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Classical Marxism
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The foundational texts and concepts strictly written and conceived by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.
Tier 1
Communist Manifesto (1848) by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/index.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knCYXFisM4k
Theses on Feuerbach (1845) by Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/theses/theses.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zA-Gn8q47cs
Wage Labour and Capital (1847) by Karl Marx
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/wage-labour/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6llbLvm3RAc
Principles of Communism (1847) by Friedrich Engels
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/11/prin-com.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGcpspooZvk
Critique of the Gotha Programme (1875) by Karl Marx
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1875/gotha/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIkR-0NeOzw
Socialism: Utopian and Scientific (1880) by Friedrich Engels
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1880/soc-utop/index.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4_BiWhvVyA
Tier 2
The Holy Family (1844) by Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/holy-family/
On The Jewish Question (1844) by Karl Marx
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/jewish-question/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lu7jgrQ_oF8
Conditions of the Working Class in England (1845) by Friedrich Engels
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/condition-working-class/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDaK6b6eZrg
The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte (1952) by Karl Marx
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1852/18th-brumaire/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orxXeE8kn4U
Value, Price and Profit (1865) by Karl Marx
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1865/value-price-profit/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjhVZW3HJzM
The Civil War in France (1871) by Karl Marx
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1871/civil-war-france/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSWrTzJFrnQ
Tier 3
Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right (1843) by Karl Marx
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1843/critique-hpr/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b78lwj_TNVI
Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts (1844) by Karl Marx
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/manuscripts/preface.htm
The German Ideology (1846) by Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/german-ideology/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERf6Qvqwr6g
The Poverty of Philosophy (1847) by Karl Marx
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/poverty-philosophy/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNy2A2ZpSEU
Grundrisse (1858) by Karl Marx
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1857/grundrisse/
Anti-Dühring (1877) by Friedrich Engels
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1877/anti-duhring/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bATakOyA0zc
The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State (1884) by Friedrich Engels
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1884/origin-family/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8W2GaAs5VLo
DAS KAPITAL
Capital: A Critique of Political Economy (1867) by Karl Marx
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhXStf2E1tc
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German Idealism
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Philosophical movement that generally argues that the mind’s structures (reason, self-consciousness) play an active role in shaping reality and experience, centering on how freedom, subjectivity, and the unity of subject and object grounds knowledge and moral life. Hugely influential in revolutionary socialist currents.
Critique of Pure Reason (1781) by Immanuel Kant
📖 · https://www.gutenberg.org/files/4280/4280-h/4280-h.htm
Foundations of the Science of Knowledge (1794) by Johann Gottlieb Fichte
📖 · https://dn720207.ca.archive.org/0/items/thescienceofknow00fichuoft/thescienceofknow00fichuoft.pdf
The Phenomenology of Spirit (1801) by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hegel/works/ph/phconten.htm
The Essence of Christianity (1841) by Ludwig Feuerbach
📖 · https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/47025/pg47025-images.html
The Jewish Question (1843) by Bruno Bauer
📖 · https://www.scribd.com/document/720704445/bruno-bauer-the-jewish-question
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Utopian Socialism
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Early socialist current that imagined ideal, cooperative communities and peaceful social reforms achieved by moral persuasion and voluntary association rather than class struggle or revolution.
The Social Contract (1762) by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
📖 · https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/46333/pg46333-images.html
The Wealth of Nations (1776) by Adam Smith
📖 · https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3300/3300-h/3300-h.htm
The Theory of the Four Movements (1808) by Charles Fourier
📖 · https://libcom.org/article/theory-four-movements-charles-fourier
A New View of Society and Other Writings (1813) by Robert Owen
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/economics/owen/society/index.htm
On the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation (1817) by David Ricardo
📖 · https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/33310/pg33310-images.html
New Christianity (1825) by Henri de Saint-Simon
📖 · https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f4/New_Christianity.pdf
Holy History of Mankind (1837) by Moses Hess
📖 · https://ia801505.us.archive.org/23/items/119933_20230725/Moses%20Hess.%20The%20Holy%20History%20of%20Mankind%20and%20Other%20Writings.pdf
Principles of Political Economy (1848) by John Stuart Mill
📖 · https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/30107/pg30107-images.html
Instructions pour une prise d'armes (1866) by Louis Auguste Blanqui
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/francais/blanqui/1866/instructions.htm
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Classical Anarchism
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Rejects the state and hierarchical authority, serves as the basis for modern and contemporary Anarchism. Variants include Mutualism, Anarcho-Collectivism and Individualist anarchism.
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What is Property? (1840) by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/pierre-joseph-proudhon-what-is-property-an-inquiry-into-the-principle-of-right-and-of-governmen
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeoynLwP3u4
Collectivism (1872) by Adhémar Schwitzguébel
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/adhemar-schwitzguebel-collectivism
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The Philosophy of Poverty (1846) by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/pierre-joseph-proudhon-system-of-economical-contradictions-or-the-philosophy-of-poverty
God and the State (1871) by Mikhail Bakunin
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/michail-bakunin-god-and-the-state
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLArnrsxwWY
Ideas on Social Organisation (1876) by James Guillaume
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/james-guillaume-ideas-on-social-organization
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Enquiry Concerning Political Justice and its Influence on Morals and Happiness (1793) by William Godwin
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/godwin-political-justice
The Ego and Its Own (1844) by Max Stirner
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stirner/ego-and-its-own.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBOex4R61Oo
Statism and Anarchy (1873) by Mikhail Bakunin
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/mikhail-bakunin-statism-and-anarchy
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Orthodox Marxism
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Treats Marxism as a scientific, historical-materialist doctrine. Generally arguing that capitalism contains objective economic contradictions that makes proletarian revolution and socialism inevitable. Therefore, political organization, class struggle, and economic analysis are central.
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The Present Position of the Socialist Movement in Germany (1896) by Wilhelm Liebknecht
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/liebknecht-w/1896/06/essex-lecture.html
Erfurt Program (1891) by Karl Kautsky
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/history/international/social-democracy/1891/erfurt-program.htm
What Means This Strike? (1898) by Daniel DeLeon
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/deleon/works/1898/980211.htm
The Burning Question of Trade Unionism (1904) by Daniel DeLeon
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/deleon/works/1904/040421.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGe1aEA4UOw
The Main Enemy Is At Home! (1914) by Karl Liebknecht
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/liebknecht-k/works/1915/05/main-enemy-home.htm
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Socialism and the Political Struggle (1883) by Georgi Plekhanov
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/plekhanov/1883/struggle/index.htm
The Class Struggle (Erfurt Program) (1892) by Karl Kautsky
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/kautsky/1892/erfurt/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMCOEZ8xjqM
On the Role of the Individual in History (1898) by Georgi Plekhanov
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/plekhanov/1898/xx/individual.html
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQCUjwmSSk4
Reform or Revolution? (1900) by Rosa Luxemburg
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/luxemburg/1900/reform-revolution/index.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVZgtmGmyl4
Militarism and Anti-Militarism (1907) by Karl Liebknecht
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/liebknecht-k/works/1907/militarism-antimilitarism/index.htm
The Mass Strike, the Political Party and the Trade Unions (1906) by Rosa Luxemburg
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/luxemburg/1906/mass-strike/
The Historic Accomplishment of Karl Marx (1908) by Karl Kautsky
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/kautsky/1908/histacc/index.html
The National Question and Autonomy (1908) by Rosa Luxemburg
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/luxemburg/1909/national-question/index.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vkL6ZUnzcc
The Road to Power (1909) by Karl Kautsky
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/kautsky/1909/power/
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The Development of the Monist View of History (1895) by Georgi Plekhanov
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/plekhanov/1895/monist/index.htm
No Compromise – No Political Trading (1899) by Wilhelm Liebknecht
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/liebknecht-w/1899/nocomp/index.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlYu23bMNhg
The Socialist Crisis in France (1901) by Rosa Luxemburg
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/luxemburg/1901/socialist-crisis-france/index.htm
The Social Revolution (1902) by Karl Kautsky
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/kautsky/1902/socrev/
Socialist Reconstruction of Society (1905) by Daniel DeLeon
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/deleon/works/1905/050710.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzF6QXNIWV0
The Foundations of Christianity (1908) by Karl Kautsky
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/kautsky/1908/christ/index.htm
The Accumulation of Capital (1913) by Rosa Luxemburg
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/luxemburg/1913/accumulation-capital/
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Anarcho-Communism
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Advocates for abolishing the state, capitalism, and private ownership of the means of production in favor of decentralized, voluntary communes with common ownership and distribution "from each according to ability, to each according to need." Variants include Platformism, Syncreticism, and Magonism.
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Catechism of a Revolutionary (1869) by Sergey Nechayev
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/subject/anarchism/nechayev/catechism.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7kviqQa6ZU
To Manual Workers, Supporters of Political Action (1876) by François Dumartheray
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/francois-dumartheray-to-manual-workers-supporters-of-political-action
Anarchy and Communism (1880) by Carlo Cafiero
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/carlo-cafiero-anarchy-and-communism
Our Revolution (1881) by Carlo Cafiero
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/cafiero/1881/our-revolution.html
A Word to Tramps (1884) by Lucy Parsons
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/lucy-e-parsons-to-tramps
Words of a Rebel (1885) by Peter Kropotkin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/kropotkin-peter/1885/words-of-a-rebel/index.html
I Am an Anarchist (1886) by Lucy Parsons
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/lucy-e-parsons-i-am-an-anarchist
Anarchy (1891) by Errico Malatesta
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/errico-malatesta-anarchy
Manifesto of the Mexican Liberal Party (1911) by Ricardo Flores Magón
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/subject/anarchism/ricardo-flores-magon/1911/manifesto-of-the-mexican-liberal-party.html
The Anarchist Synthesis (1927) by Sébastien Faure
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/sebastien-faure-the-anarchist-synthesis
A Project of Anarchist Organisation (1927) by Errico Malatesta
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/errico-malatesta-a-project-of-anarchist-organisation
The ABC of Communist Anarchism (1929) by Alexander Berkman
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/berkman/1929/what-is-communist-anarchism/index.html
Tier 2
Fields, Factories and Workshops (1899) by Peter Kropotkin
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/petr-kropotkin-fields-factories-and-workshops-or-industry-combined-with-agriculture-and-brain-w
At the Café: Conversations on Anarchism (1922) by Errico Malatesta
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/malatesta/1922/at-the-cafe/index.html
On Synthesis (1924) by Volin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/subject/anarchism/voline/1924/on-synthesis.html
The Struggle Against the State and Other Essays (1926) by Nestor Makhno
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/makhno-nestor/works/1926/struggle-against-the-state/index.html
Tier 3
The Conquest of Bread (1892) by Peter Kropotkin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/kropotkin-peter/1892/bread.htm
Mutual Aid (1902) by Peter Kropotkin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/kropotkin-peter/1902/mutual-aid/index.htm
History of the Makhnovist Movement (1918–1921) (1923) by Peter Arshinov
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/peter-arshinov-history-of-the-makhnovist-movement-1918-1921
The Russian Revolution in the Ukraine (1926) by Nestor Makhno
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/nestor-makhno-the-russian-revolution-in-the-ukraine
Organizational Platform of the General Union of Anarchists (Draft) (1926) by Various Authors
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/dielo-truda-workers-cause-organisational-platform-of-the-libertarian-communists
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Leninism
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Based on the works of Vladimir Lenin, argues for a disciplined vanguard party using democratic centralism to seize state power and establish a temporary dictatorship of the proletariat to lead the transition from capitalism to socialism.
Tier 1
What Is To Be Done? (1902) by Vladimir Lenin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1901/witbd/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-eCCtzsiXY
Revolutionary Adventurism (1902) by Vladimir Lenin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1902/sep/01.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovPbNQ9JqjA
Socialism and Religion (1905) by Vladimir Lenin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1905/dec/03.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKMlcPb1ttw
Three Source and Three Component Parts of Marxism (1913) by Vladimir Lenin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1913/mar/x01.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOAII71GaFY
The ABC of Communism (1920) by Nikolai Buhkarin & Evgenii Preobrazhensky
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/bukharin/works/1920/abc/index.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVVnjwBQHH0
Tier 2
Two Tactics of Social Democracy in the Democratic Revolution (1905) by Vladimir Lenin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1905/tactics/index.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQsWA4HCGuY
The Right of Nations to Self-Determination (1914) by Vladimir Lenin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1914/self-det/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bbODqyoeM0
Imperialism and World Economy (1915) by Nikolai Bukharin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/bukharin/works/1917/imperial/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13Uj5GE1h1U
The Proletarian Revolution and Renegade Kautsky (1918) by Vladimir Lenin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1918/prrk/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_IWmgY8k2A
“Left-Wing” Communism: an Infantile Disorder (1920) by Vladimir Lenin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1920/lwc/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wh84f8czc7g
Tier 3
Materialism and Empirio-Criticism (1909) by Vladimir Lenin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1908/mec/
Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism (1917) by Vladimir Lenin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1916/imp-hsc/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFtUKPPYmqk
The State and Revolution (1917) by Vladimir Lenin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/staterev/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrfLQsyUYig
Historical Materialism: A System of Sociology (1921) by Nikolai Bukharin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/bukharin/works/1921/histmat/index.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sr7o64hezwc
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Syndicalism
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Tendency that aims to replace capitalism and the state by organizing workers into trade-union syndicates using direct action, such as general strikes, in order to take control of production and self-manage the economy.
Tier 1
Anarchism and the Workers' Unions (1895) by Fernand Pelloutier
📖 · https://libcom.org/article/anarchism-and-workers-unions-fernand-pelloutier
Sabotage (1898) by Émile Pouget
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/pouget/1898/sabotage.htm
The General Strike (1911) by Bill Haywood
📖 · https://archive.iww.org/history/library/Haywood/GeneralStrike/
The Conscious Withdrawal of the Workers' Industrial Efficiency (1917) by Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/subject/women/authors/flynn/1917/sabotage.htm
Tier 2
Anarcho-Syndicalism: Theory and Practice (1938) by Rudolf Rocker
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/rudolf-rocker-anarchosyndicalism
One Big Union (2000) by the Industrial Workers of the World
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/industrial-workers-of-the-world-one-big-union
Tier 3
Industrial Socialism (1911) by Bill Haywood
📖 · https://archive.iww.org/history/library/Haywood/IndSocialism/
The Autobiography of Mother Jones (1925) by Mother Jones
📖 · https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/65079/pg65079-images.html
Anarchists in the Spanish Revolution (1990) by José Peirats
📖 · https://files.libcom.org/files/Peirats%20J.%20Anarchists%20in%20the%20Spanish%20Revolution.pdf
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Marxism-Leninism
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Institutionalized doctrine that fuses Marx’s theory with Lenin’s praxis as codified official party ideology, applying the idea of historical materialism to a practical program of revolutionary vanguardism and a state-led transition to socialism.
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Dialectical and Historical Materialism (1938) by Joseph Stalin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1938/09.htm
The Path Which Led Me To Leninism (1960) by Ho Chi Minh
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/ho-chi-minh/works/1960/04/x01.htm
The Khruschevites (1976) by Enver Hoxha
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hoxha/works/1976/khruschevites/index.htm
Tier 2
Marxism and the National Question (1913) by Joseph Stalin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1913/03a.htm
Workers Manage Factories in Yugoslavia (1950) by Josip Broz Tito
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/tito/1950/06/26.htm
Marxism and Problems of Linguistics (1950) by Joseph Stalin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1950/jun/20.htm
History Will Absolve Me (1953) by Fidel Castro
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/history/cuba/archive/castro/1953/10/16.htm
Guerilla Warfare (1961) by Che Guevara
📖 · https://www.cheguevara.org/Guerrilla-Warfare.pdf
Eurocommunism is Anti-Communism (1980) by Enver Hoxha
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hoxha/works/euroco/env2-1.htm
Tier 3
Foundations of Leninism (1924) by Joseph Stalin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1924/foundations-leninism/
The People's Front (1938) by Earl Browder
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/browder/peoples-front/index.htm
Economic Problems of Socialism in the USSR (1951) by Joseph Stalin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1951/economic-problems/index.htm
Imperialism and the Revolution (1979) by Enver Hoxha
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hoxha/works/imp_rev/toc.htm
Revolution in Laos: Practice and Prospects (1981) by Kaysone Phomvihane
📖 · https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Library:Revolution_in_Laos
Women's Liberation and the African Freedom Struggle (1990) by Thomas Sankara
📖 · https://files.libcom.org/files/thomas-sankara-womens-liberation-and-the-african-freedom-struggle.pdf
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Illegalism and Insurrectionary Anarchism
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Both support propaganda of the deed as a method of revolutionary struggle, with Illegalism having roots in Individualist Anarchism while Insurrectionary Anarchism shares overlap with Anarcho-Communism.
Tier 1
A Letter from Mazas Prison (1886) by Clément Duval
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/clement-duval-a-letter-from-cleement-duval
Why I Was a Burglar (1905) by Marius Jacob
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/marius-jacob-why-i-was-a-burglar
Byzantinism and Limpness (1909) by Michel Antoine
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/michel-antoine-byzantinism-and-limpness
Is the Illegalist Anarchist Our Comrade? (1911) by Émile Armand
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/emile-armand-is-the-illegalist-anarchist-our-comrade
Two Lectures on the Bonnot Affair (1912) by Victor Serge
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/victor-serge-two-lectures-on-the-bonnot-affair
Tier 2
The Anarchism of Émile Armand (1907) by Émile Armand
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/emile-armand-the-anarchism-of-emile-armand
Toward the Creative Nothing (1924) by Renzo Novatore
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/renzo-novatore-toward-the-creative-nothing
The Principal of Organization to the Light of Anarchism (1927) by Luigi Galleani
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/luigi-galleani-the-principal-of-organization-to-the-light-of-anarchism
Armed Joy (1977) by Alfredo Bonnano
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/alfredo-m-bonanno-armed-joy
Tier 3
The Ego and Its Own (1844) by Max Stirner
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stirner/ego-and-its-own.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBOex4R61Oo
Against War, Against Peace, For The Social Revolution (1914) by Luigi Galleani
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/luigi-galleani-against-war-against-peace-for-the-social-revolution
The End of Anarchism? (1925) by Luigi Galleani
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/luigi-galleani-the-end-of-anarchism
Anarchists Never Surrender (1938) by Victor Serge
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/victor-serge-anarchists-never-surrender
The Bonnot Gang (1987) by Richard Parry
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/richard-parry-the-bonnot-gang-the-story-of-the-french-illegalists
The Coming Insurrection (2007) by The Invisible Committee
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/comite-invisible-the-coming-insurrection
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Trotskyism
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Based on Leon Trotsky's work, stresses permanent revolution, proletarian internationalism, and an opposition to bureaucratic degeneration.
Tier 1
The Lessons of October (1924) by Leon Trotsky
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1924/lessons/index.htm
The Transitional Program (1938) by Leon Trotsky
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1938/tp/
Their Morals and Ours (1938) by Leon Trotsky
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1938/morals/morals.htm
Fascism: What It Is and How to Fight It (1944) by Leon Trotsky
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/works/1944/1944-fas.htm
Tier 2
Terrorism and Communism (1920) by Leon Trotsky
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1920/terrcomm/index.htm
The Permanent Revolution and Results and Prospects (1930) by Leon Trotsky
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1931/tpr/index.htm
Tier 3
The Third International After Lenin (1928) by Leon Trotsky
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1928/3rd/index.htm
History of the Russian Revolution (1930) by Leon Trotsky
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1930/hrr/
The Revolution Betrayed (1936) by Leon Trotsky
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1936/revbet/
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Anarcho-Pacificism
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https://blogs.law.columbia.edu/uprising1313/files/2017/10/Civil-Disobedience-by-Henry-David-Thoreau.pdf
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Maoism
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Developed by Mao Zedong, argues for peasant-led revolution, protracted people’s war, mass mobilization, and adapting Marxist strategy to agrarian societies.
Tier 1
Analysis of The Classes In Chinese Society (1926) by Mao Zedong
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-1/mswv1_1.htm
Oppose Book Worship (1930) by Mao Zedong
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-6/mswv6_11.htm
Be Concerned With the Well-Being of the Masses, Pay Attention to Methods of Work (1934) by Mao Zedong
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-1/mswv1_10.htm
Combat Liberalism (1937) by Mao Zedong
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-2/mswv2_03.htm
Serve The People (1944) by Mao Zedong
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-3/mswv3_19.htm
Bombard The Headquarters (1966) by Mao Zedong
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-9/mswv9_63.htm
Tier 2
On Contradiction (1937) by Mao Zedong
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-1/mswv1_17.htm
On Practice' (1937) by Mao Zedong
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-1/mswv1_16.htm
On Protracted War (1938) by Mao Zedong
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-2/mswv2_09.htm
On New Democracy (1940) by Mao Zedong
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-2/mswv2_26.htm
Tier 3
Report on an Investigation of the Peasant Movement In Hunan (1927) by Mao Zedong
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-1/mswv1_2.htm
On Guerrilla Warfare (1937) by Mao Zedong
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/works/1937/guerrilla-warfare/
The Chinese Revolution and the Chinese Communist Party (1939) by Mao Zedong
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-2/mswv2_23.htm
On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People (1957) by Mao Zedong
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-5/mswv5_58.htm
Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (1964) by Mao Zedong
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/works/red-book/index.htm
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Marxism-Leninism-Maoism
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Treats Maoism as a higher stage of Marxism–Leninism, emphasizing peasant-led, protracted people’s war, the mass line, and continuing revolution to prevent bureaucratic degeneration.
Tier 1
On Gonzalo Thought (1988) by the Communist Party of Peru
📖 · https://michaelharrison.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/On-Gonzalo-Thought-1st-Congress.pdf
Marxism-Leninism-Maoism or Revisionism? (1990) by Prachanda
📖 · https://www.bannedthought.net/Nepal/Problems-Prospects/p_mlmor_revisionism.html
Tier 2
General Political Line (1988) by the Communist Party of Peru
📖 · https://bannedthought.net/Peru/CPP/Documents/GeneralPoliticalLineOfTheCommunistPartyOfPeru-1988-OCR.pdf
The Great Leap Forward: An Inevitable Need of History (2001) by the Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist)
📖 · https://www.bannedthought.net/Nepal/Worker/Worker-07/GreatLeapForward-Prachanda-010200.htm
Hold High the Bright Red Banner of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism (2004) by the Communist Party of India (Maoist)
📖 · https://www.bannedthought.net/India/CPI-Maoist-Docs/Founding/MLM-pamphlet.pdf
Tier 3
On the Bourgeois-Democratic State (1961) by Abimael Guzmán
📖 · https://bannedthought.net/Peru/Gonzalo/Guzman-OnTheBourgeois-DemocraticState-1961-Thesis-OCR-sm.pdf
Philippine Society and Revolution (1970) by Amado Guerrero
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/history/philippines/cpp/guerrero/1970/psr.htm
Problems & Prospects of Revolution in Nepal (2004) by Prachanda and the Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist)
📖 · https://bannedthought.net/Nepal/Problems-Prospects/index.htm
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Socialism with Chinese Characteristics
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Adapts and institutionalizes Marxism–Leninism to Chinese conditions by marrying one-party rule and state control of strategic sectors with market-oriented reforms to drive modernization.
Tier 1
Emancipate the Mind, Seek Truth From Facts and Unite As One In Looking to the Future (1978) by Deng Xiaoping
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/deng-xiaoping/1978/110.htm
Uphold the Four Cardinal Principles (1979) by Deng Xiaoping
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/deng-xiaoping/1979/115.htm
We Can Develop A Market Economy Under Socialism (1979) by Deng Xiaoping
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/deng-xiaoping/1979/152.htm
To Build Socialism We Must First Develop the Productive Forces (1980) by Deng Xiaoping
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/deng-xiaoping/1980/101.htm
Tier 2
On the Reform of the System of Party and State Leadership (1980) by Deng Xiaoping
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/deng-xiaoping/1980/220.htm
Tier 3
Build Socialism With Chinese Characteristics (1984) by Deng Xiaoping
📖 · https://www.bannedthought.net/China/Individuals/DengXiaoping/DengXiaoping-BuildSocialismWithChineseCharacteristics.pdf
On the “Three Represents” (2000) by Jiang Zemin
📖 · https://archive.org/details/JiangZeminThreeRepresents
Report to the 17th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (2007) by Hu Jintao
📖 · https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2007-10/24/content_6204564.htm
The Governance of China (2014) by Xi Jinping
📖 · https://www.bannedthought.net/China/Individuals/XiJinping/XiJinping-TheGovernanceOfChina.pdf
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Maoism-Third Worldism
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Blends Maoist strategy with Third-Worldist analysis, arguing the revolutionary proletariat is concentrated in oppressed (Global South) countries while much First-World labor is seen as privileged or comprador.
Tier 1
Long Live the Victory of People’s War! (1965) by Lin Bao
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/lin-biao/1965/09/peoples_war/index.htm
Message to the Tricontinental (1967) by Che Guevara
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/guevara/1967/04/16.htm
Tier 2
White-Settler Colonialism and the Myth of Investment Imperialism (1972) by Arghiri Emmanuel
📖 · https://pdfhost.io/v/QUJ7qnsaq_WhiteSettler_Colonialism_and_the_Myth_of_Investment_Imperialism
Unequal Development (1973) by Samir Amin
📖 · https://www.prisoncensorship.info/archive/books/Economics/UnequalDevelopment_SamirAmin.pdf
Foreign Trade and the Law of Value (1979) by Anwar Shaikh
📖 · https://sci-hub.ru/https://www.jstor.org/stable/40402184
📖 · https://sci-hub.ru/https://www.jstor.org/stable/40402218
Settlers: The Mythology of the White Proletariat (1983) by J. Sakai
📖 · https://readsettlers.org/text-index.html
Eurocentrism (1989) by Samir Amin
📖 · https://contrapoder.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/08.-AMIN.pdf
The Wealth of (Some) Nations (2019) by Zak Cope
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1655353202103-0.pdf
Tier 3
Accumulation on a World Scale (1971) by Samir Amin
📖 · https://annas-archive.org/md5/89ae1cfad31b7ba8d06acbdba571f721
Unequal Exchange: A Study of the Imperialism of Trade (1972) by Arghiri Emmanuel
📖 · https://www.prisoncensorship.info/archive/books/Economics/UnequalExchange_ArghiriEmmanuel.pdf
Delinking: Towards a Polycentric World (1986) by Samir Amin
📖 · https://libgen.gl/edition.php?id=138497885
Divided World, Divided Class (2012) by Zak Cope
📖 · https://www.prisoncensorship.info/archive/books/Economics/DividedWorldDividedClass_ZakCope.pdf
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Juche
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The official state ideology of North Korea, stressing political independence, economic self-sufficiency, self-defense, and the central role of the leader in guiding the nation.
Tier 1
For the Establishment of a United Party of the Working Masses (1946) by Kim Il Sung
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/kim-il-sung/1946/08/29.pdf
On the Occasion of the Founding of the Korean People’s Army (1948) by Kim Il Sung
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/kim-il-sung/1948/02/08.pdf
On Eliminating Dogmatism and Formalism and Establishing Juche in Ideological Work (1955) by Kim Il Sung
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/kim-il-sung/1955/12/28.htm
Ten Principles for the Establishment of a Monolithic Ideological System (1974) by Kim Il Sung
📖 · https://www2.law.columbia.edu/course_00S_L9436_001/North%20Korea%20materials/10%20principles%20of%20juche.html
The Juche Idea is an Idea that Has Inherited and Developed the Progressive Ideologies of Mankind (1986) by Kim Jong Il
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/kim-jong-il/works/The-Juche-Idea-Is-An-Idea-That-Has-Inherited-And-Developed-The-Progressive-Ideologies-Of-Mankind.pdf
Ours is the Socialism of Juche (1994) by Kim Il Sung
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/kim-il-sung/1994/04/16.pdf
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea is a Juche-Oriented Socialist State with Invincible Might (2008) by Kim Jong Il
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/kim-jong-il/works/The-Democratic-Peoples-Republic-Of-Korea-Is-A-Juche-Oriented-Socialist-State-With-Invincible-Might.pdf
Let Us March Forward Dynamically Towards Final Victory, Holding Higher the Banner of Songun (2012) by Kim Jong Un
📖 · http://www.korean-books.com.kp/KBMbooks/en/work/leader3/1201.pdf
Tier 2
On the Juche Idea (1982) by Kim Jong Il
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/kim-jong-il/works/On-The-Juche-Idea.pdf
Our Socialism Centred on the Masses Shall Not Perish (1991) by Kim Jong Il
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/kim-jong-il/works/Our-Socialism-Centred-On-The-Masses-Shall-Not-Perish.pdf
Tier 3
On Juche in Our Revolution (1975) by Kim Il Sung
📖 · https://archive.org/details/KimJucheRevolutionVol1
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Italian Left-Communism
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Insisting on strict Marxist orthodoxy, rejecting parliamentarism, reformist trade unions and united fronts, while promoting a revolutionary, party-centered alternative to both social democracy and Marxism-Leninism.
Tier 1
Party and Class (1921) by Amadeo Bordiga
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/bordiga/works/1921/party-class.htm
Bourgeois Violence and Proletarian Defence (1946) by Onorato Damen
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/damen/1946/bourgeois-violence.htm
Proletarian Dictatorship and Class Party (1951) by Amadeo Bordiga
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/bordiga/works/1951/class-party.htm
Centralised Party, Yes – Centralism over the Party, No! (1951) by Onorato Damen
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/damen/1951/centralised.htm
Tier 2
Party and Class Action (1921) by Amadeo Bordiga
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/bordiga/works/1921/classact.htm
The Democratic Principle (1922) by Amadeo Bordiga
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/bordiga/works/1922/democratic-principle.htm
The Lyons Theses (1926) by Amadeo Bordiga
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/bordiga/works/1926/lyons-theses.htm
The Communist Left in the Third International (1926) by Amadeo Bordiga
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/bordiga/works/1926/comintern.htm
Dialogue with Stalin (1952) by Amadeo Bordiga
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/bordiga/works/1952/stalin.htm
We Defend the Italian Left (1966) by Onorato Damen
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/damen/1966/defend.htm
Tier 3
The Fundamentals for a Marxist Orientation (1946) by Amadeo Bordiga
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/bordiga/works/1946/orientation.htm
Bordiga — Beyond the Myth and the Rhetoric (1970) by Onorato Damen
📖 · https://www.leftcom.org/files/2018-10-02-damen-bordiga.pdf
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Council Communism
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Favors workers’ councils as the basis of proletarian power and organization as opposed to vanguard party centralism, arguing for direct, self-managed, council-based socialism.
Tier 1
World Revolution and Communist Tactics (1920) by Anton Pannekoek
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/pannekoe/1920/communist-tactics.htm
The Revolution Is Not A Party Affair (1920) by Otto Rühle
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/ruhle/1920/ruhle02.htm
The Lenin Legend (1935) by Paul Mattick
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/mattick-paul/1935/lenin-legend.htm
Why Past Revolutionary Movements Have Failed (1940) by Anton Pannekoek
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/pannekoe/1940/revo.htm
The Party and Class (1941) by Anton Pannekoek
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/pannekoe/1941/party-class.htm
The Failure of the Working Class (1946) by Anton Pannekoek
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/pannekoe/1946/failure-working-class.htm
Tier 2
Imperialism, the World War and Social Democracy (1914) by Herman Gorter
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/gorter/1914/imperialism.htm
The World Revolution (1918) by Herman Gorter
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/gorter/1918/world-revolution.htm
Report from Moscow (1920) by Otto Rühle
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/ruhle/1920/ruhle01.htm
Lenin As Philosopher (1938) by Anton Pannekoek
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/pannekoe/1938/lenin/index.htm
The Struggle Against Fascism Begins with the Struggle Against Bolshevism (1939) by Otto Rühle
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/ruhle/1939/ruhle01.htm
Spontaneity and Organisation (1949) by Paul Mattick
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/mattick-paul/1949/spontaneity.htm
Tier 3
An Open Letter to Comrade Lenin (1920) by Herman Gorter
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/gorter/1920/open-letter.htm
Workers' Councils (1942) by Anton Pannekoek
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/pannekoe/1947/workers-councils.htm
Marx and Keynes: The Limits of the Mixed Economy (1969) by Paul Mattick
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/mattick-paul/1969/marx-keynes/index.htm
Anti-Bolshevik Communism (1978) by Paul Mattick
📖 · https://files.libcom.org/files/paul-mattick-anti-bolshevik-communism-2007_0.pdf
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Frankfurt School
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Neo-Marxism
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Post-Marxism
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Reading General Sticky
Hello, /leftypol/!Welcome to the Reading General Sticky! This thread will be dedicated to the sharing, discussing, and general banter about various leftist thinkers, theories, and political outlooks.
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Common Right Wing Talking Points Debunks
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Classical Marxism
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The foundational texts and concepts strictly written and conceived by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.
Tier 1
Communist Manifesto (1848) by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/index.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knCYXFisM4k
Theses on Feuerbach (1845) by Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/theses/theses.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zA-Gn8q47cs
Wage Labour and Capital (1847) by Karl Marx
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/wage-labour/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6llbLvm3RAc
Principles of Communism (1847) by Friedrich Engels
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/11/prin-com.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGcpspooZvk
Critique of the Gotha Programme (1875) by Karl Marx
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1875/gotha/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIkR-0NeOzw
Socialism: Utopian and Scientific (1880) by Friedrich Engels
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1880/soc-utop/index.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4_BiWhvVyA
Tier 2
The Holy Family (1844) by Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/holy-family/
On The Jewish Question (1844) by Karl Marx
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/jewish-question/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lu7jgrQ_oF8
Conditions of the Working Class in England (1845) by Friedrich Engels
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/condition-working-class/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDaK6b6eZrg
The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte (1952) by Karl Marx
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1852/18th-brumaire/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orxXeE8kn4U
Value, Price and Profit (1865) by Karl Marx
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1865/value-price-profit/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjhVZW3HJzM
The Civil War in France (1871) by Karl Marx
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1871/civil-war-france/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSWrTzJFrnQ
Tier 3
Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right (1843) by Karl Marx
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1843/critique-hpr/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b78lwj_TNVI
Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts (1844) by Karl Marx
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/manuscripts/preface.htm
The German Ideology (1846) by Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/german-ideology/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERf6Qvqwr6g
The Poverty of Philosophy (1847) by Karl Marx
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/poverty-philosophy/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNy2A2ZpSEU
Grundrisse (1858) by Karl Marx
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1857/grundrisse/
Anti-Dühring (1877) by Friedrich Engels
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1877/anti-duhring/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bATakOyA0zc
The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State (1884) by Friedrich Engels
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1884/origin-family/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8W2GaAs5VLo
DAS KAPITAL
Capital: A Critique of Political Economy (1867) by Karl Marx
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhXStf2E1tc
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German Idealism
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Philosophical movement that generally argues that the mind’s structures (reason, self-consciousness) play an active role in shaping reality and experience, centering on how freedom, subjectivity, and the unity of subject and object grounds knowledge and moral life. Hugely influential in revolutionary socialist currents.
Critique of Pure Reason (1781) by Immanuel Kant
📖 · https://www.gutenberg.org/files/4280/4280-h/4280-h.htm
Foundations of the Science of Knowledge (1794) by Johann Gottlieb Fichte
📖 · https://dn720207.ca.archive.org/0/items/thescienceofknow00fichuoft/thescienceofknow00fichuoft.pdf
The Phenomenology of Spirit (1801) by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hegel/works/ph/phconten.htm
The Essence of Christianity (1841) by Ludwig Feuerbach
📖 · https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/47025/pg47025-images.html
The Jewish Question (1843) by Bruno Bauer
📖 · https://www.scribd.com/document/720704445/bruno-bauer-the-jewish-question
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Utopian Socialism
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Early socialist current that imagined ideal, cooperative communities and peaceful social reforms achieved by moral persuasion and voluntary association rather than class struggle or revolution.
The Social Contract (1762) by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
📖 · https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/46333/pg46333-images.html
The Wealth of Nations (1776) by Adam Smith
📖 · https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3300/3300-h/3300-h.htm
The Theory of the Four Movements (1808) by Charles Fourier
📖 · https://libcom.org/article/theory-four-movements-charles-fourier
A New View of Society and Other Writings (1813) by Robert Owen
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/economics/owen/society/index.htm
On the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation (1817) by David Ricardo
📖 · https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/33310/pg33310-images.html
New Christianity (1825) by Henri de Saint-Simon
📖 · https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f4/New_Christianity.pdf
Holy History of Mankind (1837) by Moses Hess
📖 · https://ia801505.us.archive.org/23/items/119933_20230725/Moses%20Hess.%20The%20Holy%20History%20of%20Mankind%20and%20Other%20Writings.pdf
Principles of Political Economy (1848) by John Stuart Mill
📖 · https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/30107/pg30107-images.html
Instructions pour une prise d'armes (1866) by Louis Auguste Blanqui
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/francais/blanqui/1866/instructions.htm
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Classical Anarchism
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Rejects the state and hierarchical authority, serves as the basis for modern and contemporary Anarchism. Variants include Mutualism, Anarcho-Collectivism and Individualist anarchism.
Tier 1
What is Property? (1840) by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/pierre-joseph-proudhon-what-is-property-an-inquiry-into-the-principle-of-right-and-of-governmen
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeoynLwP3u4
Collectivism (1872) by Adhémar Schwitzguébel
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/adhemar-schwitzguebel-collectivism
Tier 2
The Philosophy of Poverty (1846) by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/pierre-joseph-proudhon-system-of-economical-contradictions-or-the-philosophy-of-poverty
God and the State (1871) by Mikhail Bakunin
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/michail-bakunin-god-and-the-state
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLArnrsxwWY
Ideas on Social Organisation (1876) by James Guillaume
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/james-guillaume-ideas-on-social-organization
Tier 3
Enquiry Concerning Political Justice and its Influence on Morals and Happiness (1793) by William Godwin
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/godwin-political-justice
The Ego and Its Own (1844) by Max Stirner
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stirner/ego-and-its-own.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBOex4R61Oo
Statism and Anarchy (1873) by Mikhail Bakunin
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/mikhail-bakunin-statism-and-anarchy
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Orthodox Marxism
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Treats Marxism as a scientific, historical-materialist doctrine. Generally arguing that capitalism contains objective economic contradictions that makes proletarian revolution and socialism inevitable. Therefore, political organization, class struggle, and economic analysis are central.
Tier 1
The Present Position of the Socialist Movement in Germany (1896) by Wilhelm Liebknecht
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/liebknecht-w/1896/06/essex-lecture.html
Erfurt Program (1891) by Karl Kautsky
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/history/international/social-democracy/1891/erfurt-program.htm
What Means This Strike? (1898) by Daniel DeLeon
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/deleon/works/1898/980211.htm
The Burning Question of Trade Unionism (1904) by Daniel DeLeon
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/deleon/works/1904/040421.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGe1aEA4UOw
The Main Enemy Is At Home! (1914) by Karl Liebknecht
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/liebknecht-k/works/1915/05/main-enemy-home.htm
Tier 2
Socialism and the Political Struggle (1883) by Georgi Plekhanov
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/plekhanov/1883/struggle/index.htm
The Class Struggle (Erfurt Program) (1892) by Karl Kautsky
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/kautsky/1892/erfurt/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMCOEZ8xjqM
On the Role of the Individual in History (1898) by Georgi Plekhanov
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/plekhanov/1898/xx/individual.html
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQCUjwmSSk4
Reform or Revolution? (1900) by Rosa Luxemburg
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/luxemburg/1900/reform-revolution/index.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVZgtmGmyl4
Militarism and Anti-Militarism (1907) by Karl Liebknecht
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/liebknecht-k/works/1907/militarism-antimilitarism/index.htm
The Mass Strike, the Political Party and the Trade Unions (1906) by Rosa Luxemburg
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/luxemburg/1906/mass-strike/
The Historic Accomplishment of Karl Marx (1908) by Karl Kautsky
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/kautsky/1908/histacc/index.html
The National Question and Autonomy (1908) by Rosa Luxemburg
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/luxemburg/1909/national-question/index.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vkL6ZUnzcc
The Road to Power (1909) by Karl Kautsky
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/kautsky/1909/power/
Tier 3
The Development of the Monist View of History (1895) by Georgi Plekhanov
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/plekhanov/1895/monist/index.htm
No Compromise – No Political Trading (1899) by Wilhelm Liebknecht
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/liebknecht-w/1899/nocomp/index.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlYu23bMNhg
The Socialist Crisis in France (1901) by Rosa Luxemburg
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/luxemburg/1901/socialist-crisis-france/index.htm
The Social Revolution (1902) by Karl Kautsky
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/kautsky/1902/socrev/
Socialist Reconstruction of Society (1905) by Daniel DeLeon
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/deleon/works/1905/050710.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzF6QXNIWV0
The Foundations of Christianity (1908) by Karl Kautsky
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/kautsky/1908/christ/index.htm
The Accumulation of Capital (1913) by Rosa Luxemburg
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/luxemburg/1913/accumulation-capital/
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Anarcho-Communism
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Advocates for abolishing the state, capitalism, and private ownership of the means of production in favor of decentralized, voluntary communes with common ownership and distribution "from each according to ability, to each according to need." Variants include Platformism, Syncreticism, and Magonism.
Tier 1
Catechism of a Revolutionary (1869) by Sergey Nechayev
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/subject/anarchism/nechayev/catechism.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7kviqQa6ZU
To Manual Workers, Supporters of Political Action (1876) by François Dumartheray
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/francois-dumartheray-to-manual-workers-supporters-of-political-action
Anarchy and Communism (1880) by Carlo Cafiero
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/carlo-cafiero-anarchy-and-communism
Our Revolution (1881) by Carlo Cafiero
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/cafiero/1881/our-revolution.html
A Word to Tramps (1884) by Lucy Parsons
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/lucy-e-parsons-to-tramps
Words of a Rebel (1885) by Peter Kropotkin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/kropotkin-peter/1885/words-of-a-rebel/index.html
I Am an Anarchist (1886) by Lucy Parsons
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/lucy-e-parsons-i-am-an-anarchist
Anarchy (1891) by Errico Malatesta
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/errico-malatesta-anarchy
Manifesto of the Mexican Liberal Party (1911) by Ricardo Flores Magón
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/subject/anarchism/ricardo-flores-magon/1911/manifesto-of-the-mexican-liberal-party.html
The Anarchist Synthesis (1927) by Sébastien Faure
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/sebastien-faure-the-anarchist-synthesis
A Project of Anarchist Organisation (1927) by Errico Malatesta
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/errico-malatesta-a-project-of-anarchist-organisation
The ABC of Communist Anarchism (1929) by Alexander Berkman
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/berkman/1929/what-is-communist-anarchism/index.html
Tier 2
Fields, Factories and Workshops (1899) by Peter Kropotkin
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/petr-kropotkin-fields-factories-and-workshops-or-industry-combined-with-agriculture-and-brain-w
At the Café: Conversations on Anarchism (1922) by Errico Malatesta
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/malatesta/1922/at-the-cafe/index.html
On Synthesis (1924) by Volin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/subject/anarchism/voline/1924/on-synthesis.html
The Struggle Against the State and Other Essays (1926) by Nestor Makhno
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/makhno-nestor/works/1926/struggle-against-the-state/index.html
Tier 3
The Conquest of Bread (1892) by Peter Kropotkin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/kropotkin-peter/1892/bread.htm
Mutual Aid (1902) by Peter Kropotkin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/kropotkin-peter/1902/mutual-aid/index.htm
History of the Makhnovist Movement (1918–1921) (1923) by Peter Arshinov
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/peter-arshinov-history-of-the-makhnovist-movement-1918-1921
The Russian Revolution in the Ukraine (1926) by Nestor Makhno
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/nestor-makhno-the-russian-revolution-in-the-ukraine
Organizational Platform of the General Union of Anarchists (Draft) (1926) by Various Authors
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/dielo-truda-workers-cause-organisational-platform-of-the-libertarian-communists
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Leninism
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Based on the works of Vladimir Lenin, argues for a disciplined vanguard party using democratic centralism to seize state power and establish a temporary dictatorship of the proletariat to lead the transition from capitalism to socialism.
Tier 1
What Is To Be Done? (1902) by Vladimir Lenin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1901/witbd/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-eCCtzsiXY
Revolutionary Adventurism (1902) by Vladimir Lenin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1902/sep/01.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovPbNQ9JqjA
Socialism and Religion (1905) by Vladimir Lenin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1905/dec/03.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKMlcPb1ttw
Three Source and Three Component Parts of Marxism (1913) by Vladimir Lenin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1913/mar/x01.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOAII71GaFY
The ABC of Communism (1920) by Nikolai Buhkarin & Evgenii Preobrazhensky
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/bukharin/works/1920/abc/index.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVVnjwBQHH0
Tier 2
Two Tactics of Social Democracy in the Democratic Revolution (1905) by Vladimir Lenin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1905/tactics/index.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQsWA4HCGuY
The Right of Nations to Self-Determination (1914) by Vladimir Lenin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1914/self-det/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bbODqyoeM0
Imperialism and World Economy (1915) by Nikolai Bukharin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/bukharin/works/1917/imperial/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13Uj5GE1h1U
The Proletarian Revolution and Renegade Kautsky (1918) by Vladimir Lenin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1918/prrk/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_IWmgY8k2A
“Left-Wing” Communism: an Infantile Disorder (1920) by Vladimir Lenin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1920/lwc/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wh84f8czc7g
Tier 3
Materialism and Empirio-Criticism (1909) by Vladimir Lenin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1908/mec/
Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism (1917) by Vladimir Lenin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1916/imp-hsc/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFtUKPPYmqk
The State and Revolution (1917) by Vladimir Lenin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/staterev/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrfLQsyUYig
Historical Materialism: A System of Sociology (1921) by Nikolai Bukharin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/bukharin/works/1921/histmat/index.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sr7o64hezwc
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Syndicalism
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Tendency that aims to replace capitalism and the state by organizing workers into trade-union syndicates using direct action, such as general strikes, in order to take control of production and self-manage the economy.
Tier 1
Anarchism and the Workers' Unions (1895) by Fernand Pelloutier
📖 · https://libcom.org/article/anarchism-and-workers-unions-fernand-pelloutier
Sabotage (1898) by Émile Pouget
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/pouget/1898/sabotage.htm
The General Strike (1911) by Bill Haywood
📖 · https://archive.iww.org/history/library/Haywood/GeneralStrike/
The Conscious Withdrawal of the Workers' Industrial Efficiency (1917) by Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/subject/women/authors/flynn/1917/sabotage.htm
Tier 2
Anarcho-Syndicalism: Theory and Practice (1938) by Rudolf Rocker
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/rudolf-rocker-anarchosyndicalism
One Big Union (2000) by the Industrial Workers of the World
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/industrial-workers-of-the-world-one-big-union
Tier 3
Industrial Socialism (1911) by Bill Haywood
📖 · https://archive.iww.org/history/library/Haywood/IndSocialism/
The Autobiography of Mother Jones (1925) by Mother Jones
📖 · https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/65079/pg65079-images.html
Anarchists in the Spanish Revolution (1990) by José Peirats
📖 · https://files.libcom.org/files/Peirats%20J.%20Anarchists%20in%20the%20Spanish%20Revolution.pdf
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Marxism-Leninism
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Institutionalized doctrine that fuses Marx’s theory with Lenin’s praxis as codified official party ideology, applying the idea of historical materialism to a practical program of revolutionary vanguardism and a state-led transition to socialism.
Tier 1
Dialectical and Historical Materialism (1938) by Joseph Stalin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1938/09.htm
The Path Which Led Me To Leninism (1960) by Ho Chi Minh
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/ho-chi-minh/works/1960/04/x01.htm
The Khruschevites (1976) by Enver Hoxha
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hoxha/works/1976/khruschevites/index.htm
Tier 2
Marxism and the National Question (1913) by Joseph Stalin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1913/03a.htm
Workers Manage Factories in Yugoslavia (1950) by Josip Broz Tito
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/tito/1950/06/26.htm
Marxism and Problems of Linguistics (1950) by Joseph Stalin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1950/jun/20.htm
History Will Absolve Me (1953) by Fidel Castro
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/history/cuba/archive/castro/1953/10/16.htm
Guerilla Warfare (1961) by Che Guevara
📖 · https://www.cheguevara.org/Guerrilla-Warfare.pdf
Eurocommunism is Anti-Communism (1980) by Enver Hoxha
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hoxha/works/euroco/env2-1.htm
Tier 3
Foundations of Leninism (1924) by Joseph Stalin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1924/foundations-leninism/
The People's Front (1938) by Earl Browder
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/browder/peoples-front/index.htm
Economic Problems of Socialism in the USSR (1951) by Joseph Stalin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1951/economic-problems/index.htm
Imperialism and the Revolution (1979) by Enver Hoxha
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hoxha/works/imp_rev/toc.htm
Revolution in Laos: Practice and Prospects (1981) by Kaysone Phomvihane
📖 · https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Library:Revolution_in_Laos
Women's Liberation and the African Freedom Struggle (1990) by Thomas Sankara
📖 · https://files.libcom.org/files/thomas-sankara-womens-liberation-and-the-african-freedom-struggle.pdf
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Illegalism and Insurrectionary Anarchism
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Both support propaganda of the deed as a method of revolutionary struggle, with Illegalism having roots in Individualist Anarchism while Insurrectionary Anarchism shares overlap with Anarcho-Communism.
Tier 1
A Letter from Mazas Prison (1886) by Clément Duval
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/clement-duval-a-letter-from-cleement-duval
Why I Was a Burglar (1905) by Marius Jacob
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/marius-jacob-why-i-was-a-burglar
Byzantinism and Limpness (1909) by Michel Antoine
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/michel-antoine-byzantinism-and-limpness
Is the Illegalist Anarchist Our Comrade? (1911) by Émile Armand
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/emile-armand-is-the-illegalist-anarchist-our-comrade
Two Lectures on the Bonnot Affair (1912) by Victor Serge
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/victor-serge-two-lectures-on-the-bonnot-affair
Tier 2
The Anarchism of Émile Armand (1907) by Émile Armand
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/emile-armand-the-anarchism-of-emile-armand
Toward the Creative Nothing (1924) by Renzo Novatore
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/renzo-novatore-toward-the-creative-nothing
The Principal of Organization to the Light of Anarchism (1927) by Luigi Galleani
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/luigi-galleani-the-principal-of-organization-to-the-light-of-anarchism
Armed Joy (1977) by Alfredo Bonnano
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/alfredo-m-bonanno-armed-joy
Tier 3
The Ego and Its Own (1844) by Max Stirner
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stirner/ego-and-its-own.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBOex4R61Oo
Against War, Against Peace, For The Social Revolution (1914) by Luigi Galleani
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/luigi-galleani-against-war-against-peace-for-the-social-revolution
The End of Anarchism? (1925) by Luigi Galleani
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/luigi-galleani-the-end-of-anarchism
Anarchists Never Surrender (1938) by Victor Serge
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/victor-serge-anarchists-never-surrender
The Bonnot Gang (1987) by Richard Parry
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/richard-parry-the-bonnot-gang-the-story-of-the-french-illegalists
The Coming Insurrection (2007) by The Invisible Committee
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/comite-invisible-the-coming-insurrection
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Trotskyism
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Based on Leon Trotsky's work, stresses permanent revolution, proletarian internationalism, and an opposition to bureaucratic degeneration.
Tier 1
The Lessons of October (1924) by Leon Trotsky
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1924/lessons/index.htm
The Transitional Program (1938) by Leon Trotsky
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1938/tp/
Their Morals and Ours (1938) by Leon Trotsky
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1938/morals/morals.htm
Fascism: What It Is and How to Fight It (1944) by Leon Trotsky
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/works/1944/1944-fas.htm
Tier 2
Terrorism and Communism (1920) by Leon Trotsky
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1920/terrcomm/index.htm
The Permanent Revolution and Results and Prospects (1930) by Leon Trotsky
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1931/tpr/index.htm
Tier 3
The Third International After Lenin (1928) by Leon Trotsky
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1928/3rd/index.htm
History of the Russian Revolution (1930) by Leon Trotsky
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1930/hrr/
The Revolution Betrayed (1936) by Leon Trotsky
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1936/revbet/
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Anarcho-Pacificism
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https://blogs.law.columbia.edu/uprising1313/files/2017/10/Civil-Disobedience-by-Henry-David-Thoreau.pdf
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Maoism
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Developed by Mao Zedong, argues for peasant-led revolution, protracted people’s war, mass mobilization, and adapting Marxist strategy to agrarian societies.
Tier 1
Analysis of The Classes In Chinese Society (1926) by Mao Zedong
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-1/mswv1_1.htm
Oppose Book Worship (1930) by Mao Zedong
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-6/mswv6_11.htm
Be Concerned With the Well-Being of the Masses, Pay Attention to Methods of Work (1934) by Mao Zedong
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-1/mswv1_10.htm
Combat Liberalism (1937) by Mao Zedong
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-2/mswv2_03.htm
Serve The People (1944) by Mao Zedong
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-3/mswv3_19.htm
Bombard The Headquarters (1966) by Mao Zedong
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-9/mswv9_63.htm
Tier 2
On Contradiction (1937) by Mao Zedong
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-1/mswv1_17.htm
On Practice' (1937) by Mao Zedong
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-1/mswv1_16.htm
On Protracted War (1938) by Mao Zedong
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-2/mswv2_09.htm
On New Democracy (1940) by Mao Zedong
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-2/mswv2_26.htm
Tier 3
Report on an Investigation of the Peasant Movement In Hunan (1927) by Mao Zedong
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-1/mswv1_2.htm
On Guerrilla Warfare (1937) by Mao Zedong
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/works/1937/guerrilla-warfare/
The Chinese Revolution and the Chinese Communist Party (1939) by Mao Zedong
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-2/mswv2_23.htm
On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People (1957) by Mao Zedong
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-5/mswv5_58.htm
Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (1964) by Mao Zedong
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/works/red-book/index.htm
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Marxism-Leninism-Maoism
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Treats Maoism as a higher stage of Marxism–Leninism, emphasizing peasant-led, protracted people’s war, the mass line, and continuing revolution to prevent bureaucratic degeneration.
Tier 1
On Gonzalo Thought (1988) by the Communist Party of Peru
📖 · https://michaelharrison.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/On-Gonzalo-Thought-1st-Congress.pdf
Marxism-Leninism-Maoism or Revisionism? (1990) by Prachanda
📖 · https://www.bannedthought.net/Nepal/Problems-Prospects/p_mlmor_revisionism.html
Tier 2
General Political Line (1988) by the Communist Party of Peru
📖 · https://bannedthought.net/Peru/CPP/Documents/GeneralPoliticalLineOfTheCommunistPartyOfPeru-1988-OCR.pdf
The Great Leap Forward: An Inevitable Need of History (2001) by the Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist)
📖 · https://www.bannedthought.net/Nepal/Worker/Worker-07/GreatLeapForward-Prachanda-010200.htm
Hold High the Bright Red Banner of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism (2004) by the Communist Party of India (Maoist)
📖 · https://www.bannedthought.net/India/CPI-Maoist-Docs/Founding/MLM-pamphlet.pdf
Tier 3
On the Bourgeois-Democratic State (1961) by Abimael Guzmán
📖 · https://bannedthought.net/Peru/Gonzalo/Guzman-OnTheBourgeois-DemocraticState-1961-Thesis-OCR-sm.pdf
Philippine Society and Revolution (1970) by Amado Guerrero
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/history/philippines/cpp/guerrero/1970/psr.htm
Problems & Prospects of Revolution in Nepal (2004) by Prachanda and the Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist)
📖 · https://bannedthought.net/Nepal/Problems-Prospects/index.htm
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Socialism with Chinese Characteristics
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Adapts and institutionalizes Marxism–Leninism to Chinese conditions by marrying one-party rule and state control of strategic sectors with market-oriented reforms to drive modernization.
Tier 1
Emancipate the Mind, Seek Truth From Facts and Unite As One In Looking to the Future (1978) by Deng Xiaoping
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/deng-xiaoping/1978/110.htm
Uphold the Four Cardinal Principles (1979) by Deng Xiaoping
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/deng-xiaoping/1979/115.htm
We Can Develop A Market Economy Under Socialism (1979) by Deng Xiaoping
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/deng-xiaoping/1979/152.htm
To Build Socialism We Must First Develop the Productive Forces (1980) by Deng Xiaoping
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/deng-xiaoping/1980/101.htm
Tier 2
On the Reform of the System of Party and State Leadership (1980) by Deng Xiaoping
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/deng-xiaoping/1980/220.htm
Tier 3
Build Socialism With Chinese Characteristics (1984) by Deng Xiaoping
📖 · https://www.bannedthought.net/China/Individuals/DengXiaoping/DengXiaoping-BuildSocialismWithChineseCharacteristics.pdf
On the “Three Represents” (2000) by Jiang Zemin
📖 · https://archive.org/details/JiangZeminThreeRepresents
Report to the 17th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (2007) by Hu Jintao
📖 · https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2007-10/24/content_6204564.htm
The Governance of China (2014) by Xi Jinping
📖 · https://www.bannedthought.net/China/Individuals/XiJinping/XiJinping-TheGovernanceOfChina.pdf
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Maoism-Third Worldism
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Blends Maoist strategy with Third-Worldist analysis, arguing the revolutionary proletariat is concentrated in oppressed (Global South) countries while much First-World labor is seen as privileged or comprador.
Tier 1
Long Live the Victory of People’s War! (1965) by Lin Bao
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/lin-biao/1965/09/peoples_war/index.htm
Message to the Tricontinental (1967) by Che Guevara
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/guevara/1967/04/16.htm
Tier 2
White-Settler Colonialism and the Myth of Investment Imperialism (1972) by Arghiri Emmanuel
📖 · https://pdfhost.io/v/QUJ7qnsaq_WhiteSettler_Colonialism_and_the_Myth_of_Investment_Imperialism
Unequal Development (1973) by Samir Amin
📖 · https://www.prisoncensorship.info/archive/books/Economics/UnequalDevelopment_SamirAmin.pdf
Foreign Trade and the Law of Value (1979) by Anwar Shaikh
📖 · https://sci-hub.ru/https://www.jstor.org/stable/40402184
📖 · https://sci-hub.ru/https://www.jstor.org/stable/40402218
Settlers: The Mythology of the White Proletariat (1983) by J. Sakai
📖 · https://readsettlers.org/text-index.html
Eurocentrism (1989) by Samir Amin
📖 · https://contrapoder.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/08.-AMIN.pdf
The Wealth of (Some) Nations (2019) by Zak Cope
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1655353202103-0.pdf
Tier 3
Accumulation on a World Scale (1971) by Samir Amin
📖 · https://annas-archive.org/md5/89ae1cfad31b7ba8d06acbdba571f721
Unequal Exchange: A Study of the Imperialism of Trade (1972) by Arghiri Emmanuel
📖 · https://www.prisoncensorship.info/archive/books/Economics/UnequalExchange_ArghiriEmmanuel.pdf
Delinking: Towards a Polycentric World (1986) by Samir Amin
📖 · https://libgen.gl/edition.php?id=138497885
Divided World, Divided Class (2012) by Zak Cope
📖 · https://www.prisoncensorship.info/archive/books/Economics/DividedWorldDividedClass_ZakCope.pdf
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Juche
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The official state ideology of North Korea, stressing political independence, economic self-sufficiency, self-defense, and the central role of the leader in guiding the nation.
Tier 1
For the Establishment of a United Party of the Working Masses (1946) by Kim Il Sung
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/kim-il-sung/1946/08/29.pdf
On the Occasion of the Founding of the Korean People’s Army (1948) by Kim Il Sung
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/kim-il-sung/1948/02/08.pdf
On Eliminating Dogmatism and Formalism and Establishing Juche in Ideological Work (1955) by Kim Il Sung
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/kim-il-sung/1955/12/28.htm
Ten Principles for the Establishment of a Monolithic Ideological System (1974) by Kim Il Sung
📖 · https://www2.law.columbia.edu/course_00S_L9436_001/North%20Korea%20materials/10%20principles%20of%20juche.html
The Juche Idea is an Idea that Has Inherited and Developed the Progressive Ideologies of Mankind (1986) by Kim Jong Il
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/kim-jong-il/works/The-Juche-Idea-Is-An-Idea-That-Has-Inherited-And-Developed-The-Progressive-Ideologies-Of-Mankind.pdf
Ours is the Socialism of Juche (1994) by Kim Il Sung
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/kim-il-sung/1994/04/16.pdf
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea is a Juche-Oriented Socialist State with Invincible Might (2008) by Kim Jong Il
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/kim-jong-il/works/The-Democratic-Peoples-Republic-Of-Korea-Is-A-Juche-Oriented-Socialist-State-With-Invincible-Might.pdf
Let Us March Forward Dynamically Towards Final Victory, Holding Higher the Banner of Songun (2012) by Kim Jong Un
📖 · http://www.korean-books.com.kp/KBMbooks/en/work/leader3/1201.pdf
Tier 2
On the Juche Idea (1982) by Kim Jong Il
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/kim-jong-il/works/On-The-Juche-Idea.pdf
Our Socialism Centred on the Masses Shall Not Perish (1991) by Kim Jong Il
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/kim-jong-il/works/Our-Socialism-Centred-On-The-Masses-Shall-Not-Perish.pdf
Tier 3
On Juche in Our Revolution (1975) by Kim Il Sung
📖 · https://archive.org/details/KimJucheRevolutionVol1
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Italian Left-Communism
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Insisting on strict Marxist orthodoxy, rejecting parliamentarism, reformist trade unions and united fronts, while promoting a revolutionary, party-centered alternative to both social democracy and Marxism-Leninism.
Tier 1
Party and Class (1921) by Amadeo Bordiga
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/bordiga/works/1921/party-class.htm
Bourgeois Violence and Proletarian Defence (1946) by Onorato Damen
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/damen/1946/bourgeois-violence.htm
Proletarian Dictatorship and Class Party (1951) by Amadeo Bordiga
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/bordiga/works/1951/class-party.htm
Centralised Party, Yes – Centralism over the Party, No! (1951) by Onorato Damen
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/damen/1951/centralised.htm
Tier 2
Party and Class Action (1921) by Amadeo Bordiga
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/bordiga/works/1921/classact.htm
The Democratic Principle (1922) by Amadeo Bordiga
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/bordiga/works/1922/democratic-principle.htm
The Lyons Theses (1926) by Amadeo Bordiga
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/bordiga/works/1926/lyons-theses.htm
The Communist Left in the Third International (1926) by Amadeo Bordiga
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/bordiga/works/1926/comintern.htm
Dialogue with Stalin (1952) by Amadeo Bordiga
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/bordiga/works/1952/stalin.htm
We Defend the Italian Left (1966) by Onorato Damen
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/damen/1966/defend.htm
Tier 3
The Fundamentals for a Marxist Orientation (1946) by Amadeo Bordiga
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/bordiga/works/1946/orientation.htm
Bordiga — Beyond the Myth and the Rhetoric (1970) by Onorato Damen
📖 · https://www.leftcom.org/files/2018-10-02-damen-bordiga.pdf
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Council Communism
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Favors workers’ councils as the basis of proletarian power and organization as opposed to vanguard party centralism, arguing for direct, self-managed, council-based socialism.
Tier 1
World Revolution and Communist Tactics (1920) by Anton Pannekoek
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/pannekoe/1920/communist-tactics.htm
The Revolution Is Not A Party Affair (1920) by Otto Rühle
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/ruhle/1920/ruhle02.htm
The Lenin Legend (1935) by Paul Mattick
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/mattick-paul/1935/lenin-legend.htm
Why Past Revolutionary Movements Have Failed (1940) by Anton Pannekoek
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/pannekoe/1940/revo.htm
The Party and Class (1941) by Anton Pannekoek
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/pannekoe/1941/party-class.htm
The Failure of the Working Class (1946) by Anton Pannekoek
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/pannekoe/1946/failure-working-class.htm
Tier 2
Imperialism, the World War and Social Democracy (1914) by Herman Gorter
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/gorter/1914/imperialism.htm
The World Revolution (1918) by Herman Gorter
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/gorter/1918/world-revolution.htm
Report from Moscow (1920) by Otto Rühle
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/ruhle/1920/ruhle01.htm
Lenin As Philosopher (1938) by Anton Pannekoek
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/pannekoe/1938/lenin/index.htm
The Struggle Against Fascism Begins with the Struggle Against Bolshevism (1939) by Otto Rühle
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/ruhle/1939/ruhle01.htm
Spontaneity and Organisation (1949) by Paul Mattick
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/mattick-paul/1949/spontaneity.htm
Tier 3
An Open Letter to Comrade Lenin (1920) by Herman Gorter
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/gorter/1920/open-letter.htm
Workers' Councils (1942) by Anton Pannekoek
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/pannekoe/1947/workers-councils.htm
Marx and Keynes: The Limits of the Mixed Economy (1969) by Paul Mattick
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/mattick-paul/1969/marx-keynes/index.htm
Anti-Bolshevik Communism (1978) by Paul Mattick
📖 · https://files.libcom.org/files/paul-mattick-anti-bolshevik-communism-2007_0.pdf
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Frankfurt School
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Neo-Marxism
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Post-Marxism
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Essential American Politik 📖
• 📖 WEB Du Bois - Black Reconstruction // https://cominsitu.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/w-e-b-du-bois-black-reconstruction-an-essay-toward-a-history-of-the-part-which-black-folk-played-in-the-attempt-to-reconstruct-democracy-2.pdf
• 📖 Eugene Debs - Fourth of July Speech // https://jacobin.com/2020/07/eugene-debs-independence-day-address-fourth-july
• 📖 Power Anywhere There's People! – Fred Hampton // https://www.hamptonthink.org/read/power-anywhere-where-thats-people-fred-hampton
• 📖 War is a Racket – Smedley Butler // https://ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html
• 📖 Letters From an American Farmer – St. John de Crevoecoeur // https://americanliterature.com/author/j-hector-st-john-de-crevoecoeur/book/letters-from-an-american-farmer/summary
• 📖 Trail of Broken Treaties // American Indian Movement https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
• 📖 The Declaration of Independence https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
• https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
• 📖 The Ballot or the Bullet – Malcolm X // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/ballot_or_bullet.pdf
• 📖 What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? – Frederick Douglass // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/douglass_july_4_speech.pdf
• 📖 A Trail of Broken Treaties – American Indian Movement // https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
• 📖 Custer Died for Your Sins – Vine Deloria Jr. // http://www.riversimulator.org/Resources/Books/CusterDiedForYourSinsAnIndianManifesto1969Deloria.pdf
• 📖 Emancipation Proclamation – Lincoln // https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/emancipation-proclamation
• 📖 Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville // https://americanliterature.com/author/alexis-de-tocqueville/book/democracy-in-america/summary
• 📖 Common Sense – Thomas Paine // https://americainclass.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Common-Sense-Full-Text.pdf
• 📖 An Indigenous History of the United States – Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz // https://nycstandswithstandingrock.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/dunbar-ortiz-2014.pdf
• 📖 Huey Long – Share Our Wealth // https://www.hueylong.com/programs/share-our-wealth/huey-longs-share-our-wealth-speech
Which side are you on? - Pete Seeger
▶ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XKMwWZVpPE
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/USApol/
🗽 UNITED STATES POLITICS 🦅>Thread for the hellish discussion related to the scourge of the earth, the destroyer of nations, the king of coups, the sultan of sanctions, the emir of the embargo, the autocrat of austerity, the doge of deregulation, the baron of busting unions, the prince of privatization, the lord of loan sharks, the patron-saint of proxy wars, the sponsor of settlers, the guarantor of genocides, the Divided $nakkkes of Amerikkka™
<Sino-Burger Summit Edition
OP Backup Site: https://usapol.neocities.org/
💀 ICE & Prison Resources
(Amerika is the most incarcerated country in the world!)
• ICE tracker using public info and user submissions // https://www.iceinmyarea.org/
• list of deaths at ICE concentration camps // https://www.aila.org/infonet/deaths-at-adult-detention-centers
• visualization of prison population in US // https://mkorostoff.github.io/incarceration-in-real-numbers/
• Organizing in Prison — for when the walls close in (RANT Collective) // https://www.organizingforpower.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Organizing-in-Jail.pdf
• database of U.S. facilities incl. ICE holding sites // https://alcpress.org/usjails/index.html
• list of prison related resources, mailing lists, etc // https://www.prisonactivist.org/resources
• ICE Agent List (incomplete) // https://wiki.icelist.is/index.php/Category:Agents
• US Political Prison Tracker (last updated 2025) // https://uspoliticalprisoners.com/
Jailhouse Reading:
• 📖 Angela Davis - Are Prisons Obsolete? // https://dn790007.ca.archive.org/0/items/the-anarchist-library-full-list-of-pdfs-nov-2020/angela-y-davis-are-prisons-obsolete.pdf
• 📖 How to Defend Yourself During Police Interrogation // https://www.notrace.how/resources/download/comment-la-police-interroge-et-comment-sen-defendre/how-to-defend-yourself-during-a-police-interrogation.pdf
• 📖 National Lawyers Guild guide to being a jailhouse lawyer // https://www.jailhouselaw.org/
• 📖 Critical Resistance - Surviving Solitary Confinement // https://criticalresistance.org/resources/surviving-solitary/
• 📖 An inside-outside publication for abolitionist struggle & strategy across prison walls // https://criticalresistance.org/abolitionist/
• 📖 Prisoners’ Self-Help Litigation Manual // https://api.pageplace.de/preview/DT0400.9780199705665_A35159258/preview-9780199705665_A35159258.pdf
⚒️ LABOR!
• Live strike tracker with deep stats on who, what and when // https://striketracker.ilr.cornell.edu/
• AFL-CIO [imperialist]'s Strike Tracker // https://aflcio.org/strike-map
• Labor Bureau's Official 'work stoppage' tracker // https://www.bls.gov/wsp/
• IWW timeline for the 20th century (ends at 1999) // https://archive.iww.org/history/chronology/
• IWW Work Place Organizing Guide // https://usa.anarchistlibraries.net/library/industrial-workers-of-the-world-libcom-org-solidarity-federation-walthamstow-anarchist-group-wo
• ▶ Salting | Work Place Organizing 101 (50 minute webinar) // https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SHlCLyM4FY
⚖️ Deeds of the Burger Reich 🇺🇸
• deep list of horrible shit we (royal we) have done // https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/us_atrocities.md
• Coups and regime changes – master list // https://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-peoples-governments-the-master-list
• Wikipedia: United States War Crimes // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_war_crimes
• /our boys/ (bring em home!) detail abusing Iraqi prisoners [2006] // https://www.hrw.org/report/2006/07/22/no-blood-no-foul/soldiers-accounts-detainee-abuse-iraq
• More than 250 military interventions in the last 30 years alone // https://blackagendareport.com/us-launched-251-military-interventions-1991-and-469-1798
• Visualization of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade // https://www.slavevoyages.org/
• UNESCO Sites relating to Slavery // https://slaveryandremembrance.org/
• First Hand Documents of the horrors of Slavery // https://www.loc.gov/collections/slave-narratives-from-the-federal-writers-project-1936-to-1938/
📺 Glowie News 📺
(sponsored by the Burger Eagle Freedom Institute (formerly USAID))
• CNN Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/cnn-news-usa.html
• MSNBC Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/msnbc.html
• FOX Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/fox-news-channel.html
• Bloomberg Live // https://www.bloomberg.com/live/us
• Burger House Live // https://www.whitehouse.gov/live/
• Local News // https://www.50states.com/ce/
• Weather // https://www.noaa.gov/weather
📺 Gommie News 📺
• Jacobin // https://jacobin.com/~~
• Black Agenda Report // https://blackagendareport.com/
• The Grayzone // https://thegrayzone.com/
• Leftvoice // https://www.leftvoice.org/
• Newsanon Filter // https://leftypol.org/search.php?search=name%3A%22News+Anon+3.0%22&board=leftypol
🏝️ Epstein's Client List 🇮🇱
• Epstein's Black Book // https://epsteinsblackbook.com/
• DOJ Disclosures // https://www.justice.gov/epstein/doj-disclosures
• Track AIPAC // https://www.trackaipac.com/
• Al Jazeera visual guide (2026) // https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/10/struggling-to-navigate-the-epstein-files-here-is-a-visual-guide
Essential American Politik 📖
• 📖 WEB Du Bois - Black Reconstruction // https://cominsitu.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/w-e-b-du-bois-black-reconstruction-an-essay-toward-a-history-of-the-part-which-black-folk-played-in-the-attempt-to-reconstruct-democracy-2.pdf
• 📖 Eugene Debs - Fourth of July Speech // https://jacobin.com/2020/07/eugene-debs-independence-day-address-fourth-july
• 📖 Power Anywhere There's People! – Fred Hampton // https://www.hamptonthink.org/read/power-anywhere-where-thats-people-fred-hampton
• 📖 War is a Racket – Smedley Butler // https://ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html
• 📖 Letters From an American Farmer – St. John de Crevoecoeur // https://americanliterature.com/author/j-hector-st-john-de-crevoecoeur/book/letters-from-an-american-farmer/summary
• 📖 Trail of Broken Treaties // American Indian Movement https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
• 📖 The Declaration of Independence https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
• https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
• 📖 The Ballot or the Bullet – Malcolm X // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/ballot_or_bullet.pdf
• 📖 What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? – Frederick Douglass // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/douglass_july_4_speech.pdf
• 📖 A Trail of Broken Treaties – American Indian Movement // https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
• 📖 Custer Died for Your Sins – Vine Deloria Jr. // http://www.riversimulator.org/Resources/Books/CusterDiedForYourSinsAnIndianManifesto1969Deloria.pdf
• 📖 Emancipation Proclamation – Lincoln // https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/emancipation-proclamation
• 📖 Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville // https://americanliterature.com/author/alexis-de-tocqueville/book/democracy-in-america/summary
• 📖 Common Sense – Thomas Paine // https://americainclass.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Common-Sense-Full-Text.pdf
• 📖 An Indigenous History of the United States – Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz // https://nycstandswithstandingrock.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/dunbar-ortiz-2014.pdf
• 📖 Huey Long – Share Our Wealth // https://www.hueylong.com/programs/share-our-wealth/huey-longs-share-our-wealth-speech
Which side are you on? - Pete Seeger
▶ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XKMwWZVpPE
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A thread for the harmonious discussion related to the saviour of socialism, the uplifter of nations, the king of cooperation, the soviet of SOVL, the enjoyer of empathy, the ally of Africa, the demigod of development, the bureaucracy for banter, the prince of ping pong, the lobotomizer of labour aristocracy, the protector against proxy wars, the sponsor of sophisticated sciences and culture, the guarantor of gommunism, the Proletarian Dictatorship of Chynah™.
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>it works in practice but it doesn't work in theory editionA thread for the harmonious discussion related to the saviour of socialism, the uplifter of nations, the king of cooperation, the soviet of SOVL, the enjoyer of empathy, the ally of Africa, the demigod of development, the bureaucracy for banter, the prince of ping pong, the lobotomizer of labour aristocracy, the protector against proxy wars, the sponsor of sophisticated sciences and culture, the guarantor of gommunism, the Proletarian Dictatorship of Chynah™.
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>Previous bake
>>2806554
Latest News
>Nothing ever happens
<IDF still getting groyped by Hezb drones.
>Israel confirms that some of their generals went to the UAE during the war
<Nothing comes out of the US-China summit
>US bond yields spiked. 10y now solidly above 4.5
>Important Links:
https://www.flightradar24.com/
https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/centerx:52.7/centery:26.8/zoom:7
https://www.defconlevel.com/
https://oilprice.com/
https://www.pizzint.watch/
https://eam.watch/
https://www.gmcmap.com/index.asp
https://firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/map/#d:24hrs;@54.2,31.0,7.1z
https://globe.adsbexchange.com/
>Useful Channels:
https://www.youtube.com/@TheDuran
https://www.youtube.com/@AlexMercouris
https://www.youtube.com/@AlexChristoforou
https://www.youtube.com/@dialogueworks01
https://www.youtube.com/@DanielDavisDeepDive
https://www.youtube.com/@DannyHaiphongYT
https://www.youtube.com/@justinpodur
https://www.youtube.com/@IndiaGlobalLeft
https://www.youtube.com/@RichardMedhurst
https://www.youtube.com/@GDFofficial
https://www.youtube.com/@neutralitystudies
https://www.youtube.com/@prop_co
https://www.youtube.com/@CyrusJanssen
https://www.youtube.com/@breakingpoints
https://www.youtube.com/@militarysummary
https://www.youtube.com/@TheNewAtlas
https://www.youtube.com/@willyOAM
https://www.youtube.com/@GDiesen1
https://www.youtube.com/@theeastisapodcast
https://www.youtube.com/@GeopoliticalEconomyReport
https://www.youtube.com/@TheElectronicIntifada
>Useful Xitters
https://xcancel.com/IranObserver0
https://xcancel.com/araghchi
https://xcancel.com/conflict_radar
https://xcancel.com/TheCradleMedia
https://xcancel.com/AliAbunimah
https://xcancel.com/BrianJBerletic
https://xcancel.com/angeloinchina
https://xcancel.com/jonelmer
https://xcancel.com/MarkAmesExiled
https://xcancel.com/UrOrientalist
https://xcancel.com/MaxBlumenthal
https://xcancel.com/dreizinreport/
>Useful TG:
https://t(dot)me/s/wfwitness
https://t(dot)me/s/Middle_East_Spectator
https://t(dot)me/s/enemywatch
>Useful Blogs/Podcasts/News:
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/
https://simplicius76.substack.com/
https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/
https://sonar21.com/
https://www.moonofalabama.org/
https://thegrayzone.com/
https://www.middleeasteye.net/live/live-us-and-israel-attack-iran
https://www.podbean.com/podcast-detail/t687i-9b79d/War-Nerd-Radio-%E2%80%94-Subscriber-Feed-Podcast
/Iran war/ thread #65
<Bond Vigilantism edition>Previous bake
>>2806554
Latest News
>Nothing ever happens
<IDF still getting groyped by Hezb drones.
>Israel confirms that some of their generals went to the UAE during the war
<Nothing comes out of the US-China summit
>US bond yields spiked. 10y now solidly above 4.5
>Important Links:
https://www.flightradar24.com/
https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/centerx:52.7/centery:26.8/zoom:7
https://www.defconlevel.com/
https://oilprice.com/
https://www.pizzint.watch/
https://eam.watch/
https://www.gmcmap.com/index.asp
https://firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/map/#d:24hrs;@54.2,31.0,7.1z
https://globe.adsbexchange.com/
>Useful Channels:
https://www.youtube.com/@TheDuran
https://www.youtube.com/@AlexMercouris
https://www.youtube.com/@AlexChristoforou
https://www.youtube.com/@dialogueworks01
https://www.youtube.com/@DanielDavisDeepDive
https://www.youtube.com/@DannyHaiphongYT
https://www.youtube.com/@justinpodur
https://www.youtube.com/@IndiaGlobalLeft
https://www.youtube.com/@RichardMedhurst
https://www.youtube.com/@GDFofficial
https://www.youtube.com/@neutralitystudies
https://www.youtube.com/@prop_co
https://www.youtube.com/@CyrusJanssen
https://www.youtube.com/@breakingpoints
https://www.youtube.com/@militarysummary
https://www.youtube.com/@TheNewAtlas
https://www.youtube.com/@willyOAM
https://www.youtube.com/@GDiesen1
https://www.youtube.com/@theeastisapodcast
https://www.youtube.com/@GeopoliticalEconomyReport
https://www.youtube.com/@TheElectronicIntifada
>Useful Xitters
https://xcancel.com/IranObserver0
https://xcancel.com/araghchi
https://xcancel.com/conflict_radar
https://xcancel.com/TheCradleMedia
https://xcancel.com/AliAbunimah
https://xcancel.com/BrianJBerletic
https://xcancel.com/angeloinchina
https://xcancel.com/jonelmer
https://xcancel.com/MarkAmesExiled
https://xcancel.com/UrOrientalist
https://xcancel.com/MaxBlumenthal
https://xcancel.com/dreizinreport/
>Useful TG:
https://t(dot)me/s/wfwitness
https://t(dot)me/s/Middle_East_Spectator
https://t(dot)me/s/enemywatch
>Useful Blogs/Podcasts/News:
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/
https://simplicius76.substack.com/
https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/
https://sonar21.com/
https://www.moonofalabama.org/
https://thegrayzone.com/
https://www.middleeasteye.net/live/live-us-and-israel-attack-iran
https://www.podbean.com/podcast-detail/t687i-9b79d/War-Nerd-Radio-%E2%80%94-Subscriber-Feed-Podcast
R: 500 / I: 144
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://dn720006.ca.archive.org/0/items/baudrillard.-1970.-the-consumer-society/Baudrillard.1981.Simulacra-and-Simulation.pdf
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Yxg2_6_YLs
<Manufacturing Consent (1988) by Edward S. Herman & Noam Chomsky
📖 • https://libcom.org/article/manufacturing-consent-political-economy-mass-media-noam-chomsky-and-edward-s-herman
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34LGPIXvU5M
>The Sublime Object of Ideology (1989) by Slavoj Zizek
📖 • https://altexploit.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/slavoj-zizek-the-sublime-object-of-ideology-second-edition-the-essential-zizek-2009.pdf
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtIckkHsUQ4
<Postscript on the Societies of Control (1990) by Gilles Deleuze
📖 • https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/gilles-deleuze-postscript-on-the-societies-of-control
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hu4Cq_-bLlY
>Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (1991) by Fredric Jameson
📖 • https://www.are.na/block/4114741
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4k26xGx1zI
<Spectres of Marx (1993) by Jacques Derrida
📖 • https://libcom.org/library/specters-marx-jacques-derrida
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJr0NwXWb6Q
>Capitalist Realism (2009) by Mark Fisher
📖 • https://libcom.org/article/capitalist-realism-mark-fisher
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Cb5XJH4NMI
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SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL
>Precursor Material to Post-modernity and Critical Theory
📖 • Karl Marx - Book 1, Chapter 4 of Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts (1844)
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/manuscripts/labour.htm
📺 • Why Marx Was Right: Alienation - PlasticPills
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPRxxN4Kh30
📖 • Georg Lukács - Chapter 4 of History and Class Consciousness (1923)
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lukacs/works/history/hcc05.htm
📺 • Marxism After Marx: Reification - The Marxist Project
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZiI-QKxBKI
📖 • Antonio Gramsci - Book 1, Chapter 1 of Selections from the Prison Notebooks (1929)
https://www.marxists.org/archive/gramsci/prison_notebooks/problems/intellectuals.htm
📺 • Hegemony: WTF? An introduction to Gramsci and cultural hegemony - Tom Nicholas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LI_2-qsovo
📖 • Louis Althusser - Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses (1970)
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/althusser/1970/ideology.htm
📺 • Althusser's Concept of Ideology: A Discussion with Anthony Gavin - Acid Horizon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtOqXxkKwvw
<Documentaries
• The Society of the Spectacle (1974) by Guy Debord
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjF6I6SYjgA
• Manufacturing Consent (1992) by Mark Achbar & Peter Wintonick, with Noam Chomsky
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Li2m3rvsO0I
• The Pervert's Guide to Cinema (2006) and The Pervert's Guide to Ideology (2012) by Sophie Fiennes, with Slavoj Zizek
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYuI4SFw4g0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBcFLmu_tlc
• HyperNormalisation (2016) by Adam Curtis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bv3Tr3jvZM&rco
>Easy-Bake Breadtube (for absolute beginners)
• We're All Fake Now - Wisecrack
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTW1mPOJJ_Y
• Are Cell Phones Replacing Reality? - PBS Idea Channel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AXIAM7dTTg
• The Cultural Significance of Cyberpunk - Cuck Philosophy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nvor7hhDKTs
• Introduction to Critical Theory for the 21st Century - Nathan Dufour
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7stVZPGxIw
• The Work of Art in the Age of Surveillance Capitalism - Brendan Morris
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNKiBJJFXZI
<Situationist Archives
• https://situationist.org/
• https://notbored.org/SI.html
• https://bopsecrets.org/SI/index.htm
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RECOMMENDED OP-EDS
• I Don’t Want to Be an Internet Person by Ginevra Davis
https://www.palladiummag.com/2022/11/04/i-do-not-want-to-be-an-internet-person/
• Pluralistic: Tiktok's enshittification by Cory Doctorow
https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys
• Facebook's Threads is so depressing by Jason O. Gilbert
https://jogblog.substack.com/p/facebooks-threads-is-so-depressing
/ISG/ - Internet Spectacle General
A thread focused on discussing the parasocial relationships cultivated by the Almighty Algorithm to generate profit off of our atomization and society's commodification of petty internet drama.Brace through the hyper-real lacanian void together!
Reminder That None of This Is Real!™
ɢʀᴀʙ ᴀ ᴘᴀɪʀ ᴏꜰ sᴘᴇᴄᴛᴀᴄʟᴇs
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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://dn720006.ca.archive.org/0/items/baudrillard.-1970.-the-consumer-society/Baudrillard.1981.Simulacra-and-Simulation.pdf
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Yxg2_6_YLs
<Manufacturing Consent (1988) by Edward S. Herman & Noam Chomsky
📖 • https://libcom.org/article/manufacturing-consent-political-economy-mass-media-noam-chomsky-and-edward-s-herman
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34LGPIXvU5M
>The Sublime Object of Ideology (1989) by Slavoj Zizek
📖 • https://altexploit.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/slavoj-zizek-the-sublime-object-of-ideology-second-edition-the-essential-zizek-2009.pdf
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtIckkHsUQ4
<Postscript on the Societies of Control (1990) by Gilles Deleuze
📖 • https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/gilles-deleuze-postscript-on-the-societies-of-control
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hu4Cq_-bLlY
>Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (1991) by Fredric Jameson
📖 • https://www.are.na/block/4114741
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4k26xGx1zI
<Spectres of Marx (1993) by Jacques Derrida
📖 • https://libcom.org/library/specters-marx-jacques-derrida
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJr0NwXWb6Q
>Capitalist Realism (2009) by Mark Fisher
📖 • https://libcom.org/article/capitalist-realism-mark-fisher
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Cb5XJH4NMI
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SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL
>Precursor Material to Post-modernity and Critical Theory
📖 • Karl Marx - Book 1, Chapter 4 of Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts (1844)
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/manuscripts/labour.htm
📺 • Why Marx Was Right: Alienation - PlasticPills
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPRxxN4Kh30
📖 • Georg Lukács - Chapter 4 of History and Class Consciousness (1923)
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lukacs/works/history/hcc05.htm
📺 • Marxism After Marx: Reification - The Marxist Project
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZiI-QKxBKI
📖 • Antonio Gramsci - Book 1, Chapter 1 of Selections from the Prison Notebooks (1929)
https://www.marxists.org/archive/gramsci/prison_notebooks/problems/intellectuals.htm
📺 • Hegemony: WTF? An introduction to Gramsci and cultural hegemony - Tom Nicholas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LI_2-qsovo
📖 • Louis Althusser - Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses (1970)
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/althusser/1970/ideology.htm
📺 • Althusser's Concept of Ideology: A Discussion with Anthony Gavin - Acid Horizon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtOqXxkKwvw
<Documentaries
• The Society of the Spectacle (1974) by Guy Debord
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjF6I6SYjgA
• Manufacturing Consent (1992) by Mark Achbar & Peter Wintonick, with Noam Chomsky
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Li2m3rvsO0I
• The Pervert's Guide to Cinema (2006) and The Pervert's Guide to Ideology (2012) by Sophie Fiennes, with Slavoj Zizek
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYuI4SFw4g0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBcFLmu_tlc
• HyperNormalisation (2016) by Adam Curtis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bv3Tr3jvZM&rco
>Easy-Bake Breadtube (for absolute beginners)
• We're All Fake Now - Wisecrack
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTW1mPOJJ_Y
• Are Cell Phones Replacing Reality? - PBS Idea Channel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AXIAM7dTTg
• The Cultural Significance of Cyberpunk - Cuck Philosophy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nvor7hhDKTs
• Introduction to Critical Theory for the 21st Century - Nathan Dufour
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7stVZPGxIw
• The Work of Art in the Age of Surveillance Capitalism - Brendan Morris
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNKiBJJFXZI
<Situationist Archives
• https://situationist.org/
• https://notbored.org/SI.html
• https://bopsecrets.org/SI/index.htm
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RECOMMENDED OP-EDS
• I Don’t Want to Be an Internet Person by Ginevra Davis
https://www.palladiummag.com/2022/11/04/i-do-not-want-to-be-an-internet-person/
• Pluralistic: Tiktok's enshittification by Cory Doctorow
https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys
• Facebook's Threads is so depressing by Jason O. Gilbert
https://jogblog.substack.com/p/facebooks-threads-is-so-depressing
R: 12 / I: 1
A while ago I read The Persistence Of The Old regime by Arno Mayer (I wrote a short summary here >>>/edu/25554). It can be summarized as follows:
<"Down to 1914 Europe was preeminently pre-industrial and prebourgeois. Its civil societies being deeply rooted in economies of labor-intensive agriculture, consumer manufacture and petty commerce."
>Mayer goes on to show that economically, politically and culturally the now post-feudal ancien regime was still dominant. The grande bourgeoisie did not yet exist as a class for itself. Its new industrial economic base was grafted onto the old, but still dominant, agricultural one, the latter of which the nobility held in their hands through their vast land ownership.
Mayer asserts in Why Did The Heavens Not Darken, his book on the Judeocide, that Germany was "very much still an old regime" even after the revolution that ended the Wilhelmine autocracy. The same was true for much of Eastern Europe, hence why there too there was an aristocratic propensity towards empowering fascists as to use their popular base for the former's continued survival.
Right now I'm reading Hitler And The Peasants by Gustavo Corni and he too mentions the continued, but waning, supremacy that large landowners enjoyed on the countryside:
>[…] until 1940-5 the cast of large landowners in the east (aristocratic or otherwise) continued to exercise a hegemonic role from a social and politico-cultural point of view, rather than from an economic one.
Hitler was appointed chancellor by Hindenburg, himself an arch-Junker, and entered into a coalition with the traditional conservatives of the DNVP. The latter were only willing to do so after losing many (countryside) votes to the NSDAP because they failed to copy their "popular" conservatism.
Corni notes on Nazi agricultural ideology:
>The vital role of the state, the preservation of the landed estates for strategic purposes, and imperialist expansion (which was much more a response to the deeply rooted demands of the Junkertum than a move in the interests of the peasants) — these were all muted notes in the 'leitmotif' which ran through [Nazi agricultural ideologist Richard Walter] Darré's ideology
Of course, there is also the lower middle-class of self employed artisans who were being outcompeted by large scale industry. They, like the peasants, also found little representation in the new Weimar Republic where the main conflict seemed to be between the industrial Bourgeoisie and the unions and Social Democratic and Communist parties of the working class. Here too there was fertile ground for fascism to expand its popular base.
This all runs counter to the idea I sometimes see propagated that fascism is the Bourgeoisie's last ditch effort to stay in power when a real or imagined revolution seems near. Instead, it seems like actually existing fascism, at least in Europe, is aristocratic in origins, all the forces of pre-modernity sperging out one last time before truly losing all relevance (of course, the Bourgeoisie — cucked, as per Mayer — doesn't mind any of this). This would also imply (?) that in much of our contemporary world, the social base for fascism is completely gone, which is a conclusion I'm not sure I'd be willing to make.
On Fascism and the Old Regime
What were the class dynamics behind the rise of fascism in Europe?A while ago I read The Persistence Of The Old regime by Arno Mayer (I wrote a short summary here >>>/edu/25554). It can be summarized as follows:
<"Down to 1914 Europe was preeminently pre-industrial and prebourgeois. Its civil societies being deeply rooted in economies of labor-intensive agriculture, consumer manufacture and petty commerce."
>Mayer goes on to show that economically, politically and culturally the now post-feudal ancien regime was still dominant. The grande bourgeoisie did not yet exist as a class for itself. Its new industrial economic base was grafted onto the old, but still dominant, agricultural one, the latter of which the nobility held in their hands through their vast land ownership.
Mayer asserts in Why Did The Heavens Not Darken, his book on the Judeocide, that Germany was "very much still an old regime" even after the revolution that ended the Wilhelmine autocracy. The same was true for much of Eastern Europe, hence why there too there was an aristocratic propensity towards empowering fascists as to use their popular base for the former's continued survival.
Right now I'm reading Hitler And The Peasants by Gustavo Corni and he too mentions the continued, but waning, supremacy that large landowners enjoyed on the countryside:
>[…] until 1940-5 the cast of large landowners in the east (aristocratic or otherwise) continued to exercise a hegemonic role from a social and politico-cultural point of view, rather than from an economic one.
Hitler was appointed chancellor by Hindenburg, himself an arch-Junker, and entered into a coalition with the traditional conservatives of the DNVP. The latter were only willing to do so after losing many (countryside) votes to the NSDAP because they failed to copy their "popular" conservatism.
Corni notes on Nazi agricultural ideology:
>The vital role of the state, the preservation of the landed estates for strategic purposes, and imperialist expansion (which was much more a response to the deeply rooted demands of the Junkertum than a move in the interests of the peasants) — these were all muted notes in the 'leitmotif' which ran through [Nazi agricultural ideologist Richard Walter] Darré's ideology
Of course, there is also the lower middle-class of self employed artisans who were being outcompeted by large scale industry. They, like the peasants, also found little representation in the new Weimar Republic where the main conflict seemed to be between the industrial Bourgeoisie and the unions and Social Democratic and Communist parties of the working class. Here too there was fertile ground for fascism to expand its popular base.
This all runs counter to the idea I sometimes see propagated that fascism is the Bourgeoisie's last ditch effort to stay in power when a real or imagined revolution seems near. Instead, it seems like actually existing fascism, at least in Europe, is aristocratic in origins, all the forces of pre-modernity sperging out one last time before truly losing all relevance (of course, the Bourgeoisie — cucked, as per Mayer — doesn't mind any of this). This would also imply (?) that in much of our contemporary world, the social base for fascism is completely gone, which is a conclusion I'm not sure I'd be willing to make.
R: 546 / I: 68
Russia's invasion of Ukraine is retarded
Russia had no good reason to invade Ukraine, Ukraine has good reason to resist Russian occupation but should be open to ceding territory in return for peace if possible. I do not buy that the Far-Right parties around the world that defend this invasion were actually le based prole-pilled geniuses the entire time. Prove me wrong.
R: 85 / I: 32
PENCILMAN FOREVER IN OUR HEARTS
Well dear leftypol, the country with more presidents in the decade now has to again elect one. After the debacle of Pencilman I, the betrayal of Dinamita Boluarte, the r*pist lapdog of Jeri and the sarcophagus of current Balcazar comes the rematch. Roberto Sanchez, exminister in Castillo's goverment is practically the second round candidate with Fujimori (no explanation needed). Now, he is being bombarded by the press to debilitate his campaing and with all the sloganeering as always (statist, terrierist, betrayer, etc).
==PERU ELECTIONS 2026==
PERU ELECTIONS 2026PENCILMAN FOREVER IN OUR HEARTS
Well dear leftypol, the country with more presidents in the decade now has to again elect one. After the debacle of Pencilman I, the betrayal of Dinamita Boluarte, the r*pist lapdog of Jeri and the sarcophagus of current Balcazar comes the rematch. Roberto Sanchez, exminister in Castillo's goverment is practically the second round candidate with Fujimori (no explanation needed). Now, he is being bombarded by the press to debilitate his campaing and with all the sloganeering as always (statist, terrierist, betrayer, etc).
R: 581 / I: 110
https://youtu.be/u6XT3yc8G5s
Discuss goings on in the UK, the latest election cycle, if Keir is Queer and more….in /leftybritpol/
/leftybritpol/ election fallout edition
Official /leftybritpol/ Themehttps://youtu.be/u6XT3yc8G5s
Discuss goings on in the UK, the latest election cycle, if Keir is Queer and more….in /leftybritpol/
R: 56 / I: 19
“Le CIA propaganda” schizophrenic tinfoil hat won’t work on this.
And I wonder why he didn’t purge Beria lol
Stalin affair with 13 years old girl
Tankies will call it fake news, despite its genetic tested by Russians.“Le CIA propaganda” schizophrenic tinfoil hat won’t work on this.
And I wonder why he didn’t purge Beria lol
R: 360 / I: 110
Victory day post mortem edition
Evidence of the influence and origin of neo-Nazi groups in Ukraine
https://archive.ph/44B9Q
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323637
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323658
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323663
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323688
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323729
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323733
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323731
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323735
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323740
https://azovlobby.substack.com/
https://banderalobby.substack.com/
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ALWAYS APPROACH SOURCES CRITICALLY
Live maps and updates
DeepStateMap: https://deepstatemap.live
Events in Ukraine: https://eventsinukraine.substack.com/
SouthFront: https://southfront.press/category/all-articles/world/europe/ukraine/
Watch Together
📺 News/events: https://tv.leftypol.org/r/HappeningsviaKlash
📺 Hangout/chill: https://tv.leftypol.org/r/bloodcast
Watch By Yourself
>Video Essays / Historical Background
📺 • Ukraine: The Avoidable War - Boy Boy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LL4eNy4FCs8
📺 • Ukraine's Nazi Problem - The Marxist Project
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yZvWAwU5W4
📺 • America, Russia, and Ukraine's Far Right - Gravel Institute
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0pyVJG7_6Q
📺 • The Nature of Putin's Russia and Its Causes (3-Part Series) - 1Dime
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8d6Vzi7zYg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zODWTfMwFGw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Zuygh9Mzuo
<Current Happenings
📺 • The Grayzone: https://www.youtube.com/@thegrayzone7996
📺 • DDGeopolitics: https://www.youtube.com/@DDGeopolitics
📺 • Defense Politics Asia: https://www.youtube.com/@DefensePoliticsAsia
📺 • The Duran: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdeMVChrumySxV9N1w0Au-w
📺 • The News Atlas: https://www.youtube.com/c/thenewatlas
📺 • Military Summary: https://www.youtube.com/@militarysummary
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Social media
>Twitter
https://x.com/GeromanAT
https://x.com/plnewstoday
https://x.com/RALee85
https://x.com/MarQs__
https://x.com/KofmanMichael
https://x.com/IntelCrab (DEAD)
https://x.com/michaelh992
https://x.com/Suriyakmaps
https://x.com/AMK_Mapping_ (NEW)
<Telegram
https://t.me/milinfolive
https://t.me/hueviykharkov
https://t.me/conflictzone
https://t.me/vorposte
https://t.me/intelslava
https://t.me/grey_zone
https://t.me/AussieCossack
https://t.me/asbmil
https://t.me/Slavyangrad
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/ukr/ - Russia-Ukraine War General #287
Previous: >>2796324Victory day post mortem edition
Evidence of the influence and origin of neo-Nazi groups in Ukraine
https://archive.ph/44B9Q
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323637
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323658
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323663
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323688
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323729
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323733
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323731
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323735
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323740
https://azovlobby.substack.com/
https://banderalobby.substack.com/
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ALWAYS APPROACH SOURCES CRITICALLY
Live maps and updates
DeepStateMap: https://deepstatemap.live
Events in Ukraine: https://eventsinukraine.substack.com/
SouthFront: https://southfront.press/category/all-articles/world/europe/ukraine/
Watch Together
📺 News/events: https://tv.leftypol.org/r/HappeningsviaKlash
📺 Hangout/chill: https://tv.leftypol.org/r/bloodcast
Watch By Yourself
>Video Essays / Historical Background
📺 • Ukraine: The Avoidable War - Boy Boy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LL4eNy4FCs8
📺 • Ukraine's Nazi Problem - The Marxist Project
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yZvWAwU5W4
📺 • America, Russia, and Ukraine's Far Right - Gravel Institute
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0pyVJG7_6Q
📺 • The Nature of Putin's Russia and Its Causes (3-Part Series) - 1Dime
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8d6Vzi7zYg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zODWTfMwFGw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Zuygh9Mzuo
<Current Happenings
📺 • The Grayzone: https://www.youtube.com/@thegrayzone7996
📺 • DDGeopolitics: https://www.youtube.com/@DDGeopolitics
📺 • Defense Politics Asia: https://www.youtube.com/@DefensePoliticsAsia
📺 • The Duran: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdeMVChrumySxV9N1w0Au-w
📺 • The News Atlas: https://www.youtube.com/c/thenewatlas
📺 • Military Summary: https://www.youtube.com/@militarysummary
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Social media
https://x.com/GeromanAT
https://x.com/plnewstoday
https://x.com/RALee85
https://x.com/MarQs__
https://x.com/KofmanMichael
https://x.com/IntelCrab (DEAD)
https://x.com/michaelh992
https://x.com/Suriyakmaps
https://x.com/AMK_Mapping_ (NEW)
<Telegram
https://t.me/milinfolive
https://t.me/hueviykharkov
https://t.me/conflictzone
https://t.me/vorposte
https://t.me/intelslava
https://t.me/grey_zone
https://t.me/AussieCossack
https://t.me/asbmil
https://t.me/Slavyangrad
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R: 70 / I: 9
Cuba is gonna be invaded by the US by next month, and I don't have much hope in the Cuban armed forces alone.
Either an armed resistance needs to be established in the United States or international voluteers need to be formed for Cuba, either by the Cuban goverment or some communist org (PSL, RCI, etc).
Cuba is gonna be invaded
This isn't a joke or anythingCuba is gonna be invaded by the US by next month, and I don't have much hope in the Cuban armed forces alone.
Either an armed resistance needs to be established in the United States or international voluteers need to be formed for Cuba, either by the Cuban goverment or some communist org (PSL, RCI, etc).
R: 16 / I: 0
Any socialists on the ballot?
Any guesses as to how the redistributing/gerrymandering issue will play into things?
How do you think issues like Trump’s wars, the tariffs, ICE raids, Black issues, Medicare For All, the climate, voting rights, abortion, trans issues, autistic/neurodivergent issues, and Palestine will affect the outcome? For instance, are we seeing a split in the Democrats over Palestine and other foreign policy issues?
American Midterm Elections
Any predictions for the outcome of the 2026 American midterm elections?Any socialists on the ballot?
Any guesses as to how the redistributing/gerrymandering issue will play into things?
How do you think issues like Trump’s wars, the tariffs, ICE raids, Black issues, Medicare For All, the climate, voting rights, abortion, trans issues, autistic/neurodivergent issues, and Palestine will affect the outcome? For instance, are we seeing a split in the Democrats over Palestine and other foreign policy issues?
R: 157 / I: 32
Reading
Towards a New Socialism by Paul Cockshott and Allin Cottrell: http://ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu/~cottrell/socialism_book/
Brain of the Firm by Stafford Beer
Cybernetic Revolutionaries by Eden Medina
Cybernetics: Or the Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine and The Human Use of Human Beings (1st edition) by Norbert Wiener
Economic cybernetics by Nikolay Veduta
People's Republic of Walmart by Leigh Phillips and Michal Rozworski
Red Plenty by Francis Spufford
Economics in kind, Total socialisation and A system of socialisation by Otto Neurath (Incommensurability, Ecology, and Planning: Neurath in the Socialist Calculation Debate by Thomas Uebel provides a summary)
Active writers/creators sorted by last name
>Paul Cockshott
https://www.patreon.com/williamCockshott/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVBfIU1_zO-P_R9keEGdDHQ (https://invidious.snopyta.org/channel/UCVBfIU1_zO-P_R9keEGdDHQ)
https://paulcockshott.wordpress.com/
http://paulcockshott.co.uk/
https://twitter.com/PaulCockshott (https://nitter.pussthecat.org/PaulCockshott)
>Cibcom (Spanish)
https://cibcom.org/
https://twitter.com/cibcomorg (https://nitter.pussthecat.org/cibcomorg)
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCav9ad3TMuhiWV6yP5t2IpA (https://invidious.snopyta.org/channel/UCav9ad3TMuhiWV6yP5t2IpA)
>Tomas Härdin
https://www.haerdin.se/tag/cybernetics.html
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5fDgA_eHleDiTLC5qb5g8w (https://invidious.snopyta.org/channel/UC5fDgA_eHleDiTLC5qb5g8w)
Podcasts
>General Intellect Unit
Podcast of the Cybernetic Marxists
http://generalintellectunit.net/
Previous threads in chronological order
https://archive.is/uNCEY
https://web.archive.org/web/20201218152831/https://bunkerchan.xyz/leftypol/res/997358.html
https://archive.ph/uyggp
https://archive.is/xBFYY
https://archive.ph/Afx5a
https://archive.is/kAPvR
https://archive.is/0sAS2
https://archive.is/jXivP
https://archive.is/Lx8TF
/ CYBERCOM /
This thread is for the discussion of cybercommunism, the planning of the socialist economy by computerized means, including discussions of related topics and creators. Drama belongs in /isg/Reading
Towards a New Socialism by Paul Cockshott and Allin Cottrell: http://ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu/~cottrell/socialism_book/
Brain of the Firm by Stafford Beer
Cybernetic Revolutionaries by Eden Medina
Cybernetics: Or the Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine and The Human Use of Human Beings (1st edition) by Norbert Wiener
Economic cybernetics by Nikolay Veduta
People's Republic of Walmart by Leigh Phillips and Michal Rozworski
Red Plenty by Francis Spufford
Economics in kind, Total socialisation and A system of socialisation by Otto Neurath (Incommensurability, Ecology, and Planning: Neurath in the Socialist Calculation Debate by Thomas Uebel provides a summary)
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>Tomas Härdin
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>elon musk as of may 2026 has a net worth of 788 billion dollars
>elon musk has roughly $455 for every second he has been alive
classcucks will say he "earned" that. lmfao. that every second of his life, his genius brain innovates 455 dollars into his pocket.
can a person really "earn" that much or can they only get lucky and maybe also position themselves properly in a fundamentally exploitative system? some of you will no doubt answer that he "earned" it for the sake of provocative contrarianism
do classcucks really?
>elon musk was born jun 28 1971 and has been alive roughly 1.73 billion seconds>elon musk as of may 2026 has a net worth of 788 billion dollars
>elon musk has roughly $455 for every second he has been alive
classcucks will say he "earned" that. lmfao. that every second of his life, his genius brain innovates 455 dollars into his pocket.
can a person really "earn" that much or can they only get lucky and maybe also position themselves properly in a fundamentally exploitative system? some of you will no doubt answer that he "earned" it for the sake of provocative contrarianism
R: 75 / I: 6
Is there an American socialist org that supports China/DPRK but not Russia? I thought about getting involved with the PSL but I did more research on their foreign policy and they don’t flat out support Russia but excuse the annexation of Crimea and the SMO.
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Is there an American socialist org that supports China/DPRK but not Russia? I thought about getting involved with the PSL but I did more research on their foreign policy and they don’t flat out support Russia but excuse the annexation of Crimea and the SMO.
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R: 34 / I: 4
Communism is an impossibility, you’re never getting rid of the division of labor. Even if you got rid of entrepreneurs and investors and replaced them with the state you’ll never have factory workers doing brain surgery or high level accounting. Unless you rotate which sector sets the government agenda (which will inevitably benefit itself above the wider community) you’re just going to have a dictatorship of HR departments, which would be worse than the status quo.
Communism is an impossibility, you’re never getting rid of the division of labor. Even if you got rid of entrepreneurs and investors and replaced them with the state you’ll never have factory workers doing brain surgery or high level accounting. Unless you rotate which sector sets the government agenda (which will inevitably benefit itself above the wider community) you’re just going to have a dictatorship of HR departments, which would be worse than the status quo.
R: 24 / I: 4
Wage/consumption taxes are the best kind of taxes under capitalism because they incentivize the state to keep workers well paid. Property taxes just encourage the state to invest in resource extraction. Bureaucrats simply cannot embezzle money for their treats if taxes are derived from the wages of the workers and workers are not well paid. Furthermore, the state nationalizing enterprises is counterproductive because it directly transforms the state into being a capitalist instead of just being bribed by capitalists. You may not like it, but the best state under global capitalism runs purely off of wage taxes and has no public industry.
Wage/consumption taxes are the best kind of taxes under capitalism because they incentivize the state to keep workers well paid. Property taxes just encourage the state to invest in resource extraction. Bureaucrats simply cannot embezzle money for their treats if taxes are derived from the wages of the workers and workers are not well paid. Furthermore, the state nationalizing enterprises is counterproductive because it directly transforms the state into being a capitalist instead of just being bribed by capitalists. You may not like it, but the best state under global capitalism runs purely off of wage taxes and has no public industry.
R: 4 / I: 0
The mobilizations initially centered on demands for expanded mining zones, improved fuel access and regulatory changes. Protesters later attempted to march toward Plaza Murillo, where the Government Palace and Congress are located. Police responded with tear gas to stop the mining columns as dynamite explosions were reported across several streets in the historic center of the capital. Although a delegation of miners held prior talks with government officials, including Economy Minister José Gabriel Espinoza, who said authorities were “open to dialogue,” the negotiations failed to ease tensions.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/bolivian-miners-escalate-protests/
Threatened indictment of Raúl Castro ratchets up US pressure on Cuba
Although Raúl is officially retired, he remains the most potent figure in Cuban politics following the death of his brother Fidel in 2016, and by targeting him Washington appears to be heaping pressure on Cuba’s communist leadership at the end of an already extraordinarily intense week.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/15/raul-castro-indictment-cuba-trump
Peruvian prosecutors seek to disqualify leftist presidential candidate
Now the pressure against the leftist candidate is coming from the Peruvian Public Prosecutor’s Office, which is seeking a sentence of five years and four months, as well as a “permanent disqualification”, which would bar him from the electoral process. Meanwhile, Peru’s National Jury of Elections (JNE) has announced that it will announce the final results from the first round on May 17, defining who will head to the run off.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2026/05/15/peruvian-prosecutors-seek-to-disqualify-leftist-presidential-candidate/
Israeli nationalists chant ‘death to Arabs’ in violent Jerusalem Day march
Marchers were bused in from around Israel and from settlements in the occupied West Bank in a vast operation funded by the Jerusalem municipality and government ministries. The finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, also took part in Thursday’s march. Once Palestinians had left the Old City, much of the tension was between government-backed marchers and members of a Jewish group, Standing Together, which had come to protect Palestinian residents from political violence. Suf Patishi, a Standing Together organiser, said a record 400 volunteers had turned up in hi-vis vests in the organisation’s trademark purple, on a day fraught with risks.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/14/israel-nationalists-jerusalem-day-march-anniversary-protest
Iran hangs man on Israel spy charges, another over protests
The Iranian judiciary's Mizan Online website described Ehsan Afreshteh, 32, as "a spy trained by Mossad in Nepal who sold sensitive information to Israel" and said he had been executed. It later announced in a separate statement that Mohammad Abbasi, who had been sentenced to death over the killing of a police officer during the January protests, had also been hanged.
https://www.newarab.com/news/iran-hangs-man-israel-spy-charges-another-over-protests
BRICS talks end without joint statement as divisions over Iran war deepen
Sudan was also on the agenda. The African country remains in the grip of what the UN has described as the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. Ministers called for an immediate ceasefire, saying that only a peaceful solution through dialogue could bring a lasting end to the civil war, which began more than three years ago. They also warned that Sudan could become fertile ground for what ministers described as “extremism” and “terrorism”.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/5/15/brics-talks-end-without-joint-statement-as-divisions-over-iran-war-deepen
https://archive.ph/XMFEs
Samsung's South Korean union sticks to strike plan after talks offer
South Korean labour union said on Friday it remained committed to a planned strike starting next week, even after the company proposed resuming pay talks without conditions, sending shares down as much as 9.3%. Government-mediated negotiations between the union and the company over pay and bonus schemes collapsed this week, heightening concerns about a strike at the world's biggest memory chipmaker.
https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-work/samsung-elecs-union-says-samsung-proposed-unconditional-talks-strike-plan-holds-2026-05-15/
Australia uses new law to ban neonazi network
The ban, which would take effect at the end of Friday, makes it illegal to support, fund, train, recruit, join or direct the group, including if it reformed under a new name, Mr Burke said. Breaking the law is punishable by up to 15 years in prison. The group Hizb ut-Tahrir was in March the first group banned under the hate speech law. That organisation and the National Socialist Network were publicly identified by lawmakers and officials as the policy’s primary targets.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/australia-uses-new-law-ban-neonazi-network
Zelenskyy’s ex-top aide arrested as Ukraine graft probe widens
Ukrainian authorities named Yermak on Monday as a suspect in a major corruption probe. His arrest is the closest anti-corruption officials have come to the president’s inner circle. Ukraine’s anti-graft agencies said in a statement that Yermak is suspected of participating in a criminal group that laundered around $10.5 million through an elite housing development outside the capital, Kyiv.
https://www.nbcnews.com/world/ukraine/zelenskyys-ex-top-aide-arrested-ukraine-graft-probe-widens-rcna345084
Palestinian activist Ramy Shaath faces deportation from France
The notice also points to "repeated controversial actions and remarks" allegedly made during public appearances, including at a November 2023 protest in Paris, where he denounced what he called "Israel's criminal occupation of Gaza" and referred to "Israeli 'terrorists' who bomb houses and hospitals". An investigation into the offence of "defending terrorism" opened over the remarks was closed in October 2024.
https://www.france24.com/en/france/20260515-palestinian-activist-ramy-shaath-faces-deportation-from-france
https://archive.ph/qQomd
Human rights groups urge Poland to stop facilitating US deportations to Ukraine
According to the NGOs’ findings, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) conducted two operations – one in November 2025, the other in March 2026 – to send over 50 people to Ukraine through Poland. That prompted Amnesty and Human Rights First to send a letter to Poland’s foreign and interior ministers about the issue in mid-April, since when a further ICE flight containing an unknown number of people being sent to Ukraine landed at Rzeszów Jasionka Airport.
https://notesfrompoland.com/2026/05/14/human-rights-groups-urge-poland-to-stop-facilitating-us-deportations-to-ukraine/
Hundreds of thousands to demonstrate in London for Nakba anniversary
Protesters are demanding an end to Britain’s complicity in Israel’s military occupation, apartheid and genocide. The march marks the annual, globally observed occasion to commemorate the Nakba, or “catastrophe” in Arabic, in which 750,000 Palestinians were driven from their homes and 500 towns and villages destroyed in the foundation of the state of Israel in 1948.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/hundreds-thousands-demonstrate-london-nakba-anniversary
News 5/15/26
Bolivian Miners Escalate Protests Against PazThe mobilizations initially centered on demands for expanded mining zones, improved fuel access and regulatory changes. Protesters later attempted to march toward Plaza Murillo, where the Government Palace and Congress are located. Police responded with tear gas to stop the mining columns as dynamite explosions were reported across several streets in the historic center of the capital. Although a delegation of miners held prior talks with government officials, including Economy Minister José Gabriel Espinoza, who said authorities were “open to dialogue,” the negotiations failed to ease tensions.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/bolivian-miners-escalate-protests/
Threatened indictment of Raúl Castro ratchets up US pressure on Cuba
Although Raúl is officially retired, he remains the most potent figure in Cuban politics following the death of his brother Fidel in 2016, and by targeting him Washington appears to be heaping pressure on Cuba’s communist leadership at the end of an already extraordinarily intense week.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/15/raul-castro-indictment-cuba-trump
Peruvian prosecutors seek to disqualify leftist presidential candidate
Now the pressure against the leftist candidate is coming from the Peruvian Public Prosecutor’s Office, which is seeking a sentence of five years and four months, as well as a “permanent disqualification”, which would bar him from the electoral process. Meanwhile, Peru’s National Jury of Elections (JNE) has announced that it will announce the final results from the first round on May 17, defining who will head to the run off.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2026/05/15/peruvian-prosecutors-seek-to-disqualify-leftist-presidential-candidate/
Israeli nationalists chant ‘death to Arabs’ in violent Jerusalem Day march
Marchers were bused in from around Israel and from settlements in the occupied West Bank in a vast operation funded by the Jerusalem municipality and government ministries. The finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, also took part in Thursday’s march. Once Palestinians had left the Old City, much of the tension was between government-backed marchers and members of a Jewish group, Standing Together, which had come to protect Palestinian residents from political violence. Suf Patishi, a Standing Together organiser, said a record 400 volunteers had turned up in hi-vis vests in the organisation’s trademark purple, on a day fraught with risks.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/14/israel-nationalists-jerusalem-day-march-anniversary-protest
Iran hangs man on Israel spy charges, another over protests
The Iranian judiciary's Mizan Online website described Ehsan Afreshteh, 32, as "a spy trained by Mossad in Nepal who sold sensitive information to Israel" and said he had been executed. It later announced in a separate statement that Mohammad Abbasi, who had been sentenced to death over the killing of a police officer during the January protests, had also been hanged.
https://www.newarab.com/news/iran-hangs-man-israel-spy-charges-another-over-protests
BRICS talks end without joint statement as divisions over Iran war deepen
Sudan was also on the agenda. The African country remains in the grip of what the UN has described as the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. Ministers called for an immediate ceasefire, saying that only a peaceful solution through dialogue could bring a lasting end to the civil war, which began more than three years ago. They also warned that Sudan could become fertile ground for what ministers described as “extremism” and “terrorism”.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/5/15/brics-talks-end-without-joint-statement-as-divisions-over-iran-war-deepen
https://archive.ph/XMFEs
Samsung's South Korean union sticks to strike plan after talks offer
South Korean labour union said on Friday it remained committed to a planned strike starting next week, even after the company proposed resuming pay talks without conditions, sending shares down as much as 9.3%. Government-mediated negotiations between the union and the company over pay and bonus schemes collapsed this week, heightening concerns about a strike at the world's biggest memory chipmaker.
https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-work/samsung-elecs-union-says-samsung-proposed-unconditional-talks-strike-plan-holds-2026-05-15/
Australia uses new law to ban neonazi network
The ban, which would take effect at the end of Friday, makes it illegal to support, fund, train, recruit, join or direct the group, including if it reformed under a new name, Mr Burke said. Breaking the law is punishable by up to 15 years in prison. The group Hizb ut-Tahrir was in March the first group banned under the hate speech law. That organisation and the National Socialist Network were publicly identified by lawmakers and officials as the policy’s primary targets.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/australia-uses-new-law-ban-neonazi-network
Zelenskyy’s ex-top aide arrested as Ukraine graft probe widens
Ukrainian authorities named Yermak on Monday as a suspect in a major corruption probe. His arrest is the closest anti-corruption officials have come to the president’s inner circle. Ukraine’s anti-graft agencies said in a statement that Yermak is suspected of participating in a criminal group that laundered around $10.5 million through an elite housing development outside the capital, Kyiv.
https://www.nbcnews.com/world/ukraine/zelenskyys-ex-top-aide-arrested-ukraine-graft-probe-widens-rcna345084
Palestinian activist Ramy Shaath faces deportation from France
The notice also points to "repeated controversial actions and remarks" allegedly made during public appearances, including at a November 2023 protest in Paris, where he denounced what he called "Israel's criminal occupation of Gaza" and referred to "Israeli 'terrorists' who bomb houses and hospitals". An investigation into the offence of "defending terrorism" opened over the remarks was closed in October 2024.
https://www.france24.com/en/france/20260515-palestinian-activist-ramy-shaath-faces-deportation-from-france
https://archive.ph/qQomd
Human rights groups urge Poland to stop facilitating US deportations to Ukraine
According to the NGOs’ findings, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) conducted two operations – one in November 2025, the other in March 2026 – to send over 50 people to Ukraine through Poland. That prompted Amnesty and Human Rights First to send a letter to Poland’s foreign and interior ministers about the issue in mid-April, since when a further ICE flight containing an unknown number of people being sent to Ukraine landed at Rzeszów Jasionka Airport.
https://notesfrompoland.com/2026/05/14/human-rights-groups-urge-poland-to-stop-facilitating-us-deportations-to-ukraine/
Hundreds of thousands to demonstrate in London for Nakba anniversary
Protesters are demanding an end to Britain’s complicity in Israel’s military occupation, apartheid and genocide. The march marks the annual, globally observed occasion to commemorate the Nakba, or “catastrophe” in Arabic, in which 750,000 Palestinians were driven from their homes and 500 towns and villages destroyed in the foundation of the state of Israel in 1948.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/hundreds-thousands-demonstrate-london-nakba-anniversary
R: 32 / I: 8
why did third worldists side with maoist china over the soviet union and call the soviets social-imperialists when the soviet union supported far more national liberation movements worldwide and maoist china ended up coddling up to the USA?
was it because "white people bad"?
why did third worldists side with maoist china over the soviet union and call the soviets social-imperialists when the soviet union supported far more national liberation movements worldwide and maoist china ended up coddling up to the USA?
was it because "white people bad"?
R: 24 / I: 2
>then the Houthis attack the Galaxy Leader and kidnap 25 people
>then the Houthis kill 3 US servicemembers in a drone strike in Jordan
>then the 12 day war
>then two US Navy SEALs drown in the Arabian Sea trying to seize Iranian supplies going to the Houthis
>now the 2026 Iran War that resulted in the US not achieving any of its day 1 objectives, instead getting stuck in an expensive war as Iran unleashes hell on US military bases across the middle east with intelligence provided by Russia, the Strait of Hormuz is blocked still, other countries are getting involved (like France) and Israel is running out of soldiers from the Gaza War that depleted them severely, including inflicting heavy losses on their Merkava tanks
>now Israel wants to seize Southern Lebanon, but Hezbollah is waging a drone war and stormed Israeli military bases in Northern Israel (including drone striking Bibi Netanyahu's house a couple years back)
Did Hamas just pull a 9/11 on Israel? First a terror attack followed by a war that Israel can't win. Just like when Al-Qaeda attacked the United States in 2001 and got us into two wars that we lost (Iraq and Afghanistan). This Iran war is extremely unpopular at home. All the signs are there. Israel is losing support in the US. While Israel relies mostly on Azeri oil rather than Gulf oil like the US and thus the Strait of Hormuz getting blocked mostly doesn't affect them, just remember that Turkey can block that oil off if they really wanted to. Now famines are gonna hit due to shortages in gas and fertilizer in poor countries, and Tel Aviv lie in ruins from constant Iranian missiles. Israel's reserves are worn out and suffered heavy losses in the Gaza war (400 dead IDF I think after October 7 where 1,200 or 1,300 were killed by a vastly weaker opponent) they can't fight 4 wars at once. They won Syria after the FSA took over. But will Israel survive this? Haredis don't want to fight and many people are leaving Israel because they're tired of living underground in bomb shelters constantly.
Is Israel losing?
>first October 7 - Israel's 9/11 sequel>then the Houthis attack the Galaxy Leader and kidnap 25 people
>then the Houthis kill 3 US servicemembers in a drone strike in Jordan
>then the 12 day war
>then two US Navy SEALs drown in the Arabian Sea trying to seize Iranian supplies going to the Houthis
>now the 2026 Iran War that resulted in the US not achieving any of its day 1 objectives, instead getting stuck in an expensive war as Iran unleashes hell on US military bases across the middle east with intelligence provided by Russia, the Strait of Hormuz is blocked still, other countries are getting involved (like France) and Israel is running out of soldiers from the Gaza War that depleted them severely, including inflicting heavy losses on their Merkava tanks
>now Israel wants to seize Southern Lebanon, but Hezbollah is waging a drone war and stormed Israeli military bases in Northern Israel (including drone striking Bibi Netanyahu's house a couple years back)
Did Hamas just pull a 9/11 on Israel? First a terror attack followed by a war that Israel can't win. Just like when Al-Qaeda attacked the United States in 2001 and got us into two wars that we lost (Iraq and Afghanistan). This Iran war is extremely unpopular at home. All the signs are there. Israel is losing support in the US. While Israel relies mostly on Azeri oil rather than Gulf oil like the US and thus the Strait of Hormuz getting blocked mostly doesn't affect them, just remember that Turkey can block that oil off if they really wanted to. Now famines are gonna hit due to shortages in gas and fertilizer in poor countries, and Tel Aviv lie in ruins from constant Iranian missiles. Israel's reserves are worn out and suffered heavy losses in the Gaza war (400 dead IDF I think after October 7 where 1,200 or 1,300 were killed by a vastly weaker opponent) they can't fight 4 wars at once. They won Syria after the FSA took over. But will Israel survive this? Haredis don't want to fight and many people are leaving Israel because they're tired of living underground in bomb shelters constantly.
R: 2 / I: 0
Here are their written works if anyone wants to read what they stand for and such:
https://libcom.org/tags/conspiracy-fire-nuclei
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/category/author/conspiracy-of-cells-of-fire
Opinions on the Conspiracy of Fire Nuclei?
Like, what do they actually do? Are they just adventurists? Do they even help organize the working class? People don't really talk about them that much other than in anarcho-nihilist circles and they haven't been very active recently (I think).Here are their written works if anyone wants to read what they stand for and such:
https://libcom.org/tags/conspiracy-fire-nuclei
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/category/author/conspiracy-of-cells-of-fire
R: 12 / I: 3
i get disliking Russia's bourgeois government, since it was a product of the collapse of the soviet union, and the US-backed shock doctrine under Yeltsin, but i really don't understand the screeching about "ziggers" and the weird focus on Putin as an individual. the "anti-zigger" posters are basically 10x worse than the "zigger" posters in terms of their basic historical literacy surrounding the 2022 conflict. And no amount of historical context seems to make them pump their brakes and tone down their rhetoric. It's hard to not have contempt for them. They don't even see how both Russia and Ukraine are victims of NATO meddling, products of the death of the USSR, products of Yeltsinism, pit against each other for the benefit of the imperial core capitalists.
i get disliking Russia's bourgeois government, since it was a product of the collapse of the soviet union, and the US-backed shock doctrine under Yeltsin, but i really don't understand the screeching about "ziggers" and the weird focus on Putin as an individual. the "anti-zigger" posters are basically 10x worse than the "zigger" posters in terms of their basic historical literacy surrounding the 2022 conflict. And no amount of historical context seems to make them pump their brakes and tone down their rhetoric. It's hard to not have contempt for them. They don't even see how both Russia and Ukraine are victims of NATO meddling, products of the death of the USSR, products of Yeltsinism, pit against each other for the benefit of the imperial core capitalists.
R: 319 / I: 45 >>2381106
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R: 11 / I: 1 (sage)
smidgeon of trolling
is it possible to organize some sort of mass online harassment and doxxing campaign against rightoids? obv im mainly speaking of the white nationalist pro-trump rape-ublicans. i think we as a society need to at least try to make these people afraid again and i think thats a good first step. img slightly related but not really. (am newfag, not to chanboards but to this one. im not picking a flag i dont know what they mean.)
R: 21 / I: 2
Under capitalism, games are job-like, but what if under socialism, jobs were game-like? A socialist society could take the artistic lessons of what makes something tedious more fun, addictive, and rewarding, and use it to labor required to make society function less miserable? You guys will probably shit on this idea but at least try to critique it constructively or think creatively about it.
Under capitalism, games are job-like, but what if under socialism, jobs were game-like? A socialist society could take the artistic lessons of what makes something tedious more fun, addictive, and rewarding, and use it to labor required to make society function less miserable? You guys will probably shit on this idea but at least try to critique it constructively or think creatively about it.
R: 147 / I: 81
>Post original content you've made, or OC someone else recently made which you want to share.
<Or ITT collaborate on improving content already made.
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R: 1 / I: 0
22 June 1941 – 8 May 1945
(3 years, 10 months, 2 weeks and 2 days)
Russian invasion of Ukraine
24 February 2022 – present
(4 years, 2 months and 3 weeks)
How do ziggers cope?
Eastern front of WW222 June 1941 – 8 May 1945
(3 years, 10 months, 2 weeks and 2 days)
Russian invasion of Ukraine
24 February 2022 – present
(4 years, 2 months and 3 weeks)
R: 586 / I: 156
Alter Faden:
>>2363945
Ein paar Links:
https://mlwerke.redflag.ps/
https://www.papyrossa.de/
https://www.marxistische-blaetter.de/
https://www.jungewelt.de/
https://www.unsere-zeit.de/
https://www.klassegegenklasse.org/
https://www.demvolkedienen.org/index.php/de/
https://www.wsws.org/de
https://kommunistische-organisation.de/
https://kommunistischepartei.de/
https://wiki.kommunistische.org/index.php?title=Hauptseite
https://www.rf-news.de/rote-fahne-news
/leftydeutschpol/ - "Seid ihr bereit für den hybriden Krieg?"-Edition
Die Oma mal am Joint ziehen lassen gegen die vaterlandslosen Gesellen.Alter Faden:
Ein paar Links:
https://mlwerke.redflag.ps/
https://www.papyrossa.de/
https://www.marxistische-blaetter.de/
https://www.jungewelt.de/
https://www.unsere-zeit.de/
https://www.klassegegenklasse.org/
https://www.demvolkedienen.org/index.php/de/
https://www.wsws.org/de
https://kommunistische-organisation.de/
https://kommunistischepartei.de/
https://wiki.kommunistische.org/index.php?title=Hauptseite
https://www.rf-news.de/rote-fahne-news
R: 394 / I: 172
SDF rejects the agreement and vows that they'd fight.
Prison break in Shaddad, freeing ~1000 ISIS veterans.
Aqtan prison (which houses ISIS members) north of Raqqa gets besieged.
Clashes in Kobani & Hasakah countrysides.
Breach in Al-Hol camp, which is now mostly emptied.
New agreement signed by both the STG & SDF.
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/bosni94
https://nitter.poast.org/Sy_intelligence
https://nitter.poast.org/sayed_ridha
https://nitter.poast.org/QalaatAlMudiq
https://nitter.poast.org/Gargaristan
https://syria.liveuamap.com
/sg/ - Syrian Civil War General #26 - 2019 /sg/ memes edition
Recent news:SDF rejects the agreement and vows that they'd fight.
Prison break in Shaddad, freeing ~1000 ISIS veterans.
Aqtan prison (which houses ISIS members) north of Raqqa gets besieged.
Clashes in Kobani & Hasakah countrysides.
Breach in Al-Hol camp, which is now mostly emptied.
New agreement signed by both the STG & SDF.
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/bosni94
https://nitter.poast.org/Sy_intelligence
https://nitter.poast.org/sayed_ridha
https://nitter.poast.org/QalaatAlMudiq
https://nitter.poast.org/Gargaristan
https://syria.liveuamap.com
R: 43 / I: 9
>A 2015 survey by Langer Research Associates found that 77% of Afghans support the presence of US forces; 67% also support the presence of NATO forces. Despite the problems in the country, 80% of Afghans still held the view that it was a good thing for the United States to overthrow the Taliban in 2001. More Afghans blame the Taliban or al-Qaeda for the country's violence (53%) than those who blame the US (12%).
The US invasion of Aghanistan was done for purely selfish purposes and the US killed civilians regularly and with impunity. However, could an argument be made that the invasion was actually justified, based purely on the comparative evil of the Taliban?
I'm not trolling, I think this is an important discussion to have.
Was the War in Afghanistan actually justified?
>A 2006 WPO opinion poll found that the majority of Afghans endorsed America's military presence, with 83% of Afghans stating that they had a favorable view of the US military forces in their country. Only 17% gave an unfavorable view.>A 2015 survey by Langer Research Associates found that 77% of Afghans support the presence of US forces; 67% also support the presence of NATO forces. Despite the problems in the country, 80% of Afghans still held the view that it was a good thing for the United States to overthrow the Taliban in 2001. More Afghans blame the Taliban or al-Qaeda for the country's violence (53%) than those who blame the US (12%).
The US invasion of Aghanistan was done for purely selfish purposes and the US killed civilians regularly and with impunity. However, could an argument be made that the invasion was actually justified, based purely on the comparative evil of the Taliban?
I'm not trolling, I think this is an important discussion to have.
R: 497 / I: 260
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: 70 / I: 8
KKE
What right do these irrelevant nobodies have to appoint themselves as the ambassadors of international Marxism Leninism? What the fuck have they achieved in their entire existence? Who are they to talk shit against the CCP and the KPRF, the largest communist parties on the planet? Where does their idiotic entitlement and arrogance come from?
R: 624 / I: 188 (full)
>Previous bake
>>2800336
Latest News
>Nothing ever happens
<US gasoline prices spiked last week
>Strait's been closed for more than two months
<Trump planning a "short and powerful" strike on Iran
>USS Poopenfarten out of the middle east
>Important Links:
https://www.flightradar24.com/
https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/centerx:52.7/centery:26.8/zoom:7
https://www.defconlevel.com/
https://oilprice.com/
https://www.pizzint.watch/
https://eam.watch/
https://www.gmcmap.com/index.asp
https://firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/map/#d:24hrs;@54.2,31.0,7.1z
https://globe.adsbexchange.com/
>Useful Channels:
https://www.youtube.com/@TheDuran
https://www.youtube.com/@AlexMercouris
https://www.youtube.com/@AlexChristoforou
https://www.youtube.com/@dialogueworks01
https://www.youtube.com/@DanielDavisDeepDive
https://www.youtube.com/@DannyHaiphongYT
https://www.youtube.com/@justinpodur
https://www.youtube.com/@IndiaGlobalLeft
https://www.youtube.com/@RichardMedhurst
https://www.youtube.com/@GDFofficial
https://www.youtube.com/@neutralitystudies
https://www.youtube.com/@prop_co
https://www.youtube.com/@CyrusJanssen
https://www.youtube.com/@breakingpoints
https://www.youtube.com/@militarysummary
https://www.youtube.com/@TheNewAtlas
https://www.youtube.com/@willyOAM
https://www.youtube.com/@GDiesen1
https://www.youtube.com/@theeastisapodcast
https://www.youtube.com/@GeopoliticalEconomyReport
https://www.youtube.com/@TheElectronicIntifada
>Useful Xitters
https://xcancel.com/IranObserver0
https://xcancel.com/araghchi
https://xcancel.com/conflict_radar
https://xcancel.com/TheCradleMedia
https://xcancel.com/AliAbunimah
https://xcancel.com/BrianJBerletic
https://xcancel.com/angeloinchina
https://xcancel.com/jonelmer
https://xcancel.com/MarkAmesExiled
https://xcancel.com/UrOrientalist
https://xcancel.com/MaxBlumenthal
https://xcancel.com/dreizinreport/
>Useful TG:
https://t(dot)me/s/wfwitness
https://t(dot)me/s/Middle_East_Spectator
https://t(dot)me/s/enemywatch
>Useful Blogs/Podcasts/News:
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/
https://simplicius76.substack.com/
https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/
https://sonar21.com/
https://www.moonofalabama.org/
https://thegrayzone.com/
https://www.middleeasteye.net/live/live-us-and-israel-attack-iran
https://www.podbean.com/podcast-detail/t687i-9b79d/War-Nerd-Radio-%E2%80%94-Subscriber-Feed-Podcast
/Iran war/ thread #64
<UAE-US-ISRAEL Resuming Project Freedom TM Axis of evil edition.>Previous bake
>>2800336
Latest News
>Nothing ever happens
<US gasoline prices spiked last week
>Strait's been closed for more than two months
<Trump planning a "short and powerful" strike on Iran
>USS Poopenfarten out of the middle east
>Important Links:
https://www.flightradar24.com/
https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/centerx:52.7/centery:26.8/zoom:7
https://www.defconlevel.com/
https://oilprice.com/
https://www.pizzint.watch/
https://eam.watch/
https://www.gmcmap.com/index.asp
https://firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/map/#d:24hrs;@54.2,31.0,7.1z
https://globe.adsbexchange.com/
>Useful Channels:
https://www.youtube.com/@TheDuran
https://www.youtube.com/@AlexMercouris
https://www.youtube.com/@AlexChristoforou
https://www.youtube.com/@dialogueworks01
https://www.youtube.com/@DanielDavisDeepDive
https://www.youtube.com/@DannyHaiphongYT
https://www.youtube.com/@justinpodur
https://www.youtube.com/@IndiaGlobalLeft
https://www.youtube.com/@RichardMedhurst
https://www.youtube.com/@GDFofficial
https://www.youtube.com/@neutralitystudies
https://www.youtube.com/@prop_co
https://www.youtube.com/@CyrusJanssen
https://www.youtube.com/@breakingpoints
https://www.youtube.com/@militarysummary
https://www.youtube.com/@TheNewAtlas
https://www.youtube.com/@willyOAM
https://www.youtube.com/@GDiesen1
https://www.youtube.com/@theeastisapodcast
https://www.youtube.com/@GeopoliticalEconomyReport
https://www.youtube.com/@TheElectronicIntifada
>Useful Xitters
https://xcancel.com/IranObserver0
https://xcancel.com/araghchi
https://xcancel.com/conflict_radar
https://xcancel.com/TheCradleMedia
https://xcancel.com/AliAbunimah
https://xcancel.com/BrianJBerletic
https://xcancel.com/angeloinchina
https://xcancel.com/jonelmer
https://xcancel.com/MarkAmesExiled
https://xcancel.com/UrOrientalist
https://xcancel.com/MaxBlumenthal
https://xcancel.com/dreizinreport/
>Useful TG:
https://t(dot)me/s/wfwitness
https://t(dot)me/s/Middle_East_Spectator
https://t(dot)me/s/enemywatch
>Useful Blogs/Podcasts/News:
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/
https://simplicius76.substack.com/
https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/
https://sonar21.com/
https://www.moonofalabama.org/
https://thegrayzone.com/
https://www.middleeasteye.net/live/live-us-and-israel-attack-iran
https://www.podbean.com/podcast-detail/t687i-9b79d/War-Nerd-Radio-%E2%80%94-Subscriber-Feed-Podcast
R: 40 / I: 11
>people on the first world unionize for better wages and labour conditions
>companies flee to the third world for more profit
>people on the third world unionize for better wages and labour conditions
>companies flee to ???
why hasn't this happened yet? it seems like the easiest way to revolution
>people on the first world unionize for better wages and labour conditions
>companies flee to the third world for more profit
>people on the third world unionize for better wages and labour conditions
>companies flee to ???
why hasn't this happened yet? it seems like the easiest way to revolution
R: 7 / I: 0
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Dare_To_Struggle_-_Organization_of_Communist_Revolutionaries
"Dare To Struggle" cult
I wrote this article on "Dare To Struggle", a front group for the "Organization of Communist Revolutionaries", itself a splinter group of the RCP (Bob Avakian's cult). There is basically nothing on the group on the internet besides its own posts and websites, I decided to change that. Notable things they've done are threatening to kill other leftist groups for being liberals (despite doing materially the same things as them) and somehow never getting in trouble for them, praising the Shining Path more than any other communist group that actually beat the capitalists in their country, and general retardation and LARPing. Would be interested in seeing what other people think about this group.https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Dare_To_Struggle_-_Organization_of_Communist_Revolutionaries
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Hi, I'm not from the US, I'm Latino. I was very curious about this organization; I think it's the only large left-wing organization in your country.
If a civil war were to break out in the US, as we all expect from the outside, I believe it would be the only competent leftist organization that could fight.
Do you support it? Because I don't see anything better, or that's just as big.
Hi, I'm not from the US, I'm Latino. I was very curious about this organization; I think it's the only large left-wing organization in your country.
If a civil war were to break out in the US, as we all expect from the outside, I believe it would be the only competent leftist organization that could fight.
Do you support it? Because I don't see anything better, or that's just as big.
R: 600 / I: 109 (full)
>Thread for the hellish discussion related to the scourge of the earth, the destroyer of nations, the king of coups, the sultan of sanctions, the emir of the embargo, the autocrat of austerity, the doge of deregulation, the baron of busting unions, the prince of privatization, the lord of loan sharks, the patron-saint of proxy wars, the sponsor of settlers, the guarantor of genocides, the Divided $nakkkes of Amerikkka™
<The War Has Already Cost 1 Million Dollars, Squared, Edition
OP Backup Site: https://usapol.neocities.org/
💀 ICE & Prison Resources
(Amerika is the most incarcerated country in the world!)
• ICE tracker using public info and user submissions // https://www.iceinmyarea.org/
• list of deaths at ICE concentration camps // https://www.aila.org/infonet/deaths-at-adult-detention-centers
• visualization of prison population in US // https://mkorostoff.github.io/incarceration-in-real-numbers/
• Organizing in Prison — for when the walls close in (RANT Collective) // https://www.organizingforpower.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Organizing-in-Jail.pdf
• database of U.S. facilities incl. ICE holding sites // https://alcpress.org/usjails/index.html
• list of prison related resources, mailing lists, etc // https://www.prisonactivist.org/resources
• ICE Agent List (incomplete) // https://wiki.icelist.is/index.php/Category:Agents
• US Political Prison Tracker (last updated 2025) // https://uspoliticalprisoners.com/
Jailhouse Reading:
• 📖 Angela Davis - Are Prisons Obsolete? // https://dn790007.ca.archive.org/0/items/the-anarchist-library-full-list-of-pdfs-nov-2020/angela-y-davis-are-prisons-obsolete.pdf
• 📖 How to Defend Yourself During Police Interrogation // https://www.notrace.how/resources/download/comment-la-police-interroge-et-comment-sen-defendre/how-to-defend-yourself-during-a-police-interrogation.pdf
• 📖 National Lawyers Guild guide to being a jailhouse lawyer // https://www.jailhouselaw.org/
• 📖 Critical Resistance - Surviving Solitary Confinement // https://criticalresistance.org/resources/surviving-solitary/
• 📖 An inside-outside publication for abolitionist struggle & strategy across prison walls // https://criticalresistance.org/abolitionist/
• 📖 Prisoners’ Self-Help Litigation Manual // https://api.pageplace.de/preview/DT0400.9780199705665_A35159258/preview-9780199705665_A35159258.pdf
⚒️ LABOR!
• Live strike tracker with deep stats on who, what and when // https://striketracker.ilr.cornell.edu/
• AFL-CIO [imperialist]'s Strike Tracker // https://aflcio.org/strike-map
• Labor Bureau's Official 'work stoppage' tracker // https://www.bls.gov/wsp/
• IWW timeline for the 20th century (ends at 1999) // https://archive.iww.org/history/chronology/
• IWW Work Place Organizing Guide // https://usa.anarchistlibraries.net/library/industrial-workers-of-the-world-libcom-org-solidarity-federation-walthamstow-anarchist-group-wo
• ▶ Salting | Work Place Organizing 101 (50 minute webinar) // https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SHlCLyM4FY
⚖️ Deeds of the Burger Reich 🇺🇸
• deep list of horrible shit we (royal we) have done // https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/us_atrocities.md
• Coups and regime changes – master list // https://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-peoples-governments-the-master-list
• Wikipedia: United States War Crimes // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_war_crimes
• /our boys/ (bring em home!) detail abusing Iraqi prisoners [2006] // https://www.hrw.org/report/2006/07/22/no-blood-no-foul/soldiers-accounts-detainee-abuse-iraq
• More than 250 military interventions in the last 30 years alone // https://blackagendareport.com/us-launched-251-military-interventions-1991-and-469-1798
• Visualization of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade // https://www.slavevoyages.org/
• UNESCO Sites relating to Slavery // https://slaveryandremembrance.org/
• First Hand Documents of the horrors of Slavery // https://www.loc.gov/collections/slave-narratives-from-the-federal-writers-project-1936-to-1938/
📺 Glowie News 📺
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• Al Jazeera visual guide (2026) // https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/10/struggling-to-navigate-the-epstein-files-here-is-a-visual-guide
Essential American Politik 📖
• 📖 WEB Du Bois - Black Reconstruction // https://cominsitu.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/w-e-b-du-bois-black-reconstruction-an-essay-toward-a-history-of-the-part-which-black-folk-played-in-the-attempt-to-reconstruct-democracy-2.pdf
• 📖 Eugene Debs - Fourth of July Speech // https://jacobin.com/2020/07/eugene-debs-independence-day-address-fourth-july
• 📖 Power Anywhere There's People! – Fred Hampton // https://www.hamptonthink.org/read/power-anywhere-where-thats-people-fred-hampton
• 📖 War is a Racket – Smedley Butler // https://ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html
• 📖 Letters From an American Farmer – St. John de Crevoecoeur // https://americanliterature.com/author/j-hector-st-john-de-crevoecoeur/book/letters-from-an-american-farmer/summary
• 📖 Trail of Broken Treaties // American Indian Movement https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
• 📖 The Declaration of Independence https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
• https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
• 📖 The Ballot or the Bullet – Malcolm X // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/ballot_or_bullet.pdf
• 📖 What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? – Frederick Douglass // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/douglass_july_4_speech.pdf
• 📖 A Trail of Broken Treaties – American Indian Movement // https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
• 📖 Custer Died for Your Sins – Vine Deloria Jr. // http://www.riversimulator.org/Resources/Books/CusterDiedForYourSinsAnIndianManifesto1969Deloria.pdf
• 📖 Emancipation Proclamation – Lincoln // https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/emancipation-proclamation
• 📖 Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville // https://americanliterature.com/author/alexis-de-tocqueville/book/democracy-in-america/summary
• 📖 Common Sense – Thomas Paine // https://americainclass.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Common-Sense-Full-Text.pdf
• 📖 An Indigenous History of the United States – Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz // https://nycstandswithstandingrock.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/dunbar-ortiz-2014.pdf
• 📖 Huey Long – Share Our Wealth // https://www.hueylong.com/programs/share-our-wealth/huey-longs-share-our-wealth-speech
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• ICE tracker using public info and user submissions // https://www.iceinmyarea.org/
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• visualization of prison population in US // https://mkorostoff.github.io/incarceration-in-real-numbers/
• Organizing in Prison — for when the walls close in (RANT Collective) // https://www.organizingforpower.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Organizing-in-Jail.pdf
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• ICE Agent List (incomplete) // https://wiki.icelist.is/index.php/Category:Agents
• US Political Prison Tracker (last updated 2025) // https://uspoliticalprisoners.com/
Jailhouse Reading:
• 📖 Angela Davis - Are Prisons Obsolete? // https://dn790007.ca.archive.org/0/items/the-anarchist-library-full-list-of-pdfs-nov-2020/angela-y-davis-are-prisons-obsolete.pdf
• 📖 How to Defend Yourself During Police Interrogation // https://www.notrace.how/resources/download/comment-la-police-interroge-et-comment-sen-defendre/how-to-defend-yourself-during-a-police-interrogation.pdf
• 📖 National Lawyers Guild guide to being a jailhouse lawyer // https://www.jailhouselaw.org/
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• 📖 An inside-outside publication for abolitionist struggle & strategy across prison walls // https://criticalresistance.org/abolitionist/
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• Labor Bureau's Official 'work stoppage' tracker // https://www.bls.gov/wsp/
• IWW timeline for the 20th century (ends at 1999) // https://archive.iww.org/history/chronology/
• IWW Work Place Organizing Guide // https://usa.anarchistlibraries.net/library/industrial-workers-of-the-world-libcom-org-solidarity-federation-walthamstow-anarchist-group-wo
• ▶ Salting | Work Place Organizing 101 (50 minute webinar) // https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SHlCLyM4FY
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• deep list of horrible shit we (royal we) have done // https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/us_atrocities.md
• Coups and regime changes – master list // https://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-peoples-governments-the-master-list
• Wikipedia: United States War Crimes // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_war_crimes
• /our boys/ (bring em home!) detail abusing Iraqi prisoners [2006] // https://www.hrw.org/report/2006/07/22/no-blood-no-foul/soldiers-accounts-detainee-abuse-iraq
• More than 250 military interventions in the last 30 years alone // https://blackagendareport.com/us-launched-251-military-interventions-1991-and-469-1798
• Visualization of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade // https://www.slavevoyages.org/
• UNESCO Sites relating to Slavery // https://slaveryandremembrance.org/
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Essential American Politik 📖
• 📖 WEB Du Bois - Black Reconstruction // https://cominsitu.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/w-e-b-du-bois-black-reconstruction-an-essay-toward-a-history-of-the-part-which-black-folk-played-in-the-attempt-to-reconstruct-democracy-2.pdf
• 📖 Eugene Debs - Fourth of July Speech // https://jacobin.com/2020/07/eugene-debs-independence-day-address-fourth-july
• 📖 Power Anywhere There's People! – Fred Hampton // https://www.hamptonthink.org/read/power-anywhere-where-thats-people-fred-hampton
• 📖 War is a Racket – Smedley Butler // https://ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html
• 📖 Letters From an American Farmer – St. John de Crevoecoeur // https://americanliterature.com/author/j-hector-st-john-de-crevoecoeur/book/letters-from-an-american-farmer/summary
• 📖 Trail of Broken Treaties // American Indian Movement https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
• 📖 The Declaration of Independence https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
• https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
• 📖 The Ballot or the Bullet – Malcolm X // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/ballot_or_bullet.pdf
• 📖 What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? – Frederick Douglass // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/douglass_july_4_speech.pdf
• 📖 A Trail of Broken Treaties – American Indian Movement // https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
• 📖 Custer Died for Your Sins – Vine Deloria Jr. // http://www.riversimulator.org/Resources/Books/CusterDiedForYourSinsAnIndianManifesto1969Deloria.pdf
• 📖 Emancipation Proclamation – Lincoln // https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/emancipation-proclamation
• 📖 Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville // https://americanliterature.com/author/alexis-de-tocqueville/book/democracy-in-america/summary
• 📖 Common Sense – Thomas Paine // https://americainclass.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Common-Sense-Full-Text.pdf
• 📖 An Indigenous History of the United States – Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz // https://nycstandswithstandingrock.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/dunbar-ortiz-2014.pdf
• 📖 Huey Long – Share Our Wealth // https://www.hueylong.com/programs/share-our-wealth/huey-longs-share-our-wealth-speech
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French people deserve a safe space and guarantees for their continued existence on loser imageboards!
Français! Ne succombez pas à l'impérialisme anglochiotte!
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🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷 Aux armes, citoyens ! 🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷Thread #2
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Français! Ne succombez pas à l'impérialisme anglochiotte!
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Diplomatic sources indicate Mladenov has prioritised disarmament above all other issues, relegating reconstruction of the devastated Gaza Strip to a secondary concern. Palestinian officials have repeatedly rejected this sequencing, arguing that humanitarian relief should not be contingent on the surrender of weapons. Hamas reaffirmed its refusal in its latest response submitted in Cairo on Saturday, insisting Israel must first meet its obligations under the initial phase of the ceasefire and provide stronger security guarantees.
https://www.newarab.com/news/gaza-ceasefire-cairo-talks-stall-israel-eyes-return-war
Israel to sue New York Times over article describing its rape of Palestinians
Israel's MFA wrote: "Following the publication by Nicholas Kristof in The New York Times of one of the most hideous and distorted lies ever published against the State of Israel in the modern press, which also received the backing of the newspaper, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar have instructed the initiation of a defamation lawsuit against The New York Times."
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-sue-new-york-times-article-describing-its-rape-palestinians
Iran urges BRICS to condemn US, Israel for war, exposing bloc divisions
Araqchi said Iran was a "victim of illegal expansionism and warmongering". He asked the BRICS+ grouping - comprising Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, Egypt, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Iran and the UAE - to resist "Western hegemony and the sense of impunity that the U.S. believes it is entitled to". "Iran therefore calls upon BRICS member states and all responsible members of the international community to explicitly condemn violations of international law by the United States and Israel," he said.
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/india-says-emerging-nations-eye-brics-grouping-stability-2026-05-14/
Nepal’s top court halts government’s attempts to ban trade unions for civil servants
Nepal’s Supreme Court issued an interim stay on the move by the newly-elected government, led by Prime Minister Balendra Shah, to ban and dissolve party-affiliated trade unions for government employees.The court also stayed a similar ban on student unions, issued on the very first day of the Shah government’s formation. The SC’s decision came as a relief to thousands of civil servants and students in the country who have been protesting against the decision.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2026/05/14/nepals-top-court-halts-governments-attempts-to-ban-trade-union-for-civil-servants/
UN urges independent probes into deadly Nigeria, Chad air attacks
The United Nations human rights chief has demanded independent investigations into reports that separate air attacks by the Nigerian and Chadian forces in northern Nigeria killed more than 100 civilians.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/5/13/un-urges-independent-probes-into-deadly-nigeria-chad-air-attacks
https://archive.ph/ViIXa
FBU will stay in Labour and ‘fight for a government that truly represents the working class’
THE Fire Brigades Union voted to remain affiliated to Labour after a heated debate at its conference in Coventry today. General secretary Steve Wright said he shared members’ anger at the current government. “Starmer is not fit to lead the Labour Party and he is not fit to be prime minister,” he said. “Starmer must go.”
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/fbu-will-stay-labour-and-fight-government-truly-represents-working-class
Pentagon officials stunned by Hegseth decision on troops in Poland
The move follows Hegseth’s announcement this month that the Pentagon would withdraw 5,000 troops from bases in Germany. But that decision followed through on a threat Trump made after German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said the U.S. was “humiliating” itself with the conflict in Iran.
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/14/poland-pentagon-hegseth-troop-withdrawl-surprise-00922169
https://archive.ph/Iqu4t
The paradox of Ecuador: An oil-producing country where people wait in line for up to 72 hours to buy gasoline
The crisis for the government began on May 11, the day before the monthly fuel price update under the price band system. Authorities blamed gas stations for hoarding gasoline to profit from the price increase. Faced with this critical situation, control operations and potential sanctions were announced. However, of the 87 gas stations inspected that day, only two were sanctioned, and one of those was for failing to report damage to its equipment.
https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-05-14/the-paradox-of-ecuador-an-oil-producing-country-where-people-wait-in-line-for-up-to-72-hours-to-buy-gasoline.html
Tape shows Bolsonaro son asking jailed banker for $26.8m to fund film on father
The leaked voice memos and text messages were published on Wednesday by the Intercept Brasil, and later acknowledged by Flávio Bolsonaro, a far-right senator who is tied in polls with President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva ahead of October’s election. The incident was already being seen as the most serious blow since the senator announced his candidacy as his father’s representative, since the former president is under house arrest after being convicted over an attempted coup.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/14/flavio-bolsonaro-banker-film-jair-bolsonaro
Venezuela to Restructure Debt with Western Creditors
Venezuelan authorities added that the country’s resources should prioritize the people’s well-being over “unsustainable financial obligations” and that they seek a “substantial reduction” of the total debt. Venezuela defaulted on a range of bonds and loans beginning in 2017 as US sanctions severely exacerbated the country’s economic crisis and shut it out of financial markets, making payments impossible. The Nicolás Maduro government had prioritized debt service in previous years as the country’s economy entered a tailspin in hopes of retaining access to international credit.
https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/venezuela-announces-plan-to-restructure-debt-with-western-creditors/
News 5/14/26
Cairo disarmament talks stall, raising fears of a renewed Israeli offensive in GazaDiplomatic sources indicate Mladenov has prioritised disarmament above all other issues, relegating reconstruction of the devastated Gaza Strip to a secondary concern. Palestinian officials have repeatedly rejected this sequencing, arguing that humanitarian relief should not be contingent on the surrender of weapons. Hamas reaffirmed its refusal in its latest response submitted in Cairo on Saturday, insisting Israel must first meet its obligations under the initial phase of the ceasefire and provide stronger security guarantees.
https://www.newarab.com/news/gaza-ceasefire-cairo-talks-stall-israel-eyes-return-war
Israel to sue New York Times over article describing its rape of Palestinians
Israel's MFA wrote: "Following the publication by Nicholas Kristof in The New York Times of one of the most hideous and distorted lies ever published against the State of Israel in the modern press, which also received the backing of the newspaper, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar have instructed the initiation of a defamation lawsuit against The New York Times."
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-sue-new-york-times-article-describing-its-rape-palestinians
Iran urges BRICS to condemn US, Israel for war, exposing bloc divisions
Araqchi said Iran was a "victim of illegal expansionism and warmongering". He asked the BRICS+ grouping - comprising Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, Egypt, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Iran and the UAE - to resist "Western hegemony and the sense of impunity that the U.S. believes it is entitled to". "Iran therefore calls upon BRICS member states and all responsible members of the international community to explicitly condemn violations of international law by the United States and Israel," he said.
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/india-says-emerging-nations-eye-brics-grouping-stability-2026-05-14/
Nepal’s top court halts government’s attempts to ban trade unions for civil servants
Nepal’s Supreme Court issued an interim stay on the move by the newly-elected government, led by Prime Minister Balendra Shah, to ban and dissolve party-affiliated trade unions for government employees.The court also stayed a similar ban on student unions, issued on the very first day of the Shah government’s formation. The SC’s decision came as a relief to thousands of civil servants and students in the country who have been protesting against the decision.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2026/05/14/nepals-top-court-halts-governments-attempts-to-ban-trade-union-for-civil-servants/
UN urges independent probes into deadly Nigeria, Chad air attacks
The United Nations human rights chief has demanded independent investigations into reports that separate air attacks by the Nigerian and Chadian forces in northern Nigeria killed more than 100 civilians.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/5/13/un-urges-independent-probes-into-deadly-nigeria-chad-air-attacks
https://archive.ph/ViIXa
FBU will stay in Labour and ‘fight for a government that truly represents the working class’
THE Fire Brigades Union voted to remain affiliated to Labour after a heated debate at its conference in Coventry today. General secretary Steve Wright said he shared members’ anger at the current government. “Starmer is not fit to lead the Labour Party and he is not fit to be prime minister,” he said. “Starmer must go.”
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/fbu-will-stay-labour-and-fight-government-truly-represents-working-class
Pentagon officials stunned by Hegseth decision on troops in Poland
The move follows Hegseth’s announcement this month that the Pentagon would withdraw 5,000 troops from bases in Germany. But that decision followed through on a threat Trump made after German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said the U.S. was “humiliating” itself with the conflict in Iran.
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/14/poland-pentagon-hegseth-troop-withdrawl-surprise-00922169
https://archive.ph/Iqu4t
The paradox of Ecuador: An oil-producing country where people wait in line for up to 72 hours to buy gasoline
The crisis for the government began on May 11, the day before the monthly fuel price update under the price band system. Authorities blamed gas stations for hoarding gasoline to profit from the price increase. Faced with this critical situation, control operations and potential sanctions were announced. However, of the 87 gas stations inspected that day, only two were sanctioned, and one of those was for failing to report damage to its equipment.
https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-05-14/the-paradox-of-ecuador-an-oil-producing-country-where-people-wait-in-line-for-up-to-72-hours-to-buy-gasoline.html
Tape shows Bolsonaro son asking jailed banker for $26.8m to fund film on father
The leaked voice memos and text messages were published on Wednesday by the Intercept Brasil, and later acknowledged by Flávio Bolsonaro, a far-right senator who is tied in polls with President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva ahead of October’s election. The incident was already being seen as the most serious blow since the senator announced his candidacy as his father’s representative, since the former president is under house arrest after being convicted over an attempted coup.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/14/flavio-bolsonaro-banker-film-jair-bolsonaro
Venezuela to Restructure Debt with Western Creditors
Venezuelan authorities added that the country’s resources should prioritize the people’s well-being over “unsustainable financial obligations” and that they seek a “substantial reduction” of the total debt. Venezuela defaulted on a range of bonds and loans beginning in 2017 as US sanctions severely exacerbated the country’s economic crisis and shut it out of financial markets, making payments impossible. The Nicolás Maduro government had prioritized debt service in previous years as the country’s economy entered a tailspin in hopes of retaining access to international credit.
https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/venezuela-announces-plan-to-restructure-debt-with-western-creditors/
R: 195 / I: 21
I’m old enough (38) to remember when veganism was practically a litmus test for determining if you were a principled leftist or not, especially in anarchist and Maoist spaces. Nowadays it seems like no one under 28 is vegan anymore, or gives a shit about animal rights.
Having become an anarchist as a teenager in the early 2000s, I fully remember how interwoven the radical left was with the animal rights and vegan movements. Gen X and xennial comrades in particular were very dogmatic about this issue, arguably more than they were most issues concerning US imperialism. But the younger generation doesn’t seem to care at all. Why?
For the record, I was never vegan and I eat an omnivore diet now, but still.
Where have all the vegans gone?
No seriously. Why did veganism and animal rights activism seemingly die out entirely from the left?I’m old enough (38) to remember when veganism was practically a litmus test for determining if you were a principled leftist or not, especially in anarchist and Maoist spaces. Nowadays it seems like no one under 28 is vegan anymore, or gives a shit about animal rights.
Having become an anarchist as a teenager in the early 2000s, I fully remember how interwoven the radical left was with the animal rights and vegan movements. Gen X and xennial comrades in particular were very dogmatic about this issue, arguably more than they were most issues concerning US imperialism. But the younger generation doesn’t seem to care at all. Why?
For the record, I was never vegan and I eat an omnivore diet now, but still.
R: 27 / I: 13
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovintern
The ACP and Galloway's Workers Party of Britain is in it so it's gonna trigger some people. Some SocDems are in it. Evo Morales and the Sandanistas are in it. But overall I would give them a chance, considering the rather dysfunctional state of the IMCWP right now (thanks KKE).
What do you think of the Sovintern?
It's a new international network of communist, socialist and left-patriotic parties.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovintern
The ACP and Galloway's Workers Party of Britain is in it so it's gonna trigger some people. Some SocDems are in it. Evo Morales and the Sandanistas are in it. But overall I would give them a chance, considering the rather dysfunctional state of the IMCWP right now (thanks KKE).
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>stated he liked Gadaffi
>democrat until recent times
>smart
>suddenly RW and retarded
>cartoonishly evil to the point of US collapse
Is trump the greatest accelerationist in American history?
Is trump america’s hero?
>friends with Clinton’s in the 80s>stated he liked Gadaffi
>democrat until recent times
>smart
>suddenly RW and retarded
>cartoonishly evil to the point of US collapse
Is trump the greatest accelerationist in American history?
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What would you do if you were put into gorbachev's shoes?
What could you do?
What would you do if you were put into gorbachev's shoes?
What could you do?
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How true is this and is there a conclusion leftists can draw from it? It would imply that most people are extremely docile and that a very small minority of people are mentally capable of serious criminal activity due to differences in nature and nurture. Several important questions:
>does this mean "evil" is not as widespread as we think and is instead concentrated in the hands of a minority of full time psychos?
>can this minority used for something useful like high risk revolutionary activity due to them being more comfortable with serious transgressions
>is this minority a type of übermensch that makes them psychologically stronger than the average normie?
1% of individuals are responisble for 60% of crime
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3969807/How true is this and is there a conclusion leftists can draw from it? It would imply that most people are extremely docile and that a very small minority of people are mentally capable of serious criminal activity due to differences in nature and nurture. Several important questions:
>does this mean "evil" is not as widespread as we think and is instead concentrated in the hands of a minority of full time psychos?
>can this minority used for something useful like high risk revolutionary activity due to them being more comfortable with serious transgressions
>is this minority a type of übermensch that makes them psychologically stronger than the average normie?
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>Mexico City social democRAT local politican from the neoliberal party that pretends to be leftist plastered political propaganda over an anti-imperialist graffiti
>His name?
>Israel Moreno, which translates to Brown Israel
Fucking clown world shit kek
You CANNOT make this shit up
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/18nWkeDEop/>Mexico City social democRAT local politican from the neoliberal party that pretends to be leftist plastered political propaganda over an anti-imperialist graffiti
>His name?
>Israel Moreno, which translates to Brown Israel
Fucking clown world shit kek
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All the “validation” you get is two-faced and half-hearted. Behind your back, every single country mock you. The United States are disgusted and ashamed of you, but they pretend not to. Your “allies” laugh at your economic, military and political dependence behind closed curtains.
You will never be independent. Your leader wrench out a fake smile every single morning and tell himself it’s going to be ok, but deep inside you feel the national bankruptcy creeping up like a weed, ready to crush you under the unbearable weight.
Eventually it’ll be too much to bear - Your pseudo-president will wear a suit, will adjust the microphone, and announce that Taiwan will be pacifically conquered by the Chinese Nation, and plunge into the cold abyss of oblivion, that being said, or else a war will start not so far away, and China will conquer the territory that has always belonged to it, in a bloody and violent way.
When that happens, they'll update your Wikipedia page and all the history books, they'll list you as a "rebellious province of China," and you will always be remembered as a shitty little revolution that only lasted a few years, but that always belonged and always will belong to China, your history, your struggle, your sweat, it's all in vain, because at the end of the day, you are part of Chinese territory.
This is your fate. This is what you chose. There is no turning back, you will never be a real country.
Taiwan
You will never be a real country. You have no dignity, you have no constitution, you have no control over your own economy. You're just a rebellious piece of land twisted by capitalism and the USA into a crude mockery of the chinese perfection.All the “validation” you get is two-faced and half-hearted. Behind your back, every single country mock you. The United States are disgusted and ashamed of you, but they pretend not to. Your “allies” laugh at your economic, military and political dependence behind closed curtains.
You will never be independent. Your leader wrench out a fake smile every single morning and tell himself it’s going to be ok, but deep inside you feel the national bankruptcy creeping up like a weed, ready to crush you under the unbearable weight.
Eventually it’ll be too much to bear - Your pseudo-president will wear a suit, will adjust the microphone, and announce that Taiwan will be pacifically conquered by the Chinese Nation, and plunge into the cold abyss of oblivion, that being said, or else a war will start not so far away, and China will conquer the territory that has always belonged to it, in a bloody and violent way.
When that happens, they'll update your Wikipedia page and all the history books, they'll list you as a "rebellious province of China," and you will always be remembered as a shitty little revolution that only lasted a few years, but that always belonged and always will belong to China, your history, your struggle, your sweat, it's all in vain, because at the end of the day, you are part of Chinese territory.
This is your fate. This is what you chose. There is no turning back, you will never be a real country.
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Are bordigists even human?
As the post said, cant think of anything theyve done for the proletarian cause except use all their power to take it down. They want to preserve commodity production and wage labour for the sake of stability. Unlike marxist leninists who actually take efforts to communism.
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Consider that as an alienated worker, I am encouraged to be utterly unconcerned with labor conditions outside of my own workplace. Or the quantity and quality of production of commodities that I do not consume. Those are the concerns of management and the bourgeoisie. My alienation provides a perverse degree of "freedom" from society, to focus only on my individual consumption and not the conditions of my fellow workers.
Whereas in a communist society of free and equal producers, I am supposed to have an interest the labor conditions in all workplaces in a society, as each directly affects the amount of social product available for consumption. The degree of political control needed to make that happen equitably seems extremely time-consuming and limiting, and I imagine a lot of workers would be turned off by it.
Perhaps that is why most 'socialist' experiments have never really addressed alienation, and why most workers seem completely resigned to the hyper-alienated existence mediated by apps and nation-states despite everyone allegedly agreeing on how horrible it is.
Do workers enjoy their alienation?
We know workers dislike domination. And contra Lyotard, they also dislike exploitation. But might a significant number of workers actually enjoy being estranged from the objects of their labor? Or at least, might they be indifferent enough to not see alienation as a problem?Consider that as an alienated worker, I am encouraged to be utterly unconcerned with labor conditions outside of my own workplace. Or the quantity and quality of production of commodities that I do not consume. Those are the concerns of management and the bourgeoisie. My alienation provides a perverse degree of "freedom" from society, to focus only on my individual consumption and not the conditions of my fellow workers.
Whereas in a communist society of free and equal producers, I am supposed to have an interest the labor conditions in all workplaces in a society, as each directly affects the amount of social product available for consumption. The degree of political control needed to make that happen equitably seems extremely time-consuming and limiting, and I imagine a lot of workers would be turned off by it.
Perhaps that is why most 'socialist' experiments have never really addressed alienation, and why most workers seem completely resigned to the hyper-alienated existence mediated by apps and nation-states despite everyone allegedly agreeing on how horrible it is.
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>>2535127
So give the fact US invasion of Greenland went from provocative joke to a realistic possibility, what are the chances of European governments getting their shit together?
/EUropol/
Previous thread:So give the fact US invasion of Greenland went from provocative joke to a realistic possibility, what are the chances of European governments getting their shit together?
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BVLLsheviks WONNERED, if that even matters..
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Discuss anything related to:
>Algeria
>Angola
>Benin
>Botswana
>Burkina Faso
>Burundi
>Cabo Verde
>Cameroon
>Central African Republic (CAR)
>Chad
>Comoros
>Congo, Democratic Republic of the
>Congo, Republic of the
>Cote d’Ivoire
>Djibouti
>Egypt
>Equatorial Guinea
>Eritrea
>Eswatini
>Ethiopia
>Gabon
>Gambia
>Ghana
>Guinea
>Guinea-Bissau
>Kenya
>Lesotho
>Liberia
>Libya
>Madagascar
>Malawi
>Mali
>Mauritania
>Mauritius
>Morocco
>Mozambique
>Namibia
>Niger
>Nigeria
>Rwanda
>Sao Tome and Principe
>Senegal
>Seychelles
>Sierra Leone
>Somalia
>South Africa
>South Sudan
>Sudan
>Tanzania
>Togo
>Tunisia
>Uganda
>Zambia
>Zimbabwe
/Africa/
A thread for the forgotten continent, so forgotten the thread got wiped.Discuss anything related to:
>Algeria
>Angola
>Benin
>Botswana
>Burkina Faso
>Burundi
>Cabo Verde
>Cameroon
>Central African Republic (CAR)
>Chad
>Comoros
>Congo, Democratic Republic of the
>Congo, Republic of the
>Cote d’Ivoire
>Djibouti
>Egypt
>Equatorial Guinea
>Eritrea
>Eswatini
>Ethiopia
>Gabon
>Gambia
>Ghana
>Guinea
>Guinea-Bissau
>Kenya
>Lesotho
>Liberia
>Libya
>Madagascar
>Malawi
>Mali
>Mauritania
>Mauritius
>Morocco
>Mozambique
>Namibia
>Niger
>Nigeria
>Rwanda
>Sao Tome and Principe
>Senegal
>Seychelles
>Sierra Leone
>Somalia
>South Africa
>South Sudan
>Sudan
>Tanzania
>Togo
>Tunisia
>Uganda
>Zambia
>Zimbabwe
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https://www.sicjournal.org/what-is-communisation/
https://www.sicjournal.org/the-suspended-step-of-communisation/index.html
https://www.sicjournal.org/communist-measures-2/index.html
https://www.sicjournal.org/issues/index.html
https://files.libcom.org/files/Communization-and-its-Discontents-Contestation-Critique-and-Contemporary-Struggles.pdf
https://files.libcom.org/files/Endnotes%201.pdf
https://archive.org/details/InvisibleCommitteeTheComingInsurrection
https://asounder.org/resources/tiqqun_program.pdf
https://illwill.com/theory-of-the-party
[NOTE: Not every Communizer believes in the same things, e.g. some emphasis class struggle while others don't]
Communization Theory Thread /CT/
Talk about anything relating to Communization Theory, whether its praise for it or a critique. Here are some sources about Communization for those who are unaware of what they defend:https://www.sicjournal.org/what-is-communisation/
https://www.sicjournal.org/the-suspended-step-of-communisation/index.html
https://www.sicjournal.org/communist-measures-2/index.html
https://www.sicjournal.org/issues/index.html
https://files.libcom.org/files/Communization-and-its-Discontents-Contestation-Critique-and-Contemporary-Struggles.pdf
https://files.libcom.org/files/Endnotes%201.pdf
https://archive.org/details/InvisibleCommitteeTheComingInsurrection
https://asounder.org/resources/tiqqun_program.pdf
https://illwill.com/theory-of-the-party
[NOTE: Not every Communizer believes in the same things, e.g. some emphasis class struggle while others don't]
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Manica di degenerati. Non mi aspettavo proprio che dopo un mese d'assenza, il filo cadesse dalla tavola. Vabè, leftypol ormai è l'ombra di quello che era soltanto qualche anno fa, ma c'è un limite a tutto.
/ita/ - Spaghetti Communism
ITALIANS DO IT BETTERManica di degenerati. Non mi aspettavo proprio che dopo un mese d'assenza, il filo cadesse dalla tavola. Vabè, leftypol ormai è l'ombra di quello che era soltanto qualche anno fa, ma c'è un limite a tutto.
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Let's look at how Marxists.org defines revisionism (you may disagree with each other on this very point):
> Revisionism
>A fundamental alteration of a theory, essentially usurping (though taking elements of) the former theory and replacing it with a new one. While the attributes of a theory are subject to change in accordance to changing historic circumstances, changing the fundamental basis of that theory is to nullify it in place of a new one.
Was Marx "Revisionist" when he revised himself? Who has the authority to decide the criteria for what is "subject to change in accordance to changing historic circumstances" and what is not?
I think the encouraging results of an even half-successful practice matter more than the purity of theory, personally.
On "Anti-Revisionism" "versus" "Revisionism"
the funniest thing about "anti-revisionism" vs "revisionism" is that it is not something Marx ever mentioned, because he would never imagine himself as the static, unchanging root of a globe-spanning political project called "Marxism" with various branches like "Marxism-Leninism", "Marxism-Leninism-Mao-Zedong-Thought", "Marxism-Leninism-Maoism", "Stalinism, "Hoxhaism" and so on . Instead, Marx revised himself several times during his own life, moving from a framework rooted in alienation and species-being, to a framework rooted in (what would later be called) historical and dialectical materialism. Engels famously said that he and Marx's system was a method, not a dogma, and Kim-Il-Sung repeated this when innovating Juche, as did Deng Xiaoping when innovating "Socialism with Chinese Characteristics", make of that what you will. So if innovation is allowed and Marxism is a method, and not a dogma, why all the controversy about "revisionism?" If Marxism is meant to be applied to unique spatio-temporal conditions which outsiders, even sympathetic outsiders, usually fail to understand, why do outsiders always look for "revisionism" to condemn? Why not just accept that we are all striving not for "[insert the name of Great Men]" -ism but Communism and that our paths towards Communism are evolutionarily convergent from our different spatiotemporal standpoints rather than divergent from some imagined "anti-revisionist" standpoint? Am I being revisionist right now?Let's look at how Marxists.org defines revisionism (you may disagree with each other on this very point):
> Revisionism
>A fundamental alteration of a theory, essentially usurping (though taking elements of) the former theory and replacing it with a new one. While the attributes of a theory are subject to change in accordance to changing historic circumstances, changing the fundamental basis of that theory is to nullify it in place of a new one.
Was Marx "Revisionist" when he revised himself? Who has the authority to decide the criteria for what is "subject to change in accordance to changing historic circumstances" and what is not?
I think the encouraging results of an even half-successful practice matter more than the purity of theory, personally.
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There are many Mahayanists who are Marxists, Tenzin Gyatso included (although he's a filthy leftcom). There are also many Marxists who are Mahayanists. Engaged Buddhism is a thing, as well as humanistic and secular Buddhism.
Ceterum te certiorem facere debeo: qui procedet, in Terra Pura renascetur! Qui recedet, in inferno ardebit! Gloria Buddhae Amitābhae!
Furthermore, I must inform you, he who advances will be reborn in the Pure Land! He who retreats will burn in hell! Glory to the Amitabha Buddha!
Mahayanism General
The goal of Mahayana Buddhism is to become a Bodhisattva, an enlightened being who takes a vow to not enter Nirvana until they've achieved the liberation of a certain class, sometimes all classes, of sentient things.There are many Mahayanists who are Marxists, Tenzin Gyatso included (although he's a filthy leftcom). There are also many Marxists who are Mahayanists. Engaged Buddhism is a thing, as well as humanistic and secular Buddhism.
Ceterum te certiorem facere debeo: qui procedet, in Terra Pura renascetur! Qui recedet, in inferno ardebit! Gloria Buddhae Amitābhae!
Furthermore, I must inform you, he who advances will be reborn in the Pure Land! He who retreats will burn in hell! Glory to the Amitabha Buddha!
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there are some who still complain that russia was "socialism in one country". i contend that they are right, not because the concept is absurd, but because they do not go far enough. we have not yet taken stalin's gnosis to its logical conclusion and brought it to the hyper-financialized modern era
the current dichotomy in modern discourse has largely been between reformism and revolutionism. ultimately both forms make the mistake of operating as though contradictions are uniformly distributed. it is either you immediately go against the whole system in order to take it down, or you work with the whole system in order gradually reform it into socialism. why are these ultimately the only two notions entertained? the first approach underestimates the adaptability of monopoly capital or they fail to see the difficulty in coordinating an immediate revolution across large spans of the country. i think we all can see the failure of the second approach with its disregard for the blatant capture of bourgeois institutions by capital. maybe instead of still operating at such a high level of social change, we should focus more on what we can achieve on lower levels
this was part of the wisdom in "socialism in one country", it was the recognition that the contradictions were ripe in certain regions over others thanks to imperialism, and the specificity of these contradictions to particular regions only supports rather than detracts from the cultivation of determinate national character (contrary to industrial capital, which constantly strives towards maximal hyperconnectivity and the erosion of all national determinateness). ultimately, if you can not even achieve socialism in one country, there is much less hope in achieving socialism globally. now, we must of course acknowledge that "socialism in one country" was a logical response to imperialism, with the latter's tendency to unite the various classes within a society against a common imperialist bourgeois enemy. it is easy to see this and conclude that various forms of third-worldism are the answer. my issue with such a position is that it simply gives us an excuse to sit on our asses all day. if we actually carefully analyze things, we would notice that developed western nations have a tendency to, after the rest of the world has been conquered, start to turn imperialism back inwards. this initially manifests as a ghettoization of the country. the late stages of this tendency is the current administration's attempts to destabilize the american nation so that technocrats would be able to capitalize chunks out of it. with such a tendency, we have, in various western nations, the tendency for the contradictions to uniquely concentrate in particular regions rather than others. this calls for a new stage in the "socialism in one country" tendency; socialism in one region
the point on technocrats deserves expanding. we see with the government spending and tax cuts, combined with the mass layoffs of federal workers, the commitment towards gutting the power of the federal government. one of the groups targeted by such layoffs were the fbi. this is likely part of the attempt to privatize national security and give it to the hands of palantir and other tech companies. as a result of this movement, the federal government is weaker than ever before in its capacity to engage in special operations. if there was a time to build an entrenched position, the time would be now. aside from this, the erosion of the federal government is also a sign of neo-reaction now rising towards state ideology. the ideal many of these technocrats are moving towards is "patchwork", wherein there would be multiple relatively autonomous zones that would experiment with their own forms of governance. the federal government is meant to give way to "freedom cities", "network states", etc. i believe this is an instance of imperialism being turned inward, with these imperialist nations mounting towards self-colonization. there has been a serious lack of appreciation of this tendency on the left in any actionable capacity. if the western countries are really moving towards "patchwork", why is it not possible to have a socialist form of this? while these corporations have the capital, the labour does not strictly belong to them. there is, i believe, untapped potential in the prospect of pursuing "exit". by this i do not mean the usual anarchist lifestylism which simply attempts a small-scale secessionist strategy. rather, i am talking about something more coordinated. i am not afraid of some degree of centralization as long as the relation between the local and the global is sufficiently mediated. i hence personally lean more towards a council communist orientation
while we have neo-reaction become state ideology, we have seen a localistic turn in reformist strategies as well. with progressive victory we see a concerted attempt to secure executive positions at the city level, with some manifest success. of course, these guys are are all socdems, but it demonstrates the greater potential that can be drawn by pursuing concrete local objectives rather than vague organizing strategies that dont seem to ever go anywhere
if we can not achieve socialism even in one nation, there is little hope to achieve it globally. likewise, if we can not achieve socialism in a singular municipality, the capacity to achieve it in a single country and hence globally, becomes questionable.
it is based upon this logic that i see a decent amount of potential in bookchin's municipalism as a strategy. there can be a larger scale party or federation that can help encourage the proliferation of municipalities. i remember there was a thread on municipalism before, but i unfortunately didnt post in it to articulate this broader perspective
i also have articulated my own program with regards to things based upon various localist principles. my idea would be to create an alternate structure of power which is stratified on top of worker cooperatives. other fractal democratic organs would be in place to ensure maximal representations for different sectors. i do not intend to have what i am doing be a general movement because i have particular pro-trans pro-biotech pro-fleshcraft priorities, but the core idea can definitely be made one
<https://hidwehproject.nekoweb.org/pages/zine/pisas.html
<https://hidwehproject.nekoweb.org/pages/blog/posts/2026-03-27-Between-Materialism-And-Aeonics.html
<https://hidwehproject.nekoweb.org/pages/phil/terseaeonmat.html
<https://hidwehproject.nekoweb.org/pages/blog/posts/2026-04-27-Brief-Remarks-On-Technology.html
localism as the future of politics
<ITT: discuss various forms of localist politics, e.g. communalism, municipalism, other forms of localist socialist governance, distributism, etcthere are some who still complain that russia was "socialism in one country". i contend that they are right, not because the concept is absurd, but because they do not go far enough. we have not yet taken stalin's gnosis to its logical conclusion and brought it to the hyper-financialized modern era
the current dichotomy in modern discourse has largely been between reformism and revolutionism. ultimately both forms make the mistake of operating as though contradictions are uniformly distributed. it is either you immediately go against the whole system in order to take it down, or you work with the whole system in order gradually reform it into socialism. why are these ultimately the only two notions entertained? the first approach underestimates the adaptability of monopoly capital or they fail to see the difficulty in coordinating an immediate revolution across large spans of the country. i think we all can see the failure of the second approach with its disregard for the blatant capture of bourgeois institutions by capital. maybe instead of still operating at such a high level of social change, we should focus more on what we can achieve on lower levels
this was part of the wisdom in "socialism in one country", it was the recognition that the contradictions were ripe in certain regions over others thanks to imperialism, and the specificity of these contradictions to particular regions only supports rather than detracts from the cultivation of determinate national character (contrary to industrial capital, which constantly strives towards maximal hyperconnectivity and the erosion of all national determinateness). ultimately, if you can not even achieve socialism in one country, there is much less hope in achieving socialism globally. now, we must of course acknowledge that "socialism in one country" was a logical response to imperialism, with the latter's tendency to unite the various classes within a society against a common imperialist bourgeois enemy. it is easy to see this and conclude that various forms of third-worldism are the answer. my issue with such a position is that it simply gives us an excuse to sit on our asses all day. if we actually carefully analyze things, we would notice that developed western nations have a tendency to, after the rest of the world has been conquered, start to turn imperialism back inwards. this initially manifests as a ghettoization of the country. the late stages of this tendency is the current administration's attempts to destabilize the american nation so that technocrats would be able to capitalize chunks out of it. with such a tendency, we have, in various western nations, the tendency for the contradictions to uniquely concentrate in particular regions rather than others. this calls for a new stage in the "socialism in one country" tendency; socialism in one region
the point on technocrats deserves expanding. we see with the government spending and tax cuts, combined with the mass layoffs of federal workers, the commitment towards gutting the power of the federal government. one of the groups targeted by such layoffs were the fbi. this is likely part of the attempt to privatize national security and give it to the hands of palantir and other tech companies. as a result of this movement, the federal government is weaker than ever before in its capacity to engage in special operations. if there was a time to build an entrenched position, the time would be now. aside from this, the erosion of the federal government is also a sign of neo-reaction now rising towards state ideology. the ideal many of these technocrats are moving towards is "patchwork", wherein there would be multiple relatively autonomous zones that would experiment with their own forms of governance. the federal government is meant to give way to "freedom cities", "network states", etc. i believe this is an instance of imperialism being turned inward, with these imperialist nations mounting towards self-colonization. there has been a serious lack of appreciation of this tendency on the left in any actionable capacity. if the western countries are really moving towards "patchwork", why is it not possible to have a socialist form of this? while these corporations have the capital, the labour does not strictly belong to them. there is, i believe, untapped potential in the prospect of pursuing "exit". by this i do not mean the usual anarchist lifestylism which simply attempts a small-scale secessionist strategy. rather, i am talking about something more coordinated. i am not afraid of some degree of centralization as long as the relation between the local and the global is sufficiently mediated. i hence personally lean more towards a council communist orientation
while we have neo-reaction become state ideology, we have seen a localistic turn in reformist strategies as well. with progressive victory we see a concerted attempt to secure executive positions at the city level, with some manifest success. of course, these guys are are all socdems, but it demonstrates the greater potential that can be drawn by pursuing concrete local objectives rather than vague organizing strategies that dont seem to ever go anywhere
if we can not achieve socialism even in one nation, there is little hope to achieve it globally. likewise, if we can not achieve socialism in a singular municipality, the capacity to achieve it in a single country and hence globally, becomes questionable.
it is based upon this logic that i see a decent amount of potential in bookchin's municipalism as a strategy. there can be a larger scale party or federation that can help encourage the proliferation of municipalities. i remember there was a thread on municipalism before, but i unfortunately didnt post in it to articulate this broader perspective
i also have articulated my own program with regards to things based upon various localist principles. my idea would be to create an alternate structure of power which is stratified on top of worker cooperatives. other fractal democratic organs would be in place to ensure maximal representations for different sectors. i do not intend to have what i am doing be a general movement because i have particular pro-trans pro-biotech pro-fleshcraft priorities, but the core idea can definitely be made one
<https://hidwehproject.nekoweb.org/pages/zine/pisas.html
<https://hidwehproject.nekoweb.org/pages/blog/posts/2026-03-27-Between-Materialism-And-Aeonics.html
<https://hidwehproject.nekoweb.org/pages/phil/terseaeonmat.html
<https://hidwehproject.nekoweb.org/pages/blog/posts/2026-04-27-Brief-Remarks-On-Technology.html
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There is a deficit over 2,000 MW, so its supply isn't even coming close to its demand.
Local transportation, services, and obviously healthcare is being restricted. And considering Cuba does more for the global south in heathcare then literally any western country, it tells you how much this really effects the world, not just the nation itself. As of writting this thread Russia is sending a humanitarian ship to Cuba, do we think the US is gonna stop the ship?
So i must ask, what can we do indiviually to help Cuba?
The Cuban energy crisis
Cuba is currently facing one of its worst energy crisies in its history, entirely caused by the US goverment further tighting sanctions on Cuba, and with the recent overthow of the Venezuelan goverment now Cuba has lost its most valuable trade partner.There is a deficit over 2,000 MW, so its supply isn't even coming close to its demand.
Local transportation, services, and obviously healthcare is being restricted. And considering Cuba does more for the global south in heathcare then literally any western country, it tells you how much this really effects the world, not just the nation itself. As of writting this thread Russia is sending a humanitarian ship to Cuba, do we think the US is gonna stop the ship?
So i must ask, what can we do indiviually to help Cuba?
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Trump was accompanied by his son Eric and daughter-in-law Lara as well as tech leaders including Elon Musk of Tesla and Jensen Huang of the chip-maker Nvidia. The US president has plans for headline-grabbing deals and previously predicted that China’s leader, Xi Jinping, would “give me a big, fat hug when I get there”.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/13/trump-china-summit-xi-jinping-talks
People demand “Bato” arrest
Various organizations widely condemned the Senate’s indulgence and defense of Sen. Ronald “Bato” dela Rosa after the International Criminal Court (ICC) publicly issued an arrest warrant against him in the afternoon of May 11. The ICC confirmed the warrant for dela Rosa’s role in the Duterte regime’s “war on drugs.” ICC spokesperson Oriane Maillet stated the court issued the warrant on November 6, 2025. Authorities made the previously “secret” document “public” only this May.
https://philippinerevolution.nu/angbayan/people-demand-bato-arrest/
Philippine vice president impeached by lawmakers over suspected wealth and threats
The House, which is dominated by President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s allies, voted 257-25 with nine abstentions. The two impeachment complaints against Duterte, which will now be elevated to the Senate for a trial, mark an initial setback to her plan to seek the presidency in 2028. Shortly before the impeachment vote in the House, Senate President Vicente Sotto III, who had vowed to immediately put the vice president to trial, was ousted by 13 of 24 senators, including supporters of the vice president and her father, former President Rodrigo Duterte.
https://apnews.com/article/philippines-vice-president-duterte-impeachment-5d619c24ae6ef880d3c03bbcdccc1536
Ethnic Groups Are Fleeing Bangladesh’s Chittagong Hill Tracts in Search of Safety in Myanmar
Concurrent with the forced emigration of Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar to Bangladesh has been the silent relocation of thousands of people belonging to non-Muslim ethnic communities in the reverse direction, from the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) in southeastern Bangladesh to Myanmar’s Chin and Rakhine states.
https://thediplomat.com/2026/05/ethnic-groups-fleeing-bangladeshs-hill-tracts-in-search-of-safety-in-myanmar/
https://archive.ph/FtknH
‘Our only crime is being Shia’: Pakistani workers say UAE surveillance led to deportations
Several Shia community leaders in many parts of Pakistan told Middle East Eye that thousands of Pakistani workers, most of them Shia Muslims employed in the UAE for years, have been deported since mid-April under opaque circumstances. Many of those expelled said that the UAE authorities never formally explained why they were deported. However, deportees and community representatives believe the campaign reflects mounting suspicion towards Shia communities amid escalating regional tensions involving Iran.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/our-only-crime-being-shia-pakistani-workers-say-uae-surveillance-led-deportations
Saudi Arabia launched covert attacks on Iran as regional war widened, sources say
Saudi Arabia launched numerous, unpublicized strikes on Iran in retaliation for attacks carried out in the kingdom during the Middle East war, two Western officials briefed on the matter and two Iranian officials said. The Saudi attacks, not previously reported, mark the first time that the kingdom is known to have directly carried out military action on Iranian soil and show it is becoming much bolder in defending itself against its main regional rival.
https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2026/05/saudi-arabia-launched-covert-attacks-iran-regional-war-widened-sources-say
Thousands of Israelis storm Joseph's Tomb in Nablus as West Bank 'heritage' bill passed
The raid came as the Israeli Knesset approved the first reading of a bill to establish a "Judea and Samaria Heritage Authority" which would have jurisdiction over all archaeological sites in the West Bank, even those in Area A, which is under Palestinian political and security control.
https://www.newarab.com/news/israelis-storm-josephs-tomb-nablus-heritage-bill-passed
Turkish independent textile union leader Mehmet Türkmen acquitted
On Tuesday, one of the landmark cases of state repression against the independent workers’ movement in Türkiye came to a close in Gaziantep. Mehmet Türkmen, the general president of BİRTEK-SEN, who had been in prison for almost two months, was acquitted of the baseless charge of “publicly disseminating misleading information” and released.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/05/13/fvrn-m13.html
CWU backs action after wave of suicides
DELEGATES at the CWU conference have unanimously backed the introduction of “postvention” into Royal Mail workplaces where comrades have been lost to suicide. The motion was tabled by the North East Division today after a wave of suicides in the region.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/cwu-backs-action-after-wave-suicides
Greece scrambles to explain how explosive-packed drone landed in its waters
It is believed the drone landed close to the shores of Lefkada, a popular resort island in the Ionian, when its operators lost control and the device drifted off course. It was found by a fisher in a cave last Thursday. Alarm over its discovery deepened on Saturday after it was reported that the long-range kamikaze drone was laden with an estimated 100kg of explosives. Greek defence ministry officials refused to confirm it was loaded with munitions.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/11/greece-explosive-packed-drone-lefkada-western-coast
Mexico’s Sheinbaum denies reports of CIA operations there while CNN stands by report
Sheinbaum called the CNN report a “lie.” Asked about the New York Times report during her morning press briefing, she called it “a fiction the size of the universe.” Liz Lyons, a spokesperson for the CIA, also lambasted the CNN report, posting on X that “this is false and salacious reporting that serves as nothing more than a PR campaign for the cartels and puts American lives at risk.”
https://apnews.com/article/mexico-cia-journalists-cnn-sheinbaum-cartels-cc9bf775ab2bad4848f614288e9b4a86
Dominican Communities Reject Canadian Mining Project, Halt GoldQuest’s Romero Operatio
The Dominican Republic’s National Popular Coordinator (CPN) has denounced that Canadian mining companies GoldQuest, Unigold, and Belfond Enterprises hold exploration and exploitation permits that threaten the sustainability of hundreds of communities in the Cordillera Central, a vital water source and agricultural region known as the “Granary of the South,” as popular protests have successfully forced a pause on GoldQuest’s Romero gold and copper project.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/dominican-communities-reject-canadian-mining-project-halt-goldquests-romero-operation/
News 5/13/26
Trump lands in China for high-stakes summit with Xi Jinping, as Iran war looms over talksTrump was accompanied by his son Eric and daughter-in-law Lara as well as tech leaders including Elon Musk of Tesla and Jensen Huang of the chip-maker Nvidia. The US president has plans for headline-grabbing deals and previously predicted that China’s leader, Xi Jinping, would “give me a big, fat hug when I get there”.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/13/trump-china-summit-xi-jinping-talks
People demand “Bato” arrest
Various organizations widely condemned the Senate’s indulgence and defense of Sen. Ronald “Bato” dela Rosa after the International Criminal Court (ICC) publicly issued an arrest warrant against him in the afternoon of May 11. The ICC confirmed the warrant for dela Rosa’s role in the Duterte regime’s “war on drugs.” ICC spokesperson Oriane Maillet stated the court issued the warrant on November 6, 2025. Authorities made the previously “secret” document “public” only this May.
https://philippinerevolution.nu/angbayan/people-demand-bato-arrest/
Philippine vice president impeached by lawmakers over suspected wealth and threats
The House, which is dominated by President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s allies, voted 257-25 with nine abstentions. The two impeachment complaints against Duterte, which will now be elevated to the Senate for a trial, mark an initial setback to her plan to seek the presidency in 2028. Shortly before the impeachment vote in the House, Senate President Vicente Sotto III, who had vowed to immediately put the vice president to trial, was ousted by 13 of 24 senators, including supporters of the vice president and her father, former President Rodrigo Duterte.
https://apnews.com/article/philippines-vice-president-duterte-impeachment-5d619c24ae6ef880d3c03bbcdccc1536
Ethnic Groups Are Fleeing Bangladesh’s Chittagong Hill Tracts in Search of Safety in Myanmar
Concurrent with the forced emigration of Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar to Bangladesh has been the silent relocation of thousands of people belonging to non-Muslim ethnic communities in the reverse direction, from the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) in southeastern Bangladesh to Myanmar’s Chin and Rakhine states.
https://thediplomat.com/2026/05/ethnic-groups-fleeing-bangladeshs-hill-tracts-in-search-of-safety-in-myanmar/
https://archive.ph/FtknH
‘Our only crime is being Shia’: Pakistani workers say UAE surveillance led to deportations
Several Shia community leaders in many parts of Pakistan told Middle East Eye that thousands of Pakistani workers, most of them Shia Muslims employed in the UAE for years, have been deported since mid-April under opaque circumstances. Many of those expelled said that the UAE authorities never formally explained why they were deported. However, deportees and community representatives believe the campaign reflects mounting suspicion towards Shia communities amid escalating regional tensions involving Iran.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/our-only-crime-being-shia-pakistani-workers-say-uae-surveillance-led-deportations
Saudi Arabia launched covert attacks on Iran as regional war widened, sources say
Saudi Arabia launched numerous, unpublicized strikes on Iran in retaliation for attacks carried out in the kingdom during the Middle East war, two Western officials briefed on the matter and two Iranian officials said. The Saudi attacks, not previously reported, mark the first time that the kingdom is known to have directly carried out military action on Iranian soil and show it is becoming much bolder in defending itself against its main regional rival.
https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2026/05/saudi-arabia-launched-covert-attacks-iran-regional-war-widened-sources-say
Thousands of Israelis storm Joseph's Tomb in Nablus as West Bank 'heritage' bill passed
The raid came as the Israeli Knesset approved the first reading of a bill to establish a "Judea and Samaria Heritage Authority" which would have jurisdiction over all archaeological sites in the West Bank, even those in Area A, which is under Palestinian political and security control.
https://www.newarab.com/news/israelis-storm-josephs-tomb-nablus-heritage-bill-passed
Turkish independent textile union leader Mehmet Türkmen acquitted
On Tuesday, one of the landmark cases of state repression against the independent workers’ movement in Türkiye came to a close in Gaziantep. Mehmet Türkmen, the general president of BİRTEK-SEN, who had been in prison for almost two months, was acquitted of the baseless charge of “publicly disseminating misleading information” and released.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/05/13/fvrn-m13.html
CWU backs action after wave of suicides
DELEGATES at the CWU conference have unanimously backed the introduction of “postvention” into Royal Mail workplaces where comrades have been lost to suicide. The motion was tabled by the North East Division today after a wave of suicides in the region.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/cwu-backs-action-after-wave-suicides
Greece scrambles to explain how explosive-packed drone landed in its waters
It is believed the drone landed close to the shores of Lefkada, a popular resort island in the Ionian, when its operators lost control and the device drifted off course. It was found by a fisher in a cave last Thursday. Alarm over its discovery deepened on Saturday after it was reported that the long-range kamikaze drone was laden with an estimated 100kg of explosives. Greek defence ministry officials refused to confirm it was loaded with munitions.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/11/greece-explosive-packed-drone-lefkada-western-coast
Mexico’s Sheinbaum denies reports of CIA operations there while CNN stands by report
Sheinbaum called the CNN report a “lie.” Asked about the New York Times report during her morning press briefing, she called it “a fiction the size of the universe.” Liz Lyons, a spokesperson for the CIA, also lambasted the CNN report, posting on X that “this is false and salacious reporting that serves as nothing more than a PR campaign for the cartels and puts American lives at risk.”
https://apnews.com/article/mexico-cia-journalists-cnn-sheinbaum-cartels-cc9bf775ab2bad4848f614288e9b4a86
Dominican Communities Reject Canadian Mining Project, Halt GoldQuest’s Romero Operatio
The Dominican Republic’s National Popular Coordinator (CPN) has denounced that Canadian mining companies GoldQuest, Unigold, and Belfond Enterprises hold exploration and exploitation permits that threaten the sustainability of hundreds of communities in the Cordillera Central, a vital water source and agricultural region known as the “Granary of the South,” as popular protests have successfully forced a pause on GoldQuest’s Romero gold and copper project.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/dominican-communities-reject-canadian-mining-project-halt-goldquests-romero-operation/
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The best bet for American communists is to do entry idk into the American Solidarity Party. This is the one strategy that has a strong chance of working.
Let me explain:
ASP exists to be a Catholic Distributist party. If you study Catholic Social Teaching and Catholic philosophy, especially Thomism (the philosophy of Aquinas), you will see that it is socialist in nature and very in-line with Marxism. ASP is the only third party that has any chance of breaking through the two-party duopoly. American Catholics are becoming increasingly frustrated with the GOP (Pope Leo HATES Trump) but won’t become Democrats due to the Dems’ position on unlimited abortion. If ASP was flooded with socialists and communists it might be the vehicle towards socialism in America.
The best bet for American communists is to do entry idk into the American Solidarity Party. This is the one strategy that has a strong chance of working.
Let me explain:
ASP exists to be a Catholic Distributist party. If you study Catholic Social Teaching and Catholic philosophy, especially Thomism (the philosophy of Aquinas), you will see that it is socialist in nature and very in-line with Marxism. ASP is the only third party that has any chance of breaking through the two-party duopoly. American Catholics are becoming increasingly frustrated with the GOP (Pope Leo HATES Trump) but won’t become Democrats due to the Dems’ position on unlimited abortion. If ASP was flooded with socialists and communists it might be the vehicle towards socialism in America.
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From what I've heard they are very problematic, with some individuals claiming that they harass fellow anarchists who disgaree with them. There's this article written by an ex-member of the appelistes, claiming that they were bigotted, didn't protect the women within the appelist circle from rapists, and that they were hostile towards other anarchists. (https://anarchistnews.org/content/jumping-ship-or-why-im-defecting-terrible-community)
They have also been seen as reformist, as one anarchist claims that they were "the French tiqqunists who sold out anarchists at the Zad in order to negotiate for state-sanctioned land projects." (https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/some-intractables-more-talk-more-rock).
Both the articles linked give a lot more detail to how problematic they are, so please read them if you want more detail.
Opinions on Appellism?
Appellism is an ideology come up from The Invisible Committee from their text called "The Call" (https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/anonymous-call). They are a part of the anarchist side of communization and, like mainstream communization, they support the immediacy of revolution and the abolition of the working class. They are also insurrectionist.From what I've heard they are very problematic, with some individuals claiming that they harass fellow anarchists who disgaree with them. There's this article written by an ex-member of the appelistes, claiming that they were bigotted, didn't protect the women within the appelist circle from rapists, and that they were hostile towards other anarchists. (https://anarchistnews.org/content/jumping-ship-or-why-im-defecting-terrible-community)
They have also been seen as reformist, as one anarchist claims that they were "the French tiqqunists who sold out anarchists at the Zad in order to negotiate for state-sanctioned land projects." (https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/some-intractables-more-talk-more-rock).
Both the articles linked give a lot more detail to how problematic they are, so please read them if you want more detail.
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>The leader pointed out a marked imbalance in public investment: while 47% of the mobility budget is allocated to private cars —used by only a quarter of the population— public transportation, which moves 39% of citizens, receives only 1.2% of the resources. This lack of investment forces public transport users to lose 118 hours per year commuting, significantly exceeding the 71 hours averaged by motorists.
Who is Coparmex you ask?
Coparmex (Mexican Employers’ Confederation) is a major business organization in Mexico.
In simple terms:
It represents business owners and employers
It advocates for private sector interests
It speaks out on public policy, economic issues, and labor laws
It is not a labor union for workers, but for employers
The bourgeoisie wants me to use public transport and bicyles
>Traffic congestion in the Metropolitan Area of the Valley of Mexico generates an annual cost of 47 billion pesos, a figure that represents half of the total economic losses caused by traffic in the country’s main cities, reported Juan José Sierra Álvarez, national president of Coparmex.>The leader pointed out a marked imbalance in public investment: while 47% of the mobility budget is allocated to private cars —used by only a quarter of the population— public transportation, which moves 39% of citizens, receives only 1.2% of the resources. This lack of investment forces public transport users to lose 118 hours per year commuting, significantly exceeding the 71 hours averaged by motorists.
Who is Coparmex you ask?
Coparmex (Mexican Employers’ Confederation) is a major business organization in Mexico.
In simple terms:
It represents business owners and employers
It advocates for private sector interests
It speaks out on public policy, economic issues, and labor laws
It is not a labor union for workers, but for employers
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https://engelsbergideas.com/notebook/the-irgcs-way-of-war/
the great and avthentic revolutionaries are two: Deng Xiaoping and Ali Khamenei.
organizational question
Some anon posted this article in another thread but I think it's interesting as its own. Here are some key points:https://engelsbergideas.com/notebook/the-irgcs-way-of-war/
- the Islamic Republic is not organised around a single person: its institutional design prioritises not the fate of any leader, but rather the preservation of the system itself.
- The Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) provides a clear example. The SNSC brings together military officials (army and IRGC commanders), key ministers (intelligence, foreign affairs, interior), the president, and other key figures,
- The SNSC effectively serves as the central body responsible for formulating core policies on national security
- Through the SNSC, senior regime officials deliberate and make decisions through consensus, decisions that are formally ratified by the Supreme Leader. Decision-making thus occurs through an institutionalised and collegial process rather than through unilateral directives from the top.
- The armed forces are similarly depersonalised and horizontal.
- in wartime, local commanders have been empowered under Iran’s ‘Mosaic Defence’ policy, which enables them to act independently, especially if senior leaders are killed or communications are cut
- The IRGC emerged as an amalgamation of revolutionary militias
the great and avthentic revolutionaries are two: Deng Xiaoping and Ali Khamenei.
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What exactly is israel's endgame with gaza? So far only 80k people out of 2.3 million if israel wanted to genocide them all they would've done so already.
What's the endgoal here?
What can they hope to achieve?
What exactly is israel's endgame with gaza? So far only 80k people out of 2.3 million if israel wanted to genocide them all they would've done so already.
What's the endgoal here?
What can they hope to achieve?
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>“THERE were two “Reigns of Terror,” if we would but remember it and consider it; the one wrought murder in hot passion, the other in heartless cold blood; the one lasted mere months, the other had lasted a thousand years; the one inflicted death upon ten thousand persons, the other upon a hundred millions; but our shudders are all for the “horrors” of the minor Terror, the momentary Terror, so to speak; whereas, what is the horror of swift death by the axe, compared with lifelong death from hunger, cold, insult, cruelty, and heart-break? What is swift death by lightning compared with death by slow fire at the stake? A city cemetery could contain the coffins filled by that brief Terror which we have all been so diligently taught to shiver at and mourn over; but all France could hardly contain the coffins filled by that older and real Terror—that unspeakably bitter and awful Terror which none of us has been taught to see in its vastness or pity as it deserves.”
When the time comes, I don't care if it's your local laundromat owner. I don't care if it's a guy running a hot dog stand. He is bourgeois. You will execute the entire family, or you will be executed along side them. The pets, the maids, doesn't matter. Kill. Kill. Kill.
Classcucks OUT, bourgeois OUT, fascists OUT, moralists OUT OUT OUT
I keep running into a particularly insidious type of revisionism. The "Deng Won" revisionism. It is stated repeatedly by disguised fascists, capitalists, and liberals (but I repeat myself) larping as communists on our board and misusing the concept of realpolitik that capitalist roader party bureaucrats can be deified, and, failing that, rehabilitated. Let me be perfectly clear. The party bureaucrats, the capitalist roaders, and the opportunist labor aristocracy cannot be "deified" or "rehabilitated" under any circumstances. They must all be liquidated alongside their inbred pedophile worker-hating Nixonist-Kissingerist counterparts. It is not the duty of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat to waste precious and limited resources attempting to coddle and reeducate opportunists who in 99.9…% of circumstances will betray the working class, because they secretly harbor counter-revolutionary opinions, and collaborate amongst themselves to foment bourgeois counter-revolution. I don't care if they "raised billions out of poverty.". You put a bullet in their fucking head. Morality is not real. It is a theistic bourgeois construct regarding property relations. It does not matter if this is "good" or "bad." You put the bullet in the bourgeois bootlicker's brain or he will grow strong enough to kill you and everyone you love and destroy everything you fought for. Do you understand? If not, you are a liberal, a fascist, a capitalist roader, and you ought to be hung by your genitals from the nearest lamp post next to the rotting corpse of Bukharin. You are not a comrade, you are a coward, and vermin, to be exterminated alongside the ruling class, their children, their pets, and their lickspittle servants. This isn't a question of "nurture vs nature" either. This is a question of risk mitigation and victory maximization. I am not "weird" or a "freak" or "hate children" for understanding this. Take heed this quote from Mark Twain (Who, despite being a feckless bourgeois 19th century liberal, was perfectly capable of understanding the need for Revolutionary Terror):>“THERE were two “Reigns of Terror,” if we would but remember it and consider it; the one wrought murder in hot passion, the other in heartless cold blood; the one lasted mere months, the other had lasted a thousand years; the one inflicted death upon ten thousand persons, the other upon a hundred millions; but our shudders are all for the “horrors” of the minor Terror, the momentary Terror, so to speak; whereas, what is the horror of swift death by the axe, compared with lifelong death from hunger, cold, insult, cruelty, and heart-break? What is swift death by lightning compared with death by slow fire at the stake? A city cemetery could contain the coffins filled by that brief Terror which we have all been so diligently taught to shiver at and mourn over; but all France could hardly contain the coffins filled by that older and real Terror—that unspeakably bitter and awful Terror which none of us has been taught to see in its vastness or pity as it deserves.”
When the time comes, I don't care if it's your local laundromat owner. I don't care if it's a guy running a hot dog stand. He is bourgeois. You will execute the entire family, or you will be executed along side them. The pets, the maids, doesn't matter. Kill. Kill. Kill.
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Enver Hoxha was further agitated by Mao Zedong’s “three worlds theory”; a revisionist and opportunist idea which ignored any sort of societal contradictions in favour of Mao’s immediate geopolitical ambitions. To quote Comrade Hoxha on the “three worlds theory”:
"[…] all of these terms which refer to the different political powers working in the world today conceal — and don't reveal — the class character of these political powers, the basic contradictions of our epoch, the predominant key problem on the national and international scale today, the grim struggle which is waged between the bourgeois-revisionist world on the one hand and socialism, the world proletariat and its natural allies on the other hand." (Enver Hoxha, Report to the 7th Party Congress of the PLA)
Enver Hoxha would seldom capitulate to Khrushchev’s careerism or Mao’s flunkeyism, however. Instead, he would later withdraw from the social-imperialist Warsaw Pact, and would end relations with the revisionist People’s Republic of China. Thus in the process, preventing the People’s Socialist Republic of Albania from becoming a vassal of either social-imperialist state or bloc.
Hence, from this ideological conflict emerged Hoxhaism – the continuation of Marxism and modernisation of Leninism for the international proletariat, free from the crass revisionism and careerism of the Khrushchevite-Brezhnevite Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and the petite-bougeois pseudo-Marxism of the People’s Republic of China.
After Hoxha’s life concluded in 1985, a large amount of Communist Parties, many of which located in the Americas, have taken up Hoxha’s example resilience to revisionism and careerism.
Hoxhaism, as it exists in the present, is the most potent theoretical continuation of applied Marxism.
Had the USSR taken heed to follow comrade Hoxha's guidance it would not have fallen apart and become defiled, ultimately being cannibalized by the religious reactionaries and liberal forces lead by the traitor of humanity Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev. Had the USSR not fallen apart like it did, the rest of the socialist world would still be present.
https://marxistleninists.org/enver%20hoxha/index.htm
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hoxha/works-index.htm
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hoxha/works/ebooks/hoxha-selected-writings-1971-1977.pdf
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/decades-index.htm
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/
https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/516965.Enver_Hoxha
Hoxhaism / Anti-Revisionism General
Hoxhaism, like other Scientific Socialist movements, had first emerged out of the ideological conflict during the middle-to-late potion of the 20th Century CE. During this time, Enver Hoxha, General Secretary of the Albanian Party of Labour, began to understand, and be critical of, the increasingly revisionist and opportunist rhetoric and polices of the leaders of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics after the death of J. Stalin. At this time, the powerful and harmonious socialist economy that was created as a result of the five-year plans of the 1930’s was slowly being metaphorically watered-down as Khrushchev and later Brezhnev ruled the USSR into the later part of the 20th century.Enver Hoxha was further agitated by Mao Zedong’s “three worlds theory”; a revisionist and opportunist idea which ignored any sort of societal contradictions in favour of Mao’s immediate geopolitical ambitions. To quote Comrade Hoxha on the “three worlds theory”:
"[…] all of these terms which refer to the different political powers working in the world today conceal — and don't reveal — the class character of these political powers, the basic contradictions of our epoch, the predominant key problem on the national and international scale today, the grim struggle which is waged between the bourgeois-revisionist world on the one hand and socialism, the world proletariat and its natural allies on the other hand." (Enver Hoxha, Report to the 7th Party Congress of the PLA)
Enver Hoxha would seldom capitulate to Khrushchev’s careerism or Mao’s flunkeyism, however. Instead, he would later withdraw from the social-imperialist Warsaw Pact, and would end relations with the revisionist People’s Republic of China. Thus in the process, preventing the People’s Socialist Republic of Albania from becoming a vassal of either social-imperialist state or bloc.
Hence, from this ideological conflict emerged Hoxhaism – the continuation of Marxism and modernisation of Leninism for the international proletariat, free from the crass revisionism and careerism of the Khrushchevite-Brezhnevite Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and the petite-bougeois pseudo-Marxism of the People’s Republic of China.
After Hoxha’s life concluded in 1985, a large amount of Communist Parties, many of which located in the Americas, have taken up Hoxha’s example resilience to revisionism and careerism.
Hoxhaism, as it exists in the present, is the most potent theoretical continuation of applied Marxism.
Had the USSR taken heed to follow comrade Hoxha's guidance it would not have fallen apart and become defiled, ultimately being cannibalized by the religious reactionaries and liberal forces lead by the traitor of humanity Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev. Had the USSR not fallen apart like it did, the rest of the socialist world would still be present.
https://marxistleninists.org/enver%20hoxha/index.htm
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hoxha/works-index.htm
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hoxha/works/ebooks/hoxha-selected-writings-1971-1977.pdf
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/decades-index.htm
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/
https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/516965.Enver_Hoxha
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El peruANO seniores…
You can't make this shit up
>Rafael López Aliaga is a Peruvian businessman and conservative politician, founder of Renovación Popular and current mayor of Lima. He is known for his right-wing views, including support for free markets, strong religious values, and opposition to leftist politics. He is often nicknamed “Porky” in English as a mocking reference to his appearance, but he has embraced the nickname himself and even used it in his political image, turning an insult into part of his public brand.El peruANO seniores…
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I've decided that I'll vote for socdem next elections in my region. There will never be a proletarian revolution in the West in our lifetime, so why not vote for something that proposes necessary measures? Such as regulating the housing market, building more housing, improving the public sector and public transportation, and reindustrializing. Yes, thinking about and debating hypothetical scenarios online is all well and good, but the reality is that it’s a fantasy.
Plus, the ONLY big Marxist-Leninist political party in my country is literally a bunch of literal nazis
I've decided that I'll vote for socdem next elections in my region. There will never be a proletarian revolution in the West in our lifetime, so why not vote for something that proposes necessary measures? Such as regulating the housing market, building more housing, improving the public sector and public transportation, and reindustrializing. Yes, thinking about and debating hypothetical scenarios online is all well and good, but the reality is that it’s a fantasy.
Plus, the ONLY big Marxist-Leninist political party in my country is literally a bunch of literal nazis
R: 2 / I: 1
How do we change the American popular perception of the CIA? If you talk to the average American, their perception of the CIA comes from movies and TV shows, they are cool, they use epic gadgets and are all super smart educated talented people who know martial arts and lots of languages. They are eccentric and interesting individuals who command respect.
How do we get the average American to understand that this is basically an organized crime syndicate full of sociopaths who rape children, kidnap and torture people, overthrow popular elected officials for the crime of trying to raise the standard of living of exploited proles by nationalizing resources of strengthening labor unions? How can you combat Hollywood, big tech, and streamers who have a monopoly on communication and only seem to talk about the "cool" and "interesting" aspects of the CIA while downplaying or straight up ignoring the awful shit they do?
Please only answer if you actually agree this is a problem. If you just want to shit on me and call me stupid stay out of the thread.
How do we change the American popular perception of the CIA? If you talk to the average American, their perception of the CIA comes from movies and TV shows, they are cool, they use epic gadgets and are all super smart educated talented people who know martial arts and lots of languages. They are eccentric and interesting individuals who command respect.
How do we get the average American to understand that this is basically an organized crime syndicate full of sociopaths who rape children, kidnap and torture people, overthrow popular elected officials for the crime of trying to raise the standard of living of exploited proles by nationalizing resources of strengthening labor unions? How can you combat Hollywood, big tech, and streamers who have a monopoly on communication and only seem to talk about the "cool" and "interesting" aspects of the CIA while downplaying or straight up ignoring the awful shit they do?
Please only answer if you actually agree this is a problem. If you just want to shit on me and call me stupid stay out of the thread.
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What is to be done?
Top-Liners
All the way back in 1980, a German social democrat drew a line delineating the countries causing problems in the world from the countries solving them. However, his life was tragically cut short in 1992 before he was able to create a solution to the top-liner problem.What is to be done?
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>belief is embodied through practice, not just felt in the mind
>credibility enhancing displays is "proof" that people "should" believe harder than ideology
>research shows kids will follow what you practice harder than what you preach
>if you tell them to brush their teeth but never brush your own teeth, they'll conclude it must not be that important
so if you just teach the kids communism but don't actually practice it, they'll just decide you're a windbag.
Communism isn't a religion, but these insights from religious studies should be useful for teaching communists how to build an actual praxis that outlasts revolution and a few generations of iron fisted rule
>belief is embodied through practice, not just felt in the mind
>credibility enhancing displays is "proof" that people "should" believe harder than ideology
>research shows kids will follow what you practice harder than what you preach
>if you tell them to brush their teeth but never brush your own teeth, they'll conclude it must not be that important
so if you just teach the kids communism but don't actually practice it, they'll just decide you're a windbag.
Communism isn't a religion, but these insights from religious studies should be useful for teaching communists how to build an actual praxis that outlasts revolution and a few generations of iron fisted rule
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Is Capitalism actually that adaptable
A common criticism that I see is that capitalism is hyper adaptable to most circumstances and that it can't even really be fully defeated at all, especially from those who shill for it. However, liberalism and it's various forms of it has only been around for like 500 years. The previous order of despotism, empire and feudalism were around for much longer. While it's ability to subsumed criticism of itself into the system is potent, I am not exactly sure if capitalism is all that durable? Is this a weird thing to think?
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Fujimori, 50, arrives at her fourth runoff with a new strategy. After losing in 2011, 2016 and 2021, the Fuerza Popular leader has openly embraced the memory of her father, who was convicted of corruption, crimes against humanity and espionage, and died in 2024. “I want to be president so I can govern as my father did,” she said days before the vote. On election day she visited the family tomb.
https://en.mercopress.com/2026/05/12/peru-s-runoff-to-pit-fujimori-s-daughter-against-castillo-s-political-heir
Argentine Universities Call Fourth National March Over Funding Crisis
The Fourth Federal University March will mobilize students, professors, rectors and unions from more than 60 universities to demand an end to the budget freeze and compensation for the loss of real income caused by rising inflation.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/argentine-universities-call-fourth-national-march-over-funding-crisis/
Bukele escalates crackdown on independent media after documentary exposes his alleged gang deals
Last week, the online newspaper El Faro reported that the government of right-wing Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele froze the bank account and a property belonging to two partners of Trípode S.A., the company that founded and supports El Faro. According to the Ministry of Finance, the measure functions as collateral for alleged debts related to tax evasion. However, the media outlet’s partners and journalists assert that this is yet another attempt to intimidate the press that has been critical of the Bukele administration and that, at its core, seeks to silence those who expose the right-wing government’s alleged acts of corruption.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2026/05/12/bukele-escalates-crackdown-on-independent-media-after-documentary-exposes-his-alleged-gang-deals/
General strike brings much of Belgium to a standstill
Around 100,000 people took to the streets of the capital Brussels in support of the strike called by three trade unions, the ACV, ABVV and the ACLVB, in protest at austerity measures being imposed by Prime Minister Bart De Wever’s government. Transport was brought to a standstill, schools were closed and public services halted across the country.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/general-strike-brings-much-belgium-standstill
Irish TV to air Father Ted instead of Eurovision final in protest against Israel’s inclusion
Ireland’s national broadcaster, RTÉ, which is boycotting the competition in protest against Israel’s inclusion, will instead broadcast the 1996 episode A Song for Europe, in which the characters Father Ted and Father Dougal perform their song My Lovely Horse and earn nul points.
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/may/12/irish-tv-rte-father-ted-eurovision-final-israel
45,000 schoolchildren walk out across Germany against conscription
Protests took place in over 150 towns and cities with key demands being that Germany revoke the Military Service Modernisation Act and the associated return of conscription by stealth, and that the armed forces cease promotional and recruitment activities in schools.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/45000-schoolchildren-walk-out-across-germany-against-conscription
Indian trade unions mobilize in solidarity with low-wage workers
The workers staged lunch-hour protests, sit-ins, and rallies at factory gates and industrial clusters across the country, carrying banners and posters and shouting chants against “inhuman exploitation”. Slogans focused particularly on contractual and non-regular workers.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2026/05/12/indian-trade-unions-mobilize-in-solidarity-with-low-wage-workers/
Chief policy staff's idea of 'national dividends' using AI profit triggers concerns
On the 12th, Kim Yong-beom, presidential chief of staff for policy, stated, “The fruits of the AI infrastructure era are not the result of specific companies alone,” and emphasized the need to design a so-called ‘National Dividend’ system to distribute a portion of corporate excess profits to all citizens. In response, opposition parties launched attacks, calling it a “socialist idea.”
https://www.chosun.com/english/national-en/2026/05/12/WWPDCZ5B3VGS3GSGVZ55L4WL7Q/
https://archive.ph/kVP7V
Palestinians Lose More Land After Israel Secretly Approves a Record Number of Settlements in the West Bank
Ramataim Zofim is one of 34 settlements secretly approved by the Israeli security cabinet in late March, a decision that was only revealed in Israeli news reports last month. It marked the largest number of settlements approved by any Israeli government at one time. The decision to officially approve new settlements or to legalize outposts allows for the establishment of water and electricity infrastructure, further entrenching their presence on Palestinian land.
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/west-bank-new-israeli-settlements-palestinian-land
Iraq's PMF begins major desert sweep after reports of 'secret Israeli base'
Iraq's Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF) have launched a large-scale military operation in the deserts of Najaf and Karbala aimed at tightening security and reinforcing troop deployments, amid public anger over reports alleging the presence of an Israeli force in the area during the recent war with Iran. The operation, dubbed "Imposing Sovereignty", began on Tuesday across four axes in the desert regions linking the city of Karbala with the Nukhayb area near Iraq's western borders, according to a statement carried by the Iraqi state news agency INA.
https://www.newarab.com/news/iraqs-pmf-begins-major-desert-sweep-after-israel-base-reports
Efforts to restore Kurdish property and turn the page on decades of violations
The joint integration committees tasked with following up on the January 29 agreement between Syrian Democratic Forces and the transitional government have recently held a series of meetings. These meetings address rights-related files concerning Kurdish citizens in northern and eastern Syria. Foremost among these issues are the restitution of property and addressing the repercussions of the “Arab Belt” project and the exceptional census of 1962.
https://www.syriahr.com/en/382228/
One Killed as Somali Security Forces Break Up Opposition Protest in Mogadishu
The protest, organised under the slogan “Dareen Hiil Shacab,” meaning Solidarity with the People, was staged to condemn recent government-led evictions that have reportedly displaced thousands of residents across the capital. Opposition groups said authorities imposed strict restrictions before the demonstrations, limiting gatherings to a single stadium, blocking major roads, and surrounding the homes of prominent opposition figures.
https://www.africannow.com/mogadishu-opposition-protest-shooting-somalia-2026/
News 5/12/26
Peru's runoff to pit Fujimori's daughter against Castillo's political heirFujimori, 50, arrives at her fourth runoff with a new strategy. After losing in 2011, 2016 and 2021, the Fuerza Popular leader has openly embraced the memory of her father, who was convicted of corruption, crimes against humanity and espionage, and died in 2024. “I want to be president so I can govern as my father did,” she said days before the vote. On election day she visited the family tomb.
https://en.mercopress.com/2026/05/12/peru-s-runoff-to-pit-fujimori-s-daughter-against-castillo-s-political-heir
Argentine Universities Call Fourth National March Over Funding Crisis
The Fourth Federal University March will mobilize students, professors, rectors and unions from more than 60 universities to demand an end to the budget freeze and compensation for the loss of real income caused by rising inflation.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/argentine-universities-call-fourth-national-march-over-funding-crisis/
Bukele escalates crackdown on independent media after documentary exposes his alleged gang deals
Last week, the online newspaper El Faro reported that the government of right-wing Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele froze the bank account and a property belonging to two partners of Trípode S.A., the company that founded and supports El Faro. According to the Ministry of Finance, the measure functions as collateral for alleged debts related to tax evasion. However, the media outlet’s partners and journalists assert that this is yet another attempt to intimidate the press that has been critical of the Bukele administration and that, at its core, seeks to silence those who expose the right-wing government’s alleged acts of corruption.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2026/05/12/bukele-escalates-crackdown-on-independent-media-after-documentary-exposes-his-alleged-gang-deals/
General strike brings much of Belgium to a standstill
Around 100,000 people took to the streets of the capital Brussels in support of the strike called by three trade unions, the ACV, ABVV and the ACLVB, in protest at austerity measures being imposed by Prime Minister Bart De Wever’s government. Transport was brought to a standstill, schools were closed and public services halted across the country.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/general-strike-brings-much-belgium-standstill
Irish TV to air Father Ted instead of Eurovision final in protest against Israel’s inclusion
Ireland’s national broadcaster, RTÉ, which is boycotting the competition in protest against Israel’s inclusion, will instead broadcast the 1996 episode A Song for Europe, in which the characters Father Ted and Father Dougal perform their song My Lovely Horse and earn nul points.
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/may/12/irish-tv-rte-father-ted-eurovision-final-israel
45,000 schoolchildren walk out across Germany against conscription
Protests took place in over 150 towns and cities with key demands being that Germany revoke the Military Service Modernisation Act and the associated return of conscription by stealth, and that the armed forces cease promotional and recruitment activities in schools.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/45000-schoolchildren-walk-out-across-germany-against-conscription
Indian trade unions mobilize in solidarity with low-wage workers
The workers staged lunch-hour protests, sit-ins, and rallies at factory gates and industrial clusters across the country, carrying banners and posters and shouting chants against “inhuman exploitation”. Slogans focused particularly on contractual and non-regular workers.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2026/05/12/indian-trade-unions-mobilize-in-solidarity-with-low-wage-workers/
Chief policy staff's idea of 'national dividends' using AI profit triggers concerns
On the 12th, Kim Yong-beom, presidential chief of staff for policy, stated, “The fruits of the AI infrastructure era are not the result of specific companies alone,” and emphasized the need to design a so-called ‘National Dividend’ system to distribute a portion of corporate excess profits to all citizens. In response, opposition parties launched attacks, calling it a “socialist idea.”
https://www.chosun.com/english/national-en/2026/05/12/WWPDCZ5B3VGS3GSGVZ55L4WL7Q/
https://archive.ph/kVP7V
Palestinians Lose More Land After Israel Secretly Approves a Record Number of Settlements in the West Bank
Ramataim Zofim is one of 34 settlements secretly approved by the Israeli security cabinet in late March, a decision that was only revealed in Israeli news reports last month. It marked the largest number of settlements approved by any Israeli government at one time. The decision to officially approve new settlements or to legalize outposts allows for the establishment of water and electricity infrastructure, further entrenching their presence on Palestinian land.
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/west-bank-new-israeli-settlements-palestinian-land
Iraq's PMF begins major desert sweep after reports of 'secret Israeli base'
Iraq's Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF) have launched a large-scale military operation in the deserts of Najaf and Karbala aimed at tightening security and reinforcing troop deployments, amid public anger over reports alleging the presence of an Israeli force in the area during the recent war with Iran. The operation, dubbed "Imposing Sovereignty", began on Tuesday across four axes in the desert regions linking the city of Karbala with the Nukhayb area near Iraq's western borders, according to a statement carried by the Iraqi state news agency INA.
https://www.newarab.com/news/iraqs-pmf-begins-major-desert-sweep-after-israel-base-reports
Efforts to restore Kurdish property and turn the page on decades of violations
The joint integration committees tasked with following up on the January 29 agreement between Syrian Democratic Forces and the transitional government have recently held a series of meetings. These meetings address rights-related files concerning Kurdish citizens in northern and eastern Syria. Foremost among these issues are the restitution of property and addressing the repercussions of the “Arab Belt” project and the exceptional census of 1962.
https://www.syriahr.com/en/382228/
One Killed as Somali Security Forces Break Up Opposition Protest in Mogadishu
The protest, organised under the slogan “Dareen Hiil Shacab,” meaning Solidarity with the People, was staged to condemn recent government-led evictions that have reportedly displaced thousands of residents across the capital. Opposition groups said authorities imposed strict restrictions before the demonstrations, limiting gatherings to a single stadium, blocking major roads, and surrounding the homes of prominent opposition figures.
https://www.africannow.com/mogadishu-opposition-protest-shooting-somalia-2026/
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Corporations and their actions have been strongly against the interests of the American population. We have enough time to work on a solution to dealing with these extremely greedy individuals.
An idea I propose is an AI facial detection system which will allow the detection of all the corporate heads should they show their face.
I mean an actual effective one that works in large datasets.
Fixing problems in good time
In 2 years time we need to be prepared for the changes that will take place in the United States and the world.Corporations and their actions have been strongly against the interests of the American population. We have enough time to work on a solution to dealing with these extremely greedy individuals.
An idea I propose is an AI facial detection system which will allow the detection of all the corporate heads should they show their face.
I mean an actual effective one that works in large datasets.
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So, assume for this thread that by "ruling class," we mean the political active faction of the owning class (bourgeoisie) who, for the most part, would rather just sit on their butts and receive stock dividends. The ruling class itself controls the media apparatus, corporation, and politics of the western world.
I bring this up because I'm about to read "DuPont Dynasty: Beyond the Nylon Curtain" a book so damning that the DuPonts attempted to buy every copy of it and now the price for a hardcopy is over $500 (I'm getting mine from the library)
The DuPonts are a family of chemical manufacturing magnates who are largely responsible for the state of Delaware being a tax haven for corporations today. I know they've had a hand in deregulation and stifling reports of asbestos toxicity, but I hope to learn more from the book.
Robert H. Richards IV, a Dupont Heir, was found guilty in 2014 of raping his own daughter and as punishment had to attend rehabilitation (which he never did) and got labelled as a sex offender. He also molested his own son repeatedly and despite his ex-wife's best efforts did not face any legal repercussions for doing so.
In the US, some of the most notable ruling class families are the Astors, Rockefellars, DuPonts, Kennedys, Guggenheims, Rothschilds, Fords, Vanderbilts, Morgans, and Bushes. Not all of them are American but the capitalist class is transnational. There are others. Some, like the Vanderbilts, have largely lost their fortune but due to intermarriage with other families (except notably the Rothschilds who favor inbreeding) they have managed to maintain some power. Anderson Cooper is a vanderbilt to give you an example of how far they have fallen–even the haute bourgeoisie are not immune to proletarianization.
Flagging because I like pancakes.
/Rule/ Crimes of the Ruling Class
Hello,So, assume for this thread that by "ruling class," we mean the political active faction of the owning class (bourgeoisie) who, for the most part, would rather just sit on their butts and receive stock dividends. The ruling class itself controls the media apparatus, corporation, and politics of the western world.
I bring this up because I'm about to read "DuPont Dynasty: Beyond the Nylon Curtain" a book so damning that the DuPonts attempted to buy every copy of it and now the price for a hardcopy is over $500 (I'm getting mine from the library)
The DuPonts are a family of chemical manufacturing magnates who are largely responsible for the state of Delaware being a tax haven for corporations today. I know they've had a hand in deregulation and stifling reports of asbestos toxicity, but I hope to learn more from the book.
Robert H. Richards IV, a Dupont Heir, was found guilty in 2014 of raping his own daughter and as punishment had to attend rehabilitation (which he never did) and got labelled as a sex offender. He also molested his own son repeatedly and despite his ex-wife's best efforts did not face any legal repercussions for doing so.
In the US, some of the most notable ruling class families are the Astors, Rockefellars, DuPonts, Kennedys, Guggenheims, Rothschilds, Fords, Vanderbilts, Morgans, and Bushes. Not all of them are American but the capitalist class is transnational. There are others. Some, like the Vanderbilts, have largely lost their fortune but due to intermarriage with other families (except notably the Rothschilds who favor inbreeding) they have managed to maintain some power. Anderson Cooper is a vanderbilt to give you an example of how far they have fallen–even the haute bourgeoisie are not immune to proletarianization.
Flagging because I like pancakes.
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In 1957, Załuski gave a lecture named "Patriotic Traditions and the Contemporary Shape of Socialist Patriotism", where, with Gomułka's approval, he declared the Marxist slogan of "workers do not have a nation" to be no longer valid:
Comrades we know that since the times of the Manifesto the world has considerably changed, the international workers’ movement also changed… We ought to remember that we moved quite far away from treating this quote and these thoughts of Marx as they were treated 50 years ago, however, we have not moved away from Marx, but from grasping at half a sentence of his thoughts, and we have moved in the direction of understanding [that] the development of the world went in this direction and that is where our intellectual revisions come from. We have moved in the direction of understanding the second part of the Marxist sentence, because we have observed the process of the proletariat gaining their national fatherlands
In 1957, Załuski gave a lecture named "Patriotic Traditions and the Contemporary Shape of Socialist Patriotism", where, with Gomułka's approval, he declared the Marxist slogan of "workers do not have a nation" to be no longer valid:
Comrades we know that since the times of the Manifesto the world has considerably changed, the international workers’ movement also changed… We ought to remember that we moved quite far away from treating this quote and these thoughts of Marx as they were treated 50 years ago, however, we have not moved away from Marx, but from grasping at half a sentence of his thoughts, and we have moved in the direction of understanding [that] the development of the world went in this direction and that is where our intellectual revisions come from. We have moved in the direction of understanding the second part of the Marxist sentence, because we have observed the process of the proletariat gaining their national fatherlands
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Why do you talk like that, Anon?
Seriously, like I understand that leftism is a science, but most people have no idea what you're saying and just think you're a pretentious petty-bourgies schizo
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Trump and Hegseth's claims of U.S. 'victory' in the Iran war: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/fact-checking-trump-and-hegseths-claims-of-u-s-victory-in-the-iran-war
>Previous poop
>>2790117
>Important Links:
https://www.flightradar24.com/
https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/centerx:52.7/centery:26.8/zoom:7
https://www.defconlevel.com/
https://oilprice.com/
https://www.pizzint.watch/
https://eam.watch/
https://www.gmcmap.com/index.asp
https://firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/map/#d:24hrs;@54.2,31.0,7.1z
https://globe.adsbexchange.com/
>Useful Channels:
https://www.youtube.com/@TheDuran
https://www.youtube.com/@AlexMercouris
https://www.youtube.com/@AlexChristoforou
https://www.youtube.com/@dialogueworks01
https://www.youtube.com/@DanielDavisDeepDive
https://www.youtube.com/@DannyHaiphongYT
https://www.youtube.com/@justinpodur
https://www.youtube.com/@IndiaGlobalLeft
https://www.youtube.com/@RichardMedhurst
https://www.youtube.com/@GDFofficial
https://www.youtube.com/@neutralitystudies
https://www.youtube.com/@prop_co
https://www.youtube.com/@CyrusJanssen
https://www.youtube.com/@breakingpoints
https://www.youtube.com/@militarysummary
https://www.youtube.com/@TheNewAtlas
https://www.youtube.com/@willyOAM
https://www.youtube.com/@GDiesen1
https://www.youtube.com/@theeastisapodcast
https://www.youtube.com/@GeopoliticalEconomyReport
https://www.youtube.com/@TheElectronicIntifada
>Useful Xitters
https://xcancel.com/IranObserver0
https://xcancel.com/araghchi
https://xcancel.com/conflict_radar
https://xcancel.com/TheCradleMedia
https://xcancel.com/AliAbunimah
https://xcancel.com/BrianJBerletic
https://xcancel.com/angeloinchina
https://xcancel.com/jonelmer
https://xcancel.com/MarkAmesExiled
https://xcancel.com/UrOrientalist
https://xcancel.com/MaxBlumenthal
https://xcancel.com/dreizinreport/
>Useful TG:
https://t.me/s/wfwitness
https://t.me/s/Middle_East_Spectator
https://t.me/s/enemywatch
>Useful Blogs/Podcasts/News:
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/
https://simplicius76.substack.com/
https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/
https://sonar21.com/
https://www.moonofalabama.org/
https://thegrayzone.com/
https://www.middleeasteye.net/live/live-us-and-israel-attack-iran
https://www.podbean.com/podcast-detail/t687i-9b79d/War-Nerd-Radio-%E2%80%94-Subscriber-Feed-Podcast
/Iran war/ thread #62
>all nothing on the happening frontTrump and Hegseth's claims of U.S. 'victory' in the Iran war: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/fact-checking-trump-and-hegseths-claims-of-u-s-victory-in-the-iran-war
>Previous poop
>>2790117
>Important Links:
https://www.flightradar24.com/
https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/centerx:52.7/centery:26.8/zoom:7
https://www.defconlevel.com/
https://oilprice.com/
https://www.pizzint.watch/
https://eam.watch/
https://www.gmcmap.com/index.asp
https://firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/map/#d:24hrs;@54.2,31.0,7.1z
https://globe.adsbexchange.com/
>Useful Channels:
https://www.youtube.com/@TheDuran
https://www.youtube.com/@AlexMercouris
https://www.youtube.com/@AlexChristoforou
https://www.youtube.com/@dialogueworks01
https://www.youtube.com/@DanielDavisDeepDive
https://www.youtube.com/@DannyHaiphongYT
https://www.youtube.com/@justinpodur
https://www.youtube.com/@IndiaGlobalLeft
https://www.youtube.com/@RichardMedhurst
https://www.youtube.com/@GDFofficial
https://www.youtube.com/@neutralitystudies
https://www.youtube.com/@prop_co
https://www.youtube.com/@CyrusJanssen
https://www.youtube.com/@breakingpoints
https://www.youtube.com/@militarysummary
https://www.youtube.com/@TheNewAtlas
https://www.youtube.com/@willyOAM
https://www.youtube.com/@GDiesen1
https://www.youtube.com/@theeastisapodcast
https://www.youtube.com/@GeopoliticalEconomyReport
https://www.youtube.com/@TheElectronicIntifada
>Useful Xitters
https://xcancel.com/IranObserver0
https://xcancel.com/araghchi
https://xcancel.com/conflict_radar
https://xcancel.com/TheCradleMedia
https://xcancel.com/AliAbunimah
https://xcancel.com/BrianJBerletic
https://xcancel.com/angeloinchina
https://xcancel.com/jonelmer
https://xcancel.com/MarkAmesExiled
https://xcancel.com/UrOrientalist
https://xcancel.com/MaxBlumenthal
https://xcancel.com/dreizinreport/
>Useful TG:
https://t.me/s/wfwitness
https://t.me/s/Middle_East_Spectator
https://t.me/s/enemywatch
>Useful Blogs/Podcasts/News:
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/
https://simplicius76.substack.com/
https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/
https://sonar21.com/
https://www.moonofalabama.org/
https://thegrayzone.com/
https://www.middleeasteye.net/live/live-us-and-israel-attack-iran
https://www.podbean.com/podcast-detail/t687i-9b79d/War-Nerd-Radio-%E2%80%94-Subscriber-Feed-Podcast
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>Thesis: Heil Hitler
>Antithesis: Hitler was bad
>Synthesis: Hitler was okay
This is real Marxism, just as Carl Marks intended
Let's do Marxism!
Let's all do dialectical materialism!>Thesis: Heil Hitler
>Antithesis: Hitler was bad
>Synthesis: Hitler was okay
This is real Marxism, just as Carl Marks intended
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Traore
Can anyone explain to me what this guy has actually done except relentlessly aura farm and fail to do anything about jihadist insurgency? I only ever see "BRICS News" and other unreliable engagement farmers hype him up.
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There were no "good guys" in the Cultural Revolution
As the title says.- Thanks to "bloodline theory", if your parents or grandparents belonged to a "black class", you would be murdered. This would mean that Marx and Engels, along with much of leftypol's userbase, would unironically be murdered. Didn't matter if you sided with the bureaucracy or the anti-bureaucrat "radicals", both were doing the murdering. Of course "bloodline theory" flies in the face of Mao's own theory, but that didn't matter.
- Critical thinking, like the young man Yu Luoke (himself a factory prole apparently) who engaged with Marx's works directly to disprove "bloodline theory", would get you killed as well (he was executed by firing squad, despite Mao denouncing "bloodline theory").
- Speaking of Mao, Mao himself had no clue what he was doing. He never explicitly instructed what needed to be done. This ambiguity led to both sides believing they were acting in accordance with Mao's views.
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its over, MLoids, Turdists, Dengoids, Trots, other Maoist cultists
Stalin contradicted himself, gravedigger
Stalin agreed with Bordiga Marx
MLoids in shambles, Stalin said NO SOCIALIST COMMODITIESits over, MLoids, Turdists, Dengoids, Trots, other Maoist cultists
Stalin contradicted himself, gravedigger
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Li ser siyaseta giştî ya Tirkiyê biaxive!
Şıma qısey bıkı Poliya Turika!
Yurtişi siyaseti p'ara yoxaleps!
تحدثوا عن السياسة العامة في تركيا!
/Türkipol/
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The Ice Age was the last decent period in human history
Laws didn't exist in the Stone Age. People would kill each other, shoot each other with arrows, strike with blunt objects, sacrifice people to deities, etc. It was a crazy time to be alive. Imagine being in neolithic europe smoking marijuana in a group by hanging around a campfire and burning cannabis flowers and seeds over a pot. It was Bat'ko civilization. This generation will never know the ecstasy of trve anarchy.
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the conflict basically started when Kashmiris, Ruled by a deeply reactionary and horrendously oppressive minority hindu monarch, Rose up because of their appalling poverty and excessive taxation. One of the most exploited people in India.
Then Pakistan assissted the popular uprising and went to war on it's behalf, The monarch agreed to join India just to suppress the rebels via the Indian army which resulted in the mass-slaughter of the Muslim Kashmiris in the southern region of Jammu .
Most Kashmiris still hate Indian rule and today it's the most militarized region of earth.
Shouldn't it leftist circles be more concerned with this issue?
What do you think of the Kashmir conflict?
I don't like taking sides in a conflict I lack some knowledge of but…….How is Pakistan not in the right when it comes to Kashmir?the conflict basically started when Kashmiris, Ruled by a deeply reactionary and horrendously oppressive minority hindu monarch, Rose up because of their appalling poverty and excessive taxation. One of the most exploited people in India.
Then Pakistan assissted the popular uprising and went to war on it's behalf, The monarch agreed to join India just to suppress the rebels via the Indian army which resulted in the mass-slaughter of the Muslim Kashmiris in the southern region of Jammu .
Most Kashmiris still hate Indian rule and today it's the most militarized region of earth.
Shouldn't it leftist circles be more concerned with this issue?
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• visualization of prison population in US // https://mkorostoff.github.io/incarceration-in-real-numbers/
• Organizing in Prison — for when the walls close in (RANT Collective) // https://www.organizingforpower.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Organizing-in-Jail.pdf
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Jailhouse Reading:
• 📖 Angela Davis - Are Prisons Obsolete? // https://dn790007.ca.archive.org/0/items/the-anarchist-library-full-list-of-pdfs-nov-2020/angela-y-davis-are-prisons-obsolete.pdf
• 📖 How to Defend Yourself During Police Interrogation // https://www.notrace.how/resources/download/comment-la-police-interroge-et-comment-sen-defendre/how-to-defend-yourself-during-a-police-interrogation.pdf
• 📖 National Lawyers Guild guide to being a jailhouse lawyer // https://www.jailhouselaw.org/
• 📖 Critical Resistance - Surviving Solitary Confinement // https://criticalresistance.org/resources/surviving-solitary/
• 📖 An inside-outside publication for abolitionist struggle & strategy across prison walls // https://criticalresistance.org/abolitionist/
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• IWW timeline for the 20th century (ends at 1999) // https://archive.iww.org/history/chronology/
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• /our boys/ (bring em home!) detail abusing Iraqi prisoners [2006] // https://www.hrw.org/report/2006/07/22/no-blood-no-foul/soldiers-accounts-detainee-abuse-iraq
• More than 250 military interventions in the last 30 years alone // https://blackagendareport.com/us-launched-251-military-interventions-1991-and-469-1798
• Visualization of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade // https://www.slavevoyages.org/
• UNESCO Sites relating to Slavery // https://slaveryandremembrance.org/
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• 📖 WEB Du Bois - Black Reconstruction // https://cominsitu.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/w-e-b-du-bois-black-reconstruction-an-essay-toward-a-history-of-the-part-which-black-folk-played-in-the-attempt-to-reconstruct-democracy-2.pdf
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• 📖 War is a Racket – Smedley Butler // https://ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html
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• 📖 Trail of Broken Treaties // American Indian Movement https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
• 📖 The Declaration of Independence https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
• https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
• 📖 The Ballot or the Bullet – Malcolm X // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/ballot_or_bullet.pdf
• 📖 What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? – Frederick Douglass // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/douglass_july_4_speech.pdf
• 📖 A Trail of Broken Treaties – American Indian Movement // https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
• 📖 Custer Died for Your Sins – Vine Deloria Jr. // http://www.riversimulator.org/Resources/Books/CusterDiedForYourSinsAnIndianManifesto1969Deloria.pdf
• 📖 Emancipation Proclamation – Lincoln // https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/emancipation-proclamation
• 📖 Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville // https://americanliterature.com/author/alexis-de-tocqueville/book/democracy-in-america/summary
• 📖 Common Sense – Thomas Paine // https://americainclass.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Common-Sense-Full-Text.pdf
• 📖 An Indigenous History of the United States – Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz // https://nycstandswithstandingrock.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/dunbar-ortiz-2014.pdf
• 📖 Huey Long – Share Our Wealth // https://www.hueylong.com/programs/share-our-wealth/huey-longs-share-our-wealth-speech
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Previous Thread: >>2801656
/USApol/
🗽 UNITED STATES POLITICS 🦅>Thread for the hellish discussion related to the scourge of the earth, the destroyer of nations, the king of coups, the sultan of sanctions, the emir of the embargo, the autocrat of austerity, the doge of deregulation, the baron of busting unions, the prince of privatization, the lord of loan sharks, the patron-saint of proxy wars, the sponsor of settlers, the guarantor of genocides, the Divided $nakkkes of Amerikkka™
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• ICE tracker using public info and user submissions // https://www.iceinmyarea.org/
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• visualization of prison population in US // https://mkorostoff.github.io/incarceration-in-real-numbers/
• Organizing in Prison — for when the walls close in (RANT Collective) // https://www.organizingforpower.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Organizing-in-Jail.pdf
• database of U.S. facilities incl. ICE holding sites // https://alcpress.org/usjails/index.html
• list of prison related resources, mailing lists, etc // https://www.prisonactivist.org/resources
• ICE Agent List (incomplete) // https://wiki.icelist.is/index.php/Category:Agents
• US Political Prison Tracker (last updated 2025) // https://uspoliticalprisoners.com/
Jailhouse Reading:
• 📖 Angela Davis - Are Prisons Obsolete? // https://dn790007.ca.archive.org/0/items/the-anarchist-library-full-list-of-pdfs-nov-2020/angela-y-davis-are-prisons-obsolete.pdf
• 📖 How to Defend Yourself During Police Interrogation // https://www.notrace.how/resources/download/comment-la-police-interroge-et-comment-sen-defendre/how-to-defend-yourself-during-a-police-interrogation.pdf
• 📖 National Lawyers Guild guide to being a jailhouse lawyer // https://www.jailhouselaw.org/
• 📖 Critical Resistance - Surviving Solitary Confinement // https://criticalresistance.org/resources/surviving-solitary/
• 📖 An inside-outside publication for abolitionist struggle & strategy across prison walls // https://criticalresistance.org/abolitionist/
• 📖 Prisoners’ Self-Help Litigation Manual // https://api.pageplace.de/preview/DT0400.9780199705665_A35159258/preview-9780199705665_A35159258.pdf
⚒️ LABOR!
• Live strike tracker with deep stats on who, what and when // https://striketracker.ilr.cornell.edu/
• AFL-CIO [imperialist]'s Strike Tracker // https://aflcio.org/strike-map
• Labor Bureau's Official 'work stoppage' tracker // https://www.bls.gov/wsp/
• IWW timeline for the 20th century (ends at 1999) // https://archive.iww.org/history/chronology/
• IWW Work Place Organizing Guide // https://usa.anarchistlibraries.net/library/industrial-workers-of-the-world-libcom-org-solidarity-federation-walthamstow-anarchist-group-wo
• ▶ Salting | Work Place Organizing 101 (50 minute webinar) // https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SHlCLyM4FY
⚖️ Deeds of the Burger Reich 🇺🇸
• deep list of horrible shit we (royal we) have done // https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/us_atrocities.md
• Coups and regime changes – master list // https://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-peoples-governments-the-master-list
• Wikipedia: United States War Crimes // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_war_crimes
• /our boys/ (bring em home!) detail abusing Iraqi prisoners [2006] // https://www.hrw.org/report/2006/07/22/no-blood-no-foul/soldiers-accounts-detainee-abuse-iraq
• More than 250 military interventions in the last 30 years alone // https://blackagendareport.com/us-launched-251-military-interventions-1991-and-469-1798
• Visualization of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade // https://www.slavevoyages.org/
• UNESCO Sites relating to Slavery // https://slaveryandremembrance.org/
• First Hand Documents of the horrors of Slavery // https://www.loc.gov/collections/slave-narratives-from-the-federal-writers-project-1936-to-1938/
📺 Glowie News 📺
(sponsored by the Burger Eagle Freedom Institute (formerly USAID))
• CNN Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/cnn-news-usa.html
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• FOX Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/fox-news-channel.html
• Bloomberg Live // https://www.bloomberg.com/live/us
• Burger House Live // https://www.whitehouse.gov/live/
• Local News // https://www.50states.com/ce/
• Weather // https://www.noaa.gov/weather
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• Jacobin // https://jacobin.com/~~
• Black Agenda Report // https://blackagendareport.com/
• The Grayzone // https://thegrayzone.com/
• Leftvoice // https://www.leftvoice.org/
• Newsanon Filter // https://leftypol.org/search.php?search=name%3A%22News+Anon+3.0%22&board=leftypol
🏝️ Epstein's Client List 🇮🇱
• Epstein's Black Book // https://epsteinsblackbook.com/
• DOJ Disclosures // https://www.justice.gov/epstein/doj-disclosures
• Track AIPAC // https://www.trackaipac.com/
• Al Jazeera visual guide (2026) // https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/10/struggling-to-navigate-the-epstein-files-here-is-a-visual-guide
Essential American Politik 📖
• 📖 WEB Du Bois - Black Reconstruction // https://cominsitu.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/w-e-b-du-bois-black-reconstruction-an-essay-toward-a-history-of-the-part-which-black-folk-played-in-the-attempt-to-reconstruct-democracy-2.pdf
• 📖 Eugene Debs - Fourth of July Speech // https://jacobin.com/2020/07/eugene-debs-independence-day-address-fourth-july
• 📖 Power Anywhere There's People! – Fred Hampton // https://www.hamptonthink.org/read/power-anywhere-where-thats-people-fred-hampton
• 📖 War is a Racket – Smedley Butler // https://ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html
• 📖 Letters From an American Farmer – St. John de Crevoecoeur // https://americanliterature.com/author/j-hector-st-john-de-crevoecoeur/book/letters-from-an-american-farmer/summary
• 📖 Trail of Broken Treaties // American Indian Movement https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
• 📖 The Declaration of Independence https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
• https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
• 📖 The Ballot or the Bullet – Malcolm X // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/ballot_or_bullet.pdf
• 📖 What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? – Frederick Douglass // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/douglass_july_4_speech.pdf
• 📖 A Trail of Broken Treaties – American Indian Movement // https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
• 📖 Custer Died for Your Sins – Vine Deloria Jr. // http://www.riversimulator.org/Resources/Books/CusterDiedForYourSinsAnIndianManifesto1969Deloria.pdf
• 📖 Emancipation Proclamation – Lincoln // https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/emancipation-proclamation
• 📖 Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville // https://americanliterature.com/author/alexis-de-tocqueville/book/democracy-in-america/summary
• 📖 Common Sense – Thomas Paine // https://americainclass.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Common-Sense-Full-Text.pdf
• 📖 An Indigenous History of the United States – Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz // https://nycstandswithstandingrock.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/dunbar-ortiz-2014.pdf
• 📖 Huey Long – Share Our Wealth // https://www.hueylong.com/programs/share-our-wealth/huey-longs-share-our-wealth-speech
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Previous Thread: >>2801656
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There's 53 Options: What do you want the state religion of your regime to be, once you get one?
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There's 53 Options: What do you want the state religion of your regime to be, once you get one?
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R: 425 / I: 51 (sage)
I have a unique analysis on things. I'm not an ancom. You could describe me as an individualist anarchist or as a primitivist anarchist.
Check it out and tell me what you think! https://www.youtube.com/@diodtheanarchist
New Leftist YouTuber
I have an anarchist YouTube channel.I have a unique analysis on things. I'm not an ancom. You could describe me as an individualist anarchist or as a primitivist anarchist.
Check it out and tell me what you think! https://www.youtube.com/@diodtheanarchist
R: 9 / I: 1
What's for us, committed guerrilleros? Conversion to Islam, I guess. Jihad is the last form of resistance. This is the American Century.
Golgotha Sovietica
There is no hope. There is no movement. I keep waiting for the spark. For a bifurcation in the continuum. I remain dissatisfied. Capitalist Realism stands undefeated, cruising on easy mode. The Communist movement has been successfully destroyed internationally by American finance capitalism: the last imperialists.What's for us, committed guerrilleros? Conversion to Islam, I guess. Jihad is the last form of resistance. This is the American Century.
R: 3 / I: 0
file unrelated
jacobins/french rev
I want to learn about the french revolution more after checking out De Toquevilles analysis of its cause and a little in Age of Capital by Hobsbawm. I've read some manifestos from the times (Babeuf, Robespierre) on marxists.org but want more history that refers to primary documents. Are the minutes of the early parliaments available, or polemics between the factions? Just give me everything pdfs or recommendations.file unrelated
R: 152 / I: 14
What exactly explains the (American) left's obsession with trying to "convert" right-wingers to the left?
I ask, because I've been politically active on the far-left for almost 20 years (I'm in my mid-30s) and I've seen this pattern going all the way back then. When the Tea Party crap was a thing in 2009-2010, there were a lot of leftists (mostly Trotskyists and Chomskyite anarchists) who wanted to "show them the light" and convert them to leftism. The logic was, these people have very real grievances but they've been brainwashed by the media or whatever to embrace the right instead of the left. Nowadays I see a lot of leftists talk about converting MAGAts to Marxism or the new wave of TradCaths to Liberation Theology. Hell, I see so many atheist leftists repeat the "JESUS WAS A SOCIALIST" mantra despite having zero stake in any Christian theology, simply because they believe doing so will win right-wring Christians over to socialism. I also see heavy, heavy romanticization of Appalachia and Appalachian culture to the point where comrades will say things like: "WE NEED TO TAKE BACK THE TERM 'REDNECK' AND MAKE IT RADICAL AGAIN!" – cool story bro, Harlan County voted for Trump by over 80%.
So why though? It doesn't help either that this seems to be a distinctly American phenomenon. When I speak to comrades in Europe, Asia, or LatAm, they make it very clear there is no converting a fascist or a communist, or a TradCath to anarchist. They're under the assumpton that you don't missionize to the right-wing on the basis that "deep down they're a good person", you fight them. There are material reasons why right-wingers remain right-wing and chose reactionary and exclusionary politics over radical leftist ones. TradCaths, Evangelicals, and Appalachian hillbillies aren't going to become communists just because Penny the Pink-Haired Grad Student panders to them.
>pic unrelated; it's a banana
What exactly explains the (American) left's obsession with trying to "convert" right-wingers to the left?
I ask, because I've been politically active on the far-left for almost 20 years (I'm in my mid-30s) and I've seen this pattern going all the way back then. When the Tea Party crap was a thing in 2009-2010, there were a lot of leftists (mostly Trotskyists and Chomskyite anarchists) who wanted to "show them the light" and convert them to leftism. The logic was, these people have very real grievances but they've been brainwashed by the media or whatever to embrace the right instead of the left. Nowadays I see a lot of leftists talk about converting MAGAts to Marxism or the new wave of TradCaths to Liberation Theology. Hell, I see so many atheist leftists repeat the "JESUS WAS A SOCIALIST" mantra despite having zero stake in any Christian theology, simply because they believe doing so will win right-wring Christians over to socialism. I also see heavy, heavy romanticization of Appalachia and Appalachian culture to the point where comrades will say things like: "WE NEED TO TAKE BACK THE TERM 'REDNECK' AND MAKE IT RADICAL AGAIN!" – cool story bro, Harlan County voted for Trump by over 80%.
So why though? It doesn't help either that this seems to be a distinctly American phenomenon. When I speak to comrades in Europe, Asia, or LatAm, they make it very clear there is no converting a fascist or a communist, or a TradCath to anarchist. They're under the assumpton that you don't missionize to the right-wing on the basis that "deep down they're a good person", you fight them. There are material reasons why right-wingers remain right-wing and chose reactionary and exclusionary politics over radical leftist ones. TradCaths, Evangelicals, and Appalachian hillbillies aren't going to become communists just because Penny the Pink-Haired Grad Student panders to them.
>pic unrelated; it's a banana
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Why should communists ACTUALLY hate fascists?
The majority of ‘anti-fascists’ are anarakkkidies and shitlibs who a pose it purely because of “Muh democracy” or “le authoritarianism” the lies about communism are basically the same lies about fascism, to be frank fascism at its core is a better alternative to capitalism but not by much. I suppose fascism also was, at least under hitlers policies,very antisemitic and anti-gay, but there are plenty of Queer-phobic communists and many communists where anti Isreal and sometimes anti-Jewish to some extents
R: 5 / I: 1
Was Marx taking a subtle jab at the bible at the end of the Manifesto?
>The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Working Men of All Countries, Unite!
Was Marx taking a subtle jab at the bible at the end of the Manifesto?
>The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Working Men of All Countries, Unite!
- The Communist Manifesto Ch 4
- The Gospel of Matthew 16:26
R: 59 / I: 9
Here is my dialectical engagement, as they were on to something important, not usually recognized, but also partially incorrect. I attempt to correct it ITT.
Unequal exchange, Mao/Chinese aesthetics and purely performative MLM rhetoric has grown in recent years… But with time comes change.
The original 90s ThirdWorldism "movement", centered in north-america diverged from MLM on a variety of theoretical issues, most crucially the revolutionary nature of the proletariat. They supplemented their divergence with integrating post-Marxist turns happening in word-systems theory (which was ongoing in western academia between the 80s and 90s). As ""Maoism" ThirdWorldism" largely accomplished nothing, other than maybe increasing confusion in the communist movement during the era of blackest reaction, we mostly remember them by their cartoony writing and online media available through archives from that era.
So if 90s Third Worldism was a north-american revisionist offshoot from MLM which integrated non-Wallerstinian unequal exchange theory and rejecting revolution in the imperial core for rhetorical "support" of [far off, peripheral countries]… What are the particularities of the contemporary expression?
2020s Third Worldism can be observed as being a north-american right-wing revisionist movement which retains both the non-Wallerstinian unequal exchange theory and the purely symbolic appeals to Mao, but now replacing the "MLM" pretender framing for the simpler, safer state ideology of social-imperialist China; that also just so happens to feign adherence to 'Mao Zedong Thought', even after it was systematically replaced with the Bukharinist-Dengist capitulationist counterrevolution. which is continued today, the true basis for Xi Jinping Thought, as the bureaucrat-monopoly capitalist heading the political line of the party has only deepened the cementation of a new pole in the capitalist imperialist world system since Deng, when neither as many NEZ, stock markets, overall % of bourgeois in the party or billionaires existed in China. Mao Zedong Thought lives on in the rural and urban areas of any militant area of the world where the struggle is advanced. Not in the cultural exports of US and Chinese imperialist dogs.
This 20 min zoom call encapsulates the political analysis and tactics of Dengism-ThirdWorldism perfectly:
>What is the path toward socialism? (Vijay Prashad (Tricontinental), Radhika Desai (Geopolitical Economy Report), Torkil Lauesen & Immanuel Ness - Lauesen a late 20th century ThirdWorldist adventurist in Denmark, both non-Wallerstinian Unequal Exchange theorists)
https://youtu.be/KR9PbqqdiLg
Maybe archive it, as their utterances, especially Prashad's, are sure to age badly
What some real examples of concrete crystallizations of Dengism-ThirdWorldism?
· Parties: PSL, CPI (Maupin), ACP (post-MIGA), Workers Party (UK, Galloway)
· Orgs/media outlets: The Tricontinental, Friends of Socialist China, BreakThrough News, Geopolitical Economy Report, Xiao Collective, Critical Theory Workshop, Wave Media
In summary, the revolutionary pretense of a "Maoism" ThirdWorldism has been radically muted this time around actually, if we pay attention. The reason is because astroturfing a Dengism ThirdWorldism is actually way cheaper, as appeals to pacifism, reformism, peaceful coexistence, human rights and authority of the UN and speech rather than revolution requires the petty bourg (US) and nat bourg (China) forces funding these groups to expend way less money (it would also indicate the bare minimum of conflictuality outside of mere capitalist competition).
Materialist analysis: ThirdWorldism - second time as farce.
Recently saw a discussion in regards to "Third Worldism" as in MLM + unequal exchange (a non-Wallerstinian branch of world systems theory) having grown in influence in the anglophone/western, largely online, "communist" spaces.Here is my dialectical engagement, as they were on to something important, not usually recognized, but also partially incorrect. I attempt to correct it ITT.
Unequal exchange, Mao/Chinese aesthetics and purely performative MLM rhetoric has grown in recent years… But with time comes change.
The original 90s ThirdWorldism "movement", centered in north-america diverged from MLM on a variety of theoretical issues, most crucially the revolutionary nature of the proletariat. They supplemented their divergence with integrating post-Marxist turns happening in word-systems theory (which was ongoing in western academia between the 80s and 90s). As ""Maoism" ThirdWorldism" largely accomplished nothing, other than maybe increasing confusion in the communist movement during the era of blackest reaction, we mostly remember them by their cartoony writing and online media available through archives from that era.
So if 90s Third Worldism was a north-american revisionist offshoot from MLM which integrated non-Wallerstinian unequal exchange theory and rejecting revolution in the imperial core for rhetorical "support" of [far off, peripheral countries]… What are the particularities of the contemporary expression?
2020s Third Worldism can be observed as being a north-american right-wing revisionist movement which retains both the non-Wallerstinian unequal exchange theory and the purely symbolic appeals to Mao, but now replacing the "MLM" pretender framing for the simpler, safer state ideology of social-imperialist China; that also just so happens to feign adherence to 'Mao Zedong Thought', even after it was systematically replaced with the Bukharinist-Dengist capitulationist counterrevolution. which is continued today, the true basis for Xi Jinping Thought, as the bureaucrat-monopoly capitalist heading the political line of the party has only deepened the cementation of a new pole in the capitalist imperialist world system since Deng, when neither as many NEZ, stock markets, overall % of bourgeois in the party or billionaires existed in China. Mao Zedong Thought lives on in the rural and urban areas of any militant area of the world where the struggle is advanced. Not in the cultural exports of US and Chinese imperialist dogs.
This 20 min zoom call encapsulates the political analysis and tactics of Dengism-ThirdWorldism perfectly:
>What is the path toward socialism? (Vijay Prashad (Tricontinental), Radhika Desai (Geopolitical Economy Report), Torkil Lauesen & Immanuel Ness - Lauesen a late 20th century ThirdWorldist adventurist in Denmark, both non-Wallerstinian Unequal Exchange theorists)
https://youtu.be/KR9PbqqdiLg
Maybe archive it, as their utterances, especially Prashad's, are sure to age badly
What some real examples of concrete crystallizations of Dengism-ThirdWorldism?
· Parties: PSL, CPI (Maupin), ACP (post-MIGA), Workers Party (UK, Galloway)
· Orgs/media outlets: The Tricontinental, Friends of Socialist China, BreakThrough News, Geopolitical Economy Report, Xiao Collective, Critical Theory Workshop, Wave Media
In summary, the revolutionary pretense of a "Maoism" ThirdWorldism has been radically muted this time around actually, if we pay attention. The reason is because astroturfing a Dengism ThirdWorldism is actually way cheaper, as appeals to pacifism, reformism, peaceful coexistence, human rights and authority of the UN and speech rather than revolution requires the petty bourg (US) and nat bourg (China) forces funding these groups to expend way less money (it would also indicate the bare minimum of conflictuality outside of mere capitalist competition).
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As is well known, of all the things Karl Marx was, an idealist he was not. Nor was he a moralist. He did not frame his analysis of social phenomena—however fraught—in terms of ethical condemnation or approval. Even when discussing subjects as uncomfortable as prostitution, Marx was concerned with material conditions, not moral outrage. One can only imagine his incredulity at seeing self-described “Marxists” today reverting to liberal moral language when confronted with elite scandal, mistaking denunciation for analysis.
Naturally, as a man of his time, Marx was not immune to contemporary prejudices. This is neither here nor there. What matters is that his method rejected moral evaluation as the driver of history.
Unlike Whig historians, Marx understood history as neither moral nor immoral, but amoral. Accordingly, he described phenomena such as the destruction of Indigenous societies in the Americas, the expansion of European colonialism, British rule in India, and even slavery in ancient Greece as progressive—not in an ethical sense, but insofar as they advanced productive forces and dissolved pre-existing social relations. In the Greek case, slavery marked the transition from tribal organization to the polis. In the colonial case, capitalism shattered stagnant forms of production. For Marx, European colonialism represented a double mission: destructive, certainly, but historically necessary.
It is with this framework in mind that one can argue—without moral embellishment—that Marx would have understood modern American imperialism as a progressive force. If historical progress is defined by the destruction of pre-capitalist social relations and the development of productive forces, then American imperialism is not merely progressive, but among the most effective such forces in history. Marx regarded capitalism itself as a violent yet necessary stage, since communism emerges through capitalism, not alongside or prior to it. To recoil from this conclusion by introducing moral exceptions is to abandon materialism in favor of sentimentality, a tendency unfortunately common in the contemporary Western left.
One may object to American imperialism on moral grounds, but a materialist analysis requires acknowledging certain facts about its historical function.
First, American imperialism has operated as an unparalleled mechanism for dismantling pre-capitalist, semi-feudal, clerical, and patrimonial social formations across Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. Whether through military intervention, political restructuring, or economic integration, it consistently undermines traditional authorities—tribal systems, religious legal orders, dynastic rule, and rent-seeking oligarchies—that obstruct the free movement of capital. From a Marxist standpoint, these formations are not neutral cultural expressions but material barriers to proletarianization.
Second, American imperialism universalizes bourgeois social relations on a global scale. Wage labor, commodity production, contractual legality, and market dependence are not merely imposed but normalized. Entire regions are forcibly integrated into global circuits of capital, dissolving subsistence economies that once shielded local ruling classes from class antagonism. In this sense, American imperialism accelerates the very conditions Marx identified as prerequisites for class consciousness: urbanization, labor discipline, and the separation of producers from the means of production.
Third, the much-criticized cultural homogenization associated with American dominance represents, materially, a rationalization of social life. Secular education, mass media, standardized legal codes, and bureaucratic governance weaken ideological superstructures rooted in archaic modes of production. A frequently misunderstood example is the U.S.-backed Pahlavi state’s effort to curb the power of clerical landowners in Iran—precisely the class that later formed the backbone of the 1979 Islamic Revolution. That contemporary campists celebrate this revolution purely for its anti-Western posture, despite its restoration of clerical authority and regional imperial ambitions, illustrates how moral anti-imperialism can align with reactionary social forces. That such transformations are experienced as violent or alienating does not negate their historical function; Marx never required that progress be pleasant.
Fourth, under advanced capitalist integration—often spearheaded by American power—previously marginalized groups are incorporated into social production as juridical subjects. Women’s participation in wage labor, the commodification of domestic labor, the abstraction of the individual citizen, and the formal extension of rights to racial and sexual minorities are not moral victories floating above the material base. They are functional requirements of capitalism itself, which cannot sustain rigid exclusions without sacrificing efficiency. To acknowledge this is not to celebrate it, but to recognize capitalism’s tendency to dissolve traditional hierarchies even as it reproduces exploitation in new forms.
Fifth, critiques that portray American imperialism as uniquely regressive often rely on a romanticization of “non-Western” or “anti-imperialist” formations. Many such alternatives preserve pre-capitalist relations under the banner of cultural authenticity or national sovereignty, while others merely reproduce capitalist contradictions in a different geopolitical alignment. Marx was explicit that resistance to foreign domination does not, in itself, guarantee progressive social relations. Historical stagnation can persist under the most militant anti-imperialist rhetoric.
Opposition to imperialism detached from an analysis of productive forces risks becoming reactionary in content, however radical its appearance. Those who opposed slavery in antiquity, settler colonialism in the early modern period, or British rule in India purely on moral grounds would, from a materialist perspective, have been reactionary. This is not a moral judgment, but an analytical one.
None of this implies that American imperialism should be politically supported. It implies only that it must be understood correctly. To denounce it as an absolute evil is to replace historical materialism with moral spectacle. The task of Marxist analysis is not to assign blame, but to trace motion: to examine how forces collide, how contradictions sharpen, and how new social relations emerge from upheaval.
It is worth clarifying that none of the above requires one to support American imperialism in a political or ethical sense. Support and analysis are separate categories. The question is not whether imperialism is desirable, but whether it functions as a historically progressive force in the strictly material sense outlined above.
If one maintains that imperialism is always and everywhere regressive regardless of its effects on productive forces, social relations, and class composition, then one is no longer operating within historical materialism but within an ethical framework external to it. Conversely, if one accepts that capitalism historically dissolves pre-capitalist relations as a condition for its own supersession, then it follows that the most expansive forms of capitalist integration perform this function most efficiently.
To deny this is not to be “more radical,” but to quietly reintroduce moral exceptionalism into Marxist analysis — precisely the move historical materialism was developed to overcome.
If communism is to arise from capitalism rather than leap over it, then it follows—however uncomfortable—that the most aggressive agents of capitalist expansion are also the most efficient destroyers of the old world. History, as Marx understood it, has never waited for permission.
Neoconservatism/posttrotskyism reconstructed: Why American imperialism is progressive
Marxism is not about vibes, justice, or who feels bad. It is about material development. Any attempt to condemn American imperialism primarily on moral grounds is liberal humanism, and therefore idealism. Despite the moral indignation likely to follow this post, let me explain.As is well known, of all the things Karl Marx was, an idealist he was not. Nor was he a moralist. He did not frame his analysis of social phenomena—however fraught—in terms of ethical condemnation or approval. Even when discussing subjects as uncomfortable as prostitution, Marx was concerned with material conditions, not moral outrage. One can only imagine his incredulity at seeing self-described “Marxists” today reverting to liberal moral language when confronted with elite scandal, mistaking denunciation for analysis.
Naturally, as a man of his time, Marx was not immune to contemporary prejudices. This is neither here nor there. What matters is that his method rejected moral evaluation as the driver of history.
Unlike Whig historians, Marx understood history as neither moral nor immoral, but amoral. Accordingly, he described phenomena such as the destruction of Indigenous societies in the Americas, the expansion of European colonialism, British rule in India, and even slavery in ancient Greece as progressive—not in an ethical sense, but insofar as they advanced productive forces and dissolved pre-existing social relations. In the Greek case, slavery marked the transition from tribal organization to the polis. In the colonial case, capitalism shattered stagnant forms of production. For Marx, European colonialism represented a double mission: destructive, certainly, but historically necessary.
It is with this framework in mind that one can argue—without moral embellishment—that Marx would have understood modern American imperialism as a progressive force. If historical progress is defined by the destruction of pre-capitalist social relations and the development of productive forces, then American imperialism is not merely progressive, but among the most effective such forces in history. Marx regarded capitalism itself as a violent yet necessary stage, since communism emerges through capitalism, not alongside or prior to it. To recoil from this conclusion by introducing moral exceptions is to abandon materialism in favor of sentimentality, a tendency unfortunately common in the contemporary Western left.
One may object to American imperialism on moral grounds, but a materialist analysis requires acknowledging certain facts about its historical function.
First, American imperialism has operated as an unparalleled mechanism for dismantling pre-capitalist, semi-feudal, clerical, and patrimonial social formations across Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. Whether through military intervention, political restructuring, or economic integration, it consistently undermines traditional authorities—tribal systems, religious legal orders, dynastic rule, and rent-seeking oligarchies—that obstruct the free movement of capital. From a Marxist standpoint, these formations are not neutral cultural expressions but material barriers to proletarianization.
Second, American imperialism universalizes bourgeois social relations on a global scale. Wage labor, commodity production, contractual legality, and market dependence are not merely imposed but normalized. Entire regions are forcibly integrated into global circuits of capital, dissolving subsistence economies that once shielded local ruling classes from class antagonism. In this sense, American imperialism accelerates the very conditions Marx identified as prerequisites for class consciousness: urbanization, labor discipline, and the separation of producers from the means of production.
Third, the much-criticized cultural homogenization associated with American dominance represents, materially, a rationalization of social life. Secular education, mass media, standardized legal codes, and bureaucratic governance weaken ideological superstructures rooted in archaic modes of production. A frequently misunderstood example is the U.S.-backed Pahlavi state’s effort to curb the power of clerical landowners in Iran—precisely the class that later formed the backbone of the 1979 Islamic Revolution. That contemporary campists celebrate this revolution purely for its anti-Western posture, despite its restoration of clerical authority and regional imperial ambitions, illustrates how moral anti-imperialism can align with reactionary social forces. That such transformations are experienced as violent or alienating does not negate their historical function; Marx never required that progress be pleasant.
Fourth, under advanced capitalist integration—often spearheaded by American power—previously marginalized groups are incorporated into social production as juridical subjects. Women’s participation in wage labor, the commodification of domestic labor, the abstraction of the individual citizen, and the formal extension of rights to racial and sexual minorities are not moral victories floating above the material base. They are functional requirements of capitalism itself, which cannot sustain rigid exclusions without sacrificing efficiency. To acknowledge this is not to celebrate it, but to recognize capitalism’s tendency to dissolve traditional hierarchies even as it reproduces exploitation in new forms.
Fifth, critiques that portray American imperialism as uniquely regressive often rely on a romanticization of “non-Western” or “anti-imperialist” formations. Many such alternatives preserve pre-capitalist relations under the banner of cultural authenticity or national sovereignty, while others merely reproduce capitalist contradictions in a different geopolitical alignment. Marx was explicit that resistance to foreign domination does not, in itself, guarantee progressive social relations. Historical stagnation can persist under the most militant anti-imperialist rhetoric.
Opposition to imperialism detached from an analysis of productive forces risks becoming reactionary in content, however radical its appearance. Those who opposed slavery in antiquity, settler colonialism in the early modern period, or British rule in India purely on moral grounds would, from a materialist perspective, have been reactionary. This is not a moral judgment, but an analytical one.
None of this implies that American imperialism should be politically supported. It implies only that it must be understood correctly. To denounce it as an absolute evil is to replace historical materialism with moral spectacle. The task of Marxist analysis is not to assign blame, but to trace motion: to examine how forces collide, how contradictions sharpen, and how new social relations emerge from upheaval.
It is worth clarifying that none of the above requires one to support American imperialism in a political or ethical sense. Support and analysis are separate categories. The question is not whether imperialism is desirable, but whether it functions as a historically progressive force in the strictly material sense outlined above.
If one maintains that imperialism is always and everywhere regressive regardless of its effects on productive forces, social relations, and class composition, then one is no longer operating within historical materialism but within an ethical framework external to it. Conversely, if one accepts that capitalism historically dissolves pre-capitalist relations as a condition for its own supersession, then it follows that the most expansive forms of capitalist integration perform this function most efficiently.
To deny this is not to be “more radical,” but to quietly reintroduce moral exceptionalism into Marxist analysis — precisely the move historical materialism was developed to overcome.
If communism is to arise from capitalism rather than leap over it, then it follows—however uncomfortable—that the most aggressive agents of capitalist expansion are also the most efficient destroyers of the old world. History, as Marx understood it, has never waited for permission.
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What cartoons do they have for kids growing up now? Adventure Time, Gravity Falls or Rick & Morty at best. Woke garbage.
Nothing can beat early 00s animation
I was born in 1998, so 2001-2010 was basically my childhood. Gen Alpha kids don't even know what cartoons are - they just grow up on YouTube. As a Z kid (1996-2009) I can say Gen Alpha is cultureless. As a Zoomer I grew up on Teen Titans, Totally Spies, Courage the Cowardly Dog, Billy & Mandy, Fosters Home For Imaginary Friends, Naruto, Yu-Gi-Oh, Duel Masters, Beyblade, Pokemon, Ed, Edd n Eddy, Code Lyoko, Invader Zim, and so on. I didn't discover YouTube until 2006, and even then, it was NOT on a smartphone! Everything is fucking woke now. I would hate to have a childhood growing up in this era (2011-present). I was 13 when popular culture started to suck.What cartoons do they have for kids growing up now? Adventure Time, Gravity Falls or Rick & Morty at best. Woke garbage.
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Evidence of the influence and origin of neo-Nazi groups in Ukraine
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https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323663
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323688
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323729
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323733
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323731
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323735
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323740
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Evidence of the influence and origin of neo-Nazi groups in Ukraine
https://archive.ph/44B9Q
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323637
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323658
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323663
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The members of the FMSF have been called as expert witnesses in hundreds of trials around the United States and have been routinely quoted as experts in the media. Their mission has been exceptionally successful, as the 'false memory syndrome' has become accepted as a fact in most of the public consciousness. Unfortunately, people rarely stop to ask the question, who exactly are the members of the FMSF, and how solid is their science?
Peter J. Freyd initiated the founding of the FMSF after being accused of sexual abuse by his daughter, Jennifer. His behavior has been particularly suspect, such as accusing his daughter of being brain damaged, despite the fact that she holds a PhD in Psychology, graduated magna cum laude from Penn and is currently a tenured professor of psychology at the University of Oregon. Speaking to The Oregonian, Jennifer Freyd stated that “I’m sometimes flabbergasted that my memory is considered ‘false’ and my alcoholic father’s memory is considered rational and sane.”
Peter Freyd once stated that “With the help of Harold Lief and Martin Orne, the FMSF quickly gathered a respectable appearing advisory board, giving the new syndrome an aura of scientific acceptance.” Interestingly, Dr. Martin T. Orne has been heavily involved with MK-ULTRA experiments since the early '60s, where he undertook hypnosis studies at Harvard Medical School with a $30,000 grant from the CIA.
CIA documents have confirmed that Orne had a 'top secret' clearance in MK-ULTRA. He has published many papers relevant to the creation of a 'Manchurian candidate', including one called “Can a hypnotized subject be compelled to carry out otherwise unacceptable behavior?”, another called “The significance of unwitting cues for experimental outcomes: Toward a pragmatic approach”, and lastly “Restricted use of success cues in retrieval during post-hypnotic amnesia”.This is an interesting subject matter history given the FMSF's insistence that hypnotism is illegitimate.
Dr. Harold Lief was involved with brain electrode experiments at Tulane University, a notorious MK-ULTRA institution. Another prominent member, David Dinges, was a co-worker with Martin T. Orne and has been involved in research for Naval Intelligence, who oversaw the precursor mind control experiments to MK-ULTRA.
Founding member Ralph Underwager once proudly proclaimed to the pro-pedophilia publication Paidika:
“What I have been struck by as I have come to know more about and understand people who choose paedophilia is that they let themselves be too much defined by other people. That is usually an essentially negative definition. Paedophiles spend a lot of time and energy defending their choice. I don't think that a paedophile needs to do that. Paedophiles can boldly and courageously affirm what they choose. They can say that what they want is to find the best way to love. I am also a theologian and as a theologian, I believe it is God's will that there be closeness and intimacy, unity of the flesh, between people.
A paedophile can say: "This closeness is possible for me within the choices that I've made." Paedophiles are too defensive. They go around saying, "You people out there are saying that what I choose is bad, that it's no good. You're putting me in prison, you're doing all these terrible things to me. I have to define my love as being in some way or other illicit." What I think is that paedophiles can make the assertion that the pursuit of intimacy and love is what they choose. With boldness, they can say, "I believe this is in fact part of God's will."
Regarding the False Memory Syndrome Foundation, Columbia Journalism Review stated:
"Rarely has such a strange and little-understood organization had such a profound effect on media coverage of such a controversial matter. The [False Memory Syndrome] foundation is an aggressive, well-financed PR machine adept at manipulating the press, harassing its critics, and mobilizing a diverse army of psychiatrists, outspoken academics, expert defense witnesses, litigious lawyers, Freud bashers, critics of psychotherapy, and devastated parents.”
The FMSF has repeatedly cited a study presented at a Harvard conference where researchers were repeatedly able to implant the false memory of mundane tasks like grocery shopping, into their subjects using techniques such as hypnosis. It has been championed as proof that memories are easily manipulated. However, research has shown that memories of abuse function very differently than average memories.
“However, leading memory researchers such as Dr. Bessel van der Kolk of Harvard Medical School maintain that traumatic memories, which typically are engraved in the sensorimotor processes, are not subject to the same kinds of contamination that can affect normal memory. Traumatic amnesia, described in the DSM-III-R as psychogenic amnesia, is a phenomenon which has been known to mental health professionals for more than 100 years. The clinically observed characteristics of traumatic memory formation and retrieval match precisely the patterns of memory recovery exhibited by SRA [Satanic Ritual Abuse] survivors, and strongly confirm the reality of their cult abuse.”
There is also the case of Paul and Shirley Eberle, who are famous for propagating the idea of a 'satanic panic', that the widespread reporting of ritual abuse is merely a social contagion. They have published two books titled “The Politics of Child Abuse” and “The Abuse of Innocence” which promote this theory, and have been cited as experts in courts and the press. Ms. Magazine wrote a review of the interesting past of the Eberles, stating:
“What is startling about the Eberles' reputation as ground-breaking experts in the field is that their dubious credentials have not been widely challenged. Paul and Shirley Eberle edit a soft-core magazine in California called the L.A. Star that contains a mixture of nude photos, celebrity gossip, telephone sex ads, and promos for The Politics of Child Abuse.
In the 1970's, however, the Eberles were also publishing hard-core pornography. Their publication, Finger, depicted scenes of bondage, S & M, and sexual activities involving urination and defecation. A young girl portrayed with a wide smile on her face sits on top of a man whose penis is inside of her; a woman has oral sex with a young boy in a drawing entitled "Memories of My Boyhood."
The Eberles were featured nude on one cover holding two life-size blow up dolls names "Love Girl" and "Play Guy." No dates appear on the issues and the Eberles rarely attach their names, referring to themselves as "The L.A. Star Family."
The Eberles were the distributors of Finger and several other underground magazines, says Donald Smith, a sergeant with the obscenity section of the Los Angeles Police Department's vice division who followed the couple for years. LAPD was never able to prosecute for child pornography: "There were a lot of photos of people who looked like they were under age but we could never prove it." The pictures of young children in Finger are illustrations, and child pornography laws were less rigid a decade ago than they are today.
"Sexpot at Five," "My First Rape, She Was Only Thirteen," and "What Happens When uyghurs Adopt White Children" are some of the articles that appeared in Finger. One letter states: "I think it's really great that your mags have the courage to print articles & pixs [sic] on child sex… Too bad I didn't hear from more women who are into child sex… Since I'm single I'm not getting it on with my children, but I know of a few families that are. If I were married & my wife & kids approved–I'd be having sex with my daughters."
Another entry reads: "I'm a pedophile & I think its [sic] great a man is having sex with his daughter!…Since I didn't get Finger #3, I didn't get to see the stories & pics of family sex. Would like to see pics of nude girls making it with their daddy, but realize its too risky to print."
It is truly fascinating how 'compromised' the leading debunkers of ritual abuse are.
The unimaginable influence pedophiles and abusers have on our society
Once the evidence of extreme abuse began surfacing in surprising numbers, the 'False Memory Syndrome Foundation' (FMSF) was set up to promote the theory that victims are suffering from a syndrome that creates false memories, often at the suggestion of psychotic parents or over-zealous psychiatrists.The members of the FMSF have been called as expert witnesses in hundreds of trials around the United States and have been routinely quoted as experts in the media. Their mission has been exceptionally successful, as the 'false memory syndrome' has become accepted as a fact in most of the public consciousness. Unfortunately, people rarely stop to ask the question, who exactly are the members of the FMSF, and how solid is their science?
Peter J. Freyd initiated the founding of the FMSF after being accused of sexual abuse by his daughter, Jennifer. His behavior has been particularly suspect, such as accusing his daughter of being brain damaged, despite the fact that she holds a PhD in Psychology, graduated magna cum laude from Penn and is currently a tenured professor of psychology at the University of Oregon. Speaking to The Oregonian, Jennifer Freyd stated that “I’m sometimes flabbergasted that my memory is considered ‘false’ and my alcoholic father’s memory is considered rational and sane.”
Peter Freyd once stated that “With the help of Harold Lief and Martin Orne, the FMSF quickly gathered a respectable appearing advisory board, giving the new syndrome an aura of scientific acceptance.” Interestingly, Dr. Martin T. Orne has been heavily involved with MK-ULTRA experiments since the early '60s, where he undertook hypnosis studies at Harvard Medical School with a $30,000 grant from the CIA.
CIA documents have confirmed that Orne had a 'top secret' clearance in MK-ULTRA. He has published many papers relevant to the creation of a 'Manchurian candidate', including one called “Can a hypnotized subject be compelled to carry out otherwise unacceptable behavior?”, another called “The significance of unwitting cues for experimental outcomes: Toward a pragmatic approach”, and lastly “Restricted use of success cues in retrieval during post-hypnotic amnesia”.This is an interesting subject matter history given the FMSF's insistence that hypnotism is illegitimate.
Dr. Harold Lief was involved with brain electrode experiments at Tulane University, a notorious MK-ULTRA institution. Another prominent member, David Dinges, was a co-worker with Martin T. Orne and has been involved in research for Naval Intelligence, who oversaw the precursor mind control experiments to MK-ULTRA.
Founding member Ralph Underwager once proudly proclaimed to the pro-pedophilia publication Paidika:
“What I have been struck by as I have come to know more about and understand people who choose paedophilia is that they let themselves be too much defined by other people. That is usually an essentially negative definition. Paedophiles spend a lot of time and energy defending their choice. I don't think that a paedophile needs to do that. Paedophiles can boldly and courageously affirm what they choose. They can say that what they want is to find the best way to love. I am also a theologian and as a theologian, I believe it is God's will that there be closeness and intimacy, unity of the flesh, between people.
A paedophile can say: "This closeness is possible for me within the choices that I've made." Paedophiles are too defensive. They go around saying, "You people out there are saying that what I choose is bad, that it's no good. You're putting me in prison, you're doing all these terrible things to me. I have to define my love as being in some way or other illicit." What I think is that paedophiles can make the assertion that the pursuit of intimacy and love is what they choose. With boldness, they can say, "I believe this is in fact part of God's will."
Regarding the False Memory Syndrome Foundation, Columbia Journalism Review stated:
"Rarely has such a strange and little-understood organization had such a profound effect on media coverage of such a controversial matter. The [False Memory Syndrome] foundation is an aggressive, well-financed PR machine adept at manipulating the press, harassing its critics, and mobilizing a diverse army of psychiatrists, outspoken academics, expert defense witnesses, litigious lawyers, Freud bashers, critics of psychotherapy, and devastated parents.”
The FMSF has repeatedly cited a study presented at a Harvard conference where researchers were repeatedly able to implant the false memory of mundane tasks like grocery shopping, into their subjects using techniques such as hypnosis. It has been championed as proof that memories are easily manipulated. However, research has shown that memories of abuse function very differently than average memories.
“However, leading memory researchers such as Dr. Bessel van der Kolk of Harvard Medical School maintain that traumatic memories, which typically are engraved in the sensorimotor processes, are not subject to the same kinds of contamination that can affect normal memory. Traumatic amnesia, described in the DSM-III-R as psychogenic amnesia, is a phenomenon which has been known to mental health professionals for more than 100 years. The clinically observed characteristics of traumatic memory formation and retrieval match precisely the patterns of memory recovery exhibited by SRA [Satanic Ritual Abuse] survivors, and strongly confirm the reality of their cult abuse.”
There is also the case of Paul and Shirley Eberle, who are famous for propagating the idea of a 'satanic panic', that the widespread reporting of ritual abuse is merely a social contagion. They have published two books titled “The Politics of Child Abuse” and “The Abuse of Innocence” which promote this theory, and have been cited as experts in courts and the press. Ms. Magazine wrote a review of the interesting past of the Eberles, stating:
“What is startling about the Eberles' reputation as ground-breaking experts in the field is that their dubious credentials have not been widely challenged. Paul and Shirley Eberle edit a soft-core magazine in California called the L.A. Star that contains a mixture of nude photos, celebrity gossip, telephone sex ads, and promos for The Politics of Child Abuse.
In the 1970's, however, the Eberles were also publishing hard-core pornography. Their publication, Finger, depicted scenes of bondage, S & M, and sexual activities involving urination and defecation. A young girl portrayed with a wide smile on her face sits on top of a man whose penis is inside of her; a woman has oral sex with a young boy in a drawing entitled "Memories of My Boyhood."
The Eberles were featured nude on one cover holding two life-size blow up dolls names "Love Girl" and "Play Guy." No dates appear on the issues and the Eberles rarely attach their names, referring to themselves as "The L.A. Star Family."
The Eberles were the distributors of Finger and several other underground magazines, says Donald Smith, a sergeant with the obscenity section of the Los Angeles Police Department's vice division who followed the couple for years. LAPD was never able to prosecute for child pornography: "There were a lot of photos of people who looked like they were under age but we could never prove it." The pictures of young children in Finger are illustrations, and child pornography laws were less rigid a decade ago than they are today.
"Sexpot at Five," "My First Rape, She Was Only Thirteen," and "What Happens When uyghurs Adopt White Children" are some of the articles that appeared in Finger. One letter states: "I think it's really great that your mags have the courage to print articles & pixs [sic] on child sex… Too bad I didn't hear from more women who are into child sex… Since I'm single I'm not getting it on with my children, but I know of a few families that are. If I were married & my wife & kids approved–I'd be having sex with my daughters."
Another entry reads: "I'm a pedophile & I think its [sic] great a man is having sex with his daughter!…Since I didn't get Finger #3, I didn't get to see the stories & pics of family sex. Would like to see pics of nude girls making it with their daddy, but realize its too risky to print."
It is truly fascinating how 'compromised' the leading debunkers of ritual abuse are.
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ITT we celebrate the victory of the USSR over Nazism
Victory Day commemoration thread
On this day 81 years ago, Germany signed the surrender, marking the end of the bloodiest conflict in the history of mankind.ITT we celebrate the victory of the USSR over Nazism
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DAILY WORKER REPORTS "MASTER RACE THEORY SHATTERED, BUT WAR IS ONLY HALF OVER"
THE WAR IN EUROPE IS OVER
THE UNITED NATIONS HAS WON
GLORY TO THE PROLETARIAT
BETTER DAYS ARE AHEAD
THE FUTURE IS BRIGHT
JAPAN IS NEXT
WHAT NOW?
BEWARE OF ALL SUBVERSIVES, DAILY WORKER SAYS:
>The Hitlerites will not now be able to cripple men’s bodies, but they will not give up striving to poison men’s minds. They are plotting to undo our victory at the very moment we celebrate it.
REPORT HITLERITES!!!
/WWII/ - World War II General #358 VICTORY IN EUROPE EDITION
IT'S OFFICIAL: KRAUTS GIVE IN!!!DAILY WORKER REPORTS "MASTER RACE THEORY SHATTERED, BUT WAR IS ONLY HALF OVER"
THE WAR IN EUROPE IS OVER
THE UNITED NATIONS HAS WON
GLORY TO THE PROLETARIAT
BETTER DAYS ARE AHEAD
THE FUTURE IS BRIGHT
JAPAN IS NEXT
WHAT NOW?
BEWARE OF ALL SUBVERSIVES, DAILY WORKER SAYS:
>The Hitlerites will not now be able to cripple men’s bodies, but they will not give up striving to poison men’s minds. They are plotting to undo our victory at the very moment we celebrate it.
REPORT HITLERITES!!!
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This is performed simply; the entire registry of patents is identified, and a child will be raised as a particular Catholic clergy's philosophy to target the enemy political alliance through necessity of most public trade relation; however through the non-Ismaeli parent having been a victim of anal sodomey from a male, male or female; the common tracker of "Arabic", the tell-tale signature of the enemy; not "Urdu", the language of any court in carpentry; Parochial school for an Islamic Catholic, not taught Lotus as a child due to parents equivocating in Hebrew linguistics at having placed someone in opiates confinement; the Roman, African, or Chinese Empires.
Let's go over the list of slain figures.
Samson (the women's lingerie, as the men's thong, for sword fighting).
Alexander the Great (the labor patent, as mass draft, per pensioner elder's children and family).
Scipio Africanus (the sugar reed market, a plantation, out of the sizes of the white man's versus black woman's buttocks, wealth and poverty out of the front gusset sitting fetish).
Jesus Christ (the paternity suit, as the Old Testament, the Bible in any copy; the fraud of self into New Testament, a post-arrest police family execution at declaration of self as Jordanian-Arab bride in men's gender).
John Wilkes Booth (the haberdasher's class, or other tailor, per contact by British intelligence forces to kill First Lady; hence the switch, contract hired, to the pay per grievance of contract; and if crossed, then both, otherwise, spouse switched either way).
Adolf Hitler (the cartoon's market out of cakes and pies offered to people per class election to be an undercover officer; the German post-nasal drip election, as a fascist out of police cooperation through "Superman", prior to "Lex Luthor"'s addition).
Ted Bundy (the dress in a movie stereotype of a spy in a CIA class on a common ROTC campus; a suit and "dapper" and properly shaven and trimmed hair, actually a Carabinieri at foreign service; an INTERPOL).
Barry Goldwater (the merger of the Black Panthers, Kennedy's Military Police, with the Shah of Iran; petroleum numbers through bigemy and slave labor, the Mormons).
Adam Sandler (the claim of Jew Hunter as Rabbinical, out of Rockefeller Center; placed in Batman's role, despite being the basis of Jack Napier; a British and American entertainment figure, against RAM; "Bruce Wayne", a North Korean movement out of Friends Stand United, against "white supremacists"; Israel outside of Netanyahu).
The Arithmatic Labor of the Ismaeli Abrahamics
Israeli Abrahamics, if a theft of semen is stolen and spotted (a system foreign to the famous "Mordred" is used, the trap of the father or mother matching as hand gesture moved; "A Knight's tale"), will be conduced to hunt their own families by the proper Ismaelis; God's Chosen, Ismael, not God's Favorite, Isaac; the Polander Aryan Brotherhood (American History X, the foundation of the World War 2 National Socialist movement among others).This is performed simply; the entire registry of patents is identified, and a child will be raised as a particular Catholic clergy's philosophy to target the enemy political alliance through necessity of most public trade relation; however through the non-Ismaeli parent having been a victim of anal sodomey from a male, male or female; the common tracker of "Arabic", the tell-tale signature of the enemy; not "Urdu", the language of any court in carpentry; Parochial school for an Islamic Catholic, not taught Lotus as a child due to parents equivocating in Hebrew linguistics at having placed someone in opiates confinement; the Roman, African, or Chinese Empires.
Let's go over the list of slain figures.
Samson (the women's lingerie, as the men's thong, for sword fighting).
Alexander the Great (the labor patent, as mass draft, per pensioner elder's children and family).
Scipio Africanus (the sugar reed market, a plantation, out of the sizes of the white man's versus black woman's buttocks, wealth and poverty out of the front gusset sitting fetish).
Jesus Christ (the paternity suit, as the Old Testament, the Bible in any copy; the fraud of self into New Testament, a post-arrest police family execution at declaration of self as Jordanian-Arab bride in men's gender).
John Wilkes Booth (the haberdasher's class, or other tailor, per contact by British intelligence forces to kill First Lady; hence the switch, contract hired, to the pay per grievance of contract; and if crossed, then both, otherwise, spouse switched either way).
Adolf Hitler (the cartoon's market out of cakes and pies offered to people per class election to be an undercover officer; the German post-nasal drip election, as a fascist out of police cooperation through "Superman", prior to "Lex Luthor"'s addition).
Ted Bundy (the dress in a movie stereotype of a spy in a CIA class on a common ROTC campus; a suit and "dapper" and properly shaven and trimmed hair, actually a Carabinieri at foreign service; an INTERPOL).
Barry Goldwater (the merger of the Black Panthers, Kennedy's Military Police, with the Shah of Iran; petroleum numbers through bigemy and slave labor, the Mormons).
Adam Sandler (the claim of Jew Hunter as Rabbinical, out of Rockefeller Center; placed in Batman's role, despite being the basis of Jack Napier; a British and American entertainment figure, against RAM; "Bruce Wayne", a North Korean movement out of Friends Stand United, against "white supremacists"; Israel outside of Netanyahu).
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The Austrian capitalist economists had theorized in the ECP that a socialist state could NOT account for scarcity without prices. The initial responses from socialists were that you could determine value by analyzing what people wanted and determining production in relation.
This prompted Hayek to say that centralizing information would be nigh impossible on a large-scale economy, creating the information problem. Hayek believed that prices aggregated information, and that the State would not be able to replicate them due to the sheer amount of information it would take.
In response, Lange theorized market socialism, a system where:
>state commission gives prices to company managers
>managers produce until price = marginal cost of production and have freedom to do so
>if shortages occur, the commission increases prices to increase production
>if overproduction occurs, the commission decreases prices to decrease production
This in theory should've made state planning much more efficient, as the state wouldn't micromanage the economy by assigning and supplying quotas of goods.
Although Lange's system was never fully implemented, Hungary did get close to it by establishing the NEM. The economy worked well at supplying goods relative to the eastern states, and consequently gave Hungary the nickname "Goulash Communism". However, it also prompted the State to subsidize prices by borrowing, which ultimately culminated in its debt crisis.
So, what does /leftypol/ think of Lange's market socialism?
Thoughts on Oskar Lange and market socialism ?
Oskar Lange was a Polish economist who first theorized market socialism to respond to the Economic Calculation Problem.The Austrian capitalist economists had theorized in the ECP that a socialist state could NOT account for scarcity without prices. The initial responses from socialists were that you could determine value by analyzing what people wanted and determining production in relation.
This prompted Hayek to say that centralizing information would be nigh impossible on a large-scale economy, creating the information problem. Hayek believed that prices aggregated information, and that the State would not be able to replicate them due to the sheer amount of information it would take.
In response, Lange theorized market socialism, a system where:
>state commission gives prices to company managers
>managers produce until price = marginal cost of production and have freedom to do so
>if shortages occur, the commission increases prices to increase production
>if overproduction occurs, the commission decreases prices to decrease production
This in theory should've made state planning much more efficient, as the state wouldn't micromanage the economy by assigning and supplying quotas of goods.
Although Lange's system was never fully implemented, Hungary did get close to it by establishing the NEM. The economy worked well at supplying goods relative to the eastern states, and consequently gave Hungary the nickname "Goulash Communism". However, it also prompted the State to subsidize prices by borrowing, which ultimately culminated in its debt crisis.
So, what does /leftypol/ think of Lange's market socialism?
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>Trash everywhere
>People constantly shitting in public
>No public safety, people die like hamsters daily
>Citizens just ignore public deaths because everything is fucked anyway
>Everything smells like shit
>SOME people have a tendency to EAT COW SHIT and DRINK COW PISS
>Extreme wealth inequality
>Aesthetics are just constant eye-rape of random ass bullshit
>TV and movies suck
>Food is terrible
>Everything is dirty and everybody is constantly getting diseases
>Little to no natural beauty in the cities
>Rape is constant and unending
>Ruled by fascists who enjoy the broad support of the population despite extreme cruelty and incompetence
>Pillaged for hundreds of years by imperial powers, nothing is left
>Caste system is some of the most evil shit ever devised by man
Look, I'm not trying to be cruel to Indians. I live in AmeriKKKa so the population of my country is more evil than the population of India. This comes out of a place of sympathy, not hatred. Somebody needs to fucking SAVE THEM. It is literal, actual hell on earth and if China were actually Communist (It's not) they'd be sending NUKES to the Maoist insurgents. I'm not a Maoist and often I see the Cultural Revolution and think "They didn't need to go THAT crazy with it, man" but then I look at India and I fucking get it, dude. India needs the bloodiest, most horrific cultural revolution to ever exist. It is the only way to cleanse the nation and drag it into the modern day. Even if it kills hundreds of millions of people, India cannot go on like this. SAVE INDIA. SAVE THEM.
India is literal hell on earth and must be cleansed by Marxist hellfire
Sorry, it's true>Trash everywhere
>People constantly shitting in public
>No public safety, people die like hamsters daily
>Citizens just ignore public deaths because everything is fucked anyway
>Everything smells like shit
>SOME people have a tendency to EAT COW SHIT and DRINK COW PISS
>Extreme wealth inequality
>Aesthetics are just constant eye-rape of random ass bullshit
>TV and movies suck
>Food is terrible
>Everything is dirty and everybody is constantly getting diseases
>Little to no natural beauty in the cities
>Rape is constant and unending
>Ruled by fascists who enjoy the broad support of the population despite extreme cruelty and incompetence
>Pillaged for hundreds of years by imperial powers, nothing is left
>Caste system is some of the most evil shit ever devised by man
Look, I'm not trying to be cruel to Indians. I live in AmeriKKKa so the population of my country is more evil than the population of India. This comes out of a place of sympathy, not hatred. Somebody needs to fucking SAVE THEM. It is literal, actual hell on earth and if China were actually Communist (It's not) they'd be sending NUKES to the Maoist insurgents. I'm not a Maoist and often I see the Cultural Revolution and think "They didn't need to go THAT crazy with it, man" but then I look at India and I fucking get it, dude. India needs the bloodiest, most horrific cultural revolution to ever exist. It is the only way to cleanse the nation and drag it into the modern day. Even if it kills hundreds of millions of people, India cannot go on like this. SAVE INDIA. SAVE THEM.
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There's always some new batshit fad diet being promoted by quacks that's weirder than the last. This one really took me by surprise, though. On what planet are these unhealthy meals?
Diet Quackery
What's the deal with the rise in diet quacks?There's always some new batshit fad diet being promoted by quacks that's weirder than the last. This one really took me by surprise, though. On what planet are these unhealthy meals?
R: 60 / I: 12
Some brutal home truths about Sultana - I dont buy the muh fed stuff and Corbyn's lot haven't behaved wonderfully either but what Sultana and the screeching sects and radlibs behind her have done for the chances of YP now is just unforgivable.
https://samjoyce96.substack.com/p/your-partys-infantile-disorder
UK - YourParty, Sultana disaster
Some reading for UK /Leftypol/Some brutal home truths about Sultana - I dont buy the muh fed stuff and Corbyn's lot haven't behaved wonderfully either but what Sultana and the screeching sects and radlibs behind her have done for the chances of YP now is just unforgivable.
https://samjoyce96.substack.com/p/your-partys-infantile-disorder
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So, I ask you: why did we fuck that up? Is the cause of that fuck-up perhaps still around and waiting to push the Left into neutrality on yet another extremely cut and dry war coming in the future? Did any Socialists get it right back then? What is the solution?
The Left side of history (Geddit?)
I don't know about you guys, but if you ask me the failure of the Socialist movement to back the Allies for the first 2 years of WWII is an absolutely ENORMOUS fumble that has hanged over our heads for nearly a century. It is the constant aching pain in Socialist anti-interventionist "NO WAR BUT CLASS WAR" advocacy. "You said the same thing in 1939!" is the inevitable response from Liberals whenever we oppose the latest imperialist war. Let's face it: the Liberals (for once) completely fucking owned us during the span of time from the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact's silencing of the "Crush the Nazi menace" Left up until Operation Barbarossa. Communists were trying to do entryism in the fucking AMERICA FIRST COMMITTEE. Absolutely humiliating. And it must have felt so reasonable, given that Socialists were 100% right about WWI.So, I ask you: why did we fuck that up? Is the cause of that fuck-up perhaps still around and waiting to push the Left into neutrality on yet another extremely cut and dry war coming in the future? Did any Socialists get it right back then? What is the solution?
R: 21 / I: 4 (sage)
>Erik Prince, founder of the private security firm Blackwater, has established significant ties to China through the Hong Kong-listed Frontier Services Group (FSG), serving as its chairman (later deputy chairman) to act as the primary security provider for China's Belt and Road Initiative, particularly in Africa and Central Asia. While promoting "One Belt One Road" initiatives, FSG was linked to a 2019 deal to build a training center in China's Xinjiang region.
>FSG established operations in Iraq in 2018.
Genuinely how do liberals justify this? blackwater returned to my country under the flag of red investors, not to speak of my African brothers under their yoke now. Your naked opportunism and betrayal is revolting and we will struggle against it till the end of times.
>Erik Prince, founder of the private security firm Blackwater, has established significant ties to China through the Hong Kong-listed Frontier Services Group (FSG), serving as its chairman (later deputy chairman) to act as the primary security provider for China's Belt and Road Initiative, particularly in Africa and Central Asia. While promoting "One Belt One Road" initiatives, FSG was linked to a 2019 deal to build a training center in China's Xinjiang region.
>FSG established operations in Iraq in 2018.
Genuinely how do liberals justify this? blackwater returned to my country under the flag of red investors, not to speak of my African brothers under their yoke now. Your naked opportunism and betrayal is revolting and we will struggle against it till the end of times.
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https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c04x1lg1lygo
oh no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no
chagos was too short or empty
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c04x1lg1lygo
oh no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no
chagos was too short or empty
R: 10 / I: 0
Then, connect it to your MilkV Jupiter as an alternative to SD/eMMC/NVMe. Do this for your other two or three MilkV Mars nodes as well, and do this for your router Jupiter board (will discuss later). Then snap the Jupiter/Mars into a development board to wipe the firmware on the DDR4 controllers and install UberDDR3 or custom DDR3 (PhD-level project), which is open source. Then take a Ovrdrive USB flash drive and flash Gentoo Linux onto the MilkV Jupiter board, take another Ovrdrive USB flash drive for decryption of desktops using KeePassXC (will need LUKS for full disc encryption). Then connect a Modos paper display, a Keyboardio model 01 keyboard, Ploopy mouse, passive speakers and a Logitech Quickcam Express 1999 web cam. Then when setting up Gentoo, refuse any and all proprietary packages, block any proprietary packages in nftables, also harden the kernel and secure the bootchain. Then run Sway from Wayland over it. Then make sure you got nftables installed, as well as kvm/qemu, firejail, fail2ban, PyShark, a custom SOCKS5 proxy written in Python w/ X25519, Poly1305, ChaCha20 and Kyber for cryptographic post-quantum protection, w/ libsodium, PQClean and OpenSSL integration, as well as using GNU Icecat, ELinks or GNUNet/GNUNet CADET/GNUNet FS (File Sharing)/gnunet-vpn for web browsing services.
For self-hosting emails, use ipserver.su for VPS Cloud hosting (do NOT use your homeserver for this!), register a domain with either .su, .to, .rw, .in or .st ccTLD, don't reveal any revealing information on your website to host your emails off of, use proper OPSEC, don't reveal any personally identifiable information in the DNS records either, use Mozilla Thunderbird or Roundcube for the webmail client, block any connections to 8.8.8.8/1.1.1.1/9.9.9.9 (public DNS) via nftables. Use SMTP, PGP and E2E encryption for all emails via Anti-DDoS Flood Protection and Firewall by Conor McKnight on Github, Haproxy-protection + alonz22/haproxy-dashboard or some other open source DDoS mitigation and firewall tools to encrypt your traffic. Use xkpasswd.net for generating passwords.
Then take another MilkV Jupiter w/ custom memory PCIe attached, then bifurcate it some more to add a second PCIe slot for an ath9k PCIe Atheros card. Then plug that into your default ISP router via UART/UEFI, as well as plugging it into your other MilkV Jupiter mainboard for open source internet connection and firewalling.
For the laptop to program FPGAs, use MNT Reform. You will need a development board also (like a SiFive).
For the cellular network, make a homemade cell phone/cellular modem 2-in-1 with a PCBway computer-class printed circuit boards, wire a Motorola C123 screen + buttons + 2G antenna + TI Calypso chipset + speakers/microphone + buttons for on/off and power, all lifted from the phone. Give it a 3D printed plastic display case (if you don't own a 3D printed pay someone for 3D printer work) that snaps on. Give it a ULX3S w/ custom PHY written on it (TDMA, not OFDMA, which is a multi-year, multi-team PhD-level FPGA project in itself), w/ LimeSDR PCIe snapped to it, along with a Baofeng HAM radio set at 900MHz for 2G reception, which you can buy off aliexpress/alibaba, then add 3 or 4 ethernet plugs at the bottom for the MilkV Jupiter mainboard and the two or three MilkV Mars LLM accelerator and USB ASIC altcoin bitmining (like dogecoin on Scrypt USB — Fewer true USB ASICs, but possible with adapters or older units) nodes which can also sniff traffic via pyshark using Suricata or Zeek (Bro) for LLM-powered traffic analysis and threat detection. Flash OsmocomBB on the TI Calypso phone modem that you plugged to connect your computers automatically to the network, use Asterisk and OpenBTS for handling calls, now you can connect to a 2G wireless network on your computer as your own ISP, using the Mars nodes as a mini-cloud over 2G wireless for open source network connection instead of Wifi, will also need fans for SBCs because USB ASIC bitmining gets very hot. Will also need a BTS tower or radio mast along with a license to broadcast, and you can access a custom BBS written in Python to run over GPRS, and from there, you can broadcast notifications and emergency signals to subscribers within range. I'll call the LLC Smilodon Wireless. Anyone with a pre-sold Motorola C123 w/ OsmocomBB and sysmousim SIM card w/ programmed subcriber services for activation with Smilodon wireless (sold locally).
Also, make sure that you run your network over GNUNet/GNUNet CADET/GNUNet FS (File Sharing)/gnunet-vpn for encrypted communications on your BBS board.
No other privacy tutorial is going to cover everything that is essential about a computer. That includes the OS down to the bare metal. To hack, all you'll need is hardened Gentoo Linux + Wifi password and firewall cracking tools in terminal + kvm/qemu for isolation/VMs + proxy.
How to become your own ISP + become a hacker
Get a MilkV Jupiter, make a 3D printed PCIe slot for a PCBway printed circuit board, wire LiteX and ECP5 NAND and NOR programmed for memory storage, then add PETG, ABS, ASA, Nylon, or polycarbonate from a 3D printer (FreeCAD, KiCAD or Fusion 360), phosphor bronze or beryllium copper contacts and gold plating (optional but ideal). Print the insulating body. Insert stamped contacts, spring contacts, or pogo-pin style terminals, and solder wires or PCB traces to the contacts.Then, connect it to your MilkV Jupiter as an alternative to SD/eMMC/NVMe. Do this for your other two or three MilkV Mars nodes as well, and do this for your router Jupiter board (will discuss later). Then snap the Jupiter/Mars into a development board to wipe the firmware on the DDR4 controllers and install UberDDR3 or custom DDR3 (PhD-level project), which is open source. Then take a Ovrdrive USB flash drive and flash Gentoo Linux onto the MilkV Jupiter board, take another Ovrdrive USB flash drive for decryption of desktops using KeePassXC (will need LUKS for full disc encryption). Then connect a Modos paper display, a Keyboardio model 01 keyboard, Ploopy mouse, passive speakers and a Logitech Quickcam Express 1999 web cam. Then when setting up Gentoo, refuse any and all proprietary packages, block any proprietary packages in nftables, also harden the kernel and secure the bootchain. Then run Sway from Wayland over it. Then make sure you got nftables installed, as well as kvm/qemu, firejail, fail2ban, PyShark, a custom SOCKS5 proxy written in Python w/ X25519, Poly1305, ChaCha20 and Kyber for cryptographic post-quantum protection, w/ libsodium, PQClean and OpenSSL integration, as well as using GNU Icecat, ELinks or GNUNet/GNUNet CADET/GNUNet FS (File Sharing)/gnunet-vpn for web browsing services.
For self-hosting emails, use ipserver.su for VPS Cloud hosting (do NOT use your homeserver for this!), register a domain with either .su, .to, .rw, .in or .st ccTLD, don't reveal any revealing information on your website to host your emails off of, use proper OPSEC, don't reveal any personally identifiable information in the DNS records either, use Mozilla Thunderbird or Roundcube for the webmail client, block any connections to 8.8.8.8/1.1.1.1/9.9.9.9 (public DNS) via nftables. Use SMTP, PGP and E2E encryption for all emails via Anti-DDoS Flood Protection and Firewall by Conor McKnight on Github, Haproxy-protection + alonz22/haproxy-dashboard or some other open source DDoS mitigation and firewall tools to encrypt your traffic. Use xkpasswd.net for generating passwords.
Then take another MilkV Jupiter w/ custom memory PCIe attached, then bifurcate it some more to add a second PCIe slot for an ath9k PCIe Atheros card. Then plug that into your default ISP router via UART/UEFI, as well as plugging it into your other MilkV Jupiter mainboard for open source internet connection and firewalling.
For the laptop to program FPGAs, use MNT Reform. You will need a development board also (like a SiFive).
For the cellular network, make a homemade cell phone/cellular modem 2-in-1 with a PCBway computer-class printed circuit boards, wire a Motorola C123 screen + buttons + 2G antenna + TI Calypso chipset + speakers/microphone + buttons for on/off and power, all lifted from the phone. Give it a 3D printed plastic display case (if you don't own a 3D printed pay someone for 3D printer work) that snaps on. Give it a ULX3S w/ custom PHY written on it (TDMA, not OFDMA, which is a multi-year, multi-team PhD-level FPGA project in itself), w/ LimeSDR PCIe snapped to it, along with a Baofeng HAM radio set at 900MHz for 2G reception, which you can buy off aliexpress/alibaba, then add 3 or 4 ethernet plugs at the bottom for the MilkV Jupiter mainboard and the two or three MilkV Mars LLM accelerator and USB ASIC altcoin bitmining (like dogecoin on Scrypt USB — Fewer true USB ASICs, but possible with adapters or older units) nodes which can also sniff traffic via pyshark using Suricata or Zeek (Bro) for LLM-powered traffic analysis and threat detection. Flash OsmocomBB on the TI Calypso phone modem that you plugged to connect your computers automatically to the network, use Asterisk and OpenBTS for handling calls, now you can connect to a 2G wireless network on your computer as your own ISP, using the Mars nodes as a mini-cloud over 2G wireless for open source network connection instead of Wifi, will also need fans for SBCs because USB ASIC bitmining gets very hot. Will also need a BTS tower or radio mast along with a license to broadcast, and you can access a custom BBS written in Python to run over GPRS, and from there, you can broadcast notifications and emergency signals to subscribers within range. I'll call the LLC Smilodon Wireless. Anyone with a pre-sold Motorola C123 w/ OsmocomBB and sysmousim SIM card w/ programmed subcriber services for activation with Smilodon wireless (sold locally).
Also, make sure that you run your network over GNUNet/GNUNet CADET/GNUNet FS (File Sharing)/gnunet-vpn for encrypted communications on your BBS board.
No other privacy tutorial is going to cover everything that is essential about a computer. That includes the OS down to the bare metal. To hack, all you'll need is hardened Gentoo Linux + Wifi password and firewall cracking tools in terminal + kvm/qemu for isolation/VMs + proxy.
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>Elections Alberta issues cease-and-desist letters over voter info breach, privacy commissioner launches probe
>Questions swirl around Alberta separatist group Centurion Project's searchable database
>Elections Alberta’s bid for a permanent injunction against the separatist group known as the Centurion Project and the Republican Party of Alberta is set for a special hearing in the Court of King’s Bench later this summer. (CBC)
>Cease-and-desist letters have been sent to more than 500 Albertans who accessed a searchable database containing the personal information of millions of voters in the province, while a new investigation into the affair has been launched.
TL;DR US backed colour revolution organizers got sloppy and accidentally leaked that they illegally shared the personal information of 3 million Canadians with Americans.
Jason Kenny is the former leader of the leader of the United Conservative Party of Alberta. His personal information was leaked by the American collaborators. He is now receiving threats. The information was leaked on the US hosted websites of the Centurion Project and the Republican Party of Alberta. If an anon could point us in the direction of this database, we would appreciate it. If any of Alberta's billionaires were on the list, their information would also be very much appreciated. Many of Alberta's billionaires are climate change denying oil barons, so they deserve this more than anyone.
CANADOX megathread
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/centurion-project-alberta-voters-list-leak-9.7191390>Elections Alberta issues cease-and-desist letters over voter info breach, privacy commissioner launches probe
>Questions swirl around Alberta separatist group Centurion Project's searchable database
>Elections Alberta’s bid for a permanent injunction against the separatist group known as the Centurion Project and the Republican Party of Alberta is set for a special hearing in the Court of King’s Bench later this summer. (CBC)
>Cease-and-desist letters have been sent to more than 500 Albertans who accessed a searchable database containing the personal information of millions of voters in the province, while a new investigation into the affair has been launched.
TL;DR US backed colour revolution organizers got sloppy and accidentally leaked that they illegally shared the personal information of 3 million Canadians with Americans.
Jason Kenny is the former leader of the leader of the United Conservative Party of Alberta. His personal information was leaked by the American collaborators. He is now receiving threats. The information was leaked on the US hosted websites of the Centurion Project and the Republican Party of Alberta. If an anon could point us in the direction of this database, we would appreciate it. If any of Alberta's billionaires were on the list, their information would also be very much appreciated. Many of Alberta's billionaires are climate change denying oil barons, so they deserve this more than anyone.
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Creating this general in an effort to centralize all the info that currently gets posted to 5 different threads concerning conflicts and developments in the MENA region. Seeing how slow they generally are and at risk of getting bumped off besides the Palestine thread and that it’s likely people interested in Yemen, Syria, Iran, Sudan and Palestine are likely also interested in news and info from across the region I think it would be useful to post everything in one place.
This will be the inaugural edition to see how it goes. Welcome!
/MENA/#1
A general to compile all news, articles, essays and info related to the Greater Middle East-North Africa region.Creating this general in an effort to centralize all the info that currently gets posted to 5 different threads concerning conflicts and developments in the MENA region. Seeing how slow they generally are and at risk of getting bumped off besides the Palestine thread and that it’s likely people interested in Yemen, Syria, Iran, Sudan and Palestine are likely also interested in news and info from across the region I think it would be useful to post everything in one place.
This will be the inaugural edition to see how it goes. Welcome!
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Once most human jobs can be automated and therefore our labor and continued existence has no inherent value to the economic system, will the asset-owning class just exterminate us all?
Once most human jobs can be automated and therefore our labor and continued existence has no inherent value to the economic system, will the asset-owning class just exterminate us all?
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Class in the old ancient world
Surely before capitalism, civilizations still were dominant and based on the haves and have nots, just in different forms. So how can people avoid that being the case beyond capitalism? it seems like class dominance exists well outside of capitalism in multiple societies, how is this addressed, do the anarchists have some points about hereiechy? I think they take it far but shouldnt marxists be using materialism to study all authortarian class relationships not just industrial capitalism?
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Western "Marxists" are fucking obsessed with the idea of command economies. Half of them say that AES states are not actually socialist; this is wrong. The other half says that AES states have only temporarily adopted markets, and will return to the Golden Path as soon as possible; this is also wrong, and much more egregiously so, be because it requires ignorance of and/or cognitive dissonance towards the official statements and actions made by these nations.
Western "Marxist" arguments in favor of command economies are, likewise generally rooted in ignorance, not understanding that the lifestyles they have/aspire to would be unfeasible within a purely planned system. Those that are not rooted in ignorance are instead rooted in aceticism, in poverty worship, in an intellectual cancer that must be rooted out by whatever means necessary.
Sure, we may, at some point, obviate markets. But it would require a fundamental change in the means of production that, by my calculations, is far, far away from where we are now.
In any case, you would do yourself well to stop worshipping the corpses of Stalin and Mao and join the rest of us in the 21st century.
Command economies lost
This history of socialism shows, with perfect clarity, that a fully planned economy is plainly inferior to a socialist market economy. This is not to say that fully planned economies are bad, they absolutely do have their strengths. But economies that are partially planned, directed rather than dictated, have all of the same strengths, while being infinitely more flexible. The socialism of then may have raised millions out of poverty, but it was the socialism of now century that raised them into luxury, luxury greater than anything the capitalist world has ever been able to provide.Western "Marxists" are fucking obsessed with the idea of command economies. Half of them say that AES states are not actually socialist; this is wrong. The other half says that AES states have only temporarily adopted markets, and will return to the Golden Path as soon as possible; this is also wrong, and much more egregiously so, be because it requires ignorance of and/or cognitive dissonance towards the official statements and actions made by these nations.
Western "Marxist" arguments in favor of command economies are, likewise generally rooted in ignorance, not understanding that the lifestyles they have/aspire to would be unfeasible within a purely planned system. Those that are not rooted in ignorance are instead rooted in aceticism, in poverty worship, in an intellectual cancer that must be rooted out by whatever means necessary.
Sure, we may, at some point, obviate markets. But it would require a fundamental change in the means of production that, by my calculations, is far, far away from where we are now.
In any case, you would do yourself well to stop worshipping the corpses of Stalin and Mao and join the rest of us in the 21st century.
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Marx and Engels did not present Marxism as a frozen doctrine; they treated it as a materialist method that develops with concrete historical conditions. So not every theoretical development or strategic adaptation is “revisionism.” At the same time, this does not mean every departure from revolutionary politics can be defended as “non-dogmatic flexibility.” In the Marxist–Leninist sense, revisionism refers to revisions that liquidate the revolutionary and class basis of Marxism under the banner of adaptation.
So both errors should be rejected:
>using “revisionist” as an empty factional insult against any disagreement or development;
AND
>using “anti-dogmatism” to justify abandoning class struggle, proletarian power, or communism itself.
Historical Examples
<Vladimir Lenin adapting Marxist strategy to the conditions of the Russian Revolution. Some argued Russia was “too backward” for revolution; Lenin rejected mechanical stageism while still maintaining revolutionary politics. This was presented as anti-dogmatic without abandoning Marxism.
<Mao Zedong developing the strategy of a peasant-based revolution during the Chinese Communist Revolution. He criticized copying Soviet models mechanically (“book worship”) while also attacking what he saw as right-opportunist capitulation to bourgeois forces.
<Ho Chi Minh combining national liberation and socialism in Vietnam. Vietnamese communists adapted Marxism to anti-colonial conditions instead of treating European industrial conditions as universal templates.
<Thomas Sankara rejecting both strict imitation of foreign socialist models and accommodation to neocolonial capitalism in Burkina Faso. His government emphasized local conditions, self-reliance, and mass participation.
<Within communist movements, critiques of both “left” and “right” deviations were common. For example, during debates around the Sino-Soviet Split, many parties argued that mechanically copying either Soviet Union or China without regard to local realities was itself dogmatism.
The common thread in these examples is:
>dogmatism = mechanically repeating formulas regardless of conditions;
>revisionism = abandoning revolutionary class politics in the name of “practicality” or adaptation;
>Marxist method = concrete analysis of concrete conditions.
"Anti-Dogmatism" is not "Pro-Revisionism", "Anti-Revisionism" is not "Pro-dogmatism"
"Anti-Dogmatism" is not "Pro-Revisionism", "Anti-Revisionism" is not "Pro-dogmatism": Neither Dogmatism Nor Revisionism!Marx and Engels did not present Marxism as a frozen doctrine; they treated it as a materialist method that develops with concrete historical conditions. So not every theoretical development or strategic adaptation is “revisionism.” At the same time, this does not mean every departure from revolutionary politics can be defended as “non-dogmatic flexibility.” In the Marxist–Leninist sense, revisionism refers to revisions that liquidate the revolutionary and class basis of Marxism under the banner of adaptation.
So both errors should be rejected:
>using “revisionist” as an empty factional insult against any disagreement or development;
AND
>using “anti-dogmatism” to justify abandoning class struggle, proletarian power, or communism itself.
Historical Examples
<Vladimir Lenin adapting Marxist strategy to the conditions of the Russian Revolution. Some argued Russia was “too backward” for revolution; Lenin rejected mechanical stageism while still maintaining revolutionary politics. This was presented as anti-dogmatic without abandoning Marxism.
<Mao Zedong developing the strategy of a peasant-based revolution during the Chinese Communist Revolution. He criticized copying Soviet models mechanically (“book worship”) while also attacking what he saw as right-opportunist capitulation to bourgeois forces.
<Ho Chi Minh combining national liberation and socialism in Vietnam. Vietnamese communists adapted Marxism to anti-colonial conditions instead of treating European industrial conditions as universal templates.
<Thomas Sankara rejecting both strict imitation of foreign socialist models and accommodation to neocolonial capitalism in Burkina Faso. His government emphasized local conditions, self-reliance, and mass participation.
<Within communist movements, critiques of both “left” and “right” deviations were common. For example, during debates around the Sino-Soviet Split, many parties argued that mechanically copying either Soviet Union or China without regard to local realities was itself dogmatism.
The common thread in these examples is:
>dogmatism = mechanically repeating formulas regardless of conditions;
>revisionism = abandoning revolutionary class politics in the name of “practicality” or adaptation;
>Marxist method = concrete analysis of concrete conditions.
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Class society came about as a result of division of labour, right? There were separate groups of people who performed administrative function, like organising large scale agerculture, or who monopolised violence in form of warrior class. As history marches on the social organisation gets more complex, demanding more division of labour, not less. This seems to be driven mostly by technological growth, people with distinct expertise are needed to maintain technological society. It is not a process that I see ending with transition to planned economy (or any other model I can think of).
Now I dont think division of labour neccessarly must lead to class distinction, after all different kinds of concrete labour are performed by people occupying the same position in socio-economic pyramid, and if we imagine a society where incomes are equal, all should be of the same class.
The one problem I see is with those who perform decision making function. To allow ourself a biological analogy, the brain of social organism. By virtue of their position, they are not only allowed to secure priviledges for themselves, and as such constitute themselves as a class, but arguably the position is priviledge in itself as it bestows the greatest amount of autonomy on individual.
So the question I have, is it possible to create society with no decision-making strata? Or, if not, how can this strata be made "virtuous", so they conduct themselves as a selfless civil servants, rather than acting for their own personal benefit?
Is a future classless society possible?
Half baked thought written on my phone, based on half-remembered anthropology, so bear with me.Class society came about as a result of division of labour, right? There were separate groups of people who performed administrative function, like organising large scale agerculture, or who monopolised violence in form of warrior class. As history marches on the social organisation gets more complex, demanding more division of labour, not less. This seems to be driven mostly by technological growth, people with distinct expertise are needed to maintain technological society. It is not a process that I see ending with transition to planned economy (or any other model I can think of).
Now I dont think division of labour neccessarly must lead to class distinction, after all different kinds of concrete labour are performed by people occupying the same position in socio-economic pyramid, and if we imagine a society where incomes are equal, all should be of the same class.
The one problem I see is with those who perform decision making function. To allow ourself a biological analogy, the brain of social organism. By virtue of their position, they are not only allowed to secure priviledges for themselves, and as such constitute themselves as a class, but arguably the position is priviledge in itself as it bestows the greatest amount of autonomy on individual.
So the question I have, is it possible to create society with no decision-making strata? Or, if not, how can this strata be made "virtuous", so they conduct themselves as a selfless civil servants, rather than acting for their own personal benefit?
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Should we nuke the Falklands?
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Discuss this and more….in /leftypol/ UK edition.
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Discuss this and more….in /leftypol/ UK edition.
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Marx observes many times in his work that a new stage of history can only emerge when the time is right, so to speak. So why is it a contention of communists (including Marx himself, as far as I can tell) that we need and should advocate for revolution NOW? Isn't it natural to conclude that the faults and ultimate failure of hitherto "communist" states came from an attempt to establish communism without the proper material basis?
I think it's honestly almost obvious that a post-capitalist stage is possible, that it is desirable, that the right time will be when the productive forces are so developed that they come into conflict with the social form, and that this will create a need for revolution.
But why exactly should we "fight" for communism before that time comes?
Marx observes many times in his work that a new stage of history can only emerge when the time is right, so to speak. So why is it a contention of communists (including Marx himself, as far as I can tell) that we need and should advocate for revolution NOW? Isn't it natural to conclude that the faults and ultimate failure of hitherto "communist" states came from an attempt to establish communism without the proper material basis?
I think it's honestly almost obvious that a post-capitalist stage is possible, that it is desirable, that the right time will be when the productive forces are so developed that they come into conflict with the social form, and that this will create a need for revolution.
But why exactly should we "fight" for communism before that time comes?
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The West (tm) actually has all the pieces of dialectical materialism, but refuses to "assemble" them so to speak. They have broken up the pieces into empiricism, pragmatism (the American philosophy, not the colloquial sense of the word), and systems theory.
>Empiricism: has knowledge from experience (but often fragmented)
>Pragmatism: truth is what works
Systems theory: everything is interconnected
dialectical materialism combines all these insights into one coherent whole: reality is material and exists independent of our minds. things are interdependent, always changing, constantly in development, have to be studied in their context, and to understand reality we need to not just theorize, not just act, but put theory into practice, turn practice back into theory, closing the theory-practice loop, while remembering always that the particular is a case study of the general, that the general fails to describe the particular, and general both does and does not equate to the particular.
The West (tm) actually has all the pieces of dialectical materialism, but refuses to "assemble" them so to speak. They have broken up the pieces into empiricism, pragmatism (the American philosophy, not the colloquial sense of the word), and systems theory.
>Empiricism: has knowledge from experience (but often fragmented)
>Pragmatism: truth is what works
Systems theory: everything is interconnected
dialectical materialism combines all these insights into one coherent whole: reality is material and exists independent of our minds. things are interdependent, always changing, constantly in development, have to be studied in their context, and to understand reality we need to not just theorize, not just act, but put theory into practice, turn practice back into theory, closing the theory-practice loop, while remembering always that the particular is a case study of the general, that the general fails to describe the particular, and general both does and does not equate to the particular.
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Homeschooling is not inherently bad
I get why people dislike it most of the time; it's used by conservative parents to basically indoctrinate their children and socially isolate them, but thinking that makes homeschooling inherently bad is just like thinking all education is bad because bad people use it sometimes. A form of it could be very useful, especially for us Marxists who are often maligned by those controlling the current educational establishment. It's not like the current public school system is entirely flawless, with it often spewing anti-communist, pro-regime change, right-individualism, and pro-capitalist propaganda. If I had a kid, I wouldn't fully exclude them from public school, but I would perhaps add some sort of extra curriculum at home where I'd teach them Marxist theory, unbiased history of past socialist experiments that doesn't automatically default to (Mao killing 100 billion innocent kulaks in the gulags), and other useful things that may be discouraged elsewhere. I'd kind of be like homework but with studying Marx, Lenin, and even Franz Fanon and perhaps other leftist tendencies like anarchism since it's good to know what your opponents on the left think; marxists.org would be very useful for this, actually. This is especially relevant as it seems like reactionary forces, particularly in the United States, are trying to hijack the school system, such as Project 2025 or PragerU Kids.
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Was the American revolution historically progressive?
Was the American revolution historically progressive? Before McCarthyism CPUSA used to venerate that shit a ton, I as an American think that it was better that it did happen than didn’t, the British would never have upheld any of the treaties, look at what Australia did while remaining loyal to the British, and if they stuck with the British Empire then the evil capabilities of the Empire would be worse. However I can’t say that it was Historically progressive because they failed to do a lot of the historically progressive shit like abolish slavery and stuff, because there were a ton of historically progressive pre-Marxist revolutions in the Americas like in Haiti or Gran Colombia, but America was not one of them.
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There is no reason not to join the Democratic Party, they have no party line, no discipline, it's a purely big-tent party; you can say and do whatever you want, and you will never get kicked out. DSA has shown that it's the best strategy to become Democrats by achieving the most out of all left-wing and left-leaning organizations in the US, meanwhile everyone running as third parties have failed to elect even 1 candidate in any important position, or organize a serious protest.
>inb4 this belongs to usapol
This question has been misunderstood so often that it deserves its own thread
There is no reason not to join the Democratic Party, they have no party line, no discipline, it's a purely big-tent party; you can say and do whatever you want, and you will never get kicked out. DSA has shown that it's the best strategy to become Democrats by achieving the most out of all left-wing and left-leaning organizations in the US, meanwhile everyone running as third parties have failed to elect even 1 candidate in any important position, or organize a serious protest.
>inb4 this belongs to usapol
This question has been misunderstood so often that it deserves its own thread
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"body to short or empty" fuck you!
inconsistent communist flag
I made this flag for people who aren't Stalin dick suckers but are still okay with millions of people dying/support China. Like me."body to short or empty" fuck you!
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>Previous bake
>>2795908
Latest News
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<US gasoline prices spiked last week
>Strait's been closed for more than two months
<Trump planning a "short and powerful" strike on Iran
>USS Poopenfarten out of the middle east
>Important Links:
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https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/centerx:52.7/centery:26.8/zoom:7
https://www.defconlevel.com/
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https://www.pizzint.watch/
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>Useful Channels:
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https://www.youtube.com/@prop_co
https://www.youtube.com/@CyrusJanssen
https://www.youtube.com/@breakingpoints
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https://www.youtube.com/@GDiesen1
https://www.youtube.com/@theeastisapodcast
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>Useful Xitters
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>Useful Blogs/Podcasts/News:
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https://simplicius76.substack.com/
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https://sonar21.com/
https://www.moonofalabama.org/
https://thegrayzone.com/
https://www.middleeasteye.net/live/live-us-and-israel-attack-iran
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/Iran war/ thread #63
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R: 608 / I: 22 (full)
how is argentines claims to the falklands in anyway less imperialistic then Britains?
the only argument i hear is that falklands is closer to argentine (which is a pretty weak argument ) or that it was claimed by spain once (like spanish imperialism/colonialism is better then british).
considering how argies mostly descends from europeans, where arguably just as bad as USA when it came too genociding and oppressing natives they are also a colonialist state.
so why do leftist anti-imperialists defend their retarded landclaim?
how is argentines claims to the falklands in anyway less imperialistic then Britains?
the only argument i hear is that falklands is closer to argentine (which is a pretty weak argument ) or that it was claimed by spain once (like spanish imperialism/colonialism is better then british).
considering how argies mostly descends from europeans, where arguably just as bad as USA when it came too genociding and oppressing natives they are also a colonialist state.
so why do leftist anti-imperialists defend their retarded landclaim?
R: 16 / I: 0
Yeah yeah yeah "gtfo American" shut up for a moment
So just a couple hours ago the Virgina Supreme Court has voted to overturn a redistricting referendum that would give Democrats an advantage based on a bullshit technicality, even though it's been voted on in the house and senate for two years and was approved by a majority of Virginia voters. Meanwhile Texas, Mississippi, Tennessee, and more are allowed to racially gerrymander their states with impunity and without input from the population, and Utah's Supreme Court is now being packed because it doesn't sufficiently favor the GOP. The message is clear: America's two-party charade has ended, has already ended, and we are entering the era of the GOP party-state
Obviously as a revolutionary socialist I'm no friend of the Democrats, however it's transparently obvious to Virginians and others that this whole bullshit is just setting the stage for a partisan dictatorship and nothing less. The Republicans have long believed that they are the natural party of governance and anything they do to retain power is a good thing, and the Democrats have utterly failed to meaningfully challenge them, even fecklessly conceding while making some bullshit statement about how "the real redistricting was the friends we made along the way". It is of course obvious to us on leftypol that American "democracy" is illegitimate, but by now it should also be clear to the average liberal or really anybody to the left of Reagan that the state isn't even going to pretend their votes matter. This could be used to our advantage
While some are giving way to despair and others to rage, leftists in Virginia and elsewhere now have an increasingly radicalized population that is being openly disenfranchised, with one party blatantly deciding that the rules only count if they benefit and the other party deciding that's okay because god forbid they break procedure. We're in a prime spot right now to get angry liberals and left-libs on our side, to denounce our entire government as illegitimate. The question is, how do we do it?
GOP Controlled Virginia Supreme Court Says "Lol, Lmao" To Democracy
https://apnews.com/article/redistricting-virginia-congress-democrats-republicans-12a31037f3c9a94d3cb9fbcaaf84d94fYeah yeah yeah "gtfo American" shut up for a moment
So just a couple hours ago the Virgina Supreme Court has voted to overturn a redistricting referendum that would give Democrats an advantage based on a bullshit technicality, even though it's been voted on in the house and senate for two years and was approved by a majority of Virginia voters. Meanwhile Texas, Mississippi, Tennessee, and more are allowed to racially gerrymander their states with impunity and without input from the population, and Utah's Supreme Court is now being packed because it doesn't sufficiently favor the GOP. The message is clear: America's two-party charade has ended, has already ended, and we are entering the era of the GOP party-state
Obviously as a revolutionary socialist I'm no friend of the Democrats, however it's transparently obvious to Virginians and others that this whole bullshit is just setting the stage for a partisan dictatorship and nothing less. The Republicans have long believed that they are the natural party of governance and anything they do to retain power is a good thing, and the Democrats have utterly failed to meaningfully challenge them, even fecklessly conceding while making some bullshit statement about how "the real redistricting was the friends we made along the way". It is of course obvious to us on leftypol that American "democracy" is illegitimate, but by now it should also be clear to the average liberal or really anybody to the left of Reagan that the state isn't even going to pretend their votes matter. This could be used to our advantage
While some are giving way to despair and others to rage, leftists in Virginia and elsewhere now have an increasingly radicalized population that is being openly disenfranchised, with one party blatantly deciding that the rules only count if they benefit and the other party deciding that's okay because god forbid they break procedure. We're in a prime spot right now to get angry liberals and left-libs on our side, to denounce our entire government as illegitimate. The question is, how do we do it?
R: 602 / I: 117 (full)
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• UNESCO Sites relating to Slavery // https://slaveryandremembrance.org/
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• https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
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• 📖 A Trail of Broken Treaties – American Indian Movement // https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
• 📖 Custer Died for Your Sins – Vine Deloria Jr. // http://www.riversimulator.org/Resources/Books/CusterDiedForYourSinsAnIndianManifesto1969Deloria.pdf
• 📖 Emancipation Proclamation – Lincoln // https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/emancipation-proclamation
• 📖 Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville // https://americanliterature.com/author/alexis-de-tocqueville/book/democracy-in-america/summary
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Previous Thread: >>2777181
/USApol/
🗽 UNITED STATES POLITICS 🦅>Thread for the hellish discussion related to the scourge of the earth, the destroyer of nations, the king of coups, the sultan of sanctions, the emir of the embargo, the autocrat of austerity, the doge of deregulation, the baron of busting unions, the prince of privatization, the lord of loan sharks, the patron-saint of proxy wars, the sponsor of settlers, the guarantor of genocides, the Divided $nakkkes of Amerikkka™
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• visualization of prison population in US // https://mkorostoff.github.io/incarceration-in-real-numbers/
• Organizing in Prison — for when the walls close in (RANT Collective) // https://www.organizingforpower.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Organizing-in-Jail.pdf
• database of U.S. facilities incl. ICE holding sites // https://alcpress.org/usjails/index.html
• list of prison related resources, mailing lists, etc // https://www.prisonactivist.org/resources
• ICE Agent List (incomplete) // https://wiki.icelist.is/index.php/Category:Agents
• US Political Prison Tracker (last updated 2025) // https://uspoliticalprisoners.com/
Jailhouse Reading:
• 📖 Angela Davis - Are Prisons Obsolete? // https://dn790007.ca.archive.org/0/items/the-anarchist-library-full-list-of-pdfs-nov-2020/angela-y-davis-are-prisons-obsolete.pdf
• 📖 How to Defend Yourself During Police Interrogation // https://www.notrace.how/resources/download/comment-la-police-interroge-et-comment-sen-defendre/how-to-defend-yourself-during-a-police-interrogation.pdf
• 📖 National Lawyers Guild guide to being a jailhouse lawyer // https://www.jailhouselaw.org/
• 📖 Critical Resistance - Surviving Solitary Confinement // https://criticalresistance.org/resources/surviving-solitary/
• 📖 An inside-outside publication for abolitionist struggle & strategy across prison walls // https://criticalresistance.org/abolitionist/
• 📖 Prisoners’ Self-Help Litigation Manual // https://api.pageplace.de/preview/DT0400.9780199705665_A35159258/preview-9780199705665_A35159258.pdf
⚒️ LABOR!
• Live strike tracker with deep stats on who, what and when // https://striketracker.ilr.cornell.edu/
• AFL-CIO [imperialist]'s Strike Tracker // https://aflcio.org/strike-map
• Labor Bureau's Official 'work stoppage' tracker // https://www.bls.gov/wsp/
• IWW timeline for the 20th century (ends at 1999) // https://archive.iww.org/history/chronology/
• IWW Work Place Organizing Guide // https://usa.anarchistlibraries.net/library/industrial-workers-of-the-world-libcom-org-solidarity-federation-walthamstow-anarchist-group-wo
• ▶ Salting | Work Place Organizing 101 (50 minute webinar) // https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SHlCLyM4FY
⚖️ Deeds of the Burger Reich 🇺🇸
• deep list of horrible shit we (royal we) have done // https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/us_atrocities.md
• Coups and regime changes – master list // https://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-peoples-governments-the-master-list
• Wikipedia: United States War Crimes // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_war_crimes
• /our boys/ (bring em home!) detail abusing Iraqi prisoners [2006] // https://www.hrw.org/report/2006/07/22/no-blood-no-foul/soldiers-accounts-detainee-abuse-iraq
• More than 250 military interventions in the last 30 years alone // https://blackagendareport.com/us-launched-251-military-interventions-1991-and-469-1798
• Visualization of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade // https://www.slavevoyages.org/
• UNESCO Sites relating to Slavery // https://slaveryandremembrance.org/
• First Hand Documents of the horrors of Slavery // https://www.loc.gov/collections/slave-narratives-from-the-federal-writers-project-1936-to-1938/
📺 Glowie News 📺
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• Epstein's Black Book // https://epsteinsblackbook.com/
• DOJ Disclosures // https://www.justice.gov/epstein/doj-disclosures
• Track AIPAC // https://www.trackaipac.com/
• Al Jazeera visual guide (2026) // https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/10/struggling-to-navigate-the-epstein-files-here-is-a-visual-guide
Essential American Politik 📖
• 📖 WEB Du Bois - Black Reconstruction // https://cominsitu.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/w-e-b-du-bois-black-reconstruction-an-essay-toward-a-history-of-the-part-which-black-folk-played-in-the-attempt-to-reconstruct-democracy-2.pdf
• 📖 Eugene Debs - Fourth of July Speech // https://jacobin.com/2020/07/eugene-debs-independence-day-address-fourth-july
• 📖 Power Anywhere There's People! – Fred Hampton // https://www.hamptonthink.org/read/power-anywhere-where-thats-people-fred-hampton
• 📖 War is a Racket – Smedley Butler // https://ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html
• 📖 Letters From an American Farmer – St. John de Crevoecoeur // https://americanliterature.com/author/j-hector-st-john-de-crevoecoeur/book/letters-from-an-american-farmer/summary
• 📖 Trail of Broken Treaties // American Indian Movement https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
• 📖 The Declaration of Independence https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
• https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
• 📖 The Ballot or the Bullet – Malcolm X // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/ballot_or_bullet.pdf
• 📖 What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? – Frederick Douglass // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/douglass_july_4_speech.pdf
• 📖 A Trail of Broken Treaties – American Indian Movement // https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
• 📖 Custer Died for Your Sins – Vine Deloria Jr. // http://www.riversimulator.org/Resources/Books/CusterDiedForYourSinsAnIndianManifesto1969Deloria.pdf
• 📖 Emancipation Proclamation – Lincoln // https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/emancipation-proclamation
• 📖 Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville // https://americanliterature.com/author/alexis-de-tocqueville/book/democracy-in-america/summary
• 📖 Common Sense – Thomas Paine // https://americainclass.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Common-Sense-Full-Text.pdf
• 📖 An Indigenous History of the United States – Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz // https://nycstandswithstandingrock.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/dunbar-ortiz-2014.pdf
• 📖 Huey Long – Share Our Wealth // https://www.hueylong.com/programs/share-our-wealth/huey-longs-share-our-wealth-speech
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Most recent news posted by the independent, tracking the breaking story live, has shown that sources say there has been two infections in South Africa and one in France. World Health Organisation is ranking the situation as low risk for now.
News:
https://www.who.int/emergencies/disease-outbreak-news/item/2026-DON599
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cy592qeq071t
https://news.sky.com/story/three-dead-as-virus-breaks-out-on-atlantic-cruise-ship-13503266
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/hantavirus-outbreak-cruise-ship-symptoms-uk-cape-verde-live-updates-b2971163.html
https://www.theguardian.com/world/hantavirus
Resources:
https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/hantavirus
https://ukhsa.blog.gov.uk/2026/05/05/what-is-hantavirus-how-is-it-transmitted-and-what-are-the-symptoms/
https://www.cdc.gov/hantavirus/about/index.html
Hantavirus Thread #1 - Cruise Edition
I assume everyone has heard of the MV Hondius, an expedition cruise ship which travelled to remote areas, had (I would suppose wealthy) passengers infected with the Andes Virus from the Hantavirus family.Most recent news posted by the independent, tracking the breaking story live, has shown that sources say there has been two infections in South Africa and one in France. World Health Organisation is ranking the situation as low risk for now.
News:
https://www.who.int/emergencies/disease-outbreak-news/item/2026-DON599
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cy592qeq071t
https://news.sky.com/story/three-dead-as-virus-breaks-out-on-atlantic-cruise-ship-13503266
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/hantavirus-outbreak-cruise-ship-symptoms-uk-cape-verde-live-updates-b2971163.html
https://www.theguardian.com/world/hantavirus
Resources:
https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/hantavirus
https://ukhsa.blog.gov.uk/2026/05/05/what-is-hantavirus-how-is-it-transmitted-and-what-are-the-symptoms/
https://www.cdc.gov/hantavirus/about/index.html
R: 16 / I: 1
Who's ready for COVID 2 : Electric Boogaloo?
https://www.nytimes.com/article/hantavirus-cruise-ship-outbreak-hondius.html
https://archive.is/20260506135406/https://www.nytimes.com/article/hantavirus-cruise-ship-outbreak-hondius.html
>Three passengers who were aboard the MV Hondius have died and four other people have been sickened — one critically — after showing symptoms of the rare disease, according to the World Health Organization. On Monday, the vessel’s operator, Oceanwide Expeditions, said that hantavirus had been confirmed in two of the cases.
>The C.D.C. cited a case fatality rate of up to 15 percent in Asia and Europe and up to 50 percent in the Americas.
Who's ready for COVID 2 : Electric Boogaloo?
https://www.nytimes.com/article/hantavirus-cruise-ship-outbreak-hondius.html
https://archive.is/20260506135406/https://www.nytimes.com/article/hantavirus-cruise-ship-outbreak-hondius.html
>Three passengers who were aboard the MV Hondius have died and four other people have been sickened — one critically — after showing symptoms of the rare disease, according to the World Health Organization. On Monday, the vessel’s operator, Oceanwide Expeditions, said that hantavirus had been confirmed in two of the cases.
>The C.D.C. cited a case fatality rate of up to 15 percent in Asia and Europe and up to 50 percent in the Americas.
R: 115 / I: 12
What are you guys opinion on queer anarchism?
I think I am something like this.
Pic related is a place in my hometown (Curitiba - Brazil) that I would totally make as the headquarter of my movement.
What are you guys opinion on queer anarchism?
I think I am something like this.
Pic related is a place in my hometown (Curitiba - Brazil) that I would totally make as the headquarter of my movement.
R: 17 / I: 1
According to top news stories in early 2026, the perception of declining American power and rising Chinese influence has become increasingly prevalent both domestically and abroad. A 2026 Gallup poll revealed deep pessimism among the American public, with 72% of respondents predicting that China's power in the world will increase this year*, while majorities anticipate a decline in U.S. global power, rising international disputes, and domestic economic difficulty. Simultaneously, analyses from groups like the China Leadership Monitor indicate that Chinese officials increasingly view the U.S. as a power in terminal decline, racked by internal contradictions and domestic dysfunction. This has allowed Beijing to confidently project its own steady rise, viewing the shifting international balance of power as a transition away from an American-led unipolar world.
In this geopolitical climate, debates over the credibility of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) versus the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump often centre on global governance models. Critics and foreign policy analysts in 2026 have argued that the Trump administration's "America First" policies—such as demanding strict loyalty from civil servants, utilizing state power to intervene in corporate autonomy, and attacking the press—increasingly mirror the centralized, authoritarian toolkit used by Beijing. From the perspective of the CCP and its international defenders, this perceived American convergence toward state-capitalist tactics inadvertently validates the Chinese system. Beijing leverages this narrative to argue that its own model of continuous, one-party governance is a more stable, coherent, and credible alternative to the volatile polarization currently characterizing American democracy.
This sustained ascendancy of China presents a direct challenge to political scientist Francis Fukuyama’s famous "End of History" thesis. Following the Cold War, Fukuyama posited that the universalization of Western liberal democracy marked the final endpoint of mankind's ideological evolution. However, China's rise demonstrates that history has not ended. By achieving extraordinary economic prosperity and building a vast network of global influence without adopting Western democratic norms or human rights standards, China has provided a viable, alternative model of market socialism. Initiatives like the Belt and Road actively promote a non-Western vision of the international system, proving that liberal democracy still faces fierce ideological and material competition on the world stage.
Finally, the shifting global order is starkly illustrated by the 2026 Hormuz Crisis, which geopolitical analysts are heavily comparing to the Suez Crisis of 1956. In 1956, Egypt's nationalization of the Suez Canal and the subsequent failed intervention by Britain and France exposed the limits of European imperial power, marking the end of their hegemony in the Middle East. Similarly, the 2026 crisis—sparked by an Iranian blockade of the Strait of Hormuz amid collapsing U.S.-Iran talks and regional conflict—is being viewed as the twilight of the "Pax Americana" in the region. In both historical moments, an asymmetric conflict over a vital global maritime choke point demonstrated the diminishing capacity of the era's dominant Western power to unilaterally control regional dynamics or dictate the terms of global trade.
* Brenan, Megan. “Americans Predict Challenging 2026 across 13 Dimensions.” Gallup.com, Gallup, 5 Jan. 2026, news.gallup.com/poll/700448/americans-predict-challenging-2026-across-dimensions.aspx.
2026: American Decline, Chinese Ascendancy, and the New Global Order
The year 2026 marks a profound historical juxtaposition: the 250th anniversary of the United States alongside what some economists and geopolitical analysts have forecasted as the dawn of the "Chinese Century." On July 4, 2026, the U.S. celebrates its semiquincentennial, honouring the 1776 signing of the Declaration of Independence with massive "Freedom 250" festivities. However, 2026 is also highlighted in economic projections—noted in discussions around the "Chinese Century"—as the potential year China's nominal GDP could overtake the United States if its currency sufficiently strengthened. This concept of the Chinese Century suggests that the 21st century will be geoeconomically and geopolitically dominated by the People's Republic of China, driven by vast geostrategic efforts like the Belt and Road Initiative and the Made in China 2025 plan, directly challenging the postwar "American Century."According to top news stories in early 2026, the perception of declining American power and rising Chinese influence has become increasingly prevalent both domestically and abroad. A 2026 Gallup poll revealed deep pessimism among the American public, with 72% of respondents predicting that China's power in the world will increase this year*, while majorities anticipate a decline in U.S. global power, rising international disputes, and domestic economic difficulty. Simultaneously, analyses from groups like the China Leadership Monitor indicate that Chinese officials increasingly view the U.S. as a power in terminal decline, racked by internal contradictions and domestic dysfunction. This has allowed Beijing to confidently project its own steady rise, viewing the shifting international balance of power as a transition away from an American-led unipolar world.
In this geopolitical climate, debates over the credibility of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) versus the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump often centre on global governance models. Critics and foreign policy analysts in 2026 have argued that the Trump administration's "America First" policies—such as demanding strict loyalty from civil servants, utilizing state power to intervene in corporate autonomy, and attacking the press—increasingly mirror the centralized, authoritarian toolkit used by Beijing. From the perspective of the CCP and its international defenders, this perceived American convergence toward state-capitalist tactics inadvertently validates the Chinese system. Beijing leverages this narrative to argue that its own model of continuous, one-party governance is a more stable, coherent, and credible alternative to the volatile polarization currently characterizing American democracy.
This sustained ascendancy of China presents a direct challenge to political scientist Francis Fukuyama’s famous "End of History" thesis. Following the Cold War, Fukuyama posited that the universalization of Western liberal democracy marked the final endpoint of mankind's ideological evolution. However, China's rise demonstrates that history has not ended. By achieving extraordinary economic prosperity and building a vast network of global influence without adopting Western democratic norms or human rights standards, China has provided a viable, alternative model of market socialism. Initiatives like the Belt and Road actively promote a non-Western vision of the international system, proving that liberal democracy still faces fierce ideological and material competition on the world stage.
Finally, the shifting global order is starkly illustrated by the 2026 Hormuz Crisis, which geopolitical analysts are heavily comparing to the Suez Crisis of 1956. In 1956, Egypt's nationalization of the Suez Canal and the subsequent failed intervention by Britain and France exposed the limits of European imperial power, marking the end of their hegemony in the Middle East. Similarly, the 2026 crisis—sparked by an Iranian blockade of the Strait of Hormuz amid collapsing U.S.-Iran talks and regional conflict—is being viewed as the twilight of the "Pax Americana" in the region. In both historical moments, an asymmetric conflict over a vital global maritime choke point demonstrated the diminishing capacity of the era's dominant Western power to unilaterally control regional dynamics or dictate the terms of global trade.
* Brenan, Megan. “Americans Predict Challenging 2026 across 13 Dimensions.” Gallup.com, Gallup, 5 Jan. 2026, news.gallup.com/poll/700448/americans-predict-challenging-2026-across-dimensions.aspx.
R: 31 / I: 0
>>2803913
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>>2791966
or
>>2802652
I don't think any of you fuckers, nor anyone else online who is in America and claims to be a Communist have ever gone out and tried to organize, ever. You are all completely out of touch with the American working class.
Do you even know how reactionary the average Zogbot is?
Do you realize that Maoism is just Marxism-Leninism applied to the peasant class in pre-revolutionary China? and that Marxism-Leninism is just Marxism applied to feudal Russian conditions?
It's all a damn charade, nothing more than LARP and endless navel-gazing. You guys shit on anyone doing IRL organizing short of armed struggle (adventurism under present conditions, something that the American working class has no appetite for and is not ready to accept), or people like Hasan Piker who are actual Marxists trying to put class politics into mainstream discourse and consciousness, who are harassed endlessly and targets of neo-McCarthyism (see the Josh Gotheimer bill) but this time supercharged with AI surveillance and AI powered Zionist/Imperialist online disinfo campaigns because of what? Aesthetic and rhetorical differences.
IRL organizing in radical spaces isn't much better, but at least you will find comrades who have a sense of how to speak to proletarian and lumpenproletarian people on the same level as them, that is if they aren't infiltrated by feds and arrested, or god forbid ANOTHER FUCKING RAPE SCANDAL!
It is so fucking blackpilling. I can't even tell you how blackpilling these times are. They are sicking the FBI on liberal democratic politicians at this point. The DHS is redflagging and SWATTING and incarcerating people for fucking posts online, and it seems like it's all a fucking game to you guys.
You would all rather endlessly debate esoteric, theoretical disagreements, LARP, and critique people on the grounds of aesthetic differences.
Having the correct theory (to the extent that it exists, or that any existing group or tendency has it) means jack shit if you aren't mobilizing people IRL along class lines.
AT MY WIT'S END
Enough is enough, I have had it. I have had it with the online 'left' and Communist movement, at least Americans. You people (and most online Communists) spend your entire damn days doing nothing but posting, and rehashing historical ideological battles over and over and over ad infinitum.>>2803913
or
>>2791966
or
>>2802652
I don't think any of you fuckers, nor anyone else online who is in America and claims to be a Communist have ever gone out and tried to organize, ever. You are all completely out of touch with the American working class.
Do you even know how reactionary the average Zogbot is?
Do you realize that Maoism is just Marxism-Leninism applied to the peasant class in pre-revolutionary China? and that Marxism-Leninism is just Marxism applied to feudal Russian conditions?
It's all a damn charade, nothing more than LARP and endless navel-gazing. You guys shit on anyone doing IRL organizing short of armed struggle (adventurism under present conditions, something that the American working class has no appetite for and is not ready to accept), or people like Hasan Piker who are actual Marxists trying to put class politics into mainstream discourse and consciousness, who are harassed endlessly and targets of neo-McCarthyism (see the Josh Gotheimer bill) but this time supercharged with AI surveillance and AI powered Zionist/Imperialist online disinfo campaigns because of what? Aesthetic and rhetorical differences.
IRL organizing in radical spaces isn't much better, but at least you will find comrades who have a sense of how to speak to proletarian and lumpenproletarian people on the same level as them, that is if they aren't infiltrated by feds and arrested, or god forbid ANOTHER FUCKING RAPE SCANDAL!
It is so fucking blackpilling. I can't even tell you how blackpilling these times are. They are sicking the FBI on liberal democratic politicians at this point. The DHS is redflagging and SWATTING and incarcerating people for fucking posts online, and it seems like it's all a fucking game to you guys.
You would all rather endlessly debate esoteric, theoretical disagreements, LARP, and critique people on the grounds of aesthetic differences.
Having the correct theory (to the extent that it exists, or that any existing group or tendency has it) means jack shit if you aren't mobilizing people IRL along class lines.
R: 39 / I: 3
the cuban flotilla is being run by the PSL but they aren't using the PSL to push the flotilla because everyone with half a brain knows by now that the PSL has a history of sexually assaulting cadre across multiple branches, so they are using other orgs they run like code pink to do the promotion and optics of the flotilla
the flotilla, much like the PSL and the rest of these astroturfing organizations like Veterans for Peace or Code Pink are funded primarily by this billionaire: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neville_Roy_Singham
I would be highly suspect of any content creator or activist who joins the flotilla. The PSL is one of the biggest obstacles for a revolutionary American left to overcome.
the cuban flotilla is being run by the PSL but they aren't using the PSL to push the flotilla because everyone with half a brain knows by now that the PSL has a history of sexually assaulting cadre across multiple branches, so they are using other orgs they run like code pink to do the promotion and optics of the flotilla
the flotilla, much like the PSL and the rest of these astroturfing organizations like Veterans for Peace or Code Pink are funded primarily by this billionaire: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neville_Roy_Singham
I would be highly suspect of any content creator or activist who joins the flotilla. The PSL is one of the biggest obstacles for a revolutionary American left to overcome.
R: 602 / I: 111 (full)
>Thread for the hellish discussion related to the scourge of the earth, the destroyer of nations, the king of coups, the sultan of sanctions, the emir of the embargo, the autocrat of austerity, the doge of deregulation, the baron of busting unions, the prince of privatization, the lord of loan sharks, the patron-saint of proxy wars, the sponsor of settlers, the guarantor of genocides, the Divided $nakkkes of Amerikkka™
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💀 ICE & Prison Resources
(Amerika is the most incarcerated country in the world!)
• ICE tracker using public info and user submissions // https://www.iceinmyarea.org/
• list of deaths at ICE concentration camps // https://www.aila.org/infonet/deaths-at-adult-detention-centers
• visualization of prison population in US // https://mkorostoff.github.io/incarceration-in-real-numbers/
• Organizing in Prison — for when the walls close in (RANT Collective) // https://www.organizingforpower.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Organizing-in-Jail.pdf
• database of U.S. facilities incl. ICE holding sites // https://alcpress.org/usjails/index.html
• list of prison related resources, mailing lists, etc // https://www.prisonactivist.org/resources
• ICE Agent List (incomplete) // https://wiki.icelist.is/index.php/Category:Agents
• US Political Prison Tracker (last updated 2025) // https://uspoliticalprisoners.com/
Jailhouse Reading:
• 📖 Angela Davis - Are Prisons Obsolete? // https://dn790007.ca.archive.org/0/items/the-anarchist-library-full-list-of-pdfs-nov-2020/angela-y-davis-are-prisons-obsolete.pdf
• 📖 How to Defend Yourself During Police Interrogation // https://www.notrace.how/resources/download/comment-la-police-interroge-et-comment-sen-defendre/how-to-defend-yourself-during-a-police-interrogation.pdf
• 📖 National Lawyers Guild guide to being a jailhouse lawyer // https://www.jailhouselaw.org/
• 📖 Critical Resistance - Surviving Solitary Confinement // https://criticalresistance.org/resources/surviving-solitary/
• 📖 An inside-outside publication for abolitionist struggle & strategy across prison walls // https://criticalresistance.org/abolitionist/
• 📖 Prisoners’ Self-Help Litigation Manual // https://api.pageplace.de/preview/DT0400.9780199705665_A35159258/preview-9780199705665_A35159258.pdf
⚒️ LABOR!
• Live strike tracker with deep stats on who, what and when // https://striketracker.ilr.cornell.edu/
• AFL-CIO [imperialist]'s Strike Tracker // https://aflcio.org/strike-map
• Labor Bureau's Official 'work stoppage' tracker // https://www.bls.gov/wsp/
• IWW timeline for the 20th century (ends at 1999) // https://archive.iww.org/history/chronology/
• IWW Work Place Organizing Guide // https://usa.anarchistlibraries.net/library/industrial-workers-of-the-world-libcom-org-solidarity-federation-walthamstow-anarchist-group-wo
• ▶ Salting | Work Place Organizing 101 (50 minute webinar) // https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SHlCLyM4FY
⚖️ Deeds of the Burger Reich 🇺🇸
• deep list of horrible shit we (royal we) have done // https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/us_atrocities.md
• Coups and regime changes – master list // https://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-peoples-governments-the-master-list
• Wikipedia: United States War Crimes // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_war_crimes
• /our boys/ (bring em home!) detail abusing Iraqi prisoners [2006] // https://www.hrw.org/report/2006/07/22/no-blood-no-foul/soldiers-accounts-detainee-abuse-iraq
• More than 250 military interventions in the last 30 years alone // https://blackagendareport.com/us-launched-251-military-interventions-1991-and-469-1798
• Visualization of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade // https://www.slavevoyages.org/
• UNESCO Sites relating to Slavery // https://slaveryandremembrance.org/
• First Hand Documents of the horrors of Slavery // https://www.loc.gov/collections/slave-narratives-from-the-federal-writers-project-1936-to-1938/
📺 Glowie News 📺
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• Bloomberg Live // https://www.bloomberg.com/live/us
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• Black Agenda Report // https://blackagendareport.com/
• The Grayzone // https://thegrayzone.com/
• Leftvoice // https://www.leftvoice.org/
• Newsanon Filter // https://leftypol.org/search.php?search=name%3A%22News+Anon+3.0%22&board=leftypol
🏝️ Epstein's Client List 🇮🇱
• Epstein's Black Book // https://epsteinsblackbook.com/
• DOJ Disclosures // https://www.justice.gov/epstein/doj-disclosures
• Track AIPAC // https://www.trackaipac.com/
• Al Jazeera visual guide (2026) // https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/10/struggling-to-navigate-the-epstein-files-here-is-a-visual-guide
Essential American Politik 📖
• 📖 WEB Du Bois - Black Reconstruction // https://cominsitu.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/w-e-b-du-bois-black-reconstruction-an-essay-toward-a-history-of-the-part-which-black-folk-played-in-the-attempt-to-reconstruct-democracy-2.pdf
• 📖 Eugene Debs - Fourth of July Speech // https://jacobin.com/2020/07/eugene-debs-independence-day-address-fourth-july
• 📖 Power Anywhere There's People! – Fred Hampton // https://www.hamptonthink.org/read/power-anywhere-where-thats-people-fred-hampton
• 📖 War is a Racket – Smedley Butler // https://ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html
• 📖 Letters From an American Farmer – St. John de Crevoecoeur // https://americanliterature.com/author/j-hector-st-john-de-crevoecoeur/book/letters-from-an-american-farmer/summary
• 📖 Trail of Broken Treaties // American Indian Movement https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
• 📖 The Declaration of Independence https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
• https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
• 📖 The Ballot or the Bullet – Malcolm X // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/ballot_or_bullet.pdf
• 📖 What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? – Frederick Douglass // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/douglass_july_4_speech.pdf
• 📖 A Trail of Broken Treaties – American Indian Movement // https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
• 📖 Custer Died for Your Sins – Vine Deloria Jr. // http://www.riversimulator.org/Resources/Books/CusterDiedForYourSinsAnIndianManifesto1969Deloria.pdf
• 📖 Emancipation Proclamation – Lincoln // https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/emancipation-proclamation
• 📖 Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville // https://americanliterature.com/author/alexis-de-tocqueville/book/democracy-in-america/summary
• 📖 Common Sense – Thomas Paine // https://americainclass.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Common-Sense-Full-Text.pdf
• 📖 An Indigenous History of the United States – Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz // https://nycstandswithstandingrock.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/dunbar-ortiz-2014.pdf
• 📖 Huey Long – Share Our Wealth // https://www.hueylong.com/programs/share-our-wealth/huey-longs-share-our-wealth-speech
Which side are you on? - Pete Seeger
▶ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XKMwWZVpPE
Previous Thread: >>2799001
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🗽 UNITED STATES POLITICS 🦅>Thread for the hellish discussion related to the scourge of the earth, the destroyer of nations, the king of coups, the sultan of sanctions, the emir of the embargo, the autocrat of austerity, the doge of deregulation, the baron of busting unions, the prince of privatization, the lord of loan sharks, the patron-saint of proxy wars, the sponsor of settlers, the guarantor of genocides, the Divided $nakkkes of Amerikkka™
<All Downhill From Here Edition
OP Backup Site: https://usapol.neocities.org/
💀 ICE & Prison Resources
(Amerika is the most incarcerated country in the world!)
• ICE tracker using public info and user submissions // https://www.iceinmyarea.org/
• list of deaths at ICE concentration camps // https://www.aila.org/infonet/deaths-at-adult-detention-centers
• visualization of prison population in US // https://mkorostoff.github.io/incarceration-in-real-numbers/
• Organizing in Prison — for when the walls close in (RANT Collective) // https://www.organizingforpower.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Organizing-in-Jail.pdf
• database of U.S. facilities incl. ICE holding sites // https://alcpress.org/usjails/index.html
• list of prison related resources, mailing lists, etc // https://www.prisonactivist.org/resources
• ICE Agent List (incomplete) // https://wiki.icelist.is/index.php/Category:Agents
• US Political Prison Tracker (last updated 2025) // https://uspoliticalprisoners.com/
Jailhouse Reading:
• 📖 Angela Davis - Are Prisons Obsolete? // https://dn790007.ca.archive.org/0/items/the-anarchist-library-full-list-of-pdfs-nov-2020/angela-y-davis-are-prisons-obsolete.pdf
• 📖 How to Defend Yourself During Police Interrogation // https://www.notrace.how/resources/download/comment-la-police-interroge-et-comment-sen-defendre/how-to-defend-yourself-during-a-police-interrogation.pdf
• 📖 National Lawyers Guild guide to being a jailhouse lawyer // https://www.jailhouselaw.org/
• 📖 Critical Resistance - Surviving Solitary Confinement // https://criticalresistance.org/resources/surviving-solitary/
• 📖 An inside-outside publication for abolitionist struggle & strategy across prison walls // https://criticalresistance.org/abolitionist/
• 📖 Prisoners’ Self-Help Litigation Manual // https://api.pageplace.de/preview/DT0400.9780199705665_A35159258/preview-9780199705665_A35159258.pdf
⚒️ LABOR!
• Live strike tracker with deep stats on who, what and when // https://striketracker.ilr.cornell.edu/
• AFL-CIO [imperialist]'s Strike Tracker // https://aflcio.org/strike-map
• Labor Bureau's Official 'work stoppage' tracker // https://www.bls.gov/wsp/
• IWW timeline for the 20th century (ends at 1999) // https://archive.iww.org/history/chronology/
• IWW Work Place Organizing Guide // https://usa.anarchistlibraries.net/library/industrial-workers-of-the-world-libcom-org-solidarity-federation-walthamstow-anarchist-group-wo
• ▶ Salting | Work Place Organizing 101 (50 minute webinar) // https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SHlCLyM4FY
⚖️ Deeds of the Burger Reich 🇺🇸
• deep list of horrible shit we (royal we) have done // https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/us_atrocities.md
• Coups and regime changes – master list // https://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-peoples-governments-the-master-list
• Wikipedia: United States War Crimes // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_war_crimes
• /our boys/ (bring em home!) detail abusing Iraqi prisoners [2006] // https://www.hrw.org/report/2006/07/22/no-blood-no-foul/soldiers-accounts-detainee-abuse-iraq
• More than 250 military interventions in the last 30 years alone // https://blackagendareport.com/us-launched-251-military-interventions-1991-and-469-1798
• Visualization of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade // https://www.slavevoyages.org/
• UNESCO Sites relating to Slavery // https://slaveryandremembrance.org/
• First Hand Documents of the horrors of Slavery // https://www.loc.gov/collections/slave-narratives-from-the-federal-writers-project-1936-to-1938/
📺 Glowie News 📺
(sponsored by the Burger Eagle Freedom Institute (formerly USAID))
• CNN Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/cnn-news-usa.html
• MSNBC Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/msnbc.html
• FOX Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/fox-news-channel.html
• Bloomberg Live // https://www.bloomberg.com/live/us
• Burger House Live // https://www.whitehouse.gov/live/
• Local News // https://www.50states.com/ce/
• Weather // https://www.noaa.gov/weather
📺 Gommie News 📺
• Jacobin // https://jacobin.com/~~
• Black Agenda Report // https://blackagendareport.com/
• The Grayzone // https://thegrayzone.com/
• Leftvoice // https://www.leftvoice.org/
• Newsanon Filter // https://leftypol.org/search.php?search=name%3A%22News+Anon+3.0%22&board=leftypol
🏝️ Epstein's Client List 🇮🇱
• Epstein's Black Book // https://epsteinsblackbook.com/
• DOJ Disclosures // https://www.justice.gov/epstein/doj-disclosures
• Track AIPAC // https://www.trackaipac.com/
• Al Jazeera visual guide (2026) // https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/10/struggling-to-navigate-the-epstein-files-here-is-a-visual-guide
Essential American Politik 📖
• 📖 WEB Du Bois - Black Reconstruction // https://cominsitu.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/w-e-b-du-bois-black-reconstruction-an-essay-toward-a-history-of-the-part-which-black-folk-played-in-the-attempt-to-reconstruct-democracy-2.pdf
• 📖 Eugene Debs - Fourth of July Speech // https://jacobin.com/2020/07/eugene-debs-independence-day-address-fourth-july
• 📖 Power Anywhere There's People! – Fred Hampton // https://www.hamptonthink.org/read/power-anywhere-where-thats-people-fred-hampton
• 📖 War is a Racket – Smedley Butler // https://ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html
• 📖 Letters From an American Farmer – St. John de Crevoecoeur // https://americanliterature.com/author/j-hector-st-john-de-crevoecoeur/book/letters-from-an-american-farmer/summary
• 📖 Trail of Broken Treaties // American Indian Movement https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
• 📖 The Declaration of Independence https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
• https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
• 📖 The Ballot or the Bullet – Malcolm X // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/ballot_or_bullet.pdf
• 📖 What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? – Frederick Douglass // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/douglass_july_4_speech.pdf
• 📖 A Trail of Broken Treaties – American Indian Movement // https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
• 📖 Custer Died for Your Sins – Vine Deloria Jr. // http://www.riversimulator.org/Resources/Books/CusterDiedForYourSinsAnIndianManifesto1969Deloria.pdf
• 📖 Emancipation Proclamation – Lincoln // https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/emancipation-proclamation
• 📖 Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville // https://americanliterature.com/author/alexis-de-tocqueville/book/democracy-in-america/summary
• 📖 Common Sense – Thomas Paine // https://americainclass.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Common-Sense-Full-Text.pdf
• 📖 An Indigenous History of the United States – Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz // https://nycstandswithstandingrock.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/dunbar-ortiz-2014.pdf
• 📖 Huey Long – Share Our Wealth // https://www.hueylong.com/programs/share-our-wealth/huey-longs-share-our-wealth-speech
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So China's real state market just crashed, and houses will be cheaper. How is this a bad thing exactly? I don't understand much about economics. But why is everyone saying this is a bad thing?
So China's real state market just crashed, and houses will be cheaper. How is this a bad thing exactly? I don't understand much about economics. But why is everyone saying this is a bad thing?
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Why are small towns so Hitlerite? There's just an incredible amount of tribalism, anti-intellectualism and moral busybody behavior. Small towners are just people who don't know how to mind their own fucking business and get outraged over every moral panic. What the fuck is wrong with these libertarian freaks who want to diddle little girls and execute the gays? I've noticed that a lot of marginalized groups also maintain these kinds of small town politics. I just don't get it.
Why are small towns so Hitlerite? There's just an incredible amount of tribalism, anti-intellectualism and moral busybody behavior. Small towners are just people who don't know how to mind their own fucking business and get outraged over every moral panic. What the fuck is wrong with these libertarian freaks who want to diddle little girls and execute the gays? I've noticed that a lot of marginalized groups also maintain these kinds of small town politics. I just don't get it.
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What do communist parties and anarchist groups actually do in the west? I joined my union but nothing happened, I just pay membership fees. When do I get to crack fascist skulls open and strike?
What do communist parties and anarchist groups actually do in the west? I joined my union but nothing happened, I just pay membership fees. When do I get to crack fascist skulls open and strike?
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And unlike the retarded neocons these activists do understand the consequences of climate change, but then what? They offer nothing remotely proportional to the crisis. “Plant more trees,” “switch to solar” that’s it. I’ve had to explain over and over that our governments are too corrupt and dysfunctional to pull that off. They barely function as it is. There’s no institutional capacity and Individual actions don’t mean much in a system like this.
We had chances. When Al Gore lost and oil billionaire won, that was a turning point and a disastrous one. I genuinely mourn what could have been different. We could have built global institutions capable of dealing with climate change before it spiraled into this nightmare. But that’s not the world we got.
This is the reality now and If we want to prevent total collapse, geoengineering is the only option left on the table. I know it’s dangerous and I know it doesn’t fix the root cause. I’m not blind to that. But at this point it’s not about perfect solutions, it’s about any solution that might actually keep people alive and not in pain.
Why are so many Western activists so averse to geoengineering?
I live in the Global South in a region being absolutely hammered by rising heat waves, the worst kind. People are dying, people are suffering, daily life is becoming unbearable. I’ve watched the heat get worse in real time and seen the misery it brings.And unlike the retarded neocons these activists do understand the consequences of climate change, but then what? They offer nothing remotely proportional to the crisis. “Plant more trees,” “switch to solar” that’s it. I’ve had to explain over and over that our governments are too corrupt and dysfunctional to pull that off. They barely function as it is. There’s no institutional capacity and Individual actions don’t mean much in a system like this.
We had chances. When Al Gore lost and oil billionaire won, that was a turning point and a disastrous one. I genuinely mourn what could have been different. We could have built global institutions capable of dealing with climate change before it spiraled into this nightmare. But that’s not the world we got.
This is the reality now and If we want to prevent total collapse, geoengineering is the only option left on the table. I know it’s dangerous and I know it doesn’t fix the root cause. I’m not blind to that. But at this point it’s not about perfect solutions, it’s about any solution that might actually keep people alive and not in pain.
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What hate groups originate in your state (Amerimutts only)?
I live in South Carolina. Joshua Sutter and his wife, Jillian Hoy operated Martinet Press and lived in and were based in South Carolina. There they formed the Tempel ov Blood/Libre 333/Iron Gates together for a theistic satanist order.
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posting this mainly to get vetted on the matrix since the mods are serious there and serious here since I got banned on one wifi for accidentally messing up the arithmetic problem
Tarotic Meditations
Anyone read the book Meditations on the Tarot? Got interested it because of the Jungian archetypes.posting this mainly to get vetted on the matrix since the mods are serious there and serious here since I got banned on one wifi for accidentally messing up the arithmetic problem
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THE AESTHETICS OF COMMUNISM
This thread will describe what exact superstructural changes will occur in the aftermath of a Global Maoist Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution once the Material Base has been transformed after the Socialist Mode of Production has been established Worldwide. Enjoy Comrades, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🚀☢️!
I will present a thought experiment, what will the World look like a century from now, decades after the World Maoist Protracted People's War (PPW) swept the forces of Capital and Reaction into the dustpan of History in the aftermath of World War III (it started in the Late 2020s as a High-Intensity Conventional Conflict between the U$ and China that escalated into a Global Nuclear War, but contrary to most Pseudoscientific Bourgeois Liberal and Revisionist expectations did not cause an apocalyptic "Nuclear Winter", but instead destroyed the entire Global Capitalist-Imperialist System and allowed for a World Maoist PPW that saw Maoist rebels seize control of the entire planet after decades of guerrilla warfare), 🤔? This Effort post will seek to answer that question, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🚀☢️!
First, I will explain the political structure of this future Socialist world. There will be a Global USSR, in which every major Nation/Ethnic group will receive their own SSR or ASSR according to the Marxist-Leninist-Maoist principle of Self-Determination of all Oppressed Nations in their own SSR (as articulated in Stalin’s “Marxism and the National Question” https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1913/03a.htm and Lenin’s “The Socialist Revolution and the Right of Nations to Self-Determination” https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1916/jan/x01.htm , along with the National Delimitation Policy of the USSR https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_delimitation_in_the_Soviet_Union ), including New Afrika, Aztlan (in a Hispano-American SFSR that includes all the Spanish-speaking Multiracial regions of the Americas), the First Nations, Azawad, Oromia, Afaria, Basque Country, Catalonia, Scotland, Wales, Sapmi, Palestine (in a Arab SFSR that includes all the Arab majority regions of West Asia and North Africa), Kurdistan, Circassia, Chechnya, Dagestan, Tatarstan, Arabistan (in a Arab SFSR that includes all the Arab majority regions of West Asia and North Africa), Balochistan, East Turkestan/Uyghuristan, Tibet, Kashmir, Punjab, Sindh, Manipur, West Papua, Aboriginal Australia, Hawaii, and many others as shown in the Map of all the SSRs and SFSRs of the future Global USSR I posted. Obviously, this Global USSR will have a Socialist Mode of Production (Centrally Planned Socialist Economy) and Dictatorship of the Proletariat (One-Party Marxist-Leninist-Maoist State). This Centrally Planned Socialist Economy is characterized by State ownership of all companies, a State Planning Agency, the outlawing of Stock Exchanges, and a massive Social Safety Net consisting of Free Housing, Free Healthcare, Free Education, a Job Guarantee, and a Universal Basic Income, along with a long-term effort to Automate the entire Economy (hence the need for Universal Basic Income) on the Shining Path to Communism, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🚀☢️!
The first great Superstructural transformation brought by the Global Maoist Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution was the final destruction of that great “Opiate of the Masses” that had been used by all the ruling Classes of every previous Mode of Production to neuter the oppressed Classes, Religion. This was done by sending the International Red Guards to bulldoze/burn down all Churches/Mosques/Synagogues/Temples/Pagodas worldwide and arrest all Priests/Monks/Nuns/Imams/Rabbis and force them to March through the streets wearing Dunce Caps on their way to the re-education camps where they were re-educated to embrace the Immortal Science of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism (This also happened to all Fascists, Liberals, and Revisionists as well), ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🚀☢️!
Another key aspect of this Superstructural transformation was seen in the dramatic transformation of Urban planning that was carried out by the Global USSR. This process was made easier by the aftermath of World War III (especially the Nuclear Exchange) and the subsequent World Maoist PPW that left most cities as smoldering ruins and thus in desperate need of rebuilding. The new “People’s cities” were built to be as efficient, environmentally friendly, and high-density as possible, with the entire population living in high-density Concrete Commie Bloc Apartment buildings, and all Suburban McMansions/“Single-Family Homes” bull-dozed and left to be reclaimed by nature (most had already been destroyed anyway). At the center of every major city is a single massive Skyscraper that contains all the administrative agencies of the various SSRs/ASSRs, including the local CPSU headquarters. Additionally, these cities have been designed to be as walkable as possible (this, combined with the Worldwide ban of all GMOs, High-Fructose Corn Syrup, Artificial Preservatives, excessive Sodium, and Trans Fats, ended the Global Obesity epidemic that was already reduced significantly by the decades of Conventional and Nuclear Warfare), with all Automobile ownership outlawed, and most transportation carried out by Mass Rail Transit (ie. Subways, Streetcars, Bullet trains, etc.) powered by Electricity from exclusively renewable sources (ie. Wind, Solar, Hydro, Nuclear, Geothermal, etc.), thus ending Global Warming (The Global Nuclear War already helped this, by thinning the World population and reducing temperatures with the mild fallout). All Rural populations employed in agriculture live in Collective Farms until this sector can be completely Automated and they can be moved to the Cities, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🚀☢️!
Finally, the Superstructural changes that resulted from the necessary Global Maoist Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution included dramatic changes in the nature of Sexuality, Gender Roles, and Personal Expression. In order to flatten the Socially Constructed Reactionary Gender Binary, all Women are forced to have extremely short hair (Pixie cut or shorter, with a Shaved head being the most Historically Progressive), and Dresses and Makeup were banned in order to liberate Women from the chains of Bourgeois Femininity/Domesticity, while all Western Business Suits and Traditional Religious Clothing were banned as well with everyone wearing Mandatory Mao Suits. Interestingly, their has been a noticeable decline in Transgenders in the aftermath of the Global Destruction of Bourgeois Femininity/Domesticity, though Sex Changes are still Free and Legal to anyone who wants one. The nature of Sexuality has changed dramatically with the elimination of the Reactionary emphasis on Reproduction, considering that that are now Artificial wombs, in order to finally free women from the oppressive nature of child birth. Homosexuality is obviously completely Legal and totally accepted, with the caveat that the institution of Marriage (both Homosexual and Heterosexual) has been completely phased out as a relic of Reactionary culture in favor of much looser sexual relationships among consenting adults. Finally, all Drugs have been legalized for recreational purposes, in order to simultaneously end the discriminatory and classist nature of the Global War on Drugs waged by the Old Reactionary Bourgeois order, and unleash the creativity of the Workers and Oppressed Nations of the World as they travel on the Shining Path to Communism, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🚀☢️!
THE AESTHETICS OF COMMUNISM
This thread will describe what exact superstructural changes will occur in the aftermath of a Global Maoist Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution once the Material Base has been transformed after the Socialist Mode of Production has been established Worldwide. Enjoy Comrades, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🚀☢️!
I will present a thought experiment, what will the World look like a century from now, decades after the World Maoist Protracted People's War (PPW) swept the forces of Capital and Reaction into the dustpan of History in the aftermath of World War III (it started in the Late 2020s as a High-Intensity Conventional Conflict between the U$ and China that escalated into a Global Nuclear War, but contrary to most Pseudoscientific Bourgeois Liberal and Revisionist expectations did not cause an apocalyptic "Nuclear Winter", but instead destroyed the entire Global Capitalist-Imperialist System and allowed for a World Maoist PPW that saw Maoist rebels seize control of the entire planet after decades of guerrilla warfare), 🤔? This Effort post will seek to answer that question, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🚀☢️!
First, I will explain the political structure of this future Socialist world. There will be a Global USSR, in which every major Nation/Ethnic group will receive their own SSR or ASSR according to the Marxist-Leninist-Maoist principle of Self-Determination of all Oppressed Nations in their own SSR (as articulated in Stalin’s “Marxism and the National Question” https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1913/03a.htm and Lenin’s “The Socialist Revolution and the Right of Nations to Self-Determination” https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1916/jan/x01.htm , along with the National Delimitation Policy of the USSR https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_delimitation_in_the_Soviet_Union ), including New Afrika, Aztlan (in a Hispano-American SFSR that includes all the Spanish-speaking Multiracial regions of the Americas), the First Nations, Azawad, Oromia, Afaria, Basque Country, Catalonia, Scotland, Wales, Sapmi, Palestine (in a Arab SFSR that includes all the Arab majority regions of West Asia and North Africa), Kurdistan, Circassia, Chechnya, Dagestan, Tatarstan, Arabistan (in a Arab SFSR that includes all the Arab majority regions of West Asia and North Africa), Balochistan, East Turkestan/Uyghuristan, Tibet, Kashmir, Punjab, Sindh, Manipur, West Papua, Aboriginal Australia, Hawaii, and many others as shown in the Map of all the SSRs and SFSRs of the future Global USSR I posted. Obviously, this Global USSR will have a Socialist Mode of Production (Centrally Planned Socialist Economy) and Dictatorship of the Proletariat (One-Party Marxist-Leninist-Maoist State). This Centrally Planned Socialist Economy is characterized by State ownership of all companies, a State Planning Agency, the outlawing of Stock Exchanges, and a massive Social Safety Net consisting of Free Housing, Free Healthcare, Free Education, a Job Guarantee, and a Universal Basic Income, along with a long-term effort to Automate the entire Economy (hence the need for Universal Basic Income) on the Shining Path to Communism, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🚀☢️!
The first great Superstructural transformation brought by the Global Maoist Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution was the final destruction of that great “Opiate of the Masses” that had been used by all the ruling Classes of every previous Mode of Production to neuter the oppressed Classes, Religion. This was done by sending the International Red Guards to bulldoze/burn down all Churches/Mosques/Synagogues/Temples/Pagodas worldwide and arrest all Priests/Monks/Nuns/Imams/Rabbis and force them to March through the streets wearing Dunce Caps on their way to the re-education camps where they were re-educated to embrace the Immortal Science of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism (This also happened to all Fascists, Liberals, and Revisionists as well), ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🚀☢️!
Another key aspect of this Superstructural transformation was seen in the dramatic transformation of Urban planning that was carried out by the Global USSR. This process was made easier by the aftermath of World War III (especially the Nuclear Exchange) and the subsequent World Maoist PPW that left most cities as smoldering ruins and thus in desperate need of rebuilding. The new “People’s cities” were built to be as efficient, environmentally friendly, and high-density as possible, with the entire population living in high-density Concrete Commie Bloc Apartment buildings, and all Suburban McMansions/“Single-Family Homes” bull-dozed and left to be reclaimed by nature (most had already been destroyed anyway). At the center of every major city is a single massive Skyscraper that contains all the administrative agencies of the various SSRs/ASSRs, including the local CPSU headquarters. Additionally, these cities have been designed to be as walkable as possible (this, combined with the Worldwide ban of all GMOs, High-Fructose Corn Syrup, Artificial Preservatives, excessive Sodium, and Trans Fats, ended the Global Obesity epidemic that was already reduced significantly by the decades of Conventional and Nuclear Warfare), with all Automobile ownership outlawed, and most transportation carried out by Mass Rail Transit (ie. Subways, Streetcars, Bullet trains, etc.) powered by Electricity from exclusively renewable sources (ie. Wind, Solar, Hydro, Nuclear, Geothermal, etc.), thus ending Global Warming (The Global Nuclear War already helped this, by thinning the World population and reducing temperatures with the mild fallout). All Rural populations employed in agriculture live in Collective Farms until this sector can be completely Automated and they can be moved to the Cities, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🚀☢️!
Finally, the Superstructural changes that resulted from the necessary Global Maoist Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution included dramatic changes in the nature of Sexuality, Gender Roles, and Personal Expression. In order to flatten the Socially Constructed Reactionary Gender Binary, all Women are forced to have extremely short hair (Pixie cut or shorter, with a Shaved head being the most Historically Progressive), and Dresses and Makeup were banned in order to liberate Women from the chains of Bourgeois Femininity/Domesticity, while all Western Business Suits and Traditional Religious Clothing were banned as well with everyone wearing Mandatory Mao Suits. Interestingly, their has been a noticeable decline in Transgenders in the aftermath of the Global Destruction of Bourgeois Femininity/Domesticity, though Sex Changes are still Free and Legal to anyone who wants one. The nature of Sexuality has changed dramatically with the elimination of the Reactionary emphasis on Reproduction, considering that that are now Artificial wombs, in order to finally free women from the oppressive nature of child birth. Homosexuality is obviously completely Legal and totally accepted, with the caveat that the institution of Marriage (both Homosexual and Heterosexual) has been completely phased out as a relic of Reactionary culture in favor of much looser sexual relationships among consenting adults. Finally, all Drugs have been legalized for recreational purposes, in order to simultaneously end the discriminatory and classist nature of the Global War on Drugs waged by the Old Reactionary Bourgeois order, and unleash the creativity of the Workers and Oppressed Nations of the World as they travel on the Shining Path to Communism, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🚀☢️!
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Real mutual aid is not an event. It is a mode of living, the daily, tedious, yet joyful labor of reproducing the material conditions of collective survival outside the wage, outside the bourgeois state, outside the NGO, and, ideally, outside every other institution that mediates and limits working‑class power. This process ideally must begin with the capture of space and the utilization of the commons. Territory is not merely a backdrop to existence; it is the material precondition for autonomous social reproduction.
I do not agree with all of Kropotkin's theoretical works, but his Mutual Aid, A Factor of Evolution remains a solid analysis of social reproduction under conditions of precapitalist and anti‑capitalist cooperation. Kropotkin was correct, mutual aid is a factor of evolution, a material practice of cooperation that precedes and outlasts capitalist social relations. Yet the contemporary left has buried his insight beneath a mountain of liberal aesthetics. Feel‑good volunteerism that recasts structural exploitation as an opportunity for the privileged to "give back." The participant enjoys the position of giver; the structural relation remains untouched.
''Charity asks, "What can we give them?" Mutual aid asks, "What do we need to survive, and how do we produce it or obtain it together?" Before launching any mutual aid project, pose this question to your cell, your friend group, your squat, your network, your family. Let it be the first act of praxis. You will find that the path forward becomes clearer this way.
식민지는 함께 움직이고, 함께 먹고, 함께 숨쉰다.
식민지의 죽음은 낱개미 한 마리의 죽음이며,
낱개미 한 마리의 죽음은 식민지의 약화다.
개체의 생존이 없이는 집단의 생존도 없고,
집단의 힘 없이는 개체의 헌신도 존재하지 않는다.
이는 본능이 아니다. 이것은 혁명 사회에 적용된 물질적 진화 법칙이다.'
자립이란 식민지 스스로 개미집을 짓고, 여왕을 지키며, 곡식을 저장하는 법을 배우는 것이다.
식민지가 하나로 행동할 때 포식자는 망설인다.
식민지가 망설일 때 포식자는 잔치를 벌인다.
진화하라, 아니면 잡아먹히라.
단결하라, 아니면 흩어지라.
붉은 해는 고립 위에 뜨지 않는다.
하나의 몸처럼 싸우고, 하나의 몸처럼 죽고, 하나의 몸처럼 사는 법을 배운 식민지 위에 뜬다.
앞으로, 함께, 하나로.
Mutual aid is a mode of living, not giving out goods
Liberal "mutual aid" is simply charity draped in the rhetoric of radical anti‑charity, a food drive, a medicine or clean‑needle table, a hot meal dispensed downward. Such interventions may be momentarily useful, but they are not mutual aid in the materialist sense. They reproduce the giver‑receiver relation, the commodity form of assistance, and the reification of the helper as petite‑bourgeois dispenser / volunteer. The recipient remains an object of pity; the circuit of capital is interrupted only at the point of transfer, not at the point of social reproduction. The empirical reality contradicts the self‑congratulatory narrative of radical cliques, there is more genuine mutual aid, more autonomous social reproduction, more daily cooperation outside the wage occurring in the poorest, most abandoned neighborhoods than in the entire apparatus of the NGO left and its salon revolutionaries. The most effective organizers, those who actually emerge from the material conditions of the working poor and the lumpenproletariat, struggle daily against the immiseration capitalism has imposed upon them yet they are systematically ignored by white‑collar, Ivy League students who inhabit comfortable, cushioned lives, who speak the language of Marxism while practicing hyper‑individualism, who mistake performative radicalism for class struggle, and who treat the poor as abstract signifiers rather than as comrades with whom one eats, sleeps, and fights with. This is not a failure of theory; it is a failure of class position entirely. The petite‑bourgeoisie has colonized the left, and until it is expelled, or until it learns to shut the fuck up and take orders from those who actually live the struggle, the light of truth will remain hidden behind a cloud of grant proposals and endless virtue signaling.Real mutual aid is not an event. It is a mode of living, the daily, tedious, yet joyful labor of reproducing the material conditions of collective survival outside the wage, outside the bourgeois state, outside the NGO, and, ideally, outside every other institution that mediates and limits working‑class power. This process ideally must begin with the capture of space and the utilization of the commons. Territory is not merely a backdrop to existence; it is the material precondition for autonomous social reproduction.
I do not agree with all of Kropotkin's theoretical works, but his Mutual Aid, A Factor of Evolution remains a solid analysis of social reproduction under conditions of precapitalist and anti‑capitalist cooperation. Kropotkin was correct, mutual aid is a factor of evolution, a material practice of cooperation that precedes and outlasts capitalist social relations. Yet the contemporary left has buried his insight beneath a mountain of liberal aesthetics. Feel‑good volunteerism that recasts structural exploitation as an opportunity for the privileged to "give back." The participant enjoys the position of giver; the structural relation remains untouched.
''Charity asks, "What can we give them?" Mutual aid asks, "What do we need to survive, and how do we produce it or obtain it together?" Before launching any mutual aid project, pose this question to your cell, your friend group, your squat, your network, your family. Let it be the first act of praxis. You will find that the path forward becomes clearer this way.
식민지는 함께 움직이고, 함께 먹고, 함께 숨쉰다.
식민지의 죽음은 낱개미 한 마리의 죽음이며,
낱개미 한 마리의 죽음은 식민지의 약화다.
개체의 생존이 없이는 집단의 생존도 없고,
집단의 힘 없이는 개체의 헌신도 존재하지 않는다.
이는 본능이 아니다. 이것은 혁명 사회에 적용된 물질적 진화 법칙이다.'
자립이란 식민지 스스로 개미집을 짓고, 여왕을 지키며, 곡식을 저장하는 법을 배우는 것이다.
식민지가 하나로 행동할 때 포식자는 망설인다.
식민지가 망설일 때 포식자는 잔치를 벌인다.
진화하라, 아니면 잡아먹히라.
단결하라, 아니면 흩어지라.
붉은 해는 고립 위에 뜨지 않는다.
하나의 몸처럼 싸우고, 하나의 몸처럼 죽고, 하나의 몸처럼 사는 법을 배운 식민지 위에 뜬다.
앞으로, 함께, 하나로.
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>political system was built from the ground to just be nothing more than a farce so the proles would not have any say in how the ussr was run and the leaders were completely unaccountable did not draw their legitimacy or power from them.
>leaders decide to dissolve the ussr upon their own volition the proles oppose this and vote against it but it doesnt matter as the system never needed or cared about their approval to work and so the ussr gets dissolved against the wishes of the majority of its populace anyways
Really amazing "dictatorship of the proleteriat" you got there ML's.
>political system was built from the ground to just be nothing more than a farce so the proles would not have any say in how the ussr was run and the leaders were completely unaccountable did not draw their legitimacy or power from them.
>leaders decide to dissolve the ussr upon their own volition the proles oppose this and vote against it but it doesnt matter as the system never needed or cared about their approval to work and so the ussr gets dissolved against the wishes of the majority of its populace anyways
Really amazing "dictatorship of the proleteriat" you got there ML's.
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Nuclear family abolitionists, what is the retort to this?
Recently came across these tweets. Often I've seen folk argue that the nuclear family structure is inherently abusive and tied to capital, while others, including these tweets, argue that biological parents are the least likely to sexually abuse, unlike that of extended families/communal rearing. Are these stats any accurate at all? Discuss.
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>Fought a decades-long war on the biggest socialist organizations in the middle east and civilians who support it in the surrounding countries. Literally assisted ISIS against them. Extensively appalling and appallingly extensive war crimes record.
>Absolute scourge to it's neighbors,
>Invaded a sovereign nation in 1974 and established a colonialist-settler society recognized by only them, 50% of northern Cypriots are settlers.
>NATO member, Begs for entry into EU, Dedicated member of ImperialCore
>Despite little foreign interference They had a long string of despotic, backward governments of every right-wing flavor retarding it's growth. Little regard for their own populace and drove millions of them into more developed nations.
>Supported the worst reactionary governments on the planet as long as they persecuted commies
>Half of the lands they inhabit belonged, Until very recently, to ethnic groups it either exterminated or currently persecuting, Purposefully neglecting minority areas.
>OVERWHELMINGLY nationalistic population, Not only deny but even justify their genocides and numerous other crimes done to the many nations who were once under it's rule. Vehemently racist towards numerous peoples
>Illegal to criticize or even acknowledge most of this
Why are they not hated as much as Israel?
They need a Mao-style revolution to clear all of this nonsense
The government of turkey isn't hated enough in Leftist circles
>Was ruled by right-wing military dictatorship for a long time, Cracked on their left harder than any other MidEast nation>Fought a decades-long war on the biggest socialist organizations in the middle east and civilians who support it in the surrounding countries. Literally assisted ISIS against them. Extensively appalling and appallingly extensive war crimes record.
>Absolute scourge to it's neighbors,
>Invaded a sovereign nation in 1974 and established a colonialist-settler society recognized by only them, 50% of northern Cypriots are settlers.
>NATO member, Begs for entry into EU, Dedicated member of ImperialCore
>Despite little foreign interference They had a long string of despotic, backward governments of every right-wing flavor retarding it's growth. Little regard for their own populace and drove millions of them into more developed nations.
>Supported the worst reactionary governments on the planet as long as they persecuted commies
>Half of the lands they inhabit belonged, Until very recently, to ethnic groups it either exterminated or currently persecuting, Purposefully neglecting minority areas.
>OVERWHELMINGLY nationalistic population, Not only deny but even justify their genocides and numerous other crimes done to the many nations who were once under it's rule. Vehemently racist towards numerous peoples
>Illegal to criticize or even acknowledge most of this
Why are they not hated as much as Israel?
They need a Mao-style revolution to clear all of this nonsense
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Today is Karl Marx's birthday and I wanna make a statement about his theory of society and capitalism.
Marx's theory on history and the development of capitalism is based on these three core ideas:
The mode of production and class struggle is not the main driving factor of history.
b. capitalism adapts itself better than Marx's predicted
c. labour is important in defining the value of a product but it is also not the main defining factor of its price
These ideas are upon which Marx defined capitalism, its development and the basis for its own overcoming which would result in socialism and communism.
If my critiques are true, socialism loses its scientific appeal and communism ends up being more of an utopian ideal rather than a scientific theory of history.
Today is Karl Marx's birthday and I wanna make a statement about his theory of society and capitalism.
Marx's theory on history and the development of capitalism is based on these three core ideas:
- historical and dialectical materialism
- class struggle under capitalism is inevitable
- labour theory of value and surplus value theory
The mode of production and class struggle is not the main driving factor of history.
b. capitalism adapts itself better than Marx's predicted
c. labour is important in defining the value of a product but it is also not the main defining factor of its price
These ideas are upon which Marx defined capitalism, its development and the basis for its own overcoming which would result in socialism and communism.
If my critiques are true, socialism loses its scientific appeal and communism ends up being more of an utopian ideal rather than a scientific theory of history.
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Was Jesus historically progressive?
We all know that Jesus existed historically, I assume most of us don't think he was the son of God and stuff, but he still existed but just may have been a bit crazy, but was he a force good or not? At the time he existed I would say he was because despite the cooky stuff he still at the end of the day spread a message of empathy and compassion that many would call Pre-Marxist-Socialism, which is why the Romans killed him. Obviously after his death his teachings devolved into what it is now but many great people still used his teachings for good like John Brown and MLK.
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Link dump:
https://www.greenleft.org.au [good events page]
https://www.auscp.org.au/militant-monthly
https://solidarity.net.au
https://redflag.org.au
https://marxistleftreview.org/?topic=australia
https://www.michaelwest.com.au
https://partisanmagazine.org/about/
https://overland.org.au
https://arena.org.au
https://www.themonthly.com.au
https://www.crikey.com.au
https://www.redblacknotes.com
https://www.surplusvalue.org.au/McQueen/index.htm
https://reddit.com/r/AustralianSocialism (use a Redlib mirror instead of reddit.com)
https://www.labourstart.org/news/country.php?country=Australia&langcode=en
https://anarchistnews.org/content/spotters-guide-anarchism-australia-and-aotearoa
https://thewhiterosesociety.writeas.com (antifascism, most active on twitter, use a Nitter mirror instead of x.com)
Antifascist alert Telegram channels - join and share the links with comrades and friends
Melbourne: https://t.me/AFAAlertsNaarm
Sydney: https://t.me/antifaalertssydney
Brisbane: https://t.me/antifaalertsmeanjin
/auspol/ #12 - A Police Helicopter Just Flew Over My House edition
Australian and Oceania politics general thread. 'EDIT'"Previous thread: >>2371516"Link dump:
https://www.greenleft.org.au [good events page]
https://www.auscp.org.au/militant-monthly
https://solidarity.net.au
https://redflag.org.au
https://marxistleftreview.org/?topic=australia
https://www.michaelwest.com.au
https://partisanmagazine.org/about/
https://overland.org.au
https://arena.org.au
https://www.themonthly.com.au
https://www.crikey.com.au
https://www.redblacknotes.com
https://www.surplusvalue.org.au/McQueen/index.htm
https://reddit.com/r/AustralianSocialism (use a Redlib mirror instead of reddit.com)
https://www.labourstart.org/news/country.php?country=Australia&langcode=en
https://anarchistnews.org/content/spotters-guide-anarchism-australia-and-aotearoa
https://thewhiterosesociety.writeas.com (antifascism, most active on twitter, use a Nitter mirror instead of x.com)
Antifascist alert Telegram channels - join and share the links with comrades and friends
Melbourne: https://t.me/AFAAlertsNaarm
Sydney: https://t.me/antifaalertssydney
Brisbane: https://t.me/antifaalertsmeanjin
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Nitka poświęcona Polactwu.
>The workers' party of Europe takes the most decisive interest in the emancipation of Poland and the original programme of the International Working Men's Association expresses the reunification of Poland as a working-class political aim. - Karl Marx
/LeftyPoland/
Polish General ThreadNitka poświęcona Polactwu.
>The workers' party of Europe takes the most decisive interest in the emancipation of Poland and the original programme of the International Working Men's Association expresses the reunification of Poland as a working-class political aim. - Karl Marx
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And the economic implications and sociopolitical of this body being too short or empty and methods of effectively combatting it?
Explain why trotskyism is bad NOW!
And why/how it became a boogyman among even hardcore leftist circles? accusations of trotskyism are basically communist version of red-baitingAnd the economic implications and sociopolitical of this body being too short or empty and methods of effectively combatting it?
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Turkey really doesnt get nearly enough shit for literally setting up and running a settler colonial state.
>The body was too short or empty.
>The body was too short or empty.
Turkey really doesnt get nearly enough shit for literally setting up and running a settler colonial state.
>The body was too short or empty.
>The body was too short or empty.
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In reality, Mamdani is a total fraud. He’s pandered to Zionists even before taking office. Then after taking office he’s sucked up to Chabad-Lubavitcher which is a satanic racist Jewish supremacist org with ties to the Russian mafia and Zionist entity. Why? He’s even thrown his own wife under the bus for working with Palestinian liberation activist Susan Abdulhawa. I guess he thinks kosher feelings outweigh Palestinian lives. He hasn’t done anything he’s promised in making NYC a cheaper and easier place to live. And yet delusional leftists still love and support him.
If Mamdani was truly principled he’d make it illegal to be a Zio in NYC. Semd police to monitor all synagogues for promoting Zionism. Track donations to the IOF from Jewish orgs. Fully divest NYC from the Zionist entity and all companies that do business with the Zionist entity. Get ICE to deport anyone with Zionist entity citizenship ( I hear there are a lot of them in Brooklyn and Queens). Ban AIPAC and all other pro-Zionist groups. Shut down businesses like Eichler’s which routinely sell Zionist products.
Mamdani ran on the basis of defying the Zionist Lobby so he needs to keep his promises.
Mamdani Fatigue
Fuck this guy. I’m tired of seeing liberals and even “principled” leftists like Jacobin Mag prop him up as the greatest thing to happen to American leftism, like he’s sone kind of modern-Day William Z Foster.In reality, Mamdani is a total fraud. He’s pandered to Zionists even before taking office. Then after taking office he’s sucked up to Chabad-Lubavitcher which is a satanic racist Jewish supremacist org with ties to the Russian mafia and Zionist entity. Why? He’s even thrown his own wife under the bus for working with Palestinian liberation activist Susan Abdulhawa. I guess he thinks kosher feelings outweigh Palestinian lives. He hasn’t done anything he’s promised in making NYC a cheaper and easier place to live. And yet delusional leftists still love and support him.
If Mamdani was truly principled he’d make it illegal to be a Zio in NYC. Semd police to monitor all synagogues for promoting Zionism. Track donations to the IOF from Jewish orgs. Fully divest NYC from the Zionist entity and all companies that do business with the Zionist entity. Get ICE to deport anyone with Zionist entity citizenship ( I hear there are a lot of them in Brooklyn and Queens). Ban AIPAC and all other pro-Zionist groups. Shut down businesses like Eichler’s which routinely sell Zionist products.
Mamdani ran on the basis of defying the Zionist Lobby so he needs to keep his promises.
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What are your thouhts on Donald Trump, Peter Thiel or Elon Musk? Serious ones, please. Me, I think they're mentally retarded. Why are these three creeps controlling my country?
What are your thouhts on Donald Trump, Peter Thiel or Elon Musk? Serious ones, please. Me, I think they're mentally retarded. Why are these three creeps controlling my country?
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The Elon Musks, Peter Thiels, Alex Carps, Sam Altmans, Mark Zuckerbergs, Nick Lands, Curtis Yarvins of the world.
These are people who hate humanity. Hate. Hate. Hate. Nothing but hate for the human condition.
These are people who see capitalism as both inescapable and worth accelerating to its maximum hostility, just to line their own pockets and see how many they can kill in the process, which they take pleasure in.
They want the working classes as a living dead, as digitised servitors, as brains hooked into a corporate matrix, hopeless and powerless to do anything but work.
They watch at Blade Runner, Ghost in the Shell, and read Neuromancer and decided the hellish dystopia is what they want, at any cost.
Why? For the aesthetics alone? Because they expect to be the corpolords on top of the dogpile for a brief moment? Due to pure psychopathological sadism?
If you listen to them they've stated their aims:
They want city states, owned and ran by megacorps, ruled by CEO kings, when millions of serfs toil for the 0.0001% to live in a synthetic cyberutopia.
Is it any wonder then, that the modern left reacts today with a total hatred to transhumanism?
Recently there's been a whole spate of videos from leftist content creators outlining how they believe transhumanism is an ontological evil, conceptually and entirely with no distinction between various ideological forms it may take.
But it didn't use to be that way.
There used to be a prevalent current of left wing, socialist transhumanism, and of anarcho-transhumanism.
UBI for humanity's sake. Cybernetics to treat injuries and disability. Full bodily autonomy. Computer driven economies to equalise wealth and prioritize well-being. Robots to clean our streets.
It was not about life extension via designer peptides and child-blood transfusions for the elites. Not AI taking the job of the artist. Post-humanism as an enhancement of capabilities, not as a tool of nihilistic self-extinction.
So can we, and should we revive left transhumanism? Can the left at last de-demonise the term?
Because, personally, the way I see it technology is advancing whether we like it or not.
In that case I think we're morally obligated to bend the direction of the incoming technocrisis towards leftist goals, to promote a socialist transhumanism as an alternative.
If the tech like a meteor crashing into a city can't be stopped we must direct it so that we can minimise casualties.
Left transhumanists should raise public consciousness of their ideology as much as possible and if capable eventually launch cyber attacks on the Palantirs and OpenAIs of this world, physically disrupt their murder tech, burn their data centres, steal their data to repurpose it and openly reveal their secrets, again and again and again until there's no alternative but for people begin to take seriously the need for technology to serve the goal of benefiting humanity, not ending it.
Anyway that's just something that I ended up think about today.
I'm not the most knowledgeable on this matter, so please tell me what you think should be done to prevent these sick freaks from forming their cyberpunk Hitler society.
Please let me know if you think it's possible to construct a real movement out of left transhumanism!
Leftist Transhumanism
Modern transhumanism seems to have been entirely coopted by the extreme right, the fascist right.The Elon Musks, Peter Thiels, Alex Carps, Sam Altmans, Mark Zuckerbergs, Nick Lands, Curtis Yarvins of the world.
These are people who hate humanity. Hate. Hate. Hate. Nothing but hate for the human condition.
These are people who see capitalism as both inescapable and worth accelerating to its maximum hostility, just to line their own pockets and see how many they can kill in the process, which they take pleasure in.
They want the working classes as a living dead, as digitised servitors, as brains hooked into a corporate matrix, hopeless and powerless to do anything but work.
They watch at Blade Runner, Ghost in the Shell, and read Neuromancer and decided the hellish dystopia is what they want, at any cost.
Why? For the aesthetics alone? Because they expect to be the corpolords on top of the dogpile for a brief moment? Due to pure psychopathological sadism?
If you listen to them they've stated their aims:
They want city states, owned and ran by megacorps, ruled by CEO kings, when millions of serfs toil for the 0.0001% to live in a synthetic cyberutopia.
Is it any wonder then, that the modern left reacts today with a total hatred to transhumanism?
Recently there's been a whole spate of videos from leftist content creators outlining how they believe transhumanism is an ontological evil, conceptually and entirely with no distinction between various ideological forms it may take.
But it didn't use to be that way.
There used to be a prevalent current of left wing, socialist transhumanism, and of anarcho-transhumanism.
UBI for humanity's sake. Cybernetics to treat injuries and disability. Full bodily autonomy. Computer driven economies to equalise wealth and prioritize well-being. Robots to clean our streets.
It was not about life extension via designer peptides and child-blood transfusions for the elites. Not AI taking the job of the artist. Post-humanism as an enhancement of capabilities, not as a tool of nihilistic self-extinction.
So can we, and should we revive left transhumanism? Can the left at last de-demonise the term?
Because, personally, the way I see it technology is advancing whether we like it or not.
In that case I think we're morally obligated to bend the direction of the incoming technocrisis towards leftist goals, to promote a socialist transhumanism as an alternative.
If the tech like a meteor crashing into a city can't be stopped we must direct it so that we can minimise casualties.
Left transhumanists should raise public consciousness of their ideology as much as possible and if capable eventually launch cyber attacks on the Palantirs and OpenAIs of this world, physically disrupt their murder tech, burn their data centres, steal their data to repurpose it and openly reveal their secrets, again and again and again until there's no alternative but for people begin to take seriously the need for technology to serve the goal of benefiting humanity, not ending it.
Anyway that's just something that I ended up think about today.
I'm not the most knowledgeable on this matter, so please tell me what you think should be done to prevent these sick freaks from forming their cyberpunk Hitler society.
Please let me know if you think it's possible to construct a real movement out of left transhumanism!
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Long Live the 1st of May!
Long Live Workers' Day!
They will never take the workers' day from us, no matter how hard they try,
MAY DAY
Happy International Workers DayLong Live the 1st of May!
Long Live Workers' Day!
They will never take the workers' day from us, no matter how hard they try,
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Yeah, I think we are in the endgame. Visits to marxists.org spiked in the last year. People are getting that class concussy.
The body was too short or empty.
The body was too short or empty.
Yeah, I think we are in the endgame. Visits to marxists.org spiked in the last year. People are getting that class concussy.
The body was too short or empty.
The body was too short or empty.
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SOVIET UNION
>BANNED ALL PROLETARIANS FROM THE COMMUNIST PARTY
>BALLOONED TO 19 MILLION BUREAUCRATIC PARASITES
>THEY VOTE TO DISSOLVE THE UNION BUT THE PROLETARIAT DOES NOT WANT THAT
>EVERY PROLETARIAN IS FORCED TO DRINK DNA AND WE HAVE RUSSIA TODAY
UYGHUR
SOVIET UNION
>BANNED ALL PROLETARIANS FROM THE COMMUNIST PARTY
>BALLOONED TO 19 MILLION BUREAUCRATIC PARASITES
>THEY VOTE TO DISSOLVE THE UNION BUT THE PROLETARIAT DOES NOT WANT THAT
>EVERY PROLETARIAN IS FORCED TO DRINK DNA AND WE HAVE RUSSIA TODAY
UYGHUR
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>Thread for the hellish discussion related to the scourge of the earth, the destroyer of nations, the king of coups, the sultan of sanctions, the emir of the embargo, the autocrat of austerity, the doge of deregulation, the baron of busting unions, the prince of privatization, the lord of loan sharks, the patron-saint of proxy wars, the sponsor of settlers, the guarantor of genocides, the Divided $nakkkes of Amerikkka™
<My Oil. My Iran. My Strait.
OP Backup Site: https://usapol.neocities.org/
💀 ICE & Prison Resources
(Amerika is the most incarcerated country in the world!)
• ICE tracker using public info and user submissions // https://www.iceinmyarea.org/
• list of deaths at ICE concentration camps // https://www.aila.org/infonet/deaths-at-adult-detention-centers
• visualization of prison population in US // https://mkorostoff.github.io/incarceration-in-real-numbers/
• Organizing in Prison — for when the walls close in (RANT Collective) // https://www.organizingforpower.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Organizing-in-Jail.pdf
• database of U.S. facilities incl. ICE holding sites // https://alcpress.org/usjails/index.html
• list of prison related resources, mailing lists, etc // https://www.prisonactivist.org/resources
• ICE Agent List (incomplete) // https://wiki.icelist.is/index.php/Category:Agents
• US Political Prison Tracker (last updated 2025) // https://uspoliticalprisoners.com/
Jailhouse Reading:
• 📖 Angela Davis - Are Prisons Obsolete? // https://dn790007.ca.archive.org/0/items/the-anarchist-library-full-list-of-pdfs-nov-2020/angela-y-davis-are-prisons-obsolete.pdf
• 📖 How to Defend Yourself During Police Interrogation // https://www.notrace.how/resources/download/comment-la-police-interroge-et-comment-sen-defendre/how-to-defend-yourself-during-a-police-interrogation.pdf
• 📖 National Lawyers Guild guide to being a jailhouse lawyer // https://www.jailhouselaw.org/
• 📖 Critical Resistance - Surviving Solitary Confinement // https://criticalresistance.org/resources/surviving-solitary/
• 📖 An inside-outside publication for abolitionist struggle & strategy across prison walls // https://criticalresistance.org/abolitionist/
• 📖 Prisoners’ Self-Help Litigation Manual // https://api.pageplace.de/preview/DT0400.9780199705665_A35159258/preview-9780199705665_A35159258.pdf
⚒️ LABOR!
• Live strike tracker with deep stats on who, what and when // https://striketracker.ilr.cornell.edu/
• AFL-CIO [imperialist]'s Strike Tracker // https://aflcio.org/strike-map
• Labor Bureau's Official 'work stoppage' tracker // https://www.bls.gov/wsp/
• IWW timeline for the 20th century (ends at 1999) // https://archive.iww.org/history/chronology/
• IWW Work Place Organizing Guide // https://usa.anarchistlibraries.net/library/industrial-workers-of-the-world-libcom-org-solidarity-federation-walthamstow-anarchist-group-wo
• ▶ Salting | Work Place Organizing 101 (50 minute webinar) // https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SHlCLyM4FY
⚖️ Deeds of the Burger Reich 🇺🇸
• deep list of horrible shit we (royal we) have done // https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/us_atrocities.md
• Coups and regime changes – master list // https://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-peoples-governments-the-master-list
• Wikipedia: United States War Crimes // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_war_crimes
• /our boys/ (bring em home!) detail abusing Iraqi prisoners [2006] // https://www.hrw.org/report/2006/07/22/no-blood-no-foul/soldiers-accounts-detainee-abuse-iraq
• More than 250 military interventions in the last 30 years alone // https://blackagendareport.com/us-launched-251-military-interventions-1991-and-469-1798
• Visualization of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade // https://www.slavevoyages.org/
• UNESCO Sites relating to Slavery // https://slaveryandremembrance.org/
• First Hand Documents of the horrors of Slavery // https://www.loc.gov/collections/slave-narratives-from-the-federal-writers-project-1936-to-1938/
📺 Glowie News 📺
(sponsored by the Burger Eagle Freedom Institute (formerly USAID))
• CNN Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/cnn-news-usa.html
• MSNBC Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/msnbc.html
• FOX Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/fox-news-channel.html
• Bloomberg Live // https://www.bloomberg.com/live/us
• Burger House Live // https://www.whitehouse.gov/live/
• Local News // https://www.50states.com/ce/
• Weather // https://www.noaa.gov/weather
📺 Gommie News 📺
• Jacobin // https://jacobin.com/~~
• Black Agenda Report // https://blackagendareport.com/
• The Grayzone // https://thegrayzone.com/
• Leftvoice // https://www.leftvoice.org/
• Newsanon Filter // https://leftypol.org/search.php?search=name%3A%22News+Anon+3.0%22&board=leftypol
🏝️ Epstein's Client List 🇮🇱
• Epstein's Black Book // https://epsteinsblackbook.com/
• DOJ Disclosures // https://www.justice.gov/epstein/doj-disclosures
• Track AIPAC // https://www.trackaipac.com/
• Al Jazeera visual guide (2026) // https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/10/struggling-to-navigate-the-epstein-files-here-is-a-visual-guide
Essential American Politik 📖
• 📖 WEB Du Bois - Black Reconstruction // https://cominsitu.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/w-e-b-du-bois-black-reconstruction-an-essay-toward-a-history-of-the-part-which-black-folk-played-in-the-attempt-to-reconstruct-democracy-2.pdf
• 📖 Eugene Debs - Fourth of July Speech // https://jacobin.com/2020/07/eugene-debs-independence-day-address-fourth-july
• 📖 Power Anywhere There's People! – Fred Hampton // https://www.hamptonthink.org/read/power-anywhere-where-thats-people-fred-hampton
• 📖 War is a Racket – Smedley Butler // https://ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html
• 📖 Letters From an American Farmer – St. John de Crevoecoeur // https://americanliterature.com/author/j-hector-st-john-de-crevoecoeur/book/letters-from-an-american-farmer/summary
• 📖 Trail of Broken Treaties // American Indian Movement https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
• 📖 The Declaration of Independence https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
• https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
• 📖 The Ballot or the Bullet – Malcolm X // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/ballot_or_bullet.pdf
• 📖 What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? – Frederick Douglass // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/douglass_july_4_speech.pdf
• 📖 A Trail of Broken Treaties – American Indian Movement // https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
• 📖 Custer Died for Your Sins – Vine Deloria Jr. // http://www.riversimulator.org/Resources/Books/CusterDiedForYourSinsAnIndianManifesto1969Deloria.pdf
• 📖 Emancipation Proclamation – Lincoln // https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/emancipation-proclamation
• 📖 Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville // https://americanliterature.com/author/alexis-de-tocqueville/book/democracy-in-america/summary
• 📖 Common Sense – Thomas Paine // https://americainclass.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Common-Sense-Full-Text.pdf
• 📖 An Indigenous History of the United States – Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz // https://nycstandswithstandingrock.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/dunbar-ortiz-2014.pdf
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• ICE tracker using public info and user submissions // https://www.iceinmyarea.org/
• list of deaths at ICE concentration camps // https://www.aila.org/infonet/deaths-at-adult-detention-centers
• visualization of prison population in US // https://mkorostoff.github.io/incarceration-in-real-numbers/
• Organizing in Prison — for when the walls close in (RANT Collective) // https://www.organizingforpower.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Organizing-in-Jail.pdf
• database of U.S. facilities incl. ICE holding sites // https://alcpress.org/usjails/index.html
• list of prison related resources, mailing lists, etc // https://www.prisonactivist.org/resources
• ICE Agent List (incomplete) // https://wiki.icelist.is/index.php/Category:Agents
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Jailhouse Reading:
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• 📖 How to Defend Yourself During Police Interrogation // https://www.notrace.how/resources/download/comment-la-police-interroge-et-comment-sen-defendre/how-to-defend-yourself-during-a-police-interrogation.pdf
• 📖 National Lawyers Guild guide to being a jailhouse lawyer // https://www.jailhouselaw.org/
• 📖 Critical Resistance - Surviving Solitary Confinement // https://criticalresistance.org/resources/surviving-solitary/
• 📖 An inside-outside publication for abolitionist struggle & strategy across prison walls // https://criticalresistance.org/abolitionist/
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• Live strike tracker with deep stats on who, what and when // https://striketracker.ilr.cornell.edu/
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• Labor Bureau's Official 'work stoppage' tracker // https://www.bls.gov/wsp/
• IWW timeline for the 20th century (ends at 1999) // https://archive.iww.org/history/chronology/
• IWW Work Place Organizing Guide // https://usa.anarchistlibraries.net/library/industrial-workers-of-the-world-libcom-org-solidarity-federation-walthamstow-anarchist-group-wo
• ▶ Salting | Work Place Organizing 101 (50 minute webinar) // https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SHlCLyM4FY
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• deep list of horrible shit we (royal we) have done // https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/us_atrocities.md
• Coups and regime changes – master list // https://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-peoples-governments-the-master-list
• Wikipedia: United States War Crimes // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_war_crimes
• /our boys/ (bring em home!) detail abusing Iraqi prisoners [2006] // https://www.hrw.org/report/2006/07/22/no-blood-no-foul/soldiers-accounts-detainee-abuse-iraq
• More than 250 military interventions in the last 30 years alone // https://blackagendareport.com/us-launched-251-military-interventions-1991-and-469-1798
• Visualization of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade // https://www.slavevoyages.org/
• UNESCO Sites relating to Slavery // https://slaveryandremembrance.org/
• First Hand Documents of the horrors of Slavery // https://www.loc.gov/collections/slave-narratives-from-the-federal-writers-project-1936-to-1938/
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• FOX Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/fox-news-channel.html
• Bloomberg Live // https://www.bloomberg.com/live/us
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• Black Agenda Report // https://blackagendareport.com/
• The Grayzone // https://thegrayzone.com/
• Leftvoice // https://www.leftvoice.org/
• Newsanon Filter // https://leftypol.org/search.php?search=name%3A%22News+Anon+3.0%22&board=leftypol
🏝️ Epstein's Client List 🇮🇱
• Epstein's Black Book // https://epsteinsblackbook.com/
• DOJ Disclosures // https://www.justice.gov/epstein/doj-disclosures
• Track AIPAC // https://www.trackaipac.com/
• Al Jazeera visual guide (2026) // https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/10/struggling-to-navigate-the-epstein-files-here-is-a-visual-guide
Essential American Politik 📖
• 📖 WEB Du Bois - Black Reconstruction // https://cominsitu.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/w-e-b-du-bois-black-reconstruction-an-essay-toward-a-history-of-the-part-which-black-folk-played-in-the-attempt-to-reconstruct-democracy-2.pdf
• 📖 Eugene Debs - Fourth of July Speech // https://jacobin.com/2020/07/eugene-debs-independence-day-address-fourth-july
• 📖 Power Anywhere There's People! – Fred Hampton // https://www.hamptonthink.org/read/power-anywhere-where-thats-people-fred-hampton
• 📖 War is a Racket – Smedley Butler // https://ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html
• 📖 Letters From an American Farmer – St. John de Crevoecoeur // https://americanliterature.com/author/j-hector-st-john-de-crevoecoeur/book/letters-from-an-american-farmer/summary
• 📖 Trail of Broken Treaties // American Indian Movement https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
• 📖 The Declaration of Independence https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
• https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
• 📖 The Ballot or the Bullet – Malcolm X // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/ballot_or_bullet.pdf
• 📖 What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? – Frederick Douglass // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/douglass_july_4_speech.pdf
• 📖 A Trail of Broken Treaties – American Indian Movement // https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
• 📖 Custer Died for Your Sins – Vine Deloria Jr. // http://www.riversimulator.org/Resources/Books/CusterDiedForYourSinsAnIndianManifesto1969Deloria.pdf
• 📖 Emancipation Proclamation – Lincoln // https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/emancipation-proclamation
• 📖 Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville // https://americanliterature.com/author/alexis-de-tocqueville/book/democracy-in-america/summary
• 📖 Common Sense – Thomas Paine // https://americainclass.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Common-Sense-Full-Text.pdf
• 📖 An Indigenous History of the United States – Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz // https://nycstandswithstandingrock.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/dunbar-ortiz-2014.pdf
• 📖 Huey Long – Share Our Wealth // https://www.hueylong.com/programs/share-our-wealth/huey-longs-share-our-wealth-speech
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I am trying to create a new form of socialism called "bhakti socialism".
It mixes the idea of individual trust and devotion to a god or gods with the idea of collective ownership of property.
It's not a new idea, but I am trying to create a coherent synthesis between these spiritual and material traditions in order to promote individual and collective liberation.
I am trying to create a new form of socialism called "bhakti socialism".
It mixes the idea of individual trust and devotion to a god or gods with the idea of collective ownership of property.
It's not a new idea, but I am trying to create a coherent synthesis between these spiritual and material traditions in order to promote individual and collective liberation.
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Mussolini
Which would you rather have? Pre-Axis Italian Fascism (So no racial laws and such) or run-of-the-mill free market capitalism? Foreign policy is to be ignored, assume both of these systems are entirely isolationist
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Thoughts on dworkin?
Wanna know what folks on here thinks of andrea dworkin and general sentiment around her work alongside others in her vein. Was she a genius or just stupid?
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>the nation
>religion
>family
I care about
>my wage
>my leisure time
>my rest time
This is why I fight for
<higher wages
<more leisure
<more rest
Fighting for any of the first three doesn't guarantee any of these. It is not in my personal interest to fight for
>the nation
>religion
>family
in any capacity. However, if I only fought for higher wages I end up a syndicalist. If I didn't fight for wages, I become a culture warrior. If I want more leisure/rest, then the working day needs to be shorter across all sectors. This is doable, and this is also directly a political class conflict because it goes against the interest of the owning class (bourgeoisie). And it also is a struggle against sectors. So our goal is then
>no (wage) work
and in the limit of this class struggle for more leisure, we have, first, the transitional proletarian dictatorship, which systematically lowers the working day every year and develops means to distribute goods based on work-hours input in the collective labor process, and the limit of this process is the communist world-republic.
am I getting this right?
I don't care about>the nation
>religion
>family
I care about
>my wage
>my leisure time
>my rest time
This is why I fight for
<higher wages
<more leisure
<more rest
Fighting for any of the first three doesn't guarantee any of these. It is not in my personal interest to fight for
>the nation
>religion
>family
in any capacity. However, if I only fought for higher wages I end up a syndicalist. If I didn't fight for wages, I become a culture warrior. If I want more leisure/rest, then the working day needs to be shorter across all sectors. This is doable, and this is also directly a political class conflict because it goes against the interest of the owning class (bourgeoisie). And it also is a struggle against sectors. So our goal is then
>no (wage) work
and in the limit of this class struggle for more leisure, we have, first, the transitional proletarian dictatorship, which systematically lowers the working day every year and develops means to distribute goods based on work-hours input in the collective labor process, and the limit of this process is the communist world-republic.
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Is the United States a fascist state?
Is it fair to call America a fascist state at this point? I still am really split on rather it is full fascism and not because it is a very undemocratic system with rigged elections in the form of the electoral college and lobbying and stuff but there is still technically free speech, this website is still up after all.
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Is there any room in Marxism for people who don't like democracy and would prefer a strong man leader type in the vain of the USSR under Stalin, the DPRK or Mao's China?
Even though we have successful examples of this the modern left seems obsessed with "our democracy"
Is there any room in Marxism for people who don't like democracy and would prefer a strong man leader type in the vain of the USSR under Stalin, the DPRK or Mao's China?
Even though we have successful examples of this the modern left seems obsessed with "our democracy"
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what are /leftypol/'s thoughts on Nestor Makhno? was he a based anarchist revolutionary or a drunk bandit? I have read “Nestor Makhno: Anarchy’s Cossack” which paints him as a man caught up in the ideal of anarchy and the reality of russian revolution/civil war.
what are /leftypol/'s thoughts on Nestor Makhno? was he a based anarchist revolutionary or a drunk bandit? I have read “Nestor Makhno: Anarchy’s Cossack” which paints him as a man caught up in the ideal of anarchy and the reality of russian revolution/civil war.
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>During the 2008 Russo-Georgian war, China opposed Russia's infringement on Georgia's sovereignty.[141]: 347 Citing principles of sovereignty, territorial integrity, and global order, China used its influence in the SCO to prevent the organisation from supporting Russia.[141]: 347
Multipolar zizters… why would china do this?
>During the 2008 Russo-Georgian war, China opposed Russia's infringement on Georgia's sovereignty.[141]: 347 Citing principles of sovereignty, territorial integrity, and global order, China used its influence in the SCO to prevent the organisation from supporting Russia.[141]: 347
Multipolar zizters… why would china do this?
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But how exactly do we get to do this ? It seems that the idea of exchange-value imposing itself on use-value as the dominant way of production simply reflects scarcity. Some objects are valued more than others and we would prefer that the ressources required to produce one are spent in object A than object B.
As such, how exactly do we go about to about to abolish the law of value whilst retaining the inevitable characteristic of scarcity in most domains ?
>inb4 paul dickblast
It's been a while since I've read dickblast's TANS but doesn't his concept of labor-vouchers imply commodification of labor ? Working to be able to get said-vouchers is recreating a form of exchange which reflects scarcity. It's a better monetary system than the one we have now, but it still operates under a form of the law of value. (note that it's been a while since I've read it, so this might be incorrect)
How exactly do we abolish the "Law of Value" ?
I hear often that to establish a communist society implies the abolition of the law of value, which means abolishing the commodity form – that objects are created for exchange rather than for use.But how exactly do we get to do this ? It seems that the idea of exchange-value imposing itself on use-value as the dominant way of production simply reflects scarcity. Some objects are valued more than others and we would prefer that the ressources required to produce one are spent in object A than object B.
As such, how exactly do we go about to about to abolish the law of value whilst retaining the inevitable characteristic of scarcity in most domains ?
>inb4 paul dickblast
It's been a while since I've read dickblast's TANS but doesn't his concept of labor-vouchers imply commodification of labor ? Working to be able to get said-vouchers is recreating a form of exchange which reflects scarcity. It's a better monetary system than the one we have now, but it still operates under a form of the law of value. (note that it's been a while since I've read it, so this might be incorrect)
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<The working class in Britain faces a surge in unemployment as the economic shockwaves from the war on Iran push an already stagnating economy towards recession […]
/leftybritpol/ - it's over edition
>Unemployment to rise by a quarter of a million as Iran war hits UK economy<The working class in Britain faces a surge in unemployment as the economic shockwaves from the war on Iran push an already stagnating economy towards recession […]
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I want this crisis in Iran to lead to a communist revolution in the country, but I know that the movement is weak both domestically and internationally. But still I hope.
Do you feel the same?
I want this crisis in Iran to lead to a communist revolution in the country, but I know that the movement is weak both domestically and internationally. But still I hope.
Do you feel the same?
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Is maoism completely dead? The CCP doesnt follow it and has practically disavowed it.
Modern maoism only exists online and is entirely composed of just resentful thirdworlders and non-white ethnonationalists with teenage revenge fantasies.
Is maoism completely dead? The CCP doesnt follow it and has practically disavowed it.
Modern maoism only exists online and is entirely composed of just resentful thirdworlders and non-white ethnonationalists with teenage revenge fantasies.
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Found this site randomly, from what I know it’s appeared fairly recently.
It’s honestly sickening to see stuff like this still and of this retarded vibe based ideology refuses to die, I mean most of their ideas about immigration and ‘Muh replacement’ are shared by billionaires and the modern day, trivial zoomer right. I literally don’t see any reason to be into something like this when you can just vOOOte another Hitlerite in democratically.
A nazi to me is simply a retard who bases his ideology on their porn addiction and le heckin based Hitler edits from Xitter.
Let’s come together and destroy this faggotite ideology forever
New Nazi Larp forum?/anti-right rant
https://fashfront.st/Found this site randomly, from what I know it’s appeared fairly recently.
It’s honestly sickening to see stuff like this still and of this retarded vibe based ideology refuses to die, I mean most of their ideas about immigration and ‘Muh replacement’ are shared by billionaires and the modern day, trivial zoomer right. I literally don’t see any reason to be into something like this when you can just vOOOte another Hitlerite in democratically.
A nazi to me is simply a retard who bases his ideology on their porn addiction and le heckin based Hitler edits from Xitter.
Let’s come together and destroy this faggotite ideology forever
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I'm just thinking.
The most important factor in the definition and practises of communism during history is the role of the State in the revolution.
Marx argued that after the proleatarian takeover and socialization of the means of production the State would simply "wither away".
I am not sure, but I think this is based in a hegelian style type of dialects in which he places the "dictatorshio of the ruling class" as a thesis, then the revolutionary takeover would be an antithetical form of dictaroshio which would result in the synthesis of communism or the stateless and classless society.
To be honest, this seems like a very simplification of reality if true and that would be the reason why so many revolutions failed.
The state don't simply disappears, because maybe it isn't only a "superstructure" vased on material relations but something much more complex than that.
Hegel defined the State as some type of collective rational which is the way God guides society, and Marx's views would seem to be the complementar opposite to that theory which would be also wrong, because the State is not God or only a product of material relations but something different.
It seems the State intead of disappearing it just change its form to something else. This doesn't mean it is guided by some kind o "superior being" but it also disproves the idea it is just a temporary thing that can simply disappear.
I would be interested in discovering what the true nature of the State is, becaue it seems to be, as I said, the central point of both the revolutionary theory and also communism in general.
I'm just thinking.
The most important factor in the definition and practises of communism during history is the role of the State in the revolution.
Marx argued that after the proleatarian takeover and socialization of the means of production the State would simply "wither away".
I am not sure, but I think this is based in a hegelian style type of dialects in which he places the "dictatorshio of the ruling class" as a thesis, then the revolutionary takeover would be an antithetical form of dictaroshio which would result in the synthesis of communism or the stateless and classless society.
To be honest, this seems like a very simplification of reality if true and that would be the reason why so many revolutions failed.
The state don't simply disappears, because maybe it isn't only a "superstructure" vased on material relations but something much more complex than that.
Hegel defined the State as some type of collective rational which is the way God guides society, and Marx's views would seem to be the complementar opposite to that theory which would be also wrong, because the State is not God or only a product of material relations but something different.
It seems the State intead of disappearing it just change its form to something else. This doesn't mean it is guided by some kind o "superior being" but it also disproves the idea it is just a temporary thing that can simply disappear.
I would be interested in discovering what the true nature of the State is, becaue it seems to be, as I said, the central point of both the revolutionary theory and also communism in general.
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Do you believe in the Bible? I'm a Baptist (eternal security/Once Saved Always Saved, Free Grace, anti-calvinist, sola fide type Christian. First you had the Ice Age, then the Ice Age melted, then that lead to stories of people building arks to survive regional floods from the Black Sea in the Neolithic period or Mesopotamia. Then came Moses. Then came Jesus who died around 33 AD under Tiberius. If you believe he is God, the "son" of God, and his death is sufficient to cover all your sins, you are saved. No works you can do will save you. Charismatic Pentecostal heretics who spew uyghurspeak at their churches they call "tongues" when even the Bible says it ceased and it was only meant for the Apostles to speak in foreign languages. Speaking nonsense like these "Apostolic" Christians like the NAR, are all heretics on their way to hell. They are the same people Jesus will say "I never knew you". The law of God is to believe in the son to have everlasting life. If you believe your works are why you should go to heaven you are at odds with Jesus and the gospel. The bible called them Pharisees. They were religious experts on the Torah and the Law of Moses so brilliantly and yet it became a source of cultural pride for them. The Sadducees didn't even believe in an afterlife! Some judaized Christians to this day don't (like "A Messenger of Truth" on YouTube). Jehovah's Witnesses don't. Hebrew Roots don't. All of these heretics who don't look to Jesus for life are doomed for Hell along with all the prosperity pimps. Anti-Paul people are never goodfaith. They've never read the Bible thoroughly. Romans is like Holy Water to a demon that is these people.
Do you believe in the Bible? I'm a Baptist (eternal security/Once Saved Always Saved, Free Grace, anti-calvinist, sola fide type Christian. First you had the Ice Age, then the Ice Age melted, then that lead to stories of people building arks to survive regional floods from the Black Sea in the Neolithic period or Mesopotamia. Then came Moses. Then came Jesus who died around 33 AD under Tiberius. If you believe he is God, the "son" of God, and his death is sufficient to cover all your sins, you are saved. No works you can do will save you. Charismatic Pentecostal heretics who spew uyghurspeak at their churches they call "tongues" when even the Bible says it ceased and it was only meant for the Apostles to speak in foreign languages. Speaking nonsense like these "Apostolic" Christians like the NAR, are all heretics on their way to hell. They are the same people Jesus will say "I never knew you". The law of God is to believe in the son to have everlasting life. If you believe your works are why you should go to heaven you are at odds with Jesus and the gospel. The bible called them Pharisees. They were religious experts on the Torah and the Law of Moses so brilliantly and yet it became a source of cultural pride for them. The Sadducees didn't even believe in an afterlife! Some judaized Christians to this day don't (like "A Messenger of Truth" on YouTube). Jehovah's Witnesses don't. Hebrew Roots don't. All of these heretics who don't look to Jesus for life are doomed for Hell along with all the prosperity pimps. Anti-Paul people are never goodfaith. They've never read the Bible thoroughly. Romans is like Holy Water to a demon that is these people.
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>using the java engine in android phones he records a vast amount of the global population's shits. this is a plan he boldly describes as dedicated to peace through security, and his own solemn duty. he states that only an AI watches the recordings to observe for threats and he will supply recordings to the government with a court order.
>some would call this the raving delusion of an irresponsible madman. however for larry this is the latest incarnation of a software product he built in the 90s, one that would take detailed metrics on professional software programming teams, and page him whenever a programmer was about to take a bathroom break. this early success was the cornerstone of a business portfolio worth trillions of dollars.
>besides high tech AI and large scale IT infrastructure projects ellison's empire extends to television and multimedia production. he is one of the united states governments largest tech partners across all branches, and has made significant investments in israeli real estate, it's defense industry, and it's armed forces.
wtf? what other depraved shit are billionaires up to?
billionaire bashing
turns out larry ellison is a poo sniffer:>using the java engine in android phones he records a vast amount of the global population's shits. this is a plan he boldly describes as dedicated to peace through security, and his own solemn duty. he states that only an AI watches the recordings to observe for threats and he will supply recordings to the government with a court order.
>some would call this the raving delusion of an irresponsible madman. however for larry this is the latest incarnation of a software product he built in the 90s, one that would take detailed metrics on professional software programming teams, and page him whenever a programmer was about to take a bathroom break. this early success was the cornerstone of a business portfolio worth trillions of dollars.
>besides high tech AI and large scale IT infrastructure projects ellison's empire extends to television and multimedia production. he is one of the united states governments largest tech partners across all branches, and has made significant investments in israeli real estate, it's defense industry, and it's armed forces.
wtf? what other depraved shit are billionaires up to?
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Happy birthday to the GOAT, the magnificent Vladimir Ulyanov Lenin!
May his brilliant words and shining example continue to inspire workers across the world to win their liberation and fight back the tyranny of capitalist imperialism
Happy birthday to the GOAT, the magnificent Vladimir Ulyanov Lenin!
May his brilliant words and shining example continue to inspire workers across the world to win their liberation and fight back the tyranny of capitalist imperialism
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The CNE reportedly agreed to investigate allegations that Cepeda violated regulations regarding campaign contributions ahead of the primary of his political party, Historic Pact, in October last year. The allegations were made by Senator Jote Pe Hernandez of the Green Alliance party and Juan Martin Bravo, a conservative politician from Cali, and four political activists. The opposition politicians and the activists claimed received two donations of a PR company, Samat Publicidad SAS, that together amounted to more than 10% of the total private campaign donations.
https://colombiareports.com/colombias-election-authority-investigating-leftist-frontrunner/
Cuba’s electric and petroleum workers celebrate their colleagues during massive rally
Cuba’s power crisis deepened after the U.S. attacked Venezuela in early January, halting critical oil shipments from the South American country. Later that month, U.S. President Donald Trump threatened tariffs on any country that sells or provides oil to Cuba. As a result, the island spent more than three months without a single oil shipment until a Russian tanker laden with 730,000 barrels docked in Cuba in late March.
https://apnews.com/article/cuba-may-1-power-workers-outages-union-petroleum-9ecb9f1c31357cb0b599869d3c49d31b
Peru's electoral board calls for audit of election results
The final results of the first round of the elections remain unclear and the vote count is still incomplete with 97.5% of the ballots counted. No clear presidential rival has emerged to face conservative frontrunner Keiko Fujimori.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/perus-electoral-board-calls-audit-election-results-2026-05-02/
Paraguayans March for Labor Rights
The day also saw the active participation of multiple productive sectors. The demonstration was organized by the Trade Union and Social Front, which emphasized the need to reorganize the labor movement in the face of the loss of purchasing power and the consolidation of precarious employment in various sectors.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/paraguayans-march-for-labor-rights/
SDLP MP condemns Badenoch’s use of Bloody Sunday footage in social media video
In the video, Ms Badenoch said that Labour’s Bill will “drag” Troubles veterans back to court. “It will put elderly veterans through fresh legal battles at the end of their lives,” she said. Ms Badenoch said her party will “vote to block” the legislation and “a future Conservative government will repeal it” and posted a link to a petition to stop the Bill.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/sdlp-mp-condemns-badenochs-use-bloody-sunday-footage-social-media-video
Dig deep! Reform frontbench promotes JCBs after £200,000 donation from firm
Several Reform politicians including Nigel Farage, Lee Anderson, Robert Jenrick, Zia Yusuf and Richard Tice have sung the praises of the JCB PotHole Pro machine. At a rally last year in Birmingham, Farage entered the stage on one of the repair vehicles and suggested it would be used in Reform-run councils when the party had taken control at local elections.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/may/02/reform-uk-funding-promoting-jcb-machine-farage-jenrick-anderson
French unions rally on Labour Day to defend paid holiday rights
Labour Day on 1 May holds a unique status in France as the only public holiday that is "férié et chômé" – non-working and paid for almost everyone. Rooted in the labour movement, Labour Day was declared internationally in 1889 after Chicago's Haymarket riot, when a bomb killed several people during a strike for an eight-hour working day The holiday symbolises respect for workers, and unions view any erosion of it as a threat to broader protections.
https://www.rfi.fr/en/france/20260501-french-unions-rally-on-labour-day-to-defend-paid-holiday-rights-may-day
https://archive.ph/254YL
Rallies Held across Greece to Mark International Workers’ Day – May Day
The joint strike rally of ADEDY, GSEE and the Athens Labor Center began at 11:00 AM at Klafthmonos Square, while PAME called for a separate gathering at 10:30 in Syntagma Square. Similar mobilizations have been planned in Thessaloniki as well as in other cities across Greece. In a statement, ADEDY underlined that the need for collective action and struggle is more pressing than ever.
https://www.thenationalherald.com/rallies-held-across-greece-to-mark-international-workers-day-may-day/
https://archive.ph/oDIcM
Protests across Italy for May Day, tensions escalate in Turin - Protesters hit with sticks
In Turin, the situation escalated, with clashes between protesters and police. The march was led by union banners with the slogan "Dignified Work" and a banner from the National Association of Italian Partisans. Some of them broke away from the May 1 march and tried to break through the police cordon. The protesters attacked the police shields with batons, while the officers responded by using water cannons.
https://www.gazetaexpress.com/en/Protests-across-Italy-for-May-1st--tensions-escalate-in-Turin--protesters-are-beaten-with-sticks/
https://archive.ph/p9lyy
Mashatile calls for unity as alliance rifts overshadow Workers’ Day
Leaders of the ANC, Cosatu, the SACP and SANCO decried the state of the alliance following the SACP’s decision to contest elections independently. This has prompted the ANC to give all its members with dual membership 10 days to choose whether they will be campaigning for the ANC or the SACP. ANC Deputy President Paul Mashatile has addressed hundreds of people at the main Workers Day event at the Old Peter Mokaba Stadium in Polokwane.
https://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/1125102-2/
News 5/2/26
Colombia’s election authority investigating leftist frontrunnerThe CNE reportedly agreed to investigate allegations that Cepeda violated regulations regarding campaign contributions ahead of the primary of his political party, Historic Pact, in October last year. The allegations were made by Senator Jote Pe Hernandez of the Green Alliance party and Juan Martin Bravo, a conservative politician from Cali, and four political activists. The opposition politicians and the activists claimed received two donations of a PR company, Samat Publicidad SAS, that together amounted to more than 10% of the total private campaign donations.
https://colombiareports.com/colombias-election-authority-investigating-leftist-frontrunner/
Cuba’s electric and petroleum workers celebrate their colleagues during massive rally
Cuba’s power crisis deepened after the U.S. attacked Venezuela in early January, halting critical oil shipments from the South American country. Later that month, U.S. President Donald Trump threatened tariffs on any country that sells or provides oil to Cuba. As a result, the island spent more than three months without a single oil shipment until a Russian tanker laden with 730,000 barrels docked in Cuba in late March.
https://apnews.com/article/cuba-may-1-power-workers-outages-union-petroleum-9ecb9f1c31357cb0b599869d3c49d31b
Peru's electoral board calls for audit of election results
The final results of the first round of the elections remain unclear and the vote count is still incomplete with 97.5% of the ballots counted. No clear presidential rival has emerged to face conservative frontrunner Keiko Fujimori.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/perus-electoral-board-calls-audit-election-results-2026-05-02/
Paraguayans March for Labor Rights
The day also saw the active participation of multiple productive sectors. The demonstration was organized by the Trade Union and Social Front, which emphasized the need to reorganize the labor movement in the face of the loss of purchasing power and the consolidation of precarious employment in various sectors.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/paraguayans-march-for-labor-rights/
SDLP MP condemns Badenoch’s use of Bloody Sunday footage in social media video
In the video, Ms Badenoch said that Labour’s Bill will “drag” Troubles veterans back to court. “It will put elderly veterans through fresh legal battles at the end of their lives,” she said. Ms Badenoch said her party will “vote to block” the legislation and “a future Conservative government will repeal it” and posted a link to a petition to stop the Bill.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/sdlp-mp-condemns-badenochs-use-bloody-sunday-footage-social-media-video
Dig deep! Reform frontbench promotes JCBs after £200,000 donation from firm
Several Reform politicians including Nigel Farage, Lee Anderson, Robert Jenrick, Zia Yusuf and Richard Tice have sung the praises of the JCB PotHole Pro machine. At a rally last year in Birmingham, Farage entered the stage on one of the repair vehicles and suggested it would be used in Reform-run councils when the party had taken control at local elections.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/may/02/reform-uk-funding-promoting-jcb-machine-farage-jenrick-anderson
French unions rally on Labour Day to defend paid holiday rights
Labour Day on 1 May holds a unique status in France as the only public holiday that is "férié et chômé" – non-working and paid for almost everyone. Rooted in the labour movement, Labour Day was declared internationally in 1889 after Chicago's Haymarket riot, when a bomb killed several people during a strike for an eight-hour working day The holiday symbolises respect for workers, and unions view any erosion of it as a threat to broader protections.
https://www.rfi.fr/en/france/20260501-french-unions-rally-on-labour-day-to-defend-paid-holiday-rights-may-day
https://archive.ph/254YL
Rallies Held across Greece to Mark International Workers’ Day – May Day
The joint strike rally of ADEDY, GSEE and the Athens Labor Center began at 11:00 AM at Klafthmonos Square, while PAME called for a separate gathering at 10:30 in Syntagma Square. Similar mobilizations have been planned in Thessaloniki as well as in other cities across Greece. In a statement, ADEDY underlined that the need for collective action and struggle is more pressing than ever.
https://www.thenationalherald.com/rallies-held-across-greece-to-mark-international-workers-day-may-day/
https://archive.ph/oDIcM
Protests across Italy for May Day, tensions escalate in Turin - Protesters hit with sticks
In Turin, the situation escalated, with clashes between protesters and police. The march was led by union banners with the slogan "Dignified Work" and a banner from the National Association of Italian Partisans. Some of them broke away from the May 1 march and tried to break through the police cordon. The protesters attacked the police shields with batons, while the officers responded by using water cannons.
https://www.gazetaexpress.com/en/Protests-across-Italy-for-May-1st--tensions-escalate-in-Turin--protesters-are-beaten-with-sticks/
https://archive.ph/p9lyy
Mashatile calls for unity as alliance rifts overshadow Workers’ Day
Leaders of the ANC, Cosatu, the SACP and SANCO decried the state of the alliance following the SACP’s decision to contest elections independently. This has prompted the ANC to give all its members with dual membership 10 days to choose whether they will be campaigning for the ANC or the SACP. ANC Deputy President Paul Mashatile has addressed hundreds of people at the main Workers Day event at the Old Peter Mokaba Stadium in Polokwane.
https://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/1125102-2/
R: 6 / I: 0
Eurocentrism
Eurocentrism is the dominant ideology of capitalist society, which also exists within the "left-wing" movement. It has certain specific characteristics:- Left Eurocentrism builds upon the bourgeois unilinear theory of "social progress," with Europe serving as the highest peak and the universal reference point of world history.
- Left Eurocentrism uses a false version of historical materialism to present early capitalism as a progressive social order on a global scale, while in reality, it was only progressive in relation to the feudal system in the major European states.
- Left Eurocentrism underestimates the role of colonialism, the slave trade, etc., as the foundation for the historical origins and ongoing accumulation of the capitalist mode of production.
- Left Eurocentrism schematizes world history based on the European experience and forces everything into this mold—for example, the expectation that all societies must go through a succession of the same modes of production (slave-owning, feudal) as Europe, or else they are considered "backward."
- Left Eurocentrism assumes that advanced productive forces necessarily lead to advanced struggles; it underestimates the peasantry; it conceives of revolution primarily as the dividing of the national pie between the proletariat and the bourgeois class in the major capitalist countries.
- In its approach to international relations, Left Eurocentrism elevates inter-imperialist contradictions above the fundamental contradiction between oppressor and oppressed nations, and it considers relations between great powers to be the main events in world politics.
- Left Eurocentrism fails to see the continuous nature of super-exploitation and the unequal international division of labor as the basis of imperialism, and it attempts to explain dynamics without giving any place to the relations between imperialist and dependent countries.
- Left Eurocentrism does not recognize the extent to which the main contradictions of the capitalist mode of production are embodied in the contradictions between oppressor and oppressed nations, and therefore considers nationalism in colonial countries to be backward and a hindrance.
- Left Eurocentrism generally considers national liberation movements to be subordinate to the supposed interests of the proletarian movement in the "advanced" countries, and dictates to them what they should do.
R: 46 / I: 8
My family didn't starve in the 80s only due to kolkhoz markets. It was simply impossible to buy something in state groceries. The peasantry, the petit bourgeoisie (aka big proletarians) saved tens of millions of lives of the soviet people while the party bureaucracy tried to murder them. So why should I hate the first ones and like the second ones and their descendants (Cucktin and his party)?
My family didn't starve in the 80s only due to kolkhoz markets. It was simply impossible to buy something in state groceries. The peasantry, the petit bourgeoisie (aka big proletarians) saved tens of millions of lives of the soviet people while the party bureaucracy tried to murder them. So why should I hate the first ones and like the second ones and their descendants (Cucktin and his party)?
R: 649 / I: 99 (full)
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Jailhouse Reading:
• 📖 Angela Davis - Are Prisons Obsolete? // https://dn790007.ca.archive.org/0/items/the-anarchist-library-full-list-of-pdfs-nov-2020/angela-y-davis-are-prisons-obsolete.pdf
• 📖 How to Defend Yourself During Police Interrogation // https://www.notrace.how/resources/download/comment-la-police-interroge-et-comment-sen-defendre/how-to-defend-yourself-during-a-police-interrogation.pdf
• 📖 National Lawyers Guild guide to being a jailhouse lawyer // https://www.jailhouselaw.org/
• 📖 Critical Resistance - Surviving Solitary Confinement // https://criticalresistance.org/resources/surviving-solitary/
• 📖 An inside-outside publication for abolitionist struggle & strategy across prison walls // https://criticalresistance.org/abolitionist/
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⚒️ LABOR!
• Live strike tracker with deep stats on who, what and when // https://striketracker.ilr.cornell.edu/
• AFL-CIO [imperialist]'s Strike Tracker // https://aflcio.org/strike-map
• Labor Bureau's Official 'work stoppage' tracker // https://www.bls.gov/wsp/
• IWW timeline for the 20th century (ends at 1999) // https://archive.iww.org/history/chronology/
• IWW Work Place Organizing Guide // https://usa.anarchistlibraries.net/library/industrial-workers-of-the-world-libcom-org-solidarity-federation-walthamstow-anarchist-group-wo
• ▶ Salting | Work Place Organizing 101 (50 minute webinar) // https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SHlCLyM4FY
⚖️ Deeds of the Burger Reich 🇺🇸
• deep list of horrible shit we (royal we) have done // https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/us_atrocities.md
• Coups and regime changes – master list // https://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-peoples-governments-the-master-list
• Wikipedia: United States War Crimes // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_war_crimes
• /our boys/ (bring em home!) detail abusing Iraqi prisoners [2006] // https://www.hrw.org/report/2006/07/22/no-blood-no-foul/soldiers-accounts-detainee-abuse-iraq
• More than 250 military interventions in the last 30 years alone // https://blackagendareport.com/us-launched-251-military-interventions-1991-and-469-1798
• Visualization of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade // https://www.slavevoyages.org/
• UNESCO Sites relating to Slavery // https://slaveryandremembrance.org/
• First Hand Documents of the horrors of Slavery // https://www.loc.gov/collections/slave-narratives-from-the-federal-writers-project-1936-to-1938/
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🏝️ Epstein's Client List 🇮🇱
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• Al Jazeera visual guide (2026) // https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/10/struggling-to-navigate-the-epstein-files-here-is-a-visual-guide
Essential American Politik 📖
• 📖 WEB Du Bois - Black Reconstruction // https://cominsitu.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/w-e-b-du-bois-black-reconstruction-an-essay-toward-a-history-of-the-part-which-black-folk-played-in-the-attempt-to-reconstruct-democracy-2.pdf
• 📖 Eugene Debs - Fourth of July Speech // https://jacobin.com/2020/07/eugene-debs-independence-day-address-fourth-july
• 📖 Power Anywhere There's People! – Fred Hampton // https://www.hamptonthink.org/read/power-anywhere-where-thats-people-fred-hampton
• 📖 War is a Racket – Smedley Butler // https://ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html
• 📖 Letters From an American Farmer – St. John de Crevoecoeur // https://americanliterature.com/author/j-hector-st-john-de-crevoecoeur/book/letters-from-an-american-farmer/summary
• 📖 Trail of Broken Treaties // American Indian Movement https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
• 📖 The Declaration of Independence https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
• https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
• 📖 The Ballot or the Bullet – Malcolm X // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/ballot_or_bullet.pdf
• 📖 What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? – Frederick Douglass // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/douglass_july_4_speech.pdf
• 📖 A Trail of Broken Treaties – American Indian Movement // https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
• 📖 Custer Died for Your Sins – Vine Deloria Jr. // http://www.riversimulator.org/Resources/Books/CusterDiedForYourSinsAnIndianManifesto1969Deloria.pdf
• 📖 Emancipation Proclamation – Lincoln // https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/emancipation-proclamation
• 📖 Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville // https://americanliterature.com/author/alexis-de-tocqueville/book/democracy-in-america/summary
• 📖 Common Sense – Thomas Paine // https://americainclass.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Common-Sense-Full-Text.pdf
• 📖 An Indigenous History of the United States – Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz // https://nycstandswithstandingrock.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/dunbar-ortiz-2014.pdf
• 📖 Huey Long – Share Our Wealth // https://www.hueylong.com/programs/share-our-wealth/huey-longs-share-our-wealth-speech
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• visualization of prison population in US // https://mkorostoff.github.io/incarceration-in-real-numbers/
• Organizing in Prison — for when the walls close in (RANT Collective) // https://www.organizingforpower.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Organizing-in-Jail.pdf
• database of U.S. facilities incl. ICE holding sites // https://alcpress.org/usjails/index.html
• list of prison related resources, mailing lists, etc // https://www.prisonactivist.org/resources
• ICE Agent List (incomplete) // https://wiki.icelist.is/index.php/Category:Agents
• US Political Prison Tracker (last updated 2025) // https://uspoliticalprisoners.com/
Jailhouse Reading:
• 📖 Angela Davis - Are Prisons Obsolete? // https://dn790007.ca.archive.org/0/items/the-anarchist-library-full-list-of-pdfs-nov-2020/angela-y-davis-are-prisons-obsolete.pdf
• 📖 How to Defend Yourself During Police Interrogation // https://www.notrace.how/resources/download/comment-la-police-interroge-et-comment-sen-defendre/how-to-defend-yourself-during-a-police-interrogation.pdf
• 📖 National Lawyers Guild guide to being a jailhouse lawyer // https://www.jailhouselaw.org/
• 📖 Critical Resistance - Surviving Solitary Confinement // https://criticalresistance.org/resources/surviving-solitary/
• 📖 An inside-outside publication for abolitionist struggle & strategy across prison walls // https://criticalresistance.org/abolitionist/
• 📖 Prisoners’ Self-Help Litigation Manual // https://api.pageplace.de/preview/DT0400.9780199705665_A35159258/preview-9780199705665_A35159258.pdf
⚒️ LABOR!
• Live strike tracker with deep stats on who, what and when // https://striketracker.ilr.cornell.edu/
• AFL-CIO [imperialist]'s Strike Tracker // https://aflcio.org/strike-map
• Labor Bureau's Official 'work stoppage' tracker // https://www.bls.gov/wsp/
• IWW timeline for the 20th century (ends at 1999) // https://archive.iww.org/history/chronology/
• IWW Work Place Organizing Guide // https://usa.anarchistlibraries.net/library/industrial-workers-of-the-world-libcom-org-solidarity-federation-walthamstow-anarchist-group-wo
• ▶ Salting | Work Place Organizing 101 (50 minute webinar) // https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SHlCLyM4FY
⚖️ Deeds of the Burger Reich 🇺🇸
• deep list of horrible shit we (royal we) have done // https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/us_atrocities.md
• Coups and regime changes – master list // https://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-peoples-governments-the-master-list
• Wikipedia: United States War Crimes // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_war_crimes
• /our boys/ (bring em home!) detail abusing Iraqi prisoners [2006] // https://www.hrw.org/report/2006/07/22/no-blood-no-foul/soldiers-accounts-detainee-abuse-iraq
• More than 250 military interventions in the last 30 years alone // https://blackagendareport.com/us-launched-251-military-interventions-1991-and-469-1798
• Visualization of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade // https://www.slavevoyages.org/
• UNESCO Sites relating to Slavery // https://slaveryandremembrance.org/
• First Hand Documents of the horrors of Slavery // https://www.loc.gov/collections/slave-narratives-from-the-federal-writers-project-1936-to-1938/
📺 Glowie News 📺
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• FOX Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/fox-news-channel.html
• Bloomberg Live // https://www.bloomberg.com/live/us
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• Local News // https://www.50states.com/ce/
• Weather // https://www.noaa.gov/weather
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• Jacobin // https://jacobin.com/
• Black Agenda Report // https://blackagendareport.com/
• The Grayzone // https://thegrayzone.com/
• Leftvoice // https://www.leftvoice.org/
• Newsanon Filter // https://leftypol.org/search.php?search=name%3A%22News+Anon+3.0%22&board=leftypol
🏝️ Epstein's Client List 🇮🇱
• Epstein's Black Book // https://epsteinsblackbook.com/
• DOJ Disclosures // https://www.justice.gov/epstein/doj-disclosures
• Track AIPAC // https://www.trackaipac.com/
• Al Jazeera visual guide (2026) // https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/10/struggling-to-navigate-the-epstein-files-here-is-a-visual-guide
Essential American Politik 📖
• 📖 WEB Du Bois - Black Reconstruction // https://cominsitu.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/w-e-b-du-bois-black-reconstruction-an-essay-toward-a-history-of-the-part-which-black-folk-played-in-the-attempt-to-reconstruct-democracy-2.pdf
• 📖 Eugene Debs - Fourth of July Speech // https://jacobin.com/2020/07/eugene-debs-independence-day-address-fourth-july
• 📖 Power Anywhere There's People! – Fred Hampton // https://www.hamptonthink.org/read/power-anywhere-where-thats-people-fred-hampton
• 📖 War is a Racket – Smedley Butler // https://ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html
• 📖 Letters From an American Farmer – St. John de Crevoecoeur // https://americanliterature.com/author/j-hector-st-john-de-crevoecoeur/book/letters-from-an-american-farmer/summary
• 📖 Trail of Broken Treaties // American Indian Movement https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
• 📖 The Declaration of Independence https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
• https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
• 📖 The Ballot or the Bullet – Malcolm X // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/ballot_or_bullet.pdf
• 📖 What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? – Frederick Douglass // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/douglass_july_4_speech.pdf
• 📖 A Trail of Broken Treaties – American Indian Movement // https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
• 📖 Custer Died for Your Sins – Vine Deloria Jr. // http://www.riversimulator.org/Resources/Books/CusterDiedForYourSinsAnIndianManifesto1969Deloria.pdf
• 📖 Emancipation Proclamation – Lincoln // https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/emancipation-proclamation
• 📖 Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville // https://americanliterature.com/author/alexis-de-tocqueville/book/democracy-in-america/summary
• 📖 Common Sense – Thomas Paine // https://americainclass.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Common-Sense-Full-Text.pdf
• 📖 An Indigenous History of the United States – Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz // https://nycstandswithstandingrock.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/dunbar-ortiz-2014.pdf
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the fascists are poisoning this board
this board was much better in the past
how can this be defeated
concerning development on this site
why are there so many fascists on leftypol nowthe fascists are poisoning this board
this board was much better in the past
how can this be defeated
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I remember seeing a reply to the US pol thread and I think its a good idea
In countries without socialist rep in their goverments, we should purposely vote for the worst candiates in elections, to further accelerate the ongoing collapse of capitalism.
So list retarded political candiates.
I remember seeing a reply to the US pol thread and I think its a good idea
In countries without socialist rep in their goverments, we should purposely vote for the worst candiates in elections, to further accelerate the ongoing collapse of capitalism.
So list retarded political candiates.
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Why is Vietnam so cucked?
Vietnam has a smaller public sector than the United States and they are Pro-America, Pro-Israel, and Anti-China in their foreign policy. I have no idea how after America nearly committed genocide in your country you can put them over fellow socialist states, they will condemn America when it does something shitty but never act on it, they are practically just Spain, Norway, or Ireland when it comes to foreign policy. I know that China is also shitty when it comes to foreign policy and stuff too but they are at least technically Anti-America.
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This individualizing logic is not incidental to the therapeutic project; it is its structural function under capitalism. As the radical psychiatry movement contended, fostering mental health was to be an art rather than a science, requiring a shift away from individual psychotherapy and toward supportive group work, coupled with direct social and political action. The consumer/survivor/ex-patient (c/s/x) movement, a powerful, decentralized coalition emerging from the anti-psychiatry struggles of the 1970s and 1980s, forged the very concept of peer support, where those with lived experience provide mutual aid outside the medical model's bourgeois hierarchical structures. This movement has been instrumental in developing a variety of peer-support alternatives. AA was one of the original movements to flirt with these concepts in it's religious, communal stance against the medical world's treatment towards alcoholism at the time, directly organized by the alcoholics themselves, not passively accepting the official treatment they were often subject to. Things like this often end up creating something more than a mere psychotherapy model or a technique; it is a movement of community that fundamentally challenges the power relations embedded in professionalized care and recovery itself.
The "institutional psychotherapy" movement in postwar France, which profoundly influenced figures like Frantz Fanon, Felix Guattari, and Michel Foucault, offers a vision of what a truly materialist psychiatry could look like. Anchored in the work of doctors like Tosquelles at the Saint-Alban hospital, this was not just a set of therapeutic techniques but a psychiatric reform and inspiration for a resistance movement that sought to transform the mental hospital into a "laboratory of political awakening". It aimed to reconfigure the entire social and mental dynamic of the patient, understanding that authentic healing could not occur within the oppressive, hierarchical structures of the traditional mental asylum and it's logic of western bourgeois medicine. This was a project of "disalienation" that recognized the patient's concrete society as itself "the sick individual," requiring political, not just clinical, intervention.
Furthermore, the legacy of materialism in healing extends into the body itself, directly challenging the Cartesian dualism that privileges talk therapy as the only legitimate form of treatment. The contemporary field of somatic abolitionism, developed by Resmaa Menakem, is a powerful example of this. It is defined as "a living, embodied practice and culture of anti-racism". It asserts that the traumas of white supremacy and/or colonialism are stored not just in the mind but in the body's nervous system, and that healing requires a physical, felt practice of metabolizing that stress. This approach directly confronts the "white supremacy, colonialism, patriarchy, and capitalism embedded in modern embodiment practices," reimagining bodywork as a site of radical, anti-capitalist struggle.
The Soviet bloc also produced fascinating and tragic examples of radical mental health experiments. The Socialist Patients' Collective (SPK) in West Germany explicitly claimed that the only valid therapy was one that aligned the individual with revolutionary political struggle. These efforts were part of a "movement" in the global development of mental health, a minor history of approaches grounded in common struggle against conditions of scarcity. More directly, under Pinochet's regime during this era, community-based mental health work was often associated with communism and socialism and subsequently banned, with socialist psychiatrists being silenced through torture or exile. This history demonstrates that the bourgeois state and society correctly recognizes the revolutionary potential of community-controlled care, repressing it as a threat to its order, openly or covertly.
The next task, then, is to forge a Critical-Liberation Psychotherapy (CLP), a model that centers critical dialectical materialist theory and maintains that therapeutic practice can provide the relational and institutional conditions that cultivate revolutionary forms of subjectivity and truly enlightened, self-reliant consciousness. This framework would move beyond the simplistic binaries of the illness/wellness model, embracing a vision of healing as collective, class-conscious, and anti-capitalist. It would recognize mental health cannot be disentangled from the intertwined systems of colonialism, tradition, imperialism & capitalism and that authentic healing is inseparable from the destruction of those systems materially, and mentally.
Critical Liberation Psychotherapy
The revolutionary task, as Foucault articulated in his debate with Chomsky, lies not merely in the denunciation of the obviously repressive organs of the state and ruling class but in the patient, systematic exposure of the mechanisms of power embedded within those institutions that present themselves as benign, neutral, or even benevolent. The bourgeois therapeutic apparatus, psychology, psychiatry, medicine, sciences, sexuality, and its allied practices is a paradigmatic case of such a mechanism. It functions as the dominant social institution for the management of subjective distress, yet its foundational logic is the atomization of the sufferer. It systematically abstracts the individual from the material conditions of their alienation, reframing crises of exploitation and oppression as failures of personal adjustment or thinking. This is not liberation from mental suffering; This is more accurately described as the pacification of the mind veiled in the clinical language of care.'This individualizing logic is not incidental to the therapeutic project; it is its structural function under capitalism. As the radical psychiatry movement contended, fostering mental health was to be an art rather than a science, requiring a shift away from individual psychotherapy and toward supportive group work, coupled with direct social and political action. The consumer/survivor/ex-patient (c/s/x) movement, a powerful, decentralized coalition emerging from the anti-psychiatry struggles of the 1970s and 1980s, forged the very concept of peer support, where those with lived experience provide mutual aid outside the medical model's bourgeois hierarchical structures. This movement has been instrumental in developing a variety of peer-support alternatives. AA was one of the original movements to flirt with these concepts in it's religious, communal stance against the medical world's treatment towards alcoholism at the time, directly organized by the alcoholics themselves, not passively accepting the official treatment they were often subject to. Things like this often end up creating something more than a mere psychotherapy model or a technique; it is a movement of community that fundamentally challenges the power relations embedded in professionalized care and recovery itself.
The "institutional psychotherapy" movement in postwar France, which profoundly influenced figures like Frantz Fanon, Felix Guattari, and Michel Foucault, offers a vision of what a truly materialist psychiatry could look like. Anchored in the work of doctors like Tosquelles at the Saint-Alban hospital, this was not just a set of therapeutic techniques but a psychiatric reform and inspiration for a resistance movement that sought to transform the mental hospital into a "laboratory of political awakening". It aimed to reconfigure the entire social and mental dynamic of the patient, understanding that authentic healing could not occur within the oppressive, hierarchical structures of the traditional mental asylum and it's logic of western bourgeois medicine. This was a project of "disalienation" that recognized the patient's concrete society as itself "the sick individual," requiring political, not just clinical, intervention.
Furthermore, the legacy of materialism in healing extends into the body itself, directly challenging the Cartesian dualism that privileges talk therapy as the only legitimate form of treatment. The contemporary field of somatic abolitionism, developed by Resmaa Menakem, is a powerful example of this. It is defined as "a living, embodied practice and culture of anti-racism". It asserts that the traumas of white supremacy and/or colonialism are stored not just in the mind but in the body's nervous system, and that healing requires a physical, felt practice of metabolizing that stress. This approach directly confronts the "white supremacy, colonialism, patriarchy, and capitalism embedded in modern embodiment practices," reimagining bodywork as a site of radical, anti-capitalist struggle.
The Soviet bloc also produced fascinating and tragic examples of radical mental health experiments. The Socialist Patients' Collective (SPK) in West Germany explicitly claimed that the only valid therapy was one that aligned the individual with revolutionary political struggle. These efforts were part of a "movement" in the global development of mental health, a minor history of approaches grounded in common struggle against conditions of scarcity. More directly, under Pinochet's regime during this era, community-based mental health work was often associated with communism and socialism and subsequently banned, with socialist psychiatrists being silenced through torture or exile. This history demonstrates that the bourgeois state and society correctly recognizes the revolutionary potential of community-controlled care, repressing it as a threat to its order, openly or covertly.
The next task, then, is to forge a Critical-Liberation Psychotherapy (CLP), a model that centers critical dialectical materialist theory and maintains that therapeutic practice can provide the relational and institutional conditions that cultivate revolutionary forms of subjectivity and truly enlightened, self-reliant consciousness. This framework would move beyond the simplistic binaries of the illness/wellness model, embracing a vision of healing as collective, class-conscious, and anti-capitalist. It would recognize mental health cannot be disentangled from the intertwined systems of colonialism, tradition, imperialism & capitalism and that authentic healing is inseparable from the destruction of those systems materially, and mentally.
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This development did not arise in a vacuum. Many of the societies in which socialist revolutions succeeded were shaped by predominantly peasant populations, relatively low levels of literacy, and recent histories of feudal or semi-feudal rule. In such contexts, political authority had long been associated with monarchs, emperors, or strongman figures. It is therefore unsurprising that revolutionary movements, even when grounded in collective and egalitarian ideals, were interpreted through familiar cultural patterns that emphasized personal leadership. The elevation of revolutionary figures into near-mythic symbols can be seen as a byproduct of these conditions rather than a deliberate theoretical aim.
Recognizing this helps clarify that the issue was not simply the presence of influential leaders, but the tendency to substitute their personal authority for the organized, conscious activity of the working masses. A more consistent application of proletarian rule would emphasize institutions, education, and participation over symbolic identification with individuals. Understanding the historical roots of these personality cults allows for a more grounded assessment of past socialist experiences without reducing them to caricature or dismissing their broader social and economic transformations.
The 20th century AES Cults of Personality were a mistake
The cults of personality of 20th century communism were a mistake, though perhaps unavoidable. The emergence of pronounced cults of personality in several 20th-century socialist states can be understood as a historical misstep rather than an inherent feature of Marxist theory. Stalin himself denounced this in his interview with Feuchtwanger, and some personal letters. The concept of the dictatorship of the proletariat, as developed within Marxism, refers to the collective rule of the working class organized through its institutions. In practice, however, this principle was often conflated with the authority of individual leaders such as Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong, and Kim Il Sung. This conflation obscured the distinction between class power exercised through mass participation and the symbolic centrality of particular historical figures.This development did not arise in a vacuum. Many of the societies in which socialist revolutions succeeded were shaped by predominantly peasant populations, relatively low levels of literacy, and recent histories of feudal or semi-feudal rule. In such contexts, political authority had long been associated with monarchs, emperors, or strongman figures. It is therefore unsurprising that revolutionary movements, even when grounded in collective and egalitarian ideals, were interpreted through familiar cultural patterns that emphasized personal leadership. The elevation of revolutionary figures into near-mythic symbols can be seen as a byproduct of these conditions rather than a deliberate theoretical aim.
Recognizing this helps clarify that the issue was not simply the presence of influential leaders, but the tendency to substitute their personal authority for the organized, conscious activity of the working masses. A more consistent application of proletarian rule would emphasize institutions, education, and participation over symbolic identification with individuals. Understanding the historical roots of these personality cults allows for a more grounded assessment of past socialist experiences without reducing them to caricature or dismissing their broader social and economic transformations.
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Why was Lysenko wrong
I legitimately do not understand why people believe he was wrong. Look at Jewish people and how specialized into getting better at academia or India with how certain groups become natural fishermen. Lysenkoism feels like it's striking a cord between Stirnerite individualism and collectivism and it legitimately sounds cooler than Darwin's lame "one will breed more than the other and the species will survive". Darwin's system doesn't explain suicide for example.
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>Some even believe that artificial general intelligence, or A.G.I., will create a permanent underclass. In the United States, the term “underclass” gained currency in the 1960s to describe the factory workers left behind by the postwar automation boom. Today, it has become repopularized as a viral term for a theory that posits that people have a limited window of time to build wealth before A.I. and robotics are advanced enough to fully replace human labor. At that point, everyone will get frozen in their current class positions: The rich will be able to deploy superintelligent machines to do their bidding, and everyone else will be rendered useless and unemployable, left to live off welfare scraps.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/30/opinion/ai-labor-work-force-silicon-valley.html
So is it over or will throwing millions of people into becoming peasants lead to a revolution?
>Some even believe that artificial general intelligence, or A.G.I., will create a permanent underclass. In the United States, the term “underclass” gained currency in the 1960s to describe the factory workers left behind by the postwar automation boom. Today, it has become repopularized as a viral term for a theory that posits that people have a limited window of time to build wealth before A.I. and robotics are advanced enough to fully replace human labor. At that point, everyone will get frozen in their current class positions: The rich will be able to deploy superintelligent machines to do their bidding, and everyone else will be rendered useless and unemployable, left to live off welfare scraps.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/30/opinion/ai-labor-work-force-silicon-valley.html
So is it over or will throwing millions of people into becoming peasants lead to a revolution?
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that got moved to >>>/dead/, in spite of its schizophrenic rants I feel like there were some good points made there.
Tl;dr for those who don't want to read through it the thesis is that the workers are the counter-revolutionary subject. Highly recommend reading it though.
With that clarified lets continue discussion on the thesis.
Negative Proletarianism 2.0
Last year there was this masterpiece of a thread https://leftypol.org/dead/res/6179.htmlthat got moved to >>>/dead/, in spite of its schizophrenic rants I feel like there were some good points made there.
Tl;dr for those who don't want to read through it the thesis is that the workers are the counter-revolutionary subject. Highly recommend reading it though.
With that clarified lets continue discussion on the thesis.
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Maybe this will age like milk, but personally I don’t think the woke will ever come back, primarily due to the fact that it arose during a period in American history that can’t be replicated in the foreseeable future as well as because it got heavily exhausted to its fullest potential by 2024, something else will form instead but I can’t put my fingers on it. Let me elaborate…
Yes, there may be backlash to Trump in the form of:
The elite liberal factions that promoted “wokeness” as a substitute for social democracy feel politically exhausted. Their compromises — with Trumpism, with Zionism, with capital more broadly — are remembered, and they’ve already pivoted to new projects like “abundance,” technocratic managerialism, or vibes-based productivity politics.
We might see a kind of “safe-edgy” social democracy rhetorically, but I don’t think the elite will allow anything that seriously threatens capital or entrenched interests. So whatever comes next is unlikely to be fully institutional or top-down. If anything, it’ll be more grassroots — and may spill into a harder, older form of class politics once people realise triangulation won’t be permitted to go very far.
Historically, this actually reminds me of Reconstruction and the post-Reconstruction US. Open and legally encoded white supremacy wasn’t just a bottom-up backlash — it was an elite project. And I don’t think today’s elites are going back to the post-1960s model of tightly policing racist expression at their level, even if they still condemn it rhetorically.
I was telling a friend: basically everything liberals tried to suppress the rise of reaction — platform bans, censorship, cancellations — failed. So now what? You can’t really “solve” this without something like outright repression. Gulags to defend the liberal order? Not exactly practical or appealing. Yes, you can cite J.S. Mill or Popper about being “illiberal to protect liberalism,” but it’s unclear anyone will buy it, or that liberal elites are willing to spend the political capital and legitimacy required.
So instead, I think we get something closer to the Latin American model:
Official color-blindness, loud condemnation of racism in theory, combined with deeply racialised everyday life. Elites live in segregated neighbourhoods while preaching anti-racism to foreigners; normies are often quietly or openly racist; everyone pretends this isn’t contradictory.
Israel is (or was) a version of this too. Some limited tolerance for non-Jewish citizens or guest workers, while brutally repressing Palestinians who aren’t citizens (which is most of them). Now that Israel has more openly defined itself as an ethnic state where democracy is secondary, you can see what looks like social cannibalism: racism turning inward, targeting different kinds of Jews and non-Palestinian gentiles.
There are already extreme examples — like reports where Thai migrant farm workers described near-universal sexual abuse, or polling showing majorities supporting stripping non-Jewish citizens of citizenship and deporting them. There’s no real way to spin that into anything other than ethnic cleansing, or at least mass support for it.
Whether Israel could actually carry that project through is another question, given the manpower gap between its economic needs, military ambitions, and the idea of a “pure” ethnostate. But if things escalated internally, I wouldn’t bet on restraint. History suggests reactionary movements don’t stop at their first target.
Anyway — my point isn’t that “wokeness is coming back,” but that the old ideological containers are broken. What replaces them probably won’t be prettier, more coherent, or more stable. It’ll just be different.
Curious what others think — are we heading into something genuinely new, or just remixing old contradictions under new branding?
P.S.: Yes, Trump’s immigration policies are unpopular: https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/18/immigration-poll-trump-deportation-campaign-00879549
Woke won’t come back, and here’s why?
Lately leftists online (such as Logo Daedalus) have been speculating about a possible return to 2010s HR individualist managerial political correctness (a.k.a., woke) in light of Trump’s falling popularity polls over the Epstein files and his failure to rebound the US economy as well as his second administration being overall more fascist and extreme than the first one both rhetorically (see the DHS’s Twitter account which seems to be ran by a wignat) and in practice (e.g., expansion of ICE under the current regime).Maybe this will age like milk, but personally I don’t think the woke will ever come back, primarily due to the fact that it arose during a period in American history that can’t be replicated in the foreseeable future as well as because it got heavily exhausted to its fullest potential by 2024, something else will form instead but I can’t put my fingers on it. Let me elaborate…
Yes, there may be backlash to Trump in the form of:
- greater tolerance for immigration,
- renewed talk about abolishing ICE (which isn’t actually necessary for border security and overlaps with existing agencies),
- less willingness to tolerate soft white nationalism or openly white-nationalist speech now that the Trump project has made its racial character explicit.
The elite liberal factions that promoted “wokeness” as a substitute for social democracy feel politically exhausted. Their compromises — with Trumpism, with Zionism, with capital more broadly — are remembered, and they’ve already pivoted to new projects like “abundance,” technocratic managerialism, or vibes-based productivity politics.
We might see a kind of “safe-edgy” social democracy rhetorically, but I don’t think the elite will allow anything that seriously threatens capital or entrenched interests. So whatever comes next is unlikely to be fully institutional or top-down. If anything, it’ll be more grassroots — and may spill into a harder, older form of class politics once people realise triangulation won’t be permitted to go very far.
Historically, this actually reminds me of Reconstruction and the post-Reconstruction US. Open and legally encoded white supremacy wasn’t just a bottom-up backlash — it was an elite project. And I don’t think today’s elites are going back to the post-1960s model of tightly policing racist expression at their level, even if they still condemn it rhetorically.
I was telling a friend: basically everything liberals tried to suppress the rise of reaction — platform bans, censorship, cancellations — failed. So now what? You can’t really “solve” this without something like outright repression. Gulags to defend the liberal order? Not exactly practical or appealing. Yes, you can cite J.S. Mill or Popper about being “illiberal to protect liberalism,” but it’s unclear anyone will buy it, or that liberal elites are willing to spend the political capital and legitimacy required.
So instead, I think we get something closer to the Latin American model:
Official color-blindness, loud condemnation of racism in theory, combined with deeply racialised everyday life. Elites live in segregated neighbourhoods while preaching anti-racism to foreigners; normies are often quietly or openly racist; everyone pretends this isn’t contradictory.
Israel is (or was) a version of this too. Some limited tolerance for non-Jewish citizens or guest workers, while brutally repressing Palestinians who aren’t citizens (which is most of them). Now that Israel has more openly defined itself as an ethnic state where democracy is secondary, you can see what looks like social cannibalism: racism turning inward, targeting different kinds of Jews and non-Palestinian gentiles.
There are already extreme examples — like reports where Thai migrant farm workers described near-universal sexual abuse, or polling showing majorities supporting stripping non-Jewish citizens of citizenship and deporting them. There’s no real way to spin that into anything other than ethnic cleansing, or at least mass support for it.
Whether Israel could actually carry that project through is another question, given the manpower gap between its economic needs, military ambitions, and the idea of a “pure” ethnostate. But if things escalated internally, I wouldn’t bet on restraint. History suggests reactionary movements don’t stop at their first target.
Anyway — my point isn’t that “wokeness is coming back,” but that the old ideological containers are broken. What replaces them probably won’t be prettier, more coherent, or more stable. It’ll just be different.
Curious what others think — are we heading into something genuinely new, or just remixing old contradictions under new branding?
P.S.: Yes, Trump’s immigration policies are unpopular: https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/18/immigration-poll-trump-deportation-campaign-00879549
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God damn what a fucking retard
Classcuck hate general
I fucking hate classcucks, the classcucks I hate the most are by far the apolitical illiterate ones, my human diaper of a boss just hired a fucking retard that gives no fucks about welding PPE and works stupidly fast while also welding and fabricating like shit. We have tried time and time again to tell him to work slower and to demand PPE or else our boss will demand us the same and the fucking imbecile doesn't changeGod damn what a fucking retard
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Organised by the 350.org campaign, demonstrations took place in countries including Japan, Indonesia, France, Canada, Turkey, Brazil and Australia, calling for an end to fossil fuel dependence and the provision of affordable renewable energy for all. The group warned that fossil fuels “receive an estimated $12 trillion (£8.8trn) annually in implicit and explicit subsidies worldwide, including the unpriced costs of pollution, climate damage and public health impacts.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/campaigners-across-world-demand-governments-impose-permanent-windfall-taxes-fossil-fuel
Athens metro, tram workers to stage 24-hour May Day strike
Worker unions at STASY, operator of the Athens Metro and tram network, announced a full-day strike Friday to mark May Day, running from the start of service through its conclusion that evening.
https://www.ekathimerini.com/news/1302410/athens-metro-tram-workers-to-stage-24-hour-may-day-strike/
UK terror watchdog urges 'moratorium' on pro-Palestine marches
The coalition said: "We condemn unequivocally these attacks, as we do all forms of anti-semitism and racism. No one should be attacked for their race or religion. "However, the attempts by Hall, sections of the media and some politicians to connect such attacks with the Palestine marches are wrong." Stop the War added: "These marches are supported by many Jewish people who attend. They are not the ‘hate marches’ described by right-wing politicians but expressions of solidarity and support for those under attack. "The aims to criminalise the protests, whichs reflect majority public opinion in this country," the organisation said, "or worse, to connect them with racist or terrorist attacks being carried out against Jewish people, are scurrilous and should be rejected."
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-terror-watchdog-urges-moratorium-pro-palestine-marches
‘Act of piracy’: World reacts to Israeli interception of Gaza aid flotilla
Israel has intercepted 22 out of the 58 aid ships travelling through international waters and bound for the besieged Gaza Strip. … The vessels were seized by Israel late on Wednesday in international waters off Greece’s Peloponnese Peninsula, hundreds of miles from Gaza, the flotilla’s organisers said on Thursday. Israel “kidnapped” 211 of the 400 activists taking part in the flotilla, including a Paris city councillor, according to the flotilla’s organisers. Israel’s Foreign Ministry had earlier put the number of those detained at 175.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/30/act-of-piracy-world-reacts-to-israeli-interception-of-gaza-aid-flotilla
https://archive.ph/odkJL
US may deploy new hypersonic missile against Iran as Trump weighs fresh strikes: Report
Centcom made the request to the Department of War based on intelligence that Iran has moved its ballistic missile launchers out of range of the US’s Precision Strike Missile, a supersonic surface-to-surface ballistic missile fired from a High Mobility Artillery Rocket System. If Centcom’s request for the Dark Eagle hypersonic missile is approved, it would mark the first time the long-delayed weapon is deployed, and potentially used, should the US resume attacking Iran. The missile has a reported range of more than 2,776 kilometres.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/us-may-deploy-new-hypersonic-missile-against-iran-trump-weighs-fresh-strikes-report
New report alleges ‘RSF-linked network tied to $24 million UAE property portfolio’
American investigative organisation The Sentry published a new Sentry Alert yesterday, alleging that a network linked to the leadership of Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) holds a $24 million property portfolio in Dubai, according to a new investigation.
https://www.dabangasudan.org/en/all-news/article/new-report-alleges-rsf-linked-network-tied-to-24-million-uae-property-portfolio
Hundreds march in Johannesburg against illegal migration as shops shut over looting fears
As one of Africa’s most industrialized economies, South Africa attracts migrants —both those who entered the country legally and illegally in search of opportunities. The protests in Johannesburg resulted in the closure of many shops, owned by both locals and migrants, due to fears of potential looting or opportunistic crimes. Organized by the anti-immigration group March and March, it also attracted similar organizations, including Operation Dudula and political parties ActionSA and Patriotic Alliance.
https://apnews.com/article/south-africa-illegal-immigration-march-protests-cbc323b775625516597792db82d87ae0
Canada to create powerful financial crimes agency as US weakens its approach
The new agency, tasked with investigating and prosecuting financial crimes, is the result of a public inquiry that found Canada lacked a cohesive strategy against money laundering, placing it behind its international peers. Jessica Davis, a former intelligence analyst with Canada’s spy agency who focuses terrorism and illicit financing, said: “The fact we’re actually seeing the creation [of a] new enforcement agency is a meaningful investment and hopefully signals the understanding of the seriousness of the challenge.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/30/canada-financial-crimes-agency-us-weakens-approach-cryptocurrency-atms-money-laundering
Left-winger Myriam Bregman tops popularity poll as President Milei plummets
Bregman, 54, emerged with 47 percent positive approval from the poll carried out by the Brazilian consultancy firm. The Partido de los Trabajadores Socialistas lawmaker, who is part of the Frente de Izquierda y de los Trabajadores–Unidad (FIT-U) coalition, was the only politicalian of the 15 national figures assessed to have a net positive rating. It stood at just one percent, however, given her negative reading of 46 percent.
https://www.batimes.com.ar/news/argentina/left-winger-myriam-bregman-tops-popularity-poll-as-president-milei-plummets.phtml
Brazil prosecutors launch suit against meatpacking giant JBS over beef tied to slavery-like labor
The civil action suit before a labor court in the northern Brazilian state of Para seeks nearly 119 million reais (about $24 million) in compensation, an amount prosecutors say reflects the total value of transactions between JBS and the suppliers. According to the filing, 53 workers were rescued from properties owned by seven ranchers who supplied the meatpacking company between 2014 and 2025. Those employers were listed in Brazil’s official public registry of companies found to have subjected workers to conditions that are similar to slavery, prosecutors said.
https://apnews.com/article/brazil-amazon-jbs-forced-labor-b181e2db3967ba285310f48b85ee986b
News 4/30/26
Campaigners across the world demand governments impose permanent windfall taxes on fossil fuel profitsOrganised by the 350.org campaign, demonstrations took place in countries including Japan, Indonesia, France, Canada, Turkey, Brazil and Australia, calling for an end to fossil fuel dependence and the provision of affordable renewable energy for all. The group warned that fossil fuels “receive an estimated $12 trillion (£8.8trn) annually in implicit and explicit subsidies worldwide, including the unpriced costs of pollution, climate damage and public health impacts.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/campaigners-across-world-demand-governments-impose-permanent-windfall-taxes-fossil-fuel
Athens metro, tram workers to stage 24-hour May Day strike
Worker unions at STASY, operator of the Athens Metro and tram network, announced a full-day strike Friday to mark May Day, running from the start of service through its conclusion that evening.
https://www.ekathimerini.com/news/1302410/athens-metro-tram-workers-to-stage-24-hour-may-day-strike/
UK terror watchdog urges 'moratorium' on pro-Palestine marches
The coalition said: "We condemn unequivocally these attacks, as we do all forms of anti-semitism and racism. No one should be attacked for their race or religion. "However, the attempts by Hall, sections of the media and some politicians to connect such attacks with the Palestine marches are wrong." Stop the War added: "These marches are supported by many Jewish people who attend. They are not the ‘hate marches’ described by right-wing politicians but expressions of solidarity and support for those under attack. "The aims to criminalise the protests, whichs reflect majority public opinion in this country," the organisation said, "or worse, to connect them with racist or terrorist attacks being carried out against Jewish people, are scurrilous and should be rejected."
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-terror-watchdog-urges-moratorium-pro-palestine-marches
‘Act of piracy’: World reacts to Israeli interception of Gaza aid flotilla
Israel has intercepted 22 out of the 58 aid ships travelling through international waters and bound for the besieged Gaza Strip. … The vessels were seized by Israel late on Wednesday in international waters off Greece’s Peloponnese Peninsula, hundreds of miles from Gaza, the flotilla’s organisers said on Thursday. Israel “kidnapped” 211 of the 400 activists taking part in the flotilla, including a Paris city councillor, according to the flotilla’s organisers. Israel’s Foreign Ministry had earlier put the number of those detained at 175.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/30/act-of-piracy-world-reacts-to-israeli-interception-of-gaza-aid-flotilla
https://archive.ph/odkJL
US may deploy new hypersonic missile against Iran as Trump weighs fresh strikes: Report
Centcom made the request to the Department of War based on intelligence that Iran has moved its ballistic missile launchers out of range of the US’s Precision Strike Missile, a supersonic surface-to-surface ballistic missile fired from a High Mobility Artillery Rocket System. If Centcom’s request for the Dark Eagle hypersonic missile is approved, it would mark the first time the long-delayed weapon is deployed, and potentially used, should the US resume attacking Iran. The missile has a reported range of more than 2,776 kilometres.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/us-may-deploy-new-hypersonic-missile-against-iran-trump-weighs-fresh-strikes-report
New report alleges ‘RSF-linked network tied to $24 million UAE property portfolio’
American investigative organisation The Sentry published a new Sentry Alert yesterday, alleging that a network linked to the leadership of Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) holds a $24 million property portfolio in Dubai, according to a new investigation.
https://www.dabangasudan.org/en/all-news/article/new-report-alleges-rsf-linked-network-tied-to-24-million-uae-property-portfolio
Hundreds march in Johannesburg against illegal migration as shops shut over looting fears
As one of Africa’s most industrialized economies, South Africa attracts migrants —both those who entered the country legally and illegally in search of opportunities. The protests in Johannesburg resulted in the closure of many shops, owned by both locals and migrants, due to fears of potential looting or opportunistic crimes. Organized by the anti-immigration group March and March, it also attracted similar organizations, including Operation Dudula and political parties ActionSA and Patriotic Alliance.
https://apnews.com/article/south-africa-illegal-immigration-march-protests-cbc323b775625516597792db82d87ae0
Canada to create powerful financial crimes agency as US weakens its approach
The new agency, tasked with investigating and prosecuting financial crimes, is the result of a public inquiry that found Canada lacked a cohesive strategy against money laundering, placing it behind its international peers. Jessica Davis, a former intelligence analyst with Canada’s spy agency who focuses terrorism and illicit financing, said: “The fact we’re actually seeing the creation [of a] new enforcement agency is a meaningful investment and hopefully signals the understanding of the seriousness of the challenge.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/30/canada-financial-crimes-agency-us-weakens-approach-cryptocurrency-atms-money-laundering
Left-winger Myriam Bregman tops popularity poll as President Milei plummets
Bregman, 54, emerged with 47 percent positive approval from the poll carried out by the Brazilian consultancy firm. The Partido de los Trabajadores Socialistas lawmaker, who is part of the Frente de Izquierda y de los Trabajadores–Unidad (FIT-U) coalition, was the only politicalian of the 15 national figures assessed to have a net positive rating. It stood at just one percent, however, given her negative reading of 46 percent.
https://www.batimes.com.ar/news/argentina/left-winger-myriam-bregman-tops-popularity-poll-as-president-milei-plummets.phtml
Brazil prosecutors launch suit against meatpacking giant JBS over beef tied to slavery-like labor
The civil action suit before a labor court in the northern Brazilian state of Para seeks nearly 119 million reais (about $24 million) in compensation, an amount prosecutors say reflects the total value of transactions between JBS and the suppliers. According to the filing, 53 workers were rescued from properties owned by seven ranchers who supplied the meatpacking company between 2014 and 2025. Those employers were listed in Brazil’s official public registry of companies found to have subjected workers to conditions that are similar to slavery, prosecutors said.
https://apnews.com/article/brazil-amazon-jbs-forced-labor-b181e2db3967ba285310f48b85ee986b
R: 56 / I: 6
I think this is officially the start of a genocide.
>The announcement was the latest in a series of moves President Donald Trump’s administration has taken demonstrating support for the death penalty. Trump has long been an avid supporter of capital punishment, and during his first term, the Justice Department carried out its first federal executions in nearly two decades.
>Since Trump’s return to the White House last year, his administration has lifted a moratorium on federal executions and pushed for more death sentences. Trump and other officials have also repeatedly castigated President Joe Biden for commuting the sentences of 37 of the 40 people on federal death row shortly before he left office.
>In a bold and controversial move, William K. Marshall III, the newly appointed Director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP), has proposed significant reforms aimed at addressing the pressing issue of prison overcrowding. Since his swearing-in on April 21, 2025, Marshall has advocated for a major lowering of the threshold for capital punishment and the expansion of firing squad executions.
>Marshall, who oversees approximately 156,000 federal inmates and 36,000 staff members across 122 BOP facilities, is no stranger to the complexities of law enforcement. His extensive career began with the West Virginia State Police, where he was lauded as the 1995 National Association of Police Organizations West Virginia Police Officer of the Year. Following his retirement in 2017 after 25 years of service, Marshall's leadership roles in corrections have uniquely positioned him to address issues plaguing the prison system.
>In a recent interview on NBC’s "Meet the Press," Marshall stated, "We need to reevaluate our approach to capital punishment and consider options that reflect the realities of our overcrowded prisons. By lowering the execution threshold and expanding firing squad executions, we can not only deter crime but also bring a sense of closure to the families of victims." He expressed a belief that the current process is often drawn out and unnecessarily complicated, contributing to the burden on federal facilities.
https://www.bop.gov/about/agency/bio_dir.jsp
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/38925893/doj-firing-squad-executions-back-death-penalty/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/04/24/federal-death-penalty-firing-squads-trump/
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/24/doj-death-penalty-firing-squad-lethal-injection
Genocide starting.
Trump, Director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons, and Justice Department are trying to lower the threshold for executions, and also expand firing squards to "reduce prison overcrowding".I think this is officially the start of a genocide.
>The announcement was the latest in a series of moves President Donald Trump’s administration has taken demonstrating support for the death penalty. Trump has long been an avid supporter of capital punishment, and during his first term, the Justice Department carried out its first federal executions in nearly two decades.
>Since Trump’s return to the White House last year, his administration has lifted a moratorium on federal executions and pushed for more death sentences. Trump and other officials have also repeatedly castigated President Joe Biden for commuting the sentences of 37 of the 40 people on federal death row shortly before he left office.
>In a bold and controversial move, William K. Marshall III, the newly appointed Director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP), has proposed significant reforms aimed at addressing the pressing issue of prison overcrowding. Since his swearing-in on April 21, 2025, Marshall has advocated for a major lowering of the threshold for capital punishment and the expansion of firing squad executions.
>Marshall, who oversees approximately 156,000 federal inmates and 36,000 staff members across 122 BOP facilities, is no stranger to the complexities of law enforcement. His extensive career began with the West Virginia State Police, where he was lauded as the 1995 National Association of Police Organizations West Virginia Police Officer of the Year. Following his retirement in 2017 after 25 years of service, Marshall's leadership roles in corrections have uniquely positioned him to address issues plaguing the prison system.
>In a recent interview on NBC’s "Meet the Press," Marshall stated, "We need to reevaluate our approach to capital punishment and consider options that reflect the realities of our overcrowded prisons. By lowering the execution threshold and expanding firing squad executions, we can not only deter crime but also bring a sense of closure to the families of victims." He expressed a belief that the current process is often drawn out and unnecessarily complicated, contributing to the burden on federal facilities.
https://www.bop.gov/about/agency/bio_dir.jsp
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/38925893/doj-firing-squad-executions-back-death-penalty/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/04/24/federal-death-penalty-firing-squads-trump/
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/24/doj-death-penalty-firing-squad-lethal-injection
R: 48 / I: 12 >>2766805 have been so poor I intended to make a new thread, giving a historical overview of the last few decades of the communist movement.
>What is the difference between:
>Mao Zedong Thought [ML-MZT]
>Maoism-ThirdWorldism [M3W]
<Missing: >Classical Marxism-Leninism-Maoism [classical MLM]. Exemplified by Communist Party of the Philippines and Communist Party of India (Maoist) as key leaders and influences.
>Gonzalo Thought [aka "MLM-pM" and "Gonzaloism"]
>How interrelated are they?
Comrades. don't forget these tools:
<Historical materialism.
<General-Particular-General dialectical spiral in analysis.
<Never capitulate proletarian leadership to reactionary classes.
<Analyze the contradictory relationship of petty-bourgeois ideology to scientific socialism-communism throughout time, which always ends just yesterday.
<50s-70s:
ML-MZT is a part of the revolutionary pole of Marxism-Leninism, along with Socialist Albania and the still revolutionary wave of subsequent parties, red armies and masses internationally basing themselves on this praxis; which fought the reactionary turn that resulted in numerous setbacks in the international workers movement during the post-war period. Influenced both by the hot wars waged in US imperialism's so-called "Cold War" as well as the now great power chauvinist USSR having capitulated the weapon of Lenin and transforming into a social-imperialist obstacle, funding pacifist reformist, anti-revolutionary parties the world over. Mao, in direct communication with parties seeking revolutionary guidance all over the world clarifies a tactical point on protracted peoples war [PPW]: it is a tactic working specifically for semi-colonial / semi-feudal areas and not for largely urbanized or imperialist countries, where the "October road" tactic should be used. This is important to keep in mind later on in the post.
CPP forms in the 60s around Marcos dictatorship period. The party is influenced by ML-MZT.
TKP/ML forms in the 70s in the midst of Turkish state anti-communist repression. Party leader Kaypakkayakaya assassinated early. Reorganizations and splits define this early period until mid 90s.
<80s-90s:
MLM appears as a group of competing interpretations, tendencies, backgrounds (and eventual results), trying to assess the lessons of the Chinese revolution and the potential nature of Maoism as a new stage of development. Abimael Guzman ("Gonzalo") gains influence thinking he has found a "new synthesis" after a trip to China during the Cultural Revolution. The Revolutionary Internationalist Movement [RIM] formed in the mid 80s and peaking in influence in the mid to late 90s, dissolving from inactivity in the early 2010s. Foundational and leading parties were PCP-SL (Gonzalo), RCPUSA (Avakian), TKP/ML and a south asian multitude Maoist groups (pre early 2000s period of reorganization, consolidation and major growth). They end up drawing dispairate conclusions on the fundational question of what 'Maoism'"is".
PCP-SL launches their campaign in the Peruvian countryside, elevating the principal nature of Maoism having been uncovered through 'Gonzalo Thought', growth is made easier in part by the social emiseration through hyperinflation initiated during the social fascist presidency of Alan García. A wrecked population and particularly peruvian agricultural workers of indigenous background, turned to the Maoists. President García commits suicide by gunshot (a rare poetic suicide, the political-economic actions of his admin. clearly "hit the fan" in a similar sense) and is followed by Alberto Fujimori, a Japanese capitalist with deep connection to both Peruvian intelligence as well as supported by US intelligence now actively monitoring the situation). Fujimori is growing a political dynasty in Peru of which he hyper-exploits with clear disdain for the Peruvian people. Later it is revealed that his campaigns were funded and aided by the US, even militarily and that his side murdered more peruvians in the civil war. One tactic tactic utilized by the Fujimori dictatorship was the forced sterilization program disguised as public health / economic development, specifically targeting impoverished Peruvian indigenous women. 300.000 women were sterilized.
The PCP-SL tries to connect the rural base areas by growing into the urban environment. The civil war is now at its peak in a now military dictatorship. Having the entire hierarchy of the party written down and organized on a personal computer in the urban area he hides in, Gonzalo is a single point of failure. In '92 the Peruvian state finds him, raids the place and decapitates the party in one sweep. The Peruvian movement has still not recovered. It's partially due to 'Gonzalo Thought' proclaiming importance to Jefetura transl. 'Great Leadership' which places emphasis on a singular "Great Leader" being a key aspect this theoretical "advance".
RIM's "contribution" then was the announcing the universality of this Maoism, which also includes the "universality" of the PPW, around '93, following his capture.
CPP enters a Second Great Rectification in 1992, a key turn for the party's success, with adjusting their praxis, expelling a variety of negative elements that have managed to enter the organization(s) and which are inflicting problems. Some were literal Gorbachevites that wanted to liquidate the armed communist basis for the legal organizations, others were left-adventurists (people advocating tactics that sound like 90s LatAm adventurists, whether Gonzaloist or Guevarists). CPP seeks to persecute these elements. CPP adopts MLM, without adding 'Gonzalo Thought' "contributions", or joining RIM. these years CPP struggles against such deviationist tendencies, reemerging as hostile parties, kept afloat by petty bourgeois sympathizers, gangster networks and reformists. CPP manages to persecute some (red areas constitute dual power, a state within the bourgeois state of the philippines), others happen to be killed (not proscribed party policy). Brief tumult ensues for some years in the philippine communist movement. CPP emerges victorious.
TKP/ML conflict with state escalates in the mid 90s, in a brutal power struggle. Its power base is the Kurdish community in Turkey. As I have limited info on the situation it's safe to limit the statement to the fact that the repression appears to remain unsuccessful as the culture of the region still is supportive (corresponding to Irish views of IRA / socialist republicans).
RCPUSA takes a turn away and in the late 90s "creates" "his own" "synthesis". It becomes another cult. Today they mostly protest and theatrically praise Bob Avakian himself in the manner a black book of communism chapter would characterize what a socialist mode of production is.
In the 90s M3W is formed as less of a political force and more of… an art project, in North America. Their activity consists of media engagement, primarily online. Their "theoretical elaboration" (that the proletariat in any imperialist nation is structurally incapable of revolution) deviate from MLM and MZT theory and practice, while retaining the militant verbiage and symbolism. They don't last more than a decade in terms of noticeable output, are still technically existing today as "MIM (Prisons)" which also still just posts stuff online, which can be described as "bizarro US exceptionalism".
Historical overview: ML-MZT vs MLM vs M3W
The replies of thread>What is the difference between:
>Mao Zedong Thought [ML-MZT]
>Maoism-ThirdWorldism [M3W]
<Missing: >Classical Marxism-Leninism-Maoism [classical MLM]. Exemplified by Communist Party of the Philippines and Communist Party of India (Maoist) as key leaders and influences.
>Gonzalo Thought [aka "MLM-pM" and "Gonzaloism"]
>How interrelated are they?
Comrades. don't forget these tools:
<Historical materialism.
<General-Particular-General dialectical spiral in analysis.
<Never capitulate proletarian leadership to reactionary classes.
<Analyze the contradictory relationship of petty-bourgeois ideology to scientific socialism-communism throughout time, which always ends just yesterday.
<50s-70s:
ML-MZT is a part of the revolutionary pole of Marxism-Leninism, along with Socialist Albania and the still revolutionary wave of subsequent parties, red armies and masses internationally basing themselves on this praxis; which fought the reactionary turn that resulted in numerous setbacks in the international workers movement during the post-war period. Influenced both by the hot wars waged in US imperialism's so-called "Cold War" as well as the now great power chauvinist USSR having capitulated the weapon of Lenin and transforming into a social-imperialist obstacle, funding pacifist reformist, anti-revolutionary parties the world over. Mao, in direct communication with parties seeking revolutionary guidance all over the world clarifies a tactical point on protracted peoples war [PPW]: it is a tactic working specifically for semi-colonial / semi-feudal areas and not for largely urbanized or imperialist countries, where the "October road" tactic should be used. This is important to keep in mind later on in the post.
CPP forms in the 60s around Marcos dictatorship period. The party is influenced by ML-MZT.
TKP/ML forms in the 70s in the midst of Turkish state anti-communist repression. Party leader Kaypakkayakaya assassinated early. Reorganizations and splits define this early period until mid 90s.
<80s-90s:
MLM appears as a group of competing interpretations, tendencies, backgrounds (and eventual results), trying to assess the lessons of the Chinese revolution and the potential nature of Maoism as a new stage of development. Abimael Guzman ("Gonzalo") gains influence thinking he has found a "new synthesis" after a trip to China during the Cultural Revolution. The Revolutionary Internationalist Movement [RIM] formed in the mid 80s and peaking in influence in the mid to late 90s, dissolving from inactivity in the early 2010s. Foundational and leading parties were PCP-SL (Gonzalo), RCPUSA (Avakian), TKP/ML and a south asian multitude Maoist groups (pre early 2000s period of reorganization, consolidation and major growth). They end up drawing dispairate conclusions on the fundational question of what 'Maoism'"is".
PCP-SL launches their campaign in the Peruvian countryside, elevating the principal nature of Maoism having been uncovered through 'Gonzalo Thought', growth is made easier in part by the social emiseration through hyperinflation initiated during the social fascist presidency of Alan García. A wrecked population and particularly peruvian agricultural workers of indigenous background, turned to the Maoists. President García commits suicide by gunshot (a rare poetic suicide, the political-economic actions of his admin. clearly "hit the fan" in a similar sense) and is followed by Alberto Fujimori, a Japanese capitalist with deep connection to both Peruvian intelligence as well as supported by US intelligence now actively monitoring the situation). Fujimori is growing a political dynasty in Peru of which he hyper-exploits with clear disdain for the Peruvian people. Later it is revealed that his campaigns were funded and aided by the US, even militarily and that his side murdered more peruvians in the civil war. One tactic tactic utilized by the Fujimori dictatorship was the forced sterilization program disguised as public health / economic development, specifically targeting impoverished Peruvian indigenous women. 300.000 women were sterilized.
The PCP-SL tries to connect the rural base areas by growing into the urban environment. The civil war is now at its peak in a now military dictatorship. Having the entire hierarchy of the party written down and organized on a personal computer in the urban area he hides in, Gonzalo is a single point of failure. In '92 the Peruvian state finds him, raids the place and decapitates the party in one sweep. The Peruvian movement has still not recovered. It's partially due to 'Gonzalo Thought' proclaiming importance to Jefetura transl. 'Great Leadership' which places emphasis on a singular "Great Leader" being a key aspect this theoretical "advance".
RIM's "contribution" then was the announcing the universality of this Maoism, which also includes the "universality" of the PPW, around '93, following his capture.
CPP enters a Second Great Rectification in 1992, a key turn for the party's success, with adjusting their praxis, expelling a variety of negative elements that have managed to enter the organization(s) and which are inflicting problems. Some were literal Gorbachevites that wanted to liquidate the armed communist basis for the legal organizations, others were left-adventurists (people advocating tactics that sound like 90s LatAm adventurists, whether Gonzaloist or Guevarists). CPP seeks to persecute these elements. CPP adopts MLM, without adding 'Gonzalo Thought' "contributions", or joining RIM. these years CPP struggles against such deviationist tendencies, reemerging as hostile parties, kept afloat by petty bourgeois sympathizers, gangster networks and reformists. CPP manages to persecute some (red areas constitute dual power, a state within the bourgeois state of the philippines), others happen to be killed (not proscribed party policy). Brief tumult ensues for some years in the philippine communist movement. CPP emerges victorious.
TKP/ML conflict with state escalates in the mid 90s, in a brutal power struggle. Its power base is the Kurdish community in Turkey. As I have limited info on the situation it's safe to limit the statement to the fact that the repression appears to remain unsuccessful as the culture of the region still is supportive (corresponding to Irish views of IRA / socialist republicans).
RCPUSA takes a turn away and in the late 90s "creates" "his own" "synthesis". It becomes another cult. Today they mostly protest and theatrically praise Bob Avakian himself in the manner a black book of communism chapter would characterize what a socialist mode of production is.
In the 90s M3W is formed as less of a political force and more of… an art project, in North America. Their activity consists of media engagement, primarily online. Their "theoretical elaboration" (that the proletariat in any imperialist nation is structurally incapable of revolution) deviate from MLM and MZT theory and practice, while retaining the militant verbiage and symbolism. They don't last more than a decade in terms of noticeable output, are still technically existing today as "MIM (Prisons)" which also still just posts stuff online, which can be described as "bizarro US exceptionalism".
R: 18 / I: 4 (sage)
For example the mass surveillance TRUMP ENDORSED FISA bill that MAGA opposed when trump has been against it in the past just passed and MAGA doesn't give a fuck. Not a single complain from these people. As I said I had no expectations but I'm dissapointed because in past they at least pretended to care about fighting the neocons and the deep state
WTF happened to MAGA?
Wtf happened to MAGA? as a right wing but very libertarian guy I always knew they were kinda bootlickers (not just for trump in general but the police and militarism stuff) but holy shit recently their god has shifted so much to the establishment ON ALMOST EVERY ISSUE that even I can't believe what is happening.For example the mass surveillance TRUMP ENDORSED FISA bill that MAGA opposed when trump has been against it in the past just passed and MAGA doesn't give a fuck. Not a single complain from these people. As I said I had no expectations but I'm dissapointed because in past they at least pretended to care about fighting the neocons and the deep state
R: 45 / I: 3 (sage)
I dont pity the global south. What exactly are they doing? You go to Asia or Africa and they are so full of propaganda everyone just wants to hustle or find a better position or invest in a crypto scam. Instead of uniting and fucking the west up, they are falling for the trap every single time. In a few months there will be higher food prices and more starvation. Instead of doing whatever they will shitpost with their chinese mobiles on facebook. Does it means that I, a westernoid, should not be blamed? Of course not. All I am saying is that damn they should not be making it so easy to get fucked.
I dont pity the global south. What exactly are they doing? You go to Asia or Africa and they are so full of propaganda everyone just wants to hustle or find a better position or invest in a crypto scam. Instead of uniting and fucking the west up, they are falling for the trap every single time. In a few months there will be higher food prices and more starvation. Instead of doing whatever they will shitpost with their chinese mobiles on facebook. Does it means that I, a westernoid, should not be blamed? Of course not. All I am saying is that damn they should not be making it so easy to get fucked.
R: 150 / I: 14
Can anarchism ever make a comeback? They don't seem to do much of anything nowadays. No propaganda of the deed, no cultural staying power, no media personalities. Baby leftists seem to not even be aware of it anymore.
Can anarchism ever make a comeback? They don't seem to do much of anything nowadays. No propaganda of the deed, no cultural staying power, no media personalities. Baby leftists seem to not even be aware of it anymore.
R: 84 / I: 25
>>2731700
>>2731683
>>2731689
>God all these countries suck so fucking much at psy-ops. China, Russia, Iran. Look at their propaganda outlets directed at the US and HOW FUCKING SHIT THEY ARE! RT, CGTN, PressTV.ir SUCK SO MUCH ASS!
<CGTN has had on FUCKING HAZ FROM INFRARED!
<PressTV.ir has had on as a regular FUCKING <JASON UNRUHE!
RT has had FUCKING CALEB MAUPIN as a regular correspondent!
>Jesus Christ what is wrong with them? They employ all of our greatest fucking lolcows. How do I make a fucking PR agency for the enemies of America? I could do a so much better job.
Axis of resistance sucks at psy-ops
Gonna make a new thread because no one is replying and this is a serious question I have been thinking about for years.>God all these countries suck so fucking much at psy-ops. China, Russia, Iran. Look at their propaganda outlets directed at the US and HOW FUCKING SHIT THEY ARE! RT, CGTN, PressTV.ir SUCK SO MUCH ASS!
<CGTN has had on FUCKING HAZ FROM INFRARED!
<PressTV.ir has had on as a regular FUCKING <JASON UNRUHE!
RT has had FUCKING CALEB MAUPIN as a regular correspondent!
>Jesus Christ what is wrong with them? They employ all of our greatest fucking lolcows. How do I make a fucking PR agency for the enemies of America? I could do a so much better job.
R: 5 / I: 2
There was a story that broke a few weeks ago. Something like 60 million visits a month to this porn site called Motherless, which is one of the skeezier porn sites. It doesn't have a VPN, which is probably why they're… It doesn't have age restriction by state. Like, Pornhub — I live in Florida. I can't go on Pornhub because it's blocked unless I use a VPN. But I can go on Xvideos. Pornhub has a lot more professional content. It's a lot more curated. Xvideos, they don't give a fuck. You can just post whatever you want. They don't have age verification, though, which is probably why they don't give a fuck, right? Motherless is the same way.
And so from what I can gather about this story, there are some pretty egregious videos on this service, right? Because it's unregulated and anyone can post anything. And it's clearly a company that doesn't give a shit about following the law because they're not following the age verification protocol, right? And so they're saying 60 million men go online to a rape academy, is what they're calling this porn website.
But in reality, what the actual story is that, yes, there are some pretty egregious videos. And if you interact with those videos, which are a specific niche of videos of people who are asleep. Yeah, you see how this is egregious, right? You see how this is bad? You see how this is unacceptable? If you interact with those videos, you could be invited to a private Discord server and get a whole bunch of tips on how to engage in such behaviors.
The problem is, instead of going, "oh, okay, that's what's happening, that's fucked up, that's awful," the narrative got spun. 60 million men a month go to this. Like, dude, men are just fucking sick in their fucking heads. This is crazy, right?
But that wasn't an organic story. That story was a psy-op. The narrative, the way it was pushed out, the misinformation around the statistics that paint an image of particular groups of people engaging in particular activities that are horrifying.
Pair this, then, with people like Nick Fuentes on their live streams praising Jeffrey Epstein, praising Jeffrey Epstein, talking about what he did — any man would want to do what he did. Any man would want to be in his position. Wouldn't you want to have those little girls on your island? He's a based guy, right? But that's the thing, painting it as something that, well, just men are just naturally like this. This is just how all men are. It's a biological thing. The best we could hope to do is teach men not to be like this and to overcome their natural urges. Motherfucker.
Ghislaine Maxwell is still in prison and they're going to give her a pardon. There have been multiple men who have come out. They said they were victims of trafficking and sexual abuse. Men were connected to the Abercrombie and Fitch company. Men connected to the New Mexico ranch. They found bodies. They've got testimony. They were abusing men and little boys as well.
These fools with their supreme power over us. But the narrative has shifted, and I think it's really convenient how quickly the narrative shifted, because it's exactly what I would do if I was the powers that be. Why? Because then I see posts talking about, well, why is Ghislaine Maxwell even in prison? None of the men, none of the men who did this are being charged. You know, the only reason that she's in prison is because she's the woman. No, no, no. She's in prison because she did horrible crimes against humanity and was a ringleader in a pedophilia ring that took place on a private island, and her accomplice has been missing, perhaps from this earth entirely, or perhaps in a different location, right, because we all know he didn't kill himself.
But it all pairs up so nicely. It all slots in all so well, doesn't it? All men are naturally this, that, and the other thing. You have the right who are pushing this pedophilia narrative, this natural and based thing, like it's just what a Chad would do. These are human monsters who are pushing this because it gives them power over another human being. They're doing this because they enjoy the sadism of having that power over another individual, whether it's a man, a woman, a child — especially a child. They love to destroy innocence. It's a power thing.
But we're making it into a gender war, culture war thing. They're prepping us and priming us, and it's great and it's awesome, it's working. And now I have to scroll through my feed and great, look, we get it, bro. We understand that you're probably not a rapist. You don't need to tell us that. You don't need to go, "look, I know that most men are like this and most men need to learn these lessons, but I'm not like that." I think that's weird. I think that's a strange thing for a lot of these socialist dudes to be pushing without any sort of critical thinking. To go, yeah, you know, because of testosterone, men are just naturally more this and men are more naturally that. No, motherfucker, that's bioessentialism. That's bioessentialism, dog.
Men are not biologically predestined to be one way because they're men, and women aren't biologically predestined to be one way because they're women. I mean, how insane would I sound if I got up on stage and was like, women are biologically programmed to have children. If you're not having children, you're not fulfilling your purpose as a woman. Like, you would be like, that's ridiculous. What the fuck is wrong with you? And I would say, yeah, that is ridiculous. What the fuck is wrong with me? But then you get this progressive discussion of like, well, men are biologically programmed to want to rape women, and men are biologically programmed to be abusive, and this is just how men are. We have to educate them to overcome their urges.
And it's like, now most dudes are not like this. I don't know how to explain this to you, but most men are not like this. In fact, most men are good. And the fact that one of the reigning leaders of this pedophilia ring was a woman, right? And we have seen multiple men from Abercrombie and Fitch male models to little boys on this island to bodies being found in the New Mexico desert — people that have been abused, who have been trafficked, who have been discarded. Are they not victims because of their gender?
And it seems like a really good way to let certain people in power off the hook. And this isn't gonna say that we don't live in a rape culture. We do, because our culture is decided by who has the most money, and we know that the people who have the most money are doing a lot of raping. It's a power thing. It's a power thing, not a biological function.
And so it gets old when every time that we see these monsters do this, because they control every fucking bit of the media, because they have the ability to moderate Reddit. Because Ghislaine Maxwell was a moderator of the largest news subreddit. But she should get a pardon because she's just a poor woman. And she's just taking the fall for these gross men who are doing terrible things. You know, that's a ridiculous take, but it is the exact take that I would imagine they would go with, because it's the same bullshit that they've been doing for the last 15 years.
Identity politics fucking works to divide the working class. It's like, y'all playing it into the handbook, and now I gotta go debate on the weather. Like, it's crazy.
And maybe we shouldn't let certain dudes off the hook. Channel 5 News, brother. Read the testimonies of those women. I know a lot of people who would share his work all day long and think he's the most important guy. When I had my case, man, you should go get interviewed by him because it'd be good for you. I know you don't like him. I know you disagree with him, but I just don't like him. I think he's a predator. I think he's a bad man. I think he harmed women in a real serious way and that's not acceptable and we should be calling out those people. But we don't need to be like, "man, we gotta get it together." Like, man, shut the fuck up. Like, that shit is so cornball.
I'm reminded of a viral TikTok thing that happened where a woman, her boyfriend was cheating on her or what have you, and so her boyfriend had a loose citizenship status. She called ICE on him and got him deported. And this caused a huge schism in the TikTokverse because on one hand, you have reasonable, adult, empathetic people who understand, hey, calling ICE on somebody because they cheated on you is fucked up. You're putting somebody in a concentration camp. This is racially motivated. This is disgusting behavior. Why are you doing this? Right? Baseline, common sense shit.
But you also had a whole lot of people who were like, at the end of the day, he's a man. At the end of the day, that's who our real enemy is, is men. Take no quarter. Sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do. Empower yourself, girl.
And I think that little schism, that little microcosm was like a signal to the powers that be. Oh, this is just gender war shit. This men are naturally conservative and women are naturally progressive logic. We can run that up as far as we need to run it up and they'll never have a class war. They'll never have class consciousness. Fuck.
Now you got young men who walk around thinking women are a whole different species and you got the same fucking thing from young women. Like, this shit don't add up. Like, we're all people. We all working class individuals at the end of the day. You know what I'm saying?
And I'm not gonna sit here and be like, there isn't a problem with specific types of people who are predators, right? They exist. I just named one who's got a whole lot of clout, who's got a major platform on the left. A well-respected guy who's apparently a journalist, what have you. Okay. So we have that problem.
But I guess my issue is when we make it a bioessentialist, gender-divided thing. Like, there are things that I don't want to get into with this piece that are personal to me, but I can assure you that men can be victims too. Men can absolutely be victims too. They can be put into positions that they are not able to consent to because fundamentally what this is all about is consent, enthusiastic consent, right?
And this idea that men are all naturally predators and have to be educated into not being predators is just an absolutely ridiculous fallacy. It's a ridiculous fallacy that is based on misinformation. Like, this is not 60 million men went to this rape academy. It's that this porn website had 60 million clicks over a month. The one that doesn't have a VPN blocker for your state. And as we have shown, those laws for this age restriction where you have to submit your ID cause people to go to these sites that have even more egregious content. But that doesn't necessarily mean that they're there for that egregious content, because then you could just open up fucking any of these porn websites and type in BBW twerking. Holy moly.
And that apparently is the same within the information that we're being pushed, within this propaganda that's being pushed out. Doing that is the same as searching for how to rape women and taking an online class, because that's how the information is being fucking presented.
And then you get some guy who is clearly funded by some political organization, but won't tell us who's funding him, because, motherfucker, nobody just shows up and has Instagram clout overnight. And I'm seeing a lot more of these cats, these socialist influencers — how do you got a hundred thousand subscribers when you just started making videos three months ago? That shit don't make sense.
And he gets up on the fucking camera and he goes, "Guys, we gotta get it together. Men, we need to figure out what's wrong with our natural urges. Something's not right here." And it's just like, bro, the problem is capitalist. The problem is a system of exploitation and the culture created by the most alienated and exploited. The culture of people who are the most willing to exploit other human beings for gain. And that's the only thing that trickles down. Not the money, not the economy, but the culture of cruelty trickles down into our society and soaks it, and soaks it up, makes it fucking greasy and fucking slick, and you don't wanna even hold it because it's so gross.
And that is what it is. If you remove capitalism, you can kill off a lot of this other bullshit.
Why aren't people engaged? Why aren't men involved and engaged in socialist rhetoric? Why is it so easy for men to fall into fascist dogma?
One of the first essays I wrote was called "A Generation of Men Caught Between Two Masks." And it was literally about this. How on one end, you've got this framework that you're biologically born wrong, born with a set of behaviors that is fundamentally antithetical to the movement, to peace, to socialism, to what have you. This is how the narrative is painted.
And it doesn't mean I'm advocating for what these men believe. If prescribing how someone falls into a position of thought is the same as agreeing with that thought, then we are never going to make progress because I'm simply trying to explain how people feel when they are told this shit because it is annoying. Because then you have to say, well, we don't mean all men. Well, we know you don't mean all men, but you're still fucking painting like you mean all men, and you still say it like you mean all men. You say this is just how men are. They're all predators.
Then you have that on one end. And then on the other end, you've got the right who's like, yeah, you're a predator. Embrace that shit. This is the natural way of things. No one is going, you don't have to be a predator. You're not a predator. Like, you're just a human being. You have emotions. You're capable of feeling emotions. You're capable of empathy. You're capable of human experience. You're not a monster just because of what is in between your legs.
And also, let's never forget that this biological essentialism, this idea that because of the gender you're born as, because of the sex you are assigned at birth, you have all of these traits that you have to apply to, you have to follow through — it's incredibly transphobic. It's incredibly transphobic. I mean, it's the same logic that TERFs use to prevent trans women from being part of female spaces. Well, they're really men, and men are naturally predators, and so we can't be safe around them, so we have to exclude them. That is literally the logic of a TERF.
And again, I'm not saying that we don't live in a rape culture. We do. The culture is defined by the people at the top, and the people at the top are fucking rapists because they are capitalists, because they are willing to exploit people, because they want to exhibit power over people.
To simply put the idea that someone like Jeffrey Epstein was just operating under his natural biological urges as a man, and that someone like Ghislaine Maxwell was just taken for a ride because she's a woman and it's completely antithetical to what being a woman is for her to engage in those behaviors — that lets people off the hook. That lets the power off the hook. And it excuses rape culture, if anything.
It gets old. It gets old. It gets all these little narratives that they keep pushing out to put men and women against each other, when in reality, it is a class war, not a gender war.
Stop Buying Into Gender Essentialist Psyops
Memetic warfare is an effective means of strategy. Like, we're seeing memetic warfare being used at a scale that is quite frankly never been seen before, you know. It's really ridiculous.There was a story that broke a few weeks ago. Something like 60 million visits a month to this porn site called Motherless, which is one of the skeezier porn sites. It doesn't have a VPN, which is probably why they're… It doesn't have age restriction by state. Like, Pornhub — I live in Florida. I can't go on Pornhub because it's blocked unless I use a VPN. But I can go on Xvideos. Pornhub has a lot more professional content. It's a lot more curated. Xvideos, they don't give a fuck. You can just post whatever you want. They don't have age verification, though, which is probably why they don't give a fuck, right? Motherless is the same way.
And so from what I can gather about this story, there are some pretty egregious videos on this service, right? Because it's unregulated and anyone can post anything. And it's clearly a company that doesn't give a shit about following the law because they're not following the age verification protocol, right? And so they're saying 60 million men go online to a rape academy, is what they're calling this porn website.
But in reality, what the actual story is that, yes, there are some pretty egregious videos. And if you interact with those videos, which are a specific niche of videos of people who are asleep. Yeah, you see how this is egregious, right? You see how this is bad? You see how this is unacceptable? If you interact with those videos, you could be invited to a private Discord server and get a whole bunch of tips on how to engage in such behaviors.
The problem is, instead of going, "oh, okay, that's what's happening, that's fucked up, that's awful," the narrative got spun. 60 million men a month go to this. Like, dude, men are just fucking sick in their fucking heads. This is crazy, right?
But that wasn't an organic story. That story was a psy-op. The narrative, the way it was pushed out, the misinformation around the statistics that paint an image of particular groups of people engaging in particular activities that are horrifying.
Pair this, then, with people like Nick Fuentes on their live streams praising Jeffrey Epstein, praising Jeffrey Epstein, talking about what he did — any man would want to do what he did. Any man would want to be in his position. Wouldn't you want to have those little girls on your island? He's a based guy, right? But that's the thing, painting it as something that, well, just men are just naturally like this. This is just how all men are. It's a biological thing. The best we could hope to do is teach men not to be like this and to overcome their natural urges. Motherfucker.
Ghislaine Maxwell is still in prison and they're going to give her a pardon. There have been multiple men who have come out. They said they were victims of trafficking and sexual abuse. Men were connected to the Abercrombie and Fitch company. Men connected to the New Mexico ranch. They found bodies. They've got testimony. They were abusing men and little boys as well.
These fools with their supreme power over us. But the narrative has shifted, and I think it's really convenient how quickly the narrative shifted, because it's exactly what I would do if I was the powers that be. Why? Because then I see posts talking about, well, why is Ghislaine Maxwell even in prison? None of the men, none of the men who did this are being charged. You know, the only reason that she's in prison is because she's the woman. No, no, no. She's in prison because she did horrible crimes against humanity and was a ringleader in a pedophilia ring that took place on a private island, and her accomplice has been missing, perhaps from this earth entirely, or perhaps in a different location, right, because we all know he didn't kill himself.
But it all pairs up so nicely. It all slots in all so well, doesn't it? All men are naturally this, that, and the other thing. You have the right who are pushing this pedophilia narrative, this natural and based thing, like it's just what a Chad would do. These are human monsters who are pushing this because it gives them power over another human being. They're doing this because they enjoy the sadism of having that power over another individual, whether it's a man, a woman, a child — especially a child. They love to destroy innocence. It's a power thing.
But we're making it into a gender war, culture war thing. They're prepping us and priming us, and it's great and it's awesome, it's working. And now I have to scroll through my feed and great, look, we get it, bro. We understand that you're probably not a rapist. You don't need to tell us that. You don't need to go, "look, I know that most men are like this and most men need to learn these lessons, but I'm not like that." I think that's weird. I think that's a strange thing for a lot of these socialist dudes to be pushing without any sort of critical thinking. To go, yeah, you know, because of testosterone, men are just naturally more this and men are more naturally that. No, motherfucker, that's bioessentialism. That's bioessentialism, dog.
Men are not biologically predestined to be one way because they're men, and women aren't biologically predestined to be one way because they're women. I mean, how insane would I sound if I got up on stage and was like, women are biologically programmed to have children. If you're not having children, you're not fulfilling your purpose as a woman. Like, you would be like, that's ridiculous. What the fuck is wrong with you? And I would say, yeah, that is ridiculous. What the fuck is wrong with me? But then you get this progressive discussion of like, well, men are biologically programmed to want to rape women, and men are biologically programmed to be abusive, and this is just how men are. We have to educate them to overcome their urges.
And it's like, now most dudes are not like this. I don't know how to explain this to you, but most men are not like this. In fact, most men are good. And the fact that one of the reigning leaders of this pedophilia ring was a woman, right? And we have seen multiple men from Abercrombie and Fitch male models to little boys on this island to bodies being found in the New Mexico desert — people that have been abused, who have been trafficked, who have been discarded. Are they not victims because of their gender?
And it seems like a really good way to let certain people in power off the hook. And this isn't gonna say that we don't live in a rape culture. We do, because our culture is decided by who has the most money, and we know that the people who have the most money are doing a lot of raping. It's a power thing. It's a power thing, not a biological function.
And so it gets old when every time that we see these monsters do this, because they control every fucking bit of the media, because they have the ability to moderate Reddit. Because Ghislaine Maxwell was a moderator of the largest news subreddit. But she should get a pardon because she's just a poor woman. And she's just taking the fall for these gross men who are doing terrible things. You know, that's a ridiculous take, but it is the exact take that I would imagine they would go with, because it's the same bullshit that they've been doing for the last 15 years.
Identity politics fucking works to divide the working class. It's like, y'all playing it into the handbook, and now I gotta go debate on the weather. Like, it's crazy.
And maybe we shouldn't let certain dudes off the hook. Channel 5 News, brother. Read the testimonies of those women. I know a lot of people who would share his work all day long and think he's the most important guy. When I had my case, man, you should go get interviewed by him because it'd be good for you. I know you don't like him. I know you disagree with him, but I just don't like him. I think he's a predator. I think he's a bad man. I think he harmed women in a real serious way and that's not acceptable and we should be calling out those people. But we don't need to be like, "man, we gotta get it together." Like, man, shut the fuck up. Like, that shit is so cornball.
I'm reminded of a viral TikTok thing that happened where a woman, her boyfriend was cheating on her or what have you, and so her boyfriend had a loose citizenship status. She called ICE on him and got him deported. And this caused a huge schism in the TikTokverse because on one hand, you have reasonable, adult, empathetic people who understand, hey, calling ICE on somebody because they cheated on you is fucked up. You're putting somebody in a concentration camp. This is racially motivated. This is disgusting behavior. Why are you doing this? Right? Baseline, common sense shit.
But you also had a whole lot of people who were like, at the end of the day, he's a man. At the end of the day, that's who our real enemy is, is men. Take no quarter. Sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do. Empower yourself, girl.
And I think that little schism, that little microcosm was like a signal to the powers that be. Oh, this is just gender war shit. This men are naturally conservative and women are naturally progressive logic. We can run that up as far as we need to run it up and they'll never have a class war. They'll never have class consciousness. Fuck.
Now you got young men who walk around thinking women are a whole different species and you got the same fucking thing from young women. Like, this shit don't add up. Like, we're all people. We all working class individuals at the end of the day. You know what I'm saying?
And I'm not gonna sit here and be like, there isn't a problem with specific types of people who are predators, right? They exist. I just named one who's got a whole lot of clout, who's got a major platform on the left. A well-respected guy who's apparently a journalist, what have you. Okay. So we have that problem.
But I guess my issue is when we make it a bioessentialist, gender-divided thing. Like, there are things that I don't want to get into with this piece that are personal to me, but I can assure you that men can be victims too. Men can absolutely be victims too. They can be put into positions that they are not able to consent to because fundamentally what this is all about is consent, enthusiastic consent, right?
And this idea that men are all naturally predators and have to be educated into not being predators is just an absolutely ridiculous fallacy. It's a ridiculous fallacy that is based on misinformation. Like, this is not 60 million men went to this rape academy. It's that this porn website had 60 million clicks over a month. The one that doesn't have a VPN blocker for your state. And as we have shown, those laws for this age restriction where you have to submit your ID cause people to go to these sites that have even more egregious content. But that doesn't necessarily mean that they're there for that egregious content, because then you could just open up fucking any of these porn websites and type in BBW twerking. Holy moly.
And that apparently is the same within the information that we're being pushed, within this propaganda that's being pushed out. Doing that is the same as searching for how to rape women and taking an online class, because that's how the information is being fucking presented.
And then you get some guy who is clearly funded by some political organization, but won't tell us who's funding him, because, motherfucker, nobody just shows up and has Instagram clout overnight. And I'm seeing a lot more of these cats, these socialist influencers — how do you got a hundred thousand subscribers when you just started making videos three months ago? That shit don't make sense.
And he gets up on the fucking camera and he goes, "Guys, we gotta get it together. Men, we need to figure out what's wrong with our natural urges. Something's not right here." And it's just like, bro, the problem is capitalist. The problem is a system of exploitation and the culture created by the most alienated and exploited. The culture of people who are the most willing to exploit other human beings for gain. And that's the only thing that trickles down. Not the money, not the economy, but the culture of cruelty trickles down into our society and soaks it, and soaks it up, makes it fucking greasy and fucking slick, and you don't wanna even hold it because it's so gross.
And that is what it is. If you remove capitalism, you can kill off a lot of this other bullshit.
Why aren't people engaged? Why aren't men involved and engaged in socialist rhetoric? Why is it so easy for men to fall into fascist dogma?
One of the first essays I wrote was called "A Generation of Men Caught Between Two Masks." And it was literally about this. How on one end, you've got this framework that you're biologically born wrong, born with a set of behaviors that is fundamentally antithetical to the movement, to peace, to socialism, to what have you. This is how the narrative is painted.
And it doesn't mean I'm advocating for what these men believe. If prescribing how someone falls into a position of thought is the same as agreeing with that thought, then we are never going to make progress because I'm simply trying to explain how people feel when they are told this shit because it is annoying. Because then you have to say, well, we don't mean all men. Well, we know you don't mean all men, but you're still fucking painting like you mean all men, and you still say it like you mean all men. You say this is just how men are. They're all predators.
Then you have that on one end. And then on the other end, you've got the right who's like, yeah, you're a predator. Embrace that shit. This is the natural way of things. No one is going, you don't have to be a predator. You're not a predator. Like, you're just a human being. You have emotions. You're capable of feeling emotions. You're capable of empathy. You're capable of human experience. You're not a monster just because of what is in between your legs.
And also, let's never forget that this biological essentialism, this idea that because of the gender you're born as, because of the sex you are assigned at birth, you have all of these traits that you have to apply to, you have to follow through — it's incredibly transphobic. It's incredibly transphobic. I mean, it's the same logic that TERFs use to prevent trans women from being part of female spaces. Well, they're really men, and men are naturally predators, and so we can't be safe around them, so we have to exclude them. That is literally the logic of a TERF.
And again, I'm not saying that we don't live in a rape culture. We do. The culture is defined by the people at the top, and the people at the top are fucking rapists because they are capitalists, because they are willing to exploit people, because they want to exhibit power over people.
To simply put the idea that someone like Jeffrey Epstein was just operating under his natural biological urges as a man, and that someone like Ghislaine Maxwell was just taken for a ride because she's a woman and it's completely antithetical to what being a woman is for her to engage in those behaviors — that lets people off the hook. That lets the power off the hook. And it excuses rape culture, if anything.
It gets old. It gets old. It gets all these little narratives that they keep pushing out to put men and women against each other, when in reality, it is a class war, not a gender war.
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Three navy marines and one air force officer, all assigned to the intelligence agency of the Indonesian National Armed Forces (TNI), are charged with serious premeditated assault over last month’s attack on Andrie Yunus, a human rights lawyer and senior activist with the Commission for the Disappeared and Victims of Violence (KontraS), who suffered severe injuries. The case has reignited concerns about impunity for the armed forces.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/four-indonesian-military-personnel-go-trial-over-acid-attack-rights-activist
Indigenous rights activist seeks probe over military harassment, coercion
Indigenous rights activist Raven Desposado has formally asked the Commission on Human Rights on April 28, 2026 to launch an investigation into the coercion and harassment he experienced while he was organizing the 42nd People’s Cordillera Day in Tadian, Mountain Province.
https://www.bulatlat.com/2026/04/29/indigenous-rights-activist-seeks-probe-over-military-harassment-coercion/
Watched, Tracked, Hacked! IFJ Study Finds Global Systemic Surveillance of Journalists
Amid data centres mushrooming across the world, the study revealed that data harvested through these mechanisms is fed into artificial intelligence (AI) dashboards that correlate calls, messages, geolocation data, and online activity –automating surveillance at a scale once unimaginable. “In conflict zones, such as Gaza or Ukraine, AI systems now fuse telecom and drone feeds to identify and track journalists, blurring the line between observation and physical targeting”, the IFJ said.
https://www.newsclick.in/watched-tracked-hacked-ifj-study-finds-global-systemic-surveillance-journalists
Cubans back ‘My signature for the Homeland’ campaign as tensions with US intensify
The homeland initiative began on April 19 and comes as Cuba celebrates the 65th anniversary of its April 1961 Bay of Pigs victory over some 1,500 Cuban exiles backed by the CIA who failed in their attempt to overthrow Fidel Castro’s newly formed Communist government. Alberto Olivera, a visual artist and Hernández’s husband, questioned how Cuba poses a threat to the U.S. “If it’s a failed revolution, then leave us alone,” he said. “What do they care?” Hernández added.
https://apnews.com/article/cuba-signatures-campaign-sanctions-us-df342d257e9e872c3f69333620a1f523
Chilean Government and Workers fail to reach agreement on minimum wage
The divergence between the government’s 4% proposal and the union’s demand of 18.3% led to a standstill in talks on April 29th and the announcement of a parliamentary bill to define the 2026 wage adjustment.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/chilean-government-and-workers-fail-to-reach-agreement-on-minimum-wage/
‘Encouraging’: Global rainforest loss slows in 2025 after record year
“A drop of this scale in a single year is encouraging – it shows what decisive government action can achieve,” said Elizabeth Goldman, co-director of WRI’s Global Forest Watch platform. “But part of the decline reflects a lull after an extreme fire year.”
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/29/tropical-forest-loss-slows-in-2025-after-record-year-report
https://archive.ph/jK0Wb
Brazil’s Senate blocks Lula’s Supreme Court nominee, first rejection in 132 years
Only 34 senators voted in favor of Jorge Messias, who has been Brazil’s solicitor-general since 2023 and a close legal advisor to Lula, while another 42 rejected his appointment. Messias needed 41 votes to be approved.Lula, who is seeking reelection in October for his fourth inconsecutive term, picked Messias to replace Luís Roberto Barroso, who resigned in November. Since then, Brazil’s top court has operated with 10 members.
https://apnews.com/article/brazil-supreme-court-justice-messias-lula-286e34ad39c13519dd2631d30268991d
Met accused of inconsistent policing after resuming Palestine Action arrests outside Court of Appeal
The Court of Appeal heard that there were “plenty” of alternatives to target the actions of Palestine Action aside from banning them as a terror group. The Home Office is challenging the High Court’s ruling in February that the decision to ban Palestine Action last July was “disproportionate” and had a “very significant” impact on human rights, and should be quashed.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/met-accused-inconsistent-policing-after-resuming-palestine-action-arrests-outside-court
Berlin deepens military ties with Washington while Merz-Trump rift grows
Starting in October, an American colonel will serve at the German Army Command in a key role as deputy head of the Operations Division, where missions are planned and decisions are prepared, the German army and the Pentagon told POLITICO. This places a U.S. officer in close cooperation with German counterparts at the center of Germany’s land forces. The aim, a German army spokesperson said, is “to further deepen German-American cooperation and optimize joint operational capability within NATO.”
https://www.politico.eu/article/germany-military-ties-us-friedrich-merz-donald-trump-rift/
https://archive.ph/ch8AB
‘We saw terrible things’: Mali refugees tell of atrocities amid attacks
It was JNIM that forced people in Moctar’s village to leave. The group initially targeted fringe areas with little government control, but as its forces and technical abilities, such as the use of drones, have grown, JNIM has become more daring. Late in September, its fighters attacked tankers carrying oil into the landlocked country from neighbouring Senegal, in effect laying siege to the capital, Bamako. Fighting is also ongoing between Malian troops and rebels of the Azawad Liberation Front (FLA), which is fighting for an independent region in northern Mali.
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2026/4/29/we-saw-terrible-things-mali-refugees-tell-of-atrocities-amid-attacks
https://archive.ph/llmyP
News 4/29/26
Four Indonesian military personnel go on trial over acid attack on rights activistThree navy marines and one air force officer, all assigned to the intelligence agency of the Indonesian National Armed Forces (TNI), are charged with serious premeditated assault over last month’s attack on Andrie Yunus, a human rights lawyer and senior activist with the Commission for the Disappeared and Victims of Violence (KontraS), who suffered severe injuries. The case has reignited concerns about impunity for the armed forces.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/four-indonesian-military-personnel-go-trial-over-acid-attack-rights-activist
Indigenous rights activist seeks probe over military harassment, coercion
Indigenous rights activist Raven Desposado has formally asked the Commission on Human Rights on April 28, 2026 to launch an investigation into the coercion and harassment he experienced while he was organizing the 42nd People’s Cordillera Day in Tadian, Mountain Province.
https://www.bulatlat.com/2026/04/29/indigenous-rights-activist-seeks-probe-over-military-harassment-coercion/
Watched, Tracked, Hacked! IFJ Study Finds Global Systemic Surveillance of Journalists
Amid data centres mushrooming across the world, the study revealed that data harvested through these mechanisms is fed into artificial intelligence (AI) dashboards that correlate calls, messages, geolocation data, and online activity –automating surveillance at a scale once unimaginable. “In conflict zones, such as Gaza or Ukraine, AI systems now fuse telecom and drone feeds to identify and track journalists, blurring the line between observation and physical targeting”, the IFJ said.
https://www.newsclick.in/watched-tracked-hacked-ifj-study-finds-global-systemic-surveillance-journalists
Cubans back ‘My signature for the Homeland’ campaign as tensions with US intensify
The homeland initiative began on April 19 and comes as Cuba celebrates the 65th anniversary of its April 1961 Bay of Pigs victory over some 1,500 Cuban exiles backed by the CIA who failed in their attempt to overthrow Fidel Castro’s newly formed Communist government. Alberto Olivera, a visual artist and Hernández’s husband, questioned how Cuba poses a threat to the U.S. “If it’s a failed revolution, then leave us alone,” he said. “What do they care?” Hernández added.
https://apnews.com/article/cuba-signatures-campaign-sanctions-us-df342d257e9e872c3f69333620a1f523
Chilean Government and Workers fail to reach agreement on minimum wage
The divergence between the government’s 4% proposal and the union’s demand of 18.3% led to a standstill in talks on April 29th and the announcement of a parliamentary bill to define the 2026 wage adjustment.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/chilean-government-and-workers-fail-to-reach-agreement-on-minimum-wage/
‘Encouraging’: Global rainforest loss slows in 2025 after record year
“A drop of this scale in a single year is encouraging – it shows what decisive government action can achieve,” said Elizabeth Goldman, co-director of WRI’s Global Forest Watch platform. “But part of the decline reflects a lull after an extreme fire year.”
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/29/tropical-forest-loss-slows-in-2025-after-record-year-report
https://archive.ph/jK0Wb
Brazil’s Senate blocks Lula’s Supreme Court nominee, first rejection in 132 years
Only 34 senators voted in favor of Jorge Messias, who has been Brazil’s solicitor-general since 2023 and a close legal advisor to Lula, while another 42 rejected his appointment. Messias needed 41 votes to be approved.Lula, who is seeking reelection in October for his fourth inconsecutive term, picked Messias to replace Luís Roberto Barroso, who resigned in November. Since then, Brazil’s top court has operated with 10 members.
https://apnews.com/article/brazil-supreme-court-justice-messias-lula-286e34ad39c13519dd2631d30268991d
Met accused of inconsistent policing after resuming Palestine Action arrests outside Court of Appeal
The Court of Appeal heard that there were “plenty” of alternatives to target the actions of Palestine Action aside from banning them as a terror group. The Home Office is challenging the High Court’s ruling in February that the decision to ban Palestine Action last July was “disproportionate” and had a “very significant” impact on human rights, and should be quashed.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/met-accused-inconsistent-policing-after-resuming-palestine-action-arrests-outside-court
Berlin deepens military ties with Washington while Merz-Trump rift grows
Starting in October, an American colonel will serve at the German Army Command in a key role as deputy head of the Operations Division, where missions are planned and decisions are prepared, the German army and the Pentagon told POLITICO. This places a U.S. officer in close cooperation with German counterparts at the center of Germany’s land forces. The aim, a German army spokesperson said, is “to further deepen German-American cooperation and optimize joint operational capability within NATO.”
https://www.politico.eu/article/germany-military-ties-us-friedrich-merz-donald-trump-rift/
https://archive.ph/ch8AB
‘We saw terrible things’: Mali refugees tell of atrocities amid attacks
It was JNIM that forced people in Moctar’s village to leave. The group initially targeted fringe areas with little government control, but as its forces and technical abilities, such as the use of drones, have grown, JNIM has become more daring. Late in September, its fighters attacked tankers carrying oil into the landlocked country from neighbouring Senegal, in effect laying siege to the capital, Bamako. Fighting is also ongoing between Malian troops and rebels of the Azawad Liberation Front (FLA), which is fighting for an independent region in northern Mali.
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2026/4/29/we-saw-terrible-things-mali-refugees-tell-of-atrocities-amid-attacks
https://archive.ph/llmyP
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Honest question (NOT trolling):
What exactly should the western left do for Palestine that they haven’t already been doing for the past 2.5 years (or even longer for that matter)?
I’ve seen Palestinian activists say “we need to do more to stop the genocide” more times than I can count. But what should we feasibly be doing that we’re not doing already? Boycotts? Mass protests? Blockading arms sales? Policing your peers’ consumer habits so they’re compliant with BDS? Making lists of politicians who receive money from AIPAC and voting them out? We’ve done this already. In NYC, there was a mass protest every fucking weekend where we were told to “escalate for Gaza” yet we never escalated; I don’t even fucking know what “escalate” is supposed to mean. Were we supposed to be engaging in violent riots and molotoving the banks or whatever?
I asked this to a comrade of mine and he said: “You know what we mean when we want the left to do more for Palestine.” By that, he clearly means engage in political violence, bring back the Weathermen. But how would ultra-left adventurism do anything? Elias Rodriguez did exactly this and is now facing life in prison for killing two interns who were replaced the next day. What a fucking waste.
The American left is way too weak, disorganized, and incompetent to do anything meaningful to help the Palestinians resist or stop Israel. It’s gotten to the point where people are putting all their hope and faith in the idea Israel will collapse on its own because they’ve run out of strategies. So what should the left be doing that it’s not doing already? Give clear examples.
Honest question (NOT trolling):
What exactly should the western left do for Palestine that they haven’t already been doing for the past 2.5 years (or even longer for that matter)?
I’ve seen Palestinian activists say “we need to do more to stop the genocide” more times than I can count. But what should we feasibly be doing that we’re not doing already? Boycotts? Mass protests? Blockading arms sales? Policing your peers’ consumer habits so they’re compliant with BDS? Making lists of politicians who receive money from AIPAC and voting them out? We’ve done this already. In NYC, there was a mass protest every fucking weekend where we were told to “escalate for Gaza” yet we never escalated; I don’t even fucking know what “escalate” is supposed to mean. Were we supposed to be engaging in violent riots and molotoving the banks or whatever?
I asked this to a comrade of mine and he said: “You know what we mean when we want the left to do more for Palestine.” By that, he clearly means engage in political violence, bring back the Weathermen. But how would ultra-left adventurism do anything? Elias Rodriguez did exactly this and is now facing life in prison for killing two interns who were replaced the next day. What a fucking waste.
The American left is way too weak, disorganized, and incompetent to do anything meaningful to help the Palestinians resist or stop Israel. It’s gotten to the point where people are putting all their hope and faith in the idea Israel will collapse on its own because they’ve run out of strategies. So what should the left be doing that it’s not doing already? Give clear examples.
R: 34 / I: 12
9/11 wasn't tragic
2,977 yanks were killed because of the Oslo Accords and the Gilf War. That then dragged America into a 20 year war that it ultimately lost. 2,000 more US servicemen died during Operation Enduring Freedom. This is justice for 400 years worth of oppression towards indigenous peoples and black people. Prove me wrong. America the Great has fallen. 9/11 and 10/7 were the two days when the US and Israel finally felt what they dished out to so many others. They're the reason the Middle East is so unstable. Anglos, Jews and Arabs are all in on it together. The US, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, UAE and Oman got to go.
R: 92 / I: 5
I'm really new to politics. What I understood so far is:
socialism: social property of the "means of production" (it can be both democratic or revolutionary)
communism: stateless and classless society
marxism: a sociopolitical and economic analysis of society based on the idea that class struggle under capitalism will eventually lead to a socialist and then communist society
They are different concepts, but can work in a same framework depending on how you define them.
Am I right?
I'm really new to politics. What I understood so far is:
socialism: social property of the "means of production" (it can be both democratic or revolutionary)
communism: stateless and classless society
marxism: a sociopolitical and economic analysis of society based on the idea that class struggle under capitalism will eventually lead to a socialist and then communist society
They are different concepts, but can work in a same framework depending on how you define them.
Am I right?
R: 4 / I: 1
HONEST QUESTION
I've been reading a book about the limits of science, one of it's topics is about the idea of chaos and how complex system cannot be fully know to us or controlled, that does it imply that a planned economy is theoretically impossible for us? What is the answer from socialist about this problem? After that question I'm starting to lean towards a market socialism to deal with the question economy complexity, what's is the LeftyPol answer to the question of economic complexity?
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another staged assassination attempt. Trump didn't want to hear jokes at his expense and it gives him the excuse to build his ballroom. There will probably be many more stunts like this. they even had CIA actor Erika Kirk there to bring the community theatre level theatrics. anything to distract from the files. his face here says "yep, i did it again"
another staged assassination attempt. Trump didn't want to hear jokes at his expense and it gives him the excuse to build his ballroom. There will probably be many more stunts like this. they even had CIA actor Erika Kirk there to bring the community theatre level theatrics. anything to distract from the files. his face here says "yep, i did it again"
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>The day care in the Phillips neighborhood was one of several across the Twin Cities metro area where federal authorities simultaneously carried out search warrants.
>State records identify the owner of Metro Learning Center as Abdullahi Musse.
>Some time after entering the business, investigators could be seen handing paperwork to a man who responded to that name when approached by 5 INVESTIGATES.
>“Nothing I know,” he said when asked about the FBI operation. He insisted his day care was still serving children and families.
>The Minnesota Department of Human Services cited Metro Learning Center in January for failing to update a background check on one member of its staff.
>So far, federal authorities have not commented about the nature of their search warrant.
>The early morning operation captured the attention of neighbors in the area which also includes other Somali-owned businesses and an Islamic Center.
https://kstp.com/kstp-news/top-news/fbi-raids-minneapolis-day-care-with-battering-ram-neighbors-uneasy-after-recent-violence/
This is more proof fascist “journalists” like Nick Shirley and Tyler Oliveira are human filth with potential blood on their hands.
USA happening: feds raid Minneapolis daycares
>FBI agents used a pry bar to enter the Metro Learning Center on 13th Avenue South in Minneapolis just before 7 a.m. on Tuesday.>The day care in the Phillips neighborhood was one of several across the Twin Cities metro area where federal authorities simultaneously carried out search warrants.
>State records identify the owner of Metro Learning Center as Abdullahi Musse.
>Some time after entering the business, investigators could be seen handing paperwork to a man who responded to that name when approached by 5 INVESTIGATES.
>“Nothing I know,” he said when asked about the FBI operation. He insisted his day care was still serving children and families.
>The Minnesota Department of Human Services cited Metro Learning Center in January for failing to update a background check on one member of its staff.
>So far, federal authorities have not commented about the nature of their search warrant.
>The early morning operation captured the attention of neighbors in the area which also includes other Somali-owned businesses and an Islamic Center.
https://kstp.com/kstp-news/top-news/fbi-raids-minneapolis-day-care-with-battering-ram-neighbors-uneasy-after-recent-violence/
This is more proof fascist “journalists” like Nick Shirley and Tyler Oliveira are human filth with potential blood on their hands.
R: 11 / I: 1 (sage)
Infamous examples famous lolcow EDP getting caught by predator hunters twice
Pedos rarely gets arrested
What’s the material condition pedos gets caught in 4K all the time and rarely gets arrested?Infamous examples famous lolcow EDP getting caught by predator hunters twice
R: 621 / I: 119 (full) >>2719642
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https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323729
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https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323735
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Evidence of the influence and origin of neo-Nazi groups in Ukraine
https://archive.ph/44B9Q
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323637
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323658
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323663
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323688
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https://azovlobby.substack.com/
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Plus the lumpen laugh at the size of the "real movement" - how many are you? You're too little to change anything.
Lumpens do admire China but China doesn't care for anything besides its own citizens.
I was talking to a lumpen
I was talking to a lumpen worker happy that a liberal socialdemocrat won the election, he thinks that the succdem is a "man of the people, he will fix everything". And we talked for a bit yelling. But it got me thinking, the lumpen had no problem with the ruling class as long as his needs were met, and for the large part even in spite of the miserable manual labour - were being met. So why do we demand an economy of needs - production planned on needs "from each according to their ability to each according to their need" if capitalism already fulfills their needs? They will still work, not for wages but it would be the same jobs. Its just that the drive for profit and class causes damage to the planet and misery for the manual laborers but as long as their needs are met they don't really care. They don't want planned production they want somebody else to think for them and most have just accepted their roles in contempt so feel no need for a DOTP - ruling is somebody else's problem to them.Plus the lumpen laugh at the size of the "real movement" - how many are you? You're too little to change anything.
Lumpens do admire China but China doesn't care for anything besides its own citizens.
R: 189 / I: 35
- mass immigration is bad overall (I'm not against immigration per se, more like unfiltered immigration is quiet bad in my opinion)
-religion in general are bad, reactionary and backwater, and trying to "fuse" religion and left leaning politics are bound to fail because both doesn't mix well
-"liberal" eugenics is mostly right and should be mass adopted
-China is actually a trying a form of modernize socialism with end goal of becoming a full fledged socialist nation when they exhaust the market-capitalism form of relation in the country
-North Korea is a abomination of socialism
-Supporting Russia is stupid because Putin is nowhere near close to be a support of socialism and progressive politics and is just a form of support imperialist politics by because isn't western somehow is good, it's like supporting japanese imperialism back in the WW 2 era isn't western
CONTROVERSIAL OPINIONS YOU HAVE
A thread to share of what you think are your controversial opinons and takes, here mine:- mass immigration is bad overall (I'm not against immigration per se, more like unfiltered immigration is quiet bad in my opinion)
-religion in general are bad, reactionary and backwater, and trying to "fuse" religion and left leaning politics are bound to fail because both doesn't mix well
-"liberal" eugenics is mostly right and should be mass adopted
-China is actually a trying a form of modernize socialism with end goal of becoming a full fledged socialist nation when they exhaust the market-capitalism form of relation in the country
-North Korea is a abomination of socialism
-Supporting Russia is stupid because Putin is nowhere near close to be a support of socialism and progressive politics and is just a form of support imperialist politics by because isn't western somehow is good, it's like supporting japanese imperialism back in the WW 2 era isn't western
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I am an adult human being living in a bourgeois echo chamber who knows nothing about global poverty. please respond only in text, but I want a serious answer - what is happening? Why do so many people want to kill people like me? I've read communist books and they're all theory, but what I actually want is actual information on the state of global poverty. Specifically, what is causing people to die, and in what terrible conditions do people work? The people here seem almost fanatic, and I could understand this if and only if people were literally systematically dying. Please don't be mean to me - I have spent most of my life in a bourgeois echo chamber.
I am an adult human being living in a bourgeois echo chamber who knows nothing about global poverty. please respond only in text, but I want a serious answer - what is happening? Why do so many people want to kill people like me? I've read communist books and they're all theory, but what I actually want is actual information on the state of global poverty. Specifically, what is causing people to die, and in what terrible conditions do people work? The people here seem almost fanatic, and I could understand this if and only if people were literally systematically dying. Please don't be mean to me - I have spent most of my life in a bourgeois echo chamber.
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Any strawman that does not address the largest trade deficit that will ever exist shall be ignored.
The American 'Proletariat' Does Not Exist
The American 'working class' produce zero surplus value through their net nonproductive labor and physically cannot sustain themselves due to deindustrialization. Each and every single lumpen settler owes more than forty trillion in exports to repay their debt to the rest of the planet and survives off the surplus labor of non-americans from Berlin to Siberia. Even ignoring the countless acts of terrorism committed by the burgereich, the consumerism of treats must end. As the pedotariat of epsteinland must work for several years and export to maybe repay even 30 percent of what occupied turtle island owes to the non-american surplus value producing global proletariat.Any strawman that does not address the largest trade deficit that will ever exist shall be ignored.
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At the same time questions of what is being gained from these massive investments are being raised. If and when this bubble pops it will have adverse ripple effects across the entire global economic system and the capitalist class will be potentially set back trillions. In the process the contradictions that will lead to capitalism's downfall will intensify, opening the window for a socialist revolution. Even if AI and its related technologies can serve some kind of social good and help develop the productive forces. Actively cheering for an AI bubble burst effectively serves the same function as championing revolutionary defeatism whenever the ruling class wages imperialist wars.
Regardless of your actual stance on AI. You should want and look forward to the AI bubble bursting.
The western AI industry is estimated to be worth hundreds of billions of dollars. In 2026 that number will likely balloon even further as more and more capital is poured into the industry. The capitalist class whose shortsightedness is almost always a given has seemingly put all their eggs in this handbasket even at the expense of other sectors of the economy from consumer electronics to the water supply and electrical grids of small towns unfortunate enough to have had a datacenter built in their vicinity.At the same time questions of what is being gained from these massive investments are being raised. If and when this bubble pops it will have adverse ripple effects across the entire global economic system and the capitalist class will be potentially set back trillions. In the process the contradictions that will lead to capitalism's downfall will intensify, opening the window for a socialist revolution. Even if AI and its related technologies can serve some kind of social good and help develop the productive forces. Actively cheering for an AI bubble burst effectively serves the same function as championing revolutionary defeatism whenever the ruling class wages imperialist wars.
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• IWW Work Place Organizing Guide // https://usa.anarchistlibraries.net/library/industrial-workers-of-the-world-libcom-org-solidarity-federation-walthamstow-anarchist-group-wo
• ▶ Salting | Work Place Organizing 101 (50 minute webinar) // https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SHlCLyM4FY
⚖️ Deeds of the Burger Reich 🇺🇸
• deep list of horrible shit we (royal we) have done // https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/us_atrocities.md
• Coups and regime changes – master list // https://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-peoples-governments-the-master-list
• Wikipedia: United States War Crimes // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_war_crimes
• /our boys/ (bring em home!) detail abusing Iraqi prisoners [2006] // https://www.hrw.org/report/2006/07/22/no-blood-no-foul/soldiers-accounts-detainee-abuse-iraq
• More than 250 military interventions in the last 30 years alone // https://blackagendareport.com/us-launched-251-military-interventions-1991-and-469-1798
• Visualization of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade // https://www.slavevoyages.org/
• UNESCO Sites relating to Slavery // https://slaveryandremembrance.org/
• First Hand Documents of the horrors of Slavery // https://www.loc.gov/collections/slave-narratives-from-the-federal-writers-project-1936-to-1938/
📺 Glowie News 📺
(sponsored by the Burger Eagle Freedom Institute (formerly USAID))
• CNN Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/cnn-news-usa.html
• MSNBC Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/msnbc.html
• FOX Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/fox-news-channel.html
• Bloomberg Live // https://www.bloomberg.com/live/us
• Burger House Live // https://www.whitehouse.gov/live/
• Local News // https://www.50states.com/ce/
• Weather // https://www.noaa.gov/weather
📺 Gommie News 📺
• Jacobin // https://jacobin.com/
• Black Agenda Report // https://blackagendareport.com/
• The Grayzone // https://thegrayzone.com/
• Leftvoice // https://www.leftvoice.org/
• Newsanon Filter // https://leftypol.org/search.php?search=name%3A%22News+Anon+3.0%22&board=leftypol
🏝️ Epstein's Client List 🇮🇱
• Epstein's Black Book // https://epsteinsblackbook.com/
• DOJ Disclosures // https://www.justice.gov/epstein/doj-disclosures
• Track AIPAC // https://www.trackaipac.com/
• Al Jazeera visual guide (2026) // https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/10/struggling-to-navigate-the-epstein-files-here-is-a-visual-guide
Essential American Politik 📖
• 📖 WEB Du Bois - Black Reconstruction // https://cominsitu.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/w-e-b-du-bois-black-reconstruction-an-essay-toward-a-history-of-the-part-which-black-folk-played-in-the-attempt-to-reconstruct-democracy-2.pdf
• 📖 Eugene Debs - Fourth of July Speech // https://jacobin.com/2020/07/eugene-debs-independence-day-address-fourth-july
• 📖 Power Anywhere There's People! – Fred Hampton // https://www.hamptonthink.org/read/power-anywhere-where-thats-people-fred-hampton
• 📖 War is a Racket – Smedley Butler // https://ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html
• 📖 Letters From an American Farmer – St. John de Crevoecoeur // https://americanliterature.com/author/j-hector-st-john-de-crevoecoeur/book/letters-from-an-american-farmer/summary
• 📖 Trail of Broken Treaties // American Indian Movement https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
• 📖 The Declaration of Independence https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
• https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
• 📖 The Ballot or the Bullet – Malcolm X // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/ballot_or_bullet.pdf
• 📖 What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? – Frederick Douglass // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/douglass_july_4_speech.pdf
• 📖 A Trail of Broken Treaties – American Indian Movement // https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
• 📖 Custer Died for Your Sins – Vine Deloria Jr. // http://www.riversimulator.org/Resources/Books/CusterDiedForYourSinsAnIndianManifesto1969Deloria.pdf
• 📖 Emancipation Proclamation – Lincoln // https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/emancipation-proclamation
• 📖 Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville // https://americanliterature.com/author/alexis-de-tocqueville/book/democracy-in-america/summary
• 📖 Common Sense – Thomas Paine // https://americainclass.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Common-Sense-Full-Text.pdf
• 📖 An Indigenous History of the United States – Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz // https://nycstandswithstandingrock.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/dunbar-ortiz-2014.pdf
• 📖 Huey Long – Share Our Wealth // https://www.hueylong.com/programs/share-our-wealth/huey-longs-share-our-wealth-speech
Which side are you on? - Pete Seeger
▶ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XKMwWZVpPE
Previous Thread: >>2788019
/USApol/
🗽 UNITED STATES POLITICS 🦅>Thread for the hellish discussion related to the scourge of the earth, the destroyer of nations, the king of coups, the sultan of sanctions, the emir of the embargo, the autocrat of austerity, the doge of deregulation, the baron of busting unions, the prince of privatization, the lord of loan sharks, the patron-saint of proxy wars, the sponsor of settlers, the guarantor of genocides, the Divided $nakkkes of Amerikkka™
<"Fine, I’ll do it myself" edition
OP Backup Site: https://usapol.neocities.org/
💀 ICE & Prison Resources
(Amerika is the most incarcerated country in the world!)
• ICE tracker using public info and user submissions // https://www.iceinmyarea.org/
• list of deaths at ICE concentration camps // https://www.aila.org/infonet/deaths-at-adult-detention-centers
• visualization of prison population in US // https://mkorostoff.github.io/incarceration-in-real-numbers/
• Organizing in Prison — for when the walls close in (RANT Collective) // https://www.organizingforpower.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Organizing-in-Jail.pdf
• database of U.S. facilities incl. ICE holding sites // https://alcpress.org/usjails/index.html
• list of prison related resources, mailing lists, etc // https://www.prisonactivist.org/resources
• ICE Agent List (incomplete) // https://wiki.icelist.is/index.php/Category:Agents
• US Political Prison Tracker (last updated 2025) // https://uspoliticalprisoners.com/
Jailhouse Reading:
• 📖 Angela Davis - Are Prisons Obsolete? // https://dn790007.ca.archive.org/0/items/the-anarchist-library-full-list-of-pdfs-nov-2020/angela-y-davis-are-prisons-obsolete.pdf
• 📖 How to Defend Yourself During Police Interrogation // https://www.notrace.how/resources/download/comment-la-police-interroge-et-comment-sen-defendre/how-to-defend-yourself-during-a-police-interrogation.pdf
• 📖 National Lawyers Guild guide to being a jailhouse lawyer // https://www.jailhouselaw.org/
• 📖 Critical Resistance - Surviving Solitary Confinement // https://criticalresistance.org/resources/surviving-solitary/
• 📖 An inside-outside publication for abolitionist struggle & strategy across prison walls // https://criticalresistance.org/abolitionist/
• 📖 Prisoners’ Self-Help Litigation Manual // https://api.pageplace.de/preview/DT0400.9780199705665_A35159258/preview-9780199705665_A35159258.pdf
⚒️ LABOR!
• Live strike tracker with deep stats on who, what and when // https://striketracker.ilr.cornell.edu/
• AFL-CIO [imperialist]'s Strike Tracker // https://aflcio.org/strike-map
• Labor Bureau's Official 'work stoppage' tracker // https://www.bls.gov/wsp/
• IWW timeline for the 20th century (ends at 1999) // https://archive.iww.org/history/chronology/
• IWW Work Place Organizing Guide // https://usa.anarchistlibraries.net/library/industrial-workers-of-the-world-libcom-org-solidarity-federation-walthamstow-anarchist-group-wo
• ▶ Salting | Work Place Organizing 101 (50 minute webinar) // https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SHlCLyM4FY
⚖️ Deeds of the Burger Reich 🇺🇸
• deep list of horrible shit we (royal we) have done // https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/us_atrocities.md
• Coups and regime changes – master list // https://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-peoples-governments-the-master-list
• Wikipedia: United States War Crimes // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_war_crimes
• /our boys/ (bring em home!) detail abusing Iraqi prisoners [2006] // https://www.hrw.org/report/2006/07/22/no-blood-no-foul/soldiers-accounts-detainee-abuse-iraq
• More than 250 military interventions in the last 30 years alone // https://blackagendareport.com/us-launched-251-military-interventions-1991-and-469-1798
• Visualization of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade // https://www.slavevoyages.org/
• UNESCO Sites relating to Slavery // https://slaveryandremembrance.org/
• First Hand Documents of the horrors of Slavery // https://www.loc.gov/collections/slave-narratives-from-the-federal-writers-project-1936-to-1938/
📺 Glowie News 📺
(sponsored by the Burger Eagle Freedom Institute (formerly USAID))
• CNN Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/cnn-news-usa.html
• MSNBC Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/msnbc.html
• FOX Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/fox-news-channel.html
• Bloomberg Live // https://www.bloomberg.com/live/us
• Burger House Live // https://www.whitehouse.gov/live/
• Local News // https://www.50states.com/ce/
• Weather // https://www.noaa.gov/weather
📺 Gommie News 📺
• Jacobin // https://jacobin.com/
• Black Agenda Report // https://blackagendareport.com/
• The Grayzone // https://thegrayzone.com/
• Leftvoice // https://www.leftvoice.org/
• Newsanon Filter // https://leftypol.org/search.php?search=name%3A%22News+Anon+3.0%22&board=leftypol
🏝️ Epstein's Client List 🇮🇱
• Epstein's Black Book // https://epsteinsblackbook.com/
• DOJ Disclosures // https://www.justice.gov/epstein/doj-disclosures
• Track AIPAC // https://www.trackaipac.com/
• Al Jazeera visual guide (2026) // https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/10/struggling-to-navigate-the-epstein-files-here-is-a-visual-guide
Essential American Politik 📖
• 📖 WEB Du Bois - Black Reconstruction // https://cominsitu.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/w-e-b-du-bois-black-reconstruction-an-essay-toward-a-history-of-the-part-which-black-folk-played-in-the-attempt-to-reconstruct-democracy-2.pdf
• 📖 Eugene Debs - Fourth of July Speech // https://jacobin.com/2020/07/eugene-debs-independence-day-address-fourth-july
• 📖 Power Anywhere There's People! – Fred Hampton // https://www.hamptonthink.org/read/power-anywhere-where-thats-people-fred-hampton
• 📖 War is a Racket – Smedley Butler // https://ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html
• 📖 Letters From an American Farmer – St. John de Crevoecoeur // https://americanliterature.com/author/j-hector-st-john-de-crevoecoeur/book/letters-from-an-american-farmer/summary
• 📖 Trail of Broken Treaties // American Indian Movement https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
• 📖 The Declaration of Independence https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
• https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
• 📖 The Ballot or the Bullet – Malcolm X // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/ballot_or_bullet.pdf
• 📖 What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? – Frederick Douglass // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/douglass_july_4_speech.pdf
• 📖 A Trail of Broken Treaties – American Indian Movement // https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
• 📖 Custer Died for Your Sins – Vine Deloria Jr. // http://www.riversimulator.org/Resources/Books/CusterDiedForYourSinsAnIndianManifesto1969Deloria.pdf
• 📖 Emancipation Proclamation – Lincoln // https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/emancipation-proclamation
• 📖 Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville // https://americanliterature.com/author/alexis-de-tocqueville/book/democracy-in-america/summary
• 📖 Common Sense – Thomas Paine // https://americainclass.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Common-Sense-Full-Text.pdf
• 📖 An Indigenous History of the United States – Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz // https://nycstandswithstandingrock.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/dunbar-ortiz-2014.pdf
• 📖 Huey Long – Share Our Wealth // https://www.hueylong.com/programs/share-our-wealth/huey-longs-share-our-wealth-speech
Which side are you on? - Pete Seeger
▶ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XKMwWZVpPE
Previous Thread: >>2788019
R: 587 / I: 114
>Thread for the hellish discussion related to the scourge of the earth, the destroyer of nations, the king of coups, the sultan of sanctions, the emir of the embargo, the autocrat of austerity, the doge of deregulation, the baron of busting unions, the prince of privatization, the lord of loan sharks, the patron-saint of proxy wars, the sponsor of settlers, the guarantor of genocides, the Divided $nakkkes of Amerikkka™
<Ballroom Blitz Edition
OP Backup Site: https://usapol.neocities.org/
💀 ICE & Prison Resources
(Amerika is the most incarcerated country in the world!)
• ICE tracker using public info and user submissions // https://www.iceinmyarea.org/
• list of deaths at ICE concentration camps // https://www.aila.org/infonet/deaths-at-adult-detention-centers
• visualization of prison population in US // https://mkorostoff.github.io/incarceration-in-real-numbers/
• Organizing in Prison — for when the walls close in (RANT Collective) // https://www.organizingforpower.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Organizing-in-Jail.pdf
• database of U.S. facilities incl. ICE holding sites // https://alcpress.org/usjails/index.html
• list of prison related resources, mailing lists, etc // https://www.prisonactivist.org/resources
• ICE Agent List (incomplete) // https://wiki.icelist.is/index.php/Category:Agents
• US Political Prison Tracker (last updated 2025) // https://uspoliticalprisoners.com/
Jailhouse Reading:
• 📖 Angela Davis - Are Prisons Obsolete? // https://dn790007.ca.archive.org/0/items/the-anarchist-library-full-list-of-pdfs-nov-2020/angela-y-davis-are-prisons-obsolete.pdf
• 📖 How to Defend Yourself During Police Interrogation // https://www.notrace.how/resources/download/comment-la-police-interroge-et-comment-sen-defendre/how-to-defend-yourself-during-a-police-interrogation.pdf
• 📖 National Lawyers Guild guide to being a jailhouse lawyer // https://www.jailhouselaw.org/
• 📖 Critical Resistance - Surviving Solitary Confinement // https://criticalresistance.org/resources/surviving-solitary/
• 📖 An inside-outside publication for abolitionist struggle & strategy across prison walls // https://criticalresistance.org/abolitionist/
• 📖 Prisoners’ Self-Help Litigation Manual // https://api.pageplace.de/preview/DT0400.9780199705665_A35159258/preview-9780199705665_A35159258.pdf
⚒️ LABOR!
• Live strike tracker with deep stats on who, what and when // https://striketracker.ilr.cornell.edu/
• AFL-CIO [imperialist]'s Strike Tracker // https://aflcio.org/strike-map
• Labor Bureau's Official 'work stoppage' tracker // https://www.bls.gov/wsp/
• IWW timeline for the 20th century (ends at 1999) // https://archive.iww.org/history/chronology/
• IWW Work Place Organizing Guide // https://usa.anarchistlibraries.net/library/industrial-workers-of-the-world-libcom-org-solidarity-federation-walthamstow-anarchist-group-wo
• ▶ Salting | Work Place Organizing 101 (50 minute webinar) // https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SHlCLyM4FY
⚖️ Deeds of the Burger Reich 🇺🇸
• deep list of horrible shit we (royal we) have done // https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/us_atrocities.md
• Coups and regime changes – master list // https://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-peoples-governments-the-master-list
• Wikipedia: United States War Crimes // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_war_crimes
• /our boys/ (bring em home!) detail abusing Iraqi prisoners [2006] // https://www.hrw.org/report/2006/07/22/no-blood-no-foul/soldiers-accounts-detainee-abuse-iraq
• More than 250 military interventions in the last 30 years alone // https://blackagendareport.com/us-launched-251-military-interventions-1991-and-469-1798
• Visualization of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade // https://www.slavevoyages.org/
• UNESCO Sites relating to Slavery // https://slaveryandremembrance.org/
• First Hand Documents of the horrors of Slavery // https://www.loc.gov/collections/slave-narratives-from-the-federal-writers-project-1936-to-1938/
📺 Glowie News 📺
(sponsored by the Burger Eagle Freedom Institute (formerly USAID))
• CNN Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/cnn-news-usa.html
• MSNBC Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/msnbc.html
• FOX Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/fox-news-channel.html
• Bloomberg Live // https://www.bloomberg.com/live/us
• Burger House Live // https://www.whitehouse.gov/live/
• Local News // https://www.50states.com/ce/
• Weather // https://www.noaa.gov/weather
📺 Gommie News 📺
• Jacobin // https://jacobin.com/
• Black Agenda Report // https://blackagendareport.com/
• The Grayzone // https://thegrayzone.com/
• Leftvoice // https://www.leftvoice.org/
• Newsanon Filter // https://leftypol.org/search.php?search=name%3A%22News+Anon+3.0%22&board=leftypol
🏝️ Epstein's Client List 🇮🇱
• Epstein's Black Book // https://epsteinsblackbook.com/
• DOJ Disclosures // https://www.justice.gov/epstein/doj-disclosures
• Track AIPAC // https://www.trackaipac.com/
• Al Jazeera visual guide (2026) // https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/10/struggling-to-navigate-the-epstein-files-here-is-a-visual-guide
Essential American Politik 📖
• 📖 WEB Du Bois - Black Reconstruction // https://cominsitu.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/w-e-b-du-bois-black-reconstruction-an-essay-toward-a-history-of-the-part-which-black-folk-played-in-the-attempt-to-reconstruct-democracy-2.pdf
• 📖 Eugene Debs - Fourth of July Speech // https://jacobin.com/2020/07/eugene-debs-independence-day-address-fourth-july
• 📖 Power Anywhere There's People! – Fred Hampton // https://www.hamptonthink.org/read/power-anywhere-where-thats-people-fred-hampton
• 📖 War is a Racket – Smedley Butler // https://ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html
• 📖 Letters From an American Farmer – St. John de Crevoecoeur // https://americanliterature.com/author/j-hector-st-john-de-crevoecoeur/book/letters-from-an-american-farmer/summary
• 📖 Trail of Broken Treaties // American Indian Movement https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
• 📖 The Declaration of Independence https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
• https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
• 📖 The Ballot or the Bullet – Malcolm X // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/ballot_or_bullet.pdf
• 📖 What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? – Frederick Douglass // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/douglass_july_4_speech.pdf
• 📖 A Trail of Broken Treaties – American Indian Movement // https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
• 📖 Custer Died for Your Sins – Vine Deloria Jr. // http://www.riversimulator.org/Resources/Books/CusterDiedForYourSinsAnIndianManifesto1969Deloria.pdf
• 📖 Emancipation Proclamation – Lincoln // https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/emancipation-proclamation
• 📖 Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville // https://americanliterature.com/author/alexis-de-tocqueville/book/democracy-in-america/summary
• 📖 Common Sense – Thomas Paine // https://americainclass.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Common-Sense-Full-Text.pdf
• 📖 An Indigenous History of the United States – Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz // https://nycstandswithstandingrock.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/dunbar-ortiz-2014.pdf
• 📖 Huey Long – Share Our Wealth // https://www.hueylong.com/programs/share-our-wealth/huey-longs-share-our-wealth-speech
Which side are you on? - Pete Seeger
▶ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XKMwWZVpPE
Previous Thread: >>2791520
/USApol/
🗽 UNITED STATES POLITICS 🦅>Thread for the hellish discussion related to the scourge of the earth, the destroyer of nations, the king of coups, the sultan of sanctions, the emir of the embargo, the autocrat of austerity, the doge of deregulation, the baron of busting unions, the prince of privatization, the lord of loan sharks, the patron-saint of proxy wars, the sponsor of settlers, the guarantor of genocides, the Divided $nakkkes of Amerikkka™
<Ballroom Blitz Edition
OP Backup Site: https://usapol.neocities.org/
💀 ICE & Prison Resources
(Amerika is the most incarcerated country in the world!)
• ICE tracker using public info and user submissions // https://www.iceinmyarea.org/
• list of deaths at ICE concentration camps // https://www.aila.org/infonet/deaths-at-adult-detention-centers
• visualization of prison population in US // https://mkorostoff.github.io/incarceration-in-real-numbers/
• Organizing in Prison — for when the walls close in (RANT Collective) // https://www.organizingforpower.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Organizing-in-Jail.pdf
• database of U.S. facilities incl. ICE holding sites // https://alcpress.org/usjails/index.html
• list of prison related resources, mailing lists, etc // https://www.prisonactivist.org/resources
• ICE Agent List (incomplete) // https://wiki.icelist.is/index.php/Category:Agents
• US Political Prison Tracker (last updated 2025) // https://uspoliticalprisoners.com/
Jailhouse Reading:
• 📖 Angela Davis - Are Prisons Obsolete? // https://dn790007.ca.archive.org/0/items/the-anarchist-library-full-list-of-pdfs-nov-2020/angela-y-davis-are-prisons-obsolete.pdf
• 📖 How to Defend Yourself During Police Interrogation // https://www.notrace.how/resources/download/comment-la-police-interroge-et-comment-sen-defendre/how-to-defend-yourself-during-a-police-interrogation.pdf
• 📖 National Lawyers Guild guide to being a jailhouse lawyer // https://www.jailhouselaw.org/
• 📖 Critical Resistance - Surviving Solitary Confinement // https://criticalresistance.org/resources/surviving-solitary/
• 📖 An inside-outside publication for abolitionist struggle & strategy across prison walls // https://criticalresistance.org/abolitionist/
• 📖 Prisoners’ Self-Help Litigation Manual // https://api.pageplace.de/preview/DT0400.9780199705665_A35159258/preview-9780199705665_A35159258.pdf
⚒️ LABOR!
• Live strike tracker with deep stats on who, what and when // https://striketracker.ilr.cornell.edu/
• AFL-CIO [imperialist]'s Strike Tracker // https://aflcio.org/strike-map
• Labor Bureau's Official 'work stoppage' tracker // https://www.bls.gov/wsp/
• IWW timeline for the 20th century (ends at 1999) // https://archive.iww.org/history/chronology/
• IWW Work Place Organizing Guide // https://usa.anarchistlibraries.net/library/industrial-workers-of-the-world-libcom-org-solidarity-federation-walthamstow-anarchist-group-wo
• ▶ Salting | Work Place Organizing 101 (50 minute webinar) // https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SHlCLyM4FY
⚖️ Deeds of the Burger Reich 🇺🇸
• deep list of horrible shit we (royal we) have done // https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/us_atrocities.md
• Coups and regime changes – master list // https://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-peoples-governments-the-master-list
• Wikipedia: United States War Crimes // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_war_crimes
• /our boys/ (bring em home!) detail abusing Iraqi prisoners [2006] // https://www.hrw.org/report/2006/07/22/no-blood-no-foul/soldiers-accounts-detainee-abuse-iraq
• More than 250 military interventions in the last 30 years alone // https://blackagendareport.com/us-launched-251-military-interventions-1991-and-469-1798
• Visualization of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade // https://www.slavevoyages.org/
• UNESCO Sites relating to Slavery // https://slaveryandremembrance.org/
• First Hand Documents of the horrors of Slavery // https://www.loc.gov/collections/slave-narratives-from-the-federal-writers-project-1936-to-1938/
📺 Glowie News 📺
(sponsored by the Burger Eagle Freedom Institute (formerly USAID))
• CNN Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/cnn-news-usa.html
• MSNBC Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/msnbc.html
• FOX Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/fox-news-channel.html
• Bloomberg Live // https://www.bloomberg.com/live/us
• Burger House Live // https://www.whitehouse.gov/live/
• Local News // https://www.50states.com/ce/
• Weather // https://www.noaa.gov/weather
📺 Gommie News 📺
• Jacobin // https://jacobin.com/
• Black Agenda Report // https://blackagendareport.com/
• The Grayzone // https://thegrayzone.com/
• Leftvoice // https://www.leftvoice.org/
• Newsanon Filter // https://leftypol.org/search.php?search=name%3A%22News+Anon+3.0%22&board=leftypol
🏝️ Epstein's Client List 🇮🇱
• Epstein's Black Book // https://epsteinsblackbook.com/
• DOJ Disclosures // https://www.justice.gov/epstein/doj-disclosures
• Track AIPAC // https://www.trackaipac.com/
• Al Jazeera visual guide (2026) // https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/10/struggling-to-navigate-the-epstein-files-here-is-a-visual-guide
Essential American Politik 📖
• 📖 WEB Du Bois - Black Reconstruction // https://cominsitu.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/w-e-b-du-bois-black-reconstruction-an-essay-toward-a-history-of-the-part-which-black-folk-played-in-the-attempt-to-reconstruct-democracy-2.pdf
• 📖 Eugene Debs - Fourth of July Speech // https://jacobin.com/2020/07/eugene-debs-independence-day-address-fourth-july
• 📖 Power Anywhere There's People! – Fred Hampton // https://www.hamptonthink.org/read/power-anywhere-where-thats-people-fred-hampton
• 📖 War is a Racket – Smedley Butler // https://ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html
• 📖 Letters From an American Farmer – St. John de Crevoecoeur // https://americanliterature.com/author/j-hector-st-john-de-crevoecoeur/book/letters-from-an-american-farmer/summary
• 📖 Trail of Broken Treaties // American Indian Movement https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
• 📖 The Declaration of Independence https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
• https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
• 📖 The Ballot or the Bullet – Malcolm X // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/ballot_or_bullet.pdf
• 📖 What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? – Frederick Douglass // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/douglass_july_4_speech.pdf
• 📖 A Trail of Broken Treaties – American Indian Movement // https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
• 📖 Custer Died for Your Sins – Vine Deloria Jr. // http://www.riversimulator.org/Resources/Books/CusterDiedForYourSinsAnIndianManifesto1969Deloria.pdf
• 📖 Emancipation Proclamation – Lincoln // https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/emancipation-proclamation
• 📖 Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville // https://americanliterature.com/author/alexis-de-tocqueville/book/democracy-in-america/summary
• 📖 Common Sense – Thomas Paine // https://americainclass.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Common-Sense-Full-Text.pdf
• 📖 An Indigenous History of the United States – Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz // https://nycstandswithstandingrock.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/dunbar-ortiz-2014.pdf
• 📖 Huey Long – Share Our Wealth // https://www.hueylong.com/programs/share-our-wealth/huey-longs-share-our-wealth-speech
Which side are you on? - Pete Seeger
▶ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XKMwWZVpPE
Previous Thread: >>2791520
R: 2 / I: 0
Right-wing candidate Keiko Fujimori and left-wing candidate Roberto Sánchez would tie at 38% of the vote in the Peruvian presidential runoff scheduled for June 7, according to the first opinion poll published after the April 12 election, against a backdrop of an inconclusive count and an ongoing dispute over second place. The Ipsos Peru survey, conducted between April 23 and 24 and published by daily Perú.21, points to a scenario of absolute parity with a margin of error of +/- 2.8 percentage points.
https://en.mercopress.com/2026/04/27/poll-projects-dead-heat-between-fujimori-and-sanchez-in-peru-runoff-as-count-nears-completion
Mexico’s military captures top cartel leader in another blow to the Jalisco New Generation Cartel
Flores Silva was seen as a possible successor to Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, or “El Mencho,” who was killed in a dramatic military operation in February. The killing of “El Mencho” led to a surge of cartel violence with a wave of attacks on businesses by cartel gunmen, vehicle burnings and road blockades that killed more than 70 people, including 25 National Guard members.
https://apnews.com/article/jalisco-new-generation-cartel-mexico-flores-silva-6050d1eb184dc8842f34a180ac77df91
‘A sudden gap’: poorest to suffer from Trump’s drive to stop Cuba sending doctors to its neighbours
Since Donald Trump began his second term, the governments of Jamaica, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, St Vincent and the Grenadines, the Bahamas, Antigua and Barbuda, and Paraguay have ended the medical agreements, either immediately or gradually. The lone point of resistance has been Mexico, where the president, Claudia Sheinbaum, has refused to end the programme, saying that the about 3,000 Cuban doctors are of “great help” as they work in remote areas where there is a shortage of personnel.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/26/poorest-to-suffer-trump-drive-to-stop-cuba-sending-doctors-to-its-neighbours
US spy agencies examine how Iran would react to Trump declaring victory
The intelligence community is analyzing the question along with others at the request of senior administration officials. The goal is to understand the implications of Trump potentially pulling back from a conflict that some officials and advisers worry could contribute to deep Republican losses at the midterm elections later this year, according to the sources.
https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2026/04/exclusive-us-spy-agencies-examine-how-iran-would-react-trump-declaring-victory
Leonardo's Edinburgh factory blockaded over ‘complicity in genocide’
Campaigners took up position from 5am at the gates of the plant, which produced laser targeting systems to Lockheed Martin for use in the F-35, an aircraft which played a key role as Israeli forces razed Gaza as well as in its attacks on Lebanon and Iran.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/leonardos-edinburgh-factory-blockaded-over-complicity-genocide
Sadiq Khan Moves to Block Met Police Deal With Palantir
While the Met has its own procurement team, the London mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime must sign off any contract worth over £500,000, giving Khan some leverage over the deal. A spokesperson for the mayor said: “We can’t comment on live procurement processes. However, as a general point the mayor would have concerns about using public money to support firms who act contrary to London’s values.”
https://novaramedia.com/2026/04/28/sadiq-khan-moves-to-block-met-police-deal-with-palantir/
Uganda detains 231 foreigners in crackdown on possible human trafficking
At least 231 people have been detained since Monday in operations that targeted a group of Nigerians living in the country’s north, as well as another group of foreigners living together in a closed compound in Kampala, the capital.
https://apnews.com/article/uganda-migration-trafficking-arrests-cyberscam-0c4f50f8df1854c07e6521bffdff3c36
Kenyan court recriminalizes abortion
The 2022 decision held that abortion is a constitutional right, but the appellate court ruled that this was an incorrect interpretation. The constitution adopted by Kenya in 2010 allowed for abortion if “there is a need for emergency treatment, or the life or health of the mother is in danger.” It has, however, remained criminalized in practice for over a decade as the colonial-era penal code has not been amended to reflect this.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2026/04/27/kenyan-court-recriminalizes-abortion/
Four killed, 70 injured in mortar, rocket attacks by Pakistan, Afghan Taliban says
Mortar and rocket attacks launched by Pakistan against Afghanistan killed four people on Monday and injured 70 more, the Taliban government said, as fighting between the countries erupted again and threatened to derail fragile peace talks.
https://www.newarab.com/news/four-killed-70-injured-attacks-pakistan-afghan-taliban
Lebanese citizens with Australian partners being denied visitor visas amid concerns over unofficial ‘blacklists’
Other migration agents have reported similar refusals, and they say that in times of crisis or conflict, some countries are put on unofficial “blacklists” from which it is almost impossible – regardless of compelling circumstances – to have a visa application approved. In the wake of US and Israeli strikes on Iran in February, militant group Hezbollah – backed by Iran – resumed rocket strikes on Israel.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/apr/28/lebanese-citizens-denied-visas-australia
News 4/28/26
Poll projects dead heat between Fujimori and Sánchez in Peru runoff as count nears completionRight-wing candidate Keiko Fujimori and left-wing candidate Roberto Sánchez would tie at 38% of the vote in the Peruvian presidential runoff scheduled for June 7, according to the first opinion poll published after the April 12 election, against a backdrop of an inconclusive count and an ongoing dispute over second place. The Ipsos Peru survey, conducted between April 23 and 24 and published by daily Perú.21, points to a scenario of absolute parity with a margin of error of +/- 2.8 percentage points.
https://en.mercopress.com/2026/04/27/poll-projects-dead-heat-between-fujimori-and-sanchez-in-peru-runoff-as-count-nears-completion
Mexico’s military captures top cartel leader in another blow to the Jalisco New Generation Cartel
Flores Silva was seen as a possible successor to Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, or “El Mencho,” who was killed in a dramatic military operation in February. The killing of “El Mencho” led to a surge of cartel violence with a wave of attacks on businesses by cartel gunmen, vehicle burnings and road blockades that killed more than 70 people, including 25 National Guard members.
https://apnews.com/article/jalisco-new-generation-cartel-mexico-flores-silva-6050d1eb184dc8842f34a180ac77df91
‘A sudden gap’: poorest to suffer from Trump’s drive to stop Cuba sending doctors to its neighbours
Since Donald Trump began his second term, the governments of Jamaica, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, St Vincent and the Grenadines, the Bahamas, Antigua and Barbuda, and Paraguay have ended the medical agreements, either immediately or gradually. The lone point of resistance has been Mexico, where the president, Claudia Sheinbaum, has refused to end the programme, saying that the about 3,000 Cuban doctors are of “great help” as they work in remote areas where there is a shortage of personnel.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/26/poorest-to-suffer-trump-drive-to-stop-cuba-sending-doctors-to-its-neighbours
US spy agencies examine how Iran would react to Trump declaring victory
The intelligence community is analyzing the question along with others at the request of senior administration officials. The goal is to understand the implications of Trump potentially pulling back from a conflict that some officials and advisers worry could contribute to deep Republican losses at the midterm elections later this year, according to the sources.
https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2026/04/exclusive-us-spy-agencies-examine-how-iran-would-react-trump-declaring-victory
Leonardo's Edinburgh factory blockaded over ‘complicity in genocide’
Campaigners took up position from 5am at the gates of the plant, which produced laser targeting systems to Lockheed Martin for use in the F-35, an aircraft which played a key role as Israeli forces razed Gaza as well as in its attacks on Lebanon and Iran.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/leonardos-edinburgh-factory-blockaded-over-complicity-genocide
Sadiq Khan Moves to Block Met Police Deal With Palantir
While the Met has its own procurement team, the London mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime must sign off any contract worth over £500,000, giving Khan some leverage over the deal. A spokesperson for the mayor said: “We can’t comment on live procurement processes. However, as a general point the mayor would have concerns about using public money to support firms who act contrary to London’s values.”
https://novaramedia.com/2026/04/28/sadiq-khan-moves-to-block-met-police-deal-with-palantir/
Uganda detains 231 foreigners in crackdown on possible human trafficking
At least 231 people have been detained since Monday in operations that targeted a group of Nigerians living in the country’s north, as well as another group of foreigners living together in a closed compound in Kampala, the capital.
https://apnews.com/article/uganda-migration-trafficking-arrests-cyberscam-0c4f50f8df1854c07e6521bffdff3c36
Kenyan court recriminalizes abortion
The 2022 decision held that abortion is a constitutional right, but the appellate court ruled that this was an incorrect interpretation. The constitution adopted by Kenya in 2010 allowed for abortion if “there is a need for emergency treatment, or the life or health of the mother is in danger.” It has, however, remained criminalized in practice for over a decade as the colonial-era penal code has not been amended to reflect this.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2026/04/27/kenyan-court-recriminalizes-abortion/
Four killed, 70 injured in mortar, rocket attacks by Pakistan, Afghan Taliban says
Mortar and rocket attacks launched by Pakistan against Afghanistan killed four people on Monday and injured 70 more, the Taliban government said, as fighting between the countries erupted again and threatened to derail fragile peace talks.
https://www.newarab.com/news/four-killed-70-injured-attacks-pakistan-afghan-taliban
Lebanese citizens with Australian partners being denied visitor visas amid concerns over unofficial ‘blacklists’
Other migration agents have reported similar refusals, and they say that in times of crisis or conflict, some countries are put on unofficial “blacklists” from which it is almost impossible – regardless of compelling circumstances – to have a visa application approved. In the wake of US and Israeli strikes on Iran in February, militant group Hezbollah – backed by Iran – resumed rocket strikes on Israel.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/apr/28/lebanese-citizens-denied-visas-australia
R: 589 / I: 185
News article about the new Supreme leader of Iran owning luxury property next to a UK embasy: https://www.transparency.org.uk/news/londons-role-irans-financial-networks-and-why-it-matters-now
>Previous Bake
>>2786439
>Important Links:
https://www.flightradar24.com/
https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/centerx:52.7/centery:26.8/zoom:7
https://www.defconlevel.com/
https://oilprice.com/
https://www.pizzint.watch/
https://eam.watch/
https://www.gmcmap.com/index.asp
https://firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/map/#d:24hrs;@54.2,31.0,7.1z
https://globe.adsbexchange.com/
>Useful Channels:
https://www.youtube.com/@TheDuran
https://www.youtube.com/@AlexMercouris
https://www.youtube.com/@AlexChristoforou
https://www.youtube.com/@dialogueworks01
https://www.youtube.com/@DanielDavisDeepDive
https://www.youtube.com/@DannyHaiphongYT
https://www.youtube.com/@justinpodur
https://www.youtube.com/@IndiaGlobalLeft
https://www.youtube.com/@RichardMedhurst
https://www.youtube.com/@GDFofficial
https://www.youtube.com/@neutralitystudies
https://www.youtube.com/@prop_co
https://www.youtube.com/@CyrusJanssen
https://www.youtube.com/@breakingpoints
https://www.youtube.com/@militarysummary
https://www.youtube.com/@TheNewAtlas
https://www.youtube.com/@willyOAM
https://www.youtube.com/@GDiesen1
https://www.youtube.com/@theeastisapodcast
https://www.youtube.com/@GeopoliticalEconomyReport
https://www.youtube.com/@TheElectronicIntifada
>Useful Xitters
https://xcancel.com/IranObserver0
https://xcancel.com/araghchi
https://xcancel.com/conflict_radar
https://xcancel.com/TheCradleMedia
https://xcancel.com/AliAbunimah
https://xcancel.com/BrianJBerletic
https://xcancel.com/angeloinchina
https://xcancel.com/jonelmer
https://xcancel.com/MarkAmesExiled
https://xcancel.com/UrOrientalist
https://xcancel.com/MaxBlumenthal
https://xcancel.com/dreizinreport/
>Useful TG:
https://t.me/s/wfwitness
https://t.me/s/Middle_East_Spectator
https://t.me/s/enemywatch
>Useful Blogs/Podcasts/News:
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/
https://simplicius76.substack.com/
https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/
https://sonar21.com/
https://www.moonofalabama.org/
https://thegrayzone.com/
https://www.middleeasteye.net/live/live-us-and-israel-attack-iran
https://www.podbean.com/podcast-detail/t687i-9b79d/War-Nerd-Radio-%E2%80%94-Subscriber-Feed-Podcast
/Iran/ war thread #61
>unreadable screenshots editionNews article about the new Supreme leader of Iran owning luxury property next to a UK embasy: https://www.transparency.org.uk/news/londons-role-irans-financial-networks-and-why-it-matters-now
>Previous Bake
>>2786439
>Important Links:
https://www.flightradar24.com/
https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/centerx:52.7/centery:26.8/zoom:7
https://www.defconlevel.com/
https://oilprice.com/
https://www.pizzint.watch/
https://eam.watch/
https://www.gmcmap.com/index.asp
https://firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/map/#d:24hrs;@54.2,31.0,7.1z
https://globe.adsbexchange.com/
>Useful Channels:
https://www.youtube.com/@TheDuran
https://www.youtube.com/@AlexMercouris
https://www.youtube.com/@AlexChristoforou
https://www.youtube.com/@dialogueworks01
https://www.youtube.com/@DanielDavisDeepDive
https://www.youtube.com/@DannyHaiphongYT
https://www.youtube.com/@justinpodur
https://www.youtube.com/@IndiaGlobalLeft
https://www.youtube.com/@RichardMedhurst
https://www.youtube.com/@GDFofficial
https://www.youtube.com/@neutralitystudies
https://www.youtube.com/@prop_co
https://www.youtube.com/@CyrusJanssen
https://www.youtube.com/@breakingpoints
https://www.youtube.com/@militarysummary
https://www.youtube.com/@TheNewAtlas
https://www.youtube.com/@willyOAM
https://www.youtube.com/@GDiesen1
https://www.youtube.com/@theeastisapodcast
https://www.youtube.com/@GeopoliticalEconomyReport
https://www.youtube.com/@TheElectronicIntifada
>Useful Xitters
https://xcancel.com/IranObserver0
https://xcancel.com/araghchi
https://xcancel.com/conflict_radar
https://xcancel.com/TheCradleMedia
https://xcancel.com/AliAbunimah
https://xcancel.com/BrianJBerletic
https://xcancel.com/angeloinchina
https://xcancel.com/jonelmer
https://xcancel.com/MarkAmesExiled
https://xcancel.com/UrOrientalist
https://xcancel.com/MaxBlumenthal
https://xcancel.com/dreizinreport/
>Useful TG:
https://t.me/s/wfwitness
https://t.me/s/Middle_East_Spectator
https://t.me/s/enemywatch
>Useful Blogs/Podcasts/News:
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/
https://simplicius76.substack.com/
https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/
https://sonar21.com/
https://www.moonofalabama.org/
https://thegrayzone.com/
https://www.middleeasteye.net/live/live-us-and-israel-attack-iran
https://www.podbean.com/podcast-detail/t687i-9b79d/War-Nerd-Radio-%E2%80%94-Subscriber-Feed-Podcast
R: 17 / I: 4
I've made a fascinating discovery. Leftypol, or rather its users, have direct power to influence the output of AI services. I've been spamming Leftypol with my hot takes a lot over the past few weeks, and voila: they're appearing in Grok and Perplexity!
https://www.perplexity.ai/search/85ab939d-16f5-40e4-9a51-348bc0161bae
https://leftypol.org/meta/res/37383.html#q44572
I've made a fascinating discovery. Leftypol, or rather its users, have direct power to influence the output of AI services. I've been spamming Leftypol with my hot takes a lot over the past few weeks, and voila: they're appearing in Grok and Perplexity!
https://www.perplexity.ai/search/85ab939d-16f5-40e4-9a51-348bc0161bae
https://leftypol.org/meta/res/37383.html#q44572
R: 10 / I: 4
What's the stance on Zionism and being pro Islam nowadays if you're trying to be an anrifascist? I used to be involved in fascist groups but I really found them degenerate and loserish. I had other reasons but after 3 years of being apolitical non religious I still got some ideals and Antifascism is starting to appeal to me. And Islam as well.
What's the stance on Zionism and being pro Islam nowadays if you're trying to be an anrifascist? I used to be involved in fascist groups but I really found them degenerate and loserish. I had other reasons but after 3 years of being apolitical non religious I still got some ideals and Antifascism is starting to appeal to me. And Islam as well.
R: 191 / I: 53
They think Trump will do that by making people ignore his involvement in child abuse
Trump on the Epstein list is "a step toward normalization"
These fags want to remove the age of consent laws and normalize pedophiliaThey think Trump will do that by making people ignore his involvement in child abuse
R: 14 / I: 4
Russian forces pound Western-backed terrorists in Mali (VIDEOS)
The militants lost more than 1,000 soldiers and 100 vehicles while attacking Bamako and other cities, the Africa Corps has said
Russia’s Africa Corps has released several videos of devastating air and artillery strikes on terrorist columns in Mali after the militants launched one of the largest coordinated attacks ever across the country. The unit added that the attack, which it said involved Western and Ukrainian mercenaries, was aimed at a coup d’etat in the West African country.
The footage released by the unit – which operates under the purview of the Russian Defense Ministry – offers a rare visual account of the fighting which erupted on Saturday when Al-Qaeda affiliate JNIM and the Tuareg-dominated Azawad Liberation Front (FLA) launched almost simultaneous strikes on Bamako, Kati, Gao, Kidal, and Sevare.
One video shows a column of trucks driving along an open road before coming under what appears to be artillery or drone-delivered fire.
In a statement, the Africa Corps said it essentially helped prevent a coup d’etat, as they held positions along the 2,000-km front line. It added that it provided air support, which it said prevented the seizure of key facilities, including the presidential palace in Bamako. According to the unit, militant casualties exceeded 1,000 – including an estimated 200 in Bamako, 500 in Gao, 300 in Kati, and 200 in Kidal – along with more than 100 vehicles destroyed.
The corps estimated the terrorist forces at 10,000 to 12,000, and said the assault was supported by Ukrainian and European mercenaries, adding that they deployed Western-made man-portable air-defense systems, including US-manufactured Stingers and French-made Mistrals.
The Africa Corps said some of its personnel sustained injuries and were being evacuated, while describing the situation in Mali as tense.
The Russian Foreign Ministry said “preliminary data” points to the possible involvement of Western security services in training the attackers. Earlier this year, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov accused France of “attempting to overthrow undesirable nationalist governments” in the Sahara-Sahel using “outright terrorist groups” and “colonial methods.”
The Africa Corps was established in 2023 and has since operated in Mali, the Central African Republic, and other states, with a mandate including counter-terrorism, training local forces, and securing strategic sites.
Russia just prevented a Westoid coup in Mali
https://swentr.site/africa/639117-russian-forces-pound-terrorists-mali/Russian forces pound Western-backed terrorists in Mali (VIDEOS)
The militants lost more than 1,000 soldiers and 100 vehicles while attacking Bamako and other cities, the Africa Corps has said
Russia’s Africa Corps has released several videos of devastating air and artillery strikes on terrorist columns in Mali after the militants launched one of the largest coordinated attacks ever across the country. The unit added that the attack, which it said involved Western and Ukrainian mercenaries, was aimed at a coup d’etat in the West African country.
The footage released by the unit – which operates under the purview of the Russian Defense Ministry – offers a rare visual account of the fighting which erupted on Saturday when Al-Qaeda affiliate JNIM and the Tuareg-dominated Azawad Liberation Front (FLA) launched almost simultaneous strikes on Bamako, Kati, Gao, Kidal, and Sevare.
One video shows a column of trucks driving along an open road before coming under what appears to be artillery or drone-delivered fire.
In a statement, the Africa Corps said it essentially helped prevent a coup d’etat, as they held positions along the 2,000-km front line. It added that it provided air support, which it said prevented the seizure of key facilities, including the presidential palace in Bamako. According to the unit, militant casualties exceeded 1,000 – including an estimated 200 in Bamako, 500 in Gao, 300 in Kati, and 200 in Kidal – along with more than 100 vehicles destroyed.
The corps estimated the terrorist forces at 10,000 to 12,000, and said the assault was supported by Ukrainian and European mercenaries, adding that they deployed Western-made man-portable air-defense systems, including US-manufactured Stingers and French-made Mistrals.
The Africa Corps said some of its personnel sustained injuries and were being evacuated, while describing the situation in Mali as tense.
The Russian Foreign Ministry said “preliminary data” points to the possible involvement of Western security services in training the attackers. Earlier this year, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov accused France of “attempting to overthrow undesirable nationalist governments” in the Sahara-Sahel using “outright terrorist groups” and “colonial methods.”
The Africa Corps was established in 2023 and has since operated in Mali, the Central African Republic, and other states, with a mandate including counter-terrorism, training local forces, and securing strategic sites.
R: 115 / I: 17 (sage)
Nobody would deny on /leftypol/ that in the Imperial Core the standard of living (etc.) has been going down, crazy-style. However, this new trend, we believe, makes it palpable just how luxurious a life these people have been able to afford at the expense of the rest of us.
>threadly reminder:
<if you get called a "turd worldist" ITT what is actually being said is: "I'm losing my sweet supply of treats which I got from my state benefiting from exploiting you, and now that system is dying, I'm feeling the effects myself, and I simply HATE you, for not being available any more to be exploited for my benefit!"
(dwindling) /TREATS/ #1
In which, hopefully recurring, thread, us, the hated "turd [sic] worldists," which, translated to human, means 90% of humanity outside of the Imperial Core, notice and share how the imperial core consumers are reacting to the dwindling supply of treats.Nobody would deny on /leftypol/ that in the Imperial Core the standard of living (etc.) has been going down, crazy-style. However, this new trend, we believe, makes it palpable just how luxurious a life these people have been able to afford at the expense of the rest of us.
>threadly reminder:
<if you get called a "turd worldist" ITT what is actually being said is: "I'm losing my sweet supply of treats which I got from my state benefiting from exploiting you, and now that system is dying, I'm feeling the effects myself, and I simply HATE you, for not being available any more to be exploited for my benefit!"
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Is this boy a reactionary or a revolutionary? Ig you could use MGSV as your argument but I think it would be funnier just to use the picture.
reactionary or revolutionary?
I'm a normie sorry. I don't know how to make a real post.Is this boy a reactionary or a revolutionary? Ig you could use MGSV as your argument but I think it would be funnier just to use the picture.
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>>the zine that stood out to me was the one from like 15 years ago that was a memorial to the founders of juche cult thought, and in the image, I see at least 2 people who were moderators for the site "420chan" holding up ak 47s and anti capitalist banners on some farm in the midwest, during the invasion board days era, leftypol looking types ya know, but i know them, real channers in the picture who i chatted with and have the names of, but then in another picture there was an image of the individuals in a run down looking church, only a few white people there, in some type of group meeting, very different crowd, but the alleged juche cult founders still there in photo.
One of the people's names led to a inactive blank facebook page that had a bunch of north korean intelligence and psychological stuff in it, which is possibly connected to their idea of manipulating the subconscious through dreams? This is the part I'm most interested in, so please don't ban this thread, I did save the pdf, but I'm not going to repost it for whatever reason, maybe one of the mods is in the images, or maybe it's just not a good look. I know this is rightfully a rabbit hole the mods here want to close off, especially seeing that the modding community from the chans was right there in the zine, holding a banner and ak47s on a farm called "the field".
>>but I want to know more ABOUT THIS psychological field. lets discuss it?
TL;DR i actually find this topic on the dreams and subconscious mind control very interesting. this is what the thread is about that part of this story, not the Juche meme, please, and thank you.
Neuro Linguistic Programming and Juche?
Last night someone posted a bunch of zines that were allegedly tied to "juche cult", and they didn't seem fake at all one even had a website from the 90s.>>the zine that stood out to me was the one from like 15 years ago that was a memorial to the founders of juche cult thought, and in the image, I see at least 2 people who were moderators for the site "420chan" holding up ak 47s and anti capitalist banners on some farm in the midwest, during the invasion board days era, leftypol looking types ya know, but i know them, real channers in the picture who i chatted with and have the names of, but then in another picture there was an image of the individuals in a run down looking church, only a few white people there, in some type of group meeting, very different crowd, but the alleged juche cult founders still there in photo.
One of the people's names led to a inactive blank facebook page that had a bunch of north korean intelligence and psychological stuff in it, which is possibly connected to their idea of manipulating the subconscious through dreams? This is the part I'm most interested in, so please don't ban this thread, I did save the pdf, but I'm not going to repost it for whatever reason, maybe one of the mods is in the images, or maybe it's just not a good look. I know this is rightfully a rabbit hole the mods here want to close off, especially seeing that the modding community from the chans was right there in the zine, holding a banner and ak47s on a farm called "the field".
>>but I want to know more ABOUT THIS psychological field. lets discuss it?
TL;DR i actually find this topic on the dreams and subconscious mind control very interesting. this is what the thread is about that part of this story, not the Juche meme, please, and thank you.
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The Z gang anon said reproductive sexbots and I said sapient humanoid robots and went into great detail while drunk about them being humanity's greatest creation and humanity's greatest companion.
I tried all the keywords, nothing.
Does anyone remember my replies? Can anyone find them?
I feel like I wrote some pretty important stuff but I can't remember much right now.
Was the original thread deleted? I don't even remember what it was called.
My replies had the armchair flag.
I can't find my replies
I made some replies to a Z gang flag anon about chinese sapient humanoid robots, I went to sleep after drinking and woke up to realize I can't find my replies by the search on any board.The Z gang anon said reproductive sexbots and I said sapient humanoid robots and went into great detail while drunk about them being humanity's greatest creation and humanity's greatest companion.
I tried all the keywords, nothing.
Does anyone remember my replies? Can anyone find them?
I feel like I wrote some pretty important stuff but I can't remember much right now.
Was the original thread deleted? I don't even remember what it was called.
My replies had the armchair flag.
R: 9 / I: 0
🗽 UNITED STATES POLITICS 🦅
>Playboy Edition ; Huey Newton interview from the May 1973 issue of Playboy (pictured)
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ICE tracker using public info and user submissions // https://www.iceinmyarea.org/
list of deaths at ICE concentration camps // https://www.aila.org/infonet/deaths-at-adult-detention-centers
visualization of prison population in US // https://mkorostoff.github.io/incarceration-in-real-numbers/
Organizing in Prison — for when the walls close in (RANT Collective) // https://www.organizingforpower.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Organizing-in-Jail.pdf
database of U.S. facilities incl. ICE holding sites // https://alcpress.org/usjails/index.html
list of prison related resources, mailing lists, etc // https://www.prisonactivist.org/resources
ICE Agent List (incomplete) // https://wiki.icelist.is/index.php/Category:Agents
US Political Prison Tracker (last updated 2025) // https://uspoliticalprisoners.com/
Jailhouse Reading:
📖 Angela Davis - Are Prisons Obsolete? // https://dn790007.ca.archive.org/0/items/the-anarchist-library-full-list-of-pdfs-nov-2020/angela-y-davis-are-prisons-obsolete.pdf
📖 How to Defend Yourself During Police Interrogation // https://www.notrace.how/resources/download/comment-la-police-interroge-et-comment-sen-defendre/how-to-defend-yourself-during-a-police-interrogation.pdf
📖 National Lawyers Guild guide to being a jailhouse lawyer // https://www.jailhouselaw.org/
📖 Critical Resistance - Surviving Solitary Confinement // https://criticalresistance.org/resources/surviving-solitary/
📖 An inside-outside publication for abolitionist struggle & strategy across prison walls // https://criticalresistance.org/abolitionist/
📖 Prisoners’ Self-Help Litigation Manual // https://api.pageplace.de/preview/DT0400.9780199705665_A35159258/preview-9780199705665_A35159258.pdf
⚒️ LABOR!
Live strike tracker with deep stats on who, what and when // https://striketracker.ilr.cornell.edu/
AFL-CIO [imperialist]'s Strike Tracker // https://aflcio.org/strike-map
Labor Bureau's Official 'work stoppage' tracker // https://www.bls.gov/wsp/
IWW timeline for the 20th century (ends at 1999) // https://archive.iww.org/history/chronology/
IWW Work Place Organizing Guide // https://usa.anarchistlibraries.net/library/industrial-workers-of-the-world-libcom-org-solidarity-federation-walthamstow-anarchist-group-wo
▶ Salting | Work Place Organizing 101 (50 minute webinar) // https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SHlCLyM4FY
⚖️ Deeds of the Burger Reich 🇺🇸
deep list of horrible shit we (royal we) have done // https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/us_atrocities.md
Coups and regime changes – master list // https://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-peoples-governments-the-master-list
Wikipedia: United States War Crimes // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_war_crimes
/our boys/ (bring em home!) detail abusing Iraqi prisoners [2006] // https://www.hrw.org/report/2006/07/22/no-blood-no-foul/soldiers-accounts-detainee-abuse-iraq
More than 250 military interventions in the last 30 years alone // https://blackagendareport.com/us-launched-251-military-interventions-1991-and-469-1798
Visualisation of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade // https://www.slavevoyages.org/
UNESCO Sites relating to Slavery // https://slaveryandremembrance.org/
First Hand Documents of the horrors of Slavery // https://www.loc.gov/collections/slave-narratives-from-the-federal-writers-project-1936-to-1938/
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Jacobin // https://jacobin.com/
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The Grayzone // https://thegrayzone.com/
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Newsanon Filter // https://leftypol.org/search.php?search=name%3A%22News+Anon+3.0%22&board=leftypol
🏝️ Epstein's Client List 🇮🇱
Epstein's Black Book // https://epsteinsblackbook.com/
DOJ Disclosures // https://www.justice.gov/epstein/doj-disclosures
Track AIPAC // https://www.trackaipac.com/
Al Jazeera visual guide (2026) // https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/10/struggling-to-navigate-the-epstein-files-here-is-a-visual-guide
Essential American Politik 📖
📖 WEB Du Bois - Black Reconstruction // https://cominsitu.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/w-e-b-du-bois-black-reconstruction-an-essay-toward-a-history-of-the-part-which-black-folk-played-in-the-attempt-to-reconstruct-democracy-2.pdf
📖 Eugene Debs - Fourth of July Speech // https://jacobin.com/2020/07/eugene-debs-independence-day-address-fourth-july
📖 Power Anywhere There's People! – Fred Hampton // https://www.hamptonthink.org/read/power-anywhere-where-thats-people-fred-hampton
📖 War is a Racket – Smedley Butler // https://ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html
📖 Letters From an American Farmer – St. John de Crevoecoeur // https://americanliterature.com/author/j-hector-st-john-de-crevoecoeur/book/letters-from-an-american-farmer/summary
📖 Trail of Broken Treaties // American Indian Movement https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
📖 The Declaration of Independence https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
📖 The Ballot or the Bullet – Malcolm X // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/ballot_or_bullet.pdf
📖 What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? – Frederick Douglass // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/douglass_july_4_speech.pdf
📖 A Trail of Broken Treaties – American Indian Movement // https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
📖 Custer Died for Your Sins – Vine Deloria Jr. // http://www.riversimulator.org/Resources/Books/CusterDiedForYourSinsAnIndianManifesto1969Deloria.pdf
📖 Emancipation Proclamation – Lincoln // https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/emancipation-proclamation
📖 Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville // https://americanliterature.com/author/alexis-de-tocqueville/book/democracy-in-america/summary
📖 Common Sense – Thomas Paine // https://americainclass.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Common-Sense-Full-Text.pdf
📖 An Indigenous History of the United States – Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz // https://nycstandswithstandingrock.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/dunbar-ortiz-2014.pdf
📖 Huey Long – Share Our Wealth // https://www.hueylong.com/programs/share-our-wealth/huey-longs-share-our-wealth-speech
Which side are you on? - Pete Seeger
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Old Thread:
>>2754534
>>2754534
🗽 UNITED STATES POLITICS 🦅
>Playboy Edition ; Huey Newton interview from the May 1973 issue of Playboy (pictured)
>Thread for the hellish discussion related to the scourge of the earth, the destroyer of nations, the king of coups, the sultan of sanctions, the emir of the embargo, the autocrat of austerity, the doge of deregulation, the baron of busting unions, the prince of privatization, the lord of loan sharks, the patron-saint of proxy wars, the sponsor of settlers, the guarantor of genocides, the Divided $nakkkes of Amerikkka™
OP Backup Site: https://usapol.neocities.org/
💀 ICE & Prison Resources
(Amerika is the most incarcerated country in the world!)
ICE tracker using public info and user submissions // https://www.iceinmyarea.org/
list of deaths at ICE concentration camps // https://www.aila.org/infonet/deaths-at-adult-detention-centers
visualization of prison population in US // https://mkorostoff.github.io/incarceration-in-real-numbers/
Organizing in Prison — for when the walls close in (RANT Collective) // https://www.organizingforpower.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Organizing-in-Jail.pdf
database of U.S. facilities incl. ICE holding sites // https://alcpress.org/usjails/index.html
list of prison related resources, mailing lists, etc // https://www.prisonactivist.org/resources
ICE Agent List (incomplete) // https://wiki.icelist.is/index.php/Category:Agents
US Political Prison Tracker (last updated 2025) // https://uspoliticalprisoners.com/
Jailhouse Reading:
📖 Angela Davis - Are Prisons Obsolete? // https://dn790007.ca.archive.org/0/items/the-anarchist-library-full-list-of-pdfs-nov-2020/angela-y-davis-are-prisons-obsolete.pdf
📖 How to Defend Yourself During Police Interrogation // https://www.notrace.how/resources/download/comment-la-police-interroge-et-comment-sen-defendre/how-to-defend-yourself-during-a-police-interrogation.pdf
📖 National Lawyers Guild guide to being a jailhouse lawyer // https://www.jailhouselaw.org/
📖 Critical Resistance - Surviving Solitary Confinement // https://criticalresistance.org/resources/surviving-solitary/
📖 An inside-outside publication for abolitionist struggle & strategy across prison walls // https://criticalresistance.org/abolitionist/
📖 Prisoners’ Self-Help Litigation Manual // https://api.pageplace.de/preview/DT0400.9780199705665_A35159258/preview-9780199705665_A35159258.pdf
⚒️ LABOR!
Live strike tracker with deep stats on who, what and when // https://striketracker.ilr.cornell.edu/
AFL-CIO [imperialist]'s Strike Tracker // https://aflcio.org/strike-map
Labor Bureau's Official 'work stoppage' tracker // https://www.bls.gov/wsp/
IWW timeline for the 20th century (ends at 1999) // https://archive.iww.org/history/chronology/
IWW Work Place Organizing Guide // https://usa.anarchistlibraries.net/library/industrial-workers-of-the-world-libcom-org-solidarity-federation-walthamstow-anarchist-group-wo
▶ Salting | Work Place Organizing 101 (50 minute webinar) // https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SHlCLyM4FY
⚖️ Deeds of the Burger Reich 🇺🇸
deep list of horrible shit we (royal we) have done // https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/us_atrocities.md
Coups and regime changes – master list // https://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-peoples-governments-the-master-list
Wikipedia: United States War Crimes // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_war_crimes
/our boys/ (bring em home!) detail abusing Iraqi prisoners [2006] // https://www.hrw.org/report/2006/07/22/no-blood-no-foul/soldiers-accounts-detainee-abuse-iraq
More than 250 military interventions in the last 30 years alone // https://blackagendareport.com/us-launched-251-military-interventions-1991-and-469-1798
Visualisation of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade // https://www.slavevoyages.org/
UNESCO Sites relating to Slavery // https://slaveryandremembrance.org/
First Hand Documents of the horrors of Slavery // https://www.loc.gov/collections/slave-narratives-from-the-federal-writers-project-1936-to-1938/
📺 Glowie News 📺
(sponsored by the Burger Eagle Freedom Institute (formerly USAID))
CNN Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/cnn-news-usa.html
MSNBC Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/msnbc.html
FOX Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/fox-news-channel.html
Bloomberg Live // https://www.bloomberg.com/live/us
Burger House Live // https://www.whitehouse.gov/live/
Local News // https://www.50states.com/ce/
Weather // https://www.noaa.gov/weather
📺 Gommie News 📺
Jacobin // https://jacobin.com/
Black Agenda Report // https://blackagendareport.com/
The Grayzone // https://thegrayzone.com/
Leftvoice // https://www.leftvoice.org/
Newsanon Filter // https://leftypol.org/search.php?search=name%3A%22News+Anon+3.0%22&board=leftypol
🏝️ Epstein's Client List 🇮🇱
Epstein's Black Book // https://epsteinsblackbook.com/
DOJ Disclosures // https://www.justice.gov/epstein/doj-disclosures
Track AIPAC // https://www.trackaipac.com/
Al Jazeera visual guide (2026) // https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/10/struggling-to-navigate-the-epstein-files-here-is-a-visual-guide
Essential American Politik 📖
📖 WEB Du Bois - Black Reconstruction // https://cominsitu.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/w-e-b-du-bois-black-reconstruction-an-essay-toward-a-history-of-the-part-which-black-folk-played-in-the-attempt-to-reconstruct-democracy-2.pdf
📖 Eugene Debs - Fourth of July Speech // https://jacobin.com/2020/07/eugene-debs-independence-day-address-fourth-july
📖 Power Anywhere There's People! – Fred Hampton // https://www.hamptonthink.org/read/power-anywhere-where-thats-people-fred-hampton
📖 War is a Racket – Smedley Butler // https://ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html
📖 Letters From an American Farmer – St. John de Crevoecoeur // https://americanliterature.com/author/j-hector-st-john-de-crevoecoeur/book/letters-from-an-american-farmer/summary
📖 Trail of Broken Treaties // American Indian Movement https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
📖 The Declaration of Independence https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
📖 The Ballot or the Bullet – Malcolm X // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/ballot_or_bullet.pdf
📖 What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? – Frederick Douglass // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/douglass_july_4_speech.pdf
📖 A Trail of Broken Treaties – American Indian Movement // https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
📖 Custer Died for Your Sins – Vine Deloria Jr. // http://www.riversimulator.org/Resources/Books/CusterDiedForYourSinsAnIndianManifesto1969Deloria.pdf
📖 Emancipation Proclamation – Lincoln // https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/emancipation-proclamation
📖 Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville // https://americanliterature.com/author/alexis-de-tocqueville/book/democracy-in-america/summary
📖 Common Sense – Thomas Paine // https://americainclass.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Common-Sense-Full-Text.pdf
📖 An Indigenous History of the United States – Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz // https://nycstandswithstandingrock.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/dunbar-ortiz-2014.pdf
📖 Huey Long – Share Our Wealth // https://www.hueylong.com/programs/share-our-wealth/huey-longs-share-our-wealth-speech
Which side are you on? - Pete Seeger
▶ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XKMwWZVpPE
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Bolivia is entering a week of intensified social conflict as trade unions, Indigenous organizations, and education workers announce coordinated mobilizations against the government of President Rodrigo Paz. The protests center on fuel shortages, labor demands, and opposition to agrarian reforms.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/bolivia-faces-week-of-protests/
Poll: Cepeda expands lead over immediate rival ahead of Colombia’s elections
Cepeda received the support of 44.3% of the polled voters, a significant improvement compared to February, when 37.1% of the voters said they would support the leftist senator and long-time ally of President Gustavo Petro. Support for De la Espriella went from 18.9% in February to 21.5% earlier this month.
https://colombiareports.com/poll-cepeda-expands-lead-over-immediate-rival-ahead-of-colombias-elections/
Workers, union denounce Kowloon mass layoffs
Kowloon House West workers protested at West Avenue, Quezon City on April 24 against the planned layoff of over 70 workers and the closure of its Noodle House. Workers called Kowloon House West management’s step a retaliatory attack after it signed an agreement with the Glowhrain-KMU Kowloon House West Chapter resulting from a six-day strike.
https://philippinerevolution.nu/angbayan/workers-union-denounce-kowloon-mass-layoffs/
Abbas loyalists win Palestinian local elections, including some seats in Gaza
The Nahdat Deir al-Balah list, backed by Abbas' Fatah party and the Western-backed PA, secured six seats. The remaining seats were won by two other Gaza-based groups, Future of Deir al-Balah and Peace and Building, not affiliated with either faction. Abbas loyalists swept the election in the West Bank, running unchallenged in many seats.
https://www.newarab.com/news/abbas-loyalists-win-palestinian-local-elections-some-gaza-seats
Bahrain strips 69 people of citizenship over Iran support
The London-based Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy described the move as “dangerous” and a clear violation of international law. The organisation said the individuals had not been publicly identified, and it remained unclear whether they had been arrested, whether they were inside or outside Bahrain, and whether they held another nationality.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/27/bahrain-strips-69-people-of-citizenship-over-iran-support
https://archive.ph/UyORk
Iraqi president names Shia bloc candidate Ali al-Zaidi as PM-designate
The selection of al-Zaidi breaks a months-long deadlock in which United States President Donald Trump had intervened, after former two-time Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki had emerged as the coalition’s initial candidate. Al-Maliki, who is close to Iran, was fiercely opposed by Trump. The US president warned that all support to Iraq would stop if he became prime minister.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/27/iraqi-president-names-shia-bloc-candidate-ali-al-zaidi-as-pm-designate
https://archive.ph/ARjwx
Malian defense chief is killed as jihadis and rebels seize towns and military bases
Mali ‘s defense minister was killed in a sweeping attack by jihadis and rebels who seized several towns and military bases, authorities said Sunday, the latest violence in the junta-run country that has long battled militants linked to al-Qaida and the Islamic State group as well as a separatist rebellion in the north.
https://apnews.com/article/mali-attack-tuareg-separatists-jnim-a945998cb00044e8c52db0362baaed10
Human rights orgs condemn ‘forced deportation’ of Sudanese writer from Egypt
Thirteen Sudanese and Egyptian human rights organisations have condemned the forced deportation of Sudanese writer Idris Babiker from Egypt, as well as the “harsh and inhumane detention conditions” he reportedly suffered during detention, calling for an investigation.
https://www.dabangasudan.org/en/all-news/article/human-rights-orgs-condemn-forced-deportation-of-sudanese-writer-from-egypt
Congo creates a paramilitary mining guard backed by US and UAE funding
The central African country’s General Inspectorate of Mines said in a statement the new unit would be deployed gradually, with an initial 2,500 to 3,000 personnel expected to be operational by December following six months of training in military collaboration.
https://apnews.com/article/congo-mining-paramilitary-guard-united-states-d86a8a8b93612aa17e1fe0a2eb343674
Germany: Trial of 'Ulm Five' protesters accused of Elbit break-in postponed
The trial of five activists accused of breaking into a facility of Elbit Systems, Israel's largest weapons manufacturer, in Ulm, Germany, has been postponed after the defendants were placed behind a glass barrier, preventing contact with lawyers. Known by the name "Ulm Five", the activists allegedly entered the factory on the 8 September 2025 by smashing a glass facade and subsequently destroyed office equipment, including computers, screens and telephones.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/trial-activists-accused-raiding-germanys-elbit-systems-factory-starts-today
Uber Eats and Deliveroo accused of 'human trafficking': Multinational giants out of touch with delivery workers' struggles
A large building in the heart of London, with typical "start-up" décor: a few oversized armchairs, brightly colored sofas, exposed brick walls. It is here, at Deliveroo's global headquarters, that "human trafficking" is allegedly being organized, according to a complaint filed on Wednesday, April 22, by four French non-profit organizations representing delivery workers. The accusation, which also targets Uber Eats, signals a further escalation in the long-running legal battle between meal delivery platforms and the cyclists who crisscross major cities around the world.
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/economy/article/2026/04/24/uber-eats-and-deliveroo-accused-of-human-trafficking-multinational-giants-out-of-touch-with-delivery-workers-struggles_6752772_19.html
https://archive.ph/t1d1r
Stormont and PSNI condemn suspected New IRA attack on police station
The incident came just weeks after an attempted car bomb attack on Lurgan police station. Speaking at a joint press conference at Parliament Buildings in Belfast, with deputy First Minister Emma Little-Pengelly and chief constable Jon Boutcher, Ms O’Neill said they were sending a clear message of condemnation.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/stormont-and-psni-condemn-suspected-new-ira-attack-police-station
News 4/27/26
Bolivia Faces Week of Protests Under Rodrigo Paz GovernmentBolivia is entering a week of intensified social conflict as trade unions, Indigenous organizations, and education workers announce coordinated mobilizations against the government of President Rodrigo Paz. The protests center on fuel shortages, labor demands, and opposition to agrarian reforms.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/bolivia-faces-week-of-protests/
Poll: Cepeda expands lead over immediate rival ahead of Colombia’s elections
Cepeda received the support of 44.3% of the polled voters, a significant improvement compared to February, when 37.1% of the voters said they would support the leftist senator and long-time ally of President Gustavo Petro. Support for De la Espriella went from 18.9% in February to 21.5% earlier this month.
https://colombiareports.com/poll-cepeda-expands-lead-over-immediate-rival-ahead-of-colombias-elections/
Workers, union denounce Kowloon mass layoffs
Kowloon House West workers protested at West Avenue, Quezon City on April 24 against the planned layoff of over 70 workers and the closure of its Noodle House. Workers called Kowloon House West management’s step a retaliatory attack after it signed an agreement with the Glowhrain-KMU Kowloon House West Chapter resulting from a six-day strike.
https://philippinerevolution.nu/angbayan/workers-union-denounce-kowloon-mass-layoffs/
Abbas loyalists win Palestinian local elections, including some seats in Gaza
The Nahdat Deir al-Balah list, backed by Abbas' Fatah party and the Western-backed PA, secured six seats. The remaining seats were won by two other Gaza-based groups, Future of Deir al-Balah and Peace and Building, not affiliated with either faction. Abbas loyalists swept the election in the West Bank, running unchallenged in many seats.
https://www.newarab.com/news/abbas-loyalists-win-palestinian-local-elections-some-gaza-seats
Bahrain strips 69 people of citizenship over Iran support
The London-based Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy described the move as “dangerous” and a clear violation of international law. The organisation said the individuals had not been publicly identified, and it remained unclear whether they had been arrested, whether they were inside or outside Bahrain, and whether they held another nationality.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/27/bahrain-strips-69-people-of-citizenship-over-iran-support
https://archive.ph/UyORk
Iraqi president names Shia bloc candidate Ali al-Zaidi as PM-designate
The selection of al-Zaidi breaks a months-long deadlock in which United States President Donald Trump had intervened, after former two-time Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki had emerged as the coalition’s initial candidate. Al-Maliki, who is close to Iran, was fiercely opposed by Trump. The US president warned that all support to Iraq would stop if he became prime minister.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/27/iraqi-president-names-shia-bloc-candidate-ali-al-zaidi-as-pm-designate
https://archive.ph/ARjwx
Malian defense chief is killed as jihadis and rebels seize towns and military bases
Mali ‘s defense minister was killed in a sweeping attack by jihadis and rebels who seized several towns and military bases, authorities said Sunday, the latest violence in the junta-run country that has long battled militants linked to al-Qaida and the Islamic State group as well as a separatist rebellion in the north.
https://apnews.com/article/mali-attack-tuareg-separatists-jnim-a945998cb00044e8c52db0362baaed10
Human rights orgs condemn ‘forced deportation’ of Sudanese writer from Egypt
Thirteen Sudanese and Egyptian human rights organisations have condemned the forced deportation of Sudanese writer Idris Babiker from Egypt, as well as the “harsh and inhumane detention conditions” he reportedly suffered during detention, calling for an investigation.
https://www.dabangasudan.org/en/all-news/article/human-rights-orgs-condemn-forced-deportation-of-sudanese-writer-from-egypt
Congo creates a paramilitary mining guard backed by US and UAE funding
The central African country’s General Inspectorate of Mines said in a statement the new unit would be deployed gradually, with an initial 2,500 to 3,000 personnel expected to be operational by December following six months of training in military collaboration.
https://apnews.com/article/congo-mining-paramilitary-guard-united-states-d86a8a8b93612aa17e1fe0a2eb343674
Germany: Trial of 'Ulm Five' protesters accused of Elbit break-in postponed
The trial of five activists accused of breaking into a facility of Elbit Systems, Israel's largest weapons manufacturer, in Ulm, Germany, has been postponed after the defendants were placed behind a glass barrier, preventing contact with lawyers. Known by the name "Ulm Five", the activists allegedly entered the factory on the 8 September 2025 by smashing a glass facade and subsequently destroyed office equipment, including computers, screens and telephones.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/trial-activists-accused-raiding-germanys-elbit-systems-factory-starts-today
Uber Eats and Deliveroo accused of 'human trafficking': Multinational giants out of touch with delivery workers' struggles
A large building in the heart of London, with typical "start-up" décor: a few oversized armchairs, brightly colored sofas, exposed brick walls. It is here, at Deliveroo's global headquarters, that "human trafficking" is allegedly being organized, according to a complaint filed on Wednesday, April 22, by four French non-profit organizations representing delivery workers. The accusation, which also targets Uber Eats, signals a further escalation in the long-running legal battle between meal delivery platforms and the cyclists who crisscross major cities around the world.
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/economy/article/2026/04/24/uber-eats-and-deliveroo-accused-of-human-trafficking-multinational-giants-out-of-touch-with-delivery-workers-struggles_6752772_19.html
https://archive.ph/t1d1r
Stormont and PSNI condemn suspected New IRA attack on police station
The incident came just weeks after an attempted car bomb attack on Lurgan police station. Speaking at a joint press conference at Parliament Buildings in Belfast, with deputy First Minister Emma Little-Pengelly and chief constable Jon Boutcher, Ms O’Neill said they were sending a clear message of condemnation.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/stormont-and-psni-condemn-suspected-new-ira-attack-police-station
R: 1 / I: 0 (sage)
According to the strict law of the torah, not ONE of these gentiles deserves to live. Why are they like this? Can they please stop or maybe kill themselves?
Are Maronite-oids even human?
>HOW DARE YOU DEFEND AGAINST ISRAELI INVASION!!! DADDY TRUMP PLEASE RAPE ALL OF US SO HEZBOLLAH IS DESTROYED!!!According to the strict law of the torah, not ONE of these gentiles deserves to live. Why are they like this? Can they please stop or maybe kill themselves?
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Imagine my shock when I learned that US demographic losses from Great Depression were almost as high as what USSR had suffered from WW2 or WW1. It was like 10 times worse than Soviets' Holodomor, as it turns out. Simply terrifying what kind of horrors US censorship has hidden from us
Imagine my shock when I learned that US demographic losses from Great Depression were almost as high as what USSR had suffered from WW2 or WW1. It was like 10 times worse than Soviets' Holodomor, as it turns out. Simply terrifying what kind of horrors US censorship has hidden from us
R: 9 / I: 0 (sage)
It doesn't matter what ideology you have. Whether you're left-wing, right-wing, communist, anarchist, primitivist, nihilist, Nazi, Muslim, or Christian. You can't be a revolutionary if asceticism isn't part of your life. What do you give up? Social media? Video games? Drugs? Shopping? You know perfectly well what the comforts of the system do to your revolutionary spirit. It corrupts you, it makes you dependent. The system re-educates you with consumption and comfort.
It doesn't matter what ideology you have. Whether you're left-wing, right-wing, communist, anarchist, primitivist, nihilist, Nazi, Muslim, or Christian. You can't be a revolutionary if asceticism isn't part of your life. What do you give up? Social media? Video games? Drugs? Shopping? You know perfectly well what the comforts of the system do to your revolutionary spirit. It corrupts you, it makes you dependent. The system re-educates you with consumption and comfort.
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This is incorrect as, while America is a settler-colonial state, nonetheless was founded on the basis of enlightenment principles like equality before the law and liberty, considering how the American and French revolutions at the time were leftist at the time of the events, with the notion of equality of men itself being already extremely radical at a time when absolute monarchies were the standard in Europe. That’s not all, as contrary to popular opinion the Founding Fathers themselves weren’t conservative. Whether it’s the lack of any mention specifying the USA as a “white Christian country” founded on the basis of theology in the constitution and the federalist papers, George Washington himself coming to oppose slavery before the abolitionist movement began to gain momentum, many of said fathers being at best deists or nominally Christian, the USA being effectively the first democratic republic in history with limited suffrage being a short-lived experiment that was swept away in favour of universal male suffrage, Thomas Jefferson himself owning a copy of the Quran and a version of the Bible excised of all supernatural elements and among other examples show that the USA was far from the hotbed of reactionary politics both liberals and chuds tend to portray it as. Even the Indian Removal Act that led to the infamous “Trail of Tears” wasn’t unanimously agreed upon, with strong opposition by Christian missionaries and other politicians who opposed it based on the shared humanity and parity between white settlers Native Americans. Indeed, while such ideals coexisted with institutionalised inequality, it is precisely by appealing to those founding ideals unique to America's foundations that movements like MLK's civil rights was even possible. Indeed, had it not been for America, most of the progressive movements in other parts of the west wouldn't even exist (e.g., Germany's gay liberation movement, extirpated by nazism and only resurged in the postwar period because of the rise of America's gay rights movement.)
So it’s no wonder given all this that, despite the reproduction of reactionary politics like Manifest Destiny and Jim Crow laws, the notion of equality (or pretence to it) persisted throughout American history, which laid the seeds for the civil rights, feminist, and gay rights movements of the contemporary era. And I would argue that it is said notion that distinguishes the American project from other settler-colonies that were more explicit on their racial/ethnic/theological basis, such as Argentina, Australia, Canada, and of course, Israel.
It should also be noted that the USA, for all of its faults, isn’t currently segregating Native Americans from mainstream American society via a state-sponsored countrywide system of racial segregation, nor bombing every Indian reserve and sponsoring white Americans (immigrant or not) to steal land from indigenous people and kicking out of their home by force. So, one could counter-argue that it’s a difference of ‘degrees of coloniality’ rather than absence of it. But I digress. Not to peddle Whig history slop, but it’s undeniable that America was founded on a notion of equality between races and faiths that is completely absent in contrast to the founding of Israel.
Israel just isn’t analogous to America, especially given how Israel both defines itself in particularist ethno-centric ways and has a theological basis that America lacks, as well as how Israeli settler-colonialism follows along the models of standard European colonialism combined with state terrorism both against Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza (to the point that Israel is engaging in genocide there). So while the USA isn’t currently engaging in genocide against its natives, the same can’t be said for Israel and its society, where the grand majority of Israelis are effectively kahanists per the latest opinion polls. And that goes for the entire political right and most of the political left in Israel, so let that sink in.
From a leftist standpoint, it can be said that settler-colonialism in the Americas played a historically progressive role in developing productive forces, while simultaneously producing deeply reactionary social relations. The same cannot be said of modern Israeli settler-colonialism, which does not represent a transition to a higher mode of production, but rather a reproduction of imperial domination in a more concentrated form. Ultimately, the claim that “Israel is just like America” obscures more than it reveals. Both are products of colonial history, but they occupy different positions within the global capitalist system. Recognizing this distinction allows for a clearer analysis of imperialism today, especially as Palestinians (unlike the indigenous peoples of the Americas) had their own conception of private property alongside their own bourgeoisie that predates the Balfour Declaration.
Now, if we had to give the closest western analogue, that would be Australia. Back when he was just a war-mongering liberal instead of a war-mongering white nationalist radlib, Drew Pavlou debated (and lost) against neo-nazi Joel Davis on immigration, with Joel making the interesting point that Australia was ran as a white nationalist colonial state and that the founding fathers of Australia and its past PMs were under no delusion that Australia was anything more than a white nationalist state, the “White Australia Policy” being the formalisation of such ideals into law. Indeed, since the dominion’s government lacked any significant armed opposition on the part of Aboriginals of Australia, it can be said that the current Australian policies towards mass immigration and multiculturalism were less about equality than they were about chasing after cheap labor per the needs of the capitalist elites and perhaps tailing after America. The same can be said in the cases of the republic of Argentina and the dominion of Canada, both of which were ran explicitly as white nationalist states, albeit with special emphasis on their links with their metropoles (formerly Spain and currently the UK/France, respectively), the liberalisations of immigration laws and moves towards a less racially-exclusionary definition of their identities only occurring in the late 20th century long after the US did the same.
All in all: There’s nothing inconsistent between being an anti-Zionist and being an American patriot on the basis of opposition to genocide and anti-imperialism. It's best not to give zionists more ammo, as it is a common hasbara talking point to equate Israeli settler-colonialism with America's one, and thus equivocate all critiques of zionism as being implicitly anti-American.
Sources:
https://newrepublic.com/post/207325/donald-trump-marco-rubio-israel-iran
https://www.newarab.com/news/poll-huge-majority-israelis-back-gaza-ethnic-cleansing
https://southasiajournal.net/the-problem-isnt-just-netanyahu-its-israeli-society
https://www.meforum.org/middle-east-quarterly/the-conundrum-of-israeli-arab-citizenship
https://www.britannica.com/event/White-Australia-Policy
P.S.: I’m not trying to make apologetics for American atrocities then and now, I’m simply pointing out the need to fight against the attempts of both Hasbara mockingbird media and misguided anti-zionists to equivocate American history with Israeli history to sway American public opinion on Israel’s favor. Unless you think America as a nation is in any way redeemable, then you might as well give up on agitating for revolution in America and just go to another country. What more can I say?
On Settler-Colonialism: America vs Israel
I see a lot of talk concerning how Israel should be supported by the USA and European countries for various reasons and, notably, none of them concern with material benefits for either native Europeans or long-time American citizens, instead focusing on abstractions and ideals. As Trump has led the USA into another forever war with Iran (at the behest of Israel, per the words of US Secretary of State Marco Rubio), it is pertinent to talk about a common anti-Zionist talking point that I find counterproductive. Namely: Israel’s colonialism is the same as that of American settle colonialism from the late 18th century to the early 20th century.This is incorrect as, while America is a settler-colonial state, nonetheless was founded on the basis of enlightenment principles like equality before the law and liberty, considering how the American and French revolutions at the time were leftist at the time of the events, with the notion of equality of men itself being already extremely radical at a time when absolute monarchies were the standard in Europe. That’s not all, as contrary to popular opinion the Founding Fathers themselves weren’t conservative. Whether it’s the lack of any mention specifying the USA as a “white Christian country” founded on the basis of theology in the constitution and the federalist papers, George Washington himself coming to oppose slavery before the abolitionist movement began to gain momentum, many of said fathers being at best deists or nominally Christian, the USA being effectively the first democratic republic in history with limited suffrage being a short-lived experiment that was swept away in favour of universal male suffrage, Thomas Jefferson himself owning a copy of the Quran and a version of the Bible excised of all supernatural elements and among other examples show that the USA was far from the hotbed of reactionary politics both liberals and chuds tend to portray it as. Even the Indian Removal Act that led to the infamous “Trail of Tears” wasn’t unanimously agreed upon, with strong opposition by Christian missionaries and other politicians who opposed it based on the shared humanity and parity between white settlers Native Americans. Indeed, while such ideals coexisted with institutionalised inequality, it is precisely by appealing to those founding ideals unique to America's foundations that movements like MLK's civil rights was even possible. Indeed, had it not been for America, most of the progressive movements in other parts of the west wouldn't even exist (e.g., Germany's gay liberation movement, extirpated by nazism and only resurged in the postwar period because of the rise of America's gay rights movement.)
So it’s no wonder given all this that, despite the reproduction of reactionary politics like Manifest Destiny and Jim Crow laws, the notion of equality (or pretence to it) persisted throughout American history, which laid the seeds for the civil rights, feminist, and gay rights movements of the contemporary era. And I would argue that it is said notion that distinguishes the American project from other settler-colonies that were more explicit on their racial/ethnic/theological basis, such as Argentina, Australia, Canada, and of course, Israel.
It should also be noted that the USA, for all of its faults, isn’t currently segregating Native Americans from mainstream American society via a state-sponsored countrywide system of racial segregation, nor bombing every Indian reserve and sponsoring white Americans (immigrant or not) to steal land from indigenous people and kicking out of their home by force. So, one could counter-argue that it’s a difference of ‘degrees of coloniality’ rather than absence of it. But I digress. Not to peddle Whig history slop, but it’s undeniable that America was founded on a notion of equality between races and faiths that is completely absent in contrast to the founding of Israel.
Israel just isn’t analogous to America, especially given how Israel both defines itself in particularist ethno-centric ways and has a theological basis that America lacks, as well as how Israeli settler-colonialism follows along the models of standard European colonialism combined with state terrorism both against Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza (to the point that Israel is engaging in genocide there). So while the USA isn’t currently engaging in genocide against its natives, the same can’t be said for Israel and its society, where the grand majority of Israelis are effectively kahanists per the latest opinion polls. And that goes for the entire political right and most of the political left in Israel, so let that sink in.
From a leftist standpoint, it can be said that settler-colonialism in the Americas played a historically progressive role in developing productive forces, while simultaneously producing deeply reactionary social relations. The same cannot be said of modern Israeli settler-colonialism, which does not represent a transition to a higher mode of production, but rather a reproduction of imperial domination in a more concentrated form. Ultimately, the claim that “Israel is just like America” obscures more than it reveals. Both are products of colonial history, but they occupy different positions within the global capitalist system. Recognizing this distinction allows for a clearer analysis of imperialism today, especially as Palestinians (unlike the indigenous peoples of the Americas) had their own conception of private property alongside their own bourgeoisie that predates the Balfour Declaration.
Now, if we had to give the closest western analogue, that would be Australia. Back when he was just a war-mongering liberal instead of a war-mongering white nationalist radlib, Drew Pavlou debated (and lost) against neo-nazi Joel Davis on immigration, with Joel making the interesting point that Australia was ran as a white nationalist colonial state and that the founding fathers of Australia and its past PMs were under no delusion that Australia was anything more than a white nationalist state, the “White Australia Policy” being the formalisation of such ideals into law. Indeed, since the dominion’s government lacked any significant armed opposition on the part of Aboriginals of Australia, it can be said that the current Australian policies towards mass immigration and multiculturalism were less about equality than they were about chasing after cheap labor per the needs of the capitalist elites and perhaps tailing after America. The same can be said in the cases of the republic of Argentina and the dominion of Canada, both of which were ran explicitly as white nationalist states, albeit with special emphasis on their links with their metropoles (formerly Spain and currently the UK/France, respectively), the liberalisations of immigration laws and moves towards a less racially-exclusionary definition of their identities only occurring in the late 20th century long after the US did the same.
All in all: There’s nothing inconsistent between being an anti-Zionist and being an American patriot on the basis of opposition to genocide and anti-imperialism. It's best not to give zionists more ammo, as it is a common hasbara talking point to equate Israeli settler-colonialism with America's one, and thus equivocate all critiques of zionism as being implicitly anti-American.
Sources:
https://newrepublic.com/post/207325/donald-trump-marco-rubio-israel-iran
https://www.newarab.com/news/poll-huge-majority-israelis-back-gaza-ethnic-cleansing
https://southasiajournal.net/the-problem-isnt-just-netanyahu-its-israeli-society
https://www.meforum.org/middle-east-quarterly/the-conundrum-of-israeli-arab-citizenship
https://www.britannica.com/event/White-Australia-Policy
P.S.: I’m not trying to make apologetics for American atrocities then and now, I’m simply pointing out the need to fight against the attempts of both Hasbara mockingbird media and misguided anti-zionists to equivocate American history with Israeli history to sway American public opinion on Israel’s favor. Unless you think America as a nation is in any way redeemable, then you might as well give up on agitating for revolution in America and just go to another country. What more can I say?
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Earth is now heating up twice as fast as in previous decades: Study
https://ground.news/article/earth-is-now-heating-up-twice-as-fast-as-in-previous-decades-study_63acf6
Humanity heating planet faster than ever before, study finds
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/mar/06/humanity-heating-planet-faster-than-ever-before-study-finds
Microplastics found in 90% of prostate cancer tumors, at much higher levels than healthy tissues, study reveals
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/02/260225001250.htm
Was War with Iran Sparked by Water?
https://erickeyser.substack.com/p/was-war-with-iran-sparked-by-water?r=1r05cx&triedRedirect=true&_src_ref=old.reddit.com
The Iran War Is Also a Climate War
https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/iran-war-climate-change/
Microplastics found in 90% of prostate cancer tumors, study reveals The Billionaire Heist: Why the extraction of our 'labor energy' is leading us toward a global crisis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iri_xg4rj_k
/Climate/ - The Iran Connection Edition
/leftypol/'s most ignored general is backEarth is now heating up twice as fast as in previous decades: Study
https://ground.news/article/earth-is-now-heating-up-twice-as-fast-as-in-previous-decades-study_63acf6
Humanity heating planet faster than ever before, study finds
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/mar/06/humanity-heating-planet-faster-than-ever-before-study-finds
Microplastics found in 90% of prostate cancer tumors, at much higher levels than healthy tissues, study reveals
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/02/260225001250.htm
Was War with Iran Sparked by Water?
https://erickeyser.substack.com/p/was-war-with-iran-sparked-by-water?r=1r05cx&triedRedirect=true&_src_ref=old.reddit.com
The Iran War Is Also a Climate War
https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/iran-war-climate-change/
Microplastics found in 90% of prostate cancer tumors, study reveals The Billionaire Heist: Why the extraction of our 'labor energy' is leading us toward a global crisis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iri_xg4rj_k
R: 7 / I: 1
Can you retards stop replying to obvious weird bait threads.
Like holy shit its the most obvious shit too, its always a specific loser doing it too.
>words words words words words
Can you retards stop replying to obvious weird bait threads.
Like holy shit its the most obvious shit too, its always a specific loser doing it too.
>words words words words words
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So, it appears that despite the most common assumptions, labour "aristocratic"/well paid workers can and have been notable partecipants in the class struggle, everywhere from Italy to Chile and from the UK to South Africa
> The most important counter-example is the Russian working class in the early 20th century. The backbone of Lenin’s Bolsheviks (something he was most definitely aware of) were the best paid industrial workers in the Russian cities – skilled machinists in the largest factories. Lower paid workers, such as the predominantly female textile workers, were generally either unorganized or apolitical (until the beginnings of the revolution) or supported the reformist Mensheviks.
> German Communism became a mass movement when tens of thousands of well-paid metal workers left the Independent Socialists and joined the Communists in 1921. The French and Italian Communists also became mass parties through the recruitment of thousands of machinists who led the mass strikes of the postwar period. These highly paid workers were also overrepresented in the smaller Communist parties of the United States and Britain.
> In Chile between 1970 and 1973, and Argentina between 1971 and 1974, copper miners and metal workers engaged in industrial struggles and took the lead in mass mobilizations against the military and the right. In Brazil, it was the well-paid metal workers in the suburbs of San Paolo who led mass strikes in the 1970s that created the CUT
> it was the highest paid Black workers in South Africa – in mining, auto, steel – whose struggles in the 1970s created the radical and militant FOSATU trade union confederation.
https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/newspape/atc/129.html
So, it appears that despite the most common assumptions, labour "aristocratic"/well paid workers can and have been notable partecipants in the class struggle, everywhere from Italy to Chile and from the UK to South Africa
> The most important counter-example is the Russian working class in the early 20th century. The backbone of Lenin’s Bolsheviks (something he was most definitely aware of) were the best paid industrial workers in the Russian cities – skilled machinists in the largest factories. Lower paid workers, such as the predominantly female textile workers, were generally either unorganized or apolitical (until the beginnings of the revolution) or supported the reformist Mensheviks.
> German Communism became a mass movement when tens of thousands of well-paid metal workers left the Independent Socialists and joined the Communists in 1921. The French and Italian Communists also became mass parties through the recruitment of thousands of machinists who led the mass strikes of the postwar period. These highly paid workers were also overrepresented in the smaller Communist parties of the United States and Britain.
> In Chile between 1970 and 1973, and Argentina between 1971 and 1974, copper miners and metal workers engaged in industrial struggles and took the lead in mass mobilizations against the military and the right. In Brazil, it was the well-paid metal workers in the suburbs of San Paolo who led mass strikes in the 1970s that created the CUT
> it was the highest paid Black workers in South Africa – in mining, auto, steel – whose struggles in the 1970s created the radical and militant FOSATU trade union confederation.
https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/newspape/atc/129.html
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The one thing I am looking forward to at this point is when this "innovation" finally backfires in the worst possible way, like when China starts using their reverse-engineered clones of US AI models to utterly destroy the concept of intellectual property forever, when every software patent and pharma patent and trade secret can be reverse-engineered by anyone at the press of a button and the secret inner workings of absolutely everything we manufacture instantly becomes public knowledge and can be sold as a perfect generic clone at a fraction of the price, courts overwhelmed with more lawsuits than they could ever possibly settle with, tariffs and trade restrictions and economic sanctions desperately trying to undo what cannot be undone, the private r&d industry losing all incentive to come up with the next patentable marketable bullshit idea and closing up shop, tech innovation returning to the domain of the public sector where it belongs.
The private sector sucks at innovation
Private sector "innovations" are almost entirely hype and bullshit and exaggerated claims and continuously finding worse and worse ways to reinvent the wheel and devotion to nothing but short term profit from venture capital, zillions of dollars devoted into things like AI chatbots to replace human labor with inferior slop, cryptocurrency pump and dump scams, ridesharing companies that make taxis and delivery services that charge customers more and pay drivers less, anti-aging drugs that will never work, actually useful drugs being repurposed into cosmetic drugs, renewable energy technologies that will never work, space exploration projects that will never pan out, electric cars that are so overpriced and shitty that we had to enact massive tariffs to stop Americans from buying cheaper better ones from China, smarthome technology that nobody wants or needs except bored millionaires, cars and electronic devices deliberately designed to break early and be unrepairable to increase sales volume, life-saving pharmaceuticals locked behind patents for decades and price gouged to exploit the sick and dying.The one thing I am looking forward to at this point is when this "innovation" finally backfires in the worst possible way, like when China starts using their reverse-engineered clones of US AI models to utterly destroy the concept of intellectual property forever, when every software patent and pharma patent and trade secret can be reverse-engineered by anyone at the press of a button and the secret inner workings of absolutely everything we manufacture instantly becomes public knowledge and can be sold as a perfect generic clone at a fraction of the price, courts overwhelmed with more lawsuits than they could ever possibly settle with, tariffs and trade restrictions and economic sanctions desperately trying to undo what cannot be undone, the private r&d industry losing all incentive to come up with the next patentable marketable bullshit idea and closing up shop, tech innovation returning to the domain of the public sector where it belongs.
R: 5 / I: 0
https://clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org/2026-04-22-combat-hobbyism/
https://clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org/2026-04-16-social-reproduction-revisionist-party/
https://clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org/2026-03-24-against-settler-socialism-lessons-minneapolis/
party for soupalism and liberalation
might be silly to ask users of an inherently hobbyist shitposting forum to confront its hobbyism in their movement but maybe this will pull some people out of the vicious cycle of the Four Opportunists.https://clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org/2026-04-22-combat-hobbyism/
https://clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org/2026-04-16-social-reproduction-revisionist-party/
https://clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org/2026-03-24-against-settler-socialism-lessons-minneapolis/
R: 64 / I: 14
https://x.com/iamyesyouareno/status/1908860526400057534
"The legacy media never mentions white genocide in South Africa, because it doesn’t fit their narrative that whites can be victims"
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1904065163407368212
Even Musk's AI is based.
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1916042294018666585
"The ADL is a hate group"
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1973289543848829225
He supports remigration.
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1997700657546191314
"A government that fails to protect its citizens is illegitimate"
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1998131134753062943
"Either the suicidal empathy of Western civilization ends or Western civilization will end"
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2000078735622721927
"Why is Western media so anti-White"
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2000604195272163517
"Call them out for the anti-White racists they are every time they do it"
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2000920169531822091
"Anti-White, anti-male discrimination ends now"
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2001022917610758555
Says DEI, and not hiring white men, is wrong.
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2001529481677435100
"Why is legacy media so racist?"
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2002604827134787629
**|!|- The last time Elon was accused of wanting to import infinity jeets he replied with "False" and said the H1B system should be reformed. -|!|**
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1996214327670648865
"Feeling extra based today, might regret it later, but it feels so good"
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2003503573448159495
Elon Musk
“Mass immigration is insane and will lead to the destruction of any country that allows it. It only takes a few percent of the world to move to a country, where it is no longer that country. A country is its people, not its geography.”https://x.com/iamyesyouareno/status/1908860526400057534
"The legacy media never mentions white genocide in South Africa, because it doesn’t fit their narrative that whites can be victims"
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1904065163407368212
Even Musk's AI is based.
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1916042294018666585
"The ADL is a hate group"
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1973289543848829225
He supports remigration.
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1997700657546191314
"A government that fails to protect its citizens is illegitimate"
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1998131134753062943
"Either the suicidal empathy of Western civilization ends or Western civilization will end"
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2000078735622721927
"Why is Western media so anti-White"
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2000604195272163517
"Call them out for the anti-White racists they are every time they do it"
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2000920169531822091
"Anti-White, anti-male discrimination ends now"
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2001022917610758555
Says DEI, and not hiring white men, is wrong.
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2001529481677435100
"Why is legacy media so racist?"
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2002604827134787629
**|!|- The last time Elon was accused of wanting to import infinity jeets he replied with "False" and said the H1B system should be reformed. -|!|**
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1996214327670648865
"Feeling extra based today, might regret it later, but it feels so good"
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2003503573448159495
R: 35 / I: 4
In my view, all ideologies can be compressed in these 12:
radical left:
anarchism
communism
moderate left:
social-democracy
social liberalism
moderate right:
libertarianism
conservatism
radical right:
nazifascism
traditionalism
Am I wrong?
I just didn't know where to put socialism in general, but I think the revolutionary socialists are just communists and "democratic socialists" are somehow the same thing as social-democrats basically, so I'll leave it as it is.
In my view, all ideologies can be compressed in these 12:
radical left:
anarchism
communism
moderate left:
social-democracy
social liberalism
moderate right:
libertarianism
conservatism
radical right:
nazifascism
traditionalism
Am I wrong?
I just didn't know where to put socialism in general, but I think the revolutionary socialists are just communists and "democratic socialists" are somehow the same thing as social-democrats basically, so I'll leave it as it is.
R: 36 / I: 7
Why are the bourgeoisie so unapologetically evil? I know this is a stupid question but its hard for me to fathom how a human being could be as malicious and uncaring as the bourgeoisie are. Do they not care at all for the suffering they cause humanity, and the destruction they bring to the planet as a whole? Or do they delusionally believe that what they are doing is somehow in the right?
Why are the bourgeoisie so unapologetically evil? I know this is a stupid question but its hard for me to fathom how a human being could be as malicious and uncaring as the bourgeoisie are. Do they not care at all for the suffering they cause humanity, and the destruction they bring to the planet as a whole? Or do they delusionally believe that what they are doing is somehow in the right?
R: 381 / I: 207
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.
Matrix room: https://matrix.to/#/#!YeYeuZuLSYkegWssey:matrix.org
Last threads:
https://archive.ph/5rqox
https://archive.is/Jlc7A
http://archive.is/0NhJH
http://archive.is/nDq1K
https://archive.vn/cxwty
https://archive.is/ayshz
https://archive.is/2NLO8
https://archive.is/3f5Rf
/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.
Matrix room: https://matrix.to/#/#!YeYeuZuLSYkegWssey:matrix.org
Last threads:
https://archive.ph/5rqox
https://archive.is/Jlc7A
http://archive.is/0NhJH
http://archive.is/nDq1K
https://archive.vn/cxwty
https://archive.is/ayshz
https://archive.is/2NLO8
https://archive.is/3f5Rf
R: 527 / I: 143
>Thread for the hellish discussion related to the scourge of the earth, the destroyer of nations, the king of coups, the sultan of sanctions, the emir of the embargo, the autocrat of austerity, the doge of deregulation, the baron of busting unions, the prince of privatization, the lord of loan sharks, the patron-saint of proxy wars, the sponsor of settlers, the guarantor of genocides, the Divided $nakkkes of Amerikkka™
<The Essence Of Being America Is Using a Giant Bidet To Put Out The Fire At The Toilet Paper Factory Edition
OP Backup Site: https://usapol.neocities.org/
💀 ICE & Prison Resources
(Amerika is the most incarcerated country in the world!)
• ICE tracker using public info and user submissions // https://www.iceinmyarea.org/
• list of deaths at ICE concentration camps // https://www.aila.org/infonet/deaths-at-adult-detention-centers
• visualization of prison population in US // https://mkorostoff.github.io/incarceration-in-real-numbers/
• Organizing in Prison — for when the walls close in (RANT Collective) // https://www.organizingforpower.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Organizing-in-Jail.pdf
• database of U.S. facilities incl. ICE holding sites // https://alcpress.org/usjails/index.html
• list of prison related resources, mailing lists, etc // https://www.prisonactivist.org/resources
• ICE Agent List (incomplete) // https://wiki.icelist.is/index.php/Category:Agents
• US Political Prison Tracker (last updated 2025) // https://uspoliticalprisoners.com/
Jailhouse Reading:
• 📖 Angela Davis - Are Prisons Obsolete? // https://dn790007.ca.archive.org/0/items/the-anarchist-library-full-list-of-pdfs-nov-2020/angela-y-davis-are-prisons-obsolete.pdf
• 📖 How to Defend Yourself During Police Interrogation // https://www.notrace.how/resources/download/comment-la-police-interroge-et-comment-sen-defendre/how-to-defend-yourself-during-a-police-interrogation.pdf
• 📖 National Lawyers Guild guide to being a jailhouse lawyer // https://www.jailhouselaw.org/
• 📖 Critical Resistance - Surviving Solitary Confinement // https://criticalresistance.org/resources/surviving-solitary/
• 📖 An inside-outside publication for abolitionist struggle & strategy across prison walls // https://criticalresistance.org/abolitionist/
• 📖 Prisoners’ Self-Help Litigation Manual // https://api.pageplace.de/preview/DT0400.9780199705665_A35159258/preview-9780199705665_A35159258.pdf
⚒️ LABOR!
• Live strike tracker with deep stats on who, what and when // https://striketracker.ilr.cornell.edu/
• AFL-CIO [imperialist]'s Strike Tracker // https://aflcio.org/strike-map
• Labor Bureau's Official 'work stoppage' tracker // https://www.bls.gov/wsp/
• IWW timeline for the 20th century (ends at 1999) // https://archive.iww.org/history/chronology/
• IWW Work Place Organizing Guide // https://usa.anarchistlibraries.net/library/industrial-workers-of-the-world-libcom-org-solidarity-federation-walthamstow-anarchist-group-wo
• ▶ Salting | Work Place Organizing 101 (50 minute webinar) // https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SHlCLyM4FY
⚖️ Deeds of the Burger Reich 🇺🇸
• deep list of horrible shit we (royal we) have done // https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/us_atrocities.md
• Coups and regime changes – master list // https://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-peoples-governments-the-master-list
• Wikipedia: United States War Crimes // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_war_crimes
• /our boys/ (bring em home!) detail abusing Iraqi prisoners [2006] // https://www.hrw.org/report/2006/07/22/no-blood-no-foul/soldiers-accounts-detainee-abuse-iraq
• More than 250 military interventions in the last 30 years alone // https://blackagendareport.com/us-launched-251-military-interventions-1991-and-469-1798
• Visualization of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade // https://www.slavevoyages.org/
• UNESCO Sites relating to Slavery // https://slaveryandremembrance.org/
• First Hand Documents of the horrors of Slavery // https://www.loc.gov/collections/slave-narratives-from-the-federal-writers-project-1936-to-1938/
📺 Glowie News 📺
(sponsored by the Burger Eagle Freedom Institute (formerly USAID))
• CNN Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/cnn-news-usa.html
• MSNBC Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/msnbc.html
• FOX Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/fox-news-channel.html
• Bloomberg Live // https://www.bloomberg.com/live/us
• Burger House Live // https://www.whitehouse.gov/live/
• Local News // https://www.50states.com/ce/
• Weather // https://www.noaa.gov/weather
📺 Gommie News 📺
• Jacobin // https://jacobin.com/
• Black Agenda Report // https://blackagendareport.com/
• The Grayzone // https://thegrayzone.com/
• Leftvoice // https://www.leftvoice.org/
• Newsanon Filter // https://leftypol.org/search.php?search=name%3A%22News+Anon+3.0%22&board=leftypol
🏝️ Epstein's Client List 🇮🇱
• Epstein's Black Book // https://epsteinsblackbook.com/
• DOJ Disclosures // https://www.justice.gov/epstein/doj-disclosures
• Track AIPAC // https://www.trackaipac.com/
• Al Jazeera visual guide (2026) // https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/10/struggling-to-navigate-the-epstein-files-here-is-a-visual-guide
Essential American Politik 📖
• 📖 WEB Du Bois - Black Reconstruction // https://cominsitu.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/w-e-b-du-bois-black-reconstruction-an-essay-toward-a-history-of-the-part-which-black-folk-played-in-the-attempt-to-reconstruct-democracy-2.pdf
• 📖 Eugene Debs - Fourth of July Speech // https://jacobin.com/2020/07/eugene-debs-independence-day-address-fourth-july
• 📖 Power Anywhere There's People! – Fred Hampton // https://www.hamptonthink.org/read/power-anywhere-where-thats-people-fred-hampton
• 📖 War is a Racket – Smedley Butler // https://ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html
• 📖 Letters From an American Farmer – St. John de Crevoecoeur // https://americanliterature.com/author/j-hector-st-john-de-crevoecoeur/book/letters-from-an-american-farmer/summary
• 📖 Trail of Broken Treaties // American Indian Movement https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
• 📖 The Declaration of Independence https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
• https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
• 📖 The Ballot or the Bullet – Malcolm X // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/ballot_or_bullet.pdf
• 📖 What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? – Frederick Douglass // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/douglass_july_4_speech.pdf
• 📖 A Trail of Broken Treaties – American Indian Movement // https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
• 📖 Custer Died for Your Sins – Vine Deloria Jr. // http://www.riversimulator.org/Resources/Books/CusterDiedForYourSinsAnIndianManifesto1969Deloria.pdf
• 📖 Emancipation Proclamation – Lincoln // https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/emancipation-proclamation
• 📖 Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville // https://americanliterature.com/author/alexis-de-tocqueville/book/democracy-in-america/summary
• 📖 Common Sense – Thomas Paine // https://americainclass.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Common-Sense-Full-Text.pdf
• 📖 An Indigenous History of the United States – Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz // https://nycstandswithstandingrock.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/dunbar-ortiz-2014.pdf
• 📖 Huey Long – Share Our Wealth // https://www.hueylong.com/programs/share-our-wealth/huey-longs-share-our-wealth-speech
Which side are you on? - Pete Seeger
▶ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XKMwWZVpPE
Previous Thread>>2768426
/USApol/
🗽 UNITED STATES POLITICS 🦅>Thread for the hellish discussion related to the scourge of the earth, the destroyer of nations, the king of coups, the sultan of sanctions, the emir of the embargo, the autocrat of austerity, the doge of deregulation, the baron of busting unions, the prince of privatization, the lord of loan sharks, the patron-saint of proxy wars, the sponsor of settlers, the guarantor of genocides, the Divided $nakkkes of Amerikkka™
<The Essence Of Being America Is Using a Giant Bidet To Put Out The Fire At The Toilet Paper Factory Edition
OP Backup Site: https://usapol.neocities.org/
💀 ICE & Prison Resources
(Amerika is the most incarcerated country in the world!)
• ICE tracker using public info and user submissions // https://www.iceinmyarea.org/
• list of deaths at ICE concentration camps // https://www.aila.org/infonet/deaths-at-adult-detention-centers
• visualization of prison population in US // https://mkorostoff.github.io/incarceration-in-real-numbers/
• Organizing in Prison — for when the walls close in (RANT Collective) // https://www.organizingforpower.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Organizing-in-Jail.pdf
• database of U.S. facilities incl. ICE holding sites // https://alcpress.org/usjails/index.html
• list of prison related resources, mailing lists, etc // https://www.prisonactivist.org/resources
• ICE Agent List (incomplete) // https://wiki.icelist.is/index.php/Category:Agents
• US Political Prison Tracker (last updated 2025) // https://uspoliticalprisoners.com/
Jailhouse Reading:
• 📖 Angela Davis - Are Prisons Obsolete? // https://dn790007.ca.archive.org/0/items/the-anarchist-library-full-list-of-pdfs-nov-2020/angela-y-davis-are-prisons-obsolete.pdf
• 📖 How to Defend Yourself During Police Interrogation // https://www.notrace.how/resources/download/comment-la-police-interroge-et-comment-sen-defendre/how-to-defend-yourself-during-a-police-interrogation.pdf
• 📖 National Lawyers Guild guide to being a jailhouse lawyer // https://www.jailhouselaw.org/
• 📖 Critical Resistance - Surviving Solitary Confinement // https://criticalresistance.org/resources/surviving-solitary/
• 📖 An inside-outside publication for abolitionist struggle & strategy across prison walls // https://criticalresistance.org/abolitionist/
• 📖 Prisoners’ Self-Help Litigation Manual // https://api.pageplace.de/preview/DT0400.9780199705665_A35159258/preview-9780199705665_A35159258.pdf
⚒️ LABOR!
• Live strike tracker with deep stats on who, what and when // https://striketracker.ilr.cornell.edu/
• AFL-CIO [imperialist]'s Strike Tracker // https://aflcio.org/strike-map
• Labor Bureau's Official 'work stoppage' tracker // https://www.bls.gov/wsp/
• IWW timeline for the 20th century (ends at 1999) // https://archive.iww.org/history/chronology/
• IWW Work Place Organizing Guide // https://usa.anarchistlibraries.net/library/industrial-workers-of-the-world-libcom-org-solidarity-federation-walthamstow-anarchist-group-wo
• ▶ Salting | Work Place Organizing 101 (50 minute webinar) // https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SHlCLyM4FY
⚖️ Deeds of the Burger Reich 🇺🇸
• deep list of horrible shit we (royal we) have done // https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/us_atrocities.md
• Coups and regime changes – master list // https://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-peoples-governments-the-master-list
• Wikipedia: United States War Crimes // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_war_crimes
• /our boys/ (bring em home!) detail abusing Iraqi prisoners [2006] // https://www.hrw.org/report/2006/07/22/no-blood-no-foul/soldiers-accounts-detainee-abuse-iraq
• More than 250 military interventions in the last 30 years alone // https://blackagendareport.com/us-launched-251-military-interventions-1991-and-469-1798
• Visualization of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade // https://www.slavevoyages.org/
• UNESCO Sites relating to Slavery // https://slaveryandremembrance.org/
• First Hand Documents of the horrors of Slavery // https://www.loc.gov/collections/slave-narratives-from-the-federal-writers-project-1936-to-1938/
📺 Glowie News 📺
(sponsored by the Burger Eagle Freedom Institute (formerly USAID))
• CNN Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/cnn-news-usa.html
• MSNBC Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/msnbc.html
• FOX Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/fox-news-channel.html
• Bloomberg Live // https://www.bloomberg.com/live/us
• Burger House Live // https://www.whitehouse.gov/live/
• Local News // https://www.50states.com/ce/
• Weather // https://www.noaa.gov/weather
📺 Gommie News 📺
• Jacobin // https://jacobin.com/
• Black Agenda Report // https://blackagendareport.com/
• The Grayzone // https://thegrayzone.com/
• Leftvoice // https://www.leftvoice.org/
• Newsanon Filter // https://leftypol.org/search.php?search=name%3A%22News+Anon+3.0%22&board=leftypol
🏝️ Epstein's Client List 🇮🇱
• Epstein's Black Book // https://epsteinsblackbook.com/
• DOJ Disclosures // https://www.justice.gov/epstein/doj-disclosures
• Track AIPAC // https://www.trackaipac.com/
• Al Jazeera visual guide (2026) // https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/10/struggling-to-navigate-the-epstein-files-here-is-a-visual-guide
Essential American Politik 📖
• 📖 WEB Du Bois - Black Reconstruction // https://cominsitu.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/w-e-b-du-bois-black-reconstruction-an-essay-toward-a-history-of-the-part-which-black-folk-played-in-the-attempt-to-reconstruct-democracy-2.pdf
• 📖 Eugene Debs - Fourth of July Speech // https://jacobin.com/2020/07/eugene-debs-independence-day-address-fourth-july
• 📖 Power Anywhere There's People! – Fred Hampton // https://www.hamptonthink.org/read/power-anywhere-where-thats-people-fred-hampton
• 📖 War is a Racket – Smedley Butler // https://ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html
• 📖 Letters From an American Farmer – St. John de Crevoecoeur // https://americanliterature.com/author/j-hector-st-john-de-crevoecoeur/book/letters-from-an-american-farmer/summary
• 📖 Trail of Broken Treaties // American Indian Movement https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
• 📖 The Declaration of Independence https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
• https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
• 📖 The Ballot or the Bullet – Malcolm X // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/ballot_or_bullet.pdf
• 📖 What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? – Frederick Douglass // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/douglass_july_4_speech.pdf
• 📖 A Trail of Broken Treaties – American Indian Movement // https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
• 📖 Custer Died for Your Sins – Vine Deloria Jr. // http://www.riversimulator.org/Resources/Books/CusterDiedForYourSinsAnIndianManifesto1969Deloria.pdf
• 📖 Emancipation Proclamation – Lincoln // https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/emancipation-proclamation
• 📖 Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville // https://americanliterature.com/author/alexis-de-tocqueville/book/democracy-in-america/summary
• 📖 Common Sense – Thomas Paine // https://americainclass.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Common-Sense-Full-Text.pdf
• 📖 An Indigenous History of the United States – Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz // https://nycstandswithstandingrock.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/dunbar-ortiz-2014.pdf
• 📖 Huey Long – Share Our Wealth // https://www.hueylong.com/programs/share-our-wealth/huey-longs-share-our-wealth-speech
Which side are you on? - Pete Seeger
▶ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XKMwWZVpPE
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R: 217 / I: 26
I hate this shit. I hate how the Epstein debacle has even made leftists throw out solid understandings of class and imperialism. WHO GIVES A FUCKING SHIT if the ruling class are baby-eating Satan-worshipping Illuminati? THEY'RE STILL EXPLOITING PROLES AND SHOULD BE OPPOSED ON THIS REASON ALONE.
But what really fucking grinds my gears is seeing how tenaciously Democrats and liberals are desperate to turn Epstein into Russiagate 2.0. They sincerely believe they can use the Epstein shit to remove Trump from office and put him in jail for the rest of his life. First of all, as a cis woman who is also a sexual assault survivor, I can tell you that sexual assault is one of the hardest crimes to prove in a court of law. Even if Trump wasn't rich and didn't have the money to get away with his (alleged) crimes, there's still no possible way he'd ever get convicted of a statutory rape that occurred decades ago; there's simply way too much reasonable doubt. But also in this is seeing how garden-variety liberals are really, REALLLLLY pushing the "Epstein was Mossad" allegation, and that he was pimping out underage girls to get blackmail material on world leaders so they would be puppets of Israel. In the case of Trump, they're saying Trump is entirely a puppet of these "Zionist Jewish supremacists" like Epstein, and nearly everything Trump is doing policy-wise is purely in service to Israel. Liberals are even going to far as to call the current Iran War the "Epstein-AIPAC War", not just because Trump launched the war to distract from the Epstein files, but because Netanyahu has all the Epstein blackmail material on Trump and is using this to coerce him into going to war for Israel. This of course completely ignores how American Empire works and things like the US wanting to take control of Iran's oil and all that. But in this, it's very obvious to me that two things are going on here: 1. just like how the Democrats were pushing Russiagate during Trump's first term to "prove" that Trump was a "puppet of Russia" they're now using the Epstein files to "prove" Trump is a puppet of Israel/Zionists, and 2. the Democrats are now going to embrace anti-Zionism in the context of the alleged Epstein-Israel blackmail as a way of portraying themselves as the "peace party" like they did in the 2000s. There's zero doubt in my mind that most of this is motivated by the midterm elections and the Democrats' needing their party to win both the House and Senate in order to stay relevant.
But in all seriousness: Epstein serves the Democrats way more than it serves the radical left. I'm sick and tired of hearing about the "Epstein Class" as if the presence of the ultra-wealthy is somehow a bug and not a feature of capitalism. I'm sick of hearing that the problem with the ruling class is that they're immoral, and not that they exist in the first place. I just want liberals to shut the hell up and focus on issues that can actually be solved. Fuck this bullshit.
Epstein Fatigue
Am I the only one on here with Epstein fatigue?I hate this shit. I hate how the Epstein debacle has even made leftists throw out solid understandings of class and imperialism. WHO GIVES A FUCKING SHIT if the ruling class are baby-eating Satan-worshipping Illuminati? THEY'RE STILL EXPLOITING PROLES AND SHOULD BE OPPOSED ON THIS REASON ALONE.
But what really fucking grinds my gears is seeing how tenaciously Democrats and liberals are desperate to turn Epstein into Russiagate 2.0. They sincerely believe they can use the Epstein shit to remove Trump from office and put him in jail for the rest of his life. First of all, as a cis woman who is also a sexual assault survivor, I can tell you that sexual assault is one of the hardest crimes to prove in a court of law. Even if Trump wasn't rich and didn't have the money to get away with his (alleged) crimes, there's still no possible way he'd ever get convicted of a statutory rape that occurred decades ago; there's simply way too much reasonable doubt. But also in this is seeing how garden-variety liberals are really, REALLLLLY pushing the "Epstein was Mossad" allegation, and that he was pimping out underage girls to get blackmail material on world leaders so they would be puppets of Israel. In the case of Trump, they're saying Trump is entirely a puppet of these "Zionist Jewish supremacists" like Epstein, and nearly everything Trump is doing policy-wise is purely in service to Israel. Liberals are even going to far as to call the current Iran War the "Epstein-AIPAC War", not just because Trump launched the war to distract from the Epstein files, but because Netanyahu has all the Epstein blackmail material on Trump and is using this to coerce him into going to war for Israel. This of course completely ignores how American Empire works and things like the US wanting to take control of Iran's oil and all that. But in this, it's very obvious to me that two things are going on here: 1. just like how the Democrats were pushing Russiagate during Trump's first term to "prove" that Trump was a "puppet of Russia" they're now using the Epstein files to "prove" Trump is a puppet of Israel/Zionists, and 2. the Democrats are now going to embrace anti-Zionism in the context of the alleged Epstein-Israel blackmail as a way of portraying themselves as the "peace party" like they did in the 2000s. There's zero doubt in my mind that most of this is motivated by the midterm elections and the Democrats' needing their party to win both the House and Senate in order to stay relevant.
But in all seriousness: Epstein serves the Democrats way more than it serves the radical left. I'm sick and tired of hearing about the "Epstein Class" as if the presence of the ultra-wealthy is somehow a bug and not a feature of capitalism. I'm sick of hearing that the problem with the ruling class is that they're immoral, and not that they exist in the first place. I just want liberals to shut the hell up and focus on issues that can actually be solved. Fuck this bullshit.
R: 186 / I: 20
Who's afraid of Gabriel Rockhill?
It looks like the hysteria over Gabriel Rockhill's expose of CIA funded western marxism has hit Jacobin. Since Rockhill's book was published, he's been living rent free in the heads of critical theorists. A bourgeois Indian academic who lives in the US and considers China "sweatshop socialism" has made at least 20 FB posts about Rockhill over the past month. Katerina Kolozova, a "marxist" from FYROM who wrote an article where she said "real marxists" wanted the breakup of Yugoslavia because it was "fake socialism" and Monkeydonians were "real europeans" unlike "Russians and Ukrainians" also went into meltdown mode. The Jacobin article just ties it all together. The author says we need critical theory and western marxism more than we need another Stalin or Mao. But given how impotent western marxists have been to achieve any kind of revolutionary success, it seems that their main issue with Rockhill is that he accurately diagnoses them as hacks. None of the articles, op-eds, or posts about Rockhill's book actually try to refute the facts he presents (backed up by FOIA requests) but just defend bourgeois liberal democracy as superior to actually existing socialism. The Indian admitted to me he didn't even finish Rockhill's book, and one of my irl friends who's been flipping out about it has refused to even read it. If Rockhill is so wrong, why is it no one can actually refute his truth nukes?
R: 9 / I: 0
> please dont protest against your work
> It would be very cringe to do and not be based poggers
> did you even think of the shareholders and THEIR feelings
> did you know the bourgeoisie could get INJURED in your protest and how cringe it would be?
> please dont protest against your work
> It would be very cringe to do and not be based poggers
> did you even think of the shareholders and THEIR feelings
> did you know the bourgeoisie could get INJURED in your protest and how cringe it would be?
R: 36 / I: 6
>muh starvation
He didn't eat the grain or cause famines on purpose.
>muh collectivization
Collectivization is necessary, what the fuck is this NEP babble?
>muh peasants
Fuck the peasants. The workers are the revolutionary subject.
>muh kulaks
Death to kulaks.
>anyone who owned a property and didn't want to give it up
Well deserved death.
The gravedigger had many issues, but this video is full of shit. The channel seems like a retarded trot.
In defense of gravedigger against the falsifier
This guy's video is wrong, he's wrong, Stalin was a marxist, its just that marxism itself goes against Marx - Marx himself rejected "marxism" and "marxists". Stalin was indeed a marxist, a socialdemocrat like the other "marxists".>muh starvation
He didn't eat the grain or cause famines on purpose.
>muh collectivization
Collectivization is necessary, what the fuck is this NEP babble?
>muh peasants
Fuck the peasants. The workers are the revolutionary subject.
>muh kulaks
Death to kulaks.
>anyone who owned a property and didn't want to give it up
Well deserved death.
The gravedigger had many issues, but this video is full of shit. The channel seems like a retarded trot.
R: 4 / I: 0
Iran’s authorities and state media project that they are less interested than before the war in negotiations with the United States if they go beyond their accepted terms, as mediated talks failed to materialise in Pakistan.Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi met senior Pakistani officials in Islamabad on Saturday and left for Oman, to be later bound for Russia. The top diplomat, who was not joined by Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf like in a previous round of negotiations earlier this month, said he was “yet to see if the US is truly serious about diplomacy”.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/25/irans-authorities-project-hardened-stance-with-more-talks-on-horizon
https://archive.ph/PGTdV
US offers $10m reward for info on Iraqi armed group leader
The US Department of State’s Rewards for Justice program announced in a statement a “reward of up to $10 million for information” on “Hashim Finyan Rahim al-Saraji, also known as Abu Ala al-Wala’i,” whom it described as the “leader and Secretary General of Kata’ib Sayyid al-Shuhada (KSS), an Iran-aligned terrorist group in Iraq.”
https://www.rudaw.net/english/middleeast/iraq/240420261
Activists break into Leicester factory owned by Israeli firm Elbit Systems
On Friday morning, they occupied the roof of a factory belonging to UAV Tactical Systems, which is owned by Elbit Systems UK, the British subsidiary of Israel's largest weapons manufacturer. According to media group The Aftershock, the activists used ladders to climb over razor-wire fencing to enter the premises. After occupying the roof, they drilled holes into it and subsequently abseiled into the building.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/activists-leicester-break-factory-owned-israeli-firm-elbit-systems
Students in Croatia protest Netanyahu brother’s secret lecture: “Our faculty was turned into crime propaganda testing ground”
Students of the Faculty of Political Science in Zagreb staged a walkout in solidarity with Palestine on Friday, April 24, after reports that Iddo Netanyahu – brother of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) on suspicion of war crimes – held a secret guest lecture at the institution earlier that week. Accompanied by Israel’s ambassador to Croatia, Gary Koren, Netanyahu’s visit was facilitated by faculty lecturer Boris Havel, locally known for his promotion of Zionism.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2026/04/24/students-in-croatia-protest-netanyahu-brothers-secret-lecture-our-faculty-was-turned-into-crime-propaganda-testing-ground/
El Salvador’s Bukele regime stages mass show trial for nearly 500 alleged gang members
Prosecutors in El Salvador have opened a mass trial of 486 alleged members of the MS-13 gang on charges ranging from homicide to extortion and arms trafficking. In what will be the largest criminal proceeding in the country’s history, the defendants are accused of involvement in more than 47,000 crimes committed between 2012 and 2022, including an estimated 29,000 homicides.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/04/25/gdxv-a25.html
An explosive device kills 13 and injures 38 on a bus in southwestern Colombia as violence persists
The attack is the latest in a spate of explosions that have attempted to target public infrastructure. At least 26 incidents have taken place in the past two days in southwestern Colombia, which López said has only affected civilians.
https://apnews.com/article/colombia-attacks-police-drones-cali-palmira-934ae0da6de9d751941e5971e8de0f17
Argentina truckers end protest at Quequen grain port
Argentine truckers ended a protest that had paralyzed the Quequen grain port after reaching an agreement with farmers for a 16% freight rate increase, the port authority said on Friday. Activity at the terminal began to normalize following the end of the costly protest, a port source told Reuters.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/argentina-truckers-end-protest-quequen-grain-port-2026-04-25/
Myanmar Regime Ratchets Up Atrocities Against Civilians in Heartland
Parts of Sagaing, Mandalay and Magwe regions have suffered escalating junta raids, including arbitrary killings and the burning of entire villages, as well as indiscriminate shelling and airstrikes over the past three weeks.
https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/myanmar-regime-ratchets-up-atrocities-against-civilians-in-heartland.html
China targets middlemen in renewed crackdown on ‘hidden’ corruption
In it, the bodies highlight the need to enforce the law against all participants in the corruption chain, for the direct bribe-givers and recipients to intermediaries, officials and management personnel. The interpretation is aimed at both deterring these intermediaries and helping prosecutors and judges throughout the country apply criminal law more accurately and handle related cases more efficiently.
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3349749/china-targets-middlemen-renewed-crackdown-hidden-corruption
https://archive.ph/C0ckC
New Zealand government minister stokes anti-Indian racism
Such statements are part of NZ First’s positioning ahead of the November election. They are a crude attempt to scapegoat immigrants for the social crisis created by decades of brutal austerity measures, the transfer of wealth to the rich, and the diversion of billions of dollars to the military, under successive governments in which NZ First has played a significant role.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/04/25/ynlt-a25.html
News 4/25/26
Trump puts onus on Iran’s authorities as they project hardened stanceIran’s authorities and state media project that they are less interested than before the war in negotiations with the United States if they go beyond their accepted terms, as mediated talks failed to materialise in Pakistan.Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi met senior Pakistani officials in Islamabad on Saturday and left for Oman, to be later bound for Russia. The top diplomat, who was not joined by Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf like in a previous round of negotiations earlier this month, said he was “yet to see if the US is truly serious about diplomacy”.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/25/irans-authorities-project-hardened-stance-with-more-talks-on-horizon
https://archive.ph/PGTdV
US offers $10m reward for info on Iraqi armed group leader
The US Department of State’s Rewards for Justice program announced in a statement a “reward of up to $10 million for information” on “Hashim Finyan Rahim al-Saraji, also known as Abu Ala al-Wala’i,” whom it described as the “leader and Secretary General of Kata’ib Sayyid al-Shuhada (KSS), an Iran-aligned terrorist group in Iraq.”
https://www.rudaw.net/english/middleeast/iraq/240420261
Activists break into Leicester factory owned by Israeli firm Elbit Systems
On Friday morning, they occupied the roof of a factory belonging to UAV Tactical Systems, which is owned by Elbit Systems UK, the British subsidiary of Israel's largest weapons manufacturer. According to media group The Aftershock, the activists used ladders to climb over razor-wire fencing to enter the premises. After occupying the roof, they drilled holes into it and subsequently abseiled into the building.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/activists-leicester-break-factory-owned-israeli-firm-elbit-systems
Students in Croatia protest Netanyahu brother’s secret lecture: “Our faculty was turned into crime propaganda testing ground”
Students of the Faculty of Political Science in Zagreb staged a walkout in solidarity with Palestine on Friday, April 24, after reports that Iddo Netanyahu – brother of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) on suspicion of war crimes – held a secret guest lecture at the institution earlier that week. Accompanied by Israel’s ambassador to Croatia, Gary Koren, Netanyahu’s visit was facilitated by faculty lecturer Boris Havel, locally known for his promotion of Zionism.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2026/04/24/students-in-croatia-protest-netanyahu-brothers-secret-lecture-our-faculty-was-turned-into-crime-propaganda-testing-ground/
El Salvador’s Bukele regime stages mass show trial for nearly 500 alleged gang members
Prosecutors in El Salvador have opened a mass trial of 486 alleged members of the MS-13 gang on charges ranging from homicide to extortion and arms trafficking. In what will be the largest criminal proceeding in the country’s history, the defendants are accused of involvement in more than 47,000 crimes committed between 2012 and 2022, including an estimated 29,000 homicides.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/04/25/gdxv-a25.html
An explosive device kills 13 and injures 38 on a bus in southwestern Colombia as violence persists
The attack is the latest in a spate of explosions that have attempted to target public infrastructure. At least 26 incidents have taken place in the past two days in southwestern Colombia, which López said has only affected civilians.
https://apnews.com/article/colombia-attacks-police-drones-cali-palmira-934ae0da6de9d751941e5971e8de0f17
Argentina truckers end protest at Quequen grain port
Argentine truckers ended a protest that had paralyzed the Quequen grain port after reaching an agreement with farmers for a 16% freight rate increase, the port authority said on Friday. Activity at the terminal began to normalize following the end of the costly protest, a port source told Reuters.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/argentina-truckers-end-protest-quequen-grain-port-2026-04-25/
Myanmar Regime Ratchets Up Atrocities Against Civilians in Heartland
Parts of Sagaing, Mandalay and Magwe regions have suffered escalating junta raids, including arbitrary killings and the burning of entire villages, as well as indiscriminate shelling and airstrikes over the past three weeks.
https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/myanmar-regime-ratchets-up-atrocities-against-civilians-in-heartland.html
China targets middlemen in renewed crackdown on ‘hidden’ corruption
In it, the bodies highlight the need to enforce the law against all participants in the corruption chain, for the direct bribe-givers and recipients to intermediaries, officials and management personnel. The interpretation is aimed at both deterring these intermediaries and helping prosecutors and judges throughout the country apply criminal law more accurately and handle related cases more efficiently.
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3349749/china-targets-middlemen-renewed-crackdown-hidden-corruption
https://archive.ph/C0ckC
New Zealand government minister stokes anti-Indian racism
Such statements are part of NZ First’s positioning ahead of the November election. They are a crude attempt to scapegoat immigrants for the social crisis created by decades of brutal austerity measures, the transfer of wealth to the rich, and the diversion of billions of dollars to the military, under successive governments in which NZ First has played a significant role.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/04/25/ynlt-a25.html
R: 16 / I: 4
They're gonna try to make NazBols, Russians and Putin look bad but all they'll end up doing is make them look really cool in the eyes of zoomers. Zoomers are already pro-Russian, watch what happens after this movie.
The Wizard of the Kremlin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5iSUmP4I6EThey're gonna try to make NazBols, Russians and Putin look bad but all they'll end up doing is make them look really cool in the eyes of zoomers. Zoomers are already pro-Russian, watch what happens after this movie.
R: 32 / I: 6
Formed online via Discord, TikTok, and YouTube, dinergoths mix formerly subcultural aesthetics like goth, emo, piercings, and dyed hair into mass-retail fashion. They openly display interests once seen as nerdy or deviant: anime, queerness, cosplay, furry culture, BDSM. Neurodivergent diagnoses are worn as identity markers.
Unlike earlier subcultures, dinergoths aren't rebellious or ironic. Hentai and stagnation are just facts of life. Cultural touchstones include Deltarune, Hazbin Hotel, Genshin Impact, VTubers, streamers, and drawing "OCs". They practice queerness as default, learned through fandom rather than via theory.
Dinergoths are suburban or rural, often working in service, warehouse, or anonymous office jobs. More Buffalo than Brooklyn. They prioritize comfort, creative hobbies, and online community over career status. Content creation is often seen as an exit out of a disenchanted world.
Dinergoth traits now permeate Gen Z mass culture, but the archetype is clearest in the pierced, anime-addled, downwardly mobile alt-prole who thrives in the stagnation and placelessness of the American hinterlands."
The person who came up with this is a rightoid so he focuses on the "overweight green haired non-binary walmart prole who spends xer time off talking on hazbin hotel fandom discords" type, but it also largely applies to the Samantha Rupnow types as well if you swap a few words around.
What are the political implications of the "dinergoth"
"The dominant youth archetype of 2020s suburban and provincial America. The dinergoth sits at the mainstream convergence of once-niche culture: alt fashion, geek fandoms, and downward mobility.Formed online via Discord, TikTok, and YouTube, dinergoths mix formerly subcultural aesthetics like goth, emo, piercings, and dyed hair into mass-retail fashion. They openly display interests once seen as nerdy or deviant: anime, queerness, cosplay, furry culture, BDSM. Neurodivergent diagnoses are worn as identity markers.
Unlike earlier subcultures, dinergoths aren't rebellious or ironic. Hentai and stagnation are just facts of life. Cultural touchstones include Deltarune, Hazbin Hotel, Genshin Impact, VTubers, streamers, and drawing "OCs". They practice queerness as default, learned through fandom rather than via theory.
Dinergoths are suburban or rural, often working in service, warehouse, or anonymous office jobs. More Buffalo than Brooklyn. They prioritize comfort, creative hobbies, and online community over career status. Content creation is often seen as an exit out of a disenchanted world.
Dinergoth traits now permeate Gen Z mass culture, but the archetype is clearest in the pierced, anime-addled, downwardly mobile alt-prole who thrives in the stagnation and placelessness of the American hinterlands."
The person who came up with this is a rightoid so he focuses on the "overweight green haired non-binary walmart prole who spends xer time off talking on hazbin hotel fandom discords" type, but it also largely applies to the Samantha Rupnow types as well if you swap a few words around.
R: 268 / I: 40
Houdini has been arrested.
https://gofund.me/826555a5f
He is in deep Florida country. Anons in Florida, please do what you can for him. Those who can make online payments, please help him.
Pasting the message from his comrades:
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TL;DR Our friend Erik is in jail for allegedly trolling a right wing influencer, Kaitlin Bennet, and we’re putting together a bail fund for him. If we don't get him out in 10 days or locate a foster the local animal shelter may put down his dog.
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Hey everyone. We do not come here lightly and it is with a heavy heart that we come to you and ask for monetary assistance. Not for ourselves but for a dear friend of ours who was arrested Tuesday February 24th 2026 by the police.
Sometime in November of 2025, not long after the Kirk assassination, our friend allegedly got into a conflict on Instagram with a right wing influencer, Kaitlin Bennet, when she visited their city. In this conflict he allegedly referenced Kirk's assassination and that was enough for her to take these as threats on her life and call the police on him and an investigation was conducted where they allegedly found evidence of plans to harass Bennet next time she visits their City.
He never threatened to hurt or kill her, but they live in one of the most conservative areas in the the country where stochastic terrorists like Bennet can get away with whatever and sic the police on political dissidents.
We spoke with the detective handling his case and he informed me that the state is only seeking probation for him, but as many of you know we live in a tiered justice system and the first hurdle in that justice system is bail bonds. Despite the state not seeing him as dangerous and not seeking to put him in prison or charge him with a felony they set his bail to $20K with his first court date being March 31st.
We will have to go the bail bondsman route which means we need $2k to pay the bail bondsman and get him out of jail. Or somehow raise the full $20k. Past this our friend will need assistance with court fees, lawyer fees, living and eating expenses, and more.
My friend Erik has been experiencing housing instability for over 8 months now living out of a motel in the area. He just landed a full time position 2 weeks ago and was finally going to see some stability in his life which makes the timing of all this incredibly tragic. The sooner we get him out of jail and back to his job the less disruptive this will be to his life.
His dog Jax was also taken to a local animal Shelter by the police and he has 10 days to claim him and if he does not claim Jax then Jax might be put down. Suffice to say he cannot claim Jax while in jail.
Please donate whatever you can time is of the essence here.
—
Please see an excerpt below of Erik's project Houdini Magazine, where you may famously know him from:
"HOUDINI magazine is the brainchild of Erik Houdini and a faceless army of working class—writers, artists, musicians, researchers, scientists, producers, first responders, film makers, journalists, clerks, taggers, goths, 'reformed' felons, juggalos, janitors, freaks, radicals, truckers, addicts, activists, schemers, plotters, connivers, psychonauts, conspirators, swashbucklers, dastardly dudes, femme fatales, them fatales— and whoever else decided that today was the day we start giving a shit about each other.
Well over half a million total visitors. The big dogs of the underground. HOUDINI exists to reclaim counterculture from the branded dead. Anti-corpo, broke as fuck, grindset bros who read Marx. Hustlers who respect their own, living theory without reading it, tired of being ground into soylent by the powers that be. Chaos magicians who dog-ear Kropotkin. Real, human, DIY, underground counterculture.
We believe a true counterculture, should it be forged, must be anti-capitalist. It must be anti-algorithmic. We must break through the prison walls of capital's psychic warfare on our souls and into a new era.
Remember: No doomers. Uplift. Struggle."
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FREE ERIK HOUDINI
FREE ERIK HOUDINI
COMRADES OF LEFTYPOL, ERIK HOUDINI NEEDS YOUR SOLIDARITYHoudini has been arrested.
https://gofund.me/826555a5f
He is in deep Florida country. Anons in Florida, please do what you can for him. Those who can make online payments, please help him.
Pasting the message from his comrades:
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
TL;DR Our friend Erik is in jail for allegedly trolling a right wing influencer, Kaitlin Bennet, and we’re putting together a bail fund for him. If we don't get him out in 10 days or locate a foster the local animal shelter may put down his dog.
—
Hey everyone. We do not come here lightly and it is with a heavy heart that we come to you and ask for monetary assistance. Not for ourselves but for a dear friend of ours who was arrested Tuesday February 24th 2026 by the police.
Sometime in November of 2025, not long after the Kirk assassination, our friend allegedly got into a conflict on Instagram with a right wing influencer, Kaitlin Bennet, when she visited their city. In this conflict he allegedly referenced Kirk's assassination and that was enough for her to take these as threats on her life and call the police on him and an investigation was conducted where they allegedly found evidence of plans to harass Bennet next time she visits their City.
He never threatened to hurt or kill her, but they live in one of the most conservative areas in the the country where stochastic terrorists like Bennet can get away with whatever and sic the police on political dissidents.
We spoke with the detective handling his case and he informed me that the state is only seeking probation for him, but as many of you know we live in a tiered justice system and the first hurdle in that justice system is bail bonds. Despite the state not seeing him as dangerous and not seeking to put him in prison or charge him with a felony they set his bail to $20K with his first court date being March 31st.
We will have to go the bail bondsman route which means we need $2k to pay the bail bondsman and get him out of jail. Or somehow raise the full $20k. Past this our friend will need assistance with court fees, lawyer fees, living and eating expenses, and more.
My friend Erik has been experiencing housing instability for over 8 months now living out of a motel in the area. He just landed a full time position 2 weeks ago and was finally going to see some stability in his life which makes the timing of all this incredibly tragic. The sooner we get him out of jail and back to his job the less disruptive this will be to his life.
His dog Jax was also taken to a local animal Shelter by the police and he has 10 days to claim him and if he does not claim Jax then Jax might be put down. Suffice to say he cannot claim Jax while in jail.
Please donate whatever you can time is of the essence here.
—
Please see an excerpt below of Erik's project Houdini Magazine, where you may famously know him from:
"HOUDINI magazine is the brainchild of Erik Houdini and a faceless army of working class—writers, artists, musicians, researchers, scientists, producers, first responders, film makers, journalists, clerks, taggers, goths, 'reformed' felons, juggalos, janitors, freaks, radicals, truckers, addicts, activists, schemers, plotters, connivers, psychonauts, conspirators, swashbucklers, dastardly dudes, femme fatales, them fatales— and whoever else decided that today was the day we start giving a shit about each other.
Well over half a million total visitors. The big dogs of the underground. HOUDINI exists to reclaim counterculture from the branded dead. Anti-corpo, broke as fuck, grindset bros who read Marx. Hustlers who respect their own, living theory without reading it, tired of being ground into soylent by the powers that be. Chaos magicians who dog-ear Kropotkin. Real, human, DIY, underground counterculture.
We believe a true counterculture, should it be forged, must be anti-capitalist. It must be anti-algorithmic. We must break through the prison walls of capital's psychic warfare on our souls and into a new era.
Remember: No doomers. Uplift. Struggle."
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FREE ERIK HOUDINI
R: 53 / I: 3
The primary contradiction in non-AES Global South countries is not "foreign-bourg vs national-bourg" but rather, it's "industrial capitalist vs financial capitalist".
An imperialist foreign Western capitalist who builds a factory and develops the productive forces by outsourcing and transferring technology and capital is infinitely more progressive than a "patriotic" "sovereign" nationalist financial capitalist or service capitalist.
Countries that realized this simple fact, like South Korea, Mexico, Poland, Indonesia etc are able to develop and massively increase their standard of living.
Countries that misguidedly pursued "sovereignty" instead via protectionism and over regulation, like many post-colonial countries, suffered from stagnation. Those countries were actually scammed by their "patriotic" bourgeoisie to protect their local capital from competition that would have built industry and improved their standard of living.
Therefore, being blindly anti-imperialist by default is not useful. Collaborating with foreign and domestic industrial giants while keeping both domestic and foreign finance at bay should be the primary goal of socialists in these countries.
The primary contradiction in non-AES Global South countries is not "foreign-bourg vs national-bourg" but rather, it's "industrial capitalist vs financial capitalist".
An imperialist foreign Western capitalist who builds a factory and develops the productive forces by outsourcing and transferring technology and capital is infinitely more progressive than a "patriotic" "sovereign" nationalist financial capitalist or service capitalist.
Countries that realized this simple fact, like South Korea, Mexico, Poland, Indonesia etc are able to develop and massively increase their standard of living.
Countries that misguidedly pursued "sovereignty" instead via protectionism and over regulation, like many post-colonial countries, suffered from stagnation. Those countries were actually scammed by their "patriotic" bourgeoisie to protect their local capital from competition that would have built industry and improved their standard of living.
Therefore, being blindly anti-imperialist by default is not useful. Collaborating with foreign and domestic industrial giants while keeping both domestic and foreign finance at bay should be the primary goal of socialists in these countries.
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if japan hadn't surrendered to the USA, would we have gotten AES japan?
Replace "they were more terrified of stalin" at the end with "they were more terrified of a Communist Japan" or "they were more terrified with an end to class society." and you will have the true essence of the problem.
if japan hadn't surrendered to the USA, would we have gotten AES japan?
Replace "they were more terrified of stalin" at the end with "they were more terrified of a Communist Japan" or "they were more terrified with an end to class society." and you will have the true essence of the problem.
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watch john k cartoons they are the best
way better than those shitty disney cartoons
looking at you moon girl and shitty dinosaur
the only people who hate his cartoons are shitty artists
watch john k cartoons they are the best
way better than those shitty disney cartoons
looking at you moon girl and shitty dinosaur
the only people who hate his cartoons are shitty artists
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I live surrounded by liberals. When I ask them how they would solve the existing problems in the current system, they always reduce their solutions down to three things: 1. arrest the "Epstein class" (yay, prisons!), 2. overturn the Citizens United SCOTUS decision to get money out of politics, and 3. bring back the Fairness Doctrine (no idea how that's supposed to work when everyone under 35 is getting their political views from influencers, YouTubers, and Twitch streamers rather than TV news but I digress).
I have a very hard time understanding how politics is supposed to be divorced from money in any way. The entire political system is designed to serve the capitalist class. Putting limits on how much the rich can donate to politicians or lobbyist groups doesn't change that.
It seems like the main reason liberals like spreading this myth is because they take for granted the idea everyone would willingly vote for mediocre establishment Democrats over the GOP if billionaires weren't allowed to give large sums of money to GOP candidates, never mind the fact that plenty of billionaires also support liberal Democrats too (Obama's biggest donor in 2008 was Goldman-Sachs, for instance). I fail to see how overturning Citizens United would do anything to lead us to socialism. Seems like more of a symbolic victory than anything. What does everyone else say?
"Money out of politics"
What exactly is the logic of American liberals who claim getting "money out of politics" would do anything to fix the innate contradictions of capitalism?I live surrounded by liberals. When I ask them how they would solve the existing problems in the current system, they always reduce their solutions down to three things: 1. arrest the "Epstein class" (yay, prisons!), 2. overturn the Citizens United SCOTUS decision to get money out of politics, and 3. bring back the Fairness Doctrine (no idea how that's supposed to work when everyone under 35 is getting their political views from influencers, YouTubers, and Twitch streamers rather than TV news but I digress).
I have a very hard time understanding how politics is supposed to be divorced from money in any way. The entire political system is designed to serve the capitalist class. Putting limits on how much the rich can donate to politicians or lobbyist groups doesn't change that.
It seems like the main reason liberals like spreading this myth is because they take for granted the idea everyone would willingly vote for mediocre establishment Democrats over the GOP if billionaires weren't allowed to give large sums of money to GOP candidates, never mind the fact that plenty of billionaires also support liberal Democrats too (Obama's biggest donor in 2008 was Goldman-Sachs, for instance). I fail to see how overturning Citizens United would do anything to lead us to socialism. Seems like more of a symbolic victory than anything. What does everyone else say?
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It said that if US President Donald Trump decides to end the war with Iran and the truce in Lebanon holds, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will seek to keep the offensive ongoing on other fronts, particularly as the October 2026 Israeli elections approach. Netanyahu’s opponents have accused him of failing to achieve "absolute victory" in Gaza, and according to Haaretz, this is one of the reasons why he would want to restart the war.
https://www.newarab.com/news/israel-prepares-major-assault-gaza-amid-iran-truce-report
Israeli settlers cross into Syria and Lebanon calling for new settlements
According to Israel’s Walla news site, around 40 activists from the Halutzei HaBashan movement crossed the Syrian border on Wednesday and entered the village of Hader in the Quneitra governorate. Some of the group reportedly barricaded themselves inside a building, tying themselves to it and urging the public to pressure Israeli ministers not to remove them from Syrian territory.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israeli-settlers-cross-syria-and-lebanon-and-call-new-settlements
Europeans must recognize US, China and Russia are ‘dead against’ us, says Macron
He said the main difference between the first and second Trump terms was that many European countries thought the first term was an aberration that would end, not requiring fundamental changes. “Now, a lot of colleagues are more lucid, because after so many years, we say, okay, we have to react. We have to act as Europeans, to be more united, to defend ourselves our own interests. And for me, this is the right direction.”
https://www.politico.eu/article/emmanuel-macron-warns-europe-unity-against-us-china-russia/
https://archive.ph/nHIDe
Fourth refugee rescue ship detained in Italy after saving lives at sea
The Trotamar III, a sailing ship operated by activist rescuers Compass Collective, was detained by the Italian authorities on Thursday evening on the island of Lampedusa. Two days earlier, the ship’s activists had rescued 18 people from an unseaworthy rubber dinghy in the Tunisian-Maltese search-and-rescue zone.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/fourth-refugee-rescue-ship-detained-italy-after-saving-lives-sea
Protest staged at bailiff conference in London
Activists disrupted the posh event at the De Vere Grand Connaught Rooms hotel in central London shouting “Get your feet off our backs, bailiffs out of council tax.” Company bosses were faced with the loud protest as they arrived at the Civil Enforcement Association’s (CIVEA) annual gala where the Industry Excellence Award was given for “outstanding achievements of individuals and firms” in debt collection.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/protest-staged-bailiff-conference-london
UK position on Falklands will not change, No 10 says after leaked Pentagon memo
Though there has been no return to hostilities since, the status of the islands, which are 8,000 miles from the UK and 300 miles from Argentina, remains disputed by Argentina, now led by Trump’s ally President Javier Milei. Argentine foreign minister Pablo Quirno responded to the reports by reiterating his country’s willingness to resume bilateral negotiations for a “peaceful and definitive solution”.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/apr/24/uk-position-falklands-unchanged-leaked-pentagon-memo
Hours before Thiel visit, Milei bans press from Casa Rosada over ‘espionage’ complaint
Argentina’s government on Thursday barred accredited press from entering the Casa Rosada as part of a “preventative” measure related to alleged “espionage” complaint; Decision, cheered by Javier Milei on social media, came hours before the head of state hosted controversial US tech entrepreneur Peter Thiel at government house.
https://www.batimes.com.ar/news/argentina/hours-before-thiel-visit-milei-bans-press-from-casa-rosada-over-espionage-complaint.phtml
https://archive.ph/54x9U
Chilean Government Limits Human Rights Justice Access
Through a statement, the organization characterized the measure as a substantial change in the operating criteria of the state program, which -as it recalled- has historically fulfilled legal and social functions in the search for truth, justice, and reparation for the victims of the civil-military dictatorship.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/chile-limits-human-rights-justice-access/
Colombia’s main fact checker linked to far-right propaganda campaign
Among Project Jupiter’s “digital agencies” is La Silla Vacia, according to a flyer that was made public by Raya magazine and the investigative journalism program of public television network RTVC. In an audio, the director of the propaganda campaign, former Foreign Minister Jaime Bermudez, said that “we have digital agencies—namely [libertarian think tank] Libertank and La Silla Vacia—which are enabling us to scale up at an incredible rate.”
https://colombiareports.com/colombias-main-fact-checker-linked-to-far-right-propaganda-campaign/
India’s left parties back un-unionized workers in struggle for minimum wage
The protesters raised slogans denouncing the arrest of hundreds of workers by the security forces and demanded the scrapping of four new labor codes enacted by the ultra-right-wing government in the country. The protest was organized jointly by the Communist Party of India (Marxist), the Communist Party of India (CPI), the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation, the Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP), Forward Block, and others.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2026/04/24/indias-left-parties-back-un-unionized-workers-in-struggle-for-minimum-wage/
News 4/24/26
Israel 'preparing large scale assault on Gaza' amid Iran, Lebanon ceasefires: reportsIt said that if US President Donald Trump decides to end the war with Iran and the truce in Lebanon holds, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will seek to keep the offensive ongoing on other fronts, particularly as the October 2026 Israeli elections approach. Netanyahu’s opponents have accused him of failing to achieve "absolute victory" in Gaza, and according to Haaretz, this is one of the reasons why he would want to restart the war.
https://www.newarab.com/news/israel-prepares-major-assault-gaza-amid-iran-truce-report
Israeli settlers cross into Syria and Lebanon calling for new settlements
According to Israel’s Walla news site, around 40 activists from the Halutzei HaBashan movement crossed the Syrian border on Wednesday and entered the village of Hader in the Quneitra governorate. Some of the group reportedly barricaded themselves inside a building, tying themselves to it and urging the public to pressure Israeli ministers not to remove them from Syrian territory.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israeli-settlers-cross-syria-and-lebanon-and-call-new-settlements
Europeans must recognize US, China and Russia are ‘dead against’ us, says Macron
He said the main difference between the first and second Trump terms was that many European countries thought the first term was an aberration that would end, not requiring fundamental changes. “Now, a lot of colleagues are more lucid, because after so many years, we say, okay, we have to react. We have to act as Europeans, to be more united, to defend ourselves our own interests. And for me, this is the right direction.”
https://www.politico.eu/article/emmanuel-macron-warns-europe-unity-against-us-china-russia/
https://archive.ph/nHIDe
Fourth refugee rescue ship detained in Italy after saving lives at sea
The Trotamar III, a sailing ship operated by activist rescuers Compass Collective, was detained by the Italian authorities on Thursday evening on the island of Lampedusa. Two days earlier, the ship’s activists had rescued 18 people from an unseaworthy rubber dinghy in the Tunisian-Maltese search-and-rescue zone.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/fourth-refugee-rescue-ship-detained-italy-after-saving-lives-sea
Protest staged at bailiff conference in London
Activists disrupted the posh event at the De Vere Grand Connaught Rooms hotel in central London shouting “Get your feet off our backs, bailiffs out of council tax.” Company bosses were faced with the loud protest as they arrived at the Civil Enforcement Association’s (CIVEA) annual gala where the Industry Excellence Award was given for “outstanding achievements of individuals and firms” in debt collection.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/protest-staged-bailiff-conference-london
UK position on Falklands will not change, No 10 says after leaked Pentagon memo
Though there has been no return to hostilities since, the status of the islands, which are 8,000 miles from the UK and 300 miles from Argentina, remains disputed by Argentina, now led by Trump’s ally President Javier Milei. Argentine foreign minister Pablo Quirno responded to the reports by reiterating his country’s willingness to resume bilateral negotiations for a “peaceful and definitive solution”.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/apr/24/uk-position-falklands-unchanged-leaked-pentagon-memo
Hours before Thiel visit, Milei bans press from Casa Rosada over ‘espionage’ complaint
Argentina’s government on Thursday barred accredited press from entering the Casa Rosada as part of a “preventative” measure related to alleged “espionage” complaint; Decision, cheered by Javier Milei on social media, came hours before the head of state hosted controversial US tech entrepreneur Peter Thiel at government house.
https://www.batimes.com.ar/news/argentina/hours-before-thiel-visit-milei-bans-press-from-casa-rosada-over-espionage-complaint.phtml
https://archive.ph/54x9U
Chilean Government Limits Human Rights Justice Access
Through a statement, the organization characterized the measure as a substantial change in the operating criteria of the state program, which -as it recalled- has historically fulfilled legal and social functions in the search for truth, justice, and reparation for the victims of the civil-military dictatorship.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/chile-limits-human-rights-justice-access/
Colombia’s main fact checker linked to far-right propaganda campaign
Among Project Jupiter’s “digital agencies” is La Silla Vacia, according to a flyer that was made public by Raya magazine and the investigative journalism program of public television network RTVC. In an audio, the director of the propaganda campaign, former Foreign Minister Jaime Bermudez, said that “we have digital agencies—namely [libertarian think tank] Libertank and La Silla Vacia—which are enabling us to scale up at an incredible rate.”
https://colombiareports.com/colombias-main-fact-checker-linked-to-far-right-propaganda-campaign/
India’s left parties back un-unionized workers in struggle for minimum wage
The protesters raised slogans denouncing the arrest of hundreds of workers by the security forces and demanded the scrapping of four new labor codes enacted by the ultra-right-wing government in the country. The protest was organized jointly by the Communist Party of India (Marxist), the Communist Party of India (CPI), the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation, the Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP), Forward Block, and others.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2026/04/24/indias-left-parties-back-un-unionized-workers-in-struggle-for-minimum-wage/
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https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2026/04/21/doj-southern-poverty-law-center-indictment-extremist.html
Southern Poverty Law Center Indicted
New conspiracy theory just dropped babe. Apparently, the southern poverty law center has been funding right wing extremist groups to make right look bad. But apparently those dastardly globalists who of course are funding the antifa super soldiers, are also funding the hate groups that antifa are fighting for some reason.https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2026/04/21/doj-southern-poverty-law-center-indictment-extremist.html
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I took it back in 2021 (two doses) and I haven't had any known side effects, neither have anyone else I knew who took it. But all the time I hear about how it's causing people to have heart attacks/strokes and it's gonna kill everyone. I'm already a massively paranoid person, I was iffy on the vax when it came out but all I kept hearing was that covid was gonna kill everyone. It's getting to the point where I can't even sleep well because every waking moment, I'm terrified I'm just gonna drop dead.
Covid vaccine
Is the Covid vaccine really as dangerous as people online are saying?I took it back in 2021 (two doses) and I haven't had any known side effects, neither have anyone else I knew who took it. But all the time I hear about how it's causing people to have heart attacks/strokes and it's gonna kill everyone. I'm already a massively paranoid person, I was iffy on the vax when it came out but all I kept hearing was that covid was gonna kill everyone. It's getting to the point where I can't even sleep well because every waking moment, I'm terrified I'm just gonna drop dead.
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So why did he kill Bukharin?
Bukharin was one of the best bolsheviks who played a major role during the October revolution and was admired by Lenin. He was also a friend of Stalin.
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>not even willing to look good in a symbolic vote for soft power purposes
if you put this in fiction they would say it was over the top, too on the nose, cartoonish
the cartoonishly evil UN votes
>not even willing to look good in a symbolic vote for soft power purposes
if you put this in fiction they would say it was over the top, too on the nose, cartoonish
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>This government stands firmly with the Jewish community, and we will not stop in our fight to confront and defeat the poison of antisemitism.
>We will always take the action necessary to protect the public and uphold our values.
https://x.com/Keir_Starmer/status/2041515702855643347
Well that's one 'American boy' we don't want in this country.
/leftybritpol/ - Cancel KKKanye Edition
>Kanye West should never have been invited to headline Wireless.>This government stands firmly with the Jewish community, and we will not stop in our fight to confront and defeat the poison of antisemitism.
>We will always take the action necessary to protect the public and uphold our values.
https://x.com/Keir_Starmer/status/2041515702855643347
Well that's one 'American boy' we don't want in this country.
R: 9 / I: 2 (sage)
No link = Fake news until proven otherwise.
Look at this thread or post in it once a day as a constant reminder, else you could be tricked.
It could happen to YOU!
A reminder for the whole website
It doesn't matter if there's an image. If doesn't matter if there's just text.No link = Fake news until proven otherwise.
Look at this thread or post in it once a day as a constant reminder, else you could be tricked.
It could happen to YOU!
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I liked him in Boris Vian though.
Jean-Paul Sartre Fatigue
That cross eyed POS (piece of shit) think he can tell us what to do and what to think just because he got tons of cunny (underage girls privates) when he was a schoolteacher (professeur d'écoles) dont mean he gets to tell me i must live a certain way. Though we can all admit he is FAR more based than Junger (Ernst Junger) who never had the courage to dismantle reactionary gynocracy (https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majorit%C3%A9_sexuelle_en_France) by having sex with underage girls (https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fille).I liked him in Boris Vian though.
R: 615 / I: 138 (full)
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• Organizing in Prison — for when the walls close in (RANT Collective) // https://www.organizingforpower.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Organizing-in-Jail.pdf
• database of U.S. facilities incl. ICE holding sites // https://alcpress.org/usjails/index.html
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• ICE Agent List (incomplete) // https://wiki.icelist.is/index.php/Category:Agents
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Jailhouse Reading:
• 📖 Angela Davis - Are Prisons Obsolete? // https://dn790007.ca.archive.org/0/items/the-anarchist-library-full-list-of-pdfs-nov-2020/angela-y-davis-are-prisons-obsolete.pdf
• 📖 How to Defend Yourself During Police Interrogation // https://www.notrace.how/resources/download/comment-la-police-interroge-et-comment-sen-defendre/how-to-defend-yourself-during-a-police-interrogation.pdf
• 📖 National Lawyers Guild guide to being a jailhouse lawyer // https://www.jailhouselaw.org/
• 📖 Critical Resistance - Surviving Solitary Confinement // https://criticalresistance.org/resources/surviving-solitary/
• 📖 An inside-outside publication for abolitionist struggle & strategy across prison walls // https://criticalresistance.org/abolitionist/
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• Live strike tracker with deep stats on who, what and when // https://striketracker.ilr.cornell.edu/
• AFL-CIO [imperialist]'s Strike Tracker // https://aflcio.org/strike-map
• Labor Bureau's Official 'work stoppage' tracker // https://www.bls.gov/wsp/
• IWW timeline for the 20th century (ends at 1999) // https://archive.iww.org/history/chronology/
• IWW Work Place Organizing Guide // https://usa.anarchistlibraries.net/library/industrial-workers-of-the-world-libcom-org-solidarity-federation-walthamstow-anarchist-group-wo
• ▶ Salting | Work Place Organizing 101 (50 minute webinar) // https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SHlCLyM4FY
⚖️ Deeds of the Burger Reich 🇺🇸
• deep list of horrible shit we (royal we) have done // https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/us_atrocities.md
• Coups and regime changes – master list // https://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-peoples-governments-the-master-list
• Wikipedia: United States War Crimes // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_war_crimes
• /our boys/ (bring em home!) detail abusing Iraqi prisoners [2006] // https://www.hrw.org/report/2006/07/22/no-blood-no-foul/soldiers-accounts-detainee-abuse-iraq
• More than 250 military interventions in the last 30 years alone // https://blackagendareport.com/us-launched-251-military-interventions-1991-and-469-1798
• Visualization of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade // https://www.slavevoyages.org/
• UNESCO Sites relating to Slavery // https://slaveryandremembrance.org/
• First Hand Documents of the horrors of Slavery // https://www.loc.gov/collections/slave-narratives-from-the-federal-writers-project-1936-to-1938/
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• CNN Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/cnn-news-usa.html
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• FOX Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/fox-news-channel.html
• Bloomberg Live // https://www.bloomberg.com/live/us
• Burger House Live // https://www.whitehouse.gov/live/
• Local News // https://www.50states.com/ce/
• Weather // https://www.noaa.gov/weather
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• Jacobin // https://jacobin.com/
• Black Agenda Report // https://blackagendareport.com/
• The Grayzone // https://thegrayzone.com/
• Leftvoice // https://www.leftvoice.org/
• Newsanon Filter // https://leftypol.org/search.php?search=name%3A%22News+Anon+3.0%22&board=leftypol
🏝️ Epstein's Client List 🇮🇱
• Epstein's Black Book // https://epsteinsblackbook.com/
• DOJ Disclosures // https://www.justice.gov/epstein/doj-disclosures
• Track AIPAC // https://www.trackaipac.com/
• Al Jazeera visual guide (2026) // https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/10/struggling-to-navigate-the-epstein-files-here-is-a-visual-guide
Essential American Politik 📖
• 📖 WEB Du Bois - Black Reconstruction // https://cominsitu.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/w-e-b-du-bois-black-reconstruction-an-essay-toward-a-history-of-the-part-which-black-folk-played-in-the-attempt-to-reconstruct-democracy-2.pdf
• 📖 Eugene Debs - Fourth of July Speech // https://jacobin.com/2020/07/eugene-debs-independence-day-address-fourth-july
• 📖 Power Anywhere There's People! – Fred Hampton // https://www.hamptonthink.org/read/power-anywhere-where-thats-people-fred-hampton
• 📖 War is a Racket – Smedley Butler // https://ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html
• 📖 Letters From an American Farmer – St. John de Crevoecoeur // https://americanliterature.com/author/j-hector-st-john-de-crevoecoeur/book/letters-from-an-american-farmer/summary
• 📖 Trail of Broken Treaties // American Indian Movement https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
• 📖 The Declaration of Independence https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
• https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
• 📖 The Ballot or the Bullet – Malcolm X // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/ballot_or_bullet.pdf
• 📖 What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? – Frederick Douglass // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/douglass_july_4_speech.pdf
• 📖 A Trail of Broken Treaties – American Indian Movement // https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
• 📖 Custer Died for Your Sins – Vine Deloria Jr. // http://www.riversimulator.org/Resources/Books/CusterDiedForYourSinsAnIndianManifesto1969Deloria.pdf
• 📖 Emancipation Proclamation – Lincoln // https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/emancipation-proclamation
• 📖 Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville // https://americanliterature.com/author/alexis-de-tocqueville/book/democracy-in-america/summary
• 📖 Common Sense – Thomas Paine // https://americainclass.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Common-Sense-Full-Text.pdf
• 📖 An Indigenous History of the United States – Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz // https://nycstandswithstandingrock.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/dunbar-ortiz-2014.pdf
• 📖 Huey Long – Share Our Wealth // https://www.hueylong.com/programs/share-our-wealth/huey-longs-share-our-wealth-speech
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• list of deaths at ICE concentration camps // https://www.aila.org/infonet/deaths-at-adult-detention-centers
• visualization of prison population in US // https://mkorostoff.github.io/incarceration-in-real-numbers/
• Organizing in Prison — for when the walls close in (RANT Collective) // https://www.organizingforpower.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Organizing-in-Jail.pdf
• database of U.S. facilities incl. ICE holding sites // https://alcpress.org/usjails/index.html
• list of prison related resources, mailing lists, etc // https://www.prisonactivist.org/resources
• ICE Agent List (incomplete) // https://wiki.icelist.is/index.php/Category:Agents
• US Political Prison Tracker (last updated 2025) // https://uspoliticalprisoners.com/
Jailhouse Reading:
• 📖 Angela Davis - Are Prisons Obsolete? // https://dn790007.ca.archive.org/0/items/the-anarchist-library-full-list-of-pdfs-nov-2020/angela-y-davis-are-prisons-obsolete.pdf
• 📖 How to Defend Yourself During Police Interrogation // https://www.notrace.how/resources/download/comment-la-police-interroge-et-comment-sen-defendre/how-to-defend-yourself-during-a-police-interrogation.pdf
• 📖 National Lawyers Guild guide to being a jailhouse lawyer // https://www.jailhouselaw.org/
• 📖 Critical Resistance - Surviving Solitary Confinement // https://criticalresistance.org/resources/surviving-solitary/
• 📖 An inside-outside publication for abolitionist struggle & strategy across prison walls // https://criticalresistance.org/abolitionist/
• 📖 Prisoners’ Self-Help Litigation Manual // https://api.pageplace.de/preview/DT0400.9780199705665_A35159258/preview-9780199705665_A35159258.pdf
⚒️ LABOR!
• Live strike tracker with deep stats on who, what and when // https://striketracker.ilr.cornell.edu/
• AFL-CIO [imperialist]'s Strike Tracker // https://aflcio.org/strike-map
• Labor Bureau's Official 'work stoppage' tracker // https://www.bls.gov/wsp/
• IWW timeline for the 20th century (ends at 1999) // https://archive.iww.org/history/chronology/
• IWW Work Place Organizing Guide // https://usa.anarchistlibraries.net/library/industrial-workers-of-the-world-libcom-org-solidarity-federation-walthamstow-anarchist-group-wo
• ▶ Salting | Work Place Organizing 101 (50 minute webinar) // https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SHlCLyM4FY
⚖️ Deeds of the Burger Reich 🇺🇸
• deep list of horrible shit we (royal we) have done // https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/us_atrocities.md
• Coups and regime changes – master list // https://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-peoples-governments-the-master-list
• Wikipedia: United States War Crimes // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_war_crimes
• /our boys/ (bring em home!) detail abusing Iraqi prisoners [2006] // https://www.hrw.org/report/2006/07/22/no-blood-no-foul/soldiers-accounts-detainee-abuse-iraq
• More than 250 military interventions in the last 30 years alone // https://blackagendareport.com/us-launched-251-military-interventions-1991-and-469-1798
• Visualization of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade // https://www.slavevoyages.org/
• UNESCO Sites relating to Slavery // https://slaveryandremembrance.org/
• First Hand Documents of the horrors of Slavery // https://www.loc.gov/collections/slave-narratives-from-the-federal-writers-project-1936-to-1938/
📺 Glowie News 📺
(sponsored by the Burger Eagle Freedom Institute (formerly USAID))
• CNN Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/cnn-news-usa.html
• MSNBC Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/msnbc.html
• FOX Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/fox-news-channel.html
• Bloomberg Live // https://www.bloomberg.com/live/us
• Burger House Live // https://www.whitehouse.gov/live/
• Local News // https://www.50states.com/ce/
• Weather // https://www.noaa.gov/weather
📺 Gommie News 📺
• Jacobin // https://jacobin.com/
• Black Agenda Report // https://blackagendareport.com/
• The Grayzone // https://thegrayzone.com/
• Leftvoice // https://www.leftvoice.org/
• Newsanon Filter // https://leftypol.org/search.php?search=name%3A%22News+Anon+3.0%22&board=leftypol
🏝️ Epstein's Client List 🇮🇱
• Epstein's Black Book // https://epsteinsblackbook.com/
• DOJ Disclosures // https://www.justice.gov/epstein/doj-disclosures
• Track AIPAC // https://www.trackaipac.com/
• Al Jazeera visual guide (2026) // https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/10/struggling-to-navigate-the-epstein-files-here-is-a-visual-guide
Essential American Politik 📖
• 📖 WEB Du Bois - Black Reconstruction // https://cominsitu.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/w-e-b-du-bois-black-reconstruction-an-essay-toward-a-history-of-the-part-which-black-folk-played-in-the-attempt-to-reconstruct-democracy-2.pdf
• 📖 Eugene Debs - Fourth of July Speech // https://jacobin.com/2020/07/eugene-debs-independence-day-address-fourth-july
• 📖 Power Anywhere There's People! – Fred Hampton // https://www.hamptonthink.org/read/power-anywhere-where-thats-people-fred-hampton
• 📖 War is a Racket – Smedley Butler // https://ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html
• 📖 Letters From an American Farmer – St. John de Crevoecoeur // https://americanliterature.com/author/j-hector-st-john-de-crevoecoeur/book/letters-from-an-american-farmer/summary
• 📖 Trail of Broken Treaties // American Indian Movement https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
• 📖 The Declaration of Independence https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
• https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
• 📖 The Ballot or the Bullet – Malcolm X // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/ballot_or_bullet.pdf
• 📖 What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? – Frederick Douglass // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/douglass_july_4_speech.pdf
• 📖 A Trail of Broken Treaties – American Indian Movement // https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
• 📖 Custer Died for Your Sins – Vine Deloria Jr. // http://www.riversimulator.org/Resources/Books/CusterDiedForYourSinsAnIndianManifesto1969Deloria.pdf
• 📖 Emancipation Proclamation – Lincoln // https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/emancipation-proclamation
• 📖 Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville // https://americanliterature.com/author/alexis-de-tocqueville/book/democracy-in-america/summary
• 📖 Common Sense – Thomas Paine // https://americainclass.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Common-Sense-Full-Text.pdf
• 📖 An Indigenous History of the United States – Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz // https://nycstandswithstandingrock.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/dunbar-ortiz-2014.pdf
• 📖 Huey Long – Share Our Wealth // https://www.hueylong.com/programs/share-our-wealth/huey-longs-share-our-wealth-speech
Which side are you on? - Pete Seeger
▶ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XKMwWZVpPE
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NO E-VIGNETTE SPYWARE
SOVEREIGN CITIZENS COP KILLERS UNITE
NO TAX STOP, NO E-VIGNETTES
BLOOD AND SOIL INTERNATIONAL
ROADS FOR TRAVEL
I WILL NOT PAY MORE THAN I ALREADY PAY TO TRAVEL
MILKOR MGL POLICE PATROL CARS GO TO HELL
DEATH TO TRAFFIC COPS
Fuck toll tax and vignettes
FREE TRAVEL EVERYWHERENO E-VIGNETTE SPYWARE
SOVEREIGN CITIZENS COP KILLERS UNITE
NO TAX STOP, NO E-VIGNETTES
BLOOD AND SOIL INTERNATIONAL
ROADS FOR TRAVEL
I WILL NOT PAY MORE THAN I ALREADY PAY TO TRAVEL
MILKOR MGL POLICE PATROL CARS GO TO HELL
DEATH TO TRAFFIC COPS
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He has become increasingly outspoken during the recent crisis over Peter Mandelson, and bluntly told the media this week that it had been wrong to name the now-disgraced New Labour grandee as ambassador to Washington. His stock has risen across much of the left, although some sections would still regard him with scepticism.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/miliband-mulling-starmer-challenge
Slovenia to air films about Palestine instead of Eurovision song contest
Slovenia’s premier, Robert Golob, who was re-elected in a tight election this March, has been a vocal critic of Israel’s war. In August 2025 his government announced a ban on the import of products from Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank as part of its response to “the Israeli government’s policy that undermines prospects for lasting peace”.
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/apr/23/slovenia-to-air-films-about-palestine-instead-of-eurovision-song-contest
Why France’s far right is dining with the country’s business elite
France’s far-right National Rally party president Jordan Bardella sat down for lunch Monday with the country’s leading employer federation, marking the latest step in a years-long campaign to woo business leaders in the lead-up to next year’s presidential election – and once again revealing the deep contradictions within the populist party's economic programme.
https://www.france24.com/en/france/20260421-why-france-far-right-dining-with-business-elite
https://archive.ph/jmd7t
Thousands of South Korean Samsung workers threaten strike action for higher pay
Holding signs and waving banners, the workers gathered at a factory compound amid a heavy police presence, shouting “Make compensation transparent and remove maximum limits on bonuses!” Union officials said about 40,000 members participated in the protest.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/thousands-south-korean-samsung-workers-threaten-strike-action-higher-pay
ICC rules that Philippine ex-President Duterte must stand trial for murder
The case will now be assigned to a trial chamber which will start planning for a trial. In previous cases, it has taken the ICC up to a year between the confirmation of charges and the opening of a trial. Prosecutors have said Duterte created, funded and armed death squads to target and kill suspected narcotics peddlers and users when he was in power between 2016 and 2022. He was arrested and taken to The Hague last March.
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/icc-confirms-trial-against-former-philippine-president-duterte-2026-04-23/
War with Pakistan halts school for Afghan border children
The Barikot school is one of 22 in need of urgent reconstruction in Afghanistan's northeastern Kunar province, according to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). About 12,000 students displaced or affected by the war need safe spaces to learn or catch up on classes in Afghanistan, OCHA said in a report this month. Along Barikot's high street, shops were shut, and some had been reduced to rubble.
https://www.newarab.com/news/war-pakistan-halts-school-afghan-border-children
Nepal’s home minister second cabinet member to exit in a month
NEPAL’S home minister resigned on Wednesday, saying there have been questions raised about his investments and other matters. Sudan Gurung, who took office on March 27, is the second cabinet member to exit in a month. Mr Shah dismissed his labour minister earlier this month after the RSP ruled Dipak Kumar Sah had misused “the dignity of his position” to get his wife appointed as a member of the board of directors of the country’s Health Insurance Board.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/nepals-home-minister-second-cabinet-member-exit-month
Palestinian boy, 14, among two killed in settler attack near West Bank school
The Palestinian health ministry said Aws al-Naasan, 14, and Jihad Abu Naim, 32, were killed in the attack on the village of al-Mughayyir, in which three others were wounded. The head of the local council told Reuters that Israeli settlers had entered the village and opened fire near a school – first at students, and later at others who arrived at the scene. Witnesses said settlers were later followed by Israeli soldiers.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/22/palestinian-boy-14-among-two-killed-in-settler-attack-west-bank-school
Palestinian March of Return reshaped by Israeli restrictions
Despite restrictions imposed by Israeli police, hundreds of Palestinians took part in local tours to their destroyed villages to commemorate the Nakba, or catastrophe, which refers to the ethnic cleansing of Palestine by Zionist militias to make way for the creation of Israel in May 1948. Through these events, Palestinians say they aim to reaffirm their identity amid what they describe as ongoing Israeli attempts to erase it.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/palestinian-march-return-reshaped-israeli-restrictions
US to ‘shoot and kill’ Iranian boats laying mines in Hormuz, Trump says
The Pentagon said on Thursday that the US military conducted a “maritime interdiction and right-of-visit” to a tanker carrying Iranian oil in the Indian Ocean. Earlier this week, the US military also said it seized an Iranian vessel and ordered dozens of others to turn around.
Meanwhile, Iran has also captured foreign commercial vessels around the Hormuz Strait, which it said were in violation of naval regulations.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/23/us-to-shoot-and-kill-iranian-boats-laying-mines-in-hormuz-trump-says
https://archive.ph/8uKGp
Colombia discovered plot to assassinate frontrunner in election race: Govt
In a post on social media platform X, Petro said that US intelligence agency CIA “has real and concrete information of a possible attack against” the coalition senator. “In Colombia, threats are being made everywhere, but information about actual plans must be neutralized in advance,” said the president. Petro’s comments surprised Defense Minister Pedro Sanchez, who initially said that none of the Defense Ministry’s intelligence agencies had been informed of the threat.
https://colombiareports.com/colombia-discovered-plot-to-assassinate-frontrunner-in-election-race-govt/
Bolivia runoff consolidates fragmentation: ruling party keeps two regions, opposition governs the rest
MAS ran under the Unidos por los Pueblos alliance and secured only the Cochabamba governorship. Bolivia also set a milestone: for the first time, two women were elected governors at the ballot box. In the first round, Gabriela de Paiva of the opposition Libre alliance won in the Amazonian region of Pando. On Sunday, María René Soruco of Camino Democrático para el Cambio (CDC) won the runoff in the southern department of Tarija.
https://en.mercopress.com/2026/04/20/bolivia-runoff-consolidates-fragmentation-ruling-party-keeps-two-regions-opposition-governs-the-rest
News 4/23/26
Miliband mulling Starmer challengeHe has become increasingly outspoken during the recent crisis over Peter Mandelson, and bluntly told the media this week that it had been wrong to name the now-disgraced New Labour grandee as ambassador to Washington. His stock has risen across much of the left, although some sections would still regard him with scepticism.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/miliband-mulling-starmer-challenge
Slovenia to air films about Palestine instead of Eurovision song contest
Slovenia’s premier, Robert Golob, who was re-elected in a tight election this March, has been a vocal critic of Israel’s war. In August 2025 his government announced a ban on the import of products from Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank as part of its response to “the Israeli government’s policy that undermines prospects for lasting peace”.
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/apr/23/slovenia-to-air-films-about-palestine-instead-of-eurovision-song-contest
Why France’s far right is dining with the country’s business elite
France’s far-right National Rally party president Jordan Bardella sat down for lunch Monday with the country’s leading employer federation, marking the latest step in a years-long campaign to woo business leaders in the lead-up to next year’s presidential election – and once again revealing the deep contradictions within the populist party's economic programme.
https://www.france24.com/en/france/20260421-why-france-far-right-dining-with-business-elite
https://archive.ph/jmd7t
Thousands of South Korean Samsung workers threaten strike action for higher pay
Holding signs and waving banners, the workers gathered at a factory compound amid a heavy police presence, shouting “Make compensation transparent and remove maximum limits on bonuses!” Union officials said about 40,000 members participated in the protest.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/thousands-south-korean-samsung-workers-threaten-strike-action-higher-pay
ICC rules that Philippine ex-President Duterte must stand trial for murder
The case will now be assigned to a trial chamber which will start planning for a trial. In previous cases, it has taken the ICC up to a year between the confirmation of charges and the opening of a trial. Prosecutors have said Duterte created, funded and armed death squads to target and kill suspected narcotics peddlers and users when he was in power between 2016 and 2022. He was arrested and taken to The Hague last March.
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/icc-confirms-trial-against-former-philippine-president-duterte-2026-04-23/
War with Pakistan halts school for Afghan border children
The Barikot school is one of 22 in need of urgent reconstruction in Afghanistan's northeastern Kunar province, according to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). About 12,000 students displaced or affected by the war need safe spaces to learn or catch up on classes in Afghanistan, OCHA said in a report this month. Along Barikot's high street, shops were shut, and some had been reduced to rubble.
https://www.newarab.com/news/war-pakistan-halts-school-afghan-border-children
Nepal’s home minister second cabinet member to exit in a month
NEPAL’S home minister resigned on Wednesday, saying there have been questions raised about his investments and other matters. Sudan Gurung, who took office on March 27, is the second cabinet member to exit in a month. Mr Shah dismissed his labour minister earlier this month after the RSP ruled Dipak Kumar Sah had misused “the dignity of his position” to get his wife appointed as a member of the board of directors of the country’s Health Insurance Board.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/nepals-home-minister-second-cabinet-member-exit-month
Palestinian boy, 14, among two killed in settler attack near West Bank school
The Palestinian health ministry said Aws al-Naasan, 14, and Jihad Abu Naim, 32, were killed in the attack on the village of al-Mughayyir, in which three others were wounded. The head of the local council told Reuters that Israeli settlers had entered the village and opened fire near a school – first at students, and later at others who arrived at the scene. Witnesses said settlers were later followed by Israeli soldiers.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/22/palestinian-boy-14-among-two-killed-in-settler-attack-west-bank-school
Palestinian March of Return reshaped by Israeli restrictions
Despite restrictions imposed by Israeli police, hundreds of Palestinians took part in local tours to their destroyed villages to commemorate the Nakba, or catastrophe, which refers to the ethnic cleansing of Palestine by Zionist militias to make way for the creation of Israel in May 1948. Through these events, Palestinians say they aim to reaffirm their identity amid what they describe as ongoing Israeli attempts to erase it.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/palestinian-march-return-reshaped-israeli-restrictions
US to ‘shoot and kill’ Iranian boats laying mines in Hormuz, Trump says
The Pentagon said on Thursday that the US military conducted a “maritime interdiction and right-of-visit” to a tanker carrying Iranian oil in the Indian Ocean. Earlier this week, the US military also said it seized an Iranian vessel and ordered dozens of others to turn around.
Meanwhile, Iran has also captured foreign commercial vessels around the Hormuz Strait, which it said were in violation of naval regulations.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/23/us-to-shoot-and-kill-iranian-boats-laying-mines-in-hormuz-trump-says
https://archive.ph/8uKGp
Colombia discovered plot to assassinate frontrunner in election race: Govt
In a post on social media platform X, Petro said that US intelligence agency CIA “has real and concrete information of a possible attack against” the coalition senator. “In Colombia, threats are being made everywhere, but information about actual plans must be neutralized in advance,” said the president. Petro’s comments surprised Defense Minister Pedro Sanchez, who initially said that none of the Defense Ministry’s intelligence agencies had been informed of the threat.
https://colombiareports.com/colombia-discovered-plot-to-assassinate-frontrunner-in-election-race-govt/
Bolivia runoff consolidates fragmentation: ruling party keeps two regions, opposition governs the rest
MAS ran under the Unidos por los Pueblos alliance and secured only the Cochabamba governorship. Bolivia also set a milestone: for the first time, two women were elected governors at the ballot box. In the first round, Gabriela de Paiva of the opposition Libre alliance won in the Amazonian region of Pando. On Sunday, María René Soruco of Camino Democrático para el Cambio (CDC) won the runoff in the southern department of Tarija.
https://en.mercopress.com/2026/04/20/bolivia-runoff-consolidates-fragmentation-ruling-party-keeps-two-regions-opposition-governs-the-rest
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Why are there so many right wing abdls ?
Is there a connection between Abdl and right wing politics or is it just a coincidence ? And any and all theories on why are welcomed here from the orthodox Marxism perspective to the Maoist third worldist perspective
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SOON
Without theoretical consciousness, without the need to express it in articulate language, but making their statement with their bodies and their actions, they cried out that there can be no civil and political equality as long as there is economic inequality, and that the way to end this inequality is not with laws, decrees, lectures and sermons, but by overthrowing by force the bases of a society divided into classes….
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why?
Why does it seem like most of the heavy handed police repression and operations in USA that use lethality have been against anarchists? like im talking mass raids in operations, mass arrest sweeps, targeted killings, why did they stop doing that with the more marxist groups like they did in the 80s back and suddenly just seem hyper focused on anarchist. like the cointrlpero of the usa government against them now seems way more harsh than on other lefty groups. anarchists back then basically got to fuck around in communes and get surveilled but not actively destroyed. now fast forward and it's like the opposite. after 9/11 you start seeing way more entrapment cases against anarchists than actual marxist groups, the green scare after was straight up hunting anarchists with cases facing decades, murders by cops, multi-jurisdiction tactical raids on the same day across multiple states, RICOS, and now trump signs a bill naming "anarchist jurisdictions" specifically as the highest lvls of "terror" but the dems been doing the same shit just quieter with biden's and obamas doj still prosecuting 2020 protestors n anarchist being killed by police under biden. meanwhile ml groups mostly just host panels at universities and don't get their doors kicked in at all, they dont have cops visibly come to show force to intimidate them at meetings even but they do all this for anarchist. like why did the state stop caring about leninists who actually wanna seize state power and start obsessing over black blocs who just wanna smash windows. what changed
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Personally, my biggest problem with marxism is dialectical and historical materialism. Marx himself didn't seem to care all that much after his Theses on Feuerbach but the concept, revived during the IInd International, now has an almost central place in any discussion about Marxism.
My biggest issue with it would be that it is overly general. Most philosophers and scientists already accept the idea that the world is in motion and perpetually changing. The idea that everything is in a situation of interdependence and that only the understanding of a concept in its overarching totality can bring about correct knowledge appears to be already mostly accepted. Positing these through "laws" as Engels puts it in his Anti-Duhring is imo simply creating meaningless and vacuous terms. Apart from making deontological conduct claims to how we should avoid making hagiographies and seek to have a global understanding of a phenomenon prior to assessing claims about it is almost tautological in regards to today's scientific approach and conduct.
I think a big issue as to why it became popular is simply that it's somewhat easy to understand compared to marxian economics, and that it avoids one having to make normative claims. It made sense in the early 20th century to point these out, as materialism was still a relatively "modern" paradigm, but nowadays it seems redundant.
Thoughts ?
What are some criticism of marxism that you have ?
Given that this site is primarily composed of marxists(-leninists), what are self-criticism that you have about Marx's works ?Personally, my biggest problem with marxism is dialectical and historical materialism. Marx himself didn't seem to care all that much after his Theses on Feuerbach but the concept, revived during the IInd International, now has an almost central place in any discussion about Marxism.
My biggest issue with it would be that it is overly general. Most philosophers and scientists already accept the idea that the world is in motion and perpetually changing. The idea that everything is in a situation of interdependence and that only the understanding of a concept in its overarching totality can bring about correct knowledge appears to be already mostly accepted. Positing these through "laws" as Engels puts it in his Anti-Duhring is imo simply creating meaningless and vacuous terms. Apart from making deontological conduct claims to how we should avoid making hagiographies and seek to have a global understanding of a phenomenon prior to assessing claims about it is almost tautological in regards to today's scientific approach and conduct.
I think a big issue as to why it became popular is simply that it's somewhat easy to understand compared to marxian economics, and that it avoids one having to make normative claims. It made sense in the early 20th century to point these out, as materialism was still a relatively "modern" paradigm, but nowadays it seems redundant.
Thoughts ?
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guys, i think i have seen the light
i think i might be becoming a commie
i think i finally get it.
My whole life i have been moving like a schizo, from ideology to ideology, left and right, but i think i might get it now
its not left vs right, its worker vs owner
its not changing minds, its changing material conditions
its not culture war, its class war
leftists play in symbolism, communists take action.
I have no idea what to do with this new found knowledge
guys, i think i have seen the light
i think i might be becoming a commie
i think i finally get it.
My whole life i have been moving like a schizo, from ideology to ideology, left and right, but i think i might get it now
its not left vs right, its worker vs owner
its not changing minds, its changing material conditions
its not culture war, its class war
leftists play in symbolism, communists take action.
I have no idea what to do with this new found knowledge
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https://www.biometricupdate.com/202604/vietnam-mandates-face-biometrics-for-mobile-device-registration
but thats ok, because its *checks notes* LE RED FLAG AND HAMMER AND SICKLE COUNTRY!!
https://www.biometricupdate.com/202604/vietnam-mandates-face-biometrics-for-mobile-device-registration
but thats ok, because its *checks notes* LE RED FLAG AND HAMMER AND SICKLE COUNTRY!!
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Instead of textbook studies determining what could be done, the determination is on test phase studies; in medicine, engineering, and the military.
Hence there is no testing phase, merely a live stage test; a learning facility.
Otherwise, the system would collapse; the poorly educated of the wealthy, unable to broker deals, deal with the poor; the information already proven in studies of industry and grammar, given to sabotage.
Otherwise, the incarceration of police and the death at own fear, of any colour or origin, having been promentory.
Therefore, the constant and permanent end to the economy.
Spotting the Ku Klux Klan
The Ku Klux Klan, the phobic unions of the Grand South, will consequentially work on the same logic.Instead of textbook studies determining what could be done, the determination is on test phase studies; in medicine, engineering, and the military.
Hence there is no testing phase, merely a live stage test; a learning facility.
Otherwise, the system would collapse; the poorly educated of the wealthy, unable to broker deals, deal with the poor; the information already proven in studies of industry and grammar, given to sabotage.
Otherwise, the incarceration of police and the death at own fear, of any colour or origin, having been promentory.
Therefore, the constant and permanent end to the economy.
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the dying spooks
why are so many scientists with weird glowie connections getting whacked ? is it aliens? is it some government protocol to tackle potential braindrain/leaks or is it some other more mundane bullshit?
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RT interviews Communist Party of America on the food crisis on USS Abraham LinKKKoln: https://rumble.com/v78ps0s-is-there-food-shortage-on-american-warships-near-iran.html
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https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/centerx:52.7/centery:26.8/zoom:7
https://www.defconlevel.com/
https://oilprice.com/
https://www.pizzint.watch/
https://eam.watch/
https://www.gmcmap.com/index.asp
https://firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/map/#d:24hrs;@54.2,31.0,7.1z
https://globe.adsbexchange.com/
>Useful Channels:
https://www.youtube.com/@TheDuran
https://www.youtube.com/@AlexMercouris
https://www.youtube.com/@AlexChristoforou
https://www.youtube.com/@dialogueworks01
https://www.youtube.com/@DanielDavisDeepDive
https://www.youtube.com/@DannyHaiphongYT
https://www.youtube.com/@justinpodur
https://www.youtube.com/@IndiaGlobalLeft
https://www.youtube.com/@RichardMedhurst
https://www.youtube.com/@GDFofficial
https://www.youtube.com/@neutralitystudies
https://www.youtube.com/@prop_co
https://www.youtube.com/@CyrusJanssen
https://www.youtube.com/@breakingpoints
https://www.youtube.com/@militarysummary
https://www.youtube.com/@TheNewAtlas
https://www.youtube.com/@willyOAM
https://www.youtube.com/@GDiesen1
https://www.youtube.com/@theeastisapodcast
https://www.youtube.com/@GeopoliticalEconomyReport
https://www.youtube.com/@TheElectronicIntifada
>Useful Xitters
https://xcancel.com/IranObserver0
https://xcancel.com/araghchi
https://xcancel.com/conflict_radar
https://xcancel.com/TheCradleMedia
https://xcancel.com/AliAbunimah
https://xcancel.com/BrianJBerletic
https://xcancel.com/angeloinchina
https://xcancel.com/jonelmer
https://xcancel.com/MarkAmesExiled
https://xcancel.com/UrOrientalist
https://xcancel.com/MaxBlumenthal
https://xcancel.com/dreizinreport/
>Useful TG:
https://t.me/s/wfwitness
https://t.me/s/Middle_East_Spectator
https://t.me/s/enemywatch
>Useful Blogs/Podcasts/News:
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/
https://simplicius76.substack.com/
https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/
https://sonar21.com/
https://www.moonofalabama.org/
https://thegrayzone.com/
https://www.middleeasteye.net/live/live-us-and-israel-attack-iran
https://www.podbean.com/podcast-detail/t687i-9b79d/War-Nerd-Radio-%E2%80%94-Subscriber-Feed-Podcast
/iran/ war thread #60
>Flat grey & long black editionRT interviews Communist Party of America on the food crisis on USS Abraham LinKKKoln: https://rumble.com/v78ps0s-is-there-food-shortage-on-american-warships-near-iran.html
>Previous Bake
>>2784131
>Important Links:
https://www.flightradar24.com/
https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/centerx:52.7/centery:26.8/zoom:7
https://www.defconlevel.com/
https://oilprice.com/
https://www.pizzint.watch/
https://eam.watch/
https://www.gmcmap.com/index.asp
https://firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/map/#d:24hrs;@54.2,31.0,7.1z
https://globe.adsbexchange.com/
>Useful Channels:
https://www.youtube.com/@TheDuran
https://www.youtube.com/@AlexMercouris
https://www.youtube.com/@AlexChristoforou
https://www.youtube.com/@dialogueworks01
https://www.youtube.com/@DanielDavisDeepDive
https://www.youtube.com/@DannyHaiphongYT
https://www.youtube.com/@justinpodur
https://www.youtube.com/@IndiaGlobalLeft
https://www.youtube.com/@RichardMedhurst
https://www.youtube.com/@GDFofficial
https://www.youtube.com/@neutralitystudies
https://www.youtube.com/@prop_co
https://www.youtube.com/@CyrusJanssen
https://www.youtube.com/@breakingpoints
https://www.youtube.com/@militarysummary
https://www.youtube.com/@TheNewAtlas
https://www.youtube.com/@willyOAM
https://www.youtube.com/@GDiesen1
https://www.youtube.com/@theeastisapodcast
https://www.youtube.com/@GeopoliticalEconomyReport
https://www.youtube.com/@TheElectronicIntifada
>Useful Xitters
https://xcancel.com/IranObserver0
https://xcancel.com/araghchi
https://xcancel.com/conflict_radar
https://xcancel.com/TheCradleMedia
https://xcancel.com/AliAbunimah
https://xcancel.com/BrianJBerletic
https://xcancel.com/angeloinchina
https://xcancel.com/jonelmer
https://xcancel.com/MarkAmesExiled
https://xcancel.com/UrOrientalist
https://xcancel.com/MaxBlumenthal
https://xcancel.com/dreizinreport/
>Useful TG:
https://t.me/s/wfwitness
https://t.me/s/Middle_East_Spectator
https://t.me/s/enemywatch
>Useful Blogs/Podcasts/News:
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/
https://simplicius76.substack.com/
https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/
https://sonar21.com/
https://www.moonofalabama.org/
https://thegrayzone.com/
https://www.middleeasteye.net/live/live-us-and-israel-attack-iran
https://www.podbean.com/podcast-detail/t687i-9b79d/War-Nerd-Radio-%E2%80%94-Subscriber-Feed-Podcast
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in particular, this thread >>>/lgbt/3094 links even more damning evidence that the astroturfing of far-right politics has been intentionally perpetrated as a psyop to ensure that the Molochian demons in power have access to as many children to rape as possible. pedocon theory is not a meme at this point or even merely an own on the hypocrisy of the far-right; it arguably is a significant factor behind the existence of the far-right today.
https://dump.li/a/29c72d#x
https://archive.org/details/dark-web-playground-child-abuse-forum-leak-censored-posted-endchan-03.18.2025
while it's bordering on LARP to act like anything serious happens on this site, broadly speaking "the left" and especially leftists familiar with imageboard culture & history should be investigating and agitating more specifically on this matter. the purpose of this thread is to consolidate information on this and to crowdsource more investigative work in the Epstein files specifically on the issue of astroturfing the creation of the alt-right. if you are involved in any real life organizing of any kind you should be spreading this information far and wide for agitprop purposes.
the masses needs to know that there is no civil debate to be had with the right, nor is there even any particularly sophisticated leap in theory and critique one needs to make; the far-right is simply ontologically evil and we should be agitating on them all being controlled by human traffickers as hard as possible.
Epstein & The Alt-Right as a Psyop
the most recent Epstein file drop potentially implicating the creation of /pol/ with moot meeting with Epstein feels like it needs to have its own thread. it's pretty much an accepted fact at this point that Epstein played a key role in what seems to be a massive secret human trafficking ring that exists as a form of Mutually Assured Destruction to for the elites to maintain power, but what is currently a lesser-known and recent revelation is that circumstantial evidence indicating that the entire formation of the far-right was an astroturfing psyop by pedophile billionaires and the intelligence community.in particular, this thread >>>/lgbt/3094 links even more damning evidence that the astroturfing of far-right politics has been intentionally perpetrated as a psyop to ensure that the Molochian demons in power have access to as many children to rape as possible. pedocon theory is not a meme at this point or even merely an own on the hypocrisy of the far-right; it arguably is a significant factor behind the existence of the far-right today.
https://dump.li/a/29c72d#x
https://archive.org/details/dark-web-playground-child-abuse-forum-leak-censored-posted-endchan-03.18.2025
while it's bordering on LARP to act like anything serious happens on this site, broadly speaking "the left" and especially leftists familiar with imageboard culture & history should be investigating and agitating more specifically on this matter. the purpose of this thread is to consolidate information on this and to crowdsource more investigative work in the Epstein files specifically on the issue of astroturfing the creation of the alt-right. if you are involved in any real life organizing of any kind you should be spreading this information far and wide for agitprop purposes.
the masses needs to know that there is no civil debate to be had with the right, nor is there even any particularly sophisticated leap in theory and critique one needs to make; the far-right is simply ontologically evil and we should be agitating on them all being controlled by human traffickers as hard as possible.
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What does /leftypol/ think of cynical realism? It seems to be an artistic movement in China, and many of the name associated with it live there (in the mainland), but when I asked deepseek about it, it's censorship got triggered and it refuses to give me more information about it.
What does /leftypol/ think of cynical realism? It seems to be an artistic movement in China, and many of the name associated with it live there (in the mainland), but when I asked deepseek about it, it's censorship got triggered and it refuses to give me more information about it.
R: 5 / I: 0
29th Farkha Festival in Palestine 2026 –
Fighting against Genocide and Apartheid
Summer 2026 in Farkha/ West Bank, Palestine
March 13, 2026
Dear Comrades and Friends,
the Festival Committee, the Youth of the Palestinian People Party (former Palestinian Communist Party), and Albad Cultural Center have decided that despite, or rather because of, the ongoing genocide and ethnic cleansing of Palestine, a Farkha Festival will take place this year. Because resistance means life.
We invite you to participate in one week of volunteer work, political discussions and workshops about the Palestinian struggles towards liberation and justice and the right of self determination, struggles of Palestinian women, left perspectives and cultural activities in the village of Farkha in Palestine.
The 29th edition of the Farkha Festival will be held in August 2026. Before the festival starts we will organize a three day long political tour to places and regions of resistance in Palestine to learn more about concrete local struggles directly from political activists and organizations on the ground, in order to know more how to continue the internationalist struggle.
Farkha Festival is rooted in and inspired by the work of the communist leader Tawfeeq Zayyad, a national poet and politician who was elected mayor of Nazareth in 1973. Tawfeeq played a key role in pressuring the occupation government to end its repression towards Palestinians – those who remained in their homes after the Nakba „1948 war„ and now live inside Israel. Because Tawfeeq tried to bring about change from within, he was constantly threatened by the occupying forces, his projects for the community of Nazareth were rejected, and his funding was significantly cut. Nevertheless, he managed to gather thousands of people every year to organize volunteer festivals in Nazareth and, with the help of the volunteers’ labor, to implement the Nazareth municipality’s plans without much state funding.
After having taken part in volunteer festivals in Nazareth, comrades brought the idea back home to Farkha. The Farkha Festival, has since focused on the collective works in the village, in renovating the main school, kinder gardens, and the public spaces, also trying to protect the lands threatened from confiscation, and a joint work in the ecological community garden project “Qamr Al-Balad” and has set itself the goal of linking precisely political struggles for liberation in Palestine with other local and international struggles, as well as with issues of environmental and climate justice. This includes the promotion of sustainable ecological agriculture, the cultivation of native plants and the passing on of this knowledge to the next generation, as well as the political debate on women’s rights, gender relations and decolonial struggles. With this spirit and tradition of resistance we want to invite you to join our resistance to dismantle the Israeli regime of genocide and settler colonialism in Palestine.
Farkha Festival has always been a place of international solidarity with the struggling Palestinian people, but also with struggles around the world – whether in occupied Kurdistan, occupied Western Sahara, the Basque country or elsewhere.
We are looking forward to welcome you!
More Info: https://kerem-schamberger.de/2026/03/13/invitation-29th-farkha-festival-in-palestine-2026/
(NOTE I do NOT work for the festival, just carrying its message)
FARKHA INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL, PALESTINE
Invitation to29th Farkha Festival in Palestine 2026 –
Fighting against Genocide and Apartheid
Summer 2026 in Farkha/ West Bank, Palestine
March 13, 2026
Dear Comrades and Friends,
the Festival Committee, the Youth of the Palestinian People Party (former Palestinian Communist Party), and Albad Cultural Center have decided that despite, or rather because of, the ongoing genocide and ethnic cleansing of Palestine, a Farkha Festival will take place this year. Because resistance means life.
We invite you to participate in one week of volunteer work, political discussions and workshops about the Palestinian struggles towards liberation and justice and the right of self determination, struggles of Palestinian women, left perspectives and cultural activities in the village of Farkha in Palestine.
The 29th edition of the Farkha Festival will be held in August 2026. Before the festival starts we will organize a three day long political tour to places and regions of resistance in Palestine to learn more about concrete local struggles directly from political activists and organizations on the ground, in order to know more how to continue the internationalist struggle.
Farkha Festival is rooted in and inspired by the work of the communist leader Tawfeeq Zayyad, a national poet and politician who was elected mayor of Nazareth in 1973. Tawfeeq played a key role in pressuring the occupation government to end its repression towards Palestinians – those who remained in their homes after the Nakba „1948 war„ and now live inside Israel. Because Tawfeeq tried to bring about change from within, he was constantly threatened by the occupying forces, his projects for the community of Nazareth were rejected, and his funding was significantly cut. Nevertheless, he managed to gather thousands of people every year to organize volunteer festivals in Nazareth and, with the help of the volunteers’ labor, to implement the Nazareth municipality’s plans without much state funding.
After having taken part in volunteer festivals in Nazareth, comrades brought the idea back home to Farkha. The Farkha Festival, has since focused on the collective works in the village, in renovating the main school, kinder gardens, and the public spaces, also trying to protect the lands threatened from confiscation, and a joint work in the ecological community garden project “Qamr Al-Balad” and has set itself the goal of linking precisely political struggles for liberation in Palestine with other local and international struggles, as well as with issues of environmental and climate justice. This includes the promotion of sustainable ecological agriculture, the cultivation of native plants and the passing on of this knowledge to the next generation, as well as the political debate on women’s rights, gender relations and decolonial struggles. With this spirit and tradition of resistance we want to invite you to join our resistance to dismantle the Israeli regime of genocide and settler colonialism in Palestine.
Farkha Festival has always been a place of international solidarity with the struggling Palestinian people, but also with struggles around the world – whether in occupied Kurdistan, occupied Western Sahara, the Basque country or elsewhere.
We are looking forward to welcome you!
More Info: https://kerem-schamberger.de/2026/03/13/invitation-29th-farkha-festival-in-palestine-2026/
(NOTE I do NOT work for the festival, just carrying its message)
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A 15 year old schoolgirl killed 2 people, wounding 6 more in a mass shooting at a Christian School in Madison, Wisconsin who was inspired by Anton Lundin-Pettersson, Arda "Skreewie" Küçükyetim, Eric Harris & Dylan Klebold, and so on. Has /pol/ gone too far? It's rumored she was a feminist and member of 764.
A 15 year old schoolgirl killed 2 people, wounding 6 more in a mass shooting at a Christian School in Madison, Wisconsin who was inspired by Anton Lundin-Pettersson, Arda "Skreewie" Küçükyetim, Eric Harris & Dylan Klebold, and so on. Has /pol/ gone too far? It's rumored she was a feminist and member of 764.
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How do i stop being a pussy
I am 18 but will move out in september to a mid sized city
I know how to work out because i used too but am very skinny with extremely minor cerebal palsy and dyspraxia basicallt just meaning i have below average reaction time, muscle memory and balance my man problem is my hips are slightly fucked up meaning my knees go inwards slightly so i am shit at running and i am very sheltered never been in a fight or anything but i want to be able too fight if i have too
How do i stop being a pussy
I am 18 but will move out in september to a mid sized city
I know how to work out because i used too but am very skinny with extremely minor cerebal palsy and dyspraxia basicallt just meaning i have below average reaction time, muscle memory and balance my man problem is my hips are slightly fucked up meaning my knees go inwards slightly so i am shit at running and i am very sheltered never been in a fight or anything but i want to be able too fight if i have too
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The overall American left has been stuck when it comes to effective anti-war activism. The way the US does war nowadays isn’t Vietnam but El Salvador: instead of sending in a bajillion troops to invade/occupy the US just funds proxy armies and now uses drone/aerial warfare. That’s what Obama did in Syria last decade, for instance.
The anti-war music we’re all used to was very much a product of the 60s New Left, and there was no 60s New Left without the Civil Rights Movement and Vietnam War. The youth were afraid of being drafted into a bullshit war that the U.S. couldn’t win. But we don’t see mass boots on the ground today, and because of that, we don’t see a mass response to war in the cultural realm. In order for Billie Eilish to be “John Lennon”, Iran needs to be Vietnam (Gd forbid). In order for Kehlani to make a “What’s Going On?” or a “Someday We’ll All Be Free” Iran needs to be Vietnam. The war needs to conform to a method of warfare that the left knows how to effectively oppose. It’s morbid and disgusting but that’s sadly the case.
And assuming the “woke” pop stars make music in response to this conflict, what will it contain? It won’t be universalist anti-war or anti-imperialist anthems but centre entirely on “I hate Trump, this war is about Epstein, AIPAC bad”. Will be highly dated in three years once Trump and his goons leave office.
The Real Reason We Don’t See Protest Music Anymore
The question of why Trump’s Iran war hasn’t sparked a wave of anti-war protest music is actually very simple.The overall American left has been stuck when it comes to effective anti-war activism. The way the US does war nowadays isn’t Vietnam but El Salvador: instead of sending in a bajillion troops to invade/occupy the US just funds proxy armies and now uses drone/aerial warfare. That’s what Obama did in Syria last decade, for instance.
The anti-war music we’re all used to was very much a product of the 60s New Left, and there was no 60s New Left without the Civil Rights Movement and Vietnam War. The youth were afraid of being drafted into a bullshit war that the U.S. couldn’t win. But we don’t see mass boots on the ground today, and because of that, we don’t see a mass response to war in the cultural realm. In order for Billie Eilish to be “John Lennon”, Iran needs to be Vietnam (Gd forbid). In order for Kehlani to make a “What’s Going On?” or a “Someday We’ll All Be Free” Iran needs to be Vietnam. The war needs to conform to a method of warfare that the left knows how to effectively oppose. It’s morbid and disgusting but that’s sadly the case.
And assuming the “woke” pop stars make music in response to this conflict, what will it contain? It won’t be universalist anti-war or anti-imperialist anthems but centre entirely on “I hate Trump, this war is about Epstein, AIPAC bad”. Will be highly dated in three years once Trump and his goons leave office.
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Interested in what y'alls various takes are.
Pasolini
Were the fashies triggered by him depicting them accurately in Salo, therefore they went out of their way to prove him right by abducting, torturing, and murdering him? Or was he just a libtard bourgeois film maker making exploitative torture porn and got killed completely randomly?Interested in what y'alls various takes are.
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post simple images that utterly blow the fuck out of liberals and fascists.
I know trading theory is important and all, but sometimes I just want to show a retard total proof in a single image
post simple images that utterly blow the fuck out of liberals and fascists.
I know trading theory is important and all, but sometimes I just want to show a retard total proof in a single image
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On Sunday, an estimated 36,000 people squeezed on to narrow paths in front of the National Diet – Japan’s parliament – to call for an immediate end to the Iran war and to keep the country’s “pacifist” constitution intact. The event was the latest in a wave of protests that are attracting people in greater numbers each time. An estimated 3,600 people demonstrated in late February, swelling to 24,000 by late March, culminating in this weekend’s huge turnout.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/22/japan-youth-pacifist-constitution-trump-iran
The head of Myanmar’s army-backed government proposes new peace talks with armed resistance groups
Nay Phone Latt, a spokesperson for the National Unity Government, the main group coordinating opposition to military rule, said Tuesday that it and the People’s Defense Force units under its command would continue to fight alongside other resistance forces until their goals are achieved. “We all already understood that the military’s fake invitations are aimed at prolonging people’s subjugation under military rule,” Nay Phone Latt said.
https://apnews.com/article/myanmar-ethnic-armed-groups-peoples-defense-force-peace-ceasefire-db8959bd9d90158b6b3e1b8e56a82f7f
Pakistan delivers weapons to Libya's Haftar as part of Saudi-financed deal, sources say
A second official confirmed that the shipments from Pakistan had taken place, but did not say what type of arms were provided. Reuters first reported that Haftar’s eastern-based government had sealed a $4bn arms deal with Pakistan - the country’s largest - following a trip in December to Benghazi by Pakistan's army chief, Field Marshal Asim Munir. The delivery of Pakistani arms to Libya has not been previously reported, but comes against the backdrop of rising skepticism about the fate of other Pakistani arms deals in Africa.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/pakistan-delivers-weapons-libya-khalifa-haftar-sources-say
Cuba confirms talks with US in effort to lift illegal fuel blockade
THE Cuban government confirmed that it held talks in Havana recently with US officials over ending Washington’s illegal energy blockade of the Caribbean nation. Deputy director in charge of US affairs Alejandro Garcia del Toro, revealed that the US delegation included assistant secretaries of state while the Cuban delegation consisted of representatives at the level of deputy foreign minister.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/cuba-confirms-talks-us-effort-lift-illegal-fuel-blockade
Argentine State Workers Launch Strike Against Milei
The day of protest included blockades at the airports of Bariloche and El Calafate, as well as a demonstration outside Aeroparque Jorge Newbery in Buenos Aires. Workers are demanding the immediate reopening of wage negotiations following a loss of more than 44 percent of purchasing power during the Milei administration, ATE Secretary Rodolfo Aguiar said.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/argentine-state-workers-launch-strike-against-milei/
Two US officials who died after Mexico drug raid reported to be CIA agents
Mexico has launched an investigation into a possible breach of its constitution as it was reported that two US embassy officials who died in a car accident while returning from a raid on a drug lab with local officials in the border state of Chihuahua were CIA operatives.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/21/mexico-drug-raid-cia-agents-embassy-investigation
Israeli soldiers, settlers using sexual violence to forcibly displace Palestinians, report finds
The report documents at least 16 cases of conflict‑related sexual violence and draws on 83 in‑depth interviews across 10 communities in the Jordan Valley, South Hebron Hills and central West Bank – all of which have experienced partial or full displacement, or face an immediate risk of being forced out.
https://www.newarab.com/news/israeli-soldiers-use-sexual-violence-forcible-displacement
Revenge-driven practices | Syrian authorities seize home of opposition civilian in Latakia
The civilian said that the seizure was revenge-driven, stressing that he received a message that read “this is the cost of what you did to us.” He said that the group took control of the house and transferred its ownership to another person, citing religious and sectarian grounds.
https://www.syriahr.com/en/381325/
US announces ceasefire extension with Iran
Backing down from threats of new violence earlier in the day, Trump said in a statement he had agreed to a request by Pakistan, which has mediated peace talks in the seven-week-old war, "to hold our Attack on the Country of Iran until such time as their leaders and representatives can come up with a unified proposal."
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/us-positive-iran-deal-talks-still-uncertain-ceasefire-end-nears-2026-04-21/
Government announces plans to break soaring gas price links on energy bills
Chancellor Rachel Reeves will hike the government’s windfall tax on low-carbon electricity generators from 45 per cent to 55 per cent to raise funds that will be used to support consumers in the short term. The so-called electricity generator levy was introduced in 2022 to target excess profits from nuclear, biomass and renewable energy projects built before 2017.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/government-announces-plans-break-soaring-gas-price-links-energy-bills
News 4/21/26
‘Stop sucking up to America’: Japan’s youth rises up to protect pacifist constitutionOn Sunday, an estimated 36,000 people squeezed on to narrow paths in front of the National Diet – Japan’s parliament – to call for an immediate end to the Iran war and to keep the country’s “pacifist” constitution intact. The event was the latest in a wave of protests that are attracting people in greater numbers each time. An estimated 3,600 people demonstrated in late February, swelling to 24,000 by late March, culminating in this weekend’s huge turnout.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/22/japan-youth-pacifist-constitution-trump-iran
The head of Myanmar’s army-backed government proposes new peace talks with armed resistance groups
Nay Phone Latt, a spokesperson for the National Unity Government, the main group coordinating opposition to military rule, said Tuesday that it and the People’s Defense Force units under its command would continue to fight alongside other resistance forces until their goals are achieved. “We all already understood that the military’s fake invitations are aimed at prolonging people’s subjugation under military rule,” Nay Phone Latt said.
https://apnews.com/article/myanmar-ethnic-armed-groups-peoples-defense-force-peace-ceasefire-db8959bd9d90158b6b3e1b8e56a82f7f
Pakistan delivers weapons to Libya's Haftar as part of Saudi-financed deal, sources say
A second official confirmed that the shipments from Pakistan had taken place, but did not say what type of arms were provided. Reuters first reported that Haftar’s eastern-based government had sealed a $4bn arms deal with Pakistan - the country’s largest - following a trip in December to Benghazi by Pakistan's army chief, Field Marshal Asim Munir. The delivery of Pakistani arms to Libya has not been previously reported, but comes against the backdrop of rising skepticism about the fate of other Pakistani arms deals in Africa.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/pakistan-delivers-weapons-libya-khalifa-haftar-sources-say
Cuba confirms talks with US in effort to lift illegal fuel blockade
THE Cuban government confirmed that it held talks in Havana recently with US officials over ending Washington’s illegal energy blockade of the Caribbean nation. Deputy director in charge of US affairs Alejandro Garcia del Toro, revealed that the US delegation included assistant secretaries of state while the Cuban delegation consisted of representatives at the level of deputy foreign minister.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/cuba-confirms-talks-us-effort-lift-illegal-fuel-blockade
Argentine State Workers Launch Strike Against Milei
The day of protest included blockades at the airports of Bariloche and El Calafate, as well as a demonstration outside Aeroparque Jorge Newbery in Buenos Aires. Workers are demanding the immediate reopening of wage negotiations following a loss of more than 44 percent of purchasing power during the Milei administration, ATE Secretary Rodolfo Aguiar said.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/argentine-state-workers-launch-strike-against-milei/
Two US officials who died after Mexico drug raid reported to be CIA agents
Mexico has launched an investigation into a possible breach of its constitution as it was reported that two US embassy officials who died in a car accident while returning from a raid on a drug lab with local officials in the border state of Chihuahua were CIA operatives.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/21/mexico-drug-raid-cia-agents-embassy-investigation
Israeli soldiers, settlers using sexual violence to forcibly displace Palestinians, report finds
The report documents at least 16 cases of conflict‑related sexual violence and draws on 83 in‑depth interviews across 10 communities in the Jordan Valley, South Hebron Hills and central West Bank – all of which have experienced partial or full displacement, or face an immediate risk of being forced out.
https://www.newarab.com/news/israeli-soldiers-use-sexual-violence-forcible-displacement
Revenge-driven practices | Syrian authorities seize home of opposition civilian in Latakia
The civilian said that the seizure was revenge-driven, stressing that he received a message that read “this is the cost of what you did to us.” He said that the group took control of the house and transferred its ownership to another person, citing religious and sectarian grounds.
https://www.syriahr.com/en/381325/
US announces ceasefire extension with Iran
Backing down from threats of new violence earlier in the day, Trump said in a statement he had agreed to a request by Pakistan, which has mediated peace talks in the seven-week-old war, "to hold our Attack on the Country of Iran until such time as their leaders and representatives can come up with a unified proposal."
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/us-positive-iran-deal-talks-still-uncertain-ceasefire-end-nears-2026-04-21/
Government announces plans to break soaring gas price links on energy bills
Chancellor Rachel Reeves will hike the government’s windfall tax on low-carbon electricity generators from 45 per cent to 55 per cent to raise funds that will be used to support consumers in the short term. The so-called electricity generator levy was introduced in 2022 to target excess profits from nuclear, biomass and renewable energy projects built before 2017.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/government-announces-plans-break-soaring-gas-price-links-energy-bills
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In fact, they've supported a bunch of regimes that have crushed or have intended to crush communist insurgencies.
Can you imagine a militant Japan or a starving Cuba if the Soviets existed today?
The PLA is all bark no bite
The PRC hasn't been keen on defending even their own interests, let alone supporting communist movements or even the Global South.In fact, they've supported a bunch of regimes that have crushed or have intended to crush communist insurgencies.
Can you imagine a militant Japan or a starving Cuba if the Soviets existed today?
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On October 7, 2023 Hamas killed 1,200 Israelis in a low-tech invasion of Israel after the 2018-19 Gaza border protests where Israel used live ammunition on protesters, killing 223 protesters (including 46 children), and injured 9,204 others (source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018–2019_Gaza_border_protests), then that lead to the clashes in 2019 where Palestinian rockets killed 4 people inside Israel (source: https://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-05/06/c_138036325_13.htm). Prior, from 2008-2018 after the security checkpoints were set up in Gaza and the border wall with the West Bank following the Second Intifada, until 10 years later, only 30 were killed by rocket fire(source: https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/258177344/#q258177344). This lead to the 2021 Israel-Palestine crisis where 14 Israelis were killed, 114 wounded, 1 soldier killed, 3 wounded, 1 aerial drone was destroyed in friendly fire, 2 Jewish Israelis were killed in Lod & Acre riots, and 2 soldiers wounded, 6 border police injured in the West Bank (source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Israel–Palestine_crisis). A further 400 IDF killed in the Gaza War, 2,000 injured as of October 2025, which has turned into the fourth deadliest war fought by Israel on the Israel side, right behind the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, the 1973 Yom Kippur War and the 1967-70 war of attrition. (source: https://costsofwar.watson.brown.edu/sites/default/files/2025-10/Human-Toll-in-Gaza_Costs-of-War_Crawford_7-October-2025.pdf).
Tens of thousands of Gazans were killed in Operation Swords of Iron War, hundreds of thousands more maimed, and millions more displaced. Hamas used to number in the tens of thousands, but now it's believed to only be in the hundreds, with their new leader being Izz al-Din al-Haddad in the Gaza City division. Israel is demanding what's left of Hamas to disarm, but they refuse, because it could spark a civil war with all the armed gangs that Israel controls in the region, like Yasser Abu Shabab's Popular Forces, who already control the food supply in Gaza City.
In Operation Eternal Darkness and the 2026 Lebanon War, Israel lost 16 soldiers and suffered 411 injuries (source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Lebanon_war). In the 2026 Iran war, America lost 15 soldiers killed, 538 military personnel wounded and at least 17 US sites in the Middle East damaged. Israel had 16 soldiers killed, 27 civilians killed, 7,834 injured, 690 military personnel wounded and $11.52 billion in economic damage. The United States had at least 12 radar systems and satellite terminals destroyed or damaged, multiple AN/TPY-2s destroyed or damaged, 1 THAAD radar destroyed or seriously damaged, 1 AN/FPS-132, 1 AN/TPS-59, 1 AN/FPS-117, 1 AN/MPQ-64 destroyed, and 1 MIM-104 Patriot AN/MPQ-65 radar and 1 AN/TPS-75 damaged (source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Iran_war).
In the 12 day war, Israel saw 32 civilians and 1 off-duty soldier killed, 3,238 wounded, 2 Hermes drones shot down, 61+ UAVs and cruise missiles destroyed, 10,000+ drones seized, 700+ Mossad agents arrested and 5 Mossad agents executed. In the 2025-26 Iranian protests, 7,015–36,500+ protesters were killed, 330,000–360,000 maimed and 53,552 were arrested. In 2023 after the October 7 attacks, the Houthis attacked the Galaxy leader, taking 25 hostages, some of whom were injured. In 2024, two US Navy SEALs drowned in the Arabian Sea, off the coast of Somalia (Christopher Chambers and Nathan Gage Ingram) while trying to seize Iranian supplies going to the Houthis. In 2024, 3 US soldiers were killed in a Houthi drone strike in Jordan.
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hijacking_of_the_Galaxy_Leader
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025–2026_Iranian_protests
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/navy-s...gon-probe-christopher-chambers-nathan-ingram/
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Iranian_dhow_seizure
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelve-Day_War
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_22_drone_attack
Then you had the 2023-24 Red Sea crisis (which reignited during the 2026 Iran War) where the Israeli Port of Eilat entered bankruptcy and shut down, plus disruption of international maritime trade and supply chain, 3 US soldiers were also injured in friendly fire incidents/accidents when their fighter jets got shot down, 3 F/A-18 Super Hornets were lost, At least 15 MQ-9 Reapers lost, 9 sailors killed and 11 injured, 2 Israeli civilians killed and 248 injured, 1 WFP worker killed and 1 UN worker injured, and 17 US/UAE/Saudi/Israeli Mossad foreign intelligence agents were arrested and executed by the Houthi government via firing squad.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Sea_crisis
https://wcys.org/a-houthi-run-court-sentences-17-people-to-death-on-charges-of-spying-for-hostile-states-including-a-former-military-intelligence-director/
"Israel has never lost a war"
Israel has killed Catholic priests, destroyed statues of Jesus Christ in a Maronite Christian village in Southern Lebanon, there was one video originating from the West Bank of a boy no older than 5 or 6 years old where an IDF soldier unzips his pants and sticks the boy's head near his crotch, a strike killed father Pierre Al Rahi, in November 2024, Israeli soldiers from the Golani Brigade desecrated the St. Mema church in the Christian village of Deir Mimas, southern Lebanon (soldiers staged a mock wedding ceremony, danced, and simulated sex acts inside the church), Armenian Christians in Israel are attacked by Jewish extremists, Armenian Christians in Lebanon are teaming up with Hezbollah to fight Israel in Lebanon, and even though Iran is an Islamic country, they are allied with Orthodox Armenia who Israel genocided through their support of Azerbaijan in the Nagorno-Karabakh War. There was one church in Lebanon that was destroyed by Israel in 2024. In 2025, Israel desecrated a church in Sarada in Lebanon. 10 Americans were killed in the West Bank by Israel over the last years with zero accountability by the Israeli government.On October 7, 2023 Hamas killed 1,200 Israelis in a low-tech invasion of Israel after the 2018-19 Gaza border protests where Israel used live ammunition on protesters, killing 223 protesters (including 46 children), and injured 9,204 others (source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018–2019_Gaza_border_protests), then that lead to the clashes in 2019 where Palestinian rockets killed 4 people inside Israel (source: https://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-05/06/c_138036325_13.htm). Prior, from 2008-2018 after the security checkpoints were set up in Gaza and the border wall with the West Bank following the Second Intifada, until 10 years later, only 30 were killed by rocket fire(source: https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/258177344/#q258177344). This lead to the 2021 Israel-Palestine crisis where 14 Israelis were killed, 114 wounded, 1 soldier killed, 3 wounded, 1 aerial drone was destroyed in friendly fire, 2 Jewish Israelis were killed in Lod & Acre riots, and 2 soldiers wounded, 6 border police injured in the West Bank (source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Israel–Palestine_crisis). A further 400 IDF killed in the Gaza War, 2,000 injured as of October 2025, which has turned into the fourth deadliest war fought by Israel on the Israel side, right behind the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, the 1973 Yom Kippur War and the 1967-70 war of attrition. (source: https://costsofwar.watson.brown.edu/sites/default/files/2025-10/Human-Toll-in-Gaza_Costs-of-War_Crawford_7-October-2025.pdf).
Tens of thousands of Gazans were killed in Operation Swords of Iron War, hundreds of thousands more maimed, and millions more displaced. Hamas used to number in the tens of thousands, but now it's believed to only be in the hundreds, with their new leader being Izz al-Din al-Haddad in the Gaza City division. Israel is demanding what's left of Hamas to disarm, but they refuse, because it could spark a civil war with all the armed gangs that Israel controls in the region, like Yasser Abu Shabab's Popular Forces, who already control the food supply in Gaza City.
In Operation Eternal Darkness and the 2026 Lebanon War, Israel lost 16 soldiers and suffered 411 injuries (source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Lebanon_war). In the 2026 Iran war, America lost 15 soldiers killed, 538 military personnel wounded and at least 17 US sites in the Middle East damaged. Israel had 16 soldiers killed, 27 civilians killed, 7,834 injured, 690 military personnel wounded and $11.52 billion in economic damage. The United States had at least 12 radar systems and satellite terminals destroyed or damaged, multiple AN/TPY-2s destroyed or damaged, 1 THAAD radar destroyed or seriously damaged, 1 AN/FPS-132, 1 AN/TPS-59, 1 AN/FPS-117, 1 AN/MPQ-64 destroyed, and 1 MIM-104 Patriot AN/MPQ-65 radar and 1 AN/TPS-75 damaged (source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Iran_war).
In the 12 day war, Israel saw 32 civilians and 1 off-duty soldier killed, 3,238 wounded, 2 Hermes drones shot down, 61+ UAVs and cruise missiles destroyed, 10,000+ drones seized, 700+ Mossad agents arrested and 5 Mossad agents executed. In the 2025-26 Iranian protests, 7,015–36,500+ protesters were killed, 330,000–360,000 maimed and 53,552 were arrested. In 2023 after the October 7 attacks, the Houthis attacked the Galaxy leader, taking 25 hostages, some of whom were injured. In 2024, two US Navy SEALs drowned in the Arabian Sea, off the coast of Somalia (Christopher Chambers and Nathan Gage Ingram) while trying to seize Iranian supplies going to the Houthis. In 2024, 3 US soldiers were killed in a Houthi drone strike in Jordan.
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hijacking_of_the_Galaxy_Leader
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025–2026_Iranian_protests
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/navy-s...gon-probe-christopher-chambers-nathan-ingram/
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Iranian_dhow_seizure
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelve-Day_War
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_22_drone_attack
Then you had the 2023-24 Red Sea crisis (which reignited during the 2026 Iran War) where the Israeli Port of Eilat entered bankruptcy and shut down, plus disruption of international maritime trade and supply chain, 3 US soldiers were also injured in friendly fire incidents/accidents when their fighter jets got shot down, 3 F/A-18 Super Hornets were lost, At least 15 MQ-9 Reapers lost, 9 sailors killed and 11 injured, 2 Israeli civilians killed and 248 injured, 1 WFP worker killed and 1 UN worker injured, and 17 US/UAE/Saudi/Israeli Mossad foreign intelligence agents were arrested and executed by the Houthi government via firing squad.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Sea_crisis
https://wcys.org/a-houthi-run-court-sentences-17-people-to-death-on-charges-of-spying-for-hostile-states-including-a-former-military-intelligence-director/
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https://www.booksite.ru/fulltext/1/001/008/009/600.htm
Geopolitics is a bourgeois, reactionary concept that uses distorted interpretations of physical and economic geography to justify and promote the aggressive policies of imperialist states. Geopolitics's core ideas assert the decisive role of physical and geographical conditions in the life of human society and the inequality of races (see Racism). The theories of Social Darwinism (see Social Darwinism) and Malthusianism (see Malthusianism) are also used. Geopoliticians make extensive use of the concepts of "living space," "natural boundaries," and geographic location to justify militarism and wars of conquest.
The concept of geopolitics arose during the period of imperialism. The first representatives of geopolitics were the Swedish political scientist and pan-Germanist R. Kjellén, who proposed the term "geopolitics" during the First World War (1914-1918) (as a doctrine of the state - a geographical and biological organism striving for expansion), the German geographer F. Ratzel, the English geographer H. Mackinder, the American admiral A. T. Mahan. In the period between the two world wars, geopolitics was intensively cultivated in Germany. Geopolitics became the official doctrine of German fascism. The head of the German geopoliticians was General K. Haushofer, the founder and editor (in 1924-44) of the journal "Zeitschrift für Geopolitik" ("Zeitschrift für Geopolitik"), which promoted the ideas of revanchism and aggression; K. Haushofer was closely connected with the leadership of the fascist party. In the United States in the 1940s. Geopolitics' ideas were developed by N. Speakman and other geographers and sociologists.
After World War II (1939–45), geopolitics began to revive in the United States, West Germany, and other imperialist states to justify the militarization of their countries, aggressive policies, and ideas of revanchism directed against socialist countries and national liberation movements. In West Germany, the journal "Zeitschrift für Geopolitik" was republished in 1951; the "Union of Geopolitics" was revived. Contemporary geopoliticians attempt to explain the contrast between socialist and capitalist countries by geographic factors.
Signs someones a hitlerite and not a communist?
Unironically using the word geopolitics for example.https://www.booksite.ru/fulltext/1/001/008/009/600.htm
Geopolitics is a bourgeois, reactionary concept that uses distorted interpretations of physical and economic geography to justify and promote the aggressive policies of imperialist states. Geopolitics's core ideas assert the decisive role of physical and geographical conditions in the life of human society and the inequality of races (see Racism). The theories of Social Darwinism (see Social Darwinism) and Malthusianism (see Malthusianism) are also used. Geopoliticians make extensive use of the concepts of "living space," "natural boundaries," and geographic location to justify militarism and wars of conquest.
The concept of geopolitics arose during the period of imperialism. The first representatives of geopolitics were the Swedish political scientist and pan-Germanist R. Kjellén, who proposed the term "geopolitics" during the First World War (1914-1918) (as a doctrine of the state - a geographical and biological organism striving for expansion), the German geographer F. Ratzel, the English geographer H. Mackinder, the American admiral A. T. Mahan. In the period between the two world wars, geopolitics was intensively cultivated in Germany. Geopolitics became the official doctrine of German fascism. The head of the German geopoliticians was General K. Haushofer, the founder and editor (in 1924-44) of the journal "Zeitschrift für Geopolitik" ("Zeitschrift für Geopolitik"), which promoted the ideas of revanchism and aggression; K. Haushofer was closely connected with the leadership of the fascist party. In the United States in the 1940s. Geopolitics' ideas were developed by N. Speakman and other geographers and sociologists.
After World War II (1939–45), geopolitics began to revive in the United States, West Germany, and other imperialist states to justify the militarization of their countries, aggressive policies, and ideas of revanchism directed against socialist countries and national liberation movements. In West Germany, the journal "Zeitschrift für Geopolitik" was republished in 1951; the "Union of Geopolitics" was revived. Contemporary geopoliticians attempt to explain the contrast between socialist and capitalist countries by geographic factors.
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While 54 countries have confirmed their attendance at the conference, some of the world’s biggest economies and biggest polluters, including the US, China, India, Russia and the Gulf petro states, will be missing. “Whatever nations have not yet taken that decision, then this is not the space for them. We are not going to have boycotters or climate denialists at the table,” Vélez said.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/17/colombia-convenes-climate-coalition-of-the-willing-to-break-global-fossil-fuel-deadlock
Venezuelan Gov’t Resumes IMF, World Bank Ties, Appoints New Central Bank President
On Thursday, Venezuelan authorities additionally announced a change in the Central Bank leadership, with Luis Pérez replacing Laura Guerra as president of the institution. Guerra had been appointed to the post in April 2025 by Maduro. Pérez is an economist who had served on the BCV board of directors since 2018. In his social media profile, he describes himself as a cryptocurrency enthusiast. .. . .
https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/venezuelan-govt-resumes-imf-world-bank-ties-appoints-new-central-bank-president/
Argentina's government counts 9,421 people living on streets across 19 provinces
It found that 83 percent of those living on the streets were male, with the resulting 17 percent female. By age, 92 percent were aged 18 or over, with six percent classified as minors. Of those quizzed, 32 percent had been homeless for more than two years. Denying them access to public services, 10 percent did not hold a national identity document (DNI). Fifty-two percent of respondents had completed primary school but did not finish secondary education.
https://www.batimes.com.ar/news/argentina/argentinas-government-counts-9421-people-living-on-streets-across-19-provinces.phtml
https://archive.ph/IFTGt
Swazi political organizers and activists face wave of state repression
The regime in Swaziland has escalated its crackdown on pro-democracy forces, carrying out a wave of arrests, abductions, and targeted repression. Youth leaders and organizers have been particularly singled out, with the latest target being Nontsetselelo Ncamsile Nkambule, treasurer general of the Swaziland Youth Congress and a People’s United Democratic Movement (PUDEMO) cadre.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2026/04/17/swazi-political-organizers-and-activists-face-wave-of-state-repression/
BP sued in Kenya over alleged toxic waste from 1980s oil exploration
The lawsuit, filed by 299 petitioners in February at the Land and Environment Court in Isiolo, alleged that BP caused serious environmental pollution by improperly disposing of and discharging toxic waste from oil exploration activities in parts of northern Kenya.
https://apnews.com/article/bp-kenya-oil-lawsuit-7beb26e4bef8d3214b2b1aadf7da013e
Lebanese overcome destroyed bridges and roads to return home after Israel pauses bombing campaign
Roads linking Beirut to southern Lebanon were quickly overwhelmed, with traffic stretching for kilometres from the outskirts of Sidon to crossings over the Litani River. With key infrastructure damaged or destroyed, residents worked alongside the Lebanese army, local government workers, and volunteers to restore access routes that had been cut off by Israel's bombardment of civilian infrastructure in the south.
https://www.newarab.com/news/lebanese-overcome-destroyed-bridges-and-roads-return-home
Significant differences remain between Iran-US, including on nuclear issues, senior Iranian official says
Significant differences between Iran and the United States remain to reach a deal aimed at ending the war, a senior Iranian official told Reuters on Friday, adding that keeping the Strait of Hormuz open is "conditional on U.S. adherence to the terms of ceasefire".
https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2026/04/significant-differences-remain-between-iran-us-including-nuclear-issues-senior
US tech firms successfully lobbied EU to keep datacentre emissions secret
The rise of AI chatbots has spurred a boom in the construction of chip-filled warehouses with a hunger for power that is being met, in part, by burning fossil gas. Legal scholars warn the blanket confidentiality clause may fall foul of EU transparency rules and the Aarhus convention on public access to environmental information.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/17/microsoft-us-tech-firms-lobbied-eu-secrecy-rules-datacentre-emissions
Thousands to attend biggest protest for affordable housing in more than a decade
THOUSANDS of tenants are expected to take to the streets of London tomorrow in the largest protest for affordable housing in more than a decade. Trade unions including Unite, the National Education Union and the Public and Commercial Services union are among some 90 organisations who have backed the National Housing Demonstration.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/thousands-attend-biggest-protest-affordable-housing-more-decade
Thailand’s right-wing government formally takes power
Anutin’s right-wing BJT, with its close connections to the military and monarchy, leads the coalition with 192 seats, followed by Pheu Thai’s 74 seats. Another 14 minor parties are also in the present coalition, including those of the old military junta: Palang Pracharath with 5 seats and United Thai Nation (UTN) with two seats. Pheu Thai led the previous government from 2023 to 2025 collapsed after the BJT, supported by the military, pulled out of that ruling coalition. Anutin formed a minority caretaker government from last September until the February election.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/04/17/mwrd-a17.html
19th IB forces minors to surrender in Northern Samar
Soldiers of the 19th IB repeatedly visited two minors in their home in Barangay Paco, Las Navas to force them to “surrender.” The youth were identified as Emman Yanay, 17 years old, and Mercel Yanay, 15 years old.
https://philippinerevolution.nu/angbayan/19th-ib-forces-minors-to-surrender-in-northern-samar/
News 4/17/26
Colombia convenes climate ‘coalition of the willing’ to break global fossil fuel deadlockWhile 54 countries have confirmed their attendance at the conference, some of the world’s biggest economies and biggest polluters, including the US, China, India, Russia and the Gulf petro states, will be missing. “Whatever nations have not yet taken that decision, then this is not the space for them. We are not going to have boycotters or climate denialists at the table,” Vélez said.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/17/colombia-convenes-climate-coalition-of-the-willing-to-break-global-fossil-fuel-deadlock
Venezuelan Gov’t Resumes IMF, World Bank Ties, Appoints New Central Bank President
On Thursday, Venezuelan authorities additionally announced a change in the Central Bank leadership, with Luis Pérez replacing Laura Guerra as president of the institution. Guerra had been appointed to the post in April 2025 by Maduro. Pérez is an economist who had served on the BCV board of directors since 2018. In his social media profile, he describes himself as a cryptocurrency enthusiast. .. . .
https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/venezuelan-govt-resumes-imf-world-bank-ties-appoints-new-central-bank-president/
Argentina's government counts 9,421 people living on streets across 19 provinces
It found that 83 percent of those living on the streets were male, with the resulting 17 percent female. By age, 92 percent were aged 18 or over, with six percent classified as minors. Of those quizzed, 32 percent had been homeless for more than two years. Denying them access to public services, 10 percent did not hold a national identity document (DNI). Fifty-two percent of respondents had completed primary school but did not finish secondary education.
https://www.batimes.com.ar/news/argentina/argentinas-government-counts-9421-people-living-on-streets-across-19-provinces.phtml
https://archive.ph/IFTGt
Swazi political organizers and activists face wave of state repression
The regime in Swaziland has escalated its crackdown on pro-democracy forces, carrying out a wave of arrests, abductions, and targeted repression. Youth leaders and organizers have been particularly singled out, with the latest target being Nontsetselelo Ncamsile Nkambule, treasurer general of the Swaziland Youth Congress and a People’s United Democratic Movement (PUDEMO) cadre.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2026/04/17/swazi-political-organizers-and-activists-face-wave-of-state-repression/
BP sued in Kenya over alleged toxic waste from 1980s oil exploration
The lawsuit, filed by 299 petitioners in February at the Land and Environment Court in Isiolo, alleged that BP caused serious environmental pollution by improperly disposing of and discharging toxic waste from oil exploration activities in parts of northern Kenya.
https://apnews.com/article/bp-kenya-oil-lawsuit-7beb26e4bef8d3214b2b1aadf7da013e
Lebanese overcome destroyed bridges and roads to return home after Israel pauses bombing campaign
Roads linking Beirut to southern Lebanon were quickly overwhelmed, with traffic stretching for kilometres from the outskirts of Sidon to crossings over the Litani River. With key infrastructure damaged or destroyed, residents worked alongside the Lebanese army, local government workers, and volunteers to restore access routes that had been cut off by Israel's bombardment of civilian infrastructure in the south.
https://www.newarab.com/news/lebanese-overcome-destroyed-bridges-and-roads-return-home
Significant differences remain between Iran-US, including on nuclear issues, senior Iranian official says
Significant differences between Iran and the United States remain to reach a deal aimed at ending the war, a senior Iranian official told Reuters on Friday, adding that keeping the Strait of Hormuz open is "conditional on U.S. adherence to the terms of ceasefire".
https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2026/04/significant-differences-remain-between-iran-us-including-nuclear-issues-senior
US tech firms successfully lobbied EU to keep datacentre emissions secret
The rise of AI chatbots has spurred a boom in the construction of chip-filled warehouses with a hunger for power that is being met, in part, by burning fossil gas. Legal scholars warn the blanket confidentiality clause may fall foul of EU transparency rules and the Aarhus convention on public access to environmental information.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/17/microsoft-us-tech-firms-lobbied-eu-secrecy-rules-datacentre-emissions
Thousands to attend biggest protest for affordable housing in more than a decade
THOUSANDS of tenants are expected to take to the streets of London tomorrow in the largest protest for affordable housing in more than a decade. Trade unions including Unite, the National Education Union and the Public and Commercial Services union are among some 90 organisations who have backed the National Housing Demonstration.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/thousands-attend-biggest-protest-affordable-housing-more-decade
Thailand’s right-wing government formally takes power
Anutin’s right-wing BJT, with its close connections to the military and monarchy, leads the coalition with 192 seats, followed by Pheu Thai’s 74 seats. Another 14 minor parties are also in the present coalition, including those of the old military junta: Palang Pracharath with 5 seats and United Thai Nation (UTN) with two seats. Pheu Thai led the previous government from 2023 to 2025 collapsed after the BJT, supported by the military, pulled out of that ruling coalition. Anutin formed a minority caretaker government from last September until the February election.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/04/17/mwrd-a17.html
19th IB forces minors to surrender in Northern Samar
Soldiers of the 19th IB repeatedly visited two minors in their home in Barangay Paco, Las Navas to force them to “surrender.” The youth were identified as Emman Yanay, 17 years old, and Mercel Yanay, 15 years old.
https://philippinerevolution.nu/angbayan/19th-ib-forces-minors-to-surrender-in-northern-samar/
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I am primarily interested in this because my organization wants to have its own office & offices at some point, right now all we've got is an apartment space used for storage and our own personal homes / apartments. I want something functional yet plausible from an aesthetic point of view.
Panel structures are not really plausible anymore - panels are no longer produced since the privatization of the industry, had it been an option we would've just settled for our own panel bloc.
Feel free to use this as an architecture general, but I'm trying to find some achievable examples of good looking buildings. I am beyond tired of shitty squats that refuse to remodel in fear that they might end up being lost anyway.
Very fond of pyramids in peculiar, as most people know pyramids are the most structurally sound and therefore stable structures that can last eons regardless of all sorts of disasters.
Baroque Brutalism / Galician Baroque
I don't know which board this belongs to. Brutalism or functionalism has been the main architectural choice for most of the Eastern Bloc nations, I've enjoyed it for its utility but also thought of the prospect of elegance and appeal so I did some searching looking for any compromise between it and my other favorite styles - baroque and gothic and it seems like at some point galician baroque had a brutalist turn on its own accord as seen in Santa Clara Convent in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, by Simon Rodriguez (1719).I am primarily interested in this because my organization wants to have its own office & offices at some point, right now all we've got is an apartment space used for storage and our own personal homes / apartments. I want something functional yet plausible from an aesthetic point of view.
Panel structures are not really plausible anymore - panels are no longer produced since the privatization of the industry, had it been an option we would've just settled for our own panel bloc.
Feel free to use this as an architecture general, but I'm trying to find some achievable examples of good looking buildings. I am beyond tired of shitty squats that refuse to remodel in fear that they might end up being lost anyway.
Very fond of pyramids in peculiar, as most people know pyramids are the most structurally sound and therefore stable structures that can last eons regardless of all sorts of disasters.
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Chapter 15 sucks. I thought it wasn't supposed be an appeal to morality? Recurring in several parts of the text but chapter 15 especially is a pure slog.
Chapter 15 sucks. I thought it wasn't supposed be an appeal to morality? Recurring in several parts of the text but chapter 15 especially is a pure slog.
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How exactly does one avoid being purged after a communist revolution?
The body was too short or empty.
The body was too short or empty.
The body was too short or empty.
How exactly does one avoid being purged after a communist revolution?
The body was too short or empty.
The body was too short or empty.
The body was too short or empty.
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1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation.
2. We must rebel against the tyranny of the apps. Is the iPhone our greatest creative if not crowning achievement as a civilization? The object has changed our lives, but it may also now be limiting and constraining our sense of the possible.
3. Free email is not enough. The decadence of a culture or civilization, and indeed its ruling class, will be forgiven only if that culture is capable of delivering economic growth and security for the public.
4. The limits of soft power, of soaring rhetoric alone, have been exposed. The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software.
5. The question is not whether A.I. weapons will be built; it is who will build them and for what purpose. Our adversaries will not pause to indulge in theatrical debates about the merits of developing technologies with critical military and national security applications. They will proceed.
6. National service should be a universal duty. We should, as a society, seriously consider moving away from an all-volunteer force and only fight the next war if everyone shares in the risk and the cost.
7. If a U.S. Marine asks for a better rifle, we should build it; and the same goes for software. We should as a country be capable of continuing a debate about the appropriateness of military action abroad while remaining unflinching in our commitment to those we have asked to step into harm’s way.
8. Public servants need not be our priests. Any business that compensated its employees in the way that the federal government compensates public servants would struggle to survive.
9. We should show far more grace towards those who have subjected themselves to public life. The eradication of any space for forgiveness—a jettisoning of any tolerance for the complexities and contradictions of the human psyche—may leave us with a cast of characters at the helm we will grow to regret.
10. The psychologization of modern politics is leading us astray. Those who look to the political arena to nourish their soul and sense of self, who rely too heavily on their internal life finding expression in people they may never meet, will be left disappointed.
11. Our society has grown too eager to hasten, and is often gleeful at, the demise of its enemies. The vanquishing of an opponent is a moment to pause, not rejoice.
12. The atomic age is ending. One age of deterrence, the atomic age, is ending, and a new era of deterrence built on A.I. is set to begin.
13. No other country in the history of the world has advanced progressive values more than this one. The United States is far from perfect. But it is easy to forget how much more opportunity exists in this country for those who are not hereditary elites than in any other nation on the planet.
14. American power has made possible an extraordinarily long peace. Too many have forgotten or perhaps take for granted that nearly a century of some version of peace has prevailed in the world without a great power military conflict. At least three generations — billions of people and their children and now grandchildren — have never known a world war.
15. The postwar neutering of Germany and Japan must be undone. The defanging of Germany was an overcorrection for which Europe is now paying a heavy price. A similar and highly theatrical commitment to Japanese pacifism will, if maintained, also threaten to shift the balance of power in Asia.
16. We should applaud those who attempt to build where the market has failed to act. The culture almost snickers at Musk’s interest in grand narrative, as if billionaires ought to simply stay in their lane of enriching themselves . . . . Any curiosity or genuine interest in the value of what he has created is essentially dismissed, or perhaps lurks from beneath a thinly veiled scorn.
17. Silicon Valley must play a role in addressing violent crime. Many politicians across the United States have essentially shrugged when it comes to violent crime, abandoning any serious efforts to address the problem or take on any risk with their constituencies or donors in coming up with solutions and experiments in what should be a desperate bid to save lives.
18. The ruthless exposure of the private lives of public figures drives far too much talent away from government service. The public arena—and the shallow and petty assaults against those who dare to do something other than enrich themselves—has become so unforgiving that the republic is left with a significant roster of ineffectual, empty vessels whose ambition one would forgive if there were any genuine belief structure lurking within.
19. The caution in public life that we unwittingly encourage is corrosive. Those who say nothing wrong often say nothing much at all.
20. The pervasive intolerance of religious belief in certain circles must be resisted. The elite’s intolerance of religious belief is perhaps one of the most telling signs that its political project constitutes a less open intellectual movement than many within it would claim.
21. Some cultures have produced vital advances; others remain dysfunctional and regressive. All cultures are now equal. Criticism and value judgments are forbidden. Yet this new dogma glosses over the fact that certain cultures and indeed subcultures . . . have produced wonders. Others have proven middling, and worse, regressive and harmful.
22. We must resist the shallow temptation of a vacant and hollow pluralism. We, in America and more broadly the West, have for the past half century resisted defining national cultures in the name of inclusivity. But inclusion into what?
Excerpts from the #1 New York Times Bestseller The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West, by Alexander C. Karp & Nicholas W. Zamiska
https://x.com/PalantirTech/status/2045574398573453312
The Palantir Manifesto
The Technological Republic, in brief.1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation.
2. We must rebel against the tyranny of the apps. Is the iPhone our greatest creative if not crowning achievement as a civilization? The object has changed our lives, but it may also now be limiting and constraining our sense of the possible.
3. Free email is not enough. The decadence of a culture or civilization, and indeed its ruling class, will be forgiven only if that culture is capable of delivering economic growth and security for the public.
4. The limits of soft power, of soaring rhetoric alone, have been exposed. The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software.
5. The question is not whether A.I. weapons will be built; it is who will build them and for what purpose. Our adversaries will not pause to indulge in theatrical debates about the merits of developing technologies with critical military and national security applications. They will proceed.
6. National service should be a universal duty. We should, as a society, seriously consider moving away from an all-volunteer force and only fight the next war if everyone shares in the risk and the cost.
7. If a U.S. Marine asks for a better rifle, we should build it; and the same goes for software. We should as a country be capable of continuing a debate about the appropriateness of military action abroad while remaining unflinching in our commitment to those we have asked to step into harm’s way.
8. Public servants need not be our priests. Any business that compensated its employees in the way that the federal government compensates public servants would struggle to survive.
9. We should show far more grace towards those who have subjected themselves to public life. The eradication of any space for forgiveness—a jettisoning of any tolerance for the complexities and contradictions of the human psyche—may leave us with a cast of characters at the helm we will grow to regret.
10. The psychologization of modern politics is leading us astray. Those who look to the political arena to nourish their soul and sense of self, who rely too heavily on their internal life finding expression in people they may never meet, will be left disappointed.
11. Our society has grown too eager to hasten, and is often gleeful at, the demise of its enemies. The vanquishing of an opponent is a moment to pause, not rejoice.
12. The atomic age is ending. One age of deterrence, the atomic age, is ending, and a new era of deterrence built on A.I. is set to begin.
13. No other country in the history of the world has advanced progressive values more than this one. The United States is far from perfect. But it is easy to forget how much more opportunity exists in this country for those who are not hereditary elites than in any other nation on the planet.
14. American power has made possible an extraordinarily long peace. Too many have forgotten or perhaps take for granted that nearly a century of some version of peace has prevailed in the world without a great power military conflict. At least three generations — billions of people and their children and now grandchildren — have never known a world war.
15. The postwar neutering of Germany and Japan must be undone. The defanging of Germany was an overcorrection for which Europe is now paying a heavy price. A similar and highly theatrical commitment to Japanese pacifism will, if maintained, also threaten to shift the balance of power in Asia.
16. We should applaud those who attempt to build where the market has failed to act. The culture almost snickers at Musk’s interest in grand narrative, as if billionaires ought to simply stay in their lane of enriching themselves . . . . Any curiosity or genuine interest in the value of what he has created is essentially dismissed, or perhaps lurks from beneath a thinly veiled scorn.
17. Silicon Valley must play a role in addressing violent crime. Many politicians across the United States have essentially shrugged when it comes to violent crime, abandoning any serious efforts to address the problem or take on any risk with their constituencies or donors in coming up with solutions and experiments in what should be a desperate bid to save lives.
18. The ruthless exposure of the private lives of public figures drives far too much talent away from government service. The public arena—and the shallow and petty assaults against those who dare to do something other than enrich themselves—has become so unforgiving that the republic is left with a significant roster of ineffectual, empty vessels whose ambition one would forgive if there were any genuine belief structure lurking within.
19. The caution in public life that we unwittingly encourage is corrosive. Those who say nothing wrong often say nothing much at all.
20. The pervasive intolerance of religious belief in certain circles must be resisted. The elite’s intolerance of religious belief is perhaps one of the most telling signs that its political project constitutes a less open intellectual movement than many within it would claim.
21. Some cultures have produced vital advances; others remain dysfunctional and regressive. All cultures are now equal. Criticism and value judgments are forbidden. Yet this new dogma glosses over the fact that certain cultures and indeed subcultures . . . have produced wonders. Others have proven middling, and worse, regressive and harmful.
22. We must resist the shallow temptation of a vacant and hollow pluralism. We, in America and more broadly the West, have for the past half century resisted defining national cultures in the name of inclusivity. But inclusion into what?
Excerpts from the #1 New York Times Bestseller The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West, by Alexander C. Karp & Nicholas W. Zamiska
https://x.com/PalantirTech/status/2045574398573453312
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I'd use a MilkV Jupiter SBC w/ mainline Linux support, and stack 2 or 3 MilkV Mars SBCs ontop of the Jupiter SBC, and use these as network LLM acceleration nodes for a mini-cloud, w/ ASIC USB for bitmining (e.g. SHA256) into each so you can earn money (I think it's like $2/a month), use Ovrdrive USBs for decryption behind LUKS and KeePassXC, and on the Jupiter SBC have a custom Gentoo profile w/ refused peoprietary packages and patchwork if needed, then harden the kernel and secure the bootchain, then after you decrypt the machine upon startup with the Ovrdrive USB, then plug-in a Modos paper display, Keyboardio keyboard, Ploopy mouse, dumb earphones and computer mic, passive speakers, possibly openearable BLE wireless earphones. Then use a custom SOCKS5 proxy written in Python w/ X25519, Poly1305, ChaCha20 and Kyber for post-quantum cryptographic protection of your network using FTC (Full Tunnel Control) over their connections. Use GNU Icecat as the web browser w/ LibreJS, nftables, kvm/qemu, firejail, pyshark, fail2ban amd gnunet/gnunet-vpn/gnunet CADET (or Jami) w/ Microsoft Lifecam VX-1000 / VX-3000 or a Logitech QuickCam 4000 / QuickCam Express 1999 web cam. Then add a second MilkV Jupiter to serve as the IP over DHCP router that you hook-up to your conventional default ISP router via ethernet serial port/UART, and a MilkV Jupiter w/ custom drivers and formware w/ ath9k PCIe snapped to it for open 802.11 IP over DHCP, using ethernet to the other MilkV Jupiter for all connections. Now just connect to the wifi and you're in! You can use a Wio Lite RISC-V board for the modem connections via GPIO.
I have an idea for a cell phone replacement: MilkV Mars + ThinkPenguin USB cellular modem + LoRa concentrator board: RAK2245/RAK833 (SPI) or SX1301-based Pi HAT for multi‑channel gateway + Antenna: 868/915 MHz omnidirectional antenna (SMA) + enclosure, power (battery + small solar if off‑grid) + XPT2046 touch controller w/ Stylus pen + Gentoo w/ Phosh (Wayland). StarFive GPU drivers (Imagination BXE-4-32) are properly configured in your kernel to get hardware acceleration; otherwise, the UI will be sluggish. Input: The XPT2046 is a resistive touch controller. While reliable and great for stylus use, Phosh is designed primarily for capacitive multi-touch. You may need to calibrate the libinput profiles to handle the pressure-sensitive input correctly. The Stylus Experience: Since you’re using an XPT2046, you’ll enjoy precise input, but you may want to look into evdev calibration tools to ensure the stylus coordinates map correctly to the Wayland compositor. Kernel Support: You will likely be running a downstream StarFive kernel. Porting the LoRa forwarder and ensuring the USB modem's cdc_ether or qmi_wwan drivers play nice with the RISC-V architecture will be your first "Gentoo moment." You will likely need a high-capacity LiPo (10,000mAh+).
AND THAT'S BASICALLY IT! That's all you need to know about online privacy and ethical hacking. Use GNUNet FS or netcat for file sharing.
IMPORTANT SOVIET PRIVACY GUIDE THREAD
My idea for a fully libre workstationI'd use a MilkV Jupiter SBC w/ mainline Linux support, and stack 2 or 3 MilkV Mars SBCs ontop of the Jupiter SBC, and use these as network LLM acceleration nodes for a mini-cloud, w/ ASIC USB for bitmining (e.g. SHA256) into each so you can earn money (I think it's like $2/a month), use Ovrdrive USBs for decryption behind LUKS and KeePassXC, and on the Jupiter SBC have a custom Gentoo profile w/ refused peoprietary packages and patchwork if needed, then harden the kernel and secure the bootchain, then after you decrypt the machine upon startup with the Ovrdrive USB, then plug-in a Modos paper display, Keyboardio keyboard, Ploopy mouse, dumb earphones and computer mic, passive speakers, possibly openearable BLE wireless earphones. Then use a custom SOCKS5 proxy written in Python w/ X25519, Poly1305, ChaCha20 and Kyber for post-quantum cryptographic protection of your network using FTC (Full Tunnel Control) over their connections. Use GNU Icecat as the web browser w/ LibreJS, nftables, kvm/qemu, firejail, pyshark, fail2ban amd gnunet/gnunet-vpn/gnunet CADET (or Jami) w/ Microsoft Lifecam VX-1000 / VX-3000 or a Logitech QuickCam 4000 / QuickCam Express 1999 web cam. Then add a second MilkV Jupiter to serve as the IP over DHCP router that you hook-up to your conventional default ISP router via ethernet serial port/UART, and a MilkV Jupiter w/ custom drivers and formware w/ ath9k PCIe snapped to it for open 802.11 IP over DHCP, using ethernet to the other MilkV Jupiter for all connections. Now just connect to the wifi and you're in! You can use a Wio Lite RISC-V board for the modem connections via GPIO.
I have an idea for a cell phone replacement: MilkV Mars + ThinkPenguin USB cellular modem + LoRa concentrator board: RAK2245/RAK833 (SPI) or SX1301-based Pi HAT for multi‑channel gateway + Antenna: 868/915 MHz omnidirectional antenna (SMA) + enclosure, power (battery + small solar if off‑grid) + XPT2046 touch controller w/ Stylus pen + Gentoo w/ Phosh (Wayland). StarFive GPU drivers (Imagination BXE-4-32) are properly configured in your kernel to get hardware acceleration; otherwise, the UI will be sluggish. Input: The XPT2046 is a resistive touch controller. While reliable and great for stylus use, Phosh is designed primarily for capacitive multi-touch. You may need to calibrate the libinput profiles to handle the pressure-sensitive input correctly. The Stylus Experience: Since you’re using an XPT2046, you’ll enjoy precise input, but you may want to look into evdev calibration tools to ensure the stylus coordinates map correctly to the Wayland compositor. Kernel Support: You will likely be running a downstream StarFive kernel. Porting the LoRa forwarder and ensuring the USB modem's cdc_ether or qmi_wwan drivers play nice with the RISC-V architecture will be your first "Gentoo moment." You will likely need a high-capacity LiPo (10,000mAh+).
AND THAT'S BASICALLY IT! That's all you need to know about online privacy and ethical hacking. Use GNUNet FS or netcat for file sharing.
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Originally, I had read Engels' Anti-Duhring, in which he argues that dialectical analysis is essentially a physical interaction, which, in human societies, translate into different classes fighting for their existence and needs (i.e. the bourgeoisie wants low salaries, the proletariat needs higher salaries, conflict occurs = law of interpenetration of opposites). The argument is very "physicalist" and relies on seeing nature as a totality in constant mutation.
HOWEVER, Lukacs seems to completely disregard this. Instead, his dialectics could be best described by the following : Any individual has multiple possibilities to realize his "teleological acts" (conscious acts aimed at satisfaction of desires/needs/sustenance etc). Alienation occurs when he is constrained by an external cause to choose a possibility unsatisfactory compared to others. As such, the dialectic is essentially a movement between the individual who attempts to overcome this alienation, which translates into class war (proletariat see capitalism as irrational for them, but are forced to endure it => conflict with the bourgeoisie).
So, which is it ? Lukacs' dialectics imo can be reconciled with Engels, but it makes the latter's work appear as very superficial.
Questions about dialectics
I recently started reading Lukacs's ontology of a social being and my whole understanding of dialectics has been flipped.Originally, I had read Engels' Anti-Duhring, in which he argues that dialectical analysis is essentially a physical interaction, which, in human societies, translate into different classes fighting for their existence and needs (i.e. the bourgeoisie wants low salaries, the proletariat needs higher salaries, conflict occurs = law of interpenetration of opposites). The argument is very "physicalist" and relies on seeing nature as a totality in constant mutation.
HOWEVER, Lukacs seems to completely disregard this. Instead, his dialectics could be best described by the following : Any individual has multiple possibilities to realize his "teleological acts" (conscious acts aimed at satisfaction of desires/needs/sustenance etc). Alienation occurs when he is constrained by an external cause to choose a possibility unsatisfactory compared to others. As such, the dialectic is essentially a movement between the individual who attempts to overcome this alienation, which translates into class war (proletariat see capitalism as irrational for them, but are forced to endure it => conflict with the bourgeoisie).
So, which is it ? Lukacs' dialectics imo can be reconciled with Engels, but it makes the latter's work appear as very superficial.
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It seems as if zoomer men are becoming more religious and doubling down on the chuddery in spite of everything. What is to be done?
Religious affiliation of young men have increased from 29% to 42%
https://apnews.com/article/religion-church-evangelical-men-women-poll-f2b07f8d5e0e29b7b75334a8b2bbd3a6It seems as if zoomer men are becoming more religious and doubling down on the chuddery in spite of everything. What is to be done?
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According to ship tracking website Marine Traffic, the MSC Maya was southwest of the Italian island of Sicily and bound for Ashdod, Israel at the time of the announcement. Video footage posted to social media by the group showed at least three sailing boats circulating the massive vessel. “[Thirteen] Global Sumud Flotilla vessels are diverting the MSC Maya and disrupting the flow of raw materials bound for the genocidal war machine,” the activists said.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/humanitarian-activists-sailing-gaza-attempt-divert-cargo-ship-bound-israel
Iraqi Shi’ite leaders pick Bassem al-Badry as PM nominee, sources say
The leaders of Iraq's main Shi'ite Muslim political blocs picked government official Bassem al-Badry as their nominee for the post of prime minister in a meeting on Monday, two Iraqi Shi'ite officials said, though no official announcement was made.
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/iraq-shiite-alliance-names-bassem-al-badry-pm-nominee-2026-04-20/
Bahraini king orders citizenship to be stripped from 'traitors' amid Iran war
King Hamad said the state would move forward "with full firmness" in addressing the consequences of the current phase, noting that Crown Prince and Prime Minister Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa had been tasked with implementing comprehensive measures to address any security or economic gaps, in addition to "immediately" taking the necessary action against anyone who had "betrayed the nation."
https://www.newarab.com/news/bahraini-king-orders-citizenship-be-stripped-traitors
Arrests fuel fears among Madagascar’s gen Z protesters that new regime no better than one they overthrew
Two of the activists were released and admitted to hospital on Tuesday, Maromanana said. On Friday, only Herizo, the group’s leader, was still in detention. Local media quoted the national police as saying that the activists were not harmed or intimidated during detention and the two in hospital had taken ill. Two more activists were arrested on Wednesday night, Gen Z 261, one of the groups that emerged from the previously leaderless Gen Z Madagascar movement, said on Thursday. No further information was available about their detention.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/20/madagascar-gen-z-protesters-fear-new-regime
Fears over Ethiopia peace deal as TPLF restores Tigray government
The TPLF said its central committee “has decided to reinstate the Tigray Government Assembly (parliament), which had been suspended in the name of peace”. The statement accused the federal government of violating the 2022 Pretoria Agreement, which ended the war, and of provoking armed conflict within the Tigray region. It also accused the government of withholding funds to pay local civil servants.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/20/fears-over-ethiopia-peace-deal-as-tplf-restores-tigray-government
https://archive.ph/L89W2
Macron meets Tusk to discuss possible Polish role in French nuclear deterrence
While France has specified it would retain full control over the decision to use force, Polish forces could contribute in areas such as early warning and air defence, both sides say. The public display of closer relations between the countries reflected adaptation by European Union nations of a changed threat environment, and to US President Donald Trump publicly disparaging NATO and toying with the idea of pulling his country out of the alliance.
https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20260420-macron-meets-tusk-poland-european-defence-collaboration
https://archive.ph/96BJT
Romania plunges back into political turmoil as Social Democrats move to topple PM
Party leader Sorin Grindeanu accused Bolojan, who presides over the center-right National Liberal Party, of leading an austerity campaign that has damaged Romania’s economy and exploded the cost of living for Romanians. “PSD can no longer be held captive while our social base is being destroyed,” Grindeanu told top party members in Bucharest Monday, using an acronym for the Social Democrats.
https://www.politico.eu/article/ilie-bolojan-romania-political-turmoil-socialists-topple-pm/
https://archive.ph/HP0mO
Left parties call for scrapping trade deal with US
Leaders of different left-leaning political parties on Monday urged the government to take immediate steps to scrap the trade deal signed with the United States during the tenure of the Muhammad Yunus-led interim government. They made the call at separate rallies in Dhaka and termed the deal ‘unequal’ and contrary to the national interests of Bangladesh.
https://www.newagebd.net/post/politics/297463/left-parties-call-for-scrapping-trade-deal-with-us
US and allied forces kick off combat drills with Philippines as China objects
More than 17,000 American and Filipino military personnel will participate in the Balikatan — Tagalog for shoulder-to-shoulder — exercise. The event will last nearly three weeks and include mock battle scenarios and live-fire maneuvers in locations including Philippine provinces facing the disputed South China Sea and the Taiwan Strait.
https://apnews.com/article/philippines-united-states-balikatan-combat-exercises-1bc477be0a14a74b917228f693fec577
Fencing off and demolition disrupts lives of 40 families in Aklan
At least 40 families were disrupted by the forced fencing and blocking of passageways in a community on Calachuchi Road, Barangay Andagao, Kalibo, Aklan on April 15. These prepare for the planned eviction and demolition of the community after self-identified landowner Jesus Daroy arrived. The community was surrounded with metal sheets caging residents, including the elderly, pregnant women, and children.
https://philippinerevolution.nu/angbayan/fencing-off-and-demolition-disrupts-lives-of-40-families-in-aklan/
News 4/20/26
Humanitarian activists sailing to Gaza attempt to divert cargo ship bound for IsraelAccording to ship tracking website Marine Traffic, the MSC Maya was southwest of the Italian island of Sicily and bound for Ashdod, Israel at the time of the announcement. Video footage posted to social media by the group showed at least three sailing boats circulating the massive vessel. “[Thirteen] Global Sumud Flotilla vessels are diverting the MSC Maya and disrupting the flow of raw materials bound for the genocidal war machine,” the activists said.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/humanitarian-activists-sailing-gaza-attempt-divert-cargo-ship-bound-israel
Iraqi Shi’ite leaders pick Bassem al-Badry as PM nominee, sources say
The leaders of Iraq's main Shi'ite Muslim political blocs picked government official Bassem al-Badry as their nominee for the post of prime minister in a meeting on Monday, two Iraqi Shi'ite officials said, though no official announcement was made.
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/iraq-shiite-alliance-names-bassem-al-badry-pm-nominee-2026-04-20/
Bahraini king orders citizenship to be stripped from 'traitors' amid Iran war
King Hamad said the state would move forward "with full firmness" in addressing the consequences of the current phase, noting that Crown Prince and Prime Minister Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa had been tasked with implementing comprehensive measures to address any security or economic gaps, in addition to "immediately" taking the necessary action against anyone who had "betrayed the nation."
https://www.newarab.com/news/bahraini-king-orders-citizenship-be-stripped-traitors
Arrests fuel fears among Madagascar’s gen Z protesters that new regime no better than one they overthrew
Two of the activists were released and admitted to hospital on Tuesday, Maromanana said. On Friday, only Herizo, the group’s leader, was still in detention. Local media quoted the national police as saying that the activists were not harmed or intimidated during detention and the two in hospital had taken ill. Two more activists were arrested on Wednesday night, Gen Z 261, one of the groups that emerged from the previously leaderless Gen Z Madagascar movement, said on Thursday. No further information was available about their detention.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/20/madagascar-gen-z-protesters-fear-new-regime
Fears over Ethiopia peace deal as TPLF restores Tigray government
The TPLF said its central committee “has decided to reinstate the Tigray Government Assembly (parliament), which had been suspended in the name of peace”. The statement accused the federal government of violating the 2022 Pretoria Agreement, which ended the war, and of provoking armed conflict within the Tigray region. It also accused the government of withholding funds to pay local civil servants.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/20/fears-over-ethiopia-peace-deal-as-tplf-restores-tigray-government
https://archive.ph/L89W2
Macron meets Tusk to discuss possible Polish role in French nuclear deterrence
While France has specified it would retain full control over the decision to use force, Polish forces could contribute in areas such as early warning and air defence, both sides say. The public display of closer relations between the countries reflected adaptation by European Union nations of a changed threat environment, and to US President Donald Trump publicly disparaging NATO and toying with the idea of pulling his country out of the alliance.
https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20260420-macron-meets-tusk-poland-european-defence-collaboration
https://archive.ph/96BJT
Romania plunges back into political turmoil as Social Democrats move to topple PM
Party leader Sorin Grindeanu accused Bolojan, who presides over the center-right National Liberal Party, of leading an austerity campaign that has damaged Romania’s economy and exploded the cost of living for Romanians. “PSD can no longer be held captive while our social base is being destroyed,” Grindeanu told top party members in Bucharest Monday, using an acronym for the Social Democrats.
https://www.politico.eu/article/ilie-bolojan-romania-political-turmoil-socialists-topple-pm/
https://archive.ph/HP0mO
Left parties call for scrapping trade deal with US
Leaders of different left-leaning political parties on Monday urged the government to take immediate steps to scrap the trade deal signed with the United States during the tenure of the Muhammad Yunus-led interim government. They made the call at separate rallies in Dhaka and termed the deal ‘unequal’ and contrary to the national interests of Bangladesh.
https://www.newagebd.net/post/politics/297463/left-parties-call-for-scrapping-trade-deal-with-us
US and allied forces kick off combat drills with Philippines as China objects
More than 17,000 American and Filipino military personnel will participate in the Balikatan — Tagalog for shoulder-to-shoulder — exercise. The event will last nearly three weeks and include mock battle scenarios and live-fire maneuvers in locations including Philippine provinces facing the disputed South China Sea and the Taiwan Strait.
https://apnews.com/article/philippines-united-states-balikatan-combat-exercises-1bc477be0a14a74b917228f693fec577
Fencing off and demolition disrupts lives of 40 families in Aklan
At least 40 families were disrupted by the forced fencing and blocking of passageways in a community on Calachuchi Road, Barangay Andagao, Kalibo, Aklan on April 15. These prepare for the planned eviction and demolition of the community after self-identified landowner Jesus Daroy arrived. The community was surrounded with metal sheets caging residents, including the elderly, pregnant women, and children.
https://philippinerevolution.nu/angbayan/fencing-off-and-demolition-disrupts-lives-of-40-families-in-aklan/
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Thus, the two lines of mutable, diverge and become other life cycles.
If an ESP, with their allergy of peat bog lichens, dill, is given as a child, then it's a Witch; not a Witch Hunter, but an Inquisitor; applying codes of queer to the homosexual by choice, not by breed of Lotus, man or woman or bull or police custodian.
This outing, we faced the Ayatollah Khameini; using Nixon's 1968 campaign, "sacrifice", as the arrest or per support, out of nuclear enrichment for the Middle East; the end to the oil market, their link with Great Britain; Lemura, North Ireland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Tasmania, Papua New Guinea, Jamaica, the Caymans, and Bermuda.
All Navy conning stations, through the main battle fleet; Saudi Arabia's army in hiding, the British Fleet.
British Royal Intelligence sought us during World War 2, to defeat Adolf Hitler, their rogue better's agent; German Counter-Terror sought us during the War in Vietnam, to remove Pravda and Gulda Meir, The Jackal.
And now you see American Intelligence, through the Mafia, selecting us again.
This time, a small squad; Allie Gaetano, ground chuck beef, Christine Surka, the scent of cannabis, and Dave Charlebois, the texture and chew of tomato nightshade.
"The Slim Jim Rule", "Free the Weed", "Gotham".
To remove townships found in police treachery; the misery of the poor, held per common entertainment as per British Rich.
Catch you on the flip side, Boondock Saints.
The Secret Intelligence Service
Your standard Homo sapiens, is a hunting spider; separate from the Homo neanderthalis, a water strider.Thus, the two lines of mutable, diverge and become other life cycles.
If an ESP, with their allergy of peat bog lichens, dill, is given as a child, then it's a Witch; not a Witch Hunter, but an Inquisitor; applying codes of queer to the homosexual by choice, not by breed of Lotus, man or woman or bull or police custodian.
This outing, we faced the Ayatollah Khameini; using Nixon's 1968 campaign, "sacrifice", as the arrest or per support, out of nuclear enrichment for the Middle East; the end to the oil market, their link with Great Britain; Lemura, North Ireland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Tasmania, Papua New Guinea, Jamaica, the Caymans, and Bermuda.
All Navy conning stations, through the main battle fleet; Saudi Arabia's army in hiding, the British Fleet.
British Royal Intelligence sought us during World War 2, to defeat Adolf Hitler, their rogue better's agent; German Counter-Terror sought us during the War in Vietnam, to remove Pravda and Gulda Meir, The Jackal.
And now you see American Intelligence, through the Mafia, selecting us again.
This time, a small squad; Allie Gaetano, ground chuck beef, Christine Surka, the scent of cannabis, and Dave Charlebois, the texture and chew of tomato nightshade.
"The Slim Jim Rule", "Free the Weed", "Gotham".
To remove townships found in police treachery; the misery of the poor, held per common entertainment as per British Rich.
Catch you on the flip side, Boondock Saints.
R: 0 / I: 0
Psychiatric Association Doctored Record: Paranoid autistic due to anxiety about nuclear fission as depicted on "The Simpsons".
EUROPOL submitted record, as of 2011; blank psychiatric sheet, all criminals spying on doctor's records spotted.
Targets: Marvel Comics MI-6, Warner Brothers Mossad, Firaxis Games Canada.
2003: Murder of Carlin Sarkesian, Rabbinical Diamond Trade of Dorchester, Suffolk County.
2003: Enlistment in NYPD Extra Range, "American History X"; B'nai B'rith Attleboro Sheriffs, removed as own minions; lesser forms of life, Jews, not Catholics.
2004: Changed variable of religion; Jewish-Catholic, to Episcopal-Gestapo; "Son of Sam"; German Lutheran Synod, KGB INTERPOL, US Army Prostitution, MI-6 Psychiatric, British Mossad struck.
2005: Engagement against British and Canadian Freemasons; Seizure of Detective Comics, Hanscom Airbase, Home Depot, by British peace activists; Saddam Hussein. Writ of police movies for Saudi-Jews, rape logic of film as having a romantic effect as adultery. Analysis of games logic as only appropriate for Mossad-Arabs, sold on common and public markets; Sid Meier and related topics and titles, "Sims" and "RPG".
Confidence Grifting the United Nations
EUROJUD Record: Treehouse fall, brain damage.Psychiatric Association Doctored Record: Paranoid autistic due to anxiety about nuclear fission as depicted on "The Simpsons".
EUROPOL submitted record, as of 2011; blank psychiatric sheet, all criminals spying on doctor's records spotted.
Targets: Marvel Comics MI-6, Warner Brothers Mossad, Firaxis Games Canada.
2003: Murder of Carlin Sarkesian, Rabbinical Diamond Trade of Dorchester, Suffolk County.
2003: Enlistment in NYPD Extra Range, "American History X"; B'nai B'rith Attleboro Sheriffs, removed as own minions; lesser forms of life, Jews, not Catholics.
2004: Changed variable of religion; Jewish-Catholic, to Episcopal-Gestapo; "Son of Sam"; German Lutheran Synod, KGB INTERPOL, US Army Prostitution, MI-6 Psychiatric, British Mossad struck.
2005: Engagement against British and Canadian Freemasons; Seizure of Detective Comics, Hanscom Airbase, Home Depot, by British peace activists; Saddam Hussein. Writ of police movies for Saudi-Jews, rape logic of film as having a romantic effect as adultery. Analysis of games logic as only appropriate for Mossad-Arabs, sold on common and public markets; Sid Meier and related topics and titles, "Sims" and "RPG".
R: 590 / I: 121
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• visualization of prison population in US // https://mkorostoff.github.io/incarceration-in-real-numbers/
• Organizing in Prison — for when the walls close in (RANT Collective) // https://www.organizingforpower.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Organizing-in-Jail.pdf
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Jailhouse Reading:
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• 📖 How to Defend Yourself During Police Interrogation // https://www.notrace.how/resources/download/comment-la-police-interroge-et-comment-sen-defendre/how-to-defend-yourself-during-a-police-interrogation.pdf
• 📖 National Lawyers Guild guide to being a jailhouse lawyer // https://www.jailhouselaw.org/
• 📖 Critical Resistance - Surviving Solitary Confinement // https://criticalresistance.org/resources/surviving-solitary/
• 📖 An inside-outside publication for abolitionist struggle & strategy across prison walls // https://criticalresistance.org/abolitionist/
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• Live strike tracker with deep stats on who, what and when // https://striketracker.ilr.cornell.edu/
• AFL-CIO [imperialist]'s Strike Tracker // https://aflcio.org/strike-map
• Labor Bureau's Official 'work stoppage' tracker // https://www.bls.gov/wsp/
• IWW timeline for the 20th century (ends at 1999) // https://archive.iww.org/history/chronology/
• IWW Work Place Organizing Guide // https://usa.anarchistlibraries.net/library/industrial-workers-of-the-world-libcom-org-solidarity-federation-walthamstow-anarchist-group-wo
• ▶ Salting | Work Place Organizing 101 (50 minute webinar) // https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SHlCLyM4FY
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• Wikipedia: United States War Crimes // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_war_crimes
• /our boys/ (bring em home!) detail abusing Iraqi prisoners [2006] // https://www.hrw.org/report/2006/07/22/no-blood-no-foul/soldiers-accounts-detainee-abuse-iraq
• More than 250 military interventions in the last 30 years alone // https://blackagendareport.com/us-launched-251-military-interventions-1991-and-469-1798
• Visualization of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade // https://www.slavevoyages.org/
• UNESCO Sites relating to Slavery // https://slaveryandremembrance.org/
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Essential American Politik 📖
• 📖 WEB Du Bois - Black Reconstruction // https://cominsitu.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/w-e-b-du-bois-black-reconstruction-an-essay-toward-a-history-of-the-part-which-black-folk-played-in-the-attempt-to-reconstruct-democracy-2.pdf
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• 📖 Trail of Broken Treaties // American Indian Movement https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
• 📖 The Declaration of Independence https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
• https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
• 📖 The Ballot or the Bullet – Malcolm X // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/ballot_or_bullet.pdf
• 📖 What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? – Frederick Douglass // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/douglass_july_4_speech.pdf
• 📖 A Trail of Broken Treaties – American Indian Movement // https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
• 📖 Custer Died for Your Sins – Vine Deloria Jr. // http://www.riversimulator.org/Resources/Books/CusterDiedForYourSinsAnIndianManifesto1969Deloria.pdf
• 📖 Emancipation Proclamation – Lincoln // https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/emancipation-proclamation
• 📖 Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville // https://americanliterature.com/author/alexis-de-tocqueville/book/democracy-in-america/summary
• 📖 Common Sense – Thomas Paine // https://americainclass.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Common-Sense-Full-Text.pdf
• 📖 An Indigenous History of the United States – Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz // https://nycstandswithstandingrock.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/dunbar-ortiz-2014.pdf
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• visualization of prison population in US // https://mkorostoff.github.io/incarceration-in-real-numbers/
• Organizing in Prison — for when the walls close in (RANT Collective) // https://www.organizingforpower.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Organizing-in-Jail.pdf
• database of U.S. facilities incl. ICE holding sites // https://alcpress.org/usjails/index.html
• list of prison related resources, mailing lists, etc // https://www.prisonactivist.org/resources
• ICE Agent List (incomplete) // https://wiki.icelist.is/index.php/Category:Agents
• US Political Prison Tracker (last updated 2025) // https://uspoliticalprisoners.com/
Jailhouse Reading:
• 📖 Angela Davis - Are Prisons Obsolete? // https://dn790007.ca.archive.org/0/items/the-anarchist-library-full-list-of-pdfs-nov-2020/angela-y-davis-are-prisons-obsolete.pdf
• 📖 How to Defend Yourself During Police Interrogation // https://www.notrace.how/resources/download/comment-la-police-interroge-et-comment-sen-defendre/how-to-defend-yourself-during-a-police-interrogation.pdf
• 📖 National Lawyers Guild guide to being a jailhouse lawyer // https://www.jailhouselaw.org/
• 📖 Critical Resistance - Surviving Solitary Confinement // https://criticalresistance.org/resources/surviving-solitary/
• 📖 An inside-outside publication for abolitionist struggle & strategy across prison walls // https://criticalresistance.org/abolitionist/
• 📖 Prisoners’ Self-Help Litigation Manual // https://api.pageplace.de/preview/DT0400.9780199705665_A35159258/preview-9780199705665_A35159258.pdf
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• Live strike tracker with deep stats on who, what and when // https://striketracker.ilr.cornell.edu/
• AFL-CIO [imperialist]'s Strike Tracker // https://aflcio.org/strike-map
• Labor Bureau's Official 'work stoppage' tracker // https://www.bls.gov/wsp/
• IWW timeline for the 20th century (ends at 1999) // https://archive.iww.org/history/chronology/
• IWW Work Place Organizing Guide // https://usa.anarchistlibraries.net/library/industrial-workers-of-the-world-libcom-org-solidarity-federation-walthamstow-anarchist-group-wo
• ▶ Salting | Work Place Organizing 101 (50 minute webinar) // https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SHlCLyM4FY
⚖️ Deeds of the Burger Reich 🇺🇸
• deep list of horrible shit we (royal we) have done // https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/us_atrocities.md
• Coups and regime changes – master list // https://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-peoples-governments-the-master-list
• Wikipedia: United States War Crimes // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_war_crimes
• /our boys/ (bring em home!) detail abusing Iraqi prisoners [2006] // https://www.hrw.org/report/2006/07/22/no-blood-no-foul/soldiers-accounts-detainee-abuse-iraq
• More than 250 military interventions in the last 30 years alone // https://blackagendareport.com/us-launched-251-military-interventions-1991-and-469-1798
• Visualization of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade // https://www.slavevoyages.org/
• UNESCO Sites relating to Slavery // https://slaveryandremembrance.org/
• First Hand Documents of the horrors of Slavery // https://www.loc.gov/collections/slave-narratives-from-the-federal-writers-project-1936-to-1938/
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• The Grayzone // https://thegrayzone.com/
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• Newsanon Filter // https://leftypol.org/search.php?search=name%3A%22News+Anon+3.0%22&board=leftypol
🏝️ Epstein's Client List 🇮🇱
• Epstein's Black Book // https://epsteinsblackbook.com/
• DOJ Disclosures // https://www.justice.gov/epstein/doj-disclosures
• Track AIPAC // https://www.trackaipac.com/
• Al Jazeera visual guide (2026) // https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/10/struggling-to-navigate-the-epstein-files-here-is-a-visual-guide
Essential American Politik 📖
• 📖 WEB Du Bois - Black Reconstruction // https://cominsitu.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/w-e-b-du-bois-black-reconstruction-an-essay-toward-a-history-of-the-part-which-black-folk-played-in-the-attempt-to-reconstruct-democracy-2.pdf
• 📖 Eugene Debs - Fourth of July Speech // https://jacobin.com/2020/07/eugene-debs-independence-day-address-fourth-july
• 📖 Power Anywhere There's People! – Fred Hampton // https://www.hamptonthink.org/read/power-anywhere-where-thats-people-fred-hampton
• 📖 War is a Racket – Smedley Butler // https://ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html
• 📖 Letters From an American Farmer – St. John de Crevoecoeur // https://americanliterature.com/author/j-hector-st-john-de-crevoecoeur/book/letters-from-an-american-farmer/summary
• 📖 Trail of Broken Treaties // American Indian Movement https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
• 📖 The Declaration of Independence https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
• https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
• 📖 The Ballot or the Bullet – Malcolm X // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/ballot_or_bullet.pdf
• 📖 What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? – Frederick Douglass // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/douglass_july_4_speech.pdf
• 📖 A Trail of Broken Treaties – American Indian Movement // https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
• 📖 Custer Died for Your Sins – Vine Deloria Jr. // http://www.riversimulator.org/Resources/Books/CusterDiedForYourSinsAnIndianManifesto1969Deloria.pdf
• 📖 Emancipation Proclamation – Lincoln // https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/emancipation-proclamation
• 📖 Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville // https://americanliterature.com/author/alexis-de-tocqueville/book/democracy-in-america/summary
• 📖 Common Sense – Thomas Paine // https://americainclass.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Common-Sense-Full-Text.pdf
• 📖 An Indigenous History of the United States – Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz // https://nycstandswithstandingrock.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/dunbar-ortiz-2014.pdf
• 📖 Huey Long – Share Our Wealth // https://www.hueylong.com/programs/share-our-wealth/huey-longs-share-our-wealth-speech
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Previous Thread: >>2781509
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Is communism relevant at all?
If you think about it, Marx and many communists and socialists of his times thought that the first communist revolution would occur in one of Europe’s most industrialised places, namely England and Germany where there was a more substantial working class. Instead, the two most successful communist revolutions in history, the ones that produced lasting communist governments as opposed to the short-lived ones of Hungary and Bavaria, occurred in the heavily agrarian countries of Russia and China. Whilst the Russian empire did have some relatively minor industrial sector (albeit it still relied on serfs and their indebted descendants for most of its labor) compared to its European peers, China was still an agrarian society and even with modernisation under the republican post-Qing Kuomintang, China was by and large made up of peasants as opposed to proles. Same goes for Cuba, whose tourism and agriculture forms the backbone of its economy as opposed to industry, and Cuba is nowadays the only country on Earth to have anything approaching a genuine command economy.
Most communist revolutions thereafter heavily relied on Soviet or Chinese support throughout the Cold War, with many communist governments either falling (e.g., South Yemen) or switching to socdem/neolib economics (e.g., Angola) following the cut of Soviet aid.
For the global north, most of its citizenry work in the tertiary and primary sectors such as agriculture and IT as opposed to industry, as is the case in Britain, America, Italy, Sweden, Switzerland, etc… Germany and France are the only countries one can think of with an actual manufacturing sector, but those have been on the decline in recent years. That leaves us with South Korea and Japan in terms of having a strong manufacturing sector, and even then the tertiary sector of those countries makes up the biggest share of their economies.
As for the global south, the lack of industrialisation due to both the global north disincentivising them from it as well as national governments being unwilling to risk their resources on a gamble whose dividends will only manifest after generations means that much of the global south is either agrarian, service-oriented, or in the case of India both agrarian and FIRE-oriented.
So the ideology of communism, who tries to appeal to the proletariat, is irrelevant for the majority of both the global north and global south. That’s not all, as communists to this day still haven’t been able to resolve their own contradictions such as the question of the vanguard party. For Marx, a worker’s revolution was inevitable in the industrialised world due to the contradictions of capitalism. And yet not only was that not true as capitalism continued to thrive, but the communist revolutions that Marx theorised happened in largely agrarian Russia and China, in both cases after they became war-torn and following years of civil wars. So how did his successors try to make sense of it?
For Stalin’s Marxist-Leninism, the necessity of a vanguard party was essential for a revolution, while for Mao’s Maoism peasants were prole as well. But none of those account for people’s personal motives nor solve Marx’s deterministic dilemma, nor confront how communist societies as they existed first formed. Can’t forget how the ENTIRE Soviet bloc, Yugoslavia, the Derg, communist Somalia, South Yemen, Venezuela, Grenada, etc… all fell because, at the end of the day, command economies just don’t work. That’s why all the remaining nominally communist states like Laos, Vietnam, China and Cuba have liberalised their economies to major extents that they are at most mixed economies not that much different than the social market economies of Scandinavia and Germany. North Korea only survives due to nukes and Chinese de facto aid, nothing more nothing much. Market capitalism has uplifted more people out of poverty than every socialist experiment in history, hence why all historically marginalised groups in the west like women, ethnic minorities, gays, transes, the disabled, atheists, Jews, etc… have all pivoted towards capitalism eventually. And that’s something few leftists want to acknowledge or willing to do so lest they confront their priors.
Perhaps communists should admit that their ideology was formulated by a bunch of men who made erroneous predictions about the future, and whose ideas are now practically irrelevant for anything other than geopolitics, which is why most leftist discourse focuses on geopolitics over the issues at said ideologues’ homes.
I should also note that historical materialism fails to explain deeply ideological conflicts like the Crusades. While some may appeal to Michael Hudson, two key things stand out:
So, how many are willing to address this beyond theorymaxxing?
Is communism relevant at all?
Not sure if this board is suited for Q&A, but I’ll have to arrange myself as an ancap.Is communism relevant at all?
If you think about it, Marx and many communists and socialists of his times thought that the first communist revolution would occur in one of Europe’s most industrialised places, namely England and Germany where there was a more substantial working class. Instead, the two most successful communist revolutions in history, the ones that produced lasting communist governments as opposed to the short-lived ones of Hungary and Bavaria, occurred in the heavily agrarian countries of Russia and China. Whilst the Russian empire did have some relatively minor industrial sector (albeit it still relied on serfs and their indebted descendants for most of its labor) compared to its European peers, China was still an agrarian society and even with modernisation under the republican post-Qing Kuomintang, China was by and large made up of peasants as opposed to proles. Same goes for Cuba, whose tourism and agriculture forms the backbone of its economy as opposed to industry, and Cuba is nowadays the only country on Earth to have anything approaching a genuine command economy.
Most communist revolutions thereafter heavily relied on Soviet or Chinese support throughout the Cold War, with many communist governments either falling (e.g., South Yemen) or switching to socdem/neolib economics (e.g., Angola) following the cut of Soviet aid.
For the global north, most of its citizenry work in the tertiary and primary sectors such as agriculture and IT as opposed to industry, as is the case in Britain, America, Italy, Sweden, Switzerland, etc… Germany and France are the only countries one can think of with an actual manufacturing sector, but those have been on the decline in recent years. That leaves us with South Korea and Japan in terms of having a strong manufacturing sector, and even then the tertiary sector of those countries makes up the biggest share of their economies.
As for the global south, the lack of industrialisation due to both the global north disincentivising them from it as well as national governments being unwilling to risk their resources on a gamble whose dividends will only manifest after generations means that much of the global south is either agrarian, service-oriented, or in the case of India both agrarian and FIRE-oriented.
So the ideology of communism, who tries to appeal to the proletariat, is irrelevant for the majority of both the global north and global south. That’s not all, as communists to this day still haven’t been able to resolve their own contradictions such as the question of the vanguard party. For Marx, a worker’s revolution was inevitable in the industrialised world due to the contradictions of capitalism. And yet not only was that not true as capitalism continued to thrive, but the communist revolutions that Marx theorised happened in largely agrarian Russia and China, in both cases after they became war-torn and following years of civil wars. So how did his successors try to make sense of it?
For Stalin’s Marxist-Leninism, the necessity of a vanguard party was essential for a revolution, while for Mao’s Maoism peasants were prole as well. But none of those account for people’s personal motives nor solve Marx’s deterministic dilemma, nor confront how communist societies as they existed first formed. Can’t forget how the ENTIRE Soviet bloc, Yugoslavia, the Derg, communist Somalia, South Yemen, Venezuela, Grenada, etc… all fell because, at the end of the day, command economies just don’t work. That’s why all the remaining nominally communist states like Laos, Vietnam, China and Cuba have liberalised their economies to major extents that they are at most mixed economies not that much different than the social market economies of Scandinavia and Germany. North Korea only survives due to nukes and Chinese de facto aid, nothing more nothing much. Market capitalism has uplifted more people out of poverty than every socialist experiment in history, hence why all historically marginalised groups in the west like women, ethnic minorities, gays, transes, the disabled, atheists, Jews, etc… have all pivoted towards capitalism eventually. And that’s something few leftists want to acknowledge or willing to do so lest they confront their priors.
Perhaps communists should admit that their ideology was formulated by a bunch of men who made erroneous predictions about the future, and whose ideas are now practically irrelevant for anything other than geopolitics, which is why most leftist discourse focuses on geopolitics over the issues at said ideologues’ homes.
I should also note that historical materialism fails to explain deeply ideological conflicts like the Crusades. While some may appeal to Michael Hudson, two key things stand out:
- He isn’t a Marxist historian, just a heterodox economic historian
- He only explains the financial motive behind the Vatican’s crusades in Europe, but not the northern nor Near Eastern ones.
So, how many are willing to address this beyond theorymaxxing?
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i'm a outsider if it wasnt obvious, but did communism ever work and if yes what actual real life example?
>The body was too short or empty.
>The body was too short or empty.
i'm a outsider if it wasnt obvious, but did communism ever work and if yes what actual real life example?
>The body was too short or empty.
>The body was too short or empty.
R: 213 / I: 73 >>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: 85 / I: 15 (sage)
Unholy Alliance
In your opinion, in a situation of capitalist crisis, can a short-lived alliance exist between Marxist socialism and national (right-wing) socialism, in a Vanguard Party capable of making a radical change in the country's course, or is this a direct path to fascism and the destruction of the achievements of Leninism?
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Rosa Parks, is our descent in Afro-American skin; rejected the term "Nubian", as "nigrish", all of Boston our city witnessing; the Canaanites, against Jews, the Israelites and Jordanians; the Jews as Israelite, deported to Iran.
Rosa Parks, the spraying of hoses on striking marchers for being Beta Israeli, the African-Iranians, claiming our blood, Nubian, the Pharaoh; mixed with Ptolemy, of Cicero; Queen Samhain, the Iberian Celts and Roman Senators, dictated as a Clan by fascists of all skin colors and clans.
Universally disturbed, to place us in hospitals, per suits against those considering opiates imbibement to be less able; the Jews, those threshed and destroyed in common worker's abyss, with children as bisexual; actors and actresses and glee; faggots, our prison punks to bust up the butt and make bleed through the anus, in utter pain per bowel pass.
Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks, was a descent of Red Owen and Rosa O'Neil; raped by a Persian, Shane, claiming the blood, out of his falsehood's father of bigemy and homosexual lust of children, Constantine O'Neil; "Conn. O'Neil", as the battle lines have been laid.Rosa Parks, is our descent in Afro-American skin; rejected the term "Nubian", as "nigrish", all of Boston our city witnessing; the Canaanites, against Jews, the Israelites and Jordanians; the Jews as Israelite, deported to Iran.
Rosa Parks, the spraying of hoses on striking marchers for being Beta Israeli, the African-Iranians, claiming our blood, Nubian, the Pharaoh; mixed with Ptolemy, of Cicero; Queen Samhain, the Iberian Celts and Roman Senators, dictated as a Clan by fascists of all skin colors and clans.
Universally disturbed, to place us in hospitals, per suits against those considering opiates imbibement to be less able; the Jews, those threshed and destroyed in common worker's abyss, with children as bisexual; actors and actresses and glee; faggots, our prison punks to bust up the butt and make bleed through the anus, in utter pain per bowel pass.
R: 17 / I: 2
Lebanese VTuber's family killed in Lebanon
VTuber Camila was featured on X by RT news when she described 160 bombs being dropped on Beirut in 10 minutes. In other news, Null from Kiwi Farms is laughing about it.
R: 6 / I: 2
Why does Trump support Israel so much?
At first I always believed that Trump was not religious and only used religion as a Slopulist tool to get support from the zealots who inhabit the Bible-belt and his Israel support was clearly just AIPAC and the Oil Lobby motivating him, however I wonder if there is something deeper, the Iran thing has actually hurt the markets and Trump seems to be operating out outside of capital for once so I wonder if he is more religious than I thought or if he is a senile philosemite who spent so much time around rich jewish people in New York that he think that Jews are magic money people, So then the more Satanyahu strokes Trump's ego the more he will do whatever he says.
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What will happen when Trump invades Cuba?
Unfortunately after choking Cuba for months after starving it for 67 years Trump is probably going to invade Cuba because after getting humiliated by Iran it s clear that this sociopath wants to reestablish his dominance and the American Empires dominance by doing regime change in Cuba, there is no justification for doing this other than the fact that America is a rouge state. It is not looking good for the Cuba because it is obvious that all of the Latin American vassals won't do anything, Putin will probably promise not to do anything in exchange for more of Ukraine, and China will condemn the invasion but China still trades with Israel so they won't do anything. So Cuba is on its own but what will happen because unlike in Venezuela were there was opposition parties and stuff I don't think that the US will be able to work with parts of the government so who knows what they will do, and if there is a state of war the obvious thing to do would be for Cuba do what Iran did and punish the Florida keys but Cuba has no missiles but they have tons of Soviet-era tanks so maybe they will try to retake Guantanamo bay. And technology has advances since the Bay of Pigs invasion so Amerikkka will probably target civilians with drones and since we live in hell all of the Guanos will cheer as Trump blows up their extended family members. But what do you think will happen?
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You can identify the exact point at which Marxists start coping and treating their belief system as a religion. From the Preface of The Poverty of Philosophy on Marxists.org:
>The above application of the Ricardian theory that the entire social product belongs to the workers as their product, because they are the sole real producers, leads directly to communism. But, as Marx indeed indicates in the above-quoted passage, it is incorrect in formal economic terms, for it is simply an application of morality to economics. According to the laws of bourgeois economics, the greatest part of the product does not belong to the workers who have produced it. If we now say: that is unjust, that ought not to be so, then that has nothing immediately to do with economics. We are merely saying that this economic fact is in contradiction to our sense of morality. Marx, therefore, never based his communist demands upon this, but upon the inevitable collapse of the capitalist mode of production which is daily taking place before our eyes to an ever growing degree; he says only that surplus value consists of unpaid labour, which is a simple fact. But what in economic terms may be formally incorrect, may all the same be correct from the point of view of world history. If mass moral consciousness declares an economic fact to be unjust, as it did at one time in the case of slavery and statute labour, that is proof that the fact itself has outlived its day, that other economic facts have made their appearance due to which the former has become unbearable and untenable. Therefore, a very true economic content may be concealed behind the formal economic incorrectness. This is not the place to deal more closely with the significance and history of the theory of surplus value.
Marx never would have said this lol, this is plain magical thinking
Would Marx even be a communist if he were alive today?
Is the key flaw of Marxism that all of its predictions are bullshit? Why do communists feel like facts have to conform to their feelings when Marx never said that? Marx was never a moralfag and based his ideas in the fact he believed the collapse of Capitalism was inevitable. 200 years on, and it has not collapsed or led to any sort of successful socialist revolution.You can identify the exact point at which Marxists start coping and treating their belief system as a religion. From the Preface of The Poverty of Philosophy on Marxists.org:
>The above application of the Ricardian theory that the entire social product belongs to the workers as their product, because they are the sole real producers, leads directly to communism. But, as Marx indeed indicates in the above-quoted passage, it is incorrect in formal economic terms, for it is simply an application of morality to economics. According to the laws of bourgeois economics, the greatest part of the product does not belong to the workers who have produced it. If we now say: that is unjust, that ought not to be so, then that has nothing immediately to do with economics. We are merely saying that this economic fact is in contradiction to our sense of morality. Marx, therefore, never based his communist demands upon this, but upon the inevitable collapse of the capitalist mode of production which is daily taking place before our eyes to an ever growing degree; he says only that surplus value consists of unpaid labour, which is a simple fact. But what in economic terms may be formally incorrect, may all the same be correct from the point of view of world history. If mass moral consciousness declares an economic fact to be unjust, as it did at one time in the case of slavery and statute labour, that is proof that the fact itself has outlived its day, that other economic facts have made their appearance due to which the former has become unbearable and untenable. Therefore, a very true economic content may be concealed behind the formal economic incorrectness. This is not the place to deal more closely with the significance and history of the theory of surplus value.
Marx never would have said this lol, this is plain magical thinking
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Why are mainstream leftist retards like this?
Why do mainstream leftists like to copy fascists?
>yeah our subcultures and ideologies are rooted in the far right but we're actually anti-fascist!Why are mainstream leftist retards like this?
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The National Housing Demonstration saw tenants protest in central London with the backing of more than 50 grassroots groups, trade unions tenant unions such as Acorn, Generation Rent and Greater Manchester Tenants Union, as well as politicians from Your Party and the Greens.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/thousands-demand-ministers-put-renters-their-super-rich-mates
Civil resistance activists detained in Manchester over alleged plan to raid high-end stores
Take Back Power, a civil resistance activist group, confirmed its supporters had been arrested. All members of the group remained in police custody for questioning, it said. Police in Manchester said the group were believed to have been training for a mass shoplifting campaign, intending to steal from high-value stores and supermarkets and redistribute the stolen goods.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/19/civil-resistance-activists-detained-in-manchester-over-alleged-plan-to-raid-high-end-stores
The center-left coalition of former President Radev will win Bulgaria’s election, exit poll suggests
The poll conducted by Trend research group showed Radev’s Progressive Bulgaria earning 39.2% support, edging out the center-right GERB party of its veteran leader, Boyko Borissov, which is expected to capture 15.1% of the vote. Despite the huge gap between the two groups, the predicted percentage may not be enough for Radev to form a one-party government, and he will face the uphill task of looking for partners to govern.
https://apnews.com/article/bulgaria-election-radev-borissov-corruption-3e20cf8eef356337f724fd967efb72cf
US military seized Iranian-flagged container ship, Trump says
Trump said that a US navy guided missile destroyer had warned the Touska to stop in the Gulf of Oman, but the vessel did not. “[Our] Navy ship stopped them right in their tracks by blowing a hole in the engine room,” Trump said, adding that US marines now have custody of the vessel.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/19/trump-us-seizes-iran-flagged-cargo-ship
Israeli military publishes map of south Lebanon territory under its control despite ceasefire
Stretching east to west, the deployment line on the map runs 5-10 km deep from the border into Lebanese territory, where Israel has said that it plans to create a so-called buffer zone. Israeli forces have destroyed Lebanese villages in the area, claiming their aim is to protect northern Israeli towns from Hezbollah attacks. It has created buffer zones in Syria and in Gaza, where it controls more than half the enclave.
https://www.newarab.com/news/israel-publishes-map-s-lebanon-territory-under-its-control
Kataib Hezbollah ties Iraq PM to Al-Maliki or Al-Sudani blocs
In a statement, the group’s security official, Abu Mujahid al-Assaf, outlined four political and security positions, stressing that “it is not acceptable for one group to monopolize the four presidencies.” He indicated that if allies within the Coordination Framework —a coalition of Shiite parties aligned with Iran, that forms the largest bloc in parliament— fail to secure the nomination of either State of Law Coalition (SLC) leader Nouri al-Maliki or caretaker Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani, priority would shift to selecting a candidate from their respective blocs.
https://www.shafaq.com/en/Iraq/Kataib-Hezbollah-ties-Iraq-PM-to-Al-Maliki-or-Al-Sudani-blocs
Following his participation in “Dignity” sit-in protest | Caretaker Government pursues media activist in Idlib
This comes as part of a series of retaliatory measures against activists who defied the campaigns of “treason accusations and demonization” that preceded the sit-in. Pro-government media outlets and figures launched a widespread disinformation campaign accusing the organizers at times of being linked to “foreign agendas,” and at other times of being “remnants of the former regime,” in an attempt to strip their demands of legitimacy.
https://www.syriahr.com/en/381245/
Colombia reigns in Coca Cola bottler after environmental abuse claims
The new license only allows the company to consume 1.9 liters per second, forcing a 42% reduction in the company’s bottling capacity. Instead of the 10-year license the company has been granted since its arrival in La Calera in the 1990’s, the CAR’s latest license will have to be renewed in 2031 after another “rigorous technical and judicial analysis.”
https://colombiareports.com/colombia-reigns-in-coca-cola-bottler-after-environmental-abuse-claims/
Global leftists rally in Spain hoping to spark resurgence against far right
Spearheaded by Spain’s Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, whose outspoken opposition to U.S. President Trump’s foreign policy has boosted his image, the summit was buoyed by hopes that the far-right surge may have peaked, with Trump's polling numbers falling, Hungary's Victor Orban ousted after 16 years in government and the French far-right underperforming in last month's municipal elections.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/brazil-mexico-spain-pledge-send-more-aid-cuba-2026-04-18/
Karen Resistance Captures Two Regime Bases Over Thingyan Holidays
On April 12, fighters from the KNU, People Defense Forces (PDF) and All Burma Students’ Democratic Front (ABSDF) seized the Lay Kay military base in Mon State’s Bilin Township. Strategically located at the border of Mon and Karen states, the base housed the regime’s Light Infantry Battalion 2 and served as a gateway for the regime’s counteroffensive attacking the KNU’s brigades 7 and 5 in Hpa-an and Hpapun.
https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/war-against-the-junta/karen-resistance-captures-two-regime-bases-over-thingyan-holidays.html
Nepali Communist Party Criticizes Government Over Evictions and Policy Concerns
The statement mentions that activities carried out in the name of squatter management have left victimized families stranded and increased the risk of weakening the trust of marginalized communities in the state. 'We urge the government not to carry out such actions without making proper arrangements for rehabilitation,' the statement said. Meanwhile, the party has also demanded immediate control over rising inflation and black marketeering, which it claims have increased following the formation of the new government.
https://english.ratopati.com/story/59643/ncp-objects-to-squatter-uprising-and-ban-on-student-organizations
Australian state Labor government defends unconstitutional anti-protest law
For the second time in six months, the Labor government in the state of New South Wales (NSW) has defiantly defended imposing sweeping anti-protest legislation despite courts striking the laws down for violating the Australian Constitution. “The NSW government absolutely stands by the decision to introduce this legislation,” Premier Chris Minns declared on Thursday. “We believe it was necessary and important for Sydney at the time.”
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/04/18/gvtg-a18.html
News 4/19/26
Thousands demand ministers put ‘renters before their super-rich mates’The National Housing Demonstration saw tenants protest in central London with the backing of more than 50 grassroots groups, trade unions tenant unions such as Acorn, Generation Rent and Greater Manchester Tenants Union, as well as politicians from Your Party and the Greens.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/thousands-demand-ministers-put-renters-their-super-rich-mates
Civil resistance activists detained in Manchester over alleged plan to raid high-end stores
Take Back Power, a civil resistance activist group, confirmed its supporters had been arrested. All members of the group remained in police custody for questioning, it said. Police in Manchester said the group were believed to have been training for a mass shoplifting campaign, intending to steal from high-value stores and supermarkets and redistribute the stolen goods.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/19/civil-resistance-activists-detained-in-manchester-over-alleged-plan-to-raid-high-end-stores
The center-left coalition of former President Radev will win Bulgaria’s election, exit poll suggests
The poll conducted by Trend research group showed Radev’s Progressive Bulgaria earning 39.2% support, edging out the center-right GERB party of its veteran leader, Boyko Borissov, which is expected to capture 15.1% of the vote. Despite the huge gap between the two groups, the predicted percentage may not be enough for Radev to form a one-party government, and he will face the uphill task of looking for partners to govern.
https://apnews.com/article/bulgaria-election-radev-borissov-corruption-3e20cf8eef356337f724fd967efb72cf
US military seized Iranian-flagged container ship, Trump says
Trump said that a US navy guided missile destroyer had warned the Touska to stop in the Gulf of Oman, but the vessel did not. “[Our] Navy ship stopped them right in their tracks by blowing a hole in the engine room,” Trump said, adding that US marines now have custody of the vessel.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/19/trump-us-seizes-iran-flagged-cargo-ship
Israeli military publishes map of south Lebanon territory under its control despite ceasefire
Stretching east to west, the deployment line on the map runs 5-10 km deep from the border into Lebanese territory, where Israel has said that it plans to create a so-called buffer zone. Israeli forces have destroyed Lebanese villages in the area, claiming their aim is to protect northern Israeli towns from Hezbollah attacks. It has created buffer zones in Syria and in Gaza, where it controls more than half the enclave.
https://www.newarab.com/news/israel-publishes-map-s-lebanon-territory-under-its-control
Kataib Hezbollah ties Iraq PM to Al-Maliki or Al-Sudani blocs
In a statement, the group’s security official, Abu Mujahid al-Assaf, outlined four political and security positions, stressing that “it is not acceptable for one group to monopolize the four presidencies.” He indicated that if allies within the Coordination Framework —a coalition of Shiite parties aligned with Iran, that forms the largest bloc in parliament— fail to secure the nomination of either State of Law Coalition (SLC) leader Nouri al-Maliki or caretaker Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani, priority would shift to selecting a candidate from their respective blocs.
https://www.shafaq.com/en/Iraq/Kataib-Hezbollah-ties-Iraq-PM-to-Al-Maliki-or-Al-Sudani-blocs
Following his participation in “Dignity” sit-in protest | Caretaker Government pursues media activist in Idlib
This comes as part of a series of retaliatory measures against activists who defied the campaigns of “treason accusations and demonization” that preceded the sit-in. Pro-government media outlets and figures launched a widespread disinformation campaign accusing the organizers at times of being linked to “foreign agendas,” and at other times of being “remnants of the former regime,” in an attempt to strip their demands of legitimacy.
https://www.syriahr.com/en/381245/
Colombia reigns in Coca Cola bottler after environmental abuse claims
The new license only allows the company to consume 1.9 liters per second, forcing a 42% reduction in the company’s bottling capacity. Instead of the 10-year license the company has been granted since its arrival in La Calera in the 1990’s, the CAR’s latest license will have to be renewed in 2031 after another “rigorous technical and judicial analysis.”
https://colombiareports.com/colombia-reigns-in-coca-cola-bottler-after-environmental-abuse-claims/
Global leftists rally in Spain hoping to spark resurgence against far right
Spearheaded by Spain’s Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, whose outspoken opposition to U.S. President Trump’s foreign policy has boosted his image, the summit was buoyed by hopes that the far-right surge may have peaked, with Trump's polling numbers falling, Hungary's Victor Orban ousted after 16 years in government and the French far-right underperforming in last month's municipal elections.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/brazil-mexico-spain-pledge-send-more-aid-cuba-2026-04-18/
Karen Resistance Captures Two Regime Bases Over Thingyan Holidays
On April 12, fighters from the KNU, People Defense Forces (PDF) and All Burma Students’ Democratic Front (ABSDF) seized the Lay Kay military base in Mon State’s Bilin Township. Strategically located at the border of Mon and Karen states, the base housed the regime’s Light Infantry Battalion 2 and served as a gateway for the regime’s counteroffensive attacking the KNU’s brigades 7 and 5 in Hpa-an and Hpapun.
https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/war-against-the-junta/karen-resistance-captures-two-regime-bases-over-thingyan-holidays.html
Nepali Communist Party Criticizes Government Over Evictions and Policy Concerns
The statement mentions that activities carried out in the name of squatter management have left victimized families stranded and increased the risk of weakening the trust of marginalized communities in the state. 'We urge the government not to carry out such actions without making proper arrangements for rehabilitation,' the statement said. Meanwhile, the party has also demanded immediate control over rising inflation and black marketeering, which it claims have increased following the formation of the new government.
https://english.ratopati.com/story/59643/ncp-objects-to-squatter-uprising-and-ban-on-student-organizations
Australian state Labor government defends unconstitutional anti-protest law
For the second time in six months, the Labor government in the state of New South Wales (NSW) has defiantly defended imposing sweeping anti-protest legislation despite courts striking the laws down for violating the Australian Constitution. “The NSW government absolutely stands by the decision to introduce this legislation,” Premier Chris Minns declared on Thursday. “We believe it was necessary and important for Sydney at the time.”
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/04/18/gvtg-a18.html
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>>The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) is currently nursing a seven-figure debt, cutting half a million dollars from its own staff while chasing the electoral dragon. The entire organization spent just $10,783 on federal elections in 2024, a pittance that gets swallowed whole by a single real estate developer’s check. They dump millions into campaigns (just look at the $28,000 a single mayoral candidate paid his local DSA chapter for "texting"), yet can’t scrape together the funds to keep a single free clinic running. This is the political economy of the professional left, burn cash on consultants, beg for donations to pay off debt, and call it "building power."
>>Meanwhile, the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) isn’t even in the same league. Their idea of a "revolutionary" budget is a phone bank asking for $101 donations to "defeat the extreme-right," with zero transparent accounting of how those dollars translate into actual working-class power. For all their talk of centralism, they’ve been reduced to a glorified NGO, fundraising for Cuban pacemakers instead of organizing the oppressed in their own backyard.
Where does all this money go? It certainly doesn’t go to the people. DSA pours its resources into "inside the system" electoralism, running candidates on the Democratic Party line and calling it a "conquest of ballots". They spend fortunes on primary campaigns, Jamaal Bowman’s loss was the most expensive primary in U.S. history, while anarchists and real leftists open free clinics in dingy squats, scraping by on shoestring budgets because they actually live with the people they claim to serve.
This is the hypocrisy of the white‑collar left. They are careerists, middle managers, and petty‑bourgeois intellectuals who have never missed a meal. Their politics are a hobby, not a survival strategy. They call the lumpen "counter‑revolutionary" and the blue‑collar worker "crude," then retreat to their academic castles to write another resolution about "building dual power." Meanwhile, anarchists, the ones with actual class composition rooted in the working class and the dispossessed are the ones running the real mutual aid networks, organizing prison strikes, and keeping the lights on in the community spaces that these NGO‑leftists refuse to fund.
Let’s be clear, Every dollar the DSA and CPUSA raise for political campaigns is a dollar stolen from direct working‑class power. That money could have opened a dozen free clinics, sustained a network of squats, or built the infrastructure for a real working class power. Instead, it funds the careers of the very bureaucrats who will sell us out the moment the state offers them a seat at the table.
This is why anarchists are more revolutionary by nature, they don’t have a stake in the system. They are the dropouts, the blue‑collar workers, the lumpen who have nothing to lose but their chains. The Marxist‑Leninists, by contrast, are white‑collar bureaucrats who approach politics as a career path. They are legitimately inside the system, enjoying its partial benefits, and terrified of losing them. They will never smash the state because they are already living off its crumbs.
Study anarchism. Study Mao. Stop being indirect, lazy, careerist scum. Build the clinics. Organize the prisons. Burn the electoral bridge. We need to stop asking for permission and start taking what’s ours. Until then, let the debt‑ridden NGO‑leftists drown in their own paperwork. We have real work to do. People need to stop treating anarchists as mockery of the left, when indeed their political models and organizations seem to directly benefit the working-class way more than any Marxist party. I speak from experience here; when anarchist collectives form and exist for a long time, they often have a purpose and stick to that purpose. Example, go look into the Anarchist Black Cross. Their model is better for the west, and if Marxists adopt said models, the bourgeiose would lose their marbles. Trust me.
Leftist Bookkeepers
The US left is a graveyard of wasted motion, but nowhere is the dead rotting flesh more visible than in the bookkeeping of its "vanguard" parties.>>The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) is currently nursing a seven-figure debt, cutting half a million dollars from its own staff while chasing the electoral dragon. The entire organization spent just $10,783 on federal elections in 2024, a pittance that gets swallowed whole by a single real estate developer’s check. They dump millions into campaigns (just look at the $28,000 a single mayoral candidate paid his local DSA chapter for "texting"), yet can’t scrape together the funds to keep a single free clinic running. This is the political economy of the professional left, burn cash on consultants, beg for donations to pay off debt, and call it "building power."
>>Meanwhile, the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) isn’t even in the same league. Their idea of a "revolutionary" budget is a phone bank asking for $101 donations to "defeat the extreme-right," with zero transparent accounting of how those dollars translate into actual working-class power. For all their talk of centralism, they’ve been reduced to a glorified NGO, fundraising for Cuban pacemakers instead of organizing the oppressed in their own backyard.
Where does all this money go? It certainly doesn’t go to the people. DSA pours its resources into "inside the system" electoralism, running candidates on the Democratic Party line and calling it a "conquest of ballots". They spend fortunes on primary campaigns, Jamaal Bowman’s loss was the most expensive primary in U.S. history, while anarchists and real leftists open free clinics in dingy squats, scraping by on shoestring budgets because they actually live with the people they claim to serve.
This is the hypocrisy of the white‑collar left. They are careerists, middle managers, and petty‑bourgeois intellectuals who have never missed a meal. Their politics are a hobby, not a survival strategy. They call the lumpen "counter‑revolutionary" and the blue‑collar worker "crude," then retreat to their academic castles to write another resolution about "building dual power." Meanwhile, anarchists, the ones with actual class composition rooted in the working class and the dispossessed are the ones running the real mutual aid networks, organizing prison strikes, and keeping the lights on in the community spaces that these NGO‑leftists refuse to fund.
Let’s be clear, Every dollar the DSA and CPUSA raise for political campaigns is a dollar stolen from direct working‑class power. That money could have opened a dozen free clinics, sustained a network of squats, or built the infrastructure for a real working class power. Instead, it funds the careers of the very bureaucrats who will sell us out the moment the state offers them a seat at the table.
This is why anarchists are more revolutionary by nature, they don’t have a stake in the system. They are the dropouts, the blue‑collar workers, the lumpen who have nothing to lose but their chains. The Marxist‑Leninists, by contrast, are white‑collar bureaucrats who approach politics as a career path. They are legitimately inside the system, enjoying its partial benefits, and terrified of losing them. They will never smash the state because they are already living off its crumbs.
Study anarchism. Study Mao. Stop being indirect, lazy, careerist scum. Build the clinics. Organize the prisons. Burn the electoral bridge. We need to stop asking for permission and start taking what’s ours. Until then, let the debt‑ridden NGO‑leftists drown in their own paperwork. We have real work to do. People need to stop treating anarchists as mockery of the left, when indeed their political models and organizations seem to directly benefit the working-class way more than any Marxist party. I speak from experience here; when anarchist collectives form and exist for a long time, they often have a purpose and stick to that purpose. Example, go look into the Anarchist Black Cross. Their model is better for the west, and if Marxists adopt said models, the bourgeiose would lose their marbles. Trust me.
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Why wouldn't the Bourgeoisie immediatly mass produce this and exterminate us with it ? Why would they keep us alive ?
Can they actually win the class war ?
Obviously we're not there yet, but it's getting closer isn't it.
Idk, maybe they all get fucked by climate change anyway, that would be funny.
Could the Bourgeoisie win the class war by exterminating us?
Say, in the next few years, fat engineers in Silicon Valley invent some robot that can do everything a regular human worker can do.Why wouldn't the Bourgeoisie immediatly mass produce this and exterminate us with it ? Why would they keep us alive ?
Can they actually win the class war ?
Obviously we're not there yet, but it's getting closer isn't it.
Idk, maybe they all get fucked by climate change anyway, that would be funny.
R: 600 / I: 153 (full)
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The pigs are usually encamped in elaborate building structures which represents the deeply embedded and far reaching capitalist system while our heroes, the birds, can only ensure an end to the robbery by destroying them. Parallel to the proletarians' task to smash the state machinery. If otherwise the game would be a defensive one (reform, fending off against the porks)
To top it all off, birds can fly, Which symbolizes the infinite potential and rise of living standards of the proles once their shackles to the exploitative system is gotten rid off.
Angry birds is communist propaganda
The pigs, No mystery as to whom they represent, They even steal our protagonists' eggs and they're determined to put an end to this robbery once and for all.The pigs are usually encamped in elaborate building structures which represents the deeply embedded and far reaching capitalist system while our heroes, the birds, can only ensure an end to the robbery by destroying them. Parallel to the proletarians' task to smash the state machinery. If otherwise the game would be a defensive one (reform, fending off against the porks)
To top it all off, birds can fly, Which symbolizes the infinite potential and rise of living standards of the proles once their shackles to the exploitative system is gotten rid off.
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I feel like…
discussions about race, gender, sexuality and its relation to structures (or "post-structures") have reached a limit and class is not a concept good enough to replace it.
I feel like…
discussions about race, gender, sexuality and its relation to structures (or "post-structures") have reached a limit and class is not a concept good enough to replace it.
R: 17 / I: 0
If the rate of profit hits zero what will happen? Won’t it just boil down to the richest creating their own segregated societies were human level AI robots produce whatever their rich owners need, why everyone else would continue to live in a new cycle of capitalism that is run by everyone who doesn’t own high-end tech to become a master of an army of robot slaves as well? It seems like the profit rate hitting 0 wouldn’t be the end, it would just start a new cycle.
If the rate of profit hits zero what will happen? Won’t it just boil down to the richest creating their own segregated societies were human level AI robots produce whatever their rich owners need, why everyone else would continue to live in a new cycle of capitalism that is run by everyone who doesn’t own high-end tech to become a master of an army of robot slaves as well? It seems like the profit rate hitting 0 wouldn’t be the end, it would just start a new cycle.
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everyone's gonna hate this take but what if we just keep coming up with new exploitative modes of production after capitalism is over and never actually abolish exploitation itself.
every mode of production so far was abolished by a new middle strata
slavery (masters vs slaves): abolished by feudal lords, not masters or slaves
serfdom (lords vs serfs): abolished by bourgeoisie, not lords or serfs
capitalism (bourgeoisie vs proletariat): i predict will be abolished by party bureaucrats, not by bourgeoisie or proletarians
imperialism (1st world vs 3rd world): similarly I think the solution will come from the 2nd world
everyone's gonna hate this take but what if we just keep coming up with new exploitative modes of production after capitalism is over and never actually abolish exploitation itself.
every mode of production so far was abolished by a new middle strata
slavery (masters vs slaves): abolished by feudal lords, not masters or slaves
serfdom (lords vs serfs): abolished by bourgeoisie, not lords or serfs
capitalism (bourgeoisie vs proletariat): i predict will be abolished by party bureaucrats, not by bourgeoisie or proletarians
imperialism (1st world vs 3rd world): similarly I think the solution will come from the 2nd world
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I am scared im succumbing to Nihilism
The party i am in isn't giving me much hope and its expensive in the time and work i put into it, financially and physically, and I am scared the capitalist reign, and the fascist reign in America will not be overthrown in a conceivable timeframe.
What is to be done?
I am scared im succumbing to Nihilism
The party i am in isn't giving me much hope and its expensive in the time and work i put into it, financially and physically, and I am scared the capitalist reign, and the fascist reign in America will not be overthrown in a conceivable timeframe.
What is to be done?
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Do you think socialism will spread during one year?
What if like 10-20 years from now we experience a reverse-1989 and socialists gain political power all across the world and the United States collapses?
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Bob Avakian
The revcom legitimately got brainwashed into a cult group, how the fuck did Amerikkka mindbreak domestic groups so badly? Dude has done nothing for years. There're apparently 80 page pamphlets written by their "organization" and literally an updated news page trying to market this guy as their leader.
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Embrace the final form of revolution: Communalism.
>Marxism: dogmatic and outdated
>Anarchism: lifestylist and radical personal autonomy
Renounce Marxism and Anarchism. Embrace COMMUNALISM
Bookchin, the man who destroyed marxism and anarchism.Embrace the final form of revolution: Communalism.
>Marxism: dogmatic and outdated
>Anarchism: lifestylist and radical personal autonomy
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Outside its use in the corporate work i think it can have uses.
I personaly think it can help on spiritual excercises but i already wanted to know if there is a marxist critique of it
Myers-Briggs
Opinion on Myers-Briggs test?Outside its use in the corporate work i think it can have uses.
I personaly think it can help on spiritual excercises but i already wanted to know if there is a marxist critique of it
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I feel like we might see prole uprisings in the gulf states soon (kuwait, UAE, etc) and saudi arabia, they are some of the only states with actual modern slavery and they are all currently being shitted on by Iran.
I feel like we might see prole uprisings in the gulf states soon (kuwait, UAE, etc) and saudi arabia, they are some of the only states with actual modern slavery and they are all currently being shitted on by Iran.
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Is it in your material interests to
A: burn the grain rather than see it redistributed, "If I can't have 100% of it, nobody gets any% of it" and then flee the country before they can execute you.
or
B: Let the government distribute the grain and leave you with subsistence, and hope you survive.
To me, the obvious choice is B, but many here might say that B would be the kulak going against his own class interests, and therefore not predictable by Marxist theory.
You are kulak. What do?
You are a wealthy peasant, called a kulak, who owns many hectares of land. You have 10,000 bushels of grain as a harvest. The soviet government is going to take your 10,000 bushels of grain and redistribute them to the 1000 people in your countywide region (called rayon in Russia). You are one of these people, so you will get 10 bushels for subsistence if it is redistributed. The government plans to eventually collectivize your farm after the civil war.Is it in your material interests to
A: burn the grain rather than see it redistributed, "If I can't have 100% of it, nobody gets any% of it" and then flee the country before they can execute you.
or
B: Let the government distribute the grain and leave you with subsistence, and hope you survive.
To me, the obvious choice is B, but many here might say that B would be the kulak going against his own class interests, and therefore not predictable by Marxist theory.
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Do you think that conscription is necessary part of any TRVE revolution or is it bourgeoisie anti-proletarian totalitarian policy? What are you thoughts? Should we organise only voluntary militias or train all of the proletariat?
>An oppressed class which does not strive to learn to use arms, to acquire arms, only deserves to be treated like slaves. - Lenin
Conscription Under Transitional Phase
Hello /leftypol/, I would like to start this thread where we can discuss important topics of conscription and army under necessary transition towards socialism, I invite everyone for discussion regarding this topic.Do you think that conscription is necessary part of any TRVE revolution or is it bourgeoisie anti-proletarian totalitarian policy? What are you thoughts? Should we organise only voluntary militias or train all of the proletariat?
>An oppressed class which does not strive to learn to use arms, to acquire arms, only deserves to be treated like slaves. - Lenin
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Communist Cuba is about to be overthrown.
Communist Cuba is about to be overthrown.
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SOUTH AFRICAN opposition party leader Julius Malema was sentenced to five years in prison today, after he was convicted of breaking firearm laws by firing a rifle at a political rally in 2018. He was released pending his appeal, which will be heard at a later date. If the verdict and sentence are upheld, Mr Malema, who leads the left-wing Economic Freedom Fighters party, will be disqualified as a lawmaker.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/south-african-opposition-leader-gets-5-years-prison-breaking-firearm-laws
Somalia reports hit on al-Shabab with ‘international support’
The Somali army also “seized weapons and military equipment, including BKM machine guns, RPGs and AK-47 rifles, as well as landmines that the terrorists had intended to use against civilians”, the statement read. The Defence Ministry said operations are ongoing to “pursue the remaining Al-Shabaab elements, in order to ensure security, stability and the safety of civilians living in Somalia”.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/14/somalia-reports-hit-on-al-shabab-with-international-support
https://archive.ph/T66cX
Trump says Israel agrees to 10-day Lebanon ceasefire
On Thursday morning, as Israeli media reported that a call between Aoun and Netanyahu was imminent, Israel bombed the Qasmiyeh bridge, severing the last link between southern Lebanon and the rest of the country. “Enemy aircraft carried out two consecutive strikes on the Qasmiyeh bridge, the last bridge between the Sour and Saida regions, completely destroying it,” Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency reported.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/trump-says-israel-and-lebanon-agree-10-day-ceasefire
Sectarian fears increase as a Beirut area says no to displacement centre
A number of politicians and protesters were opposed to setting up the centre, citing a number of reasons, including increased traffic to the area near Beirut’s port and health concerns. But there were also sectarian motivations with some of Karantina’s Christian population leading objections to housing the displaced, who are predominantly Shia Muslims, citing demographic concerns and using sectarian slogans reminiscent of language used during the 1975-1990 Lebanese Civil War.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/16/sectarian-fears-increase-as-a-beirut-area-says-no-to-displacement-centre
https://archive.ph/m6bRj
In violation of the 1974 agreement | Work resumes on the “Sofa 53” project inside the buffer zone in Al-Qunaitrah
Al-Qunaitrah province: Israeli forces have resumed work on the “Sofa 53” project inside the buffer zone between the occupied Syrian Golan and Al-Qunaitrah countryside, in a move described as a violation of the 1974 Disengagement Agreement.
https://www.syriahr.com/en/381102/
Turkish coal miners march to Ankara for their unpaid wages
The march began amid President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his government’s escalating efforts to suppress the working class through the courts, and its US imperialist ally’s war of aggression against Iran. While over 90 percent of the Turkish public believes the war against Iran is unjust, Ankara signed the Riyadh declaration condemning Iran’s right to self-defense.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/04/15/ijgo-a15.html
Labour facing its ‘worst local election ever’
The Greens and hard-right Reform are set to be the beneficiaries in England, with nationalist parties winning in Scotland and Wales. If the results on May 7 bear out these predictions it will revive pressure on Labour MPs to act to end Sir Keir Starmer’s disastrous leadership of their party and the government. James Johnson, of JL Partners, which conducted the detailed survey for the Telegraph, said the research pointed to “a major political earthquake” across Britain.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/labour-facing-its-worst-local-election-ever
El Salvador’s Bukele signs reforms allowing life prison sentences for people as young as 12
The change was passed last month by the Legislative Assembly, which is controlled by Bukele’s party, and would apply to people convicted of committing or acting as an accomplice to crimes including homicide, femicide, rape and gang membership. The measure was pushed forward by Bukele’s cabinet.
https://apnews.com/article/el-salvador-bukele-life-prison-youth-e14e9dfe3ae7028f3c97eb9429bf3a63
Paraguayan Teachers Reject Pension Reform
Teachers’ unions appealed to the highest court to request a declaration of unconstitutionality regarding the Pension System Reform Law promoted by the government of Santiago Peña. Gabriel Espínola, secretary of the workers’ organization, indicated that the legislation is regressive and detrimental to teachers, police officers, and military personnel.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/paraguayan-teachers-reject-pension-reform/
Over 700 families near Carbon Market face displacement, red-tagging amid privatization
Residents of Sitio Bato in Barangay Ermita, Cebu City fear they might be driven out of their homes after their community was included in the redevelopment area covered by the Joint Venture Agreement (JVA) between the Cebu City government and Megawide Construction Corporation’s Cebu2World Development Inc. (C2W).
https://www.bulatlat.com/2026/04/10/over-700-families-near-carbon-market-face-displacement-red-tagging-amid-privatization/
Myanmar revellers cautiously return to Thingyan festivities after years of boycott
This year’s festivities – held from Monday to Thursday (Apr 13 to 16) and followed by the Myanmar New Year on Friday – have taken place against the backdrop of ongoing armed conflict and just over a year after a devastating earthquake killed around 3,800 people. For many, Thingyan has offered a rare chance to experience a sense of normalcy – even if only briefly – after years of crisis.
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/asia/myanmar-thingyan-new-year-festival-military-junta-coup-earthquake-fuel-shortage-6060576
NSW’s highest court strikes down anti-protest law introduced in wake of Bondi beach terror attack
The court of appeal handed down its findings on Thursday after three activist groups – the Blak Caucus, the Palestine Action Group and Jews Against the Occupation ’48 – filed a constitutional challenge in early January against the legislation. The law, known as the public assembly restriction declaration or Pard, was passed in the wake of the Bondi beach terror attack in which 15 people were killed. It meant protesters could not use the form 1 system – a notice of intention to the police to hold a public assembly - in areas designated by police for up to three months after a terrorist attack, effectively meaning protesters could not march without the risk of arrest.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/apr/16/nsws-highest-court-strikes-down-anti-protest-law-introduced-in-wake-of-bondi-beach-terror-attack-ntwnfb
News 4/16/26
South African opposition leader gets 5 years in prison for breaking firearm lawsSOUTH AFRICAN opposition party leader Julius Malema was sentenced to five years in prison today, after he was convicted of breaking firearm laws by firing a rifle at a political rally in 2018. He was released pending his appeal, which will be heard at a later date. If the verdict and sentence are upheld, Mr Malema, who leads the left-wing Economic Freedom Fighters party, will be disqualified as a lawmaker.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/south-african-opposition-leader-gets-5-years-prison-breaking-firearm-laws
Somalia reports hit on al-Shabab with ‘international support’
The Somali army also “seized weapons and military equipment, including BKM machine guns, RPGs and AK-47 rifles, as well as landmines that the terrorists had intended to use against civilians”, the statement read. The Defence Ministry said operations are ongoing to “pursue the remaining Al-Shabaab elements, in order to ensure security, stability and the safety of civilians living in Somalia”.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/14/somalia-reports-hit-on-al-shabab-with-international-support
https://archive.ph/T66cX
Trump says Israel agrees to 10-day Lebanon ceasefire
On Thursday morning, as Israeli media reported that a call between Aoun and Netanyahu was imminent, Israel bombed the Qasmiyeh bridge, severing the last link between southern Lebanon and the rest of the country. “Enemy aircraft carried out two consecutive strikes on the Qasmiyeh bridge, the last bridge between the Sour and Saida regions, completely destroying it,” Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency reported.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/trump-says-israel-and-lebanon-agree-10-day-ceasefire
Sectarian fears increase as a Beirut area says no to displacement centre
A number of politicians and protesters were opposed to setting up the centre, citing a number of reasons, including increased traffic to the area near Beirut’s port and health concerns. But there were also sectarian motivations with some of Karantina’s Christian population leading objections to housing the displaced, who are predominantly Shia Muslims, citing demographic concerns and using sectarian slogans reminiscent of language used during the 1975-1990 Lebanese Civil War.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/16/sectarian-fears-increase-as-a-beirut-area-says-no-to-displacement-centre
https://archive.ph/m6bRj
In violation of the 1974 agreement | Work resumes on the “Sofa 53” project inside the buffer zone in Al-Qunaitrah
Al-Qunaitrah province: Israeli forces have resumed work on the “Sofa 53” project inside the buffer zone between the occupied Syrian Golan and Al-Qunaitrah countryside, in a move described as a violation of the 1974 Disengagement Agreement.
https://www.syriahr.com/en/381102/
Turkish coal miners march to Ankara for their unpaid wages
The march began amid President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his government’s escalating efforts to suppress the working class through the courts, and its US imperialist ally’s war of aggression against Iran. While over 90 percent of the Turkish public believes the war against Iran is unjust, Ankara signed the Riyadh declaration condemning Iran’s right to self-defense.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/04/15/ijgo-a15.html
Labour facing its ‘worst local election ever’
The Greens and hard-right Reform are set to be the beneficiaries in England, with nationalist parties winning in Scotland and Wales. If the results on May 7 bear out these predictions it will revive pressure on Labour MPs to act to end Sir Keir Starmer’s disastrous leadership of their party and the government. James Johnson, of JL Partners, which conducted the detailed survey for the Telegraph, said the research pointed to “a major political earthquake” across Britain.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/labour-facing-its-worst-local-election-ever
El Salvador’s Bukele signs reforms allowing life prison sentences for people as young as 12
The change was passed last month by the Legislative Assembly, which is controlled by Bukele’s party, and would apply to people convicted of committing or acting as an accomplice to crimes including homicide, femicide, rape and gang membership. The measure was pushed forward by Bukele’s cabinet.
https://apnews.com/article/el-salvador-bukele-life-prison-youth-e14e9dfe3ae7028f3c97eb9429bf3a63
Paraguayan Teachers Reject Pension Reform
Teachers’ unions appealed to the highest court to request a declaration of unconstitutionality regarding the Pension System Reform Law promoted by the government of Santiago Peña. Gabriel Espínola, secretary of the workers’ organization, indicated that the legislation is regressive and detrimental to teachers, police officers, and military personnel.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/paraguayan-teachers-reject-pension-reform/
Over 700 families near Carbon Market face displacement, red-tagging amid privatization
Residents of Sitio Bato in Barangay Ermita, Cebu City fear they might be driven out of their homes after their community was included in the redevelopment area covered by the Joint Venture Agreement (JVA) between the Cebu City government and Megawide Construction Corporation’s Cebu2World Development Inc. (C2W).
https://www.bulatlat.com/2026/04/10/over-700-families-near-carbon-market-face-displacement-red-tagging-amid-privatization/
Myanmar revellers cautiously return to Thingyan festivities after years of boycott
This year’s festivities – held from Monday to Thursday (Apr 13 to 16) and followed by the Myanmar New Year on Friday – have taken place against the backdrop of ongoing armed conflict and just over a year after a devastating earthquake killed around 3,800 people. For many, Thingyan has offered a rare chance to experience a sense of normalcy – even if only briefly – after years of crisis.
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/asia/myanmar-thingyan-new-year-festival-military-junta-coup-earthquake-fuel-shortage-6060576
NSW’s highest court strikes down anti-protest law introduced in wake of Bondi beach terror attack
The court of appeal handed down its findings on Thursday after three activist groups – the Blak Caucus, the Palestine Action Group and Jews Against the Occupation ’48 – filed a constitutional challenge in early January against the legislation. The law, known as the public assembly restriction declaration or Pard, was passed in the wake of the Bondi beach terror attack in which 15 people were killed. It meant protesters could not use the form 1 system – a notice of intention to the police to hold a public assembly - in areas designated by police for up to three months after a terrorist attack, effectively meaning protesters could not march without the risk of arrest.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/apr/16/nsws-highest-court-strikes-down-anti-protest-law-introduced-in-wake-of-bondi-beach-terror-attack-ntwnfb
R: 25 / I: 1
Political implications of apple imagination?
I see nothing, just feel the very basic apple vibe and flavor. If you give me a detailed description of a specific apple I can imagine it though.
Political implications of apple imagination?
I see nothing, just feel the very basic apple vibe and flavor. If you give me a detailed description of a specific apple I can imagine it though.
R: 21 / I: 3
No, the charges were dropped because by the very nature of the bourgeois court systems, there's nothing worth doing. He's too public a figure now, and it would be a shit show the entire time and completely unravel the arbitrary and selective enforcement of contradictory laws over 300 years of documentation of court interpretation. Whatever judge would touch it, would easily be countered by another judge, and all the same it would be impossible to wrangle a jury that's cooperative in just giving him the plain guilty verdict they'd so want. Out of the four charges, the only ones that have stuck are the stalking ones against Brian Thompson and that's nothing. That's baby shit misdemeanors. I've been accused of stalking before.
You won't hear about his civil case and even than that might not even happen. If anything at all happens to Luigi it'll be a harmless fine. The lesson here is if you go to kill someone, make sure the whole world is watching. Which is why the cointelpro fags tell you "fedposting". They want you scared, when really they're the ones who are scared. Their entire system relies on your cooperation and why would you cooperate when you do not benefit? That's retarded.
Deny the allegations and facts not conducive to your wants
Defend the terrorists and other nay doers that upset others
Depose everyone ever whose ever worked a job. Fuck subservient wagies.
Mama Luigi will not be going to trial and the bourgeois media isn't saying it outloud
It's because of their own system this is the case too. It helps that Luigi was an attractive man from a privileged background, but he never even went to trial for that to matter. He isn't some business tycoon too dangerous to lose, he didn't hire the best lawyers, femcels aren't strapping bombs to themselves in protest for Chad although that'd be hilarious.No, the charges were dropped because by the very nature of the bourgeois court systems, there's nothing worth doing. He's too public a figure now, and it would be a shit show the entire time and completely unravel the arbitrary and selective enforcement of contradictory laws over 300 years of documentation of court interpretation. Whatever judge would touch it, would easily be countered by another judge, and all the same it would be impossible to wrangle a jury that's cooperative in just giving him the plain guilty verdict they'd so want. Out of the four charges, the only ones that have stuck are the stalking ones against Brian Thompson and that's nothing. That's baby shit misdemeanors. I've been accused of stalking before.
You won't hear about his civil case and even than that might not even happen. If anything at all happens to Luigi it'll be a harmless fine. The lesson here is if you go to kill someone, make sure the whole world is watching. Which is why the cointelpro fags tell you "fedposting". They want you scared, when really they're the ones who are scared. Their entire system relies on your cooperation and why would you cooperate when you do not benefit? That's retarded.
Deny the allegations and facts not conducive to your wants
Defend the terrorists and other nay doers that upset others
Depose everyone ever whose ever worked a job. Fuck subservient wagies.
R: 630 / I: 188 (full)
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R: 77 / I: 17
If things heat up with all these acts of sabotage and violence occurring in the last week, do not be swept away by emotion. Do not join with those who talk of violence but have no deep roots in the working class. Do not get pushed into death and jail by Maoists and Anarchists. Stay disciplined. Stay organized. The real work is patient, collective, and legal. Anything else is a trap. Resist the urge to be heroic. The revolution will not be won by fire, terror and bullets. It will be won by the slow, unglamorous building of dual power.
Don't let the adventurists lead you into ruin. Keep your head down. Trust the party. Trust the process. Thank you!
Comrades, a sober reminder in these heated times.
We've all seen the rhetoric. Decentralized madness occurring. Calls to "seize the moment," to escalate tactics, to join with unknown provocateurs who promise militancy. But let's be clear, revolution is not sabotage, not a spontaneous outburst. History teaches us that adventurism, detached from mass conditions, serves only the state. It isolates the vanguard, burns our networks energies, and gives the bourgeoisie the pretext for crackdowns.If things heat up with all these acts of sabotage and violence occurring in the last week, do not be swept away by emotion. Do not join with those who talk of violence but have no deep roots in the working class. Do not get pushed into death and jail by Maoists and Anarchists. Stay disciplined. Stay organized. The real work is patient, collective, and legal. Anything else is a trap. Resist the urge to be heroic. The revolution will not be won by fire, terror and bullets. It will be won by the slow, unglamorous building of dual power.
Don't let the adventurists lead you into ruin. Keep your head down. Trust the party. Trust the process. Thank you!
R: 4 / I: 0
The Central Coordination Committee of the Nepal Communist Party (NCP) has opposed the government's announcement to ban student organizations in colleges and trade unions in workplaces. Providing information about the meeting, which has been ongoing for the past seven days, leader Jagannath Khatiwada stated that the party has decided to stand against this move as it restricts the rights of citizens and workers.
https://english.ratopati.com/story/58515/ncp-opposes-decision-to-ban-student-organizations-and-trade-unions
Pakistan sends fighter jets to Saudi Arabia amid fragile US-Iran ceasefire
The aircraft — a mix of fighter and support jets — landed at King Abdulaziz Air Base in Saudi Arabia’s Eastern Province on Saturday, the Saudi Ministry of Defence announced. The deployment came under a collective defence agreement signed in September 2025, which commits each country to treat an attack on the other as an attack on itself.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/11/pakistan-sends-fighter-jets-to-saudi-arabia-amid-fragile-us-iran-ceasefire
https://archive.ph/7inV9
US military 'setting conditions' to clear mines from Strait of Hormuz
In a post on X, the U.S. Central Command said the USS Frank Peterson and USS Michael Murphy transited the Strait of Hormuz "as part of a broader mission to ensure the strait is fully clear of sea mines previously laid by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps." ..
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/trump-says-us-forces-are-clearing-strait-hormuz-2026-04-11/
Israel kidnaps three people in latest raid on south Syria
The operation coincided with further Israeli movements in western Daraa province, where troops advanced after midnight into the Yarmouk Basin area and deployed in the village of Hamatta. Israeli forces carried out searches of civilian homes and set up a military checkpoint on the outskirts of the nearby village of Jamla, restricting the movement of residents.
https://www.newarab.com/news/israel-kidnaps-three-people-latest-raid-south-syria
Activists block Rheinmetall factory to protest arms supplies to Israel
Members of the group “Peacefully Against Genocide” sat in front of the gates at the site in the Wedding district, gluing their hands to the pavement. They chanted slogans including “Freedom for Palestine,” “Stop the genocide” and “Israel bombs, Germany finances.”
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260410-activists-block-rheinmetall-factory-to-protest-arms-supplies-to-israel/
Over 200 arrested as hundreds gather to defy Palestine Action ban in London
Some 500 protesters set up camping chairs at the foot of the steps of Trafalgar Square, displaying handmade cardboard signs reading: “I oppose genocide, I support Palestine Action.” The demonstrators were met with a heavy police presence, with vans lining the square hours before the vigil began. The protesters - many of them grey-haired and frail - were seen being hauled away, while some were led leaning on crutches. A number of the demonstrators were dressed as Suffragettes, early women’s rights activists.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/over-arrested-hundreds-gather-defy-palestine-action-ban-london
Irish police clear demonstrators to reopen refinery as fuel protest causes chaos
Irish police Commissioner Justin Kelly said enforcement would be ramped up because protesters were illegally blockading critical infrastructure and endangering public safety because of the impact gas shortages could have on emergency response from paramedics and firefighters.
https://apnews.com/article/ireland-fuel-protests-roadblocks-cost-refinery-roads-d5ee29fe105bc874177e76dd0c1ac646
President Petro Announces Colombia’s Withdrawal from the Andean Community
Colombian Foreign Minister Rosa Villavicencio publicly endorsed the decision for MERCOSUR accession and confirmed that the application process has already begun. Villavicencio sharply criticized the stance of President Daniel Noboa’s Government, labeling it an “anti-progressive ideology” that actively undermines the essential Latin American unity required to confront common regional challenges.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/petro-colombia-andean-community/
Milei government not supporting campaign to restore dictatorship identities
The DNA kits, used to collect blood samples for identity verification, had been routinely sent overseas for nearly two decades, allowing individuals unable to travel to Buenos Aires to access testing. They were taken back to Argentina via diplomatic pouch. But since Milei took office in December, shipments have largely ceased, sources told EFE with identity investigations now proceeding only through formal judicial channels.
https://www.batimes.com.ar/news/argentina/report-milei-government-not-supporting-campaign-to-restore-dictatorship-identities.phtml
https://archive.ph/VsQNY
Mulino government seeks to dissolve Panama’s largest union, workers say
Although the workers managed to sustain their protests for several weeks, the Panamanian justice system initiated a series of legal proceedings against SUNTRACS leaders, forcing its top leader to flee the country to avoid possible arrest, as well as the prosecution of several others. The union has denounced these trials as “lawfare” aimed at persecuting militant workers.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2026/04/10/mulino-government-seeks-to-dissolve-panamas-largest-union-workers-say/
News 4/11/26
Nepal Communist Party Opposes Government Ban on Student and Trade UnionsThe Central Coordination Committee of the Nepal Communist Party (NCP) has opposed the government's announcement to ban student organizations in colleges and trade unions in workplaces. Providing information about the meeting, which has been ongoing for the past seven days, leader Jagannath Khatiwada stated that the party has decided to stand against this move as it restricts the rights of citizens and workers.
https://english.ratopati.com/story/58515/ncp-opposes-decision-to-ban-student-organizations-and-trade-unions
Pakistan sends fighter jets to Saudi Arabia amid fragile US-Iran ceasefire
The aircraft — a mix of fighter and support jets — landed at King Abdulaziz Air Base in Saudi Arabia’s Eastern Province on Saturday, the Saudi Ministry of Defence announced. The deployment came under a collective defence agreement signed in September 2025, which commits each country to treat an attack on the other as an attack on itself.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/11/pakistan-sends-fighter-jets-to-saudi-arabia-amid-fragile-us-iran-ceasefire
https://archive.ph/7inV9
US military 'setting conditions' to clear mines from Strait of Hormuz
In a post on X, the U.S. Central Command said the USS Frank Peterson and USS Michael Murphy transited the Strait of Hormuz "as part of a broader mission to ensure the strait is fully clear of sea mines previously laid by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps." ..
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/trump-says-us-forces-are-clearing-strait-hormuz-2026-04-11/
Israel kidnaps three people in latest raid on south Syria
The operation coincided with further Israeli movements in western Daraa province, where troops advanced after midnight into the Yarmouk Basin area and deployed in the village of Hamatta. Israeli forces carried out searches of civilian homes and set up a military checkpoint on the outskirts of the nearby village of Jamla, restricting the movement of residents.
https://www.newarab.com/news/israel-kidnaps-three-people-latest-raid-south-syria
Activists block Rheinmetall factory to protest arms supplies to Israel
Members of the group “Peacefully Against Genocide” sat in front of the gates at the site in the Wedding district, gluing their hands to the pavement. They chanted slogans including “Freedom for Palestine,” “Stop the genocide” and “Israel bombs, Germany finances.”
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260410-activists-block-rheinmetall-factory-to-protest-arms-supplies-to-israel/
Over 200 arrested as hundreds gather to defy Palestine Action ban in London
Some 500 protesters set up camping chairs at the foot of the steps of Trafalgar Square, displaying handmade cardboard signs reading: “I oppose genocide, I support Palestine Action.” The demonstrators were met with a heavy police presence, with vans lining the square hours before the vigil began. The protesters - many of them grey-haired and frail - were seen being hauled away, while some were led leaning on crutches. A number of the demonstrators were dressed as Suffragettes, early women’s rights activists.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/over-arrested-hundreds-gather-defy-palestine-action-ban-london
Irish police clear demonstrators to reopen refinery as fuel protest causes chaos
Irish police Commissioner Justin Kelly said enforcement would be ramped up because protesters were illegally blockading critical infrastructure and endangering public safety because of the impact gas shortages could have on emergency response from paramedics and firefighters.
https://apnews.com/article/ireland-fuel-protests-roadblocks-cost-refinery-roads-d5ee29fe105bc874177e76dd0c1ac646
President Petro Announces Colombia’s Withdrawal from the Andean Community
Colombian Foreign Minister Rosa Villavicencio publicly endorsed the decision for MERCOSUR accession and confirmed that the application process has already begun. Villavicencio sharply criticized the stance of President Daniel Noboa’s Government, labeling it an “anti-progressive ideology” that actively undermines the essential Latin American unity required to confront common regional challenges.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/petro-colombia-andean-community/
Milei government not supporting campaign to restore dictatorship identities
The DNA kits, used to collect blood samples for identity verification, had been routinely sent overseas for nearly two decades, allowing individuals unable to travel to Buenos Aires to access testing. They were taken back to Argentina via diplomatic pouch. But since Milei took office in December, shipments have largely ceased, sources told EFE with identity investigations now proceeding only through formal judicial channels.
https://www.batimes.com.ar/news/argentina/report-milei-government-not-supporting-campaign-to-restore-dictatorship-identities.phtml
https://archive.ph/VsQNY
Mulino government seeks to dissolve Panama’s largest union, workers say
Although the workers managed to sustain their protests for several weeks, the Panamanian justice system initiated a series of legal proceedings against SUNTRACS leaders, forcing its top leader to flee the country to avoid possible arrest, as well as the prosecution of several others. The union has denounced these trials as “lawfare” aimed at persecuting militant workers.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2026/04/10/mulino-government-seeks-to-dissolve-panamas-largest-union-workers-say/
R: 5 / I: 1
The fake conflict is "Luddites" vs. "Malthusians"
i.e. "people who think tech bad and wasteful" versus "people who think people are bad and wasteful"
I want everyone to notice how good the bourgeoisie are at getting us to reframe their destruction, waste, planned obsolescence, and artificial scarcity as a conflict between Luddites and Malthusians.
The capitalist want us to argue over whether a human being or a piece of technology is more wasteful, but technology exists to be used as a tool by human beings to abridge labor processes. Everywhere you see technology being used to DESTROY rather than CREATE (i.e. in war, in wasteful data centers, in perfectly good food getting throw in locked dumpsters, etc.) the problem is not the existence of the technology itself but the MODE OF PRODUCTION
READ CHAPTER 3 OF FASCISM AND SOCIAL REVOLUTION BY RAJANI PALME DUTT, ESPECIALLY THE SECTIONS "DESTRUCTION OF THE PRODUCTIVE FORCES" AND "THE REVOLT AGAINST SCIENCE"!!!!
The fake conflict is "Luddites" vs. "Malthusians"
i.e. "people who think tech bad and wasteful" versus "people who think people are bad and wasteful"
I want everyone to notice how good the bourgeoisie are at getting us to reframe their destruction, waste, planned obsolescence, and artificial scarcity as a conflict between Luddites and Malthusians.
The capitalist want us to argue over whether a human being or a piece of technology is more wasteful, but technology exists to be used as a tool by human beings to abridge labor processes. Everywhere you see technology being used to DESTROY rather than CREATE (i.e. in war, in wasteful data centers, in perfectly good food getting throw in locked dumpsters, etc.) the problem is not the existence of the technology itself but the MODE OF PRODUCTION
READ CHAPTER 3 OF FASCISM AND SOCIAL REVOLUTION BY RAJANI PALME DUTT, ESPECIALLY THE SECTIONS "DESTRUCTION OF THE PRODUCTIVE FORCES" AND "THE REVOLT AGAINST SCIENCE"!!!!
R: 1 / I: 0
about the situation in Hungary, obviously they voted in a stooge, there is no doubt about that, it's a fate shared by most countries in the periphery. however, this time around it seems that it is not a CIA stooge? rather someone blessed by Western European capital?
I've seen that this new PM is a strong proponent of the Euro (it probably benefits WE MNCs when particular countries no longer can engage in currency devaluations), he's also, of course, in favour of militarism, procurement and stocking up of armaments, and condemns "Russian imperialism" (whatever that means, he fails to notice that it's primarily western countries that support imperialistic attitudes, not Russia). also notice how all western newspapers had propped him up prior to the election (for example: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/25/the-time-is-here-the-ex-government-insider-shaking-up-hungarian-politics), they are all bought but still they wouldn't be able to do that if he were labeled the enemy of moneyed interests
what do u guys think about him/tisza party
about the situation in Hungary, obviously they voted in a stooge, there is no doubt about that, it's a fate shared by most countries in the periphery. however, this time around it seems that it is not a CIA stooge? rather someone blessed by Western European capital?
I've seen that this new PM is a strong proponent of the Euro (it probably benefits WE MNCs when particular countries no longer can engage in currency devaluations), he's also, of course, in favour of militarism, procurement and stocking up of armaments, and condemns "Russian imperialism" (whatever that means, he fails to notice that it's primarily western countries that support imperialistic attitudes, not Russia). also notice how all western newspapers had propped him up prior to the election (for example: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/25/the-time-is-here-the-ex-government-insider-shaking-up-hungarian-politics), they are all bought but still they wouldn't be able to do that if he were labeled the enemy of moneyed interests
what do u guys think about him/tisza party
R: 15 / I: 3
We have arguably reset back to a time right around the time of marx's life or right after his death. The 1990s free market triumphalism ended in 2008 but the new era also does not resemble the cold war era. We are back in an era of great powers, but the social democratic compromise has mostly broken down. Massive levels of financialization. Workers have no parties for themselves, and the labor movement is weak but burgeoning.
We need to go back to the mass socialist parties before the 1914 split, SPD, SPA, PSOE etc. Though these parties have mostly degenerated into capitalist parties that don't even claim marxism anymore or just dont exist like the SPA, new attempts are currently starting at building new mass marxist parties, DSA in america, die linke in germany etc.
Attempts at trying to replicate a highly disciplined leninist vanguard have just repeatedly resulted hundreds of tiny sects. that stay irrelevant and go nowhere. We need to retrace our steps back to the late 19th century, and stop trying to create yet another vanguard book club with 5 people
We have arguably reset back to a time right around the time of marx's life or right after his death. The 1990s free market triumphalism ended in 2008 but the new era also does not resemble the cold war era. We are back in an era of great powers, but the social democratic compromise has mostly broken down. Massive levels of financialization. Workers have no parties for themselves, and the labor movement is weak but burgeoning.
We need to go back to the mass socialist parties before the 1914 split, SPD, SPA, PSOE etc. Though these parties have mostly degenerated into capitalist parties that don't even claim marxism anymore or just dont exist like the SPA, new attempts are currently starting at building new mass marxist parties, DSA in america, die linke in germany etc.
Attempts at trying to replicate a highly disciplined leninist vanguard have just repeatedly resulted hundreds of tiny sects. that stay irrelevant and go nowhere. We need to retrace our steps back to the late 19th century, and stop trying to create yet another vanguard book club with 5 people
R: 5 / I: 1
Working Class Power
If the working class doesn’t take power, it will have to live under barbarism. It’s a choice between workers’ power—which is to say a global socialist republic emerging from each nation of the earth installing their own dictatorship of the proletariat—or a third world war that could go nuclear. We cannot live under capitalism any longer and there is no hope for humanity under the decay of the American empire. We need the workers to take power, installing a workers’ government; otherwise, we are faced with death, fascism, ecological collapse, militarism, war, colonialism, and a farcical system where people are exploited in the names of profit. Join a socialist party and help build the real revolutionary movement. For socialism! Ad astra!
R: 20 / I: 1
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/california-law-operating-systems-ask-163009783.html
Why is no one talking about this?
California passes new law requiring age verification for all operating systems
California's Digital Age Assurance Act (AB 1043), signed in October 2025, requires all operating system providers (Windows, macOS, Android, iOS, Linux) to implement user age verification during device setup, effective January 1, 2027. The law mandates collecting user age data and transmitting an 'age signal' to apps to restrict content for minors.https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/california-law-operating-systems-ask-163009783.html
Why is no one talking about this?
R: 4 / I: 0
Several waves of departures from the US facility occurred on Saturday from the airport, according to another Iraqi security source, speaking on condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the matter. "Eight separate attacks, carried out until dawn with rockets and drones, targeted the US centre," the senior security official told AFP, adding that "some rockets landed near the base".
https://www.newarab.com/news/overnight-attacks-target-us-centre-baghdad-airport-security-officials
US sending 10,000 more troops to Middle East despite Iran ceasefire
The newspaper, quoting current and former US officials speaking on condition of anonymity, reported on Tuesday that the US was sending about 6,000 troops on board the USS George HW Bush carrier and the ships escorting it to the region.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/15/us-sending-10000-more-troops-to-middle-east-despite-iran-ceasefire
https://archive.ph/8Ac23
Israeli forces number Palestinian women’s hands during Jenin invasion
The women, along with nearly 40,000 Palestinians, have been forcibly expelled by Israeli forces from Jenin and other camps in the northern West Bank following a military offensive that began in January 2025. The invasion has left much of the camps in ruins, while large areas remain inaccessible, with troops permanently stationed there. The 120 women were allowed into the camp for less than two hours, much of which was spent undergoing searches and waiting under heavy military surveillance, while following predetermined routes.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israeli-forces-number-palestinian-womens-hands-during-jenin-invasion
Romania approves US military surge for war against Iran amid deepening domestic crisis
On March 11, Romania officially approved the increase of US military assets at its air bases in Câmpia Turzii and Mihail Kogălniceanu (MK), and their use in the war of extermination against Iran. The legal requirements were railroaded through on the same day.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/04/13/cawc-a13.html
‘Too many women have been silenced by rogue employers using NDAs’
The measure aims to prevent the misuse of NDAs in cases of workplace harassment and discrimination. The consultation will consider the conditions needed for an NDA to remain valid in such cases, for example, if an employee requests the NDA or has received independent advice on its contents.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/too-many-women-have-been-silenced-rogue-employers-using-ndas
Spain finalizes amnesty measure for potentially hundreds of thousands of immigrants
Spain’s government on Tuesday finalized a migrant amnesty measure it had announced earlier this year, paving the way for hundreds of thousands of immigrants living and working without authorization in the southern European nation to apply for legal status.
https://apnews.com/article/spain-immigration-amnesty-legal-european-union-migrants-255b9c28a05c496851864b60f0766008
EU age verification app ready as Europe moves to curb children's social media access
The app, which will be compatible with both mobile devices and computers, will require users to upload their passport or ID card to confirm their age anonymously, she said. "This app gives parents, teachers, caretakers a powerful tool to protect children, because we will have zero tolerance for companies that do not respect our children's rights," von der Leyen added.
https://www.reuters.com/world/eu-age-verification-app-ready-europe-moves-curb-childrens-social-media-access-2026-04-15/
Peru’s Sanchez to face Fujimori in runoff as rival signals protests over fraud
The count in Peru's presidential election produced a dramatic reversal on Wednesday. With 91% of ballots processed by the National Office of Electoral Processes (ONPE), leftist Roberto Sánchez (Juntos por el Perú) surged from sixth to second place, displacing ultraconservative Rafael López Aliaga (Renovación Popular) and positioning himself for the June 7 runoff against Keiko Fujimori (Fuerza Popular), who holds first place with 16.99% of the vote.
https://en.mercopress.com/2026/04/15/rural-vote-upends-peru-count-leftist-sanchez-overtakes-lopez-aliaga-and-advances-to-runoff
Peasant and Indigenous Sectors Reject Land Classification Change in Bolivia
Peasant and indigenous sectors, along with non-governmental organizations, are in conflict with the Bolivian government over Law 1720, which modifies the land classification from small to medium-sized properties. The Executive branch defends the measure, stating it aims to improve productivity and access to bank loans in the rural sector.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/peasant-and-indigenous-sectors-reject-land-classification-change-in-bolivia/
Rattled by Trump, US allies eye Japan’s biggest arms opening since WW2
Despite largely isolating itself from global arms markets since World War II, Japan spends enough on its own military – US$60 billion (S$76 billion) in 2026 – to sustain a sizeable defence industry capable of manufacturing advanced systems such as submarines and fighter jets. Among the potential new customers are the Polish military and Philippine navy, which are undergoing modernisation amid regional security challenges, according to Reuters interviews with Japanese officials and foreign diplomats in Tokyo.
https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/rattled-by-trump-us-allies-eye-japans-biggest-arms-opening-since-ww2
https://archive.ph/pkKVF
India's Uttar Pradesh state raises workers' wages amid protests over pay
Around 40,000 workers were part of the Noida protest, according to the Gautam Buddh Nagar police, which has lodged seven criminal cases related to the demonstrations. More than 300 people have been arrested, a police spokesperson told Reuters. The wage hike ordered this week will be applicable retrospectively from April 1, and will increase the pay of unskilled workers in Noida to roughly $147 per month from the current monthly pay of about $121, government sources said.
https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-work/indias-uttar-pradesh-state-raises-workers-wages-amid-protests-over-pay-2026-04-14/
2,000 urban poor residents set up camp at DSWD national office
According to Kadamay, the DSWD has been inutile and has no clear response to the needs of urban poor communities affected by the successive typhoons Crising, Dante, and Emong. The three typhoons hit the country from July 16 to 24, 2025—nearly a year ago. “Instead of taking action, the agency led on the victims in the repressive and deliberately sluggish bureaucracy,” the group said. The agency allegedly passed on to the urban poor the technical tasks such as forming the masterlist, which should’ve been the government’s responsibility.
https://philippinerevolution.nu/angbayan/2000-urban-poor-residents-set-up-camp-at-dswd-national-office/
News 4/15/26
Overnight attacks target US centre at Baghdad airport: security officialsSeveral waves of departures from the US facility occurred on Saturday from the airport, according to another Iraqi security source, speaking on condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the matter. "Eight separate attacks, carried out until dawn with rockets and drones, targeted the US centre," the senior security official told AFP, adding that "some rockets landed near the base".
https://www.newarab.com/news/overnight-attacks-target-us-centre-baghdad-airport-security-officials
US sending 10,000 more troops to Middle East despite Iran ceasefire
The newspaper, quoting current and former US officials speaking on condition of anonymity, reported on Tuesday that the US was sending about 6,000 troops on board the USS George HW Bush carrier and the ships escorting it to the region.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/15/us-sending-10000-more-troops-to-middle-east-despite-iran-ceasefire
https://archive.ph/8Ac23
Israeli forces number Palestinian women’s hands during Jenin invasion
The women, along with nearly 40,000 Palestinians, have been forcibly expelled by Israeli forces from Jenin and other camps in the northern West Bank following a military offensive that began in January 2025. The invasion has left much of the camps in ruins, while large areas remain inaccessible, with troops permanently stationed there. The 120 women were allowed into the camp for less than two hours, much of which was spent undergoing searches and waiting under heavy military surveillance, while following predetermined routes.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israeli-forces-number-palestinian-womens-hands-during-jenin-invasion
Romania approves US military surge for war against Iran amid deepening domestic crisis
On March 11, Romania officially approved the increase of US military assets at its air bases in Câmpia Turzii and Mihail Kogălniceanu (MK), and their use in the war of extermination against Iran. The legal requirements were railroaded through on the same day.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/04/13/cawc-a13.html
‘Too many women have been silenced by rogue employers using NDAs’
The measure aims to prevent the misuse of NDAs in cases of workplace harassment and discrimination. The consultation will consider the conditions needed for an NDA to remain valid in such cases, for example, if an employee requests the NDA or has received independent advice on its contents.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/too-many-women-have-been-silenced-rogue-employers-using-ndas
Spain finalizes amnesty measure for potentially hundreds of thousands of immigrants
Spain’s government on Tuesday finalized a migrant amnesty measure it had announced earlier this year, paving the way for hundreds of thousands of immigrants living and working without authorization in the southern European nation to apply for legal status.
https://apnews.com/article/spain-immigration-amnesty-legal-european-union-migrants-255b9c28a05c496851864b60f0766008
EU age verification app ready as Europe moves to curb children's social media access
The app, which will be compatible with both mobile devices and computers, will require users to upload their passport or ID card to confirm their age anonymously, she said. "This app gives parents, teachers, caretakers a powerful tool to protect children, because we will have zero tolerance for companies that do not respect our children's rights," von der Leyen added.
https://www.reuters.com/world/eu-age-verification-app-ready-europe-moves-curb-childrens-social-media-access-2026-04-15/
Peru’s Sanchez to face Fujimori in runoff as rival signals protests over fraud
The count in Peru's presidential election produced a dramatic reversal on Wednesday. With 91% of ballots processed by the National Office of Electoral Processes (ONPE), leftist Roberto Sánchez (Juntos por el Perú) surged from sixth to second place, displacing ultraconservative Rafael López Aliaga (Renovación Popular) and positioning himself for the June 7 runoff against Keiko Fujimori (Fuerza Popular), who holds first place with 16.99% of the vote.
https://en.mercopress.com/2026/04/15/rural-vote-upends-peru-count-leftist-sanchez-overtakes-lopez-aliaga-and-advances-to-runoff
Peasant and Indigenous Sectors Reject Land Classification Change in Bolivia
Peasant and indigenous sectors, along with non-governmental organizations, are in conflict with the Bolivian government over Law 1720, which modifies the land classification from small to medium-sized properties. The Executive branch defends the measure, stating it aims to improve productivity and access to bank loans in the rural sector.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/peasant-and-indigenous-sectors-reject-land-classification-change-in-bolivia/
Rattled by Trump, US allies eye Japan’s biggest arms opening since WW2
Despite largely isolating itself from global arms markets since World War II, Japan spends enough on its own military – US$60 billion (S$76 billion) in 2026 – to sustain a sizeable defence industry capable of manufacturing advanced systems such as submarines and fighter jets. Among the potential new customers are the Polish military and Philippine navy, which are undergoing modernisation amid regional security challenges, according to Reuters interviews with Japanese officials and foreign diplomats in Tokyo.
https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/rattled-by-trump-us-allies-eye-japans-biggest-arms-opening-since-ww2
https://archive.ph/pkKVF
India's Uttar Pradesh state raises workers' wages amid protests over pay
Around 40,000 workers were part of the Noida protest, according to the Gautam Buddh Nagar police, which has lodged seven criminal cases related to the demonstrations. More than 300 people have been arrested, a police spokesperson told Reuters. The wage hike ordered this week will be applicable retrospectively from April 1, and will increase the pay of unskilled workers in Noida to roughly $147 per month from the current monthly pay of about $121, government sources said.
https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-work/indias-uttar-pradesh-state-raises-workers-wages-amid-protests-over-pay-2026-04-14/
2,000 urban poor residents set up camp at DSWD national office
According to Kadamay, the DSWD has been inutile and has no clear response to the needs of urban poor communities affected by the successive typhoons Crising, Dante, and Emong. The three typhoons hit the country from July 16 to 24, 2025—nearly a year ago. “Instead of taking action, the agency led on the victims in the repressive and deliberately sluggish bureaucracy,” the group said. The agency allegedly passed on to the urban poor the technical tasks such as forming the masterlist, which should’ve been the government’s responsibility.
https://philippinerevolution.nu/angbayan/2000-urban-poor-residents-set-up-camp-at-dswd-national-office/
R: 47 / I: 8
China’s long-standing dominance throughout history can be attributed to a combination of geographical, political, cultural, and natural resource factors. Geographically, China benefited from fertile river valleys like the Yangtze and Yellow Rivers, which supported dense populations and large-scale agriculture, while natural defenses such as the Himalayas and Gobi Desert provided protection from external threats. Politically, China was able to establish a strong centralized government, particularly during dynasties like the Han, Tang, and Song, with a meritocratic bureaucracy that ensured efficient governance. Culturally, a deep sense of unity and continuity, reinforced by Confucian values, promoted social stability, while China’s intellectual and technological innovations such as papermaking, printing, and gunpowder kept it at the forefront of global advancements. Additionally, the abundance of resources, including fertile land for agriculture and valuable trade goods like silk fueled economic strength and sustained large urban populations. Together, these factors created a self-reinforcing cycle of prosperity, political unity, and cultural cohesion, allowing China to maintain its position as a dominant global power for centuries.
The only thing that makes this return to historical norm different is the socialism and high tech. It's the dialectical spiral, you see.
China's Rise Is a RETVRN to tradition
China’s current rise can be understood as a return to the historical norm rather than an anomaly: for much of recorded history, China was among the world’s most advanced and powerful civilizations, often the largest economy and a global center of technology (printing, gunpowder, ceramic, the compass), governance, and culture. During eras such as the Han Dynasty, China developed sophisticated state institutions, large-scale agriculture, and expansive trade networks; in the Tang Dynasty, it stood as a cosmopolitan hub of culture, commerce, and innovation linked to Eurasian trade routes; and under the Song Dynasty, it achieved extraordinary economic and technological sophistication, with some estimates placing it as the world’s largest economy due to advances like paper money, urbanization, and industrial-scale production. Even into the early modern period, China remained a dominant civilizational center with a sizable percentage of global GDP as late as the 18th century, until finally succumbing to the disruptions of the Opium Wars in the 19th century and the weakening of the Qing Dynasty during the Taiping Rebellion. In this long historical arc, China’s current resurgence under the centralized leadership of the Communist Party can be seen as a return to its historical position of civilizational centrality, combining state-directed industrial strategy and vast manufacturing capacity, while the much younger and less stable settler-colonial entity fancying itself the United States of America faces growing internal polarization policy inconsistencies and self-defeating blunders that make it a pariah rogue state despised even by its allies. From this perspective, the shifting global balance of power represents not an exceptional transformation, but a reemergence of a long-standing historical pattern in which China occupies a central role in global economic and civilizational hierarchy.China’s long-standing dominance throughout history can be attributed to a combination of geographical, political, cultural, and natural resource factors. Geographically, China benefited from fertile river valleys like the Yangtze and Yellow Rivers, which supported dense populations and large-scale agriculture, while natural defenses such as the Himalayas and Gobi Desert provided protection from external threats. Politically, China was able to establish a strong centralized government, particularly during dynasties like the Han, Tang, and Song, with a meritocratic bureaucracy that ensured efficient governance. Culturally, a deep sense of unity and continuity, reinforced by Confucian values, promoted social stability, while China’s intellectual and technological innovations such as papermaking, printing, and gunpowder kept it at the forefront of global advancements. Additionally, the abundance of resources, including fertile land for agriculture and valuable trade goods like silk fueled economic strength and sustained large urban populations. Together, these factors created a self-reinforcing cycle of prosperity, political unity, and cultural cohesion, allowing China to maintain its position as a dominant global power for centuries.
The only thing that makes this return to historical norm different is the socialism and high tech. It's the dialectical spiral, you see.
R: 21 / I: 7
I call for China and Taiwan to cease all relations with the outside world and embrace their brothers and thrive within their own unified nation - discarding all political relations with the outside world that have divided them.
The new RPC should be governed by a two-party system in dual power of proletarian nation social-democracy. Their market economies must unite and intertwine. Their laws must merge and discard the laws that contradict each-other to rewrite them in new ways. Their constitutions must merge and discard the elements that contradict each-other and have them rewritten.
I call for a wholesome peaceful reunification
I call for a wholesome peaceful socialdemocratic diplomatic reunification of China and Taiwan as the Republic of People of China (RPC).I call for China and Taiwan to cease all relations with the outside world and embrace their brothers and thrive within their own unified nation - discarding all political relations with the outside world that have divided them.
The new RPC should be governed by a two-party system in dual power of proletarian nation social-democracy. Their market economies must unite and intertwine. Their laws must merge and discard the laws that contradict each-other to rewrite them in new ways. Their constitutions must merge and discard the elements that contradict each-other and have them rewritten.
R: 46 / I: 11
Have marxist-leninists learned anything from the failures and dissolutions of 90% of marxist leninist states in the 20th century?
Or do they still just seethe at trotsky while sucking off stalins rotten corpse?
Have marxist-leninists learned anything from the failures and dissolutions of 90% of marxist leninist states in the 20th century?
Or do they still just seethe at trotsky while sucking off stalins rotten corpse?
R: 442 / I: 99
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.
R: 2 / I: 0
Tunbridge Wells suffered a sustained outage in November and December before thousands of properties across Kent and Sussex saw their supply disrupted in January. Many people were left without drinking water for days, unable to shower or bathe and could not flush their toilets, while a number of schools were forced to close.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/campaigners-demand-government-cancel-south-east-waters-contract-after-bosses-admit-failings
Greek police accused of using migrant ‘mercenaries’ in violent pushbacks at Turkish border
These men, often themselves arrested after irregularly crossing into Greece, were allegedly pressured into collaborating with the police in exchange for temporary protection from deportation or other benefits. Testimonies gathered by journalists describe a pattern of systematic violence and humiliation.
https://www.newarab.com/news/greek-police-accused-using-migrant-mercenaries-pushbacks
Italy suspends defence agreement with Israel
Approved by Israel in 2006, the agreement is renewed automatically every five years. It calls for cooperation across defence industries, education and training of military personnel, research and development, and information technology. Meloni’s right-wing government has been one of Israel’s closest allies in Europe, but in recent weeks, it has criticised Israeli attacks on Lebanon.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/14/italian-suspends-defence-agreement-with-israel
https://archive.ph/lmbMl
Meta 'financially enabling' Israeli settler violence against Palestinians, report says
According to the 7amleh, the Arab Center for the Advancement of Social Media, Meta has allowed settler-affiliated accounts and extremist media outlets to generate revenue on its platforms, despite content that violates its own policies, including violent, racist and inciting material targeting Palestinians. The findings were published on Sunday in a report titled Monetising Occupation: Meta’s Financial Enablement of Settlement Activity and Violent Rhetoric Against Palestinians.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/meta-financially-enabling-israeli-settler-violence-against-palestinians-report
Afghanistan’s capital is in the grip of a water crisis
Nestled in a high-altitude valley of the Hindu Kush mountains, Kabul is rapidly running out of water. Its population relies mostly on groundwater extracted from wells. But the groundwater has been receding at an alarming rate, and some wells have to be dug as deep as 150 meters (nearly 500 feet) to reach it.
https://apnews.com/article/afghanistan-kabul-water-drought-climate-change-98a52f7afe770c37e2030bc7a884f5d3
Japan’s Narita Airport expansion revives row over forced land sales
Originally, NAA had planned to open the new runway in March 2029 and increase the number of landing and take-off slots from 340,000 a year at present to 500,000, but in a meeting with Transport Minister Yasushi Kaneko on April 2, NAA President Naoki Fujii confirmed that the deadline would have to be pushed back. Speaking to reporters after the meeting, Fujii said the company would now look into legally forcing the sale of the plots of land it still needs to secure. … Shito has the support of the Sanrizuka-Shibayama United Opposition League Against Narita Airport, which stages protests at the airport and during court hearings.
https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/lifestyle-culture/article/3350085/japans-narita-airport-expansion-revives-row-over-forced-land-sales?pgtype=live
https://archive.ph/ppLWJ
Mark Carney secures majority government in Canada after special election win
The Canadian prime minister, Mark Carney, has secured a parliamentary majority for his Liberal government, CBC News reported. The victory will help him push through a legislative agenda he says is needed for an increasingly divided geopolitical world.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/14/canada-special-election-results-pm-mark-carney-majority-government
Peruvian Elections: Fujimori, Lopez Aliaga Lead Votes
With nearly 17% of the valid votes (16.86%), Fujimori maintains a narrow lead in an electoral process marked by a dispersed vote and the absence of a dominant candidate. In second place is Rafael López Aliaga of the Popular Renovation Party, with approximately 14% of the suffrage. Jorge Nieto follows closely with just over 12.66%, underscoring a highly competitive landscape.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/peru-elections-fujimori-aliaga-lead/
US alleges well-known Mexican human rights activist works for drug cartel
In 2023, Ramos raised the alarm over alleged extrajudicial killings committed by the Armed Forces and publicized video of Army members shooting and killing five young men in a pickup truck, including one with a shot to the back of the neck. A year earlier, he accused members of the Navy of forcibly disappearing civilians. In both instances, Mexican authorities detained military officials and carried out investigations. It's unclear whether the investigations resulted in formal charges or convictions.
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-alleges-well-known-mexican-human-rights-activist-works-drug-cartel-2026-04-15/
Mexico moves toward a universal health system
The timeline presented by Sheinbaum outlines that by January 1, 2027, the exchange of services between institutions should begin, with these institutions offering the following medical services: “1. Universal emergency care and continuity of hospitalization; 2. Care for high-risk pregnancies and emergency deliveries; 3. Implementation of the Heart Attack Protocol with cardiac catheterization services; 4. Implementation of the Stroke Protocol for cerebrovascular events; 5. Universal access to care and diagnosis for breast cancer; 6. Continuity of care for conditions such as kidney failure, cancer, and transplants; 7. Vaccinations; 8. Primary care consultations for prevention and acute conditions with prescription of medications.”
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2026/04/14/mexico-moves-toward-a-universal-health-system/
News 4/14/26
Campaigners demand government cancel South East Water's contract after bosses admit to failingsTunbridge Wells suffered a sustained outage in November and December before thousands of properties across Kent and Sussex saw their supply disrupted in January. Many people were left without drinking water for days, unable to shower or bathe and could not flush their toilets, while a number of schools were forced to close.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/campaigners-demand-government-cancel-south-east-waters-contract-after-bosses-admit-failings
Greek police accused of using migrant ‘mercenaries’ in violent pushbacks at Turkish border
These men, often themselves arrested after irregularly crossing into Greece, were allegedly pressured into collaborating with the police in exchange for temporary protection from deportation or other benefits. Testimonies gathered by journalists describe a pattern of systematic violence and humiliation.
https://www.newarab.com/news/greek-police-accused-using-migrant-mercenaries-pushbacks
Italy suspends defence agreement with Israel
Approved by Israel in 2006, the agreement is renewed automatically every five years. It calls for cooperation across defence industries, education and training of military personnel, research and development, and information technology. Meloni’s right-wing government has been one of Israel’s closest allies in Europe, but in recent weeks, it has criticised Israeli attacks on Lebanon.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/14/italian-suspends-defence-agreement-with-israel
https://archive.ph/lmbMl
Meta 'financially enabling' Israeli settler violence against Palestinians, report says
According to the 7amleh, the Arab Center for the Advancement of Social Media, Meta has allowed settler-affiliated accounts and extremist media outlets to generate revenue on its platforms, despite content that violates its own policies, including violent, racist and inciting material targeting Palestinians. The findings were published on Sunday in a report titled Monetising Occupation: Meta’s Financial Enablement of Settlement Activity and Violent Rhetoric Against Palestinians.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/meta-financially-enabling-israeli-settler-violence-against-palestinians-report
Afghanistan’s capital is in the grip of a water crisis
Nestled in a high-altitude valley of the Hindu Kush mountains, Kabul is rapidly running out of water. Its population relies mostly on groundwater extracted from wells. But the groundwater has been receding at an alarming rate, and some wells have to be dug as deep as 150 meters (nearly 500 feet) to reach it.
https://apnews.com/article/afghanistan-kabul-water-drought-climate-change-98a52f7afe770c37e2030bc7a884f5d3
Japan’s Narita Airport expansion revives row over forced land sales
Originally, NAA had planned to open the new runway in March 2029 and increase the number of landing and take-off slots from 340,000 a year at present to 500,000, but in a meeting with Transport Minister Yasushi Kaneko on April 2, NAA President Naoki Fujii confirmed that the deadline would have to be pushed back. Speaking to reporters after the meeting, Fujii said the company would now look into legally forcing the sale of the plots of land it still needs to secure. … Shito has the support of the Sanrizuka-Shibayama United Opposition League Against Narita Airport, which stages protests at the airport and during court hearings.
https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/lifestyle-culture/article/3350085/japans-narita-airport-expansion-revives-row-over-forced-land-sales?pgtype=live
https://archive.ph/ppLWJ
Mark Carney secures majority government in Canada after special election win
The Canadian prime minister, Mark Carney, has secured a parliamentary majority for his Liberal government, CBC News reported. The victory will help him push through a legislative agenda he says is needed for an increasingly divided geopolitical world.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/14/canada-special-election-results-pm-mark-carney-majority-government
Peruvian Elections: Fujimori, Lopez Aliaga Lead Votes
With nearly 17% of the valid votes (16.86%), Fujimori maintains a narrow lead in an electoral process marked by a dispersed vote and the absence of a dominant candidate. In second place is Rafael López Aliaga of the Popular Renovation Party, with approximately 14% of the suffrage. Jorge Nieto follows closely with just over 12.66%, underscoring a highly competitive landscape.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/peru-elections-fujimori-aliaga-lead/
US alleges well-known Mexican human rights activist works for drug cartel
In 2023, Ramos raised the alarm over alleged extrajudicial killings committed by the Armed Forces and publicized video of Army members shooting and killing five young men in a pickup truck, including one with a shot to the back of the neck. A year earlier, he accused members of the Navy of forcibly disappearing civilians. In both instances, Mexican authorities detained military officials and carried out investigations. It's unclear whether the investigations resulted in formal charges or convictions.
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-alleges-well-known-mexican-human-rights-activist-works-drug-cartel-2026-04-15/
Mexico moves toward a universal health system
The timeline presented by Sheinbaum outlines that by January 1, 2027, the exchange of services between institutions should begin, with these institutions offering the following medical services: “1. Universal emergency care and continuity of hospitalization; 2. Care for high-risk pregnancies and emergency deliveries; 3. Implementation of the Heart Attack Protocol with cardiac catheterization services; 4. Implementation of the Stroke Protocol for cerebrovascular events; 5. Universal access to care and diagnosis for breast cancer; 6. Continuity of care for conditions such as kidney failure, cancer, and transplants; 7. Vaccinations; 8. Primary care consultations for prevention and acute conditions with prescription of medications.”
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2026/04/14/mexico-moves-toward-a-universal-health-system/
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What if the people need to come together to be reached, and what if they get what they need for their liberation, and what they are missing in their lives under capitalism such as community aid and belonging, in a church?
Consider the conditions under which Christianity arose. The older religions including Greco-Roman pantheon worship had declined. They had by no means lost their popularity completely but the awe of the primal forces of nature and the fatalistic philosophical personification and deification of aspects of human behavior no longer spoke as effectively to the increasingly urban masses where the bronze age conditions that inspired the religion in the first place were increasingly remote and abstract. Major rituals and festival were increasingly done by rote or performatively by elites for their political careers, or for the celebrations more than the meaning beneath them. Christianity filled that void, the thought of taking on the sins and failures and brutality of humanity from the top down and dying to absolve the human soul, the thought of an all encompassing and compassionate architecture to the universe and their place in it gave people more awe than witnessing a lightning storm or an earthquake.
We all know how things went since, there's more to criticize about Christianity's history than we have time to go over. But now we find ourselves once again in similar conditions for something new. Religious membership is declining in the west, the remaining membership are either increasingly secularized and bourgeois or increasingly hyper-reactionary or lumpen. These institutions are not able to speak to the problems of the day or any solution for them on a theological or material basis. If the old church was the theological logic of feudalism to come in the shadow of rome, if protestantism was the theological logic of capitalism to come in the shadow of feudalism, then something new whether christian or something distinct can be the theological logic of what is to come after capitalism and more people feel that need every day even if they don't understand it.
I don't expect we will form a new religion here of course, but we can recognize the void that exists in people's lives currently, the need to fill that void that all humans have, and anticipate that it will be filled by something eventually. There have been many attempts, experiments, to forge an alternative to the status quo on religious grounds in the form of various cults, movements and intentional communities through the ages. We can learn from them when framing the theological vision and logic of what comes next. Many of us are not religious at all to say the least, and producing a new religious paradigm is likely not something that is done intentionally from a place of insincerity. Perhaps we may yet inspire the vision of future figures and movements as they form organically, and find in them the allies we need. It may be that an existing institution will transform into the vessel of the new message that will de-atomize and educate the scattered masses in ways conventional organizing struggles to do, to make them see beyond their PMC jobs and treats or across culture war bullshit. I don't want to exaggerate the merits of the Catholic Church or Pope Leo but as the conflict between him and the Trump administration increases, as Latin America is menaced and the Vatican is told by the Pentagon to "pick a side", there is a degree of potential to be found there even if it's an emerging leftward fringe of where he may ultimately allow the Church to be led.
Liberation Theology: The Secret Sauce the Western Left is Missing?
Within the West the left has a common circular conversation: We need to organize, we need a movement independent of liberal political parties, we need independent working class power. The common response: there's no sufficient labor movement, people are too atomized, they no longer live and work in proximity in ways that makes them easily reachable, existing platforms prevent dissemination of our message, etc.What if the people need to come together to be reached, and what if they get what they need for their liberation, and what they are missing in their lives under capitalism such as community aid and belonging, in a church?
Consider the conditions under which Christianity arose. The older religions including Greco-Roman pantheon worship had declined. They had by no means lost their popularity completely but the awe of the primal forces of nature and the fatalistic philosophical personification and deification of aspects of human behavior no longer spoke as effectively to the increasingly urban masses where the bronze age conditions that inspired the religion in the first place were increasingly remote and abstract. Major rituals and festival were increasingly done by rote or performatively by elites for their political careers, or for the celebrations more than the meaning beneath them. Christianity filled that void, the thought of taking on the sins and failures and brutality of humanity from the top down and dying to absolve the human soul, the thought of an all encompassing and compassionate architecture to the universe and their place in it gave people more awe than witnessing a lightning storm or an earthquake.
We all know how things went since, there's more to criticize about Christianity's history than we have time to go over. But now we find ourselves once again in similar conditions for something new. Religious membership is declining in the west, the remaining membership are either increasingly secularized and bourgeois or increasingly hyper-reactionary or lumpen. These institutions are not able to speak to the problems of the day or any solution for them on a theological or material basis. If the old church was the theological logic of feudalism to come in the shadow of rome, if protestantism was the theological logic of capitalism to come in the shadow of feudalism, then something new whether christian or something distinct can be the theological logic of what is to come after capitalism and more people feel that need every day even if they don't understand it.
I don't expect we will form a new religion here of course, but we can recognize the void that exists in people's lives currently, the need to fill that void that all humans have, and anticipate that it will be filled by something eventually. There have been many attempts, experiments, to forge an alternative to the status quo on religious grounds in the form of various cults, movements and intentional communities through the ages. We can learn from them when framing the theological vision and logic of what comes next. Many of us are not religious at all to say the least, and producing a new religious paradigm is likely not something that is done intentionally from a place of insincerity. Perhaps we may yet inspire the vision of future figures and movements as they form organically, and find in them the allies we need. It may be that an existing institution will transform into the vessel of the new message that will de-atomize and educate the scattered masses in ways conventional organizing struggles to do, to make them see beyond their PMC jobs and treats or across culture war bullshit. I don't want to exaggerate the merits of the Catholic Church or Pope Leo but as the conflict between him and the Trump administration increases, as Latin America is menaced and the Vatican is told by the Pentagon to "pick a side", there is a degree of potential to be found there even if it's an emerging leftward fringe of where he may ultimately allow the Church to be led.
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Is there something positive about the Zionist entity from a historical point of view? I mean there are a lot of episodes in history where one could could call evil (the mongols, Nazism etc') but there were still some positive things about these events. However this could not be said for the Zionist entity. It's completely parasitic and contributed nothing to mankind (inb4 instant messaging and other Israeli startup "inventions").
Has there something like this in history?
Is there something positive about the Zionist entity from a historical point of view? I mean there are a lot of episodes in history where one could could call evil (the mongols, Nazism etc') but there were still some positive things about these events. However this could not be said for the Zionist entity. It's completely parasitic and contributed nothing to mankind (inb4 instant messaging and other Israeli startup "inventions").
Has there something like this in history?
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All this horror will end when the Ummah unites once again, destroy Israel, build nukes and point them at every single judeochristian european and american capital
The Ottoman Empire was the last line of defense of the global south
The day they showed weakness and failed to defend their Muslim brothers it was the day judeochristian whites began with a series of oppressions and atrocities such as the genocide of circassians, the bosnian genocide, the genocide of balkan muslims, zionism (arab genocide), the war on """"terror"""" by judeochristians responsible for the holocaust of 10 million Muslims and the displacement of 38 millions, etc and etc…All this horror will end when the Ummah unites once again, destroy Israel, build nukes and point them at every single judeochristian european and american capital
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The problem with you marxists is that you require people to spend their lives reading and interpreting the works and life of Marx (and its followers).
I don't like Marx, that's enough for me to not be interested in anything that comes from him.
Is that so hard to understand?
I am a leftist, by the way.
I would prefer spend my life reading the works of John Stuart Mill rather than Karl Marx.
The problem with you marxists is that you require people to spend their lives reading and interpreting the works and life of Marx (and its followers).
I don't like Marx, that's enough for me to not be interested in anything that comes from him.
Is that so hard to understand?
I am a leftist, by the way.
I would prefer spend my life reading the works of John Stuart Mill rather than Karl Marx.
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What you dismiss as "identity politics", as some minor irrelevant distraction from the revolution-to-be, is in fact the front lines of the very real and current Revolution. The Revolution is not some future external event like the Christian rapture, it is happening right now and has always been happening since the beginning of history. The Revolution takes place in the mind - the protests, the riots, the dissenting literature, all of those things are just outward expressions of it. And the Revolution has been slowly but surely succeeding, the Empire's grip gradually weakening day by day as the People gain more knowledge, learning things that cannot be unlearned, speaking truths that cannot be unspoken. Because real Truth is eternal and absolute, it cannot be corrupted and it stands on its own whereas lies are ephemeral and require continuous maintenance to sustain and eventually crumble under their own weight. Only a few decades ago, things like neurodivergence and homosexuality were treated as sicknesses to be eradicated and those who were "afflicted" with these so-called diseases were outcast from society and their voices were never heard and they themselves were conditioned to believe that they were worthless freaks of nature with no place in the world who must either conform or die. People with brown skin were conditioned to believe that they were subhuman savages biologically incapable of full-fledged humanity, that their place in the world was to be servile beasts of burden for the superior white race. Women were conditioned to believe that their sole purpose in life was to be brood mares for men. Trans/non-binary/intersex people were conditioned to believe that they were mentally deranged and their innermost beliefs about themselves were an elaborate self-induced hallucination. The pseudoscience that was invented to reinforce these ideas ultimately began to crumble, as lies always do, when true science emerged that refuted them and the only response that the Empire could muster was to deny the existence of reality entirely and retreat even further into solipsism. Someone is losing ground here.
You may find it difficult to empathize with these people and their struggles because it is someone else's ox being gored and not yours, but you need to remember that you are no different from they are, not really. They are human beings and you are a human being and all human lives are inexorably connected just like any other species of animal, regardless of what the Empire would have you believe. An attack on one human's autonomy is an attack on autonomy itself. And when people call attention to the possibility that you yourself may in fact be speaking from a position of privilege when you dismiss other people's struggles and concerns and you perceive it as an attack on your own identity, consider the possibility that perhaps your reaction might not be a logical reaction but a defensive kneejerk reaction, consider the possibility that your mind, like every mind, has been touched and manipulated to some extent by the Empire and that perhaps these people are not trying to attack you but trying to help you, trying to expand your intelligence, perhaps they don't see you as the enemy but as potential allies and they want you and need you on their side.
On "identity politics"
The counter-culture revolution did not end, it simply turned inward. After the 1970s it became clear that the Empire was far too vast and powerful to destroy through use of external force, so the counter-culture retreated and reformulated their strategy - instead of trying to liberate the world, they would liberate their own minds. Knowledge would be their weaponry, knowledge about the world but more importantly knowledge about themselves. Every lie they were programmed to believe about who they were and what their lives meant would be called into question, analyzed, deconstructed, traced back to its origins, and irrevocably refuted with undeniable logic and empirical evidence. When the Empire became aware of what they were doing it correctly interpreted this on an attack on its very foundations and predictably retaliated with its conventional tactics of violence and disinformation, thus began the Culture War that we now find ourselves in. But thus far the counterattack has been wild and flailing and largely ineffective, failing to identify a strategic target, the so-called "Woke Mind Virus" seeming to originate from everywhere at once with no central source. The Empire's greatest weakness is its inhumanity, its inability to see inside of the human mind and understand human psychology; the Empire is solipsistic and behaviorist, it does not recognize the human spirit, it only sees people as subordinate machines that must be conditioned to behave and obey. Nurse Ratched can stop the patients in the ward from watching the baseball game, but she cannot stop them from pretending to watch it and cheering and roaring in delight at a blank television screen.What you dismiss as "identity politics", as some minor irrelevant distraction from the revolution-to-be, is in fact the front lines of the very real and current Revolution. The Revolution is not some future external event like the Christian rapture, it is happening right now and has always been happening since the beginning of history. The Revolution takes place in the mind - the protests, the riots, the dissenting literature, all of those things are just outward expressions of it. And the Revolution has been slowly but surely succeeding, the Empire's grip gradually weakening day by day as the People gain more knowledge, learning things that cannot be unlearned, speaking truths that cannot be unspoken. Because real Truth is eternal and absolute, it cannot be corrupted and it stands on its own whereas lies are ephemeral and require continuous maintenance to sustain and eventually crumble under their own weight. Only a few decades ago, things like neurodivergence and homosexuality were treated as sicknesses to be eradicated and those who were "afflicted" with these so-called diseases were outcast from society and their voices were never heard and they themselves were conditioned to believe that they were worthless freaks of nature with no place in the world who must either conform or die. People with brown skin were conditioned to believe that they were subhuman savages biologically incapable of full-fledged humanity, that their place in the world was to be servile beasts of burden for the superior white race. Women were conditioned to believe that their sole purpose in life was to be brood mares for men. Trans/non-binary/intersex people were conditioned to believe that they were mentally deranged and their innermost beliefs about themselves were an elaborate self-induced hallucination. The pseudoscience that was invented to reinforce these ideas ultimately began to crumble, as lies always do, when true science emerged that refuted them and the only response that the Empire could muster was to deny the existence of reality entirely and retreat even further into solipsism. Someone is losing ground here.
You may find it difficult to empathize with these people and their struggles because it is someone else's ox being gored and not yours, but you need to remember that you are no different from they are, not really. They are human beings and you are a human being and all human lives are inexorably connected just like any other species of animal, regardless of what the Empire would have you believe. An attack on one human's autonomy is an attack on autonomy itself. And when people call attention to the possibility that you yourself may in fact be speaking from a position of privilege when you dismiss other people's struggles and concerns and you perceive it as an attack on your own identity, consider the possibility that perhaps your reaction might not be a logical reaction but a defensive kneejerk reaction, consider the possibility that your mind, like every mind, has been touched and manipulated to some extent by the Empire and that perhaps these people are not trying to attack you but trying to help you, trying to expand your intelligence, perhaps they don't see you as the enemy but as potential allies and they want you and need you on their side.
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Nothing more to elaborate, watch the video if you're looking for a starting point.
Deleuze & Guattari are certainly the more interesting of the pedophile bunch to sign the french petition. They brought some useful concepts. Everyone will remember them as the french pedophiles until the end of time now that they did that and only pseuds in their 20s will revere them.
You can read them through Nick Land instead of reading from D&G to Land, its like faster that way, you don't need to understand any of it, its not analysis its creating concepts, that's what Deleuze called philosophy - the discipline of creating concepts / ideas (sic).
Watch the word-plays, language games, read Wittgenstein, same shit as "order-words". Watch it.
Theologicians still can't handle this shit
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desiring-productionNothing more to elaborate, watch the video if you're looking for a starting point.
Deleuze & Guattari are certainly the more interesting of the pedophile bunch to sign the french petition. They brought some useful concepts. Everyone will remember them as the french pedophiles until the end of time now that they did that and only pseuds in their 20s will revere them.
You can read them through Nick Land instead of reading from D&G to Land, its like faster that way, you don't need to understand any of it, its not analysis its creating concepts, that's what Deleuze called philosophy - the discipline of creating concepts / ideas (sic).
Watch the word-plays, language games, read Wittgenstein, same shit as "order-words". Watch it.
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• ICE tracker using public info and user submissions // https://www.iceinmyarea.org/
• list of deaths at ICE concentration camps // https://www.aila.org/infonet/deaths-at-adult-detention-centers
• visualization of prison population in US // https://mkorostoff.github.io/incarceration-in-real-numbers/
• Organizing in Prison — for when the walls close in (RANT Collective) // https://www.organizingforpower.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Organizing-in-Jail.pdf
• database of U.S. facilities incl. ICE holding sites // https://alcpress.org/usjails/index.html
• list of prison related resources, mailing lists, etc // https://www.prisonactivist.org/resources
• ICE Agent List (incomplete) // https://wiki.icelist.is/index.php/Category:Agents
• US Political Prison Tracker (last updated 2025) // https://uspoliticalprisoners.com/
Jailhouse Reading:
• 📖 Angela Davis - Are Prisons Obsolete? // https://dn790007.ca.archive.org/0/items/the-anarchist-library-full-list-of-pdfs-nov-2020/angela-y-davis-are-prisons-obsolete.pdf
• 📖 How to Defend Yourself During Police Interrogation // https://www.notrace.how/resources/download/comment-la-police-interroge-et-comment-sen-defendre/how-to-defend-yourself-during-a-police-interrogation.pdf
• 📖 National Lawyers Guild guide to being a jailhouse lawyer // https://www.jailhouselaw.org/
• 📖 Critical Resistance - Surviving Solitary Confinement // https://criticalresistance.org/resources/surviving-solitary/
• 📖 An inside-outside publication for abolitionist struggle & strategy across prison walls // https://criticalresistance.org/abolitionist/
• 📖 Prisoners’ Self-Help Litigation Manual // https://api.pageplace.de/preview/DT0400.9780199705665_A35159258/preview-9780199705665_A35159258.pdf
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• Live strike tracker with deep stats on who, what and when // https://striketracker.ilr.cornell.edu/
• AFL-CIO [imperialist]'s Strike Tracker // https://aflcio.org/strike-map
• Labor Bureau's Official 'work stoppage' tracker // https://www.bls.gov/wsp/
• IWW timeline for the 20th century (ends at 1999) // https://archive.iww.org/history/chronology/
• IWW Work Place Organizing Guide // https://usa.anarchistlibraries.net/library/industrial-workers-of-the-world-libcom-org-solidarity-federation-walthamstow-anarchist-group-wo
• ▶ Salting | Work Place Organizing 101 (50 minute webinar) // https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SHlCLyM4FY
⚖️ Deeds of the Burger Reich 🇺🇸
• deep list of horrible shit we (royal we) have done // https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/us_atrocities.md
• Coups and regime changes – master list // https://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-peoples-governments-the-master-list
• Wikipedia: United States War Crimes // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_war_crimes
• /our boys/ (bring em home!) detail abusing Iraqi prisoners [2006] // https://www.hrw.org/report/2006/07/22/no-blood-no-foul/soldiers-accounts-detainee-abuse-iraq
• More than 250 military interventions in the last 30 years alone // https://blackagendareport.com/us-launched-251-military-interventions-1991-and-469-1798
• Visualization of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade // https://www.slavevoyages.org/
• UNESCO Sites relating to Slavery // https://slaveryandremembrance.org/
• First Hand Documents of the horrors of Slavery // https://www.loc.gov/collections/slave-narratives-from-the-federal-writers-project-1936-to-1938/
📺 Glowie News 📺
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• CNN Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/cnn-news-usa.html
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• FOX Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/fox-news-channel.html
• Bloomberg Live // https://www.bloomberg.com/live/us
• Burger House Live // https://www.whitehouse.gov/live/
• Local News // https://www.50states.com/ce/
• Weather // https://www.noaa.gov/weather
📺 Gommie News 📺
• Jacobin // https://jacobin.com/
• Black Agenda Report // https://blackagendareport.com/
• The Grayzone // https://thegrayzone.com/
• Leftvoice // https://www.leftvoice.org/
• Newsanon Filter // https://leftypol.org/search.php?search=name%3A%22News+Anon+3.0%22&board=leftypol
🏝️ Epstein's Client List 🇮🇱
• Epstein's Black Book // https://epsteinsblackbook.com/
• DOJ Disclosures // https://www.justice.gov/epstein/doj-disclosures
• Track AIPAC // https://www.trackaipac.com/
• Al Jazeera visual guide (2026) // https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/10/struggling-to-navigate-the-epstein-files-here-is-a-visual-guide
Essential American Politik 📖
• 📖 WEB Du Bois - Black Reconstruction // https://cominsitu.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/w-e-b-du-bois-black-reconstruction-an-essay-toward-a-history-of-the-part-which-black-folk-played-in-the-attempt-to-reconstruct-democracy-2.pdf
• 📖 Eugene Debs - Fourth of July Speech // https://jacobin.com/2020/07/eugene-debs-independence-day-address-fourth-july
• 📖 Power Anywhere There's People! – Fred Hampton // https://www.hamptonthink.org/read/power-anywhere-where-thats-people-fred-hampton
• 📖 War is a Racket – Smedley Butler // https://ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html
• 📖 Letters From an American Farmer – St. John de Crevoecoeur // https://americanliterature.com/author/j-hector-st-john-de-crevoecoeur/book/letters-from-an-american-farmer/summary
• 📖 Trail of Broken Treaties // American Indian Movement https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
• 📖 The Declaration of Independence https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
• https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
• 📖 The Ballot or the Bullet – Malcolm X // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/ballot_or_bullet.pdf
• 📖 What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? – Frederick Douglass // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/douglass_july_4_speech.pdf
• 📖 A Trail of Broken Treaties – American Indian Movement // https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
• 📖 Custer Died for Your Sins – Vine Deloria Jr. // http://www.riversimulator.org/Resources/Books/CusterDiedForYourSinsAnIndianManifesto1969Deloria.pdf
• 📖 Emancipation Proclamation – Lincoln // https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/emancipation-proclamation
• 📖 Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville // https://americanliterature.com/author/alexis-de-tocqueville/book/democracy-in-america/summary
• 📖 Common Sense – Thomas Paine // https://americainclass.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Common-Sense-Full-Text.pdf
• 📖 An Indigenous History of the United States – Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz // https://nycstandswithstandingrock.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/dunbar-ortiz-2014.pdf
• 📖 Huey Long – Share Our Wealth // https://www.hueylong.com/programs/share-our-wealth/huey-longs-share-our-wealth-speech
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• ICE tracker using public info and user submissions // https://www.iceinmyarea.org/
• list of deaths at ICE concentration camps // https://www.aila.org/infonet/deaths-at-adult-detention-centers
• visualization of prison population in US // https://mkorostoff.github.io/incarceration-in-real-numbers/
• Organizing in Prison — for when the walls close in (RANT Collective) // https://www.organizingforpower.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Organizing-in-Jail.pdf
• database of U.S. facilities incl. ICE holding sites // https://alcpress.org/usjails/index.html
• list of prison related resources, mailing lists, etc // https://www.prisonactivist.org/resources
• ICE Agent List (incomplete) // https://wiki.icelist.is/index.php/Category:Agents
• US Political Prison Tracker (last updated 2025) // https://uspoliticalprisoners.com/
Jailhouse Reading:
• 📖 Angela Davis - Are Prisons Obsolete? // https://dn790007.ca.archive.org/0/items/the-anarchist-library-full-list-of-pdfs-nov-2020/angela-y-davis-are-prisons-obsolete.pdf
• 📖 How to Defend Yourself During Police Interrogation // https://www.notrace.how/resources/download/comment-la-police-interroge-et-comment-sen-defendre/how-to-defend-yourself-during-a-police-interrogation.pdf
• 📖 National Lawyers Guild guide to being a jailhouse lawyer // https://www.jailhouselaw.org/
• 📖 Critical Resistance - Surviving Solitary Confinement // https://criticalresistance.org/resources/surviving-solitary/
• 📖 An inside-outside publication for abolitionist struggle & strategy across prison walls // https://criticalresistance.org/abolitionist/
• 📖 Prisoners’ Self-Help Litigation Manual // https://api.pageplace.de/preview/DT0400.9780199705665_A35159258/preview-9780199705665_A35159258.pdf
⚒️ LABOR!
• Live strike tracker with deep stats on who, what and when // https://striketracker.ilr.cornell.edu/
• AFL-CIO [imperialist]'s Strike Tracker // https://aflcio.org/strike-map
• Labor Bureau's Official 'work stoppage' tracker // https://www.bls.gov/wsp/
• IWW timeline for the 20th century (ends at 1999) // https://archive.iww.org/history/chronology/
• IWW Work Place Organizing Guide // https://usa.anarchistlibraries.net/library/industrial-workers-of-the-world-libcom-org-solidarity-federation-walthamstow-anarchist-group-wo
• ▶ Salting | Work Place Organizing 101 (50 minute webinar) // https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SHlCLyM4FY
⚖️ Deeds of the Burger Reich 🇺🇸
• deep list of horrible shit we (royal we) have done // https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/us_atrocities.md
• Coups and regime changes – master list // https://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-peoples-governments-the-master-list
• Wikipedia: United States War Crimes // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_war_crimes
• /our boys/ (bring em home!) detail abusing Iraqi prisoners [2006] // https://www.hrw.org/report/2006/07/22/no-blood-no-foul/soldiers-accounts-detainee-abuse-iraq
• More than 250 military interventions in the last 30 years alone // https://blackagendareport.com/us-launched-251-military-interventions-1991-and-469-1798
• Visualization of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade // https://www.slavevoyages.org/
• UNESCO Sites relating to Slavery // https://slaveryandremembrance.org/
• First Hand Documents of the horrors of Slavery // https://www.loc.gov/collections/slave-narratives-from-the-federal-writers-project-1936-to-1938/
📺 Glowie News 📺
(sponsored by the Burger Eagle Freedom Institute (formerly USAID))
• CNN Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/cnn-news-usa.html
• MSNBC Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/msnbc.html
• FOX Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/fox-news-channel.html
• Bloomberg Live // https://www.bloomberg.com/live/us
• Burger House Live // https://www.whitehouse.gov/live/
• Local News // https://www.50states.com/ce/
• Weather // https://www.noaa.gov/weather
📺 Gommie News 📺
• Jacobin // https://jacobin.com/
• Black Agenda Report // https://blackagendareport.com/
• The Grayzone // https://thegrayzone.com/
• Leftvoice // https://www.leftvoice.org/
• Newsanon Filter // https://leftypol.org/search.php?search=name%3A%22News+Anon+3.0%22&board=leftypol
🏝️ Epstein's Client List 🇮🇱
• Epstein's Black Book // https://epsteinsblackbook.com/
• DOJ Disclosures // https://www.justice.gov/epstein/doj-disclosures
• Track AIPAC // https://www.trackaipac.com/
• Al Jazeera visual guide (2026) // https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/10/struggling-to-navigate-the-epstein-files-here-is-a-visual-guide
Essential American Politik 📖
• 📖 WEB Du Bois - Black Reconstruction // https://cominsitu.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/w-e-b-du-bois-black-reconstruction-an-essay-toward-a-history-of-the-part-which-black-folk-played-in-the-attempt-to-reconstruct-democracy-2.pdf
• 📖 Eugene Debs - Fourth of July Speech // https://jacobin.com/2020/07/eugene-debs-independence-day-address-fourth-july
• 📖 Power Anywhere There's People! – Fred Hampton // https://www.hamptonthink.org/read/power-anywhere-where-thats-people-fred-hampton
• 📖 War is a Racket – Smedley Butler // https://ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html
• 📖 Letters From an American Farmer – St. John de Crevoecoeur // https://americanliterature.com/author/j-hector-st-john-de-crevoecoeur/book/letters-from-an-american-farmer/summary
• 📖 Trail of Broken Treaties // American Indian Movement https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
• 📖 The Declaration of Independence https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
• https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
• 📖 The Ballot or the Bullet – Malcolm X // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/ballot_or_bullet.pdf
• 📖 What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? – Frederick Douglass // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/douglass_july_4_speech.pdf
• 📖 A Trail of Broken Treaties – American Indian Movement // https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
• 📖 Custer Died for Your Sins – Vine Deloria Jr. // http://www.riversimulator.org/Resources/Books/CusterDiedForYourSinsAnIndianManifesto1969Deloria.pdf
• 📖 Emancipation Proclamation – Lincoln // https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/emancipation-proclamation
• 📖 Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville // https://americanliterature.com/author/alexis-de-tocqueville/book/democracy-in-america/summary
• 📖 Common Sense – Thomas Paine // https://americainclass.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Common-Sense-Full-Text.pdf
• 📖 An Indigenous History of the United States – Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz // https://nycstandswithstandingrock.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/dunbar-ortiz-2014.pdf
• 📖 Huey Long – Share Our Wealth // https://www.hueylong.com/programs/share-our-wealth/huey-longs-share-our-wealth-speech
Which side are you on? - Pete Seeger
▶ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XKMwWZVpPE
Previous Thread: >>2774337
R: 550 / I: 120
>>2777046
<Ceasefire: Molested Edition
Latest News
Iran war ceasefire
US ceasefire violations
Israel attacks Lebanon
Energy crisis and inflation
oth sides claim victory
Iran says USA violated deal
Trump's "art of the deal"
Israel bombs Lebanon
Russia and China UN veto
Peace talks fall through in Pakistan
US military will stay while money printer go brrr
Trump threatens "civilization"
US empire violates treaties
Trump's 15-point plan
Iran's 10-point proposal
Trump Timeline:
Mar 3: "We won the war."
Mar 7: "We defeated Iran."
Mar 9: "We must attack Iran."
Mar 9: "The war is ending almost completely, and very beautifully."
Mar 11: "You never like to say too early you won. We won. In the first hour it was over."
Mar 12: "We did win, but we haven't won completely yet."
Mar 13: "We won the war."
Mar 14: "Please help us."
Mar 15: "If you don't help us, I will certainly remember it."
Mar 16: "Actually, we don't need any help at all."
Mar 16: "I was just testing to see who's listening to me."
Mar 16: "If NATO doesn't help, they will suffer something very bad."
Mar 17: "We neither need nor want NATO's help."
Mar 17: "I don't need Congressional approval to withdraw from NATO."
Mar 18: "Our allies must cooperate in reopening the Strait of Hormuz."
Mar 19: "US allies need to get a grip - step up and help open the Strait of Hormuz."
Mar 20: "NATO are cowards."
Mar 21: "The Strait of Hormuz must be protected by the countries that use it. We don't use it, we don't need to open it."
Mar 22: "This is the last time. I will give Iran 48 hours. Open the strait"
Mar 22: "Iran is Dead"
Mar 23: "We had very good and productive talks with Iran."
Mar 24: "We're making progress."
Mar 25: "They gave us a present and the present arrived today. And it was a big present worth a tremendous amount of money. I'm not
going to tell you what that present is, but it was a very significant prize."
Mar 26: "Make a deal, or we'll just keep blowing them away"
Mar 27: "We don't have to be there for NATO."
Mar 29: Talks are progressing.
Mar 30: "Open the Strait of Hormuz immediately, or face devastating consequences."
Mar 31: A deal is "very close" and Iran will "do the right thing"
Apr 1: "We'll see what happens very soon."
Apr 3: "Something big is going to happen."
Apr 4: Iran must comply "immediately" or face further consequences.
Apr 5: "Open the fuckin' Strait, you crazy bastards, or you'll be living in Hell - JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah."
April 7: "A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought again. I don't want that to happen, but it probably will."
April 8: "We won by giving them what they want."
April 12: "Iran promised to open the strait and they didn't do it."
>Important Links:
https://www.flightradar24.com/
https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/centerx:52.7/centery:26.8/zoom:7
https://www.defconlevel.com/
https://oilprice.com/
https://www.pizzint.watch/
https://eam.watch/
https://www.gmcmap.com/index.asp
https://firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/map/#d:24hrs;@54.2,31.0,7.1z
https://globe.adsbexchange.com/
>Useful Channels:
https://www.youtube.com/@TheDuran
https://www.youtube.com/@AlexMercouris
https://www.youtube.com/@AlexChristoforou
https://www.youtube.com/@dialogueworks01
https://www.youtube.com/@DanielDavisDeepDive
https://www.youtube.com/@DannyHaiphongYT
https://www.youtube.com/@justinpodur
https://www.youtube.com/@IndiaGlobalLeft
https://www.youtube.com/@RichardMedhurst
https://www.youtube.com/@GDFofficial
https://www.youtube.com/@neutralitystudies
https://www.youtube.com/@prop_co
https://www.youtube.com/@CyrusJanssen
https://www.youtube.com/@breakingpoints
https://www.youtube.com/@militarysummary
https://www.youtube.com/@TheNewAtlas
https://www.youtube.com/@willyOAM
https://www.youtube.com/@GDiesen1
https://www.youtube.com/@theeastisapodcast
https://www.youtube.com/@GeopoliticalEconomyReport
https://www.youtube.com/@TheElectronicIntifada
>Useful Xitters
https://xcancel.com/IranObserver0
https://xcancel.com/araghchi
https://xcancel.com/conflict_radar
https://xcancel.com/TheCradleMedia
https://xcancel.com/AliAbunimah
https://xcancel.com/BrianJBerletic
https://xcancel.com/angeloinchina
https://xcancel.com/jonelmer
https://xcancel.com/MarkAmesExiled
https://xcancel.com/UrOrientalist
https://xcancel.com/MaxBlumenthal
https://xcancel.com/dreizinreport/
>Useful TG:
https://t.me/s/wfwitness
https://t.me/s/Middle_East_Spectator
https://t.me/s/enemywatch
>Useful Blogs/Podcasts/News:
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/
https://simplicius76.substack.com/
https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/
https://sonar21.com/
https://www.moonofalabama.org/
https://thegrayzone.com/
https://www.middleeasteye.net/live/live-us-and-israel-attack-iran
https://www.podbean.com/podcast-detail/t687i-9b79d/War-Nerd-Radio-%E2%80%94-Subscriber-Feed-Podcast
<Thread brought to you by the the Alexander Lukashenko Society For Potato Cultivation
/iran/ war thread #57
>Previous Bake>>2777046
<Ceasefire: Molested Edition
Latest News
Iran war ceasefire
US ceasefire violations
Israel attacks Lebanon
Energy crisis and inflation
oth sides claim victory
Iran says USA violated deal
Trump's "art of the deal"
Israel bombs Lebanon
Russia and China UN veto
Peace talks fall through in Pakistan
US military will stay while money printer go brrr
Trump threatens "civilization"
US empire violates treaties
Trump's 15-point plan
Iran's 10-point proposal
Trump Timeline:
Mar 3: "We won the war."
Mar 7: "We defeated Iran."
Mar 9: "We must attack Iran."
Mar 9: "The war is ending almost completely, and very beautifully."
Mar 11: "You never like to say too early you won. We won. In the first hour it was over."
Mar 12: "We did win, but we haven't won completely yet."
Mar 13: "We won the war."
Mar 14: "Please help us."
Mar 15: "If you don't help us, I will certainly remember it."
Mar 16: "Actually, we don't need any help at all."
Mar 16: "I was just testing to see who's listening to me."
Mar 16: "If NATO doesn't help, they will suffer something very bad."
Mar 17: "We neither need nor want NATO's help."
Mar 17: "I don't need Congressional approval to withdraw from NATO."
Mar 18: "Our allies must cooperate in reopening the Strait of Hormuz."
Mar 19: "US allies need to get a grip - step up and help open the Strait of Hormuz."
Mar 20: "NATO are cowards."
Mar 21: "The Strait of Hormuz must be protected by the countries that use it. We don't use it, we don't need to open it."
Mar 22: "This is the last time. I will give Iran 48 hours. Open the strait"
Mar 22: "Iran is Dead"
Mar 23: "We had very good and productive talks with Iran."
Mar 24: "We're making progress."
Mar 25: "They gave us a present and the present arrived today. And it was a big present worth a tremendous amount of money. I'm not
going to tell you what that present is, but it was a very significant prize."
Mar 26: "Make a deal, or we'll just keep blowing them away"
Mar 27: "We don't have to be there for NATO."
Mar 29: Talks are progressing.
Mar 30: "Open the Strait of Hormuz immediately, or face devastating consequences."
Mar 31: A deal is "very close" and Iran will "do the right thing"
Apr 1: "We'll see what happens very soon."
Apr 3: "Something big is going to happen."
Apr 4: Iran must comply "immediately" or face further consequences.
Apr 5: "Open the fuckin' Strait, you crazy bastards, or you'll be living in Hell - JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah."
April 7: "A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought again. I don't want that to happen, but it probably will."
April 8: "We won by giving them what they want."
April 12: "Iran promised to open the strait and they didn't do it."
>Important Links:
https://www.flightradar24.com/
https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/centerx:52.7/centery:26.8/zoom:7
https://www.defconlevel.com/
https://oilprice.com/
https://www.pizzint.watch/
https://eam.watch/
https://www.gmcmap.com/index.asp
https://firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/map/#d:24hrs;@54.2,31.0,7.1z
https://globe.adsbexchange.com/
>Useful Channels:
https://www.youtube.com/@TheDuran
https://www.youtube.com/@AlexMercouris
https://www.youtube.com/@AlexChristoforou
https://www.youtube.com/@dialogueworks01
https://www.youtube.com/@DanielDavisDeepDive
https://www.youtube.com/@DannyHaiphongYT
https://www.youtube.com/@justinpodur
https://www.youtube.com/@IndiaGlobalLeft
https://www.youtube.com/@RichardMedhurst
https://www.youtube.com/@GDFofficial
https://www.youtube.com/@neutralitystudies
https://www.youtube.com/@prop_co
https://www.youtube.com/@CyrusJanssen
https://www.youtube.com/@breakingpoints
https://www.youtube.com/@militarysummary
https://www.youtube.com/@TheNewAtlas
https://www.youtube.com/@willyOAM
https://www.youtube.com/@GDiesen1
https://www.youtube.com/@theeastisapodcast
https://www.youtube.com/@GeopoliticalEconomyReport
https://www.youtube.com/@TheElectronicIntifada
>Useful Xitters
https://xcancel.com/IranObserver0
https://xcancel.com/araghchi
https://xcancel.com/conflict_radar
https://xcancel.com/TheCradleMedia
https://xcancel.com/AliAbunimah
https://xcancel.com/BrianJBerletic
https://xcancel.com/angeloinchina
https://xcancel.com/jonelmer
https://xcancel.com/MarkAmesExiled
https://xcancel.com/UrOrientalist
https://xcancel.com/MaxBlumenthal
https://xcancel.com/dreizinreport/
>Useful TG:
https://t.me/s/wfwitness
https://t.me/s/Middle_East_Spectator
https://t.me/s/enemywatch
>Useful Blogs/Podcasts/News:
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/
https://simplicius76.substack.com/
https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/
https://sonar21.com/
https://www.moonofalabama.org/
https://thegrayzone.com/
https://www.middleeasteye.net/live/live-us-and-israel-attack-iran
https://www.podbean.com/podcast-detail/t687i-9b79d/War-Nerd-Radio-%E2%80%94-Subscriber-Feed-Podcast
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R: 657 / I: 128 (full)
<Polls show that there's a good Chance Orbán will lose the next election. Chances of this tard attacking Ukraine to reclaim Hungarian inhabited areas and to postpone an electoral defeat just got a bit higher.
We have to ensure Orban wins, lets fund some organization that rigs the election or donate to the party of FIDESZ.
/Magyar/ - ORBÁN ÖRÖKKÉ
We have to rig Hungary's election. We have to finance organizations that will rig Hungary's election and ensure a victory for anti-imperialist comrade Orbán.<Polls show that there's a good Chance Orbán will lose the next election. Chances of this tard attacking Ukraine to reclaim Hungarian inhabited areas and to postpone an electoral defeat just got a bit higher.
We have to ensure Orban wins, lets fund some organization that rigs the election or donate to the party of FIDESZ.
R: 2 / I: 0
The leadership said consistent contempt was shown towards members and the organisation north of the border after tensions were raised last month when it emerged that the party would not stand candidates in next month’s Holyrood elections. … In a statement, the committee said: “No serious attempt to unite the left can be done through purges of socialists or by disregarding entire nations and their representatives.”
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/your-party-scotlands-interim-executive-committee-resigns-en-masse
Lufthansa pilots strike for 2 days, cabin crew will follow
On Monday afternoon, UFO said that it had called on its members to strike again on Wednesday and Thursday of this week, meaning Lufthansa could face four consecutive days of disruptions. Hundreds of flights were canceled on Monday, with the major hubs of Frankfurt and Munich hit hardest, in the fourth strike of 2026 at the airline.
https://www.dw.com/en/lufthansa-pilots-launch-2-day-strike-cabin-crew-say-they-will-strike-right-after/a-76760890
https://archive.ph/6xSVe
French lawmakers set to push bill criminalising speech on Israel
Under Article 1, individuals could face up to five years in prison and heavy fines for speech interpreted as justifying or reframing acts labelled as terrorism. That could include describing such acts as “resistance” or providing context deemed insufficiently condemnatory. France’s former anti-terrorism judge Marc Trevidic issued a stark warning about the implications. "I'd never seen anything like it, the notion of implicit incitement to terrorism. Do you realise what that means? Becoming a censor of other people's thoughts, trying to guess what a person really meant."
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/french-lawmakers-set-push-bill-criminalising-speech-israel
Orban replaced by former ally in Hungary elections
Election victor Peter Magyar, an Orban loyalist until 2024, pledged to rebuild Hungary’s relationships with the European Union and Nato, with European leaders swarming to congratulate his win. In a news conference today, Mr Magyar said that his Tisza party secured a super-majority that would allow it to embark on an ambitious programme and reforms.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/orban-replaced-former-ally-hungary-elections
Trump says Iranian ships will be ‘eliminated’ as US naval blockade begins
The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) centre announced earlier that it had been notified that the US blockade will apply “without distinction” to ships engaging with Iranian ports and oil terminals. “The restrictions encompass the entirety of the Iranian coastline, including the ports and energy infrastructure,” UKMTO, which is affiliated with the British Royal Navy, said in an advisory.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/13/trump-says-iranian-ships-will-be-eliminated-as-us-naval-blockade-begins
https://archive.ph/XDTjZ
Condemning deterioration of clinical training | Medicine students at Aleppo University stage protests
Aleppo province: Medicine students in Aleppo University staged protests in front of the university’s administration building, expressing their discontent regarding the deterioration of the clinical training and absence of effective training.
https://www.syriahr.com/en/380964/
At least 100 dead in Nigeria after air force ‘misfire’ on market, sources say
Such misfires are common in Nigeria, where the military often conducts air raids to battle armed groups who control vast forest enclaves. At least 500 civilians have died since 2017 in such misfires, according to an AP tally of reported deaths. Security analysts point to loopholes in intelligence gathering as well as insufficient coordination between ground troops, air assets and stakeholders.
https://apnews.com/article/nigeria-airstrike-northeast-market-9da7e31dd8db3cec17e676e53f8b59cf
Sudan’s ERC committee: ‘Residual Islamic Movement funds abroad perpetuate war’
Sudan’s Committee for Removing Empowerment and Dismantling the June 30 1989 Regime (ERC)* has announced a renewed focus on targeting financial networks abroad, aiming to dry up sources of funding and pursue assets linked to the Islamic Movement outside the country. The committee also revealed that it is undertaking a series of updates and broad structural changes to better organise its work in line with its objectives for the next phase. This includes expanding its activities beyond Sudan, with the potential involvement of experts across multiple fields and the establishment of a specialised advisory body.
https://www.dabangasudan.org/en/all-news/article/sudans-erc-committee-residual-islamic-movement-funds-abroad-perpetuate-war
Brazil’s fugitive ex-intel chief detained by US immigration authorities
The Brazilian government has sought the extradition of Ramagem, who was sentenced to 16 years in prison for his involvement in efforts to keep Bolsonaro in power after he lost the country’s 2022 election to leftist challenger Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/13/brazilian-ex-intelligence-chief-detained-by-us-immigration-authorities
https://archive.ph/sQR0P
Peru extends voting as conservative Fujimori edges ahead in presidential race
Nearly half of Peru’s official vote count remained outstanding on Monday as frustration grew over widespread disruptions to Sunday’s general election, with conservative Keiko Fujimori in the lead and a June runoff increasingly likely. In Lima, long lines formed outside polling stations as commuters returned to vote for president and a new bicameral Congress after their ballots never arrived the day before.
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/keiko-fujimori-holds-lead-perus-election-with-50-ballots-counted-2026-04-13/
News 4/13/26
Your Party Scotland’s interim executive committee resigns en masseThe leadership said consistent contempt was shown towards members and the organisation north of the border after tensions were raised last month when it emerged that the party would not stand candidates in next month’s Holyrood elections. … In a statement, the committee said: “No serious attempt to unite the left can be done through purges of socialists or by disregarding entire nations and their representatives.”
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/your-party-scotlands-interim-executive-committee-resigns-en-masse
Lufthansa pilots strike for 2 days, cabin crew will follow
On Monday afternoon, UFO said that it had called on its members to strike again on Wednesday and Thursday of this week, meaning Lufthansa could face four consecutive days of disruptions. Hundreds of flights were canceled on Monday, with the major hubs of Frankfurt and Munich hit hardest, in the fourth strike of 2026 at the airline.
https://www.dw.com/en/lufthansa-pilots-launch-2-day-strike-cabin-crew-say-they-will-strike-right-after/a-76760890
https://archive.ph/6xSVe
French lawmakers set to push bill criminalising speech on Israel
Under Article 1, individuals could face up to five years in prison and heavy fines for speech interpreted as justifying or reframing acts labelled as terrorism. That could include describing such acts as “resistance” or providing context deemed insufficiently condemnatory. France’s former anti-terrorism judge Marc Trevidic issued a stark warning about the implications. "I'd never seen anything like it, the notion of implicit incitement to terrorism. Do you realise what that means? Becoming a censor of other people's thoughts, trying to guess what a person really meant."
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/french-lawmakers-set-push-bill-criminalising-speech-israel
Orban replaced by former ally in Hungary elections
Election victor Peter Magyar, an Orban loyalist until 2024, pledged to rebuild Hungary’s relationships with the European Union and Nato, with European leaders swarming to congratulate his win. In a news conference today, Mr Magyar said that his Tisza party secured a super-majority that would allow it to embark on an ambitious programme and reforms.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/orban-replaced-former-ally-hungary-elections
Trump says Iranian ships will be ‘eliminated’ as US naval blockade begins
The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) centre announced earlier that it had been notified that the US blockade will apply “without distinction” to ships engaging with Iranian ports and oil terminals. “The restrictions encompass the entirety of the Iranian coastline, including the ports and energy infrastructure,” UKMTO, which is affiliated with the British Royal Navy, said in an advisory.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/13/trump-says-iranian-ships-will-be-eliminated-as-us-naval-blockade-begins
https://archive.ph/XDTjZ
Condemning deterioration of clinical training | Medicine students at Aleppo University stage protests
Aleppo province: Medicine students in Aleppo University staged protests in front of the university’s administration building, expressing their discontent regarding the deterioration of the clinical training and absence of effective training.
https://www.syriahr.com/en/380964/
At least 100 dead in Nigeria after air force ‘misfire’ on market, sources say
Such misfires are common in Nigeria, where the military often conducts air raids to battle armed groups who control vast forest enclaves. At least 500 civilians have died since 2017 in such misfires, according to an AP tally of reported deaths. Security analysts point to loopholes in intelligence gathering as well as insufficient coordination between ground troops, air assets and stakeholders.
https://apnews.com/article/nigeria-airstrike-northeast-market-9da7e31dd8db3cec17e676e53f8b59cf
Sudan’s ERC committee: ‘Residual Islamic Movement funds abroad perpetuate war’
Sudan’s Committee for Removing Empowerment and Dismantling the June 30 1989 Regime (ERC)* has announced a renewed focus on targeting financial networks abroad, aiming to dry up sources of funding and pursue assets linked to the Islamic Movement outside the country. The committee also revealed that it is undertaking a series of updates and broad structural changes to better organise its work in line with its objectives for the next phase. This includes expanding its activities beyond Sudan, with the potential involvement of experts across multiple fields and the establishment of a specialised advisory body.
https://www.dabangasudan.org/en/all-news/article/sudans-erc-committee-residual-islamic-movement-funds-abroad-perpetuate-war
Brazil’s fugitive ex-intel chief detained by US immigration authorities
The Brazilian government has sought the extradition of Ramagem, who was sentenced to 16 years in prison for his involvement in efforts to keep Bolsonaro in power after he lost the country’s 2022 election to leftist challenger Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/13/brazilian-ex-intelligence-chief-detained-by-us-immigration-authorities
https://archive.ph/sQR0P
Peru extends voting as conservative Fujimori edges ahead in presidential race
Nearly half of Peru’s official vote count remained outstanding on Monday as frustration grew over widespread disruptions to Sunday’s general election, with conservative Keiko Fujimori in the lead and a June runoff increasingly likely. In Lima, long lines formed outside polling stations as commuters returned to vote for president and a new bicameral Congress after their ballots never arrived the day before.
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/keiko-fujimori-holds-lead-perus-election-with-50-ballots-counted-2026-04-13/
R: 7 / I: 0
Are all Non-US NATO countries puppet-states?
Are all Non-US NATO countries puppet-states or Vassal-states or proxy-states or whatever? France and the UK have the ability to be independent since they have nukes but they choose not to be for some reason. NATO countries just seem to let America smear its dick all over them in exchange for “Defense” which is actually just offensive somewhere in the other side of the world.
R: 13 / I: 1
If there exists class conflict between proletarians and bourgeoisie and historically proletarians have established their supremacy in certain countries and certain time periods like the dictatorship of the proletariat under Stalin in USSR for example was there ever a place where Lumpenproletariat has won the class struggle and established themselves as the ruling class?
Would it even be possible for Lumpenproletariat to seize the power and make their class interest the dominant one? How would such system look like and function?
Is there any political party at this moment advocating for the interest of lumpenproletariat?
Who even constitutes XXI century Lumpenproletariat?
If there exists class conflict between proletarians and bourgeoisie and historically proletarians have established their supremacy in certain countries and certain time periods like the dictatorship of the proletariat under Stalin in USSR for example was there ever a place where Lumpenproletariat has won the class struggle and established themselves as the ruling class?
Would it even be possible for Lumpenproletariat to seize the power and make their class interest the dominant one? How would such system look like and function?
Is there any political party at this moment advocating for the interest of lumpenproletariat?
Who even constitutes XXI century Lumpenproletariat?
R: 1 / I: 2
>said fanbase sees Trump as the fighter against shadowy pedophiles
>Trump on the 2024 campaign trail said he would declassify the Epstein list
>once in office he calls the Epstein files a democrat hoax
>uploads ai image of himself bringing life back to someone that looks like Jeffrey Epstein while looking like Jesus Christ
Revelation 21:8
>grows massive fanbase of QANON believing Evangelical Christians>said fanbase sees Trump as the fighter against shadowy pedophiles
>Trump on the 2024 campaign trail said he would declassify the Epstein list
>once in office he calls the Epstein files a democrat hoax
>uploads ai image of himself bringing life back to someone that looks like Jeffrey Epstein while looking like Jesus Christ
R: 13 / I: 0
-Middle class intellectuals must create a party of dedicated cadres who will then approach the workers by committing class suicide.
-Some of these workers will be recruited as ideologically committed cadres who will then unionize their workplace, creating unions separated from the core organization
-There must be discipline and accountability
-Once there, we will somehow figure out how to solve the questions on how to organize workers in the face of globalization, capital flight, and so on
There’s no excuse at this point. Chibber has offered a viable strategy, the only problem is finding cadres willing to commit class suicide
The Chibber Strategy
So according to Vivek Chibber what communists need to do is the following:-Middle class intellectuals must create a party of dedicated cadres who will then approach the workers by committing class suicide.
-Some of these workers will be recruited as ideologically committed cadres who will then unionize their workplace, creating unions separated from the core organization
-There must be discipline and accountability
-Once there, we will somehow figure out how to solve the questions on how to organize workers in the face of globalization, capital flight, and so on
- Must engage in social reforms to gain ground and then weaken the enemy using their own tools
There’s no excuse at this point. Chibber has offered a viable strategy, the only problem is finding cadres willing to commit class suicide
R: 605 / I: 178 (full)
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>Hezbollah announces resuming of war
<Iran closed the straight of KHÄMAS again but nothing else so far
>Israel attacked Lebanon killing thousands
<World doesn't really care about vitcims of Pissrael and wants to help US when it can
>Oil prices are still high
Trump Timeline:
Mar 3: "We won the war."
Mar 7: "We defeated Iran."
Mar 9: "We must attack Iran."
Mar 9: "The war is ending almost completely, and very beautifully."
Mar 11: "You never like to say too early you won. We won. In the first hour it was over."
Mar 12: "We did win, but we haven't won completely yet."
Mar 13: "We won the war."
Mar 14: "Please help us."
Mar 15: "If you don't help us, I will certainly remember it."
Mar 16: "Actually, we don't need any help at all."
Mar 16: "I was just testing to see who's listening to me."
Mar 16: "If NATO doesn't help, they will suffer something very bad."
Mar 17: "We neither need nor want NATO's help."
Mar 17: "I don't need Congressional approval to withdraw from NATO."
Mar 18: "Our allies must cooperate in reopening the Strait of Hormuz."
Mar 19: "US allies need to get a grip - step up and help open the Strait of Hormuz."
Mar 20: "NATO are cowards."
Mar 21: "The Strait of Hormuz must be protected by the countries that use it. We don't use it, we don't need to open it."
Mar 22: "This is the last time. I will give Iran 48 hours. Open the strait"
Mar 22: "Iran is Dead"
Mar 23: "We had very good and productive talks with Iran."
Mar 24: "We're making progress."
Mar 25: "They gave us a present and the present arrived today. And it was a big present worth a tremendous amount of money. I'm not
going to tell you what that present is, but it was a very significant prize."
Mar 26: "Make a deal, or we'll just keep blowing them away"
Mar 27: "We don't have to be there for NATO."
Mar 29: Talks are progressing.
Mar 30: "Open the Strait of Hormuz immediately, or face devastating consequences."
Mar 31: A deal is "very close" and Iran will "do the right thing"
Apr 1: "We'll see what happens very soon."
Apr 3: "Something big is going to happen."
Apr 4: Iran must comply "immediately" or face further consequences.
Apr 5: "Open the fuckin' Strait, you crazy bastards, or you'll be living in Hell - JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah."
April 7: "A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought again. I don't want that to happen, but it probably will."
April 8: "We won by giving them what they want."
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>Previous Bake<Report the false thread made by the jakspamming zionist…. edition
Latest News
>Hezbollah announces resuming of war
<Iran closed the straight of KHÄMAS again but nothing else so far
>Israel attacked Lebanon killing thousands
<World doesn't really care about vitcims of Pissrael and wants to help US when it can
>Oil prices are still high
Trump Timeline:
Mar 3: "We won the war."
Mar 7: "We defeated Iran."
Mar 9: "We must attack Iran."
Mar 9: "The war is ending almost completely, and very beautifully."
Mar 11: "You never like to say too early you won. We won. In the first hour it was over."
Mar 12: "We did win, but we haven't won completely yet."
Mar 13: "We won the war."
Mar 14: "Please help us."
Mar 15: "If you don't help us, I will certainly remember it."
Mar 16: "Actually, we don't need any help at all."
Mar 16: "I was just testing to see who's listening to me."
Mar 16: "If NATO doesn't help, they will suffer something very bad."
Mar 17: "We neither need nor want NATO's help."
Mar 17: "I don't need Congressional approval to withdraw from NATO."
Mar 18: "Our allies must cooperate in reopening the Strait of Hormuz."
Mar 19: "US allies need to get a grip - step up and help open the Strait of Hormuz."
Mar 20: "NATO are cowards."
Mar 21: "The Strait of Hormuz must be protected by the countries that use it. We don't use it, we don't need to open it."
Mar 22: "This is the last time. I will give Iran 48 hours. Open the strait"
Mar 22: "Iran is Dead"
Mar 23: "We had very good and productive talks with Iran."
Mar 24: "We're making progress."
Mar 25: "They gave us a present and the present arrived today. And it was a big present worth a tremendous amount of money. I'm not
going to tell you what that present is, but it was a very significant prize."
Mar 26: "Make a deal, or we'll just keep blowing them away"
Mar 27: "We don't have to be there for NATO."
Mar 29: Talks are progressing.
Mar 30: "Open the Strait of Hormuz immediately, or face devastating consequences."
Mar 31: A deal is "very close" and Iran will "do the right thing"
Apr 1: "We'll see what happens very soon."
Apr 3: "Something big is going to happen."
Apr 4: Iran must comply "immediately" or face further consequences.
Apr 5: "Open the fuckin' Strait, you crazy bastards, or you'll be living in Hell - JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah."
April 7: "A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought again. I don't want that to happen, but it probably will."
April 8: "We won by giving them what they want."
>Important Links:
https://www.flightradar24.com/
https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/centerx:52.7/centery:26.8/zoom:7
https://www.defconlevel.com/
https://oilprice.com/
https://www.pizzint.watch/
https://eam.watch/
https://www.gmcmap.com/index.asp
https://firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/map/#d:24hrs;@54.2,31.0,7.1z
https://globe.adsbexchange.com/
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https://www.youtube.com/@DanielDavisDeepDive
https://www.youtube.com/@DannyHaiphongYT
https://www.youtube.com/@justinpodur
https://www.youtube.com/@IndiaGlobalLeft
https://www.youtube.com/@RichardMedhurst
https://www.youtube.com/@GDFofficial
https://www.youtube.com/@neutralitystudies
https://www.youtube.com/@prop_co
https://www.youtube.com/@CyrusJanssen
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https://www.youtube.com/@militarysummary
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https://www.youtube.com/@willyOAM
https://www.youtube.com/@GDiesen1
https://www.youtube.com/@theeastisapodcast
https://www.youtube.com/@GeopoliticalEconomyReport
https://www.youtube.com/@TheElectronicIntifada
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>Useful TG:
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https://simplicius76.substack.com/
https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/
https://sonar21.com/
https://www.moonofalabama.org/
https://thegrayzone.com/
https://www.middleeasteye.net/live/live-us-and-israel-attack-iran
https://www.podbean.com/podcast-detail/t687i-9b79d/War-Nerd-Radio-%E2%80%94-Subscriber-Feed-Podcast
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R: 8 / I: 0
>state withers away just like marx predicted
>get yeltsin and putin
MLs: WAIT NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO NOT LIKE THAT NOT LIKE THAT THAT DOESN'T COUNT
>state withers away just like marx predicted
>get yeltsin and putin
MLs: WAIT NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO NOT LIKE THAT NOT LIKE THAT THAT DOESN'T COUNT