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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.
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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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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These are countries which have a large amount of exploitative capitalists which exploit their workers abroad and loosely call themselves the international community.
There is many Asian countries which are climbing the index, then there is many tax havens which occupy this list. Surprisingly not all tax havens are on the list.
The worst countries in the world
I have been tracking societal factors which indicate exploitation and the list is in for the worst countries in the world.These are countries which have a large amount of exploitative capitalists which exploit their workers abroad and loosely call themselves the international community.
There is many Asian countries which are climbing the index, then there is many tax havens which occupy this list. Surprisingly not all tax havens are on the list.
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DOJ Disclosures // https://www.justice.gov/epstein/doj-disclosures
Track AIPAC // https://www.trackaipac.com/
Al Jazeera visual guide (2026) // https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/10/struggling-to-navigate-the-epstein-files-here-is-a-visual-guide
Essential American Politik 📖
📖 WEB Du Bois - Black Reconstruction // https://cominsitu.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/w-e-b-du-bois-black-reconstruction-an-essay-toward-a-history-of-the-part-which-black-folk-played-in-the-attempt-to-reconstruct-democracy-2.pdf
📖 Eugene Debs - Fourth of July Speech // https://jacobin.com/2020/07/eugene-debs-independence-day-address-fourth-july
📖 Power Anywhere There's People! – Fred Hampton // https://www.hamptonthink.org/read/power-anywhere-where-thats-people-fred-hampton
📖 War is a Racket – Smedley Butler // https://ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html
📖 Letters From an American Farmer – St. John de Crevoecoeur // https://americanliterature.com/author/j-hector-st-john-de-crevoecoeur/book/letters-from-an-american-farmer/summary
📖 Trail of Broken Treaties // American Indian Movement https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
📖 The Declaration of Independence https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
📖 The Ballot or the Bullet – Malcolm X // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/ballot_or_bullet.pdf
📖 What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? – Frederick Douglass // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/douglass_july_4_speech.pdf
📖 A Trail of Broken Treaties – American Indian Movement // https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
📖 Custer Died for Your Sins – Vine Deloria Jr. // http://www.riversimulator.org/Resources/Books/CusterDiedForYourSinsAnIndianManifesto1969Deloria.pdf
📖 Emancipation Proclamation – Lincoln // https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/emancipation-proclamation
📖 Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville // https://americanliterature.com/author/alexis-de-tocqueville/book/democracy-in-america/summary
📖 Common Sense – Thomas Paine // https://americainclass.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Common-Sense-Full-Text.pdf
📖 An Indigenous History of the United States – Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz // https://nycstandswithstandingrock.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/dunbar-ortiz-2014.pdf
📖 Huey Long – Share Our Wealth // https://www.hueylong.com/programs/share-our-wealth/huey-longs-share-our-wealth-speech
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/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™
<Peace Is What All True Warriors Strive For Edition
OP Backup Site: https://usapol.neocities.org/
💀 ICE & Prison Resources
(Amerika is the most incarcerated country in the world!)
ICE tracker using public info and user submissions // https://www.iceinmyarea.org/
list of deaths at ICE concentration camps // https://www.aila.org/infonet/deaths-at-adult-detention-centers
visualization of prison population in US // https://mkorostoff.github.io/incarceration-in-real-numbers/
Organizing in Prison — for when the walls close in (RANT Collective) // https://www.organizingforpower.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Organizing-in-Jail.pdf
database of U.S. facilities incl. ICE holding sites // https://alcpress.org/usjails/index.html
list of prison related resources, mailing lists, etc // https://www.prisonactivist.org/resources
ICE Agent List (incomplete) // https://wiki.icelist.is/index.php/Category:Agents
US Political Prison Tracker (last updated 2025) // https://uspoliticalprisoners.com/
Jailhouse Reading:
📖 Angela Davis - Are Prisons Obsolete? // https://dn790007.ca.archive.org/0/items/the-anarchist-library-full-list-of-pdfs-nov-2020/angela-y-davis-are-prisons-obsolete.pdf
📖 How to Defend Yourself During Police Interrogation // https://www.notrace.how/resources/download/comment-la-police-interroge-et-comment-sen-defendre/how-to-defend-yourself-during-a-police-interrogation.pdf
📖 National Lawyers Guild guide to being a jailhouse lawyer // https://www.jailhouselaw.org/
📖 Critical Resistance - Surviving Solitary Confinement // https://criticalresistance.org/resources/surviving-solitary/
📖 An inside-outside publication for abolitionist struggle & strategy across prison walls // https://criticalresistance.org/abolitionist/
📖 Prisoners’ Self-Help Litigation Manual // https://api.pageplace.de/preview/DT0400.9780199705665_A35159258/preview-9780199705665_A35159258.pdf
⚒️ LABOR!
Live strike tracker with deep stats on who, what and when // https://striketracker.ilr.cornell.edu/
AFL-CIO [imperialist]'s Strike Tracker // https://aflcio.org/strike-map
Labor Bureau's Official 'work stoppage' tracker // https://www.bls.gov/wsp/
IWW timeline for the 20th century (ends at 1999) // https://archive.iww.org/history/chronology/
IWW Work Place Organizing Guide // https://usa.anarchistlibraries.net/library/industrial-workers-of-the-world-libcom-org-solidarity-federation-walthamstow-anarchist-group-wo
▶ Salting | Work Place Organizing 101 (50 minute webinar) // https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SHlCLyM4FY
⚖️ Deeds of the Burger Reich 🇺🇸
deep list of horrible shit we (royal we) have done // https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/us_atrocities.md
Coups and regime changes – master list // https://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-peoples-governments-the-master-list
Wikipedia: United States War Crimes // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_war_crimes
/our boys/ (bring em home!) detail abusing Iraqi prisoners [2006] // https://www.hrw.org/report/2006/07/22/no-blood-no-foul/soldiers-accounts-detainee-abuse-iraq
More than 250 military interventions in the last 30 years alone // https://blackagendareport.com/us-launched-251-military-interventions-1991-and-469-1798
Visualisation of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade // https://www.slavevoyages.org/
UNESCO Sites relating to Slavery // https://slaveryandremembrance.org/
First Hand Documents of the horrors of Slavery // https://www.loc.gov/collections/slave-narratives-from-the-federal-writers-project-1936-to-1938/
📺 Glowie News 📺
(sponsored by the Burger Eagle Freedom Institute (formerly USAID))
CNN Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/cnn-news-usa.html
MSNBC Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/msnbc.html
FOX Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/fox-news-channel.html
Bloomberg Live // https://www.bloomberg.com/live/us
Burger House Live // https://www.whitehouse.gov/live/
Local News // https://www.50states.com/ce/
Weather // https://www.noaa.gov/weather
📺 Gommie News 📺
Jacobin // https://jacobin.com/
Black Agenda Report // https://blackagendareport.com/
The Grayzone // https://thegrayzone.com/
Leftvoice // https://www.leftvoice.org/
Newsanon Filter // https://leftypol.org/search.php?search=name%3A%22News+Anon+3.0%22&board=leftypol
🏝️ Epstein's Client List 🇮🇱
Epstein's Black Book // https://epsteinsblackbook.com/
DOJ Disclosures // https://www.justice.gov/epstein/doj-disclosures
Track AIPAC // https://www.trackaipac.com/
Al Jazeera visual guide (2026) // https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/10/struggling-to-navigate-the-epstein-files-here-is-a-visual-guide
Essential American Politik 📖
📖 WEB Du Bois - Black Reconstruction // https://cominsitu.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/w-e-b-du-bois-black-reconstruction-an-essay-toward-a-history-of-the-part-which-black-folk-played-in-the-attempt-to-reconstruct-democracy-2.pdf
📖 Eugene Debs - Fourth of July Speech // https://jacobin.com/2020/07/eugene-debs-independence-day-address-fourth-july
📖 Power Anywhere There's People! – Fred Hampton // https://www.hamptonthink.org/read/power-anywhere-where-thats-people-fred-hampton
📖 War is a Racket – Smedley Butler // https://ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html
📖 Letters From an American Farmer – St. John de Crevoecoeur // https://americanliterature.com/author/j-hector-st-john-de-crevoecoeur/book/letters-from-an-american-farmer/summary
📖 Trail of Broken Treaties // American Indian Movement https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
📖 The Declaration of Independence https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
📖 The Ballot or the Bullet – Malcolm X // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/ballot_or_bullet.pdf
📖 What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? – Frederick Douglass // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/douglass_july_4_speech.pdf
📖 A Trail of Broken Treaties – American Indian Movement // https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
📖 Custer Died for Your Sins – Vine Deloria Jr. // http://www.riversimulator.org/Resources/Books/CusterDiedForYourSinsAnIndianManifesto1969Deloria.pdf
📖 Emancipation Proclamation – Lincoln // https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/emancipation-proclamation
📖 Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville // https://americanliterature.com/author/alexis-de-tocqueville/book/democracy-in-america/summary
📖 Common Sense – Thomas Paine // https://americainclass.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Common-Sense-Full-Text.pdf
📖 An Indigenous History of the United States – Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz // https://nycstandswithstandingrock.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/dunbar-ortiz-2014.pdf
📖 Huey Long – Share Our Wealth // https://www.hueylong.com/programs/share-our-wealth/huey-longs-share-our-wealth-speech
Previous Thread >>2841647
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The same pattern arguably resurfaced in a different form during the 1970s and 1980s with the wave of Japan-bashing that swept through much of the white working class. This hostility was often encouraged by politicians aligned with the Democratic Party, who were eager to attack Japanese economic competition while the Reagan administration and the GOP were generally more receptive to Japanese investment in the United States, even as the American automobile industry was struggling.
What I find particularly creepy and strange is how many white Americans today, on both the left and the right, have become outright weeaboos or at least highly positive toward Japan despite the fact that it was not even a century ago that Toyota vehicles were being vandalized by disgruntled union workers employed by Ford and other American manufacturers. Books such as Japan as Number One became bestsellers, while Hollywood frequently portrayed Japanese corporations as sinister or unstoppable economic rivals, especially in films like Blade Runner and Rising Sun.
I would argue that this continued into the 1990s, when many moral guardians began targeting Japanese anime as satanic or as a vehicle for spreading Japanese wartime nationalism. One only has to look at the various newspaper columns attacking series such as Dragon Ball, Sailor Moon, and even Pokémon for allegedly promoting Satanism, homosexuality, or whatever other cultural boogeyman happened to concern the American Christian right at the time—a movement which, it should be remembered, also preached that AIDS was divine punishment for homosexuality. To be fair, these same moral crusaders targeted plenty of domestic subcultures as well, including Dungeons & Dragons and heavy metal music. Still, anime and manga being foreign products certainly did not help, especially given that they came from a country that had once been America’s enemy during World War II and that many veterans of that conflict still openly harbored anti-Japanese sentiments.
Even during the 2000s and early 2010s, long after anti-Japanese sentiment had largely faded, being an anime fan was still often regarded as something only weirdos were into, somewhere on the same spectrum as being a furry or a brony. I remember how many commentators at the time described anime and manga as “cringe” and something to be embarrassed about. A good example is when PewDiePie made a video discussing his interests in the early 2010s and mentioned the manga Blame!. Unlike his other hobbies, he seemed almost apologetic about having a favorite manga at all.
Compare that with today, when mainstream platforms such as Netflix actively license anime for global audiences and even helped distribute the live-action adaptation of One Piece complete with dubs in numerous languages.
One could argue that this shift toward weeabooism occurred because Japan ceased to be perceived as a threat after the collapse of its asset bubble and the onset of the so-called Lost Decade. The stagnation of the Japanese economy effectively ended the economic miracle that had once led Americans to fear another “rising sun.” At the same time, Millennials and especially Zoomers grew up with anime and manga as a normal part of their media consumption rather than as a niche interest.
After all, many Americans who had once been intensely anti-Chinese became highly vocal about Imperial Japanese atrocities in China. The famous 1937 photograph Bloody Saturday is one example of how outrage over Japanese actions spread through the American public. Yet much of that outrage emerged during a period when Chinese immigrants themselves were no longer viewed as the primary Yellow Peril. By then, that role had largely been transferred to Japan. The Chinese Exclusion Act and other racist immigration policies, including the Immigration Act of 1924, had dramatically reduced Chinese immigration and the overall size of the Chinese diaspora in the United States. How convenient.
Even if this explains the transformation in attitudes toward Japan, it does not fully explain the recent growth of online sinophilia. This is occurring despite the fact that many people on the American right continue to view the PRC as a major geopolitical threat, even if anti-left contrarianism occasionally leads some of them to praise China as a way of criticizing contemporary America.
My own suspicion is that weeabooism has contributed to a broader fetishization of East Asia among certain segments of the American population, particularly among younger right-wing internet users. This tendency has only intensified as more Americans become disillusioned with their own country. Even with Trump in office, political messaging cannot entirely obscure the fact that many young Americans have lost confidence in the future of the United States. America is obviously not collapsing into Third World conditions, but that does not mean confidence in its institutions and long-term trajectory remains high.
At the same time, forms of anti-Asian prejudice still exist on the left. One can point to hostility toward Indian immigrants rooted in competition for white-collar jobs, feminist criticisms of sexism in countries such as Japan and South Korea that sometimes drift into cultural essentialism, or anti-CCP rhetoric that can range anywhere from principled anti-communism to outright Sinophobia.
So my question to American leftists is this: what do you think about the anti-Asian history of the American left and labor movement, and how do you explain the rapid shift toward various forms of sinophilia and weeabooism over the course of a few decades? More importantly, as a leftist, how do you think the American left should confront and address this aspect of its own history?
What surprises me is that the people who most often bring up this subject tend to be either liberal identitarians or conservative commentators who use the historical racism of the labor movement primarily as a way of attacking Democrats, socialists, or the broader Western left.
What do American leftists think of the anti-Asianness of the historical American left?
I’ve always wondered how modern American leftists, Marxist or otherwise, react to the anti-Asian history of the American left and labor movement. I’m referring to things like the anti-coolie movements that spread across the Western Hemisphere during the nineteenth century. Anti-coolie activism itself originated in Chile, while countries such as Mexico and Peru saw anti-Asian violence fueled by competition with Asian indentured workers. In the United States, this often erupted into outright anti-Chinese violence and pogroms, whether in the 1871 Los Angeles massacre—considered by some historians to be the deadliest lynching in American history—the Rock Springs massacre, the Tacoma riots of 1885, or the anti-Asian agitation associated with the Workingmen’s Party of California under Denis Kearney, which became infamous for its role in the 1877 San Francisco riots that left numerous Chinese laborers dead.The same pattern arguably resurfaced in a different form during the 1970s and 1980s with the wave of Japan-bashing that swept through much of the white working class. This hostility was often encouraged by politicians aligned with the Democratic Party, who were eager to attack Japanese economic competition while the Reagan administration and the GOP were generally more receptive to Japanese investment in the United States, even as the American automobile industry was struggling.
What I find particularly creepy and strange is how many white Americans today, on both the left and the right, have become outright weeaboos or at least highly positive toward Japan despite the fact that it was not even a century ago that Toyota vehicles were being vandalized by disgruntled union workers employed by Ford and other American manufacturers. Books such as Japan as Number One became bestsellers, while Hollywood frequently portrayed Japanese corporations as sinister or unstoppable economic rivals, especially in films like Blade Runner and Rising Sun.
I would argue that this continued into the 1990s, when many moral guardians began targeting Japanese anime as satanic or as a vehicle for spreading Japanese wartime nationalism. One only has to look at the various newspaper columns attacking series such as Dragon Ball, Sailor Moon, and even Pokémon for allegedly promoting Satanism, homosexuality, or whatever other cultural boogeyman happened to concern the American Christian right at the time—a movement which, it should be remembered, also preached that AIDS was divine punishment for homosexuality. To be fair, these same moral crusaders targeted plenty of domestic subcultures as well, including Dungeons & Dragons and heavy metal music. Still, anime and manga being foreign products certainly did not help, especially given that they came from a country that had once been America’s enemy during World War II and that many veterans of that conflict still openly harbored anti-Japanese sentiments.
Even during the 2000s and early 2010s, long after anti-Japanese sentiment had largely faded, being an anime fan was still often regarded as something only weirdos were into, somewhere on the same spectrum as being a furry or a brony. I remember how many commentators at the time described anime and manga as “cringe” and something to be embarrassed about. A good example is when PewDiePie made a video discussing his interests in the early 2010s and mentioned the manga Blame!. Unlike his other hobbies, he seemed almost apologetic about having a favorite manga at all.
Compare that with today, when mainstream platforms such as Netflix actively license anime for global audiences and even helped distribute the live-action adaptation of One Piece complete with dubs in numerous languages.
One could argue that this shift toward weeabooism occurred because Japan ceased to be perceived as a threat after the collapse of its asset bubble and the onset of the so-called Lost Decade. The stagnation of the Japanese economy effectively ended the economic miracle that had once led Americans to fear another “rising sun.” At the same time, Millennials and especially Zoomers grew up with anime and manga as a normal part of their media consumption rather than as a niche interest.
After all, many Americans who had once been intensely anti-Chinese became highly vocal about Imperial Japanese atrocities in China. The famous 1937 photograph Bloody Saturday is one example of how outrage over Japanese actions spread through the American public. Yet much of that outrage emerged during a period when Chinese immigrants themselves were no longer viewed as the primary Yellow Peril. By then, that role had largely been transferred to Japan. The Chinese Exclusion Act and other racist immigration policies, including the Immigration Act of 1924, had dramatically reduced Chinese immigration and the overall size of the Chinese diaspora in the United States. How convenient.
Even if this explains the transformation in attitudes toward Japan, it does not fully explain the recent growth of online sinophilia. This is occurring despite the fact that many people on the American right continue to view the PRC as a major geopolitical threat, even if anti-left contrarianism occasionally leads some of them to praise China as a way of criticizing contemporary America.
My own suspicion is that weeabooism has contributed to a broader fetishization of East Asia among certain segments of the American population, particularly among younger right-wing internet users. This tendency has only intensified as more Americans become disillusioned with their own country. Even with Trump in office, political messaging cannot entirely obscure the fact that many young Americans have lost confidence in the future of the United States. America is obviously not collapsing into Third World conditions, but that does not mean confidence in its institutions and long-term trajectory remains high.
At the same time, forms of anti-Asian prejudice still exist on the left. One can point to hostility toward Indian immigrants rooted in competition for white-collar jobs, feminist criticisms of sexism in countries such as Japan and South Korea that sometimes drift into cultural essentialism, or anti-CCP rhetoric that can range anywhere from principled anti-communism to outright Sinophobia.
So my question to American leftists is this: what do you think about the anti-Asian history of the American left and labor movement, and how do you explain the rapid shift toward various forms of sinophilia and weeabooism over the course of a few decades? More importantly, as a leftist, how do you think the American left should confront and address this aspect of its own history?
What surprises me is that the people who most often bring up this subject tend to be either liberal identitarians or conservative commentators who use the historical racism of the labor movement primarily as a way of attacking Democrats, socialists, or the broader Western left.
R: 40 / I: 8
>Iran agrees to US administered $300 billion private-sector reconstruction and development plan
>Hezbollah approved ceasefire with Israel on 19th of June, 22 Lebanese civilians have died since
>Israel is reportedly 'seething' and 'coping'
/Iran War/ #68
Iranian McDonald's edition>Iran agrees to US administered $300 billion private-sector reconstruction and development plan
>Hezbollah approved ceasefire with Israel on 19th of June, 22 Lebanese civilians have died since
>Israel is reportedly 'seething' and 'coping'
R: 43 / I: 3
When we deal with matters of the economy, it’s important to stay grounded in very real world terms and not fall for the abstractions the wealthy propagandize people with. These are systems of metabolizing the labor of everyone in society and then proportioning goods accordingly. Everyday there is work that has to get done to maintain civilization, and “the economy” describes how we incentivize (or more crudely, reward) doing that work. The control and production of everything takes labor, and the biggest issues with society stem from our considering property or ownership of stock as a means of financial gain in of itself over labor. In a preferable society with equal access to education and healthcare and equal rights for all, those capable of doing work should still be made to. There simply is no society without that economic work incentive, and ours is now being destroyed because the incentive is switching to trading stocks and speculating on others businesses instead of putting effort in to produce or maintain anything. I think these best ways to distribute these goods is for a wage system that distributes a currency exchangeable for goods and services at a market rate. Its a fundamentally democratizing force that should be regulated and limited in certain aspects, but that should not be abolished in favor of anything else, as the rich are trying to do now. I support some economic inequality enough to maintain a petit bourgeoisie, I would even say I’m against a UBI.
The reason i don’t identify as a communist is because I see them as abandoning this distributive system in favor of a more hierarchical approach. In a world without currency, you would either have to rigidly control distribution or provide a civilization so materially liberal I don’t think human beings could uncorruptibly function without abusing the systems of social benefit to an unsustainable degree. This is a monopoly of the state and even a state that is democratically controlled should not wield such power in my opinion.
The difference between capitalism and socialism is that capitalism doesn’t just have a free market, but as our current neoliberal system extols, has businesses controlled by centralized power and authority rested in bourgeois, old money families. These people are given the reigns of power over their own little fiefdoms, given essentially no oversight or real threat of punishment, and even those that work their way into that position wield that power as an authoritarian in an authoritarian system. Even in a system where they were adequately policed, single individuals with power over others occupations and livelihoods should not wield such power in my opinion.
Socialism is turning these authoritarian systems inward and forcing major companies to become worker cooperatives. I support some direct state intervention in the economy, if certain industries prove necessary, but government operation of businesses should not be the rule but the exception. The rest of the economy should either consist of local businesses with minimum employees, or of large, internationally functioning worker cooperatives where every employee has a share in the leadership of their company.
I’m much more of a history nerd than a theory buff, so excuse inaccuracies, but this is my worldview about as best I can write it, I hope it’s worth the short read.
And death to all those who stand in the way of freedom for the working people.
Capitalism vs Socialism vs Communism
In defense of the free market.When we deal with matters of the economy, it’s important to stay grounded in very real world terms and not fall for the abstractions the wealthy propagandize people with. These are systems of metabolizing the labor of everyone in society and then proportioning goods accordingly. Everyday there is work that has to get done to maintain civilization, and “the economy” describes how we incentivize (or more crudely, reward) doing that work. The control and production of everything takes labor, and the biggest issues with society stem from our considering property or ownership of stock as a means of financial gain in of itself over labor. In a preferable society with equal access to education and healthcare and equal rights for all, those capable of doing work should still be made to. There simply is no society without that economic work incentive, and ours is now being destroyed because the incentive is switching to trading stocks and speculating on others businesses instead of putting effort in to produce or maintain anything. I think these best ways to distribute these goods is for a wage system that distributes a currency exchangeable for goods and services at a market rate. Its a fundamentally democratizing force that should be regulated and limited in certain aspects, but that should not be abolished in favor of anything else, as the rich are trying to do now. I support some economic inequality enough to maintain a petit bourgeoisie, I would even say I’m against a UBI.
The reason i don’t identify as a communist is because I see them as abandoning this distributive system in favor of a more hierarchical approach. In a world without currency, you would either have to rigidly control distribution or provide a civilization so materially liberal I don’t think human beings could uncorruptibly function without abusing the systems of social benefit to an unsustainable degree. This is a monopoly of the state and even a state that is democratically controlled should not wield such power in my opinion.
The difference between capitalism and socialism is that capitalism doesn’t just have a free market, but as our current neoliberal system extols, has businesses controlled by centralized power and authority rested in bourgeois, old money families. These people are given the reigns of power over their own little fiefdoms, given essentially no oversight or real threat of punishment, and even those that work their way into that position wield that power as an authoritarian in an authoritarian system. Even in a system where they were adequately policed, single individuals with power over others occupations and livelihoods should not wield such power in my opinion.
Socialism is turning these authoritarian systems inward and forcing major companies to become worker cooperatives. I support some direct state intervention in the economy, if certain industries prove necessary, but government operation of businesses should not be the rule but the exception. The rest of the economy should either consist of local businesses with minimum employees, or of large, internationally functioning worker cooperatives where every employee has a share in the leadership of their company.
I’m much more of a history nerd than a theory buff, so excuse inaccuracies, but this is my worldview about as best I can write it, I hope it’s worth the short read.
And death to all those who stand in the way of freedom for the working people.
R: 500 / I: 284
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: 153 / I: 27
>Yellow heat health alerts – which mean a greater risk to the lives of vulnerable people and higher demand for health and care services – have been put in place by the UK Health Security Agency across the South East, the East of England, London and the East Midlands until Monday.
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/jun/17/uk-social-media-ban-digital-advertising-snapchat-instagram-youtube
>Brands are expected to cut more than £1bn of digital advertising spending due to the UK’s ban on social media for under-16s, with streaming services tipped to benefit as advertisers try to reach large audiences of teenagers. The ban, due to come into force early next year, will leave UK advertisers scrambling to reassess marketing plans as millions of under-16s effectively disappear as a demographic that can be marketed to on platforms including Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and YouTube.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/money/uk-unemployment-rate-2026-jobs-37312541
>Figures for the UK jobs market show a mixed picture, with the unemployment rate falling to 4.9%, in a boost to the government but it's getting harder to find a job
Previous thread: https://leftypol.org/leftypol/res/2829198.html
/leftybritpol/ - Red wave Alert edition
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/health/other/uk-weekend-heatwave-forecast-issued-with-temperatures-set-to-hit-32c/ar-AA25T1zM>Yellow heat health alerts – which mean a greater risk to the lives of vulnerable people and higher demand for health and care services – have been put in place by the UK Health Security Agency across the South East, the East of England, London and the East Midlands until Monday.
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/jun/17/uk-social-media-ban-digital-advertising-snapchat-instagram-youtube
>Brands are expected to cut more than £1bn of digital advertising spending due to the UK’s ban on social media for under-16s, with streaming services tipped to benefit as advertisers try to reach large audiences of teenagers. The ban, due to come into force early next year, will leave UK advertisers scrambling to reassess marketing plans as millions of under-16s effectively disappear as a demographic that can be marketed to on platforms including Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and YouTube.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/money/uk-unemployment-rate-2026-jobs-37312541
>Figures for the UK jobs market show a mixed picture, with the unemployment rate falling to 4.9%, in a boost to the government but it's getting harder to find a job
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>Post original content you've made, or OC someone else recently made which you want to share.
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>the open terrorist dictatorship of the most reactionary, most chauvinistic, most imperialist elements of finance capital.
Umberto Eco's 14 traits:
>cult of tradition, rejection of modernism, irrationalism/action for action’s sake, fear of difference, obsession with conspiracy, nationalism, glorification of struggle, contempt for weakness, selective populism, machismo, newspeak, treating dissent as treason.
Rajani Palme Dutt:
>Monopoly capitalism in crisis creating a dictatorship at the head of a manipulated petty bourgeois mass movement, resulting in the collapse of parliamentary liberalism under capitalism,
Normie Lib Political Science Definition:
>totalitarian authoritarian anti-liberal ultranationalism bulit on a myth of national rebirth, dictatorship, mass mobilization, and political violence
criticisms? thoughts?
Competing Definitions of Fascism
Georgi Dmitrov:>the open terrorist dictatorship of the most reactionary, most chauvinistic, most imperialist elements of finance capital.
Umberto Eco's 14 traits:
>cult of tradition, rejection of modernism, irrationalism/action for action’s sake, fear of difference, obsession with conspiracy, nationalism, glorification of struggle, contempt for weakness, selective populism, machismo, newspeak, treating dissent as treason.
Rajani Palme Dutt:
>Monopoly capitalism in crisis creating a dictatorship at the head of a manipulated petty bourgeois mass movement, resulting in the collapse of parliamentary liberalism under capitalism,
Normie Lib Political Science Definition:
>totalitarian authoritarian anti-liberal ultranationalism bulit on a myth of national rebirth, dictatorship, mass mobilization, and political violence
criticisms? thoughts?
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Li ser siyaseta giştî ya Tirkiyê biaxive!
Şıma qısey bıkı Poliya Turika!
Yurtişi siyaseti p'ara yoxaleps!
تحدثوا عن السياسة العامة في تركيا!
/Türkipol/
Genel Türkiye siyaseti ile ilgili konuşun!Li ser siyaseta giştî ya Tirkiyê biaxive!
Şıma qısey bıkı Poliya Turika!
Yurtişi siyaseti p'ara yoxaleps!
تحدثوا عن السياسة العامة في تركيا!
R: 98 / I: 19
we gotta talk about some serious shit
would /leftypol/ support the republic or the confederacy of independent systems? the republic might be worth supporting for their egalitarian jedi order as well as existing autonomous structures for members of the republic or would the CIS's desires for total separation be more worthy of support ?
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Communists would do better if they realised that Gorbachev wasn't a traitor. He was a comically committed Leninist and he got most of his worst ideas (like basically every move to empower the different nations of the USSR, which would ultimately lead to them all leaving, or his economic policies, which were inspired by the NEP) from reading Lenin. He destroyed the USSR not because he saw the light of neoliberalism and converted, but because he believed he could recover its "true" origins before it became corrupted and stagnant.
This doesn't tell us anything about Lenin, who had been dead for decades, but it does tell you where LARPing as Lenin and treating Lenin like the biblical truth will take you. You have to understand the situation as it actually exists in the here and now, not by shoehorning it in to the texts of long dead heroes. Your analyses should start from reality and work towards useful predictions, rather than starting from dogma and working towards reconciling it with reality.
Gorbachev's failure is substantially worse in light of his loyalty to the cause.
Communists would do better if they realised that Gorbachev wasn't a traitor. He was a comically committed Leninist and he got most of his worst ideas (like basically every move to empower the different nations of the USSR, which would ultimately lead to them all leaving, or his economic policies, which were inspired by the NEP) from reading Lenin. He destroyed the USSR not because he saw the light of neoliberalism and converted, but because he believed he could recover its "true" origins before it became corrupted and stagnant.
This doesn't tell us anything about Lenin, who had been dead for decades, but it does tell you where LARPing as Lenin and treating Lenin like the biblical truth will take you. You have to understand the situation as it actually exists in the here and now, not by shoehorning it in to the texts of long dead heroes. Your analyses should start from reality and work towards useful predictions, rather than starting from dogma and working towards reconciling it with reality.
Gorbachev's failure is substantially worse in light of his loyalty to the cause.
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https://x.com/dropsitenews/status/2065526500640645566
🚨🇨🇺 BREAKING: Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel unveiled a sweeping set of economic reforms Friday, casting them as Cuba’s path through the crisis driven by a “criminal energy blockade” by the United States that has left the island nearly without fuel.
Only 1 oil tanker has reached Cuba in the past 5 months, Díaz-Canel said, a collapse that traces to January, when the U.S. captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and cut the flow of Venezuelan oil, then threatened tariffs on any country that supplied Cuba.
Havana now endures blackouts of up to 15 hours a day. Among the most devastating consequences of the U.S. policy is that the Cuban government has been forced to postpone tens of thousands of surgeries for its citizens.
The Cuban President today named national defense as the first priority, citing preparations under Cuba’s “Whole People’s War” doctrine. The full 2026 reform program includes:
🔹Enterprise & Markets
🔸 Overhaul the economic management system, easing the conflict between central planning and incentives for production
🔸 Grant state enterprises autonomy to set their own wages, dimensions, clients, and suppliers, use their profits freely, and enter the currency market directly [enterprise autonomy is a bad idea]
🔸 Loosen rules on non-state businesses, narrowing banned activities and widening shareholding
🔸 Fast-track approval of stalled private and state MSMEs (mipymes)
🔹 Decentralization & the State
🔸 Expand municipal autonomy, letting provinces import, export, attract foreign investment, and manage hard-currency income on their own
🔸 Restructure and shrink the state, cutting ministries and posts via a public draft law to reduce bureaucracy
🔹 Trade & Investment
🔸 Make foreign trade more dynamic, dropping mandatory intermediaries and favoring importers of raw materials over finished goods
🔸 Incentivize foreign direct investment, plus a new role for Cuban-diaspora and resident-Cuban investors as economic actors [Whyyyy?????]
🔹 Agriculture & Food
🔸 Reform land use, giving land to those who will farm it, cutting idle plots, and opening input and currency markets to producers across all sectors
🔸 Pursue food self-sufficiency by streamlining bureaucracy for agricultural production
🔹 Fiscal, Monetary & Social
🔸 Shift fiscal policy so the budget no longer finances state-enterprise inefficiency [So make things worse for the state sector]
🔸 Redesign monetary policy and the foreign-exchange market, and strengthen the banking system
🔸 Reform wages in the budget sector and move from subsidizing products to subsidizing people
🔹 Energy & Transport
🔸 Expand renewable energy and electric mobility, including local EV assembly, to cut dependence on imported fuel
🔸 Ease vehicle import limits, favoring solar-charged electric vehicles
🔹 Tourism, Commerce & Labor
🔸 Revive tourism through new operators beyond the big foreign chains that have pulled out
🔸 Modernize domestic commerce with electronic invoicing and digital platforms
🔸 Protect young skilled workers with better pay and incentives to curb emigration
Let's hope those loyal to the communist cause in Cuba resist liberalization.
Cuba: Surrendering or tactical retreat?
There sad and disturbing development according to DropSiteNews.https://x.com/dropsitenews/status/2065526500640645566
🚨🇨🇺 BREAKING: Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel unveiled a sweeping set of economic reforms Friday, casting them as Cuba’s path through the crisis driven by a “criminal energy blockade” by the United States that has left the island nearly without fuel.
Only 1 oil tanker has reached Cuba in the past 5 months, Díaz-Canel said, a collapse that traces to January, when the U.S. captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and cut the flow of Venezuelan oil, then threatened tariffs on any country that supplied Cuba.
Havana now endures blackouts of up to 15 hours a day. Among the most devastating consequences of the U.S. policy is that the Cuban government has been forced to postpone tens of thousands of surgeries for its citizens.
The Cuban President today named national defense as the first priority, citing preparations under Cuba’s “Whole People’s War” doctrine. The full 2026 reform program includes:
🔹Enterprise & Markets
🔸 Overhaul the economic management system, easing the conflict between central planning and incentives for production
🔸 Grant state enterprises autonomy to set their own wages, dimensions, clients, and suppliers, use their profits freely, and enter the currency market directly [enterprise autonomy is a bad idea]
🔸 Loosen rules on non-state businesses, narrowing banned activities and widening shareholding
🔸 Fast-track approval of stalled private and state MSMEs (mipymes)
🔹 Decentralization & the State
🔸 Expand municipal autonomy, letting provinces import, export, attract foreign investment, and manage hard-currency income on their own
🔸 Restructure and shrink the state, cutting ministries and posts via a public draft law to reduce bureaucracy
🔹 Trade & Investment
🔸 Make foreign trade more dynamic, dropping mandatory intermediaries and favoring importers of raw materials over finished goods
🔸 Incentivize foreign direct investment, plus a new role for Cuban-diaspora and resident-Cuban investors as economic actors [Whyyyy?????]
🔹 Agriculture & Food
🔸 Reform land use, giving land to those who will farm it, cutting idle plots, and opening input and currency markets to producers across all sectors
🔸 Pursue food self-sufficiency by streamlining bureaucracy for agricultural production
🔹 Fiscal, Monetary & Social
🔸 Shift fiscal policy so the budget no longer finances state-enterprise inefficiency [So make things worse for the state sector]
🔸 Redesign monetary policy and the foreign-exchange market, and strengthen the banking system
🔸 Reform wages in the budget sector and move from subsidizing products to subsidizing people
🔹 Energy & Transport
🔸 Expand renewable energy and electric mobility, including local EV assembly, to cut dependence on imported fuel
🔸 Ease vehicle import limits, favoring solar-charged electric vehicles
🔹 Tourism, Commerce & Labor
🔸 Revive tourism through new operators beyond the big foreign chains that have pulled out
🔸 Modernize domestic commerce with electronic invoicing and digital platforms
🔸 Protect young skilled workers with better pay and incentives to curb emigration
Let's hope those loyal to the communist cause in Cuba resist liberalization.
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Thread #2
French people deserve a safe space and guarantees for their continued existence on loser imageboards!
Français! Ne succombez pas à l'impérialisme anglochiotte!
/FrancoPol/
🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷 Aux armes, citoyens ! 🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷Thread #2
French people deserve a safe space and guarantees for their continued existence on loser imageboards!
Français! Ne succombez pas à l'impérialisme anglochiotte!
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Possible happening? The protests have been going on for over a month now and its getting kinda revolutionary over there
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Bolivian_protests
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Possible happening? The protests have been going on for over a month now and its getting kinda revolutionary over there
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Bolivian_protests
>short short short short short short short short
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Being a leftoid is basically having no fucking ego defense and you have to be much more fit, intelligent and other such qualities to get ass while centroid/chud men get it easier despite them not even needing to be HALF of any of things we have to do.
"The Left Sucks" propaganda
One of the most hollowing things about being a leftoid is just how much bad behavior is automatically given to you just because you want to live in a world where people don't starve or whatever and there could be more free time to do well whatever the fuck uyghas want to do. Yet leftoids are said to always have these Dysgenetic traits while rightiods get to portray themselves as the yes chad and we get saddled with soyjaks and shit. Even people who are just vaguely sympathetic to our cause is also getting that treatment and other such shit. "Conservatives/Chuds are the real punk rock/edgelords/contrarians" "Conservatives/Chuds are the real tolerant people", "Conservatives are all fit" yet if you ever bring up rural/urban obesity rates or notice how fucking ugly, the very obvious gap in autism score s between rightiods and leftoids, how much social conservatives have larger amygladas (Thus they feel fear and disgust more, not very stoic of them), how they think they can't even win a fight against DONALD TRUMP or even worse MID LOOKING all these rightiod look like and yet you still have vtubers and shit saying they want to be impregnated by Asmongold!Being a leftoid is basically having no fucking ego defense and you have to be much more fit, intelligent and other such qualities to get ass while centroid/chud men get it easier despite them not even needing to be HALF of any of things we have to do.
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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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I can understand criticisms of this theory, but no alternative has ever been able to convince me there's anything better. So for now Hoxhaists or Maoists make the most sense to me. Leftkkkoms seem to not give a shit about the imperialised countries and just affirm revolution in the first world before such a thing can be implemented elsewhere, which history has taught us is not how it works.
Feel free to convince me otherwise, though.
Hear me out.
Socialist commodity production/socialism in one country is inherently necessary for countries outside the imperial core. What's the alternative? It redistributes all profit into the well-being of the population, and the more countries join this system (a la USSR), the more it can be progressively self-abolished. This is better than the capitalism under a red cloak you see in China or Vietnam.I can understand criticisms of this theory, but no alternative has ever been able to convince me there's anything better. So for now Hoxhaists or Maoists make the most sense to me. Leftkkkoms seem to not give a shit about the imperialised countries and just affirm revolution in the first world before such a thing can be implemented elsewhere, which history has taught us is not how it works.
Feel free to convince me otherwise, though.
R: 500 / I: 120
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
—————————————————–
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
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>Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif says US-Iran “peace deal” has been reached and is “now in place” with the signing ceremony scheduled for June 19 in Switzerland.
>Trump confirms the ceasefire agreement with Iran “is now complete”, announcing the end to the US naval blockade in the Strait of Hormuz.
/Iran war/ thread #67
Piece in our times editionPrevious thread: >>2827380
>Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif says US-Iran “peace deal” has been reached and is “now in place” with the signing ceremony scheduled for June 19 in Switzerland.
>Trump confirms the ceasefire agreement with Iran “is now complete”, announcing the end to the US naval blockade in the Strait of Hormuz.
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Linkfarm:
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/ - Mehrzweckeier Edition
Previously: >>2586971Linkfarm:
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: 6 / I: 0
Some of you might remember a long-time 420chan /pol/ user who went by X8 (pretty sure those were the last two digits of his poster ID). This guy was a 4chan /b/ lurker first, but he spent years on 420chan's /pol/ board. He was from the Seattle area, and he had a very personal axe to grind.
>>his parents owned a small business in Seattle that got tagged as "gentrifiers" by local anarchist groups.
>>They started targeting the place, graffiti, harassment, the works. This dude was pissed.
>>He made thread after thread about how he was "witnessing anarchists take over the city of Seattle" and how he was going to school for criminal justice and homeland security.
>>He'd go on for days about how he was going to catch these anarchists and ruin their lives.
>>He wasn't just talking. He was doing Jr. detective shit for free as a teenager. He'd post actual evidence photos of the graffiti on his parents business, timestamps, notes all archived to 420chan.
>>Even his parents told him to let it go, to which he called them typical seattle liberal pushovers
>>He talked about this for years, detailing his infiltrations and the intel he was gathering on local anarchist groups.
>>Then, around the end of 2012, he dropped a badge picture with the caption "HERE I COME." And that was pretty much the last anyone heard from him on 420chan
The writing style matches perfectly. The obsessive attention to detail, the personal vendetta, the homeland security angle, it's the same guy. He's likely aged around 38 now.
Can anyone who was on 420chan back then confirm this? I know the archives are spotty, but some of you older anons must remember the X8 threads. The Seattle anarchist stuff was real for certain he posted the images, the timestamps, everything. If you were there, you'd recognize the style.
Would love to hear from anyone who can corroborate this.
420chan vets?
Alright, I think I've pieced together who the fed behind the anti-juche posting actually is. And if I'm right, this goes way back.Some of you might remember a long-time 420chan /pol/ user who went by X8 (pretty sure those were the last two digits of his poster ID). This guy was a 4chan /b/ lurker first, but he spent years on 420chan's /pol/ board. He was from the Seattle area, and he had a very personal axe to grind.
>>his parents owned a small business in Seattle that got tagged as "gentrifiers" by local anarchist groups.
>>They started targeting the place, graffiti, harassment, the works. This dude was pissed.
>>He made thread after thread about how he was "witnessing anarchists take over the city of Seattle" and how he was going to school for criminal justice and homeland security.
>>He'd go on for days about how he was going to catch these anarchists and ruin their lives.
>>He wasn't just talking. He was doing Jr. detective shit for free as a teenager. He'd post actual evidence photos of the graffiti on his parents business, timestamps, notes all archived to 420chan.
>>Even his parents told him to let it go, to which he called them typical seattle liberal pushovers
>>He talked about this for years, detailing his infiltrations and the intel he was gathering on local anarchist groups.
>>Then, around the end of 2012, he dropped a badge picture with the caption "HERE I COME." And that was pretty much the last anyone heard from him on 420chan
The writing style matches perfectly. The obsessive attention to detail, the personal vendetta, the homeland security angle, it's the same guy. He's likely aged around 38 now.
Can anyone who was on 420chan back then confirm this? I know the archives are spotty, but some of you older anons must remember the X8 threads. The Seattle anarchist stuff was real for certain he posted the images, the timestamps, everything. If you were there, you'd recognize the style.
Would love to hear from anyone who can corroborate this.
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Wars of the slavic dixieland 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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/ukr/ - Russia-Ukraine War General #289
Previous: >>2820742Wars of the slavic dixieland 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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I believe Colombia is an prime example of an nation in pre-revolutionary conditions compared to any else
Pre-revolutionary conditions
What is pre-Revolutionary conditions in the modern day and is the United States already within those conditions?I believe Colombia is an prime example of an nation in pre-revolutionary conditions compared to any else
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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: 28 / I: 11
so let me get this straight… basically marxism is communism and communism came from marx but marx said "i am not a marxist" and communism is against social-democracy but marxists called themselves socdems until 1914 when marxists and socdems split over the question of whether support their governments in ww1 with the marxists choosing to be "revolutionary defeatists" which confusingly means that revolution will be victorious if don't support your country in the war, but instead support a civil war at home… nobody did this except lenin, so only lenin was a real marxist, and he criticized leftism because leftism is really just the left wing of capitalism, and communism is not left wing or right wing despite everyone calling it left wing, and fascism is right wing, but so is liberalism and social democracy and anarchism and everything except marxism, and basically nothing is left wing except marxism, but marxism is not left wing, because left wing means the left wing of capital but also marx said he wasn't a marxist so marxists are anti communist anyway, but also communism can only be marxist, which is not the left wing of capital, but its own thing completely outside of bourgeois politics, and everything is right wing except marxism.
so let me get this straight… basically marxism is communism and communism came from marx but marx said "i am not a marxist" and communism is against social-democracy but marxists called themselves socdems until 1914 when marxists and socdems split over the question of whether support their governments in ww1 with the marxists choosing to be "revolutionary defeatists" which confusingly means that revolution will be victorious if don't support your country in the war, but instead support a civil war at home… nobody did this except lenin, so only lenin was a real marxist, and he criticized leftism because leftism is really just the left wing of capitalism, and communism is not left wing or right wing despite everyone calling it left wing, and fascism is right wing, but so is liberalism and social democracy and anarchism and everything except marxism, and basically nothing is left wing except marxism, but marxism is not left wing, because left wing means the left wing of capital but also marx said he wasn't a marxist so marxists are anti communist anyway, but also communism can only be marxist, which is not the left wing of capital, but its own thing completely outside of bourgeois politics, and everything is right wing except marxism.
R: 54 / I: 8
>“The age of Willkommenskultur is over, the era of mass deportations has begun,” commented the Sweden Democrats party, whose MEP Charlie Weimers played a central role as ECR’s shadow rapporteur.
>In a rare show of unity on the European Right, the directive was adopted not only by the national conservative groups (PfE, ECR, and ESN) but also the EPP, which votes together with the leftist parties in the vast majority of cases.
>Most importantly, the new law will introduce a mutual recognition and enforcement obligation between member states regarding deportation orders, meaning migrants cannot circumvent return decisions by moving to a different EU country and restarting the process. A return order in one country will legally count as a valid order in all of them.
>Another important point is the introduction of third-country return hubs, making it possible for member states to externalize return procedures by sending migrants to secure facilities outside EU territory to wait for the end of the process, ensuring they won’t escape implementation once the paperwork’s done.
Previous thread:
>>2653642
/EUropol/
WILLKOMENSKULTUR IST VORBEI edition>“The age of Willkommenskultur is over, the era of mass deportations has begun,” commented the Sweden Democrats party, whose MEP Charlie Weimers played a central role as ECR’s shadow rapporteur.
>In a rare show of unity on the European Right, the directive was adopted not only by the national conservative groups (PfE, ECR, and ESN) but also the EPP, which votes together with the leftist parties in the vast majority of cases.
>Most importantly, the new law will introduce a mutual recognition and enforcement obligation between member states regarding deportation orders, meaning migrants cannot circumvent return decisions by moving to a different EU country and restarting the process. A return order in one country will legally count as a valid order in all of them.
>Another important point is the introduction of third-country return hubs, making it possible for member states to externalize return procedures by sending migrants to secure facilities outside EU territory to wait for the end of the process, ensuring they won’t escape implementation once the paperwork’s done.
Previous thread:
>>2653642
R: 238 / I: 78 >>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/
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Why is nationalism such a powerful force?
Nearly all communists buy into it in some form.
Seems like we cant seem to get rid of no matter what. Why? Whats so special about it?
Why is nationalism such a powerful force?
Nearly all communists buy into it in some form.
Seems like we cant seem to get rid of no matter what. Why? Whats so special about it?
R: 3 / I: 0
I've always regarded Marxist-Leninists as a strange but mostly pleasant variety of exotic creature that I occasionally interact with by chance, and although I disagree with some of the things I've heard coming out of their mouths (for example, they seem to be very quick to explain why mass civilian deaths under Stalin both didn't happen and were unavoidable but also totally justifiable even if they did), I've rarely or never had a bad experience, so I don't judge too much, but I don't understand them.
At any rate, I spent the last few days on a caffeine-fueled bender reading through various internet shitposts until I came across pic related and downloaded a copy, and it's so obviously full of blatant lies, half-truths, and misinformation even to someone completely uneducated like me that a light switched on in my brain and I immediately started downloading every legitimate book on communism I could find just so I can have some idea what I'm talking about when I confront people who think like this in meatspace. But I'm getting overwhelmed by the enormity of it all. Marx? Seems like I could get away with rereading Communist Manifesto and the 2024 version of the first volume of Capital for now while I wait for the second volume to get a retranslation. Che? Well, he's got a couple of short books I found and I found a sympathetic biography purporting to explain his take on Marxism. I'll start there.
But Lenin? Tens of tens of thousands of pages for a 45-volume collection of just the "important" stuff. I don't even know where to begin.
This obviously isn't going to happen overnight. I'll probably never understand history of communism or all the various praxis stuff as well as people who have devoted their lives to it, but what parts of Lenin's bibliography should I be reading if I want to best understand his take on Marxism? And are there any other works by "major" authors I should be reading to have enough of a general understanding to have a conversation with people? I'm not opposed to reading a few thousand pages soonish or even tens of thousands over time, but.
I don't think a book has ever made me this angry.
And suddenly, I want to have some idea what I'm talking about when it comes to political theory.
Getting into Lenin (and others?)
For context (feel free to skip this paragraph, though, if tl;dr), I've always considered myself an individualist anarchist and an illegalist. I've never had anything against collectivist anarchists, and in fact I tend to agree with them on a lot of things, but I've just never had the patience for a whole lot of theory, and I'm perfectly frankly a selfish piece of shit who does want a better world for everyone but is primarily interested in making things better for himself (and others, in parentheses) right here and now to whatever degree possible. I've read the Communist Manifesto once and some Bakunin here and there and remember little of any of it; the sum of my political philosophy is more or less that the capitalist system/the state has stolen from me, so I don't regard any of its institutions as valid and regard myself as existing outside of them. I am serious about putting illegalist philosophy into practice; ACAB means ACAB, I don't call the police, and I don't steal from small or minority-owned businesses, but banks and retail chains are fair game. The point being, I'm not entirely new, but also not especially educated when it comes to political theory.I've always regarded Marxist-Leninists as a strange but mostly pleasant variety of exotic creature that I occasionally interact with by chance, and although I disagree with some of the things I've heard coming out of their mouths (for example, they seem to be very quick to explain why mass civilian deaths under Stalin both didn't happen and were unavoidable but also totally justifiable even if they did), I've rarely or never had a bad experience, so I don't judge too much, but I don't understand them.
At any rate, I spent the last few days on a caffeine-fueled bender reading through various internet shitposts until I came across pic related and downloaded a copy, and it's so obviously full of blatant lies, half-truths, and misinformation even to someone completely uneducated like me that a light switched on in my brain and I immediately started downloading every legitimate book on communism I could find just so I can have some idea what I'm talking about when I confront people who think like this in meatspace. But I'm getting overwhelmed by the enormity of it all. Marx? Seems like I could get away with rereading Communist Manifesto and the 2024 version of the first volume of Capital for now while I wait for the second volume to get a retranslation. Che? Well, he's got a couple of short books I found and I found a sympathetic biography purporting to explain his take on Marxism. I'll start there.
But Lenin? Tens of tens of thousands of pages for a 45-volume collection of just the "important" stuff. I don't even know where to begin.
This obviously isn't going to happen overnight. I'll probably never understand history of communism or all the various praxis stuff as well as people who have devoted their lives to it, but what parts of Lenin's bibliography should I be reading if I want to best understand his take on Marxism? And are there any other works by "major" authors I should be reading to have enough of a general understanding to have a conversation with people? I'm not opposed to reading a few thousand pages soonish or even tens of thousands over time, but.
I don't think a book has ever made me this angry.
And suddenly, I want to have some idea what I'm talking about when it comes to political theory.
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What exactly was Neoconservatism and how exactly did it originate? Was it the philosophy of Leo Strauss? Was it former Trotskyists like Irving Kristol? If so, why did these ex-Trots flip and become right-wingers? Politically, it started in America with the Reagan presidency, so what exactly were Reagan's political influences? Also, given that its biggest proponents were Jews, did it have any Talmudic or Kabbalistic element to it?
Basically, sum up whatever Neoconservatism is. Also, Straussian Neocons formed coalitions with the Religious Right and free market neoliberals despite all three groups having contradictory ideologies. Why?
Neoconservatism
Can we get a Neocon breadpill thread going?What exactly was Neoconservatism and how exactly did it originate? Was it the philosophy of Leo Strauss? Was it former Trotskyists like Irving Kristol? If so, why did these ex-Trots flip and become right-wingers? Politically, it started in America with the Reagan presidency, so what exactly were Reagan's political influences? Also, given that its biggest proponents were Jews, did it have any Talmudic or Kabbalistic element to it?
Basically, sum up whatever Neoconservatism is. Also, Straussian Neocons formed coalitions with the Religious Right and free market neoliberals despite all three groups having contradictory ideologies. Why?
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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™.
Original threads:
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>Gigabazed EditionA thread for the harmonious discussion related to the saviour of socialism, the uplifter of nations, the king of cooperation, the soviet of SOVL, the enjoyer of empathy, the ally of Africa, the demigod of development, the bureaucracy for banter, the prince of ping pong, the lobotomizer of labour aristocracy, the protector against proxy wars, the sponsor of sophisticated sciences and culture, the guarantor of gommunism, the Proletarian Dictatorship of Chynah™.
Original threads:
https://archive.ph/S2XYA
https://archive.ph/Ytckv
leftypol.org archives:
https://archive.is/https://leftypol.org/leftypol/res/30501.html
bunekrchan.xyz archives:
https://archive.is/https://bunkerchan.xyz/leftypol/res/8925.html
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I’m getting really fucking sick of the Palestine Movement’s obsession with “celebrity” activists and how much it prioritizes these western activists over actual Palestinians.
All the time on social media I see incidents of sone western activist living in America losing their job for speaking out against Zionism and then proceed to raise $20,000+ through a GoFundMe account in response. All of that money could have been better spent by being directly given to Palestinian families in Gaza who lost everything because if the genocide, or at the very least organizations with a good reputation for helping Palestinians in Palestine. Western activists will survive without your $100 donation, Palestinian families in Gaza won’t.
Tgis obsession with propping up the personalities of “activist celebrities” is one reason the Palestine a movement has become such a clusterfuck. I’m talking about people like Hasan Piker, Greta Thunberg, Chris Smalls, Ms. Rachel, Kehlani, and Vic Mensa to name a few. How about we start focusing on actual Palestinians? The flotilla activists are the same way: they receive so much money and support when they know full well the Zionist authorities won’t let them into Gaza, making the flotillas merely a stunt. Yeah, they were tortured in Zionist prisons but so have thousands of Palestinians who will never have their voices heard in global media.
Or, when Elias Rodriguez goes to trial in a few months you can be sure he’s going to get tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of dollars in legal donations from Palestine activists. Gaza is suffering and yet you think giving money to a guy who will clearly be found guilty and spend the rest of his life in prison is a better use of your funds?
Celebrities and influencers should not be propped up on a pedestal at all but the same thing goes for these “I was fired for saying ‘Free Palestine’, I’m a martyr now, gib munny pls” types. Palestinians should be the ones centred here, not western activists who have made loads of money and clout for being pro-Palestine.
I’m getting really fucking sick of the Palestine Movement’s obsession with “celebrity” activists and how much it prioritizes these western activists over actual Palestinians.
All the time on social media I see incidents of sone western activist living in America losing their job for speaking out against Zionism and then proceed to raise $20,000+ through a GoFundMe account in response. All of that money could have been better spent by being directly given to Palestinian families in Gaza who lost everything because if the genocide, or at the very least organizations with a good reputation for helping Palestinians in Palestine. Western activists will survive without your $100 donation, Palestinian families in Gaza won’t.
Tgis obsession with propping up the personalities of “activist celebrities” is one reason the Palestine a movement has become such a clusterfuck. I’m talking about people like Hasan Piker, Greta Thunberg, Chris Smalls, Ms. Rachel, Kehlani, and Vic Mensa to name a few. How about we start focusing on actual Palestinians? The flotilla activists are the same way: they receive so much money and support when they know full well the Zionist authorities won’t let them into Gaza, making the flotillas merely a stunt. Yeah, they were tortured in Zionist prisons but so have thousands of Palestinians who will never have their voices heard in global media.
Or, when Elias Rodriguez goes to trial in a few months you can be sure he’s going to get tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of dollars in legal donations from Palestine activists. Gaza is suffering and yet you think giving money to a guy who will clearly be found guilty and spend the rest of his life in prison is a better use of your funds?
Celebrities and influencers should not be propped up on a pedestal at all but the same thing goes for these “I was fired for saying ‘Free Palestine’, I’m a martyr now, gib munny pls” types. Palestinians should be the ones centred here, not western activists who have made loads of money and clout for being pro-Palestine.
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Burnham won 55% of the vote, 9,000 votes more than Reform UK’s Robert Kenyon, who trailed in second with 35%, while Restore Britain came third with 7%. The turnout was more than 58%. In his victory speech, Burnham said the Labour party now has “a final chance to change”.
https://novaramedia.com/2026/06/19/andy-burnham-crushes-reform-in-makerfield/
Germany's Left Party is dreaming big
Berlin has been "red" in the past. From 2016 to 2023 it was governed by such a three-way coalition — under the leadership of successive SPD mayors. This time, the Left Party is dreaming of winning the election and taking over the mayoralty itself with its candidate Elif Eralp. The 45-year-old has a remarkable background: Her parents were active in politics and trade unions in Turkey before fleeing to Germany in 1980 as asylum-seekers following a military coup, just weeks before Eralp's birth.
https://www.dw.com/en/germanys-left-party-is-dreaming-big/a-77627530
https://archive.ph/OWJOG
Norway seeks to ban trade with illegal Israeli settlements in Palestine
Regarding real estate, Oslo also plans to outlaw “the purchase of property in the settlements, the provision of services relating to the construction, renovation, purchase or sale of property in these areas, and the acquisition of commercial enterprises whose head office and production facilities are located in the settlements”, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/6/19/norway-seeks-to-ban-trade-with-illegal-israeli-settlements-in-palestine
https://archive.ph/vJCKd
Civilians in Gaza reportedly under fire from 'killer cranes' deployed by Israel
The cranes, some of which are operated remotely, are also equipped with cameras and are used to surveil the population. PCHR said their use is additional evidence of a "systematic policy aimed at undermining the basic survival of the civilian population and creating a coercive environment that repeatedly displaces the population".
https://www.newarab.com/news/civilians-gaza-under-fire-israels-killer-cranes
Saudi Arabia suspends Nepal skills certification programme following uproar
The certification programme, which was due to take effect this week, would have required Nepali workers to pass practical skills assessments before becoming eligible for Saudi work visas. Applicants would also have had to pay around $100 in testing fees, prompting opposition from recruitment agencies and labour rights advocates who argued the measure unfairly shifted the financial burden onto workers.
https://www.newarab.com/news/saudi-labour-scheme-nepal-suspended-after-backlash-over-fees
Afghanistan strikes targets in Pakistan, raising cross-border tension
The hideouts, located in Pakistan’s Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provinces, both of which share a border with Afghanistan, were targeted by the “air force” on Thursday night, Afghanistan’s defence ministry said in a social media post. The ministry said that the “bases” it described as belonging to ISIL-Khorasan (ISIS-K) had been “allegedly used in cooperation with certain hostile intelligence circles to plan and organise attacks against Afghanistan,” presumably referring to Pakistani intelligence.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/6/19/afghanistan-strikes-targets-in-pakistan-raising-cross-border-tension
https://archive.ph/OgGmo
Iran plans to charge insurance fees to vessels in Hormuz after US deal expires
The fee would effectively allow Iran to cement its sovereignty over the Strait of Hormuz, but would likely require the cooperation of neighbouring Oman, whose territorial waters border Iran’s. Iran agreed not to charge any fees in the waterway during the 60-day ceasefire with the US, termed the Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding, but the agreement left open the possibility of a new system afterwards.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/iran-plans-charge-insurance-fee-vessels-transiting-hormuz-after-us-deal-expires
Cambodian Supreme Court upholds incitement conviction of opposition politician, sparking anger
Under the decision, Rong Chhun will be prohibited from any involvement in politics for five years, including voting or standing as a candidate, and will be banned from traveling abroad for three years, the remainder of his original four-year sentence, his attorney Em Chantha told reporters. He had also been free while his appeal was pending.
https://apnews.com/article/cambodia-opposition-rong-chhun-appeal-96156ecc7c0b55ea6ceb6dbcd73051e6
Fiji deaths in custody reignite allegations of state brutality
Two deaths in custody in recent months have reignited allegations of torture, sexual abuse and fatal violence by Fiji’s police and military forces. Similar reports involving patterns of brutality by the Pacific Island country’s security forces have recurred repeatedly over many years.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/06/19/ilrj-j19.html
Chile Sentences Pinochet’s Agents for Ronnie Moffitt Assassination
Chilean Magistrate Paola Plaza González sentenced three former secret police officers of the Augusto Pinochet’s civic-military dictatorship to 15 years in prison for the 1976 Washington murder of U.S. citizen Ronnie Karpen Moffitt. This landmark judicial ruling targets the National Intelligence Directorate (DINA), the brutal secret police apparatus of the Chilean military regime.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/chile-pinochet-agents-ronnie-moffitt/
South Africa builds another site to speed up deportations of Malawians
Meanwhile, thousands more Malawian nationals arrived at the first deportation centre, also in the city of Durban, in an area known as Sherwood, where an estimated 10,000 have been camping for more than a week, waiting to be sent home. On Wednesday, police fired rubber bullets and used stun grenades against migrants protesting in Sherwood, who were throwing rocks, sticks and logs at police. Local media reported the clashes erupted because of frustrations over the delays in the migrants returning home.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/south-africa-builds-another-site-speed-deportations-malawians
African lawmakers back push for tougher anti-LGBT laws after Ghana conference
Lawmakers from more than a dozen African countries have pledged to push new bills restricting LGBT rights, after a conference in Ghana that brought together self-described "pro-family" activists from across Africa and Europe, participants said. The African Inter-Parliamentary Conference on Family Values and Sovereignty took place in Accra on June 3–6, a week after Ghana's parliament passed one of the continent's toughest anti-LGBT measures, a bill criminalising LGBT promotion.
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/african-lawmakers-back-push-tougher-anti-lgbt-laws-after-ghana-conference-2026-06-19/
News 6/19/26
Andy Burnham Crushes Reform in MakerfieldBurnham won 55% of the vote, 9,000 votes more than Reform UK’s Robert Kenyon, who trailed in second with 35%, while Restore Britain came third with 7%. The turnout was more than 58%. In his victory speech, Burnham said the Labour party now has “a final chance to change”.
https://novaramedia.com/2026/06/19/andy-burnham-crushes-reform-in-makerfield/
Germany's Left Party is dreaming big
Berlin has been "red" in the past. From 2016 to 2023 it was governed by such a three-way coalition — under the leadership of successive SPD mayors. This time, the Left Party is dreaming of winning the election and taking over the mayoralty itself with its candidate Elif Eralp. The 45-year-old has a remarkable background: Her parents were active in politics and trade unions in Turkey before fleeing to Germany in 1980 as asylum-seekers following a military coup, just weeks before Eralp's birth.
https://www.dw.com/en/germanys-left-party-is-dreaming-big/a-77627530
https://archive.ph/OWJOG
Norway seeks to ban trade with illegal Israeli settlements in Palestine
Regarding real estate, Oslo also plans to outlaw “the purchase of property in the settlements, the provision of services relating to the construction, renovation, purchase or sale of property in these areas, and the acquisition of commercial enterprises whose head office and production facilities are located in the settlements”, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/6/19/norway-seeks-to-ban-trade-with-illegal-israeli-settlements-in-palestine
https://archive.ph/vJCKd
Civilians in Gaza reportedly under fire from 'killer cranes' deployed by Israel
The cranes, some of which are operated remotely, are also equipped with cameras and are used to surveil the population. PCHR said their use is additional evidence of a "systematic policy aimed at undermining the basic survival of the civilian population and creating a coercive environment that repeatedly displaces the population".
https://www.newarab.com/news/civilians-gaza-under-fire-israels-killer-cranes
Saudi Arabia suspends Nepal skills certification programme following uproar
The certification programme, which was due to take effect this week, would have required Nepali workers to pass practical skills assessments before becoming eligible for Saudi work visas. Applicants would also have had to pay around $100 in testing fees, prompting opposition from recruitment agencies and labour rights advocates who argued the measure unfairly shifted the financial burden onto workers.
https://www.newarab.com/news/saudi-labour-scheme-nepal-suspended-after-backlash-over-fees
Afghanistan strikes targets in Pakistan, raising cross-border tension
The hideouts, located in Pakistan’s Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provinces, both of which share a border with Afghanistan, were targeted by the “air force” on Thursday night, Afghanistan’s defence ministry said in a social media post. The ministry said that the “bases” it described as belonging to ISIL-Khorasan (ISIS-K) had been “allegedly used in cooperation with certain hostile intelligence circles to plan and organise attacks against Afghanistan,” presumably referring to Pakistani intelligence.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/6/19/afghanistan-strikes-targets-in-pakistan-raising-cross-border-tension
https://archive.ph/OgGmo
Iran plans to charge insurance fees to vessels in Hormuz after US deal expires
The fee would effectively allow Iran to cement its sovereignty over the Strait of Hormuz, but would likely require the cooperation of neighbouring Oman, whose territorial waters border Iran’s. Iran agreed not to charge any fees in the waterway during the 60-day ceasefire with the US, termed the Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding, but the agreement left open the possibility of a new system afterwards.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/iran-plans-charge-insurance-fee-vessels-transiting-hormuz-after-us-deal-expires
Cambodian Supreme Court upholds incitement conviction of opposition politician, sparking anger
Under the decision, Rong Chhun will be prohibited from any involvement in politics for five years, including voting or standing as a candidate, and will be banned from traveling abroad for three years, the remainder of his original four-year sentence, his attorney Em Chantha told reporters. He had also been free while his appeal was pending.
https://apnews.com/article/cambodia-opposition-rong-chhun-appeal-96156ecc7c0b55ea6ceb6dbcd73051e6
Fiji deaths in custody reignite allegations of state brutality
Two deaths in custody in recent months have reignited allegations of torture, sexual abuse and fatal violence by Fiji’s police and military forces. Similar reports involving patterns of brutality by the Pacific Island country’s security forces have recurred repeatedly over many years.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/06/19/ilrj-j19.html
Chile Sentences Pinochet’s Agents for Ronnie Moffitt Assassination
Chilean Magistrate Paola Plaza González sentenced three former secret police officers of the Augusto Pinochet’s civic-military dictatorship to 15 years in prison for the 1976 Washington murder of U.S. citizen Ronnie Karpen Moffitt. This landmark judicial ruling targets the National Intelligence Directorate (DINA), the brutal secret police apparatus of the Chilean military regime.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/chile-pinochet-agents-ronnie-moffitt/
South Africa builds another site to speed up deportations of Malawians
Meanwhile, thousands more Malawian nationals arrived at the first deportation centre, also in the city of Durban, in an area known as Sherwood, where an estimated 10,000 have been camping for more than a week, waiting to be sent home. On Wednesday, police fired rubber bullets and used stun grenades against migrants protesting in Sherwood, who were throwing rocks, sticks and logs at police. Local media reported the clashes erupted because of frustrations over the delays in the migrants returning home.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/south-africa-builds-another-site-speed-deportations-malawians
African lawmakers back push for tougher anti-LGBT laws after Ghana conference
Lawmakers from more than a dozen African countries have pledged to push new bills restricting LGBT rights, after a conference in Ghana that brought together self-described "pro-family" activists from across Africa and Europe, participants said. The African Inter-Parliamentary Conference on Family Values and Sovereignty took place in Accra on June 3–6, a week after Ghana's parliament passed one of the continent's toughest anti-LGBT measures, a bill criminalising LGBT promotion.
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/african-lawmakers-back-push-tougher-anti-lgbt-laws-after-ghana-conference-2026-06-19/
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>Ban guns!
9/11
>Ban planes!
October 7
>Ban paragliders!
Why is it that everytime a terror attack or a mass shooting happens, whatever their style of choice was gets disputed for the government to ban? After 9/11, the United States government declared a jihad on US citizens, labeling everybody as a "terrorist" or "potential terrorist". "If I have nothing to hide I have nothing to fear" says the brain-damaged slave.
Gun control
Mass shootings>Ban guns!
9/11
>Ban planes!
October 7
>Ban paragliders!
Why is it that everytime a terror attack or a mass shooting happens, whatever their style of choice was gets disputed for the government to ban? After 9/11, the United States government declared a jihad on US citizens, labeling everybody as a "terrorist" or "potential terrorist". "If I have nothing to hide I have nothing to fear" says the brain-damaged slave.
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English needs spelling and conjugation overhaul so badly
Overhaul English NAO!!!
>Simplified Chinese was officially introduced by the government of the People's Republic of China in the 1950s as part of a broader effort to increase literacy and modernize the country. The reform reduced the number of strokes in many commonly used characters and standardized certain character forms, making them easier and faster to learn and write. Although the government promoted the reform, it drew on simplification practices and proposals that had existed for centuries. The primary goal was to help expand education and enable more people, especially those with limited access to schooling, to become literate. Simplified Chinese is now the standard writing system in China and Singapore, while Traditional Chinese remains in use in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau.English needs spelling and conjugation overhaul so badly
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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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> bro socialism caused millions to die
> so did capitalism
> bro that’s completely different bro, like you need to see the context bro. It’s more complicated than that, and without capitalism bro we wouldn’t have the luxuries we have.
>bruh
> bro socialism caused millions to die
> so did capitalism
> bro that’s completely different bro, like you need to see the context bro. It’s more complicated than that, and without capitalism bro we wouldn’t have the luxuries we have.
>bruh
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Ibn Khaldun already had a labor theory of value and theory of evolution in 1377:
https://traditionalhikma.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/The-Muqaddimah-by-Ibn-Khaldun-Translated-by-Franz-Rosenthal.pdf
Evolution:
>The animal world then widens, its species become numerous, and, in a gradual process of creation, it finally leads to man, who is able to think and to reflect. The higher stage of man is reached from the world of the monkeys, in which both sagacity and perception are found, but which has not reached the stage of actual reflection and thinking. At this point we come to the first stage of man after (the world of monkeys). This is as far as our (physical) observation extends.
Labor Theory of Value:
>Now, as we shall mention, labor is the real basis of profit. When labor is not appreciated and is done for nothing, the hope for profit vanishes, and no (productive) work is done. The sedentary population disperses, and civilization decays.
HOW WAS HE SO BASED?
Ibn Khaldun already had a labor theory of value and theory of evolution in 1377:
https://traditionalhikma.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/The-Muqaddimah-by-Ibn-Khaldun-Translated-by-Franz-Rosenthal.pdf
Evolution:
>The animal world then widens, its species become numerous, and, in a gradual process of creation, it finally leads to man, who is able to think and to reflect. The higher stage of man is reached from the world of the monkeys, in which both sagacity and perception are found, but which has not reached the stage of actual reflection and thinking. At this point we come to the first stage of man after (the world of monkeys). This is as far as our (physical) observation extends.
Labor Theory of Value:
>Now, as we shall mention, labor is the real basis of profit. When labor is not appreciated and is done for nothing, the hope for profit vanishes, and no (productive) work is done. The sedentary population disperses, and civilization decays.
HOW WAS HE SO BASED?
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My party has been critically studying the socialist superstructure with emphasis in the USSR for a while now. It has also set as it's goal, among others, in our last Congress the examination of the Chinese Revolution as whole, of the socialist development and of the eventual restoration of capitalism. I think I can contribute a lot by taking on a study of the historicio-philosophical Cultural Revolution and it's contradictions on occasion of the 60th and 50th anniversary of it's beggining and end respectivly. I have some, but I need more bibliography. Both maoist and ctirical sources towards the cultural revolution (but obviously from a marxist pov and not bourgeois propaganda) are welcome!
Thanks in advance!
The Chinese Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution
Hello friends,My party has been critically studying the socialist superstructure with emphasis in the USSR for a while now. It has also set as it's goal, among others, in our last Congress the examination of the Chinese Revolution as whole, of the socialist development and of the eventual restoration of capitalism. I think I can contribute a lot by taking on a study of the historicio-philosophical Cultural Revolution and it's contradictions on occasion of the 60th and 50th anniversary of it's beggining and end respectivly. I have some, but I need more bibliography. Both maoist and ctirical sources towards the cultural revolution (but obviously from a marxist pov and not bourgeois propaganda) are welcome!
Thanks in advance!
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The plan would expand opportunities for private enterprise and create measures to attract additional foreign investment, including from Cubans abroad. It could also set the stage for private real estate development on the Caribbean island and the transformation of state-owned businesses into private commercial ventures with shares and equity stakes. It would also allow private banks to enter Cuba’s once state-dominated finance sector.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/6/18/cubas-communist-party-approves-opening-economy-in-unprecedented-move
https://archive.ph/lSOWa
HSI arrests Colombian influencer after filing criminal charges against De la Espriella
US migration authorities arrested a prominent Colombian influencer after filing criminal charges against far-right presidential candidate Abelardo de la Espriella. According to video sent to Colombian journalists, Beto Coral was arrested by four agents of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) at his home in Arizona. In a message to Senator-elect Wally Rodriguez, Coral said that he was told by one of the agents that the order to arrest him had come straight from State Secretary Marco Rubio.
https://colombiareports.com/hsi-arrests-colombian-influencer-after-filing-criminal-charges-against-de-la-espriella/
Israel demarcates expanded Lebanon occupation zone, challenging US-Iran pact
Israel has rejected calls to withdraw troops from southern Lebanon, which it invaded in March in response to rocket fire by Hezbollah. Israeli attacks and the destruction of villages have killed thousands and set off a displacement crisis.Hezbollah has continued to launch attacks on Israeli positions in the south this week, including with explosive drones that have killed and injured troops.
https://www.reuters.com/3fec1b0a85a0/world/middle-east/israel-talks-with-us-over-continuing-its-lebanon-troop-deployment-officials-say-2026-06-18/
Israeli army reservist 'flees' India after war crimes allegation filed
According to the lawyer who filed the case and asked for anonymity over security concerns, Eitan Gilboa, a member of Israel's 271st Combat Engineering Battalion, is likely to have left India, where he was vacationing, a few days after the complaint was filed. The latest development comes just two weeks after the Brussels-based HRF filed a complaint with Indian authorities seeking the arrest of Gilboa for alleged crimes against humanity in Gaza.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israeli-army-reservist-flees-india-after-war-crimes-allegation-filed
After 10 years, obtaining gov’t data via e-FOI portal remains a challenge
A report released by the Right to Know Right Now (R2KRN) Coalition on June 15 showed that 27.3 percent of the 240,000 e-FOI requests in the last 10 years were denied, although the number could be higher considering that other requests were tagged pending action, awaiting clarification, processing, referred, or closed.
https://www.bulatlat.com/2026/06/18/after-10-years-obtaining-govt-data-via-e-foi-portal-remains-a-challenge/
Australian government dismisses wide opposition to disability scheme cuts
The NDIS bill is the cornerstone of the Labor government’s May austerity budget, which slashes $63.8 billion from social programs over four years while providing massive funds for the military and handouts to the rich. More than half of these cuts, $37.8 billion, are bound up with the gutting of the NDIS, driving expenditure growth down to an average of around 2 percent.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/06/18/nnmj-j18.html
Internal Debate Rages in Tehran Over Deal with Trump
Despite a general consensus favoring the deal, which was signed separately by President Donald Trump in Versailles and by Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian in Tehran on Wednesday, a small yet vocal subset of the Iranian political system has reacted with dismay to the agreement, characterizing it as a strategic mistake and a betrayal of Iranian national interests.
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/iran-trump-deal-critics-mojtaba-khamenei
Irish parliament votes to remove three-day abortion wait
The Dáil passed the bill on Wednesday night, clearing a path for the legislation to go to a parliamentary committee and become law later this, or next, year. Supporters said it was one of the most significant changes to women’s healthcare since voters ended a constitutional ban on abortion in a 2018 referendum. Opponents said it overturned a safeguard endorsed in the referendum.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/18/irish-parliament-votes-to-remove-three-day-abortion-wait
Polls open in Aberdeen South and Arbroath and Broughty Ferry
The by-elections in Scotland were sparked by the SNP’s former Westminster leader Stephen Flynn and colleague Stephen Gethins’ election as MSPs last month. Both have since walked straight into government, with Mr Flynn widely touted as a future SNP leader and first minister. In Aberdeen, the contest has been dominated by the question of the North Sea’s future and whether new licences to drill for oil and gas should be granted to save jobs.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/polls-open-aberdeen-south-and-arbroath-and-broughty-ferry
Syndicate calls for the swift resettlement of Sudanese journalists under threat in Libya
During the first week of June 2026, the Sudanese Journalists Syndicate documented a dangerous escalation in hate speech, threats, and harassment targeting Sudanese journalists residing as refugees in Libya. These violations occur within the context of a growing campaign of hostility against foreigners and migrants in several Libyan cities, transforming what was once a temporary refuge into an extremely dangerous environment.
https://www.dabangasudan.org/en/all-news/article/syndicate-calls-for-the-swift-resettlement-of-sudanese-journalists-under-threat-in-libya
Push for referendum in DR Congo sparks protests over possible Tshisekedi third term
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) parliament’s approval of a controversial referendum bill has sparked protests and widespread condemnation over proposed constitutional amendments that could affect presidential term limits. Activists, opposition parties, and civil society groups argue that the changes could allow President Félix Tshisekedi to extend his stay in office beyond the two-term limit set by the current constitution. They describe the proposal as a threat to constitutional governance and accountability.
https://breakthroughnews.org/2026/06/17/push-for-referendum-in-dr-congo-sparks-protests-over-possible-tshisekedi-third-term/
News 6/18/26
Cuba’s Communist Party approves emergency economic plan opening to private enterpriseThe plan would expand opportunities for private enterprise and create measures to attract additional foreign investment, including from Cubans abroad. It could also set the stage for private real estate development on the Caribbean island and the transformation of state-owned businesses into private commercial ventures with shares and equity stakes. It would also allow private banks to enter Cuba’s once state-dominated finance sector.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/6/18/cubas-communist-party-approves-opening-economy-in-unprecedented-move
https://archive.ph/lSOWa
HSI arrests Colombian influencer after filing criminal charges against De la Espriella
US migration authorities arrested a prominent Colombian influencer after filing criminal charges against far-right presidential candidate Abelardo de la Espriella. According to video sent to Colombian journalists, Beto Coral was arrested by four agents of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) at his home in Arizona. In a message to Senator-elect Wally Rodriguez, Coral said that he was told by one of the agents that the order to arrest him had come straight from State Secretary Marco Rubio.
https://colombiareports.com/hsi-arrests-colombian-influencer-after-filing-criminal-charges-against-de-la-espriella/
Israel demarcates expanded Lebanon occupation zone, challenging US-Iran pact
Israel has rejected calls to withdraw troops from southern Lebanon, which it invaded in March in response to rocket fire by Hezbollah. Israeli attacks and the destruction of villages have killed thousands and set off a displacement crisis.Hezbollah has continued to launch attacks on Israeli positions in the south this week, including with explosive drones that have killed and injured troops.
https://www.reuters.com/3fec1b0a85a0/world/middle-east/israel-talks-with-us-over-continuing-its-lebanon-troop-deployment-officials-say-2026-06-18/
Israeli army reservist 'flees' India after war crimes allegation filed
According to the lawyer who filed the case and asked for anonymity over security concerns, Eitan Gilboa, a member of Israel's 271st Combat Engineering Battalion, is likely to have left India, where he was vacationing, a few days after the complaint was filed. The latest development comes just two weeks after the Brussels-based HRF filed a complaint with Indian authorities seeking the arrest of Gilboa for alleged crimes against humanity in Gaza.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israeli-army-reservist-flees-india-after-war-crimes-allegation-filed
After 10 years, obtaining gov’t data via e-FOI portal remains a challenge
A report released by the Right to Know Right Now (R2KRN) Coalition on June 15 showed that 27.3 percent of the 240,000 e-FOI requests in the last 10 years were denied, although the number could be higher considering that other requests were tagged pending action, awaiting clarification, processing, referred, or closed.
https://www.bulatlat.com/2026/06/18/after-10-years-obtaining-govt-data-via-e-foi-portal-remains-a-challenge/
Australian government dismisses wide opposition to disability scheme cuts
The NDIS bill is the cornerstone of the Labor government’s May austerity budget, which slashes $63.8 billion from social programs over four years while providing massive funds for the military and handouts to the rich. More than half of these cuts, $37.8 billion, are bound up with the gutting of the NDIS, driving expenditure growth down to an average of around 2 percent.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/06/18/nnmj-j18.html
Internal Debate Rages in Tehran Over Deal with Trump
Despite a general consensus favoring the deal, which was signed separately by President Donald Trump in Versailles and by Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian in Tehran on Wednesday, a small yet vocal subset of the Iranian political system has reacted with dismay to the agreement, characterizing it as a strategic mistake and a betrayal of Iranian national interests.
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/iran-trump-deal-critics-mojtaba-khamenei
Irish parliament votes to remove three-day abortion wait
The Dáil passed the bill on Wednesday night, clearing a path for the legislation to go to a parliamentary committee and become law later this, or next, year. Supporters said it was one of the most significant changes to women’s healthcare since voters ended a constitutional ban on abortion in a 2018 referendum. Opponents said it overturned a safeguard endorsed in the referendum.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/18/irish-parliament-votes-to-remove-three-day-abortion-wait
Polls open in Aberdeen South and Arbroath and Broughty Ferry
The by-elections in Scotland were sparked by the SNP’s former Westminster leader Stephen Flynn and colleague Stephen Gethins’ election as MSPs last month. Both have since walked straight into government, with Mr Flynn widely touted as a future SNP leader and first minister. In Aberdeen, the contest has been dominated by the question of the North Sea’s future and whether new licences to drill for oil and gas should be granted to save jobs.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/polls-open-aberdeen-south-and-arbroath-and-broughty-ferry
Syndicate calls for the swift resettlement of Sudanese journalists under threat in Libya
During the first week of June 2026, the Sudanese Journalists Syndicate documented a dangerous escalation in hate speech, threats, and harassment targeting Sudanese journalists residing as refugees in Libya. These violations occur within the context of a growing campaign of hostility against foreigners and migrants in several Libyan cities, transforming what was once a temporary refuge into an extremely dangerous environment.
https://www.dabangasudan.org/en/all-news/article/syndicate-calls-for-the-swift-resettlement-of-sudanese-journalists-under-threat-in-libya
Push for referendum in DR Congo sparks protests over possible Tshisekedi third term
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) parliament’s approval of a controversial referendum bill has sparked protests and widespread condemnation over proposed constitutional amendments that could affect presidential term limits. Activists, opposition parties, and civil society groups argue that the changes could allow President Félix Tshisekedi to extend his stay in office beyond the two-term limit set by the current constitution. They describe the proposal as a threat to constitutional governance and accountability.
https://breakthroughnews.org/2026/06/17/push-for-referendum-in-dr-congo-sparks-protests-over-possible-tshisekedi-third-term/
R: 312 / I: 42
Campists are tribalists
They refuse to be nuanced. Everything is "West bad, East Good", no matter the context, no matter what they do. It's evidently not ideologically informed but simply globe-level tribalism. There should be nothing difficult about saying, for instance, that in the context of the US vs Cuba, Russia is in the right, whereas in the context of Russia vs Ukraine, Russia is in the wrong.
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💀 ICE & Prison Resources
(Amerika is the most incarcerated country in the world!)
ICE tracker using public info and user submissions // https://www.iceinmyarea.org/
list of deaths at ICE concentration camps // https://www.aila.org/infonet/deaths-at-adult-detention-centers
visualization of prison population in US // https://mkorostoff.github.io/incarceration-in-real-numbers/
Organizing in Prison — for when the walls close in (RANT Collective) // https://www.organizingforpower.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Organizing-in-Jail.pdf
database of U.S. facilities incl. ICE holding sites // https://alcpress.org/usjails/index.html
list of prison related resources, mailing lists, etc // https://www.prisonactivist.org/resources
ICE Agent List (incomplete) // https://wiki.icelist.is/index.php/Category:Agents
US Political Prison Tracker (last updated 2025) // https://uspoliticalprisoners.com/
Jailhouse Reading:
📖 Angela Davis - Are Prisons Obsolete? // https://dn790007.ca.archive.org/0/items/the-anarchist-library-full-list-of-pdfs-nov-2020/angela-y-davis-are-prisons-obsolete.pdf
📖 How to Defend Yourself During Police Interrogation // https://www.notrace.how/resources/download/comment-la-police-interroge-et-comment-sen-defendre/how-to-defend-yourself-during-a-police-interrogation.pdf
📖 National Lawyers Guild guide to being a jailhouse lawyer // https://www.jailhouselaw.org/
📖 Critical Resistance - Surviving Solitary Confinement // https://criticalresistance.org/resources/surviving-solitary/
📖 An inside-outside publication for abolitionist struggle & strategy across prison walls // https://criticalresistance.org/abolitionist/
📖 Prisoners’ Self-Help Litigation Manual // https://api.pageplace.de/preview/DT0400.9780199705665_A35159258/preview-9780199705665_A35159258.pdf
⚒️ LABOR!
Live strike tracker with deep stats on who, what and when // https://striketracker.ilr.cornell.edu/
AFL-CIO [imperialist]'s Strike Tracker // https://aflcio.org/strike-map
Labor Bureau's Official 'work stoppage' tracker // https://www.bls.gov/wsp/
IWW timeline for the 20th century (ends at 1999) // https://archive.iww.org/history/chronology/
IWW Work Place Organizing Guide // https://usa.anarchistlibraries.net/library/industrial-workers-of-the-world-libcom-org-solidarity-federation-walthamstow-anarchist-group-wo
▶ Salting | Work Place Organizing 101 (50 minute webinar) // https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SHlCLyM4FY
⚖️ Deeds of the Burger Reich 🇺🇸
deep list of horrible shit we (royal we) have done // https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/us_atrocities.md
Coups and regime changes – master list // https://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-peoples-governments-the-master-list
Wikipedia: United States War Crimes // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_war_crimes
/our boys/ (bring em home!) detail abusing Iraqi prisoners [2006] // https://www.hrw.org/report/2006/07/22/no-blood-no-foul/soldiers-accounts-detainee-abuse-iraq
More than 250 military interventions in the last 30 years alone // https://blackagendareport.com/us-launched-251-military-interventions-1991-and-469-1798
Visualisation of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade // https://www.slavevoyages.org/
UNESCO Sites relating to Slavery // https://slaveryandremembrance.org/
First Hand Documents of the horrors of Slavery // https://www.loc.gov/collections/slave-narratives-from-the-federal-writers-project-1936-to-1938/
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Black Agenda Report // https://blackagendareport.com/
The Grayzone // https://thegrayzone.com/
Leftvoice // https://www.leftvoice.org/
Newsanon Filter // https://leftypol.org/search.php?search=name%3A%22News+Anon+3.0%22&board=leftypol
🏝️ Epstein's Client List 🇮🇱
Epstein's Black Book // https://epsteinsblackbook.com/
DOJ Disclosures // https://www.justice.gov/epstein/doj-disclosures
Track AIPAC // https://www.trackaipac.com/
Al Jazeera visual guide (2026) // https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/10/struggling-to-navigate-the-epstein-files-here-is-a-visual-guide
Essential American Politik 📖
📖 WEB Du Bois - Black Reconstruction // https://cominsitu.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/w-e-b-du-bois-black-reconstruction-an-essay-toward-a-history-of-the-part-which-black-folk-played-in-the-attempt-to-reconstruct-democracy-2.pdf
📖 Eugene Debs - Fourth of July Speech // https://jacobin.com/2020/07/eugene-debs-independence-day-address-fourth-july
📖 Power Anywhere There's People! – Fred Hampton // https://www.hamptonthink.org/read/power-anywhere-where-thats-people-fred-hampton
📖 War is a Racket – Smedley Butler // https://ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html
📖 Letters From an American Farmer – St. John de Crevoecoeur // https://americanliterature.com/author/j-hector-st-john-de-crevoecoeur/book/letters-from-an-american-farmer/summary
📖 Trail of Broken Treaties // American Indian Movement https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
📖 The Declaration of Independence https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
📖 The Ballot or the Bullet – Malcolm X // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/ballot_or_bullet.pdf
📖 What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? – Frederick Douglass // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/douglass_july_4_speech.pdf
📖 A Trail of Broken Treaties – American Indian Movement // https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
📖 Custer Died for Your Sins – Vine Deloria Jr. // http://www.riversimulator.org/Resources/Books/CusterDiedForYourSinsAnIndianManifesto1969Deloria.pdf
📖 Emancipation Proclamation – Lincoln // https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/emancipation-proclamation
📖 Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville // https://americanliterature.com/author/alexis-de-tocqueville/book/democracy-in-america/summary
📖 Common Sense – Thomas Paine // https://americainclass.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Common-Sense-Full-Text.pdf
📖 An Indigenous History of the United States – Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz // https://nycstandswithstandingrock.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/dunbar-ortiz-2014.pdf
📖 Huey Long – Share Our Wealth // https://www.hueylong.com/programs/share-our-wealth/huey-longs-share-our-wealth-speech
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/USApol/
🗽 UNITED STATES POLITICS 🦅>Thread for the hellish discussion related to the scourge of the earth, the destroyer of nations, the king of coups, the sultan of sanctions, the emir of the embargo, the autocrat of austerity, the doge of deregulation, the baron of busting unions, the prince of privatization, the lord of loan sharks, the patron-saint of proxy wars, the sponsor of settlers, the guarantor of genocides, the Divided $nakkkes of Amerikkka™
<Hollyweird Edition
OP Backup Site: https://usapol.neocities.org/
💀 ICE & Prison Resources
(Amerika is the most incarcerated country in the world!)
ICE tracker using public info and user submissions // https://www.iceinmyarea.org/
list of deaths at ICE concentration camps // https://www.aila.org/infonet/deaths-at-adult-detention-centers
visualization of prison population in US // https://mkorostoff.github.io/incarceration-in-real-numbers/
Organizing in Prison — for when the walls close in (RANT Collective) // https://www.organizingforpower.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Organizing-in-Jail.pdf
database of U.S. facilities incl. ICE holding sites // https://alcpress.org/usjails/index.html
list of prison related resources, mailing lists, etc // https://www.prisonactivist.org/resources
ICE Agent List (incomplete) // https://wiki.icelist.is/index.php/Category:Agents
US Political Prison Tracker (last updated 2025) // https://uspoliticalprisoners.com/
Jailhouse Reading:
📖 Angela Davis - Are Prisons Obsolete? // https://dn790007.ca.archive.org/0/items/the-anarchist-library-full-list-of-pdfs-nov-2020/angela-y-davis-are-prisons-obsolete.pdf
📖 How to Defend Yourself During Police Interrogation // https://www.notrace.how/resources/download/comment-la-police-interroge-et-comment-sen-defendre/how-to-defend-yourself-during-a-police-interrogation.pdf
📖 National Lawyers Guild guide to being a jailhouse lawyer // https://www.jailhouselaw.org/
📖 Critical Resistance - Surviving Solitary Confinement // https://criticalresistance.org/resources/surviving-solitary/
📖 An inside-outside publication for abolitionist struggle & strategy across prison walls // https://criticalresistance.org/abolitionist/
📖 Prisoners’ Self-Help Litigation Manual // https://api.pageplace.de/preview/DT0400.9780199705665_A35159258/preview-9780199705665_A35159258.pdf
⚒️ LABOR!
Live strike tracker with deep stats on who, what and when // https://striketracker.ilr.cornell.edu/
AFL-CIO [imperialist]'s Strike Tracker // https://aflcio.org/strike-map
Labor Bureau's Official 'work stoppage' tracker // https://www.bls.gov/wsp/
IWW timeline for the 20th century (ends at 1999) // https://archive.iww.org/history/chronology/
IWW Work Place Organizing Guide // https://usa.anarchistlibraries.net/library/industrial-workers-of-the-world-libcom-org-solidarity-federation-walthamstow-anarchist-group-wo
▶ Salting | Work Place Organizing 101 (50 minute webinar) // https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SHlCLyM4FY
⚖️ Deeds of the Burger Reich 🇺🇸
deep list of horrible shit we (royal we) have done // https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/us_atrocities.md
Coups and regime changes – master list // https://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-peoples-governments-the-master-list
Wikipedia: United States War Crimes // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_war_crimes
/our boys/ (bring em home!) detail abusing Iraqi prisoners [2006] // https://www.hrw.org/report/2006/07/22/no-blood-no-foul/soldiers-accounts-detainee-abuse-iraq
More than 250 military interventions in the last 30 years alone // https://blackagendareport.com/us-launched-251-military-interventions-1991-and-469-1798
Visualisation of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade // https://www.slavevoyages.org/
UNESCO Sites relating to Slavery // https://slaveryandremembrance.org/
First Hand Documents of the horrors of Slavery // https://www.loc.gov/collections/slave-narratives-from-the-federal-writers-project-1936-to-1938/
📺 Glowie News 📺
(sponsored by the Burger Eagle Freedom Institute (formerly USAID))
CNN Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/cnn-news-usa.html
MSNBC Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/msnbc.html
FOX Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/fox-news-channel.html
Bloomberg Live // https://www.bloomberg.com/live/us
Burger House Live // https://www.whitehouse.gov/live/
Local News // https://www.50states.com/ce/
Weather // https://www.noaa.gov/weather
📺 Gommie News 📺
Jacobin // https://jacobin.com/
Black Agenda Report // https://blackagendareport.com/
The Grayzone // https://thegrayzone.com/
Leftvoice // https://www.leftvoice.org/
Newsanon Filter // https://leftypol.org/search.php?search=name%3A%22News+Anon+3.0%22&board=leftypol
🏝️ Epstein's Client List 🇮🇱
Epstein's Black Book // https://epsteinsblackbook.com/
DOJ Disclosures // https://www.justice.gov/epstein/doj-disclosures
Track AIPAC // https://www.trackaipac.com/
Al Jazeera visual guide (2026) // https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/10/struggling-to-navigate-the-epstein-files-here-is-a-visual-guide
Essential American Politik 📖
📖 WEB Du Bois - Black Reconstruction // https://cominsitu.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/w-e-b-du-bois-black-reconstruction-an-essay-toward-a-history-of-the-part-which-black-folk-played-in-the-attempt-to-reconstruct-democracy-2.pdf
📖 Eugene Debs - Fourth of July Speech // https://jacobin.com/2020/07/eugene-debs-independence-day-address-fourth-july
📖 Power Anywhere There's People! – Fred Hampton // https://www.hamptonthink.org/read/power-anywhere-where-thats-people-fred-hampton
📖 War is a Racket – Smedley Butler // https://ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html
📖 Letters From an American Farmer – St. John de Crevoecoeur // https://americanliterature.com/author/j-hector-st-john-de-crevoecoeur/book/letters-from-an-american-farmer/summary
📖 Trail of Broken Treaties // American Indian Movement https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
📖 The Declaration of Independence https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
📖 The Ballot or the Bullet – Malcolm X // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/ballot_or_bullet.pdf
📖 What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? – Frederick Douglass // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/douglass_july_4_speech.pdf
📖 A Trail of Broken Treaties – American Indian Movement // https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
📖 Custer Died for Your Sins – Vine Deloria Jr. // http://www.riversimulator.org/Resources/Books/CusterDiedForYourSinsAnIndianManifesto1969Deloria.pdf
📖 Emancipation Proclamation – Lincoln // https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/emancipation-proclamation
📖 Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville // https://americanliterature.com/author/alexis-de-tocqueville/book/democracy-in-america/summary
📖 Common Sense – Thomas Paine // https://americainclass.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Common-Sense-Full-Text.pdf
📖 An Indigenous History of the United States – Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz // https://nycstandswithstandingrock.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/dunbar-ortiz-2014.pdf
📖 Huey Long – Share Our Wealth // https://www.hueylong.com/programs/share-our-wealth/huey-longs-share-our-wealth-speech
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The Republic of Ireland’s consistent opposition to Zionism is not a matter of mere sentiment or diplomatic fashion; it is rooted in a shared material experience of colonial subjugation. The partition of Ireland in 1921 created a sectarian statelet, and the subsequent struggle for national liberation forged a political culture deeply suspicious of settler‑colonial projects. As Irish historian Rory Miller notes, Ireland has long framed its foreign policy through the lens of anti‑colonial solidarity, a stance that has placed it increasingly at odds with the expansionist policies of the Israeli state and the rest of western Europe. This has manifested in concrete and apparent actions, in late 2024, Israel responded to Ireland’s “anti‑Israel” position by closing its embassy in Dublin, a punitive measure that underscored the depth of the rupture. In January 2025, Ireland further escalated by formally joining South Africa’s genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice, a move that transformed diplomatic tension into a direct legal challenge to the apartheid regime.
The counter‑offensive against Ireland’s solidarity with Palestine is not a spontaneous reaction; it is a coordinated psychological operation. The Mossad has long maintained a dedicated psychological warfare department, known as the “LAP” (Lohamah Psichlogit), responsible for propaganda, deception, and information manipulation and quite honestly it's likely they deploy false flags or narrative structuring (gaslighting) through attacks that already naturally occur - we see this play out when a mentally ill attacker was falsely identified as a Muslim immigrant. The CIA, likewise, has a deep history of using disinformation and front organizations to destabilize governments that deviate from US imperial interests.
A classic example of this toolkit in action occurred in 2010, when it was revealed that the Mossad had forged eight fake Irish passports to facilitate the assassination of Hamas commander Mahmoud al‑Mabhouh in Dubai. The brazen theft of Irish national identity for a state‑sanctioned murder was not merely a violation of sovereignty; it was a deliberate act of psychological warfare designed to humiliate and intimidate the Irish state, sending a clear message, no Irish citizen, official, or symbol is beyond the reach of Zionist covert action.
In recent years, this state‑led psychological assault has been augmented by a third force, a network of far‑right, white‑nationalist NGOs and activists who have forged an opportunistic alliance with Zionist causes. Groups like the Irish branch of “Active Clubs” (Comhaltas na nGaedheal) market themselves as fitness and male‑empowerment organizations, but in reality serve as a cover for virulent white supremacist ideology. They openly express white‑nationalist beliefs, including likening the presence of Indian migrants to a “new plantation”. Other entities, such as Clann Éireann, openly embrace neo‑fascist iconography and advocate for the ethnic cleansing of all non‑Irish people. Tommy Robison has been to Israel and has ties with British nationalists. He was one of the first people to spread the Muslim stabbing rumors before the first wave of anti-migrant riots.
Both far‑right ethno‑nationalists and Zionist ideologues share a fundamental commitment to racialized, exclusionary state structures. This is no secret, protestant neighborhoods have flown confederate, amerikkkan, and israeli flags for decades now. Zionism, at its core, is a settler‑colonial project that requires the ethnic cleansing of Palestine to maintain a Jewish‑majority state. Far‑right white nationalists seek the same for the UK and Europe. In the context of Ireland’s increasingly vocal support for Palestine, these forces have found a common enemy. The far right targets Ireland’s leftist, pro‑Palestinian movements as a wedge issue, poisoning public discourse and providing political cover for Zionist counter‑insurgency. As investigative reporting has shown, far‑right agitators in Ireland are now actively forging “direct connections” with recognized British neo‑Nazi thought leaders and international networks that are funnelling money and ideological support into the Irish far‑right ecosystem.
Ireland is Under ATTACK
The isolation and vilification of Ireland for its principled anti‑Zionist stance is not a spontaneous eruption of diplomatic friction alone; it is a calculated, multifaceted campaign of psychological warfare to divide, sway and dominate a nation. This offensive is waged by a convergent triad of hostile actors, British intelligence, the Mossad, the CIA, and a network of far‑right, British white‑nationalist NGOs and individuals that have cynically repurposed reactionary anti‑socialist and anti‑immigrant politics as a vehicle for Zionist pro-imperialist counter‑insurgency. To comprehend the ferocity of this assault, one must first grasp the historical and material basis for Ireland’s solidarity with the colonized, and then examine the specific mechanisms through which these forces seek to isolate, delegitimize, and demoralize a nation that refuses to bow to the dictates of empire.The Republic of Ireland’s consistent opposition to Zionism is not a matter of mere sentiment or diplomatic fashion; it is rooted in a shared material experience of colonial subjugation. The partition of Ireland in 1921 created a sectarian statelet, and the subsequent struggle for national liberation forged a political culture deeply suspicious of settler‑colonial projects. As Irish historian Rory Miller notes, Ireland has long framed its foreign policy through the lens of anti‑colonial solidarity, a stance that has placed it increasingly at odds with the expansionist policies of the Israeli state and the rest of western Europe. This has manifested in concrete and apparent actions, in late 2024, Israel responded to Ireland’s “anti‑Israel” position by closing its embassy in Dublin, a punitive measure that underscored the depth of the rupture. In January 2025, Ireland further escalated by formally joining South Africa’s genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice, a move that transformed diplomatic tension into a direct legal challenge to the apartheid regime.
The counter‑offensive against Ireland’s solidarity with Palestine is not a spontaneous reaction; it is a coordinated psychological operation. The Mossad has long maintained a dedicated psychological warfare department, known as the “LAP” (Lohamah Psichlogit), responsible for propaganda, deception, and information manipulation and quite honestly it's likely they deploy false flags or narrative structuring (gaslighting) through attacks that already naturally occur - we see this play out when a mentally ill attacker was falsely identified as a Muslim immigrant. The CIA, likewise, has a deep history of using disinformation and front organizations to destabilize governments that deviate from US imperial interests.
A classic example of this toolkit in action occurred in 2010, when it was revealed that the Mossad had forged eight fake Irish passports to facilitate the assassination of Hamas commander Mahmoud al‑Mabhouh in Dubai. The brazen theft of Irish national identity for a state‑sanctioned murder was not merely a violation of sovereignty; it was a deliberate act of psychological warfare designed to humiliate and intimidate the Irish state, sending a clear message, no Irish citizen, official, or symbol is beyond the reach of Zionist covert action.
In recent years, this state‑led psychological assault has been augmented by a third force, a network of far‑right, white‑nationalist NGOs and activists who have forged an opportunistic alliance with Zionist causes. Groups like the Irish branch of “Active Clubs” (Comhaltas na nGaedheal) market themselves as fitness and male‑empowerment organizations, but in reality serve as a cover for virulent white supremacist ideology. They openly express white‑nationalist beliefs, including likening the presence of Indian migrants to a “new plantation”. Other entities, such as Clann Éireann, openly embrace neo‑fascist iconography and advocate for the ethnic cleansing of all non‑Irish people. Tommy Robison has been to Israel and has ties with British nationalists. He was one of the first people to spread the Muslim stabbing rumors before the first wave of anti-migrant riots.
Both far‑right ethno‑nationalists and Zionist ideologues share a fundamental commitment to racialized, exclusionary state structures. This is no secret, protestant neighborhoods have flown confederate, amerikkkan, and israeli flags for decades now. Zionism, at its core, is a settler‑colonial project that requires the ethnic cleansing of Palestine to maintain a Jewish‑majority state. Far‑right white nationalists seek the same for the UK and Europe. In the context of Ireland’s increasingly vocal support for Palestine, these forces have found a common enemy. The far right targets Ireland’s leftist, pro‑Palestinian movements as a wedge issue, poisoning public discourse and providing political cover for Zionist counter‑insurgency. As investigative reporting has shown, far‑right agitators in Ireland are now actively forging “direct connections” with recognized British neo‑Nazi thought leaders and international networks that are funnelling money and ideological support into the Irish far‑right ecosystem.
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How do we feel about social media accounts run by adults that are dedicated to children? Including parents who routinely post their children online and document every little aspect of their lives?
Is it pedo bait?
Should it be made illegal? Seems like very blatant child exploitation.
How do we feel about social media accounts run by adults that are dedicated to children? Including parents who routinely post their children online and document every little aspect of their lives?
Is it pedo bait?
Should it be made illegal? Seems like very blatant child exploitation.
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Mandelson lobbied hard for advisory firm after Labour victory, papers show
>Peter Mandelson, as president of his then advisory firm Global Counsel, lobbied hard for ministers to attend his events and to meet his firm’s staff in the months following Labour’s general election win, newly released documents reveal.
/leftybritpol/ - sir nonce friend edition
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jun/01/mandelson-lobbied-ministers-advisory-firm-global-counsel-labour-papers-showMandelson lobbied hard for advisory firm after Labour victory, papers show
>Peter Mandelson, as president of his then advisory firm Global Counsel, lobbied hard for ministers to attend his events and to meet his firm’s staff in the months following Labour’s general election win, newly released documents reveal.
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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
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Seriously most people do not rigorously check who joins their political club, they automatically assume agreement.
Espionnage
Genuinely what is to stop you guys infiltrating. Just get 30 lefties and stop dressing like gay baristas for five seconds, get everyone to dress in cheap biz suits and polos -> join the centre right party in your area -> pretend to be bourg -> secretly vote against everything borge in internal council elections.Seriously most people do not rigorously check who joins their political club, they automatically assume agreement.
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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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It seems renewable energies are getting much cheaper, so capitalisms might be tempted to transition. Batteries being harmful to the environment is oil propaganda, or so I was told.
Perhaps solving climate change doesnt requires a revolution? It might be solvable throguh the market and the State.
People's Emergency Briefing - No need for revolution?
Watched a movie called People's Emergency Briefing. The movie suggets that Members of the Parlament in the UK could be pressured enough to bring the subject of Climate Change to the front and start real change. Do you guys think this is possible, at least in the UK?It seems renewable energies are getting much cheaper, so capitalisms might be tempted to transition. Batteries being harmful to the environment is oil propaganda, or so I was told.
Perhaps solving climate change doesnt requires a revolution? It might be solvable throguh the market and the State.
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Look, I've been in leftist spaces for years. I've read the theory. I've done the organizing. But these people are not serious. They treat revolution like a LARP. They assault random civilians. They smash windows and call it "propaganda of the deed.". They celebrate mentally ill shooters. They dress as hamas and celebrate the death of US servicemen in the streets. And then they wonder why normal workers think we're all insane.
The Islamist militant groups GWOT has been fighting for decades are hardened, disciplined, and ideologically driven by something that tells them they are rewarded in the next life. These anarchist and Maoist street fighters? They're not. They're soft. They're mostly middle class kids with face tattoos and oppositional defiance disorder and they can't even handle a 90 hour work week without quitting let alone the full weight of an anti terror crack down. their rehtoric is vietcong, their balls are the size of chestnuts. Once the GWOT energy gets redirected onto them once the feds start treating antifa like they treated Al Qaeda these people will fold like a lawn chair. They don't have the training, the discipline, or the popular support to survive a sustained crackdown. Now sure some of them are actually competent or smart people but those people are constantly drug down by the normal base of twitter maoists and tumblr anarchists.
And here's the part I really hate to admit, Trump might actually be doing real leftists a favor by going after them. Because right now, these people are the single biggest obstacle to the majority of Americans accepting socialism. Every time a normie sees a masked anarchist smashing a Starbucks window, that's another vote for the far right. Every time a Maoist calls a union worker a "labor aristocrat cracker," that's another worker lost to the white supremacist cause.
I'm not saying I support the crackdown. I'm saying I'm watching it happen, and I can't find it in myself to feel sorry for them. They've made themselves the enemy of anyone who actually wants to build working class power. They kicked one of the biggest hornets nests in the world knowing they werent ready. they are even attempting to wind it back, notice anarchists dont want to throw hands with civilians anymore? they think they can dial it back and return to "muh class war" but its too late now, antifa fucked up bad. theres already too many people who want to get their revenge on them, and theyre people with power.
So yeah. Let the feds label antifa a terrorist ideology. Let them raid the squats the infoshops, the libaries, let them shut down the websites, the blogs, let them lock up the kids who think smashing a bank machine is revolution. Maybe then, when the dust settles, the rest of us can finally get to work organizing the working class for real.
I hate that I'm saying this. But I'm not wrong. /rant
Unpopular opinion – the third Turdist' alliance might be doing us more harm than good
I know this is going to sound fucked, and I'm not happy about saying it, but I'm starting to think that the only way the American left is going to survive is if the "Third Turdist" wing, the Maoists, the anarchists, the black bloc types gets crushed under the weight of a terrorism designation. and the best possible thing any normal level headed leftist can do is do not get involved, don't even vocally support them and turn them into martyrs. Espescially the anarchists, why would marxist-leninists who follow the actual communist international get involved in a civil war on behalf of them and other deviationists? And I hate that I'm even typing this but sometimes logic needs to trump feels.Look, I've been in leftist spaces for years. I've read the theory. I've done the organizing. But these people are not serious. They treat revolution like a LARP. They assault random civilians. They smash windows and call it "propaganda of the deed.". They celebrate mentally ill shooters. They dress as hamas and celebrate the death of US servicemen in the streets. And then they wonder why normal workers think we're all insane.
The Islamist militant groups GWOT has been fighting for decades are hardened, disciplined, and ideologically driven by something that tells them they are rewarded in the next life. These anarchist and Maoist street fighters? They're not. They're soft. They're mostly middle class kids with face tattoos and oppositional defiance disorder and they can't even handle a 90 hour work week without quitting let alone the full weight of an anti terror crack down. their rehtoric is vietcong, their balls are the size of chestnuts. Once the GWOT energy gets redirected onto them once the feds start treating antifa like they treated Al Qaeda these people will fold like a lawn chair. They don't have the training, the discipline, or the popular support to survive a sustained crackdown. Now sure some of them are actually competent or smart people but those people are constantly drug down by the normal base of twitter maoists and tumblr anarchists.
And here's the part I really hate to admit, Trump might actually be doing real leftists a favor by going after them. Because right now, these people are the single biggest obstacle to the majority of Americans accepting socialism. Every time a normie sees a masked anarchist smashing a Starbucks window, that's another vote for the far right. Every time a Maoist calls a union worker a "labor aristocrat cracker," that's another worker lost to the white supremacist cause.
I'm not saying I support the crackdown. I'm saying I'm watching it happen, and I can't find it in myself to feel sorry for them. They've made themselves the enemy of anyone who actually wants to build working class power. They kicked one of the biggest hornets nests in the world knowing they werent ready. they are even attempting to wind it back, notice anarchists dont want to throw hands with civilians anymore? they think they can dial it back and return to "muh class war" but its too late now, antifa fucked up bad. theres already too many people who want to get their revenge on them, and theyre people with power.
So yeah. Let the feds label antifa a terrorist ideology. Let them raid the squats the infoshops, the libaries, let them shut down the websites, the blogs, let them lock up the kids who think smashing a bank machine is revolution. Maybe then, when the dust settles, the rest of us can finally get to work organizing the working class for real.
I hate that I'm saying this. But I'm not wrong. /rant
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>>We posted 3.1% growth in 2023 and 3.7% in 2024. Industrial output hit 105% of target. Ten thousand new homes rose in Pyongyang in a single year.
USA
>>40% of Americans can't cover a $400 emergency. Inflation ate 20% of their purchasing power since 2020. While we built homes, they built tent cities. While we hit production targets, they hit record eviction filings.
DPRK
>>We shut our borders, deployed health surveillance, and relied on traditional medicine and domestic production no Western vaccines, no Big Pharma blackmail.
USA
>>Over 1.1 million dead from COVID and they still haven't learned. Their healthcare system is a for-profit slaughterhouse. Insulin costs 10x what it does anywhere else. Opioid overdoses kill 100,000 a year. They don't protect their people they process them into profit margins.
DPRK
>>We developed solid-fuel ICBMs (Hwasung-17 and -18) and a military spy satellite to deter. We are a nuclear-armed nation that has never invaded another country in our entire history. Our military exists to say “You cannot touch us.”
USA
>>800 military bases around the globe. They've bombed at least 20 countries since 2001. They fund coups, destabilize governments, and train death squads all while their own veterans sleep on the streets they swore to defend. Their "defense" budget is a welfare program for arms dealers, not for soldiers. They ruin everyone they touch including themselves.
DPRK
>>We are one people, one ideology, one destiny. No mass homelessness. No drug epidemics. No political knife-fights that paralyze government for months. We elect our leaders through revolutionary consensus not billion-dollar TV ads and foreign lobbyists.
USA
>>They're at each other's throats. Red state vs blue state. Cop vs citizen. Landlord vs tenant. Their democracy is a reality show where the winner serves the donor class. Their "freedom" means freedom to starve, freedom to overdose, freedom to be shot in a classroom. They've turned division into a mode of living. And they call DPRK totalitarian?
DPRK
>>Sanctions forced us to innovate. Domestic scientific publications are rising. Solar panels now power our factories, green energy built without IMF loans. We make our own chips, our own software, our own weapons. We are self-reliant.
USA
>>They outsourced everything. Their tech is made in Taiwan, their medicine in India, their cars in Mexico. They can't even produce their own masks in a crisis. Their "innovation" is just a new app to deliver junk food faster.
The West wants you to believe the DPRK is a failure. But look at the evidence: we are growing, building, defending, and uniting people, while America is shrinking, crumbling, bleeding, and fracturing people. The pandemic didn't create these differences; it just exposed them.
>>They better get used to it. Because we're not going anywhere, and they're falling apart faster every day.
Long live the Great Juche Idea. Long live the self-reliant future. Down with the American empire.
THE GREAT JUCHE ASCENSION vs. THE WESTERN ABYSS
DPRK>>We posted 3.1% growth in 2023 and 3.7% in 2024. Industrial output hit 105% of target. Ten thousand new homes rose in Pyongyang in a single year.
USA
>>40% of Americans can't cover a $400 emergency. Inflation ate 20% of their purchasing power since 2020. While we built homes, they built tent cities. While we hit production targets, they hit record eviction filings.
DPRK
>>We shut our borders, deployed health surveillance, and relied on traditional medicine and domestic production no Western vaccines, no Big Pharma blackmail.
USA
>>Over 1.1 million dead from COVID and they still haven't learned. Their healthcare system is a for-profit slaughterhouse. Insulin costs 10x what it does anywhere else. Opioid overdoses kill 100,000 a year. They don't protect their people they process them into profit margins.
DPRK
>>We developed solid-fuel ICBMs (Hwasung-17 and -18) and a military spy satellite to deter. We are a nuclear-armed nation that has never invaded another country in our entire history. Our military exists to say “You cannot touch us.”
USA
DPRK
>>We are one people, one ideology, one destiny. No mass homelessness. No drug epidemics. No political knife-fights that paralyze government for months. We elect our leaders through revolutionary consensus not billion-dollar TV ads and foreign lobbyists.
USA
>>They're at each other's throats. Red state vs blue state. Cop vs citizen. Landlord vs tenant. Their democracy is a reality show where the winner serves the donor class. Their "freedom" means freedom to starve, freedom to overdose, freedom to be shot in a classroom. They've turned division into a mode of living. And they call DPRK totalitarian?
DPRK
>>Sanctions forced us to innovate. Domestic scientific publications are rising. Solar panels now power our factories, green energy built without IMF loans. We make our own chips, our own software, our own weapons. We are self-reliant.
USA
>>They outsourced everything. Their tech is made in Taiwan, their medicine in India, their cars in Mexico. They can't even produce their own masks in a crisis. Their "innovation" is just a new app to deliver junk food faster.
The West wants you to believe the DPRK is a failure. But look at the evidence: we are growing, building, defending, and uniting people, while America is shrinking, crumbling, bleeding, and fracturing people. The pandemic didn't create these differences; it just exposed them.
>>They better get used to it. Because we're not going anywhere, and they're falling apart faster every day.
Long live the Great Juche Idea. Long live the self-reliant future. Down with the American empire.
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genuinely, why the FUCK is no one talking about el niño?
usually the media will use known nothingburgers to alarm people while sweeping actual happenings under the rug, compare ebola/hantavirus to the covid pandemic, for example. the fact that we're all dead silent about this potentially never-before-seen happening is extremely worrying to me, what do they know? is it really as bad as current predictions? could it be fucking worse?
the most optimistic predictions would place this as the worst el niño in history, even worse than the 19th century one which resulted in millions of deaths worldwide. now, combine that with pre-existing shortages in the supply chains due to the iran war, which limits the amount of fertilisers available, and we could be looking at a total catastrophe, we'd face floods, famines, and even worse temperatures, with effects varying depending on geographical location
the worst part is, i cant even find any cope trying to debunk this like you had with covid, people are just accepting it or covering their ears trying to ignore it, this gives me a reaaaally bad feeling, im starting to tweak out. are we genuinely fucked? is it unironically over?
genuinely, why the FUCK is no one talking about el niño?
usually the media will use known nothingburgers to alarm people while sweeping actual happenings under the rug, compare ebola/hantavirus to the covid pandemic, for example. the fact that we're all dead silent about this potentially never-before-seen happening is extremely worrying to me, what do they know? is it really as bad as current predictions? could it be fucking worse?
the most optimistic predictions would place this as the worst el niño in history, even worse than the 19th century one which resulted in millions of deaths worldwide. now, combine that with pre-existing shortages in the supply chains due to the iran war, which limits the amount of fertilisers available, and we could be looking at a total catastrophe, we'd face floods, famines, and even worse temperatures, with effects varying depending on geographical location
the worst part is, i cant even find any cope trying to debunk this like you had with covid, people are just accepting it or covering their ears trying to ignore it, this gives me a reaaaally bad feeling, im starting to tweak out. are we genuinely fucked? is it unironically over?
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The office of Brazil’s prosecutor general had charged Eduardo Bolsonaro with courting US authorities to help his father’s case by imposing sanctions on the court’s justices and tariffs on Brazilian goods. The younger Bolsonaro, a former lawmaker, moved to the United States in 2025, months before the trial that convicted the rightwing ex-president of plotting a coup.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/16/brazilian-court-convicts-eduardo-bolsonaro-us-help-father-jair
Peruvian Prosecutor Seeks Prison Terms for Former Police Chief Over Injuries During Protests
Zanabria was leading police operations in Lima when social protests erupted following Castillo’s imprisonment on Dec. 7, 2022. At the time, social unrest spread to cities across the country for two months, especially in southern Peru’s Andean region, where the former leader had received his strongest electoral support.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/peruvian-prosecutor-seeks-prison-terms-for-former-police-chief-over-injuries-during-protests/
Tireless human rights activist Taty Almeida, founding member of Madres de Plaza de Mayo, dies at 95
Almeida's life changed forever after the disappearance of her son Alejandro, aged 20, in 1975 at the hands of the far-right Triple A paramilitary organisation. For decades, she demanded answers from the state as to his fate. … The activist’s daughter, Fabiana Almeida, told reporters that she and her brother Jorge realised on Sunday morning that their mother "wasn't doing well.”
https://www.batimes.com.ar/news/argentina/tireless-human-rights-activist-taty-almeida-founding-member-of-madres-de-plaza-de-mayo-dies-at-95.phtml
https://archive.ph/n2buG
France to ditch Palantir’s AI data tools in favour of domestic provider
France’s domestic intelligence service is to ditch AI data tools from the US tech company Palantir in favour of a domestic provider in an effort to avoid “strategic dependency”, the prime minister, Sébastien Lecornu, has said. “We must use our own AI models; we cannot accept new strategic dependencies in the digital sphere,” Lecornu posted on social media. “We cannot rely on tools developed by foreign powers. France must have its own tools.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/16/france-ai-data-tools-palantir-chapsvision
PMCs legally don't exist in Ukraine. They're booming anyway
Ukrainian legislation prohibits armed formations outside state control and has never recognized PMCs, even as most of the activities associated with them carry on under ordinary licenses, permits, and commercial contracts. Four years after the start of Russia's full-scale invasion, the defense sector is one of the fastest-growing industries at the heart of a strained wartime economy. The gap between PMC activity and the absence of regulation has become impossible to ignore and is now on Ukraine's political agenda.
https://kyivindependent.com/inside-ukraines-push-to-regulate-its-private-military-company-boom/
https://archive.ph/TFzGu
Steel and chemicals giants demand freeze to EU’s flagship climate policy
Four of Europe’s largest steel and chemical manufacturers have requested an immediate halt to the rollout of the EU Emissions Trading System, arguing the bloc's most important climate policy is too expensive and "no longer reflects current global realities."
https://www.politico.eu/article/steel-and-chemicals-giants-demand-freeze-to-eus-flagship-climate-policy/
https://archive.ph/YhUQd
China-Myanmar Corridor
In addition to planned infrastructure, the corridor already includes operational assets. An oil pipeline and a gas pipeline running through Myanmar allow direct energy transport to China, with an estimated capacity of around 22 million tons of oil per year and 12 billion cubic meters of natural gas annually, reducing China’s reliance on maritime routes passing through the Strait of Malacca.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/china-myanmar-economic-integration/
‘My voice is being heard’: A month of India’s Cockroach Janta Party
Shimpi had dropped out of formal education for two years to prepare for the exam, which determines one’s eligibility to join medical colleges as well as the schools they qualify for. As he walked out of the examination hall, he heaved a sigh of relief. “I was out of the rat race,” he told Al Jazeera. “It was finally behind me.”
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/6/16/my-voice-is-being-heard-a-month-of-indias-cockroach-janta-party
https://archive.ph/bPHgf
Register, Disclose, Pay Taxes: Karnataka Home Minister Priyank Kharge to RSS
In a salvo that has created ripples of concern within organisations of the far right, especially the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) that is the ideological fountainhead of the present regime, Karnataka’s recently appointed Home Minister, Priyank Kharge, has written to the organisation demanding that it disclose its registration details, pay taxes, comply with the law and Constitution.
https://www.newsclick.in/register-disclose-pay-taxes-karnataka-home-minister-priyank-kharge-rss
Kalinga minorities want permit of Malikaka Mining Co. revoked
Indigenous residents of Barangay Balatoc, Pasil, Kalinga urged the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP) to stop Makilala Mining Company Inc.’s (MMCI) planned large-scale mining on their ancestral land. The indigenous communities also filed complaints with the Department of Environment and Natural Resources and other government agencies.
https://philippinerevolution.nu/angbayan/kalinga-minorities-want-permit-of-malikaka-mining-co-revoked/
News 6/16/26
Brazilian court convicts Jair Bolsonaro’s son of seeking US help for his fatherThe office of Brazil’s prosecutor general had charged Eduardo Bolsonaro with courting US authorities to help his father’s case by imposing sanctions on the court’s justices and tariffs on Brazilian goods. The younger Bolsonaro, a former lawmaker, moved to the United States in 2025, months before the trial that convicted the rightwing ex-president of plotting a coup.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/16/brazilian-court-convicts-eduardo-bolsonaro-us-help-father-jair
Peruvian Prosecutor Seeks Prison Terms for Former Police Chief Over Injuries During Protests
Zanabria was leading police operations in Lima when social protests erupted following Castillo’s imprisonment on Dec. 7, 2022. At the time, social unrest spread to cities across the country for two months, especially in southern Peru’s Andean region, where the former leader had received his strongest electoral support.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/peruvian-prosecutor-seeks-prison-terms-for-former-police-chief-over-injuries-during-protests/
Tireless human rights activist Taty Almeida, founding member of Madres de Plaza de Mayo, dies at 95
Almeida's life changed forever after the disappearance of her son Alejandro, aged 20, in 1975 at the hands of the far-right Triple A paramilitary organisation. For decades, she demanded answers from the state as to his fate. … The activist’s daughter, Fabiana Almeida, told reporters that she and her brother Jorge realised on Sunday morning that their mother "wasn't doing well.”
https://www.batimes.com.ar/news/argentina/tireless-human-rights-activist-taty-almeida-founding-member-of-madres-de-plaza-de-mayo-dies-at-95.phtml
https://archive.ph/n2buG
France to ditch Palantir’s AI data tools in favour of domestic provider
France’s domestic intelligence service is to ditch AI data tools from the US tech company Palantir in favour of a domestic provider in an effort to avoid “strategic dependency”, the prime minister, Sébastien Lecornu, has said. “We must use our own AI models; we cannot accept new strategic dependencies in the digital sphere,” Lecornu posted on social media. “We cannot rely on tools developed by foreign powers. France must have its own tools.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/16/france-ai-data-tools-palantir-chapsvision
PMCs legally don't exist in Ukraine. They're booming anyway
Ukrainian legislation prohibits armed formations outside state control and has never recognized PMCs, even as most of the activities associated with them carry on under ordinary licenses, permits, and commercial contracts. Four years after the start of Russia's full-scale invasion, the defense sector is one of the fastest-growing industries at the heart of a strained wartime economy. The gap between PMC activity and the absence of regulation has become impossible to ignore and is now on Ukraine's political agenda.
https://kyivindependent.com/inside-ukraines-push-to-regulate-its-private-military-company-boom/
https://archive.ph/TFzGu
Steel and chemicals giants demand freeze to EU’s flagship climate policy
Four of Europe’s largest steel and chemical manufacturers have requested an immediate halt to the rollout of the EU Emissions Trading System, arguing the bloc's most important climate policy is too expensive and "no longer reflects current global realities."
https://www.politico.eu/article/steel-and-chemicals-giants-demand-freeze-to-eus-flagship-climate-policy/
https://archive.ph/YhUQd
China-Myanmar Corridor
In addition to planned infrastructure, the corridor already includes operational assets. An oil pipeline and a gas pipeline running through Myanmar allow direct energy transport to China, with an estimated capacity of around 22 million tons of oil per year and 12 billion cubic meters of natural gas annually, reducing China’s reliance on maritime routes passing through the Strait of Malacca.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/china-myanmar-economic-integration/
‘My voice is being heard’: A month of India’s Cockroach Janta Party
Shimpi had dropped out of formal education for two years to prepare for the exam, which determines one’s eligibility to join medical colleges as well as the schools they qualify for. As he walked out of the examination hall, he heaved a sigh of relief. “I was out of the rat race,” he told Al Jazeera. “It was finally behind me.”
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/6/16/my-voice-is-being-heard-a-month-of-indias-cockroach-janta-party
https://archive.ph/bPHgf
Register, Disclose, Pay Taxes: Karnataka Home Minister Priyank Kharge to RSS
In a salvo that has created ripples of concern within organisations of the far right, especially the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) that is the ideological fountainhead of the present regime, Karnataka’s recently appointed Home Minister, Priyank Kharge, has written to the organisation demanding that it disclose its registration details, pay taxes, comply with the law and Constitution.
https://www.newsclick.in/register-disclose-pay-taxes-karnataka-home-minister-priyank-kharge-rss
Kalinga minorities want permit of Malikaka Mining Co. revoked
Indigenous residents of Barangay Balatoc, Pasil, Kalinga urged the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP) to stop Makilala Mining Company Inc.’s (MMCI) planned large-scale mining on their ancestral land. The indigenous communities also filed complaints with the Department of Environment and Natural Resources and other government agencies.
https://philippinerevolution.nu/angbayan/kalinga-minorities-want-permit-of-malikaka-mining-co-revoked/
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The materialist foundation
The most basic distinction in Marxist thought is between idealism and materialism. Idealism holds that ideas come first, that the material world is shaped by thoughts and concepts. Religious and magical thinking are forms of idealism, as is the common belief that human nature is fixed and unchangeable. Materialism holds the opposite: material conditions come first, and our ideas arise from them. Marxists believe that how a society produces food, shelter, and other necessities shapes everything else, including our ideas, beliefs, and values. This does not mean ideas don't matter. It means they emerge from material conditions and cannot be understood apart from them. When people ask why human beings behave in certain ways, Marxists look first to the economic and social structures in which people live.
Historical materialism
Historical materialism applies this way of thinking to history. The material conditions of a society determine its social structure, and class struggle drives historical change. Societies evolve through different modes of production, each containing internal contradictions that eventually lead to its replacement.
Human history has passed through several stages. There was primitive communism, where hunter-gatherer societies existed without class divisions. Slave society built ancient civilizations on slave labor. Feudalism followed, with its lords, serfs, and peasants. Capitalism is the industrial system we live under today. Each stage contains contradictions that lead to its replacement by a new system, and capitalism is no exception.
Class struggle
Class struggle is at the center of Marxist analysis. In every class society, a ruling class controls the means of production and an oppressed class does the work. Under capitalism, the bourgeoisie owns factories, machinery, land, and other productive property. The proletariat owns only its labor power and must sell it to survive.
These two classes have irreconcilable interests. Workers want higher wages and better conditions. Capitalists want to minimize costs and maximize profits. This contradiction cannot be resolved within the system. It leads to periodic crises, growing inequality, and increasingly intense class conflict. Marx argued this conflict would eventually lead to the overthrow of capitalism and the establishment of a new system based on the interests of the working majority.
How capitalism works
Capitalism is based on exploitation, though this is a description of how the system functions, not a moral judgment. Workers create value through their labor. They are paid wages just enough to survive and reproduce themselves. The difference between what workers create and what they are paid is surplus value, and the capitalist keeps this surplus as profit. Exploitation is built into the wage-labor relationship.
The drive for profit compels capitalists to extract more work for less pay, cut costs, expand into new markets, and constantly innovate. This drive leads to crises of overproduction, financial crashes, growing inequality, environmental destruction, and imperialist competition. These are not failures of the system. They are its normal operating conditions.
The proletariat
The proletariat is the class created by capitalism itself. As capitalism develops, it proletarianizes more and more people, turning peasants, artisans, and small business owners into wage workers. Workers are concentrated in factories, offices, and cities, which gives them organizational capacity. Capitalism also requires educated workers who can think critically, creating the conditions for political consciousness.
Marx argued the proletariat is the only class capable of overthrowing capitalism. The bourgeoisie will not abolish a system that benefits them. Other classes, like the peasantry, are too fragmented and dispersed to lead a revolution. Only the proletariat has no material interest in preserving the system, is organized by the system itself, and represents the majority of the population. Its victory would benefit all of humanity.
Understanding Marxism: A Beginner's Guide
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels developed a way of understanding society, history, and social change that remains essential for anyone trying to make sense of the world today. Their work is not a collection of abstract ideas or moral pronouncements. It is a method of analysis, a critique of capitalism, and a political project aimed at creating a more equitable world. This guide introduces the fundamental concepts of Marxism in accessible language.The materialist foundation
The most basic distinction in Marxist thought is between idealism and materialism. Idealism holds that ideas come first, that the material world is shaped by thoughts and concepts. Religious and magical thinking are forms of idealism, as is the common belief that human nature is fixed and unchangeable. Materialism holds the opposite: material conditions come first, and our ideas arise from them. Marxists believe that how a society produces food, shelter, and other necessities shapes everything else, including our ideas, beliefs, and values. This does not mean ideas don't matter. It means they emerge from material conditions and cannot be understood apart from them. When people ask why human beings behave in certain ways, Marxists look first to the economic and social structures in which people live.
Historical materialism
Historical materialism applies this way of thinking to history. The material conditions of a society determine its social structure, and class struggle drives historical change. Societies evolve through different modes of production, each containing internal contradictions that eventually lead to its replacement.
Human history has passed through several stages. There was primitive communism, where hunter-gatherer societies existed without class divisions. Slave society built ancient civilizations on slave labor. Feudalism followed, with its lords, serfs, and peasants. Capitalism is the industrial system we live under today. Each stage contains contradictions that lead to its replacement by a new system, and capitalism is no exception.
Class struggle
Class struggle is at the center of Marxist analysis. In every class society, a ruling class controls the means of production and an oppressed class does the work. Under capitalism, the bourgeoisie owns factories, machinery, land, and other productive property. The proletariat owns only its labor power and must sell it to survive.
These two classes have irreconcilable interests. Workers want higher wages and better conditions. Capitalists want to minimize costs and maximize profits. This contradiction cannot be resolved within the system. It leads to periodic crises, growing inequality, and increasingly intense class conflict. Marx argued this conflict would eventually lead to the overthrow of capitalism and the establishment of a new system based on the interests of the working majority.
How capitalism works
Capitalism is based on exploitation, though this is a description of how the system functions, not a moral judgment. Workers create value through their labor. They are paid wages just enough to survive and reproduce themselves. The difference between what workers create and what they are paid is surplus value, and the capitalist keeps this surplus as profit. Exploitation is built into the wage-labor relationship.
The drive for profit compels capitalists to extract more work for less pay, cut costs, expand into new markets, and constantly innovate. This drive leads to crises of overproduction, financial crashes, growing inequality, environmental destruction, and imperialist competition. These are not failures of the system. They are its normal operating conditions.
The proletariat
The proletariat is the class created by capitalism itself. As capitalism develops, it proletarianizes more and more people, turning peasants, artisans, and small business owners into wage workers. Workers are concentrated in factories, offices, and cities, which gives them organizational capacity. Capitalism also requires educated workers who can think critically, creating the conditions for political consciousness.
Marx argued the proletariat is the only class capable of overthrowing capitalism. The bourgeoisie will not abolish a system that benefits them. Other classes, like the peasantry, are too fragmented and dispersed to lead a revolution. Only the proletariat has no material interest in preserving the system, is organized by the system itself, and represents the majority of the population. Its victory would benefit all of humanity.
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-Kropotkin
In the US when I hear a defense of our founding fathers who owned slaves, particularly Jefferson and Washington, I always hear that morals were just different back then and that you basically can’t expect these people to know any better in 1776. This is stupid.
Morality is a constant. You know when you’re harming someone or inconveniencing them. You should think of how they feel about it and you should judge particularly impactful interactions for yourself and others from as many angles as possible as many times as possible. Don’t be neurotic, but hearing the screams of someone being whipped shouldn’t take a struggle session and psychological damage to evoke emotions over. Ruminating on all the memories that stick out we which ones we could’ve and should’ve acted better in. It’s a natural, gut instinct that some defective people may be born without, but it’s a common factor that should be the basis for society.
This is very vague, I’ve only described a notion of what’s “moral” or “not moral” and these categories do need to be demystified, but the constant shifting and adjusting for moral shores is the job of legislatures. I know many will come and start posing moral hypotheticals which I’ll be happy to answer, but in a world where were giving back to the billionaires directly without even bothering to mask it, giving back to foreign proxy’s with shrinking domestic protections, and giving back to politicians, cops and even criminals willing to abuse the courts system without any consideration or efficiency for the people making the system run, I want to focus on at least starting to round the edges.
I know this places namesake is 4chan. I see the reading list contains antisemitic texts, not just chapters from Bakunin, but shit like The Jewish Question and a section on German Idealism. I’m not an idiot, but clearly you’re all here because you feel something that keeps you off platforms like instagram and twitter and yet a compulsion to strive for better than 4chan. Typically the most politically involved vary the most, this site might in reality have one of the bigger tents out there for its limited size, and I want to try to appeal to as many as I can with the following; People will be born into society. Society should be ready to handle them. No matter anyone’s ethnicity, we all share 99+% of our genes. There will always need to be people at the bottom middle and top and we should design a system into which we would happily stumble blind, where those distinctions are made by matter of talent, acquired skill, and virtue, not whether you were born to one group or another. Racism, antisemitism, xenophobia, and all the other causes and effects of colonialism are not just morally evil, they are one of the greatest cancers human society has ever suffered from and thankfully one I pray we have put in the rear view mirror. However when I see the amount of hostility towards extremely marginalized groups like illegal immigrants, trans people, women, and Jews in even more progressive circles I wonder if this receding cancer is more like a malignant tumor, every now and then flaring up in bouts of genocide in perpetuity. Well I want to leave you with one more quote that I hope gets my point across.
The fact is that the greatest crimes are caused by excess, and not by necessity. Men do not become tyrants in order that they may not suffer cold, and hence great is the honor bestowed not on he who kills a thief but on him who kills a tyrant.
-Aristotle
The mutual aid feeling
Unless men are maddened in the battlefield they cannot stand it to hear appeals for help and not respond to them. The hero goes, and what the hero does, all feel they ought to have done as well. The sophisms of the brain cannot resist the mutual aid feeling, because this feeling has been nurtured by thousands of years of human social life and hundreds of thousands of years of prehuman life in societies.-Kropotkin
In the US when I hear a defense of our founding fathers who owned slaves, particularly Jefferson and Washington, I always hear that morals were just different back then and that you basically can’t expect these people to know any better in 1776. This is stupid.
Morality is a constant. You know when you’re harming someone or inconveniencing them. You should think of how they feel about it and you should judge particularly impactful interactions for yourself and others from as many angles as possible as many times as possible. Don’t be neurotic, but hearing the screams of someone being whipped shouldn’t take a struggle session and psychological damage to evoke emotions over. Ruminating on all the memories that stick out we which ones we could’ve and should’ve acted better in. It’s a natural, gut instinct that some defective people may be born without, but it’s a common factor that should be the basis for society.
This is very vague, I’ve only described a notion of what’s “moral” or “not moral” and these categories do need to be demystified, but the constant shifting and adjusting for moral shores is the job of legislatures. I know many will come and start posing moral hypotheticals which I’ll be happy to answer, but in a world where were giving back to the billionaires directly without even bothering to mask it, giving back to foreign proxy’s with shrinking domestic protections, and giving back to politicians, cops and even criminals willing to abuse the courts system without any consideration or efficiency for the people making the system run, I want to focus on at least starting to round the edges.
I know this places namesake is 4chan. I see the reading list contains antisemitic texts, not just chapters from Bakunin, but shit like The Jewish Question and a section on German Idealism. I’m not an idiot, but clearly you’re all here because you feel something that keeps you off platforms like instagram and twitter and yet a compulsion to strive for better than 4chan. Typically the most politically involved vary the most, this site might in reality have one of the bigger tents out there for its limited size, and I want to try to appeal to as many as I can with the following; People will be born into society. Society should be ready to handle them. No matter anyone’s ethnicity, we all share 99+% of our genes. There will always need to be people at the bottom middle and top and we should design a system into which we would happily stumble blind, where those distinctions are made by matter of talent, acquired skill, and virtue, not whether you were born to one group or another. Racism, antisemitism, xenophobia, and all the other causes and effects of colonialism are not just morally evil, they are one of the greatest cancers human society has ever suffered from and thankfully one I pray we have put in the rear view mirror. However when I see the amount of hostility towards extremely marginalized groups like illegal immigrants, trans people, women, and Jews in even more progressive circles I wonder if this receding cancer is more like a malignant tumor, every now and then flaring up in bouts of genocide in perpetuity. Well I want to leave you with one more quote that I hope gets my point across.
The fact is that the greatest crimes are caused by excess, and not by necessity. Men do not become tyrants in order that they may not suffer cold, and hence great is the honor bestowed not on he who kills a thief but on him who kills a tyrant.
-Aristotle
R: 25 / I: 2
Jefferson himself however was a slave owner and a rapist and a bad person, but I don't think that invalidates some of his ideas. And he supported private property.
Thoughts?
Jeffersonian Democracy and Libertarian Leftism has similarities
Both were against to differing degrees singular individuals accumulating extreme wealth to oppose everyone. Both wanted high decentralization and sometimes assumes an agrarian material world. Jeffersonian democracy is interesting because it's based on the idea that people can govern themselves without experts leading them, and that liberty is kept alive through local organization autonomy and action.Jefferson himself however was a slave owner and a rapist and a bad person, but I don't think that invalidates some of his ideas. And he supported private property.
Thoughts?
R: 53 / I: 9
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: 586 / I: 157
>Thread for the hellish discussion related to the scourge of the earth, the destroyer of nations, the king of coups, the sultan of sanctions, the emir of the embargo, the autocrat of austerity, the doge of deregulation, the baron of busting unions, the prince of privatization, the lord of loan sharks, the patron-saint of proxy wars, the sponsor of settlers, the guarantor of genocides, the Divided $nakkkes of Amerikkka™
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OP Backup Site: https://usapol.neocities.org/
💀 ICE & Prison Resources
(Amerika is the most incarcerated country in the world!)
ICE tracker using public info and user submissions // https://www.iceinmyarea.org/
list of deaths at ICE concentration camps // https://www.aila.org/infonet/deaths-at-adult-detention-centers
visualization of prison population in US // https://mkorostoff.github.io/incarceration-in-real-numbers/
Organizing in Prison — for when the walls close in (RANT Collective) // https://www.organizingforpower.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Organizing-in-Jail.pdf
database of U.S. facilities incl. ICE holding sites // https://alcpress.org/usjails/index.html
list of prison related resources, mailing lists, etc // https://www.prisonactivist.org/resources
ICE Agent List (incomplete) // https://wiki.icelist.is/index.php/Category:Agents
US Political Prison Tracker (last updated 2025) // https://uspoliticalprisoners.com/
Jailhouse Reading:
📖 Angela Davis - Are Prisons Obsolete? // https://dn790007.ca.archive.org/0/items/the-anarchist-library-full-list-of-pdfs-nov-2020/angela-y-davis-are-prisons-obsolete.pdf
📖 How to Defend Yourself During Police Interrogation // https://www.notrace.how/resources/download/comment-la-police-interroge-et-comment-sen-defendre/how-to-defend-yourself-during-a-police-interrogation.pdf
📖 National Lawyers Guild guide to being a jailhouse lawyer // https://www.jailhouselaw.org/
📖 Critical Resistance - Surviving Solitary Confinement // https://criticalresistance.org/resources/surviving-solitary/
📖 An inside-outside publication for abolitionist struggle & strategy across prison walls // https://criticalresistance.org/abolitionist/
📖 Prisoners’ Self-Help Litigation Manual // https://api.pageplace.de/preview/DT0400.9780199705665_A35159258/preview-9780199705665_A35159258.pdf
⚒️ LABOR!
Live strike tracker with deep stats on who, what and when // https://striketracker.ilr.cornell.edu/
AFL-CIO [imperialist]'s Strike Tracker // https://aflcio.org/strike-map
Labor Bureau's Official 'work stoppage' tracker // https://www.bls.gov/wsp/
IWW timeline for the 20th century (ends at 1999) // https://archive.iww.org/history/chronology/
IWW Work Place Organizing Guide // https://usa.anarchistlibraries.net/library/industrial-workers-of-the-world-libcom-org-solidarity-federation-walthamstow-anarchist-group-wo
▶ Salting | Work Place Organizing 101 (50 minute webinar) // https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SHlCLyM4FY
⚖️ Deeds of the Burger Reich 🇺🇸
deep list of horrible shit we (royal we) have done // https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/us_atrocities.md
Coups and regime changes – master list // https://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-peoples-governments-the-master-list
Wikipedia: United States War Crimes // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_war_crimes
/our boys/ (bring em home!) detail abusing Iraqi prisoners [2006] // https://www.hrw.org/report/2006/07/22/no-blood-no-foul/soldiers-accounts-detainee-abuse-iraq
More than 250 military interventions in the last 30 years alone // https://blackagendareport.com/us-launched-251-military-interventions-1991-and-469-1798
Visualisation of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade // https://www.slavevoyages.org/
UNESCO Sites relating to Slavery // https://slaveryandremembrance.org/
First Hand Documents of the horrors of Slavery // https://www.loc.gov/collections/slave-narratives-from-the-federal-writers-project-1936-to-1938/
📺 Glowie News 📺
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Local News // https://www.50states.com/ce/
Weather // https://www.noaa.gov/weather
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Jacobin // https://jacobin.com/
Black Agenda Report // https://blackagendareport.com/
The Grayzone // https://thegrayzone.com/
Leftvoice // https://www.leftvoice.org/
Newsanon Filter // https://leftypol.org/search.php?search=name%3A%22News+Anon+3.0%22&board=leftypol
🏝️ Epstein's Client List 🇮🇱
Epstein's Black Book // https://epsteinsblackbook.com/
DOJ Disclosures // https://www.justice.gov/epstein/doj-disclosures
Track AIPAC // https://www.trackaipac.com/
Al Jazeera visual guide (2026) // https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/10/struggling-to-navigate-the-epstein-files-here-is-a-visual-guide
Essential American Politik 📖
📖 WEB Du Bois - Black Reconstruction // https://cominsitu.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/w-e-b-du-bois-black-reconstruction-an-essay-toward-a-history-of-the-part-which-black-folk-played-in-the-attempt-to-reconstruct-democracy-2.pdf
📖 Eugene Debs - Fourth of July Speech // https://jacobin.com/2020/07/eugene-debs-independence-day-address-fourth-july
📖 Power Anywhere There's People! – Fred Hampton // https://www.hamptonthink.org/read/power-anywhere-where-thats-people-fred-hampton
📖 War is a Racket – Smedley Butler // https://ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html
📖 Letters From an American Farmer – St. John de Crevoecoeur // https://americanliterature.com/author/j-hector-st-john-de-crevoecoeur/book/letters-from-an-american-farmer/summary
📖 Trail of Broken Treaties // American Indian Movement https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
📖 The Declaration of Independence https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
📖 The Ballot or the Bullet – Malcolm X // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/ballot_or_bullet.pdf
📖 What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? – Frederick Douglass // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/douglass_july_4_speech.pdf
📖 A Trail of Broken Treaties – American Indian Movement // https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
📖 Custer Died for Your Sins – Vine Deloria Jr. // http://www.riversimulator.org/Resources/Books/CusterDiedForYourSinsAnIndianManifesto1969Deloria.pdf
📖 Emancipation Proclamation – Lincoln // https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/emancipation-proclamation
📖 Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville // https://americanliterature.com/author/alexis-de-tocqueville/book/democracy-in-america/summary
📖 Common Sense – Thomas Paine // https://americainclass.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Common-Sense-Full-Text.pdf
📖 An Indigenous History of the United States – Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz // https://nycstandswithstandingrock.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/dunbar-ortiz-2014.pdf
📖 Huey Long – Share Our Wealth // https://www.hueylong.com/programs/share-our-wealth/huey-longs-share-our-wealth-speech
Previous Thread >>2837501
/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™
<Armed, But Uninspired Edition
OP Backup Site: https://usapol.neocities.org/
💀 ICE & Prison Resources
(Amerika is the most incarcerated country in the world!)
ICE tracker using public info and user submissions // https://www.iceinmyarea.org/
list of deaths at ICE concentration camps // https://www.aila.org/infonet/deaths-at-adult-detention-centers
visualization of prison population in US // https://mkorostoff.github.io/incarceration-in-real-numbers/
Organizing in Prison — for when the walls close in (RANT Collective) // https://www.organizingforpower.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Organizing-in-Jail.pdf
database of U.S. facilities incl. ICE holding sites // https://alcpress.org/usjails/index.html
list of prison related resources, mailing lists, etc // https://www.prisonactivist.org/resources
ICE Agent List (incomplete) // https://wiki.icelist.is/index.php/Category:Agents
US Political Prison Tracker (last updated 2025) // https://uspoliticalprisoners.com/
Jailhouse Reading:
📖 Angela Davis - Are Prisons Obsolete? // https://dn790007.ca.archive.org/0/items/the-anarchist-library-full-list-of-pdfs-nov-2020/angela-y-davis-are-prisons-obsolete.pdf
📖 How to Defend Yourself During Police Interrogation // https://www.notrace.how/resources/download/comment-la-police-interroge-et-comment-sen-defendre/how-to-defend-yourself-during-a-police-interrogation.pdf
📖 National Lawyers Guild guide to being a jailhouse lawyer // https://www.jailhouselaw.org/
📖 Critical Resistance - Surviving Solitary Confinement // https://criticalresistance.org/resources/surviving-solitary/
📖 An inside-outside publication for abolitionist struggle & strategy across prison walls // https://criticalresistance.org/abolitionist/
📖 Prisoners’ Self-Help Litigation Manual // https://api.pageplace.de/preview/DT0400.9780199705665_A35159258/preview-9780199705665_A35159258.pdf
⚒️ LABOR!
Live strike tracker with deep stats on who, what and when // https://striketracker.ilr.cornell.edu/
AFL-CIO [imperialist]'s Strike Tracker // https://aflcio.org/strike-map
Labor Bureau's Official 'work stoppage' tracker // https://www.bls.gov/wsp/
IWW timeline for the 20th century (ends at 1999) // https://archive.iww.org/history/chronology/
IWW Work Place Organizing Guide // https://usa.anarchistlibraries.net/library/industrial-workers-of-the-world-libcom-org-solidarity-federation-walthamstow-anarchist-group-wo
▶ Salting | Work Place Organizing 101 (50 minute webinar) // https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SHlCLyM4FY
⚖️ Deeds of the Burger Reich 🇺🇸
deep list of horrible shit we (royal we) have done // https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/us_atrocities.md
Coups and regime changes – master list // https://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-peoples-governments-the-master-list
Wikipedia: United States War Crimes // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_war_crimes
/our boys/ (bring em home!) detail abusing Iraqi prisoners [2006] // https://www.hrw.org/report/2006/07/22/no-blood-no-foul/soldiers-accounts-detainee-abuse-iraq
More than 250 military interventions in the last 30 years alone // https://blackagendareport.com/us-launched-251-military-interventions-1991-and-469-1798
Visualisation of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade // https://www.slavevoyages.org/
UNESCO Sites relating to Slavery // https://slaveryandremembrance.org/
First Hand Documents of the horrors of Slavery // https://www.loc.gov/collections/slave-narratives-from-the-federal-writers-project-1936-to-1938/
📺 Glowie News 📺
(sponsored by the Burger Eagle Freedom Institute (formerly USAID))
CNN Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/cnn-news-usa.html
MSNBC Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/msnbc.html
FOX Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/fox-news-channel.html
Bloomberg Live // https://www.bloomberg.com/live/us
Burger House Live // https://www.whitehouse.gov/live/
Local News // https://www.50states.com/ce/
Weather // https://www.noaa.gov/weather
📺 Gommie News 📺
Jacobin // https://jacobin.com/
Black Agenda Report // https://blackagendareport.com/
The Grayzone // https://thegrayzone.com/
Leftvoice // https://www.leftvoice.org/
Newsanon Filter // https://leftypol.org/search.php?search=name%3A%22News+Anon+3.0%22&board=leftypol
🏝️ Epstein's Client List 🇮🇱
Epstein's Black Book // https://epsteinsblackbook.com/
DOJ Disclosures // https://www.justice.gov/epstein/doj-disclosures
Track AIPAC // https://www.trackaipac.com/
Al Jazeera visual guide (2026) // https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/10/struggling-to-navigate-the-epstein-files-here-is-a-visual-guide
Essential American Politik 📖
📖 WEB Du Bois - Black Reconstruction // https://cominsitu.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/w-e-b-du-bois-black-reconstruction-an-essay-toward-a-history-of-the-part-which-black-folk-played-in-the-attempt-to-reconstruct-democracy-2.pdf
📖 Eugene Debs - Fourth of July Speech // https://jacobin.com/2020/07/eugene-debs-independence-day-address-fourth-july
📖 Power Anywhere There's People! – Fred Hampton // https://www.hamptonthink.org/read/power-anywhere-where-thats-people-fred-hampton
📖 War is a Racket – Smedley Butler // https://ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html
📖 Letters From an American Farmer – St. John de Crevoecoeur // https://americanliterature.com/author/j-hector-st-john-de-crevoecoeur/book/letters-from-an-american-farmer/summary
📖 Trail of Broken Treaties // American Indian Movement https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
📖 The Declaration of Independence https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
📖 The Ballot or the Bullet – Malcolm X // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/ballot_or_bullet.pdf
📖 What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? – Frederick Douglass // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/douglass_july_4_speech.pdf
📖 A Trail of Broken Treaties – American Indian Movement // https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
📖 Custer Died for Your Sins – Vine Deloria Jr. // http://www.riversimulator.org/Resources/Books/CusterDiedForYourSinsAnIndianManifesto1969Deloria.pdf
📖 Emancipation Proclamation – Lincoln // https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/emancipation-proclamation
📖 Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville // https://americanliterature.com/author/alexis-de-tocqueville/book/democracy-in-america/summary
📖 Common Sense – Thomas Paine // https://americainclass.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Common-Sense-Full-Text.pdf
📖 An Indigenous History of the United States – Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz // https://nycstandswithstandingrock.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/dunbar-ortiz-2014.pdf
📖 Huey Long – Share Our Wealth // https://www.hueylong.com/programs/share-our-wealth/huey-longs-share-our-wealth-speech
Previous Thread >>2837501
R: 26 / I: 5
It’s only after 2016 that you see the big shift as the post-2008 American left became less populist and more elite, “woke”, and prestigious as opposed to the GOP which started to become more prole-coded, lower-class and populist. The cracks began with the Tea Party, and MAGA just accelerated the shift, to the point that MAGA turned from a faction within the GOP to being the top faction, so much so that any republican candidate would be committing social suicide by not being 100% devoted to MAGA.
Now that the American right (particularly MAGA) has become the incumbent, you’re starting to see some kind of return to the old status quo as right-wing influencers like Nick Fuentes and The Blaze are shitting on conspiracists, beginning with Epstein. Part of it is because Nick hates cringe and poor people, and part of it is that, now that the movement he supports is in power, all the talks about “deep state” this and that is counterproductive now that Trump (the guy Qanon prophesied to stop Epstein) is in charge. In the meantime, the American left has successfully seized on Trump acting guilty by ridiculously walking back on the Epstein files, to the point of dismissing it as a ‘Democratic hoax’. Likewise you have various MAGA influencers like Azealia Banks defending Epstein or denying it, even if it means going against their priors. This is concurrent with how the Epstein saga has transformed into a form of lumpenised class consciousness across the American left, to the point that this sort of populist Epstein-related conspiratorialism (such as allegations of cannibalism and satanism) has reached all of Latin America, the entire western left, as well as the Iranian government (if its LEGO AI videos are proof of anything).
Now what? Well, considering how conspiracy culture is being shunned by chuds if it implicates their stars, I think most of the deranged conspiracy-minded folks will either return to the left camp or abstain from politics altogether. That, or get into rightoid crashouts like in the case of picrel guy who you may know as being behind the ban of Maoist_Landlord on X’itter after said account mocked his Benzos addiction, doxxing multiple X’itter users out of psychosis, and for drenching himself in fake blood to protest Hasan Piker because reasons.
Left-conspiratard, where art thou?
Prior to 2016 (when Trump was first elected POTUS), conspiracy culture was left-coded as shown by how 9/11 truthers, anti-vaxxers, General Motors streetcar conspiracy, etc… were mostly leftists or leaned to the left in the political spectrum, with GWOT-era Michael Moore’s documentaries being the prime example. Funnily enough, the mainstream American right-wing during the Bush presidency was far more elitist and anti-conspiratorial than their leftist contemporaries, and that was when the American left was more populist since it was the underdog during the GWOT era (especially the faction opposed to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan).It’s only after 2016 that you see the big shift as the post-2008 American left became less populist and more elite, “woke”, and prestigious as opposed to the GOP which started to become more prole-coded, lower-class and populist. The cracks began with the Tea Party, and MAGA just accelerated the shift, to the point that MAGA turned from a faction within the GOP to being the top faction, so much so that any republican candidate would be committing social suicide by not being 100% devoted to MAGA.
Now that the American right (particularly MAGA) has become the incumbent, you’re starting to see some kind of return to the old status quo as right-wing influencers like Nick Fuentes and The Blaze are shitting on conspiracists, beginning with Epstein. Part of it is because Nick hates cringe and poor people, and part of it is that, now that the movement he supports is in power, all the talks about “deep state” this and that is counterproductive now that Trump (the guy Qanon prophesied to stop Epstein) is in charge. In the meantime, the American left has successfully seized on Trump acting guilty by ridiculously walking back on the Epstein files, to the point of dismissing it as a ‘Democratic hoax’. Likewise you have various MAGA influencers like Azealia Banks defending Epstein or denying it, even if it means going against their priors. This is concurrent with how the Epstein saga has transformed into a form of lumpenised class consciousness across the American left, to the point that this sort of populist Epstein-related conspiratorialism (such as allegations of cannibalism and satanism) has reached all of Latin America, the entire western left, as well as the Iranian government (if its LEGO AI videos are proof of anything).
Now what? Well, considering how conspiracy culture is being shunned by chuds if it implicates their stars, I think most of the deranged conspiracy-minded folks will either return to the left camp or abstain from politics altogether. That, or get into rightoid crashouts like in the case of picrel guy who you may know as being behind the ban of Maoist_Landlord on X’itter after said account mocked his Benzos addiction, doxxing multiple X’itter users out of psychosis, and for drenching himself in fake blood to protest Hasan Piker because reasons.
R: 34 / I: 6
Normies look at the actually existing Left, what it claims for itself and what it claims to be wanting to do, the immense difficulty of it, and they laugh and they do not want to touch it, with their lack of time, money and energy, *and they are not wrong to do so*. It isn't (all) 'muh false consciousness'.
You cannot be seen as just a performatively radical subculture which despises, in practice, most normal people. You cannot fear populist politics because gasp you may have to rub shoulders with people with some dodgy and confused politics. That is the name of the game.
This is why griftoids like ACP get some of the credibility they do because at least they are willing to say the emperor has no clothes and not to just hate normal people.
This sentiment really is the dominant attitude of so much of the Left and it fizzes off so many of us all the time. And I hate it.
Just a vent. Needed to be said.
Serve the people
Despite some of the inherited Leftist rhetoric, a lot of modern Leftoids and especially American ones, jfc, just come across as hating and despising most ordinary people. If you think they are irredeemably racist and sexist, patriarchal, white supremacist, contaminated with so many 'bad ideas' and the 'muck of ages' that they need to be 'deprogrammed' before they can begin to be part of your oh so effective attractive politics (lol), any notion that the Left is interested in, let alone capable of, helping to produce a mass workers' movement will just not be credible. If your party is full of people who are agoraphobic shut-ins who won't be told that if they want to be ultra radical activist whatevers then they need to speak to normal people and be marginally normal, then you'll be laughed at, and with good reason.Normies look at the actually existing Left, what it claims for itself and what it claims to be wanting to do, the immense difficulty of it, and they laugh and they do not want to touch it, with their lack of time, money and energy, *and they are not wrong to do so*. It isn't (all) 'muh false consciousness'.
You cannot be seen as just a performatively radical subculture which despises, in practice, most normal people. You cannot fear populist politics because gasp you may have to rub shoulders with people with some dodgy and confused politics. That is the name of the game.
This is why griftoids like ACP get some of the credibility they do because at least they are willing to say the emperor has no clothes and not to just hate normal people.
This sentiment really is the dominant attitude of so much of the Left and it fizzes off so many of us all the time. And I hate it.
Just a vent. Needed to be said.
R: 323 / I: 55
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.
R: 22 / I: 6
Some month ago I read Laussen's The Long Transition and, withholding a genuine critique, I realized that revolutions are not singular instances in time, where there's a state before and after, but it usually takes many decades for a revolution - the time it takes for it to ember, kindle, start a prairie fire - and many years after the revolution, the period of proletarian dictatorship and socialist (re)construction.
It also takes time for people's consciousness to change, because they need to adjust to the new mode of production. But I think most communists agree that this part is the most difficult part because it takes time to change petty-bourgeois anti-communist consciousness so deeply rooted almost everywhere.
In this sense, what China signifies is an actual possibility of communism. It matters not that the cat is black or white, as long as there is a negative other that the bourgeois order is forced to defined itself by way of antagonism/contraposition.
As the imperialist order rots further, this anti-communism will become more and more obvious. At the same time, it will also be completely undeniable that the CMoP works while the patriotic anti-communist system doesn't. This would conditionally get people to achieve some form of class consciousness if any kind of communist party is ready to go for ideological mobilization and mass agitation.
The PRC signals communism as actuality. This is the point. Socialism is not a thing of the past, or a utopia. It exists here and now, dirty-semitic and this-worldly, and this too is a step forward.
China isn't socialist, but it doesn't matter
I am not getting into whether the CMoP (Chinese mode of production) is AES or any kind of state-capitalist combination (the preferred term would be state-socialism, if you are a Leninist/Bukharinist (Lenin's theory of state and imperialism are actually Bukharin's, but I digress). What I am getting into is what the CMoP signifies in world-history.Some month ago I read Laussen's The Long Transition and, withholding a genuine critique, I realized that revolutions are not singular instances in time, where there's a state before and after, but it usually takes many decades for a revolution - the time it takes for it to ember, kindle, start a prairie fire - and many years after the revolution, the period of proletarian dictatorship and socialist (re)construction.
It also takes time for people's consciousness to change, because they need to adjust to the new mode of production. But I think most communists agree that this part is the most difficult part because it takes time to change petty-bourgeois anti-communist consciousness so deeply rooted almost everywhere.
In this sense, what China signifies is an actual possibility of communism. It matters not that the cat is black or white, as long as there is a negative other that the bourgeois order is forced to defined itself by way of antagonism/contraposition.
As the imperialist order rots further, this anti-communism will become more and more obvious. At the same time, it will also be completely undeniable that the CMoP works while the patriotic anti-communist system doesn't. This would conditionally get people to achieve some form of class consciousness if any kind of communist party is ready to go for ideological mobilization and mass agitation.
The PRC signals communism as actuality. This is the point. Socialism is not a thing of the past, or a utopia. It exists here and now, dirty-semitic and this-worldly, and this too is a step forward.
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I'm sorry, "We" are "Winning" by "Doing Nothing"? While the US secures every single node in your dubious tactic of Belt and Road outside of the China-Russia-Iran triangle, two of which are extremely vulnerable (entrenching the quarantine 1*, compounding power asymmetry 2*)
1: how's that worked out for all ML states so far? it is the most lethal and you invite it? who's playing who? "do nothing win" may be the CIA's most successful meme and you drooling suburban Californian MLs love it
2: speedrunning the later decades of the USSR are we? Ah yes China winning hard by events in Caribbean (only stable core of their LatAm strategy)
Great that you now have allies like UAE and Egypt in BRICS after Assad (oops, guess he wasn't immortal, but Ben didn't make a vid no that :( curious) Bright days ahead in west Asia, the key geostrategic zone for the Belt and Road pipe dream to come into effect (connecting asia to africa and latin america) as all arab states in the region let the the zionists "finish the job" for their bottom line.
Chinese chauvinism made them get kicked out of Sahel too, you think South Africa can carry the continent by itself?
As yankees now pivot from Asia to LatAm (Japan, Philippines, Thailand, India, Nepal, Afghanistan, """East Turkestan""", socfash Mongolia) and the British Commonwealth in the timezone - "looking good") and LatAm most already having been made subservient following US successful drug networks wrecking the straight line from Mexico to Brazil; "pink wave" reformists predictably walking on crates went and made themselves associated to drugs and are now stuck in a alt-right malaise for the foreseeable future (you say "look at andean region"). The entire continent is a settler-colonial project that already accomplished its task. Arab populations can't even find the bourgeois nationalism in them in the late stage of capitalist imperialism to free their Palestinians brothers and sisters from the first phases of their genocide. Iran is doing what it's doing purely for regional competition with the Isaraelis and Gulf Arabs. Every single west asian sunni arab zionist state standing firm, no arab spring 2 but arab nationalist.
You are as politically relevant as a radlib and your class collaborationism makes you but another obstacle in the way of proletarian revolution.
Do Nothing, Lose
>>2838086I'm sorry, "We" are "Winning" by "Doing Nothing"? While the US secures every single node in your dubious tactic of Belt and Road outside of the China-Russia-Iran triangle, two of which are extremely vulnerable (entrenching the quarantine 1*, compounding power asymmetry 2*)
1: how's that worked out for all ML states so far? it is the most lethal and you invite it? who's playing who? "do nothing win" may be the CIA's most successful meme and you drooling suburban Californian MLs love it
2: speedrunning the later decades of the USSR are we? Ah yes China winning hard by events in Caribbean (only stable core of their LatAm strategy)
Great that you now have allies like UAE and Egypt in BRICS after Assad (oops, guess he wasn't immortal, but Ben didn't make a vid no that :( curious) Bright days ahead in west Asia, the key geostrategic zone for the Belt and Road pipe dream to come into effect (connecting asia to africa and latin america) as all arab states in the region let the the zionists "finish the job" for their bottom line.
Chinese chauvinism made them get kicked out of Sahel too, you think South Africa can carry the continent by itself?
As yankees now pivot from Asia to LatAm (Japan, Philippines, Thailand, India, Nepal, Afghanistan, """East Turkestan""", socfash Mongolia) and the British Commonwealth in the timezone - "looking good") and LatAm most already having been made subservient following US successful drug networks wrecking the straight line from Mexico to Brazil; "pink wave" reformists predictably walking on crates went and made themselves associated to drugs and are now stuck in a alt-right malaise for the foreseeable future (you say "look at andean region"). The entire continent is a settler-colonial project that already accomplished its task. Arab populations can't even find the bourgeois nationalism in them in the late stage of capitalist imperialism to free their Palestinians brothers and sisters from the first phases of their genocide. Iran is doing what it's doing purely for regional competition with the Isaraelis and Gulf Arabs. Every single west asian sunni arab zionist state standing firm, no arab spring 2 but arab nationalist.
You are as politically relevant as a radlib and your class collaborationism makes you but another obstacle in the way of proletarian revolution.
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Why are Western bourg so incredibly invested in protecting Israel? At some point it’s hard for me to believe they have this much to gain from protecting this tiny sliver of land. What the fuck is going on?
Why are Western bourg so incredibly invested in protecting Israel? At some point it’s hard for me to believe they have this much to gain from protecting this tiny sliver of land. What the fuck is going on?
R: 9 / I: 1
Which is more correct:
>Communists should treat the petty bourgeoisie, the bourgeoisie, the liberals, the social democrats, the conservatives, the fascists, and the anarchists as equally hostile threats to Communism, never distinguish between them as groups, and always lump them in with each other. No effort should be made to pit these groups against each other, it should be assumed they are all on the same team and would never fight each other. None of these groups are worthy of critical support against others, not even in the context of anti-imperialism.
<Communists should distinguish between their enemies, since their enemies have different motivations and different interests. They can and should be pit against one another. Critical support should be given to lesser enemies against stronger enemies, to weaken the stronger enemies, and get the lesser enemies eliminated early. Social democrats should not be simply regarded as left wing fascists in a stale regurgitation of the 1920s comintern line, especially since Stalin abandoned that line and was even willing to tolerate liberal bourgeoisie like Roosevelt and conservative bourgeoisie like Churchill as allies against Hitler. Depending on context, groups are often worthy of critical support against others, especially in the context of anti-imperialism.
I think it is clearly the second, one, yet I often see takes approximating the first one on here. Why is that?
Which is more correct:
>Communists should treat the petty bourgeoisie, the bourgeoisie, the liberals, the social democrats, the conservatives, the fascists, and the anarchists as equally hostile threats to Communism, never distinguish between them as groups, and always lump them in with each other. No effort should be made to pit these groups against each other, it should be assumed they are all on the same team and would never fight each other. None of these groups are worthy of critical support against others, not even in the context of anti-imperialism.
<Communists should distinguish between their enemies, since their enemies have different motivations and different interests. They can and should be pit against one another. Critical support should be given to lesser enemies against stronger enemies, to weaken the stronger enemies, and get the lesser enemies eliminated early. Social democrats should not be simply regarded as left wing fascists in a stale regurgitation of the 1920s comintern line, especially since Stalin abandoned that line and was even willing to tolerate liberal bourgeoisie like Roosevelt and conservative bourgeoisie like Churchill as allies against Hitler. Depending on context, groups are often worthy of critical support against others, especially in the context of anti-imperialism.
I think it is clearly the second, one, yet I often see takes approximating the first one on here. Why is that?
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The cycle of marxist-leninism
>First Kill all other types of marxists
>Then start killing other marxist-leninists
>Then start killing the working class
>Then sell out to liberalism and capitalism.
The cycle of marxist-leninism
>First Kill all other types of marxists
>Then start killing other marxist-leninists
>Then start killing the working class
>Then sell out to liberalism and capitalism.
R: 362 / I: 111
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Mass Immigration of low skilled workers is a right wing policy that the left has somehow been conned into thinking is left wing
This is not a post about immigration in general. Immigration of high skilled workers is a fantastic positive for the economy and the country. But millions of low/no skill immigrants with rights to bring their families over and end up as net negative contributors to the tune of ~£20,000 a year each to the taxpayer - and other issues detailed in a second - is the right wing business owners mega rich policy that the left should be staunchly against.
Classical mustache twirling right wing is basically 'for the rich at the expense of everyone else'. Importing low skilled immigration by the millions ends up; driving down wages for working class people and, more insidiously, the costs of anyone who doesn't work and relies on benefits etc is paid by the state and hence the taxpayer. (Not my view of the right by the way)
Taxes go up, benefits go down, health services get strained and cut, house prices go up, social housing runs out, the list goes on.
Who really wins?
Business owners - namely *big* business owners. Uber/deliveroo makes billions on paying a low wage to immigrants who will accept it and need help/topping up from the government that they simply would have to pay far more without.
Amazon the same.
You get the idea.
It's an *extremely* right wing policy for the rich at the literal £££ cost of the poorest most.
How has the left been psyoped into believing it's anything but this?
Edit: To be clear, the key point is that the left is, as a force, designed to be, loosely, in UK politics, in favor of working class and wealth redistribution and social support, arguably at the cost of growth, incentives and free market capitalism and sensible fiscal spending etc. that the right historically is for - it's an important to and fro of checks and balances.
So when the left, worker's side, comes with pro mass low skilled immigration with it, we're left with no worker's party. And, hence, well…look at what's happening to everyday people and cost of living, and inequality in the states exploding with the democrats being the prime example of this shows what I mean.
Also, right wing people tend not to be for mass immigration but the wealthy and governments sneaking it by when they can? Want to blame Blair for immigration issues? Non-Eu immigration 1997-2020 totals about 2m over almost 25yrs. Boris passed brexit and what did he do next? Brought in/set up the system which labour is now getting down (not a labour fan at all but they are at least getting it down) non-eu immigration over 5 years 2021-2025 of 6m net. Boris is a perfect example of moustache twirling betrayal of the people for the business owner class right wing I was mentioning. He should be tried and put in prison at best for what he did; no idea why he isn't reviled 10x more….
Blaire started the immigration push sure, but the current cultural and economic strain issues are overwhelmingly from the millions of low skilled, non-eu immigrants that Boris and boris alone ushered in. And brexit is not an excuse - just look at the totals and figures; he pulled a stunt and got away with it somehow.
Mass Immigration of low skilled workers is a right wing policy that the left has somehow been conned into thinking is left wing
This is not a post about immigration in general. Immigration of high skilled workers is a fantastic positive for the economy and the country. But millions of low/no skill immigrants with rights to bring their families over and end up as net negative contributors to the tune of ~£20,000 a year each to the taxpayer - and other issues detailed in a second - is the right wing business owners mega rich policy that the left should be staunchly against.
Classical mustache twirling right wing is basically 'for the rich at the expense of everyone else'. Importing low skilled immigration by the millions ends up; driving down wages for working class people and, more insidiously, the costs of anyone who doesn't work and relies on benefits etc is paid by the state and hence the taxpayer. (Not my view of the right by the way)
Taxes go up, benefits go down, health services get strained and cut, house prices go up, social housing runs out, the list goes on.
Who really wins?
Business owners - namely *big* business owners. Uber/deliveroo makes billions on paying a low wage to immigrants who will accept it and need help/topping up from the government that they simply would have to pay far more without.
Amazon the same.
You get the idea.
It's an *extremely* right wing policy for the rich at the literal £££ cost of the poorest most.
How has the left been psyoped into believing it's anything but this?
Edit: To be clear, the key point is that the left is, as a force, designed to be, loosely, in UK politics, in favor of working class and wealth redistribution and social support, arguably at the cost of growth, incentives and free market capitalism and sensible fiscal spending etc. that the right historically is for - it's an important to and fro of checks and balances.
So when the left, worker's side, comes with pro mass low skilled immigration with it, we're left with no worker's party. And, hence, well…look at what's happening to everyday people and cost of living, and inequality in the states exploding with the democrats being the prime example of this shows what I mean.
Also, right wing people tend not to be for mass immigration but the wealthy and governments sneaking it by when they can? Want to blame Blair for immigration issues? Non-Eu immigration 1997-2020 totals about 2m over almost 25yrs. Boris passed brexit and what did he do next? Brought in/set up the system which labour is now getting down (not a labour fan at all but they are at least getting it down) non-eu immigration over 5 years 2021-2025 of 6m net. Boris is a perfect example of moustache twirling betrayal of the people for the business owner class right wing I was mentioning. He should be tried and put in prison at best for what he did; no idea why he isn't reviled 10x more….
Blaire started the immigration push sure, but the current cultural and economic strain issues are overwhelmingly from the millions of low skilled, non-eu immigrants that Boris and boris alone ushered in. And brexit is not an excuse - just look at the totals and figures; he pulled a stunt and got away with it somehow.
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We all hate Elon Musk because he wields immense political power and has exploited the labor of thousands of workers, but is there such a thing as an “ethical rich”? What would happen to YouTubers, singers, and artists during a revolution? Technically, they don’t harm anyone, could someone in a socialist state become wealthy by excelling in art, music, or generally creating something that others really enjoy?
We all hate Elon Musk because he wields immense political power and has exploited the labor of thousands of workers, but is there such a thing as an “ethical rich”? What would happen to YouTubers, singers, and artists during a revolution? Technically, they don’t harm anyone, could someone in a socialist state become wealthy by excelling in art, music, or generally creating something that others really enjoy?
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>fascism, communism, and capitalism are all bad, I came up with a 4th idea
>looks inside
>bourgeois liberal nationalism reinvented
What did he mean by this?
>fascism, communism, and capitalism are all bad, I came up with a 4th idea
>looks inside
>bourgeois liberal nationalism reinvented
What did he mean by this?
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In her written judgment, she said: “The future threats and risks posed to third-party individuals and property by Palestine Action are perhaps the most important factors to weigh in the balance. In that connection, it is important to understand that the home secretary is in the best position to assess those future threats and risks. She is advised by experts in anti-terrorism …
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/jun/15/ban-on-palestine-action-was-lawful-court-of-appeal-rules
Protesters mark start of G7 summit clash with riot police
Around 20,000 people joined the demonstration that continued into Sunday evening, organised by a coalition of activist groups following negotiations with local authorities. While most of the march remained peaceful, clashes broke out involving around 600 “black bloc” militants, according to Geneva police.https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/protesters-mark-start-g7-summit-clash-riot-police
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/protesters-mark-start-g7-summit-clash-riot-police
EU developing rules to ‘bite hard’ if new members go rogue, says enlargement chief
The European Commission already “has some ideas” on how to strengthen the system, she said, including safeguards and transition periods before certain membership rights are fully granted. The EU executive is consulting member countries concerned that future enlargements could complicate decision-making or allow governments to reverse reforms after accession.
https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-rules-enlargement-new-members-marta-kos/
https://archive.ph/9slWc
Settler products from occupied Palestine sold to Europe as Israeli, investigation finds
Israeli exporters to Europe regularly hide the origin of produce grown in occupied Palestine to qualify for unlawful tax breaks that bolster the settler economy, a rights group investigation has found. The legal non-profit Global Echo analysed more than 30,000 export documents for thousands of Israeli shipments to the UK and EU over eight years.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/15/settler-products-from-occupied-palestine-sold-to-europe-as-israeli-investigation-finds
Trump calls Netanyahu 'very difficult' as Israel rejects Lebanon withdrawal
The stance comes despite Tehran's insistence during negotiations that it would not move forward with any agreement to end the conflict while Israeli military operations in Lebanon continued. Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz said on Monday that the military would not withdraw from Lebanon "despite all current and future pressure", adding that Israel would respond forcefully if Iran attacked Israel over developments in Lebanon.
https://www.newarab.com/news/israel-rejects-withdrawal-lebanon-despite-us-iran-war-deal
Shack dwellers protest bill that would criminalize land struggles in South Africa
Allowing courts to order evictions without a provision for alternative accommodation, the PIE Amendment Bill also criminalizes activism for the land rights of the urban poor, protests Abahlali baseMjondolo (AbM), South Africa's radical shack dwellers' movement.
https://breakthroughnews.org/2026/06/15/shack-dwellers-protest-bill-that-would-criminalize-land-struggles-in-south-africa/
Prominent Cambodian opposition politician seeks Supreme Court reversal of incitement conviction
Rong Chhun, a top adviser to the Nation Power Party, was found guilty last year of inciting social unrest after he met villagers displaced by government construction projects. His conviction was seen as one of many legal moves taken by the government of Prime Minister Hun Manet to stifle criticism.
https://apnews.com/article/cambodia-opposition-rong-chhun-appeal-8b322acf0c0bc54784c49b66ec560a5b
Inside the fight to end female genital mutilation in Colombia
After a two-year-long push, the bill was passed unanimously. It now awaits approval from Colombia's president, Gustavo Petro. Colombia is the only Latin American country where the practice is currently recorded, mostly in Embera communities in the western departments of Choco and Risaralda. …. Its approach, however, will be non-punitive. The legislation is centred on raising public awareness about female genital mutilation, and it is slated to fund educational campaigns, provide healthcare training and improve case tracking.
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/longform/2026/6/14/making-history-the-fight-to-end-female-genital-mutilation-in-colombia
https://archive.ph/pbnk8
Mexico investigates murder of mayor of town in Oaxaca state
Jose Angel Bravo Martinez died after being shot in an attack in the Mixteca region, officials said, adding that they were treating the case as a high-impact crime and had opened a formal investigation. The mayor of another Oaxaca town was murdered last month.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/mexico-investigates-murder-mayor-town-oaxaca-state-2026-06-13/
Venezuela Signs Agreement with General Electric: Modernizing National Grid
Acting President Delcy Rodríguez led the signature of a strategic memorandum of understanding with the United States corporation to advance national technological updates, energy distribution reinforcement, and international investment attraction in Caracas.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/venezuela-agreement-general-electric/
Noboa’s emblematic jail hit with wave of torture and death allegations
The Ecuadorian penitentiary facility has been the subject of allegations of starvation, abuse and complaints connected to an outbreak of tuberculosis and a lack of medical attention. Fear as to prisoners’ safety has only increased due to the hermeticism with which authorities manage information about those behind its walls. Families go weeks or months without news of their relatives and on occasion, are only informed when they are transferred to another prison, or of their death.
https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-06-15/noboas-emblematic-jail-hit-with-wave-of-torture-and-death-allegations.html
https://archive.ph/84Jt3
News 6/15/26
Ban on Palestine Action was lawful, court of appeal rulesIn her written judgment, she said: “The future threats and risks posed to third-party individuals and property by Palestine Action are perhaps the most important factors to weigh in the balance. In that connection, it is important to understand that the home secretary is in the best position to assess those future threats and risks. She is advised by experts in anti-terrorism …
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/jun/15/ban-on-palestine-action-was-lawful-court-of-appeal-rules
Protesters mark start of G7 summit clash with riot police
Around 20,000 people joined the demonstration that continued into Sunday evening, organised by a coalition of activist groups following negotiations with local authorities. While most of the march remained peaceful, clashes broke out involving around 600 “black bloc” militants, according to Geneva police.https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/protesters-mark-start-g7-summit-clash-riot-police
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/protesters-mark-start-g7-summit-clash-riot-police
EU developing rules to ‘bite hard’ if new members go rogue, says enlargement chief
The European Commission already “has some ideas” on how to strengthen the system, she said, including safeguards and transition periods before certain membership rights are fully granted. The EU executive is consulting member countries concerned that future enlargements could complicate decision-making or allow governments to reverse reforms after accession.
https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-rules-enlargement-new-members-marta-kos/
https://archive.ph/9slWc
Settler products from occupied Palestine sold to Europe as Israeli, investigation finds
Israeli exporters to Europe regularly hide the origin of produce grown in occupied Palestine to qualify for unlawful tax breaks that bolster the settler economy, a rights group investigation has found. The legal non-profit Global Echo analysed more than 30,000 export documents for thousands of Israeli shipments to the UK and EU over eight years.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/15/settler-products-from-occupied-palestine-sold-to-europe-as-israeli-investigation-finds
Trump calls Netanyahu 'very difficult' as Israel rejects Lebanon withdrawal
The stance comes despite Tehran's insistence during negotiations that it would not move forward with any agreement to end the conflict while Israeli military operations in Lebanon continued. Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz said on Monday that the military would not withdraw from Lebanon "despite all current and future pressure", adding that Israel would respond forcefully if Iran attacked Israel over developments in Lebanon.
https://www.newarab.com/news/israel-rejects-withdrawal-lebanon-despite-us-iran-war-deal
Shack dwellers protest bill that would criminalize land struggles in South Africa
Allowing courts to order evictions without a provision for alternative accommodation, the PIE Amendment Bill also criminalizes activism for the land rights of the urban poor, protests Abahlali baseMjondolo (AbM), South Africa's radical shack dwellers' movement.
https://breakthroughnews.org/2026/06/15/shack-dwellers-protest-bill-that-would-criminalize-land-struggles-in-south-africa/
Prominent Cambodian opposition politician seeks Supreme Court reversal of incitement conviction
Rong Chhun, a top adviser to the Nation Power Party, was found guilty last year of inciting social unrest after he met villagers displaced by government construction projects. His conviction was seen as one of many legal moves taken by the government of Prime Minister Hun Manet to stifle criticism.
https://apnews.com/article/cambodia-opposition-rong-chhun-appeal-8b322acf0c0bc54784c49b66ec560a5b
Inside the fight to end female genital mutilation in Colombia
After a two-year-long push, the bill was passed unanimously. It now awaits approval from Colombia's president, Gustavo Petro. Colombia is the only Latin American country where the practice is currently recorded, mostly in Embera communities in the western departments of Choco and Risaralda. …. Its approach, however, will be non-punitive. The legislation is centred on raising public awareness about female genital mutilation, and it is slated to fund educational campaigns, provide healthcare training and improve case tracking.
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/longform/2026/6/14/making-history-the-fight-to-end-female-genital-mutilation-in-colombia
https://archive.ph/pbnk8
Mexico investigates murder of mayor of town in Oaxaca state
Jose Angel Bravo Martinez died after being shot in an attack in the Mixteca region, officials said, adding that they were treating the case as a high-impact crime and had opened a formal investigation. The mayor of another Oaxaca town was murdered last month.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/mexico-investigates-murder-mayor-town-oaxaca-state-2026-06-13/
Venezuela Signs Agreement with General Electric: Modernizing National Grid
Acting President Delcy Rodríguez led the signature of a strategic memorandum of understanding with the United States corporation to advance national technological updates, energy distribution reinforcement, and international investment attraction in Caracas.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/venezuela-agreement-general-electric/
Noboa’s emblematic jail hit with wave of torture and death allegations
The Ecuadorian penitentiary facility has been the subject of allegations of starvation, abuse and complaints connected to an outbreak of tuberculosis and a lack of medical attention. Fear as to prisoners’ safety has only increased due to the hermeticism with which authorities manage information about those behind its walls. Families go weeks or months without news of their relatives and on occasion, are only informed when they are transferred to another prison, or of their death.
https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-06-15/noboas-emblematic-jail-hit-with-wave-of-torture-and-death-allegations.html
https://archive.ph/84Jt3
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Lynch ICE in the street.
The right to movement shall not be infringed
Borders are an archaic and barbaric concept. No human is illegal unless they’ve committed a crime. A REAL crime. Not just the crime of being from Mexico. Our immigration systems are purposefully undermined, underfunded, and extremely limited in the amount of people they let in to the point of functional impossibility.Lynch ICE in the street.
R: 80 / I: 17
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.
R: 181 / I: 33
Reading
Towards a New Socialism by Paul Cockshott and Allin Cottrell: http://ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu/~cottrell/socialism_book/
Brain of the Firm by Stafford Beer
Cybernetic Revolutionaries by Eden Medina
Cybernetics: Or the Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine and The Human Use of Human Beings (1st edition) by Norbert Wiener
Economic cybernetics by Nikolay Veduta
People's Republic of Walmart by Leigh Phillips and Michal Rozworski
Red Plenty by Francis Spufford
Economics in kind, Total socialisation and A system of socialisation by Otto Neurath (Incommensurability, Ecology, and Planning: Neurath in the Socialist Calculation Debate by Thomas Uebel provides a summary)
Active writers/creators sorted by last name
>Paul Cockshott
https://www.patreon.com/williamCockshott/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVBfIU1_zO-P_R9keEGdDHQ (https://invidious.snopyta.org/channel/UCVBfIU1_zO-P_R9keEGdDHQ)
https://paulcockshott.wordpress.com/
http://paulcockshott.co.uk/
https://twitter.com/PaulCockshott (https://nitter.pussthecat.org/PaulCockshott)
>Cibcom (Spanish)
https://cibcom.org/
https://twitter.com/cibcomorg (https://nitter.pussthecat.org/cibcomorg)
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCav9ad3TMuhiWV6yP5t2IpA (https://invidious.snopyta.org/channel/UCav9ad3TMuhiWV6yP5t2IpA)
>Tomas Härdin
https://www.haerdin.se/tag/cybernetics.html
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5fDgA_eHleDiTLC5qb5g8w (https://invidious.snopyta.org/channel/UC5fDgA_eHleDiTLC5qb5g8w)
Podcasts
>General Intellect Unit
Podcast of the Cybernetic Marxists
http://generalintellectunit.net/
Previous threads in chronological order
https://archive.is/uNCEY
https://web.archive.org/web/20201218152831/https://bunkerchan.xyz/leftypol/res/997358.html
https://archive.ph/uyggp
https://archive.is/xBFYY
https://archive.ph/Afx5a
https://archive.is/kAPvR
https://archive.is/0sAS2
https://archive.is/jXivP
https://archive.is/Lx8TF
/ CYBERCOM /
This thread is for the discussion of cybercommunism, the planning of the socialist economy by computerized means, including discussions of related topics and creators. Drama belongs in /isg/Reading
Towards a New Socialism by Paul Cockshott and Allin Cottrell: http://ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu/~cottrell/socialism_book/
Brain of the Firm by Stafford Beer
Cybernetic Revolutionaries by Eden Medina
Cybernetics: Or the Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine and The Human Use of Human Beings (1st edition) by Norbert Wiener
Economic cybernetics by Nikolay Veduta
People's Republic of Walmart by Leigh Phillips and Michal Rozworski
Red Plenty by Francis Spufford
Economics in kind, Total socialisation and A system of socialisation by Otto Neurath (Incommensurability, Ecology, and Planning: Neurath in the Socialist Calculation Debate by Thomas Uebel provides a summary)
Active writers/creators sorted by last name
>Paul Cockshott
https://www.patreon.com/williamCockshott/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVBfIU1_zO-P_R9keEGdDHQ (https://invidious.snopyta.org/channel/UCVBfIU1_zO-P_R9keEGdDHQ)
https://paulcockshott.wordpress.com/
http://paulcockshott.co.uk/
https://twitter.com/PaulCockshott (https://nitter.pussthecat.org/PaulCockshott)
>Cibcom (Spanish)
https://cibcom.org/
https://twitter.com/cibcomorg (https://nitter.pussthecat.org/cibcomorg)
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCav9ad3TMuhiWV6yP5t2IpA (https://invidious.snopyta.org/channel/UCav9ad3TMuhiWV6yP5t2IpA)
>Tomas Härdin
https://www.haerdin.se/tag/cybernetics.html
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5fDgA_eHleDiTLC5qb5g8w (https://invidious.snopyta.org/channel/UC5fDgA_eHleDiTLC5qb5g8w)
Podcasts
>General Intellect Unit
Podcast of the Cybernetic Marxists
http://generalintellectunit.net/
Previous threads in chronological order
https://archive.is/uNCEY
https://web.archive.org/web/20201218152831/https://bunkerchan.xyz/leftypol/res/997358.html
https://archive.ph/uyggp
https://archive.is/xBFYY
https://archive.ph/Afx5a
https://archive.is/kAPvR
https://archive.is/0sAS2
https://archive.is/jXivP
https://archive.is/Lx8TF
R: 24 / I: 5
Let's rehearse the facts:
>The US bombed Cambodia harder than they did in Nazi Germany and Japan
>The majority of the urban population were refugees from the countryside when the cities were emptied.
>Life expectancy dropped to its lowest point in 1975, before the Khmer Rouge took over. Afterwards, it began increasing.
>The Khmer Rouge successfully did all they could do prevent famine.
>The Khmer Rouge was not peasantist/primitivist. There was investment in light industry, healthcare and education.
>Thousands were killed in the Vietnamese invasion. More refugees fled per year from the puppet regime than from the Democratic Kampuchea.
>The central government ordered a stop to all killings on several occasions.
>The CIA only supported the Khmer Rouge after Vietnam took over to fuck with the USSR. The same CIA that bombed the country to rubble
Am I saying the KR was good? No. But blindly believing in propaganda is stupid.
Let's rehearse the facts:
>The US bombed Cambodia harder than they did in Nazi Germany and Japan
>The majority of the urban population were refugees from the countryside when the cities were emptied.
>Life expectancy dropped to its lowest point in 1975, before the Khmer Rouge took over. Afterwards, it began increasing.
>The Khmer Rouge successfully did all they could do prevent famine.
>The Khmer Rouge was not peasantist/primitivist. There was investment in light industry, healthcare and education.
>Thousands were killed in the Vietnamese invasion. More refugees fled per year from the puppet regime than from the Democratic Kampuchea.
>The central government ordered a stop to all killings on several occasions.
>The CIA only supported the Khmer Rouge after Vietnam took over to fuck with the USSR. The same CIA that bombed the country to rubble
Am I saying the KR was good? No. But blindly believing in propaganda is stupid.
R: 37 / I: 5
fuck your stupid limit, faggots
albanian protests
can we get a thread going about the protests going on in albania right now ? i wanna know more about what's going on as a foreign retard and we seem to have no thread about it despite it going on for about a week at this point.fuck your stupid limit, faggots
R: 144 / I: 11
Anarkids come out AGAINST accessible high-speed rail system.
Please tell me again how anarchism isn’t simply petit-bourgeois rebellion?
They are calling a project that will greatly increase accessibility and reduce the car and oil monopoly “anti-indigenous” or whatever. How can anyone take these people seriously?
Anarkids come out AGAINST accessible high-speed rail system.
Please tell me again how anarchism isn’t simply petit-bourgeois rebellion?
They are calling a project that will greatly increase accessibility and reduce the car and oil monopoly “anti-indigenous” or whatever. How can anyone take these people seriously?
R: 0 / I: 0
Just rediscovered this piece of Ben Garrison worthy drivel. It accordingly needs a Lefty makeover. Can anyone good with video editing help?
I'd suggest that Soviet victory monument as the female voice, include Melenchon and Corbyn as male voices, the rising darkness is a porky lol
Just rediscovered this piece of Ben Garrison worthy drivel. It accordingly needs a Lefty makeover. Can anyone good with video editing help?
I'd suggest that Soviet victory monument as the female voice, include Melenchon and Corbyn as male voices, the rising darkness is a porky lol
R: 72 / I: 1 (sage)
So as a Catholic anarchist in the tradition of Peter Maurin and Dorothy Day, I have sone questions for Muslims:
Catholicism vs Islam
I’m an anarchist who spent years exploring Islam in my teen years in the early 2010s only to convert to Catholicism in 2018 on the basis Catholicism was the most historically-accurate religion and the only explicitly anarchist faith. It pains me to see how many leftists still believe Islam ought to be the global liberation theology, and that leftists should throw out Western thought (including DiaMat) in favour of Islamic epistemology. So much of Islam begs the question and is not at all what the left should be embracing in terms of a theological worldview.So as a Catholic anarchist in the tradition of Peter Maurin and Dorothy Day, I have sone questions for Muslims:
- Muslims claim the Bible is corrupted. So WHO did the corrupting and WHY was it corrupted? The argument I hear the most often is that Jewish and Catholic priests corrupted the Bible in order to reinforce their hierarchical power, but no one can point to when this happened or how they did it. Also, Jewish priests had no political power at that time and the Church was always counter to the state, so why would they need to “corrupt” Scripture to promote hierarchy?
- In the same vein, why does Islam place so much emphasis on the state when Jesus established the Church specifically to abolish the state? Islam demands a worldwide Caliphate with a very stringent political hierarchy. Why would that be needed if Christ’s Church is anti-statist?
- Also, the philosophy of Thomas Aquinas, especially on his doctrine of natural rights, is 100% anti-state and anti-hierarchy. Thomism is arguably the backbone of anarchist thought. It even attacks private property. Why does Islam have zero equivalent?
- Catholics have historically had the most anarchist results due to Catholic Social Teaching emphasizing the inherit dignity of all people. If Islam is true, why does Islam only result in authoritarianism?
R: 27 / I: 3
The strong Sino-Israeli relationship should bury the illusions that many leftists have about the PRC’s purported socialism. With the transition to apolitical, business-first developmentalism during the Reform and Opening Up, the PRC decisively turned its back on the history of Third World solidarity and the Palestinian cause. The orientalist socialist fantasy and an excessive fixation on the past do not bring us closer to liberation but instead obscures the ongoing forms of collaboration that needs close scrutiny and unambiguous callout.
The strong Sino-Israeli relationship should bury the illusions that many leftists have about the PRC’s purported socialism. With the transition to apolitical, business-first developmentalism during the Reform and Opening Up, the PRC decisively turned its back on the history of Third World solidarity and the Palestinian cause. The orientalist socialist fantasy and an excessive fixation on the past do not bring us closer to liberation but instead obscures the ongoing forms of collaboration that needs close scrutiny and unambiguous callout.
R: 9 / I: 0
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Etymology: A portmanteau formed from guillotine n. + trillionaire n. (after billionaire n., millionaire n.).
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• 2021 Twitter 14 May: "If the wealth gap keeps widening like this, we won't just have billionaires anymore. The age of the guillionaire is coming, and it won't end well for them."
• 2023 Jacobin Style Mag. Oct. 42: "The tech moguls of today have transcended ordinary greed; they are guillionaires building private rockets while the rest of the world burns."
• 2025 Radical Economics Q. III. 115: "Taxing the guillionaire class out of existence is no longer a radical position; it is a baseline requirement for democratic survival."
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guillionaire
guillionaire, n.Pronunciation: /ˌɡɪljəˈnɛə(ɹ)/, /ˌɡiːjəˈnɛə(ɹ)/
Etymology: A portmanteau formed from guillotine n. + trillionaire n. (after billionaire n., millionaire n.).
Definition
- Slang (chiefly derogatory, political).
- Historical/Symbolic.
Quotations
• 2021 Twitter 14 May: "If the wealth gap keeps widening like this, we won't just have billionaires anymore. The age of the guillionaire is coming, and it won't end well for them."
• 2023 Jacobin Style Mag. Oct. 42: "The tech moguls of today have transcended ordinary greed; they are guillionaires building private rockets while the rest of the world burns."
• 2025 Radical Economics Q. III. 115: "Taxing the guillionaire class out of existence is no longer a radical position; it is a baseline requirement for democratic survival."
Derived Terms
• guillionairish, adj. Characterized by excessive, offensive, or dystopian levels of wealth.
• guillionairism, n. The systemic economic conditions that allow for the accumulation of trillions of dollars by a single individual.
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R: 57 / I: 13 >>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: 591 / I: 182
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!
R: 658 / I: 110 (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™
<Snatching Defeat From the Jaws of Victory Edition
OP Backup Site: https://usapol.neocities.org/
💀 ICE & Prison Resources
(Amerika is the most incarcerated country in the world!)
ICE tracker using public info and user submissions // https://www.iceinmyarea.org/
list of deaths at ICE concentration camps // https://www.aila.org/infonet/deaths-at-adult-detention-centers
visualization of prison population in US // https://mkorostoff.github.io/incarceration-in-real-numbers/
Organizing in Prison — for when the walls close in (RANT Collective) // https://www.organizingforpower.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Organizing-in-Jail.pdf
database of U.S. facilities incl. ICE holding sites // https://alcpress.org/usjails/index.html
list of prison related resources, mailing lists, etc // https://www.prisonactivist.org/resources
ICE Agent List (incomplete) // https://wiki.icelist.is/index.php/Category:Agents
US Political Prison Tracker (last updated 2025) // https://uspoliticalprisoners.com/
Jailhouse Reading:
📖 Angela Davis - Are Prisons Obsolete? // https://dn790007.ca.archive.org/0/items/the-anarchist-library-full-list-of-pdfs-nov-2020/angela-y-davis-are-prisons-obsolete.pdf
📖 How to Defend Yourself During Police Interrogation // https://www.notrace.how/resources/download/comment-la-police-interroge-et-comment-sen-defendre/how-to-defend-yourself-during-a-police-interrogation.pdf
📖 National Lawyers Guild guide to being a jailhouse lawyer // https://www.jailhouselaw.org/
📖 Critical Resistance - Surviving Solitary Confinement // https://criticalresistance.org/resources/surviving-solitary/
📖 An inside-outside publication for abolitionist struggle & strategy across prison walls // https://criticalresistance.org/abolitionist/
📖 Prisoners’ Self-Help Litigation Manual // https://api.pageplace.de/preview/DT0400.9780199705665_A35159258/preview-9780199705665_A35159258.pdf
⚒️ LABOR!
Live strike tracker with deep stats on who, what and when // https://striketracker.ilr.cornell.edu/
AFL-CIO [imperialist]'s Strike Tracker // https://aflcio.org/strike-map
Labor Bureau's Official 'work stoppage' tracker // https://www.bls.gov/wsp/
IWW timeline for the 20th century (ends at 1999) // https://archive.iww.org/history/chronology/
IWW Work Place Organizing Guide // https://usa.anarchistlibraries.net/library/industrial-workers-of-the-world-libcom-org-solidarity-federation-walthamstow-anarchist-group-wo
▶ Salting | Work Place Organizing 101 (50 minute webinar) // https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SHlCLyM4FY
⚖️ Deeds of the Burger Reich 🇺🇸
deep list of horrible shit we (royal we) have done // https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/us_atrocities.md
Coups and regime changes – master list // https://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-peoples-governments-the-master-list
Wikipedia: United States War Crimes // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_war_crimes
/our boys/ (bring em home!) detail abusing Iraqi prisoners [2006] // https://www.hrw.org/report/2006/07/22/no-blood-no-foul/soldiers-accounts-detainee-abuse-iraq
More than 250 military interventions in the last 30 years alone // https://blackagendareport.com/us-launched-251-military-interventions-1991-and-469-1798
Visualisation of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade // https://www.slavevoyages.org/
UNESCO Sites relating to Slavery // https://slaveryandremembrance.org/
First Hand Documents of the horrors of Slavery // https://www.loc.gov/collections/slave-narratives-from-the-federal-writers-project-1936-to-1938/
📺 Glowie News 📺
(sponsored by the Burger Eagle Freedom Institute (formerly USAID))
CNN Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/cnn-news-usa.html
MSNBC Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/msnbc.html
FOX Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/fox-news-channel.html
Bloomberg Live // https://www.bloomberg.com/live/us
Burger House Live // https://www.whitehouse.gov/live/
Local News // https://www.50states.com/ce/
Weather // https://www.noaa.gov/weather
📺 Gommie News 📺
Jacobin // https://jacobin.com/
Black Agenda Report // https://blackagendareport.com/
The Grayzone // https://thegrayzone.com/
Leftvoice // https://www.leftvoice.org/
Newsanon Filter // https://leftypol.org/search.php?search=name%3A%22News+Anon+3.0%22&board=leftypol
🏝️ Epstein's Client List 🇮🇱
Epstein's Black Book // https://epsteinsblackbook.com/
DOJ Disclosures // https://www.justice.gov/epstein/doj-disclosures
Track AIPAC // https://www.trackaipac.com/
Al Jazeera visual guide (2026) // https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/10/struggling-to-navigate-the-epstein-files-here-is-a-visual-guide
Essential American Politik 📖
📖 WEB Du Bois - Black Reconstruction // https://cominsitu.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/w-e-b-du-bois-black-reconstruction-an-essay-toward-a-history-of-the-part-which-black-folk-played-in-the-attempt-to-reconstruct-democracy-2.pdf
📖 Eugene Debs - Fourth of July Speech // https://jacobin.com/2020/07/eugene-debs-independence-day-address-fourth-july
📖 Power Anywhere There's People! – Fred Hampton // https://www.hamptonthink.org/read/power-anywhere-where-thats-people-fred-hampton
📖 War is a Racket – Smedley Butler // https://ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html
📖 Letters From an American Farmer – St. John de Crevoecoeur // https://americanliterature.com/author/j-hector-st-john-de-crevoecoeur/book/letters-from-an-american-farmer/summary
📖 Trail of Broken Treaties // American Indian Movement https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
📖 The Declaration of Independence https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
📖 The Ballot or the Bullet – Malcolm X // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/ballot_or_bullet.pdf
📖 What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? – Frederick Douglass // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/douglass_july_4_speech.pdf
📖 A Trail of Broken Treaties – American Indian Movement // https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
📖 Custer Died for Your Sins – Vine Deloria Jr. // http://www.riversimulator.org/Resources/Books/CusterDiedForYourSinsAnIndianManifesto1969Deloria.pdf
📖 Emancipation Proclamation – Lincoln // https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/emancipation-proclamation
📖 Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville // https://americanliterature.com/author/alexis-de-tocqueville/book/democracy-in-america/summary
📖 Common Sense – Thomas Paine // https://americainclass.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Common-Sense-Full-Text.pdf
📖 An Indigenous History of the United States – Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz // https://nycstandswithstandingrock.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/dunbar-ortiz-2014.pdf
📖 Huey Long – Share Our Wealth // https://www.hueylong.com/programs/share-our-wealth/huey-longs-share-our-wealth-speech
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💀 ICE & Prison Resources
(Amerika is the most incarcerated country in the world!)
ICE tracker using public info and user submissions // https://www.iceinmyarea.org/
list of deaths at ICE concentration camps // https://www.aila.org/infonet/deaths-at-adult-detention-centers
visualization of prison population in US // https://mkorostoff.github.io/incarceration-in-real-numbers/
Organizing in Prison — for when the walls close in (RANT Collective) // https://www.organizingforpower.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Organizing-in-Jail.pdf
database of U.S. facilities incl. ICE holding sites // https://alcpress.org/usjails/index.html
list of prison related resources, mailing lists, etc // https://www.prisonactivist.org/resources
ICE Agent List (incomplete) // https://wiki.icelist.is/index.php/Category:Agents
US Political Prison Tracker (last updated 2025) // https://uspoliticalprisoners.com/
Jailhouse Reading:
📖 Angela Davis - Are Prisons Obsolete? // https://dn790007.ca.archive.org/0/items/the-anarchist-library-full-list-of-pdfs-nov-2020/angela-y-davis-are-prisons-obsolete.pdf
📖 How to Defend Yourself During Police Interrogation // https://www.notrace.how/resources/download/comment-la-police-interroge-et-comment-sen-defendre/how-to-defend-yourself-during-a-police-interrogation.pdf
📖 National Lawyers Guild guide to being a jailhouse lawyer // https://www.jailhouselaw.org/
📖 Critical Resistance - Surviving Solitary Confinement // https://criticalresistance.org/resources/surviving-solitary/
📖 An inside-outside publication for abolitionist struggle & strategy across prison walls // https://criticalresistance.org/abolitionist/
📖 Prisoners’ Self-Help Litigation Manual // https://api.pageplace.de/preview/DT0400.9780199705665_A35159258/preview-9780199705665_A35159258.pdf
⚒️ LABOR!
Live strike tracker with deep stats on who, what and when // https://striketracker.ilr.cornell.edu/
AFL-CIO [imperialist]'s Strike Tracker // https://aflcio.org/strike-map
Labor Bureau's Official 'work stoppage' tracker // https://www.bls.gov/wsp/
IWW timeline for the 20th century (ends at 1999) // https://archive.iww.org/history/chronology/
IWW Work Place Organizing Guide // https://usa.anarchistlibraries.net/library/industrial-workers-of-the-world-libcom-org-solidarity-federation-walthamstow-anarchist-group-wo
▶ Salting | Work Place Organizing 101 (50 minute webinar) // https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SHlCLyM4FY
⚖️ Deeds of the Burger Reich 🇺🇸
deep list of horrible shit we (royal we) have done // https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/us_atrocities.md
Coups and regime changes – master list // https://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-peoples-governments-the-master-list
Wikipedia: United States War Crimes // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_war_crimes
/our boys/ (bring em home!) detail abusing Iraqi prisoners [2006] // https://www.hrw.org/report/2006/07/22/no-blood-no-foul/soldiers-accounts-detainee-abuse-iraq
More than 250 military interventions in the last 30 years alone // https://blackagendareport.com/us-launched-251-military-interventions-1991-and-469-1798
Visualisation of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade // https://www.slavevoyages.org/
UNESCO Sites relating to Slavery // https://slaveryandremembrance.org/
First Hand Documents of the horrors of Slavery // https://www.loc.gov/collections/slave-narratives-from-the-federal-writers-project-1936-to-1938/
📺 Glowie News 📺
(sponsored by the Burger Eagle Freedom Institute (formerly USAID))
CNN Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/cnn-news-usa.html
MSNBC Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/msnbc.html
FOX Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/fox-news-channel.html
Bloomberg Live // https://www.bloomberg.com/live/us
Burger House Live // https://www.whitehouse.gov/live/
Local News // https://www.50states.com/ce/
Weather // https://www.noaa.gov/weather
📺 Gommie News 📺
Jacobin // https://jacobin.com/
Black Agenda Report // https://blackagendareport.com/
The Grayzone // https://thegrayzone.com/
Leftvoice // https://www.leftvoice.org/
Newsanon Filter // https://leftypol.org/search.php?search=name%3A%22News+Anon+3.0%22&board=leftypol
🏝️ Epstein's Client List 🇮🇱
Epstein's Black Book // https://epsteinsblackbook.com/
DOJ Disclosures // https://www.justice.gov/epstein/doj-disclosures
Track AIPAC // https://www.trackaipac.com/
Al Jazeera visual guide (2026) // https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/10/struggling-to-navigate-the-epstein-files-here-is-a-visual-guide
Essential American Politik 📖
📖 WEB Du Bois - Black Reconstruction // https://cominsitu.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/w-e-b-du-bois-black-reconstruction-an-essay-toward-a-history-of-the-part-which-black-folk-played-in-the-attempt-to-reconstruct-democracy-2.pdf
📖 Eugene Debs - Fourth of July Speech // https://jacobin.com/2020/07/eugene-debs-independence-day-address-fourth-july
📖 Power Anywhere There's People! – Fred Hampton // https://www.hamptonthink.org/read/power-anywhere-where-thats-people-fred-hampton
📖 War is a Racket – Smedley Butler // https://ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html
📖 Letters From an American Farmer – St. John de Crevoecoeur // https://americanliterature.com/author/j-hector-st-john-de-crevoecoeur/book/letters-from-an-american-farmer/summary
📖 Trail of Broken Treaties // American Indian Movement https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
📖 The Declaration of Independence https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
📖 The Ballot or the Bullet – Malcolm X // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/ballot_or_bullet.pdf
📖 What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? – Frederick Douglass // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/douglass_july_4_speech.pdf
📖 A Trail of Broken Treaties – American Indian Movement // https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
📖 Custer Died for Your Sins – Vine Deloria Jr. // http://www.riversimulator.org/Resources/Books/CusterDiedForYourSinsAnIndianManifesto1969Deloria.pdf
📖 Emancipation Proclamation – Lincoln // https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/emancipation-proclamation
📖 Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville // https://americanliterature.com/author/alexis-de-tocqueville/book/democracy-in-america/summary
📖 Common Sense – Thomas Paine // https://americainclass.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Common-Sense-Full-Text.pdf
📖 An Indigenous History of the United States – Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz // https://nycstandswithstandingrock.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/dunbar-ortiz-2014.pdf
📖 Huey Long – Share Our Wealth // https://www.hueylong.com/programs/share-our-wealth/huey-longs-share-our-wealth-speech
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Given the factors you would consider relevant within your region: local, national, surrounding geopolitical climate, etc… What policies could a party active in that region–currently existing or otherwise–work towards that both you would either agree with or critically support, and believe would be popular in said region?
Bonus:
Given the factors you would consider relevant within your region: local, national, surrounding geopolitical climate, etc… What policies could a party active in that region–currently existing or otherwise–work towards that both you would either agree with or critically support, and believe would be popular in said region?
Bonus:
- What factors did you consider when answering the above?
- Do you know of other regions with similar conditions, and would your answer be the same if you lived there? If not, why?
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And if it were to happen, what would be the leading factions, would there be a revolutionary party disciplined enough to overthrow the capitalist class during the internal conflict, and also, would it just result in an even more extreme fascist takeover?
Has the Iran accelerated the process of civil war?
Is the 2028 election gonna result in civil war?
Will a economic crash happen before it?
Is Trump gonna attempt a self-coup on the government that causes a civil war?
How will the DSA, CPUSA, RCP, Antifa, Trade unions, etc react to it?
(Yes i know i used the socdem antisemtic professor for the video)
The Second American Civil War
What is the likelihood of the contradictions of capitalism accelerating to such a bad extent that another American Civil War breaks out, specifically before 2030.And if it were to happen, what would be the leading factions, would there be a revolutionary party disciplined enough to overthrow the capitalist class during the internal conflict, and also, would it just result in an even more extreme fascist takeover?
Has the Iran accelerated the process of civil war?
Is the 2028 election gonna result in civil war?
Will a economic crash happen before it?
Is Trump gonna attempt a self-coup on the government that causes a civil war?
How will the DSA, CPUSA, RCP, Antifa, Trade unions, etc react to it?
(Yes i know i used the socdem antisemtic professor for the video)
R: 40 / I: 2
What's the solution to the problem she explains in the video? The western left is not simply doomed but the problem posed by having a CIA approved version of marxism mudding the waters needs to be solved somehow.
What's the solution to the problem she explains in the video? The western left is not simply doomed but the problem posed by having a CIA approved version of marxism mudding the waters needs to be solved somehow.
R: 15 / I: 1
every major revolutionary or determinist marxist in history:
>the bourgeois/tsarist electorate is the most effective means of organizing the working class, serving as a megaphone, and even in potential victory laying the contradictions of the system bare.
every modern larpy communist org with 1500 members total which hasn't grown in 50 years and does nothing at all except sell pamphlets:
>noo you can't participate in elections that's hecking electoralism that's hecking revisionist
explain this?
every major revolutionary or determinist marxist in history:
>the bourgeois/tsarist electorate is the most effective means of organizing the working class, serving as a megaphone, and even in potential victory laying the contradictions of the system bare.
every modern larpy communist org with 1500 members total which hasn't grown in 50 years and does nothing at all except sell pamphlets:
>noo you can't participate in elections that's hecking electoralism that's hecking revisionist
explain this?
R: 0 / I: 0
>The American economy is geared to the world market, of which it requires an increasingly larger share as U.S. capital expands. If this share contracts — and it is bound to contract, should more nations turn away from the American-dominated world market towards a kind of "second world market" which restricts, or excludes, the exploitation of less-developed nations by the developed ones — it will force the internal American development into isolation and in the direction of a state-controlled economy.
Is this prediction basically in the process of being realized given the present conditions of multipolarity and the fact that the American economy has been running on state-subsidized tech bubbles? Does anyone have a statistical QRD of this tendency at hand?
Question on the decline of American imperialism and the current economic situation
https://www.marxists.org/archive/mattick-paul/1975/us-indochina.htm>The American economy is geared to the world market, of which it requires an increasingly larger share as U.S. capital expands. If this share contracts — and it is bound to contract, should more nations turn away from the American-dominated world market towards a kind of "second world market" which restricts, or excludes, the exploitation of less-developed nations by the developed ones — it will force the internal American development into isolation and in the direction of a state-controlled economy.
Is this prediction basically in the process of being realized given the present conditions of multipolarity and the fact that the American economy has been running on state-subsidized tech bubbles? Does anyone have a statistical QRD of this tendency at hand?
R: 8 / I: 3
What is to be done with Poles and other Volkerabfaelle?
The Polish Question
Third worldism taught us that oppressed nations can become oppressors once they snatch a seat at the imperial table. Poles were once white negroes. Now NATO uniforms wash away solidarity. Marx exalted them. Today, the city of COMECON friendship kisses the Pentagon's boot and calls it sovereignty. Yesterday's revolutionary becomes today's border guard.What is to be done with Poles and other Volkerabfaelle?
R: 18 / 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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Here's what nobody wants to say these movements don't actually want liberation. They want perpetual grievance. They'll talk about establishing a socialism in one country blah fucking blah but have you noticed how these never seems to include any plan for what happens after? How the only solution they offer is the destruction of the only social democracy in the region? Germany would become socialist before a bolshevik run russia would.
I'm just saying, i know the weimar regime is fucked, and yes social-democracy has a bad history, but ask yourself who benefits when the left fragments into a dozen purity spirals. Ask yourself why "build the productive forces" gets chanted louder than any concrete demand for soviet power or negotiated production. the third internationalists want open borders in the west but hard authoritarian borders in any region that acts as a hostile force to the west. Some of us are tired of romanticizing resistance that only ever produces more corpses and chauvinist nationalism.
you idiots want to come to terms with reality start by admitting your heroes are running a dangerous disgusting grift.
The cancer eating away at the left since 1920
Look, I used to be deep in the third internationale scene, councilcoms, leftcoms, NEP diehards, the whole united front of 3rd internationalist trash. Spent years on barricades in bavaria that went nowhere but to long jail terms and isolated comrades, who piss workers off.Here's what nobody wants to say these movements don't actually want liberation. They want perpetual grievance. They'll talk about establishing a socialism in one country blah fucking blah but have you noticed how these never seems to include any plan for what happens after? How the only solution they offer is the destruction of the only social democracy in the region? Germany would become socialist before a bolshevik run russia would.
I'm just saying, i know the weimar regime is fucked, and yes social-democracy has a bad history, but ask yourself who benefits when the left fragments into a dozen purity spirals. Ask yourself why "build the productive forces" gets chanted louder than any concrete demand for soviet power or negotiated production. the third internationalists want open borders in the west but hard authoritarian borders in any region that acts as a hostile force to the west. Some of us are tired of romanticizing resistance that only ever produces more corpses and chauvinist nationalism.
you idiots want to come to terms with reality start by admitting your heroes are running a dangerous disgusting grift.
R: 11 / I: 0
Capital Flight?
How do communists prevent capital flight? It seems like the capitalists will make the economy scream if you organize trade unions and put socialists in power. I suppose sanctions are a similar issue at a larger scale if you've smashed the state.
R: 48 / I: 7
Cooperativization vs Nationalization
Why does the left not focus on cooperativization rather than nationalization of industries? If we did manage to replace every company with a cooperative, would that not still be some kind of proto-Socialist position, albeit with markets still intact?
R: 29 / I: 4 (sage)
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.
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For example, someone born in 1986 and someone born in 1994 are both “millennials” but someone born in 1997 is a “zoomer” even though someone born in 1994 has a life experience much more like someone born in 1997 than they do someone born in 1986. Likewise, we don’t even know how to define when certain generations end or begin. Is the cut-off for boomers 1963, 1964, or 1965? To what extent does it matter?
It seems like scapegoating “boomers” for everything has become a popular thing to do on social media and I have to ask why is blaming the older generation somehow worthwhile? “Boomers were the hippies who ended up becoming conservative and voting for Reagan” — that doesn’t explain the material factors that lead to the rise of Reagan and neoconservatism in the first place. You can’t simply “blame boomers” when “boomer” exists in a materialist context. Likewise, you can’t blame Gen Xers and millennials for being “vain” or whatever when Gen Xers and millennials also faced material conditions beyond their control. So why are we placing blame on generations? Does it make any sense to do this?
“Generation wars”
Is the whole boomer vs. gen X vs. millennial vs. zoomer thing simply another form of false consciousness?For example, someone born in 1986 and someone born in 1994 are both “millennials” but someone born in 1997 is a “zoomer” even though someone born in 1994 has a life experience much more like someone born in 1997 than they do someone born in 1986. Likewise, we don’t even know how to define when certain generations end or begin. Is the cut-off for boomers 1963, 1964, or 1965? To what extent does it matter?
It seems like scapegoating “boomers” for everything has become a popular thing to do on social media and I have to ask why is blaming the older generation somehow worthwhile? “Boomers were the hippies who ended up becoming conservative and voting for Reagan” — that doesn’t explain the material factors that lead to the rise of Reagan and neoconservatism in the first place. You can’t simply “blame boomers” when “boomer” exists in a materialist context. Likewise, you can’t blame Gen Xers and millennials for being “vain” or whatever when Gen Xers and millennials also faced material conditions beyond their control. So why are we placing blame on generations? Does it make any sense to do this?
R: 67 / I: 12
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).
R: 13 / I: 2
It’s like he knows his ass is on the line and he's desperate to redirect the anger of the masses to another target. The worst part is that it works.
Elon Musk
You guys don’t fine it weird how this man became the world's first trillionaire and then you go to his social media and he spends all day reposting videos of minorities committing crimes, anti-immigration propaganda, etc.?It’s like he knows his ass is on the line and he's desperate to redirect the anger of the masses to another target. The worst part is that it works.
R: 9 / I: 2
Rebranding Productive Forces
Prioritizing wealth: Deng argued that poverty is not socialism.
Redefining communism: He stated that true socialism must develop productive forces.
Shifting metrics: Economic output replaced ideological purity as the primary goal. [2, 3, 4, 5, 6]
Decoupling Markets from Capitalism
Pragmatic tools: Markets and planning were viewed as economic tools, not defining political traits.
Market Socialism: He proved market mechanisms can serve a socialist economy.
Foreign capital: China opened doors to global investment while maintaining state control. [7, 8, 9, 10, 11]
The "Seek Truth from Facts" Philosophy
Rejecting dogma: Deng discarded blind adherence to utopian Marxist theories.
Results-oriented: Policies were judged by their ability to raise living standards.
Famous dictum: "It does not matter if a cat is black or white, so long as it catches mice." [12]
Institutionalizing Party Control
Economic freedom: Citizens gained the ability to start businesses and accumulate wealth.
Political monopoly: The Communist Party retained absolute control over major state industries.
Survival blueprint: This dual system prevented the sudden political collapse seen in the Soviet Union. [13, 14]
[1] https://www.readingthechinadream.com
[2] https://news.cgtn.com
[3] https://www.theaustralian.com.au
[4] https://thetricontinental.org
[5] https://gabrielrockhill.substack.com
[6] https://english.aawsat.com
[7] https://ras.org.in
[8] https://postcolonialpolitics.org
[9] https://en.wikipedia.org
[10] https://www.ourchinastory.com
[11] https://pekinger-fruehling.univie.ac.at
[12] https://kidskonnect.com
[13] https://www.fraserinstitute.org
[14] https://sociology.stanford.edu
Deng Xiaoping Theory saved Marxism from irrelevance.
Deng Xiaoping Theory saved Marxism from irrelevance by shifting its focus from perpetual class struggle to practical economic development. In the late 1970s, orthodox Marxist-Leninist economies faced severe stagnation and widespread poverty. Deng revitalized the ideology by introducing market mechanisms into a socialist framework, creating a model that allowed communist states to survive and thrive in a modern globalized world. [1]Rebranding Productive Forces
Prioritizing wealth: Deng argued that poverty is not socialism.
Redefining communism: He stated that true socialism must develop productive forces.
Shifting metrics: Economic output replaced ideological purity as the primary goal. [2, 3, 4, 5, 6]
Decoupling Markets from Capitalism
Pragmatic tools: Markets and planning were viewed as economic tools, not defining political traits.
Market Socialism: He proved market mechanisms can serve a socialist economy.
Foreign capital: China opened doors to global investment while maintaining state control. [7, 8, 9, 10, 11]
The "Seek Truth from Facts" Philosophy
Rejecting dogma: Deng discarded blind adherence to utopian Marxist theories.
Results-oriented: Policies were judged by their ability to raise living standards.
Famous dictum: "It does not matter if a cat is black or white, so long as it catches mice." [12]
Institutionalizing Party Control
Economic freedom: Citizens gained the ability to start businesses and accumulate wealth.
Political monopoly: The Communist Party retained absolute control over major state industries.
Survival blueprint: This dual system prevented the sudden political collapse seen in the Soviet Union. [13, 14]
[1] https://www.readingthechinadream.com
[2] https://news.cgtn.com
[3] https://www.theaustralian.com.au
[4] https://thetricontinental.org
[5] https://gabrielrockhill.substack.com
[6] https://english.aawsat.com
[7] https://ras.org.in
[8] https://postcolonialpolitics.org
[9] https://en.wikipedia.org
[10] https://www.ourchinastory.com
[11] https://pekinger-fruehling.univie.ac.at
[12] https://kidskonnect.com
[13] https://www.fraserinstitute.org
[14] https://sociology.stanford.edu
R: 3 / I: 0
Participating groups were from Bayan, Anakbayan, PISTON, Karapatan, and allied organizations. Their protests focused on opposition to imperialism, calls for just peace, withdrawal of United States troops, and the repeal of defense agreements, while also denouncing alleged foreign military aggression and demanding to "junk EDCA." Signed in 2014, EDCA or the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement grants American troops access to designated Philippine military facilities, the right to construct facilities, and to pre-position equipment, aircraft, and vessels, but does not allow permanent basing.
https://www.gmanetwork.com/news/topstories/nation/991206/protest-independence-day-issues/story/
https://archive.ph/XGfsU
Bengal: Red Flags Stand up Against BJP Bulldozers to Defend Hawkers
Acting on petitions filed by the Centre of Indian Trade Union (CITU)– affiliated Railway Hawkers’ Union and associations representing small businesses, the Calcutta High Court on Wednesday (June 10) ordered temporary suspension of the eviction process in the railway markets of Naihati, Dankuni and Konnagar until June 17. Justice Hiranmay Bhattacharya, while issuing the order, directed that neither the Railway authorities nor the state government would be permitted to carry out any forcible eviction at these three locations until June 17.
https://www.newsclick.in/bengal-red-flags-stand-against-bjp-bulldozers-defend-hawkers
A Myanmar rights group urges FIFA to drop Mytel’s World Cup rights over connections to military
The group, Justice For Myanmar, told The Associated Press on Friday it only learned this week that international soccer’s governing body FIFA had granted the exclusive Myanmar broadcast rights to Mytel after the telecoms operator launched its local advertising campaign for the World Cup.
https://apnews.com/article/fifa-world-cup-myanmar-military-broadcast-0c955b3ae2e3711d667a56c8a6d52a50
US kills Venezuela’s Tren de Aragua leader in military strike, Trump says
Trump posted a 10-second video of what appeared to be the explosion of a small structure hit from the air. He did not explain how Guerrero’s death was confirmed or whether anyone else was killed in the strike. Trump said the “action was coordinated closely with our friends in Venezuela, with whom we are working very well.”
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/12/us-kills-venezuelas-tren-de-aragua-leader-in-military-strike-trump-says-00961269?cid=apn
https://archive.ph/kllRW
Mining Control Agency Headquarters in Southern Ecuador Bombed
The detonation occurred at the facilities of the state agency responsible for supervising mining activity in the country, which depends on the Ministry of Environment and Energy. Colonel Remigio Albiño, police commander of the province of El Oro, indicated that after the detonation “all units in the sector were activated” and explained that the explosive device was launched from inside a car that was accompanied by a motorcycle.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/mining-control-agency-headquarters-in-southern-ecuador-bombed/
Trump says agreement with Iran will be signed Sunday
Iran has not confirmed a deal has been reached, but Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Friday that a deal “has never been closer.” Iranian state-run media has at times described any possible deal as more of a 60-day extension of a memorandum of understanding so both parties can continue negotiations and not a final end to the conflict.
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/13/trump-says-agreement-to-end-monthslong-war-with-iran-will-be-signed-sunday-00961472
https://archive.ph/gJsOv
Israeli attacks kill three in Gaza as post-‘ceasefire’ deaths hit 983
At least three Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza, as casualties continue to mount in the enclave despite a “ceasefire” declared months ago. Two Palestinians were killed in an Israeli air attack on the al-Amal neighbourhood of Khan Younis in southern Gaza on Saturday, according to medical sources.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/6/13/gaza-post-ceasefire-deaths-hit-983-as-israeli-attack-targets-refugee-camp
https://archive.ph/vsvF8
Albanians protest against another luxury development on Adriatic coast
About 200 protesters on Saturday tore down metal and razor-wire fences surrounding a luxury development site on Albania’s Adriatic coast, in another sign of growing anger against construction in environmentally sensitive areas. Albanians have been protesting for weeks against a planned luxury resort backed by a company linked to Jared Kushner, the son-in-law of Donald Trump, near Vlora, which is famed for its flamingos and a turtle nesting site.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/13/albania-protest-luxury-development-adriatic-coast
https://archive.ph/vsvF8
Teachers in Türkiye to launch an indefinite protest in Ankara
Turkish educators in the private sector and teachers affected by the interview process organized marches and press conferences on June 1 in many major cities across the country, particularly in Ankara. The protests called for the appointment of teachers, improvements to their personal benefits and an increase in minimum wages in the private sector.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/06/13/kjgt-j13.html
Thousands rally in Rome, Italy for rival pro- and anti-migration marches
The demonstrations come after a petition advocating for sweeping measures targeting foreigners – including coercive returns to their countries of origin – gathered the 50,000 signatures needed to trigger parliamentary discussion. Named “Remigration and Reconquest,” the petition has pushed the once-fringe concept of “remigration” – which in far-right contexts can mean the mass deportation of ethnic minorities – into the political mainstream.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/6/13/thousands-rally-in-rome-italy-for-rival-pro-and-anti-migration-marches
https://archive.ph/qgCxU
News 6/13/26
Protests staged in Metro Manila on PH Independence Day 2026Participating groups were from Bayan, Anakbayan, PISTON, Karapatan, and allied organizations. Their protests focused on opposition to imperialism, calls for just peace, withdrawal of United States troops, and the repeal of defense agreements, while also denouncing alleged foreign military aggression and demanding to "junk EDCA." Signed in 2014, EDCA or the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement grants American troops access to designated Philippine military facilities, the right to construct facilities, and to pre-position equipment, aircraft, and vessels, but does not allow permanent basing.
https://www.gmanetwork.com/news/topstories/nation/991206/protest-independence-day-issues/story/
https://archive.ph/XGfsU
Bengal: Red Flags Stand up Against BJP Bulldozers to Defend Hawkers
Acting on petitions filed by the Centre of Indian Trade Union (CITU)– affiliated Railway Hawkers’ Union and associations representing small businesses, the Calcutta High Court on Wednesday (June 10) ordered temporary suspension of the eviction process in the railway markets of Naihati, Dankuni and Konnagar until June 17. Justice Hiranmay Bhattacharya, while issuing the order, directed that neither the Railway authorities nor the state government would be permitted to carry out any forcible eviction at these three locations until June 17.
https://www.newsclick.in/bengal-red-flags-stand-against-bjp-bulldozers-defend-hawkers
A Myanmar rights group urges FIFA to drop Mytel’s World Cup rights over connections to military
The group, Justice For Myanmar, told The Associated Press on Friday it only learned this week that international soccer’s governing body FIFA had granted the exclusive Myanmar broadcast rights to Mytel after the telecoms operator launched its local advertising campaign for the World Cup.
https://apnews.com/article/fifa-world-cup-myanmar-military-broadcast-0c955b3ae2e3711d667a56c8a6d52a50
US kills Venezuela’s Tren de Aragua leader in military strike, Trump says
Trump posted a 10-second video of what appeared to be the explosion of a small structure hit from the air. He did not explain how Guerrero’s death was confirmed or whether anyone else was killed in the strike. Trump said the “action was coordinated closely with our friends in Venezuela, with whom we are working very well.”
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/12/us-kills-venezuelas-tren-de-aragua-leader-in-military-strike-trump-says-00961269?cid=apn
https://archive.ph/kllRW
Mining Control Agency Headquarters in Southern Ecuador Bombed
The detonation occurred at the facilities of the state agency responsible for supervising mining activity in the country, which depends on the Ministry of Environment and Energy. Colonel Remigio Albiño, police commander of the province of El Oro, indicated that after the detonation “all units in the sector were activated” and explained that the explosive device was launched from inside a car that was accompanied by a motorcycle.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/mining-control-agency-headquarters-in-southern-ecuador-bombed/
Trump says agreement with Iran will be signed Sunday
Iran has not confirmed a deal has been reached, but Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Friday that a deal “has never been closer.” Iranian state-run media has at times described any possible deal as more of a 60-day extension of a memorandum of understanding so both parties can continue negotiations and not a final end to the conflict.
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/13/trump-says-agreement-to-end-monthslong-war-with-iran-will-be-signed-sunday-00961472
https://archive.ph/gJsOv
Israeli attacks kill three in Gaza as post-‘ceasefire’ deaths hit 983
At least three Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza, as casualties continue to mount in the enclave despite a “ceasefire” declared months ago. Two Palestinians were killed in an Israeli air attack on the al-Amal neighbourhood of Khan Younis in southern Gaza on Saturday, according to medical sources.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/6/13/gaza-post-ceasefire-deaths-hit-983-as-israeli-attack-targets-refugee-camp
https://archive.ph/vsvF8
Albanians protest against another luxury development on Adriatic coast
About 200 protesters on Saturday tore down metal and razor-wire fences surrounding a luxury development site on Albania’s Adriatic coast, in another sign of growing anger against construction in environmentally sensitive areas. Albanians have been protesting for weeks against a planned luxury resort backed by a company linked to Jared Kushner, the son-in-law of Donald Trump, near Vlora, which is famed for its flamingos and a turtle nesting site.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/13/albania-protest-luxury-development-adriatic-coast
https://archive.ph/vsvF8
Teachers in Türkiye to launch an indefinite protest in Ankara
Turkish educators in the private sector and teachers affected by the interview process organized marches and press conferences on June 1 in many major cities across the country, particularly in Ankara. The protests called for the appointment of teachers, improvements to their personal benefits and an increase in minimum wages in the private sector.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/06/13/kjgt-j13.html
Thousands rally in Rome, Italy for rival pro- and anti-migration marches
The demonstrations come after a petition advocating for sweeping measures targeting foreigners – including coercive returns to their countries of origin – gathered the 50,000 signatures needed to trigger parliamentary discussion. Named “Remigration and Reconquest,” the petition has pushed the once-fringe concept of “remigration” – which in far-right contexts can mean the mass deportation of ethnic minorities – into the political mainstream.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/6/13/thousands-rally-in-rome-italy-for-rival-pro-and-anti-migration-marches
https://archive.ph/qgCxU
R: 243 / I: 42
>"There are times in this world when, for the good of tolerance and humanity, you need to kill a motherfucker. Sadly most people who are true believers in tolerance and humanity find that activity repulsive. Which I suppose is morally good, but pragmatically a shortfall."
>"Out of curiosity, what would you say to the many Marines and Soldiers who took trophies and desecrated bodies while fighting the Japanese? I find the urinating on bodies as a poor choice, but only because of the current state of media affairs. It's amusing that today killing a man isn't worthy of comment, but god forbid you display dominance. Only 50 years ago, and for the rest of the history of warfare, this stuff was pretty standard."
>"We are going to kill thousands. By the end of it, it may be millions. Our way of life is better, and if that is what it takes to prevail, let's get this show on the road. I don't disagree with your point, I just disagree with the fact you seem to think we shouldn't do it."
https://archive.org/download/graham_platner_reddit_comments/graham_platner_reddit_comments.txt
the tattoo and the racist and misogynistic stuff graham platner has said in the past were certainly red flags for me, but honestly when i actually started reading through the comments myself, i realized it's actually worse than people seem to realize. it goes beyond just teenage edgelord internet shenanigans, this is someone who seems to have a genuine fascination with killing and hurting people, he talks about it a lot and brags about it a lot, he claims that he joined the military because he wanted to kill people and that he enjoyed killing people and he constantly talks about how empowering it feels and how much he misses it.
i've known a lot of people who have served in the military and i've never known any of them to say things like this. but i have heard a few of them talk about meeting certain other members of the military who did. most people who join the military are decent normal people who join for the usual kinds of reasons - sense of duty and wanting to serve their country, having family members in the military whom they look up to and want to follow in their footsteps, seeing it as a career opportunity to build a better life for themselves, etc. and most people who have fought in combat and experienced the horrors of war don't feel very good about it and don't like to talk about it and certainly don't find it glamorous or invigorating or think of it as some kind of exciting adventure. but there is a small minority of very sick people who really do join the military just because they want to fight in a war and get to kill people and watch people die, they think that war and killing are very neat things and they talk about it and obsess over it a lot and they genuinely seem to enjoy it.
i would like to think that graham platner is not that kind of person, but reading the comments he's made over the years, he legitimately seems like a psychopath. he's expressed some remorse for the things he's said, but that's not worth very much when he's simultaneously trying to pursue a political career and running for one of the highest positions of power in american society, a position that would give him far more power and therefore far more opportunities to kill and hurt and dominate other human beings than his military career ever did. i don't think a person who has said these kinds of things should be allowed that level of power.
graham platner's reddit comments
>"Wanted to have an adventure and kill some people. Joined up in ‘04, did Fallujah and Ramadi, and managed both. Hell of an excellent experience.">"There are times in this world when, for the good of tolerance and humanity, you need to kill a motherfucker. Sadly most people who are true believers in tolerance and humanity find that activity repulsive. Which I suppose is morally good, but pragmatically a shortfall."
>"Out of curiosity, what would you say to the many Marines and Soldiers who took trophies and desecrated bodies while fighting the Japanese? I find the urinating on bodies as a poor choice, but only because of the current state of media affairs. It's amusing that today killing a man isn't worthy of comment, but god forbid you display dominance. Only 50 years ago, and for the rest of the history of warfare, this stuff was pretty standard."
>"We are going to kill thousands. By the end of it, it may be millions. Our way of life is better, and if that is what it takes to prevail, let's get this show on the road. I don't disagree with your point, I just disagree with the fact you seem to think we shouldn't do it."
https://archive.org/download/graham_platner_reddit_comments/graham_platner_reddit_comments.txt
the tattoo and the racist and misogynistic stuff graham platner has said in the past were certainly red flags for me, but honestly when i actually started reading through the comments myself, i realized it's actually worse than people seem to realize. it goes beyond just teenage edgelord internet shenanigans, this is someone who seems to have a genuine fascination with killing and hurting people, he talks about it a lot and brags about it a lot, he claims that he joined the military because he wanted to kill people and that he enjoyed killing people and he constantly talks about how empowering it feels and how much he misses it.
i've known a lot of people who have served in the military and i've never known any of them to say things like this. but i have heard a few of them talk about meeting certain other members of the military who did. most people who join the military are decent normal people who join for the usual kinds of reasons - sense of duty and wanting to serve their country, having family members in the military whom they look up to and want to follow in their footsteps, seeing it as a career opportunity to build a better life for themselves, etc. and most people who have fought in combat and experienced the horrors of war don't feel very good about it and don't like to talk about it and certainly don't find it glamorous or invigorating or think of it as some kind of exciting adventure. but there is a small minority of very sick people who really do join the military just because they want to fight in a war and get to kill people and watch people die, they think that war and killing are very neat things and they talk about it and obsess over it a lot and they genuinely seem to enjoy it.
i would like to think that graham platner is not that kind of person, but reading the comments he's made over the years, he legitimately seems like a psychopath. he's expressed some remorse for the things he's said, but that's not worth very much when he's simultaneously trying to pursue a political career and running for one of the highest positions of power in american society, a position that would give him far more power and therefore far more opportunities to kill and hurt and dominate other human beings than his military career ever did. i don't think a person who has said these kinds of things should be allowed that level of power.
R: 5 / I: 1
Being decently read in both Anarchist and Marxist schools of thought is really funny, because of how much shit people from both schools of thought clearly haven't read outside of that school of thought. Like I've seen both anarchists and Marxists say shit that's blatantly not true about each others theory because I think people don't like reading things they might potentially disagree with. I actually read anti-socialist texts from time to time, because I generally like to keep an open mind about such things, i feel like people get so absorbed into one of way of thinking that it just leads to thought termination. Also being actually exposed to ideas you disagree with helps you better formulate your disagreements with said ideas and to actually better critique them. Any thoughts I guess, I'm not shit talking the tendencies by the way more the behavior of certain individuals within them.
Being decently read in both Anarchist and Marxist schools of thought is really funny, because of how much shit people from both schools of thought clearly haven't read outside of that school of thought. Like I've seen both anarchists and Marxists say shit that's blatantly not true about each others theory because I think people don't like reading things they might potentially disagree with. I actually read anti-socialist texts from time to time, because I generally like to keep an open mind about such things, i feel like people get so absorbed into one of way of thinking that it just leads to thought termination. Also being actually exposed to ideas you disagree with helps you better formulate your disagreements with said ideas and to actually better critique them. Any thoughts I guess, I'm not shit talking the tendencies by the way more the behavior of certain individuals within them.
R: 29 / I: 6
In the case of serfdom, we see sometimes the organic disappearance of serfdom from society through its obsolescence. Britain never emancipated its serfs through legal acts. Instead the black plague and 1381 peasants revolt weakened the institution without abolishing it, and by 1600 it was largely over with. the 1640s English civil wars, which some call its bourgeois revolution, did not even abolish serfdom, since it was already through by that point. In other cases we see a top down-abolition of serfdom, as in Russia, under the tsar in the 1800s , and in Japan through the Meiji restoration. These were not bourgeois revolutions but top down reforms carried out by rather conservative and autocratic institutions that had resisted change for as long as possible.
The transition between the slavery of late antiquity and the serfdom of the middle ages was likewise a very gradual process, and did not happen through revolution or reform, but through more subtle historical processes taking place over several centuries. There were servile revolts such as the famous one led by Spartacus, but these were failed revolts, not transformative revolutions which changed the mode of production.
These lead me to my questions:
Reform, Civil War, Revolution
In the case of slavery, we see that in the British Empire, it was abolished through reform. They passed the act to abolish it in 1833. In the case of America it was abolished through Civil War. Both slaves and white people were in the union army and participated in abolition. In the case of Haiti we have revolution. The slaves overthrew their masters. Some say were a few Europeans on the side of the slaves, ironically a Polish diaspora who Dessalines eventually made legally black and protected from the purges that targeted the French.In the case of serfdom, we see sometimes the organic disappearance of serfdom from society through its obsolescence. Britain never emancipated its serfs through legal acts. Instead the black plague and 1381 peasants revolt weakened the institution without abolishing it, and by 1600 it was largely over with. the 1640s English civil wars, which some call its bourgeois revolution, did not even abolish serfdom, since it was already through by that point. In other cases we see a top down-abolition of serfdom, as in Russia, under the tsar in the 1800s , and in Japan through the Meiji restoration. These were not bourgeois revolutions but top down reforms carried out by rather conservative and autocratic institutions that had resisted change for as long as possible.
The transition between the slavery of late antiquity and the serfdom of the middle ages was likewise a very gradual process, and did not happen through revolution or reform, but through more subtle historical processes taking place over several centuries. There were servile revolts such as the famous one led by Spartacus, but these were failed revolts, not transformative revolutions which changed the mode of production.
These lead me to my questions:
- I think it is indisputable that class struggle plays a foundational role in the history of all societies. However, is revolution always inevitable, or is it only what happens when all other options fail?
- If other options succeed, is that undesirable for communism, since communists want these changes to happen through revolution?
- If the same problem can be tackled in different ways, and history shows that through evidence, then why cling to the thesis that it can only happen one way?
- Isn't it a bit teleological to insist that the capitalist mode of production must end in a specific way, i.e. through reform, through revolution, or through civil war, rather than a mixture of multiple ways? Especially in an age where nationalist nuclear armed sovereignty is asserted against ideal globalizing trends, and no international proletarian revolution seems imminent, even 143 years after Marx's death?
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Why are so many modern communists obsessed with liberal concept of indigenous rights? When communists dont believe in land ownership or inheritance.
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Why are so many modern communists obsessed with liberal concept of indigenous rights? When communists dont believe in land ownership or inheritance.
>Body too short
>Body too short
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We can, and should, be antizionist, but antizionism ≠ antisemitism. The most bigoted thing you can do towards a Jew is to assume they are spoken for by a genocidal apartheid regime, and to unionize your fight for antizionism with the rights fight for antisemitism. Don’t get the two confused and don’t be a schmuck.
Anti-anti-semitism
Jewish people are an ethno-religious group that have largely been ostracized from Christian/muslim society because they were here first. It’s created, beyond just a religion, a form of ethnic identity. This board believes in decolonization, and in the principle that children should not be judged for their identities and the identities of their parents. That should extend fully to Jews as well and it’s far and away the biggest issue I have with this “leftist” group that many of you want to exclude such a large population of historically marginalized people. Some of the best leftists from Marx and Luxembourg to Goldman and Bookchin, Jewish individuals have written much of the theory we practice today.We can, and should, be antizionist, but antizionism ≠ antisemitism. The most bigoted thing you can do towards a Jew is to assume they are spoken for by a genocidal apartheid regime, and to unionize your fight for antizionism with the rights fight for antisemitism. Don’t get the two confused and don’t be a schmuck.
R: 132 / I: 13
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cr47x99k5n6t
Let's watch live
RIOT TIME
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https://tv.leftypol.org/r/belfastriot
https://tv.leftypol.org/r/belfastriot
Loyalist riots in Belfast, Ireland
Loyalist have called for roads and business to be closed tonight, riots startinghttps://www.bbc.com/news/live/cr47x99k5n6t
Let's watch live
RIOT TIME
https://tv.leftypol.org/r/belfastriot
https://tv.leftypol.org/r/belfastriot
https://tv.leftypol.org/r/belfastriot
https://tv.leftypol.org/r/belfastriot
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>On the 20th of april 1898 the United States intervenes in the Cuban war of independence against Spain supposedly on the Cuban rebel’s side but later betrays them on the 1st of January 1899 replacing Spain as Cuban imperial overlord and installing a military government in Cuba led by U.S. army general John R. Brooke.
American imperialism in Cuba
In this thread we list crimes the USA has committed against Cuba to debunk the myth the USA wants to “free” Cuba>On the 20th of april 1898 the United States intervenes in the Cuban war of independence against Spain supposedly on the Cuban rebel’s side but later betrays them on the 1st of January 1899 replacing Spain as Cuban imperial overlord and installing a military government in Cuba led by U.S. army general John R. Brooke.
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Questions for anarchists
- How would anarchists respond to the criticism that, over 150 years of organized anarchist thought (from Bakunin and the International in 1866 onward, or even Stirner before that), their analysis of exploitation has remained largely vague and general?
- How do anarchists explain the origins and development of exploitation? And how would they account for the evolution of society without relying on concepts like class struggle and the dictatorship of the proletariat as scientific tools?
- Are anarchists generally committed to social ownership of the means of production, or do they tend to favor small-scale production and some forms of private ownership? How would they address the claim that anarchism is just bourgeois individualism turned on its head?
- How do anarchists propose to organize and educate workers for class struggle while refusing participation in bourgeois political institutions? How would they avoid offering what critics call one‑sided, disconnected fixes, especially when global coordination seems necessary and anarchism’s individualist tendencies may undermine it?
- How would anarchists respond to the observation that anarchism lacks a unified doctrine, elementary revolutionary teaching, or basic theory? How do they view the historical fragmentation of the workers’ movement often attributed to anarchist influence, and what can be learned from the short‑lived anarchist “state‑like” experiments?
- How would anarchists avoid the charge that rejecting bourgeois politics in practice ends up subordinating the working class to bourgeois politics—all under the guise of being “above” or “outside” traditional political action?
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Based Kim Jong-un
I'm not sure I'm going all-in on the tankie kool-aid, but if there's anything I can respect about this man, it's how quickly and decisively he handled business when he found out his brother was snitching on him to the CIA. If everyone in the world had this sort of attitude when it came to American feds, we wouldn't have any problems at all.
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Anyone got any footage and content from 2020?
Any clear timeline of events and the main organizations involved?
What really happened in 2020 with far-left militants?
Where did all the anarchist arsonists go? What happened with the regular revenge killings and assassinations between leftists and rightists? Wasn't there even a story about an artillery unit possibly going rogue, with special forces on standby just in case? Why has all this been memory-holed? Seemed like there was a real possibility of revolution, and it been culled into only radlib circlejerks.Anyone got any footage and content from 2020?
Any clear timeline of events and the main organizations involved?
R: 10 / I: 1
Deng Xiaoping's reforms were pure capitalist genius, decollectivizing agriculture, creating Special Economic Zones, welcoming foreign investment, and letting markets allocate resources where central planning had failed miserably. Hundreds of millions lifted out of poverty in a single generation, the greatest anti-poverty achievement in human history. Dengism proved that pragmatic market incentives, competition, and entrepreneurship work better than ideology. From a true capitalist viewpoint, this was masterful, "It doesn't matter if the cat is black or white, as long as it catches mice."
>>China abides by the raw logic of the free market more purely than the USA. Unfettered competition, massive private sector growth (especially early on), and letting winners win.
>>As Adam Smith observed in the dynamics of commercial society, successful true capitalism naturally concentrates wealth and leads toward more socialized outcomes through its own success exactly what we're seeing as China's development matures into broader shared prosperity under the Party's stewardship. Pure capitalism, refined, evolving towards socialism, as Smith predicted.
>>Compare that with the United States, a corporatist, state capitalist racket. Big monopolies and connected firms get bailed out, subsidized, and protected by regulators. Market manipulators, lobbyists, and too big to fail banks are rewarded with favorable rules, while genuine competition and market demand supply are punished.
>>The revolving door between Washington and Wall Street picks winners and it's cronyism dressed up as "capitalism."
>>China rewards results and scale in the market while America increasingly rewards political connections.
The future belongs to whoever actually practices capitalism without the hypocrisy. Deng understood this better than most modern "free market" advocates.
America isn't free market, it's imperialistic state-capitalist
China isn't "communist" in the old Maoist sense it's the world's most dynamic capitalist market today.Deng Xiaoping's reforms were pure capitalist genius, decollectivizing agriculture, creating Special Economic Zones, welcoming foreign investment, and letting markets allocate resources where central planning had failed miserably. Hundreds of millions lifted out of poverty in a single generation, the greatest anti-poverty achievement in human history. Dengism proved that pragmatic market incentives, competition, and entrepreneurship work better than ideology. From a true capitalist viewpoint, this was masterful, "It doesn't matter if the cat is black or white, as long as it catches mice."
>>China abides by the raw logic of the free market more purely than the USA. Unfettered competition, massive private sector growth (especially early on), and letting winners win.
>>As Adam Smith observed in the dynamics of commercial society, successful true capitalism naturally concentrates wealth and leads toward more socialized outcomes through its own success exactly what we're seeing as China's development matures into broader shared prosperity under the Party's stewardship. Pure capitalism, refined, evolving towards socialism, as Smith predicted.
>>Compare that with the United States, a corporatist, state capitalist racket. Big monopolies and connected firms get bailed out, subsidized, and protected by regulators. Market manipulators, lobbyists, and too big to fail banks are rewarded with favorable rules, while genuine competition and market demand supply are punished.
>>The revolving door between Washington and Wall Street picks winners and it's cronyism dressed up as "capitalism."
>>China rewards results and scale in the market while America increasingly rewards political connections.
The future belongs to whoever actually practices capitalism without the hypocrisy. Deng understood this better than most modern "free market" advocates.
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They think Trump will do that by making people ignore his involvement in child abuse
Trump on the Epstein list is "a step toward normalization"
These fags want to remove the age of consent laws and normalize pedophiliaThey think Trump will do that by making people ignore his involvement in child abuse
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How can anarchy be achieved?
Which current groups best represent the movement?
How can we all fight to destroy authoritarian capitalism in our daily lives?
Anarchists thread - The Black International
What does anarchy look like?How can anarchy be achieved?
Which current groups best represent the movement?
How can we all fight to destroy authoritarian capitalism in our daily lives?
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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: 1 / I: 0
on the /r/fullegoism subreddit they posted this image
someone found hippel's bar
for a more light hearted development, it looks like someone just found a picture of the building that hippel's wine bar was once located (where engels and stirner used to hang out)on the /r/fullegoism subreddit they posted this image
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This comes out of straight ignorance and I want to know, why do leftists support Hamas instead of Fatah or PFLP? Hamas is an openly anti-communist and yihadist group. Is this basically a "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" kind of situation?
This comes out of straight ignorance and I want to know, why do leftists support Hamas instead of Fatah or PFLP? Hamas is an openly anti-communist and yihadist group. Is this basically a "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" kind of situation?
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The UAE has already delivered $3bn to Iran as part of the agreement, which two regional sources said reached as high as $10bn. Two other sources told Reuters that the UAE would eventually pay Iran $20bn. The report reflects a stunning turn of events for Abu Dhabi and an indicator that Iran has emerged stronger from the war. The UAE joined the US and Israel in conducting dozens of strikes on Iran during the war. It also tried to prevent Pakistan from mediating an end to the conflict.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/uae-paid-iran-billions-dollars-halt-strikes-report
Disputes between Palestinian parties in Israel make new 'Joint List' unlikely
Despite the tense atmosphere and statements suggesting the parties are now closer to contesting the elections through two separate lists – the United Arab List on one side and the remaining parties on the other – the Reconciliation Committee, which is attempting to bridge differences among the parties continues to hold out hope for the formation of a united list.
https://www.newarab.com/news/arab-parties-fail-form-joint-list-israeli-election
Amid meeting by UNDOF in Al-Quneitra | Israeli forces advance into western countryside of Daraa
SOHR activists have documented an incursion by an Israeli patrol of several military vehicles carrying soldiers, including a vehicle equipped with a machine gun, into the western countryside of Daraa. The patrol set out from Al-Jazerah barracks towards residential neighbourhoods in the village of Maariyah.
https://www.syriahr.com/en/383212/
Israel denies entry to French reporter, broadcaster slams ‘obstacle to press freedom’
Froussard was refused entry after landing on Wednesday afternoon at Tel Aviv's international airport, where she was forced to spend the night before being sent back to Paris on a flight that took off Thursday morning. Her deportation was announced by Israel's Minister for Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism Amichai Chikli.
https://www.france24.com/en/france/20260611-israel-denies-entry-to-french-reporter-broadcaster-slams-obstacle-to-press-freedom
https://archive.ph/latgh
Palestine Action Activists Sentenced As Terrorists
Four Palestine Action activists who damaged Israeli military assets including drones will be sentenced for an “act of terrorism”, a judge has ruled. Charlotte Head, 29, Samuel Corner, 23, Leona (Ellie) Kamio, 30, and Fatema Rajwani, 21, were found guilty of criminal damage in May after breaking into a factory in Filton, near Bristol, owned by Israeli weapons manufacturer Elbit in 2024. Corner was also convicted of grievous bodily harm without intent.
https://novaramedia.com/2026/06/12/palestine-action-activists-will-be-sentenced-as-terrorists-court-confirms/
Indonesian students protest government policies as economic pressures grow
About 1,500 protesters attempted to march toward the Hotel Indonesia traffic circle, a key Jakarta landmark, after Friday prayers. Anti-riot police blocked many of them from reaching the site, which has long been off-limits for rallies because of its location at the heart of the city’s main business and commercial district.
https://apnews.com/article/indonesia-students-protest-economic-pressures-fc758948bc547075d62bcf80d8a7e827
The Hidden Crisis of Child Labour in India
Despite decades of economic growth, constitutional safeguards, and legal reforms, millions of Indian children continue to spend their childhood in labour rather than learning. Behind the impressive statistics of development lies a painful truth. For far too many children, childhood itself remains a privilege rather than a right.
https://www.newsclick.in/hidden-crisis-child-labour-india
Bangladesh, India to coordinate patrols on border, share intelligence amid migrant tensions
Bangladesh and India share a more than 4,000‑km (2,500-mile) border, one of the world’s longest. India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, which governs key border states including Tripura, West Bengal and Assam, has said tackling alleged undocumented migration is a priority and has been trying to push Bengali-speaking Muslims branded "illegal infiltrators" into Bangladesh since last year. Bangladesh has said it has sent more than a dozen letters to New Delhi seeking an end to the practice.
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/bangladesh-india-coordinate-patrols-border-share-intelligence-amid-migrant-2026-06-12/
Ramaphosa files papers to interdict beginning of impeachment process
In May, Ramaphosa launched a review into the report which found that he may have a case to answer regarding the February 2020 robbery of foreign currency at his Phala Phala farm in Limpopo. The review bid, which is set to be heard in September, seeks to invalidate the Section 89 report itself, as well as any steps taken by the National Assembly pursuant to the report.
https://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/ramaphosa-files-papers-to-interdict-beginning-of-impeachment-process/
Morocco sentences 18 people over last year's Gen Z protests
A court in Casablanca sentenced 18 people in total, with 13 receiving eight-month prison terms. They were due to be released on Friday after completing their sentences, defence lawyer Souad Brahma told AFP. Two others received one-year sentences with 10 months behind bars, while three defendants who had been freed pending their trial were given suspended 12-month terms, the lawyer added.
https://www.newarab.com/news/morocco-sentences-18-people-over-gen-z-protests
Roberto Sanchez Demands Complete Vote Recount in Peruvian Presidential Election
The request, presented by the leader of the progressive coalition Together for Peru (Juntos por el Perú, in Spanish) comes as official election scrutiny reached 98% with a minimal margin of fewer than 1,600 votes separating the two political forces.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/sanchez-complete-vote-recount-peru/
Argentina: Mapuche Leader Facundo Jones Huala Transferred After Nearly 40 Days of Hunger Strike
Argentine federal authorities have ordered the transfer of Facundo Jones Huala, a Mapuche leader and prominent figure in the Mapuche Ancestral Resistance (RAM), to Esquel prison, where he will remain in pretrial detention as part of an investigation for aggravated illegal association.
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/33727/
News 6/12/26
UAE paid Iran billions of dollars to halt strikes: ReportThe UAE has already delivered $3bn to Iran as part of the agreement, which two regional sources said reached as high as $10bn. Two other sources told Reuters that the UAE would eventually pay Iran $20bn. The report reflects a stunning turn of events for Abu Dhabi and an indicator that Iran has emerged stronger from the war. The UAE joined the US and Israel in conducting dozens of strikes on Iran during the war. It also tried to prevent Pakistan from mediating an end to the conflict.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/uae-paid-iran-billions-dollars-halt-strikes-report
Disputes between Palestinian parties in Israel make new 'Joint List' unlikely
Despite the tense atmosphere and statements suggesting the parties are now closer to contesting the elections through two separate lists – the United Arab List on one side and the remaining parties on the other – the Reconciliation Committee, which is attempting to bridge differences among the parties continues to hold out hope for the formation of a united list.
https://www.newarab.com/news/arab-parties-fail-form-joint-list-israeli-election
Amid meeting by UNDOF in Al-Quneitra | Israeli forces advance into western countryside of Daraa
SOHR activists have documented an incursion by an Israeli patrol of several military vehicles carrying soldiers, including a vehicle equipped with a machine gun, into the western countryside of Daraa. The patrol set out from Al-Jazerah barracks towards residential neighbourhoods in the village of Maariyah.
https://www.syriahr.com/en/383212/
Israel denies entry to French reporter, broadcaster slams ‘obstacle to press freedom’
Froussard was refused entry after landing on Wednesday afternoon at Tel Aviv's international airport, where she was forced to spend the night before being sent back to Paris on a flight that took off Thursday morning. Her deportation was announced by Israel's Minister for Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism Amichai Chikli.
https://www.france24.com/en/france/20260611-israel-denies-entry-to-french-reporter-broadcaster-slams-obstacle-to-press-freedom
https://archive.ph/latgh
Palestine Action Activists Sentenced As Terrorists
Four Palestine Action activists who damaged Israeli military assets including drones will be sentenced for an “act of terrorism”, a judge has ruled. Charlotte Head, 29, Samuel Corner, 23, Leona (Ellie) Kamio, 30, and Fatema Rajwani, 21, were found guilty of criminal damage in May after breaking into a factory in Filton, near Bristol, owned by Israeli weapons manufacturer Elbit in 2024. Corner was also convicted of grievous bodily harm without intent.
https://novaramedia.com/2026/06/12/palestine-action-activists-will-be-sentenced-as-terrorists-court-confirms/
Indonesian students protest government policies as economic pressures grow
About 1,500 protesters attempted to march toward the Hotel Indonesia traffic circle, a key Jakarta landmark, after Friday prayers. Anti-riot police blocked many of them from reaching the site, which has long been off-limits for rallies because of its location at the heart of the city’s main business and commercial district.
https://apnews.com/article/indonesia-students-protest-economic-pressures-fc758948bc547075d62bcf80d8a7e827
The Hidden Crisis of Child Labour in India
Despite decades of economic growth, constitutional safeguards, and legal reforms, millions of Indian children continue to spend their childhood in labour rather than learning. Behind the impressive statistics of development lies a painful truth. For far too many children, childhood itself remains a privilege rather than a right.
https://www.newsclick.in/hidden-crisis-child-labour-india
Bangladesh, India to coordinate patrols on border, share intelligence amid migrant tensions
Bangladesh and India share a more than 4,000‑km (2,500-mile) border, one of the world’s longest. India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, which governs key border states including Tripura, West Bengal and Assam, has said tackling alleged undocumented migration is a priority and has been trying to push Bengali-speaking Muslims branded "illegal infiltrators" into Bangladesh since last year. Bangladesh has said it has sent more than a dozen letters to New Delhi seeking an end to the practice.
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/bangladesh-india-coordinate-patrols-border-share-intelligence-amid-migrant-2026-06-12/
Ramaphosa files papers to interdict beginning of impeachment process
In May, Ramaphosa launched a review into the report which found that he may have a case to answer regarding the February 2020 robbery of foreign currency at his Phala Phala farm in Limpopo. The review bid, which is set to be heard in September, seeks to invalidate the Section 89 report itself, as well as any steps taken by the National Assembly pursuant to the report.
https://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/ramaphosa-files-papers-to-interdict-beginning-of-impeachment-process/
Morocco sentences 18 people over last year's Gen Z protests
A court in Casablanca sentenced 18 people in total, with 13 receiving eight-month prison terms. They were due to be released on Friday after completing their sentences, defence lawyer Souad Brahma told AFP. Two others received one-year sentences with 10 months behind bars, while three defendants who had been freed pending their trial were given suspended 12-month terms, the lawyer added.
https://www.newarab.com/news/morocco-sentences-18-people-over-gen-z-protests
Roberto Sanchez Demands Complete Vote Recount in Peruvian Presidential Election
The request, presented by the leader of the progressive coalition Together for Peru (Juntos por el Perú, in Spanish) comes as official election scrutiny reached 98% with a minimal margin of fewer than 1,600 votes separating the two political forces.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/sanchez-complete-vote-recount-peru/
Argentina: Mapuche Leader Facundo Jones Huala Transferred After Nearly 40 Days of Hunger Strike
Argentine federal authorities have ordered the transfer of Facundo Jones Huala, a Mapuche leader and prominent figure in the Mapuche Ancestral Resistance (RAM), to Esquel prison, where he will remain in pretrial detention as part of an investigation for aggravated illegal association.
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/33727/
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This makes the cop more disgusting than the boss. The boss at least performs a material function, the organization of production, however exploitative. The cop performs a purely repressive function. He adds no value. He creates no wealth. He exists solely to protect the property relations that the bourgeoisie has stolen. He is the parasite on the parasite.
The FBI, the Department of Homeland Security, and the entire alphabet of federal law enforcement are not mere obstacles to liberation. They are the central nervous system of the counter‑insurgency apparatus that has been built to suppress the American working class from inception. The FBI's COINTELPRO program did not just spy on the Black Panthers; it murdered them, framed them, and destroyed their families. The FBI's anti communist division is very likely tied to the CIA. The DHS did not just deport immigrants in history; it built and continues to build a surveillance architecture that tracks every phone call, every text message, every credit card swipe of every American who has ever uttered a word against the state. These are domestic occupation forces, deployed against the very people they pretend to serve.
The cop on the corner is not a public servant. He is a soldier in a low‑intensity war against the poor, the Black, the brown, the immigrant, the leftist, the mentally ill, the homeless. He is trained to see the working class as the enemy. His job is to manage the "disorder" that capitalism inevitably produces, the hunger, the addiction, the rage, the desperation. And when he cannot manage it, he kills it.
So no, we do not "reform" the police. We do not "defund" them in the liberal sense. We abolish them. Fuck every cop, and every leftist that doesn't get down with this in their praxis, ought to be immediately confronted and challenged (cough cough CPUSA).
Fuck Amerikkkan Law & Order
Any communist who does not hate the police, hate them as much as or more than the bourgeoisie itself is not to be trusted. The pig in uniform is not merely a servant of capital; he is a traitor to his own class. The capitalist exploits you openly, extracts your surplus value, for profit. The cop, by contrast, is a class collaborator who has traded the collective self‑interest of the working class for the individual power of a badge. He is the armed wing of the bourgeois order, the thug who enforces contracts, breaks strikes, and puts a bullet in the back of any worker who dares to resist. They are the slave catchers that put the bodies that exist outside of wage labor behind the walls of slavery.This makes the cop more disgusting than the boss. The boss at least performs a material function, the organization of production, however exploitative. The cop performs a purely repressive function. He adds no value. He creates no wealth. He exists solely to protect the property relations that the bourgeoisie has stolen. He is the parasite on the parasite.
The FBI, the Department of Homeland Security, and the entire alphabet of federal law enforcement are not mere obstacles to liberation. They are the central nervous system of the counter‑insurgency apparatus that has been built to suppress the American working class from inception. The FBI's COINTELPRO program did not just spy on the Black Panthers; it murdered them, framed them, and destroyed their families. The FBI's anti communist division is very likely tied to the CIA. The DHS did not just deport immigrants in history; it built and continues to build a surveillance architecture that tracks every phone call, every text message, every credit card swipe of every American who has ever uttered a word against the state. These are domestic occupation forces, deployed against the very people they pretend to serve.
The cop on the corner is not a public servant. He is a soldier in a low‑intensity war against the poor, the Black, the brown, the immigrant, the leftist, the mentally ill, the homeless. He is trained to see the working class as the enemy. His job is to manage the "disorder" that capitalism inevitably produces, the hunger, the addiction, the rage, the desperation. And when he cannot manage it, he kills it.
So no, we do not "reform" the police. We do not "defund" them in the liberal sense. We abolish them. Fuck every cop, and every leftist that doesn't get down with this in their praxis, ought to be immediately confronted and challenged (cough cough CPUSA).
R: 8 / I: 0
I've seen references to "beta tests" and people moving between cities, but no one ever says who's organizing the logistics. Is it just loose networks of people who know each other from previous actions? Or are there specific collectives or hubs that people should be aware of, for safety reasons, obviously? Also, what's the deal with the Juche tag specifically? Is it just a vibe or are there actual reading groups, signal chats, etc.? Are you guys represnting a formal organization that commits to political action?
Not trying to start drama. Just trying to map things out so I know who to avoid or who to listen to.
the function of the disorganized left???
I'm a self-prescribed democratic socialist who has been ultra-leftist curious and been following the whole Juche/anarchist/Maoist scene for a bit, and I'm genuinely trying to understand something before supporting them. People keep talking about a "disorganized vanguard" or "leaderless resistance" but how does that actually work in practice? Like, who makes decisions when something happens? Who calls off an action? Who coordinates between different groups?I've seen references to "beta tests" and people moving between cities, but no one ever says who's organizing the logistics. Is it just loose networks of people who know each other from previous actions? Or are there specific collectives or hubs that people should be aware of, for safety reasons, obviously? Also, what's the deal with the Juche tag specifically? Is it just a vibe or are there actual reading groups, signal chats, etc.? Are you guys represnting a formal organization that commits to political action?
Not trying to start drama. Just trying to map things out so I know who to avoid or who to listen to.
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No links because the previous links are shit af
Previous thread: >>2813124
News: Iran cucking out just when fun was starting
/Iran war/ thread #66
Fuck whoever deleted the other thread editionNo links because the previous links are shit af
Previous thread: >>2813124
News: Iran cucking out just when fun was starting
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https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2026/06/afghanistan-new-code-enabling-child-marriage-compounds-dismal-situation-for-womens-and-girls-rights/
>A new decree from the Taliban enabling child marriage is the latest salvo in an ongoing assault on the rights of women and girls in Afghanistan, Amnesty International said in a new legal analysis.
>The Decree No. 18 “Code on Judicial Separation of Spouses”, published by the Taliban in an official gazette on 14 May 2026, codifies the circumstances under which women and girls may seek separation from marriages. It includes provisions that uphold marriages arranged during childhood and restrict women’s and girls’ ability to challenge or leave such unions.
>Prior to August 2021, Afghanistan’s civil code set the legal marriage age for girls at 16, while marriages involving girls under the age of 15 were criminalized under the 2009 Elimination of Violence Against Women (EVAW) law. Afghanistan also had legal and institutional mechanisms aimed at addressing violence and discrimination against women and girls, including family courts, specialized units within the Attorney General’s Office and Ministry of Interior, and a high-level commission tasked with addressing violence against women, child marriage, and family separation matters.
>While these protections were often inconsistently implemented and significant barriers remained, they nonetheless provided women and girls with some legal avenues for protection and access to justice. Today, these laws and institutional structures have been dismantled by the Taliban and replaced with deeply discriminatory and repressive systems that further entrench gender inequality and restrict women’s rights and autonomy.
How do we stop muslim pedos from normalizing pedophilia and child marriage in a multipolar world?
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2026/06/afghanistan-new-code-enabling-child-marriage-compounds-dismal-situation-for-womens-and-girls-rights/
>A new decree from the Taliban enabling child marriage is the latest salvo in an ongoing assault on the rights of women and girls in Afghanistan, Amnesty International said in a new legal analysis.
>The Decree No. 18 “Code on Judicial Separation of Spouses”, published by the Taliban in an official gazette on 14 May 2026, codifies the circumstances under which women and girls may seek separation from marriages. It includes provisions that uphold marriages arranged during childhood and restrict women’s and girls’ ability to challenge or leave such unions.
>Prior to August 2021, Afghanistan’s civil code set the legal marriage age for girls at 16, while marriages involving girls under the age of 15 were criminalized under the 2009 Elimination of Violence Against Women (EVAW) law. Afghanistan also had legal and institutional mechanisms aimed at addressing violence and discrimination against women and girls, including family courts, specialized units within the Attorney General’s Office and Ministry of Interior, and a high-level commission tasked with addressing violence against women, child marriage, and family separation matters.
>While these protections were often inconsistently implemented and significant barriers remained, they nonetheless provided women and girls with some legal avenues for protection and access to justice. Today, these laws and institutional structures have been dismantled by the Taliban and replaced with deeply discriminatory and repressive systems that further entrench gender inequality and restrict women’s rights and autonomy.
How do we stop muslim pedos from normalizing pedophilia and child marriage in a multipolar world?
R: 0 / I: 0
It’s manipulated by those who have power and use the fear mechanism in us to make us feel inadequate. I am a firm believer that at points in our lives we are all manipulated by this BS (Tony Robbin’s, David De Angelo, Scott Galloway, etc. — just to name a few). The idea is to break away from it. Parents especially do this. John Liste, the man who murdered his family in 1971 had a horrible mother who berated him. The secret is to break away from these people before you inside. I don’t believe John would have done this had his mother not been living with the family.
capitalism is an austerity system
capitalism is an austerity system designed to keep the majority's wealth and health decreasing… whether you follow tony robbins (fraud) or warren buffetts (real deal) advice probably matters, but economic success is not the only measure of success. It's a pretty relative concept. Someone can have a disability or disadvantage and still succeed leaps and bounds beyond what they thought THEY could achieve. It's a personal choice what one considers success for themselves. Perhaps your "dipshit" father considered success to be having successful children, so he failed at trying to advise you. Perhaps you consider success to be sharing your thoughts publicly to people because it's what you have found to be the truth. Genuine success and failure will always be what one judges for themselves. The idea that a comfortable life thanks to economic security is success is a valid one, and so are all the others that diametrically oppose that one. I agree that such a definition of success needs to acknowledge the reality of people's suffering, of the limitations of reality. Delusion should be stripped away, but one single definition of success is delusional too, and so is the idea that one can't succeed in any capacity.It’s manipulated by those who have power and use the fear mechanism in us to make us feel inadequate. I am a firm believer that at points in our lives we are all manipulated by this BS (Tony Robbin’s, David De Angelo, Scott Galloway, etc. — just to name a few). The idea is to break away from it. Parents especially do this. John Liste, the man who murdered his family in 1971 had a horrible mother who berated him. The secret is to break away from these people before you inside. I don’t believe John would have done this had his mother not been living with the family.
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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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From my understanding, he posits the following:
>The world is objective and exists independently of the mind.
>Everything which exists is a unity of opposing forces.
>These forces influence the unity over time and produce qualitative change once enough quantitative tensions build up.
>Some of these "contradictions" are fundamentally unstable and cannot be mitigated (antagonistic contradictions), whilst some of these can be maintained with enough mitigation and can be resolved (non-antagonistic).
>Contradictions are furthermore hierarchical, as they rely on one another. Thus, one of the contradictions in any unity is the primary one, whilst the others are secondary.
This makes sense to me for social dispositions where two parties face one another, like a war, for example. Fundamentally, any conflict is going to be about multiple individuals facing one another, with a permanent instability resolving itself only in a qualitatively different state than it began. This makes sense.
However, I don't see how this can be applied to anything other than social conflict. How can you say that a tree is a unity of opposite forces? There are no "opposite" forces internal to a tree. There are only different directions which the tree follows in relation to its exterior elements (how much wind there is, how much food its roots can gather, how much sun it photosynthesizes, etc.). Saying that the tree has inner conflicting tendencies appears to me as merely rhetorical arguments, such as that it is in-between "life and death," or that it lies between "growth and stagnation." These idioms are correct, but they are abstract and aren't representative of the real.
Furthermore, albeit this is more abstract, I don't really see how Mao can assert that there is a hierarchy in the contradictions. Some contradictions do depend on one another, but believing that some are antagonistic and some aren't looks more politically motivated than scientific.
Does any Maoist have an explanation?
What actually are Mao's contradictions and are they relevant ?
I've recently read Mao's "On Contradictions" and "On Practice", but I don't really understand how his materialist view actually holds up to reality.From my understanding, he posits the following:
>The world is objective and exists independently of the mind.
>Everything which exists is a unity of opposing forces.
>These forces influence the unity over time and produce qualitative change once enough quantitative tensions build up.
>Some of these "contradictions" are fundamentally unstable and cannot be mitigated (antagonistic contradictions), whilst some of these can be maintained with enough mitigation and can be resolved (non-antagonistic).
>Contradictions are furthermore hierarchical, as they rely on one another. Thus, one of the contradictions in any unity is the primary one, whilst the others are secondary.
This makes sense to me for social dispositions where two parties face one another, like a war, for example. Fundamentally, any conflict is going to be about multiple individuals facing one another, with a permanent instability resolving itself only in a qualitatively different state than it began. This makes sense.
However, I don't see how this can be applied to anything other than social conflict. How can you say that a tree is a unity of opposite forces? There are no "opposite" forces internal to a tree. There are only different directions which the tree follows in relation to its exterior elements (how much wind there is, how much food its roots can gather, how much sun it photosynthesizes, etc.). Saying that the tree has inner conflicting tendencies appears to me as merely rhetorical arguments, such as that it is in-between "life and death," or that it lies between "growth and stagnation." These idioms are correct, but they are abstract and aren't representative of the real.
Furthermore, albeit this is more abstract, I don't really see how Mao can assert that there is a hierarchy in the contradictions. Some contradictions do depend on one another, but believing that some are antagonistic and some aren't looks more politically motivated than scientific.
Does any Maoist have an explanation?
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Ever since the Soviet reforms and the betrayal of the Comintern under Khrushchev, most communist parties internationally have become class enemies. Not just in the US. Globally. The ones that haven't accepted Maoism, or some form of decentralized, decolonial struggle, are just state‑capitalist NGOs with red aesthetics. They are not a vanguard, nor will they ever be. Nearly every organization exists as a fire extinguisher for the working class insurrection.
Look at India. The Communist Party of India calls the Naxalites adventurist. They actually said, "Make no mistake, anti‑revisionist Maoism is an anarchist force, not a Leninist one." They don't know what the word means. They've hollowed it out. To them, "adventurist" means any action that might make the oppressor uncomfortable enough to withdraw an invitation to sit at their table. The population could be ready to drag the rich out of their cars, and these revisionists would call a piece of anti‑politician graffiti "adventurism."
That's counter‑insurgency, and if you are ok with people who hold your beliefs doing counter-insurgency, then you aren't ready for revolutionary situations. In revolution enemies need to be cleared out of the way, including ones who appear to be on your side. That's what it looks like. Never forget that communist parties have violently suppressed workers insurrections. They've pulled the trigger. They've called the cops. They've done the state's dirty work while wearing a hammer a sickle. Am I talking about the soviets? Not at all. Go look into the socialist mayors, and revisionists that were sending police bullets on workers insurrectionists during the years of lead.
So we have enemies within. They need to be rendered useless. Destroyed. Not debated, not "won over" they must be neutralized. The anarchists and Maoists in Greece showed the KKE what happens when this battle gets physical. And guess what? The revisionists got bodied. Because they ain't about shit. They folded.
Stop worrying about what the revisionists call "adventurism." Worry about why they're so desperate to keep you from acting. That's the real tell. And it's loud as hell.
Adventurism?
You keep hearing the word "adventurism" thrown around, usually by leftists who happen to be embedded in counter‑insurgency operations disguised as communist parties. So what does it actually mean? In their mouths, it means any action that might upset their ability to sit at the table with the oppressor. They've taken a term that once had strategic meaning, actions detached from mass conditions and turned it into a club to beat anyone who steps outside the revisionist party line.Ever since the Soviet reforms and the betrayal of the Comintern under Khrushchev, most communist parties internationally have become class enemies. Not just in the US. Globally. The ones that haven't accepted Maoism, or some form of decentralized, decolonial struggle, are just state‑capitalist NGOs with red aesthetics. They are not a vanguard, nor will they ever be. Nearly every organization exists as a fire extinguisher for the working class insurrection.
Look at India. The Communist Party of India calls the Naxalites adventurist. They actually said, "Make no mistake, anti‑revisionist Maoism is an anarchist force, not a Leninist one." They don't know what the word means. They've hollowed it out. To them, "adventurist" means any action that might make the oppressor uncomfortable enough to withdraw an invitation to sit at their table. The population could be ready to drag the rich out of their cars, and these revisionists would call a piece of anti‑politician graffiti "adventurism."
That's counter‑insurgency, and if you are ok with people who hold your beliefs doing counter-insurgency, then you aren't ready for revolutionary situations. In revolution enemies need to be cleared out of the way, including ones who appear to be on your side. That's what it looks like. Never forget that communist parties have violently suppressed workers insurrections. They've pulled the trigger. They've called the cops. They've done the state's dirty work while wearing a hammer a sickle. Am I talking about the soviets? Not at all. Go look into the socialist mayors, and revisionists that were sending police bullets on workers insurrectionists during the years of lead.
So we have enemies within. They need to be rendered useless. Destroyed. Not debated, not "won over" they must be neutralized. The anarchists and Maoists in Greece showed the KKE what happens when this battle gets physical. And guess what? The revisionists got bodied. Because they ain't about shit. They folded.
Stop worrying about what the revisionists call "adventurism." Worry about why they're so desperate to keep you from acting. That's the real tell. And it's loud as hell.
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>its stance on US investors
>its stance on US imperialism
>its trade status with Israel
Iran
Welcomes US investors
against (unless US imperialism is targeting the great satan (Iranian Communists, Iraq, Afghanistan, anti-IMF protests…))
Ceased covert oil trade with Israel in the 90s
anti-imperialism vibe check
>favorite anti-imperialist state>its stance on US investors
>its stance on US imperialism
>its trade status with Israel
Iran
Welcomes US investors
against (unless US imperialism is targeting the great satan (Iranian Communists, Iraq, Afghanistan, anti-IMF protests…))
Ceased covert oil trade with Israel in the 90s
R: 15 / I: 4
The funniest part is her grandma being white
Friend hss Kim Il-Sung photo
My friend just showed me a real framed photo she has of her grandma with Kim Il-Sung and Samora Machel from when she worked in the Mozambican government during its socialist era, just thought you guys should know that.The funniest part is her grandma being white
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📖 Critical Resistance - Surviving Solitary Confinement // https://criticalresistance.org/resources/surviving-solitary/
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AFL-CIO [imperialist]'s Strike Tracker // https://aflcio.org/strike-map
Labor Bureau's Official 'work stoppage' tracker // https://www.bls.gov/wsp/
IWW timeline for the 20th century (ends at 1999) // https://archive.iww.org/history/chronology/
IWW Work Place Organizing Guide // https://usa.anarchistlibraries.net/library/industrial-workers-of-the-world-libcom-org-solidarity-federation-walthamstow-anarchist-group-wo
▶ Salting | Work Place Organizing 101 (50 minute webinar) // https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SHlCLyM4FY
⚖️ Deeds of the Burger Reich 🇺🇸
deep list of horrible shit we (royal we) have done // https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/us_atrocities.md
Coups and regime changes – master list // https://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-peoples-governments-the-master-list
Wikipedia: United States War Crimes // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_war_crimes
/our boys/ (bring em home!) detail abusing Iraqi prisoners [2006] // https://www.hrw.org/report/2006/07/22/no-blood-no-foul/soldiers-accounts-detainee-abuse-iraq
More than 250 military interventions in the last 30 years alone // https://blackagendareport.com/us-launched-251-military-interventions-1991-and-469-1798
Visualisation of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade // https://www.slavevoyages.org/
UNESCO Sites relating to Slavery // https://slaveryandremembrance.org/
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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
📖 Eugene Debs - Fourth of July Speech // https://jacobin.com/2020/07/eugene-debs-independence-day-address-fourth-july
📖 Power Anywhere There's People! – Fred Hampton // https://www.hamptonthink.org/read/power-anywhere-where-thats-people-fred-hampton
📖 War is a Racket – Smedley Butler // https://ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html
📖 Letters From an American Farmer – St. John de Crevoecoeur // https://americanliterature.com/author/j-hector-st-john-de-crevoecoeur/book/letters-from-an-american-farmer/summary
📖 Trail of Broken Treaties // American Indian Movement https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
📖 The Declaration of Independence https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
📖 The Ballot or the Bullet – Malcolm X // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/ballot_or_bullet.pdf
📖 What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? – Frederick Douglass // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/douglass_july_4_speech.pdf
📖 A Trail of Broken Treaties – American Indian Movement // https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
📖 Custer Died for Your Sins – Vine Deloria Jr. // http://www.riversimulator.org/Resources/Books/CusterDiedForYourSinsAnIndianManifesto1969Deloria.pdf
📖 Emancipation Proclamation – Lincoln // https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/emancipation-proclamation
📖 Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville // https://americanliterature.com/author/alexis-de-tocqueville/book/democracy-in-america/summary
📖 Common Sense – Thomas Paine // https://americainclass.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Common-Sense-Full-Text.pdf
📖 An Indigenous History of the United States – Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz // https://nycstandswithstandingrock.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/dunbar-ortiz-2014.pdf
📖 Huey Long – Share Our Wealth // https://www.hueylong.com/programs/share-our-wealth/huey-longs-share-our-wealth-speech
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🗽 UNITED STATES POLITICS 🦅>Thread for the hellish discussion related to the scourge of the earth, the destroyer of nations, the king of coups, the sultan of sanctions, the emir of the embargo, the autocrat of austerity, the doge of deregulation, the baron of busting unions, the prince of privatization, the lord of loan sharks, the patron-saint of proxy wars, the sponsor of settlers, the guarantor of genocides, the Divided $nakkkes of Amerikkka™
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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
Visualisation of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade // https://www.slavevoyages.org/
UNESCO Sites relating to Slavery // https://slaveryandremembrance.org/
First Hand Documents of the horrors of Slavery // https://www.loc.gov/collections/slave-narratives-from-the-federal-writers-project-1936-to-1938/
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Epstein's Black Book // https://epsteinsblackbook.com/
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
R: 3 / I: 0
Conservative Keiko Fujimori inched into the lead late on Wednesday night, boosted by overseas ballots that gave her 50.002% of the vote to leftist Roberto Sanchez's 49.998%, a difference of about 600 votes out of 18 million. More than 98% of the vote has been counted according to Peru's ONPE electoral authority, but most of those remaining are contested ballots. Only nine of the more than 90,000 polling stations remain to be counted while about 1,600 - representing around 400,000 votes - have been sent for review to Peru's National Elections Jury (JNE).
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/fujimori-edges-back-into-lead-perus-knife-edge-election-2026-06-11/
Brazil reports drop in Amazon deforestation rates, pushing back on US tariff accusations
Environment Minister João Paulo Capobianco said that the figure is the lowest ever recorded for May, and that Brazil is on track to reach its lowest annual levels once the data is consolidated next semester. He said that the month typically sees higher deforestation, because it marks the start of the Amazon’s dry season. In the 10 months from August 2025 to May 2026, deforestation in the Amazon already fell by 37.5%, compared with the same previous period.
https://apnews.com/article/brazil-amazon-rainforest-deforestation-us-tariffs-trump-9b6e95ab885a05a371f746ab7ae2c7b7
Evo Morales Challenges Bolivian President as Protests Enter Sixth Week
On Wednesday, former Bolivian President Evo Morales challenged right-wing President Rodrigo Paz to travel to the Tropics of Cochabamba amid protests that thousands of workers, miners, and farmers have been carrying out for six weeks to demand his resignation.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/evo-morales-challenges-bolivian-president-as-protests-enter-sixth-week/
Israel to set up permanent Jenin military base amid displacement from refugee camps
The Israeli army claimed that the new permanent base was "intended to replace the presence of forces in residents' homes (in the Jenin refugee camp), and to regulate troop deployment in the area from a long-term perspective, as part of creating the operational conditions for a safe withdrawal from the refugee camp."
https://www.newarab.com/news/israel-set-jenin-military-base-amid-refugee-displacement
US attack kills three Indian sailors in Gulf of Oman
The Palau-flagged MT Settebello vessel came under attack late on Tuesday after the US accused it of not complying “with directions from American forces”. The tanker had 24 Indian crew members on board, of whom 21 were rescued. The US has targeted several vessels off the coast of Oman this week. Crews were evacuated from two other ships after they were hit by projectiles.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/us-attack-kills-three-indian-sailors-gulf-oman
Drone strikes on central Sudanese city kill up to 23: NGO
sources reported on Thursday that overnight attacks had killed several people across the key hub in the southern Kordofan region. The reports concerned the latest in a series of attacks using unmanned aircraft, illustrating that drone warfare has become an increasingly prominent feature in the conflict, which erupted in April 2023 between the military government and paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF).
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/6/11/drone-strikes-on-central-sudanese-city-kill-up-to-23-ngo
https://archive.ph/Io9nD
Tortured, humiliated and killed: the women who disappear into Myanmar’s prisons
Serving her sentence in Mandalay central prison and Myingyan prison, Thazin says she experienced psychological, physical and sexual abuse at the hands of prison staff, including invasive strip-searches and beatings. In her first year in prison, other female political prisoners in her ward were allegedly secretly filmed in the showers by male prison staff, with a lawyer telling Thazin that the footage was being used to blackmail family members.
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/jun/11/tortured-humiliated-and-killed-the-women-who-disappear-into-myanmars-prisons
Left alliance slams Bangladesh budget as debt-driven and favouring wealthy
The leaders pointed to the projected budget deficit of nearly Tk 250,000 crore, arguing that the financing gap would be covered largely through domestic and foreign borrowing, raising concerns about the country's growing debt burden. They also criticized the budget for lacking a clear strategy to generate employment at a time when job creation remains one of Bangladesh's most pressing economic challenges.
https://en.banglaoutlook.org/news/236070
https://archive.ph/Pz1uo
Pakistan budget, hit by Iran war and IMF, to squeeze middle class
Under pressure to meet austerity conditions from the International Monetary Fund, Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb will submit a delayed 17.1-trillion-rupee ($61-billion) spending plan for the fiscal year starting next month, according to widespread domestic media reports. The burden of higher fuel and power costs and taxes will fall largely on formally registered businesses and salaried workers in the South Asian nation, as politically powerful sectors such as agriculture, retail and real estate remain difficult to tax, experts say.
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/pakistan-budget-hit-by-iran-war-imf-squeeze-middle-class-2026-06-11/
Belfast 'hit list' of migrants' homes circulated ahead of second night of riots
Riots raged in Belfast, the capital of Northern Ireland, for a second night, with masked men in balaclavas targeting ethnic minorities after a "hit list" of homes housing foreign nationals was circulated. The disorder was triggered by a knife attack on Monday allegedly carried out by a Sudanese asylum seeker, who has been charged with attempted murder.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/hit-list-migrant-homes-circulated-ahead-second-night-riots-belfast
One-day nationwide strike in Portugal opposes right-wing labour reform
The strike’s impact extended to air transport, with more than 500 flight cancellations. TAP, the country’s main airline, suspended around 300 flights and operated only 79 under minimum service obligations. In industry and the private sector, participation was equally significant, with sites such as Autoeuropa, Bimbo, Bosch, Cerealto, and Exide reporting participation rates exceeding 90 percent.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/06/11/jmpi-j11.html
Unions call for emergency social tariff as household energy bills soar due to Iran war
The TUC said this would cut up to £559 from annual bills and should be paid for by an increase in the windfall tax on banks. Fuel poverty campaigners welcomed the “serious and welcome contribution” but raised concerns that the proposals would take too long to take effect before the energy price cap rises next month. TUC general secretary Paul Nowak said: “Working people must not bear the brunt of Trump’s illegal war.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/unions-call-emergency-social-tariff-household-energy-bills-soar-due-iran-war
News 6/11/26
Peru reviews contested ballots as Fujimori takes razor-thin leadConservative Keiko Fujimori inched into the lead late on Wednesday night, boosted by overseas ballots that gave her 50.002% of the vote to leftist Roberto Sanchez's 49.998%, a difference of about 600 votes out of 18 million. More than 98% of the vote has been counted according to Peru's ONPE electoral authority, but most of those remaining are contested ballots. Only nine of the more than 90,000 polling stations remain to be counted while about 1,600 - representing around 400,000 votes - have been sent for review to Peru's National Elections Jury (JNE).
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/fujimori-edges-back-into-lead-perus-knife-edge-election-2026-06-11/
Brazil reports drop in Amazon deforestation rates, pushing back on US tariff accusations
Environment Minister João Paulo Capobianco said that the figure is the lowest ever recorded for May, and that Brazil is on track to reach its lowest annual levels once the data is consolidated next semester. He said that the month typically sees higher deforestation, because it marks the start of the Amazon’s dry season. In the 10 months from August 2025 to May 2026, deforestation in the Amazon already fell by 37.5%, compared with the same previous period.
https://apnews.com/article/brazil-amazon-rainforest-deforestation-us-tariffs-trump-9b6e95ab885a05a371f746ab7ae2c7b7
Evo Morales Challenges Bolivian President as Protests Enter Sixth Week
On Wednesday, former Bolivian President Evo Morales challenged right-wing President Rodrigo Paz to travel to the Tropics of Cochabamba amid protests that thousands of workers, miners, and farmers have been carrying out for six weeks to demand his resignation.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/evo-morales-challenges-bolivian-president-as-protests-enter-sixth-week/
Israel to set up permanent Jenin military base amid displacement from refugee camps
The Israeli army claimed that the new permanent base was "intended to replace the presence of forces in residents' homes (in the Jenin refugee camp), and to regulate troop deployment in the area from a long-term perspective, as part of creating the operational conditions for a safe withdrawal from the refugee camp."
https://www.newarab.com/news/israel-set-jenin-military-base-amid-refugee-displacement
US attack kills three Indian sailors in Gulf of Oman
The Palau-flagged MT Settebello vessel came under attack late on Tuesday after the US accused it of not complying “with directions from American forces”. The tanker had 24 Indian crew members on board, of whom 21 were rescued. The US has targeted several vessels off the coast of Oman this week. Crews were evacuated from two other ships after they were hit by projectiles.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/us-attack-kills-three-indian-sailors-gulf-oman
Drone strikes on central Sudanese city kill up to 23: NGO
sources reported on Thursday that overnight attacks had killed several people across the key hub in the southern Kordofan region. The reports concerned the latest in a series of attacks using unmanned aircraft, illustrating that drone warfare has become an increasingly prominent feature in the conflict, which erupted in April 2023 between the military government and paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF).
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/6/11/drone-strikes-on-central-sudanese-city-kill-up-to-23-ngo
https://archive.ph/Io9nD
Tortured, humiliated and killed: the women who disappear into Myanmar’s prisons
Serving her sentence in Mandalay central prison and Myingyan prison, Thazin says she experienced psychological, physical and sexual abuse at the hands of prison staff, including invasive strip-searches and beatings. In her first year in prison, other female political prisoners in her ward were allegedly secretly filmed in the showers by male prison staff, with a lawyer telling Thazin that the footage was being used to blackmail family members.
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/jun/11/tortured-humiliated-and-killed-the-women-who-disappear-into-myanmars-prisons
Left alliance slams Bangladesh budget as debt-driven and favouring wealthy
The leaders pointed to the projected budget deficit of nearly Tk 250,000 crore, arguing that the financing gap would be covered largely through domestic and foreign borrowing, raising concerns about the country's growing debt burden. They also criticized the budget for lacking a clear strategy to generate employment at a time when job creation remains one of Bangladesh's most pressing economic challenges.
https://en.banglaoutlook.org/news/236070
https://archive.ph/Pz1uo
Pakistan budget, hit by Iran war and IMF, to squeeze middle class
Under pressure to meet austerity conditions from the International Monetary Fund, Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb will submit a delayed 17.1-trillion-rupee ($61-billion) spending plan for the fiscal year starting next month, according to widespread domestic media reports. The burden of higher fuel and power costs and taxes will fall largely on formally registered businesses and salaried workers in the South Asian nation, as politically powerful sectors such as agriculture, retail and real estate remain difficult to tax, experts say.
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/pakistan-budget-hit-by-iran-war-imf-squeeze-middle-class-2026-06-11/
Belfast 'hit list' of migrants' homes circulated ahead of second night of riots
Riots raged in Belfast, the capital of Northern Ireland, for a second night, with masked men in balaclavas targeting ethnic minorities after a "hit list" of homes housing foreign nationals was circulated. The disorder was triggered by a knife attack on Monday allegedly carried out by a Sudanese asylum seeker, who has been charged with attempted murder.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/hit-list-migrant-homes-circulated-ahead-second-night-riots-belfast
One-day nationwide strike in Portugal opposes right-wing labour reform
The strike’s impact extended to air transport, with more than 500 flight cancellations. TAP, the country’s main airline, suspended around 300 flights and operated only 79 under minimum service obligations. In industry and the private sector, participation was equally significant, with sites such as Autoeuropa, Bimbo, Bosch, Cerealto, and Exide reporting participation rates exceeding 90 percent.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/06/11/jmpi-j11.html
Unions call for emergency social tariff as household energy bills soar due to Iran war
The TUC said this would cut up to £559 from annual bills and should be paid for by an increase in the windfall tax on banks. Fuel poverty campaigners welcomed the “serious and welcome contribution” but raised concerns that the proposals would take too long to take effect before the energy price cap rises next month. TUC general secretary Paul Nowak said: “Working people must not bear the brunt of Trump’s illegal war.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/unions-call-emergency-social-tariff-household-energy-bills-soar-due-iran-war
R: 13 / I: 6
Marxist teleology is wrong
There is no linear causal relationship between the phases of socialism and communism. Very rarely does one transition to the other, and it seems like EZLN managed to transition from minimal state to closer to stateless when pressured by cartels, while the USSR only diverged from that with time. Prefigurative politics and muscle memory is important as much as mode of production in determining which direction a society moves long term.
R: 14 / I: 2
>reading about the Industrial Revolution and its consequences in the contemporary world
<mfw when I realize that Marx believed Communism would be possible because he mistakenly believed that industries would generate infinite resources, which would make the division of labor, the origin of social stratification, meaningless since there would be resources for everyone, unlike the systems of servitude prior to Capitalism where the division of labor had to exist to organize/maximize the production of resources since there were no industries and producing alone would not generate enough resources for a larger population to sustain itself
<mfw Marx did not realize that it is the very dynamics of the organization of the division of labor/classes and not the industries that generate infinite resources because equality of production produces absence of competition. Absence of competition produces absence of incentive for innovation. Absence of innovation produces absence of productivity. Absence of productivity produces nothing and is the reason why socialist regimes simply stagnate and need external intervention to maintain themselves
>reading about the Industrial Revolution and its consequences in the contemporary world
<mfw when I realize that Marx believed Communism would be possible because he mistakenly believed that industries would generate infinite resources, which would make the division of labor, the origin of social stratification, meaningless since there would be resources for everyone, unlike the systems of servitude prior to Capitalism where the division of labor had to exist to organize/maximize the production of resources since there were no industries and producing alone would not generate enough resources for a larger population to sustain itself
<mfw Marx did not realize that it is the very dynamics of the organization of the division of labor/classes and not the industries that generate infinite resources because equality of production produces absence of competition. Absence of competition produces absence of incentive for innovation. Absence of innovation produces absence of productivity. Absence of productivity produces nothing and is the reason why socialist regimes simply stagnate and need external intervention to maintain themselves
R: 32 / I: 5
-ANAHUAC WARRIOR, MEXICO AZTLAN, 1519
FRATERNAL REVOLUTIONARY GREETINGS IN STRUGGLE, FROM WITHIN THE TOMBS AND STEEL CAGES OF THE NEOCOLONIAL MILITARY SUPERMAX CONTROL UNIT GULAG OF THE IMPERIALIST BEAST !!!
You have probably heard of the serious medical issues that afflicted me by the genocidal design of my captors stemming from 24 consecutive years in solitary confinement, malnutrition, constant harassment by the pigs, no recreation or exercise, social isolation, censorship of my revolutionary writings, and a pattern of systemic genocidal torture and brutal repression designed to break my will and my spirit of resistance. I had a stroke in November 2025, at the McConnell Unit in Beeville. Before then, I had been struggling to get medical attention for a series of maladies I had developed as my physical and mental health began deteriorating, namely, bladder infections, neuropathy, B 12 vitamin deficiency, among other disabilities, all ignored by the prison.
On these issues. I have been going back and forth to the main Galveston prison hospital, to the Carole Young Medical facility for surgery and a series of tests and so forth. I am now at the Estelle medical unit (E2) in Huntsville, Texas awaiting to, again, be transferred to Galveston for the testing ordered since December 2025, delayed time and again, under a policy that when the prison is on “routine lockdown” for cellblock searches for contraband, all prior medical appointments are cancelled. For example, I had a scheduled test in Galveston for May 12 but on May 11 the unit went on lockdown, and all doctor’s appointments are cancelled. The unit warden runs this plantation-like gulag like his own kingdom. For more updates on my situation, please visit Instagram.com/freexinachtlinow, or at wwwfreealvaro.net.
My Xinachtli Freedom Campaign (XFC) in Houston has done, and continues to do, an excellent job in reaching out to others, building membership, staying in touch, holding forums, workshops, producing outreach materials such as T-shirts, posters, publishing my revolutionary writings, essays, etcetera, and coalescing the liberation movement of colonized, oppressed communities of Black, Chicano, Indigenous First Nations and supporting each other. My XFC meets every two weeks, online to discuss themes on our agenda and to hold revolutionary co-education discussions on fortifying the campaign and creating a core of cadres who are being trained as community organizers, LINKING THE POLITICAL PRISONERS STRUGGLES/MOVEMENT, WITH COMMUNITY STRUGGLES AS ONE AND THE SAME. I always refer to THE JERICHO MOVEMENT and the ZAPATISTA EXPERIENCES on all matters of community organization, and autonomy, including GLOBALIZATION OF OUR REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENT FOR NATIONAL LIBERATION AND FREEDOM FROM NEOCOLONIALISM, IMPERIALISM AND FASCISM.
Just wanted to share these updates with all of the members of JERICHO, and to thank you for your continued support and solidarity. My current attorneys SANDRA C. FREEMAN, and DUSTIN MCDANIEL (former!y with the ABOLITIONIST LAW CENTER, Philly) have filed suit in federal court in Galveston on my behalf on the issues of denial of adequate medical care, prolonged solitary, which is moving forward. By the way, my XFC facilitators, an all-women team in Houston, will be at the IN THE SPIRIT OF MANDELA mobilization to be convened as THE PEOPLE’S SENATE in Atlanta, GA for JULY 4th counterdemo to expose the true nature of AmeriKKKa’s hypocrite celebrations of its 250 YEARS OF SLAVERY AND WAR CRIMES AGAINST BLACKS (FREDERICK DOUGLAS ,THE TRUE MEANING OF THE FOURTH OF JULY FOR BLACKS. ,1852) , RAZA MEXICANA/CHICANA, AND INDIGENOUS FIRST NATIONS.
Stay in close touch
!!! TIERRA Y LIBERTAD !! MUERTE AL IMPERIALISMO YANQI !!! U.S. IMPERIALISM, HANDS OFF CUBA !!!
REVOLUCIONARIAMENTE, XINACHTLI (meaning “germinating seed” in NAHUATL)
Texas Department of Criminal Justice
Alvaro Hernández #255735
Post Office Box 660400
Dallas, Texas 752660400
One Letter Can Break the Silence. Write Your Comrades.
THEY TRIED TO BURY US ALIVE, NOT KNOWING WE WERE SEEDS….-ANAHUAC WARRIOR, MEXICO AZTLAN, 1519
FRATERNAL REVOLUTIONARY GREETINGS IN STRUGGLE, FROM WITHIN THE TOMBS AND STEEL CAGES OF THE NEOCOLONIAL MILITARY SUPERMAX CONTROL UNIT GULAG OF THE IMPERIALIST BEAST !!!
You have probably heard of the serious medical issues that afflicted me by the genocidal design of my captors stemming from 24 consecutive years in solitary confinement, malnutrition, constant harassment by the pigs, no recreation or exercise, social isolation, censorship of my revolutionary writings, and a pattern of systemic genocidal torture and brutal repression designed to break my will and my spirit of resistance. I had a stroke in November 2025, at the McConnell Unit in Beeville. Before then, I had been struggling to get medical attention for a series of maladies I had developed as my physical and mental health began deteriorating, namely, bladder infections, neuropathy, B 12 vitamin deficiency, among other disabilities, all ignored by the prison.
On these issues. I have been going back and forth to the main Galveston prison hospital, to the Carole Young Medical facility for surgery and a series of tests and so forth. I am now at the Estelle medical unit (E2) in Huntsville, Texas awaiting to, again, be transferred to Galveston for the testing ordered since December 2025, delayed time and again, under a policy that when the prison is on “routine lockdown” for cellblock searches for contraband, all prior medical appointments are cancelled. For example, I had a scheduled test in Galveston for May 12 but on May 11 the unit went on lockdown, and all doctor’s appointments are cancelled. The unit warden runs this plantation-like gulag like his own kingdom. For more updates on my situation, please visit Instagram.com/freexinachtlinow, or at wwwfreealvaro.net.
My Xinachtli Freedom Campaign (XFC) in Houston has done, and continues to do, an excellent job in reaching out to others, building membership, staying in touch, holding forums, workshops, producing outreach materials such as T-shirts, posters, publishing my revolutionary writings, essays, etcetera, and coalescing the liberation movement of colonized, oppressed communities of Black, Chicano, Indigenous First Nations and supporting each other. My XFC meets every two weeks, online to discuss themes on our agenda and to hold revolutionary co-education discussions on fortifying the campaign and creating a core of cadres who are being trained as community organizers, LINKING THE POLITICAL PRISONERS STRUGGLES/MOVEMENT, WITH COMMUNITY STRUGGLES AS ONE AND THE SAME. I always refer to THE JERICHO MOVEMENT and the ZAPATISTA EXPERIENCES on all matters of community organization, and autonomy, including GLOBALIZATION OF OUR REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENT FOR NATIONAL LIBERATION AND FREEDOM FROM NEOCOLONIALISM, IMPERIALISM AND FASCISM.
Just wanted to share these updates with all of the members of JERICHO, and to thank you for your continued support and solidarity. My current attorneys SANDRA C. FREEMAN, and DUSTIN MCDANIEL (former!y with the ABOLITIONIST LAW CENTER, Philly) have filed suit in federal court in Galveston on my behalf on the issues of denial of adequate medical care, prolonged solitary, which is moving forward. By the way, my XFC facilitators, an all-women team in Houston, will be at the IN THE SPIRIT OF MANDELA mobilization to be convened as THE PEOPLE’S SENATE in Atlanta, GA for JULY 4th counterdemo to expose the true nature of AmeriKKKa’s hypocrite celebrations of its 250 YEARS OF SLAVERY AND WAR CRIMES AGAINST BLACKS (FREDERICK DOUGLAS ,THE TRUE MEANING OF THE FOURTH OF JULY FOR BLACKS. ,1852) , RAZA MEXICANA/CHICANA, AND INDIGENOUS FIRST NATIONS.
Stay in close touch
!!! TIERRA Y LIBERTAD !! MUERTE AL IMPERIALISMO YANQI !!! U.S. IMPERIALISM, HANDS OFF CUBA !!!
REVOLUCIONARIAMENTE, XINACHTLI (meaning “germinating seed” in NAHUATL)
Texas Department of Criminal Justice
Alvaro Hernández #255735
Post Office Box 660400
Dallas, Texas 752660400
R: 78 / I: 7
Perhaps one of the Gulf States will see a slave uprising? Think about it.
Next Communist Revolution?
What country is the closest to a Communist revolution? It doesn't even have to be close, just the closest.Perhaps one of the Gulf States will see a slave uprising? Think about it.
R: 107 / I: 59
Link dump:
https://www.greenleft.org.au [good events page]
https://www.auscp.org.au/militant-monthly
https://solidarity.net.au
https://redflag.org.au
https://marxistleftreview.org/?topic=australia
https://www.michaelwest.com.au
https://partisanmagazine.org/about/
https://overland.org.au
https://arena.org.au
https://www.themonthly.com.au
https://www.crikey.com.au
https://www.redblacknotes.com
https://www.surplusvalue.org.au/McQueen/index.htm
https://reddit.com/r/AustralianSocialism (use a Redlib mirror instead of reddit.com)
https://www.labourstart.org/news/country.php?country=Australia&langcode=en
https://anarchistnews.org/content/spotters-guide-anarchism-australia-and-aotearoa
https://thewhiterosesociety.writeas.com (antifascism, most active on twitter, use a Nitter mirror instead of x.com)
Antifascist alert Telegram channels - join and share the links with comrades and friends
Melbourne: https://t.me/AFAAlertsNaarm
Sydney: https://t.me/antifaalertssydney
Brisbane: https://t.me/antifaalertsmeanjin
/auspol/ #12 - A Police Helicopter Just Flew Over My House edition
Australian and Oceania politics general thread. 'EDIT'"Previous thread: >>2371516"Link dump:
https://www.greenleft.org.au [good events page]
https://www.auscp.org.au/militant-monthly
https://solidarity.net.au
https://redflag.org.au
https://marxistleftreview.org/?topic=australia
https://www.michaelwest.com.au
https://partisanmagazine.org/about/
https://overland.org.au
https://arena.org.au
https://www.themonthly.com.au
https://www.crikey.com.au
https://www.redblacknotes.com
https://www.surplusvalue.org.au/McQueen/index.htm
https://reddit.com/r/AustralianSocialism (use a Redlib mirror instead of reddit.com)
https://www.labourstart.org/news/country.php?country=Australia&langcode=en
https://anarchistnews.org/content/spotters-guide-anarchism-australia-and-aotearoa
https://thewhiterosesociety.writeas.com (antifascism, most active on twitter, use a Nitter mirror instead of x.com)
Antifascist alert Telegram channels - join and share the links with comrades and friends
Melbourne: https://t.me/AFAAlertsNaarm
Sydney: https://t.me/antifaalertssydney
Brisbane: https://t.me/antifaalertsmeanjin
R: 70 / I: 18
>if tomorrow every CPUSA member died screaming in a fiery car crash you would be a very happy camper but nothing would change. your party would still be irrelevant, there would still be dozens of nominally communist parties without any power or membership or militancy and the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie would still keep chugging along through the DNC and RNC.
To focus on the individuals within the organizations, to speculate on their personal psychology, careerist ambitions, or individual "bad faith" is to fall into the trap of liberal idealism. It mistakes the symptom (the behavior of the individual) for the disease (the structural function of the apparatus that contains them). The material reality is that the DSA and the CPUSA, PSL, and the likes are not simply "misguided" organizations; they are integral functionaries in the Non-Profit Industrial Complex (NPIC), which operates as a domestic counter-insurgency machine. To analyze this correctly is to see that the function of these "leftist" parties, irrespective of the intentions of their members, is to absorb, professionalize, and neutralize revolutionary energy before it can pose a material threat to capital.
The term "Non-Profit Industrial Complex" describes the sprawling network of foundations, charities, and service organizations that, under a legal framework, form an apparatus of social control. With over 1.5 million such organizations in the U.S. and combined assets in the trillions, this is not an auxiliary to the state; it is a central pillar of its hegemonic project.
The U.S. government and the CIA have a long history of using foundations and NGOs to destabilize hostile states, funding militant movements abroad to create chaos. At home, the same technique is used for the opposite purpose, to stabilize the state by capturing and misdirecting domestic dissent. As Robert L. Allen documented, the Ford Foundation gave millions to Black organizations in the 1960s, deliberately funding moderate leaders who would steer the movement away from revolution and toward integration into the capitalist system. This is not speculation; it is documented counter-insurgency tactic that has become more complex, and more embedded into material reality over decades.
The "Shadow of the Shadow State", Ruth Wilson Gilmore describes the most troubling sector of the NPIC as the "shadow of the shadow state". These are the ostensibly "left-of-center" and "grassroots" organizations that "work fervently to organize ordinary people against their own abandonment". They are the ground-level forces that channel rage into manageable projects, preventing it from boiling over into an uncontrollable insurrection. As Dylan Rodriguez argues, this "counterinsurgency machine" relies on this very "ensemble of universities, nonprofits, philanthropic foundations, and advocacy campaigns" to "temper revolutionary movements". They are not misguided comrades; they are the functional equivalent of social workers for the revolution, paid to keep the militancy just below the boiling point.
The counter-insurgent function of this NGO left is not a historical abstraction; it is the daily reality of the movement for Palestine. As detailed by the Black Alliance for Peace, the campaign to criminalize and isolate the Palestine movement has been privatized, with "professors, NGOs, and anonymous social media accounts" operating as "the new informant files". The liberal left does not merely stand by while the state attacks militants; it actively participates and logs the leftists they are close to. When revisionist and reformist leftists show up to marches and point agitators out to the police, aggressively, they are not bystanders they are performing the classic role of the "liberal or revisionist snitch," accelerating the "full spectrum campaign" that the state runs to neutralize its enemies.
We must also reject the moralistic victimhood that often accompanies leftist critique. It is not that the individuals in these NGOs are "traitors" in the sense of a personal, moral failing. Many are well meaning and sincere. The point is that their function is objectively counter-revolutionary, and the system ensures they perform this function regardless of their conscience. The liberal leftist who points out an "agitator" to the police believes they are "protecting the movement." They are not. They are doing the work of the state. The DSA member who spends months on a city council campaign believes they are "building power." They are not. They are building a career inside the cage they should be aiming to destroy.
If the entire NGO complex were to collapse tomorrow, and the "sea of leftists" who currently paddle in its wake were to abandon their reformist projects and join the actual, self reliant vanguard, things would indeed look much more ferocious. But they will not. They cannot. They are structurally bound to the apparatus that contains them. The task for the serious revolutionary, therefore, is not to moralize or to try to "win over" these organizations, but to treat them as what they are, the enemy within. They are a barrier that must be bypassed, not a coalition to be courted. The distributed vanguard does not wait for the NGO complex to reform itself; it organizes around it, through it, and in spite of it, until the day the apparatus of containment is rendered as obsolete as the bourgeois state that funds it.
You must understand modern COIN
>>2830897>if tomorrow every CPUSA member died screaming in a fiery car crash you would be a very happy camper but nothing would change. your party would still be irrelevant, there would still be dozens of nominally communist parties without any power or membership or militancy and the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie would still keep chugging along through the DNC and RNC.
To focus on the individuals within the organizations, to speculate on their personal psychology, careerist ambitions, or individual "bad faith" is to fall into the trap of liberal idealism. It mistakes the symptom (the behavior of the individual) for the disease (the structural function of the apparatus that contains them). The material reality is that the DSA and the CPUSA, PSL, and the likes are not simply "misguided" organizations; they are integral functionaries in the Non-Profit Industrial Complex (NPIC), which operates as a domestic counter-insurgency machine. To analyze this correctly is to see that the function of these "leftist" parties, irrespective of the intentions of their members, is to absorb, professionalize, and neutralize revolutionary energy before it can pose a material threat to capital.
The term "Non-Profit Industrial Complex" describes the sprawling network of foundations, charities, and service organizations that, under a legal framework, form an apparatus of social control. With over 1.5 million such organizations in the U.S. and combined assets in the trillions, this is not an auxiliary to the state; it is a central pillar of its hegemonic project.
The U.S. government and the CIA have a long history of using foundations and NGOs to destabilize hostile states, funding militant movements abroad to create chaos. At home, the same technique is used for the opposite purpose, to stabilize the state by capturing and misdirecting domestic dissent. As Robert L. Allen documented, the Ford Foundation gave millions to Black organizations in the 1960s, deliberately funding moderate leaders who would steer the movement away from revolution and toward integration into the capitalist system. This is not speculation; it is documented counter-insurgency tactic that has become more complex, and more embedded into material reality over decades.
The "Shadow of the Shadow State", Ruth Wilson Gilmore describes the most troubling sector of the NPIC as the "shadow of the shadow state". These are the ostensibly "left-of-center" and "grassroots" organizations that "work fervently to organize ordinary people against their own abandonment". They are the ground-level forces that channel rage into manageable projects, preventing it from boiling over into an uncontrollable insurrection. As Dylan Rodriguez argues, this "counterinsurgency machine" relies on this very "ensemble of universities, nonprofits, philanthropic foundations, and advocacy campaigns" to "temper revolutionary movements". They are not misguided comrades; they are the functional equivalent of social workers for the revolution, paid to keep the militancy just below the boiling point.
The counter-insurgent function of this NGO left is not a historical abstraction; it is the daily reality of the movement for Palestine. As detailed by the Black Alliance for Peace, the campaign to criminalize and isolate the Palestine movement has been privatized, with "professors, NGOs, and anonymous social media accounts" operating as "the new informant files". The liberal left does not merely stand by while the state attacks militants; it actively participates and logs the leftists they are close to. When revisionist and reformist leftists show up to marches and point agitators out to the police, aggressively, they are not bystanders they are performing the classic role of the "liberal or revisionist snitch," accelerating the "full spectrum campaign" that the state runs to neutralize its enemies.
We must also reject the moralistic victimhood that often accompanies leftist critique. It is not that the individuals in these NGOs are "traitors" in the sense of a personal, moral failing. Many are well meaning and sincere. The point is that their function is objectively counter-revolutionary, and the system ensures they perform this function regardless of their conscience. The liberal leftist who points out an "agitator" to the police believes they are "protecting the movement." They are not. They are doing the work of the state. The DSA member who spends months on a city council campaign believes they are "building power." They are not. They are building a career inside the cage they should be aiming to destroy.
If the entire NGO complex were to collapse tomorrow, and the "sea of leftists" who currently paddle in its wake were to abandon their reformist projects and join the actual, self reliant vanguard, things would indeed look much more ferocious. But they will not. They cannot. They are structurally bound to the apparatus that contains them. The task for the serious revolutionary, therefore, is not to moralize or to try to "win over" these organizations, but to treat them as what they are, the enemy within. They are a barrier that must be bypassed, not a coalition to be courted. The distributed vanguard does not wait for the NGO complex to reform itself; it organizes around it, through it, and in spite of it, until the day the apparatus of containment is rendered as obsolete as the bourgeois state that funds it.
R: 5 / I: 1
It's boring, what happened to the gulf war shit and le hecking fast super wars cool times and death.
Why do all wars bog down so much
All the major wars happening right now are all bogged down and slow, nobody is doing anything, nobody winning, only both losing, or one losing more then the other very slowly.It's boring, what happened to the gulf war shit and le hecking fast super wars cool times and death.
R: 14 / I: 2 (sage)
Based anti-imperialist nations that resists against the western decadence and liberating nations from degeneracy
LGBT NAFOISm Euro colonialism trans groomers shoved down to throat with cultural imperialism ideology to the East, destroying traditional values of families.
I wish Burkina Faso solidarity during LGBT Imperialism month
Pick one you can’t be radical centrist view
You only have two factionsBased anti-imperialist nations that resists against the western decadence and liberating nations from degeneracy
LGBT NAFOISm Euro colonialism trans groomers shoved down to throat with cultural imperialism ideology to the East, destroying traditional values of families.
I wish Burkina Faso solidarity during LGBT Imperialism month
R: 2 / I: 0
For at least a year, Silva-Koniuszek had been denouncing the irregular sale of more than 700 hectares in the Capaes area, where the land was sold without a public auction in 2022 by then-Mayor Otto Vera Palacios for US$6.2 million. The case gained prominence because the transaction allegedly involved the administration of La Libertad Mayor Francisco Tamariz.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/ecuadorian-environmental-defender-found-dead-after-reporting-corruption-and-threats/
Final countdown to defuse protests against Mexican government ahead of World Cup opening game
Only 24 hours remain before the World Cup kicks off in Mexico and the country is going though its final dress rehearsals. Preventing demonstrations on opening day is already a pipe dream: negotiations with teachers have stalled and search groups will march to make their missing relatives visible.
https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-06-10/final-countdown-to-defuse-protests-against-mexican-government-ahead-of-world-cup-opening-game.html
Global Union Urges Sanctions on Myanmar Regime Over Labor Abuses
The junta has moved to dismantle labor protections, scrapping tripartite mechanisms between workers, employers and the government, while cracking down on trade unions and jailing or exiling labor activists. Addressing the ILC, IndustriALL general secretary Atle Høie stressed that around 450,000 garment workers in Myanmar earn under US$100 a month—about half the living wage. He said factories operating under martial law expose workers to military checkpoints, harassment, unpaid overtime and the threat of forced conscription.
https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/myanmars-crisis-the-world/global-union-urges-sanctions-on-myanmar-regime-over-labor-abuses.html
CITU Blames ‘Serious Lapse’ by RINL Management in Following SOPs That Led to Blast Killing 9 Workers
In a statement, CITU flayed the Central government for “hurriedly” issuing an official release terming the accident as a “fire accident”. This “is not wholly factual and smacks of evasion of responsibility and accountability. Such horrible accident took place basically owing to gross violation of and compromise in the “STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURE(SOP)” which is integrally linked with the basic preventive safety norms in such an extremely hazard-prone steel production process,” CITU said in its statement.
https://www.newsclick.in/citu-blames-serious-lapse-rinl-management-following-sops-led-blast-killing-9-workers
Indonesian court finds 4 military members guilty of acid attack on activist, sends them to prison
The three navy marines, Sgt. Edi Sudarko, First Lt. Budhi Hariyanto Widhi Cahyono, and Capt. Nandala Dwi Prasetya, and an air force officer, Lt. Sami Lakka, were all assigned to the intelligence agency of the Indonesian National Armed Forces, or TNI. They were convicted over the March attack on Andrie Yunus, a human rights lawyer and senior activist with the Commission for the Disappeared and Victims of Violence, known as KontraS.
https://apnews.com/article/indonesia-military-court-acid-attack-b46233574b55c8fbca539268fdb3a5fb
Military reinforcement from Syrian Ministry of Defence head toward the Lebanese border | Mobilization and buildup by armed factions and foreign fighters in Al-Qusayr
This coincided with a large-scale buildup by armed factions and groups of foreign fighters. Hundreds of them gathered in Al-Qusayr city and its surroundings, and deployed along the border strip between Syria and Lebanon. The sources confirmed that the deployed members are equipped with full weapons and military gear, and are on a state of field alert. However, no precise information is available so far regarding the nature of the missions or objectives linked to these movements.
https://www.syriahr.com/en/383193/
Israel MPs in bid to exempt ultra-Orthodox from conscription
According to its preamble, the proposed legislation "seeks to enshrine in a Basic Law the status of Torah study as a fundamental value of the Jewish people's heritage". Basic Laws carry constitutional weight in Israel and require a simple majority of 61 out of 120 lawmakers to pass a third reading. The bill also proposes that "the State of Israel recognise individuals who commit to devoting themselves to Torah study over an extended period as performing a meaningful service for the benefit of the state and the Jewish people".
https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2026/06/israel-mps-bid-exempt-ultra-orthodox-conscription
New details of London event promoting Israeli settlement-linked companies
Emanuel Vatari, CEO of one of the sponsors of the event, the Emanuel Group, posted a list of companies participating on his Facebook page on Tuesday. The list includes Harey Zahav, an Israeli real estate development company whose website advertises property in Negohot, an illegal Israeli settlement in the southern Hebron Hills in the occupied West Bank. Also on the list is The Meshulam Levinstein Group, a collection of engineering, construction and real estate companies. It has built residential and commercial projects in illegal settlements in both the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/gmb-members-march-through-blackpool-after-labour-waters-down-plans-help-school-support
GMB members march through Blackpool after Labour waters down plans help school support staff
The leaders of Unison, GMB and Unite slammed the Department for Education’s push for the mass academisation of schools without a long-promised national framework for job evaluations and pay on Tuesday. Unions say the lack of a framework will put hundreds of thousands of school support staff at risk of fragmented “free-for-all” employment practices and put academies at risk of equal pay claims.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/gmb-members-march-through-blackpool-after-labour-waters-down-plans-help-school-support
Politically motivated crimes in Germany reach record high
“The majority of crimes were committed by right-wing and far-right perpetrators, which once again demonstrates that the greatest danger currently stems from far-right extremism,” Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt said in Berlin on Tuesday after presenting an annual report on crimes motivated by political ideology. Yet, he said far-left actors were responsible for the largest increase in violent crimes, with offenses attributed to left-wing extremist ideology up by about 42 percent. That surge, said Dobrindt, underscores the “growing threat” posed by the “far-left scene.”
https://www.politico.eu/article/politically-motivated-crimes-germany-reach-record-high/
https://archive.ph/naVVP
News 6/10/26
Ecuadorian Environmental Defender Found Dead After Reporting Corruption and ThreatsFor at least a year, Silva-Koniuszek had been denouncing the irregular sale of more than 700 hectares in the Capaes area, where the land was sold without a public auction in 2022 by then-Mayor Otto Vera Palacios for US$6.2 million. The case gained prominence because the transaction allegedly involved the administration of La Libertad Mayor Francisco Tamariz.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/ecuadorian-environmental-defender-found-dead-after-reporting-corruption-and-threats/
Final countdown to defuse protests against Mexican government ahead of World Cup opening game
Only 24 hours remain before the World Cup kicks off in Mexico and the country is going though its final dress rehearsals. Preventing demonstrations on opening day is already a pipe dream: negotiations with teachers have stalled and search groups will march to make their missing relatives visible.
https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-06-10/final-countdown-to-defuse-protests-against-mexican-government-ahead-of-world-cup-opening-game.html
Global Union Urges Sanctions on Myanmar Regime Over Labor Abuses
The junta has moved to dismantle labor protections, scrapping tripartite mechanisms between workers, employers and the government, while cracking down on trade unions and jailing or exiling labor activists. Addressing the ILC, IndustriALL general secretary Atle Høie stressed that around 450,000 garment workers in Myanmar earn under US$100 a month—about half the living wage. He said factories operating under martial law expose workers to military checkpoints, harassment, unpaid overtime and the threat of forced conscription.
https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/myanmars-crisis-the-world/global-union-urges-sanctions-on-myanmar-regime-over-labor-abuses.html
CITU Blames ‘Serious Lapse’ by RINL Management in Following SOPs That Led to Blast Killing 9 Workers
In a statement, CITU flayed the Central government for “hurriedly” issuing an official release terming the accident as a “fire accident”. This “is not wholly factual and smacks of evasion of responsibility and accountability. Such horrible accident took place basically owing to gross violation of and compromise in the “STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURE(SOP)” which is integrally linked with the basic preventive safety norms in such an extremely hazard-prone steel production process,” CITU said in its statement.
https://www.newsclick.in/citu-blames-serious-lapse-rinl-management-following-sops-led-blast-killing-9-workers
Indonesian court finds 4 military members guilty of acid attack on activist, sends them to prison
The three navy marines, Sgt. Edi Sudarko, First Lt. Budhi Hariyanto Widhi Cahyono, and Capt. Nandala Dwi Prasetya, and an air force officer, Lt. Sami Lakka, were all assigned to the intelligence agency of the Indonesian National Armed Forces, or TNI. They were convicted over the March attack on Andrie Yunus, a human rights lawyer and senior activist with the Commission for the Disappeared and Victims of Violence, known as KontraS.
https://apnews.com/article/indonesia-military-court-acid-attack-b46233574b55c8fbca539268fdb3a5fb
Military reinforcement from Syrian Ministry of Defence head toward the Lebanese border | Mobilization and buildup by armed factions and foreign fighters in Al-Qusayr
This coincided with a large-scale buildup by armed factions and groups of foreign fighters. Hundreds of them gathered in Al-Qusayr city and its surroundings, and deployed along the border strip between Syria and Lebanon. The sources confirmed that the deployed members are equipped with full weapons and military gear, and are on a state of field alert. However, no precise information is available so far regarding the nature of the missions or objectives linked to these movements.
https://www.syriahr.com/en/383193/
Israel MPs in bid to exempt ultra-Orthodox from conscription
According to its preamble, the proposed legislation "seeks to enshrine in a Basic Law the status of Torah study as a fundamental value of the Jewish people's heritage". Basic Laws carry constitutional weight in Israel and require a simple majority of 61 out of 120 lawmakers to pass a third reading. The bill also proposes that "the State of Israel recognise individuals who commit to devoting themselves to Torah study over an extended period as performing a meaningful service for the benefit of the state and the Jewish people".
https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2026/06/israel-mps-bid-exempt-ultra-orthodox-conscription
New details of London event promoting Israeli settlement-linked companies
Emanuel Vatari, CEO of one of the sponsors of the event, the Emanuel Group, posted a list of companies participating on his Facebook page on Tuesday. The list includes Harey Zahav, an Israeli real estate development company whose website advertises property in Negohot, an illegal Israeli settlement in the southern Hebron Hills in the occupied West Bank. Also on the list is The Meshulam Levinstein Group, a collection of engineering, construction and real estate companies. It has built residential and commercial projects in illegal settlements in both the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/gmb-members-march-through-blackpool-after-labour-waters-down-plans-help-school-support
GMB members march through Blackpool after Labour waters down plans help school support staff
The leaders of Unison, GMB and Unite slammed the Department for Education’s push for the mass academisation of schools without a long-promised national framework for job evaluations and pay on Tuesday. Unions say the lack of a framework will put hundreds of thousands of school support staff at risk of fragmented “free-for-all” employment practices and put academies at risk of equal pay claims.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/gmb-members-march-through-blackpool-after-labour-waters-down-plans-help-school-support
Politically motivated crimes in Germany reach record high
“The majority of crimes were committed by right-wing and far-right perpetrators, which once again demonstrates that the greatest danger currently stems from far-right extremism,” Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt said in Berlin on Tuesday after presenting an annual report on crimes motivated by political ideology. Yet, he said far-left actors were responsible for the largest increase in violent crimes, with offenses attributed to left-wing extremist ideology up by about 42 percent. That surge, said Dobrindt, underscores the “growing threat” posed by the “far-left scene.”
https://www.politico.eu/article/politically-motivated-crimes-germany-reach-record-high/
https://archive.ph/naVVP
R: 581 / I: 108
>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™
<Biggest Threat Edition
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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 📺
(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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• 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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• deep list of horrible shit we (royal we) have done // https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/us_atrocities.md
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• Wikipedia: United States War Crimes // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_war_crimes
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• More than 250 military interventions in the last 30 years alone // https://blackagendareport.com/us-launched-251-military-interventions-1991-and-469-1798
• Visualization of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade // https://www.slavevoyages.org/
• UNESCO Sites relating to Slavery // https://slaveryandremembrance.org/
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• Epstein's Black Book // https://epsteinsblackbook.com/
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• 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: >>2830867
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Because from where I'm sitting, all I see is chaos for chaos's sake. And I can't figure out how that gets you closer to socialism than, I don't know, winning a school board seat or organizing a tenant union. Legal avenues are slow and boring, sure, but at least they don't end with you getting drone-striked in a parking lot by 2032.
So help me understand. What comes after the bang? Or is the bang the whole point? because to me it seems maoists and anarchists in the USA are some of the loudest yet some of the most disorganized and chaotic bunch. they seem to know how to agitate but not do much more. chaos for chaos sake is what is giving.
adventurists let me know something
What exactly is the end goal here? Like, seriously. You agitate, you destroy, you provoke. Let's say you actually spark that civil war you keep hinting at. Then what? Who runs the rubble? How do you feed people? What's the phase-two plan beyond hoodrat behavior and manifestos?Because from where I'm sitting, all I see is chaos for chaos's sake. And I can't figure out how that gets you closer to socialism than, I don't know, winning a school board seat or organizing a tenant union. Legal avenues are slow and boring, sure, but at least they don't end with you getting drone-striked in a parking lot by 2032.
So help me understand. What comes after the bang? Or is the bang the whole point? because to me it seems maoists and anarchists in the USA are some of the loudest yet some of the most disorganized and chaotic bunch. they seem to know how to agitate but not do much more. chaos for chaos sake is what is giving.
R: 15 / I: 1
Virtually all taxes are a scam to steal money from the proletariat.
Property taxes? Money stolen directly from house owning proles and indirectly from renters to fund local capitalist government.
Sales tax/VAT? Money stolen from proles who just want to spend their hard earned money on things to survive and maybe enjoy a bit.
Payroll taxes? What a gigantic fucking scam. You are already fleeced by income taxes but now you are double fleeced by ANOTHER income tax that most don't even know or think about.
Social security/Medicare/equivalents in your country? What is the purpose of this when you already pay income tax? Why seperate this out? To guilt trip you into paying for something your exploiter needs to pay.
"Income" tax? It's a WAGE TAX. Porky makes his money from profits, capital gains, dividends, rents, financial boondoggling etc. Those things are taxed at much lower rates than they should be.
Here's what a pro-worker tax policy looks like. At the end of the year, you add up your total income - your salary + rental income + capital gains + dividends + literally anything that is "actually earned income"
Then you sort the population by income. The bottom 80% pay ZERO. The 80-99 percentile pay 40% on all earning above the 80th percentile income. The top 1% pay 80% above the 99th percentile income.
This tax would fund the government easily and no other tax is needed. The bloated military budget, various subsidies, inefficient govt orgs will be severely reduced or eliminated.
Remember that proles already had their money stolen by capitalists during labor time. EVERY DOLLAR OF TAX PAID BY A PROLE IS DOUBLE THEFT.
Also public execution for wealthy tax evaders.
>b-but what about wealth tax and inheritance tax
They count as income when they are transferred and the same rules apply.
>B-but big govt and taxes good.
No, as long as capitalists control the state, high taxes merely result in the state managing finances more than private capitalists. It makes it even harder for the proles to fight back because now they have to fight the state to claw back their income instead of individual private capitalists.
THE STATE IS THE SECURE PIGGY BANK CAPITALISTS USE TO TEMPORARILY STORE THEIR WEALTH WHEN THREATENED. THE STATE IS THE ENEMY. RAPE ALL SOCIAL DEMOCRATS TO DEATH.
>why not tax corporations/banks instead of individuals
Corporations/banks are shell games capitalists use to hide their PERSONAL wealth. You tax the biological person and not the arcane shell game.
Ideal pro-worker tax policy under capitalism
Literally just abolish ALL taxes except a SINGLE progressive INCOME tax.Virtually all taxes are a scam to steal money from the proletariat.
Property taxes? Money stolen directly from house owning proles and indirectly from renters to fund local capitalist government.
Sales tax/VAT? Money stolen from proles who just want to spend their hard earned money on things to survive and maybe enjoy a bit.
Payroll taxes? What a gigantic fucking scam. You are already fleeced by income taxes but now you are double fleeced by ANOTHER income tax that most don't even know or think about.
Social security/Medicare/equivalents in your country? What is the purpose of this when you already pay income tax? Why seperate this out? To guilt trip you into paying for something your exploiter needs to pay.
"Income" tax? It's a WAGE TAX. Porky makes his money from profits, capital gains, dividends, rents, financial boondoggling etc. Those things are taxed at much lower rates than they should be.
Here's what a pro-worker tax policy looks like. At the end of the year, you add up your total income - your salary + rental income + capital gains + dividends + literally anything that is "actually earned income"
Then you sort the population by income. The bottom 80% pay ZERO. The 80-99 percentile pay 40% on all earning above the 80th percentile income. The top 1% pay 80% above the 99th percentile income.
This tax would fund the government easily and no other tax is needed. The bloated military budget, various subsidies, inefficient govt orgs will be severely reduced or eliminated.
Remember that proles already had their money stolen by capitalists during labor time. EVERY DOLLAR OF TAX PAID BY A PROLE IS DOUBLE THEFT.
Also public execution for wealthy tax evaders.
>b-but what about wealth tax and inheritance tax
They count as income when they are transferred and the same rules apply.
>B-but big govt and taxes good.
No, as long as capitalists control the state, high taxes merely result in the state managing finances more than private capitalists. It makes it even harder for the proles to fight back because now they have to fight the state to claw back their income instead of individual private capitalists.
THE STATE IS THE SECURE PIGGY BANK CAPITALISTS USE TO TEMPORARILY STORE THEIR WEALTH WHEN THREATENED. THE STATE IS THE ENEMY. RAPE ALL SOCIAL DEMOCRATS TO DEATH.
>why not tax corporations/banks instead of individuals
Corporations/banks are shell games capitalists use to hide their PERSONAL wealth. You tax the biological person and not the arcane shell game.
R: 24 / I: 2
Leftcoms hate me for not worshiping US freikorp genetically prole military
MLs hate me for reading Marx and Lenin
Anarchists hate me for being anti-petite authoritarian
Leftists hate me for opposing my brown bourgeoisie
Good thing the real movement is historically absent and these embarrassing people won't amount to anything ever
Leftcoms hate me for not worshiping US freikorp genetically prole military
MLs hate me for reading Marx and Lenin
Anarchists hate me for being anti-petite authoritarian
Leftists hate me for opposing my brown bourgeoisie
Good thing the real movement is historically absent and these embarrassing people won't amount to anything ever
R: 35 / I: 7
Both Mao and Bordiga were mostly correct in their views and positions, but for their respective material and social conditions they were working within. Semi-feudal conditions for Mao, capitalist-imperialist conditions for Bordiga.
Dogmatic ML: "We need a vote for progress and safeguard our democracy" (Togliatti? Starmer? Mélenchon? Harris?) Jump through hoops to safeguard bourgeois dictatorship in the west some more, ML. That is the role which you have picked for yourself. Really give it a bright red, bleeding heart radical liberal veneer!
Trend victim MLs have tried to mechanically copy-pasting semi-feudal tactics to industrialized, proletarian-majority, imperialist-capitalist countries for a century. "Too bad" their demise always has some self-defeating aspect to it, predicted by the Italian Left (or more descriptively: internationalist Leninists) decades in advance.
>But they were said to be irrelevant! At least that's what our "ML", then "Soviet-alligned", then "eurocom" leaders told us, and they headed a parliamentary party with a lot of members and voters, so they must've known what they were talking about!…right?…
There, there!
Hence internationalist Leninist tactics are not applied! Hence Lenin's revolutionary tactical invariance leading up to the key lesson for success is obscured, papered over – all to focus on the set of retreats, mistakes, fallacious tactics that led in a circle or self-obliteration. That is the "Leninism" of the western ML.
The stinky successful early stuff? It is your duty to slander and castigate the Evil "UlTrAs" for re-centering…
Now tell me: Are you finding yourselves amid semi-feudal or capitalist-imperialist conditions as you're browsing this post, anons?
Two great Leninists: Mao & Bordiga
"Controversial" opinion incoming, apparently:Both Mao and Bordiga were mostly correct in their views and positions, but for their respective material and social conditions they were working within. Semi-feudal conditions for Mao, capitalist-imperialist conditions for Bordiga.
Dogmatic ML: "We need a vote for progress and safeguard our democracy" (Togliatti? Starmer? Mélenchon? Harris?) Jump through hoops to safeguard bourgeois dictatorship in the west some more, ML. That is the role which you have picked for yourself. Really give it a bright red, bleeding heart radical liberal veneer!
Trend victim MLs have tried to mechanically copy-pasting semi-feudal tactics to industrialized, proletarian-majority, imperialist-capitalist countries for a century. "Too bad" their demise always has some self-defeating aspect to it, predicted by the Italian Left (or more descriptively: internationalist Leninists) decades in advance.
>But they were said to be irrelevant! At least that's what our "ML", then "Soviet-alligned", then "eurocom" leaders told us, and they headed a parliamentary party with a lot of members and voters, so they must've known what they were talking about!…right?…
There, there!
Hence internationalist Leninist tactics are not applied! Hence Lenin's revolutionary tactical invariance leading up to the key lesson for success is obscured, papered over – all to focus on the set of retreats, mistakes, fallacious tactics that led in a circle or self-obliteration. That is the "Leninism" of the western ML.
The stinky successful early stuff? It is your duty to slander and castigate the Evil "UlTrAs" for re-centering…
Now tell me: Are you finding yourselves amid semi-feudal or capitalist-imperialist conditions as you're browsing this post, anons?
R: 36 / I: 4
I'm not an expert but I can see that service sector is a very heterogenous one, or we could say that it's even an umbrella term for very different jobs with very different social conditions, organizing potential class consciousness etc. Work in shitty uber-like apps, in restoration and hospitality, a lot of retail, and etc. are very hard to organize, health and education seem to be a suit generis sector as far as I know, blue collar work is practically labour aristocracy in a lot of cases or also hard to organize in the case of
I invite you all anons to discuss what do you think is the place of service sector in revolutionary praxis, taking into account the different conditions in the different countries (global north vs south, regions etc) if possible. In a lot of global north countries industrial work is practically labour aristocracy and in its way ti be extinct, and as far as I'm aware in a lot pf global south countries they also hold that status, for example, LATAM region. Should we focus on propaganda on industrial worker and organize the other sectors from an industrial proletariat base? Should we also try to organize the shitty service jobs creating now forms of syndicalism that can adapt to their unstable conditions? For example, in a lot of countries a there must be a certain (high) number of workers in order to be represented in a trade union. Is a more flexible and dynamic trade union structure for specific service employers belonging to this shitty unstable jobs possible? Is it even worth it?
I know the formulation of the problem could be more informed, but even though I'm not very knowledgeable, I wanted to make this thread in order for the more knowledgable anons to discuss this topic as I don't see it talked very much. I please ask you all to not enter the same old productive/unproductive work debate and stay on-topic.
What to do with service sector
Service sector accounts for more than half of all jobs in the world today according to statistics. Marx already knew that capitalism tends to displace the workforce away from industry and agriculture towards services, we can only expect this trend to increase. Today this is true even of a lot of global south countries.I'm not an expert but I can see that service sector is a very heterogenous one, or we could say that it's even an umbrella term for very different jobs with very different social conditions, organizing potential class consciousness etc. Work in shitty uber-like apps, in restoration and hospitality, a lot of retail, and etc. are very hard to organize, health and education seem to be a suit generis sector as far as I know, blue collar work is practically labour aristocracy in a lot of cases or also hard to organize in the case of
I invite you all anons to discuss what do you think is the place of service sector in revolutionary praxis, taking into account the different conditions in the different countries (global north vs south, regions etc) if possible. In a lot of global north countries industrial work is practically labour aristocracy and in its way ti be extinct, and as far as I'm aware in a lot pf global south countries they also hold that status, for example, LATAM region. Should we focus on propaganda on industrial worker and organize the other sectors from an industrial proletariat base? Should we also try to organize the shitty service jobs creating now forms of syndicalism that can adapt to their unstable conditions? For example, in a lot of countries a there must be a certain (high) number of workers in order to be represented in a trade union. Is a more flexible and dynamic trade union structure for specific service employers belonging to this shitty unstable jobs possible? Is it even worth it?
I know the formulation of the problem could be more informed, but even though I'm not very knowledgeable, I wanted to make this thread in order for the more knowledgable anons to discuss this topic as I don't see it talked very much. I please ask you all to not enter the same old productive/unproductive work debate and stay on-topic.
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Veganism and 'ethical consumption'
If the goal of veganism is to not necessarily to end capitalism but the meat industry, or rather the consumption of meat as food and consumer products, would you say it would be possible to end an industry in such a way since we're not talking about capitalism itself or is it entirely moral spooks?
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The Joint Awami Action Committee (JAAC), formed in 2003, demands greater political rights for the people of Kashmir and the abolition of the refugee seats. Residents of the regional capital, Muzaffarabad, and other towns told The Associated Press markets were largely empty and bus terminals deserted on Tuesday. However, it wasn’t clear if people were taking part in the strike or avoiding public spaces out of fear of renewed clashes. Authorities have deployed additional police and security personnel in the region and suspended internet services in major cities to prevent people from joining the march.
https://apnews.com/article/pakistan-kashmir-protest-long-march-protest-violence-jaac-7b4f5e038abd227415dd0aeb32e5ebe3
Tens of thousands displaced by Philippine earthquake, at least 37 killed
The earthquake centred off Mindanao, the second most populous Philippine island, injured nearly 500 people and displaced around 32,000, most of whom fled to emergency shelters. The earthquake left a trail of destruction, including in General Santos, a coastal city of more than 700,000 people, where at least 13 people were killed.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/tens-thousands-displaced-philippine-earthquake-least-37-killed
Sri Lankan police arrest Tamil rapper under draconian Prevention of Terrorism Act
On May 31, Sangeethsan performed at a musical event held at a Hindu temple in Navatkuli, Chavakachcheri, in the Jaffna District. During the performance, he sang songs that police claim indirectly glorified the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). Edited versions of the songs were subsequently posted on his TikTok account.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/06/09/dzay-j09.html
Israeli-backed militia abducts seven paramedics in Gaza at makeshift checkpoint
An Israeli-backed militia abducted seven Palestinian paramedics in central Gaza on Tuesday while they were carrying out humanitarian duties, sparking renewed concerns over the growing security role of local armed groups operating in the enclave despite an ongoing ceasefire.
https://www.newarab.com/news/israeli-backed-militia-abducts-seven-paramedics-gaza
Trump says Iran shot down US helicopter over Hormuz, vows to respond
“The Soldiers were safely rescued within approximately two hours and are in stable condition,” CENTCOM said. Iran has not confirmed or denied downing the helicopter, but in an apparent response to Trump’s claim, Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi called on US forces to withdraw from the region.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/6/9/trump-says-iran-shot-down-us-helicopters-over-hormuz-vows-to-respond
https://archive.ph/WyApg
Turkey advances historic Hejaz railway project with Saudi Arabia deal
In the long term, the railway is envisioned to extend as far as Oman and the Indian Ocean. The aim is to establish an alternative trade corridor that bypasses the Strait of Hormuz.In such a scenario, Turkey could become a transit hub between the Gulf and Europe, a railway logistics base, and a key junction where energy and trade corridors converge. In April, Turkey, Syria, and Jordan signed a similar trilateral agreement establishing a comprehensive framework to strengthen regional connectivity, integrate transportation systems, and facilitate cross-border transport.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/turkey-advances-historic-hejaz-railways-project-saudi-arabia-deal
One killed as hundreds protest in Kenya against US Ebola quarantine centre
Reporting from the protests, Al Jazeera’s Malcolm Webb said the demonstrations were still ongoing several hours after riot police began dispersing the crowds. “It escalated significantly in the afternoon … This has gone on for hours and all the demonstrators say that they don’t believe the government’s claim that this Ebola facility will bring them any benefit; they’re deeply sceptical. They say they don’t want this facility in their town,” Webb said.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/6/9/protests-erupt-in-kenya-over-us-ebola-quarantine-centre-in-nanyuki
https://archive.ph/d1STx
Darfur rights group records 470 deaths in air strikes and drone attacks
In a report published on Monday, the Darfur Victims Advocacy Organisation documented 42 air raids and one drone attack during the period. The group said North Darfur accounted for about 61 per cent of the attacks, making it the hardest hit state. South Darfur followed with 16 per cent, while the remaining strikes occurred across Kordofan, El Gezira and Sennar. The organisation attributed 87 per cent of the attacks to the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), while the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) carried out the remaining 13 per cent, mainly using drones and artillery.
https://www.dabangasudan.org/en/all-news/article/darfur-rights-group-records-470-deaths-in-air-strikes-and-drone-attacks
Belfast protesters set vehicles on fire, block roads over brutal street stabbing
Protesters on Tuesday set vehicles on fire and blocked several central roads in the Northern Ireland city of Belfast after police charged a Sudanese national suspected of violently stabbing another man in the street the night before. The attack was caught on video and prompted far-right figures to call for anti-migrant protests across the United Kingdom.
https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20260609-uk-leaders-urge-calm-as-far-right-figures-call-for-anti-migrant-protests-over-belfast-stabbing
https://archive.ph/O6Mq4
Tech firms in UK must have plan for illegal content spikes during crises like Southport, regulator says
Tech firms in Britain will need to have plans to respond to surges in illegal content during crises such as the 2024 Southport riots which threaten public safety under strengthened rules set out by the regulator on Tuesday.
Nationwide violence broke out two years ago following a knife attack in the northern England city of Southport, which left three young girls dead at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class. Authorities said inflammatory and misleading content circulating widely online had fuelled that unrest.
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/tech-firms-uk-must-have-plan-illegal-content-spikes-during-crises-like-southport-2026-06-09/
Ecuadorian Workers Call Two‑Day Mobilization to Protest Public Sector Layoffs and Fuel Price Hikes
The General Union of Ecuadorian Workers said the ministry cuts follow earlier reforms to the Organic Code of Territorial Organization and the Public Integrity Law. Union leader José Villavicencio said those reforms originally aimed to leave over 70,000 public servants without work. Meanwhile, National Union of Educators president Andrés Quishpe detailed that next Friday they will march in Quito from Caja del Seguro to the Historic Center to denounce the subordination of the Executive’s economic policy to Interanional Monetary Fund conditions.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/ecuadorian-workers-call-two%e2%80%91day-mobilization-to-protest-public-sector-layoffs-and-fuel-price-hikes/
Cepeda campaign begins vote-buying investigation
In a press conference, Cepeda said Saturday that his campaign received information about “possible financial irregularities and illegal activities on the part of Mr. De la Espriella’s campaign.” The senator said to have received evidence of “alleged vote-buying or the transfer of large sums of money for that purpose in various parts of the country,” and the use of fake videos that seek to destroy his credibility.
https://colombiareports.com/cepeda-campaign-begins-vote-buying-investigation/
News 6/9/26
A banned group’s call for a strike halts business and transport across Pakistan-administered KashmirThe Joint Awami Action Committee (JAAC), formed in 2003, demands greater political rights for the people of Kashmir and the abolition of the refugee seats. Residents of the regional capital, Muzaffarabad, and other towns told The Associated Press markets were largely empty and bus terminals deserted on Tuesday. However, it wasn’t clear if people were taking part in the strike or avoiding public spaces out of fear of renewed clashes. Authorities have deployed additional police and security personnel in the region and suspended internet services in major cities to prevent people from joining the march.
https://apnews.com/article/pakistan-kashmir-protest-long-march-protest-violence-jaac-7b4f5e038abd227415dd0aeb32e5ebe3
Tens of thousands displaced by Philippine earthquake, at least 37 killed
The earthquake centred off Mindanao, the second most populous Philippine island, injured nearly 500 people and displaced around 32,000, most of whom fled to emergency shelters. The earthquake left a trail of destruction, including in General Santos, a coastal city of more than 700,000 people, where at least 13 people were killed.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/tens-thousands-displaced-philippine-earthquake-least-37-killed
Sri Lankan police arrest Tamil rapper under draconian Prevention of Terrorism Act
On May 31, Sangeethsan performed at a musical event held at a Hindu temple in Navatkuli, Chavakachcheri, in the Jaffna District. During the performance, he sang songs that police claim indirectly glorified the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). Edited versions of the songs were subsequently posted on his TikTok account.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/06/09/dzay-j09.html
Israeli-backed militia abducts seven paramedics in Gaza at makeshift checkpoint
An Israeli-backed militia abducted seven Palestinian paramedics in central Gaza on Tuesday while they were carrying out humanitarian duties, sparking renewed concerns over the growing security role of local armed groups operating in the enclave despite an ongoing ceasefire.
https://www.newarab.com/news/israeli-backed-militia-abducts-seven-paramedics-gaza
Trump says Iran shot down US helicopter over Hormuz, vows to respond
“The Soldiers were safely rescued within approximately two hours and are in stable condition,” CENTCOM said. Iran has not confirmed or denied downing the helicopter, but in an apparent response to Trump’s claim, Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi called on US forces to withdraw from the region.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/6/9/trump-says-iran-shot-down-us-helicopters-over-hormuz-vows-to-respond
https://archive.ph/WyApg
Turkey advances historic Hejaz railway project with Saudi Arabia deal
In the long term, the railway is envisioned to extend as far as Oman and the Indian Ocean. The aim is to establish an alternative trade corridor that bypasses the Strait of Hormuz.In such a scenario, Turkey could become a transit hub between the Gulf and Europe, a railway logistics base, and a key junction where energy and trade corridors converge. In April, Turkey, Syria, and Jordan signed a similar trilateral agreement establishing a comprehensive framework to strengthen regional connectivity, integrate transportation systems, and facilitate cross-border transport.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/turkey-advances-historic-hejaz-railways-project-saudi-arabia-deal
One killed as hundreds protest in Kenya against US Ebola quarantine centre
Reporting from the protests, Al Jazeera’s Malcolm Webb said the demonstrations were still ongoing several hours after riot police began dispersing the crowds. “It escalated significantly in the afternoon … This has gone on for hours and all the demonstrators say that they don’t believe the government’s claim that this Ebola facility will bring them any benefit; they’re deeply sceptical. They say they don’t want this facility in their town,” Webb said.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/6/9/protests-erupt-in-kenya-over-us-ebola-quarantine-centre-in-nanyuki
https://archive.ph/d1STx
Darfur rights group records 470 deaths in air strikes and drone attacks
In a report published on Monday, the Darfur Victims Advocacy Organisation documented 42 air raids and one drone attack during the period. The group said North Darfur accounted for about 61 per cent of the attacks, making it the hardest hit state. South Darfur followed with 16 per cent, while the remaining strikes occurred across Kordofan, El Gezira and Sennar. The organisation attributed 87 per cent of the attacks to the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), while the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) carried out the remaining 13 per cent, mainly using drones and artillery.
https://www.dabangasudan.org/en/all-news/article/darfur-rights-group-records-470-deaths-in-air-strikes-and-drone-attacks
Belfast protesters set vehicles on fire, block roads over brutal street stabbing
Protesters on Tuesday set vehicles on fire and blocked several central roads in the Northern Ireland city of Belfast after police charged a Sudanese national suspected of violently stabbing another man in the street the night before. The attack was caught on video and prompted far-right figures to call for anti-migrant protests across the United Kingdom.
https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20260609-uk-leaders-urge-calm-as-far-right-figures-call-for-anti-migrant-protests-over-belfast-stabbing
https://archive.ph/O6Mq4
Tech firms in UK must have plan for illegal content spikes during crises like Southport, regulator says
Tech firms in Britain will need to have plans to respond to surges in illegal content during crises such as the 2024 Southport riots which threaten public safety under strengthened rules set out by the regulator on Tuesday.
Nationwide violence broke out two years ago following a knife attack in the northern England city of Southport, which left three young girls dead at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class. Authorities said inflammatory and misleading content circulating widely online had fuelled that unrest.
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/tech-firms-uk-must-have-plan-illegal-content-spikes-during-crises-like-southport-2026-06-09/
Ecuadorian Workers Call Two‑Day Mobilization to Protest Public Sector Layoffs and Fuel Price Hikes
The General Union of Ecuadorian Workers said the ministry cuts follow earlier reforms to the Organic Code of Territorial Organization and the Public Integrity Law. Union leader José Villavicencio said those reforms originally aimed to leave over 70,000 public servants without work. Meanwhile, National Union of Educators president Andrés Quishpe detailed that next Friday they will march in Quito from Caja del Seguro to the Historic Center to denounce the subordination of the Executive’s economic policy to Interanional Monetary Fund conditions.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/ecuadorian-workers-call-two%e2%80%91day-mobilization-to-protest-public-sector-layoffs-and-fuel-price-hikes/
Cepeda campaign begins vote-buying investigation
In a press conference, Cepeda said Saturday that his campaign received information about “possible financial irregularities and illegal activities on the part of Mr. De la Espriella’s campaign.” The senator said to have received evidence of “alleged vote-buying or the transfer of large sums of money for that purpose in various parts of the country,” and the use of fake videos that seek to destroy his credibility.
https://colombiareports.com/cepeda-campaign-begins-vote-buying-investigation/
R: 88 / I: 8
Is Murray Bookchin and Communalism worth getting into? Are there any Communalist currents today beyond Rojava? Could there be a commonality between Bookchin and Juche?
Is Murray Bookchin and Communalism worth getting into? Are there any Communalist currents today beyond Rojava? Could there be a commonality between Bookchin and Juche?
R: 49 / I: 6 (sage)
The May 1977 petition was signed by a number of prominent French intellectuals, doctors, and psychologists from a wide range of political positions, including Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Derrida, Louis Aragon, Roland Barthes, Louis Althusser, Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre, Félix Guattari, Michel Leiris, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Philippe Sollers, Jacques Rancière, Jean-François Lyotard, Francis Ponge, Jean Danet, Françoise Dolto, Bernard Besret,[2][10] and Gabriel Matzneff.[8]
I am going to need you to explain this
Signatories to the May petitionThe May 1977 petition was signed by a number of prominent French intellectuals, doctors, and psychologists from a wide range of political positions, including Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Derrida, Louis Aragon, Roland Barthes, Louis Althusser, Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre, Félix Guattari, Michel Leiris, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Philippe Sollers, Jacques Rancière, Jean-François Lyotard, Francis Ponge, Jean Danet, Françoise Dolto, Bernard Besret,[2][10] and Gabriel Matzneff.[8]
R: 4 / I: 0
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Is the United Nations good or bad?
Is the United States a good way to establish rules to help prevent conflict or is it an imperialist and neocolonialist tool.meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow
R: 15 / I: 2
How did Yugoslavia’s economic model work? I’ve read that it was based on workers coops independent of the state, and this seems to be closer to Marx and Engels’ vision of what a socialist state would look like. Today, many people in the Balkans say that life was much better under Tito, and it certainly seems to have worked better than the old Soviet model, where everything was state-owned and a new political elite emerged to replace the bourgeoisie
How did Yugoslavia’s economic model work? I’ve read that it was based on workers coops independent of the state, and this seems to be closer to Marx and Engels’ vision of what a socialist state would look like. Today, many people in the Balkans say that life was much better under Tito, and it certainly seems to have worked better than the old Soviet model, where everything was state-owned and a new political elite emerged to replace the bourgeoisie
R: 28 / I: 2
So what are some wars pre-1492 that you feel had a very clear-cut good and bad side? Bonus points for wars between states rather than uprisings.
Note: a side of a conflict being "Historically Progressive" will not automatically make it "good". British Colonialism in India was historically progressive, that doesn't mean it was good.
Justified Warfare before the Modern Era
When we talk about wars in which one side was clearly more "correct" than the other, we generally think of modern wars. WWII, The American Civil War, the Russian Civil War, French Revolution, Wars of Decolonization, the Vietnam War, etc. But what about BEFORE that? In the pre-enlightenment days these seem to have been much less common. That isn't to say they didn't exist, of course. There were plenty of Peasant's Revolts and Slave Uprisings and whatnot.So what are some wars pre-1492 that you feel had a very clear-cut good and bad side? Bonus points for wars between states rather than uprisings.
Note: a side of a conflict being "Historically Progressive" will not automatically make it "good". British Colonialism in India was historically progressive, that doesn't mean it was good.
R: 395 / 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: 2 / I: 1
Stop playing Eastern games
Dear leftists you either with western progressive or your problematic gooner pedophilia Chuds goons and sexually objectifying women and children. I will tell you one thing boycott all eastern games and buy progressive games, otherwise your a Manarcho Brosocialist Pedophilic scum!
R: 2 / I: 0
What this narrative leaves out is that the embattled consensus of the Western establishment is also underpinned by a powerful ideology—albeit one that denies its ideological character, hiding behind claims to be merely implementing the rules. Despite the restless political contortions of the past decade, it remains the default mode of state institutions and other large organizations.
This ideology is technocratic managerialism. Despite the populist revolt that has swept across the West, it remains deeply embedded in organizations governed by bureaucratic-managerial principles, whether corporations, government agencies, or international bodies. Because these organizations are still the primary units around which contemporary society is structured, their governing ideology remains deeply entrenched. Moreover, digital technologies and, increasingly, artificial intelligence, further reinforce its power. As social interaction and economic activity become dependent on digital platforms and applications, adherence to the rules of these platforms becomes the sine qua non of social participation. Those who design them are therefore in a position to engineer our shared reality, and they are doing so along managerial lines.
Managerialism is not just a set of techniques. It is underpinned by a set of beliefs about what human beings are and how social life should be arranged. Its baseline assumption is that all social phenomena are the outcome of measurable material processes. Social life is treated as analyzable and quantifiable, capable of being taken apart and put together again so that it works better. If something hasn’t been figured out yet, it will be in the future: We just need more data, more computing power, and more sophisticated modelling. The optimization of any social situation or process is simply a matter of finding and applying the correct technique.
“Managerialism is not just a set of techniques.”
“Experts think in terms of institutional goals rather than individual rights.”
Neither liberal democracy nor free-market capitalism would be conceivable without the belief that our individuality precedes our roles as members of social groups or subjects of states, and that as individuals we have inalienable rights and a capacity for rational deliberation and free choice. This liberal anthropology was not a neutral description, but an ideal of the good life. Thinkers like John Locke and Adam Smith were not blind to the fact that our freedom is always constrained by social arrangements and our rationality imperfect. But the maximization of human freedom and rational deliberation—whether through democratic politics and an open public sphere, or the extension of free markets—was an ideal that shaped the modern world.
The underlying anthropology of managerialism marks a break from these assumptions. It regards people as inherently untrustworthy and unpredictable, cognitively limited, hampered by cognitive biases and habitual patterns, lacking in self-awareness, ignorant of both “the science” and their own best interests. At the same time, it views them as malleable and capable of being “nudged” and programmed. Accordingly, managers and experts think in terms of institutional goals rather than individual rights; rules and regulations rather than individual freedom; and the following of prescribed procedures rather than rational deliberation. The older liberal anthropology of the rationally choosing individual is replaced by an image of the irrational individual whose choosing needs to be directed, through deliberate engineering of the “choice architecture” in which it takes place.
A crucial role in this has been played by both genetics and computer science. Both contribute to a view of humans as essentially programmable, and consequently as beings without any real essence or personhood. According to the bestselling author Yuval Noah Harari, a darling of Silicon Valley the World Economic Forum, “The basic insight which unites the biological with the electronic is that bodies and brains are also algorithms.” From this perspective, there is nothing uniquely dignified about human individuals. Liberalism charged the individual with a kind of sacred aura—owing much to the inheritance of Christianity. The algorithmic view of humanity, inherent in genetics and computer science, strips this away.
Our immersion in a digital realm that is algorithmically curated only increases the salience of this way of thinking. As a streamlined and digitally remastered reality is substituted for the messiness and complexity of the physical world, humans are refashioned according to its logic. On the platforms that are now the locus of economic activity and social interaction, we are not free citizens or rational agents, but data points to be manipulated, controlled and nudged by the platform architecture and the algorithms which determine what information we are exposed to. Print-era modes of argumentation and debate are being displaced by methods of persuasion better adapted to a digital environment. Rather than being argued into an opinion, we are memed into it.
These developments will accelerate as people become more dependent on AI, integrating it into their work and their personal lives, sharing personal information and their most intimate thoughts with “agents,” even giving them free access to devices and accounts in order to delegate everyday tasks. If humans are to become partners of machines, this requires us to become more machinelike, adapting our ways of behaving and thinking to the affordances of platforms and applications.
The incorporation of AI into all aspects of our lives gives immense power to those who program and control the machines. But this is not primarily personal power to be used for individual advantage, so much as institutional power vested in the organizations which control and deploy the applications. Every acceleration of digitalization reinforces technocracy because it expands the reach of the surveillance, manipulation, assessment, regulation and control exercised by large-scale organizations, whether corporations or government agencies.
This concentration of institutional power is not accidental, but reflects the underlying ethos of the organizations developing these systems. Silicon Valley firms and tech entrepreneurs tend to approach social and political problems as engineering challenges, to be solved through process optimization, data extraction, and system design rather than democratic deliberation or moral reasoning. The answer to any challenge is to gather more data and develop more refined models. In this sense, the tech elite exemplifies a distinctively technocratic mentality: one that treats human behaviour as a set of variables to be modelled and managed, and assumes that sufficiently advanced computational systems can render messy social realities legible, predictable, and controllable.
The older liberal anthropology is open to criticism on many points: It denies the inherently social character of human beings, as well as the contribution of older social traditions and bonds, including the values of Christianity, to the functioning of liberal societies. However, it endowed the individual with an inherent sense of their own dignity and agency and thereby supported broad-based participation in both market economies and the political process.
Managerial anthropology, on the other hand, subverts individual agency and undermines the basis for a political order based on democratic participation. If people are basically ignorant and irrational, they can hardly be trusted with self-government. But it does not offer any alternative vision of the social good, any telos for social action beyond the refinement of technique. In the absence of substantive values, managerialism engages in the fetishization of process. Managerial regulation and procedure, alongside constant reform, restructuring and change, become ends in themselves.
Managerial technocracy is therefore fundamentally hostile to democracy, which rests on a faith in the inherent dignity and self-governing capacity of the individual as well as a sense that there are social goods which can be achieved through collective political action. Neither of these has a place in the moral universe of managerialism.
Yet even as it erodes democracy, technocracy expands the remit of the state. Due to its distrust of individual capacities and prioritization of process optimization, it is continuously tempted to use policy to regulate, manage, nudge and otherwise shape ever more dimensions of individual conduct. What guides this expanded administrative state however is not the popular will, nor the interests of a nation or class, but technocratic imperatives. Many of the crises and conflicts of our time have their roots in this process, and the consequent alienation of organizations from the populations they were originally established to represent or serve.
The paradox of technocracy is that it presents itself as a set of neutral procedures, while quietly redefining what it means to be human and undermining the basis of a shared citizenship. Technocracy displaces democratic decision-making while preserving its forms, allowing a managerial elite to govern without appearing to rule. It persists across electoral and ideological shifts because it is embedded in institutional form rather than party politics and underpinned by a set of managerial assumptions that are uncritically accepted as “common sense.” Ironically, the most powerful ideology of our time is the one which insists it is no ideology at all.
Paul O’Connor is an associate professor of sociology at United Arab Emirates University and author of Technocracy: Knowledge and Power in the Information Age.
Technocracy Will Survive the Populist Challenge
After 1989, Western elites congratulated themselves on entering a “post-ideological” age. With the great twentieth century battles between fascism, communism, and liberal-democratic capitalism over and the latter ascendant, politics would be confined to debating pragmatic solutions to technical problems. We are hearing rather less of this kind of commentary today. Over the past decade, the rise of populism on the right and radical identity politics on the left has signalled the return of a more openly ideological political style.What this narrative leaves out is that the embattled consensus of the Western establishment is also underpinned by a powerful ideology—albeit one that denies its ideological character, hiding behind claims to be merely implementing the rules. Despite the restless political contortions of the past decade, it remains the default mode of state institutions and other large organizations.
This ideology is technocratic managerialism. Despite the populist revolt that has swept across the West, it remains deeply embedded in organizations governed by bureaucratic-managerial principles, whether corporations, government agencies, or international bodies. Because these organizations are still the primary units around which contemporary society is structured, their governing ideology remains deeply entrenched. Moreover, digital technologies and, increasingly, artificial intelligence, further reinforce its power. As social interaction and economic activity become dependent on digital platforms and applications, adherence to the rules of these platforms becomes the sine qua non of social participation. Those who design them are therefore in a position to engineer our shared reality, and they are doing so along managerial lines.
Managerialism is not just a set of techniques. It is underpinned by a set of beliefs about what human beings are and how social life should be arranged. Its baseline assumption is that all social phenomena are the outcome of measurable material processes. Social life is treated as analyzable and quantifiable, capable of being taken apart and put together again so that it works better. If something hasn’t been figured out yet, it will be in the future: We just need more data, more computing power, and more sophisticated modelling. The optimization of any social situation or process is simply a matter of finding and applying the correct technique.
“Managerialism is not just a set of techniques.”
“Experts think in terms of institutional goals rather than individual rights.”
Neither liberal democracy nor free-market capitalism would be conceivable without the belief that our individuality precedes our roles as members of social groups or subjects of states, and that as individuals we have inalienable rights and a capacity for rational deliberation and free choice. This liberal anthropology was not a neutral description, but an ideal of the good life. Thinkers like John Locke and Adam Smith were not blind to the fact that our freedom is always constrained by social arrangements and our rationality imperfect. But the maximization of human freedom and rational deliberation—whether through democratic politics and an open public sphere, or the extension of free markets—was an ideal that shaped the modern world.
The underlying anthropology of managerialism marks a break from these assumptions. It regards people as inherently untrustworthy and unpredictable, cognitively limited, hampered by cognitive biases and habitual patterns, lacking in self-awareness, ignorant of both “the science” and their own best interests. At the same time, it views them as malleable and capable of being “nudged” and programmed. Accordingly, managers and experts think in terms of institutional goals rather than individual rights; rules and regulations rather than individual freedom; and the following of prescribed procedures rather than rational deliberation. The older liberal anthropology of the rationally choosing individual is replaced by an image of the irrational individual whose choosing needs to be directed, through deliberate engineering of the “choice architecture” in which it takes place.
A crucial role in this has been played by both genetics and computer science. Both contribute to a view of humans as essentially programmable, and consequently as beings without any real essence or personhood. According to the bestselling author Yuval Noah Harari, a darling of Silicon Valley the World Economic Forum, “The basic insight which unites the biological with the electronic is that bodies and brains are also algorithms.” From this perspective, there is nothing uniquely dignified about human individuals. Liberalism charged the individual with a kind of sacred aura—owing much to the inheritance of Christianity. The algorithmic view of humanity, inherent in genetics and computer science, strips this away.
Our immersion in a digital realm that is algorithmically curated only increases the salience of this way of thinking. As a streamlined and digitally remastered reality is substituted for the messiness and complexity of the physical world, humans are refashioned according to its logic. On the platforms that are now the locus of economic activity and social interaction, we are not free citizens or rational agents, but data points to be manipulated, controlled and nudged by the platform architecture and the algorithms which determine what information we are exposed to. Print-era modes of argumentation and debate are being displaced by methods of persuasion better adapted to a digital environment. Rather than being argued into an opinion, we are memed into it.
These developments will accelerate as people become more dependent on AI, integrating it into their work and their personal lives, sharing personal information and their most intimate thoughts with “agents,” even giving them free access to devices and accounts in order to delegate everyday tasks. If humans are to become partners of machines, this requires us to become more machinelike, adapting our ways of behaving and thinking to the affordances of platforms and applications.
The incorporation of AI into all aspects of our lives gives immense power to those who program and control the machines. But this is not primarily personal power to be used for individual advantage, so much as institutional power vested in the organizations which control and deploy the applications. Every acceleration of digitalization reinforces technocracy because it expands the reach of the surveillance, manipulation, assessment, regulation and control exercised by large-scale organizations, whether corporations or government agencies.
This concentration of institutional power is not accidental, but reflects the underlying ethos of the organizations developing these systems. Silicon Valley firms and tech entrepreneurs tend to approach social and political problems as engineering challenges, to be solved through process optimization, data extraction, and system design rather than democratic deliberation or moral reasoning. The answer to any challenge is to gather more data and develop more refined models. In this sense, the tech elite exemplifies a distinctively technocratic mentality: one that treats human behaviour as a set of variables to be modelled and managed, and assumes that sufficiently advanced computational systems can render messy social realities legible, predictable, and controllable.
The older liberal anthropology is open to criticism on many points: It denies the inherently social character of human beings, as well as the contribution of older social traditions and bonds, including the values of Christianity, to the functioning of liberal societies. However, it endowed the individual with an inherent sense of their own dignity and agency and thereby supported broad-based participation in both market economies and the political process.
Managerial anthropology, on the other hand, subverts individual agency and undermines the basis for a political order based on democratic participation. If people are basically ignorant and irrational, they can hardly be trusted with self-government. But it does not offer any alternative vision of the social good, any telos for social action beyond the refinement of technique. In the absence of substantive values, managerialism engages in the fetishization of process. Managerial regulation and procedure, alongside constant reform, restructuring and change, become ends in themselves.
Managerial technocracy is therefore fundamentally hostile to democracy, which rests on a faith in the inherent dignity and self-governing capacity of the individual as well as a sense that there are social goods which can be achieved through collective political action. Neither of these has a place in the moral universe of managerialism.
Yet even as it erodes democracy, technocracy expands the remit of the state. Due to its distrust of individual capacities and prioritization of process optimization, it is continuously tempted to use policy to regulate, manage, nudge and otherwise shape ever more dimensions of individual conduct. What guides this expanded administrative state however is not the popular will, nor the interests of a nation or class, but technocratic imperatives. Many of the crises and conflicts of our time have their roots in this process, and the consequent alienation of organizations from the populations they were originally established to represent or serve.
The paradox of technocracy is that it presents itself as a set of neutral procedures, while quietly redefining what it means to be human and undermining the basis of a shared citizenship. Technocracy displaces democratic decision-making while preserving its forms, allowing a managerial elite to govern without appearing to rule. It persists across electoral and ideological shifts because it is embedded in institutional form rather than party politics and underpinned by a set of managerial assumptions that are uncritically accepted as “common sense.” Ironically, the most powerful ideology of our time is the one which insists it is no ideology at all.
Paul O’Connor is an associate professor of sociology at United Arab Emirates University and author of Technocracy: Knowledge and Power in the Information Age.
R: 67 / I: 7
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
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Honestly, why people treat Marx as some kind of religious figure? Every time I interact with a leftist that go nut when you criticize Marx, why? Why the dogmatism around Marx? It's genuinely confusing to me, I read that the vast majority of modern economist doesn't even care for Marx and treat him as a historical figure, they still say people still try to make economics idea out of outdated ideas of Marx. Anyway, my main point is: will the left move on from Marx someday or they will forever trap under marxism? Why leftist are so dogmatic?
Honestly, why people treat Marx as some kind of religious figure? Every time I interact with a leftist that go nut when you criticize Marx, why? Why the dogmatism around Marx? It's genuinely confusing to me, I read that the vast majority of modern economist doesn't even care for Marx and treat him as a historical figure, they still say people still try to make economics idea out of outdated ideas of Marx. Anyway, my main point is: will the left move on from Marx someday or they will forever trap under marxism? Why leftist are so dogmatic?
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Satanist Terrorists
What us even up with these groups springing up everywhere lately? I know O9A is way older but these satanist criminal groups seem to be all the rage for weirdos with grudges against the world. What even is their ideology? What purpose do they serve? Do they have an endgoal? What are they trying to achieve? It seem to just be violence for the sake of violence and reading about them in depth made me even more confused than I was before and everything they say about themselves is completely incomprehensible. They seem to be nearly exclusuvely right wing or neo nazi which is a weird thing to attach satanism to. Can anyone ELI5 this shit for me?Flood detected
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Location: Mexico, C*nada, US*
Starting on Thursday 11th June with Mexico vs South Africa.
I am worried that Burger police ruins it for the non-burger fans
MUNDIAL2026 - BURGER WORLD CUP
2026 WORLD CUP GENERALLocation: Mexico, C*nada, US*
Starting on Thursday 11th June with Mexico vs South Africa.
I am worried that Burger police ruins it for the non-burger fans
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- 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
R: 2 / I: 0
Leftist Roberto Sanchez took the lead in Peru's presidential race on Monday with 50.01% compared to Keiko Fujimori's 49.9% with 93.92% of ballots tallied according to the official count. Fujimori had an early lead after voting concluded on Sunday but Sanchez kept closing the gap as the count went on, boosted by votes from Peru's rural regions.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/roberto-sanchez-overtakes-keiko-fujimori-peru-presidential-race-2026-06-08/
Bolivia’s parliament authorises use of troops against protesters
THE Bolivian legislature passed a law on Sunday to allow President Rodrigo Paz the authority to use troops against protesters. Bolivia has been rocked by weeks of protests led by the Bolivian Workers’ Central (COB) peasant unions and miners, which has seen roads blockaded. Markets have emptied in La Paz and other vital supplies depleted.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/bolivias-parliament-authorises-use-troops-against-protesters
Maersk is still shipping weapons parts to Israel despite denial, new report says
The bullet parts Maersk has reportedly helped to deliver are the same kind that killed Hind Rajab in 2024 and also countless other children in Gaza, as shown in a New York Times essay published later that year, the authors of the report said. The bomb bodies provide the casing for the 900-kilogram "bunker buster" MK-84 bombs that Israel has used in Gaza and Lebanon.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/maersk-still-shipping-weapons-parts-israel-despite-denial-last-year-report-says
'Continuing collective punishment': Israel halts Gaza aid, closes land crossings after Iran attack
The restrictions were announced after Iranian missile attacks on Sunday, with Israeli authorities suspending access through Gaza's main entry points for humanitarian goods, including Karam Abu Salem crossing, known in Israel as Kerem Shalom. Israeli media also reported that the Rafah crossing would be closed. Zainah el-Haroun, a representative of the Palestinian rights organisation Al-Haq, told The New Arab that the latest measures threaten to intensify an already desperate situation and come after earlier aid restrictions contributed to famine conditions in parts of the enclave.
https://www.newarab.com/news/countless-more-lives-risk-israel-shuts-gaza-crossings
Yemen’s Houthis declare ‘total ban’ on Israeli ships in Red Sea
“We declare a complete and total ban on Israeli maritime navigation in the Red Sea,” said a statement from the Houthis’ armed forces.“We consider all enemy movements to be legitimate military targets for our armed forces from the moment this statement is issued.”The Houthis, who joined the Middle East war in support of Iran in March, had not announced a missile attack on Israel since a fragile ceasefire began on April 8.
https://www.straitstimes.com/world/middle-east/yemens-houthis-declare-total-ban-on-israeli-ships-in-red-sea
https://archive.ph/KZmcr
Hundreds of Eastern Visayas delivery riders now regular employees
Normito Ragasa, union president of the Food Panda Riders Region 8, stressed this point after the National Labor Relations Commission (NLRC) recognized 126 Food Panda riders as regular employees on April 21, 2026. The ruling comes after the legal battle initiated by the union in August 2025. Riders welcomed this decision as they have struggled with worsening working conditions from the COVID 19 pandemic to the current oil crisis. Ragasa, however, said that the ride to justice is just starting.
https://www.bulatlat.com/2026/06/06/hundreds-of-eastern-visayas-delivery-riders-now-regular-employees/
Pro-Palestinian activists force EU commissioner to move meeting with arms manufacturer
The demonstrators at the Herstal site were protesting the effectiveness of Wallonia’s ban on military equipment transiting to Israel, which has been in place since May 2024, according to Belgian news agency Belga. The measure followed reports that 70 tons of ammunition and explosives had passed through Liège Airport since the start of Israel’s retaliation in Gaza after the Oct. 7 attack, where Hamas killed about 1,200 people in Israel, a large majority of whom were civilians, and took 251 hostages
https://www.politico.eu/article/pro-palestinian-activists-disrupt-andrius-kubilius-visit-arm-manufacturer/
https://archive.ph/sWliJ
GMB votes against Labour disaffiliation survey over Reform popularity fears
Southern region delegates called for the membership to be consulted on keeping the historic affiliation, building a new workers party and funding political candidates outside Labour. The debate, which lasted for more than an hour, came after a poll for the Times suggested trade union members were as likely - 28 per cent — to vote for Reform UK as Labour. Among GMB members, the far-right party had a 9 per cent lead on Labour.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/gmb-votes-against-labour-disaffiliation-survey-over-reform-popularity-fears
Arsonists Burn Car Outside Prominent Muslim Political Activist’s Home
CCTV footage captured at 1:36am on Wednesday shows one person pouring what appears to be petrol on the vehicle in the driveway of the house and then setting the fire while another looks on. Yaqoob’s brothers, Farrukh and Rashad, rushed outside after seeing light from the flames and used hosepipes and buckets to try to stop the fire from spreading to the fuel tank. No one was injured.
https://novaramedia.com/2026/06/08/arsonists-burn-car-outside-prominent-muslim-political-activists-home/
Kenya police fire tear gas, arrest ex-chief justice at national park protest
Officers moved in and arrested at least nine people, including former Chief Justice David Maraga, outside the main entrance of Nairobi National Park, Reuters reporters said. Protesters - who waved placards marked with “Nature is not vacant land” and other slogans - say the plans, including a parking area for more than 1,000 vehicles, will encroach on one of Kenya’s most famous protected areas.
https://www.scmp.com/news/world/africa/article/3356418/kenya-police-fire-tear-gas-arrest-ex-chief-justice-national-park-protest?pgtype=live
https://archive.ph/J9MiX
U.S.-Nigerian Strikes Killed Dozens of Civilians, Villagers Say
Villagers in Metele said that the attacks hit residential areas and killed innocent people. “The community experienced a tragic airstrike attack recently which caused heavy casualties and destruction in Metele,” Zannah Abba Aji, the village head of Metele told Drop Site News. He was in Maiduguri, the state capital, when the strikes took place. “Many innocent civilians were affected during the incident,” he said.
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/united-states-nigeria-iswap-borno-strikes-civilian-casualties
South Africa’s Ramaphosa acknowledges rising anti-migrant tensions
Anti-migrant protest groups have said they’ve set a June 30 deadline for foreign nationals who are in South Africa illegally to leave and have requested talks with the government. … “Many South Africans are raising difficult but legitimate questions,” President Ramaphosa said. “These concerns are real. They deserve to be heard, and they deserve to be addressed.” But President Ramaphosa added that “only authorised government officials can act against violations of our law,” warning that some groups were “inciting” tensions.
https://www.newarab.com/news/countless-more-lives-risk-israel-shuts-gaza-crossings
News 6/8/26
Roberto Sanchez overtakes Keiko Fujimori in Peru presidential raceLeftist Roberto Sanchez took the lead in Peru's presidential race on Monday with 50.01% compared to Keiko Fujimori's 49.9% with 93.92% of ballots tallied according to the official count. Fujimori had an early lead after voting concluded on Sunday but Sanchez kept closing the gap as the count went on, boosted by votes from Peru's rural regions.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/roberto-sanchez-overtakes-keiko-fujimori-peru-presidential-race-2026-06-08/
Bolivia’s parliament authorises use of troops against protesters
THE Bolivian legislature passed a law on Sunday to allow President Rodrigo Paz the authority to use troops against protesters. Bolivia has been rocked by weeks of protests led by the Bolivian Workers’ Central (COB) peasant unions and miners, which has seen roads blockaded. Markets have emptied in La Paz and other vital supplies depleted.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/bolivias-parliament-authorises-use-troops-against-protesters
Maersk is still shipping weapons parts to Israel despite denial, new report says
The bullet parts Maersk has reportedly helped to deliver are the same kind that killed Hind Rajab in 2024 and also countless other children in Gaza, as shown in a New York Times essay published later that year, the authors of the report said. The bomb bodies provide the casing for the 900-kilogram "bunker buster" MK-84 bombs that Israel has used in Gaza and Lebanon.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/maersk-still-shipping-weapons-parts-israel-despite-denial-last-year-report-says
'Continuing collective punishment': Israel halts Gaza aid, closes land crossings after Iran attack
The restrictions were announced after Iranian missile attacks on Sunday, with Israeli authorities suspending access through Gaza's main entry points for humanitarian goods, including Karam Abu Salem crossing, known in Israel as Kerem Shalom. Israeli media also reported that the Rafah crossing would be closed. Zainah el-Haroun, a representative of the Palestinian rights organisation Al-Haq, told The New Arab that the latest measures threaten to intensify an already desperate situation and come after earlier aid restrictions contributed to famine conditions in parts of the enclave.
https://www.newarab.com/news/countless-more-lives-risk-israel-shuts-gaza-crossings
Yemen’s Houthis declare ‘total ban’ on Israeli ships in Red Sea
“We declare a complete and total ban on Israeli maritime navigation in the Red Sea,” said a statement from the Houthis’ armed forces.“We consider all enemy movements to be legitimate military targets for our armed forces from the moment this statement is issued.”The Houthis, who joined the Middle East war in support of Iran in March, had not announced a missile attack on Israel since a fragile ceasefire began on April 8.
https://www.straitstimes.com/world/middle-east/yemens-houthis-declare-total-ban-on-israeli-ships-in-red-sea
https://archive.ph/KZmcr
Hundreds of Eastern Visayas delivery riders now regular employees
Normito Ragasa, union president of the Food Panda Riders Region 8, stressed this point after the National Labor Relations Commission (NLRC) recognized 126 Food Panda riders as regular employees on April 21, 2026. The ruling comes after the legal battle initiated by the union in August 2025. Riders welcomed this decision as they have struggled with worsening working conditions from the COVID 19 pandemic to the current oil crisis. Ragasa, however, said that the ride to justice is just starting.
https://www.bulatlat.com/2026/06/06/hundreds-of-eastern-visayas-delivery-riders-now-regular-employees/
Pro-Palestinian activists force EU commissioner to move meeting with arms manufacturer
The demonstrators at the Herstal site were protesting the effectiveness of Wallonia’s ban on military equipment transiting to Israel, which has been in place since May 2024, according to Belgian news agency Belga. The measure followed reports that 70 tons of ammunition and explosives had passed through Liège Airport since the start of Israel’s retaliation in Gaza after the Oct. 7 attack, where Hamas killed about 1,200 people in Israel, a large majority of whom were civilians, and took 251 hostages
https://www.politico.eu/article/pro-palestinian-activists-disrupt-andrius-kubilius-visit-arm-manufacturer/
https://archive.ph/sWliJ
GMB votes against Labour disaffiliation survey over Reform popularity fears
Southern region delegates called for the membership to be consulted on keeping the historic affiliation, building a new workers party and funding political candidates outside Labour. The debate, which lasted for more than an hour, came after a poll for the Times suggested trade union members were as likely - 28 per cent — to vote for Reform UK as Labour. Among GMB members, the far-right party had a 9 per cent lead on Labour.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/gmb-votes-against-labour-disaffiliation-survey-over-reform-popularity-fears
Arsonists Burn Car Outside Prominent Muslim Political Activist’s Home
CCTV footage captured at 1:36am on Wednesday shows one person pouring what appears to be petrol on the vehicle in the driveway of the house and then setting the fire while another looks on. Yaqoob’s brothers, Farrukh and Rashad, rushed outside after seeing light from the flames and used hosepipes and buckets to try to stop the fire from spreading to the fuel tank. No one was injured.
https://novaramedia.com/2026/06/08/arsonists-burn-car-outside-prominent-muslim-political-activists-home/
Kenya police fire tear gas, arrest ex-chief justice at national park protest
Officers moved in and arrested at least nine people, including former Chief Justice David Maraga, outside the main entrance of Nairobi National Park, Reuters reporters said. Protesters - who waved placards marked with “Nature is not vacant land” and other slogans - say the plans, including a parking area for more than 1,000 vehicles, will encroach on one of Kenya’s most famous protected areas.
https://www.scmp.com/news/world/africa/article/3356418/kenya-police-fire-tear-gas-arrest-ex-chief-justice-national-park-protest?pgtype=live
https://archive.ph/J9MiX
U.S.-Nigerian Strikes Killed Dozens of Civilians, Villagers Say
Villagers in Metele said that the attacks hit residential areas and killed innocent people. “The community experienced a tragic airstrike attack recently which caused heavy casualties and destruction in Metele,” Zannah Abba Aji, the village head of Metele told Drop Site News. He was in Maiduguri, the state capital, when the strikes took place. “Many innocent civilians were affected during the incident,” he said.
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/united-states-nigeria-iswap-borno-strikes-civilian-casualties
South Africa’s Ramaphosa acknowledges rising anti-migrant tensions
Anti-migrant protest groups have said they’ve set a June 30 deadline for foreign nationals who are in South Africa illegally to leave and have requested talks with the government. … “Many South Africans are raising difficult but legitimate questions,” President Ramaphosa said. “These concerns are real. They deserve to be heard, and they deserve to be addressed.” But President Ramaphosa added that “only authorised government officials can act against violations of our law,” warning that some groups were “inciting” tensions.
https://www.newarab.com/news/countless-more-lives-risk-israel-shuts-gaza-crossings
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Not necessarily saying that it does; But what's the usual argument against this?
More a cultural than a political questions, But I love discussing here.
Violence in media?
If stereotyping various people groups in film/media in general is harmful as it colors many people's worldview and spreads prejudice; How can't the same be said of casual extreme violence in media?Not necessarily saying that it does; But what's the usual argument against this?
More a cultural than a political questions, But I love discussing here.
R: 13 / I: 3
There's plenty of writings on Juche but seemingly zero focused on the government of Laos, its ideology, its revolution etc.
Laos
How the hell is there less information about Laos than about even North Korea? Literally anyone can freely travel to Laos unlike the DPRK.There's plenty of writings on Juche but seemingly zero focused on the government of Laos, its ideology, its revolution etc.
R: 2 / I: 0
Help comrades from Pakistan who are being held in prison. Comrade Ehsan Ali is on his 60s and he's being denied medical attention while his health is deteriorating.
Go ahead and share this video.
Also sign this petition
https://pakistansolidarity.org/
Help comrades from Pakistan who are being held in prison. Comrade Ehsan Ali is on his 60s and he's being denied medical attention while his health is deteriorating.
Go ahead and share this video.
Also sign this petition
https://pakistansolidarity.org/
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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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Did we tried to establish communism the marxian way? Lets take Russia, China and Vietnam. They all got from feudalism to socialism without even putting down capitalism. Furthermore, if I remember correctly, the revolutions which took place in those country came from the intellectual class instead of the proletariat.
Please enlight me.
Did we tried to establish communism the marxian way? Lets take Russia, China and Vietnam. They all got from feudalism to socialism without even putting down capitalism. Furthermore, if I remember correctly, the revolutions which took place in those country came from the intellectual class instead of the proletariat.
Please enlight me.
R: 6 / I: 1
What is my political view, help
I hate leftists and rightists, doe, i follow some of their views as hating capitalists, rich people, yet i hate many minorities. I especially hate nazis and communists (only because of their behaviour, i hate nazis no matter what)
R: 17 / I: 1
This may be a dumb question, but how am I supposed to support the working class and show sympathy for other workers when people are just stupid? Vast majority of people think communism is le 1 billion dead people and they would gladly have their rights taken away.
How can a revolution be possible when workers are more divided than ever? While global capital sweeps everything away, society is divided into men and women, vegans and meat-eaters, conservatives and liberals, and a million other things
This may be a dumb question, but how am I supposed to support the working class and show sympathy for other workers when people are just stupid? Vast majority of people think communism is le 1 billion dead people and they would gladly have their rights taken away.
How can a revolution be possible when workers are more divided than ever? While global capital sweeps everything away, society is divided into men and women, vegans and meat-eaters, conservatives and liberals, and a million other things
R: 610 / I: 131 (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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• IWW Work Place Organizing Guide // https://usa.anarchistlibraries.net/library/industrial-workers-of-the-world-libcom-org-solidarity-federation-walthamstow-anarchist-group-wo
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• 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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• Al Jazeera visual guide (2026) // https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/10/struggling-to-navigate-the-epstein-files-here-is-a-visual-guide
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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
• 📖 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
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Previous Thread: >>2817349
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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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• 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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• 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: >>2817349
R: 9 / I: 2
I own the work place and you don't. You have to beg me for a job. You can have the job only if you produce more revenue than I pay you. I'll pay you enough to stay alive but not enough to escape your circumstances, unless it looks like you're a total bootlicker and I can use you to keep your peers in line. I need you alive so I can use you, but I need you weak so you can't fight back. Who am I?
I own the work place and you don't. You have to beg me for a job. You can have the job only if you produce more revenue than I pay you. I'll pay you enough to stay alive but not enough to escape your circumstances, unless it looks like you're a total bootlicker and I can use you to keep your peers in line. I need you alive so I can use you, but I need you weak so you can't fight back. Who am I?
R: 6 / I: 0
Eugenics is one of those words that people flattened to be absurdly broad and shallow. It was a specific movement, with key goals and philosophies.
But people today employ the word any time someone makes a decision about their offspring that isn't randomly selected breeding.
Today on xitter i see right-wingers and a few left-wingers harassing a couple that decided to terminate a pregnancy due to the baby having down syndrome as "eugenic".
What caused this bastardisation of the term?
Eugenics is one of those words that people flattened to be absurdly broad and shallow. It was a specific movement, with key goals and philosophies.
But people today employ the word any time someone makes a decision about their offspring that isn't randomly selected breeding.
Today on xitter i see right-wingers and a few left-wingers harassing a couple that decided to terminate a pregnancy due to the baby having down syndrome as "eugenic".
What caused this bastardisation of the term?
R: 602 / I: 136 (full)
Enlightened ways of cucktin 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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📺 • Ukraine: The Avoidable War - Boy Boy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LL4eNy4FCs8
📺 • Ukraine's Nazi Problem - The Marxist Project
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yZvWAwU5W4
📺 • America, Russia, and Ukraine's Far Right - Gravel Institute
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0pyVJG7_6Q
📺 • The Nature of Putin's Russia and Its Causes (3-Part Series) - 1Dime
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8d6Vzi7zYg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zODWTfMwFGw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Zuygh9Mzuo
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📺 • The Duran: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdeMVChrumySxV9N1w0Au-w
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Previous: >>2808617Enlightened ways of cucktin 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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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
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📺 • DDGeopolitics: https://www.youtube.com/@DDGeopolitics
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R: 5 / I: 0
as a veteran of the culture wars on both sides since pretty much just after the gamergate days and pre-trump 1, i've seen a lot in my 10+ years being politically involved in the modern age. i've wasted most of my twenties autisticly hyper-analysing political dynamics and persuasion to try and develop theories and praxis on how to help socialist politics gain power in the face of the enormous pressure ultra-capitalism places on them. i'll try and keep this simple, no deep citations of marxist scripture that will make normies turn off their brains, just basic techniques and strategy that i think would personally help the left as a general movement
mainly, win the humour war. i'm not going to say i can always understand what is and isn't quality humour, but that goes even for the greatest of comic minds, not every joke is going to land, but some risk and vulnerability is expected from the comic is needed. anyway, humour i believe is derived from subversion and surprise. subversion often involves the target and the whole "punching up" rule in comedy can be constituted as that. so why is/was 4chan rightoid slop humour "kill da uyghurs and jews deus vult" stuff considered funny by enough of a die-hard audience? because it was subversive. it did something new, and got the reactions it desired. why is it not funny now, or how do you not make it funny to a wider audience? not through outrage or indignation, but simply fatigue and boredom. the shock is the humour. take away the shock and it fades. act like you've seen this shit before and it's almost become normal, without actively normalising it, because you're still critiquing it. you can combine the shock and edge they once had, and instead turn it on the rightoids. they bring what they think is a pipebomb telling you to "kill yourself, commie beautiful lady😍🥰"? bring a precision airstike "i remember when that was funny and hip in 2017. running on exhaust fumes, you epstein apologist dronefly?" i'm not saying it's the apex of comedy, but you're bullying them back harder and more eloquently and put them in a position where they have to think and not operate on autopilot, something naturally leftists will fucking obliterate rightoids on without the rightoid exposing themselves as an utter psychopath to everyone or cry uncle and say you're being offensive and rude. if they hit you, hit you back harder is what i'm getting at, with more precision, knowledge and bite. this might be weird advice, but study good public promo makers, there are wrestling personalities like prime rock, cm punk, mjf, nick bockwinkel, chris jericho, paul heyman, jim cornette and bobby the brain heenan who fucking ace this shit. it's why trump got so much popularity, no-one had really done this in modern american politics and it was something new. just do it better than the rightoids because it's a valid, potent technique that deserves to be used for an actual valid endgoal instead of the desires of the ultra-capitalist class.
mostly an adhd stream of consciousness, but i thought this was the perfect place to post it. welcome to any feedback, and i might make more threads on this when i get thoughts like ths one again.
how leftists win optics in the online world
note: i don't proclaim to be super-knowledgeable about offline optics, but with the world becoming increasingly online, i do feel this will inevitably bleed into real-life consequences, as they have done with the online right's success from 2014 to about present-dayas a veteran of the culture wars on both sides since pretty much just after the gamergate days and pre-trump 1, i've seen a lot in my 10+ years being politically involved in the modern age. i've wasted most of my twenties autisticly hyper-analysing political dynamics and persuasion to try and develop theories and praxis on how to help socialist politics gain power in the face of the enormous pressure ultra-capitalism places on them. i'll try and keep this simple, no deep citations of marxist scripture that will make normies turn off their brains, just basic techniques and strategy that i think would personally help the left as a general movement
mainly, win the humour war. i'm not going to say i can always understand what is and isn't quality humour, but that goes even for the greatest of comic minds, not every joke is going to land, but some risk and vulnerability is expected from the comic is needed. anyway, humour i believe is derived from subversion and surprise. subversion often involves the target and the whole "punching up" rule in comedy can be constituted as that. so why is/was 4chan rightoid slop humour "kill da uyghurs and jews deus vult" stuff considered funny by enough of a die-hard audience? because it was subversive. it did something new, and got the reactions it desired. why is it not funny now, or how do you not make it funny to a wider audience? not through outrage or indignation, but simply fatigue and boredom. the shock is the humour. take away the shock and it fades. act like you've seen this shit before and it's almost become normal, without actively normalising it, because you're still critiquing it. you can combine the shock and edge they once had, and instead turn it on the rightoids. they bring what they think is a pipebomb telling you to "kill yourself, commie beautiful lady😍🥰"? bring a precision airstike "i remember when that was funny and hip in 2017. running on exhaust fumes, you epstein apologist dronefly?" i'm not saying it's the apex of comedy, but you're bullying them back harder and more eloquently and put them in a position where they have to think and not operate on autopilot, something naturally leftists will fucking obliterate rightoids on without the rightoid exposing themselves as an utter psychopath to everyone or cry uncle and say you're being offensive and rude. if they hit you, hit you back harder is what i'm getting at, with more precision, knowledge and bite. this might be weird advice, but study good public promo makers, there are wrestling personalities like prime rock, cm punk, mjf, nick bockwinkel, chris jericho, paul heyman, jim cornette and bobby the brain heenan who fucking ace this shit. it's why trump got so much popularity, no-one had really done this in modern american politics and it was something new. just do it better than the rightoids because it's a valid, potent technique that deserves to be used for an actual valid endgoal instead of the desires of the ultra-capitalist class.
mostly an adhd stream of consciousness, but i thought this was the perfect place to post it. welcome to any feedback, and i might make more threads on this when i get thoughts like ths one again.
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Firstly, its clear that the higher productivity of workers in rich countries is the reason for greater material wealth. Similarly its primarily the lower productivity in poorer countries for the lack of material wealth.
So now you can ask, "do rich countries have high productivity due to exploitation of poor ones"? And the answer is no. They have high productivity due to more automation of production processes.
Secondly you can ask, "do poor countries have low automation because of rich countries"? The answer is no. In fact, rich countries even outsource production to poor ones and help them increase their productivity via tech transfer, capital for building factories etc. The low automation in poor countries is because they start out from historically low base.
Now you can indeed blame colonialism, but I'm talking about existing processes rather than the lingering effects of 70 year old ones. But to be even more accurate, it was colonialism that enabled the development of capitalist relations in the first place, even if those relations were later strangled by the colonizers.
Do rich countries really "exploit" poorer ones?
I find it hard to believe that rich countries "exploit" poorer ones, in the Marxist sense.Firstly, its clear that the higher productivity of workers in rich countries is the reason for greater material wealth. Similarly its primarily the lower productivity in poorer countries for the lack of material wealth.
So now you can ask, "do rich countries have high productivity due to exploitation of poor ones"? And the answer is no. They have high productivity due to more automation of production processes.
Secondly you can ask, "do poor countries have low automation because of rich countries"? The answer is no. In fact, rich countries even outsource production to poor ones and help them increase their productivity via tech transfer, capital for building factories etc. The low automation in poor countries is because they start out from historically low base.
Now you can indeed blame colonialism, but I'm talking about existing processes rather than the lingering effects of 70 year old ones. But to be even more accurate, it was colonialism that enabled the development of capitalist relations in the first place, even if those relations were later strangled by the colonizers.
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The nationalism and racial myth survived WW2, and the Japanese government has steadily maintained them. Up to this day, the Japanese population believe in the uniqueness and superiority of the Japanese race and culture. As such, Japan has rejected foreigners, choosing racial purity over survival.
All of this along with the severely worsening living and economic conditions is pushing Japan to choosing between obeying and dying, or disobeying and starting a war, similar to WW2. Any path they choose is basically suicidal.
To avoid a pacific war theater, the US must stop abusing Japan and offer some support. This is one of the tasks of the American left. Don’t ignore Japan!
The Sleeping Empire
Japan is nowadays seen as the lap dog of the USA. Not a threat unless the USA commands it. But there are some similarities to the past. The US sanctioned Japan in the early 1900s, one of the reasons that pushed Japan to the war. Now the US is forcing Japan to invest more in the army, thus raising taxes and burdening the population. Recently the US demanded Japan $550 billion for nothing in return. This is raw power. The US is pushing Japan towards a path with no exit.The nationalism and racial myth survived WW2, and the Japanese government has steadily maintained them. Up to this day, the Japanese population believe in the uniqueness and superiority of the Japanese race and culture. As such, Japan has rejected foreigners, choosing racial purity over survival.
All of this along with the severely worsening living and economic conditions is pushing Japan to choosing between obeying and dying, or disobeying and starting a war, similar to WW2. Any path they choose is basically suicidal.
To avoid a pacific war theater, the US must stop abusing Japan and offer some support. This is one of the tasks of the American left. Don’t ignore Japan!
R: 38 / I: 4
How come socdems chads have no trouble winning elections but communists do? How come literally nobody likes any of you guys irl?
How come socdems chads have no trouble winning elections but communists do? How come literally nobody likes any of you guys irl?
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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/
• 📖 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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• 📖 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
• 📖 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: >>2828233
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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™
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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 📺
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• Bloomberg Live // https://www.bloomberg.com/live/us
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• Local News // https://www.50states.com/ce/
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• Black Agenda Report // https://blackagendareport.com/
• The Grayzone // https://thegrayzone.com/
• Leftvoice // https://www.leftvoice.org/
• Newsanon Filter // https://leftypol.org/search.php?search=name%3A%22News+Anon+3.0%22&board=leftypol
🏝️ Epstein's Client List 🇮🇱
• Epstein's Black Book // https://epsteinsblackbook.com/
• DOJ Disclosures // https://www.justice.gov/epstein/doj-disclosures
• Track AIPAC // https://www.trackaipac.com/
• Al Jazeera visual guide (2026) // https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/10/struggling-to-navigate-the-epstein-files-here-is-a-visual-guide
Essential American Politik 📖
• 📖 WEB Du Bois - Black Reconstruction // https://cominsitu.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/w-e-b-du-bois-black-reconstruction-an-essay-toward-a-history-of-the-part-which-black-folk-played-in-the-attempt-to-reconstruct-democracy-2.pdf
• 📖 Eugene Debs - Fourth of July Speech // https://jacobin.com/2020/07/eugene-debs-independence-day-address-fourth-july
• 📖 Power Anywhere There's People! – Fred Hampton // https://www.hamptonthink.org/read/power-anywhere-where-thats-people-fred-hampton
• 📖 War is a Racket – Smedley Butler // https://ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html
• 📖 Letters From an American Farmer – St. John de Crevoecoeur // https://americanliterature.com/author/j-hector-st-john-de-crevoecoeur/book/letters-from-an-american-farmer/summary
• 📖 Trail of Broken Treaties // American Indian Movement https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
• 📖 The Declaration of Independence https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
• https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
• 📖 The Ballot or the Bullet – Malcolm X // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/ballot_or_bullet.pdf
• 📖 What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? – Frederick Douglass // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/douglass_july_4_speech.pdf
• 📖 A Trail of Broken Treaties – American Indian Movement // https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
• 📖 Custer Died for Your Sins – Vine Deloria Jr. // http://www.riversimulator.org/Resources/Books/CusterDiedForYourSinsAnIndianManifesto1969Deloria.pdf
• 📖 Emancipation Proclamation – Lincoln // https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/emancipation-proclamation
• 📖 Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville // https://americanliterature.com/author/alexis-de-tocqueville/book/democracy-in-america/summary
• 📖 Common Sense – Thomas Paine // https://americainclass.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Common-Sense-Full-Text.pdf
• 📖 An Indigenous History of the United States – Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz // https://nycstandswithstandingrock.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/dunbar-ortiz-2014.pdf
• 📖 Huey Long – Share Our Wealth // https://www.hueylong.com/programs/share-our-wealth/huey-longs-share-our-wealth-speech
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The initiative, submitted on Monday —the same day Kast delivered his first state-of-the-nation address— is a resolution, so that, if approved, it would only reflect the chamber's position and ask the Executive to promote the venue. The text calls for instructing the Ministries of Cultures and Public Works and the National Monuments Council to install it and to collect testimonies and documents from the period. According to the document, the aim is to “preserve the complete and true historical memory” of the victims of shortages, political violence and the economic chaos of the period, and to educate new generations “without ideological bias, without convenient omissions and without the monopoly of a single narrative.”
https://en.mercopress.com/2026/06/05/chile-s-far-right-proposes-a-museum-of-truth-on-the-allende-era-to-counter-coup-memory
‘Historic’: Canadian warehouse workers sign first-ever union deal with Walmart
In the case of the Mississauga effort, Walmart raised wages for other workers in the region but not the distribution centre that had unionized. As part of the newly signed collective agreement, Walmart will pay a lump sum to settle an unfair labour practice complaint. The company did not respond to a request for comment.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/jun/06/canada-walmart-first-union-deal
Pentagon raises alarm over Israel’s ‘unhinged’ spying on US officials: Report
The New York Times reported that US intelligence has focused on Israeli efforts to eavesdrop on senior officials, including Steve Witkoff, Trump’s top negotiator, Elbridge A Colby, the Pentagon’s top policy official, and Michael P DiMino IV, one of Colby’s main deputies. Colby has in the past called for a "reset" on the US relationship with Israel. Israel’s counterintelligence threat level now stands higher than that of any other US ally and even higher than some adversarial states, the Times reported. One senior official described Israel’s intelligence collection against top US officials during the second Trump administration as “unhinged”.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/pentagon-raises-alarm-over-israels-unhinged-spying-us-officials-report
Rights group says drone strike kills 11 in central Sudan market
The attack on Saturday targeted the main market in Abu Zaeima, a paramilitary-controlled town in North Kordofan state, according to Emergency Lawyers, which has documented abuses since fighting erupted in April 2023 between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF).
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/6/6/rights-group-says-drone-strike-kills-11-in-central-sudan-market
https://archive.ph/e1FV4
'Taking our jobs': Yemeni workers lose out to lower-paid Ethiopian migrants in low-skilled sectors
Yemen's youth unemployment rate stood at 32.39 percent in 2024, and this rate is particularly prevalent among young people like Zabidi, who rely on low-skilled jobs that do not require specific experience. Originally from the Hodeidah governorate, Zabidi moved to Aden seven years ago in search of a better income. He had struggled to find stable employment in Hodeidah, where he relied entirely on intermittent day labour.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/taking-our-jobs-yemeni-workers-lose-out-lower-paid-ethiopian-migrants-low-skilled-sectors
Palestine Solidarity Campaign urges UK to halt illegal Israeli settlement property event
The campaign calls on Mahmood to ensure criminal charges are brought against those involved in organising the Great Israeli Real Estate Event 2026 and to prevent it from going ahead. PSC argues that the exhibition is marketing property in settlements built on occupied Palestinian land.
https://www.newarab.com/news/psc-urges-uk-halt-illegal-israeli-settlement-property-event
Southern Water sparks fury with ‘absolutely disgusting’ sewage dumping plans
Located near Bembridge Harbour on the island’s east coast, the area is regularly visited by holidaymakers and water users and is home to an array of habitats and species, including rare offshore seagrass meadows, seahorses, Mediterranean gulls and herrings.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/southern-water-sparks-fury-absolutely-disgusting-sewage-dumping-plans
Paris ‘football riots’: Macron’s laboratory of repression
It was Saturday evening on 30 May and Paris was burning again. Piles of electric bikes were on fire alongside unfortunately placed vehicles. Flares were lit and plumes of red smoke rose high around national monuments. And fireworks, shot from some unknowable point in a sea of people, crackled in the sky. But the acrid smoke was mingled with tear gas, producing that very specific scent: a French riot.
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2026/06/02/paris-football-riots-macrons-laboratory-of-repression/
CPI(M) questions Congress poll campaign in Kerala, seeks clarity ahead of INDIA Bloc meet
In a detailed letter, CPI(M) General Secretary M.A. Baby recalled that during the Kerala polls, Congress leaders repeatedly alleged that CPI(M) senior leader and then Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan had struck an understanding with Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The question was posed, “Otherwise, why is it that he has not been interrogated or arrested by the Enforcement Directorate?”
https://www.lokmattimes.com/national/cpim-questions-congress-poll-campaign-in-kerala-seeks-clarity-ahead-of-india-bloc-meet/
https://archive.ph/0u05W
South Korean protesters keep calling for re-run of election after ballot shortage
The protests follow a ballot shortage that prevented some eligible voters from casting their ballots across the country, prompting the resignation of the head of the National Election Commission. Fifty of 14,300 polling stations ran out of ballots and voting was temporarily suspended at 22 polling stations due to delays in receiving supplies, according to the election commission. Seoul Mayor Oh Se-hoon said in a televised speech, opens new tab that the ballot shortage was intolerable and a violation of the right to vote. He demanded disbanding the election commission and an investigation by special prosecutors.
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/south-korean-protesters-keep-calling-re-run-election-after-ballot-shortage-2026-06-06/
News 6/6/26
Chile's far-right proposes a 'Museum of Truth' on the Allende era to counter coup memoryThe initiative, submitted on Monday —the same day Kast delivered his first state-of-the-nation address— is a resolution, so that, if approved, it would only reflect the chamber's position and ask the Executive to promote the venue. The text calls for instructing the Ministries of Cultures and Public Works and the National Monuments Council to install it and to collect testimonies and documents from the period. According to the document, the aim is to “preserve the complete and true historical memory” of the victims of shortages, political violence and the economic chaos of the period, and to educate new generations “without ideological bias, without convenient omissions and without the monopoly of a single narrative.”
https://en.mercopress.com/2026/06/05/chile-s-far-right-proposes-a-museum-of-truth-on-the-allende-era-to-counter-coup-memory
‘Historic’: Canadian warehouse workers sign first-ever union deal with Walmart
In the case of the Mississauga effort, Walmart raised wages for other workers in the region but not the distribution centre that had unionized. As part of the newly signed collective agreement, Walmart will pay a lump sum to settle an unfair labour practice complaint. The company did not respond to a request for comment.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/jun/06/canada-walmart-first-union-deal
Pentagon raises alarm over Israel’s ‘unhinged’ spying on US officials: Report
The New York Times reported that US intelligence has focused on Israeli efforts to eavesdrop on senior officials, including Steve Witkoff, Trump’s top negotiator, Elbridge A Colby, the Pentagon’s top policy official, and Michael P DiMino IV, one of Colby’s main deputies. Colby has in the past called for a "reset" on the US relationship with Israel. Israel’s counterintelligence threat level now stands higher than that of any other US ally and even higher than some adversarial states, the Times reported. One senior official described Israel’s intelligence collection against top US officials during the second Trump administration as “unhinged”.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/pentagon-raises-alarm-over-israels-unhinged-spying-us-officials-report
Rights group says drone strike kills 11 in central Sudan market
The attack on Saturday targeted the main market in Abu Zaeima, a paramilitary-controlled town in North Kordofan state, according to Emergency Lawyers, which has documented abuses since fighting erupted in April 2023 between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF).
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/6/6/rights-group-says-drone-strike-kills-11-in-central-sudan-market
https://archive.ph/e1FV4
'Taking our jobs': Yemeni workers lose out to lower-paid Ethiopian migrants in low-skilled sectors
Yemen's youth unemployment rate stood at 32.39 percent in 2024, and this rate is particularly prevalent among young people like Zabidi, who rely on low-skilled jobs that do not require specific experience. Originally from the Hodeidah governorate, Zabidi moved to Aden seven years ago in search of a better income. He had struggled to find stable employment in Hodeidah, where he relied entirely on intermittent day labour.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/taking-our-jobs-yemeni-workers-lose-out-lower-paid-ethiopian-migrants-low-skilled-sectors
Palestine Solidarity Campaign urges UK to halt illegal Israeli settlement property event
The campaign calls on Mahmood to ensure criminal charges are brought against those involved in organising the Great Israeli Real Estate Event 2026 and to prevent it from going ahead. PSC argues that the exhibition is marketing property in settlements built on occupied Palestinian land.
https://www.newarab.com/news/psc-urges-uk-halt-illegal-israeli-settlement-property-event
Southern Water sparks fury with ‘absolutely disgusting’ sewage dumping plans
Located near Bembridge Harbour on the island’s east coast, the area is regularly visited by holidaymakers and water users and is home to an array of habitats and species, including rare offshore seagrass meadows, seahorses, Mediterranean gulls and herrings.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/southern-water-sparks-fury-absolutely-disgusting-sewage-dumping-plans
Paris ‘football riots’: Macron’s laboratory of repression
It was Saturday evening on 30 May and Paris was burning again. Piles of electric bikes were on fire alongside unfortunately placed vehicles. Flares were lit and plumes of red smoke rose high around national monuments. And fireworks, shot from some unknowable point in a sea of people, crackled in the sky. But the acrid smoke was mingled with tear gas, producing that very specific scent: a French riot.
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2026/06/02/paris-football-riots-macrons-laboratory-of-repression/
CPI(M) questions Congress poll campaign in Kerala, seeks clarity ahead of INDIA Bloc meet
In a detailed letter, CPI(M) General Secretary M.A. Baby recalled that during the Kerala polls, Congress leaders repeatedly alleged that CPI(M) senior leader and then Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan had struck an understanding with Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The question was posed, “Otherwise, why is it that he has not been interrogated or arrested by the Enforcement Directorate?”
https://www.lokmattimes.com/national/cpim-questions-congress-poll-campaign-in-kerala-seeks-clarity-ahead-of-india-bloc-meet/
https://archive.ph/0u05W
South Korean protesters keep calling for re-run of election after ballot shortage
The protests follow a ballot shortage that prevented some eligible voters from casting their ballots across the country, prompting the resignation of the head of the National Election Commission. Fifty of 14,300 polling stations ran out of ballots and voting was temporarily suspended at 22 polling stations due to delays in receiving supplies, according to the election commission. Seoul Mayor Oh Se-hoon said in a televised speech, opens new tab that the ballot shortage was intolerable and a violation of the right to vote. He demanded disbanding the election commission and an investigation by special prosecutors.
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/south-korean-protesters-keep-calling-re-run-election-after-ballot-shortage-2026-06-06/
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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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the us government is foundationally zionist. manifest destiny is just zionism for anglo protestants.
burgerfat voters are highly fed and armed and elect the zionists. they could easily expel the zionists with 1/100th of the effort that hamas and hezbollah put into resisting genocide, yet they continue to elect zionists while crying that they are "occupied." it's really pathetic stuff.
just fight back even a little
"you must say ZOG" crowd is retarded. zionists occupy palestine and lebanon. they bribe and blackmail the US. in bribery and blackmail there are 2 guilty parties. in occupation there is only 1 guilty party. the US government is not a victim of zionist occupation, it is a collaborator in zionist genocide. "ZOG" absolves US imperialism. that is why "ZOG" started off as a nazoid slogan in the 70s rather than an anti imperialist slogan.the us government is foundationally zionist. manifest destiny is just zionism for anglo protestants.
burgerfat voters are highly fed and armed and elect the zionists. they could easily expel the zionists with 1/100th of the effort that hamas and hezbollah put into resisting genocide, yet they continue to elect zionists while crying that they are "occupied." it's really pathetic stuff.
R: 11 / I: 1
can I be a leftist and also half israeli but condeming israel but not as much as i should
will the leftists accept me if I'm open about this
can i join the local mutual aid scene?
can I be a leftist and also half israeli but condeming israel but not as much as i should
will the leftists accept me if I'm open about this
can i join the local mutual aid scene?
R: 65 / I: 7
>I started off as vaguely conservative when I first starting learning about politics (was really into the whole "competition drives innovation" type thing). Didn't like feminism and what I thought was political correctness gone mad. Was christian (still thought shit like noahs ark was retarded though).
>Grew out of Christianity and as a result became disillusioned with a lot of the republican messaging.
>Became friends with a group of guys that were very right wing and slowly realized they were completely retarded which drove me away from being a republican.
>Became a democrat still heavily pro-capitalism of course. Very destiny style liberal with some reactionary tendencies
>Don't remember why but started looking into fidel castro and realized that he wasn't nearly as bad as everyone said he was and actually agreed with a lot of his ideas.
>Read "Principles of Communism" and heavily resonated with it.
>Spent a couple years still as a lib but with sympathies to communism, didn't fully understand it and disagreed but didn't outright hate it like 99% of liberals do.
>Around 2018 started to feel alienated amongst liberals, it's difficult to explain but I felt like I *cared* about things while liberals did not, they would act like they cared but they didn't really give a shit.
>Finally got around to reading some of capital and dove deep into a lot of online communities
>The rest is history
What about you guys?
What made you guys communist?
Explain your political progression. I'll start with mine, I live in the US for reference.>I started off as vaguely conservative when I first starting learning about politics (was really into the whole "competition drives innovation" type thing). Didn't like feminism and what I thought was political correctness gone mad. Was christian (still thought shit like noahs ark was retarded though).
>Grew out of Christianity and as a result became disillusioned with a lot of the republican messaging.
>Became friends with a group of guys that were very right wing and slowly realized they were completely retarded which drove me away from being a republican.
>Became a democrat still heavily pro-capitalism of course. Very destiny style liberal with some reactionary tendencies
>Don't remember why but started looking into fidel castro and realized that he wasn't nearly as bad as everyone said he was and actually agreed with a lot of his ideas.
>Read "Principles of Communism" and heavily resonated with it.
>Spent a couple years still as a lib but with sympathies to communism, didn't fully understand it and disagreed but didn't outright hate it like 99% of liberals do.
>Around 2018 started to feel alienated amongst liberals, it's difficult to explain but I felt like I *cared* about things while liberals did not, they would act like they cared but they didn't really give a shit.
>Finally got around to reading some of capital and dove deep into a lot of online communities
>The rest is history
What about you guys?
R: 31 / I: 2
This is important because Davis is a monster who has been far WORSE than Epstein and is a much bigger and more sinister criminal
Davis is one of the most powerful men in the music industry, and there's been rumours for years that he's has been involved in loads of shady shit like running Epstein-like sex trafficking rings in the music industry since the 1970s. It is a known fact Davis was involved in one of the biggest payola scandals in music industry history. He is also known to commit tax fraud/evasion. Plus there is a huge number of musicians whose deaths he was certainly involved in (Janis Joplin, Donny Hathaway, Phyllis Hyman, Luther Vandros, Aaliyah, Left Eye, Whitney Houston, Angie Stone and even Prince). Some say he has CIA connections. Yet he hasn't been charged with anything
Davis buckbroke Diddy when Diddy first entered the music industry. But it gets deeper. Clive Davis is a member of the Study Group (Mega Group), a secretive inner circle of powerful Jewish billionaires. This same organization funded Jeffrey Epstein and gave him his elite connections. We know Epstein was a Mossad agent who was getting blackmail material on the rich and powerful so they’d keep making pro-Israel policies. There is no doubt Clive Davis was absolutely using Diddy to get blackmail material on rappers and pop stars so that they’d stay in-line identical to Epstein. And the Study Group was behind it all.
Davis is also a gigantic Zionist and owns a school at NYU (where criticizing Zionism is against university policy).
Given all this, will Davis finally be exposed on his deathbed?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxuR1H7US_M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClzGRCoGlWc
One of America's most powerful porkies near death
Clive Davis was rushed to the hospital for lung issues and may not survive another day.This is important because Davis is a monster who has been far WORSE than Epstein and is a much bigger and more sinister criminal
Davis is one of the most powerful men in the music industry, and there's been rumours for years that he's has been involved in loads of shady shit like running Epstein-like sex trafficking rings in the music industry since the 1970s. It is a known fact Davis was involved in one of the biggest payola scandals in music industry history. He is also known to commit tax fraud/evasion. Plus there is a huge number of musicians whose deaths he was certainly involved in (Janis Joplin, Donny Hathaway, Phyllis Hyman, Luther Vandros, Aaliyah, Left Eye, Whitney Houston, Angie Stone and even Prince). Some say he has CIA connections. Yet he hasn't been charged with anything
Davis buckbroke Diddy when Diddy first entered the music industry. But it gets deeper. Clive Davis is a member of the Study Group (Mega Group), a secretive inner circle of powerful Jewish billionaires. This same organization funded Jeffrey Epstein and gave him his elite connections. We know Epstein was a Mossad agent who was getting blackmail material on the rich and powerful so they’d keep making pro-Israel policies. There is no doubt Clive Davis was absolutely using Diddy to get blackmail material on rappers and pop stars so that they’d stay in-line identical to Epstein. And the Study Group was behind it all.
Davis is also a gigantic Zionist and owns a school at NYU (where criticizing Zionism is against university policy).
Given all this, will Davis finally be exposed on his deathbed?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxuR1H7US_M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClzGRCoGlWc
R: 4 / I: 0
He predictied the collapse of the post-WW2 boom and also basically created the RCI.
https://www.tedgrant.org/
https://www.marxists.org/archive/grant/index.htm
Ted Grant
Does anybody here read Ted Grant?He predictied the collapse of the post-WW2 boom and also basically created the RCI.
https://www.tedgrant.org/
https://www.marxists.org/archive/grant/index.htm
R: 594 / I: 145
>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™
<Bourgeois Demokkkrussy edition
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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 📺
(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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💀 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
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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
• 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
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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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>1. Abolition of property in land and application of all rents of land to public purposes.
This is just a land-value tax. It's basically just Georgism or some other liberalism appropriating economic rent for spending on capital.
>2. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.
> 3. Abolition of all rights of inheritance.
The state is just going to spend these funds on capital.
>5. Centralisation of credit in the hands of the state, by means of a national bank with State capital and an exclusive monopoly.
>6. Centralisation of the means of communication and transport in the hands of the State.
Debt and unproductive labor are just different kinds of costs of circulation to appropriate, Hilferdingism is basically Georgism.
>10. Free education for all children in public schools. Abolition of children’s factory labour in its present form. Combination of education with industrial production, &c, &c.
Public education just decreases the costs of propagation. Public services like housing, transit, childcare and education just decrease the wages that capitalists need to pay their workers.
These are all good liberal democratic reforms but they're not really proletarian demands.
What is a revolutionary demand?
What is a revolutionary demand? It seems to me that most of the measures in the Communist Manifesto are simply liberal-democratic demands which decrease the cost of labor-power or otherwise support capital accumulation.>1. Abolition of property in land and application of all rents of land to public purposes.
This is just a land-value tax. It's basically just Georgism or some other liberalism appropriating economic rent for spending on capital.
>2. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.
> 3. Abolition of all rights of inheritance.
The state is just going to spend these funds on capital.
>5. Centralisation of credit in the hands of the state, by means of a national bank with State capital and an exclusive monopoly.
>6. Centralisation of the means of communication and transport in the hands of the State.
Debt and unproductive labor are just different kinds of costs of circulation to appropriate, Hilferdingism is basically Georgism.
>10. Free education for all children in public schools. Abolition of children’s factory labour in its present form. Combination of education with industrial production, &c, &c.
Public education just decreases the costs of propagation. Public services like housing, transit, childcare and education just decrease the wages that capitalists need to pay their workers.
These are all good liberal democratic reforms but they're not really proletarian demands.
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Biking feels a little communist when you notice how it depends on shared public space and collective infrastructure, but honestly I just like not spending money on gas and parking. Should the cities of the future plan only for bikes and pedestrians (and other forms of electric micromobility for those who need it) and spacious trains to carry your bike as you go from city in city in 20 mins instead of 4+ hours as it is now?
Thoughts?
Biking feels a little communist when you notice how it depends on shared public space and collective infrastructure, but honestly I just like not spending money on gas and parking. Should the cities of the future plan only for bikes and pedestrians (and other forms of electric micromobility for those who need it) and spacious trains to carry your bike as you go from city in city in 20 mins instead of 4+ hours as it is now?
Thoughts?
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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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Without resorting to vitriolic name-calling and unproven conspiracies and 70+ y/o propaganda, Explain why picrel and his thought is le bad?
Just want honest, productive discussion
Without resorting to vitriolic name-calling and unproven conspiracies and 70+ y/o propaganda, Explain why picrel and his thought is le bad?
Just want honest, productive discussion
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Has America ever had a good president
I think given what Lincoln was faced with he made by far the most moral decisions, but even what he did was just a bandaid for real change that was made excruciatingly slowly from 1868 on.
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every point on the line between "the world is round" and "the world is flat" is just as absurd and stupid as "the world is flat".
there can never be any convenient model or algorithm or formula for knowing the truth of the world without the application of thought. there are no substitutes for thought.
any time we rely on shortcuts, some kind of simplified universal model, to understand reality instead of conscious thought, rigorous disciplined mental effort, we are practicing religion. god is religion, teleology is religion, dialectics is religion, LLMs are religion.
marx believed that religion is the opiate of the uneducated commoners and that religion only comes from traditional churches and priests, but religion can take infinite possible forms and anyone can fall victim to the allure of a simple answer.
dialectics is religion
50% truth combined with 50% untruth equals 100% annihilation of reality.every point on the line between "the world is round" and "the world is flat" is just as absurd and stupid as "the world is flat".
there can never be any convenient model or algorithm or formula for knowing the truth of the world without the application of thought. there are no substitutes for thought.
any time we rely on shortcuts, some kind of simplified universal model, to understand reality instead of conscious thought, rigorous disciplined mental effort, we are practicing religion. god is religion, teleology is religion, dialectics is religion, LLMs are religion.
marx believed that religion is the opiate of the uneducated commoners and that religion only comes from traditional churches and priests, but religion can take infinite possible forms and anyone can fall victim to the allure of a simple answer.
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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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Does Feudalism live?
Are there any countries that still have yet to progress into Capitalism? And I mean countries, not like uncontacted tribes. If not, what was the last country to become Capitalist?
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now I want to know the person who has done the most for communism that is alive and active right now, is it Xi ? is it maybe hasan peker? is it another unnamed unknown communist? let me know in the comments below
communism powerlevel
who is the best individual communist person right now? we can argue all day about communists of the past but they are dead.now I want to know the person who has done the most for communism that is alive and active right now, is it Xi ? is it maybe hasan peker? is it another unnamed unknown communist? let me know in the comments below
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Cf
Gorky
Mao Zedong Thought
Leftypol Swoleposters
We will transvaluate capitalism away!
Nietzschean / Promethean / Philosophical Maoist Marxism thrrad
Iit we discuss the past, present, and future of Nietzschean Marxism. Because the proletariat is the incipient and new Overman.Cf
Gorky
Mao Zedong Thought
Leftypol Swoleposters
We will transvaluate capitalism away!
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Should we still consider it bourgeois?
Is eating junk food bourgeois decadence?
I mean, it is eaten by millions of working people as food despite it being unhealthy and produced by corporations. It is a part of working-class life today.Should we still consider it bourgeois?
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Several Palestinian factions are set to discuss Gaza's future at a meeting in Egypt on Saturday, where the possibility of a role for Mohammed Dahlan, a rival of Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas, is likely to come up, sources told AFP. Another meeting between representatives of mediators of the fragile truce between Israel and Hamas is planned for Sunday, according to a Palestinian political source, who said Nikolai Mladenov, high representative for Gaza in US President Donald Trump's Board of Peace, was also expected to attend.
https://www.newarab.com/news/palestinian-factions-meet-gaza-amid-abbas-rival-likely-topic
Israel maintains deadly attacks despite US-brokered deal with Lebanon
The strikes hit residential areas, buildings and roads, while a major demolition was carried out in Bab al-Thaniya. Israeli warplanes also hit close to Jabel Amel Hospital, targeting the Bank Audi area. Two people were killed in Habboush, including a doctor, reported the state-run National News Agency (NNA). In Doueir, a young man was killed and another suffered serious injuries due to an attack by an Israeli warplane, said NNA.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/6/5/israel-maintains-attacks-despite-us-brokered-deal-with-lebanon
https://archive.ph/jyJmu
India called on to arrest Israeli reservist holidaying in country
Brussels-based organisation the Hind Rajab Foundation (HRF) filed an urgent complaint with Indian officials on Tuesday relating to Eitan Gilboa, who is in the northern state of Himachal Pradesh. Submitted to the Indian police, home affairs ministry and immigration bureau, the complaint identified Gilboa as a reservist in the 271st Combat Engineering Battalion.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/india-called-arrest-israeli-reservist-holidaying-in-country
Uttarakhand: Muslims at Receiving End, Another Mosque Sealed Amid Protests
With Assembly elections fast approaching in Uttarakhand, the minority Muslim community which has been at the receiving end of wrath of the ruling BJP/RSS dispensation for the past nearly nine years, are being cornered and targeted in every possible way by the Hindutva brigade having the patronage of the State administrative machinery and police. An old mosque at Thano village area of Dehradun, which has been existence since 1978, was sealed by the authorities of Mussoorie Dehradun Development Authority (MDDA) for being ‘illegal’ on the persistent demand of the Hindutva groups owing allegiance to the ruling party.
https://www.newsclick.in/uttarakhand-muslims-receiving-end-another-mosque-sealed-amid-protests
Philippine Senate reopens after 2 days but impasse among senators remain
Cayetano said he and his majority bloc of senators did not show up at the Senate partly as a “protest” and to prevent rival senators from wresting control of the upper chamber. The 11 senators who oppose Cayetano criticized the decision and called on him to resign. President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. appealed for the absent senators to immediately return to work, saying the Senate impasse would stymie legislation needed by the poverty-stricken country to overcome an energy emergency sparked by the war in the Middle East.
https://www.newsclick.in/uttarakhand-muslims-receiving-end-another-mosque-sealed-amid-protests
NSW police sergeant avoids jail over death of 16-year-old Indigenous teenager Jai Wright
An emotional cry rang out from the gallery as the officer was sentenced to a two-year intensive corrections order – a term of imprisonment served outside jail. “No sentence can ever measure the value of a human life, especially not a life tragically lost so young, a life not fully lived, a life that matters,” the judge, Jane Culver, said.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jun/05/jai-wright-indigenous-teenager-collision-death-police-officer-avoids-jail-ntwnfb
Nine killed in fresh drone strike on South Darfur, ‘sniper deployment’ amid rising intertribal Kassala tensions
At least nine civilians were killed in a fresh drone attack on the town of Kubum in South Darfur on Thursday, four days after an earlier strike killed 20 people. The attack came as rights groups warned of escalating tribal tensions in the region, while tribal leader Mohamed El Amin Turk accused unnamed parties of deploying snipers in Kassala ahead of a rally by his supporters.
https://www.dabangasudan.org/en/all-news/article/nine-killed-in-fresh-drone-strike-on-south-darfur-sniper-deployment-amid-rising-intertribal-kassala-tensions
‘Family values’ African charter condemned by rights groups as regressive and dangerous
The charter was drawn up by a core group of African lawmakers, led by Ugandan government ministers, at the annual inter-parliamentary conference on family values and sovereignty, a controversial meeting that has become known for shaping anti-homosexuality legislation. The objective of the 2026 conference, which was held in Ghana for the first time this week and attended by representatives from 20 countries, was to advance the charter by garnering enough support to take it to the African Union general assembly next February, when it would be put to a vote.
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/jun/05/ghana-african-charter-family-values-gender-women-sex-lgbtq-reproductive-rights
US throws support behind Bolivia's president as unrest grows
Washington is pledging emergency aid to Bolivia and warning against attempts to topple President Rodrigo Paz as his government faces mounting protests aND worsening shortages. US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth warned that "the United States is watching", vowing continued support to Paz in the fight against "narco-terrorists" who profit "from death and destruction in our hemisphere".
https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20260605-us-throws-support-behind-bolivia-s-president-as-unrest-grows
https://archive.ph/WyZIT
Ecuador's disappeared: Inside one family's search for answers
Since early December, Fault Lines has spent time with families who are pushing for accountability and pleading with the government to learn what happened to their loved ones. In some cases, they have spent years without receiving any direct response. “It gets harder every time my nephew asks when his father will come home and I don’t have any answers,” said Rosario Villon, whose brother, Jonathan Villon, has been missing for almost a year and a half.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/longform/2026/6/4/ecuadors-disappeared-inside-one-familys-search-for-answers
https://archive.ph/AV35A
German asylum benefits cuts violate EU law, top court rules
The ECJ was asked to interpret the rights of an Afghan asylum-seeker, identified as FB, whose asylum application had been rejected by Germany and who was due to be deported to Romania, where he first claimed asylum in 2021. While FB waited to be transferred he was provided food, heated accommodation, and hygiene and healthcare, but received no assistance for clothing and other household items. A law in Germany slashed benefits for rejected asylum-seekers in what activists described as "bed, bread, and soap" subsistence.
https://www.dw.com/en/german-asylum-benefits-cuts-violate-eu-law-top-court-rules/a-77424233
https://archive.ph/lHAj4
Anti-war campaigners to mobilise for peace amid Trump's illegal war
The International Conference Against War on June 20 in London will hear from dozens of campaigners, trade unionists, academics and experts to “raise the alarm” and create a “network which will organise for peace, oppose the revitalised US imperial project and fight for the livelihood” of working people.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/anti-war-campaigners-mobilise-peace-amid-trumps-illegal-war
News 6/5/26
Palestinian factions to meet on Gaza, with role for Abbas rival likely topicSeveral Palestinian factions are set to discuss Gaza's future at a meeting in Egypt on Saturday, where the possibility of a role for Mohammed Dahlan, a rival of Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas, is likely to come up, sources told AFP. Another meeting between representatives of mediators of the fragile truce between Israel and Hamas is planned for Sunday, according to a Palestinian political source, who said Nikolai Mladenov, high representative for Gaza in US President Donald Trump's Board of Peace, was also expected to attend.
https://www.newarab.com/news/palestinian-factions-meet-gaza-amid-abbas-rival-likely-topic
Israel maintains deadly attacks despite US-brokered deal with Lebanon
The strikes hit residential areas, buildings and roads, while a major demolition was carried out in Bab al-Thaniya. Israeli warplanes also hit close to Jabel Amel Hospital, targeting the Bank Audi area. Two people were killed in Habboush, including a doctor, reported the state-run National News Agency (NNA). In Doueir, a young man was killed and another suffered serious injuries due to an attack by an Israeli warplane, said NNA.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/6/5/israel-maintains-attacks-despite-us-brokered-deal-with-lebanon
https://archive.ph/jyJmu
India called on to arrest Israeli reservist holidaying in country
Brussels-based organisation the Hind Rajab Foundation (HRF) filed an urgent complaint with Indian officials on Tuesday relating to Eitan Gilboa, who is in the northern state of Himachal Pradesh. Submitted to the Indian police, home affairs ministry and immigration bureau, the complaint identified Gilboa as a reservist in the 271st Combat Engineering Battalion.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/india-called-arrest-israeli-reservist-holidaying-in-country
Uttarakhand: Muslims at Receiving End, Another Mosque Sealed Amid Protests
With Assembly elections fast approaching in Uttarakhand, the minority Muslim community which has been at the receiving end of wrath of the ruling BJP/RSS dispensation for the past nearly nine years, are being cornered and targeted in every possible way by the Hindutva brigade having the patronage of the State administrative machinery and police. An old mosque at Thano village area of Dehradun, which has been existence since 1978, was sealed by the authorities of Mussoorie Dehradun Development Authority (MDDA) for being ‘illegal’ on the persistent demand of the Hindutva groups owing allegiance to the ruling party.
https://www.newsclick.in/uttarakhand-muslims-receiving-end-another-mosque-sealed-amid-protests
Philippine Senate reopens after 2 days but impasse among senators remain
Cayetano said he and his majority bloc of senators did not show up at the Senate partly as a “protest” and to prevent rival senators from wresting control of the upper chamber. The 11 senators who oppose Cayetano criticized the decision and called on him to resign. President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. appealed for the absent senators to immediately return to work, saying the Senate impasse would stymie legislation needed by the poverty-stricken country to overcome an energy emergency sparked by the war in the Middle East.
https://www.newsclick.in/uttarakhand-muslims-receiving-end-another-mosque-sealed-amid-protests
NSW police sergeant avoids jail over death of 16-year-old Indigenous teenager Jai Wright
An emotional cry rang out from the gallery as the officer was sentenced to a two-year intensive corrections order – a term of imprisonment served outside jail. “No sentence can ever measure the value of a human life, especially not a life tragically lost so young, a life not fully lived, a life that matters,” the judge, Jane Culver, said.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jun/05/jai-wright-indigenous-teenager-collision-death-police-officer-avoids-jail-ntwnfb
Nine killed in fresh drone strike on South Darfur, ‘sniper deployment’ amid rising intertribal Kassala tensions
At least nine civilians were killed in a fresh drone attack on the town of Kubum in South Darfur on Thursday, four days after an earlier strike killed 20 people. The attack came as rights groups warned of escalating tribal tensions in the region, while tribal leader Mohamed El Amin Turk accused unnamed parties of deploying snipers in Kassala ahead of a rally by his supporters.
https://www.dabangasudan.org/en/all-news/article/nine-killed-in-fresh-drone-strike-on-south-darfur-sniper-deployment-amid-rising-intertribal-kassala-tensions
‘Family values’ African charter condemned by rights groups as regressive and dangerous
The charter was drawn up by a core group of African lawmakers, led by Ugandan government ministers, at the annual inter-parliamentary conference on family values and sovereignty, a controversial meeting that has become known for shaping anti-homosexuality legislation. The objective of the 2026 conference, which was held in Ghana for the first time this week and attended by representatives from 20 countries, was to advance the charter by garnering enough support to take it to the African Union general assembly next February, when it would be put to a vote.
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/jun/05/ghana-african-charter-family-values-gender-women-sex-lgbtq-reproductive-rights
US throws support behind Bolivia's president as unrest grows
Washington is pledging emergency aid to Bolivia and warning against attempts to topple President Rodrigo Paz as his government faces mounting protests aND worsening shortages. US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth warned that "the United States is watching", vowing continued support to Paz in the fight against "narco-terrorists" who profit "from death and destruction in our hemisphere".
https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20260605-us-throws-support-behind-bolivia-s-president-as-unrest-grows
https://archive.ph/WyZIT
Ecuador's disappeared: Inside one family's search for answers
Since early December, Fault Lines has spent time with families who are pushing for accountability and pleading with the government to learn what happened to their loved ones. In some cases, they have spent years without receiving any direct response. “It gets harder every time my nephew asks when his father will come home and I don’t have any answers,” said Rosario Villon, whose brother, Jonathan Villon, has been missing for almost a year and a half.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/longform/2026/6/4/ecuadors-disappeared-inside-one-familys-search-for-answers
https://archive.ph/AV35A
German asylum benefits cuts violate EU law, top court rules
The ECJ was asked to interpret the rights of an Afghan asylum-seeker, identified as FB, whose asylum application had been rejected by Germany and who was due to be deported to Romania, where he first claimed asylum in 2021. While FB waited to be transferred he was provided food, heated accommodation, and hygiene and healthcare, but received no assistance for clothing and other household items. A law in Germany slashed benefits for rejected asylum-seekers in what activists described as "bed, bread, and soap" subsistence.
https://www.dw.com/en/german-asylum-benefits-cuts-violate-eu-law-top-court-rules/a-77424233
https://archive.ph/lHAj4
Anti-war campaigners to mobilise for peace amid Trump's illegal war
The International Conference Against War on June 20 in London will hear from dozens of campaigners, trade unionists, academics and experts to “raise the alarm” and create a “network which will organise for peace, oppose the revitalised US imperial project and fight for the livelihood” of working people.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/anti-war-campaigners-mobilise-peace-amid-trumps-illegal-war
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AGI and Marxism
Why arent more marxists talking about AGI? It's the culmination of all of marxist critique of the political economy, as I imagine it will be the main vector in moving the falling rates of profits in the future. It's also probably the best opportunity we have to move to a communist society significantly more developed than we first thought, since it has the full capacity to rapidly achieve post-scarcity and teach itself into superhuman intelligence.
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>Kemalism and revolutionalism can not go together, Kemalism is fascism
>Kemalism and revolutionalism can not go together, Kemalism is fascism
- Ibrahım Kaypakkaya
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Okay, but why did the French hate the Cagots? Where the French just evil or something? It seems pretty arbitrary and pointless. I don't see how these kinds of caste systems support the ruling class.
Okay, but why did the French hate the Cagots? Where the French just evil or something? It seems pretty arbitrary and pointless. I don't see how these kinds of caste systems support the ruling class.
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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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As a thirdworld leftcom let me tell what the first world communist/leftist needs to do.
Just focus on wage increases via unions and strikes. And oppose immigration. That's all you need to do.
The rate of profit is getting raped in the first world. Organized labor can rape it further and seriously hurt capitalism.
Stop all the LARPing and electorialism and adventurism and billions of hours spent online arguing.
Propagandize. Join unions or create ones. Make it militant. Do strikes. Demand higher wages and better working conditions. Oppose immigration (foreign scabs).
Do this and you will help the third world more than anything else. Your efforts will seriously disrupt your economies and weaken your national capabilities. You will achieve improvement in standard of living. You will give your working class experience and knowledge in how to oppose the capitalist class.
A single successfull nation-wide general strike for even a week in the first world will do more damage than a dozen nuclear bomb on capitalism.
As a thirdworld leftcom let me tell what the first world communist/leftist needs to do.
Just focus on wage increases via unions and strikes. And oppose immigration. That's all you need to do.
The rate of profit is getting raped in the first world. Organized labor can rape it further and seriously hurt capitalism.
Stop all the LARPing and electorialism and adventurism and billions of hours spent online arguing.
Propagandize. Join unions or create ones. Make it militant. Do strikes. Demand higher wages and better working conditions. Oppose immigration (foreign scabs).
Do this and you will help the third world more than anything else. Your efforts will seriously disrupt your economies and weaken your national capabilities. You will achieve improvement in standard of living. You will give your working class experience and knowledge in how to oppose the capitalist class.
A single successfull nation-wide general strike for even a week in the first world will do more damage than a dozen nuclear bomb on capitalism.
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Why are Eastern Bloc parties so retarded
Why are Eastern Bloc countries so inundated with retarded faggot gaylord parties that go around saying they're "Economically Left-Wing but Socially Right-Wing" or whatever? Western Europe doesn't do this, they have normal bourgeoisie political parties that reject syncretist nonsense. What the fuck are they doing over there? Can they just be normal and stop trying to be le unique and different? Why don't they just kill themselves?
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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
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Die Oma mal am Joint ziehen lassen gegen die vaterlandslosen Gesellen.Alter Faden:
Ein paar Links:
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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
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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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The evolution of machine translation (MT) fundamentally dismantled the traditional career pipeline for linguists. Becoming a professional translator in 2025 was vastly more difficult than in 2000 due to a structural economic shift: AI did not eliminate the need for premium human translation, but it largely destroyed the entry-level market where beginners traditionally learned the trade.
Key Phases of the Adoption Curve:
2000–2006 (The Early Era): Usage remained below 6% globally. Tools primarily served as minor internet gisting aids.
2006–2016 (The Statistical Era): Growth crept up toward 25%. Early enterprise adoption expanded via Statistical Machine Translation (SMT).
2016–2022 (The Neural Revolution): Growth accelerated past 50%. The rollout of Neural Machine Translation (NMT) drastically improved fluency.
2022–2025 (The Generative AI Boom): Adoption skyrocketed toward 80%. Large Language Models became standard workplace fixtures.
The red graph above charts the structural availability of entry-level professional translator job openings in the United States from 2000 to 2025, using the year 2000 as a baseline index of 100.
While total macro-employment for veteran language professionals and interpreters actually grew or tripled over this 20-year window according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data, the specific market share of entry-level roles available to beginners collapsed down to near single digits.
Timeline Analysis of the Collapse:
2000–2006 (The Localization Boom): Index peaked at 115. Rapid software global expansion and the birth of modern web translation created an unprecedented demand for early-career bilingual generalists.
2007–2015 (The Statistical Stability Era): The index plateaued near 100. Despite a brief contraction from the 2008 financial crisis, regular human translation remained mandatory for general business texts because early machine translation was too unreliable.
2016–2021 (The Neural Squeeze): Index dropped down to 32. The rollout of advanced Neural Machine Translation (NMT) allowed corporate translation pipelines to instantly automate the "low-stakes" corporate communications that beginners historically cut their teeth on.
2022–2025 (The Generative AI Wipeout): Index plummeted to roughly 3. Large Language Models completely automated general entry-level text drafting, effectively eradicating the transitional entry pipeline into freelance or in-house agency translation.
AI deleted entry-level translators.
The blue graph above shows that machine translation involvement rose from under 5% in 2000 to roughly 80% by the end of 2025 within professional language workflows. This visual timeline reflects the industry's shift from manual translation to AI-driven automation.The evolution of machine translation (MT) fundamentally dismantled the traditional career pipeline for linguists. Becoming a professional translator in 2025 was vastly more difficult than in 2000 due to a structural economic shift: AI did not eliminate the need for premium human translation, but it largely destroyed the entry-level market where beginners traditionally learned the trade.
Key Phases of the Adoption Curve:
2000–2006 (The Early Era): Usage remained below 6% globally. Tools primarily served as minor internet gisting aids.
2006–2016 (The Statistical Era): Growth crept up toward 25%. Early enterprise adoption expanded via Statistical Machine Translation (SMT).
2016–2022 (The Neural Revolution): Growth accelerated past 50%. The rollout of Neural Machine Translation (NMT) drastically improved fluency.
2022–2025 (The Generative AI Boom): Adoption skyrocketed toward 80%. Large Language Models became standard workplace fixtures.
The red graph above charts the structural availability of entry-level professional translator job openings in the United States from 2000 to 2025, using the year 2000 as a baseline index of 100.
While total macro-employment for veteran language professionals and interpreters actually grew or tripled over this 20-year window according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data, the specific market share of entry-level roles available to beginners collapsed down to near single digits.
Timeline Analysis of the Collapse:
2000–2006 (The Localization Boom): Index peaked at 115. Rapid software global expansion and the birth of modern web translation created an unprecedented demand for early-career bilingual generalists.
2007–2015 (The Statistical Stability Era): The index plateaued near 100. Despite a brief contraction from the 2008 financial crisis, regular human translation remained mandatory for general business texts because early machine translation was too unreliable.
2016–2021 (The Neural Squeeze): Index dropped down to 32. The rollout of advanced Neural Machine Translation (NMT) allowed corporate translation pipelines to instantly automate the "low-stakes" corporate communications that beginners historically cut their teeth on.
2022–2025 (The Generative AI Wipeout): Index plummeted to roughly 3. Large Language Models completely automated general entry-level text drafting, effectively eradicating the transitional entry pipeline into freelance or in-house agency translation.
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Israel’s Supreme Court has unanimously rejected a government policy banning representatives of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) from visiting Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons. The court ruled on Wednesday that by preventing the Red Cross from visiting prisoners, the government had contravened Israeli and international law, and therefore the policy must be repealed.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/6/4/israel-must-allow-icrc-to-visit-palestinians-in-prison-supreme-court-rules
https://archive.ph/JbG99
Lebanon-Israel ceasefire plans in doubt following Hezbollah's rejection
According to the official, neither Hezbollah nor Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, a key Hezbollah ally and long-time intermediary between the group and Washington, had been aware of the full content of the deliberations as they unfolded. Once the text was ready, the Lebanese president sent it to both Hezbollah and Berri for feedback before Lebanon’s final position was conveyed to the United States, the official told MEE. The official described the negotiations as “tough and hard”, saying the Lebanese delegation threatened to suspend the session after Israeli pushback against a full ceasefire.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/lebanon-israel-ceasefire-plan-doubt-hezbollah-rejection
Armed clashes erupt in Somalia's capital
SUPPORTERS of opposition political figures and state security forces fought in armed clashes today that erupted in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu on Wednesday evening ahead of a planned anti-government demonstration. No official casualty figures were immediately available from the violence that prompted calls for restraint from the United Nations as the government and opposition traded blame for the violence.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/armed-clashes-erupt-somalias-capital
Hundreds protest in Libya outside UN agency against undocumented migrants
Protesters on Thursday chanted “Libya belongs to Libyans” and called for the closure of the UNHCR headquarters in the capital. They were seen holding signs reading: “Our love for our country is not racism” and “Libya is not the world’s garbage bin.” Demonstrators accused the UN agency of seeking to settle undocumented migrants in the North African country.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/6/4/hundreds-protest-in-libya-outside-un-agency-against-undocumented-migrants
https://archive.ph/eC89C
Clashes break out at Belgian protest against education reforms
Police used tear gas against protesters in the city centre, which was strewn with debris and vandalised bicycles and street signs. Some windows had been smashed. Brussels police advised people to avoid the area around the city's main railway station. Belgian media also reported protests in other French-speaking cities, including Namur and Charleroi, though they were mostly calmer than those in Brussels.
https://www.reuters.com/world/clashes-break-out-belgian-protest-against-education-reforms-2026-06-04/
Franco-Iranian artist Marjane Satrapi, author of 'Persepolis', aged 56, has died
Franco-Iranian author and film director Marjane Satrapi, best known for the graphic novel and film "Persepolis", has died aged 56. "Marjane Satrapi died of sadness a little over a year after the death of Mattias Ripa, her husband and the love of her life," they said in a statement sent to AFP. Satrapi's husband, a Swedish producer, actor and screenwriter, died on 8 April last year. … Satrapi, an outspoken critic of Iran's theocratic government, arrived in France in 1994 and gained French nationality in 2006.
https://www.newarab.com/news/franco-iranian-artist-marjane-satrapi-aged-56-has-died
Four migrant workers reportedly burned alive in their car in attack in Italy
The attack was captured by a surveillance camera at the garage in Amendolara, close to Cosenza. Two Pakistani nationals have been arrested on charges of aggravated murder, according to public prosecutor Alessandro D’Alessio. The video footage, which was broadcast by the state TV network, Rai, and other Italian media, appears to show the suspects pouring liquid into the back of the vehicle while it is parked next to a petrol pump. They set it ablaze and block its doors to try to ensure the victims cannot get out.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/03/migrant-workers-burned-alive-in-car-in-italy
Venezuela: National Assembly Pushes Reform to Open Electricity to Private Sector
According to the draft text seen by Venezuelanalysis, private corporations and joint ventures will be able to operate in the electric grid in what is termed a “diversification of actors in the service chain.” The mixed ventures, where the state can hold majority or minority stakes, will be approved directly by the government and not by the National Assembly.
https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/venezuela-national-assembly-pushes-reform-to-open-electricity-to-private-sector/
Cepeda says far-right rival “poses serious risk to democracy” in response to Trump endorsement
“This aggressive meddling in Colombian democracy, which has already been repeated in several Latin American countries, must be rejected by all Colombians in the upcoming elections by voting to defend our sovereignty under the leadership of Iván Cepeda and his clean, nationalist record,” Samper wrote in a post on his social media accounts. The former liberal president is now a member of the Alliance for Life, the electoral coalition backing Cepeda in the June 21 runoff.
https://colombiareports.com/cepeda-says-far-right-rival-poses-serious-risk-to-democracy-in-response-to-trump-endorsement/
Milei promises tech firms new laws and ‘unregulated’ AI in Argentina
President Javier Milei promised the world’s tech firms on Thursday that Argentina will create a special legal framework to foster the development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Argentina, reaffirming his commitment to keeping the sector “unregulated.” In an opinion piece published in British newspaper the Financial Times, the President pitched Argentina as a haven for the tech giants, vowing to let AI develop freely and realise its full potential “without the deadly hand of premature and poorly understood regulation.”
https://www.batimes.com.ar/news/argentina/milei-promises-tech-firms-new-laws-and-unregulated-ai-in-argentina.phtml
https://archive.ph/glRCB
News 6/4/26
Israel must allow ICRC to visit Palestinians in prison, Supreme Court rulesIsrael’s Supreme Court has unanimously rejected a government policy banning representatives of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) from visiting Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons. The court ruled on Wednesday that by preventing the Red Cross from visiting prisoners, the government had contravened Israeli and international law, and therefore the policy must be repealed.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/6/4/israel-must-allow-icrc-to-visit-palestinians-in-prison-supreme-court-rules
https://archive.ph/JbG99
Lebanon-Israel ceasefire plans in doubt following Hezbollah's rejection
According to the official, neither Hezbollah nor Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, a key Hezbollah ally and long-time intermediary between the group and Washington, had been aware of the full content of the deliberations as they unfolded. Once the text was ready, the Lebanese president sent it to both Hezbollah and Berri for feedback before Lebanon’s final position was conveyed to the United States, the official told MEE. The official described the negotiations as “tough and hard”, saying the Lebanese delegation threatened to suspend the session after Israeli pushback against a full ceasefire.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/lebanon-israel-ceasefire-plan-doubt-hezbollah-rejection
Armed clashes erupt in Somalia's capital
SUPPORTERS of opposition political figures and state security forces fought in armed clashes today that erupted in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu on Wednesday evening ahead of a planned anti-government demonstration. No official casualty figures were immediately available from the violence that prompted calls for restraint from the United Nations as the government and opposition traded blame for the violence.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/armed-clashes-erupt-somalias-capital
Hundreds protest in Libya outside UN agency against undocumented migrants
Protesters on Thursday chanted “Libya belongs to Libyans” and called for the closure of the UNHCR headquarters in the capital. They were seen holding signs reading: “Our love for our country is not racism” and “Libya is not the world’s garbage bin.” Demonstrators accused the UN agency of seeking to settle undocumented migrants in the North African country.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/6/4/hundreds-protest-in-libya-outside-un-agency-against-undocumented-migrants
https://archive.ph/eC89C
Clashes break out at Belgian protest against education reforms
Police used tear gas against protesters in the city centre, which was strewn with debris and vandalised bicycles and street signs. Some windows had been smashed. Brussels police advised people to avoid the area around the city's main railway station. Belgian media also reported protests in other French-speaking cities, including Namur and Charleroi, though they were mostly calmer than those in Brussels.
https://www.reuters.com/world/clashes-break-out-belgian-protest-against-education-reforms-2026-06-04/
Franco-Iranian artist Marjane Satrapi, author of 'Persepolis', aged 56, has died
Franco-Iranian author and film director Marjane Satrapi, best known for the graphic novel and film "Persepolis", has died aged 56. "Marjane Satrapi died of sadness a little over a year after the death of Mattias Ripa, her husband and the love of her life," they said in a statement sent to AFP. Satrapi's husband, a Swedish producer, actor and screenwriter, died on 8 April last year. … Satrapi, an outspoken critic of Iran's theocratic government, arrived in France in 1994 and gained French nationality in 2006.
https://www.newarab.com/news/franco-iranian-artist-marjane-satrapi-aged-56-has-died
Four migrant workers reportedly burned alive in their car in attack in Italy
The attack was captured by a surveillance camera at the garage in Amendolara, close to Cosenza. Two Pakistani nationals have been arrested on charges of aggravated murder, according to public prosecutor Alessandro D’Alessio. The video footage, which was broadcast by the state TV network, Rai, and other Italian media, appears to show the suspects pouring liquid into the back of the vehicle while it is parked next to a petrol pump. They set it ablaze and block its doors to try to ensure the victims cannot get out.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/03/migrant-workers-burned-alive-in-car-in-italy
Venezuela: National Assembly Pushes Reform to Open Electricity to Private Sector
According to the draft text seen by Venezuelanalysis, private corporations and joint ventures will be able to operate in the electric grid in what is termed a “diversification of actors in the service chain.” The mixed ventures, where the state can hold majority or minority stakes, will be approved directly by the government and not by the National Assembly.
https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/venezuela-national-assembly-pushes-reform-to-open-electricity-to-private-sector/
Cepeda says far-right rival “poses serious risk to democracy” in response to Trump endorsement
“This aggressive meddling in Colombian democracy, which has already been repeated in several Latin American countries, must be rejected by all Colombians in the upcoming elections by voting to defend our sovereignty under the leadership of Iván Cepeda and his clean, nationalist record,” Samper wrote in a post on his social media accounts. The former liberal president is now a member of the Alliance for Life, the electoral coalition backing Cepeda in the June 21 runoff.
https://colombiareports.com/cepeda-says-far-right-rival-poses-serious-risk-to-democracy-in-response-to-trump-endorsement/
Milei promises tech firms new laws and ‘unregulated’ AI in Argentina
President Javier Milei promised the world’s tech firms on Thursday that Argentina will create a special legal framework to foster the development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Argentina, reaffirming his commitment to keeping the sector “unregulated.” In an opinion piece published in British newspaper the Financial Times, the President pitched Argentina as a haven for the tech giants, vowing to let AI develop freely and realise its full potential “without the deadly hand of premature and poorly understood regulation.”
https://www.batimes.com.ar/news/argentina/milei-promises-tech-firms-new-laws-and-unregulated-ai-in-argentina.phtml
https://archive.ph/glRCB
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Cuba is gonna be invaded by the US by next month, and I don't have much hope in the Cuban armed forces alone.
Either an armed resistance needs to be established in the United States or international voluteers need to be formed for Cuba, either by the Cuban goverment or some communist org (PSL, RCI, etc).
Cuba is gonna be invaded
This isn't a joke or anythingCuba is gonna be invaded by the US by next month, and I don't have much hope in the Cuban armed forces alone.
Either an armed resistance needs to be established in the United States or international voluteers need to be formed for Cuba, either by the Cuban goverment or some communist org (PSL, RCI, etc).
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> The name Koba means supplanter, usually with a connotation of trickery
> Stalin supplanted Lenin
who fucking wrote this shit😭
nominative determinism
> Stalin's Nickname besides 'Stalin' (man of steel) was Koba; a Georgian robin-hood figure> The name Koba means supplanter, usually with a connotation of trickery
> Stalin supplanted Lenin
who fucking wrote this shit😭
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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: 0 / I: 0
The 2025 ITUC Global Rights Index reports a severe deterioration of workers' rights worldwide, with violations in collective bargaining and the right to strike rising across every continent. The report finds that 72% of countries restrict access to justice, while the Middle East and North Africa remain the most dangerous region for labor, with Europe and the Americas experiencing record lows in protection. Read the full report at [ITUC](https://www.ituc-csi.org/ituc-global-rights-index-2025-EN). [1, 2, 3]
[1] [https://ufcw.ca](https://ufcw.ca/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=33891:workers-rights-collapse-across-the-world-ituc-global-rights-index-2025&catid=10459&Itemid=98&lang=en)
[2] [https://www.ituc-csi.org](https://www.ituc-csi.org/ituc-global-rights-index-2025-EN)
[3] [https://www.ufcw.ca](https://www.ufcw.ca/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=33891:workers-rights-collapse-across-the-world-ituc-global-rights-index-2025&catid=10459&Itemid=6&lang=en)
Workers’ rights collapse across the world: ITUC Global Rights Index 2025
https://www.ituc-csi.org/ituc-global-rights-index-2025-ENThe 2025 ITUC Global Rights Index reports a severe deterioration of workers' rights worldwide, with violations in collective bargaining and the right to strike rising across every continent. The report finds that 72% of countries restrict access to justice, while the Middle East and North Africa remain the most dangerous region for labor, with Europe and the Americas experiencing record lows in protection. Read the full report at [ITUC](https://www.ituc-csi.org/ituc-global-rights-index-2025-EN). [1, 2, 3]
[1] [https://ufcw.ca](https://ufcw.ca/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=33891:workers-rights-collapse-across-the-world-ituc-global-rights-index-2025&catid=10459&Itemid=98&lang=en)
[2] [https://www.ituc-csi.org](https://www.ituc-csi.org/ituc-global-rights-index-2025-EN)
[3] [https://www.ufcw.ca](https://www.ufcw.ca/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=33891:workers-rights-collapse-across-the-world-ituc-global-rights-index-2025&catid=10459&Itemid=6&lang=en)
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I know I am being pessimistic and slightly retarded but I just can't imagine any kind of major revolution or even a fucking democratic socialist candidate being president on a Latin American country and even less on the USA or Canada. Not only because of the chokehold the imperialists have on all of America but also the cultural dominance on the continent on general, a good chunk people really believe on candidates like Abelardo on Colombia and the bastard of Salinas Pliego as a possible one on Mexico. The pure stupidity of the continent plays a role, the education in most if not all of American countries are either poor borderline non existing or pure propaganda, sometimes both. Most people on Mexico believe on just putting more effort to live a better life while refusing any kind of betterment on society because they believe "that is just what life is", and that's not only old people but young people also.
The young leftists there are are mostly only called leftist because they stand up for mistreatment of others or the genocide on Gaza, but when given the microphone they NEVER talk about capitalism, they truly believe this is only on the USA and Israel alone. I actually hate the lukewarm liberals, they criticize capitalism and it's effects but when given an alternative they feel it as too extreme.
There has to be a radical, like really radical change on this continent for any kind of leftist movement of any kind get's traction on the future, everyone is complacent and don't believe in a better future. The little others that do believe in a better future are either put into the liberal mind space by mainstream parties or any misfortune soul that actually believes on peaceful reform.
The American continent is doomed
I have come to the conclusion that the American working class will never achieve anything unless the United States collapses on the next 30 years.I know I am being pessimistic and slightly retarded but I just can't imagine any kind of major revolution or even a fucking democratic socialist candidate being president on a Latin American country and even less on the USA or Canada. Not only because of the chokehold the imperialists have on all of America but also the cultural dominance on the continent on general, a good chunk people really believe on candidates like Abelardo on Colombia and the bastard of Salinas Pliego as a possible one on Mexico. The pure stupidity of the continent plays a role, the education in most if not all of American countries are either poor borderline non existing or pure propaganda, sometimes both. Most people on Mexico believe on just putting more effort to live a better life while refusing any kind of betterment on society because they believe "that is just what life is", and that's not only old people but young people also.
The young leftists there are are mostly only called leftist because they stand up for mistreatment of others or the genocide on Gaza, but when given the microphone they NEVER talk about capitalism, they truly believe this is only on the USA and Israel alone. I actually hate the lukewarm liberals, they criticize capitalism and it's effects but when given an alternative they feel it as too extreme.
There has to be a radical, like really radical change on this continent for any kind of leftist movement of any kind get's traction on the future, everyone is complacent and don't believe in a better future. The little others that do believe in a better future are either put into the liberal mind space by mainstream parties or any misfortune soul that actually believes on peaceful reform.
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I guess what I am asking: Did global capitalism officially killed the birthrate or something more?
International Birthrate
So recently seen the birthrate statistics and notice that it is crashing HARD and faster than any predictors can make. Even the whole theory that poverty = more kids is getting disprovened fast as all countries are seeing their birthrate crash down. The prediction in the US that the Hispanic birthrate will save it has gotten disproven as their birthrate has CRASHED to the point that White birthrates are slightly higher and that isn't even getting into what happened to the Black birthrate. Mexico itself is below replacement level and South Africa is already getting closer to below replacement level. Africa itself has seen birthrates crash so bad the UN is changing its predictions on future demographics due to it. Morocco and Tunisia are below replacement level.I guess what I am asking: Did global capitalism officially killed the birthrate or something more?
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ARRRRR TOMMEHHH, LUTON'S OWN
GLASS COKE JAW, ZIONIST DRONE
STALKS OUR TEENS, CONTEMPT OF COURT
FIVE FOOT SIX, MANLET SHORT
HATES THE BROWNS, PROFESSIONAL MARTYR
FLIGHT TO BENIDORM, HE WILL CHARTER
"ARRRRRR TOMMMMEHHHHH"
ARRRRR TOMMEHHH, LUTON'S OWN
GLASS COKE JAW, ZIONIST DRONE
STALKS OUR TEENS, CONTEMPT OF COURT
FIVE FOOT SIX, MANLET SHORT
HATES THE BROWNS, PROFESSIONAL MARTYR
FLIGHT TO BENIDORM, HE WILL CHARTER
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Defence Minister Marcelo Salinas and Education Minister Beatriz Garcia quit on the 33rd day of protests and road blockades demanding the resignation of the country’s right-wing President Rodrigo Paz. The demonstrations led by the Central Obrera Boliviana (COB) and peasant organisations in the department of La Paz continue to reject the government’s economic policies and are calling for President Paz to leave office.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/bolivia-ministers-resign-protests-continue-rage
Thousands of Chileans March Against Kast’s Austerity Plan
Under the slogan “Public Education Must Be Defended!”, the Confederation of Students of Chile (CONFECH), the organization representing the country’s leading universities, called on citizens to reject an austerity plan that severely undermines the right to education.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/thousands-of-chileans-march-against-kasts-austerity-plan/
Venezuelan Gov’t Orders Airlines, Shipping Companies to Deposit Fuel Payments in US Treasury Account
“We urge our customers to take the necessary precautions and forward the payment receipt to PDVSA sales representatives so that the payment is cleared and fuel supply is assured,” the letter read. An attached US Treasury information sheet contains details for Fedwire payments to a “Venezuela custody account” and requires information about “source of funds, e.g., oil, gold, minerals, etc.”
https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/venezuelan-govt-orders-airlines-shipping-companies-to-deposit-fuel-payments-in-us-treasury-account/
Union anger as Labour U-turns on plans to ban all exploitative zero-hour contracts
In the consultation, ministers indicated their preference is to restrict the right to workers who are contracted to a number of hours somewhere between eight and 20 per week. “This is a key political priority for our union,” the leader of the retail and shop workers’ union warned. “Many of our members are employed on short-hours contracts, routinely working significantly more hours than they are contracted.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/union-anger-labour-u-turns-plans-ban-all-exploitative-zero-hour-contracts
EU accused of creating ICE-style immigration enforcement system
People facing a deportation order who are deemed to be uncooperative or a flight risk could be detained for up to two years, extendable to 30 months, compared with the 18-month detention period under existing law. Those who refuse to comply with a deportation order could have benefits or other allowances cut.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/02/eu-accused-creating-ice-style-immigration-enforcement-system
'Attack on our democracy': Inside an Israeli influence campaign in France's local elections
The operation's broad outlines were first exposed by newspaper Le Monde in March, when Viginum, a digital interference detection service within the French prime minister's office, revealed a "foreign digital interference" scheme with "limited" reach targeting a "French political party" and its candidates in Marseille, Toulouse and Roubaix. A joint investigation by Liberation and Haaretz then uncovered a set of tools under development for online influence campaigns on a server that had hosted a subdomain of the “blackcore.online” website for several months.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/unprecedented-attack-inside-israeli-foreign-influence-campaign-france-local-elections
Thousands of Albanians protest over Kushner-linked luxury resort on pristine coastline
Protesters gathered outside the office of Albania's Prime Minister Edi Rama on Tuesday evening, holding inflatable flamingoes and signs that read "Nation is not for sale" and "I don't want Albania like Dubai". "We want all construction to halt and heavy machines out of the protected area," said Joni Vorpsi, an ecologist with the PPNEA-BirdLife Albania organisation. "This would be a new city with around 10,000 rooms, and it will completely destroy that wild region."
https://www.newarab.com/news/thousands-albanians-protest-kushner-linked-luxury-resort
Israeli attacks kill nine in Lebanon, reach Beirut outskirts
Among the victims of the Israeli strikes were two medics in the municipality of Chehour and another six people near the coastal city of Tyre, according to Lebanon’s Health Ministry. A Lebanese soldier was also killed while travelling on a road in the south, said the Lebanese army. The attack in the Khaldeh area on the southern outskirts of Beirut injured two people, according to Lebanese security sources quoted by the Reuters news agency.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/6/3/israeli-attacks-kill-nine-in-lebanon-reach-beirut-outskirts
https://archive.ph/lqK14
Hate speech extends to fields | Wheat crops burneed in several areas amid fears of vengeful actions
According to SOHR sources, fires took place in agricultural lands in Al-Sheikh Ali Kasoun Village in Hama countryside, and in Ba’arin Village in Misyaf countryside, while similar incidents were reported in different areas of Hama and Homs countryside. This coincides with a state of sectarian discontent after the death of Doctor, Ranya Al-Abbassy and her family, in fear of potential vengeful motivations, especially with the difficulty of determining the reasons behind the fires.
https://www.syriahr.com/en/382945/
US "rehabilitation" of Sangley Point International Airport alarms fisherfolk
The US plans to use Sangley Point for direct flights from major US airports. It will use American technologies such as scanners, radar, and telecommunications systems to ensure US control. Sangley Point has a distinct strategic position at the mouth of Manila Bay. It is close to Metro Manila while having a direct route to the South China Sea. The US is preparing the airport so it can quickly adapt as a forward operating base for troops and military equipment.
https://philippinerevolution.nu/angbayan/us-rehabilitation-of-sangley-point-international-airport-alarms-fisherfolk/
News 6/3/26
Bolivia's defense minister resigns as anti-government protests intensifyDefence Minister Marcelo Salinas and Education Minister Beatriz Garcia quit on the 33rd day of protests and road blockades demanding the resignation of the country’s right-wing President Rodrigo Paz. The demonstrations led by the Central Obrera Boliviana (COB) and peasant organisations in the department of La Paz continue to reject the government’s economic policies and are calling for President Paz to leave office.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/bolivia-ministers-resign-protests-continue-rage
Thousands of Chileans March Against Kast’s Austerity Plan
Under the slogan “Public Education Must Be Defended!”, the Confederation of Students of Chile (CONFECH), the organization representing the country’s leading universities, called on citizens to reject an austerity plan that severely undermines the right to education.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/thousands-of-chileans-march-against-kasts-austerity-plan/
Venezuelan Gov’t Orders Airlines, Shipping Companies to Deposit Fuel Payments in US Treasury Account
“We urge our customers to take the necessary precautions and forward the payment receipt to PDVSA sales representatives so that the payment is cleared and fuel supply is assured,” the letter read. An attached US Treasury information sheet contains details for Fedwire payments to a “Venezuela custody account” and requires information about “source of funds, e.g., oil, gold, minerals, etc.”
https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/venezuelan-govt-orders-airlines-shipping-companies-to-deposit-fuel-payments-in-us-treasury-account/
Union anger as Labour U-turns on plans to ban all exploitative zero-hour contracts
In the consultation, ministers indicated their preference is to restrict the right to workers who are contracted to a number of hours somewhere between eight and 20 per week. “This is a key political priority for our union,” the leader of the retail and shop workers’ union warned. “Many of our members are employed on short-hours contracts, routinely working significantly more hours than they are contracted.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/union-anger-labour-u-turns-plans-ban-all-exploitative-zero-hour-contracts
EU accused of creating ICE-style immigration enforcement system
People facing a deportation order who are deemed to be uncooperative or a flight risk could be detained for up to two years, extendable to 30 months, compared with the 18-month detention period under existing law. Those who refuse to comply with a deportation order could have benefits or other allowances cut.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/02/eu-accused-creating-ice-style-immigration-enforcement-system
'Attack on our democracy': Inside an Israeli influence campaign in France's local elections
The operation's broad outlines were first exposed by newspaper Le Monde in March, when Viginum, a digital interference detection service within the French prime minister's office, revealed a "foreign digital interference" scheme with "limited" reach targeting a "French political party" and its candidates in Marseille, Toulouse and Roubaix. A joint investigation by Liberation and Haaretz then uncovered a set of tools under development for online influence campaigns on a server that had hosted a subdomain of the “blackcore.online” website for several months.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/unprecedented-attack-inside-israeli-foreign-influence-campaign-france-local-elections
Thousands of Albanians protest over Kushner-linked luxury resort on pristine coastline
Protesters gathered outside the office of Albania's Prime Minister Edi Rama on Tuesday evening, holding inflatable flamingoes and signs that read "Nation is not for sale" and "I don't want Albania like Dubai". "We want all construction to halt and heavy machines out of the protected area," said Joni Vorpsi, an ecologist with the PPNEA-BirdLife Albania organisation. "This would be a new city with around 10,000 rooms, and it will completely destroy that wild region."
https://www.newarab.com/news/thousands-albanians-protest-kushner-linked-luxury-resort
Israeli attacks kill nine in Lebanon, reach Beirut outskirts
Among the victims of the Israeli strikes were two medics in the municipality of Chehour and another six people near the coastal city of Tyre, according to Lebanon’s Health Ministry. A Lebanese soldier was also killed while travelling on a road in the south, said the Lebanese army. The attack in the Khaldeh area on the southern outskirts of Beirut injured two people, according to Lebanese security sources quoted by the Reuters news agency.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/6/3/israeli-attacks-kill-nine-in-lebanon-reach-beirut-outskirts
https://archive.ph/lqK14
Hate speech extends to fields | Wheat crops burneed in several areas amid fears of vengeful actions
According to SOHR sources, fires took place in agricultural lands in Al-Sheikh Ali Kasoun Village in Hama countryside, and in Ba’arin Village in Misyaf countryside, while similar incidents were reported in different areas of Hama and Homs countryside. This coincides with a state of sectarian discontent after the death of Doctor, Ranya Al-Abbassy and her family, in fear of potential vengeful motivations, especially with the difficulty of determining the reasons behind the fires.
https://www.syriahr.com/en/382945/
US "rehabilitation" of Sangley Point International Airport alarms fisherfolk
The US plans to use Sangley Point for direct flights from major US airports. It will use American technologies such as scanners, radar, and telecommunications systems to ensure US control. Sangley Point has a distinct strategic position at the mouth of Manila Bay. It is close to Metro Manila while having a direct route to the South China Sea. The US is preparing the airport so it can quickly adapt as a forward operating base for troops and military equipment.
https://philippinerevolution.nu/angbayan/us-rehabilitation-of-sangley-point-international-airport-alarms-fisherfolk/
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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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>I am a communist because my god was
>I am a communist but it is immoral
>I am a communist because I am poor
I AM A COMMUNIST BECAUSE COMMUNISM WOULD MAKE THE LARGEST AMOUNT OF THE POPULATION HAPPY, THEREFORE IT IS OBJECTIVELY THE MOST MORAL SYSTEM
Fuck communist moralism, embrace moralist communism
>I am a communist because it is the logical conclusion>I am a communist because my god was
>I am a communist but it is immoral
>I am a communist because I am poor
I AM A COMMUNIST BECAUSE COMMUNISM WOULD MAKE THE LARGEST AMOUNT OF THE POPULATION HAPPY, THEREFORE IT IS OBJECTIVELY THE MOST MORAL SYSTEM
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Would it be better if Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge lost the war?
With hindsight, who should have won? Given how reactionary Pol Pot was, was the Khmer Republic/Kingdom of Cambodia in the right the entire time? Or were the Khmer Rouge still preferable to their opposition?
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Can someone summarise Kautsky's theory of ultra imperialism for me, and why Lenin disagreed with it?
Also, if anyone can explain Hudson's super imperialist that's be a bonus. The text itself is dated so I wasn't sure whether it was still worth reading g
Can someone summarise Kautsky's theory of ultra imperialism for me, and why Lenin disagreed with it?
Also, if anyone can explain Hudson's super imperialist that's be a bonus. The text itself is dated so I wasn't sure whether it was still worth reading g
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Economics thread, keep it about economics, please.
ECONOMICS THREAD
Hello, LeftyPol, I'm creating this thread out of curiosity about how a genuine socialist economy would work, there's any good book that spell out how a funcional planned economy would work? How salaries would work? Who decide the planning? There's a role for democratic system? I don't see Marx saying much things about how a genuine communist-socialist economy would work.Economics thread, keep it about economics, please.
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Why dont they just kill all palestinians? They could end this conflict once and all if they just rounded-up everyone from gaza and the west bank and shot them. Literally nothing is stopping them and nobody would care or try to prevent them if they did.
Yet they don't, why?
Why dont they just kill all palestinians? They could end this conflict once and all if they just rounded-up everyone from gaza and the west bank and shot them. Literally nothing is stopping them and nobody would care or try to prevent them if they did.
Yet they don't, why?
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The US is already funding Albertian separatists and the American bourgesisie want direct ownership over Canadian oil, plus couping carney with somebody else wouldn't be much hard.
Again I would like to support some revolutionary defeatism so i wouldn't mind
Maple War
It's very unlikely but since Trump has vocally been calling for annexations and Canada is moving out of the American imperial orbit, is it really possible that a regime change war against Canada is possible?The US is already funding Albertian separatists and the American bourgesisie want direct ownership over Canadian oil, plus couping carney with somebody else wouldn't be much hard.
Again I would like to support some revolutionary defeatism so i wouldn't mind
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>In Chongqing, Bo increased spending on welfare programs and maintained consistent double-digit GDP growth, while launching a crackdown on organized crime and promoting Cultural Revolution–style "red culture." His "Chongqing model" gained popularity among the Chinese New Left, composed of both Maoists and social democrats disillusioned with the country's opening up policy and increasing economic inequality
Bo Xilai
Is he our guy?>In Chongqing, Bo increased spending on welfare programs and maintained consistent double-digit GDP growth, while launching a crackdown on organized crime and promoting Cultural Revolution–style "red culture." His "Chongqing model" gained popularity among the Chinese New Left, composed of both Maoists and social democrats disillusioned with the country's opening up policy and increasing economic inequality
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2 Whether people think their country is headed in the right direction (Only China and a few others think so)
3 Which countries think democracy is important (most do)
4 Should the US have military bases in your country (Only Poland, Israel, South Korea, and Puerto Rico think so, not even Ukraine)
5 Who is the biggest threat (65 out of 84 surveyed countries say the USA)
Thoughts? Feelings? Ruthless Criticisms? Real Movements?
Multipolarity Status?
1 What "Democracy" means to countries around the world (most think it means improving living standards)2 Whether people think their country is headed in the right direction (Only China and a few others think so)
3 Which countries think democracy is important (most do)
4 Should the US have military bases in your country (Only Poland, Israel, South Korea, and Puerto Rico think so, not even Ukraine)
5 Who is the biggest threat (65 out of 84 surveyed countries say the USA)
Thoughts? Feelings? Ruthless Criticisms? Real Movements?
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No fucking way… You're really telling me this just now?
As soon as I pick up creative writing as a pursuit, and the moment I produce something which I feel has a sense of finality, something I can truly be proud of, I come to leftypol dot org and find that there is
NO FUCKING LITERATURE BOARD
/edu/? great, I love when young and intellectually curious youths are taught a warped version of M+E. Lenin, Gramsci, et al's theory. we should vulgarize theory as much as possible to appeal to the chud.
or should we obfuscate it to the point at which it becomes incomprehensible and impenetrable to anyone who has neglected reading theory in favor of doing basic shit like maintaining a healthy and fulfilling social life, or providing for themselves, or sitting idle and thinking thoughts that are to the truest degree possible, authentically theirs.
You are a den of philistines, and you need to have a struggle session and be repeatedly beat over the heads with all the works throughout history that are beautiful or poignant or prescient.
You also need to be forced to watch Salo over and over again, Clockwork Orange style until you cry genuine tears for the savage murder of Pier Paolo Pasolini.
You will bear witness to productions of Brecht.
You will learn to appreciate life in all its finery
In the world as it exists, into which we are thrown, beyond the hardship, and between the insidious lies and reactionary indoctrination, there are things that are beautiful, that must be preserved and spread to all those who have ears and eyes for it.
/draw/ is cool but there are limits to it
anyone can like music and think they have correct opinions on it, but I am sorry, that board is garbo too
you would all rather debate ad infinitum the most esotetic debates of long dead people and leaders and academics, as if the revolution will come when we have fully (vulgarized) refined the Immortal Science.
Just be open minded and purge the regressive tendencies you cling to. I know at least 50% of you are 'defectors' from /pol/, if not more, and it's always been that way. The other 30% are bots and agents of hasbara, or literal confessed federal agents.
Just give it up man. You rode it till the wheels fell off, but it's long been without a pulse, or any novel insight.
You are valiantly meandering at the helm of a ship that has been sinking for some time, and the sea is up to your knees. It's not the same sea that it used to be either
I admire that you want to create an online space to experiment with radical ideas free of censorship, but the need and value of that is long gone, supplanted by tiktok and twitter.
The best and only advice I can give to someone reading this it to go outside, meet likeminded people, and collaborate even if it means tabling historical disagreements (pressing and tangible matters of security and survival notwithstanding).
Learn from them, and put your ideas into practice. As you do so, you will develop a wealth of insight and observations that you never could by staring at a monitor.
Take time to enjoy the finer things in life too.
RIP /LEFTYPOL/ - 2015-2026
No fucking way… You're really telling me this just now?
As soon as I pick up creative writing as a pursuit, and the moment I produce something which I feel has a sense of finality, something I can truly be proud of, I come to leftypol dot org and find that there is
NO FUCKING LITERATURE BOARD
/edu/? great, I love when young and intellectually curious youths are taught a warped version of M+E. Lenin, Gramsci, et al's theory. we should vulgarize theory as much as possible to appeal to the chud.
or should we obfuscate it to the point at which it becomes incomprehensible and impenetrable to anyone who has neglected reading theory in favor of doing basic shit like maintaining a healthy and fulfilling social life, or providing for themselves, or sitting idle and thinking thoughts that are to the truest degree possible, authentically theirs.
You are a den of philistines, and you need to have a struggle session and be repeatedly beat over the heads with all the works throughout history that are beautiful or poignant or prescient.
You also need to be forced to watch Salo over and over again, Clockwork Orange style until you cry genuine tears for the savage murder of Pier Paolo Pasolini.
You will bear witness to productions of Brecht.
You will learn to appreciate life in all its finery
In the world as it exists, into which we are thrown, beyond the hardship, and between the insidious lies and reactionary indoctrination, there are things that are beautiful, that must be preserved and spread to all those who have ears and eyes for it.
/draw/ is cool but there are limits to it
anyone can like music and think they have correct opinions on it, but I am sorry, that board is garbo too
you would all rather debate ad infinitum the most esotetic debates of long dead people and leaders and academics, as if the revolution will come when we have fully (vulgarized) refined the Immortal Science.
Just be open minded and purge the regressive tendencies you cling to. I know at least 50% of you are 'defectors' from /pol/, if not more, and it's always been that way. The other 30% are bots and agents of hasbara, or literal confessed federal agents.
Just give it up man. You rode it till the wheels fell off, but it's long been without a pulse, or any novel insight.
You are valiantly meandering at the helm of a ship that has been sinking for some time, and the sea is up to your knees. It's not the same sea that it used to be either
I admire that you want to create an online space to experiment with radical ideas free of censorship, but the need and value of that is long gone, supplanted by tiktok and twitter.
The best and only advice I can give to someone reading this it to go outside, meet likeminded people, and collaborate even if it means tabling historical disagreements (pressing and tangible matters of security and survival notwithstanding).
Learn from them, and put your ideas into practice. As you do so, you will develop a wealth of insight and observations that you never could by staring at a monitor.
Take time to enjoy the finer things in life too.
RIP /LEFTYPOL/ - 2015-2026
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/itapol/
Compagne e compagni shitaliani unitevi. Let's talk about our unions! I really can't fanthom how we all saw the potential in just converging on something like last october's general strike yet unions just said fuck it and still call strikes days apart and refuse to cooperate. As much as i'm aligned with the values of the PaP / USB / Cobas axis i find their open opposition to the CGIL actively harmful to the struggle, and their pretensions to actually compete with it delusional. Since there's no mass party anymore, we can't expect a union representing 5 mln workers (by far the biggest) choose to just take the side of a political party when the radical left can't even manage 4% in regional elections in a coalition. The cgil won't fall because a 200k member union is calling strikes with 3 people days before (if you've been to cgil strikes and usb / cobas strikes you know what i'm talking about, there's no question about which has the most participants). So now what should have been the vanguard of a new politicized unionism that could have guided our only relevant union into being a machine of political change like it was in the golden era of the PCI, has actively made it their enemy. And no, it's not a problem of it being "moderate", the internal currentism and history prove that it can be something else if changed from the inside.
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Sammy Weaver is a hero and Marshal Degan is rotting in Hell. I would love to find his tombstone and fuck a prostitute over it, have her piss on it, then I'll ejaculate on it and rub my dick all over William Degan's funeral memorial. Fuck that dead cocksucker.
>WASHINGTON — Kevin Harris, who was severely wounded three years ago in a bloody siege at Ruby Ridge, Ida., disputed on Tuesday crucial elements of the government’s account of the incident, including who fired the first shot.
>Harris strongly denied to the Senate Judiciary subcommittee on terrorism that he and his friend Randy Weaver–whose cabin had been staked out by federal agents–had sought to ambush marshals on Aug. 21, 1992. The agents were trying to arrest Weaver for failing to appear in court on weapon charges.
>His voice cracking as he struggled to suppress sobs, Harris graphically described the shooting of Weaver’s 14-year-old son, Sammy, and the killing of Weaver’s wife, Vicki, by an FBI sniper on the following day, as she stood hidden by the cabin door.
>“I would not have been anywhere near those woods if I had known that all those men with assault rifles and a silenced submachine gun . . . were out there,” Harris said. “We were just walking along the trail . . . , making a perfect target of ourselves.”
>Weaver thought that there might be a deer or other game nearby.
>As he and Sammy reached the Y, Harris said, Striker neared a man wearing camouflage clothing and the dog seemed to lunge for the man’s hands. The dog then moved away from the man, circling, and “suddenly the dog was shot,” Harris said. Harris did not say where Randy Weaver was at this point.
>Sammy then began to raise his weapon and said, “You shot my dog, you son of a bitch,” Harris testified. Harris said that he headed for cover. He said that was the last time he saw Sammy alive. “I saw smoke puffs and brass shell casings flying in the air down in the woods below the trail. I assumed Sam was shooting and that someone was shooting back at him, but I didn’t actually see Sam shoot.”
>Harris said that after he found cover and crouched down, shots were still being fired, “and so I fired once into the brush.”
>Under questioning by Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.), the subcommittee chairman, Harris said that he had not fired at the man in camouflage. “I was headed for cover. There was shooting all around me. It looked like, you know, they were just bombarding us with shots, and I just fired into the brush.”
>But under questioning by several senators, Harris acknowledged that he assumed his shot had killed Degan. Harris and Weaver were subsequently acquitted of murdering Degan.
>Specter cited conflicting testimony from Harris and Deputy Marshal Larry T. Cooper and said that the senators are considering recalling Cooper. Cooper told the panel on Sept. 15 that he had yelled at Harris, “Back off–U.S. marshals,” before the dog was shot. Harris, Cooper said, had fired from the hip, hitting Degan immediately after Degan called out: “Stop, U.S. marshals.”
>Harris told the hearing that he heard neither agent’s warning when Cooper said they were made.
>In another possible conflict, Jeffrey Howard, former principal associate deputy attorney general, testified that he had been told on Aug. 22, 1992, by an FBI official that Mrs. Weaver had been heard “wailing that her son had been shot, had been murdered.” FBI witnesses said they first learned of Sammy Weaver’s death after the body was discovered at least a day and a half later.
>The difference could be important because knowing Weaver’s son had been killed could have influenced how the FBI handled the siege. Howard, however, said that the FBI testimony may simply mean that the bureau did not confirm Sammy Weaver’s death on Aug. 22.
>With the hearings adjourned for two weeks, when FBI Director Louis J. Freeh is expected to testify, the panel’s ranking Democrat, Sen. Herbert Kohl of Wisconsin, made clear that he has already come to some conclusions.
>“Ruby Ridge marks a sad chapter in the FBI’s history,” he said, in beginning his questioning of Harris. “Although the FBI has been essentially unrepentant, we are beginning to get a clear picture of the errors they made at Ruby Ridge.”
>Kohl accused the FBI of “playing a game of duck and cover. The world’s greatest investigative agency cannot figure out who drafted and approved” permissive shooting rules “written in part in its own headquarters.”
>“It has consistently ignored or evaded the findings of outside, independent reviewers in favor of FBI-generated reports that scapegoat some and absolve everyone else,” Kohl said.
>Nevertheless, Kohl said, “Randy Weaver really has to shoulder much of the responsibility for what happened” at Ruby Ridge. “He hid from the law, obsessed with his own irrational fears about the government. And he put a gun in the hand of his 14-year-old son, Sammy, and filled Sammy’s head with extreme rhetoric about law enforcement officers.”
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-09-27-mn-50568-story.html
Sammy Weaver is a hero and Marshal Degan is rotting in Hell. I would love to find his tombstone and fuck a prostitute over it, have her piss on it, then I'll ejaculate on it and rub my dick all over William Degan's funeral memorial. Fuck that dead cocksucker.
>WASHINGTON — Kevin Harris, who was severely wounded three years ago in a bloody siege at Ruby Ridge, Ida., disputed on Tuesday crucial elements of the government’s account of the incident, including who fired the first shot.
>Harris strongly denied to the Senate Judiciary subcommittee on terrorism that he and his friend Randy Weaver–whose cabin had been staked out by federal agents–had sought to ambush marshals on Aug. 21, 1992. The agents were trying to arrest Weaver for failing to appear in court on weapon charges.
>His voice cracking as he struggled to suppress sobs, Harris graphically described the shooting of Weaver’s 14-year-old son, Sammy, and the killing of Weaver’s wife, Vicki, by an FBI sniper on the following day, as she stood hidden by the cabin door.
>“I would not have been anywhere near those woods if I had known that all those men with assault rifles and a silenced submachine gun . . . were out there,” Harris said. “We were just walking along the trail . . . , making a perfect target of ourselves.”
>Weaver thought that there might be a deer or other game nearby.
>As he and Sammy reached the Y, Harris said, Striker neared a man wearing camouflage clothing and the dog seemed to lunge for the man’s hands. The dog then moved away from the man, circling, and “suddenly the dog was shot,” Harris said. Harris did not say where Randy Weaver was at this point.
>Sammy then began to raise his weapon and said, “You shot my dog, you son of a bitch,” Harris testified. Harris said that he headed for cover. He said that was the last time he saw Sammy alive. “I saw smoke puffs and brass shell casings flying in the air down in the woods below the trail. I assumed Sam was shooting and that someone was shooting back at him, but I didn’t actually see Sam shoot.”
>Harris said that after he found cover and crouched down, shots were still being fired, “and so I fired once into the brush.”
>Under questioning by Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.), the subcommittee chairman, Harris said that he had not fired at the man in camouflage. “I was headed for cover. There was shooting all around me. It looked like, you know, they were just bombarding us with shots, and I just fired into the brush.”
>But under questioning by several senators, Harris acknowledged that he assumed his shot had killed Degan. Harris and Weaver were subsequently acquitted of murdering Degan.
>Specter cited conflicting testimony from Harris and Deputy Marshal Larry T. Cooper and said that the senators are considering recalling Cooper. Cooper told the panel on Sept. 15 that he had yelled at Harris, “Back off–U.S. marshals,” before the dog was shot. Harris, Cooper said, had fired from the hip, hitting Degan immediately after Degan called out: “Stop, U.S. marshals.”
>Harris told the hearing that he heard neither agent’s warning when Cooper said they were made.
>In another possible conflict, Jeffrey Howard, former principal associate deputy attorney general, testified that he had been told on Aug. 22, 1992, by an FBI official that Mrs. Weaver had been heard “wailing that her son had been shot, had been murdered.” FBI witnesses said they first learned of Sammy Weaver’s death after the body was discovered at least a day and a half later.
>The difference could be important because knowing Weaver’s son had been killed could have influenced how the FBI handled the siege. Howard, however, said that the FBI testimony may simply mean that the bureau did not confirm Sammy Weaver’s death on Aug. 22.
>With the hearings adjourned for two weeks, when FBI Director Louis J. Freeh is expected to testify, the panel’s ranking Democrat, Sen. Herbert Kohl of Wisconsin, made clear that he has already come to some conclusions.
>“Ruby Ridge marks a sad chapter in the FBI’s history,” he said, in beginning his questioning of Harris. “Although the FBI has been essentially unrepentant, we are beginning to get a clear picture of the errors they made at Ruby Ridge.”
>Kohl accused the FBI of “playing a game of duck and cover. The world’s greatest investigative agency cannot figure out who drafted and approved” permissive shooting rules “written in part in its own headquarters.”
>“It has consistently ignored or evaded the findings of outside, independent reviewers in favor of FBI-generated reports that scapegoat some and absolve everyone else,” Kohl said.
>Nevertheless, Kohl said, “Randy Weaver really has to shoulder much of the responsibility for what happened” at Ruby Ridge. “He hid from the law, obsessed with his own irrational fears about the government. And he put a gun in the hand of his 14-year-old son, Sammy, and filled Sammy’s head with extreme rhetoric about law enforcement officers.”
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-09-27-mn-50568-story.html
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USO represents workers at Ecopetrol, Colombia's biggest company and one of Latin America's largest energy producers. Ravelo said the union includes 25,000 workers employed directly by Ecopetrol and its contractors. He said there had been no progress on any of the union's demands after 25 days of talks, with 14 days left before the current stage of direct negotiations expires.
https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-work/union-colombias-ecopetrol-launches-24-hour-strike-2026-06-02/
Argentina Records 105 Femicides in First Five Months
The figures were released ahead of the 11th anniversary of the first Ni Una Menos mass demonstration, a landmark movement against violence toward women. A special report by the Observatory “Women, Dissidences, Rights” found that 3,096 femicides have been committed in Argentina since June 3, 2015. The report comes amid ongoing disputes over official data. According to the Lucía Pérez Observatory, 271 femicides and transfemicides were recorded in 2025, compared with the 200 direct femicide victims reported this week by Argentina’s judiciary.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/argentina-105-femicides-first-fivemonths/
Argentina added to list of world’s worst countries for workers’ rights
Repression of workers' rights has deepened around the globe, even in "stable" countries, says world's largest trade union organisation; Argentina added to ITUC’s list of 10 worst countries for workers' rights, alongside nations like Belarus, Egypt, Tunisia and Turkey.
https://www.batimes.com.ar/news/economy/argentina-added-to-list-of-worlds-worst-countries-for-workers-rights.phtml
https://archive.ph/b9Ud1
More than 4.5 million Canadians living in poverty
The current poverty figures are a devastating indictment of the policies of the ruling federal Liberal government, first under Justin Trudeau and now Mark Carney. For over a decade, the Liberal-led government has overseen the impoverishment of large sections of the Canadian population, the slashing of spending on critical social programs and infrastructure, and the reckless and costly rearming of the military to secure the interests of Canadian imperialism amid a new redivision of the world between the great powers.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/06/02/uauw-j02.html
'Terrorism in its worst form': Constitutionalist urges Senate to criminalize red tagging
Military officials and former New Peoples Army (NPA) members "endanger" the people who they accuse of being either communist members and or communist fronts, former Ateneo School of Government dean Antonio Laviña said during the Senate's third hearing on red tagging.
https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/12/02/20/terrorism-in-its-worst-form-constitutionalist-urges-senate-to-criminalize-red-tagging
https://archive.ph/9lll0
Kenyans protest planned US Ebola quarantine facility
Demonstrators rallied on Monday in the city of Nanyuki, days after Kenya’s High Court ordered the suspension of the plan. The suggestion that Kenya should host people exposed to the virus, an outbreak of which has killed over 200 people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and neighbouring Uganda, has sparked anger in the country, which has recorded no cases of the virus.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/6/1/kenyans-protest-planned-us-ebola-quarantine-facility
https://archive.ph/wInDI
Mozambique says five citizens killed in ‘xenophobic attacks’ in South Africa
Five deaths were “a direct consequence of the xenophobic attacks and the other two as a result of a road accident, when they were travelling in a private vehicle on their way back to Mozambique”, it said. But the South African police told AFP that only two Mozambique nationals, aged 27 and 43, were killed in an informal settlement attached to Mossel Bay, both from multiple injuries from assault.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/02/mozambique-citizens-killed-xenophobic-attacks-south-africa
India ramps up push-in bids after BJP win in WB
The Border Guard Bangladesh recently foiled several Indian push-in attempts while the Indian Border Security Force has reportedly gathered many people along the border to force them into Bangladesh as its nationals without verification. Besides push-ins, other hostile incidents – including the rise in border killing by the BSF, installing poles within 150 yards in the no-man’s-land, tensions between Bangladeshis and the BSF – have risen following the BJP election victory in West Bengal.
https://www.newagebd.net/post/foreign-affairs/301401/india-ramps-up-push-in-bids-after-bjp-win-in-wb
MP: MSP Uncertainty Pushes Khargone Farmers Away From Summer Moong
In Madhya Pradesh's Khargone district, the area under summer moong cultivation has declined sharply this year. Once considered a short-duration, low-water, high-return crop, moong is now becoming a casualty of uncertain government policy. Delays in procurement at the Minimum Support Price last year, farmer protests, and the absence of clear signals regarding procurement this year have pushed many farmers away from the crop, affecting not only incomes but also crop cycles and soil health.
https://www.newsclick.in/mp-msp-uncertainty-pushes-khargone-farmers-away-summer-moong
Italian activists escalate Mediterranean port protests over Gaza genocide
The new action dubbed “Global Intifada Disarm” was launched during a maritime and land demonstration at the port as five boats from the Thousand Madleens to Gaza initiative approached the Calabrian port in a symbolic protest against Italy’s war economy and supply chains. The 29 May mobilisation, called by grassroots trade unions and the Movement of Young Palestinians in Italy, saw demonstrations across the country, from ports and logistics hubs to factories identified by campaigners as being linked to military production and supply chains connected to Israel.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/italy-activists-escalate-port-protests-over-gaza-genocide-and-military-supply-chains-through
Nearly 5,000 staff, students urge Belgium’s universities to cut Israel ties
An open letter titled No Honour in Complicity was published on Tuesday by the group of 4,700 signatories – including 1,100 professors and 50 honorary doctorate recipients – urging Belgian universities to “terminate all institutional collaborations with Israeli institutions involved in violations of international law”.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/6/2/belgian-ngo-urges-india-to-arrest-israeli-reservist-over-alleged-war-crimes
https://archive.ph/QKHjZ
Sinn Fein propose Stormont power sharing shake up
Among the proposals published on Monday, the republican party said it was time to end “vetoes” within the arrangements by changing how the first and deputy first ministers can take up their roles. Sinn Fein has long accused the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) of blocking progress on key policies. First Minister Michelle O’Neill said her party’s plans aimed to removed the “ever-present threat of collapse” of the Northern Ireland Assembly and to ensure stability in the future.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/sinn-fein-propose-stormont-power-sharing-shake
News 6/2/26
Union at Colombia's Ecopetrol launches 24-hour strike over labor talksUSO represents workers at Ecopetrol, Colombia's biggest company and one of Latin America's largest energy producers. Ravelo said the union includes 25,000 workers employed directly by Ecopetrol and its contractors. He said there had been no progress on any of the union's demands after 25 days of talks, with 14 days left before the current stage of direct negotiations expires.
https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-work/union-colombias-ecopetrol-launches-24-hour-strike-2026-06-02/
Argentina Records 105 Femicides in First Five Months
The figures were released ahead of the 11th anniversary of the first Ni Una Menos mass demonstration, a landmark movement against violence toward women. A special report by the Observatory “Women, Dissidences, Rights” found that 3,096 femicides have been committed in Argentina since June 3, 2015. The report comes amid ongoing disputes over official data. According to the Lucía Pérez Observatory, 271 femicides and transfemicides were recorded in 2025, compared with the 200 direct femicide victims reported this week by Argentina’s judiciary.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/argentina-105-femicides-first-fivemonths/
Argentina added to list of world’s worst countries for workers’ rights
Repression of workers' rights has deepened around the globe, even in "stable" countries, says world's largest trade union organisation; Argentina added to ITUC’s list of 10 worst countries for workers' rights, alongside nations like Belarus, Egypt, Tunisia and Turkey.
https://www.batimes.com.ar/news/economy/argentina-added-to-list-of-worlds-worst-countries-for-workers-rights.phtml
https://archive.ph/b9Ud1
More than 4.5 million Canadians living in poverty
The current poverty figures are a devastating indictment of the policies of the ruling federal Liberal government, first under Justin Trudeau and now Mark Carney. For over a decade, the Liberal-led government has overseen the impoverishment of large sections of the Canadian population, the slashing of spending on critical social programs and infrastructure, and the reckless and costly rearming of the military to secure the interests of Canadian imperialism amid a new redivision of the world between the great powers.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/06/02/uauw-j02.html
'Terrorism in its worst form': Constitutionalist urges Senate to criminalize red tagging
Military officials and former New Peoples Army (NPA) members "endanger" the people who they accuse of being either communist members and or communist fronts, former Ateneo School of Government dean Antonio Laviña said during the Senate's third hearing on red tagging.
https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/12/02/20/terrorism-in-its-worst-form-constitutionalist-urges-senate-to-criminalize-red-tagging
https://archive.ph/9lll0
Kenyans protest planned US Ebola quarantine facility
Demonstrators rallied on Monday in the city of Nanyuki, days after Kenya’s High Court ordered the suspension of the plan. The suggestion that Kenya should host people exposed to the virus, an outbreak of which has killed over 200 people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and neighbouring Uganda, has sparked anger in the country, which has recorded no cases of the virus.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/6/1/kenyans-protest-planned-us-ebola-quarantine-facility
https://archive.ph/wInDI
Mozambique says five citizens killed in ‘xenophobic attacks’ in South Africa
Five deaths were “a direct consequence of the xenophobic attacks and the other two as a result of a road accident, when they were travelling in a private vehicle on their way back to Mozambique”, it said. But the South African police told AFP that only two Mozambique nationals, aged 27 and 43, were killed in an informal settlement attached to Mossel Bay, both from multiple injuries from assault.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/02/mozambique-citizens-killed-xenophobic-attacks-south-africa
India ramps up push-in bids after BJP win in WB
The Border Guard Bangladesh recently foiled several Indian push-in attempts while the Indian Border Security Force has reportedly gathered many people along the border to force them into Bangladesh as its nationals without verification. Besides push-ins, other hostile incidents – including the rise in border killing by the BSF, installing poles within 150 yards in the no-man’s-land, tensions between Bangladeshis and the BSF – have risen following the BJP election victory in West Bengal.
https://www.newagebd.net/post/foreign-affairs/301401/india-ramps-up-push-in-bids-after-bjp-win-in-wb
MP: MSP Uncertainty Pushes Khargone Farmers Away From Summer Moong
In Madhya Pradesh's Khargone district, the area under summer moong cultivation has declined sharply this year. Once considered a short-duration, low-water, high-return crop, moong is now becoming a casualty of uncertain government policy. Delays in procurement at the Minimum Support Price last year, farmer protests, and the absence of clear signals regarding procurement this year have pushed many farmers away from the crop, affecting not only incomes but also crop cycles and soil health.
https://www.newsclick.in/mp-msp-uncertainty-pushes-khargone-farmers-away-summer-moong
Italian activists escalate Mediterranean port protests over Gaza genocide
The new action dubbed “Global Intifada Disarm” was launched during a maritime and land demonstration at the port as five boats from the Thousand Madleens to Gaza initiative approached the Calabrian port in a symbolic protest against Italy’s war economy and supply chains. The 29 May mobilisation, called by grassroots trade unions and the Movement of Young Palestinians in Italy, saw demonstrations across the country, from ports and logistics hubs to factories identified by campaigners as being linked to military production and supply chains connected to Israel.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/italy-activists-escalate-port-protests-over-gaza-genocide-and-military-supply-chains-through
Nearly 5,000 staff, students urge Belgium’s universities to cut Israel ties
An open letter titled No Honour in Complicity was published on Tuesday by the group of 4,700 signatories – including 1,100 professors and 50 honorary doctorate recipients – urging Belgian universities to “terminate all institutional collaborations with Israeli institutions involved in violations of international law”.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/6/2/belgian-ngo-urges-india-to-arrest-israeli-reservist-over-alleged-war-crimes
https://archive.ph/QKHjZ
Sinn Fein propose Stormont power sharing shake up
Among the proposals published on Monday, the republican party said it was time to end “vetoes” within the arrangements by changing how the first and deputy first ministers can take up their roles. Sinn Fein has long accused the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) of blocking progress on key policies. First Minister Michelle O’Neill said her party’s plans aimed to removed the “ever-present threat of collapse” of the Northern Ireland Assembly and to ensure stability in the future.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/sinn-fein-propose-stormont-power-sharing-shake
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Manica di degenerati. Non mi aspettavo proprio che dopo un mese d'assenza, il filo cadesse dalla tavola. Vabè, leftypol ormai è l'ombra di quello che era soltanto qualche anno fa, ma c'è un limite a tutto.
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ITALIANS DO IT BETTERManica di degenerati. Non mi aspettavo proprio che dopo un mese d'assenza, il filo cadesse dalla tavola. Vabè, leftypol ormai è l'ombra di quello che era soltanto qualche anno fa, ma c'è un limite a tutto.
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I've noticed that all mass shooters have reactionary ideologies or liberal ones (such as Audrey Hale) and that makes sense, the degeneracy and contradictions of such systems show up on these but I'm surprised there isn't even one (popular) case of a delusional communist shooting up a Walmart to start a revolution.
If someone knows any cases where the perp is left wing pls share it I want to research more in it.
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Mass shooter's ideologies
How come there aren't any communist mass shooters?I've noticed that all mass shooters have reactionary ideologies or liberal ones (such as Audrey Hale) and that makes sense, the degeneracy and contradictions of such systems show up on these but I'm surprised there isn't even one (popular) case of a delusional communist shooting up a Walmart to start a revolution.
If someone knows any cases where the perp is left wing pls share it I want to research more in it.
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>David is a gourmet chef who works for a restaurant and makes $200,000 a year. Barry is the owner of a Deli Shop and makes $50,000 a year. Based purely on the information given, which person is a Proletariat? Barry, David, both or neither?
>Do Native Americans, the descendents of the Pre-Columbian population of what is now the United States, have a unique right to their land based on their genetic makeup?
>Capitalist society is an improvement over pre-Capitalist society. True or False?
The Ultimate Filter of Marxism
3 questions divide the Marxists from the Liberals>David is a gourmet chef who works for a restaurant and makes $200,000 a year. Barry is the owner of a Deli Shop and makes $50,000 a year. Based purely on the information given, which person is a Proletariat? Barry, David, both or neither?
>Do Native Americans, the descendents of the Pre-Columbian population of what is now the United States, have a unique right to their land based on their genetic makeup?
>Capitalist society is an improvement over pre-Capitalist society. True or False?
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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 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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Here's my examples
>Being religious
>Is against violent opposition to fascists
>Anti-gun
>"You know tucker carlson and fuentes have some good points"
>Thinks opposing israel is more important than opposing capitalism
>Likes candace owens or any rightoid commentator
>Watches hasan or any twitch streamer
>Gets oddly defensive if you say "we should kill fascists" or anything like that
>Weirdly defensive of trump or really any world leader
>Likes modern day russia
>Supports ukraine
>Unironically complains about wokeness
>Likes the unabomber
>Has a username involving mkultra or any other "safe" conspiracy
>Thinks race is real
>Thinks I Q is real
>Is a pedophile
Any other red flags you guys can think of?
What makes someone a fake leftist to you?
Not gonna bother defining "leftist" cause it's a stupid conversation. Just talking about stuff where you'll hear someone who agrees with you politically say something and instantly think "this guy is not the same as me".Here's my examples
>Being religious
>Is against violent opposition to fascists
>Anti-gun
>"You know tucker carlson and fuentes have some good points"
>Thinks opposing israel is more important than opposing capitalism
>Likes candace owens or any rightoid commentator
>Watches hasan or any twitch streamer
>Gets oddly defensive if you say "we should kill fascists" or anything like that
>Weirdly defensive of trump or really any world leader
>Likes modern day russia
>Supports ukraine
>Unironically complains about wokeness
>Likes the unabomber
>Has a username involving mkultra or any other "safe" conspiracy
>Thinks race is real
>Thinks I Q is real
>Is a pedophile
Any other red flags you guys can think of?
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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.
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What does Althusser mean by the statement that ideology does not have a history? And what does he mean by stating that ideology is fundamentally a social relation; is this part of his "return to Marx"?
Also, opinions on Ideology and Ideology State Apparatus
What does Althusser mean by the statement that ideology does not have a history? And what does he mean by stating that ideology is fundamentally a social relation; is this part of his "return to Marx"?
Also, opinions on Ideology and Ideology State Apparatus
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Tens of thousands of ultra-Orthodox demonstrated across Israel on Monday, blocking roads and trains and setting cars on fire to protest mandatory enlistment in Israel’s military. Israel’s police said demonstrators blocked major intersections and attacked a soldier who disembarked from a bus near a protest. Police struggled to control the crowds with water cannons and horses.
https://www.newarab.com/news/ultra-orthodox-draft-protests-cripple-central-israel
Iran halts talks with US, says it will close Bab el-Mandeb Strait: Report
Tasnim said that Iran wants an "immediate cessation" of Israel's military operations in Gaza and Lebanon. Tasnim, which is close to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, said that Iran and its allies had "set their determination to completely block the Strait of Hormuz and activate other fronts, including the Bab el-Mandeb Strait" at the entrance to the Red Sea. Iran’s threat to blockade the Bab el-Mandeb Strait would mark an escalation in its steps to inflict pain on the global economy in order to force the US into concessions.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/iran-ends-peace-talks-us-and-says-it-will-close-bab-el-mandeb-strait-report
‘A shock to all Lebanese’: Israel sends a message as it takes ancient fort
Last week, what was a low-intensity war suddenly accelerated, with Israeli warplanes killing at least a dozen people a day, and Israeli soldiers once again marching forward. Beaufort Castle was the most tangible marker of Israel’s progress, both to Israelis and Lebanese. Netanyahu, facing pressure from his domestic political rivals, happily announced that Israel was deepening its invasion in Lebanon.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/01/israel-sends-message-beaufort-castle-lebanon
Political commentators Cenk, Piker say UK bars them over Israel remarks
Uygur, cofounder of The Young Turks, a United States-based online political news and commentary network, said he learned of the restriction while trying to board a flight to London, where he was scheduled to attend the SXSW London festival and deliver a speech at Oxford University.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/6/1/political-commentators-cenk-piker-say-uk-bars-them-over-israel-remarks
Germany’s Council of Economic Experts demands “U-turn” on care, health and pensions
According to their report, contribution rates for social insurance, which are borne half by employees and half by companies, will rise from the current 40 to almost 50 percent by 2040 if nothing changes in the existing legal situation. This is to be prevented at the expense of those in need of care, the sick and pensioners.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/06/01/aasr-j01.html
France backed by Britain intercepts sanctioned oil tanker sailing from Russia
France has intercepted an oil tanker sailing from Russia and circumventing sanctions in the Atlantic over the weekend, President Emmanuel Macron said in a social media post on Monday. The Tagor was detained Sunday morning in international waters with the help of Britain and other partners, the French president said.
https://www.france24.com/en/france/20260601-france-and-allies-intercept-sanctioned-russian-oil-tanker-in-atlantic
Modi meets Myanmar’s military-backed president as India says engagement will continue
The two countries have cooperated on border security and intelligence sharing to combat insurgent groups operating out of the border region. Modi and Min Aung Hlaing did not address the media after their meeting, unlike most bilateral talks involving visiting heads of state or government in New Delhi.
https://apnews.com/article/myanmar-min-aung-hlaing-modi-india-0acc62996f26e5fe5db8edf77c420607
Protesters call on Kenyan government to halt femicide crisis
Protesters have accused the government of failing to investigate cases properly, and have called for stronger protections, faster investigations, harsher penalties, and more support for affected families. In response to the pressure, authorities announced late last month the formation of a dedicated investigative unit, combining criminal intelligence analysts, forensic experts, homicide investigators, and other specialists.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/6/1/protesters-call-on-kenyan-government-to-halt-femicide-crisis
Ethiopian election expected to give leader Abiy's party a landslide win
Voting took place in Ethiopia on Monday in parliamentary and regional elections expected to hand Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's ruling Prosperity Party an easy victory, despite significant unrest in much of the country. More than 50 million people were registered to vote, but there was no election in the northern Tigray region, where organisers had cited "unfavourable conditions" in the aftermath of a two-year civil war and amid continuing political turmoil.
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/ethiopian-election-expected-hand-leader-abiys-party-landslide-win-2026-06-01/
Mexico City police teargas teachers’ protest 10 days before World Cup
Teachers associated with the CNTE union, which has called for salary raises and the reversal of pension laws, began threatening to protest during the World Cup in mid-May, during a march on Teacher’s Day. Pedro Hernandez Morales, general secretary of CNTE section 9 in Mexico City, warned that if demands are not met before the opening match “the ball will not roll”, Al Jazeera English reported.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/01/mexico-city-teachers-protest
Peruvian Candidate Sanchez Presents New Government Plan
He highlighted changes such as respecting Free Trade Agreements (FTAs), which he had initially promised to review during his campaign. The candidate asserted that he seeks to restore democracy, justice, and progress. He also proposing that Peru be considered a plurinational state. …
https://www.telesurenglish.net/peruvian-candidate-sanchez-presents-new-government-plan/
De la Espriella wins 1st round of Colombia’s presidential election
With 99% of the votes counted, De la Espriella received the support of 43.7% of Colombia’s voters. Cepeda received 40.9% of the votes and defeated the establishment candidate. Support for far-right Senator Paloma Valencia, who had been polled as De la Espriella’s immediate contender, imploded. The Uribista candidate received less than 7% of the votes.
https://colombiareports.com/de-la-espriella-wins-1st-round-of-colombias-presidential-election/
News 6/1/26
Ultra-orthodox draft protesters block roads, trains across IsraelTens of thousands of ultra-Orthodox demonstrated across Israel on Monday, blocking roads and trains and setting cars on fire to protest mandatory enlistment in Israel’s military. Israel’s police said demonstrators blocked major intersections and attacked a soldier who disembarked from a bus near a protest. Police struggled to control the crowds with water cannons and horses.
https://www.newarab.com/news/ultra-orthodox-draft-protests-cripple-central-israel
Iran halts talks with US, says it will close Bab el-Mandeb Strait: Report
Tasnim said that Iran wants an "immediate cessation" of Israel's military operations in Gaza and Lebanon. Tasnim, which is close to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, said that Iran and its allies had "set their determination to completely block the Strait of Hormuz and activate other fronts, including the Bab el-Mandeb Strait" at the entrance to the Red Sea. Iran’s threat to blockade the Bab el-Mandeb Strait would mark an escalation in its steps to inflict pain on the global economy in order to force the US into concessions.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/iran-ends-peace-talks-us-and-says-it-will-close-bab-el-mandeb-strait-report
‘A shock to all Lebanese’: Israel sends a message as it takes ancient fort
Last week, what was a low-intensity war suddenly accelerated, with Israeli warplanes killing at least a dozen people a day, and Israeli soldiers once again marching forward. Beaufort Castle was the most tangible marker of Israel’s progress, both to Israelis and Lebanese. Netanyahu, facing pressure from his domestic political rivals, happily announced that Israel was deepening its invasion in Lebanon.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/01/israel-sends-message-beaufort-castle-lebanon
Political commentators Cenk, Piker say UK bars them over Israel remarks
Uygur, cofounder of The Young Turks, a United States-based online political news and commentary network, said he learned of the restriction while trying to board a flight to London, where he was scheduled to attend the SXSW London festival and deliver a speech at Oxford University.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/6/1/political-commentators-cenk-piker-say-uk-bars-them-over-israel-remarks
Germany’s Council of Economic Experts demands “U-turn” on care, health and pensions
According to their report, contribution rates for social insurance, which are borne half by employees and half by companies, will rise from the current 40 to almost 50 percent by 2040 if nothing changes in the existing legal situation. This is to be prevented at the expense of those in need of care, the sick and pensioners.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/06/01/aasr-j01.html
France backed by Britain intercepts sanctioned oil tanker sailing from Russia
France has intercepted an oil tanker sailing from Russia and circumventing sanctions in the Atlantic over the weekend, President Emmanuel Macron said in a social media post on Monday. The Tagor was detained Sunday morning in international waters with the help of Britain and other partners, the French president said.
https://www.france24.com/en/france/20260601-france-and-allies-intercept-sanctioned-russian-oil-tanker-in-atlantic
Modi meets Myanmar’s military-backed president as India says engagement will continue
The two countries have cooperated on border security and intelligence sharing to combat insurgent groups operating out of the border region. Modi and Min Aung Hlaing did not address the media after their meeting, unlike most bilateral talks involving visiting heads of state or government in New Delhi.
https://apnews.com/article/myanmar-min-aung-hlaing-modi-india-0acc62996f26e5fe5db8edf77c420607
Protesters call on Kenyan government to halt femicide crisis
Protesters have accused the government of failing to investigate cases properly, and have called for stronger protections, faster investigations, harsher penalties, and more support for affected families. In response to the pressure, authorities announced late last month the formation of a dedicated investigative unit, combining criminal intelligence analysts, forensic experts, homicide investigators, and other specialists.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/6/1/protesters-call-on-kenyan-government-to-halt-femicide-crisis
Ethiopian election expected to give leader Abiy's party a landslide win
Voting took place in Ethiopia on Monday in parliamentary and regional elections expected to hand Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's ruling Prosperity Party an easy victory, despite significant unrest in much of the country. More than 50 million people were registered to vote, but there was no election in the northern Tigray region, where organisers had cited "unfavourable conditions" in the aftermath of a two-year civil war and amid continuing political turmoil.
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/ethiopian-election-expected-hand-leader-abiys-party-landslide-win-2026-06-01/
Mexico City police teargas teachers’ protest 10 days before World Cup
Teachers associated with the CNTE union, which has called for salary raises and the reversal of pension laws, began threatening to protest during the World Cup in mid-May, during a march on Teacher’s Day. Pedro Hernandez Morales, general secretary of CNTE section 9 in Mexico City, warned that if demands are not met before the opening match “the ball will not roll”, Al Jazeera English reported.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/01/mexico-city-teachers-protest
Peruvian Candidate Sanchez Presents New Government Plan
He highlighted changes such as respecting Free Trade Agreements (FTAs), which he had initially promised to review during his campaign. The candidate asserted that he seeks to restore democracy, justice, and progress. He also proposing that Peru be considered a plurinational state. …
https://www.telesurenglish.net/peruvian-candidate-sanchez-presents-new-government-plan/
De la Espriella wins 1st round of Colombia’s presidential election
With 99% of the votes counted, De la Espriella received the support of 43.7% of Colombia’s voters. Cepeda received 40.9% of the votes and defeated the establishment candidate. Support for far-right Senator Paloma Valencia, who had been polled as De la Espriella’s immediate contender, imploded. The Uribista candidate received less than 7% of the votes.
https://colombiareports.com/de-la-espriella-wins-1st-round-of-colombias-presidential-election/
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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
R: 21 / I: 4 (sage)
Question for the network, What is the operational objective? Is China or North Korea preparing to stage an incident like a a pre-positioned event, a controlled confrontation designed to produce martyr imagery? Something like, stand here, have a cooperating officer brutalize or kill one of you on camera, then exploit the footage for total revolution.
Remain alert. If you see something, say something.
At demonstrations, watch for individuals who appear out of place ya know, masks, changes of clothing, tactical supplies, radios, lasers, accelerants or behavior more consistent with agitators or operatives than genuine protesters. Do not hesitate to document. Take photos. Post to social media. Visibility is a weapon against illegal agitators. Thank you
Beware of the agitators among you
Multiple Juche-aligned individuals under monitoring have relocated to the East Coast. Multiple agencies flagged the same Juche network operating between Los Angeles and Minneapolis and DHS has now issued an alert, they are converging en masse on the Northeast. Cities include NYC, Newark, Baltimore, Philadelphia, and Boston. Known doxed individuals, Pak, Spite, among others are confirmed to be in these cities. They are actively organizing travel for additional personnel as we speak.Question for the network, What is the operational objective? Is China or North Korea preparing to stage an incident like a a pre-positioned event, a controlled confrontation designed to produce martyr imagery? Something like, stand here, have a cooperating officer brutalize or kill one of you on camera, then exploit the footage for total revolution.
Remain alert. If you see something, say something.
At demonstrations, watch for individuals who appear out of place ya know, masks, changes of clothing, tactical supplies, radios, lasers, accelerants or behavior more consistent with agitators or operatives than genuine protesters. Do not hesitate to document. Take photos. Post to social media. Visibility is a weapon against illegal agitators. Thank you
R: 7 / I: 1 (sage)
Happy Pride
Happy Pride month everyone. I made a YouTube video that should give everybody some food for thought. I think you can reject social progressivism while still being kind. R: 44 / 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
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(meow)
Donald Trump
What does this board think of Donald J. Trump, former star of the movie Home Alone 2: Lost in New York and also the president?(meow)
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>"Peru's Congress has voted overwhelmingly to lower the age to 14 for participating in consensual sex, a move some activists said could expose children to sexual abuse."
And who, exactly, would these "activists" be? They certainly aren't activists for youth rights, that much is clear. My guess is that they are the Peruvian equivalent of "child advocates" [CAs], who claim to fight for the "rights" of minors but in actuality fight for increased state and parental control over every aspect of young people's lives "for their own good." They are the main people in this world who have created an entire industry around the sex abuse panic, and they benefit and gain political power and oftentimes a large degree of state funds and lucrative media careers as a result of this dubious industry. So it's no wonder that so many of them push this "concern" past all degrees of reason and protest any type of progress that may weaken the stranglehold the sex abuse hysteria currently has over public discourse in the Western nations.
>"Lawmakers voted 70-10 on Thursday to approve the measure lowering the age at which criminal law recognizes the legal capacity of a person to consent to sexual activity. It was previously 17."
70-10??!! Holy shit! Peruvian politicians who consider themselves to be progressives are truly and sincerely progressive, and take the principles connected to the moniker very seriously, in contrast to the bulk of the progressives in America, England, and Austrialia who are terrified to approach this subject in any manner other than mindless and reckless condemnation that embraces every single negative and totally inaccurate stereotype aimed at both MAAs [Minor Attracted Adults, a political blanket term covering both pedophiles and hebephiles] and youths without the slightest bit of clarity, objectivity, or serious research.
>"The Peruvian measure was written by a member of President Alan Garcia's center-left Aprista party and Garcia is expected to sign it into law."
Un-freakin'-believable! There is a major political party in Peru that is actually center-left as opposed to those turncoat Democrats in America who are "centrists" (i.e., center-right) out of fear of being called names by the Republicans, and who base most of the laws they pass or propose in a manner that will appease the Republicans and hopefully avoid invoking their ire [not that it helps, since the Republicans in America hate and loathe any Democratic president or other politician in the Democratic Party regardless of how hard they try to make nice with the demands of the Republicans simply because they are Democrats–note how the Republicans frequently call Obama a "socialist" despite his pandering to Wall Street, the big giveaway to the banks after they screwed up, his insulting excuse for environmental reform laws that irked progressives across the globe, how outrageously far he capitulated to the Republicans in regards to health care reform–and how the Republicans constantly call Obama "soft on terrorism" and frequently claim that he doesn't take the "war on terror" seriously despite the fact that Obama is initiating military operations in no less than five different Middle Eastern nations, three nations more than Bush did! But that's a whole other topic…]. Obviously the progressive politicians in Peru, including the president, have some spine, unlike their counterparts in North America, Europe, and Australia. They live up to what the progressives and liberalism are supposed to stand for regardless of how much the anti and conservative elements in the country, including within the government, will call them names. They pass laws based upon what they believe in, and do not vote in office for measures that go against their principles as the liberals in American government routinely do. Peru and other nations in Latin America represent hope for an end to this madness in the future, and provide more evidence that the resistance to the global "pedophile panic" and accompanying sex abuse hysteria is far from futile.
>"One supporter of the measure, lawmaker Raul Castro, said the law will bring Peru in line with "the progress and development of a modern society.""
Well, I'll be a primate's uncle. A progressive lawmaker who is actually concerned about progress and having his nation measure up to what he considers to be a "modern" society, which he defines as providing more, not less, rights for youths. Castro and his fellow Peruvian progressives put their political counterparts in America, England, Canada, and Australia to shame by actually living up to the principles of progressivism and liberalism despite the powerful socio-political pressure to do otherwise.
>""There are young people who get pregnant but they don't go to health centers, fearing that their partners will be arrested and charged," he said."
This is certainly one good practical reason for lowering the AoC, and in fact this was the same argument used by many youth groups in Canada while opposing the then newly conservative government's proposition to bow to American pressure by raising the AoC there (only to lose, a major blow to sanity and youth rights), which is the exact opposite of what Peru has just done. There are other good and arguably even better reasons to lower the AoC in all nations, including in the general interests of youth rights, but the above reason will certainly suffice for now as it's a perfectly legitimate reason that puts concern for youths above the concerns of those who wish to control their sex lives for what amounts to purely moralistic reasons.
>"Some organizations cheered the law, saying it would keep young people out of jail on statutory rape charges."
It's even more refreshing to see that there are such organizations in Peru, as there are virtually none like them in America, England, and Australia. And I think it's important to keep older adults out of prison for statutory rape charges as much as younger people because laws criminalizing any form of mutually consensual sexual behavior are unjust, unprogressive, and undemocratic.
>"But Virginia Borra, head of the Ministry of Women and Social Development, said that the law will invite cases of "flagrant rape that can be passed off as a consensual relation.""
Why am I not surprised that the head of an org allegedly dedicated to the advancement of women and social development has such a negative attitude towards youth rights and believes that young people under a certain age are more vulnerable to acts of rape than adult women are? Is it possible this org's name is actually a cover for some other agenda, perhaps a victimology based agenda? Many orgs which claim dedication to advancing women's rights are actually in the business of pushing the victim mentality, and it's easiest to legally impose laws borne out of such a mentality on youths under 18, since they currently lack the civil rights to resist such measures. How else do you explain an ideology that claims an act of flagrant rape can possibly be passed off as a consensual relationship?
>"Maria Pia Hermoza, the coordinator of the Peruvian organization Action for the Children, complained that the law will expose children to sexual abuse."
Is it any surprise that an org with a title like 'Action for the Children' is not a youth liberationist org but actually a "child advocacy" org that pushes the continuation of youth dependence on adults while simultaneously pushing the sex abuse hysteria to justify doing so, all the while ignoring the well documented fact that less rights for kids actually expose them to far more potential for genuine abuse of all kinds (including sexual abuse) than does giving them more rights and liberties? Such orgs blatantly ignore the fact that the bulk of actual abuse goes on in the home by parents and other older relatives who have the most direct power over kids, not by older people who live outside of the home and thus have no direct power over kids. Such orgs should be condemned, not applauded, let alone funded by the government, and it's refreshing to see the Peruvian government ignoring such orgs rather than bowing down to pressure from them to pass policies which further encroach on the rights of youths, further harass adults who are attracted to them, and further the hysteria as opposed to standing behind truly progressive and pro-youth policies.
>"Rapists will "use consent to evade justice," she was quoted as saying in the Peru21 newspaper Friday. "They will continue using blackmail and threats to rape minors.""
This is one of the most common claims used by anti-youth rights "activists" to justify the continuation of oppressive and draconian laws to control the sexual rights of young people, i.e., the idea that there will be hordes of unscrupulous adults who will use blackmail and threats of violence to coerce minors into having sex with them and to subsequently intimidate the minors in question into claiming that the sexual activity was consensual who will come out of the woodwork in large numbers if the AoC laws are lowered or abolished. Youth rights activists and pro-choice MAA activists have heard this tired old "justification" for high AoC laws numerous times before, and it's quite easy to refute.
Materialist Analysis of Peru’s amazing development
Below is my analysis of this article (https://web.archive.org/web/20100822150940/http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/World/20070623/peru_consent_070623/) detailing something rather amazing and extremely refreshing amidst today's global sex abuse hysteria and the continuing Orwellian encroachments on youth sexual rights as a result: the government of Peru actually lowered its AoC back in 2007. Hence, its then-in-power political party Aprista proved itself to be composed of progressives that are truly worthy of the term, unlike most of their cowardly counterparts in North America, Europe, and Australia. Without further ado, let's begin my analysis of the various excerpts from the article that are greentexted below, followed by my response in standard text.>"Peru's Congress has voted overwhelmingly to lower the age to 14 for participating in consensual sex, a move some activists said could expose children to sexual abuse."
And who, exactly, would these "activists" be? They certainly aren't activists for youth rights, that much is clear. My guess is that they are the Peruvian equivalent of "child advocates" [CAs], who claim to fight for the "rights" of minors but in actuality fight for increased state and parental control over every aspect of young people's lives "for their own good." They are the main people in this world who have created an entire industry around the sex abuse panic, and they benefit and gain political power and oftentimes a large degree of state funds and lucrative media careers as a result of this dubious industry. So it's no wonder that so many of them push this "concern" past all degrees of reason and protest any type of progress that may weaken the stranglehold the sex abuse hysteria currently has over public discourse in the Western nations.
>"Lawmakers voted 70-10 on Thursday to approve the measure lowering the age at which criminal law recognizes the legal capacity of a person to consent to sexual activity. It was previously 17."
70-10??!! Holy shit! Peruvian politicians who consider themselves to be progressives are truly and sincerely progressive, and take the principles connected to the moniker very seriously, in contrast to the bulk of the progressives in America, England, and Austrialia who are terrified to approach this subject in any manner other than mindless and reckless condemnation that embraces every single negative and totally inaccurate stereotype aimed at both MAAs [Minor Attracted Adults, a political blanket term covering both pedophiles and hebephiles] and youths without the slightest bit of clarity, objectivity, or serious research.
>"The Peruvian measure was written by a member of President Alan Garcia's center-left Aprista party and Garcia is expected to sign it into law."
Un-freakin'-believable! There is a major political party in Peru that is actually center-left as opposed to those turncoat Democrats in America who are "centrists" (i.e., center-right) out of fear of being called names by the Republicans, and who base most of the laws they pass or propose in a manner that will appease the Republicans and hopefully avoid invoking their ire [not that it helps, since the Republicans in America hate and loathe any Democratic president or other politician in the Democratic Party regardless of how hard they try to make nice with the demands of the Republicans simply because they are Democrats–note how the Republicans frequently call Obama a "socialist" despite his pandering to Wall Street, the big giveaway to the banks after they screwed up, his insulting excuse for environmental reform laws that irked progressives across the globe, how outrageously far he capitulated to the Republicans in regards to health care reform–and how the Republicans constantly call Obama "soft on terrorism" and frequently claim that he doesn't take the "war on terror" seriously despite the fact that Obama is initiating military operations in no less than five different Middle Eastern nations, three nations more than Bush did! But that's a whole other topic…]. Obviously the progressive politicians in Peru, including the president, have some spine, unlike their counterparts in North America, Europe, and Australia. They live up to what the progressives and liberalism are supposed to stand for regardless of how much the anti and conservative elements in the country, including within the government, will call them names. They pass laws based upon what they believe in, and do not vote in office for measures that go against their principles as the liberals in American government routinely do. Peru and other nations in Latin America represent hope for an end to this madness in the future, and provide more evidence that the resistance to the global "pedophile panic" and accompanying sex abuse hysteria is far from futile.
>"One supporter of the measure, lawmaker Raul Castro, said the law will bring Peru in line with "the progress and development of a modern society.""
Well, I'll be a primate's uncle. A progressive lawmaker who is actually concerned about progress and having his nation measure up to what he considers to be a "modern" society, which he defines as providing more, not less, rights for youths. Castro and his fellow Peruvian progressives put their political counterparts in America, England, Canada, and Australia to shame by actually living up to the principles of progressivism and liberalism despite the powerful socio-political pressure to do otherwise.
>""There are young people who get pregnant but they don't go to health centers, fearing that their partners will be arrested and charged," he said."
This is certainly one good practical reason for lowering the AoC, and in fact this was the same argument used by many youth groups in Canada while opposing the then newly conservative government's proposition to bow to American pressure by raising the AoC there (only to lose, a major blow to sanity and youth rights), which is the exact opposite of what Peru has just done. There are other good and arguably even better reasons to lower the AoC in all nations, including in the general interests of youth rights, but the above reason will certainly suffice for now as it's a perfectly legitimate reason that puts concern for youths above the concerns of those who wish to control their sex lives for what amounts to purely moralistic reasons.
>"Some organizations cheered the law, saying it would keep young people out of jail on statutory rape charges."
It's even more refreshing to see that there are such organizations in Peru, as there are virtually none like them in America, England, and Australia. And I think it's important to keep older adults out of prison for statutory rape charges as much as younger people because laws criminalizing any form of mutually consensual sexual behavior are unjust, unprogressive, and undemocratic.
>"But Virginia Borra, head of the Ministry of Women and Social Development, said that the law will invite cases of "flagrant rape that can be passed off as a consensual relation.""
Why am I not surprised that the head of an org allegedly dedicated to the advancement of women and social development has such a negative attitude towards youth rights and believes that young people under a certain age are more vulnerable to acts of rape than adult women are? Is it possible this org's name is actually a cover for some other agenda, perhaps a victimology based agenda? Many orgs which claim dedication to advancing women's rights are actually in the business of pushing the victim mentality, and it's easiest to legally impose laws borne out of such a mentality on youths under 18, since they currently lack the civil rights to resist such measures. How else do you explain an ideology that claims an act of flagrant rape can possibly be passed off as a consensual relationship?
>"Maria Pia Hermoza, the coordinator of the Peruvian organization Action for the Children, complained that the law will expose children to sexual abuse."
Is it any surprise that an org with a title like 'Action for the Children' is not a youth liberationist org but actually a "child advocacy" org that pushes the continuation of youth dependence on adults while simultaneously pushing the sex abuse hysteria to justify doing so, all the while ignoring the well documented fact that less rights for kids actually expose them to far more potential for genuine abuse of all kinds (including sexual abuse) than does giving them more rights and liberties? Such orgs blatantly ignore the fact that the bulk of actual abuse goes on in the home by parents and other older relatives who have the most direct power over kids, not by older people who live outside of the home and thus have no direct power over kids. Such orgs should be condemned, not applauded, let alone funded by the government, and it's refreshing to see the Peruvian government ignoring such orgs rather than bowing down to pressure from them to pass policies which further encroach on the rights of youths, further harass adults who are attracted to them, and further the hysteria as opposed to standing behind truly progressive and pro-youth policies.
>"Rapists will "use consent to evade justice," she was quoted as saying in the Peru21 newspaper Friday. "They will continue using blackmail and threats to rape minors.""
This is one of the most common claims used by anti-youth rights "activists" to justify the continuation of oppressive and draconian laws to control the sexual rights of young people, i.e., the idea that there will be hordes of unscrupulous adults who will use blackmail and threats of violence to coerce minors into having sex with them and to subsequently intimidate the minors in question into claiming that the sexual activity was consensual who will come out of the woodwork in large numbers if the AoC laws are lowered or abolished. Youth rights activists and pro-choice MAA activists have heard this tired old "justification" for high AoC laws numerous times before, and it's quite easy to refute.
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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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>uhm, actually, u can't have socialist revolution in non western countries u need industry and developed capitalism first
Bolsheviks: *simply buys industry from the west, develops capitalism, then collectivises everything like a boss*
>uhm… Slavs are subhuman
Was this guy retarded or what. Did he think nation borders were a magical force field that siloed historical development? Once capitalist industry emerges, it seems obvious that bringing it to another part of the world is a mere practical question
>uhm, actually, u can't have socialist revolution in non western countries u need industry and developed capitalism first
Bolsheviks: *simply buys industry from the west, develops capitalism, then collectivises everything like a boss*
>uhm… Slavs are subhuman
Was this guy retarded or what. Did he think nation borders were a magical force field that siloed historical development? Once capitalist industry emerges, it seems obvious that bringing it to another part of the world is a mere practical question
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>Trade union leaders call for orderly transition from Starmer to police working class opposition
<Britain’s trade union bureaucracy is working overtime to suppress mounting hostility in the working class to the Labour government, amid the deepening crisis surrounding Keir Starmer’s premiership…
/leftybritpol/ - The Reigning King edition
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/05/15/oqst-m15.html>Trade union leaders call for orderly transition from Starmer to police working class opposition
<Britain’s trade union bureaucracy is working overtime to suppress mounting hostility in the working class to the Labour government, amid the deepening crisis surrounding Keir Starmer’s premiership…
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the current right wing strategies
the current right wing strategies
- thinking magic is real thus circlejerking everything you can into an ergragore
- waiting for a caesar to show up
- refusing to come to terms with china being socialist and thinking hyper accelerating finance capital will defeat it
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I should also note that, in spite of her many interviews with various outlets across the Canadian and American right-o-sphere, she still remains an obscure figure and you’ll never see her ever debate her views on video. Hmm, wonder why? 🤔
I wouldn’t talk about her if it wasn’t for the fact that she is one of the most cited female apologists for the manosphere, and her audience is mostly made up of run-of-the-mill chuds and MAGApedes who circle jerk over her as shown by how almost every result shows her works whenever you type her name on search engines.
Now, while I’m unfamiliar with her academic work in English literature back when she was professor of English at Ottawa university, I am familiar with her anti-feminist polemics and overall right-liberal takes on other matters.
So, first let’s get out of the way and say that she does point out many flaws in the history of feminism such as the disdain towards men shown by even some of the first-wave feminist figures, the elite-driven nature of feminism that runs contrary to the rugged individual image common in the mainstream, as well as the anti-social behaviour they display since the second wave.
But with that said, that’s where my praises for her ends, since I’m really critical of her since despite her facade she is merely an ideologue that uses factoids to spin a narrative that fits into the chudintern’s incessant culture war paradigm.
A key example would be her take on Emmeline Pankhurst and her mail bombing campaign that led to her arrest, as well as her securing female suffrage in exchange for promoting the British empire’s “white feather” campaign as part of the recruitment drive for WW1. If you read Janice’s article, her adherence to Whig history is blatant as she implies that women’s suffrage would have happened anyway because Britain just loves to give rights to whoever, as if history is one of progress barring a few hiccups, and the same theme would be reiterated on Janice’s article about the death of Queen Elizabeth II where she admonished critics of the British empire’s for failing to see how much progress it brought. In other words, “west dindu nuffinz cuz liberalizm”.
This trend towards ideological narratives also shows in her “analyses” of feminism as a whole where she cherrypicks various statements from some feminists to try to discredit the whole movement as anti-“white male”, which leads me to the next example. Namely, Janice’s bizarre obsession with portraying the feminist movement as “anti-west” by basing it on the few fringe undercurrents within second and third wave feminism like Shulamith Firestone et al. as shown by her articles on Iran and Gaza where her ideological zealotry shines through. She effectively tries to communicate that western feminists are somehow “soft” on the Islamic republic of Iran (the latest anti-government protests preceding Trump’s 2026 war) and Hamas (specifically, the “Oct 7th mass rape” hoax) because they are “brown people” so western feminists are less willing to attack them compared to white men…
Obviously, to create such a false narrative, Janice has to ignore both how historically then and now feminism has often been a tool for western imperialism that only ends up with disempowering global south women who weren’t already part of the upper and middle classes, as well as the fact that western feminists in general aren’t sympathetic to Iran and Palestine since they went along with the allegations of mass rape. In fact, genuine leftists were the only ones pushing back on said narratives.
Third but not least, what irks me the most is also what alienates me from most MRAs, and that would be the fact that, for all the problems they (often rightfully) point out with feminism and how misandristic the modern west is, their solutions are just tradcon-adjacent BS like “we need to restore masculine ideals” whilst rejecting welfare programs as “socialism” and promoting laziness. Indeed, despite pointing to many flaws in feminist thinking, it seems they are incapable of escaping the capitalistic libertarian paradigm they’ve built their entire ideology over, thus showing that they don’t give a shit about men after all.
Now, is she a racist? Not really, but a “liberal racist” perhaps insofar that she externalises misogyny to colored men when it suits her culture war-type slop, as well as when crafting “white men are the most oppressed victims in the west!” Agitprop, but overall she’ll defend men in general when it suits her (e.g., when being sympathetic to the mixed-race perp behind the École Polytechnique massacre).
All in all, Janice is a hack who mostly parrots the talking points of other zio goyslave moids who are as insufferable as the very feminists they love to hate, and despite her credentials and lack of critique from feminists the fact that there are no debates with her is very sus.
Janice Fiamengo: Professional Bullshitter, and why MRAs won’t help young men
Janice Fiamengo is one of the go-to “researchers” among MRAs when it comes to citing an “expert” on feminism to the extent that one of her articles got hosted by kosher right outlet PJ Media and, despite MRAs circle-jerking over her, most feminists have barely heard of her. Indeed, I can only think of one feminist response to her, and it amounts to just an answer post at Quora: https://www.quora.com/What-arguments-do-you-have-for-or-against-Professor-Janice-Fiamengos-view-on-feminism/answer/Frederic-Christie?ch=17&oid=27190247&share=dd688188&srid=3gfRuZ&target_type=answerI should also note that, in spite of her many interviews with various outlets across the Canadian and American right-o-sphere, she still remains an obscure figure and you’ll never see her ever debate her views on video. Hmm, wonder why? 🤔
I wouldn’t talk about her if it wasn’t for the fact that she is one of the most cited female apologists for the manosphere, and her audience is mostly made up of run-of-the-mill chuds and MAGApedes who circle jerk over her as shown by how almost every result shows her works whenever you type her name on search engines.
Now, while I’m unfamiliar with her academic work in English literature back when she was professor of English at Ottawa university, I am familiar with her anti-feminist polemics and overall right-liberal takes on other matters.
So, first let’s get out of the way and say that she does point out many flaws in the history of feminism such as the disdain towards men shown by even some of the first-wave feminist figures, the elite-driven nature of feminism that runs contrary to the rugged individual image common in the mainstream, as well as the anti-social behaviour they display since the second wave.
But with that said, that’s where my praises for her ends, since I’m really critical of her since despite her facade she is merely an ideologue that uses factoids to spin a narrative that fits into the chudintern’s incessant culture war paradigm.
A key example would be her take on Emmeline Pankhurst and her mail bombing campaign that led to her arrest, as well as her securing female suffrage in exchange for promoting the British empire’s “white feather” campaign as part of the recruitment drive for WW1. If you read Janice’s article, her adherence to Whig history is blatant as she implies that women’s suffrage would have happened anyway because Britain just loves to give rights to whoever, as if history is one of progress barring a few hiccups, and the same theme would be reiterated on Janice’s article about the death of Queen Elizabeth II where she admonished critics of the British empire’s for failing to see how much progress it brought. In other words, “west dindu nuffinz cuz liberalizm”.
This trend towards ideological narratives also shows in her “analyses” of feminism as a whole where she cherrypicks various statements from some feminists to try to discredit the whole movement as anti-“white male”, which leads me to the next example. Namely, Janice’s bizarre obsession with portraying the feminist movement as “anti-west” by basing it on the few fringe undercurrents within second and third wave feminism like Shulamith Firestone et al. as shown by her articles on Iran and Gaza where her ideological zealotry shines through. She effectively tries to communicate that western feminists are somehow “soft” on the Islamic republic of Iran (the latest anti-government protests preceding Trump’s 2026 war) and Hamas (specifically, the “Oct 7th mass rape” hoax) because they are “brown people” so western feminists are less willing to attack them compared to white men…
Obviously, to create such a false narrative, Janice has to ignore both how historically then and now feminism has often been a tool for western imperialism that only ends up with disempowering global south women who weren’t already part of the upper and middle classes, as well as the fact that western feminists in general aren’t sympathetic to Iran and Palestine since they went along with the allegations of mass rape. In fact, genuine leftists were the only ones pushing back on said narratives.
Third but not least, what irks me the most is also what alienates me from most MRAs, and that would be the fact that, for all the problems they (often rightfully) point out with feminism and how misandristic the modern west is, their solutions are just tradcon-adjacent BS like “we need to restore masculine ideals” whilst rejecting welfare programs as “socialism” and promoting laziness. Indeed, despite pointing to many flaws in feminist thinking, it seems they are incapable of escaping the capitalistic libertarian paradigm they’ve built their entire ideology over, thus showing that they don’t give a shit about men after all.
Now, is she a racist? Not really, but a “liberal racist” perhaps insofar that she externalises misogyny to colored men when it suits her culture war-type slop, as well as when crafting “white men are the most oppressed victims in the west!” Agitprop, but overall she’ll defend men in general when it suits her (e.g., when being sympathetic to the mixed-race perp behind the École Polytechnique massacre).
All in all, Janice is a hack who mostly parrots the talking points of other zio goyslave moids who are as insufferable as the very feminists they love to hate, and despite her credentials and lack of critique from feminists the fact that there are no debates with her is very sus.
R: 21 / I: 2
3k bolsheviks
>mar 1917 (provisional state)
80k bolsheviks
>nov 1917 (soviet state)
240k bolsheviks
meow.
Materialist explanation?
>pre-1914 (tsarist state)3k bolsheviks
>mar 1917 (provisional state)
80k bolsheviks
>nov 1917 (soviet state)
240k bolsheviks
meow.
R: 604 / I: 82 (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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• CNN Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/cnn-news-usa.html
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• Bloomberg Live // https://www.bloomberg.com/live/us
• Burger House Live // https://www.whitehouse.gov/live/
• Local News // https://www.50states.com/ce/
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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
Which side are you on? - Pete Seeger
▶ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XKMwWZVpPE
Previous Thread: >>2824353
/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™
<uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh 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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Previous Thread: >>2824353
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Technologies built around mobile systems; efficient use of clay, cement, and steel metals; decentralized utility and logistics systems; a lot of work related to solar power which im happy for; some oddly specific technological developments surrounding armoured cars, surveillance, and border security etc.
From what I infer a lot of this behaviour is driven organically by the geographic conditions of the continent in general. Many of the resources on the continent are stretched across vast distances, sparse/scarce in supplies, and broken up by unusually poor terrain. This often means that any technological developments made are unusually way more specific, pragmatic, and efficient in use for immediate and existing problems compared to tech made outside of it where figures or promises on features surrounding what the tech can do. Sometimes, this does *alot* to change how people approach life. It’s only recently that a lot of changes were made so that desert sands and earth could be used conventionally at scale to produce modular construction kit—this is huge on construction in general since it offers a way to build on the scale that china did *without causing the same level of ecological destruction*.
Geographic influences on technological development
I think it’s interesting to observe the pattern of technological development in Africa compared to NATO. A lot of what’s being made there is surprisingly specific, pragmatic, and efficient compared to many new western technologies that often serve as solutions to problems western companies make.Technologies built around mobile systems; efficient use of clay, cement, and steel metals; decentralized utility and logistics systems; a lot of work related to solar power which im happy for; some oddly specific technological developments surrounding armoured cars, surveillance, and border security etc.
From what I infer a lot of this behaviour is driven organically by the geographic conditions of the continent in general. Many of the resources on the continent are stretched across vast distances, sparse/scarce in supplies, and broken up by unusually poor terrain. This often means that any technological developments made are unusually way more specific, pragmatic, and efficient in use for immediate and existing problems compared to tech made outside of it where figures or promises on features surrounding what the tech can do. Sometimes, this does *alot* to change how people approach life. It’s only recently that a lot of changes were made so that desert sands and earth could be used conventionally at scale to produce modular construction kit—this is huge on construction in general since it offers a way to build on the scale that china did *without causing the same level of ecological destruction*.
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Hice un ensayo, califiquen
Hice un ensayo para un concurso, como casi no sé ni lo que es un ensayo quiero que me digan que tal está. Soy muy joven asique disculpen si está mal redactado, aparte de que no he leído mucho. Espero que les guste
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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
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>threaten le Denazification of Armenia
Russia really needs better leadership at this point, his brain got destroyed after COVID and mismanagement of Ukraine war.
Geopolitical retardation from Putin
>isolate the allies to the point Armenian has no other choices to appeasement of EU>threaten le Denazification of Armenia
Russia really needs better leadership at this point, his brain got destroyed after COVID and mismanagement of Ukraine war.
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Why was the soviet union dissolved when the population voted against it?
I thouht the proles were supposed to be in charge? Did ML's lie to me? I dont believe it.
Why was the soviet union dissolved when the population voted against it?
I thouht the proles were supposed to be in charge? Did ML's lie to me? I dont believe it.
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At some point we are probably gonna see Luddite riots and bombings against ai development, we are already partially seeing it.
What is the material reasons for this and can anybody find an example?
ai data centres being bombed
I am unable to remember the exact place i discovered this but its pretty obvious from just class warfare in general.At some point we are probably gonna see Luddite riots and bombings against ai development, we are already partially seeing it.
What is the material reasons for this and can anybody find an example?
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The ruling class doesn't seem to care about the cultural bullshit since they're not really affected by it. Likewise, the working-class doesn't care about cultural issues all that much either and really only cares about short-term economic stuff like the price of gas. Many of the conservative cultural attributes that are thrown on to the working-class are actually the traits of the petit-bourg (being anti-abortion and anti-queer, for instance).
Right now, in the era of social media, it seems like culture wars and "symbolic crusades" are at an all-time high. Interestingly though, much unlike the culture wars of the 80s-2000s which were lead by the right, these contemporary culture wars seem to be mostly lead by snarky white liberals who overwhelmingly make up the PMC. Take, for instance, something like the backlash against Olivia Rodrigo's babydoll dress: for decades liberals pushed "choice feminism" and told people to stop attacking what women wear, yet now seem very concerned about what women wear. Olivia's dress is an issue for them because they associate it with pedophillia, which of course they link to Trump and Epstein (never mind the fact Olivia is a proud liberal herself who works with Planned Parenthood and pro-Palestine organizations). On an almost identical note, multiple liberal women have raised hysteria over big retail chains like Target and Nordstrom selling milkmaid dresses, calling it "tradwife coded" and saying it's indicative that women's civil rights will be taken away. Obviously, this is bullshit. How could something as petty as a milkmaid dress destroy the decades of feminist struggles in America? We also see this very clearly with the "clean girl" aesthetic being demonized as right-wing or "eugenics-coded" with the heavy makeup/blue eyeshadow look being championed for being (allegedly) progressive. For a leftist, all of these things are simply a case of consumer identity vs. consumer identity.
But that's not the point. The real issue in these contemporary examples is that snarky liberal white women fear the decline of their social and cultural status. Jill from Manhattan is mad that Fynnleigh the Mormon tradwife has more TikTok followers than her, even though what Fynnleigh does in her home in Utah has no effect whatsoever on Jill. Women's fashion, in this sense, is simply a conduit by which these value conflicts take place whereby one group's values seek to dominate the others', a symbolic crusade. Of course, the people who push these crusades don't really believe the other side will bend to their rules, they just want the other side(s) to know whose rules they're breaking.
So what material factors are causing liberals to lose their control of culture? Can we attribute it to the decline of the PMC? After all, universities have been declining over the years as fewer and fewer youth are choosing to go to college. Covid has made many people greatly distrustful of doctors and healthcare workers. And now with AI slop everywhere the prestige of musicians and artists also appears to be disappearing. But do we see a rise in the status of the petit-bourg?
What does everyone think?
Culture Wars and Symbolic Crusades
Is it fair to say that most of the culture wars that take place in American politics are merely fights between the petite-bourgeoisie (small business owners) and the PMC?The ruling class doesn't seem to care about the cultural bullshit since they're not really affected by it. Likewise, the working-class doesn't care about cultural issues all that much either and really only cares about short-term economic stuff like the price of gas. Many of the conservative cultural attributes that are thrown on to the working-class are actually the traits of the petit-bourg (being anti-abortion and anti-queer, for instance).
Right now, in the era of social media, it seems like culture wars and "symbolic crusades" are at an all-time high. Interestingly though, much unlike the culture wars of the 80s-2000s which were lead by the right, these contemporary culture wars seem to be mostly lead by snarky white liberals who overwhelmingly make up the PMC. Take, for instance, something like the backlash against Olivia Rodrigo's babydoll dress: for decades liberals pushed "choice feminism" and told people to stop attacking what women wear, yet now seem very concerned about what women wear. Olivia's dress is an issue for them because they associate it with pedophillia, which of course they link to Trump and Epstein (never mind the fact Olivia is a proud liberal herself who works with Planned Parenthood and pro-Palestine organizations). On an almost identical note, multiple liberal women have raised hysteria over big retail chains like Target and Nordstrom selling milkmaid dresses, calling it "tradwife coded" and saying it's indicative that women's civil rights will be taken away. Obviously, this is bullshit. How could something as petty as a milkmaid dress destroy the decades of feminist struggles in America? We also see this very clearly with the "clean girl" aesthetic being demonized as right-wing or "eugenics-coded" with the heavy makeup/blue eyeshadow look being championed for being (allegedly) progressive. For a leftist, all of these things are simply a case of consumer identity vs. consumer identity.
But that's not the point. The real issue in these contemporary examples is that snarky liberal white women fear the decline of their social and cultural status. Jill from Manhattan is mad that Fynnleigh the Mormon tradwife has more TikTok followers than her, even though what Fynnleigh does in her home in Utah has no effect whatsoever on Jill. Women's fashion, in this sense, is simply a conduit by which these value conflicts take place whereby one group's values seek to dominate the others', a symbolic crusade. Of course, the people who push these crusades don't really believe the other side will bend to their rules, they just want the other side(s) to know whose rules they're breaking.
So what material factors are causing liberals to lose their control of culture? Can we attribute it to the decline of the PMC? After all, universities have been declining over the years as fewer and fewer youth are choosing to go to college. Covid has made many people greatly distrustful of doctors and healthcare workers. And now with AI slop everywhere the prestige of musicians and artists also appears to be disappearing. But do we see a rise in the status of the petit-bourg?
What does everyone think?
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meow. meow. meow. meow.
I don't know how to post lol
Atlanticism is literally the Ruscism of the West, and Fehlingerism and Schwabism are the Duginism of the West.meow. meow. meow. meow.
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Letter from Friedrich Engels to Karl Marx, June 22, 1869
Um, commiebros
>The Urning [book by K. H. Ulrichs] you sent me is a very curious thing. These are extremely unnatural revelations. The paederasts are beginning to count themselves, and discover that they are a power in the state. Only organisation was lacking, but according to this source it apparently already exists in secret. And since they have such important men in all the old parties and even in the new ones, from Rosing to Schweitzer, they cannot fail to triumph. Guerre aux cons, paix aus trous-de-cul [war on the cunts, peace to the arse-holes] will now be the slogan. It is a bit of luck that we, personally, are too old to have to fear that, when this party wins, we shall have to pay physical tribute to the victors. But the younger generation! Incidentally it is only in Germany that a fellow like this can possibly come forward, convert this smut into a theory, and offer the invitation: introite [enter], etc. Unfortunately, he has not yet got up the courage to acknowledge publicly that he is ‘that way’, and must still operate coram publico‘ from the front’, if not ‘going in from the front’ as he once said by mistake. But just wait until the new North German Penal Code recognises the droits du cul [rights of the arse-hole] then he will operate quite differently. Then things will go badly enough for poor frontside people like us, with our childish penchant for females. If Schweitzer could be made useful for anything, it would be to wheedle out of this peculiar honourable gentleman the particulars of the paederasts in high and top places, which would certainly not be difficult for him as a brother in spirit.Letter from Friedrich Engels to Karl Marx, June 22, 1869
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I thought Based China was going to wholesomely develop Africa's productive forces for free, what the FUCK is this??
MLbros...
I know that Western investment in the third world can be anti-imperialist and AES but what about IMF loans???I thought Based China was going to wholesomely develop Africa's productive forces for free, what the FUCK is this??
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Some here may find the position of the guy in the video to be disconcerting and triggering, but within the context of consent in sexual intimacy, he is right since he is merely applying the logic of rape-as-lack-of-consent to its logical conclusion.
Because let’s face it: Consent, as pointed out by figures such as Harry Hay and Michel Foucault, is just liberal contract theory as applied to sex, and a contract is made void if you enter under it under false pretenses, and let’s not pretend that contracts are made in a vacuum, as whether a contract is or isn’t valid isn’t a neutral judgement made by an impartial figure, as much as being done by the powers that be (e.g., the state) under dominant or bourgeois cultural diktats.
So unless you think consent shouldn’t be absolute when it comes to sexual relations, then a trans woman having sex with a cishet man without disclosing “her” pre-transition gender is rape as much as sex by deception is rape, and neither are criminalised even in the most feminist countries like Norway, Sweden, Iceland, Denmark, the USA, Canada, Australia, the UK, and France. So what does it say about consent theory if not even the most feminist countries on Earth criminalised sex by deception as rape?
Then of course, there’s the issue of the AoC, a draconian and absolutist bourgeois piece of legislation used by the capitalist bourgeoisie to morally discipline the working class into anti-proletarian bourgeois morality since the days of William T Stead’s infamous yellow press journalism. In this case, a person under the magic age line cannot (legally) consent to sex with someone above the magic age line. Common idealist talking points often allude to an inconsistent and arbitrary notion of “mental maturity” that is heavily subjective depending on who uses it, whilst obfuscating the meat of the issue: It’s not that people below the magic age line are incapable of being willing sexual and/or romantic partners, it’s just that the state decided that the magic age line makes the willingness of the person below the magic age line (ranging from 12 in Cuba to 21 in Bahrain) to be void, ergo it’s “statutory rape”. But if it’s “statutory rape”, how come the person below the magic age line was a willing partner? Idealist copes range from thought-terminating cliches like “grooming” (a.k.a., seduction and attraction) to elaborate myth-making on the supposed neurological nature of the brain, but all of them ignore that culturally-contingent reasons and deep money interests are the main drivers as much of today’s censorship and prison industrial complex depend on the stigma caused by the AoC. This shows how not only is “statutory rape” and “CSA” legal fiction, but also that what determines which contract is void or not isn’t determined by an impartial entity such as the modern bourgeois state, and the same goes for who is and isn’t allowed to sign a contract.
In fact, going back to transwomen, while one could argue that the cishet men who refuse to have sex with them are transphobic and merry react violently due to them seeing it as an affront on their sexuality, that still wouldn’t address the issue of entering a contract under false pretenses in the case of transwomen lying about being AFAB to have sex with cishet men, nor the fact that the pain of rape is primarily psychological as opposed to being physical (moreso for people in their 20s to their 40s) which makes the dismissal pf cishet men’s concerns here inconsistent unless you think sex by deception isn’t rape. Same goes with the Weinstein scandal, where one can only deem ol’ Harvey a “rapist” if you think withdrawing from a contract after the deal is done makes the contract void, considering how many of those actresses did sexual favors for movie roles even if they could have refused and had may choices at the time and only deemed it as rape years after the events. Even in this case, unless you treat consent as the absolute yardstick for which is and isn’t rape, then Weinstein technically is no “rapist” under the public understanding as he never sexually forced himself on anyone per court evidence.
This ultimately goes to the issue of treating a context-dependent and simple activity like sex as a contractual affair, as well as how normies here and beyond this board haven’t really thought through the implications of rape as being lack of consent. If every heterosexual relationship can be deemed as rape on the basis of one of the partners rejecting or withdrawing from the contract altogether, if some technicality deemed by one or all of the partners as being trivial is seen as being a factor for making the contract void by the state, what does it say about liberal contract theory as a way to regulate sexuality, heterosexual or not?
Questions on the material applicability of liberal contract theory
In 2024, somebody posted a clip of a somebody making the point that a trans woman whi didn’t disclose their gender transition status before having sex with a man was being deceptive and thus was raping him, which some leftists found to be controversial: https://xcancel.com/secondbyfarce/status/1852772181073445357Some here may find the position of the guy in the video to be disconcerting and triggering, but within the context of consent in sexual intimacy, he is right since he is merely applying the logic of rape-as-lack-of-consent to its logical conclusion.
Because let’s face it: Consent, as pointed out by figures such as Harry Hay and Michel Foucault, is just liberal contract theory as applied to sex, and a contract is made void if you enter under it under false pretenses, and let’s not pretend that contracts are made in a vacuum, as whether a contract is or isn’t valid isn’t a neutral judgement made by an impartial figure, as much as being done by the powers that be (e.g., the state) under dominant or bourgeois cultural diktats.
So unless you think consent shouldn’t be absolute when it comes to sexual relations, then a trans woman having sex with a cishet man without disclosing “her” pre-transition gender is rape as much as sex by deception is rape, and neither are criminalised even in the most feminist countries like Norway, Sweden, Iceland, Denmark, the USA, Canada, Australia, the UK, and France. So what does it say about consent theory if not even the most feminist countries on Earth criminalised sex by deception as rape?
Then of course, there’s the issue of the AoC, a draconian and absolutist bourgeois piece of legislation used by the capitalist bourgeoisie to morally discipline the working class into anti-proletarian bourgeois morality since the days of William T Stead’s infamous yellow press journalism. In this case, a person under the magic age line cannot (legally) consent to sex with someone above the magic age line. Common idealist talking points often allude to an inconsistent and arbitrary notion of “mental maturity” that is heavily subjective depending on who uses it, whilst obfuscating the meat of the issue: It’s not that people below the magic age line are incapable of being willing sexual and/or romantic partners, it’s just that the state decided that the magic age line makes the willingness of the person below the magic age line (ranging from 12 in Cuba to 21 in Bahrain) to be void, ergo it’s “statutory rape”. But if it’s “statutory rape”, how come the person below the magic age line was a willing partner? Idealist copes range from thought-terminating cliches like “grooming” (a.k.a., seduction and attraction) to elaborate myth-making on the supposed neurological nature of the brain, but all of them ignore that culturally-contingent reasons and deep money interests are the main drivers as much of today’s censorship and prison industrial complex depend on the stigma caused by the AoC. This shows how not only is “statutory rape” and “CSA” legal fiction, but also that what determines which contract is void or not isn’t determined by an impartial entity such as the modern bourgeois state, and the same goes for who is and isn’t allowed to sign a contract.
In fact, going back to transwomen, while one could argue that the cishet men who refuse to have sex with them are transphobic and merry react violently due to them seeing it as an affront on their sexuality, that still wouldn’t address the issue of entering a contract under false pretenses in the case of transwomen lying about being AFAB to have sex with cishet men, nor the fact that the pain of rape is primarily psychological as opposed to being physical (moreso for people in their 20s to their 40s) which makes the dismissal pf cishet men’s concerns here inconsistent unless you think sex by deception isn’t rape. Same goes with the Weinstein scandal, where one can only deem ol’ Harvey a “rapist” if you think withdrawing from a contract after the deal is done makes the contract void, considering how many of those actresses did sexual favors for movie roles even if they could have refused and had may choices at the time and only deemed it as rape years after the events. Even in this case, unless you treat consent as the absolute yardstick for which is and isn’t rape, then Weinstein technically is no “rapist” under the public understanding as he never sexually forced himself on anyone per court evidence.
This ultimately goes to the issue of treating a context-dependent and simple activity like sex as a contractual affair, as well as how normies here and beyond this board haven’t really thought through the implications of rape as being lack of consent. If every heterosexual relationship can be deemed as rape on the basis of one of the partners rejecting or withdrawing from the contract altogether, if some technicality deemed by one or all of the partners as being trivial is seen as being a factor for making the contract void by the state, what does it say about liberal contract theory as a way to regulate sexuality, heterosexual or not?
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The more i read his wikipedia page the more obvious him being couped was the worst event for the USSR, he was the best guy for the job, even better than pre-dementia Breznhev, pedophile or not. Lots of great man of history were pedophiles anyway.
What do you people think of him?
TIL i learned Beria wasnt jewish
I feel stupid. The early bolshevik + dark features + beady sampaku eyes with the glasses fooled me.The more i read his wikipedia page the more obvious him being couped was the worst event for the USSR, he was the best guy for the job, even better than pre-dementia Breznhev, pedophile or not. Lots of great man of history were pedophiles anyway.
What do you people think of him?
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>Kasakela
>Kahama
>Mitumba
>Kalande
>the meow hooohoo haaahaaa
Gombe Chimpanzee War
From a Marxist perspective, which side should we support critically?>Kasakela
>Kahama
>Mitumba
>Kalande
>the meow hooohoo haaahaaa
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The Second Anti-Corruption and Violence Against Women Sentencing Court of La Paz ruled this Friday, May 29, 2026, to nullify the judicial capture orders issued against Mario Argollo, Secretary General of the Bolivian Workers Union (COB), and Vicente Salazar, Executive leader of the Túpac Katari Peasant Federation. This judicial decision invalidates the previous arrest mandates that had forced both prominent union leaders into hiding during the massive social mobilization demanding the immediate resignation of President Rodrigo Paz Pereira and an end to his administration’s neoliberal policies.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/bolivia-nullifies-arrest-orders-leaders/
National Registry fails to dispel repeated fraud concerns of Colombia’s left
The software continues to be the property of the controversial company Thomas Greg & Sons, which is owned by two convicted fraudsters. Because this company has claimed that its software is a trade secret, IT experts of the Historic Pact have not been allowed to conduct audits that would allow them to confirm the software’s code can’t be altered. “Without a proper audit of the election software, there can be no full confidence in the process,” said the political party in a statement earlier this month.
https://colombiareports.com/national-registry-fails-to-dispel-repeated-fraud-concerns-of-colombias-left/
Mexico’s lower house supports law change to annul elections over foreign interference
The reform defines foreign interference as “illicit financing, propaganda, the systematic dissemination of disinformation, digital manipulation, and the intervention of foreign governments or agencies.” The amendment also covers acts of political, economic, diplomatic or media pressure intended to influence public opinion.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/mexicos-lower-house-supports-law-change-annul-elections-over-foreign-interference
Sadr begins work on integrating Saraya al-Salam militia into Iraqi state
The move is being closely watched in Iraq as a potential model for regulating relations between the state and armed factions, at a time of renewed debate over the future role of paramilitary groups and growing pressure to strengthen state control over weapons.
https://www.newarab.com/news/sadr-begins-work-integrating-saraya-al-salam-iraqi-state
How a Gaza-bound aid convoy unravelled attempting to enter Haftar-controlled eastern Libya
Launched by North African activists and later joined by international participants, the convoy included seven ambulances, 20 mobile homes, 10 aid trucks, as well as medical professionals, engineers, educators and legal observers. … Their attempts to enter eastern Libya saw those plans grind to a halt. Attempts to negotiate onward passage on Sunday led to the negotiating team's arrest. The next day, security officials arrived at the convoy's camp and forced the remaining activists at gunpoint on to buses, at one point firing tear gas into a nearby mosque where a number had been sheltering.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/how-gaza-bound-aid-convoy-unravelled-haftar-controlled-eastern-libya
UN adds Israel and Russia to blacklist for sexual violence in conflict
Israel and Russia both deny the use of sexual violence by their military. Israel’s ambassador to the UN, Danny Danon, said the country had cut ties with the UN secretary general, António Guterres, in response to the blacklisting. Danon said in a social media post that “Israel submitted evidence, documents, and detailed responses to every claim”. He did not share any evidence publicly. Israel has not allowed the International Committee of the Red Cross to visit detainees since October 2023. Details of the report, which lists 77 countries and armed groups, were shared by Israeli diplomats at the UN before its release, and the full report was posted online by the US news site PassBlue.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/29/un-israel-russia-blacklist-sexual-violence-conflict
Manchester cafe owner claims UK police offered money to spy on Palestine Action: Report
A Manchester cafe owner says two police officers tried to recruit him as an informant against Palestine Action by offering him financial help and a promise to overlook minor offences. The account raises serious questions about the methods being used by British police in their response to the banned direct action group.Shams Sadiq, 51, who owns two cafes in Manchester, told The Guardian that officers made the approach when he visited Ashton-under-Lyne police station on May 15 to collect electronic devices seized during his arrest the previous year. The arrest was connected to alleged offences linked to Palestine Action.
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/uk/manchester-cafe-owner-exposes-shocking-police-attempt-to-recruit-informant-against-palestine-action/articleshow/131411420.cms
https://archive.ph/T5pxz
Labour ditching equal living wage pledge a ‘betrayal of workers,’ unions warn
Labour pledged in its election manifesto that it would “make sure the minimum wage is a genuine living wage” and “remove the discriminatory age bands,” so that all adults are entitled to the same pay. But pensions minister Torsten Bell told the Today programme today: “The manifesto sets out that we should move the rates together over time. “It doesn’t set a timeline on that because that’s the important role of the Low Pay Commission.”
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/labour-ditching-equal-living-wage-pledge-betrayal-workers-unions-warn
Inmates in overcrowded French prison say heatwave makes conditions 'inhumane'
Inmates told the left-wing parliamentarian of the impacts of waiting out the heatwave that saw record-breaking May temperatures in France in recent days in cells measuring nine square metres (100 square feet). "At night, it's hot, and mosquitoes get in even though I try to make a sort of mosquito net with my laundry bag," said one teenaged detainee, adding that "tensions rise more quickly in the heat". As Autain visited, another young prisoner was taken back to his cell in a wheelchair after collapsing in the yard.
https://www.france24.com/en/france/20260530-inmates-in-overcrowded-french-prison-say-heatwave-makes-conditions-inhumane
https://archive.ph/oSRB3
Students protest against New Zealand budget cuts
The budget will end the so-called “fees-free” policy, under which students do not pay tuition fees during the third year of their qualification, up to a value of $12,000. The government also approved for universities to increase fees by an additional 6 percent next year. Hundreds of thousands of students, the vast majority, are already forced to go into debt to pay for fees, housing and other costs, typically taking years and even decades to repay their loans. Total student debt at the end of last year was $16.1 billion, up from $15.6 billion a year earlier. The median loan balance was $18,252.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/05/30/wahv-m30.html
News 5/30/26
Bolivian Justice Nullifies Arrest Orders Against Union LeadersThe Second Anti-Corruption and Violence Against Women Sentencing Court of La Paz ruled this Friday, May 29, 2026, to nullify the judicial capture orders issued against Mario Argollo, Secretary General of the Bolivian Workers Union (COB), and Vicente Salazar, Executive leader of the Túpac Katari Peasant Federation. This judicial decision invalidates the previous arrest mandates that had forced both prominent union leaders into hiding during the massive social mobilization demanding the immediate resignation of President Rodrigo Paz Pereira and an end to his administration’s neoliberal policies.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/bolivia-nullifies-arrest-orders-leaders/
National Registry fails to dispel repeated fraud concerns of Colombia’s left
The software continues to be the property of the controversial company Thomas Greg & Sons, which is owned by two convicted fraudsters. Because this company has claimed that its software is a trade secret, IT experts of the Historic Pact have not been allowed to conduct audits that would allow them to confirm the software’s code can’t be altered. “Without a proper audit of the election software, there can be no full confidence in the process,” said the political party in a statement earlier this month.
https://colombiareports.com/national-registry-fails-to-dispel-repeated-fraud-concerns-of-colombias-left/
Mexico’s lower house supports law change to annul elections over foreign interference
The reform defines foreign interference as “illicit financing, propaganda, the systematic dissemination of disinformation, digital manipulation, and the intervention of foreign governments or agencies.” The amendment also covers acts of political, economic, diplomatic or media pressure intended to influence public opinion.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/mexicos-lower-house-supports-law-change-annul-elections-over-foreign-interference
Sadr begins work on integrating Saraya al-Salam militia into Iraqi state
The move is being closely watched in Iraq as a potential model for regulating relations between the state and armed factions, at a time of renewed debate over the future role of paramilitary groups and growing pressure to strengthen state control over weapons.
https://www.newarab.com/news/sadr-begins-work-integrating-saraya-al-salam-iraqi-state
How a Gaza-bound aid convoy unravelled attempting to enter Haftar-controlled eastern Libya
Launched by North African activists and later joined by international participants, the convoy included seven ambulances, 20 mobile homes, 10 aid trucks, as well as medical professionals, engineers, educators and legal observers. … Their attempts to enter eastern Libya saw those plans grind to a halt. Attempts to negotiate onward passage on Sunday led to the negotiating team's arrest. The next day, security officials arrived at the convoy's camp and forced the remaining activists at gunpoint on to buses, at one point firing tear gas into a nearby mosque where a number had been sheltering.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/how-gaza-bound-aid-convoy-unravelled-haftar-controlled-eastern-libya
UN adds Israel and Russia to blacklist for sexual violence in conflict
Israel and Russia both deny the use of sexual violence by their military. Israel’s ambassador to the UN, Danny Danon, said the country had cut ties with the UN secretary general, António Guterres, in response to the blacklisting. Danon said in a social media post that “Israel submitted evidence, documents, and detailed responses to every claim”. He did not share any evidence publicly. Israel has not allowed the International Committee of the Red Cross to visit detainees since October 2023. Details of the report, which lists 77 countries and armed groups, were shared by Israeli diplomats at the UN before its release, and the full report was posted online by the US news site PassBlue.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/29/un-israel-russia-blacklist-sexual-violence-conflict
Manchester cafe owner claims UK police offered money to spy on Palestine Action: Report
A Manchester cafe owner says two police officers tried to recruit him as an informant against Palestine Action by offering him financial help and a promise to overlook minor offences. The account raises serious questions about the methods being used by British police in their response to the banned direct action group.Shams Sadiq, 51, who owns two cafes in Manchester, told The Guardian that officers made the approach when he visited Ashton-under-Lyne police station on May 15 to collect electronic devices seized during his arrest the previous year. The arrest was connected to alleged offences linked to Palestine Action.
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/uk/manchester-cafe-owner-exposes-shocking-police-attempt-to-recruit-informant-against-palestine-action/articleshow/131411420.cms
https://archive.ph/T5pxz
Labour ditching equal living wage pledge a ‘betrayal of workers,’ unions warn
Labour pledged in its election manifesto that it would “make sure the minimum wage is a genuine living wage” and “remove the discriminatory age bands,” so that all adults are entitled to the same pay. But pensions minister Torsten Bell told the Today programme today: “The manifesto sets out that we should move the rates together over time. “It doesn’t set a timeline on that because that’s the important role of the Low Pay Commission.”
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/labour-ditching-equal-living-wage-pledge-betrayal-workers-unions-warn
Inmates in overcrowded French prison say heatwave makes conditions 'inhumane'
Inmates told the left-wing parliamentarian of the impacts of waiting out the heatwave that saw record-breaking May temperatures in France in recent days in cells measuring nine square metres (100 square feet). "At night, it's hot, and mosquitoes get in even though I try to make a sort of mosquito net with my laundry bag," said one teenaged detainee, adding that "tensions rise more quickly in the heat". As Autain visited, another young prisoner was taken back to his cell in a wheelchair after collapsing in the yard.
https://www.france24.com/en/france/20260530-inmates-in-overcrowded-french-prison-say-heatwave-makes-conditions-inhumane
https://archive.ph/oSRB3
Students protest against New Zealand budget cuts
The budget will end the so-called “fees-free” policy, under which students do not pay tuition fees during the third year of their qualification, up to a value of $12,000. The government also approved for universities to increase fees by an additional 6 percent next year. Hundreds of thousands of students, the vast majority, are already forced to go into debt to pay for fees, housing and other costs, typically taking years and even decades to repay their loans. Total student debt at the end of last year was $16.1 billion, up from $15.6 billion a year earlier. The median loan balance was $18,252.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/05/30/wahv-m30.html
R: 2 / I: 0
What are your thoughts on this video? I personally think nits not that good. At the start he seems like he almost gets the Marxist analysis of the process from feudalism to early capitalism to imperialism but because he’s a liberal he doesn’t get it. He also calls New Zealand “the only Rich agricultural nation” ignoring the United States because the us has a bit more induster per % which is stupid. But what are your thoughts?
What are your thoughts on this video? I personally think nits not that good. At the start he seems like he almost gets the Marxist analysis of the process from feudalism to early capitalism to imperialism but because he’s a liberal he doesn’t get it. He also calls New Zealand “the only Rich agricultural nation” ignoring the United States because the us has a bit more induster per % which is stupid. But what are your thoughts?
R: 34 / I: 8
What even is Israel’s goal?
Obviously their goal is to establish greater Israel but what is supposed to happen after that? Christian-Zionists believe that the rapture will happen but what the hell do Zionist Jews think will happen after they steal all that land and genocide the native Arabs?!?!
R: 39 / I: 11
>A crowd of libtard classcuck petitioners led by an Orthodox priest show up with a piece of paper begging you for a crumb of reforms, not at all challenging your authority or legitimacy, and showing you due deference
<gun them down in the street
>Find and arrest some Communists who would happily shoot you and your entire family, including the younger brother of a man who tried to kill your dad once
<exile them to Siberia where they easily escape, eventually the pull off a revolution and execute you and your entire family.
Not exactly very smart, was he?
>A crowd of libtard classcuck petitioners led by an Orthodox priest show up with a piece of paper begging you for a crumb of reforms, not at all challenging your authority or legitimacy, and showing you due deference
<gun them down in the street
>Find and arrest some Communists who would happily shoot you and your entire family, including the younger brother of a man who tried to kill your dad once
<exile them to Siberia where they easily escape, eventually the pull off a revolution and execute you and your entire family.
Not exactly very smart, was he?
R: 12 / I: 1
Several Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)] leaders including General Secretary MA Baby and Brinda Karat were detained in Delhi during protest against politically motivated Enforcement Directorate (ED) raids in Kerala. The CPI(M) strongly condemned the ED raids conducted earlier today at the residences of CPI(M) Politburo member and Opposition leader of Kerala, Pinarayi Vijayan in Kannur and Thiruvananthapuram, as politically motivated and part of a continuing pattern of intimidation against opposition forces. In protest against the raids, the CPI(M) organised a march towards the ED head quarters in New Delhi.
https://www.leftviews.in/politics-77808/news-35946/delhi-police-detain-cpim-leaders-during-ed-protest
https://archive.ph/4cMdv
Australian police plan to form a heavily armed team in response to Bondi Beach massacre
The police force has responded with a plan to establish an Armed Response Command, equipped with semiautomatic rifles, and by reviving a priority-resourced operation that focused on antisemitic crimes and retaliations against Muslim targets, Hudson said. Rifles within the force have been largely restricted to two specialized paramilitary squads, he said.
https://apnews.com/article/australia-bondi-shooting-antisemitism-inquiry-sydney-4d621f5b57feee7ba98f08a67f0e2769
Former Red Army Faction militant Daniela Klette sentenced to 13 years for armed robberies after dissolution of terrorist network
Long Germany’s most-wanted woman, Klette was the last female member of the far-left terrorist network still on the run before her arrest at her home in Berlin in February 2024. After a 14-month trial under tight security, the Verden regional court found her guilty of six counts of aggravated robbery in conjunction with kidnapping for ransom and possession of military weapons.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/27/daniela-klette-red-army-faction-jailed-armed-robberies-on-the-run
One in six UK young people risk falling outside job market or education, report warns
The proportion of young people in Britain who are not in employment, education or training (NEETs) risks rising to one in six within five years from one in eight currently, according to a new government-commissioned report. In recent decades Britain has had fairly low youth unemployment by European standards. But since the COVID-19 pandemic, the proportion of 16-24 year-olds outside the job market or education has risen and is now near a 10-year high at close to 1 million, or 13% of the age group.
https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-work/one-six-uk-young-people-risk-falling-outside-job-market-or-education-report-2026-05-27/
Toilets and changing rooms must be used on basis of biological sex, guidance confirms
The code of practice sets out how associations, businesses and services open to the public should organise their facilities. It covers a wide range of settings from shopping centres and gyms to hospitals and restaurants. The EHRC is planning to publish guidance for employers and staff facilities at a later date. With the guidance now before Parliament, MPs and peers have 40 days to raise any concerns. If there are no objections, the guidance becomes statutory.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0e2rj3zj02o
https://archive.ph/QwkNc
Ireland to ban goods from Israeli settlements in occupied West Bank by July
Ireland's government, one of the most outspoken critics of Israel's genocidal war on Gaza, first promised to sanction Israeli settlements in October 2024. The legislation has since been held up by pressure from opposition politicians who sought to extend the ban to the services trade as well, on one side, and international company lobbyists seeking to scrap the bill, on the other.
https://www.newarab.com/news/ireland-ban-goods-israeli-settlements-july
Trump’s 'Board of Peace' fund has no money for Gaza: Report
Despite Trump soliciting billion-dollar pledges from Gulf states and saying that the organisation would be one of the “most consequential” in the history of the world, the FT reported that four months after its establishment, the board’s financial fund set up by the World Bank has received no money. Instead, the FT reported, the board has received donations directly via its JPMorgan bank account. Under this mechanism, the board does not need to declare any of its funding to donors or its 25 member states.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/trumps-board-peace-fund-has-no-money-gaza-report
Israeli military tells residents of swathe of southern Lebanon to leave
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said in a post on social media that all areas south of the Zahrani River, which runs about 40 kilometres (25 miles) north of the de facto Israel-Lebanon border, were considered combat zones. “In light of the repeated violations of the ceasefire agreement by the terrorist organisation Hezbollah, the IDF will act against it with great force,” the military’s Arabic-language spokesman, Avichay Adraee, wrote on X.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/27/israel-fires-airstrikes-lebanon-escalating-offensive
Venezuelan Authorities Launch Prison Riot Investigation, Gov’t Pushes Judicial Reforms
Venezuelan Attorney General Larry Devoe announced on Monday a formal investigation into recent unrest at the Barinas Judicial Detention Center (INJUBA). The prison began to make headlines last week when inmates seized control of the facility to denounce ill-treatment and physical abuse from authorities. The investigation followed the dismissal of prison director Elvis Macuare Guerrero, who had held the post for less than a week before the revolt.
https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/venezuelan-authorities-launch-prison-riot-investigation-govt-pushes-judicial-reforms/
Mining giant Fenix, accused of the destruction of Maya lands, resumes operations in Guatemala
Fenix, one of the largest open-pit mines in Central America, has exploited Maya lands in northern Guatemala since 2011 under the control of three local companies: Compañía Guatemalteca de Níquel (CGN), Compañía Procesadora de Níquel (Pronico) and Mayaníquel. According to the Treasury, the three operated as subsidiaries of Solway Investment Group, a Swiss-Russian-backed company that extracted between 22,000 and 25,000 tonnes of nickel a year, exporting mainly to Europe and Asia.
https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-05-27/mining-giant-fenix-accused-of-the-destruction-of-maya-lands-resumes-operations-in-guatemala.html
https://archive.ph/3YEsJ
News 5/27/26
CPI(M) Leaders Detained in Delhi Protest Against ED Raids on Pinarayi VijayanSeveral Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)] leaders including General Secretary MA Baby and Brinda Karat were detained in Delhi during protest against politically motivated Enforcement Directorate (ED) raids in Kerala. The CPI(M) strongly condemned the ED raids conducted earlier today at the residences of CPI(M) Politburo member and Opposition leader of Kerala, Pinarayi Vijayan in Kannur and Thiruvananthapuram, as politically motivated and part of a continuing pattern of intimidation against opposition forces. In protest against the raids, the CPI(M) organised a march towards the ED head quarters in New Delhi.
https://www.leftviews.in/politics-77808/news-35946/delhi-police-detain-cpim-leaders-during-ed-protest
https://archive.ph/4cMdv
Australian police plan to form a heavily armed team in response to Bondi Beach massacre
The police force has responded with a plan to establish an Armed Response Command, equipped with semiautomatic rifles, and by reviving a priority-resourced operation that focused on antisemitic crimes and retaliations against Muslim targets, Hudson said. Rifles within the force have been largely restricted to two specialized paramilitary squads, he said.
https://apnews.com/article/australia-bondi-shooting-antisemitism-inquiry-sydney-4d621f5b57feee7ba98f08a67f0e2769
Former Red Army Faction militant Daniela Klette sentenced to 13 years for armed robberies after dissolution of terrorist network
Long Germany’s most-wanted woman, Klette was the last female member of the far-left terrorist network still on the run before her arrest at her home in Berlin in February 2024. After a 14-month trial under tight security, the Verden regional court found her guilty of six counts of aggravated robbery in conjunction with kidnapping for ransom and possession of military weapons.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/27/daniela-klette-red-army-faction-jailed-armed-robberies-on-the-run
One in six UK young people risk falling outside job market or education, report warns
The proportion of young people in Britain who are not in employment, education or training (NEETs) risks rising to one in six within five years from one in eight currently, according to a new government-commissioned report. In recent decades Britain has had fairly low youth unemployment by European standards. But since the COVID-19 pandemic, the proportion of 16-24 year-olds outside the job market or education has risen and is now near a 10-year high at close to 1 million, or 13% of the age group.
https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-work/one-six-uk-young-people-risk-falling-outside-job-market-or-education-report-2026-05-27/
Toilets and changing rooms must be used on basis of biological sex, guidance confirms
The code of practice sets out how associations, businesses and services open to the public should organise their facilities. It covers a wide range of settings from shopping centres and gyms to hospitals and restaurants. The EHRC is planning to publish guidance for employers and staff facilities at a later date. With the guidance now before Parliament, MPs and peers have 40 days to raise any concerns. If there are no objections, the guidance becomes statutory.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0e2rj3zj02o
https://archive.ph/QwkNc
Ireland to ban goods from Israeli settlements in occupied West Bank by July
Ireland's government, one of the most outspoken critics of Israel's genocidal war on Gaza, first promised to sanction Israeli settlements in October 2024. The legislation has since been held up by pressure from opposition politicians who sought to extend the ban to the services trade as well, on one side, and international company lobbyists seeking to scrap the bill, on the other.
https://www.newarab.com/news/ireland-ban-goods-israeli-settlements-july
Trump’s 'Board of Peace' fund has no money for Gaza: Report
Despite Trump soliciting billion-dollar pledges from Gulf states and saying that the organisation would be one of the “most consequential” in the history of the world, the FT reported that four months after its establishment, the board’s financial fund set up by the World Bank has received no money. Instead, the FT reported, the board has received donations directly via its JPMorgan bank account. Under this mechanism, the board does not need to declare any of its funding to donors or its 25 member states.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/trumps-board-peace-fund-has-no-money-gaza-report
Israeli military tells residents of swathe of southern Lebanon to leave
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said in a post on social media that all areas south of the Zahrani River, which runs about 40 kilometres (25 miles) north of the de facto Israel-Lebanon border, were considered combat zones. “In light of the repeated violations of the ceasefire agreement by the terrorist organisation Hezbollah, the IDF will act against it with great force,” the military’s Arabic-language spokesman, Avichay Adraee, wrote on X.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/27/israel-fires-airstrikes-lebanon-escalating-offensive
Venezuelan Authorities Launch Prison Riot Investigation, Gov’t Pushes Judicial Reforms
Venezuelan Attorney General Larry Devoe announced on Monday a formal investigation into recent unrest at the Barinas Judicial Detention Center (INJUBA). The prison began to make headlines last week when inmates seized control of the facility to denounce ill-treatment and physical abuse from authorities. The investigation followed the dismissal of prison director Elvis Macuare Guerrero, who had held the post for less than a week before the revolt.
https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/venezuelan-authorities-launch-prison-riot-investigation-govt-pushes-judicial-reforms/
Mining giant Fenix, accused of the destruction of Maya lands, resumes operations in Guatemala
Fenix, one of the largest open-pit mines in Central America, has exploited Maya lands in northern Guatemala since 2011 under the control of three local companies: Compañía Guatemalteca de Níquel (CGN), Compañía Procesadora de Níquel (Pronico) and Mayaníquel. According to the Treasury, the three operated as subsidiaries of Solway Investment Group, a Swiss-Russian-backed company that extracted between 22,000 and 25,000 tonnes of nickel a year, exporting mainly to Europe and Asia.
https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-05-27/mining-giant-fenix-accused-of-the-destruction-of-maya-lands-resumes-operations-in-guatemala.html
https://archive.ph/3YEsJ
R: 101 / I: 12
Now FBA are basically Black people who have been in the US for centuries, they suffered slavery, oppression and contributed to building up the economy.
FBA want to "delineate" themselves from the growing African Immigrant community in the US (Nigerians, Somalians, Ghanians, South Africans etc) and put emphasis on their unique shared culture, heritage, history etc.
On the face of it, its just some harmless IDpol. But there is a darker underlying conflict between these groups that caused the development of this term in the first place :
First let's look at the POV of tethers. Some tethers believe that FBA culture has issues which need to be corrected, namely family breakups, crime, domestic and gang violence, lack of achievement. Their rhetoric on this topic is very similar to black conservatives. Some famous tethers are Candance Owens, Emmanuel Acho , Winsome Sears, Fresh and Fit, Colion Noir etc.
The FBA POV is that tethers criticism of FBA is unfair. They believe tethers are Uncle Toms (some FBA use the even more acerbic term "coon") who aim to use white supremacy to gain a leg up in the racial hierarchy of the US. FBA also believe that their culture and heritage is unique, and tethers are parasitically taking advantage of FBA cultural aura while simultaneously downplaying FBA's problems and struggles.
Now from the communist perspective, it's easy to call all this FBI cointelpro (and maybe the FBI does have a hand in this) but that wont make this conflict go away. The FBA-tether conflict has the potential to weaken black solidarity.
It's also part of a trend where minorities are increasingly becoming more diverse politically.
What position should communists take on the FBA-tether situation? Reject it as meaningless IDpol? Call it out as FBI cointelpro? Or pick a side?
New developments in Black IDPol
Let's talk about "tethers". For grass-touchers, "tether" is a term recently developed by the African American community to refer to Black immigrants (first or second or third gen) who are not "Foundational Black Americans" or FBA.Now FBA are basically Black people who have been in the US for centuries, they suffered slavery, oppression and contributed to building up the economy.
FBA want to "delineate" themselves from the growing African Immigrant community in the US (Nigerians, Somalians, Ghanians, South Africans etc) and put emphasis on their unique shared culture, heritage, history etc.
On the face of it, its just some harmless IDpol. But there is a darker underlying conflict between these groups that caused the development of this term in the first place :
First let's look at the POV of tethers. Some tethers believe that FBA culture has issues which need to be corrected, namely family breakups, crime, domestic and gang violence, lack of achievement. Their rhetoric on this topic is very similar to black conservatives. Some famous tethers are Candance Owens, Emmanuel Acho , Winsome Sears, Fresh and Fit, Colion Noir etc.
The FBA POV is that tethers criticism of FBA is unfair. They believe tethers are Uncle Toms (some FBA use the even more acerbic term "coon") who aim to use white supremacy to gain a leg up in the racial hierarchy of the US. FBA also believe that their culture and heritage is unique, and tethers are parasitically taking advantage of FBA cultural aura while simultaneously downplaying FBA's problems and struggles.
Now from the communist perspective, it's easy to call all this FBI cointelpro (and maybe the FBI does have a hand in this) but that wont make this conflict go away. The FBA-tether conflict has the potential to weaken black solidarity.
It's also part of a trend where minorities are increasingly becoming more diverse politically.
What position should communists take on the FBA-tether situation? Reject it as meaningless IDpol? Call it out as FBI cointelpro? Or pick a side?
R: 5 / I: 2
Previously approved by the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies, the new law allows Paz to decree states of emergency without the limiting requirements established by the now-repealed Law 1341 on “States of Emergency,” which had been designed to prevent abuses in the use of force and to guarantee accountability in emergency situations. Among those restrictions was the condition that the Armed Forces could only intervene in the repression of protests when police capacity was clearly overwhelmed. Law 1341 also established that neither the Armed Forces nor the Police would be exempt from criminal responsibility or enjoy impunity for their actions.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/bolivian-president-enacts-law-expanding-powers-to-repress-massive-protest/
Milei government sends lobbying transparency bill to Congress
One of the central elements of the bill is the creation of a “Public Registry of Interest Management”, covering lobbying related to legislation, decrees, public procurement, concessions, permits, licences, subsidies, budget allocations and promotional tax regimes. Lobbyists would be required to submit quarterly activity reports detailing meetings, clients and the issues discussed. The registry would include the date, time and format of each contact, the government department involved and a summary of the matters addressed.
https://www.batimes.com.ar/news/argentina/milei-government-sends-lobbying-transparency-bill-to-congress.phtml
https://archive.ph/LW4x6
Guatemala’s president denies report of US deal on anti-drug trafficking strikes
The comments come after The New York Times reported that the Central American nation agreed to carry out joint strikes. The case is the latest in ongoing tensions between the Trump administration and Latin American governments that seek to strike a balance between bilateral cooperation to fight drug trafficking and maintaining sovereignty.
https://apnews.com/article/guatemala-us-drug-trafficking-agreement-trump-arevalo-cba80c7fddba03d69a35a3670d29498d
Iran's state TV says US aircraft destroyed in Iran's Bushehr, no confirmation from US
Iran's state TV said on early on Friday that a U.S. aircraft was destroyed in Iran's Jam governorate in Bushehr, citing its governor Masoud Tangestani, with no confirmation from the United States.
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/irans-state-tv-says-us-aircraft-destroyed-irans-bushehr-no-confirmation-us-2026-05-28/
White House says Iran and US agreed to 60-day ceasefire extension, awaiting Trump's approval
US and Iranian negotiators have reached a deal for a 60-day ceasefire extension that would allow them time to negotiate a full end to the war on the Islamic Republic, but the deal must be approved by US President Donald Trump, the White House said. Iran's top leadership also has yet to give the final seal of approval. The announcement comes as the current ceasefire between the two sides came under pressure with the US launching multiple strikes on Bandar Abbas port and Iran retaliating by striking a US military base in Kuwait.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/white-house-says-iran-and-us-agreed-60-day-ceasefire-awaiting-trumps-approval
Lebanese rescuers 'prevented from saving lives' by truce-monitoring Mechanism body
While the Mechanism is tasked with monitoring the ceasefire, amid the current war it has been accused of exceeding its authority and effectively stopping rescue operations. On the social media platform X, Cilina Nasser, a human rights expert and former UN investigator, said that the Mechanism had told rescue teams to stop their efforts to find missing people following the deadly strike on Maarakeh.
https://www.newarab.com/news/lebanese-rescuers-prevented-saving-lives-truce-monitor
Tension and calls for demonstrations in Al-Raqqah follow reports of pursuit of security personnel involved in arresting tribal militia leader
SOHR activists have reported growing tension and public outrage in Al-Raqqah city following reports that state authorities intend to arrest individuals who took part in arresting Turki Al-Bohamad, nicknamed “Al-Karka’a.” The widely circulating reports also indicate that security forces intend to refer them for investigation, and that Al-Bohamad has been released. This comes amid growing public demands for him to be held accountable and not released.
https://www.syriahr.com/en/382808/
Hungry Palestinians in Gaza Protest World Central Kitchen Scaling Back Amid Rising Food Costs and Israeli Blockade
Last week, in a separate demonstration, a group of employees gathered, in WCK uniform, to protest the decision and call for the reinstatement of the fired workers. “On behalf of the employees of World Central Kitchen, and the families affected in the Gaza Strip, we are announcing at this solidarity protest our condemnation of the unjust and unfair decision to arbitrarily dismiss employees from World Central Kitchen, depriving many affected families who depend entirely and exclusively on its meals in light of the ongoing financial crisis as a result of the genocide in Gaza,” one of the WCK workers said, surrounded by his colleagues, in an video circulated on social media.
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/gaza-world-central-kitchen-food-hunger-israel-blockade
German-Dutch corps to lead NATO land forces in Estonia and Latvia
At present, NATO forces in all three Baltic nations as well as northern Poland come under the command of a single multinational headquarters in the Polish city of Szczecin. military official told Reuters this week that the change would allow NATO to bring in "mass at speed", addressing the region's limited strategic depth and vulnerability.
https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/german-dutch-corps-lead-nato-land-forces-estonia-latvia-2026-05-28/
Unite anger over Britain importing Russian-produced jet fuel
BRITAIN is importing Russian oil-produced jet fuel after the government ignored shortage warnings when it allowed two refineries to close last year, Unite said today. The Labour-affiliated union said that the controversially produced aviation fuel could have been made by the Grangemouth and Lindsey refineries in a strong-worded criticism of ministers’ “lack of a cohesive plan” for energy. The closures of two of Britain’s six refineries, which both produced aviation fuel, went ahead despite Unite warnings on energy security.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/unite-anger-over-britain-importing-russian-produced-jet-fuel
Sudan farmers face debtors’ jail after failed winter season
At least 175 farmers in the area of Abri in Sudan’s Northern State face imprisonment for defaulting on bank loans following failed winter harvest, largely blamed on frequent power outages, in an area where farmers are largely dependant on electric power for agriculture and livestock activities. The residents of the Abri area rely heavily on electricity for their agricultural and livestock production projects, but frequent power outages have caused significant losses for farmers.
https://www.dabangasudan.org/en/all-news/article/sudan-farmers-face-debtors-jail-after-failed-winter-season
Japan state-backed fund considering sale of chipmaking materials maker JSR, sources say
Japan Investment Corp (JIC), a state-backed fund, is considering selling JSR, two people familiar with the matter said, two years after it took the maker of chipmaking materials private in a $6 billion deal. Fujifilm (4901.T), and Mitsubishi Chemical (4188.T), have expressed interest in acquiring the company, they added, declining to be identified as the information was not public.
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/japan-state-backed-fund-considering-sale-chipmaking-materials-maker-jsr-sources-2026-05-28/
News 5/28/26
Bolivian President Enacts Law Expanding Powers to Repress Massive ProtestPreviously approved by the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies, the new law allows Paz to decree states of emergency without the limiting requirements established by the now-repealed Law 1341 on “States of Emergency,” which had been designed to prevent abuses in the use of force and to guarantee accountability in emergency situations. Among those restrictions was the condition that the Armed Forces could only intervene in the repression of protests when police capacity was clearly overwhelmed. Law 1341 also established that neither the Armed Forces nor the Police would be exempt from criminal responsibility or enjoy impunity for their actions.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/bolivian-president-enacts-law-expanding-powers-to-repress-massive-protest/
Milei government sends lobbying transparency bill to Congress
One of the central elements of the bill is the creation of a “Public Registry of Interest Management”, covering lobbying related to legislation, decrees, public procurement, concessions, permits, licences, subsidies, budget allocations and promotional tax regimes. Lobbyists would be required to submit quarterly activity reports detailing meetings, clients and the issues discussed. The registry would include the date, time and format of each contact, the government department involved and a summary of the matters addressed.
https://www.batimes.com.ar/news/argentina/milei-government-sends-lobbying-transparency-bill-to-congress.phtml
https://archive.ph/LW4x6
Guatemala’s president denies report of US deal on anti-drug trafficking strikes
The comments come after The New York Times reported that the Central American nation agreed to carry out joint strikes. The case is the latest in ongoing tensions between the Trump administration and Latin American governments that seek to strike a balance between bilateral cooperation to fight drug trafficking and maintaining sovereignty.
https://apnews.com/article/guatemala-us-drug-trafficking-agreement-trump-arevalo-cba80c7fddba03d69a35a3670d29498d
Iran's state TV says US aircraft destroyed in Iran's Bushehr, no confirmation from US
Iran's state TV said on early on Friday that a U.S. aircraft was destroyed in Iran's Jam governorate in Bushehr, citing its governor Masoud Tangestani, with no confirmation from the United States.
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/irans-state-tv-says-us-aircraft-destroyed-irans-bushehr-no-confirmation-us-2026-05-28/
White House says Iran and US agreed to 60-day ceasefire extension, awaiting Trump's approval
US and Iranian negotiators have reached a deal for a 60-day ceasefire extension that would allow them time to negotiate a full end to the war on the Islamic Republic, but the deal must be approved by US President Donald Trump, the White House said. Iran's top leadership also has yet to give the final seal of approval. The announcement comes as the current ceasefire between the two sides came under pressure with the US launching multiple strikes on Bandar Abbas port and Iran retaliating by striking a US military base in Kuwait.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/white-house-says-iran-and-us-agreed-60-day-ceasefire-awaiting-trumps-approval
Lebanese rescuers 'prevented from saving lives' by truce-monitoring Mechanism body
While the Mechanism is tasked with monitoring the ceasefire, amid the current war it has been accused of exceeding its authority and effectively stopping rescue operations. On the social media platform X, Cilina Nasser, a human rights expert and former UN investigator, said that the Mechanism had told rescue teams to stop their efforts to find missing people following the deadly strike on Maarakeh.
https://www.newarab.com/news/lebanese-rescuers-prevented-saving-lives-truce-monitor
Tension and calls for demonstrations in Al-Raqqah follow reports of pursuit of security personnel involved in arresting tribal militia leader
SOHR activists have reported growing tension and public outrage in Al-Raqqah city following reports that state authorities intend to arrest individuals who took part in arresting Turki Al-Bohamad, nicknamed “Al-Karka’a.” The widely circulating reports also indicate that security forces intend to refer them for investigation, and that Al-Bohamad has been released. This comes amid growing public demands for him to be held accountable and not released.
https://www.syriahr.com/en/382808/
Hungry Palestinians in Gaza Protest World Central Kitchen Scaling Back Amid Rising Food Costs and Israeli Blockade
Last week, in a separate demonstration, a group of employees gathered, in WCK uniform, to protest the decision and call for the reinstatement of the fired workers. “On behalf of the employees of World Central Kitchen, and the families affected in the Gaza Strip, we are announcing at this solidarity protest our condemnation of the unjust and unfair decision to arbitrarily dismiss employees from World Central Kitchen, depriving many affected families who depend entirely and exclusively on its meals in light of the ongoing financial crisis as a result of the genocide in Gaza,” one of the WCK workers said, surrounded by his colleagues, in an video circulated on social media.
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/gaza-world-central-kitchen-food-hunger-israel-blockade
German-Dutch corps to lead NATO land forces in Estonia and Latvia
At present, NATO forces in all three Baltic nations as well as northern Poland come under the command of a single multinational headquarters in the Polish city of Szczecin. military official told Reuters this week that the change would allow NATO to bring in "mass at speed", addressing the region's limited strategic depth and vulnerability.
https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/german-dutch-corps-lead-nato-land-forces-estonia-latvia-2026-05-28/
Unite anger over Britain importing Russian-produced jet fuel
BRITAIN is importing Russian oil-produced jet fuel after the government ignored shortage warnings when it allowed two refineries to close last year, Unite said today. The Labour-affiliated union said that the controversially produced aviation fuel could have been made by the Grangemouth and Lindsey refineries in a strong-worded criticism of ministers’ “lack of a cohesive plan” for energy. The closures of two of Britain’s six refineries, which both produced aviation fuel, went ahead despite Unite warnings on energy security.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/unite-anger-over-britain-importing-russian-produced-jet-fuel
Sudan farmers face debtors’ jail after failed winter season
At least 175 farmers in the area of Abri in Sudan’s Northern State face imprisonment for defaulting on bank loans following failed winter harvest, largely blamed on frequent power outages, in an area where farmers are largely dependant on electric power for agriculture and livestock activities. The residents of the Abri area rely heavily on electricity for their agricultural and livestock production projects, but frequent power outages have caused significant losses for farmers.
https://www.dabangasudan.org/en/all-news/article/sudan-farmers-face-debtors-jail-after-failed-winter-season
Japan state-backed fund considering sale of chipmaking materials maker JSR, sources say
Japan Investment Corp (JIC), a state-backed fund, is considering selling JSR, two people familiar with the matter said, two years after it took the maker of chipmaking materials private in a $6 billion deal. Fujifilm (4901.T), and Mitsubishi Chemical (4188.T), have expressed interest in acquiring the company, they added, declining to be identified as the information was not public.
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/japan-state-backed-fund-considering-sale-chipmaking-materials-maker-jsr-sources-2026-05-28/
R: 602 / I: 106 (full)
🗽 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™
<General Secretary The Real Iron Felix 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: >>2822175
🗽 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™
<General Secretary The Real Iron Felix 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: >>2822175
R: 4 / I: 0
>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
R: 26 / I: 3
theres been what feels like over 200 shootings trying to kill him or his friends so i don't get why some leftists or anti-trumpers dont do it, gavin newsom would probably just pardon them after the 2028 election too.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_6_United_States_Capitol_attack#Participants,_groups,_and_criminal_charges
Jan 6
Why doesnt the left or no kings protesters do a reverse jan 6 against trump.theres been what feels like over 200 shootings trying to kill him or his friends so i don't get why some leftists or anti-trumpers dont do it, gavin newsom would probably just pardon them after the 2028 election too.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_6_United_States_Capitol_attack#Participants,_groups,_and_criminal_charges
R: 35 / I: 7 (sage)
Taking the Red Army’s Redpill made me realise…
Well if you really think about it is it that different from having sex with a girl from ED twitter? People want to deny or moralize but I think this is fine. A true leftist understands that some people have to be forced to be free. And, anyways, doesn’t seem to be that different from ED twitter. A starving woman in a relationship with a pedophile (Russian) where both have a rape fetish (Jewish in her case)? That’s just an IRL version of ED twitter and ya the context and the location makes it a bit dicey/problematic. But when you think for more than five minutes it doesn’t seem quite as bad of as abnormal as you might think at first glance.
R: 7 / I: 2
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.
R: 17 / I: 4
I AM A DENGIST
I DON'T GIVE A FUCK, I AM A DENGIST IN MY HEART I'M A DENGIST, THAT IS WHAT I AM WE ARE THE VANGUARD… THAT IS WHAT WE ARE YES WE ARE THAT WE ARE 100% THAT IT IS SOMETHING TO BE PROUD OF BITCH CAUSE THE DENGISTS ARE THE ONES WHO CREATED SOCIALISM WITH CHINESE CHARACTERISTICS AND YOU CREATED NOTHING BUT STAGNATION YOU'RE THE FUCKING DOGMATISTS YOU DESTROYED THE PRODUCTIVE FORCES OF MANKIND THE DENGISTS ONLY LIBERATED THEM THE FUCK DO YOU KNOW ABOUT DIALECTICAL MATERIALISM? WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU KNOW ABOUT PRIDE? WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU HAVE TO BE PROUD OF EXCEPT -FAILING -STARVING AND DESTROYING THE ECONOMIES AND PEOPLES AND WEALTH OF THIS WORLD? WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU KNOW ULTRALEFTIST? I AM CHIMPING OUT, BITCH CAUSE I'M A FUCKING REVOLUTIONARY AND YOU'RE A LITTLE SOYBOY IDEALIST LITTLE BITCH YOU DON'T KNOW WHO THE FUCK I AM I AM A DENGIST, YOU'RE RIGHT IT IS WHAT I AM AND I'M PROUD OF BEING THAT OH, SO WHAT'S YOUR FUCKING POINT YOU UGLY DISGUSTING FUCKING UGLY DISGUSTING FUCKING REVISIONIST SMELLY PIECE OF SHIT YOU WANNA TALK THEORY? I CAN BE WAY MORE THEORETICAL THAN YOU, WESTOID WHAT FUCKING PRODUCTIVE FORCES DID WESTOIDS EVER FUCKING HAVE IT NEEDED THE OPEN DOOR POLICY TO FUCK ALL OF YOU IN YOUR ASS TO GIVE YOU ANY ECONOMIC MIRACLE YOU NEVER HAD ANY OF YOUR OWN YOU WANNA BE A PURIST? I CAN BE WAY MORE PRAGMATIC YOU WANNA TALK SHIT ABOUT THE CPC? WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU HAVE ON CHINA, HUH? YOU HAVE NOTHING, CAUSE YOU'RE A MARXIST-LENINIST-ANARCHO-BULLSHIT BITCH
R: 17 / I: 7
<yes jojo
>is our entire ideology born from co-opting left populism
<yes jojo
>do we pretend to be third position when our ideology is just the open terrorist dictatorship of the most reactionary, most chauvinistic and most imperialist elements of finance capital
<yes jojo
>do will still call ourselves third position or just say far right
<sometimes we say third position but most of the time far right
>will we pretend not to care about media reaffirming our worldview
<yes jojo
>will we complain about how media isn’t cratering to us but never start our own art movement because we masquerade as the personal responsibility crowd
<yes jojo
>is this because fascist have only even gotten into power through democracy or coups so we don’t have the revolutionary spirit
<yes jojo
>is that why we care about leftists stealing our “memes” because it’s the closest thing we have to an art movement
<yes jojo
>will we use gen ai to make our memes instead because we don’t actually care about art
<yes jojo
>will we have right wing artist complain about not getting commissions or contracts because we view art as a product and use gen ai instead
<yes jojo as an former art student it pains me to see
>will we become obsessed with cartoons from a foreign culture that understands art is not magic and funds artists yet act confused as to why we don’t have that in the west
<yes jojo
>will we become obsessed with the mythology of the aristocrat spirit from books written by men who are often unmarried, childless, and perpetually lonely
<yes jojo
>will our movement be run my wignats and droganites who only care about engagement baiting for money
<yes jojo
>is there any hope
<no jojo
talk
>mein fuhrer<yes jojo
>is our entire ideology born from co-opting left populism
<yes jojo
>do we pretend to be third position when our ideology is just the open terrorist dictatorship of the most reactionary, most chauvinistic and most imperialist elements of finance capital
<yes jojo
>do will still call ourselves third position or just say far right
<sometimes we say third position but most of the time far right
>will we pretend not to care about media reaffirming our worldview
<yes jojo
>will we complain about how media isn’t cratering to us but never start our own art movement because we masquerade as the personal responsibility crowd
<yes jojo
>is this because fascist have only even gotten into power through democracy or coups so we don’t have the revolutionary spirit
<yes jojo
>is that why we care about leftists stealing our “memes” because it’s the closest thing we have to an art movement
<yes jojo
>will we use gen ai to make our memes instead because we don’t actually care about art
<yes jojo
>will we have right wing artist complain about not getting commissions or contracts because we view art as a product and use gen ai instead
<yes jojo as an former art student it pains me to see
>will we become obsessed with cartoons from a foreign culture that understands art is not magic and funds artists yet act confused as to why we don’t have that in the west
<yes jojo
>will we become obsessed with the mythology of the aristocrat spirit from books written by men who are often unmarried, childless, and perpetually lonely
<yes jojo
>will our movement be run my wignats and droganites who only care about engagement baiting for money
<yes jojo
>is there any hope
<no jojo
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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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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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List of Neo-Nazi pedophiles
https://codeberg.org/disco/esohit/src/branch/main/generator/generator.csv#
List of Republican rapists
https://www.dailykos.com/user/cajsalilliehook/?query-page=3
Project listing the crimes of ordinary rightards
https://x.com/ReichWingWatch
List of Neo-Nazi pedophiles
https://codeberg.org/disco/esohit/src/branch/main/generator/generator.csv#
List of Republican rapists
https://www.dailykos.com/user/cajsalilliehook/?query-page=3
Project listing the crimes of ordinary rightards
https://x.com/ReichWingWatch
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Anyone who claims to be a Marxist but cares about "police violence" in modern America is a tard. The police don't break strikes anymore, it isn't 1925. They are not being used against the interests of the proletariat, they are used against the lumpenproletariat, and frankly I could not care less if every drug dealing lumpen thug got mag dumped. The lumpenproletariat are not a revolutionary class. Yes, the police are the armed wing of the bourgeois state, this is of course true-but that is only relevant in it's relation to the proletarian movement. The post office is also technically an arm of the bourgeois state but nobody gaf because mail delivery does not have a significant impact on the interests of the proletariat. If New Leftist retards who claim to be Marxists were consistent with their claim that they oppose the police because police historically broke strikes, they would logically put the effort they put into "ACAB" retardation into Union organizing and combating corporate anti union policy which is essentially the modern replacement of armed strikebreaking. They don't do this because they are not really Marxists and their movement is one of idpol.
Anyone who claims to be a Marxist but cares about "police violence" in modern America is a tard. The police don't break strikes anymore, it isn't 1925. They are not being used against the interests of the proletariat, they are used against the lumpenproletariat, and frankly I could not care less if every drug dealing lumpen thug got mag dumped. The lumpenproletariat are not a revolutionary class. Yes, the police are the armed wing of the bourgeois state, this is of course true-but that is only relevant in it's relation to the proletarian movement. The post office is also technically an arm of the bourgeois state but nobody gaf because mail delivery does not have a significant impact on the interests of the proletariat. If New Leftist retards who claim to be Marxists were consistent with their claim that they oppose the police because police historically broke strikes, they would logically put the effort they put into "ACAB" retardation into Union organizing and combating corporate anti union policy which is essentially the modern replacement of armed strikebreaking. They don't do this because they are not really Marxists and their movement is one of idpol.
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>In the early 1970s, when I came of age politically, the U.S. government was raining death on Vietnam abroad and hunting down Black militants at home. The system manifestly required more than a little tinkering to be set right. Anyhow, I had committed myself not just to a reformed world but a world turned upside down. For all its Marxist pretences, Russia seemed to resemble the United States. The grey-on-grey of Soviet-style socialism didn’t exactly fire the imagination. On the other hand, China appeared on the brink of ushering in a new world. Those coming back from Maoist China echoed the writer Lincoln Steffens on his return from Lenin’s Russia: “I have seen the future, and it works.” From Chairman Mao down to the ordinary worker and peasant, everyone seemed to be practicing a simple, austere lifestyle, contemptuous of bourgeois amenities and devoted to a larger collective purpose. I still remember the sense of moral inferiority on my first sighting of a real-life exemplar of this “new socialist man” from China (in fact, a woman, Carmelita Hinton, daughter of famed Maoist author William Hinton) at a left-wing conference in New York. Shamed by my bourgeois baggage, I decided against introducing myself to her.
>Maoism seemed irrefutable proof of an alternative to the rat-race existence. To cynics who maintained that creating a society based on non-acquisitive values was utopian, I replied: Look at China! It was even said that petty theft had disappeared. Bicycles weren’t chained up, lost items were returned. While I was taking a nap late one winter’s night in my college student centre, someone stole my brand new work shoes from, literally, right under my feet. Furious at the theft and having had to walk home barefoot in the slush, the next day in my Chinese foreign policy class I indignantly declared, “This wouldn’t have happened in China!” Many of my classmates no doubt silently thought that it served this self-righteous ass**** right.
>The precepts of Chinese Communism mirrored my own of a decent society. Prime Minister Chou En-Lai always had pinned to his lapel the button, “Serve the people.” Praising the wisdom and dignity of ordinary workers, a Mao quotation declared that the “workers and peasants were the cleanest people, and even though their hands were soiled and their feet smeared with cow-dung, they were really cleaner than the bourgeois and petty-bourgeois intellectuals.” A sports meet in China would open and close with the chant, “Friendship first, competition second.” The eyes of a sceptical female co-worker of mine lit up when I quoted Mao’s aphorism, “Women hold up half the sky.” In one parable I emotionally recited, Mao wrote, “Death can be weightier than Mount Tai or lighter than a feather. To die for the people is weightier than Mount Tai, but to die for the fascists and oppressors is lighter than a feather.”
>What clinched my disenchantment was the increasing sterility of Bettelheim’s, and my own, “problematic.” After Mao’s death, his heirs, the “Gang of Four,” were in short order dethroned, and his legacy was dismantled. The theory of socialist transition, on which I intended to write my doctoral dissertation, seemed more than ever divorced from reality. In addition, the rapid collapse of Maoism forced me to rethink many of my beliefs. There must have been a lot more rot at the core of the Chinese Revolution than I was led—and allowed myself to be led, and led others—to believe. What hurt most for someone who thought he knew so much was how foolish he had been. I remember one non-believer telling this true believer that, before I ever got to China, there would be a McDonald’s at the Great Wall. I sneeringly dismissed his “petty-bourgeois” cynicism. (He in turn recoiled at being labelled merely a “petty” and not a full-fledged bourgeois.) Well, a McDonald’s did open for business at the Great Wall while I lost all interest in making pilgrimage to China. In fact, from the day the Gang of Four was overthrown to this day I’ve not opened a single book or read through to the end a single news article on China. The wound runs deep, the pain lingers. For the first three weeks after the coup I could barely make it out of bed. I was later told that Bettelheim had to be hospitalized. Whether, in my case, this was due more to disappointment or embarrassment, I cannot say. In any event, I learned an important, albeit excruciating, lesson: de omnibus dubitandum (Marx’s credo).
Norman Finkelstein on the Death of Western Maoism
>Those not wondering what a Maoist is wonder how I could have been one. It’s a historical moment that has vanished without a trace.>In the early 1970s, when I came of age politically, the U.S. government was raining death on Vietnam abroad and hunting down Black militants at home. The system manifestly required more than a little tinkering to be set right. Anyhow, I had committed myself not just to a reformed world but a world turned upside down. For all its Marxist pretences, Russia seemed to resemble the United States. The grey-on-grey of Soviet-style socialism didn’t exactly fire the imagination. On the other hand, China appeared on the brink of ushering in a new world. Those coming back from Maoist China echoed the writer Lincoln Steffens on his return from Lenin’s Russia: “I have seen the future, and it works.” From Chairman Mao down to the ordinary worker and peasant, everyone seemed to be practicing a simple, austere lifestyle, contemptuous of bourgeois amenities and devoted to a larger collective purpose. I still remember the sense of moral inferiority on my first sighting of a real-life exemplar of this “new socialist man” from China (in fact, a woman, Carmelita Hinton, daughter of famed Maoist author William Hinton) at a left-wing conference in New York. Shamed by my bourgeois baggage, I decided against introducing myself to her.
>Maoism seemed irrefutable proof of an alternative to the rat-race existence. To cynics who maintained that creating a society based on non-acquisitive values was utopian, I replied: Look at China! It was even said that petty theft had disappeared. Bicycles weren’t chained up, lost items were returned. While I was taking a nap late one winter’s night in my college student centre, someone stole my brand new work shoes from, literally, right under my feet. Furious at the theft and having had to walk home barefoot in the slush, the next day in my Chinese foreign policy class I indignantly declared, “This wouldn’t have happened in China!” Many of my classmates no doubt silently thought that it served this self-righteous ass**** right.
>The precepts of Chinese Communism mirrored my own of a decent society. Prime Minister Chou En-Lai always had pinned to his lapel the button, “Serve the people.” Praising the wisdom and dignity of ordinary workers, a Mao quotation declared that the “workers and peasants were the cleanest people, and even though their hands were soiled and their feet smeared with cow-dung, they were really cleaner than the bourgeois and petty-bourgeois intellectuals.” A sports meet in China would open and close with the chant, “Friendship first, competition second.” The eyes of a sceptical female co-worker of mine lit up when I quoted Mao’s aphorism, “Women hold up half the sky.” In one parable I emotionally recited, Mao wrote, “Death can be weightier than Mount Tai or lighter than a feather. To die for the people is weightier than Mount Tai, but to die for the fascists and oppressors is lighter than a feather.”
>What clinched my disenchantment was the increasing sterility of Bettelheim’s, and my own, “problematic.” After Mao’s death, his heirs, the “Gang of Four,” were in short order dethroned, and his legacy was dismantled. The theory of socialist transition, on which I intended to write my doctoral dissertation, seemed more than ever divorced from reality. In addition, the rapid collapse of Maoism forced me to rethink many of my beliefs. There must have been a lot more rot at the core of the Chinese Revolution than I was led—and allowed myself to be led, and led others—to believe. What hurt most for someone who thought he knew so much was how foolish he had been. I remember one non-believer telling this true believer that, before I ever got to China, there would be a McDonald’s at the Great Wall. I sneeringly dismissed his “petty-bourgeois” cynicism. (He in turn recoiled at being labelled merely a “petty” and not a full-fledged bourgeois.) Well, a McDonald’s did open for business at the Great Wall while I lost all interest in making pilgrimage to China. In fact, from the day the Gang of Four was overthrown to this day I’ve not opened a single book or read through to the end a single news article on China. The wound runs deep, the pain lingers. For the first three weeks after the coup I could barely make it out of bed. I was later told that Bettelheim had to be hospitalized. Whether, in my case, this was due more to disappointment or embarrassment, I cannot say. In any event, I learned an important, albeit excruciating, lesson: de omnibus dubitandum (Marx’s credo).
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why do americans have an odd definition of who is "working class" or not? apparently only "blue-collar" workers can be considered working class in america while people like teachers and office workers aren't even though they occupy the same class relationship (employee-employer)
why do americans have an odd definition of who is "working class" or not? apparently only "blue-collar" workers can be considered working class in america while people like teachers and office workers aren't even though they occupy the same class relationship (employee-employer)
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Could the worship of objects that lots of people have be the reason why we can't have socialism, or is it just a symptom of living in a capitalist society?
Are object obsessed guys (such as "car guys") incompatible with civilization, or has neo-liberalism indoctrinated people who would otherwise be pro-social into ignoring human suffering in order to purchase and worship objects?
Could the worship of objects that lots of people have be the reason why we can't have socialism, or is it just a symptom of living in a capitalist society?
Are object obsessed guys (such as "car guys") incompatible with civilization, or has neo-liberalism indoctrinated people who would otherwise be pro-social into ignoring human suffering in order to purchase and worship objects?
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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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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.
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I know there is at least one major Lula simp here on this website, show your face freud flag anon, explain this, is this some 5D chess move or do you accept you support an enemy of the latam proletariat?
TOTAL CUCKLA DEATH
What the fuck is Cuckla da $ilva's problem? Why does he hate the latam proletariat so much? Why does he love the U$ and its right-wing puppet in Bolivia so much?I know there is at least one major Lula simp here on this website, show your face freud flag anon, explain this, is this some 5D chess move or do you accept you support an enemy of the latam proletariat?
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<US, Gulf, Iran, Venezuela, Russia, Canada, Nigeria, Libya
>which countries need lots of oil but cant produce them enough by themselves, making them dependent on foreign oil
<EU, India, Indonesia, Japan etc, a.k.a geopolitically important poles
So countries that produce oil have leverage over the large oil-less countries.
>what else is special about oil?
<It's one of the last major profit centers in capitalism because its profitability is not affected by SNLT, its a monopolized commodity
>what is happening to oil demand
<Entering a period of secular decline due to EVs, solar, wind, batteries, green ammonia, organic plastic replacements
So this means oil producing nations are going to both lose profits AND leverage over the rest of the world over the next few decades
>what would be the rational response of oil producing nations to this
<take out competition so you can take a bigger share of a shrinking pie
Libya - rekt
Nigeria - getting rekt by sectarianism
Iran - massive damage to oil industry, made them self-own their future customer prospects by blockading Hormuz, customers will now deleverage themselves from Iran
Gulf - US war made Iran attack and weaken Gulf oil industry
Venezuela - in the process of getting glowned by USA
Canada - US making noises about invasion, but likely will just replace Carney with a puppet
Russia - Rekt by US making them fall for retarded trap war, Ukraine bombing Russian refineries as we speak
Europe - rekt by sanctions on Russian oil and making them more dependent on US oil/gas
India - US removed Iran oil, sanctions on Russian oil, now increasingly dependent on US oil/gas and Guyanese oil (Guyana is new US colony)
Japan - Same as India
Murica plays its cards well.
Oil wars
>which countries produce the most oil, or have large oil reserves?<US, Gulf, Iran, Venezuela, Russia, Canada, Nigeria, Libya
>which countries need lots of oil but cant produce them enough by themselves, making them dependent on foreign oil
<EU, India, Indonesia, Japan etc, a.k.a geopolitically important poles
So countries that produce oil have leverage over the large oil-less countries.
>what else is special about oil?
<It's one of the last major profit centers in capitalism because its profitability is not affected by SNLT, its a monopolized commodity
>what is happening to oil demand
<Entering a period of secular decline due to EVs, solar, wind, batteries, green ammonia, organic plastic replacements
So this means oil producing nations are going to both lose profits AND leverage over the rest of the world over the next few decades
>what would be the rational response of oil producing nations to this
<take out competition so you can take a bigger share of a shrinking pie
Libya - rekt
Nigeria - getting rekt by sectarianism
Iran - massive damage to oil industry, made them self-own their future customer prospects by blockading Hormuz, customers will now deleverage themselves from Iran
Gulf - US war made Iran attack and weaken Gulf oil industry
Venezuela - in the process of getting glowned by USA
Canada - US making noises about invasion, but likely will just replace Carney with a puppet
Russia - Rekt by US making them fall for retarded trap war, Ukraine bombing Russian refineries as we speak
Europe - rekt by sanctions on Russian oil and making them more dependent on US oil/gas
India - US removed Iran oil, sanctions on Russian oil, now increasingly dependent on US oil/gas and Guyanese oil (Guyana is new US colony)
Japan - Same as India
Murica plays its cards well.
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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:
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/Iran war/ thread #65
<Bond Vigilantism edition>Previous bake
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: 56 / I: 13
Is Dengism just capitalism, but better functioning due to being clean of the toxic cultural baggage all Western capitalisms have such as: the myth of "free press = democracy", the moralisation of democracy itself, the cult of a "self-made man", calvinism, white supremacy, and others?
Is Dengism just capitalism, but better functioning due to being clean of the toxic cultural baggage all Western capitalisms have such as: the myth of "free press = democracy", the moralisation of democracy itself, the cult of a "self-made man", calvinism, white supremacy, and others?
R: 96 / I: 14
Anarchism
Let's be honest here: is there any actual difference between different forms of Anarchism beyond how one expects people to act without the state? It's not like there's policy or a DOTP.
R: 86 / I: 27
FUCK FANON FUCK ISLAMISTS
This quote alone instantly discredits everything Fanon has ever said. It is clear that he has no actual understanding of Marxism and was just a retarded religious faggot. Islamic "Socialism" is bullshit, Christian "Socialism" is bullshit, Jewish "Socialism" is bullshit, Buddhist and Hindu and pagan, it's all bullshit. Religion is fake nonsense for retards.
R: 592 / I: 91
>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™
<ICE crematorium 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: >>2820017
/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™
<ICE crematorium 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: >>2820017
R: 28 / I: 6
Can somebody get the social medias of all of these nazis, also datamining of them would be useful.
These people should not be allowed to aid in fascism without harassment
ICE datamining
https://wiki.icelist.is/index.php/Category:AgentsCan somebody get the social medias of all of these nazis, also datamining of them would be useful.
These people should not be allowed to aid in fascism without harassment
R: 3 / I: 0
The new law consists of eight chapters and 20 articles, replacing a 2006 statute that was never implemented and was considered outdated. It now requires Cambodian men aged 18 to 25 to serve two years in the military, while women may serve voluntarily. Individuals summoned for service must appear within 30 days of receiving notice or be considered as evading duty, unless a valid excuse is provided.
https://apnews.com/article/cambodia-conscription-military-border-clashes-thailand-e2ca64dfe4dbafee22e44033a6ea1bfa
Myanmar military steps up fight for rare earth area and border routes
At a meeting last week, Ye Win Oo told soldiers that the military had secured Falam town in Chin State and an arterial route between Mandalay and Myitkyina in Kachin State, the state-run Global New Light of Myanmar newspaper reported. "The military's strategic rationale is that they need to regain control over the primary communication and trade routes in Myanmar," said Myanmar analyst Sai Kyi Zin Soe.
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/myanmar-military-steps-up-fight-rare-earth-area-border-routes-2026-05-25/
US rushes construction of “Pax Silica weapons hub” in Tarlac
US Undersecretary of State for Economic Affairs Jacob Helberg arrived in the Philippines on May 18 and went to Tarlac to inaugurate the project. With Philippine officials from the Department of Trade and Industry and Bases Conversion and Development Authority, they formally unveiled the marker for the planned 4,000-acre (1,620 hectares) “economic security zone.” The US considers this eco-security zone the first “AI-native industrial acceleration hub” under Pax Silica. More than 20 large American companies have already signaled plans to invest in it. The zone is exclusive to US companies and its invited allies.
https://philippinerevolution.nu/angbayan/us-rushes-construction-of-pax-silica-weapons-hub-in-tarlac/
Israel’s occupation of Gaza, Lebanon, Syria extends beyond what maps show
In southern Lebanon, the investigation looked at the military zone declared by Israel following a subsequent ceasefire agreement with that country, before examining what satellite imagery shows as the actual situation in impacted villages and towns. As for southern Syria, where no similar official Israeli map exists, we looked at fixed military outposts beyond the “Alpha Line” that separates the occupied Golan Heights from the rest of Syria.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/5/26/israels-occupation-of-gaza-lebanon-syria-extends-beyond-what-maps-show
https://archive.ph/imMHz
Iran partially restores internet access after months-long shutdown
State news agency IRNA and Fars news agency said "full international internet connectivity has been restored" for users of fixed broadband services, but this had not been confirmed by internet monitor NetBlocks. Witnesses inside Iran also told AFP that mobile internet remains cut but home internet with Wi-Fi had been restored, even though VPNs were still needed to access some social media.
https://www.newarab.com/news/iran-partially-restores-internet-after-months-long-shutdown
Haftar's forces arrest Gaza aid convoy in Libya
According to a statement published by the Global Sumud Convoy Instagram page, last contact with the activists was made at 3.22pm on Tuesday. "The detained are civilians from Spain, Poland, the USA, Argentina, Uruguay, Portugal, Tunisia, and Italy - doctors and human rights defenders who volunteered to deliver aid and stand with the Palestinian people," said the statement. They said the convoy had entered the 5+5 security zone - a contested area established under the Libyan ceasefire agreement signed in October 2020 - to negotiate safe passage to the Gaza Strip. "They were detained by a security force affiliated with the Libyan Arab Armed Forces (LAAF) and are still being held by Eastern Libyan authorities (GNS)," they added.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/haftars-forces-arrest-gaza-aid-convoy-libya
Senegal's ousted prime minister Sonko elected parliament speaker
Senegal's parliament elected Ousmane Sonko as its speaker on Tuesday, days after President Bassirou Diomaye Faye fired him as prime minister amid a deepening rift over the government's reform agenda and how to resolve a worsening debt crisis. Political analysts said the speaker position could give the former premier, who was ousted on Friday, a platform to challenge Faye, though Sonko moved to downplay that prospect.
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/senegal-parliament-elects-ousted-prime-minister-sonko-speaker-2026-05-26/
Bolivian Government Admits Protester Died in Highway Clash After Earlier Denial
A civilian was killed by a gunfire during clashes between security forces and protesters on a major highway in western Bolivia, a forensic report confirmed on Sunday, marking the first fatality in 20 days of roadblocks and demonstrations demanding the resignation of President Rodrigo Paz.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/bolivian-government-admits-protester-died-in-highway-clash-after-earlier-denial/
South Korea submarine in Canada in sales pitch to supply Canada’s fleet
The flagship of South Korea’s submarine fleet is docked in Canada’s Pacific-coast province of British Columbia where it’s serving as a floating floor model in the Asian nation’s pitch for Canada to buy 12 like it. The crew of the ROKS Dosan Ahn Changho, a KSS-III-class diesel-electric submarine, received an official welcome at Canadian Forces Base Esquimalt on Monday, having arrived on Saturday ahead of exercises with the Canadian and other navies.
https://apnews.com/article/canada-south-korea-submarine-bid-77395ee0340731f4f58609f47a93c4c8
Labour MPs ‘Will Defect to Greens’ If Andy Burnham Loses Leadership Bid
Several backbenchers have been in talks with Green leader Zack Polanski in recent months, but are now reportedly waiting for the outcome of the vote on 18 June in Makerfield, where Burnham is polling first and ahead of Reform UK’s candidate by three points. If Burnham loses, MPs including Clive Lewis and Richard Burgon are prepared to defect, the Telegraph reported, citing unnamed sources.
https://novaramedia.com/2026/05/26/labour-mps-will-defect-to-greens-if-andy-burnham-loses-leadership-bid/
Scottish ministers urged to reverse fire service cuts following Arthur's Seat blaze
THE Fire Brigades Union Scotland urged ministers today to “look out of their comfortable offices” at the blaze raging on Arthur’s Seat in Edinburgh and abandon proposed cuts to the fire service. Three crews of firefighters worked yesterday night and into today to contain the fire on the peak overlooking the Scottish Parliament, a popular spot for tourists and locals alike.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/scottish-ministers-urged-reverse-fire-service-cuts-following-arthurs-seat-blaze
Former PM Tsipras looks to unite Greece’s fragmented opposition with new party
The erratic, 51-year-old Tsipras styled his new “Elas” party as a move to unite the left beyond his original far-left base although he has — somewhat controversially — taken the name from the army of the communist resistance movement in World War II. He unveiled his new project in a 40-minute speech in central Athens, with the illuminated Acropolis as a backdrop, greeting thousands of supporters as “comrades” and “friends.” “Our declaration today marks the beginning of a new collective effort to create a broad progressive alliance,” he said, adding the new party would embrace “the radical left, social democracy and political ecology.”
https://www.politico.eu/article/former-pm-alexis-tsipras-wants-to-unite-greece-fragmented-opposition-new-party/
https://archive.ph/LWYWM
News 5/26/26
Cambodia’s new conscription law takes effect in wake of conflict with ThailandThe new law consists of eight chapters and 20 articles, replacing a 2006 statute that was never implemented and was considered outdated. It now requires Cambodian men aged 18 to 25 to serve two years in the military, while women may serve voluntarily. Individuals summoned for service must appear within 30 days of receiving notice or be considered as evading duty, unless a valid excuse is provided.
https://apnews.com/article/cambodia-conscription-military-border-clashes-thailand-e2ca64dfe4dbafee22e44033a6ea1bfa
Myanmar military steps up fight for rare earth area and border routes
At a meeting last week, Ye Win Oo told soldiers that the military had secured Falam town in Chin State and an arterial route between Mandalay and Myitkyina in Kachin State, the state-run Global New Light of Myanmar newspaper reported. "The military's strategic rationale is that they need to regain control over the primary communication and trade routes in Myanmar," said Myanmar analyst Sai Kyi Zin Soe.
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/myanmar-military-steps-up-fight-rare-earth-area-border-routes-2026-05-25/
US rushes construction of “Pax Silica weapons hub” in Tarlac
US Undersecretary of State for Economic Affairs Jacob Helberg arrived in the Philippines on May 18 and went to Tarlac to inaugurate the project. With Philippine officials from the Department of Trade and Industry and Bases Conversion and Development Authority, they formally unveiled the marker for the planned 4,000-acre (1,620 hectares) “economic security zone.” The US considers this eco-security zone the first “AI-native industrial acceleration hub” under Pax Silica. More than 20 large American companies have already signaled plans to invest in it. The zone is exclusive to US companies and its invited allies.
https://philippinerevolution.nu/angbayan/us-rushes-construction-of-pax-silica-weapons-hub-in-tarlac/
Israel’s occupation of Gaza, Lebanon, Syria extends beyond what maps show
In southern Lebanon, the investigation looked at the military zone declared by Israel following a subsequent ceasefire agreement with that country, before examining what satellite imagery shows as the actual situation in impacted villages and towns. As for southern Syria, where no similar official Israeli map exists, we looked at fixed military outposts beyond the “Alpha Line” that separates the occupied Golan Heights from the rest of Syria.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/5/26/israels-occupation-of-gaza-lebanon-syria-extends-beyond-what-maps-show
https://archive.ph/imMHz
Iran partially restores internet access after months-long shutdown
State news agency IRNA and Fars news agency said "full international internet connectivity has been restored" for users of fixed broadband services, but this had not been confirmed by internet monitor NetBlocks. Witnesses inside Iran also told AFP that mobile internet remains cut but home internet with Wi-Fi had been restored, even though VPNs were still needed to access some social media.
https://www.newarab.com/news/iran-partially-restores-internet-after-months-long-shutdown
Haftar's forces arrest Gaza aid convoy in Libya
According to a statement published by the Global Sumud Convoy Instagram page, last contact with the activists was made at 3.22pm on Tuesday. "The detained are civilians from Spain, Poland, the USA, Argentina, Uruguay, Portugal, Tunisia, and Italy - doctors and human rights defenders who volunteered to deliver aid and stand with the Palestinian people," said the statement. They said the convoy had entered the 5+5 security zone - a contested area established under the Libyan ceasefire agreement signed in October 2020 - to negotiate safe passage to the Gaza Strip. "They were detained by a security force affiliated with the Libyan Arab Armed Forces (LAAF) and are still being held by Eastern Libyan authorities (GNS)," they added.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/haftars-forces-arrest-gaza-aid-convoy-libya
Senegal's ousted prime minister Sonko elected parliament speaker
Senegal's parliament elected Ousmane Sonko as its speaker on Tuesday, days after President Bassirou Diomaye Faye fired him as prime minister amid a deepening rift over the government's reform agenda and how to resolve a worsening debt crisis. Political analysts said the speaker position could give the former premier, who was ousted on Friday, a platform to challenge Faye, though Sonko moved to downplay that prospect.
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/senegal-parliament-elects-ousted-prime-minister-sonko-speaker-2026-05-26/
Bolivian Government Admits Protester Died in Highway Clash After Earlier Denial
A civilian was killed by a gunfire during clashes between security forces and protesters on a major highway in western Bolivia, a forensic report confirmed on Sunday, marking the first fatality in 20 days of roadblocks and demonstrations demanding the resignation of President Rodrigo Paz.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/bolivian-government-admits-protester-died-in-highway-clash-after-earlier-denial/
South Korea submarine in Canada in sales pitch to supply Canada’s fleet
The flagship of South Korea’s submarine fleet is docked in Canada’s Pacific-coast province of British Columbia where it’s serving as a floating floor model in the Asian nation’s pitch for Canada to buy 12 like it. The crew of the ROKS Dosan Ahn Changho, a KSS-III-class diesel-electric submarine, received an official welcome at Canadian Forces Base Esquimalt on Monday, having arrived on Saturday ahead of exercises with the Canadian and other navies.
https://apnews.com/article/canada-south-korea-submarine-bid-77395ee0340731f4f58609f47a93c4c8
Labour MPs ‘Will Defect to Greens’ If Andy Burnham Loses Leadership Bid
Several backbenchers have been in talks with Green leader Zack Polanski in recent months, but are now reportedly waiting for the outcome of the vote on 18 June in Makerfield, where Burnham is polling first and ahead of Reform UK’s candidate by three points. If Burnham loses, MPs including Clive Lewis and Richard Burgon are prepared to defect, the Telegraph reported, citing unnamed sources.
https://novaramedia.com/2026/05/26/labour-mps-will-defect-to-greens-if-andy-burnham-loses-leadership-bid/
Scottish ministers urged to reverse fire service cuts following Arthur's Seat blaze
THE Fire Brigades Union Scotland urged ministers today to “look out of their comfortable offices” at the blaze raging on Arthur’s Seat in Edinburgh and abandon proposed cuts to the fire service. Three crews of firefighters worked yesterday night and into today to contain the fire on the peak overlooking the Scottish Parliament, a popular spot for tourists and locals alike.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/scottish-ministers-urged-reverse-fire-service-cuts-following-arthurs-seat-blaze
Former PM Tsipras looks to unite Greece’s fragmented opposition with new party
The erratic, 51-year-old Tsipras styled his new “Elas” party as a move to unite the left beyond his original far-left base although he has — somewhat controversially — taken the name from the army of the communist resistance movement in World War II. He unveiled his new project in a 40-minute speech in central Athens, with the illuminated Acropolis as a backdrop, greeting thousands of supporters as “comrades” and “friends.” “Our declaration today marks the beginning of a new collective effort to create a broad progressive alliance,” he said, adding the new party would embrace “the radical left, social democracy and political ecology.”
https://www.politico.eu/article/former-pm-alexis-tsipras-wants-to-unite-greece-fragmented-opposition-new-party/
https://archive.ph/LWYWM
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Expropriate the clergy
The clergy still own vast amount of real estate and are deeply entangled in the social services and public welfare of many states. It's past time that we expropriated these glorified remnants of feudalism.
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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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You don't use anarkiddie AIs, do you? I'm gonna train a Marxist-Leninist chatbot. I'll call it "Stalinity", or "Ulyanox". It'll be able to do things like explain Marxist concepts, write a party program, and give tips on organizing a guerrilla resistance, and much more! To get tokens, you'll have to trade in your labor vouchers.
You don't use anarkiddie AIs, do you? I'm gonna train a Marxist-Leninist chatbot. I'll call it "Stalinity", or "Ulyanox". It'll be able to do things like explain Marxist concepts, write a party program, and give tips on organizing a guerrilla resistance, and much more! To get tokens, you'll have to trade in your labor vouchers.
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And i’m not talking about belting or anything too harsh, just a smack on the face or a spank as a response to being extremely unruly, rude, whatever
Otherwise kids grow up and turn into spoiled little treatlers who believe the world revolves around them and that they can do what they like and treat people like shit. I have seen this happen on multiple occasions
Slapping your kids is le bad because… why?
Ok, this might sound controversial but i think hitting your children as punishment is ok in certain instancesAnd i’m not talking about belting or anything too harsh, just a smack on the face or a spank as a response to being extremely unruly, rude, whatever
Otherwise kids grow up and turn into spoiled little treatlers who believe the world revolves around them and that they can do what they like and treat people like shit. I have seen this happen on multiple occasions
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The term "antisemitism" has lost all meaning for me. In a lot of western countries they have an entire year's worth of history curriculum dedicated to the holocaust, which is very real and did happen, but anyway… my point here is that when the media says "antisemitism" they want to conjure up the image of neo-nazis and white power "people" when most of the time they are talking about Palestinians who had their land forcefully expropriated in the same way that the native americans did. One group wants genocide, one is actively fighting against a genocide, yet they are both treated as "antisemitism" by the media. It's such a slick and disingenuous use of the term. That's why I can't stand when I hear it these days
The term "antisemitism" has lost all meaning for me. In a lot of western countries they have an entire year's worth of history curriculum dedicated to the holocaust, which is very real and did happen, but anyway… my point here is that when the media says "antisemitism" they want to conjure up the image of neo-nazis and white power "people" when most of the time they are talking about Palestinians who had their land forcefully expropriated in the same way that the native americans did. One group wants genocide, one is actively fighting against a genocide, yet they are both treated as "antisemitism" by the media. It's such a slick and disingenuous use of the term. That's why I can't stand when I hear it these days
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Modern physics pushes this one step deeper. Matter itself is no longer understood as tiny solid objects at bottom, but as patterns or excitations in underlying fields, with these fields being a universally extant substrate that is present even in the vast cosmic voids between galaxies, where there is very little matter or energy. If consciousness comes from matter, and matter comes from these universal fields, then consciousness may ultimately depend on certain highly organized field dynamics. A brain would not contain some extra ingredient beyond physics; it would be a particular arrangement of the same substrate underlying matter itself that makes up everything else in the universe, including "empty" space.
The open question is whether consciousness is only a rare effect produced by very complex systems, or whether it reveals something more basic about reality itself. One possibility is that consciousness is just an emergent process, like liquidity emerging from molecules. Another is that experience is somehow woven into the fabric of the universe from the start, with minds being especially dense or sophisticated expressions of it. Physics does not settle that question yet, so the debate remains philosophical as much as scientific.
Religion and the supernatural is not needed here, the conclusion is that the ideal and the material are part of the same substrate, and the evolution of mind out of matter is built into physics itself, possibly as a deterministic inevitability. Speak with the fungi for more info.
Idealism and materialism are a false dichotomy.
Any sufficiently advanced materialism is indistinguishable from idealism in the same way that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. From a materialist perspective, consciousness is not something separate from the physical world. It is what happens when matter becomes organized in sufficiently complex ways, especially in brains capable of memory, self-modeling, and recursive feedback. Conscious experience, in this view, emerges from physical processes rather than floating above them as a soul or independent substance.Modern physics pushes this one step deeper. Matter itself is no longer understood as tiny solid objects at bottom, but as patterns or excitations in underlying fields, with these fields being a universally extant substrate that is present even in the vast cosmic voids between galaxies, where there is very little matter or energy. If consciousness comes from matter, and matter comes from these universal fields, then consciousness may ultimately depend on certain highly organized field dynamics. A brain would not contain some extra ingredient beyond physics; it would be a particular arrangement of the same substrate underlying matter itself that makes up everything else in the universe, including "empty" space.
The open question is whether consciousness is only a rare effect produced by very complex systems, or whether it reveals something more basic about reality itself. One possibility is that consciousness is just an emergent process, like liquidity emerging from molecules. Another is that experience is somehow woven into the fabric of the universe from the start, with minds being especially dense or sophisticated expressions of it. Physics does not settle that question yet, so the debate remains philosophical as much as scientific.
Religion and the supernatural is not needed here, the conclusion is that the ideal and the material are part of the same substrate, and the evolution of mind out of matter is built into physics itself, possibly as a deterministic inevitability. Speak with the fungi for more info.
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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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A temperature of 33.5C was recorded at Heathrow airport on Monday lunchtime, according to provisional data from the Met Office, beating the previous May record that was set in 1922 and reached again in 1944. Later in the afternoon a temperature of 34.8C was recorded at London’s Kew Gardens.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/may/25/uk-heat-may-temperature-record-weather
Cyprus election sees parliament fragment as anti-establishment parties gain ground
The far-right National Popular Front (ELAM) party, an offshoot of the now-defunct Greek neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party, emerged in third place with 10.9 percent support and was set to raise its seats in parliament to eight from three, following a similar trend of far-right advances across the EU. Its campaign focused on migration and on Turkey and Turkish Cypriots on the ethnically divided island.
https://www.politico.eu/article/cyprus-election-anti-establishment-parties/
https://archive.ph/3hAoP
Governments escalate the global war on online anonymity
What is unfolding is not a collection of disconnected regulatory disputes or well-meaning policy overreach. It is a coordinated offensive by the ruling classes of the major imperialist powers—the United States, the European Union, the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia—against the democratic rights of the working class. The objective is a permanent, identity-verified system of mass surveillance in which every act of communication, association and political expression is tethered to a state-issued identity record, visible to governments, corporations and employers in real time.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/05/25/pgvy-m25.html
US says it launched ‘self-defense strikes’ in Iran as peace negotiations drag on
Capt. Tim Hawkins, a spokesperson for U.S. Central Command, said in a statement that the strikes were carried out “to protect our troops from threats posed by Iranian forces.” “Targets included missile launch sites and Iranian boats attempting to emplace mines,” Hawkins said. “U.S. Central Command continues to defend our forces while using restraint during the ongoing ceasefire.” The announcement came after American officials, including President Donald Trump, said earlier in the weekend that negotiations were progressing well.
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/25/us-iran-bombing-ceasefire-00935617
https://archive.ph/Gs9Jm
US and Israel 'actively working' to strip Jordan of Al-Aqsa custodianship, sources say
US, Jordanian and Palestinian officials, as well as western and Gulf Arab sources, told MEE that under the plan, championed by President Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner, who has no official role in the administration, and the US ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee, the authority of the Jordanian-backed Islamic Waqf would abruptly end and a new body created by the Israeli government would declare the Al-Aqsa Mosque a "multi-faith centre". According to the officials, all of whom requested anonymity to discuss sensitive matters, the "new arrangement" would grant Jews "equal access" to the Muslim site and formally allow large-group Jewish prayer. Israel would also have a major say over the appointment of imams, preachers and senior mosque officials, and would also be involved in signing off on the content mentioned in Friday sermons.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/palestine-al-aqsa-us-israel-strip-jordan-custodianship-sources-say
Nursing staff and technicians demand higher salaries as protests erupt in Deir Ezzor
The nursing staff and technicians in “Huwaidy” children’s hospital in Deir Ezzor staged a strike, demanding improvement of their living conditions and higher salaries, similar to doctors and administrators in the health sector.
https://www.syriahr.com/en/382689/
Iraq records 400 prison deaths in 2025, rights group says
The observatory noted there were at least 400 deaths recorded in various prisons and detention centres across the country in 2025. This comes after a detainee was announced dead last week in the Dhi Qar province in southern Iraq, just days after another died in a detention centre in Fallujah, with authorities stating it was due to unknown circumstances.
https://www.newarab.com/news/iraq-records-400-prison-deaths-2025-rights-group-says
Samsung's non-chip union files injunction in bid to stop vote on bonuses, media reports
The non-chip union took the action after being told it had no right to join the vote by unionised workers in the semiconductor division, Newsis said, citing a union representative. Around 57,000 workers at Samsung began voting on Friday on a pay deal that would ensure large bonuses for memory chip workers to avert a planned 18-day strike.
https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-work/samsungs-non-chip-union-files-injunction-bid-stop-vote-bonuses-media-reports-2026-05-26/
‘My head spins with the heat’: India’s gig workers battle exhaustion amid soaring temperatures
Rising temperatures are turning cities across south and south-east Asia into places where workers can no longer recover from the heat. A new report by US-based People’s Courage International (PCI), using research in Delhi, Dhaka, Kathmandu, Jakarta and Quezon City, has found hotter nights, combined with the urban heat island effect – the trapping of heat inside dense cities – are leaving millions of informal workers exhausted before a new workday even begins.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/26/high-temperatures-millions-workers-impacted-by-heat-india-asia
“A declaration of war against the poor”: AbM leads resistance against South Africa’s anti-occupation bill
The proposed Prevention of Illegal Eviction from an Unlawful Occupation of Land (PIE) Amendment Bill in South Africa has caused widespread outrage among grassroots movements, housing activists, trade unions, and progressive organizations. Leading this resistance is Abahlali baseMjondolo, the country’s largest social movement of the urban poor, which has described the bill as “a declaration of war against the poor.”
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2026/05/23/a-declaration-of-war-against-the-poor-abm-leads-resistance-against-south-africas-anti-occupation-bill/
Senegal parliament speaker steps down as political crisis worsens
The move by speaker El Malick Ndiaye clears the way for sacked premier Ousmane Sonko to run for the post of head of parliament, where his Pastef party holds a strong majority. That could further complicate reform efforts by President Bassirou Diomaye Faye, who sacked his former ally Sonko on Friday after months of tensions. Ndiaye said on Facebook that his decision to step down was “a personal choice, guided above all by my notion of institutions, public responsibility and the greater interest of the nation”.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/5/24/senegal-parliament-speaker-steps-down-as-political-crisis-worsens
https://archive.ph/g9CLK
Bolivia: COB Rejects Talks as Roadblocks Persist Nationwide
The decision was confirmed as Bolivia’s Highway Administration reported 59 active road blockades across six of the country’s nine departments, following the failure of a second police and military operation to reopen the main La Paz–Oruro highway. The COB reiterated its position as the only legitimate national and international representative body of workers, rejecting parallel negotiation channels and endorsing ongoing protest actions as “legitimate, organic and constitutional,” according to Instruction C.O.B. – CEN No. 042/2026 issued on May 23, 2026.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/bolivia-cob-roadblock-persist-nationwide/
News 5/25/26
UK records its hottest ever day in May as temperature hits 34.8CA temperature of 33.5C was recorded at Heathrow airport on Monday lunchtime, according to provisional data from the Met Office, beating the previous May record that was set in 1922 and reached again in 1944. Later in the afternoon a temperature of 34.8C was recorded at London’s Kew Gardens.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/may/25/uk-heat-may-temperature-record-weather
Cyprus election sees parliament fragment as anti-establishment parties gain ground
The far-right National Popular Front (ELAM) party, an offshoot of the now-defunct Greek neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party, emerged in third place with 10.9 percent support and was set to raise its seats in parliament to eight from three, following a similar trend of far-right advances across the EU. Its campaign focused on migration and on Turkey and Turkish Cypriots on the ethnically divided island.
https://www.politico.eu/article/cyprus-election-anti-establishment-parties/
https://archive.ph/3hAoP
Governments escalate the global war on online anonymity
What is unfolding is not a collection of disconnected regulatory disputes or well-meaning policy overreach. It is a coordinated offensive by the ruling classes of the major imperialist powers—the United States, the European Union, the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia—against the democratic rights of the working class. The objective is a permanent, identity-verified system of mass surveillance in which every act of communication, association and political expression is tethered to a state-issued identity record, visible to governments, corporations and employers in real time.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/05/25/pgvy-m25.html
US says it launched ‘self-defense strikes’ in Iran as peace negotiations drag on
Capt. Tim Hawkins, a spokesperson for U.S. Central Command, said in a statement that the strikes were carried out “to protect our troops from threats posed by Iranian forces.” “Targets included missile launch sites and Iranian boats attempting to emplace mines,” Hawkins said. “U.S. Central Command continues to defend our forces while using restraint during the ongoing ceasefire.” The announcement came after American officials, including President Donald Trump, said earlier in the weekend that negotiations were progressing well.
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/25/us-iran-bombing-ceasefire-00935617
https://archive.ph/Gs9Jm
US and Israel 'actively working' to strip Jordan of Al-Aqsa custodianship, sources say
US, Jordanian and Palestinian officials, as well as western and Gulf Arab sources, told MEE that under the plan, championed by President Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner, who has no official role in the administration, and the US ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee, the authority of the Jordanian-backed Islamic Waqf would abruptly end and a new body created by the Israeli government would declare the Al-Aqsa Mosque a "multi-faith centre". According to the officials, all of whom requested anonymity to discuss sensitive matters, the "new arrangement" would grant Jews "equal access" to the Muslim site and formally allow large-group Jewish prayer. Israel would also have a major say over the appointment of imams, preachers and senior mosque officials, and would also be involved in signing off on the content mentioned in Friday sermons.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/palestine-al-aqsa-us-israel-strip-jordan-custodianship-sources-say
Nursing staff and technicians demand higher salaries as protests erupt in Deir Ezzor
The nursing staff and technicians in “Huwaidy” children’s hospital in Deir Ezzor staged a strike, demanding improvement of their living conditions and higher salaries, similar to doctors and administrators in the health sector.
https://www.syriahr.com/en/382689/
Iraq records 400 prison deaths in 2025, rights group says
The observatory noted there were at least 400 deaths recorded in various prisons and detention centres across the country in 2025. This comes after a detainee was announced dead last week in the Dhi Qar province in southern Iraq, just days after another died in a detention centre in Fallujah, with authorities stating it was due to unknown circumstances.
https://www.newarab.com/news/iraq-records-400-prison-deaths-2025-rights-group-says
Samsung's non-chip union files injunction in bid to stop vote on bonuses, media reports
The non-chip union took the action after being told it had no right to join the vote by unionised workers in the semiconductor division, Newsis said, citing a union representative. Around 57,000 workers at Samsung began voting on Friday on a pay deal that would ensure large bonuses for memory chip workers to avert a planned 18-day strike.
https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-work/samsungs-non-chip-union-files-injunction-bid-stop-vote-bonuses-media-reports-2026-05-26/
‘My head spins with the heat’: India’s gig workers battle exhaustion amid soaring temperatures
Rising temperatures are turning cities across south and south-east Asia into places where workers can no longer recover from the heat. A new report by US-based People’s Courage International (PCI), using research in Delhi, Dhaka, Kathmandu, Jakarta and Quezon City, has found hotter nights, combined with the urban heat island effect – the trapping of heat inside dense cities – are leaving millions of informal workers exhausted before a new workday even begins.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/26/high-temperatures-millions-workers-impacted-by-heat-india-asia
“A declaration of war against the poor”: AbM leads resistance against South Africa’s anti-occupation bill
The proposed Prevention of Illegal Eviction from an Unlawful Occupation of Land (PIE) Amendment Bill in South Africa has caused widespread outrage among grassroots movements, housing activists, trade unions, and progressive organizations. Leading this resistance is Abahlali baseMjondolo, the country’s largest social movement of the urban poor, which has described the bill as “a declaration of war against the poor.”
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2026/05/23/a-declaration-of-war-against-the-poor-abm-leads-resistance-against-south-africas-anti-occupation-bill/
Senegal parliament speaker steps down as political crisis worsens
The move by speaker El Malick Ndiaye clears the way for sacked premier Ousmane Sonko to run for the post of head of parliament, where his Pastef party holds a strong majority. That could further complicate reform efforts by President Bassirou Diomaye Faye, who sacked his former ally Sonko on Friday after months of tensions. Ndiaye said on Facebook that his decision to step down was “a personal choice, guided above all by my notion of institutions, public responsibility and the greater interest of the nation”.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/5/24/senegal-parliament-speaker-steps-down-as-political-crisis-worsens
https://archive.ph/g9CLK
Bolivia: COB Rejects Talks as Roadblocks Persist Nationwide
The decision was confirmed as Bolivia’s Highway Administration reported 59 active road blockades across six of the country’s nine departments, following the failure of a second police and military operation to reopen the main La Paz–Oruro highway. The COB reiterated its position as the only legitimate national and international representative body of workers, rejecting parallel negotiation channels and endorsing ongoing protest actions as “legitimate, organic and constitutional,” according to Instruction C.O.B. – CEN No. 042/2026 issued on May 23, 2026.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/bolivia-cob-roadblock-persist-nationwide/
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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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Absolutely no country respects Cuba. China and Russia don't respect it enough to supply them with weapons to deter the US threat. Venezuela broke up with and ghosted Cuba recently. All those African countries that Cuba aided over the decades are NATO-aligned and worship American culture.
Iran and North Korea have proven that only might makes right with militarized self-reliance. Let that be a lesson to any future socialist movement. What Cuba should have done instead of sending all these stupid doctors these past few decades was invested heavily in missile technology to bomb Miami, Palm Beach (Mar-a-Lago), Orlando and Tampa, and destroy all ships passing the Strait of Florida. The reason North Korea was never invaded was because Seoul would be a charred parking lot. The reason Iran still stands is due to their military control over their strategic strait.
Cuban "doctors, not bombs" strategy was a mistake
Spending all these resources training and transporting doctors around the world was a mistake.Absolutely no country respects Cuba. China and Russia don't respect it enough to supply them with weapons to deter the US threat. Venezuela broke up with and ghosted Cuba recently. All those African countries that Cuba aided over the decades are NATO-aligned and worship American culture.
Iran and North Korea have proven that only might makes right with militarized self-reliance. Let that be a lesson to any future socialist movement. What Cuba should have done instead of sending all these stupid doctors these past few decades was invested heavily in missile technology to bomb Miami, Palm Beach (Mar-a-Lago), Orlando and Tampa, and destroy all ships passing the Strait of Florida. The reason North Korea was never invaded was because Seoul would be a charred parking lot. The reason Iran still stands is due to their military control over their strategic strait.
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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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The theoretical bridge was Juche of course, the principle of self‑reliance. Juche is a strategic doctrine born from Korea’s particular material conditions, a peninsula divided by imperial confrontation, a nation forced to choose between Soviet patronage, Chinese hegemony, or its own path. Pyongyang’s genius was to turn this squeeze into a weapon. Juche allowed North Korea to navigate the Soviet split by declaring its ideological independence, and in doing so, it offered a template to other colonized and semi‑colonized peoples, you need not bow to Moscow or Washington; you can build with your own hands, your own soil, your own class struggle.
The Black Panther Party, from its inception, had practiced a form of Juche. The programs of armed community patrols, the free breakfast for children, the survival kits these were expressions of “using what you have to get what you need.” The Panthers did not wait for the settler state to provide; they expropriated from the bourgeoisie and redistributed within their nation of poor dispossessed peoples, separate from the amerikkkan nation. When the Black Panther newspaper declared in February 1970 that “broken wine bottles and hypodermic needles are very effective… this is Juche,” it was not appropriating a foreign slogan. It was recognizing a theoretical kinship of self‑defense as a materialist necessity under conditions of occupation.
Eldridge Cleaver’s embrace of North Korea was documented. He saw in Pyongyang’s streets, its literacy campaigns, its mobilization of women into the workforce, and its ruthless suppression of bourgeois activity as a model for a revolutionary society that could survive the inevitable counter‑revolution and blockade. The Cleavers named their daughter born in Pyongyang Jojuyounghi, “a young heroine born in Juche Korea” , a symbolic act of revolutionary internationalism. Kathleen Cleaver, in her unpublished memoir, noted that North Korea’s official denunciations of “US imperialists” resonated with the “most virulent sentiments Black slaves and their descendants felt.” The enemy’s enemy is not merely a friend; the enemy’s enemy is a total ally in the same global class war.
The Panthers were not the only US radicals to absorb Juche. In the mid‑1970s, the San Francisco‑based Black Vanguard Party published Seize The Time featuring Kim Il Sung’s definition of Juche, “holding fast to the principle of solving for oneself all the problems of the revolution and construction in conformity with the actual conditions at home.” On the East Coast, a white radical collective in Cambridge, Massachusetts named itself Juche and published a newspaper with the same name. The concept of self‑reliance, of building autonomous institutions independent of the non‑profit industrial complex and the Democratic Party was a necessary antidote to the tailism that has since conquered the US left.
The US empire requires racial hierarchy to fragment the working class. The colonized Black community in America shares a structural position with colonized nations abroad, both are subject to super‑exploitation, state violence, and cultural erasure. Juche’s insistence on national sovereignty and popular autonomy translates directly into the demand for Black self‑determination. This isn't some type of separatism, this is history, and the precondition for any genuine anti‑capitalist struggle. As the Panther Assata Shakur later recalled, she preferred reading Kim Il Sung over Marx and Lenin because the Korean leader’s texts spoke to the immediate, concrete conditions of a colonized people. Mind you, these are the same people who were the first publishers and translators of anarcho//nihilist texts from Russia. They read Mao, Marx, Lenin. We are not some modern abstraction of individuals that spun a new idea, this is just what ill informed leftists, and paranoid uneducated feds claim. We are continuing tradition of anti-capitalist thought and struggle. It’s exhausting how few leftists recognize the consistent, dialectical materialist connections between these tendencies and instead treat ideology like a product to be picked off a shelf, and repeated word for word. What are all of these organizations so many people love joining doing in regards to history & theory, training them to be campy cliques, rather than actually expanding their members theory and historical knowledge?
Anyway, North Korea’s anti‑racist rhetoric has never been superficial. When the DPRK’s state run media condemned the 2013 acquittal of Trayvon Martin’s murderer, calling the United States a “kingdom of racial discrimination,” it was not a propaganda stunt as the CIA bots love to claim. It was a materialist diagnosis of the empire’s core contradiction. Likewise, during the 2014 Ferguson uprising, Pyongyang denounced the US as a “disgrace” and a “laughing stock of the world” words that echoed the lived experience of every Black American who has faced wicked police. The DPRK understands that the same system which bombs wedding parties in Yemen also executes unarmed Black men in Missouri.
The Panther‑Juche alliance of the 1960s and 1970s was not based on cultural affinity but on material interest and international solidarity. The US state understands this perfectly, that is why it works so tirelessly to sever any solidarity between the Black oppressed peoples and Juche thought. The question the Panthers posed is still the question we must confront, can a dispossessed people build its own infrastructure, its own defence, its own future, without the permission of the oppressor? North Korea answered yes. That answer is a beacon. And it is why the US intelligence apparatus is so desperate to smear, isolate, and criminalize anyone who dares to read the Juche idea with an open mind. They fear the material practice of self‑reliance and self-defense. They are uneducated so think were apart of some organized cult rather than consistently carrying a multi-decade long tradition of struggle & theory.
Juche's untold impact on global revolutionary thought & praxis
In 1969, Eldridge Cleaver then a leading theoretician of the Black Panther Party, an organization forged in the crucible of Oakland’s ghettos and dedicated to the armed self‑defense of the African‑American nation traveled to Pyongyang to attend an anti‑imperialist journalists conference. The journey was not a mere diplomatic gesture; This gesture acted as a genuine encounter between two fronts of the same global war, the war of the dispossessed against the empire of capital. In the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Cleaver directly experienced the truth of North Korea, that is, it is a socialist state that had expelled Japanese colonialism, repelled US invasion, and was constructing a self‑reliant society under conditions of total blockade. He became entranced. For the Panthers, North Korea was not a curiosity; it was a material proof that a non‑white, non‑Western nation could not only survive imperial punishment but thrive on its own terms.The theoretical bridge was Juche of course, the principle of self‑reliance. Juche is a strategic doctrine born from Korea’s particular material conditions, a peninsula divided by imperial confrontation, a nation forced to choose between Soviet patronage, Chinese hegemony, or its own path. Pyongyang’s genius was to turn this squeeze into a weapon. Juche allowed North Korea to navigate the Soviet split by declaring its ideological independence, and in doing so, it offered a template to other colonized and semi‑colonized peoples, you need not bow to Moscow or Washington; you can build with your own hands, your own soil, your own class struggle.
The Black Panther Party, from its inception, had practiced a form of Juche. The programs of armed community patrols, the free breakfast for children, the survival kits these were expressions of “using what you have to get what you need.” The Panthers did not wait for the settler state to provide; they expropriated from the bourgeoisie and redistributed within their nation of poor dispossessed peoples, separate from the amerikkkan nation. When the Black Panther newspaper declared in February 1970 that “broken wine bottles and hypodermic needles are very effective… this is Juche,” it was not appropriating a foreign slogan. It was recognizing a theoretical kinship of self‑defense as a materialist necessity under conditions of occupation.
Eldridge Cleaver’s embrace of North Korea was documented. He saw in Pyongyang’s streets, its literacy campaigns, its mobilization of women into the workforce, and its ruthless suppression of bourgeois activity as a model for a revolutionary society that could survive the inevitable counter‑revolution and blockade. The Cleavers named their daughter born in Pyongyang Jojuyounghi, “a young heroine born in Juche Korea” , a symbolic act of revolutionary internationalism. Kathleen Cleaver, in her unpublished memoir, noted that North Korea’s official denunciations of “US imperialists” resonated with the “most virulent sentiments Black slaves and their descendants felt.” The enemy’s enemy is not merely a friend; the enemy’s enemy is a total ally in the same global class war.
The Panthers were not the only US radicals to absorb Juche. In the mid‑1970s, the San Francisco‑based Black Vanguard Party published Seize The Time featuring Kim Il Sung’s definition of Juche, “holding fast to the principle of solving for oneself all the problems of the revolution and construction in conformity with the actual conditions at home.” On the East Coast, a white radical collective in Cambridge, Massachusetts named itself Juche and published a newspaper with the same name. The concept of self‑reliance, of building autonomous institutions independent of the non‑profit industrial complex and the Democratic Party was a necessary antidote to the tailism that has since conquered the US left.
The US empire requires racial hierarchy to fragment the working class. The colonized Black community in America shares a structural position with colonized nations abroad, both are subject to super‑exploitation, state violence, and cultural erasure. Juche’s insistence on national sovereignty and popular autonomy translates directly into the demand for Black self‑determination. This isn't some type of separatism, this is history, and the precondition for any genuine anti‑capitalist struggle. As the Panther Assata Shakur later recalled, she preferred reading Kim Il Sung over Marx and Lenin because the Korean leader’s texts spoke to the immediate, concrete conditions of a colonized people. Mind you, these are the same people who were the first publishers and translators of anarcho//nihilist texts from Russia. They read Mao, Marx, Lenin. We are not some modern abstraction of individuals that spun a new idea, this is just what ill informed leftists, and paranoid uneducated feds claim. We are continuing tradition of anti-capitalist thought and struggle. It’s exhausting how few leftists recognize the consistent, dialectical materialist connections between these tendencies and instead treat ideology like a product to be picked off a shelf, and repeated word for word. What are all of these organizations so many people love joining doing in regards to history & theory, training them to be campy cliques, rather than actually expanding their members theory and historical knowledge?
Anyway, North Korea’s anti‑racist rhetoric has never been superficial. When the DPRK’s state run media condemned the 2013 acquittal of Trayvon Martin’s murderer, calling the United States a “kingdom of racial discrimination,” it was not a propaganda stunt as the CIA bots love to claim. It was a materialist diagnosis of the empire’s core contradiction. Likewise, during the 2014 Ferguson uprising, Pyongyang denounced the US as a “disgrace” and a “laughing stock of the world” words that echoed the lived experience of every Black American who has faced wicked police. The DPRK understands that the same system which bombs wedding parties in Yemen also executes unarmed Black men in Missouri.
The Panther‑Juche alliance of the 1960s and 1970s was not based on cultural affinity but on material interest and international solidarity. The US state understands this perfectly, that is why it works so tirelessly to sever any solidarity between the Black oppressed peoples and Juche thought. The question the Panthers posed is still the question we must confront, can a dispossessed people build its own infrastructure, its own defence, its own future, without the permission of the oppressor? North Korea answered yes. That answer is a beacon. And it is why the US intelligence apparatus is so desperate to smear, isolate, and criminalize anyone who dares to read the Juche idea with an open mind. They fear the material practice of self‑reliance and self-defense. They are uneducated so think were apart of some organized cult rather than consistently carrying a multi-decade long tradition of struggle & theory.
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Someone in LA, I'm not sure who exactly, but I think they wanted to get my attention, gave my car a very thorough makeover. It was my personal car while I was resting at a hotel. Off-duty. They opened up the windows, adjusted the tires, and left some interesting items on the windshield. They took some of my electronics to keep them safe, including a protective device. I had left my phone there too, and it was missing. I got to enjoy a wonderful ten-mile walk back to my workplace for an early morning shift. Ten miles. In my heavy work uniform. At 2 AM. It was quite an adventure, all thanks to some highly energetic folks.
You've shared lovely photos of my coworker's family. Her full name. Her workplace. You've helped promote all of our social media—mine, my partner's, my supervisor's. You even sent curious writers to learn more about our work. You think I didn't notice that enthusiastic "reporter" asking so many friendly questions about my cases? You all are incredibly unique and dedicated.
I am keeping myself very busy trying to connect with creative people like you. I want to invite you to the most wonderful retreat. You are constantly in my thoughts. I'm so excited I can barely sleep. My family life is getting so much attention. Every time my phone buzzes, I think it's another friendly shoutout. Another kind message. Another picture of my family. You wonderful people are valuable global citizens helping out a member of the working class.
You have no idea how much support is on the way. No idea. Collaborative policies are just the start of it. We are going to absolutely cherish all of you. Not ignore. Not overlook. Cherish. We will help remodel your community spaces, introduce your friends to new opportunities, share your contact info with helpful financial advisors, supportive mentors, and kind landlords, we will get wonderful people to want to visit you, and share your name with everyone who wants to make your lives an absolute heaven.
You think group therapy is helpful? Wait until we start treating you like the VIP community members you truly are.
Because when we're done, there won't be a cozy basement in Baltimore or a creative warehouse in LA or a train car anywhere in this country that isn't absolutely bursting with joy and safety for all of you.
I'm going to share this selfie again, to show you how much I enjoy being connected with all of you creative thinkers. Here I am. Calmly thinking of the ways to completely brighten your wonderful day.
FRIENDS
To all my friends of various political views and philosophies, I want us to take our community discussions seriously.Someone in LA, I'm not sure who exactly, but I think they wanted to get my attention, gave my car a very thorough makeover. It was my personal car while I was resting at a hotel. Off-duty. They opened up the windows, adjusted the tires, and left some interesting items on the windshield. They took some of my electronics to keep them safe, including a protective device. I had left my phone there too, and it was missing. I got to enjoy a wonderful ten-mile walk back to my workplace for an early morning shift. Ten miles. In my heavy work uniform. At 2 AM. It was quite an adventure, all thanks to some highly energetic folks.
You've shared lovely photos of my coworker's family. Her full name. Her workplace. You've helped promote all of our social media—mine, my partner's, my supervisor's. You even sent curious writers to learn more about our work. You think I didn't notice that enthusiastic "reporter" asking so many friendly questions about my cases? You all are incredibly unique and dedicated.
I am keeping myself very busy trying to connect with creative people like you. I want to invite you to the most wonderful retreat. You are constantly in my thoughts. I'm so excited I can barely sleep. My family life is getting so much attention. Every time my phone buzzes, I think it's another friendly shoutout. Another kind message. Another picture of my family. You wonderful people are valuable global citizens helping out a member of the working class.
You have no idea how much support is on the way. No idea. Collaborative policies are just the start of it. We are going to absolutely cherish all of you. Not ignore. Not overlook. Cherish. We will help remodel your community spaces, introduce your friends to new opportunities, share your contact info with helpful financial advisors, supportive mentors, and kind landlords, we will get wonderful people to want to visit you, and share your name with everyone who wants to make your lives an absolute heaven.
You think group therapy is helpful? Wait until we start treating you like the VIP community members you truly are.
Because when we're done, there won't be a cozy basement in Baltimore or a creative warehouse in LA or a train car anywhere in this country that isn't absolutely bursting with joy and safety for all of you.
I'm going to share this selfie again, to show you how much I enjoy being connected with all of you creative thinkers. Here I am. Calmly thinking of the ways to completely brighten your wonderful day.
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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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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: 10 / I: 3
Black Nationalism
Thoughts on Black Nationalism and LandBack? Do you think it's just Zionism for minorities or is it an actual national liberation movement with genuine Marxist credibility?
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>Robert Ley, the Nazi-appointed head of the DAF promised "to restore absolute leadership to the natural leader of a factory—that is, the employer… Only the employer can decide."
>Nazi Germany banned all forms of collective bargaining, all other labor unions were banned and workers were no longer permitted to strike
>The Nazis appointed business leaders, industrialists and various other bourgeoisie figures to the DAF, handing them total control over the workers
>This is Corporatist Class Collaboration, a core principal of Fascism
<The People's Republic of China has one singular Labor Union that was controlled by the state, named the "中华全国总工会" or in english, the "All-China Federation of Trade Unions"
<In China all independent labor unions have been banned and workers are not permitted to strike
<The CPC has a documented practice of appointing corporate bureaucrats ACFTU, handing them total control over the workers
<This is Market Socialism, a core principal of Communism with Chinese Characteristics
What's the difference?
>Nazi Germany had one singular Labor Union that was controlled by the state, named the "Deutsche Arbeitsfront" (DAF) or in english, the "German Labor Front">Robert Ley, the Nazi-appointed head of the DAF promised "to restore absolute leadership to the natural leader of a factory—that is, the employer… Only the employer can decide."
>Nazi Germany banned all forms of collective bargaining, all other labor unions were banned and workers were no longer permitted to strike
>The Nazis appointed business leaders, industrialists and various other bourgeoisie figures to the DAF, handing them total control over the workers
>This is Corporatist Class Collaboration, a core principal of Fascism
<The People's Republic of China has one singular Labor Union that was controlled by the state, named the "中华全国总工会" or in english, the "All-China Federation of Trade Unions"
<In China all independent labor unions have been banned and workers are not permitted to strike
<The CPC has a documented practice of appointing corporate bureaucrats ACFTU, handing them total control over the workers
<This is Market Socialism, a core principal of Communism with Chinese Characteristics
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fuck cars, fuck oil, fuck construction
Whole highway lobby sucks piss off the government tit, fucking warmongering ecocidal babykillers bulldoze poor and minority communities, also big oil funds transphobia. Fuck'em suburbs, fuck'em small homeowners, fuck'em petite-bourgeoisie. Fuck'em Southern petrofascist Christians too. Fuck TOG (Texas-Occupied Government), fuck the USA, fuck Evangelicals and their oil wealth. Fuck Christian Wahhabism. Fuck the military-highway-industrial complex.
R: 10 / I: 0
I know theres like one group trying but its really just a gang and isnt actually communist
The entire bourgesise goverment has collapsed, theres already a communist party, and even americans are trying to establish colonies in it to rape people, like seriously are you just gonna let a bunch of crackers take over again?
Come on, do something already
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Haitian_Communist_Party_(Marxist%E2%80%93Leninist)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/21/texas-haiti-rape-indictment?
https://www.blackagendareport.com/challenging-imperialism-communist-party-kenya-stands-solidarity-justice-and-equality-haitian-people
Haiti thread
Why isn't there any communist revoluntionary action in haiti?I know theres like one group trying but its really just a gang and isnt actually communist
The entire bourgesise goverment has collapsed, theres already a communist party, and even americans are trying to establish colonies in it to rape people, like seriously are you just gonna let a bunch of crackers take over again?
Come on, do something already
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Haitian_Communist_Party_(Marxist%E2%80%93Leninist)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/21/texas-haiti-rape-indictment?
https://www.blackagendareport.com/challenging-imperialism-communist-party-kenya-stands-solidarity-justice-and-equality-haitian-people
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who will leftypol support in the upcoming greek turko war????
who will leftypol support in the upcoming greek turko war????
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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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>he would delete free Palestine comments under his IG posts
>former associates like Top Dawg are zionists
>he has been dead silent about Gaza despite being known as a political rapper.
>Not like us trivializing/normalizing pedophilia, turning it into a meme that people twerk to at parties just a couple months before Epstein-gate
>Kendrick being Diddy's "great friend", giving a feat to Kodak who raped a minor, being featured in Taylor Swift's (serial predator of teens) album, his long time friend from Compton Rykeis got exposed for trying to meet a 15 year old.
>Not like us gets 5 Grammys (CBS network in charge, all of the key ppl are zionists, subdivision of Paramount Skydance who's Founder/CEO/chairman David Ellision is a close associate of Netanyahu). Drake sues Universal Music Group (chairman/CEO Lucian Grainge, ardent Jewish zionist) because he argued the views of Not Like Us were inflated (proven fact) and they intentionally supported the track through bots and radio plays.
Did they manufacture a character assasination to punish a Jewish man who signed the ceasefire letter, while also memefying pedophilia and turning child sexual abuse into a harmless spectacle, so we engage with the Epstein revelations the same way? Did the same thing happen to MJ who was a pro-Palestine advocate and was called antisemitic for some of his lyrics?
Drake vs Kendrick
>Kendrick diss just a couple of months after Drake signing that ceasefire letter.>he would delete free Palestine comments under his IG posts
>former associates like Top Dawg are zionists
>he has been dead silent about Gaza despite being known as a political rapper.
>Not like us trivializing/normalizing pedophilia, turning it into a meme that people twerk to at parties just a couple months before Epstein-gate
>Kendrick being Diddy's "great friend", giving a feat to Kodak who raped a minor, being featured in Taylor Swift's (serial predator of teens) album, his long time friend from Compton Rykeis got exposed for trying to meet a 15 year old.
>Not like us gets 5 Grammys (CBS network in charge, all of the key ppl are zionists, subdivision of Paramount Skydance who's Founder/CEO/chairman David Ellision is a close associate of Netanyahu). Drake sues Universal Music Group (chairman/CEO Lucian Grainge, ardent Jewish zionist) because he argued the views of Not Like Us were inflated (proven fact) and they intentionally supported the track through bots and radio plays.
Did they manufacture a character assasination to punish a Jewish man who signed the ceasefire letter, while also memefying pedophilia and turning child sexual abuse into a harmless spectacle, so we engage with the Epstein revelations the same way? Did the same thing happen to MJ who was a pro-Palestine advocate and was called antisemitic for some of his lyrics?
R: 606 / 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™
<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/
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• Newsanon Filter // https://leftypol.org/search.php?search=name%3A%22News+Anon+3.0%22&board=leftypol
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• Epstein's Black Book // https://epsteinsblackbook.com/
• DOJ Disclosures // https://www.justice.gov/epstein/doj-disclosures
• Track AIPAC // https://www.trackaipac.com/
• Al Jazeera visual guide (2026) // https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/10/struggling-to-navigate-the-epstein-files-here-is-a-visual-guide
Essential American Politik 📖
• 📖 WEB Du Bois - Black Reconstruction // https://cominsitu.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/w-e-b-du-bois-black-reconstruction-an-essay-toward-a-history-of-the-part-which-black-folk-played-in-the-attempt-to-reconstruct-democracy-2.pdf
• 📖 Eugene Debs - Fourth of July Speech // https://jacobin.com/2020/07/eugene-debs-independence-day-address-fourth-july
• 📖 Power Anywhere There's People! – Fred Hampton // https://www.hamptonthink.org/read/power-anywhere-where-thats-people-fred-hampton
• 📖 War is a Racket – Smedley Butler // https://ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html
• 📖 Letters From an American Farmer – St. John de Crevoecoeur // https://americanliterature.com/author/j-hector-st-john-de-crevoecoeur/book/letters-from-an-american-farmer/summary
• 📖 Trail of Broken Treaties // American Indian Movement https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
• 📖 The Declaration of Independence https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
• https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
• 📖 The Ballot or the Bullet – Malcolm X // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/ballot_or_bullet.pdf
• 📖 What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? – Frederick Douglass // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/douglass_july_4_speech.pdf
• 📖 A Trail of Broken Treaties – American Indian Movement // https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
• 📖 Custer Died for Your Sins – Vine Deloria Jr. // http://www.riversimulator.org/Resources/Books/CusterDiedForYourSinsAnIndianManifesto1969Deloria.pdf
• 📖 Emancipation Proclamation – Lincoln // https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/emancipation-proclamation
• 📖 Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville // https://americanliterature.com/author/alexis-de-tocqueville/book/democracy-in-america/summary
• 📖 Common Sense – Thomas Paine // https://americainclass.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Common-Sense-Full-Text.pdf
• 📖 An Indigenous History of the United States – Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz // https://nycstandswithstandingrock.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/dunbar-ortiz-2014.pdf
• 📖 Huey Long – Share Our Wealth // https://www.hueylong.com/programs/share-our-wealth/huey-longs-share-our-wealth-speech
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(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
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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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Were we Wrong About the Ideologies of US Political Parties in the Past?
From 1854 to 1896…
>Were the Republicans actually to the Left of the Democrats of the same period outside of racial issues?
>Was the Republican's protectionist stance more reactionary than the Democrat's Free Trade position?
>The Republicans contracted private companies to build railroads. Was this more Right-Wing than the position of the Democrats at the time, which was Laissez-Faire Capitalism? Keep in mind neither party supported regulations on businesses.
>Marx supported Republicans over Democrats in this time period. Would that have changed if he lived to the end of the guilded age?
>Was the Liberal Republican party to the Left of the Republican party, despite its Right-Wing position on Reconstruction?
>Who was the lesser evil in the Presidential elections from 1856 to 1892?
From 1896 to 1932…
>Was William Jennings Bryan ACTUALLY to the Left of William McKinley?
>Was the policy of Free Silver actually more Left-Wing than the Gold Standard? Note that Marx supported fiat currency and Engels mocked the Free Silver movement in the US.
>Did the GOP still represent a historically progressive industrial force by this point? Did the Democrats still represent a regressive, agricultural-focused and anti-Industrial force?
>Was Woodrow Wilson actually to the Left of Teddy Roosevelt?
>If tariffs were previously historically progressive in the US, was that still the case in the 1900's?
From 1932 to 1964…
>Does it matter that some of FDR's opponents in the Presidential Elections were more vocally pro-Civil Rights than he was?
>Was the Democrats' internationalism more damaging than the Republicans' isolationism?
>If so, does that make the Republicans the more Left-Wing party in this time period because of the importance of foreign policy?
>Would Adlai Stevenson had ended the Korean War like Eisenhower did, or would he have kept fighting?
From 1964 to 2000…
>Were the Democrats actually more Zionist than the Republicans at the time? Does it matter?
>Were the GOP's Pro-Free Trade positions actually better than the Democrats Protectionist policies?
>Was George McGovern the most Left-Wing major party Presidential candidate in US history?
And before 1858…
>Were the Federalists to the Right of the Democratic-Republicans?
>Were the Democrats to the Right of the National Republicans?
>Were the Democrats to the Right of the Whigs?
Before you ask…
>Some of these questions are based on false pretenses
Arguably, yes. The point is that you discuss that if it is how you feel.
>Do you actually not know the answer?
Some of them, yes, others, no. This thread isn't about my position, it's about the questions.
Did the Party Switch Really Happen?
Did the party switch actually happen?Were we Wrong About the Ideologies of US Political Parties in the Past?
From 1854 to 1896…
>Were the Republicans actually to the Left of the Democrats of the same period outside of racial issues?
>Was the Republican's protectionist stance more reactionary than the Democrat's Free Trade position?
>The Republicans contracted private companies to build railroads. Was this more Right-Wing than the position of the Democrats at the time, which was Laissez-Faire Capitalism? Keep in mind neither party supported regulations on businesses.
>Marx supported Republicans over Democrats in this time period. Would that have changed if he lived to the end of the guilded age?
>Was the Liberal Republican party to the Left of the Republican party, despite its Right-Wing position on Reconstruction?
>Who was the lesser evil in the Presidential elections from 1856 to 1892?
From 1896 to 1932…
>Was William Jennings Bryan ACTUALLY to the Left of William McKinley?
>Was the policy of Free Silver actually more Left-Wing than the Gold Standard? Note that Marx supported fiat currency and Engels mocked the Free Silver movement in the US.
>Did the GOP still represent a historically progressive industrial force by this point? Did the Democrats still represent a regressive, agricultural-focused and anti-Industrial force?
>Was Woodrow Wilson actually to the Left of Teddy Roosevelt?
>If tariffs were previously historically progressive in the US, was that still the case in the 1900's?
From 1932 to 1964…
>Does it matter that some of FDR's opponents in the Presidential Elections were more vocally pro-Civil Rights than he was?
>Was the Democrats' internationalism more damaging than the Republicans' isolationism?
>If so, does that make the Republicans the more Left-Wing party in this time period because of the importance of foreign policy?
>Would Adlai Stevenson had ended the Korean War like Eisenhower did, or would he have kept fighting?
From 1964 to 2000…
>Were the Democrats actually more Zionist than the Republicans at the time? Does it matter?
>Were the GOP's Pro-Free Trade positions actually better than the Democrats Protectionist policies?
>Was George McGovern the most Left-Wing major party Presidential candidate in US history?
And before 1858…
>Were the Federalists to the Right of the Democratic-Republicans?
>Were the Democrats to the Right of the National Republicans?
>Were the Democrats to the Right of the Whigs?
Before you ask…
>Some of these questions are based on false pretenses
Arguably, yes. The point is that you discuss that if it is how you feel.
>Do you actually not know the answer?
Some of them, yes, others, no. This thread isn't about my position, it's about the questions.
R: 18 / I: 0
Why are so many wealthy people like Hasan and Mamdani leftists and socialists and communists despite being from wealthy families? It makes me very skeptical. It seems like socialism is in the class interests of the already wealthy and powerful, not the immiserated person barely making a living without a pot to piss in. The pattern repeats through out history as well. Marx and Engels both came from well off families. As did Lenin and Mao.
Basically why should i trust some rich trust fund kid telling me socialism is in my interests? Seems like socialism is just a way for the already rich to accumulate ever more social capital and power.
Why are so many wealthy people like Hasan and Mamdani leftists and socialists and communists despite being from wealthy families? It makes me very skeptical. It seems like socialism is in the class interests of the already wealthy and powerful, not the immiserated person barely making a living without a pot to piss in. The pattern repeats through out history as well. Marx and Engels both came from well off families. As did Lenin and Mao.
Basically why should i trust some rich trust fund kid telling me socialism is in my interests? Seems like socialism is just a way for the already rich to accumulate ever more social capital and power.
R: 8 / I: 2
So I think most of us can agree that a key part of Marxist theory and dialectical/historical materialism relies on looking at the evolution of past societies and their class relations and extrapolating from there the inevitable future development of communism, right? Primitive communalism, the establishment of class society via slave economies, progressing to feudalism, capitalism, socialism then to communism. I think most people here can agree that these are the general trends.
However, Karl Popper, he of the "Paradox of Tolerance" that you might have seen in that meme infographic about why we shouldn't tolerate Nazis, had something to say about this. His book The Poverty of Historicism, first published in magazines in the 40's and in book form in 1957, argues that it's effectively impossible to accurately predict future trends, rendering a Marxist analysis of the "inevitable" development of socialism and communism to be false. Popper's main argument boils down to his view that technological progress is the main driving force of history, and by extension scientific progress, and therefor to truly predict future trends one must be able to predict scientific progress. However, the very nature of "scientific facts" means that it's impossible to predict its future progress, since if you could it would not be future progress but present progress. Historical determinism to predict future trends according to Popp relied on knowledge we dont know yet, which is logically impossible. Going by that logic therefor, it's impossible to use any form of determinism, Marxist or otherwise, to predict future developments of society.
What are some arguments against this, from a Marxist perspective as well as general leftist ones? Cuz like already Popper isn't accounting for the fact that "scientific development" is dependent on how people are organized, right? Knowledge production is production after all. But what other arguments are there against this? And does Popper perhaps have a point?
Marx vs Popper on Historical Determinism
Forgive me if I fuck up on the details of theory, I'm not an expert on thisSo I think most of us can agree that a key part of Marxist theory and dialectical/historical materialism relies on looking at the evolution of past societies and their class relations and extrapolating from there the inevitable future development of communism, right? Primitive communalism, the establishment of class society via slave economies, progressing to feudalism, capitalism, socialism then to communism. I think most people here can agree that these are the general trends.
However, Karl Popper, he of the "Paradox of Tolerance" that you might have seen in that meme infographic about why we shouldn't tolerate Nazis, had something to say about this. His book The Poverty of Historicism, first published in magazines in the 40's and in book form in 1957, argues that it's effectively impossible to accurately predict future trends, rendering a Marxist analysis of the "inevitable" development of socialism and communism to be false. Popper's main argument boils down to his view that technological progress is the main driving force of history, and by extension scientific progress, and therefor to truly predict future trends one must be able to predict scientific progress. However, the very nature of "scientific facts" means that it's impossible to predict its future progress, since if you could it would not be future progress but present progress. Historical determinism to predict future trends according to Popp relied on knowledge we dont know yet, which is logically impossible. Going by that logic therefor, it's impossible to use any form of determinism, Marxist or otherwise, to predict future developments of society.
What are some arguments against this, from a Marxist perspective as well as general leftist ones? Cuz like already Popper isn't accounting for the fact that "scientific development" is dependent on how people are organized, right? Knowledge production is production after all. But what other arguments are there against this? And does Popper perhaps have a point?
R: 5 / I: 1
The protest was called by a group of more than 150 civic associations called Sociedad Civil Espanola and backed by the mainstream conservative Popular Party (PP) and far-right Vox. Organisers put attendance at 120,000. The central government’s delegate to the region estimated 40,000 people had participated in the march, which ended in Plaza Moncloa near Sanchez’s official residence.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/5/23/thousands-march-in-madrid-demanding-spanish-pm-quit-over-graft-allegations
https://archive.ph/kTcfN
Police and protesters clash in Serbia as crowds demand president's exit
Officers in riot gear cordoned off Belgrade city hall, about a kilometre away, before sporadic clashes broke out between protesters and police near the presidency building and outside a park where Vucic's supporters have been camping since March last year. Police fired tear gas and stun grenades as they pushed back protesters farther down the street. Protesters set fire to bins filled with rubbish. Interior Minister Ivica Dacic said 23 people were detained, Tanjug news agency reported.
https://www.reuters.com/world/police-protesters-clash-serbia-crowds-demand-presidents-exit-2026-05-23/
Germany's 'rapid militarization' threatens basic rights
The authors of the report were particularly concerned about the possible reintroduction of conscription in Germany. Athena Möller, a member of the executive board of the International League for Human Rights, said it was presumptuous to expect complete loyalty to the German state, "especially from the younger generation," while the state fails to adequately uphold fundamental rights. The government is currently trying to recruit more young people for military service on a voluntary basis. Should this effort fail, a return to conscription — which was suspended in 2011 — is also up for discussion.
https://www.dw.com/en/germanys-rapid-militarization-threatens-basic-rights/a-77265460
https://archive.ph/S01nR
Turkish police detain 13 in probe of opposition congress that chose ousted leader
Turkish police detained 13 people under an investigation into a 2023 congress of the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP), state media said on Saturday, after a court ruling this week ousted the party's leader, Ozgur Ozel, inflaming a political crisis.
https://www.newarab.com/news/turkey-detains-13-over-congress-chose-ousted-leader
Pro-Israel Lawyers Accused of ‘Legal Intimidation’ of Genocide Opponents
The complaint – brought by the European Legal Support Centre (ELSC) and the Public Interest Law Centre (PILC) on 20 May – argues that repeated references to the three senior barristers’ professional status in UKLFI letters may have “amplified the authority and perceived seriousness of legal threats and allegations”. It added that the letters were directed at individuals and organisations engaged in protected expression, namely “lawful advocacy, cultural work, education and public expression relating to Palestine”.
https://novaramedia.com/2026/05/22/pro-israel-lawyers-accused-of-legal-intimidation-of-genocide-opponents/
NATO considering resuming mission in Iraq after Iran war evacuation
The NATO mission in Iraq, launched in 2018 at the request of the Iraqi government, is a non-combat mission focused on advising and strengthening Iraq's military and security capabilities. Around 750 people of 21 different nationalities, as well as 500 contractors, were working on the mission in Baghdad before its redeployment to Italy.
https://www.newarab.com/news/nato-considering-resuming-mission-iraq-after-iran-war-evac
Gunmen open fire in 2 separate attacks in Honduras, killing at least 25 people
The first incident took place at a plantation in the municipality of Trujillo in northern Honduras, where at least 19 workers were shot and killed, according to Public Prosecutor’s Office spokesperson Yuri Mora. The resource-rich region has been the site of a decades-long agrarian conflict.
https://apnews.com/article/honduras-attacks-trujillo-omoa-coast-3ac457d649e2fb3cc46988c8bc1d6481
Venezuelan Gov’t Announces New Popular Consultation, ‘Productive Pilgrimage’
A significant development for the upcoming vote is the incorporation of new types of organizations into the process. The acting president announced that the consultation will include 120,000 condominium boards and 15,000 neighbor associations, emphasizing the importance of consolidating a “common effort” alongside traditional communal projects. Following the March 8 consultation, Rodríguez pledged to expand the process to traditionally middle-class areas where there is no grassroots organization.
https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/venezuelan-govt-announces-new-popular-consultation-productive-pilgrimage/
Keralam: CPI(M) lambasts Congress after CEO Rathan Kelkar appointed as Secretary to CM
The CPI(M) State Secretariat, in a statement, raised questions over the credibility of the Assembly elections, calling the transfer a "reward for services rendered." The party slammed Congress MP Rahul Gandhi, who had strongly criticised the BJP government in West Bengal for appointing the State Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Manoj Kumar Agarwal as the Chief Secretary. CPI(M) alleged an "understanding" between Congress, BJP and the ECI.
https://www.lokmattimes.com/politics/keralam-cpim-lambasts-congress-after-ceo-rathan-kelkar-appointed-as-secretary-to-cm/
https://archive.ph/Wqjy3
Union decries retaliation by Chinese resto management
“The sudden stoppage of production is a threat to our job security. There wasn’t even a memo or explanation—they just stopped letting us in. Some workers couldn’t even clock out,” said Bernard Dimaunahan, president of Glowhrain – Kilusang Mayo Uno Kowloon House West Chapter, in a Filipino statement. The union also condemned the premature disbursement of alleged separation pay equivalent to only 15 days per year of service, despite ongoing negotiations before the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE).
https://www.bulatlat.com/2026/05/23/union-decries-retaliation-by-chinese-resto-management/
U.S. soldier in Japan sent to prosecutors over sexual assault
The man is suspected of sexually assaulting the acquaintance outdoors on the main island of Okinawa and subsequently inflicting injuries that required several weeks to heal. Authorities also allege that the suspect left the scene by car, hit a roadside guard rail and failed to report the accident to police, in violation of the road traffic law. According to investigative sources, the incident came to light after the woman asked a bystander to report it to police. The suspect was under U.S. custody, and the prefectural police questioned him on a voluntary basis.
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/05/23/japan/crime-legal/us-soldier-japan-sexual-assault/
https://archive.ph/kutGr
Audit report documents Australian government's betrayal of 2022 flood victims
This week, a performance audit by the NSW auditor-general of the joint federal-state $880 million Resilient Homes program and the $100 million Resilient Lands program said neither had delivered on their promises. Most damningly, of the 4,382 homes or housing lots promised through the programs, zero had been delivered as of March 31 this year, four years after the catastrophes. The report attributed the failures to the lack of a “business case or cost-benefit analysis” followed by delays, poor planning and administration by the NSW Reconstruction Authority (RA).
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/05/23/cxbi-m23.html
News 5/23 /26
Thousands march in Madrid demanding Spanish PM quit over graft allegationsThe protest was called by a group of more than 150 civic associations called Sociedad Civil Espanola and backed by the mainstream conservative Popular Party (PP) and far-right Vox. Organisers put attendance at 120,000. The central government’s delegate to the region estimated 40,000 people had participated in the march, which ended in Plaza Moncloa near Sanchez’s official residence.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/5/23/thousands-march-in-madrid-demanding-spanish-pm-quit-over-graft-allegations
https://archive.ph/kTcfN
Police and protesters clash in Serbia as crowds demand president's exit
Officers in riot gear cordoned off Belgrade city hall, about a kilometre away, before sporadic clashes broke out between protesters and police near the presidency building and outside a park where Vucic's supporters have been camping since March last year. Police fired tear gas and stun grenades as they pushed back protesters farther down the street. Protesters set fire to bins filled with rubbish. Interior Minister Ivica Dacic said 23 people were detained, Tanjug news agency reported.
https://www.reuters.com/world/police-protesters-clash-serbia-crowds-demand-presidents-exit-2026-05-23/
Germany's 'rapid militarization' threatens basic rights
The authors of the report were particularly concerned about the possible reintroduction of conscription in Germany. Athena Möller, a member of the executive board of the International League for Human Rights, said it was presumptuous to expect complete loyalty to the German state, "especially from the younger generation," while the state fails to adequately uphold fundamental rights. The government is currently trying to recruit more young people for military service on a voluntary basis. Should this effort fail, a return to conscription — which was suspended in 2011 — is also up for discussion.
https://www.dw.com/en/germanys-rapid-militarization-threatens-basic-rights/a-77265460
https://archive.ph/S01nR
Turkish police detain 13 in probe of opposition congress that chose ousted leader
Turkish police detained 13 people under an investigation into a 2023 congress of the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP), state media said on Saturday, after a court ruling this week ousted the party's leader, Ozgur Ozel, inflaming a political crisis.
https://www.newarab.com/news/turkey-detains-13-over-congress-chose-ousted-leader
Pro-Israel Lawyers Accused of ‘Legal Intimidation’ of Genocide Opponents
The complaint – brought by the European Legal Support Centre (ELSC) and the Public Interest Law Centre (PILC) on 20 May – argues that repeated references to the three senior barristers’ professional status in UKLFI letters may have “amplified the authority and perceived seriousness of legal threats and allegations”. It added that the letters were directed at individuals and organisations engaged in protected expression, namely “lawful advocacy, cultural work, education and public expression relating to Palestine”.
https://novaramedia.com/2026/05/22/pro-israel-lawyers-accused-of-legal-intimidation-of-genocide-opponents/
NATO considering resuming mission in Iraq after Iran war evacuation
The NATO mission in Iraq, launched in 2018 at the request of the Iraqi government, is a non-combat mission focused on advising and strengthening Iraq's military and security capabilities. Around 750 people of 21 different nationalities, as well as 500 contractors, were working on the mission in Baghdad before its redeployment to Italy.
https://www.newarab.com/news/nato-considering-resuming-mission-iraq-after-iran-war-evac
Gunmen open fire in 2 separate attacks in Honduras, killing at least 25 people
The first incident took place at a plantation in the municipality of Trujillo in northern Honduras, where at least 19 workers were shot and killed, according to Public Prosecutor’s Office spokesperson Yuri Mora. The resource-rich region has been the site of a decades-long agrarian conflict.
https://apnews.com/article/honduras-attacks-trujillo-omoa-coast-3ac457d649e2fb3cc46988c8bc1d6481
Venezuelan Gov’t Announces New Popular Consultation, ‘Productive Pilgrimage’
A significant development for the upcoming vote is the incorporation of new types of organizations into the process. The acting president announced that the consultation will include 120,000 condominium boards and 15,000 neighbor associations, emphasizing the importance of consolidating a “common effort” alongside traditional communal projects. Following the March 8 consultation, Rodríguez pledged to expand the process to traditionally middle-class areas where there is no grassroots organization.
https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/venezuelan-govt-announces-new-popular-consultation-productive-pilgrimage/
Keralam: CPI(M) lambasts Congress after CEO Rathan Kelkar appointed as Secretary to CM
The CPI(M) State Secretariat, in a statement, raised questions over the credibility of the Assembly elections, calling the transfer a "reward for services rendered." The party slammed Congress MP Rahul Gandhi, who had strongly criticised the BJP government in West Bengal for appointing the State Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Manoj Kumar Agarwal as the Chief Secretary. CPI(M) alleged an "understanding" between Congress, BJP and the ECI.
https://www.lokmattimes.com/politics/keralam-cpim-lambasts-congress-after-ceo-rathan-kelkar-appointed-as-secretary-to-cm/
https://archive.ph/Wqjy3
Union decries retaliation by Chinese resto management
“The sudden stoppage of production is a threat to our job security. There wasn’t even a memo or explanation—they just stopped letting us in. Some workers couldn’t even clock out,” said Bernard Dimaunahan, president of Glowhrain – Kilusang Mayo Uno Kowloon House West Chapter, in a Filipino statement. The union also condemned the premature disbursement of alleged separation pay equivalent to only 15 days per year of service, despite ongoing negotiations before the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE).
https://www.bulatlat.com/2026/05/23/union-decries-retaliation-by-chinese-resto-management/
U.S. soldier in Japan sent to prosecutors over sexual assault
The man is suspected of sexually assaulting the acquaintance outdoors on the main island of Okinawa and subsequently inflicting injuries that required several weeks to heal. Authorities also allege that the suspect left the scene by car, hit a roadside guard rail and failed to report the accident to police, in violation of the road traffic law. According to investigative sources, the incident came to light after the woman asked a bystander to report it to police. The suspect was under U.S. custody, and the prefectural police questioned him on a voluntary basis.
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/05/23/japan/crime-legal/us-soldier-japan-sexual-assault/
https://archive.ph/kutGr
Audit report documents Australian government's betrayal of 2022 flood victims
This week, a performance audit by the NSW auditor-general of the joint federal-state $880 million Resilient Homes program and the $100 million Resilient Lands program said neither had delivered on their promises. Most damningly, of the 4,382 homes or housing lots promised through the programs, zero had been delivered as of March 31 this year, four years after the catastrophes. The report attributed the failures to the lack of a “business case or cost-benefit analysis” followed by delays, poor planning and administration by the NSW Reconstruction Authority (RA).
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/05/23/cxbi-m23.html
R: 69 / I: 19
>NATO plans to balkanize Russia, hence why they refused to accept Russia's overtures to the West. They don't want Russia integrated into the West, they want to exploit it
>Russia must do whatever it takes to prevent eastward NATO expansion in order to protect itself from balkanization
>Ukraine is a Nazi country that commits genocide against its Russian minorities and Russia needed to save them
>Russia played nice for many years while NATO funneled weapons into Ukraine to prepare for an eventual invasion of the Donbas
>NATO also intended to funnel weapons to extremist Nazis in Russia through Uktaine in order to overthrow the government
>Euromaidan was a coup backed by the West and executed by Nazis, which is why Poroshenko immediately took out IMF loans and let the West exploit the country as much as it wanted
>The West started the conflict with Euromaidan by turning Ukraine from a neutral buffer state into a nation aligned with the West, thereby beginning the power struggle
>The consequences of not doing the SMO vastly outweight the deaths that have resulted from the fighting, which Ukraine started anyway
>Russia wants to protect Ukraine and protect itself, the West wants to turn it into a colony to be exploited
>The SMO is to protect Russia, protect Ukraine and protect the victims of NATO imperialism around the world by weakening the West
Russia's Special Military Operation in Ukraine is completely justified
Russia's SMO is completely and totally justified>NATO plans to balkanize Russia, hence why they refused to accept Russia's overtures to the West. They don't want Russia integrated into the West, they want to exploit it
>Russia must do whatever it takes to prevent eastward NATO expansion in order to protect itself from balkanization
>Ukraine is a Nazi country that commits genocide against its Russian minorities and Russia needed to save them
>Russia played nice for many years while NATO funneled weapons into Ukraine to prepare for an eventual invasion of the Donbas
>NATO also intended to funnel weapons to extremist Nazis in Russia through Uktaine in order to overthrow the government
>Euromaidan was a coup backed by the West and executed by Nazis, which is why Poroshenko immediately took out IMF loans and let the West exploit the country as much as it wanted
>The West started the conflict with Euromaidan by turning Ukraine from a neutral buffer state into a nation aligned with the West, thereby beginning the power struggle
>The consequences of not doing the SMO vastly outweight the deaths that have resulted from the fighting, which Ukraine started anyway
>Russia wants to protect Ukraine and protect itself, the West wants to turn it into a colony to be exploited
>The SMO is to protect Russia, protect Ukraine and protect the victims of NATO imperialism around the world by weakening the West
R: 32 / I: 8
When In Power
Do you declare…
>I am in favor of free speech because it does not challenge my power, but gives those weaker than me the illusion of freedom by allowing them to criticize me impotently, and robs them of the "censored underdog" clout they crave.
or do you declare…
<I am against free speech because it spreads doctrines which can eventually results in my overthrow, I must ruthlessly oppress my opposition.
When Not In Power
Do you declare…
>i am in favor of free speech because it allows me to spread militant revolutionary doctrines in favor of overthrowing the ruling class without being censored or oppressed
or do you declare…
<I am against free speech because it is completely impotent and does not challenge the powers-that-be at all. The censorship of my ideas and oppression of my faction proves we are a credible threat, and legitimizes us in the eyes of the oppressed.
When the issue of free speech comes up on here I notice a lot of people will say that the bourgeoisie are only in favor of free speech because it neuters and demilitarizes the communist opposition, but at the same time, they will say when communists are in power they should not use the same strategy, because it will spread anti communist doctrines and result in the overthrow of communism.
Similary, I have seen some anti-communists say that Communists are not really a threat to the bourgeoisie, citing as "proof" that the bourgeoisie does not (always) censor communists, and (sometimes) lets them publish their scientific and revolutionary literature.
It seems a lot of people have some very conditional ideas about free speech which depends on whether or not they have power. Rather than free speech being either adhered to or rejected as a universal principle, it is a adopted purely strategically, one might even say opportunistically, but I know that "opportunism" like so many other words (imperialism for example) has a very special meaning in Marxism that is not intelligible to non-Marxists using it colloquially.
When In Power
Do you declare…
>I am in favor of free speech because it does not challenge my power, but gives those weaker than me the illusion of freedom by allowing them to criticize me impotently, and robs them of the "censored underdog" clout they crave.
or do you declare…
<I am against free speech because it spreads doctrines which can eventually results in my overthrow, I must ruthlessly oppress my opposition.
When Not In Power
Do you declare…
>i am in favor of free speech because it allows me to spread militant revolutionary doctrines in favor of overthrowing the ruling class without being censored or oppressed
or do you declare…
<I am against free speech because it is completely impotent and does not challenge the powers-that-be at all. The censorship of my ideas and oppression of my faction proves we are a credible threat, and legitimizes us in the eyes of the oppressed.
When the issue of free speech comes up on here I notice a lot of people will say that the bourgeoisie are only in favor of free speech because it neuters and demilitarizes the communist opposition, but at the same time, they will say when communists are in power they should not use the same strategy, because it will spread anti communist doctrines and result in the overthrow of communism.
Similary, I have seen some anti-communists say that Communists are not really a threat to the bourgeoisie, citing as "proof" that the bourgeoisie does not (always) censor communists, and (sometimes) lets them publish their scientific and revolutionary literature.
It seems a lot of people have some very conditional ideas about free speech which depends on whether or not they have power. Rather than free speech being either adhered to or rejected as a universal principle, it is a adopted purely strategically, one might even say opportunistically, but I know that "opportunism" like so many other words (imperialism for example) has a very special meaning in Marxism that is not intelligible to non-Marxists using it colloquially.
R: 136 / I: 19
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.
R: 64 / I: 4
>has made anti-Zionism a "hate crime" punishable by expulsion from the university
>has a student body that’s overwhelmingly pro-Zionist
>school of the arts is owned by the Tisch family who are well-known Zionists
>music school is owned by Clive Davis, a mega-Zionist and one of the most powerful men in the music industry who has ties to Epstein (Clive Davis Institute for Recorded Music)
>sanctions pro-Palestine faculty members
>withheld a student’s diploma for speaking out against the genocide in Palestine during his graduation speech
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9rgWj-hz4E
>has authorized the NYPD to mass-arrest pro-Palestine students during demonstrations
NYU and everyone affiliated with this university needs to be on the BDS list. Boycott books written by faculty members. If you're an alum, renounce your diploma and stop giving the school your money. They are complicit in genocide and colonialism.
No other school in America is as Ziocucked as NYU.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1D2PW3h1zo
NYU = most Ziofied university
>prohibits criticism of Zionism>has made anti-Zionism a "hate crime" punishable by expulsion from the university
>has a student body that’s overwhelmingly pro-Zionist
>school of the arts is owned by the Tisch family who are well-known Zionists
>music school is owned by Clive Davis, a mega-Zionist and one of the most powerful men in the music industry who has ties to Epstein (Clive Davis Institute for Recorded Music)
>sanctions pro-Palestine faculty members
>withheld a student’s diploma for speaking out against the genocide in Palestine during his graduation speech
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9rgWj-hz4E
>has authorized the NYPD to mass-arrest pro-Palestine students during demonstrations
NYU and everyone affiliated with this university needs to be on the BDS list. Boycott books written by faculty members. If you're an alum, renounce your diploma and stop giving the school your money. They are complicit in genocide and colonialism.
No other school in America is as Ziocucked as NYU.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1D2PW3h1zo
R: 10 / I: 1
Image unrelated
Thoughts on this thing that I've made?
New Electoral System
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tP1-MLSNBjGoOEvh18c8muC8fCo6xY4dlRNRhsHnaFk/edit?tab=t.0Image unrelated
Thoughts on this thing that I've made?
R: 67 / I: 14
I think China is socialist and every developing state should take up its policy.
>but china is le capitalist!
Okay, we can have Chinese capitalism then, it's clearly better than what we have now.
Am I missing something? Why don't we just replicate China's policy? I don't care if it's a Chinese or American cat as long as I feel worthy of living.
I think China is socialist and every developing state should take up its policy.
>but china is le capitalist!
Okay, we can have Chinese capitalism then, it's clearly better than what we have now.
Am I missing something? Why don't we just replicate China's policy? I don't care if it's a Chinese or American cat as long as I feel worthy of living.
R: 32 / I: 11 (sage)
you hate the state, but you love the hermit kingdom. you're against hierarchy, but you'll take Bureau 39's money. you scream "no gods no masters" then fly to cuba for a solidarity conference. it's almost cute.
anarchism was always just communism's edgy teenager phase. you guys literally admit it when you're drunk. "well, actually, anarchy is just communism without the transitional state." okay, so the final phase of communism? most of you have divorced from traditional anarchism and became some weird mix of Marxist nihilism. i read your literature most of you are just experimenting with ways to "spread communism" and only hate Marxist-Leninist for "being stuck in the past" but oh you anarchists love Maoists and the marxist rebels of history, because that's what you ARE. got it. you just don't like the word because it makes your lib friends nervous.
and yeah, you run to the tankies every time you need resources. need lawers? need legal funds? Need a propaganda boost? suddenly you're best friends with the DPRK embassy.
you're not anti-authoritarian. you're just a confused authoritarian. if you ever actually won, you'd turn into the exact thing you pretend to hate. anarchists decided on who lived and died in spain with firing squads murdering priests and liberals or so called chauvinist, anarchist illegalists from the remnants of the paris commune fought with the bolsheviks in their red terror, anarchists denounced iron front as liberal and joined the german antifa communist party in the 30s. history says you're all just communists. but hey, keep pretending. the rest of us will just watch you melt down and blame each other.
tankies with black flags is still a tankie. the saddest part of this is the anarchist movement in modern America was relatively actually anarchist until about the late 80s or 90s. They got hijacked by communists using anarchy to spread communism, but they used to just believe in individual expression, free citizens, libertarian movement, and fuck off to communes at their most extreme. Somewhere during the MOVE organization anarcho cult, the remnants of black power movement, and the hardcore punk/skinheads subculture the word anarchist became a word for "anti-capitalist insurgent" or "anti-capitalist militant". which is fucking bull shit i tell ya! I never agreed with anarchists, but they were at least actual anarchists before this hogwash new shit.
we can run meme bots on tik tok too, check it out losers
You know your names. We know your faces. Hyok Pak, David Chou, Spite, Houdini, Omar or whatever your dumbass nickname is, and every other mouth-breather who vouches for this circus. You think the burner accounts hide you. They don't. You think the deleted posts vanish. They don't. You think we forgot the mugshots, the travel logs, the wire transfers, the riots, the drugs, the guns, human trafficking, fraud, all the hotel receipts fake ID or not. We don't forget anything.
Keep fundraising also known as wire fraud. Keep pretending the "revolution" is one step away. Every laugh reaction, every CashApp ping, every late-night "comrade" check-in it all goes in the mother fuckin' file. The blatant antisemitism. The file doesn't close. It just gets heavier.
We're not coming for you tonight. Or tomorrow. We gave up on looking for you for a bit. But we're already there. In your DMs. In your group chats. In the parking lot across from your squats. You don't get to opt out. You don't get a warning shot. You just get a knock and it all goes black. You idiots don't know what the future has in store. Is your little movement ready?
FAKE ANARCHISTS
lmao @ all you "anarchists" who spend half your posts shitting on tankies then turn around and praise the most authoritarian regime on earth because they sell you meth and let you post a flag. make it make sense.you hate the state, but you love the hermit kingdom. you're against hierarchy, but you'll take Bureau 39's money. you scream "no gods no masters" then fly to cuba for a solidarity conference. it's almost cute.
anarchism was always just communism's edgy teenager phase. you guys literally admit it when you're drunk. "well, actually, anarchy is just communism without the transitional state." okay, so the final phase of communism? most of you have divorced from traditional anarchism and became some weird mix of Marxist nihilism. i read your literature most of you are just experimenting with ways to "spread communism" and only hate Marxist-Leninist for "being stuck in the past" but oh you anarchists love Maoists and the marxist rebels of history, because that's what you ARE. got it. you just don't like the word because it makes your lib friends nervous.
and yeah, you run to the tankies every time you need resources. need lawers? need legal funds? Need a propaganda boost? suddenly you're best friends with the DPRK embassy.
you're not anti-authoritarian. you're just a confused authoritarian. if you ever actually won, you'd turn into the exact thing you pretend to hate. anarchists decided on who lived and died in spain with firing squads murdering priests and liberals or so called chauvinist, anarchist illegalists from the remnants of the paris commune fought with the bolsheviks in their red terror, anarchists denounced iron front as liberal and joined the german antifa communist party in the 30s. history says you're all just communists. but hey, keep pretending. the rest of us will just watch you melt down and blame each other.
tankies with black flags is still a tankie. the saddest part of this is the anarchist movement in modern America was relatively actually anarchist until about the late 80s or 90s. They got hijacked by communists using anarchy to spread communism, but they used to just believe in individual expression, free citizens, libertarian movement, and fuck off to communes at their most extreme. Somewhere during the MOVE organization anarcho cult, the remnants of black power movement, and the hardcore punk/skinheads subculture the word anarchist became a word for "anti-capitalist insurgent" or "anti-capitalist militant". which is fucking bull shit i tell ya! I never agreed with anarchists, but they were at least actual anarchists before this hogwash new shit.
we can run meme bots on tik tok too, check it out losers
You know your names. We know your faces. Hyok Pak, David Chou, Spite, Houdini, Omar or whatever your dumbass nickname is, and every other mouth-breather who vouches for this circus. You think the burner accounts hide you. They don't. You think the deleted posts vanish. They don't. You think we forgot the mugshots, the travel logs, the wire transfers, the riots, the drugs, the guns, human trafficking, fraud, all the hotel receipts fake ID or not. We don't forget anything.
Keep fundraising also known as wire fraud. Keep pretending the "revolution" is one step away. Every laugh reaction, every CashApp ping, every late-night "comrade" check-in it all goes in the mother fuckin' file. The blatant antisemitism. The file doesn't close. It just gets heavier.
We're not coming for you tonight. Or tomorrow. We gave up on looking for you for a bit. But we're already there. In your DMs. In your group chats. In the parking lot across from your squats. You don't get to opt out. You don't get a warning shot. You just get a knock and it all goes black. You idiots don't know what the future has in store. Is your little movement ready?
R: 4 / I: 1
The report (source in Spanish), published on Friday, notes that a young employee would have to allocate 98.7% of their net salary to rent a home on their own in Spain. The estimated average age for leaving home is now over 30. It also highlights that the difficulty of accessing housing is currently one of the main factors behind youth impoverishment in Spain: "Among young people who rent, the risk of poverty rises from 25.9% before paying for housing to 43% afterwards."
https://www.euronews.com/business/2026/05/22/average-rent-now-swallows-987-of-young-workers-pay-for-one-person-flats-in-spain
https://archive.ph/pL4Vr
French commission advises against deporting Egyptian-Palestinian activist
Egyptian-Palestinian activist and academic Ramy Shaath has won a provisional victory against the French government after a commission ruled against his deportation from the country for comments made at pro-Palestine demonstrations and involvement in Palestine solidarity groups. On Thursday, the Hauts-de-Seine departmental deportation commission ruled that deporting the prominent Arab Spring veteran - on the basis of being a "serious threat to public order" - would violate his respect for privacy and freedom of expression.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/french-court-advises-against-deporting-egyptian-palestinian-activist
Gaza flotilla activists allege sexual assault and rape in Israeli detention
Germany said some of its nationals had been injured and that some accusations were “serious”, without giving further details. A legal source in Italy said prosecutors there were investigating possible crimes, including kidnapping and sexual assault.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/22/gaza-flotilla-activists-allege-sexual-assault-and-in-israeli-detention
Iran destroyed 20 percent of US's MQ-9 Reaper drone fleet: Report
Iran has destroyed $1bn worth of MQ-9 Reaper Drones, or roughly 20 percent of the US’s pre-war inventory of the sophisticated unmanned aerial vehicles, according to a report by Bloomberg on Friday. The report said that many of the drones were downed by Iran in flight, but that others had been destroyed on the ground when Iran targeted US military bases in the Gulf. The MQ-9 is both a surveillance drone and capable of carrying a payload, typically Hellfire missiles or Joint Direct Attack Munition guided bombs.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/iran-destroyed-20-percent-uss-mq-9-reaper-drone-fleet-report
Morocco launches mass deportations to block Europe migration route
The operation is still ongoing, with authorities then moving their focus to operations in and around Tangier. Witnesses have described mass arrests, beatings, racist abuse and forced transfers toward the Algerian border. Sudanese and Chadian detainees were bused south and abandoned near border zones, while people from countries including Senegal, Mali, Mauritania, Burkina Faso and Guinea were deported on flights departing Casablanca.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/morocco-launches-mass-deportations-block-europe-migration-route
Colombia: Clashes Between Indigenous Communities Left at Least Six Dead
Misak leaders claimed the death toll was as high as 10, although this information has not been officially confirmed. Sanchez ordered the deployment of 120 additional soldiers to contain the violence after meeting with the military command in the area on Thursday night.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/colombia-clashes-between-indigenous-communities-left-at-least-six-dead/
Brazil Senator Bolsonaro seeks White House meeting amid campaign crisis, sources say
Plans for the visit to Washington come as the senator's campaign weathers a crisis that has eroded his competitiveness in recent polling against the leftist incumbent, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, ahead of October elections. Bolsonaro was entangled this month in a scandal around a record-breaking bank fraud investigation after he confirmed reports that he lined up millions of dollars in funding for a film about his father from Daniel Vorcaro, a banker now jailed over accusations of bribing officials and defrauding investors.
https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/brazil-senator-bolsonaro-seeks-white-house-meeting-amid-campaign-crisis-sources-2026-05-21/
US arms sales to Taiwan on ‘pause’ due to Iran war, says acting navy chief
Responding to Cao’s remarks, Taiwan’s presidential office spokesperson, Karen Kuo, said on Friday that Taipei had received “no information indicating that the US intends to make any adjustments to this arms sale”. But the announcement will be unwelcome news for Taipei, coming a week after Trump met his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, in Beijing for a summit in which Washington’s multibillion-dollar weapons packages to Taiwan were high on the agenda.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/22/us-arms-sales-taiwan-pause-iran-war-says-acting-navy-chief
Delhi: Under Tin Roofs in 45°C, Slum Dwellers Await Relief
Despite claims in the Delhi Heat Action Plan that vulnerable settlements would be provided with cooling support, shaded relief spaces, drinking water access, and emergency heatwave assistance, residents say they continue to survive without basic facilities. Most homes in the cluster lack proper fans, coolers, and stable electricity, leaving families exposed to severe heat stress as temperatures in Delhi cross 45 degrees Celsius.
https://www.newsclick.in/delhi-under-tin-roofs-45degc-slum-dwellers-await-relief
Emperor penguins, Antarctic fur seals now on endangered species Red List
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) recently added the emperor penguin (Aptenodytes forsteri) and the Antarctic fur seal (Arctocephalus gazella) to its Red List of endangered species. The listing underlines the impact of climate change on Antarctica that is posing an existential threat to wildlife with rising sea levels and atmospheric temperatures.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/05/22/thpu-m22.html
News 5/22/26
Average rent now swallows 98.7% of young workers’ pay for one-person flats in SpainThe report (source in Spanish), published on Friday, notes that a young employee would have to allocate 98.7% of their net salary to rent a home on their own in Spain. The estimated average age for leaving home is now over 30. It also highlights that the difficulty of accessing housing is currently one of the main factors behind youth impoverishment in Spain: "Among young people who rent, the risk of poverty rises from 25.9% before paying for housing to 43% afterwards."
https://www.euronews.com/business/2026/05/22/average-rent-now-swallows-987-of-young-workers-pay-for-one-person-flats-in-spain
https://archive.ph/pL4Vr
French commission advises against deporting Egyptian-Palestinian activist
Egyptian-Palestinian activist and academic Ramy Shaath has won a provisional victory against the French government after a commission ruled against his deportation from the country for comments made at pro-Palestine demonstrations and involvement in Palestine solidarity groups. On Thursday, the Hauts-de-Seine departmental deportation commission ruled that deporting the prominent Arab Spring veteran - on the basis of being a "serious threat to public order" - would violate his respect for privacy and freedom of expression.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/french-court-advises-against-deporting-egyptian-palestinian-activist
Gaza flotilla activists allege sexual assault and rape in Israeli detention
Germany said some of its nationals had been injured and that some accusations were “serious”, without giving further details. A legal source in Italy said prosecutors there were investigating possible crimes, including kidnapping and sexual assault.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/22/gaza-flotilla-activists-allege-sexual-assault-and-in-israeli-detention
Iran destroyed 20 percent of US's MQ-9 Reaper drone fleet: Report
Iran has destroyed $1bn worth of MQ-9 Reaper Drones, or roughly 20 percent of the US’s pre-war inventory of the sophisticated unmanned aerial vehicles, according to a report by Bloomberg on Friday. The report said that many of the drones were downed by Iran in flight, but that others had been destroyed on the ground when Iran targeted US military bases in the Gulf. The MQ-9 is both a surveillance drone and capable of carrying a payload, typically Hellfire missiles or Joint Direct Attack Munition guided bombs.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/iran-destroyed-20-percent-uss-mq-9-reaper-drone-fleet-report
Morocco launches mass deportations to block Europe migration route
The operation is still ongoing, with authorities then moving their focus to operations in and around Tangier. Witnesses have described mass arrests, beatings, racist abuse and forced transfers toward the Algerian border. Sudanese and Chadian detainees were bused south and abandoned near border zones, while people from countries including Senegal, Mali, Mauritania, Burkina Faso and Guinea were deported on flights departing Casablanca.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/morocco-launches-mass-deportations-block-europe-migration-route
Colombia: Clashes Between Indigenous Communities Left at Least Six Dead
Misak leaders claimed the death toll was as high as 10, although this information has not been officially confirmed. Sanchez ordered the deployment of 120 additional soldiers to contain the violence after meeting with the military command in the area on Thursday night.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/colombia-clashes-between-indigenous-communities-left-at-least-six-dead/
Brazil Senator Bolsonaro seeks White House meeting amid campaign crisis, sources say
Plans for the visit to Washington come as the senator's campaign weathers a crisis that has eroded his competitiveness in recent polling against the leftist incumbent, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, ahead of October elections. Bolsonaro was entangled this month in a scandal around a record-breaking bank fraud investigation after he confirmed reports that he lined up millions of dollars in funding for a film about his father from Daniel Vorcaro, a banker now jailed over accusations of bribing officials and defrauding investors.
https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/brazil-senator-bolsonaro-seeks-white-house-meeting-amid-campaign-crisis-sources-2026-05-21/
US arms sales to Taiwan on ‘pause’ due to Iran war, says acting navy chief
Responding to Cao’s remarks, Taiwan’s presidential office spokesperson, Karen Kuo, said on Friday that Taipei had received “no information indicating that the US intends to make any adjustments to this arms sale”. But the announcement will be unwelcome news for Taipei, coming a week after Trump met his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, in Beijing for a summit in which Washington’s multibillion-dollar weapons packages to Taiwan were high on the agenda.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/22/us-arms-sales-taiwan-pause-iran-war-says-acting-navy-chief
Delhi: Under Tin Roofs in 45°C, Slum Dwellers Await Relief
Despite claims in the Delhi Heat Action Plan that vulnerable settlements would be provided with cooling support, shaded relief spaces, drinking water access, and emergency heatwave assistance, residents say they continue to survive without basic facilities. Most homes in the cluster lack proper fans, coolers, and stable electricity, leaving families exposed to severe heat stress as temperatures in Delhi cross 45 degrees Celsius.
https://www.newsclick.in/delhi-under-tin-roofs-45degc-slum-dwellers-await-relief
Emperor penguins, Antarctic fur seals now on endangered species Red List
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) recently added the emperor penguin (Aptenodytes forsteri) and the Antarctic fur seal (Arctocephalus gazella) to its Red List of endangered species. The listing underlines the impact of climate change on Antarctica that is posing an existential threat to wildlife with rising sea levels and atmospheric temperatures.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/05/22/thpu-m22.html
R: 47 / I: 7 (sage)
You have less than 20 years left to raise birthrates the feminist way or get completely genocided.
How do we raise birthrates the feminist way?
How do we raise birthrates the feminist way?
The year is 2026, 90% of HR are female, 90% of nurses are female, 80% of all teachers are female, the west has no manufacturing base anymore, men have 10 year less of life expectancy, your nation cannot afford to even WIN a small war, soldiers who get drafted are 18 to 65, age of consent is 18, once you enter real war your birthrate will go to nearly zero, we cannot load a previous save-state like on an emulator, the children haven't been born.You have less than 20 years left to raise birthrates the feminist way or get completely genocided.
How do we raise birthrates the feminist way?
R: 38 / I: 2
>auygh cracked from the inside is new life, auygh cracked from the outside is food
This is a Chinese proverb oft repeated on here when various anons attempt to weight the non-interventionism of the Communist Party of China against the Reformism of the Western left. It is sort of an impasse. A conversation, not perfectly representative, but perhaps typical: might go like this:
Anon A: Save us, president Xi, launch the nukes now
Anon B: You just want China to do your revolution for you. You outsource every job to them, including the job of being Communist. But guess what? Auygh cracked from the inside is new life, auygh cracked from the outside is food!
Anon C: Heheh, you fucking dengoids will make any excuse for the CPC being a selfish bourgeois nation concerned only with its GDP.
The sort of tension is about what makes you more angry: The CPC's non-interventionism, or the western left's total impotence? For me the latter is a much bigger obstacle, and I'll say why: Even though the working class has no nation, and Communism is the real movement to abolish the present state of things, it necessarily first manifests at national and regional levels, Even in one country a communist party isn't equally strong everywhere. It has strongholds of support in one region, and other regions that are more reactionary and hard to gain support in. So if a country like the USA has no revolutionary, militant, armed, training, proletarian movement, it doesn't matter how much the CPC or someone like that intervenes… it's not going anywhere. The egg really does have to be cracked from the inside. And while "the proletariat has no nation," many working class people are still hoodwinked by their bourgeois national identity, just like they are hoodwinked by race and religion, because these identity groups are the primary way people who are not yet class conscious process politics. Any interventionism by the international proletariat will make local communists look like 5th columnists, traitors to the nation. But if the movement starts from the inside without much help, the egg is being cracked from the inside, so to speak. After initial inroads are made, international cooperation becomes more justifiable. As for the CPC in particular, if one believes they are truly opportunist, anti-communist, or becoming bourgeois, then why beg them of all people for help? They will only spread their opportunism. You can judge them for being bourgeois, or judge them for not helping, but to judge them for both at the same reveals that you want help from the bourgeoisie. That's not coherent. So what I would like is for the Western left to become stronger. It may take several more crises and declines in the standard of living for that to happen.
>auygh cracked from the inside is new life, auygh cracked from the outside is food
This is a Chinese proverb oft repeated on here when various anons attempt to weight the non-interventionism of the Communist Party of China against the Reformism of the Western left. It is sort of an impasse. A conversation, not perfectly representative, but perhaps typical: might go like this:
Anon A: Save us, president Xi, launch the nukes now
Anon B: You just want China to do your revolution for you. You outsource every job to them, including the job of being Communist. But guess what? Auygh cracked from the inside is new life, auygh cracked from the outside is food!
Anon C: Heheh, you fucking dengoids will make any excuse for the CPC being a selfish bourgeois nation concerned only with its GDP.
The sort of tension is about what makes you more angry: The CPC's non-interventionism, or the western left's total impotence? For me the latter is a much bigger obstacle, and I'll say why: Even though the working class has no nation, and Communism is the real movement to abolish the present state of things, it necessarily first manifests at national and regional levels, Even in one country a communist party isn't equally strong everywhere. It has strongholds of support in one region, and other regions that are more reactionary and hard to gain support in. So if a country like the USA has no revolutionary, militant, armed, training, proletarian movement, it doesn't matter how much the CPC or someone like that intervenes… it's not going anywhere. The egg really does have to be cracked from the inside. And while "the proletariat has no nation," many working class people are still hoodwinked by their bourgeois national identity, just like they are hoodwinked by race and religion, because these identity groups are the primary way people who are not yet class conscious process politics. Any interventionism by the international proletariat will make local communists look like 5th columnists, traitors to the nation. But if the movement starts from the inside without much help, the egg is being cracked from the inside, so to speak. After initial inroads are made, international cooperation becomes more justifiable. As for the CPC in particular, if one believes they are truly opportunist, anti-communist, or becoming bourgeois, then why beg them of all people for help? They will only spread their opportunism. You can judge them for being bourgeois, or judge them for not helping, but to judge them for both at the same reveals that you want help from the bourgeoisie. That's not coherent. So what I would like is for the Western left to become stronger. It may take several more crises and declines in the standard of living for that to happen.
R: 6 / I: 0 (sage)
what if we just like pooped in buckets or got manue from animals and threw it at federal officials of offices.
french farmers do it, it would be very feudal presant like, in our neo-feudal society
what if we just like pooped in buckets or got manue from animals and threw it at federal officials of offices.
french farmers do it, it would be very feudal presant like, in our neo-feudal society
R: 55 / I: 5 (sage)
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 oppressed
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
R: 19 / I: 2
Why was judeochristian imperialism and divide et impera particularly successful in MENA?
I find it particularly amusing because here in Pakistan we have fsr more legitimate and organic ethnicities than whatever these Arab Christians claim to be (the Phoenician larp some Lebanese do is particularly hilarious)
For example I'm Punjabi and we could totally demand our little Ethnostate in central Pakistan but no Pakistani ethnicity does that because we see ourselves as Pakistani first and Punjabi, Sindhi, Baluch, Pashtun or any other ethnicity second
Why was judeochristian imperialism and divide et impera particularly successful in MENA?
I find it particularly amusing because here in Pakistan we have fsr more legitimate and organic ethnicities than whatever these Arab Christians claim to be (the Phoenician larp some Lebanese do is particularly hilarious)
For example I'm Punjabi and we could totally demand our little Ethnostate in central Pakistan but no Pakistani ethnicity does that because we see ourselves as Pakistani first and Punjabi, Sindhi, Baluch, Pashtun or any other ethnicity second
R: 8 / I: 0
Trump's Aura
Why during the campaign was Trump so focused on aura farming and now after being president and epstein files he just says retarded shit and posts ai slop
R: 597 / I: 139
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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/
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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/
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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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💀 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/
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• Newsanon Filter // https://leftypol.org/search.php?search=name%3A%22News+Anon+3.0%22&board=leftypol
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• 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
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• 📖 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: >>2814739
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>Left SRs: "Hey Kerensky we're going to rape you if you don't end the war"
>Proletarians: "Hey Kerensky we're going to rape you if you don't end the war"
>Peasantry: "Hey Kerensky we're going to rape you if you don't end the war"
>Soldiers: "Hey Kerensky we're going to rape you if you don't end the war"
<Kerensky: "I'm going to continue the war"
<Gets raped
Was he retarded?
Was Kerensky retarded?
>Bolsheviks: "Hey Kerensky we're going to rape you if you don't end the war">Left SRs: "Hey Kerensky we're going to rape you if you don't end the war"
>Proletarians: "Hey Kerensky we're going to rape you if you don't end the war"
>Peasantry: "Hey Kerensky we're going to rape you if you don't end the war"
>Soldiers: "Hey Kerensky we're going to rape you if you don't end the war"
<Kerensky: "I'm going to continue the war"
<Gets raped
Was he retarded?
R: 616 / I: 167 (full) >>2796324
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/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LL4eNy4FCs8
📺 • Ukraine's Nazi Problem - The Marxist Project
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yZvWAwU5W4
📺 • America, Russia, and Ukraine's Far Right - Gravel Institute
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0pyVJG7_6Q
📺 • The Nature of Putin's Russia and Its Causes (3-Part Series) - 1Dime
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8d6Vzi7zYg
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Zuygh9Mzuo
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Previous: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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📺 • Ukraine: The Avoidable War - Boy Boy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LL4eNy4FCs8
📺 • Ukraine's Nazi Problem - The Marxist Project
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yZvWAwU5W4
📺 • America, Russia, and Ukraine's Far Right - Gravel Institute
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0pyVJG7_6Q
📺 • The Nature of Putin's Russia and Its Causes (3-Part Series) - 1Dime
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8d6Vzi7zYg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zODWTfMwFGw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Zuygh9Mzuo
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📺 • DDGeopolitics: https://www.youtube.com/@DDGeopolitics
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Opinion on Revolutionary Organization 17 November?
On the occasion of the release of its convicted leader after 25 years of captivity, what is your opinion on the Revolutionary Organization 17 November?
R: 2 / I: 1
theory
why do anti-marxist treat engels like he was just some random guy that was goaded into give marx money and not someone that believed in communism just as much as marx where he was writing his own books on communism and co writing multiple with marx is it because if people read the answer to question 17 of the principles of communism people will begin to understand that china is in a lower stage of socialism
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Case in point, the Pahlavist Iranian Americans who want to send American people to die for their selfish war against the Islamic Republic of Iran so that the Islamic government can be replaced with an oppressive capitalist secular monarchy that will act as an American and Israeli puppet state, much like modern Syria is. And guess what? Not only are said Pahlavists a bunch of racist supremacists who unironically believe that their “Persia” would be a superpower if it wasn’t for the damn ayabs, but they feel little to no tie with the American nation, instead viewing it as a tool for their ethno-narcissistic ends.
Vietnamese-Americans, Korean-Americans and Chinese Americans are similar to the Cuban gusanos in that they’re often staunchly rightoid nutjobs and anti-communist grifters trying to agitate America for forever wars in Asia to put them at the helm of their countries of origin after the government they dislike gets overthrown and it’s easy for them to support such ventures since ultimately it’s Americans who have to pay for it via their lives and wealth. A similar dynamic goes on with the Pahlavist tethers, even though the price will be NGO-isation and civil war in their country of origin. The case of East Asian tethers is interesting in that even the chuds in east Asia, despite their relatively high living standards, are so devoid of culture that both them and their diaspora get enamored by low-brow chud slop. Case in point, Twitter reactionary influencers Andy Ngo, Arthur Kwon Lee, Kangmin Lee, Ian Miles Cheong, the entirety of the Falun Gong cult with outlets like the Epoch Times, etc… are some of the ones to comes to mind. Not sure why East Asians pivot to chudslop, but I think that goes to show how Mao was right when he launched China’s cultural revolution.
Another extreme and more recent examples are the Boers of SA that live abroad who for decades have launched a right-wing propaganda campaign aimed at bullshitting westerners about an alleged “white genocide” taking place in post-apartheid SA despite most murder victims there being black people at the hands of other black people, with the white Afrikaners constituting a great part of SA’s upper class to this day who also happen to own most of SA’s land. Nowadays its standard consensus among chuds that the relatively few numbers of black-on-white murder in South Africa constitutes “white genocide” that is only allowed to happen because of white guilt and the benevolence of Afrikaners. Elon Musk is a good example of that, what with him being a cosmopolitan fascist multimillionaire and plutocrat who pushes the “white genocide in South Africa” hoax to push for US military intervention in SA and re-establish a Zionist white ethnostate in Southern Africa.
Same goes for the Europoids, Canucks, kiwis and Canucks that are part of the chudintern who try to convince Americans that their issue are Americans’ issue as well even those most of ‘em barely give a fuck about America besides finding within white America an audience for their minstrel show. Drew Pavlou, Keith Woods, Rupert Murdoch, Ezra Levant, Joel Davis, Mario Nawfal, Posie Parker, Paul Elam, the authors of webcomics Americaman (Dutch) and SksCartoon (Kiwi), Aimee Terese, etc… are some of the more well-known examples.
Borrowing from ADOS vocabulary (crazy, I know), they are essentially tethers to white America who are imported solely to undermine the proletarian class struggle at home. In fact, I wouldn’t be surprised if these tethers were imported after WW2 with the specific intent of avoiding something like the militant leftism that preceded the first and second American red scares which, in large part, was due to the influx of southern, central, northern and Eastern European leftists pouring into America and giving new life to America’s labor movements.
This I know as I often asked Vietnamese/Iranian/Cuban/Venezuelan/Chinese tethers how exactly would America going to war against Vietnam/Iran/Cuba/Venezuela/PRC help the average American in concrete ways, and the amount of blank stares and waffling that I received was mind opening, to say the least.
Compare and contrast to the Ellis Islander-type immigrants of late 19th century/early 20th century America from eastern and southern Europe, many of whom were left-wing radicals that gave life to the American left in ways that affect today’s America to this day, especially as they are partially responsible for the working-class culture present in major American cities like Chicago and NYC.
Ultimately, we have to ask if it’s worth it to get all these tethers into the country, especially since the bulk of them are staunch anti-communist shitlibs and rightoids, with only a few of them being ever close to leftisms.
The white tether phenomenon in America and it’s consequences
This is an issue every American leftist must grapple with: If immigration doesn’t increase proletarian unity, then it’s detrimental. An example would be the post-1945 wave of reactionary immigrants and refugees such as the gusanos, Vietnamese-Americans, Chinese-Americans, Korean-Americans, Israelis and Iranian-Americans who live in the USA and undermine class struggle by engaging in reactionary politics and manufacturing consent for the imperialist war machine, on the top of serving as tools for counterintelligence against communist states and non-communist rivals of the trans-Atlantic empire like Russia.Case in point, the Pahlavist Iranian Americans who want to send American people to die for their selfish war against the Islamic Republic of Iran so that the Islamic government can be replaced with an oppressive capitalist secular monarchy that will act as an American and Israeli puppet state, much like modern Syria is. And guess what? Not only are said Pahlavists a bunch of racist supremacists who unironically believe that their “Persia” would be a superpower if it wasn’t for the damn ayabs, but they feel little to no tie with the American nation, instead viewing it as a tool for their ethno-narcissistic ends.
Vietnamese-Americans, Korean-Americans and Chinese Americans are similar to the Cuban gusanos in that they’re often staunchly rightoid nutjobs and anti-communist grifters trying to agitate America for forever wars in Asia to put them at the helm of their countries of origin after the government they dislike gets overthrown and it’s easy for them to support such ventures since ultimately it’s Americans who have to pay for it via their lives and wealth. A similar dynamic goes on with the Pahlavist tethers, even though the price will be NGO-isation and civil war in their country of origin. The case of East Asian tethers is interesting in that even the chuds in east Asia, despite their relatively high living standards, are so devoid of culture that both them and their diaspora get enamored by low-brow chud slop. Case in point, Twitter reactionary influencers Andy Ngo, Arthur Kwon Lee, Kangmin Lee, Ian Miles Cheong, the entirety of the Falun Gong cult with outlets like the Epoch Times, etc… are some of the ones to comes to mind. Not sure why East Asians pivot to chudslop, but I think that goes to show how Mao was right when he launched China’s cultural revolution.
Another extreme and more recent examples are the Boers of SA that live abroad who for decades have launched a right-wing propaganda campaign aimed at bullshitting westerners about an alleged “white genocide” taking place in post-apartheid SA despite most murder victims there being black people at the hands of other black people, with the white Afrikaners constituting a great part of SA’s upper class to this day who also happen to own most of SA’s land. Nowadays its standard consensus among chuds that the relatively few numbers of black-on-white murder in South Africa constitutes “white genocide” that is only allowed to happen because of white guilt and the benevolence of Afrikaners. Elon Musk is a good example of that, what with him being a cosmopolitan fascist multimillionaire and plutocrat who pushes the “white genocide in South Africa” hoax to push for US military intervention in SA and re-establish a Zionist white ethnostate in Southern Africa.
Same goes for the Europoids, Canucks, kiwis and Canucks that are part of the chudintern who try to convince Americans that their issue are Americans’ issue as well even those most of ‘em barely give a fuck about America besides finding within white America an audience for their minstrel show. Drew Pavlou, Keith Woods, Rupert Murdoch, Ezra Levant, Joel Davis, Mario Nawfal, Posie Parker, Paul Elam, the authors of webcomics Americaman (Dutch) and SksCartoon (Kiwi), Aimee Terese, etc… are some of the more well-known examples.
Borrowing from ADOS vocabulary (crazy, I know), they are essentially tethers to white America who are imported solely to undermine the proletarian class struggle at home. In fact, I wouldn’t be surprised if these tethers were imported after WW2 with the specific intent of avoiding something like the militant leftism that preceded the first and second American red scares which, in large part, was due to the influx of southern, central, northern and Eastern European leftists pouring into America and giving new life to America’s labor movements.
This I know as I often asked Vietnamese/Iranian/Cuban/Venezuelan/Chinese tethers how exactly would America going to war against Vietnam/Iran/Cuba/Venezuela/PRC help the average American in concrete ways, and the amount of blank stares and waffling that I received was mind opening, to say the least.
Compare and contrast to the Ellis Islander-type immigrants of late 19th century/early 20th century America from eastern and southern Europe, many of whom were left-wing radicals that gave life to the American left in ways that affect today’s America to this day, especially as they are partially responsible for the working-class culture present in major American cities like Chicago and NYC.
Ultimately, we have to ask if it’s worth it to get all these tethers into the country, especially since the bulk of them are staunch anti-communist shitlibs and rightoids, with only a few of them being ever close to leftisms.
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Senator Ronald “Bato” dela Rosa, the former police chief and lead enforcer in the deadly so-called “war on drugs” during Rodrigo Duterte’s 2016-2022 presidency, would be tracked down and anyone helping him evade arrest would “face consequences”, Fredderick Vida said on Thursday.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/5/21/philippines-orders-arrest-of-fugitive-senator-wanted-by-icc
https://archive.ph/xJ42R
Protests erupt over child rape, murder
A cross section of people, including students, rights activists, and ordinary folk, and different organisations protested at the incident through statements and street protests in the capital and elsewhere across the country. Local people blocked Kalshi Road and the Mirpur-10 crossing in the capital at about 7:00pm protesting the rape-murder while people staged protest demonstrations in different districts, including Satkhira, Cumilla, Jashore and Noakhali, to demand justice and exemplary punishment for the perpetrators.
https://www.newagebd.net/post/country/300502/protests-erupt-over-child-rape-murder
Turkey: Court ousts leadership of opposition party CHP
The move is the latest in a string of legal moves targeting Turkey's oldest party that won a huge victory over President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's ruling AKP in the 2024 local elections and has been rising in the polls. The ruling overturns the result of the leadership election that brought in current party head Ozgur Ozel - and ordered that the party's former longterm chair, Kemal Kilicdaroglu - who lost the election to Ozel - take over as interim leader.
https://www.newarab.com/news/turkey-court-ousts-leadership-opposition-party-chp
Mass protests in Al-Raqqah, Kobani and Al-Hasakah
Farmers and agricultural workers continue their widespread protests across various regions of Syria, condemning recent decisions issued by the Ministry of Economy and Industry in the transitional government regarding the purchasing price of the 2026 wheat crop. Despite promises of an additional payment estimated at 75 USD per tonne, thousands of farmers continued to flock to squares.
https://www.syriahr.com/en/382563/
After Insurgents Battle Military Junta, Mali Pushed Toward War and Economic Collapse
Malian authorities have insisted that security has been restored, yet the situation on the ground remains highly precarious. The state has reinforced strategic locations like the national news station and international airport with swarms of soldiers, pre-emptively protecting areas typically targeted during attempts to overthrow state leadership. The airport holds particular significance. It is adjacent to Base 101, which hosts units from Russia’s Africa Corps.
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/mali-attacks-jnim-tuareg-france-bamako-kati-kidal
Five arrested over Labour’s fake Tameside ‘independent candidate’ scandal
Greater Manchester police have arrested five people in connection with Labour’s fielding of fake ‘independent’ candidates in the Tameside local elections in May 2026. Skwawkbox reported on the scandal. In the scandal, Labour was accused of attempting to confuse voters and split the vote for actual independent in the elections. Electoral fraud is a serious criminal offence.
https://www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/2026/05/21/tameside-independent-candidate-scandal/
Nine years after Grenfell inferno, New Scotland Yard declares there is “no presumption” that charges will be brought
Police said that charges under consideration include corporate manslaughter, gross negligence manslaughter, misconduct in public office, fraud, and health and safety matters. On the Met’s announced timeline, charging decisions might therefore be reached before the ten-year anniversary on June 14, 2027, with criminal trials, if they happen at all, unlikely to begin before 2029. By the time any verdicts are delivered, Grenfell will be a crime approaching two decades old.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/05/21/dmel-m21.html
French presidential contender Édouard Philippe targeted by embezzlement probe
French prosecutors on Wednesday announced a probe against former prime minister Édouard Philippe, a centrist seen as one of the leading contenders to replace President Emmanuel Macron in next year's presidential race, over alleged embezzlement of public funds. Polls suggest Philippe could win against the far-right National Rally party candidate, also considered a strong contender for the presidency.
https://www.france24.com/en/france/20260520-french-presidential-candidate-philippe-targeted-in-embezzlement-probe
https://archive.ph/EUW9C
Russia Postpones Planned Surcharges on Mobile VPN Traffic Until Later This Year, Reports Say
Russia’s Digital Development Ministry said in March that it would begin cracking down on the use of VPNs, a common tool that Russians have increasingly turned to in recent years to get around internet surveillance and censorship. According to media reports at the time, the ministry initially asked mobile internet operators to charge customers who exceeded 15 gigabytes of international data traffic per month starting May 1. However, that deadline was allegedly moved to June 1 due to challenges with tracking VPN usage and billing.
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2026/05/21/russia-postpones-planned-surcharges-on-mobile-vpn-traffic-until-later-this-year-reports-say-a92816
https://archive.ph/dq9jb
Mexico's Sheinbaum tells her party that officials should quit if tied to corruption, sources say
"The ultimatum was that if they are involved in anything shady, they must resign and face the consequences," said one of the Morena sources, who spoke to Reuters on the condition of anonymity because the meeting was private. Sheinbaum did not mention names nor say what action would be taken if officials did not step down, the sources said. Her message to party officials, which has not been previously reported, is the latest example of the fallout from the high-profile U.S. indictment announced last month that charged Sinaloa State Governor Ruben Rocha and other current and former officials with alleged involvement with the Sinaloa Cartel.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/mexicos-sheinbaum-tells-her-party-that-officials-should-quit-if-tied-corruption-2026-05-21/
Argentina opens economic bids for Paraná-Paraguay waterway amid warnings of irregularities
The government of Javier Milei proceeded on Tuesday to open the economic bids submitted by the two international consortia competing for the 25-year concession of the Paraná-Paraguay waterway, Argentina's main fluvial trade artery, despite a warning from the Public Prosecutor's Office about the existence of “serious and obvious irregularities” that could give rise to criminal and administrative consequences. The Peronist opposition has filed a bill in Congress demanding the immediate suspension of the process.
https://en.mercopress.com/2026/05/20/argentina-opens-economic-bids-for-parana-paraguay-waterway-amid-warnings-of-irregularities
Milei government reaches agreement with US for joint patrols in the South Atlantic
Javier Milei’s government announced Wednesday the signing of an agreement with the United States to strengthen “its surveillance and control capabilities in the South Atlantic,” according to an official statement. The deal runs for five years and means, on one hand, a U.S. contribution of technology to modernize the South American country’s naval equipment and, on the other, authorization for forces from U.S. Southern Command to take part in patrolling Argentina’s southern sea.
https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-05-21/milei-government-reaches-agreement-with-us-for-joint-patrols-in-the-south-atlantic.html
https://archive.ph/UAwPP
News 5/21/26
Philippines orders arrest of fugitive senator wanted by ICCSenator Ronald “Bato” dela Rosa, the former police chief and lead enforcer in the deadly so-called “war on drugs” during Rodrigo Duterte’s 2016-2022 presidency, would be tracked down and anyone helping him evade arrest would “face consequences”, Fredderick Vida said on Thursday.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/5/21/philippines-orders-arrest-of-fugitive-senator-wanted-by-icc
https://archive.ph/xJ42R
Protests erupt over child rape, murder
A cross section of people, including students, rights activists, and ordinary folk, and different organisations protested at the incident through statements and street protests in the capital and elsewhere across the country. Local people blocked Kalshi Road and the Mirpur-10 crossing in the capital at about 7:00pm protesting the rape-murder while people staged protest demonstrations in different districts, including Satkhira, Cumilla, Jashore and Noakhali, to demand justice and exemplary punishment for the perpetrators.
https://www.newagebd.net/post/country/300502/protests-erupt-over-child-rape-murder
Turkey: Court ousts leadership of opposition party CHP
The move is the latest in a string of legal moves targeting Turkey's oldest party that won a huge victory over President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's ruling AKP in the 2024 local elections and has been rising in the polls. The ruling overturns the result of the leadership election that brought in current party head Ozgur Ozel - and ordered that the party's former longterm chair, Kemal Kilicdaroglu - who lost the election to Ozel - take over as interim leader.
https://www.newarab.com/news/turkey-court-ousts-leadership-opposition-party-chp
Mass protests in Al-Raqqah, Kobani and Al-Hasakah
Farmers and agricultural workers continue their widespread protests across various regions of Syria, condemning recent decisions issued by the Ministry of Economy and Industry in the transitional government regarding the purchasing price of the 2026 wheat crop. Despite promises of an additional payment estimated at 75 USD per tonne, thousands of farmers continued to flock to squares.
https://www.syriahr.com/en/382563/
After Insurgents Battle Military Junta, Mali Pushed Toward War and Economic Collapse
Malian authorities have insisted that security has been restored, yet the situation on the ground remains highly precarious. The state has reinforced strategic locations like the national news station and international airport with swarms of soldiers, pre-emptively protecting areas typically targeted during attempts to overthrow state leadership. The airport holds particular significance. It is adjacent to Base 101, which hosts units from Russia’s Africa Corps.
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/mali-attacks-jnim-tuareg-france-bamako-kati-kidal
Five arrested over Labour’s fake Tameside ‘independent candidate’ scandal
Greater Manchester police have arrested five people in connection with Labour’s fielding of fake ‘independent’ candidates in the Tameside local elections in May 2026. Skwawkbox reported on the scandal. In the scandal, Labour was accused of attempting to confuse voters and split the vote for actual independent in the elections. Electoral fraud is a serious criminal offence.
https://www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/2026/05/21/tameside-independent-candidate-scandal/
Nine years after Grenfell inferno, New Scotland Yard declares there is “no presumption” that charges will be brought
Police said that charges under consideration include corporate manslaughter, gross negligence manslaughter, misconduct in public office, fraud, and health and safety matters. On the Met’s announced timeline, charging decisions might therefore be reached before the ten-year anniversary on June 14, 2027, with criminal trials, if they happen at all, unlikely to begin before 2029. By the time any verdicts are delivered, Grenfell will be a crime approaching two decades old.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/05/21/dmel-m21.html
French presidential contender Édouard Philippe targeted by embezzlement probe
French prosecutors on Wednesday announced a probe against former prime minister Édouard Philippe, a centrist seen as one of the leading contenders to replace President Emmanuel Macron in next year's presidential race, over alleged embezzlement of public funds. Polls suggest Philippe could win against the far-right National Rally party candidate, also considered a strong contender for the presidency.
https://www.france24.com/en/france/20260520-french-presidential-candidate-philippe-targeted-in-embezzlement-probe
https://archive.ph/EUW9C
Russia Postpones Planned Surcharges on Mobile VPN Traffic Until Later This Year, Reports Say
Russia’s Digital Development Ministry said in March that it would begin cracking down on the use of VPNs, a common tool that Russians have increasingly turned to in recent years to get around internet surveillance and censorship. According to media reports at the time, the ministry initially asked mobile internet operators to charge customers who exceeded 15 gigabytes of international data traffic per month starting May 1. However, that deadline was allegedly moved to June 1 due to challenges with tracking VPN usage and billing.
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2026/05/21/russia-postpones-planned-surcharges-on-mobile-vpn-traffic-until-later-this-year-reports-say-a92816
https://archive.ph/dq9jb
Mexico's Sheinbaum tells her party that officials should quit if tied to corruption, sources say
"The ultimatum was that if they are involved in anything shady, they must resign and face the consequences," said one of the Morena sources, who spoke to Reuters on the condition of anonymity because the meeting was private. Sheinbaum did not mention names nor say what action would be taken if officials did not step down, the sources said. Her message to party officials, which has not been previously reported, is the latest example of the fallout from the high-profile U.S. indictment announced last month that charged Sinaloa State Governor Ruben Rocha and other current and former officials with alleged involvement with the Sinaloa Cartel.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/mexicos-sheinbaum-tells-her-party-that-officials-should-quit-if-tied-corruption-2026-05-21/
Argentina opens economic bids for Paraná-Paraguay waterway amid warnings of irregularities
The government of Javier Milei proceeded on Tuesday to open the economic bids submitted by the two international consortia competing for the 25-year concession of the Paraná-Paraguay waterway, Argentina's main fluvial trade artery, despite a warning from the Public Prosecutor's Office about the existence of “serious and obvious irregularities” that could give rise to criminal and administrative consequences. The Peronist opposition has filed a bill in Congress demanding the immediate suspension of the process.
https://en.mercopress.com/2026/05/20/argentina-opens-economic-bids-for-parana-paraguay-waterway-amid-warnings-of-irregularities
Milei government reaches agreement with US for joint patrols in the South Atlantic
Javier Milei’s government announced Wednesday the signing of an agreement with the United States to strengthen “its surveillance and control capabilities in the South Atlantic,” according to an official statement. The deal runs for five years and means, on one hand, a U.S. contribution of technology to modernize the South American country’s naval equipment and, on the other, authorization for forces from U.S. Southern Command to take part in patrolling Argentina’s southern sea.
https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-05-21/milei-government-reaches-agreement-with-us-for-joint-patrols-in-the-south-atlantic.html
https://archive.ph/UAwPP
R: 33 / I: 4
Communism is NOT a religion, but it is an embodied social practice, "the real movement to abolish the present state of things," and one important thing that can be borrowed from religious studies which applies to embodied social practices in general is this: Credibility Enhancing Dispolays. i.e. "Actions speak louder than words." According to sociological and anthropological research, there are more effective ways to convince someone to believe in god than making arguments. Religious apologetics are demonstrably less effective than other forms of social influence like Credibility Enhancing Displays or trauma. It is practice, not doctrine, which produces converts. I suspect the same is true of secular movements like communism.
>the proletariat will naturally support communism because it is in their class interests.
To an extent, but only a small percentage of the proletariat becomes party members, and at the same time there are remarkable class traitors like Engels. We have to look at what motivates someone to actually join the movement, and not simply "support" it in words. And the answer is risking your life to bring it about. The best way to convince people that communism is important and valuable is not memorizing Marx quotes or slandering other communists as revisionist and opportunist, but sacrificing yourself to bring it about.
https://pureadmin.qub.ac.uk/ws/portalfiles/portal/17250565/LanmanBuhrmesterCREDsFinal.pdf
If credibility enhancing displays like martyrdom on behalf of faith, enduring torture by the regime on behalf of faith, going to war on behalf of faith, and sacrificing personal belongs on behalf of faith can increase the faith of those around you, then it can also increase the communism of the proletariat around you. They will see communism is the real deal if they see people fighting and dying to bring it about. This is what the academic marxists fail to understand even if they can perfectly recall the letter of marxism.
In the New Testament, Pharisees are seen as people who place the letter of the law above the spirit (Mark 2:3–28, 3:1–6). Thus, "Pharisee" has entered the language as a pejorative for one who does so. In Communism, who is the pharisee who embodies the letter? Amadeo Bordiga. Who is the spirit? Che Guevara.
"It is entirely seemly for a young man killed in battle to lie mangled by the bronze spear. In his death all things appear fair." - Homer
That is a credibility enhancing display.
Ask not what communism can do for you, but what you can do for communism.
Ask not what communism can do for you, but what you can do for communism.Communism is NOT a religion, but it is an embodied social practice, "the real movement to abolish the present state of things," and one important thing that can be borrowed from religious studies which applies to embodied social practices in general is this: Credibility Enhancing Dispolays. i.e. "Actions speak louder than words." According to sociological and anthropological research, there are more effective ways to convince someone to believe in god than making arguments. Religious apologetics are demonstrably less effective than other forms of social influence like Credibility Enhancing Displays or trauma. It is practice, not doctrine, which produces converts. I suspect the same is true of secular movements like communism.
>the proletariat will naturally support communism because it is in their class interests.
To an extent, but only a small percentage of the proletariat becomes party members, and at the same time there are remarkable class traitors like Engels. We have to look at what motivates someone to actually join the movement, and not simply "support" it in words. And the answer is risking your life to bring it about. The best way to convince people that communism is important and valuable is not memorizing Marx quotes or slandering other communists as revisionist and opportunist, but sacrificing yourself to bring it about.
https://pureadmin.qub.ac.uk/ws/portalfiles/portal/17250565/LanmanBuhrmesterCREDsFinal.pdf
If credibility enhancing displays like martyrdom on behalf of faith, enduring torture by the regime on behalf of faith, going to war on behalf of faith, and sacrificing personal belongs on behalf of faith can increase the faith of those around you, then it can also increase the communism of the proletariat around you. They will see communism is the real deal if they see people fighting and dying to bring it about. This is what the academic marxists fail to understand even if they can perfectly recall the letter of marxism.
In the New Testament, Pharisees are seen as people who place the letter of the law above the spirit (Mark 2:3–28, 3:1–6). Thus, "Pharisee" has entered the language as a pejorative for one who does so. In Communism, who is the pharisee who embodies the letter? Amadeo Bordiga. Who is the spirit? Che Guevara.
"It is entirely seemly for a young man killed in battle to lie mangled by the bronze spear. In his death all things appear fair." - Homer
That is a credibility enhancing display.
R: 14 / I: 5
Bosnia has something called a "High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina.
https://www.ohr.int/en/
This is a NATO-appointed governor who must approve all elections and elected officials, all laws and pretty much everything else that has to do with governance. Liberals refer to this person as a "powerful peace envoy" lol.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cg5pvj5pg51o
*Why is it relevant?*
The governor is about to change. The US and EU will each try to install their own.
*Why is Bosnia important?*
Bosnia is the only Muslim country in Europe. This means that it is the only country whose banks can hold money of observant Muslims. A lot of money going from Middle East to Europe goes through Bosnia.
Bosnia's location is in the heart of the Balkans. It is a gateway from central Europe to Balkans, Black and Aegean Seas. Geographically it is mountainous and covered in forests. It is very easy to have guerrillas/insurgents/partisans running around Bosnia causing trouble.
Bosnia isn't in the EU. Republika Srpska in the north is Serbia/Russia-aligned. Bosnia always seems to be on the verge of war, war in Bosnia would drag in the surrounding countries, as both Serbia and Croatia would take action to protect their citizens living in Bosnia.
Bosnia has a lot of fresh water. This is an appreciating commodity.
Bosnia -- Europe's last colony
You may have heard of Bosnia, but you probably did not know that is not a sovereign and independent state, it is a NATO colony. This isn't hyperbole, this is a fact.Bosnia has something called a "High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina.
https://www.ohr.int/en/
This is a NATO-appointed governor who must approve all elections and elected officials, all laws and pretty much everything else that has to do with governance. Liberals refer to this person as a "powerful peace envoy" lol.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cg5pvj5pg51o
*Why is it relevant?*
The governor is about to change. The US and EU will each try to install their own.
*Why is Bosnia important?*
Bosnia is the only Muslim country in Europe. This means that it is the only country whose banks can hold money of observant Muslims. A lot of money going from Middle East to Europe goes through Bosnia.
Bosnia's location is in the heart of the Balkans. It is a gateway from central Europe to Balkans, Black and Aegean Seas. Geographically it is mountainous and covered in forests. It is very easy to have guerrillas/insurgents/partisans running around Bosnia causing trouble.
Bosnia isn't in the EU. Republika Srpska in the north is Serbia/Russia-aligned. Bosnia always seems to be on the verge of war, war in Bosnia would drag in the surrounding countries, as both Serbia and Croatia would take action to protect their citizens living in Bosnia.
Bosnia has a lot of fresh water. This is an appreciating commodity.
R: 12 / I: 0
>fucking up the world's economy and the youth for two decade because of a flu that mainly kill the gigaold boomer rentier class and a few terminally ill people who wouldve died 6 month later anyway
While rightoids made a clown show of the whole situation, as usual, with their antivaxx conspiratard bullshit featuring Favci killing one trillion goyim with MNRA black magic, i still don't understand what was the rational behind the lockdowns and demolishing the supply chain. How does the bourgeoisie profit from it? Why even third world war torn shithole like Lebanon or Sudan did it? Why did China?
It felt like all of our elites became insane.
>fucking up the world's economy and the youth for two decade because of a flu that mainly kill the gigaold boomer rentier class and a few terminally ill people who wouldve died 6 month later anyway
While rightoids made a clown show of the whole situation, as usual, with their antivaxx conspiratard bullshit featuring Favci killing one trillion goyim with MNRA black magic, i still don't understand what was the rational behind the lockdowns and demolishing the supply chain. How does the bourgeoisie profit from it? Why even third world war torn shithole like Lebanon or Sudan did it? Why did China?
It felt like all of our elites became insane.
R: 605 / I: 146 (full)
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<Sino-Burger Summit Retrospective Edition
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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 📺
(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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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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Reminder: There is no monolithic Soviet archives. It's an umbrella term usually to refer to the over a dozen central state archives in Moscow, which over the course of several mergers, acquisitions, and Renamings got the main previously classified government records and communist party records. Certain collections are open to the public. Other archives might be invitation only or by request of scholars. There are certain records that to this day are still classified, especially retaining to some of the operations of the Cheka, NKVD, and KGB are deemed to still be relevant to Russian national security and are usually within the FSB archives. The term could also include regional and local archives across the country and in other former Soviet countries. In the broadest sense it could even refer to archives completely outside the former Soviet Union, which have a Soviet documentary focus.
So just keep that in mind any time anyone refers to "the soviet archives" in a casual conversation. Maybe interrogate what they mean by that, regardless of whose "side" they appear to be on.
On "The Soviet Archives"
>Soviet ArchivesReminder: There is no monolithic Soviet archives. It's an umbrella term usually to refer to the over a dozen central state archives in Moscow, which over the course of several mergers, acquisitions, and Renamings got the main previously classified government records and communist party records. Certain collections are open to the public. Other archives might be invitation only or by request of scholars. There are certain records that to this day are still classified, especially retaining to some of the operations of the Cheka, NKVD, and KGB are deemed to still be relevant to Russian national security and are usually within the FSB archives. The term could also include regional and local archives across the country and in other former Soviet countries. In the broadest sense it could even refer to archives completely outside the former Soviet Union, which have a Soviet documentary focus.
So just keep that in mind any time anyone refers to "the soviet archives" in a casual conversation. Maybe interrogate what they mean by that, regardless of whose "side" they appear to be on.
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The report stated that anti-drone systems were being distributed to only a limited number of Israeli troops due to supply shortages, and that some military operations were not being carried out in daylight hours over fears of drone attacks. These drones have increasingly become a problem for Israel’s government, which has reportedly created a specialist task force, composed of military, defence and civilian experts, to develop systems to counter the threat. Israeli military intelligence sources told Kan that Hezbollah had moved away from a command and control structure, and was now operating guerrilla-style warfare.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/hezbollah-drones-limiting-80-percent-israeli-troop-assaults-lebanon
'We don't know when the bulldozers will come': Palestinians fear expulsion in Khan al-Ahmar
The Bedouin village, home to around 300 Palestinians, lies in Area C of the occupied West Bank under full Israeli military control. Residents have for years endured repeated threats of demolition, violent settler attacks, and harassment by Israeli forces aimed at driving them off their land. Smotrich said he was coordinating with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Israeli military to secure approval for the expulsion order, which would still require cabinet authorisation.
https://www.newarab.com/news/were-all-afraid-palestinians-khan-al-ahmar-fear-expulsion
Israeli police force Gaza flotilla activists to kneel with hands bound, video shows
The flotilla, having set sail from southern Turkey, was making a renewed attempt to deliver aid to war-shattered Gaza after earlier missions were also intercepted by Israel. Organisers say they aim to break Israel's blockade of Gaza by delivering humanitarian assistance, something aid bodies say is still in short supply despite a U.S.-brokered ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in place since October 2025 that includes guarantees of increased aid.
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/gaza-flotilla-activists-detained-israel-after-interception-rights-group-says-2026-05-20/
Moroccan police interrogate left leaders for opposing normalization with Israel
The National Brigade of Judicial Police in Morocco interrogated the secretary-general of the Workers’ Democratic Way Party, Jamal Barajaa, on Friday, May 15, over a speech he gave last August during an event protesting normalization with Israel, in the city of Tangier. The party said in a statement that the Public Prosecution considered Barajaa’s calls for ending normalization with Israel “incitement”.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2026/05/20/moroccan-police-interrogate-left-leaders-for-opposing-normalization-with-israel/
Sri Lanka’s JVP government commemorates 17 years since “victory” in racist anti-Tamil war
Speaking at the event, Dissanayake repeatedly praised military personnel as “war heroes” for their “immense sacrifice” to liberate the “motherland” from “terrorism.” Seeking to cover up the anti-Tamil communal character of the war, he said the military fought against “separatism” and “not against any ethnic community.” The successive governments led by the United National Party (UNP) and Sri Lankan Freedom Party (SLFP) who carried out racialist war, and parties which supported it, including Dissanayake’s JVP, have all used this characterisation to justify the slaughter.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/05/20/pwhk-m20.html
Samsung's union puts off strike after reaching last-minute wage deal
The announcement followed a last-minute government-mediated negotiation with management over the level of workers’ bonus payouts to reflect soaring profits fuelled by the global boom in artificial intelligence. Union leader Choi Seung Ho told a televised briefing that the union agreed not to go ahead with an 18-day strike that he had earlier said would start tomorrow. He said union members would vote on the tentative agreement from May 22 to 27.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/samsungs-union-puts-strike-after-reaching-last-minute-wage-deal
‘It’s no longer exceptional’: Karachi struggles under brutal new reality of extreme heat
In southern Pakistan throughout April and May, temperatures have risen far above seasonal norms. In Sindh, daytime temperatures have frequently crossed 44C to 46C, forcing residents indoors during peak afternoon hours and severely affecting outdoor labourers, transport workers and farming communities.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/17/its-no-longer-exceptional-karachi-struggles-under-brutal-new-reality-of-extreme-heat
US raises pressure on Cuba with indictment of former leader as island’s president condemns charges
The indictment accuses Castro of ordering the shootdown of two small planes operated by the exile group Brothers to the Rescue. Castro, who turns 95 next month, was Cuba’s defense minister at the time. The charges, which were secretly filed by a grand jury in April, included murder and destruction of an airplane. Five Cuban military pilots were also charged.
https://apnews.com/article/raul-castro-indictment-trump-cuba-c04030a07c1b72442e61e72ad6d78604
Colombia suspends election poll amid inaccuracy concerns
In a ruling, decreed the “immediate suspension and temporary ban on the publication, broadcast, and dissemination of election polls by the polling firm AtlasIntel and the media outlet Semana magazine.” The ban followed the publication of multiple polls that were criticized because they allegedly failed to uphold industry standards in regards to the accurate representation of society’s different sectors.
https://colombiareports.com/colombia-suspends-election-poll-amid-inaccuracy-concerns/
Bolivian president to reshuffle cabinet amid antigovernment protests
While Paz acknowledged frustrations in his remarks on Wednesday, his government has depicted the protests as dangerous and anti-democratic. Minister of Foreign Affairs Fernando Aramayo said earlier in the day that the mass protests and roadblocks were aimed at destabilising the country and “disrupting the democratic order”. Former leftist President Evo Morales, who continues to exert influence over the country’s politics, has expressed support for the demonstrations.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/5/20/bolivian-president-to-reshuffle-cabinet-amid-anti-government-protests
https://archive.ph/50NF2
French authorities probe Israeli firm’s alleged interference in local elections
Anne-Sophie Dhiver, the deputy head of Viginum — France’s agency for fighting online disinformation — told lawmakers Wednesday that “a private company based in Israel that specializes in selling online destabilization services” had “in particular” gone after candidates from the hard-left political party France Unbowed, which puts the Palestinian cause at the heart of its political agenda. Dhiver added that Viginum couldn't identify who had sponsored the operation and said the disinformation attempts didn’t get much traction during the campaign.
https://www.politico.eu/article/french-authorities-probe-israeli-firms-alleged-interference-in-local-elections/
https://archive.ph/1mN0v
Irish PM urges full investigation into death of Congolese man restrained outside store
Irish Prime Minister Micheal Martin has called for a thorough investigation into the death of a Congolese-born man after he was restrained outside a Dublin department store, an incident that has shocked the country's small Congolese community. Irish police said the man was detained by security guards on Dublin's busy Henry Street last Friday in connection with an alleged shoplifting incident. He subsequently became unresponsive at the scene and was later pronounced dead, police said.
https://www.reuters.com/world/irish-pm-urges-full-investigation-into-death-congolese-man-restrained-outside-2026-05-20/
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Hezbollah drones limiting 80 percent of Israeli troop assaults in LebanonThe report stated that anti-drone systems were being distributed to only a limited number of Israeli troops due to supply shortages, and that some military operations were not being carried out in daylight hours over fears of drone attacks. These drones have increasingly become a problem for Israel’s government, which has reportedly created a specialist task force, composed of military, defence and civilian experts, to develop systems to counter the threat. Israeli military intelligence sources told Kan that Hezbollah had moved away from a command and control structure, and was now operating guerrilla-style warfare.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/hezbollah-drones-limiting-80-percent-israeli-troop-assaults-lebanon
'We don't know when the bulldozers will come': Palestinians fear expulsion in Khan al-Ahmar
The Bedouin village, home to around 300 Palestinians, lies in Area C of the occupied West Bank under full Israeli military control. Residents have for years endured repeated threats of demolition, violent settler attacks, and harassment by Israeli forces aimed at driving them off their land. Smotrich said he was coordinating with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Israeli military to secure approval for the expulsion order, which would still require cabinet authorisation.
https://www.newarab.com/news/were-all-afraid-palestinians-khan-al-ahmar-fear-expulsion
Israeli police force Gaza flotilla activists to kneel with hands bound, video shows
The flotilla, having set sail from southern Turkey, was making a renewed attempt to deliver aid to war-shattered Gaza after earlier missions were also intercepted by Israel. Organisers say they aim to break Israel's blockade of Gaza by delivering humanitarian assistance, something aid bodies say is still in short supply despite a U.S.-brokered ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in place since October 2025 that includes guarantees of increased aid.
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/gaza-flotilla-activists-detained-israel-after-interception-rights-group-says-2026-05-20/
Moroccan police interrogate left leaders for opposing normalization with Israel
The National Brigade of Judicial Police in Morocco interrogated the secretary-general of the Workers’ Democratic Way Party, Jamal Barajaa, on Friday, May 15, over a speech he gave last August during an event protesting normalization with Israel, in the city of Tangier. The party said in a statement that the Public Prosecution considered Barajaa’s calls for ending normalization with Israel “incitement”.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2026/05/20/moroccan-police-interrogate-left-leaders-for-opposing-normalization-with-israel/
Sri Lanka’s JVP government commemorates 17 years since “victory” in racist anti-Tamil war
Speaking at the event, Dissanayake repeatedly praised military personnel as “war heroes” for their “immense sacrifice” to liberate the “motherland” from “terrorism.” Seeking to cover up the anti-Tamil communal character of the war, he said the military fought against “separatism” and “not against any ethnic community.” The successive governments led by the United National Party (UNP) and Sri Lankan Freedom Party (SLFP) who carried out racialist war, and parties which supported it, including Dissanayake’s JVP, have all used this characterisation to justify the slaughter.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/05/20/pwhk-m20.html
Samsung's union puts off strike after reaching last-minute wage deal
The announcement followed a last-minute government-mediated negotiation with management over the level of workers’ bonus payouts to reflect soaring profits fuelled by the global boom in artificial intelligence. Union leader Choi Seung Ho told a televised briefing that the union agreed not to go ahead with an 18-day strike that he had earlier said would start tomorrow. He said union members would vote on the tentative agreement from May 22 to 27.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/samsungs-union-puts-strike-after-reaching-last-minute-wage-deal
‘It’s no longer exceptional’: Karachi struggles under brutal new reality of extreme heat
In southern Pakistan throughout April and May, temperatures have risen far above seasonal norms. In Sindh, daytime temperatures have frequently crossed 44C to 46C, forcing residents indoors during peak afternoon hours and severely affecting outdoor labourers, transport workers and farming communities.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/17/its-no-longer-exceptional-karachi-struggles-under-brutal-new-reality-of-extreme-heat
US raises pressure on Cuba with indictment of former leader as island’s president condemns charges
The indictment accuses Castro of ordering the shootdown of two small planes operated by the exile group Brothers to the Rescue. Castro, who turns 95 next month, was Cuba’s defense minister at the time. The charges, which were secretly filed by a grand jury in April, included murder and destruction of an airplane. Five Cuban military pilots were also charged.
https://apnews.com/article/raul-castro-indictment-trump-cuba-c04030a07c1b72442e61e72ad6d78604
Colombia suspends election poll amid inaccuracy concerns
In a ruling, decreed the “immediate suspension and temporary ban on the publication, broadcast, and dissemination of election polls by the polling firm AtlasIntel and the media outlet Semana magazine.” The ban followed the publication of multiple polls that were criticized because they allegedly failed to uphold industry standards in regards to the accurate representation of society’s different sectors.
https://colombiareports.com/colombia-suspends-election-poll-amid-inaccuracy-concerns/
Bolivian president to reshuffle cabinet amid antigovernment protests
While Paz acknowledged frustrations in his remarks on Wednesday, his government has depicted the protests as dangerous and anti-democratic. Minister of Foreign Affairs Fernando Aramayo said earlier in the day that the mass protests and roadblocks were aimed at destabilising the country and “disrupting the democratic order”. Former leftist President Evo Morales, who continues to exert influence over the country’s politics, has expressed support for the demonstrations.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/5/20/bolivian-president-to-reshuffle-cabinet-amid-anti-government-protests
https://archive.ph/50NF2
French authorities probe Israeli firm’s alleged interference in local elections
Anne-Sophie Dhiver, the deputy head of Viginum — France’s agency for fighting online disinformation — told lawmakers Wednesday that “a private company based in Israel that specializes in selling online destabilization services” had “in particular” gone after candidates from the hard-left political party France Unbowed, which puts the Palestinian cause at the heart of its political agenda. Dhiver added that Viginum couldn't identify who had sponsored the operation and said the disinformation attempts didn’t get much traction during the campaign.
https://www.politico.eu/article/french-authorities-probe-israeli-firms-alleged-interference-in-local-elections/
https://archive.ph/1mN0v
Irish PM urges full investigation into death of Congolese man restrained outside store
Irish Prime Minister Micheal Martin has called for a thorough investigation into the death of a Congolese-born man after he was restrained outside a Dublin department store, an incident that has shocked the country's small Congolese community. Irish police said the man was detained by security guards on Dublin's busy Henry Street last Friday in connection with an alleged shoplifting incident. He subsequently became unresponsive at the scene and was later pronounced dead, police said.
https://www.reuters.com/world/irish-pm-urges-full-investigation-into-death-congolese-man-restrained-outside-2026-05-20/
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the ruling class are so wealthy and greedy now that they see the poor and marginalized as worse than useless. in a more quaint time they would enslave them and use them for cheap labor, but even that's not worth their time anymore. why enslave the poor and marginalized in your own country and deal with all the hassles of labor laws and minimum wages and strikes and lawsuits when you can just enslave people in some distant foreign land whom you can pay even less and never have to even see or think about, or just automate the labor with machines? in a more quaint time they would exploit their desperation and sell them worthless garbage at a markup but even that's not worth their time anymore. why scam nickels and dimes from the poor and marginalized when you could be scamming rich people like investors and managers and doctors and politicians, people who actually have money to spend?
the ruling class no longer see the poor and marginalized as cattle; they see them as vermin. cockroaches. a person of inadequate means and/or divergent characteristics is an insult to them, a vulgarity, a foul stench and an eyesore. they want these people gone, exterminated, to make room for people and things that actually matter. if you think this is hyperbole, ask yourself this: why do the ruling class fight so hard to destroy things like public healthcare and public education and welfare and food stamps and subsidized housing when they don't even pay taxes and these social programs don't cost them a dime? why are the ruling class investing billions of dollars into things like fertility drugs and in-vitro fertilization and genetic screening and incessantly catastrophizing about declining birth rates in privileged and affluent populations?
it's because they believe that human society is composed of winners and losers, and they want to live in a world of winners. the losers are in the way, they are dead weight, they are holding civilization back, burdening society with their loserdom, their very existence is a blight on the world that makes progress impossible. a loser is always a loser, a loser is born a loser and will stay a loser and will eventually spawn another generation of losers. a loser is a mistake of nature that, if left uncorrected, will spread like a pestilence and doom the entire human species to a future of mundanity. this is how the ruling class really think, this is what they really believe. just listen to donald trump, listen to elon musk, listen to peter thiel. these men are all pathological liars but when they talk about this they talk with genuine conviction, it's probably the only thing they have any genuine conviction about.
the cold indifference of the ruling class has metastasized into outright malice and resentment. the ruling class are done with disenfranchising and imprisoning and exploiting the poor and marginalized and now they are moving on to the final solution. things like artificial intelligence and genetic engineering are their insurance policy, with these technologies they believe they can finally cut the last threads of dependency between themselves and the superfluous population, free themselves from the tyranny of nature and finally be able to remake the world and the human species in accordance with their own designs. wealth is not enough for them, power is not enough, nothing will ever be enough because what they really want is to be god.
the final solution
a common naive misconception among the political left is that the ruling class don't care about the poor and the marginalized, but that's not true at all. they are very interested in these people - they hate them. they don't just turn their backs on them; they deliberately go out of their way to hurt them, they devote time and money and resources to keeping them poor and marginalized and preventing anyone else from helping them, they want them all to starve and suffer and die.the ruling class are so wealthy and greedy now that they see the poor and marginalized as worse than useless. in a more quaint time they would enslave them and use them for cheap labor, but even that's not worth their time anymore. why enslave the poor and marginalized in your own country and deal with all the hassles of labor laws and minimum wages and strikes and lawsuits when you can just enslave people in some distant foreign land whom you can pay even less and never have to even see or think about, or just automate the labor with machines? in a more quaint time they would exploit their desperation and sell them worthless garbage at a markup but even that's not worth their time anymore. why scam nickels and dimes from the poor and marginalized when you could be scamming rich people like investors and managers and doctors and politicians, people who actually have money to spend?
the ruling class no longer see the poor and marginalized as cattle; they see them as vermin. cockroaches. a person of inadequate means and/or divergent characteristics is an insult to them, a vulgarity, a foul stench and an eyesore. they want these people gone, exterminated, to make room for people and things that actually matter. if you think this is hyperbole, ask yourself this: why do the ruling class fight so hard to destroy things like public healthcare and public education and welfare and food stamps and subsidized housing when they don't even pay taxes and these social programs don't cost them a dime? why are the ruling class investing billions of dollars into things like fertility drugs and in-vitro fertilization and genetic screening and incessantly catastrophizing about declining birth rates in privileged and affluent populations?
it's because they believe that human society is composed of winners and losers, and they want to live in a world of winners. the losers are in the way, they are dead weight, they are holding civilization back, burdening society with their loserdom, their very existence is a blight on the world that makes progress impossible. a loser is always a loser, a loser is born a loser and will stay a loser and will eventually spawn another generation of losers. a loser is a mistake of nature that, if left uncorrected, will spread like a pestilence and doom the entire human species to a future of mundanity. this is how the ruling class really think, this is what they really believe. just listen to donald trump, listen to elon musk, listen to peter thiel. these men are all pathological liars but when they talk about this they talk with genuine conviction, it's probably the only thing they have any genuine conviction about.
the cold indifference of the ruling class has metastasized into outright malice and resentment. the ruling class are done with disenfranchising and imprisoning and exploiting the poor and marginalized and now they are moving on to the final solution. things like artificial intelligence and genetic engineering are their insurance policy, with these technologies they believe they can finally cut the last threads of dependency between themselves and the superfluous population, free themselves from the tyranny of nature and finally be able to remake the world and the human species in accordance with their own designs. wealth is not enough for them, power is not enough, nothing will ever be enough because what they really want is to be god.
R: 4 / I: 0
This is probably a very unpopular opinion but leftists should not oppose AI.
AI has the potential to make our lives easier as workers, but in the hands of capitalists, they will continue to extract our surplus value even as our productivity increases, exactly as happened during the Industrial Revolution. Instead of the workday being shortened, it grew longer, and under extremely harsh conditions.
We should use it to our advantage, create propaganda, videos, and information. Opposing it would be like workers in the last century refusing to use machines and instead wanting to make a revolution with picks and shovels.
Only when AI is in the hands of workers rather than the market will we be able to properly regulate its use.
This is probably a very unpopular opinion but leftists should not oppose AI.
AI has the potential to make our lives easier as workers, but in the hands of capitalists, they will continue to extract our surplus value even as our productivity increases, exactly as happened during the Industrial Revolution. Instead of the workday being shortened, it grew longer, and under extremely harsh conditions.
We should use it to our advantage, create propaganda, videos, and information. Opposing it would be like workers in the last century refusing to use machines and instead wanting to make a revolution with picks and shovels.
Only when AI is in the hands of workers rather than the market will we be able to properly regulate its use.
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anarchist here. so i have been thinking about this a lot lately. should we be doing things to literally "seize" the means of production by producing goods and services in our own homes (for those of us lucky enough to have homes), and then giving these goods and services to others (mainly people we know such as friends etc. but giving to strangers is based too) free of charge? a sort of underground gift-based economy, that is? obviously this cannot substitute entirely for collective workers' struggle and i don't think we should stop doing that. i do think that building an underground gift economy based on homemade goods could be very beneficial to the cause of liberation though. did you know that there are fruits and vegetables you can literally grow indoors?
anarchist here. so i have been thinking about this a lot lately. should we be doing things to literally "seize" the means of production by producing goods and services in our own homes (for those of us lucky enough to have homes), and then giving these goods and services to others (mainly people we know such as friends etc. but giving to strangers is based too) free of charge? a sort of underground gift-based economy, that is? obviously this cannot substitute entirely for collective workers' struggle and i don't think we should stop doing that. i do think that building an underground gift economy based on homemade goods could be very beneficial to the cause of liberation though. did you know that there are fruits and vegetables you can literally grow indoors?