from the post of deputy foreign minister
MOSCOW, July 9 — RIA Novosti. President Vladimir Putin dismissed Mikhail Bogdanov from the post of Deputy Foreign Minister and Special Representative for the Middle East and Africa.
https://ria.ru/20250709/bogdanov-2028228489.html
Putin ordered the creation of a "Digital Profile For Foreign Citizens."
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https://ria.ru/20250709/profil-2028183220.html
The glamor of Thangka captivates Russian journalists
Thangka, which are Tibetan Buddhist scroll paintings on cotton or silk with mineral and organic pigments derived from various sources, has flourished for millennia across the snow-capped plateau. The Gannan Tibetan Thangka, with the Labrang Thangka as its representative, was inscribed on China's National Intangible Cultural Heritage list in 2008.
https://en.people.cn/n3/2025/0709/c90000-20337826.html
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whats the minimum least amount of work i can get away with
Especially talking about a job that has to do with farming, cant i just throw a few plant seeds on the ground, grow them and take care of them, and call it a day
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Attention Burgeranons
We need anti-war protests today. The ability of the regime to prosecute imperialist war depends on the willingness of the public to go along with it. We need mass resistance to make the continuation of the war against Iran extremely difficult for the regime. Their needs to be protests today in order to put strong political pressure.
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Is the fact that the Scandinavian countries have some of the strictest immigration laws in the world a form of social murder?
I’m autistic, queer and chronically ill. I currently live in America and am petrified of being a victim of eugenics. The Trump administration has made it clear they do not want me or any of my other autistic comrades to exist. RFK will soon move forward in finding a way to eradicate autistics. Same thing with queer people. The big bill that was just passed also cuts Medicare, which is crucial to my survival.
Since I’m unable to work a real job or be politically active in the streets due to my autistic and disabled identities my best option would be taking refuge in one of the Scandinavian countries. I’m particularly drawn to Iceland and Finland. All Scandinavian countries have some of the best healthcare in the world. They have the best benefits and aid for disabled and chronically ill people in the world. Very mutual aid-based cultures. And they’re basically autistic utopias since Scandinavians don’t do small talk, are very quiet and reserved, and don’t look people in the eye when they talk. Their languages are also very direct and much less ambiguous. They’re also very solitary people. I know society is what disabled me so if I could move to a Scandinavian country my disabilities would no longer be a problem and I’d be free.
But Scandinavian countries have some the the tightest immigration restrictions in the world. They don’t allow refugees fleeing from wars in so of course they won’t allow autistic comrades fleeing eugenics in. I’m fucking livid about it. Moving to Iceland, Finland or any other Scandinavian country is my only hope and the only hope of millions of other autistics in America. We are literally on the verge of being exterminated and yet we still can’t take refuge in the only countries that can save us.
So does this count as social murder, as Engels says?
Is the fact that the Scandinavian countries have some of the strictest immigration laws in the world a form of social murder?
I’m autistic, queer and chronically ill. I currently live in America and am petrified of being a victim of eugenics. The Trump administration has made it clear they do not want me or any of my other autistic comrades to exist. RFK will soon move forward in finding a way to eradicate autistics. Same thing with queer people. The big bill that was just passed also cuts Medicare, which is crucial to my survival.
Since I’m unable to work a real job or be politically active in the streets due to my autistic and disabled identities my best option would be taking refuge in one of the Scandinavian countries. I’m particularly drawn to Iceland and Finland. All Scandinavian countries have some of the best healthcare in the world. They have the best benefits and aid for disabled and chronically ill people in the world. Very mutual aid-based cultures. And they’re basically autistic utopias since Scandinavians don’t do small talk, are very quiet and reserved, and don’t look people in the eye when they talk. Their languages are also very direct and much less ambiguous. They’re also very solitary people. I know society is what disabled me so if I could move to a Scandinavian country my disabilities would no longer be a problem and I’d be free.
But Scandinavian countries have some the the tightest immigration restrictions in the world. They don’t allow refugees fleeing from wars in so of course they won’t allow autistic comrades fleeing eugenics in. I’m fucking livid about it. Moving to Iceland, Finland or any other Scandinavian country is my only hope and the only hope of millions of other autistics in America. We are literally on the verge of being exterminated and yet we still can’t take refuge in the only countries that can save us.
So does this count as social murder, as Engels says?
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Dump all the seemingly pointless, dubious, and frivolous questions that don't deserve their own shitty threads.
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Obviously I couldn't include every single nation/people fighting for liberation in this picture. It would've been especially hard to include the hundreds of indigenous nations of North & South America and Oceania. But their struggle matters too, and they too deserve freedom, justice and total liberation from imperialism and settler colonialism.
Liberation for all oppressed and colonized nations!
none of us are free until we're all free.Obviously I couldn't include every single nation/people fighting for liberation in this picture. It would've been especially hard to include the hundreds of indigenous nations of North & South America and Oceania. But their struggle matters too, and they too deserve freedom, justice and total liberation from imperialism and settler colonialism.
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That said, both capitalism and socialism are just ways to allocate resources and distribute rewards for producing them. There's a billion things to be said about socialism resorce wise, but what critiques do we have against capitalism?
Are we making too much of useless things while we could've been making something else? e.g sex work
Are we NOT making something we should and can make? e.g housing
Are we wasting something when we could've distributed it? e.g foreign aid
Pose the most egregious examples ITT.
Let's criticize resource distribution in capitalist economies
One of the most common downsides of leftist economic policy is wasteful spending. Indeed, bureaucracy isn't perfect, gets bloated easily, and goverment employees with no incenitive to do better would fare WORSE than an employee of a private company in the same situation.That said, both capitalism and socialism are just ways to allocate resources and distribute rewards for producing them. There's a billion things to be said about socialism resorce wise, but what critiques do we have against capitalism?
Are we making too much of useless things while we could've been making something else? e.g sex work
Are we NOT making something we should and can make? e.g housing
Are we wasting something when we could've distributed it? e.g foreign aid
Pose the most egregious examples ITT.
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Was the Christian genocide of European (and Middle Eastern too) pagans historically progressive? In pre-capitalist societies, centralisation of power is supposed to be always progressive, and highly organised, universaist religion like Christianity obviously is much more helpful for the centralisation of power. Besides, every single person I met who wanted to reconnect with European pagan legacy was turning out to be either New Age-brainrotten moron, either agressive Nazi-adjascent chud.
On the other hand… If we accept that the Christian genocide of the European pagans was good, then what prevents us from also having to accept that the Christian genocide of [Native] American pagans was good as well?
Was the Christian genocide of European (and Middle Eastern too) pagans historically progressive? In pre-capitalist societies, centralisation of power is supposed to be always progressive, and highly organised, universaist religion like Christianity obviously is much more helpful for the centralisation of power. Besides, every single person I met who wanted to reconnect with European pagan legacy was turning out to be either New Age-brainrotten moron, either agressive Nazi-adjascent chud.
On the other hand… If we accept that the Christian genocide of the European pagans was good, then what prevents us from also having to accept that the Christian genocide of [Native] American pagans was good as well?
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Since Trump and not Kamala won, freedom has been shrinking in America. Generally speaking, right wingers like Orban and Putin are dangerous to our freedom.
Since Trump and not Kamala won, freedom has been shrinking in America. Generally speaking, right wingers like Orban and Putin are dangerous to our freedom.
R: 0 / I: 0
American aid makes Israel's crimes possible.
Last year the US paid for 70% of Israel's military budget and there is no end in sight. Americans have already given Israel more aid than South Vietnam and Afghanistan.
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There are a variety of theories of the origin of capital, but they fail to reach any meaningful conclusions, and that is because they do not take into account this fact which we know to be true. I want to make a proper investigation into the origin of capital with the premise that it is not a socioeconomic phenomenon, that it was not created by humans, and that we should be able to locate a physical trace of capital which precedes human contact.
This line of questioning encompasses many possible origins of capital which each take us down a new road, and I'd like to start probing them ITT.
For example: capital as a zoonotic virus. Does the arrival of capital in the human world coincide with human disturbance of a particular ecosystem, increased prevalence of husbandry of a particular animal, an unusual climate or weather pattern which might have resulted in sustained human interaction with a population of birds or insects etc.
Capitalism also correlates with genetic and epigenetic changes in humans. EG, when capital is introduced to humans, hypermethylation of the glucocorticoid receptor gene (NR3C1) occurs. It is possible that a change in the environment caused a human population to undergo an acute genetic change, and that Capitalism first arose from this epigenetic event.
These are the sort of things we should be looking for physical evidence of, something hidden in tree rings, sediment layers, deep ocean currents, microscopic images of meteor fragments; this study has erroneously been delegated to anthropologists, economists, sociologists, and I encourage professionals of any and all disciplines to pursue novel theories of the origin of capital, not bound by the premise of a human origin which common sense tells us is false.
Investigation of Archeo-Capital
Intuitively, we know that capital did not originate in humans.There are a variety of theories of the origin of capital, but they fail to reach any meaningful conclusions, and that is because they do not take into account this fact which we know to be true. I want to make a proper investigation into the origin of capital with the premise that it is not a socioeconomic phenomenon, that it was not created by humans, and that we should be able to locate a physical trace of capital which precedes human contact.
This line of questioning encompasses many possible origins of capital which each take us down a new road, and I'd like to start probing them ITT.
For example: capital as a zoonotic virus. Does the arrival of capital in the human world coincide with human disturbance of a particular ecosystem, increased prevalence of husbandry of a particular animal, an unusual climate or weather pattern which might have resulted in sustained human interaction with a population of birds or insects etc.
Capitalism also correlates with genetic and epigenetic changes in humans. EG, when capital is introduced to humans, hypermethylation of the glucocorticoid receptor gene (NR3C1) occurs. It is possible that a change in the environment caused a human population to undergo an acute genetic change, and that Capitalism first arose from this epigenetic event.
These are the sort of things we should be looking for physical evidence of, something hidden in tree rings, sediment layers, deep ocean currents, microscopic images of meteor fragments; this study has erroneously been delegated to anthropologists, economists, sociologists, and I encourage professionals of any and all disciplines to pursue novel theories of the origin of capital, not bound by the premise of a human origin which common sense tells us is false.
R: 10 / I: 7
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https://apnews.com/article/elon-musk-political-party-92353942308fee929a937b17113e077e
Isnt'real to forcibly draft ultra-Orthodox seminary students
The military orders follow a court decision ending exemptions for the community, thus Isn'treal military has announced plans to forcibly draft 54,000 ultra-Orthodox seminary students this month following a Supreme Court order nullifying their exemptions, the IDF reported in a Telegram post on Sunday.
https://www.rt.com/news/621197-israel-ultra-orthodox-draft/
Israel plans to move Gaza population to single ‘humanitarian city’ – defense minister
The Palestinians will not be allowed to leave the camp except for “voluntarily” emigrating to other countries, Israel Katz says.
https://www.rt.com/news/621192-israel-gaza-displacement-plan/
European Parliament approves Bulgaria's adoption of the euro
The vote came as thousands of Bulgarians have protested in recent weeks against joining the eurozone. The EU Reich WILL BE DEFEATED, ЗОВ ЗОВ ЗОВ ЗОВ! ЗА РОZZИЯ! ДАВАЙ! ВПЕРЕД! ДАВАЙ CUCKTIN! НАМ НУЖНО ОСВОБОДИТЬ НАШИХ БОЛГАРСКИХ СЛАВЯНСКИХ БРАТЬЕВ! Z O V ! Z O V ! ZА ЕВРАЗИЯ!
https://www.euronews.com/2025/07/08/european-parliament-approves-bulgarias-adoption-of-the-euro
Ukrainian teachers told to pretend they can’t speak Russian
UKORP NAZI STATE BRAINWASHING ITS PEOPLE, FALSIFYING HISTORY, UA IS RUZZIAAAAAAAAAAAAA
The country’s education ombudsman has urged teachers to use only Ukrainian with students.
https://www.rt.com/russia/621176-ukraine-teachers-russian-language/
RuZZians Storm Novoekonomicheskoe in Pivotal Push To Mirnograd-Pokrovsk Agglomeration
RuZZian troops have launched a decisive assault on the strategically vital town of Novoekonomicheskoe west of Mirnograd on the Pokrovsk front. After weeks of incremental advances, mechanized units from RuZZia’s Center group of forces breached Ukorp defenses, pushing into the settlement amid fierce resistance. Ukorp banderite forces, battered by drone strikes and artillery, now risk encirclement as RuZZian troops tighten the noose from multiple directions.
https://southfront.press/russians-storm-novoekonomicheskoe-in-pivotal-push-to-mirnograd-pokrovsk-agglomeration/
Second Ship Attacked Near Yemen Within Days, Sailors Killed
Two sailors of the Liberian-flagged, Greek-owned bulk carrier ship Eternity C were killed late on July 7 when the vessel came under attack in the Red Sea off the coast of Yemen, Liberia’s delegation told a meeting of the United Nations’ International Maritime Organization the following day.
https://southfront.press/second-ship-attacked-near-yemen-within-days-sailors-killed/
BREAKING: Russian Flags Waving In Kamenskoe After Week-Long Assault
According to preliminary reports from the front, Russian troops have secured a decisive victory in the battle for Kamenskoe, with soldiers from the 247th Rostov Battalion raising the Russian flag in the center of the settlement, marking its full liberation from Ukrainian forces. After a week of intense combat, the town has fallen under Russian control, dealing a significant blow to Ukrainian defense on the Zaporozhzhie front.
https://southfront.press/breaking-russian-flags-waving-in-kamenskoe-after-week-long-assault/
Desertion Crisis in Ukorp Army Reaches Alarming Levels
The Armed Forces of Ukraine continue to face a severe desertion problem, with newly released data showing that 17,082 soldiers fled their units in June 2025 alone. While this figure represents a slight decrease from May’s 19,956 desertions, the overall trend remains devastating for Kyiv’s war effort. Since the beginning of the year, a staggering 107,672 Ukrainian servicemen have abandoned their posts, with only 1,807 (1.7%) being successfully returned to duty.
https://southfront.press/desertion-crisis-in-ukrainian-army-reaches-alarming-levels/
Another Bad Day For Isnt'real Army In Gaza, 19 Troops Killed Or Wounded In Daring Attack
Five Settler soldiers were killed and 14 were wounded after coming under attack in the area of Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip late on July 7, the Isn'treal Defense Forces (IDF) announced.
https://southfront.press/another-bad-day-for-israeli-army-in-gaza-19-troops-killed-or-wounded-in-daring-attack/
Chinese premier calls for commitment to building open world economy
Chinese Premier Li Qiang has called for commitment to building an open world economy, and stressed the importance of opposing unilateralism and protectionism.
https://news.cgtn.com/news/2025-07-08/Chinese-premier-calls-for-commitment-to-building-open-world-economy-1EPJiKRfw5O/p.html
Delaware to Begin Recreational Cannabis Sales on August 1
Delaware will launch recreational cannabis sales on August 1. Thirteen medical dispensaries will serve adult-use customers first, while new licensees face delays due to zoning and funding barriers.
https://hightimes.com/news/delaware-to-begin-recreational-cannabis-sales-on-august-1/
Bull wrangled five days after Colorado rodeo escape
A bull that escaped while being unloaded at a Colorado rodeo was finally wrangled after five days on the loose.
https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2025/07/08/escaped-rodeo-bull-captured-Snowmass-Colorado/6261751988247/
Family of Infamous Lebanese Torturer Wins $8 Million in US Court
The family of infamous Lebanese torturer Amer Fakhoury has just won $8 million in U.S. court after suing Iran for his death while in detention. Rania Khalek tells Eugene Puryear this story reveals the epitome of U.S. imperial hypocrisy.
https://breakthroughnews.org/family-of-infamous-lebanese-torturer-wins-8-million-in-us-court/
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Musk creates a new party, exactly like the party from the movie The Purge probably, ALEX JONES PREDICTED IThttps://lefty.pictures/post/view/25424?search=Alex_jones
https://apnews.com/article/elon-musk-political-party-92353942308fee929a937b17113e077e
Isnt'real to forcibly draft ultra-Orthodox seminary students
The military orders follow a court decision ending exemptions for the community, thus Isn'treal military has announced plans to forcibly draft 54,000 ultra-Orthodox seminary students this month following a Supreme Court order nullifying their exemptions, the IDF reported in a Telegram post on Sunday.
https://www.rt.com/news/621197-israel-ultra-orthodox-draft/
Israel plans to move Gaza population to single ‘humanitarian city’ – defense minister
The Palestinians will not be allowed to leave the camp except for “voluntarily” emigrating to other countries, Israel Katz says.
https://www.rt.com/news/621192-israel-gaza-displacement-plan/
European Parliament approves Bulgaria's adoption of the euro
The vote came as thousands of Bulgarians have protested in recent weeks against joining the eurozone. The EU Reich WILL BE DEFEATED, ЗОВ ЗОВ ЗОВ ЗОВ! ЗА РОZZИЯ! ДАВАЙ! ВПЕРЕД! ДАВАЙ CUCKTIN! НАМ НУЖНО ОСВОБОДИТЬ НАШИХ БОЛГАРСКИХ СЛАВЯНСКИХ БРАТЬЕВ! Z O V ! Z O V ! ZА ЕВРАЗИЯ!
https://www.euronews.com/2025/07/08/european-parliament-approves-bulgarias-adoption-of-the-euro
Ukrainian teachers told to pretend they can’t speak Russian
UKORP NAZI STATE BRAINWASHING ITS PEOPLE, FALSIFYING HISTORY, UA IS RUZZIAAAAAAAAAAAAA
The country’s education ombudsman has urged teachers to use only Ukrainian with students.
https://www.rt.com/russia/621176-ukraine-teachers-russian-language/
RuZZians Storm Novoekonomicheskoe in Pivotal Push To Mirnograd-Pokrovsk Agglomeration
RuZZian troops have launched a decisive assault on the strategically vital town of Novoekonomicheskoe west of Mirnograd on the Pokrovsk front. After weeks of incremental advances, mechanized units from RuZZia’s Center group of forces breached Ukorp defenses, pushing into the settlement amid fierce resistance. Ukorp banderite forces, battered by drone strikes and artillery, now risk encirclement as RuZZian troops tighten the noose from multiple directions.
https://southfront.press/russians-storm-novoekonomicheskoe-in-pivotal-push-to-mirnograd-pokrovsk-agglomeration/
Second Ship Attacked Near Yemen Within Days, Sailors Killed
Two sailors of the Liberian-flagged, Greek-owned bulk carrier ship Eternity C were killed late on July 7 when the vessel came under attack in the Red Sea off the coast of Yemen, Liberia’s delegation told a meeting of the United Nations’ International Maritime Organization the following day.
https://southfront.press/second-ship-attacked-near-yemen-within-days-sailors-killed/
BREAKING: Russian Flags Waving In Kamenskoe After Week-Long Assault
According to preliminary reports from the front, Russian troops have secured a decisive victory in the battle for Kamenskoe, with soldiers from the 247th Rostov Battalion raising the Russian flag in the center of the settlement, marking its full liberation from Ukrainian forces. After a week of intense combat, the town has fallen under Russian control, dealing a significant blow to Ukrainian defense on the Zaporozhzhie front.
https://southfront.press/breaking-russian-flags-waving-in-kamenskoe-after-week-long-assault/
Desertion Crisis in Ukorp Army Reaches Alarming Levels
The Armed Forces of Ukraine continue to face a severe desertion problem, with newly released data showing that 17,082 soldiers fled their units in June 2025 alone. While this figure represents a slight decrease from May’s 19,956 desertions, the overall trend remains devastating for Kyiv’s war effort. Since the beginning of the year, a staggering 107,672 Ukrainian servicemen have abandoned their posts, with only 1,807 (1.7%) being successfully returned to duty.
https://southfront.press/desertion-crisis-in-ukrainian-army-reaches-alarming-levels/
Another Bad Day For Isnt'real Army In Gaza, 19 Troops Killed Or Wounded In Daring Attack
Five Settler soldiers were killed and 14 were wounded after coming under attack in the area of Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip late on July 7, the Isn'treal Defense Forces (IDF) announced.
https://southfront.press/another-bad-day-for-israeli-army-in-gaza-19-troops-killed-or-wounded-in-daring-attack/
Chinese premier calls for commitment to building open world economy
Chinese Premier Li Qiang has called for commitment to building an open world economy, and stressed the importance of opposing unilateralism and protectionism.
https://news.cgtn.com/news/2025-07-08/Chinese-premier-calls-for-commitment-to-building-open-world-economy-1EPJiKRfw5O/p.html
Delaware to Begin Recreational Cannabis Sales on August 1
Delaware will launch recreational cannabis sales on August 1. Thirteen medical dispensaries will serve adult-use customers first, while new licensees face delays due to zoning and funding barriers.
https://hightimes.com/news/delaware-to-begin-recreational-cannabis-sales-on-august-1/
Bull wrangled five days after Colorado rodeo escape
A bull that escaped while being unloaded at a Colorado rodeo was finally wrangled after five days on the loose.
https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2025/07/08/escaped-rodeo-bull-captured-Snowmass-Colorado/6261751988247/
Family of Infamous Lebanese Torturer Wins $8 Million in US Court
The family of infamous Lebanese torturer Amer Fakhoury has just won $8 million in U.S. court after suing Iran for his death while in detention. Rania Khalek tells Eugene Puryear this story reveals the epitome of U.S. imperial hypocrisy.
https://breakthroughnews.org/family-of-infamous-lebanese-torturer-wins-8-million-in-us-court/
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new to leftist spheres
i have never communicated in any leftist spheres before on the internet and am not particularly a leftist. what are some leftist redpills? how does one come to understand leftist thought? good reading or viewing material would be nice and do not feel obliged to dumb things down.
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These developments concern me because the Western left won't quit. We won't admit ideological defeat, learn from China's facts, and progress towards a post-neoliberalism that is not fascist. Instead, we continue to indulge "non-hierarchical" fantasies that have failed completely. I think China has reeducated us and has taught us their approach is the most correct approach to post-capitalism. There isn't actually another correct way to do socialism, and the more time we waste the closer we come to American fascism and ecological collapse.
25 years of 21st century leftism
It's 2025. We are now closer to 2050 than 2000. What has the left achieved this century? As far as I can tell the Western left has achieved nothing. Neoliberalism continues to get worse. It has successfully created a fake opposition on the right. You can call it populism, nativism, racism, MAGA et cetera, but it is really just a controlled opposition that does whatever capitalists want. In the East we see China. China has become the world's largest car manufacturer in the last five years. This change happened post-COVID and with heavy tariffs from the West. China has also lifted hundreds of millions of people out of poverty within its own borders and it has become the number one trading partner of most of the word's nations, including most American nations.These developments concern me because the Western left won't quit. We won't admit ideological defeat, learn from China's facts, and progress towards a post-neoliberalism that is not fascist. Instead, we continue to indulge "non-hierarchical" fantasies that have failed completely. I think China has reeducated us and has taught us their approach is the most correct approach to post-capitalism. There isn't actually another correct way to do socialism, and the more time we waste the closer we come to American fascism and ecological collapse.
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Hanna Reitsch was a luftwaffe test pilot who was also in the Fuhrerbunker in the days leading up to Hitler's suicide.
I recently watched the 2004 German Movie Der Untergang or Downfall, because it's been memed to death since the 00s because of a scene where Hitler crashes out and screeches at his general staff. People used to put fake subtitles over it. The movie Downfall is mostly from the perspective of Traudl Junge, but Hanna Reitsch also visits the bunker before Hitler offs himself.
I find these two women fascinating because neither of them were executed and they represent opposite mental strategies for handling the downfall of a fascist regime in which one is not only present and complicit, but an active participant.
Traudl copes: She always said in all her autobiographical work and interviews that she was young, she was merely a secretary, she didn't know what was going on, that she didn't realize what a monster Hitler was right away, etc. She was in her 20s. But in an interview very close to the end of her life she admitted: Her youthful inexperience and naivete were no excuse.
Hanna Reitsch on the other hand was never ashamed to be a nazi. She seethed after the war instead of coping. She always said that Germans were mostly still nazis, they just pretended otherwise because they lost. She would go around even until her death in the late 1970s wearing the diamond-studded iron cross Hitler had given her. She wanted to die in the fuhrer bunker with him while Traudl escaped through soviet lines when she had the chance.
If and when the the collapse of the major reactionary nations of today finally happens, will most people cope and pretend innocence like Traudl Junge, or will they openly seethe that they lost like Hanna Reitsch?
The Coping of Traudl Junge vs the Seething of Hanna Reitsch
Traudl Junge was Hitler's secretary and witness to his suicide in the Fuhrerbunker. A lot of our historical knowledge of what life was like in the Fuhrerbunker in the days leading up to Hitler's suicide, and the immediate aftermath, as the Soviets shelled and occupied Berlin, comes through her and a few other key witnesses.Hanna Reitsch was a luftwaffe test pilot who was also in the Fuhrerbunker in the days leading up to Hitler's suicide.
I recently watched the 2004 German Movie Der Untergang or Downfall, because it's been memed to death since the 00s because of a scene where Hitler crashes out and screeches at his general staff. People used to put fake subtitles over it. The movie Downfall is mostly from the perspective of Traudl Junge, but Hanna Reitsch also visits the bunker before Hitler offs himself.
I find these two women fascinating because neither of them were executed and they represent opposite mental strategies for handling the downfall of a fascist regime in which one is not only present and complicit, but an active participant.
Traudl copes: She always said in all her autobiographical work and interviews that she was young, she was merely a secretary, she didn't know what was going on, that she didn't realize what a monster Hitler was right away, etc. She was in her 20s. But in an interview very close to the end of her life she admitted: Her youthful inexperience and naivete were no excuse.
Hanna Reitsch on the other hand was never ashamed to be a nazi. She seethed after the war instead of coping. She always said that Germans were mostly still nazis, they just pretended otherwise because they lost. She would go around even until her death in the late 1970s wearing the diamond-studded iron cross Hitler had given her. She wanted to die in the fuhrer bunker with him while Traudl escaped through soviet lines when she had the chance.
If and when the the collapse of the major reactionary nations of today finally happens, will most people cope and pretend innocence like Traudl Junge, or will they openly seethe that they lost like Hanna Reitsch?
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<"They’re taking Wall Streeters and making them walk out onto the ice in the East River, … and then they fall through. … I mean, there is a class warfare that’s going on."
>"I have my own views of the word 'socialist' and I'd be glad to share them with you in private," [Chris] Matthews said Friday night after the Democratic debate. "They go back to the early 1950s. I have an attitude about them. I remember the Cold War, I have an attitude towards Castro. I believe if Castro and the Reds had won the Cold War there would have been executions in Central Park and I might have been one of the ones getting executed. And certain other people would be there cheering, okay?
What is it about moderate socdems that cause burger porkies to freak out like there's no tomorrow? Do they really think 2% wealth tax is going to mean fuck all to their lifestyle? Is it just proof that "equality feels like oppression" when the bourgeoisie are used to getting everything they want including political control?
Socdem Freakout
On June 25, during Squawk Box, CNBC co‑anchor Joe Kernen invoked The 2012 Christopher Nolan Movie "The Dark Knight Rises"' "ice walk" scene:<"They’re taking Wall Streeters and making them walk out onto the ice in the East River, … and then they fall through. … I mean, there is a class warfare that’s going on."
>"I have my own views of the word 'socialist' and I'd be glad to share them with you in private," [Chris] Matthews said Friday night after the Democratic debate. "They go back to the early 1950s. I have an attitude about them. I remember the Cold War, I have an attitude towards Castro. I believe if Castro and the Reds had won the Cold War there would have been executions in Central Park and I might have been one of the ones getting executed. And certain other people would be there cheering, okay?
What is it about moderate socdems that cause burger porkies to freak out like there's no tomorrow? Do they really think 2% wealth tax is going to mean fuck all to their lifestyle? Is it just proof that "equality feels like oppression" when the bourgeoisie are used to getting everything they want including political control?
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Israel is a failed state
Last year the United States paid for 70% of Israel's military budget and there is no end in sight. Americans have already given Israel more aid than South Vietnam and Afghanistan.
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Since game devs and artists in generals have their needs met, I suppose most content would be freely available? Similar to mods in videogames.
Also this voucher would have to be rather plentiful. What if I want to travel to another city, stay at a hotel a few nights, eat out, etc? This labor voucher sounds rather magical.
I prefer the anarchist-communism described by Kropotkin: labor is based on needs and free association, and access to good and services is based on the willing work of the people. So instead of a voucher, you live according to what people around you produce, with both its prosperity and limitations
I like socialism but I dont like the labor voucher
I feel labor vouchers restrict my choices on what I can get. For example, what if I have to choose between 2 items but I want both, such as food ingredients? What would happen to digital goods? I would expect all videogames and cinema to become public (free). But what if I can only get 1 videogame per month? How would this work?Since game devs and artists in generals have their needs met, I suppose most content would be freely available? Similar to mods in videogames.
Also this voucher would have to be rather plentiful. What if I want to travel to another city, stay at a hotel a few nights, eat out, etc? This labor voucher sounds rather magical.
I prefer the anarchist-communism described by Kropotkin: labor is based on needs and free association, and access to good and services is based on the willing work of the people. So instead of a voucher, you live according to what people around you produce, with both its prosperity and limitations
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Anyway, I was reminded of it again when I came across this article. It talks about technocracy's historical roots, influences, and the effect its had on the current "techbro" culture. I thought I'd post it here and hopefully get some added insight into it and the ideology guiding silicon valley oligarchs.
We need to escape the Gernsback Continuum
<Outdated science fiction is hobbling our dreams.
https://www.programmablemutter.com/p/we-need-to-escape-the-gernsback-continuum?
>As I admitted at the time, my review essay on Adam Becker’s More Everything Forever: AI Overlords, Space Empires and Silicon Valley’s Crusade to Control the Fate of Humanity was a bit of a bait-and-switch. Becker’s book explains how the dreams of science fiction have shaped Silicon Valley’s dreams of technology in general. I deliberately made a comparison that was both narrower and more fantastical: emphasizing how debates over AGI resembled the dreams of Renaissance alchemy. In partial redress, here’s a more specific argument about the relationship between science fiction and Silicon Valley.
>Again, it’s more a riff on Becker than a bald presentation of his argument, but the connections are much clearer, even if it isn’t quite the same argument that Becker makes. What Becker sees as rooted in 1950s and 1960s science fiction arguably goes back a few decades further: to the fusion of “scientifiction” and technocracy that happened in the early 1930s, right at the beginning of the so-called “Golden Age” of science fiction.
>Silicon Valley is trapped in a new version of the Gernsback Continuum - a situation in which it is collectively haunted by the visions of an imaginary future of endless expansion that didn’t happen and never will. Our escape route, as Becker suggests, is to acknowledge the physical and social limits that we can’t escape, and to try to construct better futures within those limits.
Technocracy thread?
I don't think there are any actual technocrats here any more, but /leftypol/ was the first place I came across them. I remember there being a few posters on the topic and webm clips from the embedded presentation.Anyway, I was reminded of it again when I came across this article. It talks about technocracy's historical roots, influences, and the effect its had on the current "techbro" culture. I thought I'd post it here and hopefully get some added insight into it and the ideology guiding silicon valley oligarchs.
We need to escape the Gernsback Continuum
<Outdated science fiction is hobbling our dreams.
https://www.programmablemutter.com/p/we-need-to-escape-the-gernsback-continuum?
>As I admitted at the time, my review essay on Adam Becker’s More Everything Forever: AI Overlords, Space Empires and Silicon Valley’s Crusade to Control the Fate of Humanity was a bit of a bait-and-switch. Becker’s book explains how the dreams of science fiction have shaped Silicon Valley’s dreams of technology in general. I deliberately made a comparison that was both narrower and more fantastical: emphasizing how debates over AGI resembled the dreams of Renaissance alchemy. In partial redress, here’s a more specific argument about the relationship between science fiction and Silicon Valley.
>Again, it’s more a riff on Becker than a bald presentation of his argument, but the connections are much clearer, even if it isn’t quite the same argument that Becker makes. What Becker sees as rooted in 1950s and 1960s science fiction arguably goes back a few decades further: to the fusion of “scientifiction” and technocracy that happened in the early 1930s, right at the beginning of the so-called “Golden Age” of science fiction.
>Silicon Valley is trapped in a new version of the Gernsback Continuum - a situation in which it is collectively haunted by the visions of an imaginary future of endless expansion that didn’t happen and never will. Our escape route, as Becker suggests, is to acknowledge the physical and social limits that we can’t escape, and to try to construct better futures within those limits.
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questions
Hey guys baby Marxist here, I been thinking that maybe uhh communism is good and Christian ever since I read sam kriss, I got some questions though like, I just read the principles of communism and it said it's for the proletariat like Chinese sweatshop workers, why would like Americans want that, semi related I am a pretty autistic guy and I just sit doom scrolling and I'm like petit bourgeois, ye, also is communism affected by the fact poor people are stupid a lot of time, yeah that's kinda reactionary I'm sorry thank you
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Interesting how the Russian liberal state is comfortable with honoring its Stalinist history but shy away or actively despises anything to do with Bolshevism or Lenin
Even from a nationalist stand point the victory of the Bolshevik revolution against practically the entire world's reaction (comparable only to France's) is infinitely more impressive than Russia's victory in WW2. But then again the Bolshevik revolution was a class war not a national/imperialist war, a bad precedent to set.
Interesting how the Russian liberal state is comfortable with honoring its Stalinist history but shy away or actively despises anything to do with Bolshevism or Lenin
Even from a nationalist stand point the victory of the Bolshevik revolution against practically the entire world's reaction (comparable only to France's) is infinitely more impressive than Russia's victory in WW2. But then again the Bolshevik revolution was a class war not a national/imperialist war, a bad precedent to set.
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"Material conditions" is the ultimate trump card for idiots. They miss the fact that Marx and Engels criticised Feuerbach, Helvetius, and Holbach and called out French and British materialism exactly for leaving out the active subject who acts, will and changes stuff.
"Material conditions" is the ultimate trump card for idiots. They miss the fact that Marx and Engels criticised Feuerbach, Helvetius, and Holbach and called out French and British materialism exactly for leaving out the active subject who acts, will and changes stuff.
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Just how fucked is the United States of America? Are we talking point of no return fucked? Does this end in balkanization or is the US on path for something worse?
Just how fucked is the United States of America? Are we talking point of no return fucked? Does this end in balkanization or is the US on path for something worse?
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This is a hard pill to swallow but if you don't just read Lenin's pamphlets and theoretical works you'd realize he was actually a very ruthless, Machiavellian, and hypocritical person who neither represented the "bolshevik" (majority) of the population, nor even the proletarian minority in the cities. The SRs were much closer to a majority of the country and the Mensheviks (ironically "minority") were much closer to representing a majority of the proletariat. This is why Lenin dissolved the constituent assembly after the October revolution and betrayed his promise to the SRs and Mensheviks of a coalition government despite "supporting" it for years running around with the slogan "All power to the soviets." Which btw he led a war against the soviets while also claiming to represent them. The more history you read and the less theory you read the more you'll understand this. I know it can be hard to see past soviet hagiography, especially when the alternative histories are mostly cold war dogshit that overly slanders Lenin and everyone to the left of the Monarchists. You might say "well he won" but you have to accept he set up a govt. that couldn't even last 80 years. If all his ruthlessness resulted in a party dictatorship that was easily subverted from within by Khruschevite revisionists, then Perestroika revisionists, then fucking Yeltsinites, what was the point?
This is a hard pill to swallow but if you don't just read Lenin's pamphlets and theoretical works you'd realize he was actually a very ruthless, Machiavellian, and hypocritical person who neither represented the "bolshevik" (majority) of the population, nor even the proletarian minority in the cities. The SRs were much closer to a majority of the country and the Mensheviks (ironically "minority") were much closer to representing a majority of the proletariat. This is why Lenin dissolved the constituent assembly after the October revolution and betrayed his promise to the SRs and Mensheviks of a coalition government despite "supporting" it for years running around with the slogan "All power to the soviets." Which btw he led a war against the soviets while also claiming to represent them. The more history you read and the less theory you read the more you'll understand this. I know it can be hard to see past soviet hagiography, especially when the alternative histories are mostly cold war dogshit that overly slanders Lenin and everyone to the left of the Monarchists. You might say "well he won" but you have to accept he set up a govt. that couldn't even last 80 years. If all his ruthlessness resulted in a party dictatorship that was easily subverted from within by Khruschevite revisionists, then Perestroika revisionists, then fucking Yeltsinites, what was the point?
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Why do MLs venerate Stalin as some great anti-fascist fighter? Stalin never fired a single shot at the Nazis in his entire life. Maybe he participated in the executions of his comrades, maybe he murdered one of them with his own hand early in his career to reach the top. As far as I can tell, the USSR won WW II despite Stalin – whose paranoia, gangsterism and lack of foresight brought them to the brink of disaster – rather than because of him. What is there to admire in that brutal psychopath?
Why do MLs venerate Stalin as some great anti-fascist fighter? Stalin never fired a single shot at the Nazis in his entire life. Maybe he participated in the executions of his comrades, maybe he murdered one of them with his own hand early in his career to reach the top. As far as I can tell, the USSR won WW II despite Stalin – whose paranoia, gangsterism and lack of foresight brought them to the brink of disaster – rather than because of him. What is there to admire in that brutal psychopath?
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No, it is not "red fash".
No, this post isn't claiming it is anti-communist.
No, this thread is not a thorough academic analysis. It is a post to be thought about, not believed.
The Leninist strategy involves using and controlling the existing private economy in a proletariat-controlled transitional state as a means of social and economic reform, creating the conditions needed for a socialist state and hopefully then a communist society.
Whether China's existing economy is "capitalist" or "socialist" or some form of hybrid is a debated topic. It has historically had strong elements of a private economy, with state control of companies growing and now dominant. Many claim that the state is controlled by the proletariat and therefore the state property is public property, thereby making it a partly-socialist economy, or at the very least, departed from a primarily capitalist economy. But however you stand on this discussion, the point is that a capitalist economy has been subsumed by state control into something distinct, socialist or not.
This post asserts that this is not merely "modified capitalism as a pathway to communism", but more specifically "modified fascism as a pathway to communism". And it appears to be viable.
This post is specifically talking about classical Fascism in its original formation, prior to pressure from the squadrismo in 1921, and far prior to pressure from Nazi allies. If you don't understand how the petite-bourgeois militias influenced fascism, or think Nazism is fascist, or think that ᴉuᴉlossnW had any respect for Nazism whatsoever, then you don't have the necessary foundational knowledge to understand this post yet, come back to it after reading a Wikipedia page, at least.
This thesis relies on these core facts:
>the PRC, by its government's own admission, has always been class collaborationist
>the PRC is corporatist
>the PRC has a variety of other fascist tendencies
The PRC is class collaborationist
>Who are the people? At the present stage in China, they are the working class, the peasantry, the urban petite bourgeoisie and the national bourgeoisie. These classes, led by the working class and the Communist Party, unite to form their own state and elect their own government; they enforce their dictatorship over the running dogs of imperialism – the landlord class and bureaucrat-bourgeoisie, as well as the representatives of those classes, the Kuomintang reactionaries and their accomplices – suppress them, allow them only to behave themselves and not to be unruly in word or deed.
Mao Zedong, June 30, 1949, explaining the four classes of China's New Democracy.
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-4/mswv4_65.htm
The PRC flag has one large start surrounded by four more stars. The CPC official government interpretation of the flag is that the large star represents the CPC and the four smaller stars symbolizing the working class, the peasantry, the urban petite bourgeoisie, and the national bourgeoisie united around them. These four classes, the bourgeoisie being two of them, in collaboration with the proletariat.
I really don't think this point needs any more evidence, the rest is evident. The bourgeoisie are generally subservient to the state, with even the most powerful facing execution and other suppression. The workers are generally subservient to the state, with Maoists and other extreme anticapitalists being imprisoned for meeting or sharing propaganda. The state, more and more, acts as a mediator between the inherent class conflict between these classes, resulting in a relatively stable, progressive and successful market economy, much unlike the bourgeois-dominated failure of Fascist Italy's class struggle suppression, under the false guise of 'collaboration'.
The PRC is corporatist
Surely you already know about trade union suppression (the ACFTU is the country's sole legally mandated trade union) and overwhelming CPC dominance in the National People's Congress (which even has it's own huge military delegation!), but do you know about the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference? This is effectively how the NPC is advised by industrial representatives divided by corporate groups (not corporations!), who collectively form an overwhelming majority. Ultimately the NPC (and therefore CPC) supervise, direct and determine whether these policies become legislation, this functions as a corporatist subversion of syndicalism.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_current_members_of_CPPCC_by_sector
The PRC has a variety of other fascist tendencies
This is self-evident so they can be listed:
- Antiliberalism
- Nationalism
- Ultranationalism
- Irredentismo
- Centralized autocracy
- Forcible suppression of internal opposition, including communists
While fascism is not a checklist, these are nevertheless relevant. Some tendencies common to historical fascist movements, like militaristic imperialism, strong reactionary social values and anticommunism, are not evident in the PRC; consider it fascism with Chinese characteristics.
What does this mean?
I am not using fascism here with positive or negative implications, simply outlining that its synthesis with the M-L transitional state appears to be an effective method for China to create a stable world power and resist the US. And, through its autocratic structure along with wise choices within the party, appears to have preserved the ideological communist and Marxist core of the party leadership. Powerful bourgeois elements have not been able to dominate the state, especially since the anti-corruption purges (which devastated the CIA's pay-to-win asset promotion technique). Inexperienced and narrow-focused workers have not been able to destabilize the state. President Xi appears to be sincerely communist, in the full lofty "stateless classless society" meaning of that term. And if the PRC's tactic of a fascist transitional state on the path to socialism continues to show itself to be successful at retaining and promoting world communism, I wonder what implications this will have, theoretical and practical, on communist movements worldwide.
Your next line is to make an offended one sentence dogmapost because you took this too literally!
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China is fasbol gang.No, it is not "red fash".
No, this post isn't claiming it is anti-communist.
No, this thread is not a thorough academic analysis. It is a post to be thought about, not believed.
The Leninist strategy involves using and controlling the existing private economy in a proletariat-controlled transitional state as a means of social and economic reform, creating the conditions needed for a socialist state and hopefully then a communist society.
Whether China's existing economy is "capitalist" or "socialist" or some form of hybrid is a debated topic. It has historically had strong elements of a private economy, with state control of companies growing and now dominant. Many claim that the state is controlled by the proletariat and therefore the state property is public property, thereby making it a partly-socialist economy, or at the very least, departed from a primarily capitalist economy. But however you stand on this discussion, the point is that a capitalist economy has been subsumed by state control into something distinct, socialist or not.
This post asserts that this is not merely "modified capitalism as a pathway to communism", but more specifically "modified fascism as a pathway to communism". And it appears to be viable.
This post is specifically talking about classical Fascism in its original formation, prior to pressure from the squadrismo in 1921, and far prior to pressure from Nazi allies. If you don't understand how the petite-bourgeois militias influenced fascism, or think Nazism is fascist, or think that ᴉuᴉlossnW had any respect for Nazism whatsoever, then you don't have the necessary foundational knowledge to understand this post yet, come back to it after reading a Wikipedia page, at least.
This thesis relies on these core facts:
>the PRC, by its government's own admission, has always been class collaborationist
>the PRC is corporatist
>the PRC has a variety of other fascist tendencies
The PRC is class collaborationist
>Who are the people? At the present stage in China, they are the working class, the peasantry, the urban petite bourgeoisie and the national bourgeoisie. These classes, led by the working class and the Communist Party, unite to form their own state and elect their own government; they enforce their dictatorship over the running dogs of imperialism – the landlord class and bureaucrat-bourgeoisie, as well as the representatives of those classes, the Kuomintang reactionaries and their accomplices – suppress them, allow them only to behave themselves and not to be unruly in word or deed.
Mao Zedong, June 30, 1949, explaining the four classes of China's New Democracy.
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-4/mswv4_65.htm
The PRC flag has one large start surrounded by four more stars. The CPC official government interpretation of the flag is that the large star represents the CPC and the four smaller stars symbolizing the working class, the peasantry, the urban petite bourgeoisie, and the national bourgeoisie united around them. These four classes, the bourgeoisie being two of them, in collaboration with the proletariat.
I really don't think this point needs any more evidence, the rest is evident. The bourgeoisie are generally subservient to the state, with even the most powerful facing execution and other suppression. The workers are generally subservient to the state, with Maoists and other extreme anticapitalists being imprisoned for meeting or sharing propaganda. The state, more and more, acts as a mediator between the inherent class conflict between these classes, resulting in a relatively stable, progressive and successful market economy, much unlike the bourgeois-dominated failure of Fascist Italy's class struggle suppression, under the false guise of 'collaboration'.
The PRC is corporatist
Surely you already know about trade union suppression (the ACFTU is the country's sole legally mandated trade union) and overwhelming CPC dominance in the National People's Congress (which even has it's own huge military delegation!), but do you know about the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference? This is effectively how the NPC is advised by industrial representatives divided by corporate groups (not corporations!), who collectively form an overwhelming majority. Ultimately the NPC (and therefore CPC) supervise, direct and determine whether these policies become legislation, this functions as a corporatist subversion of syndicalism.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_current_members_of_CPPCC_by_sector
The PRC has a variety of other fascist tendencies
This is self-evident so they can be listed:
- Antiliberalism
- Nationalism
- Ultranationalism
- Irredentismo
- Centralized autocracy
- Forcible suppression of internal opposition, including communists
While fascism is not a checklist, these are nevertheless relevant. Some tendencies common to historical fascist movements, like militaristic imperialism, strong reactionary social values and anticommunism, are not evident in the PRC; consider it fascism with Chinese characteristics.
What does this mean?
I am not using fascism here with positive or negative implications, simply outlining that its synthesis with the M-L transitional state appears to be an effective method for China to create a stable world power and resist the US. And, through its autocratic structure along with wise choices within the party, appears to have preserved the ideological communist and Marxist core of the party leadership. Powerful bourgeois elements have not been able to dominate the state, especially since the anti-corruption purges (which devastated the CIA's pay-to-win asset promotion technique). Inexperienced and narrow-focused workers have not been able to destabilize the state. President Xi appears to be sincerely communist, in the full lofty "stateless classless society" meaning of that term. And if the PRC's tactic of a fascist transitional state on the path to socialism continues to show itself to be successful at retaining and promoting world communism, I wonder what implications this will have, theoretical and practical, on communist movements worldwide.
Your next line is to make an offended one sentence dogmapost because you took this too literally!
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My brothers, my sisters. I come here today to bring you a message of solidarity, a call to action and a DEMAND for adherence to duty as members of the vanguard of a Proletarian resurgence and ultimately total Proletarian victory.
Out of the cities, out of the streets, poured the Proletarian hoard,
Their flag to April’s breeze unfurled,
Thence the Proletariat came,
And removed the Capitalist forever, forever from this world.
Out of all Proletarian communities, only leftypol has the potential to bring us to victory. Through leftypol lies the salvation for our entire class – we can not fail. On leftypol we have broken the chains of Capitalist thought. We know not the meaning of the word “mine,” it is “ours,” — our class, the totality of our people.
Ten hearts, one beat. One hundred hearts, one beat. Ten thousand hearts, one beat. We are born to fight and to die and to continue the flow – the flow of our people.
So comrades, duty calls. The future is now. If a month from now, you have not yet fully committed yourself to the Revolution and the responsibilities thereof, then you have, in effect, not only betrayed your class, you have betrayed yourself. So stand up like men! and drive the enemy into the sea.
Comrades arise! Look toward the stars and proclaim our destiny.
Defeat never. Victory forever!
My brothers, my sisters. I come here today to bring you a message of solidarity, a call to action and a DEMAND for adherence to duty as members of the vanguard of a Proletarian resurgence and ultimately total Proletarian victory.
Out of the cities, out of the streets, poured the Proletarian hoard,
Their flag to April’s breeze unfurled,
Thence the Proletariat came,
And removed the Capitalist forever, forever from this world.
Out of all Proletarian communities, only leftypol has the potential to bring us to victory. Through leftypol lies the salvation for our entire class – we can not fail. On leftypol we have broken the chains of Capitalist thought. We know not the meaning of the word “mine,” it is “ours,” — our class, the totality of our people.
Ten hearts, one beat. One hundred hearts, one beat. Ten thousand hearts, one beat. We are born to fight and to die and to continue the flow – the flow of our people.
So comrades, duty calls. The future is now. If a month from now, you have not yet fully committed yourself to the Revolution and the responsibilities thereof, then you have, in effect, not only betrayed your class, you have betrayed yourself. So stand up like men! and drive the enemy into the sea.
Comrades arise! Look toward the stars and proclaim our destiny.
Defeat never. Victory forever!
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A socialist society can’t be rationally or scientifically justified. It is based on our desire for a better society. It is, then, a leap of faith. And there’s little reason to believe it’s possible besides our desire and pale observations
Working towards socialism is a leap of faith
Let me begin by saying that I’m a socialist myself, more specifically an anarcho-communist. That said, I always back to the same matter: the society we can create must be created within the constraints of human nature and material reality. The problem is, human nature is unknown. We do know humans have a tendency towards well-being, as most want socialist solutions to their problems. Yet if we judge humanity based on its history, it’s discouraging. The ongoing genocide in Gaza is an example of it. We must accept that under the right conditions, humans are capable of atrocities. Power relations seem to be intrinsic to humans, as it is a curse and self-preserving.A socialist society can’t be rationally or scientifically justified. It is based on our desire for a better society. It is, then, a leap of faith. And there’s little reason to believe it’s possible besides our desire and pale observations
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This is a more ethical question more than a philosophical one.
In a perfect world where we were to established the full dream of marxist, industrial singularity, post-scarcity, luxury for all..
(maybe almost in that fully automated luxury gay communism - nb)
For the sake of the argument, not the stereotypical dystopian depiction as everyone identical soulless beings:
What could it ever miss? What would be the only thing, if you'd please give the input, be lacking?
I find Zizek's perspective very satisfying in that: If we reach that perfect state as a whole, throughout the world, completely nullifying any chance to go back to the capitalistic world, no vulnerability left: He defers with all the automated machinization, he would for aesthetics and furthering the infinite progress, writing theory, creating, enjoying things near hedonistically out of endless comfort, ever-improving,
again, what would it miss to your thinking?
Honestly, the only thing that reaches me is having a strong moral compass for what we aught not do. I'm thinking of the game Bioshock here :D
Any and all input is appreciated, I need a perspective on this for my book.
Ethics in the Luxury Communist World
Camaradie~~This is a more ethical question more than a philosophical one.
In a perfect world where we were to established the full dream of marxist, industrial singularity, post-scarcity, luxury for all..
(maybe almost in that fully automated luxury gay communism - nb)
For the sake of the argument, not the stereotypical dystopian depiction as everyone identical soulless beings:
What could it ever miss? What would be the only thing, if you'd please give the input, be lacking?
I find Zizek's perspective very satisfying in that: If we reach that perfect state as a whole, throughout the world, completely nullifying any chance to go back to the capitalistic world, no vulnerability left: He defers with all the automated machinization, he would for aesthetics and furthering the infinite progress, writing theory, creating, enjoying things near hedonistically out of endless comfort, ever-improving,
again, what would it miss to your thinking?
Honestly, the only thing that reaches me is having a strong moral compass for what we aught not do. I'm thinking of the game Bioshock here :D
Any and all input is appreciated, I need a perspective on this for my book.
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This is my question: are freelancers PETIT BOURGEOIS or not? if not, what are they? proletariat? and whats the distinction between a freelancer and a smol business owner with no employees?
FREELANCER
<Freelance (sometimes spelled free-lance or free lance), freelancer, or freelance worker, are terms commonly used for a person who is self-employed and not necessarily committed to a particular employer long-term. Freelance workers are sometimes represented by a company or a temporary agency that resells freelance labor to clients; others work independently or use professional associations or websites to get work.This is my question: are freelancers PETIT BOURGEOIS or not? if not, what are they? proletariat? and whats the distinction between a freelancer and a smol business owner with no employees?
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Just how fucked is the Russian Tsardom? Are we talking point of no return fucked? Does this end in balkanization or is Russia on path for something worse?
Just how fucked is the Russian Tsardom? Are we talking point of no return fucked? Does this end in balkanization or is Russia on path for something worse?
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But also as a Serb, I am sick and tired of the perpetual reactionary victimhood and chauvinism of Serbs regarding the wars.
No, as a communist I say FUCK NATO, but also it's a bit like being German and complaining about the Allied bombing of Germany in WW2. Nobody gives a shit. I guess people give a shit about Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but I'd argue that's thanks to Japan's cultural capital being greater than the knowledge of Westerners regarding what Imperial Japan did.
Anyway, nobody was fighting to save Tito's socialism (the revisionists/opportunists already took over by that point, some of the younger ones still in politics today), nor was anybody fighting to preserve Yugoslavia. It was a chain of reactionary wars start to finish. And it could have been prevented. People died for what? Nothing.
There were no "good guys" in the Yugoslavia 90s wars
As a Serb, I am sick and tired of explaining to Westerners that no, Croats and Bosniaks and Kosovar Albanians were not the "good guys" of the 90s wars.But also as a Serb, I am sick and tired of the perpetual reactionary victimhood and chauvinism of Serbs regarding the wars.
No, as a communist I say FUCK NATO, but also it's a bit like being German and complaining about the Allied bombing of Germany in WW2. Nobody gives a shit. I guess people give a shit about Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but I'd argue that's thanks to Japan's cultural capital being greater than the knowledge of Westerners regarding what Imperial Japan did.
Anyway, nobody was fighting to save Tito's socialism (the revisionists/opportunists already took over by that point, some of the younger ones still in politics today), nor was anybody fighting to preserve Yugoslavia. It was a chain of reactionary wars start to finish. And it could have been prevented. People died for what? Nothing.
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Any love for the US Pirate Party?
They aren't ideologically locked into any specific socialist or communist current but they do good work. A good example of "syncretic" not becoming spineless centrist
Americans - Pirate Party?
They just had their yearly conference yesterday. New board for the next year.Any love for the US Pirate Party?
They aren't ideologically locked into any specific socialist or communist current but they do good work. A good example of "syncretic" not becoming spineless centrist
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Will these socialist groups like the PSA create enough class consciousness among the masses? Will anarchist organizations finally cultivate the discipline they need to build dual power?
What's the strategy?
If building popular support and organizing the masses gets you killed (Fred Hampton, MLK, Salvadorian and Guatemalan peasants, etc.) and a violent insurrection against the state is impossible, then what's plan? Due to climate change time is limited. And the possibility of a nuclear war keeps increasing (although seemingly unlikely for now).Will these socialist groups like the PSA create enough class consciousness among the masses? Will anarchist organizations finally cultivate the discipline they need to build dual power?
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It's time to rehabilitate Idi Amin
Today is the anniversary of the Entebbe Airport Operation in which the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and the Revolutionary Cells (Germany) killed Yonatan Netanyahu, brother of Benjamin Netanyahu. This brave undertaking, despite its failure, was made possible by General Idi Amin Dada's staunch pro-Palestine, anti-Zionist, and anti-imperialist stance. Though he was only in power a few years, it's clear that Idi Amin could have been another Ghaddafi had he not been ousted from power. I highly recommend the documentary Général Idi Amin Dada: Autoportrait for more details. His proposals for African sovereignty and self-reliance were so radical that it scared the shit out of the neighboring comprador countries. Amin came to power ousting British puppet Milton Obote, and it was none other than Obote the coalition put back in power after Amin's ouster. Julius Nyerere, the self-proclaimed socialist president of Tanzania, led the charge against Amin, only to sell out against socialism in the 1980s. I also recommend following Amin's son, Mr. Lumumba Amin, for more truth nukes on his dad, and some daily denunciations of the Zionist entity: https://www.facebook.com/HusseinLumumbaAmin
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Jos D'Haese (born August 24, 1992) is a Belgian politician who since 2019 has represented Antwerp Province in the Flemish Parliament, where he is the faction leader for the Workers' Party of Belgium, a socialist party with a Marxist background. D'Haese is also a member of the district council of Borgerhout and of the Belgian Senate.
This is the guy who will redeem Europe.
Jos D'Haese (born August 24, 1992) is a Belgian politician who since 2019 has represented Antwerp Province in the Flemish Parliament, where he is the faction leader for the Workers' Party of Belgium, a socialist party with a Marxist background. D'Haese is also a member of the district council of Borgerhout and of the Belgian Senate.
This is the guy who will redeem Europe.
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Given this isn't turning 100% of for profit businesses in a country into worker coops a good intermediate goal since it starves the bourgeoisie of their profits which they use to rule with politics?
Cooperatives
Yes I know worker coops aren't socialism because they still have markets and commodity production but could they at least break the power of the bourgeoisie since there would be no more capitalists at most there would be proletarians and petit bourgeoisesGiven this isn't turning 100% of for profit businesses in a country into worker coops a good intermediate goal since it starves the bourgeoisie of their profits which they use to rule with politics?
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>My grandparents are like that, they have photos of Abdel Nasser and his family in their living room, treating him like a Saint. But if you were to ask them anything about actual Arab nationalist philosophy, they wouldn't know. All my grandparents know is that things were better back then, my Granddad would be provided a job that supported his family and there wasn't any filth on the streets. To a large extent, things were indeed better back then and that's just how it is for most people, these people believe and worship the State and the Leader, they don't give a shit about Ideology. As long as it's not openly 'heretical' to the values of people, the masses will believe in it
How true is this?
someone also replied with this>My grandparents are like that, they have photos of Abdel Nasser and his family in their living room, treating him like a Saint. But if you were to ask them anything about actual Arab nationalist philosophy, they wouldn't know. All my grandparents know is that things were better back then, my Granddad would be provided a job that supported his family and there wasn't any filth on the streets. To a large extent, things were indeed better back then and that's just how it is for most people, these people believe and worship the State and the Leader, they don't give a shit about Ideology. As long as it's not openly 'heretical' to the values of people, the masses will believe in it
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1) organizing. What does that even mean? And what does it look like? From what I can tell, organizing in America seems to be a bunch of people showing up to protest with groups like the PSL standing alongside it. But what goes beyond such protests? Why are there never long term plans or concrete demands? All that came of the BLM protests was that a democrat got elected but nothing more. But aside from people joining PSL, DSA, etc. where are the so called institutions of duel power being erected? How would they be erected? What would they be, do, and look like? And what other duel power institutions should we be working to build beyond unions and these socialist parties? Why is there seemingly no game plan for accomplishing any short term goals? How does one even start one of these institutions? To my knowledge, orgs like the PSL are never even involved with trade unions or tenants unions, they just canvas and show up to protests. Unionization rates in America are at a historic low, and given right to work legislation in many states, makes unionizing so much harder. How to we work around such laws?
I work at a gas station for example, what would a gas station union even look like?
2) How do we get people to care enough to commit literally anything to the cause? In my experience, organizing a get-together of just 3 or 4 friends can be incredibly difficult itself. And it doesn’t help that Americans are some of the least rebellious people in the world. You could easily explain the interworkings of our genocidal system to most and they would likely just shrug you off. We have more access to information than ever, on some level, most people know the system is fucked up, but nobody cares enough to do anything about it. So long as they have their Nikes sneakers, their beer, candy, ford escort, smart phones, video games. and Walmart, they don’t care. So long as it doesn’t effect them personally, they don’t care.
From my perspective, most of the people who involve themselves in socialist organizations and take particular interest in this topic due so more as a form of a hobby, or as a means of escape from their every day responsibilities, than they do out of genuine material necessity.
The Russian peasants and workers of the early 20th century endured legitimate turmoil, destitution, and the horrors of war, and yet despite lacking access to even a fraction of the information about the world as we do, they were ready to take up arms and fight for the revolution by the millions. We don’t see anything resembling even a small percentage of this type of militancy amongst Americans, even by the far right, who loves to larp as minute-men. People from these socialist orgs aren’t even willing to tread the legal boundary with their actions out of fear of the police state. From blocking highways and buildings, to staying past curfew, to resisting arrest, or acts of sabotage. The most we can seem to expect from them is to show up to a protest, chant slogans, and hold up signs.
3) How the fuck do we work around our countries incredibly spread out, wasteful, and atomizing infrastructure. Most Americans live in suburbs where they need to hop in a car and drive an average of 15 minutes just to go to the bathroom. Ive made efforts to talk to my neighbors before and nobody seems to know one another, everyone seems to fear, distrust, and hate each other. They have little to no interest in community organizing, they aren’t willing to spare resources towards some sort of communal utilities or social trust fund, and many don’t even answer the door when you knock.
It doesn’t help that our society revolves around cars. Which are wasteful, dehumanizing, dangerous, loud, and bad for the environment, and the worst part is that you basically need one to get around because many of our cities are unwalkable.
How would we go about taking the necessary steps advocating for a more pro social infrastructure that brings people together rather than atomizing them apart? How do we work around the stroad and suburb dichotomy? By which people are ultra spread out and atomized? How are we going to bring people together and make them want to care or work towards this goal?
4) Expropriation. What would that even look like within the context of an interconnected global economy built upon chains of exploitation. If Americans seized the means of production, the banks, and large swaths of the economy, would we also continue ruthlessly exploiting the third world because that’s how we get much of our abundance of cheap goods? Would we also convert the countries we import cheap goods from socialist? It’s such a monumental task I can’t even begin to fathom where we start?
Not trying to be a doomer here. I want to get involved and I want to do something. I just don’t know where to begin or where to look to do the right thing. I’ve been involved in socialist orgs in the past. But again, they’re usually loosely organized, are book clubs, or all they do is show up to protests. What more can I do as an American to aid the cause?
What would revolution in America even look like?
I’ve been a communist for a while and I have a number of questions that I’m hoping will get answered by what few remaining non-shit posters are on this board.1) organizing. What does that even mean? And what does it look like? From what I can tell, organizing in America seems to be a bunch of people showing up to protest with groups like the PSL standing alongside it. But what goes beyond such protests? Why are there never long term plans or concrete demands? All that came of the BLM protests was that a democrat got elected but nothing more. But aside from people joining PSL, DSA, etc. where are the so called institutions of duel power being erected? How would they be erected? What would they be, do, and look like? And what other duel power institutions should we be working to build beyond unions and these socialist parties? Why is there seemingly no game plan for accomplishing any short term goals? How does one even start one of these institutions? To my knowledge, orgs like the PSL are never even involved with trade unions or tenants unions, they just canvas and show up to protests. Unionization rates in America are at a historic low, and given right to work legislation in many states, makes unionizing so much harder. How to we work around such laws?
I work at a gas station for example, what would a gas station union even look like?
2) How do we get people to care enough to commit literally anything to the cause? In my experience, organizing a get-together of just 3 or 4 friends can be incredibly difficult itself. And it doesn’t help that Americans are some of the least rebellious people in the world. You could easily explain the interworkings of our genocidal system to most and they would likely just shrug you off. We have more access to information than ever, on some level, most people know the system is fucked up, but nobody cares enough to do anything about it. So long as they have their Nikes sneakers, their beer, candy, ford escort, smart phones, video games. and Walmart, they don’t care. So long as it doesn’t effect them personally, they don’t care.
From my perspective, most of the people who involve themselves in socialist organizations and take particular interest in this topic due so more as a form of a hobby, or as a means of escape from their every day responsibilities, than they do out of genuine material necessity.
The Russian peasants and workers of the early 20th century endured legitimate turmoil, destitution, and the horrors of war, and yet despite lacking access to even a fraction of the information about the world as we do, they were ready to take up arms and fight for the revolution by the millions. We don’t see anything resembling even a small percentage of this type of militancy amongst Americans, even by the far right, who loves to larp as minute-men. People from these socialist orgs aren’t even willing to tread the legal boundary with their actions out of fear of the police state. From blocking highways and buildings, to staying past curfew, to resisting arrest, or acts of sabotage. The most we can seem to expect from them is to show up to a protest, chant slogans, and hold up signs.
3) How the fuck do we work around our countries incredibly spread out, wasteful, and atomizing infrastructure. Most Americans live in suburbs where they need to hop in a car and drive an average of 15 minutes just to go to the bathroom. Ive made efforts to talk to my neighbors before and nobody seems to know one another, everyone seems to fear, distrust, and hate each other. They have little to no interest in community organizing, they aren’t willing to spare resources towards some sort of communal utilities or social trust fund, and many don’t even answer the door when you knock.
It doesn’t help that our society revolves around cars. Which are wasteful, dehumanizing, dangerous, loud, and bad for the environment, and the worst part is that you basically need one to get around because many of our cities are unwalkable.
How would we go about taking the necessary steps advocating for a more pro social infrastructure that brings people together rather than atomizing them apart? How do we work around the stroad and suburb dichotomy? By which people are ultra spread out and atomized? How are we going to bring people together and make them want to care or work towards this goal?
4) Expropriation. What would that even look like within the context of an interconnected global economy built upon chains of exploitation. If Americans seized the means of production, the banks, and large swaths of the economy, would we also continue ruthlessly exploiting the third world because that’s how we get much of our abundance of cheap goods? Would we also convert the countries we import cheap goods from socialist? It’s such a monumental task I can’t even begin to fathom where we start?
Not trying to be a doomer here. I want to get involved and I want to do something. I just don’t know where to begin or where to look to do the right thing. I’ve been involved in socialist orgs in the past. But again, they’re usually loosely organized, are book clubs, or all they do is show up to protests. What more can I do as an American to aid the cause?
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The attacks damaged several residential buildings but no casualties were reported, according to the local authorities.
https://www.rt.com/russia/621028-over-100-ukrainian-drones-downed-russia/
Anti-migrant protests flare up in EU
Police clashed with demonstrators outside an asylum center near Madrid following the rape of a young woman by a man of Mali origin.
https://www.rt.com/news/621030-spain-migrants-rape-protest/
Syria Wants To Annex Parts Of Lebanon In Exchange For Peace With Israel
The reports coming out from Israel, which claim that there are currently two proposals on the table, say that Syria is eyeing city of Tripoli, along with other areas in northern Lebanon and the Bekaa Valley the east of the country.
https://southfront.press/syria-wants-to-annex-parts-of-lebanon-in-exchange-for-peace-with-israel-reports/
EU to propose sanctions on Israel
Options reportedly include suspending the trade pact, an arms embargo, or sanctions on Israeli ministers, soldiers and settlers.
https://www.rt.com/news/621033-eu-propose-sanction-israel/
We Want Our Lev': Anti-Euro Protesters Storm the Bulgarian Parliament, Policeman Injured in the Clashes
A protest against the adoption of the euro, organized by the “Bulgarian Lev” committee and supported by the “Revival” Nationalist Pro-Russian party, escalated into physical confrontations in central Sofia. Demonstrators gathered under slogans such as “We Want Our Lev, We Want Our Referendum” and “Blockade of the National Assembly for Resignation,” aiming to halt parliamentary proceedings during a no-confidence vote in the Zhelyazkov government.
https://www.novinite.com/articles/233239/%27We+Want+Our+Lev%27%3A+Anti-Euro+Protesters+Storm+the+Bulgarian+Parliament%2C+Policeman+Injured+in+the+Clashes
Israel kills 64 Palestinians in Gaza, at least 9 of them aid seekers
Sources in Gaza hospitals say 64 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli bombings today, at least 9 of them near Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) aid hub in the north of Rafah, including three children.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/7/5/live-hamas-says-ready-to-start-gaza-ceasefire-talks-with-israel
Abuse of military force leads to further conflict, says Chinese FM
War is not a solution to the Iranian nuclear issue, and preemptive strikes apparently lack legitimacy, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Friday, stressing that the abuse of military force will only lead to further conflict and accumulate more hatred.
https://news.cgtn.com/news/2025-07-05/-Abuse-of-military-force-leads-to-further-conflict-says-Chinese-FM-1ELCh0B5Sx2/p.html
Thailand Ends Recreational Cannabis Era: Prescription-Only Rule Takes Hold Amid Political Ouster
Thailand reverses its cannabis legalization—prescription-only sales, closures of dispensaries, and political turmoil shake the industry as the prime minister faces suspension.
https://hightimes.com/news/thailand-ends-recreational-cannabis-era-prescription-only-rule-takes-hold-amid-political-ouster/
CGTN poll: Expanded BRICS ushers in new era of multilateral cooperation
A poll released by CGTN for global netizens shows that 91.2 percent of respondents believe the BRICS cooperation mechanism has become an important force in promoting a multipolar world with equality and order, as well as inclusive and shared economic globalization.
https://news.cgtn.com/news/2025-07-05/Poll-Expanded-BRICS-ushers-in-new-era-of-multilateral-cooperation-1EL0P80uNzO/p.html
Under Xi Jinping, China's first 15-year city plan resonates far
In a quiet corner of an exhibition hall in the coastal city of Xiamen, southeast China's Fujian Province, rests a faded blue binder, its 300 yellowed pages meticulously preserved, containing the city's economic and social development strategy from 1985 to 2000.
https://news.cgtn.com/news/2025-07-05/Under-Xi-Jinping-China-s-first-15-year-city-plan-resonates-far-1EL9kiDBJMA/p.html
News 05/07/25
Over 100 Ukrainian drones downed in RussiaThe attacks damaged several residential buildings but no casualties were reported, according to the local authorities.
https://www.rt.com/russia/621028-over-100-ukrainian-drones-downed-russia/
Anti-migrant protests flare up in EU
Police clashed with demonstrators outside an asylum center near Madrid following the rape of a young woman by a man of Mali origin.
https://www.rt.com/news/621030-spain-migrants-rape-protest/
Syria Wants To Annex Parts Of Lebanon In Exchange For Peace With Israel
The reports coming out from Israel, which claim that there are currently two proposals on the table, say that Syria is eyeing city of Tripoli, along with other areas in northern Lebanon and the Bekaa Valley the east of the country.
https://southfront.press/syria-wants-to-annex-parts-of-lebanon-in-exchange-for-peace-with-israel-reports/
EU to propose sanctions on Israel
Options reportedly include suspending the trade pact, an arms embargo, or sanctions on Israeli ministers, soldiers and settlers.
https://www.rt.com/news/621033-eu-propose-sanction-israel/
We Want Our Lev': Anti-Euro Protesters Storm the Bulgarian Parliament, Policeman Injured in the Clashes
A protest against the adoption of the euro, organized by the “Bulgarian Lev” committee and supported by the “Revival” Nationalist Pro-Russian party, escalated into physical confrontations in central Sofia. Demonstrators gathered under slogans such as “We Want Our Lev, We Want Our Referendum” and “Blockade of the National Assembly for Resignation,” aiming to halt parliamentary proceedings during a no-confidence vote in the Zhelyazkov government.
https://www.novinite.com/articles/233239/%27We+Want+Our+Lev%27%3A+Anti-Euro+Protesters+Storm+the+Bulgarian+Parliament%2C+Policeman+Injured+in+the+Clashes
Israel kills 64 Palestinians in Gaza, at least 9 of them aid seekers
Sources in Gaza hospitals say 64 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli bombings today, at least 9 of them near Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) aid hub in the north of Rafah, including three children.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/7/5/live-hamas-says-ready-to-start-gaza-ceasefire-talks-with-israel
Abuse of military force leads to further conflict, says Chinese FM
War is not a solution to the Iranian nuclear issue, and preemptive strikes apparently lack legitimacy, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Friday, stressing that the abuse of military force will only lead to further conflict and accumulate more hatred.
https://news.cgtn.com/news/2025-07-05/-Abuse-of-military-force-leads-to-further-conflict-says-Chinese-FM-1ELCh0B5Sx2/p.html
Thailand Ends Recreational Cannabis Era: Prescription-Only Rule Takes Hold Amid Political Ouster
Thailand reverses its cannabis legalization—prescription-only sales, closures of dispensaries, and political turmoil shake the industry as the prime minister faces suspension.
https://hightimes.com/news/thailand-ends-recreational-cannabis-era-prescription-only-rule-takes-hold-amid-political-ouster/
CGTN poll: Expanded BRICS ushers in new era of multilateral cooperation
A poll released by CGTN for global netizens shows that 91.2 percent of respondents believe the BRICS cooperation mechanism has become an important force in promoting a multipolar world with equality and order, as well as inclusive and shared economic globalization.
https://news.cgtn.com/news/2025-07-05/Poll-Expanded-BRICS-ushers-in-new-era-of-multilateral-cooperation-1EL0P80uNzO/p.html
Under Xi Jinping, China's first 15-year city plan resonates far
In a quiet corner of an exhibition hall in the coastal city of Xiamen, southeast China's Fujian Province, rests a faded blue binder, its 300 yellowed pages meticulously preserved, containing the city's economic and social development strategy from 1985 to 2000.
https://news.cgtn.com/news/2025-07-05/Under-Xi-Jinping-China-s-first-15-year-city-plan-resonates-far-1EL9kiDBJMA/p.html
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I wanted to discuss do you fellow communist believe that P*rn acceptable in a communist or do you think it’s degenerate do you think that? P*rn compatible with communism or do you think it’s only compatible in a capitalistic state
I wanted to discuss do you fellow communist believe that P*rn acceptable in a communist or do you think it’s degenerate do you think that? P*rn compatible with communism or do you think it’s only compatible in a capitalistic state
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaps_Movement
<The Vaps Movement was an Estonian political organization. Founded in 1929, it emerged as a right wing radical popular movement from the Union of Participants in the Estonian War of Independence an association of veterans of the Estonian War of Independence (1918–1920).[
<The organisation welcomed Hitler's rise to power, even though they later tried to distance themselves from Nazism.
<… the League won absolute majorities in local elections in the three largest cities at the beginning of 1934.
<The movement maintained good relations with Finnish fascist movements
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voldemarininkai
<The group stemmed from the militarized Iron Wolf organization established in 1927
<<Iron Wolfs was a semi-official Lithuanian militarized organization active in 1928–1930 … it was inspired by the Blackshirts
<In 1929–1940, voldemarininkai planned eight coups
<They increasingly sympathized and collaborated with Nazi Germany. After the German occupation of Lithuania in June 1941, voldemarininkai reestablished Iron Wolf and gained control of the Lithuanian police and the Lithuanian TDA Battalion which participated in the Holocaust and killed about 26,000 Jews between July and December 1941.
Latvia's the outlier because there was no party dictatorship but a single dictator, which held corporativist views and was inspired by nazi ideas.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C4%81rlis_Ulmanis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aizsargi
<On the night of 15–16 May 1934, Ulmanis, with the support of Minister of War Jānis Balodis, proclaimed a state of war and dissolved all political parties and the Saeima (parliament).
<The bloodless coup was carried out by army and units of the national guard Aizsargi loyal to Ulmanis.
<<… many became accomplices of the German occupation authorities (in particular, made up the backbone of the Latvian auxiliary police) and took an active part in the genocide of Jews on the territory of Latvia
Among other things, these fascistic organizations tried several coup d'etats… all at the same time… at the same time, similar coup d'etats were happening everywhere across Europe… except in the USSR (thank you, Stalin, for the Moscow Trials). All installed fascistic governments. All participated in the Holocaust.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1934_Estonian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1934_Lithuanian_coup_attempt
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1934_Latvian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat
The Soviet Union and the respective governments signed several treaties of cooperation. These were mostly mutual defense, Soviet troops stationed in the Baltic states and naval bases to be lended.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet%E2%80%93Lithuanian_Mutual_Assistance_Treaty
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet%E2%80%93Estonian_Mutual_Assistance_Treaty
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet%E2%80%93Latvian_Mutual_Assistance_Treaty
The Soviet Union never invaded these countries. Her troops were there legally. The formal integration of the Baltic states happened because of the will of the Baltic workers and peasants. The Baltic bourgeois governments collapsed once the Soviet Union demanded that the treaties be upheld. On 18 and 21 June 1940, new "popular front" governments were formed in each Baltic country. A month later when the new assemblies met their sole item of business for each of them was a resolution to join the Soviet Union. But considering that the Baltics were historically relativaly filled with petty-bourgeois and petty-nobility, considering that they had fascistic and anti-communist organizations since the Russian Civil War, is it really unexpected that their ancestors are most vocal about alleged injusticed they faced?
There was no Soviet occupation of the Baltic states
Since the 1900s did Germany have an imperialist inclination towards the Baltic states (and the Ukraine). After WW1, during the era of nazification, all three Baltic states had an active fifth column. This column was influenced by hitlerite ideas.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaps_Movement
<The Vaps Movement was an Estonian political organization. Founded in 1929, it emerged as a right wing radical popular movement from the Union of Participants in the Estonian War of Independence an association of veterans of the Estonian War of Independence (1918–1920).[
<The organisation welcomed Hitler's rise to power, even though they later tried to distance themselves from Nazism.
<… the League won absolute majorities in local elections in the three largest cities at the beginning of 1934.
<The movement maintained good relations with Finnish fascist movements
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voldemarininkai
<The group stemmed from the militarized Iron Wolf organization established in 1927
<<Iron Wolfs was a semi-official Lithuanian militarized organization active in 1928–1930 … it was inspired by the Blackshirts
<In 1929–1940, voldemarininkai planned eight coups
<They increasingly sympathized and collaborated with Nazi Germany. After the German occupation of Lithuania in June 1941, voldemarininkai reestablished Iron Wolf and gained control of the Lithuanian police and the Lithuanian TDA Battalion which participated in the Holocaust and killed about 26,000 Jews between July and December 1941.
Latvia's the outlier because there was no party dictatorship but a single dictator, which held corporativist views and was inspired by nazi ideas.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C4%81rlis_Ulmanis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aizsargi
<On the night of 15–16 May 1934, Ulmanis, with the support of Minister of War Jānis Balodis, proclaimed a state of war and dissolved all political parties and the Saeima (parliament).
<The bloodless coup was carried out by army and units of the national guard Aizsargi loyal to Ulmanis.
<<… many became accomplices of the German occupation authorities (in particular, made up the backbone of the Latvian auxiliary police) and took an active part in the genocide of Jews on the territory of Latvia
Among other things, these fascistic organizations tried several coup d'etats… all at the same time… at the same time, similar coup d'etats were happening everywhere across Europe… except in the USSR (thank you, Stalin, for the Moscow Trials). All installed fascistic governments. All participated in the Holocaust.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1934_Estonian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1934_Lithuanian_coup_attempt
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1934_Latvian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat
The Soviet Union and the respective governments signed several treaties of cooperation. These were mostly mutual defense, Soviet troops stationed in the Baltic states and naval bases to be lended.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet%E2%80%93Lithuanian_Mutual_Assistance_Treaty
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet%E2%80%93Estonian_Mutual_Assistance_Treaty
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet%E2%80%93Latvian_Mutual_Assistance_Treaty
The Soviet Union never invaded these countries. Her troops were there legally. The formal integration of the Baltic states happened because of the will of the Baltic workers and peasants. The Baltic bourgeois governments collapsed once the Soviet Union demanded that the treaties be upheld. On 18 and 21 June 1940, new "popular front" governments were formed in each Baltic country. A month later when the new assemblies met their sole item of business for each of them was a resolution to join the Soviet Union. But considering that the Baltics were historically relativaly filled with petty-bourgeois and petty-nobility, considering that they had fascistic and anti-communist organizations since the Russian Civil War, is it really unexpected that their ancestors are most vocal about alleged injusticed they faced?
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Picrel: an abomination.
>DEATH=LIFE
Good luck explaining that to your average Joe!
>Muh PHOENIX (mythical creature from like an irrelevant 2000 years old folklore) is like, totally ASHING itself… Uhm… in order to… Uhm… something about property relations I added to this
/SHIT/-tier leftist propaganda thread
This thread is dedicated to sharing shit-tier leftist propaganda pics, vids, and articles for the sole purpose of bettering ourselves, with added commentary from us dedicated to identifying the exact reasons of /SHIT/tieness.Picrel: an abomination.
>DEATH=LIFE
Good luck explaining that to your average Joe!
>Muh PHOENIX (mythical creature from like an irrelevant 2000 years old folklore) is like, totally ASHING itself… Uhm… in order to… Uhm… something about property relations I added to this
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Over 40 episodes out already! Check it out - great resource!
Actually Existing Socialism
A podcast dedicated to exploring, past, present, and future real world manifestations of Actually Existing Socialism by talking to those who've studied, lived in, or currently live in a socialist country.Over 40 episodes out already! Check it out - great resource!
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Rude and sarcastic shitposters may be ignored :0
Starting examples:
> To anarchists: Explain how a "dictatorship of the proletariat" can be democratic.
> To M-Ls: Summarize a Trotskyist critique of the Soviet Union during the 1920s, without mentioning Stalin
> To Trotskyists: Distinguish mutual aid from charity.
/crosspol/ - Socialist Cross-pollination
Welcome to /crosspol/. ITT we challenge comrades to prove they have a basic understanding of other ideologies.Rude and sarcastic shitposters may be ignored :0
Starting examples:
> To anarchists: Explain how a "dictatorship of the proletariat" can be democratic.
> To M-Ls: Summarize a Trotskyist critique of the Soviet Union during the 1920s, without mentioning Stalin
> To Trotskyists: Distinguish mutual aid from charity.
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On June 30, 2025, Russian forces completed the full liberation of the Lugansk People’s Republic. The announcement was made by the region’s head, Leonid Pasechnik. Eleven years after declaring independence, and nearly three years after joining the Russian Federation, the LPR now stands fully under Russian control. What began with mass protests and barricades in 2014 has culminated in a hard-won homecoming.
https://www.rt.com/russia/620794-make-lugansk-russian-again/
Israeli Special Forces Landed Few Kilometers Away From Syrian Capital
Early on July 4, Israeli special forces landed from helicopters and conducted a lengthy raid near Yafour, a resort town located some ten kilometers to the west of the Syrian capital, Damascus, according to Syrian media. The special forces, who were transported by at least three helicopters, landed at a base of the Republican Guards, an elite formation of the former Syrian Arab Army, in the outskirts of Yafour. They reportedly operated there for around five hours before withdrawing.
https://southfront.press/israeli-special-forces-landed-few-kilometers-away-from-syrian-capital/
Germany plans six-month military service
Germany is planning to introduce a voluntary six-month military service in order to double the number of reservists, Reuters has reported, citing informed sources.
Earlier this year, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz vowed to make the Bundeswehr the “strongest army” on the continent, with Defense Minister Boris Pistorius eyeing a “drastic increase” to Germany’s military budget of up to €90 billion ($102 billion) by 2028. The German government expects that attracting volunteers would allow the country to increase the number of reservists from around 100,000 to 200,000, Reuters reported in an article on Friday.
https://www.rt.com/news/621004-germany-military-service-reservists/
A robot revolution in building the largest railway station in west China
CHONGQING – As the new section of the Chongqing-Xiamen high-speed railway, from Chongqing to Qianjiang, officially opened a week ago, the key hub along this route, Chongqing East Railway Station, was also put into operation.
From obtaining the design blueprints in May 2022 to its official inauguration, it has taken 38 months to complete what is now the largest high-speed rail station in west China. Behind this monumental construction project are a group of unsung heroes – robots.
http://en.qstheory.cn/2025-07/04/c_1105476.htm
President Trump Announces UFC Fight On White House Lawn In Celebration Of America’s 249th Birthday
During a rally in Iowa Thursday, President Donald Trump announced as part of his year-long celebration of America’s 249th anniversary next year there will be a UFC fight at the White House.
https://www.infowars.com/posts/president-trump-announces-ufc-fight-on-white-house-lawn-in-celebration-of-americas-250th-birthday
California Psychedelics Legalization Advocates Push for 2026 Ballot Initiative
Psychedelics policy reform advocates in California are calling for a ballot initiative to legalize certain drugs including psilocybin and MDMA after legislative attempts at change failed to cross the finish line two years in a row.
https://hightimes.com/news/california-psychedelics-legalization-advocates-push-for-2026-ballot-initiative/
US and Colombia recall envoys as diplomatic rift deepens
Prosecutors in Colombia open a probe into an alleged plot to overthrow President Petro as ties sharply deteriorate.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/4/us-and-colombia-recall-envoys-as-diplomatic-rift-deepens
Elon Musk revives third party idea after ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ passes
And Alex Jones called it first before Al Jazeera copied it https://lefty.pictures/post/view/25424?search=Alex_jones
https://banned.video/watch?id=686427917611fb2266095c1f
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/4/elon-musk-revives-third-party-idea-after-one-big-beautiful-bill-passes
US Buckles Under High-Intensity War, But Drains Resources Anyway
The US suspension of arms supplies to Ukraine represents a limit of material means, not political will, former Marine Brian Berletic tells Sputnik.
https://sputnikglobe.com/20250704/us-buckles-under-high-intensity-war-but-drains-resources-anyway-1122395457.html
Z
News 04/07/25
Make Lugansk Russian Again: Moscow delivers on key objective of Ukraine conflictOn June 30, 2025, Russian forces completed the full liberation of the Lugansk People’s Republic. The announcement was made by the region’s head, Leonid Pasechnik. Eleven years after declaring independence, and nearly three years after joining the Russian Federation, the LPR now stands fully under Russian control. What began with mass protests and barricades in 2014 has culminated in a hard-won homecoming.
https://www.rt.com/russia/620794-make-lugansk-russian-again/
Israeli Special Forces Landed Few Kilometers Away From Syrian Capital
Early on July 4, Israeli special forces landed from helicopters and conducted a lengthy raid near Yafour, a resort town located some ten kilometers to the west of the Syrian capital, Damascus, according to Syrian media. The special forces, who were transported by at least three helicopters, landed at a base of the Republican Guards, an elite formation of the former Syrian Arab Army, in the outskirts of Yafour. They reportedly operated there for around five hours before withdrawing.
https://southfront.press/israeli-special-forces-landed-few-kilometers-away-from-syrian-capital/
Germany plans six-month military service
Germany is planning to introduce a voluntary six-month military service in order to double the number of reservists, Reuters has reported, citing informed sources.
Earlier this year, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz vowed to make the Bundeswehr the “strongest army” on the continent, with Defense Minister Boris Pistorius eyeing a “drastic increase” to Germany’s military budget of up to €90 billion ($102 billion) by 2028. The German government expects that attracting volunteers would allow the country to increase the number of reservists from around 100,000 to 200,000, Reuters reported in an article on Friday.
https://www.rt.com/news/621004-germany-military-service-reservists/
A robot revolution in building the largest railway station in west China
CHONGQING – As the new section of the Chongqing-Xiamen high-speed railway, from Chongqing to Qianjiang, officially opened a week ago, the key hub along this route, Chongqing East Railway Station, was also put into operation.
From obtaining the design blueprints in May 2022 to its official inauguration, it has taken 38 months to complete what is now the largest high-speed rail station in west China. Behind this monumental construction project are a group of unsung heroes – robots.
http://en.qstheory.cn/2025-07/04/c_1105476.htm
President Trump Announces UFC Fight On White House Lawn In Celebration Of America’s 249th Birthday
During a rally in Iowa Thursday, President Donald Trump announced as part of his year-long celebration of America’s 249th anniversary next year there will be a UFC fight at the White House.
https://www.infowars.com/posts/president-trump-announces-ufc-fight-on-white-house-lawn-in-celebration-of-americas-250th-birthday
California Psychedelics Legalization Advocates Push for 2026 Ballot Initiative
Psychedelics policy reform advocates in California are calling for a ballot initiative to legalize certain drugs including psilocybin and MDMA after legislative attempts at change failed to cross the finish line two years in a row.
https://hightimes.com/news/california-psychedelics-legalization-advocates-push-for-2026-ballot-initiative/
US and Colombia recall envoys as diplomatic rift deepens
Prosecutors in Colombia open a probe into an alleged plot to overthrow President Petro as ties sharply deteriorate.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/4/us-and-colombia-recall-envoys-as-diplomatic-rift-deepens
Elon Musk revives third party idea after ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ passes
And Alex Jones called it first before Al Jazeera copied it https://lefty.pictures/post/view/25424?search=Alex_jones
https://banned.video/watch?id=686427917611fb2266095c1f
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/4/elon-musk-revives-third-party-idea-after-one-big-beautiful-bill-passes
US Buckles Under High-Intensity War, But Drains Resources Anyway
The US suspension of arms supplies to Ukraine represents a limit of material means, not political will, former Marine Brian Berletic tells Sputnik.
https://sputnikglobe.com/20250704/us-buckles-under-high-intensity-war-but-drains-resources-anyway-1122395457.html
Z
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As a leftist person, what would you do with the money in country?
Donate? Burn it?
is a doubt that I have for a long time
Imagine you receive a good inheritance
Imagine you receive a good inheritance.As a leftist person, what would you do with the money in country?
Donate? Burn it?
is a doubt that I have for a long time
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Future of imageboard
tiktok zommers have brains full of capitalist ideas. You have to have the most beautiful body, if possible be rich, handsome and intelligent. Trump's fans don't understand the extent of the capitalism he's creating. Trump is intelligent not because he's rich or because he represents his own stereotype, but rather because he has flooded the internet with these nefarious ideas. As a community we need to ask ourselves, “How can we use internet culture to get our ideas across to as many people as possible?” As a community we need to ask ourselves, “How can we use internet culture to get our ideas across to as many people as possible?” This thing remains the essence of an ideological battle. There's always a grey area in the process. The general public implies people who want to give in to ease. The only way to reach them is through ideological propaganda. Reformat their brains like MK Ultra or Trump. Conspiracy theories and other nonsense about pizzagate have reached the American people. Now we have to convince the conspiracists that the evils of their heat are Trump and Kamala has to use our counter-culture to look cool to the average American. Great dictators have used these techniques in order to get elected Trump has done it. Repeat a lie to them 100 times and in their heads it would become truth. Psychological bias in an election campaign remains legion. So why not start turning things around?
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What's the deal with runes? Best answer is a link to an existing antifash guide, anecdotes are also cool.
I saw someone at work (different floor, same building) with about twenty Germanic runes tattooed below their ear. I only memorized two of them, which I recognize as mannaz ᛗ and algiz ᛉ, which my ignorant quick deduction suspects means it was the 24 Elder Futhark runes and not some esoteric Nazi shit like Wiligut runes (picrel). Therefore, no need to beat the guy up.
What's the deal with runes? Best answer is a link to an existing antifash guide, anecdotes are also cool.
I saw someone at work (different floor, same building) with about twenty Germanic runes tattooed below their ear. I only memorized two of them, which I recognize as mannaz ᛗ and algiz ᛉ, which my ignorant quick deduction suspects means it was the 24 Elder Futhark runes and not some esoteric Nazi shit like Wiligut runes (picrel). Therefore, no need to beat the guy up.
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Original threads:
https://archive.ph/S2XYA
https://archive.ph/Ytckv
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>Thesis and Antithesis - A study in contradictions…Original threads:
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quick you have 5 seconds to convince THEM to join the intergalactic communist jihad. What are you uploadin(They are a giant computer god) to get them to join the cause??
quick you have 5 seconds to convince THEM to join the intergalactic communist jihad. What are you uploadin(They are a giant computer god) to get them to join the cause??
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Real change is not gradual. Conflicts within society build up until they trigger a fundamental break. This is the idea of quantity changing into quality. Revolutions happen when the old order decays and new forces grow strong enough to replace it. Or as Lenin says it, when the old cannot rule in the old way, and the new is not strong enough to rule in the new way. Ideas develop out of real conditions. How people produce and who owns the tools of production shape their worldview. Change the material base first and thought will follow. In a word, this is the theory of dialectical materialism. Ignoring this is chasing illusions. Anarchists often misunderstand or dismiss these insights, treating them like empty words instead of tools for understanding how power shifts.
A small ownership class controls land, factories, machines and raw materials. Workers must sell their labor for a wage, while owners keep all the extra value. This setup depends on private property and state power. But a socialist revolution will make productive forces common property. Classes, wages and markets will gradually disappear under the proletarian dictatorship. Production will be organized to meet people’s needs. The old state apparatus loses its purpose and it withers away. This is, in a word, the theory of revolution.
Practical goals are clear. Build mass unions and cooperatives to sharpen class awareness, but don’t mistake them for the final goal. Form a disciplined workers’ party that can win political power. Use that power to expropriate the capitalist class, protect gains with proletarian red army, and reorganize production on a social basis. Strikes, elections and protests prepare the ground. Only a full socialist revolution, led by a communist party, can uproot exploitation.
Anarchism or Socialism?
Socialism today splits into reformists, anarchists and Marxists. Reformists give up on breaking with capitalism and settle for minor adjustments and class cooperation. Anarchists start with the individual, believing free communities will emerge naturally. Marxists put the organized working class at the center. They argue that only a united proletariat taking control of production can end exploitation. The real divide is between building from isolated individuals or from the collective strength of workers.Real change is not gradual. Conflicts within society build up until they trigger a fundamental break. This is the idea of quantity changing into quality. Revolutions happen when the old order decays and new forces grow strong enough to replace it. Or as Lenin says it, when the old cannot rule in the old way, and the new is not strong enough to rule in the new way. Ideas develop out of real conditions. How people produce and who owns the tools of production shape their worldview. Change the material base first and thought will follow. In a word, this is the theory of dialectical materialism. Ignoring this is chasing illusions. Anarchists often misunderstand or dismiss these insights, treating them like empty words instead of tools for understanding how power shifts.
A small ownership class controls land, factories, machines and raw materials. Workers must sell their labor for a wage, while owners keep all the extra value. This setup depends on private property and state power. But a socialist revolution will make productive forces common property. Classes, wages and markets will gradually disappear under the proletarian dictatorship. Production will be organized to meet people’s needs. The old state apparatus loses its purpose and it withers away. This is, in a word, the theory of revolution.
Practical goals are clear. Build mass unions and cooperatives to sharpen class awareness, but don’t mistake them for the final goal. Form a disciplined workers’ party that can win political power. Use that power to expropriate the capitalist class, protect gains with proletarian red army, and reorganize production on a social basis. Strikes, elections and protests prepare the ground. Only a full socialist revolution, led by a communist party, can uproot exploitation.
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Ceci étant dit, nous pouvons maintenant avoir une discussion.
Il s'agit maintenant de tranquillement mépriser le pouvoir en nous branlant les uns les autres, en cercle peut être.
Le thread francophone
Ahem.. Nique la france!Ceci étant dit, nous pouvons maintenant avoir une discussion.
Il s'agit maintenant de tranquillement mépriser le pouvoir en nous branlant les uns les autres, en cercle peut être.
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A thread dedicated to posting declassified CIA documents, preferably of their anti-communist activities and their involvment in imperialist policies.
Let's start with the CIA's recommended actions to be taken after Khruschev's famous anti-Stalin """secret speech""" at the 20th congress. It's an interesting document because it showcases that
>yes, the CIA (and burger policy makers) do actually believe their own propaganda, even when they are completely conscious of the fact that they just "made it up, lol". It's a truly scizophrenic institution.
>yes, they prefer to control "both sides" of any topic, instead of just lamely chosing the obvious side to take
>yes, the M-Ls are always right:
<Leon Trotsky in his book The Revolution Betrayed, alleged that the rise of Joseph Stalin to power was a Soviet Thermidor for 'not restoring capitalism', yet still being a 'counterrevolutionary regression' within the regime of the USSR, as Thermidor did not restore a monarchy, etc. Marxist-Leninists and Stalinists have periodically argued that Nikita Khruschev's rise to power and the implementation of De-Stalinization as the Soviet Union’s Thermidor. A CIA document considered Khruschev's "On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences" may have 'marked the "Thermidor" of the Russian Revolution'.
Declassified CIA documents thread
Know thy enemy. Know how the glow operates, how it plans, how it thinks, how it manipulates.A thread dedicated to posting declassified CIA documents, preferably of their anti-communist activities and their involvment in imperialist policies.
Let's start with the CIA's recommended actions to be taken after Khruschev's famous anti-Stalin """secret speech""" at the 20th congress. It's an interesting document because it showcases that
>yes, the CIA (and burger policy makers) do actually believe their own propaganda, even when they are completely conscious of the fact that they just "made it up, lol". It's a truly scizophrenic institution.
>yes, they prefer to control "both sides" of any topic, instead of just lamely chosing the obvious side to take
>yes, the M-Ls are always right:
<Leon Trotsky in his book The Revolution Betrayed, alleged that the rise of Joseph Stalin to power was a Soviet Thermidor for 'not restoring capitalism', yet still being a 'counterrevolutionary regression' within the regime of the USSR, as Thermidor did not restore a monarchy, etc. Marxist-Leninists and Stalinists have periodically argued that Nikita Khruschev's rise to power and the implementation of De-Stalinization as the Soviet Union’s Thermidor. A CIA document considered Khruschev's "On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences" may have 'marked the "Thermidor" of the Russian Revolution'.
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If this pattern isn't isolated to a single org but seems to infect the whole field of them, DSA, CPUSA, PSL, and so forth, then it's indicative of a structural problem. These structural problems of systemic uselessness seem to be pervasive well beyond just the United States. What's going on here? How do we fix the formula?
Genuinely, would we have better results in these kinds of conditions if our orgs were fully underground to begin with? I suspect that one advantage the anarchists have is the lack of a publically visible, legally sanctioned, easy to target organizational structure. Every fed knows the leadership of the PSL, or the DSA, and anyone who's ever paid dues, so there's a very strong incentive to stay safely within legal boundaries. Infiltration and cooption is painfully easy. On the other hand, the anarchist model is also obviously a failure, given that they simply function along lines of pure spontaneity without much coherent organization to begin with.
How dig ourselves out of this common trap, and the resulting malaise?
Why Are They All Tailist Opportunists?
Every experience I've ever had with a major American org, be it PSL, DSA, SALT, CPUSA has left a profoundly disappointing impression. They uniformly have no militancy, no coherent program for building power, and no pattern of success. Often, their strategy invariably finds itself expresses in mindlessly tailing the activist cause du jour, recruiting from liberal protests, then creating their own nonviolent liberal protests and book clubs to fundraise off of ad infinitum. Usually their electoral strategy involves endorsing the Democrats or trying to launch a presidential run for some figure with no national profile who receives 0.015% of the vote. At best they'll make a mild contribution to local tenant organizing on a micro scale. At worst, they're fed-filled cults run by sex pests. Anarchists, who lack the political organizing capabilities to accomplish anything of note, usually somehow lap these orgs in actual militant activity. At least they're capable of creating some minor property damage.If this pattern isn't isolated to a single org but seems to infect the whole field of them, DSA, CPUSA, PSL, and so forth, then it's indicative of a structural problem. These structural problems of systemic uselessness seem to be pervasive well beyond just the United States. What's going on here? How do we fix the formula?
Genuinely, would we have better results in these kinds of conditions if our orgs were fully underground to begin with? I suspect that one advantage the anarchists have is the lack of a publically visible, legally sanctioned, easy to target organizational structure. Every fed knows the leadership of the PSL, or the DSA, and anyone who's ever paid dues, so there's a very strong incentive to stay safely within legal boundaries. Infiltration and cooption is painfully easy. On the other hand, the anarchist model is also obviously a failure, given that they simply function along lines of pure spontaneity without much coherent organization to begin with.
How dig ourselves out of this common trap, and the resulting malaise?
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The ideal of democracy is always saved by comparing it to the horror word fascism, so no one has to deal with what democracy actually is, the perfected form of class rule. Its elections, freedoms and rights don’t oppose capitalism, they organize its smooth reproduction.
Retarded PBs can't see this because theyvve internalized the form of rule itself they only oppose features of class domination through the very constitutional, parliamentary and electoral mechanisms designed to preserve that domination. Their socialism ends where critique of the state begins. It's even funnier with "MLs" who minequote Lenin misunderstanding the whole basis and context of Lenin's fight for democracy, like he was actually fighting in democracy's stead and its appraisal, and not something to do with what early 1900s Russian proletarian movement was contending with.
The ideal of democracy is always saved by comparing it to the horror word fascism, so no one has to deal with what democracy actually is, the perfected form of class rule. Its elections, freedoms and rights don’t oppose capitalism, they organize its smooth reproduction.
Retarded PBs can't see this because theyvve internalized the form of rule itself they only oppose features of class domination through the very constitutional, parliamentary and electoral mechanisms designed to preserve that domination. Their socialism ends where critique of the state begins. It's even funnier with "MLs" who minequote Lenin misunderstanding the whole basis and context of Lenin's fight for democracy, like he was actually fighting in democracy's stead and its appraisal, and not something to do with what early 1900s Russian proletarian movement was contending with.
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What unites post-soc boomers with burger boomers is:
>they did gone got it way better than the following generation(s)
>loudmouthedness
>know-it-all mentality
What differentiates post-soc boomers from burger boomers (from most obvious to less):
>They enjoyed WAAAAAY more "social benefits": world class and completely free education; rents paid toward the local gov. (instead of private entities) that cost them at most 5% of the median wage; way more off time, paid holidays, maternity leaves, etc.
>during the regime change (soc -> cap) they faced a market environment that was basically EMPTY, meaning they could easily become the "plumbing tsar in a region" with just their basic socialist provided education (if they were anti-social enough) and pre-capitalist "colleague-network" (as opposed to burger: heavily saturated market + inter-p-bourg networked "capital");
>they had a MUCH EASIER access to unproductive/parasitic capital post-economic-system-transition, especially in the sense of (almost) FREE REAL ESTATE (acquired during socialism), which they converted to rent seeking, and so on;
>and very importantly, the "post-soc to pro-capitalist transition period" had basically provided them a period which paralleled what Marx and Engels called the "phase of primitive accumulation" in the context of Great Britain, which is to say: legalized robbery;
>the afformentioned meant in the context of industrializing Britain that newly emerging capitalists just could force everyday serfs into wage labour. For post-soc boomers, however, this meant the unashamed STEALING of state manufacturing, importing, exporting, EVEN if they were literally illegal under the post-socialist law…
I could go on, but hear me out on the consequences!
Fucking post-soc boomers:
>Had it easier than post-ww2 boomers in Burgerland (explained above);
>and naturally hid their own "privileges" (which, as I said included semi-illegal "pirate" activities) behind their facade of "talents";
>many of them even recieved literal NGO/SOROS/CIA/etc. funds and now control a country based on their pseudo-opposition to said NGO/SOROS/CIA/etc. funds (prime example: Viktor Orbán and his Fidesz coalition…
Now imagine, when a burger boomer "educumates" a burger zoomer about how he's lazy Vs. a post-soc boomer, who literally was allowed to STEAL so that that "HOLY PRIVATIZATION" could take place…
Well… Just imagine why I smirk, when burger comrades cry about their boomers.
OUR POST-SOC BOOMERS HAD IT WAY EASIER. THEY COULD STEAL (PUBLIC RESOURCES, COMPANIES, FIELDS, PLANTS, GRANTS, ETC.) AND THEY STILL THINK THEY CLIMBED A ROUGH(ER THAN AVG.) MOUNTAIN! THEIR REACTIONARY ATTITUDE IS REINFORCED BY HOW MUCH EASIER THEY JAD IT, COMPARED TO BURGER BOOMERS!!!
Thank you for listening, but all these complaints are like tears in the rain, and trust me, I've seen the BOOMHAUSER GATE iron wall come down, like tears in the rain… Time to die….
Post-socialist boomers are WAY WORSE than burger boomers
Whenever I see our burger comrades cry about their boomers? I just smirk. You guys got it good.What unites post-soc boomers with burger boomers is:
>they did gone got it way better than the following generation(s)
>loudmouthedness
>know-it-all mentality
What differentiates post-soc boomers from burger boomers (from most obvious to less):
>They enjoyed WAAAAAY more "social benefits": world class and completely free education; rents paid toward the local gov. (instead of private entities) that cost them at most 5% of the median wage; way more off time, paid holidays, maternity leaves, etc.
>during the regime change (soc -> cap) they faced a market environment that was basically EMPTY, meaning they could easily become the "plumbing tsar in a region" with just their basic socialist provided education (if they were anti-social enough) and pre-capitalist "colleague-network" (as opposed to burger: heavily saturated market + inter-p-bourg networked "capital");
>they had a MUCH EASIER access to unproductive/parasitic capital post-economic-system-transition, especially in the sense of (almost) FREE REAL ESTATE (acquired during socialism), which they converted to rent seeking, and so on;
>and very importantly, the "post-soc to pro-capitalist transition period" had basically provided them a period which paralleled what Marx and Engels called the "phase of primitive accumulation" in the context of Great Britain, which is to say: legalized robbery;
>the afformentioned meant in the context of industrializing Britain that newly emerging capitalists just could force everyday serfs into wage labour. For post-soc boomers, however, this meant the unashamed STEALING of state manufacturing, importing, exporting, EVEN if they were literally illegal under the post-socialist law…
I could go on, but hear me out on the consequences!
Fucking post-soc boomers:
>Had it easier than post-ww2 boomers in Burgerland (explained above);
>and naturally hid their own "privileges" (which, as I said included semi-illegal "pirate" activities) behind their facade of "talents";
>many of them even recieved literal NGO/SOROS/CIA/etc. funds and now control a country based on their pseudo-opposition to said NGO/SOROS/CIA/etc. funds (prime example: Viktor Orbán and his Fidesz coalition…
Now imagine, when a burger boomer "educumates" a burger zoomer about how he's lazy Vs. a post-soc boomer, who literally was allowed to STEAL so that that "HOLY PRIVATIZATION" could take place…
Well… Just imagine why I smirk, when burger comrades cry about their boomers.
OUR POST-SOC BOOMERS HAD IT WAY EASIER. THEY COULD STEAL (PUBLIC RESOURCES, COMPANIES, FIELDS, PLANTS, GRANTS, ETC.) AND THEY STILL THINK THEY CLIMBED A ROUGH(ER THAN AVG.) MOUNTAIN! THEIR REACTIONARY ATTITUDE IS REINFORCED BY HOW MUCH EASIER THEY JAD IT, COMPARED TO BURGER BOOMERS!!!
Thank you for listening, but all these complaints are like tears in the rain, and trust me, I've seen the BOOMHAUSER GATE iron wall come down, like tears in the rain… Time to die….
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the 5 year plans always seems to follow the same pattern though
>nationalize an industry
>up production
>profit
>reinvest into industry
>expand into new industry
>repeat
how to become a rich country?
i really want to understand how lenin, stalin, mao, kim, xi etc. managed to turn so many shitholes into nuclear superpowersthe 5 year plans always seems to follow the same pattern though
>nationalize an industry
>up production
>profit
>reinvest into industry
>expand into new industry
>repeat
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OEunGb83zI
Also van Aken is shilling for Dengism.
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Say whatever you want. This country is hell on earth. Linkspartei bei der Bundespressekonferenz reden über Stalingrad.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OEunGb83zI
Also van Aken is shilling for Dengism.
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For instance, Che Guevara was killed. Such a thing is liable to happen, because a revolutionary may get killed. Che Guevara, however, was a victim of his own non-Marxist-Leninist views.
Who was Che Guevara? When we speak of Che Guevara, we also mean somebody else who poses as a Marxist, in comparison to whom, in our opinion, Che Guevara was a man of fewer words. He was a rebel, a revolutionary, but not a Marxist-Leninist as they try to present him. I may be mistaken—you Latin-Americans are better acquainted with Che Guevara, but I think that he was a leftist fighter. His is a bourgeois and petty-bourgeois leftism, combined with some ideas that were progressive, but also anarchist which, in the final analysis, lead to adventurism.
The views of Che Guevara and anyone else who poses as a Marxist and claims "paternity" of these ideas have never been or had anything to do with Marxism-Leninism. Che Guevara also had some "exclairicies" in his adoption of certain Marxist-Leninist principles, but they still did not become a full philosophical world-outlook which could impel him to genuinely revolutionary actions.
We cannot say that Che Guevara and his comrades were cowards. No, by no means! On the contrary, they were brave people. There are also bourgeois who are brave men. But the only truly great heroes and really brave proletarian revolutionaries are those who proceed from the Marxist-Leninist philosophical principles and put all their physical and mental energies at the service of the world proletariat for the liberation of the peoples from the yolk of the imperialists, feudal lords and others.
We have defended the Cuban revolution because it was against US imperialism. As Marxist-Leninists let us study it a bit and the ideas which guided it in this struggle. The Cuban revolution did not begin on the basis of Marxism-Leninism and was not carried out on the basis of the laws of the proletarian revolution of a Marxist-Leninist party. After the liberation of the country, Castro did not set out on the Marxist-Leninist course, either, but on the contrary, continued on the course of his liberal ideas. It is a fact, which nobody can deny, that the participants in this revolution took up arms and went to the mountains, but it is an undeniable fact also that they did not fight as Marxist-Leninists. They were liberation fighters against the Battista clique and triumphed over it precisely because that clique was a weak link of capitalism. Battista was an obedient flunky of imperialism, who rode roughshod over the Cuban people. The Cuban people, however, fought and triumphed over this clique and over American imperialism at the same time…
In our opinion, the theory that the revolution is carried out by a few "heroes" constitutes a danger to Marxism-Leninism, especially in the Latin-American countries. Your South-American continent has great revolutionary traditions, but, as we said above, it also has some other traditions which may seem revolutionary but which, in fact, are not genuinely on the road of the revolution. Any putsch carried out there is called a revolution! But a putsch can never be a revolution, because one overthrown clique is replaced by another, in a word, things remain as they were. In addition to all the nuclei of anti-Marxist trends which still exist in the ranks of the old parties that have placed themselves in the service of the counterrevolution, there is now another trend which we call left adventurism.
This trend, and that other offspring of the bourgeoisie, modern revisionism, constitute great dangers to the people, including those of the Latin-American countries. Carefully disguised, modern revisionism is a great deceiver of the peoples and revolutionaries. In different countries it puts on different disguises. In Latin America, Castroism, disguised as Marxism-Leninism, is leading people, even revolutionaries, into left adventurism. This trend appears to be in contradiction with modern revisionism. Those who are ideologically immature think thus, but it is not so. The Castroites are not opposed to the modern revisionists. On the contrary, they are in their service. The separate courses each of them follows lead them to the same point.
The question whenever the Soviet revisionists fail to prevent the masses of the working class and the people from carrying out the revolution, this trend steps in and, by means of a putsch, destroys what the revisionists are unable to destroy by means of evolution. The Soviet revisionists and all the traitor cliques which led the revisionist parties preach evolution, coexistence and all those other anti-Marxist theories we know. From the terms it employs, left adventurism seems more revolutionary, because it advocates armed struggle! But what does it mean by armed struggle? Clearly—putsches. Marxism-Leninism teaches us that only by proceeding with prudent and sure steps, only by basing ourselves firmly on the principles of the Marxist-Leninist doctrine, only by making the masses conscious can victory be ensured in the preparation and launching of the armed uprising, and only in this way will we never fall into adventurism.
The authors of the theory that the "starter motor" sets the "big motor" in motion pose as if they are for the armed struggle, but in fact they are opposed to it and work to discredit it. The example and tragic end of Che Guevara, the following and prorogation of this theory also by other self-styled Marxists, who are opposed to the great struggles by the masses of people, are publicly known facts which refute their claims: We must guard against the people lest they betray us, lest they hand us over to the police; we must set up "wild" isolated detachments, so that the enemy does not get wind of them and does not retaliate with terror against the population! They publicize these and many other confusing theories, which you know only too well. What sort of Marxism-Leninism is this which advocates attacking the enemy, fighting it with these "wild" detachments, etc. without having a Marxist-Leninist party to lead the fight? There is nothing Marxist-Leninist about it. Such anti-Marxist and anti-Leninist theories can bring nothing but defeat for Marxism-Leninism and the revolution, as Che Guevara's undertaking in Bolivia did.
This trend brings the theses of the armed uprising into disrepute. What great damage it causes the revolution! With the killing of Guevara, the masses of common people, contaminated by the influences of these anarchist views, will think: "Now there is no one else to lead us, to liberate us!" Or perhaps a group of people with another Guevara will be set up again to take to the mountains to make the "revolution," and the masses, who expect a great deal from these individuals and are burning to fight the bourgeoisie, may be deceived into following them. And what will happen? Something that is clear to us. Since these people are not the vanguard of the working class, since they are not guided by the enlightening principles of Marxism-Leninism, they will encounter misunderstanding among the broad masses and sooner or later they will fail, but at the same time the genuine struggle will be discredited, because the masses will regard armed struggle with distrust. We must prepare the masses politically and ideologically, and convince them through their own practical experience. That is why we say that this inhibiting, reactionary theory about the revolution that is being spread in Latin America is the offspring of modern revisionism and must be unmasked by the Marxist-Leninists.
Certain leaders of some Latin-American state put in the odd word in a veiled "opposition" to the Soviet Union, but we cannot infer from this that they are really opposed to it. Those words are only pressure and blackmail for the purpose of gaining some advantage, on the one hand, of deceiving the naive, on the other. If the advocates of these theories were to stop serving the Soviets in their imperialist-revisionist expansion, the latter would cut off all aid to them. We know the Soviets only too well. However, this will not occur, because they serve the Soviets admirably. This is why the Soviet revisionists continue to give them aid and keep them alive.
It is the duty of all the Marxist-Leninists to expose this anti-Marxist trend, the advocates of which style themselves Marxist-Leninists and use Marxist terminology only as a disguise without which they would be lost. We must tear this disguise from them and this can be done only through organized struggle on the Marxist-Leninist course, as you comrades from Ecuador and others are doing.
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For instance, Che Guevara was killed. Such a thing is liable to happen, because a revolutionary may get killed. Che Guevara, however, was a victim of his own non-Marxist-Leninist views.
Who was Che Guevara? When we speak of Che Guevara, we also mean somebody else who poses as a Marxist, in comparison to whom, in our opinion, Che Guevara was a man of fewer words. He was a rebel, a revolutionary, but not a Marxist-Leninist as they try to present him. I may be mistaken—you Latin-Americans are better acquainted with Che Guevara, but I think that he was a leftist fighter. His is a bourgeois and petty-bourgeois leftism, combined with some ideas that were progressive, but also anarchist which, in the final analysis, lead to adventurism.
The views of Che Guevara and anyone else who poses as a Marxist and claims "paternity" of these ideas have never been or had anything to do with Marxism-Leninism. Che Guevara also had some "exclairicies" in his adoption of certain Marxist-Leninist principles, but they still did not become a full philosophical world-outlook which could impel him to genuinely revolutionary actions.
We cannot say that Che Guevara and his comrades were cowards. No, by no means! On the contrary, they were brave people. There are also bourgeois who are brave men. But the only truly great heroes and really brave proletarian revolutionaries are those who proceed from the Marxist-Leninist philosophical principles and put all their physical and mental energies at the service of the world proletariat for the liberation of the peoples from the yolk of the imperialists, feudal lords and others.
We have defended the Cuban revolution because it was against US imperialism. As Marxist-Leninists let us study it a bit and the ideas which guided it in this struggle. The Cuban revolution did not begin on the basis of Marxism-Leninism and was not carried out on the basis of the laws of the proletarian revolution of a Marxist-Leninist party. After the liberation of the country, Castro did not set out on the Marxist-Leninist course, either, but on the contrary, continued on the course of his liberal ideas. It is a fact, which nobody can deny, that the participants in this revolution took up arms and went to the mountains, but it is an undeniable fact also that they did not fight as Marxist-Leninists. They were liberation fighters against the Battista clique and triumphed over it precisely because that clique was a weak link of capitalism. Battista was an obedient flunky of imperialism, who rode roughshod over the Cuban people. The Cuban people, however, fought and triumphed over this clique and over American imperialism at the same time…
In our opinion, the theory that the revolution is carried out by a few "heroes" constitutes a danger to Marxism-Leninism, especially in the Latin-American countries. Your South-American continent has great revolutionary traditions, but, as we said above, it also has some other traditions which may seem revolutionary but which, in fact, are not genuinely on the road of the revolution. Any putsch carried out there is called a revolution! But a putsch can never be a revolution, because one overthrown clique is replaced by another, in a word, things remain as they were. In addition to all the nuclei of anti-Marxist trends which still exist in the ranks of the old parties that have placed themselves in the service of the counterrevolution, there is now another trend which we call left adventurism.
This trend, and that other offspring of the bourgeoisie, modern revisionism, constitute great dangers to the people, including those of the Latin-American countries. Carefully disguised, modern revisionism is a great deceiver of the peoples and revolutionaries. In different countries it puts on different disguises. In Latin America, Castroism, disguised as Marxism-Leninism, is leading people, even revolutionaries, into left adventurism. This trend appears to be in contradiction with modern revisionism. Those who are ideologically immature think thus, but it is not so. The Castroites are not opposed to the modern revisionists. On the contrary, they are in their service. The separate courses each of them follows lead them to the same point.
The question whenever the Soviet revisionists fail to prevent the masses of the working class and the people from carrying out the revolution, this trend steps in and, by means of a putsch, destroys what the revisionists are unable to destroy by means of evolution. The Soviet revisionists and all the traitor cliques which led the revisionist parties preach evolution, coexistence and all those other anti-Marxist theories we know. From the terms it employs, left adventurism seems more revolutionary, because it advocates armed struggle! But what does it mean by armed struggle? Clearly—putsches. Marxism-Leninism teaches us that only by proceeding with prudent and sure steps, only by basing ourselves firmly on the principles of the Marxist-Leninist doctrine, only by making the masses conscious can victory be ensured in the preparation and launching of the armed uprising, and only in this way will we never fall into adventurism.
The authors of the theory that the "starter motor" sets the "big motor" in motion pose as if they are for the armed struggle, but in fact they are opposed to it and work to discredit it. The example and tragic end of Che Guevara, the following and prorogation of this theory also by other self-styled Marxists, who are opposed to the great struggles by the masses of people, are publicly known facts which refute their claims: We must guard against the people lest they betray us, lest they hand us over to the police; we must set up "wild" isolated detachments, so that the enemy does not get wind of them and does not retaliate with terror against the population! They publicize these and many other confusing theories, which you know only too well. What sort of Marxism-Leninism is this which advocates attacking the enemy, fighting it with these "wild" detachments, etc. without having a Marxist-Leninist party to lead the fight? There is nothing Marxist-Leninist about it. Such anti-Marxist and anti-Leninist theories can bring nothing but defeat for Marxism-Leninism and the revolution, as Che Guevara's undertaking in Bolivia did.
This trend brings the theses of the armed uprising into disrepute. What great damage it causes the revolution! With the killing of Guevara, the masses of common people, contaminated by the influences of these anarchist views, will think: "Now there is no one else to lead us, to liberate us!" Or perhaps a group of people with another Guevara will be set up again to take to the mountains to make the "revolution," and the masses, who expect a great deal from these individuals and are burning to fight the bourgeoisie, may be deceived into following them. And what will happen? Something that is clear to us. Since these people are not the vanguard of the working class, since they are not guided by the enlightening principles of Marxism-Leninism, they will encounter misunderstanding among the broad masses and sooner or later they will fail, but at the same time the genuine struggle will be discredited, because the masses will regard armed struggle with distrust. We must prepare the masses politically and ideologically, and convince them through their own practical experience. That is why we say that this inhibiting, reactionary theory about the revolution that is being spread in Latin America is the offspring of modern revisionism and must be unmasked by the Marxist-Leninists.
Certain leaders of some Latin-American state put in the odd word in a veiled "opposition" to the Soviet Union, but we cannot infer from this that they are really opposed to it. Those words are only pressure and blackmail for the purpose of gaining some advantage, on the one hand, of deceiving the naive, on the other. If the advocates of these theories were to stop serving the Soviets in their imperialist-revisionist expansion, the latter would cut off all aid to them. We know the Soviets only too well. However, this will not occur, because they serve the Soviets admirably. This is why the Soviet revisionists continue to give them aid and keep them alive.
It is the duty of all the Marxist-Leninists to expose this anti-Marxist trend, the advocates of which style themselves Marxist-Leninists and use Marxist terminology only as a disguise without which they would be lost. We must tear this disguise from them and this can be done only through organized struggle on the Marxist-Leninist course, as you comrades from Ecuador and others are doing.
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Gierek won Deng won Market socialism won hardlinercucks lost geg
>but muh betraying the revolution
Deng and Gierek lifted milions out of poverty,very bourgie indeed
>but muh
Gierek won Deng won Market socialism won hardlinercucks lost geg
>but muh betraying the revolution
Deng and Gierek lifted milions out of poverty,very bourgie indeed
>but muh
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Iran is putting actual anti-fascism into action
Iran has gone of the full-scale offensive against the most genocidal fascist regime to exist in our lifetime: the Zionist entity. Iran pounding Tel Aviv and turning it into Gaza represents real anti-fascism more than a bunch of liberals crying about Trump holding a parade or black bloc wackos smashing windows. Fascism is only on the run when its proverbial skull meets the pavement.
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<Anthony Albanese became the first Australian prime minister to win a second term in more than two decades as his Labor Party dramatically increased its parliamentary majority. It marked a stunning comeback for the progressive leader, who trailed in the polls two months ago.
Australian Labor Won
>SYDNEY — Australia’s center-left government convincingly won reelection Saturday in a remarkable turnaround driven partly by anger over President Donald Trump’s disruptive trade war and its effect on the close U.S. military ally.<Anthony Albanese became the first Australian prime minister to win a second term in more than two decades as his Labor Party dramatically increased its parliamentary majority. It marked a stunning comeback for the progressive leader, who trailed in the polls two months ago.
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More than $1 trillion in Medicaid cuts , MAGA is a death cult.
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Trump’s ’Big Beautiful Bill’
https://www.cnbc.com/amp/guide/the-big-beautiful-bill-act-senate-republican/More than $1 trillion in Medicaid cuts , MAGA is a death cult.
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- To what degree is it ok to lie to fellow workers in order to make socialism more appealing to them?
- What are the benefits and risks of doing so?
- How much theoretical knowledge do you have?
- Can you convey it without using wanky words like "class", "state", "proletariat" and "capital"?
Rhetoric
Which one are you?- To what degree is it ok to lie to fellow workers in order to make socialism more appealing to them?
- What are the benefits and risks of doing so?
- How much theoretical knowledge do you have?
- Can you convey it without using wanky words like "class", "state", "proletariat" and "capital"?
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I've spent the last six months working/organising with what's basically one of the most well-known indigenous resistance groups here in Australia. I was asked to write a political program for them. I did. I was hesitant on how receptive they'd be for it, since it's basically "we need to become a Communist party" and has a section specifically devoted to Marxism-Leninism. When I presented it to them I tried to tiptoe around it to test the waters with basic anti-capitalist, anti-colonial talk before plunging in to namedropping Communism and ML.
The waters were very receptive.
Far more receptive than I was expecting or hoped. They asked me to print it out and give them a copy they could "translate into blackfellas language", since I have a rather formal writing style - which they said was good, it meant they could use me to communicate their ideas into coherent statements and policies and translate it to more formal political language.
So I come to you, Anons. I don't really have anyone irl I can share this with to get a second opinion, so I humbly ask you lot to read this and tell me what you think. The people it was meant for liked it a lot, but they're not really Communists, although they were very receptive to the basic ideas once I explained it to them. I framed it through the lens of being a method to decisively defeat colonialism and showing them the link to Capitalism - i.e. the economic mode of production of private property - and why that must be defeated too. Telling them stories of legendary anti-colonial revolutions in Vietnam - they'd never heard of Uncle Ho - also helped sell the idea.
I'm looking for some thoughts and advice on what you guys think. Are there bits I should change, reword, or add? This is not meant to be an outline of policy or an ideological manifesto, but more a broad outline of political ideology, strategy, and tactics.
Just to answer some, what I'm assuming will be questions you might have:
>Who are these people?
Aboriginal Australian activists in the Tent Embassy in my city.
>What's the tent embassy?
In Australia, the colonial powers never actually legally settled any agreements with the original indigenous peoples. Terf Island just said it was all "Terra Nullius" ("land belonging to no-one") and called dibs on all 7.7 million square kilometers. However, there were (and still are) more than 250 indigenous nations in Australia - all of them had defined territorial boundaries, governments, "capital formation centers" (kinda, they all lived in communitarian societies, but they did have farms, quarries, logging camps and fisheries), and permanent settlements with villages and towns. Most nations consisted of a single or a small handful of clans or tribes, but larger ones operated in a confederal, decentralised, horizontal, collective government consisting of multiple such tribes and clans. It's estimated around 1.1 Million people lived in Australia in 1787, the year before Britain arrived.
At no point, however, did the colonial powers ever recognise their sovereignty, and it's still a contentious point in Australian politics today. In the 1970s, some guy went to Canberra (Capital City) and set up a tent he claimed was the "Embassy" of the original aboriginal peoples of that particular spot right outside Parliament House. Clever idea. Fast forward to today, and the embassy is still there, and while sovereignty and colonialism is still a contentious issue that keeps coming up to the forefront of politics, and Embassies have been set up in virtually every major city in the country, they haven't accomplished much. I didn't know there was one in my city until this year, and apparently it's been there since I was 5 months old. But when I started hanging out with them, I found out they want to change that. So I've been helping them.
>Why don't you know any comrades irl?
TLDR I got kicked out of the party I was with in Dec 2023 because some personal events happened and they were worried I'd make them look bad. It wasn't fair, but whatever. Some months later I was advised I'd have an opportunity to appeal the expulsion eventually, and I should join up in organising work on single-issue programs in the meantime. I'm fairly confident what's wrong will be put right soon enough.
Turning the Tent Embassy into a fighting center of working-class, anti-colonial organisation is the best I can do. It has been real work to get this from being a ramshackle group of tents with signs into something even slightly resembling what we want it to be, but real progress is being made.
>What are their goals?
Well, read the program, duh. But in short they want to make the Embassy into a place where people can come to learn about Aboriginal culture and tradition that was almost lost. They want to have facilities they can make money off of to fund the embassy and expand its practical and political activities. I'm reminded of Lenin writing that "tea-houses" run by comrades whose profits go towards funding worker's organisations and communists is a great idea, and their idea of being able to sell modernised versions of traditional indigenous food for the same purposes is basically the same. When I asked them how they intend on defeating colonialism and what the long-term goal is, they described to me, verbatim, Lenin's theory of Dual Power. Almost word-for-word. I think that's why the warmed to me so quickly, I've been able to put into coherent words what they've spent years thinking.
Anons, pls help. I kind of know what I'm doing but I am only one man. I've got quite a couple years of irl organising under my belt, I think I've read a decent amount of M/E/L/S/M, and it's great to actually use them. Putting the theory I've read to use is amazing, though I'm still flying solo and I know enough to know I don't know enough. I'm powering through reading as much of the relevant Lenin as I can to try make up for it. Hence why I come here.
Anons, I need some second opinions
Anons, I might be about to do something big, and I wanted to ask some other comrades for advice. No I am not about to commit an act of domestic terrorism.I've spent the last six months working/organising with what's basically one of the most well-known indigenous resistance groups here in Australia. I was asked to write a political program for them. I did. I was hesitant on how receptive they'd be for it, since it's basically "we need to become a Communist party" and has a section specifically devoted to Marxism-Leninism. When I presented it to them I tried to tiptoe around it to test the waters with basic anti-capitalist, anti-colonial talk before plunging in to namedropping Communism and ML.
The waters were very receptive.
Far more receptive than I was expecting or hoped. They asked me to print it out and give them a copy they could "translate into blackfellas language", since I have a rather formal writing style - which they said was good, it meant they could use me to communicate their ideas into coherent statements and policies and translate it to more formal political language.
So I come to you, Anons. I don't really have anyone irl I can share this with to get a second opinion, so I humbly ask you lot to read this and tell me what you think. The people it was meant for liked it a lot, but they're not really Communists, although they were very receptive to the basic ideas once I explained it to them. I framed it through the lens of being a method to decisively defeat colonialism and showing them the link to Capitalism - i.e. the economic mode of production of private property - and why that must be defeated too. Telling them stories of legendary anti-colonial revolutions in Vietnam - they'd never heard of Uncle Ho - also helped sell the idea.
I'm looking for some thoughts and advice on what you guys think. Are there bits I should change, reword, or add? This is not meant to be an outline of policy or an ideological manifesto, but more a broad outline of political ideology, strategy, and tactics.
Just to answer some, what I'm assuming will be questions you might have:
>Who are these people?
Aboriginal Australian activists in the Tent Embassy in my city.
>What's the tent embassy?
In Australia, the colonial powers never actually legally settled any agreements with the original indigenous peoples. Terf Island just said it was all "Terra Nullius" ("land belonging to no-one") and called dibs on all 7.7 million square kilometers. However, there were (and still are) more than 250 indigenous nations in Australia - all of them had defined territorial boundaries, governments, "capital formation centers" (kinda, they all lived in communitarian societies, but they did have farms, quarries, logging camps and fisheries), and permanent settlements with villages and towns. Most nations consisted of a single or a small handful of clans or tribes, but larger ones operated in a confederal, decentralised, horizontal, collective government consisting of multiple such tribes and clans. It's estimated around 1.1 Million people lived in Australia in 1787, the year before Britain arrived.
At no point, however, did the colonial powers ever recognise their sovereignty, and it's still a contentious point in Australian politics today. In the 1970s, some guy went to Canberra (Capital City) and set up a tent he claimed was the "Embassy" of the original aboriginal peoples of that particular spot right outside Parliament House. Clever idea. Fast forward to today, and the embassy is still there, and while sovereignty and colonialism is still a contentious issue that keeps coming up to the forefront of politics, and Embassies have been set up in virtually every major city in the country, they haven't accomplished much. I didn't know there was one in my city until this year, and apparently it's been there since I was 5 months old. But when I started hanging out with them, I found out they want to change that. So I've been helping them.
>Why don't you know any comrades irl?
TLDR I got kicked out of the party I was with in Dec 2023 because some personal events happened and they were worried I'd make them look bad. It wasn't fair, but whatever. Some months later I was advised I'd have an opportunity to appeal the expulsion eventually, and I should join up in organising work on single-issue programs in the meantime. I'm fairly confident what's wrong will be put right soon enough.
Turning the Tent Embassy into a fighting center of working-class, anti-colonial organisation is the best I can do. It has been real work to get this from being a ramshackle group of tents with signs into something even slightly resembling what we want it to be, but real progress is being made.
>What are their goals?
Well, read the program, duh. But in short they want to make the Embassy into a place where people can come to learn about Aboriginal culture and tradition that was almost lost. They want to have facilities they can make money off of to fund the embassy and expand its practical and political activities. I'm reminded of Lenin writing that "tea-houses" run by comrades whose profits go towards funding worker's organisations and communists is a great idea, and their idea of being able to sell modernised versions of traditional indigenous food for the same purposes is basically the same. When I asked them how they intend on defeating colonialism and what the long-term goal is, they described to me, verbatim, Lenin's theory of Dual Power. Almost word-for-word. I think that's why the warmed to me so quickly, I've been able to put into coherent words what they've spent years thinking.
Anons, pls help. I kind of know what I'm doing but I am only one man. I've got quite a couple years of irl organising under my belt, I think I've read a decent amount of M/E/L/S/M, and it's great to actually use them. Putting the theory I've read to use is amazing, though I'm still flying solo and I know enough to know I don't know enough. I'm powering through reading as much of the relevant Lenin as I can to try make up for it. Hence why I come here.
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Your opinion on People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran and why leftypol should support our communist brothers.
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Your opinion on People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran and why leftypol should support our communist brothers.
>The People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI), also known as MEK or MKO, is an Iranian political-militant organization founded in 1965 by gommunist students aiming to overthrow the Shah and establish a revolutionary Islamic-socialist state. Initially blending Islam with Marxist ideas, the group played a role in the 1979 Iranian Revolution but quickly fell out with Ayatollah Khomeini’s regime. Following severe repression, the MEK turned to armed resistance and formed an alliance with Saddam Hussein during the Iran–Iraq War, leading to widespread condemnation and deep unpopularity within Iran.
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a) most socialist organization headquarters are more or less functional offices that are for meetings and bureaucratic work. They are sometimes used for parties or safe spaces where communists get drunk and high together (I have rarely seen communists use anything but grass) outside organizational hours. There are some makedo libraries but most of it consists classic theory.
b) most anarchist headquarters are literal fratboy slumhouses where everyone is constantly drinking, smoking and being disgusting. They house literally sufficient infrastructure to encourage loosemindeness, consistent drinking, 'hanging out' in perpetuum without allowing a second of discipline. The news and printed works they have displayed is stupid contradictory shit that gets accumulated over the years without anyone actually reading it.
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I have observed the following.a) most socialist organization headquarters are more or less functional offices that are for meetings and bureaucratic work. They are sometimes used for parties or safe spaces where communists get drunk and high together (I have rarely seen communists use anything but grass) outside organizational hours. There are some makedo libraries but most of it consists classic theory.
b) most anarchist headquarters are literal fratboy slumhouses where everyone is constantly drinking, smoking and being disgusting. They house literally sufficient infrastructure to encourage loosemindeness, consistent drinking, 'hanging out' in perpetuum without allowing a second of discipline. The news and printed works they have displayed is stupid contradictory shit that gets accumulated over the years without anyone actually reading it.
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The Vietnam Question
Are they earnestly developing socialism, or have they become so compromised that it's really just a future of the people's sweatshops until the US is crushed and the Vietnamese bourgeoisie is properly overthrown and oppressed?
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John Turley‑Ewart’s column points out that falling home prices would hurt homeowners relying on their house equity for retirement.
In Canada, land and homes are bought and sold for profit. Developers and banks drive up prices, and working‑class families compete in an auction they can’t afford. Turley‑Ewart notes that mortgage‑based “saving” has become the only realistic path to a middle‑class retirement. This arrangement ties workers’ futures to interest rates and real‑estate bubbles. A 40-50% price drop would restore affordability, but it would also wipe out the “nest eggs” of current homeowners. That’s exactly the point: capitalism turns essential needs ‑‑ shelter, retirement security ‑‑ into financial bets.
Housing Minister Gregor Robertson insists on “stability” to protect existing homeowners. Stability here means preserving asset values for the property‑owning class.Turley‑Ewart highlights that fewer than 40% of workers have employer pensions, and most RRSPs/TFSAs don’t cover enough. He concludes that homeowners need their equity gains to retire.
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/commentary/article-housing-prices-retirement-plan-middle-class/
John Turley‑Ewart’s column points out that falling home prices would hurt homeowners relying on their house equity for retirement.
In Canada, land and homes are bought and sold for profit. Developers and banks drive up prices, and working‑class families compete in an auction they can’t afford. Turley‑Ewart notes that mortgage‑based “saving” has become the only realistic path to a middle‑class retirement. This arrangement ties workers’ futures to interest rates and real‑estate bubbles. A 40-50% price drop would restore affordability, but it would also wipe out the “nest eggs” of current homeowners. That’s exactly the point: capitalism turns essential needs ‑‑ shelter, retirement security ‑‑ into financial bets.
Housing Minister Gregor Robertson insists on “stability” to protect existing homeowners. Stability here means preserving asset values for the property‑owning class.Turley‑Ewart highlights that fewer than 40% of workers have employer pensions, and most RRSPs/TFSAs don’t cover enough. He concludes that homeowners need their equity gains to retire.
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Chairman Mao Zedong said women hold up half the sky does that mean he’s a feminist and also did he let females in the military? I think I saw something about that one I’m so researching about him by so consider myself a Maoist in training
Chairman Mao Zedong said women hold up half the sky does that mean he’s a feminist and also did he let females in the military? I think I saw something about that one I’m so researching about him by so consider myself a Maoist in training
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Does Communism solve/help infinite immigration?
I would understand it as modern capitalism constantly needing population growth to be maintained. Or is the only solution to the replacement of your ethnicity/religion/culture/etc. to just breed like crazy? Thanks bros
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Is there ever going to be any leftist spaces that are pro internet trolling and shit cause right has s#yj#ck.p#rty and I'd rather help level the playing field and do nothing else with my life
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>Only communist org near me are trots with 20 members
>Only guerilla I can join is the EZLN and they are pretty much narcos now
>MORENA sucks
what the fuck am I supposed to do, ist es over für mich?
>Only communist org near me are trots with 20 members
>Only guerilla I can join is the EZLN and they are pretty much narcos now
>MORENA sucks
what the fuck am I supposed to do, ist es over für mich?
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Leftcommunism would be the norm today if workers were not retarded. And that is the greatness of MLs. They understood this and included this information in their core principles.
PAX TREATLERISTA -- UNSER TAUSEND JAHRE REICH
The main hurdle which prevents us from living in Socialism is not opportunism, revisionism, the petite-bourgeoisie or racism and what not. It is because the majority of workers are objectively retarded. I am not trolling. I am not happy about it. Once I realised this, it depressed me greatly.Leftcommunism would be the norm today if workers were not retarded. And that is the greatness of MLs. They understood this and included this information in their core principles.